The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-02
When A Girl
 Marries
By ANNE LISLE,

l room she had .gned me, found l it bower 0f great fragrant red
 roses. No one ever gave me red roses | before, and yet their warm sweet ness seemed suddenly the one thing | I needed to make this strange new
 room livable.
 Aren't they-right?" asked Betty. 1 'I thought your face would light up 1 when you saw them. Here's an en- veIope that came with them" I opened the envelope and found It
 inscribed:
 ITO woman who knows what | friendship means. To the venture
 ie home making that doesn't daunr 1 her courage. From Aunt May and 1 the nephews.''
 My eyes were wet, but my heart
 was warm as I gave the card to Betty
 and dtd a bit of explaining while I
 removed outer garments and tidied myself a bit.
 Miss May is my little partneA You know Ralph Lacy-our loyal helper and the advertising manager Of the Star. He and his pal. Wayne Parkin- son, adopted Miss May as an aunt She adores those boys, and-I don't blame her, They're splendid!.
 T know they are" said Betty sim jly. FMr. Lacy telephoned and ex- plained about the flowers. He asked me if I had plenty of vases or if I'd like few bowls sent up. He was so charming that I asked him to sup per. So he's bringing Miss May and MT. Parkinson. I didn't want your first evening to be dreary. Anne-T think you're a brave fine woman, and l promise I don't make things hard CT for you"
 Suddenly then Betty fled, her words dying on her lips. For a moment I thought she had been trying to prom ise that she wouldn't make things any harder for me than she could help. Then realized that she had been thinking of me, not of herself as she spoke. Trying to shake off the depression all this concern for me is beginning to cause me, I rummaged about until I found an apron in the little bag I'd carried. Then ' went out to do my share toward preparing supper.
 I was reminded of the old days when Betty used to come down to the studio apartment Jim and I subIet from Tom Mason It made me long for those days with an ache of lone- liness that told me how terrible the emptiness of Betty's heart must be. But her longing can never be assuag- ed, and no matter how hard it is to wait for Jim, I know he's coming back to me some day. The thoughts that found their way into my mind as I was setting the table, made me very tender toward Betty. And she. too, seemed to be in a mood of great gent1eness.
 Neither of us put anything into words. Yet I felt that Betty also was remembering the long ago days when Jim and I were poor and hap py and-together, and when she had not yet permitted Terry Winston to mean everything to her.
 We were still in a furry of prep- aration in which Tony was taking his part, when the door bell rang.
 Please. Anne, it's your job to be maid now" smiled Betty, as gallant as if this weren't the first time in her life she's been too poor to afford a maid.
 I went to the door to find Aunt May rosy with delight and flanked by her two stux<Ny cavaliers each of whom bore @ large package.
 Welcome to our cityi" cried Park. a little jig around Miss May. who dropped all office formaIity and 1ugged me with a right good will. I've an extra special appetite with ne so if you'll take me out and in reduce me to the lady cook, I'll elect myself assistant and help prepare the
 -~N~' 0arty''
 With cheerful awareness that all his picnic casua1ness would be good or Betty, I led the way right out to he kitchen and performed fntroduc- ions and doled out aprons and tasks llmost in breath. Miss May seem "a almost awe-struck at Betty's regal beauty, which showed through her sauntness for the first time since her ,dd lnd pleased by the admiration in ev- 'ry move the little wisp of a woman made.
 In the midst of all our cosy ex- over the r1ince pies and oils Park had brought and insisted n heating in the oven and the crisp luts and celery and olives which 7ere Ralph Lacy's contribution. tl,e elephone rang. Betty ran off to an Wer it and was gone long enough or us to hear the vote that she was wonder and to give the chicken it's ast basting.
 m glad that chicken weighs an ven six pounds,'' she cried suddenly -om the doorway, flor I've added uest to our list. It as Miss Storrs the wire, Anne. She phoned the urges home about something very nportant she wanted to go into with ou, ana they told her to call you
  ere liked her voice, so I asked CT to Jump into a taxi and come to our housewarming"
 Is she coning?" asked Park, with anxlousness that verged on the 1mica1
 wouldn't let her say mo-" niled Betty
 D1d you tell her I was here and as she pleased?" asked Park, with ie greatest seriousness ina ginabIe.
 held you out for a surprise,o .ughed Betty. and her response to s boyssh eagern ees made Tony and e eVhange gIances of delight
 Say, If it's regular party. you 1gnt let me run out and order ice earn," cried Park, with such sim. deity that Betty couldn't object to le way he was making this his af- ir. 4g "Oh, it isn't a party. It couldn't e! gasped Betty 'fI just wanted