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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL UTAH Mary Had a Little Lamb By t ScrapA SKining Sfockholm by McCJure Newtatr WNU Still Young Siii.ti. J ill t ' " ' - , ' e ' . turn." ail Prepared by National Geographic Society. n asniuciou, U. C. W.U dervlce. is celebrating, this hundredth annl- the opening of the Gota canal which connects the Swedish capital with Goteborg on the North sea, 21G miles across the king- STOCKHOLM dom. Even without its party adornment, which It has donned for the celebration, Stockholm is a city that fairly shines. Its quays are the city's front doors, with steps always freshly scrubbed. 1'nder brilliant summer sun, even the cargoes of many of the harbor's sailing craft, moored in front of royal palace, town hall, and house of parliament, glisten, for they are laden with countless cords of silver birch, the city's fuel. Every year, In gorgeous midsummer floral regalia, Stockholm stands faultlessly groomed to receive only a few score American visitors, whiie other continental capitals, Included In customary tourist itineraries, are athrong with thousands from western shores. The average traveler does not decide casually upon a trip to Stockholm, nor, unless he comes directly from New York by ocean route, does the American always arrive in the most amiable frame of mind. It is a long, hard journey from western or southern Europe to the historic city founded seven centuries a;:o as a fortress to resist the forays of Baltic all-nig- rra d -- e 3 .1 1WI- sos-o'l- f twent, e - 1 it . . '" i i 1 ' - . V- it i ,. office. Itr asked the man"Well, what is ager testily, when the boy entered. "There's a salesman outside a man ith a mustache, replied the boy. "Tell him I'm in conference," snapped the manager. "I did," the office boy Informed him. "Now he wants to know If you'll be out of it before he has a beard, too." S RUN OF HARD LUCK Scene on Stockholm's Quays. One of the men who had listened to to whistle the y yttnotes of "Mary Had a Little I.amb." Some one with a bass voice began usia;; croaking the words. A tenor took It gen.' Up, f Two others joined in and the Impromptu quartette stood up with id ib mock and chanted the song. solemnity 3 tO It No one meant to give offense but S OMS everywhere Bob Lntnb nppeared with liete Mary at college dances, at concerts pirates. ottlts or Just strolling around the campus From Taris, for unless one ther was always some one nearby to selects the speedyexample, and exhilarating N'ealr marble or whistle the annoying tune. airplane mode of travel, the major ':latc All Bob desired was just to be some-nipart of one day must be spent on the where with Mary. Yet as the teasing e lxf persisted they saw less and less of train to Amsterdam; thence there is an journey to Hamburg, then :ldK eacn- other than they hud hoped would another full day on the train to CoP be possible by both attending the same penhagen, and finally, by train, ferry, ght i college. and train again, a second night is reased: .,s after the end of Mary's junior quired to reach one's destination. gSjr. year and Bob Lamb's senior year they Stockholm's prosperity, like that of IK or felt that they had seen far too little the entire country, is founded in large one :opsiof another. Beb was going to on forests the city's name, i.maiUe York to go Into business with measure his uncle and Mary would be back at Isle of the Log, suggests it but there is no evidence of this in external aplia I college for her final year a thousand pearances. There was a time when see & miles from New York. 'Calilf Bob heard of a college camp some-enui- a the metropolis was built of wood, and whefe in the next slate. There was it required six disastrous conflagra-tent colony for the men aud another tions, recurring over a period of two and a half centuries, to convince its for the women-i-study camp where citizens that their safest insurance gi Berldus-mindestudents went to study lejir under the direction of a against flames lay beneath their feet. ontrtastrdnotny City Built of and on Granits. f elf number of renowned astronomers, Stockholm today is built of granite, if p 'Neither Bob nor Mary had ever felt itat'BHr4 than a passing interest in the upon granite foundations. A land owner blasts his building material fonsf Study of the stars, but at least there from the site of his proposed struceneSe would be opportunity to see each other at lectures and on observation ex- ture, and by the same operation makes his cellar. The result is a city of somcursions. They could sit together in the evening on mountain tops gazing ber, unadorned gray-stonapartments a tat tte stars. True, there would be the and business buildings, conveying the s;lBOthe students and the learned pro-,- f impression of having been erected for Hi feasors, but there would be no one to eternity. Ml toeas$ tllora- Achitccturally one enters a new 1'hey needn't let anyone No :nq,;knoTf that they had ever met before. world on reaching Stockholm. -;It was Mary's idea that Uieir names slightest suggestion is to be foiaid of must, not go with them. Some one that classical Greek influence so conCJfj'might think of the stupid song about spicuous in most of the capitals and JMary and her little lamb, it would chief cities of southern, central and be simple enough in Man's case. Slip western Europe. MIETcould easily use her middle name, Ella, For twelve years Stockholm labored s. It took some maneuvering on Bob's on its town hall. It was finished, as t Part-- ! Finally he took an old friend, planned, for formal dedication in 1D2:!, Bill Ball, into his confidence and ar-- , the four hundredth anniversary of the 05B.rangel to use his college certificate of the reign of (iustavus beginning nuii(.efor enroilnient. Yasa, Sweden's first hereditary ruler. the first two weeks of t,le The hall, in contrast to the custome!oll!5 !" the summer camp everything ary granite, is built of exceptionally beautifully. Then it became ap- - large red bricks. Its interior is as im.parent that Bob now Bill Ball and pressive as its exterior. On one side '"'Mary?not Klla contrived to sit next of a great inner court Is the famous each other on all occasions. One blue room, rising from the ground Cs. evening when the class of campers to the full height of the building. This i ' were starting off up the'mountain side Is used for official banquets and simisome one in the party began to hum ilar civic affairs. the ttine of the nursery song that had Here, each year on a Sunday in AuT.beeome so odious to Mary. It seemed a picturesque event is staged, gust, if jas if everyone took up the air whis- - when awards are made to Stockholm's . tling ior warbling as they went. Then great army of workmen farmers, one Borne one began of the most Interesting groups to be singing the words. Ella had a little Ball, his fleece was found in Europe. : black as coal are noted for their love Swedes The And everywhere thnt Pin, tv, of the soil and all that it produces, i'Ball was sure to roll." and this passion for growing filings "Let's pretend we don't know thev cannot be stifled by the circumstance tneanJus," whispered Mary. of metropolitan existence; so the city i oat won't work," said Bob Lam UA has set aside countless acres of subrathet Bill Ball. "It's pretend to urban territory for conversion into Tj.jlike It" plots, and these are rented to garden . Slo tliey stuck it out ; wherever workingmen for the equivalent of $3 were seen together some one was they for a summer season. pretty sure to take up the notes of the Here the laborer builds a tiny cotOld sdng. And at the end Bob got a one room and porch, usually. tage tefterfrom his uncle-offer- ing him a He can buy a complete house ready-madattle :ti ore than he hud expected by rf for $100 and set It tip like a ray of a beginner's salary. On the puzzle. All summer he and jigsaw Wrength of this Bob asked Mary to his wife and children live on their jMrry him ns soon as they left sum- "little farm." He continues his work ,un('r Mmp. Mary, In spite of a final in shipyard or factory, but early in fnr f1 eollege, was willing. the morning, before he goes to his "Don't let's have a church wedding, m Job In the city, and when he returns fce suggested. "The , organist won I J In the afternoon, he Joins his wife In e fate to piny that hateful tune In hoeing the vegetables, training the of the wedding mnrch." roses over the doorway, cultivating the remark began softly 1 The office boy knocked timidly on the door of the manager's private v ,: i CROWING IMPATIENT 11 tid 7 JANE OSBORN 8rvic after Mary Les summer 5 JT WAS the ter'i sophomore year in the stale university that she met Hub Lamb at Bob Lutub had a country house-jiarty- . at a smallhis finished Junior year ju er college. It was perfectly clear from th end of the first day at the hospiti, able old farmhouse that Mary liked Bob and that ilob was keen about Mary. But Bob thought be had no rieht to SBeak about marriage he had fi'lsi a year more of college aud it would be :I'H itLO another year whatever work he :lriw took up before he could think of sup-r,fj- ; wife. But he did not hesi-tata porting to tell Mary of his feelings for J her. For the time all he begged of her would permit him to be Iw&M that she near her. It was Mary's Idea, then, that Bob should transfer himself from the smaller college and I enter the senior class of the university aha attended. . So when Mary went back to college i it was noised about that she had brought a "heavy suitor" with her. Tha girls In her fraternity house laughed at her and with her. Then one of them sitting at the piano began faaofUy playing the strains of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Hie girls took up the words and Mary sat there blushing. "But Ikib's fleece Isn't as white as snow," protested Mary weakly. "He has black hair." ."But he did follow you to school one ... ..!.( ..,,..'11 U JUU WHl l' (lUillil 111(11, laughed one of the girls, and they went on singing uieir song. y. Bob Lamb had been transferred e from the fraternity In his owu college Ta to the chapter in the university where ldsp was soon passed around that they f et? It had a girl to thank for the transfer. see!,' "ISiee girl Mary Lester a junior d has Gamma Sigma," informed one of the tidtkt men. Some one ought to drop a word f thanks to Mary she did us a good twk llabS, Mother of the dahlias, pansies, violets, and sweet peas. Garden Prizes Awarded. Toward the end of the summer the housewife is kept busy canning and e preserving the produce of her garden, while the husband concentrates his efforts upon the flowers. On the appointed Sunday in August each family takes its prize products-blosso- ms, fresh and canned vegetables, and fruit to the blue room. Here the women, arrayed in the peasant attire of their native provinces, display the results of their summer recreation and diversion. These workingman gardens were introduced during the pinching years of the World war, when Sweden was more or less isolated and when all Hodge Poor Mrs. Fickle has alfood products commanded fabulous ways been unlucky In the selection prices. of her husbands. Although the emergency no longer Dodge Why do you say that? exists, the gardens are continued, not nodge Her first husband was a because only they are financially suguide ccessfulthe vegetables raised each was a in the Adlrondacks; her second baseball umpire; her third was year are valued at more than half a a manufacturer of dynamite, and her million dollars but because they have last was an aviator. promoted the health and happiness of the working classes and have contributed materially to the attractiveness Mere Technicality of the capital's environs. "Ha ! Ha ! You poor old henpecked ! The "little farms" are a special I saw you yesterday having to sew a boon to the children of the working button on your coat" "You're a liar." classes, who must store up energy for those long, dark hours of fall, winter, "I tell you I did. I saw you with and spring schooling. Judged by Amermy own eyes." ican standards, the lot of the school"I tell you you didn't It was my boy or girl in Stockholm is one of the wife's coat." Dublin Opinion. most unenviable in the whole world of education. A Bit Inconvenient School life begins at the age of sis. "How did you find the dog you The hours are trying and Saturday is for your week-encottage?" like every other week day. In winter, bought "A splendid watch dog. He lies in of course, the pupil must get up and the house and won't let us go in." dress by artificial light, and he starts Der Wahre Jakob. for school while the street lamps are still burning. He begins bis day's Fitting Comeback task at 7:45; at 10:3u he goes home John Where are all the nice girls for breakfast, returns to the classroom at noon, and Is dismissed at 2:35 this evening? Pauline Out with the handsome or 3:30 according to his age. In mid winter it is dark at the later hour. men. Vart Hem (Stockholm). After the first snowfall, children livBest Method ing in the environs of Stockholm make "Did you catch your husband flirt their way to school on skis. ing?" Fond of Study and Sports. "Of course. Wasn't that how you Under such circumstances, it is natural that the children of Stockholm caught yours?" Bystander (London). should take their studies somewhat Now They Don't Speak more seriously than children in AmerA strange man tried to kiss Ella ican cities; yet, when the summer vacation season arrives, no youngsters me last night, dearie. Bella He must have been a strange in the world enter upon their outdoor frolics with greater joy. The children man to want to do that, honey. of the wealthier classes accompany SAD THOUGHT their parents to summer homes outside the city, many of them situated on the countless islands which dot Sweden's Baltic shore line; yet even here they pursue their studies in natural history with the zest of a sport. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Stockholm youth is his fondness for sports, with a special predilection for that most graceful of all exhibitions of skill, Association ball (played with a round football), in which the head is used very largely as the propulsive force, is the national sport of the country, while bicycle endurance races, skiing and skating, and boating in ,1' isummer are also extremely popular. Social Life in the Winter. When the long days begin to grow Buth (poetically) Isn't this glorimiddle class ous? Couldn't you Just drift thus forshort, when the and the aristocracy return from their ever, down Life's long, shadowy country estates, when the autumn stream? rains set in, and the lights begin to Jack (prosaically) Well, yes, I twinkle In apartment windows in the could drift down all right, but it'ii early afternoon (only the very wealthy be no Joke paddling back. can afford to live in private homes in Stockholm), the social life of the city Wrong Amwer awakens from its summer sleep. "What became of that clerk you had a Then comes long succession of here?" dinners, musicales, theater parties, "A man came in to buy a book to opera parties, and suppers. At least read on his honeymoon, and the stupid one feature of this Stockholm social assistant offered him 'Travels With a life would meet with the hearty apDonkey.' " Dns Kleine Witzblatt proval of the average American man of affairs: there is no such obligation Revenge as a dinner call. Swedes do not visit First Girl Usher What's up? Too Informally, nor would it ever occur to a Stockholm woman to telephone a look tickled. Second Ditto A boy friend of mine friend find say that she expected to call. One goes to a friend's home came In with his latest girl and I've separated them. only when he or she has been espebut, invited; having cially accepted Much Worse such an invitation, he obligates him"What emotion one must feel facself to reciprocal entertainment. Thus the to many weary winter round ing a wild bull that Is going to attack one, and It falls, struck by lightning." begins. "Yes, but the emotion must be greatThe most distinctive feature of a Swedish repast Is the smoi gas bord er when It Is not struck by lightning." Gazzettino Illustrato (Venice). (sandwich table), variously described sis a "super-supehors d'ocuvres" a concentrated delicatessen store, and a Bad Beginning "She said I was interesting and general assault on all the rules of diet. To count calories while feasting at brave." a smorgas bord weitli' require the "You could never marry a woman services of nn expert accountant who deceived you from the start." equipped with several adding ma Karikaturen (Oslo). chines. doll-hous- ill MM d javelin-throwing- woman who gives her the right stimulant need not worry about growing old. Her system doesn't stagnate; her face doesn't age. She has the health and "pep" that come from a lively liver and strong, active bowels. When you're sluggish and the system needs help, don't take a lot of "patent medicines." There's a famous doctor's prescription for such cases, ana every druggist I'ust this standard preparation. It is made from fresh laxative herbs, active senna, and pure pepsin. Just ask for Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin. Take a little every day or so, until every organ in your body feels the big improvement. The next time you have a bilious take headache, or feel all bound-u- p, this delicious syrup instead of the THE MIXTURE OF COLOR IN THE SAPPHIRE Stone Long Famous for Its Wide Range. Sapphire, the blrthstone of September, may be golden, yellow, pink, brown, black, gray, blue, green or violet, and occasionally has no color at all! The term, to the lapidary, means any corundum except the ruby, and includes the oriental amethyst, the oriental peridot and the oriental topaz as well as the brilliant, lustrous blue stone to which people through the ages have given the title "sapphire." Corundum is a combination of oxygen and aluminium, created In the volcanic fires of the dawn of time, says Nature Magazine of Like Cleopatra, "age Washington. cannot wither nor custom stale" Its infinite variety, and yet the wide range of colors Is caused merely by minute impurities which crept Into the atomic structure of the stone. It Is one of the marvels of the mineral kingdom thnt a crystal octhe casionally Is blue on one-hal- f length of the crystal and yellow on the other half; or that sometimes the blue and red alternate in thin stripes to impart to the crystal a purplish plum color. And it is equally marvelous that some stones, viewed through the length of the crystal, appear blue usual cathartic You'll be rid of all that poisonous waste, and you haven t weakened the bowels. You'll have a better appetite, and feel better in every way. The constant use of cathartics is often the cause of a sallow complexion and lines in the face. And so unnecessary! Would you like to break yourself of the cathartic habit? At the same time building health and vigor that protects you from freauent sick spells, headaches, and colds? Get a big bottle of Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin today. Use often enough to avoid those attacks of constipation. n When you feci weak and or a coated tongue or bad breath warns you the bowels need to be stimulated. Give it to children instead of strong laxatives that sap their strength. It isn't expensive. run-dow- although a side view discloses them as a reddish plum shade or without color at all! How or why these phenomena occur Is still unexplained, although It is known that the oxides of chromium, titanium and Iron will produce stones colored red. blue, yellow and brown. In any event, the result of them are either rubles or sapphires, and the beauty-lovin- g world is far richer for their creation. F.plphanes, a writer f the Sixteenth century, has written that the vision Moses saw on the Mount was within the crystal of a sapphire, and that the original Tables of the Law were made of the same material. 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