OhHe
By
Booth
Tarkington
Copyright, 1m
by the Bell Syndicate, Ina
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YOUNG AMERICA.
Edison says the intellect of
Young America is becoming
atrophied. Huh! He should
read Booth Tarkington's, “The
Oriole.” It's dollars to dough-
nuts he'd apologize like a gen-
tleman and a scholar. For there
are no indications of atrophy.
about either the author or the
“kids’’ he writes about in “The
Oriole.” No, sir. Quite the con-
trary. But what's the use—
read it. It's about the same
characters that figure in “Too
Gentle Julia.” Enough said.
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PART ONE
—
By the end of October, with the dis-
persal of that foliage which has served
all summer long as a pleasant screen
for whaiever small privacy may exist
American neighbors, we bezin
high
At this season of the year, in our
and
have not yet
between
to get tides of
sip.
towns of
where apartinent
condensed apd at
our autumn EOS
moderate size ambition,
houses
the
population, ope
same {ime
sequestered thie may
secure visual command of back
beyond back yard, both up and
the street; esp :
trouble to sit for an | Ir Or sO,
fen
one takes
upon the top of a high board
about the
was
Herb
patheti
thetic
In s
i ngswort!
disporting
fence
one (and
tant
should
ly interesting |
ing to the
produce from int
memorandum
dom putting these
mediate use His
gravely alert, his
businesslike; vet
falied
Jorying himself,
titude became
certainly did
to comprehend
ORD ig
tense
Then he v
ancing himself
aligned
inner rail, a
boards
ghielde
at adroit ease, his feet
one before the other on the
foot below the top of the
and with dramatically
1 beneath utish palm, he
the direction of
tracted Lis at
ratisfidd himself of somet
he wotld sit
ter a
and
note in his memorand
again
He was not always a!
frequently joined
nnd though
quite
inspired, it se
as old:
motives
similar to thos
sprang Herbert's swn
Herbert, he would sit
the high fence,
cisely
tance from him: Herbert
intervals for
of something
wonld rise at
study
the hetter
this side of the
horizon; then, also
Herbert, he would sit
firmly in n
dom in the history
concluding
again™and
And sel
world
invested by the par
notebook
of the have
any sessions heen
with =o
nenrance of
That was injured
lone observer at the somewhat distant
back window, upstairs at her own
place of residence ; she found their #n-
portance almost bear
Her provocation
important importance
of Herbert and his friend, Impressive
ly maneuvering upon their fence, was
#0 extreme 48 to be all too plainly vis-
ible across four Intervening hroad
back yards; In fact, there was almost
reason to suspect that the two per
formers were aware of their audience
nnd even of her gonded condition ;: and
that they sometimes. deliberately In-
creased the outrageousness of thelr
importance hecause they knew she
wae watching them. And upon the
Snturday of that week, when the note.
hook writers were upon the fence at
intervals throughout the afternoon,
Florence Atwnter's fascinated fndigna-
tion became voeal,
“Vile things!” she said.
Her mother, sewing beside another
ticipants intentional on ap
Importance,
what most
impossible to
wit
out screaming
war great; the
|
J
i
i
{
i
i
i
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window of the
quiringly.
“What are. Florence?”
“Cousin Herbert and that nasty lit
room, looked up in
"Are you watching
her mother asked
*Yeg | am
“Not
them
tartly
merely
Florence,
care to, but
myself at their expense.”
Atwater murmured
“Couldn't find some
way to amuse yourself, Florence?"
“I don't call this amusement,”
girl responded, not
said
because |
0 amuse
Mrs,
you
ont chagrin
days &ftarin’ at “Herbert Ilingsworth
and call it amusement?”
hen why do you do it?”
“Why do I do what, mama?’ Flor
ence inquired as if in despair of Mrs,
things
Henry Rooter,
Atwater's ever learning to put
clearly.
“Why do you ‘spend all your days’
You don’t
from the window,
make you irritable i
wouldn't let you
watching them? seem able
it appears to
think if
play with them you'd be too proud
“Oh, good heavens, mama!
“Don’t
should they
use expressions like that,
}
Well"
expression
sald Florence, “1 got to use |
when you accuse me |
wantin’ to ‘play’ with those two vile |
things! My
don’t want
a goodness mercy, mama, |
t to ‘play’ I'm
i
four years old, 1 guess:
1
vith ‘em!
than
you don’t ever seem wil
ug to
me credit for it I don’t haf
all the ti
Herbert
Rooter
ne, mama;
and that
aren't
they?
He Would Sit
Enter a Note
Book.
Again and Decisively
in His Memorandum
tor, or something like that, with them,
and they were rude and told
Wasn't that it?
sighed ‘No
you to go
way.
Florence mama, It |
cert'nly wasn't.” |
“They weren't rude to you?"
“Yes, they cert'nly were!”
“Well, then
“Mama, understand 7°
the window to
Atwater's concentration |
isn’t ‘playing!’ |
being a report- |
cant
turned
Mrs
the
I didn’t want to ‘play’
er; they ain't Piaging’
“Aren't plasihg Florence’
“Yes'm They're net
a real printing press; Uncle Jo
gave it to him It's a real one, |
a, can't yon understand?”
try,” said Mrs. Atwater.
get so excited about it,
you
from
matter. “it
upon
Herbert's |
“You |
Flor
I'm
“
not!” Florence turned vehe
. i
“I guess it'd take more than
and their old |
me excited! 1!
two vile things
printin® press to get
than nothing to me! All 1 wish is |
they'd fall off tie fence and break |
their vile ole necks!"
With this ‘manifestation of 1mper.
sonal, calmness, she turned again to
the window; but her mother protest.
ed, “Do find something else to amuse
you, Florence; and quit watching
those foolish boys; you mustn't let
them upset you so by their playing.”
Florence moaned. “They don't ‘up.
sot’ me, mama! They have fio effect
on te by the slightest degree! And I
told you, mama, they're not ‘playing.’ ”
“Then what are they doing?”
“Well, they're having a newspaper.
They got the printing press and an
office In Herbert's ole stable, and ev.
erything. They got somebody to give
‘sm some ole banlsters and a ralling
from a house that was torn down
somewheres, and then they got It stuck
up in the stable loft, so it runs acrosm
with a kind of a gate In the middie of
these banisters, and on one side Is
|
{ Henry Rooter's mother's attic: and a
table and some chairs, and a map on
WJhe wall; and that's their newspaper
[tice They go-out and look for what's
the and write [t Ink;
{ and then they go through the gate to
News, down in
| newspaper,”
“But
so much?”
“That's
what do they do on the fence
where they go to watch
“They think
grand, sittin’ up there, pokin’ around.
They go other and
ask That's all they
morosely,
places, too; they
people,
became strongly intensified. “They
they asked if 1 knew anything, some
Plain and Simple.
ss A ————
Everything Droops in Some
Way-~Feathers Mark
for Their Own.
Little
Season
The hat 8 the and the
Yet,
serves a fashion critic, If there Is any
other one article of feminine apparef
which Is more difficult to do satisfac
torlly, then let us gee it at once, There
are cries the
1oo®eq at
find
still
¢ é
bheoinn ni
oh
from
have
hats, and can't
coming.” Or, a
for the
they
feminine popula
millions of
that Is he
worse fate exists
blithely thinks
nore or les
one
woman who
ure all becom
This
subtly, They are ni
“round-and-round
have
year the hats are
affairs
been for some time
oldest
wipe my shoes on ‘em to
their lives
Mrs
Use
“You mustn't
Florence.”
Atwater sighed
such expressions,
“1 don't
objected
the expressions they used on
I'm
with them."
But at
gave
you
“Then glad so
very jou didn't play
this, Florence
way to filial despair.
just see through
once
“Mama,
can't anything!
aren't playing! They're ge!
real pewspaper, and |
and hing They
over this part of
every
unt and uncle they
and
own fathers
and two or
besides
“Was It
Was it the reason th
#t you be a reporter with
“Pooh '
I didn't
their ole
nake
Florence exels
want anyvihin t do with
uty . ¥ 1 *
[a er it anys didn’t
their North
nd Dally Oriole till said
fun o
they
did
ddn't be in it TOU
somep’'m !
charmir And
Because of the wavs of
h rts. If
they descend, then the hats mi
ust take
order to conform to
the greater dignity of
The hats
ple, to be sure, but
Irnose
newer wre plain and sim
are most de
this d
ference Is of so hidden srigin thy
one must agalyze the
they
3 a
thou?
certain where
ence lies,
Everything
way at
droops |
leas And
the shou I h
to tak } the
and jutting
bunches
exotic fruits
they their bent
begged
I wouldn't be
Crazy
any
the
begged me on
and said If they
thousand sears
in any
and 1
I knew
States
paper with such a name ;
wouldn't tell news if
the President of United
had the fever! 1 just
informed ‘em they could Any
if they was dying: 1
much as the oldest
shoes [ got on
‘om
scarlet
poiitely
liked
what they
declined so wipe
‘on I
wouldn't they let you be
her mother insisted,
Florence became apalvti
so's they could act so im
And she addded, as a con
“They ought to be
ut why
Ups this
sequence arrest
oil
Mrs. Atwater murmured
but forbore to press her inquiry;
was silent, In a
The journalists upon the fence
had disappeared from view, during the
conversation with her mother:
presently she sighed and quietly
the room. She went to her own apart
ment, where, at a small and rather
ahsently
brooding
mod
reverie, she took up
without any great effort or any crit
cal delayvings, produced a poem.
THE ORGANEST.
By Florence Atwater.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Grezt Men Once Book Agents.
Longfellow, Mark Twain and Brel
Harte were among the subsequently
famous authors who bridged poverty
stricken periods by peddling the
works of already successful writers
Danlel Webster also hunted up orders
for books, paying his second term's
tuition at Dartmouth college hy act:
ing as agent for De Tocqueville's
“America,” and Bismarck in his early
days at Haldelberg canvassed for one
of Blumenbach's handbooks New
York Evening Post,
I'v, A thought Is often original, though
you have uttered It a hundred times,
“Holmes, si ei
The lion In soclety may be a bear at
home,
the printing press, and the other “de |
be smarter than this
piaid polo cioth
It will have many
What could
three-piece suit of
Garment Easy to Make--Any Home
Neediewoman Can Turn Out Sat
isfactory Model,
over frocks of
that
or linén,
with a
supply the
The slip
serge or cotton
blouse beneath them to
gleeves which they lack tremen.
popular, but they are still
pass muster,
silk
are
worm
are
the easivst sort
and any home needlewoman could ac
complish one satisfactorily,
are sometimes simply turned under and
hats and
tritumings
farge hats
that have
they
no rule about the paths they trail,
whichever way
{| lonable women are gathered
feather with a
but
turns where fash
One
One Bee in
nbout Hs setting, with that abizoe
No. 1. -—Hatter's fush
fet Gloves... No. 2.-—Sport Hat and
Scarf of Colored Felt and Woer. No.
3.—Velvet Streamers and Bunch of
Fruit on Close Hat of Felt
whi
ids {is owy
ry Gispiay of new fab
} texture and rather
i to be
There
it look.a kinship
urface, including
The dovedown
ter of dave
Rust From Steel.
rust from steel fire irons
e of flannel
Then
m with a pied
th ammonia dry
dered bathbrick and polish
dry cloth
ffected when fit.
but even
The slim, youth
ies Troc Came vogue
this seems doubtfu
promenades
and if
slender
‘at ve gtvie
set less,
ous
sually,
are
the very
fitted
only
i young and choose
they
The
be
continue to
who is at all
gtont or to have
nay gO
woman
hips that
— ———"
Dusty Rugs.
Moisten some coarse salt with ker
osene and sprinkle it freely over your
machine hemmed. Sometimes they are
finished with a cording, sometimes |
with a binding. Sometimes a white |
for Instance, of linen,
will be |
with red silk braid. Such a!
trast is good. and that is all some de.
signers think of, naturally. For the
home dressmaker, however, it Is well
to think of the practical side of life |
and washable colors are on the prac |
tical side,
rp ———
FACE THE CORSET QUESTION
Younger Women Ban the Accessory |
Since Straightline Dresses Are
in Favor,
i
There has been considerable dis. |
ensgsion of the corset subject since the |
tendency to somewhat fitted effects |
became evident. Many of the younger |
women have absolutely banned cor
gots during the past’ few years, espe: |
elally since the straight-line, one-piece |
dresses came into prominence '
It was *hought a reaction in favor |
main for five or ten minutes,
finish the rug
use too much) will gather
and the colors will be
Moths ure killed by the
salt and oil, so
original work, it
the
acts as an
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Idea for a Hostess.
Ting paper hat boxes to suggest “gon
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