Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-27

Capture = Millionaire for a Hus-
band.
Marriages" she would say. "are
misguided, sentimental public, but
in banks-that is. the successful
ones!"
Mrs. Hilton was beginning to feel
worried. Here was Edith in her goth
year. ready, primed for conquest. as
it were. and nothing to conquer!
The list Of eligible young men was
the list of (f1nancially) desirable
young men, and Mrs. Hilton's reserve
were rapidly becoming exhausted.
She and her daughter sat on the
porch of their home one evening at
about the time this story opens. Edith
Just sitting, glad for the feeling of
pulsating life within her, Mrs. Hilton
sitting and speculating. Her specu-
lations this evening were as unavail-
ing as they had been for many a
night before, and she turned almost
despondently to her paper. What
she saw there caused her old frame
Guddenly to stiffen with eager interest
as she perused her reading, her left
hand held poised in the air before
her much as might be the paw of a
pc inter dog that had started bird.
So finished, and looked up, her face
flushed and eager, her eyes bright
Listen, Edith
"What?r abstractedly.
"I say" impatiently, "listen to this"
She read aloud.
MILLIONAIRE BUYS PALATIAL
Observation-Disclosures WALK
Err. BACHELOR, DECIDES TO
MAKE HIS HOME IN THIS CITY.
ELECTED MEMBER OF ExCLU-
SIvE SUNSET CLUB"
Ethers eyebrows were raised ex-
pectant, curious, as her mother read,
mouthing the words appreciatively,
taking every care that they be distinct.
as though they were precious sounds,
and represented, each, as she spoke
them correctly, certain equal portions
of the fortunes so attracted to her.
"At last!" she breathed, solemnly,
and Ethel would have laughed aloud,
had she 1T known from former into
nations Ythe sort just how serious
her mother was. Her impulsive ma
ture, strong in her instructive likes
and dislikes. didn't like, even from her
mother, suggestions and influence or
attempted Influence in the matter of
her choice of a husband; but expert
ence had taught her that an open en-
counter with her strong willed mother
was as undesirable thing as could
happen to her. She realized also that
her mothers increasing efforts that
their position be maintained was sole
~ that she be successfully Launched"
when the proper time arrived. She
felt that surely. now; she had felt 1t.
but not so surely for many years past.
This feeling in former years was al
ways mixed with one that her moth
er's seeming intent might be miscon-
strued terribly by her. and had al.
ways made her forbear speaking of 1t
because of the attending possibility
that she entirely misiudged. And so
she had accepted her mothers brave
striving efforts in her Lahalf without
remonstrance. and she realized now
that IL these efforts were (and there
seemed little doubt of it) merely that
she be married for their mutual COM
fort, her mother would. certainly, ex-
pect her to acquiesce finally in what
she had by her quiescence. tacitly
agreed to all along. This made her
feel obligated in a matter in which,
above all else, she wanted to be free
The fact that she was considered as
a highly valuable asset to be invested
for the best returns. irked her more
than she thought 1t polite to show:
and her lack of remonstrance was
taken by her mother as her daugh-
ter's mute assent to the furtherance
of her very obvious plans.
Mrs Hilton's struggle to keep up
appearances. her constant scheming
that her daughters beauty be not i'm.
paired by the experience of want. had
worked in a way, against the mothers
own ends; for. her daughters mater
fal wants all satisfied. the girls nat
urally fine mind busted itself with
thoughts that made any kind of deal
- matters spiritual. seem vulgar and
unworthy. Had she ever known the
goad of necessity, her mothers tactics
might not now seem, to say the least,
such bad taste to her. But as 1t was,
the idea of a Convenient" marriage
made her sick at heart. And then
there was that feeling OF obligation
for the way in which she had tacitly