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Show . Agreeable New Contacts By GRACE LEA (CspyrKht.) "1 0THER" suppose jou tad I to Into business," an&ouDced Ros-ana Ros-ana Hickson. "My dear I" retorted her parent with a dictionary of meaning in the two words. "Oh, I know father loft o very weil provided for, and we don't have to do anything but live on In a genteei, ladylike lady-like fashion without working! But, mother, I'm fed up on this drab existence. ex-istence. Will you listen to my plan?" Her mother could do no less. "It almost seems as if this home were left to us for the purpose I have In mind. I want to take In automobile automo-bile tourists, lodge them and give them breakfast or other meals. If they like. We are right on the college highway j and there will be no end of alee people peo-ple who may want lodging betwee here and the northern points. I'd like to create a real home atmosphere so that they would come back again and you and I could make something and have a little pleasure in new contacts. What do you say?" "It seems very strange, daughter." "It seemed strange the first time yon cast your ballot, didn't it, dear?" asked the persistent girl. "It did," admitted the 'mother. If she bad only realized It, she was doomed to fall into the new business busi-ness scheme, because Sosana had worked It out in detail long before she suggested It to her mother. She had secured estimates on another bathroom and the decoratlag of four old-fashioned chambers, the renovating renovat-ing of the overstuffed furniture and new curtains. "All these Improvements will make our home more attractive and enhance Its value If we ever want to sell it," Rosana told her mother. "And I have some . perfectly lovely decorations worked out There will be a blue room, dainty and pretty is a picture and comfortable. And the yellow bedroom bed-room is to be done with Ivory walls, yellow dotted swiss and painted furniture fur-niture with rag rugs. Won't that be darling? The big living room where I shall make It a point to have the guests feel at home when they stop, will be wonderful. I shall keep a big log Sre burning and there will be a fragrance of pine about the room thit will linger In their memories. Each comfy chair will have a table beside It with a light and seme books, ash trays for the men snd everything comfortable after a drive. The long table behind the big chesterfield will be loaded with magazines and you and I will make it a point to create an atmosphere of homlness that will charm them. Ton know you have e remarkable personality, mother dear. If you will only not be quit so stiff with strangers." Mrs. Blckson was almost enthusias- i tic when her daughter talked so vivid- 1 ly and it was only a short time after that that they found themselves welcoming wel-coming their first tourists. When the season was well en Its way, the mother and daughter decided that their venture was to be a decided success and that they were both enjoying en-joying their days as they bad never done before. Many a group of guests lingered far Into the evening te sit by the fire and talk and the breakfast break-fast table was frequently a very merry meeting place, and friendly bands were extended as lewly-nttc acquaintances ac-quaintances parted. The day that a tidy little coupe drew up under the old port eechere and a slender, lntellectial looking man stepped out, was s momentous one In Rosana's life. The it ranger who sought lodging and traveled alene was a professor la i college far up la the mountains and be wasted te leave early the following morning so as te make the remaining trip before aoon. "I know I shall net want to leave this room at dawn," he told Buaana when she conducted him te the east room done In gray and vlelet. "These are my favorite colers." Fate had so ordered It that no other autotnobllists sought the Hlcksoo home that night, sad as Rosana's mother sat by the fire only long enough to . be polite, the two newly found companions syent an evening never to be forgotten. Of books and life and their mutual tastes they talked until It would have seemed that tho professor was cuffing his sleep very short If he needed te make so early a start the next day. Fresh as a daisy and with aa added sparkle of beauty In her eyes, Rosana Ros-ana said good-by to Mm Just after the sun had risen and they had breakfasted breakfast-ed together on the porch. I "You'll keep my room) for mm at Christmas time?" he asked. "And If It snows?" Rosana queried. "Whether or not It shows I'd like to stop here both on my way home from college and on my way back after the New Year," Professor Bowlot suld. definitely. Kosana was anre, as sho watched his car disappear dowa the avenee of old elms that he would return. "How did you like our guest, dear?" tier mother asked, pointedly, as Rosana Ros-ana had her second cupful of coffee. "I why I liked him very much, mother," she replied, blushing as shs had never blushed ever the score or o:ore of young men who hsd stopped at their home. "And he Is coming back at Christmas and the Hew Tear." Her mother noddsd. TVs are mak-i mak-i Leg new contacts, aren't we, 4s.agh-ter?" 4s.agh-ter?" she askd, playullf. |