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Show Page Three THE HERALD Trying Personal Comment By JANE OSBORN lilt, , McClur Nw.ppr HBdlcu ) Fred Lane teemed to feel perfectly at borne sitting there bw'ure the broad niahoguny expanse bf in Uie general manager's office. Not for a uiluute did be show signs of stage fright. There really would have been nothing remarkable about it If be had Just for a week or so for though Fred Lane bad bandied as big a proposition before, as one of the most fearless of the young engineers of the 15a tes Construction company, still all these trappings of high authority were new. Instead of the mahogany table he bad had a deal table quickly constructed In an engineer's office that had been built In a day beside some oue of tbe gigantic dams or bridges undertaken by the Bates Construction ermipany. Instead of softly glowing desk lamps of dull brass and emerald glass be bad often at the outset of a "job" worked by the Hcht of a kerosene lantern swung from a nail against the side of his shack office. Instead of the slender figures of neatly dressed, young stenographers, filing clerks, etc., he had known only the assistance of some overalled young as himself. man, as But when Mr. Butes who was only a sort of guardian angel of the concern which bore bis name, and never occupied an office there dropped Into Fred Lane's office one day after he bad occupied the post of general manager of the main office for three short weeks, he felt somehow as If there There had was something wrong. been covert glances and Impressive silences when he had made Inquiries concerning Mr. Lane In the outside glass-toppe- dk glass-toppe- d rough-fingere- d offices. 1 "Of course you're making good," Bates told Fred Lane. "This Is no bigger Job than a good many that you've tackled before. But but it's Mr. Bates looked Lane different" straight In the eyes. "Tell me, Lane, is there anything worrying you? You're Yet you not quite . content here. wanted to come. It was a big promotion a very big one for a man of your age. Is there anything wrong?" Fred Lane at first frowned and avoided Mr. Bates' glance. Then be turned quickly to him. "I suppose there Is something on my mind," he said, "though I didn't know it was noticeable. work The here I can swing. I think I have had pretty good apprenticeship for that. But these people these girls that sit across the desk to take my dictation the girls at the switchboard the girls in the filing department, the office boys, the clerks In the bookkeeper's cage but especially these everlasting girls. They don't like me. I guess I'm a little crude. It takes a man a bit of time to get used to It these girls alI didn't ways so neatly dressed. know girls that worked could look like But they don't that always. They've got a grudge against me. Of course, I sha'n't let that stand one in my way. I'll get way or another but I had hoped that we could all work together the way we used to out on the big outside jobs." Fred Lane sighed a little wearily. "Sorry to have mentioned a mere detail of that sort." The talk changed to highly specialized discussion of one of the big undertakings which the company was Some papers were Just handling. Fred Lane pressed a butnecessary. ton at the side of his mahogany desk. A young woman appeared and Mr. Bates watched the little pantomime with Interest. The correctly bobbed, perfectly manicured, faultlessly dressed young woman entered the thickly carpeted office, chin and nose held high in the air and eyebrows arched an expression of supreme boredom. Fred Lane, without looking up, asked for the papers he wished. When she had gone Mr. Bates looked with amusement at Fred. "Who was that young woman?" he asked. "I didn't notice," said Fred. "I sup pose she was one of the stenogra phers." "She had black hair, bobbed, slight, a trifle made up is she your regular stenographer your secretary?" "Dark bobbed?" repeated Fred. "Why that's blessed If I remember. There are quite a lot of them, you know. And sometimes one comes to take my letters In the morning and sometimes another they all seem There's one named fairly capable. !ray or Brown or Yates, or something that sort" Bates laughed. "Pon't you use their names when you say of Mr. " with all their office force against thetn men who are regular bears with tbe that work for them but It's a bad thing they work under terrific odds. Heiuember, Fred, what I ay, and don't forget to Jolly the girls little. If you Jolly them all jou won't get Into difficulties." Fred looked puzzled. "That sort of thing may be all right for you but I'm hy as the mischief with women. I guess I'm too awkward they'd laugh at "Laugh nothing," was 11 Mr. Bates said, and after dlscusc.ng weightier business he soon departed, leaving as his last bit of admonition, "Keuiem-ber- , Fred, the personal comment." Fred began at once. A young woman glided Into his room with letters to be signed. "I knew that was you coming,'; said be. "Miss Gray-Br- own " "White," said the girl cautiously. "How did you know?" "I knew by the perfume. You always use lemon verbena, don't you?" "Heavens," said the girl with a laugh. "That's bouquet de Tarls dollars an ounce." It was twenty-fiva lame beginning on his part, but Fred noticed that the girl who left his room was laughing and her nose and chin were not held In the air. The next morning Fred had progressed so far as to tell the girl at the switchboard that be thought her bobbed hair was becoming, and one of the filing clerks received the surprise of her life when the hitherto frigid Mr, Lane told her that she had a sweet voice. Even the scrub woman went off wreathed In smiles that night because when she had come In and Mr. Lane had gone out he told her that he bad never seen an office kept so clean, and that it was no wonder hersince she was so self. Fred Lane reaped a harvest that he had not expected. Before a week had passed Miss White had told bim that he had "the nicest eyes she'd ever seen In a man," the telephone operator told h'm that she "Just adored his the filing clerk shyly neckties," dropped the comment that "any girl would be tickled to go out to a show with him," and the cleaning woman had assured him that It was amazing he had never been married since he was "the finest gentleman she had ever seen." And Fred Lane fell completely Into the trap of the flattery that was of his own making. After a week he reflected, "Perhaps I'm not such an awkward, uncouth fellow after all." In two weeks he was wondering whether the cleaning woman had spoken with a grain of truth. Perhaps some girl would be willing to marry him. It was then that he saw Mr. Bates again. "I'm going to beg a week off," he said. "There is a young lady out West I'm going out to marry" "But I thought you said you weren't even engaged when you came East?" said Mr. Bates.' "No, I wasn't," said Fred. "It had never occurred to me that she'd want me. But I telegraphed to ask her, Then as Mr. and she said 'yes.'" Bates was leaving, Fred Lane called after him, "Say, your advice about the personal comment seems to have worked ad right. And you're right. It gets to be second nature after a while." me" e What must surely be one of the most fascinating industries In the world Is carried on in southern France, where special butterfly farms have Here, under scienbeen established. tific guidance, hundreds of beautiful specimens are bred. has been tried and numerous experiments are conducted to obtain brilliant and original markCross-breedin- g ings on the wings of these Insects, which are afterward sold to collectors or for the adornment of women's hats and dresses. The farms are provided with special leafy trees and plants on which Directly the the eggs are hatched. young appear the branches are cut off and taken to a specially ventilated room, where they are placed in vases of water. As soon as the tiny caterpillars have eaten up this first supply of leaves fresh branches are provided. Having been in an even temperature for about two weeks the young caterpillars are taken out into the open, where they are placed on plants that are protected from birds, by long nets. When they have become fully grown this protective net is removed and soon themthey retire into cocoons or roll selves up into leaves. These are collected and stored in specially ventilated boxes, where, In a very short time butterflies of wonderful hues are evolved. Philadelphia Inquirer. he asked. "Why no," said Fred. "I suppose I do say but I've always a lot on my mind and " Mr. Bates was laughing with more than mild amusement. "And then you wonder why you aren't popular. You wonder why you don't get Did you see the expression of the young woman that just came In? Every line of her face showed consciousness of slight. She was deeply offended and so are the rest. What you want to do is to treat them like Putt Them Out people not like cogs In a wheel. The can't keep a beau on Kllen "Poor Personal comment Is what does the of 'rick. Remember their names, notice nrcount of that unfortunate father 'heir new clothes, kid 'em a little. It hers." "What's the trouble?" won't cost anything and you won't "You see the old man's an have to spend much thought on It, and he enn't get over the habit either. Just get Into the habit, and vu can do it almost automatically. I of fighting the flames." Boston Traft know there are men who make good script. 'good-mornin- LaFollette at the Height of His Power I'nited States Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin Is reported at this w riting as 'convalescent from an attack of pneumonia. This dread disease Is mighty uncertain, so both the friends and enemies of the Wisconsin senator were worried even those who regard lira as a "political nuisance." 0 man In American politics has had stormier career than LaFollette. Once the "Lonely Man of the Senate," disowned by his party, ostracized by his colleagues, condemned for his opposition to America's participation In the war, his expulsion from the senate Is Religious Dancing Says Joseph Baker of Memphis in Praising World's Greatest Tonic Tells of Recovery. v J if J a Pagan Pageant? Dr. William Norman Guthrie, rec In the Bouwerle, New York city, is a local center around which one of the storms Is raging. While there are doubtless wheels within wheels to the controversy, the cause of the open break appears to have been "religious dance pageant, setting forth the wonder and glory of the Incarnation." At any rate, Rt. Rev. W. T. Manning, bishop of New York, has decreed that the church be deprived of Episcopal visitations and ministration as tbe result of the religious dance. Apparently Dr. Guthrie's wardens and vestry stand with him, Inasmuch as It is announced that the rector had planned two more "pagan" pageants and one eurythmlc ritual. A group of clergymen In the New York diocese made the following comment on the bishop's action : "Bishop Manning Is our father In God. and It would 111 become us to criticize what he has done. In mailing an Interpretation as to the legality or Illegality of holding a religious pageant In a church, he was acting not only within his constitutional rights, but In fulfillment of his consecration vow. He chose the stricter course and penalized the parish for disobedience to his Judgment Whether he is correct In his interpretation of the law can be determined only after Dr. Guthrie has been tried by a court of his peers, from whose verdict there Is an appeal to the Court of Review, composed of clergy and laity drawn from the dioceses of the Eastern United States." tor of St. Mark's Modernist-fundamentali- "Poor Man vs. Rich Man" in Colorado Dreamt of Affluence "Isn't this false report that you have made a sudden fortune going to cause suspicion among your constituents?" 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