Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-08

West. after she mdrrtes
IN Wfgn,u dors0n finds married life
Jnmg, Anuo, au,ouoe. Kathleen Foster,
not eu ,O",It y closest friend at boarding
.Trgg" beeu engaged to friend
sch2el, ~ but has broken her en-
of jimmy 6sc1use Bill Lyons has no
gagem1e"' T6e pieppoints OF the tno
money, ,ordiuo life are entirely. dit
girls re9utt;I t;u,,Sv il practical and eD-
frent;r t;r;ro;pia. O girl brought up in
pecB '"S ~ he as efficient as his o,on
IafWg, ~ ,,60 has neper had more
4 mQmo' minister's small sdldry to
hdn ,";fh. There is constant tric-
mldnosoo sot~sen ~ the young couple con-
tlon Ina household affairs.
,,,yy who worked hard in the Of
w. M I'll dov. had little time for play.
nee az ~ was weary and seldom took
AZ nsh. annvwhere. OF course, the fact
virsi.lh.a .hav had little money to spend for
that .ney ort helped to keep them at home
musWy!rC;nia would not have minded at
and sh hE f;mmv had been the attentive
all Il h,nstead oid of the exacting husband.
lover tNins that she loved about him
9fe 9h.on NH his scrupulousness about dress.
9sa "a, VGr linen had always been SO fresh
hls ,ervthirg about him had showed
ana .;dence of careful grooming. Thn
tne eN haen in his college days. Now he
naa pSf Soft collars to the Office and at
vole ,Utt chen he came home got almost
asnsd;otely into a bathrobe and slip
peTs. sc attitude toward Kathleen in
.,Sard to her treatment or BIZ nag peeh
,es rssv hitter. Jimmy was thoroughly de-
w, .etsd 70 TO Bill and could not bear. to see
w. hurt. AS he had told Virginia,
p;Il piiI had cared terribly for Kathleen.
DH DSHI always told him from the very
,.,inn;rg,1 he had said when he and
Tp;ssr;nis pysi had first spoken of the affair,
atbst kathleen was not serious; that
tnar never had been and never would
:. sa' WHY. every man in Grant was
", .s.,v about Kathleen for a time and
.tsNi .sa n,st played with them all:
'r' vi think she cared for Bill" Nir-
,,nia remarked sagely. -
s'ayes hut not enough. The one thing
,t,t Kathleen cares for is money, you
..n sn take nv word for that.
~ After Jimmy and Virginia were mar
.,a Jimmy seemed to have changed his
,tI, altitude toward life. He even warned
Virginia against Kathleen.
''itThere's no need of seeing too much
:, hsr Her ideas of life are different
from yours ,,. ,..
lin beiqht ard had said firmly. Kath-
issn ;s nv friend and | intend to keep
r;sbt on knowing her. l love her better
tSsn any one in the world but you.
And Jimmy had said nothing more.
The frst evening that Jimmy saw
Kathleen after the two girls had painted
the tho furniture, Virginia was astounded
at his attitude. He jumped up with
more enthusiasm than he had shown
about anything in long time. kath..
leeu was looking unusually beautiful and
dangerously independent. She spoke of
rnnnipg about wherever she liked with
utreme norchalance.
aWhy woman is safer in New York
than she is anywhere else if she minds
her own business, she asserted.
She made Virginia feel like little
country mouse.
Virginia, watching Jimmy, was sur
prised at the change in him. His old
manner of rallery had reasserted itself,
and be certainly did not seem to bear
Kathleen ary i'll will for her treatment
Of Bill Lyons. Virginia was more than
surprised at this fact.
She was glad, of course, that Jimmy
bore no grudge toward Kathleen, but
she was puzzled that he had said so
much about her and now seemed to be
50 entertained by everything she said.
Suddenly out of clear sky Kathleen
asked laughingly, How did you like
the furniture?" ~
Jimmy laughed.
"0h, not bad, I like it now that I'm
used to it, l suppose you were the
one to blame for the entire thing"
Kathleen turned to Virginia. "Of
course. Didn't Virginia tell you?''
Virginia shook her head, smiling
family. She was remembering Jimmy's
attitude that night and his attitude
how; his smiling acceptance of what
had happened before kathleen, and the
way he had stormed about the place