The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-29

aFDO1 I'LL WAS pfOuO u DSGIJ
Lonsdale. Old-timerG could re
member when she was a freckse-
faced, pig-tailed toEboy, running
about with the best of theLonsdale
brood, but that was before Mrs.
,Carberry-Cranston took the child
tG the city and after many years
returned her as a shining example
oil scientific education.
Along with the assimilation OF
scientific education Betty had lost
I'D her pigtails.
The former had been replaced by
a peaches-and-cream complexion;
the latter by an elaborate couture
that was the envy of the more SIM
Dle women folk who had absorbed
the simple rudiment> In the dis
trict school and then had married
and settled down to raise more
scholars for the same schools.
Mrs. Carberry-Cranston was a
faddist whose peculiar bent was
the advocacy of the higher educa-
ton for what she was pleased to,
term the Clover classes" 1t was
her theory that as the Indian bu-
reau educated a few bucks and
squaws as examples to the rest of
their tribe, so might the women
rights millennium be brought
about through the liberal. educa-
ton of young women from the
smaller towns. Cyrus Lonsdale
had been willing enough to lend
one of his numerous progeny to
the experiment in consideration of
the payment Of all her expenses,
and so Betty had been taken
away a hoyden and returned a
fashionable young person.
Martin Stats 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, regarding
himself as. still engaged to the
girl whom he fondly remembered.
When he saw the change that
the cities had wrought he groaned
to himself in despair, and yet
with his inherent persistence, he
preached the subject at the earli-
est opportunity.
81 s'pose I'll have to be getting
the ring now" he said. II
guess you remember 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, Fer despite her cd
ucation and Ter superficial pol
jSlI Betty was still a tombov at
heart and even no~ she longc.l
f"r one of those long, delightful
ra>nhiA> tLrHgh field and wood
that Sic and Martin used to take
together.
81 can't forget, said Martin,
simply. 81 was hoping that you
remembered, too.
81 do remember" conceded
Betty, "but I also remember my
mission. You must realize that
this education was given me that
/ might be of use in the commun-
1ty. It would be unfair to my
b~enefactress to settle down to
married life and sink my indivi-
duality beneath yours
"What's the use of knowing
how far the moon and sun are
from us and who lives in Africa,
If you have to live an old maid?",
and Theresa and Minnie. They
all married and married well, be-
cause they learned how to be
goodhouse 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. Gwen in
the kitchen education makes me
better fitted to meet the problems
of life. I know, for instance, the
chemistry of breadmaking, the
relative nutritive value of the
various meats and vegetables. The
science of housekeeping is one Of
the most interesting studies. Mrs.
Carberry-C ransoton has particu-
larry impressed upon me the i'm
portance of communicating to
Others these important facts" /
What Martin said about Mrs.
Carberry-Cranston and her ideas