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Show THE Mmiiiiiiinuiiiiiiiiiiii(iiitiiiiiiiiiinntnmiiiitiiim"iii"""i TIMES-NEW- S, iiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiennnmniiiniiiiitiiiiitniniiiiiiiiiiiniiiit; NEPIII, UTAH 1B1 Taffeta Triumphs Anew; Entrancing Millinery Ramsey Milholland mum By BOOTH TARKINGTON Copyright ft t Company lllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIItllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllR llllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIinilllflllllllllltllllllllHI granted that he was to sit next to 1 Within hi averted eyes there dweit Mills at the pastoral meal. She her-- not the Mills Rust who aat beside him, HI8 FIRST LOVE. Keif understood It, evidently, for fine I but an Iridescent, fragile creature wbe drew la her puckered skirts and with- had become angelic. Synopsis. With hl grandfather, He spent the rest of the day daw- out any words made a place for him mall fcamsey Milholland la watching: th "IJeeoratlon Iay Parade" as beside her he approached helplessly about her; wherever tiling driftlngly In the some town. Th old gentleher, affecting to whistle and keeping she went he was near, as near ai pos man, a veteran of the Civil war. his eyes on the foliage overhead. He sible, but of no deliberate volition of endeavor to impress the youngster wltti the slgnincanc of the Ktlll looked upward, even In the act of his own. .Something seemed to tie him Itreat conflict, and many year aftto her, and MUla was nothing loth. down. erward the boy wa to remember sitting hla words with startling- vividness. "Squirrel or something," he said He seldom looked at her directly, or In the schoolroom, a few year for longer than an Instant, and more feebly, as If In explanation. afterward, Ramsey la not for remarkable ability, Mllla asked. "Wherer rarely still did he speak to her except are though hla pronounced dislikes Ger"Up there on a branch." He ac- as a reply. What few remarks he arithmetic, "Recitations" and man. In sharp contrast to Ramcepted a plate from her (she had pro- ventured upon his own Initiative near sey's backwardness la the precocity vided herself with an extra one), but ly all concerned the landscape, which of little Uora Yocura, a young lady be did not look at it or at her. He ha commended repeatedly In a weak whom In his bitterness he denomiIn high nates "Teacher's Pet." continued to keep his eyes aloft, be- voice, as "kind pretty," though once school, where he and Dora are cause he Imagined that ail of the class he said he guessea there might be bugs to continues classmates, Ramsey feel that the girl delights to maniwere looking at htm and Mllla, and In the bark of a log on which they sat ; fest her auperlorlty, and the vln-he felt unable to meet such publicity. and he became so immoderately pertlveness he generates becomes It was to him as If the whole United sonal as to declare that If the bug alarming, culminating in the resolution that some day he will States had been scandalized to atten- had to get oa anybody he'd rather "show" her. At a class picnic Ramtion by this act of his In going to sit they got on him than on Mllla. She sey, to his embarrassment, appears to attract the favorable attention beside Mllla ; he gazed upward so long said that was "Just perfectly lovely" of Miss MH14 Rust, a young lady s became sensitive un- of him, asked where he got his sweel that his of about his own age and the acder the strain. He began to blink. "I nature, and In other ways encouraged knowledged leelle of the class. can't make out whether It's a squirrel him to continue the revelation,.- but or Just some leaves that kind 0' got Itamsey wus unable to get forward CHAPTER IV. Continued. fixed like one," he said. "I can't make with It, though he opened and closed j out yet which It Is, but I guess when his mouth a great many times !n the "I don't see It," he murmured huskthere's a breeze. If It's a squirrel he'll effort to do so. ily, nfrnld that she might remove her prob'Jy hop around some then, If he's At five o'clock everybody Was sum band. "I cun't Bee any fish, Mllla." alive or anything." moned again to the rendezvous for a She leaned farther out over the It had begun to seem that his eyes ceremony preliminary to departure ; bank. "Why, there, goosie t" she whismust remain fixed In that upward the class found Itself In a large circle, pered. "Right there." stare forever; he wanted to bring them standing, and sang "The Star Spangled "I can't see It." down, but could not face the glare of Banner." Ordinarily, on such an open- She leaned still further, bending the world. But finally the brightness air and occasion, Ramsey down to point. "Why, right th " of the sky between the leaves settled would have Joined the chorus uproarthlf At mtjluent she removed her matters for him ; he sneezed, wept, and iously with the utmost blatancy of hand from hit shoulder, though unwillwhich his vocal apparatus was capaingly. She clutched at him, In fact, ble ; and most of the other boys exhut without avail. She had been too pressed their humor by drowning out amiable. the serious efforts of the girls; but A loud shriek was uttered by throats he sang feebly, not much more than abier to vocalize, Just then, than Mlila's, humming through his teeth. Standing foi In her great surprise she said nothbeside Mllla, he was incapable of hla former lnelegancies and his voice was ing whatever the snrlek came from the oil tr girls as Mllla left the crest of In a condition, like the the overhanging bank and almost rest of him. disappeared Into the brown Opposite him, across the circle, Dora witter. There was a tumultuous splash, Tocum stood a little In advance of n and then of Mllla Rust and her those near her, for of course she led heautlfulness there was nothHer clear and earnest singing. the ing visible In the superficial world, nor voice was distinguishable from all upon the surface of that creek. The others, and though she did not glance vanishment was total. toward Ramsey he had a queer feeling "Save her!" that she was assuming more superioSeveral girls afterward admitted rity than ever, and that she was Icily scornful of him and Mllla. The old Having used this expression, and little Miss frloy Williams, the youngest and "show" that girt resentment rose--he- 'd inallest member of the class, was yet, some day ! unable to deny that she had said, "Oh, When the song was over, cheers God I" Nothing could have been more were given for the class, "the good ole natural, and the matter need not have class of Nineteen Fourteen,", the been brought before her with such school, the teachers, and for the picand frequency, during the two nic, thus officially concluded ; and then remaining years of her undergraduate the picnickers, carrying their baskets earner. and faded wild flowers and other sou Ramsey was one of thoe who beard venirs and burdens, moved toward the tht exclamation, later so famous, and big "express wagons" which were to perBaps It was what roused him to take them hack Into the town. Ramtierolsni. He dived from the bank, his guitar case, and turned to Sha Mad Risen Up Out of ths Peal sey got tiendlong, and the strange thought in Mllla. a Like Stood and Knti Lovely Dp, tils mtssi was "I guesa thls'U show Well Drenched Figure In a Fountain. Dora Tocum I" He should have been "Why, no." said Mllla. "Anyway, 'thinking of Mllla, of course, at such for a Ilttla moment again faced his not yet Veu can go back In the tsue a it I me, particularly after the little fellownien. No one was looking at wagon with me. It's going to stop at enchantment Just laid upon him by him ; everybody except Mllla had other the school and let us all out there, HUla's touch and Mlila's curls; and things to do. and then you could walk home with e knew well enough that Miss Yocutn Having sneezed Involuntarily, he me if you felt like It." was not among the spectators. She added a spell of coughing for which . "Well well. I'd be perfectly willwas half a mile away, as It happened, there was no necessity. "I guess I ing;," Ramsey said. "Only I heard we gathering "botanical specimens" with must been wrong,"' he muttered thickly. all had to go back In whatever wagon ue of the teachers which was her "What about. Ramsey T" we came out In, and I didn't come ta "About It's beln a squirrel." With the same one with you, so-- H Utea of what to do at a picnic I ft a mo r struck the water hard, and Infinite timidity he turned his head Mllla langhed and leaned towtrd htm In the Mme Instant struck something and encountered a gaze so soft, so hala little. "I already 'tended to that." "I asked else harder. Wesley Bender's bundle lowed, that It disconcerted hlru, and she said confidentially. of books had given him no such shock he dropped a "drumstlcfc" of fried Johnnie Flake, that came out in my as be recelred now, and If the creek chicken, well dotted with ants, from wagon, to go back hi yours, so that bottom bad not been of mud. Just hla plate. Scarlet he picked It up, but makes room for yon." "Well then I guess I could do It" there, the top of his young head might did not eat It For the first time In have declined the strain. Half stunned, his life be felt that eating fried chirk-e- n He moved toward the wagon with her. held In the Angers was not to be I expect It don't make much differchoking, spluttering, he somehow floundered to hla feet; and when he could thought of. He replaced the "drum ence one way or the other." get bis eyes a little cleared of water stick" upon his plate and allowed It "And you can carry my basket U be found himself wavering face to face to remain there untouched. In spite of yon want to," she said, adding soliciwith a blurred vision of Mllla Rust. a great hunger for It. tously, "unless It's too heavy when you She had risen up out of the pool and Having looked down, he now found already got your guitar case to carry, In but drenched like tend knee deep, difficulty gnzed Ramsey." looking up. lovely steadily at bis plate, and Into this figure in a fountain. This thnughtfulness of hers almost overcame him: she seemed divine. Upon the bank above them. Willis limited circle of vision came MUla's bearing a larker was Jumping up and down, delicate and rosy Angers, "I Ml he glad to carry the basket, gesticulating and shouting fiercely. gift. "There," she said In a motherly too," he faltered. "It It don't weigh a tomato voice. "It's little our mayonnaise "Now I guess you're satisfied anything much." flshln' Is spoilt! Why'n't you Jlsten sandwich and I made It mywlf. I "Well, let's hurry, ao's we can get want you to eat It, Ramsey." ? I told you It wasn't more'n three together." places His own Angers approached foot deep I I and Heinle waded all Then, as she msneuvered him as he accepted the thick sand over this creek gettln' our bait. You're through Dm little crowd about the wich from her and conveyed It to hi pretty sight!" wagon, with a soft push this way and filled A soul moment his later mouth. (if Mllla he spoke unwittingly the a gentle pull that, and hurried him up a of mayonnaise literal truth. Kven with her hair thus with horror, for spurt lb- - Improvised steps and found a place a catastrophe the where there was room for them both dressing had caused wild and sodden, Mllla rose from no Inconsider blushing and prettier than scene of which occupied had another "breathless of bis right cheek, which to sit, Ramsey ever; and she was prettiest of all able area cheek wnsatlon heretofore unknown to him. Mllla. He was the toward when she stretched out her hand helpHe found himself taken under a dote- for his handker lessly to Ramsey and he led her up groped wretchedly like protectorship; a wonderful, InexAnd ; not It he had lost out of the waters. They had plenty of chief but could Relng seemed to have become pressible assistance to acramlJe to the top of It. Sudden death would have been re - his proprietor, sure was such that after he grosurlief; was Mllla there the bank, and "Isn't this Just perfectly lovely V rounded and borne away with a great tesouerle MUla could never hear to she said cosily, close to his ear. more to with do have him; anything clacketlng and tumult. Ramsey sat He swallowed, but found na words, upon the grass In the son, rubbed his he was ruined. he had no thoughts; he was only for In his anguish be felt a paper nap head, and experimented with his neck Incoherent tumult. This was hit an to see If It would "work." The sun kin pressed gently Into bis hand; first love. shine was strong and hot; In half an soft voice said In his ear. "Wit It off "Nn't It, Ramsey f she orgad. The notic with Nobody's this, Ramsey. hour he and. hla clothes were dry or voice had Jtit the bint of a re roy at tesst "dry enough," as he said, and ing." "Don't yon think It's Just proach. 80 this Incredibly charitable creature except for some soreness of head and perfect1y lovely, Ramsey?" Beck, and the general crumpledneas of was still able to be hla friend, even "Tes'm." hla apparel, he seemed to be In all after seeing him mayotmalsedl Hum as did he told she him, shouts as and when bly marveling, much usual, ways whistlings summoned all th party to but avowee" all further risks. He ate The acqnoinlanra progresses, The nothing mor. at lha rendesvons. JiiBfbeoo and Milla openly Ramsay He Cgbed his flrst sigh tf Inexpress-Ibtenes- s, change that made him different was k'eplaff company." had a chill or so along the Invisible, Yet something must have been seen. spine, and lit Intervals hla brow was (TO Bat CONTl.NLKD J for everyone appeared to take It fa bedewed. of thm Great Intermountam States iiiiiimim Is something so by DoaModay. News Happenings THEREand appealing about taffeta silk that it cornea gently rustling In each season to triumph anew among afternoon and evening frocks. It has a certain dignity that belongs to silk and a certain degree of youthfulness that belongs to Itself, but can be accommodated to women of any age. In the frocks pictured here the. styles bespeak In the wearer something of youthfulness. Th! : is a quality that some women preserve for many years, and It Is worth recalling that taffeta helps them to look young It Is said that there Is a strong probability that a branch railroad will be built from the T. & T. road at ValleyTeeopa, Nevada to the soap mint in Pahrump Valley. Should this ba done the settlement of that section will be 'rapid. for lovely millinery. Almost every one of the new hats Is in itself th best possible excuse. Besides, . then are no better hats than the first efforts of the designers and an early choice means that one need not be hurried and has a wide variety, at hand to make a selection from. The newly arrived spring hats, deserve to be called entrancing, their lines are beautiful and Immensely becoming, the colors and materials s continuous exhibit of splendid performance on the part of the manufacturers. There Is much that is raw Coyotes, hunting in packs with all the cunning of wolves, kill an averag of a deer every day In the region ol the north forks of the John Day river, Ore., believes Fred 0. Peterson, ol Uklah, who appealed to members of club at Pendleton, Ore., to send special trappers to kill the pests. the Rod and Gun - dlattn-a-uleh- Pahrump Valley, di Tom Boofer, a resident of the Cherry Creek district for many years, was found frozen to death near Currle a few days ago. Mr. Boofer had started to Currle in his car to keep a business appointment and when his car got stalled In the snow started to walk to the ranch and was frozeu In the at tempt. eye-ball- - A preacher has succeeded a warrior as chief of the Cowlitz tribe of Indians in the election of John Ike at a meeting of the tribe In the church at Harmony, Lewis county, Wash., Ike preaches every Sunday at the Indian church. ITe is a son of Che widow tribe. Former chiefs of the tribe have been warriors. m A piece of crepe and a sketch of a coffin that bore Hie word "Revenge" which was sent in a letter, constitute an ominious threat, a Butte husband believes. It landed a man- - named In Jail, when the complaining witness, who is said to be the liusband Of the former wife of McLeod told county authorities he believed the latter was the sender of the warning. "He told my wife he would kilt any man stie ever married," this husband says. Mc-Le- d well-know- Dally market reports h tfvestock and mea'ts, fruits, vegetables, dairy products and grain at the- - principal market centers may be taken Truti the air" by any radiophone set within f00 miles, says the United fvtates bureau of markets. Crop and weather reports are also sent broadcast. Bureau officials declared the use of the rtidio. phone will become almost universal among fnnrers and shippers wltlrtn a short time. Middle Western universities also are transmitting market reports. It ws said, Including the Unl versify of Nebraska. Idaho and IXtab may soon e Included. k 1 y Four ef the New also to rati attention to the short sleeves. Taffeta flowers and taffeta-covere- d cord, hanging In loops and ends, maintain that nothing more I needed to complete a dress fortified by the fact that It cheys fashions latest edicts la four particulars; they are the neck line, the waist Una the hip line and the hem line. There Is no doubt that women are Inclined to rush the season when the first spring hats make their They buy them while the snow Is (tylnn but there ere several good excuses fu this small weakness SiTit ' Models In Hats. j od AThe intermountain section is the only part oT the United States presenting any evidence on wheat rates at the general rate hearing before the commerce Interstate commission, George E. Erb. president of Ihe Idaho public utilities commission, said in a report to Governor Davis. 0hcr sections; he says, are presenting evidence on liay and feed grain rates, bwt not one touched on wheat. The great wheat growing states of North and South Dukota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, failed to touch this question at H Taffeta for Afternoon or Evening. If any of them have forgotten It. The in fabrics and trimmings and design pretty dress at the left Is shown In black ers have found these things inspiring. taffeta, and has a draped bodice fas- Careful hand work characterizes the tening at one side, with a large Jet milliner's part In the creation of new buckle over a long bead fringe. The headwear. Four of the new models, as shown bodice Is unusually graceful. The neck opening allows a dainty chemi- here, disclose spirited , shapes and sette of net and lace to show, and the novel materials, but the values of the kimono sleeves will recommend It to lovely colors are lost In a picture. Blender women. Ruffles of the taffeta A soft, silky and pliable braid makes finish the collar, sleeves and loose side the lint at the top of the group with panels and make a pretty adornment bordered ribbon laid In tine plaits about the coronet. A cluster of little. for the skirt Taffeta Is sufficient unto Itself In many-hue- d posies Is much at home the gay party freck in which two against this brilliant background. The model below It makes colors are combtoee) In a changeable drooplng-hrlweave. The wld aklrt la scalloped use of silver filet lace over corn at the bottom and bound with a fold flower silk as a covering and has of the silk. The new neck line Is facing of light crepe de chine, which finished in the same way and empha- may be chosen with reference to the sized by two full ruffles which serve wearer's complexion. The deep, strong treinu-lousnes- a -- reports Nevada, that many encouraging developments are taking place in that section. Among other things a well has Just been completed at a point about two miles south of the Pahrump ranch with arrangements made for financing The well is something less than 400 feet deep. A sixty. four pne booklet of rules and regulations governing exhibits for the fifth annual Intermnnntain live, stock show to be held at North Salt Iake. April 3. 4. 5 and 6. shews a to. tal of $fV00 offered In special and reg ular prizes for exhibits. f the prizes, 81000 In cash and prize animals are offered in Kpedal classes end divisions. A total of 3.VK) of the bookslets are to be dlsMbnted. They contain a story on Sitir Lake ns the Inleruioiin. tain livestock: center and pages on 'he show officers and committers, the dc"v program of entertainments, a story Davis county ant' Us resources, Ihreo pni;es on rules and rcj;iil!lln, nine pages on classes of cattle, sheep nnd swine to he exhibited, a pnge on boys' and girls' classes and two puces on do. nntot to tii show fund. Among the entertainments listed for uliow week are the special (Tiainpionshlp boxing contest of twelve rounds fieduled for the Salt Lake theatre anu Hie Wednesday evening dinner to Le given by the Commercial club for buyers st tne show. The boxing match Is to be nr. ranged between two boxers for some Interniountiifn championship. -- A bine Is 10 every one. Henry S. J ulson of f Angeles, very new trimming appears on h Identified with large land projects long hat of hraid and silk at the right It In various parts of Ihe West, was In Is called "match" trimming from Its resemblance to matches and Is used Las Vega looking over the city and He Is repreIn many clever ways. The liisl hat has surrounding Its soft, brim covered with senting Iis Aageles capital which I folds of crepe tie chine and Is draped looking with favor on Ms Vegas at a with wide and handsome ribbon. place for profitable Investment. He left wftli a most favorable impression of the oi tx'rtunU'es for development nd expecis to reftirn In a sliort time made for finsncmf wlh arrangement several prijocls which he has In view. hett-tiiln- |