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" When a Girl "
By ANN LISLE
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of a Girl Wife
Virginia's questions seemed to
ring and vibrate on the air. How
was I to answer them? "How did
you happen to be at the Clinsarge
today? Did—Pat ask you to come?
Has he sent you to me?" she de
manded.
And now. inclining toward me,
with her chin thrust out and her
teeth catching at her upper lip, she
smiled —tenderly, almost shyly. I
dared not reply to these questions.
I had no way of estimating what
effect Carlotta's name would have
on Virginia.
For one moment I hesitated. If I
said the wrong word—but I mustn't
say the wrong word!
"Virginia, will you let me begin
at the beginning?" I asked. "Will
you let me tell the story my way?
I think you realize I'm not rushing
in—intruding where you have never
bidden me just as the result of a
moment's whim."
"Yes. I realize that," replied Vir
ginia quietly.
"Then I must go back to the last
day my dear Father Andrew was
here —the day Phoebe saw me with
your husband."
I averted my eyes when I ven
tured that word. It would either
create the atmosphere I wanted—or
make Virginia fairly turn me out.
There was a crisp silence for an in
stant, then Virginia said in a voice
that came from deep in her throat:
"Yes. Tell me what happened
that day. Anne."
"Pat 'phoned. He said it would
mean a lot to him—more than he
could put into words. If I'd give
him an hour. I asked him why he
wanted to see me—and I remember
his exact answer. It was that 'I
can't tell you over the 'phone. If
you'd like to help a chap who's al
most in your family'— Then he
laughed bitterly. And because I'm
rather old-fashioned I didn't want
to meet a man—any man—for tea.
And he said he thought I was the
sort of woman who might do the
decent thing and stand by a man
who called to her for help. Now,
do you wonder, Virginia, that I've
interested myself—in him?"
"No," said Virginia, in a voice that
she seemed to be holding in leash.
"No, I don't wonder. Will you go
on, Anne—and tell me all you—
want me to know."
"Well then—l met him, after I
had seen Father Andrew off. But
1 didn't tell father, Virginia. I
thought you'd rather —and besides
he might not have liked my meet
ing a man for tea."
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"Flo" writes: "I have suffered with
* bad cough for some time and 1
im also weak and tired most of the
time, which 1 think is due to the
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"Ed" writes: "Being past middle
ige and observing that my nervous
lystem is in bad shape, 1 write for
l prescription. I do not gain strength
'rom my food, am weak, listless, for
getful, sleepless at times, tired, and
inable to act tile part of a strong
nan of health, such as I was at one
,ime."
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THURSDAY EVENING.
Virginia smiled with infinite
sweetness.
"I understand. It was very sweet
of you. Anne—and very delicate."
I felt myself flaming, flushing
with joy at the first loving, inti
mate words Virginia had ever
spoken to nie. Before I could go
on, I had to swallow a lump which
seemed heaps bigger than my
throat.
"First, he talked a bit about peo
ple we both knew. I don't just re
member"—
When I said that I didn't remem
ber, it was true. I was so Intent
on Pat and Virginia that I com
pletely forgot that Pat Dalton had
talked at length of Evvy, had
warned me of her in her past rela
tions to my Jim—and of her possi
ble future relations to Neal and
Phoebe. Now 1 wish I had recol
lected all that at the time.
"After a bit he asked if I thought
Jim could be friends with him, and
I asked him if he thought that
would be loyal to you. He didn't
answer. But I remember just how
he acted, Virginia. He took his
fingers oft the stem of his glass and
laid them flat on the table. And he
sat staring—staring at the back of
his own hand."
"Pat would do that," said Vir
ginia, almost as If she'd forgotten
1 was there. "Or toss back his hair
and smooth it with his left hand."
I went on as if I hadn't heard
her:
"Then he said, 'Virginia—what
does she say about me?' And I had
to tell him you'd never said a word.
His voice was just—dead when he
spoke again, Virginia. He said,
'Jeanie never mentions me. Jeanie
—well, I might have known that
She wouldn't. And that's ail, Vir
ginia. He Just about sent me home
after that. But as far back as I
could see from the taxi, he- stood
with his head uncovered, staring af
ter me. Oh, Virginia, Virginia, he
suffers. I know he does. I Just
want to take him In my arms and
baby him—sometimes."
Virginia stared at me intently
and a sparkle came into her eyes.
She even laughed a little.
"I wouldn't do that—if I were
you. Pat rather has that effect on
women." But she said it almost
proudly—not really resentfully at all.
Then she went on dreamily:
"So you did tell Pat my address
lifter all. That was how he came to
send me flowers —my roses."
"No, I didn't tell him. I never
really saw him to speak to from
that day until to-day—except just
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What Is good for this?"
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for a minute once on the avenue.
But he was going to meet your
candlesticks at Tom's studio. So
thaPs how he found out, I suppose."
"Oh—Just by accident!" said Vir
ginia.
"here was a hint of returning
coldness in licr voice. I gathered
my wits to combat that.
(To be Continued.)
Life's Problems
Are Discussed
i
Lots of people will not admit that
they make New Year's resolutions,
but every one does.
And the reason why? Because
in all of us Is the instinctive long
ing to wipe the slate off clean and
do things a little better and a little
differently from the way we have
been doing them.
Of course, there are always the
cynical ones who sit in the seats of
the scornful and say: New Year's
resolutions! What do they amount
to? They are as brittles as pie
crust. You only make them to break
them. And what is the use of lit
tering up the New Year with rub
bish of broken resolutions?"
Let the scornful rave. We win
and they lose; for whether we keep
our good resolutions or not, we have
in the mere process of making them
given our souls a much-needed bath.
I suppose every one has some
little .•iuperstltlons which are dear
to him, some little customs which
he unfailingly observes. X, for one,
will confess that no matter what the
weather I always open the windows
wide at midnight on the thirty-first
of December to let in the New Year,
and 1 also burn a candle to light its
way.
Who would fail to welcome it,
that perfectly spick and span New
Year without a blemish or a scratch
on its shining surface? If there
ever was a thing to welcome, and
rejoice over, it is the New Year.
Why shouldn't we believe that it's
going to be to us all that we want
or expect It to be? We may have
no grudge against the old year, but
we are tired of the monotony of it.
And since wo expect the New Year
to bear us the gifts we' Wish the most
we hasten to offer oblations before
it. We say in effect:'
"Oh, New Year, we are going to
be so good for the next twelve
months that you will simply have to
reward us by granting all our wishes
and giving us the desires of our
hearts!"
The arrival of the New Tear is a
great adventure; so why regard it
us a commonplace happening? An
adveture Is considered by most peo
ple to be an exciting, unusual event
pmes quite suddenly and un
expectedly into our lives.
But why shouldn't we find ad
ulre in the usual? A sunset is
always an adventure, although it
occurs every day. The dawn is an
adventure. Why should we get up
today and wearily clothe ourselves
in the soiled garments of yesterday's
griefs and regrets and mistakes and
failures? Today is always another
day.
And it is never the event itself
which discourages us and makes us
miserable. It is the way we take it.
For Instance, a girl told me of be
ing caught out .in a pouring rain the
evening. Neither she nor the
friend who was with her had um
brellas. They were drenched to the
skin. There was not a car in sight,
nor a taxicab within hail; and they
were far from home.
As they trudged along unsheltered
and grouching through the storm,
they began to imagine circumstanc
es under which they could possibly
find this experience agreeable.
They pictured themselves as hav
ing endured a long sojourn in an ex
ceptionally arid desert where the
sun had baked them and the dust
had choked them and the sky had
blinded them with its hot glare. For
dayh and months they had sighed for
rain, with never a cloud the size of
a man's hand on the horizon. And
then they pictured what this driving
rain through which they were walk
ing would have meant to them, with
what ecstacy they would have wel
comed it.
They kept up this game until they
reached home, laughing, joking,
amused. Their experience was no
longer a disagreeable occurrence,
but a real adventure because over
the circumstance they had thrown
the fairy glamor of make-believe.
The people who rush about try
ing to And things that are going to
please and Interest them never suc
ceed In discovering them. The blue
bird is always just spreading his
wings In Aight as they arrive on the
scene. Consequently, no matter how
madly they pursue It, their lives are
spent In a monotonous and unend
ing quest.
But the real adventures And ad
veuture everywhere, bebause for
them the commonplace Is always
camouAaged with the rose color of
romance.
BUIIGIjARS ENJOY SUNDAES
Ardiuorc, Pa., Jan. 23.—A man and
a woman broke Into the drug store
of Reed & West, on Lancaster ave
nue, Indulged In an orgy of vandal-
Ism and stole 130, some cigarets and
candy and a safety razor. They also
helped themselves to several Ice
cream sundaes. The burglary was
dlscoverd by the proprietors of the
store when they opened for business.
HARRISBCJRG TELEGRAPH
LITTLE TALKS BY
BE A TRICE FAIRFAX
Have you ever thought what a
tremendous risk a child runs in al
lowing itself to be born and there
after to become a member of an
average household?
Remember that it has no way of
knowing what it is letting itself in
for.
The household may be one where
the child will be given plenty of
room to be himself in, to find a
twenty-four-hour-a-day happiness.
Or It may be one where the grim
people in authority were themselves
born grown up, and who therefore
believe in suppressing all infancy.
The new born baby may find Itself
in the control of parents who regard
children as a lower and subject race.
Or it may alight among elders who
really believe that children are hu
man like themselves.
But it's all so uncertain that one
wonders the little creatures have
the courage to be born at all.
Isn't it time that all parents had
an understanding as to the part
children should play in a home?
We've all heard a great deal about
the old-fashioned idea of "Keeping
children in their place." This meant
speaking only when they were
spoken to, eating what was set be
ej^^em an< * being whipped if they
wandered into any interesting little
their own discovering.
Being a child in those days must
have been a state that one hurried
to grow out of with all one's might
and main.
Simple, friendly New England
households used to say in regard to
a young girl who came to do the
housework that they made her "one
of the family."
It seems to me that this is almost
more than could be said of the old
fashioned child, trained as he was
to believe himself the inferior of all
adults. They simply didn't make
him one of the family.
Juvenile Despotisms
On the other hand, we have seen
households where the children re
duced their elders to a most unbe
coming, groyelling sort of slavery,
and disagreeably held the position of
tyrants—households where parents
had to plead for a chance to talk
or think or pursue their affairs.
There's not much happiness for
anybody in such a state of things
as that
But there's still another way of
handling this child question and 1
think is the only way that produces
a really happy household.
This means treating children as
if they could reason—\vhich they
can! It gives them their own fair
share of the family responsibilities.
It means running the household,
not like a prison, but like a club.
Try it, and see how it works.
Styill I explain a little?.
Parents who believe in managing
their families on the club principle
resist the temptation of prolonging
the babyhood of their children. And
it is a temptation. When these boys
and girls are six years old they are
not treated as if they were three.
Their intelligence is respected. Their
q 4® e r, new, little personalities,
which probably aren't a bit like
their parents, are respected too, and
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so is their right to express them
selves.
Another thing these parents I am
speaking of try not to do is to seize
the whole house for themselves and
keep it unnaturally orderly and
btherwise impossible to play in, ban
ishing the children to a few untidy
corners.
These parents see that the only
square way to do. If you have in
vited little people to come out of
the infinite and live with you, Is to
up your home with them.
Doesn't that seem reasonable? They
give 'their youngsters just as much
space and sunshine as they have
themselves, and let them do as they
like In it, so long as the club rules
that Is, the family rules—are fol
lowed.
\ou will probably ask where
these rules come from. That's very
important. The parents and chil
dren make them together. The
children who are old enough, that
is. Once in a while they have a
family council and talk things over,
and decide what to do about every
thing. Some of the best suggestions
come from the children.
Make Their Own Utiles
hen boys and girls make the
household rules themselves, it's not
a great hardship to keep them. And
they're simple rules, anyway.
Then, linally, these parents seri
ously take their children int their
confidence, and I assure you that
this is a magical thing to do.
Do you remember how, in your
own childhood, father and mother
were jealous custodians of all the
family secrets'.'—and how you felt
that pretty nearly everything that
was interesting was kept from you,
as a matter of course?
Do you remember the blank cur
tains that your elders used to let
fall over their faces when you en
tered the room, and the whispering
that went on behind these curtains,
and the long, tantalizing words that
they used to spell to each other
aloud?
So that if a little sister was com
ing, or father had lost his position
and was hard up—these were mat
ters that they took any amount of
time and trouble to keep from you,
And that you had to ferret out for
yourself and then act as if you
were as ignorant as they supposed
you to be?
And you see now, of course, that
that wasn't the most reasonable
way of conducting a home.
Of course most children nowa
days are told when little brothers
and sisters are on the way. It saves
unnecessary mystery; it gives them
the pleasure and excitement of an
ticipation, and it leads them to be
more tender and considerate of
mother than they might be other
wise.
But why not tell them such other
things as they are able to under
stand ? If, for instance, Cousin
Margaret is lonely and you think
you ought to ask her to come to
live with you, ask the children to
talk this over and cast their vote.
Bet the Children Vote
Then why not tell them frankly
what the family Hnancial status is.
Let them know if you are hard up.
If you can either have a servant all
through the year, or else go to the
country in the Summer, get the
children to help you decide which is
most important.
You see children have usually
ever so much more understanding
than their parents give them credit
for. So, if they are forced to pre
tend they are babies while they are
in the house, it's not surprising if
they sometimes turn their intelli
gence to mischievous ends when
they get outside.
We have all heard parents won
der what they can do to keep their
fast-growing boys and girls con
tentedly at home.
Well, make them feel It's their
home, as well as yours. If they are
at liberty to follow their own pur
suits freely, without being continu
ally repressed, aruj to invite their
friends when they"like, they will be
only too glad to stay there.
This doesn't mean giving up the
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Have Dandruff
There is one sure way that never
fails to remove dandruff completely
and- that la to dissolve it. This de
stroys It entirely. To do this. Just
get about four ounces of plain, or
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when retiring; use enough to mois
ten the and ru*> It in gently
with the finger tips.
By morning, most if not all, of your
dandruff will be gone, and three or
four more applications will complete
ly dissolve and entirely destroy every
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te.- how much dandruff you may have.
You will find, too. that all itching
and digging of the scalp will stop
Instantly, and your hair will be
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You can get liquid arvon at any
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four ounces Is all you will need.
This simple remedy has never been i
known to fall.
family living-room every evening in
the week to Dorothy and her beaux,
while mother and father skulk in
the cold dining-room. And it doesn't
mean that every visitor who passes
through the front hall should be
doomed to entanglement in Buster's
toy railroad system. Adult rights
and privileges shouldn't be repressed,
any more than children's.
But a fair Held for old and young
alike means, a happy household, and
children started out in life in the
right spirit.
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
The Penalty of Flirtation
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am a girl of twenty and deeply
in love with a man two years my
senior, and I felt my love was re
ciprocated until about six months
ago. Up to that time he used to
visit me very often. But now his
visits are one or two months apart,
and each time accompanied by an
excuse.
1 believe this change can be ac
counted for as follows: I met a man
through flirtation, and found out
that he knew the friend of whom I
have spoken. So I invited him to
visit me at my home, where we and
another couple spent a quiet even
ing. The next time I saw my friend
I told him I had met a friend of his,
but I found he already knew the
whole story. He said he didn't
think much of a girl who flirted and
the man wasn't the kind I'd like to
know. I immediately severed all
relations between this new acquaint
ance and myself without further
question.
Now Miss Fairfax, I still care for
this friend and I want to know what
ought I to do.
Your story really has a glaring
moral, hasn't it? If a girl wishes
to retain the love and respect of a
man. she ought not to alienate him
by flirting with strangers. But in
your case, since you realized and
admitted and I suppose, regretted
your indiscretion, I think your
friend, if he fully understood your
attitude, might have been more tol
erant. Frankly, I don't think he is
justified. Since you are still in love
with him, 1 wish I could help you,
but the only thing y6u could do
would be to go over the whole sub
ject with him the next time you see
him. But I don't feel certain that
would result as you wish.
What Shall He Give Her?
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I ant eighteen, and have been
going about with a girl of seventeen
for eight or nine months and we
have been very close friends. Her
birthday is near at hand and I wish
to know if you think it appropriate
for me to give her a wrist wafch.
PUZZLED.
If you are engaged to this young
girl you are at liberty to give her
anything you like, and a wrist watch
would be a very pretty gift. But if
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you are not, you should not think of
giving her any jewelry, and she, of
course, would not feel that she could
accept it. In the latter case, take
her tiowcrs or candy.
Loves n Girl Author.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
My fiancee is a lively, jolly and
sweet-dispdsitioned girl. But I have
noticed something odd about her
character, she is an authoress, and
each of her stories deals with sad
ness. They are successful only when
involved in sympathy and great sor
row. She herself, even frankly ad
mits that it is Impossible for her to
write a story that contains profound
happiness. When we arc together
at the opera, if it is a pathetic one,
her very soul abounds in ecstacy. If
comical she dislikes it. Please do not
have the idea that she is a "stiff"
girl who cannot take a joke. On the
contrary she is always overflowing
with them. I understand her in
every other point but this. Could
you advise me. Is there a way to
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great deal to my career.
WALTER K.
I cannot see that your fiancee .is
in need of conversion. And don't
you see that her story-writing is a
province you will have to remain
outside of, however much you m'ay
be in love with each other? If she
succeeds best with unhappy themes,
she is wise in realizing this. This
is a matter that every writer or oth
er artist has to decide for himself,
and you really have no right to ask
her to write the kind of stories that
you personally may happen to pre
fer. What service could I possibly
offer to a young man who is so for
tunate as to have the love of a girl
who combines such attractive quali
ties?
I.OXEI.Y ITALIAN GIRL
If the writer to Beatrice Fairfax
signing "Lonely Italian Girl" will
send her real name and address, it
will be held strictly confidential and
some real personal help can be sent.
Address Beatrice Fairfax, care Social
Editor Harrlsburg Telegraph.
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