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Show ' CLEAEB-- . i Vy Etnitic Loring m . wm fevA ? fc J r 4S 'xujf iPHJ nt lurched over When It -- j ittdi A cold, 'i Ridded.transformed (of V finU, house tod filled the from twigs mien of the sea (ripped 'jit slackly fastened h tot j car. theThe lean, engine s stopped - iJ natter, Puf-- t Mr. Schuyler Inquired gloom of the they'll hold Qgesi though." swallowed tt concern. She jt hand '.Tjement on the her. She real- ieiit 0 to pull her spirit s f depression, she nllantly gtti alongside. L the What's si mat-wMe- natr ? a m hollow, muffled, I Snt within the cur-idai- c 1 could see noth-- mist HKiiny i jet yiffuesi of his that Mr. Puffer I Hi an-pc- f did who had person I eone?" isttrness in the more than jupnce. If the wheel quea-ifuulet- she would was warn-j- q Prudence de-- talk, shake Mid k Its (Diet t(N wouldnt expect i to the country In mid you? Wbatta s diell get to the red tomorrow." Vat !.vt houae Her house! fog was i thePrudence k Puffer watched Ml M minute the mined headlights powerful iull f ti a spark. Inaed aj rtlch up. if. forward. Was founded like a Inquiring for me, f1 ) F eoalX LW Settle UdiffackliIm'? that I was iDife irtng ar-- the man at the V only response. A t riut Into the golden , m" ahe sfo CULT I toquir-I-t Schuyler, evaded the him as he arriving 1 foa wait an youll Ayler. Whatta mean ww youll have kinder (.Itk anil know what to tie you np i ihovayll If ha can." loure not alluding inel- -E betwe rhea a ime fo Enoni Hose i"UI tie by I back. Glad to met yon I afraid you was oat cryln. It sura W for you to arrive. When I sates ver an neyr litre Shegf o."- -rt looked any chance. Fl i to go. Wara Senrd place now." at that he considered fo8 Closed lncl-- 1 he feel that she was I4 y fov jl with a Ip curiosity? Pru-- I She had Cerent She said i Tags? aid ik ifhknow there la aome-f Pass." he shines. this; Just Gerard la east, that is. being a neighbor tt i J? J ,r tw He eomo down only 1 eeckon you've hdgln' by the truck carted up to the red other day C0UI explain !uSchuyler ead-- I th lnentIon 'hw C ft. dfher attention J?e Mggested; ot Gerard fam- - &14 lU teU yon perhaps twlU Jr?0! nut. -- th rouh go-hlc- b Includes n Tut Unks, two e Gerard. Hla ,tt townspeo-JW,V0i of .Sr1 wb0 of polo t0 trln teJaV? ' hj their Jri, Pink silk bit stuck- 4 a tot od ti lde n ? 'I Prudence entered the room on her right Her brown eye, black from emotion, dilated already aa the saw heraelf reflected In the Ion pier glass between the ' windows Not too bad." She made a gamin face at the looking-jUs- e before girl, ah turned to Inspect her surroundings. The room waa cozy, homey. Her aptrtt stirred damp wings. Her venture might not prove the flop It had seemed a few moments agoi, Th dining room waa cheery with crackling logs to th franklin fire-P- i when aha entered a few later. A huge platter of saw ory beef stew, garnished with fluffy white dumplings flanked by pile of plummy brown bread, gave out an appetizing aroma, for tha first time sine she had left New Tork Pruea heart felt warm. Oh, how tempting 1 Oome,Macky, arent you starved? Mrs. Puffer, wont you alt with ns and serve? It will seem more homey to have yon here." d Stark, Jane Mack, her high cheek hones flaunting red flags of excitement, took her aeat with an air of being about to commit a social blonder. The rosy-face- d stoat wqman plumped Into her chair with a contented algh. Dearie, I'll do Just that After aa Interval devoted to serving and eating, aha sympathized :.Hope yon didnt mind tha trip from tbs railroad station. Seven milea Isnt far, but Ita a long way to drive over a strange road In t fog" Only aevenl I thought It must at least have been thousand." The satisfying food was ringing np the Sounds like first family of Bollywood." Wbatta mean la, folks hers think a lot of Rod, bnt ha has an older brother Walter an that brother has a wlfa. Walt waa the son by old man Gerards first marriags; that wife didnt have any money, neither did he. After she died, Gerard, who waa a handsome, gifted man, married an heiress and Rod's their child. They bnllt a house of stone and oak on a high ledge; that's the name of the place nigh Ledges It baa a sort of approacb-if-yoo-dar- e sound." At I was sayln, Rod's mother loved every Inch of the land, turned abandoned quarry holea Into Sba and her husband are burled In one of them. Old man Gerard died, then she went several years ago, and Rod wen. Rod was Just out of law school and crazy about flying when he came Into a big fortune; perhaps yon'vt met fellers like tifat" Just like that 1 Prudence concurred bitterly, and hoped In the next second that the man had not noticed the sting In her voice. He didnt show up here for two years after he lost hla mother. Then last June he opened the place, and whod he bring with him bnt Walt Gerard afid his wife and lit-ti- e girl. Walt lit out pretty quick, but the Mrs. seized the reins of management and how aha did drive. She's one of them women whos so busy helpin' God run hla world that she lets her own folks get along aa best they cam She's all a twitter, winks on of her cold blue eyes when she thinks shes bein smart; before youve been talkin to her five minutes, shell lug In a remark about my cousin, the ambassador.' She kept the bouse full of company all summer, young folks, but tbs girls were so bomely theyd have stopped even one of them electric clocks which la supposed to run forever. She's a wise one." I hadnt supposed thera were any homely girls now, they know so well how to look like a million. Why la Mrs. Walter Gerard wise? Not because she doesnt, care for ' beauty?" Whatta mean la, Walt, her husband, la handsome as a movie actor. Sha la tall, with horses teeth and a kind of borse-ahape-d face. Guess she was handsome once the women here say shes ft nifty dresser-m- ust have been or Walt never would have married her. He well, he knows where the' corn crib la Their kid tathirteeh" years oil Shef gate, but that curious that folks lock np everything when they e her coming. Rods awful good to her and aha worships him. The Walt Gerarda haven't much money. Rod gives them an Income. Thats another reason hla sister-in-ladoesnt want pretty girls around. Twould upset her apple cart terrible If he should marry." Has Mr. Rodney Gerard no mind of his own?" Tea yea be baa, bnt alnca hla mother passed away, Rod's kinder lazy; besidea ha's got tb Idea some girl will marry him for hit Puffers voles deepened money. with affectionate anxiety. You see, he haa all he can spend. This U, Pm guessing so. Perhaps be thlnka why should I work now an take a Job from someone else? Her we are. Miss Schuyler, this Is your uncles placa. I forgot; Its yours now. Sorry yon had such a tough night to arrlva He stopped the car In the road before brick gateposts and sounded a lugubrious born. In response, the house door opened and let out a stream of yellow light ; a soft, cushiony voice called: That you. Sir Thats Mother my wife," Puffer explained, aa he unfastened th curtains on Prudence's aids of tha car. He helped her out, then extended a bony band to tha gaunt woman who seemed to unfold like an extension ladder as she stepped cautiously to the ground. Prudence Schuylers throat tightened aa aha blinked at the red brick bouse she bad inherited. A woman, designed on tb feather-bed plan, with an extra chin or two In the best Rembrandt manner, greeted her in th haU. "Come right In and wash and take off your bat Suppers all ready, dearie. When yon get something to eat, things!! look different. Life can seem awful dark and dneary on an empty stomach." Prudence achieved a amlle. Thank you, Mrs. Puffer, This la Jana Mack, who has com to help me keep house. She haa been a atandby In our family since th first day ahe came to make little girl frock for me. Will yon tell her where to find things, please?" As the two women disappeared. gardens. ' w thln-llppe- ' t about our neighbors I'm willing to wager my Jlret crop of chickens that I shall detest tha Gerard heir. Rich playboy. I have no Illusions about hi type, if i meet him. Ill be colder than an electric rnnhtng on high. Also something tells me that Mrs Walt and I will be antagonistic from tb start' Maybe, though, I wont meet her; maybe she wont see her farming neighbor even as a dot on ber social horizon." Mlaa Prue, I'm ready to go np now," lean, lank Jana Mack announced from th threshold. Mrs Puffer showed me where to find th tupplles - I guess shell ha a good neighbor. TClsh I hadnt seen that procession in my ten cup, though." Now, Macky, dont look tor trouble to tea grounds; haven't w had enough fairly Bitting to onr laps these last weeks wlthont hunting out more? Com on op, lets see the rest of the house," Interest to Proes eyes glowed Into excited anticipation as they went from room to room. "Macky, think of having a whole house In which to spread out after years to an apartment 1 We'll makf It a dream. W will warm It with color till It makes hearts glow Just to coma Into It" A faint pink crept under the womans akin. Her washed-ou- t eyes shone with a lovely light Youll make hearts glow all right Miss Prue. Your brother said to ma Just before w left th apartment I'm not afraid for Prue. She'll make a home wherever she Is. She's like her mother." Prue slipped her hand within tha crook of tha womans thin arm and for an Instant pressed her cheek against her hard shoulder. I suppose there Isnt a person to this village who doesnt know that my brothers wife ran away with my sister's husband," th said to a muffled voice. ' - There, there, Mlaa Prue, suppose they do? Twasnt your brother Davids fault nor your sister Julies. If folks her know about It at all, thay know that If yon make too much of It, they may think theres something back of It all youre ashamed of. 1 know folks. Prudence smiled and patted the woman's bony band before she entered the room she had selected for herself. Long after sha bad extinguished th light, she lay with wide-opeeyes staring at tha fog which hung Ilka a curtain of gray gauze before window. She watched th wide-opethe steamy fringe ofwater dripping from th window as she lived over the last weeks As If hla heart had not been sufficiently uprooted by the desertion and tragic death "of hli wife, David, whose health had been undermined by service overseas, had been ordered to give np work and live In the country. The country I The inexorable command had staggered her at first How could they go with no money for living? When th crash had come to their fortune six months before, she bad opened a studio and bad worked professionally at what had been a delightful avocation tha craft of designer and maker of Jewelry and silver boxes. Each month had seen an increase In the number and Importance of her orders; then had come the command to go to th conDtry. whlch had meant tliat sha must glve .np .her hop. While iht Wi f struggling with hcr problems and doggedly assuring herself that she would find a way to relieve the situation, a way" opened, but not from her effort. Her fathers brother, Austin Schuyler, had Invested part of his small fortune to an annuity, then had made th dream of years come true by buying and stocking a Mains farm with the remainder. For the first time to hla life, he bad said, he had what he wanted and then on morning he didnt waken. He had willed the Maine property and flv thousand dollars to cash to hla niece Prudence. The legacy had providentially anprobswered the lem. Now that the atraln waa eased, she had but a confused remembrance of the days during which ah bad d th apartcleared and ment At the last moment Jane Mack bad begged to go with her. Her eye were giving out for sewing, ahe had said, but she knew almost everything there was to know about a house she had been trained by a New England mother. Prudence had hugged her to her relief. Jane Mack might be grim and a confirmed pessimist bnt she could cook, while she herself farmed and. If opportunity and time allowed, worked at her craft Gould she afford to keep SI Puffer aa helper on th place? her thoughts ran on. She couldnt afford not to at present Already ha had stood like a guardian angel between her and th voice In the fog; how he had growled the name, Len Carro-waI" What had the man wanted? Something to bis demand had anTomorrow" waa tagonized her. almost here. 8oon ah would know. Th mnslln hangings swung Into her room like two frail, transparent wings. Had the wind changed? She ran to the window. The fog had cleared as If by magic. With a urge of Indefinable longing, th girl looked np at tb heavens. With a shaky Is ugh at ber own absurdity, ahe flung out her hands toward th man In the Ice-bo- x n n HlJ wi Prudence Schuyler's Throat Tlqht-sne-d as She Blinked at th Red Brick House She Had Inherited. curtain of depression. That Is ungrateful when Mr. Puffer diverted our thoughts by most Interesting description of our neighbors." Jane Mack mad her one contribution to th conversation. Do yon hare movies here, Mrs. Puffer?" Three tlmea a week in the vlb lage. Tha manager tries to show th film people want to sea." Doe her Jan Macks eyes snapped. I love mystery and gang- iter pictures."'"""'"" Prudence gazed-- At - tba thln face In speechless amazement She had known th woman almost all her life, but had sha been taking her to a picture, she would have selected one with de luxe settings and smart frocks. How littla one conld tell what was going on In a persons mind, even the mind of someone near and dear. She aald aloud : Now well help clear away and do th dishes" Not you,, dearie. You go Into what your uncle called the living room, and set If Miss Mack wants to lend a hand, perhaps shell be more contented to be busy." Curled to the depths of a wing chair before the purring fire. Prudence looked about the room Indu bltably a mans room which al most over night had become hers. Her Interested eyes wandered on. Above the mantel hnng the one picture the room presented : a delicately colored engraving of Franklin at tha court of France. Benjamin, stage center, bent hla head to receive a wreath from th gorgeously appareled Countess PoUnac; while from a divan, Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoinette looked on with royal Indifference. They all had been real once, the girl mused; they had held their heads high while their hearts broke, they bad smiled through tragedy, while she, with yonth, health, opportunity, and her brother, bad fairly these last few wallowed to aelf-pit- y weeks sub-lease- She sprang to her feet. TU make vow, now, that from this moment I will regard I foreswear self-pitthis experience at at what shall I name the place which haa a lift to It? I know I Prosperity farm I at Prosperity farm aa an Grand adventure which will lead to health for David and great, good fortuna I thought I waa coming to a treadmill of endless monotonies, and within th first hour a hollow voice which aet little merry , prank rumpricking through my vein i bles through the fog: Has the girl comer Meaning ms Why does the man moon. ' Your excellency, I thank you for want to know the moment 1 arrive? me up tight thl royal welcome I Prue of ProsWhy will he try to tie 1" to him That was an Interesting bit perity farm salutes you BM CONTIWCSD.) volunteered Puffer (TO of biography Mr. a y y, 1 BRISBANE Woman Writer Objects to' Term Weaker Sex THIS WEEK Hostile to Christianity Hitlers Great Power Fourteen-Poun- d Baby Quite Easily Said In spite of a gigantic vote, about 88,000.000 to about 4,000,000, that gave Hitler absolute power In Germany, Hitler! ardent admirer are annoyed that even four million vote should read No." Th Jew of Germany could not well be blamed, since there are only 600,000 of them. They could not well cast 4,000,000 votes. Herr Goebbela, Hitlers propaganda chief, suggests to his newspaper Angrlff that the anti-Hitlvote were cast by German Catholics. That No" vote were Catholle votes aeema probable, In view of the attitude of Hitler's government toward religion In general, Catholicism to particular, and emphatic complaints made by th Vatican. It Is feared by Protestants aa well as Catholics that hostility to Christianity may develop and spread among Germans as It hes done In Russia, Spain, Mexico and Hitler now holds to his name all the powers once exercised by the kaiser, the relchstag, tha various separate kingdoms and governments that make npjhe German empire. AIbo, quite Important, Herr Hitler has the power to declare war and to make peace." It might be easier to declare war than to make peace to these time. He la commander of the army, navy and air forces, which indicates rapid progress for a gentleman who waa not a citizen of tha German nation four years agoi, Mrs. Ted Glovler, of Moorefield, d W. Va, weighs 120 pounds, her weighs 135 ponnda. Not that hue-ban- hla weight makes any difference. Their little boy, named, aa yon will guess, Franklin Delano Glovler, Just arrived, weighs fourteen pounds Franklin Delano Glovler, will not attract as much attention as do the five Dionne quintuplets. Bnt the mother la proud of the fact that her Franklin Delano weighs at blrth one pound and a half more than all five of the quintuplets. Franklin Delano Glovler1 father says I cant account for it. No accounting la necessary. Every baby, big or little, la a marvel, and weight at birth makes little difference. One sickly little baby called Voltaire started a work that overthrew a long line of fat French kings The big ateel companies talk of abandoning the NBA code altogether, fearing the consequences of putting their Industry absolutely to tha control of organized labor. More easily said than done, An old horse they will be told. mired to a swamp might talk about abandoning the leeches that ding to him," but the leeches would cling. American Industry must go all the way through the process of being managed by those that never successfully managed anything else before. Maybe the experlihent will lead to the millennium, maybe nob 'AIl musI Tiope and "eveu the mired borse. A woman columtst, noted for her keen Insight into events and things, elects this subject for comment : The papers tell of a federal Judge in a New York courtroom who compelled the men to gtve women their seats. A reader sends na the cliphat- - w think ping, wondering about Itr Here It tar In a courtroom crowded to capacity with creditors and stockholders f the Ambassador Hotel corporation. Federal Judge J. M. IVoolsey aald recently; Tt aeema to me that the men sitting over there should stand up and let the ladles alt down, When the men did not badge, he added: Go over there, marshals, and roust them out The marshals obeyed and the women sat down while the men grumbled quietly to themselves, saying they thought the order unfair." What do we think about It? Well, It all depends' on what w women want - If what we want most Is the seat a man occupies, then we should not Inquire too closely into the method of taking It away from him. In this case they were, we must admit questionable. Some of those men may have been more In need of a aeat than any of the women to accommodate whom they were ousted. And some were probably there In the line of duty, while the women seated by the gallant Judge were merely spectators, presumably on pleasure bent We repeal If Its the scat only that Interests you, you will applaud the Judge whose motto Is apparently un der all circumstances, "Ladles First If It Is chivalry on the part of men In this day and age that yon care more about 'than the seat In court or subway or street car which they may have to give up to you, then you will not favor forcing them out of their seats. There la no romantic satisfaction In taking a mans seat If he has to be thrown ont of It And the compulsion ta hardly conducive to developing to him a great-egaljantry. In fact the man once forced target up for a woman will 1 r well-orga- I Every once In a while some locality la fortunate enough to be baptized properly. We can thank Brigham Young and hla Mormon followers for the fact that wo may now glibly say, Were Off to Zion" Instead of twist-ln- g our tongues around Mukunto-weap- ." Muknntuweap la a flic enough name, meaning land of the aprlngs, according to a Utah scholar, John Wallis, who has traced the name to lta Indian source. The name was given to this national park when It waa first created by congress. That may be the reason that travelers were alow to discovering Its wonders. They Just didn't know how to ask for It, like the man who would like to buy a wife a fancy French perfume but has to compromise on violet," which he can pronounce. In 1018 President Wilson went back to the name originally given the region by Brigham Yonng.Yonng and a band of his colonists looking for new territory came upon the shining domes, rainbow colors and unearthly shapes, and immediately named It Little Zion as It seemed the one place on earth closest to th heavenly Zion. Chicago Dally New Blisfim Fallacy The popular belief that blindness la compensated for by Increased acuteness of other senses la not upheld by tests ; the blind merely train their other sensei and use them te better advantage than the seeing. 00&sm Pri Dirty spark plugs kill your car's pep waste as much as 1 gallon of gaa In 10. Oxide coating la the chief cause. Let a Registered AC Q caning Station thoroughly ' remove oxide coating eotry 4.000 milut O THI QUALITY IPAIK PlUO REPLACE LOOK POt THI Turn lat IAYMOND KNIOHT aad Nta CUCKOOS tartar Daylght (avl Tiara laSwdayz, IOiOO P-- BADLY WORN PLUGS WITH NEW ACs n high-power- A big diamond Is coming to the United States, fourth largest In the world, called the Jouker gem. The pebble" was found In South Africa by a farmer.' and sold to the diamond corporation for (315,000. The corporation refused (300,000 for the stone, now coming here to be cut to best advantage. Ladles will wear diamonds as big as pigeons eggs, bnt hardly as big as a turkeys egg. That would be con splcuoua. Hoboken, N. J., lg shocked. One gentleman, who liked the looks of another gentleman's wife, bought the wife for (700, to be paid to Inlike an automobile, stallments, with her - romantic consent," the last installment paid recently. That makes all that are absolutely well behaved shudder, although many millions of human beings on earth never get a wife except by purchase. Other millions may sell a wife If they choose, and no evil Is thought of it It to thinking that makes It so." do ' Little Zion Named by Mormon Colonist Band have your PLUGS CLEANED Piub by tioN E W AC METHOD-Sc- Lloyd George, to hla memoirs, says New York presents to your attention an Interesting robbery to the borough of Brooklyn. A lzed gang of highwaymen surrounded an armored car, with machine guns carefully planted In a peddlers cart and to parked cars, held np the armed guards, stole (427.000. The robbers escaped in three automobiles, th arm ored truck pursuing, one machine gun that the . robbers overlooked spitting ballets. That appears to be the record for robbery In the public streets. aelf-sacrlfl- trTr ftm that while England was borrowing American dollars so Industriously, tbs United States, shocked by the cost of war, was auspidous as the allies asked for credit" He does not add, as he might, that Ameri cans would have been wise to refuse the credit since all of our gal lant allies have turned out to be gallant welchera. hardly take the lead to making the gallant gesture of his own free will. That sweet flower of chivalry.-thsense of on behalf of the WEAKER sex, will have been nipped In the bud. And, anyway are we WEAKER? For my part I should feel cheap to have a man forced out of hla seat for my benefit A B.U Oyndloat. WNU Servlet, rum Srndletiw low lj Pure, smooth, mildly antiseptic, and medicated with fragrant, oriental oils, is ideal for daily toilet use. It protect babys delicate skin against chafing and irritation, imparts a distinctive fragrance to Mothers kin and cools and soothes Fathers freshly deli-cate- shaven face. JVica 25c. Sold at all drugguU Body Fights Germs Experiments show that when disease germs enter the tissues, the body begins to fortify Itself against the Invaders within 48 hours. ' Many Hava tha Mirror To think only of yourself," said HI Ho, the sage of GiinatoWn, "Is to hare nothing but a mirror for Body Tomporstaros Although body temperature I ordinarily aald to be 08.8 degrees Fahrenheit, temperatures to different parts of the body vary. Roto Is Most Popular Although It was Introduced 70 years ago, the yellow Marcchal Mel rose to the most popular In England. Eaglisk Traced to 3500 B. C. The origin of the English language has been traced to 8500 B. C. e It started to tbe tongue. New river, to North Carolina, although only a foot or two wide near Its source, la five miles across at Its Flower Prills Through Ice Tbe flower known as tbo bine Soldanell alplna of the Swiss Alps drills its way through solid Ice. Indian Mounds Coif Hazards In tho Mississippi valley many golf courses bare as hazards Indian mounds, made eenturlea ago. Baltie Ssa Tidoloss - The Baltic sea. Into which flows more than 200 fresh water streams. Razors of 1500 B. C. Liho Oars Bronze razor used ta Scandinavia to 1500 B. Q were shaped very much like modern razorai Indo-Hittit- Is Udelesa. German Sub Was Busy River Wide and Narrow mouth. i No Railroads The population orAlbanla Is less On one day to September, I9liT one German submarine sank three than 850,000. There are no railways and hut few good roads. British crnl8era. |