The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-19


 said. Daphne's nerves had been from adventure to adventure of soul and body. She had been invited to enter 8 career of gorgeous sin, and she had been swept along the edge Of fearful disaster. s~
 Mrs. Chivvis met Daphne at the door. Her recent affection had turned again to scorn, and she giowered at Daphne, who crept to her room in hopeless acceptance of the role of ad- | venturess.
 Tired as she was she could not sleep. The ciangor of the morning called her to the window. A gray day broke on a weary town. The prob lem of debt and food and new clothes dawned again. Everything was gray before her. l Wisdom whispered her to take Duane at his word and try the great adventure. How could 1t bring her | to worse confusion than she found about her now? And then the morn | ing mail arrived and brought her a large envelope addressed in strange hand. She opened it and took from 1t a sheaf of photographs.
 Her fathers image a dozen times repeated lay before her. The un- touched proofs omitted never a line never a wrinkle. One of the pictures looked straight at her. She recalled that once she had stood back of the photographer and her father had caught her eye and smiled just as the bulb was pressed.
 She made him smile like that. What would his expression be when he learned that she had listened to rea- 1 son." ceased to be his daughter, and | become Tom Duane's- - l She shuddered back from the word and the thought. She forgot both in l the joy of reunion with her father. All the philosophies and visions and luxuries were answered by the logic of that smile. r~ f--.. s.- | She lifted his pictured lips to hers with filial eagerness, and her tears battered rninously on the proof. She l was satisfied to be what the jeweler l in Cleveland had called her to Clay I Wimburn-''old Wes Kip's girl" ! 1 Suddenly she remembered sWeth- erell and his massages to Leila. She l felt so renewedly virtuous herself that it seemed her duty to go down and re- buke Leila for her apparent philan- dering at Newport. She was also .cu- rious to see how guilty Leila would receive the news that Wetherell had asked for her. l But she found Bayard at home for | luncheon and she was neither mad nor mean enough to confuse Leila before him. And this was rather for his sake | than Leila'S. ... Leila was just informing Bayard ] that the butcher had delivered the mornings order no farther than the freight elevator, and instructed his l boy to send the meat up only after the money came down. a ..s- - | Bayard had no money and the cha ! grin of his situation was bitter. He snarled at Leila: '"Tell the cub to take the meat back and eat it himself Then I'll go over and butcher the butcher
 Leila dismissed the boy with a faint-hearted show of indignation. Then she came back and said, And now we have no meat to eat" Bayard was reduced to philosophy. the last resort of the desperate !: i ''Well, the vegetarians say we ought never to eat meat, anyway. We're poor, but, my Lord! we're in grand company. Look at this cartoon of l Cesares in the Sun-Father Knicker- booker turning his pockets inside out and not penny in them. New York city has to borrow money on short time notes at high interest to pay it's | own current bills. -.-E ~,
 Look at Europe. All the countries over there were stumbling along un- der such debt that they wondered | how they could meet the interest on 1 the next pay day. And now they are mortgaging their great-grandsons' property to pay for shooting their sons.
 "It's the old Thirteenth Command ment that we've all been smashing 1 N<n/LT 3>1hA A1 I, lVE1TTIlT@