Bellefonte, Pa., January 24, 1913. Young Mrs. Wilton hurried guiltily through the dusk. This was the third time within a week that she had at- tended a reception and remained so long that her conscience, if not her husband, reproached her. “I'll stay at home tomorrow and get up a regular dinner, frills and all,” she promised herself, penitently. The dining room clock chimed half- past § as she opened her door. There was no time to change her dress, so, slipping a big apron over her finery, she flew into the kitchen. There she put on the kettle, turned the heat on |- full blast under the oven and in ten minutes more was flopping biscuits into buttered pans. She flew in and out of the kitchen and the dining room with the beauti- |. ful quickness snd sureness that some- times comes as a result of a happy, restful, worry free day. She felt somehow that dinner would be good, even though it was hurriedly pre- pared. It was, The steak was broiled to ° perfection, the biscuits were so flaky that even Mrs. Wilton was astounded. The coffee had percolated itself into |’ some sort of nectar. “Say, young lady,” Wilton remark- ed as he buttered his fifth biscuit, “this is a dinner that must have been inspired. Why—" helping himself to more steak and mushrooms, “it's a regular poem!” “Oh, this isn’t what I call a regular dinner,” declared Mrs. Wilton, dim- pling. “I got in rather late from Mrs. Bentley's this afternoon and so I didn’t fuss. But tomorrow we are going to have a dinner that will take your breath away. I have the outline of it already in my mind, and you may bring that Mr. Ridgely home with you if you want to.” “Well, if you can beat this dinner you're a wonder. Of course, I'll bring Ridgely. I've ben advising him to get married when he's kicked about boarding house meals, and a meal like this one will certainly ciinch my arguments.” i Directly after Wilton's departure | the next morning Mrs. Wilton sat | down and put the outline of the din- | ner on paper. Everything worked out | so smoothly and looked so well when written down that she felt as if the dinner was already half prepared. Her mind was easy when she pick- ed up one of the new magazines. The stories were interesting. When final- ly she turned from them she discov- ered that it was too late to get sev- eral of the dinner essentials in time for them to be prepared properly. . With a good deal of reluctance she rearranged the dinner. As she was on her way to the telephone to order the new dinner materials the door opened and Mary Powers ran in, daz- zling in her finery and fresh from a European honeymoon. The sunny afternoon melted away and when Mary Powers had vanished young Mrs. Wilton stood in the mid- dle of the floor and an awful forebod- ing flooded her soul. She had forgot- ten for the second time to order the makings of that dinner! One wild look at the clock told her that the last delivery boy had gone on his last round. There wasn't even time for her to dress and run out aft- er the necessary things. A sick fear came upon her and she whispered hoarsely: “There's not a thing in the house!” Her feet were dead weights, her head was incapable of thought and her hands moved incessantly in mad- dening purposelessness, Away up on the emergency shelf, where in a spirit of joking security had slipped away and her head was UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF STUBBORN MILLICENT By HARMONY WELLER. Millicent stepped lightly from her limousine and into the foyer of the theater. She was conscious of pre- senting an unusual picture in her big drooping hat and frock of palest mauve; there was just a suggestion of melancholy about Millicent that on- ly exaggerated her charm. To the man standing near the ticket office she seemed the embodiment of all that . was lovely. Millicent looked up and caught his eyes fixed admiringly upon her and the color flamed into her cheeks. Her fingers trembled slightly as she fum- bled for her ticket. A frown sped swiftly across her face. The ticket that she had taken a month or so ago was not in her bag! “We have been booked back for the last six weeks,” the man told her. “I did so want to see the play,” she informed the man behind the window. As she turned to leave the foyer her appealing eyes swept across space to the good-looking man whose gaze had brought the color into her cheeks. | “If you care to take this seat—I will ‘be only too happy,” he said in a per. fectly impersonal tone. i Millicent hesitated a second only! ‘then in a hurried voice thanked him. © “And you are not robbing yourself?" she questioned. “The seat will go begging if you do not use it,” the man said and gave her the ticket. | Millicent reached down into the depths of her opera bag and brought forth a two-dollar biil. “Is that right?” she asked and did not raise her eyes. A dull red mounted even tc the man’s temples. He drew back swiftly then as suddenly took the money. | “Thank you, yes.” He raised his hat ' and Millicent went into the well-filled theater. i A moment before the curtain arose she knew that he had come in and, ‘that he was sitting beside her. Milli cent feit peculiarly aggrieved that he | had not so much as looked at her. i She found herself losing interest in the actors and watching every move- | ment of the long, shapely hands of the | ‘man. Occasionally she stole a sur! reptitious glance at his profile. The success of the play had come, | ‘not through any hectic love affairs | with another man’s wife or any great financial crisis. It was merely a pret. ty, domestic drama told by well bal- ‘anced, healthy-minded people. There | were no scheming politicians and no | wan eyed heroines. The hero was big and broad-minded | and the girl he loved was sweet and | she was not jealous nor catty when | her handsome lover danced with the | dark-eyed Suzette, i Millicent felt suddenly very small ' and insignificant and unloved. “It is only play girls who are so sim- ple minded,” she argued with herself. She glanced at the man beside her. His eyes were following the girl on the stage and Millicent fancied there was more than the theater-goer's ad- miration in his face. She bit her lips to still their trembling and turned again toward the stage. “Girls are not like that in real life,” she told herself vehemently. The curtain went down on the sec- ond act. The man beside Millicent again went out and in her vivid imag- ination she pictured him as buying great clusters of American beauties and sending them to the stage heroine. She wished now that she had not seen the play nor the man. Way down in the depths of her nature something had stirred. Was it the play or was it the man beside her whose personality seemed to have overpowered her? Whatever it was Millicent waited with rapidly beating heart for his re- The light went down and she began to think he was not coming. “How perfectly ridiculous and silly of me to feel this way.” She laughed scornfully at herself and ended with Against her will she turned toward the back of the theater. Yes he was : 5 | fectly at home, THE REMODELING OF MISS BETTIE BROWN By HARVEY PEAKE, | EUROPEAN TRIP A RELIEF FROM CARE For years the Browns had planned a European trip, but every year some- thing happened to prevent their get- ting away. First the children were ill and then Mrs. Brown invited guests for a raort time, who stayed several usually months, preventing the Browns, by | ger po, od Heel uth the dwindling of the bank account, go veritable interrogation mark when broad that year. Thus : from going a she saw that the handwriting was things went on. Bob Taylor's. Finally Brown declared as an abso- | «why | haven't heard from him for lute certainty that Europe would see | ye years” she exclaimed. “not them the following year. All their h : since he went to the Philippines after friends were notified and everything | op quarrel; What can he have to was done to make it impossible for | gay" Tearing open the envelope their trip to be prevented. she read: When all was ready, however, Brown was ordered by his firm to se- cure a particularly desirable contract at any cost. It meant a lot to the firm and to Brown, but it also meant months of untiring effort—effort that could not be put forth in Europe. Brown, however, had made his YOW | op" Jie misunderstanding we h and he refused to let his business In- | nas peen wipes entirely out pr J my ne terfere with his family’s plans. The | and my greatest desire is to return and family could go to Europe even if he | plead In person for your forgiveness, couldn't. They had relatives abroad, | “7 i to {ek vou something more. and, besides, he could send them With | wilowy form In its saflor dress of blue, a party. So he packed them on the And I trust, dear Bettie, that you still train and looked as cheerful as pos- | have this Identical dress, and will wear sible when it lled out. it to welcome me back. I think it was nm the prettiest dress I ever saw. If you When he returned home, however, | will don it for this occasion it will he began to realize how lonesome it | make our meeting so much easier, for I was there. It got on his nerves finally | shall know ut a siyice that I am for- and he resolved to board during his sven if hiuvels pi dans. In. WY bachelorhood. So he moved to a ho- | plans I shall communicate with you at 6. I awe Then the thought came to him to | ' . 3 rent his house for the months that it i Hacereiy, Taylor.” would be vacant unless he rented it. | ~ There was no earthly use in letting | After Bettie had read the letter it stand and gather dust, which was twice she fell into a reminiscent the same as throwing away a goodly mood. sum of money each month. Some one “Dear old Bob,” she soliloquized, would be only too glad of the oppor “how good it is to hear from you' tunity to live in a well furnished And so you have something to say house in a fashionable suburb, with all to me! I was ready to forgive and the benefits of the Browns’ home com- forget the next day, if you had only forts. Some one, no doubt, was search- asked, for I loved you and still do. ing eagerly for such an opportunity, What girl could help it? So Brown hastened to advertise the “Of course I shall wear the blue treat in store for some one. dress. I'll—no, I can’t either—I The number of replies he received haven't had it on since he left! 1 was highly gratifying to him. After began to take on flesh that same picking out the letter written on the Year. I weighed a hundred and ten best appearing stationery he clinched When he saw me last and now— the bargain over the telephone. Of Well, I know those last scales must course, the tenants refused to pay have been wrong, for they made it a nearly what he thought his house was hundred and forty-eight! worth, but on reflection he concluded “Goodness gracious, what shall I that they were really caretakers for do? I can’t begin to get it on and— him who would look after his property my slim, willowy figure! That's what generally. He even began to feel un- I get for sitting around so much and der obligations to them for their will. taking no exercise. And I remember ingness to take his house and he that he hated fat girls! I will wear urged them to make themselves per- that dress!” assuring them that Immediately she constituted herself everything in the house was theirs a committee of ways and means. to use as they desired. “Just five weeks in which to take When he hung up the receiver he off thirty-eight pounds!” she said. heaved a sigh of relief and content. The next morning at breakfast Bet. He needn't even think of the house tie's father was full of trouble. again until his family were about to “I thought when I built this house, return. It was really a great idea of that I was putting up one of the his to have some one take care of the most substantial residences in the property for him; now he could devote town,” he complained; “but last his entire time to the task of getting night, whenever a car passed, I dis. that important contract, tinctly felt it tremble, sometimes for It was about a week later that over as long as two minutes. And once it the telephone he listened to a very in- was shaken to its very foundations! dignant feminine voice commanding I'm going to get the builder to come his immediate presence at his home. over, as soon as he can, to make an Fearing no less calamity than a fire, examination.” Brown hastened to catch the first Even Bobby was disturbed. He train to the familiar suburb, came running down stairs one morn “What's the matter?” he asked of Ing a few days later, exclaiming: the woman who opened the door after “Mom, this house is hounted. 1 he had established his identity. know it is, 'cause last night I heard “Why,” she replied, without inviting the awfullest groans and moans after him in, “I wanted to ask you where I Went to bed, an’ the house jest I can find the potato knife and the Shook like it wus tremblin’ with ter carving set. And when ycu rented us ror! I was afraid to git up an’ I've this place you gave us to understand been awake all night!” that it was completely furnished! _ One evening at tea, Mrs. Brown laid Well, ever since we moved in we've down her knife and fork and looking been unable to find things we ought to at her daughter, remarked: have! There are no oyster forks nor “Now Bettie, I want to know what individual butter knives! And the ta- the matter » with you. You Tefite ble linen is a disgrace—we could Preserves and cake, you won e Bo J invite guests to dine with us SUBAT in your tea, and you don’t eat with such linen! , enough to keep a bird alive. You're “And the water froze the first night actually getting thin and peaked! we were here, 50 we had to have a ‘hy &irl, you don’t look like your plumber, and that was $7. He says °®elf; you've fallen away so much your drains are in a terribly insani. that your clothes are ever so much too we shall certainly charge our doctor On nothing,” answered Bettle, bills to you! You've no business ad- There's something vertising a perfect home—it's getting Wrong With you,” replied her mother. money under false pretenses! | Bettie Brown was sitting in the porch swing doing nothing when the postman brought the letter. These were Bettie's two greatest occupa- tions; sitting and doing nothing. She | “Manila, May 2th, “My Dear Bettie: “I am writing to say that I am going back to the United States on purpose to see you. I shall arrive in Brewster about the first of July. ! hope that you will be glad to see me, for I can scarce- Iy wait until I can see you. fairs, mother dear, I'll have to confess I am reducing my flesh by the , rolling process. You select a long you see, and roll back twenty-five times without : i : 3 : IE § i § Eg gi FE i X : : : i} : é g i 5 Li L ‘f i | | ; gt : ; ‘ Hy fee g i i : i : i i i difference between the old and new one even if there were two sizes | : tf i e : § difference!” { . ’ Hii] : FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN When the Baby has Fever. BY MARIANNA WHEELER, Babies and young children are more to have fever from a comparatively shat cause than are adults. The nervous system of a baby is very easily upset, and quite a high temperature may result from too hard a romp near bedtime, or any unusual excitement. Fever, in a baby does not come down after a few hours, should always be a signal to call in the physician. A mother should never attempt to treat the child by herself, but while waiting for the doc- tor to arrive, or when carrying out his orders, there are numerous little things, in connection with nursing of the sick child, that the mother may do herself, and which will greatly add to the baby's comfort. The normal temperature of a baby or child under three years of age may be considered 99 degrees F., when taken with a clinical thermometer in the rectum. After this age 98.6 degrees F. is the nor- mal temperature of the average child, although some children, and even grown persons, always run a higher tempera- ture, even when in the best of health. must remember that fever isa symptom. It means that there is some- thing wrong with the child, and in treat- ing fever the cause of the fever must be found as soon as possible. Never should a mother give fever-reducing d nor beg the doctor to give them, simply as a means of reducing the temperature re- rdless of the cause or consequences. bies usually stand fever well, if itis not of too long duration and when it is being well treated. If the mother has no thermometer, she may sometimes tell whether the baby has a fever by placing her warm hand on the child's abdomen; if this part feels hot and Mm Re eh of even the head; a baby with a tem of 105 degrees often has very and feet. The onl whether a pavy means of the clinical thermometer. When the mother is sure the baby has fever, and while she is waiting for the doctor to arrive, she may begin the treat- ment herself by giving a simple laxative, such as milk of magnesia, or citrate of magnesia, if the baby is inclined to be constipated, cr a dose of castor oil may by given if there are signs of indigestion or diarrhcea. A high enema of one quart of water that has been boiled and cooled to 98 degrees F., with one teaspoonful of salt dissolved in it, is aquick way of clear- ing out the intestines until the laxative can act, and will often make the child much more comfortable, The baby should be undressed and put to bed as soon as it is discovered t there is fever, and a sponge bath of tepid water, with one tablespoonful of alcohol to half a basin of water, should be given. The entire body should be gently with a soft washcloth for ten or even fifteen minutes, if the baby seems relieved by this; another cloth wrung out of Jie solution should be kept on his e The sponging may be repeated every three hours if the fever is still high and any relief is given by it. It is much less disturbing than a cold bath, as it may be given without taking the baby from his crib, and there is no sudden shock. Ab- solute quiet should be insisted on, and a cool, well-ventilated room, free from other children and older persons, except the nurse or mother. The mouth and teeth of a little patient with fevershould be most carefully treat- ed. A mouth wash of boric acid saturat- ed solution, or any good mouth wash diluted with one half cool water, should be frequently tmployed. If the baby is too Sng 10 rinse the mouth himself, the mo uld wrap some cotton on her ture little finger, and after dipping it in one ° of these solutions, the gums, teeth, tongue, and inside of the mouth should be gently washed out. This should be repeated several times daily. A little cold cream may be kept on the lips if they are cracked and dry from the fever. A baby with fever will often be very JEEn 23238 Hi z A : § F 2 g i il TH ; 23 f BE £ : HH 8 : ; $ § i I : g i it i | | g =8 : I i J Ess i i i § 228 3 2 3 £ ft I ; | ® >2 i 7 i TH f Bf ii; g2 58% ik 3 § [3 g i 2 il i § g £ i 83 Hs if} 5 : § 8 £5 5 1 il : ! E : i i ; : H i I fh! i i es : 2 i it hs 2 ; and feet, or hands y accurate way to tell ij has a fever or not is by | FARM NOTES. —The late blight of potatoes was quite prevalent over a range of ! this past season, and there is plenty of it | in New York State. The anxious inquiry comes also from far Washington: “Are blighted potatoes all t for seed?” The late blight, if os hen reach the tuber |in the ground, and | this rot will spread even after the pota- | toes have been stored in the cellar or in : pits. Ido not like to use potatoes from a ! rot-infected bin. | In my own case, I shall for this year | probably plant only early potatoes, as | these were not inj in any way by | blight and are now perfectly sound in | forage. I ay Blok a Tew Luts ties can secure a potatoes | thee 1 aim mare were Rept free rom paghe | But if I could not do any better, or rather | than not plant any potatoes, I would use . potatoes for ting from a blighted | patch. Whe our potatoes be , struck with blight next season depends | very largely on weather conditions. If , late summer and fall is dry, we | shall probably not see much of the late blight. To a great extent, also, we can control this disease by timely and per- | sistent spraying with Bordeaux mixture. - —There is nothing difficult about prun- | ing and Saiing grape vines. Books on | grape-growing be various methods ; which are declared to be important order to get fruit, but almost all of these ' books are written from the commercial , standpoint. They look more to conven- , ience in handling considerable numbers | raher than large quantities of 5 | The grape vine is very plastic. It will | a range of treat- | ment, provided that fundamental princi- ples are not disregarded. | The ! ; hr Lit i zB 25% Egiey | 3 3 g 3 5 2 : ; : : zontal. In the former vines are al- lowed to dev two arms which are trained in te directions on a wire system, the two wires are equally distant from the ground-—about by of posts. In this case as in the Kbni gs , the shoots are allowed to drop, th of these systems are useful for the useful in fruit, but they often add to the beauty of the objection to them a consequence, too much wood is pro- duced. wood is developed in ex- cess, there is always a reduction in the uantity and the quality of the fruit. | As in the case of other fruits, the prac- into a ' | § ] g i 3 i i hatin Sririih il ih E. i i i ft i 3 g it i 8 ; i= 4d 2 i i : i : g : 1 i i; I | gt ] E : ] : i ; i | ; i! E oi : : : g £5 g g ; 8 I i 1 5 : : Fis 283 ix i £5 HN In i f i 83s = § : g s is i £ £ | | i i | iz i : il 2 h = ; il i il | L I 7
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