Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-24
THE
HONEYMOON
HOUSE
ByHAZELDAEE
ByHazeI DaIds

ByHazeIDaI6s
Janet told Jarvis afterwarU ThsH
she never remembered going througH
SO uncomfortable q time as She nao
mad that evening Neva Hart ana San~
cts mother had met and talked.
Il have never known mother s0D@
SO unreasonable" Janet protested Lo1
jarvis mournfully, She hated to ad|
nit even to her husband that her
| own mother could take so abnorma!
viewpoint of so apparently naturaS
q circumstance.
But don't think 70 is at an rrf71
| usual" Jarvis returned, anxious tdi
cheer Janet up. Remember your
mother has very conventional Ideas
| Why, nine-tenths of the women to-
day have those ideas about models4
and living in a careless sort OF way
/ like we do. Haven't you ever had a.
tiny little leaning toward 1t yours
self?"
why no." began janet. then
stopped. In all fairness she would
have to admit that narrow tightening
about her heart that morning when
she had come in from the office and
had found Neva sitting tn<close Gons4
versation with Jarvis.
But it was only because O didn II
then aloud she added thoughtfullysl
We'll, guess you are right"
! And besides, Neva understooG
ingly.
Yes. I think she did;- Janet said
quickly. But, Jarvis, she is such e.
splendid girl, L do wish mothercould
understand"
The entire conversation had arisen4
from the unfortunate circumstances
that had happened earlier that same
evening. when Mr. and Mrs. Carew
had been at the studio for dinner,i
and Neva Hart, who fulfilled that
compromising position of artist 81
model. had dropped in for . little
chat.
Mrs. Carew's ideas on Janet'a
friends could not stretch so far intea
the atmosphere of Bohemia as to adj
NIT of intimacy with artists models.
and she was consequently shocked
and took no trouble to conceal her
disgust from Neva herself. Neva,
however, was too big and too broad
to take the affair seriously She had
never met woman exactly the same
type of Mrs. Carew, but she knew
| they existed, and as soon as she had
discovered the trend of thought she
had made graceful exit.
| MY dear, L am so sorryT Janet
had whispered when she had gone
with Neva to the door :.
| And Neva had just laughed.
.''Why Janet, child, don't you@up%.
pose 1 understand. Don't you THINKS
another thing about it. You know me
too well to think for an instant that
| it would make any difference.1
| "But wanted you to have H dff=
ferent idea of mother. She can. be
such q peach if she wants toS'
It was a fool to speak about Mar7T
gerry Leslie" said Neva ruefullys eOE
J course, that, is what made the Jtfou-
BILE. You see, she naturally Judges all
models by an unfortunate few. So
many people do that, not realizing
that there are just as foolish girls in
all professions, but their foolishness
| is not quite so easily discovered ana
| the danger is so much less"
After Neva had gone Janeh returns
| ed to the studio with her chin set
firmly Her father. who looked at her
keenly, knew that look, and it boded
| i'll for what was about to happen
Mrs. Carew sat up stiffly in her
chair and looked at Janet much as
she would have looked at q naughty
child. No one spoke for q minutet
then Mrs. Carew said reproachful1yi
Janet, don't tell me that you as
sociate with people of that calibre7T
"Of what calibre?" Janet questions
ed slowly.
"Why, with a girrwfth q. Iowstan-4
dard of morality"-began Mrs. Ca@
rev.
stop, motherf~ Janet safd quick
| 1y. "You have no right to say that
| because it is not true. Neva Hart is
| O fine girl, noble girl, and she is my
| friend. She has never done q thing in
her entire life to be ashamed of, and
you have no right to speak OF her in
| that way"
Mrs. Carew was looking sEt janet
in amazement. Finally she said colds
ly.
Before you were married, you7s
| friends all moved in q good circle ana
you never seemed to require friends
| of that kind"
"Perhaps not," Janet returned
''but now that 1 am married, and liv.s.
ing a different life. naturally meet
| different people. Perhaps they seem
strange to you, mother. but I have
| learned to judge friends from ~
standpoint of true worth. rather than
| from q standpoint of how much
money they make, or how they make
| it. or how they dress"
| Mr.. Carew interposed here: SIeIa
not have any more words about it. Z
] have no doubt that this young wondS
an has fine principlest she has q
nice face"
Janet looked at her father gratis
fully. and the subject was dropped
But there was feeling of stiffness
paramount. Janet had declared hers
self independent, and the entering
wedge had been made between heG
old manner of living and the new.
| ITO Be Continued.l