The Washington times., 1936-11-07

wonder if there's any cake
left? Well, that just simplifies
matters. Now we haven't thing
to do but wash the wishes, press
our old rags to wear another day
and back to the treadmill tomor-
row."
cts your own fault" Evelyn
said when echoes of Dorathea's
resentment came to her. "You
could be going out YOURSELF"
The more she thought about the
Stewey Parker episode the more
she was convinced that Dorathea
was just being stupid about it.
Now if Stewey would just call
again. But Stewey didn't call.
So one night, feeling guilty and
adventurous, Evelyn called
Stewey.
I'm Mrs. Keith, how are you,
Stewart?" she ratified on in her
best telephone manner, I'm haV-
ing a few friends in for Sunday
night supper and Dorathea and
I would so like to have you"
He didn't seem to be answering,
so she began all over again.
"Hello? Do you hear me? We must
have a bad connection. This is
Mrs. Keith"
"Oh! How do you do, Mrs
Keith" Stewey's voice am e
hoarsely over the wire.
"And I thought you might come
to supper-Sunday night"
"Oh! Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Keith.
-Tm afraid l have another en-
gagement."
"Well, the fact is, I'm planning
TWO little SupperS-one for this
week and one for the week after,
and so if you could come"
"It's awfully nice of you to ask
me-" Stewey said. "but I'm aWfully
busy right now. We're-we're tax
ing inventory and so II couldn't
come I'm afraid. I'm awfully
sorry"
Inventory-in October! Well, If
that was the way he felt about it,
let him stay away forever! Silly
red-faced fool! Her own face was
as scarlet as his ever was. as she
came away from the telephone
sorry and ashamed, and hoping
that Dorathea would never. never
find out.
For a little while Dorathea
talked about a certain Herbert
Gilman, a serious young salesman
at the bond house where she
worked. He took her to two little
theater productions and a lecture,
and loaned her three books, which
neither she nor Evelyn could make
head nor tail of. Then the affair
blew up suddenly as it had begun
and Dorathea, wearied of the even
ings at home, began running down
to the Rogers flat again.
Sitting before her dressing table,
applying cold cream and tonic
and ice packs, making herself
beautiful for an evening with Mel,
EVELYN heard Bennie's musical
whistle, saw Dorathea pick up her
coat and make for the back door.
"Dorathea! I wish you'd go
around with boys and girls your
own age, instead of those Rogers!"
"You found them interesting for
a while"
"For a while-yeS!"
about as long as you tlnd any
one interesting"
"That's just about enough! !
merely said that I wished you'd
go with girls and boys your own
age. There's no need for you to
make untrue and disrespectful re-
marks. After all, am your mother
and I'm not going to have any
daughter of mine" :,
ooh, mother! Let's not start
fighting again. I'm so tired OF
it. We're going to a movie. Be
sides, you ought to be glad that
Bennie and Helen bother to take
me. You don't, and I have no
friends my own age. How can I?
Living in this nasty little hole!
How can I ask anyone here? Who
asks me anywhere?"
Its enough that you are a
Failey."
"Oh, no, it isn't! It might have
been enough for you to be a
Failey when you were girl, but
even then you didn't have to put
it to the test, you had all the rest
besides. You ought to be glad I
have Helen"
"I'm not! I hate this back door
gadding! Getting thick with the
neighbors- Every time you see too
much of a neighbor something
happens"
ooh, you never had a woman
friend. You don't know anything
about it,"
"I know enough. NOT to have
them!"
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