The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1924, Page 4

E I pl wi th lit tic th pe he us ay bs of tir ae in hi cit ty m se ite qu pr co be is ty we be m ty de fo tic ty ae eRe mE NBER 5 PAGE FOUR Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Comments reproduced in thie Matter. column may or may not express A ire gifucnted Here in geder tar BISMARCK TRIBUNE co. - - - Publishers |] cit P&iaers may have both sides of Important. ienues. which Foreign Representatives fee ee ere G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - = : - DETROIT UTAIN'S NEW PREMIE Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. ae sas PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH ‘ Ramsay MacDonald’s decision to NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave, Bldg. | take office arrived at only af- MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exlusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ‘ MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ERENCE Daily by carrier, per year............. . $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . . .. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside. Bismarck) .. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota Ries alae .. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (E: stablished 1873) a ee NEWCOMERS BRING NEW IDEAS A big soap company tacks up a notice that it won’t hire any salesmen who haven’t been at least six years on their last job. If all employers did this, salesmanship would become a “closed profession”’—no opportunity for a new man to start. Such reasoning recalls the city council of London, Eng- land, which years ago passed an ordinance requiring all cab stands always to have at least one hack ready for hire. Re- sult: A fare would rush up to the lone hackman, couldn’t leave without breaking the law. Every large business organization needs a steady flow of “new blood.” New salesmen, especially among young inex- perienced men eager to learn the game and willing to work hard to that end,..inject new life into the organization—like a blood transfusion. As the organization needs newcomers, so does the whole profession. Ancient alchemists searched centuries in their labora- tories for a universal solvent —a fluid that would dissolve every known substance. Finally a young lad, a newcomer in chemistry,. watched the experiments and asked blandly: , “If you get it, what will you keep it in?” That ended the search. So with organizations, professions and trades. Old- timers, experienced, know the job so thoroughly that they} get in a rut. The newcomer has perspective, a fresh view- point, leading to new suggestions and short-cuts. Often a group of men becomes deadlocked trying to figure out how to do a certain thing. A passerby. pauses, hears their talk and, with a fresh and unfatigued viewpoint, sug- gests the solution. Experts are fine, in their place. But there is such a thing as knowing a subject so thoroughly that initiative is lost.’ Accordingly, the soap company is making a mistake in hiring only salesmen six years or more on their former jobs. The company can draw on outside organizations for its new blood. But that blood will be middle-aged instead of youth- iul. profession or field. An important one of these duties is training youngsters | to seize the torch of progress as it falls from weakened hands | of the old-timers. PISTOLS BY MAIL Most cities try to curb the underworld’ arms by such measures as registration of revolver sales or requiring police permits. The restrictions are counteracted by the sale of revolvers by mail-order. A leading sporting magazine carries 12 ads offering pis- tols. A typical ad says: “Send no money. Order now and pay postman on arrival.” Nothing would go as far toward disarming the unde world as a national law prohibiting interstate commerce i revolvers except for officers of the law. A bill to this effect slumbers in a congressioyal pigeonhole. Meantime, murders by mail-order pistols continue. FEEDS THE FURNACE An “electric furnace man” for homes is invented. It’s a machine that automatically feeds coal into the firepot and takes away the ashes, even shaking the furnace when needed. Similar automatic stokers are already in use industrially. We. Seem to be approaching the time when nearly every- thing will be automatic, people to have no work except man- ufacturing machines, caring for them, producing and trans- porting raw materials, and growing food. That’ll still be enough to keep us busy. The earth can never become a loafer’s paradise, though a two-hour day is not impossible. | Many already have it. LARGEST DAM The largest dam in the world is being built in India. It’s part of a gigantic irrigation project. This dam will be nearly aaile long. A bridge on top of it will be as far above the ground as the height of the Woolworth building. This-is just one illustration of how the orient is “coming to life” after sleeping industrially for centuries in which water power—capable of lightening the burdens of millions— went to waste except for turning small “prayer wheels.” HIS ONLY FRIEND A starving pauper, picked up unconscious in a New York street, refuses $500 for his dog. He says the dog is his only friend. Police gave him the price of a beef stew. He goes his way and shares the stew with his dog. i ~ A loyal friend, dog or man, is a priceless possession. In acwhole lifetime, few of us make more than half a dozen such friends. Yet there are plenty of men who down-and- out, would sell theis last human friend for $500 or less, % FATAL ACCIDENTS Last year 2452 men were killed by accidents in American Pt mines, the government reports. This is deplorable, ani the campaign for more mine safety devices should continue. “<Portunately, the death rate among miners is gradually get-: In rough figures, one miner is killed for every’ ting less. 250,000 tons of coal brought to the surface. FORD’S PAWROLL One. in every 662 Americans now is on the payroll of Henry Ford.. He has about 163,000 employes. Making al- anton for children, house ves and old people, not more! than 30 million. seer tually work for wages or sal-| th Ford employes about one in THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE who And, too, every organization has certain duties to its}, supply of fire- ; EDITORIAL REVIEW ter careful théught. Not even his enemies would accuse him of being a vulgar office seeker. Mr. Mz Donald man of ver ideals, of courage, singleness purpose and vision. Probably no man is more keenly is a aware corrosive to the finer instincts; at best, or, tion replete with social difficulties jand would-be entanglements which no foreign observer unacquainted | with the subtleties woven around court influence, the traditional in- stitution of “patronage” and the “pull” of society can adequately estimate. Britain js the ablest in*the world. it seeks to bind, to paralyze thousand invisible threads, rather than roughly to break; not to oppose or suborn openly, but to resistance to the calcul: ers of determination to take s unanimously endo: ranch of the re markable Wi vain-glorions boasting, but w sobriety and sense of respon deeply impressive and acuteness of perception of all pitfalls and the ris Important, too, was the absolute blank check given to the leader to construct his own government as he please His eventual decisions may be s' lently queried, even disapproved; he cannot hope to please eve’ one; but I doubt if his. choice any particular case, when it is mc known, will be openly, chal- lenged by any section of the move- ment.—Current History Magazine. TERS BECOMP HUMAN WHEN PR Sonte (wise man has that ft is quite impos: any one you really know—wificl is another way of ing that deep down ip the hearts of men is a sincere effort to be right. Nothing bearing on internatio al relations in months ha the human note more impress and touchingly than the exchange of personal letters between mier MacDonald of England and Premier Poincare of France. The credit belongs primarily to {the former for h ig taken the initiative in a man-to-man appeal observe ommodation of the differences of the nations these men represent. The Albertvhall dress of the as public the de- "and the expre riptive word “beautiful, letter to Poincare is in the same init “We can be frank withont being hostile and can defend our sountries’ — which, once appreci- e?, would go far to minimize the Tr. of wars The response of Poincare is an almost impulsive reoching forth for le proffered hand: “My own rovkness shall be no less than youts and if. in defense of French interests, I show the same fervor as you in defense of British inter- ests you may be sure that nothinz will @ver change the cordiality of my deep-rooted feelings” — which promises much. The moment statesmen divorce themselves from the idea that in international : controversies they must strike a theatrical pose in order to play a stunning role upon the stage, and realize that they may meet as men in the spirit of humanity, the world will be less frequently in the shadows. MacDonald thas struck a new note—and it is musical. — New| York World. THE UNITED STATES AND TIN AMERICA L No citizen of the United State: |famfiliar with this country’s hi: tory, will feel justified in any quixotic expectations regarding our whole policy America. The United States had done much work which {fs distinctly on the side of the angels in Latin- America. Yet, whole; it must be said that there is felt everywhere between the Rio ,;Grande and Tierra del Fuego as tu what the United States ultimately intends, to do. This apprehension will never be allayed until the more or less fur- tive imperialism of our govern- ment ipolicy is succeeded by a new approach of candid and’ open friendliness, based on the desire, in peace and good will to advance the interests of all nations alike— the sort of attitude which we are so fond of advising the European powers to use in .their relations |with one 4nother. . | For such a policy an informed 'and enlightened public opinion in. the United States is an indispens- able preréquisite—and a prerequis- jite which umfortunately shows few signs as yet of conuns into exist- ence. a ‘Remember them that. are in bonds, as bound with them and them which | suffer adversity, as being yourselves sO the’ body—Heb. 18: 3. pre: oa HigktiaaMits lt while Sitether’s ‘bleasy them ‘can’t keep qqwake.”—Printers’, this morning’ that he was wastii ed—Pope, ot | that | power acts but too frequently as aj blunts and stultifies them. | As Prime Minister he is in a ppsi- | The old ruling class of | eldom goes in for frontal at-} undermine. ‘Rams MacDonald and the Labor Party as a whole, | however, possess unexpected pov tions which are even now being} made. noteworthy that, the labor | of- ble to hate; Pre-| toward Latin-| surveying our policy as al justification for the apprehension | | | | | | | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE & GERTRU Published by arrangement Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Copyright 1923 by XXX (Continued) What was it she demanded in jfove, that she had sought so ar- | Gently and ever missed? Could he | Va OH HecTorR — How Do You LIke MY NEW ‘give it to her? Was she merely | glamored once more, caught up j again in the delusions of youth, ‘with her revivified brain and re- | awakened senses, and this time only because the man was of a | type novel in her cognizance of men? Useless to plead the urge of ‘the race in her case. . . . Nev- ertholess, many women, deufed the power of reproduction, fell 43 mis- takenly in love as the most fertile of their sisters. But hardly a wom- an of Mary Zattiany’s exhaustive expeticnce! She certainly should know her own mind. Her instincts by this time mut be compounded of technical knowledge, not the groping inherited flashes ‘playing |: about the shallow soil of youth. If her instincts had cen- tred on him there must be some deeper meaning than’ passion or even intellectual. homology. After all, thefr conversations, if vital, had been few in number. Perhaps she had found, with her mind’s trained antennae, some one ality which she alone could reveal to himself. What was it? She wanted far more than love-making and mental correspondence. What was it? He wished he knew. , Ten- derness? He could give her that in full measure. Sentiment? He was no sentimentalist, but he be-|, lieved that he possessed the finer quality, Fidelity? That was not ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON When the seven league boots walk- | ed into the Market Town in Beanstalk | Land, with no body to be seen inside them, there was such a rushing and | scrambling as never had happened | hefore. Fruit sellers, peddlers, butchers and green grocers took one look and fled, upsetting stalls and, knocking over stands and yelling, at each senses. | And jndeed they had, nearly, for | not one of them knew that the | Twins were inside of the boots. They thought the boots were bewitched. Nancy .stuck her head t of the crack in her boot. Nick!” she called. “We've got the whole place to oursely Market Town's empty. All the giants have gone; and shut themselves up in their houses. Wally had we better do now?” “Keep ‘on going,” advised Nick. | “We'll go to the King’s Palace up{ on the? hill.” “But he is a cranky, mean, old xing!” said Nancy. “And so is the’, queen. They are the only giants in Beanstalk Land who aren't kind and | jolly. tmarket people “I have an 1" cried Nick sud- denly. “Let's go and make the king and queen behave themselves.” “All right,” nodded Nancy merri! “Come along! That's a very good idea.” So away went the Twins again, boots and all, right through the Ma?- j ket Town and past the mill (as big as four churches“ and three court- houses put together) and over bridge (as big as a rainbow) and through a valley and past a forest, where even the bears and deer fled as the queer boots approached with nobody to be seen inside. By and by they came to the hill | where the palace was. And they climbed it and came to a gate. “Now what?’ called Nancy to Nick. “Shall we just wish ourselves over, boots ang all?” “No! Jump as hard as you can) and make your old boot kick the | gate. I'll jump, too! If we kick ! loud enough somebody will come and! | open it,” said wise Nick. So they kicked, Bang, bang, bang, | bengity bang! went the seven league | boots. “Hold on there! Not so fast,” came an enormous voice on the other side of theegate. “Who are you that you dare to kick on the gate of His Grand Majesty the King of Beanstalk Land.” At that a big key was turned and the gate swung open. There stood a fat, old, bald-headed giant in knee breeches and a velvet coat, with a bunch/of keys in his hand, But all he saw was a pair of big boots standing there alone, which proceeded to walk past him without so much as by-your-leave, right into ithe court-yarg of the palace and up the palace steps. The big fat gatekeeper giant did what everybody else had done. He fat legs would carry him, down the road and away to dear knows where. “Hee, hee, hee!” giggled. the Twins. “A brave gatekeeper the king has!" - (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) een nenerae Capitalizing a Misfortune A clerk in a retail ‘clothing store stayed out so late at night that he felt compelled to snatch naps during store ‘hours. ‘Being a relative of a member of the fitm was all that saved himsfrom being fired. The manager, becoming exasperat- ed, enlisted the aid of one of his as- sistants. The next day,the lethargic ‘clerk found himself in the pajama; jdepartment. On the counter before! him was a sign which rea “Our, jamas are of such superior the who sells Ink Monthly, other as though they had lost their) I'm sorry we scared all the, aj gave one yell and ran, as fast as his” SCHOLAR TELLS A_ profes young women surpa terday. Ah there, professor! front, please! The learned man may be correct, Let us investigate. Dresses show us the girl of today is in good shape. She likes ‘sports, especially if the sport has a car. She is-shocking, MS ABOUT GIRLS. modern but that may be because she is a live- wire. One thing is wrong. The girl of today is so afraid she will become the girl of yesterday she tries to be- i come the girl of tomorrow. HOME HELPS ‘ We have smokeless . powder and fireless cookers, but non-inflammable {coal is going a little too far. POLITICS “Learn what Europe thinks about jus,” urges a senator. This is very jalarming. Does Europe think? H SPRING NEWS Spring house cleaning is being! ‘done a little early this year by both political parties. HEALTH HINTS ' | Outdoor lifg is fine, but too many | | visitors believe in open-door life. /| MOVIE NEWS i Movies may be broadcast by radio} soon, according to an inventor. This | woulq be too funny. Imagine trying to tune Charlie Chaplin out of Rodolph Valentino film and failing. | SOCIETY ! | Easton, Pa., doctors have a bill collector dressed in red. When he| calls at a house neighbors know that | person owes the doctor. It may boost the doctor business. If a woman knows the neighbors know she owes | money it will make her sick.again. | ; &AhioTansle» LETTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON | TO BEATRICE GRIMSHAW Well here I’am, dear Bee, and nicely settled. I like my work im- mensely, and am especially pleased with my new boss, John Alden Pres- | cott, whom you have met. I think | Leslie certainly should be ‘especially ‘happy in her’ married: life, but some way, back in my head, I have a feel- ‘ing that she jsn’t. I can't possibly think, that Mr. Perscott is to bl: j seems so frank and sincere. and alto- | gether pleasant. You know I havén't ‘seen Leslie since before her mar- riage. I wonder if.she kas changed. It is always a dangerous thing for a wealthy girl to marry a, poor man, ! you know. I have often wondered why Mr. Hamilton did not settle a sum of money upon Leslte when she mar- , ried» It seems he had some old-fash- ,joned’ idea that every young man and, woman should live upon what the husband could make. Médern fathers forget that they have brought their daughters up to great luxury instead of making them c@pa~ ble of living on the small salary. Of course, my dear Bee, I have no valid reason'for writing any of these | things to you. The only thing which | makes me think all is not right with | Lelie and ‘her ‘husband is the fact j that he, poor man, seems dreadfully / worried over something. I know it isn't mortey, for, being his secretary and knowing all about his financial affairs, I can see that he is not in debt. But' I have heard him say !many’times in the few days I have been here that he wished he could afford. to give Leslie a new motor or some other expensive thing I know she has been accustomed: to having, ‘He’ is = great big boy, Bee, open- earted and open-handed, quick .to nger and just as quick’ to acknowl- edge his mistake. He is a perfect genius for advertising: 1 told hifi however, e. He ‘bis: iia by working on a salary “ 5 ’ LET US INVESTIGATE bay ‘a fdive-dolt worth consideration. Appreciation of the deepest and best in her, sympathetic understanding of all her mistakes and of all that she had suffered? She knew the an- awer as well as he did. The abil- ADVERTISING The, sheriff came around to see us today. He said we had a fine news- paper. Then he asked us why we carrieq yo advertising. We changed the subject quickly: Jf you folks don’t advertise with us that sheriff is liable to stay next time he comes. D. Dobb. EDITORIAL Perpetual motion and the: univer- sal solvent are two fallacies of svi- ence, Chemists sought a universal solvent, until one day. someone ask- ed, “What will you keep it in?” This settled that. The other day in Barnesville, O., bootleg booze ate the lining out of a bathtub. Is this the | &niversal solvent? SPORTS General Butler estimates Philadel- phia has more stills than people. This may have been true when he said it, but we doubt if it is true} now. His’ statement has probably } increaseg the people. FOREIGN NEWS ' News from China says the women | retain their natural beauty for many years, We always had the idea they got slant-eyed looking to see if their noses were shiny. . SAFETY NEWS “He examined the full-length pic- Go east, young man. xo cast. Cal: ‘ture of Her painted shortly befere ifornin has 132,000 single women ove! Wer marriage?” sia Si 25 years old. a WAR NEWS { Battle of Washington is becoming so warm flowers on the capitol lawn may bloom early this year. ‘MARRIAGES A Manitowoc, Wis. woman stayed single 62 years only'‘to give up and finally cateh her a man. {ty to meet her in many moods, never Lo weary her with monotony? He was a man of many moods him- \self. What -had saved him from jearly matrimony, .was a certain monotony in. women, the cleverest ,of them. | ‘But! there must be something be- jeeod some subtle, spiritual de- jmand, developed throughout nearly \twice as many years :as ‘ha had dwelt on earth; bofn not only, of {an aspiring soui and terrible dis- ‘enchantments, but of “a wisdom that only years of deep and living his face clouded’ as he volunteered ¢XPerlence, no mere Intelligence, the information that he did not have Bowever Bee a ere hone tea money enough on in businéss Semble. He was thirty-four, There. for himself. ould think Leslie Was no possible question that at would ask ae father to back her fifty-eight, if he lived sanely, and husband in business. [nis intellectual faculties had pro- Perhaps you, think it is strange|gressed unimpaired, he would look that I am talking so much about Mr. |back upon thirty-four as the nonage Prescott and saying nothing ~ about! of life—when the futur was a-mis- Mrs. Prescott, but the fact is, I have|¢y abyss of wisdom whose brink he not seen Leslie since I atrived. I'haq barely trod, She herself was wrote her a-letter saying 1 wanted gh abyss.of wisdom. How in’God’s to put our acquaintance and friend- name could he ever crogs it? Her ship purely on’a business ‘basis, and T have not. hear from her. I.think Ody might be young again, but perhaps she was-hurt by it. You never her mind, Never her mind! know, Bee, how impossible it is for} Amd then he had a flash of insight. employers and employes to meet s0- Perhaps he alone could rejuvenate cially. that mind. ‘Don’t say I am proud and foolish;} Certainly he could make her for- for I know that better than you. It set Men and women would be has been my greatest handicap in'aged at thirty, but for this benefi- life. My pride is easily hurt and| ent gift of forgetting. . .. He does not heal readily after it is hurt-} could make .the, present vivid T think that was the creat Seonple: enough. e.. He was al- ways pricking ey grids" with He explored every. nook ot those i personalities 8, determine spirical epgnel cesar, cue UeuehiPs. discover ff he felt ‘any sense of in- at my annoyance, Te thse eal Perier will be in Itertority to this woman who knew town tomorrow and with her ‘is com- 80 much more,’ had lived and ing Dick’ Summers. I am going to thought and felt so much more, try and see him, ani then I will. than himself—wbom he still vision- write about him'to you. |ed on a pland 4bove‘and apart. No With much fove, _ SALLY. woman was ever more . erudite, in (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) | the’ most. btilliant- and. informing . declensjons ef life, whatever the He Got. Em Cheap! | disenchantments,, and for thirty BOSTON BLACKIE—Where aya! years she had known in varying de- get de swell outfit 0’ clothes? grees of intimacy the ablest and CHICAGO SLIM—At de store, most distinguished men in’ Eprope, (How much? She had been at. no. pains to con- “Aw, I dunno. De ‘boss done had! gone home foh de night?--Ameriean ceat her opinion of their intelicc: Legion Weekly. and he seemed greatly pleased. Then A We ful Bargain! MIKE—This is'a great country, Paty is PAT—And how's that? MIKE—Shure, th’ paper sez ye ean : Felieltations “dn Order ; COLLECTOR — ‘Your hardware bill: you; owe, hjm.: . onéy order for} CUSTOMER-<You're to; be congra- incisco. Exam-jtulated on -obtaining a permanent ms enuged Good Hardware,. ree’ cents—San of those hidden layers of person-} dealer has employed me to collect the.|‘ug with Associated First National Pictures, Inc. \Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Countess Zattiany. Gertrude Atherton He concluded dispassionately that he never could feel {nfertor to any woman. Women, might arrest the attention of the world. with their talents, change laws and wring a better deal out of life than man had accorded them in the past, but whatever their gifts and wh ever their achie vements they di- ways had been ‘and always would be, through thelr physical disabili- ties, their lack of ratiocination, of constructive ability on the grand scale, the inferiors of men. The rare exceptions but proved the ryfle, and no doubt they had been cast in one mould and finished in another. In sheer masculine arrogance he was more than her match. More- over, there were other ways of keeping a woman subject. Did he love her? Comprehen- sively and utterly? Clear thinking fled with the last of his doubts? . And when a man de- taches himeelt from the gross ma- terial surface of life and wings to the realm of the imagination, where he glimpses immortality, what mat- ter the penalty? Any penalty? Few had the thrice blessed opportuni If he were one of the chosen, very demi-gods, jeering at mortals, would hate him. And then abruptly he fell asleep. XXx1 He went direct from the office that evening to Mra. Oglethorpe’s house ‘in Gramercy’ Park. During the morning he had recefved the following note from her, and he had puzzled over it at Intervals Never since: “Dear Lee: “Will you dine alone with ani woman tonight—a rather bewilder- ed and upset old woman? I sup- pose to the young nothing is too new and strangg for readjustment, but I-have hardly known where I am these last few days. You are the only friend I care to talk to on the subject, for you always un- derstand. I am _ probably - obfer than your mother and I look old enough to be your grandmother, but you are the only person living with Whom I ever feel inclined to lay aside all reserve. Old men are fossijs and’ young men regard me as an ancient wreck preserved by family traditions. .As for women I hate them and always did. Do come and dine with a lonely puz- zled old woman unless you have an engagement impossible to ‘break. Don’t bother to dress.” “Your affectionate old friend! “Jane Oglethorpe.” “What's up?” Clavering had thought as he finished it. “Mary or Janet?” It was an extraordinary letter to receive from Mrs. Oglethorpe, the most fearsome old woman in New York. To Clavering. she had _al- ways. shown the softer side of her nature and he knew her perhaps better, or at all events more inti- mately, than any of her old.friends, for she had not treated him as a negligible junior even when he ar- tived' in New York at the tender age of twenty-two. His inzenuows Precocity had amused her and she had discovered a keen interest in the newspaper world of whose ex istence she had hardly been-aware; no interviewer had ever dared ap proach her; and a8 he grew older developing rapidly more and more unlike her sons and her sons» friends,. they. had fallen into an easy .pailish intimacy, were frank to rudeness, quarrelled furlously, but fed each other’s wisdom and ‘were deeply attached, During the war she had knitted, him enough socks and aters to. supply hal! his regiment; and when he had left the hospital after a serious attack of influenza it had been for the house in Gramercy Park, where he could have remained indefinite! had he wished. But tn all the years of their if timacy never before had she “broken,” given a hint that she fell ‘the long. generation between them. He found her more interesting in talk than any girl, except when he was briefly in love, and her ab sence: of vanity, her contempt for sentiment fn any of its forms, filled him with a blessed sense of securi- ty as he spent hours stretched out on the sofa in her upstairs sittin, room, smoking and discussing tl universe. She was not an intellec. tual woman, but she was sharp and shrewd, a monument of common sense and worldly wisdom, It would $e as easy to hoodwink her as the disembodied Minerva, and it Was doubtful if any one made even a tentative attempt. Claver. ing wondered which of those in: secret personalities was to be vealed tonight, As he stood In the drawing room waiting for her to come down he examined for the first time in many years the full-length picture of her painted shortly before her mar riage to James Oglethorpe. She was-even taller than Mary Zattiany and {nthe portrait her waist was round ‘and disconcertingly small to the ‘modern therapeutic eye. But the whole effect of the figure was superb, and dashing, the poise of the head was almost defiant, and the hands were long, slender, and very. white against the crimson sat tual saperierity over American | in of her gown. : , (To Be Continued), A Poragone Conclusion. * “If we ‘meet. the devil, which of do you’ think he would take?’ “Me, of course!” “How: 802” “Because “he is sire atipoa in any abet ed oe ; | ,