Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1911 — FOUND HER LIFE WORK [ARTICLE]

FOUND HER LIFE WORK

ItlMhh why AAi TO ACCEPT ALGERNON. Sartorial Reformation of Man Whw Would Wear Yellow Spate With Bathing Suit Was Labor ' Worthy of Her Ambitions. The girl looked drearily out overT the sea, and from time to time shei sighed deeply, and then on a sudden j the pale glamour of perplexity that had glazed her’ ’expression fadedE away and a look of stem resolve, ofj sturdy determination, took its place.; She rose up from the little hollow in' the sand dune In which she had been! reclining and waved her parasol, sum-t monlngly, toward Algernon De Bray, who was disporting himself In she) blue water of the sea, calling while in commanding tones, and he. hearing, with a radiant smile upon' his lips, came running toward her. “What is it, Ariadne?” he panted as he climbed slippingly to the top of the dune, dripping with the sea. and severing somewhat as the cool! breezes pranked playfully about him. "I have decided not to keep you waiting longer for your answer, Algernon,” she said, dreamily gazing away from his ankles. "You may remember- that last night you asked me to be your wife. It was on the pi-azza—:-'/q “Yes, dearest,” he murmured, softly. “How could I forget?” "And I—l asked time to consider,”! she said, drawing her mackintosh) more Closely about her. “You may not know ft, possibly, but I am an;. ambitious woman, ’Algernon. I have! been, ’through Gassar college,’ and! have taken post-graduate degrees Ini law, civics and philosophy, and my hesitation in giving you your answer' was due entirely to the feeling that! with your great wealth at my disposal all inceptive to work, to go out. into the world and make a career for myself, would be taken away. I feared that I should become an Idle woman—a woman without a great purpose InFltte—q thing which I despise." . • “Yea, dear,” ha anaWered, soaking the salt water out* of his ear. "Go on.” • i "But since you came out of your b'athing house I have seen that those fears were idle/ she resumed, "and; that there is a real fife work that, perhaps only a woman of exceptional firmness of purpose could accomplish! tn the position to which you havei called me. You have offered me myi opportunity, and I cannot turn my back upon IL” "My beloved,” shivered Algernon. "A man who will wear yellow spats with a bathing suit, Algernon De Bray, she hastened on, "will require the most content, unremitting, arduous, and at times discouraging labor of a lifetime on the part of a devoted wife to knock any kind o< decent sartorial sense into his so-called head, and so I have decided to undertake the responsibilities to which you last night invited me” And then and there, wringing wet as he was from the waters of the waves, Algernon De Bray reached out him arms and embraced her so tightly that the dampness of -his bathing suit swept over her like a cataract. “We shall be so happy!” whispered hoarsely in her ear. “I hope so, Algernon,” she replied, simply. "At any rate, we shall have no spats after we are married!”