Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-12
CHAPTER XVII

~ OSALIE had always had her
- way with her own sex, even
IN with Nora, person of pro-
nounced determination and
with few feminine weaknesses to
| play on.
But why should not Rosalie have
acquired leadership? Explanation Is
easy. The clientele among whom
she held sway were, most Of them,
women nearing middle age or paus-
ing at that strategic point to look
about them and inquire anxiously
what life still held for those no
longer young.
"Now, right there, you are think
ing wrong!" Thus the beautifully
gowned young lecturer was accus-
toned to address her audience Of
women, gathered for a health talk
voice was beautifully modulated. Her
elocution training had stood her in
good stead from the very first es-
say in Higher Life preachment.
why give place in your thoughts
to age? Do not think age, think
yOuIH. luIllh yOuLu SIIOHSly
and you will retain youth, youswill
even win youth back Think not
faded skin and tell-tale lines but
unmarried beauty. Hold the thought
Of beauty and you will hold beauty
or you will win beauty back. I, who
tell you this-I know"
For instance, this beautiful red
rose-Rosalie unfastened the Amer
lean Beauty from her girdle and held
it out by it's long, graceful stem. II
love red roses. I think red roses.
And T am never without them. In
some way, they always come to me. ,
Barnum did not say that women
true. Certainly, following Rosalie's
talks, there was no lack of women
to order red roses by the dozen from
the florists to be sent to her apart
ments.
For Resale was quite right It 8
easy to think in a nice supply Of red
roses-if you do your thinking aloud.
at the right time and in the righ+
way.
Handsome, successful, acclaimed
as leader by large group, including
many wealthy women, was it to be
expected that Rosalie would take
kindly to the threatened thwarting
of a very dear and secret hope? Ger
tainly not.
Just how much of the things she
said to other women Rosalie herself
believed it would be impossible to
say. But that it was not only with
in her right but we'll within her
power to win the man she wished as
husband she did not for one moment
doubt Why and how she had fallen
IN love so deeply with Newton Find
lay she could not herself have ex-
planned.
1t is a great mistake to suppose
that ambitious, successful, and in
telligent women are immune from
sentimental weakness in anything.
Like just proportion to the qualities
mentioned.
In fact. the ratio is quite as often
the other way.
Where realization of ability reaches
the acute stage of egotism, the 9th
erwise clever woman is apt to over
estimate her charm. mental physi-
cal, or both.
And should longing for sentiment
tai adventure seize her, her capacity
for folly is sometimes limitless.
Rosalie believed herself to be a
woman of great attraction, which, in
deed, she was. But her shrewdness
and intelligence were rather too con-
spicuous for masculine appreciatlon
She had acquired no suitors worthy
of consideration, and until she met
Newton Findlay it did not really
matter. She was still young and
fully occupied.
Perhaps the third or fourth time
they were brought together--Di:
Findlay, by no means blind to social
opportunity as an indirect road to
professional advancement, had never
neglected worthwhile Invitations
Resale faced the realization of her
state of feeling. She was in love
with Newton Findlay, and did not
seek to disguise the fact.
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