Show EVENING TELEGRAMS TELEGRAM'S DAILY SHORT STORY KATE'S KATES KTE'S PLEASURES PLEURE Copyright 1914 by the McClure Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate lilt If I only were Kte Kate said ald Meg sadly saly to herself errel If I I only had her sacrificial sac sac- sc- sc nature Id I'd b be content to marry many Edward Eward and bury myself for tor or Ufo life on a farm as she has done with wih John But Im I'm Im not nol like Kato Kate I couldn't give up art and music and theatres top toe ever ever I I Just And I ml might ht aswell as aswell well wel answer Edwards Edward's letter right now and tell tel him BO so what good will wi walling waiting dor doT dor'S S Yet she he did not write to E Edward ard at once once- Suddenly the tho thou thought ht came to her that a da day spent wI with Kte Kate on lice her hel New Ne Jerse Jersey farm farni would make the plan of re refusing refusing reusing re- re fusing Edward oard ea easier to bear ber with Ith tho the horrors using of or farm arm aria life Ifo vividly In mind she would be able to convince con her stubborn heart of or what her mind was sure sum that she coul l never be he happy happ with wih Ed FA- ward yar Yes a day da spent with Ith Kato would bring resignation By B noon non she had let left heft New ew York orle and was wn i breathing the clearer air of oC Now New Jer sc sey Two hours later sh she stepped from the stage before to I Katos Kato's farm She Sho slipped around to the kitchen door where she felt elt sure she would find Kte Kate arid and a nd tried tred to shako shake off oft her depression with the repetition repe repe- of ot one OM of or their th lr childhood tricks trick Got Gt a penny for tor a poor beggar lad lady por she wined concealing herself An exclamation a rush and Kate was In her arms S Oh Me darling she hc cried cred Im Fm 11 so 50 terribly glad to see you ou And Andu you u could not have come 0 on a better beter day Meg reg kissed her with pity In tn her eyes ees have ha e come on a better beter day da sho she repeated taking her hor words ors as s a 3 con gon con confession that she had reached the limits of ot loneliness To her surprise Kate's Kates answer was not utah at all an of the nature turo of a a confession 6 have havo If U you'd h h. h had r tr to tn you'd heln churn come yesterday If i I oue como omo si the da it day i before for I you'd have 1 h had t to pa pack kegg eggs with me rue day before that that- that that-ob t c oh 11 Meg I live l such a n glorious full rul life Ue You cant can't Imagine Im- Im Imagine Im tm- agine how man many things I have ha 8 to do dot the steps Surely Meg Mog sank limply on Kate was acting Surely she he was on a brave braye face making face making the tho best of ot things a It I couldn't be bo possible that Kate was sincere In Jn her enthusiasm over oyer churin churning and egg packing who ho has hasa But Kate did not look like one ono n a disappointment to defend She looked like one who lives buo nty vibrantly Her cheeks had a color Meg had never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen In them before Her voice had anew a anew a anew new ring S But not so much to do that you ou cant can't keep up your our music Meg eg ask asked d before she was as able to stop herself She was when Kate threw back her head and laughed Music Iu sic 1 Why W Id I'd Id forgotten there was as such a athing athing thing thins Why Meg Im I'm Im progressing now no Im I'm not standing still sun any ny more morp Good Goodness I Im ne ness s I couldn't waste my time at al a i piano No Ko said al Meg staring Unless you ou enjoyed it Enjoyed it tU Kate voice was tolerant tolerantly toler toler- when talkIng talk talk- talkIng antly gentle a sone cone speaks Ing ant to gente a child Well Wel der dear you ou see co I have hac t bigger enjoyments now the now the Joy o of getting eUln ahead with John John John-ct John John-f of feeling that I am his partner Oh you cant can't understand under under- stand reggie gle until you ou have haYe a a John ohn Dazedly Meg followed her as she started toward tho the barnyard barnard S to exhibit her herS treasures Now these white Leghorns she explained ex ex- arc are the finest in tn tho the country fhe They rhey ought to yield us ua a good profit Our Plymouth are the envy envy of or the township And as s for fOt our pigs pigs pigs- But Meg was not listening 1 she turned away awa A moment when Kate had spoken of the Joys jors or ot ha she had felt that perhaps perhaps- perhaps perhaps she partnership she too to could school herself her el to toa toa a a. farm existence but pigs but but pigs a No I wasn't made for it tU she broke out 10 miserably to Kates Kate's astonishment astonishment Pigs could never take the place of music music music mu mu- sic for me She flung fung the Ule words desperately desperate desperately des des- hoping that somehow her tears would make amends amend for tor her frankness The They 9 did Kindly Kates Kate's arms folded dearie deane came came- softly about her Why y into her ear I 1 didn't know you were thinking of farm far life Ute You dont don't mean to eay say that tha you u have a a John ohn too you ou are Lucky BO so fO lucky walled aled Meg leJ Oh why did 1 have to fall faU In in love lovo with the ver very typo type o oman of ot otman man I least lent wanted I should die on a I farm I Wisely Kate said nothing Instead sid Kae the the younger girl around to front porch and coaxed her into the great fron canvas hammock which hung behind be hind the cool Japanese screen Dimly through the screen could be seen the hemming hills It 1118 peaceful here she said drawing a deep br breath No I can ean see 0 life that OU could never endure farm fan le you ask anything but now for tor rae rae-I me meI I dont don't more of ot life Ufe than to have havo those tose sentinel hills stand standing Ins ther thereto to keep time wasting people and pleasures pleasures' away from me I ork un un- un- un Here Hero in m my little vale valley molested Receiving no response from Meg Ies save unhappy sigh she sho went wont on more soft soft- an ly And then too my love for John makes me me perfectly content to stay sta here You dont don't mind loneliness darling darling darling-at t at least not BO so much as I did before I mar mar- lest ried ned You could go along alone to the end of oC your days dava filling your life Ifo with wih music and art but I Just had to say a yes yes l I longed to bo be with him so For a while she too ten fell into silence Then rising from her chair she sho slipped Into the hammock beside Meg Listen she sho ho whispered softly Ive rYe Just got to tell somebody I 1 Ive I've Ive ve never got told John because I knew lenew It would hurt hut him so but its it's is i's true true There were weeks 10 and rind weeks right here on this farm fan when whon I first came camo that that I couldn't bear to look hook at a a chicken ora pig piS I went out out to the barn brn and fed cd them with my eyes eres closed At night I would lie le for tor hours r hO while John ohn going to go goon goon slept wondering how bow I Iwas was S on with It nil all And do o you von ou know why It I was wih that I was no so 1 wretched It I was wa be because because because be- be I because cause I J was as being bellig coerced had no real rel Interest in the this profits profs of ot the farm arm but was as simply doing doln what John Jonn expected of me like a child Now Kow Me Meg Neg spoke Now she he was vas all al words all action roke She sprang to her hor feet al she But how did you get Interest cried How did you learn lear to want to toIvo live hive Ivo cred as ho h wanted YO to live live frugally frugally for tor torI I Instance It n Isn't a case CAre of or learning said Kate Sits n a ease fe of seeing ln men have v ph o o- o Women dont don't ont know kno what lat the word philosophy means But we few women who can cab see ec ee our hut philosophy philosophy phil phil- phi phi- and adopt It for or our own use usa are the happy one ones Why Meg leg human be beings heIng he- he legs ings Ing arent aren't clothed clothe and ted fed fe like the trees and fowers flowers they have e to work worle And cant can you ou fm Imagine na pleasure In e economizing ing and earning earning in In In pro progressing every moment of or the d day for those you ou love Why h I actual actually begrudge e tho the demands which health an and my reputation malts make I upon my my time Id I'd Id like to be potting getting ahead every ever moment moment for for my 11 children Her last words were t spoken dreamily and she s seemed mcd to drift away Into some somo land all al her own and forget tho the girl standing before her Silently Meg turned and amid stole stale Into the house She wandered through the tho ho unfamiliar Unfamiliar un un- familiar rooms her hem eye eyo searching for something At Al last with l a little ea eager cr skip she flew Cew over the sill 1 of the th sitting room door and settled hersl herself at hn ha open desk Her fingers closed ed over the fr first l pen In sight fell fel on co the first scrap of paper Dear Edward she wrote oh yes res Its I es I |