The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-12-31

\ decorated restaurant table
las s. ct her husband. who was
fHk&< consuming indifferently his
"a SS6 frozen, nut-sprinkled. des-,
W.: sert. ~. +. y -
~. - He certainly was not grow.
ing any younger, while shee---well, only
Eleanor herself knew the exact num-
Der of gray hairs in her carefully ar
ranged couture and realized the I'M
equal battle being waged between the
4 cold cream of her masseuse and the
insidious crows wrinkles at the cor
ners of her dark-fringed eyes.
.Do you know, Fred. this doesn't
4 interest me bit?" She said, with, e:
4 casual glance at the gay scene about
Ii her. "Other years I have enjoyed
/; it we'll enough. but tonight. some
how, it seems-stale."' ".
!. II suppose" returned her bus
band, placidly, that the people who
get the most fun out of this sort OF
thing, after all, are those who come
here from the backw0ods where they
tlousc the kerosene lamp ut 8 p. m.
= and light 1t again when the ROSTERS
crow. The rest Of us are used to It"
BY making reservations long in ad-
vance the Richardson's had been able
2 to secure q place in the most deslr-
aDle location in the dining roorn--
not too near tEe palm-elnboWered
orchestra loudly dispensing jazz, not
4 a md ST. on
where ut the Ylnmcnt were twisting
and geSticulAting Hawaiian beauties
In very tropical costumes, which
seemed al,sur,lly Inappropriate con-
sidering that it was New Years eve
Ele:nor cupped her chin in white
expensiyeIy ringed hands: "Perhaps
it IS tile reaction from the season or
perhapy I'm merely bored. but I feel
out of sorts. AS look back on our
ten years of married life they seem
happy enough, and yet to look for
ward in the future 10 the same sort
Of ten years doesn't seem worth
while"
Fred Richardson io0keJ at hcs ID
; surprise. Retrospection had never
been one of Eleanor's habits. "What's
= the matter, old girl?" he asked with
unusual solicitude. "Shall we leave
this Joint and go the rounds? There
won't ue much IN the way Of excite
nent anywhere until midnight"
.rBut ! tell you, Fred, Tin not look.
J." ing for excitement tonight exclaimed
Eleanor tmpatiently: "strange as 1t
may seem. For one thing; I'm worried
as to whether I've done the right thing
by Beth. You know that Jim Goddard
has been wild about her for some time,
and wants to marry her oiihand on his
ridiculously small salary. or course
Beth, after Nving with ne all these
years, asked my advice, and en-
phatlcally advised against 1t. Told her
TO wait until they had laid by enough
to put them beyond the chance, Of
worry" ~. -. -~ ,,s.-
"Wcll, that was sensible enough ad-
vice nowadays, I guess acqu1esced
her husband, good.naturedly, fiicking
the ashes from his cigar. 4,
Eleanor looked at him keenly. Time
was when he would have 'spurned such
counsel as savoring Of too worldly a
wisdom. Ten years Of p1oney-making
in tho big city had wrought their
changest in him, too. She sighed.
Then: "Oh, WELL" SD Q exclaimed,
struggling her shoulders; Il should
worry about that now. Jim was to
get his answer this evening, and
imagine By now Beth has turned him
down quite definltely.",T;
At that moment O shower Of con-
fettl and colored streamers shot from
the balconies and mezzunine. turning
the Interior Of the restaurant into q