The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-08-01
WEALTH OR POVERTY
How Adventure in a Storm
Brought a Girl to Her Nor
NAL Senses.
BY LOUISE oLNEY.

A girl like Nora finds the world full
of men. She let's them buzz about the
rose of her enchanting sweetness until
by more or less painful and pro-
tracted process of wedding out she
finds the one she wants to marry.
Meantime she plays the very mis-
chief
In the case of Nora there were three
men. The girl was taking time and
making trouble while she gradually
found out what she did not want Her
mother, cold and calculating but wise
enough to pretend disinterested senti-
ment watched the game-and her di-
minishing bank account. Nora's mar
riage meant to her mother wealth-or
obscure poverty. One must perforce
admire the sporting qualities of the
older woman in spending all that she
had to keep Nora in the midst of
things during the matrimonial hay
making season. This meant cottage
at the lake, servants, a car, and pretty
dresses and entertaining.
Mrs. Stanton had been patient.
Nora was twenty-three and her
chances" had been matter of envy
with other mothers. She should have
been married. But she dallied about
the edge of capture, coquetting as
naturally as flowers bloom and waters
run down hill and sun shines. The
sweetness of her ran riot. She did a
lot of hurting-which made her sorry.
One by one she had sent hearts into
the discard-gently, with regrets. She
liked the hero to go out gracefully to
slow music after a story that had
taken its artistic course from ac-
quaintance through friendship, to the
climax of love-and to the end of
vanishment. Her lovers never turned
back to friends.
There is one exception to this. Max
well Dunn, her friend from childhood,
her schoolmate and companion, the
summer before, to his own surprise
and her mothers chagrin, became en-
gagged to Nora. Mrs. Stanton liked
Max-he was of solid family and
alone but for an old cousin who kept
his good old country house. Bpt he
wasn't rich. He simply was a rising
architect with love for his work and
tendency to enjoy life as he went
along. Money was not his main OBJ
ject.
1t was after Nora had discovered
that she didn't really love Max enough
to marry him, after she broke the en-
gradually weeping at how
it hurt him, and asking him to be her
friend the same as ever-that her
brother Sam, who looked at things
pretty much as they were, told a
story, He told It at the breakfast ta-
BILE and Nora wa Justly indignant.
The story dealt with a tender-hearted
Teuton, who being obliged to cut off
his dogs tail, performed the operation
an inch at time so the dog wouldn't
feel so badly about it. Sam seemed
to think the story pointed a moral as
to Nora's method of dismissing a
lover A younger brother has no sen.
timent except for motors and bull.
dogs and his meals.
But Maxwell Dunn gave Nora the
surprise of her life and gained the
eternal gratitude of Mrs. Stanton. He
promptly accepted his dismissal and
relapsed into the friend he had been.
Nora was hardly able to believe it.
She reluctantly concluded that he had
never really loved her. After this
she was her captivating best, but
never again could she raise a glimmer
of love to his face. He was everlast-
ingly about the place-a comfort and
a refuge in time of trouble, always
ready for the wall-flower, the extra
girl or old lady. always good-natured.
He didn't even mind Thomas Preston.
Thomas Preston was in the whirl-
wind lover class. He had dallied
about, slipping honey and torturing
hopeful mothers, until he was thirty