JJJllillße&dii^fe^£remaidailtivefarMKi Ijjpjpf " When a Girl " By AXX LISLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing . Problems of a Girl Wife v y CHAPTER CCXXXVII | Leaving Phoebe alone to accus tom herself to the reality of the bad dream she was not to escape I waking or sleeping, I went out to , greet the Cosbys. Valerie's smooth complacency | had never struck me more vividly. | Her costume of rich henna-colored tri-colette clung to her lithe figure i like a caress and, every proud i glance with which Lane mantled hot j was a caress too. She radiated well- ' being. Life seemed going out of , its way to please her. And under ; her creamy smoothness of exterior : I sensed the ruthless egotism that was making life go out of its way to please her. "We've come to teach you j bridge," rumbled the big brown bear. "Maybe since Jim's out little sister-in-law would make a fourth." "She's lying down. Bad head ache," I explained, fierce to protect , Phoebe. i "Too bad." yawned Vale. 'She looks delicate. Subject to such j things?" "Who looks delicate? demanded Jim's voice from the doorway. "Oh, Jimmte—how nice!" cried < Val in a voice that spread honey j over the words. We didn't hear j you come in. What is home with- : out our Jimmie?" Jim went over and shook the| hand she held up almost as if she expected it to be kissed. Then he I wrung the brown bear's heavy paw. j "This is great, Cosby. You're the very man I want to see. Sup- j pose we trot back to my den and have a business chat if the girls j don't mind. As he spoke Jim laid his hand rightly on my shoulder. It lasted only a second, but it was a dear caress, for i.t bespoke understand ing. Val flashed a glance and a pout at Jim. jpy the necessary ingredients || | to make it the ideal baby powder. (M It is soft, soothing, and keeps the i skin cool, healthy and fragrant. Sr J \ That's why Talcolette is popular both as a baby powder and for fflf every toilet use. 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Our Candies Are Especially Delicious Buy a Box for the 4th Chocolates, Bon Hons, Kisses, Caramels, Chocolate Covered Peppermints, Fruit Candies, etc. ■■ ' WEDNESDAY EVENING. | "But we do mind. We want to i play bridge. Anne ought to learn, j And why shouldn't you talk busi ' ness before us, Jimmie? Lane ■ trusts me. Of whom are you j afraid?" Jim's fingers tightened on my ' shoulder before he took them away. "Bridge in half an hour, Valerie, I if Anne cares to have a try at it. | The den now —while the male ani | male see what's left of a bone. I've i been crunching. Has Phoebe gone j borne. Anno?" he added carelessly, i though I knew he'd been dying to • ask just that from the minute he I came in. "She's' lying down. Headache,' I repeated. "I'd better go make | sure the door between the den and our bedroom is shut. You might disturb her." "Better stay here and discuss your old business," said Val, selecting ] a cigarette carefully from a gold i case at her wrist. "Give us a light, | please. Mister host. . . Ah,thanks! i As I was saying, no use waking I the child if she's asleep. She's sue j a wisp of a girl. Jimmie. "she add ed. puffing her cigarette at him | and sinking her voice to a tone oi l warm intimacy. j Jim turn?d from Val, and his I eyes sought mine. They asked a j question, but they seemed also to |be confirming something he ex pected me to understand. | "Then it was Phoebe you called | delicate?" he asked as if he were ! thinking aloud. "Oh. just growing. Like all youngsters at sixteen or so. A bit j weedy," laughed kindly. For a fraction of a second Jim's eyes met mine again, but he didn't correct the big brown hear and tell him Phoebe was nearly eigh teen. Instead he swung away from the subject. "After all. Val you and Anne will surely get the news from us Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service J- # * By McManus WHV I is I've V EVER yrOP AT SEEN since WE I f <* i • IIS s;K THIS quiet OLO ! COT HEBE f IT" I Boardin 1 - F defenseless men-folks Inter. So 1 might as well out with it now. You girls had better haul out your solitaire decks in case business bores vou. Cosby, light a cigar and puff on this—The firm of Harrison West and Company goes out of com mission to-morrow." Lane Cosby lighten his cigar with methodical calmness before he replied to the words that had set my heart to thumping. "Oh, West's dead wood, and I'm tired of carrying him," replied Jim. "He doesn't bring in a hun dred dollars' worth of business a week . "Practical Jimmie!" smiled Val, approvingly, but Jim went on with out noticing her: "He put over a couple of deals that were a little unsatisfactory. Anne was wise to him from the jump, and we straightened things out with no loss to anyone. But he might cost me a big customer some day. And as he appears un likely to bring in any substitute 'big customers' " Jim left his sentence unfinished as if he considered the matter clearly explained. I smiled to my self at the way he hadn't told a thing. Of course an avalanche of questions would follow. I got the surprise of my life when, after a puff or two of his own. Lane Cosby leaned forward and said with slow emphasis: "All right, boy, I'll take your word for it. Need any financing. Is twenty thousand any good to you ?" "Thanks, Cosby. Your confi dence in my judgment was ail I needed —and I got it," replied Jim warmly. "I've money in the bank and credit I haven't stretched. But I don't need much coin for this deal. West is buying It is original stock back from me and I'm not taking over much but the office and the good-will of the place." ' "Looks as if you made pretty shrewd terms," said Lane Cosby in a tone of admiration. "Pretty , keen business man, your husband, I little lady. So you kick West out I of the firm and go it on your own. That's the end of West. I'm bet ting." "Oh, Jim!" cried a voice from the doorway. "The end of West! What does that mean?" It was Phoebe. "That's what he said, little lady," cried Lane Cosby heartily and unsuspectingly. "Dick West's out of the firm, down and out, maybe," ' he chuckled. "Evening, Miss Harrison." said Valerie creamily and narrowing her eyes a little as she fixed them on Phoebe. "Poor Mr. West evi- I dently you don't like him either. | Nor Anne. How did he get so un- I popular with your women-folks, Jimmie?" "Ask him, pretty lady—and dis cover for yourself," replied Jim with friendly insolence. "Maybe I will," said Val. To he continued. Bullets Penetrated O'Connell Monument During Easter Fracas Dublin, July 2. Examination has just revealed that in the shoot ing which took place in the streets of Dublin Easter week in 1918, the great O'Connell monument was penetrated by eight or nine bdllets. A proposal has been made that the damage could be repaired. 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C, Kennedy V any good druggist 1 can supply you >K small Coß t, 1 f TELEGKiPa LITTLE TALKS BY BEA TRICE FAIRFAX A woman writes mc she is thirty 1 years old, and the same man has been paying her "devoted attention" | since she was nineteen, and yet has ; never said a word about marriage. She says everyone thinks they are I engaged, and her plight is so humil | iating that she fosters that belief, | nevertheless he has taken pains on 1 two or three occasions to tell her ; explicitly that he "is not a marry ing man." j In spite of everything she loves ' him devotedly and says: "If I give | him up, I shall only be'spiting my i self; with little or no difficulty he | could get another girl to waste j youth and opportunity on him as I I have done, and where could I look [ for companionship now?" | Thero is nothing new about this i situation, this conflict between a tender-hearted woman with a big capacity for loving and a man who prefers the little thing he calls his "freedom" to the deep realities of life. And the man wins, and the woman suffers, and the world scoffs. There is really very little advice to be given to this correspondent; with pitiless clarity she sums up her own case: "He would have no diffi culty in getting another girl to waste youth and opportunity on him as I have done, and where could I look for companionship now?" Too many women assume, as the I writer of this letter assumes, that the whole matter rests with the man. She evidently took this point of view from the beginning, with disastrous results to herself. The man set the pace, and she followed as best she could; now she realizes that if she attempts to change things she may lose the frail hold she still has over him. In her place I'd drop him, charge the time up to experimental profit and loss, and start life all over again. Psychologists arc agreed, I believe, that thirty is a woman's most attractive age. So this young woman, if she would only permit herself to realize it, has all the best years ~oT life still before her. 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This' type of standstill wooing j was far more prevalent a genera tion or so ago than it is at the j present time, when women plan their own lives and make their own decisions, and decline to be shoved about life's chessboard at the whim of any player. The idea that a woman may wait ten or fifteen years, passively and ' sweetly, while a man makes up his inind whether or not he even wishes to become engaged to her. is cer tainly anythtng but modern. A woman who docs not take the situa tion into her own capable hands long before the end of any such protracted period invites tragedy, though no one could be cruel enough to say that she deserves it. A normal woman wants more than the bi-weekly visits of a cau tious member of the "Gentlemen's Protective Association." And if she decides to forfeit the big experi ences of life—love and motherhood —it ought to result from her deci sion and not his. There is no reason in the world wny a man who regards marriage as a steel trap should marry. 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