Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1921, Page 60

4 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, MARCH 27, 1921—PART 4. WHEN DORIS WAS DITCHED By Sewell Ford LARGEST EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY IS LOCATED IN WASHINGTON National Geographic Society Has 750,0()0I Members and Dif-| | fuses Geographic| Knowled g e Throughout the World — The Me-| chanical Side of Sending Out Greatj Masses of Printed| Matter—T}w Story‘ of a Brewer v Turned Into a Mod—“ Fr pil/ el Office Building. | SOl DON'T think we'd ever got much excited over Hartley Fipps just by ourselves. No. Anyway, I doubt if I would. To be honest, I don't care for 'em as fat as that. Not that Hartley was any freak. But he certainly was and is a chubby youth. You know. one of these moon- faced, pink-checked, piano-legged birds who sit around looking com- fortable and satisfied. 1 expect, after all, it was that sat- 1sfied look in his narrow mauge eve that made me feel the way 1 did to- ward Hartley. For he sure approved of himself. You could tell that just by the way he held h shoulders and biinked at you. Didn't mean anvihing special, Hartley's blink. Half the time he didn't seem to see you when he did it. He was too v, 1 exped con- templatin® what a perfect specimen of a he-male he had the privil feedin’ three or four times a day. He | couldn’t even see me very often. and With this super-pink dome thatch of mine my visibility is more or less high. But as a rule Martley would | Just keep on gazin' past me as if 1 was a shadow driftin’ by Course, 1 didn’t blame Hartle much for that. He was the only son of Rufus J. Fipps, of Fipps, Dilworth & Blair, the big bond broker: and he'd been made second or thir . president of the company on his 23rd | birthday. And me—why, he knew 1 was just one of those private s cre- tary persons who'd stepped from ont- side sentry at the Corrusated to an inside job behind a " :":' desk. And naturaily Hartley feit that Ie:uth( to be kept in my plac THEY SEEMED TO BE HAVIN' St bring meiEnhors ot at Har | QUITE A JOLLY TIME TOGETH bor Hills. and seeing me knockin' [ &0 R RO around at the Country Club off and| CHATTIN Ll‘l‘-v Y AND GIG on. he would occasionally give me 2| EVERY NOW AND TE nod, whether 1 deserved it or not Nothing chummy. vou understand: simply a casua] bob of the he ad w . I was directly xn‘! demo- | ! ~Iv>‘”:‘;: ‘x'f ay, artl shed self. A e e ioine: s, You! So 1 couldn't see where Har Qs have 1o be mifted with Second | WAS going to make much of a success sight to guess that Hartley's | 45 a_Romeo, or how he was ever go- mother. They were b t alo the | ing to get a start. 3u mother, in same lines, only she bulged in more | her calm, restful way, was conductin places than he did and had more | What almost amounted to a continu- yos Lous ca for him. We could chins. Same narrow st eves though, (U8 [RRCER (00 e ane wirl and | “Maybe you don't know what a he-vamp [ you the tall charmer's name. It ! , i and the same trick of lookin' at and oth e | you are when vou get dolled in your|Ann Drinkwater. through you. She was one of those |then another for Hartley and maneu 5% at first, but simply | model oftice building. It houses \]\..r‘l} { | e of F all the stran in new fielc adventures 1 her- . 1t of a commodious | HANDLING A PART OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY'S ENORMOLUS CORRESPONDENCE. and he didn't want to be bothered female until he'd nour- that conver hroweries could relate haps the most unexps ntic is red-brick buildir nly feed these frames into an|nations, because it was there when|would v <8 machine, which automati- [ those nations were born. ventures, of school chil ol p n ose due and rejects those| As the address is affixed to many mountainerr who eme The |tabbed to a later date. Similarly, in{wrapper from these stenciis the imas- | swaddling thes of illiterate pro- ddressing wrappers for the magazine | ination can but conjecturs how many | vineialismy throush the magie vista “eriminating machine separates| modes of trans tion 'will carry 3] of jts pieturea. and the savant. the auic n the dead. to its destination. Starting on speed-|banker. the exporter, who find scien- Simplified o the —nth degree, there! ing express trains and tr: rred toltific and technical information of 111 are seven tons of these metal[ocean liner, some copies may land on | hizhest value in its text. plates, deposited s weighing|camel caravan or jogging elephant.| The IDckington office takes high many tons more. The frames are filed| some be given over to Chincse wheel- | rank not only for magnitude of its in metal drawers of metal cabinets|barrow or coolie's pack in the sunny 1 for eficiency, but, in which stretch in tiers along a room;orient and others taken aboard teams ! or hygiene, comfort amd {151 foet long. Were these stencil|of dogs and reindeer on R. ¥. D.|agzreeable working conditions for fts | frames placed end to end they would|routes in frozen Alaska. mployes. The two-story structure is form a metal band that would bind| The stream of daily mail, rising dur- | lichted by eighty-eight windows Daltimore to Washington and_then|ing the flood tide of remewals toward | twenty-four transoms and by glass des. Eighty|the end of the calendar year to 24,000 | doors. For this reason the ventilation pieces per day, pours into the head-|also is good es, changing tabs and r'u‘r_lls as m‘ws q;urh-r\' of ‘u = society, at 16th and M| A Junchroom has been installed. at Are paid, inserting new frames for{s and there is diverted to itslwhieh food propared by a 2 g mbers, removing those of)various channels. None of it £0es 10| djateti e s T B0 5;:::;:: - mambers who die and changing ad-|Eckington. Instead. the letters in-|at cost of the food alone, no overhead dresses as requested dicating renewa nges of address heing included in the menu prices. A Were these files arranged in an al- |or other details affecting the twenty=|trained nurse is on duty at all hours phabetical - straighiaway order the|ton card index ledger just described|when the offices are open. There is VS might resemble an indoor track | are handled and essential contents re- (2 commodious. restroom and hoOEpital sualize the setting of his ud and ro alongside the ington freight yards at 3d and streets northeas 1 t ‘e erstwhile brewery now is a B 2 a fish costume. He don't g 4 ks &t ‘with | ver to get ‘em together. And it wag|Soup and ) . I {heir hands folded placid ang BArd¥ ] ouns 1ady that sne'd pin the tag on. | Youye no idea who e Oh, come!™ says T “Ain't it de-{ jonal stir for hours at x Ume TRt e Tk Was reular fatties o iell. she came with tho Dickinsons, seriptive? Don't sho look like a long ipps. Especially| “She don’t mean to have any more atll help any vs I remem- | drink of water? W Sun ‘;’;\:";:1!E;Fhf;p?a\'m}jiigk:&');»is e T 0 Family, who 1| berseein’ ‘em unioad from their tlivver | “ITeche™™ explode. . = ‘lremarks to Vee when I saw Mrs. | coupe. 5 | that's rich, fsn't Wl N as e s0d natured, would | Fipps urgin’ Hartley to go and bej “The Dickinsons? Huh!" says Hart-|water! Oh, myl et 'an earful every mow and then. | nice to this Doris Bradic ley, registerin’ contempt. g hen 1 gives him Ehe Dsed to chuckie and pass it on| do look rather well togethe Course, they hardly belong, the Dick-| “You might Knov e 3 | says Vee, eyein’ them start off for a|insons. Not to Hartley Fipps' set, art student from l"fl:’;}; ¢ do vou think, Torchy?" she'd | fo way. For Doc’ Dickinson 15 the new \vonder she's ey RAL do Xt I Tt her dear| “She's a good deal of a husk, Doris|dentist that's opened up a tooth pluzzin [<hould she s Hartley has smone on a strict diet]} < T “"And in a few years from | parlor over the bank within the Iast’Covir‘inar, 1 Soath y | now, if she keeps on, she'll make the | vear or so. Nice appearin’ youns< chap., syre i s stur whi Aper to be used in the soct o uht™ says I “Cuttin’ out every- | heavyweight class. But I expect it|too, and young Mrs. Dickinson is auite|your dancin Phats. i INETall OB R e Xatiohali i e d ehe What's nhe in|will please Mother Fipps to sce ‘em|a stunner. but we're kind of exclusive! i it she's Some Jaza-fooler U R for—the matrimonial handi-|=0 pufin’ up the grades in chorus |who we take in aut at our countrs | Yoy, ¢ a The b quarters of the o5 . Logks like a match at last, don't it?" | club, you know. Oh. we domt mind oh |y tes, s Geographic Soctety, at 16 2 “h-| t did. Not that Hartley [such occasions as this. Wi t 0 [ 3 s 5 e T . ; < all | corded b s > D e, that seems to be the general| Uh-huh, it did 3 v ons as this Ll 2 Ah’ beans streets, long has been o landy Vith eighty competitors dashing all {corded on sheets which are then for-|room equipped for -4 5o v 1dea. Anyway. 1Us mother's. She had suddenly bloomed {::td{:}l&:fliflfl;’;_ Hmase anything when it case of| pgneser the capital.” But mans i perso Ways ‘at once, when the fourscors | warded o the thirly-nine sectional ToNI Cauipped or Tt GMEE i inie :;ldn‘::: :}‘l‘ma:‘“nu;hxr:,. :rnjds:v;(r'rr"i ‘;“r But him and Doris trailed around > says Hartley, nudgin® me. | D s st S r;;‘;_ :-.:.;.\I"A‘ H;x;u:rv::hh:‘)\l‘: ‘}"r 5; 4\117 el y“.;e I;fi.,; ‘[’((’r'kl‘""f.uf;rw”’l"f'?s zH(r];:in ';r:-"a{n':.}:;u?:‘r'\;lr?lfing - I\E"; n(xluv_n:m mentioned do mot J.. e Gtz e s o ow wha vs Hartley % - | may not ha cd to wonder ibout | eighty index clerks suddenly se 1 ies o eres hor- | hays! e in sti » E discussin® family affairs with outsid-|more or less together and begun act: | “She has spotted mo agajn. Now What| workin' his favorite cxpression. the methods and machinery that a so- | <oarching for cards in the big card {saving device. From a room where two | (o nn‘lnl‘lh’:\r::v‘\:‘-:hom:‘l';;lIo“':f‘l‘;a:o in' as though they were gettin' sort|the deuce does she mean® | “Well, I'm only telling you what |€iety with an enrollment of 730,000 catalog of bo over at the reading |or more assorting clerks work all day | [ /% 7 3% I0C, BEW DUUCINE. SAeS st educa enterprise, and arm of an institution w Hartley. “Say.|sends its printed messase Ann Drink- | state in the Union and to eve & other details, | 1Y in the world which he. “An |service. The buil Yo noover by t But why | ciety for its Didn't dis- [poriion of its oS and for storage of its publications is the m chani | streteh to Rockville bes voung women are at work on the | | i iter than the total popula-lTwenty thousand operations—that hE | ers, she'd given a complete sketch of | g : > : s e fous | of used to each other. Nothing hec-| = Sure enough, this long-geared voung |, 5 e | me erefore, @ reader dy 3 ary of C ess. | lonj i i various | 15 :::l ?’l‘n"r‘l}:‘;’nih:s{\d :u“;( AS( T;::’.nx?\ tic or violet about the course of their|lady does seem to be giving Hartley :!” l‘,"-*’“"",';"‘l_ ;r:; i .1‘)\ )4 ;"1 made 3“.1;\-‘\_" 2 nd, theref a reader au-,room of the Library of (nnx!n%s‘ Mpzrn'r:n:;mrfilnn‘xag:‘m:flmf:l;“‘(:nr{” ‘l_f\h.ns a dayv, another which can ad- the right girl for a wife. Young folks | true love. You'd see 'em sittin' out|the thorough up and down. Not cas-| o g%y m.um’_‘ 1‘..:1‘11; ant‘ know 1|tion of Greater ork—Kkecps in | 20.000 ecards taken out and put back |ship files goes to a _room where there ‘;“' ::-:;.1?:0‘;? wmx;»'p_on an hour, and were apt to choose their mates in|{Wo or three dances without swappin'}ually, or in an off-hand way, but sort| giind £ood chance of. mettin! in | touchiwithiit bership, T erediting of dues, changes and |are thirty especially trained young émpmr:; r:;u::"' lfi:‘u\hlnzl, mimeo- daily average. | women. There, before a series of thirty- | {72 g £ and envelope seal- the hardly a word. But that's generally!of bold and brassy. o The mect of an institutinn | other adjustments- inz. such an offhand manner. without con- | th your family, but if you think vou're the| a sign that it's all settled, and while| “What mak phy * % * ¥ nine compartments which look for all and waddles sidering the future. She and Rufus| T il b vo are bound to ogether { Which diffuses world geogr: X i i T o n"that way, and while of | there'd been no announcement in the | one, Hartley?” Remember ¥m|l¥e are bound 1 t together | ourhout the world constitutes an N, .. | the world like the boxes in the village | °T 40°s this butiding include all h ldn't cay that she had | Society columns, or any engagement | here, t00." . interesting ph £ District of C rds are divided into thirts- | post office. presides a young woman who | Lhe clerical and mechanical depart- Souretted it exactly. It she had 1t all | parties, or anything like that, it was| Well, you're welcome to her, I'm| Hay. who do vou think voure kid- |, e i sections, geographically, and | works more epeedily than does the vil- | entS of the society. The printing of e 2 erally 0 h had o ¢ this isn't the first 4ing snorts Hartley as he turns 5 it Y Saitt ¥ = iq |1age pos s in deftly 1 a magazine of the size of Geo- to do over again she doubted if she | gencrally understood that they ha s he. “Only this isn't the first} vou realized that the Nationall caen of thirty-nine young women is |1age postmaster. in deftly distributing | 2 fiR€0% ¢ B t0¢ r:s:m‘;m'.?nn‘;‘;-. the mail. These thirty-nine compart- . paired oft permanent. And Mrs. Fipps | time. jsn't she the cool o e would have the courage. | .. . |%ent around beamin' happy and tell- | thoiuns" "1’ iricd to stare her down| So I had my chuckle out of it and [ GBSt PO R NG IR Lo clerical godmother to some 18,000 | ments, of course, correspend to- the | The magazine is printed and mailed P e, uch “pposite | ing folks what @ dear girl Doris was. | tnen, but nothing doing. She kept right | WAS €0Ing to let it ride at that. Tm 2" Tl “the Guograpiic Magn. | members. Thereby hanes both a hu- | thirty-nine filing ' cabinet scctions at at an even larger plant at Florida types. Rufus is restless and active,| And then came this annual charity |on. 'Never batted an evelash.” [Bana sumiittaiin: ush it zine, the socicty’s major publication,|man and efficiency Eckington. avenue and Eckington place north- always worrying over something or | fund ball, which is the big affair in| “That's right” s i 5 “You've utfige Vol Tk nat vou has the largest direct tion of | hrcause steps arc AR As noted, the huge volume of the e e e A s o a it | ehowarag €8 S8 P50 S8 i nappens, hutehout (hia (iime ety arobanly s Une ‘only Siusac] beltraced 1o the pe "THEX the young women g0 through | daily mail iz reccived at the secisty's . and thin: while I am, as you know,|evenin’ dress. Vee and I had gone| “Me!" protests Hartley. “Say. 1|Kun passin’ around the cream | tional organizalic n Fequires a|Human, because a personal pride in the letters, culling from hria!nl"‘%‘}?""‘,“'fi on 16th street, thel edi- inclined to be stout.” through the usual debate as to|didn't know s)h PXIS(-*'I)UHH‘. h)l e aiaha -”": ‘v’"‘“""':"r"l‘\‘;;.’j'\"’\"n“”“'«‘fl‘ plant adjoining ad siding tola ection of t work for | blanks. or from the loquacious \'«:rbl:l:e{c?r:: arei i ?::23“,,,"?}'1;:{ i!l?a!;:; Honest.” T asks Vee, “did she put | whether or mot 1 should wear white | gan. But sce here, Torciy; dou Know | fbechuse Waid Juallseen Fast. iv pag 1o end forth its!which she is dircctly responsible SuP- of the lengthy letter writer. the essen- | builing ales 15 the sociely s Erowime ., and I'd compromised by put- | this Dickinson, Say, 2 in® o it that wa: ay, that's drawin’ it | sl tial facts which are transmitted on |Se0graphic library. mild, I'l] tell the judge. ‘Inclined to|tin’ 'em on for the first fifteen min-' you find out who she is and her name lis rations—Vee and I were wander- be siout.” ‘And her built like a Dlimp! | utes and then tuckin’ the things Into and where she came from: Thats i}l around lookin’ for some friends form sheets to the membership files at A As for Rufus J.. he's a regular hu- |the tail pocket of my clawhammer.|good chap.” d asked us to join 'em for the SRR 3 man string besn. Theyre a great|same as most of the other men did. |- ~Well, seein’ we're such old friends, | €ats. when up drifts this Miss Drink- maiiT h“““" of these sheets| A Massive Amethyst team.” It's the regulation crush, with almost | Hartley,” says I, “I'll try. Only we'd Uikewise furnishes a record sheet which . “But_that is precisely what she|the full club membership turnin’ out |better Keep it quict from Doris, hadn't ¥s she, “I've lost the the treasurer nceds only paste in his For National Mu meant,” says Vee. “when she talked|and a lot of guests besides. All for |we?" sons i iedeer A ntd v e voucher, in | seumn about choosing the right mate. Oh,|the sake of buildin’ a hospital some | “Oh, bother Doris!" says he. “She 1al's tough,” says I “Then how. e was maccompanied by | A METHYST holds high rank among she didn’t hesitate to tell me how |time or other. You know the kind.|wouldn't care. Besides, I don't intend ?)h";u: .m“xm !\h "1" I know some- three 'efunum s s Lbul:l:s stones that bring good luck and mortified she had always been about| Well, I _wasn't huntin’ for Hartley [to speak to the girl. Just want to 1g better than that. Just a min- Hitselieamentisl reportafiane) e e ek ute. Hey, Hartle Shows that he’ was already under the contrast in their appearance. Es-|in the mob, and I don't expact he was | know about her. pecially when they were in public | wonderin® where 1 was, either; but( “All right” says I. “I'll scout around places together. Said she first felt it |somehow, along about the 'third|a bit. As a matter of fact I'm kind of [ the spell because he leaves a per- when she went from the altar with[dance, I 'finds myself pushed into a|interested myself.” fectly good plate of refreshments to him. Of course, she insisted that she | corner right next to him. And with| I was, too. It seemed so kind of odd | ¢ome and be presented to Ana Drink- wasn't stout then, only plump; and[his bulgin' shirt front, and a tight| that anybody should fall for an over-, W Another novel device is employed in | precio v connection with the sending of publica- | re . .8 Stones are believed to have e N mth, the sending of PUblica- | the power of conferring blessings on magazine. 'In” typliig " permanent | their Wearcrs, and some, under cer- record sheet which contains the notation ; taj of the publication ordered and the name | 1o, Cproi1onS of no avall to mention and address of the person ordering a | o o Pring sadness and misfortu n't I—er—get you something?" he asks, drags SOh: Just the Yinie S gummed strip of paper is placed over | But no gem stone holds within Py b b she the column for name and address, and | crystals more happy and merry across the room e Ann this paper serves as an address slip 10| gpirits than the amethyst. Th 1 Kwator ot paste on the wrapper of the publication | =7 2 yst. e early Uil waler Ranarin cream to be mailed. Thus time and po Im_\;»m 15 believed in the good ma- LeiRinT hie: e o e B crror in copying are saved. ture of this shining, purple S seomed Lo, be h \{ux"“(‘nn(;’:-k 5 | The handling” of the checks. postal| Ty heljer deccended to. th mek timic T orders and express vouchers in payment | scende he Egyp- and gigclin® every now and then of membership dues and remittance for | tians of the decadent days of the e ATy e aT (hen other publications is done with bank-|Nile empire, and Cleopatra, among had the orch ca o like precision, deposit slips are checked | A e gy i y rehestea tuned ap again | ber other jewels, wore a fing set at the end of each day with vouch = . and balances must be reached, as in a | With an amethyst, which had been bank. The metal membership index oc- { engraved with symbol that to the { cuples the major part of the first floor of | p.rsjans, and perhaps to the Egyp- the main building at the Eckington |, offices. On the second floor is an array | tians also, signified eternal light and of card index files which record not | life. only active members, but b B 5. T whemmbers: gye all members| The crusaders—that is, those who in a card index was begun. could afford it—wore an amethyst as Earlier members of the society, from | a charm against the shafts and the time of its formation in 1858, with| blades of the infidels and against 200 members, still are recorded in dw: . the old ledgers. There is also the list | diS€ase. Edward the Confessor wore of original and other early members|n amethyst, and this is now sect dn printed in Volume 1, No. 1, of the|the British crown. Amethyst, ac- National Geographic Magazine, bear- | cording to Revelations, was set in e e ‘Y;?I;YT’;‘;I‘:;‘ In that|(he walls of the New Jerusalem. The such as those of Alexander Graham |Gretks believed that the amethyst Bell, Cleveland Abbe. Nathaniel D.lrendered a wine drinker proof against Gage. Gardiner G. Hubbard, Samuel|intoxication, and in the Italian Hay Kauffmann, Sumner L Kimball|classic age, in the age Were the present membership print- | 5 ed in the large type, with addres: e s h)'hm:;": twenty-five names to the page. 43| the thyst “-.um\icop‘;u v: u.:r they were then, it would require!gafe from poisos oA twenty-three more volumes than| A massive amethyst, or an ame-% there are in an entire set of the In-|thystine mass, mives a purple glow | ternational Encyclopedia. If only the of the great halls of the Wa- names, without addresses, were print- Museum. There is a tempta. ed in the columns of The Evening]tion to write the adjective “gigantic’ Star, a name to a line, it would take|as @ qualifier of this amethyst, but 116 pages of The Star, or thirteen it is betier to give the reader an idea ter intermission than Ann and irtley were out on the floor toddlin® away mad and merry. I. “Some combi- The thick and thin of it.” says she. "I wonder what Mrs. Fipps will say when she sees them?” “There she is, in the doorway,” says nd if I'm any judge she's in no shape to sy anything. Leoks like she Just gaspin' anc i e Elia: Baspin' and gettin' purple in she's positively glaring!” says “She ought to get her Rufus and it a mixed foursome,” 1 suggests, look how that girl towers over Hartley She could easy rest her chin on his head, couldn’t she Jut it don’t seem to bother either of ‘em. Look like they was en- Joyin® themselves, eh™* Anvway, they kept it up for three dances in’ succession, with Doris and Mrs. Fipps gazin' indignant from the 5. And when I went to retrieve oat, along about 1 am., I 'ross Hartley in the smokin’ room, wdulgin' in a cigaretts and chang- " his wilted collar for a fresh one. you're a fast worker when you met started, ain't you, Hartley?" says 1. “How are you and the slim Tennesses queen coming along?” “Oh, just fine! says he. Do vou | know, Torchy, she's quite a remarkable - g% one zirl? Clever, talented, all that sort of i of the d s of th lowi (S o ng. el sues of thirty-two pages each, to pub- e is glowing thing. And she scems to understand a lish them. Cards in the present inde l,,\;rple object. " If 1t has any form s T. “rhat's what show election to membership, and ex-; Which can be named. 4 might, b thought when I saw her going fifty- GIRL OPERATING MACHINE WHICH STAMPS DATES OF PAYMENTS | piration upon death. of such historic| S0 50 ' FORRIE A FNFCU ™y ¢ PHASE OF THE BOOK- |figures, for example. as Theodore| pousand crystal points jut from the Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Robert E.|gurface. At a rough calculation it is Peary, Admiral George Dewey, An-ighout two feet in diameter. Think IPTS. O ORTED WHOLLY BY THE DUES OF wing collar sawin’ into his short neck, | stuffed party like Hartley that I didn’t and_ his pudgy hands strainin’ the|mind gettin' to the bottom of it. I | seams of his white kids, he looks|hadn’t planned any josh on him either, | for UPON RE Y SUPI v with vou on the ice cream.” OF DUES BY MEMBERS 1l, that affair has been going on | &5 = en days now and the gossip is that | KEEPING OF A SOCIE i I more®line a pink and white sausage |but when I finally locates Doc Dickin” | Doris has been ditched permanent. I 000 MEMBERS drew Carnegle. Grover Cleveland and|of the atpethset breastpin which your | than ever. s L ol #on. whola) Alleds: SouBle ol T ded Mis Tiips vas petioegy Sir John Murray. zrandmother wore, and which s now, | But he don't seem uite so 'or me only la: we = [ 1\ 18 wild Hou a rst, but after Hartl . o | = = { perhaps, easu heirloom in you s il and instead of glvin' me one | springin’ @ little comedy tuff I ot e ahat o aaThey | rinted matter? That this soclety is|plants the vaguer responsibility ot In_the storage rooms. where beer[BCTiIDe. 2 G0 ey ek et ®THE RUDE THING! SAYS L “BUT .5 e long.distance nods he suddenly | “Say, Doc, who's the tall quéen you | down and goes around lookin' resigned. | the largest non-government customer | boing onc-cightieth of a force en- | €8S OFCE SHESE S0 TNNE SOl can, @ dark, rich. purple ‘mass of THEN, YOU CAN MARDLY BLAME paws me familiar on the shoulder. |brought along fonight?’ 1 asks| “How odd!" says Vee. “But 1 sup- ol the Washington city post otlic | sused upon these 750.000 records. stored one monthsieupbly PAPET | 11t stone, two feet thick. It is la- = 2 "I say. Torchy,” he remarks unex- | “Guest, or something? The onc in|pose it's only the law of natural selec- * % % ¥ Incidentally the younz woman who | for the magazine A | heled “Amethystine quartz—a portion HER. MOST LIKELY SHE'S FELT pected. “whos that skinny {reak over T mean.” e i ot - ) | hax “ehargo "o he forcisn member: | Tmagine that the pases in each cony | jt'G! AT TNIN (hund near Santa THE SPELL OF YOUR MANLY there by the potted palms? See? The says he. “Why, that must be| “UHuhi® Give I “I dldn't know theya| A NY one who has been correspond- jship section of these files has a task |of the magazine to be placed end tolGryy Riio Grande do Sul, Brazil” BEACIY AND ST CA N SR e | ik I white Ann. Mre Dickinsons cousin you|passed f iaw like thate You ought to|£Y ing secretary for @ club or so-|Such as wanderlust dreams are made |end, top against bottom. as in 4 ‘That is all that is written about 2 2 & “Her?' says 1, followin' his look.|know. Would you like to mect her tell Mrs. Fipps. She acts like shel j.ov of only a few hundred m e the letters must be trans- | corgl]l and then picture a giant scroll|nis monster purple rock, so far as for the record that goes to her i he Lo 2 d that goes to her | [Tlde up in this manner from all the | he descriptive card of the museum rtion on the all-knowing littled joi e printed in a year. Such alis concerned. In the Encyclopedia Toll eauld be unwound until a stream-1 Britannica there is a reference to “a zettcer of| 02lof Taper, seven inches wide, encir- | hiige amethyst geofe. or amethyst ch wi = . o v imes. grotto, from Santa Cruz. eou! n 2 s Surface seven times.|£rotto, from Santa Cruz in or ‘ex-|cledithajworids surtac Brazil, which was exhibited at Fhe fean the young lady with the giraffe | “I wouldn’t mind,” says I, “but the g lines and the pointed elbows? IU8jinterested party is young Hartley me. She's no friend of mine. ht it w (Copyright, 5 Just another mis-deal.” 21, by Sewell Ford.) is likely to inquire first, “How d¢ ‘\rr ins i is! the National Geographic Socicty keep ,frame. fi T ace e an el track of its 750,000 members? Ceaily 7 g , ? She faces a veritable I was just wondering.” says|eyebrows. “Well, I'm sure it can be = 2 i ieafaces & smertiabl © Vihelshe's been staring at |arranged. I'll ask Ann.” ) A Railroad Plantation. | Since the society is primaril that Mr. Fipps wasn't anywhere near #o skinny as he is now. Then she,b¥ m plunged right into details, teiling me | WhY how much weight she had edu-|. glamour of curious « o i|ana enough would remain to reach B Wetniv o anc) etk uas bt ol hi “iut where does siie come from and | prom e American Forestrs Magazin cational, its membership is compar-| traordinary peoples. One tiny stencil | and epoush, woull oML 6 ]| Dusseidorf cxposition in 1902~ This, and thinness only m r ic| “The rude thing: says I Buti—and all that® savs | e from our| A magnificent plantation of white|able to a huge school svstem — nils the, falty ‘rerier that beats (e ] ST e aach winxie) lswse or thel 0 INAskington i= pecbabiy B Siech shorter and stouter. She said she could | Lot YOU CXR (30 2 epell of your{old home town, Nashvilie. Just now,|pine growing dircctly in the limits of adult school system o £ 4% Wit lind of £old dust, ivory and natives | magazine, exclusive of covers, maps. . o e Een akEly; e D e o ke “hiete at | manly heauty and just can't help it” | though, shew iiving in New Xork ia rulroad right-ol-way is a rare Sohiois ¢ Chiasstandippingapnia | WhO D SiolChaTIE Avothe MEcioiblafe | pRnoramas an( ot o inserts, thefe. It was the Grecks who gave this a ¢ | manty > ! She's. & vre fo L "7 | schools cago and : A lis sic key tha pens the ma- , e ame by whi theaters, or it inte hotel dining On, beanst” says Hartley. “There's|She's it e o | sight, and is somewhat of a surprise|The mailing of the magazine to these (5 1, MG KO that opens the ma-lare 654 acres of paver, encush 10{stone the name by which we call it, rooms. ‘She loved dancing, but she|no merd trying to, be cotfC ONER U | onCeomes now.” i {to those who suppose that a railroad |members, correspondence with ihem |50 TG TS Ceylon o volcanic Sal- | mreao v pask. (PR3 Groek words meaning away from had to xive it u and{ T was jus 2 O el nive T Eriow! T was| and their payments of duss make boe| vador, from bleak Iceland to lonely | "ol "o8Cd rantuan circus tent madelor out of drunkenness. They gave . And| Thought perhaps I might have met marks one continuous line of forest|.ssary operations equivalent to thosei Rufus were such s Helena, from Allahabad, where | WEr® @ SERRERIIED Ca)." tent pole!the stone that mame because if being introduced, She didn't try any she does hope tha I con- | her somewhere. i st % s pleas. | fircs and devastation. a large town post office and al h . 4 e L% B g S “voud be i a o if you | vamp tactics on me. Just smiles ple | i large Low 5 the Ganges and Jumna mingle their t 16 N s Wi S conld i e r‘?m;,{:fil;fi”"%m it ihaaiitis fiboe acams a7 "‘l bout sixty years go the officlal in | thIVIng SUHRED B L, 0oty 1y Sttred orafers:jto Soaraiaya, down iz | WU m:o‘hr;l?;nt\‘xr:‘gc“a:ég?h:shgxidgar;\p‘;‘:i W amethyst in 4 bowl of § pite v % party, but that the floor seems a little | cparge of the right-of-way of the|, Lhc bDookkeeping o ore i so alphabetic sequence | Washington 2 he ! Wine the liquid would not go to, his “Huh'™ says 1 “T don't believeYOUr memor: says I rondadifor s & JRENANRE (0. 1ERE WY "¢ I machinery. The records are a matler| 1 .q 2 jumbled zraphic trail area of the tent would exceed the!Wine the liau 5. artiey ca ver 1o % theughis| “Thats so’’ says he. “Regular bean |crowded for dancing ., { Greenville brane! o Bos ! RO Lo natter | makes a 3 geographi ; 5 ihead. The Greeks probably @32inot B it e e i ThouEsol bote, sn't she? ‘And look.at the:di I wasiwiichingyone fat man shg| Groenyilielicanch otithe Bogtonyana ot tonuraiie thal BecEats S8 SCe] registered the membership |acreage of the = Soldiers’ ome],loi¢ that fiction, but inherited it goes on. “He was doing quite nicely ine railroad, although in those | ands 3 T e e oD | grounds. Or. if you can v R e r walst to the floor! e from N new | e no- | machinery of such magnitude ve been detized, in u who asks that his membership | paper better in' weight, the monthly | " pr,7i1 4na Ceylon are said to pro- thing like that” ) | out too, for such a—-a this branch was a tiny independ- Anyway, I never saw him give any | S e e Bnat { methods 3 h azine is 315 = igns © Wking much about the ten. anyway.” says I. “They|did hop a bit too much, bu ailros v 5 B Lot Ve i s “converted” ntinued until he reaches a port{amount used in the mag; e 1S 315 | quce the most valuable amethysts, L R LR SR SR L aont come much higher. - Not such a | #plendid time and scemed to le Ialosa, skRown a8 (e iShichylwhers o e hember| Where a money order can be had: that|tons. An equivalent tonnage in that|but fine and beautiful stones are B et at the tlub, afier s fashion, | bad looker in the face, though. Good | partner so w 1. Rather a und Peterbores apparently because ft| hrewen ot metall of @ man in a British possession who | other preclous and scarce commodity, | found in the TUnited States. Among e anually e OnEE OF ¢ | eyen pink face, he had " from Aver, Mass., to Greenville,| plate, abonut twice L eallt for delaving a remittance | apal, would keep the average familythe localities famed for the ame- he feit Nke it But iy | ,admits Hartley. “But Yo, e L an At Hartley!N\. H., concelved the idea that a dou-|ezrd.’ This plate b teneil v has walted for a lower ex- !nin flled for twenty, years. thysts founq in them are the Ame find him camped I R awens iaya L Dotk Wonla ‘you mind meeting hime | ble row of pines on the north side of | the memuEr 5 adiney s androtaviis the Ohiv Auietican indechtenmtein]| < E xS county, N, C. and the Yellowstons w her shoulder blades as much as ““’h.\)"«*r 'l Th“\;l‘i h]» d"l:gh'm. tiwe track would serve as an eflicient taine wrapper, and also a card|At ”‘u- xfl;uv of wong n}l\m!th”"’f: HE soclal service worker would i'alion{al I‘;l!}( ,Fmo s‘lwchrem :L}'o « do, though. I shouldn’t call her |Says she. “I simply adore dancini g, yreak. the meonber's clection date; resident in a remote Alaskan village. 3 the former output of | been found in Pennsylyania and in skinny, exactly.” you know, and I know so few men | '\ e tiis intar heriontea payment upon it. Tiny. but, This section likewise affords an in- ""‘";r‘” m“!"“m"“m"u_ Maine. In the National Museum. and find Hartley “Wut she's a freak, all the same.” | here. 5 U [ AcuneRcnBE L sR0ee, planted in | A0 GUAR PAIRETD BN the top, adjust-| formative atlas of shifting boundary | the bullding as a ; u- | not many feet distant from the wiane line, loadin wis Hartles. = “And youre right| cGood mys I Harley dont]Townsend, Mass. shout threo milesled along s scale of years to the ex-jlinca JMembers who hiave not moved | ence, and would be selzed with e e e i at m ot forgett met |do a mean toddle himsel e's a|of white pines in two rows eight feet|pirati £ th bership.; niust have their addresses changed = D s o wiches, grab ut my not forgetting. Tt I | p [ et|piration date of the mem n r Addresses changed |possibility of the transformation of a1 SECWRENS. €6 MMy Prpontons < peace Lreaty r nook where | ight feet apart in the row. | “These card and stencil frames do cv-|a retirin’ to some ‘e 1 couldn't. Sl I don't)shy bird. though, but T guess L can |apart and effected, The Geo.|plant which ministered to physical in-| gjgerict, in Jefferson county. Mont., body could jog his elbow. If the she should keep looking at[fix it up. See vou later.” A few sections of this snow-break |erything for us but talk,” remarked|occupations ar e Dther Ymen wanted fo help out the|me. While I was dancing with Doris| And I drifts back to Hartley smoth-| were apparently burned out, but the|the henk of the membership record de-| graphic can claim to_be the first|dulgence to one which stimulates the |and from the Yellowstone Nationsl Aub waiters by passin’ things to the| [ caught her following me with her|erin’ a grin. sreater part is growing teday, a fine | partment. i American magazine in Poland, Czecho- | mental lifo of the much traveled and | Park, = There is also a species of ladies first they could. As for Hart- 2 “Now don't let out any loud haw-|monument to the foresight and cour-| For example, to address bills to ali|slovakia, the country of the Serka,|those who would mm:r& re- mtra?mgomw&am { i ho knew when he was bungry, *~Ouly patural, Hartley,” eays L haw, Hartley.” says I, “when I tell|age of this pioncer railroad man, the 250,000 members of the society onel Croajg aad