Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-06
WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY

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Lucy Joy. good looking. piQuant.
poised. She has won pig prize in
the "prettiest English girl' contest
and is noted MIN actress. Archie
has merely saved her from some
' aFatuous Old Fooi."
Young Laverock, too. clad in the
whole armor of restrained Difference,
decorated by much "Sir"-ing of his
seniors, was hiding thoughts that
would nave shocked and HURT hose
who know only the more charming
attitudes of the young knight to-
ward the SCARED warrior.
Nothing can be sweeter than the
uplifted,, hero-worshiping glance OF
youth to those on the pedestal of
years-with a record. On the other
hand, who can show a more pitiless
scarchlight stare than youth for age
seeking equal terms in the lists?
where's lrankie?" screeched the
parrot What life."
What the something, thought
, Archie Laverock, did these silly old
buffers mean by bursting into a
party that was enjoying itself?
Spelling everything-pecausen nobody
there wanted them. Turning the
bubbling chatter Of mummie and
auntie into brightly mechanical
poodle taking. Snutting up himself
and the boy, Hating them too,
that he felt, somehow.
Y woman had once told him,
Laverock. that 1t always amused her
to see the dog" OF tifty-and-over
confronted by subalterns and under
graduates. Shed said, The dowa-
ger beauty may feel in eclipse be-
side this seasons pretty debutantes,
but oh, Archie! the acute discomfort
displayed by her husband in the
presence OF hundred percent young
men. It's pathetic
Pathetic? Ridiculous, decrccd
Archie that they couldn't dodder OF
home now, in. time to see their
grandchildren put to bed instead
Of .
Wed planned a little spree. II
your mother will let. you come. So
hurry up. Miss Lucy" the Admiral
called again from Archie's abdicated
chair. con. yes. my dear Mrs.
JOY, | have note for you from my
sister to certify that the chaperoning
element will be in full force, ha, ha.
Well look after Miss Lucy, l
promise you. Wen take the very
best care of herr Then louder.
Early ulnleT Nullc iuAo'h many ~
kmy brother-in- laws little place near
Maidenhead. Then on to Murrays
as it's going to be such delightful
evening. The river should be
charming and you said you loved
dancing in the OPEN"
Pleased, pretty laughter from
within.
But I'm supposed to be Joining
Lady RiChbourne's party for supper
at the Carlton"
do it easily, do it easily" called
back the preserved old soldier
sitting next to Mrs. Harrison. Just
time for n dance each, and we'll
run YOU back to town on the dot.
So put on your prettiest bib and
MY pink -and- silver laco?' CO.
quettishly from the window.
Chorus of elders below: Charm
ing" "Or why not the delightful
little gauzy affair that we'd the
pleasure of seeing last Wednes-
day" Or that blue 'dernier
cri' you wore at the rehearsal OF
your Spring Song film, Miss Lucy.
suggested the admiral.
Him Archie considered rather
worse than ridiculous. These elderly
"bloods" on terms of discussing her
pretty frocks with n girl like that!
Taking her to dance at Murrays,
that apoplectic leviathan with one
foot in the grave, and the other
probably equity? All of them sitting
waiting for her, blandly and COM
placently, as if they were the play
fellows and contemporaries. and
everybody else a negligible quantity!
Why! Why?
Just because they'd the chance to
"do" her as she should be done.
They'd the money. They'd the post
ton. They, the Old Men, had been
able to stop at home in positions OF
secure authority, piling prosperity
on prosperity. while Young Men
(cutting money making possibilities
clean out of their own lives) were
keeping things safe-for those over
Fifties. Up to now Archie LaverocK
had considered it pretty poor taste
those advertisements in the BY
stander, Boosting that certain firm
did not cater for old men, Now
he thought Mr.. Dennis Bradley put
things too gently on the whole. Be-
sides, of course every firm catered
for old men For them the best
tailors, bootmakers. hairdressers.
For them the flats in Mount street,
the house in Belsrave Square. FOR
them the chief seats at feasts. for
them the shoots and race meetings
and the yaehts and the gayest time
going. For them, above oil. the
smiling society of the loveliest girls
who might be their granddaughters,
yes, all of the best of everything was
all for them, every time. Ana In the
mood of black resentment mat
was so. every word of the talk still
TN, odIpH GNuSDpfH-
ton to evaporation OF horhiah'
sunny young man.
The climax was reached when, at
the temperance of Miss Lucy JOY,
all brocade cape from her egg
shaped chin to her feet isiini.
iridescent and blue as the bodies or
dragon fies). the admiral CRIED An
little one--'
Little one. Fatuous old fool.
thought Archie.
He knew himself that half this
girls charm lay in the fact that she
was miniature. almost under Ire SIZE;
Just as high as my heart,
enthused Orlando Little mas Deen
Loves superlative ever SINGER You
Little Sportswoman," signs the
flance of six-foot hockey player,
and. she smiling down at him from
the heights, knows that now indeed
she has got" him. Now Lucy JOY
was automatically tiny to begin with.
Scarcely an exaggeration, the ad-
mirars comment when they were all
hacking into the car. almost un-
necessary to waste whole seat on
Miss Lucy: she could so easily tuck
into the pocket OF my coat here"
No sooner was the motoring
party on (pocket Venus attended by
her four Titans) than the strain
above the garden group lifted at