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Show BEAVEK PRESS The 1 SILVER 1 ..By., 1 Lsda Larrlmore . ktacnte-BmK- h Company children thought ft was a birthday ring. The relations might make fun. She couldn't bear that Darling Bruce I If It weren't for the children , . . The bouse was to be sold. Uncle Herbert decided that was best They couldn't understand why Barbara minded so much. "Why should you want to keep It?" Cousin Julia asked in amazement "We like It Cousin Julia." Never had the long low room seemed so charming and friendly and dear. But she knew it was useless to explain. They never could understand. Her eyes brimmed over with tears. Cousin Julia, assisted by Martha, thoroughly cleaned the house. Things were burned In the fireplace. There was little worth keeping, Cousin Julia salj. Barbara packed her with treasured odds and ends. Everyelse would be sold. thing ' Their last day together arrived, a rainy day, chilly and depressing. Martha's eyes were rimmed with red and her scolding voice was gentle. People from the town came to say good-by- . "We'll miss you," they said. "Th house won't seem tho same." Never the same again I Barbara realized it, all at once, with a sickening lurch of her heart The house would belong to somebody else, the house that Mother had loved. They wouldn't see the willows grow green, next spring, and the apple tree burst Into bloom. They wouldn't sit on the studio cteps with "Chips" stretched out In the sunshine across their sea-che- 'WNU Service. SYNOPSIS On her eighteenth birthday, Barbara, motherless daughter of Christopher Thome, artist, awakes with anticipation of the joys of the day. She receives a birthday ring; from Bruce MacLaln, young artist friend of the family, but more than friend to Barbara. Barbara and Bruce go plcknlck-ln- g on the sands at Provincetown. He tells her story of a gypsy boy, a little gypsy girl whom he loves, and the song of a silver flute. She knows it Is her own love tale. Her happiness turns to sorrow when she returns home to learn her father has been drowned. Barbara fears she and her brothers Relaand sister will be separated. tives arrive and take charge of things. Having been almost a mother to the others, Barbara cannot think of Kit's sensitive nature bruised In Uncle Hery bert's household by his cousins, and Gay spoiled by her association with silly Aunt Lola. Bruce urges Immediate marriage, but that would mean separation. rough-and-read- CHAPTER IV Aunt Lola's car stood at the gate, a beautiful car, dove-grawith silver fittings and a chauffeur named Pierre. Aunt Lola, small and plump, with skin and hair a shade too golden, sat beside the living room fire wrapped In moleskin as soft as vely vet Gay was bewitched by Aunt Lola, her clothes, her Jewels, the dove-gray car, the chauffeur named Pierre. Already she was different, Barbara thought, watching Gay adopt Aunt Lola's mannerisms, her gestures, the affected tones of her voice. She didn't want Gay to grow up Into a silly little peacock, like Owen, Aunt Lola's daughter, married now and, according to family gossip, "leading her husband a life. Mother would have hated It so. And Father, too. Gay could be so nice. Uncle Herbert came and went, attending to business matters, Interviewing the real estate agent and the officials at the bank. Uncle Herbert was not above medium weight, ruddy and stocklly built But you felt that he was very tall and Imposing. Uncle Herbert was kind to the children. He was especially kind to Kit "Well, Michael Angelo," he would say, "have jou painted a masterpiece yetr Or, pinching Kit's arm, he would say: "No muscle I" He would pretend to be terribly shocked. "See here, young fellow, that won't do. Walt 'til we get you out In Pittsburgh. Roast beef Is what you need." y Did he think they hadn't been properly fed? Barbara would try to choke back her Indignation, knowing that Uncle Herbert meant only to be kind. He would talk about Paul who played on his college football team and Joe who was a prep school star and Junior who had six medals for swimming, although he was only fifteen. Barbara, an ache In her heart, would see Kit's flush deepen and a frightened look creep Into his eyes. Kit couldn't play football He would never be very strong. Her last hope had vanished. She had pinned up her hair and worn her longest frock, but she knew that she looked as young and frightened as she felt when she asked them to let her keep the children there In the gray-shlngle- d house. We could manage." Barbara felt her courage slipping away with the plna that held her hair. "You can live so cheaply In Provincetown. If Kit gets a Job and we don't have Martha and" "It Isn't only a question of money," Uncle Herbert said not unkindly. "There are many things to be considered. You're too young to assume such a responsibility. Besides," he added, "It Isn't necessary." It was necessary. She knew, In her heart, that It was necessary to keep the children together. But she couldn't put It Into words. They confused her with grown-ulogic. She shut herself up In the studio and cried helplessly with her cheek against Father's coat. Aunt Josephine had decided not to come. The change in the weather, she wrote, made the Journey too great a risk, since she wasn't as young as she used to be. Barbara was to come to She Providence with Cousin Evle. enclosed a generous check. Barbara looked thoughtfully at the strip of pink paper signed In spidery Josephine's writing with Great-aun- t name. The check would take her to New York and buy her a winter coat Her wedding dress. A dress, perhaps. Aunt Josephine would make a fuss about Bruce. She didn't approve of artists. But Mother had married Father. It would be lovely to be with Bruce, she thought, curled In a corner of the davenport, watching the lights In the Ore. She wouldn't mind If they hadn't much money. Darling Bruce I She twisted his ring on her finger and heard the tinkling of the small gold fcesrt She hadn't told anybody. The p feet ... Barbara ran blindly from the room, up the stairs, along the hall, up Into the attic. She heard a sound of sobbing. Kit lay on a broken sofa In the unused part of the attic, his face burled In his arms. "Kit!" she cried softly, running to him, kneeling beside the sofa. He raised a face. His cheeks were hot and flushed. A feverish light burned in his hazel eyes. "Sorry, Babs," he gulped, ashamed of crying, trying to be manly. "Do you mind so much about going with Uncle Herbert?" she asked, her heart breaking for Kit "You don't know what It's like, Babs," he sobbed, no longer ashamed. "Uncle Herbert's boys are so strong. I I couldn't keep up. They laugh at things I say. They they think Tm sort of crazy, I'd rather die than go back there." It was dreadful to hear him sob. Kit so seldom cried ; not even when he was a little boy and had to sit in a chair. He minded things so terribly. Those great boobies of Uncle Herbert's, Barbara thought It wasn't fair. She must do something. Kit shouldn't suffer so. "You needn't go with Uncle Herbert," she said, not very sure about anything, wanting only to hush his strangling sobs. "We'll all stay together, Kit." He raised his head, a question in his tear-staine- d eyes. "We'll all run away together I" A plan presented Itself to Barbara. She didn't know why she thought of it Perhaps all along it bad been lurking somewhere in the back of her mind. "I know exactly what we'll do." Her voice sounded frightened, but happy, too. She felt her heart thumping against her ribs. "What?" Kit asked hoarsely. "We'll" "Yoo-ho- o I" That was Cousin Evle coming up the stairs. "Shh!" Barbara whispered, her eyes dark with excitement a warm pink flush in her cheeks. "In the studio after supper. I'll tell you about it then." Cousin Evle, wrapped In a crocheted shawl, reached the top of the attic steps. "You naughty kiddles!" she said, smiling brightly, shaking a finger In playful reproof. "Hiding up here In the cold! Come on downstairs by the fire. Martha has made hot chocolate. We'll have a nice little game of hearts." It was chilly In the studio. The children huddled together In a circle on the floor. They hadn't dared to turn on the lights for fear of being discovered. A candle burned In an ash tray. Kit and Gay and Jamie looked at Barbara. "We'll run away," she began, trying to make her voice sound confident in spite of the way that her heart was thumping against her ribs. "All of us?" Gay asked, forgetting car In Aunt Lola and the dove-grathe excitement of an adventure. "All of us," Barbara said, her eyes very wide and frightened In her pale face. - 'Chips,' too?" Jamie asked the question anxiously, the small yellow dog hugged tight against his chest " 'Chips,' too," Barbara said almost "Why. Jamie Thorne, do you gaily. think we could ever leave 'Chips' " "Where are we going?" Jamie asked, not caring very much since "Chips" y was going too. "We're going to 'Uncle Stephen." There, It was out And it didn't sound crazy at all. It sounded like a sensible thing to do. "Did he Invite us?" Gay asked eagerly, her warm color deepening. "No," Barbara was forced to admit "We're Just going anyway." "But llabs," worried thoughtful Kit, "shouldn't you write to ask him? Or telegraph or something?" "It's better If he sees us." Barbara was sure of that Certainly "Uncle Stephen" could never resist the charms "A of Kit and Gay and Jutnle. crusty old bachelor!" . . . She didn't believe it His letter sounded so nice. . ... (TO B CO N TI NU E D. Perm's Dream Is Now Jewel City Philadelphia Continues a Credit to Founder. Prepared by National Georraphlo Society. Washington. D. C WNU Service. PENN'S statue that portal of the WILLIAM the Federal Reserve bank is soon to be removed because the bank is to have a new facade. The statue has, for four decades been a famous landmark of Philadelphia, in whose history Penn played a prominent part "At this time. Gov. William Penn and a multitude of friends arrived here and erected a city called Philadelphia about a half mile from reads the quaint minutes of a meeting of the Society of Friends held at Shackamaxon on the banks of the Delaware In November 8, 1682. In two and a half centuries Philadelphia has become one of the world's greatest urban centers, possessing colorful history of leadership In the development of the arts and sciences and in the progress of industry. Meanwhile, Shackamaxon became a tiny park on the Delaware river, tenderly cared for by the big city that now entirely surrounds it. Philadelphia now Is a metropolis of two million souls, third In size among all American urban communities and eleventh among the municipalities of the earth. It covers 80,000 acres. Despite Its spread, it continues to be the city of Its founder, for William Penn established its plan, selected Its name, and projected its future. His care and forethought In laying out Its central area in the district between the Delaware and the Schuylkill, with Its central and satellite squares, have been perpetuated to this city. This area stands as a monument to his genius as a city planner, even In these times of amazing urban developments. The traditions and the attitudes of the long ago are maintained in this metropolis as perhaps nowhere else in America. It Is no mere coincidence that Philadelphia has sixteen establishments that have been doing business consecutively from days, or that the city has a number of firms that have persisted for a century. Perhaps one may gain his best Idea of the city of the Pious Penn by going forthwith to its capltol, the city hall, and from the parapet of Its tower view of this megetting a bird's-ey- e tropolis. First, one notes above, the heroic statue of the founder. This huge bronze statue of Penn weighs pounds and stands 37 feet high. All of its portions are of amazing scale the hat 9 feet In diameter, the shoes 5 feet 4 Inches long, the coat cuffs 3 feet deep, and the buttons 6 Inches across. A Great World Port. Look over the outstretched city below. A magnificent river front proclaims one of the world's great ports; a towering business district tells of a financial center of the first order; a dozen Industrial areas speak of manufacturing operations; parks, parkways, a canalized river, museums, stately art galleries, and fine libraries write the superscription of culture over the city; suburbs of rare beauty environ It and make such areas along the mall line and the Reading route resplendent jewels In the city's crown ; railroad facilities of latest electrified type extend the city Into the country and bring country Into town. It was always the dream of William Penn that his city should ever remain "a greene country towne." Through these two and a half centuries the citizens steadily kept faith with his purpose, and today we find one acre out of every thirteen within Its confines devoted to parks and squares. The beauty spot of the whole city is Falrmount park, one of the largest In the world. With 43 miles of drives and 44 miles of paths winding through Its 3.000 acres of scenic beauty and romantic history, one who has a day to spend there revels in delightful prospects. Here Is Lemon, Hill, the country home of Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution, frequented by Washington and Jefferson, Adams and Lafayette, who sat down to break bread with the banker where the populace now may come and eut and be entert tained at the concerts for which park Is famous. At the foot of this historic hill runs the Schuylkill, Its east bank covered with the clubhouses of the "Schuylkill navy." For years on end Philadelphia has been conscious of a dire need for a parkway from the center of the city Into Falrmount park and the northwestern section of the city. There were no diagonals from the city's center at City Hall square. Then came a time when the passenger train facilities of the Nineteenth century no longer were adequate to the second quarter of the Twentieth. Steam trains for suburban tralfic became archaic. The old Broad street station of the Pennsylvania was outgrown, the old Chestnut street station of the Baltimore & Ohio seemed a page from an almost forgotten past; and the Reading terminal well, that might have been mod ern In Centennial times, but It was antiquated In the lute twenties. Electrification had to come. Underground trnlllc whs the only way to speed up the city's great suburban transportatShack-amaxon- urn-shape- d Into service putting of the Broad street suburban station made possible the razing of the "Chinese WalL" as the great viaduct Into the old Broad street station was called. In Its stead there will be opened up in the future a new highway, known as Pennsylvania boulevard, extending from City Hall square to the Imposing and classical east facade of the Pennsylvania terminal. The railroad Improvements are resulting In the unsightly section of the Schuylkill Immediately south of Fair-moupark being cannllzed and boulevard bordered and In giving the heart of Philadelphia that sort of a cleaning that delights every eye. Green will where grime flourgrow ished yesterday, and the dreams of city planners will be living realizations where ugliness but lately reigned supreme. On her part Philadelphia plunged into a new era of urban planning of startling proportions and magnificent conception. She would provide the diagonals to the northwest and the northeast that became so needed in the day when the automobile began to crowd every main thoroughfare. Modern Highways. The famous Roosevelt boulevard, the great diagonal to the northeast with d central lane borits broad, dered on either side by parking and local traffic lanes, took care of the northeast situation. To the northwest from City Hall square to the entrance to West Falrmount park, runs the other diagonal, Falrmount parkway, that marvelous $30,000,000 thoroughfare which the city has opened. It was a frank appeal for the city beautiful that created this magnificent drive from city hall to the Art museum, where Falrmount park begins. A thousand buildings had to be razed. The city's industries are rooted' in that remote past before the machine not-dista- nt high-spee- Lp ck ion. The opening up of the new monumental Pennsylvania station and the Better Pastures Select Fertile Soil, Proper Mixtures and More Seed to the Acre. By A.. cialist. O. Ktmrey, Dairy Eitanslen SpeNorth Carolina State College. WNU Service. A fertile soli, adapted seed mixtures and more seed per acre are three essentials In successful, permanent pasture building. These three factors are too often overlooked by those attempting to balance their farm operations through the addition of live stock. It Is foolish to attempt to establish a good pasture on land that is too poor to produce a crop profitably. If the land is not fertile enough to produce a good crop of corn. It will not produce a good crop of desired pasture grasses. In securing adapted grasses the best plan is to find out which grasses have survived in previous plantings. In many North Carolina counties, the orchard, herds, Kentucky Blue and Dalits grasses have outlived others. and white Dutch clovers are the two legumes which seem to be generally adapted. Given a fertile soil and adapted grasses the next factor is to seed heavily enough to secure a sod. The usual plan Is to make a thin sprinkling of seed which takes too much time to cover the ground. When the hot summer sun comes along, the grasses are killed. A sufficient stand of grass and legumes to completely cover the land before being killed by summer heat Is rarely ever secured. Use not less than 50 to 60 pounds of grass seed an acre. A good mixture for one acre Is as follows: Fifteen pounds of orchard grass; ten pounds of herds grass or red top ; eight pounds cf Kentucky Blue grass; five pounds of Dallls grass; five pounds of White Dutch clover and fifteen pounds of common lespedeza. P U O .If TV Philadelphia Guards a National Treasure. age reached Its height and when men of high skill had to do by hand what mere machine tenders can do today. Such men loved their little homes and had no taste for tenements. Their sons and their sons' sons have followed. , More fully to safeguard the llvo stock Industry of the United States against the introduction of rinderpest disease- - from and abroad the secretary of agriculture has Issued an amendment to a previous order, which prohibits the Importation of cattle, sheep, or other domestic ruminants or swine from countries where either of these diseases exists. This action has been taken under provisions of an act of congress, approved June 17, 1930. The regulation which became effective February 15, 1933, also applies to fresh, chilled, or frozen beef, veal, mutton, Known as Amendlamb, and pork. I. Order 334, the regument 1 to R-lation names additional countries that are considered as affected with one or both of these diseases. The effect of the amendment is to Include Bechuanaland, Belgian Congo, French West Africa, Iraq, Union of South Africa, and Yugoslavia among the countries In which It has been determined that either disease rinderpest or exists and to remove Latvia and Portuguese East Africa. g ments. A concomitant of all of these qualities Is the Industrious habit, through which Philadelphia has attained the distinction of having the highest percentage of skilled labor of any major city. With such a fine quality of labor. It Is little wonder that the nawere able to find tional census-taker- s 277 distinct lines of commodities being manufactured in the Philadelphia metropolitan area; that It ranks first In the output of hosiery and knit goods; In carpet and rugs; In cotton lace and saws, and high In the manufacture of leather, hats, fur felt linoleum, and many other commodities. In a normal year the great workshop of the world produces $2,000,000,-00- 0 worth of manufactured products, Including 45.000.000 yards of carpet 1,000.000 hats, 400.000.000 cigars, and 10,000,000 saws. With but of the nation's population, the city of the great Perm produces about one of all Its manufactures. twenty-fiftTravel where he will, from polar circle to polar circle. In any longitude, around the earth, the traveler will ndver get away from the things that Philadelphia buys, the things It makes, and the things It sells. From every land come the raw materials It needs In the fabrication of the thousand and Philadelone things It manufactures. phia built locomotives draw trains to the top of the Andes. Into the heart of China, through the solitudes of h this Congo. Phiindelphia-bull- t steam- ships sail the seven seas and fly their In every port In the world. PhiladflflR medicines heal the slck-ne- s elphia-made of the savage In Borneo and Zulu-lansoothe the aches and still the pains of people from Tornhouctou and Kamchaika to Nome and Rio. Forest and field, mine and quarry, ocean bed and mountain top. Jungle and desert, pampa and steppe, frozen tundra and tropic beach, alike trade with the metropolis of Perm. The Idea that thi. world depression might be cured by making Chi- namen's shirts an .nch longer has been brought out In a new phase by a politician of Nanking, China. He proposes to introduce laws which will compel women's "limbs" to be "properly covered." This will tuean long skirts and sleeves In all gowns, thus requiring more cloth made by local textile mills. The politician advocates men's suits modeled "more or less" on European styles, except that they would be buttoned up to the neck. Women's clubs may be expected to rise In protest against t idea. the long-skir- Time counts when you're in painf Insist on genuine Bayer Aspirin, not only for its safety but for its speed. The tablet that is stamped Bayer dissolves at once. It is many minutes faster than remedies that are offered in its stead. If you saw Bayer Aspirin made, you would know why it has such, uniform, dependable action. If you have ever timed it, you know that the tablet stamped Bayer dissolves and gets to work before a slower tablet has any effect. Stick to genuine Bayer Aspirin. You know what you are taking. You know it is harmless; nothing m it to depress the heart. You know you will get results. For headaches, colds, neuralgia, rheumatism, the safe and certain relief is always the tablet stamped Seize Golden Moment The man who loses his opportunity loses himself. COLDS VHUNC TIIL OH HER Tl A. Indo-Chln- This home-lovinspirit has played an Important role In shaping Philadelphia's problems. Those of urban transportation have never been so pressing, for the Philadelphia wage earner prefers to have his home within walking distance of the factory In which he is employed ; and whether in Tacony or Manaynnk, Brldesburg or Passyunk, Kensington or Southwark, you will find the average workman living near his place of employment The same circumstances that served to make the Philadelphia artisan a man with a distaste for tenements, but Intent with an ambition to own a home, have served to make him a man with a leaning toward savings bank accounts and building and loan Invest- BRINGS IDEA DEPRESSION Les-pede- za Livestock Industry Aided by New Order 8 Fair-moun- One Way to Have a, Value of Blood Tests The veterinary department of the Wisconsin experiment station advises that CO per cent of the positive reactors in their experimental herd became negative within a year without the administration of any sort of treatment while a smaller percentage became negative in the course of 90 days after they had reacted positive to the blood test It Is well known that negative cows In a herd Infected with contagious abortion are just as apt to abort as those that react positive to the test This being the case It Is difficult to see the practical value of the laws that have recently been enacted by many states setting up the blood test as a criterion of entrance requirements. 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