Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-11-23

, .sYours is restless sex. Sleeve,
remarked Jim, still studying the
evening paper. you've all got
the fidgets."
IA libel, my patronizing friend.
Or rather tribute" she added i
gaily, because only a restless
mind natures and accomplishes.
..Accom plishes what? Suffrage
Sex equality? You'll all perish
with boredom when you get it, be-
cause there'll be nothing more TO
| fidget about"
..He's just bumptionus boy yet,
isn't he Dad?''
jim laughed and laid aside his
paper:
you're sweet, pretty girl,
lIrl slay you if you call me
that!"
"Why not be what you look?
WHY not have a good time with
all your might, marry when you
wish. and become a perfectly
"Oh. Jim, you are annoying!
Dad, is there anything more ir-
ritating than freshly Matched
college graduate? Or more mad
deningly compliment? Look at
vour self-satisfied son! There he
sits, after having spent the entire
day in enjoyment of his profession
and argues that / ought to be
satisfied with an idle day in which
I have accomplished nothing! I'm
afraid your son is a pig"
\ jim laughed lazily:
'"The restless sex is. setting the
world by the ears" he said tor
mentingly. GAN this feminist
business this intrusion into mans
affairs, this fidgety dissatisfaction
, with a perfectly good civilization
is spelling you all"
'Is that the sort of thing you
are putting into your wonderful
: novel?" she inquired.
mo, it's too unimportant---
"Dad! Lets ignore him! Now,
dear. if YOU feel as you do about
, career for me at present, | real
ly think l had better go to college
do love pleasure, but someho"
7 the sort of pleasure I'm supposed
to enjoy doesn't last; and it's the
neopIe. I think, that tire one very
3 ouiexly. 1t does make a dlf1ef-
+ ence in dancing, doesn't it?-not
70 hear an idea uttered during an
entire evening-not to find any
body thinking for themselves--@
O ooh, Steve!" laughed Jim, you
: are not expected to think at your
| age, All that society expects OF
r YOU is that you chatter incessantly
during dinner and the opera and
: do your thinking in ballroom
Y with your feet!"
She was laughing, but an un-
wonted colour frightened hei
cheeks as she turned on him from
the padded arm of John Cleland'
a chair, where she had been SIT
ting:
: eff I really thought, you mean
n that, Jim, I'd spend the remainde
\ of my life in proving to you tina
, / haze a mind
q "Never mind him, Steve SAT-
John Cleland. "If you wish t.
go. to college, you shall"
"How about looking after US?
e inquired Jim, alarmed.
q "Dad, if my being here is goln
to make YOU more 4 comfortable
= she said, 'I'll remain. Really,
Z, as serious. Don't you want m
# to go?"
" "Are you really so restless
steve?"
v "Mentally," she replied, with
h defiant glance at jim.
~ "This will be gay place to liv
n in if you go off for four years!
al remarked that young man.
"You don't mean that you'd mis-
le met" she exclaimed mockingiy-
is "Of course I'd miss you"
,o "Miss the mental stimulus
give ?"-sweetly persuasive.
l. "Not at all. I'd miss the n1enta
relaxation YOU afford my tire
- brain--
"You beast! Dad. I'm going
And some day your son Will I'm
out that it's an idle mind tina
makes a girl restless; not a rest
)" less mind that makes her idle!'
81 know it," She smiled at tn
po Young fellow, but her grey eye
he were brilliant. Then she turne
n and nestled against John Cleland
. 81 have made up my mind, darlin
all and I have decided to go to vas
at sar."
es Home, to John Cleland and NJ
or son. had come to mean Stephani
do as much as eVe.Shins eise
- the common roof-tree.
ng For the background of familia
is things framed her so naturall
and so convincingly and seemed