Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 3, 1919, Page 7

~ avound this afternoon?” he asked Fay Stanle); s ‘Water S Ay by Lflr right, 1919, by the McClure News- B paper 8yndicate.) “And down that lane you-get .to the- bungdlow. ‘of Tom" Stanley," the .water Hly man—water lilles, pond lilles or whatever you call them, He calls them Bymphacaé; ‘If ithat s the. way yon pronounce- the. botanical name.", This- Was pnrt of the liformation. that Mrs. Fey Mcheod, on the first of ler week ehds at the Manning country. cottage. “Bo, you .Eee; -Wé haven't: verymany fil‘lble bachelors for you, Fay,”she |, Went on, “though, truly, I imagine that | fir. Stanley is.nice enough. gside;from m'o!essor it o ot the collezea fn the winter, sogh Hls pespelty- would meki him deFend"El‘ “¢hose. "At least, he's armless and Quite’ £00d looking and cax’ ée@ how ‘you ‘lke him.” Weve ed hlm-up for - tbe lmle dnncc to t.7 5 i 7§ Perhaps the fact _tlut Fay was . get- ting all her vacation“in’ those week ds at the summer place of her old fHend, Mrs. Bob Manning, that sum- er, and that what diversion she had the grind of directing a play- | in. one of the -crowded city 60d% hiad to ‘be ‘dertved from tnrq:u noonto Monday morning, &c-. junted *Poi the’ AP thit ‘shd ‘Showed than her usual reserve when she M¥; Tom: Stanley-and the other m at” the ‘Bob Mnnnlnxs Snturdly - sight:dén 4§ “It must be a tnsdnufing nmdy," she told TForn; as shé breught up the sub- #0ct of his hobby that her hostess had #41d her about. “There are some that #loom only. at ‘night; aren’t -there?’ Wom uttered ‘an affroiative; but with- Wnt digressionon the.subject ‘of nym- cae, for at that particular mo- t the delicaty ‘curve: ot Fiy Me- Isod': lips and the delicate rounding of her chin seemed of vastly more in- térest than all the night-bleoming wa- , A#r NI1és Ini"the world. He had an #bsurd desfre to tell her about it. +14] have always longed to see a loms,"‘went on Fay, heroically trying | R0 .continue the conversation.-- Usualy- when all other devices failed one could talk on a man's hobby -with results, “but this time the rule was failing. *There must be something inexpressi- ‘bly lovely about them. “Yet, T suppose they never grow In this climate?” - " “So you are interésted in them, too,” .sald _Tom . Stapley. recalling- himself. ‘#Most people find them rither stupl ‘neully 1 do wish you_could get up an /interest In- the-subject; becanse it you .. :'did then perhaps. you wouldn't find me .b dnll as I nm utra}d you would other- “esting friend-to—to a" girl like you.” =1 4] really do wish ‘some nice girl could take that Mr. Tom .Stanley in thand and marry him,” sighed' Mrs. Bob Inmlng over Sunday morning break- ._¥hat with her husband and Fay. She “tiad ‘told her husband Ner plans be- forehand ‘and had coached hlm on i&mt he should say. “He really is a fine chap,” he ex- fl.lned. But he had been much ab- worbed in his shaving .when his wife $ad coached him, and he had forgotten $he details of the Instrucfion. “Say f#'ay,” he said, “why don’tyou marry | mind was made up. | =I‘had somé business:to attend to to- il night. It has to”be done tonight,” he | said: tear myself nwny later—and: then I'm counting on having you all up for sup- per-at my place Sunday. Aunt Mandy's promised us something special—" treated. Fay:begged to be told what his:-business was, she pouted and said 8she_was jealous. because he felt that she would not renlize that business such as that could claim him, Finally it was agreed, however., risiig:in the misty sky. now there had been thieving going on, There which Stnnley ‘had been cultivating— in fact, he had been the first to es- tablish them in this climate—that had Hieen stolen from a stretch of marsh- 1ind that was a part of his land. Al- ways the theft took place on Saturday night. His man had tried to- discover 'S & sur- Tom hesnated for a moment, but his “T'm awfully sorry: “It 1 eould-come for disier and Fay protested and Mrs. Bob re- Tomdidn’t tell her, His business, he told her, meant n solitary hour or so spent in the wood- |. Bob Manning gave her house guest. | 1and swaip, and strangely enough 80, did' hers. tured fnrth_ botl) donning ruhber boots before they went, and Stanley taking u So, after dinner they: vem- antern, in“cgse the moon should be hidden by-one of the clouds that were The fact was that for several weeks Were some water lily roots e e e fi‘:’t\"—{- \‘J&l‘z‘ T M T 0 0 O O RS0 14 R VO | can't” tell "you What It Is. [’ priwe,” she sald; looking at Pom: DAIRY. ,cqwmr.‘enofm_a_ka Animal- Never Faile to Return Profit ~for Feed and Care—Keep ‘Her Comfartable. e dairy cow is the most profitable anlmal on the farm If rightly managed, a8, under ‘ordinary conditions, never fails to retarn a profit for her care and feed, if she i8 given the right kind. of food and just the right quan- tity. 1t she-is underfed, her product will be correspondingly' small, and: if she Is overfed, she: will'be unhealthy. Feed the~cow .jJust 'right, keep- her quiet and comfortable, and she will be equal in' value to* the goose" ‘that 1ald ‘olden eggs. ... . e R Mnnmr in lh- Woods. Years ago, when quite a youth, I ‘was rambling o ‘the_ woods one Sun- day with my. brothers, gathering: black “birch,--wintergreens, etc., when, as we reclined ‘upon the ground, gazing vague- ly up_into‘the trees, I'canght sight of A bird: that paused a moment ‘on a branch above me,, the like of which I had-never: before seen or heard: of. It ‘was probably the blue yellow-back- ed ‘warbler, as I have slice found this to be a common bird in those woods; but to my young fancy it seéemed llke some falry bird, so: curiously -marked, was it;-and -so new and .unexpected. It secmed like an integral part of’ the green heech woods. I saw it a-mo- she, e elatlon. 1t was the first lntl;:tlvn I bad had that the woods we. knew. so well held birds that we knew not at dl.,-—Jnhn Burroughs. 8helves Are Fireproof. Not a stick of wood Is used In two fireproof houses being bullt: in Eng-, land as an experiment, says an illus trated article in Popular Mechanics magazine, Concrete unud steel are used exclusively, the floors being of joint- less composition with rounded cor- ners, while window frames, trimmings, doors, staircases, and even the cup- board shelves are of steel.. The cot- tuges are fitted with every modern im- | , provement and are said to have ex- celled shmilar dwellings of wood or brick. both In time and cost of con- struction. FEWER OLD MAIDS Bright, sparkling eyes and a sweet breath are dependent on a healthy condition of the stomach and bowels. Rouge and other cosmetics fool mo one, and are dangerous to health. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea drives out im- purities, pimples, blackheads, makes health-giving red blood 3nd ‘that means a clear skin Season’s Wear !flgr.‘arfmns'mm Rows Will it run"ss smoothly the'season's wear? 5750 the gare you ta b v him? He seemed immensely taken with when he asked me when you were {#oming lnln and all abbut you. You fiight as'well ‘bé spending. his money 45 having him-squander it all on those Mfernal water weeds of his. He spends 4l his stray time moping through the marshes looking for - them;. and not: ontent with. what he gets that way ousands of dollars having ) and ‘ottrer | “iWhy * what " he’ ipendn on“those ‘Weeds would support - half a dozen wives.” :The days that followed were gloomy ones for Tom stanley. ‘He was pess}-, folstic from the first about Fay. “He Xnew well enough that she was the girl whom he would want to marry, but he felt no security at all in hig method of courtship. . Now, if it was a new sort of water aymph that he was in search of that would have been different. That was a Watter of patient search through the fmarshes communication with his agent &nd then careful cuttivation on his-own Part. ‘But® woolng a: wife ‘was some- thing that he felt he knew nothing about. It was after they had known ench other for three week ends that Staniey ‘Gecided he could endure-the suspense 10 longer. He determined ‘to ‘ask her that week end to be his wife. Stanley met Fay at the small station where those “who visit that séction of the country must get off and ran her over in his roadster to the Bob Mannings’ ;~:1“Are you going to let me stick a8 60on-as he had reached their des- tination. Fuy - assured him that she would ~ much rather have him come that night and ordmd&lm playfully to let her “Bob-amuse themselves alone @uring - the afternoon, - "ndbiinme new dance records I thought we could fry,” sid the plotting m “s0 be sure to come back for < -:qn. if you don't l!tully mind- 1 bave a walk I want to:go this eveaing with fl}om" interrupted Fay. “Theredl be time for dsncing - besides -and 3 the thief, and then for a wvek Tom had patrolled the marshes, but he felt that as the theft had taken place on the three preceding Saturdays he would-have bettér Success if he spught the thief on that night. * - “We- 1aust ‘walk - up through this thicket first,” “sald Fay when they started out.. “I'll tell._you new .it is & beautiful surprise. You told” me you would. Hke it if 1 studied up on-water lilles. Well, T have been doing it, and I've .heen scouting around: iand. Fve found some most beautiful pink ones that come out only at-night.’ I pulled some up last week and the other week: ends; and T wanted first to find out what they were before I showed them L b s to you: But I conldn’t. Besides, they 4 o ot always close’when I get home. So'‘l 4 warited to take you to them.” “Did you mannge to pull them up by unE'SEn ‘uchnlEEn e S — . Lewis Beroud 514 Miss. Ave inent as ‘the fiickering leaves parted, noted the white spot in,its wing, and it -was gone. How the thought of. It clung to me afterward! It was a tev- with rosy cheeks, bright eyes, and steady nerves. City Drug Sbm teev anuwe dasit ait of " BEMIDJI AUTO CO. 412 Minneiota Ave. the roots?” asked Stanley, with a catch in ‘his voice that Fay did not detect. They were, he saw, the roots that it bhad cost him so. much in money and patience to establish. “Yes, T got root and all, because'1 thought that would help me to-identify- them. It was hard. but I did it.” “Don’t let’s pull that one up,” sug- gested Stanley as Fay pointed out the 1ast- of his most choice roots that-he had imported from the ends of the world. - “Let’s leave it there 8o we can always come back -and see-it.” 8 “And now let’s attend to your busi- Tiess,” sald’ Fay, rather disappointed that Stanley had shown no more en- thusiasm, but blissfully ignorant of the real situation. : “Oh, my business,” echoed Stanle; for-that-matter, it.is.quite.] srhipsithereason 1 wanted to bring you out in these woods: was be- cause 1t would seem_a-little-easler to ask the girl T love to marry me right here—in this misty moonlight.” And Fay ngreetf with him. SatisfaotionGuaranteed Dead Sea Is Alive. The Dead sea isn't really dead, after all. 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