Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-03-04
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your letter?"
Its from Mrs Theodore Parsons"
said calmly, as l broke the seal and
/ glanced over the letter. "She wants me
| to visit her two two weeks at Meguntio
Cove. Sets the date for me to go and
ALL"
"Whew!" and he gave a long whistle.
| when l worked as boy in Teddy Par
sons pork packing place, / never thought
my wife'd be hobnobbing with his on.
friendly terms-visiting her with lot
of swells. Better go, Johnnie"
hesitated. beginning to be sensible
where danger lay.
I'D rather not, joe I said finally;
my place is at home"
Nonsense" he returned Nothing of
the sort. l want you to go. You're be-
ginning to look peaked and need the
change. Such an opportunity does not
come every day, My wife the guest for
two weeks of Mrs. Teddy Parsons? Well,
l guess! OF course, you're going. Write
and tell her So"
l said no more, and when he placed
generous roll of bills in my hand the
next morning for shopping purposes, my
enthusiasm began to grow
| DOH SllHt yOuTSells VdCks he SdluS
Il want Mrs. Joseph Henning to look as
well as any of 'em. She's the handsom-
est one in the crowd, and if good clothes
will set her off, why, here goes!"
| remembered the quarrel we had over
my club gowns, and wondered why a
woman may have unlimited means to fit
herself for the social strata just above
her, while decent outfit for club wear
is considered eXtravagant. But | said
nothing, and the next week / started
eastward with a wardrobe such as l had
not dreamed of possessing a twelve
month before.
The next fortnight was gay one for
me- There was plenty of sailing and
driving and yachting, and social life in
the summer colony was full of zest and
variety. This was my first glimpse of
the sea, and it had strangely disturb
ing influence over me, making me rest
less and excitable and, at times, unhap-
Ply. The gorgeous hues of sunset reused
every dormant faculty and even the fad
ing twilight left me with an unwonted
desire for activity. | could not sleep with
the moaning of the sea in my ears, ard
I could dance all night at the weekly
hops without being tired. Another wom-
an than the domestic person l had been
all summer asserted herself, and | was
even more ambitious and grasping than
| had been the past winter For so it is
that we change with our environments
and develop qualities under certain new
conditions that we would never recognize
in the old.
Up to now | had been content with the
admira ton of nv husband and a few
women. But in the midst of this gay
life | tasted the sweets of attention from
the opposite sex. Phil Haven was a
guest, too. at the Parsons, and before
the first day of my visit was over he
was my devoted slave. An example of
the modern strenuous pastor, he was an
enthusiastic golfer and an expert sailor.
From che first he devoted himself to me
and before the first dav was over we were
"Phil' and jackie !, we had been in
the days when we went to school to-
gether in Kansas. His growing reputa-
tion as a preacher and a writer shed a
certain lustre upon the woman who had
been his warm friends for years, and
soon / knew that his friendship had
raised me wonderfully in the estimation
of the summer colony at Meguntic Cove.
That handsome Mrs. Jack Henning and
brilliant DR.. Haven" were invited every
where, and no yachting, golfng or picnic
party was complete without us.
All too soon the fortnight passed, and I
was disconsolate at the near prospect of
my return to Chicago, when Mrs Parsons
came to me one day and said:
well, Jackie, the people | was expect
ing to have to put in your room have
written that they cannot come. Now,
what's to hinder your staying through
the rest of the season with me?"
Nothing it be joe" I added as
an afterthought. "He may object, you
know, although he was very nice about
my coming"
What a model wife!" she Knocked.
Now, Jackie, that you're developing into
a genuine society woman you ought to
drop that everlasting Joe nonsense. 1t
savors of the bourgeois"
did not answer | owed her much for
my social education, but there were mo.
ments when my soul rebelled
Don't mind plain words from an older
wOman-one who has seen and known
the world thoroughly" she continued.
But you're too beautiful and too popu-
lar woman to eonfne yourself reliq-
iously to one mainland one who doesn't
half appreciate you at that. No; don't
interrupt, for I'm going to have my say.
Mr. Henning is a hard headed business
man, and l dare say a very good man,
but in these days no up-to-date woman
depends solely upon one man for her in
tellectual stimulus. The more YOU see
of society the more you realize that edu-
Gated and cultured people look upon these
matters with very different eyes from
the uneducated masses. Your friendship
with DIR. Haven is doing great things for
your development. There is nothislg like
the friendship Of brainy man of the
world for woman-and you're getting
it."
you forget that Philip-Dr. Haven is
a clergyman" l put in
mo, / don't" was the quick reply.
"The modern parson has to be many
sided, and so strenuous and popular a
minister as DIR. Haven is sure to be A
well-rounded man of the world, in the
best sense Of the phrase. Philip Haven