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T SOMETIMES seemed to Estelle
Winters that she could reckon al
most to the day, when the first
realizations that she had reached
a specific milestone In her life had
rushed over her,
It was not so much that her mirror
told her that she was fading and that
the jonquil-yellow of her hair was
running to pallor or that her blue
eves were weakening, but there was
a tolling note inside the heart of Es-
telle which said “youth is done”
“youth is done,” “youth is done.”
A conspiracy “of circumstances
brought about this conscious termina-
tion of the golden glow that had al-
ways characterized Winters,
Life had not been easy for her, Twen-
ty years of singing in the cafes of
the large cities of the Far West had
exacted their tribute. Twenty years
of the solitary struggle to rear in in-
tegrity and innocence, a girl-child
with the beautiful name of Rosalinda,
had told in strain on Estelle,
The latter had accomplished
and the latter she was willing to re
gard as her life work. Indeed, Rosa-
linda was a fair enough monument to
anybody. At twenty like a
flower, slim, lovely, fragile.
And so it was that when Rosalinda
was in this early bloom, Estelle Win-
ters, her mother, taking inventory, so
to speak, of her own face, her spirit,
her vitality, came so poignantly to
realize that her youth was
The following year,
of flitting like a tired
from one cafe to another, established
herself quietly In a San Francisco
cafe of first-rate standing as cashier,
It was a let-down, but it was a let-
ting-down that somehow warmed and
ensed the tired, bruised spirit that
was Estelle’'s The struggle against
the ever-widen ning crack in her
was finished ; the uneven race ag
the flesh of years,
hips and shoul
telle could sit
ticing but unnoticed,
roll in,
And more than all of
could now Keep fastened more firmly,
her watchful 3
This girl, whom her mother
to protect from the
that had been hers,
Yiosed in the
le held the
ads duties
noon she arrived, attired herself in a
peasant costume that enhanced her
loveliness, and moved with a tray of
hot rolls in among the patrons of the
cafe, offering her dainties as she slid
by the tables. At six o'clock Rosa-
linda came on duty again, and was
free to leave the restaurant with her
mother somewhere shortly ten
o'clock.
It meant that through all the
aday hours her mother's eves were on
her. It meant they
and they departed toge
that whatever fons lay
smoldering In the heart of Estelle for
the daughter Rosalinda, for the
ent, at least, her plans for the future
were held In abeyance. Rosalinda was
lterally under her mother's thumb,
a8 well as her eve, And the girl,
sweet and submissive enongh at
twenty, and at the same time regard-
ing her occupation as only a stepping
stone toward the thing her heart
craved, submitted because of the
peace she realized she was able to
afford Estelle,
They were rather a pathetic pair,
The hushandless Estelle, the father
less Rosalinda. There had never
been a husband, So far as Rosalinda
could remember there had never been
a father; just the two of them, play-
ing their humble roles with a certain
submission, and yet the younger of
them with a quality of rebellion flam-
ing In her blue eyes that had long
ce died down in the eyes of the
older woman.
It was hard to realize, after behold
ing the loveliness that was Rosa-
linda’s, that this child had kept her
Innocence to a degree that was per.
fection. At twenty she lived like a
little girl. At twenty, she had never
been out In the company of a man
without the chaperonag of her
mother,
And it had not all been clear sall-
ing. The eyes of men veered quickly
to the loveliness that was Rosalinda’s,
Her presence in a room made them
conscious. Seated In her corner be
hind her eashier's desk, the eyes of
Estelle were relentiess in their watch.
fulness,
If ever a girl was protected by the
bulwark of fierce loving, pan
therlike watchfulness, that girl was
Rosalinda,
There was not a recess of the be.
ing of this girl that Estelle did not
feel herself capable of understanding,
As Rosalinda sometimes admitted to
her mother, it was as If the older
woman sensed, almost before the girl
herself, the nature of her ambitions,
secret desires, yearnings,
And the secret desires of Rosa
finda’'s were not just those of the av.
erage girl becoming aware of her love
ness.
Rosalinda wanted to sing.
Estelle
she
she was
done.
Estelle, instead
bird of plumage
voice
alnst
as it settied on her
Was over. Es-
now, no-
and let the years
ders,
quietly,
back
eye on Rosalinda.
disappointments
wis now also €em-
where Es-
throne of cashier,
light. At
same cafe
were
after
work.
arrived together
her. It meant
gecret
ambit
pres-
Jealous,
She
already showing a fluty resonant qual-
ity. That was why Estelle so pas
sionately desired lo save her from
the wear and te of performing in
the cabarets. That was why, without
the slightest sense of renunciation,
Estelle was ready to fold away the
days of her most garish kind of suc-
cesses, for the more stable remunera-
tion of her work behind a cashier's
ceunter,
Estelle and her daughter were
hoarding for the day when Rosalinda
might go abroad to prepare her voice
for opera,
One night In the restaurant, a man
well beyond fifty, big, irresistible as a
personality, known the country
as a millionaire sportsman and art
connoisseur, fastened what were
frankly delighted eyes on Rosalinda.
For the first time in her life, swept
by something that was stronger than
she was, she arranged a rendezvous
that did not include Estelle,
For the first time in her life,
linda was lmpelled to agree to see a
man without the presence of a third
party—her mothe
It was not unnatural in the face of
things, In fact it would been
more unnatural if it had not happened
that the youthful and beauteous
Rosalinda should finally find herself
confronted with if the emotional
climaxes sure to befall a creature of
her caliber,
Curlous, but across the room, within
her lair, Estelle Winters knew every-
thing that was happening, Just as con-
cisely as if she were present ther
beside the table of the nos
figure of the Sports art
seur, Hiram Bridg
‘rom her alr, her
hand to her throat, saw this happen
ing: with her dilated this
happening. What Is more, she saw
happening across the
Rosalinda, the first faint
awakening.
When Hiram
taurant that
conquest of a
to him, there
corridor the pale,
of a woman who caused him to s
“Yes, Hiram, think it
is,” sald Estelle, a little ti
of the melodrama of the mou
her manner or her voice.
“Why, it's twenty years,
he said stupidly.
One of
dents that can
clear
ta
over
Rosa-
have
BO,
One «
Connols
"Estelle with
eyes SW
sweet
flushes of
Bridges left
night, elated
type that was
confronted him lr
washed-out figure
tare,
the res
his
alluring
with
in the
it's who you
redly,
ut io
Sine e—"
those
see
sky was bs
“Twenty-one
her glance Shiding
gnid Estelle
beautiful
is study-
linda radiant,
ever in
iw grand opera in
An internationally
and art connoisseur,
seen her since that night
taurant, is educating her,
more
her innocence,
Italy.
sportsman
never
in the
known
who has
res
Famous Danish Castle
Notwithstanding its rather remote
gition on the Island of Jutland in
mark, on the banks of the Lim-
d, Castle Spottrup has lured many
gitors to its walls of years.
A Although its age and
been forgotten, it has been there for
many centuries, and is one of the best
double-moated castles of Europe, Its
dividing bulwark of earth on the east.
ern side reaches almost to the eaves
of the structure, and, with its grass.
clad ramparts, adds immensely to the
impression one receives of its ancient
formidable strength. It is only re
stored in part and the visitor can
easily visualize its ancient extent and
form,
44
De en
flor
visi recent
Altar Overhangs Sea
About 12 miles from Kjoge, in Den
mark, is an ancient church In Hojer-
up, built on the famous Stevns cliff,
which has been undermined by the sen
In the Fourteenth century an old sea
rover was threatened with disaster off
Stevns cliff, and vowed should he
reach land safely, he would build a
church on the cliff. Fortune favored
him and he fulfilled his vow and set
his charch on the very edge of the
beetling crag, so close, indeed, that the
erosion of the roek during the cen-
taries has brought the altar actually
hanging over the sea, A legend says
that every New Year night the old
church “moves a cockstride back from
the sen.”
Ancient Well Discovered
The discovery of an ancient well
during excavations for the terminus
of the London Tube railway extension
from Finsbury park has revived
stories of the notorious ghost of Sir
Geoffrey de Mandeville, earl of Essex,
who, according to local legend, was
drowned In a well at Barnet, in 1144,
Sir Geoffrey's ghost is said to haunt
the district every Christmas Fre-
quent attempts have been made to dis.
cover this weil, at the bottom of
which, the legend says, Is a heavy
iron chof! oentaining precious stones
At this spot is laid the scene of the
murder of Lord Dalgarno in Sir Wal
ter Scott's “Fortunes of Nigel™
Reporters to the Rescue
When Isadore Eazle, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., was fined 210 for beating his
horse he tried to pay with 25 and the
horse, Magistrate Casey sald his court
wasn't taking any horses today, thank
you, Eazle, after counting a collec
tion of quarters, dimes, nickels and
pennies, reported he was 0 cents shy
of the necessary amount. Reporters
broke the deadlock by presenting the
required 8 cents
Tomato Seed of
Big Importance
That From Wilt-Resistant
Plants Should Be Saved
for Next Year.
Home gardeners who are producing
wilt-resistant tomatoes will find that
the seed from these plants are as good
if not better than the seed obtained
from outside sources, according to G.
WwW. Fant, extension plant pathologist
at the North Carolina State college,
“This is especially true If the grower
will select only the heaviest bearing
and most resistant plants from which
to get his seed for next year's plant-
ing,” he states.
Equipment Needed.
Where only a small amount of seed
is to be saved, no apparatus except a
small water-tight vessel {8 needed,
The ripe tomatoes are placed in the
vessel and thoroughly crushed. Suffi-
cient water is added to cover the to-
matoes and they are left over night
to ferment, The next day the vessel
is filled with water and the mass care-
fully stirred. By adding more water
glowly, the skins, cores and pulp will
float off and the seed sink to the bot-
tom. The water is then drained off
and the seed collected,
Mr. Fant states that seed secured
from a neighbor who i8 growing the
wilt-resistant variety will, In most
cases, give better results than seed
bought outside, especially of the direc-
tions for saving the seed have been
followed,
Wilt-Resistant Varieties,
There are several varieties of wiit-
resistant tomatoes, chief among which
are the Marvana, Norduke, Marvel, and
Norton, rowers who have any of
these varieties planted are safe in sav-
ing the seed but the Norton and Mar
two that are recommended
Fant. In tests conducted
the the Norton has
shown a greater resistance and also
rh quality
troubled
varieties
for next
vel are the
hout state
fruit. Where growers are
with wilt, seed from the
named should be secured
year's planting
Factors Influencing the
Keeping Fruit Quality
A new bul “Some F
tors Influencing the Keeping Quality
Transit,” boon ree
agriculture,
Ac
letin entitied, ac-
has
Urbana
of the
bulletin, dam-
experiment station col
ported In this
heavy
ns re
drain on the
growers, could
be prevented by proper
in picking, handling, grad-
Fossils
Dols Trait
profits of Ili
very rely
and packing.
Three the
the col
phases of problem were
lege workers in
attempting to work out ways whereby
protect thelr
the earefnl
handling of strawber.
summer apg the
delayed loading of these
game three commod and studied
the use of different types of pack.
ages for strawberries and Penghen.
growers could
hey compared
vies and peaches;
Lies,
Best Time for Cutting
Corn Crop for Silage
A recent circular iseued by the Kan
sas experiment station brings ou?
game points on the making of silage
which are of vital importance to ev.
ery farmer who has a silo to fill, es
pecially the man who is filling one
for the first time. The circular points
out the fact tihmt it ig desirable to
cut the crop for the silo In a very
green condition, before the ear and
stalks had matured, and a very sour
flage, high in moisture, was obtained,
Of Inte years the tendency has been
to allow the corn crop fo stand until
more mature. The proper time to cut
corn for the silo is about a week or
ten days before it is ready to put up
In the shock: the ear should be well
dented and the lower leaves on the
stalk dry, but the stalk itself still full
of sap.
Roadside Gumption Is
Needed for Marketing
The path to success in roadside mar.
keting is really so plain that it is
eingular how it can ever be missed.
Here are the half-dozen requirements:
Absolutely fresh produce,
Variety and good quality,
No delays—immediate service,
Courtesy on every sale, however
small
Prices higher than wholesale,
than retail,
If possible, a high-profit sideline,
That is all there is to it, except of
course that your stand must be on a
highway that Is traveled, or can be
traveled. Customers will not plow
through mud,
Attractive signs help. Parking space
off the highway is good, and In some
states is compulsory.
lower
Budding Cherries
Long-time tests earried on in the
orchards of the New York state ex-
periment station at Geneva have
proved to the satisfaction of the sta.
tion fruit men that Mazzard root
stocks are far superior to the Mahaleb
rootstocks so commonly used In the
budding of cherries, More vigorous
and healthier trees and a longer lived
and more productive orchard will be
obtained with trees budded on Mas
vard stocks, it Is said, especially
the case of sweet cherries,
Best Curi ing Process
Needed for Alfalfa
—————
Allow It to Wilt in Swath
for Six Hours.
Number 1 alfalfa
per cent green color, and it must be
40 per cent leaves. That proportion
Is what the havmaker wants after he
has cut his crop,
If the hay is cut down on a bright
day and left in the swath It cures
rapidly, and becomes so brit.
tle that the leaves shatter. Good hay
cannot be made with such rapid cur
ing. If the hay is cut down and raked
Immediately into a swath it cures so
slowly that it Is duo sure to get
wet,
“The most practical way of putting-
up quality hay is to cut it down and
allow it to wilt In the swath for four
to six hours and then rake Into &
loose, open windrow,” recommends L.
E. Willoughby, extension alfalfa
cialist, Knnsas State Agricultural
lege, alfa hay cut In
hay must he 60
bleaches,
De
col
“Usually alf the
morning can Re
and put into the stack the fol
day providing the
favor.”
Willoughb y points
is put into the
condition and a
may be turned in
allowed to fin
small amount of
that he has known
ly good hay ha
ing rained on two or three tim
turned after rain.
weather Is In our
out if hay
windrow
rain doe ome, it
the f and
ish curing with oply a
damage. He
cases where falr
made after be
8 been ma
each
Home-Grown Grain Used
in Feeding Mixture
It nerally consi
dairy fed
COW
'
needs a grain mixture oarry
of farm grown grains
a high protein con-
hay
alfalfa,
ing 90 per cent
and
centrale,
a fed
mixture
cent of a high
50 per cent
home grown
Thus,
pounds
instead
roug
pounds of
10 per cent of
whereas when
in place of 111s
contain about
should
protein concentra
of one or
home
the
chased
grown
other five dg must
used while
he Mm and =a
the
institutes
two
alf to three nig a pounds. On
on, nins
grain can Mu
onls
with
rate hav
Profitable U tilization
Profitable il of milk by
portant than
to the Un
itare. O
ig no more mg
Dep artment of ricu
chief of the bu
says that
rean of dairy
cheese offers a dal
ant a profitable outlet
The bureau
he
both in th
1] '
cottage
ry-products p
for its ski
experimental work
oratory and on a
low-aclid rennet-type of cottage
produced ex-
cellent results, A mimeographed cir
which tells how nke this
cheese may be obtained
which hag consistently
cular to n
Industry, Washington, D. C,
FARM,ND
tained this
crop in the silo
* r .
from three
for each pound of
Cows need
pounds of water
milk they give.
> 5»
stored in a clean,
dry place until it is sold. It should
never he stored in a basement.
- - .
Spring calves or calves born In late
winter should be kept in the barn dur
Wool should be
proper growth.
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Real co-operation is needed if fore
ests are to be protected against thelr
greatest enemy, fire. The easiest time
to fight fire is before It starts.
* . -
Magnesium arsenate is considered
the best control spray for the Mexican
bean bettle. If it cannot be obtained,
calcium arsenate may be used success
fully.
* ® *
In the event that crops for silo cease
to grow for lack of moisture, they
should be allowed to stand in the field
as long as they will be benefited by
a rain,
.« ¢% @®
Succession plantings permit the gar
dener to keep the soil in use and to
grow a steady supply of vegetables
from the land. Leafy plants should
follow root crops, and vice versa.
- . = 2
Sweet clover, seeded alone early In
the spring on good land which Is adapt.
ed todt, may make good grazing after
midsummer, say Pennsylvania State
college farm crops specialists.
98
The striped cucumber beetle ean be
controlled by spraying with two
pounds of lead arsenate in 50 gallons
of bordeaux mixture, Young plants
can be protected with cones made of
fiy-screening.
Virtue i in s Many Things
One Cannot Understand |
" said a traveler, "has at
lngt come to recognize that there is
“Relence,
other old, magl-
that
voyance and many
cal, eastern things
laugh at,
“Ounce In
fell sick,
nothing for him, and one day his In-
dian servant brought to his bedside
an Indian medicine man.
Peru a friend
of the case laughed at the medicine
man,
“+¥on about medi-
sald,
opened his
dried leaf
to the famous
that,’ he sald
know nothing
cine. You're a bluff,’ he
“The medicine
quaint gack, tok a small
from it and handed it
Lima doctor, ‘Smell
calmly
*The doctor smelt it and
began to bleed. It bled
Nothing would stop it.
dian took another
‘Now smell that.
bleeding Over.
“After this proof of his skill the
Indian ne man was allowed to
prescribe my dying friend. Bj
Jove, he cured him In "
man
hig nose
and bled.
leaf out.
once the
dried
And at
wae
miedici
for
two days.
Men Ale Called “Gossips™
traveling extensively in
isier
satlons of
we Alfred H.
t. Ireland,
clared that he had
are As great
where he obsery
men and women,
Coulter returned to
recently, and de
learned that
as women,
lecture he sald that it was a mis
] to think that only women
siped, for he had found men
could “talk the heads off women.”
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Treecless lceland is being made into
wooded fastnesses through the whole
secured from the northern parts of
Canada, The experiment, tried some
time ago, has proved successful and
the Canadian trees that have been
shipped so far have been warmly ap
precinted and carefully attended and |
found to be ideal for the climate.
Spruce, pine, tamarack and balsam
are the varieties which have proven
most succeseful., The ability to se
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| are being made to secure funds for
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