Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-04-15

IS BY EK&vTS FLYERS. AY/<M W
after his return to the hOmely realities
Of Bingville. The shrewd intuitions
of Mrs. Bing alarmed her. So Phyllis
and John We're packed or to private
schools so that the good woman would
be free to look after the lmperlled
welfare of the lamb of her flOck-the
great j. Patterson. She was really
worried about him. After that, she ai-
ways went with him to the city. She
was pleased and delighted with the
luxury of the great hotels, the cos
tunes, the dinner parties, the thea
ters, the suppers, the cabaret shows
The latter shocked her little at tirst
They went out to great country
house, near the city. to spend week
end. There was a dinner party on
Saturday night. One of the ladies got
very tipsy and was taken upstairs.
The others repaired to the music room
to drink their coffee and smoke. Mrs.
Bing tried cigarette and got along
with 1t very well. Then there was an
hour of heart TO heart, central Euro
pean dancing while the older men sat
down for night Of bridge In the IL
brary. Sunday morning, the young
people rode TO hounds across country
while the bridge party continued its
session in the library. II was not ex-
actIy a restful weekend. j. Patterson
and his wife went to bed as soon as
their grips were unpacked on their re-
turn to the city and spent the day
there with aching heads.
While they we're eating dinner that
night, the cocktail remarked with the
lips OF Mrs. Bling "rm getting tired OF
Bingville."
"Oh, of course. It's a picayune
place." said J. Patterson.
tits so provincial the lady ex-
claimed.
Soon, the oysters and the entree
having subdued the cocktail, she ven
tured: 'But it does seem to me that
New York Is an awfully wicked
place"
"What do you mean7" he asked.
Goddess" she answered. 1.-THE drink
Ing and gambling and those dances. "
That's because you've been brought
up In a seven-by-nine Puritan village"
j. Patterson growled very decisively.
"Why shouldn't people enjoy them
selves2 We have trouble enough at
best God gave us bodies to get what
enjoyment we could out OF them. It's
about the only thing we're sure of,
anyhow"
It was a principle of Mrs. Bing to
agree with .. Patterson. And why mott
He was great man. She knew It rs
well as he did and that was knowing
1t very well indeed. His Judgment
had been right-triumphantiy and
overwhelmingly right. Besides, IL was
the only comfortable thing to do. She
had been the type of woman who reads
those weird articles written by grass
widows on allow TO Keep the Love of
Husband"
So 1t happened that the Bings be
gan TO construct a little god to suit
their own tastes and Maidstone
about as tractabie as toy dog. They
withdrew from the Congregational
church aud had house parties for sun.
dry visitors from New York and Hin.
zelmead every weekend.
Phyllis returned from school In May
with a spirit quite In harmony with
that of her parents. She had spent
the holidays at the home of friend
in New York and had learned to love
the new dances and to smoke, although
that was "a matter TO be mentioned
only in whisper and not In the pres
enee Of her parents. She was d tall,
handsome girl with blue eyes. blonde
hair, perfect teeth and complexion
and almost perfect figure. Here
she was, at last. brought up 10 the
point of coming-out party.
/ It had been a curious and rather
unfortunate bringing up that the girl
nad suffered. She had been the pride
OF a mothers heart and the oceuplei
OF that position Is apt to achieve great
success In supplying mothers friends
with topics Of conversation. Phyllis
had been fattered and INDUCED. Mrs
BIng was entitled to much credit. hay.
ing been born Of poor and illiterate
parents In a small village on the Hud
son little south Of the capital. She
was pretty and grew up with a longing
for better things. j. Patterson goi
her at bargain In an Albany depart
ment store where she stood all day
behind the notion counter. "At bar
gain" IL must be said. because. on
the whole. there were higher values
In her personality than in his. She
had acquired that common Bertha
Clay habit OF associating with noble
lords who lived In cheap romancea
and had q taste for poor bnt homes