Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-02
published BY special arrangemene with TIC
Chicago Tribune 6y~ndicate)
IN TWO PARTS-PART ONE

HVflE I1dJOI hQfdllbdSC VI bh n
posure is that the half pint bottle
Il of cream, renewed every other morn
ing, enjoys its lease Of usefulness,
cooling upon the window sill. well into
May. After that a minimum of refrigera-
ton is imperative for the kitchenette be-
hind the gingham curtain. This care
fully calculated amount is based mainly
on what ice" is willing to carry up five
flights OF stairs. Early in her New York
career Miss McMinn learned hat while
the spirit of ice" could brook this ex-
ercise for fifteen cents per climb, it
tagged and fatty declined to soar for ten
cents. The summer months, therefore,
were s~orrowfully budgeted to include an
additional fifteen cents every other day.
This may seem frugal finance to an
age accustomed to calculate in nothing
short of billions. 1t is true. however.
that Honour McMinn, one Of the six mill
lions who TEEN in Greater Manhattan,
did her share OF teeming by the aid OF
these and other careful devices, looping
off fifteen cents here or thirteen there,
and so bringing the total outgo Of her
metropolitan venture safely within her
monthly income. By safely, Miss Nc
MINI meant more Than her New York
bank required her to keep in reserve.
She had made a VOW with that inner self
OF whose existence no one else in the
world was aware to lay by as we'll a fixed
sum each month for emergencies.
BY emergencies she meant, among
other things, the even which she felt
reasonably sure might find itself in the
public print almost any day under some
such heading as Hit and Run Motcrist
Leaves Woman Thirty-eight Uncon-
scious."
When she first became a tenant of the
Van der Donck Mansion she saw the
heading as woman Twenty-eight." Her
inner self stuck to twenty-eight long
after her candid outer eye suggested a
change.
These vital statistics did not, however,
affect the nest egg which she continued
to lay by, and which she ~budgeted along
with insurance, life and accident, at the
beginning of each fiscal year.
Emergencies included also railroad
fare for the sudden trip to Agatha which
she might. in the course Of nature, ex-
pect to make.
1t was Agatha, on a sunny June morn
ing, as she and her Aunt Delight walked
home from commencement together that
a remarkable conversation took place. 1t
was the fifth commencement from which
they had walked home sine the day
when they had not walked home from
her own. She was twenty-five on that
earlier day, and had walked home with
the new English professor. He was a
DlODQt dcNiy SOllc 4lOLl u BlCdt CdoVClA
university. Honour had taken romantic
cism with him. Romanticism was a
course. Courses may be taken without
their spirit suffusing the spirit OF the
taker. Professor Bartletts course, how-
ever, in the case of Honour McWinn was
more than a course in name only. Some
thing beyond tales of wonder and terror,
or Germanic influences, passed across
his desk to the spirit of Honour McMinn,
the exceptionally promising senior in
seat thirty-two, row seven.
AS they walked home together from
commencement he was as pale as she was
rosy. He fingered at her door. Eloquence
looked from his eyes into hers. And yet
he dropped her hand and went away.
Honour McMinn went upstairs, threw
herself down on her neat bed, regardless
Of the harm to her white commence
ment dress, and wept bitterly.
Thu fact was that Professor Bartlett
was hideously poor. He was one of those
brilliant and u-ndernourished young men
to whom the college president refers
at each commencement when he states
to an approving public that eighteen
per cent of the graduates OF the present
senior class have either wholly or n part
supported themselves throughout their
college course
These young men, as he does not go on
to state, are then SO depleted in pocket
LIhL " SOuTCG u luCOI1t lb u SDTltkluB
necessity. The ones who understand kill
owatts or atomic weights can usually
sink rather fast to low proved affluence
in industry. For an exceptional young
man, full Of language n Of facts about
literature, an idealistic p~rofessorship
usually offers. Such a professorship at
the small. privately endowed college Of
Agatha served Professor Bartlett's turn.
To Agatha, therefore, with some debts
remaining from his undergraduate strug-
gle, and with two venerable and now de-
pendent parents, he thankfully turned.
He was sure of two thousand dollars a
year.. 1t o like a fortune. 1t did, in
fact, serve to keep going himself and his
dependents in a degree Of security which
they had not known for many years.
There was no question. however, Of a
family Of four. Marriage for Professor
Bartlett was q remote dream.
The dream might rosily. nay, agoniz-
ingly, invite. But he was q gentleman.
He dropped her pulsing fingers and Hon
our MINI fed upstairs to weep.
Five commencement later her Aunt
Delight said, as they walked HON to-
gether: Honour, why don't you strike
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