The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-03-13

really Impossible for two TO i've On
half Of what was hardly enough for
one.
Daphne cried q long while ii her
room. She got out her list OF ways to
earn fifty thousand dollars again and
cried over that.
There is much foolish and futile pro
test against the nowadays woman who
goes into business outside her home.
But the fact is that It Is her business
that began 1t. Her, business left the
home first and she is merely following
t to the places where new conditions
and inventions have centralized and
mechanical It.
New conditions have taken her
distaf and her washtub and her cook.
cry and gossip into the wooden mills
and steam laundries and restaurants
and telephone exchanges. She has had
to 60 thither to do her necessary york.
Even the entertainers, the singers,
dancers, tellers of stories, who used
to stir the seraglios and the castle
halls have been gathered into opera
houses and theaters ard into vaude-
Vile and moving picture palaces. :
Daphne, having no gifts for spin.
ming, cooking, or laundry, tried the
theater. Her old-fashioned lover pro-
tested, and she went, anyway. But
she was not suited to the theater,, and
she retreated with nothing to show for
her expedition except her shattered
pride and the f1fty-dollar check for
two weeks salary.
Daphne began anew to hunt for
work; work, the thrice blessing that
kills time and makes money and taHes
passion. But the world seemed to be
full Of every other trouble except
work. Even had she been skilled, as
she was not, it would have awaited her
little, since skilled laborers were b.
ing turned off by the thousands. And
unskilled laborers, were being turned
Oft by the tens of thousands.
Clay had saved nothing against the
rainy season. He had found his salary
too small for his ~courtship requisites
now that his salary was halved his
courtship had to be reduced to the
minimum Of expense.
Bayard and Leila had more money
to spend, and they made ambitious
voyages. But Daphne and Clay must
swelter with the other stay-at-home
millions. Clay denied himself even the
two weeks vacation allotted to him.
Bayard took his, however, and carried
Leila off to Newport, where they
boarded humbly, If extensively.
While they were gone, at their sug.
gestion, Daphne, moved down into
their apartment. It was large and
E1beautiful, and, as Clay said, 1t was
mot infested with C%hivvises."
b Now and then Clay quarreled with
Daphne because Of her obstinate de.
termination to have q trade Of her
own. Then they made up. And quar-.
relied anew-lovers' q~uarrels, summer
storms that break the sultry tension
OF the air and make peace endurable
+ Bayard came back alone. Leila
had decided that It was better fol-
cher health to stay at Newport till
the. Z cooler weather came and heI
tosummer wardrobe had been wsrn out
So Bayard Joined the army Of
town-tied husbands, the summer wild.
overs. He went back once a week
on furlough to spend a Newport Sab.
bath with his wife. He became one
Of the Friday-night-to-M onday-morn-
ing excursionists. There was leisure
enough in his Office.
He insisted on Daphne's keeping
her room in his apartment, and Of
evenings he affixed himself to hel