The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-09-23
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Effective Faith

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the wrinkIed forehead. ED love to see
you get terribly upset about some
thing"
The happy looking woman smiled,
but did not reply.
Don't circumstances ever twist
your affairs around until you find
yourself tangled in a mesh of compli-
cationsT" the worried one asked, as
the furrow between her eyes deep
ened.
Circumstances are not respecters
of persons. responded the happy one.
They attack everybody alike, but it
depends upon the individual whether
he is thrown down and dragged
around by them"
How do you mean?" asked the wor-
ried ono. with lips that did not turn
up at the corners.
Is. Ell, demonstrated my faith" said
the happy looking woman, no longer
ago than yesterday My husband
'phoned that his distinguished looking
cousin was in town, and that must
not fail to make a favorable i'm
preston upon her; that he had invit-
ed her to dinner, and had told her it
was to be little party of three or
four couples, and that | must get up
the party and the dinner without
delay, and make a success of it. I
told him I'd do my best, and then
sat down to plan.
THE difficulty lay in the fact that
the girl is highbrow. II she had
1.s~n IN ordinary bachelor of arts it
wouldn't have been SO hard, but she
had recently taken her M. A. de-
gree, and knew that there would be
no use asking anybody who had never
composed a masters thesis. stretch
ed my brain almost out of shape try
ing to recall among my acquaintance
three or four acceptable male person
alities between Is and 80 years, and
every single one l could think OF
had enlisted and gone to some train
ing camp.
$50 decided to have girls only and
to take them home afterward in the
car. / made out the menu, called the
grocery, gave my orders to the maid,
and then 'phoned the girls-the only
three l knew who could really enter
tain this cousin.
First / called the university and
asked for Madge Lee. / knew she'd
gladly come to my impromptu dinner.
Her roommate answered and said
Madge had just finished her last exam
and gone to a weekend house party.
Then called another dormitory
over there and asked for Belle Price.
Belle is the daughter of one of my
old schoolmates, and as sweet and
pretty as she is intellectual. When
/ told her of my dilemma, she said
she was dreadfully sorry, but she
had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa
and there was to be large dinner in
celebration at the same hour / had
set"
you were nearly desperate,
know" the woman with the worried
expression sympathized.
mot bit! have such an unshak-
able belief that even the most intri-
cate tangle will straighten itself if
you give # time and do your own
part and smile in the meanwhile
Next l called Margaret Phelps.
who went to Vassar with my niece
and made brilliant record. When
my niece visits us Margaret is always
over, so knew she'd love to meet my
husbands attractive cousin. Her
voice, thought. sounded pathetic,
and no wonder. as she was even then
starting to the hospital to have her
tonsils removed
Gust then in came the maid weep
ing because she had received news
of her mothers sudden illness and
must go to her at once. that she hated
to leave me with company on my
hands?"
Il know you were wild, Whatever
did you do?"
Why" explained the happy look
ing woman. II did nothing except tie
ON a big apron and cook the best old
fashioned family dinner possibly
could. And when my husband brought
his cousin brushed the -four off my
hands and told them as great joke
how the party and the maid had van
ished into thin air, and this cultured
relative straightway hustled out Of
her wraps and set the table for me.
We had the most delightful time, and
my husband was pleased to think she
liked me without festive setting"
"Your guest was very polite" the
worried one suggested. mo doubt
she was all dressed up and every
thing"
''Certainly she was dressed up, the
happy woman agreed, and it's lucky
she was. AS we were sitting down to
dinner the doorbell rang and in
walked my favorite nephew a hand
some young fellow whom had sup
posed to be at Fort Sheridan. He
said that he had dropped in to spend
the evening and to tell us that to his
regret the irregularity of his heart ac-
ton had caused his rejection from
service and so he had decided to re-