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BEAUTY’S DAUGHTER CHAPTER Vll—Continued — 11 — "Mf n have always liked me, and yet I’ve never had any character and I never do anything I don't want to do, the older woman explained simply. “I sleep late, I wander downtown in the afternoon to a mov ie; I never assume the slightest re sponsibility, and I am altogether unwise and idle and useless!” In the beginning Victoria would laugh at such whimsicalities. But her mother had not been long her guest before she discovered that they were partly true; Magda really never did make any effort, or as sume any responsibility, except to interest and please men. She would not be left alone at home at night with the children, even though they were all asleep in their beds. “One of them would set something on fire, and then you’d think I de liberately killed the lot!” she plead ed, and the mere suggestion of this calamity prevented Victoria from ever urging the arrangement. For the rest, it was astonishing to discover that Magda’s self-re spect had suffered no whit by her long and exciting career. In the beginning of the European experiences, Lucius Farmer had be come “strange.” He had been a de lightful person in Tahiti and Ma jorca, but somehow southern Ger many had affected him badly. ‘‘lt wasn’t his fault, but he didn’t really have quality, Vic,” Magda ex plained it, generously. ‘‘He wasn’t a gentleman; it simply wasn’t there! Perhaps I was to blame for thinking that it ever was.” Victoria listened on, scrambling as she did so along the line of the sitting-room bookcases, taking out children’s books, matching sets, stacking the volumes neatly. Now and then she sat back on her heels, smiling at her mother. Magda busy with a nail file and a tiny pair of scissors, occasionally in her turn raised her eyes from her hands and looked seriously at Vic, while without anger or resentment she re counted the strange actions of Lu cius Farmer. After all she, Magda, had done for him,, he had been un appreciative enough to desert her. As the days went by, and Vic found herself drawn more and more under her mother’s influence, af fected more and more by her moth er’s point of view, she found it in creasingly difficult to maintain her own standing; the solid earth rocked a little sometimes beneath her feet. Poor faded Mummy with nothing to show for all the flattered, roman tic years, the presents and the checks, the beautiful face and the beautiful gowns—Mummy couldn’t be entirely right in her preposterous ideas and attitudes, but there were moments when Victoria felt uneas ily that perhaps she wasn’t entirely wrong, either. Mummy, for one very important thing, thought that having more than one or two children was a mistake. It was a forgivable mis take. “For you have them so eas ily, Vic, and you do adore them so. But I tell you it’s selfish. You’ll lose him!” Victoria felt that she could afford to laugh at this. According to Mummy every man between the ages of sixteen and eighty was in terested in any reasonably pretty woman, anywhere, everywhere, at all times and seasons. No wife was safe! But Magda was not to be laughed out of her position. She said thoughtfully: “Women must go crazy about him. He’s stunning!” “He’s forty-three!” Vic laughed. “And he has a large family and the hardest surgery practice in the city.” “Forty-three. He’s not at the dan gerous age yet,” Magda mused. “Is anyone specially crazy about him?” “There’s always some woman tel ephoning,” Vic answered unalarm edly. “I know the signs. But he doesn’t take them seriously.” Magda was hardly listening; her eyes were narrowed in speculation. “I don’t think any woman gets hold of a man,” Vic submitted, com fortably relaxed in a big chair now, with her feet stretched out before her. “I don’t believe any woman loses her husband because some other woman wants him,” she sub stituted, beginning again. Her mother regarded her in astonish ment. “What do you think?” Magda de manded. “I mean I think the wife has lost him first,” Victoria explained. “Ah, yes, but it all depends upon what you mean by losing him,” the other woman said. “It doesn’t al ways mean.that they’re quarreling, that they’ve made up their minds to separate! It may mean that they’ve drifted apart—perhaps they don’t realize it themselves ...” “Mother, do you really believe that all married women are waiting for affairs with other men to come along; that all married men have an eye out for charming women— fresh women?” Mrs. Herrendecn’s surprised stare was sufficient answer. “Why, but of course!” she said, amazed. “Vicky, look at them! They do.” “They all don’t!” Vicky muttered. But she was thinking. “Some men never would,” Magda conceded. “But some men are after women—smart women and beauti- by KATHLEEN NORRIS © Kathleen Norris WNU Service. ful women all the time! The world’s full of them now—women who have comfortable big alimonies or settlements, and who are on the loose hunting for someone like Quentin—someone to love!” ‘There are lots of men handsomer than Quentin for them to go after,” Victoria observed with a laugh. “But it isn’t looks that count, Vic. That hard-faced, deep-voiced, dark headed square sort of man is—well, I tell you,” Mrs. Herrendeen said, shrugging lightly, looking away, “I tell you that if I were ten years younger I’d give that lad of yours a run for his money!” For once Vicky was not amused; she was secretly affronted by her mother’s words. Magda broke the silence. “Marriage isn’t what it used to be, Vic. In the old days if a man wanted to wander there were places he could go that his wife never heard about. Women suspected what was going on, but they were having their ten or a dozen children and “He Wasn’t a Gentleman; It Simply Wasn’t There!” feeding chickens and making soap and putting up preserves, and they didn’t have much to say. It’s dif ferent now. The women they can buy are of their own class, and they’re not all after presents and trips and alimony. They want love —they’ve got money! They’re after the love part! There’s a sex war on, Vic—women don’t want one expe rience, they want twenty, now! “Well, I hate the word ‘sex,’ and I hate so much talk about it, and I hate the idea that it’s the most important thing in the world!” Vic presently said, with feeling. “But it is the most important thing in the world,” her mother assured her seriously. Victoria shook her head, frown ing. She fell into thought, and her mother, idling in her favorite fash ion on a couch beside the fire, was silent, too. Later that evening Vic toria asked Quentin if he thought sex was so important. “Sex?” he echoed in surprise. Vicky laid a hand on his. “I don’t mean in youth, when flirt ing is natural and right. But after ward—does it have to go all through life, men tempting women and wom en tempting men to throw every thing else over, decency and home and honor and obligation?” “Often,” the doctor said slowly, “it is that way. They tell me about it,” he added. “How do you mean, ‘it is that way’?” “I mean that a man who really loves his wife and kids, who is per fectly satisfied with his home life—” “Perfectly satisfied!” The tame phrase affronted her, and she laughed. “Well, perhaps what I mean is that his new affair has nothing to do with his—his organized life. He meets some woman who appeals to him tremendously—irresistibly—” “Physically!” Vic put in, scorn fully, os he hesitated for a word. He accepted it simply, unsuspicious iy. “Oh, yes, primarily that. Pri marily that. She has some trick of using her eyes—some note in her voice—something that sets him on fire just as definitely as if a fuse were lighted.” There was a pause. Victoria was studying his face attentively. “Yes, but suppose all that,” she presently said. “Grant all that! Is he then to tear up his whole life, kick his wife out, deprive his chil dren of their father—” “It’s usually the wife who does that, Vicky.” “A man might expect his wife to forgive him,” Vicky said, after thought. "But then how would she know that it mightn’t happen again?” “She wouldn’t,” Quentin said, mildly, unsmilingly. “Ha!” Vicky exclaimed, out of deep thought. Quentin laughed. “It would seem that it takes you by surprise,” he observed. “Well, it does. I’ve always felt— I've always hoped—that a man liked a woman for other things—her being sweet-tempered, and a good sport, and making him a comfortable home, and loving him ” She stopped short in her catalogue so much in earnest that tears were near her eyes. “He does, Vic. A man who has a wife like that is lucky, and he knows it. But that doesn’t mean that—oh, well, that the look some woman gives him over her shoulder as she goes out of his office won’t—won’t stay with him for days.” “Oh, Quentin!” Victoria ex claimed in surprise and dismay. And irresistibly she added, “Does that happen to you?” “Sometimes!” The doctor admit ted, laughing. “But—but there’s no sense to it! Look what it leads to. Look at Mother, and so many others—the mess they make of it! In the end— in the end—” “In the end it’s the Vickys who show them what fools they were,” Quentin said, teasingly. “Quentin, have you—since we were married, I mean—ever had that feeling about any other wom an?” “I’d tell you if I had, would I?” “I think you would.” “Well, I don’t know but that I would! I believe you’d be very un derstanding about it. You’d pity the sinner and forgive the sin. But a man with five kids, another coming, a new stove to put in, bills unpaid, and an operation at eight tomor row morning has a swell chance at that sort of thing!” Quentin yawned. “I’d be afraid of your mother, any way,” he laughed. CHAPTER VIII Serena, wife of Spencer Ashley George Morrison, was by birth part English and part Dane; she had been married to this, her third hus band, for only a few years, and was in her early thirties when the Mor risons came to California in search of sunshine and health. Not that Serena herself was not glorious in health and strength, and her child, Gita, seven years olcl, as strong as a little bullock, but her husband had been seriously injured in a hunt ing accident and would never be whole and well again. There was a good income some where. The little family pould af ford to choose what place and what climate it preferred. Menlo Park some eighteen to twenty miles down the peninsula from San Fran cisco—finally had seemed to be the ideal place, and they had bought the Tracy house, right next door to Dr. Quentin Hardisty’s big place, in the week when Madeleine Hardisty was a year old. The Hardistys’ old-fashioned place was spacious, plain, comfortable. But the Morrisons' residence was quite new, and lovely in plastered Spanish patios, tiled oddments of sloping roof, oaks, peppers, roses flagged paths. Little Gita Stewart, Serena’s daughter, lonely and curi ous and bold, had lost no time in creeping through the evergreen hedge that separated the two gar dens, crossing the Hardistys’ old tennis court and, skirting the berry patch, threading her way under the oaks and over the lawn, and finally discovering what she later had de scribed to her nurse as the most fascinating family she had ever met: a mother who was fixing the puppy’s hurt head with rags and water and medicines, and boys named Kenty and Dicky and Bobs, and girls named Gwen and Sue, and a baby that could walk. The adult members of the family did not meet so simply. It was at a country-club lunch that Victoria first noticed the straw-haired woman and identified her as the beauty Quentin had noticed more than a year earlier. Everyone was notic ing Serena that day and asking | about her; it was her first social appearance since the long-ago night at the opera, although she had been in her new house for almost a month. Quentin and some of the other men had been playing golf since breakfast time; Victoria had come later to the club to carry her hus band home for lunch. With Gwen I and her two older children she was I watching the tennis when she saw Mrs. Morrison for the first time; presently Phyllis Tichnor came up with the newcomer in tow. “Vic, you know Mrs. Morrison?" “I don’t," Vic said, smiling. “I’m so glad to! I remember seeing Mrs. Morrison at the opera last year, and I think our children know each other?" “Our children?" echoed the beau tiful Mrs. Morrison, raising the del icate dark line of her eyebrows. “Isn’t your small girl Gita Stew art?" “You ought to know each other/’ said Phyllis. “You live right near. Is there a place between you and the Tracy house or aren’t you right next door?" “Oh, of course we are," Serena said slowly, with no change of ex pression beyond a hint of languid curiosity. “It’s your children Gita talks to Amah about?" “I am not a very formal person. You can’t be, when you have six children," Vicky explained, when they were comfortably seated, watching the tennis. “But I do mean to come and see you one of these days!" (TO BE CONTINUED) THE COSTILLA COIINTy np«,^ r . T what InvinS.Cobb thinks about: The New N&a Bn , Santa monica, calif. _ They do the new NRA bill, as drawn by the Gallagher and Shean o he administra tion, Messrs. Corcoran and Cohen, is more sweeping than was the original NRA. Even Gen. Hugh Johnson, once as conversational a Mrs. Astor’s par rot. but lately exiled roi, out amid the uncongen ial silences, crawls out from under a log in the woods with lichens in his hair, but the lower jaw still working s m o o t h 1 y m the socket, to tell how drastic a thing it is. Critics assert this legislation will cov- icgjoiuv.w -- er business like a , . „ wet blanket over a ,rvln s - Cobb sick pup, and point out that the number of sick pups benefited by being tucked under wet blankets is quite small. However, these fussy persons belong to the opposition and don’t count. Anyhow, they didn't count much at the last election ex cept in Maine, Vermont and one backward precinct in the Ozark mountains. ... Friendly French Visitors. IT SEEMS we were cruelly wrong 1 in ascribing mercenary motives to those French financiers who’ve been dropping in on us lately. They came only to establish more cordial relations. Of course, there's a new French bond issue to be floated, but these visits were purely friendly and altruistic. Still and all, I can’t help thinking of Mr. Pincus, who invaded the east side to invite his old neighbor, Mr. Ginsburg, whom he hadn’t seen in years, to be a guest at Mrs. Pincus’ birthday party. He gave full directions for travel ing uptown, then added: “Vere we lif now it’s von of dose swell valk-up flats. So mit your right elbow you gif a little poosh on the thoid button in the doorjam downstairs und the lock goes glick glick und in you come. You go up two floors und den, mit your other elbow, you gif one more little poosh on the foist door to the left und valk in—und vill mommer be surprised!" “Vait,” exclaimed Mr. Ginsburg. “I could get to that Bronnix. I got brains, ain’t it? But ulso 1 got fin gers und thumb* Vnt is he poosh mit-elbows stuff?" Murmured Mr. Pincus gently: “Surely you vouldn’t come empty nanded!" Visiting Ancient Ranchos. T T NDER the guidance of Leo Carillo, that most native of all native sons, I’ve been visiting such of the ancient ranchos as remain practically what they were before the Gringos came to southern Cali fornia. You almost expect to find Ramona weaving in a crumbly pa tio. What’s more, every one of these lovely places is lived on by one of Leo’s cousins. He has more kin folks than a microbe. They say the early Carillos were pure Spanish, but I insist there must have been a strong strain of Belgian hare in the stock. When it came to progeny, the strain was to the Pacific coast what the Potomac shad has been to the eastern seaboard. It’s more than a family—lt’s a species. And a mighty noble breed it is— producing even yet the fragrant es sence of a time that elsewhere has vanished and a day when hospitality still ruled and a naturally kindly people had time to be mannerly and t le instinct to be both simple and grandly courteous a t once. • • • „ Privileges of Nazidom. TTHE German commoner may be 1 sh Y °? thc 00d rations and have some awkward moments unless he conforms to the new Nazi religion But he enjoys complete freedom of the press-or rather, complete free dom from thc press. And lately an other precious privilege, has been accorded him. He may fight duels. Heretofore, this inestimable boon was exclusive ly reserved for the highborn. But now he may go forth and carve and be carved until the field 0 f honor looks like somebody had been clean ing fish. This increase i n his blcssings makes me recall a tale that Charley Russell, the cowboy artist, used to tell: “The boys were fixing to hang a horse thief, Uiarley said. "He only weighed about ninety pounds, but for his heft he’Was the champion horse thief of Montana. The rope was swung fn> m the roof of a barn Then they balanced a long board out of the loft window, and the con demned was out at the far end of it, ready for the drop, when a stranger busted in. \ "Everybody thought he craved to pray, but that unknown humanita rian had a better notion than that. In less’n a minute he came inching out on that plank and there wasn’t a dry eye in mo crowd os he edged up behind thc poor trembling wretch and slipped » n ar -Vil i n the seat of hif pants.” COBB ’ I AROUND the HOUSE Picking Raspberries. 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Uncle Phil Says: Better Improve the Other Foot \ Put your best foot forward, of * course, but that doesn’t conceal the defects in the other one; it’s got to come, too. Meeting sudden emergencies • makes one hardboiled. Look at war and after-dinner speaking. “Travel is broadening;” it makes one more resigned to the nuisances at home. Civilization may not be doomed, [ but it may be doomed to a good many dark ages in which brains are flouted. Is Your Help Wanted? Some people get sore if you try to lighten their burdens—unless they ask you to. One of the greatest of mistakes ! is to stop a man on the street to point out an error he has made. | A man may pull down his char- I ; acter in an effort to build up his I reputation. People dress handsomely to II please themselves more than to I impress others. Single Patch Forms a Gay Flower Quilt The quilt of olden-time lives again—the popular “Grandmoth er’s Flower Garden.” Made of one patch throughout it’s a fas cinating and amazingly easy quilt to piece. There’s endless chance for color variety for each flowetf is to be in different scraps. Here’s Pattern 5802 a quilt a beginner can piece, and point to with pride. In pattern 5802 you will find the Block Chart, an illustration of the finished block in actual size, showing con trasting fabrics; accurately drawn pattern pieces; an illustration of the entire quilt; three color schemes; step-by-step directions for making the quilt; and exact yardage requirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. 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