Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-31
ments and their actual cash e1uiva

lent .
Joan put her fingers in her ears.
"Stop!'' she cried, ''or shall scream!
don't know an asset from liability, eX-
cept that in the arithmetic book broker.
age is one-eighth, and Never mind!
I should never understand. How much
am I to have a year? Tell me that
Surprising it should be a mere trifle,"
said Hughie, slowly, what would you
do?"
Miss Gaymer puckered her brow thought
fully.
You mean, if hadn't enough to live
| on"
| Hughie nodded.
well, shouldn't be a governess.
don't think. I love children. but children
are always perfectly diaboical to their
governess, and I shouldn't be able to
stand their mothers, either. NO: gov
ernesses are off. ! shouldn't mind being
| a typewriter, though, or secretary-not
! that I can typewrite, or even spell-pro-
vded it was to a really nice man. An
author. you know, a cabinet minister.
He could walk about the room, rumpllng
up his hair and getting the stuff of his
chest ard / would sit there like q little
mouse in a neat black skirt and white
silk blouse-perhaps one or two carnations
pinned on-looking very sweet and taking
| it all down"
IT'S a pretty picture said Hughie,
drily.
yes, isn't It >" said Miss Gaynner, with
genuine enthusiasm. Il think, she con-
| tinued. soaring to still greater heights,
that l should like to go on the stage best
of all. OF course, it wouldn't be the
slightest good my going on the proper
| stage-learninG parts and all that but a
piece like The Merry Widow with Diff
ferent frocks for each act and just few
| choruses to sing In. would be top hole!
Say I'm pauper, Hughie."
| You're not--thank God.' was BuGhie' s
brutal but earnest response.
| IAN right. then. Don't bite my head
| -.tAt, fy.<,6
good temper. Let us resume. How much
are you going to give mec'
| How much can You live on?"
! "Well. 1 was talking about it to Ursula
Harbord-you know her. don't your
| II do" said Hughe. making a wry face.
| VERY well. don't abuse her. She's the
cleverest girl know. said Joan, warmly.
! ''She is on the staff of the New Woman.
and can put man in his place in about
two minutes.
$50 1 discovered said Hughie, resign
eddy. Popular type Of girl However,
you were saying"
II was asking Ursula" continued Joan.
''about the cost Of living In town, and SO
on, and we agreed to share a fat She
said I could get along on three hundred
a year.
| Joan paused eXpectantly and waited
for an answer to her unspoken question.
That" said Hughie. after hesitating a
moment, as IL 10 work out sum in
mental arithmetic, lis just whatI can
give you.''
A pair OF archdiaconal shoe buckles the
glimmer OF a lady's white evening wrap
aud a glowing cigar end were discernible
i'm the half light OF the veranda outside
the drawing room window after dinner.
Two Olympians. to whom human hearts
were as an open book, We're discussing
mortal affairs.
rs there no way of bringing 1t off," IN
CURED one voice.
Lots replied the other. But they
have so bungled things between them
that we shall have to go slow for a bit
Why, oh. why do men whom you could
trust to do almost anything In the ordI-
nary way always make such a mess o!
their love affairs? Why aren't you mar
ried. for instance, Mr. Darcy"
ITO return to the point" said the rev.
erend gentleman. evasively. what ought
Hughie to do? Take her by the shoulders
and shake her? I have known such a
method prove most efflcacious." he added
rather incautiously.
"N-no." said Mrs. Leroy. II don't think
so-not In Joey's case. It would bring
some women to reason-most women, in
fact-in no time. But the child is toe