The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-08-20

ANHNM
"Iiy the way, dear. what did Blake
shy whrn you old him you would no
longer sis In hts ola office blue PEN
c.l.ng na nuscript Tor poor bcnighted
authors
When 1 told him what" Amaze
mont IN Patricia Van Brunt's voice
ami IA ilcr wido-uptn eyes.
When yuu told mat sllyc-driver
editor ,inat you had mk,n another
job \ lite one thH time"
81 q understand what sou are
driving At. Gates. ct course ! told
Mr. bltkr ! was going to be- married.
Didn he. the olicc, send US that
lovely ch,st OF silver
Il % bet be Kicked like "a California
muic at losing you" Gates Van
Lrunt. a husband OF tWcny-four
hours, chuckicd with gicc as hc lay
-ptaWlsd on the stud "a u lttlc sea
port town up iu Maine.
Losing me ! sues hen stand
u for two weeks. lie said ! could
axe ~ long u Vacation as I wished.
Vacation o. was not Gates
turn 10 b, amuz,d - uu don't mcan,
Tat his pet name for hls bride
you don't mean hat you are think
INA 20. going back
"uf course I'm going buck. silly
Just rcaus "a woman H married
doesn't mcan she has to give M all
her ideals. her Independence dots ID.
Put thought
surely you didn't think I was the
sort that would stay m some mans
kitchou and wash dishes ana weep
floors, did YOU
No-not some mans"
Safes Van Brun, possessed family.
us one versod Ia uam. nomenclature
had little else. when working his
wa through college he often used to
declare wuimsicaily that f3mily was
all very wei la its way. especially a
dead family, iot thar. as far as he
WAS concerned, he hpuld have pre-
fcrrcd "a little more money aud "a 1T
Tie less rosp,C.ihilitN us an Inherit
tuurc from his i~orehears That fam
ily traditions were all right but that
n"y did % amount To much as "a
family asset.
Yet In spite. or perhaps because. of
his lack ct funds. Gates came
through crct itahly to himself and the
name he bore. lie had decided that
he would hc an architect and In the
three years hat had elapsed since hc
had been graduated he had made a
fairly good beginning.
So az twenty-eight ne had begun 10
think % q home, and naturally of
some one to preside over that home.
Whenever he allowed his Thoughts "a
tutn In this direction 81 was Patricia
Martins face hat appeared To him.
Patricia voice that he heard.
Patricia Martin was mo- IDLE Spcicty
girl h had cared Tor herself for
several years. Nuw she was assist
ant editor ln the office VI "a promi-
nrnt womnn's magazine. earning d
good salary und glorying In her indie
~pendtncc. Tho oldest III three child
ron. her father a man Of very mod
crate means. Patricia had started out
to De self. supporting ~ soon AS she
len school She hated houscwork,
hated the home tasiS Imposed upon
her as The elder daughter. She rca-
soucd that II she EARNED her wi liv-
INK. AIS so many WumCu and girls
aid nowadays. she would escape du-
mcsJic duties which SHE hated.
bthtr girls ANA ome some oi
whom she had met others she knew
about. had suddenly arrived at The
sag conclusion b keeping
was q d~rudgcry beneath them. with
Patricia. as with many others. thi.
attitude toward womHn'S place In the
scheute Of things had come gradually.
She had Joined one or i've clubs man
aged hy Womcn Of advanced ideas AID
had imhihcd many Of them before sh,
met Gates Van Hrunt. who from the
very heginning Of their Acquaintance,
had Interested her.
Patricia had discovered that sh'
possessed brain and soul 4 braif
with which to cup with the world
a soul above the petty things Of No,
as represented boy caring FOR a home
/ She fslt the need, and BATTERED hcrHcl'
because of her wisdom. OF getting ou.
into the world 80 thai she might cS.
ercise that brain and feed hat snul
Anything else was called bondage
at the wOmcn's clubs. And their idea
Of being ~ ust la the world was {,
get out Of that bondage into IN,
clearer atmosphere or some ding
office building whore they had :
chance to show their equality with
men. instead OF caring for their owl
homes, their husbands. and children
That was what their yearninfs Tor
clearer atmosphere really meant