Show HER OWN OJAY AY CA C 0 A GIRL THE STORY SO FAR Julia Dean tired of ot just milling Around Is in Chicago seeking In Individuality individuality In- In and independence She left home with after Indignantly Indignantly Indig Indig- rejecting the demand of f her father and mother Mr and Mrs Jason Dean that she marry Charles Becker man about town whose eye she blacked b when shen he insulted her During her first night In Chicago after eating a sumptuous hotel dinner din din- ner ncr she discovered she had lost her purse THE ADVENTURE STARTS When hen I learned the price of rooms at the hotel to which the travelers' travelers aid had sent me I was filled with consternation But nothing daunted I decided It would be best for lor m m. me to stay where I was for the night at least After I had taken a bath and prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared m myself for dinner I felt better and anel decided that Id I'd go to some restaurant for m my dinner even if I were alone I would would not go back on all my brave resolutions I would give this thing that I had started on a good chance I would see for fOI myself if a girl could get et along alone in a n. big city Hy as well as a n. man However it was vas with great trepidation dation that I entered one of the largest restaurants in town and as asI I learned afterwards the most expense ex ex- ex- ex pensive pens I As I looked over oer the menu I realized realized realized real real- for the first time tim that meant very little to begin my workaday life liCe upon and I began to tob tobe b be very a apprehensive The price of my room at the hotel and for the most modest little meal on this card would leave me methe methe methe the next morning with more than 10 gone out of my precious Telling myself that I would begin to economize the next day I or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered steak and potatoes I was very hungry and I I. I determined to add to it an pear avocado-pear salad I had never nevel eaten an avocado No Noone Noone Noone one had ever seen them in our ourtown our ourtown town Then of course I wanted some ice cream As I waited for my dinner to be served I t began to forget about myself myself my my- self seir and to be interested in the people people people peo peo- around me I looked about and wondered Y if all an the young women I who sho seemed so gay and so beautifully beautifully fully dressed and so apparently happy and carefree carefree so so evidently being cared for by some man man man- either father or sweetheart or husband hus hus- band had band had not perhaps chosen the easiest wa way at least Wouldn't it Jt be better if it I were to go back home and marr marry Chuck I was the tle only young woman in inthe inthe inthe the room who was unescorted and andI I noticed that the waiter waite had put me at a rather secluded table I asked myself if It wouldn't be better for me to go into the dressIng dressIng dressIng dress- dress Ing room and get just the right amount of f money out for my dinner dinner din din- ner tip instead of waiting Availing until I had f finished dining lining when I would ha have ve to tal take e the money out of f the roll of bills I had pinned so ca carefully carefully care care- re- re fully in my bag Just at this moment the waiter brought wrought my 01 steak For some untold untold untold un un- un- un told reason I became ver very after alter finishing m m. m my avocado salad which after aCter all ail did not appeal to me Before my ice cream had been served I decided to go to the dressIng dressin dress- dress in Ing ng room and looking down to pick pickup pickup pickup up my bag lg I found it was gone Copyright 1926 NEA Service Inc Iric TOMORROW Catastrophe |