THE GIRL WHO
HAD GOOD
MANNERS
{@®@ by D. J. Walsh.)
HE employees of the Golden
Products, Inc, had a new sensa-
tion. Fast as gossip run through
the different departments of a
large corporation, it exceeded the
speed limit when little Louisette Bon-
heur went to work in the accounting
room,
“She can't be more than sixteen, 1
thought they never considered anyone
under that.”
“She must have some pull!”
you sce the way
rouge. Not even lipstick.
longer than my granny's.”
“Ah-ha! The little French
Wish I knew her.”
The last remark of course was mas-
culine. Which was part of the reason
for the chill in the air when Louisette
tried to be friendly with the other
girls, For she was iable to a de-
gree and longed for a real girl friend,
such as these Americans joked about
in the daily journals which were her
only approaches to the life of the
country that had been home so short
a time. Though mother was mother,
still she was hardly more than a name
after so many years in the convent
which was to k for her little
lady Mme. Bonheur rather
than the overdressed but underclothed
flapper.
And such good fortune had placed in
their way this chance of a place with
the Golden Products, Ine, It had been
pull, in a measure, for a neighbor of
‘the Bonheurs, loving the lopely moth
er, and fearing for the experiences
the daughter might have in some busi-
ness office, had pleaded with the
Golden chief to give Louisette employ-
ment. So the word had gone from the
private office on the top floor of the
Golden building, and Louisette began
the strange ordeal of earning a livir
And mene too soon, for Mamma Bon-
heur had used almost the last of her
bit of money for that year of extras
it the convent, when the mysteries of
stenography became one of the little
French girl's assets.
Bot something
learned. That
lessness of Ameri
A day was a day,
began it right. Each morning when
she entered the long room where the
aceounting force clattered typewriters
and adding machines all ddy, she be-
gan with Mr. Reuter, at the nearest
desk, and all the way down the room
wished each one “Good morning!” She
meant it, too. No one could doubt it
who glanced at the eager little face
and sparkling eyes. Too eager and too
sparkling, some thought. Miss De
Murie said so flatly.
“This
noon reception
she Is
“Did
dresses? No
Aud skirts
she
girl,
|0C
eep the
desired,
had
hing
Jing
not
care-
life.
vas the rus
an bu
to Louisett«
siness
, and she
Nor
she
no tea dance
Who
Wasting
Reuter gi
of
is
does
anyway?
way. Why doesn’t
calldown? Let
racket . . . Bh'm
But no one
is, in words.
answered her.
gravely and absent
De Maurie made
to glance vp from her
busy or not. if they met
hall she gave the newcomer
those stinging stares that women only
can achieve,
Louisette
one
reproved
Some of the barely
nodded
Mixs
not even
whether
in the
of
desk,
Or
one
to mind, She
told mamma that she cried at night
because her tooth ached. And the
kind neighber who asked how she liked
her place was satisfied that she had
performed a whole year's Boy Scout
deed.
“Wonderful! chance women in
this country. Mrs. I'm sare
if you were back in France Louisette
would never get such a place
careful there, too, Such a nice class
of employees. Must be a real pleasure
to go to business, eh?”
Lonisettte longed
heard the giris In
American slang:
“Yeah? How do you get that way?
Write it on the ice, all the pleasure
there is for me at the Golden Prod-
ucts, Inc.”
jut that wonldn’t do. A business
woman, whether seventeen of twenty-
sewen, must consider how hard it Is
to get another job.
And yet, the very next day the lit-
tle French girl did that unheard of
thing—quit without notice!
It happened as most things de,
when life seems a bit brig
usual,
Mr. Reuter actually smiled at her
when she began her good mornings.
Several of the girls added “Loulsette”
to their greetings. And Miss DeMurie
had not come, so there was no snub
from her for a bit. She made up for
it by sailing past the little French
girl's desk with her nose in the alr,
and a flip of her short skirt to punctu-
ate her scorn, No one noticed just
then though, for a boy brought a pack-
nge to Mr. Reuter. A package from
the private office, with a note at-
tached which annoyed the managér.
“Here, boy, this goes to the ware-
house department. They have a re-
pair section there, though I'm sure
they can do nothing with this. Won-
derful piece of work, but made abroad,
this mosaic inlay.
“Can't you read, boy? This note is
to Rempell, in the Thirty-third street
building. Wrap this up again, Miss
De Maurie, you haven't started sour
machine yet.”
Miss De Murie was not only wiiling
to wrap the little box—a lovely plece
of inlaid work, but she passed It
around to the girls near her to Inspect,
not
tried
have
onheur,
So
to reply as she
that fascinating
just
thier than
while Mr. Reuter answered an Impera-
tive ringing of the telephone. It had
not reached Louisette, who had left
her desk to get a letter from the filing
cabinet, when the door suddenly
opened and the chief himself, James
Golden entered. Discipline was the
one thing James Golden insisted upon.
Old-fashioned discipline, too. Miss De
Murfe snatched the box from Lily
Camp and made a hasty retreat toward
her own desk. Louisette stood her
ground at the filing cabinet. She saw
nothing to scurry around about, She
looked at her desk, next to Miss De
Murie's. It was in perfect order, as
always, This stern gray man they all
shivered before had, as the American
girls said, “Nothing on her.”
It seemed, though, that something
was on her after all. As it is so often.
“All right, Miss Demurie. You have
the box wrapped? Here is Mr. Golden,
who will take care of it himself.”
No, Miss De Murie hadn't the box.
She had been letting one of the girls
—letting Miss Bonheur—examine jt.
Sorry, but Miss Bonheur took it out of
her hand. Lily Camp flushed and
opened her mouth to say she had had
it last when little tornado,
Loulsette room to her
desk, flung down the letters she had
taken from the file, banged open the
drawer where her purse was. She
would walk out of that room and
never enter it again. Oh, the awful,
awful liar that girl was. Deny the
accusation? But she would not speak
to the pig! And then the poor child's
hand was stayed. There on top of her
purse, lay the mosaic box! It glittered
hatefully. The girls near could all
see it. Mr. Reuter, walking slowly
down the room saw it, too. He could
hardly bell Ag could not
Louisette. She looked wildly about at
the faces, What could
she say? needs such proof
mere words She put
down her hand to take her purse, but
drew it back. She could not touch
that box, that terrible thing that lay
there screaming “thief” at her,
So she flung shut the drawer, pushed
past the girls, rushed from the
room.
After she had gone
a minute. And then the
tones of Jams
come to life
“(io after her, Reuter,
thief. The
like a
the
crossed
eve his eyes,
grave, cold
Innocence
as cannot give,
staring
for
curt
no one spoke
risk,
them ail
»% Gorden made
She's not the
next
now,
in the
vou all were gap-
: ss De Murie
Same girl
last year.
She
were
at the
Ir ¢ name
She siippe {d the hox
when
Of course, Mi
to stay
desk,
me.
expect
= at
will not on
was in some trouble upstairs
little
Ist
»UL
kept at
looking to see w
whirlwind. . . .
work when all of you
hat I was like, I need
myself. Was what
1¢ box doesn’t matter,
hearing about
girl. We need
main office, as
business of
her
a new stenographer
{ came about. TI
“Besides I've
this ‘Good morning’
some mas
well
been
t hes
in thu
4
as attention to the the
You fou
with
nd her?
Miss
“Ah, Reut
“Just
Morning.”
Good
me,
“The old Man” Once Ruled
Roost; Now Look at Him
and
an
tribes
of
man.”
What
done
itive
the
existence
Ww as “the old
ruled the
What he wanted
in later times this
sriting and became law,
explains laws,
days when the
suffering from his
roost,
y and
Perhaps some
They
old man
rheumat
If
may represent
was
to cross the old
man he kept a handy and didn't
hesitate to Most of the
ords discovered of the people of that
day are imperfect. Eventually the
old man began to lose his strength
and some day when he was dozing a
younger man came along and put him
out of business and became himself
the new “ man.”
The “old man” survives today. But
how he has changed! Nobody listens
to him. Nobody asks his advice, The
only stick he wields is a fountain
pen which he uses in signing his
name slips of paper that oth-
ers take to the bank, Where the fam.
ily once feared him they now feel sor-
ry for him. To his face they may
call him “Dad.” but behind his back
he is usually “Peor Father™
The “old man” is still interested
in customs, but he has lost the knack
of making others observe them. There
is no longer need to hit him over the
head. He helpless without that.
Jecanse he imagines that customs are
still important, he spends his time
wondering what the neighbors will
think. But most neighbors nowadays
have stopped thinking.
And so the “old man” who once
wielded the power of life and death
has become a sort of beast of bur-
den, good for tying up parcels and
buying postage stamps and running
errands for the household.
Is there any truth in evolution? Ask
Dad. He knows. If he doesn't, he
ought to.
anyone dared
stick
use it. rec-
old
to the
Ix
Salt Once a Luxury
The importance of salt In earlier
times and among primitive peoples is
accounted for by two causes, In the
first place, the cereal and vegetable
diet upon which they largely sub-
sisted made salt necessary, and in the
second place, the immense difficulties
in procuring it made it searce and,
therefore, costly and highly esteemed.
At one time it was regarded as such a
luxury that most governments levied
a tax on It, which led unscrupulous
dealers to mix It with earth, It was
this practice that Inspired the fa-
miliar phrase: “The salt hath lost its
savor,”
Printed Frocks in
Favor foi Spring
Small Patterns Are Much in
“ Vogue; Added Fem-
ininity Noted.
In the early spring styles the print.
frock represents the of
chile, says a fashion writer in the New
York Times. The printed stuffs of
highest artistic merit are used either
alone or in combination with plain
colors.
ed essence
materials of many
in patterns of al-
most unlimited variety and in a wealth
In these is seen a tendency
toward fine quality and refinement in
contrast to the bizarre effects of the
last few seasons, The small patterns,
in both natural and conventional How
er desig much in vogue, al-
though large
This season
ns, are
attractive designs are
Styles are seen In
for
Ts | :
inciguae
for spring
in the outfits
These
costume In printed
there are the
frocks, ensembles and coats, designed
this year with that added “femininity’
heard in fashion
the southern
type of
First
new sports suits,
vance
resorts, every
materials,
circles.
In
shown
interpretative
of early
are
They
tIONSK,
of the clothes
of
motif
sports are
nany
patterns some distinctive,
is a group
Thest
American char:
amusing, decorat
ight binn-
i
calor com
come
some histicates
and ofl
others
shades.
A silk
nt of pus 3
blue and
semi-fitted
pri
ki
long
the
terial,
waistline
The
1 \ wii 1 ¥
aer panel, willie pias
side form the
neck cut In a
narrow vest
is embroide
Made With Jumper | Blouse.
A cardigan
pittern of
front is
rest of
fa 3
is aeepn
of white eof
wed 8 mono
ense
over |
on hrown crepe is
ger-tip length
sible
kirt, whis
used perpendicular
straig
horiz il. The
IS Worn over
nished
ed goods
Crepe With Conventionalized
Printed Pattern, in Chic Day Dress.
in
this the skirt is made of silk with a
large crayon design of green, black
The blouse, of plain green
of a jabot covering the greater part
of the front. A detached sear! with
the same crayon print takes the place
Among the gporta frocks that come
from Paris a few designed for south
ern playgrounds are made without
sleeves. These have a tailored aspect,
though the material is almost invari.
ably silk, crepe or one of the synthetic
gilklike materials. Jane Regny, an
acknowledged authority on this type
of dress, has made a clever little cos-
tume of ivory silk gahardine, tallored
even to a fan-shaped cluster of plaits,
starting at one side of the neck and
widening toward the bottom of the
skirt. A little turn-over collar and
fiat plaited girdle are also lusianed of
the side. T he print te ms in “this Con
tume consist of a Dezuville scarf with
on Japanese pattern to as nn pro
tection In rest Intervals and a ban
dean of the same muterial for the
head, .
Cape With Daytime Frock.
Capes, or small, worn a8 na
separate or attached to the
dress as a part of its design, are very
smart in the new dresses. Dlas or clr-
cular flounces, tiers, plaits and shir.
rings all Introduced in new
and ingenious ways.
A costume for example, in
with proper accessories of hat,
and gloves, a woman would be
able for informal daytime
of crepe with small leaf-
inteq
Brerve
large
wrap
are
whieh,
shoes
sulit-
any OCC
sion, (de
biscuit
has a flar-
girdle
Jacket,
yellow silk.
ihles for
of print.
cont
brown
colored ground.
wh
cane
pattern pr on a
The skirt
ich, In the
attached to the
Jonquil
i
of the lutest ensen
1
1
ing flounce flat
and smal’
are piped wit!
In some
daytime,
crepe
iin m
Co kt il gowng, meaning the sort
formal
many
the b made
nnd
or
skirt
of
dresses that » worn for more
afternoon shown
Of
unre in
naterinlg—
wnsamasnsnd Sesmmssse
Frock of Printed Georgette Combined
With Plain, Yellow, Orange Shades.
and
sliows
many
effort
wide and
pris
hasizing
Another,
cided Aare
Capes
frills
odices remair
mde with little tr
tion being centered
wl ve
ffeta with
Hose
restos AB New peri
gown in
lifted and a little peplo
| colored printed taffeta is used for a
princess gown with flaring ruffies from
belt to hem, and plain draped bodice
Hfted Another
model is made of green moire trimmed
taffeta ruching
green
printed ta
gm
front
in front, princess
rows of
of
if
with many
in a lighter shade
The more ‘polite, legs strenuous,
| forms of winter re reation are pro
| vided for with a assortment of
| costumes, all of which are shown in
| up-to-date and most engaging styles,
Sports go seasons as to fashion,
as dances for the last few years
skiing has been In the lead. Tobog-
ganing somehow is never quite out of
the picture so long as there is a moun
tain or a nearby hill, and for this
| amusement all sorts of colorful, snap
{ py outfits are shown.
Two Pariginn houses Ardanse, who
fa well known In this country, and
Yteh—have done exceedingly clever
work this season In winter sports
dress, Ardanse is particularly enam-
ored of jersey, which she Iz using
lavishly in one and two-piece suits,
Her patterns are striking in both the
model and the treatment of materials
and color schemes,
She combines black and white in a
striking manner in one of her most
important costumes, which has the
appearance of a two-piece suit, but is
really all in one. The upper part is
made of jersey in black and white
dingonal stripes In an extremely cu
bistie conception with a broad band
of black jersey which starts under
each arm, crossing in front te form a
V, ending at a point below the belted
waistiloe
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