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Page tonononeaeaonmpar ~ ee. poe fe PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class / Matter. \ BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - - Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - - - Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Av MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively 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. . Bldg. ‘MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year...............4. 3 - $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)....... r . 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck 5.09 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) LUDICROUS LAWS The court battle over the name of Robert M. LaFollette on the North Dakota presidential preferential primary ballot and the filing of the name of “Hiram Johnston,” a swamp dweller, in Michigan brings forcibly to the attention of people many of the ludicrous situations created by loosely drawn primary laws. In North Dakota those who believed LaFollette did not have the right to withdraw his name, asserted that if a man were a candidate for President in any state in the union the voters of North Dakota, under the law, had the right to express their preference for him in the primary, the vote of which is morally but not legally binding on the state’s dele- gation. But the situation is created where a man may have no control over his candidacy in a state, where his enemies as well as his friends may place him in the race for an office for the purpose of splitting the vote or of humiliating him. Under the North Dakota law there is no bar to the introduc- tion of a score of candidates for President, which in itself would defeat the very purpose of obtaining a representative vote of the people on the Presidency. It is well that the law in the:North Dakota primary has been settled by the supreme court and the court is to be congratulated for abolishing the ordinary rules of procedure in order to render a decision in the matter, The official in Michigan who accented erceponeitility for filing the name of “Hiram Johnston” declared he did so to emphasize the faults of the Michigan primary law. There is nothing in that law to prevent all the swamp dwellers of Michigan from exchanging names on petitions and becoming candidates for President. Whenever there has been a departure from the well- founded doctrine of party responsibility for candidates and the primary method of nominating carried to extreme, there have been situations arise which defeat the very purpose of the primary laws. The doctrine of party responsibility is still sound and workable. ase nae e THE COLD FACTS AGAIN / The ecld facts of the situation at the Grand Forks state mill ted in the audit report to the state board of audit so like previous reports of the condition of state EDITORIAL REVIEW ‘thi Comments reproduced column may o1 1? ret, not the opjnion of The Tribun: are p#xented here‘in order thi our readers’ may have both ald of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS Mr. Beveridge of Jndia industry and trade and epting up the substance of the peo- ple” come an oppression. Mr. Bev- ham Lincoln became ficial for each 800 atlult citizens. Today there is one for every 11 persons more than 16 years of age! ed for efficiency and the economies necessary for sound business, they would not be pests, but, Mr. Beveridge “Thos engaged in business, + the soul of which is upright- n are goose-stepped by gov- ernment drill sergean who themselves could net success- fully direct any one of the m riad forms of productive i dustry which, taken togethe have made America the nomic wonder of the world.” Well and truly said. One of: the most. melancholy. reflections , on the character of men WHo hold’ in- quisitions on the business of the people under official authority, is the great jority of ave voluntarity confessed inabili to succeed in private. competi life accepting minor politic s. And business is forced y to take orders from them! “ago Journal of Commerce. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “And now,” said the bakerman in Beanstalk Land, “I shall ice this nice big birthday cake I have just made for Bouncing Billy, and put his name on it in pink and green gumdrops. Never had there been so fine a cake in all Beanstalk Land!” So he put on a kettle of suga® and water and boiled it, then whipped up the whites of four eggs until they looked like a snow drift, and then he poured the hot sirup into the eggs and beat and beat and beat until the icing was just right. After that he stirred in vanilla and a drop or two industries — always reporting a loss — that it probably will not excite unusual interest. ; Since the report is made by a Nonpartisan Leaguer hired by an Independent-controlled board of auditors it ought to be believed by the taxpayers. 700,000 PHONES Chicago now has 700,000 phones. It took 27 years to grt the first 190,000 customers—and only two years to get the last 100,000, : i An outstanding characteristic of our generation is its willingness to adopt the new and improved. It’s easier to put a new idea over now than ever before, which makes the present a very attractive period: in which to live, for the ambitious. We adopt the new eagerly. Our grandparents almost had to be compelled to adopt improvements. Myron T. Her- rick and many others had shotguns fired at them when they marketed the first sewing machines. People thought the sew- ing machine was a curse, because it took work away from dressmakers who sewed by hand. aaa eens RADIO INTERFERENCE - “Get ready for a lot of mysterious radio interference, warns the astronomer, Dr. David Todd. He announces that ‘another big period of sun-spots has started. These are spread out on the sun over an area 45,000 miles across. The largest of this group of spots is 9000 miles wide.. Sun-spots, according to scientific theory, affect radio through the displays of aurora borealis which they create. Radio fans in the Far North tell us that “northern lights” tend to,cause fading rather than noise. *: Edison suggests that the sun is the source of our elec- tricity. Maybe the radio bug has the sun for his slave with- out knowing it. t MAIDEN LAN Many detective thrillers havé been written around Maiden | Lane, New York City. The street is the jewelry headquar- ters, of our‘continent. Especially for diamonds which flow thrgugh it by thousands. ; irty prominent jewelry firms, mainly wholesalers, are |. quitting Maiden ‘Lane to move uptown. They are fleeing from high rents. Rents will overtake them, however. That’s the experience in all cities when business districts move, Lana values ayd high rents follow the producers. : RHINELAND Germany adds up and finds.she has paid about one and a quater billion dollars for upkeep of the Army of Occupation since the armistice. ; A@ccupation of the Ruhr has cost France 73 billion francs in ear. TF ese terrific sums would make quite a hole in the repara- tipys account if applied that way. e bill collector’s,expense account seems to eclipse what he igollects and turns in. POWERFUL DYNAMO first dynamo, invented in 1831 by Faraday, developed me horsepower. Seventy thousand times as pow- ie new ‘electricity generator, world’s largest, at ara Falls. How this would astound critics who less than ‘ ntury ago ealled Faraday’s crude dynamo an “interesting @ to the attention of the man who scoffs at fos soya ever will he fool-proof, safe as autos, bs = "The of ‘almond flavoring, and it was all ready to spread on the cake. Everything ‘he did was watched carefully by four eyes. Two of them were Nancy’s and two of them were Nick's, and if you would try from now until next Christmas, you never ‘could guess where they were. They ‘were on the screen dvor, hanging on for dear life, like two little flies. They were skipping by when they smelled all the delicious smells coming out of the giant bak- erman’s kitchen. So they stopped. And as a giant's screen door is as easy for children to climb, as your screen door is for flies to climb, up they went. “Um yum!” said Nick. could lick the bowl!” ‘Look here, Nick, here’s a hole,” said “Nancy. “Let's' crawl through.” Quick asa wink they ducked through the hole in the screen dvor, and there they were right inside the bakerman’s kitchen. Curiosity was too much for them and they climbed up on a chair and thence onto the big table. They was just in time, for the bakerman was spreading and spreading and spreading the thick white icing all over the cake with a* great silver knife. After that he cut the pink and green gum drops into slices and made a posy of pink flowers with green leaves, All around the edge he wrote “Bouncing Billy.” Nancy _and Nick were perched up on the edge of the icing bowl by this time, and when thé last bit of gum drop was stuck on and the cake set in the window to cool, the same idea occurred to them both at the same time, : Why not lick the bowl now! “They always did at home, and there was a hundred times as much left in this one. And it smelled so very, very tempting! “Come on,” whispered Nick, pincli- ing Nancy’s sleeve, . And as Nancy didn’t have to be coaxed, the two of them . jumped Tight down inside the bowl and be- gan to gobble icing as though their lives depended on it. And they ate and ate and ate until it was just too dreadful to talk about. So they crawled to the top, of the bowl and gave a jump. But the bakerman‘had put a piece of flgpaper right there! And they landed in the middle of it, ane How they got off I cannot tell you, but it must have been the magic shoes, Anyway, there they weré, sick in- side, and all sticky outside,"and in a dreadful condition: “I don’t like Beanstalk ‘Land so very well,” said Nick faintly. “Neither do I,” agreed’ Nancy. But it was all because they were such pigs, 4, (To Be Continued) Z (Copyright, 1924,\NEA Service, Inc.) ae) “I wish we INCORPORATED ~ Articles of incorporation filed with the Secret , of State include: : Invest tone orate A_ plague of political locusts in- deed, whose multiplication has be- eridge reminds us that when Abra- President there was less than one public of-| Their salaries alone run to near four billion dollars a year, If these officeholfers, + created by busybody slators, really count-| them | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE not always been able to k with the most enlightened opinion | in matters of party and govern- ment, but he knows words and how to use them. Speaking recently at} St. Louis on “Government's Inva- sion of Business,” he said: “The attempts to regulate the business activities of the SS people have resuited in multi- tudes of government. bure: boards and commissions, ‘hives of bureaucracy, from which swarms of government agents fly over the land, disciplining DEVICE FOR REDUCING. AV@ROUPOIS OF FAT CATCHER, | incorporators L. T. E, Hagen, Conrad, Campbell, Ra: stock $10,000; Hagén, Ray; Mont.; P. | People’s Forum To the Editor of Bismarck Tribune. Bismarck, N. D. Having lived here jin Burleigh County since 1891, 1 must say that I never have witnessed a winter like this one, and it certainly would he la Blessing to North Dakota if this kind of weather would continue un- til the day after this here great election that is before us in March The voters of North Dakota will have some very important_laws on ithe 18th, day of this March before them, some folks give this coming jelection but very little thought, as j they think it does not matter whether they go to the election or not, but, ‘I say that is not the way AMERIC AN} | CITIZENS shoud think, they Should! ect the great honor they have in j ing that right given to them, so! they can go to the polls and vote ua they wish to vote, our Constitution is based upon, “EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL” and that was the intent of our Primary Election Law, which “PRI- MARY ELECTION” should get away} in our State of North Dakota with all’ caucus NOMINATION which was prior tb the present June Primary Election now. In reading papers of the I. V. A. and also of the N. P. L. gives a vot- er the difference as to the opinion of both sides, and there may be a mis- interpretation as to the laws that are to be voted on, by one side more than by the other, I am reading an I V. A. paper which expresses its, opinion on.“Chapter 205, Nonparti-' san Election” unjust and misleading to the voters, as any person who is able to read the Bill himself, or gets the meaning of that “NONPARTI- SAN ELECTION” Law will never vote for it to become a Law of North Da- kota, as it is bound to throw the nomination of candidates back to a political bunch, study S. 4 Persons Nominated. “No candidate for num- ination shall, howéver. be declared a duly nominated candidate. unless he or she receives at least us many votes as the number of signatures required to be obtained on the pe- tition to have the candidates nama placed on the primary ballot.” Also study S. 10. The amount of Signs- tures a candidate would have to havefon his petition, also the law reads, “Two or more candidates for different offices may seek signatures | on the same nominating petition”. ! Now, I would construe the intent of the “Nonpartisan Election” Law is to get back to about twenty years ago,| |and nominate candidates by a politi- | cal clique, are we going to stand for| any thing like that? I can not see how our Lawmakers could frame up a law like “Chapter 205” of the 1923 Session Laws under the Constitution of our Beloved Country, just take notice of the last sentence of “S. 10, Chapter, 205” whieh reads as fol- ows,” If any section, provision, clause, sentence or part of this Act shall pe declared violative of any constithtional provision, the uct shall be deemed and held to. hhve been enacted independent of the part so declared unconstitutional, and any operative part thereof that may re- main: shall, nevertheless, be given full force and effect, to the en& that the ultimate“purpose of the act: shall, as far as possible, be gccomplished. Ouw, Lawmakers knew when they framed this kind of) Law that it is not all constitutional, or else they woul not have put such a clause in as that. We know our present election Laws are Constitutional, want to put such a law on our Statutes and go to the expense of haying would all cost money, who pays it, we taxpayers, let us vote “NO” on Ghapter 205, and abide by our CON- STITUTION, lated, Match 71 Di laldwin, N. RocKes RESPONDING To Onnen. BELL KTH CREAMED POTATOES G IY.) AND ASIDE ORDER, OF WAFFLES ; A UTTLE” / FRENCH PASTRY AND and why do we | fering, that we don’t knéw is Constitutional, | as. it goes, | _ Any Day in Any Spring Training Camp , ra VM REDUCING 7 JUST | FX ME A TRONE STEAK im $50,000 FoR \ « 6 AWE SOX OFFERED BUT THE OLD MAN WELD OUT FOR ARO THE ASYLUM TEAM THE LOCAL BoYS WONT, PLAY YoU. { AWeyeE MAKING UP FOR MEALS, THEY MISSED CAST WINTER MANAGER WARMING UP “FOR PLAYING SEASON 2, ME i | | ej & IF YOUR BIG City TEAM CANT JAKE A BETTER SHOWING “THAN DID WITH THE BLOOMER GIRLS | { NEW OWNER SETS FORTH HIS POLICIES Tom Sims has bought back this paper. Questioned by a reporter late last night Mr. Sims said, * the paper.’ So it really what,’ asked the reporter, “will you do with the paper?" “I will get some advertising,” Mr. Sims, “even if I have to write it myself.” “Have you any policy?” asked the reporter. “Yes,” said Mr. Sims. “My policy is that chuckling your head off might be more fun than worrying yourself to death.” So that's the policy. WEATHER Geese already flying nerth are li- able to get goose pimples. EDITORIAL Every presidential prospect has supporters insisting that he run for the office. Some will find, however, that when they start running their supporters will come down. HOME HELPS Babies need s1 Ne’ keep ne awake all night just to walk the floor with him. | ! MUSIC NOTES 1 The trouble with our music is it| originates in New York where every- body is in such a hurry, BIRTHS Seven congressmen are the fathers of tis. so they wont mind the! noise Congress makes. | ‘e POLITICS H What's become of Coolidge's dog?{ be biting senators. / aS LETTER FROM BEATRICE GRIM- SHAW TO LESLIE PRES- CcoTT my dear Leslie, full of the most astounding news.) First, I was greatly surprised that | Dick told you we had broken our engagement. You notice I say “we,” for although I think the idea, was put into words by me, I am sure the thought was in Dick’s brain long be- fore I voiced it, 1 have come to thé jconclusion, | dear, all of our traditions in regard to the sexes, their psychologies, their proclivities andy their real place in life are wrong. . I had always believed a man kept his secrets, especially where it was a love secret, hut here I find Dick talking over the breaking of our en- gafement with you quite calmly. Rather ridiculous—isn’t it? The ore 1 see of men—and the more I hekr about them—the nearer T come to thinking there is no par- ticular difference between men and women, Men’s animal qualities may. he a little stronger, but in all human and pgychological attributes they are the same, s 5 What you say about Paula Pericr ia also most astqunding, I remem- ber her when I ‘visited in Albany. some years ago. She was \ then thought to be extremely beautiful, but an \extremely . frivolous girl.’ Much was forgiven’ her because she had to earn her. own, living, Many of her sensational actions were ex- cused because she was French. I cannot’ imagine her anything like you descrihe'as “a woman who has come out of the fiery furnace of euf- zefingd and made better.” That's all right, my dear, as:far If experience does not Your letter, it | make us -hetter: it always mak all tried out in Supreme Court, that | worse, fe tuime saa There is'no such’ thing as a’ character standing still, you know. © However, i'm afraid I would never have invited that woman to my house. if- thought: child I had adopted ‘was the child she had aban- doned. I. do not, consider’ my: it! Moh ap - \ vould The latest news from Washington | | ways seems the worst. | .was |,ized enough with Paula Perier to ask SOCIETY Mr. Soandso is between the devil d the deep blue sea. The doctor s he must quit smoking and’ his he must quit swearing. But the less he smokes: the more he wants to swear and the less he swears the more he wants to smoke. SPORTS Detroit women are demanding a golf course of their own, no men al- lowed. This may be because the womefi are tired of hearing so much cussing. «Or it may be because the womeh want to cuss. TAX NOTICE Soon after a tear-gas bomb was accidentally exploded in a Pittsburg police station all the cops looked as if they had just finished making out their income tax. RADIO NEWS The man who tells what his chil- dren say is no bore, beside the man who tells what his fadio says, FINANCES | Mr, Johns of Los Angeles has a ccllection of coins 300 years old. Is Johns a Scotch name?” a WEDDINGS Just reversing the usual order, a Rock Island (Ill.) gi®l shot a man| and then married 4 is BROTHER TOM’S KITCHEN: Youngstown (0.) man found his missing wife working in a cafe where | she got paid for cooking. FASHIONS Conan Doyle says the world is too material. If it is material, it's a nice piece of goods. 1 CAPITAL NEWS below the: average woman in sympa- thy and understanding, Leslie, but honestly I never could have sympath- her to take that child in her arms, knowing all the time she was its mother, I guess I’m old-fashioned, Leslic, but I still have a kind of queer feel- | ing when I meet—as one does often | lately—a woman, who through a great | Tove or a great mistake has strayed | from the strict path of virtue. I sometimes wonder if that crown } of glory ‘has been lost entirely that was always supposed to have been the halo surrounding the virtuous woman. Nowadays we seem to make no difference between her and her unchaste sister. When you take away the feeling that a spotless reputation is nothing particularly to be desired, you take away the foundation of society. Probably Dick and I would never have hit it off ‘together after his movie experience. I should always seen fhéin togetber- aur heard’ any SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 192 | GERTRUDE ATHERTON _ Published by arrangement with Associated First National Pictures, Inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Countess Zattiany. Copyright 1928 by Gertrude, Atherton XXXVI (Continued) ‘Then, with a further desire toinves- tigate the literary temperament even if she were stabbed again in the process, she looked at him with pro- vocative eyes and said: “I've some- times wondered why you haven't insisted upon a secret marriage. T'm told tt can be done with a rea- sonable prospect of success in cer. tain states.” . on’t imagine I didn’t think of tt. . . but—well—I think the play would go fluey . , . you) seen...” “Il see! And what about your next?” “The next will be a comedy. [ll never be able to write a 'tremen- dously emotional play again.” “And meanwhile “you will not deny that the artist has submerged the lover.” “I admit nothing of the sort. But you yourself let the artist loose— and what in.God's name should 1 be doing these cursed weeks if hadn't? You Jnow you never would have consented ‘to @ secret mar- riage. You've set your heart on the Dolomites. . . . How about that interval of travel, by the way? Liners and trains are not particu- larly conducive to tllusions. “I thought I'd told you. My: plan {s to be married there. I should go on a preceding steamer and see that the Lodge was in proper con- dition, I want everything to be quite perfect, and Heaven only knows what has happened to it.4 “Oh! This is a new one you've sprung. But—yes—I like the idea. Yd rather dreaded the prelude.” And then he made one of those abrupt vaultings out of. one mood into another which had fascinated her from the first. “God! 1 wish we were there now. When I'm not writing——! How many men have you got in love with: you ‘already? But no. ¥ don’t care. When i'm here—like this, Mary, like this—I don’t care a hang if I never write another line.” ‘i i XXXVI During the following: week -she gave a dinner and’ insisted upon his attendance. She had’ given others to that increasing throng that had been young with her in the eighties and to others who had stormed and conquered. that once impregnable citadel, but, she in- formed. him, it was. now time to en- tertain some of the younger we: men, and’he must ‘help her. , He consented readily enough, fo?, he was curious to see her sur- tounded by a generation into which she had cqpllf stepped with no dis- advantage to herself and, from all hg heard, considerable to them. He knew that not only Vane but other men in their late twenties and ear- ly t ies wi paying her devoted attentions. , Dinwiddie, who met him in the Park one day and dined with him in the Cavino, had spoken with modified enthusiagm of these conquests, but added that it was yet ‘to be demonstrated whether the-young men were egged by. nov- elty or genuine coveting. .When he hinted that she may have appealed to that secret lusc for the macabre that somewhere in all-r Clavering had scowled at him ferociously that -be had- plunged into vhapsody and beéwgiled, bis owa lost youth, And‘then /he had endeavored LO} sound the young man iy whom he} Was most interested, but of whose present relations with, Mary @atti- any he bad no inkling; be had not fresh gossip’ since her second de- but.” But be was told to shut up and talk about the weather. Claveriig, who knew’ that’ be would not have a moment alone with her, wént to the dinner in much the same mood as he went ito a first-night. at which he was ‘reasonably ‘sure. of entertainment. It certainly. would. be good comedy to the detached observer, and this he was quite capable of being with nothing better tm: prospect. “ Never- theless, he “was utterly ‘unprepared jtor the presénce ef Ama: Goodrich end Marian La derstood that thé: to the more important of the ‘young married women; But,they were feel I conld not'trust him. I should the first. persobs.‘he-saw when he always, feel he was probably keeping | entered the, drat something in his mind very different’ were stand! from that which he was telling mé. to shoulder; jtand he knew that.they privately Getested each dthet, account only. I am glad, however, you saw him and told me all about it. It breaks another link of the chain between us, Lovingly, 4 BEE. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) be ° | A THOUGHT Let andther man praise thee, and her superb confide! 7 V grerdede toon : room. They Ogether—shoulder ie reflected cynically nd not-on his How like: Marg. women well enough He ‘was almost’ the last of the’ not thine own mouth; a stranger,’ guests,’but\he had time to observe and not thine own lips—Proy. 27.2. A man's praises have very musical and charming accents in the mouth! of another, but sound very flat and untunable ‘in his own.—Xenophon. RESIGNATION OF IRELAND + FROM MILL BODY ACCEPTED Grand Forks, N. D., March 8.—Re ignation of ‘Ireland from “the: ‘hoard of managers of the. state -mill the two girls and elevate $ been accepted by the Nérth’ Dakothdiuatrial commis. sion, according: a letter received gommission some two efore dinner was an. by, Mr. Ireland yesterday from John Gammans, secretary, As..the r Grann,of Fargo, was , | Meh.” Mddame Zattiany had Ky, resignation- of J, F,, Mc-| for uounced, in spite of the fact that he was claimed by other acquaint: ances before he could reach them. Anne looked regally handsome in gold-colored ‘tissue and paillettés that gave a tawny light to her eyes and hair, and to her skin an ambet glow. She held her head very high, and in spite of her mere five feet five, looked’ little less stately than Madame. Zattiany, who wore a marvelous velvet gown the exact shade of her hair, Marian Law- rence was small but so perfectly made thateher figure was always alluded to as her body, and she” cartied her head not regally, but with an ingolent assurance that became her. She was very beaut! ful, ‘with a.gleaming white skin that she never powdered nor col- cred, and hair like gold leaf, parted and worn in smooth bands over het ears and“ knotted loosely on her neck in the fashion known as a la vierge. Her large graylish-green eyes were set far apart and her brows and lashes were black. She had a straight {nnocent-looking nose with very thin nostrils, into which she was capable of com: pressing the entire expression of a face. “She generally wore the fash: ionabdle colors pf the moment, bul tonight her soft, shimmering gown was of palest green,.and Clavering wondered if this were a secret dec. Yeration of war. She, too, was ot the siren class, and it was possible that she and Mary Zattiany de rivéd “from somé cot ion ances: tress who had conibed her hair op a'rock or floated northward overt the steppes of ‘Russia. But there were abyemal differences between the two(wamen, as Clavering wel! knew. Marian wrence, witly4 great ‘natural intelligence, never read anything more. serious than @ noyel and preferred those that were. not translated into English, She took no interest whatever 12 anything outside her inherited cir cumference, and had prided her. self during the war upon ignoring its existence. She was as luxuri-’ ous and as dainty.as a cat and one of the most ardent sportswomen in America. ‘She looked aa if she had just: stepped-out ofa stained-glass window, and she was a hard, sub tle,*-predatory.-flirt;' too much ir love with her : beautiful body te give it-wholly to any man, ‘She had never really fallen: in love with Clavering: until she had lost him and °he,- his brief enthusiasm for her Gniqué beauty and: somewhat demoniae “parm having subsided, pm had avoided her ever since; al- though they danced together at the few fashionable parties he attend- ed. .He knew her better now than when he had seen her datfty, al most hourly, at'a house party in ‘the. White Mountains, and almost ag.often for several. Weeks after his.return. This was shortly after his mistake with’ Anne, and her at- traction. bad..consisted’lareely in hen complete difference from @ really fine. character toward whom he felt @ certain: resentment for having so much and sfill lacking the undefined essential. He had not deluded himself that he woutd find it jn Marian Lawrente, but her Paradoxes. diverted him and he was quite willing to go as far as her technique permitted. It had never, occurred to him for a mo- inont that she was seriously in love with him, but he\had had more than one glimpse of her claws and , :hesregarded: her uneasily tonight. ‘Andi wiatswind she and Anne whis- Derk acon et? 2 “You will take im Miss Good sald to v aig! he aged his shouldérs. did not care in the least whom he talked to; ft was the ensemble that. interested him. Anne, and Marlan were the only girls. preg- ent. The other women were be- tween twenty-five and thirty-five-or. Six. Madame Zattiany would seem to, have chosen them all for thelr 00d looks, and she looked younger than several of them. |. _Mauve was the fashionable color of the. season. There were three mauve gowns and the table was lit by very long, very thin .manve ‘candles above a low bank of or chide. Mra; Ruyler had disinterred the family amethysts, but Mrs, dé Lacey: and Mrs. Vane, “Polly’s" daughter-in-law, wore their pearls There were several tiaras, for they were going on to the opera and later to a ‘ball. The company num. bered twenty fn all and there were three. unmarried ‘men ‘besides Cla- vering, atid'ineludiig: Harry Vane Clavering. found. Marian Lawrence on his left, ana once more he caught a twinkle in Madame Zattiany’s eyes as the guests surrounded the table. He had:not.seen Anne since the. night of Suzan’s party, when they had varied the program by sitting ber. eyes. thal » ® on the floor in front of the fire. roasting chestnuts and discussing philosophy; then playing poker w Hl two'o'clock In the morning. He asked her if she were comfortable und. happy in her new life. Rather!” “She amiled with all her old seréte brightiess and hei eyes dwelt on him in oi jriendliness. ee 4 : . oa there ‘gre “nowitwa vacancies on the board to he filled, and. it is socal that. announcément of; appointments to fill these will be m hasty pep as made within: the the boend Asia cine ee 4 ag ; ‘name’anew presi- ° i accented by.'the rh that poaiti 3 Weeks ago,tby Me, trelned hatin. bron ‘held ' ' ' \