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ORIN struggled up the hil
Could she make it? There was
her car across the corner but
that letter had to be mailed.
was a very important letter and
p striped @irmail box was just
ead. Clutching tighter three pack-
es, her favorite thin notebook and
e bulky envelope, she tried to hurry
ster.
She must catch the car. It would
' ten minutes before there was an-
her and she was hungry. She had
en shopping and going back to that
wyer's office after those papers
ace one o'clock. Then suddenly all
e stores had closed and she had
car token and four cents in" her
irse. \
She reached the box at last. One
e on the car, her hands went up-
ard. There were still three people
get on. The flange of the mail-
ot clanged as it fell shut. Now—
aybe she could catch that car.
A young man faced her, hat 1p
ind.
“But that is an airmail box,” he
id quite reasonably, with a small
jte of protest in his undeniably pleas-
it voice, .
In blank astonishment Lorin
opped. Why, he did not look like—
masher. Of course, she should be
gry, only she hadn’t time. And he
he looked mice! He stood squarely
| ‘her way.
«Is there anything about me,” she
ymanded in her puzzlement, “to indi-
ite that I couldn't mail an air
tter?”
“Then why didn’t you?’ His tone
as only interested inquiry as she
ied to edge around him.
Lorin looked down. The air lette
as in her hand.
“Oh.” All tue assurance went ou
* ber in a long gasp. “I've mailed
yy note book!” She looked at him,
: the mail box. “What can I do?”
He stepped to the box, ren his
nger down the schedule.
“Tt says here that the next coilec
on is at 7:10. We could wait. It’s
guarter past six now.”
“Rut I'm so bungry,” cried Lorin in
_mnall, involuntary wail as her car
ent past. Then she stoppe in hor
ovr at what she had done.
“1 was just going to suggest; this
oks like a nice little place. Please,
m hungry myself,” and he led her
ondering at ber own docility, ‘ato
je small corner restaurant und ty,
me stairs to a balcony.
“We're in luck. Here's a table ara
window. We can watch that mail
px from here.” He L-elped her out of
er coat und held “her “chalr for her.
The food was good. She couldn't
elp eating. :
“You've a great little town here,”
e told her. “I'm just in from the
ast. 1 like it already.” He smiled
cross at her. ]
“I don’t know what to think of my-
elf”—she stirred uneasily—*I—1
ever—did anything like this before.”
“Neither did 1.” He passed her the
elery.
“The stores were closed—1 couldn’t
ash a check. That unlucky letter.”
he laid it face up on the table. I
wstn’t lose it. It's to my cousin
le is selling some lots for mother.”
‘rom where it lay he could not help
geing. “Mr. John Smith” in a busi-
ess block in Baltimore.
“May I take you home when we
save here?’ he asked after a pause.
“here was a queer little quirk to the
orner of his mouth.
“No.” She stiffened instantly.
“rd like to very much,” he per-
Isted quietly. “There is every reason
thy 1 should.”
“There isn’t a ghost of a reason,”
he informed him uncompromisingly.
I don’t even know your name. I sup-
ose it’s only what I might expect
fter what I've done.” She laid down
er fork miserably. yo
: “Please eat your dinner. My name,”
e went on cheerfully, his eyes on
he letter, “is—Mr. John Smith.”
“H’m., Yes. Mine is Jane Brown.”
the went on eating.
| “Please, Miss Jane Brown—"
“My mother,” she told him gloomily,
would faint on the threshold,”
| “Your mother would be glad to see
Br, ning 3 MHF TN
hair,
Je’s early.” The mall truck was
topping on the corner. “Sit still
1 go.” He snatched up the letter
nd vanished down the stairway.
Lorin leaned forward and saw him
ietrieve her notebook. How strong
ind sure he looked. ‘What fine poise
p his whole figure, his well-shaped
jead. Both he and the postman were
aughing.
. Then he was back. He laid the
wtebook beside her plate.
“Did you mail my letter?”
“Qh, assuredly,” he laughed, “irrev-
)eably—by the fastest air mall you
pver saw in your life. I might say
pstantaneously. Can’t you imagine
‘hat Mr. Jobn Smith has it in his pos-
session this minute?”
“You are too old—or too young—
tor sueh flights of fancy,” she an-
swered severely. “How did you get
past the cashier?”
I gave her a ten, a quarter and two
génnies to hold. Then I got them
when I came in.” He spread thew
jut on the table, fingering the ten
sxperimentally. “May I call a tax! for
yon?”
She shook her head. The meal
gropreseed, ber thoughtful-- silence
‘they came out on the street, “that 1
won't be right on that car with you?”
“] don’t. I'll just have to trust
you. I really do thank you for the
dinner and for being a gentleman SO
far.” She looked squarely up into
bis eyes.
“You win,” he said softly and
helped ‘her on the car. Then he stood
pack watching her through the win-
dows, his hat in his ‘hand.
But when she got off at her own
street a taxi was following. As ‘she
turned up her own walk it stopped
and footsteps hurried after her. On
the steps she turned.
“You promised—"
“I didn’t promise anything.”
“My mother—"
«] told you your mother would be
glad to see me!
The front door opened. Her mother
.fell on his neck.
“Oh, John. 1 got your telegram
about four o'clock and 1 knew that
Lorin had mailed the letter to you.
Whatever shall we do? I can’t im-
agine—Lorin, did you mail the let-
ter? 1 thought—"
John pulled Lorin through the
doorway. Then he fished the letter
out of his pocket, ran his finger un-
der the flap.
“Yes,” he said, “we mailed it.”
Lichtenstein One of
Europe's Toy Kingdoms
A comic opera kingdom, where goose
girls drive snowy geese through wind-
ing lanes, and turreted castles top
massive hills, has broken into print
again through the announcement of
the engagement of its ruler, Prince
Franz, to a Viennese woman. Engage-
ment announcements are not always
of international interest, but Lichten-
stein is famous as one of Europe's
four toy independent states; San Ma-
rino, Andorra and Monaco. Lichten-
stein is next to the largest with its
overwhelming area of 65 square miles:
“A visit to Lichtenstein in its jew-
ol-like setting in the eastern alps be-
tween Austria and Switzerland, is like
a journey into the past,” says a bul-
letin from the headquarters of the
National Geographic society. “Elec-
tric lights and other modern improve-
ments do not detract from the pic-
turesqueness of the countryside, with
its wayside shrines and tall crucifixes
or the famous castle, Burg Vaduz, the
home of Prince Franz, with its gabled
towers and mullioned windows.
“rhe winding roads that travel ths
small country’s mountain sides are
traversed as often by long strings of
cattle or huge wagons loaded with hay
as they are by tourisis’ automobiles,”
the bulletin continues. “Agriculture is
the chief Industry of Lichtenstein’s
10,000 population and scenes such as
those that inspired Millet’s famous pie-
ture, ‘The ‘Angelus’ are common
throughout_the countryside. The farm--
houses are either natural color wood
structures that merge into the colors
of the landscape or small, cheerful
stucco affairs that resemble the Swiss
chalets across the border. Hay is
stored in wooden huts, whose roofs
are kept on Dy large stones placed
an them.
«Until the Seventeenth century Ro
monsch, a language derived from the
Latin, was spoken by the now German-
speaking Lichtensteiners. The old
language still persists in some of the
place names like Samina, Gavadura or |
the capital, Vaduz.
«yaduz is the fairy-tale capital or
4 story-book land. The old castle
looks like a medieval robber baron’s
stronghold as it tops a hill overlook-
ing the town. It has been restored in
a Sixteenth-century style of architec-
ture and the illusion of medieval life
is helped every summer when the
Lichtensteiners, dressed in raiment
of ancient styles, put on old plays
there depicting the lives and loves of
the minnesingers, the famous bards of
the Middle ages.” P
Circus Old Institution
The circus may be traced back to
Roman times. At that time it was a
building for the exhibition of horses
and chariot races and other amuse-
ments. The oldest building of this
kind in Rome was the Circus Maxi-
mus. The circus in modern times, al-
though having the same name, really
has little in common with the Institu-
tion of classical Rome. The popular-
ity of the eircus in England may be
traced to that kept by Philip Astley
B on gi the epg of the Eighteenth
RIAN als vy olor ip Bv
crow and ger.
In America a circus actor named Rick-
etts is said to have performed before
George Washington in 1780, and in
the first half of the Nineteenth cen-
tury the establishments of Purdy,
Welch and company, and of Van Am-
burg, gave a wide popularity to the
circus in the United States.
California Forests
It is generally conceded by those
who know that the tree growths of
California just north of San Fran-
cisco are the world’s greatest, al-
though there are many other beautl-
ful forests.
The mild climate, heavy rainfall ana
generally humid atmospheric condl-
tions that prevail along the coast have
resulted in the production of a for-
est that is more wonderful in the
density of its growth and the majesty
of its development than is to be
found anywhere else.
The sequoias of California are the
glants of the vegetable kingdom. The
Douglas firs, Sitka spruces and the
glant arbor vitae (Western red oa
dars) of Oregon and Washington are
second In- size only to the sequolas,
oa * ——— — — Clan abs 8
One after another the great water
falls of the Alps and Apennines have
been placed in subjugation by Italy,
their water guided into huge, high
pressure conduits and forced to turn
giant turbines, writes Henry Kit
tredge Norton in World's Work.
Before the World war these turbines
were already producing two billion
kilowatt hours per year; during the
and the need for power, this capacity
was increased by another billion kilo-
watts. After the post-war turbulence
had settled down into the Fascist
regime, a new impetus was given to
of 1926 the actual consumption bad
reached 7,500,000,000 kilowatt hourr
per annum.
Since then §t has continued to
mount. More than 7,000 of aly’s 8,
000 communes are now supplied with
electrical energy. The per capita con-
sumption runs close to 200 kilowatt
hours.
As was to be expected under the
circumstances, by far the greater por-
tion of Italy's electrical energy is used
in turning the wheels of her factories.
Lighting is a secondary consideration.
Sixty per cent of Italy’s electrical
energy is used for motor power; 15 per
cent for light and heat; 14 per cent
in the metallurgical and chemical in-
dustries, and the remaining 11 per cent
for the electrified railways.
Old Inscription Shows
“Horse Age” Beginning
To the learned, century-old Academy
| of Inscriptions of Paris, Professor
! Hrozny, of Prague, has communicated
! his long-expected translation of what
| ig perhaps the most ancient Hittite
| inscripticn. It is the first in any lan-
! guage that became European and was
cut in the rock of Asia Minor not far
| from what is now Angora, the new
, capital of Turkey.
| The value of the inscription—what
| we might call its curiosity—is that it
gives the date very nearly when tame
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horses first appeared so far to the
west. It was the beginning of the
Horse age in civilization and is of
melancholy interest to us who, 4,000
years later, are careering with our au-
tomobiles into the Hocseless age.
| It was supposed that horses were.
_ first brought to Egypt, mother of Civ-
ilization, about 1,500 years before
Christ by the Cassites from Babylon.
That was some 500 years after Abra-
j ham passed through the Hittite peo-
ples on his way from Ur of the Baby-
fonian Chaldees to the Promised land.
--Boston Globe.
Zinc in Industry
Starting with the Nineteenth cen-
tury the increase in the use of zinc
was decidedly accelerated. During the
first decade the production was esti-
mated at 6,000 tons. In the fifth dec -
ace the output had. jumped to 367.000
tons, and for the half century the
total was 635,000 tons. The output
of the second half century reached
the amazing total of 12,100,000 tons.
or an increase of 1,800 per cent. The
acceleration has continued, and Ia
the year 1927 the output was 1,444,
000 tons, a total equal to the produc-
tion of the first 60 years of the Nine-
teenth century.
Nearly one-third of the entire
world’s output of zinc has been pro-
duced in the United States.
Wee Kathryn Lois, age five, has a
“‘calory-counting mother” who quite
often “slips,” and has not yet at-
! tained her goal of a “perfect 38.”
. Kathryn Lois has heard much talk
about foods that make one fat.
One night mashed potatoes were
served at dinner. Kathryn Lois
| pushed her plate back and said, be §
| don’t believe I want any potatoes.”
| “Why, what's the matter, Kathryn?’
asked her father, “Better eat your po-
tatoes like a good girl; they will help
you grow up big and strong.”
{ “That's just it,” retorted this mod-
ern miss, “I don’t ever want to get to
be as fat as mother.”
Mother is ‘counting calories in
earnest 1I—Indianapolis News.
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| Starting Early
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The Homestead
Brown—I shall do just as I like. If
{ want to smoke in the drawing room,
I shall smoke in the drawing room.
AR *s that!
@
Brown (warming up)—What’s more,
the carpet is good enough ash-tray for
me. Quite good enough. So please
understand in future!
Silence.
Brown (continuing)—And if you
think I'm going to spend the whole
afternoon standing about loaded up
with parcels, you've made a mighty
big. ... a
Problem :
been deaf?
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How long had his wife
Expressed
An Irishman entered his local post
office and told the young woman be-
hind the counter that he wanted to
forward an express letter.
He placed the usual fee on the coun-
ter, but was informed that an addi-
tional sixpence would be required as
the addressee lived some considerable
distance outside the delivery area.
The Irishman seemed rather pus
vled at this request, but after a me-
ment’s hesitation, ventured:
“Well, you let the letter go as it i».
{ don’t want to pay the extra sixpence,
to go to the office and collect It."
war, because of the shortage of coal
electrical development, and by the end
but OI'\l write to them an’ tell them
| facing his amused ome across. the od { ; :
| “How do you know,” he asked as of Vast Water. Powe
* WHAT WATER IS
‘Timid Man.
London.—Any schoolboy fresh from
his first chemistry lesson, will tell
you that water is H20—a statement,
_ by the way, with which ‘modern ‘scl-
| entists do not altogether agree. Not
everybody, however, can say who first
made that stupendous fact known te
the world.
It was a millionaire bachelor. Hen
‘ ry Cavendish by nume, nephew of one
- of the dukes of Devonshire. ‘He was
so shy that he’kept many of his discov-
eries secret lest ‘he should become fa-
mous, and they were only unearthed
after his death; so shy that if he ever
caught sight of one of his own wom-
an servants, she had to pack her bag
and leave that day. He was so shy
that when his banker came to tell
him he had $400,000 in his account—
and wasn’t that rather a lot to lle
idle?—he sent the man of business
away, told him to do what be liked
with it, but said he would close his
account if they ever bothered him
again.
He was so shy, says the London
Mail, that having a wonderful iibrars
of books he was quite willing to lend
he took a separate house in Soho.
so that borrowers need never disturb
his studies. Whenever he took out a
book himself he always signed for it
like any stranger.
Not only did he tell how water I»
made. He was one of the first to dis-
cover that heat is not a substance but
a state; one of the first to measure
the density of the earth; a pioneer
of electricity, an astronomer, a geolo-
gist. Rustics at Clapham, where he
had his country seat, peeped through
his windows and saw, instead of furni-
ture, a laboratory and a forge. They
thought he was either a wizard or a
madman; but he was merely a
genius,
Air Post Office Designed
to Sort 250,000 Letters
Seattle, Wash.—When the govern-
ment desires to move all first-class
mail by air, especially designed planes
will be available for such service. A
fully equipped airplane on display in
a local plant will carry three tons of
mail, or a quarter million letters, at
135 miles an hour.
Eighteen-passenger transports bull
for use on the transcontinental air
route this summer are so constructed
that they can be quickly transformed
into mail planes. Sorting tables and
sacks can be placed around the cabin
for the distribution of mail en route.
as is done on mail trains. These
cabins are 19% feet long, more than
six feet high and five and one-half feet
wide. !
.These newer planes have a wins
span’ of 80 feet and a length over all
of 55 feet. Letter clerks will have
their meals aboard the planes in well
equipped buffets electrically heated.
Each plane is provided with a fully
equipped lavatory with hot and cold
water. Large, unobstructed windows
of non-shatterable gluss give excellent
vision. Instruments mounted over the
sorting tables would tell the clerks
how fast they are flying and how
much time they have to distribute
mail for various cities en route.
Numerous applications for airplanc
mail clerk jobs are on file with the
Post Office department, it was an-
nounced here.
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Towns’ Names on Roofs
Guide Distance Flyers
‘Washington.—Remarkable progress
in the movement to have name signs
painted on the roofs of prominent
buildings of towns throughout the
country was reported by W. Irving
Glover, second assistant postmaster
general in charge of air mail, on his
return from an inspection trip over
the air mail lines.
The campaign was started by the
Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Pro-
motion of Aeronautics and postmas-
ters have been ‘enlisted to further the
movement. Mr. Glover said he was
surprised with the results already ac-
complished.
He said the people in the West were
more interested in the air mail than
those in the East.
Four Finnish Spies Go
to Prison in Russia
Leningrad. — Four men, charged
with espionage on Soviet soil in be-
half of Finland, have pleaded guilty
in a military trial here. They were
sentenced to eight years of imprison-
ment and confiscation of all their
properties. The self-confessed spies
are Yalmar Lempianen, Edward Ves-
terinin, Solomen Uttu and Uri Reiman.
DOA DO
Sun and Tape ‘Brand’
Bathers in Virginia
Richmond, Va.—The vogue for
suntan here has brought the
“prand.® A “brand” is easily
acquired with a few strips of ad-
the swimming pool.
It consists of shaping the de-
sired design or Initials from the
tape, applying them to the skin
and stepping into the sunshine.
‘The space covered by the tape
remains white and is easily seen
when the tape 1s removed. Greek
letter fraternity “brands” ap-
pear to be the most popular.
English Genius World's Most
"WAGES
IGH wages depend on large output.
: Loafing on the job ends in unemploy-
ment. The man who does only one half
of what he is capable of doing is a poor
economist. He thinks he is cheating his
employer but he is also cheating him-
self. He never gets ahead. Wages in the
United States are higher than anywhere
else. Why? Because the output is
greater.
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