The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1924, Page 4

er CAB ie at re “ PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - oe & Fifth Ave, Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exlusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION “SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. ily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)................ 7.20 by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00 le of } Recess. oes OUD Daily by mail, ou THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) DAUGHERTY’S PREDICAMENT While the oil scandal as yet has not been attached to| Daugherty directly, the demand for his resignation comes ; largely from a general feeling that he was never fitted for | the post. While President Harding was alive, bitter critic-| ism of the attorney general was withheld as it was conceded that this was a personal appointment of a life long friend and political mentor and party leaders were inclined to be indulgent. Such ties do not exist in the case of President Coolidge and the agitation for Daugherty’s retirement has been re- sumed from both the republican and democratic side of the senate. When men as kindly to the administration as Borah and Lodge demand Daugherty’s retirement, there must be sufficient cause for their action. President Coolidge’s position is a difficult one. He has inherited much of the present trouble from the former ad- ministration. Official mistakes on the eve of a presidential campaign have in some instances at least been magnified into scandals. It doubtl will be impossible to trace any malfeasance or actual wrong doing to the official acts of Denby or Daugherty, but of the two, the latter has fewer friends or apologists than the former and there has been expressed regret at Denby’s fate in many quarters that will never be voiced if the Ohio politician is released from his official duties. He has alwe been more or less of a super-ward boss, and his standing in the legal profession is mediocre to say the least. Those who feel that Coolidge is meeting the present crisis efficiently trust that Daugherty’s presence will not confuse the administration much longer. The spectacle of a department of justice powerless to act in the face of the Fall episode is not reassuring to the nation. Daugherty’s administration of the department of justice has not brought credit to the present administration and ‘the sooner he goes will the Coolidge administration be freed of a greater handi- cap in the oil probe than was Denby. His resignation and the selection of a recognized member of the legal profession in his place would strengthen the gov- erumcat’s case against those who would loot the public do- main ior private gain. A CIVIC ENTERPRISE The pian suggested of engaging some of the best musical artists in the country for a winter concert series in Bismarck next year, to appear at popular prices, commends itself to the careful consideration of officials of civic organizatio! of the city. Bismarck citizens are appreciative of fine music, although it is quite true that this interest and appreciation in the finer presentations is a subject for cultivation. In many countries in Europe people of all classes throng the opera houses to hear renditions of the famous composers or to listen to the great musicians of the world. In America high class music has been confined, to a large degreé, to the well to do. There are many citizens of the largor cities who recog- nize the debt of gratitude of all to many composers and singers who have left immortal impressions upan the peojle of the country and legacies which will be treasured for cen _turies. The spirit of music is often the spirit of the nation =—a philosopher has observed that he cares not who writes the laws of a nation if he may write its songs. How far Bismarck can go in the suggested plan of bring- ing the fine artists to the city remains to be seen. The success of the concert given last fall at the time of the teach- ers’ convention augurs well for the success of a carefully worked out program. The remarkable achievements of the Thursday Music Club of Bismarck in stimulating interest ~in things musical is a propitious factor. orth Dakota... \ FOG AS WEAPON = Jernberg, Swedish engineer, invents a machine that can manufacture two and a half million cubic yards of dense fog ~in'a minute. Militarists are elated. They herald this arti- ficial fog as a tremendous defensive weapon in warfare, like a smoke screen in a naval battle. Most of the great military discoveries have to do with destruction—offense. The public, victims of militarists, can chuckle at this fog-making device, which makes it harder to take*human life in battle. OUTLOOK GooD Hh six: Months, judging from the old reliable weathervane, the ijron,and steel industry. ~ : Pig iron production in January showed an increase over the,month before. Apparently the industry is recovering ‘rom the slumping tendency that started last June. Pig iron gytpat traditionally rises or falls six months ahead ,of gen- eral business. : wD. ! WHEAT EXPORTS SLUMP ' i eprmucre will be interested in final figures showing only 98 millian bushels of wheat exported in 1923 from rica, compared with nearly 165 million bushels the year re. .This was a drop of around two-fifths. he export market is not the root of all farm evils, but t of many. ia i ae . ; AMERICAN TOURISTS #) American tourists have been spending 300.million dollars| @ year in Europe. j it Travel is increasing and it is not improbable that in 1924 v icans will leave in Europe enough money to pay the it on what Europe owes Uncle Sam. : = & Women are not men’s equals yet. Marietta (0.) woman jumr wanted to go home for her nightie. : ord plans.to. meke-205,000 cars in-February.--No won- @ ground-hog is afraid of its shadow. Sec er. iis ° . EDITORIAL REVIEW es Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opjnion of The Tribtne. They are pysented here ih order that our readers may have both sid of important issues which being discussed in the press of the day. CUT OUT THE FRILLS It seems that our educational system in North Dakota is rocking on its foundations—and «all be-! cause of the proposed “Gunderson law,” which provides for a} horizontal cut of about 30 per cent) in the amount of taxes which could | be levied by North Dakota taxing| boards during the ensuing three years. According to Mr. H.\L./ Loomas of the Fargo board of edu- cation, the enactment of the | derson ‘bill would not only | the elimination of two 4 | high school work, but in’ addition would compel: A. reduction of 20 per cent | in all salaries in Fargo schools. The elimination of the eight supervisors now employed in the Fargo. schools. Klimination of the kinder- garten. The purchase of textbooks by the students, instead of by | the school as at present. The elimination of the night school. ; The elimination of the use of the swimming pools. | | Well, what of it?) Are swimming | pools vitally cs-ential to the well- being of high school students Couldn't the Fargo high * schools | stagger’ along somehow without those eight supervisors? — Are kindergartens and night schools absolutely indispensable? And if the purchasing power of the farm- er’s dollar has shrunk to 64 cents, couldn't the 20 per cent reduction in greatly inflated salaries for two or} three years? | You see, we have to deal with aj concition, not a theory. Theoretic- ally, nothing in the way of educaq tional advantages and swimming . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE DONTWoRRY LADY, TAistt BRING ‘em pools is too good for the Tis generation. But sometimes condi- tions arise which make retrench- ment and the elimination of lux ies quite necessary. Thirty or years ago, high school su- sors were not known; swim- ming pools cost nothing, because one went to the lake or river to take a bath; kindergartens and night schools were conducted at) home by one’s parents —or else there were none of these thin: And yet, in spite of these fright- ful deprivations, the world man: aged to wag along. We had great} statesmen, great thinke great writers, (great preachers. Abra- ham Lincoln bought his own text} books and conducted his own night school—and his case was fairly typical, Ir the public school system of | North Dakota as a whole would suffer no more severely from the operation of the proposed Gunder- son law than would the Fargo schools, The Chronicle would say, at “Pass the bill!” But we fear t the. rural ools would suffer ir- reparably. It is chiefly on their account that we urge a very care- ful study of the Gunderson meas- ure. We can well afford for the present to ¢ut out every frill upon our educational system; but we should have a care not to weaken the foundation.—La Moure Chron- icle, Te | MANDAN NEWS | GIVE KIDDIES PARTY The annual Washington's birthday theater party for the kiddies of the city was given this morning at 10 o'clock by the Mandan Elks. Special films were secured for the |matinee by the lodge. TO BUY HORSES \ Charles Cadoo of the Agricultural Department at the Industrial school, left Thursday for Montana to pur- chase work horses for the spring farming. The crop seeded this spring will be close to 700 acres. MRS. W. A. LANTERMAN ILL | Mrs. W. A. Lanterman who was op ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON said Giant as she sat down to din- what lovely flowers!” ner. “Ho, ho! So they are!” declared Mr. Giant as he sat down to dinner. “I thought they were nice, too, specially the roses!” said Polly Giant, and she sat down to dinner. And all the time the Twins were hiding away down in the heart of the biggest pink rose, listening to every word that was said, and peep ingi out curiously through the. pink leaves to see what was going om: Just then Mr. Giant took a spoon- ful of soup. And you should have heard him. And then Mrs. Giant took a spoonful, and you should have heard her, too! “Such manners!” declared Nancy in a shocked voice. She and Nick had always been taught that no mats ter what you eat, you must never make a sound, not even when you eat celery or toast or crackers. She was so upset that she forgot to, hold on for a minute and nearly fell out of the rose onto the table- cloth. “What's that?” asked Mrs. Giant. “I do believe I saw a rose-bug, Polly! Tl have to get my glasses fixed for I can’t be sure of anything.” But Nancy had scrambled back to her place again with Nick's help{ and although the three giants watch- ed carefully, not another thing did they see, : “LIL put some tobacco water on the rose bushes tomorrow,” said Polly. “I meant to do it this morn- | ing, but I forgot. That's good for| rose-bugs.”” The Twins shivered. ! ‘ i What if she! But there! I almost forgot te tell: you! what the Beanstalk giant family had for dinner. First they had fifty barrels of bean soup, then they had three fried whales; after that they had ostrich on toast with ten tons of mashed potatoes, and a dish of’ WORST IS YET TO COME CALAMITY THREATENS THIS COUNTRY Representative Longworth says the House may start holding hight ses- sions. members talk so much their work is not being done. We favor letting bad enough alone. If all this Teapot racket can be kicked up in day sessions, night arguments woulq be just that much more noise. Holding more sessions is like hit- ting a man in the head to cure hfs headache. That gives him two headaches to worry about. SOCIETY Mr, Colt, a formef Ethél Barry- méré husband, will marry a Follies star, who isa former Jack Denison wife. Somg may this proves Colt hasn't horse sense. se HOME HELPS A new hat ip worth more than an old’ one but a new friend isn't. BEAUTY SECRET Nothing wears out your hair quick- er than arguing. SPORTS A rougeless .week is suggested. There could be nothing more danger- ous than a rougeless week. Think of t! ougele: clad. meeting a girl friend on the streét| without recognizing her. How many men would mistake’ their wives - for] strangers,\and what would happe i FOREIGN NEWS. Germans are drinking less We don't know why. high they have more room for beer. beer.! n? allow them With “food 80 Roasted Peanuts,’”’ TEAPOT NEWS Due to labor troubles the England asbestos. mills ‘are behind with their output. This is the reason Dan Dobb is short on Teapot Dome news today. Dan Dobb has some Teapot news so hot it can he printed on nothing , but asbegtos. EDITORIAL New falling “Dress well and you will be suc- cessful,” say retail clothiers, But the catch is you must be sue before you can dress well. It js an- other slant on the old gag. “Him what's got can get.” POLITICS ; k A candidate leads a hard life, Coolidge ate a possum, perhaps to help his southern standing. WEDDINGS An automatic feeder for-storage batteries is the latest, but every head of a family thinks he’ is an automatic feeder. FINANCIAL Money doesn’t talk much until’ it becomes big money. WEATHER Nice thing about‘stimmer is you won't worry so much about a fire driving y@u to the’ street scantily AUTO NOTES Another improvement has made in autos. been New arrangements to go further on credit. MUSIC NOTES Among the new. songs are, ‘Hot showing what that “no banana” song started. LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT , TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, “You Have no proof of anything of the sort,” answered Jack angrily | tal ten days ago is in a very serious 4 church. Christmas-tree salad came the father of little Jack. “I do wish | condition according to a telegram, ext, followed by enough ice-cream people would not interfere with myr, received from Mr. Lanterman by his 4nd cake to do a thousand children a ' business.” “My dear Jack, you cannot stop-pco- | daughters, Mrs. E, A. Ripley and Mrs. W. H. Ordway, Letters received earlier in the week ‘had indicated , that Mrs, Lanterman’s condition was thousand years. ve But something dreadful happened! Mr. Giant upset the pepper. And instantly the three of them were ple'{rom talking. You know as well as | I, that you were very glad when [ told you I was not leaving the city. CONTINUED not. alarming. sneezing their heads off, nearly. It was exactly as though North Wind and West Wind and Old Whizzy Tor- nado were aff blowing at once. CAFE DAMAGED Fire which started shortly before | midnight Thursday in the kitchen of You yourself were trying to refute the gossip which you had heard. ° “You may not believe it, Jack, but uth Ellington is one of the best [Ri the Twin City Cafe on Secong Ave- nue N. W., caused an estimated loss of 1,000, The city fire department made a record run and firemen were at the | scene of the blaze with two motor \ So how could you ever expect the friends you have, not for your sake Twins to hold on to their place? There wasn't anything much of me. She told me that, however to hold onto anyway, and with three innocent you might be in the matter cyclones all coming at them, it was;of taking down the’ billboard, it simply impossible to hand on. would be impossible to make the hiding | particularly, but because she is fond ' The outlook is for good business conditions in the next! fire trucks within two minutes’ after |the alarm was sounded. The blaze | was confined to the kitchen of the jone story frame building. The property is owned by Wm. | Storey of Valley City, who recently purchased it ang the adjoining frame} building and lots from the John Wynn estate. The damage to the uilding probably amounts to 500. SHOW BIG SUCCESS The recent minstrel show as stag- ed by Gilbert S. Furness Post No, 40 American Legion netted the organ- ization 588 above all expenses ac- cording’ to the report made by J. K.| 97? Kennelly, chairman of the show com.|| ‘A THOUGHT | mittee to the members of the organ-|@ e ization at the Commereial club rooms. This money will be. placed in the fund being raised by the local Leg- ionnaires to defray the expenses of forget not; for with such sacrifices God is. well pleased.Heb. 13;16. To do good and to communicate! the state convention here June 30 July 1 and 2. A report. of the mem- bership drive teams showed good gains in membership although some distance, yet from the 2,000 mark, the goal sought, A compromise between William J. Bryan and his crities might be worked’ out on the basis of Mr. Bry- an’s recognizing the law of evolution in return for the other side’s recog- To feel much for others, and little for ourselves; to restrain our self- ish, and exercise our benevolent, af- fections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.—Adam Smith. He Doubted It. _ SHEp-Isn’t it a nuisance, dear? Mother’ sent me a recipe’ for some wonderful floor polish, but I’ve mis- laig it.” nizing the Volstead law.—New York’ EMening Post. 2 ta sedan 4 HE—(tasting soup suspiciously)— Are you sure you mislaid it, da lings-Passing Show: Gyendon), Nancy and Nick flew across the people think it was for any other room and landed right in Mrs.' Giant’s work basket along with her needles and thread and thimble and tape measure and scissors and every- thing. Mrs. Giant’s thimble was as big as a scrubbing bucket, so you may know what an immense affair the basket was. Quite large enough for a wee boy and girl to get lost in. But they did not get lost. They were going to have another adventure. + (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) reason than that you were \pecause the billboard: people | advertising Paula Perier.” , “Well, I wish you would never mention the matter to me.again. I’m sick and tired of it,” growled Jack, walking up and down the floor. “I wonder if it isn't possible in this day and age for a man and woman to adopt a baby without someone specu- lating about its parentage. Forget it, Leslie, forget it!” “All right, Jack, I will, provided you will give me the money that: be- longs to Ruth and treat her as though you had forgotten the inci- dent.” a) “No, I'll do nothing of the kind, angry were ters I have written.” “Well, I'll tell you honestly, Jack, if you do not return that money to Ruth before long she will’ institute action to recoyer it. It is needed in the business for which it, is intend- ed.” Jack got dp hastily, jammed his hat mpon his head, slammed the door and went out. ,Our evening was ruin- ed. Iscalled up Ruth and found she had gone out. Little Marquise, I wonder if all marrie@ peoplé have so many misun- derstandings—so many times when ihe’ deceives the er,,more or. isha Io alpfout woaihlleg tas tev L ae erated on in a Los Angeles hospi- Stewed corn-stalks big enough to fill when I mentioned Sydney Carton as} I'm waiting for answers to some let- |. Oke —j-———+ jthat money ‘could ‘procure. My u fd aoa flere aaa ms, have had somiethirig to keep from ™Afd was, very clever. My gowns, | ie Re ed ‘ed, 28, tlme went ware of a mag-/ oe ever See es were married nificent , sjmplicity:, all. trou-trous | something which, ethouzh perfecty wore renounced. F had no mind 10 innocent of itself would scenrterr invite the valuation Dheard applied | to anyone-whe did not understana. I to certain American women in presume Jick has had the same ex- periences which he tried to keep from me. Marriage is,more .or less of a dis- appointment—it must. be—to every- one who enters it. The moment two people who have been deliriously in love and who Have been living in a, world of sentiment and passion’ be- come husband and wife, all the oth-| er things of life are suddenly launch- Published by arrangement Pictures, Inc. Watch for th Lloyd with Corinne Griffith Copyright /1923 by XXIX (Continued) “Those whom I tried to love Would soon have tired of me had 3 not played the game as adroitly as themselves, and if 1 had per- mitted them to feel sure,of me. The last thing any of them wanted was depth of feeling, tragic pas- sion. My. most desperate affair was my last—after a long in- terval, I was in my early forties. I had thought myself too utterly disillusioned ever to im- | agine myself in love again. Men are gross and ridiculous creatures ‘1m the main, and aside trom my | personal disappointments, I thought ; it was time for that chapter of my | Ufe to finish. I was amusing my- | self with diplomatic intrigue. I | was in the Balkans at the time, that breeding ground of war mi- crobes, ‘and I was interested in a very delicate situation in which I | played a certain part. | _ “The awakening was violent. He : Was an Austrian, with an important Place ih the Government; he came to Belgrade on a private mission. | He was very great person in | Many ways, and I think I really | loved hith, for he seémed to me | entirely worthy of it. He certain- ly was mad enough about me for a time—for a year, to be exact. ; When he returned to Vienna it was | Mot difficult for me to find an ex- ; cuse to go also. Ithough Zat- ; tlany was a Hungarian, he never Usited his Hungarian estates ex- cept for the boar hunting, and spent his time when on leave, or between appointmenté, in Vienna, where he had inherited a palace— I must tell you that the city resi- dence of a nobleman in the Dual Empire was always called a palace, however much it might look like a house. “I shall always remember this man with a certain pleasure and re- spect, for he is the only man who ever made me suffer. A woman forgets the lovers she has dis- missed as quickly as possible. Their memory ts hateful to her, like the memory of all mistakes, But this man made me suffer hor- ribly. (He married a young girl, out of duty to his House, and un- expectedly fell in love with her.) Thererore, aitdougi 1’ recovered, and completely, stili do I some. times dwell with.a certain cynical pleasure on the memory of him—” “Have you never seen him since?” asked Clavering sharply. \He had, returned «to his chair. “How long ago was that?” “Quite sixteen years ago. I did Not visit Vienna again for several years; in fact, not until after my husband’s death. when I returned there to live. But by that time I had lost both youth and beauty. His wife had died, but left him. an heir, and. he showed no disposition to marry again; certainly he was as. indifferent to me as I to him. We often met, and as he respected ,my mind and my knowledge of Eu- |fopean affairs, we, talked ‘politics {together, and he sometimes asked my advice. ' | “But to go back. After that was ‘over I determined to put love defi- oftely out'’of my life. I believed then and finally that I had not the gift of inspiring love: nor would I ,ever risk humiliation and suffer. Ing again. ! played the great game of life and politics. I was still Jbeatititu!—tor a few yoars—I had jan increastnply great" position, all jtheadvantares, obvious and aubtle, Paris: ‘eldory and dressy.’ ” Clavering langhed’ for the first '4me. “I wonder you ever made & mistake of any sort. T also won- Ger {f you are a type as well as an Individual? 1 have, TI think, fol- lowed intelligently your psychologi- cal involutions and convolutions so Yar. Iam only hoping you will not get beyond my depth, What was jcreen vérsion prod ed upon them. They must wofk and four attitude toward your past mis- plan and think and. do all thai is ,takes—beyond what you have told necessary to live. And Love, being a,me? Did you suffer remorsé, as I little jealous god, grows sulky at *m told women do when they these interruptions in the worship sither soluntarly renounce or are of his depotees, jpermitted to sin no more?” He then goes away and hides him- ‘self, and only once in a while.peaks around the corner to letius know what we're missing. Oh, little Marquise, I sometimes! think, although I wauld hardly dare to say it aloud,)that your. romarce might have been the most, satisfac- ' tory after all. In fact, it ‘seems to, me that romance ends when mar riage begins, } ‘ (Copyright, 1924,.NEA Service, Inc.) pay SEATS, Yes, They’re Scarce! “Are you fond of entertaining callers?” : ‘Yes,' but dear me, so few af them are!”—Boston Transcript. The Best, Remedy. ' The eccentrie and parsimonious Mrs, Schultz, megting Dr. Senden on the street, called out to him: | ‘Every human being makes what “I neither regarded them as mis- takes nor did I suffer remorse. sre called mistakes and those-hap- pened to be mine. Therefore I Aismissed them to the limbo ofthe inevitable. .” As your world, (am told, looks upon you as the coming. dramatist, it may appeal to your imaginatiof to visualize thet tecret and vital and dramatic under- turrent of what.was on the surface & proud and splendid life, . Or, if there are regrets, it is for the weight of memories, the com- pleteness of disillision; the slaying of mental youth—which cannot sur- vive brutal facts. “I think that for women of my type—what yey eo calied,.the intel- lectual .giren—the lover phase is : | inevitable. re’ are goaded not “Doctor, I sneeze incessantly every g t ¥ ing.’ only by the imperious demands of piornlne, What would you take for aah and the hope of the “A handkerchief!” eqlled the, doc- perfect. companion, but by curiost!- tor, and disappeared —Lustige Blat-|'w. lava\af adventure, ennul:. pass! ter (Berlin). a 4 7 word. 4 him.,,, The ;pank says the roa fee (Kas.) Clipper. ‘In Best of Health. A gentleman: who has = boy’ away at college was’ rather anxious to hear from him and complained as mail il brought: no word. One received a letter | bank notes, smiled and said: try became ‘go inflated. that a $100 ‘K.-T ’have’ indirect = note grould: only buy a pound of tice. ; ° 5 Two years after China invented awn.” — Soldier |! the currency of the coun- | cope with Associated First National ced by Frank Countess Zattiany, Gertrude Atherton bly some more obscure compler— vengeance on the husband who has wrecked our first illusions—on Life itself. Bringing up, family, and so- cial traditions, have nothing to do with it. Only opportunity counts. woaeres, we are not the product of our immediate forebears, but of @ thousand thousand unknown an- cestors. Byis, “God! True enough!” “Unfortunately, these women who have wasted so much’ time on love never realize the tragic futility until Time himself disposes of temptation, and then it {s too la! for anything but regrets of anothe: sort. The war may have solved the problem for mapy a desperate spirit. “My own case has assumed an entirely different complexion. With my youth restored I have the world at my feet once more, but safe- guarded by the wisdom of exper!- ence—in go far as a mortal ever may be. The bare idea of that old game of prowling sex fills me with ennul and disgust. The body may be young again, but my mind, re-ener- gized though it fs, 1s packed with memories, a very Book of Life. When T'spund) that my beauty wa: restored“I thought of nothing less than returning to the conquest of men in the old manner, although quite aware of its powerful afd in the work I have made up my ming to do in Austria. Of late, of course,'l have thought of little else but what this recrudescence of my youth means to yog and to myself. But—please do not interrupt—this I shall not discuss with you again until Monday—if then. “But once more I wish to fm- préss you with the fact that I tn: dulge in nothing so futile as re- grets for my ‘past.’ ‘Sackcloth and ashes’ provokes nothing but a smile from women of my type and class. Moreover, I believe that my educa- tion would not be complete without that experience—mine, understand. 1 am not speaking for women of other temperaments, opportuniti of less intellect, of humbler chant” acter, weaker will. . And {i I had. persisted in virtue at that time I should probably make a fool of myself today, an even more complete foo¥ than women do when they feel youth slipping but still are able with the aid of art and arts to fascinate younger men.. “That almost standardized char ter I renounced peremptorily. M: pride was too great to permit m. to be foolish even {n the. privacy o my mind over men half my age. No did I make any of the usual franti attempts to keep looking young. had seen too much of that, laugher at it too often. Nevertheless. hated the approach of age, the ce cay of beauty, the death of mag netism, as bitterly as the sillies, woman I had ever met. “Some women merely fade: los their complexions, the brightnés: of their eyes and hair. Others grow heavy, solid; stout or flabby; the muscles of the face and nec} loosen and sag, the-features alter I seemed stowly to dry up—wither There was no flesh to hang 0} loose skin to wrinkle, but it seem ed to me that I had ten thousané lines. I thought it a horrid fate Tj conld not know that’ Nature meaning to be cruel, had riven mt the best chance for the renewal o! the appearance as well as the faci of youth. ‘ “I_suppose all this seems trivia! to :vou--this »mourning over’ los{ youth--—" “Not at all. It must have been hell to a woman like you. Asi for women !n gencral—they may maké mote fuss about it, but I fancy they hate ft le8s than men.” ‘Yes, men are yainer than wom. “said Madame Zattiany indif. rently. “But I have yet to waste. any sympathy on men. . “I suppose I only fully realized that my youth, my beauty, my mag- netic. charm, had gone when men ceased to make violent love to mé, They still paid court, for I was a very important person, my great prestige was a sort of halo, and 1 had never neglected my mind. There was nothing of significance I had not read during all these years. I was as profoundly inter ested In the great political currents of Europe, seen and unseen, as any man—or as any intelligent woman of European society. Moreover, } hed the art of life down to a fine point, and I had not forgotten that even in friendship men are drawn to the subtle woman who knows how to envelop herself in a certain mystery.. And Buropean men are always eager to talk with an ac. plistied woman, even if she has no fonger the power to stir their facile passions. 5 “When I realized that my, sex power had. left me I adopted an.en- tirely new set of tactics—never would I provoke a cynical smile on the faces L-once had the power to distort! ‘With no evidence of re gret for my lost enchantment I re- mained merely the alert and al- ways interested woman of the world, to whom men, if sufficiently entertaining, were welcome com- panions for the moment, nothing; more.” ay - (To Be Continued) .. He’s Heard Her MRS. NEWBRIDE—Well, ‘Hen: anything, goes wrong, I will al be able to keep the wolt away from the door. by singing. } i MR. NEWBRIDE--There isn',the Pater doubt of that, dear—Lemon