The daily Alaskan., 1914-04-08
 STRONG MINDED
A Third, Ordinary Person Proved a
 Dark Horse
By E. A. MITcHEL

l JulIl NplL64GL AoNN AlSN tN''''' N
 story. It is. sufficient to say that he won her consent to their marriage when she vas passing out of her teens and her ideas of the stand she should l take iu the world were in embryo. Soon after her engagement Julia fell urdpr the influence of Margaret Hal l stcd ou elderly unmarried lady-to 1 avoid tEe unpleasant term old maid who wrought considerable change In l her.
 Miss Hulstcd was what was called a strong minded woman till the more pleasing term new woman was in- vented Under the tutelage of the | stronger. or at least the more deYel- oprl intellect Julia conceived diff fereut uo.ion from what she had held of the part of women in the universe. l That it WIS a WUmauS part alone to bear children SLe did not believe, Un- der the new dispeusation the profes- sionS were open to the gentIer sex. and she saw no more reason why a woman should u0t enter them than a man. After consultation with her mentor she resolved to hccOme a lawyer.
 NarStOu was not considered bright, but was universally respected, Some Of I~Julia's intimate friends who looked upon her as d talented girl wondered how she could fan.y one who was in- tellectuuuy her Inferior. He regretted that sine had entered a field which has been occupied almost exclusively by
 men. for he was not up to the new de- parturc. He had looked forward to having a wife who would rely on him to provide the home and on herself to run it smoothly. Being one of those persons wlo believe in the adage All things comr to those who wait" he took no acliou upon his Gaucees be- coming u lawyer. leaving rhe matter of his relationship with hnr to work itself out
 Julia consulted Miss HglSted with reference to her engagement with Marston but did not act on her ad- vice. which was to remain single The fable of the fox who had lost it's tail suggested itself to the pupil, and she saw no reason why because woman adopted a profession she should give up wifchood and motherhood, so she continued her engagement
 But while pursuing her studies Julia listened to 30 course Of lectures from an eminent member of the bar, by whom she was very much impressed. It seemed after hearing the keen logic Of Cyrus Underwood that EdguT's talk was extremely commonplace. Mir. Un- derwoOd. who was a bachelor in mid de age. took a great fancy to Julia and, not being aware of her engage ment, showed her attention.
 Julia. who rcaIize' tat she was bound in honor to Ma. Jn and was extremely fond of hj.a LOW entered upon one of those DO .Io, $ of iudeciSiOn that are cxtreme,- trying. But what ever there was in him was not glitter ing and did not appear to advantage beside the brilliant mind of Under wood In her pcrpleNity Julia made a confdant of Margaret Ualsted.
 Perhaps if she wished for advice she would have done better to go to a married Syomm who had had eEpe- rieuce in such matters. But even this would not have been likely to avail anything. for Julia was pretty likely to make up her own mind about what she would do in her own affairs with out the advice of any one. However, Miss ualSted gave her a couple of pie lures, the one of a union with a com mUuplaCe man. the other with a bril- liant lawyer with whom Slfe might In time be a partner not only matrlmO- nial.y. but professionally. It must be confessed that this second picture was very attractive Julia saw herself and her husband working ,ogether on in tereSting cases, each assisting the oth- CT with suggestions and oftentimes supplying each others deficiencies.
 It was this that finally determined Julia to break with Edgar MarstOn and accept Cyrus Underwood. Relying on q certain sense of justice she had ob- served in the former, she laid the case before him, telling him that she saw in union with Underwood a brilliant future for herself. and, though it pain ed her to pain Edgar, she thought that in justice to herself she should make the change But on no account would she do so unless Edgar assured her that he thought her perfectly right in the matter.
 If Marstou had a fault it was not in opposing persons whose minds were made up. He said that her problem was altogether too deep for him to solve, but if it was better for her to marry a lawyer it was certainly better for himself that she should do so, in- asmuch as he was not q lawyer, but plain man of business. Nothing would be well for either that was not well for both.
 Julia, whose mind at the time was fixed upon the brain union that prom ised such brilliant results. was much pleased with her lovers statement of the case. not so much on account of its good sense as because it left her free to enter upon a new alliance that ap- peared so advantageous A few weeks later she wrote a very kind letter to