I STORY FROM THE START
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In the usually quiet home of
Rev. Mr. Tolliver of Red Thrush,
1 Towa, his motherless daughters,
Helen, Miriam and Ellen—"Gin-
ger Ella"-are busy “grooming”
their sister Marjory for partici-
pation In the "beauty pageant™
that evening. With Eddy Jacke
son, prosperous young farmer,
her rscort, Marjory leaves for
the anticipated triumph, Over
work has affected Mr. Tolliver's
eyes to the point of threatened
blindness, Ginger has tried in
many ways to add to the family's
slender income, but she Is not
discouraged. Marjory wins the
beauty prize, $50.00. She glves
the money to her father as part
of the expense necessary for the
treatment of his eyes by Chicago
specialists,
CHAPTER III—Continued
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This one small section of the house
from the very beginning of thelr res)
dence, was Ginger's own, It was difli
cult of approach, for there were no
stairs leading to it, and sole admis
sion was by means of a wubbly old
ladder of six rounds, which, carefully
balanced against the wall at the end
of the upper hall, led to the trapdoor
which opened upward into the artic
Ginger loved the attic most of all for
its inaccessibility. The trapdoor,
which swung on a hinged lock and had
to be pushed upward with one hand,
was no obstacle, but an added charm
in her eyes. On’ the attic side of the
door, she had, with her own hands,
driven a big staple, added another hook,
and when she went thither on matters
of any special moment, she locked It
furtively behind ber.
The studio was her sacred retreat,
and on this particiiar Sunday after
noon she had a definite motive in re
tirement, for she sought the guidance
of the Muses, Ginger had made a
find. Eddy Jackson had brought to
the parsonage, as a Saturday gift
from his mother, 8 jar of preserved
peaches wrapped in an old page of the
New York World. Helen had crum:
pled it lightly into the waste basket,
where the sharp eye of Ginger Ella
had espled it, whence her greedy fin-
gers had rescued It. And from It she
learned, to her delight, that the New
York World would pay five dollars
each for the Bright Sayings of Chil
dren.
One of Ginger's great grievances In
life was the tendency of her sisters
to recall, and repeat, smart sayings
of her own none-too-remote childhood
Such repetition redoced her to abject
and helpless fury. But she noted
that the auditors always laughed, am.
ple proof of the presence of humor
She cast about in her memory for the
most amusing of these pseudo laugh
producers, and unable to discover
merit by her own jndgment, she hit
upon the one that had produced the
greatest gales of merriment. Merely
changing names and relationships
from her own and Helen's to that of
a mother and daughter, she wrote:
“Mrs. Ingraham spent an entire
afternoon assisting a aeighbor to cut
out and fit a gown, and when the gar
ment was entirely finished, she wished
to make payment for the time con
sumed. ‘Oh, no, said Mrs Ingraham
pleasantly, ‘l shall oot take a cent
pr it. 1 did it entirely out of friend
ship.” The neighbor was insistent, but
Mrs. Ingraham remained firm, and
would not take the money. At last
she turned to Alice, Mrs Ingraham's
small daughter standing oear, and
sald, ‘Alice. tell me, tow can | make
your mother take this five dollars
which she haa fully earned? Alice
considered a orument, and then an
nounced gravely, ‘You might give It
to me, and she will borrow it.” "
Ginger wrote, corrected, and copled.
Then she read it, dis asteful'y “it's a
domb thing.” she thought frowningly
But the memory of unfailing laughter
encournged her, and she (folded fit
neatly, tucked It into an envelope, and
addressed it in a firm large hand.
At six o'clock, the girls came to
gether in the kitchen where they hur
riedly set out a light supper, in order
to be at church again at seven for the
meeting of the Epworth league. Mr.
Tolliver did not attend this, as it was
a service especially calculated to en
courage and train the younger mem:
bers of the congregation in active par
ticipation, and he inclined to the belief
that they took part with more free
dom in his absence, @
On Monday afternoon, at one
o'clock, the anxious little family gath
ered in the living room to say good-by
to Mr. Tolliver and Miriam, starting
for Chicago. Such tremendous issues
were involved in this small journey
Perhaps he would return without the
hated glasses, perhaps the dear tired
eyes would see once more the love
that shone in theirs. Perhaps the
dreaded operation would be declared
inevitable. Perhaps things would just
drag on and on, month after month, as
they had dragged in the past
They went out to the veranda,
Miriam leading the way with the light
bag. Her father reached for it, strug
gled with her playfully for possession
of it. She tucked her hand into his
arm, looking back. The girls smiled
at her, she smiled in return. Thelr
smiles were sad, their father could
not see the smiles. Their young eyes
yearned with pala. Their father
could not see the yearning. tle waved
# hand at them In bilthe farewell,
“Be good girls, Elien don't let any.
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body else go man-mad while 1 am
away.”
“You must mean Miss Jenkins, She
is the only one left.”
Light words they were, and gay
volces, for their father heard.
But Miss Jenkins, unaccountably,
without a word, detached herself from
the cluster of girls and ran gp to him.
She threw both arms about his shoul.
ders, and kissed him on both cheeks
“Be careful, oh, be careful,” she
said, and her face worked with emo
tion.
In the dramatic silence which fol.
towed this unexpected outburst, Mi
riam’s light hand led her father away.
“Why—my dear—" gasped [elen
“Why, why—"
“Oh, the poor, brave, dear, afflicted
soul,” wept Miss Jenkins. “Going
away lke that—with fust that help-
fess young girl to look after him. |
shouldn't have permitted it. 1 should
have gone myself.”
“Oh, Miriam is very capable, She
has always gone before, She will take
care of him.”
3ut Miss Jenkins, still weeping,
without a word, pulled away from ber
Ginger Wrote, Corrected, and Copled
Then She Read it, Distastefully.
“it's a Dumb Thing.”
and hurried down the #agstone path
toward her own home.
Ginger's eyes were stormily reflec
tive,
“H'm,” she muttered. “H'ml—
Man-mad. The darn thing's catching.’
Later that afternoon, Eddy Jackson
calling by telephone, got Ginger on
the wire
“Have you anyone there who would
tike a little beauing?” be inquired
teasingly.
“Marjory would like it, | suppose.
but ‘I'm bere to see that she doesn’t
get it"
“Miriam there?”
“No, she has gone to Chicago with
father. Helen has gone driving, and
for dinner, with the mathematical
squire, and won't be home until late.
Margie's here, I'm bere, and If you
want to hold hands we can get Miss
Jenkins.”
“l don't. But | have a chap here
man | met in Chicago a long time ago
~pretty oice fellow-lives In New
York—just back from a (wo years
tour of the world and all points east
"thought perhaps Marjory might take
him on for the evening but since
Miriam is away, you would have to
girl-friend me”
Even over the telephone Eddy could
feel the sudden avarice In Ginger's
voice, the covetous glitter of her
bright eyes, the guile In her fiying
thoughts, New York-—Chicago-around
the world—
“Why, Eddy—~of course! I'd love to.
Marjory will adore itr—me, too. You
know | always enjoy you, Eddy, you've
got so much sense.”
“We'll breeze in about eight. then.”
Ginger flew up the stairs. “Margie,
Margie,” she called. *“Quick-put on
the dress”
Marjory’s calm was maddening. She
was manicuring ber pink nails. She
looked up evenly, looked down, con
tinued to polish
“The dress—the dress! He is from
New York, and Eddy Jackson Is
bringing him to-—-to look at you.
Around the world, my dear, two years
of it—and that takes money! He's
used to people dressing up for dinner
every single night, | dare say he'll
mean dress suit. [ll put on Helen's
Alice-blue organdie, it just fits me."
Marjory considered. The mere joy
of dressing was a point In favor,
“Well, I don’t know. | dare say it
would be all right. Lots of folks do
dress for dinner.”
“Oh, darling, how good of you, I'll
the work. We'll be having
after-dinnar coffee by the floor lamp.”
“Bat we haven't the right cups—"
“We're going to borrow the gold set
out of Helen's hope chest. The set
the Gleaners gave her for Christmas.”
“If we break one of those gold
cups—"
“We won't. And if that dumb-belf
of an Eddy Jackson gives us away-—
'il—=I'lil— Hurry, darling, and put on
the dress. [I'll fix things downstairs.”
Ginger sped away to don her sis
ter's organdie before she carefully re
moved the frail golden dishes from
among the wedding treasures in her
sister's chest, and carried them gin-
gerly down the stairs.
When, some sixty minutes later,
ddy Jockson appeared In the open
doorway with hig customary blithe,
“Hello, everybody,” a ravishing vision
presented liself. Marjory. lovely,
laughing, sat among the cushions in
the wide couch by the floor lamp, with
a delicate cup polsed between her
white dngers. At her side. with the
shining array of the golden coffee
set on a small table close at her hand,
was Ginger In blue organdie.
“Come in,” she called brightly. “We
are having our coffes slowly, s0 you
can join us”
“Coffee? Oh,
volce
i see™
but,
indeed.
was enigmatical,
Eddy's
introduce his friend,
though neither garbed on
mals, He was very tall, with a great
ease of manner and complete self-pos.
Ginger could have danced with joy.
She poured the coffee with fingers
creet proprietary glances ai
to make sure that she remnined viv
terribly a1 Eddy Jackson on the side.
carfously on his large hand. and emp
requesting more, and again mora
Alexander Muriock, on
figure, bandied his =ith an ease a
Ginger flashed triumph a
“You see!” her expression proclaimed
“Just as | told you!
—yet, Mr. Murdock,” she sald
ture was a mere matier of days
must be very fascinating”
land,” volunteered
we were born.”
“For myself,” continueu Ginger,
pausing for a light touch of her lips
to the rim of the golden cup, for she
abhorred black coffee, “1 should not
care so much to do the Holy land. |
want to go to Paris and see Mont
martre, and the boulevards, and the
Follies, they don't have things like
that in the Holy land. How long are
sou to be In Red Thrush, Mr. Mur
dock?”
“Oh, some weeks, i fancy.” He sald
“fancy.” In the Middle *West, “i
think™ and “1 dare say” are quite com
mon, while “1 guess” and “1 reckon”
are aot altogether unknown. “1
fancy” is an affectation in any but a
romantic figure,
“Do let me 6
cooed.
“You see,” continued the low, slow
voice, “1 wok on @& job today, and
shall go to work tomorrow.”
Ginger leaned forward. She did not
breathe, Oh, if be could but be presi.
dent of the bank where the Tubby in-
dividual aspired to licking stamps.
“What—what profession"
“The D and R. You know, the
little Orange and Black chain grocery
store on the corner of Main and
Broadway.”
{TO BE CONTINUED)
Marjory,
sour cup,” she
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The oldest Greek statute now ex-
tant, governing the disposition of
“real” property, comes from the Is
tand of Crete. This is the law of the
city of Gortyna, dating from perhaps
B. C. 400. This inscription, the larg.
est existing frogment of any Greek
law, came to light less than fifty years
ago: for the stones on which it was
chiseled had been buried for 2,000
years or more and Its discovery made
a sensation In the learned world. It
was about thirty feet long In its orig.
inal form; the broken pleces are now
scattered In several museums,
These laws show that more than
2,000 years ago women in this Cretean
city could own property. Moreover,
the law provided that a husband could
not sell or morigage his wife's prop
erty, nor could a son dispose of his
mother's property. If a mother dies,
gays this ancient statute on property,
and leaves children, the father has
power over her property, but he can
not sell it or mortgage it unless the
children consent, when they come of
age. Moreover, if the, father marries
another woman after the first wife's
death, the children of the first wife
shall have power over their mother's
property. Penalties are provided for
the violation of any of these pro
viglons.
Patriotism may be mere habit,
Afternoon Frocks
Popular in Paris
Formal Wear for Daytime
Displayed by All Paris
Dressmakers.
Fashions are Interesting the whole
year round, but in the fall they be-
come exciting. One feels a sense of
keenest expectancy everywhere—in
the shops, at the wholesalers and; of
course, first and foremost at the Parl-
sian dressmakers.
Just what will be offered for the
winter months and out of what Is
offered, what will be the mode ac-
cepted by smart women? For, of
course, clever as Paris is In the de-
signing of new costumes, writes a
fashion correspondent in the Louls-
ville Courler-Journal, there are some
fashions displayed which are never ac-
cepted to any great extent. Many of
these come into prominence a year
later than their first launching. Still
others find acceptance In France yet,
for some subtle, bard-to-explain rea-
son, are practically never seen on this
side of the Atlantie,
Of course this same expectancy
and excitement are present also in the
spring when the clothes for summer
are making their appearance, but
Satin, Showing High Waistline.
Summer
but as
less importance
Especially
is this true this season when formal-
ity is everywhere evident as the key:
pote of the welldressed woman's
wardrobe, The ddy Is gone when the
simple straight-line sports frock was
donned early In the morning and worn
until one dressed for dinner, Today
the fashionable woman includes in her
wardrobe a dress for every occasion.
Formal afternoon frocks are seen at
every Paris dressmaker's opening,
proof that they will be found wherever
well-dressed women congregate this
winter,
Richness of fabric, elaboration of
cut and trimming and formality of
fine are everywhere and promise to
lend to the winter mode a color and
richness which has been long absent,
The spotlight of attéhtion has for
some seasons past been focussed on
the waistline. Would it remain low?
Would it become only slightly higher?
Would it practically disappear? Would
it take its place at the normal waist
line.
The answer, as given almost unan-
imously by the Paris dressmakers in
their winter openings, seems to be
that the normal waistiine has ceased
to be rumor and has become an ac
complished fact. No longer are we
content with the top of the hip bone,
or a bit an inch higher than last sea.
son. ‘The die is cast, apparently, and
Paris promises us that we are again
to put our belts where nature placed
our walstlines,
And yet we may say a word to
the woman to whom a high waist
line is not becoming. All the styles
this season are susceptible to indi
vidual adaptation. Skirts are longer,
but If the very long skirt Is unbecom-
ing one may wear a shorter one and
still be smart.
present In far less degree,
clothes are delightful,
position of
® Ba oan
LI
Thin, Supple Furs to
Have Call for Winter
8oft, new furs that may be handled
almost like broadcloth are being
sought by dealers for fashionable use
this winter,
The new flexible furs, says Harper's
Bazar, may be quite bumble in origin,
like the chevrette or young goat,
which is made inte simple sports mod:
els: or they may be the exquisite
broadtails which a combination of art
and science is constantly making thin.
ner and finer. A noted Parisian fur
rier Is quoted as predicting that the
vogue for cheap furs of the leading
rabbit family ls definitely over, and
the leading furs of the winter will be
ermine, mink and breitschwanz, and,
after them, sealskin in tie best qual:
ity and Persian lamb,
That the publle schools have found
it necessary to assume a part of the
responsibility of the health education
of the child in the grades would Indi-
cate that many of us forget that as
fong as there are young children in
the family, positive health must al-
ways be an familly objective,
Washable silks for youngsters are
practical for play frocks as well as
for dress, and in the new colors may
be harmonized with the wool coat.
There are quaint floral prints, geo-
metrics and “tie silk” designs that
have an all-over effect. African
browns, henna reds, bright blues and
all the nuances of tan will be popular
this fall. There are pastels, too, and
many of the nasturtium sbades are
becoming to youngsters,
acquainted with
faculty this year if you
before, Meeting them at
gether meeting of the Parent-Teach-
ers’ assoclation isn't enough: to es-
tablish the most thorough understand
ing all around, you should invite your
children’s teachers to visit your home,
Get school
never have
the get-to-
the
A well-balanced breakf
long way toward inducing a regular
visit to the bathroom before school—a
vital factor In %eeping a child phys-
jeally and mentally alert. When you
establish a regular, morning visit to
the bathroom you are inculeating a
health habit that will stand your
child In good stead for life.
When hungry, the
and whines continually,
he becomes content
ing ceases.
ast will go a
baby is fretful
and when fed
again and his cry-
His hunger may not be
due only to the lack of food, but
also to irregularity of feeding. If the
child Is pins fed again in one hour
and then allowed to sleep from four
to eix hours, he is certain to awaken
bungry and will develop a habit of
erving constantly in order to be fed.
The training to regularity
of nursing during the first twenty
days of life Is most important—both
for the sake of the baby and for the
sake of the mother, infin.
ences the comfort of the whole family
for the next year to come. f the
baby is so trained that he does not
awaken at any time than his
regular nursing hours, he will give to
the mother time for her household
duties, Including the routine of his
care. The proper hours for nursing
must be deterinined upon and then the
training of the baby begins
Parents will be most successful In
securing obedience or co-operation
from their children if they do net. Is
sure commands, do not
build op a discipline based on fear,
threat and physical punishment, but
treat their children as they them.
selves like to be treated-——as reason-
able human beings
Quaint Shoulder Cape
Noted in Coat Collars
collars of unique are
shown on some of the models
of the quaint little
worn years ago is seen in
the new collars, and the flat scarf collar
of a baby
since it
other
Coat shape
shoulder
tailored coats. A short fur scarf tied
in a bow at one side forms a chic fin-
{sh on the neck of one coat of formul
lines. Some models of the more elab-
orate sort are trimmed with a band
of fur down each side of the front.
and one
brown broadcloth having a high collar,
elbow length cuffs and a deep border
of fur around the bottom. This is
Children’s stomachs sour, and need
an antl-acid. Keep thelr systems
sweet with Phillips Milk of Magnesia!
When tongue or breath tells of acid
condition—correct it with a spoonful
of Phillips. Most men and women have
been comforted by this universal
sweetener—more mothers should In-
voke its ald for their children, It is a
pleasant thing to take, yet neutralizes
more acid than the harsher things too
often employed for the purpose. No
household should be without it,
Phillips is the genuine, prescrip.
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general use: the name is important,
“Milk of Magnesia” has been the U, 8,
registered trade mark of the Charles
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State of Satisfaction
“I always say my wife and 1 have
now reached the ideal marriage state”
“What mean by
do you ‘the idea!
“Well, my wife no longer worrjes
about the shape of my nose, 1 no
worry whether she does or
not!”
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Kidneys!
Scanty or Too Frequent
Excretions Demand Prompt
Attention.
IDNEY disorders are too seri-
ous to ignore. It pays to heed
the early signals. Scanty, burning
or too frequent kidney excretions;
a drowsy, listless feeling; lameness,
stiffness and constant backache are
timely warnings.
To e normal kidney ac
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cleansing your blood of poisonous
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“Pa, what is a highway?" asked the
kid. “It's space between billboards,
replied his dad —Cincionati Eo-
is shaped in the same manner,
ocean of life is filled with
that's why so many of us
The
breakers ;
go broke.
Seven-Eighths Length
Coat Is in Limelight
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Showing a smart tweed cnsemble
for fall. The coat features the seven.
eighths Jengih and is trimmed with a
raccoon collar.