Arizona republican., 1922-05-25
Gross Currents i'm
a Girls Life
BY Carolyn Beechey

ever since l made you tell me about
yourself. l thought you cared for
me-don't you care at ALL"
"Ofs course 1 care" Olive laughed
| bit nervously She had cared more
| than he knew; cared for his friend
ship the good times he gave her.
| II am really very fond of you," she
added, blushing.
Fond" Oh, the sarcasm in his
voice. Fond. AS il l were dish
| of ice cream or a box of bonbons
| you liked to MUNICH on once in
while, or a dog you could pat on the
head and make him speak when ha
| wante dsomething, or cat you would
stroke-just to let them know you
realize they are on earth!'
Olive was really disturbed; so
much so that she scarcely knew how
| to answer the grumbling fellow. Yet
| il was funny, too.
81 have always known you were
very much on earth, Don. You never
allow any one to forget that" she
| laughed gayly. His pouting like a
small boy amused her.
That's just the trouble" he grum-
| bled. I'm too much there! I've rolled
| over and over, played dead, jumped
| through hoops held by you until you
| have become tired Of me. Cave man
stuff is what you girls like, not a
| man who tries to please you. | shan't
do it any longer-you've got to be
| the one to be nice, nice to me. And,
Olive, you've got to come to me. !
always get what I want, always have.
Don't think for a minute l shall let
| you co.
Distressed, Olive shook her head.
| She had nothing more to say. She
| had said it all many times. What
use to reiterate, to go over 1t all
again?
| Donald Norris was a product OF the
age-of the war. The times are dam
gerous old standards are falling.
| Youth is impatient of restraint, yet
| it triumphs careless, omnipotent.
| The mischief Is in the very air they
| breathe: the restlessness is a fever
in their veins. The world is no longer
| normal. We in the United States
are, perhaps, not quite so disordered
as are the other nations. But we
have the same restlessness; our
young men have the same feeling of
freedom that runs to license. They
want a thing when they want it. IT
! it does not come quickly, naturally,
they take tiff they can.
| AS Donald had told Olive, he al
ways took what he wanted even as a
child. How much harder would he
now fight for anything withheld.
Grown supersensitive perhaps after
her confession to him, Olive had de-
termined to tell no one else the truth
about herself. She had told Donald
because he had asked her to marry
him, and otherwise she could not
make him understand it was impos-
sible. But under no circumstances
would she repeat the story. She
would be so careful, hold herself so
distant, that no other man would ask
her to be anything but a friend.
| Not even to Godfrey or Grace
would she reveal her past-what lit
| tie she knew of herself. They all be-
lieved she was Olive Lee, the real
daughter of the old couple who loved
her.
She tried to think straight, to un-
derstand she never could marry like
ether girls without telling. And once
told she could not marry-could not!
There was a feeling very like re-
nunciation in Olives mind. 1t was
as thought she were giving up some
loved one-instead of an idea or a
| thought. In a way it was. She was
giving up her woman's birthright!
| The right to be a wife and mother.
| "I'll be happy and brave because
| Of my work." she said to herself. IF
I am not some one will suspect"
| (To be continued)
| --O-
| The silk industry consumes about
1900 tons of metallic tin a year in
| the form of tetrachloride and re-
covers about 40 per cent