Evening star., 1922-06-11

overnight. as say. meaning
grown up in four or five years.
SO that when citizens of the old
er and more solid and soilyd cen
trail parts Of the city come driving
through the new part of a sunday
afternoon in spring they say: My
goodness. When did this happen?
Why, it doesn't seem more'n a year
or so since we used to have Fourth o
July picnics out here! And now just
look at it-all built up with bride
and-groom houses"
Highland place was the name
given to this cross street by the
speculative land company that had
developed" 1t, and the only reason
they had not named it Waverley
Place was that they had already
produced Waverley place d block
below. Roth places" were lined with
green n-trimmed small white houses.
frame" or stucco, and. although the
honeymoon suggestion was architec-
turally so strong, as matter of fact
most of the inhabitants held them
selves to be settled old married peo-
pie" some Of the couples having
almost attained to a tin wedding an
niversary.
The largest OF the houses in High
land place was the "hollOw-tile and
stucco residence Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George NJ Sullender" Thus il had
been defined under a Photographic re-
production with the captain. New
Highland Place Sullender Home" in
one of the newspapers not long after
the little street had been stak"d out
and paved. and. since the "Sullender
home was not only the largest
house but the first to be built in the
place" and had had its picture in
the paper. 1t naturally took itself for
granted as being the most important
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YOUNG Mrs William Sperry. whose
L equally young husband had just
bought the smallest but most con-
spicuous bride-and-groom cottage In
the whole place" was not so deeply
impressed with the Sullender impor-
tance as she should have been, since
the SperryS were the newcomers of
the neiehborhood, had not yet been
admitted to it's intimacies. and might
we'll have displayed a more amiable
Difference to what is established.
NO" Mrs. Sperry told her husband
when they got home after their first
experience of the places" hospital
ity. bridge party at the Sullenders'.
'I just can't stand those people, Will!
They're really awful
Why. what's the matter with 'em?"
ne inquired. II thought they were
frst-rate. They seemed perfectly
friendly and hospitable, and
oh, yes, Lord and lady of the
manor entertaining the tenantry,
don't mind being tenantry," young
Mrs. Sperry explained, but l can't
stand the lord and LADY -of-the- manor
style in people with a nine-room
house and a one-car garage"
"One-car it may be-" her husband
laughed, but 1t has two stories. They
have a chauffeur, you know. and he
lives in the upstairs of the garage
so that entities the Sullenders to
the manor style?"
But l didn't notice any of that
STYLE" he protested. Il thought they
seemed right nice and cordial OF
course. Sullender feels that he's been
making quite success in business.
and it naturally gives him rather
condescending air. but he's really all
right"
He certainly was condescending,"
she grumbled. and went on with some
satire, Did you hear him allude to
himself as 'realtor'?"
We'll why shouldn't he? He Is
one That's his business"
My lord, the realtor:" Mrs. Sperry
cried mockingly. There ought to be
an opera written called Eel Realtor.'
like the one there used to be with
the title IL Janitor.' Those are such
romantic words-'toreador,' 'realtor,'
'humidor'-'
Here, here her husband said.
Calm down, You seem to have got
yourself worked up into mighty
sarcastic mood, for some reason.
Those people only want to be nice to
US. and they're all right"
Mrs. Sperry looked at him coldly.
Ibid you hear Mr.. Sullender saying
that his company had sold seven
homes this month";" she inquired.
"Oh, you can't expect everybody to
know all the purist niceties of the
English language" he said. Sui
lenders all right. and his wife struck
me as one Of the incest, kindest
women I ever
Kind" Mrs. Sperry echoed loudly
"She doesn't stop at being kind
She's SO caressingly tender. so angel
ically loving, that she can't possibly
pronounce a one-syllabled word with
out making two syllables of It! Did
you notice that she said 'yay-yus' for
yes and 'no-oh' for mo-? I do hate
the turtle-dove style Of talking. and
never met a worse case of it.
Mrs Sullender's the sweetest sweet
woman I ever saw in my life. and
I'm positive she leads her husband a
dogs life"
What nonsense!
"It serves him right for his real
toring, though" Mrs. Sperry added
thoughtfully. He ought to have that
kind of wife"
But you just said she was the
sweetest@"
"Yes-the sweetest sweet woman 1
ever saw. 1 do hate the whole clan
Of sweet women.
The young husband looked per-
picked. II don't know what you're
talking about" he admitted. Il al
ways thought"
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xu.M talking about the sweet woman
tyne that Mrs. sullender belongs