Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-07-25


Gloria Stafford, exquisite in her
bathing suit, was like a bisque
figure come to life very much
to life as she stood outside her
bedroom door and held the
knob against her governess, VINO
tugged in vain at the opposite KNOB
Then Gloria let go, and the goVerness
went staggering backward across the
room. while Gloria with shrieks OF
laughter made her way off and down
the corridor and out to the beach.
The beach being no less than RAIN
Beach, she lodged among throngs OF
the we'll known, the much. photo-
graphed. who were also making their
Way. though more sedately, to the
surf It was IL o'clock, the fashion
able bathing time. To be seen IN the
water more than half an hour carrier
or more than half an hour late was
socially fatal.
The governess followed the fugitive
in hot haste, but Gloria sought re-
fuge in the crowded ocean. She dived
md stayed under as long as she could
but Miss Sidney deserted her at once
and gesticulated violently, command
ing her to come back. Gloria merely
bobbled her pet little bonnet ana
splashed in behind her father. Miss
Sidney persisted and Gloria gave her
father a push, saying: You go make
her let me alone. Tell her she'll be
sorry if she doesn't"
The capitalist floundered out with
the apologetic manner or an over
grown schoolboy, for even he was
afraid of the governess. And he was
not very impressive in bathing suit.
He made his way to Miss Sidney s
presence and mumbled: Would
YOU mind if Gloria had her morning
swim, please?"
The governess explained to MIN, as
if she were talking TO another child,
that since Gloria had positively re-
fused to work out her problem In al
zebra she had been forbidden to go
into the water. Nevertheless she had
fagrantly rebelled, secretly arrayed
herself for the bath, and fled. IL
would never do to let her have her
own way.
"Er-hum-I see," said Stafford.
He bowed and returned with still less
courage to face his daughter.
A widower with a woman-child or
sixteen is pathetic enough at best,
but Gloria was so effulgently sixteen,
so eagerly alive, and so enchantingly
pretty that her father was disarmed
by a mere glance at her His anger
was sure to melt in a. shamefaced
smile.
In the meantime Gloria had made
the most of her stolen moments and
with swift overland strokes had put
a number of cleaning breakers be-
tween her and the shore.
She turned just in time to see her
father reckoning to her with his best
imitation of the stern parent. She
knew mat the governess had cowed
him, and she did not wish to humil-
late him by her own disobedience.
So she swan back through the
heads floating on the water like ap-
Piles in a halloween tub. 1t made
her boiling mad to be disgraced be-
fore all the important people. She
could see some of them grinning at
ner. Her brother David openly rid
culed her and splashed water over
her.
but, reaching her father at last, she
hurled herself upon him and ducked
him under the water. Then she
scrambled to the beach. When the
governess seized her by the
wrist Gloria tried to pull her into the
roth. But the governess was too
big for her and she hailed Gloria out
If the romantic sea into hard world
IF dry sand and drier mathematics. I
Gloria slung along in white rage,
/ storm brewing behind her eyes.
She was not often su1len and never
She was made up of joy,
sunlight, and mischief, all the fresh
md sweet of life. But she loathed
being told to do things or not to do
.hings, forbidden, commanded-in a
word, bossed. She was poised at the
lameless stage between childhood
md girlhood. She was what is termed