The daily Alaskan., 1917-09-27

You must never, never again use such terrible and wicked word"
 "I won't, mamma" Jane said meek ly. Then she frightened. "Oh, I knowl I'll say word instead. Won't that be all rightH"
 1T suppose so."
 "Well, Mir. Parcher said be couldn't ! stand those word boys. That sounds all right doesn't 1t, mammaf"
 Mrs. Baxter hesitated, but she well knew that Jane had her own way of telling things, or else they remained 1ntold.
 1T suppose so."
 "Well, they kind of talked along," Jane continued, much pleased, "an' Mir. Parcher said when he was young he wasn't any such aAsuch a word fool as these young word fools were. He said in all his born days Willie Baxter was the wordest fool he ever Saw." ......---
 Willie Baxter's mother flushed lit- tie. That was very unjust and very wrong of Mir. Parcher," she said Primly.
 "Oh, no, mammal" Jane protested. Mrs. Parcher thought so too."
 Did she, indeed?"
 "Only she didn't say word or word est or anything like that" Jane ex- plained "She said it was because Miss Pratt had coaxed him to be so in love of her. An MT. Parcher said he didn't care whose fault 1t was, Will lie was a-a word calf, an so were all the rest of 'em, MT. Parcher said. An he said he couldn't stand 1t any more. MT. Parcher said that a whole lot Of times. mamma. He said he guess pretty soon he'd haf to be In the luna tic asylum if Miss Pratt stayed few more days with her word little dog an her word Willie Baxter an all the other word calfs. Mrs Parcher said be oughtn't to say word mamma. She said, Hush, hush! to him, man. ma. He talked like this, mamma: He said, I'll be word if I stand it.! An he kept gettin crosser, an he said: Word! Word! Word! WOR"-
 "Therer' Mrs. Baxter interrupted sharply. That will do, Jane! We'll talk about something else now, think"
 At nightfall Jane was saying her prayers beside her bed, while her mother stood close by.
 An bless mamma an papa an "- Jane murmured, coming to a pause "an'-an' bless Willie" she added, with little reluctance.
 "Go on, dear said her mother You haven't finished"
 "I know it, mamma" Jane looked up to say. T was just thinkln' a min ute. want to tell you about somepn."
 Finish your prayers first, Jane"
 Jane obeyed with swiftness in which there was no intentional trrev- erence; then she jumped into bed and | began a fresh revelation.
 Its about papa's clo'es, mamma"
 "What clothes of papas? What do you mean, JaneY asked Mrs. Baxter, puzzled.
 "The ones you couldn't find-the ones you been lOOkin' for most every day"
 You mean papas evening clothes"
 "Yesm," said Jane. "Willies got 'em on," Jane assured her, with em- phasis. q bet he's had 'em on every single evening since Miss Pratt came to visit the Parchers. Anyway, he's got 'em on now, Cause I saw 'em."
 Mrs. Baxter drowned. Are you sure?"
 "Yes'm. I saw him In 'em. 1 was in my bare feet after I got undressed, an l was kind of walkin' around in the hall'-
 You shouldn't do that, Jane"
 "No'm. An heard Willie say somep'n kind of to himself, or like 1 deCk8matiOn. He was inside his room, but the door wasn't quite shut He started out once, but he went back for somep'n an forgot to, l guess. Any way, I thought better look an see what was goln' on, mamma, so l just kind of peeked in"- But you shouldn't do that, dear" Mrs. Baxter said musingly. Tt isn't really quite honorable"
 Nom. Well, what you think he was doin'?" Here Jane's voice betrayed excitement, and so did her eyes, He was standin' up there in papas clO'es before the loOkin'glass, an first he'd lean his head over on one side, an then he'd lean 1t over on the other side, an then he'd bark, mammal"
 "He'd what2"
 "Yes'm" said Jane. He'd give q | little, teeny bark, mamma-kind of like puppy, mamma"
 "What?" cried Mrs. Baxter.
 "Yesm, he did," Jane asserted. He did it four or five times. First he'd lean his head way over on his shoulder like this-look, mammalian then he'd lean 1t away over the other shoulder, an every time he'd do 1t he'd bark. 'Berp-werp" he'd say, mamma, just like that, only not loud at all. He said: 'Berp-werp! Berp-Uerp-lcerpg You could tell he meant It for barkin', but 1t wasn't very good, mamma. What