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THE PROPOSAL
(@ 1921, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
“Beth, dear,” in a very dreamy
voice, “what do they do in this town
when it rains?”
. I looked up. W*=yever Jane has
any news to break snhe begins by say
ing absolutely serseless things. Now
what had she done? Jane is always
doing something. 1 resumed my sew
ing.
“I wish 1 had a milllon dollars—
or an angora kitten, or something.”
Silence.
“Beth, do you suppose that man out
there knows that his neck has lost its
collar?” |
I gave up. She couldn't say any
thing much sillier and I might as wull‘
listen then as any time. I put awuy|
Charles’ sock that T was darning, fold
ed my hands in resignation, and walt-]
ed. I did not have to wait long.
“Bill Wentworth's crazy over me,
fsn't he? Funny how all the men fall
for me. . . . Jane is [rresistible”
and she gurgles. “I'm like your bull,
Jhomely, but interesting. Oh, don't
bother to assure me that [l'm not
really bad-looking—rather chie, you
know. What were we talking about?
Oh, 1 remember, little BilL"
Little Bill! He'd make three of
ber.
“Jane,” 1 broke in, “why do you al
ways laugh at Bill? He's marvelous,
and every other girl in town is fish
fag for him but you.”
“We-ell—he does send me wonder
ful chocolate almonds and fresh vio
lots.”
I was about to sigh again, but the
telephone’s ringing imterrupted me.
My guest ran off to answer,
Bill Wentworth! Yes, sir, he would
ake an ideal husband for Jane.
¢ien Jane danced into the room a
. ute later I asked who called up.
JYh—er—nobody—just BIilL"
ORhat did he want?”
gs,o; nothing. I thought I might
ng. {m over to the clubhouse tonight
7 's all.”
ane tripped off to the club before
y hushand and I were ready, but It
‘wasn't long before we followed her
All the younger set was there ahead
of us, and I saw Dorothy Walker ané |
Bill away off in a corner of the piazza, !
Oh, dear!—Dorothy, the vamp. I
I worrled through two horribly long !
dances before I saw Jane. 1 pulled
her by force away from youns H('n-!
derson, and whispered that Bill was
looking for her down by the pim-s.f
She didn't give me much (-n(-ourugze-i
ment, hut T hunted up Bill and told
him that Jane had been asking I‘ml
him and had started for the pines
Bill gave me a queer stare and my
heart sank. Perhaps I was only mak:
ing a bad matter worse, I didn't tell
Charles—my hushand, you know—he
cause he wow#'t understand. He'c
laugh and call me a little silly. lln
a few minutes T suggested a walk
over the links. Almost instantly we
saw a figure stride toward us. It was!
Bill! T stiffened, Would he see usi|
0-0-h! He missed us, thank good~|
ness, and hurried on to the next seat !
I listened with aTI my ears, Not a
sound. Hadn't Jane . . . a shriek!
Next a gasp and a deep masculine
ramble, !
" #No—yes—oh—no, oh dear, ob'
dear.” feminine words. |
“Don’t"—again the feeble little feml.
nine voice. |
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Bill's voice interrupted; it was very.
very earnest, and low—so low that we
couldn’'t distinguish a word.
“Oh Bill, please—you're hurting
me!"”
“No—no—Bill—l can’t,”
“Jane—dear!”
“No—l can’t—l can't.”
~ She was refusing! The little fool!
- Just wait until—
“Go away—please, Bill"”
And he did.
* @ . * . . ®
I woke up the next morning scowl
ing. Oh, yes—Jane, the little wretch!
He was the catch of the season, at
least every one said so. I slipped into
my kimono and tip-toed into Jane's
room. But there was no need to tip
toe. Jane wus up; and dressed—
and as early as nine o'clock on a Sat
urday morning. I stared. She
beamed.
“Good morning, you sweet bride,
Aren’t you up yet?”
I frowned. Was she glorying In
the fact that she had broken a heart?
“Beth, what's the matter with you?”
“Why did you send him away? It
was cruel, Jane.”
To my horror the child threw back
her head and laughed and laughed.
“My dear, I bad to take my whole
skirt off. Blill couldn’t lift me down I
was in such a position.” ‘
My eyes opened wider and wider.
“lI don’t quite—" |
Jane gurgled and explained what 11
mistook for a passionate proposal.
The little idiot had climbed into a 8
tree (goodness knows why) and onl
seeing Bill had, in her excitement
slipped, caught her skirt in an old
stump of a branch and hung dangling.l
What I had heard was poor Bill try-
Ing to rescue his “lady fayre.” 1 must
have shown my disappointment,
“Don't be shocked, Beth. When I'm
a young matron”—(she gurgled again,
but I am a matron now)—*l won't
climb any more trees. Er—Begh—er
—what have we for breakfast? Walit,
listen, Beth—l had something to tell!
you yesterday, but Bill and l-—-er—i
last Thursday—that is—oh, Beth——l|
want a platinum ring, don't I, just
like yours?”
Merrymaker In Difficulties.
In her book, “Crowding Memories,”
Mrs. Thomas, Bailey Aldrich tells of
a large fancy dress ball in London,
which was attended by the greatest
and most illustrious persons of thel
day. “When we arrived at Mr. Bough
ton's we found the hall and stairway |
quite blocked by a figure in full ar
mor on the stairs, a policeman and
several knights and cavaliers vainly
trying to move it,” writes Mrs. Al
drich. “The armor was heavy and un
wieldy, the man inside helpless, as
hinges In the armor over the knees '
had become rusty or caught in some
way and would not bend. The unfor-l
tunate prisoner was William Black,
whose portrait in this same armor |
was painted afterward and now hangs
in the Glasgow gallery.”
Success,
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice 1s the
quality necessary to achieve success
Then, too, you must have tenacity,
That is the greatest quality., With
out It no man can possibly succeed.
One failure leads to another failure—
and one success to another success.
Win out In one thing before giving
it up or trying another. Tact is very
important. 1 would rather employ a
person of no extraordinary ability, but
who had great tact, than one of con
spicuous learning and intelligence, but
without tact. Judgment, Initiative and
energy, all these are most desirable
and valuable qualities. But above and
beyond all, you must have tenacity
und tact-—Daniel Guggenheim.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE AND PRESS FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1921.
“LION” AT LITERARY FEAST
How Great Historian of Civilization
Squelched the Jackals Who Had
Imagined Him Discomfited.
Lyulph Stanley was an Englishman
of whom Lowell said that he “knew
three times as many facts as any
young man whatever had any business
to know.”
He had but one rival in that line:
Palgrave, who compiled the *“Golden
Treasury.” Much interest sprang up
among thelr friends wher the two
went off on a trip together,
“It's an even chance which will re
turn alive,” said one man, solemnly,
When they did come back, Palgravq
was pale, emacinted, silent; but Stan.
ley, it seemed. was unmoved and more
all-knowing than ever.
One night, Buckle, the author of
“The History of Civilization,” was lay
Ing down the law on every subject
with a magnificent pomposity that
made the tahle quake, At last he put
forth some statement abhout the bura
ing of a witeh, and set the date a
century out of the way, Stanley, whe
wag present, had borne some preceding
inaccuracies very well, with only a
slight shakingz of the head and a red
dening of the face.
Suddenly his self-control gave way,
and he leaped to his feet, He extended
his hand and piped forth, in a vigor
ous frehle:
“l 1 beg your pardon, but the last
witech was burned at such-and-such a
place. In such-and-such a year. in such
and-such a manner. And her name
was so-and-so. and you will find all
ahout it in a book to which I can
easily refer vou, and about which you
evidently don’t know.” ;
Torrents of imprisoned knowledge
were thereupon poured on Buckle's
heud, and the “historian of ecivilization
sat wrathful, extinguished, mute. Rn!i
a little later he had his revenge. Some
one mentioned a new dictionary as a
good one. l
“It is,” sald Buckle with solemnity.
“It 18 one of the few dictionaries I
have read through with pleasure.” |
The Intimation that he had read
any dictionary through with pleasure
so astonished the guests that they for
got his past discomfiture in new awe
Noises Made by Elephants. l
The elephant uses both his trunk
and his lungs in calling, and he has
a large variety of sounds and com
binatlons of sound with which to ex
press himself, writes Charles Mayer in
Asia Magazine. When rushing an en
emy he trumpets shrilly, when enrageé
by wounds he grumbles hoarsely from |
his throat; he expresses fear by a
shrill, brassy trumpet and a roar;
and pleasure by a continued low
squeaking through his trunk. '
When apprehensive of danger ov
when attempting to intimidate an en
emy. he raps the end of his trunk
smartly on the ground and trumpets,
The peculiar noise sonnds like that
produced by the rolling up of a sheet
of tin.
In a moment of danger, the elephant
coils his trunk to protect it from ins
Jury. When he is engaged in heavy
work, such as piling lumber, he may
use his trunk to balance the load he
Is carrying on his tusks, but never to
bear part of the burden. If an unhar
nessed elephant must pull a rope, he
holds it in his mouth, taking good care
to keep his trunk out of the way.
“No wonder Elsie never puts up her
hair in papers or patent arrangements.
Her husband is such a passionate
man.” “What has that to do with
it?” “Why, his language when he gets
excited Is enough to make any one's
«ulr curl ™ .
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Beliefs About Parsley.
It was said that parsley seed went
nine times to the devil hefore coming
up. If parsiey were sown on any day
except Good I"rixu,v. it was thought
that it would not come up eurly. In
ancient Greece the graves were strewn
‘with parsley. It was and is today
deemed untucky to transplant parsley,
The children were told that the new
baby had been found in the parsley
bed.
I . “Cloth” From Bark.
In the tropical Islands of the Pa.
cific there are several tribes which
mnke use of the hark of a tree as a
substitute for fabries. It 18 ealled
“tapa” and Is obtained by henting the
bark and then treating it to a pusty
Jreparation. After the boiling proc
ess, the fiher shows a regular over
lapping arrungement of the strands
like woven material.
! The Electric Fish.
Certain fishes exhibit peculiar elee
trical phenomena of muscles, nerves
and heart which have given them the
(pame of electric fishes. These have
,the power of giving electrical shocks
from specially constructed and living
I?lpctrtvnl hatteries
Georgia Farmers |
| Raise Food Cropsi
| That Georgia farmers performed
' their full duty last year in the matter
of contributing their share to the
world’s supp'y of food and raiment
is interesting'y told in a story given
out to-day by John S. Dennee. agricul-'
tural statistician for the Georgia co
cperative crop reporting service, a
combination of the forces of the!
United States Bureau of Crop Esti-!
mates and the statistical divis‘on of
the Georgia Department of Agricul
ture. <
According to the statistician Geor
gia’s cu'tivated area in 1920 was 12,439,
000 acres—about an eighth of all the
land under crops in the eleven south
ern states. She had slightly less than‘
half the area under“Cuitivation in Tex
as and one-fourth more acreage than
her nearest southern competator, Ala
bama. In planted acreage she held |
eleventh place in the entire country. |
The farm value of her crops is es
timated at $323,290,000, and in crop
value she ranked twelfth amongst the
forty-eight states. In the pre-war
year 1913, Georgia’s crops were valued_l
at $279,171,000; and at that time cot
ton, her major crop, was sel'ing for al
most for what it is fetching to-day.
Georgia excelled all other southern
states, exceptng Texas and Northl
Carolina, in the value of her crops|
last year. Texas led the c_ountry.'
North Carolina had slightly better than
ha'f of Georgia’s planted acreage but
inc'uded 582,000 acres of tobacco
which yielded the producers $167 per
‘acre. against Georgia’s cotton, which
returned an average of only $20.66 per
acre,
In 1920 Georgia_preduced 76,500,-|
000 bushels of corn; 2,110,000 bushels
of wheat; 11,550,000 bushels of oats;
1,628,000 bushels of irish potatoes;
13,764.000 bushels of sweet potatoes,
in which crop she held second place;
290.000 bushels of rye; 16,020,000
pounds of tobacco; 771,000 tons of
hay; 7,616.000 bushe's of peanuts,'
near'p a f'fth of the country’s crop;
990,000 bushels of cow-peas; 9,600,000
gallons of cane syrup, exceeded only
by Alabama; and 1,410,000 gallons of
sorghum sirup. l
In cotton production Georgia rank-,
ed third. She was excceded by Tex
as and North Caroina. Her crop
last year reached only 1,400 000 ba'es.
And it had an estimated farm value
(line and seed) 0f127,900,00 sy two
fifths of the aggregate value of all
crops produced in Georgia that year.
The peach crop had a bad year.
I\Neatherconditions from the very out-i
'set were most adverse. Ard the sea
'son was from one to two weeks late.
But Georg’a shipped, notwithstanding,
nearly 7,000 car-loads. over 1600 ofi
which went to New York. Georgia’s
peach orchads cover, at a conservative
estimate, 140,000 acres and numberl
over 18,000,000 trees. At a fair valu-l
ation these orchards are worth ove!"
40,000,000. California alone evceeds
Georgia in quantity, but not quality,
of peaches produced. |
Pecan production was short, only
1,993,000 pounds. Apples produced‘
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‘Science has coniributed o aew fova tact. asserting that a aew
element called vitamines has been tound highly important to whole
some foud. Vitamines are comprised ot tat suluble A, and water soluble
B and C, and are entirely distinet from the old baiance of carbohy
drutes, fats and proteins Vitamines giow. iu all thin leaf vegetables
and most citrous fraits ® 8o apoles ailk and eggs-: So plio
‘.‘.,.,‘n-.y Ot ternuioe Lo ahbeore gettes and
YLPy Ao kv oz} :
amounted to 1,765,000 bushels. Pears.
148,000 bushels.
In water-melon production Georgia
led the entire country with 40,333
acres. Florida her nearest competi
tor, had 12,000 acres less.
Georgia’s peaches, watermelons and
pecans are justly celebrated and en
joy a great sale in the northern and
eastern cities.
There are 310,737 farms in Georgia,
averaging 93 acres to the farm.
Last year, roughly estimated, these
farms produced 23,978,628 dozen eggs.
Over 2.000,000 pecople live on farms in
Georgia, say 70 per cent of her pep
ulat on. She ha54,993,(00 farm ani
mals, valued at $141,000,000, Live
stock forms an important part in Geor
ga’s wealth. In the production of
hogs she holds sixth place in the en
tire United States. She excel's all
other southern states, having 3,12 000
hogs on farms, valued at $35,673,000
at the close of last ycar. A compari
places Georgia sixteenth in the whole
United States in the value of her farm
animals,
John S, Dennee
Agricultural Statistician,
apitol Annex, 105 Capitol Square,
Atlanta, Georgia. Feb,. 21. 1921.
i : Taking Nothing Along.
The womanly woman's iden of traw
Pling light, as we have learned from
‘a.-mm observation, I 8 to crowd every.
Ihing else into a steamer trunk and
then earry all her hats in sepurate
‘lmxem.-—(h'nml Rapids I'ress,
‘ “Red Rag to a Bull.”
It 18 probable that the expression “a
red rag to a bull,” signifying some
thing which arouses wrath, has been
imported from Spain, where red cloths
are used in the bull rings, In order to
infuriate the animals before the mata
dor makes his appearance. But bulls
are not. the only animals affected by
red. Many horses, especially stallions,
are irritated by red; and turkey-cocks
attack wearers of red most ferocious
ly. as do ganders.® Physiologicaily,
red is a color which irritates and
fatigues the optic nerves; and so it
arouses temper and produces a quar
relsome frame of mind.
| Hard “Situation.”
A dusky chauffeur who recently
brought the frame of a big truck from
Detroit to Youngstown rode part of the
way sitting on the gas tank. but the
feat was so hard he soon became tired
of it. “Ah don't see how you could
stan’ it, Henry,” a friend observed,
“Stan’ it.” Henry replied “Mah gooda
ness, dat’'s jes what Ah couldn't do
nothin’ else but.”
Save Telegraph Poles.
l Of 1538 telegraph poles in the
Montgomery-New Orleans tine, which
iwere pressure-treated with g light
_creosote oil, 1.040 poles were s’pk
!nmmd after 16 vears, says the ‘Amert
ean Forestry Magazine. Ip-91 per cent
of the cases of decay. the fungi nnd’
;emerod the wood through checks and
Bhakes.
No Sextant Required.
“A farmer does not need to study
)avigation to get the bearings of his
hnit trees,” remarks a fanny paper,
No. and his neighbors’ boys don't,
dther.