The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-12-27
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Youth Will Be
Served
By MARIE MARSH
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L
ito that dance"
Tom Gleason looked sympathetically
from his post before the chiffonier,
where he was struggling with the
studs of his evening shirt. Il sup
pose we've got to co.
"Oh, l suppose So said the young
wife, now carefully brushing the COZ
lar of Toms evening coat as it lay
on the bed. "Housework anG the twins
are nothing to compare with what
have to undergo for that younger set
l promised to chaperOn them. Grace
Hayes will meet us at the clubhouse
and will be back for the night. Your
brother, l suppose, will be there and
he'll want the other spare room.
thought once we'd pull off a match
with them"
"Them," echoed Tom sneeringly.
"They're just like the rest of the
younger set. Crazy for excitement
they'll never settle down aud have
real happiness the way we did"
SO the Gleasons, clad in their best,
went to the dance at the country club,
leaving the slumbering twins in the
custodanship of the maid of all work,
who also slumbered in her room.
An hour later Jim Gleason tried the
front door of the Gleason suburban
home, found it locked and made an
unceremOniouS entrance through a
partly open front window. He found
a pair of slippers and a smoking
jacket of his brothers in downstairs
hall closet. A foraging expedition in
the kitchen resulted in some crulers
of his sister-in-law's baking and some
apples. He filled his pipe with his
brothers tobacco, poked the embers,
threw on Il fresh log and sat down to
enjoy ali the comforts of home.
At 1880 he heard a knock at the
front door and opened it to see Grace
Hayes, in day clothes with an over
night bag in her hand
81 thought you'd be at the dance"
she said.
NO. draNled James. 81 can't stand
the pace. | said | might come, but
it was only for an excuse to spend
the night here. How these married
people want to cad about as they do
/ can't see. With a home like this
have a cruIler and an apple" he inter
ruptcd. Gee, if l had Il little house
like tbs and a wife, believe me, I'd
stay at home! But then we're differ.
emit"
Grace looked wistfuly into the fire.
Il Know she saiG Girls are differ.
ent now--more serious"
There was long and rather pain.
full pause. Then James Gleason bent
toward Grace, who was sitting up
straight in her chair. Grace, won't
YOU marry me?'
"No,' Grace said, still very wistful.
II think l would marry you if l mar
ried anyone, Jimmy, but I'm afraid of
marriage. 1t seems to change people
so. I'm afraid that once | was mar.
ried I'd be like your sister-in-law. And
you might change about and be as
mad about dancing and excitement as
Tom"
Then one or two of the twins walled
out from the floor above, and Grace,
with James in her wake, fed to the
nursery. They We're busy executing
requests for drinks of water when
Tom and Mabel let themselves in the
front door below.
"Well, we're back again to home,
sweet home" said Tom.
James and Grace went noiselesslv
down to the landing where they could
see them. Then Tom leaned toward
Mabel and took her hand in his.
There's nothing like it, is there, little
wife," he said. "AIore than ever |
can't understand the point of view of
the younger set. There's my brother,
jim, could marry any day he wanted
to-
"And there's Grace" continued
Mabel. "She's Independent herself.
She wouldn't have to wait for man
to support her"
Il guess they are different. They
don't know the meaning of home.
Here we went over to that dance on
purpose to get them together and
they didn't even come. 1 suppose
something more exciting kept them
both"
There would have been more of this
sort of thing between the GIeasons if
Grace had not missed a step on the
stairway. She gave very little
scream and chung to jim. The Glea-
sons hurried to the hall and snapped
on the electric light that showed
Grace being upheld with unnecessary
tenacity by Jim.
eve didn't mean to overhear YOU"
said Grace.
1--WE heard all we needed" Jim
laughed. eve heard enough to know
that you and Tom are home folks,
after all. Somehow l think that what
we heard is going to make a big diff
ference in our lives"
Perhaps they whispered something
or perhaps they said it aloud or per-
haps they understood each other lust
by an exchange of glances. No one Of
the quartette just remembered how it
happened later. But there on the
landing Grace told Mabel and Jim told
his brother Tom, and there were cen