Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31
And So They
Were Married
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR
Copyright. 1919. bp Public LEDGER 90.
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she had unlimited accounts everywhere. |
Ruth could not help observing this
fact, as SO often when they had been |
shopping together something like the
+ following happened.
Rita would buy the most expensive |
lingerie, her shirt waists were the envy |
of Ruth, who could afford one perhaps
season, where Rita bought four or
five of the most expensive. They did
not shop wildly, but they never went
downtown without spending some
money, and morning would pass very
quickly wandering from shop to shop, |
II would be Rita who would suggest
staying downtown for lunch.
''Oh, what's the use?" Ruth would
remonstrate. Lets go home and
have a bite of something out Of the
icebox, just the two of us"
MY dear, ] haven't a thing in the
house,
But | have
but it will be late by the time we
get home and I'm starving. Wouldn't
YOU like to lunch downtown?"
'Of course, Id like to, but it's
expensive"
"What do we care; we don't do it
often
And then would come an alteration
about the place. Ruth would suggest
one Of the tearooms, and Rita would
make moue.
20 no, dear, let's 60 to a regular
place
Aud they would end by lunching at
y one of the hotels at table by the
window. and Rita would assume the
airs of queen with the waiter, and
they would have wonderful time.
Ruth loved it, she loved luxury as
much as any one. She loved the atmos
phere that an expensive hotel always
exuded, she loved the music. the thick
table linen. instead of the doilies of a
tcaroom, the great napkins which she
loved to rumple up, the music, the
people at the adjoining tables and,
most of all, the air of well being that
swept over her as she looked about
and felt herself one of the crowd.
They would eat what Rita called
a light lunch. mushrooms, perhaps on
toast, with salad and some coffee
less than 81. and Rita would invariably
tumble in her purse when the bill was
placed by her plate and then look
across at Ruth with a dcprecating
smile.
"My dear. l haven't brought enough
with me. ] want this lunch to be
until we get home. was sure / put
that extra money in
''Let's have it Dutch.' Ruth would
insist, ''then you'll have enough
fully. "No. I want to treat, you set
thing later Which she never did,
and Ruth knew she didn't intend to.
Rita always conveniently forgot. OF
course. this didn't happen every time,
and when it did happen there was gen
orally some new way in which Rita
managed it. Sometimes they ate at a
tearoom where the check for the two
of them was not more than a dollar
and a half, and then Rita would make
great flourish of paying half the
4. tcheck. But this wasn't often, and 1t
never evened matters up. Ruth thought
Of these things often. Once, at the end
of the week. she had been woefully
snort on HcT auOWdhCc a duu hdu pcch
forced to borrow from Scott. She
hated to do this: Scott was more than
fair in his allowance TO her, but she
told him the truth and just how it
happened. and instead of saying any
thing Scott laughed.
..Rita Is the most dependept person
heye ever known. She is the kind
of a woman that man simply feels
resnousible for.''
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