Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14

ment. TO the vii age doctors wife it
was taboo. 30
She was a woman with q working
brain and no work.
There were only three things which
She could do; Have children; start
her career Of reforming or become
SO definitely a part Off the town that
she would be fulfilled by the activities
of church and lstudy-club and bridge
parties.
Children, Yes. she wanted them.
but She WIS not quite ready, She
had been embarrassed by Kennicott's
f%rankness,. but she agreed with him
that in the insane condition Of civ
ilization. which made the rearing of
citizens more cbstly and perilous than
any other crime, it vas inadvisable
to have children till he had made
more money. She was sorry-- Per
haps he had mhde all the mystery of
love a mechanical c~autiousness but
- She fled from the thought with
a dubious, "Sohe day!
Her reforms, her impulses toward
beauty in raw lain Street, they had
become indistindt It. Rut she would set
then going now. She would! She
svore it with loft fist beating the
edges of the radhtor. And at the end
OF all her vows she had no motion
as to when and where tho crusade
was to begin.
Become an Authentic part of the
town? She began TO think with un-
Peasant lucidity. she reflected that
she did not know whether the people
liked her. h had gone to the wom-
en- at afternoon-tonees, to the mer-
chants in their stprcs, with so many
~outpouring commtntS and WITNESSES
that she hadn't G wen them a chance
to betray their oHnlons of her. The
men smiled ~ but did they like
her? She was lively among the WON.
en-but was h one of them? She
could not recall many times when she
had been admitted TO the whispering
of scandal which il the secret cham.
Der Of Gopher Pnirie conversation
She vas poisoned with doubt, as she
dropped up to bed
Next day. through her shopping. hel
mind sat back and observed: Dave
Dyer and Sam CLARK were as cordia'
as she had been farcying: but WASH
there an inpersonal \abruptness in the
III are yuh?." Of thet Dashaway;
Rowland the grocer was curt. wa,
that merely his install manner?
ITS infuriating tol have to pay at
tention to what people think. In ST
Paul I didn't care. But here In
spted on. They're watching me.
!. mustn't let it make me self-con
scious.' h coaxcd herself-over
stimulated by the drug of though,
AND extensively on the defense.
III. s.
= A thaw which stripped the snos
i from the sidewalks: a ringing fron
night when the lakes could be hear
) booming; a clear roistering morning
In tam o'shanter n tweed skirt Car
] oil felt herself a college junior goin
TO play hockey. She wanted I
t whoop, her legs ached to run. On tn
way home from shopping she yielded
) as a pup would have yielded. She gal
loped down a block and as she jump
ed from a curb across a weller q
slush, h gave a student "Yippee!
:. She saw that in a window three 81
) glare was p~aralyzing. Across TIL
!, street, OF another window. the curtai
/. had secretively moved. She stopped
; walked on sedately. changed from tn
r girECarol into Mrs. DR.. Kennicott.
She lever again felt quite youn
enough and defiant enough and fre
2 enough To run and halloo in the pub
: lie streets; and 1t was as a Nice MAJ
riei Woman that che attended til
; next weekly bridge OF the Jolly Sc,
enteen.
L f-Htr.= r-.pEHsFL II
The Jolly Seventeen 1.-THE membe,
t ship Of which ranged from fourtee
to twenty-stx) was the social cornic
of Gopher Prairie. 1t was the cour
try club, the diplomatic sci, the S
Cecilia, the Ritz oval room. the Gu
de Vingt. To. be.ong to 1t was to /
S in" Though its membership part
! coincided with that Of the ThanateI
sis study club. the jolly Seventee
: as a separate entity Euffawed at tt
: Thanatopsis, and considered 1t mi.
{ dle-class and even .highbrow.n"
Most Of the Jolly Seventeen we
young married women. with the
: husbands as associate members. ON
I q week they had a woonen's ~afternoc
bridge; once a month the HUSBAND
t Joined them for supper and evenir
bridge; twice a year they had dance
at II. o. O.. r. hall. Then the tow
exploded. Only at the annual bal
4 of the Firemen and OF the Easter
; Star a there such prodfgality
: chiffon scarfs and tangoing and hear
9 burnings. and these rival institution
were not se'ect-hired girls attends
s the Nremen's ball. with Hectol
hands and laborers. Ella Stowbot
had once gone to a Jolly Seventies
Soiree in the village hack, hithers
r confined to chief mourners at fnne