San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-29
NORA LEE SEEKS
/. DIVERSION AS
BABY CROWS
She Is Painfully Shocked
to Find a Nurse Can
Take Her Place.
CONTINUED From Page /, Part 81

she and Dane had gone to the theater.
He had finally insisted on the hiring
of nurse girl. The little Dane was
now a year old and beginning to
walk. His mother was graceful and
1.-THE again as in her girlhood.
At first it had been bitter shock
to discover that the baby could get
along without her-that he was just
as happy in her absence. But she
had been compensated with the re-
newed sense of freedom; the feeling
Of lightness and e1uberance dancing
again in her veins.
1t had been sheer joy to see the
long, slim lines retuning-to find
her feet once more swift and eager.
Going about again with this gay.
carefree, irresponsible crowd she had
the continual feeling of playing
hockey; of being on stolen holt
day. '1e was really delighted lJ'bave
companionship again--she bltbely
overlooked shallowness and the crude
jokes that used to irritate her hotiy.
Now she said eagerly: What
should We do, Ida, to escape being
pitiful?"
"One or two of us against the mob
are hopeless. There are one or two
women in the world who realize that
the tremendous problems Of life are
in their hands to solve. The rest
of us scorn our work. We allow it
to be contemptuously called "Wom-
ems work" We think our husbands.
with their absurd little games of
stock playing-buying and selling
cheating and scheRing to act as
though theirs was the important
| role.
Were ashamed Of our ser. In
our hearts most Of us hate it. Other
wise would woman try to hide the
| fact that she is 10 have n child?
Rather would she consider it glory.
Some day men are going to
awaken and discover that they've
acted like blind, silly little school
boys. They've grown up and con-
| tinued to play craps and marbles.
But all the exciting human prob
lens, all the dramatic and tupen-
dous experiments they've turned
over to women. They've given them
human flesh and blood; human
hearts and souls to work with.
They've taken the most exquisitely
delicate things in the world and
turned women loose to mold as they
would. But women have proven too
petty, too inappreciative for the job.
They've lain down on the stirring
fnu Zoo .
drum" Of life. II they had the spirit
Of the psychologist, the zeal of the
great creators, they would call it
the magnificent adventure.
A WORLD FOR YOUNG.
"And they wouldn't be sitting here
on their plenteous avoirdupois Will.
their young goes scampering to hell
or elsewhere as it sees fit. Instead
they'd be making fine world for
these young to inhabit.
when men take the job away
from us and send us out to play
with stocks and brick and mortar,
they'll make something Of it. And
they'll have so much fun doing it
we'll be dying of envy and wanting
TO snatch back the work we've for
sworn"
In a tumult, Nora Lee drove home.
Burnett wasi Because her husband
was faithless she had a grudgc
against all the happy women in the
world.
But Nora Lee wanted to reach home
before her son was in bed. AS she
rushed through the living room she
saw Ellen putting flowers on the
table. The nurse maid came at /
in the afternoon and left at 6.
CALL FOR DADDY
Ellen said, smiling: "He's asleep,
Mrs. Hcrrick. And Bertha is gone"
Already: It's not O yet. Why did
she put him to sleep SO early?'
He was tired"
She checked the unwarranted tears,
went in and stood mt the crib. The
little boy looked like his father, though
he had Nora Lees eyes and her hair.
She was glad that she had only given
him the best she had
He had battered black horse and
wagon held fast in doubled arms. She
leaned down and touched the closed
lids and gently took the toy from him.
His lips parted With a faint, eager:
Daddy"
Nora Lee WINGED. Often she sus.
pected that the boy loved his father
better than he loved her. She wanted
the two to worship each other. IL
course. But still she wanted TO be
first with love.
WAS LOVE FAILING?
Just now she felt robbed and pioucd
end unhappy. Dane had no right TO
bring nurse maid in herel Send her
back to wanton idlenessl 1t was sci.
fish and thoughtless in him.
She was preoccupicd during dinner.
She wanted TO talk about these vital
thlngs-take n l9nk walk and come to
momentous decisions.
But after dinner she sat at desk
and sketched. She had learned that
nc didn't need to work at night
that is-tbcre was no hurry about
the work. But when be had an idea
1t seemed to drive him and he was
absorbed and Indifferent TO everything
else while he developed it.
Now sitting across the room-watcb-
ing the brown, cleancut head halt
lowered, she thought with n soft Gym
ical laughter: I'm not very neces-
sary to either! Not first with cith-
erl7
She was in the dangerous mood
OF the woman who feels that love is
failing her. and il love fails-tbere