Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-01

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"Why Don't You Ask Me?"
She leaned back and laughed Ereas
suringly to her troubled mother. III
seemed to be success-whatI could, y
she said, clasping her hands behind
her neck and stirring the rocker to mo-
ton as rhythmic accompaniment ii
her narrative. .sThe girl Edith and hel
| sister-in-law, Mrs. Roscoe Sheridan
were too anxious about the effect OF
things on me. The fathers worth q
bushel Of both Of them, If he knew It
He's what hes Is. like him." She
paused refechvely, continuing
"Edith's interested In that Lamhorn
boy; he's good-looking and not stupid,
but I think hes" She interrupted
herself with CHEEKY cutlery: "Oh,
mustn't be calling him names! II
he's trying to make Edith like him l
ought to respect him as colleague"
81 don't understand thing you're
talking about" Mrs. yertrees COM
planned. >
"All the better! Well, he's a bad lot,
that Lamhorn boy; everybody's always
known that, but the Sheridans don't
know the everybodies that know. He
sat between Edith and Mrs. Roscoe
Sheridan. She's like those people you
wondered about at the theater the last
time we went-dressed in ballgowns;
bound to show their clothes and Jewels
somewhere! She fatters the father,
and so did I, for that matter-but not
that way. treated him outrageously!'
'Maryv' ~
THAT'S what fiattered him. After
dinner he made the whole regiment of
US follow him all over the house, while
he !ectured like guide on the Pala-
tine. He gave dimensions and costs,
and the whole b'ilin' Of 'em listened as
If they thought he intended to make
them a present of the house. What he
was p, oudest Of was the plumbing and
that Bay Of Naples panorama in the
hall. He made us look at all the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and everywhere
Felse-and then he made us look at the
Bay of Naples. He said it was hum
dred and eleven feet long, but II think
it's more. And he led us all into the
ready-made library to see a poem
Edith had taken q prize with at school.
They'd had it printed in gold letters
and framed in mother-of-pearl. But
the poem itself was rather simple and
wistful and nice-he read it to us.
though Edith tried to stop him. She
was modest about it, and said she'd
never written anything else. And then,
after a while, Mrs. Roscoe Sheridan
asked me to come across the street to
her house with them her husband and
Edith and Mr.. Lamhorn and Jim Sheri-
dan
Mrs. yertrees was shocked. "Jimv'
she exclaimed. MARY, please
"Of course" said Mary. 'sI'll make
1t as easy for you as can, mamma.
Mr.. James Sheridan, Jr. We went over
there, and Mrs. Roscoe explained that
the men were dying for drink
though noticed that Mr.. Lamhorn
was the only one near death, 81 door on
that account. Edith and Mrs Roscoe
said they knew I'D been bored at the
dinner. They were objectionably apollo
getic about It, and they seemed to
think now we were Ioing to nave a
good time to make up for 1t. But 7
hadn't been bored at the dinner, I'd
been amused; and the good time at
Mrs. Roscoe's was horribly, horribly
stupid"
"But, Mary" her mother began, sis
IS And she seemed unable to
complete the question.
Z HNever mind, mamma, I'll say 1t. Is
Mr.. James Sheridan, III, stuptd2 I'm
sure he's not at III stupid ab6ut bust.
ness. Otherwise oh. wf,et sight
have j. to be calling people 4tnRfd W
cause they're not exactly nj End ?
ON the Big dinner table they nd {h9r-
nous icing models Of theS Sh4ridAAn u :,
building {s5sE D IS II
aoh mol" Mrs. vertrses cried 1sure-
" not!''
eyes, and two other things sof that
kind-I don't know what. But after
all, I wondered IL they wereas bad.
Well, then. mamma, I managed not to
/ feel superior to Mr.. James Sheridan,
Jr.. because he didn't nee anything out
of place In the sheridan building r
sugar, s a &
Mrs. vertrees' expression had lot
none Df its anxiety and she shook ~
head gravely. MY dear. dear child"
she sa ID st seems to met-5gI # looks--
Pm afraid = 80 -.
aSay as much Of It as You can,
mamma, Z said Mary, encouragingly =
can get 1t, IL yen' II lust give me one
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Everything You say, Y Mrs. Yer.
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