s- u WHICH IS WORTH WHILE? Paynesvillc is a small American town, Like every other small American Ameri-can town" it has several social' circles. The women in one of thtsc -circles call themselves the "best society." Their only title to this distinction is that they have a little more money than their neighbors and arc able to dress and entertain .more lavishly. Ten years ago two families came to Payncsvillc to live, without introduction. intro-duction. One of them the Blairs at once pushed themselves into the notice of the fashionable set. They toadied to them, gave costly dinners for them, talked of them familiarly to the other townsfolk by their first names. They were admitted into the edge of the fashionable set and remained re-mained there, always pretentious, always al-ways snobbish, always vulgar. The Paulls, the other new family, made no attempt to enter any circle. "We shall make this place our home," Mrs. Paull said to her daughters. daugh-ters. "It is not society we want. It is friends." They were quiet gentlefolk who had inherited good sense audi good breed ing from many generations. They gave no large, pretentious entertainments, entertain-ments, but there was always a place at their simple, hospitable table for a friend. But these guests never were idle companions of the moment. Af- tcr some "time, as always follows, the "best society" people of the town took notice of the life in this home H and its high, simple meaning, and tried to gain an entrance to it. H Every one of us, like the Paulls and H Blairs, must work out our lives among the people of some American town. H But like unto which arc vc the H Paulls or the Blairs? Which is worth while? H