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JIMMY RABBIT
ONCE MORE
^RJPitSCOTT bailey.
CHAPTER XXX.
Why Uncle Isaac Went Away.
Belinda Bunny's Uncle Isaac was
a guest of the Bunny home. He
ciahned to have been so Injured when
Belinda's father let him fall upon
the floor that it would ba weeks and
weeks before he could leave his bed,
and months and months before he
would be able to travel!
Mr. Bunny knew Uncle Isaac's
tricks. If Mr. Bunny could have had
hi* way he would have dragged
Uncle Isaac to the door and looked
him out. But Mrs. Bunny would
never have let him do that. She
mused Uncle Isaac faithfully and
fed him so well that you could almost
see him growing fatter and fatter
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I'-re. Bunny was terribly upset
every clay. In a short time the guest
liarl eaten everything In tho house.
And that was no joke, iti tlie middle
of winter, when food was hard to
get. Mrs. Bunny began ter wonder
what she should dec.
"Belinda!" she said to her daugh
ter one day, "run over to Mrs. Bab
bit's house and see if you can't bor
row a bit of bark. Get enough for a
meal."
So off Belinda Bunny went through
the snow, with a hop, skip and a
jump. She found Jimmy Rabbit’s
mother at home. And Mrs. Rabbit
said she was glad to lend Belinda's
mother tho bark.
The Bunny family dined well that
night.
"Belindu!" said Mrs. Bunny the fol
lowing morning. "Run over to Mrs.
Rabbit’s house and ask her to l#n 1
me a cabbage. 1 understand she has
a few stored away."
Away flew Belinda Bunny on her
errand.
"Certainly I’ll lend your mother a
cabbage," said Mrs. Rabbit. And she
went and got the finest one she had.
That night tho Bunny family had
j a veal feast. They hadn't eaten any
! cabbage since fall. And Uncle Isaac,
who enjoyed all his meals In bed. an
nounced that cabbage made him think
of carrots, somehow.
"Can't we have carrots tomorrow
night?" he asked 'nis sister. Mrs.
Bunny. "I'm sure they'd help my
lameness."
"I hear," Mr. Bunny said hastily,
before his wlfey could answer, "I hear
that everybody has plenty of carrots
over the hill. There was a big crop
there Inst fall. Why don't you travel
over to Cousin John’s place tomor
row. Uncle Isaac? They say Cousin
John’s family eats carrots every day.”
In some such fashion Mr. Bunny was
always hinting to his brother-in-law
to bring his visit to an end.
"Uncle Isaac's not able to walk,"
Mrs. Bunny told her husband coldly.
She always spoke of her brother as
"Uncle Isaac." •‘We’ll have carrots
hero tomorrow night, if there's any
i to be found anywhere," she told her
brother.
The next morning Mrs. Bunny sent
| her daughter, Belinda, on another er
'• rand to Mrs. Rabbit's house. Tills
1 time Belinda asked the loan of a
dozen carrots.
Somehow, this morning, Mrs. Rab
bit did not seem so ready to lend
more food.
“Have you company at your
house?" she asked Belinda.
“Unelfe Isaac's with us," Belinda
Bunny explained.
"I had begun to think as much,"
i said Mrs. Rabbit grimly. "May I
! ask when your mother expects to re
pay all (his food she’s burrowing
| from me?"
"Next spring!" Belinda told her.
"Next spring!" exclaimed Jimmy
| Rabbit's mother. “There’ll be plenty
j of food for the taking then. Now is
the time when food is scarce. I can't
! feed Uncle Isaac all winter. I must
j lake care of my own family. Let
your Uncle Isaac bestir himself and
j find some food himself.”
Well, when Uncle Isaac found that
ho wasn't going to have carrots for
dinner he was so angry that he
sprang out of bed, hopped into his
clothes and went off without even
Buying good-bye.
Mrs. Bunny was terrible upset.
"I'm afraid my brother will never
| visit us again,” she sobbed.
As for Mr. Bunny, he bore up nobly,
lie was even gay. Ami that evening
he brought home half a peck of car
1 rots from Farmer Green's vegetable
I cellar.
Mrs. Bunny was all for sending out
j and trying to find Uncle Isaac. But
i Mr. Bunny said he knew, for a fact,
j that Uncle Isaac was miles away.
I (Copyright, 1923.)
My Marriage Problems
Adele Garrison’s Now Phase of "Xlevelations of a Wife.”
What Madge About Claire
gll Foster’s Strange Attitude.
T saw Dicky’s eyes narrow ever so
slightly as Claire Foster tauntingly
asked him why ho was delaying going
after our dinner order while 1 made
out the grocery list fur the next day.
And 1 knew that despite the strong
attraction she apparently had for him,
her crude exhibition of spoiled beauty
tyranny was annoying him exceeding
ly. But his voice was as insouciant
is always when he answered:
"Because, angel-faced child, there!
are four llights of stairs leading to !
this apartment, and my lower limbs
are weary. After I have ordered the
dinner 1 shall have plenty of time to
attend to the grocery order, and thus
save the extra journey.”
She rose front the low chair into
which she had flung her lithe length,
walked up to him and, putting her
hands upon his shoulders, RWunghini
around facing the door. Then she
snatched up his hat which he had
deposited upon the top of the phono
graph case and clapped it on his
head.
"Forward, march!” she command
ed. "It will lake Madge a half hour
to make out that list—these perfect
housekeepers have to have every
Item right, you know, and If you think
I’m going to have my dinner delayed
an extra half hour, you have about
nine and a half more deep thinks
coming. My little Mary is waiting
for eats, and she's going to get ’em.
Where’s your chivalry, man, thinking
of your legs when a lady is hungry!" j
Madge Is “Flabbergasted."
“I’m likely to forget you’re a lady
with much move of this sort of cave
woman stuff.” he bantered lightly,
but. without further words, he went
out of the door. 1 wondered if there
was not a soupcon of truth in his
words.
As for myself, "flabbergasted”—one
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of my mother-in-law's favorite ex
pressions—was the only word to ex
press my reaction to Claire Foster’s
odd behaviors. When I had first seen
her, many months ago, in Dr. Pet
tit’s company, she had attracted me
by her fresh young beauty, her in
souciance, and a certain breezy,
warm-heartedness, spelling her west
ern origin. But 1 had also been re
belled by a tinge of hardness and
boldness in her manner, which I had
laid, however, to the prevailing style
in modern youthful femininity.
The discovery of her photograph
with its bizarre inscription in Dicky's
room, followed by the newspaper re
port of the iscnpade from which 1
just hail rescued her, had given me
a feeling for her which was as near
hatred as an emotion could be. But
her evident suffering, her apparently
sincere remorse, her pathetic wish to
do anything I wished when X reached
the Barker house had banished that
feeling altogether, and there had crept
into my heart a strong sympathy for
her, and the liking which one gen
erally feels for the grateful recipient
of one's kindness.
A Courteous Reply.
It had been but a few hours since
on the train bearing us to the city
flie had murmured with every ap
pearance of emotional sincerity:
' perhaps, some time, I can prove
my gratitude.” And now, within a
few minutes, she had been guilty of
gross discourtesy toward me, and of
an exhibition of petty feminine tyran
ny toward Dicky such as only a
woman very sure of the fealty of n
man would give.
What was behind this sudden
change of demeanor? Witli a sudden
flash of cynicism 1 remembered that
until we found a refuge in the Bliss
apartment there never had been a
minute when we were free from ob
servation by outsiders. Was that
the reason for her good behavior?
Had she been playing a part in or
der to Insure my continued protec
tion of her, and now being assured,
I told myself bitterly, that I was
"easy,” bad she thrown off the mask?
Or—I bated to think her guilty of
such deliberate meanness ns my first
thought—was she simply reverting
wiyiout conscious thought to her
natural self, out of which she had
been frightened by the unpleasant
experience which had befallen lier
at the Barker house?
My own course was plain, however.
While she was our guest I could
make no change in my treatment of
her. To ignore such behavior as hers
of the last few minutes would be
hard, but I must do it.
I carefully avoided her eyes, how
ever, as with elaborate carelessness I
said sweetly:
"Come on. Claire. Dicky won't be
back for half an hour. Ivct's look
over the apartment: and plan where
■we're going to put things.”
Parents’ Problems
PARENTS* PROBLEMS.
Should children Invite their friends
who do not attend Sunday school to
accompany them?
If the children do tills, who would
forbid them? Teach them, when in
viting other children to go anywhere
or to do anything, to say: ‘ Ask your
mother if you may go with me (or
do this.” Then all will be as it
should be.
Be# W*nt Aus bring results.
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Problems That
Perplex
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Complexion 1’uzzle.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Two questions
are all 1 ask of you: What am I—a
blonde or a brunette? My hair is
dark brown, has .quite a bit of gold
in it, eyebrows and lashes Jet black;
e\ es sometimes grayish blue, other
t.mes hazel, and complexion, skin
rather olive, good color, though. And
what colors should I wear? I am
slender and a medium height. Thank
ing you in advance, MILDRED B.
Your blue eyes and golden brown
hair would make you classify as a
blonde. Many people are neither ab
solutely blonde or brunette. With
your olive skin I should think you
would wear rose shades well, also
orange and some shades of reds. You
should weear the rich shadps well,
sapphire blue, for example. Avoid pas
tel shades.
Don’t Be Dramatic.
Dear Mias Fairfax; I need some
advice, so am coming to you for it.
X am a girl of IS. A year ago I met
a young man of 23. Miss Fairfax,
this man asked me four times for
dates, hut, because of my parents’ ob
jections. I refused, and now It seems
I am the sufferer. I have gone two
or three times with other men, but
none have I found who Interests me
as the first. I hhve been told he
cared greatly for me and I care for
him. He used to be a boy who drank,
spent lots of money and was very
lively, and for that reason my folks
objected. He has changed greatly
from these habits, yet that all sticks
before my parents' eyes. He is very
quiet In the company of others. tVhen
he found it was impossible for me to
go with him he took another girl. I
do not know for sure, but his actions
are queer toward me; he acts as
though it hurts him to look at me,
and it more than hurts to see him
with another, but I say nothing. No
one but myself knows how I care for
him. I have kept it to myself, and
so I suffer it in silence. When I see
him he always speeaks and I do like
wise, and then a thrill goes through
me, or my heart feels as if it turns
over.
A girl friend of mine told me n
boy friend told her be really oared
| that I couldn't go with him. Could
a girl ever care for a man whom she
1 did not love for a year? Can this just
; be a passing fancy for him? He Is
i always in my thoughts; it seems im
1 possible to forget. My God, what
shall I do? 1 would like to hear oth
ers' advice on this also. A. M. C.
Foolish parents who forbid a girl
to go with a certain boy. It usually
reacts as in your case. The girl cares
all the more for the boy and starts
idealizing him and feeling that he has
been unjustly treated. Have a talk
with your parents and win their con
stant to your friendship with this
young man. If he is really unworthy
I of you. ns they think he is, you will
| discover It for yourself (if you have
i good sense) and will lie just as anx
ious to quit going with him as they
are to have you. Don’t get dramatic
j about the situation, however. Use
[ common sense, and place great con
fldence In your parents, who love you
' and wish your welfare only.
One of Many: There are perfectly
splendid new book on etiquet. It isn't
exactly my function to write one If
iho library doesn't have an up-to-date
book on etiquet. the answer to the sit
uation is that they should get one.
Answering your question: Common
sense is positively the best guide on
all occasions. I would not tuck long
gloves up at the wrist in church be
cause there would be no object. I
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, EqQ life!
would consider It all right at an after
theatar luncheon because it is only
common sense to have the hands free
for your food. It is sometimes diffi- '
cult to remove long gloves entirely
and tucking them in is a compromise. .
It is not considered perfect form, but
is very generally done.
So far as possible, women are given
the box Reats nearest the stage. The ;
answer to your question then would
be that one couple would take the j
front seats, with the gill nearest the l
stage, and the other couple would sit !
behind in the same order.
The man should do the ordering. If
the girl has some preference in the
matter of dishes, It is all right for
her to state it. The thing to strive
for is ease, and if the man seems to
be having difficulty, a clever girl will
help him out. At a place where there |
is a rover charge, you need not feel |
under obligations to order more thin
you really wish. A chicken sandwich
with a cup of coffee would he all
right. A salad with rolls would be a
good choice, too. If you are doing
much dancing, why not remove your
gloves entirely?
A carefully dressed gentleman will
usually appear in his Tuxedo in the
evening. They are not usually seen at
public dance halls, but are not incor
rect. It is god form to invite your
escort in when you get home. If it is
very late, he should not accept. If
It is late and you really do not want
him to come in why not suggest
graciously that he call soon, saying.
"You probably won t care to stop to
night, it is so late."
Any bedroom in the house should
be considered all right for the men's
wraps.
My dear, you seem very anxious
I to do the right thing, and that is a
commendable attitude. I can give you
a rule which will always save you,
except from the most technical of er
rors. Have consideration for others
and respect for yourself and you will
seldom do anything awkward, unkind
or Impolite.
F. F. W.: If you are engaged to
the man and love him, why do you
distress him and yourself by going
with other fellows? I can't sym
pathize with your tears very much be
cause you could stop them easily
enough by being true to the man wrho
cares for you.
Dear Miss Fairfax: My trouble is
as many ethers are: A young man.
I became infatuated with a young
man and consented to marry him.
The newness to me Is now worn off
and I must let him know that my af
fection for him exists no longer. I
haven't the heart to write him and T
don’t wish to see him. I know it will
break his heart and I hate to hurt
anyone. B. M.
l)o him the favor and yourself tho
credit of being honest.
Bewildered: If you don't like the
young man s affection the only sure
way of being relieved of it is by not
going with him. You enjoy the
things the young man docs for
you, but not tho young man himself.
You are evidently selfish. You know
the old saying, "You can't eat your
cake and have it, too."
Happy: Seventeen is young for a
girl to be going with boys, but, judg
ing from your letter, I think you are
sensible enough to enjoy such friend
ships. A girl who is earning her own
living, too, naturally wins certain in
dependence.
B and B: Sorry your letter arrived
with many others and had to await
its turn. Write me again some time.
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