Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28

OF her provincial wisdom. But as he
little girl grew into short dresses ant
! hair ribbons. and her little boy int
the custody of an English nurse. sh'
! had more time to look closely ut hel
| husband. His leisurely ways. his CO..
! pulency. his sometimes maddenng de
! liheratenesS. ceased to he the privi
! legged idioSyncrascs Of success and lie
| came only facts.
He paid no attention to her suCEes
| tons as to his diet her occasional
crankiness as to his hours. her com
PARSONS between the habits and the
fancied habits of other men.
one morning peculiar lack OF taste
in his coffee preCipitated the matter
into the light
Il can't drink this stuff. 1t hasn't
had any taste for week" he com
planned.
She smiled at him.
Don't you feel better. Henry" she
asked eagerly.
Il never felt better in my life"
There YOU are" She looked at him
triumphantly. You laugh at my
theories, but you'll have to admit
there's something in them. You feel
better because you haven't had sugar
in your coffee for over a week.
what have | had?"
"SaCCharine.
what is SaCCharine?"
Its a substitution people who
have a tendency to run to fat"
For moment he lowered on the
edge of anger. then he sat down, shak-
inc with laughter.
It's done you good" she said re-
proachfully.
We'll it won't do me good any
more" he said grimly. I'm "a years
old, and l haven't been sick day in
10 years. I've forgotten more about
my constitution than you'll ever
know"
"You don't live healthy life. Henry
It's after 40 that things begin to tell. -
Suddenly she grew angry.
You ought to be ashamed to be so
fat at your age. You wouldn't be if
you took exercise and didn't lie around
in bed all morning"
IF wanted to be a farmer" said
her husband quietly. 81 wouldn't have
left home. This saccharine business
is over today-do you see?'
THEIR financial situation rapidly
improved. BY the second year of
the war they We're keeping a limou-
sine and chauffeur and began to talk
of a Summer house on Long Island
Sound. A swelling stream of materials
flowed through the ledgers of Drink
water & McComaS to be dumped on
the Unsuitable bonfire across the ocean
Their staff tripled and the atmosphere
of the office was so charged with en-.
ergy and achievement that Stella her
self often liked to wander in on some
pretext during the afternoon.
One day early in 1916 she called,
but McComas was out. She was on
the point of leaving when she ran into
Ted Drinkwater.
"Why, Stella" he exclaimed. 81 was
thinking about you only this morn
ing"
AS they walked toward the glassed
privacy of Theodore Drinkwater, pres
ident, Stella could not help thinking
that he made a more appropriate bus
mess figure than her husband. He was
keenly from right to left, as if taking
the exact measure of every clerk and
stenographer in sight.
''Sit down, Stella
She waited, a feeling Of apprehen-
sion stealing over her.
Drinkwater frowned.
Its about Henry" he said.
Whats the matter?"
1.-THE old story, Stella. These are
big years for us and he thinks bust
ness is going to wait until he carries
on in the old country-store way. Down
at II, hour and half for lunch, won't
be nice to man he doesn't like for
love or money. In the last six months
he's lost us about three stable orders
by things like that"
"But hasn't he saved money, too,
by going slow? On that thing about
the copper, you wanted to sign right
away and Henry"
ooh, that" He waved it aside.
"I'm the last man to deny that Henry