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CHINA DOG AND JOHNNIE
T
dog
WAS a funny little white
with yellow ears and tall and
vellow spots on lis sides. [It stood on
the mantel In Grandma's parlor in
the farmhouse, Johnnie looked ut It
with longing eyes but he had been told
not to rouch anything in that room
cloth sofa was so slippery and cool to
sit upon so Johnnie curled up on It und
tooked at the china
“It wouldn't hurt if I just took ft
down carefully,” he thought with his
eves fustened upon the doz. “1 would
be very careful not break It."
And then a queer thing happened
Johinnie found himself running theongh
dog.
{to
Saw Little China Dog Chasing
Rabbit in the Wbods.
the woods beliind the china dog, which
Johnnie had thought he would lke to
dog.
He was so interested in catching the
rabbit that he quite forgot the dog
was chioa und might be broken on the
stones For though "it seemed
Johnnie saw
he
smooth
fo
its
always shone,
Under a stone wall
the woods the rabbit
wall went the
at the edge of
ran and over
china dog and.
LTT
i
“Oh dear,
gan to ery.
whut shall 1 do” he be-
“Grandma will be sure to
mantel”
began to pick up the pleces of the
little china dog. when he felt
one gently shaking him by the shoul
der. “What are you crying about,
“I didn't take him down,” sald
Johnnle, “He must have jumped off
the mantel and followed me and he
nlmost puught that rabbit, too.”
“What are you tulking about, dear?
asked Grandma. “I guess you have
been asleep and dreaming.” Johnnie
looked nt the mantel, There was little
china dog just as he always had been
not broken at all Johnnle looked a!
his grandmother, “I thought he was
all broken.” he said, “but 1 didn't
touch him or anything in here. 1 just
looked nt the pretty china dog. that
was all.”
“1 know you didn't touch anything"
sald Grandma, “and because you have
been such a good little boy 1 um go-
with It to
father when he was a little boy.”
Johnnie's grew bright.
hugged the dog close In
home you belonged
eves
china
Ramon Novarro
In Filmdom’s directory, where each
| player stands for something different,
it is Ramon Novarro who stands for
Romance-—because he is handsome, be-
cause he typifies the tender lover, be-
cause he seems unsophisticated and
human—a Prince Charming of the
screen. He has been seen to advan.
tage in some splendid pictures.
with Grandma “I shan't take him
hunting.” he sald.
“He inust be a hunter, though,”
Grandma with smile. “for he
best little boy 1 know.”
u found
he had
the china dog from the mantel.
Little china dog stood on the book
knew he
the china dog.
something he
Johnnie loked at
fixed upon him, and remembered what
his Grandma had sald, and
temptation just as he had in the farm
boy.
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CONDITION, NOT A
THEORY
ONNIE'S name was not, as most of
her friends supposed, an abbrevi-
ation but of an im
provised form of “Confucius” to who,
the ti of Connie's arrival, her
’ »
of “Constance
me
Connle was grown,
wother hud run the gamut of the Isms,
then herself began.
She broke
iy the the
Connie
because sl had arrived at the stag
if for Women.' Then via
‘Le theory of supply and demand, she
into the old furniture busi
of the world, she reasoned,
we
“Careers
ness. Part
t) that
of
4
anoti
mind
same time
the frame
new,
furniture; for who estab
fished Me clearing house for these two
fortune
er
for
part
i
the
person
wants,
Connie never knew where the hitch
her supply list
of her demand
was
fiat,
At
mar
her.
Then Connie threw all
being a
What a
her energles
model. modern mother
George
tion. Jerry and
were to be independent ;
and
they were to
S80 Connie told them that
generation to wash their own
hands before going to school
their wills must not be broken
was to be its own punishment:
apples from her neighbor's trees, and
oes
her neighbor asked
rather tartly. -
Then one day Jerry in his free way
decided that at thirteen he wanted to
see the world, of which mother talked
so much; and, with George and James
in his wake, he down the
station: and, with those unhampered
imaginutions that Connie felt she had
produced. they hid themselves aboard
a freight car.
sturted to
Fortunately a yard man knew them
and hpled them home by the collars.
just
the office Connie's emotions
complex of relief and pride
were a
: but Jim,
with his coarse, masculine nature. was
single-minded. Silent and serious. he
took the three to their own room. and
presently there issued forth sounds of
no dublous nature.
When, later in the evening. Connle
demurred on the score of instilling fear
into her sons’ natures, Jim sald. “Aly
dear, in the words of a great Ameri
can statesman, ‘It is a condition, not a
Thereafter
Connie's habit of theorizing labored
under some constraint,
HAVE YOU THIS HABIT?
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w— §
Adams Not Superstitious
John Quincy Adams the first
was
Superstitions
By H
IRVING KING
QUEEN OF THE MAY
i HERE Is survival
and pleasing in Its modérn aspect
{ or derived from a more gruesome an
| cestry than that of choosing a Ma)
| queen, a custom now gradually dis
| appearing but
880, WAS a
of May day
{ recent t
| also, a king of the May
antiquaries have
gin of this
| traced It
Was annua
of the spirit of
no
popular village ceremony
And until comparatively
mes there used
written upon the ori
and clearly
the days when
custom have
§ " 8
CHOSeNn a
vas afterwards sacrificed for
In some of
man
representative
otis
sentative
the hen Crops
these primitive rites only a
chosen as the of
corn-spirit; In
representing the
”
{ Zeneration
othérs a
woman as tale
forces
not space
of the
at
femnle o
The re is here to En
2 ori ~ ” ne™
Aging goal
ie, 8
the subject
| was sacrificed harvest cus
of
its reintion
tive
tion
| general prion
spirit of vegeta
conception
in
human affairs
and queen of the May were originally
sacrifices after hay-
ing “strutted little hour
the stage.” Mr. Britton Austen, In an ar
ticle on “She Cave Man In Ourselves,’
published In Collier's some tifie ago
says: “For long after the actuai
killing of the May king and queen had
there persisted
of
offered as human
their
ages
dropped Into disuse
tradition of ill treatment
tiring pair-—a
on
the re
execution
symbolle
| gary to impose a heavy fine upon any
| one who should refuse thé office of
to such positions
tom of their “symabwiic execution” had
(EE by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
BY \vLDRED
meaning;
MARSHALL ng
whence it Was derived; signifi-
MARCELLA
MOST popular French name which
has gained great togue in thi
country is Marcellin It Is a name
with un distieguished origin and his
tory. !t comes from ancient Rome di-
rectly, though its earliest origin
found in the Greek word meaning
soff* or tender, yet by curioys iwist
this word signiltes “of Mars” and
hence should be regurded us a term
denoting strength or ap Ironlike
quality.
belonging to a noble gens of Sabine
origin which gave a king to Rome
and later named the high-spirited Mar.
clus Corlolunus. The daughters of
this gens were called Marcia or Mar.
sprang Martina,
under the Emperor Declus,
the Romans,
French namesake called Marcel
feminine counterpart, Marcella, made
plous widow whose friendship vith
| St. Jerome
French,
| the other spelling
and Marcella is extremely popular in
England and Ireland, :
The topaz is suid to be Marcella's
tallsmani It will protect her
i from evil influence and guard her from
worry. Sunday is her lucky day and
{ 3 her lucky number.
(D by Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
sms J
took the fancy of
is used by
sem.
BOOHGO0000000D000000000000
A LINE O' CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs
A MODEL ACRE
IVE me an acre wild and
G bleak,
That 1 may call my own,
Where | may dwell and dally seek
Pure beauty 10 enthrone,
And by my effort fill with grace
Sach dry, unfrultful, weedy space,
And show the world how ‘twould
appear
If each man tried to Al
cheer
The space about him, as though
he
Weta laboring as love's trustee,
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with
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
the teacher,
“
“Jack,”
f cape?”
“A cape is a plece of land extend
ng into the water.”
“That's right. Now,
8 gulf”
“A gulf is a plece of water extend
ing Into the land.”
“Good Hector,” to a small, eager
guid what
Jimmy,
or
mountain
“A mountain,”
is
~Japan Advertiser.
Not Well Trained
had been to
mother thought to Impress a lesson.
Peggy the
keys obey so well,
little girl ought
quickly ¥" she sald.
“So 1 should, mummy,” was the in
stant reply, “if I'd been as well trained
as they
don’t
obey
you
to even
have.”
Where She Looked
“Darling. that encyclopedia
bought Is no good at all”
“Why, whatever's wrong with It?
you
why swallows migrate In winter.”
“And you couldn't find it?
did you look for it?"
“1 looked under ‘why,’ and I couldn”
find the word there at all”
DANCING ARTISTS
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He
She
You're
And
+ ’ ’ os»
tre dancing
at it
. :
in ist a
you re caricature
Economy
we praciice now
gradually learning 11
# thing of saving « we vow,
in still than carning it:
Ee
Were
nomy
anh
harder
Let Others Worry
Anxi Wife-<Abile,
anything about that lu
Hand
Abie
t over 10
us have You
rrible
letter?
Oh. ain't 1. thoug! 1
insuran
tied up
Moorestown Star
turned
my company
S20 00)
o
They got in me; le
them worry.
Desperate Case
“That fellow
“Yes, thes
fooks downecast™
are going to shoot
“A deserter?
‘No, a
ean hour
movie star An
io get
darn 1
Business Man
What? Beggin
=
stand
Main street?
Gent
You
Panhandier
branch
{Derlin)
leman
usually in
store
“Must
be nn gentleman
“What
“1 noticed
that?
areciow
think
Inst 8
makes yon
the
WILL RAISE PRICE
Mother-—Silence is golden,
not silver, as you say.
Willie—1'm giad to hear that--sis-
tqr has never given me more'n a quar:
ter, you know,
Willie,
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And dirty work,
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Must Be Loony
Applicant-—All 1 ask is a position
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lightning ; you aust be loony,
think I'm made of money?
Plute—Thunder and
Do you
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