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dreadful to have to board all the time,
even if IL was at q club, and home
cooking must taste good to NE.
L don't know how I got back to the
drawing room I think [ must have
Just rolled in, because I felt like
football. Anyhow, 1 had got through
the ordeal alive and | was still young
enough TO recUperate.
Just as I began 10 feel there was
nope for my continued existence the
Allisons sprang the news that We
we're to go to the Grahams next door
TO play bridge. I made only one
bTeak-when it was my first turn TO
make the trump I muFmured that I'd
make il roast lamb. BY II o'clock l
began TO cheer uD and Just then Mrs.
Graham said if we'd step out TO the
dining room we'd have a little light
TefTeshment'
I'D like TO know what is that wo
mans idea Of d hearty meal. No,
won't relate what she set before us.
You wouldn't believe me. Only il
Mrs. Allison had forgotten anything
Mrs. Graham had surely jotted it
down On her little list.
Mrs. Graham IS one of those host
esses who feel offended If YOU don't
eat and appear TO be enjoying your
self. On, had a gay time, all right"
You must have had" agreed his
friend. But what about the grip
she went back home before I'd re-
covered from those three meals I'd
4 had within FIVE hours" mourned the
man who had told the story.
HER VOICE
The Warrington girl with the white
marabou feather boa that was slight
ly sOiled took another bite of her
sandwich.
yes" she said solemnly, I'll have
TO sacrifice m'whole life to it,"
Goodness" breathed her friend in
the crushed strawberry velveteen suit
as she reached for the dill pickles.
Amt that awful, thought"
oh. l don't know" said the girl
with the white feather boa, frowning
| theughtfully. "Of course it seems so
| to you. but it's different when you're
used to the idea. faint every one
| that's got a voice, you know, and If
! you have it's your duty to take care
/ of 4, That's what the professor
said
Say, he's got eyes, though. The
| regular dreamy kind And the way
he looks at you. He said had on
N green suit that day-he said, Miss
Bangs, you must live for your voice
! just like that. 1t made me feel so
! kind of solemn and creepy, you can't
/ imagined"
Il sh'd say So" said her friend in
/ the velveteen suit. Cant you go to
| parties or anything any nore?"
| "Oh, l suppose So admitted the
girl with the white feather boa. That
IS, if l have time. / have to practice
lot, you know, now that I've found
I I1rr hnw I
| up with more serious things than Just
! dances. You never heard of MeIba
/ or Sehumann-Heink going to dances.
now, did your"
/ i don't remember any one with
/ names like those coming 10 our Merry
Circle club" said the girl in the vel
!; veteen suit before she saw the ex-
preston on her friends face ooh.
/ now l know who you mean she said
| hurriedly. L saw them in the last
| comic opera that was here, They
| danced In that, all right
! They weren't" said the-girI with
the white feather boa, coldly. Il don't
! suppose you're as interested in these
| things as l am, since you don't sing.
| No, thaHk you. pickles amt good for
{ my voice l have to be awful care
I tul about what I eat | can't eat rare
| bits in the evening any more"
MY SUOuutSS- Sdtu lef friend, re-
gretfully- ''What1 you do when the
boys come around If you can't have
chahng-dish suppeTs? They won't
like it,"
The girl with the feather boa sighed
gently I cant help it." she said.
That's one of the sacrifices. III have
to find friends who are interested in
higher things and don't think eating
SO important Why, the professor
says many's the day when not bite
passes his lips after lunch except
something light like spareribs and po-
| tatoeS. That's why he has an engage
ment TO sing in the evening. Yes. he
hires out to parties He wore out two
dress suits last year, ne says"
rs that what YOU are going to do?7
asked her friend in awe. Hire out
to sing evenings
The girl with the white boa looked
at her pityingly. No" she said with
elaborate calmness. Il am preparing
for grand opera. I have that kind
OF a voice. You ought to hear me
sometimes when I hit a high note just
right. I can hold on the longest you
ever heard. I'm going 10 do Marguer-
lite in Faust when I make my debut
unless I change my mind and go in
| for VOgneT,"
My" said her friend, meehly, Il