Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 131, 13 April 1921 — Page 5

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. RICHMOND, IND WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1921

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The Girl Who Had No Chance By MARION RUBINCAM

Chapter 39. THE ARRIVAL. And now, after months of passionate longing, Ruth beheld at last the Promised City. But certainly no pilgrim ever greeted his journey's desire with such a mixture of both dread and anticipation. Ruth was at lasr in New York. Two days before she and her aunt had arrived in Philadelphia, the first big city the girl had ever seen. A day had been spent in sightseeing, and the second morning Sarah had telephoned cn old school friend, and taken Ruth to have luncheon with her. The girl's eyes were round with amazement at everything she saw. She thought the little two-story West Philadelphia house the last word in elegance, with its shining silverware and cut glass and its many pillows and pictures. But somehow the overstuffed rooms made her head ache, and when she left, she decided that the house she preferred would have large, restful bare spaces and not so many cushions and colors. Then there was the comparatively short journey over to New York. The first bit was a shock, for their train pulled into a huge and dirty shed by ihe river. "Is this it?" Ruth asked, looking , about at worn board3 and old painted signs. "No. we have to take the ferry." Ruth had never been on a big river before. She went up to the front of the boat almost empty of passengers at this hour, since the human tide was turning out of the city to the suburbs. She and Sarah stood looking into the gathering dusli. A ferry boat so crowded with people ihnt it looked like a swarming hive of bees, slid up to them and into the next doc';:. There was a shriek of a whistle that made the girl jump, a mighty churning of bad smelling water in the ferry slip and th boat noced into the river. No experience could ever be comparable to this first view of the enormous city. It lay along both banks of what seemed to the girl to be a vast wide river. To her right she rould faintly see a body of water so large that she thought it must be the

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ocean, but her aunt laughingly told her it was the harbor, and pointed out the Statue of LJberty its outlines barely visible, the flaming torch held high above it, Ruih, thrilled to the tips of her toes at this sight, as she had when she first saw Independence Hall. These two were symbols of everything she had read in her American history. ' - "There's the Woolworth building and the Singer Tower, do you see?' and her aunt pointed out various buildings that had merely been names to the girl before. From out of the vast pile of buildings lights were beginning to twinkle. As they went slowly up the river, the gigantic mass of roofs and towers changed form and color with the fading light, the irregular line of roofs seeming to tower higher and higher, as they passed by. "I feel like a speck," Ruth sighed,

looking far up at the bulk of them. She felt, indeed, very sentimental about thin enormous city a feeling she was never to lose, even when, years after, it was familiar enough to her. And she never lost the thrill that comes from the first sight of this lower tnd of the island, an enormous amount of masonry, rather beautifully fashioned, and crowding into a tight space between two rivers. Her aunt already had written ahead to a boarding house she knew of to Ruth the woman seemed amazingly traveled and reliant. To this place they' went a small house on a side street, not as clean as it might have been, "but good enough for a few days," Aunt Sarah said. For three days they went sightseeing, from early morning until l3.te in the evening. "Now you know your way around the center part of the city, don't you?" Sarah asked. Ruth nodded. She had an excellent sense of direction, and Bhe had been studying a map of the streets and felt, sure of herself now when alone. On the fourth day, they shopped. Sarah had planned carefully how the money should be spent, and she made wise purchases. Ruth was not to

know the amount had come from home. Otherwise her family decided, it might spoil her pleasure In her new possessions, feeling that the family was making a sacrifice. But when the shopping was through, the girl owned a really ' nice, plain, blue serge suit the first she had ever possessed and, to her, the last word in elegance. She had three rather pretty blouses, a hat she adored, new gloves and smart low shoes. That was as far as the money went and her aunt had added some of her own too' which she" could scarcely afford to part with. Then Sarah took the night train to Boston, and-Ruth turned from the station alone In the city for the first time, and suddenly a little afraid of its hugeness. I must call up Myra now, she decided. And trembling with nervousnes. she went to a phone booth and gave the number supplied by Myra herself in a hasty note that reached Ruth as she left home. There was a long delay, then Myra's own voice said sweetly "Hello!" "Myra, is that you? This is Ruth." There was a sudden silence along the wire. Then an "Oh" in a very different tone. Tomorrow Changed Friends.

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kj . 1 IK: ID BU U1UDICUI 1IUU1 luo 00 of the fellows I have been out with. Since we have quit going together 1 have found that I love him. How can I get him back without showing my feelings? My people do not object to my keeping company except during the week when there is school. I dance but do not- go to anything but private dances. I do not bother with the fellows at school because they are a smarty kind and therefore they do not bother much with me. PEGGY. You must be a game loser. The young man did not love you enough

for marriage or he would not have

given you up so easily

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Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a senior in high school and will graduate this June. I have been going with a fellow six years my senior. Do you think that 6ix years is too great a difference in our ajres? When I go with one fellow steady I have about six others calling and wanting to come to see me. When I have no steady frieDd the others do not bother. It seems as though they all come at once. The fellow I have been going with wanted mo to marry him in August, but I told him to wait a while because I was too young to be serious. I know from his actions that he cares a great deal about me, but I did not take him seriously. Now he has another girl who appears older than he. Whenever we meet he makes a big

that and make up your mind that bet

ter experiences are ahead of you. - When you refused to become engaged because you were so young, you were quite right In your attitude. Now you must not regret your decision. Do not worry about being lonesome. One of these days some one will come along and you will be glad you are

j free to enjoy the new friend.

The boys at school may be "smarty now, but it is because they are young. In a year or two you will notice a change in them and you will like them better. I do think that you were too young to go with a man six years older than yourself. You can see that

it made you lose interest in boys ofj

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Full weight of the influence of about 500 Kiwanis clubs in the country is to be given the American legion's, program for relief work among ex-soldiers. This was announced at the international Kiwanis club convention beadquarters in Cleveland, following a meeting of the executive committee

of the organization at which letters from F. W. Galbraith, national commander of the legion, were read. It !

Try to realize I ls Hkely the matter of soldier relief.

mendations which have just been submitted to President Harding -by bis special commission investigating the care of veterans. Charles G. Dawes, of Chicago, was chairman of this special commission. . "The Kiwanis club executive committee, has endorsed, the American legion's program and Is now recommending to the . individual Kiwanis

clubs that they take steps to assist j

me legion in carrying the program

tliroogh." Assistant SecreUrjr Clark has declared. "The . Kiwanis organization of professional and : business leaders in almost 500 cities of the country, and with' about 50,000 "members, I am sure, will do everything in its power to see that the. ex-service men are properly taken care of.

will be a subject of discussion at the I international convention of Kiwanians : to be held in Cleveland, June 21-25. j Dean Clark, assistant international 1 secretary of the headquarters believesl the organization will go on record as j favoring the seven specific recom-i

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