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Childhood 3
was praising her looks and her figure. Smiling her thanks for the gracious compliment, she replied, " Yes, God has given me a beautiful house in which to live." To take credit for good looks is naturally very stupid, since we have little or nothing to do with it, except insofar as a beautiful nature or spirit reflects in the face. Perfection of feature is something to be very grateful for and Pauline never forgot to be grateful that a gracious God had so lavishly endowed her. She was, therefore, justified in being annoyed when some spiteful newspaper woman on the Coast came out with an article that Miss Pauline Frederick had had her face lifted several times! Not once, but several times! Pauline's manner of dealing with this ridiculous report was very typical of her. She could be extremely subtle at times, and in this instance even her closest friends were not aware that she had seen the article. Ordinarily she treated things of this kind with contempt, but in this instance it was something that no woman could be expected to ignore. Suddenly, with no explanation to anyone, she began to drag her hair back off her ears in a most unbecoming style. Everyone protested and argued — all to no avail, as was invariably the case when Pauline's mind was made up. She had an imaginary steel curtain that she would clamp down at times and one could talk until eternity, but nothing could penetrate that steel curtain once it was down! Might as well try to open the door of a vault by talking to it! So Pauline continued to scrag her hair off her ears despite the protests from everyone. She knew the style was unbecoming but not a word of the reason escaped her.
Then the day came when she revealed the reason. She waited until she was out on the Coast and in a conspicuous position where all could not fail to see. Julian Eltinge was giving a guest performance at the Orpheum in Los Angeles. Julian was an old childhood friend of hers. Way back in