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The Genevieve Who Lost a Flavor
Do you remember when you wero a
sturdy, freckle-faced Jimmy-boy or a
baby Jenny-girl, about as high as the
table, and they had strawberries for
supper? Didn't you always save the
biggest and reddest and most beautiful
for the very last bite?
Of course you did. So did I: So did
everybody.
Well, so did the Genevieve I am go
ing to tell you about. And 130, espe
cially, did James.
This James was from the country a
very, very few years back, with n uni
versity and law school between him
and the days when ho used to bo en
gaged to a dear little girl down In the
homo neighborhood. But now he was
engaged to Janey, was this very tall
and handsome Jame3, who had the
most wonderful eyes, with the glinting
blaze of the true sapphire In them, and
black hair and broad shoulders, and a
smllo that would wile the birds off
even blackberry bushes, full of fruit,
and a voice well, a voico that was
just the point.
Janey was little, and sweet, and
loving, and very, very clever far more
clever than James thought she was at
the time. But not with the cleverness
that keeps such a James as her perma
nent possession.
This was the cleverness possessed
by Genevieve, who lived a few blocks
away, and who flirted her eyes at
James when she saw him, because It
was her nature to flirt her eyes when
eho saw a perfectly nice James about.
So, when his heart began to beat cu
riously at Genevieve and her flirty
eyes, James was not pleased. He
"Both Waiting for the Flavor of That
Strawberry."
meant to act llko a man. But after
awhile Janey's little heart cracked a
bit, and she said to James:
"I think wo had better say goodby,
James, for I do not think I care to
share a possession with Genevieve."
This was natural of Janey. but ex
tremely Injudicious, becauso. now that
ho felt ho would be doing nothing un
manly, James took tho freedom offer
ed him, whereas, down in tho breaking
heart or her, Janey hoped against hope
mat no would not take it.
Then he openly devoted himself to
Genevieve, and Genevieve, having ac
quired him, forgot all those flirty
glances or hers and declined to both
er much with James. Whllo her moth
er said: "Dear me, I wonder If ho sun
poses that Genevlevo would look at
him! He has nothing, positively noth
ing, and Is just a country boy. While
as for Genevieve!"
But James though and perhaps be
cause from tho country had all sorts
of good stuff in him, it appeared, and
attracted tho attention of Important
personages, who gavo him various
good openings, of every ono of which
he took immediate and energetic ad
vantage. While as for Genevieve!
Genevieve thought there was what
tho story book calls Another. But a
year or so passed, and then another
year or so, and Another said nothing
about it, and after awhile Another
went away and married another girl.
So Genevieve, who no longer smiled on
her birthday, cast a glance at James,
whom sho had kept put away In case
of a rainy day.
James, by this time, was rather an
important person to keep on the shelf,
and, in fact, ho had said from time to
time to Genevieve: "Co'mo and go
driving;" or "Como, and let us go to
the, club dance tonight;" or "Wo are
getting up a quiet little affair, and I
do hopo you will permit me." And
the little affair would be the impor
tant Bachelors' dance of the season,
and James would lead tho cotillon with
Genevieve.
After Another's injudicious mar
riage, Genevlevo found these things
very, very pleasant, just like some sort
of healing salve, perhaps. But the j
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HELEN HELP
heart of them seemed to be dying, for
James occasionally cast those glinting
eyes of his elsewhere, and felt few
qualms about it. But still he said
"Como and let us," because sho was
in his set and, it was pleasant that
way. Love her7 Why certainly.
Then, as sho felt him drawing a bit
away from her, Genevieve held out a
coy hand to James. And after a time
James said: "I have waited a long
time, Genevieve." And Genevlevo
said: "You need not wait any longer,
James."
They both 'expected a thrill, but it
failed to materialize. Genevlevo got
busy with her trousseau, which was of
an elaborateness, and James was tho
soul of devotion. But they were both
waiting for the flavor of that big straw
berry, and they couldn't seem to catch
It. Then James whispered to himself:
"This Isn't the biggest, this is Just the
sizes we have been having for sev
eral years; wait till we aro actually
married."
Genevlevo wasn't thinking so much
about the strawberry becauso she had
all those clothes of hers on her mind.
But even at that she could occasional
ly smack her lips at the spoon and
miss it.
Well! Then came the great day, and
tho church, and the six bridesmaids,
and tho matron of honor Genevieve
was about the last of her set and tho
touching incident that gavo heart In
terest to the occasion and lovely copy
to the society editor for James, as
well as Genevieve, now belonged to
quite tho first flight but always was
James watching for tho flavor of the
big strawberry.
It might come when ho slipped the
ring on but then he was sweating
with horror becauso he had almost
dropped it. It might come when tho
"Voico That Breathed O'er Eden"
wafted them down tho aisle but then
he was cold because ho had Just been
kissed by his mother-in-law, who wore
false teeth. It might come when he
put Genevlevo Into the carriage and
took his seat beside her, his own wlfo
but then they were flinging rice and
old shoes and tho rice got down his
collar. No flavor to the big straw
berry yet.
And they came back from their wed
ding tour, their honeymoon, and their
Hps were still undyed from the julco
of that biggest of .all strawberries.
And that is about all.
Except that, of course, it woulB
never do for Genevlevo to think about
Another, nor yet regret those years be
foro she told James "yes." It is al
ways best to wait until you know
your mind, of course it is.
And James, who is a man of affairs,
and gathers up money, and yes and
nover hears tho birds sing, must never
cast a glanco over his shoulder at tho
Janey-glrl he used to be engaged to,
and who is living a bravo and useful
life but all alone. That would be
very wrong. And still less would ho
give a twinkle of those now dull, bluo
eyes of his farther and farther back
to the red Hps of tho girl out in tho
country, tho girl whoso little doublet
ring is in his box of "remembers," be
causo she sent it back to him when
he had been two years at college and
grew careless about writing to her.
But, surely, they can think about
the fruit crop of this great land of ours
and what makes it seem to do queer
things after arriving at a certain stage
of ripeness?
It was the very finest berry in tho
dish and now tho old thing tastes Just
like a sandheap and no strawberry at
all!" Maybe Genevlevo doesn't say
this out loud. Very often Genevleves
do not say such things out loud; they
only feel them in tho weary, sorry
hearts of them.
"Tha berries aro losing their flavor
this year," mutters James to his empty
plate. "That big fellow looked fine,
tho one I saved to the last just as I
used to do when I was a kid. But
there wasn't a bit of flavor left. It
tasted, just like Just like ashes."
And James scowls at his plate a bit
and then shakes his broad shoul
ders and thinks to himself: "Thero
couldn't have been any" such flavor at
all, I am sure. It was Just becauso I
was a kid."
Me? I llko my berries with tho dew
on them!
(Copyright, by Associated Literary Press.)
No Vacancy for Him.
"Wo onco had a night clerk who
was an Englishman," said a New York
hotel manager. "You know tho call
lists, the sheets on which aro record
ed tho hours at which guests wish to
bo awakened in tho mornings, ar
made out in rows of 7 A. M., 7:30. 8:00
and so on. Well, ono night a lot of
people had loft calls for 7:30 when a
man camo up to tho Englishman and
said ho wanted to be awakened at that
hour. The clerk looked down the list
and found that all tho lines under 7:30
had been filled. Ho said to tho vis
itor: 'Really, I am very sorry, sir. but
we haven't another vacancy for 7:30.
But wa have some undor 7 and 8."
Ocular Testimony.
'How did Smith find out if ocean
traveling were good for tho health?"
"He went to sea."
Gets Good Training
Stenographer Will Find Big Of
fice Is Best Business School
for the Beginner.
DISCIPLINE IS INVALUABLE
Hard and Varied Work Will Keep Her
Mind Alert and Teach Her to
Adjust Herself to All
Kinds of People.
"The work hero is hard," said tho
manager of the big office whore there
aro more than fifty stenographers em
ployed, "but I don't think you'll regret
it if you como here. Our office is a
first-class training school. 1 don't
want you to come thinking you'ro go
ing to have a 'cinch,' but if you do
come and make good you'll And that
we appreciate it and that the training
you have had will more than compen
sate for the hard work."
His words proved true. Through
tears and tribulation the applicant
struggled through tho many difficul
ties in that big office, and when she
Anally took another position she fully
realized how Invaluable bad been the
experience sho had had in that big,
hard school.
To a stenographer who really wants
to becomo proficient In nor line of
work thero Is nothing like serving hor
novltiato in a big office. A girl who
goes directly into a small office, where
she is perhaps tho only stenographer,
or one of two or three, and stays
there, not only has nothing to com
paro her work with, but sho is with
out the stimulus Imparted by the feel
ing that ono is a part, if only a small
part, of a big, compact whole. To a
girl who Is inclined to hlnk that it
doesn't make any particular difference
whether she is punctual or not the
rigid discipline which must bo main
tained where there aro so many per
sons employed is tho best thing In the
world.
Tho timid girl learns to control her
nerves. She becomes accustomed to
being sent to take dictation from
strangers who may glare at her and
shout in a most distracting way It
she falls to grasp every word on the
instant She finds out Just where the
fine lino is drawn between intentional
rudeness and mere business abrupt
ness. She learns to adjust herself to
the many kinds of people with whom
she Is thrown In shnrp contact After
she has become thoroughly convinced
that sho Is the merest atom after all,
all the conceit having been extracted
from her system, leaving her humbly
resigned to the fact that she is of ab
solutely no consequence, she may be
surprised to find that some ono has
noticed her efforts to do good work,
and the thrill which comes with this
discovery is worth much past anguish
of mind.
The variety of work with which the
stenographer in a big office has to be
familiar keeps her on the alert, so
that her mind has no chance to fall
Into the habit of taking naps. Sho
learns to form new words In short
hand quickly. She Iearn3 to admire
tho nent work of tho good stenograph
er and to shudder at the "sloppy"
work of the indifferent one.
Quito often material for a really
good stenographer is spoiled because
a girl goes Into a small office and per
haps works for a man who is Ignorant
or indifferent and she has no correct
standard to live up to.
To take a more personal point of
Noisy Girl a Bore
FLIPPANT KIND IS NOT WANTED
IN BUSINESS OFFICES.
Always Trying to Be Smart and VI
vaclous, She Becomes Wearisome
to Both Customers and Em
ployers. A notion is abroad that a girl, to be
popular, must be moro or less gay aud
sprightly, that she must bo vivacious
and have high spirits. The business
girl is particularly apt to think this.
She is entering a world of strangers,
and in order to make an impression
she thinks she must make a noise.
So, many a girl laughs loudly, taljts
flippantly, tries to bo smart or to
make clover reparteo.
In nearly every office, behind nearly
every counter, is a girl of this sort.
But If you study tho offico closely, or
if you watch the llfo back of the
counter, you And she Is not the girl
who is really liked the most There
may be about her a sort of superficial
popularity. People may stop and chat
for a few moments, or fling her a re
mark in passing. Dut she is not the
girl chosen for real intimacy and. long
hours of friendship; unless, indeed,
there Is something more to her than
her noise and flippancy. And there
usually isn't
For this girl, who Is always trying
to say something smart and clevor,
SOME THINGS THE BUSY WORKER IS DOING
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILIZATION
view, a young and Inexperienced girl
Is more protected In a largo office.
Lot tho experienced stenographer
look for easy hours in a small office lr
sho wishes to, but by all means let
tho beginner get into a big office
where the work Is hard and varied if
sho wants to succeed.
SCIENCE NOTES
Powdered pumice applied with wash
leather will remove fingermarks from
books.
Australia has prohibited tho ex
portation of the plumage, skins or
eggs of native birds.
Projectiles fired even from tho heav
iest guns, when they penetrate con
crete do so without splintering It
There are 1,860 electrical works and
central stations In Germany In addi
tion to moro than 45,000 private
plants.
Carbon deposits which blacken a
gas mantle can be removed by burn
ing a little common salt on the
burner.
To economize on ushers a New York
moving picture theater has Installed
small Incandescent lamps on the
backs of the seats, arranged to burn
only when the scat Is- unoccupied.
Success In Life.
Ho has achieved success who has
lived well, laughed often and loved
much; who has gained the respect of
Intelligent men and tho love of little
children; who has filled his niche and
accomplished his task; who has left
tho world better, than ho found It,
whether by an Improved poppy, a
perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who
has never lacked appreciation of
earth's beauty, or failed to express
It; who has always looked for the
best in others and given the best he
had; whose llfo was an Inspiration;
whose memory a benediction.
Honest Method Best
UNTRUTHFULNESS OF CLERK
SURE TO HURT BUSINESS.
Giving the False Impression That the
Customer Is Obtaining Special
Values Is Unwise.
A prominent merchant once dis
missed a salesman whom ho over
heard saying to a shopper: "Wo- usu
ally sell that for $1.25, but seeing It's
you, I'll let you have It for $1."
Tho article regularly sold at $1.
Nothing could Injure a business more
than to make customers feel that per
sonal influence governs prices. In tho
first place an Intelligent buyer cannot
help discovering tho salesman's du
plicity, and, aside from the fact that
It Is against all good business princi
ples there is another thing to be con
sidered. Some people, foolishly enough, al
low themselves to be persuaded that
they are of special importance and
can buy goods at that particular storo
at lower prices than any one else.
They become accustomed to looking
for reductions and feel angered if
called upon to pay the regular price
for anything.
Dut, worst of all, they spread the
Impression among their friends that
in the end bores. Most of us are not
smart and clever all the time, and
to try to keep up the appearance of
being, which seems necessary when
with a girl of this sort, Is a strain.
We may do it occasionally or for a
brief while, but when it comes to
keeping at It continually, we would
rather sldostop her. Then, too, her
cleverness Is often more sparkle and
froth. There is nothing really clever
or funny about It And to keep pre
tending there Is and forcing a laugh.
Is wearisome. And, too, tho girl who
Is continually laughing noisily about
nothing gets on one's nerves. So that
tho flippant, noisy, smart girl Is not so
popular as sho thinks, or as sho may,
on tho surface, seem to be.
Put Heart Into Your Work.
Do not look on your work as a dull
duty. If you choose, you can make
It interesting. Throw your heart into
it, master its meaning, trace out the
causes and previous history, consider
it In all its bearings, think how many
even the humblest labor may bene
fit, and there is scarcely one of your
duties which wo may not look to with
enthusiasm. You will get to love your
work; and If you do it with delight,
you will do it with ease. Even if at
first you find this impossible, if for a
time it seems mere drudgery, this may
be Just what you require; it may bo
good, like mountain air, to brace up
your character. Lord Avebury.
BY FLINT AND STEEL
MATCHLESS GAS LIGHTER 3EEM8
RETURN TO OLD WAYS.
Mechanical Device, However, Comes
at Time When Soft Pine Stock
Is Disappearing.
Onco upon a time the teacher of
elementnry physics interested his
class by pulling off his shoos on a
winter's day, disclosing some home
knit woolen socks. Ho produced a
piece of woolen carpeting and spread
it on the floor Just under a gas Jet.
Thus prepared, the teacher danced a
short hornpipe on the carpeting, open
ed the gas Jet, touched his finger to
the gas and an electric spark lighted
tho gas or failed, occasionally, to do
so.
To Bhow that we are progressing,
however, does not require even the
apparatus newly designed for light
ing a gas flame without a match. It
is a sign of progress that school teach
ers have quite wearing homo knit
woolen socks and stockings perhaps
a sign of progress that grandmothers
nowadays can't knit 'em.
As to the matchless gas lighter,
however, it has como into the market
as a substltuto for matches Just about
the time that match making soft pine
Is disappearing. This mechanical gas
lighter, however, seems to be a retro
grade move in principle, after all, In
volving the "flint and steel" of our
grandfathers' time.
A bit of roughened file material Is
fixed to ono end of a wire which
doubles back Into a spiral spring and
forward again to hold the flint In con
tact with the steel. Springing the
ends together, the gas la turned on,
the spring released, and as the flint
strikes upward against the file sparks
aro driven downward into the flow of
gas that has been released, lighting
it
they have a so-called "null" nt Sn-nnrt
So's, and offer to uso their Influence
to get the reduction in prlco for their
friends also.
Of course there aro times when It
Is necessary for every well regulated
business concern to cut nrlres unon
merchandise for instance, when cer
tain lines refuse to leave the shelves
or assortments are depleted. But In
this case the cut is general and ap
plies as well to Mrs. Jones as to Mrs
Smith.
Some salesmen who desire to be
clever and who have a high opinion
of their ability along this line aro in
clined to work this sort of confidence
game on their customers: They will
take tho favored ones (7) aside and
inform them that as a special favor,
they aro going to let them have for
$1 an .artlclo for which every one else
is paying $1.25, while in reality $1 is
tho regular profit bearing prlco.
This ruso may work for a while, but
it is. nevertheless, bad business. It Is
well enough to Impress a customer
with the fact that an article is worth
more than ho Is asked to pay for It
If this is actually tho case, but they
must not bo led to bellevo they can
buy it for less money than any one
elso can. Honest business methods
pay in the long run.
Growth of Cotton Industry.
Thero were 1.20C establishments en
gaged in the manufacture of cotton
goods In 1909, which compares with
1,077 in 1904 and 973 in 1899, an in
crease of 24 per cent, during the de
cade. This percentage does not begin to
Bhow the real advance in tho indus
try, because tho average capacity of
the establishments was increased
materially during tho period.
The value of products manufac
tured Increased from $332,80G,000 in
1899 to $016,297,000 In 1909, an In
crease of 85 per cent. The total cost
of the principal materials used was
$322,884,000 In 1909 and SIKionnnnn
In 1899, a gain of 112 per cent
The cost of materials, however,
does not Include the cost of fibers
other than cotton, mill supplies, soap,
oil, fuel, containers, etc. A large per
centage of the Increase in the cost
of principal materials Is dim tn tha
greater cost of cotton. American
Wool and Cotton Reporter.
W&nted to Be Sure.
"Say, Lem," said-a long-haired farm
er, looking into the door of tho barber
shop, "how soon kin yer cut my hair?"
"In about half an hour," replied tho
barber.
"All right." hO Bald, anil Honnrforl
In a few minutes the door opened
again, "bay, Lem," asked the farmer
"sun time er standert?" Success
Magazine.
Nothing is to be exnected from thn
workman whose tools are forever to
be sought It was once told by a
great master that no man ever ex
celled in painting rrho was eminently
curious about pencils and colors.
Samuel Johnson.
l-UWLS r-UK tUU FHUDUCTIO
Good. Strand. Vlnornim nlrHo lr. rj.
quired and Should Not Lay Many
Eggs In Pullet Year.
HnnrT ntrnncr vln-nrm.a lit ...T n
sential for egg production. The slm-
w. v veou u uuuut j cut la II u
nf Qnn.arrrv linnn ,.UV. t
- -OO uwuuf II11U tUUt) UUilU
Single Comb White 'Leghorn.
heads and sunken eyes, which Indicate
low vitality, and, moreover, have tested
a number of them as breeders, ttnd
have yet to see one that was worth
while breeding from, judging from tho
ioiiuuuuutB una living powers or ner
offspring, says a writer in an ex
change. A hen used for breeding, especially
for the producer of males to head the
breeding pens the next season, should
not only be expected to lay a large
number of eggs per year, but theso
eggs should be high in hatching power
and tho chicks should live, and, furth
ermore, they should develop Into good
sized birds quickly and tho pullets
should lay well. Perhaps it might bo
well to glvo here tho method that is
used by us in breeding from selected
layers.
The hen is required to be a good
winter layer and to lay at least 150
eggs in her Dullet vear. Tha next ro.
qulrement is that her eggs hatch well
mat is, it is expected that over 80
per cent, of the eggs will be fertile
and 90 per cent of the fertile eggs will
hatch. It is then rnmitrprl flint nf) nor
cent, of the chicks will live to five
months of ago and that tho cockrels at
this age be well developed and weigh
If from general purpose breeds at
least six pounds each, and, finally, that
tho pullets bo good layers. If the pul
lets lay well during the fall, then I
consider holding their brothers as
breeders. We try as far as possible
to test the males along similar lines,
as to producers of plenty of strong
pullets and lay well. There Is prob
ably as much difference between males
as thero is between females.
HANDY RACK FOR WATER PAIL
One Shown In Illustration Will Be
Found of Great Convenience In
the Poultry Yard.
As seen In tho illustration herewith,
a bandy rack for a water pall may
be made out of a few odd pieces of
lumber and nailed with a brace bo-
Water Pall Rack.
neath to the wall. It will be found
very convenient In the poultry yard
or elsewhere. A hook in the wall to
hold the handle may be needed where
tho fowls are likely to upset tho pail.
BUY STOCK FOR SPRING NOW
Some of the Advantages of Buying
June Bred Poultry at Present Time
Breeder Is Thinning Out.
If you aro contemplating starMng in
the fancy poultry business next spring
don't wait till that time to buy your
Btock. So many wait till the last mo
ment before buying their stock that it
Is an annoyance to themselves as well
as the breeder to be told that he has
no stock for sale. Here aro some of
the advantages of buying Juno bred
poultry at the present time:
1. Tho breeder has a larger stock on
hand than he will havo in tho spring.
2. He has more birds than he can
properly accommodato now. nnd wilt
"thin out" at a sacrifice.
3. As business is dull with the noul-
try fancier at this time of the year, ho
is more anxious to sell and will do
better by you.
4. If he is compelled to keen his
stock over till spring, he will add tho
extra expense to the birds, and if eggs
for hatching aro in demand, he will
not sell at any price.
6. In the spring the pens are mated
up, and the careful breeder will not
break up his matinga.
6. Hens and pullets, of any breed,
are seldom to be had in the spring.