Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-06-27

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JULIA met him at one Of those down
- town restaurants where light and
color and dancing and jazz are the
predominant notes. There were also
many pretty girls to gladden. the mas
culine eye.
Il wonder what pleasure you get
coming to these places2" Julia ques-
toned him and gazed frankly into his
glOom-tilled eyes. "You don't seem to
be hllarlously interested In your sur
roundings."
Donald Mills looked back at the in
telligent rather than pretty face of
the girl whom he had met half hour
before and smiled more or less pa
thetic smile.
II don't know. come, however,
nearly every evening-that is when
Pm not up at the Hargrave's fiat.
They don't mind my dropping in there
Il seem to go in spite of myself.
detest staying home"
whats the matter with homer"
asked Julia with her bright engaging
smile. "What is in your interior
that"
Donald actually laughed.
Chicken salad-for the moment and
soon | suppose 1t will be a cup of
black coffee"
After laughing with him she pur-
sued her subject. "Your home in
terror, l mean. What color?"
81 couldn't tell you. Green and red,
l fancy. Nothing startling except that
the walls are vicious shade of drab
green with brown trees all over them"
"How perfectly awful !" Julia, sensi-
tive to color in marked degree, shud.
dered. She recalled now the joyous
cheer of the Hargrave's fiat with its
warm orange and yellow ana Chinese
blue
TITS no wonder you can't stay
home" She looked eagerly at him and
wondered If she dare suggest that she
try her hand at Frightening up his
home She had done a fair number of
houses and was gradually working Up
a nice business of her own. II wonder
If you would let me decorate your
rooms for you-just as an experiment
in psychology" she finally asked II
do this type of work, but If you will
let me do your home | will do II at
my own expense It will be interest.
ing to me to know whether or not |
can make it possible for you to remain
at home evenings. A home,' she
added with one of the sweetest smiles,
should be place which lures mans
soul to it even when he is hard at
work in the Office"
IF you could make me think Of
dashing home-during business hours
just for the joy and peace of being
, there-well," Donald offered the incest
kind of smile to her, "then any ex-
pense you are put to will be more
than repaid. | fly at present from my
rooms as If hornets nest were
there"
When Julia had her first glimpse of
his rooms she drew back with the feel.
ing that a mad man had chosen the
things within them. However, she
took her courage In hand and went to
work to bring cheer and beauty where
the most profound ugliness held sway.
First thing Julia did was to send
the assorted collection of furniture,
oak, mahogany, birch, all to work
rooms have them made rich shade
of blue enamel and upholstered, where
necessary, In fine velvet to match.
CHI
She had the walls stripped of the
hideOus paper and lustrOus glazed
copper put on instead. All the wood
work was done to match the chairs.
She hung softest of gold curtains at
the windows and sent his fearful carpet
to the dyers to be made good shade
Of blue. She scattered few wonder
full Chinese cushions about and put In
two lamp shades Of old gold, one be-
hind the comfortable sofa and another
over his work table.
"But can't | come over once, just
to see how you are getting ONT" he
had asked her In the beginning when
she had turned him out TO board for
a few weeks.
"Not one peep until 1t Is all DONE"
Julia had Insisted.
Donald's bedroom she made all bun
and deep warm crimson.
"All men love red" she told herself,
ana was really pleased with the two
rooms when finished.
When Donald saw his rooms for the
h. Of
quiet admiration.
For the first time In several drab
years Donald had desire to Leave the
office and sink down into that wonder
full old chair under the lamp and read
It was only the beginning of Don.
old's more CHEEKY outlook. He even
began to have a few friends In and to
revel In the closer friendships that
the home atmosphere seemed to weld.
The old crowd seemed to meet in Don.
AIDS rooms now rather than In the
restaurants. A magnet drew them,
but they hardly realized that 1t was
the cOlorful atmosphere Of home.
Julia, on the other hand, had become
wee bit shy Her business. too, had
Increased and absorbed most Of her
time
It was Donald who mad become
frankly questioning. lie watched her
with complete alteration In bis eyes on
one rare occasion when she grnced his
party. Are you doing many bache
lors' rooms nowT he questioned her,
and when she nodded with deepcned
color. he asked. and Il" they MI fall
in love with your
"None Of them do" she said.
"well. then ~ tell you about one
who has" said Donald.
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