Evening star., 1935-01-13

broad ana reQ-cneeked ana
young, two girls, young and
slim and lovely. One wore q
white DRESS and q veil. and orange blossoms.
and she hoped she looked timid and shy but
her heart was serene and triumphant and per-
haps a little thankful too.
The girl beside her was thinking that the
best man wasn't bad at all. The best man
was thinking that it had to happen to every
body sooner or later. The groom was saying
to himself, Come on, you. it's no worse than
the Yale game" which shows how much he
knew about it.
The organ pealed; the mother of the bride
raised q tear stained face, and her father real
lied that 1t was not yet time to chuckle. He
liked the set of his son-in-laws shoulders; he
liked his family, and his fraternity, and his
foot ball record, and his fine solidity.
Solidity, that what the country needed;
the panic was bitter memory, and the depres-
sion was still long way from being over.
All, well, time passed, good times, bad times
You'd have q girl baby when you'd wanted
boy, and you'd find that you wouldn't trade
her for all the sons in the world. Before
you knew it your daughter was going to board
ing school, and you missed her terribly, and
suddenly she was grown up, and almost
stranger to you.
CHE had little ways you didn't like Bit
> She painted, and she sang common songs.
and used slang, and danced to vulgar music In
q way that was almost wanton. OF course, she
wasn't so different from any of her friends.
Everybody was doing it.
Agh! That was one Of the common songs
she sang. "Everybody's doing it, doing it, do
ing it," "Ev-ry little movement has q meaning
all its own" "An night long she calls him
Smoky -ookums, Snooky-ookums." In my
harem, harem, there's Rosie, Posie. josie"
Good heavens what were the kids coming to
these days? This one Of his, she couldn't cook,
she couldn't sew, and she had absolutely no idea
OF the value Of q dollar.
STILL she was certainly pretty and she must
have q little sense because he would bet q mill
lion dollars that this william B. Jennings she
was marrying on this lovely April morning in
the year 1910 would not dance any tangoes
whatever. but was doing right we'll, neverthe-
less. in the hardware supply business.
All of those quaint and now out-of-date
tunes Eleanor Jennings, nee Hunt sang to her
frst-born daughter, whose name was. and is,
Martha.
It's a nice, old fashioned name, isn't 1t? Well,
you just ought to see this Martha.
In the first place, she's awfully TALL almost as
tall as her father, and he's feet 10. She's not
exactly skinny, but-oh, well, she is skinny;
she weighs 126 pounds It's all fighting weight,
too.
She's not bad looking, in a way Got big,
blue gray eyes, which are generally sort of hos
tile. Got nice white teeth. Got dimples. Does
not look all fluffy and cuddly. Isn't. either.
and pent houses.
What, then. does she love You guessed it.
She loves the great outdoors, athletics, things
that go fast, such as surf-boards and all like
that.
This, then, is Martha. Do you think you'd
like her? Check Still, there are those who
go for these tall young Atalantas and among
them Is, was and probably will be Henry H.
Norris, Sd. He likes Martha. He likes her a
lot.
IENRY is S feet 8. which is not exactly
being q pigmy, either. Tom Sharkey was
not much taller. and Mickey Walker is shorter
than that. Henry weighs 140, and would take
no exercise at all If he weren't afraid of getting
! fat before his time, and he's not 26 yet
He has no love whatsoever for the great out
doors. except perhaps as it looks from a country
club veranda. Wears good clothes likes them,
makes no secret Of 1t. Knows to . dime how
much money he has, and it's plenty, and he's
made some Of 1t himself. And one Of these days
he's going to own the bank whose trust depart
ment he now adorns.
Now would you think. ofYhand that this
Henry Norris would have lots and lots of