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The Middle Ground

By llsrlen Rublneam Gee] OH Include g - 112,311 may tum m» “m” . even “It? ' Synopele of Preceding Chapters

gdebitisoaolebntheoon- Amy Talbot Ill] been overwork- aml 3 [my quickly it _-ed for so many years that she hnfi ‘undid ' ‘gotten completely out of touch hi“ are merely congfion. Mue- {with lite and new ideas. She finds cddtnajgflmnptueoilofmtistard. ithis out when her son Luther re u!“ menthol and other simple lturns to the farm with hi; newlr fifitssa- w-ii-ntantwmcn iuiavried- wife Claire. and when

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,them maid!!! Amy. the youngest- ‘discontented. Claire and Luther quarrel; Claire goes back to the icity, taking Amy with her. Even- tually and Luther go away.

Mrs. Talbot is so worried about her girls that she braves her husband's anger and goes to them ilu the city. Amy is studying for {grand opera. and will not look at ‘the always-faithful Dick; Jane is iin love with a doctor too poor to

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Luther and Claire are separated: Claire~wants a divorce. Amy's

Coffer than a mortar-infill!!!‘ fprettiness attracts scores of admir-

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.is on the point of going away with z between the strict and

, the children. ‘fhen the doctor finds a post in

.shocks cnd terrifies the mother—

.rlch man she does not love. Jane

the doctor, who doe; not want to ~ ‘marry her. There is no sympathy narrow e ideas of the mother and the broad- : hut what she-calls “loose" ideas of

a South American mining onlllll. and can afford to marry. He and Jane elope and I0 l9 3W"! America. Luther line n note from Claire. Amy's ensnsement to Adam Arnold. rich and more t-m twice her are. is announced-

HAPPV ENDING Chapter 1%

urs. Talbot wondered whelhfir Jordan would object to dancing-nae he bad stormed and denounced wilt-ll they tried it that night three years ago.

That night Dick had carried the phonographs to his place. where it had been ever since. That night ‘Amy was almost l8-—she was with- in a week or so of 21 now. That night she had defied her father. hated him for forbidding her to

dance. Now she smiled at him sauciiy and threatened to do the next fox trot with him.

Mrs. Talbot watched her three

children. and the three who were almost as beloved as they. Jane still clung to her mannish tweed suits and tailored waists. She was not pretty. never would be. But she was fine looking and her eyes were more than beautiful. She fairly surrounded Donald with her love and her care. her constant attention-of which he was always pleasantly half-con- scious. and which he would be miserable without.

And Luther had found himself. Claire was right—she had taught him now to relax. to waste time. to be frivolous, to be happy. Claire unight never be anything but sweet anti shallow. yet something more than that had come with the baby.

"I'm going back on the stage next season. she said. “The baby

merely

will be nearly a year then. and l

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can get a competent nurse. I'll ihave really lots of time to give lt." ‘She showed magazine pictures of herself and the chlld——"Clalre Talbot. well known theatrical star (who scored such a success as the

retired"—this was part of article on the home life of actresses. Luther laughed at sons early publicity notices.

"I'm not an ideal mother. I'm too impatient." Claire said. "l can hire mechanical attention in a but I'll never neglect my child." \

As for Amp-she was dissatisfied with her progress. yet she tnaking great lieatlway. She had finally secured an engagement to sing small parts with an jconipany in Boston. For a girl of 20 with only a moderately good- voice. this- was amazing. But Claire. was urging Amy to try comedy. where she would have less competition with really great‘

an grent his

voices. anti where she might be-I come a star. I “Dick doesn't cure." Amy said.‘

"lies trying to hc transferred to: Boston 11ml when llf’ is. we'll he mzirrit-tl. No one is coming to the wedding. I've changed my mind about a great splashy affair. We're ‘going to slip off as quietly as Jane did." i Amy was less spoiled-no one. lf'llll work as hard and as sincerely ‘as she had done for three years. d nut benefit. And Dick wore his |nltl broad grin. his sleepy green p-yes following Amy wherever she iu-t-nt. lt was Mrs. Talbot who had gvired Jane that Amy had broken ilu-r engagement to Adam. anti ask- vd lie-r to find Dick and tell him .-o. ll had taken Jane six months to do this. fnr Dick was “knocking zibout" the South Amr-ritzan sea rims-t towns. picking up odd jobs and consoling himself for lils poverty by his pleasure In learn- ing tho language.

'l‘iiey were all happy——surely they

would go on being happy! Mrs. Talbot stood in _v the doorway watching them dance. listening

absently to Mrs. Rowlands gossip. conscious of her own pretty rest- ful home. and her own pretty gown.

Her life too was a success! Once she thought that her life would be a sticcess it’ her children's lives were. Now she knew better-she know that she was an individual too. with her own life. her own problems- ' Shr- was interrupted by having Donald put his arm around her waist.

"Mother must dance too!" he cried. pulling her out on the porch. "At my age!" slie cried. tliinklm: instantly Jordan would be unspeak- ably shocked. But her feet some- how found themselves in time to the rhythm though she danced stlffly and awkwardly.

"Mother's a good sport. she'll try anything" Luther said. Mrs. Talbot would have jumped over cliffs to hear that. to deserve the praise. the atlmlra-tion. best of all. the comradtt- ship. that the words implied.

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THE cmtnmrrizjrowu GUARDIAN

Let's call him Hlppolyte Hicks. which isn't his name. A decade ago when the word “radical" was hard- ly heard in New york and the only "red" we knew of was somebody with a brick top, Hippolyte was a protege of Emma Goldman. She let him have ‘a cot in the cellar next to the gas meter and he wrote revolutionary Pfletry for Mother Earth. which Emma was editing every once in _a while.

l; leller lo Majesty

[poem he had comlmfied "Wail"! in testimonial to the Japanese "martyrs.

With one or two other lost souls from the press to give him coun- tenance, Coleman invlegled HD3901" yte away from the meeting nlld across the street to one of those mid-time German wine stubee Wllerfl they used to draw it in Pill! "198- sures and set out rye bread and handkase on the sloppy table.

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eager to follow

Now Hippolyte was an ingenu- ous soul.

His brand of anarchy twice and thrice.

Hippoly was wined. He was wined He began to talk

fickle fashions decree, discarded corsets and took to the girdle and

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was as firely as Mexican chili pep pers-lu conversation. He rarely ate a square meal because anarchy wasn't a very paying business, and .\la Goldman took the first out of whatever slender stream of bour- geois gold might be coaxed into the Mother Earth treasury. Still Hip Dfllyte managed to eke out his lard- er by attending teas in Greenwich Village studios, where he estab- lished u reputation as a heavy feeder.

The peaceful world oi that day was startled by news that a group of Japanese anarchists had been caught red-handed jn a plot to des- troy the Emperor and all the male members of his family. in a few days came cables to the effect that the government of Cherry Blossom Land had condemned nineteen-I think that was the number—to

aih. l New York's anarchists. commun- lists. pink thinkers and lull got their head together and de- Ilérllllllfll this was a sad. sad thing it must be stopped.

certain night. the place to be a hall "D somewhere. on the East side near Second avenue. ; On “The Sun" we had an irre- pressible spirit named llicAllister W-Oleman. who had the devilish in- =genulty of Puck late P. T. Barnum. He was sent 1M5 indignation meet- ing for the paper. i From the news point of view the‘ .\'o copy for’ tlie-_ reporters of such holelesslyl capitalistic papers as those of| Manhattan. Coleman's free spirit irked lnm and he looked about for] tilversion. His eyes fell upon Hip‘ DOIYHE. who was waiting to read a

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old prejudices. by opening her hem-i and her niititl. she had first earned the confulence of her children. she hud entered into their problems. she hadulevelopctl a sane am] street point of view oi’ combat their Illllllllsiveness. their immaturity. She hstl. not opposed. but led them. 5'10 W415 havny. Even Jordan- Hours later she sat on the top 5WD 0f the porch, elbows on her knees. hands clasped loosely in front of her. Every room was [map hcr children were home. lights shown in the bedrooms. Jordan. in the shadows. was smoking a last’ pipe before going to bod. The 51-1103“! NOW across her face.

‘Vat; it habit made lier say-

“Jordun. I wish you'd get s, new vine." wrinkling her nose as the odor offended her.

Jordan did not answer—he never had through all the years she had been making that remark.

But this time Jordan moved, so the odor no longer reached her!

And in his case, a partial triumph was the greatest success of all.

THE END

IN MEMORIAM

MRS. MARY MATHESON

There Passed away December 16th at the home ot her daughter in Dorclrester. Mass, Mrs, Mary Aistheeon. widow oi‘ the late Mal. colm’ Mathoson, Dover, but former. l)‘ oi Glen Martin. P. E 1.

The deceased had been ill only a week with pneumonia and was tenderly and lovingly dared for by tier two daughters, lMrs. wimam bnilth and Mns. Carl Plunimer. both residing at 85 Wheatland Ave, Dorchester. Rulers-l services were held on Tuesday the 18th at 2.30 p. m. and were conducted by Rev. Otis Foye of the Baptist Temple, There were many beautiful floral

little groups counted

.ihis parcel of dynamite in the est box. then he went back to The Sun office with a child-like sinilc playing under spectacles.

Canadian Northw-est: also the fol- lowing sisters and brother. Mrs.

Coleman and his fellow conspirators agreed with ihim completely in his estimation of the enormity of the pending of- ficial massacre among the brethren in Japan. Cunningly they worked up his wrath to the boiling point. "I'll tell you what." Coleman fin- ally suggested. “\\"0llldll't It tie the decent thing to write the Em- peror of Japan and tell him what his government is about to do in his name? He's a reasonable scout. this Emperor, from all l hear about him." Wonderful idea! Pen and pap- er were forthcoming. And Hippo!- yte began to write He told the Emperor what the nu- urchists would do to him if this shocking execution was permitted. What they would do to him person- ally and to the various members of his family, down to the third cousins. Boiling in oil would he humane in comparison with the actual tortures promised. Hlppolyte finished by signing

'—very ferociously. |

.1115 execution; his name with a grand flourish. An [So a meeting was announced for a i-‘lwelolle and

stamps- two twos and a one-were borrowed from; the bartender. Then Coleman de-l clded a knotty point. The Jctter] was addressed at his dictation: f

"Emperor of Japan. i

"The Palace, "

"Toklo,

"Japan"

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