Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1926, Page 34

WOMAN 'S PAGE. Good Usage in Our Telephone Calls BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Telephone courtesies are among the essential characteristics of the well bred person. Politeness carries over the telephone as well as being notice- THER FOR PHO ARE TERMI CONYV DEFINITE ATING A ATION. ble in the contacts of life, While it is ue that genuine politeness is the e. r f kindness of ue that there is a wwerns this politenes - applies to telephone courtesies. e definite rules to be ohserved e rules are w and simple, and every one can be rided by them if a little attention is id to tindin; ut what they are. For instance, there is a rule as well \ that governs the problem Al terminate a telephone nversation. If a woman has called calls up who terminates the talk. The reason for this is that she is in the position of a caller, and as such should bring the conversation or call to an end. While it is not such an obvious and distinct discourtesy for the wom- an called up to end the call as it would be if she were actually enter- taining a visitor in her home, never- theless correct form in telephone man- ners is disregarded and a rule of letiquette broken. Therefore, if you call up a woman remember that you are expected to end the conversation, which should be as brief as your mes- sage will permit. Long telephone con- versations are bad form. The Woman's Privilege. If a woman is conversing with a man over the telephone, it matters not which ome did the calling up, it is for the woman to bring the talk to an end. This is her privilege and she should be careful not to continue the telephone talk over long. Do not put him in the unfortunate position of having’ to excuse himself, however gracefully and tactfully he may be able to do it. Long telephone conversations are bad form. Answering the phone bell is seldom disregarded, but it frequent- ly happens that work has to be stop- ped to do so. A long interruption is annoying, especially when duties are imperative. The one who calls up may have plenty of time, and have chosen an opportune moment for him or her to have a chat. However, it may be just the reverse is true with the one called up, who cannot Indicate that this is the case without seeming to be rude. Deliver a message g ciously if briefly. This is the primar thing, Then if there are things abou which you would like to talk or about which you would like to hear, tele- phone etiquette rules that you should ask if the time is fortunate for a longer conversation. If the reply is tavorable, the talk may continue for a longer. If it is not, the person asked the question should follow up the neg- ative reply by saying she will call back later and mention a definite time when she will do this. Business Calls. These are some of the rules that prevail in telephone etiquette from business calls. These are s what different. For exampe, while business should be brief, it should be clear so that there may not he mis- understanding. Even when concise, it may take a little longer to talk business than pleasure. However, business people know how to value time better than other folk, and so they do not have to be advised to be brief as do women at home. We hear a good deal about the voice with a smile, but it is worth cultivat- ing. Telephone service has its distinct annoyances, but if you keep pleasant » another woman, it is the one who others are apt to. ODD FACTS ABOUT YOURSELF I BY YALE NATHANSON, B. Sc., M. A, | Depariment of Psychology Cured by Hypnotism. | Dues hypnotism have any value? Can It cure diseuse? | Yes, hypnotism does have a very » value and is not only impo i medical ain kinds ¢ there is 1o end to the \lue of hypnotism. Often an opera- | on is necessu on 2 person to whom would prove serious to use ether. hese persons are, instead, placed nder the hypnotic spell. It is sug- m that they cannot Zeel a where the cutting is , and then the operation -3 performed painlessly. One great has reported “wore than 300 major operations per- wmed under hypnosis and several sand minor operations Hypnotism has been used ver: ssfuily at child birth, nd in fact in all cases nesthetic is ordinarily used. The ad intages of this method are that the watient does not have to abstain from wd for a long thne before the opera- »m. as is done with ether; thelr nerv about the operation can he diminated; it is ple nd absolute- ¢ devold of dani n be induced 1 the patient awakened at patient can be placed in any n dur the operation, which en a gre vantage to the sur- there ng of slckness the oy s that produced ue- ions, where an nusness ration BEDTIME STORIES Strange Footprints. Who leaves a footprint must expect iis presence some one Wil detect Old Mother Nature one reason why some of the do not kne s the is fre d, making an ic; they tannot move about with- leaving a record of where they nd what they are about. Farmer ywn's Boy likes the soft snow be- ause he dearly loves to look for foot- prints and then follow them. He has learned in this way v much about the little people of th snow THAT DISTANCE AS AN UNFAMILIAR LOOK ABGUT THOSE TRACKS. the Green Meadows. He has many a story written in the Enow it were. So, while he was busy at the sugar camp, tramping from tree to tree to tap the trees and put out the pails for the sap, he al- ways had his eyes open for footprints fn the snow. He saw the footprints of Chatterer the Red Squirrel. He paw the dainty little footprints of AWhitefoot the Wood Mouse. He saw where Jimmy Skunk had ambled alongz. He saw the tracks of Prickly Yorky the Pofcupine where he had gone from one tree to another. He crossed the trail of Reddy Fox. All these were familiar, and he knew them at a glance. “T wonder if Buster Bear Is awake ot thought Farmer Brown's Boy. 1t he is, I will be pretty sure to run across his tracks somewhere among these sugar maples. If he is awake and hasn't found out yet that the sap is running, he will as soon as we be- gin to boil sap. That nose of his will tell him what i going on, and he can no more keep away from here than a small boy can keep away from a box of candy. My stars! What is that overthere?” and read University of Pennsylvania by other anesthetics; and finally, be- cause of the absence of pain during tlon, the patient seems more rapidly. The only reason why hypnotism is not more generally used is because it is difficult to get a person so deeply under the hypnotic spell as to make him immune to pain. However, it is used in many hospitals throughout the world. As to the other benefits to be de- riv from hypnosis there are many cases on record. An actor complained that he was afrald that he would some time forget his lines while on the stage and be forced to give up his work. He was placed under hypnosis several times, and while under the spell was assured to recover he need not fear such a happening. | Soon the fear vanished and he re- turned to a successful stage career. A girl was successfully cured of fits of stammering by hypnosis. All types of hysteric outbursts have been treated by it with highly satis- factory results. Sufferers from indigestion, head- aches, nervousness, drug addicts, per- sons unable to sleep at night, those who have indescribable fears or who worry unduly over various matters— s who fall into any of these have been helped or entirely cured by hynosis. These cases, to be found in the medical records, testify to cures by hypnotism. (Copsright, 1026.) BY THORNTON W'. BURGESS %0 very long before. Even from that distance there was an unfamiliar look about those tracks. Farmer Brown's for a good look at this strange trail. When he got where he could see the print of each foot his eyes fairly popped out of his head. Yes, sir, Farmer Brown's Boy was pop-eyed. He couldn’t belleve that he was seeing what he knew he was seeing. Those footprints were like the footprints of Black Pussy the Cat, but they were the biggest footprints, excepting those of Buster Bear, that he ever had seen in the Green Forest. “Great Scott!" he exclaimed under his breath. anything wrong with my eyesight? If those are not a Cat's footprints I never have seen any. Yowler the Bob- cat didn't make them and he is the biggest Cat I know of around here. Why, those footprines are nearly twice big as Yowler's and look at the distance between the prints! Here is something T don’t understand at all. I wish I had time to follow them a way. But work comes before pleasure, and if it doesn't snow those footprints will remain."” So Farmer Brown's Boy went back, picked up his palls and continued with his work. When he got back to the sugar house he told Farmer Brown about those big footprints. ““You must have been seeing things, son.” gaid Farmer Brown. have been,” replied Farmer Brown's Boy, “and you can see them, too, if you will come with me.” “You've forgotten how big the prints of Yowler the Bobeat are,” said Farm- er Brown. “There is no other Cat around these parts to make big foot- prints. Those are Yowler's beyond a doubt, But Farmer Brown's Boy was so in- sistent that finally Farmer Brown went with him to look at the strange tracks. When he saw them a funny look swept over his face. “You are right, son,” sald he. “These are not the footprints of Yowler the Bobcat. If T didn't know that it couldn’t be so, I would say that Puma the Panther has been along here; but there hasn't been a Panther in this part of the country for years and years. (Copvright, 1926.) — Spinach Soup. Cook two quarts of spinach in six cubfuls of cold water for half an hour. Press through a sieve, scald two cupfuls of milk with two table- spoonfuls of chopped onion and a bit of bay leaf and add three tablespoon- fuls of butter and thres tablespoonfuls of flour cooked together. Strain and add salt and red pepper to suit the taste, and the spinach mixture. Cook Farmgr Brown's Boy stood with a pail in each hand, staring over among the trees to where he could see that some animal had passed, and that not for five minutes and serve garnished with beaten cream or finely chopped white and riced yolk of a hard-cooked ege. Rty THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1926. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN “I would of got a better grade for drawin’ the map of Kentucky, but I thought she said Texas.” (Copyright, 1926.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Me and Sid Hunt,was standing er- Iru\md‘ the lam post and we each had 5 cents, me saying, Hay, wat do you say we go erround to Mommy Sim- minses and get a jce creem cone? Thats jest wat I was going to sug- gest, Sid sed. Il go with you, somebody sed. Be- ing Sids little brother Bert jest com- ing up, and Sid sed, No you wont, neither, you havent got eny money one so wats a use of you 10l jest watch you, Bert sed. Like fun you will, then we wont go, Sid sed. Wich jest then I had a ideer, say- ing, O well, lets jest take a wawk, insted, wat do we care? And I winked at Sid and he winked back, saying, Sure, & wawk will do us jest as mutch good without costing us enything. | And we quick s in the opposite direcktion from Mom- my Simminses, leeving Bert next to the lam post looking unsispiclous, and wen we got erround the corner we wawked down the next street tords Mommy Stmminses laffing like thing, and who was standing in frunt of Mommy Simminses store but Bert, 8id saying, Hay, wats you doing heer? Jest standing heer, I thawt you was golng to take a wawk, Bert sed. | b we was, Sid sed So we are, T sed on going, me saving, This will fool him all rite, we'll wawk about 10 minnits and come back the other way and by that time he'll be gone. Wich we did, ony he wasent, still standing there waiting, proving some peeple aint as dum as they pertend, and we went in and bawt the ice creem cones enyw Sid glving Bert 2 sucks off of his but me not giving him eny on account of it being .a unsanitary thing to do outside of your family. od to wawk fast And we kepp and immediately following the opera- | HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. Wallpaper is back in fashion and it is always interesting to get ac- quainted with the fine reproductions of old papers which are appearing in large numbers. Shown is a motif from “The Stag and Boar," a typical Tolle de Jouy pattern, depicting hunt- ing scenes. The figures are printed in taupe on a cool, puttv-gray ground. Such a paper as this is excellent for use in the dining room furnished with old mahogany pleces of simple design. The drapes might be plain red-glazed chintz. There would be pewter lamps with red-glazed parch- ment shades on either end of the buftet, and a group of fine old ruby glassware on the side table. On the floor there would be a large braided red-and-gray rag mat. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDOM ‘Words often misused: Don't say “One who does that has a right to be commended.” Say “deserves to be.” Often mispronounced: Bronchitis. ' DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Adbvice to the Boy of 23 Who Is a Business Failure. How to Acquire Tact—Do Women Ever Learn to Know Their Hearts? IDEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a young man aged 23, single. I have never amounted to anything in life, Have tried business for myself. Also working for the other fellow. Both faflures. I have no trade or profession of any kind. Would like to do something worth while, but I haven't any and woul er. al s b s e UNDECIDED. Answer: Well, to begin with, I should have too much pride and manhood about me to ask any girl to marry me until I made something of myself that was worth her taking and until I could offer her a decent llving. If I loved a girl T would think too much of her to be willing for her to marry a shiftless ne'er-do-well who couldn’t keep her in bread and butter and shoes. So begin by putting the marriage proposition out of your head until you have earned the right to marry. Let this girl be your goal, and the way you hustle to get her will be the measure of your desire for her. Then, if I were you, I would sit down and have a heart-to-heart session with myself, in which I would take stock of my abilities and try to decide on the thing that I had the most aptitude for doing. Next I would go to work and learn how to be an expert in that line. The day has gone by, if there ever was such a time, for the jack of all trades. In this day of fierce competition you must know how to do some one particular thing, and do it better than the other fellow, if you hope to succeed. Finally, having decided on my trade or profession, I would stick to it. The men who are always changing about from one occupation to another accomplish nothing and get nowhere. There is more to learn about carpenter- ing or the green-grocery trade or law or medicine than any one human being can ever master in a lifetime, even if he devotes his entire time to the study of that one subject. So if you perpetually shift from one job to another you never acquire the skill or knowledge in anything that is worth paying for. Nor do the men succeed who are always moving from place to place and who think they have riches waiting for them in some distant place. Oppor- tunity knocks on just as many doors at Squedunk as It does in New York or London or Paris and just as many men make a fortune at home as do abroad. I wouldn’'t waste five minutes looking for an easy job, because there are no easy jobs that have a blue ribbon tag on them. Every man who succeeds buys success with sweat and labor, with self-denial, with weariness, with the grim courage that made him hang on through anxiety and despair that ate out his very soul. Every dollar of every fortune is wet with the life blood of the man that earned it. Nor should I throw up a job because I got tired of it and it ceased to Interest me and I thought I would like something else better. There is no work in the world of which you will not weary at times. Anything by which you earn your living and which you do over and over again every day gets to be a deadly grind. There isn't a worker who doesn't gften have to force himself to his labor. Butif he has the will power to do it the reaction comes and he recovers the joy of the craftsman and goes on to success, while the quitter fails and goes into the discard. At 23, my boy, your fate s in your own hands. and make of yourself what you will. Five years from now you can be happy, prosperous and self-respecting. Or you can go on as you are now and be nothing—a failure, a loafer, drifting about from ill-paid job to fll-paid job. The decision s up to vou, DOROTHY DIX. JDEAR DOROTHY DIX: 1 am writing for information regarding being diplomatic and tactful. Ts it a gift or can it be cultivated? I am told that T lack tact and T would like to correct my fault if T can. SUSAN. You can go to work e e Answer: Tact is simply the golden rule put into execution. others as we would like to have them treat us. Of course, in its highest expression, tact is a gift of the gods. Some persons are born with it. They have a sixth sense that makes them know intuitively how to keep off the grass of our tender feelings. They never bring up unpleasant subjects. They never offer gratuitous criticlsms. They never say the unintentional unkind things that cut you like a knife. They never get into arguments. It is treating They bide their time and wait for the paychological moment to come when you will be in a mood to listen to their advice and suggestions and take them instead of being offended by them. They are always welcomed :}'e‘;.yl\;/;nelrlee. for their presence is as soothing as ofl upon the troubled waters On the other hand, the tactless person is always ltke a bull, in 4 c shop. Ho smashes things right and left. He offends without tending. 1 He hurts where he means to be kind. And he stirs up strife wherever he goes. The tactless woman can never resist talking about dishonesty o & woman whose son has defaulted or teliing stories of faithless men o a wife whose husband 1s a philanderer. She tells the mother of a delicate only child that it looks tubercular and jokes with the woman of 35 about becoming an old maid. She asks the fat woman if she hasn't put on 10 pounds and tells the sallow woman how unbecoming her new green hat Is to- her. She can't even give you a present without making It ai husband for money just before dinner. R A el I She may be the best and kindest of women, but she is a human steam. roller that flattens out everybody in her pathway and she is feared and avoided accordingly. Of course, the very best brand of tact is that which comes by nature, but anybody can acquire it. One has only to say to one's self, “Would I like to have some one do or say that to me?" ‘“‘Would I like to have some one tell me that my new frock is too young for me or that I am not rearing my children right or that they have heard the story I am telling before?” And if the nays have it, then suppress your candid opinion and keep sllence. And. on the other hand, if there are certain things that you would like to have said to yvou, then they are the things to say to other persons. DOROTHY DIX. R MISS DIX: I am a girl of 18 and I am going to be married. They tell me that I am too young to marry; that I don’t know my own mind. 1 resent this, for in affairs of the heart there {s no woman who knows her own mind, regardless of age. No woman knows but that tomorrow her heart may set her mind in an entirely different angle from what it is today. In fact, I think that the older a woman gets the more foolish she becomes. I would like to know what you have to say along these lines. ANNA T. M. Answer: Perhaps there are girls of 18 who have reached their full maturity who know all that they are ever going to know and whose ideals and tastes will never change. I hope you are not one of them, Anna, hecause to have reached the limit of your development at 18 would put you in the class of high-grade morons. T trust that you are going on growing mentally, changing your view- point, getting a broader outlook, so that in 5 or 10 years from new You will 100k back on what you were at 18 with as much amusement as you do now at what you were at 8. And then you will wonder at the things that intrigue you so now, just as now you wonder that you could have been so interested in playing dolls. And you are mistaken, Anna. in thinking that the older a woman gets the more foolish she gets. Just living is an education in {tself. DOROTHY DIX. BEAUTY CHATS The Weekly Manicure. Make your weekly manicure thor- ough and you need spend only two or three minutes a day on your nalls to keep them in beautiful condition. Tirst of all, get your implements ready for use—a long steel file, an orange-wood stick, a bleach, a bowl of warm soapy water, a little cold BY EDNA KENT FORBES. and clip off the odd bits of skin and nail that collect there. Polish with a buffer and powder, then wash off and rub on cream. Let this stay on a minute or so, push back the cuticle again with the orange- wood stick. Wash off and give the nalls a quick final polish, preferably with a clean buffer. If the fingers or the nails are stained, full-strength SUB ROSA Her Mistake. “Dear Henry: We've been going together for the past six months and during that time you have quarreled with me continually because you said I was paying attention to other boys. ‘When you were angry you wouldn't speak to me for days and I had to beg you to forgive me. Now I have heard that you've been running around with other girls. It seems to me that In justice to myself I must refuse to have anything more to do with you unless you make some sort of ex- planation or apology. Unless you write to me within the week I shall know that you never want to see me again, MARION.” A week later: “Dear Henry—You must have received my last letter, and yet you've done nothing about it. You don’'t seem to care what I may be thinking. Are you angry because I have taken this high-handed method of bringing you to your senses? Well, you shouldn't be. You've always treated me this way when you thought I ought to be punished. However, I am willing to forgive you if you will call me up and explain. : “Always your friend, MARION." Four days later: “Henry, dear— How can you treat me this way? You are being thoroughly cruel and unfair. I've only tried to make you see just how I've felt all these months, when you refused to have anything to do with me because of your jealousy. Please write or call or do something. I don't care what you've been doing, i you'll only let me hear from you one way or another. Love, “MARION." So, of course, Henry came back, and they went along on the same old basis. Some people would say that this squawl had blown over without doing any harm. But, as a matter of fact, the brief skirmish had ended in a defeat for Marion. She had lost ground by her action In sending those letters, Her fatal mistake lay in the fact that in her first letter she had de- livered an ultimatum. She had an- nounced defiantly that she'd never see him again if he didn’t do the right thing—come along and explain every- thing. She'd sounded as if she meant it. And then she had proved that she was only bluffing. Do you see that by showing him she careéd too much to carry out her threat she was preparing for many more surrenders in the years to come? He realizes that she hadn't the cour- age to carry out her resolution never to see him again. And so, when their next quarrel is staged, he won't be moved by any threats she may make. He will reflect in a satisfled way that she can't possibly mean what she lflnys. she'll surely be the first to give n If Marion didn't mean that she would never see him again—she shouldn’'t have written it. She's low- ered her dlgnity and confessed an in- abllity to follow her chosen course of actlon by allowing him to come back with no word of explanation. Always be willing to admit you've been wrong. But don't give in till he made some effort to show he's sorry. (Copyright. ) MODE MINIATURES The two-piece dress seems to be the dress of the moment for Southern wear and no doubt will be a leader up here for Spring and Summer., It is slightly different from the two-piece dress of last season—more fullness in the skirt either in pleats or godets. And the belt—this is another new note for many of the smartest twi plece dresses carry this extra append- age. Yes, it is worn low on the hips and not at the normal waist line ex: cept by a few individuals. Then, too. it is most admired when very narrow and quite plain. MARGETTE. “Demijohn.” Even in these prohibition days we are still familiar with the demijohn. Though it may be beverages ‘‘with- out alcohol content” that we serve, we do not dispense with the narrow- necked glass container that is called a “demijohn.” The term is a correction of the French words “Dame’” and “Jeanne,” meaning “Lady Jane.” It had its in- troduction into our common’ speech from the language of the sallor, whose Pronounce chi as ki in "kite." Often misspelled: Miner and minor. Synoyms: Wonderful, wondrous, extraordinary, rare, surprising. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is your: Let us in- crease our vocabulary by one word each day. Tod: Captivate; to charm; fascinate. “Tom, captivated by her winsome- ness, forgot all else.” . Date Whip. Cook one cupful of stoned and chop- ped dates in boiling water until ten- der, then press through a sieve. Beat the whites of three eggs until stiff and add one-third cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of lemon juice and one- half a teaspoonful of salt. Carefully fold in the date pulp, pile lightly on a buttered baking dish, and bake for 30 minutes in a moderate oven. Serve of the Orient —this alluring, fascinat- ing attractive beauty with its subtle, mystic appeal can be yours. Possess this bewitching appearance thru 34 Gourauo's ORIENTAL Made in White - Flesh - Raokel Send 10c. for Trial Size Ford. T. Hopkins & Son, New York cream, polishing powder, your buffer and something to clean under the nafls. Begin by filing the nalls to a mod- erately pointed oval. Then hold one hand in the bowl of water until the cuticle around the nall is soft—about five minutes or less is sufficient time. Clean under each pail and smooth the ends with a strip of emery board, for the steel file leaves odd bits of the skin of the nail. 1f possible, simply push back the cuticle around the nalls with the blunt end of an orange-wood stick. Cutting is supposed to be bad, cuticle solventas are drying, although each method has advantages, and neither is harmful if properly done. If the cuticle shows much, remove it by which ever meth- od suits your convenience. Then slip the curved blades of the manicure scissors under the corners of the nails lemon juice 18 one of the best bleaches | &llotmerit of rum in the old days was you can use. Tomafo juice, fresh or out of a can, take' off ink marks. Vinegar also willl remove many stains, The chief thing to remember is to keep the cuticle pushed back. This gives the smooth edge that distin- gulsher really well cared for finger nalls. Working Girl H.—The honey and almond lotions are what you need to keep your hands soft and white dur- ing the cold months. They have the advantage of drying quickly and leav- ing the hands without any trace of ofliness. You will not be compelled to waste any time from your work in waiting for your skin to dry so you can handle materials again. Lemon juice will probably be all that {8 necessary to remove the stains from dyes. Pre-Easter Special DRESSES 20% Oft Cleaned or Dyed This———Week———Only Our last and only Easter “special”—bring in or have us call for your dresses this week and have them ready, waiting for the gladsome day. Already we are dyeing white ande®light colored dresses in Spring tan, rose and green. Because our half Century’s experience and unlimited fa- cilities for finishing dresses of every style and kind, we can meet your most critical demands. FOOTER’S Cleaners and Dyers 1332 G. St. N.W. Main 2343 poured out to him from a large, nar- row-necked container, which m: have been of glass or of earthenware, and which his colleagues in the French navy called a “Dame Jeanne," which he appropriated as “demijohn.’ Those of us who have been the pos- sessors of imported. liquors (vears ago, of course, before the advent of Mr. Volstead), particularly those bot- tled in France, are familiar with their containers, sometimes encased in pretty wicker work, but attractive enough in their very shape and de- sign to make us want ‘to “save the bottle.” (Copsright, 1926.) FEATURES. Making the Most of Your Looks BY DOROTHY STOTE. Dear Ann: Dieting and exercises are not only way to reduce hips. Panels Lelp. I saw a woman the other day ‘wh wore two straight soft georgette panels—one on either side at her hips—and T assure you they made her look practically straight up and down. Yours for a fair panel. LETITIA (Copyright. 1026.) DAUGHTERS OF TODAY By HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR the blooming. I never saw you look so lovely. Did some one very nice call you up? Mother, I hope you haven't anything to co! ought to know.” rtha flushed scarlet atalfe, don't talk like that.” she protested. And again Natalle laughed. “Oh, mother, don't take yourself so serfously. That's just the troubl with you, you're not light enough All you older people are too heavy Martha did not answer, and Natalie with a quick glance at her tiny jew eled wrist watch sprang to her feet “I must dress.” “You're geing out?" Natalie returned. v chance I get. You : as though it were something new, It's no treat to have dinner at home, you know. I can imagine just what the program for tonight will be, wlith father never speaking a word, and you acting like one of our best little Martha Dennison at j1 faces the fact that her husband and children have drifted away from her. She meets Perry Macdonald and they become friends. CHAPTER VIII Antother Engagement. “It's for you, Mrs. Dennison. Hilda, appearing in the doorway Martha, feeling strangely embarrs under Natalle’s scrutiny, left room, At the telephone she realized that her heart was beating wildly. Her volce shook a little as she sald “Hello.” Somehow she knew that it was Perry even before she heard his voice, but she was entirely unpre- pared for his first words. “I've been thinking about you all said the | “Not really,” she returned, forcing | a light tone into her voice. “But it's quite true. Perhaps you will dine with me some evening this week; I am looking forward to hav- Arte, mather, and know it. Why don't you take father in hand. Tt might not be a bad idea to make him ous, to let him that he isn't the only man in the world. Think it over, and see if you don't think the idea a good one. I'm just full of such things Before Martha could reply Natalie had danced out of the room. Martha was tempted to follow her. It curred to her that she knew abso lutely nothing about Natalie's life. Where was she going tonight, for instance, and what kind of men did she know? After all, Na very young. care of hers an wa " Martha suggested, and then wondered at herself for making the engagement definite. Why hadn't she cut him off? Why hadn't she given herself time to think things cver, to decide what she ought t¢ do? And yet, she wanted so much to see him again. It was eo deliciously flat- itering to feel that some one was in- | terested in her, that some one actu- ally enjoyed talking to her. Why should she feel that it was wrong? | W hould her consclence trouble | her so muc! ‘Wednesday 1t is gayly “And thank 'l call you up befo | definite arrangements."” When Martha returned to the liv- | ing_room, Natalie gave a little crow of delight. “Why, MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. * he was saying ou very much. then to make |in her crowd. How sophist seemed in her viewpoint of he really so hard, or was most of ft affected. ; possible to see into Nat: o gain her confidence. she heart 1 je's Martha mother, you're positively said to her, that she had heen a fail ure as a mother She had failed ul! around, for inly she had not been a su as a wife (Copyright. 1026.) (Continued in tomorrow’s Stur.) “Puzzlicks” Puzzle-Limericks. For Stay-at-Homes. There was a voung fellow named Whe went to a fancy dre They say, just for —3—, e dressed up i And was “et” by a dog i Masculine name found New Testament. 2. Popular type of evening enter tainment. 3. Amusement 4. Sweet roll. Part of a house just Inside th doo (Note—The sad fate of the voung man with the biblical name, due the fact that his disgulse was .to perfect, will be pparent when the right words, indicated by the num bers, are placed in the c ‘espondir spaces. The answer and anothe; “Puzzlick” will appear tomorrow.) 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