Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1921, Page 63

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 6, 1921—PART 4. -. ° A THE MICROSCOPE CANNOT FOLLOW THIS sewell Ford Backing Granny for a Win SCIENTIST INTO SECRETS OF NATUR e UH!™ says 1, throwin® £ scornful across the dinner [, table at Sadie. “No, ! £ S . e = LRIt Nare Ry Al | k£ A i 1 hal iave an alue unles thanks. None of this \ BX . OLIN HOWE il thin out that taugle, wds o ron' e sor vrs. || [REDERICK A. HOWARD of Mas- |/t (S - in a kind of deflant embars sty Pineville stuff in mine.” “But why not, Shorty?* she de- mands. “Well” says L “T'm nelther an in- walid nor a golf addict. So what ex- «cuse would I have for chasing off down there when I ain't got harden- ing of the arteries or softening of the brain? 1 couldn't take the treat- ment for one. or swing a brassie for the other, and that's about all they do at such joints.” “1 should think you might stand it for @ few days, just on my account,” 4nsists Sadie. “If 1 weut alone 1 should have the trunks and the chil- dren and everything to look after. And with little Sully just getting over the measles I feel that he needs the trip. If you could only spare time enough to get us there.” “Oh, well!” says I, shruggin' my shoulders. You know the way them domestic debates usually finish. Besides, this was a case of the bunch gettin’ to- -gether for an excursion. Pinckney was going, and Mrs. Pinckney, and the Purdy-Pells, and the Boomer- Days were already down there. Two or three others of our Rockhurst crowd were talking about joining i ‘That is, the men folks were trying to shape things so they could leave if the market didn't take to cutting up | ¢ land chemist who has made A | That's my aviary. The birds his way into nature's secrets| | - 1 U | Jto some place to 0 have some plac « tay. further than the microscope | sachusetts. a Chcmlst. Sp 1ts Up the “They toll the. won evos. hai can follow him. He may even have woodpec that hanxgs by its divided the atom, as science has long | | Chemical Globule and Produces Three Qflrl Jbathes sou while you sought to do. Indeed, it is not "Stodda: r"“,‘“"“’;““ that.” o to see how any one can have doney | . . . - replied quickiy. Stoddard is his what Frederick Howard has with-| | Dxfferent Reactlons W]’uch HIS Fellow | ] assistant. “10% ‘not so. Everybod et | |knows ‘a woodpecker —sometimd & wings, and I_suppo: Certainly he splits up the chemical Worl(ers Held to BC Impossible—Crea- | :’v‘x‘v‘,wnn-‘ docs, maybe, But it doeen| globule. He produces three differer wateh me reactions which Tis brother chemisis g 5 . b s siolahibor Sx 3t Hoek mis have held to be impossible. He has £ N 1 Fl d Wh h Al i x > : divided and subdivided natural goers| | tl0N OL @ eutra ul 1c most | b ciyioce Nis ibreskiant-Sone) such as those in leather until their ; I . - minuteness goes bevond the ken of D fl L { G I 1 man. He has obtained a neutral fuid | | AJeN€s LAaws 0O ravity—Interesting | |. — which will not stay within a closed ~, tin can. which almost defies the law | £ Man Wh Took Up Professi | “THE COUNT OF of gravity by running up the arm | DEOTY O an o loo p Yrotession | |- one plunges-into a container of it, and | MONTE CRISTO” which penetrates fibers until oxygen | = | —or oxidization, way—cannot y Accl ent. — — keep up with it - - > DDt | BY ANVE JORDAN, 815, when N. Bonaparte wi temporarily interned at Eiba, ship rapped at the isle and scaled leiter from the chief anty « put aboard. The ca opportunely, asked Ed| mond Dant to take the letter to Bonaparist in Marseilles named Ville| useful purposes. So become more plia- » and wear three times as long, « an- ~ in perspiration; so that work- s’ clothing m be made perma nently proof against fires: so that any textile may be rendered moth- proof without the slightest change in it that the eye can ever see; o Bourbon tain, dying i agaln, and the women were buying that sails shall not mildew; so thaf all mew straw lids and fancy silk sweat- odors may be abolished; so that all FOE ers 1o be prepared. parts of milk difficult 'of digestion When 13dmond reached Marsellk So I arranged to leave Swifty Joe may be removed from it and the re- P i en nged with feathors in charge of the Physical Culture sulting serum make many a typhoid B s eohlie R VAl IS patient whole. THE last thing jn the world this auiet. kindly man thinks of is analysis for its own sake. His dis- som THIS SMART ALECKY VOUNG NI WAS SO READY TO FLASH THE ROLL THAT PO HAD SUPPLIED HIV. Studio for e week, dug a couple of pair of ice cream pants out of the moth balls and wired for accommo- dations. Say, they don't mind sting- in’ you or anything at them golf asylums, do they? merchant marine, and as soon as h livered the letter he had a dat to trot double with a frail named Mercedes, But Hdmond had enemies| * ok ok % G 1A wight numed Danglars wore *A NYWAY, tarted, with Pi 1 b | ke a look.” Hel waviiy the SoYSrics comoiaimaye fromitliogpac | steen hump on his back because Ed 3 . we started, with Pinck- g, something really good for her. 1] “Buildin’ a sweater, eh | ce a look. e G Bl : i LoRiay green hump on his back because E ney the Tife of the party. as 3 foune eomatiuing Eslly ROSTUE TR wad under my nose. “Will a hundred | tical. helpful side. Abstract science mond had been promised a softe v o party. as usua going to ally T to sixty suit you? holds out no allure for him. Nor . berth by their superior, M. Morrel. Mercedes had another suitor, Ferf and, and the Danglars tipped of *“Ripping idea, eh, Shorty age ‘xnrcvrl"rl- l;;w “(L r!)‘ ;‘ thmn..’\» do, xou i = e splondid th or hot us Ol strollin’ into the smokin' compart- i uul“shr» rt fused to let me have lJ lnlnn..r, Zuess,” and ‘er 3838 hes + grandmother shade, 1! “Aw. let's not be piker: does he think of money. except when ays 1. L see you got plenty |I. “Double it. he wishes to do some charital act, matter along, too.” He stares at me suspicious for a| when his right hand and his left are ment: ‘this going south to meet spring | Of course, after that—- e¥ | of readin 1 o spreads out his hands eloquent. ot W s—for granny,” | Second, then counts out ten twenties|jgnorant each of what the other does. X 4 04 1G Rl waye I'px.\“r? ot Centaad, cho L suggests. | cava F o '-rl‘“‘hop‘:euorr:v e in king |2nd tosses 'em to the clerk. “The gen-| Chemist Howard has more "than 4 BE LD L | Tot you'll know about the weath- ik 5 tleman wants to cover that, Jimmic. | thousand original formuias. Not one Edmond carried. Villetort, mean-| shee’ll like. 1 haven't seen her, you | “ expect you hinted as much to her three to five.” says he. “Mine is on|js patented. To be sure, to patent had turned his cost and had er!” says I. “I can forecast your pro-| ".[ giq try to show her how unrea- |, SHice I was & diteTe gl d try to s kuow, since 2 e Eir gram from here—three hours of = . e AT Se | DOV BHLCE: S WES ‘ % .. | Betty Allair. icheinte e = sonable she was,” says he n It's goin' to be a great reunion, ain't lair” " e a chemical formula is usually to re royalist ing showing more in the evenin’, in a steamheated I wrote or said. Anyway, our rela- ieeion S B oy say, son, what's the name of the party | ffjs leather chemist's e been put bad read and burned the letter. he ““Oh °m'¢ t al s I shall | tions ever since then have been some- Well.” says }}a}n nd"ur‘ u!.” fll;:‘ \4\- picked to :H';_ doln® th en. | ©0 the market in the past 3 handed Edmond over to the police. . mot at all' says he. Shall O e e that 1%, until recently. I must confess that I'm not crazy| And this gets him doin’ the open-| "pocently, however, oEais ; s devote at least two afternoons to i BRI : Y - old ladies. They're apt to be faced motion once more. “Say, voul el iag ditermined tha mature Just @ bit of red tape and formal- lefort Clara ity,” apologized \ Joining the golf galleries. There are [ But on pokey.” pl yourself for some grand little | coivg ‘should Le spent fres from to be some big matches on, you|have relented” > Sadie abe ol kidder, don't you? Huh!" After|griit. e ’ Sl Kiiow “URetter Tate than mever.” savs 1| 1 was tellin' Sadie about the Heaths | SRS SR 28 ack suorntul and | pnancial worries, got_tox: ther and And o, instead of a flower studded “That'll be thrillin’ for us, won't it?” | “Must have done some shrewd inve £ i 4 5 + saye| Walks of. e Borators, S | bridegroom, Bdmond became a moss. \¢, though he can aff Avent vou dreadful, Shorty?” says| W&l ; e turned over to the company they | Says 1. b e asies ehucklin'. ~Of coursa ihey are) ‘It comes high gometimes” 1 re- | grganized u number of his be covered. rat-bitten dungeoneer, With ShendiEiNasys he’ dhaifontett pesa i Calieen s ever to be mice to the old lady.” macks (o dimmie, Shutiycuicamt et Linutin (i ohis newi 1 ibor his wddress reading “Chateau @If. simist. “Sheer luck.” says Percey. *F nng toihe. 1 D + tolall these young lobby lizards romp . Pl sy T g be able to teil a dog biscuit from u|sos. Oh, ves I dmagine iiie a1o ey goRht how thay. dread 17 lady nivlick baitle is being staked?” | teaching them his secreis, that the HE bit of formality unwound into lcughnut. There's some I could name | is quite comfortably fixed. . ' how 2 o © tells me how to get to the front- | '** LR UGN i ) c T that wouldn't know the difference.” | she appears to live as if she were. 3 ., it sort of helped whjl?_ AWaY | line trenches and on the way out|™Mp¥ Mot dic Wi L | days, weeks, months, years. Im- the long hours, gettin’ this new line 0Nl \po should [ run across but Percey ety et AR odhh {patience meited into despair. Napo- it rather extr i T cottage just for herself. [‘em. And. finallya fter we'd rolled weli| joath and Clara. ¢ o | into t hite mule belt, we landed at Why. hello™ says I ’ineville about the middle of the fore-} voy jocate grandma's cottage noon. Inside of half an hour we were | ¥0uq P64 % BT BES TOHEHUL she's of | located in our rooms and I'd been invit-| oyt somewhere, | Left a note with adie could unpack|the maid telling us to make our- ‘Which is a fairly good sample of | should ¢ my Pullman car mood. After about|ing a wh three hours of the plush seats I can|put perhaps the old <oul has to ha work up a_ disposition that would |4 companion, mavbe qualify me for a cage in the zoo. I|per around in get restless and touchy. If there wWas| gy rather ste parents named him, but he has been plain Fred Howard for sixty-odd years, and his bysiness signature is a mere F. A. Howard. He lives in South Faston, Mass, as tvpleal a New England village as it§ nume leon sprunz his cage and had his hundsed days. Silently, Edmond’s beard grew until it covered his solur ll)ll\u\' He decided 1o try a Mae- ‘ouldn’t the [ saw viney. He refused his pain et eau room 'anywhere I'd pace back and|p. d not very we ed to clear out so N d village forth and show my teeth. But there | "¢5 e B ; it Jieten me f]@nd Eet settled. Al I had to do Was|seives Tight at home, and that she would“wignify: lives in i Fhone s never it. Best you can do is two and | “Hub™ says & - 00mt VP T80 to go and enjoy myself. would join us for luncheon, although | Whrre he wis LOrg und his Tach when the jailer stuck it through the A half ateps between the corner wash | You was to be let in for such a wild| ® ¢y the poorest thing I do when |she might be a little late. and grandfather before him. ot Bowl and the leather Seat, and gen- | time, after all. WhAtil sou do: =:ad | pm ‘jn ‘onc of thess big resort hotels. Maybe the nurse Is pushin' her| Frimarily, Mr. Howard is a leather t you expeet, cafeteria serve erally some poddy old party has his [to her or play cribbiuge swith hert 1 begins, as usual, by gettin’ lost in the | ‘round the grounds in a wheel chair,” | Chemist. e I A. HOWARD, MASSACHUS! indignantly exclaimed the jail- legs stretched across the course. “Oh, 1 suppose w a!l have to ta corridors, but at last 1 finds an elevator | I suggests. this the ficld of his chemical activi- SREOIWATD fax s desirez a little filly mig- Se en_this Percey Heath person |turns entertaining the old lads? s ang gets down to the lobby. The slick-| “Or she may have gone motoring,” [lits: and for forly seary the chem- 3 : huh? Nix. bandit Dishragt arifts $n to light up a panatella I)Percey, “but, naturaily, Mrs. Heathpod B0 B%0 00 Who'd greeted me o | adds Clara. “Iut come along, daddy, | ical phases of the ftanning and use (Mot by Tnderwood & Unidess o (h for vouse " o 2 : & 1o | of leather have been his chief object Before the hunger strike had had 1 miss the finish’ of the | OF HEUNET AT Ue O caaren starts kiddin® him, just to pass away | will be with her most of the time | g oniv 2 short time before seems|or we sh he time. You can judge how hard up |Clara and 1 expect to get in more or [ (oI ORY 5 SO0 "Wed met, but 1| big matel I was for amusement when I tackles [less golf, however” = Sts on being folksy with him just “Which one?” T asks, him, for 'd always had Percey sized | “Didn’t know you was a ma the same. J “Why,” says Clara. “the one that o8 experiments. It i3, U0 $w hardboiled egg-—a pullet's, at EasaiT. “Say, son," T remarks, beckoning him | Miss Allair is in. s the girl who 4y multeR {OraRI Lov s that. He'S & narrow-chested, chee 1 only took it up last summer”|over. “what's on the programme for|made the low medal last summer | hundred or a hundred o 3 or affinity and b pped g “|ix 4 wrong condition to be rig faced'Prune who's assistant cashier in LIRS R L ) o When the Women's Metropolitan was; Process at the same Gme. o for SEni s S0 B0 SoPPWih 4 real | diffieulty wirh whi some big downtown bank: onme of |5 TR Pl T g & ot | 1 beg pardon?’ says he, gawpin' at|plaved over the eéngineers' cour « is a born « st, got into Jaction or s Dace S G opw-, this Knight vrr those hopeful birds who's waitin® for 1€ E¥INE 0 VE BECE PFEEEERE 30 me ; B Bertuctly wondactul dnives. they | chemistry by accident.” His mother's jneutral fiuid, however. he had a suit- | cope, this Knight vr s va « oipia) people were carriage makers and his|able carrler for sach chem ady to deal wit & 3lcg peesident or somebody abovs arraagement, and| “Donit mention it says J. “Butlsay.’ Fathers shoemakers, and it was de to dissulve the cres i ey New Bl fon of Kindness has car- and { Unle any effect, Edmond heard a serap- {ing sou He sat up and began to ituke wourishment. Somebody was digging toward his cell. Days later, part of the wall fell in. and out of the dust crawled 1t Abbe Faria. The abbe had pui in some vears in | vo0p, but he retuined a general focus jon outdoor life. He wised Edmond up 10 the fact that Edmond was being ¥ neutr. pound wi n|any ical couts, s w alit had umony the Helplulness—that is the keynote of in | would encounter @ chemical oppo W here r ried him through thousands thous: of experiments. It is s he o against a canva him te check out, so he can shove up 2 5 S5 BV a0 TV i Heara. B 1 And he 2 oin’ on that's excitin’? ays 1, “so T've heard. But | fa Shoon ollow Saa distribote th i SERInEE AN - very ing b he's about the last one T[PUIE OU R TN L e these e Rays Be. | “Why, the finals of about the one she'w up|eidea tue youth shomd: follow itheand distribute the Sannin spt BEETON ] g g et Tores il not be denied | made the gout to save Villeforts o ey g ) M cater of the Simpson ! “principle of perman: ey Pquality of rubber rings for fruit jars | crib his job and Ferdinand his girl, . régis- | played off today.”"== = vl was selling the suys 1, “that N'llurl‘m-: club secretary has just been q,r',‘,.‘,, on his Grandfather Sinpson’sypenctration of prepir Calitin s aboutl Hee" ays|ram {neutrat fuid as their bhase Soon he W and sioon | nd hit on a new motive for jiv- e brittl revenge. The abbe also knew his @ few about calculus, dieteties and ry |literature, and Edmond became his witidays. 1oy seem ligel nd be that afternod d in his Labor ver having missed a day in the h, not at all, A y : cags, except his regular three weeks modesty t play well in August, and part of that time he'll | enough as yet to go out with the men, Honest, now i idea of excitement, is it? and worthless. Lat triend found How besond what have heretofore been re making bever; § Clara, “She's a Mrs. Smith, who took ; i i % ! - . . from this, and that took him garded as finite limitations ol 4 i {up the game only six or eight years | chemistry. He read the United St 165 pra elioal B plCKtbna been | Surroutid: ! ||. gpen volumes on the m.l!‘.xv ]u“'" ‘L‘“ abbe now oceupied ; ¢ i ! Dispen ¢, with it v ous many and varied. One finds t Bl o At i s SCaeining dungeon 4go, and won her first tournament | Dispensutory, with its two thou ' e finds them @ 116 chipus mbher Tiks of solEa ma T Ono iy the it e iy aen e through leather tanning and m. facturing. Mr. Howard has one pr aration which restores to improperly ‘n she was ffty-five. She's over | 00d pages, through twice und wus when she was Afty-five. She's over| QL Thed by the subject that he hire utsly tlow, Dutfonly last year sho a chemist to come to outh said. 1 just Wl 1 do ‘something {died, but not before he had tipped Ed- it . mond off to a cave on the isle of Monte i result was a composition for Jur | Cristo stuffed like a turkey with money won the women's southern champion- | and teach him the science. 1 tanned helti cather the wonderful | pjpes which is s or in eve 7 > ship. She isn't a long driver, Lul|spent considerable time : intertacing « snd multiplies its | 1o wlher or Tuh e o o ETon placed the hody tiiey say her Short garme is deadly | with Prof. Alexander Bernstein in|tensile strensth at the same tme | i faen't mich. resistancr G iRt omn bed and Graving “1 hope it is,” says I, varnest. “And | Boston. o impervions 10 it wouldn't do for autvmobile tires i e s there's quite @ crowd collecled off | One day an uncle, a_ shos manu-{waler and, in special cases. (0 chem- | fue rings it is besond compare N e Salid tor hha s, Tate by those trees.” facturer, called the voung chemist's ficals of ¢ it kinds. One <oncern 1 the duys when Mr, Howard wus i paencodited for what might happen. That must be the gailery,” says|attention to the fact that hemlock [has i use great leather belt |ussociated with Dr. Ber R et o U IED o Hhe R Per “The secretary said we could|leather, a much more durable tan- | suc h thit none obtainable would 14t | German chemist had long experime ,.;,.“]“;‘ 3 ;‘]'4'v tying an iron ball around his pick Up the match at the fifteenth,” | nage than oak. was made so hard and Jover two montl by the | with milk in the effort to take from it | more s gt Davy Jones: locker. Maybe you'll find grandmother in | brittle by the tanning process asHoward method. th 0d8erv- | the butter fats, cisein and other ele-|Lorionately, lidmond retained his com- e . posure in ipite of this ungentlemanly bunch, eh?" | suggests. often to be all but unwor | ments hard for the digestive tract to What?” says he. ae] It o b more than & vear lo| Glove leathers huve received his|pammie romd fof t. He cut his way out of the shroud 3 3 ) BiShandle and lewve a serum which conle ’ s . all likely. 3 learn why, and at the end of thatjittention oot De e to YNNI DAC i ey Shibe it fom hin Mok and e Granny out here!" exclaims Clara. | time he was well on his way to er wid i e | 7 i SR Rt iRl and others | onoentediy s Houdind e truck out 5 ing. He was od up by a anning 1ok to where |could not be used. He had oces | “Oh, say, professor, you're too absurd. | knowledge of fibers probably ned that smug; freighter, and Come alons. Let's 8ee the drives.” than that of auy other man is me fHexible, Cordovan | & 5 0 o 2 F any suras neld AOVAN [ o xpend several weeks in New Yor! E y x2u And we sprinted along until we got | America. hoes would hardly hase their preseat (5,51 Nis Yturn e ol wis the year 152y g to where a whole lot of people were * % % ® pupuli ut for 1 ovan | (bt bl Zdmond remaineg on the ship until it leather used 1o “Bloom! sot i chanced to stop at the Isle of Monte twire (which came from the stuffing chem Is used) wfter being exposed (o the srouped around a little square green spot, occupied by these two females in sport clothes. One is a willowy 4 air. It was diffienlt of mampulation young queen in a crocheted wool hat, | through the ages from A in shoe I”.M‘.}f urin -[..’v‘f‘J‘\;':TJY‘ i @ brown and black checked skirt and | distribute through the fibers of the|hard on the woarer for the first w |a silk waist. Nhe has just stepped to fluid which preserves|were shoes made of Now all ti o from a rock, and pre- " exclaimed Be iis leg was broken, he ROL it, you mean. I'velyrged his comrades to depart. When on that for six vears|they had zone he took a chart that the never could have got it in the]old abbe had given him and surveved hiis dommin, At last he found the ledge Cristo. He THE purpose of the tanning process, | which has come down to us| m. is to jthe front, wound the club around her skin or hide a is changed by the removal of This milk serum was develoned | that hid the treasure cave. shoulders like she was bent on dislo- [ them from decav, Low ard found that | acids left Ly the tanning really at the request of Lr. J. Heber aboy ! Open me! My baby catin’ a rib, and has given the litcle [ (1e TeSIR OF et o orough- Wi estimate, one rchy- | Smith, at that time head of the facul- | jeeds 2 new pair of shoes,” he chanted Dill the ride of its life. Anyway, a1y aiaturbed nature's exquisite ar | SCtts manufacturer $500 | 1¥ 4t the Boston University Med is he Spied an iron door. . Cisturbe o ay by the use of a sin Howard | College, and he used it with marvel-1" Sure enouzh, he got inside and found lot of the spectators gasps as they | hngement of the fibers and matted watches it o hummin’ off across a|and clogged them and cemented them | 000 OUS Tesults. After his death Mr.fa box full of the g bunker. ocethers and that, moreover, the|WOorth of heel lifts, supposediy r Howara cor unuaiCoima e ioT e * A “That's Miss All whispers Clara. | cryatuls of tannin which had not been | p¥ @ flood. were not only resio e ey en iy “They say she's two up. She'll win, | properly dissolved or had recrystalliz- Bif but were worih $52.000 when he | W0 (R0 SERnd Tor it Bually coased | all right.” £d had sharp edge, across which the | ' e ihthieml 0 - gjEnfithe fomuiisway o 0K aly - not. ol ysays) T, “Ainic]tantlys drawn fibers) were fteri cut |, JU; Floward has aniémuision which i (5 S0ne HIose winal the here oy e e X broken x | (reuted with it wear thse times s | clates hETHEOL s purcat: . e atns Clbva: “iere tu tho| . The chemists task Wwas to break | {E0sted With Bt wear three other one—that Mrs. Smith. It's her |UP these crystalline forms and spread ) o erproors them. 1 s Ve o 8 DET| (pe tannin over the fibers, and in Jalerproots o R = e at practice| complishing that he went the way L swing, will you which finally led to the neutral fluid 1 o aces R . And up steps this white-haired old | which is the foundation of So much e T et neblralines [rom engrogses he chemiste wiiolefido. | Dangiars, now a rich hankes, Fepiie girl with the pink cheeks and thelthat he has done in chemistry. - A insole, which 1o s it KeclS lattention. He is an enthusiastic | nand, an eminent warrior, and Villefort, square shoulders. e's quite a lady | truly neutral fluid is something of shoe, soft and fexible, naturalist, tree surgeon of fine | high in office, all came to pay homage husk, but she carries it well, and|infinite possibilities which chemists | V¥ guods. formula. In another case, §. OON after this. all Paris was hob- nobbing at the feet of the charming, mysterious, wealthy Count of Monte Cristo. Debutantes were trotted out for olutely | * % his proval, but Kdmond had no time Ren I;lLu-;u though his days are with|to waste on cream puffs and baby 5 water from r minute spaces. while admitting his professional work, this far|stares. He had a flock of revenging to hemist dressed all in black that way, with]|have been seeking since the begin- * % ¥ ¥ quality (and here again his chemistry human mint. the mannish black sailor strapped un- | ninx of analysis. = o T is in connection with the emul-|IS turned to good account), a skil come, easy go,” was the count's s der her chin, she doesn't look a bit| Howard needed it for penetration sion that the difficulty has arisen | *8Ticulturist and a bird lover such as s he drizzled money in his wake overweight for her inches. Kind of ticeepine e e lleeys an e thecome through Paris. ¥o. while hopeful mam- a nice-lookin' old lady, too. But say.| .- - 3 lof keeping the neutral fluid, which is e 2 mas wined and tea-d the elusive count, TUh-huh “Boomer-Day | its foundation, in a container. The Ex-Representative Joseph C. Sibley fand papas nudged each other and ex- SHE'S QUITE A LADY HUSK, SHE CARRIES IT WELL when she straddles her feet wide |y (oDl ) BAE nat apart and grips her club firm and | pe‘Wiia. No mistakin’ that nam nental work in | chunged gossip about @ certain Princess Haydee, said to be the queen of the ordinary tin can, thoush watertight |18 noted for his expe D DRESSED ALL IN BLACK THAT ]grlh’ her eye fixed on that ball she whispers Percey, | in the usual sen is quite too porous |48riculture at that famous farn in ur by " > < a i & D s Y count’s private harem, Iidmond was WAY—SHE DON'T LOOK A BIT n‘:“' dg;:m]"&‘:a:‘“-:rih: :::‘:;:v:: ¥ Don't you know who that|to hold nd Mr. Howard has had | western Pennsylanin where hi» turns | busy working out his plans to get even. OVER HER WEIGHT FOR HER It don't travel as far as the one the " says Clara, “She's @riv- |10 have made cans of a special grade | his wealth to practical account B e o Fonn INCHES. girl hit, but it sails right over the|ing. Oh-hh. wasn't that a beauty:|of tin. “When Luther Durbank dies,” he Tetutned and confided ‘attishly 8 — e bunker thing and stralght down the| Well. who is sh Howard's work with fibers led b says, “the one man in America uble | ipe princess Hayde 10 tuke his place is Fred Howard e Gbly Msicw. how siria) otk not unnaturally to textiles, and h middle of the alley. Keeps on rollin’ llr;;OEL ”522"1"\1“‘:‘1? e - e L Sl olitnt: v s eves bulged. Sl A e day a neizhbor complained o e are e Ei8 08 *How about it, Percey,” saya 1|, Then it was C turn to gasp.|again his neutral fluid 1 him | his strowvberries gathering . up s | Sy, Year afterward they'd never “could you knock one as far as that?" | *Not—not ¥!" says she. well, By its use he fireproofs cloth |much sand and dirt as they grew By changing ‘his wig, clothes, accent And then 1 noticed that Percey is| —.That was your grandfather's|gending in with it chemical agents| Vished for a strawberry plant wh and apartment frequently, the schemer A ter the old Kirl as she | name” says Percey. *Smith Jones. e ; o o= would grow berries in a high cluster. | jsdmond managed to hand out such neat N et Ef’ s e, | You must have heard it often which permanently protect the fibers} * «jt might be done,” said the chem- | punishment that Danglars lost his for- starts stridin’ away. says he. berhaps T have.” savs Clara, “but | from combustion.” Nor can this_be | jo_ D L e e o DeE BT b says I “I was |1 didn't dream, of ‘course, that this— washed out. It leaves no perceptible | o it. Ile bred a cultivated | Villefort went mad. 4 . nothing much,” says I why, I thought you said she was an |0dor. What fireproof clothing m berry from the wild which grows in | Good old Morvel, who had tried in vain Jusl,\l\'unn:(‘;rl:x if you could whale one) jpuiiigs - to workers in the steel and iron in-| Jucters a root i more off the |10 get Edmond released, was made rich e at.” v 2 » | dustries, in glassmakin; in_ foun L v v il by g : 3 = ! : i , 0_she was fifteen years ago, € 3 . ground. The berries have all the |by a mysterious Englishman, who was Me > seve ne.‘d '!\Rt half that h;(r- says Percey, “and weighed over 200, [dries and in many another line of}javor ‘of the wild strawberry and none other than Edmond attired in @ §—I wish 1 could. most remark- | BN qhe el has improved.” work where there is constant danger | g2¥0F & (16 WEG QRIS AR Laone O ef voice. Morrel's son, In love sperd fussin® in his dinky little g den out in Rockhurst. “Whaddye mean, Percey. gettin reckless like this?" I demanded He pluckers up his thin lips, like he | always does when I call him Perce ) Tor I'm the only one ihat takes that lJiberty. Even his wife always says “Mr. Heath,” respectful. But he passes it by with a hunch of his Zx4 shoul- ders. | “This is quit mit,” says he, unugual for me, 1 ad- ut—er—the opportu- y seemed o0 good to miss ! able woman that, for her years. Sin- ) from fire ne -xten % B 4 i 3 s, S o mave B “ANbther onelfrom fire n no extended comment. | 500 Ll sl - o ¥ Omy e s with Villefort’s daughter, who had been y...'“‘?i’xi' bAns cparenire e y “Why." says he, “there are some|Bular. too. I-——I must have seen her|¢nat's scared off the undertaker by | Similurly Howard mothproofs fab- i e «sibley” cucumber is the fast-thought dead, was invited on a cruise i & aodi ik havs jsome e eeE Tator somewhere before. A Mrs. Smith, the | fiourishin’ a niblick. I've heard a|Tics. 50 that with one application. | i.rowing thing known to the veg- | with the count. They proceeded to the e il edoutn yaa e 3 Antie s Very, interesting matches, 1 under:|sceretary said, didn't he, Clara? a real live grandmother there mow,|Which affects a garment in no other | oo R CntE SRR Y Ul riain | Tule. of Monte. Cristo, where Villefort's says he. smilin’ knowin. “Vou s - Chi e [ stand, sir. Especially the one to de-| "Y' hink 'so.” says Clara. *See. | though. | Bug it looks like vou had Wiy Whatever it is protected for the | S NG00 el the T R e grandmo has @ cottuge there and | at th | gide the winner of the second HENU | gne's going to try a brassie to the(a real live grandmother therenow,|Tesl of its life from the little wi in northern latitudes, anyway. s |48 revenge against the enemy. Idmond #he has in G SW dsweedd wisit her | Onee last M mith Jones and Miss Allair are } green ” Well, look at that, will you!| Miss Clara. LIl say she is. And [|mischicl mikers, The Howard method yo o for the table in three to ¢ the lovers in sole possession of the 1 ase haow you had erand- | e ma fntry elub course in i that bracket, and while the betting | Sye's on!” And rolling toward the pin. | hope she's good at an uphill fignt | of protecting sails from mildews-und | guys from the blossom—round and |island TAd e Jetow S . srandsirig has Necm an favhreok Miss Now Miss Allair is going to try. And he sure was. 1 expect I'd get the |41l canvas and duck for that matter— 3000 wnded and its firm, luscious | It wasn't so bad. Haydee,” he philo- “Most other,”” y' . it should onde Mrs. S akin® g " < 3 : Fests o A 4 s 2 s H ""..‘,’;y"mz’h’",’r R e kit 1t was good. was it says | should 'l"‘:"‘“““d‘ RO T Mres. Jones| ene's takin an iron.” Oh, she's hooked | details all balléd up if I tried (o give e She 4 ¢ pousis, (s meutral | flesh digestible by the most delicste | sophized as they sailed away. #Mre. Heatl's mother. you know ¢ than dve ever done,” says | We ugapagend Ap it She’s trapped!” | the finish by rounds—holes. I mean, | fuid carrics the proper elonsente info | stomach, where the ordinary cucum- | men work for their millions, but all I did s 1. I hadn't heard of her, | Prroes I expect. though, to tuke ‘Which i% where this pie-faced youth Any way. something of the kind|Anyway, from there on Granny Jones | 4l = b ber is u spindly runt at the end of jwas to lie in jail fourteen years and Never been to Rockhurst, has|S0me lessons at Pincvi Bt s I ot et oty Tntn | must have happened, for T could hear | simply Walked all over this pretty [ 4% <hed for a dustless |50 Short a time’as three or five days ||me a private tutor. krandmother doesn't b o B B et hex {has | her, reeters murmuring, Too badi”|fittle Miss Aliair, who seemed to-got | 4 R tsiks abbrer 15| o To, FeL, this Mr. Howard thougnt X . - close.” P s et e Eavs] an ngs that. ~She made rattled and lose her nerve. And the {SU3 3 o t thi S hat | first of where on the globe the short- T = No,” says Percey s 10 be Kind of w bore, en, | 9ne-up stuff worry vou, Jimmy.” 8ay8| gne gtab at 1iftin’ the ball out of the | next thing 1 knew out rushes tha |BOTNOW & Movelty bub the Kind thal |, o ‘or the warm season would com- A Victim of ce War, As a rule, 1 expect he'd have let ride at thaf, for he's & closc-mouthed | I suggests nice to granny fish about most things. But this secms| “Oh, naturally, 5 Percey, te bo a case where he'd had such a[know how old ludies siroke of luck that he was just bustin’ | still—— e tefl somebody about it. Two whole | “Uh-huh!” sy weeks of free board for himself and Mrs. | Might be worth he to the clerk. “Betty Allairll come 4 to . Me | gand, but it went a little too far and | club secretary and presents the old e o ; ' | pel the growing of vegetables in the through, all right Wait until on<lrolled into another pit on the opposite | girl with a whackin' big silver vase works like o charm, Mrs. Howard is | hortest” (imo and sent (o northers | [;DWARD V. RICKENBACHER, the sty ¢ ; o . side. And when she finally got through | and people were crowdin’ around to |11 DESt pal THOUED & ay Russia for cucumbers whieh there | L on the 400-yard holes. I'm backing | 5 3 ; _ and never a strong woman, she b e tamous airman and automobilist, on the 400-yard holes. T'm backing|witn ‘her ‘trap shootin’ the white- |shake hands with her and say what | Kuo 1k Tecords in shape and looked | come rapidly to maturity. These had | ! 3 Eirl g haired old girl calmly taps her ball |a game fight she made. AS I left I| i\ many practical affairs while her | the qualit 4 pid growth, but | Said at a dinner: says I for the last hie's] iDtQ the cup. saw: Percy and Clara edgin’ in sort |Gpamict husband was unraveling na | they didn’t look or taste much like| “I know a chap who is motoring o e Gi ‘A_birdie three!” says Clara, en-|of timid. T expect they Were g0ing |, a's mysteries. what the chemist evolved from them | {yrough England. The other evening “I get you. ¥ieath and Clara at an exper plac At which Per nks knowin' | 1o e Y00 at me 1 like Pineville! And because Clara | and flicks the off Nis cigar reall s Ha o s iving | thusiastic. “Now she’s only one down.” [ to find it kind of hard to be nice to Nt s ipotsonkT il ch o|in combination withe®ur American had written a nice letter to granny | gports e ure A Y e o BIVInE| “That's one too many to suit me.” | grandma, only not quite in the way e CUTE L iy e (TP cvoumber. (.f 4 he pulled up his car and said to e teliin’ how she'd just become €ngaged % e hister e 8 ve 1. “I've got money on her." they'd had it framed up. Ways getiing poisoned himself and later | His agriculturals “speriments are | farm hand: 1@ WhG o £ Have vou?’ says Percey. ‘Then!| As for me, I strolls in and collects | 5a"he little daughter of & neighbor of | many, but the p@ich of buckwheat| «:Can you tell me how far it is “You see, professor,”” he gocs or I ATER « s I'm through | ‘Two minutes before T would havel you ought to know her full nam that envelope from Jimmy, the room | whom he was fond seemed especially |alongside of his house, where one o E Tootla? 4dn't been in very close touch < the Dull pENE 1 the dinin | laughed at any one who'd tried to get| Y expect T had. but T don't.” says I.|clerk. d usceptible to this trouble. The chemist | would expect only a green lawn, is|to Tottleton-cum-Tootle randmother Jones for quite a while 5 nin'| e "to bet on a golf match of any ! “Might as well find out. too. There's| “You had the right hunch, didn't|goon found a cure, which is nothing in | not one of them. “‘It’s just thirty-five miles in the i Bt car, 1 stops fo wo two with | kind: not being much of a sport, and | Boomer-Day over there. He's been |vou. sir?’ savs he, passin' over the [ihe world but piain hyposulphide of | ° birds like that,” said How- | opposite direction, sir,’ said the farm Clara © 4 nlsnp. pizcon-chesied | Fnowing as little about this particu-| down here a lot. He'll know." wad, . soda, which can be procured at any |ard. “In winter, when the snow hand. lar game as anybody can these days.| Te does. of course. And T hurries “Kinda says I. First time I|qrug store. © jcovered most of their feed, they come “The opposite direction!” yells my had Just losi her husband, Mre. I father, and had come into quite a nice Jittle Sum of money. His passing awas wis not unexpected hag been fovalid for some years. So we were pre- red. In fact, I had been on the look- Lar-@ &ood. investmentsand L-had _CIBBU- Ly somehow This smart Alecky YOUng [ hack to the Heaths with the news|ever backed a grandmother to win.| Another neighbor asked for something [and live on it friend. ‘But the last sign post said Not 1 bad loa but with kind | hick, who was so ready to flash the | just as the lady in black is teeing up|too. And say, this ain’t such a duli|to spray on horses and cattle to keep| “Why do you leave the growth solit was this direction.’ of a hard, selfish glitter in her eyes.[roll that popper had supplied him|for the next drive. joint down here, after all. ‘I may|flies and insects off them. Blooded | thick in that piece of spruce and] ~*“Ah, but, you sec,' said the farm Just now she seems very busy with | with, sort of ruffied the short hairs on| “It's Mrs. Smith Jones,” I announces. | stick around a week or so. Might |stock have highly organized nerves and | birch the road from your|hand, with & knowing ‘we turn- some wooden needles and a big ball of | the back of my neck. *Wha-2-3t"™ gasps Percey. “Are— |be some more silver-topped entries.” | need protection from th pe: . d yamm, “Stago moneror WhMI Iaskm . Jarayousore¥® | . . .. Ooprright, 1030 A foweldbBecd) __ {0t it frem this. i oung female, hirdly fteen years. b fact. A1 P disagreement It was like this