Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1911 — FOUND HER LIFE WORK [ARTICLE]

FOUND HER LIFE WORK

REASON WHY ARIADNE DECIDED! TO ACCEPT ALGERNON. ' '-'v ■ < ».■■■ " •!* h: %jsKi ■< : -'^nftWq3Bw»3Bß| Sartorial Reformation of Man Wh# , Would Wear Yellow Spat* With »; Bathing Suit Was Labor Worthy ©f Her Am- ' bHlons. tiie gW looked drearily out over*: the sea, and from time to time she sighed deeply, and then bn a sudden.! the pale glamour of perplexity that had glazed her expression faded! away and a look of stem resolve, ofj sturdy determination, took its place,; She rose up from the little hollow Itti the spnd dune in which she bad been! reclining and wared her parasol, sum-' moningly, toward Algernon De Bray,* who was disporting himself In thej blue water of the sea, calling the while in commanding tones, and he,, hearing, with a radiant smile upon! his Bps, came running toward her. 1 “What Is it, Ariadne?” he panted] as ho < climbed slippingly to the topi of the dune, dripping with the sea,r and shivering somewhat as the cool; breezes pranked playfully about him.; 4, 1 hare decided not to keep you! waiting longer for your answer, AJ-i gernon,” she said, dreamily gazing] away from his ankles. “You may re-j member that last night yon asked met to be your wife. It was on the pH azza—'” “Yes, dearest," he murmured, soft-' ly. "How could I forget?” / “And I—l asked time to consider, w i she said, drawing her mackintosh; more closely about her. “You mayj not know it, possibly, but 1 am an; ambitious woman, Algernon. I hare; been through Gassar college, and; have taken post-graduate degrees in* law, eivica and philosophy, and my hesitation in giving yon your answer; was due entirely to the feeling that with your great wealth at my disposal all incentive to work, to go out; into the world and make a career for! myself, would be taken ' away, feared that I should become an Idle! woman—a woman without a great! purpose in life—a thing which I despise." “Yes, dear,” he answered, soaking the salt water ont of his ear. ‘‘Go On.” . “But since you came out of your bathing house I have seen that those fears were idle,” she resumed, “and; that (here is a real life work that; perhaps only a woman of exceptional firmness of purpose could accomplish! In the position to which yep have' called me. You have offered me my; opportunity, and I cannot turn my back upon 1L”

shivered Algernon. "A man who will wear yellow spats with a bathing suit, Algernon De Bray, she hastened on, “will require th'e most contant, unremitting, arduous, and at times discouraging labor of a lifetime on the part of a devoted wife to knock any kind of decent sartorial sense into hi* so-called head, and so I have decided to undertake the responsibilities to which yon 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 afid embraced her so tightly that the dampness of his bathing suit swept over her like a cataract. “We shall be so happy!” he whis> pered hoarsely In her ear. “I hope so, Algernon,” she replied, simply. "At any rate, we shall have no spats after we are married!’*