Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-19


headache"
IAN right. IN do the talking.
Now Ruth darling, there isn't any
use pretending. We are poor, poor as
church mice, and we have got to find
a place to live in and get ont Of here.
Cheap as it is. il is far more than we
can afford for while. Tomorrow is
Sunday. l will spend the day hunt
ing place. Then Monday we must
get few things and move in. You can
buy the fol-de-rols gradually. We II
get the necessaries, and start house
keeping OF course, Ruth, we won I
be as poor as we are now, very long. -
"Of course we won't Why, you n
soon have big law practice, then
we can get into a nice place and have
Rachel -
"Yes, rather impatiently ''But
Ruth, am afraid you will not be con
tented. You have seen many apart
ments just as good as any we can af-
ford now, and you say they give you
"a headache. | should hate to come
home nd find you always with a head
ache
Ruth laughed merrily. She was
really tired, really disgusted with the
places she had seen. But she was also
IN love, also young and enthusiastic.
"Oh, I'll be happy, Brian dear.
We I'll fix up the place so prettily, on
almost nothing at all, that you won I
recognize it. Only please don't take
a place where there are cock-roaches. y
Ruth s idea of nothing at all was
a little less than she had used to dee
Orate her aunt s house.
"Of course won q Now we n
turn in early, get good start in the
morning, and by night, we will have a
home, little girl. 1t will be better than
this old hole, anyway. And the way the
bills mount up here, is scandalous.
Ruth was about to tell him they
weren { tenth of what hers and
Aunt Laura's were at the Ritz, when
they stopped there. Then she remem-
bered that Brian was not rich like Mrs.
Clayborne, and said nothing. But it seem
ed to her that Brian talked good deal
about money, and how careful they
must be--for a while. She never had
heard money discussed. 1t was there;
she had used it. That was all there was
to 1t. That made her think. Her pocket
book was nearly empty. Her aunt had
not given her very large amount--inI
line with her ideas of what Ruth would
do when she found she had to economize
and il was nearly gone. Would she
have to ask Brian for money! That
would be unbearable. But how else was
she to get it! She couldn' do much
without money, especially in New Iork.
" Are you going to give me an allow
ance to run the houses'' she asked.
II read book, once, where young
couple like us got married and they
divided the money the man earned. So
much for the rent, so much for clothes,
so much to ran the house, etc IL was
an awfully nice story. l recall, l read
1t aloud to Aunt Laura. She said that
was the only way for people of moderate
means to do.
why, yes--if you would like to do
that way, | have no objection" yet. as
he said it, Brian flushed with embarrass-
ment He had not told Ruth the size of
his income. He really had not been able
to get courage to do 50. Her absolute
disregard of money at Atlantic City had
shown him more Of the manner of her
upbringing than he had before known
1t had frightened him, little. He low
ed Ruth pasSionately He hated to deny
her things to which she had been ac.
customed. He wouldn't have to very
long just until he got few good paw
ing eases. But in the interim it would
be hard to make her understand. lie
must be patient Sunday dawned bright
and lovely. In high good spirits they
SET out TO find home. Somewav, things
looked different 10 Ruth with Brian
along. The sOrdidness did not seem quite
SO sordid, the dingyness of the cheap
flats quite so dingv. About three clock |
after looking for hours, hey found a lit. |
tie five room apartment that Brian said |
would have to do The rent was thirty |
five dollars month. The entrance was
neat the apartment was up enc flight
Of stairs The ianitor--rather, the jan.
itoress- seemed a good soul, and prom
ised to do all she could to help Ruth. |
The rooms had been lately "done
and We're clean. But Ruth 5 spirits sank |
as she heard the woman tell Brian that
the owner would not re-paper FOR ssy
body. He had papefed to suit the last /
tenants, and then they had remalaed |
only three months.
But he won IL mind if We paper
~ Ruth asked.
"No, l don't guess he would mind if |
you done ityourself but he wun I do
nothin for nobody, so it ain / no use
askin'.N
"Well do them over in soft pretty |
iolors, Brian. II won be so bad then
Ruth shivered as she looked at the glar.
ing eolors that no amount of furnishing
could tone down.
Brian made NO answer. But Ruth new.
n noticed.
lFomerrow-Ruth unsueeesSfully az.
tennis kecping house.