The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-17

l Continued from Yesterday l ''Yes, but they never do; they take ! other girls to parties!'' the fifteen year-old Mary said suddenly, and the older girls laughed together at her sapience.
 Peter has girl" Kennedy said. | But naturally he won't desert the l lunch. Next year, when some bills 1 we simply couldn't help-' Doctor and nurse when George and
 Mary had tyl noid," 'Lizabeth ex-
 are paid off, Kennedy con 1 linued. ''Then, if he still likes her, he | might. But he never stays in love l cry long," she ended hopefully. | The four girls talked late into the 1 night, and after picnic the next day, Sunday, Julia felt as if she loved | hem all, and she nd Kennedy began 3hyly to call each other by their given names. Peter and George did not go 1 on the picnic, having plans of their ! Jwn for the day, but the others spent a }reamy day on Bakers Beach, and the two older boys. joining the group at dinner, ended the holiday happily. Julia carried away definite impress sions to be brooded over in her quiet times. The scotts were ladies" of course. Somehow, although they were very poor, they all worked very hard, and all dressed very shabbily. they people. The sisters were really stronger and braver than the brothers, and loved their. brothers more than they were loved. Julia wondered antly to the conclusion, as girls at twenty, whether they by Julias or Barbaras, usually do, that if there were a great many nice young men in the world, there were a great many marriageable girls, too. No girl could expect a very wide choice of adorers, there were too many other girls. And affairs of the heart, and offers of Often in books than in life.
 Two or three times a week Miss Poland liked to rise early and go to the beautiful eight o'clock mass at St. Anne's, the big institution for un- fortunate girls that was not far from The Alexander Toland Neighbour the immediate vicinity, and in asking for permission to come to the convent chapel, Miss Poland had felt herself doing no extraordinary thing, had felt almost within her rights.
 But the good nuns in charge of St. Anne's had whetted her appetite for the experience by interposfng unex- pected objections. Their charges, they Der, were very fmpressionable, very easily excited. A stranger in the chapel meant a sensation. Of course. the lay workers of the institution and the way sometimes came in, but they were so soberly dressed. Perhaps if Miss Toland and Miss Page would dress in dark things, and assure Good Mother that they would not speak to
 "Oh, certain1y!'' Miss Poland had agreed eagerly; Julia. awed by the building, the closed doors, the far away echoes of footsteps and sub ! dued voices, was a little pale. said Good Mother. suddenly, turning smile of angelic brightness upon | Julia. Well, come to mass by all | means, me- both of you: And pray for always in need of prayers"
 You must have extraordinary ex- periences here" Miss Poland said. tions said t6e nan 9f coaraa soe of our poor children are very wild at first. We do what we can. I had a little pet of mine here until yester- day, Alice, ten years old; she is-'
 ''TenI" ejacuIated Miss Poland.
 "Oh, yes, my dear! And younger; | she was but eight when she came. mother took her away yesterday. and Sister Philip Neri was amused to see how sad I was to have her go. She reminded me that when Alice first the bone. so that I could not use it for three weeks. An, wen!" And Good Mother gave the sweet toneless laugh of the religious. That is not
 
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 Miss Toland bought an alarm clock on the way home, and she and Julia went to early mass on the very next morning. Julia found this first ex- perience an ordeal; she and Miss Poland were in side pew before the big. gong struck, and Julia did not raise her eyes from her book as the girls filed in. The steady rustic of frocks and shuffle of feet made her feel cold and sick.
 A day or two later she could watch ( them, although never without pro- found emotion. Two hundred girls ranging in years from ten to twenty, with roughly clipped hair, and the $ aideous gray-green checked aprons of | the institution. Two hundred faces, julien or vacuous, pretty, silly faces, hard faces, faces tragically hopeless nd place. These young things were { 'ffenders against the law, shut away ere behind iron bars for the good of ae commonwealth. Julia whose life ad made her wise beyond her years, -atched them and pondered. Here
 as an almost babyish face; what did tat innocent-looking tweIve-year-oId