The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-07-06
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Janet


when she came-hats, too" said Pol
ly, watching Louise rip a scarlet wing
off a winter hat and add it to a dash
ing black velvet bow that crowned a
formerly demure white leghorn.
'Oh. she has now" returned
Louise's mother. And !. is most pre-
sumptuous of Louise to trim up that
hat of Janet's without so much as ask
ing her leave, and to send her off
driving with Uncle Dick for entertain
ment. Louise doesn't seem to remem-
Der that Janet has taken her masters
degree and accepted the chair of liter
AZURE in that woman's college. Janet
doesn't care for frivolity and the kind
of good times that Uncle Dick gives a
girl-summer parks and cafe dinners
and crowds.
When my sister Mary consented to
let Janet come for the wedding she
wrote that Janet and Louise would
probably find a gulf between them.
Louise has never studied. Mary said
she hoped that we would make allow
ances for Janet's attitude during the
wedding festivities by remembering
her love for books and study.
MARY added that Janet's only en-
tertainment need be a few days in the
reference libraries or at the art insti-
tute. She told us not to worry If Janet
spent days among our books and
seemed silent and shy.
You see, the girls had not seer
each other for years-not since we
came to the city to live. Janet has
been sc wrapped up in study. Sister
Mary has been eager for her to win
scholarships and degrees, so Janet has
studied straight through her vaca-
lions,
But when Louise and Harry de
cided to be married this summer there
was no way to satisfy Louise but to
have Janet come up for a month be-
fore the wedding. Since Janet's posi-
ton for next winter has been decided
upon. Sister Mary decided to let her
como for her first relaxation.
Entertaining Janet has been an
easy matter. We have done all the
libraries and the art schools and the
university lectures, and a dearer girl
through It all I've never seen. Louise
has really acted most rebelliously all
along and has shamed me more than
once with her lack of appreciation of
the serious things of life.
Since Uncle Dick came Louise has
rejected responsibility openly and has
taken to remodeling Janet's clothes in
a shameless fashion.
Janet did look very sweet, with her
hair lone as Louise most approves.
but she sat out on the porch with
Uncle Dick all evening and avoided
the men, and kept that Dresden scarf
about her throat Tor fear she would
take cold.
Louise has made it most unpleasant
for Janet in many ways by this whole
sale %remodeling of Janet's gowns, add
Ing frills of lace and ribbon girdles.
Now see this scarlet wing on Janet's
hiatt If Janet cared for men
would be different. But until Uncle
Dick came she had spoken to no one.
She is very shy.
mo, Dick isn't q real uncle; he's
lust a younger brother of the girls
Uncle Georges wife. Yes. he's a
bachelor. But he has fathered the
girls for years. though he's only 25.
md he doesn't mind Janet's shyness
silence as younger men would.
lie has taken her to all the summer
with their blatant attractions, |
md with Harry and Janet they have
lone the downtown cafes.
Really, Dick has been a godsend,
or Louise is busy and the things that
We feel Janet would care for seem to
,ore Louise dreadfully. Janet real
yes that these frivolous excursions
re Dicks way of giving her a good
so she makes all allowances in
hat dear, adaptable way of hers. So
a safe arrangement all around.
IF only Louise would attend to her
wn affairs and leave Janet's clothes
lone! 1t IS most embarrassing.
anet's mother has chosen her clothes.
she knows her daughter best and
that she wants.
Does she, indeed" cried Louise, as
he H-,no on tho hot Of n JocbIpo o,.11 |