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tommy tucker would she please do it without letting j tommy know he was going for good i by kuth sawyer au the next day sara gosin withj a heart of lead drove towards the graham farm if tuberculosis was proven no one would take tommy and his one chance at life was in a honre to love and be loved take that away and there would be left no rea- tight around his legs howdol son to1 ping on his frail precarij ni vt ous existenea it took attle imagina- part ii 1 the house mother in charge of the w p tion to picture the end cottage where tommy ved pulled ijbmanhed pon my h tommy from his chair rom lar across the room make out the look test that showed on the pale swung tommy on his shoulder face he crossed his hands in front there a i t jt out for a year tommy might of him interlacing the fingers with rom q improve so wonderfuly that the possi- great precision and then broke u amj flock bnity of tb might be amost negi- lavftv that mljla of geese came waddnng from the back fc of the barn a screen door slammed to beontinied and out ran a woman in a pinkandi p j white print dress and in another inj rink chimneys stent tommy was transferred from roseate in the dawn the chimneys towering heights to comfortable show tho first signs of the days awak- depths arms were about him that ening how busy they are these win- held all the snuggles and squeezes that ter mornings all summer long they a little boys hungry heart could ask- loafed staring upward vacantly at the tommy looked her over quickly and heavens now their sombre mouths turned to the deputy tickled to the lapsing from the thin whispering dur- point of ccstacy i s the sleepy night when their scarce- shes just the kind of mother you perceptible vapor merged with the said then he shoved the brown shades of evening are filled to over- paper parcel he had held fast to ever flowing and are speaking volumes since he had left the orphanage into th squat truncated chimney talks the new mothers hand heres a iu p teller slenderer and more present its ajl yours he said it graceful ones are sending up spirals exactly as he had heard it said a hunj and wavering lingers of smoke each dred times to wait until it was un- is speaking in character each of the wrapped was too much for any six- litte p chimneys in the neighbor- yearold before the second layer 1oou huddled in the trough of the two was off the secret was out its a hills is growing articulate they seem fish a redandyellow fish it swims to ouler ia a kindred tongue in the bath tub i morning and how de dos so did tommy tucker come into his are said m smoke some use high i adoption but before the deputy left trembung voices from slender throats him early the next morning he un- others respovla with black bu a voice so virgin clear and lovey that the deputy found herself biting her hps to keep them from trembling little tommy tucker sing for your supper what shall i sing for brown bread and butter how shall i cut it without any knife how shall i marry without any wife tommy broke on the last line he had looked across the room and seen the deputy and out of the eternal grind had flashed the remembrance that he was singing maybe for the inst time he was going to be adopt ed a dazzling smile spread over the face and was gone as quickly as it had come then the house mother pulled him down and he disappeared behind the backs of the bigger chil dren an older girl sitting close to the deputy turned with an air of importance something must have come over tommy he never smiles when he sings always looks so solemn thats what makes it cute two days later as appointed the deputy in the county car took the road past the orphanage leading out of the city tommy was beside her clutching fast to a brown paper par cel all wrapped up it was a won derful day even the county car felt it it swung the curves and raced the hills and purred steadily under its hood like a nice old cat and about every so often the deputy would laugh and gather the little hoy closer to her saying tommy tucker isnt this the day of all days to get adopted any misgivings the deputy might have had in the beginning as to the ability of tommy to fill the require ments of adoption had long since vanished the grahams had stressed lovableness and tommy was as satur ated with it as the ocean with salt and so all was well in the mind of the deputy as for tommy he spoke little and when he did it was generally to ask the same question how many more miles to mother they became very gay on the way these two who for so long had not touched closely on happiness a new wholly unheard of giggle found a place in tommys voice he giggled now when he asked his questions is she n big mother or a little mother a middlingsized mother i guess i like middlingsized mothers is her hair cut off like yours or scooped round like the matrons i believe its scooped i like it scooped best does her face crinkle all over when she laughs like yours tommy tucker shes the crinklest mother you ever saw in all the world i knew she was and then back to the old question how many more miles to mother to make it a day of all days they picnicked at noon there was a small luncheon box for tommys own and each sandwich and cooky was wrap ped separately each a surprise to be discovered and exclaimed over tom my was biting into his first sandwich when he stopped halfway and turned horrified eyes upon the deputy mother goose please mam do i have to sing for it dont you dare it was said with so much fierceness that tommy was reduced to giggles and the rest of the j superintendent had written that the department was running smoothly the deputy put down the letter with a little sigh so her probation was extended she had four weeks i more to prove hcrsrff she was glad too that for all his suspicion the sup- burdened his mind of three very im portant things do i ever have to sing again for my supper never for your supper now youll sing just for fun is the doption all right did it take the deputy hesitated it takes a month tommy to really take youve come on trial to see if youre the little boy they want ill be back in a month and then i guess it will take for ever and ever the little boys face fell i wish id brought a present for dad too ill send you one to give him what shall it be it can be anything near ly another fish time goes quickly at the court house along fiddlers alley every body kept busy from nine until five and the deputy often for long after wards with the commissioner away sara goslin worked as she had never worked before settling those cases that had to be settled putting off those that could stand putting off till the commissioners return checking up on orphans bonded out visiting babies in new homes twice she went to the home of the william wallace kentons and watched mary louise asleep in her little white enamel crib with bunnies painted all over it she was growing as fast and pretty as a baby girl can grow and mrs kenton hung over her in a state of perpetual admiration isnt she adorable there isnt going to lie a scar on the arm you were right she laughed right out yesterday wish you could have seen bills face when he heard her incredible as it may seem the new deputy and the society woman were growing to be great friends when every corner of her mind was not filled with new cases sara goslin thought about tommy she pictured him growing fat and even more lov able on the mothering and fathering and genii food he was getting four weeks went like magicall but two days of it and then came a letter from the commissioner and a longdistance call from the graham farm the com missioner was staying another month the doctors sid she needed it and the picnic went off with abandoned gayety an hour before supper time the county car swung into a long shaded driveway running up to a great red barn swung there and landed beside an equally great white house the barn was so red and the house so white j had given the commis- and the tall ems which- shetcrcj it d t of the work she and the green lawn that hemmed it in j ht to f j e b somchow shc were all so green that the deputy md turni h ffi fairly shouted as she brought the car p x j in in mi t she had on her desk she took up the to a standstill tommy tucker isnt i f rr j blanks to make out for lommysadop- this the jolliesl home you ever saw t tion it was at that moment that the there was a groat touring car in i j i longdistance call came through front of the barn and from under it j ncri i c emerged a big man covered with grease there was a long streak of it down ono check and as he came running towards them he rubbed hard at it and grinned hello tom my tucker glad to get here tommy nodded who are you your new dad tommy flew across what space was left between them and threw his arms tin deputy listened answered a question or two and hung up the re ceiver her small face had gone grey in that minute and a half she thought she understood now why there had been no sense of rejoicing over the commissioners letter the gra hams were not going to keep tommy they had rut all the reasons in a lows denoting ba6s tones within each painted house of wood day has begun in earnest the pink chimneys give this signal over moun tain side and valley mrs pulslfer is up her chimney has spoken every where is seen the writing of the sky but one must be a neighbor and know the ways of chimneys to read this writing each has a separate story to tell the experienced reader a vaporous veil ascends from the rosetone chimney etched with noire that is solidly set on the sloping green roof of mrs farnhams house its contribution to the fast mantling blue of morning is spreading over omars inverted bowl this wavering pyra mid of almost transparent smoke be tokens a tasty but slight breakfast other roaring fires sending thick billows rolling from chimneys may connote oatmeal and pancakes and other heavy matutinal fare but off ambles the smoke in the sky crumbling and disappearing qulckly lnto the crowded air having told its story trial by water among the tribes of the hilly re gions of orissa in india trial by water is still emplojed to settle dis putes a sacred tank called phulbanl is used in such trlalst and its waters are considered holy in a trial by water the residents of two or three villages sit round the tank and the two con testing parties fccompanied by their seconds each armed with a long pole watt a short distance away the priest then chants this prayer to the sun the giver of light nd strength the face of truth has been covered by a mist of gold send down your shafts of wisdom and remove the voll ob scuring the rcallty- to insure the noniuterference of demons of the underworld who may be lurking in the pool beneath the holy waters a chicken is fed and watered and offered to he demons tills done tho contesting parties walk into the water followed by thoir seconds when the water reaches their armpits they take the poles and having fixed them in the bed of the tank stand holding them for a minute whilst they turn to tho eas and mutter a prayer to the sun then slowly their heads are im mersed in water tho man whose head comas up first is the loser this ageold custom has such a hold on the imagination of the natives that often the party who knows he is in the wrong vil come up first of his own accord lest injury in the shape of cramp or drowning is done to him by the powers concealed in the water iodine doses for the fat lodlno taken internally is the latest strange and dangerous method adopt etl by women to reduce their weight it is said to he far more effective than exhausting exercises and semi- slarvation tho theory is that iodine has a di rect effect on the thyroid gand thus stimulating its acilon and reducing superfluous fat by natural processes medical opinion however u dubious about the use and probable abuse of strong and dangerous disinfect- y tender lea and tips used in paris sanctions straight lines in jumper costumes made twopiece fashion 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french or eng lish words both coming from the greek nor is the f peculiarly ger man as it is used in telefon in sev eral european languages and also in telegrafo and son on in italian and spanish fingerring lamp a tiny electric lamp in a llngerrlng is designed for writers travellers and patients in hospital wards the lamp throws light directly upon a sheet of paper cr a pago of a hook sumicicnt to write or read by a white night the snow had come to transform the earth the hllle about were maat- led in whiteness winter ya alexander smith to uk a red inr dkui noble in his forests and eoll- tudes deteriorated by cities and civili zations here was winter in all its nobility without 6tain the entire landscape 6hares in the enlarging purifying quieting work ot the enow stone walls trees bushes hedgerows houses fields undergoing a enow change become pert of a new and mystic earth the snow hides it also reveals old landmarks are obliterated the divisions between thine and mine are no longer visible on the earths sur- face on the other hand fax off hills and fields gain distinctiveness even a sprinkling of snow on the larger hills make them stand out moro clearly they reflect more light and the light makes a difference it seems a larger world this world ot enow it is a quieter world sounds are muffled j there is something wonderfully im- j presslve in the vast solitudes of the i snow especially by night beneath moon and stars on such a white night take an up land road on to the hills a eteep way through the village with its handful of cottages with their rough york- bluntly yet have kindly hearts bluntly yethave kindly hearts on such a white night wonder is stirred the snow is full of wonder just a fall of temperature and there arrives this loveliness where the thermometer never falls to freezing point there is no such revelation the stars on such a night are also full of wonder they seem at their maximum brilliance and mystery there to no speech or language their voice is not heard yet how long these stare have guided the goings and watched over the doings of men by their light men from of old have come to their desired haven they knew where they were by the aid of those con stant lights they shine over us with the same constancy and beauty as they shone over ancient egypt or babylon they are the revelation of the night but for the darkness we had not seen the stare as but for the winter cold we had not seen the snow denial there is no loneliness save poverty of soul that heg3 a passing prayer to make it full and whole there is no loneliness a pale narcissus bloom makes glorious company in a deserted room there i3 no loneliness the rains lute reaches far and wind songs melodies are echoed from each star there is no loneliness with beauty all about only the eyes that see not and tho ears that doubt gcorgo hlllflton thrlftlebt english town plymouth claims to bo the thriftiest town in england its people have pur chased 1676000 savings certificates in four yeans an average of two per head per year as compared with one i and a half fcr the rest of the country bnecto rapid the world best hair tint will re- eloro gray balr to its natural color in 15 minutes 6mill slza 340 by mall double elite 850 by mall the w t pember stores limited yengo st toronto nutshell tommy had been examined t j i by their family doctor and found to hnt be an incipient case of tuberculosis j mima s sa ft the chances were he might not live to i can stani mora two grow up they wanted a childthey1 dfops at a tlmo am if wcmpn must tako it they should be careful to dil- 1 lute it liberally with milk i for some time past iodine has been years they had considered the ques- 1 administered internally to chronic case6 of ache and boils and the results have been satisfactory but it is a could raise and enjoy in their old age not one whom they would grow to- lovo and have to lose in five ten chilblains need good care what can i put on chilblains that will cure them aske a reader it de pends upon your own general condi tion if your are strong and hearty with good circulation you can get rid of them by using any local application that stimulates turpentine le a fav- orlte with some iodine with others the last time i mentioned chilblains la an article some fifty people wrote la to give favorite prescriptions all dif ferent you can guess from this that almost anything will cure the kind of chilblain that goes away of itself chilblains are somewhat akin to burrs in their course they are sec- tlona of devitalized tissue when theyj ulcerate a process ot tissue building- must take place before repair is- com plete in persons who are old sickly or weak this may take a long time the ulcer must be cleaned up per- oxide of hydrogen will usually do thla then it must be kept clean and the circulation encouraged while healing occuns iodine is usually a good ap plication many chilblains do not ulcerate but none the less there is a spot of irrit able tissue that itches and burns in cold weather at the least provocatloa1 this is because there has been enough frostbite to destroy some of the finer blood vessels eventually there will be other vessels to do the work but the building up process is slow suf ferers must protect their feet by wear ing warm hose and shoes that are roomy and etout anything tight hin ders recovery on coming in from the coldv bathe the feet five or ten min utes in cool water then dry with rough towel and rub the feet until they glow this will prevent much of the itching and will hasten repair those who have much trouble with chilblains often are poorly nourished they should eat the foods that bulkti up and supply heat cream butter and eggs are among the best of these foods jhlldren may need cod liver oil when they put on a few pounds- in weight end improve the quality of tho blood the chllblante leave i havent said much about what you should put on because that is tho question of least importance in get ting rid of chilblains the great thing is to build up the body and this can only be done by proper nutrition and protection dr c h lerrlgo form of treatment best followed under a doctors directions only tion of keeping tommy for the present and returning him after he was built up and stronger but they didnt think they could do it they had grown too attached to him already it would be harder for everyone if they kept him any longer would the deputy com missioner please come at once the next day if possible and tako tommy away there was a final request mlnards liniment relieves headache costly robes kobos for the lord mayor cost the city of iyondon nearly 1000 a year schoolboy howlers geometry teachea us to hisox angels an oxygen has tight sides the above nre two gems from a rich mine of schoolboy howlers explored hy mr r welldon finn in the edu cation outlook a circle is a rounded straight line bent so that the ends meet writes another youthful mathematician while another humorist on being ask ed how many times 19 could be sub tracted from a million replied that he could do it as often as he was asked to here are other delightful speci mens an insect can be killed by pinch lug us borax a demagogue is a vessel from which one drinks beer essays of ella the attempts of elijah to get food tho pyramids divide france and spain henry i died from a furfet of pal freys under henry viii the bible was translated into latin by titus oates whom the king ordered to be chained up in church for greater eccurity writes one youthful essayist irlnco henry was drowned in the wash the story goes that he never smiled again writes another tho reader at least is likely to smile againand again mlnards liniment for core throat he makes them fly the ships carpenter is chips called succeeds former montrealer ixird buckmastcr english jurist who replaces sir edward xlnckny edgar as head of a hige oil concern which has vait concessions all over the world american newkpapsrs row reer to him as th john i ltockefellor of eng land he was in canada les iununer for the bar association meolauf coughs that pass in the night are eneivlty those helped t rep spruce ys dm and comfort with the very spoonful lsjf no 3 26