Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-07-10

LET POLLACK applied too VIC.
EIently colOred lipstick 70 tOS
violently curved lips and swOrs
n too violently because it smudged
She had an exaggerated and ViO-
lent personality.
From the floor Maude PoIlack, ths
third of the Pollock trio, watched her
It was eleven o'clock, but she had moi
yet bathed. Her disorder was only
} charming because she was a charming
looking girl, in any other type it would
have been sluttish. She moved in her
soiled blue dressing gown with slow
feline grace and spoke resentfully.
There may be something in it, Pet
Why deny anything you can't see and
touch. The world Is fun of influences
and magics that no one has ever been
able to explain"
From ghosties and ghoulies and all
things that go bump in the night, Good
Lord deliver me-" Pet quoted vigOr-
ously. You'd like to keep a couple Of
pixies; and light the room with Tinka-
bells, wouldn't you, Maudel You're too
Milny- Wilny and Barrie Warrie to live
/ suppose it's the artistic temperament.
| George viii put the lid on all that.
The eldest of the sisters then spoke
like chairman winding up a company
meeting. There was such unconscious
busineSs-like authority in her clear,
/ concise, pleasant voice that the other
/ two turned to her involuntarily.
Madelaine Pollock was a company
secretary at a salary Of six pounds a
week. She was thirty and the eldest
| and best-looking Of the three present.
able Pollock sisters. Her black coat and
/ skirt had cost fifteen guineas and she
had worn it three years. Her small
black hat croWed Paris" in the correct
accent and at the correct angle.
1.-THE counting chair is an interesting
relic. Why not accept it and dismiss
it just like that. I, for one, will be
glad to have it. 1t has value and age.
What is nice is the legacy Of hun
From her place on the floor Maude
spoke wistfully.
But it has beautiful legend, Ma
delaine. There must be some magic in
it, for the women Of our race at least.
Look! Great-great-uncle Simon pro-
posed to Great-great-aunt Penelope
when she was sitting in that chair.
Great-uncle Nathaniel proposed to
Great-aunt Grace Pollock"
Spare us the romantic inventory,
Maudel" Pet protested violently. Prob
ably by association of ideas they
plugged in q little extra sex appeal
and nabbed the gents that way. Some
mosquitoes have a beautiful perfume
only when counting. The glow-worm has
his little tricks"
Maltde, delicate artist, specializing
in pictures of woodlands and fairies
and elves and other pretty fantasies
which made popular calendars and
Christmas cards, flushed violently.
IT can't see why Pet should try to
destroy everything you can't eat, or
sit on, or or hit with q racket or
q golf club . or ride or drive. If life |
was what Pete says it isr-a perpetual
effort to hit the ball farther than the
other fellow-Td go mad!
out Of that messy outfit and have
cold tub and do a few physical jerks |
in front of an open window before
breakfast" snapped Pet, the games
mistress at a day school around the
corner. George will see to that when
you're his wife"
It was Saturday. Madelaine did not
go to the office on Saturday. Pet did
not attend the school. Maude, who
worked AT home In the charming flat
they all shared and paid for, had been
to a studio dance the night before
MadeIaine Pollock picked up the
LAWYERS letter from the dtSordered
table with her beautifully
manicured fingers and read 1t musingly.
IF you viii have the kindness TO
sign the three receipts separately and
have the signatures separately wit
messed we shall be pleased to forward
separate checks for the amount OF three
hundred pounds and see that the Pol
lack Counting Chair specially left to
nv three spinster great nieceS, Petunias
Aaude and Madelaine is safely de-
Iivered. We are requested to remind
YOU by our late client Mrs Madelaine
Wyndham Wyley that the chair has
considerable romantic and sentimental
value to the family as well as valuable
antiquity"
uncle wyndham proposed to Aunt
dadelaine when she was sitting in
hat chairl" Maude broke In eagerly.
she was eighty when she came to
London to that eye specialist. met
1er at the station and escorted her.
You remember2 She told me that she
vas leaving us the chair that had In
'menced the lives Of dozen Of Pol
ack women She seemed surprtzed we :
we're none of us married
$50 she beCueathed us matrimon-
al agency, a family love potion and
| spell binder in the shape Of chair
Really. Maudel You make me squtrml
DO we really seem man-famished, !
hungry for marriage, whining for the
iound Of little pattering feetP You
lauseate mel"
you two live in different worlds
nearing and seeing different things,
2etunia," said Madelaine tudiciously.
Leave It'll There's dearsll You'll both
exhaust yourselves nervously."
Later Madelaine found Maude stand !
ng watching her bath fill from the
low geyser and the tears were trickling
)ut OF her blue eyes. Maude was only I
twenty-five. Madelaine halted and
ooked through the door.
what is it, Honey?" she said gently.
"If life was what Pet believes 1t to
Getaways hitting something chas- I
ne something-or exercising your body {
md toning up your muscles-an physi-
al and on the surface, couldn't bear {
{, Madelaine," she said
Made1aine was very quiet.
You're freer in your bigger world !
han either Of us-Pet or !, she said ]
lowly. you've given yourself permits
ion to dream and believe In beauty.
We're a little afraid to-Pet and l.
That's why she clings so hard TO her :
,ames and sports-and why cling TO
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