Show a Sundays Sunday's Intimate I Talks With With- Girls ji I ITHE THE SACRIFICE OF A HEROIC YOUTH J Donald Black was 25 and handsome and unusually clever Unlike man many men he wanted very much to be married married married mar mar- ried but as yet his position with one onel nt l' l f the Wall street brokerage firms paid him too meager a salary The only way in which Don displayed his youth was in borrowing money from me to pay the check when we had dinner or supper together and invariably in invariably invariably in- in variably forgetting t to repay m me me Donald Donlald knew a man from whom he got theatre tickets so we went quite often otten One evening we had been to a romantic play and not feeling like visiting visiting visiting vis vis- a restaurant we went directly home Donald made himself comfortable comfortable comfortable comfor comfor- table in his favorite chair and read while I cooked some cocoa and scrambled scrambled scrambled scram scram- bled eggs ggs In th the chafing dish I knew Donald was smitten but he had never told me he loved me so when he said make me a fine wife I was rather surprised I then said to him But Donald I 1 would not be very happy unless my husband told me the ho he loved me To reassure me Donald in his boysh boysh boy- boy sh way answered Aw well we cancan can cancan cancan can arrange that easily enough But w we are going to be married arent aren't we Im I'm older than you Donald I re reminded reminded reminded re- re minded him Five years d dont don't nt cut any ice continued con continued continued con con- Don You look like a chicken Now If it was ten or twelve twelve- years and you r resembled a dame old enough to bean be bean bean an aunt we might sit up and take notice Donalds Donald's wy Wiy of proposing was so he altogether whole- whole original he original was so I had not realized before how deeply in love I 1 was For about two weeks we were secretly engaged He telephoned every day and I 1 saw him three nights a week 1 I was extremely happy for when I reminded him Donald Donald Don Don- ald aid would tell me he loved me and added that I was some little trainer I all right Mother observed how absorbed I 1 Iwas Iwas teasingly remarked re reI remarked re- re i was in Donald and she marked that I 1 acted as though I 1 had I plighted my troth to him It seemed unfair not td to confide in mother so I I told her that Donald and I 1 intended to lo marry The dear thing was elated and andI I wanted to know when we would tell our friends and about the ring and everything She said I would have to II begin making my trousseau That night I asked Donald about announcing announcing ing ling our engagement He said Aw well go ahead Tell it Im I'm willing But it will be a good five years before I Ill I'll be making enough nough to get married Ion on I I knew if 1 I waited waite a five ye years rs DonI Donald Donald Don Don- I ald aId would not marry me for I 1 would be bethen old then even even In his eyes eyes so I told him we would have to get along s somehow on his salary Why It would mean social ostracism ostracism ostra ostra- I cism to be married in this town and Donald said not notown own a limousine I I argued with him unavailingly for he left me repeating that marriage at present was an impossibility When I did not hear from him I felt that rather than give him up altogether I would wait walt ten years The other night at dinner r at Madelane's Madelane's Madelane's Made- Made lanes lane's Mrs Towne said Why Constance Constance Constance Con Con- stance wasn't that handsome boy Donald devoted to you I see where he was married last week to Eleanor Eleano r Farmer the divorcee She's 40 But Buther Buther Buther her income is Noble Donald He did not think it fair to spoil my chances with other men as long as he could he-could could not make me his wife So he sacrificed himself by marrying a woman of 40 whom he heI could not love and upon whom he will willbe willbe willbe I be financially dependent Poor dear Why was I not more patient |