Show HOME This Courting Business C ANDRE AT 1 BSWi BATH Historical Personage’s House Is Stilj Standing- and Oddly Enough It Is No 23 Bath England la a city of ancient mansions so Major Andre’s house la still standing iu the Circus which consists of In which' three blocks By JEANNE OLIVE every house has at some time been occupied by some historical personLiterary Press by Associated Copyright age Oddly enough Andre’s house Is to go — In their own phrase No 23 It Is exactly like all the othIt was a minute or two past the pected In houses er bethe did where It not she If Circus knew Caroline a last every oocn hour but Caroline made building Is the exact duplicate of the entry iu the daybook Maude and tray the fact She went on planning Laura were already patting their In the afternoon the girls braced up other red brick with white cornices to their work and went home window promdilapidated hair Into shape surreptitiously powising to go to bed at eight and be on boxes filled with sickly geraniums that dering their faces and nervously rarely show a blossom and the Inevmakirg ready to go to lunch They time at the office next morning itable Ivy trained over the front An The next evening Caroline Invited were both under twenty of the fluffy type herself to go home with them and air of profound melancholy and musty Caroline was older — perhaps twenty-fiv- help them fix some things to wear gentility broods over these crumbling mansions each one of which can tell — calm to the picnic next day Quite casually with smooth a tragic Btory of fallen greatness head she had asked Mr hair and a tailored business look Roberts though her salary was little more clerk In their office to be of the They are tenanted by people In a than theirs She closed her book party He had seemed glad to go state of decayed gentility mostly retired army and navy officers or their and as the door shut on the boss she and took a quick glance at Laura looked steadily at their rather fagged He had always wanted to know If widows with a sprinkling of profesfaces — the heat and the work were there was a real girl beneath the sors doctors and music teachers At the end of the Circus and facing She herself was little person who came to the office telling on them was some- up the street is the house occupied bright-eyeThere and cheeked for la party finery ready thing sweet and genuine about her by Napoleon III through part' of his anything exile The interior Is partly burned "The heat Is fierce” complained despite It out and full of rates Louis XVIII In the little stuffy room the kindly Maude crossly “It makes everynear in a house afterward the body mean I feel like a scrrtchy Caroline coaxed and praised and ca- resided cat and the boss Is like a bear I’m joled the girls until they had let her abode of Lady Hamilton and said to sure only respect for himself— not open their trunks She found a little be haunted by her ghost Nelson and Charles X of France also lived In the for me— kept him from swearing light summer dress for each simple Circus when I couldn’t read my notes this and laid away as not stylish enough Just at the gates of Lord Dudley’s With her wits and quick quick morning” Laura nodded and pinned on her needle a bit of lace or ribbon she park near by Is another haunted house It was owned by the first began altering a little to the admiraextravagant headgear earl’s brother a fighting drinking "Did you get to sleep last night at tion of the others She tried on one guardsman who when I didn’t until The two swashbuckling all? Is drees end then the other morning— It In his and hard up for money to cups really too warm to dance— and Harry could not deny the good effect his debts sold his gambling “You’re a darling Caro” said pay made me mad taking me home — I beautiful wife to the earl The wouldn’t waste time on him only he Laura “We would not have thought house la ayoung fine old red brick structure gives a girl Ruch a good time— and I this old Junk could be fixed up and veiled In Ivy The guardsman’s we unholy wouldn’t have worn It for anygot to go somewhere” revels are said to be repeated there body but you! We’re your slaves for Caroline broke in Impatiently carriages are heard What else do you nightly In and "What alls you two girls Is not this occasion and out of the weedy old rolling heat — It’s this courting business The want?” garden until the "wee sma’ hours” The next t kind that never lands you anywhere afternoon at Andre's house also is reputed to be four three cool clean and tires you all out for your work dainty girls haunted not by the British officer but Tou’ve no business to dance all night with baskets waited at the office for who by a veiled woman in white and be practically tired hot men whose eyes walks asleep the next three the halls at midnight wringing rested gladly upon them day The boss Is supposedly paying They took her hands for your waking hours — not your a car to some picnic grounds little sleeping ones Honestly you can’t frequented and found a grassy space afford not to be studying a bit on beneath some great trees It was after St Chad’s Well Rediscovered Another Interesting link with the your work I’m not one to howl but six when they reached there and In this dull season and so many good the hungry little company began to past Is brought to light by the recent summer work Caroline had told each discovery of the exact spot where lies get supper stenographers wanting It wouldn’t take much for you to get what to bring and did the planning St Chad’s Well once a famous Chalybeate spring in King's Cross In the yourselves discharged I don’t sup- herself anShe had one man get water pose you'll adore me for telling you eighteenth century people came here this but It’s so" other make a fire Then she pro- to drink the waters which were supThe girls tried to look scornful but duced coffee In a tin pall a steak posed to be especially useful In cases the older girl bad been a friend In and a frying pan and potatots boiled of dropsy scrofula and liver comlike all fashionplain ts time of need— she had gotten them and ready to fry Maude In Gradually both into her office and bad even paid remembered her early training able spas St Chad’s was deserted houses then warefor their lunches their first week In her mother’s kitchen and fell to and residential houses were on the site of the erected But they work Her sleeves were turned hack They were a trifle sulky could not deny that she was prettier to the shoulder showing her pretty well eACO£l3 W£LL A few days ago the builders in laythan they if a little older and much arms Her soft thick hair untuHAT has been one of the their superior in the office— and tored unratted was drawn softly to ing the foundations for a new strucIn chief charms of the Holy ture discovered an Inn road Gray’s the of back round head her little everywhere Land for Bible students will “We’ve got to have some fun con- The fire brought the red to her cheek arch some 20 feet underground-and- ' before long be a thing of this has been Identified as forming tended Laura She cooked the steak to a turn and the past After centuries The three started together for the with far greater zest than she made part of the old well From the arch of conservatism In to a spot 30 yards away stretched the even millenniums door and the older girl replied: And Laura pothooks in the office en"I know that and I want you to set the table She could not cook waters once famous for their medi- customs and speech the barrier to cinal ascerhas been has been broken down It properties lightenment have it but you’ve got the wrong Idea but in her simple white dress with and men of enTurks the that still and exists by the Young spring of fun Dancing's all right once In her curling hair piled on the top of tained a while and in the right place But her graceful head her dress turned It would be decidedly worth while to terprise have been Invited to enter the water analyzed and find Palestine — so long held In bondage by these dance halls and with such a up about her Blender figure the arti- have to form It into a whether It still retains Its pristine the late sultan--asport as Harry Hall That’s only ficiality fell from her She forgot to virtues— London Dally News country modern and progressive She felt herself foolhardiness kids You’ll be sorry simper and pose and With the entry of civilization You may be all right but people are genuine and charming — and was so modern culture the many peculiar The little supper was a Joy — both going to Judge you by the company Battle Rattlers’ Stopped which have been observed customs The you keep To be flat" she finished as food and as to comradeship H E Jones was walking through and as they got out of the elevator and third man an old friend of Caro- Carlisle Cove about six miles south- since the days of the ofpatriarchs the natives the poetical speech of quiet east of the “would you line’s John Foster a sort went along the street when his attention words of the prophets whih want to nmrry any of the men you mainstay a big manly chap seemed was attracted city the peculiar rattle will soon be banished In by even For The which It is said one never mistakes danced with last night?” quietly to dominate the group the smallest actions of their life the him The two did not answer younger girls had not known for anything but the music of the ratpeople rehearse Biblical scenes of the “You’re pretty and young and they After supper the men had permission tler event though one may sometimes and speak to aro having a good time with you to smoke and as they sat and the mistake the song of the dryfly and days of the patriarchs poetical phraseology You're giving them your freshness girls sang Foster moved over to other sounds for the rattle of a snake each other In the and the prophets of the Psalmist and just being seen with them queers Caroline’s side He looked — It may be said that he a little lost no time in looking— and there quite unconsciously As twilight began to fall you with better men How about Perhaps the most Interesting figure The very close to the path were two large Bob Maudle?" Bllence came upon the group n Oriental life is the tall dark BeMaude’s dark eyes filled with sud- girls rose and the men followed rattlesnakes with heads and tails In every whose life resembles den tears Bhe bad not seen him Then without warning John Foster raised evidently angry with each oth- douin Even detail that of Abraham of old for a month He was a boy from took Caroline by the hand and she er and only waiting until they finished he Illiterate and Ignorant as he Is a home good Clean with a promising looked up at him with a smile and their defiant war songs to engage in wanderer of the desert living the ' business start She knew that he nodded deadly conflict most primitive life embodies his Ideas to had almost declared his love for her Mr Jones did not wait for this con"We — Caroline and I— are going n highly metaphorical language His without Then warning he had be tnarrled next week people” he flict to take place He unmercifully tent Is probably of black One was a black rattler ceased to come near her Caroline “Won’t that be great? We’re 6lew them said as that of the patrithe same steered them past their usual place going to have a home out on ' Sixth with 17 rattles showing him to be 17 archal daysshape and is made In such a us see of eating to a quiet dairy lunchroom was and old The come and other and we want you to yellow years its erection manner as to facilitate "I’m going to boss you for a few Will you— all of you? And Caroline had 13 rattles Then Mr Jones skin- and Its removal and transportation on "The has It planned to ask you girls to ned them and took off the rattlesweeks” she laughed brightly camels the backs of ’Asheville Citizen lunch la on me today — If you let me room In our house Will you?” In his surrounded Is Bedouin The over to order Dancing all night and sodas Maude and Laura rushed by just as many camels anderings for dinner and that cake lunch be little kiss the bride to and declaring Where Abraham Fished oxen and other animals as was the better won’t do” She got a little they would of course But the other Mrs Victoria de Bunsen in “The wealthy patriarch of early days side table and skillfully ordered some men said nothing — then Soul of a Turk” relates a legend conBiblical Scenes Rehearsed cold meat a salad a good sweet and On the way home Bob had Maude cerning Abraham which will be new In the fields one sees living illusShe guided milk It was good the oft to himself and got off the car to many readers She learned of It trations of many of the parables and to matters destination to talk impersonal glad with her before the rjght while at Edessa the traditional Ur in the villages are rehearsed many see the sulkiness pass from Laura’s He wanted to talk with her She was of the Chaldees She was shown there cidents mentioned in the Bible There face and the sadness from Maude's very quiet and meek and sweet Go- a large oblong tank of water so filled s a great variety of homes to be seen While they were eating Bob Hardy ing around the corner of the crowded with fishes resting just below the surn Palestine representing the various Came in He would have passed them street the music from the dance hall face of thd watef that their fins and stages of the evolution of homes — with a wistful but firm little nod came to her ears She shivered and backs seemed almost wedged together Torn the abodes In the rocks of the but Caroline’s eye held him She drew closer to her boyhood friend so as to form “an almost solid layer poor peasant or the leper to the modof silvery life” beckoned to him He came gladly She was thinking of Harry Hall ern stone house of "the wealthy Mo"The guardian of the mosque throws hammedan There are the more Bob put his hand to hers enough for he had always liked her and had been sorry when Maude eshomes made of twigs and “Maudle” he said "before I tell some meal Into the water and the fish It to to a catch Jump high great living tranches These are literally "A shacaped from her care He stood be- you I love you — and ask you side them pyramid of which those who jump the dow In the day time from the heat” marry me— I must ask you to forgive "Are you busy all the time?” she me I thought the city had spoiled highest form the pinnacle The tradi- They are also made of cloth from She tion is that Abraham as a child fishliked—" “Because if you are not I you and that asked amel’s hair — and merely you supported ed In the tank Hence the fish were by long rude poles Then there are want you to come for a little picnic would not let him finish No single one has ‘he houses of clay with ns and some others Thursday “You shan’t ask me to forgive what considered sacred even been caught or killed to this I love you too” You can bring I deserved Bobble These The houses have flat roofs after office hours Indeed death would overtake flat earthen roofs are not much prohome day some fruit and come to my office Laura was walking demurely She some- the man who transgressed this law" tection against rainstorms at five” beside They soon the head clerk sweet slim fair a and then commences soaked fellow become The young after how felt very protected very his In a- moment’s of silent hunt for an ex- and un soiled water Something A Nickel dripping disagreeable cuse decided to accept He would manner to her told her that some through the roof which continues day Turn which way one will the In summer have preferred keeping away from day he would— even In her thought the people piece bobs up at every turn as and night Maudle He could not forget how she did not quite finish the most necessary coin of the realm sleep upon their roofs and some spend sweet she used to be and hated to the day there taking their cooking would Inevitably Its discontinuance They passed a them that at her pretty hair was looked remember who woman Increase the cost of a thousand things utensils up At the sound of the crier from the life which no dealer now padded Into grotesqueness her hat with a little smile And she mur- of a- monstrosity and that she would mured In passing "Ah this courting has the daring to change because of minaret five times a day announcing let a Harry Hall take her to a cheap business 1” But It was a wistful riveted custom There Is no likeli- to the village that “There is but one Is his prophet” and Mohammed God dance But he promised to come murmur soon the will hood that government every man and boy spreads his prayer It was queer but neither of the consider the elimination of this coin to tell him and opened her mouth rug on his cloak before as such action would result in a howl girls had that be to seems Woman's present hobby kneels down upon It Whether he be Caroline Thursday was the night of disapproval In the field at work or In his home of another dapee and they had ex a bobble w 'MWfrsj£ LOIZEAUX - TE I mYAl Red EYE Weak Weary GRANULATED REfED Watery Eye aid EYELIDS Y MurlneDoesn’tSmart—Soothes Eye Pain Dratftats Sell Marta Ere Rmadr Liquid 25c $100 Murine Ejrs Stirs in Aptlc Tub 23c $100 EYE) BOOKS AND ADVICES FREE BY MAIL MurineEyeRemedyCoChicago KNEW y5Q£N£ ii e£TMJ:H£1 HIS DESTINATION sa? at rest at or in the streets bargaining the sound of that call to prayer he turns his face eastward to Mecca and his forehead to the bows down and rises and makes many ground while muttering Arablo genuflexions words from the Koran Gates No Longer Closed In olden days every olty had high wide walls It was possible to walk around the city upon them Today parts of the walls of Jerusalem are wide enough for this The gates of a at sunset city were always closed Caravans arriving after dark were obliged to wait outside until morning Travelers on foot could enter the city by the small door of the gate which was known in the gospel days by the figurative expression: “The eye of the needle” Christ was referring to this custom of making the camels wait outside the gates until dawn because of the impossibility of their passing the smaller door when he through said: “It Is easier for a camel to go of a needle" through the eye Though the gates of Jerusalem still stand and a sentinel guards them they are never closed by day or night One of the most Interesting Illustrations of scenes of Bible days perhaps since our Lord took it as symbolic of uprightness In man’s dealings with his is the dally scene of measuring wheat in the marketThe official measurer Is hired place by the vender of wheat and he measures the quantity before the eyes of the purchaser He shakes the wooden measure and continues on pouring more wheat until It literally runs over By this very act he Beems to reecho Christ's words: “Good measure pressed down and shaken together and over shall men give unto running your bosoms" It Is still customary In homes to recline on couches during the meals but In the village homes the people sit on the matted floor around the large wooden bowl which contains the cooked rice or beans The head of the house opens the meal by taking up a handful of the greasy rice and a piece of bread and rolling It Into a ball he places It Into the This complguest’s mouth himself imentary act la the sign for all those to literally “dip In the assembled dish” eating with their hands Work of the Women When the evening meal Is oyer the comfortables are taken off the Bhelves and spread on the matting for the family to sleep on Beds consist only of comfortables When the children are all rolled up and asleep the 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