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`f iWoman s iI_§__ealm -.- Social and _ Personal -.- Fashions -_:_-H Literature,

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Dorothy Dix 7le./Vl"lV ELIJU ‘ A Modern 7/zriller

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pgiglits, critics, actors and actresses wfights, critics, actors and actresses dgbatlng this important subject. and f _ it is the nian

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married men have for them and explains why so

miiny of theni fall in love with their

cl; this that, at the best, they are wasting their sweetness on desert air

Ami, at .the worst, they are risking a. scandal and that it would be far titer for them in every way to center their affection on youths of their

own age but the boys they know seem so callous and flavorless in com-

parison with their bosses that they simply have no taste for them. _

"Aiid certziiiily for thesoplilsticated woman it is undoubtedly true that

p man reaches the peak of his fascination somewhere in the early 40s. Possibly he may not be as handsome as he was a few years ewller. He may have lost something of the boyish figure he had as a strlpling. His _

a bit higher on his forehead, but ‘

nmhrosial locks may have retreated that does not matter. Women do not

h do Theic are

Il beauty t at men . ' I In a man above mere pulchrftude, and these are something that it takes time to get and that the middle-aged man has acquired. While if DOY

never possesses them.

And vcry often zi man at 40 is even better-looking than he was at

to im-ause ue ii-.is -~ii~iie<i," so to speak- H0 has shaped down physically and mentally. llc has acquired poise and distinction and looks l.ikc somebody instead of _lust a pretty lad. Not without reason is the villain in melo- dramzis, who plies his devilish arts upon a simple young wife or innoe~ :nt maiden and whom no woman can resist, always depicted with a little dust of gray in his hair or a single white lock.

There are niany reasons why the middle-aged man is more _attractive

to women than boys ure. The first is,‘of course, that he is more inter- esting. He has seen more, done more, read and thought more and, con-

=e uentl has more to talk about,

~ Ci Y, grzitcful women are to men \vho carry a really interesting con_versational line. They halve had to stiffer so many bores, poor things, in order to avoid a reputation of being hard to please.

Then the man ol 40 talks to a woman about herself, whereas the boy

\!ways wants to talk about himself, and no woman, unless she has a strong maternal complex, longs to hear all the details of eolleile Dl'i‘mk5 »or can laugh at college hunior or can get wildly excited over how many tniles any other automobile makes on a gallon of E95 BXCEPC bel' UW"-

Thcii ilic iiinii of 40 has taken 21 P055-BFBMUNB COUFSC in Women and

uiiderstmids thcin, which the younger man never does. A boy believes

all women are alike and he has one formula for the entire sex. He

thinks that the way io make ri hit with every daughter of Eve is to send

lui cziiitiv and flowers and tell licr

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the florist. It is a single bloom in

some little trifle that shows that he remembered her taste or the color of iii-if dress. 'rim is me kind of iollylns to cfmiure with, but it takes #-

iiian half a life time to find it out.

Then the middle-aged maxi has developed a. technique in lovemaking,

and women go through life from the cradle to the grave hungering and thirsting for romance that is romance. lt is t0 See l0V€ DTUPCNY madif that sends them by the millions to the cinema and the theatres, but they never get it in real life unless a man of 40 falls in love with them.

Perhaps experience has made him Perfect in the BTU °f W00l!18 B

woma but at all events he knows

° women. Women will generally agree with this

verdict. Of course, flappers may dissent from it and continue to fall for schoolboy sheiks and re-

antlque, but this is because they have as naive a taste in men as they have in food, and anything that is soft and gooey and treacly appeals to them.

But that even young girls are not insensible to

<3 the superior charms of the middle-atleli mlm is __ abundantly provedfby the fatal fascination that

und how uiilike other women and ask her \vhci'e she has been all of these

But by the time a man is 40 he has foimd out that women are ln-

diildualislic and that no woman wants mass production attention and iiuici-y any more than she wants the kind of gown that is manufactured bi the tliousuiicls. She wants something that touches the sensitive spot iii her own vaiiity and that is handmade for her. So he never praises the beauty for her beauty, but for her intelligence and, conversely, he never exploits iz, h.ighbrow`s college degrees, he signs paeans of praise to her eyes. He never sends a woman a. bushel of violets or six dozen roses from

have just sat. in solciiin conclave have just sa tin solemn conclave their unanimous decision was that of 40 who is most attractive to

of 40 as interesting only as an

employers. They know when they

set the inordinate value on person- I a hundred qualities that they rank

and only `a woman can know how

how beautiful and wonderful she is

memory of some moonlight night or

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for Women in His Early Forties, for by Ate DEl2FECn,v. wELL.v\- ' Then He Understands Women as no DEI-ICIOUS HEPES MY

Boy Possibly Can, and has De- / _ 3§§R,_',-=-JE

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The Common Cold Should Be

Fought, Not Endured Liquid Diet Advisable

lNO’I'E: You may find some of

these facts on treating the common cold of value to you; if so, clip this article t/:fore the paper is discard- e`<i.t

A inotlier is called upon to have

expert knowledge of more profes- sions, trades and arts than any 'other human, unless you consider a lone sliipwiccked soul on a desert island who has to- hunt for his food and build his own shelter. Mother has to know how to mend toys; she has to be capable of bein! an impartial judge ln neighbour- hood childish arguments; she has

to be_ companion-extarordinary to dad; charming hostess to hier fi-lends: cook, seamstress and diet- itlaii when young chlldren’s diets 1'-.ve to he prepared; and last and oi utmost importance, nurse, when they fall sick.

It is this nursing angle that we

hope to help, wheri the sickness is the coniiron cold.

Colds are taken entirely too much

for graiitt-d. They are allowed to drag on for too many days-often weeks-:which exposes the victim too readily to other infections since his resistance is lowered.

We have outlined some dc's and

don'ts that will meet with the ap- proval of your doctor, and that can be used when your child (or hus- band or sister or mother or brother) catches cold, and if strictly adhered towlll greatly reduce the length of the sickness.

We have stessed the value of diet

-liquid diet-since food ls prim-

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Your .ieiueo wav. ooes nur MAKE ,-

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RAMBLING AND DISCDNNEUEED THOUGHTS OF A DOCTOR ON A COLD ATTENDED BY A FEVER

'I'he first thing to do when a cold

first appears is to restrict the diet. because the old adage “feed is cold and starve a fever" is lrwvnslsfcllf for there is always a. certain amount of fever with a. cold. The best place toftghtii.coldislnbed.Iftl-ic patient is in bed the cold may be cured in half the time it would take to get rid of it on your feet-picure an army attempting to carry along its battlefield and fight too-you are just is 1u<ii`ei~<>us when you uy m get rid of a. oold and be up and about at the same time. Another*

g00d reason for staying in bed is, that you are isolated from others and,

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VESNOU MAKE IT WITH HOB NOT BOILING WATER. THE FLAVOUR

AWAY.»

4-As much sleep as possible. 5-An enema is almost always of

value.

6-Hot bath-altar which wflll

patient in heavy blanket to induce perspiration.

'I-No chemical substance or dirug

unless after direct order of doctor.

8-Call doctor. Certainly call the

doctor lf the patients temperature is over 100. Consider that your child Ls your most precious possession. and lf one visit from the doctor can

i illness

or from prolonged illness, he should be called in with/out fail.

Lei: me stress asain the value of

a liquid diet, plenty of water, sleep, and a clean digestive tract. _

After all these precautions I sin-

they are not exposed to your cold.; Fever as a Fighting Agent Fevers are alarming, but at th

same time their purpose is to hu out ("ma.k.e things hot for") the vading organism, so do not atfeinip to reduce the fever suddenly-glv it a chance to do its job. Bweatir Ls valuable--hot baths and hot l - monade help the elimlnatioii by tl e sweating process. Hot lemoiiiu e has another function: Fever p - duces an acid tendency in the Y and lemon juice on being disest'd has alkaline reaction. ~

If the temperature is over 130

give no solid food-use only liquids such as lemonade, orange juice, ta- mato juice and wafer. There is a false notion that such starving \~ ill weaken. Since food is not entirl ly digested and ready to produce ¢ - orgy for 24 hours the patient colild not possibly be weakened by lack of it for at least that length of tii-he. "Cold" Facts and ltules to Rem vmber

arlly our business.

1-Cool, fresh air and well ven-

enough not to mess up a situation

thot is the sweet inorsel that n. woman is going to roll under her tongue the balance of her life. He showcs her with all the little delicate attentions that women :idor and when he finally pops the ¢l\195lfl°“ he d0€SH't <10 it,

and place and gives the woman her ground- of beauty and sentiment.

lt is because the man~of 40 knows

upon a harp of ri thousand strings women at that age than any other.

or across beefsteak and onions at a restaurtnt table. He chooses _his time

great moment with its proper back-

women and can play upon them as that makes him more dangerous in

DOROTHY Dlx. 1

cerely hope there are no colds in your family this winter and that you have to use none of them.

A rimsiyniwnen nine

The company that manufactures

one of our most widely advertised cleaning powders is offering g use- ful eleanirig sponge to those who will send ln' the ¢oupon found in the advetrtlsement.

It is seldom that a. utility item is

really new and unique, but the little cleaning sponge offered by the sponsors of the cleaning powder is filling ii. long felt need as it is ef- ficient, attractive and, above all is always at hand, taking the place of the unsightly .cleaning cloth we formerly used.

Housewives, I advise you right

now to hunt up -this advertisement and clip the coupon and send for the sponge. You'1l like it.

Economical Supper Menu

, By Mary Moore

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Cream of Onion Soup 2 large onions, ,uma thinly, cook- ed for 10 minutes in one quarter cup butter, while stirring oonslant-

ly. Add 4 cups water or light stock

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By Mari Moore. Specially contributed to The Guardian for valuable for their vitamin content two months ,,g0_ and ,,°w__»-

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Cream of onion sou/p; casserole of one egg until light, add 1 cup milk

Vesetables au Gratin, banana mul- ' and 3 tablespoons melted butter.

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i‘ .num-"Yes, but 1 didnt trunk it would go round so fast as to make me lose my balance." _

A blithe young lady walked into

a bank and addressed the paying teller: ‘I want to have this check cashed."

"Yes, madam," replied the teller.

"Please endorse it."

"Why, my husband just sent it

to mel" protested the young woman. . ' l “Yes,"mii.dam, but just endorse it.

save mm mm mm 5°! °“s sign it on the buck, please so that |

your husband will know that we paid the money to you."

She went to the desk and in a

few minutes returned to the window with the check lndorsed: “_Your lov- ing wife, Edith.” _

andcook at simmering point for 30 minutes. Strain. Mix 3 tablespoons flour wtili 1-4 cup cold water, add to soup and bring to boiling point. Add one cup rich milk our cream, and 1-4 cup grated cheese. season and servo very hot. Casserole of Vegetables Au Gratln

Three medium-sized potatoes.

thlnly__s1lced, 1 cup cubed turnlp, 3-4 cup green peas (canned or fresh) 1 cup tomatoes. 1 sliced onion, 1 med- ium sized carrot chopped finely, 1-4 Cup.,-lee, 1 teaspoon salt, 1-B tea- spoon peppor, few grains allsplce. Put ingredients in layers in a. cas- serole, pour over 4 cups water or meat stock, cover and cook ln a. slow oven for 8 hours. Serve hot, sprink- led with grated cheese.

Banana Mullins Two cups flour, 4 teaspoons bak-

ing powder. 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt. Mix together. Beat

'combne the two mixtures foldfns lightly until they are just blended.l Cut two bananas in small P18065# dust with flour and add to the muffin batter. Bake in a hot oven about 20 minutes.

it is at the front. _

And equally smart made with

long or with short sleeves as in the miniature view.

For every day occasions, you'll

probably choose the. long sleeves and carry it out as the original. It is a soft novelty woolen mixture in flattering hyacinth-blue tone. Flor the round shoulder yoke and pu!!! of the sleeves, plain toning blue crepe was used.

Carried out in cherry-red crinkly crepe silk, its stunning with short sleeves.

Style No. 382 is designed for sizes

14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust.

Size 16 requires 8% yards 39-inch

striped material, with % yard 89- inoh contrasting. _

The two surfaces of crinkly crepe

satin can be worked out beautifully in this model.

Price of Pattern 15 cents in

stamps or coin (coin is preferred.) Wrap coiri~careful1y.

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CHEESE FONDUE

1 cup scolded milk.

1 cup stale bread crumbs. l/I pound cheese, out in small

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1 tablespoon butter. '

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Yolks 3 eggs. Whites 3 eggs. Mix scalded milk, bread crumbs,

cheese, butter and salt. Add yolks of eggs beaten until' thick and lemon colored. Cut and fold ln the whites of eggsbeaten until stiff. Pour into a buttered baking dish and bake in a moderate oven (350

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as the youthful lover is apt, to, while dodging automobiles; on the street

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H A Romance of Today

By Joanna Cannan

lt was on a Monday moi-ning that

he.went back to the office, and Geoffrey travelled up from Hem- bhott with him. During the holiday 0.. new idea had been mootcd, and John Gilmour had taken a small service flat near Victoria. He in- tended to live there in the winter, spending only his week-ends at. Hemshott, while it would provide af home for Geoffrey and the year round. John Gilmour was to sign the lease this moming, and in a week's time he expected to move in. Geoffrey was to keep short hours at the office and sleep at I-lemshott ‘-lll then.

"You will find a few changes tn

the office," he said to Geoffrey, quite suddenly ns they walked to- gether along Eastciieap. "One or two of the typists have left for bet- Le|;.posts. Of course in ri. firm like ou`r's where there's a tradition of 'ong scrvicc,'promotion among the juniors is almost imposslb‘c." His voice had the ciisunl tone which betrays iiervousiiess, Geoffrey said to himself; this mcziiis that Fay has gone. He iiad not expected :my- tlelhg cLs:‘. He knew that his father would not have lirouglit hini b:.cf: to the London office with Fay there. .

be very difficult for them to' get on. y “Very difficult indeed," said John Gilmour, as they entered the build- ing and made their way upstairs. “Do you see that the staircase has been redeeorated, Geoffrey? Not bad, is it, that buff and green . .?"

l Geoffrey had not been mistaken.

Early in the afternoon his work took hint into the main office. A red- l haired girl with horn-rimmed spee-

ltacles was typing in Fay’s place, ,and beside Miss Carter, instead of :Connie Evers, a sharp-faced young woman was checking figures iii ii quick precise voice. Geof'lrey’s busi- ness was with the sales manager. He smiled at Miss Carter and Tur- ner and Mr. Errans, but he was too busy 'to stop and talk to them. Next time he was in the office he would get into conversation with Turner and find out about Fay. . _ _ 1 At the end of that first week the service flat was ready, and on the Monday evening Geoffrey .settled in. Superfluous furniture from Hem- shott had been moved there, a writ- ing table from the drawing-room, bookshclves from the old 'school- room, the sofa from the boudcir, two armchalrs which- had always crowded thc billiard room. The gar- den room had ylcldcd some sporting prints. But the bedroom furniture in the flat was new and so were the cur.ains and the Bokliara rugs, and Geoffrey' had chosen a cretoniic for the sofa, and when it was ready he was going to give n dinner party, ui flat-'ivarmin;; for which his f:i.l..~r~ had generously offered ta p' 3'.

The eretonne for the :ofa had

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week, so Geoffrey settled on Friday night for the dinner party; and on Monday, when he was tired of un- packing, he sat down on one of the armchairs in the sitting room with the telephone directory on his knees and began to ring up his prospective guests.

A bachelors' party it was to bo.

Tiiere was Lcsley's . cousin, Keith Lesley, and two brothers called Wheatley whom Geoffrey had met in Normandy, and a. Barchester friend who was up at Oxford but would very likely be in London un- til the end of the Long Vacation, and a young Scot, a chance golf ac- quaintance, who was in ship build- ing and had recently been trans- ferred to the London office of his firm.

All flve gentlemen happened to

be in that night and they all ac- cepted C\eoifrey's invitation. I-le was exchanging a. final “Cheerlo" with the Barchester friend when he heard the click of the letter box. He hung up the r°ecelver and went out to collect his letters thinking what a. rag it was going to be on Friday and wondering whether he should offer port or brown sherry after the champagne.

His letters were four. The first one he opened was from

his aunt saying that she had for- gotten all about the soft cushions and that they would be coming up iii the ear on Tuesday along with a parcel containing a. clock for the ..ittl:ig-rooiii mantelplece nuj an L-idertiowii for his fathers bed which I

01 is nicht club, which ne had writ- ten for.

T110 third was ii bill from fi hos-

ler for six poiuids ten.

The founh had been forwarded

from I-lemshott. It was written on mH\1\'° nvtcpaper in ia. neat, iegibie hand. It was from Fuyl

Denmark Hill,

Sunday.

When I first, saw in the paper;

that you were engaged to Miss Lys- "de and they told us in the omce that you were coming back to Lon. dim. I Seve in my notice because I fhvvsht. and so did coimie, min, it would be best. I got a job with Critchett and Ready in Aldv,-y¢h_ Connie wouldn't stay on without me but she fs not far away. so it is not so bad. No one knows why but me and Connie. I didn‘t tell mother till it was all fixed up, they do fuss so. Now we see in the papers that your engagement is washed out so 1 thought Id better drop you a line to explain. I’m going out on Wed. Ilesday and mother wants me Thllmdby. but I shall be at home TUBSGHY evening at 'I if y0u'd care '0 Call ln. Don't bother to let me know but como or not as you like.

Fay__

Geoffrey read ‘ the letter over

twlce. Then he lit a, cigarette and sat down in the armchair to think. .lie had been waiting for this, or at least for some -news or meeting which would make it necessary for him to face the thought 0f,Fcy. And at the some time he had been fearing il: for mere was that in his

somebody must air.

been promlnd for the middle of tlic_

'Ilia second contained particulars;

mind which he wal ashamed ol,

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Something was wrong with him,

or something had happened to him,

he dldn't know which. `|'t had be- gun when he was out in France, at least he had first been conscious of it there, but perhaps it had begun earlier, in those weeks before his wedding, when he had found him- self resigned to that loveless union, aware that suns would rise, clouds salt, and waters cool, that there would be Jokes in laugh at, cars to drive and balls to hit, despite his surrender of his love. And from resignation hadcome . . . well, you might call it forgetfulness, that comfortable loss which he had noticed in France. Svmethlns was zone. on the warm

nights of summer, he could sit out on the verandah under the stars, thinking over his golf strokes; and the slow splash of the sea sang him nothingand the rustle of the tall lime trees never whispered "I*‘ay." He had not faced this, then, had not given lt_a. name, because it hgd seemed lo incredible and beaatly that he could forget Fay, that he could do what older people always said the young would do-get over lt.

But he saw now that he had got

over lt, out there in France where he had had such marvellous golf and tennis and the sea had not Suns to him and the time trees had never whispered, "Fay." And now that the need for resigning himself pas past, could he go beck to the love of days before he had leamed these new lessons about how much

thing, oefore he had learned to sit out on a verandah and think about his golf strokes on summer nights under the twinkling stars.

Could you ever go back in life?

wasnt it made up oi changes, irom one thing came anotner, and the past thing died, and tnere was no going back, you coulcln’t go back and make anything from the ashes of soinethuig dead, however sweet it had been? `

If you had loved someone very

dearly, and had had to give her up, and your own sufferings over that had altered you and-he saw this

tations, rave made ashes of the roses of yesterday.

When you knew that, you were

grown-up. and though, in years in come. there might be mother love for you, a deeper, sounder love, it would never be half so wonderful as this first, foolish one because you would know that you werent going to break your heart over it, and so the sea wouldn‘t sing nor the leaves whisper ever in your life again.

When Geoffrey reached this point

in his reflections, he was sharply disturbed by the ringing of the tole-

now-had made you grow up. so that the world all seemed different and the rustle of _'eaves was only the \v1nd in them and the splasningi of the sea an indication of the in- coming tide, then you could no more 80 back to the old love than you could go back to being the boy that you had been. When you were a baby, you liked woolly toys and rat- tles, when you were a kid at a prep school, you liked bits of string and knives, when you were at a public school, you .liked silk socks and motor bicycles, and when you were nineteen , you liked Play.-And when she was taken away from you, you cried and screamed and thought you were heartbroken just as you had done when you were a baby over the rattle, only there was this dlffev- ence. that when you had stopped crying you knew that you would never cry over anything again, hav- ing found out that hearts don‘t break, because time and change are

remained when you had given up

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phono bell. “Ia that Gilmour?" said the voice at the other end. “This is John Wheatley again. I say, Gil- mour, I’ve ,lust had a .brain wave. My brother and I and some of the crowd whom you met at the Beau Soleil are going to that night club I told you of to-morrow evening, to dine and dance. 'I’hat'a Tuesday. Will you Join us? I'm a fool, I never thought of it when I was speaking to you just now . .

Geoffrey said, "Half a minute,

Wheatley, I must look in my diary. Hold on." He put the receiver on the table and walked up and down the room. '

I 'shall be at home on Tuesday

evening if you’d care to call in . . . Such a faint echo, that, of I. love out no nail tiiouaiit ceiitnim, ei the charm of those evenings of music md lights and first romance, of the longvembi-zoos and the l‘|’h| and .he low laughs, of the pullou- ate sorrow olthat int parting in the shadow of the portico. Pcrhlll Pl!

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I-Ie hoped so. Ai-iyhow, she would get over tt, in time.

He went back to’ the telephone and said briskly, "Thanks very much. Wheatley. I am quite free on 'Iuesday and I should love to come. Eight o'clock at the Diplomats? 'I'hat'll be marvellous. Cheerful"

And ao, on the evening that foi-

lowcd, Geoffrey dined at the Dip- lomats and after his second Bidccar he quite forgot an odd, unreason- able weight on his mind which 'he had been impatiently aware of while he dressed.

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the tall house at Denmark I-llll, Fa! Bennett, sitting on the edge of he! bed, wrapped in a mauve cotton kimono, cried softly and monoton- ouiily into a Email and very dam!! pink handkerchief. Beneath hel kimcno she was wearing ber P`l’¢¢' tieat underclothes and over a chat! lay a frook of pink taffcto which she had put out ready to slip on it the door bell rang. But it was near- ly nina o’clock now,and there had been no ring, and _the knew QW* well that it was all over and that. however long her life lasted. SN would not wear \ pink tcncta frocli forueoifrey Gilmour again. ' Presently she .mapped _vrvlnll

dubbed her, eyes and spread out hal pink handkerchief on the bar It his me of un ina to ary. 'raw IM went over to her dxesxfni-table. 'Mi an orange mek and o pot of- cold crconi and o poiilher. from thf cnwnr. mu bonu. vert ¢lf°f“”" to manicure her nails . - -

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