Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

~ different from the others O
their home crowd.
John was dark eyed, tall, straight
Louise was blondish. SmalliSh and boy
tsh bobbed. She wore her remarkably
good clothes with a remarkably smart
air. They had always done the same
sort Of thing, said the same sort Of
thing and apparently thought the same
sort of thing as the men and girls they
danced and played round with. Ado
to this that they were much in love
with each other and were to be married
1T seems very usual sort of picture.
But they had, out of earshot of Their
respective families, planned in detail a
future that had in it nothing in COM
mon with their environment and as
Sociations.
After the big, formal wedding, which
was a concession to the old-fashioned
tastes and conventional inhibitions OF
their parents, they were going to do as
they pleased. They would rent an apart
1nent in the city-no suburban home
for them - and then - "Whoops live
their own lives, be themselves truly,
let loose all the repreS ions of their mar
row upbringing and become eventual
leaders in the most interesting group of
creative workers in the world" The
quotation is theirs.
John would have to go on with the
Job he had found six months before,
when he got out of college. 1t was Sti-
fling to his talents, but landlords want
the rent in cash and grocers and BUTCH
ers are not benevolent philanthropistS.
Clothes. laundry, electric lights, gas, ice
all the materialism of life must be
paid for in a material medium. How
ever, as soon as John had written his
great novel he was going to devote him.
self exclusively to his art. sometimes
he called it his art, sometimes his
craft
Louise had an art bug, too. Hers was
for painting. She adored it, but she
had never had chaince to study prop
erly, for the teacher in the finishing
school where she had been graduated
was hopeless-why, she actually believed
that good drawing is the best basis of
all good painting.
Their personal lives were to be COM
plete freedom. I'VE will come and go
as we like, absolutely" said John. IT
will never dream of asking you where
you have been or what you have been
doing. You will have your friends and I
will have mine. OF course, darling, I'll
always want to go out with you and we
may happen to like the same people,
but if we don't, it's going to be per-
fectly all right"
ST never could see," answered Louise,
''why people, when they marry, should
lose their individual entities"
Exactly. OF course, the great point
IN our being SO free of responsibility, to
each other, mean, is that it leaves us
our very best strength for our work.
No jealousy, no petty solicitude, none of
the thousand little chains that married
people put on themselves and glory in.
So, with our minds unencumbered by all
that trash, we shall be able to 60 at
eur work with all our strength"
do you mean by petty solicitude that
I'm not to look out for getting nice
meals or send your clothes to the laun-
dry?"
about both of those things"
MY goodneSS-when think of how
Dad carries on if the dessert isn't what
he likes, and the way he roars about
his collars-oh. John, darling, you are
so Splendid There never was any one
in the world like you.'
To which John made the only answer
possible. It was not a verbal one. And
there the matter rested.
4 X X
THEY let no word of their heretical
- ideas escape during the parties
preceding the wedding, nor would any
one in their native town have imagined
that these two good-looking young
things who trailed down the aisle after
the ceremony, in all the bravery of
wedding attire, were in any way differ
ent from the men and girls who attend
ed them. Louise cut her wedding cake
with a great silver-handled knife, and
John stood beside her, trying to look
sophisticated and detached, but in re-
atty, looking very, very proud and very,
very young.
She was so lovely, so sparkling, so
appealing, that John Severine forgot all
about his freedom and remembered only
that he was her lover and her husband
1t was enough to be young and in love,
But, when they came to choosing an
apartment, they found they had not
shed all the old out-worn ideas of their
kin and kind They we're not content
with mere picturesqueness-gney want
ed steam heat and hot water, and ven
tilation and cleanliness.
1t took them some time to find what
they wanted, but, at last, they got 1t, a
big room, a small bedroom, Kitchen
cite, two closets and bathroom. Since
Louise had asked that most of their
wedding presents should be money, they
had no difficulty in furnishing their
rooms very we'll indeed, and there was
a balance in the bank with which she
purposed to pay for her first seasons
art lessons.
1t was charming. their diminutive
home. and she kept it exquisitely. MOI
did she neglect the food she served. She
couldn't attempt much in the kitchen
cite, where even elbow room was at q
premium, but it was all simple and de.
licious.
IT never had so much fun in my life,
she told John. Its like playing house.
But they were not exactly getting or
with their work or their brave adven.
turing plan of life. 1t was much pleas.
anter to sit after supper before the fire
and talk than for John to get out hi
typewriter and begin new chapter o.
The Book. Louise didn't want to pain'
at night, because the artificial igh
made all the colors look different; be-
sides she hadn't seen John for eigh
hours. and there were millions Of things
to tell him.
Presently they began to know people
in the neighborhood, and they were ex
actly the sort of people they had plan
ned to know. One of the girls who liVet
in the front apartment on their moo
came in to ask to borrow some chair
for a party. She wore smock ant
said her name was Kathi Loree, and sh
asked John and Louise If they wouldn'
come to the party.
"You ought to chaperon your chairs,
she said. Besides, you won't be abb
to sleep-it'S going to be noisy"
"Oh, we'd love to come" said Louise
Shed been dying to find out about tina
front apartment.
And, for Pete's sake, don't doll up
said Kathi She looked about the apart
ment well, this is very catsy. Yer
catsy indeed" she said. Thanks TO
the chairs. I'll come over for EN- jus
before the party starts. about g."
I'll bring them" said John.
Thanks, that's good kid"
After Kathi had left John said: Ssh
was rather pretty, don't you think?"
II think her smock was rather dirty,
anid Than cha hacoYaa lass &C