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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
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those pains that Bayer Asp
end in a hurry! Physicians
it, and approve its free
does not affect the heart, Eve
gist has but don't fail to ask the
druggist for Bayer, And don't take
any but the box that says Bayer, with
the word genuine printed in red;
Aspirin 19
the trade mark of
Barer Manufacture
of Monoaceticacidester of Balic
There was a jolly miller
Lived on the river Dee,
Who used to be quite
nervous,
As nervous as could be;
But now he seems quite
rested,
He never is upset;
They say he's taking
somelking;
It's SALICON, I bet.
SALICON has proved itself an of
fective remedy foroverwrought
nerves. It has a soothing effect, with.
out injury to the heart or stomach.
For instance—one or two SALICON
usually induce a natural,
sleep.
Temporary
”
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