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JESS* BAIN clipped hei eyeglasses
to her nose and read the letter
slowly, twice. Color rose to her
.full, fair cheeks and she caught
her breath sharply. Mrs. Darrin had
Invited them all to spend the follow
ing day with her at the Rexmere,
where she was stopping for the sumv
mer. She wonld send the' car after
them' at noon. That meant lunch, a
delightful afternoon, dinner, an even
ing on the porch .while- the young
folks were dancing. The girls, of
course, would be wild to go. As for
herself—but she must see what they
said.
They came In presently, tennis rack
ets In their bands, eighteen and sev
enteen, respectively, slim. Blench
bobbed, their charming faces touched
up a bit with rouge, clad In delight
ful sports togs. Jessy's two daughters
were attractive and popular. They
were also expensive. In order to feed,
clothe, educate them as they demand
ed Jessy found it necessary to econo
mize strictly In other ways. The In
come which bad seemed abundant
when the girls were small shrank now
with every succeeding year. Some
times Jessy wondered‘If It would not
be better to sell her pretty home and
go to live In aa apartment. With the
girls constantly at school or visiting
and likely to be married soon she
Would not need so much room.
They read the letter, Peggy hang
ing upon Betty’s shoulder.
“Great!” they both cried. “That's
line in Mrs. Darrin. Must be she’s
asked us on Hal’s acccunt. huh. Bet?”
Peg asked.
"That’s it, of course—but, mother!
I see she’s asked you, too.”
"1 have known Mrs. Darrin for a
long time, dears. When your father
hnd Air. Darrin were both living they
used to be intimate friends,’’ Jessy
said, with a little quiver of the Ups.
“Well! Shall we go, Betty?”
“Surel I wouldn't miss it for any
thing,” returned Betty. “Call up the
Bexmere at once, mother.”
“No,” Jessy said with unusual firm
ness for her. “As she has written 1
prefer to reply In the same manner.”
She went to her desk and sat down.
The girls left the room. She heard
the porch hammock squeak. They
were there—Just outside the window.
To Jessy It promised more than
merely being a treat to spend the day
With her old friend. What a lot they
would have ty talk over! The girls
would have a gopd time, too. Per
haps Hal Darrin might-She smUed
happily as she dipped her pen. At
that Instant Peggy’s voice came to her
coldly, distinct.
“1 wish mother wouldn’t go. If
she wears that old made-over black
charmeuse I shall die.”
Betty answered: "You’ll have to
make the best of It, Peg. You can’t
tell her to stay at home when the
Invitation is really hers. We're just
thrown in on Hal’s account. But that
old black charmeuse is the limit She’s
getting so fat tool But we must be
careful not to hurt the old dear’s feel
ings.”
*Td rather stay home,’’ grumbled
Peggy. "Can’t we back out at the last
minute? Think now 1 Isn’t there some
way we wontt have to appear at that
princely hotel chaperoned by that old
charmeuse?” They began to whisper.
Jessy dropped her pale face In her
hands. She had received a shock.
For the first time she had heard her
daughter’s opinions of her expressed
in words. She did not blame them.
She t was herself at fault She bad
brought them up to demand all, give
little. If they were selfish she bad
made them so. If they were ashamed
of her and her made-over clothes
she deserved it Her sacrifice, her
immolation of self, had produced un
gratifying results, but— She should
have seen that they would.
Jessy, sitting there at her desk, had
■ very bad ten minutes—the worst
perhaps she had ever known—and she
had known many—since Tom died. At.
the end of that time she lifted her
head, took up her pen and wrote with
firm purpose, although with a slightly
Unsteady band, an acceptance for her
keif and her daughters of Mrs. Dar
rin’s invitation.
At the breakfast table next morn
ing she said quietly that she was go
ing downtown. When the Darrin car
arrived the girls could , direct the
chauffeur to find her at Madam
Louise’s bat shop.
“Oh I You are going to get a new
hat,” Peggy cried “Might 1 come
with you, too, mother? .1 do so want'
a new. hat myself.”
“No,’’"Jessy replied with unwonted
firmness. ; “You can’t have a new
hat, Peggy. You have already bad
three this season and so has Betty.
I have not had a aaw hat hr two
years.* She triad not to see ou dead
descended on her daugh
ABrboar later she stood at the bank
window .drawing ont money. It was
money she had saved* bit by bit,
against some unexpected need. Twice
before she bad been tempted to use
It, once when the girls wanted to go
with the Jensons for an outing at the
seashore, once when she had beer 111
and the doctor had urged a short sea
trip as a cure. Now actually she was
going to nse the money. It seemed a
pity. Even when It wae In her hands
her purpose nearly failed. Then she
remembered that she was wearing
the mude-over chgrmeuse and what
Peggy had said about It.
Just before noon when the street
was crowded Mrs. Darrin’s mono
grammed limousine drew up before
the small. Frenchy looking little shop
whose windows bore one word only,
“Louise.” Peggy and Betty, fresh and
expectant, looked out for mother In
her new hut. “1 wish she'd let us
help her pick It out." sighed Peggy.
Coming toward them down the
street was a lovely young woman step
ping gracefully In the daintiest of
shoes. Gray from head to foot, such
gray, with a bunch of violets pinned
In the correct place. Peggy gave a
gasp, Betty gave a start, for the
woman stopped as the chauffeur held
open the door of the limousine and the
smiling, yet wistful, eyes that looked
out from under the charming hat brim
were—mother's.
Not a word was said before the
liveried chauffeur of Mrs. Darrin. Peg
gy and Betty were too well trained
for that But how they looked! Un
der other circumstances Jessy might
have enjoyed their astonishment. Her
purse was empty, <he must begin to
save again, and It was going to take
a long, long time to replace what she
had expended so lavishly, she could
not say foolishly yet, for In' some
ways she had never felt ro contented
in her life.
Her progress across the broad ve
randa and through the crowded lobby
of the Rexmere might have thrilled a
vain woman. But It only embarrassed
Jessy, and she was glad when at last
she was safe in Mrs. Darrin's suite.
“Girls, your mother looks like youi
sister,” Mrs. Darrin said.' “How have
you done it, Jessy, with all your cares
and anxieties?” Then as Jessy smiled
tremulously Mrs. Darrin hurried on:
"My brother. Major Scott, Is to lunch
with us today. You remember him,
Jessy? He married Helen Soule—she
died a couple of years ago.”
A wonderful luncheon. Hal was
not there and Major Scott was the
only man In the party. For the first
time Peggy and Betty saw themselves
set aside for another. And this other
their mother!
“I bet she marries him,” Peggy said
to Betty as later they Joined a gay
boating party of young people. “Well
—] don’t blame her. We’ve been aw
ful pills. And the major Is nice—
but he's got a strong Jaw, Bet He
won’t let anybody sass him. We’ll
have to vatch our steps—and do you
know I’m glad? Mother Is a queen.
1 never realized It before. What a
shame that she had to wear made
overs when she might have looked
like that I feel like a pig. I do
really. Don’t you. Bet?”
And Betty murmured sober assent
Tarn the Limelight
on Presidents' Wives
Presidents’ wives, who now receive
almost as much attention in the news
papers as their husbands, were almost
completely Ignored until a few years
ago, it baa been discovered by the
forces preparing for the coming na
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“The women of the White House
were the least Important, certainly the
least reported of any individuals in
the President’s entourage,” says the
Woman's Home Companion. “Abigail
Adams stands out for such homely
practices as drying her clothes In the
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, “With the coming of the young and
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The glare which has beaten steadily
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In minutest detail the personality and
character of the First Lady of the
Land.
“This public curiosity has been grad
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