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TIIC DT I T AL NTIEWY NN\~ 4 Motion Picture
Es; - : P Romance With
A Marion Davies
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See Story in Motion Pictures
“The Belle of New York,” in which Marion Davies takes the
star part, will be shown soon at the best theaters, This
pic'um, s‘agcd under the PGTOOI'I" direction of Julius
Steger, is released by the Select Pictures Corporation.
By Jane McLean.
(Novelized from the Motion Picture,
¥The Eelle of Noew York” preduqu
der the personsl direstion of Julius
ficuar and released by Select Pictures
Corporation.)
- EYNOPSIN,
In 8 Ittie town in the Middle Wost lives
WiHllsm Urenson, one of the richest men
in the #tpte with his onily sen, Jaok,
whd W cnother qus ter of ll! wwn Hves
Amor’ Gray #n inventer, with his ealy
daughiter Vielet
Gray has inyented % transformer -mn‘
’nut. i will ba poswible to slectrify ull‘
railtords in the gountry Hronsen
te G ry's Invent'on; he must have It
E fuir menans or foul Gray trusts him
pHettly and maken I possible for Bron
to 3”«.' out the phatents in his own
Bame, When he has seanired all, levl
pights to it he denies all knowledge of its
ITH the ending ctl the number
4 there burst upon her ears the
i rumbling. roating volume of
applause that follows on the hesls of
success. The producer was smiling
His inspiration was & “hit” "The
ifill. of New York became the draw
ing vard of the performance.
5"“01 a woudertul volce, but a very
#weet one,” sild the critics, And the
public agreed with an added com
ation for her beauty and her
Personaiity. Violet Gray, under ths
mystic nom de plume of The Helle or
York, became the rage of New
York, Signor Cudla ccagratulated
Mpr on her success. “It's not the kind
of success | had hoped for,” she sald,
sadly,
"My dear young lady. we do what
We ean in this world.” |
His triend, the producer, was loud
B his praises. “Shes the bigyest
drawing card in the whole show,” he
sald enthustastionlly, and 1 suppose
#he has a yearning for opera”
"It never does any harm to aim
h, does It7°
. "Not if you'rs pure of your aim,”
Moghed the manager; “but I ought mi
j‘“ you 1 made a castiron agreement
With your protege not to give her
L me awny. Of course, the mystery
adds’ to the attraction that's true
1 , but the girl is just as unas
sLicing as she Is clover—and that's
f;g; ing & lot, bolieve me."
""1 know.” sad Signor Cudia, to
Fom ite ambitions and jealousies of
the theater were an old story,
~ "You always make fne come to the
Point In such a bald way,” protested
the manager. "Who is Violet Gray,
enywny? ls she a millionalress in
dinguise ™ ¥ iy
;j- - Makes Promise to Tell,
~ %he singing teacher smiled. *“You
When a Girl Marries "“™ come® ™™ |
- By Ann Lisle. !
‘Copyright, 1919, King Features Syn
i dlcate, Ino,
. ' CHAPTER LXXXIV,
fl AY honey, you sure are take
f;% Ing things by the smooth
T handie these days! Jeanle
fells me you had @ wonderful basket |
‘Ol fruit at the new apartment &of
{greet her, and that you were a good |
B about Neal's ring, What |
#lruck you ! asked Jim a few days
after Futher Andrew's return hmne.’
© "Well-my folks are pretty foml]
S of you, and 1 got jealous” I replied,
Palt seriously. “So now every tlmoj
1 look at Virginia I say to myselt
N get you yet'" ]
~ "You darling!™ Jim erted, Then
(he reached in to his pocket. “Woll.‘
Muppose you start things off by tak-
Ang this twenty-five and getting her |
'8 real house present—something
scrumptious” .
.. “Thats' & lot of money, Jim!* I be
“gan. but the ominous sash tn Jim's
. eyes warped me, and | went on in
BN altered tone: “But I guess we
JeAn spare it for your ‘Jeanle! and
< . make sure 1 get the right thing
I'm golng to call In Betly as con
sulting physiclan.” |
1 had my first reward when Jim
’ me a delighted hug before he
" off to the day's work-—and my
jgoond came with Botty's enthusi- |
anite acoeptance :
. “Annie. dear, how sweet of you
%0 say you count on my . good
taste and my Interest in my friends,
she truth Is, I'm a regular Mrs.
-1t ' love chopping with
iYou. How sbout a bite at the Wal
pave frsi
& "T'd love it, Detty. Oh Betty,
pat's pertect!” A eried almost daz
§ by the first results of trying
met Betty at the Walgrave and
’ ‘;_Tf"s “we set off for a tour of
“wvenus. But by ie we
4 coms giftiess from ozenth
Mfi . magnificent twenty-five
= a
oot m“:‘mfll‘h PIR
e inst of dollars. ‘amber
‘ enamel box in one shop,
jcke in & second, and foally a»
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3 (e) "%‘Eifi\'fiw/‘ AN 10N,
are not the only one who has a mys
tery,” he sa!d, gayly, “and I'll make
& bargnin with you. In about a year,
or at the end of the season, 1 will tell
you the story of the young lady, and
tiil then you will have to comfort
yourself with the answer that you
may be right and you may be wrong.”
2 9 9
While Viclet was making a name
for herself among the theatergoers of
the greater city young Mr. Bronson
was making one for himselt among
the gay crowd that supports the cab
arets. For once {n his life Sandy In.
fulged In tippling so freely, without
let or hindrance, that the very lack of
\ restraint detracted somewhat from
his paradise. Somehow the roseate
dreams he had cultivated of the time
when he could Indulge his heart's de.
sire without being called to aseount,
without having to operate on the sly,
like a thief in the dark, had dismally
falled of realization,
Someone was always taking the joy
out of life, and although he d4id not
attempt In this case to lay the blame
on his tolerant master, yet the hard
fact was there, staring him In the
face, |
Young Bronson had been going the
pace, there was no denying that, and
he was well known wherever the
lights were high and the chunpsxno}
‘flowed, where the roulette wheel
clicked and the dancing world eon
gregated.
Sandy had plotured such a life
rack in the Middle West, where pleas
ure was overtopped by the god of
business; now and again he shud
dered at the thought of the elder
Bronsgn's expression if he could have
happened In on his son.
And yet the head of the house had
explicitly told Jack to go the limit,
porvided only that he never forgot to
be a man. Ahd so far the son, his
helr, had followed his Instructions to
the letter,
It was the most naturn! thing In the
world that he should happen with the
rest of New York to see the extrava
ganza in which the Belle of New York
was delighting nightly thousands. Mr.
Bronson had no sooner set eyes on
Violet Gray than he fell violently In
love with her. He resolved to meet
her, and he thought that all he had to |
do waa to ask for an Introduction and
proceed to the oid familiar lnes.
With that end in view, he oalled on |
the manager and made his request. To |
his murprise, that gentleman did not
fall in with his wishes. '
“I'm sorry, Mr. Bronson,” he ex-
old-sflver bonbonniere wers pounced
upon by Betty as “just the lhh‘.g"]
and discarded as each turned out to
be priced far beyond my allotment.
In Royal Fashion,
“What shall we do?” I eried in
despalr, “You know just what
would appeal to Virginia-—and Jim's
heart is set In making that appeal,
He wants to do this in royal fash
fon, I can't buy a lace tidy or a
paper lamp-shade but they begin te
look about my--speed!”
“What a whimsieal little thing you
are, dear” laughed Botty. The Ave
nue lsn’t the place for us today--but
‘l'vo thought of the solution,
~ “What we'll do ls trot to your land
lord's studio. Naturally he Isn't as
‘oxpon-lvo as these big shops, and
he'll give you a special price, no
“doubt.”
~ “No doubt” I schoed, blankly.
‘ How was Ito tell Betty that 144
‘not like my landlord —~that I shrank
‘from the thought of going to the
studio? T couldn't register any pro
test that sounded sane, 8o I had to let
Betty trot me up to the Mason offices.
Tom Mason announced that he had
Just the gift we needed. He bro-f
duced a wonderful pair of black 0101-}
sonne ocandlesticks, and then, with I‘
meaning smile at me, he lald under
them a bit of blue and green and shot
sllver silk, heavy an lustrous. It
- was like the blue robe that lay hid
}drn In the carved chest.
i “Wonderful! Virginla will be de.
luarhlod. and Jimmie's going to trust
you with his shopping every time"”
cried Betty. “The candlesticks are
nice. I'll take them If they aren'
100 expensive,” | sald as steadily as |
eould manage. “But that bit of blue
idonnn’t appeal to me.”
Tom MAson smiled almost depres
catingly:
l “T'wenty-five dollars you mid you
| wanted to spend, 1 think. Well, to
you, Mrs. Harrison, I'll let the can
dlesticks go for twenty--and add the
blue brocade table cover for five more.
They really bolong together” |
Just the Thing. i
“Do take them, Anne; they're just
the thing for Virginia” oried Betty,
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plained, “but this isn't an ordinary
case. As far as I am concerned, I'd
be only too glad to take you right
back and Introduce you, but the fact
Is I am under an iron-bound promise
not to make the young lady's ldentity
known on pain of having her quit the
show.” |
This refusal, while It seemed rea
sonable, only served to pique the
completely satisfled with her bargaln
“SBoo they're for Virginia Daiton!
Udd--Um expecting Put in here pres
ently, Siay on a bit and we'll take
you to tea,” Tom suggested jovially.
I winced—but Betty soemed to find
Tom rather amusing.
“Man, dear-—but you have a morbid
sense of humor'” said she. “Now, if
Mrs. Harrison Is satisfied, I'm ready
to eonclude our shopping, We will
let you send the candlesticks and
tapestry to Mrs. Dalton and just run
along.”
80 1 pald for the gift, gave Tom
Mason our cards and Virginia's ad
dress and hurried out of the shop aft
er Betty.
At the street door Betty stopped In
nervous indecision.
“I wish we hadn't left Virginia's
address, Anne, Oh, well, it's done
now, so I won't worry. Kut whatever
possessed you to hesitate over that.
adorable bit of tapesiry? You suroly
don't know much about bargaining,
ehild-<or Ald you want to spend less?
I thought you said Jim Insisted on
twenty-five—and it would have been
silly not to get your money's worth—
bwouldn't it? Didn't you like that
glorfous blue and silver?
“Betty, you ovght to be in the Dis
trict Attorney's ofce” I laughed,
evading a direct rqply.
But I dldn't feel like laughing, for
at the price he had made, those can
dlesticks almost seemed Tom Mason's
present to Virginla rather than mine
| ————
| (To Be Continued.)
Ohange of Ownership,
A poorly-clbd strange: had been gasing
for such A long time with Mnterest st o
mansion, with ita spacious stately carriage
drive and well-kept grounds. that a polices
man A&t the »orner grew suspicious and
walker up to him. “Nice house," said the
officer genlally., ““Yeu' was the reply.
“It'e & vary niee house, and it cost meney,
l‘.‘i: t{‘u .“n that!" said the offiver. 1
;% oficer. toaked at :h: l-n':. .:313.'?0'5
[,\ smiled. “What did yer Llt with "
he snid—'a spade and hoet?' 'No,” ree
gl;o: the man rclv. “with '?o..' Jest nx
y uncle. It s not exactly as I woyl
designed 8, and ve never seon it hes
L‘.?-,.. “You _qm Baw It before"
id the officer, it ain't just as you'd
i'?n &t but murlt it with me left
Pl ale Rot LN
Wne .h
man's curiosity, Evidently here was
a girl who was as far removed from
the ordinary singer as her face and
bearing showed her to be. Mr. Bron
son took to sending her flowers with
nightly regularity, and to these he
mercly appended his first name. He
then took an orchestra seat for every
performance and devoted his time to
feasting his eyes on the vision of
Nights With Uncle Remus
By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.
At Teague Poteet’s-—(Continued).
HE looked up in his face. The
earnestness she saw there daszzled
and conquered her. Her head
drooped lower, and she clasped her
hands together. He
changed his tac
tics,
“Is it really true, }¥ :.(,‘.f;,;ggt
then, that you hate §: « = “
me?"! i
"Oh! 1t you only §° »t§ SN 3
knew!"” she cried, §it ¥ N
and with that Mgfl' \ A
Woodward eaught 'j%'gkfié--»s"i;_, %
her in his arms, w,g ,; &y
An hour after: "«‘\ Laialee
wards Teague Po- .
teet, mitting In his s ;
low piagza, clean- %
ing and olling his
rifle, heard the
sound of volces
coming from the direction of the
Gulletiaville road. Presentiy Bis and
Woodward came (n sight. They walked
Slowly along in the warm sunshine,
wholly absorbed In each other, Wood
wird was leading his horse, and that
intelligent nmmnf lml)roved the oppor
tunity to nip the fragrant sassafras
buds just u;-‘pmnng on the bushes
Teague looked at the two "ounn people
from under the brim of his hat, and
ghuckled; but when Sis caught sixht of
htm, a little while aiter, he was rub
bing his rifle \'lgnmusl{, and seemed to
be Oblivious to the fact that two youuf
people wvrr mnklng love to each
other In full view ut Sis blushed all
the same, and the blushes |l\\:ronlevl
t. she u‘rpronchad the house, untl
Voodward thought In his soul that her
rosy shyness was the rarest manifes
tation of loveliness to be meen In all
the wide world. As she hovered a mo
ment at the gnte, blushing and smil.
ing, the old mountaineer turned the
brim of his hat back from his eyes and
called out with a great pretence of
formal hospitality:
“Walk in an' rest yourselves; thes
walk right In! Hit's lot's teo seon in
the season for the doss to hite Looks
to me, Cap, like you hain't so mighty
tender wi' that ‘'ar hoss er yourn. E!
ir.nu uv rid 'lm down to. Gullettsville an
ek sence a while ago_he'll be a need.
in' fee dtherreckly. Thes ocome right
in_an' make yourselves at home.'
Woodward laughed .ho;?lnhly; but
Bis rushed across the yard, flung her
armm arouvfil Teague's neck t\"d fell to
erving with a vehemence that would
have done credit to "‘1- most brokens
hearted of damsels. The griseied old
mountaineer gathered the gird to his
bosom and stroked her hair .onl\¥ as
he had done a thousand uRw before,
He looked at Woodward wit Allunlu‘
eyes
“Don’t min' Bls, Cnp. Bhe hain't noth-
In’ but a little bit of & siip of a gal, an'
oone% the day she could toddle 'roun’
an’ ollar——md news er bad, mad 1r
gl:d-—lho'l & runnin’ an' havin' J
t Wi her els pappry h
loveliness who was so near to him and
yvet so far from him.
This went on for a fortnight and
Gimlet became worried for fear his
master was really going to violate
the last part of the elder Bronson's
injunction and become foolish over a
theater girl,
He Sensed Trouble.
But he forebore to make any re
gals hain't llke wee-all, Cap; they er
mighty kuse. She never pestered wi’
Puss much,” continued Teague, as his
wife came upon the scene, armed with
the flalntlvo alr of slouchiness, which
is at once thl weapon and shield of
women who believe that Tey ve mar
trys—‘she never routerc wi' Puss
much, but, ery or au{h, fl%ht or frolie,
she allers tuck it oul ¢en her pore ole
N{’D!'
uss asked no questions. She went
and stood by Teague, and toyed gently
with one of Sis's curls.
“111 don't take airter none er the
Pringles,” she sald after awhile, by way
of explanation, “They hain't never bin
a 4 day when I couldn't look at Teague
‘thout battin’ my eyes, an’ Ma :éxaw
say she 'uz thes that away 'bout p.
I never know'd what the all-overs wuz
glgll thes about a hour before me an’
eague wuz married. We uz thes
about md‘ for to go an' face the
preacher, when Ma comes a—nfsmn' in
—an' ?hd won't never be no paler when
she's lafd out than she wuz right that
minnit. ..'L.’ the name er the kord. Ma,
is you a g‘:loal?‘ s ; ‘Puss!" se’
she, ‘the cake hain't riz!' I thes tell
{ou what, foks, 1 zrko to a went through
he floor—~that 1 did!"
At this ;ii. lool;jd up and laughed, and
they all laught except Puss, who
eyed Woodward with an a:ar of faint
curlosity, and dryly remarked——
“I reckon you hain't brung me my
maceaboy -nula I ?uy me an’ m‘ snuff
wa'n't in your min’. ~ ‘Let the old hen
c¢luck,’ ez the sparrer-hawk sald when
he courted the pullet. Wall," she con
tinued, smiling with vnwne satisfao
tion as she saw tha oodward no
more than half relished the eomparison,
“1 better be seein' about dinner, OF
folks llke me can’t live on love."
The days that followed were very
hlgpr ones for thdo two youn‘ people—
and for the two ol ,o“lo for that mat
ter. Tn.\“ fluoya?‘ @ {\ltfltlon im
{nenne y. e would wre Ahe young
overs frora far, and then ro off by
himealt an Juuth heartily at his own
concenta, e was gmu( that !lx‘ was
golne to n;‘arry Somebody—a very broad
term as the old mountaineer employed
it. At night when they g,n sat daround
the fire (spring on Hog Mountaln bore
no resemblance to lummevrv\ Teague
gave eager attentlon to rflwnrd'-
Etories and laughed delightedly at his
allllest jokes.
If Teague was pleased with Wood
ward, he was nfioundtd at Sis, She
wns no longer the girl that her sur.
roundtn: seemed to call Jnr . She was
"ro‘mm n, %nd A very delirhtful one.
m the QL‘:oholn whom sne or clr«
Bur{mtane“ sent to preside dover mc
0 lou’vl .“Ao“do ¥, she cau ’
something the '?Avor .P“ of
crmnuon—-‘ gentle dl? ty, c:nlng
always to Anlfunou, and a flnlc ap
preciation, which was in litself & rare
accomplishment. |,
(Copyright, 1881, 1888 and 1911, by the
RERY Sarimpy gath, S 2 et
Arris; or n ..
u.x.‘fir;m*ufi?fivwfi .mmm =
uflngun of a spectal mwfmu |
with Houshton, Ilf'flil Company, ‘
Yo e Continued Monday.) 1
marks, being well aware that they
would receive scant attention, He
merely sensed trouble, and in order,
s 0 he told himself, to be prepared for
it he began to lessen his dafly modi
cum of liquor until he felt almost
like a teetotaller.
Mr. Bronson, at the end of the fort
night, suggested to the manager that
as he still desired with a mighty de-
Little Bobies Pa |
| By William F, Kirk,
HAVE a vary deer lady frend, sed Mn
$o Pa last nite, she Is going to cum
‘ up hpre sum nite, she rites butiful
verses for the gpagaséens. I think she is
gitting rich.
She lsent gitting rich that way, sed Pa.
Talk it from me.
She must git wunderful pay for them
poems, sed Ma. She rote the cutest littel
luv poem about two toads!
It must have been hot stuff, seéd Pa,
did {,ou ever stroke a toad on the back,
sed Pa. 'Dhay Are about as ful of fire
s a frog, sed Pa.
It was the decrest littel luv goom. Jest
the salm, sed Ma, I Xecnd er for a
copy of it, 3 heer it Is. & then Ma red the
poem, it sed:
A littel hoptoad, luu.:l yerning,
Bark to his lone m was reeturning.
Wen on a bank close by the rode
He saw a llngder lady toad,
"My deerest Geneveeve,” he sed,
“;tn«?nalm the day wen we shall wd. ™
“Yure full of hep,” she then did say,
& full of skidn she Novbped away!
That 18 a 4 exquisite lirick, sed Pa, &
S“fl that can rite a thlr. Itke that, sed
a, & git reel munr or it, will bare
'nehln.k, sed Pa, by the poleece.
I think It is vary eoriginal, ::3 Ma. It
1s i.(’Muuli\u anything 1 evver h beefoar,
sed Ma,
It is the moast fassinating work in the
wurld, sed Ma. 1 have offen wished that
1 cud rite reel poolrr. I sent & poem onst
to Ella Wheler Wileox, -‘d Ma. I never
herd from lwr.ln reeply, but I think she
must have liked it or she wud have sed
50,
Well, sed 1 €it oaver that hop
tode poem. Pfi‘ u?u'“ of but{ & udm",
sed Pa, & that is the kind ; poems that
bring hoam the bacon, sed Pa. tho sad
der you malk them, the moar the yun’
’uru & the old gurls will reed them.
ound that our long. sgo. sed Pa. Wen I
Was dashing off the sad poems out In Mil«
Whuee, many yecrs ago, sed Pa, the gurls
worshiped at my shrine, sed Pa. Oh, yes,
PQ} sed. ‘fhat s jest what Wu done.
How sweet of them, sed Ma. Sumhow,
s6d Ma, I nc@ver care to here much about
them gurls,
It was youp:hn started the u&n ‘u‘t
pootr‘y. sed It wasent 1. n sack,
sed Fa, I seldem think now of them dash
g old days of Romance. But I sure did
live Romance & 'rn\dornolr & Moonlite
then, sed Pa. Wow, sed Pa.
One wud think that the Past was moas
briter than yure Present, sed Ma.
Nevver, sed Pa. Glerus tho mx‘ Yuth
was, sed Pa, these here days in wich [ am
nvm‘f in, sed Pu.‘ Are the grutest & swet.
est days of All. Life with you is ohe long
poem, sed Pa, full of b\#y. affeckshun,
:‘\:eumm marks, oto., sed Pa. I ean't help
t mu[l’u' nt{out that E:ptm 3:;;:"1‘:‘:';'.
" a, A, ying ich, a,
rd'ul new in.l‘o bed.
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| Impure Rains.
~ Ralfh water is not uv\r pure or pearly
so, for it brings down with It various small
bodies present in the atmupmn Thus
there are “blood rain,” due to the presence
of vast numbers of the minute organism
Hasmatococcus and “sulphur rain” contain
mt polieh grains oulnw when these are
g" frea about the e of May. r)urln’ re
t gales it xu !and thet rain falling
in the midlands consisted of strong brine,
leaving P salt incrustation on windows and
walls after evaporation. Ap nutly the
sea spray had E“ earried E the high
winds as far as miles before
soming down as ralwn .
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Violet Gray .......cccocovovveees. . Marion Davies
John Bronsonm, Jr. ..'........,..e.,...,..,.Raym0nd Bloomer
SORD BIOUPOE . icvonitinensoiseissonsvsasios -In ROGS Sviioh
AP GPRY . ...i.snvccvsbinracsssrsesonssosmuicnne Girardol
Richard Harding .......cccvccoveieveeesss.. Franklin Hanne
BUNIE. v snic onasabssrhaiyitaniaciss sz Nun
sire to become acquainted with the
mysterious Be!le of New York that he
introduce him by his first name only,
and that he would promise on his
honor not to ask the name of the
young lady either in public or private.
To this, \after a good deal of de
murring, the manager agreed and es
corted the young man beétween the
acts back of the scenes to the dress
ing room of Violet Gray. ‘
Here he mumbled a few words and
left Mr. Bronson with the ease of
habit to introduce himself.
“lI begged to know you” he ex
plained, “and I hope you will not re
sent my coming. I am the one who
has taken the liberty of sending youd
the roses signed Jack.”
The frank, open face of her caller
impressed the girl with his sincerity,
and, though she knew the pitfalls to
which so many young women in the
! Marrying for a Home
DON'T DO IT, SAYS BEATRICE FAIRFAX
By Beatrice Fairfax.
8 a woman justified in marrying
I for a home?
Read the letter I have just re
ceived from a girl who is evidently
strongly temptad te do precisely
thia: »
“May I ask your opinion on a mat
ter of great importance to a young
lady who was engazed several months
ago to a young}:\an whom she did
not love, with the understanding that
perhaps after an engagement of six
months she would possibly learn to‘
love him. |
“As time has elapsed she can not‘
do so and is at a loss to know just
what to do. She needs a home, as at
present she is boarding with strang
ers and works for a living. Would
you advise a marriage without love
on the girl's part, If the young man
in question loves her very dearly and
{8 willing to marry her in spite of the
fact that she does not care for him?
He would like a very early marriage.”
; It's a situation very easy to under
stand. 4
| The girl wants what love will bring,
but because she doesn’t happen to be
in love thinks she can do without love
itself. And her persistent sultor
urges upon her the unimportance of
this point. You krow his earnest,
honest, infatuated type.
“Let me do the loving for the pres.
ent,” he tells her, “That is to say,
marry me. All the rest will come
later. Think how little T ask of you.
As for your learning to love me, that's
my rigk. I'm willing to take it.”
That's very persuasive language to
girls of a ¢ertain type. A woman who
{s inclined to be passive, who isn't
interested In settling her own fate, is
appealed to almost irresistibly By a
lover who offers to do nat only all the’
declding and arranging, but all the
loving, too.
“I have chesen you,” he whispers
to her, “lI approve you, You are
mine. But I ask of you only that you
lift your adorable foot and step with
in the matrimonial gates, All the
rést shall be my concern alone.”
A Powerful Appeal. ‘
You can see how powerfully this
appeal might affect a girl who not
only had the qualities I have already
deseribed, but who had no family and
no real home, and, furthermore, was
not interested in her job. BSuch a girl
ras & highly uneasy conVviction that
she ought to be “settled.” She be
lieves she would be thoroughly con
tented if she had “a home of her
own.” Perhaps she isn't very robust,
llnd people have always told her that
she “needs somebcdy to take care of
her.”
Then she knows that she wants
an atmosphere of affection. She
wants comforts without having to
work too hard to get them. She
rather wants, too, what she feels to
be the greater Importance of the
married state.
Well, here is her chanoe. |
Shall she take it?
I believe that many ecounsellors
would say yes, and that they could
very plausibly support thelr advice,
1 heir contention would be that a
girl who is willing to devote herseilf
to becoming “a good wife” has the
right to acecept from a man love, sup
port, all that he can give her,
But even though many excellent
people would argue in this fashion, 1
feel mynelf unable to agree with them.
Marrying for a home, particulatly
in the case of a girl who admits she
14 able to support herself, seems to
‘me a fundamentally serious mistake,
I really don't know of any elrcum
stances that justify it ‘
l It isn't that I don’t WI
:“unul il “& ":
Wit Ju o
limelight are subject, she feit capable
of taking caie of herself.
“I am glad you like my singing®
she admitted, “and of course your
roses as a tribute to that are very
welcome——*
“I had hoped,” went on Bronson,
“that perhaps you might let me see
you after the theater if only to talk
to you a lirtle while.,”
“If you care to walk home with
me I shall not mind,” she said. And
with that he was forced to leave,
He strolled out between the acts to
order his car to be at the stage en
trance at the end of the performance,
and he himself was walting, hat In
hand, when the singer appeared,
“Oh, no, thank you—no, indeed, ¥
shall walk and you may walk with me
if you like—it is not far.”
(To Be Continued Monday.)
the miserable loneliness that a girl
can experience who lives alone im
a city where she hasn't many friends,
and who earns her living by a job
that is mere druhgery.
It isn't that I haven't sympathy
with her craving to create a domes
tic atmosphere of her own, to be pet-’
ted, sheltered, looked out for,
j A Big Price.
It's a very human craving. Almost
every girl must have days when she
succumbs to {t.
But aren't they her weakest
days--the dayd that afterward she
tries to forget.
A really strong, -clear-sighted
rwomln knows that shelter and se
curity are comfortable things-—bus
that after all they are not the big
things of life and she must not
pay too big a price for them.
And to exchange for shelter and
security one’s freedom, one's shin
ing possibilities of love, one’'s very
life—~don’t you think this is too big
a price?
Don’t you think it's conferting
marriage, which ought to be a free
and glorious comradeship into
rather a sordid and sorry bargain?
And we must not forget that &
bargain of this sort is not only un
worthy of a high-minded, self-re
specting woman, but it's not playing
{tnir with the man who magnami
‘mously provides the love and the
ledging-place, who assumes all the
tesponsibility and all the risk and
all the material burdens. Not even
;fl! such a man understands the whole
Bituation, and pleads the sufficiency
‘of M 4 own love, like the lover in the
letter I have quoted, is it faif to
him?
It’s possible, of course, that he may
‘bo. right, that determined and opti
‘mistic lover. The marriage that he
urges might be the success he be
‘lleves, and a lifetime of hapipness
might follow., But I can only re
peat that if one regards marriage
or indeed life itself, at all seriously
and lidealistlcally, marrying without
love is too great a risk to take,
l A home is a very desirable thing,
If the right combination of persons
live In it. It can be a wonderful
thing if it is the dwelling-place of
love. But a home—four walls and
i‘ roof—what dees it count for if is
s the abode of two people who
have merely driven a bargain?
‘ You homeless girls who are
tempted to enter Into loveless mar
riages, remember that a home {sn't
necessarily a paradise. Don't sacri
fice all the really valuable things
of life in order to obtain it. Ana
don't imagine for a moment that it
Jou marry for a home ihe home
you secure will repay you for what
you've given up, ‘
e ——
The Gorilla’s Thumb.
The gorills and Chimpansve, which be
long to the higher order of apes, although
having many points of resemblance to
fuan, can not twiddle their thumba, Eu
the gorilla the thumb is shert und doew
Dot reach much beyond the bottom of the
first Jjoint of the forefinger. It is very
much restricted in Its mbvewents, and the
animal can neither twiddle |ts thumbs nor
turn them round so that the tips 30-
scribe a circle. There are the same num
ber of bones in the hand of the gorilia as
In the hand of a man, but the thumbs of
the monkey have no separate flexor, or
bending, muscies. This (s why & monkey
‘ulw;y-'kuu the thumbb:n ’(hlo same side
Ak the fin e n
object thn‘t I:v:y ‘u“’::;lm:;f. L tevee e
| South African E;bor.
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YM‘rleAn timber ;'n'a’. l:knc"? ‘Jl.'r.:l:l‘d. con
sidered of little value, ow that |ml|‘x
ed timber has gone up in the
many virtues have been discovered 'n the
native timber which ?;»vionnly wor:fl:z
Known, lln oonn«‘u«n , Bouth A
timber has come to the front, so that i
figures rrominently ln(!nnny instances,
Bawing timber, such as Cape pine, poplar,
vellow wood, blue gum and other varie on,
out Inte standard deals of 3 by § I.flg
l# quoted at tenpence half-penny to
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