Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-06-18


ter made her bow 70 society this win
ter and you are doing over your town
house In the event OF her rumored
marriage you"
Awful 10 be 80 important that one !
gets into the papers like that" She |
chuckled and held up her hand TOT
me to cease. Nov, yourself The
name is good-Codman
I'VE really amt anybody In particu'
lar-Jo and RI told her, for you
see we've come down to making our
living. But our ancestors are all right
or we're. My mother was step
toe"
Josephine steptoe" she inter
rupted, making the connection be-
tween JOS name and Steptoe-she al
ways noticed trihes. and your father
was Joshua Goldman? Good gracious!
Why | went TO school with your
mother, but haven't thought OF those
names for years"
We've been rather out OF sight for
years" assured her, although TO be
exact we we're never In sight we
we're never distinguished for anything
except being just good, sturdy stock
Our financial downfall was not even
spectacular. We belong to the Coun-
try club, but we've never been In the
Sunday newspapers"
Thank heaven, you have a sense oil
humor!" She almost winked at me
through the lorgnette, or at least one
eve was curiously a.twlnkle. You
really are exceeding my fondest hopes
Now to business. will tell you what
want"
. ! Which was what she came for, anc
had seemed to waste time In pre-
qinaries, although perhaps they
re necessary. In the light OF al
1t happened afterward I'm glaC
was at least sure Of our ancestors
he folded the lorgnette as If the In
% pection we're all over and that par
. satisfactory.
"As my proposition is somewhat un
J, usual" she went on, I'm at a los
= lust where to begin or how to put II
n I've never had a social secretary, a
though the newspapers have said
+ have, because until now I've neVe
needed one" She held up hand sue
8 denly. 1T isn't just that l want.
E remember distinctly you said compal
5, ion: and yet It is in a way, except ell
r tirely different"
e wanted to put out my hand an
5. say "shake!"-I get mixed up thi
!? way myself-but sat still compress
Re ing my lips firmly or I'd have bee
u gazing at her with my mouth open.
my daughters coming out nece
IN sarily thrust nae into a season; all u
n usual things that make a girl kno
re she's out or in, whichever way yC
I'd want to look at It; each particul
IN function outshining another, and OF
n shining anything else anybody CT
ok conceive. Now I've got to go throul
IS, a summer Just as brilliant, but /
he going to have help-good intellige
ed helm, some one who can speak Frenc
ls- bridge. and all those other thing
of some one to be my Secretary
Frivolous Affairs" She chuckled a
* gave my hand a playful tap with t
en- lorgnette. Society is like a con-
Oh pot-it won't shine unless someoo
lily stands around with the polish alwa
ready to give It a rub"
DIV and you want me to stand arou
ms with the polish?" I asked eagerly.
nix Yes" she laughed. Society, I
gets in a rut l want sort OF soc
ew stick to stir 1t up"
It." And you want me for the sticl
Eyes, a sort of social guardian
y" GEL" she unused.
F., "a sort of social doctor to admin
the ter the smelling salts" suggested
from the window.
avs Yes. sort of social adjusta
son peg" Mrs. Hazard finished with
noC flourish
leo 1t all sounded terribly exciting.
" sat up very straight, clasped
usU hands in my lap most correctly
III felt awfully important with this so
vista stretching away before me.
I'LL was to be the polish, the stick,
y guardian angel, the doctor, and
adjustable peg! | couldn't help v
al dering about that leading question
II think a lawyer would call 1t th'
III about baseball, and how she was
ing to dovetail that INTO the SC
III ~ oh uyp q
! ing to outdo monkey dinners and s
with a team of her own. was
a she'd make a dandy coach.
. "a summer season IA the cou
: is an awful thing to contemplate"
NH went on. TT isn't like winter in Il
ll where customs are regulated. he
Ib marty in the country is usually stl
Hill People are tagged from the winter
YIN lack initiative They must be am
al manipulated Now l can hire
ers, or bridge players, or golf
perts: but If | had singer | n
need bridge player; and If l
a bridge player I might need &c
and so on. You can't talk bridg
. a golf fiend; anyhow, If l hired
people they would be stiff and
compromising and not at all WI
) wanted. So when I saw your a
tisement-it really was the way
''''' nut it, my dear-I knew l want
Young, well.bred, well-educated,
eed." read, tactful girl, speaking FIR
purse bridge, football, baseball, autom
and golf, to settle down in the b
an of my family and help me holt
ather horses"