New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
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heavier than the world suspects, and
there were moments when Miss Julia
Atwater found the position so try
ing that she would have preferred
to resign. Although she lived in a
large house with only her father and
the servants, she was the one mar
riageable Atwater of her generation !;
the family connection was large, and
most of her relatives were also her
not distant neighbors. Julia was
warm hearted, appreciative girl, nat
urally unable to close her eyes to
sterling merit wherever it appeared; ;
and she complained, not without
warrant, that the whole family, in
Guiding the children, regaled them
selves with her private affairs as
substitute for theatergoing.
On the other hand, it must be ex-
planned, for the people under this
accusation, that drama in the the
ater usually presents to the auditors
the progressive angushes Of no more
than two loving hearts, whereas, at
times Of special climax, Jula's So
called private affairs appeared to
consist of as many as six and seven
such little dramas, all given stimuli
taneously; ard thus the privileged
onlookers were offered a perform
ance just that many times as inter-
esting as an ordinary one, while the
fact that one heroine served in all
could not humanity be expected to
dispel the interest Of her relatives
However, the privileged onlookers
bestowed all their privileges upon
themselves, Julia insisted; and one
day she went so far as to admit
note Of unconscious confession into
her protest that she was getting
pretty tired OF being mistaken for
q three-rlng circus Such was her
despalring expression, and the con-
fession lies in her use Of the word
three"
The misleading moderation of
three was pointed out to her by
her thirteen-year-old niece Florence,
whose mind at once violently seized
upon the word and ciivested it of
context-a process both feminine
and instructive, for this child was
rot precocious, but already she was
feminine.
'Three'!' she said. "Why, Aunt
Julia, you must be crazy. There's
Newland Sanders and Noble Dill
and that Old widower, Ridqely, thai
grandpa hates so, and Mister Clair
dyce and George Plum and the two
new ones from out of town that
Aunt Fannie Patterson said you
had at church Sunday morning.
Cousin Herbert said he didn't like
one of ems locks much, Aunt Julia
and there's Parker Kent Usher
and that funny -lookin' one with the
little piece of whiskers under his
that Noble Dill got so mad
at when they were calling, and
Uncle Joe laughed about, and /
don't know acho all! Anyhow,
there's an awful lot more than
three, Aunt Julia.'
Julia looked down with little favor
upon this talkative caller. Florence
was seated upon the shady steps of
the front porch and Julia, dressed
for walk, occupied a wicker chair
above her. 'Julia dressed
for q aooid how scant the words.
1t was a summer walk that Julia
had dressed Tor; and she was all
too dashingly picture Of GOODNESS
on hot day; brunette in murmur-
Gus white, though her little hat was
film Of blackcst blue, and thus
also in belt and parasol she had
almost matched the color of her ewes.
Probably no human made fabrica-
ton could have come nearer to
matching them, though once she had
met great travcler-at least. he
went far enough in his search for
oomparlsons-who told her that the
Ozarlna of Russia owned a deep
sapphire of precisely the color, but
IT, ~zarlna's was the only sapphire
. discovered that had it. One of
Newland Sanders longest poems to
Julia was entitled BLACK Sap
phires."
Julia's harmonies in black
Tapphire were nncalled for. If she
really had heen as kind as she was
700 often capable of looking, she
would have rouged her ecstatic nose,
fastened Y. tches over both eyes
7ne patch would have been useless
and she would have worn cid fiat
hoes and patronized a dres smaker
With genius enough tc misrepresent
81. But Julia was not great enough !
or such generosities and her lily |
aintiNg was an immoral and angelic
ucceSs. she should have been