PICKING THE BRIDE'S BOUQUET : BoE esses eas NNN vee ee, (6 by DJ Walsh ae PEO COE SESE 4 ¥! NU & HUNT often congratu- eee uted themselves on their Miss 1 Att Where could they have found a secretary B8so silert. so modern, so everyiliing that wis Luck—that ull. And the luck stayed with them, Other firms might envy treasure, with her knowledge of transfers, business ratings, all at her finger tips But hintings us te bettering herself never to penetrate Miss An ears—enrs just peeping I'eWSs efficient ? wus the deeds, seetned drews' pretty from modest bunches of curls, And Not above tapping out hier others in her position apparently forgot all had known of chanics And as for handling prospects! “like magic does it,” James tlunt would murmur in admiration us she landed millionaire with a igh priced showy place, and had the decorators presenting thelr one owner bx work! own letters, where they the science of word-me she sole plaus to the new ore could say Juck tioned such a low of tlunt & Hunt, “1 woider if Miss Andrews wus ever a girl—ilapper -now, my and other youngsters all so boyish in that Aliss Andrews Is smart lonking, ol course, but—well—she had » i'l Wis men one the lobinson—supposing person in office jie nieces these looks tl ey puzzle me never swear.” unkind, first-class romance, Which ments of a tangled up in self for all the ele thriller led to were wiht she <i her the “dear past” Miss Hunt when fancy businesslike, flomance? was steeped in it Lut tailor in town best Keep und when one puys the prices to one looking dark hair, a bit curly as it is, minds its mistress and stays put all day long, it must be admitted that there is little color of a romantic hue In the appear ance, Even in little apartuent— as neat and trim as Miss Andrews— there wasn't even an ind burner to dispense that weird hier own ense which the wlor fiction lovers imagine transports whole room to far-off enchanted lands No Miss wns apt to scent her apartment with good cof. over Andrews more fee—a cup of which she enjoyed her open fire of ap evening glory began to and a hot June, foregone {or Andrews was tnke But whe the real happen it was June ul the coffee had 2 Weel in und gention a heen Miss wished =he are rest less could her hit early. “tan | be getting hair there old? That surely wasn't a white #1 wish —1 wish—deur “1d Hke to have yard Naf a lawn ioned yard Kingston. This apartment is so stully, And hardwood feet. “let bonds “N gol floors and rugs hur goo how enough And come in to the office If | as Kingston. “Well, 1 may as well her cross, perhaps forget Forgetting made for she sli ily away when he came purring a romp “Go away ! 13a rude after wed Felis Shoe Polish with his catnip mouse. You ought to be out in the grass. chasing field mice, with cat nin your Felix! I wonder why women must alone so long for a little bit of living money? Jumwes Hunt has had enotgh to retire on this five years—nand I"ve helped him tut | get only a ‘raise’ once a Year's fenves in enrs, work make it year and a bonus at New “1 wish" Viiat Miss Andrews wished was for next day when Mr. Hunt elder told her he wanted her to look at some erty f.ease right kind of shape it was In. A loan on it wns worth another Het a price, and everything. She knew what to do And here location. Aliss Andrews gasped. She hadn't known whe had bought that place How goljen the the take a Kingston prop nway-see what —r wis the many years it had been since it! Just down the road tier old home. What roses had grown there—old-fashioned hundred lenved ones. Pale and pink and with a delicate perfume which had forever spoiled Miss Andrews for heavy, heady scents ‘ When she arrived at Kingston and fornd ter way to the cottage the roses were still there. Though the tield of just over the fence had been planted in prosaic corn. The roses, too, had been rudely trimmed and tied up a8 if some one paid to do Ht had burried abot the task. The cottage was in good enough ro pair, though. The furniture, shrouded in covers stood about in the same places. Over there by the window Sam's mother used to keep a great stund of ferns. Sam's mother. 8o there had been a Sam in Miss An drews' life? With a sigh of weariness and some thing elge Miss Andrews sank down on the sofa by the fireplace. “1 should have taken a tax! at the stntion. The walk (8 surely longer than It was—let me see-how many years is it gloce we would stop here on our way from school nnd Sam's mother abwiys had cookies? “ft couldn't be that there's such a thing ns ghosts—(here’s a step In the kitchen as surely as | am Pauline An n Mm ghee hined seen frecan clover i i i i inns ——— — wilked steadily to the kitchen door and asked, “Who's there?’ In a voice that trembled only a little, Something, though, made and clutch at the door when a real, flesh-and-blood man by the sink, “I cunt seem to Hind Pauline, to trim these Hold them carefully and they stick your fingers. Mother knew how to take the roses—she said.” Miss Andrews turned pink, then pale again, “It's not you, Is it, Sum? Cully who lived here when went to school the other side of Kingston and whose wother nlways asked os in the way -1 heard you bad gone ofl some You never seeciied to care about the old crowd after we gradu uted. And 1 went to the city to work and the girls have all m-married and her waver ghe saw standing scissors, stetns, will not always out of any rose sting pale, then Sam Me- we to rest on Why where, home evenings? gone “1 didn’t the name of the own er—Larrimore—when 1 eame up (0 see the today for my real know house estate firm, “Haven't you either—or didn’t ig for sale?” No, and as for to pay “You slow iy been In Kingston you know the house Sam hadnt the been in Kingston that Lad fter bis mother died, know, but wns a even In the days she was so jolly and good to us all” “1 had to after her—1 couldnt her for college or when you-—and all the rest left, it was pretty loneiy. " hadn't Pauline—when at and free, “1 heard wonderful house, gone the debts a didn't dyin mother look leave husiness, and anything to offer lust you, was alune, were doing so but this house back well — now you such =a I've salury. to buy where I've stolen the roses enough this house to give you from the old bush by the walk, things were Larrimore, disturb mother’s “1 came to see the left, though bought it, would I knew. “And | saw you, 'auline, at the win S0 | the roses and slipped in through the pun try window—1I've often done it when | stayed inte at a party—aund you and 1 walked home too slowly, - here, 1 Ww ny Cousin not who home, dow upstairs gathered too I'hen—seeing you wished Pauline “1 can buy the place and enough for a little ton We ean happiness, “rs derful you'd stay, still have Kings have enough-—that's business Ir won't be the city—and that won- office where you talk in mil lions every day—" Pauline smiled happily { hen spoke practically. - “No, it will Heaven! there's not be that old Who home-—and a ght at the “We'll go right down to the city and James the cerenn otfice, thank wints an oflice when hundred } door? feaved rose ri fix up the Hunt "oor deed, and then father’ at He's going to hs and he wil get fo pay man! secreliary, PITT ie you and I, Sam--we're to be folks out of a slory book give me the you did you?” But sWerts roges-sonu didn were picking the bride's bouquet, iam te way at ords wns a wise d in a better Japanese Baby Hurt by Falling Meteorite The hitting of a human being Ly a meteorite is probably the rarest of all accidents, according to Dr, E. E Free Yet that Is what happened, says Path- finder Magazine, te 8 three-year-old Japanese Luby living near. Sukatu, a village northeast of Tokyu. The in cident reported to Popular Astronomy by Issel Yamamoto of Ky oto university. « Ai the time of the occurrence the child happened to be playing out of doors alone. Hearing a sudden cry the mother rushed out to tind the in fant seared across the neck as if by a hot iron. Further search disclosed a smull stone in a fold of the childs dress. It was still slightly warm, whieh evidently had caused (he burn on the neck. Transmitted to Yama- and examined by the scientists of Kyoto university this stone proved to be a typical meteorite, covered with the usual black crust caused by melting during its flight through the alr. ThE stone Is only one-fourth of an inch in length and weighs only n few grains, making it probably the smallest meteorite ever recorded In spite of the millions of meteorites that hit the earth's atmosphere each dus and burn up to make shooting stars, only a few reach the ground In only one previous historic instance is one known to have hit a buman being. That occurred in 1827, when a native of India was killed by a meteorite, Water and Cholera Hamburg und Altona are cities that ave merged into each other, (tke New York and Brooklyn. “They still have, however, separate water supplies, both coming fron the River Elbe. Altona gitered its water and Hamburg did not, A map showing where cholera cases appeared followed {irregularly the line of demarcation between the part of the city that got filtered water and that which did not. It was re garded ns definitely proven that filter ing the Altona water made It safe from cholera carrying. Gigantic Book One of the books In the British mo seum. sald to be the largest book In the world, “is so tall that a man can walk behind It without being seen. mo. § wag moto t.bhout Black and White, Paris’ Favorites Suit Skiits Are Slashed Full Length at Center Front c. Side Front. How fur we have progre sed nlong he rond to real Paris Ny femininity, writes uo correspondent in the Herald Tribune, Is striking. the Lu. jen Lelong. One need only compare pe tiered and flounced si for vish fashion York y evidenced In collection of iris ol nal models the simple, bi vening gowt f a few seasons back n trianendous in the ten 18 pn cen] er netual win run The tendency Is particular i w of the i ¢ been exoutir sO Puriial Frocks Match Coats Charming Embroidered Gown in Black and White for Evening Wear lending item of dress, Th new note in this field is the return of the flare, which had been quite positively banned for spring And summer. It is rather a modified species of flare, tht these advanced models are affect ing dnd Hs pice may be in front, fat the sides, or, on rarer occasions in back. The appenrance of slender: nev, however, 18 stil! maintained. and it appears that the svelte line silkon ette will always be the fetish of the fashionables. Velours, zibeline, Eng fish woolens, suede materials and rough woolens emphasizing small pat. terns are the outstanding fabrics. There Is n well founded suspicion thal the gmart costumes of late summer and enrly automn will, to a great extent, iit targe garish prints and confine themselves to daintier effects In line with the Nared type of cont fy nn advanced frock style which vers pointedly emphasizes flounced trent ments, ‘There 18 a return fo the hemline flare nnd there 1s a contin uanee of the i which hus been largely to rol fOr 10nd uefinite uneven howling eontined during the curren inl scart gorve tl diversifying and fer line, while velvet vi principal dress fulirie. On one wilh both aft there is conforn ing This Is un versions wiette f in and dresses reement ernoon cots general i tili pers hipline Is changed from its midseason counted nnd cut afely be Upon As one of assured advanced fashion themes Elaborate Fabrics fer Evening For i Hever evening fashions the trend has before been 80 i and vw here extremely ric Indeed, If ar is u dictions of promise upon - -e tr | 2 3 E g on, Sg Rg PL ¥ Figured Foulard, Featuring Ruffles, a Drape, High Waist Line, PE Fur and Skirts 5 ming and there |} derment as to whether be co auty the much mooted i * length, NS skirts be shorter, or the same n autumn? Indications point defini iy to a fur applied quite as lavishly as Silver and blue fox right pow are the leading candidates gmong the furs. As to skirt length, Paris fashion prophets do not hesitate te pre further lengthening of the There will be nothing epoch return of trimmings in the past dict a Fogrt ney iin line, which than not be significance is will one inch, but that 1 proves conclusively that the tide has turned in the turbulent history of the ever shortening One must, very affect the fall in the embryo, probably more its hemiine subtly to be sure, themes, which are still Aud to discover those look to Paris-not anywhere in Parig, but in those places modes one must where the next season's mode is being definitely tried out, Mannequins at Longchamp and Auteuil, vraie fash jonables at Deauville and St, Cloud these are the first to test the public reactions to projected fashion motifs, And If you follow them closely you may attain some of that chic which otherwise would require the psychic talents of a clairvoyant, A Coral Is Imitated by Paris Exclusive Shops Even coral 1s being imitated in aris ‘now, some of the [ntest orna- ments shown at exclusive ships be ing woven or twisted chains of tiny imitation coral beads. The chains terminnte in large knots of beads or a many forked branch of genuine coral, Another recently introduced orna- ment is the choker collar of flat tened beads separated by gold disks, These eolinrs usually are in decp coral red or jade green, The turtle has become a pet mo tit for costume Jewelry and small art objects. Turtle belt buckles, hat pina and ash trays are shown in the lux ury shops. ounces full-size biscuits 12 in millions of Made by The Beau in Hard Luck Effendi vhio pride t hig Incompatibility Company CAN BUY ¥ ’ te type 4 ed wd Var ty Pe Opportunity to Become TRAINED NURSE rind y react y 33 Northwestern Genera Philadelphia, Begistered Dogs—7i : i fie MAKE REAL MONEY % 4 always this J never this EVEN if you've had a dozen fail. ures—or if you never made jelly before — you -can jellies successfully with Pexel. Just add it to fruit juice and bring to full boil. Theh 23d gugar. Bring to vigorous boil once more. Take jeetile eum senge, Skim. 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