The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-26
BY INES MCDONALD.
som efirfaeS ha nnanS that

Shes rotten card player"
twinkled Barton Senior that night,
when Fred dropped into his fathers
study for a smoke after having taken
her nome, but she is sure a little
While at that identical moment
Mother Barton sat on the edge of Sis
ter James bed and literally groaned
for her beloved sons future happiness.
Men are such fools!" she said.
and eyes. and they fall like an angel
cake when you slam the oven doorr'
She hasn't a brain in her head
mat girl, opined Sister Jane, who
"as.weil, skinny-and just loved to
teach school. -
ner shining hair in two pigtaiIs down
her back, stood before her mirror and
inspected her pulchritudinous self thru
tragic eyes Something was the mat
WIN her- they had been perfect
~ lovely to her. Fred's mother and
sister, but a1tho Molly was entirely
too lovely to have good sense, she was
murmuring to herself: =
They don't like met Why-why
don't they like me?" The lovely fig
ure in the glass didn't know the an
swer to that, so Molly turned out the
light and wandered toward her bed.
They don't like me-" was the first
thing she said to Fred the next eve-
who don't?" demanded Fred, try
ing to adjust his own ordinary brain
to the new topic under consideration.
Your mother and sister"
ROT" said Fred. They fell all
over themselves. They think you're
great! How could they help it?"
But they don't" insisted Molly.
What put that into your head ?"
well, I just know they don't"
How do you know" Men insist
on being logical
81 feel it," And Fred was being In
| troduced to intuition, which is another
term for bunch, and women without
brains specialize in it.
For one SO young" grinned Fred.
you have a very mature Imagination"
! Whereupon 1t was necessary at this
| point to pursue the fleeing Molly and
give her the kiss she deserved, so that
some time later Molly's horried moth
er found these two young things plan
ming. quiet wedding to take place
within a week. - -
So it happened that Fred told his
| employer the next morning that he
guessed he'd take his next summers
vacation right then.
Whats your hurry?" asked the Old
Man.
Getting married." admitted Fred.
| Anybody I know"
| Molly Stanbury."
| The Old Man laughed delightedly
and patted the proud Fred on the
shoulder.
"Good boy. But say" he said. "old
Graggin will be sore! He's always
Dragging about Miss stanbury. Says
she's the most leveI-headed private
secretary that ever bossed her boss.
Going on a trip?"
Fred nodded.
We'll" he offered. eff you'll go to
Cleveland and put over that Clay
weeks job and you can have your
summer vacation too"
| And so it came to pass that Molly
and Fred, happy tho married,
climbed aboard the limited for Cleve-
land, gaily intent on the only real
no matter how commonplace other
lives might get to be, they looked into
| each others eyes and knew that theirs
would be different. Strangely enough,
when they returned and started house
keeping in their little apartment they
were still of the same find. Then
| came that most notable of events-the
| family's first dinner with the Newly
Webs. Fred had instructions to come
| home from the office early that night
If possible. but he was so late that
Mother Barton. Sister Jane and Dad
were already there when he arrived.
Molly dropped everything at its most
! critical stage and danced out of the
| kitchen to fling herself shamelessly
into the ready arms of the stalwart
| Fred, hugging him with a long, eager
kiss, as If those who looked on did not
exist. Fred's mother would have taken
him to task for being late, but Molly
!eaped to his rescue, explaining that
ner experiences in an office had made
1t clear that things were bound to oc-
cur at the last minute to make men
| late for their dinners
| And Molly's dinner was q thing to
4 dream about. The modest appoint
ments of her table were set with ex-
qu1site taste. Her salad was perfectly
beautiful as .Ie1l as edible; her meat
loaf was a great success, as was the
pudding and the cake that accom-
4 panied it. The cake could not have
been duplicated by Mother Barton her.
self. and Dad Barton's heart was en-
tirely captivated by the quality of
Molly's cookery and the lure of her
demure youth.
MOLLY. you're some grand little old
cook" said Fred's father fondIy.
why shouldn't I be?" said Molly
innocently. Mother taught me q
a domestic science course at night
school. I learned efficiency and man.
agement in my work in the office: be-
sides, I've been planning for this job
all my life. because I hated office
work, and I knew 1 was intended for
just this sort of thing. My ambition
has always been to be housewife.
And that night Mother Barton sat
on the edge of Sister James bed.
4 "Fred's a mighty lucky boy" she
i said. THAT child's a wonder"
4 you'd never think ii TO. look al
her" conceded Jane. "But she's so.
brains, Molly has. You know what q
1 time we always had managing Fred
i but she's got him eating right out OF
her hand"
1 "u o,Jv mona II Iastz siobaa Ered's
mother.
So you see that change Of mind il
much easier than a change of heart
copyright. 1913. by MrCture Newspaper