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163 What ork Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Ilustrated Dressmaking Lesson Furnished with Every Pattern Cunning school dress of fashion- able brown diagonal sheer woolen weav?2 for small girls of 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. The pastel red bindings are gros- grain ribbon. The scalloped collar is white pique. It may be made detachable, so as to be readily re- moved for laundering. The plaited skirt treatment is cute. And don't you think the belt, tieing in bow at the left side, is darling vogue? Style No. 3395 is unbelievably easy to make, to say nothing of the saving in cost. Size 8 requires 24 yards 39-inch with 3% yard 39-inch contrasting, and 4% yards braid. Tweed-like cottons, challis type cottons, linen, cotton broadcloth prints and wool jersey are other suggestions equally as sturdy and smart for its development. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin »dre- ferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. eee sit Discretion He was rather a pathetic figure. He had the soul of a real knut, but was afflicted with one of those faces the appearance and color of which| elash with all but the most subdued faghions and shades. His hair, too was of that violent red that over- whelms the brightest specimens of neckwear. ' One afternoon he called at the house of a girl friend, and while waiting for her to appear was entertained in the drawing room by he: eight-year-old brother, "Wel," said our hero, smiling, "and what do you think of me, Horace" Horace scrutinized the young man earefully, but maintained a discreet milence. "Aren't you going to say?" "No," answered Horace, stoutly. *P'you think I want a hiding? a 'Wifey--"1 don't think you ought £0 to baseball games." Hubby--"Why not, my dear?" Witey--1 was | gable ends. Hanging from the Arctic Circle like so many pendants from a necklace, are several islands and groups of islands. The largest and most north- erly is Iceland with its volcanoes and geysers and barren wastes. A few miles southeast of Iceland are the Faroe Islands, and still farther south east lies Shetland, an archipelago known tg the early Roman explorers as "Ultima Thule," the farthest known point. of land. Undoubtedly the ancients thought it was the farthest north, and really it is very far north, and but for the kindly influence of the gulf stream, it would be more frigid than Labrador. At is is, the climate ig sometimes more charming than that of California, but more often much akin to Labrador, with a great deal of snow and fog and rain. Thule once belonged to the Nor- weigan Crown, but was presented to Great Britain as the wedding dowry of Margaret of Norway, who married James the Third of Scotland, It is often classed with Scotland, but it is a different land in many respects . . . a little world of itself; full of interest, noyelty, and romance. Here the sea is seer In its sublimest splendor, in all the marvelous phases of its moods. In no place in Great Britain is the grandeur of the rocky coast scenery surpassed. With a stiff arctic breeze sweeping down 'from the north, and a full tide, the drama play- ed presents a magnificent spectacle. Great billows with caps like white snow hurl themselve#®against the im- pregnable rocks, and then shoot hea- venward with silvery breath as of a steaming geyser. Only thirty of the hundred islands are inhabited; the largest is Main- land, and the capital city is Lerwick, the queerest and juaintest town that was ever built, The buildings all seem to be huddled together, with a few very narrow streets,' gome of the houses at the south end so near the sea that the waves oreak on their The town hall, in Gothic style, elaborately decorated inside and out, has stained glass windows presenting portraits of kings and queens of Nqr- way. There is a central public school, a fine fish mart and e:cellent harbor works. The nominal jopulation is five thousand, but during the fishing sea- son it rises to nearly twenty thou- sand, Fishermen of many climes here dispatch their varied catches, Ice- landers, Scots, Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, are all to be seen in the motley throng. } Scarcely a tree grows anywhere on the bosom of tho sterile land, but SON OF THE BY REX BBACH SYNOPSIS 'When Lee Ying, a prosperous Chinese merchant of San Francisco, announces that a son has arrived at his home, only Officer Dunne besides his wife knows that the child is really a white found- ling. Sam Lee is raised as Lee Ying's son. He is sent to Eastern College as. a Chinese student, and finds a social bar« rier because of his supposed Chinese blood, A college girl, Alice Hart, pre- tends 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. Then she refuses to marry Sam. Everett Himes a black- mailer, schemes with Esther Stevens and her daughter Mona. Mona, by trick- ery, gets Sam to visit her apartment, MrsasStevens arrives and makes a scene. Himes sees Lee Ying and accuses Sam of deceiving Mona. Sam says it is a trumped charge and Lee Ying believes his denial of guilt. CHAPTER XIII.--(Cont'd.) "We arrive nowhere," Lee Ying observed without feeling. "You be- lieve your daughter, and it is natural that you should, But marriage is out of the question. I have agreed, with- out consulting my son, to a settle- ment, and I do not quibble. Here is a documerit, drawn by my attorneys, setting forth the facts and reciting the terms. Its object is to protect me from all further demands. I ask you to read it carefilly." From a port- folio Lee Ying took a typewritten document and handed it to the lawyer, he removed also a sheaf of new one thousanl dollar bills which he passed to Himes with the request to count them. At sight of the lat'er Sam uttered a sounl but his father turned upon him. For an instant they eyed each other. The young man's face whiten- -- ed. Lee Ying believed him to be a liar! The blow stunned him. Marcus read the document, and meanwhile with poorly assumed nen- chalaace ziimes ran through the bank- notes. "I don't like this," the attorney an- nounced finally. "Carter and Pelz are good lawyers but this is out of their lin€ It's too elaborite--" "Let me run over the thing." Himes took the Japer; he and Mrs. Stevens scanned it. Lee Ying waited imperturbably while the two held their heads to- gether, Himes finally announced: "I'm no lawyer but I say sign on the dotted line and let's end the agony." He took a fountain pen from his pocket. "Make sure that you understand what you are signing," the importer cautioned Mrs. Stevens. | "I suppose it makes me out a graft- er," she said irritably, "but I'm tired to death. It's an outrage but--" She affixed' her signature; Himes and Marcus witnessed it, although at the cost of another protest from the at- torney. Mrs. Stevens possessed herself of the money and rose, whereupon Lee Ying stayed her, saying: "A moment, please. over, you are now my guests and I would be lacking in politeness if 1 permitted you to leave my ignoble dwelling without some hospitable cere- mony. New Year's is a carnival sea- son, you must join me in some trifling refreshments." Ignoring the woman's beautiful heather, bearing myriad pink and often one finds a sprig of rarest white. In summer, the banks of the burng are garlanded with primroses and sometimes a solitary bluebell ap- pears, All day long th» 2 gulls hover and ery ove. the roof; of Lerwick. Every house has its own familiar gulls; every street its own ban dof gulls, and they never mix The chil dren of each houte call them by name, and feed them every day. The pets seem to know what food is meant for them and never does a gull attached to one house try to eat the food scat- tered from the place next door. Should a traveler come across a pile of rice out on th roadway, he would step over it with care, knowing it was there for some pet gull. A familiar sight on the islands is {a lassie going over the hills to fetch ! provisions or to carry the peats, her outer skirts pinned up, a white ker- chief over her ead, basket on her back, knitting all while.--From "A Sturdy Little Northland," by T. Harold Grimshaw. em pines Poetry on Parade The Guards ricently received as a recruit a young man of education and culture who had failed to make good in other vocations. On-his first day on the parade-ground he was utterly exhausted by several hours of march- ing up and down. "Sand at ease!" ordered the officer at last. : "How wonderful is death!" muttered the recruit. The officer turned like a flash. "Who demanded. kowers, is God's carpet for the land | protest, he, clapped his hands and a houseboy appeared: the two exchang- ed words in Chinese. Sam, whose back was to the room, started, grew rigid. Attentively he ! listened. - With the conclusion of the business matter, Lee Ying wiped it from his mind; his manner changed, he became a punctilious and a gracious host. While his servants were carrying ou: his orders he maintained a flow of pleasant conversation about the many Chinese New Year customs, the which his visitors doubtless would have en- joyed more if they had been less im- atient to leave. Trays were brought in after a while, some loaded with fragile china and others with a lavish assortment of strange delicacies. Tea was ourad, the fragrance and the flavor of which was unlike anything the Americans had ever smelled or tasted, and Lee Ying made a good deal of a ceremony over serving it. He delayed the drink- ing of it long enough to recite the old folk-tale dealing with the origin of the beverage. It was quite a story and he appeared to enjoy telling it. He became more genial as the moments passed. . While he was talking a telephone bell tinkled faintly in another room, and a voice answered it. The voice was strange to Sam and he strained his ears but to no effect. Mrs. Stevens nibbled at a aramily cake and fanned herself, The room was insufferably hot and she wanted talkative old parrot. Fifty thousand dollars! In brand-new banknotes! The servant reappeared and ex- changed a few words with his employ-| ™ er whereupon Lee Ying smiled and his voice altered in such a way as to Josus Business 1s! to be gone. How silly to humor this| er tite meeting sud 1 had 5 pur pose in so doing. 1 ave detained you here--" The object of his' 'remark uttered a ery and rose, as if propelled by springs. Himes said" something in a startled voice and he, too, rose: "Wait! I have good news for you." The old man extended a restraining hand, but the women exclaimed b her companions: "Come on! here," : "News to gladden the heart of any mother," Lee Ying smiled. "You have been imposed upon, deceived." "What the hell--?" Himes broke out harshly, but checked himself. Mar- cus had paled, he cast a startled, fur- tive glance about the room. "Oh, the deceit isn't mine! It is your daughter's. She has confessed, made a clean breast of cverything." "Of what?" This came from Himes. "Mona?" the mother queried. "Bah! What d'you mean 'confessed'." In sud- den suspicion she blazed forth: "Say! Have you pinched her? , .". Where is she? What have you done to her?" In the door through which Lee Ying's house boy had come and gone a stranger, two strangers, appeared and one of them answered: "She's over 'at the station house." Heedless of the dismay caused by his interruption, the speaker added as he came forward, "The inspector just rang up to tell us she was there and everything is kay oh. And don't try to slough that roll, sister. It won't do any good for we've got the num- Lers and everything. ... Yeah! The girl certainly put it over on you." Both newscomers chuckled at the humor of this last remark. Marcus, very white and flurried now, began an indignant protest, but the other member of the pair grinned at him and said: "Oh, give us one laugh at a time, can't you? Of course there's some mistake. There always is. And you don't know us, either. Well, we're just a couple of young po- licemen, trying to get ahead. We've got badges and everything.. No kid- ding. - See? . . . Yes, and you'll make it tough for us. Sure! We expect that." "I don't understand the meaning of this outrage," stormed the lawyer. "It simply means the girl cama clean; she spilled everything and it's just like we thought. And, by the way," the speaker turned to Mrs, Ste- vens, "she says she isn't your daugh- ter. How come?" The woman moved her lips but no sound jssued. "All right. Don't let me pry into family secrets. Now, then, Mr. Lee, we'll have to take charge of that roll." "To be sure." The importer. nod- ded. There was a moment of silence, then one of the officers announced: "Well, I guess that cleans it all up, eh, Joe?" "Looks like it," the other nodded. He was still grinning. "Then call the Royce and let's be on, as they say at the Ritz." 1 want to "get ot of | CHAPTER XIV. Lee Ying cherished no very deep grudge against Mona Stevens, who was an immature person of weak character at best, but he did feel bit- ter towards the unprincipled pair who had directed her. The actions of Mrs. Stevens were particularly reprehen- sible in his sight and he vowed to send her and her two male companions io prison if it were possible to do so. This determination of his, which in the days that followed he proceeded implacably to carry out, led to unfof- tunate and wholly unexpected results. Had he been an ordinary American business man, no doubt, he would have stormed and threatened and blown off much indignant steam, then failed to press his charges: the case would have been dropped and the defendants would have escaped without further penalty than exposure. This was pre- cisely what Himes and Marcus anti- cipated. When they found that they had counted wrongly they began = desperate fight. Their only weapon was publicity and this they used with- out scruple. They set a backfire by giving a sensational story to the news- papers and a few of them vigorously fanned the blaze. It's Oriental flavor, too, lent it a zest. Chinese college boy and cute co-ed. Fifty thousand hush money. Shanghai sheik shouts blackmail, Lat- est sex sensation from Eastern Uni- versity. Student body stunned by sca A Harbor Town The harbor was was, sot to a slower tempo than the city. The ships lay by the ducks, quietly; the current flowed almost imperceptibly, though the sur- face of the dater dimpled and shone, danced and glinted. A great steamer moved up the channel, pushed by a tug--stately motion on stately water. One fell into tune with the motion of it, as if here the natural rhythm of things was neur enough to the sur- face to be perceived, caught, and mas- tered, At the end of the jetty, the waves lapped the rocks in the same tempo, never any sense of hurry,.nor delay, but a natural :ift and lap, and a receding. A motocboat hurried out to a battleship and kicked up its heels in a whirl of white water, until only the gleaming sprwy shone back. A quicker rhythm that was, cutting into the andante of the general theme. The fishing schooaers drifted in, each with an upturned dory on the after deck above a tangle of brown fish nets. They came singly, in a long line, their motion giving them beauty; they came from the deep, from beyond the lighthouse, and passed on up: the channel to their berths. the same rhythm of motion, like notes in a composition of wave, air and wind. The lighthouss at the far end of the breakwater lifted its round tower ag if to mark the passing of They kept{ « Made by the makers of Kit Salod Dressing and Velveeta: each vessel, to accentuate the tempo of each one's due appearing. Even the ferry fell into th' came recurring time beat, as it erossed the channel not too rast; the two-man crew cast off and make fast again in in easy, capable way. Sailors move in time, always making things fast or setting them loose, as (hoy fall into rhythm: with water, wind gnd wave. So men. take advantage of currents and tides. They cateh. the tempo, and keep it. One catinot forget the little waves lap- ping on a rocky doorstep, nor the brown fishing boats, beautiful because of their motion. - "The Needhams live beyond their Tocome during the summer." "No wonder. While she goes away and plays bridge; he stays in town and site in a poker game." BENSONS Ree, to I just hold this sort "FATIGUE? ERR A You can get GREATER Bo NO URISHMENT LESS MOREY 2 er etiemiimacae rr Id 1) postpone it!" - i ene mm EE of position. My 'its name. ~ |than our common Sparrow, | canary - voice. * » | pinnacletare easily sold at a handsome ¢ | price. gy 'bird was first found in the Canary Islands; from which it acquir, There was nothing more attractive about its appearan: 'having & dull-colored feathering, but Its ene voice was noticeable. ' It was in the early part of the six- teenth century that a merchant frony Europe, who was trading with the Ca ary Islands, noticed the remarkabl voice of the little birds of those is~ lands. He captured an enormous nume ber of them, and set out for Europe, hoping to sell them as song birds. The ship was wrecked, but fortu: ately, a sailor thought to free the birds. They took refuge on the near est point of land, which happened be the Isle of Elba. Here their nu bers increased rapidly. Very soon after the shipwreck, the were transported in large numbers to the countries of Europe. Then bes gan the breeding and 'domestication; which brought about marked changes in their appearance. In every European country they; were bred with various other birds. This has-been continued until there 3 an 'unlimited variety of specie throughout the world. The German productions are the most famous, One of the most fascinating thingg relating to canaries is the training of their singing voices. In doing this, a number of the birds are put in a room together with a "canary organ," which is placed in a corner. At first, the ma~ chine is sounded, so as to imitate thé 'whistle of the ,rdinary untutored cane ary. Then, by gradual steps, the sound is improved until it has reached am imitation of the highest standard of Birds taat reach the Qthers are priced in accords: ance to the heights they reach. In 'some cases, only the mother' 'birds are given the veal training, and: | this is done just before their brooding, By this smethed, the mother bird is - able to translate the notes correctly to her little ones. In most cases, the brood of a good singing mother bird become good singers, merely through the guidance of their maternal teaches ing. . rt en A} een i 'Quake Has 2,000 Tons of Dynamite Force A typical earthquake, one that oe- curred in Yugoslavia in 1923, released as much power as the exploSion of forty million pounds of dynamite. Put another way, if the power of this single earthquake had been harnessed and put to use it would have delivered the equivalent of a 1,000 hp. engine running continuously night and day, for 'four years and three months. Res cently before the Royal Astronomical Speiety in London, an English expert, E, Tillotson, reported measurements and computations upon which these comparisons with dynamite and ene gines are based. The earthquake was recorded on seismographs .at many; European observatories, From these records it is possible to compute, Mr, Tollotson reported, such characterise tics of the shock as its speed of passe age through the earth's crust, the dis. tances which blocks of the crust weré moved and similar data, From thesé facts the total energy exerted by the earthquake is estimated as approxi mately a thousand billion, billion ergs, an erg being a unit of energy used in many scientific calculations, The source of earthquake energy is bes lieved to be the earth's gravity, man fested through the slipping or settling. of huge blocks of rock, The energy; thus releasd spreads out in pc widening circles as shock waves to be transformed ultimately into heat, jush ag the energy of a hammer blow goes ultimately to make both hammer ani nail a little warmer. The heat geners ated and distributed by this earths quake must have been equivalent, Mr, Tillotson calculates, to that set free by, the burning of more than three thouse and tons of coal, : ---- Lucky ; It was the firm's annual dance. oy J vi i junior bookkeeper had chosen a attractive partner, "By the way," he volunteered. they danced. "I'm glad our mana; isn't here Sonight He's about ass of a man one c Ian not fit for intelligence on She stopped dancing and stared EEE Shaped, angrily, : rin Te bo si