The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-25

into the dining room where Cherry
was again seated at her task of
addressing the envelopes of the
wedding invitations. Have you
done many?"
About fifty" Cherry answered.
Madame Denise kept asking me to
try on things. Say, Faith, do you
think folks are going to laugh at me
for sending out invitations with the
words, No presents in the left-hand
corner?"
Before Faith could answer. Mrs.
Lane came waddling into the room.
Il never heard Of such foolishness,
she grumbled "'No presents!
Every big bug in-town would have
sent something swell"
But Muggy. darling, I can see
Ralph's viewpoint" Cherry protest
ed. 1T isn't as If we were a young
couple, just starting out to fix up a
home. He's lived in that old man.
sion Of his for thirty years. and it's
stocked with all the silver and lamps
and gegaws and linens that people
usually deluge a bride with. 1t would
really be horribly embarrassing to
get a lot Of the usual wedding junk
and have no place to put It.
"Oh, Faith. Ralph says he simply
won't have a best man, and I can't
really blame him, the poor darling.
But he's glad want to have Bob as
an usher"
Faith bent her blushing face closer
over her work. writing in a fine,
tall, erect hand, surprisingly delicate
and beautiful.
Joy had most awful fight to-
day In school," Cherry announced
suddenly. 1.-THE kids were teasing
her about my wedding, and she
pitched into a whole bunch Of them.
Miss Peabody sent her home in dis
grace. with a note"
II do WISH" Mrs. Lane interrupt
ed, that you'd quit gallivantin'
around, Faith, and pay more atten-
ton to your home. If you'd been
here I'd have marched you right
Tover to that school with JOY, to give
that Miss Peabody a piece o. your
mind. She's always pickin' on Joy,
and I'm gettin' sick and tired Of 1t.
And Joy wore the same dress to
school three days this week. If you
stayed home and tended to your
work."
I'm sorry, Mother" Faith spoke
meekly. but resentment showed hot
in her cheeks. i've only been out
Of the house three or four times dur
ing the day for the last three or
four weeks. What happened when
JOY came home. She isn't here
now"
II made her take a bath and put
on clean dress-you ought to have
seen her!" Cherry laughed. "She
was bloody from top to toe-nose
bleed, you know-and her tan linen
dress was torn from the shoulder to
the hem. Then 1 called up Miss
Peabody and laid the law down to
her-oh, in a perfectly nice way. but
I didn't mince matters, 1 can tell
you. She'd said in the note-it's
over there on the sideboard-that
unless JOY could behave more like
little lady and less like a hooligan
yes, she used that very word
that measures would have to be ia
ken, meaning of course that they
would expel her from school.
"a. well, I simply told her that if
She didn't stop prosecuting Joy that
Mr.. Cluny, who's on the school board
you know, would take the matter
up officially. And 1 also told her
that after Christmas my little sister
would be removed to the Misses
Deans private school anyway. but
that 1 hoped she would not make it
necessary for Mr.. Cluny to take the
matter up with the school board be-
fore then"
That's a heavy Ritz line" Faith
laughed, "did it work."
III tell the worldi' She simply
groveled. Said that undoubtedly Joy
had exaggerated things. as children
will do, but that she would person
ally see that the other children did
not continue to tease her.
I'm going to show this town that
they can't thumb their noses at Mrs.
Ralph Cluny! Oh, by the way, Mug
gy, darling, Ralph's doing the most
wonderful thing. Guess!'
Bought you a sable coat?" Mrs.
Lane inquired. cor trip to Europe
for a honeymoon"
"Oh, those-of coursei'' Cherry
brushed such obvious generosities.
He's having his partner, Mr.. Neff,
draw up his will for him, and can
you imagine it+he's not waiting un-
til we are married to name me as
his principal heir-or heiress. He's
putting in clause that say that
my dearly beloved fiancee, Charity
Amanda Lane'-doesn't my name
simply slay you?
Anyway, it says, my dearly be-
loved fiance, Charity Amanda Lane,
is to receive such and such a part
of his estate-he won't tell me just
how much, but he does say it is
most of 1t, except for some requests
to his grandchildren and a teeny bit
to Mrs Albright and Alexander
Cluny, who have enough of their own
anyway, is to come to me, in case he
dies before the wedding. OF course
he'll make new win, one that
couldn't ~ broken BY any court in
the land, as soon as we are mar
ried Isn't he darling, honestly?"
What would happen in case you