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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH a I have found so much happiness here, It seems as though the cutting of that Marys Porch Tea Room By LAURA MONTGOMERY HO, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) sat looking tranquilly from her by the great south window that Staked down the village street. A se. nate smile played about her lips as she teteght of the year that had just been Baished. The occupants of the pretty, amiding house on the corner of Main and the Lincoln highway had steadily poorer, but the village Sad not known of this except in a tegee way until the death of Marys wither, whose pension died with her. Then the whisper had gone about that Mary would be obliged to sell the tease where she had lived her whole dismiss Aunt Chloe, whose faitli-fc- l black hands had first handled her ben she had been born and who had tended her ever since, have a sale of (he fine walnut furniture and start lie afresh. She has absolutely no income left, and shes too frail to work for any-oMiss Pansy had commented j. but shes so proud and aristocratic-like that no one dares ask her pbos or try to help her. 1 went to call, Intending to ask her to move over to our house until she lad made her plans. We have plenty ad room, and I like her, but she acted nwfal stiff. I guess she doesnt like to be with people. She's lived alone ai mach. The doctor stopped his car awtside and came up the walk, and 1 know he Intended to stop and visit with her, but she just nodded, cool-Skand said she was feeling all right, and asked him to take a pot of ,lilies tech with Mm for Mary Brown, who Ives next door, and before he knew it te was just walking back that board walk carrying the flower pot. Tabitha laughed' shortly. That weald have been a match long ago if She hadn't! acted so stiff; old doc is Etvful friendly, and, likes to mix; shed sgtfjil his practice with, hen airs. Polks about here like you to act common and nice, and let That aint Miss gnu help them. Harrs way, though she's always ready to sit up all night with anybody who la sick or do for them that need it. What she ought to do Is to be a taker, tost cad of alius trying to be a giver. Although such conversations had not been heard by Mary, she had, nevertheless, been conscious of her .nelgh-Iw- s opinions, yet she had become so that she had by and been enable to change. Aunt Chloe fisd repeated many stray bits of gossip .to her as she had served her mistress Hi the cool, shaded dining room. It Etui been the fat blue teapot In her ' rowants hands that had brought of.nnt the great Idea. Tjassum maam, that motor party wanted to know where they could get good cup of tea. They admired your roses and said the place looked like picture with the tall row of holly-cks along the side of the house. I nl them thar was a hotel down street f lat they wont git no tea there. Not tea fit to drink, Aunt Chloe had decMri as she poured out the clear tester tea Into the frail blue teacup. Hiss Mary permitted her tea to cold as she turned the idea over to her mfnd. She had often watched with wistful eyes the gay motor puties that flashed past on the Lintel highway and vanished up the Mbbso of yellow road bordered by faming maples, leaving only an echo laughter on the summer air. Jt week later the neighbors stared frankly as they lingered near the cor-; aer bouse. The narrow windows on tee west, end of the house had been out and a great plate-glas- s The rambler roses had carefully lifted aside, and when work was finished the trellises replaced with their burden of green vines heavy with roses, large gates to the grounds that r usually closed were propped open d a charmingly lettered sign passing parties that afternoon a was served within. "Miss Marys going to stay here; tele's opened a tearoom. When I went past there were two big cars stand-te- e aotslde, empty, and I could see Aaat Chloe, in a starched .cap and gun., passing little trays on the south ppeE, reported Pansy. T wonder If ay Mary feels very badly seeing ' grangers on her porch? Before the cool fall days had the number, of cars Mary had enough money to carry her away apt' winter umiifnrtnhlT through the months.. More than that, she discovered, greatly to her amazement, that afife had found contentment. Instead f looking on each day as a period of dragging hours to be lived through, dm found herself rising earlier that ate Blight lose none of the busy, hap-g- f moments. The mingling with the otetemers gave her a new interest In tee; and ' after her first shyness had herself talking wni away , she found demolished the as her guests teeriy gtotes of tiny r delicious) sandwiches. One day Harold Sinclair, a devoted ateterW i of Mary ' since schooldays, tefed at the tea yoom. , The Interior of your home reminds am te an old southern home, Harold ted -- as he looked about with ting eyes the South came from mother fy brought all this, furniture when test married. She would be horrl-s- t the thought of my keeping a but do you know, Miss eyes werebright as she spoke, e, piti-BbU- . e, - .' y great window bad removed old Illusions that hampered me and kept me Isolated from my neighbors. Since Ive gone into business Ive found that It is pleasant to receive favors. The first day I opened up Mrs. Sawyer brought me Six apple pies,. to help out if you have a rush, as she said, but I know why she' brought them. Here the bright eyes grew misty with She was afraid I didnt have feeling. enough in the house to prepare if I had any customers. you dont ask me to sit down, he remarked, looking at the deeply cushioned. clmlr opposite hers. You have tires to ilmt wl.h almost anyone except me, and Im growing tired of being excluded. I used to think you liked to live In solitary grandeur behind your tall black Iron fence, but now that youve thrown your gates open to the world and dispensed cheer through the spout of your fat blue teapot, I feel that I should benefit SEEM SOMEWHAT SET APART Literary World Writer Asks and An- swers His Own Question, Are Teachers Really Queer? Well, if not out and out queer, at least queerish? A little odd or quaint, you know; just a bit unlike the rest of us?' Yes, you have' to admit It; teachers are different. Their clothes , arent quite normal, and they wear their hair in curious lengths, or styles, or shades, and they flock by themselves talking a strange jargon and laughing at invisible jokes and taking a grisly pleasure in the misfortunes of their victims while If any man of affairs tries to join in their conversation they are awkwardly silent and seem' helplessly out of place In ordinary social intercourse. They are like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, when they are safely ensconced In ther classrooms and none too "high to do them reverence; but in the outer world they are like Gulliver among the They are a race apart uncouth, uncomfortable 'and unaccountable and probably unnatural, payin one direcing for in evtion and by ery other. They resemble Chinese ladles whose feet have been deformed by binding, except that they are misshapen at the other extremity sug gestlng those unpleasant, old elongated skulls generously exhibited- in the ethnological museums. They easily demonstrate that not every useful proposition Is universally true, for, assuredly, they have some element of strange-- ' ness In the proportion, and yet who on that account would dare to claim for them the Verulamlan perfect, beauty? says a writer In the Literary nt under-developme- - . World. MADE NAME BY ONE SPEECH ' t ft ine. .The single operator manipulates all the levers toiatr control- the cutting blades and also takes care of the engine. All the controls are placed at his elbow. If you live In community where It Is the custom for each man to con- . Man of Mark. - It Is typicai of Mr. Bonar Law, whose resignation from the British government created, so much regret, that when he first entered the house of commons in 1000, be remained'' a silent and unknown member for some time. One night, however, he decided to make his maiden speech. It was a reply, curiously enough, to an attack which Mr. Uoyd George bad made on the government The speech gripped the house, and in half an hour Mr. Bonar Law had made a parliamentary name for himself. Coupled with a charm and kindliness, which have made him popular with men of all parties, is a quiet sense of humor. One of his favorite stories concerns an election meeting at which a speaker observed : It is wise, and Indeed Imperative, thal great public questions should be submitted to the sober judgment of fhe people.' .Sober - Mowed!" Judgment be That growled a man to his neighbor. ' means robbin us of our beer 1 ' Undershaw? novel the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, . 1st, Is about to sell his house, stand-beausea at 800 above level, feet ing Can any amateur tiful Hindliead. Sherlock Holmes discover why the house is called Undershaw? The answer shows that Sir Arthur is a humorist and a philosopher as well. Years ago he had a parliamentary ambition, and put up' as a candidate for the Hawick district of Scotland. His opShaw, whose ponent was Tommy reminiscences are just now delighting the reading public. On the declaral Sir Arthur found himtion of He was, in fact, under defeated. self He took Shaw by nearly 700 votes. the matter good naturedly, so much so that In naming his new house at Hind-head-, he called It Undershaw, Why the-pol- : I had falra Moundsvflle, W. Va. doctors medicine for nearly two years my period were irregular, cam every two weeks, and I would suffer with bearing-dow- n pains. A lady told me of Lydia E. Pink-ha- one-ma- ' ms Vegetable and how Compound much good it had done her daughter, so I took it ana now I am regular every month and have no pain at alL I recommend your medicine to everyone and you may publish my testimonial, hoping that the Vegetable Compound does some other girl Mrs. Geo RGB the good it nas done me. Teg arden, 915 Third Street, Mound-vill-W. Va. How many young girls suffer as Mrs. Tegarden did and do not know where to turn for advice or help. They often are obliged to earn their living by toiling day in and day out no matter how hard e, ; Vegetah if she does not get prompt relief write to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Massachusetts about her health. e. Such letters are held in strict .. v conff-deuc- A Public Scribe in the National Geographic (Prepared ciety, Washington, D. C.) by- So- East or west an American must travel far to reach a foreign country. But let him take only a few steps to the south and he will find himself more effectually abroad than If he traveled to many parts of Europe. A land devoid of Yankee hustle except where Yankees themselves display it; a land with its peasantry reminiscent of a feudalism which the remainder of North America escaped ; a land where the aborigines were . not dispossessed but with their European conquerors formed a new race such Is Mexico. It Is a country of striking contrasts. Though It Is exceedingly rich In natural resources, a large part of Its population lives in dire poverty. It had a university before John Harvard was born, yet the great mass of its people are Illiterate. Modern equipages and machines are to be seen side by side with the most primitive vehicles And devices. And desert sands and tropical jungles can be found almost A'ithln a stones throw of eternal snow. The Mexico of today has an area, of About 770,000 square miles approximately a quarter that of the United States. Roughly half of the long shore line of the Gulf of Mexico Is Mexican j and Its Pacific coast is nearly a thousand miles longer than that of the United States exclusive of Alaska. Big In Some Ways, Small in Others. n Of the nineteen Independent Latin-America- countries, Mexico is exceeded In. size by only two, Brazil and Argentina ; and In population by only Brazil. With Its population of 15,000,-00Mexico has twice the total population of-- ' Argentina and three times that countrys density of population; bnt measured by the value of its commerce, its revenue or the strength of Its navy, Mexico is of less importance among the countries of the world. It Is subordinate In theses respects too, to Brhzil and Chile, the latter a country less than half the size of Mexico and with a population of about a quarter. Even in the matter of railroad mileage per 1,000 square miles of territory, Mexico, before Its revolutions well ahead of all other large countries, is now practically equalled by Argentina and Chile. But Mexico has wonderful potential wealth, and with a stable and constructive government and laws that make the Investment of capital safe, would have many advantages over Its competitors In the race for development and rank among ' the countries of the worlds Mexico an area has of Though great extent, what may be called the real Mexico Is much .smaller. Throughout the history of the country, both before the coming of the Spanish conquerors and since, its culture and its center of population have been on the great central plateau which rises between the two oceans, and particularly In the south central part of that region, A section there occupying not h more than of the country s contains nearly of the total population. This portion, of which the valley of Mexico and the city of Mexico are near the center, has a delightful climate. Blankets are used at night the year round, but seldom at any time of the year is an overcoat needed at midday. The northern portion of Mexico Is largely occupied by deserts. The Southern section is tropical a country of steamy moisture and jungles. Both coasts are hot and unpleasant throughout a large part of their extent. It Is natural enough, therefore, that the central plateau has played an Important part In the countrys his... ' x tory.,. But One Really Large City. Mexico Is essentially a rural country. Mexico City, the capital, with Its million Inhabitants, is the only city of large size within the countrys borders. Between the metropolis and the next largest city, Guadalajara, is a great gulf, for the latter with Its population of 120,000 is only the size of Nashville, Tenn., or Salt Lake City. Monterey, the greatest city of northern Mexico, and third In Latln-Amerlc- Bonar Law's First Essay in Parliament Established Him as a Points the Way to Comfort and Health. Other Women ; Please Read Once two teams of horses and at least two men used to be required to level and grade roads.: Now we have n the machine, which does the Job In half the time and neveregets tired. Like all modern devices of .this nature, it is, of course, driven bygasol- . . ap-M- Profitable Plan for Farmers in-- . Com munity to Get Together and Pu-- . chase Implement. j tiptoed away., i TELLS AIIOTIIEli ROAD GRADER PAYS ONE-O- N -- also. The Dresden-chin- a pink - In the cheeks of Miss Mary became a swift crimson. You like to joke, she murmured with a' little catch .in the voice she essayed to keep firm. It seemed to her that the deepening dusk had become golden with promise. May I give you a cup of tea? : No, he decided with a - sudden yrmtlifulness in his voice, its taken me a long time to find out that youre not a recluse at heart; Pansy tells me that you actually borrowed some tablecloths from her. I dont want a haughty princess, Mary, but I do want a wife. The gates are open now. Want to come? Aunt Chloe, approaching with a question on' her friendly lips, stopped short, looked a moment with joyful comprehension on her loyal face, then !0(1E tIEieilBOfi GOOD HIGHWAYS . Latin-Americ- one-sixt- two-third- Mexico. the country, is approximately the size of Harrisburg, El Paso, or San Diego. San Louis Potosl Is the size of South Bend, Ind., while Vera Cruz, the greatest port of the republic and fifth city, is smaller than Tampa, Florida, or Charleston, S. C. - Salina Cruz and the other Pacific ports are little more than villages with extensive docks. As a rule the cities of Mexico are not manufacturing centers but derive what Importance they possess from being the markets for the surrounding agricultural country or mining regions. While Mexico Is largely agricultural, and therefore rural, its country lift is strikingly different from that with which farm-breresidents of the United States are familiar. Seldom is an isolated farmhouse to be found ; many of the tillers of the soil live In little villages and go back and forth to their work, usually on the land of others. These. Innumerable villages give one the Impression of being standardized and are difficult to tell apart. They are made up of low, rectangular huts of mud bricks or adobe, and are huddled closely together. Between the forbidding walls of these tomb-lik- e dwellings, the tropic sun beats down on a narrow, dusty street Great Ranches and Plantations. In addition to these more or less Independent villages of the common people there are to be found in parts of the country the ' haciendas or great ranches of the landed proprietors, on which are other groups of the inevitd able huts, the dwellings of the ranch's peons. In the hot country of the south are extensive plantations of bananas, rubber trees, cacao and other special tropical products. These plantations are often operated by foreigners, and on them small armies of day laborers are employed. From the forest of southern and southeastern Mexico conies most of the chicle from which .the worlds chewing gum is made ; and from the plantations of Yucatan comes practically all the fiber used In making the miles and miles of bundle twine with which the hugs wheat crops of the United States on tied Into bundles. Aborlglnal traits cling to the mass of the Mexicans who are such a short distance In time removed from the strange mixture of barbarism and civilisation that marked the empire of the Aztecs found by Cortes when ho landed on the gulf coast in 1518 a, civilization with Its human sacrifice in a city carefully policed, and scrupulously kept clean by a corps of trained white-winwith its refined cannibalism beside an astronomical ability superior to that of the scholars who arranged the Julian calendar; with its institution of slavery the only one known In the world which provided that every child should be born a freeman. They are an artistic people, thtf Mexicans, apt musicians, modelers, basket-makerfeatherworkera, weavers and When the fire bell rings most of us hope Its a big one. New One to Her. One of Kansas Citys welfare well-coach- Gasoline-Dnve- s, metal-worker- s. Burial Vaults Are Ranted. Poverty brings its tragedy into the deaths as well as into the lives of tlie. mnsses of the Mexicans. Few are able to buy burial plots, and the custom of merely renting vaults for a short term of years 'has become general. The lease Is often not renewed and the bones are cast on a heap of millions of others to make room for a time for some other unfortunate. Mexico abounds in holidays. Besides. Sunday there is an equal number of hints days and additional holy and feast days to bring the total to 131 of the 365. Mexicos large unassimilated Indian population and its even larger population in which Indian traits predora-inat- e makes a certain degree of turbulence a natural condition In the republic south of the Rio Grande. The United States had not so long ago on Its frontiers Its Indian uprisings, lu and train . robberies,' and stage-coac- h Its bad men; with a penchant tot shooting up towns. Mexico is still In this stage of development, and because of the heavy Indian element In its population, probably will b there for many years. n Device ' Saves and Labor. Time tribute his share of labor toward keeping the roads In condition,. It. will pay the men of the neighborhood to get n road together and purchase a grader and reduce the time and labor ordinarily necessary for this, task. Popular Science Monthly. one-ma- d flat-topp- so- cieties provides a summer camp for children. Each, child Is given a thor-- . ough outing for $1 a week. Children'-arnot accepted under the age of nine, but now and then a child gets by a few months younger. The other day a little girl with all the r earmarks of seven years applied with-- a dollar at the camp. How old are Nine, replied you? she was asked. the child glibly. When were you " eight? This was an unexpected question. Eight? she stammered; Why, do you have to be eight before you" are nine? Kansas City Star. : I BETTER ROADS HELP BABIES Farm Is Made More Accessible and Nurse Danger in Travel is Reduced. It may seem a long vtey from good roads to. better babies, ' and yet the two are closely connected. America has a great rural population, throughout which babies are being born every day. ; These babies and their mothers need care, the visit of the nurse, the services of the physician, of;en of the surgeon, and how are they to have it if between lie miles of road impassably alike to automobile or buggy? Of what use is the little hospital at the eounty seat If the' woman whose life depends upon Its care cannot be taken there swiftly and comfortably? What difference 'does It make that the town physioan may be a very wizard at treating diphtheria, if long before, he can arirlve at the farm the little throat has been closed by the deadly film, or the little heart stopped by the depiessant poison? ;, Medical and s surgical honors are generally clalmecOor. the city when as a matter of fact the country doctor Is often possessed of a skill as complete as his heart is big. ' Make the farm accessible to the doctor and nurse, make the hospital and the health center accessible to the farm. Nature end skill will do the rest Concord Monitor. ; THIN ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE Cuticura for Sore Hands, tlcura Ointment. Remove surplus Ointment with tissue paper. This Is only one of the things Cuticura will do If Soap, Ointment and Talcum are used for all .toilet purposes. Advertisement. Didn't Fool Percy. Every night- - when Percys mother thought it about time to put him to bed she was in the habit of spelling to his father, so much so until the little fellow had caught on to It, but It so happened that on this particular night mother was spelling something else to father. However, Percy, looking up from his playing on the floor, said: Ah! Come on and put me to bed. I know thats what you are spelling. When yon see an idle young maq you see a needy old man, in the rnaki Ing. EASY TO KILL MTS and MICE Urinf His CMOiOS By , FOB USE BKTTEB THAN TBAFf Directions In 15 Imnsnut In grery bos. Bnts, Mice, Oockronofiee, Ante nod Wetertmft iMUoy food end property and are enrrleroof dleessa PSSfao Parte force tbee peats to rod tke bnUdlnc for water and freeh air. sand (us. "Money back If It falls V. 8. Oewnant bays H. New Shoes Cli Shoes Tfcit Shoes Ffew Yeara. - Mac Ad am was years ahead of his age and years behind this one. The builders of the Appian Way knew more about building a road for aiwv tortruck than MacAdam, strange as it may appear. It is the general opinion road builders an opinion among greatly quickened and altered by the war that the light stone road, be Jt surfaced or oil treated in what way yon will, is not the road to build In the face of an avalanche of motortrucks that is coming In the next few last. alt feel the same if shake into yon ' them some . ALLEN'S FOOT-EA- SE The Antiseptic, " Towde ;iect Takes the friction from the shoe, freshens the feet and gives new vigor. At night when your feet are tired, sore and swollen from walking or dancing, sprinkle ALLENS FOOT-EAS- E in the years. The motorcar brought 11 to the road as' a necessity. The water bond, which- worked so well with Iron-- ' tires and Iron shed hoofs. Is useless against the suction of the pneumatic tire. But the oiled stone road that ' holds the car with ease will not carry the five-to- n truck and ' 3,000-poun- h aad enjoy Be Mbs of lect foot-bat- d Over 1,500,000 Iba. of Powder for the Feet were used by our Army and Navy during the war. . . The railroad builders have found that for heavy traffic it pays to use the heaviest steel rails, the finest wood for ties and the best' broken stone, and pieuty of it, for ballast ik ter Allen'i Foel-Ee- ie ' ike rt . Vegetables in Fall Garden. . should be remembered that practically all vegetables grown .In the spring garden can be grown, also in the fall garden, and .such vegetables seeds as were left over from spring plantings may be used In the fall. . ; Short It . ' ' No Doubt of Need. There Isnt any doubt about the need for more and better roads when automobiles and trucks are the only means of bringing food to your city r tows - STEARNS ELECTRIC PAGTC RBADY Ordinary Rock Surface Under Motor Traffic Coming in Next - . : Boak hands on retiring In the hot suda of Cnticnra Soap, dry and rub in On- - tievedina few ho mu imt uai eCfi5j;SJ5Sr PATENTS town reasonable. Hlghert roleranoea'aMtMrTi' rar -f- .!LAWEEK Creeco Raincoat averageguaranteed and Coll Mfg. Co.. Dept. "or, 14J, improved Ashland, , -- |
