(© by D. J. Walsh.) *
“M POOR little girl,” said
the haughty, gray-haired
woman seated at the pa-
tient’s bedside. “Every-
thing seems to conspire to retard your
convalescence. Try to eat your egg,
sweetheart.”
“I don’t believe I can,” said the In-
valid, languidly.
“Oh, but you'll take it from mother.
Tl feed you, darling.”
Mrs. Mayland emptied the egg into
a cup, put a sprinkle of salt, and a
piece of butter in it, and held a spoon-
iful to her daughter’s lips. The girl
opened her mouth, in the manner of a
newly hatched chick receiving a worm
from the parent bird, and little by
little the egg disappeared.
“That's wonderful, precious,” said
the mother, with an approving kiss.
Her supper finished, Miss Mayland
reached for her mirror and vanity
«case and the nurse knew she was pre-
paring for the doctor’s evening call.
It had seemed incredible at first that
Doctor Ingraham, the most popular of
the younger members of the hospital
staff, should fall a victim to such a
shallow and selfish girl, But it had
proved to be only too true, and Grace
Roe had suffered severely in conse-
quence.
The. toilet articles were scarcely re-
moved when the doctor knocked and
entered. He bowed mechanically to
Mrs. Mayland and said. tenderly to
her daughter, “How are we feeling to-
aight?”
Miss Roe, fearful of betraying the
tumult in her breast, hastily left the
room. In the corridor outside she met
Miss Pierce, the night nurse.
“How's the hospital's prize nuis
ance?’ asked Miss Pierce.
“As usual she's—difficult.”
“Luckily for me—and for herself—
she sleeps nights. Otherwise I'd be
tempted to give her a pill that would
quiet her for good. Why in the name
of common sense doesn’t Doctor In-
graham send her home? She's well
enough.
Miss Mayland went home the follow:
ing week and the announcement of
her engagement to Doctor Ingraham
followed shortly after.
“Hm!” scoffed Miss Pierce. “Some
people are born to trouble and some
people have trouble thrust upon them,
but Doctor Ingraham goes looking for
it with a lantern. Between that
pretty, pampered ninny and her field
marshal of a mother he'll stand at at-
tention for the rest of his life.”
Pampered ninny Miss Maylana
might be, but that didn’t lessen Doctor
Ingraham’s feeling of self-congratula-
tion, nor did it alter Grace Roe’s con-
viction that justice was very unevenly
distributed in the world. Not even
graduation, the event she had looked
forward to with intense eagerness for
three years, could dispel the gloom
which took possession of her. She
was very much depressed indeed as,
diploma in hand and clad in the vest
ments that her new status called for,
she rounded a corner of the hospital
corridor and almost collided with Doc-
tor Ingraham, whom she hadn't seen
since the announcement of his engage:
went.
She managed to pull herself togeth:
er sharply and say a few appropriate
words. He thanked her, adding, as
his eyes took in the white gown and
diploma. “But I'm not the only one to
be congratulated. 1 see you're all
ready for a tussle with the well-known
<¢ruel world.”
“Yes, I'm through.” Her face flushed
and she was about to turn away when
he put a restraining hand on her arm
saying impetuously, “How would you
tike to be office nurse, Miss Roe?
We've worked together so often and
anderstand each other so well that
®’d rather have you than any one else.”
t “I'm not a woman to him at all,”
she told herself bitterly. “I'm just a
machine to carry out his orders. But
ll be near him and share his work in
-gome measure.”
“very well, doctor,” ghe said, aloud.
-4Ag you say, we understand each
~other so well.”
So Grace Roe was installed as high
priestess in Doctor Ingraham’s temple
of healing, from which vantage point
.ghe was shortly able to discover that
the doctor's engagement was bringing
-him as much grief as rapture.
i On a certain afternoon when the
doctor's office was filled with patients
‘Miss Roe was surprised by the unex-
pected appearance of Felicia Mayland
:and her mother, with the request that
Doctor Ingraham be summoned forth-
with,
“But he is very busy,” she tried to
explain, “Some of these people made
appointments weeks ahead. May I
take a message instead?”
#1 said,” insisted Miss Mayland
coldly, “that I wished to speak to the
doctor. Yeu will kindly do as you are
told.”
“You are addressing the doctor's
fiancee,” Mrs. Mayland further re-
minded the nurse, “Call him at once
and hurry, please.”
“Yery well,” agreed Miss Roe, her
face a bright pink as she showed them
to a room at the rear of the house.
«And I hope you meet with your just
desserts, you pair of vultures,” she
apostrophized them silently, kno
at the door of the doctor's private
sanctum,
“Who's there?” demanded Doctor
Ingraham impatiently.
“Miss Mayland and her mother are
here, doctor, and insist on seeing youn.”
He muttered something that sound-
EIT VS
v
ed suspiciously like an oath. “Where
are they?”
She told him. As he came out the
expression on his face boded no good .
to the house of Mayland. a
“] told you,” he said, facing his
fiancee and her mother a moment
later, “that I'd be busy until seven. I
have tickets for the theater and will
call for you at that hour.” |
“But I'd rather you took me to a
matinee,” said Felicia. “There's a
ball I'd like to attend this evening.”
“A matinee? Be sensible, Felicia.
Go with your mother.”
“You never have any time for mel”
his betrothed broke out angrily.
“And my daughter,” put in Mrs.
Mayland majesticaily, “doesn’t have to
put up with neglect.”
The doctor regarded her with
frowning disfavor. “Please remem-
ber that if I preferred matinees to.
saving human lives I wouldn't have
been on hand when Felicia needed
me to operate on her. A doctor's life |
isn't a succession of matinees and
pink teas, you know.”
“] don't care what excuses you
make—" Felicia began.
“I'm not making any,” he statea
emphatically. “I'm simply telling you
that if you marry a doctor you must
reconcile yourself to being deprived
of his society occasionally.”
“Oh, must I—" She drew his ring
from her finger and flung it to the
floor. “Let’s go, mother.”
Doctor Ingraham stared after them
a moment, shrugged his shoulders
helplessly, picked up the scorned ring
and returned to his patients.
When the last one was gone he
sought Miss Roe, busily sorting pa-
pers at her desk.
“Would you be surprised to hear,”
he asked, smiling grimly, “that my
engagement to Miss Mayland is at an
end? Here's the proof,” he added.
taking the ring from his pocket.
“What am 1 to do with an article so
useless?”
“I'd keep it,” replied Miss Roe, a
wave of color crimsoning her cheeks.
“Some day you'll meet a woman who'll
consider it a privilege—and an honor
—to wear a ring of your giving.”
He stared and for the first time took
note of the delicate color in her face,
the sensitive mouth, the shining gray
eyes, the curls of auburn hair escap-
ing from beneath the little white cap.
Still staring, he returned the ring to
his pocket and remarked cryptically.
“Men are awful fools.”
“Are they?” she murmured.
“Yes. They go searching for gold
afar—when it's lying on their hearth-
stones. They travel around the world
looking for the bluebird of happiness
that's been singing over their door-
posts for ages. They—but let's not
philosophize. 1 have a free evening
and some theater tickets. Will you
honor me with your company, Miss
Roe?”
Geologists See Signs
of Returning Ice Age
The feeling that another Ice age is
sreeping slowly back on northern Eu-
rope and North America has been re-
vived in European minds by the un-
usual cold of the last winter, and it
has received the support of the dis-
tinguished German geologist, Prof.
Walther Gothan, of the Prussian geo-
logical survey, according to Dr, E. E.
Free. Professor Gothan bases his
suggestions largely on the evidence of
fossil plants. The Ice age was not.
he points out, a single period of cold.
Instead, it was divided Into several
glacial periods separated by warm in-
terglacial periods. During these inter-
glacial periods plants migrated north-
ward behind the edge of the melting
ice, leaving their fossils in a regular
succession.
First came stunted bushes ana
grass plants like those which now
grow on the tundras of Alaska and
Siberia. Behind these, as the climate
grew warmer, came forests of pine
and birch trees. Finally toward the
middle of each warm interglacial
period, the forests were of beech
trees, as the natural European forests
are now. When each interglacial
period gave way, in turn, to renewed
cold and ice, this plant sequence fol-
lowed the reverse order, beeches were
replaced by birch and pine, these by
the tundra, this, finally, by the ice.
A few centuries ago, Professor Goth-
an believes, the present beech forests
of Europe were larger than now. Al-
ready, he suspects, birch and pine
trees have begun to supplant them;
perhaps a sign that twenty or thirty
thousand years from now the Ice age
will be back.—Pathfinder Magazine.
Letter of the Law
The prospective tenant had Inspect-
ed all the rooms, the coal cellar, and
the other conveniences of the flat, and
had expressed himself satisfied.
“Have you any children?” asked the
porter.
“I have.”
“Then you can’t have the flat.”
“But you don't understand. My
youngest child is married and lives in
Australia, and the other two are in
America!”
“That makes no difference,” said the
porter. *I have orders not to let this
flat to anyone with children !"—Pear-
son's,
Maine's Game Sanctuaries
Main has 80 game sanctuaries
for all bird and animal wild life. In
the last 10 years more than 200,000
acres have been set aside for such
purposes and there are few counties
that do not possess sizable tracts.
These havens of refuge for bird and
beast are of inestimable value to the
state. Some fur-bearing animals that
were nearly extinct are now very
noticeably on the increase in the large
of
printed.
game preserves.
MASSACRE BOOSTS
RARITY OF BOOKS
Tibetan Classics in Wash.
ington Affected.
Washington.—*The
slaughter of
thousands of Chinese and Tibetans,
in Dangar, in Western China, reported
in news dispatches, brings about a
“strange result in a Washington (D. GC.)
library, where it has probably en
hanced in valde beyond all previously
! estimated prices, a set of Tibetan
classics,” says a bulletin from the
Washington (D. C.) headquarters of the
National Geographic society.
“Dangar lies close to Choni, in west-
ern Kansu Province, near the Tibetan
border,” continues the bulletin, “and the
great Buddhist Monastery at Chon
and all its valuable contents were
burned by the same Moslem army
which massacred the inhabitants of
Dangar. In this monastery were housed
the thousands of wooden blocks. 500
years old, from which the best sets
the Tibetan classics were once
Brought From Monastery.
“Pwo years ago Dr. Joseph F. Rock,
aow leading a National Geographic
society expedition on the China-Tibe-
tan border, four hundred miles south
of the rebellion area, was in Choni.
and obtained for the library of con
gress a complete set of the Choni-
printed classics in 317 volumes. These
priceless books are now on the library's
shelves in Washington.
“Details of the Moslem rebellion in
Lansu which Lave just reached the
headquarters of the National Geo-
graphic society through provincial pa-
pers published in China, indicate that
the massacre at Dangar was only an
incident in the troubles that have
scourged western Kansu since last Oc
tober. In the region 150 miles wide
between Dangar and Choni and in
most of the surrounding towns and
villages, according to these published
reports, there has been destruction by
massacre, pillage, and fire, Thousands
of square miles of the once fertile
countryside have been laid waste. Tens
of thousands of people, in addition to
those slaughtered, have died and are
dying of starvation, and the frantic
populace are said to be practicing can-
nibalism.
Raiders Led by Youth.
“The chief force of Moslem raiders,
according to provincial correspondents.
consists of 25.000 eavalrymen mounted
on the hest horses of the province, and
led by an eighteen-year-old general,
Ma Changying (called affectionately by
his followers, Ka Si-ling, ‘Little Gen-
eral’) These hard-riding troopers have
been known to dash 10,000 strong, 110
miles in 47 hours over mountain
ranges ten to twelve thousand feet
high to avenge the defeat of some of
their stragglers. In one such raid.
across the Tibetan border, all the in-
habitants of more than a hundred vil-
lages, from infants to old men and
women, are said to have been mas
sacred.
“The region which has been the cen-
cer of the Moslem massacres lies about
800 miles west and slightly south of
Peiping (Peking) on the upper reaches
of the Hwang-Ho or Yellow river near
where that stream crosses from its
Tibetan source into China. A little to
the northwest is the Koko Nor, great
salt lake of northeastern Tibet. The
region on che Chinc e side is a land
of deep valleys carved in the soft loess
soil. In happier days the valley lands
and the terraced hills produced much
wheat and many vegetables, and sup-
ported numerous villages, The people
are largely of Tibetan blood.
“During his stay of several years
ago at Choni, Doctor Rock, through
the friendliness of the Prince of Chonl.
was enabled closely to observe the
ceremonies of Lamaism. His deserip-
tions have béen published in the Na-
tional Georgraphic Magazine. He took
hundreds of photographs, with detailed
notes for color, of the monastery build-
ings, the library, the elaborate images
and costumes, and of the ceremonial
dances. It thus happens that this
unique monastery, now in ashes in re-
mote western China, still lives pie-
torially in the archives of the National
Geographic Society in Washington.”
Women Outnumber Men
as Glacier Park Hikers
Glacier Park, Mont.—Tourist travel
to Glacier National park for the first
month of the 1929 season shows con-
siderable Increase over that of the
same period last year. Travelers
have registered from pearly every
state and many are from foreign
countries. Hotel, auto-stage and trail
saddle horse facilities are the best
in the history of the park, government
inspection shows.
While the male visitor is more no
ticeable on the verandas, the number
of young women hikers on the Rocky
mountain trails exceeds that of any
previous season. Two women walk
through the park to every man who
dares this endurance test, it is esti-
mated.
Cathode Ray Tube Used
in Finding False Jewels
Lynn, Mass.—The newly developed
cathode ray tube, designed to separate
genuine and synthetic gems, has been
put into commercial use for the first
time by the General Electric company
here. Sapphires, second only to dia-
monds in hardness, are widely used hy
the company as jewels for bearings
in meters and other delicate electrical
instruments. The new tube is proving
tnvaluable, it is sald, in sorting gems.
Nothing Shocking in
Jap’s Change of Attire
za the West we have a gentleman's
agreement that disrobing should be
-eoutined to the bedroom and buth-
roomn, or at any rate to some place
behind closed doors. Not so in Japan!
One hot day in a train traveling from
Kobe to Kyoto 1 vitnessed an incl-
dent that showed the Japanese can
adopt a really common-sense attitude
to clothes, writes Harold Butcher fir
Cassel’s Magazine.
It was in a third-class carriage. A
few seats ahead of me was a Japanese
passenger \ lo was beginning to feel
the heat. His silk shirt was wet and
clammy. Something must be done
about it! One could read his mind.
He had his remedy.
and removed his shirt. Then he found
that his undershirt was also soaked.
He removed that and dried his naked
torso. From his suitcase he produced
a clean undershirt and a clean, cool
shirt, which he proceeded to don with
perfect unconcern and irreproachable
modesty. As far as I could judge he
changed every stitch of clothing with
never a quiver, and finished triumph-
antly—a reclothed, revived, rejuvenat-
ed human being. In this hot train in
Japan the whole affair seemed the
most natural and sensible thing to do
in the circumstances.
Few People Make Best
Use of Their Muscles
Practically every one has from 10
to 20 per cent more muscular strength
than he is trained to use, Donald A.
Laird says in an article in Hygeia, the
health magazine published by the
American Medical association.
Take the simple matter of lifting a
heavy weight above the head with one
nand for example. If a person under-
stands how to use his muscles the
amount that can be raised can be al-
most doubled. Suppose that when the
arm is hanging at the side 26 pounds
is the maximum that can be raised by
bending the arm at the elbow. As soon
as the forearm is raised so that it is
at right angles with the upper arm the
weight is handled much more easily.
When the hand carrying the weight
is further raised so that it is almost
on a level with the shoulder the same
muscles have an added advantage and
can handle more than 40 pounds.
There is an increase from a 26-pound
pull to more than a 40-pound pull sim-
ply by a utilization of the knowledge
of how the arm muscles and bones
work as mechanical levers and forces
Education in America
Compulsory education in the United
States occurred first in Massachu-
setts. As far back as 1642 the select
men were enjoined to compel parents
to teach their children themselves
or to procure teaching for them The
following list shows the dates at
which the several states enacted com
pulsory education legislation: Massa-
chusetts, 1852; District of Columbia.
1864; Vermont, 1867; New Hampshire.
Michigan, Washington, 1871; Connec-
ticut, New Mexico, 1872; Nevada, 1873;
New York, Kansas, California, 1874;
Maine, New Jersey, 1875; Wyoming,
1876; Ohio, 1877; Wisconsin, 1879;
Rhode Island, Illinois, the Dakotas,
Montana, 1883; Minnesota, Nebraska,
Idaho, Colorado, Oregon, Utah. 1885
1800; by 1908 almost all states.
Salvation Army Titles
It is to Elijah Cadman, a humble
chimney-sweep of Coventry, to whom
the credit for the military ranks and
tities of the Salvation army must
really go, writes a contributor in Lon-
don Tit-Bits. ‘Once known as “King
of the Roughs,” Cadman was convert-
ed and became an ardent Salvationist.
He was given charge of a mission
and began to call himself a ‘captain
in God’s army to fight the devil.” To
mark William Booth as his superior
officer, Cadman called him “general.”
And because William Booth knew
well the value of a dramatic appeal
to the popular mind, the titles, after
some hesitation due to modesty on
William Booth’s own part, were ac-
cepted.
Court of Dusty Feet
What is a Pie-powder court? It
seems that as long ago as the Norman
congnest, says BE. 8. Marten, in Har-
per’s Magazine, and even earlier, trad-
ing was done considerably in England,
as also in Normandy, in fairs that
were licensed and lasted a week or
more. Of course there were disputes
between sellers and buyers, and to set-
tle them there were instituted courts
of prompt and final decision, which
were called Pied Poudreux courts;
that 1s, courts of the dusty feet, a
name which English tongues inevitably
transmuted into ple-powder. Wasn't
that a pretty turn of language?
Bread Ideal Food
Many people confuse calories with
vitamines. The calorie is not a food
stuff, it is merely a measure of heat
production. Vitamines are real food-
balancing substances and help to put
the body in a position where it can
ward off disease. Bread has no su-
perior as a combination of calories
aud vitamines.
Might as Well
“Look here, Smith, it’s no use your
coming around here again, you've bor-
rowed everything I've got In the
place.”
+Qh, but this is different. 1 wondex
if I could borrow your garden for a
bit of a party I'm giving on Satur-
day.” —Passing Show.
He stood up
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