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Suggestions for Hostesses Who Fool With the llies of April Ist. &8 April Fool party the spirit ‘Uhe Gocasion can be carried out § the time your guests arrive un. ‘they leave, eee For tnetancea, when the doorbell the arrival of one of the end someone unknown to door with the word that Fe fe no one homa” This will, Jead to the belief that itself was an April Foot Vt forget to invite the guest | a eee waiting for tuncheon offer for the best “fool” story Wt te awarded, make it a box ; but containing noth | The rea! prize can be found the napkin at the table, for eee Mm Amnounce that you have a pletare you would like to look at Get your Before a curtain, behind fe a large mirror, Draw the Aside and they will gaze at On the mirror is writ. e stunt te to pile pitiows, ‘Bnd other things on the floor. & prize to anyone who can Moor without touch. the way, tho they Then, after the Temove everything and watch the fun of fe the on on. A Bachelor Husband BY RUBY M. AYRES Copyright, 1921, by W, J, Watt & Co, (Continued From Yesterday) Mrs. Heriot was out in the road looking for them when they drew up at the inn, A faint shadow crossed her face when she saw Marie, tho she was effusive in her weloomea Chris walked on with her to the inn, and for a moment Marie and Feathers were left together “He is not happy, any more than T am,” she thought, and wondered why, They talked of golf till Marie's head reeled and Feathers interrupted at last. “Are we obliged to waste al the day here?" he asked. “I thought| the main object was to play golf.” Mra. Heriot followed him with alacrity, and her sister glanced at Marta “What are you going to do™ she asked. “You'll find it very tirtng walking round with us, I'm afraid, the sun is so hot.” | “I should like te come,” said. But before they had got halfway round the course she was tired out and had to admit it Mra. Heriot and Chrte were play- ing together and a little ahead, and Marie sald to Feathers: “I'm going to stay here and rest. Please go on, and I will walk back | to the clubhouse directly,” “You'd better have my ovat to ait on,” Feathers said. “Yes, I know | it's bot, but there are heavy dews at night and the grass may be damp, and you don't want to take any risks, He had been playing without hie coat, and he handed tt to her before he Went on to join his partner. They were rather a silent party! an they walked back to the club | house, | Marte out the rt! idea by serving bouillon ed brown to make it look like hot g aH Hite 4 é E 5 g Ha ge rH i ag i ‘Mies Grey: If T have an tn- T apply for a patent and begin to manufacture | reply JUNIOR. ‘What ts the a4- } postoffice department, Wash- D. 0. A prompt investiga- Wl follow and action will be }Y investigation warrants, eee + What ts the of bables born in one day the U. 5.? xYZ durcaw estimates about ‘Dirths per day. | @ fuicy steak, let's go to i piano study takes drudgery |) jout of piano practice, develops | que from interesting pieces, highest training for con Feathers looked round quickty. “Mrs, Lawless is not here,* said to Chria Chris threw his etube tnte @ cor ner. “No; TM go and find her.” he said, and walked out again tnto the! sunshine. CHAPTER XVII. Marte sat lost in thought for a long time after the others had gone on. Feathers’ coat had fallen to the grass and as she stooped to recover | it @ litter of papers and odds and ends tumbled out of one of the pockets, Marie went down on her knees to gsather them up, smiling at the mot- ley collection, There was a bundle of pipecleaners and a halfempty packet of cigareta, a bone pocket knife, some papers that looked like bills and a sheet torn from a bridge} scorer with something folded be tween {t—something that fluttered down to the grase—a dead flower! ‘The color flew to Marie's cheeks | a8 she stooped to pick It up. It was &@ faded blomwom of loveinamist— | the flower she herself had given to | Feathers the last time they drove) this way. | “Marie,” anid @ voice behind her, and she looked up with dazed eyes to her husband's face. “I was just coming back,” she said. She tried desperately to con- trol her voice, but her agitated heart beats seemed somehow to have got hopelessly mixed up with | it “Mr. Dakers left me his coat, | and the things all fell out of th pocket—I hope I've found them ail She scrambled up. “Lat me take it,” Chris mid. She} made a little involuntary movement an if to refuse, then gave it to him | HELEN AND DANNY HAVE GONE TO A MOVIE - WON'T YOU SIT DOWN? | HAVEN'T SEEN You IN A LonG Time! N ‘TAKE Vou OVER WERE TW FELLAS AQ * * Pag David found this story in the reference room of the central) Ubrary. It ts a part of a maga-| sine article written by Roderick Finlayson, who was an officer In the Hudwon Bay Co. tn the days of the old factor you have heard about #0 often: Pinlayson tella how be came to the Columbta river from the Ot tawa river in Canada—mostly by cance! They started tn tg birch canoes, up the Ottawa to Lake Nipising, down the French river | to Lake Huron, up Lake Huron to Lake Superior. ‘There they changed te email cance; went up the Kaminis tiquia river, carried their cancer to Lake of the Woods, and so on and o@-—cometine: paddiins, someties shooting rapida, some times carrying thelr canoes for milea and miles, until they came to the mouth of the Cotumbia. ‘There they changed to bateaux | and came to Fort Vancouver and/ Dr. McLoughlin. } silently. She walked along beside him | without speaking, hardly conscious of his presence, Her thoughts were all in the clouds, her pulses were still throbbing. She quickened her pace a Iittle as the clubhouse came in sight. She| did not desire his company. She hardly considered him. They had tea otitaide tn the shade of a tren Mra Heriot was very quiet. She looked rather sullen. | Presently another man strolled up| and joined them. He knew both| Chris and Mrs. Heriot, it seemed. | He asked if there was any chance | of a foursome. Chria indicated Peathera “My friend here is going te play Feathers looked up. “I'm not keen—I'm quite happy where I am. Mra. Lawless and I wih keep one another company. | Shall wet he asked, glancing at| ber. Chris laughed. “I dare say youl be able to amuse one another,” he said, and presently Marie was left with Feath of energy. “Has Chris tol4 you that I am leaving England? “I wish I could come with you." The words broke from her with a little ery, and Feathers raised his eyes at last. She knew that the aflence had lasted a long time before Feathers said gently: “There are some peo ple coming, Mra. Lawiers.” She looked up then with fiery oven. “Well, you havent gone yet,” she said defiantly. “Ever so many things may happen before you do.” The day bad been a failure, and t drive home was a silent one. Marie sat beride Chris as she had done before, and her eyes were very bright as she looked steadily ahead of her down the road. Chris put her down at the honse and drove around to the garage with Feathers; he was a long time gone—and when he came back he was alone. It ts @ long story—too long for Witle folka, but after being « while in Alaska, a while in one) fort and a while In another, the company sent him to the south end of Vancouver island to make & Dew fort ‘The Indians were very much alarmed at the building of this <{ 3) yi: 3 aka fn SEATTLE STAR DOINGS OF THE DUFFS WELL, r\ OM. JUST nh waNTeo To _, ' MELLO we e 326 THE BEGINNING OF VICTORIA, B. ©. fort and kept away for a long while, but after a time they be- gan to steal the provistons of the company and at last to kill the oxen while feeding In the open Mr. Finlayson then sent for the chief of the Bongees and told him the Hudson Bay company coulda't ntand such treatment. “You kill our cattle,” he said, “you steal our foud—now your men must pay,” ‘Then the chief few Into a rage and cried, “This land ts the land ot my people! We will not let you come and bufld your strong holds and give commands.” And he ran out to his warriors. And the next Ging the white men heard was a shower of bullets Mred at the fort, with yell- ing and black threats from all the Indians. Mr. Finlayson gathered his men together, then, to man the bas tiena, and told them that no man must go outside the fort until this matter was settled. He then called « half-breed tn- terpreter to him and told the man to slip outside and pretend that he had deserted. “Tell them,” Finlayson told him, “that I am going to fire on the chiefs lodge and that every soul must leave that house lest they all be destroyed.” (To Be Continued) ADV ENTURES | OF ENE CWS That night Lampy Lion awoke | with a ery. “Oh, mama, daddy? he) screamed, “Come quick, I'm killed.” | Nancy, Nick and Fuppety-Flap, | sleeping comfortably in the mango) tree close by, saw Mr, and Mra} Lion rush into their eave in startled | alarm. “What is tt, darting?” cried Mrs. Lion. “What's wrong?” “Oh, oh, ob?’ screamed Lampy “It's my mouth. A tooth’s trying to jump out of it and it hurts awfully Oh, ouch. Oh, I’m killed.” “Land of goodness,” said Mre Lion, looking helplessly at her hus. band. “What can we do for him, | Leo?” | Mr. Lion shook his head. “T don’t know,” he declared. “I wish Dr Jones, the circus dentist, were hero. | He fixed up a bad tooth for me in a| Sitty.” | “But he's not here,” walled Mrs Lion, “Oh, I wish we'd never left the circus.” | “Ouch? sereamed Lampy, harder than ever. “Where ts the circus? I want the circus if it will cure my and I want It, too? exclaim. ed his mother, “I never wanted to| leave, but the gnomes let us out and your father couldn't get home quick enough.” Filnpety Flap alld down his tree “Perhaps I can be of service,” said Flippety-Flap. “Perhapa I can be of service,” mid he. “The Fairy Queen gave me a spe- cial remedy for toothache.” (To Be Continued) HUNGRY BUT DAREN’T EAT Take ‘‘Pape’s Diapepsin” and eat favorite foods | | | without fear Your meals hit back! 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I took a few drops of vinegar from a cruet In the pantry, found a read ing giase, and retreated to the se clusion of my bedroom. 1 touched the magic spring concealed In the quaint silver setting of the lapis and | withdrew the tiny roll of paper. | Then, I spread the white aquare on my hand glass, The paper was thin but firm. I rubbed it lightly j with the tp of a finger moistened im the acid. I expected to see a web | of lines darken on the white surface. Nevertheless, at sight of the ex pected, my fingers trembled so that Mamie, | BELIEVE YOuR GETTING BETTER LooKine Every DAY! Oo I scarcely could steady the magnify | ing glass. 1 knew that the secret of the ring Would be always the mame, Now, as in days of old, it would concern the |ife—or the death—of a man. And always that man would be a person age of importange, for good or for evil, in the history of his time All this I know Certeis had told me about the ring and from my former astounding ex Also I realized that never in the century of ite history had the bijou carried the secret of a more dramatic situation. I steadied the reading glass by an effort of will, and deciphered the minute strokes of the pen, thus: “C. L.” That was Chrys! “Come to Ptgd. Via Bn-br, Execution de layed. Jowel»—cellar—fountain.” No name was signed. But even tt the German financier had failed to cable that Certeis was in a bolahevik prison, I could have guessed who had sent the Oriental peddier to a Lor. imer with that riddle. I reread the words, I applied their significance. Chrys was told to come to Petrograd. The execution of Cer. tels was postponed. I moditated over the letterd"Bn-br,” then suddenty the obvious flashed into my mind:) ‘Thru the Berlin banker who had cabled, Chrys could get to Hamilton Certeis! He would not be put to death if she arrived with the gems. Some- body in power was taking a chance COULDN'T BE Seattle Man Suffered Nearly Every Minute of Day With Severe Pains in Back—Tanlac Ends Troubles *fefore I got Tantac IT had lum. bago so bad that if I dropped my pencil I couldn’t even stoop over and pick it up; but now my back never hurts the least bit, and I feel good all the time,” was the statement made by W. A. Stinson, well-known clerk for the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad Co., residing at 1806 Chicago ave., Seattle, recently, “For several years there was searcely a minute that I didn’t suffer from those awful pains in my back and rheumatism in my ankles. My from the legends | periences with the mysterious jewel. | UP ANYTHING ON FLOO | To PLAY A ASAE A POTATO FIELD, STRIKES O% * | Jon getting the katser’s joweis! And at Inst it was clear why the message had been handed to me alone knew the magic of the ring. But I was not the only person who powsenned the secret of the tunnels jand chambers under Certeis' formal gardens. Inspirers of boishevian and German sympathizers had plotted to. | gether there in war time. | And 1, Jane Lorimer, had by| [chance discovered the conspirators and had nearly lost my life in con- | sequence. I comprehended why Cer-| tein appealed to me as the only | F human being he knew who, if made | |aware of the treasure in the crypt, | | would not appropriate it. (To Be Continued) NO 10 PICK system became run down generally, and I was bothered with indigestion a great deal, When I tried to stoop over a pain would catch me in my back, and it felt just like needies jrunning thru me, My. ankles often | hurt me so bad T could hardiy walk and my strength seemed to be gone entirely, I had scarcely any appe- tite, couldn't sleep any to speak of, } and never felt like working or en joying life in any way. “But there is a world of atfterence |in the way I feel now, for my appe. tite is simply fine, and I never feel a touch of Iumbago or rheumatiam I've gained several pounds in weight and all my strength and energy has come back tome. 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