San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-18

hour she'll step into the
kitchen and fling the family
hash about and set the family table
if Bill doesn't show up forthwith.
There's deviltry for you'll"
Connie shrugged: run along, Sis !!
We have words not fit for children's
ears"
"Oh, banana oil" Sallie pershed
herself next to Nora Lee. She said
amiably, "Send Nora Lee out too !!
She's younger than l."
an years, yes! In wisdom, no.
Nora Lee has communed with soil
tude. That ages onc."
"Like capital l. it does! That's
not what aged you in the ways of
enlightenment, is it, Con? Pass the
sandwiches. Sal. As long as we al
low you to remain, make yourself use
full"
There were eight girls of Comics
crowd gathered this Saturday after
noon. They had played three rub
bers of bridge. The air was blue with
smoke. They we're now toying with
sandwiches and drawing their chairs
close for intimate and exciting CONVEX
sation.
Nora Lee and Sallie were the young
est by two or three years.
Connie reached to a book shelf and
threw down a modern novel. 1t told
Of a young girl raised with every
advantage who coldly decided that she
will leap into the vital and forbidden
experiences of life.
Connie asked: who's read it,"
20 Several had.
FOOD FOR FLAPPERS.
What do you think of it,"
"Bushwar!" Sallie spat at them.
Damn unconvincing! No girl would
do a thing like that. They make me
sick, those modern writer's. You'd
think We, were all hot-footing it to
hell and pushing each other out of
the way to get there first for fear
all the devils fire would be gone"
Everybody knows and nobody cares
about your opinions, Sal. Please
hush"
Brownie Mills offered humorously:
well, 1 admit it would require more
proyOcation before I'd initiate the lady
who stepped"
Connie said fatty: THAT'S not the
question. The idea is this: Is the
forbidden fruit damning or is it not?
Have you been bunked by tradition
and parents and are we waking up
to the fact?"
Nora Lee said in a husky voice:
The women in France when the salons
were so brilliant, tried out free love,
Connie. It'didn't work. And the Ro-
man ladies tried it-their country went
to the dogs"
You know too much history, Nora
Lee. Today is different"
People are the same! So is beauty
So is the soul :"
"We're not discussing unknown
such as Beauty and the
Soul. We're arguing the rights of our
insistent and clamorous flesh"
Marjorie Cole got up at this mo-
mcnt and sauntered with a syncopated
rhythm of her shoulders to the coffee
percolator. She hummed in a taunt-
ing way phrase current among the
college group: Cant beat Nature,
can we? She's an old old lady, but
she never, never dies"
Connie was determined to keep the
talk rolling on the single track she
had marked out.
What, Brownie, would you consider
sufficient prOvocatiOn?"
Brownie, thus challenged, grew red.
She unused a few moments, then asked
"If tonight were the last
night of the earth and tomorrow we
would be no more, what, Connie, would
you dor"
Into the stiffness Connie whispered
Il would go to Mickey. l would die
knowing love. would taste life and
60"
'sYes, that would be magnificent
provocation enough"
And | would do likewise !"
"And IL"
N0RA'S DOUBTS.
Nora Lee and Sallie we're the only
ones who remained silent. They suf-
fered from these conversations.
Into Nora Lees mind all the way
home case flashing a vision of inf
mite waters, laughing face with wind.
swept hair, hands that closed on hers.
She could imagine herself the last
hour of the earth standing in n noun.
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