The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1911-05-24
Her POSTGRADUATE
Course
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Wi ooIl ILL was Vi bGlly
Lonsdale. Old-timers could remem-
Der when she was a freckle-faced,
pig-tailed tomboy, running about
with the rest of the Lonsdale brood,
but that was before Mrs. Carberry-
Cranston took the child to the city
and after many years returned her
as a shining example of scientific
education.
Along with the assimilation of
scientific education Betty had lost
her freckles and 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former had been replaced by a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 simple
women folk who had absorbed the
simple rudiments in the district
school and then had married and
settled down to raise more scholars
for the same schools.
Mrs. Carberry-C ranston was a
faddist whose peculiar bent was the
advocacy of the higher education
for what she was pleased to term
the lower classes 1t was her
theory that as the Indian bureau
educated a 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 Londale had been
willing enough to lend one of his
numerous progeny to the expert
ment in consideration of the pay
ment of all her expenses, and so
Betty had been taken away a hoy
den and returned a fashionable
young person.
Martin Stats scrowled as he first
caught sight of her, In the olden
days they had planned to be mar
ried 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 wrou-
ght he groaned to himself in dis
pair, and yet, with his inherent per-
sistence, he preached the subject
at the earliest opportunity.
81 s'pose I'll have to be getting
the ring now," he said. 81 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 superior
ity that, to the man at least, masked
the yearning that lay beneath, for
\Nspite her education and her su-
fcial polish, Betty was still a
(hboy at heart and even now she
ynged for one of those long, de-
= shtful rambles through field and
~ lat she and Martin used to
Scan't forget" said Martin, sim
pl;. 81 was hoping that you remem
bered, too"
81 do remember" conceded Bet
ty, .'but I also remember my mis-
sion. You must realize that this
a education was given me that I migl
! be of use in the community.
would be unfair to my benefactres
to settle down to married life an
sing my individuality beneat
t. yours"
whats the use of knowing hoy
far the moon and sun are from u
and who lives in Africa, if you hav
to live an old maid?" scoffed Mar
tin. There's Ruth and There's
and Minnie. They all married AN
married well, because they learne
how to be good housekeepers. You
mas a famous cook and she laugh
the other girls. It's better to knoN
how to make good bread than t
know the sort of stuff your hea
has been filled with
| That's where you mistake, 'crie
Betty, quickly. Gwen in the kit
chen education makes me better fit
ted to meet the problems of life.
know, for instance, the chemistr
of breadmaking, the relative nutri
tive value of the various meats an
vegetables. The science of house
keeping is one of the most interest
ing studies. Mrs. Carberry-Cransto
has particularly impressed upon m
the Importance of communicating t
others these important facts
| What Martin said about Mrs. Car
berry Cranston and her ideas doe
not require repetition here.
j But if Betty found learning
satisfactory substitute for love sh
did not show it in her manner. PEG
pie regarded her with the awe tina
her erudition deserved, but she wa
conscious that beneath the awe wa
"a good-natured contempt for som
of her theories. Martin she say
not at all after that first meeting.
Then came a summons to her mo
Their from one of the married dau
ghters and Betty was left to keel
house for a week. Her father wa
away on a business trip and sh
was left alone in the big house. He
science of housekeeping did no
materially aid her in her cooking
There was small comfort of KNOWN
the chemistry of breadmaking whe'
the product was sodden and uneat
/. able and her knowledge of food va.
ues did not aid her to transform
the most nutritious food into thu
most appetizing. Before the ent
of the week she was hungry, dys
peptic and utterly worn out.
| Martin found her weeping in tn,