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BUFFERS and polish

BUFFERS and polish
ers for increased pro-
duction on automobile
parts. Shell polishers
preferred. Must be ex-
perienced. Good wages,
no labor trouble. Will
interview at hotel in In
dianapolis. Wire for ap-
pointment or wire if
coming. F. j. Gorbett,
Chandler Cleveland Mo
tors Corp Cleveland, o.
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TYPE 81 HOURS
Tie for First in Alabama Marathon
Writing Test.

Writing Test.
BIZ United Press
Birmingham, Ala, Aug. 24.-The
marathon typewriting contest ended
here this morning with two en-
trants tied at 81 hours and 43 min
utes.
The pair, Miss Hazel Cawthon and
Miss Ruby King, began at ! p. m.
Tuesday ad ended this morning at
2:43.
The marathon was sponsored by
the Birmingham Post, a Scripps-
Howard newspaper.
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AUTOMATIC MAIL BOX
TESTED IN GERMANY

Drop Coin, Pull Lever, Letter Is
Stamped.
BIZ United Press
LEIPZIG, Germany, Aug. 24.-If
tests being conducted here prove
successful, an automatic mail box
that weighs and stamps letters will
come into general use in this coun-
try. The sender drops his letter
into slot and inserts coins to pay
the postage indicated.
He pulls lever and the envelope
is stamped and mailed.
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Lost and Found

RED-Peerless double bar bicycle stolen;
party is known; no questions asked :.
returned at once. Call Ia. 6793.
BIRD DOG-English Setter, female, black
and white markings. Reward for IN
formation or return. no questions asked.
Ri. 6465 or Hu. 04l3-W. MR.. POWELL.
CHECK-Payable Helen Raftery on First
National Bank, Detroit, Mich. 1or S22 80.
Reward. Ir. 4828l
DOG-Fox terrier; strayed or, stolen; fe-
male; white with black face; brown spots
on eyes; valued as pet. Call Ia. SAP.
1920 Central Ave. Liberal reward.
FOX TERRIER-Black head and ears. black
spot on back. bobbed tail; named Spot;
lost from Police Station Sunday morning,
Aug. 10. Write Tim Casserly, Lebanon,
Ind, r. R. 2. Reward.
MEDAL-GOLD. Sacred Heart lost 1908
Calhoun to Guaranty Bldg. Reward.
PURSE LOST-Out Of automobile between
containing yaluables, owners name in
side. If finder will please return diamond
ring and bar pin he may keep other
things. MRS. MCLAUGHLIN. Ia. 4428.
PARTY-Who picked up Ayres suit box on
Alabama car by mistake, Wednesday eve
ming. please return 3l2 Kresge Bldg,
mornings and receive reward.
SCARF-MINK; LOST SATURDAY IN
LOEWS THEATER. REWARD. RI. 1880
WHITE--Bull dog brindle spots on. side
care. Can Ri 4582. ~ ''O'
WRIST WATCH-Lady's white gold. dia
set; lost downtown; reward. Ri. 6725.
wATCH--Elgin 17-jewel; initial J; lost
National Rd west city Paul NJ. Jackson.
427 S. Oakland. 1ndpls. Reward Dr. 4904-W
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NAB ESCAPED
GIRL

turned.
Miss Ellen Cook, 18, of 4018 Raj
ston Ave-, who escaped from the
Indiana Girls School at Clermont
Wednesday was taken into custody
Thursday at Charlottesville, Ind,
and returned to the institution.
Miss Edith Grafton, 16, Of Indian
apolis, who escaped from the De-
tention Home by leaping from a
window at 2:30 a. m. Wednesday, is
still at large.
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Death Notices

owed son of Ella Beinburg and brother
Thursday morning, Friends may view
Kirby g. Dim. 1901 N Meridian St.
Funeral Saturday. Aug. 25, p. m. at the
chapel. Burial Crown Hill Cemetery.
GRANAGHER, GEORGE-Age 55 years, an
employe of Van Camp Hardware Com
pany, passed away suddenly early Thurs
day morning Friends may call at Conkle
funeral home. 1884 w. Michigan. Funeral
notice later.
HAM. SIMEON Beloved husband Of Helen
Ham. father of Irene Ham Dandeneau
of Albany. N. Y; Harry Ham of Indian
apolis,. passed away Thursday. 4S0 p. m,
residence Sia Graceland o45t.'s Ave- saturday .
$3.50 p. m. daylight saving. Friends
invited. Burial Crown Hin.
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HEN OPERATES HOUSE

Puts Cat. Dog Out and Lays Eggs
on Armchair.
BIZ United Press
LONDON, Aug. 24.-Postman
Terry, of Epping, has a hen which
makes its way to the kitchen of his
home, turns out the cat and dog,
seats itself on the chair and lays
its eggs.
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MISSING YOUTH SOUGHT
Kenneth Edwards Last Heard From
Two Months Ago.

Mr.. and Mrs. L. D. Brown, 1853 N.
Main ST., Urbana, Ohio, are in In
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PAPER HANGING. PAINTING. Y PRICE
Property owners call CHI 5441-J.
RUG, 9x12, THOROUGHLY CLEANED 50.
Superior Rug Cleaners. He. 4462.
$50 BUSINESS ENVELOPES and letter
heads printed for $3.50 ia 1925.
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Special Notices

WILL MIR. C. BOOK
PLEASE WRITE TO
FRIEND "B" AT OLD
HOME A D D R E S S.
WORRIED. .
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In Men1orion1 Notices

IN MEMORIAM-In loving remembrance
Of Edward Finchum, who departed this
life five years ago. Aug "a. 1928
The rose that is sweetest and fairest
Is the one that is killed by the frost
The love that is sweetest and rarest,
Is dear Edward whom we have lost.
He left US sad and lonely.
Without time 20 say goodby.
But we hope and trust to meet him,
In his home beyond the sky.
FATHER AND MOTHER, MR.. AND MRS.
WILLIAM FINCHUM.
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home. elderly lady. gentleman or con-
Vsalescent; meals served home cooking.
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Business Announcement
Business Announcements

'APER HANGING-And painting; guar
anteed work Prices right. Oh. 05l2
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Entertain the Boy Friends at Home

girls to think she isn't popular.
The only way she has of proving
that she has a date" Is to propel
him in the direction Of the amuse.
ment centers. So she goes out and
rides in car that adds to her
WEAKNESS; she eats part or an IN
digestible conglomeration or she
drinks all Of an unwholesorne con-
coction.
If a few young women OF url.
questioned social standing and out
standing popularity would pro-
mote the idea of dating" at home
the high school girls would per-
haps follow the fashion.
The question is really q serious
one. Teen-age girls and boys
have no business joy riding at
night or going often to public
places for amusement. II the IN
telligent women who make up
mothers clubs would discuss the
matter, with a view of working
out a remedy, maybe something
could be done.
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Advice to LOvelO1'n
BY Beatrice Fairfax

What puzzles me is why a
man Of my age, instead Of ask.
ing me or any one Of dozens OF
women like me, to be his wife,
asks a woman half his age or a
girl one-third his age, who calls
him Sugar Daddy" and is most
likely to pull the wool over his
eyes and make dates with young
men of her own age. A woman
of about his own age would en-
Joy the same things he does.
/ am not seeking for a hus-
band, but for information.
QUERY.
The question you ask is just
one Of those puzzling things
about life that no one possibly
can answer satisfactorily.
Some men have a mistaken the
ory that by wedding young girl
thew renew their own youth.
agree with you, that May and
November cannot mate together
successfully and that a wise man
of sixty would choose a woman
of his own age or little
younger, who could make him a
comfortable home and tread the
pathway of life contentedly with
him during their sunset years.
A film version Of Beatrice Fair.
fax's interesting column has been
made by Cosmopolitan PrOdUc.
tions. It is called "The Love
lOrn." and is now being snowy ut
the RiaItO Theater. Molly Day
and Sally O'Neil are featured.N
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time is an historical problem.
Memphis, Troy and Carthage. Of
the Old World or the New, are
riddles apart from their setting.
apart from the historic Sectors
which conditioned their develop
ment. The lives OF Buddha. Con-
fucius, Socrates, Mohammed,
Tamerlane. Elizabeth, Napoleon,
Washington, and Frank Smith.
are also riddles without their
setting.
Each age carried its loaded cit
uation to which human beings re-
sponded in obedience to the i'm
pulse to live. Every age had its
modes, norms, habits, opinions,
manners, customs, taboos. and its
written and unwritten codes of be-
havior. Mohammed, born on Bea-
con Street, would have gone to
Harvard and been Unitarian.
Every age thought itself wise
and prattled of progress; ana
Jagged from one to one hundred
decades behind its own wisdom.
Our own national habits and So
cial. educational. legal and gov
ernmental institutions jog along
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little Of that limit because it IL
restricted by fears and hemmed
in by taboos.
Into each home the baby comes
as q loaded stimulus. II may be
hailed as the watcher greets the
dawn: or with, swell. here it Isl
or as another mouth to feed. Its
arrival is a complex of stimuli.
Out of these the baby Is often
made or broken the day It Is born
"a chance that must be taken
these days az the price of the OPP
portunity to become civilized.
Most OF them do. Some never
become adjusted. They die, as
Socrates, Savonarola, LAvoisier;
or they are fed to the lions by
Nero, disappear on st. Bartholo-
news Day, or work in q factory.
They borrow, beg, or steal. There
are as many ways and degrees Of
unadjustment az there are Of adj
iustment, all graduated to the
ways and degrees to which adj
justment is demanded.
Continued Tomorrow
1conyrirhL 1928. nv George A. Dorsey.
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listened In surprise to their con.
versation.
Don't you ever stay at the
girls homes and have little par.
ties?" she inquired. "It seems to
me it would be much nicer to
dance at home, or just sit and
talk sometimes. than to be always
riding or going to shows
I'VE would like it, declared
both boys but try and get your
date to stay home
Then 1t transplred that four OF
their older friends who work are
renting an apartment together, 80
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they will have some place to take
their girls in the evenings. A little
dinky apartment in an ordinary
apartment house! But it has the
allure OF forbidden places and the
girls adore going there.
Knowing the pervey seness of
youth and the nothingness of their
why's and wherefore's it seems
almost useless to suggest change
in conditions. But it does seem a
pity for boys and girls to be miss
ing all the happy hours that they
could SO easily have by assemb-
ling in somebody's home.
OF course no girl wants other
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FASHIONS
FANCIES

Right In the Ring go the two
front tabs Of the two-tone, wash.
able fabric glove, the hand-like
cuff Of which has tab-like ends
and is bound in a darker shade OF
the same color.
Turning Over New Leaves
Spring millinery fashions have
chosen foliage formed of tiny
feathers, pasted into leaf shapes.
A wreath Of such little colored
leaves, bordered in black, bands
stunning black lxullcap OF lus-
trous straw and y STcepad high
at the left from
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Many people, two hours after eat.
ing, suffer indigestion as they call
it. 1t is usually excess acid. Cor
rect 1t with an alkal. The best way,
the quick, harmless and efficient
way, is Phillips Milk of Magnesia.
1t has remained for so years the
standard with physicians. One
spoonful in water neutralizes many
times it's volume in stomach acids,
and at once. The symptoms diSap-
pear in five minutes.
You will never use crude methods
when you know this better method.
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twenty, fifty years later-show
differences more than skin deep,
differences burned into the very
protoplasm Of their bodies. They
doff their hats to different gods
and play the game Of life In diff
ferent ways and for different
stakes.
Contents of their mind? We can
only answer that as We know the
conditioning of their mind; what
they jump at and why. Always
remembering that individual var
iation sets a limit to our jumping
mechanism; also that we know
The Washington times., 1928-04-10
By L. Lamar Matthews
DoWERTOWN is a city Of beau"

DoWERToWN is a city OF beau
1 tiful homes-spacious lawns,
wide verandahs, large living rooms
dining rooms, music rooms and
coy corners. The houses suS-
gest hospitality and the merry.
making Of happy young people.
And yet the boys OF that town
who play around with high school
girls are always worried about
somewhere to entertain their girls.
Unless you have an automo::
bile you are out of luck" one OF
them declared recently.
Even IL you have q car" said
another boy, "who wants to be
riding around on winter nlghtSY
But the girls won't stay at home.
All you can do is to ride or 80 to
q show"
The mother of one OF the boys
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in ruts worn smooth by our fore.
fathers. There is not 4 city in
the United States organized ~
community for the purposes OF
living. almost no individual that
practices what he breaches or puts
to useful purpose q tenth part Of
his brains.
A hand fitted by nature 70
swing from limbs and catch, neas
learns in five years to drive q
nail and in is years to drive q
car 1t took culture 100000 years
to make. One wonders that cul-
t,re required 50 many years TO
The Washington times., 1928-04-10

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am not ''love-lorn," but I
would like to ask you a question
If I may.
am between sixty and sew
enty. read the news Of the
day, play cards, enjoy movies
and the theater and like travel
ing. can give Or take q joke.
/ am ordinary-looking, although
very neat. Il am an excellent
cook and housekeeper. / am
generally considered to be in my
fifties. My health Is fine.
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cut in 4 sizes: Small, 1896;
medium, 1910; large. 42-44; extra
large. 46-4S inches bust measure.
A medium size requires 3 4 yards
Of l36.inch material. Price 1Oc.
6O74. Ladies' Blouse.
cut in 6 sizes: 81, So. So, 40,
AZ and IA inches bust measure.
Al 38-inch size requires IA yards
Of S9-inch material If made with
the sash end. If made without
the sash end rs yards. will be
required. TO line sash end with
contrasting material win require
IS yard. Price 10c.
Send 10 cents In diver o. stamps
for thla pattern 90 fHE WASHING
TON TIMES PATTERN BUREAQ.
nj Sterling Place, Brooklyn, ~. ~
Use no other address. Print name
and address plainly to insure pronpe
delivery. State number and sine a
pattern desired
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produce the car; but one is amazed
that 30 many children can learn
10 drive q car in such a short
time. In other words, our civil.
ization as the product Of all the
ares" loses much Of its glamor
when viewed against the back
ground of what an ordinary boy
or girl can learn in two score
years.
Tokyo, Picking, Delhi, Cairo,
Rome. London, New York, Main
Street, random sample worlds.
Into these life comes in small pack
ages called babies, fundamentally
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And you will never suffer from ex.
cess acid when you prove out this
easy relief. Please do that-for
your own sake-now.
Be sure to get the genuine Phil
lips Milk Of Magnesia prescribed by
physicians for so years in correct.
ing excess acids. Csc and soc q
bottlev-any drug store.
milk of Magnesia" has been
the u. s. Registered Trade Mark of
The Charles. H. Phillips Chemical
Company apd it's predecessor
! Charles H. Hhillips since 1875.
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all alike, all human, all blood-kin,
all Of one species. They have the
same general adjustment mocha
nisrn In the same excitable protO-
plasm. with the same instinct Cor
life and the same emotional.drive
equipment. And all have parents
to tide them over the infantile
period until such time as their
motor mechanism will enable them
to seek their own food, water and
shelter, and in general make their
own adjustments, including pick
ing a mate.
These same babies-one, five,
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DO YOU KNOW
THAT

: Pilots Of the Royal Canadian
air force are being sent aloft to
find the wanderings above the
clouds Of malignant spores Of
rust" a dreaded wheat disease.
OF the 1000, 900 lepers In the
world, one-fourth of them are in
China, while India has almost as
nanV
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CORRECT
MANNERS

nEAR MRS. BEEcKAEArgs
~ i. IN receiving letters from
my husbands relatives some nd-
dressed .'Dear Fern and Clark,
ana others ..Dear Clark ana
Fern, which Il correct2
Z. How should We sign our let
ters and cards7 / have been
told the nearest relative should
be addressed first.
FERN.
Such letters should be addres
'sDear Fern and Clark the wO-
man's name first.
q. Usually the person writing
the letter or signing the card
writes the other persons name
first.
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of the cottage-Loves perfectly at home 1t
need neither wealth advantages poverty with its
drawbacks, for all at time, comes the wonderful
ii may come to lovely the mansion and to the
little cook in the forgets everything in the
aabsorbng joy happiness of the moment For Love makes
of all great, humble but that
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This Dov II our History

Shefrnans famous march through Georgia started on Ap
1864 the objective Il was when sasczso
81 the march that sherman
used the famous expression, "War il hell
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Pineapple and Strawberry
ShOrtcake

Cut sponge cake into pieces
about four inches square and spit
them In two. Between the layers
spread crushed pineapple which
has been sweetened and cooked
until thick and chilled. Cover each
serving with whipped cream ana
put a spoonful Of strawberry or
any other red jam or jelly on top.
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sendIng Regrets


nEAR MRS. BEECKMArE.
~ what Il the proper thing to
do when you are invited 10 y
church wedding ana are unable
to attend IL?
DAILY READER.
It depends upon what kind Of
invitation you received. # It 10
IN informal invitation that II.
written in the form Of 3 letter.
YOU would write q letter aclgnowl-
edging the Invitation and saying
that You are unable to attend.
III ii ii . formal invitation 1.-THE
customary engraved invitation in
the third person-tllis is the CORE
rect form for the regret:
Mr.. ana Mrs. Daily Reader re-
gret that they are unable to ac-
cept Mr.. and Mrs. Brides par
erts1 kind invitation for Tues
day, March the first.
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HOUSEHOLD
HINTS

One.half cup flour, teaspoon
salt, teaspoons baking powder,
tablespoons shortening, l cup
graham flour. 3 tablespoons
molasses, 4 cup milk.
Sift flour with salt and baking
powder. Rub shortening into
flour, add graham flour, molasses
and milk, using more IL neces-
sary to make a soft dough. Roll
u inch thick, shape with 2 inch
round cutter and bake in a hot
oven or at 400 degrees r. for
twelve to fifteen minutes.
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1g2S, bY GeorRe a. Dol
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says. do you. and l says. let me
see that record of yours. and he
did. Say. you could a-knocked me
down with a feather. But
never blabbed to a soul till now"
She paused. looking at Nancy,
who had gone white. What's the
NATTER" she said, didn't you
know your boy friend was
married man? Say"
''Maybelle"
Nancy uttered her name and
then she couldn't say another
word
Say I'm sorry If I've blabbed
too much" Maybelle continued.
II could have told you all this
when | saw you on the avenue,
but ! thought I'd keep it mum,
maybe I've been talLin' out of
school. But say, | thought
Nancy interrupted: "Oh. so
you've learned of Mr. Wescotts
marriage. And | thought / was
one of the few people who knew
of It, Towards wife is coming
here any minute now. She,
they"
Nancy didn't know what she
was saying. She only knew she
had to lie to tell anything rather
than let Maybelle get the better
OF her.
well, in that case, II you're
expectin' compan. we'd better he
goin'. Come on judd" She said,
with a VenOmOus look at the bed.
room,
The door closed behind them.
With a steadineSs at which she
herself marveled. Nancy went to
the door MaybeIle had part closed
and slowly opened it.
She stood there while Wcscott
came out Of his hiding place. His
own face was like chalk. He tried
to look at the clear eyed girl with
the golden hair but his own eyes
fell
Listen he stammered.
But she didn't listen-there was
nothing she cared to hear-noth-
irg he could say
She shut the door as he passed
out. All her courage was gone
now. She got down on her knees
and wept. "Oh, John, john" her
heart was crying.
And If it hadn't been for Muddy
O'Day-and the teIephone-she
buried her shamed face in her
hands.
CHAPTER 3S
The wind in the bare branches
of the great old elms towerin-
above the homes on Prospect
Avenue was singing a melan-
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in spite of the mound of tissue
paper packages Maisie piled on
the library table under the imita-
ton Christmas tree with its fat
green and red and yellow balls.
and the star of Bethlehem on the
top. Curtis gift came in a big
wicker basket. Silver Princess,
pedigreed Persian cat. the most
beautiful Joan had ever seen. but
too much the feline aristocrat to
be real comfort.
The New Year Eve party at
the Barstows was another disap-
pointment. Getting ready for it,
slipping into the honey-colored
robe de style that Francine had
given her at Christmas time.
standing perfectly still while
Maisie crawled around on her
knees. making sure the long, full
skirt hung just right, and letting
cool, damp whiffs of jasmine
spray into her hair from yMazie's
cut glass atomizer, was the best
part.
There were too many people al
the party. Too many inimical,
laughing girls. Too many amor
Gus, bored looking young men who
were tired of dancing and wanted
to take her down for ''some real
stuff come on-we'll never
be missed
Curtis is the only one ! cared
anything about and ! hardly saw
him" she confided to Maisie after.
wards. "Of course. he was the
host. but Mrs. Barstow never let
him come within a mile of<me--"
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no such thing" She flung the ex-
pensive hat she had been trying
on back into its box and slammed
the cover shut.
She's thinking about Bill,
Joan thought, and a queer. jagged
pain shot through her.
Ruth kept her from forgetting
Bill. When she wasn't talking
about him she was thinking about
him. Joan knew she was. Look
ing out of the window with a
pensive look in her bright dark
eyes. Looking at Joan. long and
speculatively, wondering about her
and Bill. wondering how much ne
had loved her, how much she had
10vad him
"Ha failed us both Ruth,
TOO " we're in the same, she
andI -
He was in Joan's thoughts con
stantlv now. 1t wasn't that she
wanted him back. She would have
covered from him had he come.
But the memory of that love that
had once seemed so clean and
beautiful and proud ranked. II
had been dragged in the mud. She
had loved him. loved him prod1-
gally. without fear. scornful OF
consequences, impatient of res
traint.l And he had smiled at her
with his beautiful. clear blue eyes
that seemed so loyal and true
and slipped out of her life like a
shaft of sunlight. Bright and
warm for a minute, gone so soon
nothing left to touch, moth
ing to call to - just gone
y Il
Christmas came. A lonely day