The Washington times., 1923-12-08

says they are the most interest
ing people in New York and that
he always feels young again
when he is at one Of their par
ties. win you take me to one?"
"of course / will. The novelty
might amuse YOU
ITS not only novelty want.
/ want really to know things we
get the benefit of when we are
intelligent enough to appreciate
them. 1 cannot go on in the old
way any longer. I paint more or
less and read a great deal-stil
on the lines you laid down. But
one cannot paint and read and
walk and motor apd dance all
the. time. Even il I had not
gone to France 1 should have
become as bored and Disguised as
am now. You know that L
have a mind. What has it
to feed on2 I don't mean, Of
course, that all the women know
are fools. Some of them no doubt
are cleverer than am. But all
the girls Of my set-except Mar
ian Lawrence, and we don't get
on very welfare married, and
some have babies, some have Low
ers. some are mad about bridge,
a few have gone in for politics.
which don't interest me, and
those that the war made ,perma-
nently serious devote themselves
to charities and reform move
ments. The war spoilt me for
mere charity work although
give q charity I founded one
afternoon q week-and mother
does enough for one family any
how. I see no prospect Of marry
ing-I don't know a young man
who wants to talk anything but
sport and prohibition-you are an
oasis. There you are! The
Sophisticates are an inspiration.
I am sure they NlIl save my
Iife."
But have you reflected
Clavering was embarrassed. She
had controlled her tones and
spoken with her usual crisp de-
liberateness. but he knew that
the words came from some pro-
found emotional reaction. For
Anne Goodrich it was an out
burst You sect is quite pos
sible that when the novelty wore
thin you would not be much
better off than you are now.
All these people are intensely IN
terested in their particular jobs
They are specialists. You
You mean. what have I TO
give them?',
Not exactly. You could give
them good deal. To say moth.
ing of your own high intelli-
gence. they are by no means
averse from taking an occasional
flyer into the realm OF fashion
Curiosity partly, natural human
snobbishness, perhaps. They will
go to. your house If you invite
them, no doubt of that, and they
may conceive an enthusiastic Iik-
ing for you. But after all, you
would not be one Of them. Even
though they genuinely appreciated
your accomplishments, still you
would be little more than an in
teresting incident. They are
workers, engaged in doing the
things they think most worth
while which are worth while be
cause they furnish what the In
telligent public Is demanding just
now, and upon which the current
market places a high value. And
you are merely an intellectual
young woman of leisure. They
might think It pity you didn't
have to work, but secretly, no
matter what their regard, they'd
consider you negligible because
you belong to q class that is con-
tent to be, not to do. I assure
you they consider themselves the
most important group in New
York-in America-at present: the
Iife-gtving group OF suns round
which far-off planets hurnbly re-
volve."
''I see. You mean that my
novelty would wear thin long be.
fore theirs. Heaven knows I have
little to give them. I should feel
rather ashamed sitting at the head
of my table offering nothing but
terrapin and Gobelins. But don't
you think I could make real
friends Of some of them? Surely
we would find much in common
to talk about-and they certainly