Their Engagement
Was Not Broken
By F. A . M ITCHEL
art»."
“ You have not answered my ques­
tion,”
"W hat question?”
"W hether or not you regard me as a
freak.”
"You did not ask such a question.
You said that you presumed the up­
shot o f my theory was that you were a
freak o f nature."
“ Do you or do you not so regard
me ?"
“ My opinion can have no effect on
the truth. I f your intention to take up
a profession Is the result o f birth acci­
dent, so be it. My dictum would not
prove or disprove the fact.”
There was silence for some moments,
during which the young lady was ab­
sorbed In thought.
"Could you love such a woman
freak?" she asked presently.
"Men love their opposites. No man
can feel toward another man as to­
ward a woman.”
" I t seems Impossible,” replied Dora,
with quivering lip, “ to pin you down
to anything. I f I am one o f these hor­
rid freaks you s]H»ak of, how is it that
you could have loved me thus far?"
“ You forget that heretofore I have
not so considered you.”
“ But you do now?"
“ Not at all. Your desire to take up
a man’s profession causes me to sus­
pect. Your taking up the profession
would be additional evidence. Your
practicing the profession would— in
my opinion, mind you—be as good
proof as It Is possible to attain in your
individual case."
“ You suspect"— on the verge o f tears.
The professor took her In Ills arms
Science gave way to tenderness, and
the debate ended In a multitude of
kisses.
Mtai Atterbury preferred to do away
with all suspicion that she was a
freak by taking n husband instead of
a profession. lie afterward confessed
that he had arrived at no definite con­
clusion upon the subject they had been
discussing and only promulgated his
theory to avoid losing her. Whether
or not ho was correct, they lived hap­
pily together ever afterward.
Dora Atterbury was an especially
feminine young lady. Nevertheless she
was very bright.
She distinguished
herself at college and after being
graduated engaged herself to Professor
Ernest Ballinger, a young man equally
brilliant and whose specialty was bi­
ology. They had been engaged some
time when the professor received a
uoto from his fiancee asking >o be re­
leased from her engagement for the
reason that she had decided to study
a profession and she considered a
profession for a woman incompatible
with married life. Professor Ballinger
called upon her.
“ I think it best," ho said, "that I
should release you."
There was a slight contraction of
Dorn’s brows at this. She had asked
to he released, but preferred that she
should be required to struggle for her
freedom.
"You agree with rue, I presume, that
a professional woman has no business
to be married?"
“ M.v reason lies deeper than that,"
replied the professor, unconsciously
falling Into a tone used hi lecturing to
his classes. “ You ure aware, 1 pre­
sume, that there are cases id’ effem­
inacy In men. Some psychologists hold
that this occurs from environment. I
do not admit this. I const lor It the
result o f birth accident. Su< h men are
born effeminate—that Is. they partake
mentally o f fhe nature o f the opposite
sex.”
"1 cannot see." interrupted Dorn/
"what that has to do with the matter
between us."
“ Be patient, and you will see. The
corresponding accident to this In wo­
men, vlraglnlt.v, renders a woman ns
much o f a freak o f nature ns a man
who Is born effeminate. Ylrnglnts take
up men’s occupations naturally"—
“ Do you mean to assert that all wo­
men who enter the field o f law, medi­
cine, business, are vlrnglnts?"
"No, hut I mean flint vlrnglnts natu­
» o
rally turn to men's occupations."
The views promulgated by her fiance
were evidently not acceptable to Miss
Atterhury. in her features was ex­
pressed opposition to his theory, ndn-
gl»*d with pain at foreseeing that he
was about to apply it to herself.
"I do not agree with you In referring
theso things to birth accident," she
said. "I know a young man whose
only coir nan ton as a child was his sis
ter. IIt>
cry effeminate.
"In tin. > .iso jHissibly Ids effeminacy
ranie from environment, but I doubt
It. In the case» of women who | h < sscss
traits e»f men we have analogous case»s
In certain birds. A fter a certain age
tin» female assumes the» plumage o f the
male and will destroy the eggs o f ln»r
»peeles. This canueit re»sult from en­
vironment, because» environment coulel
not alter her plumage."
Miss Atterbury did not at all like
Ills result of her announcement o f the
bre»aklng o f her engagement and the
reason she had given for breaking it
She» began to h*ok trembled.
"Th e ti|>she>t o f all this." she said. “ I
promimw, Is that 1 am a freak o f na­
ture."
“ That eloe's m>t necessarily follow,"
replh'el the professor imperturbably.
* \ t necessarily, but It is evielent ,
from \ .( you have salel that you ce»u- \
aider me» such."
"M y views are not the views o f all
psychologists, at d not all weunen who >
adopt tncu's pursuits are vIragoe»s, !
th o ijh I believe that moat o f them
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