Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-02
BY HAZEL DALE

DN II[ALCL D-ALII
Jarvis, I'd like to have Barry
Neil up to dinner tonight. just in
formally, you know" Janet had said
that morning. Miss Blodgett's teasing
words had somehow sunk deep into
Janet's mind, deeper than she would
have believed possible, and now Jar
viss friendship with his old friends
seemed somehow different.
Since Janet had married Jarvis her
own friends had somehow slipped
into the background. She did not care
about the casual men friends that she
had had before; they all paled before
Jarvis and it had so happened that
she had seen none Of them since her
marriage, so completely had she sunk
herself into Jarviss life.
Miss BlodGett in her call a few days
back had somehow managed to stir
Janet to resentment. Her laughing
You ought not to let Jarvis get ahead
of you, child; If he wants women
friends, you uugh
lomacy's sake" had been remark
that Janet had remembered.
Very WE'LL" she had said finally to
UeIStll. GIHdDS NllSo IblOt6ClI Mclo
right and / ought to keep a few of
my friends" And so she had suggest
ed having Barry Neil over for dinner.
Jarviss ready acceptance of her
suggestion had somehow riled Janet
for a moment, although the next min
ute she had been ashamed of herself.
Womanlike, she wanted Jarvis to ex-
hibit a certain amount of jealousy A
woman always feels that if q man is
jealous of her, he is all the more In
love. Jarvis's. code of life was just
different, that was all.
He loved Janet and so no doubt of
her love for him ever entered his
mind. If she had chosen to have a
thousand men friends, he would have
exhibited no jealousy no matter how
he had felt about it. That was his code
of life.
And so Janet had asked the elegant
Barry Neil over for studio dinner,
and she had asked Neva Hart to COM
plete the foursome, Neva being the
most typically Bohemian of any of her
new friends.
Barry came dressed as elegantly as
usual. Janet had warned him against
dress clothes, but he was perfectly
gotten up, and, as Janet expected, as
fascinating as usual. Janet wore a
loose little black velvet dress and look
ed like q warm flame. Jarvis could not
take his eyes off her, and Barry SEEM
ed infected in the same way.
NeVa's entrance in simple smock-
like blouse over a dark skirt injected
a different note into the room. Janet's S
heart smote her. Had she been foolish
to think that Neva would appeal to
Barry at all? She was so different
from the girls he knew, and although
she sketched little herself she fire.
quently posed.
Janet thought of the girls Barry
knew, all faultlessly dressed, all ac-
customed to what their fathers had
been able to give them, all pretty,
but slightly monotonous in their gem
eral get-up. And then she looked at
Neva-Neva with her simple hair
banded around her full classic face,
Neva with her blunt manner and her
large. perfectly moulded hands. How
could she be compared with the wom-
en- Barry knew?
The little dinner party was a great
success. Barry was entertaining and
seemed to be having the time of his
life. His wit was natural and the four
young people were frankly in love
with life. Neva told some quaint stories
of studio life in her inimitable man.
ner, tales of Greenwich Village and
Washington Square South and they
swapped tales of life uptown, where
as Janet put It. all New York lived in
a space about large enough for a
chicken coop.
But our life is hard, we all work, .
Neva said thoughtfully. There Is no