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Show .1 1 HAT1THDAY EVENING, AFBIL 19, 1890. , - THE SALT LAKE TIMES, ror that extended at the other side of the room into aa indefinite perspective of onyx tables,1 stands of ferns, Japanese screens and India hangings. and why should one be compelled to give up all the sweetness of life at I'm sure I don't look a day over thirty; and Algy Vane must be that at least!"" Mrs. Blythe was a very pretty woman not the bud, but the full blown rose a plump, dimpled, peachy cheeked ma-tron, who knew exactly how to make the most of all her middle aged advantages. She had married Maj. Mortlake Blythe at 17, and he had left her a widow at "I shall never be such a fool as to marry again!" said Mrs. Blythe. For the major had by no means been perfection. He had left her just enough, by dint of strict economy, to livo upon, especially as her only child had been taken to "bring up" by a quiet Quaker couple, the major's relatives. And until now Mrs. Blytho had adhered resolutely to her decision. But Algernon Vane was a royally lmndaotno fellow, and tho pretty widow was but human, and she had scribbled "Rosamond Vane," "Mrs. Algernon Vane," over and over again in her blot-ting book, and she had treasured up a flower ho had worn in his buttonhole, and she had corresponded with him dur-ing the winter he had spent in Bermuda, writing sprightly and amusing letters, with a semi-ton- e of seriousness under-lying all their sparkling gossip. "He likes mo a little now," said the widow, "and I'm determined he sliall like me a good deal more. I'm tired of thia solitary life; I'm tired of counting every penny half a dozen times before I spend it. Algy is independently rich, and he is my beau ideal of a man. With him I do believe I could be quite, quite happy. Ho don't know about Lydia, but of course that would be no objection. Uncle Joshua and Aunt Rebecca will keep her. Dear me, dear me! she must be growing to be a big girl now," and Mrs. Blythe shuddered at the idea. At this moment the door flew open, and in burst a tall, dusty, disheveled young girl some half a head taller than Mrs. Blythe herself, with tho white capped maid following helplessly behind. "Please, ma'am," said the maid, "she wouldn't wait for me to take her card up." "Mamma, I'm Lydia!" cried the breath-less apparition. "Little Liddy, mamma don't you remember? Tell that hate-ful girl to go away! A card, indeed! Am I to send up cards to my own mo- - ne niss iyaiar x es, it is mine, ana I'm a thousand times obliged to you. 1 must have fastened it in very carelessly. And I value it very highly, too; it was a gift from my father." "Is it worth a gveat deal of money? asked Lydia, timidly lifting her sea blue eyes to his face. "About a hundred dollars, I suppose. "I wish it was mine," said Lydia. with a long sigh, as if she were thinking aloud. "Yours? Why, it isn't a lady s ornv ment." 'Oh, not the pin!' Lydia hastened to explain, "but tho money the hundred dollars. Good-by- ! Here is the carnage waiting from Carhart court." "Will you let me drive you as far as Wotton farm?" asked the stranger, cour-- r teously. ' And tired Lydia willingly acceded. The upshot was that when she entered her uncle's presence she gave hira a bank bill representing the price of the "prize colt." "Where did thee get this money, child?' solemnly asked Uncle Joshua. "I I borrowed it," confessed Lydia. "Don't ask me any more questions, un-cle. I'll pay it back if I have to pick blackberries at four cents a quart all summer." ; "I hope thee will give up this hoyden-is- h business of scampering about on horseback, Lydia, after this," severely spoke Aunt Rebecca. "But, aunt, the old fortune teller told me that my fortune would one day be made by a" Lydia stopped abruptly as she remem-bered how tho diamond horsc3hoc had glittered on the floor at her feet that day. Her color rose, her heart beat. "Thee must remember, Lydia," ad-monished Aunt Rebecca, "that all divin era and fortune tellers are snares of Satan." "Yes, Aunt Rebeoca," murmured the girl. But from that day an inscrutable change came over tho whole character of her life. The pleasant summer sunshine had faded out of the land. The Saratoga hotels were closed; gay Newport was de-serted. And Mrs. Blythe, sitting in the yellow light of her jonquil silk curtains, was smiling over a card which Matilda bad just brought in. "Dear Algyt" she murmured. "I knew he would come!" She glided into the white and gold drawing room, all gracious cordiality. "You recreant cavalierl" she smiled. "I've half a mind to scold you, and yet" ; , "Do I deserve that title?" Mr. Vane asked. "For you are the first person to whom I have told the great happiness of my life. Oh, I see you don't understand met Come out from behind the dra-peries, Lydia, and help me to explain." And Lydia, "blue eyed and fair tressed, came. "We are married, mamma," said Lydia, "Algy and I. And we sail for Europe in the Comandria, at noon. Won't you kiss me, mamma, and wish me joy?" Mrs. Blythe kissed Lydia and Algy, too and wished them joy. But it was the severest ordeal to which the ever had been put. A mother-in-la-instead of a bride! This was hardly ' what she had looked forward to. But even in that trying moment she noticed tho glittering pin which fastened Lydia's lace bonnet strings a quaint de-vice of tiny diamonds and remembered what the girl had once said about a for-tune teller and a horseshoe. "Mamma didn't look quite pleased, Algy," said the bride, when they were back in the carriage, driving to tbe steamer's wharf. "Do you suppose she is vexed because we didn't take her into our confidence?" "I dare say," remarked Mr. Vane, "tint no mother likes to lose her child so suddenly. Least of all, darling, so sweet a treasure as you." And neither of the two suspected what a poisoned dagger was that day rankling in the breast of Mrs. Ro3amond Blythe. Helen Forrest Graves in Philadelphia Saturday Nteht. . ther?' Mrs. Blythe stood appalled, in the soft yellow light streaming through the Chi-na silk curtains. This fair haired, sun-burned young giantes with the peony cheeks and the big blue eyes, the ill fit-ting gloves and faded cambric gown could it be possible that this was the "little Liddy" of ten years ago? Oh, if Mr. Vane should see her! The girl looked around like one who views the enchantments of a fairy pal-ace. "Oh, mamma, how protty you are!" said she, "and what a lovely room I '.re you glad to see me, mamma, darlingr' "My dearest child," gasped the widow, "what has brought you here?" ' Lydia clasped her hands; her counte nance fell. "Mamma," said she, 'Tin the mott miserable creature in the world and I want a hundred dollars!" "Lydia! A hundred dollars!" "And you must let me have it!" ve-hemently went on Lydia. "I've killed Uncle Joshua's prize colt! That is, I didn't exactly do it myself; but I was riding Pretty Jane around the meadow, just for practice, and I forgot and loft Hie bars down, and the colt got out on the railroad track, and the train came along, and oh I never can look Uncle Joshua in the face again, unless I have that hundred dollars to pay him! "I shall be able to earn plenty for my-self before long, mamma," she added, breathlessly, "for I can ride better than the woman in pink tarlatan and spangles who jumped through the hoops at tho circus. When the old gypsy told my fortune last year, at the county fair, she said a horseshoe would bring me luck some day; and I knew, of course, what she meant. So I've been practicing rid-ing ever since, whenever I could get away from Aunt Beck and Uncle Joshua, and" "Mrs. Dappleton Acues is in the draw-ing room, ma'am," said the white cap-ped maid, appearing with an oxidized silver card receiver in her hand. And Mrs. Blythe checked her daugh-ter's confidences at once. "Lydia," cried she, "I'm sui prised at you! A great girl like you scuffling and romping around the country! Go back to Shady Plain by the very nest train, and try to behave moro like a ladj. Why, you must be fourteen at least!" "Seventeen, mamma," confessed the culprit. "But aren't you going to give me the hundred dollars?" "I havo not got a hundred cents!" im-patiently cried Mrs. Blythe. "And if I had, I wouldn't give it to you, you naughty, ill behaved, romping Yes, HatUda, tell Mrs. Dappleton Ames that I shall bo down directly, and bring some tea and buns for for Miss Blythe before tho next train goes." But when Mrs. Dappleton Ames had Dn'.shed her call, and Mrs. Blythe came back, the bird had flown. Lydia, deeply wounded and resentful, had promptly re-turned to Shady Plains. "That old gypsy must havo been a humbug, after all," thought the despair-ing girl. "Oh.'what shall I say to Undo Joshua? Why was mamma so cold and cruol to ine? Oh, dear; I am very, very unhappy!" "Shady Plains!" shouted the conductor. And aa Lydia crept sorrowfully out ol tho train something bright, like a fallen drop of dew, scintillated on the floor at her feet. Sho stooped to pick it up. It was a diamond scarfpin in the shape of a horseshoe. "Squire Carhart'a company must have dropped it," said Lydia to herself. "Oh, how it sparkiest If it were only mine! For I'm sure it must be worth more than a hundred dollars." She glanced furtively at a tall, broad shouldered young fellow who had been seated in the train a few seats beyond her. "Ho never looked around," thought Lydia. "I'm glad of it, for he must have known that I had been crying. But I must give this back to him." With a light, swift step she hastened to overtake Squire Carhart's city guest. "Please, is this yours?" said she, hold-ing up the glittering half circle. "I found it on the car floor close to where you were sitting." He started and raised his hat. "It is.Mr Wotton's nieccisn't it?" said .HORSESHOE LUCK. "Am I too ld to think of a second marriage?' said Mrs. Blythe, looking .wistfully into, the elitterins: sheet of our- - Rogers & Co, rwiiiii 45 E: 1st South St. VFe desire to call attention to the following which we are Headquarters : Franco-America- n French Soups, Royal Plum Pudding, French Pates Truffled, Snider's Home-mad- e Tomato Cafe Cerealine Flakes, Highland Condensed Milk, Met Olive Oil, LPJI. 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General BankiEg Business Transacted. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Exchange Bought and Sold. Money to Lend on Real Estate from one to nve years time. 2D1 SMain St Utah Title Insurance & Trust C 68 West 2nd South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. OFFICERS AND STOCKHOLDERS. JonE.Pootey,pM8ldeni L. S. Hilla, A. L. ThqmM, S? , W II v u ., INCORPORATORS. W.C.mirAS V SmiS. Cashier Deeeret IJBatkttill8, CaShier De8eret NatioMl ArtnurL.ThomM.Gorernorofr? John a! Marshall J-- r "W-lk-er, Union National w Probate Judge. x. G. Webber, Supt Z.CM.I Attorney, Jobs A. Mabshau. ;A WOMAN'S POSITION. Mrs. Frank Leslie Writes of Woman as Man Regards Hor and as Woman ; Means to Bo. LA DEUS IX MAOHIUA. The Eolative Position in Society That tbe Female Sex do Now Occupy. The fly on the" coach wheel aid, How fast we do travel ! And just about as much as tho fly regulated the speed of the coach, so much do we control and regulate the speed of the world. Of course ever so many of us imagine ourselves thedeu ex machina, and fancy that if we wcro eliminated from the af-fair, the coach must either stop or be ahunted off the crown of the highway where we keep it. But then, others, looking at the matter more philosophic-ally, perceive that through the few thou-sands of years of which alone we know anything at all the world has gone me-thodically on, carrying out some system of which we know very little indeed, the earth producing her treasures, such as gold, iron, coal, water, oil, just at tho time the previous supply of material is spent, and not at all in answer to man's demand or greed. We see, too, how the race of man has gradually developed from perhaps the baboon, perhaps only the clay devouring savage, to its present condition, which, let us most devoutly hope, is not ita final perfection; and we see, which Is just now what we want to consider, the curi-ous development of woman's place in the ' scale of existence, and of her relation toward man. Taking for a moment the biblical account of the creation, we per-ceive that it proceeded, perhaps by evo-lution, perhaps otherwise, from the low- - st forms to the highest, man coming after the beasts, and woman after man, thus placing her at the crown and sum-mit of creation. Perhaps it sounds a little arrogant for a woman to say that this eminence is act-ually woman's proper position, but I think few men will deny that "a perfect woman nobly planned" is the highest work of creative power from more than - one point of view, if not from all; and when ono considers the development of woman in these latter years, and per-ceives that the progress of that devel-opment is rather accelerating than di-minishing, one clings closer to the coach wheel, and wonders where in life it is taking us tot Of course we all know that woman has not always stood at the head of creation, , That proud eminence has hitherto been claimed by man, who assumed to be lord not only of creation, but of woman also, and woman has more or less meekly and move or less consistently allowed the claim. There is a pretty legend in the Talmud that when Adam was created a woman was also made, and named Lilith; she was of such beauty, grace and charm as has never since been seen upon the earth, and being independently created, had as much power and regnant authority as her mate. The consequence, so tho Tal-mud says, was more than a little un-pleasantness in tbe paradisiacal house-hold. Adam laid down the law, and Lilith serenely capped it with another, which she claimed was just as valid as his; and we can well imagine that Lil-ith- 's tongue and wit were just as much more nimblo than Adam's aa yours, dear, are than your husband's today. ' The consequence was that Adam, find-ing his life not worth the living, appealed to Allah for relief, and with better result than many husbands obtain nowadays, for it was then that the deep sleep came upon him, ad the rib extracted from ' his side was fashioned into a woman, who, being derived from man, was sub-ject and obedient unto him, and, as Adam declared, was the helpmeet he had failed to find in Lilith. n, or tney marry country squires ana "suckle fools and chronicle small beer" until their drowsy death. But it is to pursue this retrospect of what woman's existence and what her relations to man have been in-h- past, fcr nous awrit change tout c?n, and woman in the present and in the future is a far fairer sight. But man, like the fly upon the wheel of Time, feels the movement, dimly per-ceives the progress, and cannot for the life of him understand what is the power, or how to control it. Steam he knows all about; electricity he is grappling with pretty successfully; the odic force he talks about with more or less intelli-gence, but what sort of force or power moves thi3 coach wheel, which he dimly perceives he does not move, only rides upon? Well, giving up the problem, he says there isn't any power at all, it just goes nobody knows how, and for his part he is not going to attend to any such non-sense; woman is what she always has been, the adjunct of man, .the feebler, less responsible half of his own existence, whom he is bound to control, to educate, to protect and to patronize. While she is young and pretty he will make love to her, and if she resists his pursuit he will probably want her very much indeed, and say a great deal about her perfec-tions and merits; having obtained her and in parenthesis the man remarks that she generally is as glad to be caught as he is to catch her the man's duty is to treat her kindly, but not to let her sup-pose she can manage her own life, much less his; hasn't she promised to love, honor and obey, and does she fancy he isn't going to exact the whole bond? He doesn't expect her to know or care about his business; if he is a business man, she couldn't understand, and her opinion wouldn't be worth taking; if ho is a lawyer, he takes good care not to tell her anything about his cases, e, you know, women can't keep a secret, and invariably put on their bon- - nets and run over to Mrs. So and-ao- 's to retail every bit of gossip they can pick up; besides, a woman has no idea of law, logic, equity or precedent. If he is a clergyman, he has a flue time, for he pelts her with St. Paul, and enunciates, "Wives, be obedient to your own hus-bands," in a fine chest tone. Altogether man is quite sure that he knows all about woman and is perfectly competent to guide and govern her, along with the children, etc. But this new departure! What is to be done about it? First, he peevishly mutters: "Nonsense! Don't be Billy! Go get a new bonnet if you want it, but dun't talk like a fool!" This doesn't quite seeirj to quiet the commotion, and he waxes witty about "kmc haired men and short haired wo-men," and asks his wife, or daughter, or sister, if she is going to order the nether garments of his tailor or buy them ready made. Even this withering sarcasm doesn't altogether nip the pestilent growth of this stem of rebellion, and then the shrewder kind of man tries to identify himself with tbe new order, and is mag-nanimous and kind and patronizing to Lilith, and holds out his hand, saying: "Come, then, I'll help you up to the sad-dle right in front of me, and you shall manage the snaffle ring, and I'll hold the curb and keep the whip." To this proposition Lilith replies, in effect, that man is quite welcome to ride his own horse after his own fashion, and she shall not interfere so long as he does not obstruct her path, but that she is her-self well mounted, and feels quite able to manage snaffle, curb, whip and spur; she is very willing and desirous to ride alongside of her comrade man in the most amicable spirit; she sees that they are both bound to the same goal, and she grants that each can make the road pleasanter and more profitable for th other, but she insists upon it that her steed Progress is quite as valuable as hia nag Precedent, and if lie will not allow her room to ride by his sido she shall certainly push for the front, and may unfortunately crowd him to the wall as she passes. At all events, she does not propose to bo crowded to the wall herself, nor does she intend to ride any longer upon pre-cedent, either behind or before men; she is daughter of Lilith, equal in every way to Adam, although in a different direc-tion; she does not claim to govern or direct him, nor does she mean to let him govern or direct hor. That sort of thing does very well for the daughter of Eve, that poor creature who could not resist the blandishments of Satan nor the der sire for forbidden fruit, and who, having got herself into a scrape, dragged Adam into it after her. But I, says Lilith, am quite a match for Satan and his pippins, and am brave enough to fight uiy own battles and bear my own penalties. All I ask is that man should treat me as well &a T t.ren him. nr na ha r.rflnta hia Tbat young woman, disgusted with the introduction of a rival, went away and e:t up a paradise of her own, and from her miraculously sprung a race of glorious but rebellious beings, a sort of afrits or jinn, who ever since have claimed the earth for their own and con-stantly amused themselves with tempt-ing and domineering over the sons of Eve and thwarting and annoying hor laughters. And the reason I have told this long story just here Is because I am dead sura rthat tho daughters of Lilith, like the ' wandering tribes of Israel, have strayed across the sea, and are claiming the New World as their especial domain. This accounts for a groat cteal besides the milk in the cocoanut; it accounts for the aggressive and independent stand ' assumed by woman during the last half of this century; it accounts for the min- -' gled admiration and indignation with ' which men regard her new demands; it ' accouuts, above all, for the disagreeable things the women who don't want to vote say about those who do; it is the old warfaro of tho daugh--: ters of Eve against tho daughters of ' Lilith, and with a little consideration one may divide all tho women of one's acquaintance into three classes Liliths, Eves, and a third estate so mixed iu their heredity that they side with rirst ono, and then tho other, and then with both, ' and then with neither of the more positive schools of thought and purpose. I am afraid I am a Lilith, for I never have been able to train myself into that meek and mild admiration of man as a master that Eve and her daughters so sweetly exhibit, and the future of woman seems to me to largely embraco the future of the world and of mankind. So long as Lilith and her daughters re-mained in their eastern solitudes no Stanley has yet explored, the daughters of Eve occupied the stage of the world's drama, and both history and tradition ' show the part they played. The slaves sometimes of man's passion, aometimes of his indolence, they toiled for their savage lords, performing menial labor while he hunted or fought; pre-pared his food and ate the morsel tossed to them over his shoulder; bore children, yet on pain of death must not punish a on; lived in less honor than a horse or camel, and died less regretted; then, in days of chivalry, they rose to be pam-pered and flattered objects of an un real devotion, did embroidery, listenod to bards singing mile long ditties of love and combat, flirted with the pageor the chaplain, and became bitter prudes and bigots in their old age; later on, they scheme to outvie each other in the ' traces of a grand monaraue, or a Charles j man. Thero lies the question. Will mau, cau man see that a new condition of affairs obliges him to adopt a new atti-tude? The good steed Progress is bear-ing woman to the front; will ho draw Precedent aside and make room that the two may rido on together, true and faith-ful comrades, or will ho insist that she run at his stirrup, sit cozily upon a pil-lion at his back, or perch precariously in front and guide the snuffle rein? Ono thing is sure and certain, tho old order of the world is changing and a new order is coining in; nor can the will of one man or all the men in tho world, no, aor of all tho women into tho bargain, retard, or accelerate, or alter tho course of that great change. The ouly thing we, both men and women, can do is to adapt ourselves to it. Let the women open wido their eyes to tho new uphere of action opening btffore them; let them emancipate themselves in the best moan ing of the word from the swaddling bands and chains of roses that have fettered their limbs hitherto; let the'nt in their own per:K.ns and in their daugh-ters, seek to know what is going on in the world, and form opinions upon such matters as independently of men as of each other. Let them cultivate the man-ly virtues of justice, honor, courage, self command, while not letting go their own birthright of tenderness, patience, faith, self devotion. Oh, what a noble creature the woman of the future may be if only to the glo-rious strength and freedom of Lilith she can add the feminine charm of Evet |