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april escapade by kathleen norris sxkofsfs mary kate anil martin are the on two v6rktnx mnnlwrb of hi whiow oiiaxas family martin tas an oppor tunity to so to germany to study modi- tine but thortatre of taria will not per mit thtn cfcrlstoytier steynfa a frljd r ilary employer proikse that ae liiay the part of his wife for twentyfour hours in order to smrak the atten tion of a russian duehefs steynes orrer mean enough money to let martin take his opportunity mary meets mteynea in llnrllnkame lie takes her to ms house jwl tlien to a dinner where they meet i ho countess who shows her disapproval chapter xviii contd i eonse to lunch with you tomor row said the countess sternly to mary kate you coroa to us for lunch tomor row the girl agreed it will be n big party mary kates yes moved to chris topher how many did you ask for tomor row chris i didnt hear you dear the countess wants to know how many are coming for lunch tomorrow oh oh not many dozen i gursf tout good wife does nut care madame yarrowska said with the rallying air of one who would make trouble if she could xo mary kate said laughingly i dont care good night mrs stoynes mrs ridley said abstractedly still wonder ing how on earth she could have failed to play the thirteenth spade 1 dont know when ive overlooked a card like that after all the trouble i had clear ing it too she kept murmuring mary kate muffled in quilted brocade and white fur now made the circle of good nights and was out in the cool fresh dark again with chri being escorted carefully down to the car its over she exulted and they moved between silent gardens and the dim hulk of great trees under a soft dark blue night sky toward el hogar it registered hitt one hundred per cent chris said they would not come to lunch tomorrow the yarnovv- skas if it wasnt free food you heard that talk about marka marrying her cousin thats enough that means only one thing theyre through i was frightfully nervous at first mary kate confessed huddling herself into her furs but there wasnt anything to it was there xo its been lots of fun they went into the hacienda which smelled deliciously of wood smoke ficezia lilies lilacs dim lights out lined the position of chairs and tables a big bit of gold braid nn a hanging tapestry winked and crawled in the glow come in here a minute 1 want to speak to you chris said mary kate still hunching herself luxuriously into the brocade and fur j lingered for a moment in the big drawing room dyou need that coal she flung it of and stood beside him at the hearth looking up expec tantly the firelight was pink on the rich folds of her gown the beautiful shining waves of her flaming hair were tossed back carefully from hen forehead her sapphire eyes were fixed on his face your mothers living isnt she mother ill say shes living mary kate excused the inelegant phrase with a little laugh father no my father died seven years ago mart wrs only fourteen we were in brooklyn then and my mother worked in a telegraph office for a while but then my fathers brother uncle miles sent for us to tome out here and when he died he left mother his house and two other homes where are they ofarrell street and did he leave her well fixed comfortable you know well not exactly hut mart wmks and i work and the children are grow ing up all the time how many children oh tom next to me hes seven teen and kits he work no not yet he wants to lie wants to work on an airplane he wants to get into avation mary kate safo on her own ground an swered interestedly hut mother ants him to finish high so he cant really get started and then who comes w hen my nether hail a little hoy named francis who died and then tess shes thirteen and reginn hos eleven and then pat the baby miles patrick is his name and in school they call him miles ojiara but j we call him pat tom calls him the straight and narrow pat because hes so tall start hes paid twenty a week jje could make lots more but hes studying to be a doctor ho drive hes a chauffeur for a doctor late afternoons ami evenings and morn ings hes at the medical college and i make twentytwo a week it comes out about a hundred a month and ilsitss isats iusixff sk tot sbs ctrt only draw foriy ot that bwiqe of taxes and insurance mother counts on aboil two hundred or two hundred or two hundred and ten a montji mary kate explained readily because i tome of kline has to g f clothes and things i she feeds seven persons on that oh it isnt the food we have lots of company as iqr as thats concern- ed mary kate said my mothers father she went on seriously used to hav asaying no man was ever carried to the poorhouse on his dining room table and mother believes that she loves company but its the shots she added with a significant look its shoes and plumbers and if anyores ill she looked at him expectantly his eyes were upon her but she knew he was not listening this is what i was thinking he said suddenly wouldnt it be the very deuce wouldnt it he the limit if he caught his breath and stopped if what mary kate asked ive been thinking this all even ing christopher said i mean if you and i fell in love with each other he laughed nervously as he said it mary kate who had sealed herself in a forma high chair of carved hiack wod was the more eomposeu of the two i thought of that she said simp ly it was a natural enough thing to think 1 suppose but but of course of course what christopher said in an odd constrained voice watching her well of course im engaged she explained looking up with a smile and my people have slightly differ ent plans for me he added lightly she did not like the tone the rich man tone i suppose so i happen jo be an only son and an only grandson he went on it wa not quite saying that she was not good enough for him but the inference was unavoidable mary kate ignored it i mean my dear chris said eas ily that if they new the whole ridi culous story youd now hat theyd rise in a mob and slay us both she continued to look dreamily into the fire carefully indifferent but she was furious that wasnt in our agreement she reminded him elaborately stiffling a yawn exactly chris conceded without changing his expression ssh ho said raising his hand listening there were steps in the patio somebody knocked twice on the door with a heavy iron knocker the color drained from mary kates face leaving it terrified she half rose from her chair one hand clutch ing at her heart the clock struck the half hour after one chapter y1x stay just where you are chris topher said quickly its nothing ill see what it is he went across the room opened the outer door the apologetic round face of hon archibald one of the guests at the recent dinner party ap peared in the opening this is a hell of a time to come in young archibald said entering his evening clothes were rumpled and dusty his hands and face dirty im awfully scrry chris he said but what a elief mary kate exclaimed on a long breath whats happened christopher asked the caller flung himself into a deep chair stretched a hand gratefully for the cigarete his host extended mary kate subsided panting into her own chair 1 dont see how you dared open that door she said to christopher i knew it was some ass like this chris said he and don archibald had been in princeton together they grinned amiably at each other i tell you don said then 1 drove my own car down from san francisco lo gordons do you see and 1 started back about half an hour ago well turning into the high way here suddenly something gave a sort of click and i dont know what happened lint anyway the steering gears on the blink the front wheels are at right angle sticking out like that i got out ive got a flash and at first i thought id go to he club but its as dark as pitch over there nobody up ami i havent any clothes of course they might have identified me they might not i was counting on hiking up to oordys when 1 saw your light i knew some one was up you had a fat nerve chi is aid amiably 1 came up here into your patio i thought youd hear me falling around on the chairs id have faken a hot at you christopher assured him i have a nice little gun upstairs here hear em talking about burglaries tonight don asked theres been a kind of an epi demic the host said with a nod mary kate sat in a highbacked spanish chair feeling suddenly weary acil cd the evening bad kq0c flat neither of the men was taking any particular pains to include her in ihe conversation they were talking to each other glancing only at each other since don archibald had taken had taken the chair opposite her own and chris had handed him his long glass she might just as well not have been in the room j to be continued whatlnewyork is wearing by annabe1le wortiungton illustrated drcsemulhng icuson fur ttitkrd witk eecry pattern 285 who wouldnt like this snappy model that depends entirely upon its clever lines for its smartness its snappy in black canton crepe enlivened with white crepe bands at the neckline x horizontal pin 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morning mrs haggis she said gushingly how is your son get ting on in the films at hollywood very well maam said the boys mother does he ever come home and sec you now asked tho vicars wife every summer ho comes home said mrs haggis proudly every single summer of the five years hes been gone and i suppose he brings his wife wiili him each time the other con tinued why yes supplied the fond moth er and they was five as precfy girls as you ever laid eyes on the golden side there is many a rest la the road of life i we only would stop to take it and many a tone from tbe belter land if tho querulous heart would make it tv tho soul that is fuil ot hope and whose beautiful trust neer falleln the grass is yrcin and the flowers are bright though the winters stoiin pre- vaileth better nope though f clouds hang low and to keep tho eyes still lifted for the sweet blue sky will soon peep through when tho ominous clouds aro rifted there was never a night without day or an evening without a morning and the darkest hour as the proverb goes is the hour before the dawning ea must ue 3resi3- salad a is guaranteed to be iresa mrs jelly roll tea fresh from the gardens a electrical works in germany stores heat away for sale by e e ree ph d tank full ot heat coliccteil when em in the path of j convenient during tho nigh or when there is no great demand for steam boiler capacity for other purposes there is many o y u life which wo pass in our idle pleasure that is richer far than the jewelled crown or the misers hoarded treasure it may be the love of a little child or a mothers prayer to heaven or only a beggars grateful thanks for a cup of water given better to weave h the web of life a bright and golden fling and to do gods will a cheerful heart ami hands that are ready and will ing than to snap the delicate minute thread of our curious lives asunder and thou blame heaven for tangled ends and it and grieve and wonder charles mackny- and then doled out to customers dttr- great tank of welded steel holdln ing the day as heat is called for is the latest device of tho electricity works at hamburg germany to in crease- the efficiency and cheapen the cost of their service this company not only supplies electric current to much of the city but also furnishes heat to nearby office buildings boteis and other structures in the form of j demand while the heat which custom- hot water demand for electric pow er is greatest during the day and in floating schools to be used in england children who live on baises and canalboats in england are to have a school of their own the first float- school is almost ready for canalboat children so that they can leara their reading writing and arithmetic with out having to be separated from their parents thus a wise and humane settlement has been made of the prob lem of educating canalboat children over which there has been mucli con troversy this floating school an adapted barge with accommodation for 40 chil dren is the gift of the grand union canal company to the canal boatj mens institute at paddington it has been named blsdale in memory of a benefactor o canal boatmen west drayton in middlesex is miles from paddington has been chose l as the moovingplace of the floating school many firms using tho canals are removing their headquarters to this place and as there is already a dy school for boat children at pad dington children will be able to re sume school at the other end of the canal voyages from london to most canal folk paddington basin is as familiar as portsmouth is to a sailor it is one of the chief ports of the canal system and a large proportion of the trading fleet stops there for loading or discharging one generation of children will benefit from tho floating school but greater changes arc impending the grand union canal company is spending about a million pounds to substitute canal motorboats for the barges drawn by horses on their 240 miles of waterways between lime- houso and birmingham the canals will bo dredged and widened and tho em bankments strengthened speeding up the canal transport will bring immense benefits journeys which now take a week will lie so much quicker that the boatmen will not need to live on the boats like enginedrivers they will be expected to provide themselves with homes on land perishable goods can be car ried by canal so quickly will tho jour neys be in live years or so it is be lieved that the canal folk o whom there are now about a 000 families will become merged in the general community for centuries they have been a distinctive class living in float ing homes but they will gradually become like everybody else and still more of the manners and customs of old england will vanish info the past the evening when motors must be operated and when electric lamps are most used these same daytime and early evening hours also bring the greatest demands for heat since of fices and dwellings then must be kept warmer than during tho night ac cordingly like nearly all companies supplying either heat or electricity the hamburg works found themselves pressed both for heat and for power j in the daytime but much idle equip the children called her mrs jelly roll and though their toother vera constantly insisting that they cay mrs jennie ltowle she was loved by them little better ibau by the youuger gen eration her name whatever it wag meant a lot of discomfort to the boys aad girls of the neighborhood and mortification to their parents sua had gladly been the cause of many a trip to that institution of correction the woodshed through her careful scrutiny of children at play it 18 needless to say that her unpopularity enjoyed an undaunted security in iho minds of her child friends but she was so unselfish in her interest in young america that she would even neglect hoi work rather than see discipline withheld from the at- fending youth today was a redletter day with mrs ltowle because at last she coud go to mrs brown and tell her of tho misbehavlngs of the latters two lit tie boys ages six and eight so with full enthusiasm she dropped her dishtowel and hurried to meet tho young mother who was coming down the road from the store good afternoon she fairly shout ed youre mrs brown i believe good afternoon was the reply yea im mrs brown well im mrs rowle she didnt notice the faint smile that flickered over the others face ive come to see what youre going to do about i those two kids of yours era also demand at those hours w 11 mj a bo drawn off from the storage tank in meat during the latterpart of tbe night to even up this condition so that oilers can run efficiently 24 hours a day engineers now have built a nearly 3000 tons of water aud insul ated on the outside so that hot water stored in this tank cannot cool off during the night boiler power will be used to heat water for storage in this tank during tho day the boilers will ho used to run steam turbines producing tho eiectric power then in tho form of hot water stored up the night before crept into the eyes mother what o little sprig of content edith is only a schoolgirl and not very wise but she has some of the wisdom that is better than any to be got from books so she does not spend the time fretting over things she does not have she enjoys what she has dont you wish you were going to the party asked margaret i would like it said edith but im glad im going to grandpas i always have a good time there wouldnt you like to have a new i dross like marys said jessie yes hut i like mine just as well was the answer edith has the little sprig of con tent which gives a rich flavor to everything qcttayetfe 1 atiantic en vj just oft the boardwa k fireproof construction on a residential avenue ilirmonious restful nrrouilin9 v 1th recreational a vantages european plan from s4 dally american plan from 7 daily weekly or season rates oj application candy distributors for a man of cicari a voul1 apiieiato a iieks connection with aw ply ells linn can s13 cash or mich canada route a- 100 or i iolict t tonally ad person accept and 200 cas his supplit s recclvo inime district sup- your district days tom ducts co wanted tpearanee who ermaneru busi- an aggressive 1st ioal 10 to we have an opening in it oy county in tiln- wholesale i 1 i tltii m -r- the name of our iuw ttefnsr na- 1 civgw radio 1 to ravj a car vfth iiih ro secure i answers will iiit- trillion 0 our vjir who will b in within the next tew thultb food peo- phone waverlcy 2494 soi sterling tower toronto moscows huge library with 510000 volumes on its shelves tho lenin library in moseow takes- its place among the worlds largest collections of boohs its mala read ing rooms it is said are used by about 500000 persons a year there aro 300000 volumes in the military collection and 150000 hi the section devoted to the orient ot britain exported gohhalls worth s06c5q to the united states last year ruth has a good heart lias she yea if her new fall hat doesnt cost too much and her candy and matinee hills aro not too mg shes koiiig to buy her mother a patent sweeper or else a ealie mixer this christinas no charge made im thinking of koinjr to the ri viera for the season aid his wife how much would it cost me ndtwngj i should think he iv plied olthandcdly ijjs wife looked puzzleil noliink she ashed yes thinking a out it won cost you anything he said a giant pudding about two hundred years nso a london tooth manufacturer had ft huge christmas pudding made to ad vertise his speciality it weighed nine hundred pounds and took fourteen days to boil when ready it was homo through the streets with bands playing and hags hying to st georges field where a large crowd awaited the ar rival of the dainty to which they were to help themselves unfortunately the pudding never reached its destination for a mob waylaid the procession and divided ho pudding amoiigsl their own friends what a bad boy am i liule jack horner sat in the corner mating his christmas pie he put in his thumb now wasnt he dumb itules of hygi no l defy mliirds liniment aids sore feet issue no 4930 dangerous look ot the young them well i want you to sive them a sound thrashing i caught them in your woodshed asinoking a esar and i told them i was sons to have you give them a heating and shf smiled victoriously please dont try to tell me how to discipline ray children mrs brown replied with dignity i cm do that without any help for once mrs rowle went homo thoroughly chagrined sputtering about the ingratitude ot her young neighbor jlrs liromi on theother hand was more deeply concerned with this bit of news than she had seemed am every mother knows the handling oc such a problem is of the utmost im portance she would not punish her two small boys after the fashion sug- j gestctl by her nosey neighbor but sho j called litem to her and explained to i them the foolishness of smoking wise and foolish had real mean ing in their vocabularies because they j had learned to try things for them selves tiie cigars had not given the pleasurable sensations they had anti- i eipatcd mrs browns few well chos- i en remarks about the harmful effects of tobacco were believed because mother always told them the truth about things it seemed to them that the use of tobacco must be llko overeating lying in bed very into when well or sleeping with all the windows closed the two iads were greatly impressed thirteen years later mrs brown was dusting in her her sons bedroom when she accidentally knocked down a bundle of papers she straighten ed them up and her eyes fell on a theme written by her eldest boy who was a college freshman the title of tho writing was my most valuable lesson imagine tho feeling of happiness and satisfaction that mrs brown felt when she read an account of the above mentioned incident evidently from the paper both of these boys had reaped great benetit from the watchfulness of mrs jelly roll but doubtless you will agree with mo that their case waa very likely the one exception that proved the rule which discounten ances such services as hers issued by tho xational kindergaien associa tion 8 west 40th street new york city these articles are appearing weekly in our columns natures pageant color at last there is color break ing through the last screen of ashen groy infusing tbe tumult fo the scene with dazzling lire the pale fieldpoppy of tho dunes and the soft sea green of tho marina purslane send forth their fragrant in vitation the spider has woven its lacy trafl over the stiff heads of the broom tho little white snail hoists himself slowly along tho twigs to completo tho banquet with an even whiter flower tho lark flutters singing in the heavens and all that transformation of night into day of death into life has taken place without my having been able to detect at any moment the transition between tho phenomena that together form a pageant which always invitee me and always eludes me georges clomenceau saskatchewan fish tho first distribution of loch levon trout fry in 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