New Britain herald., 1926-09-11
CHARLOTTE MILLS BRAIN AWHIRL
 BATTLING WITH LOVES PROBLEMS

love me and never had, and if l thought he cared for somebody else who cared for him, I would never try to hold him. or chain him to me, l wouldn't want him that way It would seem terrible undignified and even disgraceful. My mother would have felt the same way.
 Now I happen to know how Mir. Hall came 10 marry. He was sim ply pushed into it because he had his people to provide for and they were the kind that needed many things and he had nothinS except what he earned as a minister and everybody knows that isn't much.
 He wanted to be free; he didn't want to mary because there was mo- body he loved. But they argued and urged and pleaded and at last in duced him to do it for their sakes and he couldn't see any way out.
 Remember, I was my mothers confidante, and when she couldn't keep some of the things MT. Hall told her bottled up any longer, she used to open her heart to me a lit- tie. She never said an unkind word about the Hall family, or the wo- man he married, or sorry for him and for them and for her. She learned from him what a starved life he had. She knew all about starved life's herself, poor mother. And she pitied him from her heart.
 Well-so they were married. NIT. Hall and Miss Francis Noel Stevens, middle aged daughter of an exclu- sive, wealthy family that has al ways been about the most powerful one, I guess, in this part of New Jersey. They went to Europe on their honeymoon trip.
 The night of the day they were cesmarried, Mir. Hall went and stood alone on the dark deck Of the ship and realized what it all meant. He clenched his hands and stared up at the black sky and called hlm' self a coward. A coward, for pelng led into a thing he ought not 10 have done, for the sake Of people who would benefit by it.
 He knew it was not fair to hlrn- self or his wife. But he knew, now that he had done 1t, that he must 20 through with 1t in the best way he could, and be as nice to her as he knew how, and try never to show her it was hard for him.
 I guess when all is said and done, it was just about as hard for her. But she is a different type-colder, self absorbed. not interested in any people that are different from her kind.
 I have often wondered how they really got along together, being so extremely opposite, as opposite as two people could be. 1 suppose they had one thing in common, religion. But they followed 1t in such differ ent ways.
 MT. Halls way was to get rlght down and like people and be jolly with them, and be natural. lie was like a big boy.
 Mrs. Halls way was like the
 
 etiauette books. Formal and distant and proper.
 always used to think society people were forever watching them selves and trying to initiate some thing. never doing things because they wanted to do them. but Just because it was considered the thing to do. But probably that is their way. as the other way is our way And each one is natural to the per son that does it.
 Anyhow, this much l knoW-that MT. Hall was our kind.
 It always seemed to me he must hate being followed and told to put his rubbers on, or wear mutller' and do this and do that, and see this person and go to that card par tv or reception. He never resented it, though. ~
 He was a good man. And my mo- +her was good woman.