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A SWEETHEART AT THIRTY The Story of a Woman's Transformation BY MARION RUBINCAM

Chapter 41. SOMETHING TROUBLES ME. It was really a most remarkable ove ning. It was not the novelty of the surroundings; Violet and I had frequently taken dinner at these little Villgea restaurants, we knew them very well by now we even knew some of their regular patrons. For that part of New York, as every one knows, is indeed a village, with all the sociabilities and drawbacks of the country village. Each restaurant had its regular circle of diners who came night after night and sat about over the coffee and cigarettes, talking new art, new music, politics, socialism, syndicalism, comunism, single tax anJ many other things, all of them quite over our poor heads. The girls often wore their hair short in a way that fascinated Violet, and the men always wore tortoise shell rimmed glasses. They had the easy familiarity that goes with the small town, too; they came to our table and introduced themselves, and most of ihem tried hard to know Violet. Of course we knew every one who came to Helen's. So it was not the place that made the evening remarkable. It was the man, this new friend of Bud's. FrancU Meade. He was a stock broker, one of the two members of a fairly large firm on Wall street. He was fine look ing, yet not handsome, for his features were far from perfect. He was perhaps 40; his hair had quite a little gray in it, he had a stern looking profile, but the nicest and most humorous full face. He had a stubborn jaw, but a soft, sweet-looking smile a smile that transformed his whole face. Later in the evening his partner, John Heart Problems V. , Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a young girl who needs a little advice. Please toll me whether I did right or wrong in this case: Sunday evening I walked home alor.e, as I live right in the downtown district. A young man walked up to me and told me that he was a gentleman and wished to make my acquaintance, as he was a stranger in this town. My mother brought me up with the ideas that a young man or girl who walks the streets to pick up acquaintances never amounted to very much. I am strictly decent in dress, etc., and have no boy friends, but am in the social center with all girls. I refused to accept the boy's offer, and in a gentleman's way he said "good evening," and I spoke back, and he left. He might have been a nice young man, and my girl friends tell me I was foolish, but I may be on the safer side pnyway. My reputation is one thing that. I am living for. I am a stenographer in town. EIGHTEEN IN FEBRUARY. You did the right thing. The stranger should have waited until he could find a way to be introduced. Never "pick up" with a stranger who accosts you. Dear Mrs. .Thompson : How can you get a hoy . friend to ask you to go places once in a while? YV. C. T. I,. M. It isn't the girl's place to "get a boy to ask you to go places." When a boy ses a girl he likes particularly well he if apt to ask her to go somewhere without any effort on her part. Try not to think about boys. If you are sweet and natural some one will notice it one of these days and will invite vou. When "Gets-It" Comes Corns Go Painless, Sure, Quick is this 2-Drop 2-Soconds Wonder. There isn't room on the same toe for a corn and two or, three drops of "Grts-It", so the corn curls up, shrivels and peels off in your fingers so asTy that you are simply astonished. !k cause you can't feel it.

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Judson, joined us, and we all went over to our little flat, where Violet and I made coffee and the two men and the boy sat and smoked and talked. Mr. Meade seemed especially attracted to Violet. And the girl blossomed out delightfully with him, chattering about her impressions of the city when we first came to it. She even told, some of our first funny adventures, though I blushed a little, and felt somewhat ill at ease. "Aunt Enid and I used to go for a walk, and write down the names of all the new streets we came to, and what they looked like. Then we came back the same way, following our directions so we wouldn't be lost. Aunt Enid used to be awfully afraid to ask her way of a policeman." "She had a bad conscience, maybe," suggested one of the men, "Maybe, but I don't think so," Violet smiled. "She was Just afraid because they were strange men and she hadn't been -properly introduced to them. We never crossed a street alone for weeks because of the cars." "Taking care of oneself in a traffic jam is a matter of instinct. Perhaps your aunt hasn't the city instinct," Mr. Judson suggested. "I think she has the home-making instinct, however," Mr. Meade said by way of answer, geting up and walking about the room. "I haven't been in a place for years that made me feel so thoroughly at home. This place is so quiet .and refreshing." He turned with that delightful smile of his. Something warm and lovely ran through me. ran through every vein in my body and made me feci strange, and delightful. It was my first companion the first bit of gallantry from a man since the days when Mark paid me awkward little compliments. I wanted to say somehing in return,

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but I couldn't. I knew well enough what it was I wanted to say "Then please come and be at home here often, if you like it." But some curious awkwardness clutched at- me. I could not get the words out. It was Violet who rescued the situation by turning and saying with all the natural grace she possessed: "Then I hope we will see you again some time." After the men had gone, with Bud to guide them out of the Village; since all of the streets were new to them I sat for a long time thinking over the evening.. Violet, being young and healthy and tired, went to bed and promptly fell asleep. But I could not, this evening. Why had I not been able to say the things I wanted? I never was at a loss for words at home. I was alway3 a rather silent person; that was because Esther despised my opinions, urnl because she fairly sat upon me conversationally. She suppressed me by her own weight, her sheer physical bulk, as well as the force of her character. But I was free from Esther now. free until we returned to Henly Falls for the summer vacation. Why was I not able, suddenly, to say what I wanted. What queer inhibition took possession of me? Finally I thought it was because Mr. Meade seemed so -well read, so widelytraveled, because he seemd to knowso much and to have thought so much on all important subjects. Things came up during the evening of which I had no comprehension, topics were discussed that were quite beyond me yet there was no hint of superiority in Mr. Meade's manner. He was too quiet, too courteous, too gentle in personality for that. What a remarkable man he was! He was the first I had ever met that really impressed me. Suddenly I became conscious of my own vast ignornace. I had something else to learn now! Tomorrow We Go Home.

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of new members will be admitted at this service. Chester Methodist Church L. F. Ulmer, pastor. Sunday school, 9:45 a, in. Preaching 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Special revival meetings every day at 7:30 p. m. Whitewater Methodist Church L. F. Ulmer, pastor, Sunday school, 9:30 a. m., Ernest Newman, superintendent Railroad, Motor Car, Water Figure in Russians Flight (By Associated Press) SEBASTOPOL, Dec. 2. The humors of war share places with the casualty lists and military movements in the news. When General Bogaevsky was executing the retreat of Wrangel's troops in the Taknak region he found his train surrounded by the rapidly advancing Bolsheviki. As in motion pic-lures, he jumped from his car window into an automobile and there followed a flight toward the river with the reds in pursuit. The bridge collapsed as the general's car rolled onto it and the automobile tumbled into the river. General Bogaevsky leaped from the machine as it fell and landed in a swamp where he hid in the rank reeds until morning. Meantime the reds in their turn has retreated. Northeast, of Alexandrovsk, where

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