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6 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 9, 1922 8,549,346 WOMEN AND GIRLS HELP CARRY ON COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF NATION Figures Prepared by Head of Woman's Bureau of Department of Labor Show That Army is Growing Despite Poor Pay; Women Said to Accept 75 Cents for Each Dollar Paid Male Workers. 1 X, s I 4 cw. 1 UndermodKY - :w ' ,! jl AN ARMY of 8,549,846 women and girlB iB at work through out the United States helping carry on the nation's industryand commerce and the army is gathering recruits every day,. according to Miss Mary Anderson, head of the woman's bureau of the department of labor.' .This is despite the fact, says Miss Anderson, that women are not "amply paid." She declares that women are obliged to accept 75 cents THE MARRIED Sensational Disclosure Follows Wife's Adventure, as Detective, Which As Thief. l BEAD bag with a small f change purse and three V keys?'", The man at the lost-and-found desk eyed Helen keenly. "What else was in it?" "A diamond ring with a loose tone," tremulously. "I wis tak ing it to be reset." "Was the ring in an envelope pinned to the lining of the bag?" "Oh, yes, yes! You have it?" with leaping Joy. "We did have it, but It's just been called for. Didn't you send for it?" v "Why, what do you mean?" tense ly. "You've not .given-it to some one else?" "Lady was here an hour ago described the bag ' and everything In it." "What's that?" Warren, brush ing Helen' aside, now stepped to the window. ' "She told everything in It, sir, even to the ring pinned in the lin ing. Here's her name," opening a register. "Mrs. W. R. Morgan, -41 West street." "I never even heard of i her," amajed Helen. ( "She couldn't have known what was in my bag!" "She certainly 'did, ma'am. We're very careful 'bout what we give out." "Well, we'll investigate this," an nounced Warren, grimly. "We'll take a taxi right to this address," noting it on the back of an envelope. When they came out on the street, Helen, clinging to Warren's arm, wag still excitedly protesting that no one could have known what was In the bag. "Thought you said Mrs. Willis was with you when you lost it," Warren guided her over a crowded crossing. "Mrs. Willis!" dazedly. , "Why, dear, you don't think " "No, she wouldn't have the nerve to claim it. She'd knbw. you'd find out." "She might've thought . I wouldn't ask her because she said I nad it after I left the subway. She in sisted I must've lost it on the street that she remembered seeing it after we got off. Dear, could she nave been deceiving me -hoping to send someone to claim it?" "That's pretty far fetched," shrug ged Warren. "Yes, of course, it's too awful to think of." Then musingly, "Yet no one else could know about that ring." "Well, here's a taxi let's see what this Morgan woman has got to say." But 41 West street proved to be only a garage, where ' Mrs. W. R. Morgan was not known. "Thought that was a phony ad; dress, scowled Warren. "Dear, it seems Incredible but I'm afraid it's Mrs. Willis!" ."Why in blazes would shedo such for each dollar paid to male workers fop the same task. Queen Marie of Rumania is ex pected to visit this country in the fall. She was to have come before, but was delayed by the wedding of her daughter to the king of Jugo slavia. Queen Marie is deeply be loved by her people. Among the American women re LIFE OF HELEN BY MABEL HERBERT URNER. a thing? What's the idea klepto mania?" "I know she's lost heavily at bridge and she's afraid to tell her husband. She's going to pawn my ring to pay her bridge debts." "Hold on, not so fast! You can cook up the greatest yarns out of nothing. Can't accuse a woman of a thing like that without evidence." "I have all the evidence I need," with flaming conviction. "I'm going to see her right now. If you won't go with me I'm going elone." - , Darting to the waiting cab, Helen gave the driver Mrs. Willis' ad dress. "See here," Warren held her back. "You can't accuse " "I'm not going to. I'll pretend she got the bag to surprise me and that I couldn't wait." "Huh, that's pretty thin," reluc tantly he got into the cab beside her. "Not much of a ladder. "But she'll take it she'll grasp at any excuse. I'm going to get my ring! I've never quite liked her but I didn't dream she'd do such a thing." If you don t like her, why do you chase around with her?" "I just happened to meet her on the subway today. But she's al ways at the Stevens' that's the only way I know her." "Takes Mrs. Stevens to pick the queer ones," grumped Warren. He was still emphasizing the seri ousness of accusing any one of theft when .the cab drew up before the apartment hotel. "I'll wait down here. I don't want to be rung in on any scene." '. "Dear, there won't be a scene. I'll Just take it - for granted that she got the purse for me. She'll be so frightened, she'll give it right up." . "I'm iot so sure," following her into the shabby ornate corridor. Hurrying past the office, Helen led the way back to the elevator. "Mrs. Willis," she requested, as If they had been announced. "Second door," directed the boy as he let them off at the fifth floor. "Now, look here. Kitten, chuck this! I don't like it, I tell you. If you think she's got the purse go at it right. Send a detective around." "If I ever get my ring I'll have to get it now!" .Approaching the door, she heard Mrs. Willis' shrill voice from with in. Evidently she was talking over the telephone. - "Yes, I told you rd have it to day. ... Yes, all of it a hundred and fifty, cash. . . . Eight o'clock? . . . "Very well, Til be here. 'Phone up and I'll bring it downstairs. I don't want Mr. Willis to see you.' "Did you hear that?" whispered Helen, excitedly. "She's already pawned my ring! That's how she got the hundred and f if ty . dollars ! "Huh, your imagination works cently presented at court in London by Mrs. George Harvey, was Mrs. Charles H. Sherrill. jMrs. Sherrill is the wife Af the ex-minister to the Argentine. - ' , . . Georgina L. Wells is one of the popular members of New York's younger society set. She is the daughter of .T. Tileston Wells. She has Just .sailed for Europe for a va cation from social duties. AND WARREN Reveals Woman Acquaintance , . . overtime. Now, be careful what you say. You're liable for heavy dam ages if you accuse anybody falsely." "Sh-sh! . Now, 'please leave it to me." Her heart in her throat, Helen touched the bell. "You won't need to say a thing." When the door opened Mrs. Willis stood well back in the dusky Jiall. "I hope we're'not intruding." be gan Helen, as they entered.. "But I was so glad you'd got my bag I couidnt wait for you to send It over." "Your bag?" in sharp surprise. wnat do you mean?" "Why, we've Just been te the Lost and Found of the subway. They say you called for if an hour ago. It was awfully kind I knew vou'd pnone, but I wasn't home, so I thought I'd come . right over.'" Why, I haven't been near the subway since I left you," nervously arawing about her the faded silk kimono. "I don't understand what you mean." . "Mrs. Curtis has a vivid imaei. nation, broke in Warren. "Sh thought you' Mfght've been in the neighborhood and Are you positive it was Mrs. Curtis' bag that was claimed?" haughtily.- , "Yes, and the party knew every- ming mat was in It." "Well, rm afraid I can't help you. I don't kncfw a thing about " ad interrupting buzz from the telephone in the hall, and Mrs. Wil lis, with a nervous apology, hurried w iiwtr' it. A second after she had left the room Helen, darting to the desk, snatched ud a black mnira hind. bag the one Mrs. Willis had carried mat morning. , Hold on, there! What'r vnn doing?' muttered Warren under his Dream. But already she was rummaging in the bag. Opening a small inner purse, with a smothered exclama tion sne snatched out a ticket. .Put that back!" whispered War ren iierceiy. "Quick!" pushing him through a curtained door. "I want to be alone witn ner. . Hardly had the curtain dronned over Warren's reluctant exit when oirs. wuiis entered. "I'm awfully sorry, Mrs. Willis," began Helen, unsteadily. "I know you have "my bag. I tried to give you an excuse-but you wouldn't take it. Now I have proof that you ve pawned my ring." What do you mean? Have you come here to insult me? You'd bet ter be careful how you accuse joii i-r-tnat won t heln vnn Here s the ticket. I Just took it from your own purse. Its dated today J150 for a diamond ring!" Mrs. Willis, now chalk-wnite. held to a cnairior support. "xou still have the money I heard you 'phoning as we" came In. You were going to pay It to someone tonight.' Give it to me now and I'll redeem the ring. No one will ever know- i shall never say anything about it." ' Without a word Mrs Willis turned to her bag, which still lay on the desk. With hands that trembled vio lently, she took out a roll of bills. Then from a drawer in the desk she produced the bead -bag. "I'm I'm sorry. I wish I could say something," murmured Helen, averting her eyes from such poig nant humiliation. "I know you wouldn't have done It it's those awful bridge debts. Why do you play? why don't you give It up when -" "Oh. don't!" huskily. "Just go please! I can't stand it." Crushing the money into the bead bag, Helen turned blindly to the door, put in the hall came the pan icky thought of Warren. Was he still in that other room? Would Mrs. Willis have to confront him, too?" . - The next moment the door opened and Warren strode out. "Here, don't' talk in this halL Let's get out," he muttered, turning aown the encircling steps without waiting for the elevator. Down the five flights and out to the street before either of them spoke. , s 'Jove! I had to come through UNIVERSITY OF OREGON GETS COLLECTION.OF RARE PRINTS Specimens of Art of Helen Hyde Are Gift to Institution From Sister of Dead American Celebrity: BY LILLIAN AULD. - EIGHTEEN woodcuts, etchings and lithographs by the dis tinguished Sal Francisco artist, Helen Hyde, have Just been received at the University of Oregon as the gift of Mrs. Edwin F. Gillette of Pasadena to the new art museum recently established on the Eugene campus.' Mrs. Gillette is the late artist's sister and the purpose ' of her gift is to give inspiration and background for those students in terested in color, line, brush draw ing and the etching, lithographic and wood block processes. The prints are especially selected to show every phase of Miss Hyde's exquisite art. They are being suit ably framed and will be placed on exhibition In the women's Building where they will remain until the long dreamed of museum and arts' building is constructed. A duplicate set of furniture, carved at the same time as the set for Helen Hyde's Tokio home, has been sriven the university by Mrs. Murray Warner of Eugene. It will furnish the Helen Hyde memorial alcove, which will be tiie home of the new prints when the arts build ing is completed. A photograph accompanying the furniture shows Miss Hyde in her Japanese home seated near a tea table like that at the University of Oregon. The original Tokio set is now in Mrs. Gillette's country home in Cali fornia. - The subjects of Helen Hyde's art were usually children. The gift to the University of Oregon includes studies of Japanese, Chinese, Mexi can, negro and American children. Miss Hyde is probably most famous as one of the world's greatest otohera and an early discoverer of the now well known colored etching process, but It is certain she is best J known and, loved for her !harming brusn line wuuuuuid v. babies. I Thirteen of the prints are wood cuts) three are etchings and two lithographs. Of the wooacuts two are of Mexican children, two of Chinese, one American child and the remainder, beautiful Illustrations 01 her work with the children of Japan. Among these last "A Day in June" is a fine example 01 ner portraym of the mother and child idea. This Madonna-like quality appears in many of her finest Japanese wood cuts, notably in the much loved and very rare "Baby Talk." "A Day in June" is a delightful color print of a little Japanese mother Introducing her baby for the first time to the beauties of a field of iris. Of the others, "Winter," "Going, to the Fair." "New Year's Day in Tokio' and '"The Moon Bridge" are destined to be" favorites With visitors to tne university art museum. . Helen Hyde's life in its detail reads like a fairy story. 5he spent several years at the beginning of her career in the study of art In Europe. Most of the time was spent in Germany and France, and it was in the latter's gay capital that she discovered and developed her, gift for etching. Back in San Francisco she established a studio and in the company of her friend, Josephine Hyde, made the experiments that resulted in her beautiful colored etchings. A very little -later she fulfilled a childhood dream by a visit to Japan. There she became intensely interested in the wood block proceSs by which the beautiful- old Japanese prints were made. A little observation and study dis closed their secrets to lie In their exauisite brush line originals. Helen Hyde was not contenf until he had found an old Japanese artist, the very last of ' the glorious Kano school which was famed ior its marvelous brush line art in black and white. Under the tutorage of this brush-sucking old man,. Kano Tomonobu, she perfected herself in the secrets of the j old wood block prints, and at the end of her In struction took Japan's first prize In It is The Oreeronian s privilege to correct the mistake so often pub lished that this prize was taken for wood block cutting. The two are related, but very different. The actual block cutting can be done by skilled artisans, but that first exquisite- line painting must be rend ered by the slender brushes of a very great artist indeed. ' In 1912 Helen Hyde visited Mexico. When, after a few short months, revolutionary troubles finally forced her to flee the country, she brought out with her a series of Mexican sketches which she later executed in Japan. They were rendered In the same wood block process she had adopted years previous for her interpretation of Japanese children. The two Mexican woodcuts already mentioned are of this series. One, "Unwilling Dancers," represents two tots In huge sombreros crouching among the cactuses and forcing a pair of unhappy bunnies to dance. An oriental couslno this Mexican print is The Furious Dragon, a medalion design in which two Chinese children have grasped the far-famed dragon by Its two paws and are dancing with the outraged reptile In Innocent . glee. Helen Hyde's whimsical sense of humor has displayed itself -more strongly in this woodcut than in any other Included in Mrs. Gillette's gift. Fancy, if you can, anything more ludrlcous than the two wee sons of the celestial empire (for it was still an empire when this print was made), dancing with the self-im portant, dignified, not to mention imperial dragon! That creature's helpless horror is a thing to bring that room! That was blamed awk ward." , "Did she speak to you?" breathed Helen. ' "No she just stood there looked like a ghost. I mumbled something and beat it." ' "Oh, I'm I'm all upset," her hand at her throbbing throat. "I felt so sorry for her. Oh, why did she do it!" "Pretty risky business! been jugged and . all damned bridge craze,"' thumped the sidewalk. Might've , for this his cane "But how the Sam Hill d'you know the ticket was in that purse?" "I felt sure she'd pawned it. I i saw her bag the moment we en tered and I just knew the ticket was there." "Your hunch was right this time But you were skating on thin ice. If she hadn't had it she could've made it darned unpleasant." "I knew she had It or I wouldn't have gone so far." . "Well, you took, a mighty long chance! You had your nerve to tackle a job like that.. I've got to hand it to you. Kitten you pulled it off! Here, give, me that pawn ticket. What's that address? We'll get that ring out of hockthen we'll dust around to the Costmore and have a ripping good dinner." Next week, "A Conspiracy to Chasten Warren." (Copyright, 1922. by Mabel Herbert Harper.) a smile to the lips In spite of your self. The three etchings include an outline print for c"blor of the rare "Marching as to War," an etching of a little Chinese boy playing soldier. None of Helen Hyde's color etchings are left, but the outline print mentioned above is of one of the best. The other etchings are of the South Carolina negro series upon which Miss Hyde was working at the time of her death late in the spring of 1919. One, "The Joggling Board," is a trial rint and depicts, three small pickaninnies engaged in bouncing up and down on the famous plaything. The last etching is entitled "On the Great Fedee," and shows a negro girl seated on a river bluff singing to her baby. Overhead long streamers of Spanish moss are hanging. Both the lithograph are of the Dixie material. One called "A Rainy Day in South Carolina," sliows two darkles bending through the rain under one umbrella. The second picture is of a cypress swamp with a low flat-bottom scow in the foreground. Seventeen of the prints do - not bear Helen Hyde's penciled signa ture. They were among the number which her last illness prevented her signing. However, all the wood cut have her personal insignia of a stem-encircled four-leaf clover and the well known double "H'- initial as well as the copyright line. The 18th print is a mounted wood cut of an American child standing in front of a row of potted roses. With one hand the little miss bends a blossom toward her so she can look full into its cup. "Confidences'; as It is entitled, is a signed print. Publication of Bible in Se rial Great Success. Tapeka State Journal Editor '" Say It la Read Faithfully. "pOPEKA, Kan., July 8. Is print- A ing the Bible a good newspaper feature? Will the average person read the Bible if published in - this way? ' After printing a weekly serial from the Bible for three months, Arthur J. Carruth, managing editor of the Topeka State Journal, de clares that the publication of the Bible has proved to be the greatest success or any Jaature ever printed by the State Joirnal. Moreover, ft is being read by many subscribers as faithfdlly as would be the in stallments of a popular novel, Car ruth states. "The publication of the Bible serially has had a marvelous effect," Baid Mr. Carruth: "It has shown that the subscribers are sincere in their demand for reading matter of a religious character, and also has shown to the public that the news papers do not jprint only the sen sational, that they do not attempt to appeal primarily to the masses and that they do not neglect the church. As an indication of the interest taken in the publication of the Bible, Mr. Carruth stated he has re ceived inquiries from every state in the nation, many letters from Can ada and, a ' number of communica tions from fcu-elgn countries. A number of Kansas newspapers have taken up the publication of the Bible since the Journal started it, Mr. Car ruth stated. He said out of about 60 ministers in Topeka, he has re ceived communications from all and that in only two or three cases had they criticised the publication;. The publication of the Bible was undertaken by the State Journal at the suggestion of Dr. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, editor of the Christian Herald and well known author. Each installment includes about 30(TO words. The Weymouth text of the New Testament, a trans lation In everyday English, is used. Already publication of the Book of Mark has been completed and the Book of Luke is well under way. REUNION HELD IN PARK Ex-Residents of Morrow County Have 16th Annual Outing. . The 'ex-residents of Morrow county held their sixteenth annual reunion at Laurelhurst park July 4. The aft ernoon and evening were spent In picnicking and listening to talks by the members of the party. Henry Blackman, last year's pres ident of the' reunion association, came from San Francisco to be pres ent at the occasion. Officers elected for the coming year are W. B. Pot tery, president; Mrs. John Hayes, vice-president; N. C Maris, secre tary, and J. W. Beckett, treasurer. Another reunion will be held on the Fourth of July at the same place In 1923. ' ' i Sweden Exports Electric Energy. STOCKHOLM. Electric energy from water power will be available virtually all over Sweden when the present constructive programme in this field Is completed. Four main and many subsidiary lines under government direction and control will care for the southern, eastern, northern and western sections of the country. Electric energy is one of Sweden's greatest natural assets. It is even exported. . For two years Denmark has been receiving Swed ish current over a submarine cable, and it is now purposed to send en ergy Into Norway for the operation of a railroad. SEATTLE WILL SHOW "THE WAYFARER" IN UNIVERSITY STADIUM JULY 24 TO 29 '. Crowd bf More Than 100,000 Expected to Visit Puget Sound to See Pageant Costing More Than Quarter of Million Chorus of 4000 Voices to Sing. BY FRANK C. DOIG. 1k IKE a mighty army 6f crusad , ers lovers of drama, oratorio, grand opera and pageantry will make a pilgrimaige to Seattle late in July. The attraction will be the annual production, July 24 to 29, of "The Wayfarer" op a scale larger and mor'e beautiful than ever before attempted. ' For months the peopie of Seattle have been preparing "America's Pas sion play." Old and young, rich and poor, from all walks in life, lay aside their daily tasks or devote their evenings to making this great spectacle a modern Mecca for Chris tianity. "The Wayfarer" Is a scommunity effort. . Profits are incidental, yet such as are realized go to theUnl versity of Washington. It ia in the gigantic stadium of the university, seating 30,000 persons, that "The Wayfarer" is staged. In nothing smaller could this 'mammoth under taking be successful. 4000 In Chorus. A chorus ot 4000 voices trained to sing the music of the world's masters; 3000 actors, lighting and scenic effects costing $266,000,- an orchestral band and the largest stage in the world these are the elements that produce "The Way farer." . i Rev. J. E. Crowther, now of Philadelphia and nationally known as author of "The Wayfarer," will be in Seattle for Wayfarer week and will appear each night before the curtain to tell the thrillingly dra matic story of how the great pag eant was conceived and staged. This feature, it is declared, will be one of the most Interesting of the entire production. ' Last summer 100,000 persons viewed this "speotacle of the ages" and it is expected thousands more than this number jwill see it in 1922. At Columbus, O., where it was Pro duced first in 1919, and ran for five weeks, more, persons were turned NOVELIST URGES FLAPPERS TO TRY FOR INDIVIDUALITY AND MORE SERIOUSNESS Girls Declared to Hop From One Mentality Said to Be (Thill is the fifth of a series of letters bjr Elinor Glyn, distinguished novelist, tb the flapper, in which she tells the modern girl how to achieve and held true happiness.) BY ELINOR GLYN. (Copyright, 1022, King Features Syndi cate, Inc.) DEAR FLAPPERS I wonder so much what your view about marriage is. I am told that there Is a section of you who do not v f th. affair, and rather iniQK muiiu inn into the "bachelor girl." I wo"uld prefer not to think this was true, because ;i - natural view to take. To find a mate is the best thing, ,. ni find a suitable one. To come to the "bachelor girl" status may be all ngnt u u "" - ... j i. AAAmc that nnth disappointea anu n . i. ; 1 ..in q re v - lne is leu. bui .J?,.. - T would trv to hold on to some shred of romance, if I were you. Because noiums m world is so good as love real, true. t in. nnt tha.t absurd emo- tion called (I believe) a "crush on someone! but tne genuine iuiu6, which arouses the best in one. I do not see very much of it In this country because you are all too restless. And that is what I am go ing to talk about now, and we can, come back to love later. To one like me, accustomed to the repose of old countries, it seems astonishrhg, this restlessness I see all around me, and I ask myself what is the reason of it. ' Girls Are Dissatisfied. And I have come to the conclusion it is because you have not found anything yet which satisfies you. Everything is experimental. In my ,new book, which is just coming out, called "Man and Maid," I have Invented a new verb to grasshopper" that means to alight upon a subject, and then no sooner do you seem firmly perched there than you spring to another, so that there Is no continuity in anything, either In aims, pleasures or conver sation everything is just like the grasshopper in the summer, spring ing from twig to rock, and from rock to ground, or to tree. You seem so enthusiastic when one Bpeaks to you, eager and inter ested, and lo! In a moment you are off at a tagent and beginning about something else! I find that no sub ject is-discussed to a finish, or to find the meaning of it, or the worth of it. It is just touched upon, as though you had read the name of It away disappointed, who could not gain admission, than saw the pageant. At Madison Square Garden, New York, the following year, thou sands could not gain admission, so great was the demand for seats. It is expected the presentation in 1922 will repeat this history and that many will be unable to see the pageant, although there will be 20,000 reserved seats, for each of the six performances. Virtually the complete Pacific fleet of the United States navy will be in Puget sound waters during Wayfarer week, and thousands of sailors and marines will attend the performances and march in the great procession of all nations. Troops from Fort Lawton and Camp Lewis also will participate. Each day during Wayfarer week there will be entertainment fea tures for the crowds. These will include the yacht races and regatta of the Pacific International Yacht ing association, the Northwest Merchants and Buyers convention, the International Apple Buyers and Shippers association convention and other large gatherings and ex hibits. ; " Argument Ia Allegorical. The argument of "The Wayfarer" is allegorical. Wayfarer is a com mon man who finds "the world's awry, undone!" as a result of the war, scenes of which a vigorous prologue depict. Understanding, in the person and guise of a queenly woman, comes to his aid and rolls back the curtains of time that Wayfarer may see the presence of God in the periods of turmoil antl despair through which men in the ages have passed. Wayfarer is shown the despair of the Jews during their captivity in Babylon, and he hears the angel renew God's covenant with Moses and Aaron that the 12 tribes and the two who are his chosen people and a race of destiny. Christ is born and Wayfarer mar- Subject to Another Without More in Experimental Stage, With Weariness Begot of Liberty. in a catalogue, and when you had taken in that you must read a new one! A man told me that at the end of an hour with you he felt con fused! Flappers, have you ever been very tired after a dance, and got into bed and .then found that you turned and tossed until at- last no way you could lie' could rait you, and that no matter how you turned there was no new position which seemed different, or gave any sen sation other, than one which im pelled you to turn again? Freedom Ia Tiresome. Then have you ever determined that this sort of thing could not go on, or you would get no sleep, and so you made up your mind to lie in one position until '.t should be come a weariness and an ache to you, but when you should at last allow yourself to take a new one the relief would seem so good that gradually you could, lie still and go to sleep? This sort of thing must have hap pened to everyone, and the restless part is just an analogy, of what seems to me to be happening to your minds now they are tired with so much freedom and so little re sponsibility and they are turning everywhere in vain for rest. Now if you do not use will and delib erately determine, to keep them on one subject long enough to master it. so that you can go on to another with fresh interest, you will find by the time that you are two or three and 26 that nothing can hold your attention any more, and no subject will appear worth more than a casual glance at. Satiation is the most frightful nemesis. Flappers, you must for give me for saying that I think, with your present tendency to "grasshopper" you are laying up for yourselves a rather saltless gray maturity. There wasxa ball In the hotel one night, and I sat in a quiet corner behind some evergreens for a while in the hall, with an old gentleman who is a cynic, and like me, he looks on at life. ' Conversation Called Rot. We chanced to hear the conversa tion of a party of boys and girls ten of them, perhaps who did not notice that we were there, and frankly, flappers, what we heard was complete rot! (There is some Blang for you!) It was not more intelligent than what one would imagine a company of monkeys ML vels that God. should send, not a conquering king, but a babe to bring salvation. Subsequently, an other episode charms Wayfarer and shows him the happiness of earth under the gentle sway of ChrisX, but Wayfarer is cast down when the savior is crucified as a com mon felon. Understanding has to teach her charge that the death of Jesus is but the painful prologue of the coming of his era, when truth and righteousness are in the hearts of men. Golden Age Depicted. The final scenes of the drama present "the Golden Age," and Wayfarer and his audience behold the procession of the peoples of the world paying homage as they pass with hymns of thanksgiving toward the throne on the corona tion day of the Christ triumphant, ruler of the kingdom of the earth, now the kingdom of God. To give proper presentation to an allegory so complicated in design, big in thought and impressive in theme, the producers found it necessary to employ the most mod ern stage machinery. ' Stage car penters and architects, painters and sculptors consumed months fabri cating the massive settings, while experts in lighting planned the in tricate, and elaborate scheme of il lumination required to produce the illusion of beautiful reality de manded. Music World'v Best. Costumers and designers labored long to achieve accuracy in period style and beauty in the costumes of the gigantic cast. For weeks the singers of the production have been rehearsing the music of the world's master music makers used almost wholly in "The Wayfarer." Chosen from the oratories and can tatas of several languages, "The Wayfarer" may truthfully be said to include the greatest religious' music Stability Than Grasshoppli would indulge in in the zoo. And yet those of you that I saw were lovely to look at, and had not the faces of fools. So I concluded it is just because you are like a flock of sheep, no one individual, and when this wave of idiot chatter is started all fall into the rush of it. Perfect inanities were -interspersed with giggles, every one sprawled on the table, and the boys seemed very familiar. I wonder if that was "having a good time," or what possible pleasure could be got out of -it! It is not that I would suggest seriousness at a party, but idiot asylum witticisms can't really amuse me Drains which must be packed away somewhere in those pretty heads. Why not try to be a little in- telligent, and a little individual? if you drift into marriage with boys who can bring no more mentality into their conversations during their leisure moments than what I heard last night, no wonder divorce at the end of a year or two seems the only eventuality. Drifting Ia Censured. And this is caused by the same thing which seems to cause every thing! have to criticize about you the hopeless policy of drift, no aim in conversation any more than aim in the day, or the month, or the year. I am going to get off all that I have got to say which may sound disagreeable to you first, and then in the last two letters I will make a summing up and suggest some new ideals and new methods to bring you happiness. Your friend. Lilies of the Valley. They grow do thick, my 111 lie of the valley; Beside a fountain where it's green and cool; Their tight round buds gleam from the ferny alley .Like whitest pebbles in a dufKitit pool. So reverent do they seem and no ap pealing Humblest of little down-dropped heads are theirs X never pluck a spray without the feeling Of interrupting some one at his prayers, Antoinette De Coursey I'atUrsou in Contemporary Verse. (