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ward and srab q brake or something
that looked like a brake to me- lie
motioned something to the secret
service man. but i couldn't under
stand what he meant ] could tell
by his actions, however. that he
was excited.
And guessed that something had
happened to the plane 1 looked
over at Juanita and could see she
shared my apprehension
1t was all could do make my
self sit steady in the boat I'm
quite sure ! was Just on the verge
Jof trying to unbuckle myself to
jump from the plane-I was. so
excited-when 1 heard the pilots
voice screaming out to us:
Don't be frightened, girls. It's
all right!
IL wasn't much reinsurance. But
II was some. And IL boosted me up
just to hear a human voice, en-
couraging me-
They say that when you're in
danger of death you think OF all
the wrongs things you ever did in
your life. But 1 must be the ex-
ception. There was a time there
when / expected every minute to
be dashed to pieces and to save
my life the only thing / could
think Of was that muchly over
worked old line that they use in
typewriter practice: Now Is the
time for all good men to come to
the aid of their party"
1T was foolish OF course. And
realised II was foolish. But the
more i would realise how foolish
1t was the more 1t would keep go
ing through my head until I be-
gan to wonder IL / were going
dippy or something.
Not that II particularly mat
tered. For II one were going to
be plunged head foremost into an
ocean of salt water. I didn't see
that 1t made any particular diff
ference whether she had good
sense or was just q plain ordinary
nut.
was going over my NOW Is the
time" for about the one hun
dredth time. I think, when hap
pened to look out. Imagine my sur
prise and my Joy when I saw that
we were not more than nifty feet
from the ocean! We had been COM
ing down, and hadn't known II.
I'd thought that we were still hun
dreds of feet in the air, and that
when we did come down we would
land with a mighty bump. / had
never thought water could look as
good to me as that ocean looked,
cleaning Ia the moonlight beneath
us ..--
fro ne C~uANueA TsmSrr~~N
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The Hundred Dollar Question

Now that i had become accus-
toned more or less to the sensation
OF flying, l was able to get my
thoughts together enough to try
and put two and two together and
CURE out just what we-Juanita
and might be in for.
For the first time since we had
left the ground ! turned to look
at Juanita. She sat seemingly
glued to her seat. and I couldn't
help but think that even IL she
weren't strapped in, that car could
loop the loop or do any of those
other stunts I'd seen airplanes do
over the White House and around
Washington, and Juanita couldn't
fall out. As / said. she seemed
riveted to that seat. And her eyes
seemed glued straight ahead. She
looked scared. but somehow
couldn't believe she was. 1t wasn't
like Juanita to be scared-not the
Juanita who had. dared so much
to help willard foil the Mexicans
I'm their dastardly plot
l wanted to speak to her. to try
to cheer her up. But knew il
would be useless. My voice, ! was
sure. would not carry above the hum
L
best thing I knew to do. l reached
over and put a hand over one of
Juanita's as it lay very whit.
against her khaki skirt. She must
have sensed the feeling OF sympathy
for she looked over az me and
smiled-sort of weakly. tits true.
But after all, IL was a smile.
AS ] leaned back in my seat and
again began trying to piece things
together in my befuddled brain, II
suddenly occurred to me that there
was perhaps small reason why either
of us should smile.
Juanita-bless her heart. and for
all she knew-was heading directly
sway from the only thing she loved
in the world-"Texas Tiger"
And bless mine too-while I
might be heading toward all loved,
or the person | loved most. could
hardly expect to find him alive and
well. knew the tricks of the Mex
leans. I'd read much about them.
! knew OF their treachery. And
| would not allow myself to hope
that willard would escape unharm-
ed from their hands. could only
comfort myself with the thought
that il he were in trouble. l would
be among those who brought FIRST
aid" And l scolded myself woefully
for all the mean things ] had said
to willard in unguarded moments.
I would have given worlds to have
taken them back
Time passed, as 1t has a way Of
passing until ! had no idea what
the hour might be. I was wearing
my wrist watch. but in the excite
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Honey as an
Ideal Food

T YONEY is one of the most
n valuable of our foods and 1t
has been recognized as such
from the earliest days. 1t is
suggested by an eminent food
authority that we use it more in
place Of our ordinary sugar as a
more suitable food product from
the point of view OF digestibility.
Another scientist has shown that
honey contains so many OF the
elements needed in our diet that
the substitution of honey for
sugar might almost be considered
an urgent step.
The sugars which make up
honey do not have to undergo
chemical changes in the alimen-
tary canal before absorption, and
honey might, therefore. be called
an ideal food. Besides this the
calories, or energy-producing units
1t contains are greater in lumber
than those in meat and eggs,
which are themselves concentrated
sources Of fuel for the body.
1t is particularly unfortunate
that honey has been to such an
extent supplanted as a food by
CdHe sukdT, as the suUstdHCt7
which are gathered from the
flowers by bees and afterward
stored In the honeycomb are not
only more easily taken into the
body in the process of digestion.
but they also contain formic acid.
which prevents their fermentation
in the alimentary canal. More
over. ordinary sugar in undergoing
the number of chemical changes
which are not necessary in the
case of honey, has plenty of time
to ferment and to cause indiges-
ton with the symptoms of acidity
and. in some cases, catarrh Of the
stomach.
II. X. Faber has called attention
to the presence in honey of
vitamin which prevents scurvy
tJournal Biological Chemistry, Au-
gust. 1920
By the analysis of Swiss
scientist, Professor Bunge. honey
is shown to have besides formic
acid two other important ingre-
dents not contained in sugar.
These are the valuable minerals
lime, which occurs in honey in
quantity of $40 per cent, and iron
in a quantity of 1.2O per cent.
These substances are taken out of
many OF our foods by refining,
and it would be well to make up
this serious deficiency by using
more honey or by substituting
honey for the less valuable cane
sugar.
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THE WOMAN GOD CHANGED
Serial of Girl Who Sells Herself Becomes Criminal and Then
Under the Uplifting Envr onment of Real Love Re-
~ gains Her Soul

here. It's been put ashore. it and
others. by some of the old whaling
ships that are gone now.
Il look around and 1 see the
island, the sand like gold. the clean
wind, the water in the cove as
transparent as water in glass:
the fish in the water and the ami
mails on the island. and the fruit
on the trees. And the sun Is
bright and warm and dull of life.
and in the distance l can see JAMS
sen. She has let her hair down
and IL covers her to the knees in
a great shining cloak, like some
wonderful fur cloak.
And 1 think: There's many's
the old cop in New York-there'r
many's the millionaire, even
would like to finish his life alone
in this paradise island, away from
all trouble and worry and having
everything he needs in sunshine
that's more like wine than light.
and with Jansen with him, when
she has let down her hair
But I says to myself: Yor
needn't think that way You've got
old, nor disappointed. cure got
no reason to idle your life away.
lou We Bot u JOU ofi icu 10
old. nor disappointed. You've got
a prisoner. and you're going 10
bring her home!
return to where Jansen is by
the cove and i look for my knife
and watch and gun. But my gun
isn't there
lido you know where my gun
is?"
ITO He Continued Tomorrow.)
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Travel by the
Pound

They are getting up an air SER
vice over the Atlantic which IL going
to be so fast that, owing to the diff
ference in time you will be able
to leave London at noon and arrive
in New York at IL o'clock the Same
morning.
But II is not going to be any
sort of trip for a fat man. In the
old days a fat man could travel as
cheaply as one weighing half as
much. but IL will not be so on the
now line. for all fares will be COM
puted by weight II ex-Presdent
Taft wants to go across 1t is going
to cost him just twice as much a.
It will cost ex-Seoretary Baker.
II they take Irving Cobb at all II
will cost him three times as much
as 1t will cost Colonel Mouse. II
Fatty Arbuckle buys a ticket and
then decides not to 60, Charlie
Chaplin and Ben Turpin can both
ride on II, so far as the company
is concerned
Three bantam-wcight champions
OF the world can ride for what II
will cost one heavyweight cham
pion.
The whole thing is figured out
in lifting power OF the gas con-
tanned in the big bags up in the
body OF the airship. While il
might take 285.000 cubic feet of
gas to lift Mr.. Chesterton and
carry him across II would take
take probably only 10000 to lie
Arnold Bennett and gas IL expen-
sive.
Some Of the lightweishts in the
present Cabinet might travel half
fare, and there are some writers
OF sex literature who might travel
for nothing, for they would aid the
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<<Y YELI/O. Bsbbsie!" was Meals
III greeting as he came into
Pats sanctum from his
own part OF the office. His matter
of-course tone indicated that he'd
been back In town long enough to
feel natural In harness again.
Hello. Neal! You act as IL you'd
seen me at the breakfast table.
When did you get back? 1 began
In an agsrieved tone that melted
before Meals Smile and hug to an
"Oh. you darling. 1 am glad to see
you!"
pats been on your trail all
morning" said Neal, perching cozily
on the army OF my chair and fling
ing a protecting arm about my
shoulders. This is some offer Car
lotta pulled down out Of the sky.
or course, you'll let the apartment
go. You can camp with me until
Jimmie gets back-or roost at Jen-
MES if you like that better than my
two by four. And even when Jim
does return
Meals voice trailed of and he
swung from the chair arm to stand
In front of me, slim and boyish in
hgure, but with a mans deep con-
Germ In his steady voice.
He won't be able to meet you" I
asserted. He has a business ap-
pointement with a friend of mine.
Please. dear, don't go. He'll under
stand that it's for my sake."-
Secrets already" rallied Neal.
We'll, said I'd be a good sport
about being left out in the cold,
but when will you permit me to see
that precious old dady of miner
Let's see," I unused. covering
my real need of planning with a
mock air of grave Importance.
Then in a moment ! had IL.
THE folks who are taking my
apartment want to get in by day
after tomorrow. So I'll have to trot
up this afternoon and take an in
formalinventory and get out the
most personal OF my possessions,
II you and Father Andrew could
help me-. i began and then
stopped short.
IL would BIT the most natural
thing in the world for Neal to vol
unteer Phoebe's services, too. And
sch mustn't be there. Fathr An
drew and ] would tell Neal what he
had to know, but the boy would
want to be alone with Phoebe
when he broke the ugly tidings to
her. If Phoebe stood by the full
glory Of that was Meals. And IL
she failed him he couldn't endure
to take this blow even under the
loving scutiny of our eyes. But
Neal broke in eagerly on my SEN
tence, allowing me no chance for
retreat.
-Babbsie. isn't there something
about this trip of Jim's you'd like
to talk over with me? II there's
anything you'd like to dope out by
thinking aloud, won't you trust
mes I'd go through fire for you.
Babbs, or to the North Pole
"Just go on loving me. dear" 1
broke in.
CELLO CULVER
Neal eyed me for a moment be-
fore he replied:
you've got regular cello
CULVER in your voice today, Babbs.
All upset about taking such n
chunk OF pirate gold for the apart
ment. aren't your
Yes. sir" / smiled back at him.
brushing away we bit of mist
that hadn't come entirely because
or my own troubles. Then / added:
Meal. I've an appointment to
lunch with Father Andrew this
noon-he's back, you know"
Say, that's great! Gee! to think
I didn't know" gasped Neal.
Hes here" I said vaguely. try
ing to think up a way to prevent
Neal from going in my place to
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ought to have let me go down. whom
you saw me going. Then you'd
have been free. You ought to have
stood clear and let me drown
"toh. 1 couldn't do that! she
says.
Neither could let you go!'
"In the afternoon l go around the
island to see where we are. But
from no point can / see land or n
sail or anything. We are just on
one OF those Pacific atolls. As they
call them, away from the line CT
everything but sailing ships trad
ing from isle to isle. i look every
where-north. east south and west
and there Is nothing but boiling
sea, white. muddy, with birds HUT
tering. or floating in the air.
'The island itself is not more
than ten miles square, and there are
rocks everywhere about 1T except
around the cove where we landed,
and that has coral breakwater.
The sand Is bright and yellow like
new gold, and on the island itself
there Is greenness that Is nearly
black. And. you can see cocoanut
trees and banana trees and oranges.
JOB ON HAND.
-And while I'm standing there
little pig breaks through the
underbrush and looks at me, and
then flies off with a sQueal. And
for a moment my heart goes pit-a-
pat because I think there are peo-
pie on this island. A pig Is a
human thing. It's always been so
near humans, it's nearly human
itself. But a moment later some
thing in me tells me there's no one
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To ]. j. B.: You ask whether the
noblest teaching of life IL a joke
in the eyes of women? Emphati-
part of woman's life and character.
Without love she could not live.
In the case which you cited. I
think the poor unfortunate girl is
to be pitied rather than to be
scorned. While you were away
fighting gloriously for your coun-
try, this girl of your dreams was
left behind.
You corresponded frequently. al
ways expressing your love for each
other. You return and find her to
be the unlawful mother of another
mans child. Immediately you de-
termine to Danish her from your
thoughts. But why? Did you know
the full particulars of the case?
Did you consider the fact that we
are all prone to our passions,
woman being the one most prone
to them? Did you consider under
what predicament she may have
been put? 1t seems, though, from
what you say that you didn't. You
know the story of The Prodigal
Son.. Well, how about The Prodi-
gal Daughter? The prodigal son
is excused, the prodigal daughter
is not
II in her loneliness and away
from you, she fell, and for fear OF
losing you she refrained from tell
ing you, and IL her love was not
and is not feigned. II she truly
cared and cares for you, and realiz-
ing her mistake. she repents. then
you might give her another chance.
3. A r. o. F.
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Personally. Directed
By Robert G. Vig,pold.
By Dom Byrne-.

(AUfhor Of Powerful short stories
anA Novels OF Sustained Interest.)
k<1 GOT UP on my elbows and
looked around. We were on
q strand with trees behind yus
and bay in front and the sun just
coming up bright as a golden eagle.
In front of us was a sort of bay
where the water was still and
sparkling, like wine sparkles- And
then look out further. And there's
. sort of wall of crags between the
bay and the sea and on the other
side of it the sea is pounding,
pounding. pounding. like a man
crazy with anger. Swish! Crash
Boom! And then I notice pieces of
timber. a bale, a piece of cloth in
the lagoon.
1.-THE schooner's gone. I under
stand. There's been a wreck.
"'Where are the rest? l ask
Jansen.
"'There are no rest'-she throws
, her arms out. Just you and T.
Then after a while / said: We're
IN a pretty bad way here; ship
wrecked without anything to eat.
with very small chance of rescue.
We're up against it. There isn't
even water"
But she only laughed.
"'We're not so bad as you'd
think she says. There's water. l
found IL when 1 looked for some
thing to battle that cut on your
head. And as for food. I've been
in these islands a while before they
put me in the-place-at Papeete.
There's bananas. and there's CO.
coanuts. and there's breadfruit. And
that cove is full of fish,
You can't eat fish raw I tell
her.
I'm turning out my pockets
then, leaving things in the sun to
dry-ny gun, with the shells out
In row; my watch, my. knife, my
pocketbook. She points at the
watch.
"You can make a fire with the
crystal of that she says. But
bananas1l do for the present. TIL
go of and get some. You needn't
worry she says as she notices me
looking at her. Il can't get off the
island
LIGHT ON THE WRECK.
AFTER a while she comes back
and sits down.
DO you know how you got
ashore, MCCarthVg
81 don't, I answer. 7 know moth
ing
When the boat struck she tells
me. you and l were washed over
the reef. Something hit you On the
head. But / pulled you in. Me-
Carthy. You went down. You wers
cut cold. l had a job. too she
laughs nervously. Your hair is
awfully short
We'll. I got to thank you, i
said.
Don't mind thanking me- she
said. Tell me thisr She's awfu!iv
serious. Don't you think a life is
worth a lifeT
II say nothing to that.
Don't you. Mccarthy? she
pleads.
I'm CORY | tell her. I'm
awfullyj awfully sorry, but I've gos
to bring you in
you're a hard man, Mccarthy
I'm not a hard man. I'm Just q
man sworn in to do my job. I'm
Just man a big trusts been put,
In, and | can't foil down. Sis YOU
missed your chance told her. You
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MEN MUST REFORM.

Having read the letter of "33 and
Stung, but Not Defeated" l cannot
resist answering 1t.
Girls are not turning the oppor-
tunity of marriage down for the
reason he suggested, but rather be-
cause they are afraid to trust men.
Many married men today VINO
have a sweet little wife at home
caring for their children are out
three evenings a week with other
women, spending their time and
money that they owe their families.
The average married man only
loves his wife as long as the honey
moon lasts. When the struggle OF
married life comes. then he goes
elsewhere for his pleasure
Unless men reform the time will
come when a self respecting girl
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The Woman
Observer
FUNNIEs VS.. HARVARD.

Even at Harvard they fall for
them. The Woman was waiting in
a professors office recently. His
secretary was opening bundles of
newspapers which it was her duty
to go through and clip.
After opening a bundle, ~ith
practiced hand and expert eye. she
bounced on the section containing
the funnies. These she read care
fully and then turned to her work
Of reading the news columns.
LOGIC.
On all sides we hear from the
men. The girls are so sophisticated
these days-there's nothing they
don't know"
A case of the kettle calling the
pot black?
Why not turn the old adaR>
about a little and say, What's sauce
for the gander is sauce for the
goose"
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Is Marriage a Success?

will refuse to marry any man. j
have learned by sad experience that
when a man knows that you love
and trust him he is then through
with you, looking elsewhere for
companion that suits him.
God never intended marriage to
be what man has made it
A MOTHER WHO KNOWS.
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The Story So Far.

Anna JansSsn. . young and hand
0ome woman. 10 on trial for the dejb-
crate nurder of AlastAir de Vries, a rich
phiIsnderer who had thrown her over
FOR . nav fancy. The District Attorney
brings out the facts of the shooting in =
restaurant. while the prisoner excites
the wonder of the Court by her beauty
and . strange calm and serenity, which
make II seem i'm possible that, she could
L.. 6uilty. Her lawyer rises. but con-
trary to expectation he makes no move
&c block any of the witnesses of the
state. This II a great surprise
This appealing story has been
naade into . wonderful Sim drama
~ Cosnopolitan Productions, and
Will be released n Paramount
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ENCOURAGE HIM.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Not until now did I realize that
needed advice on an acquaintance
with a young man from a nearby
city. We have been the best OF pals
for more than year. Our friend
ship has been full of confidence, yet
] feel that he 10 Keeping some per-
sonal matter from me. He IL
widower OF several years and occa-
sionally makes indirect illusions to
matters that seem to involve som.
other affair. but somehow hesitates
in conhding In me. Am 7 right to
question him? CHARLOTTE.
The next time he makes Indirect
illusions draw him out diplomat
cally and perhaps he'll tell you all
about IL. He probably needs just =
little encouragement
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Prize Cake
Recipes
Washington's Best Sub
mitted in Times Cake
Contest-Clip Them.

COCOANUT CAKE
cup butter.
cups sugar.
5egg yolks.
cup milk.
81 cups sifted four.
heaping teaspoonfuls baking
powder.
Stir butter and sugar to q cream
with the yolks OF Ave eggs after
they have been well beaten. Then
stir into that one cup OF milk; beat
the whites Of two Of the eggs to a
stifr froth and add that also. Now
put In three and one-haIf cups OF
sifted hour and two hesping tea
spoonfuls OF baking powder having
been stirred into It. 3d..
FILLING.
3 egg whites
cup powdered sugar.
1msdium-sized cocoanut GRATED.
Take the remaining three whites
Of the eggs beaten very stiff and
one cup OF powdered sugar
sprinkled into them. Spread over
layers and sprinkle grated cocoa
nut over it.---Mrs. Graham Egsvtsn.
HIS California street
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Advice to
LOvelOrn
By Beatrice Fairfax.
IT'S STRANGE
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

Do you think a girl should make
engagements several evenings a week
and go out with others boys after she
is engaged?
WORRIED"
1t isn't matter of should she"
II is strange that she should want
to.
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PILOT LUNGED FORWARD.


Looking below now all / could see
was clouds, clouds, clouds, or what
j thought were clouds. clouds. clouds.
Looking closer and longer. the great
expanse of grayness below me dis
solved from clouds into something
elsersomethingh heavier and grayer
and further away. l held my breath
as i realized that we had left the
Potomac behind us and were now
flying out over the ocean! For
just a second ! experienced a dizzi-
ness when the realisation first came
to me that we no longer were flying
over terra hrma- The sensation rap
idly passed. however. and again 1
settled down to my thoughts.
1t semed to me that we must have
been flying hours and hours when
saw the pilot suddenly lunge for
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ment OF the night before l had for
gotten to wind IL, and il had stop
ped just after we got into the ma
chine
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This Il the anniversary Of the birth Of Oliver Cromwell.
b 1880 The who overthrow the Stuart dynasty tried
egate to America but prevented by Charles L. whom
Cromwell later caused to be decaptated
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(To Ne Centinued Tsmsrrew.)