Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-12
want you to come home. Not yet"

V~AAS JSu y SOAAAO AAOAAS AVA ~
She could only stare.
Il want you to be satisfied when
you get there. Ill do everything l
can to keep you happy, but I'll make
lots OF breaks, so l want you to take
time n think it over"
She was relieved. Sine still had a
chance to seize splendid Indefinite
freedom. She might go-oh, she'd
see Europe, somehow. before she was
err respect for kennicott. She had
fancied that her life might make a
story. She knew hat there was MOTH
ing heroic or obviously dramatic in it,
no magic of rare hours, nor valiant
challenge, but it seemed to her that
she was Of some Significance because
she was commonplaceness. the. Ordi-
nary life of h age. made articulate
n protesting. 1t had not occurred
to her that there was a story Of Viii
Kennicott, into which she entered
only so much as he entered into hers;
that he had bewilderments and con-
cealments as intricate rs ner own, and
soft treacherous desires for sympathy.
Thus she brooded. looking at the
amazing sea, holding his hand.
VIII .Y
She was in Washington; Kennicott
was in Gopher Prairie, writing Is dry
~ as over about watcr-pipes and
! goose-hunting and Mrs. Fagero's mas
told. . r.
She was talking at dinner to a gen
eralissima of suffrage. Should she
return?
The leader spoke YEARLY:
My dear, I'm perfectly selfish. /
cant quite visualize the needs OF your
husband, and it seems to me hat your
baby will do. quite as well in the
schools here as in your barrack at
home"
Then you think I'd better not 20
back?" Carol sounded disappointed.
Its more difficult than that When
/ say hat I'm selfish I mean that the
only thing / consider about women
is whether they're likely to prove USE
full in building up real political pow
er for m And you? Shall 1 be
frank? Remember when I say you l
don't mean you alone. I'm thinking
Of thousands Of women who come to
Washington and New York and Chi
n seeking a sign in the heavens
women of all sorts, from ,imid moth
ers of fifty in cotton gloves, to girls
just out OF Va2sar who organize
strikes in their VT fathers factories!
All Of you are more or less useful to
me hut only n fou, of WV, %.J.-
nv n,.ca heoa,a - vou on axe
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| and mother ana ah;,dSan ~ n.a
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than anv of vo,, rnuN nn,ah a ~
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on Ground Gr;nnerr ana 1850 ~.
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nlication in .connnsrns Iua.n;.s IN
or .%conouerine New ynI,, 10 4hnt tu IN
conouerors m,st havond III 1hinas ~
conaner1 II must haua haan A ~ ny.
in the good old davs whon au.h hasy
dreamed on,v ~ %aaiI;rv . h' u.toi
Thousand volume. and .c,hane -
being feted IN hir hn,,sas ~ "
the uplifters ike me haS . en vseu
hearted ambition 10 he aiec+aa ~ ie
portland offices and invited - % ~ -,
iecturine. But we Savo -
set everything Now the one .,Ip,
that is ~disgraceful to anv of nc TO- nh
vious success The unIifter who;.
very popular with wealthv natu ~ y -
can be pretty sure that he has sof+en
ed his philosophy to please them and