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The Heart Breaker
Mildred Goes to Call on Mrs. Bruce, but R eceives No More Than a Perfunctory Welcome
From the Grief-Stricken Widow.
By Virginia Terhune Van De
Water.
CHAPTER LX.
Copyright 1919, Star Company.
- AVING it out” witn Mlildred
H did little good, for her
temper did not subside
as quickly as it usually did. Nor
did she admit that she had been at
fault,
“Really, Honora,” she accused,
“you are determined to see things
all crooked. Injustice has been
done me, and I would rather not
discuss the matter further”
“YVery well” Honora agreed with
dignity. “I will say no more on
the subject.”
She was tired and heart-sick. Her
wsister's attitude disappointed her. The
bhad supposed the shock of Mr.
Bruce's death would make the giri
self-forgetful.
No word came from Mrs. Bruce
during the night, and Honora and
Mildred slept undisturbed. Before
their Sunday morning breakfast, Mil
dred went Into Mrs. Higgins' room.
*Good morning, dear,” the house
kceper sald. “1 am glad you came
in, for 1 wanted to tell you how sorry
I am for you in your distress about
Arthur's loss. It's very hard on you.”
Mildred bent and kissed the speak
er impulsively—an action that
brought a flush of surprised pleasure
1o the elderly lady's face.
“Oh, thank you, Mre. Higgins!
" ¥You are the only person who has
. Intimated that | am to be sympa
~ thiged with. Evidently you are the
g only one who understands.”
- “Honora understands, lam sure”
. Mrs. Higgins was quick to defend
_ her favorite from any suggestion of
- blame. “But she has been 80 much
- with M Bruce that the widow’s
- grief blots from the child's mind
~ the thought of any lesser wsorrow,
- 1 suppose you will go to see Mrs,
~ Bruce today, won't you?™
~ Mildred hesitated. Then she reach
. ®d a swift decision. “Yes," she said,
"I will go. But please do not mention
~ this to Honora.”
. "Very well, dear,” was the puzzled
~ promise. “But I am sure she wouid
~ approve.”
Hinora Fooled Again.
~ “I don't care whether she would
.or not" Mildred muttered as she
~ left the room. But Mrs. Higgins
- did not hear. y |
e ludlously, the sisters chatted of
_vaflous matters during breakfast.
ak commented on the fact that
it was a rainy morning for church
& and Mildred agreed with her.
Sine the weather need not keep‘
~ well people at home,” the younger
~ Remembering these words, Honora
_ took it for granted that her sister
_¥epvas starting for church, when, at a
L ler of eleven, she saw her wulk-“
. ing briskly down the path to the gate,
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A robust physical frume. ‘
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of their heads, owing to their meth-
B of dressing the hair, which is pulled
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She wore a new and stylish raincoat
and carried an umbrella.
“T wish,” Honora sighed, “that she
would call on poor Mrs. Bruce; but I
shall not suggest it. She has shown
me plainly that she considers it none
{of my business. And 1 suppose it ls
{ not.”
Then she went in to talk to Mmm,
llllxwinu and congratulated her on her
improved condition this morning.
Afier which she announced that she
was going to read aloud to the in-|
valld instead of attending church.
“Mildred has gone, so there will be
one person in our pew.” Honora re
marked.
This was the only reference she
made to her sister. She did not wan?
to talk of her just now.
Meantime, Mildred went on her way
btrooding over her fancied wrongs.
She was sure that Honora was trying
to supplant her in the estimation of
Arthur's family, Her heart was beat
ing fast fi‘ she approached ‘he Bruce
home, Arthur was angry with her,
and she felt a strong distaste for nim.
Moreover, she knew that his mother
did not like her and that she did ke
Honora. It was not fair.
The maid who opened the front door
in response to her ring informed her
that Mrs. Bruce was not well and was
seeing very few callers.
“Kindly hand her this card,” Mil
dred ordered stiffly.
Honora should not fancy that she
was the only person whom Mrs.
Bruce would receive,
She waited In the drawing room
until the maid returned and sald
that Mrs. Bruce would see her,
Dumbly and nervously shée went
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.~ The Camp Fire Girls 3
§hw~h_g§l_!:uy§!‘{9{gpnmnmo HAPPINESS. ¢
One of the Nation's Best Known Socio
fogical Writers.,
TERE is the good woman who
Is a bit tired of the monotony
of the household, of the tedium
of shopkeeping, of the dull round of so
clal pleasure? Let any such admit a
new flood of joy Into her life and ob
tain a leaven which “leavens the whole
lump™ of other duties, by undertaking
the leadership of a company of the de
lightfui Camp Fire Girls,
Considering its beautiful symbolism
and its Inculcations of domestic hap-
Diness, there has perhaps never becn
organized for girls of the early teen age
anything else quite so significant as this
movement. 1 hope soon to see its splen
did services extended into every part of
the nited States.
For mome strange reason, whenever
there is sald 1o be need of juvenile wel
fare work in any community, we always
think of the boys. *“Boys first” has
been our motto, But I have always
doubted the justice and fairness of such
4 procedure. For, whether we recog
nize it or not, the neglect to furnish
adequate lelsure time recreation (o
growing girvls Is quite as serious in Its
consequences as the neglect of boys.
Differing somewhat from the boy of
her age, the thirteen-year-old girl is
extremely fond of personal adornment,
of delicate symbolism, of a code of ua-l
theties, and of the dreams of happy ro
mance. She delights In going aside
with her little coteries of friends, and
with them to perform the poetic or
~ Helping Out Your Child z
By Dr. W. A. McKeever,
One of the Nation's Best-Known So
ciological Writers.
“M Y 10. year-old boy is failing
in his lessons. In our
school they have a rule
against the pupil's studying at home.
Now, what can 1 do to relieve this
trouble ™
As this excerpt from a letter
touches upon a most common school.
and-home difficulty, | am glad to give
It open consideration,
In the first place, the rule of the
school. “no studying at home,” is right
in 80 far as it states the case, but
it Is misleading to many parents,
causing them to relax their Interest
and watchfulness. Along with it
should be this additional rule: “Dafly
home study on the part of the parent
of how the child Is getting on in
school Is highly necessary as an as
surance of his success"
Along with the report of the fail
ure of the child at school there is
usually a charge of incompetency
aguinst the teacher. Now, do not be
satisfled or sidetracked by any such
story. Do your part and the teachep
will very probably do hers. Do you
know why our child s failing? Can
you locate the exact difficulty® You
have only one or a few to watch, but
the teacher has thirty or forty. The
teacher often works under great pres.
sure from above to get over the as
slgned course, and must strive forl
mass results,
By watching your child daily you
will detect his little difficultios before |
they grow into serious troubles. KFive
or ten minutes per day reviewing (hol
lesson situation with your child will
probably keep him going smoothly
and reduce the necessary home reci
tation almost to the zero point,
Read over the geography lesson to'
him in advance for a few m‘enlnn;l
recite aloud the ditfcult part of flml
multipiication table to your little girl
upstaars She shivered as she passed
a closed door at the rear of the sec
ond hall. How she dreaded lliness
and death!
Mildred Explains.
Her timidity made her iook very
pale as she greeted the widow who
arose from an easy chalr as her call
er entered the room.
“It is kind of you to come, Mil
dred,” she said. "Won't\ you sit
down?"
“Thank you,” Mildred stammered.
“I do not want to intrude. 1 only
came to express my sympathy and to
explain why | was not here yester
day.”
“No explanation is necessary., |1
thought nothing of your absence,” the
widow sald. “Honora did all anyone
could do for me.”
UStl”Mildred’'s voice was steady
now—*l would have come If I had
been told how matters were. 1 am
not Meartless, Mrs. Bruce. And as
Arthur's flancee, my place was here™
Mrs. Bruce looked al her rearch
ingly. In the wild eyes there was not
4 gleam of plty, nor was there any
sofiness about the full, curved lips.
The sad woman wished the girl would
g 0 home.
“1 did no% thll’k of that, Mildred,”
she said. “To tell the truth, my only
thought was of our loss-—Arthur's and
mine. 1 regret that you did not un
derstand,”
“Oh,” Milly smiled reassuringly,
“that's all right! [ only wanted to
explain and to assure you that 1 will
come to you at any time you need me,
Just telephone to me if I can be of
“Thank you,” Mrs. Bruce rejoined
But in the tone there was no
warmth of gratitude, nor a sugges
tion of affection.
(To Be Continued.)
ritualistic ceremonies appropriae to the
seclusive group of her class,
Now, It is precisely*this charming pro
gram of enticing affairs which the or
der of the Camp Fire makes use of as
A means of bringing the every day du
ties of young girls into a wholesome
unity of thought and purpose and into
such an organization of the growing
character as will gradually effect the
highest type of womanliness. However,
It Iy not especlally the design of the
Camp Fire order to prepare the girl
for the future living and womanly cit
izenship,
While all that is a happy outgrowth
of the after-school course of training,
the: immediate purpose is to assist the
rlrl to live a good and sufficlent life
n the present and to find a wide n.n?
of .xtnmuflon for her domestic and al
trulstic instincts, as well as a dngor
motive for her school work and other
necessary duties,
To find a joyous rhythm in the plain.
est lessons of the wschool; to merge
the symbolism of poetry with the ap
pointed work of the household; to hear
the volce of music singing in the heart
of girlhood responsively to the musie
of outdoor nature, and finally to weave
all this Into & beautiful dream of ro
mantic girlhood and superb womanhood,
such is the soul of the order of the
Camp Fire,
Wherelure, any busy woman-—mother,
older sistor, or what not—who may be
constrained to undertake the leadership
of a local organization of the Camp
Fire Girls will not only render a valua
ble service to the individuals concerned
lund to soclety, but will also thus dis
cover for herself the secret of « life
more abundant.
An\x’ for this purpose Instructions may
be obtained by nddroulng the Camp
Fire Girls of America, No. 31 Kast
Seventeenth street, New York City,
while she helps with the dishes; takg !
the place of the pupil and recite the |
spelling lesson a few times to yourl
child; praise and encourage your'
backward boy: calm and nnnur"
your mervous girl with an alr of in
difference so that her nerves may be
rested by tomorrow--these are little
matters which will constitute the ma.
Jor part of the home vigilance of the
parent who knows how to keep his
child going along with the ordinary
school,
And it is Just this little daily test
ing and redirecting which in time will
carry the ehild milex ahead of where
he would be without it. After many
years of careful and intimate study of
the public schools, I am convinced
that there is no great amount of dif
ference in the ability of the great ma-
Jority of pupils. Nearly all are smart
in one thing and dull in another, with
medium ability between these ex
tremes. They average much the same,
provided they have equal advantages
I have nearly always been able to
show thtt the child marked dull in
the school was equally bright s
something else worth while.
80, If your child is doing poorly
In his classes, accuse yourself first
Examine your part of the school
game, make a test for the weak spot
and quickly correct your fault and
your child’s. That may be quite
enough to obviate the whole difficulty,
Accuse the teacher last of all.
Due Precaution.
Al the close of & lecture by an Instruce
tive officer on the care of firearms the
usual quoestions were asked, and the first
c’wnmm was put to an Irlshman. “Now,
‘rivate Mulligan, what would be the first
thing you'd do in cleaning your rifle?*
“Bure, sorr, I'd look at the number.” “Look
At the number of your rifle! What has its
numnber (o do with cleaning it ?" asked the
officer. “I'm afraid you've not been lise
tening to we, Mulligan.” “Well, sorr, I'd
look at the number to make sure 'twas me
own rifle | was clanin'!™ "
Payment by Deputy,
Hrimson and Mowles, two English trave
clers, were kidnapped by rq‘nanluh bandits
and shut up in & cave. “They will take
every penny we've got on us!" moaned
Brinson. ‘They will, eh? said Mowles
thoughttully “They will” answered
Brinson, groaning. Mowles produced $25.
“Here, Brinson.” he said, ‘& that money
I've been owing you fer so iong'™
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Wonderful Human Faculties
| By Garrett P, Serviss. {
ECENTLY a letter dropped down
R to me out of the ether, as it
} were, from a collateral de‘i
scendant of Zerah Colburn, that ex
traordinary mathematical seer who
appeared and disagpeared like a rock
et a century ago, and while I have
been re-reading it, another letter has
come from a young lady, who pleas
ingly sends me her photograph, and
who illustrates in her own person a
phase of human faculty quite differ
ient from Colburn's, but in some re-
Spects even more wonderful, since it
relates to impressions upon the brain
that appear to be entirely unknown
to the vast majority of mankind.
What Zerah Colburn did was to
astonish the best mathematicians by
giving, with practical Instantaneity,
answers to problems which they could
only solve by a long process of cal
culation on paper. Tere can be now
doubt that he saw the answers, that
they were pictured in his brain along
with the problem itself, so that tney
constitute a logical and mentally vis
ible continuation or completion of it.
What the ordinary mathematician
could only arrive at by & series of
successive steps this wonderful boy-—
iho was only 6 years old when his el
'dern digscovered his powers, was able
to reach at a single step. In fact, he
:wu hardly conscious of taking any
Step at all or of making any effort.
The real effort for him came when, in
response to urgent questioning, he
tried to tell how he did his amazing
feats of calculation. |
In some cases, apparently, he never
‘was able to find out, and the explnnl-‘
tions that he finally did offer wer«{
evidently concocted only to satisfy
the insistence of the questioners and
did not represent any conscious proc
ess that went on in his brain. His
mind acted like a caleulating engine,
in which the arrangement of the ele
ments of the problem automatically
sets forth the solution. In the cases
in which he was able to go back, by
much effort, over the ground that he
had instantaneously covered in reach
‘mg the resuit he showed that the sue
cessive steps were of the same order
as those employed in formal mathe
maties, but he had flown over them
without even knowing of their exist
ence,
It is not improbable that the schook
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Among the endless varieties of cape coafs appears this gars
ment of navy blue serge lined with pearl gray satin. The deep
band around the bottom is heavily braided. Into this band is
gathered the fullness of the coat. The cuffs are also trimmed
with braid.
ing which he recelvea and theé at
tempts, which were forced upon him,
to make his methods explicable to
others, ag well as to himself, gradual-
Iy dulled ang finally destroyed his in
tuitive power, for as he grew older
he lost the faculty that had made him
world-famous for a few years.
Now, the faculty of the young lady
of whom I have spoken rests upon
mental vision of a diffcrent kind. Her
own words will best describe it:
“Since early childhood 1 have had
the power of seeing sounds, devel
oping until almost every sound rep
resents a distinet picture to my mind
in both color and shape. To illustrate,
ithe different notes of the violin pre
sent different colors and shapes from
the same notes on other instruments.
1 do not mean that 1 can differentiate
the color of each treble note, but the
aggregation of treble notes will pre
sent a different color from that of the
bass. On the organ, for instance, the
soft note of the treble make a picture
as of a vapor, pale yellow or golaonl
mist, while the bass makes a
picture of dark rolling clouds.
Again, the tenor volce is a trans.
parent greenish yellow, whilst the
soprano is yellow without the green.
Some volces, however cultivated, pre
sent no color to me. Within the last
year 1 have discovered that under
certain conditions of excitement, or
tensity, unknown persons speaking to
me through the telephone present
such a clear picture of themselves to
my mind, in minute detall—teeth, col
oring, eyeglasses, ete—that I have
afterward recognized them on the
street. You have spoken, in your
‘Romance of the Brain,’ about the
powers to see the color of names,
which I do just as you describe. A
bird is singing outside my window
now, and if necessary 1 could paint
its song both in shape and color.”
Since Francls Galton wrote on the
subject of mental imagery, and onl
“number-forms” and “color associa
tlons,” which are phenomena of the
same character as those described
above, this peculiar faculty has been
much studied by psychologists., Mr.
Galton remarked, what | have myseir
noticed, that persons possessing the
faculty are sometimes worried by it,
thinking, apparently, that it may be
an undesgirable abnormnllt{. possibly
capable of developing injuriously. But
there {s no reason for any apprenen
glon of that kind.
{t is rather a thing which any In
tellectually wide-awake person should
welcome on account of the interest
ing vistas which it opens into the
half-hidden powers of the mind. Even
when it takes the form referred to in
the latter portion of the letter quoted
above, that of a visualization of an
absent and unknown person through
the effoects produced upon the cells of
the Lrain by the vibrations of the
person’s voice transmitted through
the telephone, there is nothing cal
culated to produce anxiety on the
part of the possessor of so remark
able a faculty,
It may be one which the entire hu
man race will develop and enjoy in
the future. The color of music is not
a new ldea. Sound waves and light
waves both affect the brain cells
through special organs responding to
vibrations of varying intens‘ties and
widely different magnitudes, and that
both Kinds of waves should oceasion
ally be found to produce co-ordinate
effects, simultaneously noted and har
moniously accorded by the perceiving
faculty In the brain, is not so very
surprising. But it is a great stimulus
to investigation, such as makes one
wish to live a hundred years and
watch the flower of humanity unfold
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RICKE MACAROON PUDDING,
Half cupful rice, % cupful sugar, %
teaspoonful salt, 1 quart milk, 1 egg. 1
dozen almond macaroons, 3 tablespoon
fuls margarine, 1 teaspoonful vanilla
Cook the rice in water until tender.
Drain and pour cold water through it:
then put in the oven to dry. Put the
milk on In a double boiler, heat, add salt,
sugar ond rice and cook until somewhat
thickened. Then put in a greased baking
dish with the margarine and vanilla. Bake
4% hour, then put the macaroons on top,
beat the ogg and pour over all, Bake
one honr longer slowly. If the maca
roons are very small, more than one dozen
may be required. Use enough to cover the
top of the pudding dish.
BAKED BANANAS,
Half cupful sugar, 1 tablespoonful corn
starch, % teaspoonful sait, § bananas, 1
cupful boiling water, 2 tablespoonfuls
lemon Juice, 2 tablespoonfuls grape Jelly,
% cupful dry crumbs.
Mix together the sugar, cornstarch and
salt. Stir into this mixture the bolling
water, and eook until free from any raw
taste. Add the lemon juice and rape
Jeily, or any tart jelly. Rub a b&lng
dish with margarine Remove the skins
from the bananas, cut them into halves
lengthwise then ecach half crosswise. Put
the cut bananas into the baking dish and
pour the sanea over them. Cover the top
with crumbs and bake until the bananas
are soft amd the crumbs are brown.
Nights IVith Uncle Remus
§ By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.
Sister Jane (Continued).
HE color had returned to her lml
T and though her hair was tossed
about, its black masses made a
fitting frame for her features; and I
saw at a glance
that among her
other misfortunes
she had the dower §ET i S
of beauty. Sister Bi >a4 j
Jane was still hold- ‘* *
ing the baby, hum- ‘f;‘ . 4
ming a low tune. $i @74
Her warning hand :fig o
told me that I had ';;f‘ %
forgotten to steal 3.‘, 4 o
T ey b
into the room on e e
my tiptoes, per- .A~
ceiving which, lhe!
baby’'s mother in- & S
tervened, %
“You may make
all the fuss you
want to now,” she said. ‘“He'd wake
es you drapped 'im on the floor, maybe,
but I don't know what else would wake
'im. He hain’t no trouble in the wide
world.” She made this remark with
a touch of pride that was unmistaka
ble. “I'll take 'im, now,” she went on. |
“Oh, the Lord knows I don't want to
worry you-all. I know I oughtn't to be
settin’ here. I ain’'t nuthin’ ner no
body."” |
“William,” said Sister Jane, ‘turn
down the bed-cover in the next room
and warm the pillows.”
“Le me do it! Oh, l¢’ me do some
thin’ so I won't run havin' crazy. 1
don’t know how to set here holdin’ my
han’s an’ a-doin’ of no good,” said the
baby’'s mother.
“Show her the way, William.” Sisger
Jane's tone was not less imperative be
cause her voice was pitched in a lower
key. 8o I made haste to show Mandy
Satterlee where the room was, and while
she turned down the cover and smooth
ed out the snow-white sheets anew, I
took occasion to renew the fire, so that
the room would remain comfortably
warm for the rest of the night. Having
finished this I stood before the fire,
expecting to see the young woman feteh
the pillow to be warmed. After watch
ing the fire a moment, and hearing no
sound, 1 turned and saw Mandy leaning
on the footboard of the bed, which
was a high one, silently weeping. So
I took the pillow, placed one end on
the floor and leaned it against a chair.
Presently Sister Jane came in bringing
the baby,
“If the pillow’'s warm, William, put it
back on the bed.'
I made sure of the warmth, for I
knew that Sister Jane would test it
by laying her cheek against it, and
placed it on the bed. She gave it a
light blow with her free hand, laid the
baby down, and drew the cover over
it with the greatest care. Then she
turned to the mother.
“What the matter, Mandy?" she asked
in her practical way.
“Nothin’ in the wide world,” replied
Mandy, eagerly, though the tears were
streaming down her cheeks. ‘Pleas’'m
don’t l¢' me worry you. I'm happier
right now than I've been sence-—sence
I don’t know when. It ain't when 1
cry that I'm in trouble; it's when I
can't ery.”
“Then come and sit by me,” said Sis
ter Jane, “and cry to your heart's con
tent. It'll do you a world of good. See
to the doors and the fires, William.”
Taking this as a gentle hint, I went
out, and inspected all the outer doors,
trying the locks, to make sure they
were fastened. This was a part of the
nightly routine, but it was a useless
task to be set for me, for Sister Jane
was sure to slip around to each door
after I had gone to bed, to satisfy her
self that it was secure.
Whatgthese two women said to each
other in that hour—the one strong and
self-reliant, but charitable, the other
weak and erring, but penitent in heart
and mind--I never knew; I never want
ed to know. For revelation would have
made commonplace a matter over which
secrecy had thrown a sacred veil. There
lare rrg'slerlos which divination exalt,
and this was one of them . The ery
|o( a penitent is heard with more joy
Making Over Your Suit
SOME PRACTICAL HOME SUGGESTIONS
| ITH all the smart spring clothes
} W that are being worn, your fur
| trimmed winter suit will be
passe. But there are many clever
ways you can transform it into a
good-looking spring model without
changing it very much. You can re
model it again in the fall to its orig
inal style, and thus make your suit
do double service. Worn with a new
straw hat and oxford ties your win
ter suit will prove an economical but
smart costume for spring.
A maroon-colored suit of duvetyn,
with a shawl collar of nutria was
made over very successfully. The
skirt was lengthened to the instep
and taken in at the side seams, until
it measured not quite a yard and a
half at the bottom. To conceal the
mark left when the hem was let out,
there were three roys of silk soutache
braid several shades darker than the
material.
The fur collar was carefully ripped
from the suit and packed away in
camphor for future use. The raw
edge of the neck was bound with a
single row of the braid and this
formed a rather deep V in front of
the coat, as it was a shawl collar
model. To furnish a new collar and
front, a vest of brocaded satin, show
ing shades of gold, brown and tan,
was worn with the collar outside the
coat,
These new vests may be purchased
in a wide choice of fabrics and colors
and are cut in one piece, unlike the
“buttoned in front” model that we all
know so weil. The collar is “snapped”
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In heaven than the prayer of a saint; &
'mu be misunderstood here, but it is
rightly heard there through all the riot
and uproar of the spinning worlds,
After I had attended to everything,
as usuval, I opened the door of the
room to bid Sigter Jane good-night, as
had been my habit since childhood. But
what I saw made me pause on the
threshold. Sister Jane sat in a low
chair with her arms around Mandy Sat
terlee, who was kneeling on the floor
at her side. Mandy’s hair fell in black
coils to the floor; neither one heard ox
saw me. There was a murmur of con~
versation, but T did not pause to hear
Closing the door gently, I went to my
room, and was soon sound asleep.
®ee
The next morning the negro boy whe
was in the habit of making the fires
failed to put in an appearance. And no
wonder. The snow was piled to such
a height in the little porch, having been
blown into a drift by the wind, that it
reached nearly to the door-knob. But
a beautiful sight met my eyes when I
looked out, One could almost be tempt
ed to believe that a miracle had beem
performed in the night., Everywhere
the snow lay thick and white, and over
the trunks and branches of the trees a
thin mantle of ice had been woven. An
arbor-vitae tree standing in the garden
was so heavily laden with this unusual
gift of winter that its branches gave
i forth a queer creaking sound when they
swayed in the light breeze; and the
honeysuckle vine made a rare show in
its garment of mingled sleet and snow
~—winter’s patchwork.
But I had no time to enjoy the scene,
I made haste to go to the cook-room.
intending to start the fire, and, In this
}way, help Sister Jane as much as pos
sible. But when I got there a fire was
roaring on the hearth, and Mandy Sat
terlee was sitting before it. She rose
as I entered.
“I'm mighty glad you're up,” she said,
with a movement of her lips that was
almost a smile. ‘1 slipped out of bed
an’ come out here to see es I couldn't
heip aroun’ a little. I started the fire
an’ then had to set down an’ walt for
somebody. 1 didn’t want to wake her
up, 'cause I know in reason she must be
teetotally fagged out. Es you know how
|to give out things,” she went on, *“I'll
whirl in here an' git breakfast for you
all in three shakes of a sheep’s-tail.”
I found the cupboard key and showed
Mandy where the meat, the meal and
the flour were kept, but further I could
not go. How much or how little to
| give out for making a meal and prevent
‘ing all waste, was a problem I had not
| mastered. Instead of laughing at my
!total ignorance Mandy shoved me gen
tly aside and took charge of matters.
Then I made a fire in my own room,
after many efforts, and when I went
back, Sister Jane was up and out and
engaged in a friendly quarrel with Man
dy Satterlee.
“Why, what in the world do you mean
by not waking me?”’ Sister Jane was
saying. “Where's William? William,
why didn't you wake me and let this
poor thing rest?"
“For the best reason in the world,™
I answered. *I was sound asleep my
self and when I did wake, I found a
fire roaring in the chimney here.”
“Well, this beats all,” remarked Sis
ter Jane. “I'm no chicken, and this
is the first time I've overslept myseif
gince I've been a woman grown.”
‘That’'s because you've never had to
retch out an’' pick up a poor stray
creetur before,” said Mandy Satterlee,
“"Tain’t that,” explained Sister Jane.
“I've been up just as late and I've been
through just as much and more, too, for
that matter; but sun-up never caught
me in bed before, not since I was a slip
of a gal.”
“Well, once in a way won't hurt”™
remarked Mandy. “By the time you
turn ‘round once or twice breakfas'll
be ready.”
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Harris; 1911 by Esther Laßose Harris,
St et VRS, | Erinied 3
l:ilh Houghton, lflt’flirc:mntr;;.n)‘em
To Be Continued Tomorrow,
to place, and a narrow satin ribbon
on either side of the vest is tied in
back to keep it from slipping.
A winter suit that shows a high
collar like a wall about the throat may
be remade into a military model.
Carefully remove the fur and store it
away. If the collar fits well around
the neck you can face it with a strip
of black crinoline to prevent wrinkles,
A broad band of soutache braid in
black silk can trim the neck and the
braid can be repeated on the button
of the peplum in three rows. This is
especially advisable when the peplum
has been fur trimmed and one desires
to change it.
Brass buttong in a double row may
replace the covered buttons to give
‘the suit a more military appearance.
A regulation leather belt will be an
added attraction and should be select
ed in a dark shade.
l So if you want to wear your winy
ter suit for spring you can remodel ¥
easily without great difficulty, and
when you nced to wear it again in the
fall you can replace the fur that you
have carefully stored away in camm
phor,
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A Bit Flooring.
The returned hero who in the cowrse
of his career had jumped 3,000 feet
from his observation balloon, was
showing his parachute spread out on
his lawn to am old lady visitor. Not
understanding the modus operandi of
the thing, the old lady remarked:
“How clever of you to have Jurmped
from 4 balloon into such & emodl
sheet!™