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LIFE
A Box of Old Friends
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By WINIFRED BLACK.
of the little brown book? Why, bless my
heart, Lorna, where did you come from
forgotten for to long7
I'll take you home with me. I know a
pair of blue eyes that will soften and
glbw at making your acquaintance. Tou
and John Rldd are just about right tor
her Just now.
Upthe Bagworthy with you, John Rldd,
cold or warm, steep or soft the climb;
up you go to And Lorna, soft-eyed Lorna
and bring her home safe to Exmore, all
for the delight of a blue-eyed little girl
I know.
"My Nellie's Blue Eyes." Who's whist
lh.g that at this time of the day-who but
the most charming rascal of them all,
Jack Hamlin? I thought you'd be some
where near the top, Jack, you rapscal
lion you, with your black eyes and your
pale, inscrutable face, and those white
hands of yours, and those slim, well
shod feet, and oh! that tenor voice.
Every girl of my age I knew was in
love with you Jack, and small wonder.
What did we care if you were a gambler
didn't you wear a marlposa lily in, your
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; And what a dead shot you were! WTiat
was that to the fellow who thought to
joke you about a certain encounter?
'Dealing with your' left hand, Jack?"
said the , rash stranger. J'Ye-es," you
drawled; "I shoot with it ;too."
Or red, red dust of the California road!
rSfi: a.tl wIM' frtlMi' inr!nlr whnrevnr
basement and began to hear Alan tell his j jj'llsa and' her - friends of the Sierras
adventures by flood and. field. Over the ; .tapped. Oh, moon of California, shining
water Alan and I went together and back j over Dog or Lone Qulch as moon
to the heather again, and the day grew!never hown anywhere else on earth!
to evening and the autumn sunshine faded ! What a silver-starred veil you threw
I met him this morning down in the
basement as bright, as swaggering, as
conceited, as full of irrepressible life as
ever, my old friend. Alan Breck, and
how glad I was to i , ;
see him, too!
It happened this
way: It's time to
settle down for
fall, and the old
books 'must go on
a long journey to
the new home in a
far away city, and
I went to see how
they had fared all
the time they've
been packed.
I peered down
into a dusty box
and there he was
right on top of the
pile, Brave Alan, with his friend Davy
back of him, and cheek by jowl was the
gay St. Ives and his Scotch sweetheart.
Dear friends, dear old friends, every one
of them how good they did look to me!
I've been making new friends this sum
mernew acquaintances, I mean and
some were in covers and some were out
of them, and the bookish fellows I
thought pretty fine some of them but
whore's the equal of the 'old Ifrlends,
after all! '' ...' "'
. I sat right down on -ther floor the
and still we walked together, my old
friend,' Alan Breck, and I.
Are there any left anywhere so gay as
you, Alan, with the bit of song you
hummed In the very teeth of the enemy,
"Charlie is ma darlin', ma darlln' "T
What lilt there Is to it! No wonder the
waiter girl leaned across the table and
whispered secrets to you when you
hummed the dangerous old song.
And that blithering cousin of yours who
could pipe so bravely when lie had wine
enough, and the smell of the gorse under
foot, and the white line of the breakers
on the shore, where you just made the
boat In time. That was a narrow squeeie.
Alan, you know It, you rogue, for all you
laughed so boisterously In the teeth of
the gale. And that French cousin of
yours, St Ives, was there ever such an
other adventurer born, with his sldewayt
love-making to tht dour auld wife,
who was the guardian of his true love?
How true they were, all the lovers in
the book. Do they make them like that
nowadays in books or out of them? -
What's that making the clatter there in
the Scotch plaid book behind you?
"Pieces of eight, pieces of eight," why,,
we're on Treasure island with the "Boy(
of Courage," and there's Long John Sil
ver sneaking through the woods right at
the boys' back.
I spoke of Long John Silver to a man
the. other day, and he said he didn't know
the gentleman. "Your loss," said I to
him, and I never did tell him what I
meant. What's the use? He wouldn't
have understood, anyhow.
Dead. The man who called all these
beings into life by the magic of his won
drous brain. No, not dead, nor even will
be while human hearts beat true and
human eyes can see to read Robert Louis
Stevenson, the very name spells mystery
and adventure to such as love his fancy
Who is this stepping so demurely out
Letters of a Slim-Mais
Woman to Her Fat Sister
fourth Letter: On th Housekeeping
' Burdens of tbs Overftt Woman
Dear Sis: In solving the fat problem
I've also solved the servant problem so
far as. I'm concerned. My last mald-of-all-work
donned her hat and departed
two weeks ago. And when I say "the
last" I mean "never again." I'm drng
my own work now and enjoying it all be
cause that terrible burden of fleh I car
ried has gone never toi return.
How plainly, the mirror of memory re
flects the past. I see myself as I was
a mountain of palpitating flesh, catering
to servants whose lightest duties' I could
not perform because I could not carry
the burden of mi1 weight and of my
, household. , .
Now, sis dear, t know you haven't seen
the suppleness of my slim-made self
know that many formulas, diet systems
and exercise methods have robbed you of
faith In all reducing methods, but "take
a little tip from sister" and use a few
boxes of tho.se harmless little Marmola
Prescription Tablets I told you about.
Any druggist will furnish them at 75c the
case or you can send the price to the
Marmola Co., Funwr Blog., , Detroit,
M:ch. They contain exactly the same In
gredients as the Marmoia Prescription
that left me slim, firm and smooth and
they won't nauseate you either.
It mas- take a little time, but be patient
and you'll solve all your problems social
and domestic. Let me know results. I'm
sure they'll be amazing. Lovingly,
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across the world, Bret Harte, and how
we Who read your words of silver and
pearl look through it and are full of
mysterious joy!
Fall time, home time, book time hur
rah! let's get the old books out one
'after another, even if only to glance
through the well-beloved pages.
THe re you are David, poor, lonely David,
and Murdstone, your enemy, bad luck go
with him! And there's Pegotty why,
what would the world be without Pegotty
after all? And little Emily! My heart is
softened to all who love and suffer since
I knew her story.
Lonely, with a room full of such people
as these and a hundred more I could men
tion! Why, I'd bid defiance to the long
est day that ever rolled between morning
and night with such a box full of old
friends to keetf me company.
I am- so sorry for the folk who have
never learned to read. Oh, yes, there are
many such. They know the alphabet and
can put letters together and can find
names In the telephone book with any.
one, but they don't care for books.
Poor things, poor things, what a nar
row world they live in, wit Just one
window to look through the narrow little
window of self.
There's the open window, the wise
road, the fair view, the broad sweep of
country that Comes to the eyes of such
as have learned to look through the great,'
broad windows of the world of books.
Fall time, home time, v book time, hur
rah! Welcome home, old friends. Let's
get acquainted all over again.
The Come Back.
The cautious politician wrote at the
end of his letter: "Burn this!"
The recipient didn't like the caution.
He considered it a reflection on hia
honesty. The more he thought about It
the more disgruntled he felt.
So he sat down and wrote this In reply:
"Received your 'burn it' letter. No
fire about the house. We burn gas
and It hasn't been turned on. So I gave
your letter to a friend of mine, a nice
young fellow who works on the Morning
Bugle. I'm sure he will take good care
of it and I know he must be an ad
mirer of yours because he seemed de
lighted whenf he saw your signature."
Shop Talk.
The Inventor was talking to himself.
"What with my heatless light, my
leakless fixture, my invisible ashcan and
my disappearing bed, I have made the
life of the urbanlte well worth the
living.
"Wrong," corrested the downwelghted
bendict "Tou have yet to perfect the
footless meter and the vanishing gas
bill."-Judge. . .
No Oprain.
A man had been absent from home for
some time, and during hit absence had
raised a luxuriant beard and mustache.
Shortly after his return he paid a visit to
his sister, '-'o had n little daughter of
whom he wai especially fond.
The little Riri made no effort to em
brace him or offer him a kiss, but bung
back, reluctantly.
"Why, Eleanor," said the mother, "why
don't you give your Tcle Ed a kiss?"
"Well, mother." replied the child, with
the most perfect simplicity, "I don't see
any place. Harper's Baiar.
( Professional Definition.
"So you sell only soft drinks?" we say
to the fountain clerk in the local option
town.
"That's alii sir," he says confirms-,
tlvely. ,
"And what Is a soft drink?" we pur
sue. "Pomcthlng you can put your fin
re" n?"
"No. sir. Something you can put a
stick in," he an&wers iilumlnatively.
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was drawn in and the
steamer for bukope got
out in the stream-Suddenly
a man cane tearno wldly
down the pier waving his
hands excitedly. it was
whispered his was a case
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"Dancing is My Secret of Beauty," Declares Rita Stanwood
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MISS RITA STANWOOD, LEADING LADY IN
By MARGARET HUBBARD AVER.
Miss Rita Stanwood had not come in
from rehearsal when I called to see her.
"My Best Girl" was up at the Park thea
ter, though It was early on Monday
morning, when you think at least that
actresses are getting a real well earned
rest. i
"MY BEST GIRL.
"Rita works so hard," raid the "Best
Girl's" proud mamma, who looks very
young to have so famous a little
daughter.
"I suppose it's you who takes -care of
her health," said I, endeavoring to get
started on this "How to be beautiful"
interview.
"Of course, you're very particular as to
what she eats, and all that," I went on,
when just then I espied the largest, fat
est, the deepest, the widest and alto
gether the most monstrous box of candy
I had ever seen, sitting placidly In the
middle of the table. It was full of those
great, big, lovely, luscious, ' fattening,
rich chocolates. Mrs. Stanwood offered
some to me and helped herself with that
beautiful unconcern of the person who
knows that she has beauty enough in
the family not to have to bother with
chocolate creams, and rules for dieting.
"Do you let the 'Best Girl' eat choco
lates?" I asked In a horrified tone.
"Why, yes, I, thing they're nourishing,
don't you?" asked the mother placidly.
"Rita has had so many chocolates sent
to her and I like them so much myself
that really I hardly eat anything else."
This was against all precedent, and I
was Just going to remonstrate when Rita
Stanwood herself blew in, looking as
fresh and sweet as a rose, and simply
exuding Health and vitality.
The first thing she did after greeting
me was to take one of those chocolates,
and she hadn't had her lunch yet, either.
As I felt that somebody ought to live up
to the principles of a hygienic diet, I
played martyr to the cause, and would let
neither of them tempt me to touch one
of the candles. '
"I Just love chocolates," said Miss Stan
wood, us she bit into a particularly good
one, and then eyed the other half with a
kind of affectionate regard. She was
dressed la, a pretty, sensible little suit,
with a severely plain white silk shirt
waist, and her bright young eyes and
clear compnlxlon and plnK cheeks prove
that one can eat 'chocolates without the
dire results that physicians croak about.
Still I do protest
"Donvt say that chocolates are bad for
one," said pretty Miss Rita, with an in
gratiating charm of manner which 1b
natural to her. "If I sat around and ate
candy all the time, talked the one
thing, but I really work very hard, and
I don't think an occasional chocolate does
any harm. They give it to soldiers after
a long march," she went on mischiev
ously, "and if you want to succeed In
this profflHslon, you have to work, work,
all the time.
"I love my regular stage work, and
the performances of 'My Best Girl' are
a real recreation to tne. But, bosldes
that, I work every day at dancing, and
there that Is something that I can recom
mend. Every woman ought to loam how
to dance, and girls especially should)
make a real study of it. Dancing is the
best exercise for girls. It's interesting,
which regular physical culture la not;
Dancing stimulates the Imagination, it
makes one graceful, and for that rea
son, it's a tremendous factor in social as
well as xtage success.
"You see If you are quite graceful,"
Miss Rita went on, "you aren't, likely to
become self-conscious and embarassed.
People who don't know how to move prop
erly, who-havon't been taught the grace
ful deposition of their body through danc
ing, ure always self-conncious and subse
quently awkward and oftpn ridiculous the
minute they are placed in an cmbaras
slng or difficult situation.
"The mind has so much to do with
the body, hasn't It?" continued this very
young actress, who already knows so
much. "Sometimes 1 think It's all a
question of mind. I urn sure that suc
cess Is a matter of determination and will
power. At least. It has been with me.
I've never h-t anything or anybody down
me; I'm like the little boy who won't be
licked.
"I've boen determined to succeed, and
I work and work to that end. There was
a song which I didn't use to sing satis
factorily. That is, there was one place
where I always got off the pitch. .Lots
of singers do that, but I'm not going to.
I determined to get the better of that
faul, and I would do it all right. I made
my singing teacher coach me on that song
hour after our. I worked and studied
and thought, and I cpnqucred It It goes
all right, now doesn't It?
"That why I know that if you Just
stick at a thing and work and work,
you're bound to accomplish it. I've made
up my mind to be able to sing regular
prima donna parts in two years' time,
and, I know that I will do it."
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crumbs for frying or for covering the j
tops of entrees as they do not absorb the
moisture and become soggy.
Our Personal Taxes
The girls to whom the words "Personal
taxes" brings a vague memory of some
thing that troubles father several times a
year, and to whom all tax questions
seems mysterious problems beyond all un
derstanding, have taxes of their own
which they must pay.
Father loses his temper over the tax
on mortgages, the tax on horses, bonds,
automobiles and furniture.
Daughter furrows her pretty brow and
sheds a few tears, and scolds and pays
taxes Just as serious and often more try
inc than those he pays.
For hers are the taxes she pays on
friendship! There Is nothlnj in his busi
ness life fiat lsMmore fretting and more
annoying than tha little taxes she, pays,
though hors are not paid over a countor
,o a county official.
A friend borrows a book and returns It
with the back half off. A friend makes
an engagement nd then presumes on the
rights of friendship to break It on a mo
ment's notice, and sometimes thero is no
notice at all. 1
A friend claims the right of criticism
and exercises it beyond the bounds of
clticlsm. the line between that gentle art
of fault finding and the more vulgar one
of nagging being delicately drawn.
A friend violates every law of con
fidence. A friend has been known count
less times to come between a girl and
the man she loves. A friend 1s at the
same time the most worrying and the
most comforting of all the companions
life brings. .
Father knows he must pay his taxes to
keep the business credit good. Daughter
must learn, if she has not already taken
this painful lesson to heart, that she
must pay all the little taxes on friendship
with philosophic cheerfulness or be
friendless.
It Is better to lose an umbrella, to have
one's") most preolous books returned look
ing as If spoiled children had played with
them, and to spend hour after hour wait
ing for an appointment that has been
disregarded than to go through life with
out friends.
There could be no fate thut Is worsa,
Tli friendless girl Is homeless. She Is
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
morbid. She is selfish. She is self-
centered.
She misses all the little pin pricks of
friendsliip, and she misses, also,' its
greater Joys.
She misses the Joy of self-sacrlflco. Sho
never learns the lesson every one should
learn, and that Is, self-effacement. .'
Every llttlo tax she pays on friendship
Is good for her soul if she accepts the
lesson it brings in the- payment.
If a friend Is negligent In the lit'Jo
niceties and tries her almost beyond
endurance, she profits by even such a
friendship If, In paying her tax, she re
members the friend's many other good
qualities.
The friend hurts her feelings. It Is good
for her to pay this tax on friendship, If,
while remembering that the friend had
no Intention of hurting her, she must in
future be less sensitive. J
"The fault is half her own," is a good
thing to say while paying a friendship
Inst. "I must not place umbrellas, boo',;s,
ribbons, a few waiting hours, a few hasty
words, above the value of human heart
I need frlend& more than I need no tx
on friendship to pay." ' ; ,
It Isn't always easy to pay these little
taxes smilingly, some of which are Im
posed so heedlessly and so unnecessarily
but paying them cheerfully makes tha
payment easier, and keeps the friend. ;t
And by "friend" I mean one who like
you In spite of your faults. I do not mean
the- girl or boy you met yesterday, and
with whom you made a compact two
hours after meeting that you would ba
friends for life. ,
I mean those who huve known you lon
enough to know iyour bad qualities
well as your good and who still like you.
I mean those who have known you long
enough to know your bad qualities as
well as your good and who still like you,'
No one is so wise that he can select
his frtends without an occasional hert
breaking tntitake of Judgment. Be Jut
as wise as you can be in your selection.
Then be a good friend yourself.
And one of the Most Important lngred--lents
In the making of what constitutes a
"good friend" Is the ability to pay every
little tax on friendship cheerfully. ' .,
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