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Show .THE RICH COUII-- '' her at Miller Brothers wholesale paper house. Every evening at the close of the days work they walked together, for their homes were 'not fhr to apart, and they window-shoppe- d their hearts content. Susie suspected something was wrong with Ruth and John, because the latter no longer called for the former and escorted her After Armistice home, but rather adroit questioning failed to bring enlightenment 115,000 Employees Hecksteeths department store provReduced to 40,000 ed a mystery to both the girls. The big display window continued screened i from view with curtains, and their love for finery and natural sense of curios- TAKE CP ity kept them busy speculating as to what new product of the trimmer's skillful hands was to be revealed to Nowhere Else, in the public. The mystery grew on them Works, Haa the Proceaa of,, till it obsessed them, and it helped ing Swords Into PlowJ to assuage, the pain Ruth was, suffer' Been on So Vaot a Scaf Jolms from her because exit of ing Window Shopping as an Occupation By R. RAY BAKER Qe&iiWMSWWtt-iSSSSSSSSSSSSSssSSSt- MSI 1M1, by McClure Newspaper Lets Syndicate.) home go now, suggested and pop corn, or make Ruth Paige, fudge, or something. Ive had enough walk, havent you? gome walk, growled John Gregory, as they turned a corner which took them off Main street into a residential Weve been at it more .thoroughfare. than an hour and a half, but how far have we gone, I ask you? By the time we get to your home it will be exactly six blocks one to. get downtown,- four to cover both sides of the street in the retail section and one to return. And it wasnt really a walk; it was just a poke, with you dragging me to every window to stare in at the , finery displayed. Ruths mouth became firm and her dimples disappeared, and fire flashed from her eyes. Thats too bad, she said sarcastically. Strange you wouldnt want me. to enjoy myself a little. I cant have all those handsome gowns and , things, but you shouldnt want to deprive me the pleasure of looking at them. Just because Im going to be your wife maybe is no reason you can start in right now trying to take all the joy out of my life. Ivfc enjoyed myself this afternoon, only now you had to go and spoil everything. I. dearly love to look in the windows, especially when the spring styles are on display. ,The trouble with you is you dont appreciate art, and those displays are art, and the men that trim the windows are artists. Youre too prosaic, with your dirty old job in a inusty printing shop, and you havent the finer sensibilities to be affected by the more refined efforts of men who dress well and keep their hands and face free from printers ink. Window shopping is a great occupation, John returned Just as sarcasIm shut up all day in a tically. print shop, and when I suggest a little fresh air and some exercise on a Sunday afternon you drag me down .to the stores and make me gape into the windows like a country Rube. Well, you got fooled- at one place Hecksteeths because they had the window covered with a curtain. Just the same Id get a look into that window if I could, Ruth declared, somewhat savagely, and you and all the printers in town couldnt stop me. If youre so fond of exercise and fresh air, .you can keep on walking right past my home, and you neednt ever walk back this way. Of course, John returned, his own eyes spitting fire, if thats the way you feel about it. Ill do just that. From which it might seem that Ruth Paige and her fiance were mated about as well as two positive poles of a magnet. On the contrary, this was their first quarrel during the year they had been acquainted. ; They were both possessed of stubborn dispositions, with fiery tempers, but they were genuinely in love with each other and had to prevent clashed.-. Jt just happened, however, that John was peevish this Sunday afternoon, and his peevishness happened to strike Ruth when she was in an exceptionally irritable mood. After each had expressed himself and herself, they walked in silence the remainder of the distance to her home. At the entrance to the house they paused. Surely you arent coming in when there is so much fresh air outdoors, she said cuttingly, unable to resist the temptation for a final fling. Of course not, he responded, and lifted his hat, as he moved off down he called, and the street. Good-bdid not once look back. . Ruth stood looking after her departed fiance for a momet, then walked briskly into the house. Instead of popping corn or making fudge she flounced to her room and held a private session with herself, in which a few teardrops flowed. It looked like an irreparable break, for with their obstinate dispositions neither Ruth nor John would take the first step to effect a reconciliation. Ruth's makeup was such - that she would permit her heart to be wrung dry by misery before she wpuld yield one jot, and Johns temperament was constructed of the same kind of material. They were both wrong, bat they couldnt help it What was needed was a clever "mediator who could bring them together apparently by chance. However, there was little' likelihood of this, because Ruth kept her own counsel and John was tacti-tur- n about his affairs. As an example of this he had been calling on Ruth for about two months before she even had an inkling as to his means of making a living. With John out of her life, Ruth took up with Susie Atterson, who worked In the stenographic department with life. For two weeks Ruth saw nothing of John, and it was a long two weeks. By this time she had abandoned all hope of a reconciliation ever being reached, and on Saturday afternoon she wrapped his diamond ring and set out for the post office 'to mail it. Every Saturday afternoon was a for Miller Brothers employees. The route to the post office took her past Hecksteeth's store, and with inquisitive eyes .. she, surveyed the big half-holida- y curtain-covere- d window. just a peek I she said softly, and then paused, almost startled by what she saw. It was a crack in the screen where two of the shielding curtains met Heres my chance for a big victory Over Susie, she said gleefully, and sidled up to the crack, keeping her face turned toward the street as though she was in wait for some one. When she was in the right position she stooped somewhat and craned her neck so she could glance into the aperture which so opportunely offered it-- ; self. To her surprise, a pair of eyes looked out at her. At first she was inclined to think it was a reflection of her own, but gradually a - face took form before her, and it was not hers. She was astounded almost to the point of being in a panic. It was actually weird. Thats Johns face, she thought Surely it must be a hallucination. Fve been thinking so much about him that Fve started having visions of him. But no, there could be no vision about this face. It was human, flesh and blood, even to a tiny mole that belonged to John. The situation was so ludicrous that she could not help smiling, when once her Astonishment wore off, and the face on the other side of the glass smiled in response. Of a sudden the face vanished, there was a noise at the door of the store, and John came our. Window shopping?" he asked pleasantly. Yes, she replied, very meekly, and quickly tucked the small package into a pocket. Wha what are you doing here? I work here, he returned quietly. Im the window trimmer. I neglected to tell you that I changed jobs a month ago. ' You see, window trimming is my regular profession, but I get tired of it now and. then and try printing. I was offered, special inducements to take this job and fix up this surprise window, find Ive been working so hard at it I cant bear to think of window trimming when off duty. I feel like taking a walk right now; what do you say? And Ruth did not. demur. Oh, for ' " -- ' - Animals' Need of Salt. g Persons who have .the habit insist that they require it. Some insist that they need more pepper, mustard, vinegar and sugar than other persons do. Pqfhaps this is true and perhaps these persons confuse the meaning of the words need and desire. Many wild animals seem to have taken naturally to salt. The s of this country were the places where herds of buffalo, which roamed the land east of the Alleghenies as well as the region west of the Mississippi, traveled in order to lick the ground that was coated with the mineral. The aborigines of the land which came to be the United States knew the uses of salt and it was a common practice with some of the tribes to eat hickory ashes with their food,' those ashes containing quite a high per cent of saline matter. salt-takin- y, salt-lick- ' , Collection for Bad Check iition feature of Krupps worilWt Eaten at the present time which struck Walter Meakin, writing in tlys London Dally News, Is the scrapping of the huge extra equipment required for Blndenburgfs munition program, which raised the number of employees from 42,000 to 115,000. The whole of the works, withpo less than 500 acres, or nearly a square mile of covered floor space, was concentrated entirely on production for the war, When, at the signing of the arffilstice, the vast organization of labor for destructive purposes suddenly collapsed. The social portents in the Ruhr were Sinister. Revolution was in the blood of the workers, and no one could forecast the development of the upheaval. Partly as a precautionary measure, partly to hurry on the task of adapting the works to new conditions, the staff was reduced to the 42,000 prewar, strength within a month of the armistice. The additional workers, all the women, were paid four Keeks wajjes and sent to their homes throughout Germany. The .position at this time was explained by one of the chief officials. Although before the war, he said, we manufactured other things, railway' anil shipping material, motor car e tool steels and so on, parts, the production of gnns, munitions and war vessels was the mainstay of the works. All that was Irrevocably endhigh-grad- - , only possible to a firm with, a preyar capital of $60,000,000, and enormous reserves built up during the war. No dividend is being taken by the four or flge holders of the capital. ' Thousands of old employees, for whom there is little work, are kept on at full wages. All 'the resources are being staked in the attempt to carry the concern through the uncertain years which lie immediately ahead. If we go slack new, the officials say there must be a crash. It may not be possible to avert it ultimately. Our workers have settled down more contentedly far the present, but If their privations continue a breaking point must be reached sooner or later. Also, If coal difficulties, high prices and the disastrous fluctuations of the exchange cannot be overcome a return to a healthy state of industry Is impossible. Impoverishment must increase and productive effort will decline, even If the country is spared an extremist uprising. The whole situation is uncertain, artificial and unstable. We are simply going forward lnTthe hope that final collapse may be avoided. ways. From a balcony one looks down Immense avenues of roaring machinery, and the whole scene, with hundreds of workmen busy at forge or lathe, pr crowded about; the assembling stands, is one of titanic enterprise. From the bays on the side come the plates and other heavy parts. From the other side flows a stream of machined parts, and in a wide central bay they come together at thirty-fiv- e assembling stands. The norma! rate of production with each engine and tender on the stand for nineteen days, would give, roughly, a daily output of one completed engine, but. while the, artisans are. underfed atd domestic troubles foster political discontent normal work is Impossible. Nevertheless this engine shop presented the most impressive picture of industrial activity seen in Germany. ,, Make Costly Experiments. In the famous cannon halls of previous years and in other parts of the works elaborate and costly experiments in the manufacture of textile and agricultural machinery, tractors and motor vehicles are being carried out, in the belief that the home market, which has been almost monopolized by America in the past, can be supplied by mass production methods. This intense reorganization effort is - ' in as many fabrics. Organdie, mull, batiste, linen, charmeuse, and the many new , crepes are all used for blouses of this type. se ", Coal for the Digging. Is obtainable Flushing, O.r-Cfree here for alt who care to dig It Contractors, grading on the Morristown state road, struok a vein of,coal. When winter stopped work they offered persons who wanted coal the right to obtain It if they would dig tt The. offer resulted In material progress being made on that part of the road. The digging done by the persons who took advantage of the offeY aided In completing the grading of the road. oal Story of Lydia Southard, Said to Have : Had Five Husbands. Remarkable FOUR Baking Powders. C MEET SUDDEN DEATHS plain the deaths of her former husbands. She told officials she believed she was a typhoid carrier, .and that this may have, been responsible for some of them. Take poor Ed Meyers' for example, says Deputy Sheriff Ormsby. He was the womans fourth husband. In 1920 he was running a little ranch out near Twin Falls, when Lydia came home after Harlem Lewis, husband Noi 3, had died in Montana and she had collected $5,000 In insurance. She rigged herself out to kill, bought a long mink coat and a closed car. Everybody- in town was talking about the way she ran around to dances. , She courted Ed right off hi$ feet Well, in August she and Ed were married after he took out a $10,000 inIn September Ed surance policy. I BAY 'The 1921 National Connell Seacamp. of the Seascouts, Boy Scouts of America, will be pitched on the grounds of the Tabor academy, ' Marion, Mass. The catnp will furnish equipment and space for' three full ihlps companies and some extra officers. Any seascout, ' scout or cabin-boy- , weighing at least 112 pounds and at least 15 years of, age Is eligible to participate. The program will, like all scouting, be fun The law of the and, work mixed. camp Is the scout, law; trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, dean, brave and reverent The training for the first ten days will consist of the regular (July seashlp routine' with elementary g and 'short cruises under oars. Thls will be followed by , a long cruise down the bay for all bands in the Cnrlews flotilla of boats, camping eaefi noon on one of the many fascinating beaches and islands at hand. This will be the third annual cruise of the Curlew. The tame program will be repeated July 28 to August 6 ; August 7 to 18. TheAmerican schooner, Black Duck, under Ensign Cheatham of the Tabor ' academy staff, will also cruise ih Byz-- ; zards bay manned by her regular crew and , such seascouts as are schooner men. General Goethals, ; chairman of the national seascont committee, and other members of the committee will visit the camp from time to time. life-savin- t years ago while still in her teens she was living on a farm of her father, William Trueblood, about two miles from Keytesville, Mo. Following the opening of new irrigated territory in Idaho, Trueblood moved his family to a section near Twin Falls. Robert Dooley, a school-da- y sweetheart of Lydia, and bla brother, Edward, followed soon after, and settled near the Trueblood farm. Married to Dooley. In 1920 Robert Dooley took Lydia, then twenty, into Twin Falls one day and the two were married. Edward went to live with them. . One day Edward Dooley became QL Within a few hours he was dead. Lydia explained that he had eaten salmon from a can that had stood open for some time. Lydia and Robert the body back Dooley accompanied to Keytesville for burial and folks in the home town got their first glimpse of baby Lanra Marie, daughter of Lydia. About three- weeks after Lydia and her husband returned to Twin Falls, Robert Dooley died. Three weeks later baby Lanra was dead. Mrs. Dooley collected $4,500 on THEY KNOW HOW TO DO IT. yi rSarS?-r.'-.r- ti i - in- surance that had been carried by the brothers and a short time later was married to William McHaffle. The two went to Montana to Uve and settled on a ranch. McHaffle took out a $500 Insurance policy and made Their Own Meals When on a one payment on it. In a short time he Cooking Hike It One of the SMUts, Spebut when died, Lydia went to collect cialities. the insurance she found that the policy had lapsed a few days and the GETS MEDAL FOR BRAVE ACT. company refused to pay It. In June, 1919 Lydia married HarThe Court of Honor of the National lem Lewis, an automobile salesman, council recently awarded a broi.ze with whom she had become acquaintmedal to. C. Harper, a' charter ed In Montana. ' One month later, oa member ofHarry Salt Lake Troop No. 51, died 6, Lewis from what' doctors July for his courage and prompt action in said was ptomaine poisoning, and child the life of- a saving Lydia collected $5,000 in insurance." who was in danger of being dashef Following the death of Lewis, Lydia to death over an embankment 'in ' ' died. returned to Twin Falls, where she mot satiswerent The child was alone in b , Just townsfolk .The and married Myers, husband No. 4. fathers car and accidentally release fied. They started a lot of talk and the brakes, setting the' machine movthe Insurance company held up paySEEKS BIBLE TIME CHARIOTS ing backward toward the embankment. ment on the policy. The childs screams attracted the at... She Didnt Worry.; of young Harper, who ran out Fisher Doctor of the University of tention But Lydia didnt seem to be worryfrom , his own yard, jumped on the Will Delve in Ruined Pennsylvania left Twin Falls late After Lydia ing. running board ofi the car and succeeded. Cities of Holy Land.. in 1920 she .met Southard, a petty ofIn stopping it, just as It balanced itself ficer on the U. S.'S. Chicago at a on two wheels on the edge.' A moClare pee S. FishDr. Philadelphia. were and Later married, they dance. ments delay and both the child and when Southard was transferred from er, curator of the Babylonian section the- - scoyt would probably, have been of the oij University Pennsylvania San Francisco to Honolulu he took left here for Palestine to un- crushed under the car.' Harper is an his bride along. Hes still loyal to' his scout and distinguished himself dertake what he described as one ef N ' wife. the war,' itr bis achievements' during most the ever excavations Important oneThe marital experiences of the in seUihg Liberty bonds and War, Savtime Missouri country town girl made in the Holy Land and the first ings stamps. He Wak awarded medals Ten since the beginning of the World war, for both: eclipse even those of fiction. these! services and possesses He expects , to find .among other medai wiGi five stiver bsr'3 and ' the ace some of Iron menthe chariots things tioned In the Bible which prevented the Liberty loan medal with bars of , the children of Israel from capturing honor for each; campaign, V Bethshan, near which city some of the greatest battles of early history were SCOURS TO HELF AIR SERVICE. Md . - - ld . .. mo-sen- Our Warships at Target Practice fought , Bethshaq is near Nazareth, cjose to the Mount of the Transfiguration, ft has been uninhabited for centuries. WOMAN IS' MINUS STOMACH Organ Not Needed, Says Doctor Pauchet, French Specialist, if Diet la Properly Regulated. . Pdrls. That the stolnach is a superfluous organ is the startling disclosure of Dr. Vincent Pauchet, reported in the Academy of Medicine. ' Affirming that he has successfully removed the stomach from a woinau fifty years old who had continued to live happily in perfect health, he reports that Jhe operation also cured her of . cancer.' The stomach's action Is purely prePauchet. liminary,' - stated Doctor The mechanism for the vital part of the digestion is In the small Intestine This illustration hovs a Kite balloon being hauled back to the deck of the with the intervention of the pnmTenti-juic0. S. S. New Mexico after being used by observation officers to spot ti.e reand the bile. Therefore, pr, sults of shots in target practice In Cnliforu.a waters; and, at lie left, the vidliig the patient follows a llglu die guns dur-th- e the stomach can be dispensed win a M.perdreadnauglit Mississippi firing a lo witd..e fiou. twelve saute practice work. ' i ntajieously. . : . li When using baking powder, a way mix it up with flour, ratlnjr tliun p ting it into the mixture alone. . , Feet Off , Earrings to Return. New styles of hairdressing that expose the lower part of the ear are bringing the earrings back into favor TO CRUISE IN BUZZARDS Courted nects the two and a visit of any time to this area will be in the nature of a camp trip, says the American Forestry Magazln4 In "an article on The Land of the Beartooth.. A passable wagon road reaches Emerald lake on West Rosebud. It is a lake which dea serves to be popular for here nature made a place Which is naturally attractive. The scenic values are excellent, the fishing is good, and around the lake luscious mountain huckleberries grow in profusion. I appeared.- (Conducted by National Council of the Boy Bcouta of America.) -- ; Little-Know- ' . Now Woman Is Charged With Murder of Number 4 and Will Be Tried in ed. Present Husband Re- - : Montana In the Intervening two years the mains task of converting the arsenal to peace Loyal to Hia.Wifo. production has proceeded unceasingly, She swept the men and still goes on. Nowhere else, In a San Francisco. works, has the process of her choice off their feet courted of turning swords Into plowshares been them' so persistently that they could not escape." carried out on so vast a scale. ThatS the way V. H. Orinsby, a depTitanic Transformation Spectacle. sheriff of Twin Falls, Idaho, deuty Under the supervision of the allied the romance of Mrs. Lydia scribes control commission the Whole of the Honolulu on new shell and gun equipment In the Southard, under arrest at of murdering Ed Meyers of a charge mammoth-building- s of the HlcUJffCitrg husband. program has been made useless and Twin Falls, her fjmrth Mrs. Southard denies the charges thrown tothe scrap heap. The most and says' she can satisfactorily exand transforma- complete spectacular tion has taken place In one of these buildings. Within twelve months it was with machinery for the mass production of locomotive goods and engines for the state rail- Riverside,' Cal. The pastor ; of a local church was taking a collection. Elghteep special dollars In small change had been ' received but $2 ; more was needed. After repeated pleada stranger ings by the minister arose and, said: J If you will cash ' my check Ill make It $20. The offer was accepted and the stranger departed 'with the entire collection. , ' Thai was Sunday evening.' Next day ' the pastor reported to the police that the check had marked - .no been returned funds. The stranger bad dis. . A n Spot. A few miles west from the east branch of the Rosebud is the West Rosebud canyon. A good frail con- ' over-blou- Trusting Pastor Gives a8i . The Evolution of the Blbuse. The shirt waist dress grew put of the mode for shirt waists and skirts and passed through various stages and from these has developed the of today a fashion which, for certain occasions, has far more charm than- - the blouse which tucks in at the (waistline. Because of this, and Its 'greater opportunity for variety. It is fast rivaling in popularity the simpler type of blouse thut has predominated .tot so long. These overblouses are s versatile ns frocks and are made NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH , ! ' 7 r . .Washington scouts had the hdnor of laying' the first marker D. C. li for the new air route from Bolling Field to Dayton, Ohio, and plans are being made at the request of the federal air service for definite of boy scouts with the service. Some ot the work which it is contemplated liav- Ing scouts do vyill consist of helping aviator making forced landings, re- porting adverse weather conditions, marking , airways, guarding planer landed or broken, night signaling, dispatch work,' reporting on terrain, etc. 2 A SCOUT IS TRUSTWORTHY. Beaumont, Texas, scouts were asket. to undertake' the delivery of telephone We used to go out Into the hooks. streets and get the first kids we saw who werent busy, to do the job, says the manager of the local telephone As a result we frequently compnny. found number of books that had1 been thrown away, and their loss was costly. So now we have the scouts iellver the books because we can rust tlii'm. Worth while praise thst 'I worsi 'ic serving, , |