The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-31
THE NEW
GENERATION
By JANE PHELPS
A CHANGE IS WROUGHT IN
MARGARET.
By JANE PHELPS
Chapter SIS

SAAdPICI
Without in the least realizing the
change, Margaret Hayden was trans
formed within a few weeks from a
merely beautiful, dignified, interest
ing young Woman-the mother of a
young girl-inte a living, throbbing
personality; a woman whose cheeks
Paled and flushed at nothing but her
thoughts who smiled at herself in the
mirror and who walked softly thru
a succession of reseate dreams 1t
had all come about SO simply. Craig
Forrester's return, his question regard
ing Hudson Baker, then the feeling of
happiness.
Life suddenly ceased to be compIi-
Gated. Margaret was satisfied just
to live on enjoying to the utmost the
feeling of content that had come to
her. She even forgot to worry about
joan and almost decided to send for
her and confess she had come to to
New York to be young once more, to
live as she never could live in the
town where she was classed as old,
because she was the mother of a grown
girl and had been, in a very slight
way, intimate with people older than
she.
''I'l1 wait just little longer" she
said to herself. Perhaps she wouldn't
understand" then blushed violently at
the thought implied.
Margaret had learned much since
her arrival in New York, most of it
from Mrs. Walters and her associates.
She had learned many of the secrets
Of the toilet heretofore a locked book
to her. She had learned the art of
being perpetually fresh and charming,
learned to care for her beauty until
it bloomed with added lustre as the
days passed, learned to love soft pow
ders and rare toilet waters, fine linens,
real laces, silks and satfns. All these
were ne particular strain upon her
purse, at least she could afford them
without eramPing herself. For years
she had not spent her income, even
tho it never had been large, SO she
could now be as dainty as she pleased.
Sometimes she thought of marriage
as she listened to the talk going on
formed her own ideas, found her own
viewpoint upon the subject. She never
would marry just for money, but as
certainly she would not mary a man
who could not give her at least as
much as she had now, and an added
position in society.
She flushed crimson when her eogf-
tations reached this point Craig For
roster, dillettante, scion of an old and
aristeeratie family, wealthy, compan-
ionable and sought after, was very at
traetive to her. That was as far as
she get-9wning he pleased her taste,
now grown fastidious. Joan did not
like him, but would she like any man
who paid her mother attention? Mar
garet thought not. And now she did
not eringe at the idea of displeasing
Joan as She had in the past. She was
living now, not existing, and the very
fact that she was living gave her a
sure independence of thought and feel
ing unknown in the past.
Margaret marveled at the attitude
of the men she met, they seemed so
inclined to fIatter, to pay attention.
yet to evade any serious attitude. It
was with a generous satisfaction she
presently came te realize that Craig
Forester was different; that he was
more serious-minded even while
more entertaining than the others.
HE isn't afraid some women will