Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1930-09-05
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THE special rushed on into the
suburbs. To the passer-by, Mary
Katherine sat serenely In the
.. rear coach with the baby on her
lap. To her own thought, under the
stress Of prlcking conscience, she
felt far from serene; she had been
brought up under many stern adm0-
nitions. She could hear her mother
saying this very minute: "Never lis
ten to what doesn't concern you,' and
yet she had heard the personal and
social affairs Of two young passengers
who sat directly across the aisle.
She had tried looking out of the
window and humming softly to her
self. She didn't dare cough as that
would wake the baby. Never had she
tried so persistently not to hear and
yet to remember the wonderful things
about Society" she had never dreamed
could happen. They just seemed to
know everything from the way to set
stylish dinner table, to making wa
ter waves In their hair and cooking a
live lobster.
Everything they possessed, she and
Jim, was ugly and common. How could
the tall green glass candlesticks the
lady with the blue hat owned, ever
stand up on their shaky old table, es-
pecially If Jim put his feet on 1t after
his dinner. AS she summed 1t up, her
name, Mary Katherine, was the only
stylish thing she possessed. .s .f
The old lady, Mary Cordelia, had
just finished buying gold framed
picture called, "Sun-Kissed Hills" It
would shame the room where she and
Jim sat. Presently she remembered
the hills back home on her fathers
farm; they were pretty when the sun
kissed them. Maybe the red lacquer
Mary Cordelia had. used that morning
on her furniture would cheer things
up for her and Jim. Jim just loved
red, and so did the baby. There they
were talking again.
you've just got to settle down and
please that husband of yours, Mary
Cordelia. / haven't one or much Of
anything but the people with whom
oooOSialCI hhC " huNE
"My sakes!" gasped Mary Katherine,
"she wants her friends to have an
automobile and radio machine, sup
pose. That's my stern judgment of
her but-there she's talking again and
l just can't stop listening" f
you should give up that silly no
tel apartment, where hubby gets his
feet tangled up. So many lamps and
chairs are trying. You know he Just
longs for a place where he can grow
radishes and onions. Then everything
you had could match"
Mary Katherine closed here eyes In
feeble protestatlon. So everything
must match. Nothing she owned had
ever matched except the pink things
for the baby which her mother had
sent. Maybe II wasn't wrong to re-
member the things about Society"
But the lady's poor husband--she
must forget she ever had heard about
that. They had garden, she and
Jim, but 1t was full of sticks and pools
Of muddy water.
JilH Huu UeeH lOO Duby Ut LHt MILLS
to plant grass. He must rest after
his hard days work in the heat Of the
furnaces. She couldn't spoil his eve
ming with her and baby Selma. For a
moment the barrenness of their home
overcame her Her tears woke the
baby. ....
There, loyey, hush" she crooned.
"We always had trees on grandaddy's
farm, and places where the robins
could build nests. There were roses
and apples. loyey. But things didn't
match there. either" ~
Thoro ovorv ana ,o.,oo hru.,a,
- ,.,sad M, y" 80 S
them or course sbe would nevar he
able to sbine I'm "SoctetvD hrt sho
meant IN buv a nair ~ oraan oios.
candlestIcks and n not ~ Iocnuer
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Surrounded ber the rords ei,oa 'a,,b
the Monday,s washing while ovsrhood
rolled the smoke from the mills She
watched its incessant Iangorous swlrl
back To the Mace where lin worked
Half frightened. she suddenly decided
" a9A "iS u"uuy !" Sp"ue UP their