Her Husband's Purse

to date in every particular." There was nothing in the way of being smartly fashionable that the town of New Munich lacked. Well, if up to the present it had lacked old families of "di

Meeting, at the Woman's Suffrage Headquarters, at the Ladies' Literary Club, at the Episcopal Church Vespe

s 'daughter of a

Myrtle Deibert, as supper was being served at eleven o'clock on the card tables at Congressman Ocksre

such a person livi

l live with him after he's married!" exclaimed M

ical, they certainly will,"

ed Mr. Bleicher

girl would have married old Danny

bargain-counter maidens in their fourth 'season,' been inviting Danny Leitzel to everything going, and running aft

om in New Munich for the people at one card table to discuss

, "that at least two girls in this town, when it

Schaeffer. "Why, he isn't a man, h

that has caught him at last, isn't marrying him for himse

Jennie and Miss Sadie, she'll wish she wa

ness to manage Danny's wife the way t

effer. "It would give Dan Leitzel the shock he

s Mrs. Daniel Leitzel!" Miss

Leitzel wouldn't marry a dow

her spend her money," M

silent because she found their gossip vulgar and tiresome (which was indeed her true reason) but attributed her disinclination to talk to the fact that during the past year Daniel Leitzel had been rather noticeably attentive to her; so much so

iss Deibert was thinking. "

er disappointment so frankly," Mr. S

ages; he was only ten years old when they discovered coal on their land and got rich over night. And from the first, his sisters gave him every advantage they could buy for him, sending him to the best private schools, and then to college, and then to the Harvard Law School; and every one knows that Danny Leitzel is no fool, but a brilliant lawyer

and I've heard him jew down the old chore woman that scrubs his office and haggle over a fifty-cent bill for supper at the club. He's the worst sc

nich do seem to know) that the Leitzels

ha

She lives in the Leitzels' old f

ss Sadie are too old to

don't have anything to do with her. I was told she's a dear old soul and never speaks against them, but is as proud of their rise in the world as if she were their own mother. The neig

lieve everyth

just like them!"

playfully on that of the silent Miss Aucke

ll do with us and our social life, if she really is a woman of breeding and culture. I wonder whether it would be possible this winter to make our social coming together count for something more than-well, than just an utter waste of time. What is th

ted, "for those that want something 'worth while,'

it is," M

ould you su

y clubs at which we read abstracts from encyclopedias wouldn't alter the fact

"We all read all the latest books an

er phase of the agitating n

pose she'll turn up her nose at New Munich,

therners don't care anything about appearances. They tell you right out they can't afford this and that, and they don't seem to think anything of wearing clothes all out of style. There was an awfully handsome new house in the town where I stopped, and when I asked the hotel clerk who lived in it and if they weren't great

anions to whom, like herself, any but money

re, then what's this girl marrying Dan Lei

there's no accou

t's only prudent," said the candid one; "but I certainly could

y will need very firm handling to make him part with enough money to keep he

e and Miss Sadie, too!" cried the rector's daughter. "Danny doesn't so much as put on

ties for him, it's because he doesn't want to do it himself. He's the most consummately selfish individual I've ever known in the whole course of my long and useful life and the most immov

ers, but his wife won't be!" proph

on't it, to look on this winter at the drama or comedy or

claimed in cho

s funny of course-but he's all the same a man of brains and education, of wealth and influence and power