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The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Fa veryWoman Ought to Know 53 0 r What You Owe Your Servant When She "Quits" ' wtHEN your servant leaves X you "high and dry" in the middle ot a month, do you have to pay her half a month's irajrest TbJa depends entirely upon what was said at the time you hired her. If you employed the girl tor 11 definite period, then the law la she must work for that full period or can collect nothing. If. on the other hand, the hiring was for an Indefinite period, then she may leave at any time and will, never theless, he entitled to compensa tion for the time she actually worked. This, however, only brings us to the next question: When Is a hiring tor a "definite" period and , when for an "indefinite" one? In nine cases out of ten, all that is laid upon the , subject at the time of hiring is something like this: "How much do you expect to get. Mary?" "Twenty dollars a ' month, ma'am." "Very well, Mary, you can take off your hat and coat and get busy on the dishes." According to the courts, this is not a hiring for a definite time, but simply a hiring at a definite rate $20 per month. Under it Mary may leave at any time with out notice and with or without just grounds for dissatisfaction, . and you will have to pay her for every day she worked. . These points are clearly ex Land of Diamonds. l.uedertts Bay. In German South west Africa, over which the Union Jack how flies, Is a German possession that was well worth teeming- It la uituated some 200 miles north of the Orange Hlver. and Is one of the prin cipal porta of the German territory '..uodeills Bay la practically the only Jerman dependency in Africa suited o white colonization. A discovery of iiamonds In the Luederlts Bay district in July. 1908, caused a rush of treas ure seekers. The atones, which re aemble the Brazilian variety, are found mostly near the surface of the sandy soil, and are mainly of email k'. The total yield up to the end ot the year waa over 39,000 carata, and during- 1909 various companies were formed to exploit the diamondiferous area, the development of which waa hampered by the great acarclty of fresh water. The output of diamonds for the year ' 1909 was valued at over f S, 000, 000. The total European population of the Protectorate, which haa an area nf 322,460 square miles, waa, in 1911, 14,111 peraona, of whom 12,292 were of German nationality. Expressing His Feelings. Like a windmill In a fit the poor golfer waved hia arms. Like a Channel steamer full of bad Bailors ha rolled hia eyes. Like a maddened donkey beaet by flies on a swelter ing day he kicked his legs. Three caddlea looked on with interest ill concealed. "I'll bet It'e a toothache," said the first. "Ill bet It's St. Vitus danoe." aaid the second. A third caddie paaalna along; was quietly asked his opinion. He burst into hearty laughter. "ler needn't speak ao low," cried !ho youngster. "lie wouldn't hear yer if ye waa to Ore off a battery o' guna. lie ain't got nufflnk the matter with 'lm. He's Just deaf and dumb, and that's 'la only way o' givln' vent to his feelings." Very Fishy. I once knew an angler who was always bragging about his catches. In fact. It waa his "sole" pleasure, lie waa a Utile "shrimp" of a man. with not much "mussel" to apeak of. He considered himself a "dab" at fishing I knew hia yarns were all "cod," and when he began to "flounder" I pulled him oft hie "perch." put him In his "plaice," and told him not to "carp" at my remarks; but - he swallowed the "bait," took his "hook," and I have not aeen him nor had as much as a "line" from him since. ft The Crowning Triumph. Little Norman and his tw play fellows were boasting about their parenta and their belongings. "My father," said Norman, "la going to build a fine house with a steeple on It." "That'a nothing!" exclaimed Willie scornfully. "My father has Just built a house with a flagpole on It," Conrad, who had been listening Intently, waa silent for a moment, than burst out tri umphantly. "Oh, that's nothing! My father Is going to build a house with a mortgage on It!" A Great Grief. There was to be a tea party, and the gueats were already arriving. Mother waa in deapatr. Little Willie was- howlang wildly In the nursery, crying aa if his heart waa broken. Running Into the room, aha snatched the walling boy to her and asked what was the matter. Before the nura .ould reply Willie buret out: -Oh. mummy, she's been anj g-gone and curled mr hair, and boo hoo! I wasted a e-o-crack down the i Iddle like f-f.-f-fs.ther!" plained in a pam phlet Issued by the Legal Atd Society of New York, an Institu tion which lends legal assistance to those who are too poor to pay more than a nominal sum for It The only way to protect your self against the unreliable s e r vant girl who is apt to leave you Just when you need her most Is to make a definite, written contract with her In the form pro posed by the Legal Aid Society. This simple agreement provides that one week's notice must be given by the party desiring to terminate the contract or one week's wages shall be forfeited. When the employment is for a definite time, the servant may, nevertheless, be discharged before the end of the time tor just cause, and will not then be entitled to compensation for the time she has worked, although, in an extraord inary case, perhaps, no self-respecting employer will take ad vantage of this legal right to with hold recompense for services ac tually rendered. What are the causes for which you may discharge a servant be- ALL THE COLORS HIS friends said that Halliday had a dressing-gown. Halli day knew that the dressing Eown had him. It was a panoramic dressing sown, and Halliday bought It in a tide of prosperity which flowed in on a Monday, and ebbed disastrous ly ere Wednesday morning arrived. Out of the wreck came the dressing-gown, brilliant red and a few other colors, with gold collar and cuffs, and gold .ornamentations stuck on, wherever there waa room. Halliday bought it becauae he was a author. Any book will tell you that no author can do any good unless he has a dreaslng-gown. He held a sort of At-home with it, and all his friends cams to the pri vate view of the gorgeous thing. They were properly awestruck, and went away, wondering if they were color blind. Ita original cost waa $25. When he got it on he found that ideas for work would not come. The proper thing to do in a dressing-gown was to lie on the bed, and think of wonderful thlnga he would write next day, or to sit in a long chair and smoke or to atand In front of the fire with his hands in hia pnckela, and see how It looked near the feet. Halliday simply could not work In it; dreaalng-gowned work was a sacrilege. Ills Income went past vanishing point. He got desperate, but the dressing-gown beat him. He would come home, put it on, and sit down to work, write two lines, scratch them out. and then pull the eaay-chalr toward him and reach mechanically for a pipe. When he woke up, he would go to bed, using the dressing gown as an extra blanket, which waa the only thing it should ever have been used for. And the dresalng-gown got scorn ful of his efforts. Once he was cer tain he heard It laugh aloud at him. Hia regular work at the Dally Orb office suffered terribly, and his edi tor began to say rude words about it. It was faat driving him out of house and home, when Halllday's rich aunt wrote that she was com ing up for Christmas, and expected to be taken round. "I'll have to put her off," said Halliday to the man on the same floor. "I'm broke; haven't got a cent. It's hard luck, for she al ways buys me a decent present of aome sort, especially Christmas time." "How ran you be broke when you are wearing a thing like that?" A gleam of hope came to Halli day. and he saw the dressing-gown beaten at last. "Oood Idea," be shouted. I'll pawn the wretched thing, and at the same time get rid of It for ever." By great good luck he obtained . tS on It, and astonlahed the pawn broker by tearing up the ticket la his face. "Understand," "he said, Tn not coming back for that. Sell it. burn It, do what you like with It; I've done with It." HB FEELS lOl Ge;ll. He walked out ten yeara younger That night in his shirt alaevea he wrote a whole chapter of bis book and an article oa the general taatardlloeaa of dressing-gowns. fore the expiration ot the period for which she was hired T Generally speaking, any conduct upon the part of the servant which makes her unfit to perforin prop erly the work tor which he was engaged Justifies the employer In discharging her. Such conduct In cludes Incompetence; habitual neglect of duty, whether due to Three Cases Which Jusiifya Servant in Summarily "Quitting AArbitrary Reduction of Wages; B Failure to Supply Her with Suitable Food C the Infliction of Physical Violence or Assault on Her. defect of character, sickness or stupidity; unprovoked Insolence or disrespect to the employer, his family and friends; disobedience to reasonable orders or rules; dis honesty, drunkenness, hostility to the employer's Interests, and un truthfulness. But you may not discharge a servant because she refuses to perform unreasonable services or to work at unreasonable hours, for occasional Irritation, discourtesy or hasty words such as might naturally arise from the nature of the work, or for trivial or unim portant disobedience or negligence. On the other hand, a servant who leaves without just cause be fore the explratlpn of the definite ' period for which she was em ployed, forfeits her right to com- But later hs dreamed that the dressing-gown danced outalde his door, stretching out empty arms and commanding him to return to her. When his aunt srrlved. Halliday noticed that the usual present was not forthcoming. She was a dear o!d lady, however, and he played the dutiful nephew with great sua cess, insisting on a cab and a high ly respectable theatre. When he Anally left her at her hotel, Halli day had exactly tl on which to live till Saturday. Pondering over this wicked ciroumstances, he tramped home. The next day hia aunt came round to have a good look at his rooms. This time Halliday observed with great pleasure the important pack age she carried. "Do you know, Dick." said the old lady, laying the parfsel on the table, and fumbling with the atrlnga, "I couldn't think what to get you this timet I've been pussllng and fusxllng; but, coming up your road, saw this in a window the very thing!" Hallday trembled with a audden senae of the doom to come, and hia sunt drew tout ths dreaalng-gown. It flooded the room with a blinding and an unholy radiance. "Such a lovely thing, Isn't It. and so useful?" the old lady continued. "I know you hadn't got a dreaalng gown. Bo handy for a literary man like you to allp on and sit down steadily to work in. It's not quite new, you know, but you don't mind, Dick, do your' "It's really awfully good of you," said Halliday, hero and alave. In the grip of tragedy it la beat to smile. "You don't seem very enthusiastic about it," said his aunt. "I think It's a sweet thing." "It's just aplandld," aald Halli day, withdrawing his shaking hand. "Do you mind if I hang it up in the ether room out of the dustr The dressing-gown marched with him to the door, and he had a queer feeling of being hand -cuffed to It. Hs iiung It in a cupboard, sweating with fear, and shut the door. When his aunt had gone he went back Into tfie room against hia will. The thing was sitting in -a chair, and Halliday offers no explanation. It waa hia beat armchair, and for the reat of a horrible evening Halli day eat on a hard stool, not daring to disturb it. I think he had a sort of an idea that It might begin talk ing to him, and I know he left some cigarettes near it. In caae It might become entirely human. Plucking up his oourage, he stirred the Are Into a blaae, and es sayed to burn It, starting with the gold and blue acreage on the end of the left-hand sleeve. It refused to burn, but charred with a hissing sound, and in five minutes there was such a ghastly smell that the man on the floor above started dancing on the floor, and Halliday gave It up. He poured his water-bottle over It, and it snarled as the heat left It Well Into a new day now, and still the horror of the dressing-gown, grim and awfuL Bleep was impos sible with that thing still alive and unelaughtered. And suddenly Halli day thought of the river; it would be easy to drop It In. He hunted out brown paper and some stout atrlng. In twenty mlnutea he would be free again! The dreaslng-gown would have gone for ever. The parcel burnt hie arm aa he want. Hie face waa white and drawn as he slunk along. And a homeless, villainous faced loafer watched him pass variously, and Copyright, 1111, by pensatloa even for the time she has actually worked. But If you give her Just cause to leave, she is entitled to wages for the time she has worked, and she may af terward collect for so much of the remainder of the period as she lost before obtaining other employ ment Some of the causes which jus- tlfy a servant in leaving sum marily are failure to pay wages when due; arbitrary reduction of How the A CAREFUL study of divorce statistics gives good ground for the belief that three-fourths of the disillusionment that precedes most marital tangles and separa tions originates at the dinner table. In the rush of modern life, women have come too much to the conclusion that feeding the family is merely a necessary evil to be dis pensed with lightly. Food for the tired hus band they are too apt to regard as simply a matter of filler, anything at all to till the ach ing void. This filler, they believe, may be thrown carelessly before the family and bolted down their throats as rapidly as possible with out Injurious results. In an effort to show how barbaric and harm-, ful such methoda are, the medical profession In now studying the relation of our food to our OF THE slouched off after htm down to the , river. Arrived on the bank. Halliday laid tne parcel down. The brown paper fell In a little, and the thing distinctly moaned, giving Halliday a pang of pity. It waa hard lines, after all, even for the colored hor xor, to leave a warm brown paper bed for the cold tomb of the sullen river. AS OITCAST TOVCHKS HIM. At that moment the outcast touched his arm. Halliday sprang back almost to the roadway, thlrk Ing that the dreastng gown hud be gun to assault him. And the two men looked steadily at the knobbly thing. "Ah!" said the wise outcast. "1 Kuesa aa you were at something' 'orrlble. What is It. guv-norT A baby?" "Of course not!" cried Halliday and turned to look at the stranger. They were near a tamp post, and It was hardly a face that Halliday aaw. It was a kind of gargoyle, framed in a border line nf black', stubby beard. "None of that," aald he. "I've ,been through It myself and I know! This Is a p'lice case. It strikes mo!" "What's your name?" aaid HalU dav quickly. "Bill; and I'm A rood workman, but starvln', through no fault of my own!" He started on a glib lie. "Look here, Mr. Bill! That'a a dreaslng-gown there, and I'll make you a present of It." He untied the string. "See for yourself!" "What did you say it was?" gasped Bill, and he began to rub hia hands. "Looks like a piece of llv i ii fire, on my word!" "A dreaalng-gown. Ars you tak ing It?" "What Bhall I do with it?" asked auspicious Bill. "How do I know?" cried an guished Halliday. "Fry It if you like! Will you take It?" His voice waa a prayer. "You never etole It or nothln' no kid? Gospel oath?" "Gospel oath!" returned Halliday. Cautious Bill spat on a filthy fin ger, and drew It across a red acarfed throat. "Kend I live, send I die, cut my throat if I'm telling a Iter' queried he. "All that and more!" Halliday Imi tated him faithfully. "Do you want ltr "Done!" said Bill, and snatched It. He spread open the covering for a wider view of the gift. The dawn breaking over the river poatponed Itself for a minute, retiring abaahed till once again the brown paper cloeed on this glorious rival. "It's yours!" said Halliday. and, again a free man, unchained and Independent, walked home singing. The struggle was over now, but he wondered idly what Mr. Bill would do with It. On the following Friday morning an urgent note from hie editor lay on Halllday's desk at the office. It was an unkind note, and hinted at a quick dismissal. Obeying the summons, he went, wrapped In fear and trembling. Into the great man a rocm. "Oh, It'a you, Is ltr aald that auto crat. "Well, I Juat want to tell you I don't mind you're going out to get good 'epeclal' stories for us, but I'll have no man on my staff placing fool tricks for his own amusement, and, possibly, bringing the paper Into ridicule. If that's your Idea of reporting, you'd better quit." ths Star Company. Great Britain Rights Reserved. wages during the time of employ ment; failure to supply suitable and reasonable lodgings and food; infliction ot physical violence or assault on the servant: the con tinued use by the employer of vio lent language without cause; the employment by the employer of other servants whose habits are vicious or dangerous to the health or morals of the servant But a servant has no right to leave for reprimands and fault finding which are not grossly un reasonable or violent, or because she is requested to perform unrea sonable services which, of course, she need not perform nor because of disagreements with other ser vants. The negligent servant who is constantly breaking china and glassware would probably grow more careful If more housewives resorted to their legal right to deduct from the servant's wages the amount ot loss thus caused. The deduction for breakage should be made at the end of the month during which the employer learned of its occurrence, for, if wages are pald with knowledge of the break age, the employer la deemed to have condoned tne offense. Dinner Table nervous systems. It has been proven that the exercise of our sense of taste Is as Important to our well being as the exercise of other senses and that taste must be satisfied for the sake ot its soothing effect upon the nerves. If the digestion falls, then the nerves reflect Its failure almost immediately in Irritability and general distemper. On the contrary, If food is properly cooked, properly seasoned and properly served In calm and attractive surroundings, the taste carries Its satisfied messages to the nervous system and a feeling ot happiness results to the Indivi dual. The effect of pleased taste Is well Illus trated in the statement of nerve specialists that the -eating of half a pound of chocolates has been found to produce a quieting effect on neurotic patients. This probably explains the ORIENT A "You're talking double Dutch!" anld Halliday gently. "What iu ths world have 1 done nowr "Blurt doesn't go down." returned the editor. "Alderton saw you ths other night on the Kast Bide, doing the cheap-jHck business, selling stuff from a barrow. You were disguised a bit, of course, but he knew It was you. because you were wearing aome ghaatly lted Indian robe he onoe saw In your rooma. He told me himself. Onoe seen, never forgot ten, he said the thing was. There you were, outrageously clothed, perched upon a barrow, bawling at the top or your voice, and generally making a fool of youraelf. Juat stop It!" "But on my honor " spluttered Halliday. "You're a newspsper man," said the editor sharply, "and I want no explanations. If I hear of it again you get the quick push. Immediate, inatanter, and no resurrections. Pleaae don't atand there looking like a tired flaht I'm busy!" That night, when work was done, Halliday went, heavy-hearted, In search of BUI. He had imagined many evil tricks that the dressing sown might play on him, but not this development. After half an hour's wandering, the pilgrim heard a voice he knew. It was verily the voice of Bill. Dressing-gowned, he shone like a human sun. He etood Arm upon a barrow; on his left hand was a baakat filled with boxea of pills; on his light hand was a pile of little packets of cement. He waa doing a roaring trade. Thus Halliday met his dreaalng gown again. Hill had found good uae for It. It caught eight of him on the out skirts of the crowd, nodded dis tantly, and then aneered openly. Fascinated spell-bound, Halliday, the captive listened to the raucous shouting of Bill, clothed in that namelesa thing that was all the gor geous Kast at once. It should be - added that this equipment was completed by a red velvet amoklng-cap, and an old medal on the front of the other up holstery. "Ladlea and gentlemen, you see now before you a Rarjar from the Heast, wearing the Htate robea In which he dined last Tuesday week with the Hultan of Morocco. I have come from the bloomln' Heaat, pure ly to benefit the people by my mar velloua remedies that will cure any thing, from a crack In the wall to a cut In the neck." He picked up two packets of cement. In brown and white covers. "Fust, the cement. In brahn and white parketa. The price Is a mere trifle. You can have two of the brahn, and one of the white. You ran have two of the white, an' one of the brahn. The brahn In for t'hlnar, an' the white Is for alasa. 1 repeat, the brahn la for cliinar. an' the white la for glaas! And I guarantee that with thla marvellous cement, uaing It for any household article. It will remain aa Arm and aa hard as If It had never been broken or otherwise frackahured. "Then theae 'ere pills. My friends" Bill leaned forward, and spoke as thoush he were Andrew Carnegie handing over a million-dollar li brary "I do not exaggerlt when I I e 1 1 you all to your face that theae pills will cure any mortal thing U the hllli to wliiih our pore, weak Hehli Is 'air. H wleu In time! t-pota before the eyes, palna In the liHi k, spasm across the Joints, uf Miction of the aural proclivities, a rarkin' corff, crooked kidneys, gid diness, and total loaa of sight; and this dreadful list of diaeasee ends YOU MIGHT TRY- For Warts and Corns. , JltANY physician recommend a remedy containing the following: , ' drams each of chloral hydrate, glacial acetto acid and ether; 1 ' dram of salicylic acid; H ounce of collodion. Apply with a glass rod or camel's hair brush. To Make Your Nails Shine. AN excellent liquid polish for the nails is made of I drama of diluted sulphuric acid, 1 dram ot tincture of myrrh, and rose water enough to make four ounces. Dip the nails In this solution, wipe and polish with a chamois skin. A Sympathetic Ink. rKE some pure lime or lemon Juice and write with It on paper. Then heat the paper over an alcohol lamp and the writing will come out brown. A Refreshing Drink. UDDi pinch ot salt to a half glass of i mux, ana neat witn an egg-beater until light and smooth. Pour Into a tall glass, and over the top put a thin coating of pulverised nut meats vand a scant grating of nutmeg. Serve cold with crackers. Flavoring with Corn Cobs. , jiN making succotash,, scrape the corn from the cobs and add a little cold si water to It, making It aa creamy as possible. Then place the cobs la Hhe kettle with the beana and boll until time to put In the corn. The re sult will be a sweetness and creaminess not usually found In succotash. Often Leads to An Amazing Talc of a Dressing Gown That Simply Wouldn't Stay Hid hup with Insanity and death! Be wise In time! My pills from the Far Heast cure them all! And the price la 25 cents per box!" Twenty hands stretched out to the maglo man from ths Far East as he finished his speech. BUI was doing well very well. And once more Halliday knew that he was bond-slave to the dressing gown. Wherever this man want he would be Identified with It Re membering his editor, he knew that scornful fate had' ordained he must bear Ita burden alone. For now he wanted It back. He waited for a word with Bill, who, by the fre quent Interviews with a bottle on the barrow, was rapidly getting a "aood load" on him. , HIC HUAI'l'ISAHS. Toward ten business died down, and Bill gathered his gains and vanished Into a saloon. Halliday still waited. At closing time Bill emerged, singing coon songs to himself. To put It politely, he was "good and drunk." "Here." said Halliday, "I want that thing back!" "Don't you go for touching ma!" roared the staggering human In ths dressing gown. "I'm a bally Bui tan, that'a what I am." "Right first time!" said Halliday. "And I want that dressing gown back r Bill planted himself with difficul ty sgalnst the wall. "Well, yu don't get It." said he. "It's a small fortune. I'm coin ing money with It. Beat thing I ever struck in my natural. I'm a fellow for enterprlee, I am, and It rame to me like a flash. This Heaatern Hultan Job is a gold mine!" "But I'll pay you for it!" expos tulated Halliday. "I'll knock your bloomln' bead off if you don't clear outl I'm drunk, but I'm a Sultan Just the same!" roared Bill. He puahed out an unsteady fist and lunged heavily, Just missing Halllday's face. He looked very Aerce. A crowd waa quickly gathering, and Halliday fled. And Bill picked up the aklrts of his raiment and ran after him, shouting, lurching this way and that, but making a eurprlalnr speed. The taaaels swung behind him is he sped, shouting oaths. In pursuit. I'eopla made way for this colored snd cursing blograph that yelled "Murder!" aa ha ran. Halliday saw all ths horrors of a police-court case certain dismissal from ths offloe and ran for his life. He gained a little, and, speeding down a side street, overtook a dawdling, empty taxi Juat aa the Hultan from the Eaat had reached the corner. "Drive anywhere!" he cried, and flung himself In. "Anywhere West! "Now, I wonder If anybody saw me ruahlng, drunk. In that thing on a Saturday night?" said defeated Halliday in the cab. "I expect I'll hear about it on Monday. I'll have to get that thing back somehow." Reaching his rooms, he sat down and thought matters over. A fur ious ringing at the bell, half aa hour later, made him start In fright. His visiter was a policeman. "Beg pardon, sir, but we've got a man In the station. Drunk and a fair maniac he waa, and he had aome kind of extra wrapping on rainbow sort of thing that must have cost s lot of money. Haven't seen any thing like It since l Joined the force, though I've seen few nights In my time murders and such. Wa thought he must hve stolen It, and found a visiting-csrd with this ad sour cream and a half glass of rich Divorce craving many highly nervous women have for candy. Many of the great women ot history who have held places of great power In courts and diplomatic circles, and in the world ot litera ture and art, realised the Importance ot the dining table as a means of first attracting the attention of men whose help they needed in the realisation of their ambitions. The phrase "The shortest road to a man's heart Is through his stomach" Is by no means a modern saying. It has been true throughout the history of mankind, and although In tended to be a joke, It is In reality no reflection on masculinity. A man witi a poorly ted stomach can rarely be found to have s disposition Inclined even to kind thoughts, much less to love. ' dress on it In an Inside pocket, tuck to ths lining-. Are you Mr. Halliday, atrr "I believe I am," said Halliday wearily. "I'm slthsr that, or Bill don't quits know whloh. If BUI haa committed a murder, I expeot I'll be Bill. What do you want me to dor1 , "Was that thing" ha was wearing yours, sir? Have you missed any thing latalyr ..u8-lL It!"v to chr8-s the manr asked Halliday cautiously. For hs saw a chanoe of reooverlng the i dressing-gown, and hs might think of another way of killing it. "Not if you don't cars about It. ofiliZTO th tMnr' 70urBt "Yes." lied Halliday shamelessly. "I can prova It's mine, ru get the receipted bill for it and ooms with you." At ths station hs saw tbs dreaalng-gown again. Ita power for evil WBf w'JtanlnTi It looked huddled and tired after the adventures of ths night. From ths cells bslow cams a muffled roar, proclaiming that somebody was a rajah, a flul ln,. wi0,. " could fight behind his back. "Been raising ths roof Ilka that till hVm "- "aid the of. 70uh nut hs Is, and no ' 4Yh.U,'.I' "0t v1"1 tor bslng drunk T" nJkiL. k.,lu hould Ju,t seen him an hour ago, ruehlng down thought It was an earthquake!" ill.1 hu,rt "J"""'?" pert" ' nly b 1 "He cart afford that," ssld Halli day grimly. "Do you know. don't want to taks that thing home. I'm tired of It." he lied again "Fact U my wife hates the sight of it. and says it was an sxtrsvaaance to buy ' It. Never lets ma alone about It Would you like it, officerr "What do you use it forT said the man, dubious. "That's what I want to know" said Halliday. "But you can have it. If you like." "I never like to refuse anything." said ths policeman, still wondering ' what he could do with it. Suddenly he happ.nsd to acratch the bright-Idea aectton of his head "The very thlngl" he said. "Cut to bits, it'd make an At patchwork quilt for me and the missus these ". luvaea at it eritl- Km.nr. t-vim vi warmm It It. I should say. "'y 1 m v,r,r mac obliged to vou. air!" Trembling with excitement. Halli day could hardly believe his ears. To be rid of it ao eaallyl "You swear you'll cut It apt" hs cried. "Why, yes"' "Cut Into little bits?" "You bet!" sala the policeman. "It'll be Ane for ths kiddies' bed If they fall 111, too. Lake a regular paint boal Amuse them for hours. How many different colors should you say there wsrs In It, sir? Mora than Afty, I'll bs bound." Halliday smiled triumphantly at the crestfallen dressing gown, which had become huddled and limp on bearing Its doom. "Promise me you'll rut It up tots small bits all of It." "Certain!" said the policeman. And thbt was how Halliday gas) at laat out of alavery. The on If unsatisfactory thing about it Is that all the policemen's wnlldren Ave of them sre growing up, under the dally Influancs ot the quilt, to be painters.