Putnam patriot., 1911-05-19

'J uPOu uiS was Ike the icineSS of alabaster or it's sister-marble.
 low. delicious tril of laughter broke his momentary hesitation. It did not come from the lady in his arms, but from the girl who had fol- lowed him into the room.
 He turned and looked at her She was small and slight. with a pale face crowned with bronze brown hair. but her face was lovely and her eyes the softest brown. She wore the most charming gown of brown velvet that matched her eyes exactly. She was dimpling with laughter when he turn ed, and she tried to stiffen her fea- lures into solemnity as their eyes met.
 T hope you will pardon mel am so sorry" she faltered. You have been so very kind and brave to put out the fire, but if you had not said madam 1t would not seem so funny. Oh, dear'' Again she rippled into laughter.
 Lucien looked down at the form he was holding so stiffly in his arms. His eyes widened with amazement, and a sheepish grin overspread his face.
 The lady of the alabaster hand star ed unwinkingly at him from beautiful eyes fringed with long lashes. Her beautifully arranged dark hair was drawn away from a waxen brow-yes, waxen face of pink and white per lection! The shimmering fabric of her handsome gown fell Imply away from her. and the laces of her sleeve exposed a waxen arm and the perfect alabaster hand.
 Gently Lucien Braddock stood the wax figure upright. The lovely ala baster white hands were held stifiy before her. She was very beautiful. but she was made of wax!
 "I am so sorry" repeated the girl as Lucien faced about
 Pm not" he said after a quick glance at her face. Its one on me though Er-I wonder if you would mind telling me why she was standing there in the window"
 "I must explain" said the girl with pretty dignity. You see. I live with my cousin. Jeanne Goulard She mar ried M. Goulard of Paris. and after he died she found she was quite poor. So she came back to New York with the loveliest ideas about clothes and open ed dressmaking parlors in this house. That Is all You have mistaken the model In one of the front windows for a-a-person. We are very grate- full to you for your brave deed tonight. sir. You may smile, but the waxen model is very valuable and the gown also"
 Lucien laughed heartily at his own discontinue, and the girl joined him with that low contralto laugh which he had heard once before.
 'I wonder if you would mind telling me something" be ventured-
 What is it?''
 Do you recollect standing in the vestibule of your house several weeks ago and seeing a man taking off his hat to your modelT' asked Lucien.
 "Yes, indeed! Pardon me, but it was so funny"
 This time Lucien joined her in the laugh. and the sound of their mirth brought Mime. Goulard below stairs.
 After the whole matter had been ex- plained to her Mime. Goulard intro duced her pretty cousin as Miss Ethel Wyndsel. and Lucien recollected classmate at college whose name had been Nick Wyndsel. and of course he was Ethels brother. Lucien was in vited to dine with them. and Mime Goulard insisted that his vis-a-vis might be the lovely model with the alabaster hand
 Then Lucien told his story and re- lated how be had looked from under his umbrella that rainy night to dis cover the alabaster hand holding back the curtain.
 "Oh. that was Ethels artistic pos ing" laughed Mime. Goulard. "She admired the hands of that model quite as much as you did. sir. l suppose it was her own arm that reached up and pulled down the shade"
 'T shall always have the friendliest feeling for the wax lady" said Lucien earnestly as he bade them good night
 Months afterward, when certain mat ters of importance had to be settled between Ethel and himself he protest ed that her own small hand with it's shell pink palm and the diamond glis- tening on the third finger was the fafrest thing in the world.
 for fha adv with the alabaster hand you would never have met me- she re- preached him.
 ..True." he agreed. Lets have the lady for your bridesmaid" Japanese Polteness. Courtesy is the invariable rule Tn Ja- nan instead of being more or less the exception, as with us. A Japanese steamboat in which separate decks were arranged for the white and the yellow people respectively carried sign on its English deck which, ID our familiar curt phraseology. read, No admittance beyond this line On the deck for Japanese travellers the same prohibition was expressed as follows. "The honorable guests or this company, remembering that the master said The princely man is seir restrained. will kindly exercise that self restraint of which the master spoke and not allow their jade stone feet to wander past this line. 4 Glimpse of Heaven. paterfanilias-W Well. Mir. Smith, I'm | ,-.a =, so, ron at our humble board