he Preacher’s
Stalled Car
SHDN AS WR ER Se WN GR G6 ER BE A EE
By CORONA REMINGTON
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(Copyright)
T WAS a dreadful night outside.
I ne snow was nearly knee-deep.
The wind howled around the corners
of the neat little cottage and whistled
at the windows as if for admission,
put little Mrs. Wingate only drew
closer to the cheery open fire and
went on with the bedsprend she
embro.dering, a slight frown on
placid brow.
How long he #8
must a widow
|
!
{
the
hersell
not
thinking
it proper for her to receive ant
tentions of men?
up with a jerk. That
right sort of thing to
about. It vcasn't loyal
and he had such a
band, too. there
She pulled
Wis
ba
fo poor
heen gremd hus
As she sut
plump, comely face, hes needle flying
the she even
her
pattern bedspread
dared
on
let
mind run over
in the
There was Elins Buneh,
to
male possibilities neighbor.
hood. . . .
the widower whose farm
but he was vears her senior and HT
five children. There not
much there;
had grappled too fong with
things of life to any
in him. No, she would think
about Tom Wilson, who had the little
general merchandise
abcut him was it
break him into matrimony.
of women would
and his way the only
he would vpever
Mrs,
depressed,
joined hers
would
happiness besides, he
the
fun left
rather
have
store,
he har
The
riddle
would
Wiys
him
No,
be a io
right way.
do.
and
depressed
Wingate
und
she grew the
“Well, 1
stopping in her work and holding
the counterpane that
see it the better. “I conid most, finisl
it tonight, Won't if 1 do
to bed
So it
finally
went around the last slender,
srew
the
faster
more more
Hore
ite
her flew
1 be
she
ne
aloud.
up
cond
wild
declare
sn she
matter
late.”
o'clock
was nearly one
1
she threaded her needle
vine
stem to a flower the genus of
can only be found in embroidery pal
terns, ’
Just as was
ght at
smart rapping on the door and upon
opening it found Preacher
standing outside,
“Well, what on earth are you doing
out on a night like this!
epening the door wider,
“My car got stalled in
Sister Wingate,” he explained. “1 heen
out the Clayton They
sre looking for himto die. hut he was
better when | left”
“You're hoarse yon
speak, and you must
death,” she said,
chair up the
right there and
eoffec. That'll
your bones.”
She hurried
he by
stretched to
she turning out the
she started the sound of a
Smithson
she said,
the snow,
to see child
hardly
te
another
KO cant
be froze
drawing
“Now,
make
chill
to fire,
8)
drive
you
set
hot
“OMe
the out o
into the Kitchen
the
the
shoes already sending ap little
and
sat on fire, his hands out-
warm bisze, his wet
spirals
ef steam.
“Here we are,” she said a few min-
utes later, setting a triy on the table
beside him.
Gratefully he sipped fragrant
liquid. “What's worrying me is
about tonight,” he said after a momen:
In an embarrassed way,
“Well.” ain't going in
storm,” Mrs, Wingate firmly
“You most got pneuamony now goin’ by
the way you're coughin'”
“But —but-——folks-"
“Let em.” broke in the little widow
with spirit. “Now, you're going rizht
in that spare bedroom. | started the
fire in there already. Ain't no
in lettin® other folks Kill you just for
fear o what they'll say.”
After had
the darkness thinking about her
She had always liked Preacher
son
the
you out this
said
|SOnse
she retired she lay In
Fest
Smith
the
nearly
had
little congregation In Hilldale
two years Rumor said that he
had been married once hut only for a
few weeks when his wife had died of
typhoid leaving him again alone. Mrs
Wingate believed that 1n-
happy for there was a suggestion of
ragedy in his deep-set, dark eyes
Preacher Smithson awoke the next
morning to the fragrant odor of cof.
fee and sausage. He dressed quickly
and hurried into the dining room,
“Good morning,” Mrs. Wingate
greeted him gayly as she set down a
platter of pancakes,
“Martha, T been thinking.” he said,
“and I'm going te let it go this way,
You and I've been sort of compro-
mised, staying here alone--all night
together, and | expect we—hetter get
married. If you'll have me. 1 just
downright think the world of you”
He had put a timid arm around
Martha's plump shoulders and walted
ready to retreat or--
At this juncture Martha tactfully
helped him out by glancing up at him
in her friendliest way, “Maybe it
might be— Just as well,” she said,
She was all ecstasy while he was
there but inter as she stood at the
window watching him trudge through
the snow u terrible thought came to
her: What If he veally didn't care
anything abo it her and had done it
ever since he come to
aga,
he was
he From behind the eurtains she
“0 him making his way slowly
through the snow: she saw him ap-
proach his enr, get in and start off.
“Well, I'll declare!” she said bap
plly. “There wasn't a thing in the
THE
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A Wife's
Transformation
The Story of the Comeback
of » Woman Gone to Seed
By Mary Culbertson Miller
INSTALLMENT HI
Helen Goes to Work.
-() SIX). herself as though through
1 ; mirgele rejuvenated was almost
too impossible te consider, Helen
Crane thought, when first began
her but that thought was
ecstasy |
“Good morning, Crane,”
smiled the beauty Helen
was ushered into her consulting room,
Another moment and Roan.
she
course,
Mrs.
genius, as
she was
By ELM® SCOTT WATSON
F ALL the
which have
hundred
niversary
of
have
192%
the
an-
ical
events in
marked
fiftieth
the
Revolution,
allie
erit
of
the
commemorated
appropriately the
of the Amer
ean than those
in which the name of Thaddeus Kos
ciuszko has figured.
His
last
carried
year
few
ww
world-wide
more
significance
struggle for
freedom
fame revived
when
and
name
summer
were
press
the news that the bronze urn
containing the heart of thizx Polish
patriot friend. of American free
dom had been reclaimed by his native
jand. They were revived at the Sara
toga celebration in New York last
month when honors were paid, among
dispatches
ana
others, to this youth whose organizing
work won for him the title of “Father
of American Artillery,” and who select-
ed and planned the fortification of
Pemis Heights which had such an
important part in Burgoyne's defeat,
It was at the Saratoga celebration,
too, that there was launched a nation.
wide campaign among teachers and
children of America to raise
funds for the endowment of a scholar
ship, known “The
Washington Scholarship of the Koscl
uszko Foundation,” which will provide
£30,000 for the edueation alternately
of a student from Poland at an Amer
ican university and of an American
student at a Polish university. Thus
will be perpetuated not only the oft
repeated wish of Koscluszko, “Let us
give our children a good education
with the virtues of justice and honor.”
but also the memory of the splendid
friendship between him and the lead
er of the Continental army, who once
declared “to his care and sedulous ap-
preciation, the American people are
indebted for the defenses of West
Point.” For It was Kosciuszko who
planned the fortifications on the Hud-
son and who, when it was Inter de-
sehool
to be as George
future American officers, urged that
West Point be chosen as the site.
But most Impressive of all the
name of Kosciuszko was the eelebra-
tion on October 10 when a new statue
of him was unveiled in the Public
garden in Boston, The statue wus the
gift to Boston of the Polish people
of New England, who raised a fund
of 825000 for that purpose, and on
that day more than 15,000 Americans
No Help
— -
The prospective temant had inspect.
ed the bathroom, electric bell, conl
cellar, and all the other conveniences
of the flat, and expressed himself
satisfied,
“Have you any children?”
porter,
“I have.”
asked the
“Then you ean’t have the flat.”
lA gis i a Bo
s+ “But you don't understand. My
youngest child is thirty years old,
of Polish ancestry marched in the
parade, at the head of
carried both. the "Stars
and the national colors
the cite of the
which
and Stripes
of Poland, to
un
were
where the
took
1
distingwished
statue
dedication in
of
veiling and
the pre
guests,
place
“ence many
the work of Mrs
of Fram-
her own
“The Vol
Mass, an-
the Spanish
Minn.
This orial is
Theo, A. Ruggles
ingham, Mass
men
Kitson
noted for
sculptured pieces, including
untecr” at Newburyport,
Miss.
Minneapolis,
and N. Y. and the
Bickerdyke statue at Galesburg, Ii,
ax well gs for the fact that she is the
wife of Henry H. Kitson, creator of
the “Lexington Minute Men” and the
Robert Burns statue in the Fenway,
The (Sunday, October 106) of
the unveiling of thix statue was espe
cinlly significant. It was
17. 1817. that the Polish champion,
then nt the age of seventy-one years,
met his death by a fall from
horse, an event which the poet Co
other at Vicksburg,
war students at
Schenectady,
date
on October
his
mp
bell has made historic with his
Hope for a season bade the world fare
well
And Freedom shr
fottt
fell
fek'd Kosciuszke
The
mao
date, however, was selected
re par because it was
that
with
ticularly
rR P10, Kosciuszko
New York the
expedition to ald the colonies
an
Octolx 0
landed in French
Ho the
one hundred fifty-first anniversary of
his beginning a new fight for freedom
and the hundred tenth anni
versary of the end of his long strug
gle in the cause of liberty saw a great
patriotic gathering to honor him.
The whole career Kosciuszko
wane dedicated to the single purpose of
human liberty. Like Kossuth, the
Hungarian, Lafayette, the Frenchman,
and others, he was far in advance of
his time. He wax born February 12
(the birthday of another great ex
ponent of freedom), in the year 1746,
in a remote part of Lithuania, It was
at a time when Poland was exhausted
by warg, not wars for the bhetierment
of the peoples of Europe, but conflicts
between ambitions sovereigns, His
father was a man of noble birth and
farge estates, The young Kosciuszko
attended the Jesuit college in his
home town and In 1704 entered the
corps of eadets In the Royal School
of Warsaw, During his vacations at
home he talked with the peasants on
his father's estate, learned of their
one
of
married and lives In Australia, and
the other two are In America.”
“That makes no difference,” said
the porter. “1 have orders not to let
this flat to anyone with children.”
Tit-Bits,
wd -
Beliefs About Moon
The Greeks regarded a full moon na
favorable for great enterprises, This
belief hes a basis of physiological
truth, because it is now known that
the nervous system Is influenced by
. the lunar cycle, Hence there are pe
weed
enn to
he
1
Was
tween
Tr
y of the Ameriean
sh king, Kes
can you da? asks
fo the fat
shall
So
rion, according tine
“ry
Kosciuszko s
fon ma
ory.
see.” was
Washing
of engineers
1776. to April 1777
fortifying Philadelphia
{ $
here thot he
and
response
him a
we
de colonel
and fi
om (io
North
Raratog
®
srred to
a and
Later
Riance
i:
§ , a i:
Greene ax chief engineers i
ithern campaign, and it is snk
hat Greene's escape from Cornwallis
d
during his memorabie retreat was due
jargely to the work of the Polish offi
cor in constructing pontoon bridges
which allowed Greene's tO CTOs
army
rivers before the could
take
At
ciuszko returned
and had a
stormy
yritish over
it
of ho
native land
part the
times which preceded the sex
the olution
to
prominent
the clos Rey
his
in
ond partition of that unhappy country
In fight for the liberty of his
country he was finally wounded In hat
tle and captured by the Russians, who
held him prisoner for two years, Then
he released request to
it America After his
down in
Si
his
was upon his
Vis once more,
settled
then removed
second visit here he
Paris and
land, where he was Iv at
of the fatal £
iny
vitzer
the time
As ha
Switzeriand
fo
111 from his horse
dying at Solothurn,
he requested that his heart should not
day “when
wns
Poland
removed from his
was fo Cracow
the cathedral there),
placed in a bronze urn which
Kept mt Zugwils, It remained
until some thirty years ago
wis removed to the little
Chateau Rapperswil, nem
free”
body
and
embalmed
So |
{which
buried
was
taken in
and
was
there
Then it
chapel of
Zurich,
During all these years Polamd had
been a political football for the pow
ers of Europe. But the end of the
World war found it an independent
state at last. So the heart of Kos
ciuszko has gone back to his native
land to be placed in the cathedral at
Cracow, there to be honored by his
countrymen for his struggles in their
behalf. And in America, where In
algo fought for freedom, mongments
in Washington, D. €., at West Point
in Humboldt park in Chicage. and this
latest one in Boston stand as con
stant reminders of the debt we ow:
to this “great ehampion of human
liberty.”
5 aa o———_ a.
riods of vital energy when the physi
cal and mental capacity is at Its
height, and it is then that snecess may
reward our undertakings,
Heavily Charged Wires
High-power electric cables on pole
lines carry electricity at pressure up
to 220,000 volts and engineers are ex
perimenticg with even higher trans
mission voltages, but the lorgest un
derground cable in the world earries
182,000-volt current sis miles ander
a part of Chicago.
ning a letter the elient had proffered.
It was from Doctor Johaston and in
it he had enclosed a diet list
“Well, 1 hve clean bint
health
she
Eee We “
i sul
here-—that’s
of good!
frowned, “doctor
divest)
you've abused yeur
with obvious Hl elivvis
That's
looked aeross
tions
fol
Helen, giving he
skin. Ba
ut
searching glance
which Incorporated
that
good And
“8till, he maintains
general health is
splendid
your
a backbone for our
fob.”
Smiling. she gazed into space
“1 wonder.”
there are Wino
health and
absolutely
hoo wuld
gi aig
ulatively,
don’t
normal
fun-
velvely
many
know
well-order
women
thint
ed lives
damental requisites of a Lirm
skin, the
circulation In good working order and
from little jars and bottles t
litter a dressing table! Until t
jearn this they will keep on bur}
their blemish ith of powder
and paint, keeping
air from the
with
good
are
t \
color coming from a blood
not
ha
h
ey
Ww layers
out the healing
wires and stuffing them
por ing
foreign substances that pre vent
their ejecting the poisonous matter.’
thought
thirty sever
timidiy
“Doctor Johnston
lot
Helen rn:
pause
“He did
turn Laat
older than
out
f hier
er
ous clock back.
S06 ’ SKurveving Helet
she said: “We'll drop off
before your husbands
impres-
Most
actually
I'd
when
ids are
men's
slonistic,
as A
Mr,
after our job is finished.”
sizing
up
snapshot
a person
ii € oy F
whole, like a of
Crane he first visions
You
Diet.
we'll what food you are
allowed. For your breakfast
has prescribed fresh fruits, a
| cup of coffee, If you wish it,
late and cocoa are fattening, so they
i are taboo. And you may have one or
{wo slices of toasted bread made of
coarse flours if possible. Or if not,
of white flour, and slices cut very th
You may have one or two soft boiled
' pgee. But he stresses here that fresh
fruit is the most important item
the whole meal, as it supplies
acids that sou need.
“For luncheon—a ad
some kind, It's the thing
ean eat-—a thin sandwich or roll, and
if you
“Now a
docior
weak
Choco
in.
of
green & of
best you
a glass of milk like it.
“There must be a reg
dinner. . . . You may in two
| green vegetables at least. Eal peas
{ and corn sparingly Tor they are fat
| teninz. One starchy wsegetable won't
hurt you though—potato, rice or mac-
| aroni. Then you may have a small
plece of meat providing it is not pork
and not fried But nn
gravy. No bread unless a
graham or whole wheat. No butter.
| No water during meals, as it too often
| does the work of chewing snd you
| swallow food half-masticated. Des
you'd better leave alone. No
| nuts, candy, no cake. Your diet
will principally fruits and fresh
vegetables”
“Doctor
ir meal at
positively
| sorts
no
be
aid something about
drinking lots of water.”
“Yes, eight between
| every Lots of water one of
the of health,” From
that day on Helen ate as directed and
felt entirely satisfied
“Now then,” proffering Helen the
| diet list. "follow that religiously. But
{ that doen't quite give us our founda-
tion~invigorating exercises hand
| in hand. 1 want you to begin today
| by taking a half-mile walk, tomorrow
| one mile, the next day two, the next
three. That will get you hardened a
little for other exercises,
you over to physical culture instruc
| tors for your exercises soon, It won't
glasses meals
day. Ix
aoeretls good
always
gO
| of yours is dislodged.” she smiled.
I try to-get out of going al-
because 1 feel my disadvan.
tions,
ways,
tages so keenly.
inadequacy seems to come over me
when I am out with Mr
friends? I never seem to know how
to get myself together
either.”
ward to the edge of her chair:
dear Mrs, Crane, if you will work, It
you will follow my directions, 1 can
assure you that we'll cure that ine
feriority complex of yours in a very
short time, Wemen come to me with
emotion, in tears; they entreat me to
abolish the wrinkles, that they retain
their youth .’. . and we do it. We
faugh in Old Father Time's face” A
Httle smile turned the corner of her
tps ns she became conscious of the
incongruous combination of her eli:
ent’s trappings, “U'm glad 1 got her
before the matrimonial threads bee
came hopelessly twisted,” came under
her breath,
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with feminine weak-
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ly undermined my
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"a and weak, grew very
v thin and pale, and
Fr sufiered untold agony
with pain and dis-
tress. | doctored all
the while and took
N,. - medicine with no re-
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Prescription. From then on I began to
regain my health. Expectancy followed
and that baby was the strongest, health-
fest and smartest of any of my children
and bas always been s0.”—Mrs. F, P.
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