The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-05
THE REVOLT OF
VERA sANDERSON
MADcAP SALLIE ARRIVES.
PIER 10.
BY JANE PHELPS

SaIlie wrote me at once that she
would leavein day orstwo.
II am crazy to see your home and
your relatives" she wrote. 3 shall
be afraid of that sister-in-iaw ex-
pect. 1 knew Keith can be awfully
dignified, and so perhaps she is
more so. You never have given US
much idea of her in your letters.
have one new dress, a dandy, and
peach of an evening gown. It's a
good thing you asked me while they
were fresh. / should like 10 make
good impression on my little sisters
relatives.
II see you have turned match
maker! Is that the result of getting
married yourself2 Do you find it
such a state of bliss that you want
me to experience it also? / like his
name, Jack Underwood. Sou d .
rather fetching, 1 think. I hope
you haven't talked of me to him in
the way the family dub me, as Mad
cap Sallie-' 1t would be embarrass-
ing when I have decided to be as
dignified as an older sister should
be.
Really, Vera, joking aside, 1 am
wild to come. And thank you for
asking me-"
There was much more, most of it
about the family. Usually 1 showed
all my home letters to Keith-perhaps
that Nigh. have influenced me in not
abiding in my letters to her about
Margaret, my position in the house
hold. But 1 did not show this one to
him. 1 didn't want him to know I
had written Sallie about Jack Under
wood. so 1 pretended ! had mislaid 1t,
and just told him the folks were well
and that Sallie would be with us on
Friday. 1t was then Tuesday.
Tell Margaret at once. She may
have plans that would be upset in
some way"
1 did as he suggested. Margaret
was nicer than / had feared she would
be, and consequently 1 felt happy over
Sallie's coming.
1t was mid-afternoon when the train
arrived. I had asked Margaret for the
car, swallowing my pride in that so
that might exhibit it in another way
by meeting Sallie in the smart new
car Keith had just bought.
You will have to take a taxi. I am
| making some calls this afternoon" was
Margaret's calm answer.
Very well. I thought perhaps it
! would be just a little nicer to meet
| Sallie in the car, as had written her
| Keith bought new one for u.s." How
| wished l might say for me"
"A taxi will do just as we'll"
I said no more but it was all could
| do to keep from crying. 1t was fool
4 ish but had wanted to impress Sallie
with the new car. But when 1 saw
her pretty piquant face I forgot every
| thing save that she was with me, that
I had someone belonging to me to
talk to.
i"HelIo, kid" she greeted me as [
flung my arms around her neck, and
almost wept with Joy. Goodness me,
| but Cinderella has blossomed out. Mar
! Tied life agrees with you, Vera 1 like
the way you do your hair" all this
| before we found taxi, or gave the
check for her trunk to the express
man.
where's the new car you wrote
about in such glowing terms?" she
4 asked as we stepped into the taxi.
! Margaret is making calls this after
noon
ooh, I am glad you have GOMEZ" I
paid no attention to her grunt, was
SO glad, so happy TO see her and be
with her.
How do you like having new
clothes instead of made-overs?" she
asked after speaking of my tailor suit.
ITS nice, of course, to have new
clothes, but I don't have as many as
7 would, or as Keith can afford to
let me because stopped. Sallie
| had hardly left the train, and here I
was complaining already. 1t was not
very nice in me to begin so soon to let
her hear the bones of my family skele-
/ ton rattle.
"Why don't you?'
"0h, well. be likes Margaret to go
with me, and she always tries to make
me save on them"
us she so economical"
Indeed she is not! She is very ex-
! traxagant.'' Then / added, Perhaps
she doesn't think it extravaganza. Be
! fore Keith married me she was all he
| had, and she spent most of his
money"
Keeps 1T UP now, too. Ell? I see
| the cloud that hasn't any silver lining.
! But brace up, keep a stiff upper lip
and demand what belongs TO you"
! "Oh. you don't know Margaret or
/ you wouldn't say that"
| (Tomorrow--sallle is awed by her
| reception)