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A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
You are the light of the world. A city
do men light a candle and put it under a.
that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither
bushel, but on a candlestick that it may
give light unto all that are in the house.
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they may see your good works and glorify
your Father who is in heaven.—Matthew
5:14-16.
The Corn Borer s Verdun
A STATE that has suffered as Georgia
has from the ravages' of the boll wee
vil should be interested in the pres
ent anxieties of the West over another for
eign insect invasion, that of the European
corn borer. So serious is its menace that
eighty scientists, including entomologists,
agronomists, and other specialists in agri
cultural problems, are mobilizing their forces
for a vigorous drive in northern Ohio, which
now appears to be the crucial front. Among
their munitions and allies will be fifty thou
sand parasite foes of the corn bandits, im
ported especially for this campaign. These
will be sent Into action later in the season
to prey upon the borer’s young, for which
they are said to have a voracious appetite.
Meanwhile, the scientists, reinforced by
county agricultural agents, will do first-hand
educational work, visiting every township in
the threatened region and as many farms as
possible, to give practical instruction in
methods of combating the devastating pest.
If effective, the campaign will save the coun
try billions of dollars of farm wealth and
will redound to the benefit of almost every
business interest.
No more undesirable immigrant ever en
tered America than the corn borer. It is
supposed to have come from middle or
southern Europe in shipments of broom corn.
Some six years ago it was found attacking
crops of sweet corn in eastern Massachusetts
and in the neighborhood of Schenectady, New
York. Westward it crept until last year it
was observed in southern Michigan and
northern Ohio, making steadily for that re
gion which is to America’s production of
corn what the South is to cotton. No won
der that Illinois, though two hundred miles
from the enemy's present outposts, is plan
ning to co-operate liberally on the Ohio
front, or that Canadians also are making
common cause with Americans.
In a terse and accurate description Science
Service describes the corn borer as appear
ing in the autumn “in the form of a brown
ish caterpillar or worm about an inch long
which has been tunneling into the plant.”
There it hibernates. “As soon as warm
weather begins in April or May, the borer
becomes active again and about the middle
of May it cuts a small circular opening from
its tunnel to the surface of the plant in or
der to provide an exit for the future moth.
It then closes this hole with a thin partition
of silk and goes back into its dugout gallery
where it spins a thin cocoon. About the
first week of June, the borer emerges as a
moth can cover as much as four hun
dred yards in a non-stop flight and travel
anywhere from five to ten miles. The fe
male moth usually lays her nearly flat little
eggs in clusters on the under side of a leaf.
The young borer, hatched from these eggs,
eats for awhile on the leaves, and then starts
digging itself into cornstalk , corncobs,
wueds, or other plants, where it completes
most of its development, incidentally injuring
the plant. The corn borer attacks all parts
of the plant, and while it prefers corn and
sorghum there are some two hundred species
of plants wihch it is known to attack. The
most successful method of getting nd oi
this pest has been found to be the destruc-
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tion of the'remnants of the crop in which
the borers hibernate.”
If the boll weevil, when it first crossed
the Rio Grande from Mexico some thirty:
years ago, had been fought with as much i
knowledge, efficiency and co-operation as now ;
are being mustered against the corn borer, a I
large part of the South's incalculable loss'
might have been saved. (It is not to be for- |
gotten, however, that We are compensated j
for that pillage by the lessons the weevil has
taught and enforced in crop diversification
and in general farm improvement.) There
is every reason to expect that the defense
now being prepared against the corn borer ■
will prove, after its fashion, another. Ver-1
dun. Without the scientist, be it remeni
bered, this would not be possible. To him ,
the farmer, as well as the manufacturer, ’
owes most of the increased wealth and of ■
the quickened progress which the last half >
century has brought.
Shearing Legislative Lochs
BIENNIAL sessions of the legislature
are being urged again in New York,
which tarries with Georgia as one of
the ten states whose law-making bodies
meet every year. The proposed change is
advocated by leaders as far apart on most
issues as Governor Al Smith and that Nes
tor of Republican newspapers, the New '
York Tribune. The Governor is for fewer i
sessions on grounds of economy, while the ■
Tribune thinks the commonwealth, like the |
country, is over-burdened with government.
The latter reason is as true as the former to
Democratic doctrine. “The best-governed peo
ple are the least-governed,” is a saying
whose author our Republican friends are
not accustomed to quote. Evidently there
is merit in biennial sessions to win approval
from those who so rarely agree in politics.
Both these arguments are valid. The
economy of cutting the number of legisla
tive sessions in half is obvious, provided, of
course, a limit is prescribed to the length
of each. If hearings and debates which
low consume one hundred days could be
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five, the saving of time and of money would .
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and in superfluous statutes. There is now i
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together, many of which are so ill consid
ered or so poorly drawn that they prove,
if not positively harmful, at least of no
service. That the courts are called upon |
to render more than thirteen thousand de
cisions annually is owing v partly, perhaps
largely, to the dubious character of much |
of the legislative outpouring. Tn this at :
least we undoubtedly suffer from too much
government.
Biennial sessions, it must be admitted, j
will not give due relief so long as a popu
lar notion, prevails that every ill, economic '
and social as well as political, can be cured '
by law; nor so long as a premium is placed j
upon humoring whims of the crowd and ;
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the common weal. Nevertheless, in states
now having annual sessions, there would
be some gain from the biennial plan in
the way of general efficiency and of fewer j
needless laws. Such, at least, seems the j
conclusion of the best minds in New York, 1
where the question has , been diligently i
studied.
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SLANDER
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone before.—Miriam Fol
well, a young designer, is forced to re
main over-night at an inn after a coun
try walk with Warren Holmes, a man
she knows only slightly. The inevitable
scandal follows, but when she returns
io New York she believes that she has
buried the incident, forever. A year
later she meets Anthony Breen, an
eligible catch and a stickler for con
vention.— Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER XIV
. Purple and Fine Linen
T the establishment of Holland & Car
son Miriam has an office of her own.
It was simply but attractively furnished,
with a large glass-topped mahogany desk, a
filing cabinet large enough to hold her de
signs, and two or three chairs. Miriam came,
and went as she pleased, but it suited her
to remain at her work most of the day. Mr.
Carson likhed her work. It was through
him that, she had been given a start, and
now it was not unusual for her to design as
many as two dresses a month, and once or
twice she had done three or four.
She always kept a sketch book in which
she outlined ideas as they came to her. Once
she had had an idea for a perfectly simple
and very unusual evening gown, the idea had
popped into her head after she had gone to
bed, and acting on impulse, she had jumped
up, slipped into a dressing gown, and with
some plain white muslin on a dressmaker’s
form, had draped and pinned until nearly
morning.
The next morning she had burst into Mr.
Carson’s office with a radidant face. “I
have an idea for an evening gown; it will
make a sensation. Will you let me experi
ment with some material, it takes so long to
make a decent drawing.’’
Without a word -Mr. Garson had led the
way into the workroom. He did not question
the girl, he did not caution her about ruin
ing expensive goods, because he felt that
she knew what she was doing.
“The velvet with the silver threads,” she
had breathed, half afraid that he would re
fuse her. ,
But he ordered the velvet to be brought
in, and a few minutes later Miriam was
slashing with a pair of shears into exquisite
fabric that sol dat retail for S2O a yard.
The dress was exquisitely simple, but it
breathed originality. For one thing, the
neck-line was different from anything Ev
erett Carson had ever seen, and then the way
the material was drawn in at the waist, why
it was perfect! It would be sure to inspire
any woman with the desire to purchase it.
Mrs. Pendleton Pehlps offered SSOO for
the dress if they would promise not to have
a copy made, but Mr. Carson shook his head.
Mrs. Phelps was a good customer, but SSOO,
why, the price was ridiculous for an original
model, when they could sell several at three
hundred and fifty apiece! Besides, the dress
needed an uncorseted figure to show off its
lines and Mrs. Phelps, who leaned toward
embonpoint, would look ridiculous in it.
Mrs. Phelps departed in high dudgeon,
vowing to buy nothing more at Holland &
Carson’s. Whereupon the dress was carried
downstairs and placed in the window against
a background of ivory, white velvet. Later
the same model was sold to four different
women from different parts of the United
States, and each thought she had purchased
the original dress.
The creation of this gown brought a great
deal of prestige to Miriam and did away with
some of the drudgery of her work. Os
course, she still drew designs in colored ink,
but for the most part she experimented with
the material itself, and whenever she saw
her idea clearly she cut and slashed with
little fear of making a mistake.
Miriam was on the high road of success.
There was talk of sending her to Europe
before the year was over. Mr. Carson was
enthusiastic over her. Mr. Holland, who
rarely came into the establishment, approved
his partner’s judgment. But as for Miriam
herself, she went around with her head in
the clouds, and was as unspoiled as though
she had never accomplished anything.
CHAPTER XV
( hi’isline .Makes a Decision
T was significant that Anthony Breen
could not quite forget Miriam Folwell.
It wasn’t that he remembered her senti
mentally, or emotionally, but he was curious
about her, he found himself thinking abobut
her life, and the things that went to make
it up. Her curious reserve puzzled him. He
wondered if she treated all men as she had
treated him, and this fact was oddly consol
ing when he remembered the rather vulgar
red-faced person with whom be had seen her
at Abercrombie’s.
It happened that just at this time Christine
Bennett'decided to marry Creighton Leonard.
Slid had always known that some day shse
would take him, but Christine was like a
bird who hates to be snared, and she dreaded
taking the definite step that would make her
a wife. Creighton had been more than ordi
narily patient. He had not pressed her, but
he had remained persistently near her, so
that she was never able to forget his pres
ence. It was inevitable that a girl of Chris
tine’s type would marry, and when she con
fided the news to Anthony, who was nearer
to her than any man save Creighton himself,
Anthony decided to give a dinner for her.
“Oh, Anthojjy, you darlirig.” Christine had
exclaimed, “a real dinner with a real orches
tra and dancing?”
He nodded.
“And I may ask any one I please.”
“Os course.”
“How wonderful! Little did I think that
I was letting myself in for anything like this
when I promised dear old Creighton I'd
marry him.”
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BI IRVIN COBB
To get the full force of this one the reader
is to picture a household in which the hus
band is undersized and generally mild while
the wife is neither of these.
“Where's your father, Bertie?” inquired a
friend of the family. “I haven't seen him
around lately.”
"Paw’s laid up.” said the youngster. “He's
been laid up for mighty near a week now.”
"That's too bad. Sick, is he?”
“No. not exactly sick. He got hurt.”
"Hurt, where?”
“All over, purty near it.”
"Well, that is too bad—funny [ didn't hear
about it. What happened.?”
"Well, it was an accident paw met with,”
explained the youngster.
"You <l>n't tell me? What sort of an acci-
“Well, naw and ma got in a row. And
After the usual Saturday romp a group of
\cillindi*ow 11phi* th p hi oth pr* sici *
•’Ochv, children, choose a hymn tn finish
up with and then you must all say good
“Let's have ‘Ere Again Our Sabbath
Close,’ ” said a little girl of seven.
“Well, I think that would be more suit
able for tomorrow evening,” replied the
mother
on Saturdays/’ said the child.
THE COUNTRY HOME -
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
SIXTY YEARS AGO
OUR younger Georgians are reading
books that are diffuse on Roman and
Grecian wars. Yet they have little
real knowledge of battles on Georgia soil
that were fought only sixty years ago. The
battle of Chickamauga was fought in Sep
tember, 1863. This was followed by the re
treat of Federal troops to Chattanooga,
Tenn. Later came the battle of Lookout
Mountain, and this Confederate disaster
caused the retirement of General Bragg and
the Confederate army under General Joe
Johnston retreated to Dalton, and this all
took place only sixty years ago. People
cross the Atlantic ocean and traverse Europe
to visit later battlefields and desolated sec
tions, and nobody seems to be much interest
ed either in Chickamauga or Lookout
Mountain battlefields, or what happened to
their own sort of folks here in old Georgia
sixty years ago, with face to face soldiers,
all shooting to kill—people of their own sort
and color, in deadly carnage.
Never can I forget the intense anxiety of
our people in this Cherokee section when
General Bragg left Chattanooga and came
down into McLemore’s cove, and Walker
county was filled with soldiers, camp fol
lowers and raiders and spies and everything
else that goes along with war, and the
slaughter of human beings as the final ar
bitrament of human passion and hatred, with
niinnie balls and belching cannon. Down
here at Emerson, four miles from my town,
then known as Stegall's Station, a dreadful
railroad collision took place. A drunken
engineer mistook his orders, and a train
filled with Confederate soldiers belonging
to General Longstreet’s army corps, on their
way to Chickamauga, was wrecked, head-on
collision.
Eighteen dead men were lifted out of the
crushed cars, and the many wounded were
brought to Cartersville to be treated or
cared for in death. Cherokee Georgia was
sore distressed at the prospect of being run
over by the Federals. General Lee sent
General Longstreet to reinforce and save
Bragg's army from capture. And the vet
eran soldier did save the day! The Georgia
and Richmond papers had box-car letter
headlines, “Longstreet's Five Brigades Saved
the Day!”
Just as rapidly as the Western and At
lantic railroad could transport those five
brigades they were pushed on to Ringgold,
where they left the railroad and quick
stepped the intervening distance to the se
lected battlefield, known now as the Chick
amauga Park. At that particular time, Gen
eral John Morgan was giving serious trouble
to the federal forces, as a diversion to as
sist General Bragg’s army. General Mor
gan's command was captured and the great
majority were carried to Cincinnati and later
to Columbus, Ohio. When General Bragg
abandoned Chattanooga, a line of battle was
formed in Walker county, taking in Lee and
Gordon's mill, and it soon became evident
the' Federals were preparing to make a dash
toward Rome. General Hindman and Gen
eral D. H. Hill got in a quarrel. Hill refus
ing to co-operate with Hindman.
On the 15th of September General Bragg
called a council of war, and it was decided
to turn northward and attack Chattanooga.
On the 19th Bragg moved his army by di
visions, north from Lee and Gordon’s mills.
General Longstreet reached Ringgold that
TANTRUMS
By H. Addington Bruce
OF interest to many parents is a leaflet
prepared by Dr. Douglas A. Thom, of
Boston, and issued by the national
committee of me tai hygiene. It deals with
a form of misbehavior of common occurrence
in little children—the misbehavior of temper
tantrums—often permitted, through wrong
treatment, to become Hie basis of serious
character defects.
The great difficulty, as Dr. Thom pointed
ly suggests, is that comparatively few par
ents ever ask themselves just why their chil
dren have tantrums. There are numerous
and most varied causes for these, and ob
viously the correct treatment depends on the
cause!
In many cases the tantrum is simply a
means to gain some desired end. Dr. Thom
notes:
‘'lf your child kicks and screams and
holds his breath, perhaps you fear he will be
sick, and give him his way if he will only
stop. After one such successful tantrum
the second will be easier for the child than
the first, the third easier than the second.”
'I he child’s tantrum, however, may be
designed merely to gain him the satisfaction
of being the center of attention. Or it may
seek the satisfaction of some little gift,
notably the gift of candy. Parents who
bribe their children with candy may ex
pect tantrums so long as they use candy as
a pacifier.
Over-indulgence in candy, for that matter,
is itself a cause of tantrums as a reflex in
dication of ill-health. So. too, tantrums may
be caused by lack of play, scant rest or in
sufficient sleep, one effect of these hygienic
errors being nervous irritability. Further,
to continue with Dr. Thom;
“Do you over-excite your chilfl by taking
him into crowds, or shopping trips, or to the
movies, or by allowing him to be the center
of attention when adults are present?
"Do you lose your temper when your
child misbehaves? Perhaps his temper is a
reflection of yours?
“When you are angry, do you shout at
him endlessly, ‘Stop,’ ‘Don't,’ ‘Be quiet,
'Come here,’ 'Get down?’ This only irritates
the child and has no value except to relieve
your feelings.
Do you encourage a clinging, dei>endent
attitude in your child, so that he has a tan
trum when you leave him? Have you ever
thought bow this attitude may make it dif
ficult for him to meet future unpleasant sit
uations?
"Do you scold today for what you allowed
jesterday? Do you refuse a child's wish
without explanation or punsh the child with
out his knowing why?
These questions plainly indicate, rot only
sundry causes of tantrums, but also sundry
remedies. More specifically, Dr. Thom rec
ommends:
“If tantrums are used by’ the child to get
his own way stop giving in to*him. If to
gain attention, stop paying attention to him
when be has them, and perhaps pay more at
tention to the'good things he does. If to se
cure a bribe, cease to bribe.
“If due to some physical cause or lack
of play remove the cause and try to give
better play opportunities. If the cause is in
yourself, it will take courage to remove it,
to own to yourself you are wrong, and to
control your temper and habits.”
Here, in small compass, is a wealth of
valuable hints to parents. May they be as
widely acted on as, unfortunately, they need
(Copyright, 192 4.)
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS
Irregular honesty is harder to manage
than regular dishonesty.
The doctor's bill is about the hardest dose
the patient has to swallow.
A stag party is one to which the little
dears are not admitted.
Don't judge a man by rhe fit of his coat—
it nasy be a borrowed one.
SATURDAY, MARCH 39, 1»34. .
day, in the afternoon. He had five thousand
l effective infantry, but no artillery.
Cheatham's division bore the brunt of the
'first day’s attack. It was a long, terrible
and doubtful encounter. It was near sun
i set before General Cheatham's forces were
, able to move across over the bloody field,
! where the storm of battle had been so heavy.
He commanded one of D. H. Hill's divisions.
The enemy were driven back a half mile
from their line of battle. The Confederates
. j rested that night on the field, with their
j dead and wounded.
General Bragg held a council of war in
the night. The Confederates were divided
'into two armies, commanded by Longstreet
and Polk. Longstreet reached Bragg's head
quarters near midnight. With a little rest,
at day dawn he moved to the left with his
! command in front of Bragg’s headquarters.
' General Polk was ordered to assail tbe ex
; treme right of Thomas’ army at day dawn,
but he did not do it. Bragg waited for the
sound of Polk's guns. The general was
'< found at breakfast time, with his staff eating
' breakfast, and it is printed that Bragg sent
: a general order for every ckptain in Polk’s
army to take his company into action im-
■ j mediately. It was 10 o’clock before the
battle opened on the right wing of Bragg’s
i army. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon
i General Longstreet asked General Bragg for
i some of the troops of the right wing, but
j they had been in constant service and were
then being beaten back, but he did lead
what he had forward, and with Hindman
and Johnson's troops he gained the heights
above the Crawfish Spring road. The his
torian says: “The enemy broke up in con
fusion along Longstreet’s front, at the same
time the right wing made a gallant dash
and took over the line, which had been held
so long against it. The enemy had fought
, with every man he had and every one in
•i turn had been beafen. The day had certain
i j ly been saved by Longstreet, but it is jus
j tice to say that his masterly maneuvers was
followed up and completed by General Polk,
' and it was their combined attack which made
the enemy give up the field.” Polk’s wing
I captured twenty-eight pieces of artillery and
■ Longstreet's twenty-one, about equal num
ber prisoners, amounting to over 8,000, 15,-
: 000 stands of arms and forty stands of regi
mental colors.
General Bragg admitted he had lost two
fifths of his army. The enemy’s loss was
computed at 20,000! Nothing more bril-.
■ liant was ever said of Napoleon’s army.
Right here on Georgia soil, a little over
fifty miles from where I sit in my room to
' day, all this occurred, a. little over sixty
• years ago! It is a safe bet that the state
of Georgia will at some time, sooner or later,
. erect a monument to General Longstreet on
Georgia soil, xvhich will give him what is
due to his masterful patriotism and military
skill on the battlefield of Chickamauga. He
lost all his fortune in the War Between
the States. He had fine standing in the old
army, as did General Lee. He died a poor
-i man because he did not use his military skill
after the war, as did some* others, in the
I Spanish-American war. His widow it not
financially able to buy a tablet to put his
: name in the Stone Mountain Hall of Fame,
• but the day is coming when Georgia will
j wake up and give him a well-deserved mon
. j ument by public subscription, on the capitol
J grounds in Atlanta.
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Q. When were bananas imported into
j America and England? V. H.
A. The first known importation of
bananas into the United States was in the
i late sixties, when they were brought to New
Orleans from the Bay Island, off Spanish
Honduras. In 1 870 a few bunches were
i brought to New York from Colon. Bananas
I were first imported commercially into Eng
land from Madeira in 1878.
, Q. Is there an altitude at which water
will not boil? K. L.
A. The Geological Survey says that ac-
I cording to science there is an altitude at
I which water would not boil; however, no
■ one has ever reached that point, as it is
! about twenty miles above sea level.
Q. Where is the largest orange grove in
' the country? R. C.
A. The largest grove of bearing citrus
plantings of which we have knowledge
i owned by a single individual or a close
: corporation and operated as a unit, is the
i Bantanchury ranch located near Fullerton,
, Cal., which has 2,100 acres of citrus trees,
of which approximately 1,700 acres are
! oranges and 400 acres of lemons.
Q. How far can a vessel 50 feet above
, the water line be seen on the ocean? K.
, Y. E.
A. According to tbe table of visibility—
distances of objects at various elevations
above sea level, compiled by the United
i States lighthouse service, an object 50 feet
above sea level would be visible at a dis
tance of 9.35 statute miles.
Q. Were there any talking machines
j prior to Edison’s invention? W. S. A.
A. History mentions talking machines as
early as the thirteenth century. In 1762
the Rev. John Wesley states in his diary he
saw at Lurgan, Ireland, a clock with an
I automaton of an old man, which, every
time the clock struck, (opened the door with
■ one hand, drew back Hhe curtain with the
, other, turned his head and then said in a
loud, articulate voice. “Past one, two,
: three,” and so on. Tbe inventor, a man
named Miller, told Wesley that he had made
> many successful experiments, and could
make a man who could talk and sing hymns,
j but he was too busy on other work. In
: 1783 Abbe Mical presented to the French
■ Academy of Sciences an invention that
talked, but he later broke it up, having
religious scruples. In 1877 Edison brought
out his first talking machine, which, by the
way, was first displayed in Paris.
Q. How much is the unpaid interest on
the war debt of other countries to ur?
W. P. I.
A. The principal of the debt amounted to
$10,578,509,342.13 in November. Tbe unpaid
interest at that time was $1,221,500,902.87.
Q. How long has chicle been used in
chewing gum? C. B.
A. Until 1 860, spruce and chewing gums
were the main gums used. In that year an
American inventor discovered the suitability
of chicle for this purpose.
Q. How many gas bags has the Shenan
doah and how many are necessary to keep
her in the air? L. S. J.
A. The Shenandoah has twenty gas bags.
The navy department says that the dirigible
; could be sustained in the air with four small
bags and one large one deflated.
Q. Which is tbe heavier, a freight train
or the freight it carries? G. I. W.
A. In the last year for which figures are
available, 1922, the average freight train
weighed 1,466 tons, including the freight,
which averaged 677 tons per train.
Q. Why is the Adam's apple so called?
T. A. E.
A. This projection in the neck is formed
by the thyroid cartilage. In the male it is
particularly prominent, and is so called
from the fancy that it was caused by the
forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge
[sticking in the throat of Adam.
HER MONEY
BY CAROLYN BEECHER
CHAPTER LXXVI W
WHEN Althea talked to Mabel HnJB
she perhaps did not realize
distant manner chilled the
Mabel felt, grateful to her because of
kindness to Doris, a kindness she could
understand in the face of what she
Mrs. Graham. .
“It's just me personally she dislikes,
said to herself. “And she isn't happy. H|
doctor isn’t, either, if I am any
wonder why? They have money, she’s IH|
ly, his practice has become very large
he is so clever. But they don’t act
as if they loved each other —not a bit.”
Althea concluded she would say Wo
until she had talked with Doris’
Mrs. Howard refused to remain in
York her plans for Doris would
little. The mother would not agree
separation from the child, that she
The next day when Mrs. Howard
to see Doris, Althea waylaid her and
“I want to talk to you a. little,
Howard. Talk about Doris.”
“She isn’t worse?” The mother wB
frightened at once. Ism
“No, indeed, she is much better. M
doctor Is delighted with her improvemß
It is something quite different from B|
health I wish to speak of.”
Althea explained her plan to Mrs. Howß
She was to come and take charge of H
house, having what help she needed.
would adopt and educate Doris, give
the advantages a delicate girl could
Especially would they have her study miß
long a hidden desire of the little invalid,H
Mrs. Howard was so surprised she H
unable to answer Althea for some mint
Then:
It would be wonderful for Doris, bi
I don't think 1 can give her up—let
adopt her, Mrs. Graham.” /
Althea argued for some time. put
stress upon the benefit to Doris. She
delicate, would be for some years, if not
wavs. Jo be under Peter's constant <
would mean much to her in that parties
She dwelt for some time upon the other
vantages and told the mother she wv
never separate them; that she could Ti
a home with them as long as she lived
Finally Mrs. Howard said:
* £ ” lus . fc talk to Ma beL Mrs. Graham
can t decide by myself.”
“Very well—but don’t forget I am wll
to do everything for Doris, just as if
were my own child.” *
Althea bad stressed all through the <
versatiou what she would do, saying ]j
about Peter except that Doris would be
der his watchful care. In the back of
mind was the thought that if Peter and
separated—which she believed to be inev
ble—she would have Doris.
Mrs. Howard went in to Doris and"
child voiced her fear that she would h
to leave “Mrs. Peter” now that she wa?
most well.
“I love her most as much as you, if
isn’t my mamma,” she said, “and Doc
Peter, too.”
Before she left Mrs. Howard went to
office to see Mabel. They talked a h
time and Althea feared Doris’ sister
opposing her plan. „ •'
But instead of leaving Mrs. Howard ag
came up to her rooms.
“I have talked things over with Mabe
she said, “and here is what we have decid
She sees, perhaps more plainly than I
the great advantage it will be to Doris
remain with you and the doctor. If you
willing we will stay as you propose—all
the adoption plan. We will try it for
time, then if you are still of the same or
ion we can talk of that again. But I sho
not like to come, take advantage of y,
offer of a home for life, without trying
out. I am a plain woman, shall have
work wherever I am. But I may not S
you and, to be perfectly honest, you may ]
be entirely agreeable to me. One ne
knows people until they live with them;
should do my best of course, as I alw
have done. And I don’t deny it would
far more pleasant to have charge of yc
home, especially with Doris here, than to
day s work back in my home town.’’
Althea, had not once interrupted. Bu| i
was ihinking hard. If Doris remained s
would grow even more fond of her, a
should her mother decide then to take I
away the wrench would be all the great
Then she tried to put herself in that mo
er’s place and so saw plainly the fairness
her request.
“I will talk to the doctor today. If
agrees 1 will accept your offer of a trial
say for a year.” As she said it she kn
she would keep Doris, even on any ten
She had poured out all the love of I
starved heart on the little invalid. It w
almost more than a mother’s love she, I
for her. It had been peace and happjh
to a certain extent; had made her
more than had anything else the
Peter had only married her for her motley
that he did not love her.
“I think the doctor will see I am rig
in the view I take,” Mrs. Howard said wi
dignity.
Somehow the fact that Mrs. Williams h
sailed for Europe made it easier for Alth
to talk frankly with Peter. She did n
analyze this feeling, although she realiz
it was there.
Continued Tuesday. This story comes
a*i end Thursday.
BELIEF
, ft
By Dr. Frank Crane
FROM a man in Georgia who ha# Dec
reading my articles, I received ale
ter containing the following:
“Please discuss through the press
ide,as of the future state of man. Do'yo
think there is a brimstone hell? 'I 'a
forty-eight years old and was taught to 1)
lieve that the devil was waiting forime
die, so's he could burn me. I’ve spent man
a restless night on account of the fear <
hell. I’ve got no religion and can’t get .an
I am a moral man, but I can’t get any T
ligion, for I don’t believe there is any..”. •
I give this letter, so much of it/.x’pi
for word, as it is a plain, honest sort fl
document which ought to have a plain, .hoi
est sort of an answer. I do not want to il
cur the ill will of the official,
instructors in religion, so I will merely ar
swer my correspondent according to my. iei
ble lights, and give my private opinion.
I believe in persons. That to me is th
only kind of belief which is religious. I be
lieve in Jesus, in my mother, in all goo
men and women. This belief tends to sav
me; that is, to make me kind, honest’, an
brave. This kind of belief is the only k|n
Jesus talked about. He continually urge
folks to “believe in” Him or “believe on
Him; not to believe this or that fact.
Religion is a matter of character, not-o
opinion. If my friend from Georgia "wil
quit trying to settle the unsolvable proh
lems of the universe, read his New Teßta
nient with a child-like mind and try to ge
Jesus’ ideas into his own life, he will, fine
that religion is the very brightest, easfes
and sanest thing in the world.
For religion is no more nor less than life
a normal life, lived in accordance with one’l
most reverent convictions.
(Copyright, 1924.)