The Washington times., 1936-10-23

How do other women stand it,
having their children think
they're young ladies and poke and
pry into makeup and perfume and
everything else?
How could she stand 1t?
How could they all live together
in this shabby little place, packed
tight as sardines in a can?
She looked around the square
little guest room" with its bills
tered white paint, its green striped
wall paper, the curtain and bed
spread her mother had made by
hand. The kind of room you see
pictured in some of the Women'S
magazines.
"A guest room in your attic.
Paint and paper the walls your
self. Send 10 cents for full direc-
tons on how to make the ducky
little spread. -"
A Failey, come to this!
Well. it wouldn't be for long.
Resolutely she rolled up the
sleeves Of her black satin pa
jamas, tied a ribbon around her
tumbled hair. Everything she real
ly wanted was under something
else in the wardrobe trunk.
Out they came! Dresses, blouses,
evening gowns. The green bed
spread was lost under mounds OF
clothes. Everything would have to
be pressed. Something very special
would have to be decided upon for,
though she hadn't mentioned it to
her mother yet, she'd sent a note
to David, after first making sure
he was in town, and asked him TO
come at 4.
David. =.
Tears stung her eyes again. To
think that no one had told him,
and she had to do it herself. And
instead Of stepping off a train,
dramatically, on her way to the
Mill Valley house. she was stuck
in this shabby hole and would
have to entertain him in two by
four parlor, with odds and ends
of old furniture that no one would
buy.
She got out the light blue chif-
fon tea gown, held it up to see
how it would look in the daylight.
Jan chose that moment to burst
in from the hall, Dorathea from
the bathroom.
Nom. where's my white
Sweater?"
breakfasts ready! I set the
table and turned the hotcakes"
Evelyn dropped the blue chiffon,
slammed the hall door against the
smell of bacon and coffee that
was enveloping them SMOKEY.
"Ill come when I'm ready. And
I won't have you two bursting into
my room like this"
"Your ROOM" Dorathea said. II
thought it was ourS!"
"You heard mel"
1T can't bear it. I won't stay.
You had no right to bring us. I'm
boing back to father! Oh. why
did we come? You made us-you
did it-you did"
CHAPTER VI
How could she cope with 1t?
Why try? So Evelyn flung herself
on top of the clothes on the bed.
and gave herself up to another
CRYING spell. For there was no
going back. And more than Dora
thea, she wondered why they'd
come.
But there was still David.
Thinking of him stopped the
tears at last. No use to be red-eyed
and miserable.
She let Jan put cool pads OF
witch hazel on her eyes and though
she said she couldn't eat thing,
presently she went out to the
kitchen where the others were,
and let them coax her to take
cup of coffee.
"Please, darling, Just a bite!"
Grandmother begged, offering
crisp bacon and fluffy hotcakes.
mo, 1 couldn't-just couldn't"
But she managed a crumb or two
and finally one of the pancakes
Jan was so proud of and then an
other and another.
"David's coming this afternoon"
she said after the second cup Of
coffee, making her voice sound
casual and disintereSted.
Ito Be Continued