Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-03
heir Married Life
By MABEL HERBERT URNER
Warren's Brother Announces His En-
gagement and Calls on His Fiancee

Warren's Brother Announces His En-
gagement and Calls on His Fiancee
DO L have to call to-day? Oh,
l Do dread 1t sol"
Got to go some time" shrugged
Warren. might as well have it over. -
Tell me what he said about her.
pleaded Helen "He must have told
you more than that
Oh he ree1ed off a lot of stuff
the sort of thing every man says
about the girl he's just engaged to-
She's nice girl, all right, but 1 never
took much stock in her father. Puts
on a lot of side
But they're very rich, aren't
they?" conscious of vague jeal-
ousy that Warren's brother should
be marrying a girl with fortune.
Yes, the old mans got money.
Holds on to it. too. Miserly old
cuss."
II wonder what I'd better wear
murmured Helen irrelevantly. q
:. We'll have to have them here to
dinner" Warren always ignored
Helen's question OF clothes, "you
might as well invite her now"
oh, know it's going to be dread
fully embarrassing. What shall ! say
" hcI w nat 90 people say Wnen
they make such a call?"
How do l know? Women are sup
posed to know about those things
Say you're glad she's coming into the
FAMILY, you hope she and Bobll be
happy-the usual stuff Well" drain
ing his coffee cup and pushing back
his chair, shall / phone Bob that
you'll call on her to-day?"
Yes II suppose so," reluctantly
following him out to the hall where
he shrugged into his overcoat
The rest of the morning Helen wor-
ried about this call on her intended
sister, law. Not only had she never
met this young girl, bat Bob himself,
who spent most of his time in the
Chicago office of his company, seemed
almost a stranger.
The engagement was not vet pub
llcly announced, but Bob had told
Warren and the rest of the family last
week. Mrs. Curtis and Carrie had al
ready called, and now Helen was to
go this afternoon.
1t was half past four when she
started out. The address Warren had
given was a fashionable uptown
apartment With shrinking dread
of the ordeal before her, Helen left
the subway and walked toward the
imposing marble-fronted structure
A Big Rental
Ten rooms and baths-$4, ,5O0,"
read black, gilt-letter sign by the
entrance. Four thousand five hun
dred dollars! 1t was an extravagant
rental, and Helen knew Bob could
not afford to keep a wife in such an
apartment.
Inside the hall was lavishly ornate
with carving and gilt. A uniformed,
q or
on the telephone.
What should she say first? How
should she begin the conversation
The big bronze elevator stopped at
the ninth floor.
trim white-capped maid opened
the door and ushered her through
to large, over-furnshed over
decorated drawingroom. Everything
was expensive and aggressively new.
More money than taste,' was
Helen's first impression, and with a
glow of pardonable pride she thought
of her own simpler apartment with
its charming antiques.
Then Louise entered-a tall, slen-
der, dark-haired girl, attractively
gowned in a soft blue frock. y
Blushing vividly, she came for
ward. Helen saw that she was pain
fully embarrassed and putting aside
her own Self-consciOuSness she tried
to put the girl at ease.
1--we been wanting to come to see
you all week." Helen began bravely.
"ever since Robert told us, but II"
striving desperately for an excuse,
II felt you might not want callers
so soon.''
I'm very happy to meet all of
Bob's family, although" with a
deepening flush, it's a little en-
barrassing."
"Oh, know" sympathetically. 1T
remember when was engaged to
Warren how I dreaded meeting his
people,"
Helen Is Delighted
Delighted that the conversation
had taken so natural a turn, Helen
told Louise about her own engage
ment.
II remember every detail of his
mothers first call, even to her dress
and her black handled parasol. tt
was in the summer. she sat by a
window and the curtain blew ont
against her face. / remember the
very gesture SO like Warren's-with
which she kept brushing 1t back"
What did you talk about?" Louise
leaned forward eagerly. Mrs. Curtis