Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-03-24
THE GIRL WHO
SMILED THROUGH
By Marion Rubincam.
DOWNRIGHT. George Matthew Adams
REFUGE IN WORK.

Chapter 40.
Alice did not keep her hopeless frame
of mind long. IN.
s.She has a soul like q rubber BAH
Mrs Riley remarked one September
afternoon. after she had pulled a couple
Of rockers to the porch and had settled
herself to do some darning.
"You never did tell me all that story
Mrs Rilev-Mrs. DIR. James-said'
also settling herself and opening - her {, Goat
"Well, it's not much TO teh, "is.
pIo,, b;t a threat off and thrust her
darning egg into another stocking ms
yonng fellow turned up, and he seemed
swful smitten-l used to see him walk
around there every evening. And then we
hoard they were to be married
ssYes time she was married, MIS-
Jar,es said. Every woman ought 10
marry before she is 2l. was l9 myself
"Then this Louise-no, LOIS, funny
~.r,,, ;sn,t ;t?-she comes. She WAS from
tbe city. and she had city ways and city
clothes, and must say she was pretty,
"Nice9" Mrs. DR.. James asked. In
her world. there were only two classes
those who were nice and those ~iio
weren't. She rather overdid the word
"Wen. | don't know exactly, mrs
Riley was not sure what her guest meant mean
bv mice" Il liked her lot at hrst- one
d,dn't mt ON airs and she was awful
s.,.natLtoo sweet. of course, we found out
later that WAS lust her manner, she dldn
moan Il. | had her here for supper often.
Nv linn thought she was n wonder.
sWeU IL appears she made eyes Mt
tb;s v7oung David without anyone knowing
i Inst like a man, he didn't know IT
himself-thought she was sweet little
thing like we all did Then first thing you
know. they begin acting like they were
in love. and Alice goes and breaks the
enpapement. Said she didn't want 10 tle
David to her apron strings II he was IN
love with her cousin. :,
Shouldn't have done that. Mrs
DIR. James shook her head sadly
"Then next thing happens IS, LOIS
gets him. | never could see myself how
woman can get man to propose II ne
isn't in love but some OF them do It.
oNavbe he was in love" Mrs. James
defended the absent man always.
mo, somehow | don't believe IT. one
was-well, pretty little thihg put no
brains. nor solid qualities a man wants IN
a wife But she got him. Then she goes
back TO the city and by and by he follows
her-she sent him telegram To come
| heard that from Bill Parsons who carried
II ont to the Farm himself-and then
thev were married. And that's all. You
heard of il If YOU were home this summer
~ spent the whole time at RaInler
Falls. It's swell place | stayed IN the
biggest hotel, never less than 300 guests.
Mrs James answered promptly, forgetting
Alice and the recital of her unhappy
love story as soon as her own affairs were
suggested in the talk.
ssOh YES. do tell me about it. But here
comes Alice now and Mrs. Riley waved
her hand cordially to figure passing on
the other side of the street. Mrs. James
gave what she considered kindly nod
in greeting She always felt. kindly and
superior when she visited the cheaper
section where she had once hved. That
was why she visited 1t 50 often.
What's Alice doing now Mrs.
James asked, after she had exhausted
her DESCRIPTIVE powers concerning Rainer
Falls and her summer vacation-thc most
notable achievement of which seemed to
have been the knitting of sweaters.
Working hard, Mrs. Riley said.
Lord. / never knew girl could be so
energetic She 5 dong everything. When
the garden work was over she house
cleaned and she almost did over that
little place-bringing shrubs and small
trees from the woods-its 5 lovely, looks
like real landscape gardening. d say.
And then the Woman Club got hold Of
her to help in establishing a settlement
house over al Shantytown, and shes there
part of every day. And evenings she 5
been helping with church socials-and
things You know. she WASH t much Of a
hand for church, but she's working at that
as we'll as everything else. She has a Sunday
School class too
Sensible girl, Mrs. James approved.
yes, there's nothing like hard work
to take your mind off yourself. Mrs
Riley agreed. ~ remember when my first
baby died, We had a stormy day after the
funeral, the lower meadow was flooded
and the barn blew down. | had to get
out and for days help round up our cattle
and chickens. and do farm work while
the men built the barn. / worked so hard
/ didn't have time to think about my
troubles"
Too bad men don't like sensible girls.
Mrs. James peered up the street where
Alice's figure could be seen turning IL
her gate.
''Yes, but she'll get over it.
In such kindly, if curious, manner
did the neighbors take the affairs of Alice
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