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The Passing of the Fool eatat
“The War Has Speeded Up the Evolution of
Women,’’ Declares the Famous Writer.
By Beatrice Fairfax.
ASHIONS change In women just
F as they change in clothes, plays,
food and house furnishings.
Before the war it was the fashion to
be frivolons, extravagant, exclusive.
And a lttle farther back plain imbe
cfiity had a great vogue.
Who does not recall the famous
“monkey dinner” that occurred in
Newport? A woman with many mil-
Nons and a frantic impulse to dem
onstrate her “originality,” borrowed
a monkey, trained to the usages of
knife and fork, and placed him among
her guests at dinner.
The dinner was considered a great
social success; every one who attend
od kopt bis real feelings to himself,
This was also the perfod of founs
tain wading. A “society” girl in Bal
timore jumped inte a fountain, fully
eind, and eplaghed about. And pres
enfly, all over the country, we had an
frruption of tank and fountain wad
ers demonstrating their “originality.”
Then came the reign of the Teddy
bear, and girls carried these tiresome
toys about with them, in an effort to
be striking and original.
Green and Violet Wigs.
Colered wigs came just before the
great war, and with this culminating
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Cottage Cheese.
Allow thick sour milk to stand un
disturbed In a shallow pan on the back
of the stove, or with very low heat,
where 1t will become lukewarm, It wils
them slowly separate. When the curd
is distinet from the whey, drain out
the whey through cheesecloth. The
only warning necessary is not to al
low it %0 beseme hot. This toughens
the cund.
Cottage cheese in itself is an appetis
ing and putritious dish, It may be serv
od with sweet or sour cream and a little
sugar, or chives, chopped oniom, cara
way seed, er chopped nuts may be mix
od with It, or It may be served mecord
| tog to the following recipes:
. Pour ower oottage cheess any fruilt
{ preserves, such as strawberries, figs o 1
. cherries. BServe with bread or crack
| ers. If preferred, cottage cheese balls
. may be served separately and eaten
. with the preserves, A very attractive
. dish may be made by dropping a bit of
‘} Jally Into a nest of the oottage cheese
. Marbles may be made by rolling
' moist c¢hoese into balls about ome inoh
In dlameter and then tossing them
. about with a fork In a saucer of chop
. ped nuts, so that the nuts cover the
cheese. Serve on lettuce with mayon
_ nalse or French dressing.
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{ Baked Oatmeal With Cheese,
| Cooked oatmeal, 4 cups; grated
. chedss, 1 cup; salt and pepper; soft
bréad orumbs, % cup; fat, 1 teaspoon
. Put into a greased baking dish a lay
.or of leftover oatmeal, then a sprink
‘ling of grated cheese, pepper and salt
N layer of oatmeal, then cheese
‘and seasonings, and continne ufiti]
dish 18 full. Melt the fat and mix with
this the bread crumbs. Sprinkle ovm‘
. the top of the dish. Bake In a moderate
oven untfl the erumbs are golden brown
Sleep for the Child
g By William A. McKeever.
. Ome of the nation’'s best known au
i thorities on trainng children.
}i IGHT to eleven p. m.—the best
:; E three hours for children to be
! asleep and the worst three hours
s for them to be awake.
z R has been often and correctly
| stated that the early hours of the
* might are best for contributing health
‘| and recuperative strength to the child,
.+ provided he spends them in sleep
!} And the other side of this fact is that
i{ late waking hours are the most ruin
;!“m to the ohild’s health and morals,
~ This challenging statement applies to
the young up to the age of adoles
wocence, as | shall try to explain.
{ Some parents are misled into be
i‘é,)lcving that children are smartest
2 during the late evening hours—and
% boint to the witticlsms, ‘bright say
; ings"” and clever performances which
» the little ones get off. But our reply
& 18 that the smart behavior of the lit
a tle children at this time is drawn
% from the borderland of hysterial and
z the region of over-stimulated nerves.
‘:': The excited conduct of children
5 performing before adults at a late
evening hour is relatively in the same
dlass as that of the man whose nerves
are overwrought from drinking alco
hol. He, too, is apt to be vivacious
and very clever. But he must pay for
it al with the stupor and blurred
mentality to foliow. |
By 8 o'clock at evening the reserve
¥ nervous energy of the ordinary §£-
# year-old bas been all consumed for
t the day and he must cither go to sleep
or begin to burn up energy which
;Mld be used to hold his physical
life and health In poise
* The social give and take excitement
R ited te, and practiced by, the adult
§ group at evening is not a natural or
Be Sure to Read Beatrice Fairfax’s liluminating Article Which Appears on This Page Today
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bit of folly the “original” sex seems to
have waked np te better things,
Such pitiful efforts to be original
have had their day, the war has given
‘women real work and the power that
goes with it. A woman no longer
has to jump into a fountaln or put on
a violet wig to demonstrate that she
has personality.
Furthermores, the woman who can
not now diagnose sach symptoms as
monkey-dining, tank-wading and
Teddy bear walking, must live a long
way indeed from a public library.
She’d recognize the signs immedi
ately for what they were worth and
get busy with something else—some
thing that would be less of a “give
away.”
Bolence has a terribly cruel nmme
for such mafifestations of “original
ity It sees in them nothing motre
than the raw impulse of a erude mind
to express itself, Lacking such abil
ity It explodes Into & variety of
things.
Sometimes it s content with doing
something consplcuous, llke wearing
a violet wig, again it may take the
form of disparaging some one whose
superiority is evident and, thercfor..‘
an affront. ‘
These “inferiority compensations,”
as Preud calls them, are just kind
old Mother Nature's way of letting
down her less promising children
easily. Rich idle women have al
ways spent untold sums on their “in
feriority compensations.” To them it
‘was a specles of self-justification.
They craved eminence, bhut mental
poverty reduced them to being freak
ish.
War an Educational Force.
It was reserved for the great war
to hold the mirror up to such lives,
One glance was apparently sufficient
~—4to judge by the patience, industry,
eagerness with which fashionable
women have kept at work, They
have made wonderful discoveries
among them that work, real work, is
good. That work well done brings
immense satisfaction, something
deeper and more comforting than
being freakish.
They will never go back to folly
for folly's sake. The monkey din
ner, as a social function, is as dead
as Nero's fiddling. Human service
is beginning to humanize the idle
rich.
The war has heen a tremendously
educational force. In a couple of
years it has shoved the clock ahead
A century or more in the way of
progress.
¥or fifty years the suffragists have
been working for social justice to
women, brushing away omne foolish
prejudice after another. At times it
seemed as hopeless as brushing up
the sand on the seashore.
Grudgingly women were given edu
cation, grudgingly they were allowed
to work, grudgingly the law began to
recognize them as people. Then
along came the great war and over
night shoved them into the place
they had been maneuvering to se
cure for over half a century,
No Longer Sulkily Endured.
Women are no longer sulkily en
wholesome experience for the child.
Besides tending to induce hysteria or
a sort of intoxication, as stated above,
it makes him over self-conscious. At
this time there is for him too much
discussion of the personallfty, all of
which is continually bent back upon
the self-——what you say and what I do,
how I look and how you look,
The social excitement of the late
evening period is certain to affect the
chid's sleep adversely, with tense
nervous twitchings and other inetr
ferences with nature’s healing and
body-building processes. ‘
The child so mistreated is much in
elined to awaken on the morrow with
some of the poisons of the preceding
day still in bis system and with a bad
appetite for anything like a whole
some breakfast.
But the ill-effects of late hours are
still more marked with reference to
mentality,. In the first place it is
futile to try to hold the attention of
& child upon anyhing in the nature of
a lesson after the sunset hours, He
may listen without injury to a quiet
ing story, but real lesson getting
would just now be a serious wrong to
him. Indeed, you may instrwet a child
with profit only during the morning
hours,
The dulled, poisoned physique re
sulting from the over excitement of
the brain, during the social dissipa
tion of the evening before, this must
be paid for during practically all
the entire day to follow.
A light supper of mush and milk,
' a quieting fairy tale and there, he is
asleep--that is about the ideal way
for the world to dim out of the con
sciousness of your é-year-old at twi
light
" And the treatment of the older child
?fii‘to adolescence should approximate
dured in industry. They are wel
comed, besought, told that it is their
patriotic duty to fill the gaps left
vacant by the fighters. We hear no
more of that well-born steneil:
“Women’s place is home.”
Even the most reactionary of men
whose chief claim to distinction is
that they have not changed their
minds in fifty years, have quit say
ing that.
One does not nmear 1t any longer
in Congress, not even In the Sen
ate. And having been brought up on
it, T am conscious of a strange sense
of loss. It is almost as if the parrot
had died.
The war has speeded up evolntion
for women, tremendously. In the
flashing of a sword great power has
come to them and they are taking it
in a clear-eyed, responsible way that
is highly gratifying.
Political equality is praectically
won; no one doubts it—not even the
Senator who announced a day or two
ago “that he knew what the wemen
wanted better than they did.”
Such utterances, like the monkey
dinner, the violet wig and tank wad
ing, belong to the buffoonery of yes
terday. Today seclence recognizes
them under the head of: “Inferiority
ecompensations.” ™
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NUT MOLASSES BARS.
Barley, 3 2-3 cups; boiling water, %
cup; cloves, % teaspoon; cinnamon, 14
teagpoon; salt, 1 teaspoon; fat, 1§ eup;
ginger, % teaspoon; molasses, 1 cup;
soda, 1 teaspoon; cocoanut, % cup;
English walnuts, %4 cup.
~ Heat molasses; add boiling water and
pour over fat. Bift together the flour,
soda, spices and salt. Add ll?luld grad
ually to dry ingredients. Chill. Roll
Y-inch thick. Cut into strips about 3%
by 1 inch. Sprinkle with cocoanut and
chopped English walnuts, . Bake about
14 minutes in & moderate oven (380-400
Fahrenheit.)
Yield, 92 bars.
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BROWNIES,
Fat, % cup; molasses, 1-3 cup; eorn
syrup, 1-3 eup; egg, well beaten, 1; bar
ley flour, 1% eup; nut meats, cut in
pleces, 1 cup.
Cream fat; add molasses and corn
lnyrup. Add beaten aglg, barley flour and
nut meats. Beat well. Bake In smalil
fancy shaped pans. Bake 25 minutes.
Put a nut on top of each cake,
Yield, 18. 3
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CRANBERRY BAUCE (Sugariess).
Cranberries, 1 cup: corn syrup, light,
% cup, water, % cup; gelatine, 1 tea
spoon. Soften the gelatine by soaking
in % eup cold water for ten minutes.
Add remainder of water to syrup and
pour over washed eranberries. Cook
until the eranberries are most. Addlgel
atine, stirring until weil dissolved. Pour
into molds and chill.
Yield, slx servings.
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AN AR AANAS AR AP PP PIINPPPRIINIIAP
By William F. Kirk.
GUESS I will step out & win
I that War Song Prize wich is
being offered, sed Pa last nite.
Doant do anything rash, sed Ma.
You mite overwork yureself, wich wud
be un-son-stitushunal to one of yure
con-stitushun, Ma sed.
Thare is not much dainger of my
‘working too hard, sed Pa, I will
~slmply reed you this song wich I have
already rote, or maybe I will only read
you part of ft.
Part of it will probly be enuff, sed
‘l;h. Wen you are reddy, you may
re,
So Pa red this song to us:
O War is hard & War is rust
& Sherman sedd that War is Tuff
But Sherman never thot it wrong
To rite a patriotick song.
If riteing songs about the fray
Is rong, there ain’t much right today.
Chours:
Dash onward thru them shot & shell
Eeven if you ain't feeling well.
Dash on & swat the German sos
& do not slip & stub yure toe!
So paste a Prushun in the eye
& keap Old Glory in the sky!
That is a noabe! song, sed Ma. The
sentyment is luvly. You have the
hart of a poet, sed Ma, & the nerve
of a Tiger.
1 am glad you realize my nerve,
sed Pa.
Yes, indeed, sed Ma. 1 taiks a lot
of nerve to spring a song like that
one wich you have jest red to Bob
bie & me, sed Ma.
Wen this song has tne musick put
to it, ed Pa, 1 think I will have Mis
ter Caruso maik a record of it. It
will be a record wich will go thun
dering down all them ages, sed Pa.
No dout, no dout, sed Ma. I think it
is vary noabel of you to give Mister
Caruso a chanst to sing yure grate
song, sed Ma. A lot of men wud in
sist on singing It themselves, sed Ma.
But not me, not me, sed Pa. Wile [
reelize that my voice is rich & strong,
sed Pa, 1 am willing to give every
body a chanst, sed Pa. Live & let
live, that is my speed, sed Pa.
You are a grate old burd, sed Ma.
When I wedded, sed Ma, 1 wedded a
wizsgard,
I am glad you reelize that, sed Pa.
A lot of wifes doant reelize how well
| off thay are. So you like them words?
sed Pa,
' Them words, sed Ma, will be here
long after we are all passed away, sed
Ma. 1 doant know jest ware thay
will be, but thay will be here,
Here is a twenty dollar Wilyum,
sed Pa, to show &hat 1 know a good
wife wen | see one, sed Pa.
Do you want to hear these noabel
words agenn, sed Pa.
sum other time, sed Ma, them
words will keep, I guess. Nothing
culd spoil them words, sed Ma,
Famous Husbands and Wives
George Middleton and Lola LaFollette Are Both
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GEORGE MIDDLETON, playwright,
whose “Polly With a Past” has had a
phenomenal run, furnishes a delight
ful example, with his wife, Lola La Fol-
E lette, of the success of two life partners,
When a Maid Chooses
By Ella Randall Pearce. |
ABEL SETON stared at her
M aunt, her only living near rela
tive, with deepening incredulity
on her flusheq face.
“Aunt Viny—you can't mean it! Do
you really want me to—to go?"
“Of course I mean {t!” The elder
woman spoke sharply and her face set
grimly as she whisked her apron across
a perfectly dustless chair top. But she
would not meet Mabel's questioning
eyes. ‘“l've done all I can for you. And
if you're foolish enough to turm your
back on a good man like Joe Wea
ver—""
‘“Joe Weaver—ah!™ Mabel slapped her
hands together and her eyes glittered.
“I thought he was a: the bottom of all
this. So Aunt Viny, you're putting me
out because I told Joe Weaver I wouldn't
marry him.” The girl's head was spir
itedly upflung. “When I marry, it will
be a man of my own choosing, not yours
or anybody’'s, You'rs not fair, Aunt
Viny."
She heard the girl’s footsteps cross
to the door and mount the wooden
stairway. She heard significant sounds
in the room above, and to shut out those
sounds she started to hum an old Meth
odist tune as she began preparations for
the early evening meal. The footsteps
tapped along the hall after awhile.
“I'm going,” announced Mabel from
the doorway. ‘‘Goed-by, Aunt Viny.”
*“l've packed may trunk and I'll send
for it when I am settled,” said Ma
bel. “Now I'm going to the city. To
the Young Women's Christian Associa
tion. Miss Fowler is secretary there,
you know."
“You'll be sorry.” Her aunt leaned
harder on the table, her features twist
mfl in an effort to maintain their immo
‘bility. Then she burst forth breokenly:
“*After all I've done for vyou. Mabel
You're going and you don't care. Well
gO, yYou ungrateful girl! But if any
harm comes to veu, don’t blame me.”
- “Good-by."" said Mabe! eoftiv and
closed the door.
‘ With all the noise of which it was ca
pable. a small red roadster came tear
ing along the highway and stoppeg ab
ruptly beside the girl. while its horn
emitted wild shrieks. The startied pe
destrian drew back frowningly.
both as husband and wife and as individ
uals with a career. a
Mrs. Middleton, known still as Lola La
Follette, has won an enviable position as a §
| writer and lecturer on suffrage topics. %
“You—Joe Weaver! You've thrown
dust all over my—my traveling suit.”
The young man in the car surveyed
her in intense seriousness. “Got a
grip, too,” he affirmed. *“I believe you
are going somewhere, Mabel'
She looked directly into his troubled
brown eyes.
“I'm leaving this place forever,” she
made solemn declaration. “If you've
seen Aunt Viny, you know all about it.
Or perhaps you can guess. Anyway,
goodby Joe.”
She held out her hand; but Weaver
sat calmly looking at heér a moment,
Z‘:en he sprang lithely from the car
d lifted her upon the se.t before she
could protest. “I'll take y@u to the sta
tion, Mabel. But there's no train until
the 6:50. Time table changed first of
the month, you know. ILet's ride around
a bit. Tl'll get you there in time.”
Mabel sat comfortably back against
the cushions with a feeling of disap
pointment. So Joe Weaver was going
to ‘let her go as easily as that!
“Well, Mabel, 1 guess Aunt Viny has
A AAAAAA AAN A A AN P
iHousehold Hints E
Starchy vegetables should be put
on to cook in a sufficiently large
‘amount of boiling water to cover
them. Boil gently and keep kettle
covered.
‘. * .
~ The time required for cooking veg
‘etables depends on the Kkind, size and
age of the vegetable. You must use
your jndgment in deciding when they
are done, but a time table may help
you.
. - -
; Locks and hinges and the eastors
on chairs and sofas should be oiled
once a year to prevent rusting and
lm make them work easily.
- - .
When scrubbing linoleum or the
kitchen boards add a little paraffin
&to the water. It takes out dirt and
grease, and gives linoleum a beauti
ful gloss without the trouble of pol
ishing.
settled everything for us. I a.lways}
thought I might have had a chance with '
yvou if she hadn’t interfered. But with
me for a bone of contention between
you—l couldn't expect to make any
headway when 1 ‘came a-courting.’
Could 17" Young Weaver laughed bit
terly. “Aunt Viny meant well.”
“She's been nagging me ever since 1
knew what it meant,” complained Ma
bel. @
“And now yeu're going where you'll
never hear Joe Weaver's name again.
But I'm not going to forget you, dear
girl. Don’t think that. I shall always
think of what might have been.” .
He lookd at her =o fircely that Mabel
shrank into her corner; and the little
red car leaped recklessly ahead. Five
minutes before train time, Weaver lift
ed his companion and her suitcase to
the narrow station platform.
“l wish you luck, Mabel,” he said,
a 8 he helped her with gallantry up the
steps to the last car. “And don’t think
I blame you a bit."”
The train started. Mabel, clinging to
her suitcase, felt suddenly desolate and
panic-stricken. She was not leaving
her home and Aunt Viny now. She
was leaving Joe Weaver—and forever!
Through tears she saw his face, yearn
ing, tender with that sad smile of re
nunciation that made her heart throb
with pain. Joe was good. Joe was
dear. Joe understoo® the heart of a
girl. If——
“Goodby!” caled the girl loudly and
defianty. But there was an expression
in her eyes that made Weaver run along
beside the moving train to keep her in
sight.
l%‘he car moved faster as the grinding
wheels gathered momentum. Mabel's
hand caught at the rail. She threw
her suitcase to the platform and fol
lowed its flight in a quick spring that
landed her reeling and gasping into Joe
Weaver's outstretched arms.
“Oh, Joe=Joe boy!" she cried breath
lessly. “T domn’t want to ge. You
wouldn't ask me to stay—but I'm here.
Aunt Viny shan’t part us. She shan't!”
Bewildered but happy, with Mabel
clinging to his arm, Joe Weaver picked
up the suitcase, and, as the little red
car sped back over the dusty roadway,
there came a series of ecstatic. honk
honks, mingled with the rising laugh
ter of blissfully happy young people.
Nights With Uncle Remus
TALES OF THE HOME FOLKS IN PEACE AND WAR.
HOW WHALEBONE CAUSED A
WEDDING.
ATT KILPATRICK, of Put-
M nam, used to laugh and say
that his famous foxhound
‘Whalebone was responsible for a very
brilliant wedding in Jasper. When
Harvey Dennis and Tom Collings
worth were among his listeners
(which was pretty mueh all the
time, for the three were inseparable),s
they had a way of shaking their
heads dubiously over this statement.
Mr. Dennis thought that his dog
Rowan (pronounced Ro-ann) ought
to have some of the credit, while Mr.
Collingsworth was equally sure that
Music had as much to @0 with the
happy event as any of the rest. The
Collingsworth argument—and it was
a sound one--was that where a lady
dog is skipping along and performing
to the queen’s taste all the work that
is cut out for her, she ought to come
ahead of the gentlethen dogs in any
historical statement or reminiscence.
When I first heard the story, con
siderations of local pride léed me to
feel that Rowan had been unjustly
robbed of the credit that belonged
to him; but time cools the ardor of
youth, and mellows and sweetens the
sources of partisanship. I can say
now that Rowan had small advan
ltage over his twe famous rivals,
when the scent was as high as the
saddle-skirts and the pace the kind
that kills.
Mr. Kilpatriek used to tell the
story as a joke, and frequéntly he
repeated it merely to tease those
who were interested in the results of
Whalebone’s exploit, or to worry his |
fox-hunting rivals, who were his
dearest friends. But the story was
true. In repeating it T shall have to
include details that Mr. Kilpatrick
found it unnecessary to burden him
self with, for they were as familiar
to his neighborhood audience as any
of their own personal affairs.
The way of it was this: One day
fn the beginning of December, 1860,
Colonel Elmore Rivers, of Jasper
County, put a negro boy on a mule
and sent him around with an invita
tion to certain of his friends, re
questing them to do him the honor
of eating their hristmas dinner with
him. This invitation was prepared
with great care by Mrs. Rivers, who
was a schoolma’am from Connecti
cut when the colonel married her.
It was beautifully written on the in
side of a sheet of foolscap, and this
sheet was tacked to a piece of card
board, by means of a deftly made
true-lover's<knot of blue ribbon. The
cardboard was placed in a satchel
over the shoulders of the negro, so
that there was no danger of losing
it. 'There was only one invitation,
and it was to be carried from one of
the colonel’s friends to the other until
all had been notified of his hospitable
desires
The colonel added an oral postscript
as he gave the negro a stiff dram.
| “Ding 'em,” he exclaimed, “tell 'em to
When the Baby Is Il
By Brice Belden, M. D. |
HE nervous system of a young
T child is so sensitive that slight
causes frequently produce
marked symptoms; nevertheless, a
close watch is necessary before one
can be sure that a baby is not devel
oping a definite disease.
Because of the fact that slight in
dispositions may behave like serious
diseases in infants, there is some dan
ger in overlooking, at first, some
grave affection, since the attack may
‘be so severe as to blunt the sensitive
nervous system, so that, instead of
‘marked disturbances, the symptoms
are marked by a false repose.
i A sick infant is pretty sure to be
‘uncomfortable and is therefore rest
iless and likely to cry. Some clew to
the seat of the trouble may be given
}by the actions of the child. Thus in
earache the hand may seek the ear.
}ln headache it may be raised toward
the head. When teething, the child is
apt to insert his fingers into the
‘mouth.
When there is colic the child is apt
to writhe and draw up his legs, while
the abdomen is felt to harden. Irrita
tion in the stomach and bowels often
cause the child to rub his nose.
Continuous crying is generally due
either to earache, hunger or thirst.
Earache may be confirmed by observ
ing how the child acts when pressure
is made in front of and behind the
ear; it usually makes the baby wince.
A convulsive attack is sometimes
foreshadowed by tight shutting of
the hands, the thumbs being thrust
deeply into the palms; the toes are
also apt to be bent at the same time.
‘When a piercing cry is uttered sud
denly at intervals there is pretty sure
to be serious trouble in the head, es
pecially if there is no fretting be
tween the cries.
In pneumonia and pleurisy children
cry during the attacks of coughing.
The sleep of a sick ,ild is apt to
be restless and fitful. Inability to
sleep with the head and shoulders low
is an indication of heart or lung trou
ble. Constant kicking off of covers,
even in cold weather, is a sign of
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bring their dogs. Mind now! tell “em
to bring' their dogs.”
Mrs. Rivers enjoyed Christmas as
Keartily as anybody, but in beginning
preparations for the festival she al
ways had her misgivings. Her fathen,
Dr. Joshua Penniman, had been a
Puritan among Puritans, and some
how she had got the idea from him
that there was a good deal of popery
concealed in the Christmas ceremo
nials. But when once the necessity
for preparation was upon her she cast
her scruples aside, and her Christmas
dinners were famous in that whole re
glon. By ecatering to the colonel's so
cial instincts in this and other partio
ulars, she managed, at a later perfod
of his life, to lead him triumphantly
into the fold of the Baptist Chureh,
It was a great victory for Miss Lou,
as everybody called her, and she Nved
long to enjoy the distinction it eom
ferred upon her.
The day after the invitation had
been sent around, a couple of wean
ling pigs were caught and penned,
and, until the day before Christmas,
they were fed and fattened on nub
bins and roasted white-oak acorns.
Three young gobblers were also
ecaught and put upon such diet as,
according to the colonel's theory,
would add to their toothsomeness, and
give them a more delicate flavor.
These are merely hints of the exten
sive preparations for the Christmas
festival on the Rivers plantation.
What the colonel always wanted
was a merry Christmas, and there
could be no merriment where good
humor and good cheer were lacking.
He had said to his wife years before,
when she was spmewhat doubtful
abouit introducing her New Fngland
holiday, “Go ahead, honey! Cut just
as big a dash as you please with your
Thanksgiving. Tl enjoy it as much
as you will, maybe more. The Lord
knows we've got a heap to be thank
ful for. We'll cut a big dash and be
thankful, and then when Christmas
comes we'll cut a big dash and be
happy.”
Thenceforward they had both
Thanksgiving and Christmas on that
plantation, and Miss Lou was as anx.
ious to satisfy the colonel with her
Christmas arrangements as he had
been to please her with his zeal for
Thanksgiving. Indeed, one Christmas
day, a year or two after their mar
riage, Miss Lou went so far as to pre
sent her husband with a daughter,
and ever after that Christmas had a
new gsignificance in that household:
Miss Lou satisfied her Puritan scru
ples by pretending to herself that she
was engaged In celebrating her
daughter’s birthday, and the colonel
was glad that two of the most im
portant days In the calendar were
merged into one.
(Copyright, 1881, 1883, 1909 and 1911,
by the Century Company; 1883 by Joe
Chandler Harris; 1911 by Esther Laßose
Harris. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Printed by permission of and by special
arangements with Houghton lgieglln
Company.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
rickets. Mouth breathing, with the
head thrown far back, is an indica
tion of adenoids, and in these cases
the breathing during sleep is apt to
be noisy. Boring of the back of the
head into the pillow suggests brain ir
ritation—if persistent. Half-open eyes
during sleep indicate pain, and if
with this there are movements of the
lips, the pain is in the stomach or
intestines.
Puffiness or swelling about the eyes
indicate dropsy, most commonly met
with after scarlet fever, and due teo
disease of the kidneys. It may, how
ever, indicate a high grade anemia.
In brain diseases there is some
times frowning, with changes in the
pupils of the eyes and sensitiveness
of light.
In abdominal disease the upper lip
is apt to be drawn up.
In pneumonia and pleurisy the nos
trils are sharply defined ang ditate
and contract as the little patient
breathes. The breathing is labored,
i 0
Disarming the Foe.
‘“Yes, aunties,” said one of the gallant
fellows invalided home from France, *wa
captured the first line trenches, and the
same day the French took a large nuome
ber of metres from the Germans.”
‘That was plendid, my boy" replie@
the old lady. ‘Tt ought te put a stop to
those dreadful gas attacks we hear so
much about.”
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One of a Kind. ;
“lls that your college diploma you
have t;ra;;xelc(l) mti:eml'i:; :Well, it's a
sort o . worthlessg
stock eertri)flca,te showing that I've
been through the school of experiy
ence!”
o
A State of Bliss,
‘Where do you intend to £0 next surm
mer?”’ asked Mr. Dawkina, “I'm going
to stay at home,” replied Mr. Phipps.
“My family’s going away, and I'm go~
ing to embrace the oppertunity te sit
in my shirt sleeves and smoke cigars
in the best rooms in the house.”
Hits Only Once. :
deéili;“;’:'e’th; et *%‘&E":‘ :yg
shell often hit a man? Tommy -ten
leave): “Ne, only emcel™