Page 19 - 1918 Hartridge

TEMPORA ET MORES
They have returned reeently with their nine eliildreii, and all that Charlotte talks about now is her home and the weatlier. Her hns-
hand, she says, abhors an intelleetnal woman.
Esther Strong’is—well, the only way to deserihe it is in the words
of her press agent—“a scintillating Hroadway star.” She used so much dramatic elo(inence when she pleaded her law-snits, that the
judge took her aside one day and said, ‘‘Why waste all this ability on a stn\])id jury? Ca\])itali'/e yom- talent.” She thanked him and immedi­ ately abandoned her ))j’actice to he nndei’stndy foi’ Sai’ah Hei’iihardt,
who. of course, was getting rather aged. Kvei'y one said it was a wondei’fnl oj)))ortnnity, and so it was. Sarah died the following year-
althongh Esther was not i’es\])onsihle for that and now Esther just rolls in wealth, attained by continuing Sai’ah’s popular ‘‘Eai’ewell
America” tours.
Constance, one day, was stricken with remorse at the thought of
all the time she had wasted knitting, when she might have been study­ ing. Thenceforth she dro\])ped knitting’entirely, and a\])\])lied herself diligently to all sorts of dee\]) things. As a result of twenty years of research (so reads the ))reface), she has hi’onght forth a hook, entitled i i rThe Sociological and Economic Problems of ddiis Earth and the Planets.” It has \])ag’es and .‘149 illustrations—retail \])rice, $12.50. Xeedless to sav, she does not live on the income from this work, hut rather earns her daily bread by teaching’ Freshmen at Colnmhia the why and wherefore of astronomy.
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Chi’istine, the first few years aftei’ llartridge, made a special study of geometry and solved all the originals in the hook. After this strain, hei’ \])arents found it necessai-y to take her abroad to recuperate.
She wrote a hook there on “Italy, d'oday and Tomorrow,” hut the Ttalians didn’t mind because they didn’t read it.
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Eater, she studied stenogi-aphy, and became Ex-President Wil­ son’s seci’etary. Idiis ari’angement was not \])ei’inanent, however, owing to hei’ marriage to the Dnke of \\h)i’cester, a \])oor peer, who “daneed divinely and loved her for her hair.”
Now she is busy wondering what will ha\])pen to this love, for she called me n|) to say that she had fonnd the first gray hair!
.Jnlia has indeed led a pnr\])osefnl life. Following up hei’ talent at I’ide \])ractice, and hei’ fondness for dnmh things, she haunted the
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