INITIATIVE THECHARM Girls Should Cultivate Their Best Qualities, Conquer the Worst and be Genuine H.v BEATRICE F.VIHIAX The chami of genuineness is very veal. No matter liow thoroughly you imitate something which you are not, the imitation will differ in some fashion from the original. That is because the imitation is governed a little by the basic qualities of the Imitator. Suppose Mollie is a jovial buxom, outdoor girl. Her tastes run to golf and tennis and tramps in the open; to swimming and rowing, and all forms of athletics and outdoor ex ercise. Mollie falls in love with Ar thur, a student, and a hi tof recluse, lie is quiet in manner, aristocratic In lustes luid spends most of his life studying and meditating and very little of it in active pursuit of any thing' that is not mental. Says Mollie to herself, "Heavens, he probably thinks I'm a perfect hoyden! He couldn't possibly have any use for a blowsy, flushed, un tidy girl, who is always chasing around outdoors. He probably thinks that I haven't a mind above golf balls and canoe paddling. I'll show him." Now, if Mollie sits down lion- j estly and cultivates mental interest! i<> add to her physical prowess she will probably turn out to be a very , worthwhile young woman, with aj nice balance between mind and body > llut if llollie flings aside all her real I interests and poses as one who is i suddenly conscious of the fa:'l that all the- things for which sh~) had | once 'lvught sli-; cared no longeri • ount, think what a sorry little imi tation Mollie is going to turn 11 to. j Arthur will see through he." sham j if he has any real mentality. She: won't be able to talk to him intel- I ligently about the theory of evolu-1 lion, or the rise of Prussianism or the meaning of Ooleridges' poetry, She will have nothing to contribute, and her cheap little sham will be sure to repel. On the other hand, if Mollie had just made an honest and persevering struggle to understand Arthur's interests, and at the same time had continued to be what she really was. she would have been far more likely to appeal to a thinker. It is possible to foster your own growth, cultivate your best quali ties and conquer your worst. But no more than you can turn a bull frog into a nightingale, can you make yourself over into an entirely different being from the one you are. Please accept that. It isn't my opinion: it is just a fact. In bleach ing brown hair golden, you do not produce for yourself a new sort of temperament or a different set of ideals. If you don't like olives you can cultivate a taste for them— graft it on. But if you do like chocolate, you will have a pretty hard time making yourself imagine that you hate it So then, what is the use of pretending that you hate chocolate or of posing as one who finds all sweets childish and silly? If sweets don't agree with you, say so frankly; don't strike an aes thetic attitude and say that you think it is vulgar and childish to like candy. The ti-agedies of posing are many, l'irst of all, just as the natural color of your hair, probably goes better with your skin than any ar tificial shade you could produce, so your own tastes and manners and tendencies probably fit in better with your personality in general than a lot of artificially cultivated ones. The point is to really discover yourself, to make sure what you do think and feel in life. Don't stupid ly dismiss fine things from your life —wave them aside and say, "I don't understand music," or "there's noth ing in this poetry stuff; it's silly." If fine, thinking people admire certain things, it is probably be cause there are admirable qualities in those things. Examine them. Find out whether or no they have a value for you. And if they haven't say regretfully that etchings do not appeal to you. Don't sit around and prattle about dry prints and copper plates when they are really mysteries to you. Find out, then, what you like, measure your likes by a decently cultivated sense of values, and if you have a tendency to like the cheap and base, try to conquer it, and to cultivate instead any flicker of fineness in your nature. But <lon't pose and pretend that yon liavo higher, liner motives than you have. The tragedy of posing; is that it fools nobody but you, that the pose may not be half as charming as the_ real you, and that you won't gef much enjoyment out of it: whereas you might thoroughly enjoy express ing your honest, actual self. Tli ere have been a good many don'ts in this little talk, but in an other one I am going to tell you frankly Just how I think each of us can be natural and honest and that thoroughly lovable thing, "a real person." 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To be sure, she had never graduated from stock, but she was perfectly willing to stay where she was and work along. Some day, when she least expected it, her chance ould come, and when it did things would be changed. And so she had waited, and final ly, when even to herself she began to admit that she was a failure, the chance did come and she was given a small part in a metropolitan play. "You see, Jim," she said with de lighted eyes, "I told you It would come if I waited. Now are you sat isfied that I was right?" But Jim wasn't satisfied. He was still sure that Carol was not meant to be an actress. Of course the girl had never had a chcance to show what she could dqo, but Jim, much in love with her as he was, could not see any great talent in her perfor mances. To be sure she was beauti fulfl, and her radiant youth gave her a certain spontaneity, butt Jim thought he detected a certain mon otony to her performances that, not noiceable in a second rate com pany, would be fairly obvious to a metropolitan audience. Jim was going with the play to New York when it opened there, and the night before they started, he liad a long conversation with Carol. In the main she laughed at him, but at the end of the evening, when she saw that he would not be convinced, she had made him a promise. "I'll do this much, Jim, if, after the play has opened in New York, I re ceive so much as one adverse criti cism, I'll promise to marry you with in the year. But I know I won't Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton No matter how many more elaborate costumes there may be in the wardrobe there is always need for the pretty blouse to be worn with the odd skirt. These are excellent models and you can utilize them for a variety of materials. 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Price 15 cents. from 26 to 32 inches waist meas . , ure * They will be mailed to 9607 skirt With Box Plaits, a6to 32 any address by the Fashion waist. Price 15 cents. Department of" this paper on receipt of fifteen cents for each. have such a thing. I'm sure I'm good, Jim, I'm confident of myself." If Carol had only known it, she had been chosen for the part only for her looks. They needed a girl with some small experience to play tli part of an ingenue, and Carol's blonde prettiness, together with her stock experience, was enough to make the part creditable. The play was opened in a nearby suburban town and was received well. The cast was praised gener ously, together with the plot and the scenery. Carol did well, as well as i.' could ever do ,and she was liore confident than ever. Of course tlie New York opening was the most im portant thing, but she was certain of acquitting herself creditably, and her performance the opening night was played with perfect confidence. That girl was so lovely and so buoy ant that she carried the part by her heer youth. She had done exactly what the manager had thought she would, carry he part through. In her own mind she had made a bril liant performance. The morning after brougnt a dis appointmen, as, sipping a cup of cof fee, she read them at dawn. She was mentioned in only two of them, for after all, her part was small. The Star called her "a pretty ingenue, girlishly sentimental" and she smiled at this, and turned to the Meteor. The critic on this paper was notably difficult and a word of praise from him meant a sura success. Imagine Carol's feelings then, when she read, "the young woman who played the part of Evelyn, was too sacharrine for words. Her beauty is obviously the only excuse for putting her In the cast, for she will never become an actress. The paper fell from Carol's hands, and her eyes filled with tear?. What a cruel thing to say! foil the first time in her life she felt alone and at a loss as to what to do. And then, like a flash came the memory of her promise to Jim Stevens. If she re ceived one advers criticism, she had promised to marry him within the year. For the first time in her 11/e, Carol considered herself and her life aptrt from her "stage career." The i.dea of marrying Jim Stevens seemed somehow suddenly attractive. If Carol had but known it, t\p very best thing in the world had happen ed to her. She would acquit herself far more creditably as the star per former in Jim Stevens's life, than she ever would on theh more diffi cult stage of the world. And fur thermore, she would preserve for a ir longer duration of time that won derful beauty of hers, which was after all a very great asset. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad. HARRISBURG ftSisftS- TELEGRAPH THE YUKON TRAIL By William Macleod Raine (Continued) CHAPTER XXI. Two oil tlie Trail. Elliot and Holt left Kusiak in a spume of whirling, blinding snow. They traveled light, not more than forty pounds to the dog, for they wanted to make speed. It was not cold for Alaska. They packed their fur coats on the sled and wore mit tens of mooseliide with duffel lining, on their feet mukluks above "Ger man" socks. Holt liad been a sour dough miner too long to let his partner perspire from overmuch clothing. He knew the danger of pneumonia from a sudden cooling of the heat of tlie body. Old Gideon took seven of his dogs, driving them two abreast. Six were huskies, rangy, muscular ani mals with thick, dense coats. They were in the best of spirits and car ried their tails erect like their Male mute leader. Butch, though a Male mute, had a strong strain of collie in him. It gave him a sense of re sponsibility. His business was to see that the team kept strung out on the trail, and Butch was a past master in the matter of discipline. His weight was 93 fighting pounds, and he could thrash in short order any dog in the team. The snow was wet and soft. It clung to everything it touched. The dogs carried pounds of it in the tufts of hair that rose from their backs. An icy pyramid had to be knocked from the sled every half-hour. The snowshoes were heavy with white slush. Densely laden spruce boughs brushed the faces of the men and showered them with unexpected little avalanches. They took turns in going ahead of the team and breaking trail. It Was heavy, muscle-grinding work. Bo fore noon .they were both utterly fatigued. They dragged forward through the slush, lifting their laden feet sluggishly. They must keep going, and they did, but it seemed to them that every step must be the last. Shortly after noon the storm wore itself out. The temperature had been steadily falling and now it took a rapid drop. They were passing through timber, and on a little slope they built with a good real of diffi culty a fire. 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They fell asleep shortly to the sound of the mournful howling of the dogs outside. Hong before daybreak they were afoot again. Holt went out to chop some wood for the stove while Gor don made breakfast preparations. The little miner brought in an arm JANUARY 1918. ful of wood and went out to get a second supply. A few moments later Elliot heard Vi cry. He stepped out of the tent and ran to the spot where Holt was ly ing under a mass of ice and snow. The young man threw aside the broken blocks that had plunged down from a ledge above. "Badly hurt, Gid?" he asked. "I done bust my laig, son," the old man answered with a swisted grin. "You mean that it is broken?" "Tell you that in a minute." He felt his leg carefully and with Elliot's help tried to get up. Groan ing, he slid back to the snow. "Yep. She's busted," he an nounced. Gordon carried him to the tent and laid him down carefully. The old miner swore softly. "Ain't this a devil of a note, boy? 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