The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-02-07

Daphne answered. stoutly: Its not
toolishness. It's the first glmmer of
sense I've ever had I'm sick OF the
idea Of always living on the mercy of
some man, taking his charity or his
extravaganza. I've always been drag
on poor daddy and / was getting ready
TO shift my weight over to poor Clay's
back. But 1 don't think woman
ought to be dependent on a man. 1
think she ought to bear her share of
the burden"
"As if she didn't" Mrs Kip broke
out. "As if the home weren't just as
much labor as the office"
J Leila attacked her from another di-
tection. For goodness sake, Daphne,
Cont lose your head. Don't you i'm
egine for moment that n husband
Will be happier and love his wife bet
Ger because she earns wages. The
harder you work for men, the better
ehey like somebody else. The harder
. man works for you the better he
nkes you. Best of all. he loves the
woman that tries to break him."
Daphne's answer was snappy: az
don't believe. 1t! I'd despise a man
fhat felt that way"
The three women wrangled with
wise saws and modern instances, and
Shey were In perilous state of dis
eension when the telephone rang. Leila
answered 1t and her Outcries of indig-
nation alarmed Mrs. Kip and Daphne
MI they learned the cause
Baynrd had called up to say that
the luncheon party must be postponed.
Outrageous business had made anoth-
or insidiOus attack on love.
Leila came from the telephone in a
state of desperation mitigated by the
fact that Baynrd had asked her to
take his mother and Daphne shopping
and buy them and herself something
worth while as an atonement for his
abandonment.
So they set forth again on another
onset against the ramparts OF beauty.
To the silent horror of Daphne and
her mother, Leila was persuaded to
buy 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
able result.
Everything was the very latest thing
and yet was marked down. But Daph-
ne priced things now with new soul.
She was thinking in the terms of
wages and toll.
She was going to earn fifty thousand
q year some day, but she supposed
that at first she would earn very little
twenty-five dollars a week. perhaps.
For the first time in her existence
she vividly understood how all these
fairy tissues were the products of hui
man labor, paid for with wages and to
be sold for other wages. Pearls were
drops OF sweat; perfumes were the
signs of weary men; soft fabrics were
the hard spinning of human silkworms.
Bnyard was even now racking his
brain to accumulate what three wom-
en- were sQuandering.
So Daphne meditated as she had
never meditated before and might not
often mediate again. She refused TO
buy n thing. Her mother could only
explain her mood as symptom Of an
illness and advise her to get home to
bed. There was something suspicious
In the condition of a girl who could
look with qualms Of conscience or ap-
petite on such Il banquet.
At length fatigue and faintness re-
minded Mrs. Kip. senior, that she had
not eaten and the hour was late. She
called for her luncheon and they went