Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-27

| of being casual and Indifferent his
| grin broke through like delighted
! sheepish sun through the clouds.
He said that he figured it ought
| to be worth" said Will and then
paused dramatically 1925 MONTH"
x x
7 STOPPED everything | was doing
l. with a suddenness that nearly
wrecked our dinner. And no wonder.
Twenty-Five dollars month. Five
dollars a month more is raise. TWEEN
ty-five more is change of fortune.
Wen he having | said in an
awed tone. as Will drew out my chair
at the table-Win is never going to
overlook those little courtesies when
we're 40 years old and have eight
children: it's awful how Father never
pulls out Mothers chair except when
we have company. and then she slides
in it apprehensively, somebody hav-
ing pulled a chair out from under her
once when she was a child and she
never having recovered her conf
dence-"we'll be having an income of
SIPS a month
m hmm said Will, putting a
strain on all his blood vessels. trying
TO act casual about it.
But it was something that was
pretty hard to be casual about. There
are men in MontroSe of so who don't
make $125: in fact. | don't think any
of them do except those who are in
business for themselves, and even
then as Father SAYS. they generally
aren't in the mintins business. Roger
Lane makes the most Of any of our
young crowd and he's been getting
sos only three months. Most of the
Young fellows ma Ike about a hundred.
\ l25 jumps right mp into an entirely
different matter.
There's one thing we must he care
full about. Will" | said seriously. I'VE
mustn't let it make us hit different
in our manners with our old friends
Just because we'll he able to live diff
ferentIy in some ways. must be
awfully careful not even to appear
Snobhish'
"Oh sure" said Will. Goodness
knows, it was unnecessary to caution
him about being snobbish. If Win
suddenly became millionaire he'd
still let old Petey Jensen, who is the
towns handyman, and doesn't own a
suit of clothes but overallS, call him
Bill" And he got to talking about
Ireland once to the night Waterman
at the harvester company and brought
him right along home to supper. If
anything. Will could stand being
little more snobbish. Still think even
he realized that family which has an
income of 1925 month is in little
different social class from one which
has only a hundred.
In Montrose, though. it is never
exactly easy to tell just what class
you do belong in. Not in the class
with the Burrisses and the ScoGginses
and Mr.. Gordon. of course. Judge
Scoggins is president of Roger Lanes
bank. and the Burrisses own almost
all of Water street, and Mr.. Gordon
once ran for Congress. Still. Jean
Gordon married Howard Merton's
cousin and does her own washing. and
Mr.. Burriss is Fathers regular part
ner in the Mems Bridge Club.
Then there is the new harvester COM
pany crowd. They keep maids, which
even the Scogginses don't do. and have
dinner at night regularly. and every
thing sporty like that. But Dulcie and
Rosemary and belonged to their bridge
club for a while, and Mrs. Curtis
brother is crazy about Madge Edwards,
one of our crowd. That's the way
Montrose society is. though. all mixed
up. Old Petey Jensen mows the
l,Scogginses' lawn, but he saved up
his money and sent his daughter to
the university, and if she didn't run
against Margery Scosgins for class
secretary and beat her,
81 ET'S stick to our old budget"
said Will. Just the same. and
use the extra % month partly to
save more and partly to do few
things we've been wanting to do and
couldn't
That sounded like a good idea to