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THE FEATHERHEADS
Quite an Impression!
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THE
GRAND OLD
PAIR
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By FANNIE HURST
© IfcClur Newspaper Syndicate)
THEY were a grand old pair
Tbnt was how the local press
eulogized them upon the cele-
bration of their fiftieth wedding
anniversary
They deserved the appelntlon Their
half-century of life together had em-
bodied all those qualities that go to
I solidify and enrich the human scene
Helen and Lazarus Bradstoop had
i bullded well and tenanted their home
with a family that they reared In
harmony and unison Four girls and
j six boys were the Issue of It All
with the exception of two sacrificed
to war grown and out of the nest
Even the nest that had borne them
i had passed With the marriage of
their last child Alleon to a French
viscount the old couple responding to
pressure had agreed to give up the
great brown stone family home and
move Into the compact quarters of an
apartment hotel
It worked too Tlipy frankly en-
joyed the new freedom from respon-
sibility The relief from the pressure
of large household machinations For
the first time In almost half a century
Helen Lazarus found herself with
time on her hands For the first time
in that period Lazarus free of busi-
ness and family burdens felt himself
at liberty to sun himself of a morning
in the large park opposite the hotel
When Helen was sixty-five and her
husband seventy they took their first
trip abroad In the company of one
of their older sons and his wife
It was a four-months’ tour and as
Helen proudly related when they re-
turned their son and daughter-in-law
had literally carried them about so
solicitous were they for the well-being
and comfort of the parents
That was the attitude of the entire
large family of Bradstoops Helen
nnd Lazarus had reached a time of
life when they were entitled to the
good things The Bradstoop children
by tacit agreement saw to It each
nnd severally that their parents
should come Into a rich old age
To grow old like the Bradstoops
surrounded by love giving It receiv-
ing It secure In one another and In
the ministrations of the huge and de-
voted family was the kind of thing
the beholder unconsciously coveted
for his own and for himself
Every year when the family met at
Christmas around a table thnt seated
forty even a stranger looking In
might have felt his heart strain as he
saw strain with a sense of the beau-
ty of this spectacle of family well be-
ing And-now we come to what must
reluctantly be termed the fly In the
ointment If there was one flaw In
the perfect family sequence It cen-
tered around the charming and per-
sonable figure of Alleen Bradstoop
who had married the viscount and
moved to Paris
The Bradstoops with unanimity
had opposed that marriage of the
baby of the family to Leland Le
Conte yonng aviator who had gravi-
tated to St Louis as that city was
by way of becoming an aviation cen-
ter of the world
Alleen and Le Conte met at a coun-
try club became engaged that same
evening and ten days later were mar-
ried with an ado of social flurry to
say nothing of the consistent If re-
pressed opposition of the Bradstoop
family
Le Conte wns bona fide as to con-
nections all right The third son of
an ancient If decadent Alsatian fnm-
lly Impecunious reckless high-strung
but nil In all In the opinion of the
Bradstoops and their friends Just the
man for the correspondingly high-
strung Alleen not to marry
A word about Alleen Born six
years after the ninth child she hnd
been from the start a special kind of
youngster Erratic strangely lovely
In a blond fashion that wns distinct-
ly a departure from the Bradstoop
olive tints nnd with blue eyes thnt
glittered like Ice In the sun
Countless were the secret confer-
ences held by her parents over this
elusive sprite their child Her moth-
er fenred her n hit nnd where n repri-
mand would sulllce for one of the oth-
er children with Aiieen It wns nl-
ways a matter of knowing Just how to
handle her
The old gentlcmnn Brndstoop a dis-
ciplinarian after a fashion although
a kind one to the letter shied off a
bit too where Alleen was concerned
In the phraseology of the St Louis of
this period people snid thnt Alleen
“hnd her family bluffed” They de-
ferred to her She was a iwnn In a
barnynrd A special breed An exotic
In a Just ordinary gnrden
For Instance In a community where
smoking wns still a vice for a woman
Alleen at eighteen flaunted the weed
defying pnrentnl remonstrance and
threatening to smoke In the public
parks If the home were forbidden her
Alleen won
At nineteen she openly went to the
room of one of the town’s well-known
bachelors entered unannounced and
Informed the flabbergasted conserva-
tive that she had arrived for tea
She was not of the yielding pas-
sive contented breed of her sisters
was forever getting herself talked
about In one boisterous capacity after
another and at one time was reported
to have eloped with the family chauf-
feur Bo unwelcome as the viscount mar-
riage was It was with some relief
that the Bradstoops saw her safely
enmeshed in a marriage that at least
carried with It the undeniable tincture
of respectability even though young
Leland was known tot a certainty to
be anything but conservative
He was a young man somehow who
seemed foreordained There was a
transient quality about Leland You
expected catastrophe to overtake him
one way or another It was In his
cards It was in his eyes
Ten years after his marrtnge to
Alleen It did And of all Ironic acci-
dents 1 Leland the daredevil the ace
the aviator Leland who loved fast
horses nnd fast polo was to die In
bed of blood poison from an Infected
toe-nail '
Six months Inter there returned to
America practically penniless Aiieen
nnd her four children two robust boys
and a pair of frail girl twins
The quick nnd stormy and Impetu-
ous years had left their mnrk on
Alleen Lelnnd hnd broken her os
the saying goes Her spirit lay a
dead thing within her Gone was the
Ice-glitter from her eyes and the
shoulders thnt hnd always defied were
tamed somehow It wns a different
Alleen who came home A rather
heart-hurting edition of her former
self
Leland hnd fulfilled the Bradstoop
prophecies Gradually It was all to
come out Not so much from what
Alleen was ever to say But piece by
piece the whole sordid story wns un-
consciously to reproduce itself before
her family
Leland had been a rotter both as a
husband and a father His children
had lived In terror of him Thnt was
what hnd broken Alleen Leland hnd
once struck his little four-year-old
twins In a drunken fury There had
been a scar along one small arm for
months Ills sons had cringed from
him These small children hnd come
to know terror early
The pnln of thnt was graven Into
the face and heart of Aiieen
And Alleen brought home with her
one desire indeed It might be snid
that Alleen brought home with her
one obsession She wanted for these
pallid children of hers the kind of
youth she had known In the old brown
family mansion of her childhood She
not only wanted for them thnt kind of
youth bnt the Identlcnl setting She
wanted the old house on Pine street
which her parents hnd long since sold
to a Catholic school and which was
now used as the dwelling place of
twelve monks who conducted the In-
stitution At first the Idea seemed too fantas-
tic even to bear discussion The
brothers and sisters of Alleen rose In
a unanimous mnss against the Idea
of the parents ever being asked to re-
sume any of the duties of home and
household
It must also be said that Helen and
Lazarus themselves who were con-
templating a long-dreamed trip to the
Orient drew away from the prospect
In a way Alleen bowed her head
before the selfishness of her demands
and the unanimity of the decision
against her She took up her resi-
dence at the willing bounty of her
family in the same hotel with her
parents There her children strange
youngsters reared In the French tra-
dition sought to adapt themselves to
new environment
There Alleen so sobered that there
was pathos In her very aspect sought
to cause to shine upon these starvel-
ing offspring of hers some of the
radiance of the kind of children that
had been hers
In a way she succeeded Even In
the hotel environment Helen and Laz-
arus were to fill a niche In the lives
of their grandchildren that was vital
and Important
They lived In closest proximity
the grandparents part of the very
fabric of each And yet there came
a time when Helen realized that there
was to be no trip to the Orient no
continuance of the carefree life thnt
contained no household worries no
problems of upkeep
Aileen’s children needed n home
Each and every one of the brothers
nnd sisters rallied around to combat
the determination even Aiieen herself
protesting as she contemplated the
worn lined faces of her parents
But In the end It wns the determin-
ation of Helen finally nided and abet-
ted by Lazarus that won the day
At no small difficulty the Brad-
stoops succeeded In buying the brown
old home on Pine street back from
the Monks who surrendered It reluc-
tantly but succumbed to the pres-
sure brought to bear
The Bradstoop home Is going again
full blast Tradespeople hurry In nnd
out during Its busy days genera!
houseciennlng comes nnd goes nnd
the children of Aiieen race In anil out
to school from school on roller skates
on roller coasters
The grandparents are ns hard put
ns they ever wore In their lives The
house is filled with the hurry of feet
the demnnds of smnll voices the cries
of childish altercation
Helen Is beside herself with duties
Lnznrus full of mild scolding ways
and admonitions to grandchildren
There Is no time for travel
Alleen has finally succeeded In
bringing home to her brothers and
sisters the fact that with all their
trials the years have fallen away from
her parents In a fashion that Is
amazing
Secretly Alleen blesses her capacity
for always managing to get her way
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