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ERT SS a FS . SO MANY young girls have written * lately that they're victims of un- * true gossip that I think they rate * a plece of their own today. - It is * a sad state of affairs when one girl . * goes about smearing the name of * another one, yet it does happen * frequently, and among the nicest * youngsters. * "You know How it is, Anne * Hirst," writes one sufferer. "Boys * believe everything they heag about a girl when they're young. And this jealous girl is giving me an awful repu- tation. If she doesn't know a new boy I meet, she calls him up and tells him - what a- liar I am! (I never told a lie to anyone about any boy). I'll go on meeting new boys and she'll go on telling lies. about me. I simply can't stand it any longer!" What can she do about it? ® IT WON'T LAST IWhethey gossip is spread in a spirit of yevenge or through a dog- in-the-manger attitude, it is one of dhe meanest tricks in the world, It indicates a low degree of intelligence when girls resort to such a habit in a desperate cffort to prove herself superior to the girl she attacks. In reality, it does ndthing of the sort. | ANNE HIRST | LU Your Family Counselot J . Is Another Girl Spreading T ales? It only reveals ler as a poor sport who would hit below the belt rather than lose an argument. As one boy after another finds out the truth; it is she who will find her- self not only friendless but ridicul- ed. She will be ostracized for a long, long while--and how precious is a single week or a month in the 'social year of a teen-ager! I don't agree that young boys be- lieve all they hear, too many of them prefer to do their own thinking. An attack on a girl's integrity often arouses all their chivalry. Not only will they despise the girl who made it, but they'll stubbornly cultivate - the one against whom it is made. This girl who is so upset by cruel gossip will, of course, do nothing to refute it. She cannot, and any pro- test shexmakes will only weaken her cause. What she can do is to reveal by her daily conduct and manner the sort of person she is, and console herself with the fact that truth will out. ' If she holds her head high and refuses to talk about it, her ememy will have to retreat .and find a sub- ject more easily hurt. There's pre- cious little satisfaction in continuing to aim a poiosned arrow at a char- acter tha! is fully armored. * "* x If another girl spreads stories about you, dont let it get you down. All boys aren't dumb, and you'll meet many smart ones. Watch this column for wise advice, and write Anne Hirst if you wait to--at Box' A, room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, : Your Handwriting and You ,,, 5' Arnott - === What Shall I Write About? . Many of my readers express re- get in not knowing what to write about when requesting an analysis of their handwriting. Other readers write, "I do not know whether or not you will be able to read my handwriting for there "are times when 1 cannot read it myself." What you write about in your letter has little consequence in making an analysis of your writing. The important thing in analyzing seript for character ana- lysis is the strokes you use in mak- ing the script. It makes no differ- ence. whether you write with a steel-pen or a fountain pen or even a goose quill. It is the formation of the strokes and the contour of 'will write. the letters and numbers that reveal one's characteristics, personal ten- dencies and habits. The implements or tools of 'writing do. not enter into the analysis for the script may even be written by a person with artificial hands; in extraordinary cases, by a boy or a girl born with- out hands having learned to write by holding a pen between the teeth or between the toes. Whatever the method is, the analysis is made from the formation of the strokes and not from the method used to make the strokes. If your handwriting is not 'what you would like it to be, there should be no reason for regret. Your writ- ing is one way of expressing thought, and what you think, you It is not what you write, it is how you write that counts. Anyone wishing a more complete analysis please send self-addressed stamped envelope to Box B, room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. There is no charge for this service. Double Crochet Hair Band Synopsis Chapter XIV: Michael Valdez sets out for Coronado to trace Flash Conroy. a notorious gamb- \ ler. Valdez finds him at the poker table in his own saloon, "Flash" Conroy's Palace. | CHAPTER XV As Michael Valdez moved slowly across the barroom floor now, the gambler turned to face him, and for a tense moment ncither of them spoke. Then Conroy flashed his white teeth in what might or might not have been a friendly grin and said: "How's tricks, cowboy? It's a treat to see you around here. Didn't know you often moved so far away from the border." . "Lverything's fine," Valdez drawled and slightly moved his charro vest so that his well-filled smoney belt came into plain sight.. "I've just come into a little dinero, and thought this was juSt as good a place as any for me to invest it so it would bring me in more." "Invest it, eh? You'd like to run it up?" Conroy's full lips quirked and again his white teeth showed. "Certainly, certainly," he said affably. "Draw up a chair and have yourself a stack of chips. 1 figure we can give you a run for your money." As Michael Valdez drew up a chair to the table and sat down he cast a swift, comprchensive, but' apparently idle glance around the room." He wanted to single out Con- roy's henchmen, and he did that with one sweep of his eycs. They were some of those half-breeds loung- ing at the bar, of course. ¥ *® x "\ But he gave-no single sign of interest as he sat down and care- lessly dumped the contents of the money belt onto the table in front of him. Flash Conroy began method- ically counting out red, white, and blue chips. Valdez called for a new deck and began to re-shuftle the cards. Flash Conroy accepted his cards for the cut and deal as though this man who 'had just sat in at the game were no unusual visitor, instcad of the spectacular one every man present knew him to be. The five other players in the game also accepted the bit of melodrama, but shortly re- alized that whatever was the reason for the unexpected entry of this man from the border country, they were going to have to play a heads- up- game in order to stand even a. - fighting chance with him, The game went on quictly, though, and men finally relaxed. The wins and losses sce-sawed back and forth between the various players, while Michael Valdez studied them sur- reptitiously. Before the game had been going on fiftcen minutes Vadlez got a pretty. definite idea of the six men facing him around the table. The two directly opposite were obviously well-to-do ranchers who would be able to stand any reasonable losses at the Palace gaming tables. A man sitting beside the ranchers looked like a drifter who appeared to have made a stake. either in a lucky mining prospect or in some other quick turn-over. He probably was rhe for Flash Conroy's plucking. And if latér he should be found dead in some alley, with all his money miss- ing, there would be no explanation of that forthcoming. x. x * / OF REVENGE JACKSON:-COLE been tossed in, clattered upon the table. Finally Valdez found himself running down to the last of "the thirty-two-thousand-dollar fund he had brought with him for this er- press purpose. - Conroy, dealing, was seated to the right of Valdez. One of Conroy's players sat on the other sid: of the tall wanderer from the border coun- try, and next to that man sat one of the ranchers. The other Conroy man was aeross the table from Michael Valdez. Finally, as the betting became stecper and steeper, Flash Conroy dropped out. Valdez, who had opened the pot, checked the bet to the house player who sat at his left hand. The man bought more chips. A good portion of the new stack of chips went into the center of the table as the man opened the betting. Again the lets went around, but the two ranchers had reached their limit, and with the high wagers being made they had also lost con- fidence --in--the--cards--they held. Apparently -they would be no good, even bettered after the draw, Simul- tancously « they tossed their hands into the center of the table. Conroy and his men had been wait- ing for that moment. Valdez was not surprised when neither of Flash's henchmen "raised again. The gambles looked at Michael Valdez and liftes. his eyebrows inquiringly. "How many cards, Valdez? he asked. Michael Valdez thumb famed his five cards as he appeared to study them a moment more. He whipped out two cards then and tossed them - into the discard in the center of the table. ; ' 1 ' "Give me a pair to fill this house," he drawled. (To be Continued) \ Sunday School Lesson By Rev. R, Barclay Warren The Way Of Love 1 John 2:7-11, 15-17; 3:13-18. GOLDEN TEXT -- Follow after charity. --1 Corinthians 14:1. ' - John, the apostle, has been term-- ed the apostle of love. He was an affectionate man. It was he who lay close to the breast of Jesus at the last supper. It was he who left on record the best kiown verse in the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that wloso- ever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The words translated love or char- ity occur in his writings 120 times. : * . * : The lesson teaches us, "Love 'Hot the world, neither the things that are in the world." We _must use the things of the world but we must not set our affection upon these things which are doomed to perish. Money is neces- sary but the love of it is "the root of all evils." 'She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth." . ' : On the other hand, 'to love one's brother' is a basic require- ment of a Christian.. It is true that some profess to be Christians L and yet. aré not on speaking terms \ Materials: Pearl Cotton, Size 8, 1 ball each of Red, Green and _ Yellow . , . Steel Crochet Hook No, 7. = With Red, ch 14. 1st row: Double grochet (dc) in 4th ch from hook and in each ch across (12 dc on row, counting turning chain as 1 dc). Ch 8, turn, 2nd row: Skip 1st de (last dc on previous row), dc in each dc across, dc in top of turning chain. Break off, until piece measures 15 inches, Ch 3, turn, Repeat 2nd row Make a Green and a Yellow piece exactly like the Red piece. Finishing: Place the short ends of each piece over cach other and sew them neatly together, Sew a piece of ribbon to both ends. for ties. "The above is one of the many attractive patterns shown in the new "Complete Book of Crochet." Full information is to be found elsewhere on this page. The other two men. in the game besides = Conroy himself | and Michael Valdez were plainly Con- roy decoys. That was definitely proved a few minutes after Valdez had pigconholed tltem in his. mind, when they and Conroy swung into action trying to whipsaw Valdez. But they did not succeed. He was ready for them, and after that play he went on. methodically raking in his winnings and pushing away his losses with cool indifference. His stake had been . whittled in half when Valdez decided that the: show-down' he had come here to force tonight might as well come now as later. He had a good audi- ence too, now, for the other games had been suspended. and all of the former participants were gathered around the poker table where the owner of the¢Palace himself played. Better still, he drifter had reached his limit-and "had dropped out of the game. ide Valdez knew positively the time had come when, on Conroy's deal, the gambler hastily shuffled and flipped out the cards without offer- ing them for a cut. Picking uff his cards, one at a time, Valdez saw that his first four cards were three kings and an ace. It did not sur- prise him, therefore, when he picked up his fifth card and saw that.it was : his fourth king. Valdez never blinked. as betting before the draw opened up, and the players warmed up as it went round and round the table. A sizable sum of money, when the, chips had all ~ The one who doesn't with each other. We wonder how will such ever get along- in hea- . ven. But let us not puzzle over the answer for John says, "Whoso hateth his brother is 'a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in hm." love his brother will not enter heaven. The love which John considers of such primary importance does not 'exhaust itself in emotion. It is practical. "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." - He pertinently asks, "Whoso hath this world's good, and seceth his brother have need, and shutteth up "his bowels of' compassion from him, how dwell- eth the love of God in him" * * * Such love is needed in the world today, Like the man on the Jeri- cho road, the world has had a "bad beating and has been robbed. We nations who profess to be Christians must play out part 'in binding up his wounds and help- ~ ing to pay for his keep till he is better. It is true that sometimes those whom we have helped be- come our enemies, But that does not alter our obligation to fulfil the Aaw of love. "Let us not love' in word, 'neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth," Let us fol- tow after love. \ Da a] ISSUE 47-1047 Modern Etiquette By Robefta Lee Q. When should a woman res move her wrap, when dining in the restauravt of a hotel? 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