New Britain herald., 1927-06-03

I ho A0 00S AAto tAO ASoAStSAB W." before Phil could ask a question, l-Rod blurted out: T told Natlee. and wynne, she would not believe that your mother had anything to do with the message took to her. know she was sure that Mrs. Tracy would not ask her to come to q party at her house in that way"
 What do you mean-THAT way what in hell are you talking about7 Did Natlee say she doubted ME"
 Not In 50 many words, but I could see that she thought 1t was queer that your mother did not at least send tho message by you in- stead of telling you to tell me to tell her and also to tell her not to tell you or to tell your mother about it."
 Well If you gave the message in the same way you have given the explanation to me I don't blame her for not believing it.
 T don't know why I intrusted the message to you in the first place. see now that I was as much of a fool as you are."
 That lets me out of 1t. Wynne- will you please stop the carr"
 What's the matter now?"
 T can't let any one call me a fool Wynne-even my best friend"
 "Oh, come off Rod-I called my self the same thing" ; "A man may call himself 8 fool Wynne and still resent 1t when some one else calls him one" | "Oh, if you feel that way about 1t there's nothing to do but stop the car and let you walk home."
 This Phil did with loudly crash ing brakes and in stubborn silence Rod got out and hailed another bus.
 "Of course that clever little devil would see through my clumsiness." said Phil to himself as he drove on further downtown. "She just stalled poor Rod along while she planted the thought of her doubt in his mind so that he would come back and ! tell me. Now she expects me to go ! after her so she can bawl me out good and plenty for thinking for a moment that could fool her in any way about anything. But I'll fool her-Ill keep out of that girls way l for a time. It will do her good not to know just what am going to do,"
 | With this resolve he put a heavy 1 foot on the gas and rode down to- ward Greenwich Village.
 Phillip Wynne Tracy " felt that at this stage of his affairs he want ed to be alone.
 Did you notice the girl who was with Rodney Maxwell. Lyra?" asked 1 Anne Tracy when they were seated in her little sitting room. Not particularly" lied her friend composedly.
 'I wish you had"
 'Why?"
 Phillip thinks he Is in love with her and it is worrying me not a little"
 "Oh. wouldn't fret about 1t much. It's like the measles you know-all boys have to fall in love many times before they marry"
 But I'm afraid it's serious. Lyra. You know he is very young, he has got to finish his education and be- sides, to tell you the truth. she's not the kind of girl ] would pick out 1 for him anyway"
 Why do you bother about that. Anne?" remarked Lyra Hilliard ] lazily as she lighted q cigarette Haven't you learned yet that your son will never marry the kind of a girl that you pick out for him. Why are you so sure of that. Lyra? You never had son. Probably that's just the reason I know it.
 Both mothers and boys say to me 1 things that they would not say to each other and from what they have told me know that a woman is all 1 ways happy when she marries off her daughter-she feels that she has set her up in her rightful business but she Is always unhappy when her son marries, for she knows he is lost to her forever. 1 "A woman never quite likes her daughter-in-law, but unless her son. in-law Is perfectly impossible she welcomes him with open arms.
 But how foolish for us to be talking like this-there is no danger of Phillip marrying the first girl he thinks he isin love with. Boys have to go through certain emotional up- heavals before they realize what the word love means. It is strange to me that he has not done so before this"
 'Yes, l know all that. Lyra, but I also know that he's just at the age when boys do very strange things he is only a little over seventeen 1 years old my dear, but sometimes he seems older to me than am my self"
 That's all in your brain, Anne, | for l have rarely met 0 younger and more enthuiastic mind. He seems to be fairly quivering 10 catch up life and twist it In his fingers. He 1 certainly is the most refreshing youth have met in q long time. He 1 has all his thrills before him. envy ! him, Anne. l envy him. And what ever else you do, don't worry over his first sweetheart. for If you begin worrying now. lord knows what you 1 will do in the future That hoy will ! have many sweethearts. He's the kind of male that draws all women to him."
 "Tes, lie probably takes that mag ! netism from his father" sighed Anne.
 Whoever he takes 1t from he has l 1t. I don't mind telling you that if