Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-27

| Fisher tone, she felt the thrill Of no
| blesse oblige to her very bones
| There was another source of learn
ing In the great departmental SCHOOL
| Whenever you see three or four shop
girls gather in bunch and jingle their
| wire bracelets as an accompaniment to
apparently frivolous conversation, do
not think that they are there for the
purpose of crtizing the way Ethel
does her back hair. The meeting may
| lack the dignity OF the deiberative
bodies of man; but 1t has all the i'm
| portance of the occasion on which Eve
and her first daughter first put their
heads together to make Adam under
stand his proper place in the household
1t Is rrcman's conference for common
defense and exchange Of strategical
theories of attack and repulse upon
and against the world, which is q
sthge, and man, its audience who per
sists in throwing bouquets thereupon
| Woman, the most helpless OF the young
Of any antmal-with the lawns grace
! but without its fleetness: with the
birds beauty but without its power of
! flight; with the honey bees burden of
drop that simile-some Of us may have
been stung.
During this council Of war they pass
weapons one to another, and exchange
stratagems that each has devised and
formulated out Of the tactics Of life.
) says 10 IN says oduitt am 4
you the fresh thing. Who do you sup
pose / am, to be addressing such re
mark to me? And what do you think
he says back to me?'
The heads. brown black flaxen, red,
and yellow bob together; the answer
Is given; and the parry to the thrust
is decided upon, to be used by each
thereafter in passages alarms with the
common enemy, man.
Thus Nancy learned the art Of defense
and to women successful defense means
victory.
The curriculum of department store
Is a wide one Perhaps no other college
could have fitted her as well for her LIES
amhiton-the drawing Of a matrimonial
prize.
Her station I'm the store was a favored
one The music room was near enough
for her to hear and become familiar with
the works Of the best cOmposers-at least
to acquire the familiarity that passed for
appreciation In the social world in which
she was vaguely trying to set a tentative
and aspiring foot. She absorbed the edu-
eating influence Of art wares, Of costly
and dainty fabrics, Of adornments that
that are almost culture to women.
The other girls soon became aware OF
Nancy's ambition. Here comes your
millionaire. Nancy" they would call to
her whenever any man who looked the
role approached her counter. 1t got to
be habit Of men, who were hanging
about while their women tolk were Sh0p
ping. to stroll over TO the handkerchief
counter and dawdle over the cambria
squares Nancy's imitation high bred air
and genuine dainty beauty was what at
tracted Many men thus came to display
their graces before her. Some Of them
may have been millonaires; others were
certainly no more than their sedulous
apes Nancy learned to discriminate.
There was q window at the end of the
handkerchief coCnter; and she could see
pers IN the street below She looked and
perceived that automobiles differ as we'll
as do their owners.
Once q fascinating gentleman bought
four dozen handkerchiefs and wooed
her across tn. counter with King
Cophetua air. When he had gone one of
the girls said
whats wrong. Nance, that you didn {
warm up to that fellow. He looks the
swell article. all right, to me-"
Him said Nancy. with her coolest.
sweetest. most impersoDal Van Alstyue
Fisher smile: mot for mine. | saw him
drive mp 0utside A II II y machine
and an Irish chauffeur And you saw
what Kind Of handkerchiefs he bought
silk And he's got dactylis on him
Give me the rcal thing or nothing, If
you please
Two of the most refined" women in
had a few swell gentlemen friends"
Once they included Nancy in an invita-
tacular cafe whose tables sre engaged