The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-22

out or mOrtalS.
When the dance ended Hail walked her toward
the lounge She came shoulder to shoulder with
Cda. She Smiled an overture-and held her breath
Gilda Farnsworth turned her back neatly and
broadly as though 1t quite the thing TO do.
The smile froze on Pansy's pretty face and began
to thaw and ooze out through the heat of the blush
she felt tingling in her cheeks
Gilda speaking loudly enough to be heard by a
dozen about her. including Hail, snapped forth with
out any attempt at concealment of her feelings:
when they open the doors of the Forty TO the
rifraff OF Times Square, think It time to 60 home
VIII you be kind enough to have the doorman call
my carr"
"Why, Gilda," protested HOLSTER Moore, he.
escort, ~ don't understand"
"No? Do you know who that woman is with
Crandy Hall?"
group of dancers had stopped at Gida's first
words Hall. involuntar1ly, one Of them, and
that held Pansy. too
"Why, that Is Miss Lawford, the
"Yes. The what? Miss Lawford-hm-Miss
Schultz. Her father is scene shifter Will you
be good enough to order the carr"
Pansy felt herself swaying
She would have expected n kick She
felt the blood up and down her arms and her
fingers twitched to get at Gilda's throat. But she
pulled hersal! together drew herself IN started
for the lounge-alone, Nothing she could have
thought to do could have made her more consplcu.
ous Everyone In view knew by thon what had
happened
Gilda, accompanied by Moore made her way at
leisure to the other door and out.
Hall found Pansy, biting her lips, sitting alone
on wicker bench among the palms. She looked
up at him, her face trembled, and she said;
"So-ths is society"
why didn't Sou slap her face?" asked Hail.
''How? Among your friends-all these polished
people-where am a guest?"
'shucks,' said Han. 'Tf It had been a man.
would have knocked him down."
THEREIN the ballroom?"
"Anywhere-n the kings palace"
And that is-that is-sood manners?"
GOOD manners-rubbish Those people are
like any other people. When you please them they
Ike 1t, when you cross them they burn M You
don't take that stagesociety stuff seriously, do
you, maintanng your dignity and all that?o
Yes, did"
well, forget 1t. Gllda Farnsworth Is as we'll.
Dred a glrl rs nave ever met. Yet she insulted
you as bluntly and as coldly as any teamster's
daughter could have Yet she will lose no standing
She Is in. Some folks who are IN are better liked
than others who are ill., but those who are In are in
A. takes more tnan eating with ones fork and hold
,ts % ene hsndkerchieI at lust such an angle to make
society. Ihat might help you The stage, my
dear where most folks who observe YOU don't know
any better But here, on the ground the equations
are Just as broadly different as they are in prison
or in brckyard or even in a church
Every person is a person no matter what set
he or she travels with This outfit Is about as bu
man as any other We fight and we fawn: we love
and we cheat; We manoeuvre and we try and we
succeed and we fail, Don't get any deusion tha,
we are any more polite than-than scene shifters"
'Then-sayI thought l. had special talent for
this social stuffA You mean"
Il mean that you are beautiful woman You
VIII be rated as such here or anywhere else
Everyone Is everywhere by his or her preponder.
ant quality. II you're very rich YOU get credit for
it-or very whatever you may be- You NAV have
special talent on the stage, where everything is
highlights and you start and finish II I'm two
hours. But In lfe-bah! Just be human and 4,
Will get you Just as far as you have the fare he
that fare looks or wealth, power or influence
did you accept my advances because you
admired me? NO--beCause | represented some.
thing you wanted. Oh I'm not peeved over it
that's life. Did seek you because | wanted 10
pay tribute to your art which means nothing in
my lIeY No-because I'm wild about you as a
woman, Ike any other man might be- / wasn't
any different than any clerk might have been;
had money for orchids, so sent them other.
wise would have offered a ferry ride or a movie
We all fight the same way"
Then guess I'm Through, socially"
Nonsense They'll want you just as much az
they did before"
Maybe. But don't want them What's there
10 II! N1ll>you be kind enough to have
And she made her way, at leisure. through the