Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-15

Might be good thing, Dot, the
best thing In the world. Lucille takes
things too hard-motherhood and the
| house. Well get my mother or Mother
Martin to take the children-they will
be glad to--they never see enough of
| them as it is"
I Suddenly Lucille found the plans
lifted out of her own hands. There
were telephone calls. long converse
tions. 1t was decided that Lucille should
go TO camp and that Mother Martin
would take care of Junior and Mary
that Harvey would eat breakfast in
town and go alternately to the Abbotts
and the Martins for dinner and supper.
Best thing in the world for you,"
he told Lucille, just as If he had planned
the entire trip himself.
If I were single again" she had
said, and here she was-single again
in a way. She packed her suit case,
putting in MILDLY blouses, knickers,
| new bathing suit. one simple evening
dress. 1t seemed impossible-and 1t
was true. 1t seemed incredible, even
| when she reached the train and kissed
Harvey and Junior and Mary and told
Harvey to write to her.
Write every day. Address my letters
just Lucille Abbott-no Mrs. I'm sup
ton, you know. not married woman"
| THE trip was long and rather tire
some, and Lucille was worried about
the children. Her mother hat known
what to do when she was a BABY, but
would she know what to Go for Junior
and Mary?
Dot kept her from getting blue. She
chatted about the camp and the girls.
For heavens sake" she said. don't
pull anything about being married-or
about keeping house and having babies.
Pretend you really are-well. an indie
pendent woman
Camp, finally! A big hall. where you
could sit at night before big open
fire, and they used 1t for dancing and
for eating indoors. when the weather
was bad Little cottages, each one big
enough for four or six girls. cook
house. where busy cooks prepared ep-
| petizing dishes for girls who we're all
/ ways hungry. You slept rather late In
| the morning and then put on a bath
| ing suit and spiashed In the clear shall
| lows.
In the afternoons you went bathing
| or slept and then played tennis on the
| grass courts that the girls made them
| selves. You chopped wood for the fire.
| place In the big hall. At night you
| danced, Some of the girls had callers
| from the hotel nearby. men whom they
| had met there or who had come up to
| be near them. She had never been
| camping in all her life. After the first
| day or two Junior and Mary and Har-
/ vey. all of Kensington, faded into the
I background. You could visualize them
! when you thought Of them-Junior,S
| round. funny. dear little face--his heir
| that wouldn't stay combed: Mary's soft
| skin and big eyes. Harvey's rather SOL
| cmn expression. nice profile, though:
| the house--the dishes. sweeping. dress
ing and undressing the children.
| Instead. there we're days of walking in
| the woods and wadjng and resting
/ under the trees
| II told YOU you'd like 1t up here. -
| Dot said. why. you're different per-
/ son. You were getting to be like all
| those other married women i'm Ken
/ sington. Lucille. You've got to be care
| ful-not let yourslf eo~-the way you
! look, / mean. wish you weren't mar
| ried-tied down"
EVERY night the four girls who
- shared their cottage 5000 Imogene
Brooke and Dolly Fordham and Hor-
| tense Plat and Marion Jones--would
| talk. They were all girls In business
| or professional life In New York, all
| successful. In way
| They talked about business and about
| New York, about the theaters and the
| restaurants--and about marriage. They
had a lot to say about most things
| Little enough about marriage. "A girl
| Is fool to get married too early. I'm
| going to be careful not to get tied up
| to the wrong man-~too hard to get
| free again" Lucille didn't say a great
| deal. Some of her thoughts began. IF
/ were single again"
| Saturday nights girls at the camp
went over to the big hotel on the lake
| Here was huge dancing pavilion, and
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