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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17

| sounds of great ship at sea were sud.
denly dumb. To his ears came instead
| the caroling OF birds in evening song after
rain, to his eyes a vision of Red Hill
| dripping light from its myriad leaves.
| and to his heart the protecting, broodng
shelter Of Maple House-of home.
1t cleanses mans soul to have been
\ at deaths door. Sickness, more than love,
| leads a man UP. Alan was feeling
! cleansed-llke a little chlld--so that It
| seemed quite natural thing that the girl
who had taken charge Of him on his
| arrival on board should knock at his door
, and then walk in She drew out a camp
stool and sat down beside him.
She was very small and very young.
not in years, but with what Alan termed
| to himself acquired youth. Her near.
| sighted eyes peered out through big
| glasses. They seemed to see only when
they made special effort, and yet they
seemed to give out light
You are better?" she asked and
smiled.
Alan caught his breath at that smile.
Yes" he said II am much better today.
have had letter from home"
| You must get up now and come up
| on deck" said the girl. "Gll wait for you
! outside" Her voice had a peculiar
modulation. 1t attracted and soothed the
| ear
Alan frowned and then smiled "Au
right" he said, "wait for me-" He
dressed laboriously His hands seemed
weighted.
On deck she had his chair ready for
him beside her own. She tucked his
rug about him and then sat down. Don't
talk ever, unless you want to-" she said.
silent people are best"
"Why?" asked Alan.
They are springs Their souls bubble"
And the people that chatter?" asked
Alan.
They are geysers," said the girl and
smiled.
Alan was observation-disclosures amused.
What do you do when geyser spouts?"
he asked.
"what do you do?" replied the girl.
II run"
I'm afraid haven't run-always." said
Alan. 81 generally try to clap a tin
hat on them"
You must be strong to do that. I'm
not very strong"
Alan glanced over her frail body what
are you?' he asked.
I'm missionary. At least, was
missionary. I've had to give it up. Ono
needs so much to be n missionary
II never thought of 1t that way" said
Alan. 'T always thought that II was
the people that were unfit for almost
anything else that turned to missionary
ing as a last resort"
"Oh, MOI" said the GIRL sitting up very
straight in her chair and fixing her eyes
on his face "How wrong you are! Mis-
| sionarying, as you call 1t, Is just another
name for giving, and how can one give a
great deal unless one has a great deal
to give-strength and youth and vitality?"
"And you have given all?" asked Alan.
The girls eyes filled
mo, you haven't given ALL" went on
Alan quickly. You are still giving l
must not borrow your last mite. But
your voice is like lurses h"nd."
When Alan went to bed he sould not
sleep For a while the little missionary
girl held his thoughts. He was filled
with wonder, not at her, but at himself.
For once in his life he had not been
nippant before grave things.
From the girl his thoughts turned to
Altx. He could have cabled to her about
Gerry from Pernambuco, but he had not
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MOTHERS DRESS WON'T FIT SISTER;
wv. C. A. GIRLS TRY IT FOR PARADE
Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration Plans for German
town Reveal Fact That Girls of Today Are Better
Developed Than Those of Fifty Years Ago

IF AN experience now being undergone
i by members Of the Germantown Y. w.
c. A. Is to be taken as a criterion young
women OF today are much better de-
velopcd physically than their ancestors
of so years ago.
Also, by the same token-Mrs. Edison
may deny this-young women of today
dress more senslbly in that they do not
lace themselves up as tightly as did
their maternal ancestors.
The Germantown Y. w c. a. is pre-
pairing, together with other branches OF
The Young Womcns Christian Associa-
tion. to celebrate the 50th anniversary OF
the founding of the institution. They will
have pageant Illustrating the develop
ment OF the Y. W. G. A., and for that
purpose the participants are digging
through the old clothes of their mothers
and gran6mothers in order that they may
be dressed in the varying fashions which
have successfully prevailed since 1856.
But they find, for the most part, that
they cannot wear these clothes. The
clothes are too SMALL the girls are too
big.
The pageant is to be held February 10
In the Y. w G. A. Building. on German
town avenue, It will be divided into five
parts, each part representing a different
decade. Mrs. Henry f. Durant, wife of
the founder of Wellesley College. in
whose home in Boston the Y. w. c. A.
was organized, will be portrayed in the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
FARMER SMITHS
GOODNIGHT TALKS
Students-We are all students of somethng-especially

something-especialy
nature
professor other day and he asked
seemed out OF some
thing that he talked to me- was
getting SOMETHING SAY.
that with 10000 (all
bher children could possibly out of IDEAS but
that tried level
that talking child and said to the learned
professor of Greek your telephone out?'
thought of that when wanted something
write when wanted write to your editor
about something?
AS the in this light he understood
The trouble have things to write about hat nave
OF trying to what can be left out
ANYTHING sentences
though three cents for word you wroust IKE
do telegram want our writers 10 DE
BRIEF postal card do and IN case you
anything about PUT EVERYTHING HAVE SAID
A SEND 1T TO ME-. will send this
talk professor and give him ONE
idea. FARMER SMITH,
LEDGER,
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Farmer Smiths Dog Book
BIRDS OF A FEATHER

BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Ginger didn't feel at all well. He
aad caught bad cold the night be-
i0fe' sleeping out in the rain, and his
'ark was very hoarse.
What's the matter, Ginger?" asked
laomas, the cat; "don't you feel
Oh, shut up!" growled Ginger,
= all your fault. You told me how
p'se It was to stay up all night and
Nag to the moon, and now look at
On, you mustn't mind that" pur-
u Thomas. "That's likely to hap
% you at any time. l couldn't
sp It If the moon was hidden by the
'eads. could IL"
Well MOI suppose not" said
Come out tonight" said Thomas.
= sure there will be nice moon"
vel, all right" said Ginger,
esing his mind, maybe will"
= be on the back fence. as
said Thomas, arching his
and stretching himself lazily.
night Ginger stole around the
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CHAPTER xxxI1-contlnued.

.srpRY shook his head. mo" he said,
Tot can't do that. I'm just going to sit
-. and wait for while and then I'm
..,ng home. There's something Tve got to
s,-.,gbten out. After that, I don't know.
o,,, there's something I wish you'd do for
rjeber, and that is to look after old
n,ra Maria and those two old darkies at
,,..orda Flores. They won't last long,
- NJ them. and l don't want them to
-. for anything. I'll square up with
you"
rieber nodded listlessly. "Tll look out
tcr them"
Tho next morning early, Gerry saw him
- There was wlstful look in the old
ans eyes as from the top of the cliff
!. ,rrned and gazed down the river. Lie
,,,o said Gerry you can count on me
!. Al what can for you when I get home.
DO you understand
tlsber flushed. Their eyes met. He took
n,rrv,s outstretched hand and gripped it
hsrd Then he rode away without a
word.
risber threw his horse into a rapid
..sE that was faster than a gallop. It
.ss killing pace, but he knew the met
,is NJ his mount. Late In the afternoon
No came to the confines of his ranch. The
ssood-eayed house i'm the distance looked
W., s,iIl and deserted. Beyond 1t loomed
,ts solitary joa tree. Something had hap
s.rod IN the ioa tree during the two days
<. mad been away. II had become bea-
an He remembered the giant Bougain-
,Inea vine that covered the tree. The
pouralnvilea had bloomed into tower
a mauve fame 1t stood out in daring
contrast to sombre desert and brown
,Iled roof. It's single, defiant and blarlng
rote struck an answering chord In Lie
her's heart He took courage of that brave
turst of color, so jarring in garden. but
IL tbe desert n thing of glory. Lieber
n,ssod into the loneliness of his deserted
house with a firm step.
Gerry spent many days at Piranhas as
NJ had planned, in thought. He went over
Ne life In a painstaking retrospection,
pis mind fingered long on the last three
years their fulness, their even upward
,rsnd Could a man live three such years
md lose them? In n CHASTITY half hour
the food had wiped out the tangible re-
suits Of three years of labor But what
.hout' the intangible? He had sinned
against Alix and against her faith, but
bad he sinned against himself? He felt
infinitely older than the first Gerry
lansing, but would he change this think
lng age for his unthnking youth? What
n he had learned three years ago that
AK had saved herself and his name?
Would It have meant loss or gain to him
today? Something within him cried,
Loss! Loss" but he dared not take
courage from the inward cry. He could
not know, he reasoned, until he had seen
Alx.
Until he had seen Alx. That thought
haunted him. 1t drove him. He must see
Alix. He must start by the very next
boat, but when the next boat came some
gnawing fear of 'unreadiness held him
back. His fear was greater than the COM
pellIng thought of AliX.
Twice, three times. the little stern
wheeler drove her nose into the mud bank
t Piranhas, called her hoarse warning
and departed. From some distant cliff
Gerry saw her come and go or, miles
away walking himself tired across the
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CHAPTER XXXII1
| TT WAS with some mlsgivings that
Il Kemp left Alan at the coast. Alan
was still very weak Kemp stood, more
inconeruous than ever against the rail Of
the little coaster bound for Pernambuco
and eyed Alan whom he had made com
Portable in a camp bed on the deck
1T seems to me, Mr.. Wayne" he said
that there mouEht he business watin
Ter me at Pernambuco thet don know
nothln about I've got hunch I'd best
go along of you and see"
Alan smiled. ~ know what your hunch
Is, Kemp, and it's a wrong one I'm all
worry"
Kemp was standing In angles His
hands were thrust In his trousers pockets
but even so his elbows were crooked. One
root was raised on n rail. He was coat
| less as usual. His unbottoned vest stuck
out behind His Stetson hat was pulled
well down over his eyca His eyes had
taken on the far-away and slightly
luminous look that always came into
them when he was about to speak from
the heart
"Mr. Wayne" he said. "T've tol you
some things about Lieber an you've seen
some more. You know how he stands
Lieber's livin' in hell, like the rich greaser
In the Bible with his tongue stuck out
begin for one drop of water. only Lieber
hain,t got his tongue stuck out-he's
btin' It,"
Kemp paused and Alan nodded.
81 was thinkin'," Kemp continued, "thet
perhaps youn Mr.. Lansing with yo' folks
hepn' mought chuck him that drop o.
water when you get back to Heaven,
meanin' Moo Yawk.". Kemp brought his
eyes slowly around and rested them on
Alan.
Kemp" said Alan, don't you worry
If J. Y. Wayne & Co haven't gone to
smash or the world otherwise come to an
end, you can be sure Lieber will get his
water in full bucket"
Kemp nodded and with "S'long and
good luck" disappeared down the gang.
way.
At Pernambuco Alan found an accum.
ulation of mail awaiting him and a liner
bound for home. The liner was too big
to get into the little harbor behind the
reef. She rode The swell mile out from
shore
Alan lost no time in making his trans.
fer. From the tender he was winched up
to the deck in a passenger basket AS he
left the wicker coop he smiled at himself
in disgust Ten Percent Wayne had often
jumped for a gangway from the top of a
flying sea; never before had he gone
aboard as cargo But the smile suddenly
left his face. He reeled and put one hand
toward rail- Somebody caught his arm
and led him to a long chair. He sank
into it and shivered.
1t was a girl that had helped him. AS
soon as she saw he was not going to
faint she left him, to come back pres.
emily with the doctor and room steward
They took charge of him.
Day after day Alan lay in his cabin
listless, before he thought of his batch of
letters. They were still in the pocket of
his coat. He asked the steward to hand
them to him, looked through them, picked
out one and laid the rest aside. The one
he picked out was Clem's.
With her own peculiar wisdom. Glenn
had written not about him or herself but
about Red Hill. Alan read and then drop
ped the letter to his lap. His hands fell
clenched at his sides. His eyes, grown
large, stared out down the long vista of
the mind Walls faded away and the
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house again to the back fence. There
was Thomas; and there was the moon,
bright and beautiful, shining over
head.
How Thomas did serenade the
moon! He sang and sang until Gin
ger thought he, too, would sing a
little.
Such terrible noise as those two
did make, screeching and barking!
"scat!" yelled Ginger's master, out
of the top window, and an old shoe
aimed at Thomas landed right on
Ginger's nose.
xxi, vi! XII yi!" howled Ginger, as
he scooted around the house under
the porch.
The very next night, when Thomas
was telling Dobbin, the horse, about
the serenade, Ginger stole quietly into
the barn. My, how he did surprise
Thomas lat least Thomas told Mrs.
Tabby so the very next night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
1872 MEN WANT WIDOW
Answer "Ad" Placed in North Wales
Paper

One hundred and eighty-three men,
ranging in age from % to As years and
living in many parts of Pennsylvania.
New Jersey and Delaware, want the job
offered by the widow who owns produc-
tive farm near North Wales and who ad-
veTtised for man to work there three
days ago. And lS2 want the widow.
The job Is still open, The widow says
she intends to go slow in making her Sc
lection. Pending that time William b,
Kirkpatrick, Magistrate and newspaper
publisher, declines to reveal her identity.
Every mail this week has brought in
quiries to Kirkpatrick, Letters have been
received at North Wales from Philadel-
phia, Trenton. Chester, Wilmington
Wilkes Barre. Scranton, Reading, Potts
town, Sunbury, Pittsburgh and Pughtown
Thirteen applicants have called on the
Magistrate I'm person.
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keep trading stamps. can all be kept there
within convenient reach
"Ain't 1t runny woman never knows
where her pockctbook is?" a grocers boy
once asked me. 1t is amusing, but isn't
II true? An old jug or vase on the Kitchen
shelf makes good and unsuspected
gardian for the family purse. Then when
you want 1t in hurry you don't have to
hunt for II all over the house.
watching n cake" or waiting for the
meat" gives you often an unemployed
10 minutes or more in the kitchen. IL
you have on your handy kitchen shelt
the book you are readng-these odd mo-
ments may be pleasantly passed Or
better still, II you keep pen and ink there
YOU may answer that long-promised
letter
The uses of the housekeeper's book
shelf are many and far-reaching. BE on
good terms with kitchen conveniences-
put one up for yourself.
Copyright 1915 by Virginia Z. KIT
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pageant by Miss Margaret Riegel. Miss
Rlegel has succeeded in finding a gown
Of the 1866 period, but, although she is
Of the same size as the person who wore
II originally, she cannot manage to
squeeze into II.
This experience IL being shared by the
other girls. officials Of the Y. w. G. A..
say this is due TO the fact that young
women of today are getting healthful
exercise and as result are much better
developed than the young women of half
a century ago.
incidentally. Mrs. Durant is still living,
at an advanced age, In her beautiful
home at wellesley. Mass. not far from
the college campus
Miss Amy Larned and Miss Faith Clark
are directing the Germantown pageant.
The opposite types of the Y. w, c. a.
girl of 1866 and 1916 will be portrayed by
Miss Dorothy Bower and Miss Hattie
I.onEstrcet, respectively.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
OPPOSES SOLDIER PUPILS
Peace League Against Military Train
ing in Schools

The Patriotic Peace League last night
announced II would combat military train
ing in the public schools
A mass-meeting may be held to COM
bat the preparedness" move, and repre-
sentatives OF the combined peace organi-
cations will file a formal protest in the
matter with the school authorities.
History, the peace organization says,
shows that military training in the
schools has been a failure wherever tried.
england and France have tried II and
given 1t up as OF no value After the
Franco -Prussian war OF 1S7O-7l, with a
real enemy menaclng its safety. France
adopted school drill. For 20 years the
French Experimental. changed, tried
anew, and finally sold at auction the ex-
pensive equipment which they had ac-
cumulated because the training 1t was
possible to give was valueiess-"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17

latest styles in skirts and the curve OF
the instep is just a little prolonged; there
fore she has measured off the space and
has planted attractive adornments half,
way between.
1t wasn't very hard to think of brace
let for one ankle. but what TO put on the
other was puzzler until she happened Ia
think of watch or course, the adorn-
ments won't exactly keep her warm. but
at least they will keep milady's extremi-
ties from shivering. provided the adorn-
ments are fastened tightly enough. Think
how much easier il will be to sec what
time 1t is also in comparison with the old
wrist watch? No long sleeves to pull up
or muff to discard
It is predicted that 1t will not be long
before mere man won't care whether he
has his own watch or not. Folks viii fol
low the fashions
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
Fall on lee Kills Woman

WILMINGTON. Del. Feb. L. Mrs.
sarah E Carton, OF SIS Adams street,
fell on the ice at sth and Jefferson streets
here ana received injuries from which
she died in a few minutes. Mrs Carton
was the widow OF Charles II. Carton,
butter ana egg dealer, who died suddenly
8 lev months age.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17

no YOU have trouble with your ice
~ bills getting paid twice. or at least
have an occasional dispute about the bill?
Suppose you put UP handy bookshelf
In the kitchen, and keep your cash book.
bills. receipts. etc. there. Then every
time you pay a bill at the kitchen door
have the man who receives the money
sign his name beside the entry in your
cash book.
Monday:
Ice Observation-Disclosures. 35c.-Johnson.
You could do the same with your bread.
milk, laundry and other weekly Items, 40
that If no formal bill is presented you
have a signature which Is not likely tc
get lost-as receipted bills often do.
The shelf is useful for more than the
cashbook and bill file; cooking recipes,
hints on laundry work. scrapbooks of
useful household information gotten from
everywhere, and your stampbook, II you
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
Convey Conner Of Broad and PopIar

Title to the Dock residence, at the north
west corner of Broad and Poplar streets.
lot So feet by 160 feet, has passed to
Kahn & Greenberg, who have given to the
Real Estate Title Insurance and Trust
Company a first mortgage of s55 900 on
the property and to the Columbia Build
ing Association a second mortgage of
$4,000
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
Bala and Cynwyd Want R. R. Tunnel

protest will be made by the Nelghbor-
hood club of Bala and Cynwyd against
the order of the Pennsylvania Railroad
prohibiting passengers, as a safety meas
ure from crossing the tracks through the
gates at the Cynwyd station level Now,
all must climb over n high bridge The
association, while anxious to cooperate in
any safety measure, thinks tunnel
should he constructed for the benefit OF
the passengers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17

is h ere because
she is one of the
energetic workers
on the pin money
squad.
James Smyth, Jr.,
Cynwyd, Pa, hopes
that Mayor Smith,
who recently join
ed the r a i n b o W
Club, will be a
very active MEM
L.. Tl.s.- F.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
win Address Real Estate Board

At the monthly meeting of the Phila-
delphia Real Estate Board, 10 be held to-
night at the clubhouse. 1il4 Girard street.
an address will be made by w C, Benkert
on "Appraisng Water Front and Wharf
Properties in Philadelphia"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
RAINBOW CLUB
Our Postoffice Box

Another little curly locks jumped
out of Mother Goose's book and wan
dered into Rainbow Land. She is
known as Rose Ervais and she lives
on South 9Th street and her picture
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
Do You Know This?

l.. What is the difference between
WHICH and WITCH? (Fiye credits
2. What is a hemisphere? Give
eredits.)
8. Describe in 10 words a room in
your home. Five credits.l
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And NOp MiIady
Has an Ankle Watch

And now it's the ankle watch!
Milady, as well as other observing folks,
has had an idea for some time that per.
haps the pause between the tops of the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-17
FARMER SMITH,
EVENING LEDGER:

I wish to become a member OF
your Rainbow Club. Please send
me a beautiful Rainbow Button
free. / agree to DO A LITTLE
KINDNESS EACH AND EVERY
DAY - SPREAD A LITTLE
SUNSHINE ALL ALONG THE
WAY:
Name .-....'s''''''''''''''''
Address ......''''''''''f'''.''
Age ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
School | attend ...',..,.,..,....
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ATTENTION! GIRLS AND
BOYS

If YOU want to earn pin
money after school and on Sat
urdays, write a letter to
Farmer Smith, Room 1O1,
EVENING LEDGER.
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Il 1OM F fS
THE NOVEL VI IHE YEAR oiSSq1iaiN NSlx
CHAPTER XXx1Ir

did not heed It, '''
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1916-06-16
Need of Conserving the
Wild Bird Life
By MRS. }. P. MAcCULOCH, Joliet; III.

work amply the small destroying
able and invisible
will do the work the spring
in the fall when
large extent with embryo life that
full destructive by early spring There great monetary
the work done by the wild birds.
The cotton forty million
dollars by the boil weev The wheat growers
by the nch bug The farmers the pay
for material to kill the potato bug The pppoucng pay
from $oO0000 to 100000 year spraying
codlng moth Truck raisers lose yearly $5oOooOoo by
Shade trees everywhere and the being destroyed by
pests Why this great loss? Ninety per this coun
try has been destroyed Birds only keep check
the ravage Of insects
boil weev and the chnch bug great
the potato bug the beetle that n
home flower and vegetable gardens Wild very encou
agement will keep these pests down o large extent.
Getting altogether from the commercial question:
there is great deal of genuine having friendship
birds having them call your yard several times day
feeding and ahered
friends enjoy the "handout."
Of the will
chased two three times day when the wild birds and
has been experience that the parrows easily frightened
than the wild birds
have quite large feeding house the easily
observed from window,
by These Injuries have induced steady buea iuncos
chckadees (back cap) downy woodpker mouse all
of cardinals The whibed nuthach among visitors
have not been able get the cardinals yard but
they and eat the wheat that day. trust
that they will soon get friendly the rest of the birds