♦ ,J# | UNWELCOME GUESTi | | | % By JACK LAWTON. [•* t -Jl t The married life of Beatrice and Billy had been ideally happy. But when he entered the little flat one day and gave to Beatrice a letter, Bil lie's manner was constrained. "It's from aunt," lie explained terse ly, "wants to come and visit us." "Not," Beatrice saild, "your Aunt Drusilla, Billy?" "Being that Aunt Drusilla is the only aunt I possess, it is naturally herself." His tone was pettish. Beatrice's soft eyes filled with tenrs. "But Billy," she protested, "we just can't have her. We've been so bliss ful alone. Your father* has always held up this sister of his as a para gon housekeeper. You know how very particular your mother says she was about—everything. She's unmarried, of course, and will criticize me, and my lack of system, and oh! you needn't tell me —" as Billy ventured a remonstrance —"I know that exem plary kind of woman. She will be the snake in our Eden." Beatrice caught herself up. "How long is she going to stay, Billy V The young husband avoided his wife's aggrieved eyes. "About a month, she says," he re plied. Beatrice stiffened defiantly. "Well, she won't stay a month here," she said. "Aunt Drusilla writes," Biliy sug gested, "thnt she is longing to meet her new niece. She hasn't seen me since I was almost a kid. She was going to be married then, I remember, but something broke it off.'' "Her own exacting disposition prob ably," Beatrice spitefully remarked. "That's not quite fair of you," Billy defended. His wife smiled. "You see," she said, "she's begin ning to make trouble between us al ready." Trouble indeed seemed to fall to Billy's lot. Mentally he blamed, the nunt who insisted upon thrusting her presem e where the presence of two, was nil sufficient. And upon the day of Annt Drrsilla's arrival Beatrice fell ill. I In vain Billy telephoned various women helpers. The helpers were busy. As a last resort, and though his pocket book could ill afford it, Billy sought a nurse's agency. No nurse could be promised within three days at least And though the malady from which "Beatrice suffered was not necessarily serious, the doctor assured him that she must have immediate care. Billy himself prepared his wife's breakfast coffee before he went to meet the inevitable Aunt Drusilla, and Beatrice made a face over the coffee. "It's horrid," she said, ungracious ly, "and you must insist upon taking your aunt to a hotel. She can't stay here now. You see that —" The voice ended in an invalid's wall. Billy hurriedly beat a retreat. Billy considered his problems as he hurried bis little car toward the sta tion. and when he saw his waiting and half-forgotten aunt, his perplexity grew. Here was not a quiet old body to be lightly disposed of, but a smiling and assured person in pleasing attire, her shrewd eyes twinkling at his from be neath waving hair. "My dear boy!" she cried, putting forth her gloved hand in greeting. Then, after his very brief response, an awful thing happened to Billy. Stooping in hurried embarrassment to •;tart the car's engite. the handle wrenched itself suddenly free from his grasp to deal him a terrible bio A. Billy, white with pain, knew what afterward proved to be true —that his arm was broken. It was Aunt Drusilla who gently forced him into the car, and her com petent self at the wheel, took him where prompt aid could be found. When the doctor had bandaged Billy Into relief, Aunt Drusilla continued to drive the car home. White lipped and weak, Billy man aged to tell his aunt of his young wife's illness and of their now help less plight. Apologetically he sug gested a hotel as her own temporary refuge. Aunt Drusilla good humoredly waved his suggestion aside. "I wondered," she said laughingly, "why it was borne forcibly upou me that I must spend a month with you; now I know!" Beatrice's first intimation of her un welcome guest was when a sweet faced woman bent sympathetically over her bed, proffering, as she intro duced herself, an invitingly arranged luncheon tray. "Billy has had an injury to his arm." the new aunt informed her, "and I have made him comfortable upon the couch. "Now, sit up dearie, and let us get acquainted while you sample my cook ing. lam so glad that I happened to come where I'm needed." The blue eyes twinkled through their glasses. "I'm going to have such a lovely time." Aunt Drusilla said, "fixing you and Billy up." "Oh! we must not impose—" began Beatrice. But the little aunt silenced her with a smile. "My dear!" she exclaimed, "this lit tle service will be my pleasure. I am so glad that I cameV' Impulsively Beatrice held out her arms. "I am glad, too," she said, her eyes ' met the oMer woman's honestly. (Copyright, 1919, Western Newspaper Union) i KPROUL FULLY » a 11' jpv A f- f*+ z m 4 * .»*** •• Jc • * os --air 4 w vi' '£» %k- ■ its - - > - governor Says Christmas J .«e is Potenj rorce Back 01 State health Program. Harrisburg, Pa—Governor William C. 4 Sproul sees in the Christinas Ked Cross Seal Sale oue ol' the mos.. po tent now btd n g used to eniisc the public bark of the stales pu l.c health cnmpa'gn. "Oniy the CO • »pei at ion of the p'lo ]]<j-. ' Coventor Kjpe'd, who s honorary chairman of the state sea. con mittee, "will make it possible) for the s;ate adequately to < • al with the ..ti'ious uisease problems that lace '"We cannot hone to prevent all d.s ea«e. But we can properly hope to go far in the .direction of preventing •:i - nbi • disc s>. We can reduce he dai! rs <»i" contagion. But in every health movement it is necessary that the public and* the state work along the sana lines. '"The <'j• ;■ is" j* us lied Cross Seal has back of it the lorce o. Chi':Simas seminmnt. " But it also stands for practical endeavor. The raids ra'sed by ib*' -eal sab v are us-d to bring j home to all of .our people a realiza tion of ihe fact that the white plague can be conquered and a knowl edg - o} how to conquer it. i i;e : < iiris i.>:»• < -ai is inrimately associat i I ivith tlie i :f Id victim of the white plague. If we can so orfer soc'ety tlait the children are safe from tlm white plague, we are •»n a fair way to soh ii>g our proMcin. "The private agencies that are fi ] minced by means of the seal >«". e co ol • rate. I 'understand, with the state : department >f health, and paricularly with th. 1 bureau of tuhercui >s's an 1 the h ral tuberculosis diSpes s.irii •. "In short ;lie s ;il sai heips in k it ]K)Sft b'e to alig> the p ibli * back oT the stltte's henbh program. And for that reason it has my cordial endorsi men:, as well as the app.O' ill of the sta' denarii '.en. >f health.'' TU 3S TC ; J L Of" IG C~OV 7. /> SY?<3o' OF CHARITY AMO HELP TO HUMANITY The double red < rox> a.> a xymbm or emblem of the •u*ga dxations tight ing the while plague has been in use ' for seventeen years. It was his adopted for this purpose by the In e;- i>mfl Anti-Tuberculosis Associa tion in Berl'n in October. 100". It was' proposed by L)r. C, Sersir-. u. of i?aris. !>;•. Sersiron took the shape of this cross from rhe common < I ro'\* de Lor raine and tfie cross of the Greek Catholic church. Today this emblem is used'by anti-tubeYculosis work* . - all over the world. 'i h N'atio. a ,\ss »cia?ioii for the S.udy and Prevention of Ttf ercul- > 's cros for use in die United Stales. Neither the form nor the prepo ion.- worn specified and the result was > varietj ol Shapes jim! proportions. lie cause of this conditi ■ d e National As^ocintiomdn 1019 appointed a spe eial committee to consider the design and the dimensions of the double 'jar red cross as the < for all anti tuberculos's organizations in the United Stares. The committee report-, ed in favor of a double cross with oqual cross arms, the upper standard ! being shorter and the lower standard longer than rhe cr*— arms: the ends of both arms an i standards being poin'u d instead of square. This design was fixed upon for these reasons: Because the design selected is furthest removed from any design hiding a religious significance. Because it is furthest removed from the well-known emblem used by the American Red Cross. Because its v. id. spread use in this country by many anti-tuberculosis over a long oer'ed e p years has associated it in the pub lic mind with tiie inberetiiosis move " nient. The two crosses, the Croix de Lor raine and the cross of the Greek Cetho]'.- "-hurch, united ?n '-ornfng the i ieivi —'s cross, are symbolic of charity and help to humanity. YOUR CHANCE TO BECOME BOND HOLDER OF HEALTH ! - i k A new feature of the Christmas Red Cross Seal Campaign this fall is the Health Bond. Health Bonds are used as substitutes for seals in cases where persons do not care to accept stalls, at one * cent each, for the amount of their j subscription. The seals come in S denominations Of five, ten, twenty- | ji five, fifty and one hundred dol- j i lars. The Health Bonds can be s 'j bought by a person who wishes'to j | devote any one of the sums men- i | tioned Cq the fight on tubercu- 1 ; losis and the improving of the ! ] public health and does not want I 5 seals. Liberty Bonds return interest in ] j I money. Plealth Bonds return n- f teres' in good health, for Health j ».on Is will help ti' improve th.e ; i health of you • community and ■ your neighlvors. and your health ] depends partly upon the health < of your neighbors. j YOUR St'iY.3oL OF HOPE 111 ' I This is the emblem of the tubercu losis organizations which sponsor the i sale of Red Cross Seals at the Christ : mas season. In this state the organ ization is the Pennsylvania Society | for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, ; which has affiliated societies in many ; communities. REo GfoSS SEAL | FUNDS MANY OSES State and Local Tuberculosis Societies oarry on IViuch Constructive and defi nite toork. Proceeds from the sale of Red Cross Seals finance the Ih.h. on Tuberculo j sis. This work in Pennsylvania is carried on under the direction of the Pennsylvania Society for the Preven tion of Tuberculosis. This associa tion has local organizations in many localities which conducted the com munity work. , The largest proportion of the money j coming from the sale of seals stays in the community in which the seals j are sold. A small portion goes to the | State Society. j The State Society and its associat j ed branches carry on a definite and 1 construct•%"('.work for eradicating the white plague and the improving of the ' public health. Following are the uses to which i Red Cross Seal funds are applied: Aiding in the work of the Penn i sylvania Society, which lias a con i struct ive program for the preven j tion of tuberculosis, and organizes, I co-ordinates and unifies measures j for the fulfillment of the program. Co-operating with the state de partment of health, particularly in 1 the bureau of Tuberculosis Sana toria, the local tuberculosis dispen saries, and the state health exhibit; and with local departments of health, for the promotion of all I forms of anti-tuberculosis work. Carrying on direct educational . work as to the nature, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis, such ] educational work being addressed ; to securing the adoption of defin ! nite community activities in the anti-tuberculosis campaign. Propaganda efforts for the estab ! lishment and operation by public authorities of survey, nursing, clin ic, hospital, sanatorium, .day or night camp, open-air school or class, or other kindred agencies. Educational and other work for safeguarding infants, school chil dren, industrial employes, and oth ers from tuberculosis infection, and for increasing their powers of re sistance to such infection. Looking after men rejected in the draft because *they had tuber culosis and also soldiers leaving the army with impaired health. Names have been secured from the surgeon general's office and tuber culosis workers are hunting out these men. Employment of nurses for tuber culosis surveys or for assisting and nursing the sick, securing admission to hospitals and sanatoria, giving instruction in the home for safe guarding other members r»f the fan> ily and the public. Aiding in the work and develop | ment of the state dispensaries for | the diagnosis and treatment of tu i berculosis, demonstrating the need of. and, if necessary, temporarily operating open-air schools or fresh air classes for children. Establishment and. if need be, temporary operation of preventoria for pre-tuberculous cases, or chil dren's divisions of sanatoria or hos pitals. In an emergency, payment in whole or in part for maintenance of patients in hospitals or sana toria. After-care, that is, advice, em ployment, and relief of patients leaving sanatoria as arrested and cured. Relief, of whatever medical or material form m.-y be needed for families in which i .re s a e.is > of tuberculous which eanno- he plac ed in ° hosnPal Relief which n. y be needed to enable a :.1 w':<> is a bread winner or •<< • raker of far ily to accept h« sj.irai c; re. K* >• M w. y.UNDERS|S By BERN ICE CONE. L» 3S 3 X' SQB&. T r_ .. I3BH jy-J Maida Lane, teacher at Primary No. 5. shrugged into her yellow sweater and went out. locking the door of the empty school house after her. She had always loved yellow. It was, she said, the color of spring sunshine and daffo dils. Unfortunately it was also the col or of a slip of paper that rustled hate fully in the sweater pocket as she walked—a telegram from Phil Drew. "Due in New York Monday, 10 a. m. Bride with me," it announced cheer fully. "Bride with me"' had resolved itself into a maddening refrain. Everything that she did kept time to it. The road from the scljoolhouse to her heme was an unfrequented one. A little way down it stood a great red oak tree. Bob was waiting there as usual. Quite suddenly Maida threw her arms around his neck and sur prised herself by sobbing her heart out against his ton coat. "Woof!" said the collie huskily; "Woof!" "The worst of it is. Bob," said the girl, sitting up at length. "I haven't the right to feel this way, even. Just because you've gone with a fellow all through high school doesn't make you engaged to him. And if he enlists and goes across the water, and you knit for him. and pray for him. and write j to him. nnd he writes to you. and you send him candy nnd and things. anU he sends you souvenirs, and —and —why, you haven't any call to resent it if he gets married, have you? And there's no reason at all why you should get bitter over it." "And. Bob," continued the dog's rnis , tress earnestly, "if you've so far for gotten your human nature as to be too frankly happy when the letters came, and too openly puffed up over the sou venirs. why. then, you must expect Brookville to smile a little, and pry a little, and pity you some when you receive a telegram like . this. "So be awfully nice to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Drew, but not too nice, or Brookville will know how we feel —and that's one thing, Bob: Brookville may , gross that we feel badly, but if's never going to know absolutely certain, sure. Come on, boy; let's be happy! Race you!" With a brave little attempt at laugh ter from Maida and a joyous bark from Bob they were off. On Monday afternoon, as the teacher of No. 5 again reached for her yellow sweater, a shadow fell across the schoolhouse floor. She looked up quickly. Phil Drew's six feet fired-the door frame. The sunlight buck of hiin gave to his figure the illusion of a statue done in bronze. Maida's heart began to beat a glad welcome that was as quickly drowned in the refrain, "Bride with me." She held out her hand formally. "Phil Drew!" she exclaimed, with a smile nnd what she considered the proper amount of polite interest. "I'm so glad to see you back again!" The bronze statue blinked in amazed chagrin. "Didn't you get my telegram?" It demanded. "Of course. It was so thoughtful of you to let me know just when you were coining. T want to congratulate you," she continued sweetly. "It will , give me a jrrent deal of pleasure to meet Mrs. Drew." "Huh?" inquired the bronze one, too dozed for elegance of speech. "I'm looking forward to meeting Mrs. Drew," Maida repeated, slightly puz zled in her turn. "Your—your telegram said—" "That we were due at ten." inter rupted Phil. "I hoped you'd meet me." "Why—" she faltered. "I—l didn't think you would want me to." Phil frowned. "Look here, Maida." h - protested. "I don't know what you're driving at. but you don't seem over joyed to see me, that's sure. If there's someone else, why don't you say so, and not —" "No." said Maida with the tragic finality of eighteen, "there will never be anyone else for me." Lieutenant Philip Drew seized hun grily upon this assurance, and would have seized hungrily upon Maida. but that lady indignantly pushed him away. Her eyes blazed angrily, but there was a hint Of tears in her voice. "I think you're the f-funny one." she said, thrusting the telegram into his hands, "to send me this, and then come here and pretend —" "Ha. ha!" vociferated Lieutenant Phil, when he read the message. "That' s * ricji —'Bride with — '. Say. girlie, did you honestly think —why that's Tom Pride —you know. I wrote, you about him, my buddy—he's over at the house now; home with me—best fellow that ever lived. Just a little mistake in capital, that's all. 'Bride with—' no, sweetheart. I had to come home to get one of those." - • i (Copyright, 1M.9. McClure Newspaper Syn dicate.) Sad Is Sad, A mother, who was rather fond of the cheaper 10. 20. 30-cent melo dramas. one afternoon took daughter, who had grown to consider herself above that sort of thing. The daughter was bored, but the mother was greatly interested, and finally, when the heroine had got into a seemingly inextricable position, broke down and sobbed heartily. "Mother. I wouldn't cry here." whis pered the daughter significantly, ac centing the last word. "Let me alone." repkied the other, hysterically. "If a thing is sad. it's sad; I can't cry according to price."— Life. I WILSON'S WORDS CLEARUP DOUBT CALIFORNIA THROWS OVER TS LEADER, JOHNSON, AND RALLIES TO LEAGUE. v¥EST GIVES HIM OVATION Ail Doubtful Features of Pact Are Explained Away By President, and Former Doubt are Hasten to Give Him The r Support. (By Independent . s Bureau, form erly Mt. Clemens. News ureau.) Aboard President v, iiron's Special Train —A continuous oa alien along the Pacific coast and then 0:1 his eastward way back toward the capital was given to President Wilson as he came toward the end of his month daylong ; peaking tour in behalf of the League of Nations. Calif; rnia, particularly the delightful city of Los Angeles, went wild in it.- enthusiasm for him and his advocacy of the League, and it was in that state, perhaps, that he did his most successful missionary work. Hiram Johnson, California's former governor, now her United States sena tor, and considered by her as the most likely Republican candidate for the presidency in 1920, had before the ar rival of President Wilson, convinced a great number of citizens that the League as at present formulated was not a good thing. He had told them that the United States, because of it, would be drawn into every petty European quarrel; he argued that we would lose our sovereignty by joining with •-»*>*> TT° h 1 ■Limed the presici ■ 1 f j" -issentins t • the possession by * « i a.n of the Per.in ula of Shan Tun;; • China. BUREAU CHANGES NAME _ The Mount Clemens Newf- I Bun au, which has been furnishin. ! r ports on President Wilson's tour ] in behalf of the League of -Nation: t 5,500 papers, has adopted a new , | iv.) me and will h?-r«*after be known 1 as The Independ< at News Bureau. J Mr. W ] on., with clear logic ant: :i c.' :liug < ioquence, answeree th ■ entire sat: faction of Calif or . . people ever. objection which .•a:-)** Johnson had made to th* ■lO. And thou: ands of the state'? jliizeris deserted 'lie Johnson stand ■1 imm :-diately and rallied to the sup re of th > pre: ir ; More than tlvr they came forward and said, "We I were against you, Mr. President, but you have cleared everything up and now we are with you heart'and soul." Still more than that, they let Senator Johnson know that they were no longer with him and that they disap proved of the speaking tour which h > himself was making in opposition to the League and so powerful was tae volume of public opinion which reach | ed him, that the senator almost iiy , mediately abandoned his tour. Th Shan Tiing ques.ion, because of the ! anti-Japanese feeling vhich undoubt, i ly exists along the Pacific coast was | the most serious which the president liad to answer. He explained to the ' people-that he had been powerless to ' prevent the rich peninsula from being iven to Japan. England and France, through a secret treaty, had promised it to Japan for entering the war and remaining in it. That treaty had t be carried out. Anyway it was not | China that was losing Shan Tung, but Germany, which had seized the terri tory from China in 1898 and held it ever since. Japan had promised, the president explained, to return Shan Tung as soon as the peace treaty was ratified and it was only through the ratification of the treaty with the League of Nations inclusion, that China could ever expect to get her former property back. And she surely would get it back, he declared, through the ratification of the League. There fore, through the: same instrumentality no other nation could again prey upon the "Great, patient, diligent, but help less kingdom." As to our being drawn into any European conflict. The pres ident pointed out that no direct action such as the sending of troops to any part of the world to maintain or re store order could be taken by the Council of the League without a unani mous vote of the council members, therefore our vote could at once nega tive any such proposition as sending our soldiers where we did not want them sent. Besides, Mr. Wilson argued, "If you have to quench a fire in Cali fornia you don't send for the fire de partment of Utah." But, he argued. :here probably never will be another war, if the League is established, for the members promise either to arbi trate their difference and accept the decision of the arbitrator, lay the dif ferences for discussion and publica tion before the Council of the League for a period of six months, and then, if possible, accept the council's advice. That failing, they agree to refrain from war for a further period of three ;r onths and nine months of " cooling oa," the president contended, would irevent any armed conflict. These clear explanations satisfied every reasonable h c> arer and destroyed the "Bugaboos" which Senator Johnson and others had raised against the League. Through rugged Nevada into Utah, the land ol Mormons, the president swept to find hat those people were heartily with him for the League and & per* manency of peace.' .irrsrrTr mi—ma THE MAY BASKET j By GENEVA A. ELDREDGE. I Scent of apple blossoms tilled Cyn thia Smith's living room, a clumsy bee tumbled up and down the outside of the screen door, and now and then a swallow parted across the sunshine, his blue wings glistening. Away down the street sounded the rat-tat of a drum, and Cynthia heard the patter of children's feet runuing toward the town squas?. Still she sat tense and upright in the old-fashioned rocking chair, her mouth drawn in a straight hard line, her eyes fixed upon the work in her hands. The screen door squeaked on Its spring and a round-faced, brown-eyed little boy squeezed in, his eyes filled with surprise when he saw her sit ting there so stifT. her work in her hands, and he stammered a little as he said: "Wh-why, Aunt Cvnth, aint you going to meet the train and see the p-parade?" Soft and quick came her answer: "No, dear, not today." "But Aunt Cynth, they ain't goih' to be no more p-parade days, an' I got on my white suit, an' mother thought maybe you'd like to have a little boy what was all spic and span to go wiv you." And his little face grew wistful and troubled. He had never seen an Aunt Cynth like this before, so straight and strange. He meant to know before he left just why she was staying home the day everyone else in town was going down to welcome the boys from France. So he crept up close and whispered: "Ts it 'cause Joe ain't com !n\ auntie?" Tears sprang to her eyes as she gathered the little spic and span boy close. "Yes, Teddie boy, that's just why auntie isn't going. She can't bear It." Now that Teddle was sure he felt that lie ought to say something to help make auntie happier, so he said as he -roked her face with his fat' little hand: "Never mind, auntie; I've got a secret and maybe tonight 'bout dark you'll know it. Maybe right 'fore sn;.per. maybe right after, anyway, don't you come <>ul doors right that time, will you?" And auntie promised to stay In the house. Then hearing his mother call ing ho scampered away leaving Aunt Cynth alone with her thoughts. Slow ly she closed her eyes and In imagina tion saw the town square filled with people, llie tr in pulling in tilled with returning soldiers, the happy greet ings. and far ;yid faint she heard the band and the cheering. The hot tears trickled slowly down her face as she whispered, "And mine reported missing; my boy, who was the pride of my heart !" And then Ted die's happy little face seemed t<f shine out, and she remembered what 1 a comfort he had been all "the weary jmonths, "and now he is coming to hang me a May basket, bless his dear little heart, and 1 must cheer up for his sake. I think I will plan a little surprise myself." So she went into her dining room and set the pretty table, bringing in great bunches of apple blossoms to decorate it with until the room looked like fairyland in the pink and while dress. She frosted Utile round cakes and made an iced drink for the crystal glasses, and almost before she knew it, twilight came drifting down. The drums had ceased their rat-tat and happy voices called to one another In the street. "It's almost time for Ted die and his secret," she thought as she patted her hair into place. Then she heard steps tiptoeing up the board walk and a child's quick panting breath, and she smiled the old time glad smile that she used to greet the boy with who was missing tonight when he came to t hang May basket* at the very same door. When two fat fists pounded hard on the screen door she waited only long enough for a small boy to hide before she opened the door, to find a dainty little basket, all fringed and festooned and fairly bursting with candy kisses, setting on the step. "Why, how surprised 1 am," she said. "Who could have left this beau tiful little basket here? Surely it's a mistake: some little boy must have thougftf Susie Grimes lived here." Just then a small boy in white wrig gled out from behind the snowball bush and called breathlessly, "No, no. Aunt Cynth. 'tain't no 'stake, it's my secret and some more of it is hind the catalpa tree. You come see." But Just then a khaki-clad figure sprang out with wide-open arms, and then Ted's secret was out. "Oh, Joe," cried Aunt Cynth as she wept in his arms, "how you must have felt not to find me at the train to meet you." "That's all right, mother; I don't ! blame you under the circumstances. "When Ted told me his secret I thought I'd wait and surprise you. "Some May basket all around, hey? Say, Ted, it looks like frosted cake# and lemonade in the dining room; let'e hurry for mess." And as mother and son wiped the tears of gladness from their eyes, a little voice shrilled "out: "You won't never cry no griore on p-parade day, will you, Aunt Cynth?" (Copyright, McClurt- Newspaper Syn dicate.) No Housework for Them. "Well, the soldiers learned to wash and dook." "Yep, the present crop of nridea is going to have a perpetual cinch."
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