Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-11
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ydn and Kathy Sisters take care
..,S,;r crippled brother. kdthy 70
Isosd 10 marry Ralph Hiliydrd.
smp'yLnd nioturcd n Glove IN a cot
sn. Efe, but Hiiiyord is rich. Don,
~ b,oibcr, has iftic faith ~ HiH.
~ m but JiH feels that Kafhv ,oiH
/, IT,, ,mych for them. she. ncgiects
Ia Her riches are burden to
sw % Gurus Tdllcntvrc, a .sooie,v 40.
.o,h;uo. falls in Iope toifh Jhi, om
II oyoposals reveal his so frutp selfish
Ss,yre that she rejects him and
mnrries her employer, a rich idpper:
rae sisters noio mect ~ socle'B;
Toilentyre, ,ooitin0 a. MANY . h9use,
eodin meets JiI, dtfer a couple oI
yococ ye"s himself TO the rich Domdr
70, yf 10 rebuild his fortune. HUI
VIA telling Rathy the ne,os accuses
NJ lack of interest aud she admits
M,t ,be docs not admire the lady,
.%J;r1. "I'm al,cdVs disappointing
Sov'" and he replies:
S'"yoy'pe neuer disappointed me-
,,on't ollop vou TO sdU such things.
MA, you'rc stronger things iciH be
i;ss,sut-you'H soon get into the tcaU
az doiro things like other pomen.'
AND HERE 1T CONTINUES
rpE smart nurse who had been en-
i ,sgcd to look after him cher husband
.,.olutely refused to consider the pos
.,h;,,tv of the baby being a girD ter
r6ed her already; she knew that she
uould hardly be allowed to do a thing
,or the baby herself; the wonderful
npr.erv with its many up-to-date ap.
nointmerts made her shiver; apparently
/. The baby's life was to be worked by a
series of patents IN which there was
I'M. or no need for a mother at all,
save as a fgurehead
put she kept all her fears to herself;
,hsv would only anger Ralph, she
srsw she was beginning to realize that
sar middle-class ideas Of life were as
S,a;c,,it for him TO understand as his
.,s,e Tor her: she had discovered that
Itbe heat way to keep harmony between
than was 10 never enter into a discus
son Of any kind. r s,u,
She talked away cheerily during
,rncb she had q horror that some day
pa,nb would be bored with her; since
her marriage she had seen so many
lsnrried couples who were unashamediy
and openly bored with one anothers
Rolnb only laughed when she said
anything about it to him.
EVERY enc doesn't marry for love,
you know" he said.
She was thinking Of that remark o,
lhis when he hud gone away again, aisi
lshe was alone.
we'll he and she had; there was no
smallest doubt in her mind that ne
loved her; her one haunting fear was
tbat some day he would grow, tired
That some day he would realize that no
matter how hard he tried he could never
make her like other women OF MS set'
and then he would cease TO love ner-1
and then well, then she "ou"i
die! .. ann.
t;ons she knew that. she was not happy:
she knew that she felt like beggar girl
In n palace, that she still longed Tor
The little house of which she had
dreamed =, TN.
Ralph ought to have married Jill;
again and again the thought would rise
III UtT mlDu chi "ou'e ''"'
q splendid wife.
but Jill had married Henry Sturgess.
and Henry Sturgess had been old enough
to be her father; that at least had been
no love match.
A maid knocked at the door
Mrs. Sturgess, IL you please Mad
ame," and Jill walked into the room.
Kathy started up, her pale face flush
F., ing She had hardly had moment
with her sister last night: now they
I we're alone. she forgot all sthe little
stiffness and the breach which her mar
| riage had caused she rushed to Jill and
flung herself into her arms.
"0h, | am so glad to see you-l am
% glad"
She laughed and cried together in her
old emotional way; she kissed jill
again and again as II she could not
make enough of her she tried to ex-
plain and apologize and ask for for
giveness oil in a breath, till Jill gently
stopped her.
Let's forget it all don't
want to remember it." She looked at
Kathy's beautiful face with tender
eyes: II had to come: l never had a
word with you last night and there are
such heaps of things ] want to ask
you-' she looked round the room
Where's Ralph?"
Hes just gone out he came in to |
lunch with me; didn't expect him,
and 1t was so NICE
jill raised her brows.
you?" ~
kathy shook her head.
He thinks it's good for ME to be left |
alone sometimes she explained with n
quick sigh. "O4l. Jill, sometimes | |
mink Id give anything in the world if
'GGaIy 'Gy we were poor-and could live in a
little house"
Jill smiled.
., You haven't changed your mind
ayout that, then. she said. t"Kathy, |
What ages and ages it seems since we
nvee IN Acacia Terrace" She paused
feminiscently. do you know that /
went back there the other day and stood
on The opposite side of the road and
i"Jheu h"Ii0u up at the windows and tried to
SeneVe that once it had been my home
y It seemed so impossible.
nathy looked at her sister wonder
hsE there had been many changes
'nee gu those days, but the greatest change
voo vi all mad been with Jill-she hardly
Lle.ognized her now, in this graceful.
'eautitully dressed woman.
,oo"d n"d yet-yet Jill did not
J"rod S"n as II she were happy-she won
uTteu ui II perhaps they had both inst
am" a'SScu the little footpath that leads
""sE through eternal sunshine.
ter's hand. "' ''"''''u her SIS
tcoinhu ihhu were neither of us as roman.
shonl,i hhappE as we used to think we
lj,,1o" oe, are we?" she said with n
awaw started, and drew her hand
said prnp prnaps we expect too much" she
pot ProSaically. "But at least we've