The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-29

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Resignedly, Steve returned will
i Judith to the other room. He look
! IA at Toby, his eyes clouded Will
! II concealed contempt. He hat
never cared much for Lynch, am
he liked him even less now. More
than once he had suggested t.
Judith that she should have moth
ing to do with him.
F,"1i'But he's perfectly harmless,
/ TaGith always defended. "Ant
, he's a good friend of Virginia,
|. and Rob's-so what can we do,
! Steve had said nothing to judith
about the story that was drifting
around. 1t was one of those sto'
ries which a man will hide from
the women of his acquaintance
10 matter what he thinks OF the
protagonist of the story. Toby
Lynch was supposed to have per
suaded a girl to share his apart
ment with him in lieu of marriage
Part of the story was that they
were very much in love, and I'M
able to marry-but this failed 70
condone the matter in Steve
Fowler's mind. He had never seen
| Toby Lynch in the company of a
vouno woman. and this lent cred
ence to the story rather than not,
| For Toby was a congenlal soul
who, under ordinary circumstance
es would find an escort wherever
he went. Steve had never discuss
ed the story with Judith, but the
rumor had persisted, drifting from
one to another, and steadily gain
ing proportions with each new
telling.
As Steve looked at Toby now, a
question formed in his mind: In
all the time they had known Toby,
WHY had he never invited them to
his apartment? He had visite'
the Rents countless evenings; and
often. like this, he would join
them in a visit to Judith and
| Steve. Yet none had ever been
asked to be Toby's guest. Indeed,
not even Bob Bent knew just
where Toby Lynch lived.
| The convention, chilled a lit
tie by Steve's silence and judith S
obvious preoccupation, went rath-
err badly. Finally, in desperation,
Bob went to the kitchenet and
brough out his cocktails. They
warmed the loquacious Toby into
a running fire of comment, and
succeeded in mellowing the Bents'
But Steve drank little, and judith
always limited herself to one cock
tail.
Yet Virginia made no move to
! leave, and Judith realized that she
intended to keep herself and Toby
and Bob there until Steve Fowler
had departed. Plainly Virgins
wasn't goir g to leave Judith alone
with hi magain.
At length she set down he
glass and got up. Steve looked
relieved-but he was to suffer DIS
appointment. judith" she said
lets you and l go over to m!
apartment and scare up some
sandwiches. These males looi
hungry, and l can tell they're dy
ing to discuss the baseball scores.
Toby grinned at Bob. "The per
feet wife," he complimented
'How does mug like you man
age to keep her."
Virginia met this with a pleas
ant laugh, and steered Judith ou
the door. When they had gone
Bob said, 81 don't keep her, Toby
She keeps herself. That's one Q.
the advantages of having a wife
who's self-supporting. She knows
she can leave any time she wants
to. So she doesn't leave, and she's
perfectly happy"
Toby laughed. He turned tc
Steve speculatively. I've beer
expecting you and Judith to take
the leap any day now, Steve"
Thoughtfully Steve twisted hi:
pipe in fingers. "Well . yor
see, l don't agree with Bob ex
/ actiy. l suppose Judith and l coulC
marry if / were willing to have
her keep her job. But Pm not
I've always had an idea that {
man should support his wife"
81 had that idea, toO," Bob said
grinning. "But Virginia convinced
me that I was wrong. I've al
ways been a weak-willed person!
There's nothing wrong witt
both the wife and the HUSBAND
working" Toby insisted. It's tn
solution to modern conditions. U
at least, it's been the solution TO
the past five or six years. I'M
! guy Dan Cupid never heard of
| depression. He just goes aroun'
raising the devil as if there wer
no such thing as salary cut.
think Bob's dead right, Steve.
He paused and looked at Fowler
"You can carry pride too far, yo1
know"
"It's not entirely a matter o
PRIDE" Steve told him. CIV
never believed a married woman
should work-not when there ar
thousands of single girls lookin
: for jobs and not finding them"
That's a specious argument,
Bob put in. "Oh, I'll grant tina
there are some married wome
working in offices-married won
en- who could get along on thei
husbands salary. But mostl
they're women who, are so we
trained that their job couldn'
really be filled by the averag
single girl looking for job. Let
take Virginia and myself as a
example. Suppose | hadn't MAJ
ried her? She'd be working at he
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