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peared to have become absorbed In .
book.
I'm bring it in at once" prom
Used. I went out through the French
window and 3ascended the tree. No
one was looking, SO I gathered an.
other fine apple from my own side.
When returned Eve had disap.
peared. 4
1T doesn't look quite so large OIL
the tree" I suggested, placing the
apple upon the table.
NO. said the mother. examining
it critically, II scarcely think it does;
but it is very fine one."
"Perhaps your daughter would like
to see it?"
"Ye-es." She laughed. II am
afraid it will mai her feel rather
envious." She rap the bell, and
the servant came. six Miss Eve to
come for a moment, please"
After a few minutes waiting, dur.
ing which Mrs. Parker discovered
that we had some mutual friends, and
asked me to call in there sometimes
pretty Eve reappeared, looking guilt.
lily defiant.
"Mr. Newton wants you to see his
apple, Eve, dear. Isn't it a beauty?'
Eve flushed and gave me q swift
glance.
YES" she said, hesitatingly. She
seemd to be studying the floor rather
than the fruit.
ut might be a fellow to the ont
that tempted Eve!" observed, with
a smile. She traced a pattern witt
her foot.
"Adam was also tempted"
by Eve, believe? 1 don't fancy
he wanted the apple much, did hep
She blushed again.
You could not have a nicer apple
than this, anyhow" She looked right
at me at last. Her eyes said quite
plainly: "You needn't tell mother
Il am glad you like it," said, "be.
cause I want to give it to you, if
may. could not help noticing that
you admired it,
There, Eve!" said her mother. 81
told you that everyone would see that
you coveted it."
IL am sorry" she said, in sub
dued little voice.
please don't say that, or you will
spoil my pleasure in giving it,
! '"Then-I am not sorry" She took it
with laugh.
Soon afterward l went. assuring
Mrs. Parker that I should soon avail
myself of her kind invitation to call
again. I hope they did not hear me
laughing when 1 got indoors.
The next day was Sunday. In the
afternoon Eve sat under the shade OF
my apple tree reading book. So
strolled out and looked over the wall
Eve" l remarked, twas turned out
of Paradise for stealing an appIe.'
She looked up and smiled. Then she
looked down.
'The annual apple on this side has al
ways belonged to Eve" she asserted
pretending to cut the pages of her
book. They were cut already.
"She might spare tiny piece fol-
Adam," 1 suggested. She glanced at
me out Of the corner of her eyes.
| adam was better without the ap-
pie, you know" she assured me.
'Adam," / declared, needed no pity
at ALL"
She rested her chin on one hand and
looked at me inquiringly with her big
eyes. l would put down how she
looked, if it were possible. It isn't.
Mere ordinary charm of feature or col
oring is common enough to have words
Real prettiness is unique, unnamcable;
little willful curves of the fca-
lures, little waves of the hair-and
ways" She is pretty like that.
"Adam," she remarked, ''lost Para.
disc and the apples.''
but he had Eve.''
She studied her shoes, and I seated
myself on top of the wall.
"You have plenty of apples," she
said; land you are not shut out of
Paradise"
''Then," I replied, promptly, II will
come in" I did.
"How do you know this is Para
dise?" she asked, demurely.
Eve is here"
She looked at me saucily over he1
book.
! "Poor Eve was much to be pitied."
She simulated sigh.
Because she lost Paradise?'
| mo; because she kept ADAM
| did she mind, do you think?"
"Well-you see, it was just a very
little bit her fault that he ate the
apple"
"She would have eaten every scrap
herself if she had been modern Eve"
She looked up at the desecrated
bough and laughed. A stray sunbeam
danced in her eyes, like the dazzle of
diamonds.
II think she could be persuaded to
share it with the modern ADAM" she
stated.
Thereupon she dived under the chair
cushion and produced it.
"Now you have Paradise-and the
apple" she told me.
"They are nothing" said, feelingly,
compared with-Eve.''
But Eve-my dainty little Eve-is
coming to No. "a in the spring. 1t will
save any further dispute, she says,
about the apple.--Madame.
The importance of breakfast.
Sallie Joy White contributes to the
April Woman's Home Companion an
essentially practical article on 1.-THE
Breakfast Hour" in the course OF