The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-13

round h1m slow, and plunged back amused Miss Poland to watch her read, to have Julia burst out, with flaming cheeks:
 "Oh. I hope Charles Darney won't be such fool as to go to Paris now oh, does he?" or:
 You wouldn't catch me marrying George Osborne-a spoiled, selfish pig, that's what he is.' So the months went by, and the day came when Julia, standing shyly beside Miss Poland. said snilingly:
 Do you know what day this is. Miss Toland ?''
 "Today?' Miss Poland said briskly. ''No, l don't Why"
 i've been here a year today Ju- lia said, dimp1ing.
 You have?" Miss Poland, handling bolts of pink and white gingham at a long table, strengthened up to sur now I'll tell you what we'll do to celebrate" she said, after a thought ful interval, ''I understand. that the Sisters over on Lake Merritt have q very remarkable sewing school. Now we ought to see that, Julia, don't you think so?"
 we might get some ideas" Julia agreed.
 ~ PEseisey rec Sc you pqt gbe the aeop Gara and we'll go. And put your milk bottle out, because we may be late. I hate to do it, but I really think we should know what they're doing over there
 'I do, too,'' Julia said. This form preceded most of their excursions A few moments later they were out Tn the open air, with the long sunny day before them
 The months sped on their way again. and Julia had been in the i s9l- tiement two years-three years She was eighteen, and the world did not stand still. She was nineteen twenty. She changed by slow de bit that had fled to Miss Toland for refuge to an .observant. digmhed young woman who was quietly sMle sur of herself and her work. ,t lne rumpled ashen glory that @ ha9 int tbe her hair was transformed ln.o s tns soft thick braids that now markea Miss Pages head apart rom thosG 6,,oe oa the other girls of her day: aa e lets; Julia wore her severe ,Ia Due uniform, untouched by any ' ollla ment: her stockings and shoes were as plain as money could puN'-
 Her beauty. somewhat in ecnPse ,for . time presently shone out aga!h. Pn+ +bere were few to see it. Miss Watts. the simple, sweet mlooie ae,ed teacher of the kindergarteh; ad nired it wistfully, and MISS 1oi11n 6n,t watched it with secret Prlde, +rons SOc1eJN who fitted in once or twice Week to teach their classes never saw IL dI alI, or, seeing it. merely lolu t,n other that little Miss Page Woulu awfulFv pretty in decent things, anu inc women and girls and children who formed the classes at The AIeA- ander never saw her at all: t i women were too much apsoroeo III their own affairs. children are pro vsrbiary blind to beauty, ana LL eirls who came to the montnl9 dances, the evening sewing classes and reading clubs. thought thelr so- ber little guardian raraer aea ptal4 b1 their standard of dress, their ruftled iace collars and high-heeled shoes, tnelr curls and combs and colored glass jewellery.
 Julia,s amazing detachment from +ba ordinarv ideals of girlhood was an amending surprise to Mss IolaIu.
 "She has simply and quietly set that astonishing little mind or ners upon making herseef a lady' MES S sister-in-law Mrs. Poland would answer with only an abstracted smlie. If she had any conv1ctlons at ali AT her genial view of life, she certalhly believed a lady to be thing born. not made. But she was not concernse atsa about Julia; she hardly realized the girls existence.
 Miss Poland. however, was keenly concerned about Julia. Julia nag come to be the absorbing interest or her life It was quite natural that Julia should love her, yet to the older woman it always seemed mlracie, tremulouSly dear. That any one so young, so lovely, so ardent as Jula shouId depend so utterly upon her was to Anna Toland an unceaslng de- light Julia. had been bewlldered ana heartsick when she turned to Ihe Alexander, but she had never Tn ner oh a1, as had been Miss TOland'S late TOT many years. To such a nature the solitary years in Paris the solitary re turn to California, the tentative ana ana unencouraged approaches to her nieces all made a dark memory Rich as she was, independent and popular as she was, Miss Toland's life had brought her nothing so sweet as thls to correct, and to watch and delight in, too. As Julia's grammar ana manner and appearance rapidly mn proved Miss Poland began to exploit her in a quiet way, and quietly SIor- fed in the girls almost stern dignity When the members of he board or directors were buzZing about. Julla' with her neatly written report, was a little study in alert and silent eth-
 cShe's a cute little thing" said Mrs von Hoffmann, president of The Alexander Toland Neighbourhood House, after one or IuSSG OA the board, ''but she never has much to say"
 ''No. she's a very silent girl" Miss Poland agreed, with that little warmth at her heart the thought or Julia always brought
 You imported her. Sanna?"
 "Oh, no. She's a Californian.
 sReally? And what do we pay her?"
 Forty"
 ''Forty? And didn't we pay that awful last creature siXty-f1ve %
 "seventy-five times" Miss Toland specially trained. Tilse.''
 'Oh, specially trained!" Mrs. won Hoffmann. f1inging a mass of rich sables about her throat, began to work on the fingers of her white gloves. This girls worth two of her" she asserted, ''with her nice lit tie silent ways and her little uni formi''
 I'll see that she's treated fairly" Miss Poland promised.
 well dol Don't lose her, what