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"Bellefonte, Pa., March 28, 1924. WHY SHE LOVED THE COACHMAN. By L. A. Miller. “No, daughter, you cannot go to Montgomery’s party tonight, because there will be dancing, which you know is very wrong.” ; “But I will not dance, I will only look on. Now, mother, say yes; that’s a good old mother, say yes!” “No, no, my child, I will not say yes. It is for your own good I say 2. “But mother dear, I am just home from the seminary, where we girls were shut up like a lot of Nuns or convicts, and I so much desire to get into society.” “That’s just the point,” chimed in a maiden aunt of uncertain age—cer- tainly above forty—“that’s just the point. You must make the change gradually. They do not take frozen people directly into heated rooms.” “I am not cold, I am hungry for so- ciety,” urged the pretty young lady. «Precisely. Neither do they give a starving man -full meals at first.” “Well, I don’t care, I want to go to the party,” panted the pride of the family. “Mamie is breaking her heart to go to Montgomery’s party,” said the mother to her husband when they were alone. “Tet her break it, if she will. She will not go to the party,” promtply re- plied the old gentleman. “Mr. Wagner has invited her, she is in a perfect fever over it.” “Mr. Wagner is of a very good fam- ily, but he is a dude, and, therefore, unfit to be the associate of the only daughter of the head deacon of the leading church in the city.” “I am bothered to know whom we shall get for her to associate with, the young folks all seem so giddy,” mused the mother. “Giddy! Sinful you had better say. They dance, go to picnics, concerts, theatres, and will eventually go to the devil.” . “But don’t you think she will have to have some company?” «Qf course, where is her aunt? She can keep the dudes away. They never bother her.”: ; «1 don’t know what to think.” “I do. She shall not go out unless accompanied by her aunt, and if any of these dudes come around they will get kicked out.” “No indeed, Mamie, none of the naughty men ever succeeded in tak- ing my thoughts off my christian du- ties,” observed the ancient aunt. “Did you ever have and beaus, aun- tie?” . “No, not regulars. Some of the young men used to shine around me a little, but they never bothered me very much.” Strange as it may seem, Aunt Millie blushed a pleased sort of a blush. It was probably the first time the blood-vessels in her face had been fully distended for years. “Did you ever love any of them 2» «Love! What silliness! I had no time to fool with such nonsense, and 1 hope you will never get your head full of it. Study your books, read your uncle Titus’ sermons on the du- ties of the young, and let the men alone.” “I mean to be good, and shall en- deavor to put my learning and talents to the best use possible, but I do not think a life such as yours will suit me at all. I am of a different tempera- ment and my tastes differ from yours, therefore, I must act differently from you in order to obtain the best re- sults.” : “There you go on that everlasting temperament nonsense again. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and all you have to do is to do right. You say I do right; therefore, if you do as 1 do, you will not be wrong.” “But I don’t want to do as you have done, and be an old maid.” “An old maid is a mighty sight bet- ter than a young grass-widow.” “Your daughter is certainly a mod- el of propriety, Bro.” remarked Pas- tor Pulpit, during one of his pastoral visits. “If she is not there is no virtue in discipline. I am a business man, and have always made it a point to en- force the strictest discipline among my employees, and I have not failed to do so at home.” “Discipline is great!” “Tt is, and I am more strict at home than I otherwise would be, perhaps, on account of being an officer of the church, and, therefore, one looked to as an example.” “I have often had occasion to re- mark your exemplary deportment and christian teaching. Some think you are too strict.” “Not a bit of it, not a bit of it, Sir. You cannot have too much of a good thing. Keep your people away from danger and they will not be endanger- ed. That’s my plan.” “You are wise, deacon, very wise; people cannot handle pitch without being defiled.” “True. Besides the Scriptures say, ‘Evil communication corrupt good manners.” I prevent the corruption of good manners by preventing evil com- munications. My daughter is crazy to go to parties, have company at home, and she even went so far as to ask her aunt, my sister, if she thought I would allow her to have a little par- ty at my house. My rules, and my position as a deacon, preclude any- thing of the kind.” “It is better; it think.” “I know it is; I don’t think anything about it.” “Jt is not best to think too much, deacon, it is liable to get one confus- » and is better so, I “I do think Mamie is the greatest chatterbox I ever saw,” said Aunt Millie to Mamie’s mother. “Why so?” “She just chatters and talks to the coachman from the time we start on our round of visits to the poor until we get back. Then, she is so anxious to see everything that is going on that 1 cannot keep her in the seat with me, but she must sit in front with the coachman.” | “She alwavs seems so much more cheerful and-lively after being out that it delights me to have her go,” replied her mother. “She does so enjoy society. What a pity society is so much against spiritual growth, and so damaging to morals.” “It is a pity. Sometimes I think father is a little too strict with Ma- mie. No matter what young man she mentions he is sure to have something to say against him. He is a dude, or a snipe, or a sport, or a squirt.” “He is right sister; sister he is right. The men are very alluring and just as deceitful as they are alluring.” “We should not forget, sister Mil- lie, that we liked young men ourselves once.” “] never did—that is, I was not foolish about men.” “And is this life?” soliloquized Ma- mie as she sat looking out over the multitude of chimneys. “Is this what I spent year after year at school for? Here is home and all that money can buy. Here are father and mother and Aunt. They are the best in the world to me, but still there is unrest. I am disappointed. I hoped to go into so- ciety, mingle with those who were pleasant and agreeable and enjoy the company of those I could love. All this is denied me. I am thankful to Longfellow for translating this from the German, it suits my case so well: “Something the heart must have to cher- ish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish, And in itself to ashes burn.” “The coachman is my most intimate male friend; not from choice, but from necessity. Sometimes I almost fear I am fascinated. No. I do not love him, but being denied the privi- lege of going into society and ming- ing with the gay throngs I feel my pent up affections going out toward even the coachman.” “Zounds, don’t I tell you no. Open my doors to her again? As soon open them to any strumpet on the street. Didn’t I educate her, didn’t I provide everything for her comfort, and wouldn’t I have done well by her in the future?” “But you must remember father, she is your daughter.” “She is not my daughter. I would not recognize her on the street, and I never want her name mentioned in my hearing again.” “Why so bitter?” “Why did she run away with the coachman ?” “Heaven help and guard our poor, erring Mamie,” sobbed her mother. “I will not say Amen!” said her father angrily. “Nor I,” snapped her maiden aunt, with whom even a coachman would not run away. This is not a tale of fiction, but re- ality. The writer was present when this unreasonable controversy was in- dulged in, and never can forget what was said on that heated occasion. Mamie was a very intelligent, highly educated girl, and everybody who knew her entertained the highest re- gard for her. The father and mother were highly respected people, but were extremely fanatical in their re- ligious views. The old maid was a meddler and a crank. The result is that the unreasonable objectors came out second best. It is gratifying to know that the coachman, through his industry, and Mamie through her good sense and judgment, coupled with economy are now the happy pos- sessors of an up-to-date brick resi- dence and not one penny of encum- brance against it. In this home they are living happy and enjoying super- latively the comforts of home. NEW $1.00 NOTE BEARS LIKENESS OF WASHINGTON. One dollar bills of a new design have been put into circulation by the United States Treasury Department. The bills of the new issue have the likeness of the eagle which adorns the face of the present ten dollar silver certificates. The one dollar bills of the latest de- sign are the first of a series of chang- es in the paper currency of the Unit- ed States designed to make counter- feiting more difficult. Bills of each de- nomination will be radically different in appearance from all other denom- inations, and bills of the same denom- ination, but different legal origin will resemble each other more than at present. Under the new plan ten dol- lar federal reserve note and a ten dol- lar gold certificate will have a family likeness; but ten dollar gold certifi- cates will look less like $50 gold cer- tificates than now. This is the latest of many steps taken to safeguard the paper money of the United States. For many years extraordinary precautions have been taken to that end both in the prepa- ration of the bills and the pursuit and punishment of counterfeiters, with the result that tampering with the currency becomes more dangerous and less profitable year by year. Germans Ask Price for Disease Cure. Unconditional restoration of Ger- many’s colonies and prewar rights is the price demanded by the German Colonial society for a new remedy for the prevention of sleeping sickness. The society expresses the belief that Germany in the remedy has a power- ful political weapon in hand which places her in a position to force revo- cation of the colonial mandates exe- cuted under the Versailles treaty. “Germany holds the key to Central Africa in the remedy,” says Doctor Zache, well known as a colonial ex- pert. He expresses the belief that the remedy for sleeping sickness and tsetse fever is destined to convert Central Africa into a prosperous, fer- tile country, inhabited by industrious people. “No colonies, no remedy,” is the ul- timatum of Edouard Achelis, chair- man of the Bremen section of the Ger- man Colonial society. He suspects that this stand may provoke the charge of inhumanity, but he reminds his critics of the allied “hunger blockade.” German Colonial enthusiasts have demanded that the German govern- ment immediately protect the remedy against undue exploitation by the en- tente powers. 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The people of Pennsylvania by asking us for telephones— more and more telephones—are telling us how much new plant These millions must be raised largely in the form of new invest. ments in the property. Our business is not alone to spend this money as economically as possible. We must also, by sound business management, continue to hold your confidence, for it is to you that we must come for these new investments. Fourth of a series of adve. tisements regarding the present telephone service program in Pennsylvania. Although the figures are large, we're in this business to give you all the service you need when you want it and where you want it. That’s why we're spending 3 these millions of dollars in Pennsylvania. And all of it is for construc- tion—none of it goes for oper- ating expenses. None of it goes for maintaining the equipment; although, of course, both mainte- nance and operating expenses increase as the telephone plant grows. THE BELL TELEPHONE CO. OF PENNSYLVANIA L. H. 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