where the groom was just a necessary nuisance in the feminine affair, what a girl-boy wore at the wedding and for going away was almost as important as the brides dress. Evelyn's dress, of course, was the traditional white with pearls I had given her. Irene was bridesmaid in blue. I wore what had always been a favorite of mine, a grey suit with plain skirt and fitted coat, and white blouse. Evelyn's gift to me was a lovely gold necklace of flat discs linked to gether and drop earrings to match. My best man was a girl-boy from the bank who was a friend of both families. He wore a light blue suit nearly matching Irenes dress in color.

For our honeymoon we decided to see the eastern part of the country. But on busy roads the one driving could see almost nothing of what he passed, so we went by bus and train, stopping off where we felt like it. First we went to Niagara where we took many pictures, and met a young couple who told us of a quiet resort on a New York lake. Then we spent a week in New York city, and engaged rooms in a quiet, family-style hotel. We made friends at once with a middle-aged couple with four boys and one very pretty girl of fourteen. Going around the city with them we noticed how careful and attentive the boys were with their sister, carrying her parcels and opening doors for her. Evelyn remarked one evening that boys were not always so good to their sister. The mother laughed, saying "No, four years ago he would have had to look out for himself." We were certainly surprised, and asked how they happened to have the one girl-boy. They said it was more the boys doings than theirs. She explained that naturally they wanted girls in the family as well as sons. But five boys arrived, before an accident put an end to any more children. The boys themselves badly wanted a sister too. They had girl- boy friends and liked them. So they talked it over among themselves and decided that as they could not have a real sister, one of them would have to become a girl-boy to partly make up for it. After carefully considering the looks and ways of each of them, they had decided this boy was the best looking and most suited in other ways for the change. So they put the proposition up to us. "We, of course, did a lot of thinking about it," the mother said, and explained to him in particular that it Would alter his whole life to a great extent, and that

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