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I dont see heard it had disregarded it Now she she ended with supreme scorn. I I had time, the girl why you should worry about flowers. would, if jerked open the door and answered. Do you honestly think so? You knew how out burst fiercely. Im upstairs undressing. Well, I guess I do much I wanted them and theyre Hev ye fed the hens? was not the slightest doubt of 1 There the seeds, mine, anyway! bought Yes," and planted them, and Ive tended the earnestness of Georges admiration. Did ye fasten the gate after ye? them. They wont do Aunt Sarah any Anne veered away from a more tangiYes. ble proof of it. "I ben lookin at the string beans. good, and they were all I had! unBut those flowers would be pretty. remained mother Her entirely think I theres enough ter start camoved ; clearly, the matter of the Could you climb through the barbed ntin. Couldnt ye come down an pick beans still rankled; but her father wire and get me some, or would you a few afore it gits dark? your clothes?" I Oh, Mummer Its late now! Ive glimpsed something of the tragedy of hurt hesitated, torn between his George barely time to get ready before her disappointment. to and his consciousness desire serve, Nannie-wha at few does Shucks, Georgell be here! Ill pick them toof the earned by the flowers matter? If ye bev to hev flowmorrow night of sweat he had so which his brow, left still some roses od There was a silence fraught with ers, theres recently expended on his new pepper bush down the lane by the med-dethat disapproval. and salt suit which he was now wearTheyre kinder gone by, but Wont that do? ing for the first time. take Twouldnt I spose so. Seems to me twould guess theyd answer. Would it take too long to go round see. and down run to there be a good thing to can em when ye long by the gate? We could let down the Sol, you go! Ill get my skirts all theyre fit, but I know that dont count bars and go round inter the medder. ! none in your jedgment when you want dusty We could both go. I cant an em Hold wont up ye to go to a dance. Oh, George, youre Just like all the The pick flowers, roses leastwise. Anne bit her lip, and went on with You never can do anything 1 others! me so, thorns stick inter get pesky her undressing. The cheap little alarm to hollerin an let go, an quick clock, ticking away on the pine buNow, Anne, dont get mad. I only Sam, wont you? reau, warned her that she must hurry. thought Sam gave a deep groan, reminiscent She filled the heavy, cracked white Oh, I know what you thought the Them cucumof too much supper. basin from the heavy, cracked white bers I et dont seem to as I know what Pupper and Mumsame Jest right, lay pitcher. he objected graphically, or mebbe mer and Sol and Sam think! Youve A sculptor would have used her as twas the blueberry pie. Id rather set got about as much action between you as Aunt Sarah! a model for a bathing nymph, with a still for a spell then go Why, shes been dead three years delighted prayer of thanksgiving to I ben workin hard all day, anyway. I know it! Thats what I meant! Providence for giving him so perfect I You cant even see that! come on a subject. For she was slim and All right! You just wait till I ever straight and supple, as exquisitely help you with anything again! Either then, well go round by the gate. as she was finely of you Honest, Anne Youll see For Heavens sake, come on! Do formed, except for the tan on soft foreShe was gone, a blur of pink and arm and softer neck. But to herself, you want to get to that party before gold, down the lane to the meadow Home Sweet she was simply a hot, tired girl, hastenwhere the rose bush clambered, prickly they start playing Home? ing to make herself clean and cool and parched, over a decaying fence. I dont care, Anne, so long as I can to go out with the young farmer whose It was, as her father had said, not far. place adjoined her fathers, and whom But Anne hated the white powder of be with you. both had long taken for granted she dust on her shiny black shoes, the tiny He put his arm about her. She did would eventually marry. She would beads of perspiration which, with her not actually shake it off, but her lack have liked to feel, naturally, that she haste, gathered on her face; most of of mental response to his caress was so marked that a physical withdrawal could make herself beautiful as well all she hated the laziness and indifferas clean and cool; but that seemed ence on the part of her family which would really have been less chilling. almost too much to hope. However, had made her quest necessary. Help me pick some of these flowshe did her best. She dusted herself They might do something to help ers, then, so we can start. with talcum powder from a highly colme, once in a while! But they never For a moment they pulled away, ored can stamped in an oriental deWhen I do all I can for silently, at the white blossoms. Then do, never It isnt fair sign, and rubbed her neck with rose them Anne laughed laughed so joyously In her anger, she attacked the unperfume from a still more highly that George realized, with a bounding colored bottle. These toilet perquisites offending rosebush with more vehemheart, that her vexation must be passhad been purchased, at the total ence than caution, and pricked her ing. of fifty cents which she Do you know the name of these finger. She whipped it swiftly to her to squander, and she mouth. But she was not quick enough ; flowers?" could knew they must be reserved for great a drop of blood had fallen on her No I never heard. Theyre kind occasions only, if she were to justify bodice, just above the waist-linof a pest, I spose but theyre pretty. her extravagance to herself. But this Now Ive got to get something to They dont seem to belong, someway, cover that and there arent enough with the dust and weeds and rocks. really did seem a sufficiently great ocroses casion. Then she put on her best unOh, what shall I do? Theyre kinder like lace. derclothes, made of lansdowne, emWhy dont you take some of that Thats what theyre called Queen broidered by herself with sprays of white flower growin on the other side Annes Lace. Its funny, isnt it, my and trimmed with croof the fence, in the medder, and put it name, 1 mean, and wearing them, and with yer roses? Its kinder large cheted lace which she had made herfinding them in a place like this, and self; her one pair of silk stockings, thatll cover up yer spot not having anything else pretty Anne wheeled about. George Hiloriginally white, but grown yellow She held a spray up against her face, from many washings, and carefully dreth, who was to take her to the smiling as the soft white blossoms darned ; black patent leather slippers, party, was standing beside her. His brushed her cheeks. Then she broke somewhat cracked and shapeless, came round, red, and rather flat face shone off the stems, and twisting them in next; then a pink silk muslin dress, with soap and scrubbing. He was the thorny roses, thrust them into her with a knot of black velvet on one dressed in his best, a garnet pin in his belt. ' shoulder, and a black velvet sash, spotted tie, a monogram buckle on his (TO BE CONTINUED.) old an from her of made sacque mothers, carefully steamed, pressed, and recut she had read in'' the Symposium of Styles that a touch of black was always very Frenchy. Last of all, she loosened and rewound her hair, and added another knot of velvet to its shining coils. Crows are not nearly as black as signal successes. In spite of endless Im glad Ive got some flowers to they are painted, says Robert P. A! and widespread persecution, there has wear," she said to herself, as she surfield investigator for the National doubtless been no decrease in numlen, veyed the results of her efforts in the Association of Audubon Societies, and bers. Long ago, Henry Thoreau, the over the wash small, blurred glass often their food habits render them quaint hermit of Welden Pond, wrote I will have a real flower stand. of the crow : This bird sees the either harmless or actually beneficial. some day, even if Pupper and Allen Mr. crows white man come and the Indian withstudies of completed Mummer do think its a waste of time conin and the but it withdraws not. Its unstomach Connecticut, draws, and space. I know there are enough examof were is still heard above the voice tents crows tamed wintering I havent picked them for sweet peas. of the forge. It sees a race ined by experts of the biological surtinkling on purpose. three days Such studies, of pass away, but it passes not away. vey. He says: She was down the steep narrow course, throw no upon the food It remains, to remind us of our abolight staircase in one swift rush of color of the crow during other seasons of riginal nature. and motion, across the kitchen, out of the year when in addition to a varied the rusty screen door half hanging on diet some of which is beneficial to Standard English Words its hinges, over the scraggly yard to mans interests, it also takes a conStandard English words are those the still more scraggly garden. The siderable toll of the eggs and young incorporated in the language by auone line of scanty sweet-pevines, of both birds. Its deand song game beside the close thority, custom or general consent, flourishing growing structive habits, which often are quite says Pathfinder Magazine. All good was completely stripped string beans, are responsible for the Anne dashed from the noticeable, unabridged dictionaries have marks to of blossoms. for its control. taken measures narrow front to distinguish foreign and obsolete words, the porch, garden Audubon ' association contends while The for the labors slang terms, colloquialisms and day ended, where, their that this control shall be local in char words having a purely technical meanher parents and her two small brothand be carried out under the ing are also so designated. All other ers, Sol and Sam, were taking their acter, supervision of properly constituted auwords listed may be accepted as standease in unwashed relaxation. is opposed to the payard English words or their variants. Who picked my sweet peas? she thorities. It ment of bounties on crows or other Do and did, for instance, are variants You all knew demanded accusingly. species of birds and combats state and of the same word the verb to do. It I was saving them for tonight, and nation-widMr. Allen dicis essential that an theyre gone. on comment this makes Interesting be the since used, Mrs. announced I picked em, language is tionary I took crows : constantly changing. Camouflage, for Chamberlain, rocking heavily. Among all our native birds, the instance, is now standard English, alem down to the cemetery an put em Is doubtless one of natures most crow Its though it was not prior to World war Sarahs Aunt grave. ,on your d Egr-TT- ; 1 twenty-nine-fift- y, r. 1 ! . weed-chasi- white-skinne- d ! 1 ! e. forget-me-not- Bird Authorities Defend the Crow; Oppose Bounties and Open Warfare gar-de- n a o e crow-shoot- s. Gold Diggers of South Africa in Playtime. Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C. WNTU Service. GOLD standards, gold shipments, rushes, gold values, uses gold, and myriad other references to gold have kept the yellow metal before the public eye in recent months. Gold coins brought from the wreck by Robinson Crusoe were worthless to him. On his island, nobody was in sight from whom he might buy. But when Crusoe was rescued and could mingle again with other men, then his gold would buy anything he wanted. What a simple lesson in the power of gold ! Lust for gold, and the power It wields, recast Old world geography in the plundering raids of Alexander the Great It brought changes to Europes map in the Punic wars, and in the campaigns of Marius, Pompey, Paulus Aemilius, and Julius Caesar. Leaping the Atlantic in the wake of Columbus it was again the gold fever which led the conquering hordes on those long explorations which not only wrecked and robbed the Aztec and inca empires and slew or enslaved whole tribes of Indians, but laid the fir . lines of wThat is now the map of the western hemisphere. Yet a third geographic chapter in mans world wide gold quest dawned when the trail wove back and forth across the Pacific, from California to Australia, back to Alaska, then away off to South Africa. Always, on the cultural map, the goldseeker left his mark. Consider California. The rush to its rich placers started that western migration which was to build railways and new cities, found industries, and cover the West with farms, sawmills, and Gold strikes, in the same way, swelled the human tide to Australia and hastened its settlement and Forty-ni- ners school-house- growth. When gold mines of fabulous wealth opened In South Africa, they put the Dark continent in the worlds eye and led, Indirectly, to the Boer war. Cripple Creek, the Klondike, northern now the greatest gold area in the western world, all have had their profound effects on human progress. Gold Is Not Static. When gold was used merely as personal adornment, in plate, or in the decorative arts, it swayed the destiny only of those who possessed it, as in Peru and Mexico, or when Rome paid chariot loads of It to the barbarians to save herself from being sacked. But when gold came into wide use as money, to measure wages, prices, and the cost of living in all nations, then it began to influence the whole world. Tariffs, the gold standard, foreign exand debts, change arbitrage gold brings them all into the picture of inOn-tari- ternational relations. You think of all this when you walk through the United States mint In Philadelphia and see the shiny new gold coins coine tumbling out; or when you explore the vast, silent vaults of the Eederal Reserve bank in lower New York city, sunk far below the Hudson river level, with their stacks of gold bars and bags of coin worth billions. High above you, in the busy street, armored trucks and armed guards come and go with still more gold, the gold that is forever crossing and the oceans, the gold of Paris and London, of Tokyo, and Buenos Ayres. For gold is never static; incessantly it changes form and place, and yet endures. Look at your own gold watch and think. Some of its gold particles might conceivably have come even from the gold of Solomons temple; from an old treasure ship plundered by buccaneers of the Spanish Main; or, again, from new gold mined only last year in Arizona. Look at the motley heaps of secondhand gold jewelry in any pawnshop window. Visit one of the great factories in New England or around Man hattan, where costume and other jewelry Is turned out by the carload, and you see again why industry uses so much of all gold produced. Or con- sider the fortunes in gold leaf laid on the crosses and domes of churches, , such as St. Pauls cathedral in the mosques of Meshed and An than $22,000,000,000, as officially re Eon-don- ported. Of this, about 80 per cent was produced since 1SG0. But today, the worlds nations hold, America can now be definitely located, say the director of the United States mint Since 1492 the world has mined more tal and trades. Half Used in Industry. Only about half of the worlds gold production since the discovery of h Najaf, such structures as the and American Radiator buildings in New York, or the fortunes in gold worked up every year in the den-a- s monetary gold stock, only about sign-paintin- g Wool-wort- $11,940,000,000. What, you ask, has become of the Where are the missing ten billions or more? It went, much of it, just as in olden times, into ornaments. In 1931, for instance, of, roughly, $49,000,000 of gold mined in the United States alone, about $29,000,000 was consumed in rest of it? industry. To understand golds place in the world today and how it affects onr one must first swiftly trace its use through other times. Europes gold when Columbus fiist sailed westward amounted to less than some present-dafortunes. family Part of this Europe had mined, part she had plundered from other lands. Cadmus, a Phoenician, opened a gold mine in Thrase about 1594 B. C., and carried thither the alphabet and other germs of civilization. Jason, on his piratical gold quest to Argos in .1263 B. C., gave the name Argonauts to Croesus gained wealth from ancient placer mines of Smyrna; so did Midas of the legendary golden touch, who turned his own daughter well-bein- y gold-seeker- s. Into gold. Darius of Persia looted Asia Minor, Greece, and Egypt, and levied gold and silver tribute. Part of this Alexander retrieved when he in turn plundered Babylon and other lands of enormous sums. Holes dug by Harun-al-Rashiwhen he worked the gold veins of what now is Hejaz were recently seen. Diodorus tells in dramatic detail how naked slaves, with candles tied on top of their heads, worked the hot tunnels of Egyptian gold mines in the cruel days of the Pharaohs. Some of early Europe gold came from Siberia. Gmelin, the German traveler, says the tunnels were so small that men had to crawl on their bellies to get at the quartz, from which they picked gold filaments with tools pointed with boars fangs. d India Hoards Gold. in time, became the worlds The treasure greatest gold hoarder. sink of the world, she has been called. Just how much gold is still hidden in India, the secret vaults of her princes, nobody knows; from 1873 to 1930. however, the records show that India imported about $2,800,000,000 in gold. Even after America was discovered, Europe, though her own gold supply was increased, continued to obtain less by mining than by conquest and plunder. Cortez and Pizarro robbed in the New world as Scipio and Alexander had done in the Old. Few books record the fact, yet Japan in the Seventeenth century supplied Europe with an important stock of gold. The Portuguese and Dutch managed this, beginning generations before the American Commodore Perry opened Japans ports to world trade. Fernao Mendes Pinto, a pirate from the Portuguese colony at Ningpo, China, was driven upon the Japanese coast during a storm in 1545. When he returned to Ningpo with tales of much gold in Japan, other Portuguese fitted out ships and began trading. Though Japan then coined no gold as money, her people amassed it as wealth and traded it freely for weapons, drugs, and dress stuffs brought by the Portuguese and later the Dutch. When the stock began to wane, the Portuguese hatched a plot to overthrow the Shogun, and to work the mines with enslaved natives ; this project led finally to their expulsion. The Portuguese, however, had actually contrived to have the mines worked, and thus secured treasure which was shipped to Europe. I |