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Show RIGHT LOVE IS THE BEST. The Beauty. By Mrs. Wilson Wood row. With Illustrations by Will Grefe. The Bobbs-Merrlll Company, Indiajiapolls. The Beauty in this case did not ex-actlv ex-actlv espouse The Beast; but the bridegroom bride-groom is Crcsswell llopworth, "far from old, not fift3'," nnd with "moro than three generations of cultivated ancestry qchind him," say three and a half. ' Nothing is said about the cultivated culti-vated ancestry of the girl, and her descendants would perhaps h'avo to make only a half notch for her on this score. For a time tho girl was overcome over-come aud bewildered by the luxury and taste Trhich she found nil about her in tho Hcpworth homo; but presently appeared ap-peared Eugene Grcsham, the snake in the grass, an art esthetic, who, presuming presum-ing upon previous attraction for himself him-self on tho part of tho girl-wifo and I making tho most of their mutual passion for music, thrusts himself in between tho husband and wife, and tho inevitable in-evitable domestic catastrophe occurs, but not tho final degradation of tho wife. The husband goes away, and the wifo enters unon her "work and success." suc-cess." And yet her Eugene did not fill her thoughts; Creswell dwelt there all the time, and sho camo to know thut lovo was more than all else; and that while sho had expected Eugeno to speak the magic word, he was unable to do so. In so far as there is any lesson in the story, it is a warning to willful wives to hold fast to thoir right allegiance, al-legiance, and that no matter how much they may wish to shake it off, it is the boat thing for them, after all. |