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place for themselves? And would the
4
STARS TIRE OF
BEING IN ONE
PLACE
(® by D. J Walsh.)
ANTHA BURNS clamped down
the last jar cover and placed
the jar with the others on
the kitchen table. Fourteen
quarts of canned blackberries consti
tuted her whole afternoon's work. It
was a hot afternoon, 100, and the
small kitchen smelled of sweet fruit
and reeked with steam. She dropped
down upon the edge of a chair to rest
a moment before mopping the floor.
She was tired from the top of her
gray head to the soles of her small
shabby feet. But it was jess bodily
fatigue she felt than that soul heavi-
ness which erushes with its. deadly op-
The sight of the fruit, vis-
containers
pression.
ible through the glass
sickened her. She felt that she would
never live to eat those blackberries
after all her efforts to pick and pre-
gerve them. Not that it mattered, She
was tired enough to rest—even on the
slope of the hill where they had laid
Henry three years before.
Everything had changed with Hen-
ry's going. Almost before she had re-
gained her balance George, her son,
had married Mildred Pease, a niece
girl, although she had never thought
much of the Peases as a family. Then
aothing would do but must
buy the place. She had been aston.
ished at his offer. “But it will be
yours, sometime,” she had sald gently.
“But 1 want it now,” George had re
plied. “Well, take it now,” she had re
turned. The papers had been drawn
and signed. With a stroke of the pen
ghe had given away her home before
she was through with it,
What was it old Mrs. Hoyt had
said—*Your son's your son till he gels
him a wife?’ She had laughed at It
George was George, If she had failed
it was not altogether her fault. George
wasn't like Henry in any particular.
He was
brother Jim, who had given them all
so much trouble, Strange that he
should have been like Jim instead of
Henry. She had never been able to
account for it,
George
like—he was like her own
As soon as she signed that paper
she ceased to be mistress in her old
home. But she had expected that,
Mildred was younger, with newer,
brighter ways. She had not, however,
expected what had getnally happened
—that gradually her position should
be shifted until she was doing most
of the work without either praise or
pay.
Her room, that little north cham-
ber where George had been born, the
porch with the crimson rambler which
Henry had planted, they were worth
any price, even so big a price as
wis pay She couldn't go away aid
leave w he had che
Her home! But it was also Mildred's
home. Mildred had had the rooms re-
od. had had a partition token
window inzed here, a door
had pained
vhom she had
rished so long
wblized to consult, had
v that her heart wasn't
\ more wear and
* her body held out, with
» work she was doing.
It was growing dark in the kitchen.
She arose and got mop pail and mop
from the closet and began to clean the
floor. Mildred was very particular
about her linoleum, although she sel-
dom cleaned it herself. Tired as she
wns, Martha slighted no crevice or
corner. The varnish shone when she
had finished. Save for the group of
jars on the table there was no sign
of her having toiled there the whole
afternoon,
She had only her own supper to get,
for George and Mildred had taken ad-
vantage of a holiday to go for a trip
in their new ear. Yet somehow she
did not care for food. Even tea did
not tempt her. What she really need.
ed was to go out and sit on the porch
and rest,
She had to go upstairs for her
shawl, Mildred did not like to have
things lying around and Martha's few
belongings had been gathered together
in the little north chamber, But after
she got the shawl she was too tired
to go downstairs again. Her breath
came heavily and she needed alr, so
she sat down on the floor beside the
wide-open window and leaning her
head against the casing looked out
upon the night world.
Suddenly light flashed across her
vigion—a brilliant, moving light, She
arose to her knees and leaned far out
to see, Ah! There was another! A
shooting star--strange, wonderful phe-
nomena! What sent them forth awan-
dering? She had always wondered
abdut them, “Maybe they got tired of
getting stuck in one place and took
things in their own hands as it were
and started out to find something
new.” Henry had sald that the night
he proposed to her, They had been
riding home in the buggy behind the
bay eolt—buggies and colts had given
way to six-cylinder cars now-—when
Just as they struck Into the valley,
with the whole expanse of sky before
them, a shooting star had passed be-
fore them, “Maybe they get tired of
being stuck In one place,” Henry had
sald. And when she langhed he put
his arm around her and kissed her on
her merry mouth, in the same breath
nsking her to have him, Three weeks
later they were married.
Another shooting star! Why, the
sky was alive with them. Had they
all got tired of being stuck In one
new places be any better than the
old? One thing was sure—nobody
ever heard of a shooting star going
back,
How would it seem to go journeying
through space with the speed of the
wind—or, indeed, journeying any-
where? She had never been away
from home, that is, to go any distance,
but she kad often thought she would.
She and Henry had talked about going
sometime where it was warmer, Mary
had wanted them to come, Mary and
Henry's sister—his twin sister. She
lived In the South, When Henry died
the funeral. Mary had wanted Martha
to go home and help her. After her
children were grown up, married and
she was left alone she had opened a
little shop in the frent rooms of her
home. Well, she was sensible; but, of
course, being like Henry, Mary
wouldn't be a bit like Martha,
Shooting Shooting
And Henry's voice seeming to be
close to her, ever repeating: “Started
out to find something new.”
stars! stars!
There was another light below, a
bold streak of {illumination which
showed the blades of grass as a car
swept into the drive, Above the
motor she heard Mildred's high volce:
“What's the idea? There Isn't a light
in the house!” Mildred and George
back! She sprang up and burried
downstairs,
Mildred was at the door, slender,
bobbed hair above her flushed sharp
face,
“We had supper at New inn. How
did the berries turn out? Are you
sure you get them sweet enough? Say!
Why didn't you pick up the mall?
She was stopping to gather a hand-
ful of letters from the floor before the
which
She ran
slot in the front door, through
the postman had thrust them
through them hastily, “One for yon,
we handed a leiter to Mar
always so
From Mary! She was
for those infrequent,
erateful
gra pleas.
¥
A x} « }
when she
ant letters. Mary wrote
could, for she was busy. The first
words she saw were: “When are you
coming to see me? She got no farth-
er. With bright eves she looked from
her son to her danghter4dn-law,
“Mary,
Henry's sister, Mrs, Combs,
wants me to come, | guess 1 will go,
1 guess I'll take train she took
when she went back, It leaves here
in about an ) » chair ear will
be ail right. nall, T can curl
up on the seat. Will—would yon mind
taking me to the station, Georgie?
Then before they could answer, In
their astonishment and half dismay,
she ran upstairs. She did not need to
She had
money enough to buy her own ticket,
take much, just a valiseful,
Mary wanted hor,
ike Henry, It wasn't as if George and
od needed her, They
Mary who was so
would be
ppler without her,
Hight darted across irk area
oniside er window Another
For if she waited
vien there were no stars
the courage to
new,
Newspaper Hes Largely
Taken Place of Books
An American author has discovered
the answer to the much-debated
query, “Why don't people buy books?"
He says it is because they have no-
where to put them. When It was usual
to live in spacious houses, there were
libraries, Now so many have to live
in tiny flats, where they really have
no room for more than a small book-
case or a few shelves,
That is quite true of the big cities In
America, and It Is more or less true
suburbs in either country. 1 fancy
the objection of wives and servants
to keep large quantities of books
dusted has more to do with it. But
there is another and a stronger rea-
celine, not only of book buying alone,
provides nowadays so much that used
to he found only in books, Essays,
travel, sketches, sermons, fiction,
verse, biography, all form
journalism in addition to news. An
enormous number are content with
this. They do not need books—Lon-
don Chronic
The Massachusetts
States Department of Agriculture, in
of highways,
collected.
to certain characteristics.
Constitution Changes
Three amendments to the Const
tution became effective during Presi
dent Wilson's terms—the seventeenth,
eighteenth and nineteenth, The sev.
enteenth, providing for the direct elec.
tion of senstors, had been submitted
to the states for ratification during
President Taft's administration, but
went into effect in May, 1913. The
eighteenth, or liquor prohibition
amendment, and the nineteenth, giv
ing nation-wide suffrage te women,
effective In 1020,
Bizarre Footwear
Loses Popularity
Lack of Violent Colorings
and Heavy Trimmings
in New Shoes.
yizarre trimmings, lurid colors and
extreme Insts have lost caste with
the Paris bottlers and, incidentally,
with the smart Parisienne, Simplicity,
notes a Parls fashion eorrespondent
In the New York HeraldTribune, is
lent colorings and heavy trimmings
that were recently en vogue,
No radically new types are shown
and the principal shapes are the
broad one-strap model, the closed ox-
ford and the Prince of Wales. Open
ter-strap types also are being affect.
ed during the afternoons on the smart
avenues, Brown Is the leading color
standing leathers, Following them
and Imitation
Hzard, alligator, water snake and py-
thon. Fewer novelty leathers are
belug exploited among the new slip.
pers,
Trimmings are notably more dis
ereet and while they are seldom en-
absent they never reach the
ornate heights of last season. Thus
toe caps and heel quarters are an out-
standing method of elaboration, Some-
times both of
Fringed
Ing widely featured and occasionally
these are scalloped.
tongue effects also are be
employed to give a cut-out effect. In-
deed, it may be sald that the smart-
est method of shoe decorationg are
contrast trims of atehing or opr
posite colors.
For semi-formal models black satin
is easily the premier fabric.
followl it Is black patent kid,
pally employed in combination,
Closely
usyg-
Thus
a& black patent quarter, a black and
le vamp and a beige kid
tieel frequently are
single t trained decoratd
afternoon sports models, nls
silver brocat
ere ountered
B88 with
is the governh factor of the
formal
fashion
afternoon shoe pow in
limelight,
Paul Polret la
ideas about {
has Inld down the follow
for his clientele:
should be unobtrusive;
mings and radical colo mbinations
should be sedulonsly
ing docty
D sytime footwear
ornate trim
should consist entirely
while It may
pect of lu
dament
neither ns
the ve
mann i 4)
Only for je
low heel ad
for women
clined toward ot
that heels
Use Women
heavy and
rious reptile
{izard and pythor
tasies, and wh
pre mush
they ms
during the immediate
vogue is bound to be brief,
eral, the most adaptable shoe leg
is kid—it ean be dyed In soft
delicate colors, it molds the foot
it Is conducive to easy and grace
walking."
Smart Street Outfit
of Two-Piece Variety
Showing an attractive two-piece
street costume, the skirt of which is
made of gilt metal cloth, plaited. The
overblouse is made of heavy black
crepe with rows of embroidered metal
braid in gold and blue and red. Gray
fox fur and black satin hat, tan purse
and gloves which match the shoes
and hose, complote the outfit, which
The summer season ushers in a par.
ticularly gorgeous array of evening
wraps. From the warmth.giving vel-
vets, rich in embroidery, in bead and
paiiette to the lightest of chiffons, the
ful. Dorothy Mackaill, metion picture
actress, who wears many charming
gowns and wraps in the film “The
Road to Romance,” has selected a par.
ticularly pleasing wrap of
fame richly furred and draped into
smart lines,
Homely Girl Benefits
by New Sports Clothes
mely girl will benefit this
. hie
increasing popular.
Fashion design-
progd, are
yartment of their
§ Oe of
me snd a
i
efforts is
»% in the
as the
levelopment
{ too harsh-
too fluffy
have never of
too fancy, but are
occaxionally some what stiff and iry-
ing for the The
French are apt to sacrifice utility to
chile, which is rather a mistake, for If
they are to be convincing, they should
average woman,
look useful whether or not they arg
really ever put to the test.
“Simplicity of type does not permit
carelessness about accessories. To
the contrary, assembling a sports cos-
tame is a ticklish business, Anything
fancy added pretty near ruins it. It's
like trying to introduce finger bowls
at a plenie”
Belt: and Decorative
Scarfs in Limelight
tolts continue to be of interest, es
pecially when they are in themselves
worthy. The belt does not match, but
on the contrary contributes something
of color to the costume. An innova-
tion in the matter of belts has been
achieved by using a wide plaid taffeta
ribbon bowed at the side on a pastel
sports frock of two piece genre, the
skirt in sectional plaits and the over.
blouse cut with a V neckline,
The status of the decorative silk
searf has been somewhat affected by
the return to favor of the animal
gearf. One will be glad to lay aside
a fox scarf for a smart silken scarf
not only because of greater comfort
in warm weather, but because the an-
imal scarf is not appropriate with a
sports costume. It belongs with the
tailored suit for town wear with
dresses of certain types.
Boyish Fashions Are
Copied by London Girls
Girls will be boys again, it seems, this
summer. At least young English
girls will if any forecast can be made
from the women, ranging from royalty
down to scrubwomen of all ages, who
have been attending the London fash.
jon shows, Even the ordinary depart-
ment stores now have mannequin
shows,
Princess Helena Victoria, the aunt
of King George, has been one of the
most regular attendants at displays
made by prominent houses,
Gray flannel will be worn again for
gports and outing suits, and shirts
with long sleeves, very much like
those worn by men, will be used by
women, it is Indieated, instead of
more ornate Jumpers
When you trade-in your used car for a
new car, vou are after all making a pur-
chase, not a sale. You are simply apply-
ing your present car as a credit toward
the purchase price of the new car.
Y our used car has only one fundamental
basis of value; i. e., what the dealer who
accepts it in trade can get for it in the
used car market.
Your used car has seemingly different
values because competitive dealers are
bidding to sell you a new car.
The largest allowance is not necessarily
the best deal for you. Sometimes it is;
sometimes it is not.
An excessive allowance may mean that
you are paying an excessive price for
the new car in comparison with its real
value.
First judge the merits of the new car in
comparison with its price, including all
delivery and finance charges. Then
weigh any difference in allowance
offered on your used car.
“A car for every purse and purpose’
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