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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
/ went by the field of a slothful, and
by the vineyard of the man void of under
standing; and, 10, it was all grown over
with thorns, and nettles had covered the
face thereof, and the stone wall thereof
was broken down. 7 hen I saw, and con
sidered it well; I looked upon it and re
ceived instruction. Yet a little sleep, a
. little slumber, a little folding of the hands
to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as
on'e that traveleth, and thy • want as an
armed man.—Proverbs 24:30-34.
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ding must have converted her to the Re
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dumb common people, and wel love her and
would fight for her and die for her, if
need be.
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as Mrs. Felton left in the world. It keeps
alive a spark of faith in humankind that
otherwise might die.”
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crat wrote to us as he did and that we pub
lished his letter. It has stimulated interest
in what is really a big question before the
American people, though not all of us real
ize its importance.
! This question is that of freedom of speech.
The tendency toward governmental cen
sorship and intolerance of personal opinion
is growing in all sections of our country. It
is an alarming thing.
Let us all use our Influence to check It.
Let us remember those dying words of
Washington Dessau: “From the clash of
intellects comes the spark of truth.”
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thing about our quickness of service. We
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HOW TO READ THE BIBLE
By Dr. Frank Crane
I HAVE no particular creed I want you to
swallow, and no particular church I want
you to join. I have no intention to con
vert you, and don’t even aim to “do you
good.”
Still, a friendly hint on how to read the
Bible may interest you.
You may read the Bible from moral nto
iives, or merely as literature. in the one
case you may find it a very puzzling book,
and in the other very antique, unless you re
member one thing.
The one thing is that the Bible is an Ori
ental book.
Unless you keep that in mind you are
pretty sure to miss its meaning. Some of
the most absurd vagaries have arisen by for
getting it, and by treating the Bible as a
western book.
Tire Oriental mind differs from ours chiefly
in this, that it is essentially poetic. Eastern
peoples have always thought, spoken, and
written poetry. They can not write prose
when they try.
Poetry does not speak plainly. It hints,
symbolizes; touches facts not with a rough,
firm grasp, but evasively; loves riddles, dark
sayings and apparent contradictions.
It functions in parables and paradoxes.
The western mind is prosaic. It plods,
builds, reasons.
To get to the top of the mountain, the
Occidental cuts logical steps in t# e rocks;
the Oriental flies.
In moral subjects and Religious the eastern
mind is the more skillful, as such matters
are better divined than argued. >
Forget not, therefore, that there is hardly
a line of your Bible that is not poetry. The
nearest approach to prose is in Paul’s writ
ings; yet they also abound in highly poetical
passages.
No one had this poetical turn more than
the chief figure of the Bible, Jesus.
His parables are pure poetry. His maxims
are full of paradox.
It is very unfortunate that our western
bent for logic and bald facts led us to use thfi
glowing, images of. the great Master's poetry
as bricks and squared stones wherewith to
build up our “systems of truth.”
For it is doubtful that truth is a system
at all; it is more likely a vision.
Take one illustration: Jesus would teach
His disciples the value of humility. Instead
of analyzing this virtue, explaining and dis
secting it, as a modern professor might do.
He removes His coat, girds himself with a
towel and washes His pupil’s feet, saying
when finished: ,
“If I, your Master, wash your feet, so
ought ye to wash one another’s feet.”
The advantage of this method of teaching
it that it is striking, easily remembered, vis
ual, and interesting.
Common sense prevented His disciples
from taking His command literally. They
were forced to seek the idea, the sentiment
behind it.
Literalism is not truth, it is the foe of
truth. “The letter killeth.”
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Q. What does “Caramba” mean in
lish? C. A. CL
A. The literal translation of the Spanish
exclamation “Caramba” is “Hau! Strange!”
Q. \\ hen was the /Danish flag adopted o
W. O. H.
A. It was adopted June 15, 1219.
Q. What jewel is in the pope’s ring?
A. D. H.
A. His holiness wears a ring set with a
large Spanish emerald.
Q. Does iodine heal a wound? E. M. H.
A. lodine has no healing properties. It
is used to disinfect wounds, end should be
applied as soon as possible. One application
is sufficient. Tincture of iodine should not
be applied on unbroken skin surfaces.
Q. What tribe of Indians owns the most
oil producing wells? D. O. T.
A. The Osage Indians head the list. They
own wells which produced 41.510.17 S bar
rels of oil last year, bringing them in bonus,
rent and royalty, $30,512,111.
Q. Where does nickel come from? M. E. C.
A. About S 5 per cent of the world’s nickel
supply is taken out in the vicinity of Sud
, bury, Ontario.
THE LOVE TRAP
What has gone before —After a two
year engagement in a small town, Gail
Martin is jilted by her fiance, George
Hartley, who is infatuated with Fay
Morrison, a visitor to Dalesburg. I* aj,
however, is only playing and laughs
when she discovers that George is se
rious. Gail’s one desire is to leave town
and when her Aunt Debbie dies and
leaves the girl $5,000, Gail decides to
take her money and go to New 1 ork.
■ There she succeeds in turning tables
by becoming engaged to Arch Kennei
ley, whom Fay considers her property.
Gail is disillusioned and is frankly mar
rying Arch for his money, but shortly
after her engagement she meets Jeffrey i
Arnold, an artist, and falls in love with ,
him. —Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER XLVI ,
Discovery
GAIL'S’ happiness, however, was short
lived; She could not hope to play with
fire without eventually being burned,
and a week after her visit to Jeffry Arnold s
studio, during which time she had recklessly
cut engagements with the younger set in
order to see him, she and Marjorie were hav
ing lunch together at a downtown hotel.
Marjorie’s face was flushed and her gray
eyes were troubled. In all her friendship
with Jeffry Arnold, she had never seen him
so interested as he had been in Gail Mar
tin. Marjorie Sad told him all she knew
about the girl. She was evidently an heiress
and she came from Dalesburg, HL, but this
latest piece of news put a different aspect
on everything.
“You’re sure?” Jeffry’s voice was even
and cold.
“Oh, I’m positive, Jeffry. I took the
trouble to ask questions and there’s no doubt
of it. You see, Mr. Garfield has been com
ing to the Thorrilton for several years, and
he and I are great friends. When he ar
rived last night I was in the lobby and
after we had been talking a moment he
asked me if I had met Gail Martin. I told
him yes, and then he proceeded to tell me
all about her, how she had inherited $5,000,
and had startled Dailesburg by deciding to
take the money and stake it on her future
happiness. It was through Alec Garfield
that she met this wild young set she’s trav
eling with, and, of course, her one idea was
to land a rich husband before her money
gave out.”
“It doesn’t seem like her, does it?” Jeffry
went on still in that even tone of voice.
Marjories’s eyes grew tender. What chil
dren men were, after all. Here was Jeffry
Arnold, a man she had thought removed
from the wiles of women, as desperately in
love with this butterfly girl as if he had
been a boy in his teens. It was incredible.
“Oh, I don’t know,” Marjorie said care
lessly. “We didn’t know her, that’s all. You
know the reputation young Kennerley has,
and she’s been engaged to him for some
time. I’ll grant that she seems artless and
sweet, but she’s evidently clever. It’s the
best story I’ve ever fallen on, and any girl ;
who can engineer a thing as cleverly as she
did is .deep.”
No word had been mentioned between
Jeffry Arnold and Marjorie as to his feeling
for Gail, but Marjorie knew and J-effry was
aware of the fact, although he did not say
so. It was true that from the first he had
not been able to put the girl out of his
mind and on the occasion of his second
meeting with her, something about her per
sonality had stirred his pulses and fired his
imagination. From that time his feeling
had grown, and her ready response to the
fire in his eyes, her quick color and the fact
that her eyes refused to meet his had made
him believe that she. too, cared. In his
heart of hearts he still believed that he had
the power to rouse her to passion, but ap
parently that wasn’t enough for her. She
wanted wealth, she had schemed and
planned to annex a rich husband, and al
though she was not above a flirtation with
some one who could appeal to her emotions,
she was cold-blooded enough to follow it up
by a marriage to someone she did not not
love, but who had the saving grace of
money. -
This was the Gail whose lashes had fallen
when lie had probed her eyes with his, this
cold-blooded little wretch who with $5,000
had stormed the portals of New York’s idle
rich and carried off the catch of the season.
He had heard tales of Arch Kennerley; his
name was often in the papers for speeding
and other minor offenses. He was a dissolute
young rascal, but wealthy, and with any
woman this was enough to make her close
her eyes to the unpleasant side of his na
ture.
CHAPTER XLVTy
The Folly of Deceit
THE strange part of it all was that Gail
never saw Alec Garfield during his fly
ing trip to New York. He was at the
Hiortilton only overnight, and left the next
day for Washington. Twice he had called
up Gail’s room but she was not at home
either time, and consequently she could not
account for Marjorie MacDonald’s coolness
when the two met in the elevator the fol
lowing evening. Gail was hurt, for Mar
jorie’s manner was decidedly aloof. She
longed to ask outright what was the matter,
but there wasn’t time, for Marjorie had left
the eleiator before Gail could make up her
mind to speak.
On her own floor Gail walked quickly to
her room. She was vaguely troubled and
gradually there dawned on her the suspicion
that Marjorie had’heard of the engagement.
If she did know about it, there was every
reason to believe that Jeffry Arnold also
knew, and in that case everything was over!
Os course he would believe the worst; he
would think her a trifler, and certainly he
would never forgive the fact that she had
deliberately deceived him.
“Everything goes wrong with me!” Gail
cried aloud. “I'm caught fast, as fast in
the trap as I was in Dalesburg, only this is
my own fault. Oh, I hate rayself. - I'm as
bad as Lay Morrison. I'm not worth any
man's love, and I deserve every bit of un
happiness that comes my way.”
>be sat for a long time on the edge of
the bed. Her heart was heavy within her
and she was sick with depression. She knew
that she loved Jeffry Arnold with all the
best of her nature, and yet she was afraid.
She was coming to the end of her re
sources. bills were staring her in the face
and marriage with Arch would mean cessa
tion of all money troubles. Her eyes wan
dered suddenly to the little traveling clock
on her bureau and she jumped to her feet
with a start. Arch was to call for her at
‘ - and it was now twenty minutes of; she
would have to hurry if she were to be
dressed in time.
With cold fingers she unfastened her
dress, slipped out of it and began to take
off the rest of her clothes. As she hur
riedly bathed and put on fresh scented
things, her thoughts leaped ahead to the
evening before her. Dinner for eight of them
at the Florentine room of the St George
a box party afterward to be followed by a
crowded cabaret. With every nerve stretch
ed breakin S Point she looked forward
. with dread to what was before her The
noisy chattering of the girls, Arch's air of
possession, her own constant playing up to
him lest he suspect her true attitude to
■ ward him. and the utter uselessness of it all.
Inwardiy rebelling, she nevertheless went
wiw the case of habit. She
OLD-TIME RELIGION
BY BISHOP W. A. CANDLER
CHEERING PROGRESS IN THE SUPPRES
SION OF LYNCHING
Fa OLLOWING the World war, waves of
crime swept over our country, and
an increase of criminality was notice
able in all lands. Such results generally
arise from war, and need not occasion sur
prise. It is of the nature of such conflicts
to excite lawless pas-
sions while relaxing the
moral restraints which
in time of peace check
in some degree crim
inal tendencies.
It is deplorable that
these waves of crime
continue to run, al
though the war was
brought to an end by
the armistice above five
years ago. Robberies
and murders have been, |
and continue to be ■
alarmingly common in i
every part of the United
States. The columns of
the daily press fairly
reek with the reports of these bloody deeds.
But amid these wretched conditions one
fact of an encouraging nature has been
brought to public attention: Lynching has
greatly decreased) It is claimed that dur
ing the year 1922 fifty-seven persons were
lynched in the United States, whereas in
192 3 there were only twenty-eight.
It is affirmed also that during the year
1923 there were forty-six instances in which
lynchings were prevented by the courage
and fidelity of the officers of the law.
Every law-abiding and patriotic person
will rejoice that this barbarous evil is de
clining. Every one will ardently hope that
this blot upon American civilization may be
removed by the utter and speedy disappear
ance of lynching from every section of our
country.
It is a. most inexcusable and repulsive
form of violence that can not be condemned
too strongly. When a human being is
lynched the law is lynched and civilized gov
ernment is set at naught.
It is doubtless true that many perpetra
tors of hideous crimes, who deserved death,
have been lynched; but that fact does not
justify their lawless execution by frenzied
mobs. It is doubtless true also that inno
cent persons have been lynched; and one
such case is enough to condemn mob law in
all its forms, however plausibly defended.
Lynching, and all other forms of lawless
ness, must be put down, or there A an end
of all government. There is no security
for life, liberty, or property when law is
defied.
While every true man will rejoice in the
decline of lynching it must be regretted that
-other forms of lawlessness which are equal
ly evil are not sufficiently deprecated and
resisted.
11 For example, why should a record be
kept of lynchings and the figures be publish
ed annually in every newspaper in the coun
try, while no record is made of the far more
numerous assassinations by unpunished gun
men in the great cities of the north, such
as New York and Chicago?
There has not been a year in a decade
during which there were not perpetrated in
these two .cities thrice as many mysterious
and unpunished killings as there were lynch
ings in all the rest of the country.
Moreover, the horrible homicides in these
cities were not committed t<> avenge such
crimes as rape, which so inflame the pas
sions of the mob. Most of them seem to
have been done with no higher motive than
the base greed for money.
Why should there be no annual catalogue
of these enormities made and published?
Are they passed over, and
brought conspicuously into view, in order to
lay special condemnation upon one section
of the country? If so, can any good come
of such sectional discrimination?
It may be well to censure the section in
which a majority of lynchings occur; that
may help the good people of that section
to extirpate the evil. But what must be the
effect on other sections for tnem to raise a
hue and cry against lynchings while shut
ting their eyes to the larger number of
bloody deeds done at their doors? May not
that sort of sectional partiality towards as-
MY FAVORITE STORIES
By Irvin S. Cobb
As I may have remarked before, I do not
know why it should be —but it is—that sto
ries illustrative of a highly developed in
stinct for frugality nearly always should
have natives of Scotland for their heroes.
On my mother's side, I am part Scotch my
self, and, so far as I can recall, none of the
members of our family have ever been re
nowned locally or generally for saving up
the pennies.
With this digression, I now proceed to
relate a tale I heard only the other’ day
.of a youth, born in Dundee, who emigrated
to this country and proceeded without loss
of time to absorb a knowledge of American
institutions.
He was. taking his first walk down Fifth
avenue. At a certain corner, in the heart
of the shopping district, he was halted by
a sign over a large building, “Five and
Ten Cent Store.”
With a favoring look upon Ipis face he
considered this sign. Next he studied the
contents of the wide show windows, where
domestic utensils, toys, articles of v’ear and
a wide variety of other goods were dis
played.
Then he entered. Near the doorway he
encountered one of those impressive and
dignified being who unmistakably are assist
ant store managers.
“Is it true, sir-r-r,” inquired the Scot,
“that nothing in this establishment costs
more than five or ten cents?”
“That is correct,” stated the lordly floor
walker.
“Varra well, then,” said the newcomer,
“you may show me to the boot and shoe
department.”
(Copyright, 1924.)
coiled her dark hair close to her head,
slipped into the little French dance frock,
caught up her evening cloak, and was stand
ing nervously irresolute, staring with great
tragic dark eyes into the mirror, when the
telephone rang to announce Arch’s arrival.
“I’ll be right down,” she said into th.e
receiver, but Arch interrupted.
"Hold on a minute. I have some Scotch
here. If you'll let me come up, we can have
a little drink before dinner. Just order
some cracked ice.”
“Oh, I couldn't, Arch,” she protested with
a little shiver of distaste, “I have a head
ache. I'm coming right down."
Shp hung up on his grumbling protests,
snapped off the electric light and a moment
later was going down in the elevator. As
she emerged on the ground floor. Arch,
sleek and well groomed anrj wearing his din
ner coat with an air of one born to the pur
ple, rose to meet her. At the same time
Marjorie MacDonald came out of the dining
room, met Gail's oyes full for a moment,
shifted her gaze to Arch, gnd then with an
expression on her face that was strangely
like contempt, turned away.
Saturday—“ From Bad to Worse” and “A
Kiss in the Dark.” If your subscription ex
pires in March, renew non so ns not to miss
an installment of this story.
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. RHEUMATIC FEVER
By H. Addington Bruce
MORE and more it Is borne In upon
the medical profession that so-cauiu
• | rheumatic fever is, in its possibl&-*aa
, i er-effects, one of the direst of diseases. Again
; and again it has as sequel a weakening of
■ j the heart, with the result of an untimely
s death in innumerable cases.
And hitherto its prevention has baffled
1 medical science.
Its immediate cause, it is well established,
'I is a streptococcus infection. But strepto
| cocci, like the germs of tuberculosis, at
i tack virtually everybody. How to determine
1 why they develop rheumatic fever in some
persons, and not in others, is the
problem.
Now comes an English uhyslclan, Dr.
: Llewellyn J. Llewellyn, with some sugges
tions (contributed to American Medicine)
} which may help toward the solution of the
! problem that rheumatic fever so poignantly
, presents.
In no uncertain .language Dr. Llewellyn
j harks back to the old theory of rheumatic
diathesis, or inherited predisposition to
; rheumatic fever. But he is more explicit
than the ancients with reference to the char-
I acter of the inheritance. He is not content
with generalizations. He specifies. •
For one thing, he specifies that the pre-
I disposed by inheritance have certain physi-
and psychic traits:
“They are usually fair-haired, of delicate
I complexion, highly imaginative, excitable,
and readily fatigued—the neuropathic or
j hypertonic child.”
That is, they are uncourmonly sensitive,
the tender-minded rather than the tough
minded of William James’ classification. But
also, according to Dr. Llewellyn’s findings,
the predisposed to rheumatic fever have some
special weaknesses. They are liable to suffer
from such affections as asthma, eczema,
urticaria—our old friend, the hives—and
sundry other skin diseases.
Asthma, eczema, and the rest are not
known to be frequently due to an intolerance
for various proteins. In some cases a spe
. cial kind of meat—chicken or turkey, for
example—is positively poisonous. In other
cases, there is an intolerance for peas or
j beans, etc. Llewellyn asks:
“Is it not altogether probable that the
disconnected elements of the ‘rheumatic se
ries,' when they appear, are but further i
j clinical varieties due to the same uuderiy-l
i ing cause?”
Hence, as an aid in preventing rheumatic'
fever, he suggests the application of skin
i tests to determine whether this or that pro
tein is poorly tolerated. Naturally, he would
' apply the tests particularly to the fair
haired, light-complexioned, and hypersensi
’ tive.
Also, bearing in mind the exceptional oc
; currence of rheumatic fever among the chil
dren of the poor, Dr. Llewellyn stresses the
J importance, not merely of leaving Ehis or
that food out of the diet according to the
verdict of the skin-tests, but of making sure j
j that the diet is really nourishing.
Hp recalls McCarrL-on's studies of the •
hearts of animals led on a devitamlnued i
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924.
sassinations in great cities engender a spe
cies of Pharisaism which
“Compounds with crimes their hearts in
cline to
And damns the sins they have no mind to?”
The finest expression I have seen of a
wholesome and resolute public opinion
against lawlessness is a monument at Boga
lusa, La., where a provoked people practiced
the most admirable self-restraint under most
trying circumstances, and where brave of
ficers of the law laid down their lives for
the maintenance of civil order. On that Re
markable monument is this inscription:
"A Testimonial
“To commemorate the conservative and pa
triotic spirit of Washington parish, La., who,
amidst the most trying circumstances, main
tained and upheld the supremacy and majes
ty of the law. Faith in God. respect for
constituted authority jind allegiance ot our
government has ever been, is now, and ever
will be the very foundation of our peace,
happiness and prosperity. Our citizenship is
dedicated anew to the enforcement of the
law of the land. The sacrifice of our breth
ren whose lives were given for the welfare
of our country will not be in vain.-
Can anything finer than that be found
in any other section of our country, or in
any country in the world?
The sight of such a memorial can not fail
to promote the noblest public sentiment in
opposition to lawlessness and in ' support
of organized society. It will hearten good;
people and awe evil doers with wholesome
fear.
Again, why should the Federal Govern
ment invade the constitutional rights of the
States by such a measure as the proposed
“Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill,” and yet do noth
ing to arrest the flood of crime flowing
nightly through the great cities of the north?
No such law is required to suppress lynch
ing. Such a federal statute could not fail
to do much harm. And it would do little,
if any, good. It would most surely inflame
racial antipathies and inflame Hatreds which
do not now exist.
If let alone the law-abiding people of our
country will soon make an encl of lynching,
as indeed they ought to extirpate it. But
the unnecessary and unconstitutional inter
ference of the Federal Government in the
matter will hinder them in their efforts and
postpone their success.
It is occasion for satisfaction that many
of the wisest men of the north are begin
ning to take this view of the subject. The
Dyer Bill is supported now by a far greater
number of unreasonable fanatics than clear
eyed and clean-hearted statesmen. For ex
ample, the Hartford Times in a recent edi
torial said:
“Aside from the doubtful constitutionality
of sucth a law through its invasion of States’
rights, and aside from the difficulty of en
forcing it without precipitating something
very like a conflict between the sections of
the United States, would it not be wiser to
continue to trust in the educational and
moral forces which, both' Mr. Morton and
Mr. Johnson report to be at work, than to
run the risk of enraging the white south
while conferring no benefit upon the negro?
The fact is that the negro’s condition in the
south, while he remains there, is to remain
a matter for southern decision. There seems
small doubt of the superior wisdom of rely
ing upon the further penetration of economic
and social lessons regarding the negro than'
of making the gesture of passing a law
which is probably unconstitutional and
which could be enforced only at a risk to
internal peace.”
This is a mild statement of the case
which will commend itself to thoughtful and
patriotic men of all sections.
The bill ought to be entitled, “An Act to
Cast Odium on the Southern States, Increase
Lynchings, and Promote Racial Antagon
isms. ’ That would fairly and accurately
describe the measure.
We want peace and good will between all
races and classes in the country, and such
desirable conditions are alreadj r more preva
lent in the south than in any other section
of the country; for more of the southern
people are. members of Christian Churches
and exemplify Christian principles than can
be found among the heterogeneous popula
tions of the north and west. This is a sim
ple statement of fact, made not to give of
fense but to speak with truth and justice.
I HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
CHAPTER LXIH
WITHOUT a word Althea had given the
woman the money she asked for,
had given it with) a sense of shame
that made her flush crimson. She knew
it was wrong; knew that she was giving this
woman reason to think she wished her to
watch Peter—not only watch, but report
to her. She felt ashamed that she had
belittled herself even in Nurse Bundy’s
eyes. Y§t there was something within her
that urged her to say nothing, to hold her
self aloof as far as possible, yet give the
money so that she might know what Peter
did. As before she quieted her conscience
by saying:
“I have the right to know—and there
is no other way.”
To the casual or other observer Peter and
Althea Graham lived as did hundreds of
other undemonstrative married people, the
husband absorbed in his business, the wife
attending to her home duties and finding
interests where she could or willed.
Althea was a model housekeeper, but
now with two servants, a capable cook and
a. man for outside work, the supervision
of her home 'took but a small amount of
her time.
That they saw little of each other save
at meals goes without saying. At table
they were scrupulously polite to each other,
and naturally seldom discussed before Jane
anything but the most impersonal matters.
Had things between them been different
Althea would probably have told him of
Miss Bundy’s visit, her demands for money.
But he knew nothing of the matter—that
tbr ® e separate times she had blackmailed)
Althea. It was nothing else.
Peter unfolded the morning paper Just "i
as Althea tore open an envelope addressed
In an unfamiliar hand. Her face flushed
redly as she read the few words scrawled
on the sheet of paper. A sort of gasp es
caped her. but Peter did not notice. His
face was bent frowningly over the paper, an
'tngry and puzzled look in his eyes.
‘‘Althea, do you have any idea what this
means? Why Miss Bundy has dared do
this?” His tone was icy, his angry far®
grave.
“What is it?”
He passed her the paper with a hand that
trembled.
She- read: \
Nurse Arrested for Drunkenness. Sends
Word to Wife of Prominent Surgeon for
Bail.”
Althea paled at the headlines. She hardly
dared read the article that followed.
There had been a brawl of some sort in
the boarding house where Mlse Bundy haa
a room The police had been called in, ©ho
had resisted arrest and been particularly of
fensive. She had declared she could get
they allowed her to write to a friend.
Ihe friend” to whom shp had written was
the wife of DR Peter Graham, the voting
UY0 S rrt n |e W JX Work had attraCled 80 m,,ch
raised her eyee, Peter was gaamTM?
artS'wm a !.P” , have ro!ui tllal “andaloua
article v ill j OU please explain?” he asked.
wonk/ 1 han J n ° W 6116 sbou ld think I
would bail her out,” Althea parried.
evidenllv a %h 0 A m u reas ? n to so—very
ev aently. She has written you,” he added
poin.ing to the letter beside Althea’s plate.’
“Yes,” her voice was very low.
“Let me see it!” Even dn the stress of
the moment Althea noticed the command in
his voice. He did not ask a favor; he de
manded her obedience.
A thought of rebelling came to her; to
tear up the note which really told nothing
beyond what they knew. But there was
something compelling in Teter as he waited
and after a moment’s hesitation she handed
him the note.
“I have been arrested,” he read. “It 1»
’ti mistake. You come and hall me out,
Mrs. Graham, and I can prove it. I have
no one else to ask, and in view of your
other kindnesses to me I am sure you won't
refuse me.”
Peter read, reread the note before h®
! spoke. Then:
“To what ‘other kindnesses’ does she re
fer?”
“You know I was good to her when she
was here.”
“Yes —I know that for snnie unaccount
able reason you seemed to. like the woman.
But this reads as if she referred to particu
lar kindnesses, not just your general atti
tude toward her.” Again he read the not®
carefully. His brows knit. It was a terri
ble blow to him —that the papers should
mix his wife up with the case of a common
drunk.
“I was only kind; I felt sorry for her.’*
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A
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES L
The teacher had been giving the class a
lesson in history. The subject upon which
she had hit was that of King Alfred, and, at
the end of lesson she directed the class
to write an essay incorporating what she
had told them. She impressed upon them
the fact that'she did not want them on any
account\.to mention the episode of the cakes,
as it had no bearing on historical events, and
its authenticity was very doubtful.
Twenty small heads were bent in thought
for half an hour then the essays were hand-’
ed in.
Tommy's effort, though not brilliant, was
certainly original:
“Alfred was king ot England. He was a
very good king and earned the title of
‘Great.’ One evening he visited a lady
friend, but the less said about that th®
better.”
A Lancastrian visiting New York was
if anything had impressed him sine®
his arrival in America.
“No, I can’t say it has,” he replied.
> “Didn't you see the Statue of Liberty In
the harbor?”
“D'ye mean the woman holding the lamp?
That’s nothing. Have you ever been to
Blackpool?'”
“No,” replied the American.
"Thought* you hadn’t traveled far,” said
tho Lancastrian. “In Blackpool we have a
tower 40,000 feet high, and every night they
pull it down and put the lid on.”
“Why do they do that?” s
“Just to let the moon go by.”
diet, and stresses the weakening conse
quences. Let the diet be inadequate, and, it
would seem, the least infection by strepto
cocci may have deadly results. For through
malnutrition there may gradually be ef
fected in the predisposed an uncommon
susceptibility to bacterial proteins.
In other words, the use of skin-tests and
the taking of special dietary, precautions ar®
advocated by Llewellyn as contributing to
the prevention of rheumatic fever. Tim®
alone can establish the soundness of hi.®
views. But the situation is such that th«y
at least afford a hint worth application.
(Copyright, 1924.)