Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-21

Whatever queer twist nature had
endowed her mind with. it had GER
tamly been governed by the beautiful
when II made her body. for she was
OF that perfection 81 physical beauty
that makes most OF us feel must re-
fleet an inNer A.hl, as The exquisite
cdoE-"T cologne suggests a delicious.
ness OF taste.
Her black hair. glossy and crisp.
nnduitc6 in tiny waves down her
white neck as though loath to leave
head of such delicate loneliness. Her
warm, brown eyes, pout!nE lips and
Slim little figure, making an ensemble
that her worldly wise mother treas
ured and counted on as their ultimate
salvation from the awful impecun!ous
prestige OF their social position L;
was Joke. that social position. Her
husband four years before, had died
comparatively poor.
lie had left her and Edith with n
po>luon To maintain and nothing but n
tradition on which TO maintain it,
Hardly nothing, but very little more
thc old lady had made quite brave
struggle for one who had been in
dulgcd all The years of her life Eut
there was Edith. Edith Of great prom
Use almost ready for her first season
oht II was a matter for speculation
for those who knew lust what Mrs
Hilton would have done had Edith
charles Hilton died. Would She have
attempted struggle that entailed two
or three years more priNation. Or did
she throw herself into this breach he
cause she felt that her will was Just
great enough to span il? She was a
gently bred woman, was Mrs Hilton
anC one who never could mix much
Tess struggle, With people OF less breed
ing FUt III her own social strata she
VAS known ms woman of certain set
l"eas from which ii was as possible
20 H'Nert her as it was to divert n cv-
clone. one of these set jdeas in fac,
the strongest of them. although one
AhoWn only To herself and her daurh-
Ter was the absurditv OF love affairs
IN coEhcctiCn win marriage to young
S!tis ready Tor that important stel
NO; the ahsurdity OF having them il
everything else was agrceable-but the
aoSurdltH o. insisting on them in tho
lace OF much mere urgent necessities
Marriages., she would say are
not made in Heaven. rs is believed by
q ,H!se uIdco. sentimental public but
III banks--that is the successful opes".
MIS- Hilton was beginning 10 feel
worried. l!tre was Edith in her TWEEN
s,e'n year ready. primcd for conquest.
rs ~, ~ Were ana nothing 10 conquer,
The list of eligible young mon v,v
the lis, of financially desirahle
Young men, and Mrs. Hiltons reserve
'uhd, hoth OF money and energy. were
RAPIDLY becoming exhausted
she and her daughter sat on the
rorch OF their home one evening at
about the time this story opens E;di,h
JUST sitting, glad for the feeling of
pu!sating lie within her, Mrs Hilton
sittihs and Specializing. Her spccula
IONS 'h!S evening were as unavailing
as they had been for many might
oelore' ana she turned almost dcspon-
heNt!N TO her paper What she saw.
there caused her old frame suddenly
10 stlfen with eager interest as she
persued her reading. her left hand held
poised in the air before her much as
might be The paw of a pointer dog
that had started bird. She finished
ana looked up, her face flushed and
eager, her eyes bright
Listen. Edith"
What" abstraCtcdlv
say impatiently, listen 10 this
She read aloud:
millionaire buys palatiol residen,a
-h!chard Walker, bachelor decides
10 maze his home in this city Elected
member Of exclusive sunset club"
htheFs eyebrows We're raised ex-
peci"ni, curious, as her mother read.
mounting the words approximately
taxing every care that they be distinct
as 'honsh they were precious sounds
and "cpreset- ed, each, as She spoke
th"m correctly, certain equal portions
OF the fortunes so attracted TO her
Al last. she breathed. solemnly.
ana Ethel would have laughed aloud
had she not known from former INFO
nations OF the sort just how serious
her mother was. Her impulsive ma
lure strong in her Instructive likes
and dislikcs didn', like. even from her
mother suggestions and Influence or
attempted influence in the matter of
he choice Of a husband. but cxperi
enoc had taught her that an open en-
counter with her strong wil!ed mother
was as undesirable thing as could
happen 10 her. She realized also thai
heT mothers increasing efforts that
th"ir position Toe maintained was sale
~ that she he successfuliy launched"
Wheh the proper time arrived She
felt that surely, now; she had felt i,
hut not so surely for many years ma
This feeling in former years was al
WAYS mixed with one that her mothers
seeming intent might he miscorstru.d
terribly by her. and had always made
her forhcar speakinr OF IL because Of
the attending possibility that she en-
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