Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-02-11
The Argus Daily Story
She Wanted a Mastery F. A. Mitchell.
Copyrighted. 1913 by Associated Literary Bureau

Deen very noble IN me TO 90 so, Out
that's not my kind of nobility On the
contrary. l felt as If / would like to
throw some bones Of contention be-
tween the two myself. But this was
out of the question.
/ was interested in the matter not
only because l wanted Julia for my
self. but on account of the fact that
she had engaged herself to Digby be-
cause she wished TO be bossed. She
had intimated to me that l wasn't
strong enough character to domineer
over her. but had my doubts about
the woman of the present day needing
an oyerseer. That might have occur
red in the days of our grandmothers.
when no one thought of leaving out the
word "obey" in the marriage service,
but now. when women are ambitious
for a voice in the government, it Is
different. The suffragette doesn't look
like a woman pining for a master, and
all women who earn their own living
become more or less independent l
therefore took Julia's desire to set up
a king for herself with grain of salt.
If, however. it was sincere l hoped
that she would have the same expert
ence as the frogs that chose a stork
for a ruler.
The next time I met Edith Martin
she had great news for me.
Haven't you heard?' she exclaimed
excitedly -,
mo. What is it?'
ITS perfectly awful a q
sTNUbot'c parfaatIv awful9O 49,
But he deserved 1t, every bit Of itr'
Deserved what?"
Some time was required for her to
express her opinion about 1t before she
could curb herself to tell me what it
was. This feminine trait, which
seems to me akin to spending lot of
time over the address of a letter to
discover whom it is from, instead Of
breaking it open to look at the sigma
ture having spent its force, Edith
came down to facts and told me the
story She had got it direct from
Julia and had not troubled herself to
inquire into the mans side of the
story.
Things had been going from bad to
worse between them" said the bosom
friend, when one morning Frank
called to see Julia for a better under
standing. Instead of going in the aft
ernoon or evening he went about IL
O'Clock in the morning. He'd been
used to running in on her informally,
and, being told that she was in the
pantry making a pie, he just went in
there. I've come he said, with the
| do I fonlta
! but the principal trouble between US
is that occasionally 1 would like to
have my own way about some
| things"
You don't mean he was as unrea-
sonable as that" exclaimed.
Unreasonable, Julia took 1t as an
insult. That means she said, that
! you consider me person who wants
| to have her own way about every
| thing; that l am obstinate, mulish,'
| pigish-everything that is unreasona-
| bleT You are putting those words
into my mouth he replied. I have
wanted a good. strong. noble man for
a husband, but 1 haven't wanted a ty-
rant. Our engagement is broken. So
| therer She had q scoop filed with
flour in her hand. and she was SO mad
that she threw it all over him."
"YOu don't mean it," 1 exclaimed.
How he must have looked!'
Looked! He was white as a sheet
in front and black behind. Julia ran
through u door into the kitchen, then
upstairs and into her room. locking
herself in. Frank busted the -four of
his clothes as best he could with his
handkerchief, then left the house,
They'll make it up" l suggested.
Never. Julia is one of those pliable,
gentle creatures who. when they are
goaded to desperation, will turn, and
when they turn they will never crawl
again"
"CrawI?"
Yes. Julia gave way to him till she
couldn't stand 1t any longer"
Poor girl"
Not long after that, having proved
that l could make a good living as an
illustrator and believing that Julia's
engagement with Digby was not likely
to be renewed, / called upon her.
think she had had enough of being
bossed and had demonstrated to her
overseer. At any rate. she didn't men
ton such necessity, and when 1 told
her that had found success in new
field she seemed interested. | think
Edith Martin had told her that was
looking for a wife to boss me, for Ju-
liza gave evidence that she would like
the Job. So / proposed and was &C.
cepted
We get ION very well together. I
have a way of out-Heroding Herod
with her. When she wants her way a
little bit give her a bucketful of It all
at once. This breaks her up. l have
tried yielding to her when her acts are
sure 10 lead TO grief, hoping to teach
her by example. But this has been
failure. She invariably throws the
fault on ne. never argue with her
and when | find it necessary to act on
my own opinions do so without a word.
This plan works admirably.
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