THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1919.
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Boost the Boy Scouts!
Incidentaly all of us are still for open cov
enants openly arrived at.
That old schoolboy saying, "Cheaters never
prosper," is still applicable.
Daylight-saving would be better denned as
legislative time-piece regulation.
The latest uncovered plot aimed to do Uncle
Sam out of only about $30,000,000 in a salvage
deal. Nothing goes except in big figures nowadays.
Anyone want a safe bet? Just wager that
there'll be several cabinet changes shortly after
Woodrow comes back from his sojourn in
Europe.
"The Daily Mule" ought not to stop kicking
with the close of the high school cadet camp.
It should be adopted by our democratic friends
as an apt appellation for a party organ.
The Boy Scouts, by their1 splendid war record,
have put many a man in the couptry to shame
for lack of his own patriotic deeds. Let many
a man redeem himself by making Boy Scout
Week a success.'
Nebraska will be neither first nor last to
ratify the equal suffrage amendment and ap
proval by our state legislature will count for
just as much as that of any of the other needed
states when the whole 36 are in line.
i The Prince of Wales need not stop at New
port Let him come out here and we'll show
him' a good time we'll even introduce him to
King Ak-Sar-Ben and put on a special initiation
for him if he can't be present for the regular
performance.
We are no longer at war, but the demoraliz
ing influences of war are still with us. There
is danger of an increase of juvenile delinquency
an$ a general relaxation of moral fibre. This
danger must be counteracted by powerful, posi
tive, regenerative influences.
The University of Maine, through its agri
cultural extension course, is sponsoring a long
distance egg-laying race for hens; in other
words, offering prizes for champion layers.
Chickens qualified to compete will please take
notice.
Detroit is promised a new hotel to cost
v $7,000,000, for which plans are already drawn.
, If tourists are not attracted by this informa
tion, they will be told that Detroit is separated
only by a river from Canada and that Canada
is not yet faced with either war-time or after-the-war
prohibition.
"The only national debt we can never pay
;s the debt we owe our victorious Union sol
diers," was the inscription on one of the ban
ners greeting the veterans marching in review
at the national capital at the close of our Civil
war. True today and for all time in respect to
'the boys who answered their country's call in
the great world war for humanity and freedom.
In debate in the House the other day Con
gressman Fordney, replying to a question by
Congressman Cannon as to how much luxury
tax a woman would have to pay who bought a
$200 dress, declared, "I do not know; my wife
has not had a new dress since the democratic
party came into power." There should be no
trouble in locating one good republican vote
if women vote in Michigan.
Responsibility of Suffrage
That the senate would pass the woman's
: suffrage amendment was a foregone conclusion.
That the states will ratify the action of congress
Soes without saying. With the so-called Susan
1 B. Anthojiy amendment within sight of ratifica
tion, therefore, it would not be a bad thing if
all the women's organizations which are- so
splendidly equipped for socio-political work and
now must have a lot of bottled-up energy avail-
able, -which should start a nation-wide campaign
to impress on all men, as well as women, what
the possession of the franchise means. To vote
is not an idle privilege, but a serious responsibil
ity. For the proper and intelligent exercise of
'i the franchise under the conditions thftt exist
today a deeper sense of duty should be devel-
k oped in all citizens and voters, and the issue of
s consecrated self-discipline, which will make the
voter, man or woman, a "competent citizen"
when the question of public matters comes up,
is one that the woman suffragists should take
to heart. Every one is aware how manhood
suffrage has turned out badly at times through
the individual shortcomings of the voters, since
there is nothing in the nature of miracle inherent
" in the mere right to put a ballot in a box and
unregenerated human nature is not reformed
because it has access to the voting booth, but
may indeed have a greater capacity for political
evil and a greater opportunity for social mis
chief. The so-called "dilution of the voting
citizenry" of today, by which incapables play
' too large a part in deciding things which they
have neither the mental capacity to understand
nor the moral training that fits them to pass
. upon, will be as great, if not a greater problem
after all the states have woman's suffrage than
it is today. But if the amazing ability the
. women have shown in managing their campaign
to secure suffrage will now be directed toward
"making America safe for democracy," as the
phrase goes, and the voter worthy of his pri.i-
lege, a great and a needed reform can be brought
about. The women have, indeed, had their
quivers full of arguments as to the injustice
of denying them the vote when so many males
who were unworthy of their privileges and in-
competent as citizens automatically became
voters on 'becoming of age." The women can
easily make over these arguments now in a
i patriotic crusade that will bring it about that
whatever the men may do or be. the women
voters, at least, will set an example of sterling
competency as dtisens from which the coun-
" try may expect nothing but the best results.
Philadelphia Public Ledger,
KEEP COOL AND LOOK AHEAD.
Presumably as an aftermath of the war, labor
conditions generally are in a state of precarious
instability. Talk of strikes in various lines of
industry is heard on every side, with here and
there strikes actually in progress. The moving
canses are too self-evident to require descrip
tion, but the conclusion is unescapable thrt this
situation will put the cause Of trade unioni;:ri, as
embodied in the several national and interna
tional labor organizations, to a severe strain
that will call for wise and sane leadership to
meet the test.
Although all labor has not been unionized,
nor is soon likely to be, labor has made tremen
dous progress along the paths blazed by the
unions and has made greater advances in the
five years since the beginning of the world war
than in the 25 years preceding. What has been
gained for labor can be held or lost, according
as labor holds fast to the sane principles, or
over-reaches itself, by wild excesses bound to
react.
This is the time for labor, the rank and file
of the industrial army, as well as the officers,
to keep cool counsel and to look to the future
as well as the present. It goes without saying,
that the same admonition applies to the em
ployers, individually and collectively.
No Excuse for Police Outrages.
Regardless of all that may be said or done,
the rules of every well-regulated police depart
ment should secure known and responsible
people from being hauled to jail in the dark
hours of the night unless arrested in the per
petration of a crime. There is no danger of
such persons running away; they can be had at
any, time or would appear in police court when
ever wanted, in response to a notice served on
them. Dragging responsible people from their
homes in the middle of the night on flimsy pre
texts savors too much of Russia and the police
ridden autocracies of Europe, and is a practice
that has no place in freedom-loving America,
where even the meanest criminal has some
rights.
Another thing to be home in mind is that the
doctrine that the police can do no wrong is a
relic of a past era. It is no part of the duty
of the head of a police department to uphqld or
defend the flagrant offenses or palpable mis
takes of subordinates. Such a system spells
license for police officers to commit outrages
and abuse their authority over individuals at
will, assured of protection by the higher-ups. A
police organization that holds every member of
it to strict account for vigilant yet common
sense and lawful exercise of his power as a
police officer will alone get along. Against
arbitrary police oppression, no matter where
perpetrated, the people will and should always
cry out.
The Servant Question Again.
The household servant question we have al
ways with us, and instead of becoming less
troublesome with the ending of the war, it seems
to be more acute not only here but abroad as
well. The release of women war-workers is
apparently not sending them back to domestic
employments, or at any rate not to the same
kind of domestic employment that prevailed
before the war. Not long ago we referred to
a report of a British commission detailing the
servant difficulties besetting the householder and
suggesting some things needed to be done to
solve the problem. Going at it from another
side, the Y. W. C. A. through its employment
and immigration department is undertaking a
practical experiment in London to supplement
its registry for domestic workers by opening a
"hostel" for day domestic workers to be known
as the Blue Triangle Home Service Corps
which, if successful, is to be started also in
different neighborhoods, the girls going out to
work in the neighborhood of their hostel. Ac
cording to the plan adopted, a charge is to be
made to the employer at an hourly rate 10
pence or 20 cents to start with to be paid to
the organization, while the workers are to have
a fixed wage of 30 shillings, or $7.50 for a
week of 48 hours, (exclusive of meal times), and
of this they will pay 1, or $5, to the hostel to
cover board, lodging and laundry, use of uni
form, guarantee against unemployment and club
privileges. They will have quarters in the
hostels, to which they will return for meals, and
the use of two workers' uniforms, consisting of
overall and cap, per week. The workers be
fore being sent out are to undergo an efficiency
test and to have their references checked up,
and in addition enjoy a course of training under
the superintendent of the hostel.
As an experiment we wish this scheme well.
It may turn out satisfactorily in England or
other old world countries that have a distinct
servant class, but we have grave doubts as to
its possibility of success in America, where
every one is born free and equal, and the
servant of today may be at the head of her own
household tomorrow.
Hawaiian Romance Shattered.
Taking our information from the popular
songs, we were persuaded that the home of true
romance and unalloyed bliss was Hawaii, where
the beautiful maidens spend all their time strum
ming their ukuleles in the moonlight and danc
ing on the beach at Waikiki or elsewhere, clad
only in a smile and skirt of grass. Hatred,
malice, sin and the unpleasant things of life,
we were convinced, never entered that paradise.
How shocking, then, to read the statements
of a man who filed suit for divorce from his
Hawaiian wife in the local district court last
week!
Instead of dancing and smiling, as we had
been led to believe all Hawaiian girls do, she
drank too much liquor and cursed her husband.
Instead of strumming accompaniments to love
songs on her sweet-toned ukulele, she threw a
water bucket at him and sought to kill him
with a cudgel. .
Alas for romance! The Hawaiians, we fear,
are much like the rest of .us only worse, when
all is told. We have been cruelly deceived by
the writers of popular songs.
Omaha girls, take it from us, can smile just
as sweetly as those of Hawaii and are less given
to killing their sleepingvspouses with large cud
gels. Happiness abides just as much in Omaha
hills and vales as on the beach at Waikiki.
And we'd rather hear an American girl,
modestly attired, pound out jazz music on the
piano than listen to any half-clad Hawaiian maid
strumming her ukulele in the moonlight.
It is an open question, in view of subsequent
events, whether the promulgation of the famous
14 points has served as a help or a hindrance.
Bolshevism's Imminent
Collapse.
Brooklyn Eagle.
All signs point to the collapse of the bol
shevist regime in Russia within a short time.
That Lenine will survive the signing of a gen
eral peace as a real power in Russia has been
made more doubtful by developments within
the past few weeks, inside of Russia and out.
and since only a certain kind of peace would
have been of service to 'him his prospects are
made worse by the particular treaty the present
German government is expected to sign.
It has taken time for bolshevism's utter fail
ure to become manifest. That it has not come
sooner is due chiefly to the fact that the rest
of the world was at war and that conditions
in Russia favored the continuance of such an
abnormality as Lenine's "dictatorship of the pro
letariat." Bolshevism has failed politically and
economically. It was morally and financially
bankrupt from the start. The last act of the
tragedy has come with the military failure of
the Red Guard to maintain itself in the face
of resolute action by forces recruited, for the
most part, on Russian soil.
Bolshevism's economic and political failure
cannot be too strongly emphasized. Had Le
nine succeeded in establishing his system upon
a firm basis it would take more than a handful
of Finns and Esthonians to endanger Petro
grad and no army could he sent across Siberia
that would seriously threaten Moscow. The
combined efforts of those actively engaged in
fighting bolshevist troops would be negatived
if Lenine had succeeded in erecting a govern
r ent capable of functioning in Russia in such
a way as to win the confidence of the masses
of the Russians. And he might have set up
such a government if he could have made his
social theories work.
Lenine has been absolute dictator of most of
Russia for a year and a half. He has had every
opportunity for trying out his experiment. He
has tried it and failed. That is the most im
portant thing to consider. Had he succeeded
the terrorism and the outrages might have
counted less heavily against him. Certainly
it would have taken large armies a long time
to dislodge him, even if the European govern
ments had decided upon a real campaign against
the bolsheviki.
Since bolshevism has failed in this respect,
it has become a comparatively easy thing for
the different forces to advance into Russian
territory. Today the Finns and Esthonians,
supported by Poles and other factions, are
within striking distance of Petrograd. In the
north, despite the reported withdrawal of all
allied forces, our own included, the Reds are in
retreat. And from Siberia the forces of Ad
miral Kolchak, the most formidable anti-bol-shevist
faction, are marthing west over a wide
front. In view of this situation we may give
credence to the rumor that the bolsheviki are
leaving Moscow. There is no place for them to
go except to the Ukraine, and even there they
cannot hope long to maintain themselves.
American Conservative Labor
From the New York Times.
With health and strength restored and a sa
gacity and courage that have not failed him,
Mr. Samuel Gompers has been presiding over
the meeting of the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor, whose founder
he is and for which he has worked intelligently
and fruitfully for nearly 40 years. He has al
ways been a sound and loyal American, he has
steadily opposed the setting apart of working
men as a class; he has sought, and most success-'
fully, the amelioration of labor conditions by
means of both the great political parties, and
not by the formation of a special party, divorc
ing itself from the general interests of the
United States to follow the narrow path of a
single interest. Against violence, against ex
treme radicalism, against socialism, against all
the methods and notions foreign to the United
States, his face has always been set sternly. A
certain element, not a large one, of hotheads in
fected with Marxism, syndicalism, internation
alism, or bolshevism, has long been dissatisfied
with Mr. Gomper's intelligent and conservative
policy. These radicals long to depose him. They
would break up the federation if they could, di
vide it into units, suppress the general and sober
voice of the majority of its members, give
larger scope to local extremists, arrest its or
derly American policy and progress, put in
practice here some of the theories and measures
of foreign fanatics.
In the war Mr. Gompers was a great and
beneficent force against German prpaganda,
against labor pacifism and other pacifism, for
the utmost energy of production. His radical
opponents will never forgive him for his Amer
icanism. It is noticeable that the discredited
pacifist, Mr. Arthur Henderson, whom Mr.
Gompers met and overthrew in his own country,
is coming over here as a guest of the insig
nificant and nebulous American labor party. It
seems to be the intention of this leader of the
British independent labor party to hearten Mr.
Gompers' adversaries. Mr. Henderson is now
simply a mischievous private doctrinaire. At
the last election he stood third at the poll as a
candidate for Parliament. His coquettings with
international socialism brought on him the
wrath of British labor generally. The British
Seamen's and Firemen's union prevented some
of his proposed dalliances with enemy socialists.
Its members wouldn't work on any ship in
which he was a passenger. If he meditates a
descent upon our shores, he may have to come
in a foreign steamer. Outside of a small class
British labor has no more use for him than it
has for Philip Snowden and Ramsay MacDon
ald, his brother pacifists. Undeterred by his
pitiable defeat, he is found signing a report of
a recent industrial conference, wherein he
speaks of "the growing determination of labor
to challenge the whole existing structure of
capitalist industry," and tells us that "a vast
extension of public ownership and democratic
control is urgently necessary." Mr. Henderson
is commonly supposed to borrow some of his
ideas from the indefatigable socialist, Mr. Syd
ney Webb; wherever he gets them, and how
ever acceptable they may be to the British in
dependent labor party and the American labor
party, they are contrary to the cautious, sane,
and American policy of Mr. Gompers and the
Federation of Labor.
The Day We Celebrate.
Rt. Rev. William Ford Nichols. Episcopal
bishop of San Francisco, born at Lloyd, N. Y.,
70 years ago.
Charles J. Bonaparte, former attorney-general
and secretary of the navy, born in Balti
more, 68 years ago.
John F. Shafroth, late United States senator
from Colorado, born at Fayette, Mo., 65 years
ago.'.
Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee, hero of the
battle of the Falkland Islands, born 60 years
ago.
Dr. Charles C. Thach, president of the Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute, born at Athens,
Ala., 59 years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
Rev. Dr. Joseph T. Duryea went to Lincoln
to deliver the baccalaureate address to the grad
uating class of the state university.
Commencement ceremonies for Brownell
hall began wtih an address by Bishop Worth
ington at Trinity cathedral.
The Omaha Guards' band gave a concert at
Hanscom park.
Children's day was observed in many of the
churches.
Aims and works of the Humane society were
considered at a meeting held in the Paxton
hotel. Dr. George L. Miller exploded some of
the popular fallacies regarding hydrophobia
People You Ask About
Information About Folks in
the Public Eye Will Be Given
in This Column in Answer
to Readers' Questions. Your
Name Will Not Be Printed.
Let The Bee Tell You.
A Notable Wedding.
L. F.: Miss Kllzabeth Asquith,
who recently married Prince An
toine Bibesco of Houmanla, Is a
daughter of the former prime min
ister of England. An interesting; fact
about tha wedding: There were two
i cremonies, one at the Greek church
in Bayswater, England, and the
other at St. Margaret's, London.
Movie Actress.
What nationality is Olga Petrova,
and can you give me her address?
A FRIEND.
Mme. Olga Petrova, who is Mrs.
(Dr.) John Stewart in private life,
Is Polish and was born in Warsaw.
She received her education in Brus
sels, Paris and London and has been
on the stage since 20 years of age.
She has played on the speaking
stage, in vaudeville and is now In
cinema work at the head of her own
company. Her address is 125 West
Fortieth street, New York City. She
has red hair, is five feet five inches
tall and weighs 130 pounds.
Try, Try Again.
Where ran I find out how many
times the Susan B. Anthony resolu
tion for equal suffrage has been
voted on by congress? Mrs. L.
The resolution for amendment to
the federal constitution providing
equal suffrage, was drafted in its
present form by Susan B. Anthony
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1875.
It was first introduced by Senator
A. A. Sargent of California in 1878.
It was defeated in the senate: Jan
uary 25, 1887; yeas 16, nays 34.
March 19, 1914; yeas 35, nays 34.
October 1, 1918; yeas 54, nays 30.
February 10, 1919; yeas 55, nays 29.
In the house of representatives:
January 12, 1915; yeas 174, nays 204.
Passed : In the house of represent
atives, January 10, 1918; yeas 274,
nays 13fi. In the house of represent
atives. May 21, 1919; yeas 304,
nays 89.
In the senate, June 4, 1919; yeas
56, nays 25.
President of Whitman Colelge.
Among the heads of American ed
ucational institutions comparatively
few have a longer record of service
to their credit than Dr. Stephen B.
L. Penrose, who is rounding out a
quarter of a century in the presi
dency of Whitman college, one of
the pioneer colleges of the Pacific
northwest. In honor of the quarter
centennial of Dr. Penrose's adminis
tration, a jubilee celebration was in
augurated at the college June 6,
with many noted educators in at
tendance. Dr. Penrose is a native
of Philadelphia and a graduate of
Williams college and Yale university.
After two years spent in teaching he
was ordained to the Congregational
ministry and in 1890 set out for the
west to engage in home missionary
work. Four years later he was
chosen to the presidency of the col
lege over which he still presides.
Famous Astronomer.
Returned Soldier: A soaring aero
plane in the south Atlantic was used
by Prof. David Todd in making ob
servations of the solar eclipse 10
days ago. Professor Todd is not a
freak astronomist. His record indi
cates thorough training, experience
and knowledge in that field. As far
back as 1875 he was an assistant in
the United States transit of Venus
expedition. He was chief of the
United States naval observatory
eclipse parties in Texas in 1878, chief
assistant on the United States nau
tical almanac in 187S-1881, astron
omer in charge of the Lick observa
tory observations of the transit of
Venus in 1882; astronomer in charge
of the American eclipse expedition
to Japan in 1887, chief of the United
States scientific expedition to West
Afrea in 1889, and the head of half
a dozen or more eclipse expeditions
In later years. For five years he was
professor of astronomy at Smith col
lege and since 1881 he has been pro
fessor of astronomy and director of
observatory at .Amherst college.
MUCH IN LITTLE.
After failing many times Italian
engineers have successfully bored an
artesian well in Tripoli.
The Union of South Africa an
nually produces between 4,000,000
and 5,000,000 gallons of wine.
The presence of the water auto
matically starts and stops a new
electric pump for private plants.
A recently patented toy soldier can
be made to hold a rifle in several
positions, including that of firing.
The famous collection of butter
flies belonging to Lord Rothschild is
estimated to have cost not less than
$500,000.
As a preventive against fire Aus
trian laws require dwellings and
business houses to be built through
out of solid materials.
"Great Tom," the chief bell of St.
Paul's cathedral, in London, is
tolled only on the death and funeral
of any member of the royal family
or of the bishop, the dean or the
lord mayor.
Canada's position as a fiber pro
ducing country depends largely
upon two things, namely, the in
vention and use of modern ma
chinery and the proper grading and
standardizing of the seeds and fiber.
The Pennsylvania Railroad sta
tion in New York City, occupying
eight acres of ground and with ex
terior walls measuring about one
half a mile, is the most extensivt
building in the world constructed at
one time.
Me cj&ttr' Corner
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY.
BLUE BEARD'S BROTHER
(Peggy wishes to go to Story Book Land,
and the mighty Bronie Genie takea ner
there agalnat hla will. She learne that
Red Beard la about to marry 10 wives and
that the Uenle la taking her to the wedding.)
Peggy Dons Royal Raiment.
i lumpety, clattery, clack, went
v the two-wheeled cart as the
Mighty Bronze Genie spurted down
the rocky hillside and across a
sloping green that led to the doors
of Red Beard's castle. Peggy had a
wild notion of leaping from her
swaying seat and seeking safety in
flight, but before she could balance
herself to jump, the Genie drew up
before Red Beard, stopping with a
jerk that almost threw Peggy to the
ground.
Then Genie dropped the thills of
the cart and salaamed low before
Red Beard.
"Most Powerful Master, I have
brought to you Princess Peggy of
Birdland," he panted in tones so
humble that Peggy was even more
alarmed than she had been
before. Red Beard's fat, sleepy eyes
squinted at her in a way that made
her blood run cold, but his face
behind its mask of fiery whiskers
neither smiled nor frowned. Nor
did he stir. He sat silent while his
lazy eyes looked her over from head
to foot.
"Humph!" he finally grunted in a
piggy voice. "Princess Peggy is
young and fair. She may be a trifle
thin, but with a little fattening she
will do very nicely."
A cold thrill ran down Peggy s
back. What did Red Beard mean?
Was he a cannibal? Was he plan
ning to eat her up?
"You have done well, my faithful
Genie," continued Red Beard, look
ing at Peggy, but talking to the
salaaming Genie. "Your reward
shall be a whole gallon of straw
berry ice cream for yourself at my
wedding feast."
"You command, I obey. Most
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Muny Drug Store Soda Water, Too?
Omaha, June 6. To the Editor of
The Bee: I have noticed a great
deal in the papers lately about the
improvement of Dodge street, and
what a big thing it was going to be
for Omaha. Now there is much said
about a 20-story building to be put
up on Seventeenth and Dodge for all
of the doctors to be in one place.
It seems to me that this would be a
splendid time for the newspapers to
get together and put over something
realy worth while. Make sure that
grading Dodge street and erecting
this magnificent building will really
be of great value to the people of
Omaha.
There will, of course, be a drug
store in this new building, and as all
of the people who buy medicine will
be in the building to see their physi
cian, they will naturally buy their
medicine at this drug store.
Suppose we took temptation out
of his way by establishing a munici
pal drug store in this building, so
when poor folks need medicine, they
can get it. at cost or a fair margin
of profit.
Will your paper take this question
up and start it going? The com
mon people will be wth you and
will call you blessed.
MARTIN F. LARSON,
2424 Burt street
Handkerchiefs were not always
square. At one time they were
shaped to the user's fancy. It
chanced that this irregularity dis
pleased Queen Marie Antoinette, who
suggested that a uniform shape
would be an indication of good taste.
The result was a decree by Louis
XVI., issued in the early days of
1785, enacting that all pocket hand
Kerchiefs should have right-angled
jdges henceforward.
This is little Willie Sheaf.
Watch him draw a pretty .
Draw from one to two and so on to the
end.
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Powerful Master," murmured the
Genie, and a look he flashed at
Peggy filled her with dismay. It was a
look of despair a look that seemed
to beg her forgiveness. Was the
Genie really the servant of Red
Beard? Had he betrayed her in the
hands of the cruel Turk?
"Princess Peggy shall be gowned
as befits the honor 1 am about to do
her." grunted Red Beard. He clap
ped his hands and in a moment
Peggy found herself surrounded by
busy slave girls. They lifted her
from the cart and carried her swiftly
to a room within the castle.
In the room were dozens of pretty
dresses, each are more beautiful
than the other. There were party
dresses, garden dresses, Sunday
dresses, all in a fielightfully bewil
dering array. And there were hats
without number and more slippers
and boots than Peggy could count.
Immediately the slave girls began
to deck her in the choicest of the
finery. They picked out the very
prettiest of all the dresses, the most
charming of all the hats, the most
dainty of all the slippers, and placed
them upon her. In almost less time
than it takes to tell Peggy was
garbed in the most beautiful rai
ment she had ever beheld.
But she couldn't understand why
she was being so arrayed. Was she
to be a bridesmaid at Red Beard's
wedding? That would be exciting,
but even as the idea flashed into
Peggy's mind a disturbing thought
came, too. It didn't seem right for
Red Beard to marry 10 wives. In
deed it was positively wicked and she
didn't want anything to do with that
kind of a wedding.
As she wondered over this the
slave girls, exclaiming admiringly at
her beauty, led her to a full-length
mirror. There Peggy's astonished
eyes saw a reflection she scarcely
recognized. It was herself, of
course, but herself no longer a little
girl, but seemingly grown up Into a
lovely and gracious princess. The
dress had " completely transformed
her.
Before Peggy recovered from her
astonishment a confused shouting
from without drew every one to the
window casement. There they be
held a scene barbaric and thrilling.
From all directions, out of the for
est, across the meadows and down
from the hills were pouring wild
riding bands of horsemen. At first
Peggy thought they were attacking
the castle of Red Beard, and she
was glad. Then she saw that they
were not foes, but raiding parties,,
sent out by Red Beard himself. And
each raiding party was bringing
home a captive held in the arms of
its leader. And each captive was a
beautiful damsel.
"Ah, ah, ah," softly wailed the
slave girls. "Here come the brides
of Red Beard."
(In tomorrow'a chapter Pegs"? meets
herolnea long- known to her by fame.)
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