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(Copyright, 1917, by W. G. Chapman.)
“Bert Fleming never would have
looked at Grace Perry if she hadn’t’
some money.”
“Well, he’s rushing around there
pretty steadily. They go everywhere
together.”
“Il don’t know what he can see in
her. Oh, I suppose it's the money!
And she hasn't got it yet, either. It's
a year now since it was left to her,
and that will not settled yet.”
“Oh, well, you know she’s only one
of three heirs, and one of them is con-
testing it.”
The two women talking stood just in-
gide the entrance of a room crowded
with guests at an afternoon tea. A
girl had come up behind them just in
time to hear it all. At the mention of
her own name she had paused and lis-
tened. Then she stepped back into the
hallway to regain her composure before
entering. It had never entered her
mind that Bert Fleming did not love
her just for herself, that the fifty thou-
sand she would inherit played any part
in his devotion to her. She could not
believe it possible, and yet the thought
rankled. If it could be true!
“I can't give him up!” fer heart
eried out. “And yet—if I were sure of
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that, I would. There couldn't be any
kappiness in such a marriage. Never!”
She went back among the guests, but
the words of the two gossips were
whizzing through her brain and tug-
ging at her heart.
The elder of the two, the one ‘who
bad spoken first, she knew, and the
woman met her as though she had been
frer dearest friend. Grace made no
difference in her response. After all,
it might be all true, and we can’t ex-
pect too much. of the ordinary human
creature. Grace was not of the ordi-
nary. She was a girl who thought,
who had high aspirations, and who be-
lieved that life need not be plodding
and commonplace, which would ac-
count for the woman of low level not
seeing anything in her.
The next evening she said to young
Fleming: “I thought that contestant’s
claim was settled, but it seems not. I
may never get that meney.”
“Well, money is a good thing to
have,” he said. “For your sake I hope
you get it; but if you don’t we can
worry along on my salary, can’t we?”
“I could—and I wouldn't worry,” she
laughed.
Whereupon Bert's answer was to
take her face between his hands and
kiss her eyes and smiling mouth.
It seemed while he was with her she
eould never again let a doubt of him
enter her mind. But the néxt day it
eame at times with a little stinging
pain.
; Bert brought to see her an old
friend, a college chum, Jack Fisher by
name, He had lately entered the law
firm that was administering the will
of which she was one of the heirs. He
became interested in the girl and
ealled occasionally on a pretext of bus-
fness. On one of these occasions Grace
told him what she had overheard at
the tea. She wondered the next mo-
ment why she had made a confidant of
this man. But she was beginning to
Be overwrought, well-nigh obsessed
with the idea that Fleming might be
influenced by the little legacy, and she
must have some proof of his real de-
votion, It was so easy to make pro-
testations.
‘ Fisher stood up stoutly for his
friend.
“Bert isn’t that sort,” he protested.
“I'd bank on him any time. Why, he
just thinks you're the only one in the
world. You're some girl te him.”
a wonderful girl, or that anyone could
see—""
“There!” he broke in.
ting morbid! - That cat of a woman
has got you wuzzy. Cut it out!”
The advice, if slangy, was good, and
Grace tried to follow it, but Jack Fish-
er, being an observant person, could
‘see, as he expressed it, that “it got in
on her.” He was also becoming aware.
of a fact which promised some rather
painful complications. He could not
disguise from himself that he was be-
ginning to care more for Grace than
was compatible with loyalty to his
friend. Then commenced the struggle
between desire and renunciation, rea-
son and sophistry, the angel and the
devil which is in every human crea-
ture.
One evening Fisher came in on the
two in Grace's home. He looked trou-
bled, and seemed to try to cover it by:
rattling on in a superficial way. Final-
ly he said: “It’s not exactly pleasant to
—to have to tell you why I came; but,
you see I'm right there in the office,
and I get things before outsiders, cliy
‘ents, or others, and I thought it was:
up to me to—to—"
“For heaven's sake out with it! Don't:
keep us guessing!” cried Fleming.
“Well, the case has gone against you,
Miss Perry. It doesn’t look as thofigh
they would allow you a cent.”
She looked blankly at him, then she
said quietly: “Well, I suppose I shall
go on living.”
“I guess 80,” said Fleming.
“Please don’t let on to anyone I've
told you,” he added. “It wouldn't do
to have them know I had spoken be-
fore you were notified from the office;
but I thought I ought to tell you.” And,
making an excuse of an engagement,
he took his departure.
Two days after this, Fisher called
Grace #n the telephone and asked if
she would see him. On receiving an
affirmative answer he lost no time in
getting there,
“Well,” he asked, coming directly to
the point, “how. are things between
you and Bert? How did he take the
news? You have confided in me—and
I have a right to know.”
“Yes,” she answered, “you have.
You were right about Bert. You can
‘bank on him’ every time. I am hu-
miliated, ashamed to think I harbored
those ideas for a minute. Oh, he was
so dear about it! What do you think?
right away—at least in about a week,
He says he wants to take me away
somewhere to get the disappointment
off my mind.”
“That's like him,” said the man. “I
would always have thought that. But,
to tell the honest truth, when it came
to this affair—when you began to have
doubts—perhaps they somehow lodged
in my mind—I began to have them, too.
And—well, I might as well make a
clean breast of it—I began to care so
much for you myself—I couldn't bear
to think you might be going to a man
who wasn’t worthy of you. I had to
know. Ihad to see him proved.”
She looked a. him with growing
amazement,
“Why, I never dreamed that you—
What do you mean——that you had to
see him ‘proved? ”
“It wasn't true, not a word of that
news I brought. The money is yours
all right. But I tell you I had to know.
Good old Bert! He deserves you! 1
wish him—ijoy.”
There was a break in his voice, and
he turned quickly to go, but she caught
at his hand, pressing it warmly.
“You are a real friend,” she *said.
“Bert will want you to be his ‘best
man.’ ”
Wisdom of the Donkey.
A donkey can learn wisdom from ex-
perience. Thales was a Greek philoso-
pher of old times, and he had a very
philosophigal mule. This humble crea-
ture, without pride of ancestry or hope
of posterity, was employed in carrying
salt from the place where it was pre-
pared to the place where it was used.
The intelligent donkey made the jour-
ney back and forth alone. One day,
in crossing the streiim, which had been
swollen by rains, he found the salt in
the bags on his back, becoming soaked
with the water, leaked out, making
the wet sack much lighter to carry
than the dry load of salt. The next
load he carried, he waded in where the
water was deep, and unloaded himself
again. He kept this up until his owner
set a watch over him, and found him
wandering about the bed of the stream
trying to find a pool deep enough to
relieve him of his load of salt. Here
is where tHe wisdom of animals be-
comes foolishness to men. They put a
couple of sacks of wool upon his back,
and this, absorbing water, loaded him
heavier. Here the mule gave up his
fight with mankind.
A Justifiable Blow.
Ever punctual himself, King George
III expected similar punctuality in oth-
ers. Lord Hertford knew and respect-
ed his royal master’s wishes. So one
day, when he had an appointment at
Windsor for twelve o'clock, he was
overwhelmed at hearing the clock
strike the noon hour just as he was
passing through the hall. Furious at
being a minute late, he raised his cahe
and smashed the glass of the clock's
face. The king, knowing nothing of
the episode, let him off with a slight
reprimand. ;
The next time that the earl called
on the king, however, he was received
less graciously.
“Hertford,” said his majesty, “how
came you te strike the clock?”
“The clock struck first, Your Ma-
She gave him a little pleased, grate-
ful look.
“I couldn’t believe here was any- |
thing that wasn't stroag, fine and sin- |
¢ere about him,” sk i “Buf, you |
see, I can’t believe I'm the least bit of |
jesty,” was Hertford’s immediate re-
| joinder. :
The aptness of the speech and the!
mock solemnity of the culprit in de- |
livering it won the king’s laughter and i
forgiveness.--Youth’s Companion,
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He insists on the wedding taking place”
: When in Doubt Choose Taffeta
“When in doubt, choose taffeta,” for
everywhere fashion decrees it the
ideal silk for afternoon suits and
frocks and for the simpier evening
dresses. By virtue of the fabric a sim-
ple suit of taffeta is more formal and
dressy than a plain cloth suit and all
the chances are that it will ‘cost less
in time and money, to make it. In
addition to these advantages there is
the matter of color to be considered.
Colors that verge on thé insipid in
materials that lack luster, are won-
derfully attractive in taffeta.
There never was a material that the
home dressmaker can handle more
easily or one that lends itself better
to the making of trimmings. The pret-
ty sult of taffeta shown in the picture
illustrates all these advantages which
account for the perennial popularity
of this long and well-loved silk, It is
a simple model with several distin-
giaishing touches that rescue it from
the commonplace in designing.
The skirt is straight, hanging from
a plain, broad girdle of the silk which
fastens at the side. It is finished at
the bottom with a ruching of the taf.
feta having a picot edge. This rughing
tends to make the skirt flare, but its
ambition in that direction is/held in
check by a narrow grosgrdin ribbon
that is threaded through slashes in the
silk, just above the ruching. This ap-
parently helps the skirt from depart-
ing from the straight and narrow way
of new skirt fashions. The ribbon
matches the silk in color.
The bottom of the blouse, or coat,
whichever you choose to call it, is en-
couraged to stand off from the figure
by the ruching. It attains by this
means the wide hip effect which fash-
ion permits to those who find it be-
coming. The coat is finished with a
deep cape collar, trimmed with ruch-
ing, and a baggy pocket at each side.
It is confined at the waist with a girdle
of. taffeta with looped-over ends at the
front.
A white gollar of some kind appears
to. be always in the mind of those who
create styles in taffeta sujts or dresses.
The collar may be of white crepe or
Srgandle or even of heavier fabrics.
Exposition of Midsimmor Blouses an
The exposition of blouse fashions
for summer is completed, with great
credit deserved by those who launch
the styles. Unless the unexpected hap-
pens, nothing new will be added to it
and certainly nothing is needed. In-
dications point to all white in mid-
summer styles as preferred over
blouses in vivid colors that captivated
us ‘all when they made their appear-
ance for spring. But, even so, all
white may divide honors with pale
colors and combinations of color, in
fabrics so sheer that they will look
cool in any shade. -
Anyway, the dainty, white blouse
will always be a safe choice for any
season. Nothing exceeds it for ele-
gance and therefore it cannot lose
the allegiance of women. For mid-
summer wear it is made in silk and
cotton materials mainly, but fine sheer
jinen always figures among high priced
models in the most authoritative dis-
plays. .
A blouse of fine, cotton voile and
sne of crepe de chine chosen as rep-
resentative of two good styles, are
shown in the picture. Each shows
pretty new touches—where experience
of the season’s tendencies lead us to
took for them—in the sleeves and col-
lar. These models are commendable
from every standpoint.
The blouse of fine voile is made with
two wide and a group of three narrow
tacks at each side of the front and
has a plain back. The rather full, plain
sleeves are gathered into a deep cuff,
having a panel of embroidered voile
ser in lengthwise. All seams are hem-
stitched and there was never anything
of greater decorative impo:tance than
this hemstitching. ~The coBar is Cut
form a deep, square cupe at the
back and is extended into long tabs
over the shoulder and narrow, square
revers at the neck. A dainty pattern
in embroidery appears on the revers,
tabs and cape and narrow, heavy lace
edging makes the finish for edges.
The tailored blouse of crepe de chine
is so plain that it hardly needs de-
scription. Deep, two-piece cuffs flare
at the wrists and large pearl buttons
take care of the fastenings. Smaller
buttons are used tp make a consistent-
ly tailored finish for the collar and
i 2” Lindy
The Military Touch.
Smart little cone-shaped bunches of
red and yellow wrinkled berries are
pointed toward the heavens shout the
crown tip of a boat-shaped red milan
turban. Gray novelty braid is made
into a military turban with the high
front turned back from the face and a
‘sort of chain arrangement across the
base in the front wrapped in gray
metallized ribbon and connected at ei-
ther side to the back by bands of
gray georgette.
Steel beads are used for a smart
ornament with a high spike of jet com-
ing from the center and this is posed
on a military turban of black-and-
white novelty straw with the crown tip
of white georgette.
Buttermilk Cleans Sponges.
Sponges that are sticky urd clogged
with soapy water may be cleaned by
soaking for 24 hours in buttermilk;
rinse thoroughly under the tap, first
in warm, then in cold waiier! dry in a
current of alr,
is abundant there is no excuse for the
‘added at the last, then give a good
4 to be sufficiently men and women, to
vegetables with meat and cook them
spoonfuls of drippings or olive oil, one
Let us question the thinkers and doers,
And hear what they honestly say,
And you 1 find they believe, like bold
woe:
In “where there's a will, there's a
way.’
ECONOMY IN CAKE MAKING.
We are slowly coming to realize that
other fats besides butter may be used
and result in a sue-
cessful cake. An-
other idea seems
to prevail that
milk is another es-
§ sential; water, cof-
fee, fruit may all
be used to take the
place of milk, Of
course where milk
economy, but with milk ten and even
fifteen cents a quart the expense may
be saved.
The tedious process of creaming the
butter and sugar is not necessary for ||
an every-day cake; the fat may be
warmed not melted, then it mixes
quickly; the eggs beaten and added
first, the whites folded in at the last.
Another and still shorter cut is per-
formed.in the following manner—beat
the eggs with the sugar, add flour and
other ingredients used and stir in the
melted butter or fat at the last, then
give the cake a good beating and see
what .a tasty fine-grained cake you
have with little time expended.
When using any fat instead of butter,
salt must be added to bring out the
flavor. Pastry flour is smoother in
texture than bread flour and cakes and
pastry made from it are fine-grained
aud better texture. It does not need
the many siftings which bread flour
seems to require,
Fats skimmed from the tops of soups
Is vegetables have not been copked in
It, drippings from roasts and chicken
fat are all good fats to use in cake
making. When the fat is melted and
added last, the cake ‘should not be
stirred much until after the fat is
added, then give it a good beating, by
stirring before, it seems to toughen the
texture.
Prune Cake.—Three eggs, one cuptul
of powdered sugar, three tablespoon-
fuls of sour cream, two cupfuls of
floyr, (two tablespoonfuls or less if you
use bread flour), one teaspoonful of all-
spice, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, a
cupful of cooked, finely cut prunes,
half a teaspoonful of soda and three-
fourths of a cupful of melted butter
beating.
To do our own thinking, listening
quietly to the ‘opinions of othets, but |
act always Upon our own convictions.
—Creed of the Open Road. +
A FEW LOW COST DISHES. :
To reduce’ the meat bill combine
together in various ways,
this saves the meat as a
small portion with a gen-
erous helping of vege-
tables supplies a good
main dish.
Hungarian Goulash.—
Seven people may be
well served with this
recipe: Take a pound of
lean veal, half a pound
of lean beef, three table-
large onion, three cupfuls of boiling
water, one teaspoonful of paprika, 12
potato balls, six small button onions,
six carrot balls, six turnip balls, one
teaspoonful of salt, one bay leaf, one
clove, four tablespoonfuls of flour, half
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Life,
GREEN'S AUB
FLOWER
Has a Record of 50 Years of
« . Success
Correcting impurities in the stomach,
gently acting on the bowels. Stirs
up the liver and makes the ‘despond-
ent dyspeptic enjoy life. It is high-
ly recommended for biliousness, indi-
gestion, ete. Always keep a bottle of
August Flower handy for the first
symptom of these disorders. You may
Capable Couple. ca
a pint of water, and one chopped chili
pepper. Slice the onion and brown it
in the fat, remove the onion and add
the meat cut in small pieces, brown
these well, remove the meat te a cas-
serole, add paprika and water, cover
the dish and place in the oven. Fry
the potato, carrot, turnip and onion
balls in hot fat, add them to the meat
after it has simmered an hour and a
half. Add salt, pepper, cloves, bay
leaf and flour mixed with cold water,
pour this into the casserole and stir
until smooth, add the pepper with a
cupful of boiling water.
let simmer for another hour and a
half. Serve from the casserole.
Cornish Pasties.—Cut half a pound
of mutton into small pieces; add half
a pound of peeled diced potatoes, one
chopped onion, one teaspoonful of
chopped parsley, half a teaspoonful of
salt and a querter of a teaspoonful of
pepper and two tablespoonfuls of wa-
ter. Roll out thin a plain pastry, cut
it in large rounds and place a heap
of the mixture in the center, wet ths:
edges, press together and crimp with
the fingers. Brush each .over with a
beaten egg and bake in a hot oven for
three-quarters of an hour. Serve hot.
Spanish Codfish.—Parboil a cupful
of shredded codfish; melt two table- 4
spoonfuls of butter, add a chopped
onion and two cupfuls of tomatoes,
fry for five minutes. Stir in one ta-
blespoonful of flour, then add a cupful
of water or stock, a tablespoonful of
chopped parsley and_a little pepper. J
Cook slowly for ten minutes, add the
codfish and simmer for thirty min-
utes. Serve hot on buttered toast.
Auy mixture of meat rolled up and
tied In cabbage leaves, then cooked for
an hour or more makes“a delicious
dish and adds variety.
Sour milk which has been allowed to
sour unskimmed, if sprinkled with nut- -
meg and brown sugar makes a most
palatable. dessert.
Morgue
Cover and’
feel fine today, but how about tomor-
row? Remember that “an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure,”
and that it is both painful and expen-
sive to be sick. For sale by druggists
in all parts of the civilized world in
25 and 75 cent bottles.—Adv.
.Antediluvian Optimism.
“It's going to be a terrible deluge,”
remarked Japhet. 4
“Yes,” replied Noah. .But we're
lucky in having a good clean oceam
ahead of us and no submarines in it.”
FRECKLES
Now Is the Time to Get Bid of These
Ugly Spots.
There's no longer the slightest need of
feeling ashamed of your freckles, the
prescription othine — double strength — is
Sugrant food to remove these homely spots.
Simply get an ounce of othine—double
strength—from Jour druggist, and apply a
little of it night and morning and eS
should soon see that even the worst f
have begun to disappear, while the Tiehtos
ones have vanished entirely. It is seidom
that more than one ounce is needed to com-
pletely clear the skin and gain a beautiful
Clear complexio mn.
jure to ask for the double strength
othie, as Sue is sold under guarantees of
Honey back if it fails to remove freckles.—
Adv.
Takes Less Time Occasionally.
The Highbrow (thoughtfully)—The
tide moves a lot in 20 years.
The Lowbrow (who got stung on a
suburban land -scheme)—It moved
mine overnight.—Puck.
Pa’s Fun.
“What is your father’s favorite
amusement?”
“Joshing ma, I guess.”
Chickens are long in coming out of
unlaid eggs.
A well-bred dog goes out when he
sees ‘that he is to be kicked out.
When Your Eves Need Care
Try Murine Eve Remedv
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