Moral; Don't Expect to b Subtle and Understood in the Same Lifetime tion flatly asked. But no, she was impelled by an impish fate to make
manner that her burning curiosity her inquiries in so roundabout was never quenched.
The sad denouement came, how-
When she still young enough instance by her prosp ws father's ever, when "fe" (note the influence of impressionable, although al-home in a small community, Francine the Little Review) was thrown out of an automobile and seriously, I's a Wise Mother that Knows Her Own Child—in Shanghai amas inconsiderateness in electing twas no use to grumble over
havea. toothache on "Nanay's, afternoon' out. Mrs. Bourne was a philosopher as well as a. loving Shanghai mother, 30 when she found]
impossible to persuade amah to) Pottpone her toothache til the next Thoraing she only auld: "Maske, tina an go Took see Number One Medicine Man just now. Suppose he'makes tooth dinghao. you come this ade chop chop." Congratlating Ferecitthat' her sons. were safely Parked with their playmates next Moor for the afternoon, Airs, Bourne then commissioned the Number One} Boy. tovwateh over. baby" Dorothy' Mite she dressed for her bridge, hers, and I thought T must have taken her along and forgot it, and now I've kidnapped a strange child, and—Jack Winston, it's nothing to laugh at! You telephone the club right away, and tell them—you must be careful what you tell them. I'm not going to let the girls know that my losses at Mah Tongg affected my mind so that I couldn't recognize my own child. Say that the child was left there and I thought she belonged to our neighbours and brought her home: and say it quick—her mother will be wild.
"Hardly that," jeered the cruel] parent, "probably her mother is still playing Mah Jongg and doesn't ready sufficiently sophisticated to attempt to conceal this amiable weal nest, Prancine heard her instructor literature exclaim impatiently:
Phrase the obvious?" The expression was new to. Francine (exrances, ex-Fanny), The structors was young and good-looking THis protest left a lasting mark upon Immediately her "themes" which had" been painstakingly composed, ripon classic models began to change forthe obscurer. Where she had been. content to present. her. facts clearly and in conventional rhetoric she now essayed to cloak her mean-! ing in subtleties, "Her perplexed mentor summoned her to an inter-few. Francine. thought her feet Set upon the ladder of scholastic advancement when singled out for continued her quest for the subtle) nuances of style. 'A. stiff course in business En, taken in the capacity of junior stenographer! might have saved her, but unfortunately father was too well off andj Francine too lazy to apply this remedy, She subscribed for the mast up-to-date of the little magazines and doted on their vaguenesses. She wrote for them, but somehow never got published, Her passion for the unexpected and bizarre slopped over into her conversation. Clichés became so abhorrent to her that she could hardly bring herself to do you do?" but preferred to inquire "Tuned to G? fully' Her salutaas to be alarming. All this of course did not though not fatally injured. Wher she regained consciousness a fluttering glance told her that she was in utterly strange surroundings. Cor: sumed with curiosity the inevitable question leaped to her lips. So strong is instinct in the most subtle of us that "fe standard query: Her ideals forbade that expression however. She strove in vain t9 find a satisfactory original substitute. She could not evolve it and so she died, a victim, not of the accident but of thwarted curiosity superimposed upon a hatred of the commonplace,
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