The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1919-02-06

AN 4AOAAS "SASA y JAoS ~ |
much labor as the Office"
Leila attacked her from another d.
rection. "For goodness sake, Daphne,
don't lose your head. Don't you i'm
agine for a moment that a husband
will be happier and love his wife bet
ter because she earns wages. The |
harder you work for men, the better |
they like somebody else. The harder
a man works for you the better he
likes you. Best of all, he loves the
woman that tries to break him.
Daphne's answer was a snappy: II
don't believe it! I'd despise Il man
that felt that way"
The three women wrangled with
wise saws and modern instances, and
they We're in a perilous state of dis
sension when the telephone rang. Leila
answered it and her outcries of indig-
nation alarmed Mrs. Kip and Daphne
till they learned the cause.
Bayard had called up to say that
the luncheon party must be postponed.
Outrageous business had made anoth-
er inSidiOus attack on love.
Leila came from the telephone in Il
state of desperation m%itigated by the
fact that Bayard had asked her to
take his mother and Daphne shopping
l and buy them and herself something
worth while as an atonement for his
' abandonment.
So they set forth again on another
l onset against the ramparts of beauty.
To the silent horror of Daphne and
her mother, Leila was persuaded to
: buy a new coat and a new hat and to
pay FOR them by the convenience of
opening two new accounts at the sug-
gestion of two soapy statesmen. Bay
ards surrender after his first battle
had already accomplished the expect
t able result.
l. Everything was the very latest thing
s and yet was marked down. But Daph.
ne priced things o with Il e soul.
She was thinking in the terms OF
e wages and toll.
Il She was going to earn fifty thousand
a year some day, but she supposed
l. that ut first she would carr very little
re twenty-five dollars Il week, perhaps.
For the first time in her existence
she wildly understood how all these
/ fairy tissues were the products of hu
! man labor, paid for with wages and tt
I be sold for other wages. Pearls were
!. drops of sweat; perfumes were thu
! signs Of weary men; soft fabrics wer,
I the hard spinning of human silkworms
|, Bayard was even now racking hi:
brain to accumulate what three WON
\ en- were s%quandering.
! SO Daphne meditated as she h:t
never meditatcd before and might no
often mediate again. She refused t,
buy Il thing. Her mother could Onl.
explain her mood as Il symptom of al
y illness and advise her to get home tt
bed. There was something suspicion!
in the condition of Il girl who coult
\ look with qualms of conscience or ap
petite OF such Il banquet.
At length fatigue and faintness re
" minded Mrs. Kip, senior, that she hat
\ not eaten and the hour was late. Sh,
called for her luncheon and they wen
together to 81 tearoom. Here Daphne
had another attack of eccentricity;
stubborn determination to go hom'
and send back to Dutilh the WICKED
! gown that she had bought of him OF
credit.
She had left the house without re
= turning it and she was afraid tina
> there would be difficulties if she de
layed. Fortunately there had been n,
alterations in the gown.
Perhaps there is NO form that satal
takes oftener than that of q fashion
VS. able gown. In that shape he offer
~ women the conquest of the world. Blu
d. Daphne resisted him and said to Leila
It. "Get thee behind me, satan! I'm go
I'd ing to return this gown and let Dutill
ht give Bayard credit for it. l won't lO0l
re at another gown till l can pay for i
OF out of my own earnings. I'll not &c
re married till I can buy the rest of m,
trousseau myself. I've decided tina
at an independent woman must buy he
r. own trousseau."
Even in the eyes Of ambition thi
e. promised to require a fairly lon'
err period-a period so lengthy that sh'
IS, wondered if Clay's love would outlas
a it. =
~ She did love him and the though
Id Of losing him alarmed her more thai
ID the thought Of losing the preciou
gown.
Leila woke from her meditation witt
IN a sudden "Come along; we must dres
It. for the tea-fight."
I'd Mrs. Kip, senior. amused the youn'
re Hips by thinking aloud: II wonder j
ir that nice Mr.. Duane will be at tn
e, tea"
IN "Oh! shamie shame" cried Leila
le cts Il regular intrigue. No, he won
be there. Telephone him at the Rae
is quet club and he'll come to you. He
usually there"
OF Che did not see the start the arries
Of hint gave Daphne, who had learned b.
he accident what she had not known how
of to find out otherwise. Daphne con