". i The Ambition of 3 Letitia : Grrfeaelre tei fr rr (© by MoClure Nawsepaper Syndicate.) At twenty Letitia was a veteran tiouseworker, for she had begun work- ing for the Dawsons when she was twelve, and hud served a right appren- ticeship under Mrs, Dawson for years. Mrs. Dawson had died and, as Grandmother Dawson was by disposed to remain in her easy the entire tasks of housekeeping then fallen to Letitia. This meant ing the cooking, scleaning, washing , ¥ rire rire) By JANE OSBORN "ve or chair, to- aud Dawson, Mr. Dawson the widower, Tom Dawson, Mrs. Dawson had called Letitia her “hired girl." She had rescued little girl from the county after the death of her widowed moth- wore in name than in faet, Mrs. Dawson's death Mr, Dawson paid Letitin a meager wage, but siderably greater hes the pin allowed by Mrs. Dawson. It was as “Dawson's hired Letitia generally known in community, However, there was special social line drawn between and her employers. She sat the same lamp with them, reading or mending on winter evenings. She at the table with them, jumping of course, every few minutes to fresh supplies from the kitchen. It was chilly evening in ber. Grandma Dawson had retired and Letitia sat with her mending In her lap, while Father Dawson read the paper and Tom leaned abstracted. ly over the table where he was work- ing out problems in his ence course in scientific farming. al times Letitia had looked opened her mouth to speak and had then remained silent, After three or four false starts she managed say: “There Is thing I was wondering. I though haps, if it was just the same to maybe now, since I'm and all—that maybe as soon call me a housekeeper of hired girl. If that 1 was the housekeeper folks get the habir Letitia looked moment her eyes that one money that the no her girl” was beside ate up, get one Octo up, to some per- you, he getting to older you'd inet instead you'd just dro her D I then ot would up and for a met those flashing with eyes Dawson were dndigr Apparently at meeting Letitia's dropped and his tanned embarrasset] i tion, glance, dened. wl vexed Letitia riously. “1 wasn't vexed with you, but it doesn’t make suppose.” Mr, don’t see why you should b me, Tom, for resuming her darning askKi with said, ¢ fU- Letty. any difference, [ had been cogil ion He ended laug over his Dawson by amused reading Letitia. want to be called a house Well for myself 1 rence between a per. No dis heen the r. What to put ve read- into grace in e ing, Letiy, your ? “Nothing,” snapped Leti you don't have to do it want to. Only I want that my were any in the My father par- son and my grandfather had as big a farm as this—and it would have been mine, if he hadn't sold it buy bum oil stock, or something.” Letitia said she had not been ing anything to put new id head, but this was not Letitia had invested in a book quette—an el volume ti opened up undreamed-of worlds luxury and ceremonious living to her. She read it eagerly, and now she knew by rote the duties of butler, man, lady's mald, first gardener, ond gardener and the rest. "She dv with interest on the pata- graphs dealing with housekeepers, They no aprons, ted to wear a silk dress in noon, provided It was hig} They were addressed as Mrs, to distinguish them from servants, and they ate their thelr sitting room—brought up tray by one of the maids. They car: ried the keys to the supply closets, had the hiring of less Important servants, pald off household bills, kept and, where that work was not by the butler, took instructions meals from thelr employers, Letitin’s ambition was to be a house. keeper. She thought with satisfaction of herself as a middle-aged person In a stiff black silk frock, eating In tary grandeur in her private sitting room. But she could not become so important a personage all In one dsj. She must work up to such heights, ‘The rudiments of housekeeping she had learned from her service wiih the Dawsons. The flourishes she must learn by experience In more preten- tious househplds, She had definitely * decided to go fo the city and apply at an employ- ment agency for a position as a house. keeper, In a less pretentious establish. ment than that described In the book 10 begin with. But she must be able tonestly to sdy that she had been a hotfsekeeper—not a hired girl, Apparently she gaiied nothing by her petition to the Dawson ‘men, dif. elt as it was to deliver. Mr, Dawson 8r., «imply hadn't taken her seriously, and Tom as usea! answered In an In you such notions « 1 head you folks as good as county. Was a too, to read- eas into her quite true, int of Iaborate K- especial wore were permit- the after- necked or Miss Oh a guests for gol of He ared manner, Ever since he had been working on that correspondence course he had seemed preoccupied, Once several years ago he had taken her for occasional walks and had driven her to town, but ap- parently his ambition to become a scientific farmer left no thoughts for Letty, “the hired girl” Letitia's darning needle flew back and forth as she sat by the reading lamp, and once a large tear splashed on one of Tom Dawson's heavy woolen socks that she was darning. She rose to retire when the clock struck half- past eight, and on some pretext or other Tom followed her to the kitchen, where she went to get her little lamp to light her to bed. “I want to talk to you, Letty,” Tom sald, barely looking at her. “Stay In your room until father has gone to bed, "wor Letty went about lighting her lamp and sald only after a loug pause. “All right, Tom, I'll come back.” A half hour later Tom and Letty met in the living room and Tom led the way to the little side porch where, though the air was chilly, they could “It's about your wanting to be called a housekeeper,” Tom began, “I blame you not wanting to ‘hired girl,’ but father doesn’t mean to hurt your feelings made matters different from what they are long ago if it had any trying. Instead 1 plans, be really been use made agriculture. 1 from mother twenty-one, course In that money when I was finish my winter shorter came last spring I'm course take at has agr going correspondence the the eed, take time to in Father back and buy a of my when T do that—Let- ty, If you Mrs, Tom Dawson it wouldn't be so bad as bgpg Dawson's hired girl, would It?” There was a trying pause and Letty kept her head turned from Tom's. “Letty, 1 you," Tom sald more bravery than he knew “1 know you didn't want but I've want course agriculture college, Then I'll come and were on; with pos love he ambition called a hired {00, I hioned, sessed, nnd to be girl, don’t biundering worked so ambitions an old-fas That's correspond mer. hard on that ence course, I want “But I'd bh egan. “Don’t yon “TI don’ Letitis ave to love you~" Letty sald nair a penc vriting pat yDILANE Pag 1 “1 love you. “LETITIA ked a of and the «lipped drawer Then Letty her bureau, took from it a uno hook stove ft} She drophe and left It the dark hour HAVE EYES ALL OVER BODY Nature Particularly Liberal to Some of Her Creatures, the Dragon Fly Noticeably. There is a most astonishing diversity among in to the num- ber and location of their eyes. In mam fishes they are invariably the anywhere animals respect mals, birds, reptiles and to two and in the head, but kingdom may 50,000, and they anywhere limited are nlaced others of animal fo Leen handy, The dragon fly possesses posed of an aggregration of about 10,- 000. In spiders and there are ally eight or ten eyes in one or more clusters on the dorsal aspect that part of the body which is formed by the union of the hénd and thorax. The starfish has an eye on the tip of each of his five rays, or arms, as has the sea urchin, which is homologically nothing but a starfish with the ends of its rays drawn together In a circle around which is considered the hinder part of his body. The scallop has numerous eyes on the edge of its extending from ene end of the to the other, and forming a Somge marine worms have have have lie fo might seem placed they eyes com- se orpion usu of f rect ClOSe mantle, animal semi-circle, even in the tip of the tail, and they are individually with the median cord. * connected nerve but are nevertheless sensitive to light, Largest Power Dam, The Keokuk dam, which extends neross the Misslssippl river from Keo kuk, Ia. to Hamilion, Ili, Is the larg est power dam In the world, From the 15 turbine generators propelled by the water which passes over It, electric power Is trausmitted to St, Louis, 145 miles away, and to smalier cities In Illinois, Towa, and Missouri, The turbine wheels, one of which weighs 65 tons, os four times as much as any ever before made, will eventual- ly be 80 in number, and together will produce 200,000 horse power, Portable Oil Rafinery. A Texas man Is the inventor of » portable oll refinery mounted on rail rond cars that can be readily mowed from one oll fleld to another, NEW OUTER WRAPS Street Garments Feature Artis- tic Quality and Beauty. Parisiennes Are Paying More Atten. | tion to Coats and Capes Than to Dresses, Whatever the occasion, be they the | morning hours of shopping or work- Ing or the afternoon hours of leisure and pleasure, the Parisienne still wears a street wrap that has every artistic quality and beauty about it, suys a Paris fashion correspondent in the New York Times, This Is the age of the beautiful coat. Women are pay- ing more attention to their outer wraps than to thelr dresses, wnd are learning to wear them with more grace and character, *In Paris, especially, the street wraps are developing with marked The seasor.'s openings prove that fact as the many examples of re cent wrap building make thelr debut. | Chanel shows a wrap of beige crepe | which Is completely covered with an ! embroidery and fmnitating the gorgeous of the anclent Hindus. | has an exquisite collection of | capes trimmed with fur, and } with fringes of black The collars are extremely | rising at the back untill they the brim of one's hat. Certain | of the wraps express the freedom and | 8 robe, Renee's the afternoon wraps | more or less the semblance elaborated and elongated costume blouses. The fur collars of her fabrie not exaggerated as In | some of the other showings. But fur jackets amply compensate for this | slighting of the luxurious created with a lavish gold thread, monkey, high, At of | 80 the taste and are Two Tones of Gray Velours—One Very Dark and One Very Light—Com- bined With Embroidery in the Same Tones to Make Smart Street Wrap. hand, A woolen with black fox, and worn w dress trimmed the wrap of the smart fur another of caracul Imitate blouse. Each Is worn with a black dress trimmed with the same fur. Paul Caret makes his wraps ex-| tremely long and surprisingly narrow, with the waistline indicated by a Jap wrap Is bordered ith a black same fur A and | the Russian | with “sen dog” KNITTED FABRICS ARE LIKED Material as Heavy and Compact as Overcoat Cloth Provides Cheaper Goods for Clothes. When women, though on fashion bent, yet have a frugal turn, an excel lent economy is the purchase of knitted fabrics for their outer clothes. No longer is the knitting industry confined to the manufacture of sweaters, neck- ties and the flimsy silk appropriate to underwear ; it has entered successfully | the domain of dress fabrics and suit- | A knitted fabric may be produced | in oneseventh of the time which It takes to weave a goods of equal qual- This naturally reduces the cost of manufacture and the retall price of the materials, Recent inventions applied both to in grades of knitted | goods as heavy and compact as woolen | overcoat cloth and which only the ex. | pert can distinguish from woven mate. rial Soft silks elosely woven are ap- propriate for dresses and now these are being knitted in the Jacquard de-| signs. An Invention, plerfected last | autumn, has given us for the first time Knitted materials in patterns, Jersey cloth, tricosham, tricollett., matelasse are some of the knitted fab- rics avaliable for outer clothing. Hats Are Large. A great many of the large hate are trimmed in laces, lag over the brims | in drapes, or hung off the brims in| curtain edges. There are combing tions of black and white, the white seen in falt for a crown with a large | A GOWN WITH TIGHT SLEEVES ge— Oriental in its closely wrapped draperies and vivid colors Is an after Very long purple tassels and tight sleeves add to interest in this outfit, anese kimono effect. is used and with leatherish tones Afternoon mantles wraps at Jenny's Much of it is combi of cloky and Hatelagse some ned daytime have snugly fitting ing large paneis they are These where girdlec, either side to form which are really only tarough short, furry of white black far as the walst, fastened by punels extend the wide wide to sleeves, the n sees no jackets, A trimmed rms {0 pass One number of short coat is with kasha, braid, YARDS OF RIBBON ON GOWNS Flashy Strands Run Gamut of Rainbow to Supply the New Edicts of Dress. white and the of WHR yards up 2 the dress i! siream Wf trim yhon edge the “ect and it ing as could he tion gm was al trim imagined. It served the hem and at the trimming that ul as simple hold down time it made a would be hard to outdo You cannot go nme wrong If you are They can be or stiff, but they place In the more soft find a wide or narrow, an always brim of black velvet black lald over the briin and falling in a streamer. Gold velvet and brown lace trimming is another promi. nent item. Even the crushed is shown in brown for a large floppy shape with a soft edge and a twisted gold ribbon bound about the crown, with a oop off the side. and a drape of lace velvet Season on Garment Developed in Very Flat Fur. One of the favorite forms in fur garments Is the short blousecoat, All furriers in Parig are anticipating a big early season on the short blouse and box coat developed In a very flat far, notably caracul, breitchwantz and These are strictly tallored in style and will be made like the little clockl blousecoats that were so much a feature of the past summer, These little coats are particularly good in dyed caracul, in soft beige and They are also smart in black carncul or broadtail, as well as In moleskin, As moleskin is con- siderably cheaper tlian it was a year ago, the sort mole cont will doubtless have a great vogue, The moleskin short cont in taupe fur sewn In shell-like pattern will be fad of the coming winter, New Caps Fobrics, A new fabric admirably adapted to [capes and wraps bas a duvetine sur face on one side, while the other is woven to give the effect of a satin facing. It comes in different two- toned combinations. i FW Daddys L 4 Evening, Fairy Tale MARY GRAHAM BONNER OY IA A dT a eee LATEST NEWS “The Fairles went to call on the Elves,” sald Daddy, “and they talked of what had been going on of late and what were the plans for the coming season, “Well, sald Effie Elf, ‘1 hear that dear Willie Woodcock has gone away for the winter, made his escape before gun succeeded In getting him “ ‘He always puts off his leaving un- til so late In the year. “Yes,” sald Falry ‘that is true, first to spring. he spring.’ “ ili surprising to me so soon,’ sald Falry Ybab. “ “That Is strange,’ said Falry Prin Twilight-Bell. ‘For I know you thinking of his fav diet and those are easy get when the earth “Well sald the Falry strange that he | rives that he from gu "9 Woodcock continued. “They some horrible Princess Joy, In the In fact comes before It Is come COS are orite Worms to becomes soft.’ Queen, late and . but it Is g ns he ar BO 80 earl) ice does escapes ns admire family,’ she never seem to winste time, “*They don't fi their mar For ex. worms decide that 188 aver keting as some creat do, the then and Hires ample out of that they won't hs they wanted to |} “They will take go after and they get too, they don't the gro pull ind just ave a look! the worms so easily, they them “Their long, thin bills kind for digging down into * “You the earth were tal about his com- ite f I8 Dice “so long ns he COUree “They All Talked” their front feet they to touch the ground It is their habit, quite curious ““The cat, 1 was told, will not let her claws touch the ground, which the dog will do. “ “The cat wants to save her claws till she them for fighting or self-protection and she Isn't going to waste them, “*“That to me was quite an interest. ing fact “It Is most interesting, other Fairies and Elves. “At this moment up flew Fly-High, the Eives' bird, and asked them If they would like to go for a ride. “Ro the Elves and the Fiiries all climbed on Fily-High's back and off went to see the hills and the the rivers and the brooks, the only allow four when they walk but I thought It was needs “And they met Jack Frost, and Mas ool and “They all had their wonderful paint “It’s going to be cold, It's going to be ood, We're going to frost-bite every thing, And as we Jo 80 we're going to sing, ‘Helgh-ho, heigh-ho, the Frost Broth 1". ers RIDDLES When are you nearly related to a fish?! 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