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■J | A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
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is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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teth understanding. A froward man soweth
strife; and a ivhisperer separateth chief
friends. Ay he that taketh away a gar
ment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon
nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an
heavy heart. If thou faint in the day of
adversity, thy strength is small. Better is
a little with the fear of the Lord than
great treasure and trouble therewith.—
Proverbs.
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A Lamb Among Foxes
Former senator fall and his
friends assure us that his motives were
of the loftiest in accepting a loan of
a hundred thousand dollars from an oil mag
nate to whom he subsequently granted leases
of invaluable government lands. Still, wc
can but wonder what would become of the
national domain if every secretary of the in
terior were so unsophisticated.
For well-nigh a decade special Interests
had done their shrewd utmost to get grip of
those treasureful lands, but had been invari
ably thrust back. President Roosevelt,
President Taft and President Wilson each
had preserved the government’s control of
the coveted tract against all comers, fore
seeing that its oil deposits would be needed
by the navy. Such was the precedent of the
interior department when Mr. Fall took
charge.
He owed it to his office to ascertain the
importance of the lands in question, if he
was not already Informed; and having
learned their priceless worth to national de
fense, he owed it to the country to guard
them as vigilantly as if they were his honor.
Merely as a matter of administrative ef
ficiency, he could no more have afforded to
let them slip from the government’s grasp
than a treasurer of large funds could afford
to surrender control of cash or bonds for
which he was still responsible.
Mr. Fall’s guilelessness is amazing. He
negotiates, when secretary 2 the interior, a
personal loan of a hundred thousand dollars
on his unsecured note; and then, in process,
of time, permits his friendly creditor to ac
quire the lease of government oil holdings
on which the latter expects to realize profits
to the amount of one hundred millions. Evi
dently, that lamb among foxes needed a
protector; certainly the interests of the
American people did while he was at the
department’s helm.
Moreover, this came to pass within the
solemn precincts of what we have been told
to regard as the ne plus ultra of govern
mental efficiency—a Republican administra
tion. “How are the mighty fallen!” If the
Washington powers that be have an eye for
even the expediences, let alone the princi
ples, of this affair, they will spare no ef
fort to revoke the egergious leases and to
provide fit guardianship for poor Mr. Fall.
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Q. Are many snakes poisonous? B. S.
A. Os the several thousands of different
species of snakes, only about one-third have
poison glands. The bite of . not more than
150 would cause death to man.
Q. How much oil does the United States
produce as compared with the rest of the
world? I. D. N.
A. In 1921 out of a total world production
of 759,000,000 barrels the United States pro
duced almost 470,000,000 barrels, or about
70 per cent.
Q. What is coffee adulterated with and
how can adulteration be detected? M. E. C.
A. Ground coffee is more frequently found
to be adulterated, as foreign matter is not
easily detected when the material is finely
divided. Chidory is the chief adulterant, al
though beans, peas and cereals have been
more or less used. By the use of a magni
fying glass it is possible to pick out particles
which are not coffee. Chicory has a dark
looking gummy appearance and is not granu
lar in character. Peas and beans often have
a polished surface, whereas coffee appears i
dull.
Q. What kind of an automobile does King
George V. of England use? P. G. R.
A. The British embassy says that the King
of England-uses the Daimler car and has
preferred it for some years. He is also seen
in a Napier automobile.
Q. Who put the first levee on the Missis
sippi? G. W. B.
A. The first levee on the Mississippi river
was built at New Orleans by Governor
Perier. It was completed November 15,
1727.
Q. What was it that Garfield said about
one log being a college? J. R. D.
A. The phrase was :“Any log would be a
college with a boy on one end of it and
Johns Hop'.ins on the other.”
Q. Who invented boomerangs? J. B.
A. Boomerang-like objects are claimed by
some to have existed in ancient Egypt and j
Assyria, and it may be that certain bone ob- j
jects which belonged to prehistoric man
were used in the same manner as boom-I
erangs. This weapon was used by the Aus
tralian bushmen. It averages two and a
half feet in length by two and a half inches 1
in width. It is made of the green wood '
of the acacia, or some other hardwood, j
treated with fire. In In*dia, boomerangs are
made of ivory or steel, and are generally J
sickle-shaped.
Q. Does veneered furniture last as long 1
as furniture made of solid wood? F. K.
A. Veneered furniture, if properly cared i
for will last as long as solid furniture. The :
glued joints when correctly made are as ;
strong as the wood under ordinary service I
conditions. Long exposure to very damp air I
or direct contact with water, of course, will I
decrease the joint strength even when a very '
water-resistant glue is used. But such serv- j
ice conditions would be almost as detri- :
mental to solid furniture, because even in ;
solid furniture the members are jointed to- .
gether by glue.
THE LOVE TRAP
HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What lias gone before. —Gail Martin
has been engaged to George Hartley
for two years when she discovers that
ho is In love with another woman.
Gail gives him his freedom, but when
ho proposes marriage to Fay Morrison,
the other girl, she laughs at the Idea.
Gail longs to get out of town, but her
father refuses to give the necessary
money. Just when things look dark
est, Gail’s great-aunt Debbie dies, and
leaves her niece ?5,000. —Now go on
with the story.
CHAPTER XXV
The First Doubt
MRS. MARTIN’S last remonstrance with
Gail was in vain. It was the night
. before the girl was to leave, and
Gail was packing the last of her things in
her trunk. She was on her knees on the
floor when her mother came into the room,
and Gail saw at a glance that she had been
crying.
“Gail?”
j “Yes, mother dear.”
“Won’t you listen to me and do as 1
I say?”
“I don’t know,” Gail spoke guardedly.
“I thought,” Mrs. Martin began, her voice
trembling, ‘‘lf you would make some little
concession to your father’s ideas he might
not feel so hard toward you. I really think
if you went, to him and asked his advice
about the money, if you promised to spend
just so much every week—”
“Mother!” There was a hard tone in
I Gail's voice. “What good would that do
me? I might just as well stay in Dalesbm'g
if that’s all the good I’m to get out of my
money. No, I’ve made up my mind. I’m
going to take a. chance on happiness. I
want life and love and excitement, and I
don’t want to be an onlooker. I want to
be part of it all.”
“And suppose after you have spent every
thing you find you've made a mistake—
what then?”
“That’s the chance I must take.” Gail’s
voice was very low. She had turned a little
pale, for only yesterday Violet Fowler had
said the same thing, and her confidence had
been a little shaken. Os course Violet was
jealous, and in away Gail was sorry for
her, sorry that she had to stay in Dales
burg. She kept reminding herself that it
was natural for Violet to say the things she
had, yet Gail was fair and she could not
bring herself to believe that Violet had
been catty. There had been a sincerity
about, her, an unmistakable genuineness
very unlike Violet’s usual flippancy, and that
was why Gail had not been able to forget
her words of warning. Now her mother
was saying virtually the same thing, and
with such seriousness that Gail was vaguely
frightened.
“Then you intend to go on with this wild
scheme of yours?”
Gail nodded. She had returned to her
packing, lest her mother surprise the tell
tale look of fear that had sprung into her
eyes.
“Even if it means that you may never
see any of us again?” Mrs. Martin’s trem
bling voice had broken into a sob, and in
stantly Gail was on her knees at her
mother’s side, her strong young arms flung
around her.
“Please, mother, please don’t feel like
this,” she crooned gently. “Why won’t you
be a little joyful? Why won’t you help me
to go away happy? But Mrs. Martin did
not respond to the close pressure of Gail’s
embrace. She drew away, looked at Gail
for a moment out of tear-filled eyes, and
then without another word rose to her feet
and left the room.
Gail resumed her packing, but the wild
exhilaration that had been hers during the
early part of the evening was gone. She felt
depressed, unhappy; the future loomed up be
fore her dark with menacing clouds, and all
the rosy glamour of her experiment had van
ished like a dream. She could have cried
with vexation and disappointment, but try as
she woukl she could not dispel the gloom
that had settled down upon her.
After a time she rose to her feet and began
hastily to undress. But after she was in bed
sleep would not come to her, and her nervous
ness increased to such an extent that finally
she began to cry. She was bewildered at this
change in her attitude toward everything. At
that moment she wished with all her heart
she had not made up her mind so quickly,
and she looked forward with dread to the
morrow.
CHAPTER XXVI
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK at last after two nights on
a sleeper!
New York after rushing through the
country, through strange towns, across plains
and into baileys.
New York at 9 o’clock in the morning, and
Gail felt her heart leap rapidly, as the train
emerged from the tunnel, and slid smoothlv
along the tracks into the Pennsylvania station.
Since that last night in Dalesburg when
that strange depression had settled over her
and she had felt afraid for the first time,
Gail had hardly had time to think. The ex
citement of the long train ride, the novelty
of eating in the diner for the first time, the
glamoy of lying in her berth late at night,
with the shade pulled up and her eager eyes’
fixed on the flying landscape, had relegated
to the back of her mind the disagreeable inef
dents relative to her departure from Dales
burg.
It was only at odd moments that she re
membered her mother’s tear-wet cheeks and
anguished eyes, her father’s last harsh words
and parting injunction that, he was through |
with her. She had burned her bridges behind
her; ahead lay she knew not what. But in •
the recesses of her cheap handbag, was stowed I
away a draft for four thousand, five hundred ;
dollars, and pinned to the lining of her dress j
was a small chamois bag containing the rest
of her money in neat folded bills.
Tt vas thus that Gail Martin entered the
city of her dreams.
She was not a prepossessing figure as she
stood in the aisle with the rest of the train
passengers waiting for the train to coine to a
stop. There was lacking in her appearance [
that smart finishing touch that New York :
women know so well how to obtain, and ;
although her plain blue traveling suit was of 1
good material, and her hat was not cheap, I
there was about her a respectable middle- I
class look that was wholesome but not at all ■
interesting.
Out on the platform the red-caps con- ■
fused her, and she was furious with her- j
self because of it. An efficient porter I
shouldered her bags, and looked at her in- 1
quiringly for directions.
“Taxi.” Gail said breathlessly, trying to 1
make the order sound casual and as though
she had been used to all this for a long i
time. But she followed him up the stairs ;
and emerged finally into the huge vault- j
ed station. Even the experienced traveler >
feels a thrill as he emerges into the station '
after long months of absence, and to Gail i
the sight of it was awe-inspiring, almost I
unbelievable. She stopped for a moment to 1
stare around her. and under the vast arched I
roof she felt suddenly overwhelmed by her ■
own insignificance. It robbed her of her i
last remnant of self-possession, and she felt 1
heartsick and freightened and alone. Then '
realizing that the porter had not stopped
and was now almost the length of the sta- j
> tion ahead of her, she hurried across the ’
MISLEADING LEADERS AND MISLED
PEOPLE
: HE American people are very much ad-
I dieted to the convention habit.
Every Interest and vocation is organ
ized, and the number of associations, con
ventions, and congresses is almost beyond
computation.
Very many of these
bodies are directed and
dominated by small
groups of persons, who
pull the wires behind
I lie scenes and make
the 'Other members
move at will, a» skillful
showmen make puppets
perform. These makers
and managers of con
vention machinery are
called “the leaders,”
and they generally
compose “the commit
tee on 'resolutions,” to
which all motions in
troduced are instantly
referred on their in
t rod n Pt inn
irouuction.
When this committee of “leaders” make
their report (always during the closing
hours of the convention), their “findings”
are generally adopted with little or no dis
cussion, and adopted without adequate con
sideration. Indeed, it is considered bad
form, if not disloyalty to the body, when
any member presumes to express dissent
from their conclusions. Moreover, dissent is
futile; for the voting, as well as the re
port, has been “fixed” by “the leaders”
whose business it is to manipulate the
meeting from start to finish.
On the adjournment of the session “the i
cut and dried” report of these manipulators
is published as the matured convictions of
all the members, although most of them
know little about it and care less.
This method of the convention mechanics
to promote their ambitious schemes and dan
gerous devices is a most pernicious form ot
personal propaganda. It is no more trust- I
worthy than the prospectus of ‘‘a wildcat j
oil company,” whose “gushers” do not exist I
outside of gushing advertisements.
Religious and educational conventions
constitute the special preserve—“the happy
hunting ground ’ of these “machine gun
men.” They find particular delight in
bringing down religious workers and school
teachers, who, in their unsuspicious good
i ness, are easy game for these marksmen of
I the committee room and the platform.
A case in point was staged at the recent
i meeting of the Student Volunteers at Indian
■ apolis. That body is composed of college
! students who are supposed to be volunteers i
for foreign mission work, although most of I
them will probably never go to the foreign
field. But the meeting drew together several
thousand of these pious young people, and
the word was sent forth that they all had '
approved enthusiastically the doctrines of I
pacifism and social equality? Many of them ’
have denied that any such action was taken I
by them. If they had done so, what has a!
convention of school boys and school girls,
met to consider foreign missions, 'to do <
with such matters? What qualifications,
have callow youths for passing on such is-1
sues?
Another instance of “machine-made” wis- ‘
dom was the attempt of the managers of the
North Carolina Education association to con- i
strain the Senators and Representatives of
that great State in the Federal Congress to '
support the mischievous measure known as
“the Towner-Sterling bill.” The manipulators !
of the association secured the adoption of res
olutions favoring the passage of the bill, and
the secretary of the body, in sending copies |
of this action to the members of Congress
from North'Carolina, stated that it expressed i
the sentiment of 15,000 white school teachers
in the State, although it may be doubted that j
as many as 1,000 of them know, or care any- |
thing about it.
That able and patriotic Senator, Hon. Lee \
S. Overman, made a candid and courteous re
ply to the secretary of the association, which
answer, fortunately, has been published. It is I
a clear and cogent exposition of this danger
ous bill and it deserves the widest circula
tion and the mosi careful consideration.
'I he admirable reply of Senator Overman to
the communication of the secretary was as
follows:
“I thank you for sending this resolution
to me, and assure you I shall be glad to give
it due consideration, etc.
“I feel, however, that the teachers of North
Carolina are making a grave mistake when
they ask the Federal government to interfere
with our schools in North Carolina. This
Towner-Sterling bill will take away the State
supervision of our schools and give it to the
Federal government. It does not appear so
on the face of the bill, but that will be an
easy matter when the Federal government
once enters into this sort of administration,
lien it. takes control the teachers will have
to submit to the dictates of the Federal gov- I
ernment. I also fear the negro question and
mixed schools, if this matter Is given over to
the Federal government. We have to meet
these questions every day, and they would be
absolutely forced upon us if this bill passes
and becomes a law.
“I assure yo\i I respect the voice of the I
teachers of the State, and will give it my j
sincere consideration. I feel if this legisla- i i
tion were fully explained to the teachers, ■
however, that they would not be heartily in ;
favor of Its passage.”
The views of Senator Overman, expresed so
kindly, will commend themselves to the ap- ; i
proval of the great majority of the teachers ' I
of North Carolina, who have been misled, and
| then misrepresented, by the association han- i 1
[ (Hers. I I
| It Is encouraging to note that the people <
i are beginning to understand and condemn this i
I unwise “Towner-Sterling” bill. The more i
carefully they consider it, the more strongly
will they oppose it. It is worse than the old , 1
ABE MARTIN SAYS—
Ole home towns are great t’ go back to—!
if we've been successful. Personal vanity
has kept more folks spruced up an’ out o'
: jail than all th’ laws ever written.
(Copyright, 1923.)
I floor after him, and a moment later was
standing along the curb with a crowd of
people waiting her turn at a taxi. There
were apparently hundreds of taxis. They
darted in from the street, under an arch
way, made a turn and swept up to the curb,
only to be filled a moment later with pas-
< sengers.
■ Gail's red-cap finally cornered one, loaded
Gail's bags on the front, gave the hotel,
■ that she mentioned in an undertone, to the
: driver, pocketed his dime tip, and was off.
J As Gail had slipped the coin into his hand,
; has dark face had scowled momentarily, and
i Gail realized too late that it was not
; enough. What a little ignoramus she was!
1 Her cheeks flamed as she settled back into
a corner of the taxi, and resolutely she de
termined never to make that mistake again.
i
Saturday, “A New Arrival” and “Trans
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OLD-TIME RELIGION
BY BISHOP W. A. CANDLER
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MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin S. Cobb
There was company at the farmhouse that
evening, and Mrs. Purdy, who had her share
and more of New Hampshire thrift, was
moved through hospitality to offer the sug
gestion that possibly the guests might like
a glass apiece of fresh apple cider. There
was a unanimous indorsement of the idea.
So Mr. Purdy got a china pitcher from the
pantry and started for the cellar to where
the cider was stored.
The cellar was dark and the steps leading
to it were steep. Half way down he stumbled
and dropped with a resounding thump upon
the brick floor six feet below, where he lay,
half stunned.
Upstairs in the parlor they heard the sound
of his fall. With alarm and wifely solicitude
writ large upon her face, Mrs. Purdy ran to
the head of the cellar steps.
“Paw.” she called down, “did you break
; the pitcher?” . |
From the void below a determined voice
answered her back:
“No, I didn’t, but by Judas Priest, I'm .
goin’ to now!”
Crash! I
THURSDAY, JANUARY SI, 1924,
“Blair bill,” which the country rejected some
forty years ago.
The National Chamber of Commerce of the
United States has condemned it, and the con
demnation was expressed through a referen
dum of its members, and not by a manipu
lated vote in a mechanically managed con
vention.
And Hon. John Sharp Williams, of Mis
sissippi, in a letter to Mr. Frank H. An
drews, secretary of the Board of Trade of
Vicksburg, laid bare Its “true inwardness.”
Senator Williams wrote as follows:
“My Dear Mr. Andrews: lam absolutely
opposed to adding another cabinet officer to
the President’s political family under the
guise of a Secretary of Education. I would
hate very much to see the educational in
stitutions of this country centralized, or
made uniform all over the country. I saw
enough of that sort of thing, teaching every
child the same thing every morning through
out a whole country, when I was in Ger
many. One of the good things with us is
that the different States teach different text
books, and all children’s minds are not
framed in exactly the same mold, so that a
Yankee remains a Yankee likewise as to a
Wseterner and a Southerner, and the differ
ence in their traditions and ideals and mode
of education and training has been of in
valuable benefit to the republic. I was never
great on uniformity, anyhow.
“I am, with expression of regard,
“Very truly yours,
“JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS.”
Senator Williams puts the matter clearly
and forcibly. His position is eminently cor
rect.
This “Towner-Sterling” bill Is a most per
nicious measure.
It is proposed by it to establish an ex
ecutive department, of education, similar to
that of the Department of the Interior, or
the Department of Justice with a Secretary
in the President’s cabinet to administer it.
It would receive large annual appropria
tions for distribution among the States,
and the Secretary, by disbursing these large
sums upon certain conditions, could, and
would, color and control the education of
the youth of the nation.
It is far worse in all its features than the
vicious “Blair bill” which tho people opposed
vigorously and defeated” overwhelmingly
about forty years ago. It proposes for the
United States a thoroughly Prussianized sys
tem of education. The creation of a de
partment of religion, with a secretary in the
President's cabinet, would be scarcely more
injurious or more un-American.
But some good people clamor for Its
adoption because they wish to extirpate ig
rforance and promote education in the land.
Certain educational associations, in which a
group of officials propose all sorts of resolu
tions and secure their adoption by a body of
unthinking delegates, have indorsed this
dangerous bill. They claim the teachers of
America are favorable to it. As a matter
of fact, an overwhelming majority of the
teachers of the United States have never
given it a thought. If they had, they
would oppose it as an unwarranted and hurt
ful interference by the federal government
with the work of their noble profession. All
the people will unite against it, as they did
against the “Blair bill,” once they under
stand it.
But at present the people of the country
are asleep on the subject, and they nod to
be aroused. They do not perceive the purpose
of the bill, nor apprehend the wretched conse
quences of the measure, if it were adopted.
The bill has been reintroduced into the new
Congress and President Coolidge has given it
mild ai?proval in his first message. The art
ful propagandists who support it are working
energetically for it as heretofore.
Moreover, the people should know that this
is only one of many schemes to create lucra
;ive positions for politicians, increase federal
patronage and waste paiblic funds. They
should understand that a number of lobby
ing bureaus and boards have headquarters at
the national capital, and that, by postal
propagation with the citizens of the country
and personal appeals to members of Congress
they are constantly seeking to secure the
passage of all sorts of paternalistic schemes
which rob the federal treasury, prostrate the
States to impotent provinces and increase the
burdens of federal taxation. In co-operation
with other unworthy agencies they are reduc
ing the Federal Government to a most ex
travagant and wasteful co-operative society
which disguises its extraction of millions of
dollars annually from the pockets of the tax
payers by sending back a few paltry appro
priations to local enterprises and selfish
schemes of spurious reformers.
They not only levy and collect taxes through
federal legislation, which ought not to be
levied, but, by the most insidious methods,
they denature the government itself, displac
ing the freedom of a constitutional republic
with the tyranny of an unscrupulous bureau
cracy. The constitution, designed for the de
fense of the liberties of the people, is rapidly
becoming an object of contempt upon the part
of these demagogical bureaucrats.
All the people may as well understand that
there is no money in the federal treasury but
their own, and that they can get no more
out than they put In, although a pilfering
majority, by nefarious appropriations, can
extract from the treasury moro than the men
of such a majority put in, and thereby rob
all the rest of the nation.
That sort of looting the treasury has been
accomplished often. It is sometimes called
“pork barrel politics,” and it well deserves
the malodorous name. Without violence to
truth it might be called robbery or thieVery.
The people themselves will he forced to
furnish.the money for all the schemes of the
bureaucrats, notwithstanding the practices
of these propagandists that they are getting
something out of the government for “the !
dear people.” 1
Down with the “Towner-Sterling bill.’ And I
let all the people say, Amen.
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER j
What has gone before— Althea Crose
by Inherits a fortune on condition that
she marry before she is thirty-five. She
falls In love with handsome young Dr.
Peter Graham and marries him without
telling him about the condition In the
will. Eventually he hears gossips dis
cussing It and assumes she married him
to get possession of the fortune. He be
comes cool and she assumes he married
fer for her money. She becomes very
jealous of her husband’s kindly atten
tions to Mrs. Ruth Williams, a wealthy
patient, and also of the nurse In his of
fice, Mabel Howard. Althea meets Ken
neth Moore and his gaiety attracts her.
—Now go on with tho story.
CHAPTER T>l
NELL BLACKWELL had a little son
and Althea spent much time with,
them. Occasionally a thought would,
cross her mind: if she had children per
haps Peter would care more for her. But
then she didn’t know that she wanted him
to care because of that.
Rodney and Nell were so happy. It was
a sort of pleasurable torture for her to ba
with them —constantly comparing her own
life with theirs, while she rejoiced in their *
i happiness.
“It’s love that makes the world go
round,” Rodney said one day in speaking
of someone they knew who has prospered
financially. “We can be happy without
slathers of money, but not- without love,
can we, Nell?”
“I couldn’t! And I doij’t think any on»
was ever so happy as we are, Rod. It fright
ens me sometimes since baby came —being
so happy.”
After Althea left Nell said:
“I wish I knew what was wrong with Pe
ter and Althea. I think Mollie Butler haa
a suspicion, but I never see her nowadays.
She was more than half in love with Peter
before Althea married him. She said so
herself.” v
“I think you imagine things, Nell. I don’t
see anything wrong with Peter and Althea.”
“You’re a man! • 1 was looking at her
when we talked of being so happy and her
face was so sad for a minute. Then they
are so awfully cool and polite to each other.
It isn’t natural! I’m glad Kenneth Moore
is out of town for a while again. I was
getting worried about him and Althea.”
“What a little worry-budget you are. Pe
ter and Althea will come out all right—-
even if there is something a bit wrong.
Every woman doesn’t have to be petted
and cuddled just because you demand it
of me.”
“I like that —demand it! But honestly,
Rod, something’s wrong there and I am so
fond of them both I’d like to help them.”
“Butting in never does any good. Bet
ter spend your time looking after me.”
But Nell could not forget that look on
Althea’s face and so she thought and plotted
to help her friend, first finding 'out —if she
could —just where she needed help.
The next tiime she saw Althea she had
news for her. She said:
“I see the Williams’ are going to Europe
next month. The paper said they were to
sail on the 20tU.”
“That’s only about five weeks away,” Al
thea said. “I wonder what she will do
about that Howard child. I suppose Peter
will take her back to the hospital if she
needs further attention.”
“It was a remarkable thing for Mrs. Wil
liams to do, wasn’t it?” Nell asked, “to
open her house that way to perfect strangers.
Mother, sister and invalid. Os course she
has heaps of servants and money or she
couldn’t do it, but not many people even as
rich as she is would burden themselves in
that way.”
“She probably had her reasons,” Althea
returned dryly.
“Althea Graham, I believe you are jealous
of her! I believe you think she did it for
Peter’s sake, not because of wanting to b»*
good to those people.”
“I am sure I haven’t thought of her mo
tive. But I don't believe in too much good
ness in a woman like her.”
“Does Peter have to visit the child often
now?”
“I believe he sees her every day.” Al
thea’s voice was harsh.
“Um—and you don’t like it. What’s th*
use, Althea, why not own up you’re
Surely we’ve been friends long enough.”
“I’m not jealous!” Althea denied fiercely,
“but I don’t like it. Would you? She’*
handsome, wealthy, clever—so I am told—-
and very accomplished. She visits Peter’* .
patients at the hospital, takes them into
her house. Even the nurses talk of her de
votion to his patients. It Isn’t pleasant to
hear.”
“I’ll bet it was that sour-faced Bundy told
you that. I don’t see how you and Peter
stand her after having that nice Miss How
ard so long.”
“I dislike Miss Howard very much, Nell,
I hope she will not come hack.”
“Jealous of her, too?” Nell teased.
“No, indeed! I simply dislike her as I
would any girl who doesn't know her place,
I have been a working girl myself, but I
never made love to my employer.” She had
not intended to say so much to the gossip
loving Nell and bit her lips in chagrin.
“Whew! I never would have thought her
that sort.”
“There are other things, things I don’t
care to talk about even to you. The girl la
a pushing, forward creature. I hope Peter
won’t take her back.”
“Os course he won’t If he knows how you
feel.”
“That shows how little you know Peter,
When it comes to anything connected with
his profession, his office, he won’t listen to
anybody.”
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
China Is a republic at last. The presi
dent announces that her treasury is empty.;
—Portland Oregonian.
Hot air rises. In campaign years It rise*
to absurd heights.—Erie Times.
New—perhaps—simile: “As innocent as
babes in Hollywood.”—St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
A true gentleman is one who can refrain
from cussing while being told by a woma*
who knows it all.—Birmingham News.
The office cynic says he never will believe
in dreams again. One of them assured him
she wasn’t married.—Atlantic City Dally
Press.
Matrimony may prolong life, and then,
aaain, it may only make it seem longer.—ll
linois State Journal.
If the next war is to be a chemical war,
the Volstead act is merely a national pre
paredness act in disguise.—Cincinnati Times
Star.