FROM THE START
—
In the usually quiet home ol
Rev Mr. Tolliver of Red Thrush,
fowa, 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 Jack-
son, prosperous young farmer,
her escort, Marjory leaves for
the anticipated triumph. Overs
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 i» not
discouraged, Marjory wins the
beauty prize, $50 00 She gives
the money to her father as part
of the expense necessary for the
treatment of his eyes by Chicago
specialists, Mr. Tolliver leaves
for Chicago with Miriam. Gioger
meets Alexander Murdock. Mr.
Tolliver returns, the doctors giv.
ing him little hope.
STORY
CHAPTER IV—Continued
—
“And everybody who buys one, will
sell four more—"
“And it all started from one.
single, solitary, little one.”
The girls taiked on and on. But
Ginger drew herself away from them
sat enwrapped in unpenetrable chought
She remembered the old chaln let
ters They had. come with some fre
quency 8 few years ago, prayers for
almost everything, for the sick. for
foreign missions. for prohibition. for
fundamentalism, for the second com
ing of the Lord. for the reiease of
anarchistic prisoners condemned to
death—
“And everybody sends it on to so
many more, and every one of them
sends It to so many more, and they
send it"
Ginger got up suddenly and went
out of the room. She walked dizzily
She went upstairs. got the short lad
der from the linen closet, and bal
anced it against the wall ander the
trapdoor. She noticed that her hands
trembled. But she climbed carefully
~—the ladder was old—pushed up the
trapdoor, and pulied herself through
the opening. From foree of habit, for
she was not then thinking of trap
doors. she locked It behind her, and
made her way carefully over the
beams to her sanctuary ander the
dormer window. There she sat down
heavily, to think She thought, and
thought. and thought, antil Jer bright
eyes were so wide, so bright, so blue.
that of a sudden they seemed to hurt
her. and she shut them hard Her two
small hands were gripped so tightly
with fingers Interlaced so closely, that
suddenly she knew they were throb
bing with pain. half paralyzed, so that
she had to work thew apart. slowly
a finger at a time. Dut she did oot
stop thinking.
“hain letter—on and on-all over
the world—thousands snd thousands—
and nohody dares to stop because no
body would dare to break the chaln—
for the bhlind—a home for the blind—
on and on and on”
Suddenly Ginger burst Into low
nervous laughier, and laughed and
cried and twisted ber little hands. and
rocked back and forth on the stool
in an ecstasy.
“Oh, oh. how beavenly, how perfect
ily heavenly! 1 oever could have
thought of such a brilliant thing. Oh,
as tather says, | see the hand of the
Lord in this!”
She pulled the stool to the low table
which she used as a desk. and seated
hersell with a professional briskness
indicative of the oneness of purpose
which prompted her Selecting three
pencils from a large uumber In the
drawer sle sharpened them briskly
Then she drew her pad of paper
toward her. and opened It,
Then she studied intently, chewing
her pencil. She wrote a nasty line
and quickly scratched It out. Again
she wrote, agnin she frowningly dis
carded It Several times she re
pented this painful process. but at
inst, as so often happens, persistent
effort brought inspiration, and she
wrote fluently, without a pause for
thought.
“tur parsonage home for the bilnd
is sadly io need of funds to carry on
fts noble work. WIN you not con
tribute Ten Cents to this very worthy
couse? And complete the chain of
good vibrations by sending copies of
this letter to three of your friends in
whom you have conbdence? In this
way. this valuable institution will en
large its circle of friends aad will be
enabled to continue its enre of the un
fortunate and needy blind,
“We depend on you,
“Do not break the chain,
*B. Tolliver, treasurer,
“Red Thrush, lowa”
Ginger was greatly pleased with the
formal tone of this letter. She knew
very well that if she received such an
appeal, she would contribute gladly—
if she bad the money, She read It
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by Ethel Hueston
Ilustrations by
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over and over, adding a word, omit
ting a word, substituting a word, until
the final version seemed impossible of
improvement.
The question to whom the letter
should be sent was subjected to deep
thought. Indeed, It
theuzht, so deep It was. Men, she
knew, were more susceptible than
women to personal appeal—partica
tarly when the personal appeals came
from not unattractive girls. But wom
en were more superstitious and would
he more reluctant to bring upon them
selves the Implied curse that wonld
result from a breaking of the chaln
Women, then.
As for location, she was not par
ticular, except that it would be bes
to start at some distance from Red
Thrush. AMethodist interests are close
iy allied in oeighboring towns, and
she realized the Importance of pro
tecting the family name. Now Ginger
herself was deeply vnamored of the
chain letter idea, to her It smacked
ahsolutely of the hand of Providence
But one could pever know just how
fathers and older sisters would react
to things. hence she realized it would
be the part of discretion to avoid
questions whose answers conld not be
evaded. Ginger's unfailing resource
in an emergency was the dally press
She got the Inst issue of the Burling
ton Hawkeye, and studied its col
amns. Now, theoretically, @ chain
should start from a» single link, but
she was not willing to trust the
foundation of her fortunes to one
small dime which might pot be forth
coming.
She decided upon three ns a falr
start. “Three links are better than
one.” she sald thoughtfully. “And if
it starts three chains, so much the
better.”
When ever she came to the name of
a woman mentioned prominently, she
put her finger on the place, closed her
eyes, and tried to get a vibration
about it. Finally the three letters
were written, enclogsec in envelopes
addressed, and Ginger took them at
once to the corner mull box. and put
them in
“Ah” she breathed ecstatically, as
she turned back toward the parsonage
Her heart was as light as the wings
of a butterfly. It seemed to arry her
home. Aiready the old house looked
a new place to her, a rosy place, bright
with flowers, fresh paint, acew furni
ture. Thousands napon thonsands
Helen herself had sald it. Thousands
upon thousands
“Oh. | wish | had asked .or quar
ters,” she thought. “Such a very good
cause, nobody could begrudge 1t™
» - * *® ® ® .
Had It not been for the pleasurable
excitement attendant upon Helen's
wedding, Ginger felt she could not
possihly have endured the strain of
the days that followed. Her confi
dence in the outcome of her chain let
ter home-for-the-blind was sahsolute
Winters might eome, with thelr con
sequent coal and coat bills daugh
ters might go, with thelr petty love
affairs. but Ginger Ells and the chalp
letter would go on for ever.
Plans for the wedding took prece
dence over everything else, for Helen
yielding to the argnment that for her
in this case the way of genuine sacri
fice lay In gracious acquiescence to
plans already made. preceeded calmly
with her arrangements She knew ip
her heart that she would have pre
ferred a more apparent display of
her uonselfishness. She wonld have
enjoyed 4 real martyrdom. She wonid
have been proud to stand glorfousls
forth. to her father. her sisters. and
Red Thrush, giving up her marriage
for a year, for ten years. for ever. if
need be. But she was honest enough
to realize that the course of true
denial followed another channel
Mental rest. the doctors” tnd pre
scribed, and that could never be hud
in the sacrifice of his daughter's plang
The wedding was to be héld In the
day school class, the Ruotheans, serv
ing a buffet luncheon In the Sunday
school ! wssembly room, the room that
was used for church dinners, soclals
and the like. This luncheon was to
take the place of a home reception.
The detalls of the ceremony had been
carefully practiced. Horace Langley,
with Eddy Jackson as his best man,
was to walt in the small room at the
left side of the pulpit. The brides-
maids were to gather in the primary
room, just inside the main entrance.
Helen decided that when all
invited guests sat silently walting
within the church, she, with ber fa-
ther, would walk quietly across the
intervening space from parsonage
to church—such a very little way—
and while Ellen took tim on around to
the pulpit room on the right of the
altar, she would join her attendants
in the primary department.
For fully a week, although but ten
days had elapsed since the forging of
the tirst link thas was to grow Into
an endless chain of silver dimes, Gin-
ger had dogged the steps of the post.
man.
“Letter for me? There's not? That's
funny.”
But on the very day before the
wedding, as though to fill ber cup to
utter overflowing, the postman deliv.
ered three letters addressed to E.
Tolliver, all in strange bandwriting.
“Well, that's funny,” stammered
Ginger, and beld out a trembling hand,
and with the gullty consclousness of
the evildoer, sure the very postman
must he suspicious of such a sudden
burst of correspondence, she added,
junch of ads, 1 suppose.” She was
80 excited that she fell off the ladder
three times before she finally got her
self—and the three letters—Iinto the
attic studio under the dormer window,
She was trembling nervously. Her
chilly fingers tore uselessiy at the
stiff paper, she had it open ar last, a
dime rolled out upon the floor. She
seized and kissed It
“You're my nest egg” she whis
pered, “you're my lucky plece. you're
what some dumb farmer would eall
pay dire.”
She opened the other letters. three
dimes resulting A sort of stiliness
came over her. She sat, huddled
into a small hunch on the old
and read the letters—pleasant letiers,
sympathetic, “It is a joy to help In
such good work” “God bless
cause,” “Pleasure to add my mite”
“The darlings.” sald Ginger. “The
dear, sweet, generous,
souls”
of judging one's (Christianity. not by
devout Christians Very still she sat
in a sweet and grateful gladness
mind leaped swiftly on, 10 expensive
curative treatments for her
new rich furniture to replace their
and chickens
She kissed the letiers, one after the
other. and erumpled them In her hand,
to be burned
“Little white angels,’
derly.
she called ten
this incipient fortune.
Three dimes, of themselves, did not
require much treasoring, but the
highly Imaginative eyex of Ellen Tolil
ver looked already upon the thousands
and thousands. In neat litle stacks,
that were tc come. [nn another part
of the attic she ferreted out an old
doll's trunk. very dasty, very shahby,
but stout,
hinged top, and best of all
old lock still intact and
dangling from a siring. Within it,
side by side. she aid the three dimes,
ceptable for
lock. Then she moved eversthing
else off her desk, and directly in the
middle of it she placed the trunk,
royally alone. The key she thrus: un.
concernedly into the table drawer.
She was not afraid of thieves.
Her sigh was a great and glad one,
“At last fortune smiles upon the par.
sonage. and all the Tollivers in 11,”
she whispered joyously. “Perhaps not
much of a smile so far—just a little
giggle, but a nice little giggle. The
poor little church mice are going to
surprise folks one of these days ™
She wished greatly to tell her sis
ters of this sudden turn in the tide
of the family fortune, but that {little
inner monitor, which Ginger most an.
scripturanlly called a bunch, warned
her against this confidence. and she
buried herself and ber seething emo-
ions as well as she could In plans
for the following day.
Long before the high hour of noon
on Helen's wedding day, she was
daintily arranged in her blue organdie,
pirouetting ap and down the hall from
room to ftoom. hurrying everybody,
criticizing the general appearance of
ber sisters, ofiering endless pert sug.
gestions, and always Inciting them to
greater haste,
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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least two rivers, the upper Missour
and the Yellowstone, flowed northeast
and emptied into Hudson bay. With
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run to the south, and their combined
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by the Missouri through the Dakotas.
At the same time the Red river be
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flowing to the south and the original
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flow to the north, but the others con-
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Probably there are
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rthwise
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easy plan of “everything
That still may produce an
but has to be watched
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The girl who matches
with tweed hat
which bids fair to be an
increasing custom, should make a def.
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or woinan
firm
of lea
designs a slender
ther, with brilliant
color across its
and gloves with the same stripes In
the gauntiets, nat a purse
scarf
ends,
During
fashion
the warm weather every
writer had a happy time de
“cotton Is king.” and indeed
had not since “away back
Bat jovial warm-hearted wool,
in the shape of tweeds and broad
cloth is now firmly seated the
throne, and will there until
spring. Not only are the rough tex
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knitted wool fabrics, so light flo
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Dame
as It
on
stay
Fashion, through
preference, is glad
are winter
much red,
her own
that
indications for the
in shades all the
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men, one of these days-—and not for
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The fur coats this season show the
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while the sleeves are fashioned in a
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Dress Designed to Wear
Under Winter Fur Coat
The peplum, one of the new features
of the fall and winter dresses, is
shown here. The mode! is a youthful
creation of printed crepe In which a
neat design of black, yellow and
orange is worked on a beige back.
ground. The circular motif is carried
out in the frill about the neck, the
peplum and the skirt. It is an ideal
dress to wear under the heavy winter
coat.
Wedding Gowns Will Be
Winter wedding gowns will
trimmed with snowy furs if the Amer-
ican bride follows the
the Paris dressmakers, notes a fash-
fon correspondent in the New
Herald Tribune, One of the
beautiful bridal gowns shown at
recent openings in
white satin with flowing panels carry-
ing wide Borders of white fox.
train, too, was edged with fox.
Fox In all
trimming this year.
with the softest
door wear and makes
when they are uscd for coats,
most
the harsher pelts alone could be.
Fur hats are another
bygone days. Pa
these In Persian
caps he called them,
tremely becoming
appearance.
lamb. Bt
They are ex
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one another and it Is
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appear. The fur used
fabrics usually is fox
one of softness and lightness,
Satins Promise to Be
with
printed chiffon, Crepe satin,
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says a Paris fashion writer In
New York Times. At
style in
fall, Its sheen Is
and pinks and in
ivory to pure.
satin will come in In full glory for fall,
And from black satin to black trans
parent velvet Is a short and agreeable
step.
is nssured.
promised.
«ibly colored broadcloth and zibeline,
The combination makes the choicest
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Used for New Fall Hats
The ribbon toques are of great im
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the head tightly, come low over the
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Currant Red
The new red for autumn after
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dier than lipstick, lighter than crim
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