The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-19
SenOrita
from
Chicago
BY VIDA HURST

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with men le,surely slipping the ma
tional beverage as If they had all
the time in the world.
Doesn't any one ever work
here 80 she:is asked.
Eric smiled.
We are never too busy to stop
for cup of coffee. You1l find the
tempo of living very different here
than it is at home"
Liked II
Yes she could see that. Sheila
admitted. and she liked it. She
liked also the fact that while the
Argentine men obviously regis
tered her presence they did not
stare as they had in Brazil
Everyone seems to know / am
an American she said. Why is
that ,"
Partly because of your clothes
Eric explained. The movies have
us North American conscious
AS they walked through the
early spring twilight to her hotel
Sheila said, Il suppose it VIII be
considered very bad form for me
to go out alone Eric laughed.
Indeed, no. We are accustomed
to seeing American women do as
they please. And you will be as
safe on the streets of Buenos Aires
even at night as you would be in
any large city in your own coun-
try"
Large Room
Sheila found her room large
and comfortably furnished. Her
trunk had arrived and ringing for
maid she sent a dress to be
pressed then descended to the
beauty shop. The popular dining
hour was not until nine, Jim had
explained so she would have
plenty of time.
She felt like different per-
son when the hair dresser had
finished. Never had a beauty
operator taken more pains. De-
lighted with her fair soft hair
he had arranged each tiny ring
let with the greatest care.
While the little manicurist chat
tering voluhly in Spanish inter-
rupting herself to explain in brok-
en- English soaked and filed and
polished the senorita's 80 beauti-
full nails. Yet the bill for 1t all
was so small that Sheila was sur
prised. Tipping recklessly from
the pocketbook stuffed with the
pesos she had received for 500
Sheila returned upstairs.
Good Service
Such service" she told herself
delightly. And at such ridicu-
lous prices. I'm going to like
this place
When she had bathed ana
slipped into the coral pink evening
dress which had been returned
freshly pressed she stood by the
window and stared across at the
nearby church tower.
The chime5 were pealing the
quarter hour above the hum of
the traffic. The lights of the city
flashed like colored fire
But the air was as sweet and
balmy as that Of country vii
lage. And suddenly a premonition
of the romance and adventure 1t
was about TO bring her fell over
the girl from Chicago like a spell.
Something wonderful is going
to happen to me here" she
thought.
II wasn't that she was less
grateful to Jim but only that her
mood had completely changed
since that depressed moment when
he suggested dining together 1t
was no frightened lonely girl but
a radiant poised young woman
who held out her hand to him In
the hotel lobby.
So Thrilled
Jim darling, I'm so thrilled
with this place. The city. the hotel.
everything. It's as if I'd been here
years ago aac have at last come
back. I feel as if / belong here.
Oh, Jim, why didn't you tell me
how fascinating it would be-"
ut was mole fun for you to find
it out for yourself" he smiled.
Besides no two opinions are ever
the same about such things. Now.
Sheila. to start with wen go to the
Alvear Palace roof.
ITO Be Continued)