* KK ae ee eee THE RAINY-DAY HUSBAND CAEN Es Nee (& by D. J. Walsh.) > * oe n Fn, * Sean HOE XX) . eee Allee depart She ROM her kitchen window watched the Houghlands on their annual vacation, watched Mrs. Houghland rush to the fence and hand Aunt Carrie, who had just finished pioning dazzling white sheets on the line, a key and a big purring cat. Alice smiled as she drew back the curtain and waved au encouraging farewell. Aunt- Carrie came in bang of the screen door, “They're off I” laughed. “Wonder what Jim'il now !” she speculated, de- positing the cat on a chair and giving Alice the key for safekeeping. Alice stroked the cat's velvety head absent-mindedly., “The usual predic tion of the Houghlands coming to grief, 1 suppose, and next summer in stead of them wallowing in debt we'll they start out on their vacation.” She frowned at the purring pussy. . Aunt Carrie chuckled, “Leave It to Maude Houghland to get away year. She's a wise little year when the children had all winter we thought doctor would home, but Maude told me that and the needed the sea alr and off “But this protested feebly, “Mr, Houghland They can house with a noisy she say seeing wave good-by when each Last sick woman, been keep them } He they Wis work three ford it, “Maude to stay months, really could not afford satd her that he was all and they'd all for a Mr. said they Nhe husband run home ! needed a change, down from worry home ready work. And anyth i rie poir Alice's cheeks grew quit “That Albert Houghland!” her head, “why he shoestrings How does he of his family? Has he for a rainy Answer me that? Does he own his own home? Or build a new sun porch Jim did spring? How about the new room Jim bought this wint And the real rug? And Houghland tripping over the hole his parior carpet night after night.” She worked herself into a heat. “Well” Aunt Carrie tran- quilly. “Chinese rug or Albert Houghland takes family on a va- cation summer and let you've been rried eighteen years, and you once o go ov uncie’s funeral.” “We did Alice a wonderful invest his sa erty. porch a bond. Maybe turning would not eyes, Oh, for a wi breeze and the luxury hotel! For eighteen hoped and pla winter of Houghland added agrees Aunt Car pink he tossed couldn't tie Jim's take care a cent laid up day? like suite Chinese BIOSW ered not. his me every 860, haven't left this town except Coalville to your last there was opportunity for that Jo his spring we built intend to go year,” such Jim to nes prop explained, “but vings in the sun Jim's paying off on next away so that and now year,” se Aunt Car intense g in la yearning years she had nned while neigh- bors packed their bags and departed, “Next year!” sniffed Aunt Ca “Jim Stover will be straining to another investment. I know his so intense saving for that rainy day that he has no time nor money to en- Joy the sunshine of today.” “He's making good with his firm.” Alice protected her husband “and It's just because he ple Pulver and you know he courages vacations, [It's you know, always going off on tions and gett Footsteps in the front hall the conversation and hastily themselves cooking dinner. “Hello noisily beaming. Alice looked up Jim was usually very given to beaming at all, be ready in five minutes, pated his usual urgent query “No hurry,” he remarked genially and Aunt Carrie was so astonished she dropped a fork. “Great day, isn't it?" They stared at him In dismay for Jim never mentioned the weather except with reference to the future rainy-day period, AHee, how'd you like to run down to Atlantic City with me for a week?" Alice hastily put potatoes she was draining. “Mr. Pulver suggestgd it today” Jim explained, nonchalantly, “He sald, ‘Why* don’t you take your wife and run down to Atlantic City for a week, Stover? Do you both good. Business Is a little dull right now, a good time to play a little,’ Can you be ready by Monday?” Alice gave a little squeal of delight as she flew fo him, Aunt Carrie looked at them doubt. fully. “There's a string to it some- where, Jim. Old Pulver isn't urging anybody to go on vacations!” Jim laughed boisterously, “No string to this, Aunt Carrie! I guess the Stovers can afford an week at the shore, There happens to be a shoe exhibition at Atlantic City and Mr, Pulver mentioned that I should drop in and look the thing over,” Monday morning they were off, langhing and talking excitedly lke two adventurous children, “Mr, Pul- ‘ver told me the Brandon was as good a place as any to stop at, so I wrote for reservations,” Jim mentioned In the train, i. Alice gasped. “The Brandon? Why loyally, Mr, never _ en- ses his brother, vaca- ing into some trouble™ stopped both women the busied with Jim Stover came there [™ 1 kitchen, into the positively with concern, for and not “Dinner will - antiel- quiet she “Say, down the pot of Jim, it's one of the most expensive hotels down there!™ Her gray eyes danced with delighted expectation. For a moment Jim fell heavily out of his holiday mood, “They'll soak us, I'm afraid. 1 have the address of a good boarding house, but Mr. Pulver may ask me when we come back how I liked the hotel and then he sald he might run down himself the week-end, so 1 guess we'd better go there” “Oh, 1t'H be fieavenly !™ Alice rapturously, “but did you take enough along, Jim?" “Drew every cent out of the bank. One hundred and fifty dollars, Guess that ought to see us out, eh?” At the hotel, which towered above Alice's most extravagant dreams, Jim's holiday mood received another dent when he heard the price of the room, He might have changed to the boarding house but Alice firmly re fused to move, The dinner in the vast falry-lighted dining hall with soft-footed attentive wititers and dreamy, entreating musle was to Alice an hour of exquisite joy well worth waiting years for, but Jim grew heavy with concern, Out on the boardwalk fie told her. “We can't eat there Allee, Eight dollars and for that dinner “Oh, Jim" over sighed money eighteen, again, twenty cents she remonstrated, “it hundred !” day he led her to a cafe side street where in a din smell of fish they ate dinner in less than ff. Right there in Alice’ great i by nendous det Noth- would en was worth a The next teria on a of noise and a a lukewarm teen Im breast a trei ing the hotel: she her, saved argued, but This was her first een and she Joy it to the nutes, rose a protest backes ermination could move her, she had some from her money allowance, her, in eight he could not convince vacation Years was going to en fuliest extent, So Alice ate delicious, expensive neals at the hotel and Jim patronized lunches and cafeterias, Between were actfully pot dairy meals they mostly together, both f t mentioning the subject of eatin wis though Alice noticed Jim salt tie hungry, orn ing Jim came Pulver wants me Monday morning early—it's im- portant—so I'll go down and the bill while you pack. Let me he fished out his roll of billsg— “twelve dollars a day for this He did a little re have enough for the bill, tickets." who s¢ttie See room —"" just tips and our ‘koning "I'll return Alice, grew a faltered, “the bill will be You see” nervously, sl checks for my I had with me is all bought was finishing dressing, little pale. “But Jim" she much more, J igned meals, and the gone but a dress an Alice ount gome linens and Bene HET hi remember t Jim # began to NECKS, Px kets for of no use fiat volce; he office NO use at the bani to offer have no f t know a soul he borrow Can't 3 i te in the offi id straighten misunder egdina or the firm'll a bad lawsuit,” He looked at in reproachful disapproval, think I enjoyed eating at those mis erable little places? You know how I love good You ahvays think all my sacrifices are foolishness; per haps in the future you'll be more willing to save, This is the result of thoughtless extravag Well, I'l go down and face the music!” She rushed over to him. “Jim, oh, Jim, what happen?’ She clung to him, trembling: “they couldn't ar. rest us?" Was Mr, Pulver right? Did all vacations end with trauble?” MOOTrTOWw got food ! ance. can She insisted with she had upon going down the office. If only her engagement ring with her they might offer that as s®urity! And Jim's watch was Just gold filled! She shrank against Jim at the cash. fer's cage when after several unsie- cesaful efforts her husband asked in a low volee for their bill, How cordial ly the cashier smiled, Alice felt like a criminal, “The bill?" the cashier fumbled In a file. “Oh” he brightened, “there isn't any. Mr, Pulver—he's patronized our hotel for years-—wrote us that he is taking care of that end of your visit. I hope you had a pleasant stay with us, Stover?" he. waxed very sociable, “and was the shoe ex- hibition satisfactory from a business viewpoint, Mr. Stover? 1 used to be in that line Ipyselt.” Up In their room the Stovers stood looking at each other for one brief gecond, then Jim, throwing back his head, burst into a great boyish laugh. “Alice,” he gasped wiping his eyes, “don't ever tell a soul, will you, about my being hungry and all, and honey,” he drew her close, “we'll have a va- cation every year and save a little less 1” him to brought Als. Ancient Saying The famous saying, “You can’t eat your cake and have it,” Is a quotation from a poem by George Herbert, the English poet, who was born in 1508 and who died In 1633. The poem, en- titled “The Size,” was published with many others after the poet's death, The exact quotation Is: “Wouldst thou both eat thy eanke and have it? Plantns, the Roman deamatist who fived more than 200 years before Christ, wrote something similar. He sald: “If you spend a thing you can not have It artillery, on market tractors miles per hour good roads that are on sand capable of beaches, In triangle tractor going shows a WOMEN DRIVERS MOST RELIABLE Science for Evidence to Support Idea. ase for this time is ialr, safet smgineer and xicab and fleet of ti National Safety air the man of the 1a Own d arguments that of woman i2 {ao more Hrove i Fosse driver idence the superiority and resor for the def His case is built up on ans sent the ese wers sentative men and ensure mente in by 108 repre number of women ers game besides verbal state 1 S00 commere al car drivers them whether they bel driver is in, he the On Wamans. Side. But the word of these mer reason” But Clair sees Ing women accident and license statistics, Women Drive Less. “The average woman drives many fewer miles thar average man,” he points out. “Thon. sands roil up tremendous a in mil 20, 30, even mon. “Much of men's driving Is ne sarily at the hazardous imum traffic con drive, ag a rul ure, for tours, “Thus not only the woman spend many fewer hours behind the wheel than the average man, but her mileage gures substantially lower.” Nevertheless, Clalr Insists, science and a newer logic prove women at least is as good a driver as man. the fallacy In exalt. drivers on the basis of tlonately the of commercial vehicles nnual 40 00 Aa miles being hours of max wonen &, OX losively for peas gestion, while convenience or for shopping does are British Building Wider Highways to Help State While gon » of the Individual states of this nation have almost as many motor cars ns England, the same can- not be said of the development of the local au ment from the national road fund. In return for this help, the government may acquire a belt of land a quarter of a mile wide along the course of new arterial roads 80 that the enhanced values developed will benefit the state, Special Headlight Now Shines Around Curves Hazards of driving the automobile at night are reduced by a special headlight so adjusted that a wide beam is projected to both slides of the road, without glare to approaching cars nnd with better Hlumination of the highways on curves, says Popular Mecoanies Magazine, The lamp pinin- ly shows the road before the driver turns, It Is not intended to take the place of the regular spot or head tights, but for speciubwervice on wind. ig roads. loads put on from 25 to ditches The They hs speed great speed, ve Heross throug! car Lo pass photograph Bracke: Holds Outboard Many camper puss up the pie of an 1 out board to carry it. a convenient nis if the motor bec no space shows sthod « motor withou any space, A fo the end of Wl. ATby 7a supported on if by wooden {ron front 12-inch oak kets bolted to the Two 1% hy i? Wooden Bracket Attached to Front End of Auto Holds Outboard Motor Proper Type Spark Plug Vital to Car Efficiency the Im- spark plugs Informing car owners of proper type obtain the perform. automobile, H tabes. zanna, engineer, says in part: “When a plug is too short it does not bring the firing points far enough # portance of in order to from an research best ance combustion chamber. Good mition under this condition is Im ble. The motor is bound to be h and Inefficient into the s too long extends firing chamber. This lower end of the plug to become overheated, resulting in ig niting the fuel too early. “The correct length of plug fits so that of the spark plug shell is just flush with the inside wal of the cylinder head and the spark gap extends beyond into the combus- tion chamber, “To get maximum power and effi. ciency from an engine it is absolutely necessary that the proper type spark plug be used, as recommended by the manufacturer's spark plug chart” od $1 HEE LHe use the the bottom AUTOMOBILE ITEMS : EEE EEN, Probably nothing ean run up more mileage and get nowhere than can a cruiging taxicab, . 8» Now that the season for skid chains is past, see that they are laid away in a place where they will not rust . » " Undoubtedly the cave man was oc casionally chased into his cave to seek refuge, but never bx someihing on wheels traveling at the rate of 40 miles an hour, . » - Women In Italy are showing an in- creased interest in driving their own cars, They may be seen attending lees tures and demonstrations, and many of them learn to be mechanics before they are drivers, . » There were no motor vehicles In Turkey prior to the World war, The registry at the present time Includes 6,000 passenger cars, 1.500 motor trucks and busses, 3,000 tractors and 4 motocycles, . Italy Bars Bargaining Tourists to Italy who fellow the ad viee given In guidebooks as to bargain BLOres ug shops, may now find it ver; difficult; if not impossible, to gel even a few cents taken off the prices asked, Following the revaluation of the lira, prices shopkeepers #1 making fixed of high-class Jewelry, pictures furni- be resorted obligatory on all # decree has been Issue Ouly in the viluubile ture, jo legally, Cine and antique may bargsining still No Brains “Who was that poor starved to death in Holly “He was a mind reader.” fellow wood 2" Life who DON'T suVer heada che $. those pains that Bayer Asp end in a hurry! 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