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: A Glimpse of Another Universe.
THE wonderful Andromede Nebula (faintly visible with
an opera glass) is nearly overhead, below the edge of
the Milky Way, directly south 1 Cassiopeia, .bout 9 o’clock
in the evening. Photographs show that this object consists
of glowing spirals, and it is believed to be another universe,
with its own Milky Way.
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A powerful story, dealing with a problem being worked out in thou
sands of American homes today-—that of the husband and wife who
find they grew apart while the man was off to waer.
By FRANCES DUVALL,
Copyright, 19019, by The Wheeler Syndicate, Inc,
XI—~RECOLLECTIONS.
“TOM MOORE!"” gasped Keitha.
“How heavenly to see
you! And what a surprise!”
The tall officer raised his brows
comiocally,
“Surprise! My word! A knock
out! Bennett, here, never told me
whom he'd married. Of course,
when he sald she was the most
beautiful girl in the world, T might
have guessed, but I put it down to
the usual bridegroom infatuation.”
“See here,” cut in Captain Ben
rett, “What's this, old home week
reunion? You two seem to know
each other rather well’ ;
“Well?" echoed Captain Moore,
*“Um-—I should say we do, eh,
Keitha?"
“l was engaged to Tom all one
spring at college,” explained Keitha
mischievously. “He made a tre
mendously nice fiance,” she added,
patting his arm with mock affec
tion.
“No better than you, Keitha, no
better than you,” Moore assured her
gallantly.
Captain Bennett was regarding
the pair with the shadow of a
frown.
“I'm beginninz to t(hink that a
husband is de trop in this party,”
he remarked dryly. “Perhaps you'd
rather pursue your reminisc. nces
out of my earshot?”
Moore laughed and clapped him
on the shoulder affectionate'y.
“Getting jealous, old top?”
“Hardly—of you,” Captain Ben
nett's grin was rather half hearted.
“Whew!” Moore whistled softly.
“To think that my ‘buddy’ wonld
pull a stinging retort like that on
me! Cheer up, my boy, yvou're about
1o run across a lot of your wife's
past.”
“I'm not afraid,” declared Keitha.
“At that, Lester will have the ad
vantage of me."”
“You're right, he will. In Paris
nOW——-""
“Don’'t be an ass, Tom,'™ cut in
Bennett. “I ordered a table for &
gquarter to one and we've probably
lost it by being half an hour late”
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Captain Moore flashed Keitha a
glance of mock significance,
“You see? He's getting nervous.
Stick close to me, Keitha, and you'll
get an earful about the overscas
| T
‘ activities of your handsome hus
band.”
“If T lived in @ glass house, I'd
hesitate to juggie brickbats,” re
marked Bennett gignificantly, as he
led the way into the restaurant.
| The luncheon was a merry affair.
t Keitha forgot hor.vexatlons in Cap
tain Moore's presence- and the at
mosphere of carefree days which he
called up. She took delight in re
calling with him various escapades
of their co-ed college course, es
pecially since she sensed the fact
that her husband resented them a
trifie. Whether she was really in
love with him or not, her woman's
vanity demanded that he etill love
her. From nis manner and little
remarks that his brother officers
had dropped, she sensed that his
infatuation for her was no means
as complete as it had been in the
days of ais courtship. In one way
she was thankful and in another
she was decidedly piqued. In fact,
she had reached a state whun she
didn't know exactly what she ex
didn’t know exactly what she
thought or what she felt. .
“Do you remember the afternoon
in commencement week when you
ran away from a fraternity house
party with me and hid in the ten
of an old apple tree?” Moore was
demanding. “And the man whose
guest you were searched all over
the place for you, never.drumml
that you were up a tree with a rival
fraternity brother.”
“And finally we got starved out,”
Keitha caught up the narrative de
lightedly, “and you slipped down
and brought sandwiches and cakes
from a tea shop. Do you }mnw. he
never forgave mea—l was almost
engaged to him, tvo,” she added
regretfully.
Captain Bennet laughed with
raised brows,
“You seem to have been a much
engaged young person,” was his
dry comment.”
(To Be Continued.)
We Should Think of Each Day as a Serious Work, Standing by Itself
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Revelations of a Wife
A New Story of Married Life
You Can Start It at Any Time
! By Adele Garrison.
WHY MRS. UNDERWOOD GAVE
MADGE A REASSURANCE
AND A WARNING.
ON'T wait for me, Miss Dra-
D per,” Lillian Underwood said
lightly, “an old woman like
me isn't as fortunate as you or
Mrs, Graham. You can dash a lit
tle water on your faces, dry them
and those peaches-and-cream com
plexions of yours are ready for
anything. But it's the little old
make-up box for me, and a long
session at that, so don't let me
keep either of you. The boys will
be lonesome.”
1 caught a swift little flash from
her eyes that told me sbe wished
me to stay with her. 1 turned to
Miss Draper gsmiling: .
“lI shall have to change these
tennis shoes for others before I
come down,” 1 said, grasping at
the first excuse [ could think of.
“They are making me most un
comfortable, but do go down ahead
of us and keep those men enter
tained so they won't begin to wor
ry about dinner. Dicky is simply
ravenous after tennis,
“He isn't a patch upon Harry,”
chimed in Lillian. “There never
was a fiend incarnate who could
equal that man's temper when he’'s
hungry. He's a ravening wolf be
fore dinner and a stuffed lamb
afterwards. So do go down and
distract their attention, Miss Dra
per, that's a dear.”
“I'l do my best,” the girl prom
“ised airily, and went down the
stairs. 1 knew that she was well
pleased with her mission.
“Lovely! lovely!” Lillian whis
pered, estatically, as the door
closed, and, catching me around the
walst, she whirled me madly around
the room in a fantastic little dance.
“Did you ever see anything so per
fectly scrumptious as the way
things turned out this afternoon.
I'll admit 1 hadn’t planned it that
way at all. I had meant you and
Dicky to be partners and to hand
the Draper girl over to Harry,
“I figured that she might get in
terested enough in Harry, who is
at his best in tennis, to make her
forget Dicky for a while.”
WHAT LILLIAN SAID.
With her usual acuteness she
read the wondering look which
flashed into my eyes. 1 could not
understand how she could be so
utterly indifferent to a possible
flirtaf\>n between her husband and
this girl who had so distressed me.
“Don’t waste your time worry
ing about Harry and me,” she said,
a note of bitterness in her voice.
“We're queerly yoked pair, and we
| get along by each allowing the
| Other the fullest latitude, Of course,
; you must realize that we're not
. particularly mad about each other,
| and 1 don’t think it would cause
| either of us much uneasiness if the
| other were to come a sentimental
| cropper over somebody else. But
| we jog along very comfortably, and
| that's all T can ask of life any
i way."”
| 1 wanted to answer the weariness
| of her tone with a caress, but with
' chameleon-like swiftness she was
{ back again into the gleeful humor
i which had signalized the closing of
| the door after Grace Draper,
| “Why didn’t you tell me vou were
] Molla Bjursted’'s understudy?” she
demanded, and then, without giv-
I ing me time to answer, she hur
ried on:
“No wonder Dicky was sore at
not being able to play with you.
There's been a long tennis rivalry
between Harry and Dicky. They
used to play together a great deal.
I think Harry i{s a shade the better
+ player, but with you as his partner
Dicky could have knocked the spots
off my loving husband.”
She was Dbusily applying the
atrocious mask of powder and
rouge, which is the only thing 1
dislike abyut her, as she talked.
With her lip stick poised in one
hand, she turned glgefully toward
me,
“Did you see Dicky's face,” she
' demanded, “when the Draper girl
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made tha¢ last fool shot? I'll bet
he would have given anything he
owned for the priviiege of hitting
ner with his racquet when she
did it"
“But it was a different look he
gave her afterward when she was
begging his pardon so prettily,” 1
returned bitcerly.
“My dear girl”—Lilllan iaid down
her lip stick, put her hands on her
hips and taced me impauently—
“when you're as old as I am you
will know that only one man in
ten thousand can resist smiling at
a pretty girl who begs his pardon
—that is, unless she happens to be
his wife"’—acidly—"and Dicky is
distinctly not the ten thousandth
man.”
“1 kept you after the Draper just
now to give you both'a reassurance
and a warning,” rhe went on hur
riedly,
“l.et me hava he reassurance
first,” I tried to sinile, but it was a
miserable failure,
“Well then, take my word for it.
Dicky’s interest in this girl isn’t a
bit dangerous. It isn't even as
acute as I thought it was, not half
what you feared it to be. It will
take time to erase her from Dicky’s
consciousness, but it can be done.”
DICKY IS HUNGRY.
“And the warning?” 1 asked,
tremulously.
“She has something up her
sleeve,” Lillian said succintly. “You
completely outclassed her at tennis.
She'll not rest until she exhibits to
Dicky some stunt or other in which
she excels, so don’t be surprised at
anything she may do this evening
after dinner. Whatever else you
do, register the most enthusiastic
approval of her.”
I was about to question her as to
whether she had anv jdea what
form Miss Draper’s “stunt’” would
take when an imperative knock at
the door startled me.
. “For heaven’s sake,” Dicky's
voice was undeniably cross, “what
ever are you two gassing about so
long? Can’'t you come down ,and
get o move on Katie? Harry and I
are starved.”
There have been times in my life
with Dicky when I would have re
sented his discourteous impatience,
but I hugged to my heart with joy
every angry inflection.
Miss Draper's blandishments had
not succeeded in making Dicky for
get his hunger, after all.
(To Be Continued.)
BSuch a variety of races are represent
ed by the occupants of the Philippines
that they speak thirty-one languages.
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About three hundred species of tur
tles and tortoises are known.
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The word *‘salmon’” is taken from the
Latin “salmo,” the leaping fish. e
- . .
Tcehergs sometimes last as long as
two hundred years before they melt en
tirely away.
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Swedish school children, under the
guidance of their teachers, annually
plant about six :wn;lrw‘l thousand trees.
Balted whale meat is considered a
great delicacy by the Japanese.
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Tha locust tree was one of the first
American trees to be brought to Eu
rope,
- - .
The Belgians are looked upon as the
greatest potato eaters in the world, ano
the Irish come second.
- - .
The Angelus, a prayer to the Holy
Virgin, was instituted by Urban the Sec
ond. It has three verses, and each
erse ends with the salutation “Ave
Maria."
THE USES OF TORTOISE SHELL.
The hak's-bill turth, from which com
mercial tortoise shell of high grade is
obtained, is extremesy plentiful along
the northwestern coast of Western Aus
tralia, but beyond its uses for soup and
other culinary purposes the huge
crustacean has genersily been consid
ered of little value. An expert oyster
shell carver has recently produced a
unique collection of articles, such As
combs, the backs of brushes, cardcases,
paper knives and bijbuterie generally,
which has attracted wide attention. The
most delightful coloring is obtained
from thls shell, the shades including
pale cream, light brown, orange and
dark chocolate. Some three to four
pounds of tortoise shell can be obtained
from mature turtles.
l Business of Homemaking l
e B e
A FEW HINTS ON STOVE AND
RANGE CARE.
DO not mean by this title the
I handling or operation of a
heating system, but rather the
cleaning and care of the appearance
of any stove or range. What is
the best way to do it? What de
vices to use, and so on.
While women in the cities may
think that there no longer exists
such a thing as a coal range, let
them believe otherwise, for this
country is still largely rural, and
the rural and country home still
clings to its coal range. And how
shall the kitchen range be kept
clean? Shall we use a blacking
brush and dauber? Not if we know
better! For the best thing for any
iron surface such as the range top,
is not blacking, but linseed oil of
the Dbest quality. If it is a new
range, never touch it with a black
ing brush of any kind—merely
place linseed oil on a soft brush
or rag, and rub well with this. In
future daily care scrape off the
portions of food which may have
burned on, then clean with the lin
seed oil. It will have a soft “French
finish” and never need blacking at
all, I find that the typical lambs
wool shoe polisher about eight
inches long is best for this pur
pose,
If there are stovepipes, paint
them with a black enamel paint
which will need no polishing. This
paint comes in cans, can be applied
with a small brush, and lasts at
least one season. The same paint
should be put on the fireguards,
the andirons of black metal, or
similar surfaces.
$ b 4 : f £ Y
Dinner for Miss Singleton.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Dargan Jr.
and Walter Marshburn will enter
tain at the dinner dance at the
Piedmont Driving Club Saturday
evening, in compliment to Miss
Adelaide Singleton, a bride-elect,
and the members of the wedding
party.
For Wedding Party.
Mrs. Welborn Hill and Mrs. W,
C. Rushton will entertain Wednes
day afternoon, December 10, in hon
or of the Singleton-Hill wedding
party.
Tea for Visitor.
Mrs. John Marshall Slaton will
be hostess at an afternoon tea at
4:30 o'clock at her home, “Wing
field,” in Peachtree road, in honor
of her guest, Mrs. Frederick Pratt,
of Buffalo, N. Y., who is spending
a week in the city.
Twelve have been invited to meet
Mrs. Pratt.
Luncheon for Guests.
Mrs Robert Martin gave a lunch
eon Thursday at her home in East
Seventeenth street for her guest,
Miss Margaret Earnshaw, and Mrs.
Howard Trimpi of Glenridge, N. J.,
the guest of Mrs, George Walker.
Dance at Camp Gordon.
A brilliant social event of Thurs
day evening will be the dance by
the officers of the Camp Gordon
headquarters, in honor of the of
ficers of the Fifth Division.
The dance will take place at 8:30
o'clock at the Camp Gordon Host
ess House and will be attended by
the commanding officers of near
by camps and their staffs.
Meyerhardt Is Named
.
Assistant to Alexander
David J. Meyrhardt of Rome was
appointed Thursday by the attorney
general at Washington to succeed
Basil Stockbridge, who recently re
signed, as assistant United States
district attorney. Hooper Alexander,
district attorney, received official
notification of the appointment from |
Washington.
Mr. Meyerhardt is the son of Max
Meyerhardt, attorney of Rome, and
has been practising law in Rome
sinse his discharge from the United
States 'army. He was formerly a
stenographer in the district attor
ney's office, serving for about a year
in that capacity before the war. He
enlisted and was sent to France with
the American Expeditionary Forces
as an army field clerk.
Mr., Meyerhardt will come to At
lanta soon to assume his new du
ties.
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Plans Drive for Cotton
. >
Association Members
State Organizer D. F. McClatchey
of the American Cotton Association
will launch a State-wide drive for
members beginning December 12, it
is announced. It is planned to hold
meetings in every Georgia military
district. The object of the drive will
be to enroll every white farmer in
Georgia,
The drive will be worked in co
operation with the Cotton Bank and
Trust Corporation, and field repre
sentatives of the cotton association
will be authorized to take stock sub
'lcriptions in the bank.
Cold Wave Failure;
Warmer for Atlanta
“That cold wave forecast for Wed
resday night went right over the
|(.bhio Valley to Washington, D, (',
and on out into the Atlantic Ocean,
land I'm glad of it,” was the emphatic
declaration of Weather Observer von
!lh-rrmnna Thursdy morning.
| Mr. von Herrmann then announced
|the glad news that a general modera
tion in temperature has begun and
}lht- weather will be fair Thursday
{night and Friday, and warmer in At-
Elama and vicinity,
County Schools Get
! Two Weeks’ Vacation
The county public schools will be
| given two weeks’' vacation for Christ.
| mas, it was announced Thursday
| The schools will close December 19
and reopen January 5. This includes
both the county high school and the
grammar schools
There is on the market a smiall
mitten duster, which is fine for
dusting the fretwork or enameled
parts of any ironwork, It fits the
hand, is lined with canton flannel,
and has an outside surface of
sheared soft wool. It enables the
hand to cover all the surfaces with
out being soiled in the least. An
other needed article is a small
handled brush of strings similar to
the strings used in a floor polish
mop, but made compact, short and
just the shape to dust off with. It
costs about 35 cents, but will give
more than that amount of money in
service. ’
A brush like a radiator brush,
with a handle two feet long, and
bristles mounted only on one edge,
is excellent for cléaning under and
at the back of the stove. It gets
at the dust between the legs, for
example, or behind the stove and
between it and the wall, etc., etc.—
all those hard-to-get-at places,
which nevertheless must be cleaned.
It costs 50 to 75 cents, depending
on the number of bristles.
The chief point with all stove
care is daily cleaning and upkeep.
It is the one best case of how a
“brush in time saves nine,” or that
idea. That stove or range looks
well, and never becomes dirty,
which is wiped off just a little bit
each day. One can not in one big
dose, do all that six small doses
would have accomplished!
If there is a vacuum cleaner in
the house, it is excellent to use
this on the range parts from time
to time. Wherever dust accumu
lates behind, or on the legs, fret
work, etc., the vacuum can be used
to good advantage.
House Party at Hunting Lodge.
Willingham Tift of Tifton will
entertain a group of friends at a
house party next week at his hunt
ing lodge near Tifton. A large par
ty will leave Atlanta Sunday, In
cluding Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.
Daniel, Misses Eloise Robinson,
Nellie Dodd, Hallie Cravford,
Blanche Divine, Mary Murphey,
Margaret Lawton of Lena, S. C.;
Edwin McCarty, Ralph Ragan, Ben
jamin Daniel, John Westmoreland,
Benjamin Lumpkin and Samuel
Hutchinson of Chattanoosga.
Birthday Party.
Little Susan Colier was honor
guest at a birthday party at which
her - mother, Mrs. Rawson Collier,
entertained fifteen guests in cele
bratioi of her eighth birthday on
Wednesday at her home in Ansley
Park.
For Mrs. Ginn.
Mrs. Everett Ginn of Boston, who
is in the city to attend the mar
riage of he rniice, Miss Laura
Wyatt, and James Lansing Bode
ker, of Nashville, and is the guest
of her sister, Mrs. Laura Wyatt,
will be the central figure at a
luncheon to be given this week by
Mrs. Julius DeGive, the date to be
announced later,
Dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Pratt.
Mr, and Mrs. John W. Grant will
entertain at a dinner party Friday
evening at their home in Pace's
Ferry Road, in compliment to Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick Pratt of Buf
falo, N. Y., the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. John Marshall Slaton.
Covers will be placed for twenty
guests,
' Ft. McPhersonl
Detachment men of the hospital held
their fir!ll‘ smoker at the Service Club
building Tuesday night. An outline of the
work aimed to be accomplished by the
service clubs was givep by Lieut. Col.
Whigam, recreational and educational of
ficer, and enthusiastic responses were made
by Chaplain Randolph and a number of
the non-commissioned officers. A business
meeting of the club will be held Friday
evening when steps will be taken to or
ganize dramatic, debating, dancing and
amusement clubs.
Pursuant to instructions from the surgeon
general, intensive instruction will be given
to officers and non-commissioned officers
at the hospital. Lieut. Col. L. P. Wil
liamson, medical corps, has heen appoint
ed instructor for officers and the first class
met in the educational service building
Wednesday.
L.ndles of the Atlanta Red Cross canteen
gervice, sponsored by Mrs. Edward Barnes
and Mrs. Wilmer Moore, will give a party
for the sick and wounded soldiers at Y
building No. 2 Thursday. '
Mrs. Randolph and Mrs McDonald, wxfe!
and daughter of Chaplain John A. Ran- |
dolph, have returned to the post after a |
visit to relatiges and friends in Memplrs. |
Corp. Rudolph J. Boethelt, formerly
with the print shop of the reconstruction
school, received his discharge Wednesday
and will accept a position in Atlanta,
Former Sergt. Jack Perteet, who lmsl
been on duty at post headquarters for sev- |
eral months, has resigned and will accept
employment with the Atlanta branch of
the Westinghouse Electric Company.
Caroline McMinn and Martha Martin, |
reconstruction aides, reported at the fort
Wednesday from Hampton, Va., for duty
in connection with the school for disabled
soldiers.
Court of Appeals to ;
. .
~ Receive Wade Memorial
. The memorial of the Hon. Peyton |
‘H. Wade, late chief justice of the|
Court of Appeals, will be receivad
by the court at 4 o'clock next \\'od-‘
'nesday afternoon. ’
The Court of Appeals does got|
come under the ruling of the fuel|
administration and its sessions next/
week from 2 to 6 o'clock will be
held as usual, it was announced
Thursday.
Key to Address Elks ‘
At laGrange Sunday
Mayor Key will go to LaGrange
Sunday to speak at the annual me-|
morial exercises of the La(‘.range’
Lodge of Elks. He will deliver the
principal address,?
The mayor is a member of“:e At
lanta lodge, and his law ®artner,
Mayor Pro Tem John S. McClelland,
is exalted ruler,
This Day in Our History.
TIIIS is the anniversary of the death, in 1642, of Cardinal
Richelieu, who, as the trusted Minister of Louis XIII,
raised France to a premier position among the nations of Eu
rope. The devotion of Louis to the Cardinal forms one of the
unique stories in history. His own mother fought to lessen
the latter’s power, but in vain.
Good Night Stories
By Blanche Silver
MISS LAZY OWL TRIES TO IMI
TATE THE SUNSET.
[SS LAZY OWL—so the folk
M of Birdville styled her, be
cause she slept the biggest
part of the day-+was very, very
unhappy. She hated her somber
colored dress, i
“I don’t see why I can't have a
blue coat like Mrs. Bluebird's and a
ted vest like Mr. Robin's,” she
fussed one evening. “I tell you if
I had a chance I'd change a lot of
things in these woods, too. The
idea of Mrs, Thrush building her
nest so low; she's certainly foolish.”
But the trouble with Miss Lazy
Owl was that she had slept with
one eye open all day, so she
wouldn't miss anything and hadn’t
got her sleep out, _therefore she
was cross and peevish.¢
She crawled out of her doorway
and looked around. The sun had
just dropped behind the hills and
the sky was a glorious array of
brilliant colors. '
“So «illy to waste all that color’on
those clouds,” she snapped. “Espe
cially when I have to wear such a
faded gown.” Then a funny thought
entered Miss lLazy Owl's funny
little brain, and out of her nest
in the old tree she flew, and headed
straight for the beautiful clouds.
She thought if she touched them
she might rub the glorious colors
on her own dress. But, dear me,
she flew and flew until she was so
very, very tired that she had to
drop back into a tree to rest.
“Well, well!” chirped a merry
voice.
Miss Lazy Ow! looked up to see
a queer little bird house hanging
from the limb above her head.
“Aren’t you out pretty early?”
asked the merry voice.
“No, I'm not!” snapped Miss Lazy
Owl, blinking her eyes, for the
truth of the matter was she really
was out too early and could hardly
see for the brilliant sky. “Whoo
oo-er-you?” she asked, blinking her
eyes harder than ever.
“Whyt can’, you tell by my sign?”
laughed the little bird, hopping out
and pointing to a sign that swung
over her little house.
Miss I.azy Owl hopped closer
and read the swinging sign:
TAILOR BIRD
She really and truly laughed out
loud and held out her ugly looking
claw.
“Well, well, Mrs. Tailor Bird,
you're just the one I'm hunting
for!” she cried. “You see, I hate
my plain, sombre dress. Maybe
you can make me a new one. I
want a bright blue coat like Mrs.
Bluebird’'s, and a led vest like Mr.
Kobin’s, and—"
“Wait—wait—wait!"” laughed Mrs,
Tailor Bird merrily. “You've mis
taken my sign. I don't make clothes
for folks.”
“Then What in the air do you
do!” exclaimed Miss Lazy Owl
crossly. “You're a Tailor Bird,
aren't you?"”
“Certainly I am!” chirped Mrs.
Tailor Bird. *“But I teach ‘birds
how to make homes, not clothes.
Our maker gave us all the clothes
he thought best for us to wear.
I only teach lirds who dont know
how to make their own houses the
best and the easiest way. Now,
if you'd like a house like minue—"
Mrs. Tailor Bird pointed to her
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leaves sewed together with strips
of some plant she had torn off the
stalks. This made a dear little
swinging bag open at the upper
end. In this was a soft white nest
of down upon which rested h(-'yfr
little ones.
Miss Lazy Owl batted her sleepy
eys and shook her ugly head.
She felt very much ashamed to
think she had made such a mis
take. Thanking Mrs. Tailor Bird
she flew back to her own nest
in the hollow tree and went to sleep
again.
Mrs. Tailor Bird laughed merrily
and hopped back into her little
house, muttering, something. about
lazy folks who never will learn.
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MUCH LESS TROUBLE.
Above her grim, determined face, the
ladv in the front row of the pit wore a
large, well-feathered hat. Mhtters be
hind her grew to cries of rage, but she
paid no heed.
At last an attendant approached her.
“Madam,” said he, “I really must re
quest you to remove your hat. It is in
terfering with the view of the gentleman
behind you.”
“IDo you mean that weedy little erea
ture?” asked the lady, as, with feathers
a-swing, she turned and eyed the com
plainant
“The gentleman behind you,” the at
tendant corrected her, courteously.
The lady settled herself again into he¢r
seat. £
“I think,” she said, in a tone of de
cision, “that you will find it easier and
pleasanter to remove him!"”
AMPLY FUNFILLED.
The men in the smoking car talked
of all sorts of things, finally reaching
ambition.
“Yes, gentlemen,” said one, “real am
bition starts in childhood. And if we
obey its impulse, we not only attain it
but actually we go far beyond it, Yes,
our ambition i 8 gratifiel beyond oum,
wildest dreams.
“Look at me,” he went on. “In my
boyvhood 1 was ambitious tec become a
pirate. Today''—and he looked round
the smoker proudly—‘today I run a
successful seaside hotel.”
OBSTRUCTING THE VIEW.
Counsel: “Now, sir, you have stated
that this man had the appearance of a
gentleman, Will you be good enough
to tell the jury how a gentleman looks,
in wvour estimation?’” Witness: “Well,
er—a gentleman looks er—like—er—.—""
Counsel: “I don’'t want any of your ers.”
Can yvou see anybody in this courtroom
who looks like a gentieman?” Witness:
“T can if you'll stand out of the way.”