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Show THE MamseYAmtmoum a Ik V' Illustraiions by (opyrightjjy Doubleday, Page "TEACHER'S PET." With his grandfather, mall Ramsey Mllholland la watrh-lii- f the "Decoration Day Parade" in the home town. The old gentleman, a veteran of the Civil war, endeavor to Impress the younjrster with the significance of the great conflict, and many years afterward the boy was to remember his words with startling vividness. In the schoolroom, a few years later, Rxmsey la not distinguished for hrillUncy. He hates German even more than arithmetic. Synopsis. & Company. TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. He had atp''-d- . Perhaps the fati! truth of that phrase, and some sense of its applicability to the occasion had interfered with the mechanism which he had set In operation to get rid of the "recitation" for him. At all events, the machine had to run off its Job all at once, or It wouldn't run at all. H gulped audibly. "Rude rude rude am I rude am I In speech In speech In speech. Rude am I In speech " "Yes," the Irritated teacher said, as Ramsey's falling voice continued huskily to insist upon this point. "I think you are !" And her nerves were a little soothed by the shout of laughter from the school It was never difficult for teachers to be witty. "Go sit down, Ramsey, and do It after school." His ears roaring, the unfortunate went to his seat and, among all the hilarious faces, one stood out Dora Her laughter was precocious; it was that of a confirmed superior, insufferably ndult she was laughing at him as a grown person laughs at a child. Conspicuously and unmistakably, there was something Indulgent In her amusement. He choked. He didn't care for George Washington, of Paul Revere, or the teacher, or the, President of the United States, or Shakespeare, or any of 'em. They could all go to the dickens with Dora Yocum. They were all a lot of smart-ieanyway and he hated the whole stew of 'em ! There was one, however, whom he somehow couldn't manage to hate, even though this one officially seemed to be as Intimately associated with Dora Yocum and superiority as the others were. Ramsey couldn't hate Abraham Lincoln, even when Dora was chosen to deliver the "Gettysburg Address," on the twelfth of February. Lincoln had said "Government of the people, by the people, for the people," and that didn't mean government by the teacher and the Teacher's Pet and Paul Revere and Shakespeare and suchlike; It meant government, by everybody, and therefore Ramsey had as much to do with it as anybody else had. Beyond a doubt, Dora nnd the teacher thought Lincoln belonged to them and their crowd of exelusives; they seemed to think they owned the whole United States; but Ramsey was sure they were mistaken about Abraham Lincoln. He felt that It was Just like this little Yocum snippet to assume such a thing, and It made him sicker thnn ever to look at her. Then, one day, he noticed that her were stlckln' out farther than she used to be. At least, he was honest enough to make a partial retraction when his friend and classmate, Fred Mitchell, Insisted that an amelioration of Dora's appearance could be actually proven. "Well, I'll take It back. I don't claim she's every last bit as awful lookin' as she always has been," said Ramsey, toward the conclusion of the argument. "I'll say this for her, she's awful lookin', but site may not be as awful lookin' as she was. She don't come to school with the edge of some below her of her underclo'es show-idress any more, about every other day, and her eyewlnkers have got to stick-iout some, and she may not be so abbasalootly skinny, but she'll haf to wait a mighty long while before I want to look at her without gettln' sick!" The Implication that Miss Yocum cared to have Ramsey look at her, either with or without gettln' sick, was mere rhetoric, and recognized as such by the producer of It ; she had never given the slightest evidence of any desire that his gaze be bent upon her. What truth lay underneath his flourish rested upon the fact that he could not look at her without some symptoms of the sort lie had tersely sketched to his friend ; and yet, so pungent Is the fnscinutlon of misery, he did look at her, due Ing periods of study, often for three or four minutes at a stretch. His expression at such times indeed resembled that of one who has dined unwisely; but Dora Yocum was always too eagerly busy to notice It. He was almost never In her eye, but she was continually In his; moreover, as the and farther. His discovery Irritated banner pupil she was with hourly frehim the quency nu exhibit before the whole more. Next thing, this ole Teacher's Pet would do she'd get to thlnkln' she class. Ramsey found her worst of all when was pretty ! If that happened, well, her turn came In "Declamation," on nobody could stand her! The long Friday afternoons. When she ascend- - lashes made her eyes shadowy, and It was rx fact that her shoulder blades ceased to Insist upon notoriety ; you couldn't tell where they were at all, -- BETWEEN-SEASON- BLOUSE; S APRONS AND ilr scours APRON-DRESSE- S familiar nnd dependable, and that these materials are combined with much Ingenuity, In captivating utility dresses and aprons. It takea an expert to tell which Is which, and when the expert falls to see any difference between a dress and an apron he which Is calls It an "apron-dress,- " simply a dress that can be worn over another dress, or not. For these pretty new wash dresses designers have taken the standard ginghams and percales, sateens and printed cottons and worked them up Into simple and smart garments. Every the blouse makers are ALREADY their lines for spring and attempting to feel the pulse of the dear public to find out what It wants. But It Is not easy to decide In this between-season- s time; for those who buy blouses pin their faith to conservative styles and show little disposition to run after strange gods. linThey have bought fine, hand-mad- e gerie blouses In sheer cottons, that are always good style. They have taken a chance on plain shirtwaist types of crepe de chine, pongee, or cotton goods, that are also never out of rials IX - s ' CHAPTER II. Continued. 2 n' Sometimes, too, there were moments of relaxation In her class, when she would stop the lesson and tell the children about Germany: What a beautiful, good country it was, so trim and orOerly, with such pleasant, customs, end all the people sensible, energetic and healthy. There was "Music" again In the German class, which was another alleviation though It was the same old "Star SpungJed linnner" over again. Ramsey was tired of the song and tired of "My Country 'Tis of Thee"; they were bores, but It wns amusing to sing tbein In German, In German they sounded "sort o' funny," so he didn't mind this bit of the day's work. , ' d Half an hour later there arrived his supreme trial of this particular morning. Arithmetic then being the order of business before the house, he was sent alone to the blackboard, supposedly to make lucid the proper reply to a fatal conundrum In decimals, and under the glare and focus of the whole room he breathed heavily and Itched everywhere; bis bruin at once became sheer hash. lie consumed as liiu,;ii time as possible In getting the terms of the problem stated In chalk ; then, affecting to he critical of his own handiwork, erased what he had done and carefully wrote It again. After that he erased half of It, slowly retraced figures, and stepped back as If to see whether perspective Improved their appearance. Again he lifted the eraser. "Ramsey Milhollund !" "Ma'am?" 'Tut down that eraser!" "Yes'm. I any more. A just thought" Sharply bidden to get forward with nls task, he explained In a feeble voice that he had first to tie a shoestring and stooped to do so, but was not permitted. Miss Ktdgely tried to stimulate him with hints and suggestion; found Mm, so far as decimals went, mere protoplasm, and, wondering how po helpless thing could live, summoned to the board little Dora Yocutn, the star of the class, whereupon Ramsey moved toward his seat. "Stand still, Ramsey I You stay right where you are and try to leuru something from the way Dora does IL" The class giggled, and Ramsey stood, but ? earned nothing. Ills conspicuous-nes- a vas unendurable, because all of his kclioolmates naturally found more euteitalnmeut la watching htin than la fillowlug the performance of the capable Itora. Instructed to watch every figure ihalked up by the mathematical won-ti- e e , bis eyes, grown sodden, were to remove themselves from the lart In her hair at the hack of hr? head, where two little braids begun their separate careers to end In a coubits of ple of one upon each of her thin shoulder blades. Ills sensations clogged his Intellect ; lie Buffered from unsought notoriety, and hated Iora Ywum; iiiohI of all be baud her busy little thouldcr bliidcs. lb- - bud to be "kept In" after school; slid when be was allowed to go home tie averted hi eyes as he went by the un-tM- rib-bo- bourn where lora lived. .She whs out In I lie yard, eating a doughnut, and tie knew it ; but he had pnsse.l tils age Inn It is Just as erm!HsilUe to throw i r .k at a girl as at a boy ; and .I. Hi, it 1,1s normal Inclinations, he riki il sturdily en. though he Indulged hiii MMf w 'sr us tc In a ru;iverr,iit:on with one of the Csnilli.i ; mis dwellllrg somewhere liliin him. "Pfal" said Ramsey to himself or himself to Ramsey, since It Is duUcult to say which wos which, "Pfa! Thinks she's smart, don't she?" . . . Well. I guess ti'ie does, but she "I hate her, don't you?" ln'tr . . . "Y i bet you- - life I hate her !" . , . "Teacher s I'et, that's what I cull her!" . . . "Well, that's what I call her, too, don't IT "Woll. 1 do; that's all she Is, anyway dirty ole Teacher's Pet e mur-litiii- d ... r CHAPTER III. He bad riot forgiven her four years utter when he entered high school In ber company, for Somehow Ramsey inai'Dged to shovel his way through and stayed with tha f nioiii.:tlHi (!hs. I lie was unable to deny that ii'l refine less awful look la' sin contemptible thing happened. Wesley Bender was well known to be the most untltdy boy In the class, and had never shown any remorse for his reputation or made the slightest effort either to Improve or to dispute It. He was content : It failed to lower his standing with his fellows or to impress them unfavorably. .In fact,' he was treated as one who has attained a slight distinction. It helped him to become better known, and boys liked to be seen with him. But one day, there was a rearrangement of the seating In the schoolroom : Wesley Bender was given a desk ifext In front of Dora Yocum's ; and within a week the whole room knew that Wesley had begun voluntarily to wash bis neck the back of It, anyhow. This was at the bottom of the fight between Itamsey Mllholland and Wesley Bender, and the diplomatic exchanges Immediately preceding hostilities were charmingly frank and although quite as mixed-uas If they had and been prepared by professional foreign office men. Ramsey and Fred Mitchell and four ther boys waylaid young Bender on the street after school. Intending Jocosities rather than violence, but the victim proved sensitive. "Yoo tnke your ole hands off o" me!" he said fiercely, as they began to push lilin about nimong them. "Ole dirty Wes!" they hoarsely bellowed anil squawked. In their changing voices. "Washes his enrs P . , . "Washes his neck!" . . . Dora Yocum told his iimrna to turn the hose nn rev-ener- him !" Wesley broke from them and bsrke1 away. swinging his strnpfied books In a danaerotis cln-le- . "You keep off!" Im wurned them. "I got as miii'h rllit ti my pers'nal appeurunce M anybody !" This richly fed their humor, irii.l they rioted round him. keeping outside the swinging book affhe end of the strap. "I'ers'tial appeararce' !" . , . l "Vow! Ole dirty Wes, he s got apl"arnnre !" . . . "Who went and bought It for yon. Wes?" . . . one knows the fabrics, their- dependability goes without Baying, so that emphasis is placed, not on thorn, but on styles, and we have with us work-a-da- y dresses that heve an Individual charm a prettlness that means much to their capable wearers. American women do not object to making themselves useful, but they are determined to mnke themselves attractive at the same time. s Two of the new are shown below, one of them In a plain material In a cheerful color. A vestee In white Is set In with a piping. As In all bouse dresses, the sleeves are the running, and they have picked up, here and there, new Ideas In great variety, but the choice has not been uniform enough to determine which way the wind of fashion will blow when spring comes. The guess of one experienced is as good as another, and Mien there Is a consensus of opinion among several of them, it Is reasonably sure that they are right. They are bunking on the demand for white and light colors for spring, on silk crepes, on long line blouses, on slashes, by means of which in tilgli color blouses soft contrasting color Is Introduced. bought to.k and It for him. monn-factur- leave lad'es' names alona!" rried the chivalrous Wesley. "Yon ought to know better, on the public street, you pups!" Just gimme one chance to how that girl what tha really M i.r (TO BK CUNTINL'KD.) We're Looking Toe, Girl Have you hair nets? Clerk Yes, ma'am. Girl Invisible? Clerk Yes, ma'sm. Olrt Let's me see one. Life. An Into M Vould t ounce of wire 50 tai'ea long. drat General Leroy T. Steward of Chicago Is one of the original founders of the scout movement, and a stanch believer In all scouting stands for. In a recent Interview be said: "The boy is the man of tomorrow, our coming citizen, with his responsibilities and definite place In the world. Cou can't fool him, but you can do wonderful things with the right sort of leadership. The spirit of scouting is and outbigger even than its first-ai- d door craft. Getting an active, growing eating, noisy boy to be thoughtful ano do a good turn dally, to want to be helpful to others, to obey Its oath and law that's the biggest thing In scouting and, indeed, In life." Speaking of his own interest In , scouting, the geoeral said: "I've spent over forty years of my life In various forms of public service the army, the police department, the postoftice, the boy scouts, and so forth and am convinced thut nowhere can so much real good be done as with our boys. Scouting Is the one thing I expect to give my time to for the rest of my life; to help to build boys Into good citizens. Can you, or any other grownup, find greater opportunity, a more genuine service to be rendered than Is within the reach of all of you?" npron-dresse- i BOY SCOUT CAMPFIRE A ft. e , ..v F if,f - One of the Moat Attractive Feature of a Boy Scout Camp Is the Camp-firStarted Without 'a Always e, Match. GOOD TURN RECIPROCATED When James Caldwell and Clarence Livingholm, Omaha boy scouts, flagged a train last Novemberon discovering tree on the track, which would undoubtedly have caused a serious wreck, they made light of their action. It was all in the day's work. There was "nothing to It," Just a good turn such as all scouts are pledged to. But the railroad officials didn't see It In precisely the same way. They thought there was a good deal to It. So much so, In fact, that out of gratitude to the scouts who rendered them the service they have offered to build a fine new swimming pool at Camp Glfford, the Omaha scout camp. A suitable marker will be erected In the camp mess ball recording the fine good turn of the railroad as well as the facts of the service rendered by the scouts. ANOTHER SCOUT HERO S'fV Fire broke out In a tenement house East Fourteenth street. New York city. Frank Catalano, a fourteen-year-ol- d boy scout, was among the crowd that assembled. "I got through the fire line," Frank says, "on the strength of my scout badge. I heard a woman screaming for her baby, who had been left inside. I couldn't stand that. I wiggled through the smoke along the floor and got the baby." That wasn't all he did, however. Having placed the child In Its frantic mother's arms he went back Into the building and led a woman and two children safely to a fire escape, the stairs being ablaze. He then guided tvo more adults out of danger and rescued a dog. Then he went on to school. The excitement was over. In V V Dot give him one!" IN SCOUTING - 21 A f 4V A per-s'na- "NohiMly BIGGEST THING PATTERN IN CREPE DE CHINE PAISLEY ' Yocum "You (Coadnotsd br National Council ot tbs Bof Scouts ot Amsrlcs.) AROUND p 'M0it Pottent, Gnvt and Rev'" ed the platform, bobbed a little preparatory bow and began, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear," Ramsey Included Paul Revere and the Old North church and the whole Revolutionary war In his antipathy, since they somehow appeared to be the property of the Teacher's I'et. For Dorn held this post In "Declamation" as well as In everything else; here, as elsewhere, the hateful child's prowess surpassed that of all others; and the teacher always entrusted her with the rendition of the "patriotic selection." Ruinsey himself was In the siime section of decl.ilmers, and performed next a ghastly contrast. lie gave n "selection from Shakespeare." assigned by the teacher; and be began this continuous misfortune by stumbling violently as he ascended the platform, which stimulated a general giggle already In being at the mere calling of his name. All of the class were bright with bnppy anticipation, for the Ramsey seldom failed their hopes, particularly In "Derlnmatlon." lie fiu-ethem, his complexion wan. his expression both baleful and horrified; and he began In a loud, hurried voice, from which every hint of Intelligence was excluded : " 'Most pottent, grave and rer ' " The teacher tapped sharply to her desk, and stopped him. "You've forgotten to bow," she said. "And don't The word Is 'potent'." say 'pottent. Ramsey flopped his bead at the rear wall of the room, and began again; d "Most pottent potent grave and signers my very none and approved good masters that I have tan away this sole man's dutter It Is tnose true true t have marry dur the very lies dsn frun tuv my feeding hath this extent no more rude am I In speech In speech rude am t In speech In J speech In speech la speech &DOV-& NEW APRON DRESSES Ribbons nnd applique trln. tilings are short enough to be out of the was to be featured and the trend Is still and ore completed by a small cuff adorned with a little stltchery. Large toward simplicity of design. The blouse shown here takes p.iti h pockets are useful and help to of this favored simplicity and piilsley pattern In crepe de chine for a plain but very smart model. This Is something for the between-season- s period that will prove worth It Is delightfully adaptable, while. norn either with suit or a handsome, plain separate skirt. Dry goods houses everywhere, in their advertisements, are singing the ,irnlses of their new displays of cleverly designed wash dresses snd gather from tprons for spring. '. his chorus that the style note kt of teat Importance In tnem, the mate- utilise a embellish the dress, and the wide girdle of tho rhnmbray slips through slides at the sides. That iierennlal favorite, the checked glcbiim, blooms at the right of the picture, In a graceful model having a ed bodice that fastens with squa three buttons to the left side and lde girdle that buttons at the back. DOINGS OF BOY SCOUTS Camp sites In New Jersey state forests will be opened next season for use of boy scouts according to an announcement of the State Department of Conservation and Development. Every year the Kennel club of turns over the proceeds ot Its annual dog show to some csuse that they think worth promoting. This last year It was the local boy scouts who were the beneficiary of the dab. Phil-adelph- |