Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1922-10-05
Eliza's Courtship
Plan
By JESSE DOUGLAS

Il
gether, ridden together, motoreo 70,
gether. Fred had called seNerai
times at the apartment where Eliza
with another young woman, llNed III
town with distant cousin of age TO
act as chaperone He had also spent
the day at the Stone country place
where Eliza spent eek-endS-thls TO
give ELIAS parents and brothers anu
sisters an opportunity To say pleasant
or unpleasant things about him, >"
far, so good. Ii seemed as If the
rest-plenSant little episode OF max
ing desperate love to Eliza and being
accepted-would be supremacy easy.
"Eliza has a lot of funny notions,
suggested Mrs. Clifford who played the
role of chaperone, one day when trea
dropped in the apartment on his way
from a canter in the park before eliza
had come home from one of her lee
lures. "She likes men and she thinks
a lot of yuu--it isn't that she is aYerse
To marriage But she takes herseIf
seriously, or AT least with different
sort of seriousness from that of girls
when | was young"
This only served TO spur Fred on
TO the final declaration of his love.
He determined that the time should
be that evening and the place, II
Mrs. Clifford would have the good
grace to leave them alone would be
the apartment where he was then
sitting.
And Mrs. Clifford did make or find
an excuse and pointedly remarked as
she left Eliza and Fred together after
Eliza had returned from lectures that
she would not be back until half past
six, and that Hazel, her other charge,
would not be back until after dinner.
So there was an hour and a half be-
fore them. Surely troth could he
plighted in that time after after all
preliminaries had been SO carefully at
tended to.
Eliza refused To be the least bit SEN
timental. As soon as he launched out
on definite proposal she seemed to
command all her powers of reasoning.
i've been doing a lot of thinking,
Eliza hegan "Of course If would be
the easiest thing in the world TO give
in completely, yield to the natural in
clination and promise to be yours for
avar"
"Thep Won 1--we me-FIizo-n Iease"
"Don,t lac fnolisb ar imnatient That
,sn,t raaIIv the noint or issue rel
Won bove hsen thinking Iot Iotaly
Girls have the hardest roles to pIuy
in This question of choosing mates 4
man goes ahead from rhe fine he is y
hny and searches nnt his natural benr
and educotes himself to tbot one goal
IN Wow lie vents RI no - doctor ar
no wants to no . fnapciar mr. he
wants TO build g house-and all his
education is directed 10 that end. lie
marries ana he goes right ON being a
doctor or tnaucier 81, y .arpeuter ana
his wife lives in a realm of doctorfng
or financing or house building for the
rest of her married life.
"Rut when 81 pirI starts in to edu.
cate herself she has in the hack Of her
mind that thougb she would narbone
rather live in the reolm of doctorIno
a., ~, ~.
had better not become TOO specialized
because after all. the chances are that
she will marry. To become too spe-
cialzed rather units one for marriage
that is, unless one is lucky enough
to marry man who has specialized
in the same way that she has. She
always goes about with the feeling
that she might marry a lawyer or
writer or a college professor and that
she mustn't do anything that would I'M
fit her for anything. So Won see a
girl wastes a lot of time and mental
energy.
Il discovered this state of affairs
some time ago" continued Eliza. II de-
cided that | really did want To marry
that / was best suited to married
life. But also wanted to have some
thing to do with doctoring Every
one tells me that my talents All lie in
that direction So. though | am nor
STUDYING medicine for deerrea have
begun taking courses M the medical
college. am going 10 marry a doc. |
tor"
"Pu, surnos, t,,,, -. go.