The herald., 1922-11-16

s.sbs no mo no, has been able to get
40 one as iis prodigal daughter.
~ veal iOi phymed Reflections OF FL
e rsisss
.oors ago the Beasly girl
ID" va in the overall factory.
sas the neighbors talked about
ppfsu' the people who live along
= 70 Creek are really no better than ama
Ess ~ live on independence ave
81 WV Tito of the theories that pow
y . ,, 'r charity go together. So when
~ 'a' ,ss factory the women OF the
y a =. Creek neighbOrhood limited
~ !. foreman had been too polite
VI ns put II she had remained at
'el. .,ry they would have given the
y nus SON for her staying. After
D. ~ 'su who turned up their coat
n.rs and wore. lii'i' a, IT,,
san n the fall and spring, In lieu
fo .oots During the summer fol-
nor discharge from the over
' a,,ory she became a park fiend.
49,. she gave up her counter in
.ssap dry-goods store, she re-
,.sS l At home, apparently keeping
- tor her father. He worked IN
.soosp somewhere over in the
- and came home tired and
,t night, and went to bed early.
s.ot IN the room off the kitchen,
4. daughter slept in the front
no did not know when she
=. IN At night, and he did not think
/ : - .,rIng to know. Her father paid
.,,sution to the little brother and
,+sr who teased the daughter at
~. .hout the young men who fire.
-.,,sd the house. If the other men,
y. of the family had been plaguing
!. ,sp.year.old girl who led in the
.usp. the father would have been
s,,ll, needless of their chatter. The
.s.s daughter made him very happy
i s,mple tenderness, though, Of
.,rp he did not understand that
!. x.rmth for her and the longing
,,,,a he felt all day to get home for
rVr, was happiness.
mt unconsciously, his daughter
nv very necessary to him. He was
= of the world that analyses its emo
srs YET he could not fail to see her
Lsuiy nor TO be proud of her for it {;
IA when she was dressed to go out
al she went out early and often
N bride blinded him to the gaudiness
4 her clothes, her frowzy hair, and
N shocking makeup on her pretty
tt Probably his discernment was
Mt keen enough to see these faults,
r,u had he not been so fond Of her.
MI other fathers who had daughters
~ tlese things, and mothers of the
kkhbmhood who had sons did not
pntIon the Beasly girl in the family
dde. II was only after Miss Beasly
nd Joined a comedy company, or
pnlzed to play the "White Slave" and
Only q Farmers Daughter" through
n West. that her name was men,
lined At all freely by Jersey Creeks
sidocncy, and then It was as If
\ we're dead. And Mrs. Hinkley,
No took care OF the children and
huked after the lonely old man, often
I'D to inquiring women Of the
ldshborhood, 1T would break your
lart 10 zee Mr.. Beasly a-grievin' an
tpiesin' for that hussy; an whiniver
, Nh letter from her he reads It
Z he supper table before them chill
a vid that flourish you'd think
q tn tch, / do wonder If he
hosG' And after some discussion
= would sigh. swell, it's not for me
bka him"
Wat Z wonderful thing is absence.
: , IKE the dark In its power to
u'naofm people and situations and
= rlations Of things. Though she
- pUm up under his eyes, the old
= and his daughter had scarcely
"a z serious word to each other.
nfhef had never inquired what
oushter was or was not. She
ny her in his thought. They
~ sdangers, but when he began
r'get her presence, he found him.
u1llnually thinking Of things he
- nke to say n. her. "Her" dis
lzeo' and dreams altogether diff
- nom his former conception of
nok her place. He longed for
ma yeaned to tell her the great
ms heart. Among the noisy
ne mumbled to himself,
''es mat he wanted to make to
1d N the scrawled letter he
y per occasionally, he wrote some
ne tender things.
~e DAY she wrote that she was
home for a vacation, and his
va very glad. He read and re-
letter, and droned it off at
pet table to Mrs. Hinkley and
'udren. As he read it, neither
.rers nor the reader realized
q. !. .0sh feeling the writer had put
matfer-of-fact words, II want
nome with you all again"
words were meant to ten a
9 neartache and loneliness and
= ~ out they were commonplace
I -, mort. For poor people are
-:s, ~ u sensibilIty as the COM
nen' and the suggestion to
~ 'ey Of the possibility of any
- telling In the Beasly girls
y 'o'd have fallen on barren
~ s ne Gay for the girls coming