Evening star., 1928-12-30

hurt Mrs. Curley's feelings. Shed tell
Louise to go on somewhere with Denis,
but when Louise got back she'd find
that her mother had been crying.
AS Denis got more and more in ear
nest, Mrs. Curley liked him less and
less. Where she used to say he was so
handsome, now she'd add lin rather
coarse sort of way" If he'd sit down
and play and sing in a crowd, she'd
laugh little superiority and say he was
showing off, She didn't talk any more
about his being ambitious. Now she
called it reckless"
And when she discovered that his
ambition was to be a geologiSt and go
all over the world, she got just frantic.
She said that man with that idea
ought never to marry; that no girl
could be happy away off from every
body who was dear to her.
Denis began going around with a
hard, set look around the mouth, and
Louise got thinner and thinner and
whittier and whittier. Then Mrs. Curley
got sick. She told everybody that she
was afraid she wasn't going to get well.
Louise was perfect angel, took all the
care of her. Nobody knows what hap
pened, but all of sudden Denis O'Shea
left town.
Mrs. Curley got better right away
and began putting on weight again and
fairly blooming, till inside Of three
| months any one would swear 1t was
Louise who had had the serious illness
Everybody said what a wonderful
daughter Louise was and how devoted
she was to her mother. They went
everywhere together and they were so
thoughtful of each other. The rest of
us we're always having Louise Curley
held up to us as an example by our
own mothers.
If Louise hadn't been an awful peach,
this would have made us hate her. But
everybody liked her. Once in while
some one would say 1t was a little too
bad things hadn't been so she could
have married Denis; they had seemed
to be so terribly in love.
Still, everybody said, Louise would
find somebody else she'd like as well as
she did Denis and probably it was all
for the best. The only trouble was that
Louise hadn't seemed to find anybody
else And, once Dulcie had spoken OF
it, realized that this might be partly
on account of Louise and her mother
being such chums.
For one thing, Louise didn't get to
go to so many places where there were
men any more She and her mother
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sort of got into the way of inviting
them both when we were having an
afternoon bridge party but not to oul
evening parties when there were to be
men. Evening things are usually ir
couples, and Mrs. Curley would have
made an odd woman. We all liked hel
too we'll to hurt her feelings by moi
. asking her, so We just got in the way
, of counting Louise out, too.
Besides, after Denis went away, Lou
Use didn't seem so attractive, anyway
She and her mother went to Chicago
, to buy their clothes, and being just o.
, a size they got to buying things they
, could change back and forth with each
! other. These looked very young anC
dashing on Mrs. Curley, but they wer'
! likely to be little bit old for Louise
: Most of the other girls bobbed thei
hair, but Mrs Curley didn't like shor
I hair, so Louise kept hers long, which
: made her look little older, too. Il
: fact, the old compliment began to b
! almost true-that Mrs. Curley didn'
/ look a day older than her daughter
j This was half because Mrs. Curle
{ looked so young for her age, but tn
i other half because Louise was begin
ming to look old for hers.
e Then we had all begun havin
: families. Louise would always be tn
e first one to call to see every baby