Too M uch
ACID
AN Y people, two hours after
*'«■ eating, stiller indigestion us
they call it. I t is usually excess acid.
'Cuntitl it with an alkali. T he best
way. U»equick, harmless and efficient
wry. is Phillips* Milk of Magnesia,
it has remained for 50 years the
7-laridsrol wtlh physicians. Onespoon
flbl in water neutralize* many times
itu volume in stomach acids, and at
ooce. The symptoms disappear in
frve rramh.es.
You will never use crude methods
when you know this better method.
And ynw will nc\ cr sutler from excess
acid whoa you prove out this easy
■fief.
Be sure, to get the genuine Phillips’
Milk of Magnesia prescribed ny
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excess acids 25c and 50c a bottle—
auv drpi{i store.
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candidate, he was offered the place
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scare me up a nooker, ano
We’ll chatter quietly over it.'
The implication couldn’t be
dodged, so Barbara, a little
later, left the three gathered
around the drawing-room fire.
Steve frowning at the tip oi
his cane which traced erratic
patterns, Esther, sipping the
glass which the gelid Hos
kins had brought her, Mrs.
Twining lying back with an ai;
of expectancy.
Barbara’s nerves were on
edge. She wanted to break up
the intimate circle with an
announcement that she be
longed in it as much as
Esther, that she was quite as
pood as Esther was; but as she
paraded through the great,
empty rooms she realized that
she couldn’t say that yet, be
cause she had no idea how
good or bad she was, and she
hadn’t been able to make a
single effort to learn. Mrs.
Slocum increased her irrita
tion.
“You’re out of sorts, my
dear. No wonder. I don’t see
why you bury yourself here
when you could be a hit in a
musical just by letting tehm
see you. And you’d have
chances. The men would
Hock ... So little Esther’s
dropped from the skies! Don’t
like that piece of glass. You
never know where you stand
with her.”
Then Mrs. Twining’s unex
pected question towards the
close of their lonely dinner
added to Barbara’s discomfort.
“You’ve never seen my niece
before, Miss Norcross?”
“Once, by chance in Elm
ford, where I lived until I
came here.”
"So I’m told. Esther would
have been with Caroline Man
vel. Extraordinary woman,
Caroline. She’s got her eye on
that throne Steve was joking
about to-day. You must have
seen those old friends of mine.
Barbara looked down.
“Barely. I did see Gray Man
suffered I considei myself
very fortunate to have found
you. Don’t utter stupilities
again; they're abominable for
my health. You’re good medi
cine. You wouldn’t take her
onic away from an old
cripple?”
As they crept across the
(ndless polished floors slu
:aid brightly: “Why don’t you
have your friends? I don’t
’iiean to exile you from them.’
It touched Barbara, because
she could see Mrs. Twining
was sacrificing.
“I haven’t many friends."
The imperial old lady
nailed skeptically.
“And I must see that you
get out more.”
Barbara was glad of her
daring; it made a smal
breach in the walls. Through
it, oddly, she ventured first
back to Elmford. Uncle Walter
wrote her frequently the nar
rative of the store, the house,
and the village. From the
quarrel the night before her
flight his romantic sould
seemed to have received a
special mission to report on
everything he heard about
Gray Manvel. Young Manvel
had visited the store a number
of times. Young Manvel
hadn’t been at the big house
since Thanksgiving. His par
ents were going to New York
for week-ends, presumably to
be with him. She could make
what she pleased of this re
cord. In his naive fashion he
set it down impersonally, as a
matter of general interest.
He was worried about his
wife. “She hasn’t been up to
snuff since that unlucky
night, Bobbie. I think if you
came to see her, and didn’t
say anything about what upset
her so then, it would do her
a lot of good. There’s no
earthly use nagging her about
that anyway, so let’s all be
friends again. She has tried to
be o mother to you.”
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Irene Cnstle McLaughlin, whose
home for homeless Chicago dogs re
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of animals'end at a luncheon she
told an animal story.
"There was once a colored gentle
man," she began, "who had a dog
named ‘Moreover.’
‘“Queer name, that, fur n dog,’ a
white gentleman said. ‘Where did
you got the name from, Junius?’
‘“Moreover am n Biblical name,
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explained.
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book says:
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licked his wounds.” ’ ”
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1
She longed to ask where
Gray Manvel was, why he
hadn’t seen her again as he
had promised, or threatened,
to do. Of course Steve wouldn’t
tell her about Gray any more
than he’d inform Gray where
she was hidden away.
“Mrs. Twining’s pleased with
you.”
“I’m glad.”
Mrs. Twining, later pouring
tea, spoke in her brittle voice.
“Let me see, Steve, have I,
or have I not, thanked you
for sending Miss Norcross to
a poor ancient derelict?”
Barbara’s regard of her em
ployer was a shade sardonic.
Mrs. Twining decidedly wasn’t
poor, nor very ancient, nor
derelict except through her
own devising. Beneath her
white hair her sharp eyes had
plenty of vitality; they saw
everything, just as her delicate
ears missed nothing. Her tall
body tending to emaciation,
was enfolded in soft silk and
old lace. The chair in which
she sat had come from a
palace; the spreading rugs
had been woven centuries ago
for another; the canvases on
the walls of the enormous
room belonged in a museum.
The whole house was like
that, full of treasures that
sensible, Lo watch my cronies’
children playing the monkey
Now looy! There’s an ex
ample. Speaking of thrones,
that’s what mine’s worth. It’s
the first time she’s paid he:
court in months, and she lives
within a mile.”
Barbara caught her breath,
and her feet dragged. She
didn’t know why she should
shrink from this encounter
with the fragile form that
floated around a curve of the
hedge. Perhaps it was an ac
count of the unavoidable
chain of questions that rattled
through her mind. When had
little Esther seen Gray last?
Had Gray ever held her fra
gility in the unbreakable
circle of his arms? Had he
brought warmth to her crim
son, languid mouth?
Barbara resented her
thoughts, but they were Gray’s
fault, because he had in a
flash lifted her to a new plane
where jealousy drowsed with
other primitive emotions. She
had, moreover, a cautionary
reluctance to go forward.
Esther’s glance was on her
unseeingly, but that night in
Elmford she had seen clearly
enough the girl whom Gray
wouldn’t let Roberts drive
home.
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only a bottomless purse and a
delicate taste could collect.
Barbara never felt at ease in
it, because its extravagance
led her back to the mist
covered luxuries of her youth,
and made her doubt if she
ought to occupy a position
which, in spite of anything
Steve might say, wasn’t far
removed from that of the
housekeeper or the lesser
servants. She questioned now
while she listened to the
brittle voice if she would here,
as In Elmford, soon have to
seek a means of escape.
‘‘Miss Norcross reads so
pleasantly, and it’s a pleasure
to look at her. The last one I
had squinted and took, I’m
certain, too much coffee.”
Barbara was never sure just
how sincere an invalid Mrs.
Twining was. Perhaps she had
too much egoism to grow old
normally, in the public view,
and so made herself the hub
of her own tiny, guarded em
pire. She still possessed power
of a sort, for people were al- j
ways writing or telephoning
about charities and enter- i
tainments, or asking to see
her out of friendship; but
usually she put them off, or
else with her Imperial air
bluntly refused to be bothered.
Steve was an exception; she
was happy to have him. She
motioned Barbara to help her
rise.
“Perhaps you 11 join our
ramble, Steve, before you run
along.”
That was the one interest
Barbara had found in the
house, drawing the strange
woman out of her neuras
thenia. More and more she had
persuaded her to remain
downstairs for dinner, al
though those meals served in
a great hall of a dining room
by Hoskins, a man as silent
and chill as a shape of snow,
were fairly trying; and now In
this crisp January weather
she had got her In the custom
of a brief stroll about the
grounds.
Steve’s cane accomodated
Itself to their modest pace
while Mrs. Twining made the
most of his presence, draw
ing him out about her old
friends whom she no longer
cared to see.
“Why don’t you come back
to the world. Adelaide? There’s
an empty throne waiting.”
She snrtled grimly.
“I’m too old, too ill, too
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endangering Princeton university's
most expensive single scientific ex
periment, consisting of 30,000 eve
ning primrose plants used in prov
ing that evolution proceeds by sud
den and not gradual processes.
The plants, w'hich cover several
acres of ground, include 410 inval
uable pedigree families of the flower
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Esther’s lips brushed Mrs.
Twining’s cheek.
“Hello, Steve! It’s a crowd.”
Barbara waited under a
strain, purely Esther didn’t
see her as she tucked her hand
under Mrs. Twining’s arm and
set the march again In motion.
Steve spoke dreamily.
“Esther, Miss Norcross comes
from Elmford.”
Esther’s vibrationless voice
gave nothing away.
“Aunt Adelaide has so many
companions, Miss Norcress. I
suppose Mr. Waters caught
you for her. There's a new one
every time I come.”
Mrs. Twining chided in her
dry way.
“If you came oftener,
Esther, you’d keep more in
touch with my small family.”
“Warn you. Aunt Adelaide,
I won’t be scolded. I’m not in
the swamps much this time
of year; too many orgies in
town.”
“Then,” Mrs. Twining
crackled, “why this descent?” j
“Big shakedown at Mill
Pond, so I thought I’d spend
the night at home, and take
a squint at you angel.”
Mrs. Twining’s tone was
dryer than ever.
“Then your mother didn’t
send you to an elderly in
valid?”
“How absurd! I’m never
sent. I wouldn’t be sent any
where by anybody.”
Steve laughed.
’’You ought to have a hus
band.
Barbara’s heart quickened
as Mrs. Twining’s question
followed with a dreadful in
evitability.
“How’s Gray Manvel? I’d
let that young man come see
me if he took the pains to
ask.”
Esther spoke sharply.
“What’s he got to do with
it?”
Barbara fancied he had
quite a lot to do with it. Steve
waved his cane.
"Gray never thinks of any
one he isn’t immediately
with.”
Mrs. Twining turned to
Esther.
“But he’s with you lots,
baby. You don’t mean there’s
a rift there?”
Esther flashed a glance at
Barbara then.
“Aunt Adelaide, you never
cease surprising me with your
titanic resistance. Mighn’t we
get in out of the cold? Do
of which are related to plants de
veloped by Devries, famous Dutch
botanist, in 1887, according to Dr.
George H. Shu’l, professor of ge
netics and botany.
The primroses have been devel
oped here since 1915, when they
were brought from the Carnegie In
stitution for experimental evolution
at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., where
Dr. Shull commenced thi work In
1905.
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Fort Collins, Colo.—t UP)—If the j
cat hadn’t “meowed,’’ it might have i
boon washed and ironed. Mr*. A. |
vel play football once.”
Mrs. Twining smiled.
“I envy you. He must have
been very brilliant. You know,
I often think the one draw
back of great brilliancy is that
it makes the possesor too self
centered. If he were here Gray
would make me believe him
fonder of me than of any
other old crock in the world.
Since he isn’t I never even
enter his head.”
Momentarily Barbara closed
her eyes. It was logically true.
Probably she hadn’t been in
Gray’s head since that night.
To him their moment on the
steps had been an incident
easily forgotten, but for her
it retained a unique and
bitter savor. She couldn’t get
Gray out of her head, and it
didn’t help to hear him talked |
about. She was doubtfully ,
aware, moreover, of change in
her relations with her em
ployer; steadily the invalid
treated her less as a com- :
panion and more as a recep
tacle for confidential chatter.
She felt herself each day led
deeper into the cloister, in
creasingly entangled in its
dreary ritual. As she helped
Mrs. Twining leave the table
she made her final fluttering
effort to escape.
“Mrs. Twining, I ve won
dered if I’m just what you
need.”
The bony hand grasped
Barbara's shoulder; the sharp
eyes narrowed.
“Why dp you say that? Did
you overhear anything this
afternoon?”
Anger swept Barbara. Then
they had talked about her
around the fire.
but I’ve had so little ex
perience at this sort of work.” 1
Her temper let her dare it.
“And I thought your niece
looked at me as if she doubted j
I was the perfect companion
for you.”
Mrs. Twining released her.
Barbara had never heard her
voice more brittle.
“Don’t you fret about what
my niece or anyone else
thinks.- I’ll think for myself,
and for some others, too, as
long as I live.”
She patted Barbara's hand.
“After the profesisonals I’ve
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of laundry, in which her cat had i
been sleeping. She sent the whole ;
package to the laundry. An at- J
tendant, however, heard the cat's
SOS and telephoned its mistress.
--♦ ♦
Runaway ‘'Boy” Was
Just Jaunting Midget
_
Fallon, Nev. — <UP) — A report i
to the sheriff's office that a runa- j
way boy was attempting to catch
a ride out of Fallon led Ralph Van
noy, deputy sheriff, to investigate.
It weakened Barbara. Of
course she’d go for a day, but
she kept putting it off. The
one friend who was likely to
seek her behind the walls
finally arrived and set her in
motion. She had an idea that
there was strategy in Harvey’s
having waited so long, for of
course the Gardners had told
him where she was at the
start. Reluctantly released
from her reading by Mrs.
Twining, who had gone to bed,
she entered the big room
where a fire still blazed, and
faced a stranger.
She hadn’t seen Harvey
since the night by the meeting
house when she had sent him
away. From clothing, carriage
and appearance the last dust
of the farm boy and store clerk
had been brushed. Already he
had taken on the neat, com
petent hardness of the city,
and it made him better-look
ing, more confident, and fud
ther visioned. He met her
without embarrassment, and
he held her hand for only a
moment, but his eyes, she
noticed, never left her.
“Here we are, Bobbie, both
out of Elmford and on the
way.”
He was happy in his work.
Leaning forward near the fire,
his hands clasped between his
knees, gazing at her steadily,
he told how he was learning
the commission business, how
he had been on several trips
for the firm, one taking him
as far as Chicago, and how his
first small experimental'
salary had been increased to
a living wage.
‘ Rankin, the man who got
me in there, and I are mean
ing to have our own firm the
first chance. I’d rather work
for myself than for anybody
else, but that’ll need more
money htan’s in sight to-day.”
She felt the old vague
jealousy of his ability to at
tain his desires; but she re
membered that the greatest
desire of all he couldn’t reach.
She wished she might hav£
alte-ed during the period of
their seperation, but she
hadnt’ H'.s handclasp left no
tingling; his good looks and
his earnestness failed to lure
her closer.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
He caught the hitch-hiker and took
him into custody.
Later, investigation proved the
"boy” to be a midget, Major Small,
frem a circus and Hollywood pic
tures who was attempting to hitch
hike br.ck to his home in Ohio.
“It’s easy to pick up rides,” Small
said, "but the cops chase me all the
time because they think I am a
runaway kid.”
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Reward for Large Families
Rewarding parents of large fami
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medals of gold, silver and bronze,
according to the merits of each case,
were this year distributed. The gold
medals went to the parents of eleven
and twelve offspring, silver tc those
of eight or nine, and bronze to those
of live, six or seven. There were
nine of the gold class this year,
twenty-one of the silver and more
than one hundred bronze ones pre
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Venerable Earth
Geologists believe rain has fallen
n earth for at least 1.500,000,000
years, says Dr. William Bowie of
the United Slates coast and geodetic
survey. The oldest sedimentary
rocks, estimated to be 1,500,000,000
years old, could not have been
formed without running water to
wash sediments from land surfaces,
he says.—Indianapolis News.
Peanut Seed’s Vitality
Peanut growers have thought that
seed stored more than a year or two
would lose its vitality, but govern
ment tests indicate that good peanut
seed can be used after three or four
years of storage.
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