The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-04-22


for his reactions under the hell of
conditions of war. No more about il.
AS if it had not happened. Forgive.
Forget.
And so. as the saying goes. they
were married and lived happily.
There was a bungalow adjoining the
parental home in the beautiful suburb
outside of Cincinnati. A lovely SET
ting. with rock garden and tudor
living room and a gun-metal. stream
line. family sedan in the two-car ga
rage.
Helen, beautiful, dutiful and right,
was proper complement 10 such
home. housekeeper, a mother, a
considerable social entity in the COM
nlunity and wife who furthered the
steady advancement of the man of her
choice. You could not live in the
quiet orderly and always lovely envi-
ronment created by Helen, and not re-
lax against its sedative lure II Nor
man had stopped TO question himself,
which. in the ordinary course of
events, the busy American business
man does not, be 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 ana
caught low in a knot at the nape of
her neck, was in her very beauty of
repoSe, the essence of what a man
seeks in his marriage. In a way, al
though he did not pause TO realize it,
Norman. with his slick, short, tan
hair, his square jaw, which in Amer
lea is the badge for efficiency. his
brisk tailor-made manner and up-and-
coming commercialism, was just as
neatly hewn TO his environment.
The Norman Perrys, when their chill
dren 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 10
inherit his fathers business, as well
IS certain important real estate hold
ings which would accrue TO him
through Helen. whose parents had
died.
II 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 man.
sion, new and even more pretenti-
Gus home.
II was one of those success stOries
of a normal, up-and-coming little FAM
lily working its way up and up in its
prosperous community. Clean, rather
cautious. conservative living; good
strong ideals; well 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 impor-
tant musical enterprise in town, spon-
sored cultural events, community sings
and was a member Of the board of one
of the city's largest charity hospitals.
Norman, as president of two cor
porations. officer in a bank, president
of a MONDAY club and pillar of
church and several philanthropic or
CARNATIONS, marched onward toward
millions.
Like every other radical conserva-
tive, however. he has his blind spots
as Helen laughingly puts it. 1t was
his wish. and she abided by If, al
though she counts it as one of her
most wifely sacrifices, that she cut
her lovely flowing hair and wear it in
a mop of curls on her head. II sub
tracts in dignity but does, it must be
admitted lend a certain air of insouci-
ance to her placidity. With her hair
shorn and worn ''mOpped." something
gay and almost a little naughty seems
to crop out in Helen.
Norman adores it.
Another Of his blind spots" was his
insistence for den, in the attic part
of the new house, after an architect
had already planned him luxurious
one on the second floor. Perry's
choice. however, was for one Of those
slanting-roOfed, garnet corners, where
he has geraniums growing along the
window sills and all sorts Of fantastic
charcoal drawings on the wall. For
all the world. laughs Helen, like one
of those Paris garrets you read about,
where Trilby lived and loved
In this garrett. sometimes it seems to
Helen. strangely aloof from her, Nor
man spends hours and hours.
Colette has married. too. The rath-
er pompous owner Of patisserie 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 until,
instead of the tow-headed. rough
haired fellow she married. he has
been metamorphosed into a sort of
Observation-Disclosures looking per-
son, with slick fat tannish hair that
give him a look of efficiency.