The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-29
The Euening Story
Aunt Caroline's Cancellation.
(By Catherine Cranmer.)

this question abruptly at her niece,
whom she had just summoned to her
apartment by telephone.
= Eyes, Aunt Caroline admitted
Marian, with a smile. for. although
fond of her worldly aunt. she was also
amused at her sometimes. But my
decision wasn't based on pennies so
much as on principles. It's making
money the first consideration that
makes so many marriages failure.
MY dear, those idealistic notions
are out of joint with these practical
tines
..Idealism is needed now more than
ever before to offset this Inaterialism
that demands money down before
marriage takes place"
THAT might be better argument"
said Mrs Martyr, were it not that
ideaIistic people get quite as hungry
and require almost many clothes
as the rest of US, and hence are as
much affected by the high cost of liv-
ing Would you mind telling me-
whether you had thought of that?
Yes. Even idealiStic people know
there is a practical side of life, and
we're not going to marry until Gerald
has arrived in his literary work, or
has demonstrated that he cannot hope
to arrive. In the latter case, We'll
adjust ourselves to his salary as
local journalist and hope for occa-
sional windfalis from our joint efforts
in literary work"
Dreaming, as usual" Mrs. Martyr
shook her well-groomed gray head.
Still, I've hopes that you'll wake up
before it's too late. Come with me to
the seashore and make yourself agree
able to the men you meet there. What
do you say?"
IF it's challenging the genuineness
of my love for Gerald, say no.
ut isn't that, but you haven't seen
enough of the old world and of people
to know whom you want to marry.
Besides, dear, l want you with me-
and if you're determined to dabble
with writing, you'll have the most
interesting life about you there to
edrawt material from"
IT'S dear of you to want me-" and
Marian, who had the writer's true in
stinct for material, had a bit of real
enthusiasm in her voice as she added,
land I'll be delighted to go with you"
While Marian swan, golfed and
flirted with the eligibles at the sea-
shore in a way that misled her ambi-
tious aunt, Gerald Holmes busily
clicked away on his typewriter in q
manufac curing section whose laborers
produced the wealth which made it
possible for the rich eligibles to live in
luxurious ildeness. Every day letters
passed between Marian and Gerald and
every letter contained bit of descrip-
ton of the life around the writer. The
contrasts were so striking that Gerald
got the biggest plot idea he had ever
had, and he sat day after day and
sometimes until far into the night,
working on his first novel.
''Kindling the Worlds Kinship" was
the title of his book, which came out
early in the fall, when the summer
Iidlers were returning to the CRY. 1t was
the story of a millionaire mine owner,
who, when he went for the first time
to inspect conditions in his mines in
the hope of averting a strike, was
overwhelmed with the responsibility
resting upon him in providing the
means of existence for that small
miner and his daughter, who proved a
sort of prophet and prophecies for
their people, the mine owner faced
this responsibility SO frankly and dis
charged it so fully that life after
| wards meant infinitely more for him
and for the laborers and their chill
dren than any of them had dreamed
that life could mean. Gerald pub
| lished the book over the name Of
"Gery Marian thus sharing its au-
thorship with Marian, but covering
| the identity of both of them.
At Mrs. Martyrs first reception aft
er her return to the city this book was
| a main topic of conversation. A prom
| inent New York man was suspected
| of being its author, and so well were
the character types drawn that various
well-known society people were
| thought to have been the inspiration
of the author. At Marian's request,
Mrs. Martyr had invited Gerald to the
reception, and he had the unusual ex-
| perience of hearing his hook criti-
I,ra. Il
| the very uncomfortable experience,
| however, of seeing that John More
head one of the most distinguished
| looking men present, was devoting
| himself to Marian and of seeing by
Marian's manner that those attentions
were not unwelcome. Gerald knew
! that Morehead was one of the many
Young married men whose marital in
| felicities had been aired in the news
papers, but in the midst of his anx-
| iety over this unpleasant discovery
Mrs. Martyr called him to her and
| presented him to Mrs. Morehead
| ''Everybody's discussing 'Kindling
the Worlds Kinship,'" began Mrs
Morehead, land as YOU are a writer
| perhaps you'll divulge sorle of the
| tricks of the trade
| She was handsome woman. with a
restless look in her dark eyes that did
not harmonic with the grace and dig
nifty of her carriage. DO you think a
man who writes a book like that does
it to help the laboring classes or to
| give vent TO his envy of the pluto
crats?''
| He probably had in mind helping
the plutocrats quite as much as the
Iaborers,'' began Gerald.
And incidentally placing himself
on a financial plane between the
two snarled a faultlessly groom ed
and much bored looking man of so.
II can't see why we should concern
ourselves with the vaporings of some
young upstart who writes potboilers.' -
..Perhaps because it is ALWAYS the