El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-01
The Diary of A Bachelor
He and Manette See the Suffraget
Again, but Neither of
Them Notices Her.
Max.


; FLY st occurred to me, when Ma
nette and I were tramping home
- that evening, after the militant suf-
fraget had tried to hold me up, that
there was a warning in the incident.
I look like a tramp, as she said and
Manette, in spite of her clothes, looks
like q princess
What it is 1 cannot define, but one
of her sex can never disguise the fact
that she was born to purple and fine
linen. She may Oulive every natural
grace and may be- reduced to rags, but
there is always an indefinable some
thing that tells of better things in the
as she trudged ahead of me in the foot
path, and this is what L saw: A little
bare head with a shock of curls just
reaching to her shoulder, for We had
had her hair cut short before we left
town, and the growth was all new and
untamed.
She wore a blue bingham with half
the buttons off the back. There were
rents in it, and through one rent I
caught a glimpse of an eXquisitely
trimmed petucOat, for Richards had re-
fused 20 let her darling wear the coarse
muslin garments that were best fitteQ
for the occasion. She wore half hose,
with tan shoes from which her toes
prOtruded, and her little fat legs were
scratched by briars and brambles.
But one could tell by a glimpse that
she was not an ordinary child, and
wondered If il was because of the proud
little way in which she carried her
mead, or because OF ner total uncon-
seriousness OF self, "A born aristocrat,"
l murmured.
Her Beauty.
She looked up at me in laughter at
some prank Of the pup, and L was
struck more fOrcibly than ever with
her most unusual beauty. L know life
would be dreary and almost impossible
without Mlnerrn 7
more recOnciled TO the loss of Eliza
beth She was happy all her life. The
little girl trudging along in the path
ahead of me is happy now, but I will
not always be with her.
l suppose 1t was this constant ap-
prehensiOn that led me to call Mrs Al
len to the porch after supper and tell
her that 1 am not the poor clerk she
imagines, resting from overwOrk, but
one of the detested millionaire class.
resting from excessive luxury.
L told her my name and she laughed.
She said she had guessed it the second
day. No one, she said, could look at
Manette and think for a moment that
she had been brought up in denial She
could not explain it except that the
child was always SO unconscious of her
clothes.
She rises above them" she said, and
it made me very proud
l have always had the theory Won
der how 1t will evOlve-that If Manette
is accustomed to the best as a child
she will never strut like a peacock
when she is grown She will always
be unconscious of her price marks
To the Manner Born.
She will never build conversation on
the price of her gown, nor attempt to
erect pride and station on the cost
of hat She will never, and of that
am sure, remember that her clothes
cost more than the clothes of her as
sOciates and show il in her manner
Allen, and her reply gave me a new
viewpoint.
She won't remember what things
cost" she said, somewhat dryly be
cause she has never had to earn the
price. The girl who stintS herself in
necessities for a month that she may
afford tWenty-dOllar gown will never
forget to the day of her death what
the gown cost UncOnsciousness of
Clothes is a good trait but Manette's
unconsc1ousness will be largely due to
ignorance When one pays the price,
one remembers"
did not seem to make her quite m
derstand what meant, and neither did
1 understand her /, who take the
place of a father to Manette, would pre-
fer that she never hear the subject of
dress, but those who take the place of
her mother make her attire the first
consideration That, Diary, is a fond
weakness Of all mothers.
1 gave Mrs Allen Mrs. Spencer's ad-
dress and also that of Richards 1T
has occurred to me-" I said, that if
anything happened to me, either ad-
dress will be useful to you"
She found considerable amusement
in the thought of what an exodus to
the woods there would be of young wo-
men If 1t were known that such a
wealthy unattached bachelor were
spending his summer there They
would chase you harder" she said
than the pup chases the rabbits"
She Sympat.1izeS
She laughed so heartily I asked if she
would enjoy the sight, and she replied
that she wouldn't
I feel sorry for any unmarried man
these days" with some spirit Either
the women are the mercenary kind.
hunting him down for his money. or
they are the suffrage kind. hunting