The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-01-24

Oh, l shall be delighted" smiled
the blonde. Gushingly she added:
How perfectly exquisite you look to-
night, my dear"
20 you think SOP" said Alicia.
pleased at the clumsy fiattery.
Your dresG is stunning and your
tiara simply gorgeous" raved another
'"Yolr NUS cAles are always SO de-
lightful," cxc med a third.
AT that nlOn.1nt Mr.. Jeffries caught
his wife by the aril and drew her at
tentlon to some newcomers. With a
laugh she lest the group and hurried
toward the door Directly she was
out OF earskot, the three women be-
gan viii pering:
lsEt she terribly overdressed?" ex-
claimed the blonde. THE cheek of
such a parvenue to wear that tiara"
Her face is all made up, too" said
another.
These affairs of hers are awfully
stupid, don't you think so?" piped the
third.
Yes, they bore everybody to DEATH"
said the blonde. She's ambitious
and likes to think she is a social lead.
er. l only come here because it
amuses me to see what a fool she
makes of herself Fancy woman
OF her age marrying a man old enough
10 be her father. BY the by, l don't
see her beau here tonight"
You mean that scamp, Robert I'm
derwood?"
Isn't it perfectly scandalous, the
way he dances after her? I'm sur
prised Mr.. Jeffries allows him to come
to the house
Maybe there's been a row. Per-
haps that explains why he's not here
tonight. It's the first time I've known
him absent from one ce her musi-
Gales"
Hes conspicuous by his absence
DO you know what | heard the other
day? l was told that Underwood had
again been caught cheating at cards
and summarily expelled from the club
kicked out, SO to speak"
I'm not at all surprised. l always
had my doubts about him He in
duced friend Of mine to buy a pic.
ture, and got tremendous price for
1t on the false representation that it
was genuine Corot. My friend found
out afterward that he had been duped.
Proceedings were threatened, but Un-
derwood managed to hush the affair
by returning part of the money"
In another part of the room couple
were discussing Mr.. Jeffries as he
stood talking with Judge Brewster.
Did you notice how Mr. Jeffries has
aged recently? He no longer seems
the same man.
mo wonder, after all the trouble
he's had. Of course you know what a
disappointment his son turned out?'
"A scamp, understand. Married a
chorus girl and all that sort of thing"
Not exactly, but almost as bad.
The girl was waitress or something
like that in restaurant. She's very
common; her father died in prison.
You can imagine the blow to old JEFF
fries. He turned the boy adrift and
left him to shift for himself"
Alicia approached her husband, who
was still talking with Judge Brewster.
She was leaning on the arm of a tall,
handsome man with a dark Van Dyke
beard
Who are you discussing with such
INTEREST,"" she demanded, as she came
up with her escort.
1--WE were talking of Capt Clinton
and his detestable police methods"
said the banker
Judge" said Alicia, turning to the
lawyer, "allow me to introduce DR..
Bernstein Doctor, this is Judge
Brewster"
The strarC-r bowed low, as he re-
piled courte oasly:
The fame of Judge Brewster has
spread to every state in the union"
A faint smile spread over the face
of the famous lawyer as he extended
his hand:
I've often heard of you, too, doc
tor. I've been reading with great in
terest your book, Experimental Psy-
chology Do you know" he went
on earnestly, there's lot in that.
We have still much to learn in that
direction"
Il think" said DR.. Bernstein, quiet
ly, that we're only on the threshold
OF wonderful discoveries"
Pleased to find that her two distin-
guished guests were congenial, Alicia
left them to themselves and iojned
her other guests
%
man has studied for centuries the
mechanism Of the body, but he has
neglected entirely the mechanism of
the mind
DR.. Bernstein smiled appro ingly.
I'VE are just waking up" il, replied
quickly. People are beginning to
look upon psychology seriously. Up
to comparatively recently the layman
has regarded psychology as the do.