New Britain herald., 1930-11-26
NEW HAPPINESS

Not until they were on the train. not until they We're leaving Phlladcl- phia. could Fanny believe it was not a dream. Juueuo settled herself comfortably in a corner of their compartment.
 Your David IS q bit Of Puritan. is he not?'
 wen he has terrible con- science"
 That is d pity. And vet he has a hint Of the cavalier about his mouth. He is not cold-your David, And evidently he has an eye for beauty. You must not kaep him 100 long in Cloughbarre."
 T keep him" burst our Fanny. To anyone ay open and natural as tanny it had been an almost intoI- .rable strain to keep her troubles to herself, and she had had no conti- dant since Amelia left. With very little encouragement. a word here and there, a sympathetic murmur or tNo. she poured out 10 Ju]ierJe the worries 1nd disappoiutments, cha -rins and hunilIauons Ot the past month. nave only one. lHer deep est troub.1, her deepest disappoint- ment she could not talk of)
 T lived with my husband : mother for six years you can teIi me nothing of what ir means" said Juliette. when Fannys tale was =t last finished. "Madro was q subtle old devil. IL was her plan to bury me in the country, producing an off spring every year. while AlIessan- fro played about and had his little Affairs"
 Do you never see him" asked Fanny tir1idly.
 "oh. yes. occasionally AlIcssan- dro has periods Of being excessive lv fond Of mo. Unfortunately I can't bear him l pay him 10 stay away"
 Fanny vas amused shocked,
 What are your children lIhco' she asked to break the silence.
 Unfortunately they are all like their father - I can't bear them eIther. except for a week or two at d time" said Julietto, regretfully. ''Ah, but 1 lave shocked you. I am always forgetting that 1t is a crime 10 speak frankly"
 'Oh, do go on being frank. I'm such provincial but I adore be- ing shocked. I'm the one usually who does the shocEing.'
 May I ask what you do that is so shocking ."
 "Oh, nothing nteresting-stupid piffling nothings like laughing in the wrong places, hobnobbIng with the -hoi polloL forgetting my dignity as Mrs. David Brownbeck Frost,'
 When you are a little older. my Fanny, you will find that women who arc not naturally playful are extremely suspicious Of playfulness in other women Men on the other hand adore il.
 Bob Daniels has told me much of your family really more mine than yours. I confess I was dlssap- pointed not to find them more for midahle. Europe is full of similar clans - 9. little less kindly. a little more closely knit and more ruthless to outsiders because fearing to be dispossessed Of their special priv ilcges - they think Of them as rights. I am afraid you take the family far too serioUsll.'
 T know l do" said Fanny deject- edly, but i-'s so hard not 10. Some of them ike me-'tousiu Louisa. for instance, likes me q lot. and she't q lovely kindly person. but even she has the family holier- er-than-thounes to a superlatiye degree. They're all 50 frightfully scIf-satisfiad, they al- ways know exactly what they think never have the slightest doubts about anything. And they do the funniest things. When Leila bought q new lamp in Philadelphia. Cousin Emmeline and Sarah Brownbeck promptly ordered repIicas.
 And they all have the same makes Of cars, Uncle Judd or some- body decided years ago on q cer- tain not very expensive kind and if you offered them the best car made at the same price they'd think you were trying to do them.
 Amelia, Davlds sister, says one of the seven wonders of the world is group of Brownbecks in church, announcing in unison that they are miserable sinners. She