Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-02-10
Moonlight and
Money
WHAT is LIFE?
By Marion Rubincam

Murray Buffers words had started
Louise thinking a.ong another path,
quite as he had hoped.
That night she sept but little. She
lay staring ahead into the darkness.
going over all the de.ails of her life
for the last three years, trying to
find, from all that had happened in
the past, some hint as to what was
to happen in the future. Finally she
decided she must ak 1t over with
someone-and Carol, always her best
friend, came to her mind at once.
She drank several cups of coffee
instead OF eating a normal breakfast
and went up to the big house on
Fifth avenue as Don as she was
dressed.
you look badly, dear" Carol said
with concern as she greeted her.
Come up to the nursery with me,
! have become SO domestic / allow
no ono to battle baby but myself-
Susie is simply permitted to hand me
a. and towels"
mind" Louise answered. Today,
particularly, she could hardly bear to
watch another woman go through
that sweetest of all domestic little
ceremonies. 1t made the sense OF
her own loss too acute.
"All right, lie down and rest q bit
r my boudoir, and l won't be long"
d'as Carols good-natured nswer
But when she had returned Louise
did not quite know what she wanted
to say. And With her usual tact,
Carol did not try to find out. She
talked at random, gossip Of friends,
engagements to be announced, an
other wedding, q rumor of q divorce,
proposed trips of people they knew,
waiting for some subject to give her
friend an opening! She knew Louise
had something on her mind,
Your friend-what's her name?
the little OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES GER
'sainly fascinated jerry she re-
Gtarked finally.
Il hin they are engaged" Louise
said with mora interest than she had
shown in anything SO far that morn
ing.
Really? DO you think they'll be
bappy?" Carol wanted to know.
why not?" Louise asked, then
added cynically, "she's never had
anything except what she worked for
hard, n jerry has lots of money"
III money makes happiness, yes,
1t Will be a success" Carol answered,
taking up some embroidery. But
does it?"
Doesn't it7" Louise asked. 81
would have been happy if we had
had just a little money"
money hasn't made my marriage
happy" Carol answered slowly.
LOUISE lUOAeu Ut her IOT u moment.
Then her face softened, and she put
her hand over her friends.
"I'm sorry Carol she said. ~
thought, really, that you were-hap-
by"
IT don't mean I'm miserable"
Carol hurried to explain. "Breck is
one of the most charming men in the
world, he is very fond of me, he's
proud of me too, and he loves the
baby. but"
'But what?"
Carol laughed a little. a rueful
laugh.
she said, almost apologetically. but
] was, really. very much In love with
Brecls. I wanted a little cottage that
l could tend myself, and a rose patch
where I could pick bugs off the roses
with my own hands. and nobody to
bother about much except Breck. I
had all sorts OF romantic dreams.
Brock used to laugh when we were
engaged and I'd talk SO. He would
ask how we'd have weelk-ends and
name some millionaire friends, and
want to know whether I could cook
like some high priced French chef"
but he does love you?" Louise
said.
"Oh, yes, but he likes me mostly
as y beautiful model to hang expen-
sive clothes and jewels on. He likes
to hear people comment on my looks
and my dresses" Carol said.
You see she vent on, II wanted
all the moonlight of love-the moon
shine, the glamour and illusion of
life. And 1 got the honey You
Tanted-in fact. you needed-the
money, and o got the moonlight,
for certainly no man would have
been more devoted than Harry"
And neither of us is happy"
Louise summed it UP.
Neither" Carol echoed, but I
have the baby. and you have your
work. and after all, that is life, o. al
important part of It,"
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