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“That’s what I call some package,” cried Hosmer proudly ns lie held aloft a round metal package decorated with Early In the campaign Powers had suggested that the liberal use of her face had rendered the girl rather con spicuous, so (lie company paid for a carriage that took her to and from her work. At first Hosmer had approved the suggestion, but now he went to the other extreme. There was no chance to walk home with Miss Pryor, and his request for permission to call was met with a polite negative. lie and Vaughn could only fight it out during office hours, and when Vaughn objected to Hosmer's eontln- a smiling face which was sandwiched j ued presence in the shipping depart- belween tho legend “You can smile—if ■ merit and asked Powers to give I-Ios- you use Dentola." nicr a hint to that effect the sales ex- “It is pretty,” conceded the head of I pert retaliated by again reverting to the firm as lie took the can iuto his j his suggestion that Miss Pryor should hands and inspected it more carefully, i be transferred to tbe sales office. “Some actress, isn’t it? Her face j The constant bickering could have seems familiar.” J but one effect. From surliness they “Actress nothing,” was the contemp- , passed to open warfare, and at last tuous retort. I-Iosmer could afford to j they brought the matter to the head of bo flippant when lie scored a success, j the firm. “That’s the little typewriter over in { Each pleaded his case, and then they the shfjipiug room. I caught her smil- J stood waiting the decision with an ing like that 011c day, and it made a ! anxiety that showed plainly in their hit with me. I invented the powder to j faces. Each felt that a victory with go with it. It’s the old ‘Saponica,’ j the chief would aid his tight, and tlie with a little carmine put in to make it moments that passed after the case look different. I tell you, Mr. Powers, had been stated were painful to them In a week that Dentola girl will be known all over the country, and the , sales—well, I'll be around for a raise In salary in about five weeks.” Powers smiled and nodded. Hosmer bad a regular scale of self praise. When he suggested that tbe firm owed him a hat for an idea it was only an ordinary lilt. The hint that lie lunched about 2 o’clock was a sign that be had greater confidence in an idea. The | last time that Hosmer had announced a that he was worth a raise in salary if was when he had introduced “sun burn cream” which eventually had brought the cosmetic company very nearly a quarter million. both. Powers glanced slowly from one to the other, and Ills face broke into a smile. “You both say that you have the right to Miss Pryor’s services,” lie be gan slowly. "I’m afraid that you will both have to hire other typists. Miss Pryor tells mo that you both are—or— rather cordial to her. It seems that you, Vaughn, have suddenly discovered that you need Miss Pryor. Only a lit tle while before the advertising cam paign was started you told me that you should have to put on another girl, as Miss Pryor was willing, but slow. I fancy that the way out of this Dentola seemed destined to enjoy a Will lie to get another Dentola girl and more permanent success. Within two I another typist for the shipping depart- months the Dentola girl smiled upon { ment.” the entire nation. Even in the tiny hamlets Dentola placards adorned the general stores. The Dentola girl smiled life size upon the city throngs, and more than life size she beamed at train tired travelers along the trunk lines. - .Vaughn, the bead of the shipping de partment, was rather vexed over the There's no reason for such drastic action!” cried Hosmer, but Powers only smiled again. “There is an excellent reason,” lie said slowly. .“I am to marry Miss Pryor. She did me the honor to ac cept me, and as soon as the Dentola craze is forgotten we will he married. Meanwhile she lias her royalty from Methods Adopted by Cities That Find It Pays. PRESS AGENTS ARE EMPLOYED Art of Publicity Men Has Full Swing In Booming Towns—Various Devices Used to Make Known Municipal Ad vantages—New Use For Mail. One of the surest ways to boom a town and attract outsiders to it Is by advertising, bet the world at largo know of Its attractions and its value as a business and residential place. If you rend that Seattle, Tacoma, ^Springfield, New Orleans, Shreveport, Memphis, Pawtucket, is cacli and sev erally the pleasantest and the most profitable place to live in; that in Pittsburg neither stogies nor steel mil lionaires are compulsory social habits; that New York Is the only place to buy stylish clothes; that Greensboro, N. O., is half Yankee and half southern and a money yielder; that fortunes grow on apple trees around Spokane; that “the sun loves to shine on Kittitas;” that San Francisco is bettor than It was before; that there are no poor and consequently no charities to support In—one hesitates to name It—and If you continually come across refer ences to the seductions and comforts of those cities, you will know that there’s a reason. The reason is tlmt even cities now adays employ press agents. Advertising cities is merely another application of the familiar truism that “advertising brings success” if what you advertise bears out your adver tisement, The Springfield (Mass.) hoard of trade has just awarded a prize of $000 for a scheme for agenting the GARDENS FOR SLUM FOLK. Chicago Society's Plan to Make Urban Toilers Tillers of the Soil. Slums, as well as tho sections where those in moderate circumstances and the wealthy live, need improvement. What the City Gardens association of Chicago, an organization of recent life, has planned can lie tried by towns where it is needed. It is going about the business of inducting slum dwell ers into the secrets of farm life on a miniature scale. A tract of land ag gregating twenty acres has been allot ted among 150 needy families who will he expected to care for it, plant and tend garden stuffs and enjoy t he benefits of their own industry for a merely nominal fee. They will raise what they eat, so far as garden stuffs are concerned. It is expected that this will lie of material assistance to them in keeptug the wolf in the next coun ty, besides affording them an oppor tunity to learn something useful of agricultural methods. Only twenty acres will he cultivated this spring, hut. next year oilier fam ilies will he permitted to avail them selves of the opportunity. The tract of land is bounded by llio Chicago river, Marshall boulevard and ttie tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad. It Is easily accessible for folk living on ttic west side of (he city, and only tlioso living there will he privileged to avail them selves of the opportunity afforded this year. Later, should the experience meet with enthusiastic acceptance, it is hoped that other waste hits of ground may ho placed at: I lie disposal of the association. Tlie Outdoor Art league will play an important part in carrying through the idea, it will furnish plans for a bun galow and tool house, the former to he used as a rest room and a place where the laborers may sit down to oat. Recognizing the ignorance of garden ing of most of the families taking over plots ol' ground for t lie spring season, the association expects to retain the city which calls for an expenditure of j services of an expert gardener, who £25,000 a year, including a combiun . Mdll l"’ ready to offer advice to the non- tion advertising-reading notice agent, j Phytos and to assist them in acquir- Tlds plan is now in the hands of a j V 1 ® scientific methods. Furthermore, special committee. Among the sug- tbo “urban farms” will not bo devoid gosled mediums of publicity outside of | aesthetic charm. A large border magazines and newspapers, which, of greenery will surround the twenty incident. ITo had supposed that tho 1 the use of her picture, and she will not picture was merely to he used to deco- j need her position. She would have Hr rate the cans of powder. ! told you I ills. Vaughn, had you waited ■P It became something of a nuisance j until this afternoon.” when visitors to the model factory of [ Vaughn, too dazed to speak, turned tlie cosmetic Company insisted upon and left the office, and Hosmer was seeing the original of “Miss Dentola.” j about to follow when Powers detained Vaughn, resentful of the admiring | bim with a word. glances of the masculine visitors, pro- j "Y’ou said that you would win a tested to Hosmer. j raise on Dentola, and you have,” he “It’s all a part of the campaign,” do- ‘ 9 ni d kindly, “it pays to advertise, dared the sales expert, with a laugh. I F Vf tul.’‘ “Miss Dentola is the best saleswoman 1 “Yes, when you have something to that ever was. We sold more than a | «dl.” agreed the expert, “but I was million boxes last month, and the or- j trying to sell Dentola, not Miss Bon ders are still piling.in. I tell you, Hen, j tola. The next time I got out a good It pays to advertise when you adver- j nrtiele I’m going to marry the original tisc right.” * { first and advertise afterward.” K “Sure,” assented Vaughn, “but you’re j “ Miss Pryor and myself are very overdoing it. We wanted to sell the ' grateful to you/’ said Powers, with a tooth powder, not to bring people to I cordial hand clasp, “and I hope that the factory to see Miss Dentola. There - vou flml nn °ther Dentola. Paul.” was a chap in yesterday who said he j “Vnd I hot 1 won't lose her to any had seen the pyramids and the Sphinx j ot,lor man >” was Hosmer’s grim reply. and the tower of Pisa and all the other [ show spots of Europe, but tie felt he j Cretan Seals, couldn't go back to Montana until he’d I Some of tho greatest scholars have ! seen Miss Dentola. By the way lie | used their learning more as a weapon | looked at her I guess he would have : than a means of illumination. Pro- [ liked to take her hack to Montana with 1 fessor Lewis Campbell’s gentleness aero tract, and frequent (lower beds a j will add variety and grace to (lie out' look. course, come first, are personal letters buttons, stickers, billboards and monthly bulletin. The Commercial club of Knoxville, Tenn., expects to spend $10,000 this year in the advertising columns of northern and southern newspapers and H ow Spokane Women Intend to Work magazines. Spokane, Wash., Is repeat- j on the “Block” System, ing its last year's expenditure of .$(10,- j 000 in promotion work. It is circulat-1 SPOTLESS TOWN MOVEMENT. ing, chiefly through its chamber of commerce, newspaper clippings, bro- churns, pamphlets, circulars, dodgers, j leaflets and copies of publications bav- Ing descriptions of tiic city. Every | ifiquircr for information is posted upon } the chamber's bulletin board. He lm- j mediately receives letters and rates I and propositions and pictures from rail- I ways, from land dealers, from bank- | ers, etc. This is one of the most compreheu-1 sive, impressive, eager and judicious examples of the new system. Yet it is only in the leaflet of a dealer in Spo- Clubwomon of the city are bent on making Spokane, Wash., a spotless town. Each block in (lie cliy is to cotnc under the supervision of one club member, who, after having re claimed it from littered alleyways and tin cans, will Interest the residents in planting flowers, shrubs and trees. The Current Events club is the first woman's organization to take official action. At its meeting tlie other day at the home of Mrs. Albion McGlaullin in the Elm apartments the communi cation of A. L. White, president of tlie park commission, urging (ho women of the city to take an active part in kune’s city bonds that you learn that tk f c,t / beau “ ful campaign was con sidered and the following committee works. Its own garbage crematory and i a Pf” lnte ^ t / ? 1 rna n ^ e Mrs. much other valuable property and that' McGlaullin, Mrs. J. C. Barline him. He’s only one. There’s hun dreds. It’s all Miss Pryor can do to keep her work up.” "I'll take her over in my depart ment,” offered Hosmer, with suspicious readiness. Vaughn shook his head. “She wjiuld have to learn an entire ly new line of work,” he objected. “She knows the shipping game now and courtesy may he illustrated by the following true story: Some years ago he was in the chair at a meeting of the Hellenic society when Dr. Ar thur Evans described the results of some of his first excavations in Crete. Among his finds wore a number of seals and other relics showing traces of affinity with early Egyptian art. | “Power City” owns its own water- worki much other valuable property „ ... its net general bond indebtedness Is an f ^ Irs ’ A ’ M ‘ IlllcJ / $1,510,000. No city that advertises Although none of the other clubs has tells you what the tax rate is. None ta - kcn offlcinl actlon > - v<!t a General plan except Houston. Tox., tells what re-! lief you arc to have from the ordinary ! or extraordinary burden of local politi-1 CLEAN-UP MOVEMENT. cal grafting. W hat is spread broadcast, as oc- j Clubwomen’s Plan to Make Ballard easiou serves, is notice that winters are warm, summers cool (as if you wanted to stay the year round in one Prettiest Suburb of Seattle, Wash. Ballard (Wash.) clubwomen, assisted by the Salmon Bny Improvement club, Let her stay, even if your ads. are a ; Discussion followed, in (lie course of l I nuisance and worse.” : which a venerable admiral, who liad I “But I think she ought to he in my been present at tbe battle of Navarino, i department,” urged Hosmer. “It Is in rose and said that he did not know ! the advertising end that people would | whether he was in order, hut he would j eVjiect to find her.” I like to state that in the year 1828, “YCpu get out of here,” demanded when lie was cruising in the Levant, 1 Vaugj’jn half in friendliness and half he saw a herd of seals off the coast of very muc h in earnest. lie had had Crete—a sight which be had never seen j Minnie Pryor in his department for before or since. The situation was j more than two years and had given delicate, but it was staved by the her scarcely a look until Hosmer had ! chairman, who rose immediately to j ,V made her nationally famous. Wla i in.si in Alaska began to send pfopoi- Us of marriage to tlie girl, Vaughn began 10 realize that his as sistant wn lie idedly pretty, and as this knowledge me to Hosmer about the same time tli re ensued a pretty race fen- fa Minnie Pryor, finding herself in de mand for the! first time, developed Into a beauty. So long as she had been express the thanks of the meeting to j the admiral for his interesting rem iniscence. “Here,” he said, “we have ! another link with Egypt, for nil of us must remember the story In the Odys- j sey of Proteus and his herd of seals I on tlie island near the mouth of the j Nile.”-i-London Spectator. Sick Folk’s Fancies. „ . - t , . _ “Isn't It funny,” said the brown s . "T, r -' 01 ’’ typist, she had eyoq woman, “how Important sons spot) that there are numerous secret have sturtcd out to rnakc Ule shiugl e societies, that growth has been rapid j BuburJ , the c i ea nest and prettiest of (population fancifully estimated for 1920), that In the suburbs there Is not much rain, and therefore that last feebleness of noble minds, the dream that liens can pay, will there come true. Otiiers declare that within their borders there is no sunstroke; others that the town contains “the only daily newspaper south of Baltimore that car ries a full up to date news service,” or that here is tlie only hippodrome south of New York, or that it contains many private sanitariums, or the largest can dy factory, or an excellent race track, or fifty through trains for other points! Boston’s long suit, advertised by lov ing friends, is the circumstance that it has a five hour train to New York. Greensboro, N. C.; Seattlo, Wash., and Pawtucket, i!. I., have devices for advertising on every piece of first class Greater Seattle before the opening of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific fair. Bal lard is the greatest shingle manufac turing center in the world, and tlie mill towns usually are regarded as not clean, whether they arc or not. But Ballard women, in many instances the wives of the mill owners, themselves are determined to prove that this aphorism is not justified in the case of the north end suburb. The aid of the school children, schoolteachers, business men, city officials and police department is to he enlisted iri making the movement a success. It is planned to give away $100 in cash prizes, this sum to he raised by a house to house canvass by the women, and the awards are to lie made July !. There will be prizes for tlie best kept mall. Envelopes hear either a photo- ! n ™ 8 ’ parklng stri P* n , nd sldewa ‘ k «’ crmnW , „ ‘ kitchen gardens and back yards. Bal- . . . - * F — , even wuuauij, uuw uimuriaiiL sumo i M3 ie er qu e Tva>, but now Joseph things are to you when you are sick overs, piefiii on and practical owner and n 0 w trivial they seem when you of the corporation, insisted that she he given a royalty on the use of her pic ture, and, tho.ugh this was hut a frac- graphie stamp and a patent opener marked "Pull For Greensboro” or can- lard Is rapidly forging ahead as a res- finest tlon of a penny per box, the generous Use of lithographs enabled her to dress becomingly for the first time in her narrow life. With the purchase of better clothes she had seemed to acquire that inde finable charm which belongs to the woman who knows herself to be In de mand. She did not develop what Hos- naer was wont to term “big head,” but she held herself well, and the apolo getic little typist of the shipping room had become the belle of the cosmetic ptnpany’s works. Hosmer had his room papered with | her pictures, and the more he saw it.them the more deeply In love with the final did he sink. Vaughn had hut one of the posters In his office, for he •dW not need them with the girl herself Juling her shapely head over the *k by the window, and he, too, was much In love. Jn the office both men made the best of their time, but once the closing >e arrived Miss Pryor disappeared. get well? When I was ill awhile ago I could not take any water to drink, al though I nearly died of thirst. But late every night the nurse would bring me a small glass of cracked ice. Oh. how I anticipated that thing through long and painful hours, and when I could hear her cracking up the ice the sound was the most beautiful thing in the world. When I was eat ing it if one little scrap got lost in the bedclothes I almost wept, so precious it was. And now that I am well and have the icebox at my command I wouldn't eat a piece for anything. “A friend of mine, a strong man, told me that when he was recovering from typhoid and couldn’t eat any thing he would lie for hours compos ing menus. He would call out his or ders in a loud voice and then nearly burst into tears when no waiter ap peared with loaded tray. Sick people certainly are funny, though they can't always see It at the time.”—New York Press. celing stamps saying “World’s Pair, , dl !| rlc !; H . nmc , of ,ho ... Seattle, 1909,” or attachable stamps hor ne« ,n the city hav ng been hui t re with an arboreal design and the words cent,y 0,1 Brvc " or hill. ^vni l.cleho Money amassed rules ns.—Horace. either serves or “Pawtucket, a City Beautiful. One southern city circulates a minia ture poster of a portly and portentous frock coated person of the southern oratorical or political type, one hand on hip and with the other beckoning with two fingers to the world at large. He beckons you to come from tlie il limitable outer darkness. The very way in which he throws his head back and his waist line forward prepares you for the announcement that if you come to his town you will come to “a geographical center,” whatever that may he, and he offers you “various opportunities of an assured future” and allows you to approach and expe rience the boon of “schools, colleges, art, music, health and that happiness which genuine culture and elevated associations tend to produce.” Houston, Tex., is offering a new in ducement to visitors and home seek ers. It has been paying out good money for the advertisement at so much per word: Her city hall la a business house. She has no wards, no ward politicians, no ntiy on Brygger hill, Loyal heights and the northern outskirts. Controlling Billboards. Several effective means are known which if taken advantage of will ma terially aid In controlling the obnox ious billboard. Many billboards are found in every one of our principal cities that are erected without per mission from the property owner. The following four plans may be used to approach the matter: (1) By police power; (2) hy taxation; (3) by prosecu tion for trespass; (4) hy ignoring the advertiser or advertised article. Tree Planting Time. The season for street tree planting is at hand, and it is well to remember that tho best trees are young, thrifty specimens from one to three feet high. Under no circumstances plant any be low the minimum mentioned, and those over three feet high should be carefully examined, and if crooked or gnarled and appearing as stunted do hot take them even without price; they lire not worth the planting. Converting Gwendolyn. By MARTHA COBB SANFORD. Copyrighted. I’.’-S liy As* iclatcd > 1,Horary Press. < ttVWWWWVWWVW\A A/WWj(l At twenty Gwendolyn Band was un- deniahly a personality to ho reckoned with. “1 don’t see where you get stirh ways, Gwendolyn," complained Iter mother. "Why, ill yotir age 1"— “Yes, indeed." corroborated Mr. Band, "at your age, Gwendolyn, your mother had sol lied down—she wasn’t running around after all the young j men in I lie neighborhood.” “Oil, daddy," remonstrated Gwen dolyn. "I think you might he a little j more gallant." "Well, well, tho young men weren't all running after her, then,” amended Mr. Band, softening at the hurt look in Gwendolyn’s big brown eyes. “But it doesn’t look well either way. I can’t understand where” "Mother was brought up In a con vent, you remember. I'm the product of coeducation,” ventured Gwendolyn in explanation. “H’m,” reflected Mr. Band. "That may he the reason, hut I lie remedy is your Aunt Abtnlha." Gwendolyn gave a little gasp of ap prehension. “Yes, my dear," continued Mr. Band, “your mother and I have decided lo send you down to Florida lo spend the winter with your Aunt Aliiatlnt.” “She will tench you the things a girl of your age ought to know, daugh ter,” added Gwendolyn’s mother dole fully, "things which I Imve somehow failed to make you take an interest in." “In oilier words, I’m to he sent to a convent,” exclaimed Gwendolyn as she swished out of the room, her head high in air. but tier eyes glistening with unshed tears. Aunt. Ahlallin’s spacious, old fashion ed house merited kinder verdict than Gwendolyn bestowed upon it at first glance. Once up in her cozy bedroom, however, with its chintz covered tyuc poster and French windows opening out on to a little rose covered porch, tho girl’s heart melted in spite of her self, and she 111 row both arms around Aunt Aliiatliii, completely submissive— for the time being. But after the novelty of dusting, sewing and cooking began to resolve Itself into routine Gwendolyn suddenly hulked. “Now 1 know how to do all these prosaic tilings, Aunt Abiatha,” she ar gued, “what's the use of doing them day after day? There are so many real live tilings to do in the world. Let’s give a garden party or some thing, Aunt Abiatha. Are there any male inhabitants In Centerville that we could hire to come, do you think?” “Gwendolyn, my dear, how you talk! Of course (here are,” Aunt Abiatha was startled lulu admitting. “There's young Jack Day ward for one.” “What's ho like?" “Very thoughtful and polite," replied Aunt Abiatha loyally. “He comes of one of our best families.” “Poor tiling!” muttered Gwendolyn. “What did you say, dear?” “I asked wliul he does for a living?” prevaricated Gwendolyn unblusbiugly. “Why, he manages ills father’s es tate, of course. He’s a country gen tleman.” “Oh,” commented Gwendolyn indif ferently, “he must he a very provin cial kind of person! I don’t think I should like him.” “Well, of all things, Gwendolyn!” bristled Aunt Abiatha. "Of course you’d like him. Every one does, i’ll ask him to call." An afternoon or two later as Gwen dolyn was reclining in the hummock on her little porch engrossed in a nov el she became suddenly conscious that the front doorbell had been ringing for some time. On the veranda below she could hoar Aunt Abiutbu rocking to and fro. "The front doorbell's ringing. Aunt Abiatha!” she called, Jumping up. "If it's that ‘polite and thoughtful young j country gentleman,’ pleaso don’t dis- j turb me. I'm in (lie midst of an aw fully exciting love story.” A hearty masculine laugh followed ] Gwendolyn’s declaration. It aroused her curiosity, but also her j indignation, and she re-established her- [ self in the hammock, determined not j to display the slightest interest. what- j ever happened. But the next tiling she heard startled her into a sitting posture. “Now, Aunt Abiatha, will you intro duce us?" Gwendolyn, walking to the rail of the porch, could hardly believe her eyes. There, on the roof of the veran da, riot ten feet away from her, sat an extremely good looking young man. And there on the lawn stood Aunt Abiatha, the picture of dismay and disapproval. “Gwendolyn,” she called up, “this is Mr. Heyward. Jack, my niece. Miss Rand. I never saw such goings on In my life. Go right into your room, Gwendolyn!" Gwendolyn did not budge. She only laughed and laughed, until Aunt Abia tha finally Joined in. But such a triangular situation was not over encouraging, especially since Aunt. Abiatha refused to leave her an gle of observation, so eventually they all adjourned to the downstairs veran da for afternoon ten. “So you're a climber, Mr. Heyward?” Gwendolyn observed archly, taking ad vantage of Aunt Ahlutlia’s absence In the kitchen. “Given sufficient incentive — yes,” Jack answered lightly. “I couldn’t stand dowu there below, you know, | and lot a fellow in a honk get ahead j of me.” I "Got ahead of you?” I "Well, absorb your interest to the ex- j elusion of a real human being," ex plained Jack. “You look an awful risk," laughed G wendolyn. “Oh, Unit was nothing,’’ Jack boast cd. “I'm used to all sorts of athletic stunts, you know.” "That Isn’t: the kind of risk I meant exactly,” Gwendolyn enlightened him. "Well, how did you like him?” beam ed Aunt Ahiatlm after the caller's de- patM ure. "Not very well,” said Gwendolyn, shaking her head dubiously. “He’s so hold and conceited.” “But, my dear,” hastily Interposed Aunt Ahlallm. “You mustn’t judge him from first appearances. Jack was a 1 ittlo queer today. I don’t know what was the mutter with him. But we'll have him in often, mid you must be polite to him, Gwendolyn.” And (hat was how a most audacious courtship came to he carried on right: under Aunt Aldulha’s eyes. “Gwendolyn," asked Jack dreamily one sunny morning as (hey sat to gether in llio fragrant rose garden, “how did you ever happen to come down to tills quiet little spot anyhow? I should imagine you'd love all the gay things of life—dances, (heaters, din ners and all that, you know. Don't you ?” “No, you’re all wrong,” answered Gwendolyn slowly, hiding her face in tlie flowers she had gathered. “I love something quite different.” For a few minutes the birds in tho garden lmd it all to themselves, so suddenly slill were tho two people who snl: (here. “Gwendolyn,” Jack flually found himself asking in a husky voice quite unlike ids own, “do you really love it down here—the quiet, lazy life we load?” Gwendolyn nodded, hut did not; lift, her face. “Love it enough to stay with me, dearest?" Gwendolyn nodded again. 'tS^" “Look up at me, you fraud,” Jack commanded, taking her joyfully into Idg arms. v “I can't," Gwendolyn protested, blinking. “There's something in my eye.-” “Oil, let me get it out, sweetheart,” implored Jack sympathetically. “VVImt II it, darling?” "A tear, 1 think/’ confessed the nils- ■ elllovous Gwendolyn. Half nn hour Inter Jack sat talking with Aunt Ahlallm on (lie porch. Gwen dolyn was scribbling her daily lino to her mother. “Bead that, Aunt. Ablullm,” (lie girl called suddenly, holding out a sheet of note paper. “It has something about you in it." And lids is wlint the astonished Aunt A bln llm read: Dearest Mother anil Dail—t want yon lo come down hero Just as quickly as you can. I am to lie married at Aunt Abla- tlm’s two weeks from today. Tho wed ding will ho very quiet. Aunt Abiatha rully approvos of my engagement—In fact., she has done everything In her power to bring It about, please bring my trous seau along Wilh you. Your loving GWENDOLYN. P. 8.—Ills namn is Jack Montgomery Heyward, and he’s Jusl as idea ns Ids name. I can cook and sew and dust. G. Ho Liked tho Sound. Mr. Goff Iiiis a humor peculiarly his own. He looks ut the world in a half amused, half indulgent manner somo- tlmes very annoying to ids friends. One day when in (own he dropped into a restaurant for lunch. It was a tidy although not a pretentious estate Bailment. After n good meal he called to the waitress and inquired what, kind of pie could bo lmd. “Appiepiemincepieraisinpieblueberry- piecusturdplepoaohpieaud.stra vv berry shortcake.” the young woman repeated glibly. “Will you please say that again?” he asked, leaning a trifle forward. The girl went through the list at. lightning rale. “Andstrawberryshort- cakc!” slie concluded, with emphasis. “Would you mind doing it once more?” he said. The waitress looked her disgust and started in a third time, pronouncing the words in a defiantly clear tone. “Thank you," he remarked when she had finished. “For the life of me I can’t see how you do it. But I like to hear it. It's very Interesting, very. Give me apple pie, please, and thank you very much.’’—Youth’s Companion. A Noiseless City In Friesland. Fancy a city of 35,000 inhabitants, guiltless of street cars and omnibuses (the steam tram line from Franekcr halts discreetly without the town), easily encompassed in an hour, for its slngel, Its old moat wldeii it has not yet greatly overstepped, is not three miles in extent; u city without great noise or confusion, save upon market days, and cleun, quiet streets, lined hy low houses witli shining windows, peopled hy rosy cheeked serving wom en, capped with gold and luce, and demurely dressed, grave faced citizens. S«nd red sailed boats to its very heart until masts are Jumbled with electric light poles and church towers; plant densely foliaged trees beside its quays and a few Iron railed flower hods in. its open squares; givo It a water gir die thronged witli hundreds of boats, crossed by a few bridges and many little hand ferries—and you will see Leeuwarden. Scribner’s Magazine. He Knew Them. “Things have gone completely to the dogs with me.” "Cheer up. They might have been worse.” “Don’t you believe it.” Why?” "Because then they wouid have been.”