A
DEAN OF
WOMEN
A
Two Sides to Every P
Question
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By FANNIE HURST
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&
OST people in summing up the
subject of the Studdiford sis-
ters were inclined to agree
that of the two, Marion had
the better mind. Luella had simply
used hers to better advantage,
As a matter of fact, compared with
the erudition of her twin, Marion was
sorely lacking. Life had turned out
that way for her. In the heginning,
the two sisters, hand in hand, neck to
neck, so to speak, had begun what
was to be their four years’ course at
the state university for which they
had both qualified with honors,
Of the two, it is probably true that
during the first year, Marion's college
standing was a peg ahead of her sis-
ter's. Not that it was scarcely worth
recording. Marion would have been
the last to encourage that. For
practical purposes, two sist
ranked about on a level. Super
telligent giris, carryi the fis
intellectual tradition f their father
whose
use through
It was at
ore year that
ly, and like a bolt
threw over her acade:
out so much as an ou
ction, and
the modest
the
on
Cenrral
out
For the first, th
marriage seemed
Pale,
precious Stud
to the ruddy young
whose
alr was so glossy,
with even a
whose use of Engl
whom she was not
caused the
ford’'s ears to shudder.
It was a matter, however
three years, before
sion began to ten
the eves of M
awake
strar
vigorous
man of
more tl
vulgar, t
shoes were
sen
in love, would
erstwh
the
graduall
too corpulent
hours
for wha
for a freedon
for the
feited
Luella
prime,
Not that she would hav
with Luella, After all
women in a large
as It might seem, was
that even Lu
» planned for h
had
meanwiail
colle
d more tl}
been In
choose, over and over a i
have selected for herself
that was Luella’s, rathe:
as the stagnating wife
vulgarian,
At least to Luella's life there was a
Ignity of achievement and congenial
ity of environment.
From her kind, almost over
night, as it were, Marion, after her
marriage became outcast. The friends
who had known her, university col
leagues, the members of her social
group, simply did not speak Tom's
idiom,
Fool! Fool! Nature had trapped
Marion. At twenty-three, the entire
course of her life had shifted away
from the fine true course of her sis-
ter's, At thirty, Luella, all on her
own, mind you, and with a mind no
better than Marion's, had achieved
position,
Not, as shé told herself again and
again, that she would yearn for the
rather frigid dignity that went with
Luella’s position as dean of women,
but just the same, life could be no
more barren for Luella, unmarried,
than it was for Marion, married to
Tom.
On the contrary, for the freedom
that was Luelia's it seemed to Marion
that she would be willing to sacrifice
actual years of her life. And the
horrible part of it was Tom's inno.
cence of all this dismay. He was like
& small boy, content with his lot: eon
tent with his wife; content with his
playtoys of cheap automobile and ex-
pensive radio. Life was good: Ma.
rion was good; automobile tires were
lucrative. All was well in his world.
He was killed outright while demon-
strating, to a customer, the perform.
ance of a set of his own tires,
To Marion, who had repeatedly,
throughout the years of her life with
him, contemplated the hour when she
must destroy his house of cards, by
revealing her state of mind, his death
came as release, and yet, at the same
time filled her with a sense of rectl-
tude that took away stings of con-
science,
het
own
Tom had dled without knowing.
Tom had dled belleving her to be as
uncomplex and happy in thelr mar
ringe as he had been,
Marion was grateful for that, It
made evérything subsequent come
easier,
What actually happened, as her
friends put it, was the return of the
fish to its water. Two months after
Tom's death, Marion matriculated in
the university from which she had
married as a sophomore and took her
first degree two years later, cum
laude,
They were to her the happlest
years of her life, It was as if her
mind, dehydrated by the long period
of inactivity and intellectual sunless-
ness, had suddenly found capacity of
expansion again, Sometimes it actuals
ly seemed to her that under the con-
geniality of the old environment that
she could actually feel her mentality
reviving, lifting itself, warming itself
in stimulating contacts.
It was considered remarkable that
at the conclusion of her college course
she had gone beyond that point, and
was halfway qualified for a second
degree,
The return of the native, sald Luella,
smiling upon her with a large in-
dulgence,
The Indulgence of
more to Marion than would ad-
mit, even to herself, It was not that
she craved a position similar to that
of Luella’'s, but it had to
Luella meant
she
We] lt be
faced at last, more than anything she
could think of, Marion wanted
prove to herself, and to the
her mind, If not better,
good as her erudite gister's,
eve of Mar
upon a
to
world,
was ‘at
as
wns fixed reso.
difficult goal, similar to
High Praise Coming to
Mothers of Invention
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Morse, Mf
invention.-
First American Astronomer
David
clockmaker
came | m
ments and because
observations, he was
world and the Old.
a brick
was the first and
only observatory in this country.
Rittenhouse is probably most famous
for his construction of several plan-
etariums or orreries, which were so
made that they could determine the
In
octagonal observatory which
for a long time the
extending over a period of 5,000 years
before and after 1767. Even the great
Zeizs planetarium does not attempt to
do this.
Mammals That Lay Eggs
The echidna, pronounced e-kid-na,
accented on the syllable, is
found In Australian, Tasmania and New
Guinea, Is sometimes called a poreu-
pine anteater. It resembles the hedge.
hog, through It Is somewhat larger.
The hair of the skin is mingled with
spines on the upper part of the body,
Its egg Is about three-fourths of an
irch in diameter, with a leathery shell,
and is placed, as soon as laid, in the
mammary pouch of the mother,
The echidna and the duck-billed
platypus of Australia are the only
warm-blooded animals that lay eggs
and also suckle thelr young.
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Explaining Gulf Stream
The Gulf stream owes its origin to
the northeast trade winds, which blow
constantly toward the American shore
from the direction of the Canary and
Cape Verde Islands. The wind sets
in motion a broad, shallow film of wa-
ter upon the surface of the ocean and
this, when It encounters the sloping
northeast coast of South America,
trends northward, passes by the Lesser
Antilles Into the Caribbean sen, Deing
constantly driven on from the east
and gaining In depth as its area be
comes restricted, it is driven through
the Yucatan channel to the gulf of
Mexico, i. “ly v
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BRIMMED HATS ARE
MILADY’S FAVORITE
———
are
capture
ness,
its rightful sh of smart
And even If one eye 1s obliter
we see enough to know
Very few hats just now are not
go infinitesimal,
enough to avall themselves
services,
of
Bifurcated Skirts Are
Fine for Active Sports
Sponsors of the divided skirt are
united in their determination to make
it a success. If the pajama Is not an
overwhelming success in the ballroom,
they do not despair. There Is still jeft
the field of sports, and what more suit
able, say the designers of the bifur
cated skirt, than such a garment for
strenuous wear-for active participa
tion In tennis or golf.
We have constumes for golf, with
skirts that conceal the bifurcation by
clever, circular cutting.
Cloche Standard Hat
Worn Well Pulled Down
The cloche, standard hat of the con-
servative woman for the last three
years, has taken a tilted dip with the
rest of the chapean mode, ©
The new fall cloche is worn pulled
well over the right eye with a decid:
3 dent accenting the center of the
rim,
This orange colored leather Jacket
with matching helmet and cloth skirt
is Just right for flying. To shield the
wearer In the colder regions, the jack-
et ix lined with lapin, with collar and
lapels of the same beigerolored fur,
Waists Are Correct Now;
Women Tighten the Belt
Walsts now are considered correct
and women are beginning to tighten
their belts, Instead of achieving a
slim waist by tight lacing with the
risk of fainting fits as in former days
elagtic now performs the feat much
more comfortably. New cloth and fur
coats emphasize the tendency by hav.
ing a narrow belt which Is drawn
closely around the walst and add to
this shavely “fashion.
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RELIEVES HEAD,
QUALITY
SINCE 1833
SOLD AT ALL
DRUG STORES
HAVE OVERSUPPLY
OF HEALTH RULES
Being Carried to Extremes,
Say
Says Medical Men.
Highest Happiness in
Labor Well Performed
Today the most
ean come to millions Is a promise of
employment—to have a share in the
world's work. The song on which
many of the generation were
brought up urged one to work In the
morning hours, to work “mid spring-
ing flowers, even through
the sunny noon, and then on till the
“Inst beam fadeth, fadeth to shine
no more,” But it was a joyous song,
and the only unhappy note In it was
welcome word that
older
fo work
The most fervent prayer that most
much
of ease,
not
days
times:
goods laid up
come from ancient
of my work”
that ever beset mankind”
best physician,
the problem of misery is attacked at
its root,
Skill in labor Is man's highest vo.
cation, but it is throug® !abor of
some sort, whether by hand or brain,
whether of oue's choice or by com.
pulsion, whethe ion or an
an is his way
to his better
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avocution,
the best
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work,
nt there Is
iubor ; but
is no
the
to labor,
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Bees Made Cough Mixture
A colony of bees—ihree hives
kept by a farmer in the neighborhood
of Campbeltown, Scotland. last sum-
mer made their cells and cell covers
of a mixture of tar and wax, the
former, which they collected on the
main road at hand, predominat-
ing. As might be expected, the honey
in the three hives was impregnated
with tar, but the bees were not in
any way aflecied by feeding on a
mixture of tar and honey. Coal tar
contains among things, sac
charine, the natural food of bees
This is vouched for by Doctor Morrl-
i son In a letter to Country Life.
CHERRY-GLYCERINE
COMPOUND
For Coughs due to Colds, Minor
Bronchial and Threat irritations
JAR DAILY & BON, Baltimore, Md,
near
other
Sympathetic
Bride-to-Be——Well, what did your
friend say when you showed him my
{| photograph?
Fiance—Nothing: he just pressed
my hand in silence,
Every time you wash
face and hands use this
delicately medicated
and note how it not
cleanses but also protects the
skin. Made of the purest ine
gradients Cuailen a Soap
ideal for daily use for
the family.
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