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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11
By Joella Johnson

in their fierce, set faces alarmed her. 'fWhat has ed-Nell-Ethel- their father?" she gasped
 "Nol" they said scornfully. Oh,> the selfshness of heri And then Mrs. El- son and Mrs. Hone blurted out, in a few swift words, all that they were breeding over.
 "Oh!" said Mrs Dorcher, with a little catch in her voice. "Oh-" Her face flnaed scarlet. For a moment she seem ed about to order them off her porch. Then .her lip trembled Come inside!' she ordered bitterly, and led them into her small pretty living room. "Stay here," she exclaimed coldly. Then she herself went out to the kitchen. Lis ten" she called in a whisper to them over her shoulder as she drew aside the portieres. Then to some one in the kitchen she said, yearly, yet gently, Mother, don't want you to can peaches this afternoon or any time. It's too hard work And people are talking about mei'
 There was second of silence Then this is what the amazed women heard :: Esther, think you're real mean. I
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had. l never heard that there was any trouble between her and Drake, but there's never any telling these days. Mrs. Drake's mourning was elegant. It would be.
 There were good many flowers, but hardly what you'd expect, consider ing the social set the Drakes are in, and he being SO prominent in business. l took special notice, so l could tell Me lissa- Mir. Drake looked real natural.
 Melissa didn't seem to take much in terest after all in what told her. The maid that came to the door wasn't go- ing to let me in-said Mrs Smith was sick-but I said that was just the time for her to see an old friend like me, and I walked right in. Servants do take so much on themselves nowadays.
 'I went upstairs to Melissa's room She wasn't even in bed, but was sitting up in big chair, trigged out in gay negligee and reading-what do you think? A detective story! In her state of health person would think she'd have been reading the Bible or some good religious book Much as I've all ways thought of Melissa, there are time:
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him, no matter what he is like"
 In the evening he came "a big, strap ping young man, full of life and good cheer, his large blue eyes twinkling just as Thirty-Pornd-Bi did, yet with ,wistfulness in them that wrung Elias heart '1 wish you'd help me-" he came to the point at once. "1'm frantic about the boy. My parents are dead and the wife's-she died at his birth-are across the continent. There's no one to leave Billy with. I've tried him in three board ing houses already. But the people take him in because they need the money, not because they need him. Perhaps you won't believe r1e, Miss French, but I worry more over that tiIe than I do over anything else"
 Elias mother offered solution. Let me have him. Elm alone all day, with Ella of at the settlement house. I'd love to have him here"
 So it was settled. Thirty-P Billy
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terday she said, Mercy, grandma Are you still grating horseradish?' And her grandmother said just as meekly, I know I've been long time, but I'll soon fnish'"
 Well, I've cut Mrs. Dorcher twice already" informed Mrs. Hone, spirited 1y-"once at church and once on the sstreet-and she stared at me as though she were simply dunbfounded- I think the next time I'll stop and tell her whyl !"
 q tried to make Jim say sonething to Dorcher when they ride down in the train mornings, but he squir1ned and wouldn't do it," said Mrs. Wells.
 There was minute of silence. And apparently the same thought came to each indignant woman sitting on Mrs. Elson's porch Lets go right over and tell her it's got to stop!' said three to- gether.
 Well, what had been rather hard to do alone seemed easy enough in concert. They jumped to their feet and made a quick, determined way to the Dorcher porch, where Mrs. Dorcher was placid ly ernbroidering a dolly. She rose with smile to greet them. Then something
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but it hasn't seemed to do her any good, and now she's got new doctor, and he has her under observation, as they say, to find out exactly what's the matter and whether o.' not there's going to be any need to operate. She's going to be X-rayed and I don't know what all. It seems kind of awful to have your in side looked into that way. She's going to the hospital tomorrow, because the doctor says he wants her to have some special treatment She has a trained nurse now, though I really don't see why. It seems to me like extravaganza, for Melissa isn't in bed. She's dressed and setting up.
 I've had my idea for some time about what's the matter with Melissa She's got symptoms like her Aunt Kate had, and you know, how she went. The doctors said it was one of those benign growths and that there wasn't any risk worth mentioning. Benign nothing When they cut into her they found it was malignant land they couldn't operate. So they sewed her up and she died inside of two days.
 "Me1issa's got thin and sallow and has
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that same anxious look that her Aunt Kate had I could see it in minute, and I told her so.
 "I went to Sam Drake's funeral this morning, and l thought maybe Melissa would like to hear about it. They say that she and Sam were engaged once and that when they quarrelled and 1t was broken off both of 'em were sorry when 1t was too late. Of course, po- body knows that for certain, but any way she knows Dral1es. No I'm not acquainted with any of them except Mrs. Drake's sister, who lives over at Terre Haute, next door to my sister Jane's. But I thought I'd go to the funeral because the pastor of their church does preach the loveliest funeral sermons. He's so sympathetic He has SO much feeling. especially for widows, that the tears fairly come to his eyes. l cried, I was so reminded of the loss of my dear husband. I expect my eyes are red yet
 Some folks are queer, though, sat where I could see the raourners, and Mrs. Drake was as calm and composed never shed tear or looked as if she
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ment, she pulled the inpish Billy out of danger.
 What had seemed an eternity was really but a second Seated on the curb stone, her heart beating loudly, her hands gripping Billy so that he whim- pered with pain, anger surged forth in a tempest And when the girl who should have been taking care of the tot returned for him, Ello poured flood of accusa- tions upon her.
 Its a shame. You are not fit to take care of children Where is his father i? Whats his address? He ought to know how Billy is being neglected. Look at his clothes They are filthy. It's won der his body is as clean as it is.'
 She stopped after a while. out of breath. Stimulated by the frightfu1 ex- perience she had passed through, she de- termined to follow the matter up.
 'When ma wants to write to MT. No
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ble she uses 'Rochester-General De1iv- cry for an address; that's all. Some times he's there and sometimes he ain't," the girl admitted. reluctantly.
 "Very well. Take Billy home now and do clean him Up. Good-by, Thirty Pound Billy
 Billy was all sunshine again He "ta- ta'd' srnilingly and Ella watched him disappear down the avenue.
 Ella wrote to Billys father. Hell say it's none of my business" she said to her mother, "but I've fallen in love with his son and can't see him neglect ed"
 A week passed, and when the girl had almost forgotten the Billy episode a blue-coated individual left a telegram at the door, "I'm in for it now," Ella groaned, reading the message. "Bi11y's father is calling tonight He will prob ably pitch into me with all kinds of maledictions. But I don't carel I'll race
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front porch of their gray and green cot tage; sometimes he went to the movies The two girls, Nell, twelve, and Ethel, fourteen years old, were just two ordi- nary fairly pretty school girls, who grumb1ed when the supper dishes made them late to the first picture show and leased their parents for more gloves and shoes than they actually needed
 . Just an ordinary American family, that was all the Dorchers were. And for several weeks the little old grand mother made an ordinary addition that called for no comment She sat on the porch mornings and ptttered around the back yard afternoons. Passers-by came to know her small gray shawl and the bent shoulders under it.
 And then neighbors began to talk. Mrs. Cadd, who ,lived. next door, spoke first about it-not spitefully or meanly, but regretfully. Mrs Cadd had buried her own beloved old mother only two years before and other old mothers were in a way sacred to her. And there were tears in her eyes when she told Mrs. Horty that old Mrs. Dorcher had picked over gooseberries all one hot
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closely, as she sought an even balance How much does he weigh, mam?"
 Exactly 30 pounds to an ounce. We shall have to nickname him Thirty Pound Billy" won't we, sir?"
 Billy displayed row of pearly teeth i; his large blue eyes wrinkled with mer- riment; he gave a joyous squeal and held out eager hands to Ella
 "Oh, you darling," she cried, clasping him tightly in her arms. "Is he your brother?" to the girl.
 "No, he don't belong to us. His mas dead and his pa travels. He just boards with us"
 Take good care of him. He is too precious to be sighted" Ella carried him to the room used for dressing the babies. Gan you dress him?"
 "Yes, mann; do every day"
 Ella left Billy in the girls care and hastened back to her desk. For long
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was strong and to have doctor who wouldn't give her too much chloroform. Some of these doctors do get so care less. Why, there was the one who op- erated on Ann Hartman! he left a sponge and one of his instruments in side of her, and of course she didn't get well and they finally had to cut in again and hunt for the things.
 "I'd just been telling Malissa about these and ore or two other operations, and was warning her not to let them X~ray her too much-the green light ming from the X-ray machine is apt to make permanent burns, didn't you know at?-when Melissa gave screech and then began to cry and laugh all at once. as if she were crazy. A regular case of mysteries, the first time ever knew her to have such thing. I'd noticed her acting twitci1y and fdgety for some time, but I never would have thought that she, of all women, would have such spell.
 At that minute the trained nurse came in gave one look at Melissa. and then at mel was getting some water to throw~~in Melissa's face-they say
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11
By Abner Anthony

that's good for hysterics-and, would you believe 1t, took the water from my hand and actually invited me to gof Said she would look after Melissa, and wouldn't need any help Held the door open for me, and before I fairly knew it, I was out in the hall and she shut the door in my very face and turned the key. The impotence of her! Those trained nurses think they own the pa tient and his premises.
 "The way Melissa went to pieces made me positive that something seri- ous is the matter with her. P1n glad I Saw her when I did, I make it a point to visit the sick when can and checr them up. I'm going over now to Green field to see Cousin Hattie. Just heard the other day she's in something i1Ie a decline She'll be glad to see me.
 "But it's about time for the car, SO I'll run along. Pm so glad to have had a little visit with you. Take care of yourself. You're not looking at all well. Your co1or's awful and you're so hollow eyed Nancy Collins has that same look, and she's got enlargement of the liver. Good-by. I'll drop in again soon"
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The indignation grew when one day Mrs. Bison called on Mrs. Dorcher and while she was there heard her say in a low, cautious tone: Mother, there's some one here. You must quit work for a while, until she goesp'
 And then Mrs. Elson's ffteen-year-old Ruth. who chummed with Ethel Dorch- CT. said gravely that Nell and Ethel had laughed and said that since grandma had come to live with them the supper dishes didn't delay them for the first picture show.
 Isn't she rather old to wash and wipe supper dishesi asked Ruth. She knew how people were talking. Her mother had not been silent before her.
 But Ethel said carelessly: "She just wipes lem. Oh, no, she doesn't mind. She insists on doing it"
 'Insistsi" snorted Mrs. Bison when Ruth reported this. T guess the poor old soul knows that 1t is wise for her to insist! I guess she knows she wouldn't be welcome very long if she didn't insist!"
 Nell is rather impertinent to her, too," reluctantly informed Ruth. "Yes-
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just can't sit around and not workl ain't harming any one. J can't knit, you know. I can't read, and I despi.es" wig orously, "being read to! I've weried all my life. My hands get restless and SO does my mind when I'm idle Please. Esther," piteously, If can't can peach es, can clean tfe pa.arezy?"
 People are talking" said her daugh- ter-in-1aw co1dly. -l <
 "Oh, la! When you get as old as me, honey, you won't mind folks talk. Peo- pie are always talking. Can clean the pantry?"
 Mrs. Dorchcr turned to see Mrs. E1- son, who, with an oddly working counte- nance, had come out, too. Grandma" said Mrs. Elson, in low and strange voice, Eff you aren't busy would you mind coming over to my house tornor- row morning? I've got some pluns to jelly and never had much success with plum jelly"
 The little old bent woman turned to her radiant face. "Oh, I'd just love to come And if do say 1t myself, my plum jelly is grandl''
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wrinlrled old woman with rather plain tive eyeA She was badly bent Her shoulders curved like bow. It did not take nnuchspre-science to know that she had worked hard nearly all her life. And she was seventy-hve.
 Until she came the Dorchers had oc- cupied rather unimportant position in the inevitable gossip of the suburb They were quiet people, sociable.zbut not ef- fusively,, so. Mrs. poreher was "a chunky, rather sallow woman, middle aged; her hair was beginning to turn gray. She played cards badly. but she gave all her old clothes, some of which were fairly good, to the United Chari- ties. Henry Dorcher was city sales man-men's furnishings. He usually smoked pipe evenings on the pleasant
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11
By Elsie Endicott

was installed at his new home, where hs was cared for and loved, and where Billy's father spent many hours with his son-and Ella
  The doctor had weighed the baby He placed it in big Toms arm, who laid 1t tenderly beside the waiting Ella. The little lady weighs eight pounds, sweet heart,' he wispered, kissing the white lips lovingly.
 My, but she's got to gain some be- fore sne can catch up with our Thirty Pound, B.1lyI'
 Thirty pounds! Nearly 60 now--the buster"
 T like 10 think of him as the little 2-year-old baby. owe SO much to him. Ella unused.
 "So do l." Tom gripped Ella tight. "All I have that makes life worth living ! won through him and his 30 pound"
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forting, soothing.
 The next one shall be the last for today" she stated just as Billy toddled in. His fat little toes curled into the rough mating. one dimpled finger was lost in a rosebud mouth. Pushed by an older girl, he waddled over to where Ella stood by tine scales and grinned roguishly at her.
 Well, little man" Ella exclaimed, lifting him, 'what is your name?"
 "Yiyi tum durn," babbled Billy.
 ~Hecan't speak yet mann. Billy's only No.- explained the girl, watching Ella
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Replaceable Heel Plugs.

The ordinary rubber heel is said to be endowed with longer life than that of leather, but even at that they wear down on one side or the other and must be re- newed from time to time on this ac- count
 An entirely new idea introduced into the manufacture of rubber heels makes their life practically lin1itless and keeps the heel level.
 This is by means of plugs, which are harder than the material of the heel, xes dc not interfere with the rssil.>As
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rise at will to the surface of the sea or to descend
 A very tiny creature to start with, the nautilus, as it grows bigger, moves .out- ward in its shell and builds wall of pearl-stuff behind it In this way (by repeating the operation again and again) the series of chambers is made, the animal always occupying the front porch of its abode, so to speak, and thence ex- tending its tentacles in search of food.
 The stuff of which the nautilus shell is composed is the most beautiful moth er-of-pearl" in the world.
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Worlds Tallest Chimney.

In many cities in various lands are chimneys which have been proclaimed as "the tallest in the world" says Popular Mechanics, but the structure which, without doubt, truly possesses this title has recently been completed in Sagono- sel<i, Japan. It is of reinforced concrete and stands 57O feet high, on a hill 430 feet higher than the capper smelter with which 1t is connected, so that 1t dis charges its poisonous fumes 1000 feet
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By A. Scientist

in diameter at the base, and its inside diameter at the top is 2o14 feet The foundation is o5 feet in diameter and contains 2,700 cubic yards of concrete. The first 15O feet of the chimney has a CT wall by a hve-inch air space Four hundred tons of steel were used ill the whole construction.
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sson squid. It is dweller in deep sea waters. "The Chambered Nautilus" Oliver Wendell Holmes beautiful poem, is familiar to most of us.
 The chambers" in the living ani- maj are connected by pneumatic tube, which enables the nautilus, by modify Ing the air 1ressure inside its shelI to
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Edison Wins Out,

If the reports are true-and there is no reason to doubt them-Thomas Edi- son has fulfilled the eager expectations of countless Americans who have been waiting for months for him to produce the invention they were confident it was in his power to produce, the invention that would defy the U-boat. The re- port is that it has come at last-a device for. defecting tl.e torpedo from ita course a
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Pearly Nautilus.

matic tubef It was a mo1lusk, apparently the S o C a l l C d ~pearly' nautilus.
 The nautilus is a cephalopod, there fore related to the octopus and the com
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is notable for the reason that it is an American design. It Is a swimmer, and when wound up and placed in the wa ter it gives an almost perfect demonstra- ton of the Australian crawl"
 This is an overland method of pro- gressing through the water, which gives great speed with little expenditure of energy.
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A Real Face Mower.

A new safety razor sewers the hair of the face by means of a reciprocating blade which moves back and forth as the device is passed over the flesh.
 by means of flexible portion of the handle operated by the hand The
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quality of the latter, and at the same time prevent any tendency to slipping. When the plugs begin to show wear they are easily removed by the wearer and replaced with new ones.
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Glove Instead of 8 Wash Cloth.

A new hand covering for bathing pur- poses dispenses with xhe services of the wash cloth. The glove is really nit ten made of a rough and non-absorbent fabric, with number of perforations in the palm aud the means of securing
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

RICHER had lived in the suburb ten years before his mother. who had been staying with a daughter out
 west, came to make her home with them. She was a small,
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piece of soap inside As the hand cov- ering is rubbed over the surface of the body, sufficient quantity of soap finds its way through perforations to aid in the cleansing.
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which prevents the keen edge from talk ing an occasiona, slice of flesh.
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LA had been weigh ing babies all the day. Her muscles ached with lifting the heavy tots and steadying the fragile ones. Her voice was
 husky from over use, cajoling. com
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Toy Swims in Water.

Water toys arc all fascinating and novelty of this character is one which
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HE visitor walked in

<ira | tAb4I Et A4SAvbAS dAlxVlIy OI hers movenents.s lin SO glad to find you in, she said. "I don't know how I'd put in the next half hour If you'd happened to be out. I want to catch the next interurban to Greenfield, and it'll be at least that long before it is due
 Being so near l thought I'd run mp here and wait for it. But I'm not going to disturb you Just go on with your writ ing the same as if I wasn't here. I ex- pected to be at Melissa Smiths till it was time for the 4 o'clock car, but was simply hurried away from there was real insulted, though don't suppose that Melissa realized what was going on
 You see. Melisa's been under the weather all spring-sort of gradually running down. I've felt real anxious about her. She's been taking medicine,
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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-27

TO show our determination to force
generalreduction ofprices through
out the Auto Accessory industry.
our tire manufacturing department
will sacrifice its entire margin of
profit on Timesco Tires and Tubes,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-27

The wonders ~ history. Tho need
Tor this policy b. arain apparent Co.
thinking 'mou. The war for four
years acted as wall but that ig
past. ana already we are threatened
with u pcIilous Industrial compotI-
ton expressed in terms threatening
To tho material and social welfare
~ every American who labors In
the field Of industry.
square Deal for labor.
The republican party believes, as
N always has bolicvd, that American
labor ls entitled To receive from
the government such legislation as
shall guarantee a fair return for
labor performed. ana that II IL en-
titlod 10 receive constant protection
against arRrcFgiona from compoti-
lion based upon % scale of social oX-
lstcuc" alien md rcpuvnant 10
American ideals Of sclfrcspect and
American demands for material
comfort
Much has been said Of Amcrl-
cauism ag the need Of America, and
this is commonplace fact, for no
nation car exert oithcr "a material OF
a moral leadership IN the world, or
can find cOntonimont for its people
at home, unless It. kccpa alive and
flaming the inspiring fires NJ an
honest nntionllsm So we here in
America need a. deeper understand
ing OF AmcriCauiBm ana "a firm pTdC-
tico Of n For such Amoricanism
the republican party stands. II Is
tho Amcrioanlsm of the American
constitution. the hrli"f that our gov
crnment should fulfil the Euaran-
tccs OF our declaration Of indcpcnd-
cncc. that iife. liberty and the pur-
suit Of happiness should bc AK much
Ia the minds 90 modern s,a;c8u;c1
~ lhcy were I'm tho hands OF tho
rionccis Of American liberty.
There Is but one ark upon which
our national faith may rest secure.
II is our constitution. Departure
from that. whatever the profession
or motive. Is a journey towards the
prccipice beyond which is national
disaster.
The republican party walks tho
high road ~ American government
for Americans Tho American
people walk with that party"