The sun., 1919-02-23
ny PARK STEVENS.

For eleven years the spinster aunt of
Henry Turner had arrived three times
a year at his city nat, tarried a month
each time and ruled the roost She was
q person with Views and $4,000. When
che was around Turner never smoked
and his wife kept her lip stick and pow
der puff In the bottom of trunk. How
ever, the disciplinary effect Of her visits
on the children was beyond valuation
In money. Ultimately she passed from
this life to a happier one, leaving Henry
a twenty part OF her net estate.
"Stung again." said his wife.
Turner earned $50 week in q Wall
Street Office
well" he said. 'lt's something. with
tho $4,000 for a start and my knowledge
Of the market I can. For instance,
out he was holding down an SIS Job.
But with nerve and judgment he"
Listen" interrupted Mrs. Turner
they lived on Washington Heights-"the
money, such as II 10, comes from your
side OF the family, but did I help to
eafn Il or did not7 In, your aunt's
lifetime neither you nor I would have
conceded that we cared whether she had
100000 or so cents And to do US
justioeL don't think we did care. And
II she had bequeathed US this piece Of
haps would have less to say now than
I am going to say. But granting that
she left us the money because II was
not In her to feel under an obligation
to anybody either in this world or In
the next ask again did I germany
part OF II or didn't I?''
"You had three Of she four aces"
answered Turner. II . little diyrnally.
Shoot" ,
"our courtship," went on Mrs. Tur-
ner, having been conducted principally
across a garden gate. need not re-
mind you that I was raised in the coun-
try. Nor that. although came to the
| great city fired with a desire to move
up and on and be somebody. am no.
body 30 FAR and unlikely to be anybody
30 far as I can see And We live In q
fst Henry. while we had to live in q
fat ! never let myself tell myself how
much loathed everything in and about
A fat, but now that we can get out OF
Il II we want TO I'll be above board
about II. I hate every brick In this
building. would like to be q Roman
gladiator and meet IN n dark alley the
man who made the nrst dumbwaiter.'
a Bred I'm the bone City Man.
Turner was bred in the bone city
man. His idea OF an idyllic existence
was to live in a Riverside apartment
take all his subsistence In Broadway
restaurants and ride endlessly in taxi
cabs. That in the life of the great city
he was less than an atom had nevel
affected his esteem OF himself as repre-
sentative OF the life, gayety and coloi
OF the teemine metropolis.
where do you want to goT h,
asked, convinced that she had no answer
LISTEN" she said again "Whsre Il
not the point. but why. We do no
know our neighbors Look at the chill
dren and tell me II you want them t.
grow up sleeping in a sizzling room and
taking their exercise lodging automo
biles. At your ONCE you're q clerk viii
the cards stacked against you becaus,
you live in a cliff and walk up thre,
flights to go to bed. You're nobody
I'm nobody. We're going away from
here"
where tor inquired Henry again.
4 But eventually they went.
The suburban cottage to which hnall,
they moved themselves and their chill
dren and their portable possessions has
a front porch. white woodwork. a fire