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8 D TEE BliE: OMAHA. SUNDAY, MARCH fi. 192i. Tragic Moments Your Daughter's Education Completed, Your Wife Asks You to Meet TJiem 1 DzPr:oa The Married Life of Helen and Warren 1 They Dine at tiy Old London Tav ern Where Warren Buys a Huge Stilton Cheese. "Weir, Kitten, it's our last night. "wf d'joa. want to dine?" as they vT..e out ot the hotel into the soft tore of a London twilight. "Let's explore!" glowed Helen. Let's go s.ome where we've never .sen." "That's easy in London." Warren paused to buy an evening paper. "I'd love to go down in the City below St. Paul's to one of those old chop-houses vou read about in Dickens," tucking her hand through hir arm. "They don't keep open at night any more not way down there." "Oh, some of them must be open! I feel just in the mood to explore." "All right, if you're so keen about it Here comes, the bus we want." Helen always reveled in a bus-top ride through London, and the deep ening dusk was the most enchanting hour of all. The consciousness that their trip was over lay heavy upon her. To morrow they sailed for home. Into tljis last evening she wanted xto crowd mucl of the old-world at mosphere. Through the glittering lights of Piccadilly, into the darker and more sedate Trafalgar Square, past Charing- Cross, and down the Strand. "Dear, London's so wonderful at night I I could ride around all eve ning and not want any dinner." "Well, I couldn't! I want a good square meal and I want it soon." "Now we're in Fleet Street," eagerly pressing his arm, "Oh, there's 'The Cock' where we dined last time! Remember that old waiter and the cat?" Fleet street had quieted down for the night. The upper windows, let tered with the names of English and Scottish papers, were mostly dark. Only an occasional light re vealed some ylatc news writer still at his desk. Under the bridge at Ludgate Cir cus, and St. Pauls loomed majes tically before them. On through Cheapside, with its drapers, haber dashers and silversmiths, now all closed and dark, and they approach ed the stately Bank of England. . "Let's explore these side streets. I'm sure we'll find some quaint old chop house," enthused Helen., as thev climbed down. The network of narrow passages into which they now plunged was all a part of London's great finan cial district. v Over the doorways and on the dusty small-paned windows were the anmes of important firms and Corporations. Crowded in these an cient, unsanitary buildings were Australian, New Zealand and South African exporting and banking con cerns. "Dear, what are those curious frames before-the windows?" "Mirr&rs to reflect the light: The . poor devils who sit at those desks don't get much daylight." Then irritably, "Fat chance of anything to eat along here. Everything's closed tight as a drum." "Let's try this turning. What's that light through there?" As they drew nearer, she pointed gleefullv to a sign, "The Three Ravens," But it proved to be only a public house. Through the swing ing doors they glimpsed the bar and shining bottles, but the only promise of food was the card in the window, "Snacks at the Bar." "Dear, here comes a' watchman I'll ask him." "No, Miss." to her timid ques tion. "There's not much open down here after six. You might try the '.George and Vulture.' Take the right, and second to the right "again that'll bring you into Geerge Yard. .You can't miss it. It's just a step." "Huh," grunted Warren, "if it's ten miles they say it's just a step." '"George and Vulture!" I love the "name. Oh, I know it's going to be a wonderful old place!" "If we ever find it in this maze. Here we are third to the left." "Oh, I'm almost afraid!" shrink ing from the blackest of narrow pas sages. , : Yet there was a certain fearsome pleasure 'in scurrying through the menacing darkness, clinging close to Warren's arm. They emerged into a curious old courtyard, dimly lit by a hanging iron lantern. Their footsteps echoed weirdly in the deserted stillness. Even the hum of the great city did not-jcach these inner recesses. The phosphorus eyes of a lurking cat seemed a welcome note of life. Helen stopped to pet the waif which 'stole from the shadows to rub against her. ' "He said the second to the right, didn't he? Yes, here's George Yard." Further on shone a lighted door way over wnicn nung a swinging sign, YE GEORGE AND VULTURE Established 1600 "Just what I hoped for!" rejoiced Helen. "Did you ever see anything so quaint? Dear, it's over 300 hun dred years old!" Through the low doorway and they cutcred one of the oldest of London taverns a long oak-beamed room with jts sawdusted floor and high pew seats. There was a mel low odor of ale, and the fragrance of chops and steaks sizzling over the glowing grill. "By ginger, the real thing! Just lamp Jhis," Warren strode up to a long table on which were displayed the uncooked -meat, and vegetables. "A chop or a nice point steak, sir J'.' beamed the white-capped Cuok. "A chop for me that one," as the long fork hovef ed questioningly. "And you can grill me one of those kidneys and a couple of tomatoes." "Some .Bubble and Squeak, sir? Yes, sir, A bit of fowl for the laoV?" Helen, accustomed to the English habit of serving the man first, meek ly decided og the fowl, grilled toma toes and her favorite mustard and cress salad. "Well, we're in luck to find this I" admitted Warren, as they chose a table in one of the hrgh stalls. "Not many of these old joints left. I like to see my chop before it's cooked. Mighty few places in New York they'd let you see the meat before it's camouflaged with gravy." Dear, it s not crowded, Rbrrjiig around at tlie lew diucrs, rJ men evidently detained in the city. "I wonder if there are any menus 1 don't see any." "That lay-out over there beats all your menus. Jove, I didn't notice that," eyeing a huge round cheese. "Looks like Stilton. Haven't had any good Stilton this trip. What we had at the hotel v wasn't ripe enough." "What will you have to drink, sir?" asked the waiter when he served the grilled chop and kidney, smok ing hot. "We've some . vcrys old musty ale." x "Just the stuff. Hold on, is that Stilton over there? How is it?" "Very fine, sir. -Just ripe enough. Yes, sir, with &ome brown biscuits.'' "Dear, aren't you glad we found this? It IS a goodplace, isn't it?" as his silent and speedy consump tion proclaimed his appreciation of the food. "Said it was the real thing, didn't I ! Best chop I've had in Londdn." When later he tasted the Stilton cheese, he fairly beamed. "That's just right! Has the real nutty flavor." "Yes, sir, we get them straight from Lancashire," volunteered the genial, eJderly waiter. "We buy them green and age them ourselves." "By George, I'd like to take one to America! Couldn't sell one, could you?" "We have sold them, sir, to some of our old customers. But they run pretty big over 1 1 pounds." "All right, I can manage that. Got anything to put it in?" . "I can give you a hamper, sir. A gentleman took one to South Africa that way. r It's 4 shillings a pound, sir, the market price." "Finel Now you fix me up one. No, you can't send it we're sailing in the morning. We'll have to take it with us in a cab." "Warrerl, we CAN'T take an 11 pound cheese to New York!" "Why can't we? If it was a piece of antique junk you wouldn't set up a howl. Not if it weighed a tonl What about that bookcase we took over?" ( "But this awful smelly cheese! What will we do with it on the steamer?" ' "111 fix that all right. Send it down to the store-room." "But when we get home it'll smell up the whole apartment. And spoil before we can eat it!" "Don't you worry about it spoil ing. I'm going to distribute a few chunks. Jove, won't Stevens fall hard for that? And I'll send a piece to Dalton. He's always blowing about that cheese he gets from Can ada. I'll show him what real cheese isl" Helen was still h'otly protesting at this cumbrous addition to their luggage, when the waiter brought up the huge mouldy mound for War ren's inspection. "You'll find that all right, sir. Be fore you cut it, if it seems a bit dry, just wrap a damp cloth about it. And you should cut it with a cop per wire you never want to use a knife on Stilton." Warren, always a cheese enthusi ast, examined it with the air of a connoisseur appraising an art treas ure. They wrapped it first in a piece of muslin, next in heavy brown pa per and then lowered it into the ham per. Helen coirid hardly restrain her mounting disapproval when she saw Warren count out 44 shillings for the cheese With all their other baggage that they should be encumbered with this bulky odoriferous hamper! "I tell you who's going to get a piece of that," chuckled Warren. "Will Mumford! He's a darned old epicure, if there etfer was one. He'll appreciate it." The waiter had hurried off down to Cornhill for a cab, but it wasO minutes before they heard the clat ter of hoofs in the cobblestone pas sage. , Carrying the hamper as though its contents were preciously fragile, he led the-way out. " 'Ope you'll find if" all right, sir. And don't forget the wet cloth if it gets a bit dry." As they drove off the old waiter, standing in the lighted doorway un der the lanterned sign, waved after them with a napkin. At any other time, keenly appre ciative of this old wprld tavern, Helen would have waved back. But now she thought only of the obnox ious hamper at Jier feet. Already the odor had permeated the wrap pings. "Now don't begin that," growled Warren, as she sniffed disdainfully. "Warren, it's awful! , It's like something rotting 1" "Don't expect it to smell like vio lets, do you? Wouldn't be the real thing if it wasn't a bit strong. Now you needn't start kicking. I'm al ways lugging home a lot of your junk. Here's where I take along something I want and the less you say about it the better!" (Copyright. 1921, 'Mabel Herbert Harper.) All Elevators in Building Run by One-Legged Men Chicago. March 5. The Conti nental and Commercial bank build ing here has probably tjic most unique set of elevator men in the country. All of them . are one-legged, even the starter having but one good leg. Fred Patzeldt, the starter, who has charge of hiring the elevator men. told some of the things that caused him to hire the one-legged brethren. "Where possible I employ only one-legged men," he said. "They are more reliable, because realizing they cannot do every kind of work thev stick to their places. All my men except one are married." EeU Clog Pipes and Put Boat Out of Commission Portsmouth, N. 11., March 5 Who Lserved home brew to fish in Follv Lake, York, Me? Someone must have, 'for half a dozen eels went on a wild expedition 'which prevented the ferryboat Alice Howland, plying between this city and Kittcry, Me., trom making several trips. When Engineer Roberts found his engines wouldn't work he began an investigation which revealed the fact that the pipes between the boilers and tank were s'uffed with fresh water eels The eels had' made their wav through a series of pipes from ! Folly Island'to Badger Island and : thence through a rubber hose into 1 the tank. Heart Secrets of a Fortune Teller By RACHEL MACK. Too Much Luxury. As soon as she walked into the office I knew there'd be a sentimen tal tale of woe forthcomin'. It was easy to see she used to be a good looker before she took on the(extra pounds and the languid habits 1 "I have come for a palm reading," she dpens. "I want you to look into the future and tell me how to win back the love of my husband. Tell me why he has grown so cold and critical." I take her hand and apply myself to the case with much interest. "You haven't done much manual labor recently," I comments, no ticin' the flabby flesh while appear in' to study the lines. "No," she answers, "not for sev eral years. Its not necessary any more. My husoand's salary is grow ing larger all the time, and of course I have a maid.as well as all the modern conveniences, jn my home." "And you've put on quite a bit of weight in the last few years, I judge?". She shudders sidly. "Thirty-two po&nds since my 25th birthday," she laments with tear3 in her voice. "And I used to have such a slender, grace ful figure." "I find in your hand, madam, an exaggerated mount which points to self-indulgence. You're good to yourself there's no mistakin' the signs." "Well," she argues, "why shouldn't I be? I can afford the best of every thing; I'll admit I have a decided craving for swee'.s, but I rarely ever eat over a pound of candy a day!" 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When we were first married- I had things hard enough, the cooking, cleaning, sewing and mar keting all to do myself!" "And you probably climbed three flights of steps to a flat that was too cheap for elevator service," I adds on, a guess. "I" did," she assures me. "And the only joy sprees we could afford to indulge in was a chocolate soda and a movie show on Saturday night. That's a hard life for you! "And yet," I reminded her, "friend hubby was the perfect lover in those days, wasn't he?" "Yes," she admits, "he was never critical of me then. He was always telling me how haautiful I was, and how much he loved me. And now, although I have my dressmaker spare no pains or expense with my clothes, he never notices my looks except to ask me if I haven't gained another five pounds. It's s,o dis couraging. 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