The diamond drill., 1919-06-07

the nomadic TRIBE. wandering from
place TO place. He Is Just Gypsy.
The Gypsy. Don, Is rover There
isn't a spot In the world that he
loves. He camps beside the streams
along the road or on another mans
land. He has no land OF his own
He has borrowed frying pan and
stolen eggs. He has broken down
wagon and horse skeletons wired
together for trading purposes. Every
morning the woman picks up the fry
ing pan and wires up the bones Of
the team and they move on. citizens
OF the public highway. That is the
renter. He moves every time he can
save enough money to pay for a NOV
ing van and some new curtains for
the windows. There isn't a sacred
spot in the world which he can call
home.
Don't be a Gypsy. Don. II you be-
long to the Brains family The rent
ers belong to the family OF fools and
don't know IT,"
The old gentleman talked about the
value OF a home with more wisdom
than had ever heard. He shook all
my arguments loose and stunned me
too, with a kind or undercurrent oi
contempt for the man who would
waste happiness by paying rent Their
abruptly he got up and went out e
his car. AS he climbed in, he landed
on me With this bomb:
Telling a girl you love her, doesn'
mean anything. You can get a photo
graph to do that and do 1t better, fo'
can tell Just how much man love
his wife and his Riddles by the kim
OF fight he puts up to give them
home OF their own"
He turned on the power and droy
away without nod or shake or
goodbye.
had a week to myself and in tha
week did some thinking which us
ually led me up against a stone wal
and | saw how many kinds OF foe
had been when l was single an
had spent my money instead Of plant
ing some OF 1t in a lot, which woul
have been paid for and a nest egg be
sides when | got married, and the
this home problem would have bee
solved.
There ought to be course In ever
school which would teach boys an
girls the value of homes, and sho'
them how to plant their first saving
in a lot. They would be better boy
and girls and better citizens and be
ter patriots. II Is easy to love III
country which protects your proper
ty
Well. the day before we were I
bring Lorna and the boy nome *
letter from Uncle John 1t wa
Characteristic
My dear Dom lie began, Il fe
in love with your wire when / sa
her otherwise | wouldn't write 20
, this letter. ! kept thinking of h,
and that four hundred dollars We,
you are wasting in rent,
Say, Don, did you know that Il
cottage you live in Is haunted sa
Z the ghost when was there TIL
Is why left in such a hurry. but Il
darned thing has followed me and
have been worrying about your fra
little wife coming back to that haun
ed house
Every rented house is haunte
The ghosts walk and stalk in eve
room.
Every rented house has seen mu
der committed.
Thrift has been killed in the kite
en-.
Abundance has been murdered
the dining room.
1 Hope has died in the doorway
Happiness is slain at the heart
stone
: Love smothers in the fumes OF Il
, rented house.
The rented house Is the Potter
Field ot the living as the borrow
grave is the Potters' Field Of the dea
What did you get married for an
way? TO get a maid and a cook? y,
could hire them. But you could ne
er hire one like Lorna.
i Say Don, III bet you lied like
horse thief to that pretty wife
\ yours You had to. 10 yet her. y,
4 are not much 70 look al, you kno