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SOCIETY | "Young Only Once,” Says Youth Who Advises Girl to Disobey Mother By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am also one of your readers and am coming to you for advice. I am a girl of Ifi years of age. Now what I want to know is this: I am out of school and have a great many boy friends. I would like to go out with them once in awhile but my folks tell me I am far too young and so I never go along with them. But do you think that I am too young to eat supper with them? And there is one boy I love very dearly and T know he loves me too. He always tells me to go along with him even if my mother does not want me to—he tells me that we are young only once in our lives. Now, Miss Fairfax, please put this In print as I want him to read It. I am, SHORTY L. You arc rather young to go out with boys. Shgrty. However, I believe in young people enjoying themselves and see no reason why you shouldn't entertain your young friends at home? Surely your parents wouldn't ob ject to this arrangement. If your boy friends invite you to “eat supper” with them you might suggest a picnic, inviting one or more couples to Join you. Perhaps you have an older sister who would be glad to chaperon the party. Of course if the young man's family invited you to their home for supper, that would be a different matter. Don’t let this boy influence you, Shorty. Your parents, I feel sure, are not unreasonable In their demands and they know what is best for your welfare. WJII “Constant Reader," who man ages her household on $22 a week, send me her name and address as I have several letters from readers who are anxious to write to her personally. Ii. Ij. G.: I am very sorry but I have been unable to find any trace of the letter you wrote me. Did you send it some time ago? I wonder if I might ask you to write again. I should he very glad to answer your questions. Itce: White gold does not seem to be just a fad. It is being worn extensively, and bids fair to Jose none of its popularity. Plush coats are entirely out. A cloth coat, untrimmed or trimmed with fur is much better. Ilarr.v: , I am very sorry but I make it a policy never to form acquaintance ships through this column. I can refer you though to the Get Ac quainted club of the First Unitarian ^^^hurch wdiicli meets every Sunday evening. *It will open again in Sep tember and there you will be guaran teed a good time. An organization of the same sort called the Ennis club meets in St. Mary Magdalene’s church. The Girls Community Service league in the Gardner building on Seventeenth and Dodge can show you to a number of good times also. There is no excuse for being lonely in Omaha. -- N. K. G.: I am sorry but I cannot form acquaintanceships through this column. It is too great a responsibil ity to take. • For Miss Carpenter. Mrs: Edwin Davis will entertain at luncheon on next Wednesday for Miss Eleanor Carpenter, who will be mar ried on September 4 to Donald Pettis of I.lneoln. Miss Richardson Honored. Miss Maurine Richardson will be honor guest Friday at luncheon when Miss I.ydia Kurnett will entertain for* her at the Brandeis, Miss Richard son will be a September bride. Friday Bridge. Mrs. Elmer Lindquist will honor her sister, Mrs. Ralph Garrett of Tulsa. Okl., with a two-table bridge at her home Friday afternoon. Dinner for Bride. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sigal enter tained 35 guests at dinner last Sun honoring their daughter Anne, whose marriage to David .T. Rissmon took place the preceding Thursday. That after a day’s work a man’s appetite craves a wholesome sweet. Serve him FIG NEWTONS Delicious cakes with jam cen ters that captivate the appe tite completely. They are made by the bakers of llneeda Biscuit The National Soda Cracker NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY “Uneeda Bakers" cj{ts, GetAec cA. GaffJ-se/i ■7* A SCOTT i £ PHO TO * *1 When Miss Georgia V. Reeves, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ,T. C. Reeves, became the bride of Gerriet Arthur Janssen, jr., at high noon Tuesday, she wore as her wedding vpil a white lace veil which twice be fore had graced the head of a bride. was first worn by Mrs. Gerriet Arthur Janssen, sr., when nearly 30 years ago she became the bride of Rev. Janssen, who is now the pastor of the Oak Street Methodist church. The second bride to wear the veil was Mrs. Bruce Lynch, jr.. who before her marriage on June 27. 1923, was Miss Esther E. Janssen, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Janssen and sister of Gerriet Janssen, jr. The bride's gown was of white satin and she carried a shower bouquet of pink roses and lilies of the valley. Her sister, Jeannette, who was maid of honor, was gowned in lavender georgette and carried red roses. Wes ley Janssen, brother of the groom, was best man. Miss Clara Swanberg played the wedding march. The ceremony took place at the home of the bride's parents. Rev. Ger riet A. Janssen, father of the groom, officiating. A breakfast followed the ceremony. Following a western motor trip, Mr. and Mrs. Janssen will he et home In Denver. Colo., after September 1. Both are graduates of the University of Omaha. Keep your box of matches close to the stove. Don't cross the kitchen 20 times a day just for a match. Rough-Hewn Dorothy Canfield | (Continued from YesterdnxJ SVXU’HIH. Wale Crittenden. typical American vniinr man. ha® iwwn up In Inlontown. :» village near New York ritv. has been graduated from Columbia unlvei^lty and ha® taken a poeitlon with a lumber firm. At college he fell In love with Martha Wentworth, who declined hi® propoMU to wed. Martha I® ependlng a year In «»er mitnv with her father. Neale aeeeptij tils disappointment nhllnsophlrally amt heiuls Ills efforts toward mirren in hn«l ne... In France. Marise Allen. about Neale's age. lives wlfli tier American fat her who is foreign ngent for an Amer ican firm. She Is an nrromnllsned lin guist and pianist and goes to Koine to continue her studies. Neale is spending a veur nhroad. In Home lie meets Marise nnd they become close friends. Eh Men, he might blush easily and he shy. hut he knew ns well as any Latin how to catch at a chance Indi cation from a woman, and how to he at the right place at the right hour. When she and 11 maestro came out of Donna Antonia’s door, she saw his tall figure at the end of the street. Ridiculous, what a start It gave her' And a» soon ns Visconti had left her Here he was beside her with one long hound. Now she would really look at him enumeratingly and see what sort of a face he had. Rut when she looked at him she saw that his eyes were smiling down at her, and she went no further than the eyes again. She began to tell him about Ashley, of which she had dreamed the night before, the first time in so long. It had been a good dream, all about going home to Cousin Hetty and play ing dolls up in the attic again. And It was good, how good, to talk to some one about It, the first time— why, since she had left Ashley! He seemed , like—like what Americans meant when they spoke of their “own home folks." Marise had never had any such. There was a real reason to give herself the fun of telling about Crittenden’s too, since this Crit tenden was soon to be there. She would Just let herself go for once! They had come out from the Pin clean now, stopped and were looking at each other, under the Ilex trees. From the w'ay he had answered her; astonished question about China she had known that he was going to say something to her, really something that he meant, as people never do, something from far underneath the surface. Rut she had never dreamed that he would so throw open the doors of his heart and let her look in to see something she had never thought was in any one's heart—the honest desire to do something with his life beyond getting out of it all he could for himself. It was like daylight shin ing down, clear, into dark shadows. Marise dreaded Donna Antonia's musical entertainments. They were nightmares, flt least for a girl with no recognized definite rung on the social ladder as her own. at least for a paid entertainer who was paid not only to play a Beethoven sonata, but to look well, to add to the social bril lilancy of the evening, to make up for Donna Antonia's prodigious iner tia by rushing about, seeing that everything went smoothly, that the servants did not sequester half the ices, that each guest had some one to talk to. If she could only come In, play her Beethoven and go away again!—That was really all she was paid for. No, of course, the pay for the rest of what she did was Donna Antonia's "taking her up," her fa miliarity In the great house, those occasional condescending "cards for her personal friends,” all that Donna Antonia could do for a young pian ist's future. Kvery one told her that her fortunes were made, now that Donna Antonia had taken a fancy to her, everey one expected her as a matter of course to make the most of her great opportunity, to flatter Donna Antonia, to run briskly on her errands, to accept with apparent pleas ure the amused, patronizing friendli ness of a capricious great lady who on some days was caressing and pet ting, like a person with a pet rat, and on others was cold and distant, like a person who has no use for cats. Khe was not only to play for Donna Antonia whenever she was asked, but sit op a cushion, lpt her hair he stroked and talk intimately with Donna Antonia of things Marise would much prefer not to know about; or on another day to lie willing to dash out In a rah to get a delayed dress from the dressmaker's because the maid was busy with hair dressing: or, as on this evening, act the part of helpful daughter of the house, when her real position (which all the guests knew perfectly well how to make her feel) was that of temporary toy and amusement. Before she ran up to make sure that no guests were stranded In the library without being served with ices, Mariso looked cautiously into the durk corner on the landing to make sure that Amhrogi was not there. Horrid—an old man like that who could not keep his hands off women 30 years younger than he! Hut as for that, the old Visconti him self could not keep his off women 50 years younger than he! As she sped swiftly along the upper hall, a cro cus-colored Atalanta in her pale-yel low dress, she was saying to herself, "Oh. well, that’s the way men are, none of them can keep their hands off women”—all except self-conscious posing marionettes like that absurd Livingstone, or men like her father, who took it out in caring about what they ate and drank. How harmless that was—in comparison! How nice It was in comparison! Had Bhe ever been Impatient with father because he cared so much about what he ate and drank! She felt a little wave of affection for him. She really must try to get back to Haris for a few days, and make sure that Biron was keeping Up to the mark. There, the last person was served. And everybody had somebody to talk to. Oh, how tired she was, how sick of all this! This was a soiree musl cale! These tvere the people whom she was to count for musical suc cess. She was supposed to he here to play Beethoven! She broke Into a nervous laugh at the Idea. Of course, she had known that Mr. Livingstone would be enchanted at the invitation from Donna Antonia. And, of course, Mr. Crittenden would be, too. Anybody would. To have made such an impression on Ambrogi —it was remarkable! But he wasn't enchanted. He said he wasn't going. What under the gun did that mean? Did he think he could get an Invitation to dinner if he held olT from this one to tea? Yes, probably that was It. Well, she wasn’t sure, that was the way to work Ambrogi. Still you never could tell. 1'crhaps the boldness of it might take Ambrogi's fancy. How funny, funny, funny, the head Ambrogi would show at tne tea table when poor Livingstone turned up alone with that self conscious, naively sophisticated manner of his. so proud of seeming a man of the world. And Ambrogi despising men of the world for imlieciles! She would tell Mr. Crittenden about It, when she next saw him, and make him laugh, too. But when she told him he did not laugh—not so very heartly. He seemed concerned about Livingstone of all people! Was It possible that he liked Mr. Livingston*'.’ Could It be lie was standing up for him wheth er he liked him or not, as he had for the cat? And now what a queer question he was asking her—about why she had said nothing Rt the breakfast table about having already met him. Why. how naive that would have been! Why should you? And he kept on talking about It as though he saw some thing In It she did not. He was looking at her very queerly, not at all admiringly. How strange It seemed to have any man look at a woman and not pretend at least to be admiring her—strange—and rude— and uncomfortable! She must make him say somemthing. He’d he forced ■then to smile and turn it off—what ever It was, with a pretty phrase that pretended to he admiring. Oh—horrible! How could any one he so rule! Why. it was as though he had struck a blow at her! Brutal' And why? Why? What harm had she done him? Why.did he want to hurt her? He was cruel? She had not known any one could he so cruel and hard—hard as a stone (where was it she lately had seen great hard stones?). What could you do when some one was rude to you? What did any one do who was so affronted? Beyond the dark fury of her amaze ment, her resentment, her anger, her bewilderment, a light began to break slowly like a distant dawn. As she looked at him, stammering, remorse ful, horribly unhappy, agjiast at what he had said, hut never once dream ing that he might simply unsay It, site became aware of what had really happened: She had asked him a question and he had told her the truth. CHAPTER XliVl. “This Is the life!’’ thought Living stone many times during the next weeks. He had not enjoyed himself so thoroughly since he came to Eu rope to live He was now provided, as he expressed it, wilh all the cul tural advantages of Europe and all the social atmosphere of an Amer ican summer resort; for Miss Mills seemed to wish to try, along with pen sion life, the unchaperoned familiar ity of real American girl life. Mile Vallet, her old school teacher, com panion-dragon, was unceremoniously left behind, or sent out by herself to do the conscientious sight seeing which took all her evenings to record in her diary. Miss Mills did sight seeing, too. The tacit understanding which grew up at once was that they were all four seriously to see Rome and to make Midland College School of Commerce Opens September 10 Preparation Means Success Send for our New Book of Business and learn why our praduates are in demand and why they succeed in the larger and better business positions. Address J. F. Krueger, Ph. D., President Fremont, Neb. Miscellaneous Good Used Cars at Sacrifice Prices We have a HUDSON SEDAN with new paint, nice upholstery and good tires that we are selling at a very low figure. Also a CHANDLER TOURING CAR, very well re conditioned and well equipped. As well as a NASH TOURING CAR. equipped with a winter top—good paint and mechanically good. These cars are worthy of your consideration. They have been re-built in the Cadillac shops. See for yourself what we can offer you in the way of a good re-built car before you buy anywhere. A Snfo Plnrr to Huy J. H. HANSEN CADILLAC CO. Faraam at 26th Ave. HA rney 0710 Ask for Book let regarding Household Club Plan. Burgess Nash Company. Buy on the Burgess - Nash Household Club Plan. Clearance Sale of New and Used Pianos and Players In order to acquire sufficient floor space for the new S Checkering, Ampico and Ivers & Pond Pianos and other high- iL grade lines that are arriving in large shipments, we offer All Used Pianos and Player Pianos at prices that will mean great savings to those who buy. j Come in to look and select. Allow ua to dem onstrate the beautiful tone qualities of these instruments. New Player Pianos With 24 Rolls, Bench $365 Even at these ex tremely low reduction prices, pianos may be purchased on the Household Club Plan of Extended Payments. I Some of the Used Pianos and Player Pianos: Vahey Gem, Upright Mahogany.$45.00 Kingsbury, Upright Golden Oak.$95.00 Everett, Upright Dark Walnut.$95.00 Chickering & Sons, Upright Ebony. . . .$195.00 Brewster, Upright Mahogany .$145.00 Johnson Player .$365.00 Willard Player . $365.00 Fifth Floor New Baby Grand Pianos $495 up for the very Haphazard way In which heretofore they had been prof iting by their situation. That famous soiree at Donna An tonia Pierleoni's had seemed to be the start of all this agreeable 'new period of sociability. Livingstone ab horred fatuous men, but It really was rather a remarkable coincidence that after seeing him for the first long talk they had ever had, Miss Mills should at once have decided to come to the pension where he was staying. She had never had a real opportu nity to know him before that, Mile. Vailet always shadowing her around, the conversation always stiffly in French in deference to Mile. Vallet's feelings. That, after her first real impression of him. she should Imme diately have moved Into a room three doors down the corridor from him— any man might be pardoned for con sidering it marked, really marked. It quite fluttered Livingstone with the idea of the possibilities Involved—al though he scorned fortune hunters above all other men. It was not her fortune, it was her wonderful little person tnat ne aamireu, tne periection of the finish of every detail of her body and mind. Livingstone often felt a sincere reverence as he looked at her beautiful hair and skin end clothes and hands and feet that had rost—oh. nobody knew how much to bring them to that condition. And her accom plishments, her exquisite French and pure Italian, her knowledge of art critics, and which Lulnl was con sidered authentic and which spuri ous! The harmonious way she sat down or stood or sat at table! There was a product of European civiliza tion at Its finest! How crude and coarse grained the usual striding, arm swinging American girl would seem beside her, like a rough, splintery board beside a finished piece of mar quetry. Even MiS|i Allen, who was, one might say. carelessly and indif ferently European simply because she happened to have been brought up in France, often aeemed rough and abrupt compared to her. There was nothing of the deliberate, finished self-consciousness about Miss Allen's manners, which Livingstone had learned to admire as the finest flower of sophistication. Crittenden needn't fool himself that she would ever look at him, with that ridiculous little inheritance he had played up so, on his arrival in Rome! Not that Crittenden seemed to he trying to make an Impression! Quite the contrary. Was there anybody who, more than that poor fellow, seemed possessed to put his worse foot foremost? If they hadn’t been pitiable. Livingstone could have laughed at the breaks Crittenden constantly made, at the way he was everlastingly showing himself up as entirely an outsider to their world. Livingstone tried his best to cover up such breaks with hasty, tractful improvisations of talk, but he had noticed the amazed stare with which Miss Allen had receited this par ticular revelation of Crittenden's crudity. Miss Mills had stared, too, or as near to It as she ever came, over in the Capltoline, when she had asked about Consenting Chlorus, at whose ugly face they were just then looking. Crittenden had answered in that coarse, would-be comic jargon he occasionally affected, that he didn't remember reading a thing about him, but if there was anything In physiognomy he must have, been a ward-heeler who had sandbagged his way to the head of the n}af,hlne. Miss Allen had not been able to avoid laughing at him outright then, and Miss Mill's look had been all too eloquent. But th<* worst was the pigheaded provinciality of his attitude about picture-galleries, his avowal of a reg ular commercial traveler's Ignorance of paintings and his refusal to try to learn to appreciate them. Crittenden was perversely fond of dragging them over to the Sistlne chapel till their heads were ready to drop off with the neck-breaking fatigue of staring up at those sprawl ing figures. There was. however, one advantage about the expedition to the Sistlne chapel. They were always so fear fully tired afterwards that they took a cab back to the Piazza Venezia and had ices together at a rafp. It was the first time since he had lived in Kurope that Livingstone had been able to walk Into a cafe with a handsome woman and watch the other men stare. (Continued In Tlie Morning Bee t Comings and Goings of People You Know. Mr. anti Mrs. W. N. Jamieson ha> e gone on a motor trip to Duluth. Mrs. Harley Moorhead has re turned from the Minnesota lakes. David Weir and daughters. Lucy and Kdith, have motored to Chicago and Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ortman re turned Sunday from a trip to Kates Park. Dr. and Mrs. Harvey McNtchola have returned from a trip to Colo rado and Yellowstone park. Mrs. W. P. Haney and young son. nilly, jr., returned Wednesday even ing from a two months’ trip to Cal ifornia. Mrs. Leon Millard's parents. Dr. and Mrs. I). G. Kuns of Marseilles, 111., arrived Tuesday night for a visit with their daughter. Miss Marion Neal of Oak Park, III., who has been visiting her aunt, Miss Minnie Neal, will leave for her home the first of next week. Mrs. L. L. Rlessing of Curtis, Neb., wil arrive Friday to visit her mother, Mrs. M. Iliggin. Another daughter, Mrs. J. A. Wichert of Hammond, Ind.. arrived Sunday. Mrs. E. Jelly of Omaha is a third daughter who is enjoying the family reunion. Captain and Mrs, C. E. Adams and Miss Ila Adams of California, will ar rive In Omaha Monday to visit rel atives here. Capt. Adams was recently chosen with one other member from the Los Angeles G. A. R. to present a bouquet to President Harding on his arrival in San Francisco. The bou quet reached the president through a representative to whom Capt. Adams made the presentation. Burgess-Nash Company. ” EVERYBODYS STORE” fcf'"”” Children’s Coats Sizes 2 to 6 Years $$4.95 to *6.95 values <£ J QEj *7.95 to *12.50 values <£2 Qg 11 $ 1 5.00 to *25.00 values gg Tweeds Broadcloth Novelty Coatings Sports Materials Made in belted or loose box style, some with j shirring on the shoulder to give extra fullness. _ The collar is convertible and buttons snugly at the neck. With the addition of a sweater these little coats will be warm enough for the most severe winter weather. -- Red Copen Tan Rose Brown All full or half lined with a heavy quality sateen. 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