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MONDAY, JUNE
11,
1934.
Married Flirts
CHAPTER XXII Gypsy, assembling towels, song, powder and olive oil, scolded her self, "I'm a bad mother." What a lot you needed for a baby! She had never realized it before. Quite callously she had criticized young mothers for not doing this, doing that. "Keeping up," it was gener- ally called. And yet how could you
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
expect them to play bridge, to read new hata-why, she had thought her to lunch Funty. Helen naked her old room and I can fix the Bowlked to the chain stores, pushing
her
nothing of all these before marriage! Now they seemed the supreme luxuries,
a movie could grow and flourish. But what prodigious. No use to tell Mrs. break 1, break it. Other people Weavers dashed out to
all this. It would unly do not But this was often. The if things went on as they were | Moreli
Gypsy would amile, sigh and "You ought to give up this change the subject. No, their prob- budget was strained too light to now? No more money, no better worry her.
prospects-what then? allow much entertainment,
"What did we ever do with our Helen Marr came to call, and place." Gypsy's mother would any lem could not be solved this way.
Meantime she saved, she bought money before?" Gypsy wondered Blanche Jordan. They admired the in her gentle, fretful tones, looking artlessly aloud one stormy Novem- baby, they brought him presents. about her dissatisfiedly at the cheap cuts of beef for ragouts, she sweet and kind. cream-coloured walls and the bright contrived a delicious pudding with her night when she had established Everyone was
Bea can move back Into She taught the silent Elan to save herself in the big chair opposite They gave advice. They told Gypsy curtains. "You ought to come in one egg and some scraps of bread.
bitk
She of butter and cream. Tom. Silk stockings and man she must go about more-mustn't with us.
matinoes and let herself get cures, sundoes and
at the Plaza unding room up for the baby."
Gypsy had heard all this a dozen the rosy baby in his dark blue car- Gypsy wriggled out of the invita-
AB "Apc- tion as gracefully as possible betimes before. She was tempted-ringe, to buy the things listed in
she was often tempted. The vision the day's advertisement cause she hadn't a new hat.
the big, shabby, clals," There was nothing she did "Why didn't you go with her, of herself in
to low. friendly old house; of Clytic, rush-not know these days about balanc A wail from the bedroom inter sweets?" Tom wanted rupted her reverie. She rushed And Gypsy made some excuse being up to her with one of the ing the food budget. Was this the "taking baby off into the morning hours 18 months in, to find two pink hands waving cause she wouldn't hurt him by say-old:ime breakfast trays; of a shad-same Gypsy who had danced far
ing she'd nothing decent to wear. Lowy someone above the blankets.
"Isn't he wonderful?" she mar-Besides, no matter where she went your hands"...it was all terri- ago, who had spent a whole week's velled. "Isn't he the most precious these days she was forever flying Acally alluring, But no-side wages on a silly little hat with a Gypsy was shaking with nervous thing alive?" Tom said he was. back to the baby. Was he warm from the fact that such an arrange-feather? It was-and yet it was
careful? Ifmont would be unfair to her not. Gypay's high colour nesa and fatigue when the ordeal Surely no other baby in the metroponough? Was Elsa of the morning bath was finished: olls waked exactly on the dot of there should be a fire...No, she parents, she felt strongly that it dimmed. Her laugh rose less rend- Tom would not leave him for long. would be also a wound to their ly to her lips. Her step was not so light. And yet there were mo A cold perspiration beaded her up-feedingtime, as David did.
ments-as witness New Year's eve per lip and her knees sagged as held him white Gypsy warmed the Silly-It was all allly, but aomo- pride, hers and Tom's.
she looked at him she laid the now sleepy, immac-bottle, testing it against her chocktimes when
when she wore her old red crops asleep his littleness and helpless- as she had seen Mrs. Eurby do.
new sheer frill-when one with late infant in his crib.
Could she possibly go at the rest He was a beautiful baby, he was ness and preciousness squeezed at
caught a glimpse of the old galety and wildness, of the disorder now? And where beyond price. But if only he didn't her hoart. was Tom? He hadn't even tele-waken so early in the morning. It phoned. She was ready to cry with only his demands and his needs weakness and discouragement.
the latest books, to be bright and interesting when they faced auch mountainous tasks day after day?
David was naughty that morning. Perhaps he missed the expert mini- strations of the absent Mrs. Burby, Perhaps he sensed the nervousness of his young mother. At any rate he erled. He crled and cried" and cried.
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She found herself weeping a good would not multiply daily! No mat-deal at this time; weeping for A key grated in the lock and Tom ter how much Elsa did there was no reason at all, or for the alight- She would be gulp- ushered in a big, blond, clean always a full quota of tasks forest of rensons.
It seemed toing back aoba: They would choke skinned young woman wearing a David's mother. long, unfashionable coat. "This is Gypsy she was nearly always tired her throat, tears would flood her Elsa, darling." Tom announced.these nights. Almost too tired to eyes. "I am a fool," she would tell of these brief "She's going to do whatever you talk to Tom, to be guy and amusing herself after one
But she was not strong and interested. Pushing the baby's storms, want her to."
carriage over the sidewalls was a dull duty.
elean.
yet.
Elsa worked, part-time. Three
"You're much too pale and thin." days a week she came at eight and stayed until one. The other, four Gypsy laughed at herself, at her her mother told her when the fam- over from Blue Hls. days she came at one and stayed absorption, but deep down she was lly came until seven, leaving dinner pre-conscious of a pin prick of fear. She scolded Gypsy all afternoon- beef tea... a pared. She Was slow, tirolean, Tom went out into the world every "lots of milk
into contact good nap after lunch." Gypsy lig morning. He, came After that things went more with new ideas, new people. While tened, nodded, agreed. Useless to Amonthly, Elsa was A treasure, she-well, she was just a vegetable remark that her resting times and Tom and Gypsy told each other. these days, she told herself, smil David's did not coincide. Whene She was a jewel.
ing wryly. Tom always contra-her back was on fire, when her eyes when she said stung and her feel were weary, "How we can afford it simply dicted her loyally
wide-awake, big-eyed, don't know," Gypsy would say.these things. But could he help David was
ready for his airing. When David frowning over the hills. But there seeing it? She wondered,
The MeKinnon's #ttle blue-roofed slept indoors there were dozens of was now no question in her mind
She had no time to about letting Elsa go. was house she remembered dimly, as in things to to. simply not to be thought of, Toma heam, envying the woman who cold cream her face, nor give her shid, and she agreed. Until she sang now among its copper kettles hair the many strokes it had been
and loaked it at the bare branches accustomed to. Her nails was stronger, nt least,
The of the orchard. Having a baby inshort and guiltless of enamel. The baby grew--lourishell.
day- clage rushed by, punctuateil only by the city had its drawbacks. Some she sat down with a book or bath-time, ap-time, feeding-time, day--some nat loo distant day-old newspaper she soon felt herscil Sometimes the imperturbable Elsa they must find a little place with nodding off. No, David's denlands
David Lupon his young mother A tree where stayed in the evening and the young la yard and
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So she would put the generous, aalde with well-meant invitation gentleness. "You know we have a lease here, Mums."
Mrs. Moril. brushed this naide with characteristic lightness. "Well,
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Tom held her close, dancing in
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