CLIPPED
WINGS
(@ by D. J. Walsh.)
ETTIE GRIGSBY stamped her
foot impatiently, but the neat
little white hen in the pansy
bed went right on with her
angleworm entree,
With an expert swoop Nettie had
the hen by the legs, and in spite of
fluttering and squawks carried her
into the summer kitchen. Shining
scissors snipped the hen's white
wings,
“You'll stay put from now on.
til your wings grow, at least.
try your over-the-fence stunt!"
teleased in the wire-inclosed poul-
try yard the hen did in truth try her
wings almost at once. It was most
boring in that pen, Out and over the
fence were delicious tid-bits hidden in
flower beds and potato patches. But
queerly enough the trusty wings
which had always before borne her
up over the top wire of the netting
about the yard utterly failed her now.
Something was wrong. She fell
back, to cluck her indignation in her
gravel-covered run.
Nettie watched her with
ment, Then suddenly she discovered
that she was wasting a worning
which she had meant to spend quite
otherwise than with the chickens.
“Myrtle will be at the library by
this time. Uncle doesn’t mind if his
luncheon is a bit sketchy this warm
weather, Or his dinner either, It will
ibe 80 easy for me to slip off for the
afternoon with Myrtle. And such en
trancing work! If I' must be buried
here in this hole of a town
uncle thinks be has rheumatism
entitled to sume relief.
“T'tl tell Myrtle | must
work. She ic sympathetic, and every-
body knows hér ‘near’ uncle is. It
will be settled In no time
Nettie, on her way to
room to ¢hange her linen smock for
an outdoor costume, glimpsed a hit
of color whirling down the street. A
second glance assured her it was Sue
Hadley. - Sue must have a new dress,
and such a red, too. The flivver cer-
tainly was the Hadley car. A little
twitch at her conscience disturbed
Nettie for an Instant, Sve had been
helping Myrtle at the library for two
or three vears. And how
that helping was—to Sue.
“But she doesn't
and she has so much to
farm, anyway. It really
kindness if I take the place.”
away from her. Nettie did not
it that. Just fill In
There were all the new
logue and, for another
ine fill
Un-
Now
Hinuse-
while
Lave the
her own
important
the
do
will be a
Not
enll
need money,
on the
ra ¢
books to cata-
perience
would be welcomed
worked Myrtle
“Indeed
the librarian inf
later. “We have
veniences that are a nuisance
And you will know all
Sue is a dear, but,
of Sue's
lay on the desk as
and Nettie contrasted In ber mind
her neat copperplate, She was
doing. a favor in
with her accuracy
a godsend, Nettie!
ormed her an
you are
hour
SO many new con
really
about them
well, h'm.”
writing
two talked.
A page
scribbly
the
own
taking this place,
and efliciency.
So every one seemed to think,
The Eldersville Argus carried a pleas
ant little item that week about “our
talented townswoman, Miss Nettie
Grigsby, who has consented to assist
Miss Myrtle Haines in the manpge
ment of the Eldersville library. Miss
Grigsby left a lucrative position In
the city office of Golding & Golding
to care for her aged and infirm uncle,
Clayton Grigsby. Success, Miss
Grigsby, says the Argus”
Very nice, thought Nettie’'s neigh.
bors. Little Miss Alma Austin flut
tered out to her gate as Nettie passed
one night and begged her to accept
the leadership of the Entre Nous Li-
brary circle for the year. Rev. Mr
Massey beamed on her when he hap
pened to meet her In the post office
All at once Nettle felt she had be
come a public character,
And Uncle Clayton was cared for
well enough, He never had much to
say anyway. He could read his “Ro
man Empire” just as well with her In
the cool library three blocks away ns
with her cooped up in the hot kitch-
en, or chasing the hens out of
flower beds,
If the meals were a bit bakery fla.
vored it wotlldn’t natter. It was only
afternoons she stayed at the library
and who could cook all the afternoon
in summer? Not Nettie,
The only one who did not seem
overjoyed with the new arrangement
was Sue Hadley. Sue did not bring
in great bunches of dalsies and jars
of cottnge cheese any more. When
Nettie met her at church Sue only
smiled stiMy. Instead of the jolly
evenings on the side porch while
Unele Clayton smoked his pipe in the
dining room Sue seldom came to town
at all. And then only mornings and
grocery she whirled the flivver fast
past the Grigsby house,
Myrtle had duly reported Nettie's
need of the position, of course. But
Sue did not believe the story. She
thought she had falled as asgistant,
And her brown eyes took a hard look
that came from too many tears she
shed alene. Whatever happened she
would never beg any one's sympathy.
Many a farm woman knows how she
felt.
But few farm women are the hero.
foes of their own stories, as Elders.
* é
villa awoke to find, one
tumn day.
A celebrity was In their midst, A
real one, No less than a poet so
great that he was rated above mil
llonaires, And he had hired a car of
Sam Hook at the Elite garage and
Inquired the way to the Hadley farm,
Only those who have lived in small
towns can understand the exelte-
ment rife in Eldersville about that
time,
Some cousin of the Hadleys? They
came from that vague region known
as “Back East,” Come to think of ft
Mrs. Hadley had such an intellectual
look, now didn't she? A noble brow,
Miss Alma Austin sald.
And Mr, Hadley was really quite a
bright man, Ever so many hud no-
ticed it. Postmaster Rankin men-
tioned the fact that they took some
fine magazines, Druggist Thornton
remembered that the Hadleys never
bought patent medicines Or, at
least only the ones he personaily as
sured them were doctors’ prescrip.
tions, Discriminating family, all
sald, Yet no one included Sue In
the glory. She had failed. Sue hadn't
been quite satisfactory as library as
sistant. Miss Neftie Grigsby had had
to take hold and straighten out a lot
of things after Sue—ahem, resigned.
Nettie heard all the talk, a bit
touched up by Myrtle, who dearly
loved romance, in our book covers,
But that afternoon, at the Literary
club, things happened, The celebrity
was real. And he came accompanied
by the high-school principal, who had
met him before,
state of blissful fussiness.
tie held her breath when
grew eloquent over his
their “charming little city.”
“To award the year's poetry prize
ziven by the Pacific Quarterly.
I may have found a genius
Yes, a
The
speech-making
‘bright fy.
Even
the
say we
genius.”
celebrity was
but he might
done his showing off by slugging jazz
for ull the attention the Literary
club paid to him. The one
and trying to back around behind
somebody after she had thanked the
gentleman for the check so hand
somely preseuted in a leather
gold case.
Sue Hadley!
Little Sue, who never had
put her dress on the right
who bought the frst
anyway, Sue, whose
cramped with farm
afternoons at the library her
fingers Just wouldn't write legibly
Sue, who had home and cried
g0 to Net
“why” of
time
way, and
she =aw
hands were s«
that In
one
work het
poor
gone
her ey who wouldn't
ie and snap out of her the
es out,
» celebrity was chatting on
'
was made and
ped 8
the presentation
could just talk, he deve
easing style
a little bi
your Miss
waste
ering
other
tie bird,
clipped
But 1}
mon
fr
diey.
her time
vainly
» doesn't
ing, flutt
getting into
A tame lit
fow 1s
them
about,
' nle's enrdens
peopie 8 garqens
fs pretty
we sho
mest i
uld miss
How we
are, ut how
were they gone!
them !™
smiled at Sue,
should miss
Everybody
down in na
Es erybody
squeezing
fat Mrs, Atwill
wanted to kiss her and
congratulate her, Even Nettie hur
ried up and bugged her until she
gasped. But it was not the hug which
made Sue look. 80 pret!
spilling
corner by
face. It
whispered :
smile ng all her
wns something Nettie
“1 never dreamed
library so! And vou
there much
going back.
minute for work
Uncle wants
the weather,
I'm going to
Not just a
over
you loved
had a right
than I! And
Tomorrow, I'H
like that
80 many
nnd
ralse
few of
80 more
you're
not have a
this winter.
attentions in
next summer
chickens really,
them, but a lot,
better than books. They
where—some of them.”
Spe took Nettie's speech
grain of salt, but if that
made up her mind,
No more clipped wings for the poet
of Eldersyiile,
cold
get some
Life at Low Ebb in
Hibernating animals are more near
sleep,
er making exhaustive tests and studies
ebbs, although
altogether,
the hibernation period.
tremely low none
them stop
throughout
above freezing.
to fifteen beats a minute, although the
from 200 to 350 times a minute. The
breathing also becomes slow, some of
the hibernating animals drawing onls
one breath every two minutes,
That animation Is not entirely sus-
pended is indicated by the fact that
about 40 per cent of the weight of
their bodies is lost by the animals
during the long sleep. This part of
the body, consumed in the place of
food, is what provides the tiny trickle
of vital energy necessary to keep. life
going until the warm spring sunshine
brings awakening. — Kansas City
Times,
Filled the Bill
Budding Author—Allow me to ssh
mit this bear story.
Editor—Oug readers don't want
bear stories. They want something
spicy.
Buddihg Author—Well, this story ie
Dame Fashion
Smiles
By Grace Jewett Austin
How would you like to dress In pa-
per clothes?
wrote quite an
elaborate article to
set forth his the-
ory that paper fiber
would be used for
most garments and
for all household
linen by the year
2000. He even de-
scribed how men
would go in to be
measured for =a
sult, and the pleces
would be pasted to
Grace J. Austin. other!
That is probably what the men call
a “pipe-dream.,” but just lately Dame
Fashion held in her right hand a beau-
tiful shoe; a pump with sort of woven
texture, having straps of narrow
pleces of bright red leather, and its
color a sort of bright mixture of hues,
In her left hand she held another
pump In the popular “honey-beige”
shade. And the man who was show-
ing these shoes assured Dame Fashion
that both were made of paper fiber,
So perhaps a beginning has been made
towards the puper-costume age,
Kipling fn bis “Jungle
“spring running.
mortals in America
“Mowgli” in the jungle.
looks” tells
" This hits
well as
So Friend A
and starts for Call.
begins a delightful
Friends C and D have
us
closes. ber home
fornia; Friend B
Bahama trip;
around the world. When you have
seen Just how graciously
the skirt-plaits le; seen in muny cuses
the little Individun! touches of embroid
the graceful
all blow in
do not say. "Why should |
traveling outfit and stay at
home?" No, indeed. get It
and if the powers
right in your bome county,
pluck and and
happiest kind
on seen the
scarfs,
breezes,
louses ;
ready to sen
have a
prowmptiy,
you
und
becoming
invisible keep
books
ation
give you the
of a swnmer
Dame Fash
ber mind to spe
islands
pass
bool
this three
had a
itn
iagin
ion has about
nd her summer in
of Greece, Her passport
nol cost a penny,
i will supply i. She
made ap
fhe
and
for
did
uge will
them all
years ago with Paris,
wonderful
our raves
printed silk, Were never so
mer. When King
there
Is sum
Solomon declared
the sun
vod long
lived lon
day print
of them are
have gone
the American
was
under
wns
{0 wenr go
the Yosemite
the Grand
year there
by the de.
war bonnets
work of the In-
alifornia, or
Arizona. This
learned
signers from the baskets,
and intricate bead
dians,
This printed silk
canyon of
subtle effects
has been made fash
Wouldn't
to start for Europe
with a patriotic trunkful of printed
silk dresses and blouses, with searfe,
hat trimmings and shopping bags, all
of this wonderful new silk?
(a 1923
mber of uses
it be delightful
Western Newspaper Union
Smart Spring Coat Is
Seen at Paris Races
One of the smartest spring coats
seen at the races at Auteuil, France,
where the latest modes are displayed.
The liberal use of black-~bow tie,
gloves, shoes and coat trimmings—is
striking and effective.
Skirts Tie On
The tie-on skirt is a conception of
new style. Mounted on a narrow flat
belt the skirt ties over the blouse at
a low walstline, A wraparound ef.
feet, with plenty of fullness in front
concenls the closing,
Silk Stockings in Sports Design
Stockings of silk, which closely re
semble in pattern the wool ones, are
extremely good when worn with semi.
wporte clothea, They come In diamonds
and other putierns,
[Tweed Coat for Sports,
Dressy Afternoon Wear
77,
—
This is an unusual tweed coat
which can be worn for dressy after.
noons as well as for sports. The dec.
orative novelty lies in the three
tiered cuffiine. It is of lavender, yel-
low and purple tones,
Fashion Notes That Are
of Interest to Women
belts of leather or fabric with
square buckles of enamel are
match the
An evening coat of silver and
with yellow velvet,
fox, dyed yel
that
Wide
dress,
ince is lined and
collared with
A nightgown
coming to the
How.
is sure to be be
a chemisette effect and turn-back col
lar of siring color lace,
sleeveless
Prints
of great
2 Lior
Rive every i Ce
’ " eit
poriance Hie
others
same
are
$ vd
jLOVETY sue ct
tif used horizontally.
belre
pull
black. a color extreme!
ent
The
or a
terested
stripes. The per
nart at pres
in sweater sults,
woman of more mature
woman lo mourning will be in
in 8 dressing gown of laven-
der crepe de chine, stitched io a most
unusual pattern with the
silk and a few little sliver th
No young lady of seven or so would
feel that life is quite complete unless
she has of the new smocked
frocks.
makes them equally at home at school,
sel frame
reads,
one
tones,
For the woman to whom the fluffy
type of clothing is not becoming, there
is a smart little suit consisting of a
dress of white erepe de chine piped In
bive, dnd’ a short double-breasted coat
of the same material
Perhaps you're wondering whether
the ensemble theme for spring will
affect the style value of a separate
coat. Particularly in sports apparel,
you'll find that the ensemble is more
important, but if your heart's set on
a separate tweed coat, why not, as
some women are doing, order a sep
arate skirt made to match?
Big Handkerchief Now
in Fashion Limelight
Every once in a while an accessory
rises rapidly in the acceptance of the
mode and holds attention for weeks
and even months. This time the big
chiffon handkerchief is the rage of
the hour at smart gatherings in Paris
—at the Ritz dinner dance, in Mont.
marte and all the smart meeting places
of the elegantes
Orange, bright green, pale yellow,
mauve, rose, many different tones of
blue, and black embroidered with
wither gold or silver sequins appear
with the frock In white or that of
black. The way you must wear this
significant chiffon handkerchief of
mammoth proportions demands no end
of ingenuity if you are to be different.
It may be slipped through rows of
diamond bracelets or under the coils
of a spiral one, or It may be simply
tied around the wrist for security or
slipped through the fingers, under und
over the first’ three. Some of the
smart women seen in the restaurants
in Paris wear the handkerchief as a
scarf, drawn around the shoulders and
held with a loose knot or a large
stone pin.
Distinctive Coat’
A distinctive cont of suede cloth
is trimmed with New Zealand pointed
dog collar and cuffs. The front sec
tion is cut so that three bands, each
bound and finished with a button,
form trimining on the side
House Color Scheme
of High Importance
There is, perhaps, no greater influ
ence for good in a community—in a
nation, even—than the solid, substan.
tial, beautiful bome, preaching its si-
lent but eloquent gospel of culture
and good taste, Nothing can prob-
ably more simply or more effectively
modernize the older house than can a
change of color scheme, The upplica-
tion of three good coats of white lead
paint in well-selected hues will work
& wonderful transformation.
The landscape colors—brown, green,
ereamy-yellow or white—are
fore the best colors to use in painting
the body of the if it
Equally barmonious is
and green color
of the
brown,
quiet
prefer a |
house,
the
scheme, with the body
wood
aK AR
may
buff
ings and a
with
house painted a dull
and the
shade of
roof and trimmin
green, ir
painted a fight
while
one
Oise
color, with
brown
the
terre cotta or Pompeiian
For, while
note
brown roof: or a house,
roof
red
red is not a domi
pe
:
cusional sp
nant
does
lashes in na-
the brick
relieved with =a
among landsca colors, i
occur in ov
ture. Nor Is the dull red of
house discordant if
white trim.
The
trim of wh
of colonial
Hight
of golden brown, offers
tive combination, A charming
scheme for the sr
house with
roof
another effec
color
yellow,
ite or ivory and
house is light
brown, with trimmings and
EPOeR room,
inted or trimmed with
bit too startling. But a
wakes an ideal cell-
giving an effect of
jon of the veay
The house pn
for the pore,
Pipes and Gutters of
Copper Always Best
neérable points in every
the places
most frequently appears
and gu The y
every and if
destroy
The
roof and
most vul
consequently
where trouble
are the rain jripe
bear the
made of cheap me
them,
The ot
LieTS
r
brunt of storm
American Parks
America Lax a long }
fore it obtains all it should
and
1
Gone
have in
recres-
rather
A survey
Recreation
the way of parks
has
gone,
public
grounds, but ft
has
tion
well as far as it
by the PI
sociation of An
parks in the United Sta
an oufiay of one billion dol
cover an area of 250,000
AS~
the
represent
and
1.681
ayground and
erica shows that
{es
ars
acres in
mere space, New
but
supreme
municipalities, In
York claims to lead the
Philadelphia still
position in possessing the largest per
pita park area, Fairmount was orig.
ins lls bought and laid out as 2 means
of protecting the city’s water supply,
but {ts great expansion and the sddi-
tion of park areas in many other parts
of the city have been in direct obedi-
to the universal
need. Pi ladelphia Public
country,
holds its
etice
public
ger.
led
Consider the Driveway
not lose sight of the fact
should be strong, sound and provide a
tevel, clean surface.
used for driveways, of which several
subjected to hard
gervice, or I= to be used by several
cars, a pavement covering the entire
width of the drive area will give best
satisfaction. , Where the driveway Is
to be used only occasionally, narrow,
parallel strip of concrete will pro
vide a satisfactory approach. These
strips should be grooved to keep the
wheels of the car from .running off
and digging Into the adjoining lawn,
Paint Wooden Shutters
Painted or stained wooden shutters
offer one of the most convenient
means of effectively balancing or en.
hancing the effect of the exterior dee
orative scheme, Their original pur
pose of protection against maraoders
and against excessive heat and cold
has been somewhat submerged of late
yenrs In thelr almost entire utilization
for decorative purposes, hut It is now
again being recognized that shutters
can serve a practical as well as an or
namental function.
Spread of City Zoning
Thirty million people or more thas
55 per cent of the urban population of
the United States now live in zoned
cities. The thirty willign people live
in O53 cities, towns or villages seat
tered throughont the country.
driveway is to
MOST people know this absoluté
antidote for pain, but are you careful
to say Bayer when you buy it? And
do you always give a glance to sce
Bayer on the box—and the word
genuine printed in red? It isn't the
genuine Bayer Aspirin without it! A
drugstore always has Bayer, with the
proven directions tucked in every box:
Aspirin 1s
the trade mark of
Bayer Manufacture
_o Monsoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid
dB Breath >
qq Keep your
So
EVERY MORNING and NIGHT TAKE
Right?
Dr Thachers—
yeas yegetable
sorrie tar
IR DEAL R,
fe
Trees of Past Ages
in Botanical Garden
Seedling trees of
represents the vegetation of
100,006) years
epoch,
lection in
garden
SYRUP
weeles that
Florida
ago g the glacial
have been nddes he
the New otanical
the result o scientific
col.
gs
tour of ie tate bn ww. John
Small, i 1
Torreya,
Treat
to
accord
to advices from Melbourne, “his
laughter cou ihdued. He
laughed at ex everything
and he did not
It is seldom difficult
ural if you have no object
Keep cool,
heat.
HELPED DURING
MIDDLE AGE
Woman Took Lydia E. Pink-
Denver, Colo" T has hava taken six
bottles of Lydiu E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound
and will take
more. I am tak-
ing it as a tonic
to help me
through the
Chan of Life
and 1 am telling
many of my
friends to take it
fas I found noth-
} ing before this to
help me. I had
- dso many bad
feelings at night that I could not
sl and for two years I could not
go down town because I was afraid
of falling. My mother took the Vege-
table Compound years ago with good
results and now 1 am taking it dur-
ing the of Life and recom-
mend it."—Mzs. T. A. Mores, 1611
Adams Street, Denver, Colorado,
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dom from Jain when the spony is intense,
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