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who lived next door to Mrs.
Shaw and opposite to Mrs. Dil-
worth. Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Dilworth
had been brought to speak ‘about it
that afternoon as they sat together.
They were fast friends, and they had
‘been telling each other a great many
private things for years. It was
inevitable that the matter of Edith
Penn should come up between them
some time, although they were loyal
to her as a neighbor and charitable
to her as an acquaintance and a
woman.
“She doesn’t ring true,” Mary Shaw
said.
“I’ve often thought that,” Mrs. Dil-
worth sighed. “There's something
about her I don’t understand, although
I have tried to—something that repels
me. I've never mentioned it before
because 1 supposed that I was the
only person in the neighborhood whe
felt that way about her.”
“You aren’t,” Mary Shaw said. “I
feel the same way myself. She's a
good neighbor; I couldn’t wish for a
better. She’s always agreeable and
pleasant—too pleasant. Apparently
she never has any reason to be other-
wise. 1 guess that's why—" She
paused. “It doesn’t seem natural,”
she went on thoughtfully, “for a per-
son never to have annoyance or trou-
ble of any kind. The rest of us who
‘have had our deep valleys—well, 1
suppose we can't understand a per-
son who seems to live constantly on
the sunny hills of existence. And
Mrs. Penn certainly appears always to
be on the tip-top of the very sunniest
hill. Perhaps that’s why we don't un-
destand her. It's a good ways up
there from one of our deep valleys.”
Mrs. Shaw gulped a little and wiped
away a tear. Her deep valley was the
loss of her husband who had been her
true companion for more than thirty
years. Mrs. Dilworth said nothing,
only rocked a little faster. [ifteen
years before she had lost her only
child, a little son, and the pain of
‘bereavement was still very acute at
times.
There was a tap at the door, a brisk
“May I come in?” and Edith Penn en-
tered with a small dish in her hand.
‘She was a woman as old as either of
the two who started at her appear-
ance, but she had a youthful air, for
her gown was gayly blue and her face
danced with smiles.
“I've brought you over a bit of di-
vinity fudge,” she said to Mrs. Shaw.
“I'm so glad Mrs. Dilworth is here.
She-ean enjoy it, too.”
Mrs. Shaw accepted the candy with
just a shade of embarrassment. She
felt a sense of guilt in that she had
talked about her neighbor and was
now accepting a gift from her.
HERE was something wrong
about Mrs. Penn, the woman
mind of an infant ir-a few years than |
“The candy is lovely,” she sail
“Do sit down.”
Mrs. Penn shock her head, stilv |
Anmiling,
1t came to Mary Shaw that
she had smiled so much that her face !
had taken on a rather set look, a
strained look, one might say.
“No! 1 must hurry back. I've a!
¢housand things to see to,” she re-
turned gayly.
“You are always so rushed,” Mrs
Dilworth offered. “And only just you
and Mr. Penn and the little boy to do
for.” The little boy was Mrs. Penn's
grandson, who had come to her when
his young mother died.
“] see you have been to visit you:
Alster,” Mary Shaw said.
“Yes. I stayed only one night.
That was all Mr. Penn could spare
me. You should have seen the house
he and Frank kept! 1 had a stack
of dishes that high to wash.” She
laughed and vanished.
The two women looked at each oth-
er gravely. But they said not a word
more. Thoughtfully they tasted the
candy. It was delicious.
“It ought to sour in our mouths
after the way we've talked about her,”
Mary regretted.
“I was just going to say that,” Mrs
Dilworth agreed.
After Mrs. Dilworth went home
Mary Shaw washed the empty bon-
bon dish from which she had emptied
the candy, for in their conscience
smittenness they had not been able to
eat it, and throwing a shawl over her
head, went to return the dish to Mrs.
Penn. She found Frankie making a
snow man in the front yard.
“Go right in, Mis’ Shaw,” he lispea.
“Gran’s making me a pair of pants.”
Mrs. Shaw tapped lightly, as a warn-
«mg, and entered. She heard a sound
of sobbing and stopped, motionless
with amazement. Sobs! They came
from the sitting room. There was
something else, too—Mrs. Penn was
saying, “Oh, dear!” over and over
-again.
“She’s sick—in pain,” Mary Shaw
<hought, and hurried forward.
Mrs. Penn lay on the couch with
fier face in her arms, a pathetic.
grief-stricken figure. As Mrs. Shaw
bent over and laid a hand on her
shoulder she started and looked up.
“What is it?” demanded Mrs. Shaw,
sinking down beside her and putting
an arm about her. “Are you sick?
Tell me so 1 can do soinething for
you.”
jut Mrs. Penn merely sobbed inco-
nerently. Presently she said thickly:
“Lock the door so Frankie can't get
in here. I—1 wouldn't have him see
me like this for the world. He has
never seen me cry.”
Mrs. Shaw locked the doors and
then returned to her seat beside the
weeping woman,
“My dear!” she said, with that un-
derstanding that comes only once in
a thousand times, perhaps, even to
the best of men, “it’s all been a bluff,
hasn’t it?”
Edith Penn gripped the kind hand,
looked into the sympathetic eyes, and
gave herself to confession.
“I should say it has all been a
bluff,” she replied. “And I'm sick of
bluffing. I'm tired of pretending. I—
I hate myself for going round with
that silly grin on my face and trying
to make people believe it came there
by itself. But it doesn’t. I put it on
every morning just the way I do my
clothes. Let me tell you! I took you
that candy this afternoon as an ex-
cuse, hoping I'd find you alone. I
thought maybe I could tell you, but
Mrs. Dilworth was there. Oh, my
face aches with keeping things out of
sight! I've always made the best of
everything. My whole life is one
fabrication, and what good has it done
to me or anybody else? I don’t be-
lieve it's true that the world is better
for your keeping your trouble out of
sight. I believe that the give-and-take
sympathy creates a bond between pee
ple—a needed bond!”
“I have always believed that,” Mary
Shaw said.
“I've alwaye had to cry my eyes out
in secret while I smiled in the face
of the whole world,” Edith Penn went
on. “Iven my husband has never sus-
pected that I had cause to shed a sin-
gle tear. In that way I haven't been
true to him, perhaps, but it was the
way I was brought up. My mother
was the kind of woman who would
give our dinner away to somebody
who didn’t need it, while we did, just
for the sake of keeping up appear-
ances. “My sister—” Her lips quiv-
ered. “My sister has always been like
mother, until yesterday. Yesterday
she told me—that she has only six
months at best to live. I smiled. 1
said, ‘Six months is a long time.” Then
I came home and kept right on smil-
ing. But I've reached the point where
I can’t smile any more. I love her,
and I am going to lose her. And I'm
going to cry about it if I want to.”
She did ery again, stormily, while
Mrs. Shaw soothed and comforted her.
It was not Edith Penn's first deep
valley by any means, but it was the
first time she had walked there with
another woman who knew the length
and breadth of deep valleys. In Mary
Shaw she had found the friend she
needed.
And Mary Shaw, too, had found
something which she would in time
make known to all women—a brave
heart that had masqueraded under a
smile in order to hide its suifering.
Process of Changes
of the Infant Mind
The ultimate standard of value
among human beings is personality;
hence its development is. of supreme
importance. The germ of mental life
in the human infant exhibits one of
the most striking instances of evolu-
tion to be found in nature.
Greater changes take place in the
in ages of plant or animal evolution. |
i This germ of mental life is so. con- |
stituted that it tends to develop ac- |
cording to inner laws, as does a grain |
of wheat, yet it is greatly modified in |
its development by its environment.
physical and psychical.
The infant is in somewhat of the
condition of a man who should find
himself in a shop where machines of
all sorts were in motion. He would at
first have no control over them. By
noticing what happened after each
motion and by pulling various cranks
and levers he would learn to know
what to expect at any moment and
could ultimately control the various
machines.
In a similar way does the babe
gradually gain control of his bodily
movements. In the meantime the con-
scious states that are experienced are
organized into a conscious self,—I"rom
“The Individual in the Making,” by
E. A. Kirkpatrick.
Weasel’s Fashion Title
Ermine—weasel. It would prob-
ably be a shock to royalty to know |
they are one and the same.
The elegant white ermine that con
stitutes the collar or robes of king
and prince is the fur of the weasel
in its white winter phase. The same
marauder of the hen coops, who is the
poultry raiser’s most persistent en-
emy, becomes valuable to the trap-
per in the winter for the pelt it yields.
Prime weasel pelts, styled as er-
«mine in the trapper’s price list, bring
a couple of dollars. In the dead of
winter the weasel is entirely white,
save for the tip of its tail, which is
black.
in summer the weasel is brown and
its fur is worthless.
Look Out for the Snails
In some parts of Wales the natives
indulge in the thrills of a snail race.
With a dash of paint upon their shells
to identify them the snails are started
across a space about a yard square,
being attracted to the end by a pile of
wet ivy leaves. The snails often de-
velop an unfortunate habit of going to
sleep during the race and they must
be jockeyed by the use of small sticks
by their owners. The owners of the
snail which crosses the line first takes
the purse.
Very Much So, Yes
Mae— Yeu're a mounted police?
How romantic!
Police—Yeah, you said it, lady.
Why, even now I have it in my legs.
Changing Sin Styles
We people in Junction City wish
the idea of sin wouldn’t change so
often. It gets us so that we don’t
know where we're at. It'd be lots
more comfortable to know what sin
was, so that there wouldn't be any
doubt about it, and then we could get
out and fight it. Sometimes, just as
we get busy fighting sin and the ol
devil, we find that it isn’t sin any
more at all, but is what everybody is
doing.
What we need is stabilized sin. It's
plumb disgusting to get out and fight
-a thing for years and then find that
it existed only in our imaginations.
We in Junction City don’t want sin
changed on us. We're fighters. We
don’t care what sin we're fighting, just
so we're fighting it.—Homer Croy in
Plain Talk Magazine.
Eternally Broke
The most common habit we have
which makes for distress is the habit
of living beyond cur means—not only
of monetary income but of vital and
emotional energy. As a consequence
we drag our feet threugh life, figura-
tively and literally speaking.
Such men and women have no time
or energy to live because they exhaust
beth time and energy in keeping alive
They go through life eternally broke.
They can’t get more out of life be
cause they don’t put more into life
They can’t be happy because they are
crowded, pushed. pulled, swamped by
countless impulses which have no bio-
lugic value, satisfy no sceial needs.
and contribute nothing to individual
life, health or happiness.—George A
Dorsey, in (Cosmopolitan.
Roberta Knew
Roberta, aged four, had been told
by her grandmother she would wear
her tongue out, if she did net stop
talking so much. Coming in one day
from playing, the child excitedly told
her grandmother that she had just
seen a woman who had worn her
tongue out.
Grandmother asked her how she
could tell and she said: “The woman
was talking on her fingers.”
Grandmother figured out that the
little girl had seen some deaf and
dumb persons.—Indianapolis News.
Real Estate Transfers.
Fred F. Smith, et ux, to Thomas
J. Lee, tract in Rush Twp.; $1500.
George E. Rider, et ux, to Luther
| F. Rider, tract in Ferguson and Half-
moon Twps.; $1.
Agnes Hoover to John F. Hood, et
ux, tract in Rush Twp.; $50.
Fred Gowland, et ux, to George
Dinsmore, tract in Rush Twp.; $400.
Henry Lingle, et ux, to Spring Gar-
den Rifle Club, tract in Penn Twp.;
$800.
Catharine M. Dinges, et al, to Phil-
ip H. Johnston Jr., tract in Boggs
Twp. and Milesburg; $1750.
J. E. Pelton, et ux, to Guy Bitner,
et ux, tract in State College; $7000.
West Penn Realty Co , to Bellefonte
Trust Co., tract in Spring Twp.; $400.
wm
Bellefonte Trust Company to West
Penn Power Co., tract in Spring
Twp.; $400.
William W. Ward to T. G. Crown-
over, tract in Ferguson Twp.; $150.
Mrs. Sarah Hess to T. G. Crownov-
er, tract in Ferguson Twp.; $312.
George H. Lupton, et al, to J. E.
Noa et ux, tract in Rush Twp.;
North Water Street,
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ERSKINE SIX
N April 26, two strictly stock Erskine Club
Sedans-exactly like those you can purchase from
any Studebaker dealer—each traveled 1000 miles in
less than 1000 consecutive minutes.
The run took place at Atlantic City Speedway, and
was supervised by officials of the American Automo-
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cars.
As a result, ten new records for stock cars under
$1000 were established by the Erskine Six. And Stude-
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Although sold at the lowest price at which any
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factory), Studebaker has not permitted any com-
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travel 1000 miles at better than a mile a minute—why
you can drive your Erskine Six 40 miles an hour even
when NEW—why the Erskine is so economical to
maintain and to operate.
A few minutes behind the wheel of the New Erskine
Six will introduce you to a type of performance as
sensational for its price class as that of the World’s
Champion Commander is to the field of higher priced
cars.
GEORGE A BEEZER.
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