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Show P i Martha, the Candy Girl Cy JANE 03BORN :r . (Cupyrlhlit. WHEN Martha w;is In collet:'! she lo llCI' Illillll llllll If she ever dirt haw lo fji in Iht own living she would do it In sonic unusual way. She would go Into sonn sort of business busi-ness Hint didn't n II i-iict oilier college grnduntca Thus she, wit I licr superior su-perior education, would compote only wllh obviously Inferior, uneducated people mid her llniiiieinl success would Ik; assured. Martha was tin one. meiulier of licr fiimlly who bad gone to college Unit was doubtless wliy she held such an exalted Idea of Uk: valui) of the decree, for which she wa working. Until the end of her senior year there didn't seem to be the shadow of a chance that she ever would have to earn her own living. She had Inherited from her fatliei large tracts of farm land but somehow some-how through un Involvement of business busi-ness that Martha couldn't quite understand, un-derstand, tiny immediate return from her ncres was out of the question. Martha took stock of her accomplishments. accom-plishments. All round the campus she was known as the candy girl. That settled It. If there was one thing she excelled in it was in inniuiig canny. Undoubtedly she had n gift and this gift she would put to good account. She hud never, henrd of a man or woman wllh n college degree going Into the candy business. The vast majority of her competitors In this business would not be blessed with her superior education. On the last day of college Bertram Ross had proposed to Martini. A few Jays before finother of her class had proposed. Two or three others would nave done the same If she had given diem an opportunity. But Martha was not especially impressed by this epidemic of proposals. She felt that ier popularity was due to no personal chnrms, but rather to her ability to make candy. So she told Bertram Ross that she didn't want to marry him because she wanted to go Into the candy business. All that summer Martha worked at her scheme. She made a little candy In a little room she had rented In the city, and she sold it at the exchanges and at the counters of one or two grocery stores, making enough barely to cover expenses. She couldn't meet much more of a demand until she hnd set up a larger workroom and hired a girl or two to help with the work, and she couldn't afford. to expand ex-pand her plant In this way unless she was assured of the orders. So Martha went forth with samples and took orders. or-ders. She went to the buying agent for a large chain of news stands. He cautiously expressed approval of the candy, hut If he took any he would take a great denl. He would want a contract nnd a guarantee that she would continue to use the same Ingredients In-gredients that she did then. Of course Martha used the best ' materials. It was because she did that she, a newcomer, new-comer, was already able to compete wmi uiese people wiin long-estao-lished businesses. It was, she thought, because they had not received the advantages ad-vantages of a college education." Martha looked over the terms of the proposed contract. The price she was to receive for the candy seemed a little lit-tle too low, but the buying agent said' he would not consider the deal nt a higher figure and Martha knew he meant It. lie wanted to have her sign at once but Martha held bnek-H3he would have to do a little figuring first. Martha went elatedly back to her dingy workroom nnd read the proposed pro-posed contract over carefully. She hart stopped to get wholesale prices on her way home. Some things in the contract she did not quite understand. Then It occurred to her that Bertram Ross was working in a law office, studying law nt the same time. Hy could easily explain the few thing? she didn't understand In the contract. Martha knew Bertram was in the same city but he had said that since she would not marry him he didn't .want to see her. He had seemed so Incredulous about her plans that she wanted him to see tin's contract any- way wanted to show him that within a few months she had won success. So it was that the next day Bertram Ross culled at Martha's candy kitchen to talk over the contract. Martha gave a little gasp as he appeared. She had forgotten how very attractive I "le really was. With the contract spread out on one I if the work tables and Martha bend- I ng over It In her (link work sun ck j (hey read It slowly together, Bertram asked her a few questions and did v,'.rr ijuicl; figuring. Then he looked 1 up nt Martha. j "It can't be done," he said. "They tried to sew you up with a losing deal. Either you have got to use less ex pensive materials or you've got to get more for your candy, nnd If von sign this contract nnd don't make good you'll he In n pretty tlx." Martha began very gently to cry The whole fabric of her dreams seemed to fade away nnd all she knew or cared about lust then was that Bertram was beside her, that hi; had his arms around her, nnd that he was telling her that even while he was studying law he could afford to support her as his wife. j "Yon know that early marriages j even on a limited Im-onv turn out I best yen learned that In college," I Bertram told her. j "I kr.ow I did," acreed Martha hap ' pily. , i |