| Show His Reformation By II H. H IRVING KING KINO 6 c by McClure N Newspaper p r s a 8 l s. s Service I w n ne nea a highbrow brow Also he tic was a bitor lilt hIt of or a prig Rutherford trek took but little Interest In society In which his mother moth er r shone and his father basked Ills III Interests centered upon ulon science 8 art uplift work exploration literature literature- he took look then them all nil In turn as ns n a a hurdle In a steeplechase steeplechase and and got over oter them ns as quickly I 1 do ilo wish still said his fond mamma that you would l Settle down Hero here you jou are twenty 1 lUo years tears old lId and ever since you 11 left college you have hate been heen on n a perpetual Intellectual spree Clifford who was nos at nt the same M time limp you 1111 were gotto gotto got not notto to hitting up the synthetic and they Ihry sent him to a n sanitarium where where- they cured him bUn 1 I n wish Ish there was some Om Institution In we could send you ou to In and hl hue hate P a n cure III effected of your jour p particular complaint o To Rutherford sIn slang lilt was all Ilo Ile looked n a solemn reproof at nl Mrs Irs which settled trite Into a n scowl when the up to tn-dato tn Indy lady carelessly lighted n a cigarette II Mother said he solemnly do you jou 1111 think cigarettes are lire aregood aregood good for you you you-nt at your ago age At my ngel almost shouted Mrs Irs What do ilo you mean meth I lam am amnot not old and old and as ns long as the beauty parlors keep open I 1 dont don't Intend to he bp Oh Oil fudge I There run n along That hal night she he said to tier her husband Mr Ir Allington whom she hail nicknamed nick nh named Huddle Ruddle Huddle what can cnn we wedo wedo wedo do with Me lip gets gels on en my nerves I wish Ish he hI would marry marry-marry marry marry n a girl like lara Clara horn Hampton she might reform him Not a n chance replied Huddle 1111 Clara would scare him to In den death t h. h The Clara Hampton alluded to 10 In Inthis Inthis this little family dialogue ul was wa modern mod ern ern pr Irn tery There wasn't a n daring trick of this most daringly tricky age socially considered that she hI was not up to 10 Rutherford shied WIT off from her time they to every Iry happened meet socially Still he had hall to 10 admit that thaI she was wasn wasa n a handsome 1 ome creature perfect In her health and exuberance of spirits If it she SIH only hail had more 1 brains he hI sighed If would her aimless drop ways WH'S and take n a serious view of life what life what n a won wonder she would he be P And then he would sit musing picturing to tn himself a Clara Chun transformed Into a n girl such MICI as ns he hI would have hall her roe her one who vim would hp he ii a proper and congenial partner for fora forn a n i minded non man of or brains such brains-such such n as lie hI himself Then the IIII Idea struck hint that he hI might be he obit able to 10 reform her With th Ihl this Ills highly commendable missionary mis nils thought In his hili hens head began an to In go out more lOon mud and nines mori to 10 n social functions never neter missing uric one II nt at t width which he hI knew 1 Clara was to 10 be I pres pres- ent A And nl so tar far from n avoiding her rn r n us as he hI had formerly done he hI now sought her out flora Clara surprised him h by the extent I of her Information on matters deep and erudite of rat which he had bad supposed her entirely I Ignorant That pretty I head bead of hers was not empty Imply after arter all 1111 And Ind It a II was as hi his he felt with witha a II glow that wn was brio bringing ing out nil all this Ills latent Intent Here Intellectuality was vas a H Held field fieldin In which he III sow saw that he was a pre predestined destined Influence for far good gaud A An And i In order that lie hi might better bolter exercise h his I hover pr power he hI neglected no nn opportunity op up- of or being heing beside her Into n I that maelstrom of society w he so sn heartily detested 1 he hI plunged w 1111 h the resolute spirit of n H warl und martyr r and haw hu In Ing pot got there found to In hi his bis surprise that be hp rather It I It was Clara Clam now nn- who was Ruts always nl dragging In III the Ihl high br brow nv stuff ii and nd Insisting Insisting In In- on discussing 1 1 lilt It Rutherford even eten got slangy y In In his hili talk dropped his Ids gs after the manner of the hunting set Ret and found he could talk society fiddle Toddle raddle with the best hest III t of them Ills frivolous parents were In Then one cia day he proposed to 10 lama Clara It would he be much easier to reform tier her he thought If she were his I wife Rutherford replied Clara Clarn I will viii marry you OU on one 1110 condition that condition that you jou II give gl up UI the frivolous and aimless life IIrI which you have hae been lending leading fur for the I past ln 1 six months Who Who met me gasped Rutherford I Yes replied lara barn only yesterday jester jester- I day I heard you jou OU called nn an empty headed head head- I od ed sporting society sap Flip TJ The flue e man I 1 marry l must have hap some Mme serious purpose In life Now Sow here Is my runy proposition I We will lie hI married and go 0 off to toun Yucatan Yucatan Yuca Yuca- tan a and rill explore the ruins of the i Mayan cities You ou can make a n name for far yourself as us an authority on lost Mayan civilisation d It will be rather dull dull wont wont won't It for It-for for you ou faltered Rutherford Not Sot a hit bit she returned I J am fed up on this society stuff It was rather a wrench for nr Kuther ford but lout there was WIlS Clara tarn rl right ht before be 0 fore him him and and was wall she not worth any sacrifice that thaI you might hl mention Splendid said nil he h. with sudden conviction con Ion lIlIon prehistoric American archeology archeology arch arch- has Ion Inn Ions been one of ot my hoh- hoh Mes IMs With his favorite hobby bobby and the tha girl of his heart hoort what more fID con a man want In this ills world And then than they became Just like ilkI any other two lovers In society or out of society high brow or low low brow |
