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ry in his comic role, was biting the wire nof Pees iia alan the inal ewe ct @ little more heavily than usual. Sc- « 000 pontancous origin published herein. vere internal pains ee shaking his # or ay rights of republication of all other/body. But he wouldn't give up. He Yiwn |/1atter herein are also reserved. was determined not to end his act tas ahead of time. od (Offical Cy Sree ne County | ut when the act was done, and the toa applause had died away, he discov- 1 pig Foreign Representatives ered that he was paralyzed. The strain x giv SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS had been too much. He can’t perform) 7 “T & BREWER again. + cooet eee Many people will say that it was a €pla__3HICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON eee i 4 4mo™— useless sacrifice. Perhaps it was. But adore— . it was a glorious one, just the same. Ion | Looking Forward i ror Nineteen-thirty-two may be a cru- | Robeltas had a chance to be brave rold ial year in the history of the United {94 he took it. wRwat ¢ srolonged general depressions of all /nu ashe Fout Vv a : hd Tue soon our problems will be solved,! per Che i , as individuals, and athe = 3 argely, is up to us, Fra | ¥I'n ang Nineteen-thirty-two is a “presiden-; sig Nitial year.” Ordinarily, such an elec-/ ba! Julbiion and the Political questions it eS Yer xan eaneae 8 ha hor/Faises, would loom large on the hori-} Columnists and wise-crackers are Jilat ‘Tizon. But this is not an ordinary pe- $ Bu wetiriod and party political issues have & { Alelecome, in the public mind, a very tier alae eet S82 Rass. RCA aS eA PALA IN RNA ee am ee HOWE $4984 Youeey MEBEFEEZA “é POeeUD Be eeyye oS | tro ree * we;'small thing when contrasted with eco- the:momic and social issues. ot An Independent Ne yy THE STATE'S OLDEST i NEWSP: Frai nf , ‘Due 108 of the world. There is no magic Up Th ale 1 di Ji al la a, ay! Sa G w he a32Q @ we + booms that are followed by drops, the | question is made we are going to see ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932 'sthe Bisma i gloom and fear if the mists of 1930] : } he B rek Tribune and 1931 are to rise in 1932. A_Clown’s Sacrifice Harry Robettas, aerial clown, made one of the supreme gifts of the holi- day season. Because he did, his act is over. The orchestra no longer| APER (Established 1873) | Published by The Bismarck Tribune wmany, Bismarck, N. D., and en- ted at the postoffice at Bismarck as class mail matter. needs his cuc. GEORGE D, MANN | .Robettas made an engagement to President and Publisher. {perform at a holiday party at the Subscripts Payat Sawtelle Soldiers’ Home in Los An- aivaace ss eles. When the time came the clown ly by carrier, per year......$7.20 was ill, confined to his bed. His ly by mail per year (in Bis- friends told him that he couldn't ap- jPear in his act. He told them that ouside anak). : aes 500 /he would try it anyway. ly by mail outside of North The old veterans had gathered for | Dakota - 6.00) their party. They were going to be amused. Sitting around, day after day, remembering battles that nobody wants to hear about now, grows tire- some. They leaned forward, a little more breathless, when Robetias start- 00 ed his act. They envied him. The clown was dangling by his teeth on a wire above the stage. “Some feat,” the men said, as they applauded. Robettas, meantime, as he swayed $eexly by mail in state, per year $1.00 eekly by mail in state, three ms gYCATS ......., sesees ++. 2.50 syeekly by mail outside of North ppekota, per year .......+..+- 1.50 = eekly by mail in Canada, per year ‘ } Member of Audit Bureau of ] Circulation i Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively jtitled to the use for republication of #41 news dispatches credited to it or The memory of the back-stage scenes when he played the road on circuit, the lure of the Big Top, a blue sky scattered with stars, and the} thrill that comes when the orchestra swings into a melody that means the performance is starting . . . all of these will be a little lovelier to the man who knows that his last act was his best. E states. | For more than two years we have ndured one of the most severe and PI ime—in company with the other na- ™ “emedy for curing economic ills—how 4s members of a complicated soclety. | wat this 50-50 congress lacks in ination. in. session. E Editorial Comment | People who Flare wondering how to find jobs, are Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard prot interested in political bickerings. to whether they agree or ‘disagree ire). “The greatest danger of a depression with The Tribune's policies. fs that we may lose our heads—that | | | | | of stimulated employment, stimulated buying, stimulated trade, commerce| and building. We cannot produce that by frightening the capital we need. We cannot do it through governmen- tal meddling, which inevitably forces: retrenchment and inaction on the businesses it touches and, by example, on the entire business structure. | We cannot create prosperity by} heaping additional tax burdens. on| Sie struggling under a tremendous tax/gressive—and they bill. Robbing Peter to pay Paul is} count. not sound economics. All taxes must | conditions as they really are. ing. unemployment and tically taken depression out of the pic- ture, so we might say that they have on to the The behind. same time, wonder about. been beneficial to the human race for | Chaplin's that anyway. People are commencing! smith,” which is just getting under to lift the corners of their mouths in-| way; Douglas Fairbanks’ travelogue; stead of keeping them drooped. Aswe!“The Front Page” come closer to the primaries and later | man”; “Madelon Claudet” and a few What Nippon or, “the 10 Well, I'm certain that now in seventh heaven. Congress 15/10 “best” plays this year. just as certain that I didn’t read 10 best books. Of the talking pictures, Scene” comes about as close as any | to my idea of a “best” picture. “Pub- {lic Enemy” and “Skippy” are not far Jackie Cooper, that phe- nomenal lad, strikes me as being omething to rave about and, at the whi about the last word in what a gang film should be. Edward G. Robinson did a nice job for himself in “Little a sort of mob hysteria may take the; Coming Events Casting Their} is not just another “ place of reason. We may try to over- Shadows Before He's an Sey ae come economic law with panaceas. Al- (Valley City Times-Record) ready many such efforts are being; John J. Raskob, chairman and| tant newcomer, it scems to me. proposed. The new congress, before! financier of the Democratic party,|came out of comparative nowhere in it has completed its session, will be warns his fellow Democrats that the |‘? “Public Enemy swamped with suggestions for relic y a Pea eee question is going to split ‘ e ve vi ntic | the Democratic party north and south} ing’ the unemployed with gigantic! vies the party meets on a common S r bond issues; for helping the farmer|-eround to bring about a solution of| Caesar,” another type with governmental subsidies and at-j|the problem. Mr. Raskob’s idea of a film. ene Bestest: 5 tempts at price-fixation; for helping | Solution is a constitutional amend-| third-rate pictures and worse, ‘ fs ‘ment providing for state control of li-} & the small business at the expense Of) quor, “This, if adopted by congress, | firm deserv the large one; for helping the poor and ratified by the people, would take and those of moderate mcans by over-|us back to the yesteryears when we taxing the wealthy. had local option in some states and| Protest. While such proposals may be made | Plindples in those not having local . |eption. in good faith, most of them are based| “Those who some time ago said that; actorine of the films. Her work in on misconceptions. the liquor question would not be the Prosperity will return as the result |8teatest one of the coming president Lil Dagovar arrive es conventions and general | others. ee * Jimmy Cagney is another impor- ‘Street Scene” and “American Trag- ed” rate her the No. 1 dressing room fal campaign haye another guess com- | she is said to have on the Paramount Today you are hearing more of | ‘ot. liquor, modification, and government | many with plenty of New York fan- control than you do about farm relief,| fare and went back so quietly that depression—in | no one in this spot can explain what fact the noise of the wets has prac-| happened to poe New York, Jan. 8—Shortly before the first of each year all the ques-j 5; ‘ i j tionnaire experts send out letters ask- legislation it will make up in recrim- ing, “What do you consider the 10 best books of the year?” best films?” or, “the 19 best plays?” T didn’t see And I'm This boy ‘child actor.” He ich was ju of racketeer given show- ed herself a. better actress than her ed. If they can't find out what to do with real personalities | after they get them, it's time to make Out in Hollywood, Sylvia Sydnéy reigned about as supreme as any little d from Ger- Rounding up other pictures, I liked “City Lights”; ‘The Guards- In the world of books, it would are making it|/seem that “The Good Earth” should come cicse to the top of any fiction We might as well be honest and face| list. And that these volumes should not be overlooked: Willa Cather’s eventually be paid by the public—jwets are gaining and rapidly at that.| “Shadow on the Rock”; James Coz- business must pass all costs onto those | This may be due to the persistent who buy its products or services. For |C@mpaign they have been waging and \the rally of the liquor forces—but they the nation to go further into debt, to; 272 gaining. In five out of seven spe- appropriate additional millions andicial congressional elections five wets billions for temporary and unsound pave Tene ie ie Yesterday lew Hampshire added one congress- Beet sebernes, s the Renee fous man to the wet bloc. The lower house Our basic industries have shown 4/| of congress now has 150 wets whereas commendable spirit in secking to|the last election they had something solve their problems, which, in reality, | OVer 60—doubled their number in less are the workers’ problems and the jthan two years. This is not propa- ganda on our part—it is the fact—and consumers’ problems. Power, insur- ance, oil, gas, railroads, farm organi- being honestly inclined to tell facts, zations—all have shown progressive we are not trying to cover up or cam- | outage. We are sounding a note of warning. No’person is more dry than tendencies. They realize the duty that | the writer and all the Raskobs and all is upon them to prevent, so far as pos- | the wets will never mean a thing to sible, the up-and-down swing of the | pipers pare a zene of elias the |@nd believe that unless some major business chart in we future—th?| Dccess to settle ‘this much mooted inflation that precedes deflation. They are working to stabilize employment, to find a means of assuring the good worker his livelhiood at all times, to protect the future of workers whe they get beyond their point of useful- ness. | Business can do this better than government. . ‘There are problems, of course, that no nation egn hop: to. solve alone, problems of international significance. ‘These, too, the public. must take an pcos peg tee depression the interest in, if we are to have officials | ,-opie's state of mind and they have capable of representing us in the work | gone to the polls to vote seainst the world rehabilit Disarmament in wer to let eam. tos nen jarani bo not Tooke to the future but are tl , & sound tariff policy for all n8-| ment” This has happened, we think, one of the greatest battles the country has ever seen. If the country could have a nation wide vote on the ques- tion and then settle it that way we {would not object to that—the only hing that we would be afraid of is should the wets get licked if they would “dry up.” We doubt it. Now let us look at the other side of the matter. Does the fact that the few Democrats who have happened to be elected in Republican districts in the past few months really mean a wet victory? We doubt it. The his- tory of the country telis us that in all their sentiments at the mo-|° zens’ “S. 8. Faulkner's new short “Sanctuary”; Road Back,” and Negro folk literature. However, San Pedro”; Bruce Catton, book reviewer who doubtless reads William stories and Eric Remarque’s “The “John Henry,” Roark Bradford's latest addition to official | Only the thick-headed girl skates on thin ie “arrow-| 10 volumes to my one, come upon something I missed. I doubt, though, if he encountered & more interesiing tome, newspaperman’s standpoint than Lin- coln Steffen's “Autobiography.” This seems to me a most valuable addi-/ tion to Americana. Duguid’s “Green Hell” ico” the most interesting and color- ful of the travel opuses. ee ® admitted classic. entertainment. experiences of a grand opera singer. “Louder Please” and “Wonder Boy” continued the ribald kidding of Hol- lywood, but failed to attract. “Cat “The Band Wagon” ever had. George White's “Scan- revues. “The Left Bank” Suave and intelligent conversation. attention are: House of Connelly,” “Brief Moment,’ Parade.” (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) Thru The Tribune Want Ads | Rent the Spare Room FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: i e THis U RIO US WORLD may have from a! was my favorite adventure) travelogue and Stuart Chase’s “Mex-) The theatre reached one of its highest peaks, but was cursed with) general mediocrity. Eugene O'Neill's; “Mourning Becomes Electra” is an “Springtime for Henry” is the season’s only farce, which is strange in a year when one hears so much about people craving “Sing High, Sing Low” is an amusing travesty on the and the Fiddle,” with a Jerome Kern score that was expected to appeal. chiefly to musicians, became a hit. remains the “smartest” revue hit the town has dals” was the fastest of the music led in Others that attracted particular “Cynara,” “Payment Deferred,” “The Good Fairy,” “The “Reunion in Vienna” and “The Laugh AeA righted; Topay WILSON’S WAR AIMS | On Jan. 8, 1918, President Wilson \set forth America’s war aims in a memorable address betore a joint ses- sion of congress. President Wilson’s “14 points” as conditions of peace were: covenants of peace; (2) absolute free- dom of navigation; economic barriers and establishment of equality of trade; (4) guarantées of reduction of armaments; (5) impartial adjustment of all colonial claims; (6) evacuation of all Russian territory; (D evacuation and restoration of Bel- gium; (8) all French territory freed and invaded sections restored and “wrong” done by Prussia to France in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 readjustment of the frontiers of Italy; (10) free, autono- mous government for Austria-Hun- gary; (11) Rumania, Serbia, Montene- (3) removal (9) (1) Open Must Beware eat cove ‘MustBevaret EEE Daily Health Service OF unui SOOROPERLY COOKED PORK Worms Develop in Intestines By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN EATING . ‘and Settle in Muscles _ Hee ee RENTER ETE ETN could be completely exterminated trownd meat shops, slaughter houses Editor, Journal of the American Medical and hog pens, and finally if the swill and offal fed to the hogs could be thoroughly cooked or otherwise disin- fected. ‘When meat infested with trichina i: eaten, the cyst wall of the parasite is digested in the stomach and, the worms get out. They then go inte the small intestines, where they grow |to maturity in two or three days: On the sixth or seventh day the fertilized ‘female burrows into the wall of the jintestine. By the ninth or tenth day the embryos released by the female are found in fair numbers in the mus- leles. The embryo grows rapidly in the muscle, becoming completely de- It was a theater party. probably had scene enoug! (Copyright, 11 sloped in about 15 days, then it coils Me and a wall is formed around it. Of course, when (larg pe Grd ining these embryos is eaten the Sols probes is repeated in the ani- oH ‘ Quotations { peberrenne ad cctuchenechsh.sienty Reeser For @ cold I take a pinch of bicar- bonate of soda and a spoonful of mon salt mixed with lemon juice and water.—Mahatma Gandhi. * *e * dividual human being, than a can of eo Sidney, movie ac- 88, xk Oe Women want leisure. They want cigarets, They want to go places. They want culture, but not too much of it.—Anna tart —, If anything isn’t going exactly right, I’m going to get my gang together and see about it—Andrew J. (Bossy) Gillis of Newburyport, Mass. zs * ® en... are in the nature of functions.—Baron Shidehara. which will rob the race of man of incentive.—Major General Seely, British army. Drought Relief Body Will Meet Saturday A meeting of the state drought re- J. EB. of at Bismarck, has been called by Gov- ernor George F. Shafer. The governor said the committee be given to drought stricken persons in northwestern North Dakota. Two projects are to be discussed. One is clothing requirements of the needy, and the other a plan to fur- nish reading matter to those in the drought area. Voluntary contributions of clothing, the governor said, were insufficient are known “ROSALIE” acquaintance with MO k com 3 wet thel date, When she points obstacles they come near reling. Cecily's trien her Barry M breaker and aot t 2 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIX oyynRe they engaged?” gave it a not-that-it-matters inflection. “No, they weren't engaged,” sald Marta. “But, honestly, Cissy, when a man has been madly rushing 8 girl for months, if he’s decent he'll fore her to let him down, won't he? I don't expect a man to marry every girl he goes with, mamma says, they have to go to to find out gcther for quite a whil whether they want to I do say that when 2 man will do that twice in two years—just throw two dandy girls down fiat, and for no reason at all—aoy girl knows about it, if she has any sense, will leave bifo utterly alone.” “Well,” said Cecily, essaying logic, “he did bave a reason, of course, it it was only that be suddenly got tired. of thom. Maybe the didn't know the reason; but maybe they did and didu't like to tell.” “No, sir. 1 don’t think 80. told Lutie everyth'ng, Of course, - B-- di1 sa- that when she began to reapec-* MARTA, te! Cecil, can he?” “I shoud hope not, Just the same—that sounds like a quarrel to mu.” “Well, what if it was? Lutie said she thcugit, s ayt., Bea bad been flirting a little, trying to get him to the point of talking marriage. But, anyway, Cissy, what can a girl do with a man who says he can't quarrel? It's swell for him, “of course. But it simply means that he'd have to e his own way utterly about everything—you know. I told Lutie that if the girls had had their share of gray matter they’d have let bim out for air when he first pulled that ‘can’t quarrel’ line, What can you do with.a man like that? Honestly! Just, ‘Yes, dear’ and ‘No, dear’ around him all the time, Silliest thing I ever heard of!” Cecily forced herself to stop thinking that it might be tolerable to “Yes, dear” and “No, dear” around Barry all the time and said, ane 1981, NEA Service, Inc.) ! KINDS | KAY CLEAVER ‘Marta, promise me that you won't make a fuss at Gretchen's party. Gretchen has loads of friends, and 1 owe her ever so many parties, iy |and—” “Oh, yeah? Put that in the Ugh- Huh department. The more 1 thi of it madder 1 get. £ won't make a fuss. I’m not going. bert can’t bear Gretchen, anyway. He'll be glad to get out of it. Makes me sick when I think how I've stood up for her.” “When is it to be?” “A week from tomorrow night. /Gretch didn’t ask me until yester- day evening, but she said I inished the list. I'll bet I'm a fill-in. She said sbe’d tried to get me before, but I've been hor.c except for the Allens’ ‘“incheon and the bridge club, Prob: ./ she ci’ :'t mear ‘9 ask me either. Jean’s having sinus trouble again. Here’s my street. Yl fix Gretch Steigerwald sooner or tater. Call me up, Cissy. Re member”—Marta took a step back ward and stooped to murmur in Cecily’s ear—“‘what 1 told you about that Barry McKeel, Remember.” She was swaying down the aisle, Like But who girls go. with Barry he told her that he 2 coytin't Quarrel, complex or something about rel: what I :nean. couldn't, actually quarreled. the said ke thought he would itsho’d waited. A man can’t get mad and quit every time « girl ~ offer to kiss him good night, de-: ‘what, he bad 1 1 forget whether she said com- plex or repression—but Jou know He said a quarrel blew him out lke a candle, and bi But Bea sald they hadn't She did say that theyd had a2 argument, but that as far as she was concerned it ‘was jut foolichness, and she never dreame( that he wac really angry. She sald he just «.uuc talk. 80 then she came right in and dido’t offer to kiss him good night—but gloves with their extravagant wrin- kles. . eee ECILY remembered. All day long she remembered, variously. remembered it as an unforgiv- quar truth; she remembered it as egre gious nonsense, as none of her affair, ‘as a cardipal:component of her life. Sbe remembered, conscientiously, to forget all about it and sound happy when she telephoned to Ann, at noon, to tell her that she had given-up the idea of a birthday par- have, ty. Oh--different reasons. For one been & piece out of the muscles at the Painful point and finding the para- site in the muscle. that eats the meat. mn 1200 cases of trichinosis that oc- curred in the United States, raw sau- sage was the cause in 225 cases, raw ham in 213 cases, sausage in 141 cases, ‘Trichina could be completely elim-| and incompletely cooked pork in 340 inated if all meat could be ated at 5 degrees F. for 20 days; before use it could be thoroughly| cooked or cured, because the parasite I’m no more of # person, of an in-|f trichina dies at 181 degrees F.; if refriger. cases, Trichinosis resembles typhoid fever and chronic rheumatism in its early stages, and it is only careful in- vestigation by a physician that can reveal the cause. if baer age and adults. Helena, Mont., to "lyear @ county kittenball tournament will be promoted the latter part May at Dickinson, having both and high school divisions. County declamation Veal agen are to be held at Lefor, Richardton, Sout Heart and in April. Dickinson the lief committee, to be held Saturday| The county basketball tournament, to determine both grade and high school » again will be pro- moted early in March at Dickinson state teachers college. consi further service can| On the first Sunday in the month ‘ad sgl the May music festival is to be held,) {featuring a county choir of hundreds of voices from rural, consolidated and private schools. CHURCH NOTICE Seventh Day Adventist Church 623 Seventh St. R. R. Biets, Pastor Sabbath school, 2 p. m. for ‘the needs of children of pre- . F. Rowland, assistent drought | lia relief director for the American Red Cross, plans to come here from attend the meeting. Stark School Program Completed by Pippin Dickinson, N. D., san. 8—Complete Japan will not resort to war. The/|plans for inter-school activities in the tary measures which she has tak-|rural districts of Stark county for police 1932 have been drawn‘ into booklet * form and mailed to instructors Safety first i a vile motto. It is|throughout the county by H. O. Pip- soul-destroying, a pestilent heresy| pin, Stark superintendent of schools. all) asa new activity among schools this grade Lesson review, “The New Birth.” Mission report, “Tne Call of Mongo- Lesson study, “The Water of Life,” John 4:1-42. Preaching service, 3 p. m. Hymn, “Fount of Every Blessing.” Prayer. Choir, “Great Is the Lord.” Sermon, “Adoption,” R. R. Bietz. Hymn, “Wholly Thine.” Benediction. ‘Wednesday, Jan. 13— Prayer service, 8 p. m. Choir practice, 9 p. m. STICKERS of ith ‘Above is the orginal arangement of four chicken coops, forined by 12 fences of equal length. "After a storm blew three Rocdear tried teh lealare ut ast coop rede ohh ew he ize as in the original arrangement. Which fences Hew down, and how were they put back up? that he was kind «ud honorable, and that people slandered him. ‘Throughout the dey she did think of a few other things. She thought that her pink dress and Ann's yel- low were too short; and that all their clothes were dowdy and out of fasbion,. She thought that Barry was an entire stranger to her, and that she had been an {diot to hope to touch the far edges of his life. She never, of course, had really hoped to enter into his life.’ She must hi bis life was full before she had ever met him, Full? Crammed with girls, glamorous girls who lived in New York and who had wads of money and clothes and chauffeurs and trips 2 Europe, and who cried about im, Her pink dress was too sfort. She had not dared take even a sip from Billy's flask tuo ther evening for fear—since she had never taken sips—it might go to her head and make her act silly. ie couldn't smoke; she had never got {nto the habit of using all this smart new lang, because Grand Rosalie wed so darkly at slang. Any man who was as sophisticated as Barry and who was not positively brutal would have to feel at least a stirring of pity for tupid, dowdy, provinc:-1 person who had shown so plainly her—well, at least her absurd admiration for him. But for Marta she too might soon have been crying about that Barry McKeel. Barry would hate to have her cry. Barry would hate to have anyone cry, Barry was gentle, Bar Ty was reasonable. Everyone should be reasonable, She had played with boys, hadn't she? Why shouldn't have played with girls? Was it his fault that he had grown tired? She bad done things of the sort. Nearly everyone had. Refused to answer the telephone? Refused to answer notes? Well, silly things should not have pursued him with telephone calls and notes. Even Ann (poor Ann, her yellow was away too short), as sure as she was of Phil, did not run after bim, Men hated pursuit—or so Cecily bad been informed. She was very glad that she had too much pride. Now if, when she wont into ¢ reet from the building this evening, Barry were not there— But he would be there. He had said that he'd be right there by the door. But if he weren't? If she should never seo him again? If hé refused answer her telephone calls? Rex dined in a queer, empty little place that smelled of new lumber and wae stuck on the side of @ hill, The food was poor, but the view out across the wide valley ifting harmony of misty gd dans ibd merging into laven: leepening to vii sins in ‘front ofa are Sunset spread STRAHAN bleday, Doran and Co. The waitress came and brought the ash tray Barry had asked for, and brushed at some crumbs, and moved the catsup bottle two inches, and departed, Barry sald, “Cecily, do you know you are the first real friend— feminine—that I have ever had?” Frail Constance and her chauffeur walked in and sat beside bim on the right, and Bea, beautiful though weeping, sat beside him on the left, Barry opened his cigaret case. “Sure you won't have one?” he asked, Cecily, tired of looking at Con- stance and her chauffeur and Bea, looked again out of the window, “No, thank you,” she said. . He lighted his own. “If you smoked,” he said, “I'd think {t jolly and friendly; so, consistently, I'm tremendously glad that you don't.” Constance and Bea were both smoking like real comrades and be- comingly by now, 80 the best Cecily could do was to make fun of them. ‘It seems eo old-fashioned for wo- men to smoke, nowadays,” she said, He aunt ring right, and knew and cou... only hope desperatel: that it had not sounded ar it mA were foraging ‘or praise, “But you are old-fashioned,” hi said. “You are as old-fashioned dignity, and good manners, and loy- alty, and—" the hesitation was Just Perceptible—“love.” She continued gazing out of the window. “Or as Billikens, or cruets, or chaperons?” she said. B, for Bea, and two C's, one for Con: Stance and one for her chauffeur. He laugi.ed appreciatively. “You are as impersonal,” he said, “as a Mbrarian or a lily—the two most impersonal things on earth. I like em,” “I thought,” she answered, “ ‘Oh, well—one hypocrisy déesn't make a hypocrite, nor one fib a fibber.’” He laughed again, tess apprecia- tt sly. “Yes, but actually,” i ine sicted, “I'm not saying - a: 1 T.ven't - vith girls. i'm 30t saying that 1 haven't thought I hac & bad case, once or twice and for a Short time. 1 am saying that I've ‘never before liked a girl, thoroughly and unreservedly. Liking is much more important tha know.” B love, you “No,” Cecily disputed brazen! weg Noy ly. "That's tiki jaying that the alpha. bet is more important than \they can be‘lovers, | Intensified, pertestoa abe “Wrong 2s wrong!” he dectared, “But I'm glad you think so. Ob, boy, but I'm glad you think so!” And with that, and nothing further ‘cont, and in a great of the place. (To Be Continued) { ‘y a so

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