The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-02-10
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II wish you could know how I've
longed for you BOTH" Jane wrote to-
her mother and sister a few weeks lat
err Mrs. Straker says this camp is a
marvel. she's never seen so complete
an equipment. Mother. have to cook
thank goodness you taught me lit
tie when | was youngster. OF course
| took a special course in dietetics at
college-but ID doesn't do much good
when most of the staples we get are
things forbidden a hospital diet, and
the rest are tropical fruits strange to
me-
THE unmarried men, or those
whose wives have not come along, live
in sort of dormitory, called the
Bachelors Club" with native serv-
ants to tend them. I've got an old
woman as brown as a coffee berry.
and as round as a rubber ball. have
to stand over her when she cooks, or
the stuff isn't fit to eat.
I'm glad Clarie taught me how to
make table covers and luncheon sets
from ginghams and cretonnes--I can
get some things like that in the COM
pany store here, and I'm going to sew
actually mother, going to sew, And
fix up this funny little house of ours.
1t won't be bad
81 thought there wouldn't be much
TO do-Ive hardly seen Donald since
we came. they've had an accident and
several men hurt"
A long description of the camp fol-
lowed-it was growing so fast one
could watch it spread over the noun
tain slope. Jane had much to tell
Jane had been busy since she arrived,
far too busy to let her Imagination run
off with her in regard to Donald
feelings about her. She had cleared
away the broken bits of lumber from
tho front of the house, wondering
whether she could coax any green
vines to grow. She had obtained some
paint from the company store and
painted the office" white and the tiny
bedroom cool gray, and covered the
awful vanished wood of the furniture
with a soft yellow-made by much
experimenting with such colors as she
could find in the store room.
You should see Amy's marvellous
and expensive toilet set on the dress
ing table, she wrote. Its the glory
of the camp, we have visitors come
just to see it,
Jane had not the home touch" that
her little sister possessed in so great
degree-the ability to put together
cheap substitutes and out of them to
produce an artistic effect. So she
lavishly copied everything Claire or
Amy had done to make the little up
town flat in New York attractive
and was rewarded.
ITS the best looking house in the
camp" Donald said. Il didn't know
you were domestic, Jane"
Jane took it for compliment.
But she wondered--with all her hard
earned education. was she to settle
down to be a housewife only?
Sure, we all think we're going tc
have careers of one sort or another
Mrs. Straker said when Jane put this
problem to her THAT ugly little
woman who's wife of the chief en-
gineer was to be an opera star-they
say she had fine voice tool knew
a woman once. on the Little Black
Horn ranch at home - she was a
geologist Lord. the things she knew
that went on two million years age
from finding a piece of stone with &
dent in it, 1t goes like that-we cam
have careers and husbands too One;
got to choose, I've learned that"
Jane used to lie awake at night anC
think about that. There was Away!
soft rumble from a distant pump
usually it soothed her by its monoton,
and put her to sleep.
Why couldn't woman have
career and marriage too? She though
once that if she had Donald's love-
that is, if she were married to him
she would demand nothing else o
life. For years she had hoped 70