Married or Single By JANE OSBORN Poo bor bord bal Deh botror olor (Copyright.) pros LATIMER JONES had played golf with two of the trus- ‘eos of Beta college. He had had tuncheon with six others and now, after an hour's converse with the shairman of the board, there seemed ao longer reason to doubt the fact that he would be the future president of the flourishing little Beta college, “ive thousand dollars’ salary wasn't much for a college president, but it he had received as an Gamma. Then the crash came! “And now we shall be very glad to meet Mrs. Jones—and since your ap- pointment Is now me rely a matter of | form—you might—" That was what was saying. “But there isn't announced Latimer. any Mrs. Jones,” of the chairman of the board. “Oh,” he said. “Then 1 am afr aid | thére has been some misunderstand- ing. You see, when 1 asked resides Smith to recommend a stipulated a married man. Because you see in a coeducational college like Beta it is quite imperative to have a married president. There is such students and the faculty that president's to play. part, but really I insist.” Latimner Jones grinned He ing away. “I happen to be engaged.” mer. “I ruther expected to ried this summer.” The genial smile returned. makes an enormous difference. ftmmeasurably relieved.” sheepishly. be and turned pale at the way in which | he had committed himself. For Lati- mer had remained a bachelor not only him with cringing terror. But by time he had reached his room in the faculty club of Gamma university had determined to propose—io some one—and to keep on propoefing some one until some one accepted. But a month passed and had not proposed. not only be engaged but married. as yet the progress he had made ta have made a brief call on Fenwick, ter of Professor Fenwick. He had no made a start. The idea of proposing seemed infinitely remote. had grown he was beginning less plump were Latimer lost courage. He w to admit defeat. It would simple matter—just a to Still to feel too thin, was ready | all be a letter to plans. He need give further ex planation, but had not posted it, when a letter came from the chairman him- gelf. He had talked over the with the other trustees and they decided that since Mr. Jones had yet not been married it would better accord with the wedding for at least a year. president's no bad The house had not been built for the first year in the Men's hall The sense of relief that came first was immediately followed by a sense of resentment. to—" thought first-draft muttered Latimer. Then of Betty. He tore up letter to the chairman the board, as he remembered Betty had said home that evening. She was alone on the vine-covered veranda of the old Latimer homestead when he called. He felt the smooth jittle hand in his as she led him to the | far end of the porch. “1 was half afraid eome,” sald Betty. “1 you don’t *" believe or not” “Care!” cried Latimer, and then in proper undertones, “Betty dear, you. I want to marry you. lewant to Beta with me” And the next day sent a special delivery chairman of the board. plans to be mariled in June. It would be impossible for me to alter (liege plans now. 1 will mecept your offer on condition that 1 may be received with my wife In September. We can manage nicely in any temporary house or apartment, a® my future wife is a woman of good sense and adaptabil. ity.” And word came back by wire: “Con. gratulations, Satisfactory arrange ments will be made.” Signed by the chairman of the board. He might have added, but he did not, that the other message had been sent simply because the echalrman had felt that Latimer was marrying as a matter of convenience. And now he was sure be was not. Latimer Jones letter to HAE By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N JANUARY 20 carnations will adorn the buttonholes of thousands of Americans who will ¢hus be carrying on a unique tradition in honoring the memory of a President of the United States, February 12 and February 22 are set aside in our patriotic for reverent tribute to Lincoln and Washington. birthday, is Navy day, thus his part in building up our of defense. But January 20 is for remembering not so much elements of statesmanship which twice made him Chief Executive of his country as it is for remembering the simple, kindly soul that was the There fore this simple tribute of wearing lis favorite flower on his birthday is singularly appropriate. So swiftly has the world moved in the last quarter century that, to the present generation, at feast, the name of the twenty-fourth President is com- paratively unknown. His fame is greatly overshadowed by the dominat- ing personality of his immediate suc cessor, the “strenuous American” and by a still later strong personality another sort, fortune ft was to lead us in the greatest war this country bas ever known. But to those of a previous generation the name of McKinley has a very definite RW calendar of October 27, often ob recalling first the names served as line n date those whose Its mention recalls to them that September day in 1901 when the word was flashed all over the country that an anarchist had shot the President as he stood in Music hall at the Pan American exposition in Buffalo, N. Y. the line of his fellow who filed past him to shake his hand. They remember, too, how for the next week the whole nation watched his valiant fight for how he accepted the inevitable the historic words, “Thy will, be done” and how, when came on September 14, his favorite hymn, “Nearer, My God, to Thee!” was the requiem of sorrow of thou sands who mourned the of Wil liam MeKinley, the President, but more the passing of Willlam McKin- ley, the man, whose “perfect devotion his invalid wife had excited uni versal admiration.” So America added a third name to make its trinity of martyred Presidents, and as it did so little realized that it was definitely writing “Finis” to an era in American history. Little won- der that the present generation has almost forgotten him and his times! For in at least one important respect, the day of Willlam McKinley is as remote from the present as is the day of Abraham Lincoln or even of An drew Jackson. The year 1900 was more than the “turn of the century” for the United States. For 110 years America had been concerned with its own internal affairs, with the prob lems of forniing a union out of a group of jealous and wrangling col onies lately freed from European domination, of conquering a wilder ness and expanding westward until the nnd hunger of its people was sat jsfled, of preserving the nation from disunion and healing the wounds of civil strife. But when on the 25th of April, 1808. congress passed a reso Land in Dispute “Cook's Croft,” made famous by Dick Turpin, is the cause of a dis pute between the British ministry of agriculture and the rector of Fawk: ham, England, The land has two owners, yet in a sense is no man's fand, because it is in no parish, and the rector refuses to collect any tithes from It. Part of It has been sold uml the ministry of agriculture wishes to reupportion it for tithes, but the rec long citizens life; with not ours, the end joss Nearer, my Cod, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though #t be a cross That ralseth me; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone, Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearsr to Thee! There let the way appear, Steps unto besven! All that Thou send'st to me Is mercy given: Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Noarer to Thee! Then, with Bright my waking thoughts with Thy pralse, Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll ralse; So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, Nearer, my Ged, Nearer to Thee! a, ..._.-.-.-.e a Or # on joyful wing Cleaving the sky, Sun. moon and stars forgot, Upwards | fly, Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! ~MRS SARAH F. ADAMS EE lution, declaring United of America Kingdom of Spain,” it marked the end of America’s “splendid isolation.” the beginning of its concern with external affairs and its assumption of importance in the fions, So the historical importance of Wil liam McKinley is that he was a guid ing force in turning the American ship of state from the sometimes trou bled waters of nationalism into the ever-turbulent waters of internntion alism in which it seems destined to sail henceforth. What was the historic background o/ the man cast for this role and his preparation for his task? Not in the least the kind that a prophet would have called appro priate for the result to be attained jut it was apparently the kind that only a democracy such as ours could produce. For the man whom Fate had selected to be leader of the nation at this turning point in the relation of the United States to the outside world an Ohio school teacher and lawyer who had served faithful ly but with no especial brilliance in the Civil war and who had risen by the successive steps of prosecuting at- torney, congressman, and governor to the Presidency. “Emphatieally not a leader.” writes Carl Russell Fish in his volume, “The Path of Empire.” in the Yale University Press’ “Chron- flees of America,” and continues: “He was, however, unsurpassed in his day as a reader of public opinion and te helleved his function to be that of interpreting the national mind. Nor did he yield his opinion In a grudg. ing manner, He grasped broadly the consequences of each new position war between “ihe States and the of a place congress of na was tor claims that as it has never been apportioned it therefore cannot be re apportioned and no one can claim it In 1700, the spot was called “Three Gates” because of three gates that stood under an old tree in the lonely spot. Turpin stood under the tree when he robbed the Gravesend coach, Famous Breed of Cattle Friesian cattle were mentioned by the Noman historfan Tacitus as being of importance as early as the year 28 A. D. Perhaps because of this early which the public assumed and be was & master of securing harmonious co-operiition for a desired end.” Of him another written © biographer has “President ing the many administration of ch surprised even McKinley's course dur exciting events of wns marked by a de prudence and foresight his friends. He th able advisers, th con- popularity He pos degree the fac ree whi surrounded himsell w cordial tael, maintained relations wi grew in with the suntry at gress and sten large sessed to an unusual sentiment.” estimates it vinley, even training consid- ation involving international relations apparent- ly an Ideal leader for a people once they had entered upon a war which was to be so momentous in their his tory. It was a war which he was op posed to gnd during all the negotia- tions with Spain that preceded the actual outbreak of war, he repeatedly counseled patience restraint, Even after the destruction of the Maine, when the cototry was | white heat of indignation i Spain, he held fast to his pu aceful settlement of the the two countries the Cuban problem. I weed that Spain would not America’s proposals and assured of the regarding their duty the President reluc ulty of forecasting public in the would appear he did in statecraft ered essential light of these that not | which though to a situ was #ii rpose of securing a pe dispute betwen over inally convit cept of American people to the Cubans, tantly took the decisive step. Not only did the Spanish-American the highlight of Mc Kinley 8 ad ministration, result in America's com ing into possession of Far Es which into the realm tics, but during were taken algo the other steps which aided in furthering her interests in world-wide affairs It was McKin ley's secretary of state, John whose “open door” policy in regard to China made the United States an active factor in the future of the Orient and it was McKinley himself, whose proposal in 1800 for a Pan American congress, who made the first overtures for a better understanding among the American republics, North and South, Pan-American idea that the expos) tion. where the President received his death wound, was arranged, and it was just after he had set forth his the ties which should bind continents that he was fn ou ¢ the deep-seated conviction war, colonies in brought country of international poli that admini 181 the views on the two shot, Today a magnificent memorial stands In his home city of Canton, Ohio. as the tribute of that state and the nation as well to a beloved lead er. Historians of the future may point to his administration as the most significant turning point in all American history, and as time gives a better perspective for evaluation of his importance, President William Me Kinley may loom larger and larger in the gallery of American notables, But for the American people, whom be understood as few Presidents have, the best tribute that they can pay him is the simple tribute on January 20 of each year of honoring his memory with a simple thing--his favorite flower, start, or by reason of the favorable tocation of the province in regard to industrial cities of northern Europe. Friesland farmers have Brown pros. perous through many years of fur nishing their neighbors with butter and cheese, AAAI Presidential Bodyguards The use of bodygounrds by Presi dents of the United States dates back to Andrew Johnson who was the first American President to go around guarded, Transformation The Story of the Comeback of a Woman Gone 10 Seed By Mary Culbertson Miller INSTALLMENT XH Helen imitates a Bear. IA TAD been a long stretch since Helen's ehildhood., She grunted and groaned after she stood up after hav- ing lain on the floor a few minutes, Other than that she didn’t complain, “The bear,” smiled the Instructor, “doesn’t make such a fuss, he knows how to use hig body In such a way that no strain falls on any one part. And if it does, every muscle is in perfect shape to bear it” “In feeling yourself gn animal, and acting as one, you forget your awk- ward stubborn body, and the first thing that are aware of It—you've lesson from the you You apimal, can catch the peculiar rolling swing of thelr bodies. If 1 were to say to you—bend over your head Inch by Inch until your body is doubled like a jackknife, and repeat that exercise twelve or fifteen times, you'd find yourself rather weary and beg for mercy, wouldn't you?” “1 imagine 1 would.” “Why Helen hesitated, then came, cause imagination and interest lle dormant.” “Jukr ‘that, Mrs. Crane. Without their co-operation no amount of physi- cal exertion will have more than a limited beneficial effect. In feeling yourselt an animal you are imitating. imitating a Bear. “Let's place our hands flat on the floor. Now, with them we'll walk away from our feet, Your trunk must suspended. And a bear has no raighten out that much as you can” “Be- would ‘camel's hump’ as “NOW ~—1i *1 think “Yery well—move your right little, then your right If you you'll re you perfectly balanced? 80." hand foot, pro- that aced can your memory recal er in which the bear pl en he was wal ig the rhythm few times with the But pul forward foot, then rhythm of the rolling— one other, “I'm well aware,” sald “that the first will be occupied you'll automatically bear, the heavy first io the Slowly at First. *1 want you to go very first, because you'll that have not been taxed before, and they jut you must That is the only way in which you can your body. And that you eager to do in the next few aren't smiled len's agreel that side, then to siowly at use muscles slenderize fire very weeks, He adequately, “One thing more we go on to the se if you've has of rearing up on his hind legs?” With puckered brow Helen was do ing her utmost to incite a vivid she ing nod answered ahout the b al, 1 ved the odd way a bear ear be wonder ohser “1 yp from sid raise forelegs slowly, swing 10 side nll the while “Just right,” agreed the instructor lightedly. “He indeed a } way of rearing But when has most on his that droop you follow back hang loosely from his, let your arms They will swing with the bear rhythm, Feet must be fairly apart, shifting the weight te the other in that rolling When you succeed in rhythm into your body, if a few minutes ut a time from mo infusi ng for tight joints of yours, and it will strengthen your flabby muscles” “You may be sure I'll also make every Helen smiled. And that smile was growing delicious” (2 by the Rell Syad) cate, Great Writer’ s F ight for Literary Glory Few writers knew much tribula- tion in their lives as Honore Bal- gnc! according to a new volume of re search on the great French author, From this book we learn that Bal gac's time already knew the young journalists who hoped to produce gome creative work some day but whose ambitions were stifled by the crushing burden of routine. Balzac had to do the same He even had to work on mile-long trans. lations in order to make a living. During all that time the work he wanted to undertake had to remain in abeyance, But he overcame the "nau seonns needs” of the hour. Atl the moment when he fell at the point of exhaustion he suddenly gained new courage. His imagination had remained at the boiling point throughout the un- productive years and finally tri umphed. Still he had to accept the generosity of certain “angels” of his day, Without thelr ald he would have been forced to carry on transistions and “pestiferous newspaper work,” as he ealled it Dreiser's achievement of coming to the top presents itself for comparison, But in Dreiser's eare there were no “angels.” aml only dogged persistence and self-confidence won the day. Chienpo Journal, inc) ax de ! i 1| WOMEN OF MIDDLE AGE Praise Lydia E. vdia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com Compound Mrs. Annte Kwinskl of 526 1st Ave. nue, Milwaukee, Wis., writes that she became s0 weak and run-down that she was not able to do her housework, She saw the name Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound in the paper and said to her husband, “I will try that medi. cine and see if it will help me.” She gays she took six bottles and is feel. ing much better, Mrs. Mattie Adams, who lives in Downing Street, Brewton, Ala., writes as follows: “A friend recommended Lydia E. Pinkham’'s Vegetsble Com- pound and since taking it 1 feel like a different woman.” With her children grown up, the mid- dle-aged woman finds time to do the things she never had time to do before read the new books, sce the new plays, enjoy her grandchildren, take an active part in church and civic affairs. Far from being pushed aside by the younger set, she finds a full, rich life of her own. That is, If her health is good. Thousands of women past fifty, say they owe their vigor and health to Lydia E. Pinkham’'s Vegetable Com- pound, and are recommending it to thelr friends and neighbors. Filzey's Golden Flesh, Prolific, Big-Stem, yellow sweet potato ine cutting slip seed to grow, earliest big cropper, best seller Circular, prices Ww. L. Elzey, Exmore, Va. 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Green, Inc, 'oodbury, INFLAMED LIDS i increases the irritation, Use MITCHELL EYRE SALVE, a» simple, de- ali Quick, safe, sure relief from painful callouses on the feet. At all drug and shoe stoves ‘A Raw, Sore Throat foes Quickly when Jou ap v a little erole. It penetrates to the sore witha tle tingle, loosens the go tion a drawsout the soreness and pain and won't blister like the old-fashioned mustard plaster. Musterole is a clean, white ointment made with oil of mustard, relief from sore throat, sillitis, croup, stiff Deck, pti news rheumatism, lum EP pains and aches of the back or ty, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, frosted feet, EE To Mothers: Musterole is also made in milder form for babies and small children, Ask for Children's Mustercle, tis, ton W. N. U, BALTIMORE, NO. 3.1928,
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