New Britain herald., 1928-01-14

if you don't eat it pretty quick.' she said sadly.
 But Lily was finn. She had had too many months of badly-serve'l meals on cotton tablecloths to put up with anything but exactly what she wanted now and for fifteen minutes she had been thinking how pleasant it would be to eat it here before the cheerful little fire in the grate. with a magazine at her elbow and cushions piled behind her back. Put on something clean and bring tho food in here." she said stub bornly. and with a rumblinG sigh Hester Belle vanished from the doorway.
 When she was gone Lily sat won- dering why her mother had turned 1 the whole houss over to such a creature in her absence. She seemed so incompetent
 "I suppose .:nc did it to save m money." she decided, and then she went on thinking how wonderful it l would be to be married to q man who could afford whole army Of servants. All Of them properly dressed. too!
 She closed her eyes and could see herself having breakfast in bed, all wrapped up tn d sick-jacket, with wrapped up in a silk bed jacket, with her hair in a cloud of gilded copper around her head. when sh4 was married 10 :Staley. Yes, she would have breakfast in bed every morning, and real rose 1 both crystals in her tub, and tho new sweat-pea perfume to spray all over her clothes before she put them on to 20 to some gay party or tther.
 And she never would put her hands into greasy gray dish water She never would have blisters and bruises and broken nails from hard work again. Never!
 "1 certainly never am going 10 , marry for love again." she solemnly , promised herself as she watched the , maid set up a little lacquered cerd table and cover it with a lace-edgei cloth.
 1 No. :hc thing for girl to do- the really smart thing was 10 marry money and then settle down 10 spend it in doing and having all | the things she wanted to do and to have.
 This business of marrying man because he thrilled you was all very well while the honeymoon lasted I But honeyn,oons always come to 8 too soon end. and then there has to be something else to take its place and what better thing was there than money"
 Nothing. It's the only thing that can really give you a good time in this world" Lily decided. Love i cant do it." Her maria ,e to Pat had taught her that, she ;old herself No one ever had been more in love tha n she ! had been with Pat France, and nc one had ever been more unhappy poverty stricken wife than she had l.een. Love wasn't enough to build happiness upon.
 1 As she sat there, drinking the best cream- -of-ceIery soup she ever had had m her life, the telephone rang in the pantry at the end of the din- i ing room. across the hall It startled her It vas so many months since she lad had tele- phone in the house that the sound ot it was unfamilar to hnS-and be- @ use she had been without one for so long the very tinkle Of it's bell : seemed like luyury.
 S;bc beard Christine hurrving "a answer ,t, and then there was a long silence
 She finished her soup and ate the i crackers on the plate beside it. She picked up the little green glass bel, that Hester R He had set upon the tahcl and rang it
 Thera was no snsH.r No sound ot Hester Belle's flip-Nopping slip rors coming hack across the dining : room
 Sh" rang aga,a More dead silence followed
 Fullcus'v angry hv th,s time, Lily threw down her napkin and jumped | up from the table What was the matter with that idiot of girl anyway Didn't she realize that she was serving meal and that ,t wal twenty minutes since she had carried the soup in and set if down.
 Shes probably talking over the
 phone to some sweotie of hers" il, said 10 herself. Although I cant Imagine creature like that havine anyone in love with her. If anybody is, he must have 8 fine eye for knicll-kna cks.''
 She stood still at the baize-cover- "I door of the pantry and put her car 10 the crack She had been right Th" maid vas talking 10
 'EHertra' hrvonl all doubt. and he . vas crying as she talked 10 him.