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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1930)
it K U .L.IM KA I'KD FEATURE SUCTION (I (n ft Dmcmbtr «. 1 MB lie Love ©f Lena A Short Story of the Sus- tained Love of an Old- Fashioned Wife m C om pirle in This Issue By H. HOLLAND FIELDS IKE’S a great big whet'I, when you net to the eiui. you’re just at the beginning.” »aid Lena, the heauti- —^ ful young wife of Dan Richards, as they stood side by side looking from the window of one of Baltimore’s most exclusive colored hotels. “ Dear,” she continued, “ I stand here each day just at this time, to see the little children j coming from school, scuffling through the snow, laughing gaily as they go along. Many are so happy, well clothed ; and comfortable, while others seem disturbed, poorly clad, out in the chill of the day. However, they are all children with tiny human hearts and growing desires.” 1 "Yes. that's very true.” Dan added TI.ey're all children But come Lena. lets take m a show It s too gloomy "round here ” And before she could answer he had her coat In his hand “ Are you ready my dear?” With that sympathizing look, which v. x. ,o natural to her. she answered: "No Dan let's stay home some times Stay home and sit together so we can la V and think. Do you know we'v • been going out every night lor .he last two months?” But at this Dan became odendrd. The veins began to rtse In his fore head For a m ament he didn't an swer but later the silence was com- pofn* on cold wot days? Sloan’s Lin im e n t u r croiimng c harm pb-tcly broken, and he begun to ave: "t.ook. Lena." he stammrred Indig nantly tins Is my holiday and I don't Intend to stav at home X'll go alone." All right all right. Dan." was the calm rejoinder "I only made the suggestion I'U get my thing.- on in u .utnute " “ Now, said Dan. sne*cringly. “ t don’t want to go " “ But why, Dan’ Don't you want to enjoy your holiday?" "Yes. but I guess I havi to stay home it I want to have any peace llan Terribly Spoiled And lie dropped himself in a chair a one deaf and dumb and tiiere he at for tours, grumbling to himself, is if le had become disgusted with Ins entire surroundings Mary sat in her usual place with j tier hand resting on ttie arm uf a j chair She was quite composed reading her book » hlch had been letched lecently from Uie city library. Hia manners did not disturb her. in the leas' In fact, he had always been that way. He could not help himself. t’o her he was like most men who never managed to outgrow | tile helpless stage of childhood, de pending on their wives to arrange ! 'heir diet, at ' to do such things as | fix then cuffs and fasten their col- 1 In and ti< if.- had been an only child in a wealthy lamtly down in Mississippi Oh man Richards, prominent in the Black and Tan faction of the Republican party in Missis.- ppi. thought his only child loo good for work, and far too tender for responsi bility No schoo was good enough for his son. and no faculty culturrd Igh to impart to him tin- great lessons of life I used to hear him say boastfully: "N o child ‘n Mississippi, black or white, shall have better opportunity than my son. Dan. Hr must get the very best and my influence and money will get tt for him " "Here, son." he used to say. when , Dan was one of the few , 'egro stu- j dents at Harvard, "take this check to ' five hundred and show them who you • n and what you re marl«- ol 1 Old mother Richards stood around but dared dot press her sentiments, for old man Richards was surely chairman of all "committees" in his ; house and brooked no contradiction If anyone wanted to know anything : they should ask old man Richards, and, moreover, should be quite con tent with his bigoted conclusions When Dan failed to keep up to tin- standard -nd was compelled to with draw from school father Rlcnards gave the illustrious president of Har vard to know that he had forced from that Institution one of Am eri ca's moat promising colored youths, and also the son of one of the most prosperous farmers In the state of Mississippi But four years after the old man had gone to Join the countless num bers In th i great eternity, f>an, like so many young men In our country, had lost nearly all his father's wealth In gay and reckless living Realiz ing his mistake, he sought salvation In marylng Lena, a sober minded •Ita mat was tern ami his reliar hanging fnun bis coal like he had been In a fight. 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