The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-24
THE DETHRONEMENT OF DOUGLAS
BY JANE INGRAHAM.

Harriet Winthrop belonged to the class
Of girls who bow to physical strength In
the opposite sex. Frail. almost flower
like in her beauty. the sort Of girl who
had been protected and served all her life,
she vet decorated her tiny morning room
with etchings and small statuettes Of
classic heroes. famed for their physical
prowess. and she could sit through YER
liable blizzard to watch a football match
and shout herself hoarse for Ted's college
team.
Ted was her brother. and ne said that
somewhere in HaTriet's makeup was a
strain from the blood OF an ancestral
belle who had cheered on her hero IN the
old tournament days. For the WinthTops
could trace their lineage 10 the tOurna-
ment days-and farther. and even though
Mr.. Winthrop had lost a large slice Of
the old family fortune through ill-advised
investment, they maintained their social
standing. lived in rather severe but ele-
CANT fashion, and held fast TO every ira
dition, including the firm belief that no
lady rides in a street car or other public
conveyance. She may walk abroad for
exercise only. but when calling or shop
ping, the plain. rather old-fashioned
brougham OF the depleted Winthrop sta
bles was brought into service.
That was why. when many other girls
with more money to spend on shopping,
tripped up and down the great retail
thoroughfare. Harriet Winthrop chafed in
the Winthrop broUgham, caught IN a
blockade OF snarllng motormen, sharp
faced ChauffeuTs. and obstinate Cabbies
The brOugham swung 10 one side. the
wheels grating the curb, and Harriet
leaned forward TO see how close they were
to the shop wherein could be found a Ger
tain piece Of silvery-blue gaUze marked
down TO post-holiday prices Then with
a gasp and shudder, she leaned back
in the carriage and closed her eyes. She
had forgotten the silvery gauze. the shop
the jam Of vebicles-everything save the
tall, square-shouldered hgure Of man.
whose entire attention seemed 20 be cen
tered on the tint OF pancakes he was
turning in the window Of a white-front
restaurant
The br0ugham moved forward a few
inches. then several feet. Very soon it
would be out Of range, so Harriet took
one more glimpse at the window. 10 make
sure that her eyes had not deceived her
Not was he, and this time he was
actually handing the white-aproned wait
ress a plate piled high with golden brown
cakes.
What was Jerry Douglas doing in that
window. and how could he bestow upon
the white-aproned girl precisely the same
frank, cordial smile with which he had
greeted Harriet at that last dance, after
Teddys team had won through Douglas
| clever coaching? She bought half a yard
more gauze than she needed and went
| home firmly convinced that Jerry Doug
| las had been cooking cakes 70 pay a
wager. That night she went TO a dance
| where many mutual friends gathered
but no one seemed to have heard Of TIE
| escapade, and she was too proud to
make inquiries. The next day she went
| back to the shop so close TO the restau-
rant. A bit Of pale blue velvet ribbon
would set OF that silver gauze-but she
| decided that, after all, she did not care
whether the silver gauze was developed
| into a creation or not. Nothing mat
/ her very feet. OF, more properly speaking.
/ within a few feet of the wheels Of her
| brougham-for there again was Jerry
Douglas. turning what she thought must
/ be very fat and indigestible fried bis
/ cults
/ So II was not an election wager OF any
| thing OF that sort All, she knew, He
| had gone in for sociology. He was study
/ ing the condition Of the working classes.
/ Next thing he would be living in one OF
/ those dreadful settlement houses. holding
1 club meetings for ragamufiins and poor
1 factory girls and writing silly things for
magazines-this man whom she hal
watched with bated breath on the foot
/ ball field, whom she had pictured as sally
ling forth 70 pit his magnificent strength
physical and mental, against the mag
na,es Of the commercial and financial
| world
| Cooking cakes In a restaurant window,
/ Harriet Winthrop walked with firm, de-
liberate step 10 her desk and took down
I from the wall above it a picture showing
la group of lusty young men in football
attire. and also a certain individual pic
ture Of a young man with fnely-formed
head and broad. square shoulders. She
/ thrust the two behind some boxes in the
! top shelf of her clothespress-and then
sat down for a good cry.
/ OF course. she might have found out
what it all meant if Teddy had been home
/ but Teddy. after leaving college. had
/ gone 10 Paris to follow up his studies in
naval architecture. Anyhow, it did no.
matter. OF course Il had been only Z
girlish fancy; and then Jerry Douglas
had acted rather strangely since he went
back TO his Virginia home-a few casual
| notes. no references TO his future career
/ in which she had betrayed IN interest
which she now felt was presumption and
/ unmaidenly-and so she cried some more
| And just after she had worked herseli
into q fine nervous state. from whicd