Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-21
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A
Suffragiist
Wife
!, by the Mcclure Newspaper syndicate')

= Something unusual had happened at
suffrage headquarters that morning.
A mana big, thoroughly masculine
one, too, who looked as if with the
proper makeup he might have been
moving picture impersonation of the
good.leoking western ranchman' or
cowboy-had actually walked up to
Miss Hester Judd's desk-Hester was
the paid secretary of the organiza-
/ tionA and had asked to enroll as a
member. To be sure, there were many
q men on the list Of membership, but
those men members were usually
;, brothers or fathers, whose task Of
becoming suffragists had been smooth
ed by some daughter, wife, or SIS
ter, eager to add new names to the
10 roll and more membership fees to the
N nitreasury. 1t was really rather unus-
= Z ual for a man Of his own free will
to walk right up to the secretary and
say, as did this newest member: IF
you please, Miss, I'd like to belong
10 your organization, and II there Is
anything 7 can do besides paying a
check for hundred dollars to show
} Il am a member, be so good as to tell
ne what that is. I'd like to come to
he meetings and do anything else ]
can to help"
The newcomer hesitated when 1t
.ome to signing the enrolment bank,
and then he said to Hester: II may
rs welit tell you that l am acting for
,or Mr.. Warwick Stevens-and not for
myself. / am his private secretary,
Sou see., Perhaps 1 had. better sign
any own .name." When Hester took
he blank she saw that the secretary's
aame was Robert Walker.
Hester, in virtue Of the generous
enrolment fee and perhaps even more
because the newcomer was Of the out
ioors type of man that especially ap-
pealed to her. felt inspired to detain
+ aim as long as possible. She rose from
aer chair at her desk and conducted
aim through the four or five rooms
hat made up the suffrage headQuar-
.ers-the reading room with its array
of suffrage pamphlets and magazines,
she tea room with its cheerless, cheap
wicker chairs and tables, private
office fer. the officers, a-eubbyhole a of
! "a haptsys and the outer office where
she herself had her desk. ... .....s
Mr.. Walker spoke with something
= Of drawl and this, as well as a, GER
:, tain hesitancy and friendliness of his
srhanner, betokened to Hester that he
was not man of the city. She was
= not especially surprised when he asked
her to LET him talk to her minute.
= He motioned to two wicker chairs in
the tea room placed conveniently for
tete a tete and so began ti,eir conf
dence. Mr.. Stevens, whom he repre-
sented, was, he teld Hester, grand
son of Mrs. Warwick Stevens, senior,
and OF, course Hester had heard of her
as one Of the most prominent of the
very wealthy suffragists.
,"Perhaps / should not have told you
/ was Mr.. Stevens secretary" said
. Mr.. Walker $50 I'll depend on you
not to say anything about that. For
a reason I cannot mention now Mr..
Stevens is very anxious to get ac-
Quainted with some Of the prominent
,siffragists here. That is why /
dropped In" .......
Having filled his overcoat pockets
with pamphlets on the various phases
of suffrage the new member left the
Headquarters for that day promising
TO, return the next day when Miss
Hazel Stoppletou--usually mentioned
in newspaper accounts as the "suf-
frage beauty"-was to give talk on
the cause.
Hester thought 1t was perhaps be-
cause they were both secretaries,
though Of rather different sorts, that
they were attracted to each other from
the first and she was not entirely sur
priSed when after few interviews In
the headquarters, Mr.. Walker took
her completely into his confidence re-
garding Mr.. Stevens attitude toward
suffrage.
"I'll tell you how 1t is" he began.
young Stevens is very anxious to
know some of the young women inter-
ested in the cause. His grandmother,
who is completely absorbed with the
question, has made a queer sort Of
disposition Of her property War
wick Is her only grandson and. keir,
and she has stipulated that she will
give him q couple Of millions more or
less on the spot if he will marry a suf-
fragist, and II he does not marry
suffragiSt she will cut him off entirely
in her will. She has gone so far as
to say that the girl must have been
actively associated with suffrage be-
fore she made that stipulation, because
it would be an easy matter for any
girl whom Mr.. SteyenS fancied to as
sumo an interest in suffrage as pre-
text. However, Mr.. Stevens doesn't
care for any girl Ia particular, so he
is, to put it bluntly, in the matrimonial
market for an attrac ctive young suff.".
"Can you imagine anything so cal