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BY REX i SON SYNOPSIS - 8am Lee, is a Chinese student. at Eastern, Alice Hart, an art student, 'sees the possibility of securing some share of Sam's wealth for herself. She ~ ealls him up. At the close of the term Alice visits New York, Sam takes her many places and showers her with pres- ents. Then he takes her to Chinatown to ,. see his father. Lee Ying sees through Alice's shallow nature. He promises to mend Alice to Paris to pursue her art studies. Then Sam asks Alice to marry im, CHAPTER VIII.--(Cont'd.) "Now you're insulting," said Alice In a nexplosion of wrath as sudden as it was unexpected Sam exclaimed: "It's you who insult me. . . . Women are monkeys! You've insulted me not once, but a thousand times, and I stood for it. Your caution! Yeur secrecy! . . . 'Nobody must know!' 'What will people say?" The crowning insult was your surprise when I asked you to be my wife, and not my mis- tress. Let's be honest, for a change. Y'1l be frank with you; please be the same with me." "All right!" stormed the girl. "I'll pay any price to go to Paris, if you must know, but I wouldn't marry ycu if you were the last man on earth. Live in Chinatown Among those"peo- ple! Oh, my God! I'd cut my throat first, Now what have you got to say?" "Only this: there may be Chinamen who would have you, but I wouldn't." Alice was shaking, her breast heav- ing tumultously; abruptly she bent forward, covered her face with her hands and began to sob convulsively. #]Zsuppose this--ends everything," she gasped. "I could--kill myself." | "It ends nothing except a fantastic misconception on your part. Don't concern yourself in the least about your--'career'." Sam pronounced the words bitingly. "My father has prom- ised. I'm a yellow man, but not 'yel- Jow' enough to interfere. For that matter he wouldn't listen to me if I did, I've fallen pretty low but not low enough for that." | "I don't see that--caring for me-- Js that something to be--ashamed of?" Alice wondered if Sam could be sincere. It was incredible, but his next words, contemptuous as they were, somewhat reassured her. "Cen- turies before your country was dis- covered we Chinese had discovered the truth about women. But what can be made of a man who will not profit by the wisdom of his eldevs?" Another silence came between them which lasted until the car stopped at Alice's hotel. She had done some thinking meanwhile: timidly she said: "Don't let's quarrel. I didn't mean all I said." "Have no concern," he assured her eoldly. "You'll go to Paris." He left her in her room after a few "moments of vain conversation. The next two days were an eternity for Alice Hart. She suffered tortures, Sam did not communicate with her in any 'way, neither did he see Ying, and as the hours crept along she call- ed herself a fool for making an enemy of the son. She had been a bigger fool to believe his protestations of magnanimity. No man could be as generous as that: not after the hurt OF THE GODS BEACH | she had dealt him, Why had she flared up? - She could have managed some- how to avoid committing herself--any girl playing for stakes like hers could have managed to temporize, Prom- ises are made to break. But she had no experience, And the thought of marriage was 80 shocking. It had come so unexpectedly. Oh, he was furious! The way he had said, "You'll go to Paris," should have told her he was beside himself. Funny how a common Chinaman could, with a curl of his lips, and a disdainful look, make her feel like a whining mendicant. And that's practically what she was. « + +. Yellow men are vengeful. Sam, of course, had told his father that she scorned him. . . . Fool! Idiot, that she was! Lee Ying had promised, to be sure, and high-class Chinese are reputed to observe a scrupulous code of honor but-- This uncertainty was madden- ing. How different her situation now to a few days ago. Life was still g>- ing on around her but she had no place in it and she feared to leave her room lest a message should arrive. Nevertheless she couldn't sit here like this forever. Not with a hotel bill running up. She hadn't the remotest idea what the rate was, but it must be appalling. If she didn't hear from Lee Ying, who would pay that bill? How much longer wouid she be per- mitted to stay? ... Yes, and who vik Jota. oe STs blind- | h Faintly she made inquiry at the desk, then started as a' man steppe pected; instead he proffered her a fat. envelope and explained that it con- tained her steamship ticket and letter to the formality of securing her pass- port. 'Wehn Alice got back to her room) she broke down and cried for an hour. CHAPTER IX. Docile and peaceful are the Sons of Han. Sam Lee returned to Eastern University that autumn and resumed his college life where he had left it off. His friends welcomed him and they made a rendezvous of his place. If 'he was not quite the same to them as formerly, if he was a little less deferent than usual, and if there was a cynical flavor to his jests they fail- ed to observe. it. By now his. social status had been firmly established and not even thuse closest to him made any effort to het- ter it. To Sam, however, it was an ever-present dissatisfaction, an incur: able canker, the which his experience with. Alice Hart had merely made more painful. He could not resign himself to his situation. There were times when he rebelled against all things Oriental and gagged at the Chinese flavor; times when a voice in him fairly shrieked that he was a white man in disguise, There was ample cause for him to wonder what ailed him and to specu- late as to the reason for his resent- 'ments against both the white and the yellow race; it was not at all strange that he felt as if two civilizations, setting in opposite directions, met and clashed in him, for that is about what was happening. In him raged the con- | flict not of two human races but of two human forces, heredity and en- vironment. Inasmuch as this story has to do with the working of those antagonistic influences it will be necessary to go back more than twenty years to a night in San Francisco and to a street in Chinatown: back to Pan Yi, a Chi- nese woman whose little feet were like two "golden lilies," and to Officer Dunne whose feet were unlike any- thing in the botanical kingdom. We shall have to translate the meaning of the red paper prayers which the child- less Pan Yi pasted on the stone lions would pay for these clothes? Here was a thought to bring consternation,' She could be arrested-- That was it! What a simple and satisfying revenge, from Sam's stand | point. Every hour she stayed here she fell deeper into his power. He'd force her to meet his demands, hu- miliate her, make her eat dirt. The! miserable cur! What craft, what ruthless cruelty. And if she refused | --arrest! A trial. Disgrace! It would come out that she had been the associate of a Chinaman! People in Bartonville would hear of it. In a panic she considered calling him up, making friends with him, but she was too frightened to finesse in the slightest. And telephone calls! cost ten cents. They'd be put on her bill. | Food, too, and "room service," of the public library, and make the acquaintance of a sentimental patrol- man whose heart was bigger than his feet. There had been feasting in the house of Lee Ying and now there was music, the sound of which caused a crowd to gather outside of his store. Lee Ying, proprietor of the Palace of Imperial Bounty, largest and mast prosperous of the great San Francisco bazaars, was a rich man and he lived in the luxury befitting a noble. It was known to all that Lee Ying was a generous man and this being 2 notable occasion in his life it was ¢an- sidered likely that he would distribute gifts among those who were too lowiy actually to sit at his table but who, nevertheless, did him the courtesy to | smack heir hungry lips outside his cost money. Thank heaven she had door and to wish I'im a hundred bir'h- no appetite. . . . She supposed a real | adventuresg in her place would order extravagantly, keep the bell boys ho But ping, cash a worthless cheque. that took courage. ... All the same she was slowly going crazy. Every! voice, every sound in the hall made her start, the rattle of a key in a lock caused her to cower. Once her tele-' phone rang and she stifled a scream. | She nearly fainted before she reached the instrument, then to hear a casual voice drawl, "Wrong number. Ex- cuse it, please." ! The bell rang again, late on the second afternoon. A man--Alice was too agitated to heed his name--was calling. He was from Carter ana Pelz, attorneys. Should-he come up or would Miss Hart come down? She stammered, "Yes." } 1 days and to forecast a thousand. dis- tinguished honors! for his infant son. In this hope the crowd waited. Their patience wag rewarded in due time. Even Offi'er Dunne, a season- ed member of the lccal pelice squad, shared in the imp-rter's generosity, for Lee Ying sent # servant out on the streets ir search of him, then left Lis importart guests long enough to picsent the patroimun with a bundl: of banknctes and te offer him, with a ceremony thei cngaged both hands, a bowl of hot rice wine, The policeman was loth to take the money, but he accepted the wine read- ily enough "Here's health to your son," be said, lifting the cup high. "As fine a baby as ever I saw. May he never know bad health. bad luck | or bad company, and grow up to be Attorneys! Was this the beginning even half the man his father is." of the end? His voice had been cold, | The Chinaman bowed and beamed. GILLETT . S cleans floors, walls ~..everythi ng in the up to her side. He did not lay al hand on her shoulder, as she half ex- | of ¢redit. On the next morning, if | agreeable, the speaker would call for last, her and together they would attend] Ww . aay Cr "Sa-ay!" The policeman stared in- credulously, "Ain't you adopt him? Why, I'm in trouble--" i (To be continued.) What New York Is Wearing lllustrated Dressmaking Lesson.Fur- nished With Every Pattern BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON White lace accents add much to the charm of this smart day model of black crepe marocain. The arrangement of the fulness of the skirt is quite unique. Flaring in- sets have been added at the front and the back, leaving the sides smartly slim and straight, It can also be made in chiffon prints or printed crepe silk. le No. 851 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36. 38,40 and 42 inches bust. Size 86 requires 8% yards of 39-inch material with % yard of 86-inch contrasting. 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PRETZELS 'What came before: Captain Jimmy sees a Chinese pirate junk trying to sink another ship and goes to the rescue in his plane, He swoops down in a sur- prise attack and leaves the junk in a disabled condition. The last we saw of her, sha seem- ed to be half full of water. Whether she ever made the shore of China, in the stiffgning breeze, is doubtful. Meanwhile, we circled back. toward her decks. Smoke! 'Then a flash of h red flame. Sure 'enough--those vil- lians 'had set her : afire. ~~ As we circled over the doomed, " 'vessel, large clouds of heavy white smoke drifted up from the decks. Then, to our dismay, we noticed that the: pirates had cut every life boat loose before they fled from the ship, thus taking away the crew's only means of es- cape. Back we headed for the freighter and as we passed 1 dropped a note on her decks. "Ship on fire. No lifeboats. Hurry." But the captain of the freighter needed no warning. Steam up, he drove his ship with all possible speed. Mpanwhile, we circled around and waited, for the water was now too rough to aligh.. Fire at sea is a beautiful sigh: and a dreadful one too. In'some way it is lige a fire in the country. Unless someone catches it at first, it ic al most impossible to put it out, and all you can do is to stand by and watch it burn. : The stern of the little ship now be- gan to blaze brightly and, the pas- gengers turned like a mob of fight- ing madmen, pushing and shoving to get away. Here, the value of dis- cipline and training showed up--for in contrast to the frenzied rusk of the passengers, the ships officers re- mained cool and collected. | ~ | freighter and quickly alighted. | them, Meanwhile, the freighter drew near, the cpatain manoceuvreing his ship so it would approach from the windward of the burning boat. The wind would then be driving the smoke away from the freighter. For a few minute: we could not understand his plan, then it became clear, He swung his bow around the little ship. Something white and | 8nd made it fast to the bow of the dense rose from | burning. ship In' a minute more he was taking the passengers off and -aone too soon for the little ship was fast becoming a raging furnace. Meanwhile, we spotted a patch of nice smooth water to the ee of the In a few minutes the derrick swung us up to the deck apd we rushed for- ward to help in the rescue. The. first sight that greeted our eyes Chung--hanging on for dear life to the nozzle of a fire hose; with a big Filipino sailor helping him. Just thom, one of the ship's officers called the sailor who went away and left only Chung to handle the hose. Those bigh pressure hose will wig- gle and sghirm like snakes and it takes two strong men to control 7 You can guess what hap pened. Once the sailor let go, the hose be: came alive, Chung didn't dare let go for l fear it wou'd fly WY > up and hit him mh, --and je simply . couldn't steer it. 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C. is required, the oxyhydrogen jet serving the purpose. heaviest known substances, it is read- -|ily malleable and so ductile that wire no thicker than a spider's web can be It offers great resist: ance to all acids, but can be dissolved in aqua-regia, a combination of hydro- - chloric and nitric acids," ; ; The crude mineral compesite-- the rock in its unrefined state--containsg some or all of a number of metals, every one of them precious, and ex: tracted in the process of refining; they consist of iridium, palladium, osmium, gold, the iridium' being. worth about $160 per troy ounce, and the mest valuable. 3 Platinum and metals of the same uses during the last two or three group have found many commercial. years. The jewelry trade uses the , largest proportion of it. The electrical industry comes next, using it for com- tact points, wires, and thermocouples, It has been used, almost since its dis- covery, in the chemical laboratory. 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States the word "platinum" cannot be applied to any articles of merchandise unless' at least 95 per cent. of the metallic con- tent is platinuni; the trademark of the turer must be applied to all Looking Forward I find it rather good io live In spite of doubts and fears, And all the blows the fates can give And changes through the years. For further time I'm glad to plead, I still have hooks I want to read. I fancy as 1 go along There will be pain te bear, No doubt some newer form of wrong Will catch me unaware, But still some joys I've set aside," I've hoped the future will provide. I know the future cannot be Much sweeter than the past; © mn Miniature Skyscraper To Be Erected in Rome Rome,--Rome is to have a sky- scraper, a very modest one of 12 or 14 storeys, which will be, nevertheless, the tallest office building in the city: The matter has caused much news- paper discussion, and vielent criti- to introduce a type of architecture in- cisms have resulted over the attempt to Rome for which there is no prece- dent, '~7 . Architect Armando Brasini; the de- signer of the baby skyscraper, has been under fire for his plan-and "at- tempt to introduce into Rome trans-| Atlantic architectural styles, which articles of platinum. Many new uses are being found for platinum, One of the most interesting is that being suggeste by economists --that platinum be used, with gold, sa a basis for world currency. The test of character is not the. con. . tour of the head, though bumps have their place and their meaning; nor is it the glint of tae eye, the set of the jaw, or the promptness with which questions ere answered The final test of character is the issue of the life, the words of the mouth, the medi tations' of the heart, and the deeds the Mo do: With the added output of the Platinum 18 of a lustrous white of One of the .~ asmiridium, rhodium, ruthenium, and> kitchen n Walls, the kitchen floor, etc, : ; ; all can ands fou be more quickly and thoroughly cleaned with a solution of one tablespoonful of Gillett's Lye dissolved in a gallon of A grandehild sitting on. my knee. y 1 hope the Lord will let me stay That what of pleasure comes to me Forever cannot last, But still I'd like to lve to see" ik rtd: '| HOMILY ON GIVING 2 ~The following is a comment of ack © may be ill right and necessary in New ork; but quite out of place in Rome th its mixture of' Renaissance The building is to the National Ingurance Bevin io Dreacher on the text, "It is more J to give than to. receive":-- kn 'many a church die cause Jit didn't gib enuf; but I never know'd a church die 'cause it gib too much, Dey didn't die dat way, Bred'ren, heg eny of you know'd' a church to die 'cause it gib too much? If you do, jet {let me know, an' 'Nl climb by de soft = light of de moon to its moss-coverd a poh And 1) stant" dar, wa lift: my (han's to heaven, an' say, 'Blessed are ' de dead dat die in de Lord ne cold* water. "To keep drains free-runnin ra A little longer here, : small quantity of Full strength Gillete's ~~ |'The price in pain and-care Il pay Lye down them each week ond they'll ©. Le oyory aided year. odie fever clog with dirt and gresse accumu. or hn Hoty i Sr eye] me ations. ne or "agar A. Guest. : ere age LT HS L-