"Why don't you wear your lovely sheath tonight?" she asked, "You would like to, now wouldn't you?"

"Do you mean wear it in the car too?" I asked, "and what will Penny say?"

**

"She will say you look wonderful in it Mary assured me; "She helped me pick it out."

"Did she know you were buying it for me?" I exclaimed.

"Of course, Silly! she replied, "She is anxious to see how you look in it.

"

I put on my sheath, did my nails, and put on my makeup, and my ear-bobs and necklace, and with one of Mary's light top-coats, and a scarf over my hair, we started out on the long trip across town to Penny's house. We arrived safely and without incident, and Penny welcomed us, and particularly welcomed me.

"Why, Lew, how lovely you look!" she exclaimed,

**

"Penny dear, Mary said, "that did it!"

"Did what?" asked Penny with a puzzled look.

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"Settled in my mind, at least, that Lew simply must have a nice feminine name to go with his beautiful dresses, Mary replied, "Lew simply is not appropriate."

Penny agreed, and over cocktails we discussed various names, but could agree on none, but finally Mary decided that none of those discussed would be any more suitable than 'Ruth', which she preferred, so we all finally agreed, and I was christened 'Ruth' which was to be my name whenever I was in feminine attire. After a lovely evening, we returned home, with Penny's promise to visit us soon. We agreed that it had been a wonderful Saturday night party.

The next morning, as usual, I arose first, and in one of my uniforms fixed breakfast, and straightened up the house. Since we had been out late the night before, Mary did not get up to stay up, until after lunch, so I fixed a light lunch, and I changed into my blue shirtwaist dress for the rest of the day.

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In the weeks and months that followed, Mary brought home new

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