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As for his unhappy cousin who knew
from years of experience the extraordi
nary loquacity of Granny Hogben and
he liberties she allowed her tongue she
got herself how she never exactly knew
once more out into the yard and 7as
fcvwsojjn in the saddle Jacky was stepping
homeward at a rapid- consequential walk
when Miles overtook them running say-
ing as he got up to them
Surely you are never going to be so
inhuman as to desert me and leave me
v to my fate in these outlandish lanes It
c would be ungrateful to say the least of
it
Oh answering him very reluctantly
I will point you out the road aud you
ju cau easily make your way home You
i go up this lane pointing with her whip
aim taue tue nrst turning on the right
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k JXien he interrupted emphatically
J shall have lost my way and shall be
rambling about the fields all night Pray
n
spare me tnis late
Miles was amazed at his own persist
ence and his own flew of language but
the nyle avoidance of an exceediugly
pretty iirl is occasionally a sufficient in-
Vj centive to put a young man on his met-
r tie
- Gome then if you like was the
grudging answtr but you must walk
- fast or we shall be late for dinner
Ill run the whole way Ill be your
t s eyes as if j ou were in India ho return-
w ed eagerly Only dont leave me
r io near you one would imagine you
-- were one of the babes in the
ti turned his cousin contemptuously glanc
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ing down on her companion as she spoke
What an amiable person Mrs Hog
bens iged parent seems to be he re
marked irrelevantly I quite love her
Do you You must be susceptible in
deed Yes he certainly had a look of
Teddy when he laughed
4f
I wantedto say something to you
continued Milesnervously flourishing his
cane about in a manner that excited the
ire of Jacky and all the way up from
the fields I was cudgeling my brains but
r not ssy it I wanted to speak to
f ou about about this will and yonder
vi6rthy old woman broke thc ice for me
f aPone plunge You know
T I know interrupted his companion
liastily with averted facr that if ever
you Break it any furl her I shall never J
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CHAPTER VII
Rut Miles -still held the bridle and de
clined to accept this broad hint walking
beside his cousin till Tacky suddenly
carae to a violent halt at the back gate of
a large farm yard surrounded by high
red tiled deep roofed barns and a noise
of lowing and barking and clucking and
crowing
Oh Miss Esme dear cried a ruddy
cheeked elderly woman in a large check
ed apron who was in the act of feeding
a mob of ducks Shes been asking for
you the whole afternoon Go in and sec
her like a dear young lady Youve
brought the wool
Yes but Ive no time to stop Mary
Jack j has kept me hours on the road He
went half way into the horrid green pool
near the Belle rising and was gomg to
lie down only a boy rushed in and drag
ged him out and he got loose in the hay
field and I thought he never would have
been caught Ill give you the fingering
andIllcoine in again evidently auxious
to be gone - v
Ohbuthere isTom to hold tlie pony
and you must just run in for a minute
dear Shes been awful irritable all day
and maybe youd put her in a good humor
for us you know how she takes to you
Do now coaxingly Tom goto the
5 ponys head to a youth with a shock
of red hair
Thus afrjured Esme jumped off Jacky
and hastily went into the farm house fol
lowed by Miles who found himself in a
long low tiled kitchen with small lat-
ticed paned windows and well stored raft-
ers and in thepresence of a little old
woman who was sitting near the fire in
a kind of beehive chair with glittering
r dark eycsj lighting up a face as wrinkled
- S jaB roasted apple and as sharp as a
1 needle
- Weli so you were not for coming in
missy she cried in a high reedy voice
fL saw you My sight is spared to me
though it would be as well sometimes if
it wasnt to see the waste going on all
around glaring at her
and lifting as she spoke a large ear
trumpet to the ear nearest Esme
t k f would ave come m on Im late
v a granny returned that young lady down
5 y te trumpet in her inostr apologetic tone
s of voice and here is the wool placing
a packet in the old ladys lap
ItV gray she exclaimed I dont
wanjt gray wool I said brown she re
turned ungratefully as she held it up
r - andi fult it critically between her claw
like fingers her eyes all the time fixed on
Miles
I can change it said Esme making
animated signs
No no no then I would not get it for
L anotherJong spell It will have to do
very- crossly- And now suddenly sitting
up quite erect and still staring hard at
Miles she nodded her head confidentially
And so this is the young man that has
r Hcome all the way from the other end of
the world hasnt he Esme made a
quick sign of assent unprepared for the
sequel to marry -you
No he hasnt she shouted down the
trumpet
Its no use you screaming to me
p missy fehe returned shrilly I uever
h can hear what you say and it just goes
through my poor head now planting the
- trumpet in her lap and thus cutting off
any possiDle reply and its no good
Jshaking your head like that Whats he
come for else demanded this very ter
rible old person Shes a good girl
in a patronizing staccato and youll
get a pretty wife she cried raising a
high chirruping voice and addressing
herself specially to Miles who now that
he had seen Esme was by no means so
averse to congratulations as he had been
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speak to you again Also thafc I shall
leave you here to find your olvn way
homo as best you can
May I not say one word on the sub
ject
Not one Please put the whole affair
out of your mind If you even hint a
I I shall hate you
Here was a threat He had no recourse
but to obey this imperious young lady
but he made a solemn mental resolve to
bring forth the subject on some future oc
casion
iAnd what may I talk about he ask
ed What topics are not labeled dan
gerous
Oh pricking Jacky with her whip
talk of the weather the crops the new
moon anything talk of Burmah
And thus encouraged he lamely began
to make some conversation But even
under their peculiar circumstances young
people of their age were sure to find
subjects of conversation and he perceiv
ing he had an eager and intelligent listen
er launched forth about the wonders of
Mandaley that impostor the white ele
phant the hill reported to be composed
of solid silver Then he gave a few Bur
mese legends a short sketch of Bangkok
said to be the richest city in the world
with its huge golden altar streets full of
gamblers and river cheery with the cele
brated singing fish when to his and
Esmes astonishment they found them
selves already at the back gate at Bar
onsford
Do not suppose that she had been silent
all the time She had after her interest
was aroused and feeling a conviction
that she had overawed and silenced the
young man beside her thawed and
thrown in remarks questions and nods
just as plentifully as opportunity occur
red He had a look of Teddy Only for
this one great point in his favor she
would never so she assured herself
have opened her lips to him even once
And yet in what did the likeness lie He
was dark and sunburned and not much
above middle height while Ted was tall
and fair
Why we are actually at home he
exclaimed in surprise We must have
come by a short cut How quick we have
been
Yes returned Esme those stories
of yours made the time pass I dont
mean to flatter you she added quickly
but those descriptions of Burmah were
so interesting and I do like to hear about
other countries having seen so little my
selfno matter from whom and of
course no one however stupid goes about
the world for nothing
In this cruel manner did she qualify
her compliment but Miles accepted it
concurring in the time honored adage that
half a loaf is better than no bread
We have only ten minutes before din
ner said Esme glancing nervously at
the yard clock No no waving her
cousin away impatiently I always dis
mount alone but jumping down gath
ering up her skirt and commencing to
run if you like to follow me in by the
back door you may she called to him
condescendingly over her shoulder It
saves time
CHAPTER VHI
Under a shady bank overhung by two
nut trees a clump of lilacs and a very
ancient mulberry the summer house at
Baronsford seeks to screen itself from
the vulgar gaze Its kind old friend the
nut tree spreads its leafy arms above
its pointed thatched roof and conceals
its wigwam proportions from strangers
eyes Who is the girl in white huddled
up on the wooden seat that runs all
round the interior a girl with her dress
tightly gathered round her and the tips
of her shoes merely resting on the
I ground her whole attitude bespeaking
distrust of the insect inhabitants and
with her eyes bent on a young man in
uniform who is sitting on the venerable
and rickety table with his forage cap
over one ear and his arms akimbo They
are Esme and Teddy of course He is
brown broad shouldered and soldierly
looking and in his sisters eyes as well
favored a young man as ever wore spurs
She is far prouder of his personal appear
ance than she is of her own his mus
tache she considers simply perfect and
her vanity is djvided between that and
the three cornered white patch on his
forehead usually covered by his jaunty
forage cap It is duskish in the summer
house not a single moonbeam penetrates
from outside thanks to the careful nut
tree
You will never guess where I supped
and slept last night Esme Teddy was
saying At Aunt Janes
I dont believe you returned his sis
ter politely after a minutes pause
Nevertheless it is a fact all the same
I went down in fear and trembling to
wait upon the old lady When she saw
me she stared very hard for about half
a minute and then cried Goodness mer
cy gracious why its Teddy She had
not expected to see me in uniform you
know in fact she had not expected to
see me at all Well then she put up her
arms and drew me down and kissed me
first time Ill bet
she ever kissed a mus
tacheand then she turned me roupd and
round as if I was on a pivot and then
looked me all over and then she kissed
me again and made me sit down beside
her and tell her all about myself and my
career as she called it And I did I
showed her my three stripes aud told her
of my prospects and how you had stuck
to me through thick and thin and then
oh incredulous young woman she killed
the fatted calf and told me I was not to
dare to go back to Mrs Swoffer but to
stay with her She presented me with
fifty pounds and once Im promoted Im
to have a large allowance and for the
future I am to consider myself her Tioy
and by a few little hints she let fall I
fancy you are her girl
Not I cried Esme with a laugh of
incredulity However as long as she is
good to you she is doubly good to me
emphatically
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chap Miles Brabazon
Oh I was going to tell -you Ted I got
a desperate fright this morning whatour
Irish laundrymaid1 calls a regular turn
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About what
quisitively
interrupted Teddy
Never you mind I was down by the
river and in pulling out my handkerchief
I dragged out that new photo you gave
me last night it fell precisely at his feet
Tableau
Tableau indeed grinning And
what did he say what did he do
Of course I pounced on it at once
but he was too sharp for me he got hold
of it- first and handed it backwithout
looking at it but he did not appear to be
over and above well pleased -
And pray why not
Why not you ridiculous wooden-headed
Teddy because I believe he thought
it was some lover of mine
The deuce he did puffing out clouds
of smoke
And I rather fancy that he could be
jealous
You dont say so Well and so could
I if I was engaged to a girl and caught
her carrying other fellows portraits
about her persou I suppose he asked
you no questions and you told him no
ahem fibs
No
I say Esme confidentially are you
going to marry him to come to the point
as they say
I dont know she replied with per
ceptible hesitation
Dont know what rubbish You know
your own mind surely by this time
Im to give him an answer in a week
said his sister in a low tone And now
Teddy I want to know if you will grant
me a great favor in a coaxing tone
standing up and lavincr her hand
iugly upon his arm Let me tell Miles
No sorry to refuse you my dear
child but that is just the very thing I
cannot allow you to do Cant you hold
oua bit Theres noiurry
Oh but there is she returned eag
erly So many things must seem so
strange to him my rushing out and hug
ging him by mistake as I told you that
photograph this morning and other
things Its like living in a powder mill
any moment there may be an explosion
Do please please let me tell him she
pleaded eagerly If becoming ex
tremely red but the kind darkness con
cealed the fact if I he stammering
we are to be married the sooner you
know one another the better and I
should like to introduce you
I dare say scornfully and walk up
to him with me in tow and say Per
mit me to present my brother Teddy
alias Sergt Brown of the Princes Lan
cers and I would have to salute him and
call him Sir as would befit a non-commissioned
officer and it would be a very
pretty little picture altogether I could
never feel the same to him if I met him
by and by on an equal footing It may
seem ridiculous nonsense and vanity to
you but it is just my one weakness and
I should like to put my best foot fore
most and appear to the best advantage
to your husband old lady when we meet
as brother officers and theres no yawn
ing gulf between us and with a sud
den start of surprise here he is at
least I suppose that this is he this fel
low in evening clothes coming down the
middle walk
Itis it is she gasped Oh Ted
creeping closer to her brother and speak
ing in an agonized undertone what shall
we do if he discovers us
Keep cool returned Teddy impera
tively Get well behind the table and
dont sneeze or crunch the gravel with
your shoes Its as dark as pitch in here
to anyone outside Imagine his face
he continued in a smothered whisper if
he were to walk in and find his pretty
Esme with a sergeant of Lan
cers His feelings would be what you
might call mixed I suppose he would
murder me
If he does find us Teddy you must
tell returned his sister hysterically
crowding still nearer to her companion
and scarcely daring to breathe as she sat
with her gaze riveted on the unconscious
cause of her trembling trepidation
To be continued
MIRROR WRITING ODD MALADY
Its Victims Have Faculty of Inscribing
Characters Backward
An almost unique case of nervous dis
ease was investigated at the last jitting
of the French Academy of Medicine
The patient is a young Roumanian
whose malady has been observed by
Dr Marinesco of Bucharest The most
curious manifestation of his disease
takes the shape of what is known
among scientists as mirror writing
which means that the characters are
written backward so that when re
flected in a mirror they are to be read
in the ordinary way Dr Marinesco
bad observed that the hands of his pa
tient when unoccupied were affected
with a nervous trembling which ceased
to a great extent when they were used
for a definite purpose Wishing to see
what effect this symptom of the mal
ady had on the hand writing Dr Mar
t
inesco asked the patient to write a few
lines from dictation To his astonish
ment he found that the entire passage
had been written backward with abso
lute accuracy
The experiment was repeated several
times with exactly the same result and
it is in fact impossible for the patient
to write otherwise When asked to
trace a word with his foot on the
ground it too was found to be written
backward The patient being a Jew
a final experiment was made with He
brew This language as is well known
is always written backwards but the
patient reversing as usual the normal
process can only write it from left to
right Partial cases of mirror writing
have been observed before but none in
which the tendency was so irresistible
Pall Mall Gazette
Wrong Basket
Frank I knew Tenn would be a
poet when he was a baby
Ida What were the symptoms
Frank He was found In a basket on
the doorstep
Ida I dont see anything in that
Frank Yes but it wsa a waste bask
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It isnt near so easy to collect as to
recollect what men owa you
BEAE BACKS BOXERS
RUSSIAN INTRIGUE BEHIND UP
RISING IN CHINA
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Empress Dowager Alleced io Be in
the Plot Britain Germany and Japan
Have United to Oppose Overthrow
of the Empire
A usually well informed Washingtpn
correspondent asserts that Russian in
trigue is atHhe bottom of the present
anti foreign insurrection in China ft
was through Itubsian machination that
the queen dowager was led to encourage
the Boxers tdinake a demonstration of
force The gravst anxiety as to the fu
ture of- the complication in China is felt
at the European embassies and legations
in Washington and it is from one of
these that the information given by -the
correspondent was obtained -Our own
Government has exceedingly meager ad
vices from China but the embassies and
legations are better supplied
Germany Great Britain and Japan
have a thorough understanding concern
ing the Russian plot They will stand
together in resistance to the expected en
croachments of the great Eurasian pow
er If Russia seizes Pekin they will pro
test and demand evacuation If neces
sary they will meet force with force The
most conservative diplomats do not how
ever believe there will be war between
the powers It is well known that it is
the Russian policy to pursue aggression
ust as far as possible without a rup
ture of the peace aud no farther
The Russian plot as it is understood
among European diplomats in Washing
ton was to stir up the anti foreign ele
ments of the population and under cover
of disorder to land troops which should
forever remain in the Chinese capital
permitting Russia gradually to extend
her suzerainty over the empire through
the connivance of the vicious queen dow
ager Empress Tsi Au is of rapid pro
Russian tendencies and she bitterly
hates the Germans and the English In
encouraging the Boxers to acts of vio
lence it is said the empress stirred up a
greater power than she knew She let
loose a Erankensteinish mpnster which
has now gotten beyond her control pos
sibly to her regret Whether or not the
Russian plotters are surprised at the ex-
FKONT GATE AT PEKIN CHINA
Main entrance to the capital of China
Showing the great wall which surrounds the
city
tent and ferocity of the fanatical anti-
foreign movement uncovered by their
machinations remains to be seen
Whatever may have been the precise
nature of Russias conspiracy and what
ever may be its limitations nothing is
clearer than that it is confronted by the
joint and determined resistance of Ger
many Japan and England Against the
naval and military forces of these pow
ers Russia cannot contend in the far
East and will not dare make the attempt
Great Britain alone could overmatch
Russia upon the water and with the
help of Japan could quickly place upon
the continent land forces more than equal
to any contingent Russia is in position
to confront them with
It is not forgotten by diplomats that
Great Britain is at this riioment at the
zenith of hpr military power Not in
half a cenfary has that nation been so
well prepared to meet a foe at home or
abroad as she is at this moment In a
short time 250000 hardened men fresh
from the field of South Africa could be
transported to the eastern coast of Asia
If it should be necessary to strike a blow
upon the Asiatic coast Great Britain
could strike hard and quickly Japan so
much nearer at hand is quite as ready
If breach of the peace comes through
unexpected Russian aggression or if dis
memberment of the Chinese Empire be
comes imminent the Lnited States will
be placed in a most serious and embar
rassing dilemma On the one side will
be our traditional policy of non-interference
On the other the fact that the
United States is now the greatest power
bordering the Pacific ocean an Asiatic
power too through sovereignty over the
Philippines and in the open door pledges
and the commercial situation our enor
mous direct interest in the status of
China
PLAY ENDS IN DEATHS
Workman Seeing Beheaded Lets
Derrick Fall on EisrlitMen
Word comes from the Oneida reserva
tion in Wisconsin of a tragedy enacted
there by which nine persons were killed
Several children playing in a yard near
Stockbridge saw a woman in the house
catch a chicken and kill it for dinner
They watched her place the fowls head
on the block aud chop it off and as soon
as she left the yard several of the little
ones imitated her An older girl caught
one of the children who was pulled to
the block his head held while the girl
cut it off The little boy screamed when
the ax struck his neck and the attention
of several men who wvre raising heavy
timbers on a derrick in the yard was call
ed to the scene The father of the child
held the rope and when he saw his son
killed he let go and the timber came
crashing down among the men killing
eight of them
Out of 17000000 pieces of registered
mail handled annually in the United
States the loss has been one thousandth
of 1 per cent and in the transmission of
ordinary letters the loss is but seven
thousandths of 1 per cent
The Nordeutscher Lloyd Company has
recently ordered a steamer which it is
claimed will be the largest vessel afloat
It will be 700 feet in length
Shears in a steel mill in Coatsville Pa
cut a slab of iron four feet wide and two
feet thick at one stroke
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Boxers Snrround Imperial Troops ana
Hundreds Are Slain
It was reported Thursday from Chinese
official sources that 4000 boxers sur
rounded 1500 Chinese troops between
juoraana xong Tsun and tnat DUU Doxera
were killed but give no account of the
Chinese casualties Thirty of Gen Niens
troops encountered a body of boxers three
miles from Tien Tsin on the Taku road
and killed twenty one of them No news
has been received from for
several days and the situation there is
believed to be critical It is reported that
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the Chinese troops have been defeated
near there London advices say that dis
patches from the far East show appar
ently no cessation in the activity of th
boxers but the powers are gradually feel
ing their way to common action for thi
suppression of the disorders It is be
lieved that when the dowager empress
realizes the first intention to check hei
connivance in the anti foreign movement
there will be a speedy end to the rioting
as if the Chinese acted in good faithj
they could easily quell the rabble whiel
is armed chiefly with spears agricultural
implements a few swords and some old
rifles
Pressing appeals are being sent to the
State Department and the President by
missionary interests in this country to
send United States marines into the in
terior portions of China where American
missionaries are threatened by the box
ers uprising To maintain an appearance
of neutrality and not to offend the Chin
ese with too much show of force a
Washington correspondent says that the
Government cannot safely land more ma
rines in China To send them into the
interior would be deemed folly With
this situation of affairs there is no possi
bility of aid for the missionaries unless
they seek the protecting wing of the
American legation at Peking This is
the situation which confronts the State
Department
KRUGER NOT TO QUIT
Transvaal President Says the Bnrghera
Will Fisht to the Bitter End
President Jvruger replying to the offer
of 100 acres of land in America to each
burgher is reported as saying We thank
you for this generous offer of land but
the burghers are determined to fight for
their own land and independence to the
bitter end
In the Orange Free State the British
are not having their own way by any
means Even apart from the capture
of the Irish Yeomanry Gen Bundle has
made what the London Mails expert
calls a retrograde movement Nothing
official has been heard from Gen Buller
in 3Satal At last accounts he was pre
paring to turn the Boer position at
Laings Nek which probably means hard
fighting
A dispatch from Maseru in Basuto
land says that in the last engagement
the Boers took fifty four British prison
ers including an officer whom they re
leased conditionally The officer estimat
ed that the Boer forces between Ficks
burg and Bethlehem number G000 men
The Thirteenth Imperial Yeomanryj
battalion captured by the Boers near
Lindley Orange River Colony consisted
of two Irish units and two companies of
the Duke of Cambridges own includ
ing Lord Donoughmores company of the
corps a number of men in the ranks be-
mg closely allied to noble families
Among the officers of the Thirteenth Im
perial Yeomanry captured are the Earl
of Leitrim the Earl of Longford and the
Earl of Ennismore
A London cable says that it now ap
pears certain that there will be stubborn
fighting on the part of the Boers While
the British were taking possession of
Johannesburg and Pretoria the burghers
escaped with their guns rolling stock and
1000 British prisoners President Kru
ger declares that the real struggle is just
beginning- Sir Alfred Milner cables from
Cape Town warning miners not to start
for the Transvaal adding that two
months at least must elapse before Jo
hannesburg can be opened and work at
the mines resumed
Sparks from the Wires
Senator Quay will be a candidate for
re election to the Senate
Agents from London are in New York
trying to engage house servants
Ghas A Reis 63 St Louis commit
ted suicide because he had become blind
Maine Prohibitionists have nominated
Grant Rogers of Richmond for Governor
Southern Presbyterians in session at
Atlanta Ga declined to support woman
suffrage
G W Tubbs IS Poplar Bluff Mo
gets ten years in the pen for shooting oft
his fathers head
The Prince of Wales has again at his
physicians advice given up for a time
the use of tobacco
Caroline Smith and Ann Glassmann
Brooklyn N Y are charged with run
ning a moonshine distillery
Aged Wm Bowers who died recently
in Yonkers N Y from starvation was
worth 100000 it is now discovered
A Pittsburg and Lake Erie train in a
run between Pittsburg and New Castle
made one mile ia forty seven seconds
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annuity of 400 a year
was buried To fulfill the tern i JgMs
important document after djattbe
caused her body to be embalmed sged
up in a glass case and placed injfne
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upper chamber of his bouse where
but no per
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Tt Health
Is bv the way of purifying the blood
Germs and impunties in the blood caue
these impurities
Expelling
disease and sickness
purities removes the disease Hood s fcar
saparilla does this and it does more It
makes the blood rich by increasing and
vitalizing the red globules and giving it
power to transmit to the organs nerves
and muscles the nutriment contained in
digested food v
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Is the liest Medicine Money Can Buy
THE FILIPINO WOMAN
About the Homeliest Specimen of Her
Sex Saj s a Soldier
The Filipino women writes a soldier
from the Philippines are right on a
level with men folk I am not talking
about the wealthy mestizos in Manila
but about the masses The fact is that
these people are the same old Malays
I read about in the school books when
a boy and of a low racial type Ad
miral Dewey to the contrary notwith
standing You see the Admiral met
the mestizos and I meet the natives
There are a few thousand mestizos on
the islands Aguinaldo is one of them
there are millions of natives
A Filipino woman is about the home
liest specimen of her sex that ever
happened When you stand and talk
to her the nostrils of her pug nose point
right at you and you feel as if you
were looking into the muzzle of a
double barreled shotgun Her hair is
black and long but coarse as bristles
Her teeth are good but stained a dirty
red with betel bonga and tobacco Her
mouth is wide Her eyes are big and
brown but seldom expressive She sel
dom has a good voice Her carriage is
erect and graceful She dresses with
less taste than the American Indian
squaw She cant cook her husband
can She dandles a baby on one arm
while she brings you the food her hus
band has cooked If you are a guest
at her nipa hut she will caress your
bare feet with her coarse black hair
while her husband goes out to notify
his friends the bolomen to chop you
up on your way home after your visit
Her husband will pick your pocket
with metropolitan skill When I add
that grasshoppers beetles and other in
sects are regular items on the Filipino
bill of fare you can judge how these
Malays compare with the American In
dian They hang around the back door
of our cook house on beef days wait
ing for what is left just as the Indians
hang around the back door of an army
post slaughterhouse out West They
are made of the same stuff There are
more of them because the climate is
kindlier But for the same reason they
are a les3 stalwart and sturdy race
even fewer virtues
Friendly Criticism
Pennington Two of my latest poems
Appeared in the last issue of Duffers
Magazine
Inkerly Yes I noticed them
Pennington And what did you think
3f them
Inkerly Well to be candid I thought
the first awfully simple and the second
simply awful
Her Great Sacrifice
How absurd it is she mused to
describe women as bargain hunters
Just look at my ease- I am deliber
ately exchanging the name Montmo
rency for the name Jonos What kind
of a bargain is that Chicago Post
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