Show p 7 r I r i A New Woman V and i An Old Old Story j DOROTHY was rather fond of D DOROTHY asserting that she was vas n I new woman Like must most wits that claim she was as much given 11 i j jen en ell to vain repetition She nel need 1 not nor have been Not even the sourest OUlI t- t sharpest tempered spinster of them all nil could have ha accused accuse her of being un an 01 old 1 woman i i Jack Jock could not understand Dorothys Dorothy's sudden aggressive Independence lIe He I IdId did not see why any reasonable girl I should prefer to wait walt on herself and I soil her dainty fingers when there wasa was a great lazy fellow tellow around who asked I nothing better of fate tate than to L La Lr allowed al- al i lowed to wait valt on her all the days of his life lite Time was and not so ver very I long n no o. o either when Dorothy had bad shown hown a most delightful readiness to I acc accept Pt his services Of late however a n change had come over the spirit of ot her dream The dream now and to Jack it seemed a nightmare was of ot in In- dependence That was in fn the end of ot May l Now It I was was July duly 1 I. Jack bad had written to Dorothy once or twice had had bad one i or two letters In In reply reply very unsatisfactory i factory letters all of them full of ot the cause There seemed to be a n whole colony of ot new women where Dorothy Dorothy Dor- Dor j othy was spending the summer They held meetings made speeches read copy opy to each other Jack said for tor Jack was a newspaper man man man-a a journalist journalist jour Dorothy called It Dorothys Dorothy's letters to Jack had been unpleasantly j suggestive of ot copy prepared for tOl some paper devoted to the Interests of or the coming woman The only one that had been at all satisfactory was the last urging him to accept her mothers mother's invitation to come out and spend the Fourth with them lIe He found a very superior Dorothy who considered the be firing of ot crackers an Infantile pastime fit only for tor weak I Intellects who made sarcastic comments com com- ments meats about people who were pleased with a rattle tickled with a straw no who when the children had him fast In their tolls toils went off oft with an unpleasantly un nn pleasantly strong minded looking book under her arm anywhere ont ott of hearing hear hear- ing of ot all aU this detestable racket who In the afternoon did not care to toen ven en ture tune on the lake for tor there was a storm coming up and moreover she had a n paper to prepare who in the evening even even- ing when he mildly suggested strolling over to watch the fireworks advised him to wait walt till woman achieves her Independence and then there will be some fireworks worth seeing and who announced her Intention In the meanwhile meanwhile mean mean- while of celebrating Independence day by attending a meeting of ot new women In the loft lott of a neighbors neighbor's barn Then she was called upon to read the paper paper that she had prepared that afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon when she would so much rather have gone sailing with Jack It was a commonplace little paper but because she was In a bitter mood she t f with a bittern Y h should be made ilm dins i d d er well the voice olce of ot their corn com complaint com plaint They should be no more able to close their cars ears to It than to the nightly reverberations re of the thunder that now seemed to shake the ver very earth the storm which had bad threatened all day had broken now Little of ot this was heard The terrible terrible terrible terri terri- ble voice of the storm without drowned the voice olce of the mere woman within If It it had been heard beard it is doubtful c r wee I vt j i. i DonOT Y WAS FOND POND OF OPO ASSERTING THAT TUA T sIlls SHE WAS A NEW WOMAN whether It would have been heeded for tor these new women were all ver very y like the old women They were terri tern terribly bly frightened Finally there came a flash that seemed to burn Into the their very soul and shrivel them to cinders followed by a clap that made the them m feel teel that the globe Itself was splitting a smell of ot smoke of ot burning wood an anthey and d they know w that the barn was on fire A wild rush for the ladders an and d crooked stairs followed Fortunately Dorothys Dorothy's new womanhood did no not t desert her hor at a pinch She kept enough of ot her wits about her to tu remember r that she mn must mart t not Join in the time stam stampede pede She must It keep perfectly still stil l till Jack came ame for her ber She Imp knew 1 It t would be Jack who would come om I to for fOJ t th her She had hud not nut long to wait walt thou though h afterward she would have ha told you i ivas II It t was Avas vas an nn eternity before she heart heard lacks Jacks vol voice volI I shouting Dorothy Doroth f Dorothy Dor o r othy Whore Where are you Dont Don't b IK lit P alarmed Its It's Jack Ink Im I'm coming to you Later alter on on nn when she stood with hl him bin nl watching th the village fire tirl company pu put t- t pun the tho she realized ti If ting out flames flameR tun n Independence day clay way was over oVIr Hut But s yh Milt P did nut not rc regret rt It She had been heen t ton tex tonIo Hose close Io t to tn death ti tu to clamor for or liberty WUl Washington POI Post t. t 1 |