The Prescott daily news., 1911-05-08
Her Post-Graduate Course


 was before Mrs. Carberry- -Cranston took the child to the city and after many years returned her as shining example of scientific education.
 Along with the assimilation of sci entific education Betty had lost her freckles and her pigtails. The former had been replaced by peaches-and- cream complexion; the latter by an elaborate coiffure that was the envy of the more simple women folk who had absorbed the simple rudiments in the district school and then had mar ried and settled down to raise more scholars for the same schools.
 Mrs. Carberry-C -Cranston was fad dist whose peculiar bent was the ad- vocacy of the higher education for what she was pleased to term the Tower classes" It was her theory that as the Indian bureau educated few bucks and squaws as examples to the rest of their tribe, so might the woman's rights millennium be brought about through the liberal education of young women from the smaller towns, Cyrus Lonsdale had been willing enough to lend one of his numerous progeny to the experiment in consid' eration of the payment of all her ex- penses, and so Betty had been taken ionable young person.
 Martin Staats scowled as he first caught sight of her In the olden days they had planned to be married when they should be grown up. Martin had plodded along in his quiet way, re garding himself as still engaged to the girl whom he fondly remembered When he saw the change that the cities had wrought he groaned to him self in despair, and yet, with his in- herent persistence, he preached the subject at the earliest opportunity.
 ''l s'pose I'll have to be getting the ring now" he said. "I guess you re member that you was engaged to me before you went away to be polished off"
 Have you not forgotten that boy and girl romance?' she asked with an elaborate assumption of superiority that, to the man at least. masked the yearning that lay beneath for despite her education and her superficial pol ish, Betty was still tomboy at heart and even now she longed for one of those long. delightful rambles through field and wood that she and Martin used to take together
 "l cant forget" said Martin. sim ply. "l was hoping that you remem- bered. too"
 "l do remember" conceded Betty. but l also remember my mission You must realize that this education was given me that I might be of use in the community It would be unfair to my benefactress to settle down to married life and sink my individuality beneath yours"
 Whats the use of knowing how far the moon and sun are from us and who lives in Africa. if you have 10 live an old maid?" scoffed Martin. There's Ruth and Theresa and Minnie. They all married, and married well, because they learned how to be good house keepers. Your mas a famous cook and she taught the other girls. It's better to know how to make good bread than to know the sort of stuff your head has been filled with"
 That's where you mistake" cried Betty, quickly Even in the kitchen education makes me better fitted to meet the problems of life. know. for instance, the chemistry of breadmak. Ing, the relative nutritive value of the various meats and vegetables. The science of housekeeping is one of the most interesting studies. Mrs. Car berry-Cranston has particularly i'm pressed upon me the importance of communicating to others these impor. tant facts"
 What Martin said about Mrs. Car. berry-Cranston and her ideas does not | require repetition here
 But if Betty found learning a satis. factory substitute for love she did not show 1t in her manner. People re- garded her with the awe that her eru. | dition deserved. but she was conscious that beneath the awe was a good-na- tured contempt for some of her the orles. Martin she saw not at all after that first meeting.
 Then came a summons to her moth CT from one of the married daughters and Betty was left to keep house for week. Her father was away on business trip and she was left alone in the big house. Her science of housekeeping did not materially aid her in her cooking. There was small