The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-07
JAMES NEW LIFE.
Synopsis of PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

JAMES NEW LIFE.
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.
Amy Talbot has been overworked
for so many years that she is co1l-
pletely out of touch with life and new
ideas. She finds this out when her
son, Luther, returns to the farm with
his newly married wife, Claire; and
when Jane, her daughter. comes home
from college. She cannot understand
their new ideas, and finds them MAX
ing Amy, the youngest, disconnected
Eventually Jane and Luther go away.
Claire and Luther quarrel; Claire goes
back to the city, taking Amy with her.
Mrs. Talbot is so worried about her
girls that she braves her husband
anger and goes to them in the city.
Amy is studying for grand opera and
will not look at the always-faithful
Dick; Jane is in love with a doctor
TOO poor to marry her. Everything in
the city shocks and terrifies the
mother; Luther and Claire are sep
arated, Claire wants divorce. Amy's
prettiness draws scores of admirers;
she threatens to marry q rich man she
does not love. Jane is on the point OF
going away with the doctor, who does
sympathy. between the strict and mar
row ideas of the mother and the broad,
but what she calls loose" ideas or
the children.
Then the doctor finds a post in
South American mining camp, and can
afford to marry. He and Jane elopo
and go to South America.
Meantime. Jane was living in sur
roundings different from anything she
had ever dreamed existed.
First there was the steamer, with
clean white paint and shining brass
rails and a general trimness and neat
ness that delighted her soul. The
captain was a sociable, chubby crel-
tlre who read Conrad-as all sea-far-
ing men do-and longed for what lie
called Intelligent companionship."
He seized upon Donald, when he
found he was a doctor, and with hlIa,
and the ships surgeon, and young
lieutenant looking in now and then,
he INDUCED in long discourses upon
everything from the habits of flying
fish TO the most abstruse problems
in metaphysics When he found that
lane, too, was a physician, she was
brought into these private gatherings
in the captains office
Then there was the huge hotel al
Buenos Ayres.
Il never dreamed of such magnili-
cence," Jane confded to Donald.
What an ignorant creature | am-ani
I thought I'd be so learned when l
graduated from college. I believe I've
been thinking all along that the troy
les consist entirely of mud huts and
palm trees
Donald laughed indulgently. He
was finding out that the earnest, ser
ous minded Jane. who was amazingly
sure of herself in a dissecting room,
and amazingly keen in lecture room
or laboratory, had periods when she
was only a light hearted little girl
You've become awfully frivolous
since you're married" he told her.
James brown eyes became serious
at once. Her habit of introspection
came back TO her.
Perhaps it's because I'm happy"
she said. "Or perhaps it's because
there aren't any more worries. l al
ways felt that something was weigh
ing down on me, either the money
problem, or the need OF getting IN
twice as much study as the Others.
because | couldn't afford more time at
college-or-.
She checked herself, looking up al
him. She had almost added that the
great, depressing weight had been the
constant fear that Donald's love was
not very great after ala fear she
had carried with her for four years,
Donald. man-lke, took in only what
she said, and still did not guess how
much unhappiness Jane had suffered
all these years, because she did not
tell him.
Anyhow, you needn't worry about
money for a year." he said Let 5
have luncheon"
Jane followed him into the great
dining room, where tall palms ard
growing flowers set each little table
in private bower of fragrance, ami
where enormous windows opened on
slope of marvellous lawn. This rol-
ical hotel combined the best OF mod
ern luxury with the splendor of its sur
roundings. and the effect upon Jane,
was like stepping into Paradise
Paradise improved with a private bath
and mahogany furniture and rugs.
She leaned back in the gilt and wick
er chair, looking adoringly at Donald
though he was engaged in the un
romantic occupation of ordering iced
melon and chilled consomme. Hel
ewes took in the other women then
the dark eyed women of Spanish and
French blood in their expensive Paris
toiIettes. the well-tailoTed, welEgroom
ed women from the States-an occas
ional brilliant costume on some Wo
HAD THAT TIRED, WORKOUT