The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-24
When A Girl
 Marries
CHAPTER 623
By ANNE LISLE.

Virginia and my dinner With 9hoepo and Neal. were packed with olilce work.
 If I hadn't taken you in as a nar+ner before the world came sweeping down on us Miss May acclaimed over a mass of detail which she had handled, you'd sus- pect me of being slave drlVef. never could expect any one who was working for mere hire to olg lhto things the way you do'
 ssId work just as hard for you and the business as I work now that it's partly for me-" Miss May said as ac- curately as if she were spelling It out. "But I don't overestinate my ca pacity. I'm not young and resilient my dear. I'm afraid of making de- cisions. So please give me any amount of routine to handle, but don't leave decisions to me"
 ''I was glad to hear her say it. The knowledge that she has limitations had been lurking in my mind for some time. But I hated the idea of hurting Miss May by giving her only dull detail work-routine matters to handle-while I took care of all the interesting and stimulating original situations Now that the initiative had come from her, there wasn't any chance of bruised feelings or disap- pointments.
 
 person." I replied with my uttermost of tact.
 Then you won't mind speaking to Mr. Lacy of the Star about some copy he thought ought to be a little 'snappier' as he called it? He didn't want to change your wording. But he said that he had an idea. Oh, dear. I don't believe I really got his meaning clearly! I'm ashamed of my own stupidity, and hope you won't have to tell that nice boy how dull I am.''
 "I'n call MT. Lacy and tell him 1 that I understand he feels some | changes are necessary in my copy, l and that I'm naturally curious to know precisely how many commas and periods he has to alter."I laugh ed. 'Win that do?'
 "Youre so nice'-sighed Miss i May, picking up the telephone and | giving the Stars number. l After a bit of negotia ton. she said: | Just a minute. MT. Lacy, heres | Mrs. Harrison
 I I picked up the receiver, and was l greeted with a mixture of crispness 1 and draw1 I'd noticed in MT. Lacy's | voice the day I talked things over i with him at the Star.
 You aren't annoyed are you, Mrs. Harrison?" he asked boyishly. l 1 III | your judgment. Before we say an- 1 other word, I want to make sure that l you don't feel In-introduing.'' "Intruding!" I repeated. FI don't l suppose many men as busy as you 1 would stop to go into the individual l needs of some advertiser. The only feeling I have is intense gratitude. l But I'm hoping I didn't have some stupid blunder which needed rectify- ing"
 A little whistle of astonishment came back over the wire.
 You're game all right" cried MT. l Lacy, precisely as if he were talk l ing to another man. Your stuff was l on my desk when I came in this | morning. I've realized how anxious you are to put over the Derringforth l retail business ever since you paid off l their account so we'd go on carrying | them. And it struck me we'd been
 advertising their great discount sales
 long enough to get results. So I | checked up. Not satisfactory
 You checked up,'' I cried, deeply
 interested in the thoroughness of | method man of his imp 1 could still find time to show.
 'Yep!" he answered tersely. Did
 a bit of Investigating. Called Der | ringforth. Went into things with
 their store managers. Sent a couple
 
 i was going. It wasn't going. And ! I've doped it out this way Your copy is great But it's evidently ad- 1 dressed to the wrong pubIc-to a
 group that does it's buying in higher priced neighborho than the places l where the Derringforth stores are To- 1 cated. Now 1t strikes me that if we | pep the stuff up a bit, breeze around hit 'em between the eyes as 1t were we may get results. Also we may | not How about taking a chance?'
 ''You're an amazing advertising
 manager" I gasped. NO wonder | your paper gets results"
 We aim to serve,' he returned 1 crisply with a laugh behind his seri- l ousness. ''Of course if you don't
 feel that this suggestion Is worth | acting an, there won't be any hard | feelings. Advice is free"
 His breezy assurance remired me 1 of Neal. But there was a stability
 and a sureness back of his delft men
 tai processes which I sincerely hope | will come to Neal when he is a few 1 years older. For all his boyishness, 1 MT. Lacy gives the impression Of be-
 ing as completely a man as my young | brother is boy in spite of being so i manly.
 '.Fu take the advice gladly!" I re- l piled. I've nothing to lose, since
 I'm not improving the Derringforth | business now. Moreover I've an idea 1 that you've put the finger on the | weak point in my campaign. It's been | a little to high-brow, too dignified. | I've been working along the lines MT. 1 Derringforth laid down. But since l his conservatism won't save him from
 failure. blazon his copy all over the 1 place if you will. and maybe we'll
 save him in spite of past mistakes l "You're all right.'' cried MT. Lacy
 in a tone which he might have bor- 1 rowed from Neal. "I'll turn myself l loose on this stuff. Tom morrow I'll
 have to run without your O. K. But
 I'll shoot a bunch of it up to you in
 the morning and you're free to edit