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“YES MOM” AND
“NO MOM” i
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HE doctor's ear had just driven
away from Peker Chip ranch.
This pleturesque name had
seen bestowed by its young pur-
chasers chiefly with an eye to the sen-
sation it would create as a letterhead
in eastern correspondence back home,
Charlotte Bowman, unprofessional
nurse, looked at her six feet one-half
inch of patient and sighed. There was
distinctly wrong with a
fine, upstanding young
with bright, gold-flecked green
and a correspondingly bright
drove tractors on wheat ranches,
mom,” and “neo, mom,”
and “have saw” and played
fast-and-loose with a knife at their
meals. His manners save for a few
peccadilloes at the dinner table great-
ly outclassed his grammar, which Mrs,
Maddox, her hostess and ex-roommate
at college, assured her common
In western men.
Three weeks ago Mrs. Maddox, who
was a and new to ranch life,
had rushed into her guest's room with
visible excitement to announce:
“We have a Greek god with
eves for a new harvest hand.”
The Greek god promptly
dubbed “Red” by the men—not as
Mrs. Maddox had remarked, because
his hair was really red-—only coppery.
And now, a few ago, poor
Red had brought in from the
field with a temperature of 1033.
“Typhoid, it -
as he took a drop of blood from
something
world
men
eyes
where
smile
said
“you
“yes,
Wis
wis
bride
green
has been
hours
been
y
1.
looks like,” the
doctor
said,
for analysis,
The sick man
from
room in
having
had removed
the bankhouse to the only spare
the ranch
the most
speaking acquaintance
clinical thermometer, had
as nurse; a hand had
from the fleld to administer
sponges prescribed by the physician,
Thg patient was sleeping, Charlotte
rose and tiptoed out of her
room for paper, pencil and watch, She
was to keep a chart of temperature
and pulse,
The heavy silver toilet articles and
embroidered silk kimono flung over
foot of the bed were conspicuous
touches of metropolitan elegance in
the plain ranch house. As she lifted
the lid of the jewel box on the dresser
conceits at which the
~the strains of the
been
house : (
and ti
with a
as leisure
only
rel n
volunteered
laid off
the cold
been
softly
the
one of those
Swiss are so adept
“Miserere” floated out faint and fairy-
like in tinkling melody.
For two days the
man’s temperature mounted and upon
third Then
out
successive sick
the reached he
went
nproved
led upor
first name,
Though
confidential,
tion thes
had I
week #4
the bs
After the evening meal in the e¢onok
situated at this
were
car, which was
in a field
quarter of a mile house, a
neighbor dropped in te call, and as
his conversation turned persistently
upon diseases Charlotte had
slipped out unnoticed, as she thought,
to return to the and read a
book.
During the hour spent in the
car it rained and cleared. They
dined during harvest at Poker
Chip ranch, and when Charlotte
emerged the stars were struggling
with the clouds. As she was brought
to a sudden halt by a puddle some
eight feet long completely filling the
gateway, she was debating the possi-
bility of scaling she fence in her nar-
row skirt wben suddenly from the
shadows there loomed up a stalwart
sithouetta,
“No, Indeed
firmly.
Before the protest was well out of
her mouth she was lifted up and half
across the little pond.
“Thank you, Red,” she
with dignity tinctured
scension,
“You're quite welcome,” he replied
composediy. “Walt a minute, Miss
Bowman. You ought not fo walk
about alone after dark. You're wear-
ing quite valuable rings and a nlati-
num wrist watch, That skinny Mexi-
can, they call ‘String Bean.’ I wouldn't
trust that greaser very far, Last
night 1 noticed you walking quite a
distance down the road-—alone. Mr.
Maddox or I will be glad to escort you
anywhere you want to go.”
Charlotte thanked him with in-
creased dignity for his advice and
passed on, Nevertheless she heeded
the warning, especially since It was
repeated the following morning by ber
host.
Before the report was back from
the city the patient was on the mend.
The afternoon it came Charlotte, sit-
ting beside her sleeping patient, saw
the doctor's car coming up the road;
she arose softly with a warning finger
on her lips. Silent, he held out a tele.
gram for her to read. The analysis
showed a typhoid reaction.
The physician was a bachelor past
forty, far gone to embonpoint, with a
‘sentimental pale-blue eye: and as he
showed her the report a plump hand
#tole up and rested upon Charlotte's
‘where it held the dispatch,
they cutt about a
ing
from the
equine
house
cook
had
late
returned Charlotte
murmured
with conde-
hold a girl's hand do it openly and
above board like a man and not un-
der cover of handing her something!”
Both whirled about.
fluttered to the floor, The sick
was sitting upright in bed and
flecks of gold In his green eyes had
become pinpoints of flame,
“You young upstart!” snorted
medical man, outraged and crimson,
crossing over and ‘trying to subdue
Red with his pale-blue eye; “if you
weren't sick I would knock you down,”
“You old pudding, you couldn't
knock a man down! If it wasn't for
the presence of Miss Bowman I would
get up and pound up to an even softer
Jelly than you already are!"
“Doctor!” interposed Charlotte,
pushing him away, “Remember he is
sick Red, 1 ean take care of my-
self.”
“I was
Red,
chest
man
afraid of that,” remarked
vielding to the hand upon ha
and sinking back upon his pll-
low with a grin,
dottor,”
you must
said Charlotte,
try to go to
“Good by,
“Now, Red,
sleep.’
“Yes, mom,” answered
Red, and closed his eyes,
>
the obedient
Three days later the invalid was sit-
ting ap for the first time. That night
the whole house was aroused at mid-
night by a terror-stricken scream. It
came from Charlotte's room, but not
from Charlotte's throat.
Mr. Maddox, had
distant ranch morning to
had that on
an his machine
he would have to remain overnight,
Red, who was the only man in the
house, leaped from his bed at the cry
and ran to Charlotte's door,
“Are he called.
the i
The
nothing,
drivbn to a
buy
ace
who
that
telephoned
accident to
horses,
count of
you hart?"
if you can
holt was shot
for it
night: but he could
the “Miserere”
the blackness of the ni
ig pen
door
could
starless,
back. He
sep whs a
moonless hear
and
ght.
of another
wniment, ns
i weird
elfin in
Liztening, he became aware
sound-—a muffled accom
it were, of
“Can
Red in a ealti
see gnything to hit”
A match flared in the dar
by flickering light he
Charlotte wrapped in a blanket, pale
and plucky, shielding the flame
cupped palms, On t floor hy
dressing table was a
whose chattering teeth
castanets,
strike a match?” inquired
can't
you
wus whisper, “I
and
Re
kness,
its could
with
the
head
he
huddled
were
in
ng the castanet oblfeato
“So it's you, String Bean!
If you move I'll brain you,”
Hawkins, threatening the cower
ficure with a stick of ood
had snatched from we Kk
woodbox as he ran
But the
panicstricken, at t
hat
thant
80.
Red
ing stovew
he
through.
superstitions Mexican,
he unearthly welody
greeted him when he lifted
Jewel box’s lid, made no eff
or
nd the
reed] off by
tied up in the
unti! morning, when he
would be handed over to the law, ac-
two of
bunkhouse
companied by the mistress of the
e tying was
t
house to see that th
cifully
“A very neat burglar alarm!” com-
mented Red, picking up the still per-
forming box with one hand
with other he drew more
done,
music
while the
form the counterpane he had
snatched from the bed when the lamp
had been lit. “They ought ic be in-
stalled all over the country. We've got
one on this order at home, only it's a
chair and discourses sweet music
when sat upon: we got it in—" He
broke off abruptly and colored.
“Oh, go on" prompted Charlotte,
“I've suspected for some time you
were not what you seemed. In your
delirium yon babbled not wisely but
too well, Your grammar improved
immensely. You got it, as you were
saying, one winter abroad when you
were traveling with your father, the
duke of Connaught, and skiing with
the prince of Wales.”
“No. indeed,” responded the young
man, Jaughing. “But we did get it
one summer in Geneva,
Senator Robert Caswell Hawkins, and
his prodigal son, Robert, ete, II, on
graduating from Princeton, was so
irked by buckling down to work in a
law office that he went gallivanting
all over the Wild West seeking adven-
ture and supporting himself any way
that eame to hand.”
“And you don't really say ‘ves mom’
and ‘no mom’ and eat with your knife,
“No, mom, only when dining with
the Romans, But,” declared Robert
Caswell Hawking, Jr, determination
in his tone though his teeth were chat-
tering In the frigid night air. “I'm
going back home and settle down to
work like a beaver. | am going to
become a substantial citizen and mar.
ried man, Don't you believe, my beau-
tiful angelic nurse, that I will?" he
nsked, directing a look more earnest
that his words into Charlotte's eyes,
“You might,” was the noncommittal
answer. “Go on back to bed! Your
teeth are beginning to chatter. Weak
as you are from the fever, you might
catch your death of cold in this ley
air.” ’
Stogping suddenly,
and vanished,
“Yes, mom,” called back the docile
Red. .
he kissed her
Essential Points in
Locating House Line
Following the signing of the con-
The
the lot must
determined, Otherwise
the builder mizht construct the house
near the lot lines, or even the
neighboring property.
A surve or cor.
ners of the property and murked them
with wood stakes or markers.
Working from these established points,
the the house now he
temporarily
As soon a. the
stakes at the
would be disturbed, so the lines of the
are permanently marked by
boards set several feet back from the
hous The cords which
the . mason , plumbs for nre
stretched between these batter boards
Trees and shrubs are very
and the house should be so placed as
us possible,
too on
has established the
stone
corners of
and
can
marked by
excavation 1s
corners
stakes
started actual
house
from
work
lines
his
valuable
Trees which are close to the work will
he In the hark
during delivery of material and
handling of same, Therefore, all trees
should be adequately boxed to prevent
danger of damage to
1
damage which might cause harn | 9% «
change,
of Advertising
Must Be Recog
HNEeSS man of
Force
nized
use ud
vertising wi fis reat
town bus
found th t is
iness mat
successful
semi-annual or
Why shoul
ful daring
Modern
will help solve n
holds “hi
auction.
iv as hel
the business
farm prol
the san
year?
adern
Advertising used with
same fait! Nd
and «oi
cretion and
standin towns
in advertising
Ness
goods, could be made of inestim
value to
has the
Idea and give it
farm sel
the rural business men
courage 1o
move
farm production meth
vastly in the [ast
decade”
is the
i 1
good ronds
und
farm
automobile
Late sales
guick. All that
livery or
and
the message to
(ind.) Republi
convey
- Rushville
Planting the Front Yard
Generally speaking, where the Tron
rout
Tall 13
and at the corners or ander wind
The tall
mock-ordnge or
found efore
sult soa catalogue
material which will be
height when mature, and will
bloom at the same time.
spireas, nonspreading
forsythia
suitable. plantis
wole
the
and
all
not
Color Aids Construction
Color in architecture
stimulate construction and is
responsible for the large
building in the past few years, in tha
parily
dent of the North American Society
The abandonment of the drab
not2 in building, for the more cheers
ful hues, is but one phase of a wide
demand for colo. which has
swept America and affected scores of
industries, says Major Laurence,
Keep Trees Straight
planted are kept straight, It may be
necessary to stake them or use guy
wires, Such wires should be attached
to the trees by screw eyes or circling
the free with a plece of rubber hose,
Wire or rope should never be drawn
tight around the bark as this cuts off
the flow of sap and kills the tree.
Excellent Initiative
A bill providing that each city of
more than 10000 inhabitants shall
organize a general plan for the growth
and improvement of every city in the
state, has been introduced In the legis
lature of the state of Sao Paulo, Bras
zi
One of His Specialties
The man who does more talking
than anybody else In this neighbor
hood about the duties of good citizen.
ship succeeded In lying out of jury
service yesterday.~Ohio State Journal,
New Window Adjusters
New adjusters for dasement wine
dows pass ander inside screens, so
that the inconvenience of opening
screens In order to get at the windows
is eliminated,
Suitable for Day
and Evening Wear
Three Tiers of Accordion
Plaiting an Attractive
Feature of Outfit.
This charming frock is the answer
to a woman's age-old question, “What
ghall I wear today?’ It is one of the
few gowns that can be worn on near-
ly all Myrna Loy, fea-
tured found out
when she left hurriedly on a week-
end trip, neglecting to take many
things with her, Miss Loy can be
wearing this very frock in a
forthcoming picture called,
oceaslons, ns
“movie” actress,
seen
ire
State
Sadie
The mide of silver gray can
skirt,
crepe, has three tiers of accor-
i attached
im lace
effect
The
not be w
with tiny sleeves, ton
with
and
very
may or may arn
outfit, A milan straw hat
kid
shoes complete this
ensemble, .
To
on nearly
that a
all
Ray gown
OCs is what most
ns
dress has really that attribute. With
the jacket and the milan hat it is dis-
tinctly a dress, In
teas. If you
sports hat and low-
the
lovely afternoon
the most formal
small felt
wear a
heeled shoes with there Is
no
sports
reason why It sh t
fic
dross
Lf HR HB
would
the
dress. In say
sports proper
shoes, In the evening It ean
ns a dinner { a
and
worn
remoy-
Jacket and Milan Hat Are
Additions to Ensemble
home inexpensively
may be replaced by
that contrasts well
skirt and jacket, Inasmi
££)
dress has no trimming, the
Fall and Winter Card
the fall and
approaching fall
KOAKONSE, for
are veivels
During
winter
which
preparations
now being made,
Again transparent velvels
high note. Surface
colors, portraying
example of the
printing in
flowers, Is
Field
one designs,
appear in a variety of soft tones with
blues, browns, greens, dull reds and
olives in the front rank,
Gold in pin stripes and in bayadere
formations are presented and are
often seen In connection with black,
since the black and gold cembination
has an appeal in luxurious fabrics.
Nevertheless, chiffon velvets are con-
fidently offered in unobtrusive pat.
terns, Chenille effects are featured.
Brocades, too, are presented, especial.
Field flowers In outline only, searce-
ly noticeable, are shown in black on
colored grounds, unobtrusively dark,
and stems with leaves in outiine only
again show the scope of designs mane
rich women,
Pin-head checks In retiring colors
are expected to gain in popularity,
Belts Important Item
in This Season’s Dress
Belts are an important jtem in this
season's dress, They are made of
guede, lacquered leather, reptile skin,
metal, Hibbon and dress goods. Most
of them are narrow, some but an inch
wide, and those for sports sults have
buckles of leather or metal. The belts
of stitched cloth or silk or ribbon are
worn with fine jeweled buckles, Crys.
tal, ename! and all of the odd buckles
of antique and artistic value are very
much in vogue, Serpentine belts of
silver and gilt are worn with soft
gowns, and some flexible gilt chains,
very fine and delicate, are shown with
a jewelstudded ball on each end to
be fastened with one loop,
Practical Summer Play
Pantalettes and Ship Ahoy are prac.
tical summer play suits, according to
the Woman's Home Companion. Each
suit is made In two pieces and the
blouse is a pull.over to which the
trousers are buttoned. The patch
pocket of Pantalettes overflows with
luscious embroidered strawberries and
blossoms while Ship Ahoy wears on
his a most practical brigantine. Pan-
talettes also wears a cunning little
shade hat made of her dress material.
Long trousers invest chubby legs with
quaint charm and also protect little
often follow tumbles. Pantalettes
would be picturesque in lemon.yeliow
cotton bound with white and em.
broidered in pink and green. Ship
Ahoy might be blue denim with the
simulated sailor collar in white stitch.
ing and the brigantine could be ro.
mantically colorful or white,
New Color Card Guide
Board, as Name Indicates
he Ter of fashi
laid
or card is a guide
Hosiery will
if on
blended
f the cornerstones ons
The
board,
has been
andes
thou
silks
this
wi
will
art will
aking so im
house decor
sheets, pil
towels,
na, even
pro
fee boxe Ln ing are ing
duced it ivi lor r now that the
gowns, slippe
dainty accessories
is occupying =o prominent a place in
fashion, a as that Is
our is really of
the greatest the consumer
the manufacturer,”
Mrs, “No house
wife riot of color—that Is,
if we have an abundance of
colored objects, draperies and clothes
we want the various tints to harmo
nize,
“The colors are grouped in distinet
color families, all of which are ar
ranged in harmonious relationship.
Some of these families contain as
many as eight tints and shades of one
hue, Seventy-four colors from past
season cards have been incorporated
in the standard card because, by thelr
popularity, they have now taken thelr
place in the rank of staples.”
color mode . hosiery,
hs ang various
color chart such
sued by nssociation
value to
and the
continued
dealer
Rorke
wants a
are to
Sleeves Go to Extremes
to Prove They Are Smart
Sleeves sometimes go to extremes
to prove their smartness. There are
many interesting phases of new
sleeves and diverse ways in which
fullness is handied.
Coat sleeves, wide at the elbow,
taper toward the wrist. This of beige
kasha has bands of tucked self mate-
rial, Jenny nses a full sieeve on a
black satin afternoon coat that is
very modern in feeling,
Furdrimmed enffe such as tiers of
ghort-haired furs and the bracelet
cuff of fluffy fur are very much in
vogue,
Dress sleeves are not forgotten in
the movement toward greater elab-
oration. On sheer chiffon and lace
afternoon frocks, sleeves, tight fitted
to just above the elbow, Join a leng
full ruffle or flounce sometimes coir
enlar and often gathered. The fiat
puffed sleeve between elbow and
wrist, left open with a tight cuff, is
at its best on a street dress of heavy
crepe,
A LITTLE AMBIGUOUS
this
ad
whether to use
mused the
know
“1 don’t
| or not”
testimonial
“What's
manded tl}
“Well,
writes :
&pots
using
have
quirer.
Tools for Garden
floity—Do you : t
a rake, a
think you
hoe and a garde:
gardening?
Toity—Why? what
Hoity—One jar of par
wickage of
ondon |
orreen
green,
carton
“His vo
Mastery of Language
“His parents think he has a literary
career before
jal prob
“Not yet,
crossword
Star,
Wonderful System
How, in the name
Every Time
GET DOWN TO GET UP
Clerk—1 want to get up in business
very much,
Jors-—Then you'll have to get down
to business better than you do.
sir.
Satisfied
Cowboy—What made the horse kick
yon?
Tenderfoot—1 may be green, but
I'm not fool enough to go back and
ask him. Boston Post
Love With a Wallop
Mother-—Why, Bobby, I'm ashamed
of you--to be fighting with your little
cousin. I thought you loved Stephen
3obby--Why, of course, 1 love Him,
‘canse he's my cousin, but I don't
like him one bit.—Boston Transcript.
Botanical Pest
“We have ampelopsis veilchi creep
“That's the worst part of those old
Suspicions
“When you went to the lawyer 1
recommended did you tell him that
I sent you?”
“Yos"
“What did he say?™
“Ile wanted payment In advance™
Just a Monologue
“When you have an argument at
your house, does your wile tale
part
“Na, she takes all of
findsr Magazive.
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