| Show 11 I The Marriage Trifler Trifle By HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR I 1 Copyright 1920 by Public Ledger Co I A CLASH OF TASTES Barbara Knight the acknowledged i leader of ot the y younger set and a girl rl acI ac- ac 1 I to adulation from childhood I I captures Keith Grant the most eligible I man o of the season Both families are I delighted and the situation Is ts' apparently I ideal But no one realizes that Barbaras Barbara's Bar- Bar I 1 b baras bara's ra s upbringing the fact that she has been spoiled have given her a false Idea of ot marriage and Its seriousness Girls Gina brought up simply like Katherine Katharine Newbery Newbery New New- i who ho is Keiths Keith's private ber bery a college girl v vate secretary are apt to look at marriage marriage mar mar- niage in an entirely different light i CHAPTER IX Barbara was very eager to to please her I prospective e mother-in-law mother In everything everything every every- thing thing an and Marcia Grant really Influenced influenced I II r her Iter more than ban did her own mother Mrs who was as not nearly so 80 aggressive I I Knight likes things to be accomplished I i but she was not a leader and she fihe he was apt apt to follow rollow the type of or woman wh who she If knew could riot not do wrong ron She and Marcia were very verv congenial It was Marcia who found exactly the apartment for Barbara and Keith and the two young oung people went up together to see it It was in an apartment house on one of ot the fashionable side streets I near 1 avenue e- e had a lobby I banked with palms and so heavy with I expensive f rugs rags that not not the slightest footfall could b be heard It It had bad an an anor or- or I nato nato little cage e superintended by a suI supercilious su- su I boy bov who manipulated the j I thins thing and with gr great at efficiency ef- ef The apartment was on bit I the tl i third floor O and excepting t for o th tb c over over- elaborate decorations deco e t Keith rather liked it it i. The rooms were t nt t large but they I were ere sunny sunn There were ten rooms and four rout baths In all Barbara thought It was perfect and her enthusiasm In running from one i thing to another delighted Keith more than the apartment Itself Barbara was strikingly beautiful these days das She was wasI I like Ilke a flame all joyous life Ufe and vivid personality ty However when it it came t to selecting wall paper and deciding on onI r I color tones Keith found that she could be as adamant as his mother and a ahard as ashard ashard I hard to o influence To be sure she was wasI 1 always Barbara r and she gained h her point rg th J I gracefully but he found that t he e had really ver very vera little to say and that in each ease cese when he rave pave In to her about any anything anY I thing It was because she twisted him around her lInger lIne I Keith would never have confided to I his hIli mother his ideals of a home but but to to Barbara he- he made ado tentative suggestions A brown room he be had bad suggested impulsively when they had talked of color schemes for tor the big bill living room With touches of ef red Gee I wl wish h we had a dc decent ent fireplace instead of that dinky little affair with Its gas logs Id I'd like a 1 fireplace and an easy chair drawn up to llAnd it ll- ll And carpet slippers r and a pipe teased Barbara cocking her Jer head lead on one oneide ide side and crinkling her eyes eres adorably Keith dear deal you have such funny funn ideas imagine having red in a room these days you you'll 11 be talking about leather furniture fur fur- next Why not nol he A ked Barbara held up her hands In mimic horror conscious that this was just talk and that she t worry about It it for Reil Ieh h would do everything just just just-as Sis as she liked anyway She felt relt that she was wasI I being very tactful The result of Barbara Barbaras Barbara's a planning and Marcias Marcia's careful superintending was a period room rather l' l gorgeous in contemplation but without any comfort at all It was a drawing room a salon furnished furnished fur tur- in perfect perfect-J ste ste. nut out exactly what Keith had hid hoped he tie would never ha e If It It H had tot rot bet been to for that he was to have a den denof of his own he would have been more disappointed ed than he was But he did h have ve this this' one room and he d dit lt as ashe he pleased going alone to purchase every everything thing Barbara was all a little hurt at this but Keith ex explained ex- ex to her that he knew she wouldn't be foe Interested and he hated to bore her When the furniture was wall delivered Barbara Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara thought it hopelessly bourgeois but not so bad bad- badas as she had expected She did did- wish that Keith had tastes more like her own It II was strange that he didn't his mother was as so wonderful She feed was very Ys much u eu u under Marcias Marcia's spell ft these days and she e followed implicitly J every ery suggestion that Marcia made In In- spite of the the- fact tact that she sie made not one dissenting comment about his choice K Keith ith was conscious of or the fact that she did not approve and It vaguely disturbed disturbed disturbed dis dis- hl him He lie found himself telling KatherIne about his hs choice one morning after h he had finished dictating some letters let let- tore hll It was as the first time he had talked to h her r any about-any personal matter and he liked her quiet quler Interest the sleekness of or her little dark darl head the cool and yet yeter Interested er expression of her dark clark e eyes the well bred air there e was about t her When she went back baek to her own office ottice h he turned back bak to his lila work with wilh a sense of ot restored pride In himself She had made maae him feel that tha that way and after arter that he thought of or Miss Newbery in a different different differ differ- ent light entirely He never ne'-er went back to the absolutely impersonal attitude that he had bad maintained toward her here there was wall a friendliness between them impersonal In a way but unmistakably unmistakably unmistakably cordial Tomorrow Barbaras Barbara's Wedding DOl Day |
