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The Way Luck Goes . ! By CLARA DELAFIELD <#. 1991. Western Newspaper Union.) TJDBKST seemed the proper name for him somehow. Doesn't Hu bert convey a sense of rotundity 7 Well, In that case Hubert was correct ly named. He had always been fat—a nice, healthy fat baby, then a healthy fal boy, then a stout young man. Not a monstrosity with a half a dozen chins —Just—well. Just fat. Everybody liked Hubert. He had the pleasant ways that fat men hat He wasn’t the prize fat man of our vil lage, either. Reginald Bogart—now Isn’t It odd how that name suggests fatness, too! Reginald Bogart w:ts what might have been called the cham pion. He tipped the scales at two hun dred and fifty. Hubert waa only two hundred and twelve. Hubert went in for tennis, too. Reginald couldn’t do anything but swim. Oh. but he con d swim! Not fast, but—well, such a lot of trim swam. But all this leads up to Mary Bay llss. Hubert was mighty fond of her. When he was raised to forty-five a week he asked her to marry him. Mary answered: ‘‘Hubert, m.v dear, I’m awfully fond of you, but not In that way. I'll be a sister to you." This staggered Hubert; he had three sisters anil didn't want any more. “Tell me frankly what's the matter with me," he said. “TTie man I marry must be a heroic figure In m.v eyes. He must be capable of anything.” “I’m capable of anything," said Hu bert. “Well, If you must know, I could never marry a fat man.” said Mary. Now Hubert adored Mary. Many men would have accepted defeat, for Hubert, like most fat men, had had spells of resolving to become a thin man. He had played tennis In a wicked sun, he had gone without lunch he had gone without breakfast, he hail gone without drinking, he had worn mysterious rubber belts, and he had given up sugar. Also he had taken sixteen different advertised cures for fatness. The perfectly obvious result was thSt he had grown fatter than ever Everybody knows that when you no tice your fat If sits up and takes no tice, Instead of wilting away in ig nominy. Hubert had grown steadily fatter. But he adored Mary Ba.vllss. and he resolved to grow thin or perish. And he started In on a Spartan regime dur ing his vacation, having succeeded In Inducing his boss to let him take ti whole month that year. Hubert went up Into the woods to a little lonely camp and started wres tling with hla fifty pounds of superflu ous avoirdupois. For diet he ate un leavened flapjacks (one per diem) and tinned mast or fish that he caught from the lake—and that wasn’t very often. He abhorred butter. He re voked on sugar. Every morning he ran three miles without stopping and then rolled on a log until he could stand It no longer. Then he would stand sidewise In front of a looking glass and see how far he projected. After two weeks of thla, steadily persisted In, Hubert discovered that he looked like a very ordinary person His clothes were getting too loose foi him. He had taken in bis belt three times. He redoubled his exertions The third week the fat surrendered and came off him In leaps and bounds At the end of the fourth week he was thin. If anything. Not noticeably thin, but If anyone had asked you whether Hubert was a thin man or a fat man you would have said he was a thin man. Being rather sensitive about hlx changed appearance, when his holiday came to an end he sneaked home on the night train. Hla three sisters had hysterics when they saw him. His mother sobbed on his neck and wanted to know where her darling boy was gone to. But let us draw a veil over that. Hubert washed up. changed and went to pay a late call on Mary. Mary didn't know him when she opened the door. Then she nearly fainted. “Mary,” said Hubert, when he had brought her to, “I did It for your sake Marry me. If you don’t believe It will last, marry me when I’ve been thin for a year.” “Oh, my poor Hubert, I didn’t mean what I said. I could never marry a thin man." sobbed Mary. “>—I’M get fat again.” said Hubert desperately. “I’ll get anything you say.” “It’s too late,” said Mary mournful ly. “I—I’m engaged." “Mary!” cried Hubert wildly. "Who la her “Reginald Bogart.” Sensible Girl. Their boat was drifting Idly, the ■un shone above, and the sea waa serene; while she was sitting snugly. Then he proposed. From the opposite end of the craft ■he gazed at him calmly. Then ahe ■aid: “As a matter of common sense, rMllzlng that we are In this boat, on water more than fifty feet deep, and that If you were to act aa you should act If I accepted you we would be capsized, I will decline your proposal at the moment—but, George, row as fast as you can to the shore and ask me again!” That girl will aaaka a good wife. Each Other | Foiled \ By ANTHONY REIMERT j ((£,. 1»2J. Wutera Newspaper Union.) IT WAS because three men had al ready plunged to death oft the new bridge that swung dizzily above the river that Leach quickened his steps as lie saw the prowling figure anead of him looking down into the water. Nobody else was on the bridge at that hour of the night—uobody but Leach and the unknown. And, after ail, why should Leach take It upon himself to stop the fellow? Life was miserable enough. Why not let him seek that obliviou that he sought? It was only an umletinable instinct that quickened Leach's footsteps as the intentions of the man in front of him began to be clear beyond a doubt. Suddenly the man threw off bis coat and begun to clumber out upon the girders. At the same moment Leach grabbed him. The man began struggling vio lently. Leach held oil like grim death. For a minute or two the other fought with such frenzied strength that it was all Leach could do to hold him. But at last he bad him subdued. He was u weakling after all, one of those anemic, undeveloped, undersized runts that haunt the slums of the cities. There was the stamp of the slum rat on Lhe wizened features. “Aw, what you want with me? I ain’t done nothing!” “You were Just going to Jump off the bridge." “Well, supposing I was? That ain't no business of yours. Is it?" “Well, I guess It is." answered Leach. “No man has the right to make away with himself.” •No right, eli? Say, if you was up against what 1 am you'd feel different about It, 1 guess.” “Tell me your troubles.” “You can't do nothing to help me. Why, you look down and out yourself I” said the other, insisting Leach's ragged clothes for the first time. “\V hat you doing here anyway?” “Don't worry about me." answered Leach. “Just worry about yourself. Let's put our heads together and see if we can’t lilt on a better plan for you than jumping off the bridge. First tli'ng that strikes me is, you look as If you’i e hungry.” "Hungry?" shouted the other. "Sa> “The*-1 i lunch wagon at the end of the L- V Suppose we go and have some coffee and an egg sandwich, and then if you want to take the leap, why 1 guess I won't want to stop you.” Grumbling, the would-be suicide yielded. He put on bis coat and ac companied Leach to the coffee wagon. "la see," lie explained, “I been out of work for weeks, and my wife's sick, and there's a kid, and there ain’t no li e, and then my mother-in-law, who brings us food, why, she's always on at me tor a wastrel, and—Oh, It's hope less, boss, that's what It Is.” "I've been out of work, too," said Leach. “I haven't got a wife and a ,id. but If 1 had it would take more than a mother-in-law to make me take that Jump. Bull yourself together, man! Go home and thank the Lord you didn't Jump. Where would your wife and child lie If you had done It?" “That’s true." muttered the other, as lie devoured Ills sandwich ravenously. “Ttiere'll be plenty of work ,n a little while,” Leach continued. “You •know how things are looking up. Why, say, you were just off your head, weren't you?” “I guess 1 was,” mumbled the other sheepishly. “Why. once you get work—you’ve got a trade, haven't you? CaWnet maker? Why, man, you'll be earning tine wages, anti then you’ll begin put ting a little aside against a rainy day, and in a short time you’ll have a swell bunk- account, and maybe a car. And you'll be able to tell your mother-in law where to go.” The other stared at him. "Say, tiist’s the stuff. Mister!" be answered. “You’re dead right. No more of the morgue for nfine. I’m going straight home. And 1 tlunno how to thank you.” “Oh. that's all right," Leach an swered, anil he accompanied the man a little distance and watched him strld ing off In the distance with a hopeful stride. He looked back whimsically at ths bridge. He felt the solitary nickel that remained in his pocket. “Gee, that’s good advice 1 gave him." he muttered. "I'm glad I thought of It. I’ll get a Job myself now—better than Jumping off the bridge, as I was In tending." Land for Britain’s Joblsss. Plans for settling 7,OUO unemployed British families a year In New South Wales and Victoria have been com pleted by the British government. Pre mier Fuller of New South Wales and Premier Lawson of Victoria announced upon their arrival at New York. Cnused government lands will be set aside for them and provided with the necessary Irrigation. The colon ists will be given 36 years in which to make the land pay for Itself. New South Wales will take 6,000 families a year and Victoria 1,000. The two premiers plan to proceed to Australia by way of Vancouver, after a brief visit to Washington. We Get You, Sir! Local Ad—“Furnished room wanted by a gentleman or partly so.” Partly so? Oh. yes—a gent.—Boston Eve ning Transcript. • Legal Notices 1 AMOS P. SCRUGGS. Lawyer. 220 South 13th Street. NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT. To I.<ora Dean Hayes, defendant: You are hereby notified that on the Twenty-seventh day of March. A. D. 1923, Henry Hayes, as plaintiff, filed his peti tion against you in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska; the object and prayer of which Is to obtain a divorce from you upon the grounds of cruelty and adultery. You are required to answer said peti tion on or before the Fourth day of Sep tember, A. D. 1923. HENRY HAYES. 4t-7, 22. Plaintiff. H. J. PINKETT, Attorney. NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL. In the County Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, in the matter of the estate of Alfred G. Marshall, deceased. 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