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a a Bl Ema 3 PAGE SIA "JAC by Countess Barcynska Author of "ROSE O' THE SEA" Before the full-lengtn portrait of "Irene, daughter of the 'Barl ot Marlbury," painted by John Grand- ison, Virginia Marlbury, catalogue in hand, came to a stop. It was an arresting plece of work, as every- thing from Grandison's brush invar- jably was. It was sald that he painted women cruelly; yet women flocked to his studio. A feverish curiosity made them want to eee their innermost souls depicted on canvas, Grandison was a master of his art, and he also had the courage of youth. He had worked hard in order to achieve fame: the desire to make money 'had been a secondary consid- eration with him. He had always painted to please himself, and as generally happens with those of un- deniable talent he had, at an unus- ually stage in his career, become the most fashionable portraitist of the day. In the main he was, hostile to women. He showed it through the medium of his art instead of in words. But he had not done this in Irene's case, That was the reason, coupled with others more definite, why Vir- ginia was regarding the portrait with a frowm Grandison had paint- pa re Cent rls Aor for letter ih boi on A tl It Kao peatoriq The Henstly and rho fingers » Kanade, Aas ds ee Aha ntos, Pitz fies, OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1021 -- to be an elder sister to you, and 1] hope I've succeeded." | Irene was willing to concede all| this and more. She nodded assent. But the solemn mode of address made her want 'to laugh. "Dear Virginia! You take yourself so awfully seriously, You're much | too young to sermonize, I know! you think you ought to. But please don't, It won't do me a bit of good, and it may give you clergyman's face, whigh is much worse than housemalid's knee, because it's bound ed Irene as an artist paints who Isto Show, why 084 Jou take Ine in love with his sitter. The. pic-|as it comes anc 'et things rip, as ture was a lover's picture as well {1b} Father dosn't bother ahout 44 an artists Yriumph. | It did not at all suit Virginia to Irene, as Virginia could but ad- allow her husband's attitude to be mit, was a delight to the eye. Her taken as an example. There was u beauty was very patrician; breeding | Breat deal too much opportunism about him. Her own code of pro- was exemplified in her from the |, joty that of New Bngland--was, crown of her finely shaped head to|ghe felt assured, much better spit- the arch of her well-formed feet. ed to the oceasion. Grandison had done full justice to}, Tw Qiite sure that your father | . has mot fully realized how indescreet all this and a great deal more be {you have been. she rejoined. "Hon: sides, [estly, Irene, your friendship with Virginfa sat down on one of the My, Grandison ought to stop. Hvery- fauteuils. An. ever-moving, freshly !ope is talking ahout it. Kveryhody forming, crowd pressed around the knows the whole story--his version portrait. She listened to all shelor it. [I went to see your portrait could hear. She had come partly this afternoon. People were gos- to 'see and partly to listen. What 'gipping dreadfully. All sorts of she heard did not ease her mind. people! It was really revolting." By and by she got up, left the gal-| Irene faced round from the glass. lery, got into her car, and drove She was not much more than a home. °° girl, but at times she could be very | She went straight up to her step-| stately. iaughter's bedroom. Irene was "I ean't discuss my heart with 'rying on a fancy dress which. she you, Virginia," she said, "Mr. ntended to wear that night at the Grandison 'and I love one another. Three Arts Ball, It was a remark-|That hi can't get married hecause ible dress, as arresting in Ms way he has #n incurable wife in a Juna- 18 herself or her picture hy Grandi-!tic asylum doesn't alier the fact. son. 'The novelty of its design and |There is nothing wrong in meeting he brilliance of its coloring con-;as we do, and there's certainly no | 'ounded Virginia. : harm in By Yefusing Lo marry aby | "g Irene!" _ other man because 1 can't have the | aco aTaciauy, he orgeous! 01° 1 want. , That's a matter for Vhat on earth is it supposed to he?' | myself, isn't it? "John calls it 'The Blazon of, The quiet obduracy exasperated 3eanty.' " Irene replied with ° a! Virginia. laugh. "He designed it. Do yon "But people are talking!' she like it?" jeried. "Not only those in our own "It's beautiful enough. But you set. I mean the crowd. Impossible needn't have gone to that man for | people! Se dread gossip about yon an idea." Stronk disapproval mark- | getting into the papers! Surely you ed the second statement. ° {don't want to, be talked about on Whenever Irene was annoyed she |the street and in papers that our showed it by an increase of pallor. own kitchenmalids read?" Grandison said it was her patrician | v va | E" of in dignity. | explain the exact quality "What is the good of talking like regard for Mr. Grandison that, Virginia? I thought the sub- kitchen? ject was elosed. s0 often hefore." Virginia sat down. with the i ; 1 about to try a case, but with none! We're not ashamed of it. It's all of a 'judge's absence of bias. She, We've got, and it's a wholesome one. | meant to make one more effort to We've kept it so. | dissuade Irene from following « line "I mnot asking you to cut him," | of conduet which she considered | Virginia said , restively. both feglish and indisereet. {want you to silence all this bhor-|; "You know I've always tried to|rible gossip by getting married. | be a true friend to you," she begans| You can't marry Mr. Grandison. "y don't pretend to exerecisethe pri-| You admit that yaurself. Why not| vileges of a mother. I'm not old somebody else, then? Somebody eli- enough. No third person, however gible. Y well-meaning, ought to go as far as | loving him in the end." | that. But, Irene, I've. done my best]! A note of hesitancy in the last the | ¢ She did jt |of it than you, Virginia. "I only! words convineed Irene that they Big Reductions IN "7 | were in the nature of a special ; I | pleading. { "Loving whom?" she queried, sus- | piciously. "Well---Mervyn." Irene looked relieved. E/ + Dear Mervyn! He deserves 3a | far better wife than 1 could ever , I'm perfectly sure he were given {away with a pound of tea. It's mo , ? = good ,Virginia. I dare sal it's an C Max ats, Dreczz and Blouges For This Saturday Only AT: Schwartz 9 King Street East. -- er open secret that the reason 1 keep * | single is because I'm fond of a man Skirts | who isn't free. You needn't make ih things barder by rubbing it in. I try to make the best of things by | bowing to fate, mot uarreling with it. 1 should be really wicked if I married someone 1 didu't care for. Surely you must understand. Think how you would feel if you had mar- ried* father without loving him." Virginia had mothing te say. AM unconsciously, Irene had flicked her on the raw. She lingered a little, and then, realizing how ineffectual her efforts had been to break down what she deemed to be an infatua- tion for an undesirable lover, left her and, for once in a way, went to enlist the moral support of her hus- band. rr She found Marlbury in the hall, just about to £0 out. In despera- tion she buttonholed him and be- SE GIN ecials | bea for Friday & Saturday and Following Week gan pouring out her woes. He list- ened patiently enough, but with rather a weary expression om his ruddy, debonair face. "But what can I do?" he asked helplessly. "Irene's bound to be im love with somebody. I've heard rumors about her and Grandison. Don't suppose there's much in ft. = People with noting to do always = exaggerate. If I were you I should = |not take any notice of their talk. Best leave Irene alone. Everyone's got their owm troubles. Isn't it | George Meredith who says, 'Every girl after she's reached the age of twenty-five has the right to choose own ife'?- Can't say I exactly see why, but there yow are!" "Oh. moyelists will say anything!" Vi declared petulantly. "Irene Grandison aren't characters in fietion. They happen to be real "1 like Grandison.," mused Marl- "Fine painter." "But he's got a wife already!" "I know. Very sad affair. In- sanity in her family, 1 believe, and he wasn't told. Poor chap, he's been as good as a widower for years." Sympathy for her bete noire did not placate Virginia. She wanted it all for herself. H LTT A AEA TTR AY NEW YEAR SALE "What I want. you to do." she said "is to put w foot down. You (must. Forbid 1 having anything more to do with Grandison. It's your duty." A RE am TO BE CONTINUED 3 Dotlion o- 3 li, ; Cl hi Co. 3 68 KING ST. W. ity ask questions, out, boys were not learning their fathers but from other boys and their knowledge was in the major- ity of cases wrong and carried noth- ing of the simple beauty which birth and life embody. to meet this problem of sex or more? education sidestepping, never. we sidestep? we ashamed or don't we know?" for the dinner table, pointed out, but it was which should be gone into between father ayd son, mother and daughter and just as much between and son, father and daughter. "It is not a horrible and ugly thing people to love and make a home agd l-rear their family, it is "What do you want me to do 7|and beautiful thing. way of repelling an 'effront to her To correct wrong impressions and |scene and nasty thing to see a beauti- my | ful butterfly emerge from its downy We've heen into it | were put before the servants "they jjttle one how he or she came would have more real understanding {je world after being carefully, car- IL am not| icq and nourished in the mother's deliberation of a judge going to give up this friendship. | 4qy first. | too soon { about Algebra yom would know | had but heard the word and | not You wouldn't be able to help| W . + 3. . Lift Sex Veil (Continued from page 1) \ wry ado spell, but we forget that the very fun- damental priyeiples of life itself are not being educated," continued the speaker. 'Just think, we are all horn in the same way, in a wonder- ful way. No more beautiful nor more wonderful story is written than that found in the second chapter of Luke where we read of the birth of the Child Jesus. And yet, when little Mary comes to her mother and in childish innocence and eagerness wants to know where she came from, how she came into the world, what does mother say? "No Mary, rin along and don't You'll find out those things later on, there's time enough yet.' "And what does Mary do? Gener- ally her curiosity is increased and she goes to some older girl in the school. The older girl usually tells her some story, not a very nice one either us- ually, which she has heard from the lips of still another girl or boy, Mary's head is filled with a mistrust of her mother, a guilt of having a secret in her heart, and a false and ugly knowledge of what should be ene of the most heautiful things | lite, life itself." And in + Withrow pointed from Similarly, Dr. "How are we going f the young? Never by And why should Are we afraid, or are Better Too Soon Than Late Sex education was not a subject Dr. Withrow a subject mother for a charming It is not an ob- .ocoon, nor should it be other than a 1 dare say if the situation | jgyely picture for a parent to teli its into "As for the age at which a child | should be told, use your own judg- ment," | minded the parents that better a year counselled the Doctor hut re- than one moment too late. you he could understand your explanation ere you to give it, but he could un- 'If a ehild of six were to ask I derstand the combination of figures which makes Arithmetic. Similarly with sex education, tell as much as the ehild's brain will grasp. If they kuow they have your confidence and that you are on the square with them, they will come again when they want to know more, but faii them once and they will never trust you again. Clear Away Mystery "Morality does not mean . repres- sion," said Dr. Withrow in eonclus- fon. "Many of us here to-day were hushed and repressed when in the ad- olescent age, and the result is that right here in Oshawa to-day there are marriages far from happy beesusé neither the father nor the mother knew what they were going into when they married, Morality or sex education means a wholesome life, a lite so rounded out and developed along spiritual, mental, physical and social lines that you don't think of $200 given aw Write for bpakice 4 : pei fie 0X0 and MILK Children; invalids; nursing mc thers, and ald peaple, should tal = a glass of Oxo and milk on 'e or twice a day. It is a sp 'ndid food,/a perfect meal -- nc irishing ad delicious, Oxo in milk overcomes the di ficulty of digesting milk which m.iny frequently experience, any one great sex force. Sex eduea- tion has not been what it should be, hut let the light shine in now, Let every parent and every teacher raal- ize thelr dugy to the boys and girls the young meén-and the young women. If you don't know the beautiful les- son of life and birth, learn it. Take away the mystery take away the deep covering of silence which surround life and the young péople won't dig and get wrong ideas. "All kinds of tragedies result from gress reported, library and a rugby hall for the boys had been purchased. 80 $220 in the hank. class had heen formed and much #1 bank to their credit. 4 efforts of their club, a plano hought and a class in plain sewing wes pro- gressing, There was still §25 in the | Books for the school Albert Street School Club, the baby club in the city, had already twenty members and $100 towards buying a piano for the school. , 'The musical program was furnish. ed by Mrs. McMuilen and Mrs, Bailes, Owing to the lateness of the hour the annual election of officers wag left till the next meeting, There was Al | Simcoe Street School groun heen greatly improved through sad the mystery and lack of knowledge, The human body is beautiful and won- derful, not dirty and nasty. But how are we going to care and treasure our possessions if we don't know we have them? Parents and teachers, mem- hers of Home and School Clubs, I im- plore you, do not hesitate to discuss this subject but clear away the mys- tery and tell the ehildren. It is not only in Turkey and India that women are trampled upon and men are sel- fish and brutal, but right here in Oshawa and Toronto and all over people are living in ignorance and tragedies are being enacted hecause our young people do not know, they have never heen sex or morally edu- cated." Splendid Progress Following a most hearty vote of thanks to the speaker for his excel- lent address, reports were read from the various Home and School Clubs throughout the city, At Mary Street a splendid feeling of friendship and co-operation had resulted from the club's activities and in addition to furnishing a rest room for the teach- ers, a victrola and record for the school, and a rink, the club had on hand $110. / King Street School reported pro- gress to the extent of having purchas- ed a piano during the year, securing the services of Jack Miner for his bird lecture, built a rink, bought a set of Books of Knowledge and in addition to $225 ou hand had plants, bulbs and shrubs ready to beautify the grounds in the spring. At Centre Street School a sewing -- a Oshawa argain 'Store 2 Simcoe St. North Special Bargains for Friday and Saturday and all next week Work Trousers Work Shirts Fine Dress Shirts Combinations Boys' Combinations Boys' Pullover Sweaters, heavy brown heather Men's heavy Wool Socks, reg. 50c, at 3 prs. for $1.00 These are only a few of our specials, come in and see the rest of them, it is worth while, M. ENUSHESKY OPP. QUEEN'S HOTEL BLOCKS - OSHA WA'S "GREATER STORE" We are now in the midst of stock taking and find no time to write advertise- ments, but as we are anxious to clean up the following lines before they are taken into stock we have reduced the prices liberally to make it easy buying for you. Many things not on this ad. will also be on Sale. 4 For Men Heavy Woal Sox, reg. 50c 39¢ Fleece lined Under- wear for men .... 59¢ Men's Sweater Coats, union mixture, on A few Work Shirts, regular $2.00 for $1.00 Men's Work Pants, For House Curtain Muslin Rem- nants, 1 yd. wide, one to 10 yds. .... 15¢ yd. Table Linen, 56 inches wide, reduced to Le ....38c vd For Children Children's heavy Fleece Combinations on Sale to clear at 98¢ For Women . Oversize Stockings, Black only .. 19¢ pr. Flannelette Gowns, on White Night Children's Ribbed Hose, reg. 35¢, 19¢ pr. Heavy pure Wool Worsted Hose, sizes 6 to 10. On Sale A few Silk Waists to clear at Lawn 'Waists, beauti- fully embroidered 98¢ Underskirts to clear 98 | | on tables 15 everyday com- Grocery you Dept. at prices un- p the store H.EN Simcoe St. Ni Phone GEL