The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-21
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledger.)


sold their house on Flinton road and
are moving into the Hallock apart
ments. What was the name of that
fellow Amy Carr married? ?"
You ought to be able to remember
it," Mrs. MedIcott replied. ''You know
we went to the wedding with the
Henry divers. 1t was the year they
bought their first good car They'd
been East on a trip in it, and Mrs.
Oliver was telling what q sensation
they had created in Boston-how the
people gathered around to look at it.
Mrs. Oliver always was a fool. I was
in high school with her and she used
to come dressed like she was going to
a party. Girls didn't dress then as
they do now. You remember that
Candle Light dance. I felt like a
painted JezebeI when I started and
like a trump when 1 got there.
thought my gown was too low and I
asked you and you said you guessed It
was all right, and when we got there
found it was too high. That Mrs.
Hundlings from the Fort seemed sim
ply scanda1ous to me. 1t wouldn' t
have been so bad,= but there had been
talk about her and Carter Walworth
and the dance was in honor of Carter
and Elsie and everybody wondered
how she got there and if Carter would
dance with Eer. Well, Elsie has her
divorce now and they say he has lost
most of his money"
It danced with her all right" said
Pete. THE women tried to gang
her: remember that"
Yes" retorted Mrs. Medlicott, "you
danced with her. 1 was ashamed the
way you looked at her and carried on.
was in the cloak room having that
little Jennie Snales fix my gown. You
know what she is doing now-teach-
ing school. One of her brothers is in
the revenue service and the other is
studying law. Mrs. SnaleS used to go
out by the day after her husband died.
He wasn't much good, but her father
was one of the leading attorneys of
the state when she was a girl and
they had a lovely old home and drove
good horses and had a man in livery.
They lost their money in the real
estate boom. Uncle Henry Sansom-
you remember that white square
house that stood back from the street
in 1lliopolis, the one 1 showed you
the time we went to Cousin Abb:e's
funeral? Uncle Henry built that. He
inherited three fortunes and lost
them all on the board of trade. The
Arrowsmiths lived next door. Mr..
Arrowsmith was a good deal older
than his wife. She was a mi1liner
who came to town during the Roose-
welt campaign. After she married Mr.
Arrowsnlith she tried to get into
society. She was invited to a party
at Florence Jessup's once. Florence
Jessup had the most beautiful linen
ever saw"
at must be pretty hard on the
Cars to give up their old home after
living there all these years." said
Pete. Amy Carr and her father used
to be inseparable. wonder if"
The Paul Chiltons gave up their
home" said Mrs Medlicott At saw
Mrs. Chiffon ewhen 1 was back there
in May and she said she'd never been
so happy or free from care and re-
c4rll ~ ~
ofed cook named Nancy She was
from Memphis, but had been North
a long time. 1 visited in Memphis
once. 1t was long before I met you
The Scott Daltons-he was an archi-
tect, You never knew him-moved to
Memphis and invited me down. Their
children must be about grown;I re-
member Margery was born the year
Helen Martin entered Radcliffe and I
had to go on with her. When L got
back to New York found I only had
money enough to pay for a taxicab.
The first person met when 1 got into
the hotel was Sam Duff. He wasn't
alone, but I never have told who he
was with and I never will Mrs Duff
was Gregory Sam with in love with
Leila Featheringham and they were
engaged, but it was broken off for
SONG reason. You can't make people
believe now that Leila was Stunning
looking girl, but she had more beaux
Roach was crazy about her. His uncle
wanted Harry to study for the min
istry, but Harry didn't want to study
anything. If he could get it without
studying he was willing to take it,
"Amy Carr must be about thirty
two now, isn't she?" asked Mr.. Medlf-
colt
"Shes older than that" said Mrs.
MedIicott. 81 remember the year we
put on the Pirates of Jenzance.' Amy
must have been nine or ten then.
never saw such a rain. We started to
walk home-it was only four or five
blocks-but the water in the streets
was so deep we had to go back and
call a carriage. Mother was up when
we got home; father was somewhere
in the SOUTH think it was Atlanta.
know it was Atlanta, because when
he went south he always went to
Louisville or Atlanta, and if it had
been Louisville I would have re-
it because L went to school
Louisville. I used to get letters from
her, but L haven't heard anything
about her for years. She married a
Mr.. Cole, of Cleveland, the first time
She met him at the Derby. They said
he wasn't very good to her. 1 knew
a family of Coles. They lived in In
The father was in some
sort of business. It makes me think
of the time Grace Fink and I went
into business. It was right after we
got out of school, but some new men
had come to town while we were away
and We met them that summer. II
never will forget that sumner
1T wouldn't think you could remem-
Der one summer froU, another in that |
town" said Pete. "They were all |
alike"
II had wonderful times" said Mrs |
Medlicott. Father bought me horse |
and trap. The horses name was Alex |
ander. I met some A1exanders in Chi |
cago once. It twas the year of the |
San Francisco earthquake. Poor Lin |
ME Bullisi She and Ferdie Epstrom /
we're married in San Francisco the day /
Of the earthquake and Ferdie was