The Monmouth inquirer., 1921-06-23

draw the line. Don't you think she's
handsome?"
81 can hardly say. What do you
think about it?"
"Oh, don't know. When she's well
dressed she has sort of style about
her; but isn't 1t merciful that we none
of us know how we really do lookf If
we did, we wouldn't risk bein' alone
with ourselves five minutes without
q gum
SIS that one for Miss Bascom@
"No, ought not to say word
against Virginia Bascom. She's a
good sort accordin' to her lights; and
then too, she is a disconnection of
mine by lnarriage-once removed"
'How do you calculate that rela-
tionship?"
"Oh, her mothers brother married
my sister. She suspected that he was
guilty of incompatibility- land she
proved 1t and got divorce. If that
| don't make a disconnection Of Ginity
Bascom, then / don't know what does.
Virginia was born in Boston, though
she was brought up here. 1t must be
terrible to be born in Boston, and
have to live up to 1t, when you spend
your whole life In place like Dur
! ford. But Ginity does her very best,
though occasionally she forgets."
'You can hardly blame her for that.
Memory is tricky, and Boston and
Durford are about as unlike as two
places well could be-"
"Oh, no; / DOM blame her. Once she
formed . clUb for woman's suffrage.
She set out to form my mind'-as Ii
my mind wasn't pretty thoroughly
formed at this time of day-and get
me to protest against the tyranny of
! the male sex. i didn't see that the
male sex was troublin' her much; but
| signed o petition she got up to send
to the Governor or some body, ask
ing for the right to vote. There was
an opposition society that didn't want
the ballot. and they got UP another
petition"
"And you signed that too, expect"
laughed Donald.
"Sure thing. did. I'm not narrow
minded. and like to be obliging. Then
she tried what she called slummin',
which, as near as / can see, means
walkin' in where you amt wanted, be-
cause people are poorer than YOU arc,
and leavin' little tracts that nobody
reads, and currant jelly that nobody
eats, and clothes that nobody can
! I,,A T~{o CI,i iod 90 h.
bage at her head while she was tryin'
to convince him that the bath tub was
MT really coal bin, and that mis- men,
| tai attitude was hindside before.
"Then she got to be Theosophist,
and used to sit in her room upstairs
projecting her astral body out of the
window into the backyard, and pulling
II in again like ball of rubber string
just for practice, you know, but thai
attack didn't last long
/ "She seems to be very versatile
young woman: but she doesn't stick
to one thing very long"
"a rolling stone gathers no moss,
yeu know" Mrs. Burke replied "That
Is one of the advantages of bein'
rolling stone. 1t must be awful to get
mossy; and there isn't any moss on
| Virginia Bascom, whatever faults she
may have-not a moss"
| For a moment Mrs. Burke was ST.
lent, and then she began:
"Once Virginia got to climbin' her
family tree, to find out where her an
cestors came from. She thought that
| possibly they might be noblemen. But
/ guess there wasn't very much doin'
UP the tree until she got down to New
York, and paid man to tell her. She
| brought back an Illuminated coat of
arms with lion rampantin' on top;
| but she was the same old Virginia
/ still, What do I care about my ances-
tors! 1t doesn't make no difference to
me. I'm just myself anyway, no mat
ter how you figure: and I'm lot more
worried about where I'm goin' to, than
where / came from. Virginia's got a
book called Who's Who, that she's
| always studying. But the only thing
that matters, 1t seems to me, is Who's
| What"
ri wonder she hasn't married. re-
! marked Donald innocently.
/ "Ah. that's the trouble. She's like
thousand others without no special
! occupation in life. She's wastin' a lot
Of bottled up interest and sympathy
! on foolish things, If she'd married
aud had seven babies. they would
have seen to it that she didn't make a
fool of herself However. it isn't her
! fault She's volunteered to act as
Deaconess to every unmarried parscn
we've had; and it's miracle oe Won
ders one of 'em didn't succum5, par
sons are such-oh, do excuse ne! =
mean sc injudicious on the subject
/ of matrinlory."
"But, Mrs. Burke, don't you think a
clergyman ought to be married
man?"
"Well. to tell you the truth. faint
me that's been doin' the thinkin' along.