Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-26

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The marriage of Byrd Hamilton
and Larry Browning, asuccessful
young business man from Cleveland.
was one of unusual simplicity and
beauty; but several factors Of deep
significance to her happiness, caused
an uneasIness in Byrd's mind, even
during the ceremony, and within the
next few years grew into a definite
anxiety. Larry had ~undoubted mag
netism and charm that women could
not resist, which already had
brought him a dubious success in
business. lie had become the center
of a young crowd whose only inter-
ests in life were jazz, speed and
money.
Larry's friends became 4 porma-
nent entertainment committee con-
stantly planning dinners and parties.
The group consisted Of Tiny and
Fred Obcrman. who made a fortune
in rather doubtful enterprises; Jack
Duncan, who made love q all women
aud who was INSCRIPTIONS ia bust
ness; his wife, Marcy, who had
broken under the care of their three
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her indifferent husband; Chef Ever
son and India Campbell, known as
the "Wildcan" and q former sweet
heart Of Larry's.
Byrd was distressed over Larry's
extravaganza, his inability to give
her a monthly allowance when he
was paying large sums 10 his boot
logger, and his engagements with
India. Just the night before he and
India had gone some where % dine
and dance.
Yesterday, in hurrying TO Mar
house TO help her with her sick baby,
Byrd had damaged a fender. Know
ing that Larry had seen IL, she de-
cided to admit the accident and ex-
planned that she had expected TO pay
the bill from a savings account Of
three hundred dollars which her
father would send. As a matter Of
fact. Larry and India had had an ac-
cident the night they went 70 the
dance, which had obliterated the scar
Byrd had inflicted.
Byrd allowed herself % be per-
suaded by Larry to ask her father
for a loan 20 buy some stock in the
Acme Axle. based on reliable infor-
NATION. When Byrd suggested that
they invest the wedding gift Of five
thousand dollars her father had
made them, Larry confessed that il
had already been spent on "hiFh-
priced honey-moons, the new car,
pre-war debts, etc" Larry had a
casual way Of talking about thous-
ands as most people talk Of pennies
or dollars.
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Byrd sighed and shook her golden,
bird-like head as if il couldn't cope
with the most %exasperating problems
Of the universe, nor ever find an
nswer TO that most perplexing
enigma, how 20 manage a husband.
"No woman can ever make a man
see the errors Of his ways hy con-
Stantly pointing them out TO him.
She just better wait for a ton of
bricks TO fall IN his head and knock
him unconscious she said. half
aloud; but she wagercd in the same
breath that Larry would escape The
avalanche before IL came.
If only she could train herself to
have a separate existence outside Of
Larry. just rs he had outside of her.
instead Of being always So hopeless
~ conscius Of her love for him.
She wondered IL that arc-old philo-
sophical truth would ever change.
MANS love is Of mans life n thing
apart.
lis woman's whole exictcncc.'
Then she had agreed 10 stand by
Larry "for better. for worse
Even if "for worse" was far more
terrifying than her brave. little
mind could ever have anticipated.
Byrd shook herself impatiently
out Of this meditative state. She
had been %brooding altogether too
much lately.
She'd hustle around and 20 e. tho
bank to get the money for the fender
that Chef had promised her.
But before Byrd ever put her
little foot cut the door. She paid
tribute to her mothers training ny
observing and abbreviated program
of her housekeeping rites.
She opened the windows wide all