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CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE BEAUTY DEPENDS ON ONE'S STATE OF MIND "You have to break your leg, Mar gie; to know how perfectly .charming; people are," said Mollie to me last evening. "Have you just found that out, Mollie? I knew it long ago when I was ill so long. Most people are thoughtless, but not unkind. "What brought this home to you, dear?" "One of xthe pretty incidents that make life worth living," she an swered. '"You know, I am so tired of being taken care of that this morning I determined to go and flock by myself. I knew if I went out on the boardwalk at dozen of my ac quaintances, let alone you; Margie, would insist upon going with me. "So I picked up my cane, walked to the side door of the hotel and asked the door man to call me a taxi. I waited quite a while and was get ting rather impatient, for a number of people as well as myself were waiting for cars. I was very ner- rous about getting in and out of the taxi, as you know how long it takes to drag yourself up by main strength. "Finally, a car drove up and I stepped forward to take it when a woman pushed me aside and said, 'Just a moment, please,' and quietly stepped into her car. Another wom an and a little boy followed her. - "It is unnecessary to say I was per fectly furious. I turned to the start er and said,. 'Well, I like that.' "The doorman looked uncom fortable and muttered something which I did not -catch. Just then the woman said a few words to her jhauffeur, who was about to start the car. He stopped and she bent forward to speak to me. 'I don't chink you understand,' she said, 'this Is a private car. I know just how you. feel and if. I can take you any where I will be very glad to do so.' "Then it was my turn to apologize, Margie, and I said I could not think of taking up her time. But she in sisted, saying she knew I had mis taken the car for a taxi and that she would be only to glad to take me anywhere I wanted to go. ''"I saw that I was delaying traffic and so I got Into the car. Then Jtor the first time she saw that I was lame and she was sweeter than ever. " T think if I had known you were lame,' she said, T would have said nothing but let you get into the car.' "I told her it was the first time I had been out alone and that I was rather nervous and excited and so did not realize that her ' beautiful Packard limousine was not a taxi. "She took me down where I want ed to do some shopping and I bade them good-by with the assurance that as I could never hope to repay her, all I could do was some time to pass this little courtesy on to some one else. "And I am going to be mighty sure that I do that, Margie, for that ttlc act will be one of my pleasantest memories for all time." You see, little book, what a brick Mollie is. From a most thoughtless girl she has grown into a most thoughtful of women. I have never known her to think a pleasant thing about one of her friends that she has not in some way contrived to tell them. Because she does this so often she is many times misunderstood Peo ple who do not know her very well often say, "She cannot mean all the nice things she says about people." But Mollie says, "It is just as easy to think nice things as ugly ones if you only get in the habit of looking for nice things instead of ugly ones in people." ' Those people who claim they al ways say what they think, and then say something ugly, must have very unbeautiful minds. Don't you thfak so,-little book? (To Be Continued.) i