Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-07-22
published By special arrAngement with IT
Chicago Tribune 6yndicate)
IN TWO PARTS-PART ONE

' cans are wasteful. Witness the re-
spective languages. At great length
and most inadequately will an
describe a state which Is partly
mental. partly physical and partly OF the
fine demesne.
Thus saws George 6mith-Jones Of an
acquaintance whom he likes and oddly
but not for the others posses
lions: Great chap Tor great girl, as the
Ease may bel Interested in everything
comes along. don't you know. Don't
mind the weather. Likes q good show or
! good meal, or a pretty woman or a
good book, or a good argument. Politics
q sunrise, Amundson's Jaunt or new
on Main street-nothing really
to bore him. Healthy fellow. too.
Hardly ever needs a doctor. Got what
you'd call a receptive nature. Comfort
able person to have around. Likes to be
alive, in fact"
But the thrifty French murmur: He
Tor she) has Joie de vivre." Not a word
more. The nearer understands well.
Likely enough the nearer signs, as IL for
q far, kind country.
Joie de vivrel billy Galahad knew the
phrase well enough. Once her pretty val
face INC a tan felt mountain hat-im-
model and ninety-f1ve dollars to a
customer-had been so cap
toned for Wurd & Murd's March booklet.
OF the last year or two-or was 1T
longer?-it had come to Oily that she
knew no joie de vivre. Neither by day
nor by night. Preposterous, OF course.
She had everything that a woman could
want-youth. cleanliness. health, wealth,
and a good looking, young, devoted,
wealthy, healthy, kind, honorable and
good husband.
Indeed, for John Galahad the adjec-
tives could come tumbling from tongue
like candles from a beautiful cornucopia.
But. returning home this last year or
two-or was it longer?-Dilly had formed
the habit Of proceeding without delay
to her own ROOM. there to sit unemo-
tionally In a chair before the fire, after
q maid had taken her hat and gloves,
and try not to wait for Johns gentle
and courteous summons.
The room was chiefly soft gray satin.
Young women dream about such sitting
rooms on Park avenue, and try vicari-
ously to receive satisfaction from the
screens two dimensional copies. Oily
would lie back in a satin chair while
her maid brought a chiffon loungtng
robe. Young women Of all degrees dream
about such gray satin chairs, such chiffon
rest robes, such d~eferential maid service
Dilly had dreamed once. She could re-
call when she. returning home, was wont
to stand hopefully in the hall below
looking at the great carved doors OF the
library at her left. Was John homes
Did he need her help?
Even on Park avenue the Galahad H.
brary was held complete and uniquely
handsome. The great hall with its onyz
walls and rugs was the trademark, or the
birthmark, or some sort of mark, OF the
Galahad family. In America. where ira.
ditions are still questioned and under
cloud Of brevity, II not OF authenticity
that hall was traditional. Magazines
asked for photographs Of 1t; their edi'
tors, per young women secretaries, writ
ing correct letters OF thanks on the bes
bond paper. Two motion picture studio
had asked to use 1t for a super-spectacle
Johns mother had refused one. Blu
John, approached by the other, had givel
gentle consent.
Sometimes Oily recalled that when sh'
first entered 1t. six years ago, she hat
ecstatically how she could ever thank he
God for that hall and for Johns fore
head. Both were perfect.
Oily herself had a very nice forehead
The soft, white, medium high kind. Sh'
had the kind OF hair, too, that blows de
lightfully in a little breeze. And MIC
eyes, and a perfect chin. 1t is hardl,
likely that six years ago any one II
America hadn't seen Dilly's pretty cir
1d1Ct Wlb1 40 GAillAll6 SAldRJty apo uh'
wind flung hair. She smiled from smar
magazines, like La Mode and Prett
Women's Ways. In photogravure she wa
! repeated over all the smart world Of tw
continents.
She had. advertising writer's and artist
said, the college girl" face. 1t was no
wholly feature or coloring that made he
seem, II a chic felt hat and a whit
knitted sport suit, the sweet exponent c
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In her face, depending not on sweet curry
Of cheek, nor deep youthful blue eye'
nor even on the hair which Away
seemed wind flung. And the win
seemed to have been q nice, gentle, toni
wind, with a green golf course jus
around the bend, and q packed basket c
cold meats and salads just beyond 1t
blowing.
In short, Oily looked like that basi
birth, marriage and own your own hom'
Strange how vision turned backwar
has a magnifying effect. This day, sit
ting thoughtfully In her own gray sati
chair, Dilly tried not to remember ths
once in a very passion of love and HAP
piness she had poured out adjective
from a mental cornucopia on John. ST
had lain awake all night long and re
1ected rapturously what a lucky. luck
grill
For weeks she could not sleep peace
fully for telling herself what kind
man was John Galahad. She had M
attended to her work days for wonde]
ing what return she might ever mai
him for his great favor OF loving her
her, little Oily Wilson, hat and co,
model at a sporting veal shop.
Oily had not been unsophisticate
nor affectedly modest. She was Gil
| hnrn tho 6Q11phfar nf q Rr0OK1Un hOnl
keeper. She had graduated from a Brood
Ign high school, with her four years
Latin and adjusted semesters OF chen
istry, literature n medieval histor
Besides all that. sixty dollars a week, ar
an offer nearly every other week fro
some other high class shop OF sportiI
wear, a coaxing we will give you mo
than sixty offer, had not hurt Oily
natural self-respect.
She could hardly have been humb
minded with her income and the pettil
she got from advertisement writer's. N
could she have been entirely ~unsophist
Gated after having, for three season
tried on hats for the three Bohns sister
besides Donni the Aim actress, and
long string Of pretty ladies whose a
counts with shops on the avenue we
settled. but not by husbands or father
checks.
The three Bohns sisters were wealth
little orphans who raced from La
George to Palm Beach in married mel
cars and gibed at the wives left benin
: Donni, 1t was said, refused to leave M
York for Hollywood because she'd hea
the latter place had a four mile linn
She'd left school in the fourth grade, b
: knew life and. 1t was said, q police st
= ton or two. But she was a brave SC
who never omitted a damn nor a b
anecdote, because she foolishly felt til
being famous she ought to stand on /
dignity among shop girls.
She and the Bonns sisters and some
the pretty ladies often advised Dill
whom they admired. They told her I'll
she ought to get more out Of life, wi