Grand Forks herald., 1916-12-22

But Rose, with her hrSt adorable
smile, had captured her mothers
walton or restraint. And as the child
grew and her splendid, exuberant
vitality and courage and wide-reach-
ing. though not facile. affection, be-
came marked characteristics, the hope
grew in her mother that here was Il
new leader born to the great cause.
1t would need new leaders. She
herself was conscious OF a side drift
to the great current. that threatened
to leave her in n bac.Swater. Or, as
she put it to herself, that threatened
to sweep over the banks Of righteous
ness and decorum, and inundate, dis
astrous.y, the peaceful fields.
She couldn't expect to have the
strength to resist this drift herself,
but she had the vision OF her daughter
rising splendidly to the task. And for
that task she trained her-or thought
she did; saw to it that the girl UNDER
stood the eighteenth century liberal
ism. which, limited to the fields Of
politics and education, and extended
to include women equally with men,
had grown up in. With it for back
ground, with n university education
and u legal training, the girl would
have everything she needed.
She expected her to marry, of
course. But in her day-dreams it was
to be one Of Roses converts to the
cause-won, perhaps, by her advoca cy
| at the bar Of some legal case involv-
ing the rights Of woman-who was to
lay his newborn conviction, along
| with his alteration, at the girls feet.
Rose outrageously had boasted, rolled
| her in the dust and tramped all over
her in the course OF their arguments.
presented a violent contrast to the
ideal husband she had selected. IN
deed, it would be hard to think OF him
as anything but the rock on which her
whole ambition for the girl would be
shattered
That night, during the process of
/ getting ready for bed, Rose put on
bath robe picked up her hair brush,
and went into Portals room. Portia.
much quicker always about such mat
i tiers, was already upon the point of
turning out the light, but, guessing
what her sister wanted, she stacked
her pillows, lighted a cigarette, climb
ed into bed and settled back for a
chat
II hope" Rose began, "that you're
IT other isn't. She's terribly unhappy.
DO you suppose it's because she thinks
I've-well sort of deserted her, in not
| going on and being a lawyer-and all
that?"
"oh, perhaps" said Portia, indiffer-
entity II wouldn't worry about that
though. Because really, child, you
had no more chance OF growing up to
be a lawyer and q leader of the
q brigadier general
| pEAT. ADVE%TI-P E-TAE TIPEF
(! Rose stopped brushing her hair and
demanded to be told why not. She
s, had been getting on all right up to
now. hadn't she?
why, just think said Portia.
what mother herself had gone
through when she was your age; put
herself through college because her
father didn't believe in higher edu-
cation practically disowned her
She'd taught six months in that awful
school-remembcr? She was used to
was working hard enough to have
killed camel But you:
Why, lamb. YOU never really had to
do anything in your life. II you felt
like it, all right-and equally all right
II you didn't. You've never been hurt
never even been frightened. You
wouldn't know what they felt like.
And the result is.
Portia drew in a long puff. then
eyed her cigarette thoughtfully
through the slowly expelled smoke.
The result is.' she concluded, that
you have grown up into big, splen-
did, fearless, conl1ding creature, that
it's perfectly inevitable some man
like Rodney Aldr;ch would go straight
out OF his head about. And there you
are!"
A troubled, questioning look came
into the younger sisters eyes, i've
been lazy and selfish. I know" she
said. Perhaps more than I thought.
haven't meant to be. But do
you think I'm any good at all?''