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A A Ea Py # x S0 ~ lettuce, beans and chopped fish. To _ rouse thei: fierceness before a battle BY REX BEACH N OF THE GODS SYNOPSIS 'When Lee Ying, a prosperous Chinese merchant of San Francisco, announces that a son has arrived at his home, only one other person besides his wife knows that the child really ie a white found- ling. 'Chat person is Otficer Dunne, who promises to keep the secret. The child, christened Sam Lee, is raised as Lew Ying's son. He is sent to an Eastern College as a Chinese student. He makes rapid headway in his studies and ath- letics, but finds a social barrier because of his supposed Chinese blood. A college girl, Alice Hart, pretends to think a good deal of Sam and secures a promise from Sam's wealthy father to send her to Paris to pursue her art studies. When she refuses to marry Sam, he returns to college disiJlusioned. "My father never went to school. He's an Assemblyman and he goes to Albany and makes laws. Say, every body jumps through when he tells 'em to! . . . Gee; it must be funny to be a Chinaman! I'd rather be sick. . " This young person's frankness and impetuosity were embarrassing but she was a friendly soul and her inter- est in Sam was unaffected. €Her rude- nesg was unintentional and merely the result of an eager curiosity. Hel name was Eileen Cassidy and that was her brother, Jim, yonder. Jim fetched her here cvery day. They lived down on Oliver street. "My pa took me in your store one day. Gee! It's big. You live upstairs, don't you? 1 live in a regular house. «+ «+1 like stores that smell good, like yours. Can you buy anything you want in there? . . Pa says you've awful rich ...." When he and his tutor walked home Sam was outwardly sedate, but in- wardly he was in upheaval. His no- tions of white children had entirely altered, there was a strange warm feeling in his breast. He had a friend. Eileen's brother Jim was a healthy, harum-scarum, boy and he resented | playing the effeminate role of nurse- maid, so in the days that followed he more than willingly surrendered the care of his sister to Sam Lee and pro- ceeded to amuse himself, Daily Sam brought presents to his little friend and in consequence his status with the other children changed. They began to regard him with something besides contempt. Seeing in him a source of possible revenue, they assumed a de meaner wholly artificial --it was an experience, by the way, with which he was destined to become all too fami- liar as time went on. Eileen Cassidy proved one day that she, at least, was a stout and loyal friend. On this occasion Sam had brought her not ivory, nor agate, nor silk as vsual, but his own most cher- ished possession, his_ fighting crickets. There were three of them, each housed in a gourd elaborately carved and col- ored to résemble a blooming flower and provided with a perforated ivory cover highly decorated. « These crickets, he explained, were not ordinary imsects, they were the re- incarnation of famous warriors long dead and they bore honorable Chinese names, the which Eileen did not undertake to repeat. As such they weceived the most delicate attentions; they were fed and watered from tiny porcelain dishes anda little bed was provided for each. They were special- ly bred and trained champions with records of many victories, Eileen was told, and their food consisted of rice, mosquitoes gorged with human blood 'were fed to them. The other children were more ex- eited by the bloodthirsty nature of the 'diminutive warriors than by Sam's re- FASHION HINT "How to make my old short skirts gonform to the new length was a prob- lem to me until I hit on this plan. TI the hems; and as the part had been turned under was darker the rest, 1 redyed the entire after having bleached the goods, directions in the Diamond ¥ e, ond Dyes for the redye- 'I.bave dyed many 4 cital of their virtues, and a crowd gathered. There was a pushing and shoving and finally a scream from Eileen, as an unmannerly boy despoil- ed her of her treasure. Sam promptly fell upon the robber. In an instant they, and not (he crickets, were ot each other's throats. It was Sam's first fight and he was astonished to 4iscover that he took to it readily. But alas, other boys piled upon him. The cricket gourds were trampled underfoot, crushed, and their warlike occupants met with fates more shocking than they had ever wrought upon their vanquished adversaries, Eileen was in hysterics, Sam was mastered by a terrible in- dignation: rage boiled up in him so fiercely that he was unconscious of pain. He was pushed and pulled, kicked and struck: he was flung down and his clothes were torn. His nose was bleeding, he heard yells of : "Soak the Chinaman!" . . "Wallop the doity Chink!" . . "Lemme get at Yim." Eileen was in the very middle of | the fray--she had by now fully re- covered her strength--biting, scratch- uses! -| up nothing but the streets." | Yes, throat as he walked home, Mrs. Cas- sidy had the same tender touch as little. old Pan Yi, of blessed memory, and there was the same comfort in her robust voice as in the bird-like cooing of Sam's Chinese mother. He won- every time this white woman's firm and capable hands touched his flesh. feel her sheltering arms around his body? Other Chinsse children shrank from coniact with people of white skins, but he liked it. He had the queer feeling that Mrs. Cassidy and Eileen were flesh and blood with him. On the next Sunday afternoon Lee Ying and Lee Sam, each clad in his finest native dress, called at the Cas- sidy home. 'The entire family was there and the old merchant bowec deeply in turn to the Assemblyman, to his wife, to Jim and to little Eileen: he raised his clasped hands to the level of his forehead und lowered them repeatedly. Sam did likewise. Then Lee Ying made a graceful speech of thanks for the courtesy his son had received. . ~ To Mrs. Cassidy he said: "Sam brings you an unworthy remembrance of his gratitude for yoar kindness and I beg that you will accept it." As he spoke he unwrapped a package the boy had carried, exposing a beautiful porcelain vase of delicate and unusuzl coloring. ; ; Mrs. Cassidy admired it, she thought it would look well on the piush-draped mantel marble clock and the gilt easel with the photograph of Dan Cassidy in his silk hat and frock coat of office. The good woman was unaware that she held in her careless hand a relic of a famous dynasty which would have drawn a crowd in any museum, but she was frank to say it was pretty. That wag the beginning of a sincere friendship between the Cassidys and the Lees, a friendship that had en- dured for several years. Eileen was a young woman now and she wad®at- tending business college. Jim had a position with a trucking firm. Eileen's friends sometimes twitted her about her Mott Street boy friend and although she was ready to joke on nios. subjects here was ome in ing, kicking, striking. "I'll kill you," she screamed. "You hurt him and I'll scratch your eyes! out. . . Let him go... . I'll tell my pa." Dan Cassidy was known and feared but gang spirit was proof against more than the mere threat of his anger. On a ribbon around her neck Eileen wore her father's old police whistle and this at last she blew with ail her breath. Now in the neighbor- hood of The Five Points, police whis- tles are not sounded in idleness. Hav- ing pretty well disposed of Sam, his | assailants were becoming frightened at the cxtent of the havoe they had created, so they separated and sgcur- ried away, each in his own direction. They left Eileen stamping her feet, shaking her fists and shrieking threats of vengeance after them. Sam was a sight. He was skinned and bruised and bloody, his nose pain- ed him terribly. It did not feel like' | a nose at all: it was much larger than |a sose and it bled. There was the taste of blood in his meuth. No doubt he would bleed to death in a very short time. That appalling prospect ceneerned him less, however, than the amazing phenomena which had occur- red inside of him. He had been rear- e. in the dignily and the repose that is Chirese, he had been taught to abhor violence, he had.been made to | believe that peace is perfection and tranquility is paradise. What strange and terrifying monster was this that had taken possession of him, soul and body? 'It rocked and swayed him, it lashed him mind to madness. His hurts were pleasant -and he took a savage, drunken joy in them. And his mighty warriors, those honorable her- oes of a hundred battles, corpses now! | Crushed under 'the heels of barbar- lizns! He stooped and tried to collect the shattered bits of gourd shell, and ivory and porcelain. He wept for the three brave spirits that were gone. Eileen was crying, 100; she was plucking at him and talking shrilly. She was crying not for the crickets but for him, "Mercy me! What have you been up to now and who's this with you?" Mrs, Cassidy inquired a few minutes later when her daughter came wailing into the house, hauling Sam by' the hand. . Eileen told what happened. Chok- ing, sobbing, she gasped out the horrid story, an ane Sam tried B compose himself, ; But this was a house of understand. ing an! of sympathy. Mrs. Cassidy neither condemned him nor made light of the tragedy; on ihe contrary she praised his spirit and voiced indigna- tion at the outrage; she made a iot over Sam, in a motherly way. To be- gin with, she took him into the bath- We are all very busy at blackberry But the blackberry baskets that come Are some of them heavy and some owner fa pig. It was a gift from his. father, ey boy insisted on caripg for the animal himself, ; tather noticed that the pig did not ap- | "you ?, lied. which she could see no humor. Once when her brother teased her too per- sistently- and called Sam her Chinese sweetheart, she flew into a rage and scratehed his face. (To be continued.) wr . Blackberry Time Blackberry time -- oh, blackberry time, We all go a-pienicking, blackberry time. \ We gather up baskets and wear our old clothes, And search for the byways that no one else knows. We look for the bushes thdt no one has found: The best fruit grows high up or close to the ground, And the better the fruit low down or high, gathered ere fb en. The better the jam and the better the . pie! All He Noticed The usual crop of motoring cases Blackberry time -- oh, blackberry | was before the magistrates. time, There is great competition in black- berry time-- ; and you picking slang and vulgarity off | There was a lump in the boy's. dered why he had felt like erying| 'Why had he yearned so desperately to} between the: A pastel red sheer worsted with intricately seamed hipline, so indi- vidually smart, features the new Peter Pan neckline, so youthfully be- coming. The collar and cuffs are of the lingerie type in white faille crepe silk with pleated ruffled edge. And it's so marvelously simple to fashion, to say nothing of its small cost. Style No. 8325 may be had in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches bust. Size 16 requires 3 yards' 35-inch, with % yard 35-inch contrasting and 1% yards plaiting. It's unsurpassed for school and col- lege girls. Black dull sheer worsted is ultra- smart with white pigae contrast. | Then again you'll like it in dark green canton-faille crepe silk with' eggshell erepe collar and cuffs. | HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. | Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want, Enclose 20c m| hat os the crew Jimmy | Form A Sit the $ hi hunti L es : Benning shape But don't think that the are not still head-hunters to civilize them have failed. Every youlg boy is taught the woods and 4 sir, they still hunt heads in the mountains of Formosa, So dangerous are these sav- age men of the hills that'the Japgn- ese have placed a wide road through the island, guarded by soldiers and a high fence charged with electric cur- rent, . % Now and then the savages tunnel One or two of the Japanese are always killed before th: hc¢ad-hunters are driven back, yet they continue to push right up to the guard ine, for the best camphor trees are found on the moun- tain slopes and the industry is very profitable. Flying low over the island, we were struck by the wonderful beauty of the country--also ve were impressed to see a couple of planes hurriedly leave the ground to investigate us. Maybe those Japanese army planes weren't it feel as if we were tied to a post. We knew that wa could not get away from them, so we spiralled down landing. Dozens of people crowded down to the water front to meet us, curious to see what was going to hap- pen. Then a big automobile, driven by a chauffeur in uniform rolled up to the water front and stopped. From it alighted the snappiest Japanese officer you ever saw. f ¥ just as savage as ever, and all efforts |* under the fence and attack some out-| 4 lying camp where camphor is made. | fast. They came up so quickly it made | into the harbor and taxied up to the! Star Building, Toronto, - will receive visit the camphor camp article being made. arrest, They all asked us a flock of ques tions. When one would Tun out of Ideas another would take it up, = Fin : ally-they brought us be- a magis- and we answered all the 01d questions and a lot of new for~ trate bi ones as well. cided we were all right, phor camps--and they gave us an official guide and a car! We were too surprised for words. After a drive of fifty' miles or more we came to the end of the good road. Out we climbed and trudged up the steep path into the mountains, On both sides were evidence of great camphor trees having been chopped down; here and thers stumps had been chopped apart ard even roots dug up. The roots, you know, are the richest in camphor. (To be continued.) _Note: any of our young readers writing to "Captain. Jimmy," +2010 hig signed photo free, Borders Bhocolate Matted Milk | The health-giving, delicious drink for children and grown- ups. - . Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. ee ness, "that the defendant's car went round that dangerous bend at thirty. five miles an hour?" "Yes, your lordship,' said the wit- ness, "it was quite that speed." "Now, sir," said the chairman, of arithmetical sums. ---- MUSIC SPEEDS THE SUM Softly played gramophone music is said to speed up the working out co It took 'eleven months to prepare and see th a this time, the two Japanese army planes had arrived and two very hot, irritated army offi- cers were on the scene, They all seemed put out -- probably because they badn't found an opportunity to | shoot us, down or place us under Then, all of a sudden, they de We could go where we pleased. Visit the cam- stamps or cdin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. "Is it a fact," said the chairman of the Bench to a nervous-looking Wit- scarf." would it be possible for you to tell the Court what gear the defendant was in?" The witness gazed in astonishment at the chairman. "Well, now you're asking me some- thing," he said. "But as he was i that he had a travelling so fast I wasn't able to get a clear view of it, but I did notice a red bowler 'at on and the grass courte at Wimbledon, Eng: land, for the recent lawn tennis cham: pionships, but in two weeks the grass was worn and yellow: The groundsmen are already at work on them for next year's matches. In seed and manure alone the renova. tion will cost well over $5,000. ------ Some women are passing fair and some are passed. Who finds the most and who finds the best, goes on working, nor pausing for rest. Who Who gathers and suffers for future delight, Who shows the proud wounde of a big bramble flight. But others there are who, forgetful of duty, Sit down on a hillock and eat all their booty. And others there are, all the fine berries missing, Who find the dim hedges good places for kissing. And others there are who go wan- dering by, With yes in the distance and dreams in the sky. Blackberry time -- oh, blackberry time, ; time, home at night. of them light! ; --1.8. Sha x -------- een Making the Most of It + George had become the very proud Some weeks went hy, and the boy's pear to grow. He decided to fact to the youth. | "George, my boy," he said one day.| mention mes he tel "I don't want to fatten him im hn 11 begin to iden Tal ge j ay iat You'll like this tempting Keep a copy of the New Magic Cook Book handy and you'll never have to worry about thinking up suggestions for attractive meals. Here, for instance. is a delightful menu selbcted ot random from the dozens of interesting recipes if contains, : DINNER MENU fap ua Shore Mask : Cream Francaise Soup Sup i y kngbowdts i Orange and-Cheese Salad i bl Bandini ie | Swiss Steak Mix ingredients in order given, and | with browned potatoes bake in individual cake pans, or small 4 Muffins--Caramel Pie paper containers, es shown in the % Almond Cakes* illustration. \ Chase & Sanborn"s Tea or Coffee | This recipe together with those used in the |} Girt ; J | Magic Menu, ond dozens of other equally de- [| ~ " | | lghtiul Snes, are ell listed in the New FREE | » gic Cook Book. If you bake at home, write Try this Recipe for *ALMOND CAKES. to | s Limited, Liberty St, Toronto, end a copy @ Look for this mark on every tin, It is a guarantee that Magic Baking Powder does not con- tain alum or-any harmful ingre- dient, vi ! Ave. & will be sent | are now fresh in mind. | conditions of soil and drainage are © | well known. Many | paration of next year's though it never quite satisfied Mrs. Holmes. This afternoon, when the sunsh {busy mothers to bring their darning out of doors -- if it must be done-- while they watched the children play, | she spent the whole time dragging and replacing them in exact order, Teddy appeared while she was in the midst of this work,-and asked if he might go over to John's to play. She pulled him toward her, straights ened his tle, jerked his belt and exam- ined his fingernails. He submitted, his. own eyes strangely appraising, as he noted her worried manner. "No, dear, I'd rather you stayed at home. You have such a nice. place here--everybody says it's the prettiest. place on the street--and 1 -- 1 don't. care for you to visit such--such care less sort of people." "But, Mother, they uve a wide walk we can skate on--we Want to skate." "Well -- why can't you skate--" She remembered having stopped him. that very day, and it made her irrit- able, "Oh, for pity's sake, go! Go on--and don't bother me! But this ig the last time you can go. - Why aren't you satisfied at home? ness knows I work myself to death keeping. it nice -- so you ought to be: proud of it. Now, be sure you arn back in an hour." Susan played for a while, all by herself, because other little girls were uncomfortable in Mrs. Holme's pain fully neat house. And when she grew tired. she stored her paper dolls away carefully between the leaves of an old magazine. And although she looked about hei with worried eyes eyes for all the scraps that might have fallen off the paper spread to cut on, she didn't see the pieces a careless breeze had blown out on the carefully clipp.d lawn -- where they danc-d fantastically about. But her mcther saw them when she came nut 'o wipe .way the tracks Teddy's skating had made jon the porch--and she turned on the Ilittls girl indignantly. Susin almost crin- ged. She had tried very hard, and didn't even know the .aper had blown about, but she said othing, Later, her motherediscovered her deep in a book, and scolded her for trying to ruin her eyes, "Mother," she asked timidly, "'conld I £9 to Mabel"s?" "No--you. can not. Why do you children forever have to gad to the neighbors? Haven't y~u a heautiful yard to play in?" 'tte child turned _ hey eyes wistfully to the trees whose arms seemed made. for swings--to the. grass that begged sc for little feet to romp on it, Late in the afternoon, when Mr, Holmes sneaked in the back way to avoid running into two ladies having tea with his wife in the living room, he accosted the children in the Iib- rary, and their faces lighted at sight of him, He started to smoke, and Susan, who had been standing still telling Teddy he'd better not take down any of the neatly arranged books to read, ran to get him an ash tray, Sheepishly, he accepted it. From the hall voices were telling Mrs. Holmes how wonderful she was to keep such a lovely home--and with two children! Her voice floated back to them, "Well, Theodore and I made great sacrifices to get this place--and I haye no servant--but it is worth it--. for the children's sake. The father, looking at the discon- tented Teddy and the timid Susan, recalled a handsome building he had once inspected, whi:h rose from a well-kept lawn having beds of beau- tiful flowers. Every art of it had been scrupulously neat and clean. But the building had bars on its windows, --Issued by the National Kindergar- ten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly in our columns. Fall Garden Preparation Produces Best Results Many persons are likely to plan a new garden in the spring and to think of the fall as one of prepara tion for winter. Expert gardeners, however, urge the use of this s®a. son as one of preparation for next year. Cr ¥ii > 'This year's" results and fATlures the pre- * steps in rs de books out of shelves, dusting them Good- "outside seemed to cal} to Unusual