The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-23

nave II, IL II meant uuIng Without
shoes.
I'll keep Dinah for a few weeks,
until l am perfectly strong" Gypsy
told him. "Then I'll let her go.
You'll see what splendid house
wife l can be-"
She decided not to argue with
Tom about Dinan-to let things go
along as they were for a while and
then. in a few weeks, quietly to
dismiss her. Dinah was. at best,
a slove handmaiden. She
brushed the middle of the room and
let the corners go.
So it was arranged that Gypsy's
resignation to the settlement house
was shortly rendered. and accepted
with the proper regrets. Both
Helen MARI and Blanche Jordan
came TO see her, bringing flowers.
being properly enthusiastic and
womanly and interested.
80 you're going to have a
baby!" Helen Mari sighed. She
didn't really envy Gypsy's state.
She liked her freedom, her little
apartment in Greenwich Village,
and the things she could do with
her moderate salary. Still-well,
there was something in this moth
erhood business, she said to her.
self. Maybe she was missing some.
thing.
"And when is it to be-" Blanche
Jordan snubbed her cigaret out in
the pewter ash tray.
"Oh. not for ages. Not until late
in September" Gypsy smiled at
them both, pouring tea out OF her
pretty china pot. She was going 10
miss them both. she told them, and
the work. too.
AS the weeks passed she came 10
draw on her reserves Of strength
and courage. True, she did have
moments of weakness and terror
when she wept in Toms arms, de-
claring she was afraid Of dying
women did die having babies, now.
adays. in spite of modern science
but usually she felt brave and hope
full and happy. Dinah vanished
from the scene, as Gypsy had
planned, and the little rooms be
came her very own, to keep sweet
and clean as she wanted them II
be. She knew the sharp Joy o.
creating new and delicious dishes
Of experimenting with a spoonful
| OF mushrooms and scraps of left
over chicken and half a cup 0.
rice. so that her young husband
looked up from his plate with sur
prise and delight, saying; This I:
just like the Ritz, darling. How
do you do it,"
A NEW cleaning woman, big
IA silent, strong-armed Swed'
named Elsa, came weekly. scrubbed
washed, swept and went away. Th'
pots were secured until they shont
and hung, twinkling, on theiI
hooks in the kitchen. The curtains
were starched and white, the floor
cleaned with wax. Gypsy was COM
pletely mistress of her little king
dom now and loved it. There wa
something about keeping hous
that got YOU"
She had not heard from Lii
since the day the latter had asked
her to go on the southern trip
From the society columns in TIT
daily papers she had brief flashes
of Lila's triumphant passage from
party to party. February driftet
out in a grayish thaw and Marcel
came in, all raw blue skies and In
/ clement winds. But the sun wa
warm, the radiators Kissed in tn
apartment living room, and Gyps,
did not envy her fortunate friend
Mako Broughton had been yer,
nice about the cataloguing 1ot
Gypsy has insisted on returning, a
the end of her convalescence. t
finish the work. Mako had me
her at the door, with outstretche'
hands, all sympathy because Of he
illness. Gypsy had taken the checl
he had offered. although she knew
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