The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-03-03
Chapter 4.
THE SUMMERS RESULTS


June ended and hot and humid
July set in Myra and Ruth spent
many hours together in the after
Moons, either out on the well-kept
lawn Of the Weed place. or in the
shady, shabby garden at the O'Neils.
Ruth had piled up almost shelf
full of books she wanted to read,
which she had not had time to read,
which she had not had time for in
the last strenuous year at school.
There were books or verse. some
treasured volumes of Trackeray and
Dickens: there were some of the good
modern novelists and a college book
on psychology.
Though why you want to go on
studying now you're through school is
beyond me-" Myra declared, finding
Ruth and the psychology in the ham,
mock. Il think I'd always like to go
On studying a little" Ruth unused,
turning her book face down on a near
by table.
You can't talk to me when you
study" Myra pouted little-a very
pretty pout that drew up her soft,
pink lips.
Darling, I'd much rather talk to
you than read. What shall We talk
accommodating of the two.
About our plans-after this sum-
mer. See, I shan't be idle either"
She unrolled a piece of linen, hand,
some and heavy, of an ivory white
that meant perfect bleaching and OF
lustre that meant perfect quality.
Eve a dozen stamped towels and
think I'll embroider them this sum
mer"
Your mother will love them"
Mother won't get them,' Myra
tossed her head. "These are for me
toward my trousseau, perhaps"
Ruth lay back in the hammock, he1
hands idle for the time. and admired
the deft little scallop that Myra was
embroidering. Maturity affects girls
in such different ways. 1t brought tC
Ruth an increased sense of RESPONSE
bility. it made her smile at tow-headed
babies on the street. 1t made Myra
sit in moon-lit corners of the porch
with the boys who called and started
her embroidering towels. Yet in eacl
il was the working out of the domestic
instinct
Ruth jumped up presently, hel
morous smile.
I've some towels TO do. too" she
said. However, they're not gorgeous
ones like yours. They're only some
new dish towels to be hemmed."
"Now, then" Mvra said as they
settled to work; about going to the
city. Father says it's all right. HI
says | can go to An art school there
though he doesn't think much Of m,
water color drawings! Cousin Emil,
will see that we have a nice place t
live and will sort of look after us
And you-'
I'm going to study stenography."
Plans were made rapidly--rapidl,
as only eighteen can plan, when al
Of future can be settled casually il
an afternoon. They would have ;
couple of rooms-an apartment, Myr;
called it, with a kitchen so they coult
cook-and there would be, it seemed
an endless succession of new and eX
citing guests and numberless theatre:
and parties.
But we won't have money fol
that" Ruth occasionally protested
'l'll be poor, at least"
We'll. SO will I! At least, papa can
afford very much money"
But as the summer went on, Myra'!
enthusiasm waned. She came regular
ly to Ruth's place or all the day
when Ruth was not at hers, and tn,
number Of her embroidered towels in
creased steadily. She came mos
regularly Saturday evenings. the even
Ruth never noticed this. She liked Tin