PPP Pg S000
(Copyright,
1918, by McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
Fuller and Fenton did thelr
and retired to their
room, and the close of the Olympia's
Monday morning “rakeover”
times called rehearsal—was betokened
by the awakening of Andy Scobell, the
property man, advancing with a broom.
O'Brien, In the fiddle pit, laid down his
baton.
“Guess that lets us out,” he an-
nounced to the others in the orches-
tra. Shawter started to close his pi-
ano, when O'Brien, with a twinkle in
his stepped more upon the
dais and called to a wrinkled individ-
ual on the stage: “Oh, I beg pardon,
Charlle. one of the fu-
neral march. “harlle's doin’ a single,
entitled ‘The Death of a Dying
Brain.'"
A roar of laughter from pit
brought Charlie Zepp, the Olympia's
press agent, from a huddled position
on a packing bix in the rear of the
stage to his feet, He advanced to
the footlights with a savage frown.
“Lad-les and gen-tleemen,” he an-
nounced, over O'Brien's to the
empty house beyond. “The Olympia, as
always, leads the rest. To encourage
the success of amateur nights, we have
placed an amateur band to play
yon n
At a signal from O'Brien
rolled on the trapdrum, and amid the
laughter that followed Zepp retired In
defeat,
O'Brien
kay,
young
AS
last
steps dressing
some-
eye, once
loys, verse
the
head,
for
taps were
Wallace
oboe, and
Msac-
the
beckoned to
played the
followed
the stage. When
O'Brien turned to him
“Wallace, old scout,”
“I hate
you're looking
thinks It looks had for the hou
ter new suit.”
“But, Bil" objected Mackay,
fully regarding his wornout clothes, *
can't do it right now.
money. Besides, why th’
Only the first rows see us
generally travelin® men.”
“Not this week they ain't,
ed O'Brien in best
lish. “Forrest's trying out that I
der kid; local bird an’ all th'
home folks will be down front all
t’ give her th’ up an’ It'll look
bad for th’ house If th’ orchestra look
like the rr
new stufl on
tick, but i
get Get
who
man under
3
W—one
him out
they were
with a frown
he began, a
to teil
ogetically,
awful seedy.
get a
the queen's
she's a
week
down,
bums, Get
or somehow,
me?
Mackay nodded dumbly, and wended
his way despondently to the stage door
Charlie Zepp, he
to the latter, meanwhile stren-
brushing his
coat, when a golden-halred little vis
flonted by, attired fe
smiled merrily at the two men.
“Oh, vou ohoe '™ eeted Mack
11
1
eyes
3
Pausing
talking
near wns
uously spotted tuxedo
fon
ir the street,
she gr
cordially, then her ghte«
Zepp
“Oh, Mr. Zepp I"
“Please ne a big write-up
you? 1 my friends to see me
here this "lease do.’
“What've you done?” demanded Zepp
bluntly. “Y' can't
outa air, y'know.
small-time write-ups.
“And small-time press agents gener-
ally have small-time brains” re.
torted good-naturedly. “But maybe
you can stretch yours.” And flitting
away, she tossed from her pink finger
tips a kiss to them.
Mackay glanced
pily.
“I guess she's right.” he sald sorrow-
fully. “I do look like a hobo. Even
O'Brien told me to get a sult,
And just for her, too.
think th’ Olympia
she cried, eagerly
give me will
want all
week,
big write
Small-time acts
get ups
prevt
Reis
she
at Zepp unhap-
new
So's her friends
won't is a
joint”
“Don’t let that worry ¥' none,” Eym-
pathized Charlie, howbeit sourly,
“There won't many t' look at her.
I'l fix that.”
Mackay started,
wistful
che ap
be
for a vision of her
face flonted across his mind.
“Oh, Charlie, have a heart,” he plead-
you're in a bad humor.”
“She's a cheese I" growled Zepp, and,
reflecting on the laughter
a few minutes before, he added, sav.
agely : “And =o are you,
own business.”
orchestra's
- - ® - . * *
Helen Lawder, stepping out of For-
rest’'s office about two hours
heard two men wrangling In the lobhy,
end stepped back again and peeped
through the erack in the door,
Mackay had gripped Charlie Zepp's
arm and pushed him away from a
large picture frame. In his (Mackay's)
hand was Helen Lawder's pieture, and
as she saw it the girl behind the door
started violently.
“Put that back I" thundered Mackay,
holding out the pleture.
“I won't!" refused Zepp heatedly,
“She sassed me and she gets no no-
toriety for It, see?”
“Then I will" announced Mackay,
and he replaced the photo In the open
case and snapped the door. “And it
stays there, get me?”
another tack, “Y're ruinin’ yerself, ‘at's
all. Ain't she settin’ y' back th’
cost of a new sult? An’ didn't she
call you a hobo?”
Mackay smiled ruefully,
“I guess she's right there,” he ad-
mitted. “Anyway that's no reason why
le, this engagement menns a lot to
her. It'll give her a big boost. Re fa
sport, Charlie. Give th’ kid a chance.
mere fact that It's costin’ me a
her folks
aln't makin’
‘cause
here,
town
gonna be me
C'mon, be a sport.
I'll go you fifty-fifty. You give her five
Charlie faced the young oboe play-
er shamefacedly, and held out
hand.
“You win,” he sald
hurried out of the lobhy,
Helen, having heard
huskily, and
every word,
her throat and opened the door to the
manager's private office,
“Mr. Forrest, please, can I see you
a minute?" she pleaded, and Forrest,
noting her anxious face, banished his
frown and bowed her to a
chalr,
“No, T can't sit down,” she told him
hurriedly. “I want to tell you
And then into attentive ears
poured everything had seen
and heard. “And now, Mr. Forrest, can
you—will me a favor?”
“Tl try," he promised, smiling. He,
too, couldn't resist the appeal of those
smiling
some-
thing."
she she
you do
soft blue eves,
“Will
him a
“He's
want to repay him.
you eall Mackay In and give
of $507 she
much for me, and I
Here it 18,” And
she held out some bills to the manager,
present asked,
done so
who waved them aside,
“Take em away,” he replied grufy,
to hide a choking in his throat. “1
give It to "im myself.” He choked off
} It's
ner protest
house
i'n
And
von
nr .
Nonsense,
to
quickly,
charge It u
I'm busy.”
much
nothing.
up
eXpPenses, NOW
“Thank she whis.
and
SO
pered then
office,
In a little restaurant around the eor-
turning fled from the
wer—patronized largely by the Olym-
pia theater v, from stars to stage
hands—after show two weeks
later, two mer : } fn
per, and
LH
young couple
Charlle Zepp
awful gossip,” he econ-
the O'Brien of
d that
mpanion,
Zepp
y ladies
lowered
I tell ¥'.
good turn. She
ty fish
waz Forrest,
v dia
id ‘ern
th’
mps an
Then he
Lawder's
spill
ready t
retire
Harlem fiat,
to a nice 1
in's
* Ain't is she?
“An' she ain't alone, Is
playin’, de-
Not In Any Farm Book,
lecently a woman who is a college
graduate gave up her regular work and
In order to make a
ng she not only read
e agriculture, but also
advice of ex-
Sometimes this ad-
moved to a farm,
success of farn
f
i
books on scientifi
the
perienced farmers.
vice was too far removed from science
listened to earnest
to be useful,
One farmer, who probably has never
heard a dis
“How to get rid of ent-
he knew a remedy
“Take a shotgun.” he
“go to the of the
field, fire the gun toward the west. then
walk straight across the fleld to the
corner, then fire the gun
This will cause every cutworm
read a farmer's bulletin,
nhout
He
sure,
cussion
worms.” said
that
said,
was
east corner
opposite
again,
to disappear.”
Washed Her Hands of Him,
Lillian's mother disliked anyone
who was illiterate or “ignorant” as she
was wont fo call them. Lillian inher-
all her playmates. One evening I
overheard the following conversation
iy:
“What's
Billy,
“Reading.”
sure of her “g.”
“My papas cuttin’ the grass”
“You should say, ‘My papa is mow-
Ing the lawn,” corrected Lillian.
“No,” Billy insisted, “my papa’s ent
tin’ the grass.”
“Oh, all right,” conceded Lillian.
haughtily, “if you want to be Ignor-
ant."—Chicago American,
your papa doin’? asked
Shakespearean Research,
Man who has been digging into the
life of England's bard and frying to
find out “who was Mrs. Shakespeare
and did she marry again? arrived nt
the conclusion (1) that Shakespenre
never married at all; *(2) if he did he
was probably a bigamist, and (3) there
was nobody ealled Shakespeare, but
only Shaxper or Shagspere, An imper-
tinent curiosity, which is first cousin
to an abiding thirst for knowledge, can
cause a heap of trouble.—~New York
Evening Telegram,
Firmly Established in
Several States.
Recent Report Shows Status of De- |
velopment of Organization, and
Discusses Some of Problems
Which Have Been Met,
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
That the county-agent plan of ecarry-
ing agricultural information to the
farmer Is firmly established as a sat-
Isfactory system in 15 southern states
is shown in a review by officials of the
United States department of agricul-
ture of progress made during the last
calendar year. A report of this work
recently made public shows the status
of this rapidly developing agricultural
organization in the South during 1916,
and also discusses some of the prob- |
lems which are being met In the effort
to Increase
with the
in accordance
agricul-!
this service
country’s
tural needs. The of the
states in the ecounty-agent plan is
shown by the fact that most of the
in the South
liberal appropriat to
support,
Number of Extension Workers.
There were employed In the 15 south.
emergency
confidence
are
making
in its
legislatures
ions aid
ern states during the year 860 regular
county 5
agents, club
county
66
agents, assistant
31
men
ngents and
for work among
e¢. Each state also has a
boy 8s
colored
agents
colored i
agent
of the
HEents, Women
hote-demonstrati
Of these 13 are
of the work
their respecive states, 41 are assi
and 513
women agents and 7 colored
1 ’
peop
director of exts
Or assistant
work of the
engnged
work numbered 576.
state
nsion and a state
lirector In charge
county
in the
agents in charge
g in
tants
district agent and county
home
wmonstration agents,
Increase in Community Organizations.
Progress In organizing the
In the South this year
gratifying, officials of the depart
of agriculture say. The last
annual report shows the formation of
1.654 community organizations of
farmers, with a membership of 44,548
The report for the pre
to 9
county
agents’ work
WHS
ment
an increase HN org
a membership of 78.0600,
One of Branches of County Agent
Work in South Is Interesting Boys
in Better Farm Methods.
does not include co operative organiza-
formed by county agents,
even though they gave active support
the county repre-
sentative and served in the capacity of
a local community organization. Such
include lecal granges,
farmers’ unions and church and civic
organizations of varied character. It
Is estimated that 200,000 farmers are
in all these community organ
which are assisting county
fions not
and assistance to
nasociations
enrolle
izations
agents,
Since this report was made thege
has been a great increase In this work.
At the present time the total number
of agents is approximately 2.200, con-
sisting In part of 980 county agents,
815 county home demonstration agents
and 85 negro agents (men) and 70
women,
SMUTS DESTROY MUCH WHEAT
Farmer Can Do Nothing More Patri.
Stic Than Treat Seed—it Is
Inexpensive and Sure,
Preventable smuts destroy enough
wheat every year to make 4.000.000
barrels of flour, oats enough to feed
1,000,000 cavalry horses, and barley
and rye enough for 400,000 barrels of
wheat substitutes. You can do noth
Ing more patriotic than treat your
seed, Simple, inexpensive, sure. For
information write to your state exten-
slon department or the United States
department of agriculture, Io it now,
One That Can Be Worked at Odd |
Times When Other Work Is Slack
Will Boost Income,
A profitable side line that can be
worked nt odd times when other work |
Is slack will go far toward boosting |
the income of the average farm.
Where there is a ledge of salable
stone a quarry may be made to fill in
the gaps In the labor schedule, or an
outcropping of limestone may be made |
profitable to che advantage of the |
whale vghborhood by the Installation
+f a stone crusher, |
SYSTEMATIC BATTLE
ar —
Little Animals Extort Heavy Toll
From the Farmer.
Annual Loss Caused to Crops Esti.
mated at $300,000,000—Active Co.
operation of Neighbors Need.
ed for Extermination.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Systematic and organized cam-
Is Interested, are suggested as means
of successfully exterminating injurious
rodent on the farm by the bu
reau of blological survey of the Unit.
ed Btates department of agriculture.
There are about 750 forms of rodents
inhabiting the United States, and the
annual loss which they cause in food
and feed erops is fully
£300,000 00x), They feed upon crops in
the field and in storage, in some cases
destroying grass land so completely
that follows, In the irrigated
sections of the West some species bur-
row through the dikes, releasing the
water and flooding the crops. Meth
pests
estimated at
erosion
Pocket Gopher,
of exterminat these
trapping an
ods pests hy
in-
er as well as the commu
poisoning, which the
dividual fa
in
Any farmer may, by or
try, free his prem
ful rodents, but he Is
vent
ble unless he can «
own
an early recurrer
tion of his n«
of agr
whenever
of
cCo-Opern
partment leultu
that
struction
urges,
there
fore, P
I Kis
In the past, individ
8 often supplemented by the
these
nity undertaking.
ual effort
payment
or tow
of bounties hy state. o
nship have heen only 1
successful
in reducing rodent
In many
paid
bounties on pocket gophers ane
11d,
poisoning operations
tions, western count!
amount out in a sing!
squirrels, wo if wisely expended
such has
government
ae
been pract under
ial » Secure the
nearly every such an!
county and unneces
Ary h further outlay for the pur
pose,
A few of
the United
injurious
moun
rodents which Inhabit
not classed as
live in
tains or swamps and rarely come
n contact with cultivated crops. Some
the
States
as they deserts,
are valuable because they feed largely
upon insects, some hecanse they pro
duce fyr and others because they are
useful as human food. Of the injurl-
ous species all are native to this coun-
try with the exception four-—the
house mouse and three kinds of rats
—but these four cause approximately
two thirds of all the damage. Field
mice, kangaroo rats, pocket gophers,
ground squirrels, prairie dogs, wood-
chucks, and rabbits are among the
most destructive of the native species,
of
PROPER FEED FOR COWS
(Prepared by the United States De.
partment of Agriculture.)
1. Under most circumstances
the should fed all the
roughage that she will eat up
clean, and the grain ration
should be adjusted to the milk
production.
2. A grain mixture should be
fed in the proportion of
pound to each three pints or
pounds of milk produced daily
by the cow, except in the case
of a cow producing a flow of 40
pounds or more, when the ration
may be one pound to each three
and a half or four pounds of
milk. An even better rule Is
one pound of grain each day for
every pound of butterfat that
the cow produces during the
week,
3. Feed all the cow
spond to in milk production.
When she begins to put on
flesh, cut down the grain.
COW be
one
will re.
SUITABLE PLACE FOR APPLES
Storage Room in Basement of Dwell.
ing, in Outdoor Cellars and Pits
Are All Good.
(Prepared by .he United States Depart.
ment of Agriculture.)
room In the basement of the dwelling,
in outdoor storage cellars, and in
banks or pits. Conditions suitable for
the keeping of potatoes answer fairly
well for apples. Under some condi
tions it will be an advantage to store
part of the crop In the cellar and the
Inte-keeping varieties suitable for
spring use in outdoor banks or pits,
en of the
ters mre
can we do
venled
ters two
be dm
the
American
usking themselves: “What
next?” War work has re
chap-
to
ted Cross « hap-
and
oblligati
thes
The Popular Beaver
Fabio
If. because these are war
for other reasons, the bride
her mind to have only a
ding, her
the ordering of a simp!
Especially if her wedding ceremony 1s
to take place within the w f her
home, Instead of in the must
the consider what will harmonize best
with the home as a background. Long
trains and veils and elaborate wedding
need spacious surroundings
these are lacking the simpler
leaves the best memories of a
simple
3
first step to that end
be
e wedding gown
will
11 2
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church,
gowns
Where
gown
The bride can forego stateliness
with a good grace when she recalls all
the shimmering and airy fabrics that
may be chosen to make a wedding
There are those misty materials like
lace all to be made over an underdress
the wedding gown is ex.
And then
there is the vell, always of malines or
which
on it to add to her charm.
The simplest of wedding gowns Is
pictured on the youthful bride who
georgette are placed about the skirt,
all on the under side. An undersiip of
very soft, white satin glenms through
the net.
georgette,
the walst and looper
ine,
”
1
in
below the waist
Orange hlogsoms
waist and in still smaller
is knotted nt
a bouquet, the
white
markers of narrow
with
cluster at the
sprays where the
each
youthful
wide Instead
bride carries a prayer
having white
moire ribbon knots
that hold small sprays of orange blos
This, and the
the veil are little innovations that add
fA new interest to the always Interest
ing wedding dbess It almost
without saying that the slippers are of
pinin white satin and the stockings of
ns fut Imm dy
Morning Jacket.
Dotted swiss is ax charming for
morning Jackets as for the more elah-
orate rest robe. Its crispness is a
Joy andi It’ responds beautifully to
careful laundering. An excellent way
of making a sensible and comfortable
morning Jacket Is to proceed exactly
as one would for a shirtwalst and fit
the upper part just as carefully, Cut
off any extra length at the waist line,
add a straightwround belt as wide as
Is desired, gather the bottom of the
shirtwaist part to this belt and along
hook
loops and
’
soms arrangement of
BOeR
The sleeves may be as