The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-08-28

tCcnstsaed Prom Yesterday
May Marie. father. who H. . studieus
ur~f~~.cr .f sssrsncasy. 10 divorced by
e mother. and Mary Marie. who !. ter
sshsy excited over n. d~cia~. 20 write .
sssry sf~sut it--.hc must call Il . diary.
-. hecaase father hat~s novels. and she
e o. live with father half Of zach year
yAru Nur~~ >arah she h~Nr~ how
hshew went hack To HE w.rk = few
uesks after he and mctheS wore married
"a mother MAS very icoeiy. She began
sv,us out with the COLLEGE p~cp,~ until
5ssA~s got cr~~, after thai shc Just
sesy~d 1T home Then she tak~~ Mar
usrte cut Wr-a. wn~rc the divorcr ts oh
olned. and they return to be.tcn TO
oppsh~v's old home
neither has gay tincs In lss~t~n. Mary
nasie Es~~ 10 school and h~eenc~ v~wy
Hasy trying to d~s-sd~ which II her
o.shers n~w bs~sus with h~s~sm~ her n~~s
enkher. she cias.ifsc- tho Possibilities. and
ru~. the chauffeur. tells h~ what he
oAlnks Of -grNas widow" When ar~nd-
= ed Aunt Hattie call f.shc~ = ~r~sch.
1sahs~ h~ccmcs very angry. and says he
= . scholarly gcntienan. but not suited
= Dor. that is ali she sometimes drvsAms
M, Marie 10 snsss,~a hy the chlidrv~
= srheei b~~aas~ she 10 the child Of .
ev>ns widow and rpsr~ L. discharged for
naking too much. An old lover Of moth
% prerssc~ 10 her and h refused.
NAY Mario scr. 10 Andcrvcnviiie foe
Ne Ga uscaths with father. Aunt Jane
ep<snr ilke the cicsh~s mother .-ads for
her fsther sarprssrs Mary Marie by
onlking Ia her. asking about mother. and
epruNinx Interested In her tife In tsc-ton.
nasy Mario h not invited Co . party
eivsn BY her old friends. hut she tri~~
- n car~ Father .-~m. 90 have no
bv~ ssery. but the star taik"--ssme ~
UsnAL
Nary Msrse s~xh Aun Jase just hs~
uAsocy nesh~e was here In anderson
villa and how gs>d she 10 that she
6sssar have to live there any msr~
Rsthe~ aAks more owcsticus sbcus
ns<hew. and Mary NA~te tells him all
sksss the -pr-pr~tive sasssss" and thr
f~rn~~ sweetheart. and father dc~~nv
@.s Mary Marie jass =. they did In
nsssca. Asd she has finally found out
uAns 10 the usaster with them. and IL
gs1ng 10 tell Il today.
nEGIS HIRE TODAY
Wen. IT'S been getting worse and
worse Other girls have had parties.
! and more and more often the girls
have stopped talking and have
booked queer when I came UP. We
got up a secret society and called IL
the TONY Ten" and I was going 10
BE- its president. Then all OF 4 sud
den one day found there wasn't
any Tony Tcn--only Carrie Haywood
and me. The other eight had formed
another society and Stella Mayhem
was their president
told Carrie we wouldn't care,
thst we'd just change II and call II
the Tony Two. and that two was
. lot more exclusive than ten. any.
way. But l did care. and Carrie
lid knew she did And I know
4 better now because last night
che told me You SEQ things have
been getting simply unbearable
these Ast few days. and Il got 30 II
boxed - II wasn't even going 20
have Carrie left She began TO act
queer and I accused her OF II. and
lpid her II she didn't want to belong
= the Tony Two she needn't That
I didn't care. that ia be . sccr~,
society all BY myself. But cried.
] couldn't help crying: and she knew
dh-care. Then she began 10 cry:
and today. after school. we went TO
yak up on the hill 10 the big rock;
and there-she told me And II was
The divorce.
And It's all that Stella Mayhem
fhe new girl Her mother found out
I vas divorced q mean mother wns)
and she told Stella not TO play with
ne. nor speak TO me. nor have n
fhing 70 do with me. And I said
% Carrie. all right, Who cared7 I
ddn't That I never had liked that
Mayhem girl. anyway. But Carrie
aid that wasn't all. She said Stella