The Princeton union., 1922-08-10

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~ John PALMER

and poor Mrs. Laurie crying her eyes
out in the Laurie place.
might after night he'd be seen driv-
ing about with Mrs. Rintoul. Freddy
wasn't more than thirty, and she must
have been forty if she was day,
though she didn't look it. infatuated
they were, but she was more infatu-
ated with him than he was with her,
guess.
"You know when a woman gets to
be around forty, all the fires Of youth
are apt to burn up in her again. Espe-
cially If she's been unhappily married,
as Mrs. Rintoul had been. She was
crazy about him from the first, and it
was that that attracted him.
"That was when she began coming
in here to have her face massaged.
She didn't look forty, but there's no
way-no, absolutely no way-in which
a woman Of forty can look like a girl
of twenty-five. They all think they
can, though! Mrs. Rintoul looked five
years younger than she was, but she
had little lines about the corners Of
her eyes and mouth, she hadn't the
6rmness Of flesh that young woman
has. And the massaging helped some,
but it didn't bring back youth.
'Matty was with me then-you re-
member her? That tall, dark girl who
was so good at manicuring. She got
friendly with Mrs. Rintoul, and Mrs.
Rintoul used to confido in her-1nost
everything, save that she never men
toned Freddy Laurie's name. Then
Matty told her about the doctor that
made a speciality Of taking out wrin-
kles by operating.
"Of course that's really the only
permanent cure. You can massage
and massage, but the lines will always
come back again unless you take
flap Of the loose skin away and
! tighten the whole face up. That's
what Matty advised-and Mrs. Rintoul
fell for it.
"Not good business of Matty's? I
told her 80. I reckoned it cost me ten
dollars a week, what with the mas
sage and the hair dressing. Matty was
fool in a way-but anyhow the harm
was done.
"Mrs. Rintoul went to DR.. Deering.
Called himself doctor, though guess
he never saw the inside Of any med
|ical school, Why, they're not allowed
ito do operations unless for sickness,
I've heard. However, he knew his job
all right. There's plenty Of foolish
women in this town he's operated on
at two hundred and fifty apiece-and
changed their faces so that you'd
hardly know they were the same
people.
Il "Mrs. Rintoul went to him, and after
that she stayed home for two weeks,
waiting for the scars to heal. They
make the cuts under the hair, you
know. Matty went up to the house
to see her while she was convalescing,
and the report she brought back was
perfectly startling. She said Mrs. Rim.
toul hadn't line in her face-just as
smooth as baby's. Lord, what some
F., women will do when they're infatu.
ated with man!
1.-THE day came when she was out
OF course Freddy Laurie didn't know
what she'd been doing. He thought
she was ill with grippe, and every day
ihe was around there with flowers
and poor Mrs. Laurie crying up at the
Laurie place.
1T was Mrs. Rintoul's maid told
Matty what happened when they met
Young Laurie stared at her as if shed
turned black I didn't seem to recog
nize you somehow the maid heard
him say. That was ADJUST that
And Mrs. Rintoul turned as white as q
ghost, and soon after Mr.. Laurie came
| away.
"They met once or twice after that
but their lovemaking was at an end
|When 1 saw Mrs. Rintoul saw what
had happened. You see, before the
|operation she'd been a sweet-looking
woman. After it-well, everything
was different-her with her smooth
baby face and her mature figure. She
was woman of thirty-five just tht
same-nothing could alter that; but
her face-didn't fit.
$50 I don't advise my customers tt
have anything to do with DR.. Deering.'