Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-18

any day to have them move the piano
out on US, the way they do it in
comedies to show things have come
TO the worst"
"Oh, everybody's broke" said Jeans
partner. It's terribly fashionable.
Whatu you bid? As long as you
have a rich father
Father does an awful lot for us"
admitted Jean, but l can't exactly
pawn any of his automobiles for cash
money. l bid a heart"
i've already said -trump-do
pay attention to the game" begged
Gladys Decour. Tn losing half of
this. Nobody's lying awake nights
worrying about you and Sheldon go
ing to the poorhouse."
Jean went back to her wall.
eff every one didn't assume that !
had a lot Of money. No one Will
show me a fur coat under 5000. and
Sheldon and L have to live on what
he earns,"
Jeans face grew intense Jean
often grew intense like that. She had
been so when she told her father that
che meant to marry Sheldon Mills.
That same intensity was the reason
why 1t was so much easier to fall in
with jeans plans than to make any
of your own, as her father and her
husband had discovered. When she
had ideas, she was used TO seeing
them carried out-like marrying
Sheldon and living on what he
earned.
Sheldon hasn't anything at ALL
she was wont in those days TO tell
people, but L don't care a bit. He's
got drive and personality, and he's
the most wonderful lover in the
world and that's all ! want. Wen
have to live on what he earns-ab-
solutely. Father said so, and I said
that Sheldon wouldn't hear Of any
other way OF living. He's so terribly
independent"
And so the theory had been estab-
Ished. Like many theories, il had
been subjected to slight alterations.
Mr.. Tillinghast had given them their
house-of course, said Jean. 4 don't
want pearls: we aren't taking a we'd
ding trip to speak of, because hotels
are so expensive; and they have to
give us a present; and so there's no
earthly reason why father shouldn't
give us the house"
There was the house, and of course
with fathers house only a block
presents didn't take care of could be
Allied in with perfectly justifia BILE
borrowings. It didn't interfere with
your independence.
x x x X
ON the evening when Jean had so
~ yehemently declared her poverty
to the bridge party at the City and
Country Club her husband was coming
home on the surface car. After seven
years of marriage he still had the in
curably romantic look which Jean had
recognized and advertised so widely.
Several girls, watching him. had re-
course first to vanity cases .Sad then
to obvious STRINGS calculat - to at
tract his attention as he cly-3g to his
strap and gazed out thru agh the
darkening glass Of the street car
windows. Sheldon was stalwart. and
he had the look of seriousness that is
semi-sadness and so alluring. The
sadness tonight was more than semi.
1t had been one thing after another
all day. He had been approached by
a committee soliciting for local chart
ties and the interview had been en-
barrassing. Every fellow with whom
he played golf or bridge was down
for couple of hundred dollars at
least, and in these charitable cam
paigns you had to live up to what
they expected OF you. 1t wasn't, he
reflected, that he wouldn't be glad to
give what he could, but there'd be a
lot more fun in giving $40 that he
could afford and enjoying the sense of
doing his part than to sign up for
$3.50 and be annoyed every time an
1nstallment fell due.
Sheldon's thoughts rambled loosely,
each OF them Irritating another
Jean eternally talking about new
clothes. And that automobile sales
man-after he'd told him definitely
that he didn't want a car, couldn't
afford to buy car-the salesman had
the nerve to hint that he might sug-
sest to Mr.. Tillinghast to give it for
present to Jean. The worst Of it
was that every time he tried to get
ahead by himself he came up against
the assumption in peoples minds that
old Tillinghast was carrying him.
Jean was quite sincere when she
informed her friends that her pros
pective husband hadn't anything
honest at least in her Judgment and
backed by her standard. He had been
a fine-looking young man, who had
one of the best rooms at the Y. NJ. c.
a, and he was one of the buyers in a
wholesale grocery house. One Of the
vice presidents daughters, scouting
around for extra young men for a
dance, had discovered him and sent
him an invitation. Jean Tillinghast
had met him, and the rest had been
pleasantly natural.
Sheldon had been married seven
years, and he still was coffee buyer
for Holden & Dunning. He was also
old Ttllinghasts son-in-law, member
of couple of clubs, driver of his
father-in-law cars (when Jean Dor
rowed them or the chauffeur was on
q Vacation), father of a most beautf-
ful and beloved daughter, good golfer,
good bridge player and Jeans hus-
band.
Sheldon's only brother, Gilbert, had
come to have shade Of reserve in his
manner toward him. Gilbert had
married shortly before Sheldon, and
time was when Sheldon used to be
great frequenter Of the tiny apart
ment in which Gilbert at first housed
mis- bride. But Belle had no money of
her own and no social position, and,
somehow or other, though Jean was
always charming to her sister-in-law.
the paths of the two brothers did not
cross very often.
MORE domestic dramas come to
Ava head over breakfast or dinner
table than in any other place. 1t
takes a quite violent shrew or do
1esttc bully to seek his or her part
ner out for the purpose of starting
discord. But when the table lies
spread between a man and a woman,
the scene is set and the curtain rises.
II WISH said Jean pIaintively, that
everyone would't assume that father
gives me an allowance"
Why should they?"
oh, they do. OF course he does do
ever so much for US"
Il don't know about that" said
Sheldon a little grimly.
Why, Sheldon, that isn't very gra-
Fr1WuS. to saw the least WHY vor,
Know how much they've done. Just
the house alone"
Yes, and 1 have to keep it up"
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