ON FLOSSIE'S ADVICE.
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“Yes,” said young Mrs. Tomlinsor
as she poured a glassful of water intc .
a shallow bowl filled with blooming
bulbs, “they did bloom at last and’
they are pretty. But don't you eve:
let any one tell you what Flossie téid
me about them, for it isn't true.”
“Chinese lilies or narcissus?” asked
her visitor, as she slipped off her pin
less hat and warmed her blue tipped
fingers against the tea cozy, all set
for gentle brewing.
“I'm sure I don't know. 1 bought
both kinds of bulbs and they got
mixed, and now ewery bowl has some
flowers with yellow centers and some
that are white and everybody tells me
a different story about which is which
But that doesn’t matter nearly sc
much as the rest of it.” Young Mrs.
Tomlinson sank into her wicker chair
and began to arrange the delicate tea
cups, and after that she uncovered a
pile of cheese sandwiches,
“It is all lovely,” exclaimed her
friend. “All—tea, cheese, sandwiches |
and flowers. I am cold and hungry,
80 hurry the tea, and do tell me what
Flossie said that wasn't true.”
“None of it was true—about the
bulbs,” declared young Mrs. Tomlin.
son, sternly. “And she started me
on them, you know. She was here dast
summer when we gave our rubber
plant to Aunt Sophie because Harry
said it was too big to live with and
fussed so about it. I was sorry to see
it go, for it was the only thing I ever
made grow, and I have spent a for
tune on ferns and various kinds of |
plants. They die the minute I touch
them. So Flossie suggested bulbs.
They were quite cheap, she told me.
“Just get some cheap, plain glass
bowls,’ said Flossie, ‘and you can
gather enough pebbles this summer to
fill them. Then get the bulbs—at 25 |
cents a dozen—and you have flowers’
for the entire winter. Plant them two
weeks apart and then keep them in|
the dark for two weeks. In six weeks |
they bloom and you can keep taking
out your bowls as the old flowers die.’ |
Tt sounded delightful, so I decided to|
try it.
“That was in July. We were going
north for the rest of the summer, so
I just made a note of it and watched
for pebbles. Whenever we were in
swimming or were walking by the|’
lake I made everybody pick up peb- |:
bles for me. Harry said his pockets
were full of stones all summer long,
and he got awfully mad once because
I emptied the cigars out of a new
cigar box to put stones in, though 1
covered up the cigars and they weren't
hurt a bit.
“I brought back four boxes of stones
—perfect beauties, blue and white and
yellow and pink. Then I began to
look up bowls. Flossie said the bowls
would cost almost nothing at all, and
I began to look for plain glass bowls.
The cheap ones were dreadful pressed
glass things and the only pretty ones
were $1 each, so I got two of those
and then looked at pottery bowls.
Harry says that there's where 1 lost
my head, but I looked on the bowls
as an investment. And I got some
beauties. They cost more than the
others, but I thought they were worth
the money, and the Japanese clerk
was such a dear about choosing them.
“Then I got the bulbs. And instead
of costing 20 cents a dozen they were
three for a quarter. Flossie said |
went to the wrong place, but [ didn’t
know that, and I had bought six
bowls, so I had to have plenty of
bulbs.
“About October 1 I began to set
them out so they would begin bloom-
ing about November 15. I never have
got over this part of it. Harry has
always given his cigar boxes to a
neighbor boy and he came over to
play in our basement one day and
found my pebbles in those boxes and
threw them all into the alley!
“Harry wasn't at all sympathetic.
He simply refused to go and gather
more pebbles by the lake, which he
might have done to save expense, and
so I had to go back to the bulb store
and buy little ugly, commonplace
stones for ten cents a quart,
Harry found it before it was a week
old and spilled it all over the silk
my bulb ambitions.
“That bow! was broken, and of
course it was the nicest, and the
tender sprouts were harmed, so
to begin again. I took all
out of the closet and had
put up some shelves, and it
much and was a splendid
bulbs,
“But all winter Harry
he hasn’t been able to
in its proper He
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cone to me, or ask Harry. We know.
Do have another sandwich.”
—It istjust as easy to ruin calves by
over-feeding as’it is by starving.
§ JOYOUS SUMMER
BY THE SEASHORE
—————
' Hanscombe Proved to Be a Good
Captain in Rough Weather.
By LOUISE MERRIFIELD.
(Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
For one moment Hanscombe lost his |
head.
“It's been a joyous summer, girlie,
and there's another one ahead of us.
I'll try to come back.”
He was lying full length at her feet
on the shore. Nan hardly noticed |
him. Her face was turned down to |
ward the point. Something of the
sunset glory seemed to linger on its |
girlish contour, but her eyes were full |
of latent mischief.
“It's so nice of you even to promise |
that, Mr. Hanscombe,” she murmured, |
“Mother'll be glad.”
“Won't you?"
“l won't be here.”
Hanscombe sat up.
“Not if I should ask you to be
here?”
Nan laughed and bit her lip.
“You always seem like a funny, |
overgrown boy to me when you
to be earnest.”
“I'm not trying, Nan, You've |
known all along just what
meant.”
“It's a good thing for me that I}
have,” laughed Nan. “Oh, don't pro-|
test, now, and try to make good at |
the last minute. You don't have to
with me. You came down here with |
Hal—"
“He told me about you before I
came, and that's why.”
“He's awfully prejudiced.”
Hanscombe kicked a bit of drift.
wood half buried in the sand, and
frowned. Fate was leading him into a
' snare. He knew when he reached
the danger point, and always moved
along at the right moment. He didn't
want to marry any girl. He had come
to Paint of Pines purely out of curi-
osity to see Pan Phillips because Hal
had sald she was the “bulliest” girl
in the world.
Across the bay he could see the
white spot of the tents even in the
deepening twilight. To-morrow he
| would be on the train bound for the
west. And Hal would be over there
in the tent, with Nan in the cottage
up in the pines, only a few hundred
yards away.
“Won't you miss me a bit, Nan?”
“Lots.” Nan's tone was perfectly
matter of fact. “You're a dandy
bass catcher.”
“I can't seem to catch anything
else,” sald Hanscombe cheerlessly.
“What's the matter with me, Nan?”
“Matter? How?" gullelessly,
“Don't you like me?”
“Very much. So does mother.”
“Are you sorry you kissed me?”
Once She Turned 23d Looked Out to
Sea. ;
savagely as a last chance at stirring
up emotion,
“Which time?”
“Have you got them all tabulated
for future reference? Nan, didn't you
care at all?”
“Yes, I almost think I did.” For
the first time Nan's voice was a little
unsteady. She still watched the far-
off point jutting out like a long nose
into the sea. “But I don't care now.
1 suppose that's the last test, isn't it?
When you know that everything is
going to end, and you just don’t
care?”
“Would you go with me?’ Hans-
combe’s face was a study in con-
flicting impressions. It was not an
invitation he gave, merely one of his
speculative flyers in love, and Nan
knew it. She laughed, and shook
her head,
“It would be a pretty hard sen-
i{ence, wouldn't it? For both of us?
No, thank you, kind sir, not to-
Hanscombe studied her for a min
ute in silence. He did not know
this mood. Vaguely he realized that
Nan was, as the boys would call fit,
“kiddin’ him.” It was not pleasant
to be a 6-foot,170-pound halfback and be
“kidded,” especially by the girl he
had been gracefully trying to depart
from without breaking her heart.
Watching the little reddish curls that
snuggled against the tanned throat,
he wondered what the next ten #in-
utes held for him. All at once he
knew that Nan Phillips held his
heart and future very neatly bal
anced on her strong little pink palm
And there was Hal
“You see, Bob, you're nice to have
around—"
I've |
“Like a hammock or cake of ce”
| growled Hanscombe. “Go on.”
| “But I don't believe you'd make a
good captain in rough weather, and
we get a lot of that sort through life, i
{don't you know it? You're a goof
i pal to talk to, and all that, but—"
She stopped suddenly and stood
up. He saw in a moment what had
| happened. Drifting rapidly out to
ithe open sea was their motor boal.
A couple of miles across the bay
was the little summer camp on the
| point. And they were on an island
| in midchannel, with no chance of &
| steamer passing before the city boa:
| tn the morning. Hanscombe kicked
| off his shoes.
| “You're not
| swi mafter it?"
| eredulously.
“I'm going to the point,” he re-
torted deliberately. “I'll get ‘dal's
boat and come after you. Don't get
rattled now. I won't be long.”
| “There are cross currents out
there—"
“So there are here,” he sald,
| grimly. “Better take my match-
| box and get some driftwood togeth¢
| er for a fire in case I give out. Hal
| will see it, and know there's trouble.
Goodby.”
“Why don't you
we aren't missed?"
“Just to show
| weather captain,
| laughed. - “Rustle
wood, mate.
swimming gear.”
Slowly she turned and went
over the winding shore, through the
little path of sword grass and white
clover. Once, at the top of a hum-
mock, she turned and looked out to
sea. It was a shadowy violet
haze, His head looked like brown
going to try ané
Nan demanded in-
wait and see if
I can be u rough
I guess’
after the drift
from the shreo. Nan watched it wita
keen, half-closed eyes until it dis-
appeared, the little silver matchbox
pressed to her cheek unconsciously,
All her life she had lived at the
Point. She knew every swirling cur-
rent out in midstream beyond the
island. Night after night she had
ing that marked the steamer channel.
And now Hanscombe, careless, in-|
dolent, city-bred Hanscombe, was
out there fighting the sea just to
make good in her eyes that he was
no coward,
She gathered the driftwood into a
hedp, and set fire to it, not to warn
Hal, but to give some cheer to the
man out in the water in the darkness.
She knew in her heart she had cared
for him from his first few days at the
Point. Hal was dear, but he was
just a big brother. The very faults
of Hanscombe made her indignant
against him because she reasoned he
was too idle to put up his own good
fight with fate and fortune. And
she had made up her mind to let him
£9.
Once she put her hands to her lips
and called him to come back, but
there was no answer, and as the
night closed in, she sat on one of
the tall sand dunes, her face buried
on her arms and sobbing until sud-
denly she felt Hanscombe's arms close
about her,
“Dear, don't do that,” he said with
a new, masterful touch in his tone.
“Hal started after us—saw the fire,
I think. When I caught sight of his
boat pulling out, I turned and came
back. What's the matter?”
Nan kept her face hidden against
his cheek.
“Why didn’t you come right away?”
“I had to dress and put out the fire
so it wouldn't spread in this wind,
Nan?" He forced her to face him
there in the semi-darkness. “Nan,
you didn’t care a rap, did you, on
the level, whether I came back or
not?”
Nan hesitated, and whispered very
goftly.
“I didn't want the ship left without
8 captain.”
The Finish Fight,
Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian
roet, playwright and philosopher, is
to box for charity's sake in Paris. A
Chicagoan said of this the other day:
“Maeterlinck is robust. He should
box well. I have often met him on
the Riviera. He hes a villa at Grasse,
and he spends the whole winter exer-
eising out of doors in the Quzzling
Riviera sunshine,
“He talks excellent English, and ot
a luncheon at the Grand hotel in
Grasse I once heard an American girl
ask him:
“‘] see that pugilists fight in a
ring. What kind of a ring is it, Mr.
Maeterlinck? You are an athlete, and
ro you ought to know.’
“The poet, pushing back his thick,
Depperan d-salt hair, smiled and re
Pp :
“‘In the ordinary sparring match,
limited to seven or eight rounds, an
ordinary ring is used, but when it's a
fight to a finish they always employ
a wedding ring.”
‘The Aeroplane’s Record.
Though still an “enfant terrible,”
the aeroplane has achieved excellent
records. It has attained a speed of
104 miles an hour in a closed circuit,
has flown nearly 14,000 feet high and
has carried 13 passengers at once,
thelr weight aggregating 1,440 pounds.
It has flown through storm clouds,
over mountains, seas and continents.
Jt has voyaged by compass over in-
hospitable routes, from city to city,
faster than the eagle or the railway lo-
comotive.—Popular Mechanics,
Hubby Was Stingy.
“Hubby, we must give a reception.”
“It will cost too much.”
“Oh, no. I can rent some plants
and some dishes and some palms.”
“But you can't rent the sandwiches
and the ice cream.”
he |
1 have to get into |
back
seaweed floating with the tide, far off |
gone out with Hal while he hung a |
red lantern of warning on the pil |
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