New-York tribune., 1921-10-02

"Bobby, you don't kiss if you really wonted to-

There being guest, grace was to come, and
Dwight said, unintelligibly and like lightning,
a generic appeal to bless the food, forgive
all sins and finally save And there
was something tremendous in this ancient
form whereby all stages of bow in some
now unrecognized recognition of the ceremo
NAL Of taking food to nourish hfe--and more.
At amen Di flashed in her Offices at the
mirror fresh upon her4perfect hair, silk
dress turned up at the hem She met Cor
nish crimsoned, huttered to her seat, ioggled
the table and, oh, dear she said audibly to
her mother, 81 forgot my ring
The talk saved alive by frank effort
Dwight served, making jests about every
body coming back for more. They went on
with Warbeton happenings, improvements
and openings; and the runaway. Cornish
tried hard to make himself agreeable not in
gratiating ly, but good -naturedly. He wished
profoundly that before coming he had looked
up some more stories in the back of "The
Musical Gazettes." Lulu surreptitiouslv
pinched off ant that was running at large
upon the cloth and thereafter kept her eyes
steadfastly on the sugar bowl to see if it
could be from that. Dwight pretended that
those whom he was helping a second time
were getting more than their share and face
tiousay landed on D about eating so much that
she would grow up and be married. first thing
she knew. At the word married" Di turned
scarlet, laughed heartily and lifted her glass
of water.
% a ND what Instruments do you play?' Ina
asked Cornish, in an unrelated effort
10 lift the talk to n,nsicol JnvoIc
"Well, do you know" said the music man.
Il can't play thing. Don't know black
note from white one"
You don't? Why, Di plays very prettily,"
said DIS mother. But then how can YOU
tell what songs to order?7 Ina cried
ION, by the music houses. You go by the
sales For the first time it occurred to Cor
nish that this was ridiculous "You know.
I'm really studying law" he said, shyly and
proudly. Law How very interest;ng,v from
Ina. Oh but won't he bring up some songs
some evening, for them to try over? Her and
Dl? At this Di laughed and said that she was
out CT practice and lifted her glass of water
IN the presence OF adults Di made one weep.
she was so slender, SO young, so without de
lenses, so intoerably sensitive to every con-
tact, so in agony lest she be found wanting
1t was amazing how unlike was this Di to the
DI who had ensnared Bobby Larkin What
was one to think?
Cornish paid very little attention to her. TO
Lulu he said kindly, Don't you play. Miss-?n
lie had not caught her name--no stranger ever
dd catch it. But Dwight now sunplied it:
Miss Lulu Bett,' he explained with loud en-
phasls, and Lulu burned her slow red. This
question Lulu had usually answered by telling
how felon had interrupted her lessons and
she had stopped "taking"-a particple sacred
to muslc-in Warbeton. This viglette had
been kind of epitome of Luu's biography
But now Lulu was heard to say serenely:
mo, but I'm quite fond of it. | went to a
lovely concert-two week ago"
They all listened. Strange, ipdeed, to think
of Lulu, as having had experiences of which
Yes" she said. ut was in Savannah
Georgia She flushed, and lifted her ewes
IN manner Of faint defiance "Of course"
she said, II don't know the names of all the
different instruments they played but there