The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1922, Page 21

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a THREE SECTIONS. Homey Love and a Man She Knew, Earning $600 Per—Sudden Love, but Genuine, of a Millionaire Met by Accident—What Does Maizie Do? va OU have read about the uniucky Y girl who didn’t belong. She couldn't go to the bal! because she didn’t have a thing to wear, and nobody had noticed that she was pretty, and besides, she hadnt been invited. Her predicament was all the more poignant because she was 80 lovely and it wasn’t her fault. If she had only had the right frock, everybody would have seen she was beautiful, and have danced away with she could everything she wanted. At the last moment a Mech aunt ap- pears to recognize the beauty that has no setting and the virtue that has no Aunt in her wisdom provides frock and the He falls in love.with Cin- And they live happily reward, the perfect introduces perfect man. derella on sight. ever after. There are almost as many variations there are magazines. of this appealing story as people who write for the A succession of happy coincidences is just as useful as a rich aunt; some- have both; and sometimes there is no aunt and no coincidence and no frock, but a prince with the eyes to discover her {ncomparable qual- ity in a blue gingham apron, 3ut the essential story remains the same; it Is time we the story of the girl without anything who gets the man everything. She may be a poor school-teacher in a with tiny Iowa town, or the girl at the cigar counter in a great metropolitan hotel, or a barefoot daughter of the Tennes- see mountains—it does not matter. You know that a handsome young man with fall in with her ba- more true, so money will love cause she is so much much more sweet, so much more beau- tiful than her luckier sisters. for unlucky gris dreams true It's a fairy story a story in which come and wishes are furs of real fox, and silk stockings. It actually happens, too; it all truc * for comes true. It all came Maizie Maynard Maizie Maynard was born in one of those little up-State towns with a name like Sharon or Hebron or Lodi as you may read that doesn’t appear in any ordinary guzctteer—one of those towns where twenty years ago the farmers’ horses had stamped out a pit in front of the hitching-racks along Main Street, and where last Johnson stalled his filvver in front of Jeniins’ drygoods store. You can imagine @ mud-hole that would stop a flivver? But don’t imagine that Maizie’s other “the Rose of Sharon” or anything like that. The Rose of Sharon was a plump and blooming person, the daughter of Doc Hoskins, who kept the Empire State House; and hers is quite another story. Maizie Maynard was a slender thing, with a pale oval face, a bit paler than one likes in a girl of twenty and eed hair, They called her “carrot-top” at gchool, and Maizie was 80 unhappy about it that her mother often dis- cussed the possibility of dyeing Maizie’s hair black, or at least dark brown, and Maizie once made a dis- astrous experiment in this direction with the juice of the black walnut, which does not cost a dollar a bottle and does not come off anything it touches for a long time. When Maizie wis twenty-one, and it spring Andrew mame was OMyths Aer peep sem 0 SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1922. By LUCIAN CARY jllustrated by WILL B. JOHNSTONE SECTION TWO. THE WAY IT ALL COMES TRUE x © ~ Boe A evident that if she was to carn afternoon from the warm stillne of tients; ranning alk t } a living in the town it would only be Main Street to the bright staceato of ing avenue SSAicio - h a aoe by “working out,” Mrs. Maynard cast Washington Height It contains pe a ve de Drive, up the list of her relatives and wrote Maizie wrote home that getting used but its domit uit ove 3 Dy ee " her cousin Julia Orton in New York to ev ning “awfully hard and country of young 45 ty ee lid City. Cousin Julia replied that *h frightfully interesting.” thousands aiid ny : cuere Efe daughter Lil was making $25 a week ie “Washington fHolgtits diswict ao ohare, fad of thousands of as a stenographer, and her daughter even mil 42.) Street, con s avery r and. a fe ie ia “ wae alle $20 a week selling suits in a perhaps as great a variety of hear other, To the - i it ‘ a Fifth Avenue store. It sounded like and hopes as any other part of New lay they entigit sor dt a ieee the Arabian Nights to Mrs. Maynard York, To the east are flats; to ql ii To the insistenid . a Ser ouaue Within a week she had made over her west is the Hudson; between are shops = sae area bie SAUL they are brown silk for Maizie and packed her and restaurants and theatres and a every wate pinned ie Nee tolling off to New Y Maizie passed in an great dance-halY and acres of apart ee inna a a the beach all wd vi ‘ 3 ee ry » ee ey ne wt eee Se er ke Be ee SHE WENT DOWN ON HER KNEES, STRUGGLING FELL HEADLONG W142 Music all Se sbadiciad thithhne te Lonateihatcada bedi hateadeeanteartial LIKE A MAD THING, HALF ROSE TO HER FEET,

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