Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-15
EVENING EDITION.
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9TH be as impersoral as cold boiled
potatoes. (Not that 1 shall be able
! to help you make the town wortl,
whitley What do they say about
me? Really. want 70 Know"
"Of course the illiterate ones re-.
sent your references to anything far.
Their away than Minneapolis. They're.
80 suspcious-that's it, suspicious.l
And some think you dress too well."'
, ooh, they do. do they! Shall T.
dress in gunny-sacking to suit them ?"'
"Please!! Are you going to be Al
haby?" a.
'Il be good" sulkily.
You certainly will, or I won't tell
you one single thing. You must un-
derstand this: I'm not asking o to@
change yourself. Just want yon tol
! know what they think. You must doA
that. no matter how absurd their pref
udices are. If you're going to nandles
| them. Is it your ambition to mako.
this>a better town. or isn't it?"
II don't know whether it is or notts
"Wa,y-why- Tut. tut. now, a
course it is! Why, I depend on you
You're a born reformer.a
IT am not--not my more!"
cot course you are"
oh. if / really could help So
they think, I'm affected?" L
my lamb, they do! Now don't say
they're nervy. After all, Gopher
Prairie standards are as reasonable to
Gopher Prairie as Lake Shore Drive
standards are to Chicago. And there's
more Gopher Prairies than there are
Ghicagos. Or Londons. And
I'll te ! you the whole story: They
think you're showing off when you
say American instead of .Ammur-
rican.' They think you're too frivo-
1nyIC TjfnSr ~o ~ ~ "a 49,
they can't imagine my kind of laugh
ter except Juanita's snorting. Ethel
Viilets was sure you were p~atronizing
her when '
ooh, 1 was mott"
you talked about encouraging
reading; II Mrs. Elder thought YOU
were ~patronizing when you said she
had such a pretty little, car She
thinks it's an enormous car! And
some Of the merchants say you're too
flip when o talk to them in the
Poor me, when ] was trying to be
friendly"
every housewife in town is
doubtful about your being so chum-
my with your Bea. All right to be
kind, bYt they say you act as though
she were your cousin. (Wait now.
There's plenty ,more.) And they
think o were eccentric in furnishing
this room-they think the broad
couch and that japanese dingus are
absurd. CWait! l know they're silly.)
cize you because you don't go to
church ,oftener an,l----
IN can't stand It'll can't bear to
realize that they've been saying all
these things while I've been going
about so happily and liking them. I
wonder if you ought to have told me:
IL VIII make mo seif-conscious," y
Il wonder the same thing. Only
answer can get is is the old saw
about knowledge being power. And
some day you'll see how absorbing it
is to have power, eve here: to control
the town-O Oh. I'm a crank. But T
90 like to see things moving"
1t hurts. 1t makes these people
50 beastly and treacherous, when I've
been perfectly natural with them. But
let's have it all. What did they say
party?
Why. uh-'
60, on. Or TIL make un worse
me-" - -
They did enjoy rit. But, j. guess
some OF them felt you were showing
eH,-pretending h your husband 10
richer than he is"
Il can't Their meannass ~
mind is beyond any horrors I could
imagine. They really thought that I
land you:want to reform peonle
Ike that when dynamite is so cheap?
Who dared to say that? The rich OF
the poor?"
Fairly well assorted"
can't they at least understand ma
well enough to see that hough 7
might be affected and %culturine al
least simply couldn't commit that
other Kind of yulgarity? If they must
Know, you may tell them. with NV
!comp tments, that Will makes about
rour thousand a year. and the party
cost half of what they probably
thought it did. Chinese things are
no. very expensive, and I made my
Stop it! Stop beating me! know
All that. What they meant was: t;,ev
1elt you w~ere,starting dangerous com
petition by giving g. party sIch ne
most people here can't afford. -Four
thousand is a pretty big income for
this town." :
y never thought of starting CON-
petl1ion. vii you believe that it was
IN all love and friendfness that ! trie,l
to give them the gayest party T
could? 1t was foolish: 1t was child.
lsh inc noisy. But l did mean it so
well" ~
Il know, Of course. And it certain
! is unfair Of them.to make fun Of
you having that Chinese Hfood-chow
men, "as it?-and to laugh about
your wearing those. pretty %trouser
Carol sprang up. Whispering. oh.
they didn't do that! They didn't poke
fun at my feast. that I ordered SO
carefully for them! And my little Chi
nese costume. that I was SO hapny
making made it secretly. to surprise
Lnem. n hey' been ~ridtculing it.
She was huddled on the couch.
Continued Tomorrow Evening.
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