New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-06-08

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table.
The thing got a sociological twist
eventually, of course, when Jane want
ed to know If it We're true that the
chorus girls received inadequate pay.
Jimmy demolished this with more
wrath than he often showed. He didn't
know any other sort of job that paid
u totally unframed girl as well. 1t
TOOK a really accomplished stenogra-
pher, for instance, to earn as much a
week as was paid the average chorus
gid. The trouble was that the indis-
pensnble assets in the business were
not character and intelligence and am
bition. but just personal charms.
But a girl who's serious about il.
who doesn't have to be told the same
'hlhg more than once, and catches on,
sometimes, without being told at all,
why, h can always have a job and
she can be as independent as any
BODY. She can get twenty-five dollars
a week or even as high as thirty"
The latter part of this conversation
was what she was to remember after
ward, but the thing that impressed
ltose at the time, and that held her
for hours looking on at the League
show rehearsals, was what Jimmy had
told her about the technical side of
the work of production. the lubors of
the director, and so on.
As the weeks and months wore away.
and as the season of violent alter
nations between summer and winter.
when the C%hicagoan calls spring,
gave place to summer itself, Rose
was driven to intrench herself more
and more deeply behind this great
expectation. 1t was like a dam hold
ing back waters that otherwise would
have rushed down upon her and swept
her away.
And then came Harriet, Rodncy's
other sister. and the pressure behind
the dam rose higher.
Rose had tried, rather u%nsuccess-
fully, to realize that there was actu-
ally in existence another woman who
occupied, by blood anyway, the same
position toward Rodney and herself
that FREDERICK did. She felt almost
like a real sister toward Frederick.
But without quite putting the notion
II III words, she had always felt it
was just as well that Harriet was an
Italian cOnteSSa, four thousand miles
away. Rodney and Frederick spoke
her affectiOnateIy, to be sure, but
their references made Il picture of n
~forn:!dably correct, seriously
nriStOcratic sort of person.
She'd discovered, along in the win.
ter sometime, that IIarriet's affairs
were going rather badly. 1t was along
n May that the cable came TO Frpde-
lea announcing that Harriet was COM
ng back for n long visit. 'That's all
she said" Rodney explained to Rose.
But | suppose it means the finish.
She said she didn't want any fuss
made, but she limited she'd like to have
freddy meet her in New York. and
'reddy's going. Poor old Harriet. We
try to cheer her up
She didn't seem much in need of
up, Rose thought, when they
irSt met. All that showed on the con-
cssa's highly polished surface was a
disposition to talk hurnorously over
I'D times with her old friends, in
luding her brother and sister. and n
ort of disinayed acquiescence in the
inoky seriousness, the Inadequate
utilization, of the city of her birth.
Toward Rose herself, the contessa
one might say, studiously affec-
She avoided being either dis
greeable or patronizing. Rose could ,
indeed, how she avoided II. ,
About this time the question where ,
and Rodney were going to live s
fter their lease on the McCrea house ,
nded. had begun to press for an an
wer. October first was when the !
'ase expired. and 1t wasn't far from |
ne date mt which they expected the
nby. They spent some lovely after F,
oons during the days of the emery ;
* spring. cruising about looking at 4
Ossibie places. :
This was the situation when Hair.
ct took q hand in it. 1t was n situa- q
on made to order for Harriet to
a hand in. Shed sized IL I'M nj II
glance. made up her mind in three n
inutes what was the sensible thing q
n them to do, written a note to 4,
McCrea in Paris. and then g
ded her opportunity to put her idea h
to effect. To her Rose was simpIy a 9
e~ll-meaning. somewhat inadequately
young person, the beneficiary. o.
rough her marriage with Rodney. of Ii
piece of unmerited good fortune. n
When ohe got Florence McCrea's s
lswer to her letter, she took tn. h
st occasion to get Rodney off by
mself and talk a little common n
nse into him. =,
What about where to live. Rod n,
"" she asked. made I'D your n,
nd about it yet? 1t is time someone W
tn a little common sense straight
ed you out about this" O,
Harriet couldn't be sure from the
1gth Of time he took seeing that In