BREAKING
THE ICE
By ALAN HINSDALE '
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My cousin Polly was a witch—at
least there was a witchery about her
that drew men to her as flowers draw
bees. I called her a flirt, not doubt
ing that she purposely exercised thLs
fascination upon men in some such
spirit as a fisherman decoys trout
One day when we were sitting at a
table looking over a book of pictures
together Polly drew closer to me than
was necessary for her to see the pic
tures, and some lot>se strands of her
hair grazed my cheek. I turned upon
her and said:
"None of that, PoL You and I are
cousins. We have been brought up
together like brother and sister. If
you throw a spell over me you'll spoil
it aU."
She seemed hurt. Her only reply
was a reproachful look through those
expressive eyes of hers. I considered
it one of her wiles, and it irritated me.
"Do you know what you're trying
to do? You're bent on scooping me
in as you have so many other fellows.
You want me to be soft on you for
awhile; then, when I get beside my
self with love for you. you'll Hay,
'What a pity that you should have so
misunderstood me!' All our cousinly
friendship will be gone, and there will
be nothing to take Its place."
She listened to me, looking as if she
were about to cry, till I had finished,
then said in an injured tone:
"You havo no right to assume that
I have ever treated any man dishon
orably. Men have sought my society,
and, since girls Ilk© the companionship
of the opposite sex. I have encouraged
them to be friends. But I deny that
I have encouraged them to be lovers."
With this she walked out of the room,
keeping her back to me, evidently to
hide a dampness In the eyes.
I was pußzled. Was this a part of
her method of enticing a man for the
purpose of refusing him, or was she
speaking the truth? Whether it was
her game or whether she wanted me,
I was at a loss to decide. If she want
ed me it seemed likely that she had
made a move to break through the or
dinary friendliness of my treatment of
her, which would be perfectly legiti
mate in any girl toward any fellow
she desires to be on lover-like terms
with. '
Whichever of these propositions was
true the effect was the same. Polly
had inoculated me. With what? I
don't know. Was it curiosity? That
was an ingredient Was it a realiza
tion that I had not before experienced
that I wanted her? Possibly. What
ever it was it had got into my blood
and had produced that fever which ac
companies love, •
While before this episode It had not
occurred to me to trouble myself about
how many fellows Polly had turned
down, I now began to dread that the
next man who was attentive to her she
would accept Then it occurred to me
that she might have felt an incipient
love for me which I had nipped in the
bud. A bud destroyed will never bud
again. The thought was maddening.
I wanted to go to Polly and undo
what I had done.
Rut supposing she had simply been
tempted to try her fascinations upon
me? If I went to her with a serious
and sorrowful face she would laugh at
me. At any rate, what I had said to
her about breaking up our cousinly
status was true. When next we met
there would be something that had
never existed before between us—con
straint She would be shut up like an
oyster, I like a clam
And so we were. There was no more
"Hello, Poir "Morning, BobP then an
interchange of chaff, in which I usually
got worsted. Polly seemed distrustful
of looking at me. And I was glad of
it, for if I caught her eye I wouldn't
know what to express in mine. I re
marked that it was a very disagreeble.
damp morning, and she replied, "Very,"
in a tone that Indicated the conditions
between us were more disagreeable
than the morning. Then she took up
a book and pretended to reed. I look
ed out through a window. Presently
I tired of the situation and nerved my
self to break It
"You seem very much interested tn
your book," I remarked.
"It's quite interesting," without tak
ing her eyes off it
Silence for awhile, at tlie end of
which I said, "I presume I owe you an
apology."
She looked away from the book, but
not at me. She was evidently ready to
listen.
"I should not have accused you." 1
went on. "of drawing fellows in to
throw them over."
"Oh. that's nothing. The fellow
must look out for himself."
What marvelous consistency! Quite
worthy of a woman. Nevertheless
there was a telltale look in her eye
that belied her words. I drew my
chair nearer. She did not move away.
"Pol," I said, "I believe I would like
to feel those stray hairs graze my
cheek."
No reply. I drew my chair close be
side hers and looked at the book she
was reading. It was upside down. In
order to see the better I placed my
cheek so near hers that they touched.
The ice was broken—that is, if a
kiss can be spoken of as ice. Then I
talked a lot of what I now call balder
dash, though Pol pronounced It '*very
sweet." If she had referred to the
kiss tho words would have been some
thing approaching a description of
what it was.
I F acts Versus I
Fallacies I
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FACT is a real state oj thing*. FALLACY is an appar
ently genuine but really illogical statement or argument.
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dIPJ ' T ? F" TIT ' T li!>
j THE "dry" State of Kansas is usually pointed to with ! ; 'MIL I
<!j . pride as an example of what Prohibition can do for a j 2 Y| :
l community, and attention is frequently called to the fact j 'J
j that in many counties of Kansas the jails are empty. I KANSAS j
Lil T FALLACY of this statement is apparent when it is L ""~ ii j 1
JW known that so sparsely settled is Kansas that in some Jg
jLj* ( counties of that State there are but two residents to tne BjF
rf 1 square mile—and it is comparatively easy to keep the jails
dk •' cn-pty under those circumstances. And on January 1, 1910, J
g Lt V ln Nebraska, a sister State and next-door neighbor (and £
WFT \ Nebraska is a license State, remember), out of 91 jails, over
j. A \ half of them—47—were emntvl '
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KANSAS N A NOTHER FALLACY. In 1910 the entire State of
! I niiv-'l Kansas had a population of 1.690.949. Yet the State i
I j j 111| ij I I Board of Control of Kansas, in
LIiLLI li—Lj its last report, conceded 892 |w-auca4 i-itt I
prisoners in the Kansas penitentiary, and 4883 in the jails! I
ID UT f as throwing even a greater light on the situation, B 3gh=3sofiE
consider this: the Chief of Police of Topeka, Capital j
1 of Kansas, reports 2200 arrests in that city of 45,000 popu- ~ 30 "p-j
lation during 1914—and 661 of these arrests—over 30 per 5! COMMITTED jg~ r
cent. —jailed for drunkenness I Yet Kansas is a Pro
hibition Statef PRUNKtHgSSjE /
r pHE FALLACY of Prohibition is seldom easier proved Ess! "1 ill
A than by the FACTS furnished by the prohibitionists!
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X means a generous appreciation 2
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The Spanish Moors.
When the people of the rest of Eu
rope were little better than barbarians
the Spanish MOOTS were in the midst
of a splendid culture. As early as the
tenth century this country was the
source of learning for all Europe.
Their libraries, schools, arts, sciences,
luxurious refinements and aU round
material and intellectual advancement
differentiated them from the rest of
Europe as cleasly as ancient Greece
was from the peoples that surround
ed it.
How the Natives Treat Gorillas.
Natives in the countries Inhabited by
great apes regard them always as hu
man beings of inferior types, and It is
for this reason that for a long time it
was found impossible to get hold of an
entire gorilla skin, because the sav
ages considered it religiously necessa
ry to cut off the hands and feet of the
animals when they killed them, just as
they do with their enemies, possibly
for the purpose of rendering them
harmless in case they should by any
chance come to life again.
Rescuing Napoleon by Submarine.
In his book on submarines Frederick
A. Talbot tells us that the submarine
is ''practically as old as the sailing
ship," though he passes the fact over
with the statement that the majority
of these efforts were fantastic in con
ception and crude ln design.
The most daring expedition ever sug
gested in the early days of the subma
rine was that proposed for kidnaping
Napoleon from St Helena. It was
suggested to a British mariner, Cap
tain Johnson, who was to get £40,000.
The construction of the boat was be
gun, but on the day when the work on
the outer shell of copper was to be
started Napoleon died.
Cats' Eyes.
As showing how widely the perma
nently blue eyes of cats differ from
other eyes it Is noted that immediately
the eyes of white cats that are to have
permanently blue eyes open they shine
bright red ln the dark, and neither the
ephemeral kitten blue nor any other
colored eye does this.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Take Flight.
"Riches have wings, they say.*
"Yes, and whenever I go after them j
they migrate."—Boston Transcript.
Wounds of the Heart.
In wounds of the heart itself the es
cape of blood is never in large quanti
ty, and the lethal consequences are
due to the fact that the escape of blood
from within its cavity of cavities into
the surrounding sac of the pericardium
mechanically interrupts the alternate
contraction and expansion by which
its pumping action is maintained. Ac
cordingly the results of the wound of
the heart are usually identical with
those of gradual suffocation. Ex
change.
Tell It Not In GatK
T>eU it not In Gath" means now- ,
adaye "Keep it a secret" and Is from
tbe Old Testament Goth was a
Philistine dty. bat is sometimes used
to mean "Judah." The reference Is
found in II Samuel i, 20.
Bedouins and Water.
It .is not unusual to hear a Bedouin
upon reaching a < amp -where water is
offered him refuso it with the remark,
"I drank only yesterday." On the
Bedouins' long inarches across dry
countries the size of the water skins
is nicely calculated to just outlast the
journey, and they rarely allow them
selves to break t'ie habit of abstemi
ousness, as this would be sure to make
their next water fast all the harder.
They are accustomed from infancy to
regard water as precious and use it
with religious economy.
THE TWO DWARFS
WEIRD and grotesque figures, the two dwarf brothers, Aibertcb and Mime,
deepen the legendary atmosphere of Richard Wagner*® great music
drama "Siegfried," which a cast of world famous artists from the
Metropolitan Opera House is to give in the home grounds of the Pittsburgh
Pirates, Forbes Field, Thursday evening, June 8. The performance, with a
concert Saturday afternoon, June 10, by school choruses, Metropolitan stars
and orchestra, constitutes the Siegfried Festival. The malicious schemers who
are seeking the dragon guarded gold stolen from the Rhino maidens will be
portrayed in the Pittsburgh performance by Otto Goritz (Alberlch) and Albert
Reiss (Mime), who have no equals in the world In the Interpretation of these
roles. In the smithy of Mime, after the dwarfs efforts have proved futile, the
youthful Siegfried forges the sword, Nothung, with which he Is to conquer the
dragon and obtain the treasure. Alberich, after attempting in vain to league
himself with the dragon against Siegfried, watches the victorious tight from
concealment and sees, not without satisfaction, Siegfried slay Mime, when the
latter, after the hero has the treasure, reveals his murderous envy.
Very Moving Pictures.
"Say, old chap, are you fond of mov
ing pictures?"
"I should say so!"
"Then come round to our house next
Tuesday and give a hand. We're mov
ing that day."—Chicago Herald.
Not a Bad Way.
"I wonder hew Ananias and Sap
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They were both liars."
"Probably they just acovyted each
• other's little yarns and let it go at
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