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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
For we have not followed cunningly de
vised fables, when we made known unto
you the power and coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of
his majesty. We have also a more sure
word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well
that ye take heed as unto a light that
shineth in a dark place until the day dawn
and the day star arise in your hearts. —
From the Second Epistle of Peter 1:16, 19.
Dr. Eliot vs. Dr. Butler
THE most telling rejoinder to Dr. Nich
olas Murray Butler’s attack on the
national prohibition law is from that
veteran thinker and educator, Dr. Charles
W. Eliot. The president of Columbia uni
versity predicts, his wish fathering the
thought, that within five years the Eight
tenth amendment will be undone. The
president emeritus of Harvard believes, on
the contrary, that progress is being made in
the enforcement of the law, and that within
I
the period assigned bj r Dr. B'.tier for its
tumble to oblivion it is to become more than
ever firmly grounded in the nation’s thought
and will.
If it he merely a matter of opinion as to
what the future will bring forth, Dr. Eliot’s
is certainly worth as much as Dr. Butler’s.
No clearer, no juster, no broader mind has
watched the trend of affairs in the United
States ’or the last fifty years than the for
mer president of Harvard. He assuredly i
can look into the seeds of time as |
well as Columbia's chief executive. But a
vast deal mote than opinion is involved, a
vast deal more than forecasts of “wet,” or
“dry.” These two men speak from differ
ent backgrounds, from different associations,
from different conviction?, from different
desires. Therein lies the large significance
of What they say.
Dr. Butler is a Republican, wnose affilia
tions are with the older guard, if not the
reactionaries. He, no. doubt, would term
himself a liberal, but so, too, upon occasion
would Henry Cabot Lodge. Dr. Eliot is an
independent Democrat, whose sympathies are
with the forward-thinking, upward-moving
forces of the time. He believes that prohi
bition ought to be and will be, as naturally
as Dr. Butler believes that it ought not to
be and, therefore, will not be. The one,
looking broadly out upon the tides of hu
man history, sees prohibition as part of a
rising social standard, furthered by the same
deep urge that has made for human better
ment, these hundreds upon hundreds of
years. The other, looking upon troubled
eddies of the hour, sees in the Eighteenth
amendment to our Constitution nothing
more than a petulant “Don't” or a football
for politicians.
Dr. Eliot, significantly enough, came to s
views on this issue as a result of extensive
research and rigorous thinking. At first he
opposed prohibition laws, regarding them as
unwarranted infringements upon 1- nal
liberty. But his laboratory studic of the
effect? of alcoholic poisoning ’n- 1 ' Is
and oh Tdces convinced him that it was as
reasonable and as right that government
should intervene for the protection of so
ciety Against this menace as against the
opium traffic or for quarantine a
contagious and deadly disease. Science, not
sentiment, led hir- to ' > conclusions. '-ars
ago he announced his change of view; and
now at four score and ten, still eagle-eyed
and ruggedly true, he reaffirms his faith in
the reasonableness and the democracy of
prohibition, against Dr. Butlers fevered
sortie.
The main current of American public opin
ion, in so far as it runs revealed, is
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
with Dr. Eliot. The Outlook since April 30,
has been publishing weekly recapitulations of
its nation-wide poll on nineteen vital issues
of the year, among them prohibition. From
the summaries of this remarkable referen
dum we quote: April 30 —“There is no
doubt that the majority of the people favor
rigid enforcement of the prohibition laws
and are against any alteration of the law
itself.” May 7 —“ According to the returns,
in which few ignore the question, prohibi
tion will be an important local issue during
the campaign. It will be a question of law
I
enforcement. There is no section of the
country where rigid enforcement is not fa
vored, while a change in the law is opposed
almost as vigorously.” May 14 —“While the
Coast Industrial and Southern sections are
about one-fourth wet, they do not fail to
join the rest of the country in indorsing
the prohibition law as it stands today. That
fact contradicts various statements that
whole sections of the country would wel
come a change in the law. The Outlook's
poll ,which has been quite comprehensive in
that it includes all sorts of people in many
walks of life, is, we believe, a fair indica
tion of national sentiment.” This is one
omen among many that sustain the dis
cernment of Dr. Eliot against Dh Butler.
T'he Fall of Poincare
AS a forecast of more liberal co-opera
tion in working out the Dawes plan
for economic readjustment in Europe,
the result of the election in France is hailed
with far-reaching satisfaction. Poincare,
though he lately had made many concessions
in the interest of a broader international un
derstanding, was evidently regarded by the
majority of his countrymen as an obstacle
to such development. Domestic issues and
internal politics figured largely, no doubt;
but French comment makes it plain that
the voters had their eyes on foreign prob
lems as well, and that they were determined
there should be no sacrifice of the country’s
substantial good for the sake of a proud look
and a high heart.
The statement of former Premier Plain
leve is illuminating and appears to be broad
ly representative. Reiterating that there can
be no righteous or lasting settlement without
reparation for the damages of the war, he
goes on to declare, “France wants a peace
just and stable. The allies, including Amer
ica, unanimously proposed a plan as a most
reasonable, just and practical basis for rep
aration. The nation which rejected that pos
sibility of a just settlement would incur the
heaviest responsibility in the eyes of uni
versal opinion. We do not Intend that na
tion to be France.” Significantly ,too, he
says of Germany, “We must encourage the
democratic sentiment among those who are
trying, not without peril, to snatch that
country from dangerous dreams of revenge.”
Something like this must have been the
reasoning of the electorate which turned
thumbs down on Poincare's aggressive pol
icy. Seeing that the new plan for repara
tions bids fair to produce more speedily and
more surely than anj r which has been tried,
the burdened taxpayers were unwilling to
hazard Its success. They wanted a govern
ment that would co-operate without preju
dice of opinions past, a government that
could open fresh accounts with the allies
and with all others concerned. If any group
of Germany takes this to mean that France
has weakened in her insistence upon repara
tions, it will be stupidly mistaken. Far from
weakening, she is but moving in a more
practicable way to get that to which she has
been entitled all along, but which she has
not yet obtained. The reasonable hope now
is that there may be clear thinking on both
'sides of the Rhine and liberal co-working in
all countries for the restoration of Europe's
stability and the maintenance of the world s
peace.
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin S. Cobb
A GREETING FROM A PARENT
The family^—Father Jones and Mother
Jones and Master Rollo Jones, aged seven —
were taking a sea voyage; it was the first
sea voyage any of them had ever taken.
And the weather was bad, as so often it
is, and the sea was rough, as nearly always
it is. The child seemed immune to sea
sickness,, which is a blessing frequently
vouchsafed those of tender age. He frolicked
about the ship with merry cries and got
underfoot and got in people’s way and gen
erally deported himself as any healthy ac
tive seven-year-old does on a holiday.
On the second day of their indisposition
his parents dragged themselves up on deck.
If they must die —as seemed to them prob
able —they would die in the open air under
the skies rather than in a stuffy and crowd
!ed stateroom. Commiserating stewards
' guided their languid steps to two steamer
chairs placed side by side in a sheltered
i place and eased them down there and cov-
I ered them with rugs and left them to suffer
l together.
Presently Mrs. Jones, tossing an aching
i head from side ot side, beheld a spectacle
i which under ordinary circumstances would
I have caused her to leap to her feet and dart
lto the rescue. For, twenty feet away, her
■ only son was in peril. Unobserved, the rest
■ less little chap had climbed the guard. He
now stood balanced on the rail, one chubby
band clutched in a steel guy rope, one small
foot waving over the bounding billows, and
crowing in his joy as the motion of the ship
now lifted him up, now sank him low.
His mother tried to rise, but failed. She
' strove to cry out to her endangered son. but
j her voice issued forth only as a thin weak
. wheeze.
In this emergency she clutched with a
, weak hand at her husband's listless form.
“Oh. Henry,” she whispered wanly, "speak
\ to Rollo! ”
j The father's lackluster gaze followed
I where her finger pointed.
"Hello, Rollo’” he said, in hollow tones.
(Copyright. 1924.)
| SLANDER
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What lias gone before. —Miriam Folwell
young business woman, has an episode in
her life which, although innocent, has
j caused scandal. She lias almost forgotten
it when a year later she becomes engaged
to Anthony Breen, and then out
of the past comes a woman who knows all
about the episode and proceeds to make
trouble. Anthony believes the worst, but
offers to marry her anyway. Miriam, with
her faith in men shattered, refuses his
offer and accepts the offer of her firm to
send her to Europe. She succeeds in
avoiding Anthony until the moment of
sailing, and then on board the steamer
meets Warren Holmes, the man w'ho is
responsible for everything—Now go on
with the story.
CHAPTER XLVIII
The Old Charm
A FTER that night Miriam and Warren
/A Holmes saw a great deal of each other.
X He was never intrusive; he never forced
■ his attentions upon her, and sometimes when
; Miriam saw him strolling up and down with
the vivacious dark girl who had worn the pink
velvet dress the night of the dance she felt a
sense of irritation that she could not explain.
It seemed to her that he divided his attentions
too flagrantly—that when fie was not with
her he was with this other woman, who had a
great deal of charm. It wasn’t until the night
before they landed that he told Miriam the
girl was crossing to meet her lover. They
were going to be married the day the boat
docked, and Miriam felt the hot color sweep
up into her face at the realization that for
some inexplicable reason she was glad.
“I think she was glad to have some one to
talk to,” he said, “some one who wouldn't
mind hearing a woman rave about another
man.’’
Miriam laughed shortly, and then, much to
her surprise, heard herself saying: “You
seem rather addicted to succoring damsels in
distress.” It was the first time she had re
ferred lightly to the past. Could it be that
she was forgetting? Was her time of intense
suffering at an end?
The next morning when the boat docked,
Warren and Miriam were together. Miriam
was to remain several days in London and
then go over to Paris. She was rather glad of
Warren’s presence at her side, for the crowds
and the strangeness of it all were bewildering
to her. They were emerging from the customs
inspection when suddenly Miriam felt her
throat contract and her heart began to beat
fast. She had caught a glimpse of a face in
the crowd —a face strangely like Anthony’s.
Os course, that was impossible, she was aware
of that, and yet a chance resemblance of this
kind had had the power to turn her suddenly
faint, to bring back all the old agony of mind.
She found herself straining her eyes after
the man, and then suddenly he turned and
came toward her. The resemblance to An
thony was startling, breath-taking, and as she
stared wildly she realized that it was An
thony; he was here in the flesh. In a moment
he would speak to her, and she felt powerless
against the emotion that was welling up in
her.
Warren Holmes, at her side, turned toward
her suddenly and saw her face. He was aware
in an instant that there was drama there,
something was about to happen. And then
Anthony was descending upon them, and
Warren stood back a little and watched the
meeting.
He saw the tenseness of the man’s face re
lax as recognition swept over it; he saw
Miriam’s face white, frozen, and then Anthony
was gathering Miriam’s hands in his, he was
taking over her bags, he was saying something
to her, anTI she stood there silent, tense, un
hble to speak or to appreciate the significance
of the situation.
“For God’s sake, let’s get out of this crowd,”
Anthony was saying. It was the old imperious
Anthony who spoke, the intolerant Anthony
who was always impatient when he couldn’t
have his own way.
His words seemed to galvanize Miriam into
action, and she turned about as though search
ing for protection. She must have help, she
couldn’t cope with this situation alone, for to
give Anthony his way now, to be alone with
him. was dangerous. Against her will he
might persuade her into renewing her rela
tions with him. The old charm was still there;
he still had the power to sway her.
Her eyes, searching wildly, met Warren
Holmes’ steady blue gaze, and she gasped a
little with relief.
“Oh,” she began, and then stopped, but
Warren Holmes knew intuitively what she
wanted of him and he went toward her.
Tuesday—“A Daring Idea.”
QUIZ
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Q. Where is the Mississippi river the
widest? L. T. F.
A. The Misisissippi River commission says
that according to the latest survey the wid
est point on the Mississippi river at bank full
i stage was found seventy-seven miles below
i Cairo, 111., where the river was 14,420 feet
; across. It is narrowest near its source, be
ing less than fifty feet between Lake Itasca
and Minneapolis.
Q. Is Montgomery Ward one man’s name,
or -two? L. W. F.
A. The name of the founder of the Mont
gomery Ward company, which was incorpor
ated in 1872, was A. Montgomery Ward. He
was the son of Sylvester and Julia Ward,
and a grandson of Israel Montgomery Ward,
of Revolutionary fame.
Q. How is meerschaum made? W. H. A.
A. It is not made. Meerschaum is a fine,
j white claylike mineral which is often found
i floating in water.
Q. Has the president the power to pardon
! a state prisoner from a state penitentiary?
; J. E. K.
j A. The president has not such power.
Q. What Bible is the oldest in existence?
j T. S. O N.
j A. Probably the oldest Bible still extant
lis the Syrian Old Testament. The version
j of Aquila, 132 A. D., and the Peshito, are
[ also very ancient versions. The first Chris
• tian Bible of literary value was that com
! piled by Jerome about the close of the fourth
i century. The first English Bible was com
piled by John Wycliffe, 1382.
i Q. If William J. Bryan were elected presi
i dent next fall would he be the oldest man to
itake the office? O. C.
A. William Henry Harrison would still
. head the list. He was sixty-eight years old
j when inaugurated, while Mr. Bryan will be
sixty-five on the 19th of next March.
Q. How should the income of the average
family be divided for rent, food, etc.? D.
D. S.
A. The Morris Plan company says that an
i equitable division of the income is: Shelter,
j 25 per cent; maintenance, including running
i expenses, gas,'electricity, etc., 15 per cent;
food, 20 per cent; clothing, 17 per cent;
; recreation and advancement. 10 per cen<;
saving's, 10 per cent; miscellaneous, 3 per
I cent.
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
WHEN January 1, 1824, made its arrival
in the United States of America, Pres
ident James Monroe was located in
the White House. The eighteenth congress
had adjourned to January 3, according to the
almanacs of that period. William H. Craw
ford, from Georgia, was secretary of the
treasury, John Marshall, of Virginia, was
chief justice. The Monroe Doctrine had just
been advanced and proclaimed on Decem
ber 20,
As the ages roll on James Monrroe will
also be acclaimed as promoter of the now
famous doctrine, which stood then and now
for simon-pure Americanism. The United
States had been in two wars with Great
Britain, and had learned the lesson of stand
ing by the unity of the United States, and
keeping away from foreign alliances.
General Washington died in 1799, but the
advice he gave in his farewell address was.
still respected in the years 1823-24. It is a
good doctrine to remember at this time, when
this country is permeated with European
propaganda, backed, as many believe, with
British gold, to adopt the ruling principles
embodied in the Versailles League of Nations.
The Monroe Doctrine says; “Attend to your
own national affairs and we will give due
attention to our American affairs.”
President James Monroe said to foreign
countries, and. especially to Great Britain:
“We will keep good order over on the west
ern continent. Do not’invade us and we will
strictly mine our own business.”
The presidential canvass was just opening
in 1824, which resulted in the election of
Adams and John C. Calhoun.
The White House had been, destroyed by
British soldiers only- ten yeari before, dur
ing the War of 1812. President Monroe held
a great New Year’s reception on January
1, 1824.
•A new White House had been erected and
the Rpople were of one mind to stay away
from entangling alliances with foreign na
tions. General Andrew Jackson is noted as
one of the distinguished guests. He was
then United States senator. It is a good time
to remind the American people that “Doing
well is hard to beat.” Pray God that Janu
ary, 1925, will find America of the same
minfl and purpose. May we be saved. This
American republic has stood longer than any
other so-called republic, but it is still a
youthful nation counted in years.
With a casual glance, one hundred years
represents a long time, but not so long,
either. My own father was born in 179 9, the
year that General Washington died at Mount
Vernon. M.y own husband was six months
old when the Monroe Doctrine was proclaim
ed, in December, 1823. If I can so nearly
touch the Declaration of Independence and
Washington’s farewell address, also the proc
lamation of the Monroe Doctrine, the time
can not be called long, in which these two
vital events have happened.
This American republic, the land of the
free and the home of the brave, is still an
experiment, compared with Austria and Great
Britain, etc., as to length of days and tenure
of office.
We are not a “fixity” like Great Britain.
If we will take the time to remember, Eng
land had sufficient power and authority to
claim full ownership of the American colo
nies, until 1776, when the colonies revolted
from her tyranny and domination. Given a
chance, Great Britain would enjoy our an-
JUST FOLKS
By Dr. Frank Crane
TO read the public prints, to hear the ti
rades of Socialists, anarchists, and in
deed all generally who speak of social
conditions, to study most textbooks on politi
cal economy and to peruse most of the
learned articles on politics and affairs in the
heavy reviews, one would imagine that there
are but two classes in this muddled civiliza
tion of ours—the laborer, who is joining
unions and striking, and plutocrat, who is
fleecing the laborer by all possible means,
direct and indirect.
Yet here I wish to emit one modest but
firm whoop for that great third class, which
never gets into a politico-economical treatise
except as a football to be kicked by the
scorn of both parties, but which, neverthe]
less, comes nearer being the real people than
either of them, and which at a pinch could
manage to get along if both of them get off
the earth.
I mean just plain folks.
I mean the class who are ordinary, honest
people, making a living where they can, and
where they can’t, going somewhere else.
They are the despised, bourgeois. They
are the objurgated middle class, one of
whom, in the language of the gentleman
from out west, I am which.
They don't want to smash the government
and they don't want to own it. They don’t
march around of evenings and threaten, they
don't interfere with the work of other peo
ple, they don’t fill up on home brew and see
everything red.
They mind their own business, stick to
one wife, take care of their children, and
when they have leisure they go to church or
stay at home and play pinochle, as they may
be disposed.
The Sunday newspapers and the Paris
Herald are unconscious of their existence.
They are not partisan “laboring men,” and
don’t call themselves “the workers,” yet
they work hard every day.
They are not “capitalists” and “exploit
ers,” yet they have some money in the sav
ings bank, and are steadily paying off the
mortgage on their house.
They are occupied in minding their own
business. They cannot be stanfpeded, for
they have common sense. They cannot be
bribed, bullied nor scared.
When the professional agitators and med
dling politicians get the country into trouble
and the rioters at home or the foreigners
begin to shoot, they heave a sigh, lock up
the shop, take a musket, and go out and lick
the disturbers, and then disband and come
back home.
They are not weak, mindless, unpatriotic,
unprogressive invertebrates.. They are just
folks.
They want to lead their lives as decently
as they can, get along with their neighbors,
keep out of the jail, clean the snow off their
own front walk, do their duty where they're
put, and let the Almighty run the universe,
to suit Himself.
When the trust is fined it takes it out of
these people. When the labor unions are un
happy they strike, and make these people
suffer and pay the bills. Every special class ■
robs them, gouges them, and sneers at them.
Meanwhile they go ahead doing nine-tenths
of the business, supporting the schools, and
keeping alive what little religion we have
left.
Some day they, too. possibly may organize
and declare to ali the various classes, lead
ers. thinkers, reformers, and superior folk:
“You got to quit kickin' nv g aroun’.”
(Copyright, 1924.)
Take away women—and men would fol
low.
Some men need to be called down about
twice a day.
If you would mend your ways you must
take a stitch in time.
SATURDAY, MAY 17, IftJM.
nexatiou to Canada. She aims to get there
first, if we are so unwise and so unpatriotic
as to join the League of Nations, the Ver
sailles variety, which is the hope of warring
and harassed European nations, to secure
money and troops to carry on their* continual
warfare. The propagandists are busy. It
will be much cheaper to provide cash for
these people, who will work anywhere, gold
being the coin which passes anywhere at par
value (and British gold was seen and felt in
Tory circles when American patriots were
endeavoring to throw off the British yoke),
than to pay thirteen billions of the loan.
We have one outlet for protection and
safety, as patriots, namely, keep away from
foreign entangling alliances.
“WHEREWITHAL SHALL A YOUNG MAN
CLEANSE HIS WAY”
THIS Bible quotation is not as clear as
we might wish it to be. Nevertheless,
we understand the emphasis lies in the
necessity for cleansing of the young man’s
way. Youth is filled with hope for pleasure.
Old age is filled with desire for rest and con
tentment. More than two-thirds of the hu-'
man family fail to realize satisfying pleas
ures, or rest and peaceful contentment.
“Vanity, all is vanity,” is the reverberating
echo that attends the failure to find, after
the seeking.
The young man who realizes the necessity
for a ciean life, to obtain successful results,
has started out in the right direction. This
ideal must always be kept aloft. It is pos
sible that this Bible quotation means the
young man who fails to experience the cleans
ing will be handicapped throughout life’s
journey, and his burden will grow heavier
until it falls from his own lifeless hands
unfinished because lie was less able to carrj’
it with the infirmities of old age, which
caused the slump and surrender.
If somebody should call me to the witness
stand to say what is the most valuable asset
of a growing youth, who is blessed with a
good home, with opportunities for education
in books and travel, and good associates of
his own age, good health and good reading
matter, I should say his own self-respect.
His inclinations, and I may say his tempta
tions, will often cross his path, and it is
hqman to err and easy to make mistakes
with vefy good intentions, but if he can re
sist evil, after the struggle, and find himself
in close affinity with truth and honesty of
purpose, he can stand erect and believe in
himself and be safe.
There are some rich young men who will
not allow themselves to be handicapped by
great fortune, but the great majority will not
feel the need for self-denial and the disci
pline of poverty to urge them on.
Those who know nothing about striving to
accumulate a competency, who can waste
money because there is more to waste in the
bank, are unfortunate, because they never
know the value of the dollar until they are
forced to earn it, to advance in life.
But the young man who is sane and sen
sible. and who would do his best as a man in
all his public and private relations, will de
serve and also maintain a clean life in man
ners and morals.
It is as necessary to physical manhood as
to his morality and clear vision of all his
duties, political and social.
His self-respect is his greatest asset. The
poorest man In the universe is is un
worthy—in his inmost thought and purpose!
YOU CAN COME BACK
By H. Addington Bruce
THAT is indeed a despondent letter you
have written to me. Yesterday, you
say, you received notice of dismissal
from your present employment. This is not
the first time you have unexpectedly been
deprived ot work. You are beginning to
feel it is hopeless for you to attempt to hold
a place of any kind.
Which is sheer nonsense.
If you were twenty years older than you
are, 1 would say to you that it is possible
not merely to prove yourself employable but
to achieve much more in the way of busi
ness success than you have yet done.
Only a few days ago I heard of a man who
—in early middle life, married, and in debt
—was confronted with a situation much like
yours. With the unexpectedness of a light
ning stroke he found himself out of work.
Despair gnawed at his heart.
Today, though still on the sunny side of
fifty, he is at the head of a firm doing a
million dollars’ worth of business every year.
And he is only one of numerous men who
have “made good” in industry after years of
defeat and failure. f
You can “come back,” and “make good,”
too, if you will do one thing that all of
them finally did. That is, ask yourself in
all seriousness why it is that you have hith
erto been dogged by the misfortune of dis
missal from employment.
It may be that you have all along been
trying to do work for which you are not well
adapted by nature. That is a not uncommon
cause of repeated dismissals.
Far commoner, however, is stubborn or
thoughtless adherence to wrong working
methods or a faulty philosophy of work. For
every man who fails because of an unwise
choice of occupation, there are ten who fail
because they work over-anxiously or not anx
iously enough, or because they regard their
work from a point of view that foredooms
them to inefficiency.
Nobody, for example, can work really well
who accounts idleness more desirable than
effort. Nobody can work really well who
esteems the pleasure of play above the re
wards of constructive accomplishment. No
body can work really well who would not
work at all If he were free from the neces
sity of working.
Now you know, as I do not, what your at
titude to work has been. You knoW whether
you have been diligent or lazy, loyal or dis
loyal, conscientious or careless in the per
formance of the tasks assigned to you.
You know whether you have been keenly
observant or wilfully blind when opportuni
ties to be more useful have been presented
to you. You know whether you have been
a willing worker or a shirking worker.
Things such as these are the things con
cerning which you should most earnestly
question yourself.
(Copyright, 1924.)
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MY WIFE AND I
BY CAROLYN BEECHER ;
What has gone before. —Robert Brunt ■
Henderson, young lawyer, falls victim to
the charms of Natalie while on a busi- <
ness trip and marries her at once, with- y
out knowing much about her or her ?
family. They begin housekeeping in a f
New York apartment. Robert's uncle, <
for whom he was named, disapproves ’
of the haste of the wooing and wed- .
ding, but says nothing. Garth Holden, ,
handsome and wealthy college chum of )
Robert, dines with them. Natalie ap- •
pears not to fancy him, but shows a !
decided liking for Ned Church, a friend
of Bruce's, who is pretty much of a?■
male flirt. Bruce returns late at night
from a trip. Natalie reaches home
later and declines to tell Bruce whom j
she was with. Bruce is made a part
ner in his uncle’s firm and Natalie de
velops extravagant tastes. — Now go on
with the story.
CHAPTER XV
rpHE more 1 thought of Uncle's sugges
tion the better I liked it. A quiet
summer in the country, a place near
enough so that commuting 'wouldn’t be a
hardship, appealed to me. Surely, after her
gay winter, Natalie would also welcome it.
Filled with pleasurable excitement I left
the office early. Natalie and I would have
much to discuss, I would not tell her Uncle
was going to present us with a car. That .
should be a surprise. ,
Natalie was in evening dress. My heart
sank.
“I’ve promised the Mortons we’ll coma
over and play cards,” she said. “Don’t look
so glum. I told them 'we couldn’t come
before 9—that 1 had to listen to a lecture
first.”
“Oh, Natalie!” I exclaimed. “Couldn’t you
spare one ' entire evening for me, spend
it quietly at home? I had counted on it,
dear,” I added as I saw her mouth set in
a straight rebellious line.
“You can say a good deal in two hours.
We’ll have dinner as soon as you are dress
ed, then the lecture can begin.”
I too set my lips firmly. I would have
my talk with her, tell her honestly how I
felt about things, card party or not. For the
moment I forgot the country, the pelasure I
felt it would give her.
After dinner she led me in mock solemnity
into the living room.
“I’m ready,” she said folding her hands
meekly in her lap, a comical expression on
her face. “You’ve an hour and ten minutes
in which to deliver your lecture. Ease your
mind.”
For an hour I talked; she scarcely moved,
never spoke unless to answer a pointed
question. I freed my mind of all that had
worried and annoyed me. I appealed to her
pride, her wifehood. I spoke of her extrava
gance, not complainingly, conceding it had
been my fault as much as hers because at
the beginning I had not curbed her expendi
tures. I told her I could not keep up th®
pace we were going, that my health, my
pocketbook wouldn’t stand it. Only at th®
last did I speak of her foolish refusal to us®
a taxi with me, of the mortification her atti
tude in this respect had caused me. At thia
she flared.
“You shouldn’t complain. You refuse to
get me a car. If my friends care enough
for me to take me where I wish to go, I
shall accept their kindness. You may aa
well understand this. As for what is becom
ing a wife, a hostess, I have my own ideas’.'
Possibly they may be just as good as yours.”
Not one vital thing had touched her—th®
real thing that mattered in our life. Only
the little worries, the pinpricks of which I
had spoken, impressed her. The thought of
her callousness tortured me.
“Life would be a, delightfully dull af
fair if lived your way—l’d rather be dead!”
she said passionately as I 'arose. “Spend our
time sitting at home hating each other—and
with children taking up my time. I’ll be old
some day, then perhaps I’ll try your regime.
Until then I’ll live my own life—as I
choose.” Then' “Now that I know how dis
appointed you are in me, let’s go. It’s after
nine.”
I followed her in a daze. I had honestly
tried to show her as gently as I could where
we were drifting. I had only angered her.
Yet I would not unsay one word. I had
spoken only the truth and I would not
crowd it back into my silent subconscious
ness, where so long I had kept it locked, if
I could.
“So glad to see you,” Mrs. Morton sald. :
“Did you enjoy the lecture, Natalie?”
“Immensely.” She darted me a comical *
glance.
“And you, Mr. Henderson?”
“Os course he did. He gave it,” Natalia
replied for me.
Mrs. Morton looked from one to the othef
of us puzzled. Natalie added: *
“You see I have been a bad, naughty wife
for two years. Bruce bottled up his ad
vice as to how he would like me to be until
tonight, so you will forgive us for being
late.”
Showing an embarrassment I had not giv
en her credit for the fineness of feeling to
know, Mrs. Morton proposed that we start
playing at once, making no attempt to reply
to Natalie's facetiousness.
“What, are you going to do this summer?”
sh'e asked Natalie after a while.
“Go to Newport,” promptly replied Nat
alie.
“How lovely! You may see us there.”
I said nothing. This was neither the tim®
nor the place to tell of my plan. But I
would not go to Newport or any other resort.
Whether Natalie were willing or not I would
take a little place in the country. But how
we had drifted apart that she should an
nounce her plans so decidedly without hav
ing mentoned them to jne.
When at last we reached home I went to
bed at once; I would wait until I was less
disturbed to tell Natalie my plans for th®
summer. This thing between us—it was
something more tragic, more hopeless than
any quarrel could be. Two people bound
together for life and asking different things
of life. Two people who by their very na
tures would pull in different directions— yet
bound together. That Natalie had ceased to
love me II was sure.
Yet.—life with Natalie—l shuddered at
the chill thought of it. But years like th®
two we had passed together! Mightn’t even
love grow flat, held long under such pres
sure? I was bound to Natalie, not by a legal
tie alone, but by all the binding ties of th®
spirit—by the magic of our honeymoon days
in the mountains, by her beauty, her gay
spirits, by my passionate love for her. TTeA.
how very little I knew her—l was not even
sure of her love.
(Continued Tuesday)
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