Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-08-21

lined exquisite wife, who is also mother
Of two or three children, cook and
bottle washer and social leader well up
on her art, literature and current
events. What is wrong with the pic
ture?
WELL, here is a composite story of
the women's mag type. as the
reviewer seems to remember what she
read before the great bell of pastel glue
descended on her.
Evelyn is the heroine EVELYN is
the wife Of herbert whom she madly
loves. She has been married to herb
ert for IL years and has three chill
dren-patsy, peggy and junior. She
Is IS and looks not one day older than
when she became herbert's bride. She
has a divine. slender figure, chestnut
gold hair, tender gray eyes and ex-
quisite hands and ankles. Indeed.
she is much more beautiful than when
she married herbert. for then she only
showed a promise of beauty. Now the
promise Is fulfilled. Wherever she
goes men of vast wealth and sophisti-
cation fall tragically in love with her.
Tragically, you see, because she loves
herbert and wants only to make
herbert's home and be a good mother
to herbert's babies. She is touched by
the tragedy of her admirers hope
less passion. but not flattered by it,
She cannot be f1attered, for she is not
Shallow. She treats her would-be
suitors like Great Big Boys, because
she has beautiful motherly heart
and once in a great while, in an ex-
cess of this motherlness, she lets them
kiss her hand. They are very grateful
and never fail to tell her that she is
noble
That's Evelyn. Now, as to herbert,
he does not greatly matter, for he is,
as Evelyn will find occasion to re-
mark at some point in the story,
Evelyn's mate" and really nothing
more. He is handsome and success
full, he is intelligent (like Evelyn and
whizz of conversationalist at din
ner parties. But he does not like
dinner parties. He likes only max
ing conversation with Evelyn and
playing horsie with the baby. About
twice week he and Evelyn, in SOL
emn. hushed tones, congratulate one
another on their beautiful married
life.
A ND then there enters Joyce. Joyce
Is a beauty. too. She is 10 years
younger than Evelyn, she also has
divine figure and exquisite hands and
ankles, but her hair is sinister Jet
black, and her beauty has a danger
Gus serpentine quality. She has had a
hard time in her life; she was born to
fortune and then she did not get it
never mind why, she just didn't. Now
she has to work for living, and she
remembers, with bitterness, how once
she had all the things which a girls
heart desires" Her family and herb
erts are old acquaintance, and he
hears about her hard situation. He
tells Evelyn about it, and she says
that he must give poor Joyce place in
his ofice.
Now, Evelyn does not suggest this
without 'pang of misgiving" Or
maybe two pangs of misgiving. For
the curious characteristic of these
beatifically happy wives of the pic
torial Home Companion" is that,
though in beatitude they live in
constant state of suspicion, believing
that their husbands cannot be trust
ed out of their sights and that every
woman in the world except themselves
Is an adultress They hold this state of
mind highly and holly and without a
vestige Of vulgarity-oh. perish the
thought!-but they still hold it. If 1t
sounds impossible, just consult the
pages for yourself and see.
So Evelyn, against the prompting
Of her heart, urges herbert to take
pity ION poor Joyce and not let his
old friends sister starve to death.
When she does this he looks at her
with sparkling eyes and says, Honey,
you're wonderful" It is big scene
and tremendously touching.
Then Joyce comes to work and in a
short while demonstrates that, even
though she used to belong to the coun-
try club, she is whiz at getting out
letters. herbert congratulates her on
her efficiency, naively believing that
that will make her happy. She re-
plies sardonically that, since she has
nothing else, she has to use her brain.
herbert Is so upset by this cynicism
in one 50 young and beautiful that he
cannot work all afternoon And so, in
the well-known fashion Of busy bust
ness heads, he takes the afternoon of
and escorts Joyce to the matinee.
DOOR herbert-he imagines that this
will bring little sunshine into
Joyce's gloom. But she refuses to show
a bit of gratitude and sneeringly re-
marks that she supposes he gets
great kick out Of showing pity to the