Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 18 April 1895 — Page 4

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"You certainly have. Well, until breakfast is ready 1*11 glar.co over The# Times. Have you seen ifr" "The Times? Oh. dear me. this is it which I have under my spirit lamp. I am afraid there is some acid upon that, too, and it is rather damp and torn. Here it is."

The doctor took the bedraggled paper with a rueful face. "Everything seems to be wrong today," he remarked. "What is this sudden enthusiasm.about, chemistry, Ida?" "Oh, I am trying to live up to Mrs. Westinacott's teaching." I "Quite right, quite right!" said he, though perhaps with less heartiness than he had shown the day before. "Ah, hero is breakfast at last!"

But nothing was comfortable that morning. There were eggs without eggspoons, toast which was leathery from being kept, dried up rashers and grounds in the coffee. Above all there was that dreadful smell which pervaded everything and gave a horrible twang to every mouthful. "I don't wisli to put a damper upon 1 your studies. Ida," said the doctor as he pushed back his chair. "But I do think it would be belter if you did your chem- 1 ieal experiments a little later in the day." "But Mrs. Westmacott says that wornen should rise early and do their work before breakfast." "Then they should choose some other room besides the breakfast room." The doctor was becoming just a little ruffled. A turn in the open air would soothe him, he thought. "Where are my boots?" he asked.

But they were not in their accustomed corner by his chair. Up and down he searched, while the three servants took up the quest, stooping and peeping under bookcases and drawers. Ida lxad returned to her studies and Clara to her blue covered volume, sitting absorbed and disinterested amid the bustle and the racket. At last a general buzz of congratulation announced that the cook had discovered the boots hung up among the hats in the hall. The doctor, very red and flustered, drew them on and stamped off to join the admiral in his morning walk.

As the door slammed Ida burst into a shout of laughter. "You see, Clara," she cried, "the charm works already. He has gone to No. 1 instead of to No. 3. Oh, we shall win a great victory. You've been very good, dear. I could see that you were on thorns to help him when he was looking for his boots." "Poor papal It is so cruel. And yet what are we to do?" "Oh, he will enjoy being comfortable all the more if we give him a little discomfort now. What horrible work this chemistry is! Look at my frock! It is ruined. And this dreadful smell!" She threw ojien the window and thrust her little golden curled head out of it. Charles Westmacott was hoeing at the other side of the garden fence. "Good morning, sir," said Ida. "Good morning." The big man leaned upon his hoe and looked up at her. "Have you any cigarettes, Charles?" "Yes, certainly." "Throw me up two." "Here is my case. Can you catch?"

A sealskin case came with a soft thud on the floor. Ida opened it. It was full. "What are these?" she asked. I "Egyptians." "What are some other brands?" "Oh, Richmond Gems and Turkish and Cambridge. But why?" "Never mind!" She nodded to him and closed the window. "We must remember all those, Clara," said she. "We must learn to talk about such things. Mrs. Westmacott knows all about the brands of cigarettes. Has your rum come?" "Yes, dear. It is here." "And I have my stout. Come along up to my room now. This smell is too abominable. But we must be ready for I him when he comes back. If wc sit at the window, we shall see him coming down the road."

The fresh morning air and the genial company of the admiral had caused the doctor to forget his trouble, and he came back about midday in an excellent liumor. As he opened the hall door tlievilo smell of chemicals which had spoiled his breakfast met him with a redoubled virulence. Ho threw open the hall window, entered the dining room and stood aghast at the sight which met his eyes.

Ida was still sitting among her bottles, with a lit cigarette in her left hand and a glass of stout on the table beside her, Clara with another cigarette was lounging in the easy chair with several maps spread out upon the floor around. Her feet were stuck up on the coal scuttle, and she had a tumblerful of some reddish brown composition on the smoking table close at her elbow. The doctor gazed from on© to the other of them through the thin gray haze of smoke, but his eyes rested finally in a settled stare of astonishment upon his elder and more serious daughter. "Clara!" he gasped. "I could not have believed it!"

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"Clara!" he gasped. "I could not have believed it!"

"What is it, papa?" "You are smoking!" "Trying to, papa. I find it a little difficult, for I have not been used to it." "But why, iii the name of goodness"— "Mrs. Westmacott recommends it." "Oh, a lady of mature years may do many things ,\yhicli a young girl must avoid." "Oh, 110," cried Ida. "Mrs. Westmacott says that there should be one law for all. Have a cigarette, pa?" "No, thank you. I never smoke in the' morning." "No? Perhaps you don't care for the brand. What are these, Clara?" "Egyptians." "Ah, we must have some Richmond Gems or Turkish. I wish, pa, when j'ou go into town you would get me some Turkish." "I will do nothing of the kind. I do not at all think that it is a fitting habit for young ladies. I do not agree with Mrs. Westmacott upon the point." "Really, pa! It was you who advised us to imitate her." "But with discrimination. What is it that you are drinking, Clara?" "Rum, papa." "Rum? In the morning?" He sat dowfi and rubbed his eyes as one who tries to shake off some evil dream. "Did you say rum?" '4 Yes, pa. They all drink it in the profession which I am going to tak up "Profession, Clara?" "Mrs. Westmacott says that every woman should follow a calling, and that we ought to choose those which women have always avoided." "Quite so." -a "Well, I am going to act upon her advice. I am going to be a pilot." "My dear Clara! A pilot? This is too much." "This is a beautiful book, papa. 'The

Lights, Beacons, Buoys, Channels and Landmarks of Great Britain.' Here is another, 'The Master Mariner's Handbook.' You can't imagine how interesting it is." "You are joking, Clara. You must be joking. "Not at all. pa. You can think what a lot I have learned lire idy. I'm to carry a green light to starboard and a red to port, with a white light at the masthead, and flare up every 15 minutes." "Oh, won't it look pretty at night!" cried her sister. "And I know the fog signals. One blast means that a ship steers to starboard, two to port, three astern, four that it is unmanageable. But this man asks such dreadful questions at the end of each chapter. Listen to this: 'You see a red light. The ship is 011 the port tack and the wind at north. What course is that ship steering to a point?"

The doctor rose with a gesture of despair. "I can't imagine what has come over you both," said he. "My dear papa, we are trying hard to live up to Mrs. Westinacott's standard.'' "Well, I must say that I do not admire the result. Your chemistiy, Ida, may perhaps do 110 harm, but your scheme, Clara, is out of the question. Iiow a girl of your sense could ever entertain such a notion is more than I can imagine. But I must absolutely forbid you to go further with it." "But, pa," asked Ida, with an air of innocent inquiry in her big blue eyes, "what are we to do when your commands and Mrs. Westinacott's advice are opposed? You told us to obey her. She says that when women try to throw off their shackles their fathers, brothers and husbands are the very first to try to rivet them on again, ant} that in such a matter no man has any authority." "Does Mrs. Westmacott teach you that I am not the head of my own house?" The doctor flushed, and his grizzled hair bristled in his anger. "Certainly. She says that all hcacls of houses are relics of the dark ages."

The doctor muttered something and stamped his foot upon the carpet. Then without a word he passed out into the garden, and his daughters could see him striding furiously up and down, cutting off the heads of the flowers with a

"Oh, you darling! You played your part so splendidly!" cried Ida. "But how cruel it is! When I saw the sorrow and surprise in his eyes, I very nearly put my arms about him and told him all. Don't you think we have done enough?" "No, no, no. Not nearly enough. You

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must not turn weak now, Clara,. It is so funny that I should be leading you. It is quite a new experic-nee. But I know that I am riglit. If Ave go on as we are doing, wo shall be able to say all our lives that we have saved him. And if we don't", oh. Clara, we should never forgive ourselves."

CHAPTER X.

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From that day the doctor's peace was gone. Never was a quiet and orderly household transformed so suddenly into a beer garden or a happy man turned into such a completely miserable one. He had never realized before how entirely his daughters had shielded him from all the friction of life. Now that they had not only ceased to protect him, but had themselves become a source of trouble to him, he began to understand how great the blessing was which he had enjoyed and to sigh for the happy days before his girls had come under the influence of his neighbor. "You don't look happy," Mrs. Westmacott had remarked to him one morning. "You are pale and a little off color. You should come with me for a 10-mile spin upon the tandem." "I am troubled about my girls." They were walking up and down in the garden. From time to time there sounded from the house behind them the long sad wail of a French horn. "That is Ida," said he. "She has taken to practicing on that dreadful instrument in the intervals of her chemistry. And Clara is quite as bad. I declare it is getting quite unendurable." "Ah, doctor, doctor!" she cried, shaking her forefinger with a gleam of her white teeth. "You must live up to your principles—you must give your daughters the same liberty as you advocate for other women." "Liberty, madam, certainly! But this approaches to license." "The same law for all, my friend." She tapped hiin reprovingly 011 the arm with her sunshade. "When you were 20, your father did not, I presume, object to your learning chemistry or playing a musical instrument. You would have thought it tyranny if he had." "But there is such a sudden change in them both." "Yes, I have noticed that they have been very enthusiastic lately in the cause of liberty. Of all my disciples I think that they promise to be the most devoted and consistent, which is the more natural since their father is one of our most trusted champions."

The doctor gave a twitch of impatience. "I seem to have lost all authority," he cried. "No, no, my dear friend. They are a little exuberant at having broken the trammels of custom. That is all." "You cannot think what I have had to put up with, madam. It has been a dreadful experience. Last night, after I had extinguished the candle in my bedroom, 1 placed my foot upon something smooth and hard, which scuttled from under me. Imagine my horror! I lit the gas and came upon a well known tortoise which Clara has thought fit to introduce into the house. I call it a filthy custom to have such pets."

Mrs. Westmacott dropped him a little courtesy. "Thank you, sir," said she. "That is a nice little side hit at my poor Eliza." "I give you my word that I had forgotten about her," cried the doctor, flushing. "One such pet may no doubt be endured, but two are more than I can bear. Ida has a monkey which lives on the curtain rod. It is a most dreadful creature. It will remain absolutely motionless until it sees that you have forgotten its presence, and then it will suddenly bound frogi picture to picture all round the walls and end by swinging down on the bellrope and jumping onto the top of your head. At breakfast it stole a poached egg and daubed it all over the door handle. Ida calls these outrages amusing tricks."

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"Swingiiiii rtr.'-n on the hcllwpc and jumpinii o.i':) the top of your head.'' Oh, all wiil come right," said the widow rea s.snrk 1 gl y. "And Clara is a.: bad—Clara, who used to be so good and weet, the very image of her poor mother. She insists upon this preposterous sehemo of being a pilot and will talk of nothing but revolving lights, and hidden rocks, and codes of signals, and nonsense of the kind." "But why preposterous?'1 asked his companion. "What nobler occupation can there be than that of stimulating commerce and aiding tho mariner to steer safely into port? I should .think your daughter admirably adapted for such duties." "Then I must beg*to differ from you, madam." "Still, you are inconsistent." 'Excuse me, madam, I do not see the matter in the same light. And I should be obliged to you if you would use your influence with my daughter to dissuade her." "You wish to make me inconsistent too." "Then you refuse?" "I am afraid that I cannot interfere."

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