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. . pelt?" aoe * ee se MARIAN "Was Made of | | newspaper. coves a8 d i Slim, fair and in immaculate uni- f form, Henrietta Osgood stood by the Jesk of the superintendent of nurses. | *You wanted me, Miss Randall?" a said. The superintendent finished sorting | a handful of record cards. 'Yes, Miss Osgood, I wished to tell_you that you. are to assist in the operating room two weeks from to-day.' "Q Miss Randall!" There was blank dismay on the pupil's face, "What is the trouble?" "T just don't know how I shall ever do it; it seems to me that I can't." The nurse's eyes filled and her lips were unsteady. "T don't understand you, Miss Os- good. Sit down and tell me about it. You certainly knew this work was in store for you; it's part-of your train- "Yes, Miss Randall," answered the girl, seating herself with an air of | utter discouragement, "I've known it; only too well and have. been dreading it all along. [Um afraid of it!" "Why?" Miss Randall's tone was'| kindly, valthoupl she looked keenly at | the ei The nurse's eyes darkened, and her| smocth forehead wrinkled. : "ve always felt that if I ever had to help in an operation I should make some dreadful blunder, and some pa- tient would lose his life or never be well afterwards because of it. When I first came in training--you weren't here then--something went wrong in the operating room, and a_ patient died. They blamed the nurse, and she was sent away. She didn't look like a careless girl, and everyone said she was just unfortunate. What if that)R should happen to me!" "But you have been etherizer in the operating room already, and have done good work." "That's different, though 1 -was scared even then. But this--why, you know, Miss Randall, I could make a blunder in my technigue and not notice it, and you would never know it, or anyone else, and the patient could get infected or--something, and I'd be to blame." The tears were coming again, but she held them back. "Oh, I didn't mean to say so much, but, Miss Randall " "Ts. that your only trouble?" "No, it isn't. Dr. Joslin, the chief surgeon, doesn't like me. Something happened in my first year, when I was etherizing,--about a patient,----nothing serious, but dreadfully annoying, and he's never forgoten it, I know. He » gets me so rattled that I don't know what I'm about." "T rather think, Miss Osgood, that you exaggerate his feeling. He's pro- bably forgotten all about it. I haven't noticed anything' in his manner to- ward you,. Dr. Joslin is rather abrupt, but he's really kind." "But he frightens meso that I know: I'd make mistakes sometimes even when I knew better. O Miss Randall, can't I leave that part of my training out? Vl take anything in its place-- the jhardest, worst work you ask. of me." The superintendent's 'face cleared. "Miss Osgood, the operating room is your bugaboo, your great fear. We all of us have one, and at one time or another we must conquer it. Now is your time. If you don't do it now; it's going to hurt your nursing career and our whole life. .The head nurse will elp you, and you must succeed; and It will not be at the expense of any person's life or health. You shall ractice beforehard until it will be tn npossible for you to make a mistake." "Oh, I don't think it's possible!" "will you try?" "Yes, but--" The teacher rose and put her hand on the nurse's shoulder. "Then we'll begin to-morrow arte and I shall expect you to succeed; I know you can." 'As Henrietta went back to her work, she was almost sorry for her teacher. UTE Miss Randall had been here long- er," she said to. herself, "she'd_ know what she was undertaking. I can do well enough if I have time to think, ut when everything happens at-once, s it does in the operating room-- | well, I've told her Pll try, and J will." The next morning Miss Randall ap- peared with a 'Tong, typewritten schedule of work "and set Henrietta at her study and drill for the new posi- tion. Henrietta worked as she had never worked before--studied, prac- ticed, watched the nurse in charge, tried to make sure of everything, tried to -be exact, tried to learn all that there was to be done. She knew that she had never tried so hard. Miss Randall and Miss Sinclair, the head | nurse, put her through an intermin- able drill. Yet all the time Henrietta felt that her efforts were futile. What was the use of knowing a routine thoroughly, when, by one curt word of criticism, the surgeon could make her forget it all? What was the use of her think- ing that, merely by hard work, she could ever conquer her terror of the operating room? Success meant hay- ing exactly right all that bewildering mass of detail; it meant hurrying, yet never making a mistake; it meant pleasing every one of that exacting group of surgeons. Just trying and working would not bring success in this task. Then a startling thing hap- pened: Miss Sinclair, whose duty it was to care for the instruments and the sterilizing, and who prepared the room,for each operation, fell sick and had to take a vacation. That struck new terror to Henrietta's soul; but, - a sort of desperation, and with Miss all's steady help, she faced even thisinew situation bravely. So the day came when Henrietta, with Miss Fowler, nurse, took full charge of the operat- ing room. "An easy morning for your first," said Miss Randall. "Only two minor | cases, both for Dr. Minturn, who is} very 'considerate, 1 shall be here to help you, and you'll have no trouble." Dr. Minturn was pleasant and want- ed nothing out of the ordinary. Miss! Randall, who was busy directing the; new nurse, paid very little attention to Henrietta. Everyone treated Hen- rietta as if she were merely part of the hospital machmery, That helped ae piano dealer': a new assistant | True Tales of Pikes A lady, : whose 'wealth. was of ob- viously recen: in. stock. It was a lovely rosewood | grand, and she bought it with brand new Treasury notes, says a 'London A month later she re- turned in quest of a piano stool, and was 'shown. several which would har- monize with the rosewood of the piano. She rejected these, -and de- clared that she wanted a green one to harmonize with the color scheme of the room. rae 'But, madam," 'said the dealer: Hehe color of the piano would scarcely blend with the green room, would Ate "Oh, that's all right," said the' lady. "We had it painted green!" A motor dealer friend assures me that, when a very uncouth pair cam? to buy a car, the most expensive one they had was not impressive enough to suit the woman, who said ARS: wanted "gold "andles to the Car.' Gold handles she had, too, though my friend was discreetly silent as to the locality of -her garage! / : A tale is also told of a certain pro- fiteer who-was showing a friend round his newly-built and beantiful-fitted mansion. When they reached the | bathroom the friend was speechless with admiration of the gorgeously- furnished. chamber, It was @ -vision of marble, alabaster and gold. Every possible convenience was there, and every article was of the best and most expensive that could be obtained. When the visitor regained hls breath he congratulated the profiteer on the possession of such a lovely bath-room, "Yes," said. that gentleman, "it is a lovely bath-room, all right. Tt. is=@, great pleasure to 'ave a bath in a place like this, You can guess 'ow much I look forward to Saturday nights!" o ra Cup and Sorcery. variably means that a stranger will ;} soon enter the house. posed to foretell hasty words. To knock over a cup of tea before lover the future, and will result small annoyances at no distant date. Two spoons in one saucer the family. tea indicate kisses or money. the edge of the cup, kisses. her to put her whole mind on her work. When the surgeons had gone, Miss Randall came to Henrietta with a! smile. "Where were the mistakes you) were going to make? I didn't see any | of them." »4T guess things did go pretty well," admitted Henrietta. dall. "But this was easy. Dr. slow and good-natured. It won't be) the same when I have long, hard cases | 'for Dr. Joslin, who asks for six things at once, and says- 'Hurry up' every two minutes." "He won't say 'Hurry up' if you have everything ready to put into his "hand before he knows that he needs it. What if he does want six things at onee? You'll have them for him. You had better stop thinking of Dr. Joslin." Dr. Joslin had been called out of town and so had no operations sched- uled until the following Tuesday. On Monday Miss Randall posted the list of operations fur the next day: 9,00 a.m.--Cholecystotomy, Dr. Jos- lin. 10.30.a.m.--Laparotomy, Dr. Joalin: 11.380 a.m.--Gastroenterostomy, Dr. Joslin. "Tt will be a hard day to-morrow," she said to the two nurses, "with three major operations. I'll come in later and go over some points with you. There's a special drainage that Dr. Joslin will want for the first case, and a special suture for the last. Till be in the operating room myself." (To be concluded next issue.) _ BITS OF HUMOR FROM HERE & THERE The Real Thing. "This," smiled the fond young wife, as she passed a plate of pudding to her husband, "is cottage pudding. I made it myself." The husband tasted it, "I'd have known it was cottage pudding,' he re- turned, 'would you?" she asked, delighted. "Yes; I can taste the plaster and the wall-paper." The Other 'Point of View. The office boy had made his hun- dredth iitstake: « His employer sent _ for him. | "Have you A ini: to say for four. asked the man of business sternly. "If I made mistakes like you ~ Y'd never be where I am." "Yes, sir," replied the lad promptly; | "but if we were all like you, wouldn't be where you are, either." _'The boy is still on the job. you Open to Persuasion. While touring in the Highlands, a motorist was stopped by a local police- man. While he gave his name and address readily enough, he hinted broadly that he might pay 'to be let off. * What, sir!" eried the constable, "Dae "ye suggest . that I wud tek a bribe? Dae ye dare to insult me, sir?" "Oh, excuse me," said the motorist, quite abashed. "I really-----" > "But, now," put in the constable, a - _"gupposin' I wis that kin' o' man, how "much wad ye he inclined to see me Ai < jeocaki 5 Not Equipped. Tho teacher gazed. sorrowfully at the small boy who stood in front of her. He was convicted of the heinous charge of stealing cand, from one. 2 hig school fellows, © ~ * "Ag it was his first' cottence; Sete } she (id not desire to inflict corporal ~punishment--a moral lecture, ghee thought, would fit the caso." See -| unfinished building a boy.about twelve | The watehiagn saw him, cluded, "that these temptations can be resisted if determination is used, Al- ways turn a deaf ear to temptation." The child gazed solemnly at her. "But, teacher,' he exclaimed, "I ain't got a deaf ear!" A Word Omitted. The curious effect sometimes pro- duced in telegrams by want of punc- tuation or the omission of a single small word cannot fail to have struck everyone. A Lendon lawyer had a woman re- lative in Seotland from whom he had "expectations." She had been ailing for.some weeks, when one morning came a telegram asking the lawyer's wife to go at once as she--his aunt-- was much worse, His wite according- ly went. During the evening of the following day the husband received this an- nouncement: "Aunt Matilda went to heaven at 3.30; returning by 11.50 to-morrow "morning." A Neat Scheme. Irom a pile of bricks in front of an years old. picked up a single brick. and called out: "Here, boy, you mustn't take? any of those bricks away!" "T want just. one," replied the boy. "Well, you can't have one! What do you want of a brick, anyway?" . "Why, wants a bath brick, and she gave me sixpence and told me to get her one." "Well, why don't you go 'to the shop and get one? That is not a bath Lig! you have there." "Look here!" said the boy, as he came closer, and spoke in tones of con- fidence, "I want to earn that sixpence, I'm going to take this brick home, and put it in the bath-tub and make a bath-| brick of it, and to-morrow I will: ee it to the lady." ; The watchman looked at him 1 a: puzzled way, and then said: "Boy, you can have.the brick, ae are what they call a genius, and, if | -you live many years longer, you will be a | millionaire or in prison," - Damascus i is the ¢ oldest of all" extant "Bear In mind, Bobby," "she con ped "Of course they did," said Miss Ran-| Minturn iS| up in a spoon the worries will be but a lady who lives near us | should all be sipped up. | t | cates a stranger. | hard, your visitor will be a short man. If long and thin, then a tall, thin per- j son may be expected, on the top of the tea usually means worries. If you can gather them all | slight ones, very lucky omen. perity. F saucers. A happy future is assured. Two plates, on the other hand, means an.unexpected gift of wear. 6 ee Infant Footprints. United: States a system of ed. This is to avoid the complications the wrong mothers! Directly a baby is born some ink is placed on the soles of its feet and slips of paper pressed against them. On dreds of infants. There is no chance of accidental substitution. It is interesting to note that while a child's hands change as it grows except for growing larger--through- out the whole of its life. It is impossible to get good prints of an infant's fingers, because the lines are not distinct enough to repro- duce. The baby's foot, however, has as different. and characteristic lines as the hand of a grown-up person has. There*is no knowing--we may soon have fortune-tellers reading our past from our feet instead of our hands! ----_----_>- matograph camera, for showing the films on a screen. rigin, marched intoajj) . hop and asked. to be ily shown the most expensive instrument | \ To leave the lid of the teapot off in- To spill tea when pouring out is sup- any has been taken out of it indicates | that a past worry has cast its shadow in means that there will soon be a wedding in Bubbles that rise to the top of the Tf round Tf in the centre, money. To ensure success they A tealeaf floating on the top indi- If short, thick, and A lot of odd tealeaves floating ce bout To find you have got sweetened tea when you prefer it without sugar is a To the unmarried it means a lover and wedded bliss; to the married the best of luck. and pres- Another good omen is to get two something to In one of the large hospitals in the i taking babies' footprints has been establish- which sometimes arise when the wee mites are by mistake handed over to this same slip the baby's name, weight hour and date of birth are noted. A comparison of 'the footprint at birth will tell whose child it is among hun- older, its feet will remain the same-- A camera has been. invented which combines the features of an ordinary st&ndard camera with those of a kine- It also serves the purpose of a kinematograph lantern Patsy ae she was going back to the. Jand. She said that if you sat on a bit 'of land long ing to hatch e that special bit" of ground becam ours and your. des- percene for ever. Patsy said -- that. with ag small | legacy she had been left she was g0- ing to try the experiment. Patsy was fond of experiments, being only nine- teen. She said. 'that she should take her typing-machine with her, as she might meet farmers and other wild folk who would. like to have their let- ters written for them. ""But I must have a holiday, Bella," 'she said; "and you can come, too." Patsy found a van. It was just a van; nothing more to ne said--a thing with four wheels and a raspy voice. Patsy hired a. horse as well. ~The animal was shop-soiled, so Patsy said, and it was clear it had no opinion of work except as a spectacular amuse- ment supplied by others. - We trekked off into the great north- west, through Kilburn. Do you know Kilburn? It is beautiful; but Bucks, which lies beyond it, is better. Patsy was delighted, "Tt am beginning to live, Bella, old thing," she said. "This is the real life at last. No more stuffy offices and re- gular hours. And by-and-by, when we thave settled upon*a nice, snug. little bit of old England, we will establish ourselves. I shall have a garden, you know, all my own, and grow potatoes and every kind of flower; and this old van will be the incipient nucleus of our home (Patsy had done-a lot of typing for a-writer who was always trotting out the English language for an airing), and by and by it will grow into a mansion which people will come and admire." Nobody took any notice of us for a long, long time, except a motorist with a rather quick temper, who objected to Robert Browning, as Patsy had call- ed our horse, resting right across a narrow lane in Buckinghamshire. But Patsy was so nice about it that he apologized for the things he had said, though each word really required an apology all by itself, the same way as every sin needs a candle, tinted to meet the enormity of the crime. It was Patsy who settled on the spot where we were to outspan. "What a beautiful bit of country," she cried. "Look ct that silvery stream, and those lovely trees! It is just the place I had dreamed of. Fancy all this belonging to us! I wonder people had-not thought of settling on the land before." "But suppose somebody objects?" I Qeored to say, as I prepared the tea. t isn't a bit-likely," replied Patsy. "It "doesn't look as though anybody ever came this way, and by the time we are noticed we shall most likely have established our claim." that evening. We had tea under a hedge. Patsy finished a typing job, then took out her sketching materials, and began to put the scene on paper. But at last we were driven by the rain to take shelter in the van. Patsy said the pattering of the drops on the roof was most poetic' It was also damp, and in the morning the typing ma- chine showed spots of rust, for it had been left near the door. What was our astonishment, though, to find that Robert Browning had strolled off in the night. "He was only hired,' said Patsy. "Most probably he has gone back home." Patsy always made light of troubles. "Besides, as we have settled to remain here in this sweet spot un- til it becomes ours, we should not have wanted him any more." IL, A countryman, with a broad smile on his weather-beaten face, looked at us from over a gate; but, apart from that incident, if it can be called such, the day passed uneventfully. Patsy despatched me to seek out a village and buy fresh supplies: When I got back, having found a shop miles away, where they sold everything from pickled onions to postage-stamps, I found my companion in deep conversa- tion with a stranger. The latter was a.man in tweeds, who was standing gazing at our van. He had ridden up, arm. "You are stopping here?' he was saying. "Yes," said Patsy, quite calmly, and in that inimitable manner of hers which brooks no opposition. 'We are remaining on. The place pleases us." "But--but how did you get here?' asked the man, eyeing the empty shafts of the vehicle, up which Patsy had decided to grow creepers. "Oh, we didn't pull the van our- selves!" replied Patsy. The discovery of some ancient medi- cine phials in what was once Shake- speare's garden at New Place, Strat- ford-on-Avon, serves to conjure up a world's greatest dramatist. The phials were found by workmen engaged in the trenching operations in connection with the restoration: sc the great pard's garden, The phials bear the ouies: of old age, and, moreover, were found in soil wherein were other articles: of the 'Tudor and early Jacobean periods, showing that they tqund their way yoni just about the time of Shake- Aste death, And, as the very spot ere. they were found was within Saar throwing distance from the win- dow of his house, there is but. little stretch of imagination required to pic- ure Doctor Hall, Shakespeare's son-in- window such of the tiny 'bottles as happened to break during use at the sickbed. Doctor Hall was the husband Pot Shakespeare' 8 eldest daughter, Blt. | 'zabeth, -- The garden, which is Hire jaid out anew in the Elizabethan style in honor cities. Me of Shakespeare's: memory, - was the vivid picture of the last illness of the law, who attended the latter in his last. illness, summarily hurling through the | Shakespeare's Medicine last place his dying glances rested on. In it are to be all the flowers and plants of which he wrote so beauti- fully; and from all parts of England contributions are being sent by those to whom the writings of that trans- cendant genius are an ever-gushing fount of inspiration, Among those who have already sent large consignments are King George, Queen Mary; Queen Alexandra, and the Prince of Wales; and the list of contributors of money for the needs of the garden is headed by the novelist 'Marie Corelli, with $250. -- ow wanting are Voice at pkg coy Sahitent ed form a run of about 5,000 feet of "edging;" 15,000 golden and gloucous thyme, thrift and lavender cotton, the last-naiied of which is known to the Ynodern scientific floriculturists by the high-sounding title of "Santolina Chamae Cyparissus.' * : ands of violas, especially the mauve and dark purple colored ones; 2,000 pansies of the '"Jove-in- idleness" variety; pinks; streaked gilly-flowers; and, above all, fragrant purple wood: land violets, "dim, but sweeter than ae hs enough © - without being + turned off--it sounded like a hen try-j with a smile. Certainly nothing untoward occurred- and the bridle of his horse was on his' "We had a. 10, ibe fon could not d /mer house, with soley roses' "os the lids of ide eyes. or Pipes | : ak and left us had : pack bury oe now. It you are, any typing. ant done, I ~shall se Sona to laughed. Patsy told 'ne as it was not altogether a bad laugh. to stop here really, do you?" "Really, I do," answered Patsy. shall remain, and by-and-by the land will become mine. I read it in a book." "That's immensely interesting," said the- stranger. "I hope you won't find it damp. By the way, how long will ~ it take before the place is yours?" | 'Patsy raised her eyebrows. She lcoked very pretty sitting there on the step of the van, her sun-hat in her hand, and her brown hair blowing loose. ae ae eg "Oh, only about twenty years, If fancy!" she replied, as though a couple of decades or so made no difference. "Then I shall be able to do just as I im Fe begin farming in earnest." "bute I suppose it will be worth it." e lifted his hat, and turned and walked off, leading his horse. Patsy was displeased the following morning when a cart drew up by the gate in the lane, and a woman aN down with a basket. -- "You are the young ladies who eae come to stay, aren't you?' she said, "T was to deliver this, with Sir Guy Rivers' compliments." The basket contained flowers, and a lot of strawberries, and some pine- apples, and a chicken all ready for the table, Before Patsy could get over her astonishment the woman had set down the basket, curtsied, and made her way back to the.cart. Patsy gave a ery, and was afte messenger. "Who's Sir Guy Rivers?" she asked breathlessly, "Well, you are strangers, sure!" said the woman. squire in these parts." Patsy looked at me dismally. "And does he own this land?" inquired, "To be sure," said the woman. "If we eat his chicken and his strawberries, and then take his land away from him, he will hate us," said Patsy afterwards. "T don't see that it signifies," 1 answered. "You explained to him thoroughly what your plan was, and to be "He's the she | if he does not offer any objection he | becomes an assenting party. I shouldn't wonder if you get the place for your own before the twenty years are up." And yet as the days glided by it be- came apparent that a damp van is not a good place in which to spend a sum- mer holiday, for it rained every day, and if it had not been for our splrit- stove we should have fared badly, Patsy turned cross. Rain has that ef- fect on some people. She always hated rain, good as it was for the crops. We had no crops--not as yet. And then Patsy turned ill, It was about a week after we had _ settled down, when one night she woke me up and began talking strangely about waiting twenty years and haying an estate. She did not know what she was talking about, and I saw there was only one thing for me to do. I hurried into my things, adding my water-proof, for it. was pouring, as usual. It was hateful leaving her like that, but she must have a doctor; and, after fastening up the door of the yan, I plunged boldly into the darkness, I never like the country at night, with the absence of lamps and pave- ments. The wind was cold, and the trees creaked as I hastened on, intend- ing to make for the village where we went marketing. I never got there. I don't know what made me do it, but as I saw a bright light coming towards me, I stood in the middle of the road and shouted "Help!" 'and the car which was behind the light stopped, though only just in time. The chauffeur was. beginning +6 say unpleasant, fractious things, and I was trying to explain, when a friend- ly voice interrupted our exchange of pleasantries. "Why, if it isn't the friend of Miss Twenty Years!" cried the owner of the voice. Perhaps it was the tone which made me break down and cry, and then tell Sir Guy Rivers all about how ill' Patsy was. It may have been because it was so dark; but directly after T had let him know how matters stood I was glad, he was so nice about it, He told his chauffeur where to drive, and very soon afterwards he was hurrying along by my side to the van, ""T was thinking about you two," he said, "and imagined you had abandon- ed the experiment, for the weather has He safd very little more, but he and his man lifted Patsy out of the drip- ping van, and placed her in the car, -He had told me ty get in first. He sat outside. And thus in an incredibly short time we found ourselves in a splendid house, A dear old lady in black silk looked after us, and Sir Guy went off for a doctor. It is a long story, and Patsy had an illness which was just as long. She could not be moved, and Mrs. Benton, the housekeeper, treated her as if she had known her all her life. Patsy. was much changed when at last she was able to come downstairs. Sir Guy Rivers used to sit with her of an evening, and ask her to play the piano as she grew stronger; and in the daytime he and she walked about tho gardens, and_ talke a about the land-- at least, Patsy tol me coe Was aaah ny verentlon. ; 'T shou d have 'Fett jurned t6 eee re my holiday was at an end; but Patsy begged me t Stay on, because she ithont ayes Sa ts -£You and Iare says he hopes that you will stop here as my companion, or 'something of that : "sort." 'Moreover, there are needed isons oy And the van? The van has settled down in the park as a kind of sum- up the sides. Tt estes charming, ----f-- -- or < * :: a . . + ees ee "Rober "Browning grew [ It oie not mat-| -- 2 thought he was rude, but = "But--but," he said,"you don't mean = ae er i seems a long time," said the man; | been simply awful for land-grabbing." | fate Bella, a," she sald, "Guy 2 ing te be e ma: 'ied, and Guy oe Naser Visitors. 'The world is- div ided_ into two adehs--thone who do not like to work and don't; and those who don't like to work, but do overtime to take care of their own jobs and those of the -idlers. dubbed the two classes "Diggers" ard "Shiners," and paid her respects in verse to the women who always want) to pour tea, while someone else stays in the kitchen to keep the kettle boil- ing. But we don't need to go into the clubs to see the distinction, we can find it in every family that iis large enough to boast of four or five mem- bers. There are always some who slip out from under all the hard work with the easy assurance that "George," or "Mary," as the case.may be, will do it, because they just "love to work." Here's Aunt Mary, for instance. She lives on a farm where butter and cream and milk and eggs and fresh fruit and vegetables don't cost her a thing. They just grow. She has a number of loving nieces and nephews and sisters and brothers living jin cities and small towns, As soon as school is out'in June, all thoughts turn fond- ly to Aunt Mary. She just loves chil- dren. They don't bother her a bit. Besides, she hasn't anything in her house they can hurt. So along about knee deep in June, Sister Susie writes the children are so anxious to see Aunt Mary she has decided to let them come up for a couple of weeks as soon as school jis out. Brother John hates a city holiday with its noise, and his soul yearns for} n equntry quiet. He drops a line, the first in a year, saying that he and "Mother" will run up for the First with the kiddies. He leaves the city's din, but brings along enough crackers and toy cannon fodder to turn the peaceful countryside into a miniature "Marne," Brother John goes home after the holi- for a little outing with Mary. Sister Susie's children are there, and the children can have such a good time together. And Mary just loves it. The July guests depart in due time, and reluctantly, Mary manages to clean house for the second time, and is just wondering if she can't get away to the lake for a week, when fresh let- ters arrive. Brother Tom has his va- cation the first two weeks in August, and there is no place like Mary's- to spend it. Her blackberries are at their best. He and the wife and baby will be up the first of August. Tom is followed by a cousin or two with their descendants, even to the third and fourth generation, and it jis really the middle of September and fair time, be- fore Mary is sure of an empty house. In between she is trying to can and pickle and tend the garden. Keeping the sewing and mending up is out of the question. Of course Mary loves company and is glad to see her friends. But I won- der if she just loves to have the whole family camp out on the farm every summer. I wonder if she is so fond of | work that she really enjoys getting up at daybreak and "digging" until dark, while a houseful of guests "shine" on the verandah or in the lawn swing, I wonder, too, if through the fall, winter and spring, she enjoys working every minute so that father and the children can have the best to eat and-wear, and leisure for reading and play. Don't you think Mary would just love a little division of labor, a little help with picking up and cooking and. dishwash-| ing so that she might have some of| the spare time? Candy Making Without Cooking, In warm weather, when the heat makes it a disagreeable task to work over a stove, the ordinary kind of candy making is not a pleasant oc- cupation--the results seem hardly worth while. The following recipes are for sweetmeats that can be made without heating any of the materials. Mock Oranges --Mix a tablespoon- ful of orange juice with the finely grated outside yellow rind of one orange, being careful not to grate into the white part, for that gives a bitter taste. 'Stir in the unbeaten yolk of one egg, and enough confectioners' sugar to make a paste that is stiff enough to handle. Form it into balls about as large as a hazelnut, and in- sert at one end of each a bit 'of grass or tiny flower stalk. Place the candy A clever club woman aptly] day, but leaves "Mother" and the boys} Jon ticak paper 46 dry. Mock Lemons.--Use the . of demi and mix ape sugal yolk to give a faint yellow: t the paste into miniature lemons. Smothered Dates.--Stuff dates wil nuts and wrap them in the followi paste: two tablespoonfuls_ of soft butter, two of powdered cocoa, of water, and erough | confec ion sugar. ts stiffen the mixtur Peanut Butter. Whirls.- Mi: : spoonful of melted butter and a f drops of vanilla «with one pound of confectioners' sugar, and add enough milk to bring the mixture to the con- sistency of stiff dough, Roll the paste into a sheet a quarter of an inch thick, spread a thin layer of peanut butt over it, and make it into a miniatuz | jelly roll about an inch in diame Slice the brown and white roll n tly 'into thin wheels or "whirls." Tea. and Coffee 'Bulls. Steep. either tea or coffee in twice its volume water--for 'example, two tablespoo fuls of either in four of water. Drain off the liquid and stir in confecti sugar to make a paste. Form it inte balls or cut it into squares. This con- fection is refreshing and, stimulatin bs on a journey or a Jong wee Edna and Efficiency. x "All I can say is, I think it's a nico state of affairs if I can't be away from office one day without finding things so muddled up when I get back that a ave to spend haif'an hour getting -- desk straightened!" Bana' $ voice was sharp with annoy-_ ance. There was a deep line between her level brows, and her very fingers. showed her vexation. Sophie Oleson - looked at her with a sort of amused contrition. Sophie did hot know th meaning of the word order; yet every- one in the office liked her; no one eould help it, she was so frank and ~ friendly and kind-hearted: AGE See: "Believe me, Edna Walker, I ne saw anybody like you in my life. You? know it if a fly flew across your desk! I wasn't there ten minutes, and I didn't touch a thing except your clips, and I put those back in the identica spot I took them from," - Well, I didn't say you were ponsible, Sophie, but it is certa niy strange how. my scissors and knife. and | blotter all disappeared! I found the blotter in the wastebasket and_ the scissors in the filing cabinet. I haven't found the knife yet, but I haven't look- ed in the water cooler; slope: "e IT shall find it there." Edna herself was cooling down now; ~ the look in Sophie's eyes made her ashamed, Yet she was sure that she had the right on her side. It was the inefficiency of it that fretted her, she -- told herself. She had explained to -- | Sophie a hundred. times how the wast-_ Sey ie ed moments counted up. -- Mr: Allen's bell rang just then, and Edna picked up her notebook and went into the office. She flushed a bit ag she noticed that his door was ajar.. She was sorry that she had called: Sophie down'so hard; yet she was sure that Mr. Allen would understand, I Mr. Allen had heard, however, made no comment. } An hour later Edna laid the finished work on Mr. Allen's desk. Edna was_ proud of her typewriting. She could hardly believe her ears, therefore, -- when Mr, Allen called her back and pointed out a couple of errors, one in transcription and one in spelling. -- "I overheard your lecture to Miss. Oleson," Mr. Allen remarked with a smile. "I infer that you were a trifle wrought up." "I'm afraid I was," Edna acknowl-| edged. "But it's such a needless waste of time." : Mr. Allen nodded.. "I know. You are ,very conscientious about your time, Miss Walker. I appreciate it. But did you ever stop to think that to let a thing get on your nerves is a worse kind of inefficiency than to misplace a pair of scissors? These -- mistakes of yours, which it will ren | quire twenty minutes to rectify, are the direct result of your loss of poise, a3 The. =e That's something to think of, real loss is yours, n see?" : A hot color swept Edna's' face; but she took the kindly reproot" tm the right spirit. "Thank you, Mr. Allen," she said. not mine, Do you Bits of Information. The Polish alphabet contains forty- five letters. Allspice is the pealike fruit of a shruh_grown in the West Indies, "Al 4e's Adventures in Wonderland" was f 'st published in 185). The properties of cocaine as an anesthetic were discovered in 1884, There are more than 1,500 different tribes of American Indians. Aliens to the number of 24,500 were interned in England at the beginning of the Armistice. There are 11,000 British troops still stationed in France as guard to "dumps" of war material. Explosive shells, which were fairly successful, appear to have been used by the Dutch ag long ago as 1588. _ More thar $4,0 000 people have return- rt To the ruins of Rheims, where they are mostly lying in the mil Nee B08 ves céllarey eS s ough only two pink of the I 1s we) 000 feet in height, 'there. are. dozens 'exceeding 12,000 feet. -- Peasants on the Swiss mountains use horns, often as much as eight feet long, to converse with one another "from 'a distance, - War medals to the number of es ; | teen | and a halt millions will be re. quired for award to past and present {personnel of ithe British Army, The name "Indian" was given to the GEES fotiginalihhibitants of Arheriéa about | Spare Segments and fat yours : sare! 41493. by: Golumbusy wie. thought he ious. reached India, ae e) Seoeas _ twelve > months Fishing With Ghosts. Many peculiar methods of catching fish are used in different parts of the world. Perhaps the most peculiar is that in which the fish, through fear, catches itself. This method is on which is used with great success as Sfamese natives, and it necessitates the use of what is known as a ghost: boat. The: ghost-boat consists of a long board, painted white, and arranged in position in the water. The top must. not be too high above the surface o the water for the fish it 1a desired to capture to leap over. When in -posi- tion the ghost resembles very much the white side of a boat' or punt. The fish, seeing this white board, become frightened, and in fear they leap over the board, At the back the board, however, nets are arrang: in such a position that those fish that -- succeed in leaping the board lend i the 'neta and orn | "OMS Ginolht Of fer émployihent of ghost- aes large indeed, and the method hag. » |advantage of. preventing the smalle fry from getting into the nets, as | are unable to ie over the roan Fabled 'soldiers | are being en housework, | i 'The « eseapement : . wheel of 781,000 ae 'evolutions