Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-07-31
A SWEETHEART AT THIRTY
rhe Story Off Woman's Transformation.
BY MARION .RUBINCAM.
Protected by Gcorxe Matthew Adams
WE GO HOME.
Chapter XLII.

Chapter XLlI.
Az the warm spring days ran along
INTO early summer, sense OF depres-
e,on kept coming over me. We had mace
larxe inroads into our little sum OF money
the price of our freedom, that little
legacy of mine-and what was to be the
end Of it, We were, of course, to go home
TO Henly Falls for the summer vacation
and then?
Violet and / sat down one evening
And counted things up.
Mother wouldn't hear OF MS staying
ON in the city," Violet said. she thinks
it's had enough that We should De mere
this winter.
sYes, and she is grumbling lot be-
cause of the work this spring, and only
herself and Laura TO do it all, ! answer
ed. | picked up her last letter from the
table II was a long wall; really, 1T was
four pages of complaints. :,
One horse had a sore foot and could
not he worked and that delayed the
blowing, there was talk OF chestnut
blight, the COWS were not thriving, ana
.Iames-poor James-was not much use
about the place. NJ, r.
mo heart in bis work at all, Is
ther wrote. =, -,
Poor bow. don't blame him. VI
80 badly-and he was so sweet because
| WAS able TO come TO college. Not bit
Jealous And he would have done better
work than |. He really deserved the
chance
Gle could not be spared from the
farm" | said. 10 console her. Esther
saws the work this spring has been harder
than ever.
We'll. well be there to help next
week = The girl sighed little. All my
evans are over by Thursday; we won't
have an excuse to remain. And TOO IL
costs less TO go home than to stay on here
We have 20 pay the rent this immer,
on that fiat but VIC save the cost OF our
table hv beng home and there nothing
o. spend money on IN Henly Fails.
.'lIcien is going to take the fiat Tor
The summer" said. She asked me
about Il this afternoon. So she IL pay
our rent from June until September.
She saws her ono room IS too small IN
hot weather. and besides, she has rlrl
coming on from the West 10 stay with
her so they'll move up here.
That viii save us SO for the three
months. won't it, asked Vi, assuming
very practical air. Then what have
We left.
We figured Il ont very carefully There
tuition at the college, and our expenses
% vel. We had kept account books that
winter. and basing our calculations on
necessities only, We still would not have
enough 10 carry US beyond the following
February
tOf course. we've our pretty clothes
III last winter. Vi said. SO we won
have IL buy now ones at least, only
shoes and such things that wear out
III. tell YOU what, Aunt Enid, we II pay
fnr the first term. that ends IN February,
and well hive rs economically IS We can
with comfort Ard thcn-well, we II see.
can get a position, and maybe we can
stay on for few more months
She stared over the table at nc. Nio-
10, for the first time WAS facing the reel
problems OF life-the mean. sordId little
problems of food and rent and necessities.
Her ewes looked very serious, almost
tragic. as she elaborated her plaza posi-
ton for her. and 8 very, very economical
life for US, so we could hang on-even
selling our furniture If VIC came 10 2
erIsis ANYTHING. so VIC could have the
benefit Of living in this huge. wonderful
fascinating town.
After all. what was there for u.s. Which
j. the greater tragedy-never 10 know
ANYTHING. 10 be content with miserable.
narrow existence. only dimly conscious
that there IS something better beyond
tho rim Of the horizOn-or to know v hat
there i beyond, vet not able 10 get 1T.
Sometimes ! think il Is the greater
tragedy TO know the possibilities of life
and not TO have them At least then
ones appropriations are greater. Before
had known nothing had even, IN some
way. been content. Now | knew. | knew
the things that had missed. knew. even
the things that | might vet attain II
lfe-if | only had the chance TO stay or
here and work for them.
al that week | packed our clothes
and almost cried a. | put one article
after another into the trunks. ! stored
away the pretty fur never had dareC
10 confess 10 Esther that | had been 81
eNtravsgant / put in the trunk the sum
mer clothes ! had made for US both
frightened at what Esther would say abou
their frlvollty.
took along the silk dresses we boil
had in the winter They were to be cleaned
and freshened for the next season. hit
away the floating fairy-like evening frocl
1 had made Niolet-Esther would neve
approve Of it She would consider such
gown immoral, with its wisps OF sleeve
and It's little low cut neck.
We were going homel And home wa
the low white farmhouse, with knobby
uncomfortable, plush-covered furniture
a huge, inconvenient kitchen, bedroom
"a barren as the heart of a childless woman
Wewere going back to a summer of work
of sweeping busting, preserving, OF gossl
over the neighbor's affairs and their con
ings and goings, their babies and the
illnesses. with not a magazine nor boo
nor a newspaper to bring US somethIn
fresh TO think about.
We were going-home. And we bot
felt the depression Of it creeping In upo
u.
MondaY-Me Arrive.