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Show IDEAL HOME IN HER MIND After All, Lover of Romance Had More Satisfactory Existence Than Had Her Successful Rivals. Gloria was very, very sentimental; she sillied Romance with a capital; she dreamed day and night of Love, Home, Husband and Children. She was twenty when she first met her first Ideal, but he proved much more mercenary than he seemed, for he married her best friend who was very, very rich. Gloria's heart, however, how-ever, was caught in the rebound a year later when she met her second Ideal. He was rather older than she and liked intellectual girls, which Is the only way to explain his marrying her chum, who was very, very clever. v By this time Gloria's twin sisters were quite grownup. One was very, very beautiful and the other had a very daring, dashing style, and they married Gloria's third and fourth Ideals. Once more Gloria tried to make her dreams come true, but when she found her fifth Ideal preferred her cousin, I who had what is known as charm, she decided to abandon the chase, and from that time on she devoted her life to writing realistic stories. She wrote of Love that was real and lasting ; she created Homes where the servant question was unknown ; she had a new husband whenever she desired without the formality of a divorce; and her Children did exactly as they should without any tiresome study of Child Culture. Altogether she had a much more satisfying and . satisfactory existence than any of the wives of her five Ideals. Katherlne Negley In Judge. |