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Show and forth, n violin ami banjo caught from the lloor and returned to their places, the carpet straightened, n dozen j hooks slid hack home. Am then Al- liert stood back with cocked head and one eye shut, and surveyed the room. ! "Now clolh and dustpan and common-i common-i place broom, And we'll plide with honor out of the room.'' j. "That's for yon, Ella. Come, Harry, ; let's tackle the athletic stunts In the living room downstairs. That's a job for hravos. Whoopee! "What's New Year but jolly fun Clearing the track for a twelve-month run." Harry was chuckling as they rushed downstairs, leaving Ella with a broad grin at the end of a broom handle. When the young people desisted, late in the day, even the critical eyes of the satisfied Ella could see no sugges-l.tion sugges-l.tion of a "pigpen." Quite the contrary. con-trary. Yet none of them confessed to being tired. It had been the jolliest kind of New Year, all declared. B, 1926, Westtrn Newspaper Unloa.) Jolliest Kind of a New Year's Day That's What They Had Cleaning Up Mess After the Big Celebration. By FRANK HERBERT SWEET . a A j?. H, DEAH !" wailed MM, M t m o r n i n g ; "the f''PyX f) r house is a pigpen I" ifLJl won't do it !" $$f shrilled down the ifiv :r lu lunra "Cousin Jim Johnson John-son made that mess, and " "But he's gone hoine, and you've got to" Albert slipped through the hack door and out into the yard. Hot words were sizzling inside. He had a temper worse than the others. That was why he was trying, to curb it. For half an hour he walked around, considering the almost nervous wrecks of Ella, of Harry, of Mary and of his mother in bed with a sick headache. There had been a house full of company com-pany for ten days, through Christmas week to this New Year day. It had been all hurrah and jollity. Then the company whisked away. The mother went to bed sick with the strain. The rest watched the old year out. And now. Albert had a saving side to see the funny and absurd point of what might almost mean a tragedy. When the hot anger cooled, the absurd angle took possession. posses-sion. He went back to the house and pitched in with a humorous but efficient energy ener-gy that amazed the others. "I tell you," snarled Ella to Harry, "that " . "There's nothing like a joke to start the New Year right," sang Albert, Al-bert, as he slid a heavy chair Into 9 $P place that Ella had been waiting Harry's help to do. A table changed a few feet, several chairs moved back |