Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-08-11
A Picture True to
Life
&c. 1871. western Newspaper Union.)
By HAZEL SMITH


brave the future and marry. 1t was
when this decision was reached that
Jim's hand sought Marjory's. Follow
ing this, the following sentence was
flashed on the screen:
"a month later"
The young couple was shown in a
tiny kitchen where the bride was get
ting dinner with her husbands help,
the operations being interrupted by
an occasional kiss. II was a pretty
little home scene, and Marjory's hand
turned slowly SO that her palm met
Jim's, and she felt her breath come
quicker. A hall bedroom and tea and
crackers are a poor substitute for a
home and husband.
Finally the young couple are shown
q year later with the plump, laughing
baby which seems TO play star part
In many pictures Of this class, and
with it they demonstrate to the once
doubling friends and relatives that
their experiment has not been fail
ure.
Lets have Soda" Jim suggested,
and the two fled into a drug store,
both bashful because of their display
of feeling, and trying not to show 1t.
As they sat opposite to each other,
eating slowly to prolong the sensation
of the frozen dainty slipping down
warm threats, little infiamed by the
dust of the stuffy theater, Jim said
abruptly.
Some class to that picture.
Boarding houses are bum, I.-yway,"
Jim continued with his eyes on the
table. He had known Marjory for sew
eral years, but had never thought Sc
riously Of marriage until tonight.
$50 are rooms to rent, and picked-up
meals" Marjofy cried. "One never
gets enough to eat"
II say, that was great, their cooking
together, wasn't it7' Jim broke out
suddenly. Il never knew girls would
stand for having men about in the
kitchen"
II guess she was glad to have him
help her just to have him with her"
Marjory said softly.
Il say, Marjory, do you think girls
feel that way about menY and there
was a break In Jim's voice.
II guess they do, sometimes, at
least the picture showed they did"
II wonder II it's true" was Jim's
next contribution to general converse
ton.
II honestly believe 1t was, Jim. Why,
they couldn't have had little fat like
that one If 1t wasn't real"
81 wonder" Jim continued slowly.
Then he said eagerly: II know. Don't
you remember where he brings his pay
envelope home and opens 1t up before
her and she takes out the money!"
"why, yes Marjory cried, her eyes
shining.
sWell. / saw what the bills were.
There were three tens and one-case
note"
Thirty dollars" Marjory sighed
softly.
"Madge. 1 get forty" Jim said soft
~.
Marjory said nothing, but her cheeks
grew beautifully pink.
81 say, Marjory, I'll get raise af-
ter the first Of the year." stu Mar
jory said nothing, but her hands trem-
bled so that she could not hold her
spoon. ~
Honest, don't you think we could
manage with what ] make? I'd like
a. haxo m bo,,a Lille tbooa fnlIe bod
wouldn't your"
Marjory raised her confident young
eyes to his, and whispered: "Oh, Jim,
yes"
"would you, poor little dear7 Well,
we will then, and we won't care, will
we, If we don't have much at firstT
IF can just have you and my OWE
home, honest, Jim, ia cook over gas
let In a tin cup and think we were
RICH" and the light in her eyes showed
Jim that love was possible in two
room flat just as much as though the
home were to be In mansion.
''Then, Marjorie, Wen do 1t. Right
after Christmas Wen get married, and
see If we can't have our own home"
and once more his hand sought hers,
but this time with tender, posses
sive, protective clasp, and she, utterly
disregarding possible spectators, re-
turned his pressure with tenderness
that showed In her eyes, although all
she said was:
"0h, jim"
"And Marjory, If after year, we
If our story is like the one In the pic
ture, all Of it, what then?' and there
was a tenderness in his eyes as old
as the world. Marjory caught her
breath. Something of the mystery of
life and its aim unfolded to her, and
she did not falter, but said softly:
~ hope 1t will be just like that. Jim,
all the way through" and his fingers
gripped hers with an intensity that
hurt.