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Show LOVE and MARRIED LIFE! jfl 33U, the noted author I Mali MGlone Gibson 8 H THE COMING WOMAN. "Do you mean to toll me, Alice," I said, for the moment forgetting" my own affairs In tho newness of hcr's, "that you aro going to voto If you got a chance?" "Why, of course, my dear. It will be my duty to vote. And let mo tell you a great BecreL When womon have a little more experience they will tako more Interest and know more about what they aro voting for than does tho average man. Womon, when they really get going In politics, will havo another standard of feminine beauty. "Up until now tho standard of beauty in women has been youth, for unconsciously back In tho minds of men thoro Is always a utilitarian motive mo-tive behind beauty of any kind. Nature Na-ture has given us ono great prlvilogo, the prlvlloge of bearing children, and man han mado the period in which wo could bear them tho only period In which we might be callod beautiful. "I recall thnt Tint sn Inner nrrn T T..M nessed what was called the victory convention of tho suffragists. Thcro was hardly a woman there under 40, and yet among them some of tho most beautiful women I have ever seen. Somotlilnp for Her Country. In the future, Katherlnc, when a woman reaches what the novelist calls 'tho dangerous age, sho will not go! 'kind of batty,' as Tom calls it, and dress horself in tho geegaws of yputh and try to hold on a littlo longer to tho admiration of men, but she will look forward serenely and happily to doing something of worth and to achlevo something for her sex and her country. We are always bolng told how much tho suffragist can do for her country, but It seems to me that merely making women citizens, merely mere-ly giving thorn something to do after their children have flown tho nest, merely giving them a feeling of being somo use In the world after they are 40 to CO, Is tho greatest thing that hasj been given to our sex since It was. turned out of tho Garden of Eden and told that forever after would rest upon it the age-worn accusation, "the woman wom-an tempted me." "If men will only realize this they will be much happier. They seem to think that if a woman ha3 brains she is undesirable, and they never will admit ad-mit that brains and beauty can bo embodied em-bodied In one woman." I looked at Alice. "Tom must havo learned that fact." I said. "Yes," sho answered, ' but what do you think my husband says to me about It?" In a burst of confidence one night he said, 'Alice, you are so beautiful that I love you in spite of your brains, and that's man's attitude. my dear, tho world over." Most Important of All. jH "I am afraid," I said, "that I shall never be a new woman. For Just at IH present tho fact of John's love for me jH and my lovo for John soem3 much moro Important than anything- elso in jH tho world." fl '"But, don't you understand, my dear Kathorlne, that John can lovo you and IH you can lovo John even if you are a woman who has some Interest In other affairs of life." jH "I might love John, but you know your brother well enough to know IH that John couldn't lovo me, If he thought that I knew onough to man-ago man-ago my own affairs. He has never al- r'jt lowed me to talk to him about bust- r rjl ness in any way. When I havo asked him tho least Important question H about his work and sometimes I have asked tho question only for tho sake of making conversation ho has shut he said, 'My dear, it wouldn't interest jH you. Why bother your pretty head 'M about iL" "And yet I hav heard that same brother of mine." said Alice, "go Into the minutest details of ono of his .ad-vertlslng .ad-vertlslng campaigns with his stcnog-raphor." stcnog-raphor." I smiled. "Of course, you realize, H5 Alice," I said, "that John'3 stenog- r raphor is tall, angular, awkward, i cross-eyed, gray -haired and 45." "That may havo something to do ; with it," said Alice musingly. "I don't L remember over seeing a man dining- , fk vjj with his stenographer, If by any j PB chance that description would fit her." Wj Very Fragile Possession. ' f "All of which, Alice, brings me back ' j 'A to my own affairs. John doesn't want 'icTm mo to be anything but a possession, a rl very fragile, lovely possession, per- i haps, but something that absolutely jr' h belongs to him, nevertheless. I am' "y jr V not happy at bolng that, and I do not think that I have the strength of char- Ti I actor to bo happy If he only treated i , 1 J me as Tom does you, as a pal and ' r 1 comrade. You see, this transition ago ! of woman is a yery unhappy one for u jff most of us. I confess I would like to ( .m- I have lived years ago, when women i' jS . knew of no other llfo, except that of W being possessed by some man, a fa- i JE thcr perhaps, until he gavo her to her ! ?" husband; or it might be that I should J ? bo happy In 1950, when womon will be the equal of men In all tho affairs of J" life, and this great thing, which we f - 'call love, will not bo of man's life a l I i j tiling apart and woman's whole exist-' i ? ence." 1 . rf! 1 (To bo Continued.) ; i |