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JIMMY RABBIT
ONCE MORE
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CHAPTER XXIII.
A Very Short Visit.
Jimmy Rabbit's father thought it
would be pleasant to go a visiting
“Let's take Jimmy with us," he
suggested to Mrs. Rabbit, “and go
somewhere nnd make a regular old
fashioned vls.t—not Just for a day or
two. but for a months or two."
Mrs. Rabbit rather liked the Idea.
“Where ran we go?” she asked her
husband.
“How about Covjs’n Henry's?’’
"They haven’t invited us," said Mrs. j
Rabbit a bit doubtfully.
"They’d be glad to see us,” Mr.
Rabbit declared. “Besides, it's our
turn to visit them. Didn't they spend
a month with us last summer?"
"They did." said Mr. Rabb t. "They
cer ainly did. I thought they would
nev r go.”
"We'll return the compliment." Mr.
R.-M'It declared. "It wouldn’t* be |
polite if we didn’t. They might feel I
hurt if we stayed away any longer.
I ll write Cousin Henry a letter to
day. I ll tell him that we ll be there
a week from tomorrow."
Mr. Rabbit wrote his letter. But
as the days passed, no answer came, j
And Mrs. Rabbit thought that was
queer.
"I'm sure it's all right," Mr. Rab
bit told her. “Cousin Henry's family
is too busy getting ready fon us to
stop to write a letter.”
"Maybe they never got the letter,”
Mrs. Rabbit replied.
"Oh! I know they did,” said Mr.
Rabbit. "I'm too good a business
man to have one of my letters go
astray. I looked out for that.”
' I hope." said his wife, “you sent
it by mime careful person."
"1 did.’’ he assured her. "I rertalnly
did. 1 took it myself and left it on
their doorstep."
So Mrs. Rabbit slopped worrying.
And on the day Mr. Rabbit had set, I
they arrived with a great deal of
baggAfce at Cousin Henry's house.
Blnnk looks greeted them when
ihey walked hi. But Cousin Henry
and his wife soon found their tongues.
“So sweet of you to call." mur
r fts-dr
t3 ——
’I shall n*v*s f««l quite the sains
toward him a{ain*
mured t .11 lUnry’g wife. “I sup
pose you happened to be in the neigh
borhood and thought you'd drop in
and make a short call.”
"Why, we've come to spend at least
a month with you,” cried Jimmy Rab
bit’s father. And turning to Cousin
Henrv^ he asked him if he hadn't re
ceived his letter.
"t haven't had a letter from any
body for more than two years," said
Uncle Henry.
"It's a pity we didn't know you
were coming,” his wife told Mr. and
Mrs. Rabbit. “But you'll have to
postpone your visit until next year.
I'm’ expecting 27 of my relations any
moment. This is the year 1 entertain
my folks. Next year Henry will en
tertain his.”
Well, there was nothing the Rahhit
family could do except to trudge home
again.
"I felt in my bones this visit would I
not turn out well.” Mrs. Rabbit told '
her husband as they toiled through |
the snow. '
"But I wrote Cousin Henry to let ;
me know, if he didn’t get my letter,” j
said Mr. Rabbit. "He ought to have
done it, I shall never feel quite the i
same toward him again.”
(Copyright, 192.T.)
My Marriage Problems
Adele Garrison’s New Phase of “Revelations of a Wife."
The Plan Dlrky Insisted Madge and
He Should Adopt.
' What do you know about that?" j
Dicky lmpasaionedly addressed the
horizon beyond the Nantucket rail
road station as he held aloft, the key
which he had just fished nut of his
pocket. That the actlop had some con
nection with his demand upon me
for a suggestion as to where we
should house ourselves when we
teached New York city was obvious.
But I wisely held my tongue. T knew
that he neither needed nor expected
any answer to his question.
"Here I've been racking my poor
old bean to find out where we were
going to blow in out of the rain, when
all the time I have in my pocket
the key to as cozy a little apartment
as anybody would want to see in a
y.ar’s search. The question's solved,
old dear. We'll hang up our hats
tonight under a real roof, and you
and Claire can try lighT housekeep
ing. if you don’t want to go out to
dinner.
He paused with a triumphant look
at me. It was now my cue to an
swer him, and I put the natural
query:
"Have you rented It?"
He laughed outright.
Madge Hesitates.
‘ No such luck! You must think nice
little apartments are to be had for the
asking down in little old N'Yawk. It
belongs to Bob Bliss, an editor on the
Circle, and one of the besjt old scotitR
I ever knew. And his wife Is just
about the prettiest, sweetest little
piece of gingham In the city. They've
gone to Virginia for a month's vaca
tion. and old Bob gave me the key
and asked me to make myself at home
there any time I wanted to come
in. They've only been gone two weeks,
so we'll have all the time we want
there.”
"But Dicky!" I exclaimed, aghast
at this cool suggestion of taking
possession of another woman's home
in her ahsence, a woman, moreover,
whom I never had seen. "He meant
that you go there, not bring in a
family."
"Book here." he demanded trucu
lently. "who talked to Bob Bliss, you
or 1? As it happened, he specifically
urged me to bring you into the city
and use the apartment. They'd rather
have somebody in it while they're
gone. friends, that is—they didn’t
want to rent it. although they could
have had a tidy sum for it.”
•Til Take Care of Claire."
"Rut if we go In there for any
length of time we'll ho renting it
without paying anything," I protested,
my ethical sense rebelling at accept
ing the favor Dicky seemed to treat
so nonchalantly.
“You don't understand,” my hus
band exclaimed, in accents at once
patient and patronizing. "Old Rob
Bliss and I were in the same training
camp together. We've been friends for
years. We could have each other’s
shirts and socks at any minute. I
couldn't insult him worse than to of
fer him money for his apartment.
1 made the mental comment that
Mrs. Bliss and I did not have the
same intimacy, hut I made no further
protest. For Dicky had set his mind
upon occupying the apartment and
there was nothing to do hut make the
best of it. But how I dreaded keep
ing house with the household gods
dear to the heart of a woman who
was a total stranger to me!
' You'll ask Claire to come along, of
course? Make her come if she ob
jects.” Dicky asked.
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Nov,*, I had promised myself not |
to lose sight of Claire Foster until I |
had seen her with recovered poise, |
safe in the shelter of her own apart
ment, with her own friends. But with
feminine inconsistency, it annoyed
me to have Dicky ask such action as
if it were the only poslble thing for
nte to do. I must not let him guess
nty feeling, however, so with a little
nioue I echoed his words of a few
minutes before and purposely imitated i
his haughty intonation.
"I'll lake care of Claire,” 1 said.
"She'll be glad to como anywhere If
she's sure of eluding Dr. P-ettit. Kbe
appears to dread meeting him,"
"If she didn't she’d he a moron,”
Dicky reflected. "How on earth such
a pippin of a girl ever got herself tan
gled up with a Gloomy Gus like Pettit
I can't see. There must he something
romantically attractive about him,
though, because I can remember
when you didn't exactly kick and |
scream for help whenever he .trained !
those melancholy orbs on you and i
registered dying-calf adoration. And j
whatever else may be said about you, I
you're not a moron. Tou've quite a
bit above your jugular vein. I tell
you there must be some subtle charm
about Herbie.”
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Problems That Perplex
Astwtrwl by
BEATRICE FAIRFAX
"Isn’t there some way that lonely men who want nothing so much in
I ihe world as feminine companionship can meet the girls they would like to
j know?" writes N. T. H. And In the same mail a girl cries out:
"How am I to meet the sort of men I long to know? They never seem
j to con^ my way. Or, if they do, they pass me by.”
Rack of both questions is a sad fact about human nature—a fact there
doesn't seem much way of changing. It is the fact that we are all Ihe victims
of snap judgment—the lure of our eyes blinds us to the worth while things
which might be ours of we could see far enough to recognize them.
A man is introduced to two girls. One is brilliant and gay. She makes
1 laughing sallies. Sho Is attractively dressed. She has the earmarks of a
j worldly and amusing young person. The man begins to shower attention
on her. But she is such an obvious young creature that there are half a
J dozen men paying court to her, and she gives nothing to any of them In
giving a smile and a laugh to each and all.
The sought-after coquette Is drunks
with her popularity, dazzled with her
success. She hasn't time to get off
by herself and think. She hasn't a
chance to cultivate her soul. And so
she becomes ever more worldly and
insincere.
Finally her suitors recognize the
truth about her and become cynics
about all women. They shut their
| eyes to the truth. They continue to
pass hy the little gray mouse of a
girl, never dreaming howr much she
would have to offer to the man who
took the trouble to draw out her shy
soul and timid mind.
Women do the same thing. They
are dazzled by the popular hero. They
are victimized by good looks or a
charming manner. And thsy, too,
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form a throng following a popular
hero and making a manikin out of
what might have been a man.
The right folks do meet, liut they
don’t know it. They don't stop to
notice. They don't trouble to observe.
They are so eager for the obvious—
so unconscious of the fine, big things
that must he worked for in life and
In dealing with humanity, that they
pass idly by the prizes of life ■ be
cause they aren't ticketed and labeled
"prize."
If you cultivate a selective sense,
it you take the trouble to draw folks
out, you may find that all the while
you have been dreaming of "Prince
Charming"' a real man was working .
at the desk next to yours, or sitting !
In your pew at church. If you study '
tho real heart of womanhood, you |
are likely to discover that the most j
wonderful girl imaginable has been
! coming to see your sister and you
haven't noticed her because she wasn't
obvious in her beauty .conspicuous in
her dressing, gay and apt in her
speech.
Hut you'll find that the stumbling,
shy, reticent soul is sometimes so
groat a prize that all the things which !
once appealed to your eyes are as I
the treasure you And by seeking and
working to prove Its worth.
Don't worry about the wonderful
folks you don't meet. Try to make |
the folks you do meet measure up1
to your standard of “wonderful.” They \
may not be obvious. But gold doesn't |
appear at the surface of the rock. It i
requires patient search, careful min
ing. And the precious things In hu
man nature are like gold.
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