The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-31
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The Story Of Julia Page Kathleen Norris

right again! And then-such lots of nice people have got married, and gone away on honeymoons,' she end- ed, argum entatively.
 The laughter had gone from Jin's eyes; a look almost shy, almost ashamed, had taken it's place. He kept her as she was for a moment, then gave her a serious kiss, and they ' went laughing through the rocking 1 cars to eat their first dinner together | as man and wife. And Jim watched ] her as she radiantly settled herself at ! table, and watched the frown of child {, ish gravity with which she studied 1 her menu, with some new and tender emotion stirring at his heart. Life ; had greater joys in it than he had never dreamed, and greater potential | ities for sorrow, too. What was bright l in life was altogether more gloriousIy bright ,and what was dark seemed to 1 touch him more closely; he felt the | sorrow of age in the trembling old | man at the table acroS the aisle, the | pathos of youth in the two young | travelling salesmen who chattered so I
 1 Several weeks later young Mrs. l Studdiford wrote to Barbara that New | York was "a captured dream "I seem 1 to belong to it," wrote Julia, "and it
 seems to belong to me! can't tell you how it satisfies me; ti is good just | to look down from my window at | Fifth avenue, every morning, and say | tomyself, I'm still in New Yorlz!' For | the first two weeks Jim and I did | hi ilEn two nh am | the new Hippodrome, and Coney l Island, and the Liberty Statue, and l the Bronx Zoo. I never had such a l good timei We went to the theatrlsSs and the museums, and had breal fast at the Casino, and lived on to- of the green 'bussesi But now Jim has let some of his old college friends know we are here, and we are spin ming like tops. One is an artist, and has the most fascinating studio I ever saw, down on Washington Square, and another is an editor, and gave us tea in his rooms, overlooking Stuy~ vesant Square, and Barbara, everys body there was a celebrity (except us) and all so sweet and friendly it was a hot spring day, and the trees
 fn the square were all such a freshs tb~ight green.
 "They make a great fuss about the spring here, and you can hardly
 blame them. The whole city turns itself inside out; people simply stream to the parks, and the streets swarm with children. Some of the poorer
 women go bareheaded or with shawls. even in the cars-did you ever see a
 bareheaded woman in car at homer 1 But they are all much nearer the | peasant here. And after Clean San
 Francsico you wouldn't believe how
 irty this place is; all the smaller
 stores have shops in the basements' and enough dirt and old rags and wet
 paper lying around to send Doctor
 Blue into 8 convulsion! And they use
 Dennfes here which seems so petty,
 and paper dollars instead of S1lVert
 which I hate. And you say 'h or
 sub for the trains, and always sur
 face cars for the regular cars-lt
 all so different and so interesting.
 'Ten Richie Jim is going to assist
 the great Doctor CasseL in some den- onstrations of bone transplanting at
 Bellevue. next week-oh. and Bar
 hara. did I write Aunt Sanna that we
 met the President! My dear, we dld- We were at the theatre with the Cas-
 sells. and saw him in a box, and DOCS
 tor Casse1l, the old darling, knows him. and went to the Presidents po1 to ask if we might be prousht -. and presented,\ and. my dear, he gob rr and came back with Doctor Cas- sell to cur box, and was simply sWeery
 and asked me if I wasn't from the u South, and I nearly said, Yes, south of Market street, but refra1ned Tn time, had on the new apricot crepe and a black hat, and felt very LAly~ uke-a-princess, Jane says.
 "But we're both getting homeslcki . if will seem good to see the old ferry building again-and Sausalito' ana az of you.'
 Early in July they did start home-
 ward. but by so circuitous a route
 and with such prolonged stops at tne famous hotels of Canada, that 1t was
 on 2. September afternoon that they found themselves taking the Toland
 .sehoId by storm. And Julia.
 thought no experience in her travels
 sc sweet as this one: to be received into the heart of the family, and to settle down to review of the past five months Richie was so brotherly
 rnd kind, the girls admirfng Of her furs and diamonds, so full of gay chat ter, the old doctor so gallant and so
 affectionate! Mrs. Poland ch1rped and twittered like the happy mother
 of a cageful of canaries; and Juha. when they gathered about the fro |; after dinner took a low stool next to
 Miss Tolands' chair and rested shoulder, litt1e-girl fashion, agalnsr 1, the older woman's knee