The Coolidge examiner., 1932-04-22

home. A hOuSekeeper, a mother.
considerable social entity in the
/ community and a wife who fur
theTed the steady advancement of
the man of her choice. You could
not live in the quiet orderly and al
ways lovely environment created by
Helen, and not relax against its sed-
ative lure. If Norman had stopped
to question himself, which, ip the or
binary course of events, the busy
American business man does not, he
would have found within himself
contentment, pride and no small
amount of happiness.
Helen, who wore her hair in dark
loose pOrtieres over her ears and
caught low in a knot at the nape of
her neck, was in her very beauty
of repOse, the essence of what
man seeks in his marriage. In
way, although he did not pause to
realize it, Norman, with his slick,
short, tan hair, his square jaw,
which in America is the badge of
efficiency, his brisk tallor-made
manner and up-and-coming CONNER
cialism, was just as neatly hewn to
his environment.
The Norman Perrys. when their
children were six and eight and ten,
were the sort Of young people who
are coming on" Norman, already
a rich man on his own effort, was
about to inherit his fathers busi-
ness, as well as certain important
real estate holdings which would
accrue to him through Helen, whose
parents had died.
1t was about then that the Perrys
| decided to use their bungalow as ga
| rage and servants quarters, and
erect on the site of the old parental
mansion. a new and even more pre-
tentiOus home.
II was one of those success stories
of a normal. up-and-cOming little
I family working its way up and up in
its prosperous community. Clean,
rather cautious, conservative living;
| good strong locals; we'll educated
children, social advancement, travel,
comfort and praiseworthy old age.
Mrs. Norman Perry, as the vice
| president of the largest wOman's
club in Cincinnati, patroniZed every
| important musical enterprise in
town, sponsored cultural events.
community sings and was a mem
/ Der of the board of one of the city's
largest charity hospitals.
Norman, as president of two cor
pOrations, officer in a bank, presi-
dent OF a MONDAY club and pillar of
a church and several philanthropic
organizations, marched onward to-
ward millions.
LiKe every other radical conserv-
ative, however, he has his blind
spots" as Helen laughingly puts
it. 1t was his wish, and she abided
by it, although she counts it as one
of her most wifely sacrifices, that
she cut her lovely flowing hair and
wear 1t in a mop Of curls on her
head. II subtracts in dignity but
does, 1t must be admitted, lend a
certain air of insOuciance to her
placidity. With her hair shorn and
worn "mopped," something gay and
almost a little naughty seem to crop
out in Helen.
Norman adoreS it.
Another of his blind spots" was
his iDsistence for a den, In the attic
part of the new house. after an
architect had already planned him a
luxurious one on the second floor.
Perry's choice, however. was for one
of those slanting-roofed. garret
corners. where he has geraniums
growing along the window sills and
al! sorts Of fantastic charcoal draw
ings on the wall. For all the world.
laughs Helen, like one of those Paris
garrets you read about, where Tril.
by lived and loved.
In this garnet, sometimes 1t seems
to Helen. strangely aloOf from her,
Norman spends hours and hours.
COIette has married, too. The
rather pOmpOus owner of a pats
serie in whose shop she fits about
all day, helping him to succeed.
He is a rOugh-haired. half blond,
rather charming French fellow,
adOres his wife and makes no secret
of it.
In her way. Colette returns his
homage. She has done much toward
! toning him into a more impressive
type of business man. Especially, in
the years since marriage. has his ap-
pearance changed
She has worked over his head un-
til. instead of the tOw-headed
rough haired fellow she married, he
has been metamorphOsed into a sort
of American-busineSs- looking
person. with slick fiat tannish hair
that gives him a look of efficiency.
More Hairy Than Apes
Scientists state that human he
ings. generally, have more hairs on
| their heads than some of the aDpS