STORY FROM THE START
a —
In the usually quiet home of
Rev. Mr. Tolliver of Red Thrush,
fowa, his motherless daughters,
Helen, Miriam and Ellen—"Gin-
ger Zlla"--are busy “grooming”
their sister Marjory for partici-
pation in the “beauty pageant™
that evening. With Eddy Jack-
son, prosperous young farmer,
her escort, Marjory leaves for
the anticipated triumph.
CHAPTER I—Continued
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While Ginger compinined, however,
she obligingly did her share of the
straightening, and the dusting, and
the rearranging.
“Nice sensible girls like ours, no
frills, no ncnsense, no put-on about
them. Work hard. Good natured
Easy to live with. But let a man
darken the horizon—disgusting. sim
ply disgusting. Do you understand it,
father?”
“Well, perhaps—at least, | am used
to it,” he evaded adroitly.
Helen, returning, laughed good
naturedly. “Now, now, little one.
don’t be jealous,” she said.
“Jealous—jealous! Me, Jealous?
Jealous of a—a male school teacher?”
Helen frowned. “Father, I wish
sou wouldn't let her say ‘male school
teacher’ in that Insulting manner. A
professor of mathematics whhb two de
grees is not the same as a male school
teacher. And besides, as you know
very well, he Isn't going to teach for
ever. He Is going to write textbooks.”
“Textbooks! But they've already
got textbooks. Don’t tell me they're
going to discover more mathematics to
make us learn.”
“Ginger, don't talk so loud, for gond
ness sake. He'll be here in 2 minute
Sh! Here he 18."
“Disgusting — simply disgusting.”
Ginger buried hersel! once more Ip
the despised paper.
tlorace Langley came in, greeted
Helen with a perfunctory, before-the
family kiss, and shook hands with Mr
Tolliver,
“What's the matter with Ginger?”
Ginger looked up. “Oh, bello—are
you here? | was just Interested in-—
uh,” she stole 8 look at the paper
“what Lloyd George sald to the Elks
~] mean, to Coolidge.” She nudged
her father with a sharp tittle elbow
“Ellen, suppuse we run down and
have a cream cone?! | feel quite
fatigued with the strain of living up
the Marjory's beauty. Won't you
come along, Miriam? Helen, why
don’t you and Horace come, too?”
“Oh, | dont think so, father. Not
this time, thanks. You go. And do
keep an eye on Ginger. She's so apt to
break out unexpeciedly, you know.”
Jut Ginger, disdaining answer, with
great hauteur led the way down the
flagstone path that curled through the
green grass.
CHAPTER II
ft was a pleasant house, the old
brown Methodist parsonage at Hed
Thrush, lowa. While it was old In
point of years, It was not called the
old parsonage for its age, but because
a new one was in projection.
It is true that it boasted all modern
improvements, but they were Im
Jrovements so obviously added to carer
fo a progressive generation that they
fitted but inharmoniously into its gen
eral cortour, The batkroom had been
painstakingly Installed In a corner
bedroom. Electricity had been wired
in, at as little expense as possible. A
furnace had been introduced into a
cellar room, and at that time, to fa
cilitate the piping, the parthion be
tween parlor and sitting room had
been removed to make one iarge liv.
ing room, in strict conformity with
the style,
it was the living room which boasted
the second charm of the old house
in the form of « circular stalrease ris
ing grandly from the back of the
room. Perhaps, In the most technical
phraseology. it was tot altogether a
circalar staircase, but it curved grace
fully upward, and gave the same
effect. The girls loved it
But where the old parsonage was
merely of a drab pleasantness, the
pew one was to He a mwouel of modern
architecture, It was to have electric
refrigeration—a parsonage! Only five
houses In Bed Thrush had electric re
frigeration—the new parsonage would
be the sixth.
In the true sense of the “Discipline,”
the old parsonage was no parsonage at
all. It was merely a house, owned by
& member, and rented to the church
for its pastoral use for ten dollars a
month. The Methodist church bad
thrust its small spire above the sur
rounding maples woes there were no
more than a dozen houses In the
township, a staunch little testimony
to the indefatigable determination of
early Methodism. The bullding Itself
bad vot been much Io its best days,
by Ethel Hueston
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and was nothing at all in these, (ts
worst ones. As anything but a church
it would have been abandoned for
practical purposes years ago.
It was the growing realization--and
it takes a church group many years to
grow up to this realization—aof the
nboslute need for more ample accom
modations that brought Mr. Tolliver
to Red Thrush. The district super
intendent had been asked to pick out
a “hustier” to put the pew church
over on the congregation. Mr. Tol
liver was known as = hustler, and so
he cnme with his four daughters to
the shabby brown parsonage in the
maple grove beside the old brown
church,
It was the nervous strain of over
work attendant upon hustling the new
church into Red Thrush that foally
resulted In 2 nervous reaction and
physical wearing down which led wi
last to temporary blindness, a cloud
over his eyes, a thick mist fogging his
vision. Rest, the specinlists In Chi
cago sald he needed, good food, good
alr, a general buildiog-up. The eyes
Sr] — Vl
it Was a Pleasant Mouse, the Old
Brown Methodist Parsonage at Red
Thrush, lowa,
would be all right, wheg he was all
right. He must take It easy for »
while. And so his eyes were cars
fully bandaged from even the faintest
light, to insure complete relaxation
and freedom from strain, but his en
tire system must guin strength lo
order to feed strength to the weak.
ened members. His body must rest
His mind must rest. [lis intense and
eager spirit must rest,
But before this catastrophe, the
church was an assured fact. Within
a few weeks, by the first of Septem
ber at latest, it would be ready for
its formal opening. The new par
sonage existed io blue print. After
all, a few months of blindness was a
small price to pay for this achieve
ment.
Freedom from worry, the doctors
promised, complete rest and mental
ease would soon restore his sight, and
Mr. Tolliver, although greatly haadl
capped In his work, cid not worry as
to the final outcome, True, upon his
first visit to the doctors, some three
months previous, they had thought a
month's time would be amply suffi
cient for his recovery, and at the end
of the month the mist was still dark
upov him. Another month, and still
the mist. He should have returned
some days ago for a third examina
tion and treatment, but the financial
situstion In the parsonage was such
as to render this Impssible. (le told
himself there was no hurry, he would
go soon. For what with the travel
and hotel expenses, and medical treat.
ments, the burden of his misfortune
was more financial than physical,
But all this was only for a short
time. When the new church wus a
fact accomplished, he felt It would
be easler for his ardent spirit to find
the rest that would wean restoration
for his eyen. He felt no sort of re-
sentment for hig affliction. He got on
very well, The girls were good, they
helped "im greatly, The members
were patient, full ot sympathy, be-
cause they loved him. He knew his
Bible from cover to cover, and his
every thought was centered upon his
work. so that his sermons did oot
deteriorate. Just a little rest, free
dom from killing worry. If only there
were more money!
If the girls felt anxiety on his ac-
count, bravely they gave no sign. A
hundred dollars a month Is pot a
great deal of money on which to sup-
port a family and malnwals three
daughters In school. And Ar. Tolliver
had never relinquished h's old custom
of tithing-—a tenth of his mite for the
Lord. If sometimes the girls felt that
ten dollars a month could betler be
spared from the church than trom the
parsonage, that the Lord in His afMu.
ence might better be deprived than
the pastor in his poverty, they did
pot complain, Ellen thought shout It,
of course, for she was turhuent,
given to turbulent thoughts. It was
her birth which had cost the home
its mother, Perhaps It was sorry
knowledge of what she had cost the
family that stirred her to a great
eagerness to do something for them,
that determined her to carry life be
fore her with a high and triumphant
hand. (Perhaps It was only her youth,
for she was not yet seventeen. It was
for this turbulence ot hers that she
wing known as Ginger Ella.
Helen, who was twenty-three years
old, after two years of traning at the
normal school, had served for two
years as ® teacher ib a neighboring
town, Her small check coming Inio
the parsonage every month hud meant
something almost akin to richness,
until the unaccustomed expense of
medical treatments hond made such
vorucious demands upon them. Now
the twins niso were ready te go into
the pormal school for training in the
full, Ginger felt that it was 8 real
extravagunce ou the part of the fam-
lly to assume the expense ol educnt.
ing Marjory 10 teach school. That
muney might better be saved Mar.
jory was beautiful. The obvious end
of beauty is marriage to great for
tune. From her earliest childhood,
in her queer, small heart, Ginger Ella
had sacredly dedicated her beamiful
sister to that high estate. Bhe would
enrich the family by marriage.
In her inexperienced youth, Ginger
divided all men broadly into three
general groups-—reguiar men, romantic
figures and base pretenders [legular
wen were (ike her father, settled aur.
bane, and immune to sex. Like Eddy
Jackson. Clinger called him a regular.
Eddy Jackson had been one of thelr
first friends when the Tolllvers cume
to Hed Thrush fle was a farmer
Not “hat Ginger called what Eddy
Juckson Jid farming The relghbors
did oot call it that, either, Clinger
Ella called Wt playing. hey called
it kidgloving Eddy Jackson was an
agriculturist, an experimentalist. He
wins of the pew school, one of those
who studies the land as a8 mechanic
studies his tools The neighbors
Inughed at what they called his high.
dinkuses—hut the fact thar he made,
in spot cash, every yeur, nearly twice
sume amount of land, gave him 4
certain authority among them. They
sald he was lucky, but they went to
him for advice
There was a long tow bullding on
his farm which Ginger culled the
sacred shed Eddy Juckson called {t
the lub.
and plates und curious tubes and
queer liquids and funny title boxes
and bottles and cans of sand and soll,
Eddy Jackson did strange things.
with soil. with seeds and sprouts.
Often, during the summer, young
men, students from the sidie univer.
sities, came and stayeqg at the farm—
which Eddy called Pay
hobnobbed about with him fruternally.
But when Edds told them to do any-
thing, they obeyed as If they were
servants. And so they were, But
not thé servants of Eddy Jackson
servants of the soil, ¢f the state, the
great farming state of lowa.
S80 Eddy Jackson, for all his youth
and his sometimes flippant way of
denling with serious subjects, titted
into Ginger's classification as regular
~just like her father. Ue never
wased sentimental, He never suc
cumbed to what she bitterly termed
“pawing.” Ue went nbom with Helen
until Professor Langley attained the
heights of monopoly in her time as
well us her affection, and then he
obligingly transferred his attentions
to the twins, taking them Inter
changeably according to the oceasion,
or both together, and sometimes. al
though che always protested, Ginger
herself.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
sss isis ps si
An ex-convict who spent 15 terms
in prison, recently visited the office of
the London Daily Chronicle, and left &
letter purporting to reveal a se ret
method of Invisible writing by menns
of which prisoners were able to vom
municate with friends outside. In the
letter he claims that this was the
method employed by two prisoners
who committed suicide, when, as stated
at the time, they were able to send
a request to friends to forward them
poisoned sandwiches under the sys
tem which enables prisoners on re
mand to receive food from outside
The letter continues: “In this letter
is the method under which they sent
out thelr messages, Can you find ty”
ible” Writing
The explanation and a test of the trick
were finally volunteered. In the blank
spaces of the letter the ex-convict had
penned an Invisible message by dip
ping the pen nib In his mouth and
writing with saliva. Lightly done, this
cannot be geen by the naked eye. To
reveal the writing all that had to be
done Is to rub ordinary Ink over the
blank space, blot In quickly and the
invisible words stand out like ordinary
penmanship.
. Steady Hand
If you want a standardized worker
eall Mr. Robin, He has heen digging
worms the same way since the lee
age.~Capper's Weekly,
Heavy Borders, Deep Cuffs
Now Prominent; Many
Colors Shown.
This season the formal coat will
figure more prominently In the day-
time ‘mode than it has for years and
should logienlly be chosen before any
other part of the costume, including
the Scandinavian gloves, observes a
fashion writer In the New York
World.
Since the shops are perfectly well
aware of this situation they are
bringing over many more coats at this
season than dresses or nccessories and
you may find many of the Paris cre.
ations represented in your favorite
store,
Quite a large number of the coats
are long, even judged by the stand
ards of this season, and will cover
the dress completely by means of a
low, even hemline, There are some
stralghtline coats made In the wrap:
around manner, us well as many
more formal models made on high-
walsted lines and trimmed with any
of the short, curly furs like
krimmer and earacul,
besides broadcloth and other dull
fabrics, a great number of tweeds are
being shown and the use of this fab.
ric for coats that will be worn with
quite formal afternoon dresses of
silk Is one of those tendencies that
is worth mention.
One extremely interesting model of
a Rodier black nnd white tweed Is
fitted to the figure by means of in
genious diagonal seamings and has
os its sole trimming, a white galyak
eonlinr: the ends are pointed and one
passes through a buttonhole in the
other to make an Irregular version
of the butterfly bow,
Another interesting tweed of the
ostrich fleck category has deep cuffs
of omhre Persian lamb and a tuxedo
fur collar of the sort that goes ex-
travagantly down to the hem,
Coats in Dark Shades.
Many of the coats which appear In
solid colors are In dark shades,
trimmed with very light furs. Furs,
indeed. are being used to an extent
that should have an eventual effect
on the Inws, and your chances
for picking up a coat for a song or
two are radically reduced. The Pa
quin convertible shawl collar man.
ages to combine many pelts of the
smaller animals and will be so pop
ular as to send the prices of a whole
division of the coats soaring. Little
fur, however, will be used for heavy
borders or for those deep cuffs which
all wenr
driving
one
nme
rule out possibility of the
her
are
era own
All colors seen, The
belief that some colors go definitely
out of style Is largely a delusion
Hright navy, particularly when nsed
in combination with black fur, prom
: green with brown for will
much worn, and bright clear
rticylnrly with biack four and
will be a good fashion of
women with limited In.
: the effect
one's nature of wearing a red
day a whole season would
cnr
of course,
isex well
he very
rod, pa
which
young
on
coit every
One of the Interesting brightly-col.
ored conts Is of green leda cloth with
eollar of Hudson seal snd
inches shove the edge. This
is distinguished hy a very Im
little bow of the cloth which
Diagonal Bands, Slightly Fitted to
Figure, Suggest High-Waist Effect.
appears In the front at the point
where the collar crosses when it Ix
worn open.
For the woman with sedate tastes,
black Is still considered a very chic
choice for afternoon conts. One
smart model Is of broadcloth with
black Persian Mmb making a nar
row tuxedo collar and forming the
entire wrap-around skirt—a fancy
which you may Invest in with the
full assurance that it will never be
copled, since Persian lamb runs into
Mig money.
il
-
In the matter of linings, you will
find that the new vogue for silk
dresses nnd cloth coats has affected
the old tendency to match the lining
to the dress during daytime hours. A
few coats have woolen linings to ac.
company dresses of kasha or Jersey,
but the majority of the linings are
meticulously matched to the coats
themselves.
Other Furs for Winter.
Another fur which promises well for
next winter is known as mink gills
It kas a striking brown and white
pattern suggestive of the streaks in
royal ermine and Is made up into a
number of sports coats of the flaring
variety, which must be held closed.
Mink locks Is another new fur and
appears in a soft dark brown with no
bizarre streakings. It is used for a
Coat of Black Broadcloth, Wrap-
Around Skirt of Persian Lamb,
daytime dress you could possibly own.
3oth mink gills and locks are sald to
have all the sturdy wearing qualities
of mink itself and they are absurdly
less expensive.
Ermine will be another highlight,
in all-white for limousine night club
wear, and in the beige tones for day.
time. Summer ermine does nol tum
white when the snow falls, as one in.
genious lady protested; it Is slightly
less handsome than the fur technienl-
iy known.as Manchurian weasel or
Chinese ermine which also comes In
tones of yellow and brown Greige
ermine will be worn about this winter
and uniess you choose the old
royal variety with black talls, you can
hardly go wrong with this fur.
Another new pelt which the
genious trade has thought up for
is known as kit caracul
resemblance at all to
It is as thin and
luster sur
100,
in-
season
bears no
usual curly carncul.
soft as velvet and has a
prising in any fur.
The majority of Lelong's afternoon
conts are of the same type that were
his big success last season. They are
straight and slim to just below the hip
line, then flare out by means of a
binsed flounce that is slightly longer
nt the back. This, too,
many of the wraps that he suggests
Godets Placed at Front.
Evening dresses at Lelong's adhere
to no definite rule as to the length of
skirt or position of waistline. It
would be incorrect to report Lelong
as going in heavily for skirts that are
jong all the way around, yet there are
many of these in the new collection.
ground In the back. But
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Not to the swift the race; pot te
the strong the fight:
Not to the righteous perfect grace”
not to the wise the light;
But often faltering feet come sur
est to the goal;
And they who walk in darkness
meet the sunrise of the soul,
A thousand times by night the Syri«
an hosts have died:
A thousand times the vanguished
right hath risen glorified,
-Henry Van Dyke.
“ THIS AND THAT
Today with all the modern con
venlences and plenty of leisure for
some mothers, the ques-
tion is not what shall
the average mother do
with her leisure, but
how may she obtain a
little,
It may seem improb-
able to the class that has
leisure, to realize that
there are countless num-
bers’ who have none, in spite of the
fact that the world 8 full of abor-
saving devices, We need not go to
the tenement districts of large cities
nor to the slums (so-called) to find
leisureless women-~the country is fuil
of them—on the little farms where
wood and water must be carried In,
as well as its waste carried out ; moth-
ers of little children work from sun
to sun with work never done, until
the joy of living Is completely crushed
out of them. What a marvelous uplift
this world might have, If the leisare
women might share a little of the
burden of those who never knew the
Joy of a vacation. Share It without
making the other feel that she was
accepting charity,
In some little towns there {8 a
is that one day or half! day
week, one upeighbor takes
charge of the children of another or
more, a8 she can manage. This gives
one n free time to go shopping, visir-
ing or to do anything that she chooses
und she takes her turn with the chil
dren on a day when she can best look
after them.
How many people with roomy cars
might give an afternoon to help some
little pleasure. “here
auto in the town,
With running water and a bath
burdened mother finds it les.
as well as weariness,
nerves of the mother
well as restiess children, Before
the auto is bought the house should
and a washing machine,
then when the time comes for the
auto, there will be leisure to enjoy it.
After a hard day in the bome for
the housewife or on the farm or in
the shop, for the father, a ride In the
cool of the evening will bring a peace
and calm that will induce sleep and
one will rise refreshed and ready for
ansther busy day.
Hints About Foods.
Unless you are sure of a mild, well
flavored vinegar, the lemon affords the
best of acids for dainty
salads and other things,
like pudding sauces,
Practically all chefs dis-
card vinegar and use the
“witching drop of lemon
juice” because it gives a
more exquisite flavor,
New York Salad.—Ar
range slices of pineapple
on tender lettuce leaves,
in the center heap ten-
On each pineapple
and that—short at the front, then sud-
the peacock effect that is a character.
istic Lelong feature.
Plain colored velvets, satins and
lame fabrics are outstanding in the
Lelong collection, as far as formal
clothes are concerned. In printed vel
vets he shows some new patlerns-—
big, looge flowers in even colors and
wide-apart patterns that give the fiat.
ness of wallpapers. Lame is made up
with the duller side out.
There are two tulle dresses that
strike » new line. The fullness of the
skirt is put in, below the hipline, in
all membrane,
french dressing.
Oranges are always in the market.
Make and serve an orange shortcake
Sarve with
again. Serve the oranges, after cut-
ting into small pieces, covered with
sugar for an hour. Pour over well
buttered, hot baking powder biscuit
cut into halves. A sweet cake for the
shortcake Is not as tasty as the bak.
ing powder hiscuit mixture.
Fruit Cup.—~Take one cupful of
skinned, seeded white grapes and the
membrane from a cupful of orange
sections. Mix all together with a cup-
ful of pineapple dice, one-half cupful
each of orange juice and pineapple
sirup. Add a few grains of salt and
sugar If needed. Put into a freezer
plaits, The skirts of both reach
nearly to the floor.
With this new program of special
clothes for the afternoon, there is no
suitable name for daytime dresses not
in that category. “Morning clothes”
they are called In France. But In
clothes. In these, Lelong sticks main
garnished with a maraschino cherry.
Baked Ginger Bread With Apples.
Cut five large apples ‘nto eighths, re-
move skin and seeds. Cook in a sirup
fourth cupful of water until the apples
are halt done. Drain and place them.
over the bottom of a buttered pan,
Pour gingerbread mixture over them
d bake in a moderate oven. Serve
with whipped cream.
as he says, “the style is said to begin |
in the thread.”
Often as not, two textures are used,
one for the cont and one for the dress, |
|
Ike, with small eollars, If any, of flat
furs. ‘The dresses show a belted-in
ab the back. The fuliness Is concen.
trated In a center-front godet that
cupful of brown sugar, one
ful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful
of ginger, one-half teaspoonful of sal,
one and one-half cupfuls of strained
pumpkin, two eggs slightly beaten and
one and one-half cupfuls of milk, one
Mec Wroseorior