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Show ways easy to remove a Mental Treatment Best boot that had been worn all day and to Overcome Moodiness had perhaps been wet. In such an tight-fittin- g to Bimroit iMTosucy By Peter B Kyne A by Peter B. Kyne. CHAPTER XII Continued N youll come right back to me when the estate is settled? -- I do and I hope my teeth may I do not." out If drop And youll not permit anything anything in all the world to make you break your promise? Id rather be a hungry tramp, without a place to lay my bead, than break the least of my promises to you." She kissed him half a dozen times and thrust him gently out of the door, which she closed upon him and then ran upstairs to her room to have a She did. She gave the Pllarcitos Commercial Trust & Savings bank a second mortgage for two thousand dollars on the property she had bought from Elmer Clarke, and old Anse Moody charged her ten per cent Interest on the loan and refused to make It for more than a year. This money she deposited to the credit of the Elmer B. Clarke Campaign committee, and on the day after the election she paid her last bill, closed up her account and had four hundred dollars real cry. left Thus did they And on election day Elmer received two votes in excess of the total votes cast for his opponents. It was a stupendous, a sweeping victory, and the politically wise ascribed it to but one thing, to wit, tremendous public admiration for Elmer Clarkes modesty. Throughout the campaign he had not once addressed the local post of the American Legion, nor had be appeared at any meetings of it He had made absolutely no appeal for the old soldier vote, either verbally or in print; not once had he referred to his war record and cited the fact that he had been in the army. Everybody in Pilar-dtohad felt certain Elmer would yrave the bloody shirt, and he had disappointed them; wherefore, in gratitude and admiration, they had elected him. Nellie was far happier than Elmer when the votes were counted. Elmer had a rather idea that he had labored and brought forth a mouse that he had fought for the sheer love of a fight. Now that he had a certificate of election he shuddered to think he would have to use It But Nellie, her plans for his career long since made, merely checked off another milestone on the road to the heights; and when Elmer, having taken his oath of office, secured a leave of absence from the city council in order to rest after his furious campaign, Nellie was relieved to be rid of him, even for that brief period. Elmer betook himself again to Lbs Angeles, but Nellie did not keep an eye on him this time. She knew Elmer had had an ample sufficiency of wandering in strange pastures and that the next damsel who sold him a pup would have to be adroit to a degree something more than humanly possible. Upon his return Elmer devoted himself assiduously to his duties as mayor for three months; during which period he sa v as much of Nellie as possible. leave Then, having secured a sixty-da- y of absence from the city council, he trip to departed on his Muscatine, Iowa, to settle the estate of his late Uncle Hiram. For some mysterious reason Nellie was very distrait the night before he left. In the stuffy parlor of the old Tully home they said goodby and Elmer was amazed to. see her go completely out of control for the first time In their acquaintance. She put her arms around his neck and wept for about five minutes. Elmer was mystified. In vain Elmer reminded her that he would wire her frequently long night letters; that he would write her daily and send his letters by air mail ; that he would telephone her every Saturday night. to be comforted and u She refused continued to sob: You Oh, Elmer, you poor boy I old decent thing, good, I i want you to to promise whatever happens, youll come back me, darling. "Why, of course Ill come back to you, Nellie! Why, I wont even look at another giril I dont mean that Im thinking of something else no matter what and Oh, Elmer, I I want you as back come to want you as the estate is So thats the he laughed. way the cat jumps, eh? Youre afraid Ill collect my roll and start wanderso long ing. Youre afraid Ill wanderHum-ureh? you, and so far Ill forget hours after A fat chance. Twenty-fou- r that estate is definitely closed I'll be aboard the rattler headed home but only on one condition. Provided I marry I you shortly after you return. Thats the program. How about it, s well-define- ' WNU Service part CHAPTER XIII Mr. Absolom McPeakes secretary came into his office and handed him the card of Mr. Elmer Butterworth Clarke. Employer and employee gazed at each other humorously. Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen I murmured McPeake. Its much too bad," his secretary declared. "Such a young man, too." Does he bear a family resemblance to that terrible old uncle of his?" "About as much as a hunting watch resembles a grandfathers clock. Shall I show him in?" . I suppose so. Lets have It over with." A moment later Elmer was ushered in. McPeake greeted him cordially and after a few minutes spent in nice-lookin- g d two-Week- long-deferre- kind-hearte- to Ho-ho- l" n 1 sweetheart? Well, If youll come back Ill marry you, Elmer. Youll never have to ask me again. All youll have to do will the day. be to Ill wire you the date before I start west Word of honor now, Nellie, that nothing understand, nothing-c- an induce you to change your mind? Word of honor, Elmer. And will you give me your word of honor that event father was likely to Impress a son as a human bootjack. Sitting behind him, he would thrust the boot between the boys legs and with his other foot pressed against his back generally obtain sufficient leverage to remove the obstinate footwear. In New England fishing families, where rubber boots are frequently worn, one will still find bootjacks hardly fail to see that it is also the primitive thing, the uncivilized thiag, the savage thing, as a matter of fact moodiness and unreliability are outstanding traits of savage tribes. The person who is still behaving In uncivilized ways, ways of moodiness, is a person who is not keeping up with civilization. This is a person who is taking the easy childish way out. It is the person who is not developing and who no matter how she may think she is, is in a profound sense tragically behind te the times. The remedy, according to the psychologists, is for the victim of moodiness to ask herself the following questions every day, and answer them honestly: How moody have I been today? How savage? How childish? How undeveloped? In short how inferior and backward a person have been? Old-Fashion- ed GSewesi Hotel r Still Ireland of Old Ireland after eight years of independence is changed only surperfl-ciallwrites Alexander J. Reynolds in Current History. The old Bohemian life and social splendor of Dublin has gone with the royal troops and the governing circle. In the countryside, however, the 200 Tile Baths 200 Rooms peasant still blames the government Radio connection in every room. for his misfortune, and it makes little difference that this government Is RATES FROM 1.50 Irish. He still has the same cheerJust opposite Marmots Tabernacle ful indifference to the penalties of ERNEST C. ROSSITER, Mgr. overbreeding and the same old love for landlordship. Frontiers disappear, old orders change, rulers die, political creeds Aged Swede Swedens oldest inhabitant, Lars vary, feuds wax and wane, but certain things abide the soul of a peo- Olofsson, a farmer of Gaakxsjoe, near ple whose roots lie deep in the na- Oestersund, has celebrated his one tive soil and form their real anchor. hundred and fifth anniversary. In Gaakxsjie parish there are two men Not Yet one hundred and one years old, two Professor Natural science has centenarians and five who are made such progress that we can now send pictures by wireless. Mankind has never let well enough Elderly Lady Listener Really, alone. framed? Pearsons. Hence, civilization. ready HOTEL y, morose. Why do they indulge a characteristic so obviously to their own disadvantage? Almost invariably moodiness is the easy thing, the unadult thing, the undeveloped thing. If you carry the analysis further, you can I Salt Labe Citys in use. Who Remembers Days of Bootjack? TEMPLE SQUARE enriraM HgHMaBHnBaaBBHHBnaBHnBBasani Shaving-Cre-am The long leather boots and the bootjacks of grandfathers day are nearly forgotten. Yet it is within the recollection of many when both were plentiful. While a few bootjacks were cast from iron and could be bought at hardware stores, the most In Campaign Time Plenty of Time popular ones were homemade. They Wife Going to the club again and "Senator, gushed the hostess to a were simple in design, just a notched board with a bunker to raise the prominent politician, Ive heard a you know the rent is due next week. Husband (calmly) Oh, I shall be jack end from the floor and the oth- great deal about you. er end to stand on. Possibly, he answered, absently, back before then. Lustige Kolner but you cant prove it. Even with a jack it was not al Zeitung, Cologne. s d the commonest faults among modern women is moodiness, according to a recent psychological study. The psychologists have been seeking a cure for It, and declare that mental treatments, administered by the sufferer herself, give the best results. Moodiness is a thing that definitely endangers a womans happiness, declares Anne Bryan McCall in the Woman's Home Companion. It also harms her standing with others and menaces her usefulness. Moody people are untrustworthy and unaccountable to others. They are gay and friendly one day, and the next may be sullen or discouraged or of One She Refused to be Comforted, and Continued to Sob. polite amenities Elmer ventured to inquire in what condition the estate might be. "In very excellent shape indeed, Mr. Clarke. All of the minor bills of the estate have been paid, with the exception of current monthly charges; the appraisers have completed their task, their report has been filed and about all that remains to be done is to pay the federal and state Income taxes and inheritance taxes, the cost of probate, my fee as executor and attorney for the estate, the few specific bequests contained in your uncles will and that old mortgage. I supposed you had paid the mortgage to avoid Interest charges," Elmer remarked. Not yet. There isnt suffcient money in the estate to pay it. Strange ! I gathered from your first advices to me that there was quite a sum on hand in cash, and also a couple of hundred thousand dollars worth of marketable securities. I also understood that this mortgage was for a sum of forty thousand dollars. That is the principal sum. Perhaps Id better start in at the beginning and tell you the story as your uncle told it to me the day he made his will. Perhaps that would be better, Elmer suggested. McPeake thereupon permitted the blow to fall. For about ten seconds Elmer stared at him unwinkingly then a slow, amused smile lighted up So forty thousand dollars, his face. at eight per cent, compounded semiyears, amounts annually for forty-twto all that, eh? Suffering mudcatsl I should have known there was a And catch in this will somewhere! he laughed gently. Im sorry, Mr. Clarke, but theres no way out for us. The record speaks for itself, your uncles will gives us no alternative, and the next of kin to Benedict Catherton has been discovMcered and has proved her case. humorover his visitor looked Peake ously. "I could furnish you with her he suggested. name and address, Then you might hunt her up, court her, marry her and get the money back Into the family." -- o , T(T BB CONTINUED.! 40,000 Conoco Passport Holders are on Vacation Highways motorists have requested and received free 1931 from the Conoco Travel Bureau. 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