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Show THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS, LAYTON, UTAH IN SUIT TOO FAR Little John had received a gift of a new suit from hls grandmother, who lived In a distant city. The child was delighted and in a great hurry to try on the suit. To the great disappointment of the mother the suit was found to be a out tight fit, and Johns arms hung Crane. of Ichabod like the arms "Its too small, dear, mourned I rantDQ ,Mly (Dweay flv T1IERESE BENSON Mrs. (, Th CHAPTER IV my shoulder and 1U find myself hooked. Cream aiul olive all out, cream Well, then, U it's Inevitable, why and walnut, t '),' he explained dont you march up to the altar like i took wh.it breathlessly. they had a man? Yo are very tender of her ready. Swiss cheese 411 ne; let- feelings, perhaps you are fonder of tuce on whole wheat and two her than you think." Covertly Smif clubs. watched him to see how he took They 11 do excellent !v well go this suggestion. Ills face did not long as there are enough of them," change. the stranger averred, ejeing the "In a way, I am fond of her. She pile hungrily even ns he waved aside has been a good friend to me. Only some change that was effered d n It all, she's fat! I wish you him. could see her. Then youd underAre you 14 mnn or an os- stand why no mnn could fancy himtrich?" Smif demanded, speaking as self In love with her." He made a if they were childhood friends who helpless gesture. liad Quarreled nmlcMy for years. I will give your case serious I warn you right now that I'm go- thought. Now you must go." Smif ing to have one of the club sand- rang a bell, lint tons appeared and wiches if you evp.re of starvation at once opened the door Into the before my e.vos, elevator lobby. The man too for,.t the profesYour fee and when shall Iconic sional position. again?" Fair enough, hut u don't have You can pay me when I've to get in a pet about it. I offered solved your difllculfy. Come day you that last sandwich, you know, after tomorrow nt " all honorable ami aboveboard, even He had picked up hi hat and though It tore my heart to flo It. coat, now he paused on the threshWhy were you so famished? she old to Interrupt before Smif had named an hour. inquired casually. 'Til come to lunch the same Tiilerrffpted at hfeukfnst this morning. Haven't had any appetite time," find added, with nn Impish for days before," he roplhxl. "Men- gleam In his eyes, I love your tal strain, you know. Too worried lunches." to eat, and that's a fact. I'm a bit The door closed behind him and easier in my miuj now that I know Smif found herself thinking with you. Youre the ort to pull a chap sympathy not, strangely enough, of out Of a sfrape. fin dead sure of her client, but of poor Morey who it. was "too fat for love. So you're in a crapw?' to reShe had a minute or He nodded his head, his eyes on cover from her Tate visitor's audacher face. ity before her next client, l'aiuela Smif finished lor chib sandwich Fhelps, entered. in silence. In silence watched him Youre a dear to find time for eat until he was satisfied. Then me, Smif. Pamela bent nnd beshe rang for Huttons to remove what stowed a kiss cfa Smifs cheek. "Alwas left. though Ivo really come ns a customer client what do you call And now," she said, when they em? both had lighted ctgnrettek, this is Nonsense!" said Smif. It's not a game of Twenty Questions. I expect another client shortly. We worth money to tho whole family must get down to business. What is when I Iron Charles Mit for yom mother. Ill not take pay for talkyour trouble?" man a The attuned hang dog air. ing to you. Youre no problem." Pam was a tall and solid looking Watching him intently, Smif dewoman, large-boneyoung cided he might hi as much as forty with noting to boast of In years old although she had previ- the looks except a cloar of way him much younger, his ously Judged an expression of frank good expression being singularly ingenu- skin, a wny of wearing her humor and ous. Continued 5 "Where's Jones? His vacation was up this morning. It was, but he telephoned that he would have to ask for a few he could posdays to rest up before work." to sibly go NATURES PRANK Proprietor Why didn't you come around earlier? That snow Is about to melt. Weary Willie Dats Just my luck, sir. Every time I feols like workln' de sun comes out and does me out of a job I . SPARES I but the girl was patentlv honest when she shook her head In the negative. I was out there summer before last with Mr. Moflfatt and leg. (She liked was a Foxcroft girl, too.) It I want to go there again. You say that I've not been a problem so far well, really, Smif, that s because Ive exercised a lot of Life thats Just one party after another is intolerably dull. Dancing all night and making sprightly conversation to amuse men who don't amuse you in the least Yet you had a good time. Cintra tald me that you are popular." Tam shrugged heavily. "Im a Phelps, and mother gives awfully good parties." Thats not doing yourself justice, Pam. Youre llknhle even If Smif spoki you aren't a beauty." quickly. It was growing Increasing ly clear to her that the girl had had some experience tlut rankled. There had been bitterness In that "mother gives awfully good pus ties. Pam said nothing. The girl hml a gift of silence. . It flushed across 1 self-contro- l. J. "Oh, no, mother, responded Joljn, AN EXCEPTION "It isnt too small ; Im Just in It too Indianapolis News. , Throwing back his shoulders nnd far. Mr. bravest on his smile, putting ' Playing Safe everybody appronched the cashier's collector's of"I have known you so long, docdesk at the income-taof a fice. tor," said the patient at the end insult to Intend not I "1 do I he said. Good morning visit, that should like to pay my Income tax." you by paying your bill. But I have for you Well," said the cashier, "youre nrranged a handsome legacy In my will. the first 1" "Thats very kind of you," the docSurely not the first to ray? extor replied. Allow me to look at the claimed Mr. Everybody. Is a The cashier smiled. prescription again. There to slight make like would I to first which the lie No," say alteration replied, In It." rcarsons Weekly. hed like to." CVtmpuny.) did not know. She tnkl the maid who answered her ring that she wus sorry she would ho unable to meet her sister until five oclock, when she would be at Pierres. The second call asked her to ring up a number that was not among those noted in her telephone register. No hurry about that. She dressed and at length rang the number Indifferently. Tho first words spoken made her stiffly erect. "It's Madame Saltou, Isn't it? Recognized your voice nt once. I've No Wonder sent you a client. Ho an angel nnd Mean Bruts convince her that Im worso luck Father Alicia, what was It kept IV here do you suppose I could get for her than seeing ono crow on a about a hundred fleas? asked the that young Neckmore so late last Friday morning. Don't forgot I'll bo grouchy one. night, when we all wanted to sleep? with you for lunclT 1in saving my Alicia He was trying to explain "I haven't any Idea," replied tho for nppetlte. Always had a passion other one. "Hut what the deuce da Inflation to me. you want with a hundred fleas? I want to put theta on that blink-etStory I Ended blank lap dog my wife spends bo How are you, Mrs. Browne? much time hugging and petting, he "Oh, Ive nothing to grumble at "Mr. Browne away then? growled. x MORE SATISFACTION CANT BE FOR Smlfs mind that there would he something ponderous In her resistance If she were In opposition to you, nnd she went on, her words "Take the carefully calculated: English crowd that Leister brought over. I should say that you were more popular with them than any of the brldesmnlds except possibly Eve Goodhue. And Eve Is always hors concours." She hns had a wonderful life," Pum said. "I dont know a girl I envy more, I dont mean her looks, I mean the fact that Eve comes to We all things with a real gusto. were kids rich taught sports poor as tasks. We were taught to skate, we were taught to dive, were taught We had to play golf and tennis. In Instructors everyprofessional We are Americans certainly thing. h She ended on education. with a sincere heartiness that would have amazed her mother. "And now," she went on, Im expect, ed to go to England and be taught how to manage my court train, how to curtsy to royalty, how to get out clothes. of a room backward, how to adI cant bear fat The trouble Is I am about to become dress the nobility and gentry. I Darling, he averred. women, No woman of her proportions under such circumstances could have THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING failed to remember the lust time she had stood on her bnthroom Following tho wedjing of her nitco, Cintra, which oha hao financed, Matilda Smith scales. Sinif's sense of the ridicu- Lovely (Smif," by her own Insistence), youngest and phyiically tha weightiest of the four In decidedly straitened circumstances. Sha has made plana lous warning her against a personal Lovely sisters, Ando herself for tha future, however, which aha refuses to divulge to her sisters, prominent figures in the she remark, application of New York society. The Lovely estate, Lovelylea, In Virginia, la owned by Smifs brother, laughed, assuring herself that she but ha is living In Chile, while the eatato la rented to a Mr. Johnstone Nesbit. was not interested In his likes or Smifs dearest wish is to own Lovelylea. Under tha name Madams Saltou" sha establishes herself as a "Little Sister of the Rich, a consultant. Smif has a client (she ddfe dislikes. from hls unconventional manner, promises to bo Interesting. Has your wife put oh thirty not require names) who, pounds? Its not-s- bad as that," he said a problem, 6he announced as she simply wont dd It, SmllTy. I a wont lie accused of chasing after a simply, I'm not married yet. lie threw off her furs and sank Into Instead I wrote title." chair. Thats why paused and looked up at the cellone some was afraid "No one would " of I his phoning. ing, then with an effort brought would overhear. "Yes, meet Please to to they would." She caught the hers. try eyes Im words out of Smifs mouth ImpaSmif raised her brows. believe that Im not an utter fool when I tell you theres a woman aware that It lends excitement to tiently. "Once I went over, It who means to marry me and Im youthful life, but la it absolutely couldnt be escaped, it I mnrrled shaking in my shoes for fear some necessary for your peace of mind there, theyd say Id made my catch. to be a nuisance? Naturally, tem- If I didnt, they'd make fun of me time she'll corner me." perament Is a temptation, yet youve because Id tried and failed. Either Smif took a deep breath been rather satisfactory as you are. way It would bo abominable. 1ifl You proposed to her when? Not too terribly," Pam rejoined. not a lion hunter. The most mean how long ago?" British lion Is safe from pur"I never proposed to her. What Mother ought to hnve had a Cintra. In fact, ambition Is seething suit by me. Ive at least made up kind of ass do you think I am?" Then in the name of alj thats In the maternal breast Adorned my mind to that much, and If youll With thrCe ostrich feathers nnd a break the fact to mothpr It. will be reasonable, if you're not engaged of tulle, I am to be offered a help." . , why should yotr assume that she wisp of on Irltish respectaaltar the up Smif wants to marry you?" regarded the girl contemplatively for a long moment. D n It all, because she does I" bility. "I know you're to he presented," "Very well, then, although I dont he said obstinately. "Four years Smif nodded. "Whats the objecpromise Wyoming. Im virtually ago she bought a place In the coun- tion? that Susan would discern & try next to mine. Since then I cant "I hate the English, I loathe sofrom the treat call my soul my own. I come to cial regular functions, I won't marry a for New York the first person I run Bpaces lurking there, no I want to go and anyway what you or I could say tp, the conInto In the lobby of my hotel is eigner to Wyoming." trary. But Pm disappointed. I Mercy. So surprised to see me. "And where do I come In?" took Why hadnt I said I was coming? "You're to be an angel and per- Britishparticular notice of one JaTge lion that I We might have traveled together. suade was desto Susan give up the tined to make a thought Such old and dear friends, no one Idea." your splendid American " ' could take exception to It and gig"Not so easy," Smif meditated Pams silence was gles, giggles like a school glrL the point. "You see, Its natural Comep to my table at breakfast she should be ambitious for you, but absolute. At what cost tfi hertime and gays it all over again. Pam, and It will be a terrible dis- self no one would ever knpw, she Just as If I didnt know her cook appointment If you let her down had decided to dismiss that S' iect is own sister-tforever. mine and that I now. 7 cant wink without their whole Theres bound to be a disaphousehold hearing of It That's pointment some time, the girl's "Theres a lady waiting for you, now, I'm speaking of; It' not the manner left no room for doubt that maam. An lady, net so first time Its happened. her mind was made up, "It had tall but awful wide." Buttons was Smif emitted an unladylike whis- better come sooner than later. In standing in the outer lobby near th tle. her heart, she wants me to marry elevator and there was more than I a title, hint of excitement In hls voice, My young friend," she said. just as Cintra did. Shed think a retreat Is In order. Travel never understand that it was see- "pee, I betcha Tuffy Doclanfl say for a time. The chances are that ing Cintra so perfectly satisfied to Im a liar whn I tell him how t'lg the young lady will console herself give up her own country and be she Is." while you are away and If Bbe Lady Leister that convinced me I "Have there4 been any cancella doesnt, when you return you can wouldn't bet Not even If I had the tlons or telephone messages, Hutkeep .things on a footing of Indif- luck to find some one as nice as tons? Smif had been surprised that Leister whod likq me. The British no further protests had followed ference frdur the beginning. so consciously superior to all Lauras visit are he Ive thought of that" me to other for nations that I hate them more "No cancellations, Madame. Two impossible rest For do I than all the put together. calls. On your desk, Impossible. telephone Absolutely go away. Yet so dong I won't put myself In a position Madame." reasons. personal purely "Very good," said Smif. I will as I 6tay home, I can't avoid her. where they are justified in classing intime American as one more only and nearest when I want you." ring trying Is my She She found an urgent message from mate neighbor, .and when it comes to push Into European society. I to finding necessity for my advice, refuse to be humiliated In Just Louise. Could she meet her for her fertility of invention Is stag- that way. Im perfectly satisfied at luncheon? Anywhete at alTthat she on dodg-iDhome." might suggest nnd any hour. Smif gering. Ill have to keep "Any other reason, Pam? a chuckled, reii!emberlng'.hat she haj unlci8 you can discover some 1 know In Wyoming, by a previous engagement to take lunch escape, and sooner oc later on at she'll her looked chance? weep Smif keenly with a man whose very name she Ill hurt her feelings, t? 1 llat-face- Queer, isnt it? "What Is? What a lot of parts nature puts Into the human body that the Burgeons have discovered might Just as well have been omitted. OUT O SIGHT BiU-Le- e, o . Miss De Shop Ilave you any Invisible hair nets? . Salesman Yes, madam, a very fine line. ' Mrs. De Shop Let me see some. AFFECTIONATE efr-tai- n he-ma- n L door-mat.- That horse you bought yesterday is a vicious looking brute. Is he kind? I should think 60. Why,. when he came out of, the stable he stood up on bis hind legs and tried to embrace me. AN ARTIST good-tfinpere- d o -- Jack , What do you usually say when you fall on a slippery bit of ice? Tom That depends whether there are ladies present g counter-att- raction Darn urn's Famous Slogan J T. Kyrnmn, the circus mag, was horn lft Botlnd, Conn., In 1810 I 'l Simply Won't De It, Smlffy. Wont B Accused of Chasing ' After a Title. stimKli'lics." He hung up without giving her a chance for Inquiry or reply. Nlux too, however, had recognized a voice and It did not take grent acuteness to foreaeo that the largo lady who had ao excited Buttons would prove to he the Mercy of the merciless pursuit. Smif was now eager to look the monster over for herself. She rang for Huttons. "Tell the strange lady thnt I cant possibly see her for at least three-quarter- s of an hour," she Instructed him. "I will fit her In If she will wait. Otherwise It will be two days before I can arrange for her. Saturday at ten Is the only vacant time." "Yes, Madame." Buttons made hls military snlute, at once descending from tho oflidal heights nnd lowhls voice confidentially: ering T.dcha she stays, Betcha she does. She's crazy to get of you. Ills prophecy proved true. When ttie Intent client was ushered out, the stranger was still patiently sitting In ono of the little private rfioins. At once Smif told Buttons to escort her to the lounge. Jus wait till you clap eyes on hurl" Hfittons tone was Important, ns tf he took a personal pride In this eldhlt. "Shes a corker. Ill any I never saw her equal." Yet for all tho boys warning, the woman who entered while ho nt tho threshold to observe the effect she produced, transcended an,i thing Smif had Imagined. "This Is a fabulous creature," Smif thought, "a fantastic design by Hokusai, a female hotel. But she mot the Indy Indifferently, ns If she found her nothing out of the offdlnnry, and Buttons, dlsnppcrfnted, fled to Ids own post. "Madame Saltou? an assent. Never, she told herself, had she seen so many dimples; dimpled chin, dimpled firlsts, dimpled knuckles. "I am surprised. You see my frlerfd tohl me you were so reliable, ,T expected some one much older." There was no answer to this, and she went on; "My name Is " mlf stopped her with a swlfHy band! lln-ore- d S'n'nod ,rfP( "I, do not require the names of my consultants," she said. "It fre- quently eases embarrassment to remain anonymous. How discreet, the stranger smiled, disclosing two more dimples. In my case It Is not necessary. My name Is Martha Washington .Mercedes Miss Martha Washington Mercedes. My friends call fie Mercy." Smif accepted this Information As graciously. forthcoming, she nothing more wag suggested: There I if something you fancy I can do for you? . At once the round blue eyes In the round baby face opposite her filled with tears. "I suppose It all comes back to the fact that Ive grown stout. A love affair is something to write poems about If youre built like a . If youre like me, Its only a Joke; and Im In love. Im Just terribly In love," Mercy hurst 'out. As If a cloud had hurst, the tears became a flood. bean-pole- (TO BB CONTINUED.) Th Pent lions The pent house Is any smaller nnd died In 181)1. Yet so Indelibly structure attached to a larger bolld-dl-d this extraordinary showmnn lng. As commonly used, a penthouse impress himself upon the public is a house erected on the flat roof that tho phrase he coined and of a largo olllce or apartment build made famous still lives and Is ns- - lng. Such structures are popular In sociated with the entertainment at New York as placeB of residence, be. which he excelled. "The Greatest Jng more exclusive than apart-Sho- w on Earth" Is Hnrnum'a con- - ments. Often the lease of a pent trlbution to tho lexicon of youths house will Include the entire roof; from ulne to ninety, which will be fixed up as a garden. I I -- Highest British Honor Rita and Fall of Mining Mining camps experience periods of growth and decline, of excite-o- f merit and obsolescence, depending upon such economic factors. Lead vllle, Colo., Is an example of the changes wrought by the varying composition of Its ores. Starting out as a gold camp, It became a silver camp, and subsequently, with depth, deteriorated Into a lead and copper producing district. I The highest distinction In Gfeat I Britain Is the Most Noble Order the Garter, established by King Edward IFI In 1343. It is limited to the sovereign and such other do- scendnnts of George I as may be elected find to 25 Knights Cora- pardons; but sovereigns and princes extra of other countries, and Knights Companions may be Admit- - ted by special statutes. Hat 64 Bull Rings Colorado at a Territory f In Portugal there are Cl hull where bullfighting Is carried 1 Colorado was organized as ft rltory on February 28, 1801, wltk out In Portuguese style, which dlf- - the same boundaries as at present fers chiefly from Spanish In so far being made up from parts of tho as the bun Is not killed. It Is a territories of Utah, New Mexico, wilder gort of affair. Lisbon has Kansas and Nebraska. The name the most Important arena, seating given to this territory In the bill 11,000 persons. as It passed the house was Idaho, but It was changed to Colorado In Panama Ilata From Ecuador the senate. Panama hats aro really made In Ecuador and to lmjvesB this on the Capabls Caterpillar world letters sent abroad by the Not long ago a man In Munich are taught caterpillars to Ecuadorean postal service spin lace veils, stamper! with rubber stamps la the He spread a food paste over a flat language of the country of deBtlna- - stone and then drew a delicate n with a legend to (hat effect sign upon It In an oil they would not touch. As the caterpillars ato Name for Ohio Counties the paste, they wove the pattern Vinton county, Ohio, was named with the silk which they spin far S. F. Vinton, unsuccessful can- - through the lower Up. Colliers. dldnte for governor on the Whig j Miniature Railroad for Study ticket while? Boss county wa named for James Ross, unsuccess- A miniature railroad sys. rul candidate Tor governor of tem, Including automatic block on the Federalist nals and other devices, is used at . ticket Massachusetts Institute of Tecbnol ogy, at Cambridge, for practical I demonstration of new railroad Mayan Magnificent Builder and who safety of signaling Mayan Indians apparatus,' Yucatan, built magnificent stone temples, used mass production methods of I Big Dipper and North Star The big dipper does not revolve cutting stone and delivering It to the building site, not so different about the North star. The North from the modern system, archeolo- - star is In a continuation of the line of the earths axis, and therefore gists conclude. appears as a pivot areund which all the rest of the stars revolve every Tut Tomb Beetle The first female of a species of 24 hours, leetle, the only t;wo male specimens of which were found In the High Altitude Alda Arteriea Egyptian tomb of Observations made by a skiing doc was brought to light from a cave tor are leading to the relief of soma In Raccoon mountain, Tenn. 0f the Ills of the arteries that hamper circulation of the blood in the Christian Missions arms or legs. High altitudes re- A Japanese ruler of several cen-lieve clogged artery cases, turles ago forbade Christian missions because the ships which Arctics Most Advanced bore the Bible to Japan also car- The Lapps' 6f the Far North of rled arms, landing the latter at a Europe, who have the advantage of rival Island. the gulf of winter warmth caused by the Atlantic drifts and the Meteors Tested In Flight warm southwesterly winds, are the The chem'cal elements in nine most advanced of Arctic peoples metpors which never touched the earth were announced by Harvard Lsrgs Pscsn Orchard university. The meteors were testOne of the largest pecan orchards ed while they were spinning by. In south Louisiana lies wlthla the boundaries of New Orleans. It Choice In Oratory situated on a plantation below I likes to hear good speakln," , Immigration station and contains said Unde Eben, an I aint yet 2,500 trees la good condition. found an orator dat satisfies my mind as much as my old friend de preacher." ter-rln- I do-tlo- I 200-fo- I I I 1 I I ot gs |