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Gooo he to . JiJieb.
The Runaway River
Hy WI.MFKKI) BLACK.
walk when they
It turned out to be
Orey Eyes and his toother went for
walk the other day. It wasn't Intended
to Ik a very long
eiarted, but, dear nte
a regular pilgrim
ur before they
tame back.
This la how it alt
happened: Orey
Eyes was rather
bored wtlh his lit
tle red wairon; the
IMlnt wasn't as
bright as It might .
Ie and one of the
wheel wasn't act
ing just right. The
puppy was slrk or
something;: anyhow
he wouldn't play
and Urey Eyes felt
that on the whole
the world was
not . quite what
.he had been led to
t'lpect. So he went upstairs to his
mother'a door and knocked. "Mother,"
he said, "let's go walking today."
"Oh. iirey Eyes," said Mother through
Die closed door. "I can't; I'm so dread
fully busy."
Orey Eyes waa mode downcast than
evert - fie wtarred downstair, mournfully.
"Oh, Orey Eyes," called Mother sud
denly, "I have some letters ready to mall.
I'll just slip on my things and we'll run
up to the letter box and mall them to.
gelher."
"All right," paid Orey Kyes In a brand
new voice. And In less time than it takes
to tell It Orey Ryes and the mother were
outdoor. ' !
They were scarcely outside the house
when something happened.
What's that noise?" said Orey Eyes.
"It sounds like the rivet we used to hear
In the mountains last summer. "Why, it
Is a river a real river right hero In the
street by our very house. It's a runaway
river." And so it was. a run away river
right In lh city street.
"I-Ouk. It's carrying sticks with It. Oh!
fee how fast It runs. I guess It's pretty
glad to get away. Maybe some one Is
after it. I wonder If that's what makes
it run so fast?"
Hut no one was after it at all. On the
contrary, two men stood at the head of
ing or bothering either of them. AvA
Orey Kyes forgut the wheels that wouhl
not turn and the puppy that wouldn't
play, and his mother forgot alt the mean
little frets, that were druwing emel lines
on her tired face, and in Just a minute
or two Orey Eyes and his mother were
laughing so hard that they had to stand
right still and laughed It out.
There were so many funny things alwut
the Run Away river. It, was so delight
ful to get away. "B-r-r-r-r-r" It sang
"Se this Is the way It looks our here In
the sun. No wonder the birds are always
singing about It. Come on, everybody,
here's a hill, let's run down It." And
away went the Run Away river down,
down, down at least six hilly blocks,
carrying everything In In noisy way
with It.
And bye and bye, when the river stop-
ped running away, Orey Eyes and the
mother kept right on they were running
away that day and they weren't going to
come back even If the river did get tired
- d atop.
"Come, Grey Eyes," said the mother,
"we'll keep right on." and so they did.
They went to a great gray nark where
the gray leaves lay In soft heap, where
the winds had swept them, and thev
scufed, up the .leaves, and laughed and
taugned, and they found a tall tree with
a hole In the trunk where something
(ussy with bright, black eyes, lived.
"Come on out. Fussy Wuisy." cried
Orey Eyes Into the hole, but Fussy
Wussy hid and wouldn't come out at all.
"He doesn't know us well enough," said
Grey Eyes.
"That must be it." said the mother.
And when they were tired they hailed
a street car and rode and rode and
rode, and they made up tales about
everyone in the car and told litem to
each other Tery softly.
And wln n they came to the end of
the road they climbed uion a high stool
and sat at a counter and ate strange
and wonderful things. And when th?y
got home the red sun was setting In the
Illumined west.
"Wherever have you leen?" cried
everyone when Orey Eyes and his mother
climbed happily, up tho steps at home.
Grey Eyes looked at his mother and his
mother looked ai Orey Eyes.
"We ran away with the river." thev
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WOULD A WATCH -CHARrA?
KUN OFF ABOUT VoiiC
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the street and turned a great hydrant saJd ,,', and
icunfl and round and kt the water rush
out as faitt as It wanted to.
0h. ho:' pang Grey Kye. hia cheeks
very red. "Oh, ho! Let's follow tt and
where it goes. Let's run away, too,
mother, you and I." Mother started to
xhake hrr head, then all at once the
little worried lines straightened out of
her forehead, her whole face softened and
he 4ooked straight Into the clear eyes
that save to the little boy the fooHfh.
living nick name she loved to call liln.
"All right. Grey Eyes." she said, let's."
And so they ran away with the river.
Crey; Kyes and the mother. Far, far
away from everything that waa worry
that was
they would ever tell about their won
tftrful day.
"What vm 11 I waa o fretted about
this morning'.'" said the mother of Grey
Eyes, "l-et's see; no, It wasn't that nor
that. Oh. yea. Why, what nonsense. I
must have been half 111. The next time I
get to fretting over nothing I'm going
to take Grey Kyes and go out and find
a Run Away river, and run away with
It, and see the great, happy world, and
forget. " And I believe she kept her word.
1 wonder if It wouldn't do all of us
good to run away, either with or without
the river, once In a mhtle.
I'm glng to try It and see.
Understanding Smoke rettes
Sherlocko the Monk
How the Great Detect ive Was Held Up
Itjr GIH M.KiEK.
Copyright, IIU, National Nens Assn.
J
By MAKIB COKTHOPE.
A budding essayist, hard put for a
theme, rises to Inquire "Do Our Iiramat
isis Understand Women?" and then pro
ceeds to establish to his own satisfaction
that tluy do not or they doj or whatever
was in his mind and which he failed to
t-onvey to hia readers.
Of. course, it Is one of the stock themea.
of the ages will bo solved so quick that
the only wonder will be that it ever was
a riddle.
But on the old false premise there is
always some burning question about
women, and Just now tt Is "Shall women
smoker- The answer Is "No." But the
same answer applies to all mankind.
There is no known reason whv men.
and novelists or poets or plumbers couul nturtlng in youth, should foul their bodies.
have been substituted f'r dramatists with
out particular let or hindrance to the
essayist's efforts. It is the "Ktemal
Kemmine." the "Mystery of the Age."
'he same today, yesterday and tomorrow,
until the day of the real emandtion of
mmen trom the stupid thraldom of living
up to a tradition arrives.
Why, even the ponr things themselves.
come to believe that they are some
thing strange and apart from the rest
,.f creation, and even when they write
shatter their nerves and spoil their dlges
lions by using tobacco. No man is the
better for It. nor for the use of other
drups or stimulants. And women stand
upon exactly the same grounds.
What right, then, have men to gravely
afk: ".-ihall our women emoke?" and
then discuss the question academically as
though smoking was some high-given
through years of preaching and drilling . prerogative of the male sos? Such an at
titude spells them a lot of dunces. Cer
tainly If women are silly enough to wish
to ape the men. not in one of their manv
about one another, they try to "under- many virtues, but In one of their netiv I
slann uu.eu ui ui.u. iu- vu.. m , vices. By all means let them do It.
an-i fail. Smoke, my sisters, smoke tn
1.0 our dramatists unnerstanu women7j hearts' content, either in boudoir or pub-
1 snouia ?y . .uwu,-. w.-..-, ,lt. place ror ymlr rjgn, marh .
mental creatures they put on the stage ;t !, ,hat of man. and the only reason !
simply mimic mimics, or else are buffoons' against you is that man Is trying to
,jf an impossible farce. understand" you and does not give you
But w hat Is there about women to tin- j credit for understanding vourself. if
demand? Are they not cleatures of I necessary, become smokette. Just like
llesh and blood trying to live up to their j niany of your sex have turned suffra- '
part in the scheme of things? Why try ; gettes: tattle for vour rights in . I
to understand them? Ju-t treat them clouds of cigarette smoke and under the i
naturally, ueai wun mem as you wouio banner of the coupon and the cork tip
with your fellows, glv them credit for i puff on to -1otorj !
having me same inters,,. am- j., s ; Lmlerstand you? Why, they haven't I
ana sorrows as jvuiwH, au me uuuic even oeen introduced
The Japanese Z
3
lly i l!l!KTT V, HKItVISH.
A striking pioof of the fulslty of the
charge which Is frequently mad that the
new Japanese civilisation Is onl ..n
deep, and ia simply Imitative, is furnished
by a recent award
"
rt-, I ADMIRE touR LCWLTT, VATsO, BUT TWEME's)
rzrrt (j VEtAficPETt is jusr now after. r
( JftMik ri c3(,E bis game in c-'
virif M LowncN, and etsineO ' "
I 7
nf a medal by the
Imperial Academy
of Japan to the as
tronomer, r. Kl
in ura.
Tor sumo twenty
years naM the as
tmnomhal worM
hss been Intensely
Interested, as well
as greatly puttied,
by the phenomenon
known as variation
of latitude, which
arlsea from a wab
t'llng f the earth's
axis. It furntshe
one uf the most re
i'ondlte subjects
wllh which modern
silence has to deal,
and require the utmost naotltude of
cibsiratlon and the keenest power of
analysis.
American and European astronomers
were not long in dlscuvering the two
prtmiital muthi'inatlrHl terms by means
f which ths variation could Iw repra
sentcd. Hut there was something elsa
which they did not discover, although
Pr. Klmiiia did. He found that thcra
was another Influence acting to produce
Ihe lingular motion of the axis which
had not previously been detected.
At first no one would believe htm. 1i.-y
said that his observations wore in-orrect.
or thai bis InHtrumeols were imperfect
or that be was the dupe of deception.
Hut It. Klmura knew exactly what he
was about, and ekai tl how to prove the
ucciirucy of bis work, lit convicted hia
rlllrs of hsvtng tht'inselves overlooked
humethlng w hlch h upparmt enough
when proierly studied, and compelled
them, finally, to acknowledge that he was
right, and that their own observation,
embraced the mysterious phenomenon,
although they had not hwn acute enough
to discover It.
The astronomers had adopted for a
measure of the variation of latitude at
any Klnt tn longitude the mathematical
prcsjlon waa x coa Ion. -j- y sin Ion. i.
Klmura showed them that the true ex
pression was x cos lon.-f- sin Ion, - a.
The discovery of this "a" has given Dr.
Klmura scientific immortality.
To explain It In simple form, it means
that to the sourcea of variation previously
known another must be added, which la
represented mathematically by the term
"a." This is now generally ascribed Ho
an annual oscillation of the center of
Inertia of the earth, having a total swing
of eight or ten feet. The delicacy of the
observation needed to detect It la almost
Indescribable, and yet enormous con
sequences to science may result from the
discovery.
To show how link after link makea up
the chain of science, It Is Interesting to
notice that the latest determination of the
motion of the north end of the earth's
axis proves that during the whole of last
year the pole waa swinging In a tire I
outside that which U had pursued In 1MB,
and that In June, HMO. it had got farther
from Its mean position that It has) ever
been known to go before. Now, previous
cxiwrlence has shown that aftor a wide
excursion of this kind the pole la apt to
wing In rather auddenly toward Ita
avers go place, and many have believed
that these sharp changes In the direction
of the motion are attended with more or
leM violent disturbances of the Internal
rocks of the globe. If this Is correct,
nhf-n the north pole starts toward thu
center of the circle again there may tie
an outbreak of earthquakes.
Dinkelspiel on Swearing Off
x lly (iKOIU.K
I "ml I set to Hpiegel. "Veil. Wax. I
suppose it you made such a nice lecille
bunch of goot resolution mil der New
Year, alrctiy, yes?"
'Sure!" Set Spiegel.
Vnd I h t to Hpb-gel: "Such I an Idea
vlch appeals mostly to dose mlt a hesi
tating chin You know. Max, veil a man
hss to vU till a complete holiday like
New Yrar's to htop doing aomedlng vtch
docs him no goot lie chenemlly starts up
iaiuln mlt dcr tmrnt Saturday vlch con
tain a half holiday. HyChovfl! It is a nice
, !.! a tu vaich vun of dose fellows svear
nit to ee how long h doan'd kep It.
Smu time. Max, I vumlcr t Is tier use
to make bad habits In der mind und dVn
use der some mihd to promise you-seli
you von't make d-in any more. lt you
MHimembef (lust Horstman. vlch he ud
to keep der leedle grocery sWre on Co
lumbus avenue, near der fire engine?"
'Sure!' set HpUtfi'l.
I'nd I set to Spiegel: "Veil. I haf It in
der memory ven lust falrst bt'gsti to
svear You know. Max, swearing Ik vun
of der mont usetfSK accompllHhmentliigs
j vtch efer iied a man's voice to show it-
j elf off. A M-mdMe man has no more use
for svrar words den a flh has for an
1 umbrella. Veil, anyway, Oust began dr
j idea to svear, vun day on a street car ven
ja stout chentlrmans stepped t'oughtfully
on his foots. Oust responded to der fat
i man's attentlops mlt a slight upvard
rherk of d-r head vile at der same time
d-r vord lammltall!' slipped from be
hind hU gold-plated teeth mil a slight
hUsIng sound. I'ls vas der fairt fata!
tfp. In anntider veek Oust vas ab!e to
u!e der Mime ord mttould der help of a
j fat man on hia foots. In a cubble of
weeks he began der translation Into Kng
Ilh of all der Cher man oaths from der
time der falrst robber baron dlscofered
der Khlne down to der night ven der sol
dier chabhed Htsn.arck mlt a bayonet bv
mistake. It got so bad. Max. dot If you
yust set. "Wle gehtsV to Gust It took him
four oaths, nine svear vords und eighteen
dammtta before he comd answer, "Sim
llchV I set py him vun day, 'Oust, der
inside of your ). ad must look like a sul-
V. IIOISAKT.
phur mine trimmed mlt brimstone. Yy
doan'd you stop such a foolishness? You
know a man dot sycars der vay you do
aln'd got no m re brains den de east end
of a peanut!' t.ust responsed me. und ven
ven I pb'ked ould der answer from der
garbage around It 1 found It contained
der statement dot he vas valtlng for New
Year's to svear off e veering. Und dig
vas I'hully yet, mlt der muskittoea Und
dr hot nights und udder eggacusea to en
courage hint. Vy t'horge! human nature
Is nearly alvaya in Ita childhoods, aln'd
it. Max?"
"Sure!" ct Spieuel.
I'nd I set to Spiegel, "Veil, anyhow,
Juj-t vent on from bad vords to vorae
vorrln. lit; kt-pt a piece of wrapping paper
und a blue pencil py der bedside so If ha
fought of a good oath In his sleep he
could vake up und make a note of It tu
use der nevt day. lie spoke ould such,
wialeut lankvirh in der store dot a ehouL
der of mutton vlch vas formerly a sensi
tive hep vould fjill uft der block und
try to bury itself in der sawdust. He
made dot butcher shop so hot mlt big
svear ords dt his customers began to
complain IxcauKe der steak vas cooked
loo veil dune. Veil, anyway. New Year's
rolled itst-ir ariMjnt und I met up mlt
Gut. lie vas all dressed ould in a IVin
ces Albert oat, mlt a silk hat und a
cane mit der same nationality as a cork
Ncii w. He as mi proud mlt himself be
muw he hatten't svore for nearly free
hours. Ve valki d tigedder down der afe
nue and I vas yust congratulatlonlng him
on dr furce of Ms tharacter Ven an
un-set piece of clush slid him from undet
himslf und he sat rapidly down on der
vet raveinent mit a sharp cra-h. In air
my egtrsieriene. Max, nefer before dlt
t hear such a collection of werbal gaso
lene eggs pl 'sinm. 'Dam der nation! ba
st-t. 'Ham der rivers! dammltal! 1 doaVd
care so much dot 1 haf muddy trousers
but, dam der nation, now I got to vait till
next New Y'ear's before I can svear off
again! Now J esk you. Max, aln'd sue a,
der limit?" '
"Surer' set Spiegel.
L D1NKELSPIEU
I'er George V. Hobrt