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NISS VERE'S VACATION nd the Sort of Husband She Selected. By BELLE MANIATES. { “Girls, Vere says she is going to the {ountry for a rest!” Helen poised her paint brush re- Beotively in mid-air, while Margaret stopped in the act of squeesing a de- Ppleted tube of vermilion. *] am of the opinion,” resumed Con- Stance, “that she is not fleeing the wonfines of art, but from Cary War borough. “Poor Cary!” sighed Helen. “No!” protested Constance. “Poor Were! She lacks the courage to come but resolutely and tell him she'll have none of him.” “] think,” sald Margaret thought- fully, “that secretly Vere cares for bim.” ] “It's not,” quoted Helen, “that she loves Cary less, but art more. She—" Further discussion was postponed by the entrance of the subject of | their remarks, a charming young girl with golden hair and a dream-cen- tered face. “] am going away to the country,” she announced. “Where?” asked Helen succinctly. “To a farm near Chester, a little town up state, but,” she hurriedly added, “don’t tell any one. You see 1 don’t want to receive letters even. 1 want a complete rest.” The girls maintained a gravity of countenance in spite of the ludicrous idea of Vere's needing a rest. “Nora Lynn told me about the place, the Locke farm, with a big, comfortable farmhouse. She stayed there last summer. She said there was nothing to do there but rest.” “You will soon tire of it,” prophe- sled Helen. “Maybe,” suggested Margaret, “you will meet your fate—in a cornfield— and settle down to a life of rural domesticity.” “It I were going to marry,” main- tained Vere, “I should choose a poor man—a farmer, maybe. Then I could still pursue my art. A rich man would expect me to enter upon a life of social duties.” “You ought to give Gary a hint of the way you feel. I think he would be willing to forego his millions for the sake of winning you.” Vere looked annoyed, them an abrupt adieu. The three artists missed their and bade “I Am Going to the Country.” young companion during the next few weeks. Unlike them she made frequent incursions into a gay life, and brought an occasional flash of color into the drab of their life. So when she returned suddenly and un- announced one day, she received a heartfelt welcome. “You are certainly rested,” com- mented Margaret, looking searching- ly into the glowing young face. “Oh, girls! I have had such a lovely time. The scenery was beauti- “N-0,” she hesitated. “Margaret,” she resumed, turning to the most sympathetic of the three, “I did just what you prophesied. I lost my heart —or found it—and in a cornfield! And I am going to be married. He says I may have a studio in our house and paint all I like.” Brushes and palettes were excit- edly laid aside. ; “Tell us all about it! Is he a farm- .er? Was it love at first sight?” “For two weeks I reveled, idling out of doors, and the farm was an frimense one—not a neighbor within four miles. In all these weeks of doing nothing I saw no one but Farmer Locke, his wife and their son, & lad of ten, and the help.” “Then,” exclaimed Constance, “un- less your swain is the ‘hired help’ you have known him only a week!” “One beautiful day,” continued Vere, ignoring the comment, “I went out with Tommy Locke to have luncheon in the woods. Mrs. Locke put us up a basket of good things, but Tommy prop and roasting corn. I went forth to forage in the fields and left Tommy collecting brushwood. “l went through fertile acres un- til I came to a field of waving corn The symmetrical rows of sturdy stalks made shaded little avenues, and in the fun of waliing down them | Daily Thought. Gentleness and cheerfulness, there eome before all moralily; they are the perfect duties—R. L. 8 Marvelous Activities. A diner in a restaurant thought he would have a joke with the waiter, and asked him if he had ever seen a saus- age roll. “Say,” said the waiter, “I bave not only seen a sausage roll, but I have seen a biscuit box, a table #poon, a chimney sweep, a chain link, & Dose gay, a camera slide, a garden feuce, & sword fish and 3 wall flower” ed building a fire | 1 forgot what I had come for until heard a rustling and the sound of the stripping of the husks. “In the fourth row from me I saw another invader—a man—standing, tall and straight. I turned and fled.” “What, from a man?” cried Con- stance, incredulous. “He might have been the owner of the fleld, and I would have been caught red ed. I hurried back to Tommy, who scoffed at my fears, and we traded jobs. 1 wasn't much of & success as a fire-builder. While I voice behind me say: ‘That is a man’'s province, you know. Give me the “I turned and saw the big, broad- shouldered man of the cornfleld. He was clad roughly, but’his voice and manners were gentlemanly. He ex- plained that he had caught Tommy foraging in his fleld, and the lad had told him he was getting corn for his pal, who was back in the woods. He came in search of me, supposing 1 must be Tommy's boy companion. He had sent Tommy up to his house (he has a housekeeper or a tenant | or something) for some salt and but- “He built a roaring fire, and we set the table in the woods, and when Tom- my returned we roasted the corn and had a jolly luncheon. Then we all went home, and then—" “Well, what then—did he propose on the way home in spite of Tommy's presence?” “No; there followed a week of ; beautiful walks tbrough the woods, moonlight rides on the river, and oh, well, I told him last night I would marry him! I came home today to tell you all.” “Vere,” remonstrated Margaret, “you can't tell about a man in a week!” “Wait until you see him before you pass judgment,” replied Vere. “He is coming to meet you all in a few minutes.” So the girls suspended sentence. Presently there was a ring at the studio door, which Constance opened to Cary Warborough. “How will she ever break the news to him?” gasped Helen. Instead of breaking the news, Vere flew to his.arms. “Vere,” remonstrated Constance presently, “you said you met him in & corn fleld.” “So I did. Until T saw him there | 80 unexpectedly I didn't know I loved | him. And that was why I fled.” “But,” persisted Constance, “you said he was a farmer, and that he had a farmhouse and housekeeper.” “So he has. He owns the farm and rents it to Farmer Locke. He came down for a bit of shooting.” “I'll wager,” thought Margaret, “that Nora Lynne told him Vere was there.” (Copyright, 1912, by Assoclated Literary Press.) AHEAD IN ONE PARTICULAR United States Makes the Best School 8howing of Any Country In the World, The United States leads in the per centage of population enrolled in schools. Switzerland follows, the fig- ures being 19.7 and 18.6 respectively. | But we, along with Germany and the rest, are left far behind in otHer par- ticulars. The little republic in the Alps boasts 178 university students per 10,000 population to 81 in France, 77 in Italy and 20 in this country. It should be pointed out, however, that in a little country like Switzerland, with several important universities, the presence of foreign students counts for much more than elsewhere. ‘We are accustomed to think that, while we haven!t yet produced many classics, we print—and read—more newspapers than any other nation, | and it seems to be true that in abso- llute totals of issues of periodicals we surpass them all, our 21,320 a year being more than twice the 9,877 of ber of newspapers per million of popu- lation, our 260 i{s outdone by the 276 iol Switzerland and almost equaled by the 2561 of France. Our showing in ] —he couldn’t; he became & stock- broker in the end.” | “I met him,” she went on, “at my ALTRUISTIC ELIZABETH = Agrees That Fiirting Is Height of st f “A what?” I cried, aghast at this Altruism. display of erudition. “It means & woman hater. I looked it up in the dictionary when they told me what he was.” “Who's that? I demanded, as “Good Lord!” I said, still unsettled. Elizabeth bowed and then tried to “Fancy having people looking one up look as if she hadn't. in the dictionary! No wonder he By F. HARRIS DEANS. | was poking away, I heard a deep| “Where?” she asked, gasing round looked so depressed. in every direction but one. | “He used to say most awful things “He's on the ground,” I informed about us girls”” she pursued. “I her, as she finally glanced skyward; shouldn’t like to tell you half he “he hasn't brought his aeroplane out said.” with him today. I mean the man on' “Wouldn't you?” I murmured sym- the other side of the road, who doesn’t ly. “Try. Don't think to spare me. appear to be able to make up his “Waell, for one thing,” she sald, thus mind whether to pretend that he didn't see your bow, or that you didn't urged, “he said—he said—well I don't know what he didn’t say.” see his” “Ob,” sald Elizabeth uncertainly,! “Don’t worry about what he didn't “oh—I don’t know who he is.” say—that's not the part I feel I shall “What made you bow to him, then?” be interested in.” “] didn’t. He bowed to me. I cut Well, he said—mind you, this isn't him.. You know I did. I'll never speak & Quarter as bad as some of them, only to you again if you say he didn't” 1 can’t remember those—he said the “Anything for the sake of conversa- feminine sex—that shows you the sort tion,” I said agreeably; “keep talking. ©f man he was, doesn’t it?” she broke You cut him so severely that I saw Off. “Fancy saying ‘feminine sex.’ the blood come—to his face.” : Well, anyhow—don’t get so impatient, “No,” said Elizabeth, clutching at I'm telling you as quickly as I can; my arm in her eagerness, “not really? You keep interrupting so. He said the ' Do you mean he—blushed?” feminine sex was the rock on which “Well,” T hedged, “if he wasn't men were—wrecked, or foundered, or blushing he was feeling particularly —eomething nautical, anyhow. He healthy at the moment; he distinctly Was a horrid man.” glowed.” “To ”mt;l men" t';" 1 u:ml‘tlm.”“l “Is he"—with an effort she stopped CaR sympathize with your feelings. herselt glancing round—“is he still , “And then he said” she went om, staring at me?—horrid creature!” “that marriage was a snare to which “No,” I re red her, looking over ¥OMAan wasa successful but inadequate my shoulder, “he's gone on.” bait.” She paused, flushed with in- “Beast!” she snapped viclously, dignation, and eyed me expectantly. “that’s just like him.” “A felicitous phrase,” I said, feeling “Seelng you are unacquainted” 1 bound to say :omothlns. ‘“but sadly mentioned mildly, “you seem curlously 1acking in tact. . famfliar with his manners.” | “Yes, it was, wasn't it? 8o, of “I never said I didn’t know him.” course——" she spoke in the tone of “You aid.” |one who had made many sacrifices— “I didn’t. I said I DON'T know ‘T had to—" him.” “Snub him.” 1 interposed. “Naturak “Where's the difference?” ly. That, of course, accounts for his “Wasn't there a law to make chil- | behavior just now.” dren go to school when you were a| Elizabeth flushed a little, and gazed boy? One's the present tense, and interestedly at the tip of her shoe. the other’s the past.” “Well,” she sald, a trifle awkward- “I see, and he's a past tenser?” |ly, “I didn't exactly SNUB him. I—I “M'm,” said Elizabeth, with an atr talked to him—tried to persuade him of one exhausted with the subject.|. - . differently, you know.” Her ex- “Just look at that woman's hat, Dick; | Pression was vague. did you ever see anything like it?” ,” 1 sald, not following “Awful, isn’t it?™ T agreed, “What did you say?” “How can you know?—you're not| *I didn't say anything. looking.” tend to be dense. “T know without looking; that's why "f‘“" ” I let you come out with me some-| “Hanged ifIdo.” her. Don't pre- Don't you under~ TEST OF GHARACTER By DOROTHY DOUGLAS. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspa- ¢ b per s’yndlc-w.) Sally Van Camp came home in a state of complete exhaustion from re- | hearsal. Since the losing of the en- velope with her salary in it she had been forced to go about her strenuous days with scarcely enough food to nourish a canary and to sing and give forth her vitality as if the lack of food were a thing of no consequence. The pitifully small salary she drew for singing every night and two afternoons a week in a big musical comedy chorus was all she possessed in the way of financial support. It took her every penny to spread out over the week, so that at the end of those seven days Sally would have starved save for the fact that another pay day arrived. However, three days had been got through. Had Sally not spent fifty cents on an advertisement in the lost, and found column after she had dropped her pay envelope in the sub- way she could have had some lunch for five days. As it was, she had to | fight the pangs of hunger and won- | der it anyone finding her money ° would ever return it Philip Turner, who had read the advertisement, pondered long and speculatively over it. He, surrounded | by every luxury and the manager of b | & sucoessful restaurant where people dined and wined and listened to cab- | * aret music, felt strangely upset th: some poor working girl had lost a all. Perhaps Philip Turner was half | philanthrople. Certainly he was curl- { ous to see if the girl who had lost her salary in a white envelope was hon- | est. Turner’s hobby, if hobby it could be called, was to test human nature. “I will gend S. V. C. a white en- velope with $8 in it and tell her I | regarding Sally’'s advertisement. It was the fourth day of Sally’s en- forced fast when the letter from Philip Turner arrived with the envelope in- closed. She had come home at 11:30 from the theater so weary that the stairs leading to her attic room had ! haunted her all the way home as a | task quite beyond her power of ac-| complishment. i BB O B BB SR D G B Db trifilng sum of $8 and that it was her | % ¥ found it in the subway,” he decided | ;' as a conclusion to his speculations | i times; I hate ugly things, and you al- ways point out where I don't want to look.” “I'm sure I don’t; I always tell you “Why, don't you see, of course I had Upon eeeing the letter addressed to to con'yl“e I\h{x that women were not | herself Sally opened it apathetically. —well, weren't quite what he thonghfi} She knew instantly that the money them. I had to try and make him Was not that which she had lost. The {have a higher opinion of them.” “I see,” I crled, my brow clearing. “Well?” “Well?” . “What happened; did you succeed ™™ “Temporarily, anyhow.” “Do you mean you couldn’t live up to it or what?” “No, there was nothing to live up {to; he—he misunderstood my mo- | tive if I see anything pretty. There's & suppose,” I ventured, “he thought you had converted him for personal reasons?” “I think he must have. I don't think, you know, he could have been | quite a gentleman.” “To have entertained such a base suspleion?” T queried. “Not only that. To say the things the did.” “Why, what did he say?" “For one thing he called me a flirt. That wasn't flirting, was it?" { “FLIRTING! It was the height of | altruism.” “The height of altruism,” Elizabeth | envelope and the bills were not her |own. She did not for the moment | doubt that the envelope had been found and sent to her as supposedly the one she had lost. Across the street a midnight shop flaunted its blaze of light into Sal- 1y’s half-starved face. “Turkey sand- wich” was the illuminated sign that goaded her into using the money as her own. When she arrived in her room again she was faint, but not so faint but that the turkey sandwich set her on her feet and made a sleepy and con- tented girl of her. i In the light of day and with clearer reasoning faculties Sally felt her po- sition keenly. She nad deliberately used the money of some other person and she would not be able to repay that money until three days later. It was a very wan but strictly straightforward Sally that found her way to the home of Philip Turner, Luckily he was in. His servant led Sally through sumptuous halls until France, our nearest rival, But in num- | | wonder why on earth she wears the ' “Where?” smart hat over there, now—at least, they were all the rage last year; no- body decent could wear one. . . . | thing—Iit doesn’t suit her a bit.” “Perhaps the poor woman hasn't any friends to tell her. She looks a lonely soul.” ks published per 100,000 population is pititul or fortunate according to one's way of looking at the modern flood of literature. 135, and Switzerland, with 116, are at the top of the list, while the United States, with ten, and Russia, with six, are at the bottom. The surprising thing is that Germany is at the head in none of these categories.—Open Court. Better Idea. Orville Wright was recently pre- vailed on to try a new revolving mo- tor of the Gnome type, the invention of a San Franciscan. Mr. Wright put the new motor on an old biplane and gave it a fair trial. | It continually stalled, however, and |80 he told the inventor that he was |afraid it wouldn't do. | But the inventor read him a long lec- ture on the various methods of pre- venting stalling, concluding with the admonition: | “You want to put a little cleverness in your work, sir.” | “Humph,” the aviator retorted. “Why didn’t you put the cleverness in | your engin | His Mistake. “Did the story he made up to tell |his wife pan out all right?” | “Nope, it was a complete fallure.” ! “It sounded good to me.” | “Yes. but he invented it when he ',\\:xs sober, and when he got home and started to try it out he found there were so many big words in it that no man in his condition could nronounce that he had to give it up. { Tia mext efort will be in words of ote Daily Thought. Let us wipe out the past, trust In the future—and rejoice in the glorious | Now | Now, Jasper! “There is one thing that has al ways refused to ooze through my noodle,” remarked Jasper Knox, the fiuge of Piketown-on-the-Blink, “and | that is this: 1If, as the newspapers | would have us believe, all brides are beautiful. where in Sam Hill do all the homely married women come from " —Judge. “More likely they have told {and that's why she haen't any friends.” She hesitated for a moment, Denmark, with and glanced at me from the corner ! of her eye. “Talking of friends,” she resumed, in a curious tone of embar rassment. “Don’t let's start talking scandal on a lovely day like this,” I pleaded. “I wasn't going to.”” She paused, ’nnd dug at the gravel path with the ' end of her sunshade. “Let's sit down, 'shall we? I want to tell you some- thing.” “About—?" T gave a backward jerk of my head as we seated ourselves. | *“Ye—es, though I don’t know how- ever you guessed.” “Intuition,” I said complacently. “I have a frightfully keen intellect some days—I think it must be something in the air” There was a ro=*“vl si- lence for a moment, during which T mused over how clever T was, and Elizabeth sat tr to think out how clever she could be. “I wowmddn't tell you,” sh at length, “only I know it | duty.” | “Duty!” sneered |"H it's your cons | vou on to tell me, Elizabeth !o{ something more interesting.” | “And anyhow, if I didn't, somebody else would.” “Ah, that sounds more hopeful. T {knew I shouldn’'t hear much if it only depended on your conscience.” “His name,” she said, beginning for once at the beginning, “is Greatorex— Marmaduke Greatorex.” “Marmaduke,” I said reflectively— “I knew a boy of that name at school; we called him ‘Marmadnke® Still, it's |® geod name if live up to it | | s ear Humane Turkish Laws. Tt is unlawful In Turkey to seize & man's residence for debt, and sufi- clent land to support him is also ex- empt from seizure. Sharpening a Worn Flle. “When a file gets dull” said the master mechanie, “you can restore its effectiveness by pouring a little nitric acid over it. This roughens the raised parts and deepens the sunk parts so that it will again file your nails or cut a bar of iron.” i her, | ¥ ltaurant somebody had placed a sign < kitchen and found the head cook. murmured reflectively, at the same | she was shown into the tibrary where- time glancing at me approvingly. “Do | in Philip did his dreaming you know, I think that's rather a nice| She smiled half wistfully as she description. And it's true, too, isn't [ handed back the envelope it “I took this—and used some of the tively.” envelope 1 lost bu. 1 was starving and had to rehearse today. I want to Day Set for Marriages. pay back what I have used when I Visitors to the quaint old city of | can.” She spoke brokenly, for the pe- Plougastel, solemnized in & single day of the|nerves. When she had told him in d L o vear. Why this unusual custom pre- | taf) all that he demanded of her he vails i{s easily explained. The men v are all fishermen, many of them going ;m:lzr.: ?:":‘.f l;;‘: l:‘g‘;:o bl as far as the Newfoundland banks, “Now sing,” he said lauéhlnl 3 3 gly. and are at home only during a few “Y want to see what you can do. If | months in the winter. One day in you please me, I can give you 4 | early February is set apart for the | ooomene to sing fn m ’re t“" Lo weddings. Little courting is done, but | g0 ex0 s week i TR much haggling over the dowry of the Sally" ¢ girls. They have to bring a certain y's slim hand sought support | quantity of linen, chickens, pigs, and even as it had when she had seen vegetables. Frequently a match is the.money in her letter. She smiled, broken off because a father refuses to | NOWever. ana Philip watched the {add a sack of potatoes to the dowry. | 42Wning happiness that he was one |On the day set the Inhabitants of the | 4aY to bring into his own and Sally's entire reglon go to Plaugastel. The |!ife. Neither of them knew for the {whole population goes to churuch to | second that love was weaving them hear mass, to take communion. Often “ into its met. pbut Sally did know that 50 or more couples are united on the | same day. Bride and bridegroom do l’Jl’"f” sung for anyone else, not walk together until the ceremony | iWhen ehe had finished Philip sat silently looking at her onnee 2!‘2&_ “ “T could easily make it a It Was the Boss, All Right. | he said finally ‘but you n In the window of a downtown res- flinsha few weeks for me to the continent or som which read: | that,” he ended !aughingly “SECOND COOK WANTED.” | was very near to tears An applicant made his way to the | h‘There is no use—in my trying to thank you.” she said softly “There's the boss over there,” said | Philip did not tell her until long the galley chief, jerking his head in | after they were married that he hag the direction of a man washing dishes. | wanted to test her chacater. Ryen | “Don’t kid me,” said the celler. | so Sally only moved nearer nim and {“Tell me if you want me or tell me | dropped her nead on his shoulder {if you don't. There’s no use of ring- Ing in a dishwasher.” The man at the sink picked a stack | ot plates out of the water and let | SIS He—Marry me and I win ¢ /them all fall to the flcor with o | YOG llNean angel smash. ‘ Said She—Nothing doing. As 1 un- “Now.” he exclalmed, “tall me who ' CeTeRd it angels have nothing to et | you think the boap ~* | | | | | | — Never Touched Her. reat l and put Hti> to wear i Constable in Hard Luck. The special constable was chaffed by his triends for appearing on parade i Siatunt the “special v % e ‘ Trapped, | ed the “s| " “1 was er > : tough cmv(r:s!tlns on the car the | ‘T,l:" “l" quarreling. “Well, you | other night, and when I got in I found ‘-u: ",,‘; ran after you,” said the | that someone had pinched my badge. | .n“ “ ‘“ih" does a mousetrap run They really ought to have detectives ‘m:' e mice, but it catches ‘em just | to watch the busy spots on tram | same,” replied hubby routes.”—Manchester Guardian. i & ] Chapter on Finance. It is not what a man Worth of a Friend. what he saves that makes A friend is worth all huzards we /80d it is not what he owes ean run.—Young. be pays that keeps him poor. earns but “Why, yes,” 1 answered, “compara- money,” she told him. “It is not the B @ i € B I oo A ¢ g BOPPEBSOPPDDEPPEDIPDEPIPET JDESIPPFPEIDID PO DDDS B gl e e Goigoeiod at 18 Cents This Week Only Armour Star Hams Uncanbassed =% E. 6. TWEEDELL | Causes of Unhappiness. The worst kinds of unhappiness, as well as the greatest amount of it, | come from our conduct to each other. I our conduct, therefore, were under the control of kindness, it would be nearly the opposite of what it is, and 80 the state of the world would be almost reversed. We are for the most part unhappy, because the world is an unkind world. But the world is only unkind for the lack of kindness in us units who compose it.—Frederick Wil- liam Faber. How Insects Regulate Speed. 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