Berlin Proposes
Parley on Ruhr
•s-*Will Negotiate With France
on Plan to Restore
Peace in Area.
—
By AhmIiM Pren.
Paris, Dec. 13.—The German gov
ernment today officially announced
its Intention to initiate direct nego
tiations with the French concerning
the Rhineland and Ruhr, according
to a Havas dispatch from Berlin.
The announcement, according to
the dispatch, read as follows:
“The reich government forthwith
will ask the French government to
niter into direct negotiations con
cerning ail questions pertaining to
the Rhineland and Ruhr. The Ger
man charge d’affairs will he in
structed to make a verbal request to
that effect within a day or two.”
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STELLA DALLAS
By Olive Higgins Prouty.
SYNOPSIS
Stella Dallas separated from ber hus
band. and her daughter, laurrl, 13, live
in the “cheapest room" of a fashionable
hotel in Yflltlampton. In the parlors,
where she passes rmieli time reading,
laurel €,verhears scornful references to
her mother made by social leaders In
the hotel world. Both mother and daugh
ter are always smartly dressed when they
go together to the dining room. laurel
goes on a visit to her father In New York.
(Continued from Y>sterdaj.)
They eat In silence for a moment
or two, after the door had slammed
upon them. Then, "Well, here we
are,” said Laurel's father.
"Yes.” murmured Laurel.
"How are you, Laurel?” he asked.
“All right.”
"What sort of a year has It been? '
"All right.”
Just the shortest, most conventional
of questions—just the shortest, most
^noncommittal of answers, but full of
"significance to them both; full of the
promise of the dawning of the old
sweet Intimacy which never failed to
steal over laurel and her father, once
they got rid of preliminaries, and to
possess them like sunshine, a cloud
less day, once it breaks through the
mists and fogs of ea>-'y morning.
"You're growing up, Lollie,” he said
gently.
Whenever Laurels father called
her Lollie It always brought the
vision of her mother sharply before
ber eyes. Her mother and father
were the only two people In the world
who had ever called her the silly little
baby name of Lollie—"Lolliepops"
once it had been. She shoved the
vision away as soon as possible. It
hurt somehow. Her mother would
have so loved the lights outside the
taxicab window, and the tavleab, too.
She and her mother seldom afforded
a taxicab.
"I don't suppose I shall dare kiss
you many years longer In the station
before people,” he laughed. "Young
ladles don't like being kissed In pub
lic, I'm told.”
“Laurel laughed, too—a nervous,
pleased little laugh, and moved a little
nearer.
• “Isn't it funny how many things
there are that you like that I like,
too?” she said softly. "I was count
ing them up coming down on the
train."
"Arc there? Tell me. What?”
"Well—there's books, and woods,
and camping, and dogs, and horses,
and fall better than spring, and dark
meat better than light, and roast beef
better than chicken, and salad better
than dessert, and—and—"
"Yes, go on,” her father encour
aged.
"Well, picture galleries, and Mme.
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Butterfly, and that Mrs. Morrison,
and—"
“That Mrs. Morrison!” her. father
Interrupted.
"Yes. Don't you remember last
year, one afternoon at tea?”
“I supposed you'd forgotten all
about Mrs. Morrison.”
"I haven't," said Laurel.
"You saw her for only about half
an hour.”
"I know it. But you know what
you said beforehand'."'
"What did I say?”
"Why, for me to notice her. and
listen to her nice voice, for she was
somebody you'd like me to grow up
to be like.”
"Did 1 say that?”
Laurel nodded.
"And you really like her?”
"Oh, yes! Site was ever so nice to
me! She gave me a little silver pencil
out of her bag.”
"And she has invited you to spend
a few days with her during this visit
of yours, at her summer home on
Long Island."
laurel was silent for a moment
?'Will you be there?” she Inquired.
"I’m sorry. I can't. I've got to be
away. That is why she has invited
you, so you won't he lonely here in
New York. I must be in Chicago for
a few days next week on business. I
don't like missing even a day of your
visit, but it’s neiessary.”
“I wouldn't mind Just staying at
the hotel with Miss Simpson.
"Why. I thought you said you liked
Mrs. Morrison.”
mim mmmimi mi mil i iiiiiYi mill i mm
"I <lo—only—1 ni used to hotel*. I’m
not lonely in them. I don't lielieve I
should like visiting Has Mrs, Mor
rison any children?”
"Oh. yes. Several. You'll have a
splendid time.”
"I think I'd rather stay at the
hotel.” said Laurel
“Well, we'll sic. Don’t have to
decide tonight. It's only for a few
days anyhow. We’re going to have
our two weeks together in the woods
just the same.”
CHAPTER II.
Stephen Dallas always tried to ar
range his affairs so as to be able to
take Laurel off alone with him for
two weeks somewhere. The month
she spent with him was usually Au
gust or September, and he usually
took her into the woods.
Stephen had an idea that the
farther away from people and con
ventionalities lie could get Laurel the
more susceptible she would be to him
and to his suggestions. However, it
seemed sometimes absurd even to
hope to he much of a factor in form
ing the child’s tastes and inclinations.
He had only 30 short days with her
each year, and he knew that during
the long lapses between her visits the
influence she lived under was not
conductive to the growth of the kind
of seeds he planted.
“I never saw so devoted a father
as you, Stephen Dallas," one of his
women friends said to him one day,
during one of Laurel's visits. He had
been refusing all his invitations.
Stephen Dallas had smiled and
shrugged in reply. Most men, he
told himself, weren't obliged to cram
a year’s fatherhood into one short
month. They could spread it ajong.
And most fathers, or many anyhow.
In guiding their children were not
obliged to exert their strength against
another pair of oars, constantly puli
ing in another direction.
When Laurel came to visit her
father for the first time he used every
device and scheme he could think of
to make her want to come again. It
was always a little like that.* Sur
prising, he said to himself, that he
was so anxious for her to want to
come again. He would think it more
normal, wrapped up as he was In his
business, and dead as was all desire in
connection with the mistaken mar
riage he had made during the eariy
years of his career in Mllhampton, if
he had wished to forget and bury
everything related to It. Let other
people forget and bury it. too. If
Laurel had been a boy who would
grow up to bear hi® name he might
understand his hopes and ambitions
for the child. But a girl—a solemn
eyed, long banged little girl! He was
only 40. His life was full of demands,
of interests of the keenest sort, of
friends, too, the best in the world.
Yet the pleasure that he felt at any
expression of affection from Laurel
could make his eyes grow misty. And
lately—last year, and the year before_
—a choking wave of pride would'
sweep over him now and then, as he
observed her. or listened to some of
her quiet comments.
To hear her exclaim that she loved
reading—tlie sort of reading he had
prescribed for her—had obliged hlrn
to swallow once or twice before trust
Ing himself to speak. And picture
galleries! He had thought her utterly
bored by them. She was a iiolite little
creature She had never said she
didn't like them, but nfter the first
half hour or so in a gallery she
usually made inquiry as to how nvuch
longer they were going to stay.
”1 didn't ktjow you liked picture
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galleries. Laurel," he said to her later,
seated at a little table beside a trick
ling fountain with goldfish and twtnk
ling lights—blue and p nk and yellow
—shining In It* depths, and tinkling
Hawaiian music sounding from some
where In the distance. "Vou never
said you did.’’
”1 didn't know It until lately." said
Laurel. "It came to me all in a flash.
Vou know how liking things does
come in a flash sometimes.”
“No. Tell me."
He was fearfully afraid she would
not. She was like the gray-tailed
squirrels In the park in some ways,
at times ready to he friendly and
Intimate, and at other times shy of
him, and as timid as a chipmunk.
Continued tn The Morning Bee,
Judge Paine Heads
Japan Relief Fund
Kearney, Neb., Dec. 13.—Judge
Bayard H. Paine, of Grand Island,
has been appointed chairman of the
Japanese earthquake fund, the Far
East relief movement for the re
establishment of the schools, orphan
ages. hospitals and churches destroy
ed by the recent earthquake. Judge
Paine heads the organization for the
Methodist churches of the Kearney
district, the funds going to the re
habilitation of these mission prop
erties In Japan.
With Judge Paine are W. A. Reut
linger and Professor C. Ray Gates,
Grand Island: O. O. Hayman. Shel
ton: Harry Turner. Cairo; M. K.
Dean, Alda; Carl Ledbetter, Sidney;
D. M. Guessford, Sumner; J. M.
Harrison. Ravenna: C. G. Bliss. Elm
creek; Fred Anderson, Cozad; A. M.
Rumery, Mason City; Isaac Roush,
Kimball; -Mrs. H. Lomax, Broken
Bow; G. S. Lyon, Merna; Mrs. H. E.
Hess. North Platte; Mrs. C. L. Ayers,
Kearney; G. A. Englcman, Litchfield;
Ralph Robbins, Chappell; F. II. Wolf,
Lodgepole; A. E. Woods, Brady; A.
J. Meerse, Ogallala; R. II. Barber,
Arthur: Mrs. Thomas Allen, Suther
land: Roy Sehock, Gibbon; C. S. Jobe,
Dalton; C. W. Hardin, Gandy; M. J.
Possen, Paxton.
Burgess Bedtime
Stories
By THORNTON W. RIR41EBS.
B« not too truntful of your eyre.
Isst you msy get » surprise.
—Old Mother Nature.
A Ix>e That la Alive.
Five tunes Danny Meadow Mouse
left hi* hiding place cm the bank of a
river and started toward a great, big.
old log lying on the hank ifi the sun.
Five times hla coura^p failed him
and he ran hack. He had heard or
seen nothing to frighten him back,
but the feeling that he was right out
In the open had been too much for
him. But each time he had tried It
he had become a little bolder and had
gone a little farther.
At last he made up his mind that
it would be quite safe to run over
and examine that old log. An old
log lying on the hank like that must
he hollow. At least It must have
a hollow In it big enough for a tired
little Meadow Mouse to curl up In
and take a nap. So once more Danny
started to scamper over to that old
log.
He had almost e-o hed it when the
most astonlshinc thing happened.
Ye*, sir. .the n*,‘t astonishing thing
happened. What looked like four
stubs of broken branches on Its sides
began to move, and then that whole
log itself began to move. It was walk
ing on those four stubs.
If you could have seen Danny then
you would have thought that his
funny little eyes were going to iiop
right out of his head. He was too
astonished to even tie afraid. Never In
his life had lie heard of a log walk
lng. And In his funny, furry little
head Danny had no room for any
thing but pure astonishment. There
wasn’t even room for fear. He
stopped right where he was and
simply stared and stared and stared
Slowly that great log moved toward
the water. Danny thought he must
be dreaming He really did. Whoever
had heard of a log that could walk?
Straight down the bank to the edge
of the water that great old log moved,
and there stopped. Danny didn't
move. He forgot that he was right
out in the open. He forgot that there
might be sharp eyea to sec him. He
forgot everything hut the wonder of
a log that could walk. Truly this
Sunny South was a strange place.
It was a strange place, with strange
things In It.
Slowly that great log moved towaru
the water.
Danny looked out on the water
where he had aeen two other logs
floating. They had disappeared:
"They must have floated away,"
thought Danny. Then he aaw how
quiet the water waa. It didn't aeem
to be moving enough to have floated
away those two logs. A sudden
thought popped Into Danny's head.
Could it be that these queer logs
could swim a* well a* walk’’ l'1
wished the b g log he had been wnfcf
Ing would walk again. He no lontj
had any desire to get nnv near*r#fc
if there was • hollow In it he
care. He didn't care to hide to *4
No. sir, he didn't care to hide in %
log that m:ght walk off with ld%
But that old log was more Interest,in
now than It had been before. 3
Danny forgot everything else **
remained right where he was, wavii
Ing. :Z
(Copyright. 1»!1 )
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