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By SOPHIA B. COHAN.
JCopyrlght, 1918, by McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
"And I don't think there is any vir
tue In helping all these war funds with
jnoney given to me by dad, so I'm going
to work, and besides buying more War
Savings stamps and contributing to the
Jted Cross, I'll be releasing some man
for the service." Marcia Gray spoke
earnestly, at the same time unfolding
a small piece of paper, which she
proudly displayed to Bob Eaton's as
tonished eyes.
"An elevator operator's license," he
gasped, then smiled. "To think of a
>voman running an elevator, and of all
Jromen you!" And Bob, usually so
sympathetic, could control his mirth
no longer, and was now shaking with
laughter.
Marcia's eyes filled with tears. She
had worked so hard to gain that pre
cious bit of paper, and had been so in
earnest, and here was Bob ridiculing
her! Her chagrin gave way to anger.
Folding the license with a snap she ran
Into the house with a curt, "Well, you'll
see, Air. Robert Eaton, and don't ever
speak to me again," and shut the door
In his face.
The following day, as Bob stepped
Into the elevator in his office building,
he was amazed to see Marcia at the
wheel. Then, regaining his composure,
he greeted her cheerfully. Marcia met
his smile with a cold, unseeing glance
as she closed the door and started the
elevator. Bob had ample time until
Marcia let him off at the eighth floor
to change his mind about her capabil
ity. He had to admit she was much
more polite and efficient than the boy
whose place she had taken —and she
looked sweeter than ever in her plain
gray uniform! All that day Marcia's
face, framed in the black curls which
rebelllously refused to stay under her
severely serviceable little cap, was
hopelessly mixed with Bob's letters and
reports, and it was with difficulty that
he restrained himself from running to
the elevator. At last, at five o'clock,
he saw her again, and again she ig
nored him.
So Bob rode up and down in the ele
vator, hoping against hope that she
wculd relent. Then, when a month had
passed without any result he decided
to walk, rather than see her so often
and not be able to speak to her.
Perhaps Marcia missed him, for
many times as she saw him running
swiftly up the stairs, she felt an im
pulse to call to him. However, she still
remembered how he had laughed at
her, and restrained herself, happy that
In spite of his unbelief, she was suc
ceeding far better than she herself had
dared hope.
Then one day, at the end of two
months of arduous stair climbing Bob
was very late, and to save time, took
the elevator. Besides, he was wearing |
a new, wonderful olive-drab uniform, ;
which he was very anxious for a cer
tain little lady to see. Bob was the
only passenger in the elevator. Mar
cia's heart leaped, but she said nothing.
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She stopped the elevafor between the
seventh and eighth floors, aud, turning
around, said warmly, "I congratulate
you, Mr. Eaton." She turned swiftly
back, the light in her eyes forbidding
Bob to say anything.
Marcia's heart sank —the brakes re
fused to yield! Bob was at her side
* immediately. She silently'accepted his
solicitou.-s offer to help, and for fifteen
minutes they worked together. Marcla
sank to the floor when Bob finally told
her it was no use for them to try, and
that they would have to wait until they
were pulled up.
Half an hour later they were re
leased from the elevator. Marcia's
face shone radiantly through the oil
from the brakes as she stepped out.
And the radiance from her countenance
was reflected in Bob's, for hadn't she
promised to become Mrs. Eaton, and
wait for him until he came back from
! "Over there?" And Bob, having a true
diplomatic instinct, had agreed to let
Marcia work for the time being.
Eskimo Names.
Eskimos are not able to trace their
ancestors back for more than a genera
! tion or two because the Eskimo names
(Jo not run from generation to genera
• tion, and in every Eskimo family each
! person" has a separate name. This is
pointed out by Charles Menadalook, an
Eskimo teacher, writing in a recent is
sue of the Eskimo, the only publica
tion issued for the benefit of his race.
Short but Eventful Career.
Timgad, or as it was known in Ro-1
j man history, Tliamugas, was built in
100 A. D. by the order of Trajan. The
city had an eventful history during its !
short career, repeatedly invaded, de-;
stroyed and restored. Finally, af-!
ter the Arabian invasion of 649 A. D. it
was left to the mercy of the wind and i
desert.
Corks of Pine.
Owing to the scarcity of true cork
In Sweden, wooden corks are being
■ used in that country, the substitutes
being made from quick-growing pine.
This wood has wide annual rlugs, and
one of its characteristics is its tend
ency to swell somewhat after it has
been fashioned into stoppers.—Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
London's Only Street Archway.
St. John's gateway, which spans the
north end of St. John's lane. Smith
field, is the only medieval archway re
maining over a London street, and was
built in 1504.
LEARN FINE ART OF RESTING j
Ability to Do and Work Depends on
One's Knowing Just How to Spend
Leisure Time.
Rest is a blessing laid up CSf the
tired only, not for the pleasure seeker.
It is a relaxation from toil, not a new
thrill for the bored. It is not a pickle (
following a feast of cake, nor is it
within reach of the lazy. It is a gift
for the sole use and behoof of him
who has toiled. No one reaches the
door leading to rest without first pass
ing through the workroom.
Most tired folk have wasted much
good strength, but this folly does not
bar them. from, en faring house
of rest. If all lived wisely there would
be need of few hospitals, and if only
those who laoored wisely rested there
would be no rest for the race this side
of the cemetery.
"Stonewall" Jackson, whose army
corps was swift of foot, used to say:
"I like to see my men lie flat on their
backs. A man rests more that way."
That is the primitive way of resting.
Mother Earth has a broad lap and a
restful way of holding her children.
A wise physician, when sending a
patient on his summer vacation re
cently, said: "On your drive don't try
to get anywhere. Any place is a good
place to stop, if you stop before you
are tired. Don't try to cover any pre
scribed distance in one day. Don't
make or keep any engagements. Be
criminally lazy. Avoid folks. Fish.
When tired of fishing, lie down under
a tree and look up. If you fall asleep,
sleep. When you wake up, fish some
more. Forget that you ever lived be
fore that one day."
The ability of a man to fill his mind
full of one day depends on his having
trained himself to see things out of
doors, to fill himself with the immedi
ate pleasant present without having to
draw on the unpleasant past. Happy
Is that man who can get 14 days of
rest out of a two weeks' vacation.
The ability to live well the remain
der of the year may lie wholly in
knowing how to occupy those two
weeks, for if one learns on this sum
mer outing that the art of resting in
cludes the fine art of forgetting, he
may practice the same art throughout
the year at home in his little rest
spells. What a man brings out of the
rest room depends largely on whether
or not, when going in, he remembered
to shut the door behind him.
Why America Succeeds In China.
"Chinese-Japanese friendship has
long been on the lips of both Japanese
and Chinese, but with little result," \
says the Tokyo Nichl-nlchi. "Equally ;
true it is that a feeling of reliance on
America is growing apace in China."
The editor then explains the situation
by mentioning the consideration shown
to China by the government of the
United States in renouncing the Boxer
indemnity, in generous treatment giv
en to Chinese students, and In Amer
ican educational work carried on in
China. The chief reason which is de
laying the realization of Chinese-Jap
anese cordiality, the editor thinks, is
that the Chinese do not accurately un
derstand how necessary is political and
economic friendship for the good of
the two countries. Japan needs raw
materials and has money enough to
pay for them, while China's resources
are inexhaustible, but she has no mon
ey to develop them. Then, too, the
Russian menace is at China's front
dcor. In conclusion, the editor of the
Nichi-nichi urgos a Chinese-Japanese
chamber of commerce.
Asphalt
Asphalt, with which so many roads
J jure paved, was found by accident
Many years ago, in Switzerland, nat
ural rock asphalt was discovered, and
for more than a century it was used
fpr the purpose of extracting the rich
stores of bitumen it contained.
LONG HARASSED BY WITCH
New England Man Finally Gets Relief
by Uelng Silver Bullet In Time-
Honored Way.
Tour description of the many triba
lations of Wllliuin Morse and family of
Newbury In 1781 brings to my mind
some singular occurrences about th*
year 1780, S. P. Ridley writes to Bos
ton Herald. This is the story told mo
about 1840:
My grandfather was captain of a
schooner that went to Grand Ranks
fishing They hnd a man aboard thct
was tormented, so they say. by a witch.
He would lie in his berth hours at T
time insensible. When he recovered
he told them the witch had turned
him into a horse and rode him around
on the Sable island. Ilis arms were
black and blue where she had kicked
him when he attempted to bite her.
When he was told to pump a pail of
water from the cask, it would be sa'.t
and rough. The next one pumped by
another crew would be all right. While
stirring up dough in the galley the
bowl of the spoon would drop off ami
a twin would appear in the handle. H"»
was annoyed so much that his health
failed and he was sent to the galley
to do what he could.
It has been said that yon could only
shoot a witch with silver, so my grand
father took his sliver sleeve buttons
and loaded the gun and told the man
to shoot the witch when she appeared
again. One day they heard the re
port of the gun and rushed to the cabin
to find out the cause. The man lay
Insensible on the floor, and there wasi
a spot of warm blood on the shins. He
was never troubled after that.
He was asked the reason of his be
ing troubled, but he did not know. He
said he lived on Cape Cod, and onp
day he was traveling along the road
and called at a house. There was no
one In, but a goat was lying on the
hearth. There was a pan of dough
nuts In a pan. He took a few and
passed on. He said when she took him
and rode him around Sable Island she
twitted him of stealing the dough
nuts. That was as near as he could
see about it.
From about ISOO for a long time my
grandfather was pilot in Boston har
bor and a man of intelligence, and
although I was small I fully believed
that he believed the story he told
me. He gave me the gun that the
witch was shot with. His name and
address of his office is in Boston di
rectory of 1806.
Queer Food Facts.
One of the revolutionary discoveries
of the last few years Is the presence
In our food of certain substances that
in minute quantity are essential to life
and health. Men, pigs, fowls and rats
develop beri-beri on an exclusive diet
3f rice that has been polished, but
are cured by a very small amount
of watery or alcoholic extract of the
rice-polishings. In a paper to Liver
pool chemists, Prof. W. Ranesdeu
lately mentioned that this "anti-beri
beri vitamlne" Is now proven to be
neither protein, fat, carbohydrate, nor
other previously known constituent of
plants or animals. It exists In suffi
cient proportion in most foodstuffs,
but Is absent from white flour, pol
:—J ri.ce and, arrow root, nnd prohpMv
also from corn-Hour, sago and tapioca.
The absence of another vltaralne,
which may be also Indispensable to
man. has been shown by other re
searches to be a cause of sore eye«
and arrested growth in rats and mldfe.
It exists in quantity in yolk of egg,
cod-liver oil, most animal fats, milk,
cheese, preen leaves, soya beans, mil
let and flaxseed, but is absent from
lard, and all vegetable oils. A third
vltamine Is Indicated, its lack being
chiefly responsible for It is
present in all fresh vegetables, fruit
and meat, but lacking in dried vegeta
bles and dried seeds.
Mail That Is Put Ahead.
It was not expected, probably, when
the United States parcel post system
was established, that It would be pos
sible, in a few years, to stick a stamp
on a day-old chick, or on a honey be*:,
and have it delivered hy Uncle Sara.
This is not. of course, exactly a lit
eral possibility even yet, for chicken?
and bees must be properly boxed and
the stamp affixed to the container; but
the opening of the malls to these liv
ing commodities has proved a great
convenience and has facilitated the
work of beekeepers and poultrymen
alike. Few people realize how large
Is the number of bees shipped each
spring from the southern to the north
ern states, and even to Canada. The
mail clerks always put these shipments
through with great promptness—per
haps for reasons of their own.
Soldiers' Effects Unclaimed.
Scores of tons of material, the ef
fects of American soldiers who died
in France, are stored In Hoboken
awaiting claimants. The property In
cludes Jewelry, hundreds of wrist
watches, souvenirs, and many other ar
ticles, some of considerable value. An
officer of the effects bureau says that
everything possible Is done to get the
effects of the men to their relatives, but
that many letters of notification are re
turned, and others are unanswered.
Both True.
"I think Smith will realize a fortune
from his dreams."
"Why, you told me his plans were
all in the air."
"So they are. He's invented an im
provement for airplane steering."
Quit It.
"You don't read the newspaper
aloud any more."
"No. Got tired of having the chil
dren correct nronuMclatlan."
How He Found War.
Willis —This morning you told me
you had just returned from the war,
and this afternoon I heard you admit
that you had never smelled powder.
Gill is—That's right. I fought the
Germans. All we ever smelled was
chlorine gas, fluorine fumes and poison
spray.—Town Topics.
Get Out!
A red signal,' to be locked Into posl*
tlon on an automobile when Its owner
is not using it, has been patented by a
New York man to call attention to the
fact that it is being used by an unau
thorized person.
Test of Woolens.
One test is to out oft a bit of the
selvedge and touch a match to It. If
It shrivels up. but does not burn. It 1*
wool, but if the fabric burns with a
flame it is cotton. Another way Is to
put a bit of the cloth in a test tube
or other glass receptacle with a solu
tion of caustic soda. The soda will
eat up the wool, leaving that which
Is not wool.
Time It Money.
In Korea, both among prosperous
Christians and among those to whom
money is a hasty and Infrequent vis
itor, a favorite subscription blank is
one which says: "I promise to give
days to church work this year."
The days thus given are devoted to
evangelistic services or to the building
of churches and schools. —World Out
look.
No Person Has Seen the Sun.
Astronomers aver that no one has
ever seen the sun. A series of concen
tric shells envelops a nucleus of which
we apparently know nothing except
that it must be almost Infinitely hotter
than the fiercest furnace, and that it
must amount to more than nine-tenths
of the solar mass. That nucleus is the
real sun, forever hidden from us. The
outermost of the enveloping shell is
about 5,000 miles thick, and is called
the "chromosphere."
Opium.
Opium is the dried juice of the white
poppy, a flower that grows In many
parts of Asia. A few days after the
flowers have fallen off the plants men
go through the fields in the afternoon
and make little cuts in the poppy head.
Out of these cuts a milky juice ooz.es,
which dries into a brown, sticky paste.
Every mornlnir the men go through the
fields again and scrape off this paste,
which they put into jars. Later on
it is made into half-pound balls and
then packed for shipment.
Just a Little One. Maybe.
While to be sure we believe George
Washington never told a lie we al»
ways wili wonder how he got around
it if Mrs. Washington ever asked him
if he didn't think her new way of
serving parsnips made them perfectly
delicious. —Macon Telegraph.
Hew Could He!
"I'm terribly worried I wrote Jack
in my lust letter to forget that I had
told him I didn't mean to reconsider
my decision not to change my mind,
and he seems to have misunderstood
me." —Life.
The Lee Family.
The Lee family of which Gen. Robert
E. Lee, commander of the Confederate
army during the Civil war. was a mem
ber, was of English origin. One of his
ancestors emigrated to Virginia In the
reign of Charles I, and the family was
prominent then, during and after the
Revolutionary war.—Columbus Dis
patch.
Not as Interesting.
i'<i know thyself is better than try
i. IT to find out all about the neighbors.
--Toledo Blade.