f t ' -.J v. v "' V THE okAHA SUNDAY BKE: JNUVttMBEK Zi, 12U. 8 D ' v A Heart Secrets of a Fortune - By RACHEL MACK. It Can't B Done. ' j She couldn't have been quite"T8, I decided when she opened the door and stepped in. Just the sort that makes you think of a. High school diploma, tied with blue ribbon, and a white organdie dress trimmed with ruffles and a baby sash. "Dearie," I welcomes, observin' the blond " curls and the , sky-blue ' ye. "yu .don't mean to say you've 'got a worryT if .. . "Yes," she says, Jookin shy and conscious all at 'once. "There's something very serious , on my mind." '". "Really !" I exclaims. 'Appear ances are so decievin' at fames I ' It doesn't concern the Polish situation or the league of nations, does it?" "Oh, no," she murmurs, "It is not that kind of a worryl It's about love; I believe Yvt met my fate." . "Ahl" Isays. 'Inside informa tion. And how dp I iet in on 4he big secret? 'Are you feekin'.profcs sional'advice?" . ' "I am," she answers, "although. I . feel dreadfullyi Ruilty in doing it. You see Bobby has sworn to reform for my sake. He's going to quit all his wild ways." ; , ... ii( "And be good for everand ever! I interrupts, "so he will be wormy of the "dearest little girl in - the world?" That's the idea isn't it?" "Yes,", she nods, "that's exactly what he says. Of course I don't doubt him not for one-half se'eond,. but . She hesitates, so I remark with Understanding: "Certainly There's nothintr like a bird's eve view of year-after-next, prior to takm' the fatal J step..? Let's, hear more about the happy romance," , . , ... ."Bobby and I have known each other five whole montns, , sne says. JHc's a perfect , dear, but people in sist on calling him a rounder. I suppose means?" suppose yon . know what that leans? ... ,:, "Well. I couldn't give Mr. Web ster's exact definition," I answers., "but I know a .few choice synp i nyms:" High flyer, bum skat, man about town, top. notcher, fly. kid I Anyway, dearie, I grasp the situa tion. .'. Proceed with the story." t "There's very little, to tell." she Bobby says he's?. .iuitel fascinated with i me, and ' promises he will be a perfect ngel for the rest of his life if I will marry hfiSj." . "Swears he'll cut the gay boys and the ; best cellars." I venture, "not .to mention the little blond in You Can Always Find Trouble If You Look Long Enough.; Dear Son: Your uncle, Abner Pettingill, made us a visit last week. Abe's a nice fello only he's got too many braines. Pooch Frisbee says is head s so crowded "with em it .' makes it kind of hard fer his thoughts to get around. He's suposed to be a mechanikal genyus but as some writer once wrote, . VGenyus is nothin but an infinite ca pacity fer i givin a pain." An he warnt far wrong at that. Abner has spent til his life an most of his wifes money enventin useful things that nobody's ever used. When I heard he, was comin (. hid all the clocks an the washin -machine an suchlike in the barn. ; lie's only dangerous when he gets fiald of something; to improve.. ; Of rtSrse I ought never to have gone jtfcpwn to the stashuit to. meet him in . -tbt auto. I dpn't spose it made much difrence at that,.. tHough. If I'd borrowed a hoss He'd have had that apart before we got home. The minit we got in the. car -Ab cocked his head like a fox terrier when yon scratch the under side of your chair.. , 'What's that tickin' noise?", says he. - - ;' n - , . ' -"There aim no tickin noise," says ' I. "Shes runnin sweet as a nut." , "Sounds tc me like your brushes was dry," says he. " i' 1 . "What do you think this is?" says I in fun, a street sweeper?" .But I had a feelin of impendin calamity. ,; When hegot to the barn be dldnt even wait to go in;an say.r'Howdy" to your muther which would have guve jne a chance to leave the ma chine with some, naybor till after he'd . went. He jumped out an started to climb under the hoodwith his store clothes on.' f ; r ; .','You leave tha car alone," says J Verjt firmly. , "Its runnin accord in to directions and dont call fer no , munkeyin." t - -r"I aint goinrfer to munkey," says he from nd.er' the hood. ;'You dont want to run with a dry brush do you?" ' ' ' . ' :, So sayin be pulls a screw, driver outen his pocket an begins to' take -, apart the tin box with ill the lectri- cat doodabs in it. As' fast as he "ifot part out he'd lay it on the , ruHnui Jioard an go ilown f er - )an- other like a pt&H diver. . - V - Ab NThought He Was . fn Auto ; -rv. -; Coroner. .',.. 'Pretty soon he started hummin a Jittle" tune to -hisseR. The neerr be came, to makia confetty out. of that engine the happier it made him. Every few minita he'd come up fer air all smiles- with' a, piece m his hand and say, There's your old armature." or "There's your old tor que.' It mde me . feel sad, like - lookin on the autopsy of a fan ; ily hound whats ate some kind of poison." V . ";'-- . ' ' "Then bimby her straightens up an scratches his headwith the. screw driver. "FunnV"says he.. . :Thc brushes seems all ght. lYour '' sparks weak, though.- I think it's your secondary cirkit;" I guess it's lucky'1 1 took it down." It struck meliow it would be a ;ot luckier if he put it together again mn I I9VC SO. -i i "I dont believe in' munkeyin with - things ' wnats runnin , all right, "Runnin all rightr' says he. "Would you say yon was runnin all 'right i your blood was flowm I couldnt see Kewlhat had nothin to do with it so. Ab JPiiHed out piece of blue pencil ana drew a sc rhirt all Aver the new painted barn door showin how an auto was uit like a human bein.- .Tw earberater. says he, was the heart, and the calces -tht lungs and the lectric wires the veins, an te ftllo atvthebeer the brains. It wis all very nice but-as I s'ays Teller toxicant -Ad Ihe brunette wreckinM crew? Sweepin reform, .dearie! "Yes, un't it" she enthuses as in nocent as a. baby that's just been promised the moon..- "I think he's a wonder to be willing to give up so much for my salce." "What's the family . altitude, dearie? Any conscientious objectors to .the ceremony?" j ife,. indeed," I she exclaims. "Father is dreadfully t disagreeable about iV He's very critical of poor Bobby, and says he'll give me a .trip abroad if I'll promise never to see him again." ," '4 - "Would it break your heart, girliei to call the game off?" s ; "No," she admits. ."Tift not hope lessly in love, buf.it's inspiring to know that. I'Tiave such influence for good over dear Bobby. 'pit's really r my duty to marry hnn, , don 1 7 you think?" : ;'- . "Dearie," I says, "do yoirwant my opinion ot this reformin' stunt you're, planning to demonstrate?" She nods her curls and gives me leave. '' - . . .. . !Well,',girlie4 here's the whole an swer, in a. sentence:'- It can t he done." - ' Why do you say that?" she asks, lookin' like a worried infant that's tryin' to keep youlrom snatching its. candy. .. "I say it because I've got the dope and the statistics," I, answers. "A few sweet promises mayhold him for a while, put it's not the sterna! cure. Hes sure to break but asairi, sooner or later.? He'll, knock his little halo crooked after you've gone to no end of trouble to fas;en"itto his manly brow," and he's likely "to. Scorch his wings till they look like fca' feather .duster aftefvhousccleanii W.eek. Io, idearie, tajr it from me, you cnt matte a' wpoly lamb out of a black sjieepl" 5 v i "Do you mean o imply, she asks," "'that lots of girls -try to reform menl and fail? i' VSurelyl" I says "It's as common .as slush itr February. . Any nice young, burglar, 'who v' falls in love swears to his cautious lady friend thai hes cracked his last safe. And f he believes hfm, just like the sweet youpg thing In the conservatory who hears the same Bid campaign pledge whispered to the tune of a farawajrl the stage setting. It's the sarrit old plot. Understand?" -I Shei's having an awful shake-up, but she manages to 'put one more anxious query actoss. "Then it's al- Letters From Home I still couldn't see the sense in rnun keyin with a thing iwlien it were runnin pretty. A. man wouldnt have hisself operated, frinstance, if he was all OK. . Abner allowed he wasn't so sure about, that. He had an idear the What's: that Tickin Noise?" Says :"- -v He. t'me was comin when a,, man would go to the hospittle every vspring, the way a machine went to 'the repair shop. An jrfiere he'd be 'opened tip an taken apart an put in shape 'fer Another year. It seems. to me if the docts. were goin to open shut a fello any more; 'than - they're doin now it would be easier all-round to have buttons put on bpt that aint there no here. , V- ' ; Well anyway the long an short of it was Abner started in to find something the matter with the wirin. The fact that there wasnt nothin wrong, with it didn't bother him none. He says there wasnt nothiu he.'jiked better than lookin for: trouble Sfi I allowed be was on a fair, road "to t'inHin 11 s'nnn as T orit tnvsplf wnrlfprl up a mite more. But je just started" fiummin and puKin the wires like a fello in the vawdeville, show .that plays the bells. , C Ab's Idea of Saving Trouble.' At last he got hold of ,a wire that didnt have as much perseverance as the others an pulled it right out of the socket. '. ;Aha." says be. "Lucky I located that .If I hadnt broken it it might have busted on the road som.e. day an 'then you'd have been, in a nice .fix.":-,. . .; I '.' : . ' I . cguldnt see how I'd be much worse off bjistiri one' or two things oiv the road than smashin the whole bloomin contrpshun in the barn. But there wasnt no stoppin Abner short of a length of pipin an knew I couldn't put .thi machhine together so I didnt start no argymenf Well sir, about- the time, your ' ADVERTISEMENT POT CREAM IN NOSE ; AND STOP CATARRH Tells How To Open Clogged Nob. trils and End Head-Colda. You feel fine' in a few -moments. Your cold in head or catarrh will be gone. v. Your .clogged nostrils 'will open. The air passages of your head will cleaj and you can breathe free ly. No-more dullness, headache; no hawking,, snuffling, -mucous dis charges' or . dryness; no struggling or breath at night. , .Tell, your druggist youiVant a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm. Apply a little of this fragrant anti septic cream in your nostrils, let it penetrate through every air passage of the head; soothe and heal the swollen, inflamed mucous meiribrane, and relief corries instantly. It is just what every cold and ca tarrh shffercr needs. Don't stay tuffed-up and miserable. . - r .- . Gods ahd Goddesses Ways hopeless to marry one of the black sheep kind?" ' I : "Well, dearie," I 'explain, "some body's got to do it. But -why not leave it to the skirts who know the ropes ?.- Leave it to the dames who can forgive the" prodigal son; semi" annually without fillin the . atmos phere with sobs and reproached That's my advice." "I'm afraid," she says, wiping her 'eyes and lookin' very sorrowful, "that I'm not one of the forgiving' kind. If Bobby should ever, ever break his promise it 'would, be Jhe end between us." . Si, "Sure, girlie," I says, "I know your ' type; from A to Z. That's why I'm , so strong on the warning note.. Run.,; along home now and v tell father you're ready to take him up on that - Made Father mother called us fer dinner that bloomin fool . had about everythin off ceptin the buttons On the seats, r had to go over to Ivydale on businis in the afternoon so I bor- towed a rig and left Abner to do the best he could fittin the thing together again. ) I got back about sundown an when I looked in the barfl there was Ab sittin An the middehof . the wreckage takin apart the washin machine that he'd found. When he saw he looks up and says, "I found the tick, Amos, an it warnt in your brushes at all. It were a piece of rope that had got caught in one of your front spokes." I aint seen him since and your muther says it wasnt Christian to talk to your "-own' flesh and blood like that no matter what- they'd done. Thehired manv swept up the barn an out all the sweepings in l bags, an took era over to Zak Fitch's the plummer, to see' if he s smart enough to make anythin out of em. The trouble is there's parts" of Aspirin ' : V You; must sy: Bayer";; , : Warning! Unless you sce-miiMicayeii?' on tablets, you are not : gettirigpCehuihe Aspirm. prescribed by v physicians 'for; 21rs anifoye millions. Accept only an "uObrpken pickafe'! of BayeryTabletsi of Aspirin, which cohjtqjns proper directionif or Colds, Headache, Pain, -Toothache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Neuritis, Lumbago. t ; Handy tin boxeof 12 tablets cost but a few eeots larger packages. , Aiplrin la th trad mark ot Bayer Mnut'ctur of Monoactlectditr of Ballcyllcaeid : . .- ..': V CAN DE CURED Free E?robf To You All 1 want is your nanend addrccrao f .can send yon a free trial treatment. 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Stfeel mmI 4a, nf! little sea voyage proposition he men tioned recently." t ; , She's not lookin' entirely satisfied, so I try the sure cure treatment. -"And " give yourself about three weeks to forget Bobby entirely," I says, putting on my most mysterious air "because, on peering into the fu ture," I seem to see another young man a regular prince I And he's wearin' aTsubstantial halo of his own make that s as becomin' as a .$20 -Stetson." ,. . Well, of course, the prince was rather a product of the imagination. But just the same, if that little girl has the patience and the foresight I've got a pretty good hunch that she'll find himl ; - (Nex Week suggesting a uiange oL. Program.), ' t Copyright, 120, Thompson Feature Service. to Son the washin machine an the auto all mixed in together. As I tell yoursmuther, though, if Zak knows anything about his bisnis at all at least he ought to be able to make a ford. .". Now that lection's over here aint much excitement to tell of. ' Sally plunkett and her little girl has been down to Mtf!l Springs and Back fer a week with the hoopin cough. The cow had a good calf last week an the hired man a bad cold.' Other wise I must close. Yours respectably, ' "AMOS. H. AMESBY, ' , v Fath. P. S. Zak Fitch just came over to say that he'd got the washin machine anid y the auto together all right an had a bag of spare parts left over. So 1 came out to the good after all. . (Copyright, 1920, by Ed. Streeter.) " It is etimated that the people of the United States alone will spnd during the next 12 months more than $1,095,000,000 to see motion pic tures. ' . ' v J. C. Hutcell, R. Ti . DRUGGIST I am Secretory of the tndiana State Board cet th year own caea will be SUU..... aastaiaata iraof am i sVBy ' Published by Missing Dresser Mystery Unravelled When Son Visits at Home of Mother One young Omaha couple did not have to go to a movie to see a com edy mystery enacted. They had one right at home with enough coinci dences thrown in to cause the most radical of scenario editors to remark,' "It's too exaggerated.)' The young:, couple flat dwellers, returned to their home one night re cently seeking repose and comfort after a wearisome day of toil. Some pi the agencies of comfort fay, in the family dresser, and thither the young matron hied herself. The dresser was gone. Disappeared in . broad day Flight! - .. , ' ; The police were not called. The mystery was . too uncanny to be solved by public hirelings, so they decided to sleuth for themselves. On the following evening they paid a visit to the husband's parents in Ben son.' , ' - - . His mother had a bargain to ex hibit. She had bought it from a second-hand furniture dealer that day on North Twenty-fourth street When the couple saw thebargain they registered surprise and conster nation. ; It was their dresser. A trip to the furniture dealer start ed (tie unraveling of Jhe.mystery. He had bartered for a dresser in the same flat where resided the young couple. The apartments of that place can be identified only by theiroceu pants and daily callers. ; Following careful -instructions he keeps -v -when you should have Sloan's Liniment handy to help curb it and keep you activ6, . t and on thejob? ; ' Without rubbing, for it penetrates, just slap "Sloari's on the afflicted part. Note the . gratifying, clean, prompt relief that follows. Sloan's Liniment couldn't keep its many thousands of friends the world ovef if it didn't make good. That's worth remem bering. Get the -.largest size -.bottle for economy's sake. , ' -: -;'., .: ' X . 4 TT . ; ; TKm World ; J MiiiiiaiiieffiL't Fist Ma - A mild tyiteM of Rectal rjijtMiH in A aura aoaranteed In averr ease aeeeoted for enred. Write (or book on Rectal Dieeure, Pies MVVO prominent people who have been permanently cureo. OIL E. K TARRY Suaforjaai p.Ura ' ' -" Charles Dana" Gibson Copyright, J&e.t'ab. Co. " Arrangement With Life went so many flights up, took a cer tain number .of paces to the left, stopped at a certain door and at .a stipulated place he found the dress er. Finding no one there, he and his satellites removed he. dresser. Illinois School Girl ; : j -' 'Would Be Snake Charmer Carlinville, 111., Nov 19. Louise Graham is 16 years of age Snd pretty and well up in her studies at school. . But Louise haS: a panchant for snake charming, and every time a carnival would leave the town si multaneously the; girl would forsake her family fireside.- . . s : K Invariably the" girl would find her self stranded in the next town. But she stubbornly annoflnced tier inten tions of repeating yier performance until the day. she' became one of the beautiful women ;- who ..handle the reptilian monsters. t : Authorities took Louise in custody and decided to .send. her to the train ing school at Geneva. r They, have the word of 'ocal Bose-rouge special ists that snaks"Thaven't been there since the days. 'when the Volstead act was merely a discredited rumor. The clothes'; worn in the 1860 pe riod of "Milestones," filmed byGold wyn were copied 5 from pictures in old copies of the London Illustrated News. , and made" in the-dressmaking shops at the Goldwy.n studios. 7 dti on the Why wait for a severe pain, an ache, a sore, strained muscle, sciatica, . lumbago t or a : rheumatic twinge to make yod quit vrorl Pam'sl Venemv Pay WhM treatment that cure Pile, FUtnla and ethe a ahort time, without a eevere turcieal OI- ntinn. Ka f.tilnroform. Ether or other rtnrral anesthetic naed. treatment, and no money it to be 6aid until wtta names ana teeumoniaie oi mora Tct Bldf. (ripe Bide.) Omaha, Neb. v - It's an 111 By JAMES J. As Mr. Flautus or Dr. Marcus Aureliua. or Col. William J. Bryan ence.. observed, one man's v filet tmgnon is another man's cyanide of totassium. Also, as, Euclid tells us (we are sure of our authority, this time), the converse is also true, The Volstead act has been bad for the bartender, and is execrated by the gentleman who once knew the exact height of the brass rail,, but t is putting snappy clothes and ad vanced ties on the boys who used to sit in frdnt of the .livery stable and wish there was some way to make a living without working for it ; , ;f-. ', LooM at Jake, for an eSsAmpJe. For 10 years Jake had, no trade of profession but . that of husband to an energetic laundress. After five years of wedded life Jake's fondness for ease, got on the nerves of the lady and the became a -niggardly paymaster.- Jake got a quarter for delivering the wash. Also he got his board.. His taste for raimeftt, as" prices advanced, could no longer , be in dulged. By and by, he fell into a aort of coma, and stopped manicur ing his finger nails. He dressed in bammed cr borrowed clothes, and became difficult to look at. 1 1 : But all that is changed.' Jake is apparelled as the lilies of the field. He has at least three hats, all of them snappy. Seldom does he ap pear twice jn tl'.e same necktie. If he were, allowed on Main street in h:s new winter, overcoat he would bU ck 'traffic And all because the 18th amend ment introduced' by Mr. ; yolstead,; member; oix congress v from Minne sota, was passed by the senate and house, '.and' ratified Jby the legis lators .,oi three-quarters of ' the United States of America. ' '. " In the day time Jake ..may' be found in frontof the livery stable where he meets clients by appoint ment. '. ; v.-' . . . . At dewey eve he hurries away in a new fliver to parts unknown.., Through the night he makes de liveries previously arranged for. "Supply and Demand.- -' For thjtse deliveries he gets frore $15 to $25 a quart, according not tc the quality of the quarts, but to the necessities of his customers. .. . Where he gets it is his secret. But get it he does, and it is not home made liquor, either It is all corked and sealed and labelled and bonded, and, judging by what happens in the cozy little homes of our village, it Special . . 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NeitheT have they apprehended any of his fellow merchants. The, drinking, classes in our vil- fage 'no longer, takes trips to Cana da whenever they are nervously ex hausted. "Tftey don't need to. ; Jake and the others save them th troublci , a , The bins thafl have seen are all well stocked.. The stars on the Hen nessy and the Haig and Haig are"is the stars cm the Milky Way of a clear winter night The makings f( all the various forms of nectar -in the. Bartender's Guide are in the posses sion, of my neighbors. Why and wherefore nobody knows, and no body teems to care., New Aristocracy of Wealth. f The' boys that used to run the places along Main street where com muteers, , homing on the six-three, were frequently detained on busi ness in the old days, have all of them gone into other line, of endeavor. Some of them, are grocers. Others are capitalists. One has become a butler, and a good one. ; The trade has passed out of their hands, and into he, formerly soiled , ones of the village .ne'er '.do wella likp Jflkc. " " These are rapidly becoming ' our moneyed class. Aside from clothes such as would have made Solomon in all his glory ask them the names and addmsv of theft haberdashers, they' have cars.motor bos, Boston terriers, and, are trying to get into some of the" golf clubs now being superimposed op the unsaleable real estate in the'yicinity. - Two of them have bought pool rooms. Another tells Cuban lot tery tickets on t the side. T Tiaven't hpard that anv of them fare on, the waiting-list of any of the fashionable churches, but I should riot be surprised if this were true. , I don't: know what the amoral of this story is. 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