Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-16

Paris" he observed, as they crossed
the Place de Ia Concordc, with It's
hundreds upon hundreds of soft lights.
and entered The shadowy reaches OF
tho Champs Elysees. Everybody
does what they please. They all
drink. you know. And | don't drink.
They don't care. They just think
that's my popularity and let II go at
that. It's different with the Ameri-
cans that turn up. They're always at
YOU about 1t. They keep trying to
make everybody else do everything
they do themselves"
Hilda said something. she hardly
knew what. And the conversation
drifted on.
Her business experience had been
thorough and varied enough to teach
her that personal force, the intangible
quality that is known. loosely as
personality" Is found in every de-
partment of life. She had observed
II in statesmen and shipping clerks in
errand girls and bankers. And she
could perceive that this man with the
slightly crooked nose and the curious
eyelid and the remarkably steady eyes
had this intangible quality in an ex-
traordinary degree. His vocation was
rough. yes. But 1t called for the ex
treme of self-control. II called for
greater self-control indeed than any
man OF her acquaintancc-eXcep
Joe Hcmstead, perhaps-was capable
of exercising. And 1t must OF course
call for consummate skill and address.
She recalled how he had looked.
earlier in the day. as he walked across
/ the mail room at the American EN-
press, and again she thought OF tigers.
No loose minded, self-indulgent man
! (such as you met. mostly) could con-
ceivably look like that. And II was
| plain from his gravity and his rcti-
cence. from his very silences, that this
| moral strength-ycs you would have
to call it that-was by no means the
result of laborious self-discipline; it
was simply the native quality of the
| man.
He gave her some odd bits OF infor-
nation regarding the boxir. world of
| Paris. "They use II lot of our words
| punch match round, ring and so
on. And the verb 'knockouter.' to
| knock out"
She smiled vaguely, wondering IL
| any one would be knocked out" this
! evening; and wondering, too, how she
would take it if 1t happened. She
! must not show weakness; not to this
| man.
They walked in through the plaster
and iron gateway Of the amusement
park among crowd of eager, jostling
, ffenCn DONS. some or tncSe looked
distinctly rough; perhaps he would
yet prove to be wrong and she right in
the matter of dress.
But when they entered the great
structure of steel and glass; with its
overhead decorations of flags and col
ored lights. its hundreds of rows of
chairs. nearly all occupied, and its ele-
waited square ring" in the center with
white ropes enclosing it and bunch
of blazing white lights directly above
! 1t, she was conscious. confused in some
ineXtricable way with her immense
relief at finding herself in 50 cleanly
! attractive place. of a sinking of
heart
many women as men among the sew
cral thousand spectators. and nearly
all We're in bright evening costume.
| Everywhereone looked there was the
spectacle of bare necks and shoulders
outlined against the black evening
coats of the men. Tho occasional
vacant chairs were piled high with
gay opera wraps and heaps Of furs
Here and there crops Of officers sup
piled touches of red cloth and the
CLINT of metal.
Miss Wilson. following girl usher
down the long aisle to seat only
three rows from the ringside. felt like
a gray sparrow among birds Of para
| disc.