Show the girl who dared to tell the truth and her mother called it a case of Fier nervous prostration once upon a time there waa was a girl who was just about to enter upon her third season in society she had had two very successful vears bears during the first of which she had been feted and wined and dined by every root and branch of her large family connection for the sake of the position she held and in the second for the sake of her own personality which was mas made up of a gracious manner an feire politeness to every one and ard a tact that was almost uncanny in its powers of sparing the feelings of others and of aiwas saving and doing the right thing at the right time on the brink of the third season the girl sat down and took an Inen inventory tory of her stock in trade said she I 1 was born a free and unconventional spirit and I 1 have sold iry try birth right for a mess of popularity I 1 was born truthful and I 1 have bae learned to lie I 1 used to pride myself on being square with tho the world and no now I 1 couldn coulden t face a b hire tre fact if ni life depended upon it I 1 have liane anver anner till tin there ia 1 scarcely an atom of thu the real me left I 1 do to tho the things that the world expects me to do and sn aaa the things tint tivit the world orld expects me to sav sa and there I 1 nothing 1 gen genil lut in me and wa t bevo I 1 got out ot it all tila I 1 am by people who lore bore nio me to their dull lull en where I 1 f rin and smirk and pretend I 1 am li tn ir g a t me I 1 talk all to men who ho havn t half halt a grain of sense in their heads and lead them to believe bellene thit I 1 think the are charming I 1 am on dress qs girade all tho the time whether I 1 feel like it or r t be c I 1 know it lays ava to be called well groomed and I 1 can lite literally rall feel my soul shrin shrinking hing and m mv heart withering i under it all yet I 1 han en t courage or presence of mind enough to put an end to it and be myself the girl pondered for a ion loni while her bro brow puckered into a dokei little ailt interrogation points and ali I ly she rose to her tier feet with alth ng close resembling a stamp and ant cried vehemently ehe menti ill 11 do it 1 it take tale linth for my shield and honest for my bui ahr and fight the u world orld N with ith them for mv tit lost individuality Individual lt at which crisis the telephone bull boll rang violently violent and a voice olce at the other ead said halste dear fear vou on are al mas so lovely about helping me with aith my afternoons Is it asking too much of vou oti to come and sing a song or two ONO for me tomorrow at affie now or never the girl said to herself here elf with ith her teeth clenched and then answered alond I 1 I 1 am afraid it Is mis Ch chumley 1 I hate teas you know kno and to have the responsibility of their success or failure resting on my rolce ia good deal to ask espe since oti hive hae askco ane same thing ing half a dozen timer before A horrified oh 1 I boeg bour our pardon do I 1 dian didn t know from the other end of the phone and the receiver celer re was hung on with a bang now I 1 have done it said the girl to herself ruefully rueful lv but afta a rno mo merit ment she brightened up I 1 feel as it if I 1 had bad taken a tonic she admitted johnting John sing to see you nias niss billed the maid tapping at her door at thia this hour what on earth can he lie want fretted the girl tell him ill be down doan in a few es and habit babit took her to the mirror here she carelessly powdered her nobe a and then as carefully brushed it oft off again I 1 it if he doesn t like me with a shiny nose it makes no difference to me she muttered while the little imp of convention whispered in her ear you know he s the catch of the town and bour family expects ou to marry him and every other girl vou ou know Is envious of his attentions to you ou poor mr johnson wondered on dered more than once what had come over tho the girl she was nas blunt to brusqueness she contradicted him where there she was as wont ont to agree she laughed nt at his ridiculous rids which she once praised she mocked his acquire accent an 1 cinao cent him aua because he bored her feeling more bew than he lie had ever vilt in fit his life and in th an upset stat of mind that it lied hed ail tho the wiles of suaan suman smith lier her most dangerous rival hint to lull him to a belief in his flouted charms once more this was nas only the beginning of tho the girl girls s rebellion against the conventions the poor girl who dreamed she might rout in an armed force at tho the point of an embroider needle mid and all for the saho of her poor little personality it was mas a splendid tonic s she e sob bingly to herself at the end of the season but I 1 doubt if it benefited oven even me and and I 1 ve ne scarcely a friend left her mother told eer one it aas a nervous nemous breakdown break donn the child been like hr herself self all va winter inter bhe said apologetically apologetic all aher wherever ever tha tho world could overhear gilt but it was pars before the girl could co conventionalize to the point of making the nor world id believe ohp sh was vas not going to step on ita its toes whenever he neer she came around |