Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1931-08-28
WHEN *
YOUTH IS
DONE
s-s
By FANNIE HURST


"t p 49, -S1xrASrT g. n,
n sOMETTMEs seemed 70 Estelle
winters that she could reckon al
most TO the DIV when the first
realizations that she had reached
n specific milestone In her life had
rushed over her.
IT was not SO much that her mirror
told her that she was fading and that
the jonquiI-yellow of her hair was
running to pallor or that her blue
ewes were weakening. but there was
a tolling note inside the heart of Es-
telle which said youth is done"
"youth ia done" "youth Is done"
A conspiracy of circumstances
brought about this conscious termina-
tion of the golden glow that had al
ways characterized Estelle Winters.
Life had not been easy for her. Twen-
tv wears of singing in the cafes OF
the large cities of the Far West had
exacted their tribute. Twenty years
of the solitary struggle to rear in in
tegrity and innocence. glrl-chlld
with the beautiful name of Rosalinda.
had told in strain on Estelle
The latter she had ACCOMPLISHED
and tho latter sbe was willing to ra-
gard as her life work Indead Rosa.
linda was n fair enough monument to
ANYBODY. At twenty she was like a
flower slim. lovely fragile
And so IL was that when Rosalinda
was in tbis carly hloom Estalle win.
ters her mother taking ,nvantorv co
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the ever.widnnino crock in ber voice
was finished. the uneven race against
the flesh of veors az n sattlad on ber
bips and shoulders was ovar rs.
teile could sit back oniatlv NOW ma.
ticing but unnotjcad and lot tho voor
roll in
And more than all of tbasa EstalIa
could now keen fastened more ARMY
bar wotcbfuI owe on Rosolindo
This Girl whom bor mother voornod
IN nrotect from tho ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
that had haen hars wos now olso or,-
Moved in the same cafe where Es-
telle held tho throne Of cashier
Rosalinda's duties were light. At
noon she arrived, attired herself In a
peasant costume that enhanced her
loneliness. and moved with a tray Of
hot rolls In among the patrons of the
cafe. offering her dalnties as she slid
by the tables. At six o'clock Rosa
linda came on duty again, and was
free to leave the restaurant with her
mother somewhere shortly after ten
O'Clock.
1t meant that through all the work.
aday hours her mothers ewes were on
her. 1t meant they arrived together
and they departed together II meant
that whatever secret ambitions Law
smoldering In the heart of Estelle for
the daughter Rosalinda, for the pres
ent, at least, her plans for the future
were held in allegiance. Rosalinda was
literally under her mothers thumb.
as well as her eye. And the girl,
sweet and submissive enough at
twenty, and at the same time regard
ing her occupation MS only a stepping
stone toward the thing her heart
craved, submitted because of the
peace she realized she was able to
afford Estelle. a
They were rather a pathetic pair.
The husbandIess Estelle. the father
less Rosalinda. There had never
been husband. SO far as Rosalinda
could remember there had never been
a father; just the two Of them, play
ing their humble roles with a certain
submission, and yet the younger Of
them with a quality of rebellion fam
Ing In her blue eyes that had long
since died down In the eyes of the
older woman.
1t was hard to realize, after behold.
ing the loveliness that was Rosa
linda's, that this child had kept her
Innocence to a degree that was per.
lection. At twenty she lived like a
little girl. At twenty, she had never
been out In the company of n man
without the chaperonage Of her