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Bellefonte, Pa., April19, 1612.
PENELOPE PONDERS.
[By Dorothy Douglass.)
Bob had taken his dismissal; his
eyes were black with increasing gloom.
Julia, the proud little recipient of
his affections, smiled; but there was
tenderness in her smile.
“Things might be entirely different,”
she continued, "if | didn’t think there
was something in that head of yours
that is worth getting out. | feel sure
that you could make your presence
known in the world if you only would
—instead, you drift about spending
money with every breath.”
“It is honestly acquired money—and
my own.” Bob glowered at her.
“l am perfectly well aware of that,”
Julia said a trite coldly, “but if you
hadn't been lucky with stocks you
might have continued to develop your
talents and try to do something worth
while.”
Her words were true. Bob Stanley
was not of an analytical mind or he
would have realized that the days
spent in trying his pen in the literary
fleld had been strangely happy ones.
He failed to remember that the occa-
sional shafts of light, in the way of
successes, had brightened the days as
nothing had brightened them since.
“Anyway,” Julia went on in a hard
little voice, “1 will not marry a man
who is wasting his life as you are. If
you make your name ring, even a Iit-
tle—perhaps | will reconsider my an-
swer.”
With a swift, unexpected movement,
Bob caught her in his arms. He bent
his head over hers intending to kiss
her, but he released ker as suddenly,
and without another word turned and
left her.
Well, that was the end—the end of
all things. Bob Stanley ambled on
and on until he found that he had
dropped onto one of the benches in
the park. A grim smile twisted his
lips. It was amusing to tind how nat-
urally he had fallen into the way of all
loafers and failures. ‘They all sought
out a bench in the park and there,
with variable imaginations, pictured
their last miserable hours.
Stanley felt that any way out of ex-
istence would suit him, whether it be
long and torturing, or swift and sure.
He found gloomy enjoyment when he
first pictured his name in big headlines
and that of Julia Stearns figuring in
the tragic affair. His imagination car.
ried him on to one line that would
stand out in big letters: “Just what
was to be expected of a man of Rob-
ert Stanley's kind.”
The man on the bench straightened
his shoulders and his eyes narrowed
with momentary freedom from gloom,
“l have walked past exactly five
times,” said a voice at his elbow.
“Which route have you decided up-
on?” she inquired laughingly, seating
herself beside him. “1 am sure it will
be a pistol—your eyes are so desper-
ately eager to get there.”
Bob laughed sheepishly and covered
the hand she had put on his arm to be-
lie the frivolity of her words.
“She refused me, Penelope,” he said,
and all his past misery returned.
“I more than half expected it, Bob-
by,’ Penelope told him. “You see
Julia is ambitious, not only for her-
self, but for others. She wants to be
married to a man about whom people
will say, ‘Oh, there's So-and-so!”
“They say that in one tone about me
now,” Bob gloomed.
Penelope looked tenderly at the ar-
tistically handsome head so appealing
in its misery and pondered long ana
seriously. What would be the best
and quickest way to awaken the slum-
bering genius in him? It was there in
every little quick turn of temperament,
in the big loves of his nature, but he
was a soul struggling in the dark,
He turned toward her unexpectedly
and met the pain in her eyes.
“I've hurt the very best friend |
have in the world!” he cried contrite-
ly. “lI will do anything you say if
you can help me to be worthy of Julia
—and you."
Penelope laughed quickly. “If you
won't buy the pistol, you may come to
see me tonight, and we'll see what is
to be done.”
A dull color swept up to the auburn
at his temples. Penelope regretted
her words.
“That was only for a second,” Bob
sald looking into her eyes; “the
strength of the weak is not mine.”
“The weakness of strength,” cor-
rected Penelope. “Come early tonight
and let us get a good start toward
making you famous.”
“1 hope it wom't be inamous,” mut
tered Bob.
His gloom had lightened. He could
more easily picture Julia in his big
mansion on the hill because he feit
that Penelope wou.d help him. Bob
Stanley was of a type of man that re-
quires the help of a woman and in
getting it, gets all.
That night when Penelope greeted
him on the veranda of her home he
drew her hand close within his own.
“You are looking unusually beauts-
rul,” he said; “you should always wear
those Burne Jonesy things—they make
vou look like a symbol of purity.”
Penelope blushed. “| don't return
from Paris—always” She made him
comfortable in the wide swing. “1 want
you to hear one or two of my new
never know whether or not
they will take until you bave told me,”
she sald prettily.
soothing ~ontraito, Bob felt thankful
that Julia, too, sang He wouldn't love
a woman who couldn't sing to him
when he was tired or when be wanted
only music.
When she came out and sank into a |
OW chulr at nis side it was oot ule
natural ‘bat they should fall into dis
cussing the lates! novels From that
the conversation turned to Penelope's
latest trip and the plot sbe nad
thought of while in Paris It was a
splendid story to work out and as she
narrated the incidents she bad the
pleasure of watching Bob Stanley
awaken to, first polite, and finally ani-
mated interest in the story.
“lI wish | could write it,” Penelope
said and fixed wistful eyes, in which
the wisdom was concealed, upon Bob.
“If 1 could write that story—I would
win Julia!” Bob remarked.
“Fame and Julia!” laughed Pence
lope. “l am sure you are welcome to
the plot,” she said, “but | don't see
how you can concentrate on anything
here—you will be mooning and gloom-
ing about Julia.”
Bob looked into her wise eyes and
laughed. “One summer,” he said point.
edly, “your mother asked me to join
your camp in the Adirondacks.”
“We leave next Saturday.” Pene-
lope kept the triumph well under con-
trol. “It would be a splendid oppor
tunity to work.” she said, "and | will
be there always to—give you the at-
mosphere of Normandy for the story.”
“Would | bother you “” Bob asked
with tardy modesty,
“You are like one oft the family,”
Penelope laughed frankly. “If you can
stand my practicing—"
“]l began to think | can stand any-
thing from you, Penny.”
“That is your writer's tmagination,”
Penelope suggested.
Six weeks later Penelope and Hob
strolled through the trail and up to
the hotel! for mail. The first check
had arrived,
“1 suppose it will take at least fifty
successes—before Julia will listen to
me again?” Bob asked hall seriously.
“One good novel would get you
there quicker than many short sto-
Mes,” Penelope thought. “We will put
up a lunch and row over to the island
this afternoon and talk—movel.”
Bob lzughed. “Yeu are a Iittle
schemer—holding out bait to me.”
“You and Julia will both thank
me—later on,” she made answer.
Penelope knew in her heart that
Bob Stanley would never again lose
his interest in writing. He had been
awakened now to the tull joy of real
inspirational work.
“l1 rejoice every day, Bob,” Pene
lope said later on when they had
reached the little deserted island,
“that Julia refused to marry a nonen-
tity. She has really been the means
of giving the world another great
writer. | know you will be that some
day.”
They drafted out the lines of a
novel during the day and toward dusk
sat down for their tea.
“Bob,” Penelope spoke seriously, “i
want you to do me a favor.”
Stanley only looked at ner and
waited.
“Julia” refused you when you were
a nonentity—| want her to accept you
before you are famous. She doesn’t
love you iI she waits—for more.”
“For more?”
“I mean,” Penelope said quickiy and
a little flush colored each cheek, "that
| have been with you all summer—
and have learned that you are—well,
fiot such a bad specimen—without
fame. [If Julia expects any more—
she doesn’t deserve you and | shall
write and tell her so!” declared Pene-
lope. “Will you please—for my bene-
fit—leave tonight and propose again
to Julia?"
Bob laughed.
Penn.”
A young moon had lighted the dusk
when they returned to the camp.
“Wish me success little helper,”
Bob said as he turned toward the sta-
tion.
“All the joy in the world!” Pene-
lope cried from the depths of her
heart.
When he had gone she sank into a
heap because the light of the world
had gone and she was blinded to all
save darkness
She stpod up and listened with
bated breath. le was returning.
“What is it, Bob! What has hap-
pened?” she cried quickly.
She scarcely knew his voice when
he spoke.
“Nothing, Penelope, except that the
whole earth grew dark—without you
beside me.” He drew a deep breath
when she was safe in his arms.
“Why certainly,
W. Shakespeare Paid.
Nobody knows what Lord Bacon
would have done if he had been con-
fronted by the necessity of settling
with the driver of a New York cab,
but what William Shakespeare did in
such an emergency was discovered
the other night when he arrived from
England. The Mr. Shakespeare who
has come to town is a singing teacher
of London.
The first intimation of Mr, Shake-
speare’s arrival came in conversation
wafted through the entrance and up
the stairway into the lobby.
“l shan’'t, | won't. ['ll be demmed
if 1 shall. | shan’t pay. | won't pay
it; it's a—er—what do you call it?—
a holdup!” And Mr. Shakespeare burst
into the hotel and hurried up to the
desk looking as nearly apopletic as
might be expected of a Briton asked
to pay $3 for what in London is less
than a two-shilling fare. He was told
that the regular fare is $3,
“Oh!” said Mr. Shakespeare solemn-
ly. “Oh! Why, they told me on the
bo: it would be only $2."—New York
Sun.
something in this Fletcherizing tad,
sure as you live. Remember about
Gladstone? He used to chew every
bite thirty-two times.
‘Faciturn Hoarder—Yes, but he go!
tired of it and quit it when he war
only eighty-five
HARD ON THE HEART |, =v Sound to spread. |
GERMAN PHYSICIAN FINDS FAULT
WITH OUR ELEVATORS.
Advises Walking Downstairs, but Says
Use Elevator Going Up, as It Un-
doubtedly Helps to Save the
Organs of Life.
A German physician who has been
visiting this country is said to have
declared that riding in our swift eleva-
tors is the cause of the increase of
heart trouble in this country. He holds
when the elevator starts or stops as
responsible,
“Far from causing injury to the
heart,” says the Independent, “eleva-
tors have spared that important or-
gan much unnecessary strain. There is
probably nothing harder on the heart
than the going up many flights of
stairs, The pumping of blood through
tightly contracted muscles during the
process of lifting the body up to a
height is gne of the hardest that the
heart can have.
“Men who are suffering from heart
disease have been kept at work and
enabled to dc their work longer be:
cause of the presence of the elevator
than by any advance that there is in
therapeutics. While the elevator is
thus so important an adjunct for the
heart so far as going spstaifs is con-
cerned, it is probable that most peo-
ple would be benefited by walking
downstairs occasionally,
“A distinguished German authority
in the treatment of obesity has recom-
mended walking downstairs rather
rapidly as probably the best possible
means of taking off the surplus tissue,
and particularly that which collects in
the abdominal region and is hard to
move by ordinary forms of exercise,
such as walking and the like. The
gentle jolting motion tends to le. to
the reabsorption of the fatty material
that is accumulated. Some American
physicians have tried the suggestion
on a number of patients with report-
ed success,
Besides this there is probably no
better exercise for the ankle joints
than that of coming downstairs. One
of the most frequent sources of com-
plaint of extreme fatigue and of
achy feelings that are often supposed
to be rheumatic is the ylelding of
the arch of the foot with a tendency
to the development of flatfootedness.
This has grown very common in re-
cent years, mainly because of the
small amount of brisk exercise of the
feet that men take.
We do much standing, often stand-
ing even on long rides, but little rap-
id walking. The consequence is that
the muscles which normally hold the
joints of the ankle firmly together be-
come flabby and allow the gradual
disappearance of the arch and the
relaxation of the ligaments of the
ankle joints. Many people wear flat-
foot braces for this, and in advanced
cases such a crutch is probably nec-
essary.
In most cases, and particularly at
the beginning of yielding of the arch
it would be much better If exercises
were practiced to restore the strength
and firmness and contour of the arch
rather than support it by artificial
means. The elevator has taken away
the exercise for the feet that used to
be obtained In going up and com-
ing down the stairs. So far as it is of
use in facilitating ascent in the high
buildings it is an advantage. It would
be probably much better, however, if
is were not used so much for coming
down.
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Woman and Justice to Man,
In the past, because of what we
commonly call chivalfy, men have
been at a disadvantage in many emer-
gencies.
It sometimes happens, for example,
that a man, in spite of his nobler de-
sires, is compelled to go to law with
a woman. She commits trespass or
fails to pay a debt, and there is no
remedy but a suit in court. How does
it stand with the unhappy man who
brings the action? All his fellows de-
nounce him as a brute. The lawyers
make him the butt of their antedi-
luvian jokes and the jury give a ver-
dict against him withouwx leaving their
seats. Will it be so now that women
can vote? There will soon be female
lawyers, judges and jurors. Will a
woman fare quite ag well with a dozen
of her fair sisters to pass upon her
rights and wrongs as she does now?
Perhaps she will have a more dificult
road to walk, but there will be com-
pensations. Men will stand a far bet-
ter chance of obtaining justice where
women are concerned than they do at
present. Tears and sobs are far more
persuasive with a jury of males than
they are likely to be with women.—
Portland Oregonian.
A Misunderstanding.
A young lady who wished to pur-
chase & bicycle entered a shop and,
according to the Christian .
began looking at the different wheels
and asking questions about their price
and quality.
Young Lady—What is the name of
this wheel?
The Clerk—That’s a Belvidere.
Young Lady (after a stony glare at
the Slerk)-0m you recommend the
Age Limit.
‘Boss—"“Well, you've been with us
for over fifty years now, and I guess
we won't require your services any
longer.”
Nibbs—"En—I wouldn't a-started
with you if | had known it wasn't
to be a steady job."—Judge.
e is no sort of wrong deeds of |
which a man can bear the punishment
. alone. You cannot isolate yourself and |
say that the evil that is in you shall |
not spread. Men's lives are as thor |
oughly blended with each other as the
air they breathe. Evil spreads as
necessarily as disease.—George Eliot. |
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Few Have. i
Mise Scribble—The heroine of my |
| mext story is to be one of those mod- |
ern advanced girle who have ideas of |
their own and don’t want to get mar- |
ried. The colonel (politely)—Ah, in- |
deed. 1 don’t think I ever met that '
| type.—Life.
the involuntary catching of the breath | pe
Boarders Take Risks.
If a boarding-house keeper in Aus-
tria having a leased house sublets |
rooms to boarders and then fails to |
pay the rent of the house the lessor |
may levy for payment against every- |
thing in the house, regardless of the |
ownership thereof. |
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Nature's Beauty Hidden.
Nature, as we all know, is never at
home to the mere sightseer or idle
spectator. Stare at her straight in the
face, and you will see nothing; it is
only the casual side glance which is
rewarded by the sight of anything
new or substantial—Henry C. Merwin.
“It is never too late to mend,” is one of
those deceiving proverbs which seem
born of human fatality. It is often too
late to mend the health which has been
neglected until Nature herself is exhaust.
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always some people who procrastinate
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The wiser proverb is “never put off until
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