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TEA . 'Fresh-from the Gardens" msn hi | you to say ood night for me and ex- press my regrets. You fellows must see them Jafely home, of course." Yee iyo is ighty decent of vou! am." "You're a prince!" Both .youths were greatly relieved. "Tos To our party was a bust, but--we'll see you! tomorrow." "As they crossed the lobby Kickor breathed to his friend: "Gosh, Spud! I feel us if I'd tramped on a baby's finger." A moment later they and the three girls passed out into the night. | Sam explained to the cafe pro- prietor that he would not require the|.. table for six after all, and for a while he continued to look on at the dancers. Outwardly he was unruffled; inward- ly he boiled. In an effort to retain his self-control he cepeated in a sort of panic: "The superior man can find SON OF THE GODS BY REX BEACH SYNOPSIS Sam Lee, who looks "white," but is Supposed to be Chinese, is a student ut Eastern. Sam is intelligent, good-looking, an honor student and a top-notch texnis player. But he unds that a social prejudice exists against him on account of his supposedly Orien- tal blood. Two college companions, Spud G>rham and Xicker Wade, induce Sam to take them out in his expensive car, with their girl corapanions. CHAPTER II, The Bird Cage was the most popu- lar roadhouse on the north shore. It had been done in the Chinese fashion, with miniature flower gardens and Awarfed pine trees surrounding the dancing floor and with tiny pebbled pools spanned by toy bamboo bridges separating the tables. Scores of bird cages, each with a twittering canary of imperial yellow, svung from the lacquered beams,. ani all the attend- ants were in Orientai costume. cover. charge amounted to more than most of the students at Eastern spent on themscives in a week and 'n con- sequonce it was not liberally patron- ized by the college crowd. But Sam went thera frequently=to dina alone. He let his companions out under the porte coch-re, parked his car and returned to th: ch, then led the way inside, The three girls were chat- tering animateuly as he removed his coat and cap and tossed them to the coat man. It was his first chance to see them distinctly and he was curious to dis- cover whether thesz friends of Spud"s and Kicker's, especially Miss Hart, would prove as attractive in a revea!- ing light as in the semi-obscurity of the night. He was not disappointed. They were healthy, charming, animat- ed girls--Alice Hart was unusu- ally pretty. Sam had learned hy now that she was an advanced student at the School of Design. Of the other two, one held a position of some im- portance in a publishing house and-- Sam felt his gaze drawn from Atice's face to that of Kicker's girl, perhaps his attention was atiracted by the fact that she broke in the mid- dle of what she was saying and stared at him out of startled eyes. A look of incredulity succeeded her smile! Lhe opeted her lips to speak but the obsequious proprietor of the Bird Cage bustled up at that moment with a word of welcome to Sam and an inquiry as to where ne wished his party seated. When the latter had made his wishes known, the girls were on their way to the dressing room. The orchestra in the cafe started "playing; the dance floor filled, and ious, her eyes were glowing. ideal! Alice is crying. the three college men moved forward and looked in. Sam Lee was staring at the gyrat- ing throng; his face was placid; bis eyes were as expressionless as onyx discs; he did not seem to hear what hig friends were saying. When several moments had passed, Wade inquired irritably: "What ails those sopranos? ment." "Give a date free lipstick and face powder tad she'll stretch it into a perraanent wave." Wade falt a touch on his arm: a maid in an Oriental blouse, blue silk tronsers and felt-soled slippers ad- vised him that one of the ladies wish- ed to speak to him. He followed her. A stormy face peered out at Kicker from the dressing-room door, an angry voice greeted him. "You ve got your nerve!" ello! What's wrong?" "You know very well. You get us out of here this minute before any- " . body sees us." The speaker was fur: She's almost in hysterics and--"". - Illumination came to Kicker. "You mean--=Sam? Aw, see here! Don't be a goofer." ized him the minute we got Sis ia your idea of a a joke--" excited young nan choked, "--Well, I think it's That ; 1 require nourish- | spite of his case-hardened nerve, hesi-| | fated, stammered, "Could I--er, bor-| : ith Ta thi Don't make a scene in a place like Kicker implored. "Sam isn't an .| ordinary Chinese" this," "Bah! . .. What's the difference?" "Anyhow we don't think of him as one. He's a high class gentleman, It I'd had any idea you felt like this---- But it's too late now. You've got to go through." "And have him ask us to dance?" . "That's just what he'd do. I'd die." . + + "Are you going to take us away?" "I can't. Think I'm going to bawl myself out, and him, too? What would I tell him?" "We should worry what you tell him." 1 Angrily Wade exclaimed: 'You just want to start something. Who the devil do you think you are? The Astor girls? Sam doesn't look Chi- nese, and nobody here knows him. 2 "I know him!" Gorham had observed storm signals and was approaching. Sam Lee still stood in the doorway absorbed, in watching the dancers, His back was to his guests. When Spud learned what was amiss he joined his entreaties to Kicker's, but with no success, "Do you think we'd be seen in a public place with an Oriental?" "Yes, and his name isn't Sam Lee, at all: it's Lee Sam." The indignant instigator of the scene made herself kaard. "I never thought when you introduced him, but the instant I got a good look--" "Lee Sam is the Chinese way to say his name," Kicker explained. "They get everything backwards. Now: lis- ten: he's a big guy: his father is the richest Oriental in New York and he owns more stores than Carter has pills: He's the Chiaese Marshall Field. Sum's a kind of a prince. He's an honor man at the university and--" "Are you going to call a taxi?" "Is who going to call what taxi?" Gorham demanded roughly. "You'd wear out a new one on the way home. We're further from home than Cape Town. If you must go, Sam will drive us back." "He won't drive 'me back." "Nor me, either!" "I should say not!" Alice Hart now added her voice to the others. The two young men exchanged ap- prehensive glances, each waited for the other to speak. Spud finally be- gan. "Well, I'm not going to break it to him. We asked him to take us out and we accepted his invitation to come here." "We. asked him?" snapped one of the girls. "Tell him somebody is sick. Dying! + Anything!" "I wish it was the truth," Kicker nodded his complete agree- ment with Gorham's desire. "I'd like to tell him truthfully and with tears in my eyes that you all had hydro- phobia, I bet it would cheer him up. . All right! I talked us into this buggy ride, I suppose I can talk us out of it. Anyway, I'll. try. But you ought to walk back." He and Spud re- turned to their host. "Our party has blown ip," Wade began as casually as might be. "Mabel has got something the matter with her and wants to go home," ! ] Sam turned from his patient obset- vation of the dancers and said polite- ly: "I'm sofry. Can anything be done?" There were times when Sam Lee's college mates argued that he looked not at all Chinese, and again times when they were not so positive about it. At this moment, however, there could be no doubt as " what he was: Spud and Kicker saw an Oriental fac- ing them. "Would she like to leave at once?" Sam inquired. Kicker made a hopeless gesture, "At once, or sooner! And they want me to call a taxi" "Too much air in that open car," Spud explained desperately, "It's --neuralgia, or toothache, or some. Grabbed her just like--that!/ "Would you min?" Wade, in | If in no situation in which he is not master of himself" . . . "Noble natures are calm and content" wie "The lowest order of men are vicions in spit» of instruction." In moments like this he had iearned himself in the benign phil- osophy of the Orient; nevertheless he vas in revolt at this moment, He had supposed, of course, when Gorham invited him to come out and assured him that evirything was "all right," that the girls knew who and what he was. Otherwise he would not have subjected himself to the risk of humiliation. He stopped the blonde cigar girl as she passed him and bought a pack ze of cigarcttes, and left the change "rom his dollar bill on Ler tray. When the coat-room attendaat took his check Sam dropped a coin into his hand much as he wou'd have dropped it iuto the dirty paw of a beggar. There was a film over Sam Lee's eyes, a derisive smile was on lis lipa as he walked to his fifteen thousand dollor car, "Resentment is a plant that bears nothing but misery," he told himself. Slowly he drove back towards ths city, lost in meditative contemplation of the beauties of the night. (To be continued) re tee 40 What New York Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every. Pattern A graceful Princess model. chooses a vivid blue and white crepe silk print: It lends brightness to mid-summer wardrobe, It's sportive for resort. It's smartly appropriate for town and may be worn all through the fall. The curved seaming of thé circular godets minimizes the width through the hips. The white crepe silk scarf with plain blue ends is jaunty. i Style No. 2647 can be copied exact- y. No. 2647, size 36, requires 4 yards of 39-inch material with 5% yard 85- inch contrasting and 3% yard of 1%-| | inch braid. « Shantung = printed batiste, sheer linen print, printed cotton voile and chiffon print 'are fascinatingly lovely w and youthful suggestions, HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. 3 4 Write your name and sdiress plain-| uch |. ly, giving number and g patterns as you. want, stamps or coin on pilose wfap address ycur order to a ten. {antl the fest, T'll pay | Honest!" Sam A io 'took a mew bank- note from his -fold. He always carried new money, as his friends had learned. "If she's sufyring ask 2.1. Ti able tp Tb a few dry wor the spark of a ought flash out. The Angel of Death is the invisible Aneel of Lit ~Hemy Mills Alden. It may be had in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust! : it carefully) for each number, and 'Wilson Pattern Service, 75 West Adelaide St., Toronte; (3 Be stem of the woulls, anit fio n of the grass With rus ot i or he wide tha 'And the" brilliance. of sunshin on brightest green Like flashes of gold in the leaty screen! 5 The Summer is green; no lovelier hue Spreads itself under the heavens of' blue; i The vagrant wind turning each leat as it blows The 'lining of silver joyously shows. Winds ean be furious, winds can be gay, = These winds come dancing the long summer day To pry into shadow, to revel in shade, Enhancing the beauty of all that is made. --Caroline Hazard, n "Songs in the Sun." ? ee ern. Curious Weights Used © By British Trade London.--No country in the world has such an array of mysterious weights and measures, known only to the members of various trades, as England. Bach trade has its own measures, and these often vary accord- ing to the district which has used them for a long time. Covent Garden buys celery hy the "roll' 'and sells it that way. There are eight heads in a "roll"--if they are washed, but twelve if the celery is sent to market covered with dirt. That solves the mystery of why most greengrocers prefer to sell you a head of the latter category. Twelve profits are to be made on a "roll," instead of eight--and you have the fun of 'wash- ing your purchase. There is a fine mixture of ways of selling apples and pears. When sold by the "sieve" in the North of England the buyer ought to get 66 lbs. But the South of England "sieve" yields only 52 lbs. The West, East and Midlands "sieve" may be one or the other, or neither; if you ara a wholesale buyer of apples you have to live and learn. One of the chief Covent Garden firms appealed, a few years ago, to growers hundred yards, but - ns 8 out a he on a od sland. Lord; Ching, 'his the intarpreter, Scottle and myself. Rank and fortune suddenly count- i ] There we were on that lonely little island; General Lu, the Chinese 'War | faithful servant, Fu -800n another ap- peared. This in (urn faded out. We continued to follow in the 'ed for nothing. We were four 4 hungry men--and a dog. Even Gen- yin ay at? He a tinct tinkle of water. Out from be- had stored away Ween Jo rocks poured clear, cold in our plane would not buy square meal. side like mirror toad went back four or five miles and ended. Above, the sky Tosq in a huge empty dome. "Look here General," [ sald. "yo and I are going rabbit hunting." After that we tramped and hunted for hours, but never ound a rabbit. In fact, we never even saw a mouse or a squirrel. The island rose to a peak near the spot ere we had landed. The remainder was cover- ed with stunted brush, oftén burned brown from the sun's heat. The rocks were blazing hot. More serious than 'the lack of game, was the absence of water. Hour after Hour, we searched for fresh water, but not a drop could we find. As we walked home over a flat sandy place, General Lu sud- denly gripped my arm. 2 In the sand was a long, streaky, track, as if you had drawn a stick along. At first I could make nothing of it, then it suddenly occured to me that the mark was made by the tail of some animal, while the sand was wet during the rain of the night be- fore. A lizard, or a turtle might have made it, but because the track appeared so far inland, it seemed probable that the creature was head- ing for some known water hole. us a /The sea stretch ed away on every a flat The is- General Lu drank so much, I real- ly feared he would 'drown. Then | we filled our water can and walked back to the plane, where Chung and the interpreter anxiously waited for us. Meanwhile Scottie had gone on up the beach, and was busily digging the sand, and half growling io him- sell 'The sand flew in all directions. Then he came racing back to me, Sure enough, he had found a nest of eggs buried in the sand. His rough methods had ruined some of them, but there were almost a dozen left. I put the good ones in my helmet and back to the boys I went. The Chinese seemed delighted, and sat about baking. them by the fire. Well, per- 4 Judge, me those eggs surely seemed terrible. The interpre ter looked at me questioningly. likee eggs?" Then he pointed meaningly .o the ea, "Flish, he go mightee flinee-- easy catchee, hu?" (To be continued.) "No Note: Any of our young readers writing to "Captain Jimmy," 2010 I star Building, Toronto, will receive "signed photo of Captain Jimmy, free. to_discard "sieves," as in seme dis- 4ricts they were found to signify as little as a bushel, or even half a' bushel. Large quantities of apples, too, are sold by the "bag." A "bag"'is not a bag, but a sack, containing a hundred. weight. Fish may be sold by the "trunk"-- a heavy trunk, too, weighing from ten | to fourteen stope, "all according," as they say at Billingsgate. Or it may be sold by the "quintal" Or by a stand- ard-sized cub called a "kit"; other ways. ------le Motor Tips or in Top cleaners that work well on the | fabric of some cars may not be correct ! for others. 1 The weight of the car is materially reduced if the jack is set as near the end of thre axle as possible. Because high-compression engines are harder to cool, the radiator should be drained and flushed at least once a month. Undue strain on the steering gear is prevented if the car is kept slightly in motion when turning the front wheels. : Failure to keep the car within the white line on the roadway not only is an infraction of the law, but it is a menace to traffic. The spare tire should not be left on the back of the car too long. It is bet- ter to put It to work before the rubber deteriorates, Stop the car immediately if a bee or a wasp flies inside. Driving the car and disposing of the insect cannot be done without a sting or an acident. Drive slow when forced through a partly flooded section of the road. This not only gives better traction, but prevents splashing water on the igni- tion equipment, as would be the case it driving faster. -- Magnet Takes Metal From Eye A giant electro-magnet to remove metallic particles from the eye, has been donated to the St. Mary's Hos- pital in St. Louis. This magnet, the only instrument of its kind in the | world, is available to any physician who may need it tor the use of 'pa. tients. Ouly Gia" together, and to see : 4 We he pl "Those pertinent ol aan and a by 'the walk, order's I The health-giving, delicious , UPS: +o cotate Matted Milk drink for children and grown- Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. Mr, Boreum Gude (at 11.20 p.m.-- * Was quite a ball player in my youth." Miss Cutting (wearily) -- "In. deed." : Mr, Boreum Gude -- "I was con- sidered a fine short stop." Miss Cutting--"Pity you didn't keep it up." Hot Springs In Iceland Reyjavik, Icelana. -- Year-round bathing in comfortably warm water, either salt or fresh, is now possible in this land of the chilly uame. The sea bathing may be had at a spot where the Atlantic washes through a lava ridge filter, so hot that a lagoon of warm water forms be- hind it. The fresh-water swimming is in a pool just opened here, the water be-| ing pipe from near-by hot springs.! It comes in at about ten degrees helow boiling. The hot springs are used also to heat some of the city's homes and the pipes lead to a laundry, school, hos- pital and other public buildings. The country is volcanic and it has been noticed that the location of the hot springs. points to a connection with clefts in the earth, ------ The Quarrel in the Garden The petulant petunia grew purple in her rage; As a ruffle-edged petunia--near that ! shrieking scarlet sage!" Sr "I might as well be sepia--I might on as well be beige-- SC | "It's plain that silly ganionot torgot | " red, that I wi tad trad along beside my bed. ; L might as well be forage grass!" the said. Angry salvia i "My neighbors greatly try me," fum- |. ed stately hollyhock, that sali ite Reflection | By Sydney King Russell, in "The New Yorker." Remonbering.x words We had together Concerning chance And: woe and weather, Concerning pathways Lately lost And seas uncharted Or uncrossed, Concerning moods And motorcars, Anemones And shooting stars, I have discovered, Two can chat : An hour or more ~ Of this and that And part assured And comfortel For having left love Well. unsaid. fp RE Yoho Valley One « the most spectacular drives in the Canadian Rockies is that through the Yoho Valley in Yoho Na- tional Park, British Columbia. This i valley is fourteen miles long and more | than one mile deep, walled in by al- most perpendicular mountaing covered with primeval forest. Six waterfalls leap down the mountain side within a distance of ten miles, some of them | ending in a cataract of spray. The most spectacular of all is Takakkaw, which in three different drops falls to "the floor of the valley 1,650 feet from its crest above. ria . Denton (Texas) Record-Chronicle: The annual prize for faint praise goes to the booster who said flying is now as safe as walking, 3 ¥ | this continent, 15,000 to 30,000 'years ago. This evidence, chiefly the intimate association of human objects with the remains of the big ground-sloth, Ntha rotkerinm, that is believed to have ns come extinct in the Pleistocene period, or Grea. Ice Age, has not been accept. ed a conc usive proof that man exist ed here at that time. Added to arch aeologica: discoveries made elsewh>re on the continent, however, it is re- garded as most suggestive of such a conclusion. Dr. John C. Merriam, paleontologist and president of Car- negie Institution of Washintgon, has described the accomplishments in Gyp- sum Cave as ranking "among the most interesting discoveries in archacology in America." Carnegie Institution is co-operating in the work, which was initiated by M. 'R. Harrington, curator of the South- west Museum »f Los Angeles, Mr. Harrington made his initial discover- ies in 1924, while searching for traces of the Early Basket Makers a ra:e that preceded the Pueblos in tha Southwest long before the Christian era. The cave, a deep, dry cavern of irregular shape, 300 feet long by 120 fect wide, is about twenty miles east of Las Vegas in the foothills of Frenchman Mountain, overlooking a wide stretch of desert and the distant gorge of Black Canyon, the site of Bou!der Dam. In the five chambers of the cave Mr. Harrington was sur- prised to find that the deposits cone sisted in great part of masses of ma- nure, well trodden down, much like old horse corrals, and that numerous -- relics of the Basket Makers lay on the ! surface. The situation puzzled him, for he knew that horses could not have got through the cave's entrance and, fur- thermore, that the modern horse was not introduced into America until the spaniards came, long after the time of the Basket Makers. He was sent back to the cave with an expedition in | the spring of 1930, and soon a member of his party found an anima! skull, which Dr. Stock, an authority un yiound-sloths, identified as that of Nothrotherium. Soon Dr, Scherer, Dr, Stock and Mr. Furlong were hurrying to the cave, and instead of spending only a few days there, as they had planned, they extended their stay co work out a plan for thorough excava- ! tion, i It was .ot the discovery of the re- mains of ground-sloths, not the find- ing of objects of human workmanship, primitive though they were, that ar- oused the intense interest of these scientists, but tha fact that both were found associated in such manner as to indicate that man may have been con- temporaneous on this continent %with ° the ponlerous, slow-moving beasts. Had » discovery of this nature been made in central or western Europe under conditions pointing to contem- poraneous existance of man with ani- mals existing in Pleisocene time, no great excitement would have been aroused, for the fossil records of those regions already have established the presence of man there before the ize cap ceased to thrust itself back and forth into regions now temperate. In America, however, such early traces of man have been meager, and tho-- Opinion has been held by many that this continent was not peopled until a relatively late time by races that pre- sumably emigrated from Asia by way of the Bering Straits. Character or Color Natal Advertiser: Lord Willingdon has said that it is character not color that makes a man, This is the ome fact which counts. If you take your stand on color, then all those quali ties which are or may be common to men of diverse races--heroism, virtue, benevolence, sacrifice, self-sacrifice-- become little better than words that mean nothing to those who use them. The vice of the white becomes a great- 'er thing than the virtue of the brown; ° and the valour of sacrifice of the yel- {low becomes a baser thing than the 1| self-sufficiency of the European. But supposing "that we forget about the color of a man's skin, and we think only of the virtues of character that are revealed by those who come un- der scrutiny. Are we going say that the sun which burns 'a man 'black "i | also makes his soul black, and the 'which leaves him a pald skin 'the worth of a | thal in the last. resort, ht n | 3 ire by the 'worth of 1 ly pg a man, he must live out Before he EEE to are susceptible Kes his soul white? We all know =|: