The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-11-22

Fl, La!
beautiful brswn. For two hours Diana |
sat with burning cheeks and listened
to as thorough a scarifying of Senator
Rrppdon as the vOcabularieS Of the |
five infuriated women who addressed
the assembly could produce. For Sen
ator BrendOn had been indSereet
enough to express publicly his real
reason that he had hitherto camou-
FACED under pretended reverence for
states rights. He did not believe, 1t
appeared at last, that women had suf-
ficient intelligence!
Mrs. ,Barding- Scott made no COM
ment on the way home, but Diana
was too furious at her finances SUR
upon her sex to notice it. Mrs. Bard
ing-Scott dropped Diana at her home
with a grim think it over, chilu,
what you heard this afternoon Ana
Diana did. She STAYED off her mOth-
er's eager questionings about the AIT
ernOon by pleading headache. she
would tell about it in the morning
and couldn't she please be excused
from dinner?
But long before Mrs. Wilson's hour
for arising, a wrath of q Diana pare
as her nameSake, let herself OUT VI
the house unObserved, mailed let
ter to the senator at the corner DoA
and then, for the first time in her ll1e'
boarded public conveyance unac-
companied and walked into the can
teen two hours before her regular
shift. Help was short. Diah"
hustled into her apron.
1.-TWO; sunnySide up, please. Inc
order came from Il red-haired youth
| in 0. D. The voice was familiar
Diana glanced up and smiled. The
young lieutenant to whom it belonged
was a frequent visitor at the canteeh'
| They had gotten to be very good
friends, indeed.
These stars stand for Intervening
hours of that day, during which tile
best laid plans of Mrs. j. HenshaW
Wilson "ganged" very much aglee IN
deed.
Diana was taken on the rebound
Lieutenant Granger, a STRIPPING NJ. D.
knew nothing of Mrs. Henshaw or he
plans. He pleaded we'll his cause.
At eleven o'clock Mrs. Wilson dis
covered her daughters absence ant
} phoned the canteen. A voice In
formed her that Miss Wilson had let
half an hour before. Was some on
bringing her home? Mrs. Wilson in
: ouired, for that lady had ascel
tanned that no car had been ordere
r out Of the family garage that morn
ing.
D "Why, l don't know, I'm sure" al
r swered the voice. Miss Wilson wer
/ out accompanied by Lieutenant Graz
r ger"
i Worried by Diana's unwonted a
sumption of independence, Mrs. WI
Il son waited-and waited. Diana WI
n son never returned, but at five o'cloc
! In the afternoon a young woman WI
It much resembled the one who ha
& stolen out of the Wilson house in II
z morning returned, very much pink
of cheek than her neurological nam
d sake.
o And the only consolation Mrs.
q Henshaw Wilson has been able
= salvage out of the wreck is the anne
L. Grating fact that Mrs. Barding-Scc
n, takes proprietary interest in MI
s. Laurence Granger. For when Dla
ir told her mother the Overwhelmi
L. news of her sudden marriage to
10 man who was to sail overseas tn
very night, and whom Mrs. Wills
of had never seen or even heard OF,
lg was not in the mothers power
te take the retaiatory measure employ
ne additionally by irate parents sin
as the world began and cast the dfsob'
r. lent daughter out into the cold, CT
or world. Because, you see, ]. Hensha
IS. before he died, had had the W
tie prescience to leave the greater part
". his plethoric fortune to Diana.
sr- Doctor Granger is back now, a
M Mrs. J. Henshaw is living alone or
lite liberal income and the thoughts
al what might have been.