Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-10
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THIS STAhi' go ld.cf
r,nst Knioht ts ooaJh,syt,cotsd. Her
ID and utterIy nnSogfo, ~, 10 make her
ysthers aeou I'M Lanter, her sister.
home otth a"' MI dies Of ptomd,no
month oI,gd oId Ethel keeps, hosSe J
poison ,ou".band Joe, and tne on.
ANY,, Ethel and zoe ,i,,rc ni ,ron
ssseHs ssss.oss TO take votce Thcv olan TO
~. friend "Do,gh ,,,,h To- to do some,
rsopaken '" she tells hin, OF her de.
predf Wg,N' tro,pn BY people w NsW
SIR, to S,,o oo h sho Is the tosfo OF JOG
York becdp'o
Ldsier. ,r CONTINUES
Hn VI, make them open their eyes
"on' We : drop in or them every now
.. ' then. had crothers S TO .ne ;, ',So ,no
ana '.ek u and let him hear some Oh ,"e :,
last w'. .s,u, the emerging Joe Len'er.
foss'p - y. talked OF the early group OF
.,asr,, o over in Paris OF tne,t .,..s ,us"S' 90
..aS .uS,,Ions and their youthtol s.s"s ~, s,on
am0'',S HS,oh for all their gayety had oeen
Ire N" VIA and intense. But TO bthe''
90 .. ie.,' .he herself was stili young
Oe0 s',. dreams seemed very wonde,'u,'
s,s, s," she had hunsrily read aoou. 'o"e
some ,,n 1 tbe history prof" at nome
so .so w. world which the little sutragist
Bu. ". .,,od to her pupils had been
"s.ro @ heroic and severe. in's We ..,.
n'.rr,sr "V,r dazzling. this had beauty u.,s
wan, VAN, And yet not weak nor tame
wa' ',s-.,hIs was gloriously new In the
%.v y. /, ,abbed deep into life and TAXED
=, really changing It all rms woe
IT, And her own youth responded
- Wv ,,s made It all her own. She was
..a,rs now voraciously, with sparkle
.nd rleam Of hope in her eyes. sne
.,s coming 80 very close to her goa',
=. rather the gate OF her promised
land.
Al times she grew impatient at her
,,,,ber,s calm, and the good-natured
80 smile with which he looked upon
an this, "oh, why not get excited !!
~. thought She felt the old dreams
Al, cold in him, as they had been In her
husband. And in dismay she would ask
herself:
"Are they all too old? Is just the
nct that I'm ten years younger than
Joe and his friends going TO mean that
I'm too late--to bring back what was
IN him."
But all this was as nothing compared
10 the intensity. the ups and down, In
hsr relations with Joe himself He often
boked tired antA.harassed. whats the
matter with me?" ~he seemed to ask.
And she felt his two sides combating
each other on the one hand were the
Influences OF Nourse and Dwight and
the men at the club, to which he went
nearly every day. He took part in dis
cussons there, long rambling talks and
arguments. And his old ideals were
rising hungrlly within him. But mean
while the business man In Joe kept
sayagely putting the dreamer down, and
for days he would plunge into his work
and the fever of the money game. Joe
knew that in his Office that odious press
Nourse she learned that her husband
was even still considering the scheme
for row of buildings named after the
presidents. And Ethel had a sinking
Of heart.
II he does that. I'm lost" she de-
cded But she would shake off such
fears, as she felt again the old Joe
emerge, the Joe OF dreams and startling
plans, And she grew excited as she
thought:
"Oh. II he'll only let himself 60! l
don't want him just nice and tame and
refined don't want only friends like
that want-I want"
What she wanted was still exceedingly
vague. and Ethel could not put It in
words. 1t had something to do with the
teachings OF the little history prof al
home. She wanted the artist I'm him to
rise, the creative soul OF him! Cautiously
She probed his thoughts-now tender and
maternal toward him in his tired mooas.
now alive and interested as she got him
plainly tortured by the struggle going
on inside She felt at once pity and
sdmiration. and was deeper in love with
nm than she had ever been before. She
lelt the excitement of a fight with hope
o. victory close ahead. She took care
nttle surprises at night, and by her
sheery comradeship and her warm
beauty OF body and soul. Ethel drew him
on and on. At such times she would
oNd1 lose all memory OF her sCheming
ana would give up to her love, which had
become a passion now.
4, But always she came back to her plan.
Sot openly, for she had to be careful /:
sm sne worked at him In little ways. She
ssurred his youth and his CASTOR dreams
oy ner own youth and zest for II all. She
Sot MIN to tell her OF Nourse and
pWight the old friends she herself had
put on his trail, and OF new friends he
@ nsa met In his club-''the club I elected
you TO- she exulted. But the next in
Sant she would add, "oh, Ethel, You're
to ignorant! II you only knew about
nls work. And knitting her brows she
Souid listen hard while he talked of
s@ .eel construction. As with her encour-
sFseement F,eIIn he talked on rapidly, absorbed,
on hsnsl would clutch at this and that, she
chtted yhdttned OF books and magazines on ar
hh.ecture shn here and abroad Stealthily
co',Id nv hoted them down. and those she
iNrWu iNG.u not purchase she hunted up in
horsrles' Nourse was a great helm IN
,Sauhere ner mere He came to see her nov .,,,
covn nvni and though he still had his dis
t'sraEhg tv'.n4Ehg moods. at other times he was
sn,,say ,Taoiy and kind. Enjoying this con.
paracy with the charming Young Mra
brnniI, ne expressed his gallantry by
'HblnR her books ~ annn H..