The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-04-01

MY hat. commandment 5000
NV party dress ....::....... $1,000
NV cane 1o0. 90
NV coral girdle. ........... $500
NV stockinKs. ............. TOO
NY underwear ........... $500
nv bag. ................. 1850
NV handkerchief. .......... 500
Ny powder case. loo
MY gloves. ........s.sssss~ wv
NV lipstick. Recommendation. Lag
Ny peppermints. ........ 80
My hairpins. ............... %
My cigarettes. ............. ~
The cost sheet OF . girl. at this
point, showed . total OF e43S.OS.
Something bitterly ironic IN the
next:
MY money. ............... .1V
And something pathetic and
courageous about
Those awful slippers. LIS
And something tragic IN the
last: 49,
Myself. Just exactly..... 90
Minus DepreciAt3oa)
She was snob. A year ago, II :
she faced facts, she. ceased being
young lady Of leisure. That was
on the day her father deserted.
leaving her mother and herself
negative instead Of positive fec.
tors in the economic scheme OF
things. -uH
And three weeks ago she had be-
come = pauper. Her unpaid board
bill At Ma Henlg's was now just
three weeks old. She was worse
than snob. She WAS actually dis
honest. And she did not doabt
that there were laws to punish the
crime of living blithsly on nothing.
Next Monday she would get =
Job. She was through now with
hanging on to the lace edge Of
luxury.
At the bottom Of the Incline
which carried the station road
down to where it curved under1Ae
tracks, $434SSs worth of million
dollar girl paused under the w
duct.
Shivering, she congratulated her
self, prematurely, on tho ease with
which she had negotiated the llrst
hundred yards Of her Journey.
Then, from under the scAnt shelter
OF the tracks she emerged into the
nights cold fury. A billion snow
fakes dashed her back to the cAver-
nous shelter. There she debated.
Her eyes considered the shed Of
concrete and steel in which she
stood. Not a boudoir. exactly.
With definite, planned gestures.
Barbara boldly gathered her skirts
above her waist. She fastened
them there with the coral girdle.
SIS.
She bowed to the storm, deA-
antly. elegantly. Less elegantly,
she thumbed her nose One, two.
three. Shivering. giggling, she
marched again into the whipping
snow. 1t melted, fake by dake.
against the warmed silk Of her
-. .shrill laughter: second.
class epigrams: llrst-class innuen.
do: the party at Nan Adams
house. wake for the dying year.
Later corks and things would
begin to pop In earnest, dancing
would become close. talk loose.
| With bit OF her wit and Q lot
OF liquid In bowl. Nan. who ct
thirty should not have been 90
near the end OF beauty's youth.
held all her guests in q l1resido CIR.
Gle. oblivious OF the unfrtondly.
bitter outdoors-all but one.
| Mr.. Augustus Petrie's boaked
nose pressed the pane. Tx
He saw : strange. . delightful
freak.
The red.headed shephsrdsss ct
the gin-trough chirped:
"Hey. Black Sheep! Come out
and Craze. You've already missed
two rounds" And, to her crowd
J Ing guests: Poor old Gloomy Gust
] He never enjoys himself II he can
Pstrie, with outside Information
to the contrary. kept his nose dat.
tened against the cold glass and
J bawled back vehement denial:
!. "Oh, yes I do"
Barbara Brown loosed her $50
party dress from the grip OF the
I $75 coral girdle and faced serene
! the opening door.
Petrie was Indifferent to the
{ panied piccOlO shrek with which
Mans lady Pekinese protested thu
{ weight OF his foot ON her tail
Masked in gloom. me seemed hi,
, icicle self as he advanced to b.
presented to the newcomer.
! But 1t WAS. noticeable that hi
} sad orbs. lingering overlong on th,
D business OF skiing her up, rested
: last Of all upon her face.
A Shoe for Cinderella
She recognized the look in pc
; tries eyes. Why Had she tough
!. so strenuously to keep her eve
ming frOck inviolate from tn.
! storm? This mans eyes unhooke t
81 it. She snimed.
Well. she, could leave 1t once
!. But she wouldn't. She remem
4 bered the first time she had see,
J. that look in aman's eyes. It wa.
: at q masquerade. She was BIZ
q Peep. He was q mendicant fra
t and his masked eyes begged. Shl
y asked her mother about 1t. Nam,
|: was Venus with lot OF foam
2 Mama said:
}. Its . compliment. IN : way
. dear child"
. The compliment. in q way. dea,
d child. was one to which by nov
she was Injured. but. not recon
|. ciled. She bitterly resented Petri,
n and his ginny small talk,-but CAV.
d himSthe smile OF a porcelain "a
tomaton.