Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-03-20

| out. las II n home weren't just as
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 a man
that felt that way"
The three women wrangled with
wise saw and modern instances, and
they were 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 a
state Of desperation mitigated by the
fact that Bayard 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 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.
Everything was the very latest thing
and yet was marked down. But Daph'
ne priced things now with a new soul
: She was thinking in, the terms Of
wages and toll.
| She was going to earn fifty thousand
a year some day, but she supposed
that at first she would arm very little
twenty-five dollars a week, perhaps.
For the first time in her existence
she wildly understood how all thest
fairy tissues were the products Of hu
man labor, paid for with wages and tt
be sold for other wages. Pearls wer'
drops of sweat; perfumes were thu
signs of weary men soft fabrics wer'
the hard spinning Of human silkworms
Bayard vas even now racking hi
brain to accumulate what three won
en- were sq%uandering.
So Daphne meditated as she hat
never meditated before and might no
often mediate again. She refused t.
buy a thing. Her mother could onl,
explain her mood as a symptom of al
illness and advise her to get home t
bed. There was something suspicion
in the condition of a girl who coul,
look with qualms Of conscience or ap
petite on such a banquet.
At length fatigue and faintness re
! minded Mrs. Kip, senior, that she ha,
not eaten and the hour was late. Sh
called for her luncheon and they wen
together to a tearoom. Here Daphn
had another attack Of eccentricity;
stubborn determination to go HON
and send back to Dutilh the wicke
gown that she had bought Of him O
credit.
She had left the house without re
turning it and she was afraid tina
there would be difficulties IL she dc
layed. Fortunately there had been n
alterations in the gown.
Perhaps there is no form that sata
takes oftener than that of a fashion
8 able gown. In that shape he offer
v women the conquest of the world. BIZ
]. Daphne resisted him and said to Leila
t. Get thee behind me, satan! I'm g
d ing to return this gown and let Dutil
1t give Bayard credit for 1t. I won't loo
lie at another gown till I can pay for
1t out of my own earnings. I'll not g
le married till I can buy the rest of m
trousseau myself. I've decided ths
an independent m must buy he
own rousseau"
Even in the eyes Of ambition TIL
promised to require a fairly Ion
or period-a period so lengthy that st
wondered If Clay's love would outla!
a 1t.
She did love him and the though
ID Of losing him alarmed her more tina
ID the thought of losing the precior
n gown.
Leila woke from her meditation vii
IN a sudden "Come along; we must drel
It. for the tea-fight."
I'd Mrs. Kip, senior, amused the your
re Kips by thinking aloud: II wonder
ir that nice Mr., Duane will be at Il
tea"
IN "Ohl shame shame" cried Leil
tits a regular intrigue. No, he won
be there. Telephone him at the Ra
is quet club and he'll come to you. he
usually there"
OF She did not see the start the artle
Of hint gave Daphne, who had learned |
he accident what she had not known no
of tn find ont otherwise Danhnp m