The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-03

an uIter lmp0 lblilty. Jack Halli-
day is a member of q good family, q
family ! dare say that Is equally good
as any of the families In our set. Y
That may be true, but you must
consider the fact that Mr.. Halliday
apparently has not taken the trouble
10 establish himself as yet. There is
plenty Of time for him to do SO and he
viii find the oppor tunity. But, Just
at this time itwould be absurd TO in
Guide him in the guest list. He is not
IN our set. What would the Van
Dykes say, for example I? And Mrs.
Burling game 2? Mrs. Mitchell sat her
self saghast at the possibilities of such
Ia social catastrophe
oh, hang the Wand Dykes and the
Rurling and all the rest if they
are so brutally exclusive and SO so-
cially narrow minded \ Mabel s face
flushed. &
But what about Albert Mosshold-
er2' asked Mrs. Mitchell.
Hang Albert Mossholde too
Daughter"
Mother!" Ruth mimicked.
But you simply must listen, !. ex-
postulateds Mrs. Mitchell. 81
"Oh, I'll listen, in order to keen
peace in the family and prevent the
Mitchells from everlastingly disgrace
ing themselves, If you look at 1t that
way, Ruth exclaimed bitterly. I'll
isn't any wonder we girls are bored
to death half the time with the MIN
mics our set provides for us. But,
I'll warn you right now that / propose
to give Jack Halliday a chance. IF I
can't invite him to a social affair, II u
invite him to call and see me-
you'll do nothing of the kind,
young lady. Your father
Hello, what's this % asked that
person who had entered the room on
his return from his law office.
ooh, mother has been having fit
because j wanted to invite a very
nice young man to the party next
Tuesday evening .,
What party p
. Ruth's pouting lips broke into q
smile. Ny party, you dear, big, ab-
sent minded goose, you. Had you
forgotten about it," ss
Please tell the child James, urged
Mrs. Mitchell, chow utterly absurd
and out of place it would be for her to
invite that young Mr.. Halliday
John, ] believe his name is, to the af-
fair she is to give Tuesday. do be-
.ieve the child's head is turned with
infatuation over him. u
It's nothing of the kind. You. are
doing me q great injustice, mother,''
Ruth interposed.
What do you know about this
young man, James? o. queried Mrs.
Mitchell. 5l' I,
Halliday Jack Halliday?' Mr..
Mitchell gave splendid imitation of
q French shrug with its accompany
ing hand gesticulation. Huh! He is
q young nobody, one of a car load lot
of youngsters just shot out Of college
with law diplomas in their hands and
ready to revise the entire system of
Jurisprudence. A large and very in
,teresting assortment of bumps is
awaiting him, and they will be- consid-
erably larger if one of them doesn't
knock a little common sense into his
head and prevent all of the older es-
tablished practitioners from getting
down on him. "
Yindication smiled from Mrs.
Mitchell's face. There, what did /.
tell you
What has he done to get the. older
lawyers down on him2' demanded
Ruth.
Tt is what he has not done, prin-
cipally, & answered her father. The
other things have been technicalities
which you wouldn't understand any
way, but he is Just like the rest of the
embryo lawyers he knows it all and
hasn't yet started to find out that he
doesn't" q
Well, remarked Mrs. Mitchell,
dinner is ready, SO let's go out. /
am glad this is all settled, now, and /
am gratifed, Ruth, that you should
have come to your senses
Knowing in the Mi hell household
when discretion was the better part
of valor, the daughter turned the con-
versation into other channels.
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How Ruth managed it, any young
woman who has managed similar
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