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Beth's I Vacation I I CONSTANCE BREVOORT 1 (Copyright, 1012, by Associated Literary PreiS.) Tho train started on Its winding ,wny among the hills. Doth Tllton pressed hor pretty nose ngalnst tho car window to wave a last farewell at her mother and younger clstor on the station platform. . At last their forms faded from view and Beth leaned hack tired with tho preparations for this long-anticipated 'vacation almost fearful that sho would awake to find It a dream after nil. Beth had heen saving money 'for thrco years to take a few weeks' va cation from tho ofTico whero she worked; but each year had seen the money diverted to como other neces sary object aud Beth had spent hor vacations at home. But this year had proved to bo nn exception. Sho had heard of a pleas ant farmhouse tuckod away among tho Litchfield hills and sho had writ ten and engaged board for four weeks. Now, sho was actually on her way there. Her trunk- was in the haggage car and her woll-flllcd suit case was bcsldo her In the coach. From her arm dangled a leather hand ,bag containing her money fifty dol larsand hor trunk chock. Threo hours passed before the train reached tho llttlo red painted station which marked Beth's destination. She 'arose and made hor way with diffi culty past the stout woman who had occupied moro than half of her seat and who mado no attempt to arise When tho train stopped. Both was tho only passenger nt Red station and sho saw her trunk bounced from the baggage car to tho platform as tho train moved on. The station agent came out and looked curiously at the pretty girl .with tho wide, expectant eyes that could not seo enough lu that flr3t gllmpso of tho rolling hills, the state ly trees, tho flash of bird wings in itho thickets and tho multitudinous sounds of a warm midsummer day in tho real country. "I reckon you belong to this hero trunk," remarked tho man with a good-natured grin. "Yes. I am going to Wellwood Farm is there a stage or any kind of conveyance hero?" Beth looked around ns sho spoko. "Tho Wellwood wagon came up this morning after some boarders Joe said he wouldn't como up again till cv- c She Was Tired and Dusty. I the 6 o'clock train. You got some timo to wait." "How far is It?" "Oh, n couple of m!le3 down the east road." Beth looked at hor watch. It was 3 o'clock. "I believe I will walk." sho decided. "Will you please have my trunk put on tho wagon when It comes ' tonight?" Sho opened her handbag and gnve tho man a quarter, and before sho closed it again she no ticed something unusual about 11. What wns it? Her heart almost stopped beating as sho realized that tho llttlo chamois bag containing her cherished fifty dollars had disap peared. For a dazed Instant sho tried to ro call when It might have been taken. There had been just one opportunity. Sho had felt a midden tug nt tho bag during her journey, and had disen tangled it from the frlngos of the Btout woman's gown. Tho woman had helped her with great amiability. Hor money wns gone her vacation was gone, too. The chango In her lit tle purse would not buy hor return ticket to Now York She decided to walk down to Wellwqod farm and wrlto homo to her father for money to return homo. . Tho walk to the farm was most unhappy for poor Both. Sho was tired nnd dusty And very warm wbon she reached tho gatC3 It did not add to her self-possession to see tho shady r-3 porches filled with daintily gowneM woraon nnd tho tennis courts gay with young men and girls. This was tho reason why Both choso to enter tho wldo carrlago gato and kcop on around to the kitchen door, where a tlrod-looklng woman In a neat glnghnm dress was churning. "Oh, hero you nro at last!" sho cried In a relloved tono. "I'm sorry you had to walk all the way you must bo tired. Joo didn't wait for tho 3 o'clock train. Ho thought if you didn't come at noon you wouldn't be here till night, and I wns wondering how I was going to get supper with out you." Beth stared aghast at this recep tion. It waB evidont that Mrs. Marsh had mistaken her for sorao other ex pected person. In a few words sho explained who sho wns nn tho disas ter that had befallen hor finances. "I'm awful sorry, Miss Tllton," said Mrs. Marsh when Beth had finished her story, "and it seems too bad that you have to loso your vacation after all If It wns out of the season I'd tell you to stay any wny, but we're crowded, of course, and every room Is engaged. I can rent yours tomor row." "Of course 1 will pay you for tho day ar so I shall remain," explained Both. "My land I wlbh you was a wait ress I'm so short of help," bemonno'd Mrs. Marsh, suddenly turning to n snbjoct that appeared to be on her mind. "Annie Brian loft yesterday and I sent to Beechmont for auothur girl, and I've been expecting her by every train. To toll you the truth, I thought you was one." "Wouldn't I do?" asked Beth. "Yon wouldn't want, though It's honest work, Miss Tllton," said Mrs. Marsh, eagerly. "I'll do it,"' agreed Both, "If you will allow mo to spend every after noon out of doors after I have fin ished my work. In that way I can pay for my vacation nnd get como good from it, too." ' "That will suit me now, what shall I call you?". "You might call mo Lizzie," smiled Beth. "I'm glad I brought plenty of plain cotton dresses along. If you will lend mo some aprons I'll begin now." "Not until you've rested. Acnlo's little room Is clean and cool and you go Ho down and rest till 5 o'clock. Drink n glass of buttermilk first and help yourself to cookies from the jar on the tablo there." Thus Beth Tllton began her strange vacation, which was half work. Sho did not wrlto home to hor family and toll them of her loss and how the vacation money had vanished after all. .They would bo disappointed they had all helped to get her off. She wrote of tho pleasant people who wero stopping there, of the games of tennis nnd croquet, of the fishing in tho lake, tho long tramps over hill and dale and of long afternoons which she spent In a hammock under tho apple trees In the orchard. Sho told them about Bruco Mny nard, who was stopping at Wellwood Farm for a few weeks. Sho mentioned what ho had said to hor In many interesting conversations held under tho apple trdes, hut sho did not toll them that some of tho feminine boarders wore shocked at his atten tions to the pretty young waitress and how sho had at last been obliged to avoid him. Then one day Bruco Maynard wont away nnd Hfo at tho farm became very dull for Beth, but sho continued to bo tho best waitress that Mrs. Marsh had ever employed and she was well liked ntod courteously treated by all tho boarders. At last camo tho first of September and with it witnessed the departure of tho last boarder. Mrs. Mars hln sisted upon Berth assuming her proper name and position. The cook was nblo to manage all the work now nnd there followed a week of idleness. Sho had paid her way and had money In tho handbag to pay her way home, and yet she was not qulto hap py. Life could novor be the Bamo to her nftor meeting Bruco Maynard. If fate had been kinder shoVould havo met him under more favornblo condi tions nnd there might have followed something moro lasting. Tho night before sho was to loavo for New York Bruco Maynard enrao back. He found Mrs. Marsh Bitting alone on tho front porch. "1'vo come back to mnrry your waitress, Lizzie Tllton," ho said bluntly. "Where is she?" "She's gono," bmlled Mrs. Marsh demurely. "In hor place 1b Miss Both Tllton who really camo here to board with me, but took a waitress' position becauso she hnd her pocket picked on the train" "Whero Is she?" Insisted Maynard just as If ho -hnd not heard her ex planation. "I believe she Is watching tho sun sot from the orchard fonce " But before Mrs. Marsh could com plete the sentence Bruce Maynard had darted around tho corner of tho house nnd disappeared. Good Taste, for Example. Jood tnsto Is tho finest flower of tho times In which It grows. Only n fow years ago somo of us thought brutal, atrocious, nyo, cruel, horse play funny, calling it "practical" Jdkes. And now today we still havo among us somo who think n' cat or dog or man fight tho height of Joy and gayoty. It takes fine times and finest peoples to make good taste, Good taste is a truo good understand ing of due limits in speech, nets and manners. Whero good tasto is used by men in influence and nuthorlty It provpnts many scandnlous nnd silly doings. forme n Ml IIX TO MAKE A CATCHER'S MITT Where Leather Is Not Obtainable Canvas Mny Be Used for Every thing but Face of Glove. Leather is, of course, tho host mnto rlal, but canvas can bo used for every thing but tho faco of tho glove. If leather Is used, a heavy piece should bo selocted for tho faco and a Ughtor weight for tho back; If you lay theso pieces faco to faco, and ubo a "regu lar" glore for a model, front and back may bo cut out nt one time. Then tnho a i.!ecr of cloth or of thin leather, a trlflo smaller than tho glovo is to be, nnd lay tho .hand upon It with tho flngers outstretched. Mark around tho lingers with a pen cil aud sow the pleco on to the hack of tho glove, as shown by tho dotted linos In tho picture. Then sow around outline of tho Ilngors as lu tho drawing. Cut a piece of honvy solo leather to correspond with tho front part of the glovo hack, and sow It on so that tho rear edge comos about half-way down tho fingers when they are slipped Into tho glove. This pleco protects the ends of tho fingers and stiffens tho whole glove; tho ad dition of a strap and bucklo completes tho hack. On the pleco of heavy leather which was cut out for tho front of tho glove, A Catcher's Mitt. sow a crescent-shaped pad; this forms a pocket and helps to keep the ball from slipping through when tho hands nre not closed quickly enough on a fast "shoot." Cut a strip of leather about one Inch wldo and long enough to go around the glove, sew tho back of tho glovo to ono edgo of tho strip and the faco to tho other edgo; n space about six inches wide should bo left unsown and arranged to lace. Horso hair makes tho best .stuff ing, ns It Is elnstlc nnd does not "sting through" ensily, but cotton can bo used; as it flattens out from use, more can bo stuffod in through tho Inced openings. If you don't mind, tho odor, oil of tar Is a very good thing to rub Into tho face of tho glovo; it keeps the leather soft and helps tho ball to "stick." BOYS THAT ARE IN DEMAND Business Man Wants One Who Is Mod est, Prompt, Pleasant, Industrious and Honest. "What kind of a boy does a business man want?'' repeated a shrewd, prac tical man of many concerns, the othor day. "Well, I will tell you. In tho first place ho wants a boy who doesn't know too much; business men general ly like to run their own business, and prefer some ono who will listen to their way, rather than try to teach them now kinds; secondly, they want a prompt boy ono who understands seven o'clock as exactly seven, not ton minutes past; third, an Industrious boy, who Is not afraid to put In a lit tle extra work In case of need; fourth, nn honest boy honest in his service, as well 88 in matters of dollnrs and cents; and fifth, a good-natured boy, who will keep his temper If his em ployer loses his own now and then!" "But you haven't said a "word about his. being smart!" was suggested. "Well, to tell tho truth," was the ratheV hesitating answer, "that'B about tho last thing wo worry over. Tho fact Is, If a boy is modest, prompt, pleasant, Industrious and honest, he's quite as smart as wo caro about and that's a fact." MANNER OF LAYING BRICKS Surprisingly How Few People Outside of Building Trades Can Sketch the Proper Method. Can you tell how tho bricks of a brick wall aro laid? If you nro a town dweller you perhaps pass n nillo or thereabouts of brick walla during Li i,r i.ttt'i ujurx i ii i n i'i i it i i i r- H TT 2 ii. ,1 .i: XI r i, ,i..i X3 m : i i 'U . I IT III 1,1 I I I I I I- ffi TTT X I IE How Bricks Are Laid. tho day, yet It Is surprising how few. peoplo outsldo tho building trado can sketch bricks laid lu a proper man ner Fig. 3 is tho method most peoplo will show, whereas tho bricks uro al most Invariably laid In tho styles Bhown in tho first two sketches. Mako u point of looking at feveral brick wnlls and soe for youself. I I HIPPETY-HOP. lllppely-hop to tho enndy shop To buy some rhocolnto drops: lllppety-hop to tho fruiter's shop To buy somo corn which wilt pop. Illpnoty-liop to our home ngnln. With candy, pop-corn nnd popper: liipri-nui in tho kitchen nie, For oitoli of us Is a hopper. FIGURE SEVEN IS MYSTICAL. Day on Which Our Creator Finished His Work and Rested Many Other Interesting Facts. K On tho seventh day GoJ endod Ilia work. On the seventh duy Noah's ark touched tho ground. in Roven days n dovo was sent. Abraham pleaded seven times for Sodom. Jacob mourned seven days for Jo seph. Jacob pursued n seven dnys' jour ney by Lnbnn. A plenty of seven years and n fam ine of seven jttars wero forotold In Pharaoh's dream by sovon fat nnd seven lean beasts, and seven enrs of full and seven ears of blasted corn. On tho sevonth dny of tho seventh month tho children of Israel fasted seven days, nnd remained seven days In their tents. Every seventh day tho law was road to tho people. Solomon wns seven yenrs In build ing tho temple. In tho tnbcrnaclo there wore seven lamps. Nnaman washed seven times In the River Jordan. Our Saviour spoko soven times from tho cross, on which Ho hung sovon hours, nnd niter Ills resurrection Ho appeared seven times. In tho Apocalypso wo read of seven churches, sovon candlesticks, seven stnrs, seven trumpets, sovon plagues, seven thunders, seven vir gins, seven nngels and a seven-headed monster. Nownrk News. TEACHES ART OF SWIMMING Framework Arranged on Floats Sup ports Novice by Means of Elastic Bands Cannot Sink. Timidity nbout striking out is tho cnuso of tho difficulty somo people oxperlonco In learning to swim. An Alabama man has patented a do vlco which should remove from tho Swimming Teacher. faintest heart tho fear of sinking whllo learning tho art. A light, motal framework Is supported on' half a dozen floats and from tho cross bars of tho framework elastic bands depend. Oue band hooks to a hfflldpiece worn by tho novico,, another hooks to n belt around his legs. Harnessed up in this fashion tho learner cannot sink if ho tries, nnd can perfect himself In the stroke without worrying about what Is going to happen. When ho -feels per fectly sure of his ability to keep afloat ho can strike out unhampered, or, If lie prefers, can free his legs first and his Head und body afterward, so ub to learn his lesson gradually. Try It. It is said tho qucou of Sheba test ed King Solomon's wisdom by bring ing before him an equal nurabor of boys mid girls, dressed exactly alike, and asking him to decide which was which, Tho father of wisdom called for wash basins, and told tho group to wash Us hands. The girls daintily rolled up tholr cuffs, but the boys splashed away with out regard to neatness. And there you are. There was no match trust In that early day. If there had beon any tho great king would huvo enjoyed a sim pler test. For tho London Chronicle declaros that when women striko a match huo Invariably scranes it nut. ward and m way from herself, whllo nf man scrapes It In and toward himself. Fill your match box and try this. HEW EDUCATION OF TARTAP Phonetic System of Teaching Reading and Writing Introduced Among Indian Mohnmmedano. Constantinople Ishmnll Bek Qaa prlnsky, tho editor of the Torjuman, tho oldoat Tartar nowspapor in Rus sia, and tho plonoor of tho modern Tartar oducatlonal movoraont, wldoly kuown outsldo Russia ns having lnl tinted about flvo years ago a movo raont for convonlng a gonoral con gress of Mohammedans to discuss tho causes of tho backwardness of Moham medan pooplos, has roturnod from Bombay, whoro ho wont to open a modern elementary school which should sorvo to lntroduco among In dian Mohammedans tho phonetic sys tem of teaching chlldron to road and wrlto. Tho importnnco of this stop Is not obvious at first sight, but tho adoption of tho phonetic system monns tho adoption of now principles of In struction goncrally. It moans break ing with tho traditional Mohammedan acholastl'j ayntoin. And for this rea son tho "now mothod," ns It la called, has become among Russian Mohami luodnns a watchword of roform and la; vigorously opposed by the adhorcntB' of tho old school. In its cssonco tho "now method" Means that children, instead of bo lug taught to read by spelling out tho names of tho letters of tho Arabic al-j phabot which Is ubgiI by all Moham medans, nro taught at onco to nsso-j :lato lotters with sounds and to form :hcm Into syllables. M. Gnsprlnsky lias discovered by long oxperlonco In! Uussla that by tho now system an Duormous amount of tlrao Is saved.' l'ho avorngo child can by its moan3 .earn to road Intelligently In 40 days, whorens under tho old ) system six otoliths or a yoar wofo noccssary, and ihen tho tosult was unsatisfactory. Tho mullahs who havo adopted tho aow system In tho Crimea havo found' ihomsolvos compolled to fill In tho lmo snvod by giving Instruction in sthcr subjects, such ns geography and nygleno, .othorwlso tho porlod of in struction would havo beon so short ;hat their slender income from tho plllngo schools would havo grown aioro slender BtlU. Tho now syBtom hnB already been tdoptod at tho Normal School for Teachers, established at Constanti nople, nftor tho constitution, nnd tho icnchorH who aro now being trained will gradually lntroduco It in olo nentary bcIiooIb all ovor tho country. DONJON OF VINCENNES OPEN Famou3 Twelfth Century Cactle Is Now Ready for Tourists. Paris. Through tho efforts of Ca.pt. do Fossa, tho famotiB donjon, or keep of tho Chnutoau do Vlnconnoo, which Part of Old 'Vlncennes Donjon. alnco Napoleon's timo had boon used for tho storing of military suppllos, has beon thrown open to tho public.' Tho donjon Is ovor 160 feet in height, and from Ub summit an oxccllont vlow of tho surrounding country can he obtained. Tito walls aro 10 feet thick nnd there Is n winding stair case of 327 steps. Thero aro flvo Btorlcs, and on clearing out tho plnco CO.OOO muskets of tho First Empire woro found on tho first floor, whilo above wero 100,000 snbros, togothor with a quantity of saddlos and bridles of tho same period. All those things havo now boon ro pluced by contemporary relics Illus trating tho history of tho tower dur ing 700 years. Thero is also data 6howIng tho famous ovonts in which tho structuro played a part nnd the equally famous prisoners confined bo hind Its massive walls. As far back us 11C4, writes Capt. Jo FosBn, in a pamphlet ho hus pre pared on the subject, Louis VII. con ceived tho project of building a royal residence at Vlncennos, In tho wood of which tho enrller monarchs often hunted. Phlllppo Augusto und his successors Improved and enlarged tho chateau, In which many of them dwelt. It was later utilized as a stato prison, and in 1740 the porcelain fac tory which was romovod to Sevres ton year later was established thero. Then tho edlfico boenmo the quar ters of a military school for a brief porlod, nnd aflerwnrd a manufactory of arms. In 178S, nt tho timo of tho 'French Revolution, Vlnconnoa wns rangod among tho royal chateaux which woro to ho sold, but did not find n pur chaser. Then camo Napoleon, who turned tho historic castlo into a mili tary storohouso. Among tho mon archs who hnvo dlod thoro wero Louis VII., Phlllppo V., and Charles IV nnd also Henry V. of England. ipniOGE Crude Device Is Used to Cross Tibet Stream Rivers Are So Wide and tho Walls So Precipitous That Is Is Impossible to Find Foundations for Structures. Lhnssn, Tlbot Ono of tho most fascinating things met with in Tibet la tho Blngle-ropo bridge fascinating, and yet nt first sight rather alarming. To shoot swiftly across a thundering river suspended many foot in tho air by two leather thongs from a short woodon slider which hums ovor tho. knotted surfaco of a ropo mado of twisted strands of bamboo, seems moro precarious than it really Is, and nftcr tho first journoy ono thoroughly Ferrying Horse Over Rlvcr. enjoyB tho experience. Whoever the Ingenious nntivo was who first sugi guBted this modo of crossing a river ho probably camo from tho jungles oi Aasam and hnd seen monkeys crossing tho river thoro by means of growing creepers thero is no doubt that ho found tho ono method which Is up pllcablo to tho big rlvors, exaggerated mountain torrents, of oastern Tibet and far wostern China. Tho obvious way for natives to cross n river is by canoe, but, unfortunately, neither tho Salweon nor tho Mekong, big as they are, aro navlgablo even for ennocs in Tibet. Tho slnglo-wny ropo brldgo ovorcomoa every difficulty. Two small platforms nro made, ono on either sldo of tho rlvor, ono high up, tho other 20 or 30 feet lower dowu; Btout posts aro driven into tho rock nnd tho bamboo ropo is slung across from poBt to post, and tightened bo that It slopes steeply from ono bnnk to tho other. Tho Bllder consists of u half-cylinder of wood, about threo Inches In dlamotor, having two slots cut In its upper sur face, ono at either end, through which pass tho lqnthor thongs; to theso thongs tho innn, bnggngo or animal is Hod, so thnt ho hangs just boneath tho ropo, nnd, being pushed off tho plat form, tho slider cnrrloa him safely over tho river. It will bo seen, thoro fore, that two ropoB aro nocossnry at each crossing, ono for going each wny. Tho advantages of such a system nro obvious. Tho ropo 1b cheap to make and tho materials aro ready to hand; It ia quickly put in plnce and, though It will not stand tho wear and tear of constant uso for vory long, it can ho replaced In n few hours. It can bo suspended so high nbovo tharlvor that It Is completely out of reach of sum mer floods, but very often It Ib only a fow feot nbovo tho wate,r at Ita lowest point, and such ropes are under water and Impassablo during tho summer. On tho othor hand, I havo seen ropoa ns much as a hundred feet abovo tho river; they look rathor alarming, hut, as a matter of fact, it would mako no difference whether ono fell ono hun dred feet or flvo feet Into such a river no tho Mekong In Tlbot. After a fow weeks' use tho ropo begins to Bag at tho lower orj and may requlro tightening up, especially If animals aro being slung across; a mnn enn pull hlmBelf up tho last fow feet, hand over hand, or haul up a box whlh has got stuck, hut an animal is helpless unless he lands right on tho opposite bank. Hundreds of theso slnglo-way ropo bridges nro in uso on tho Mekong and Sahveon rivers alone, nnd they occur a long way oast of this on tho La-lung nnd LI-tang rivers, nnd many others. But I have never soon ono on tho Yangtze which Is too big a rlvor. F. Kingdom Ward, In Country Life. WEALTHY WOMAN IS A NUN Mrs. Gertrude Hallo Lenman of Bos. ton Abandons Social Position and $1,000,000 to Enter Convent. Boston. Mra. Oer,trude Hallo Lan man, widow of William Camp Lan man, has abandoned socloty and Is now at tho convent of tho Sisters oft Morcy nt Hookset, N. ,11. Hor sister hood namo Ib Mary Gertrude. Mrs. Lanman, who Inherited $1,000,000 from her fnther, went to Hookset, fol lowing a nervous breakdown in Now York, whoro sho was engaged in Blum work. Wisconsin "Co-Eds" Must Keep House. Madison, Wis. Tho University of Wisconsin "co-eds" In tho homo eco nomics courso will have a chanco to wrestle with tho real coat of living prohlom, By a now requirement, each of them must In turn take chargo of tho new practice cottage under actu- nl housekeeping conditions. te mill iliasiMiliili