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sion even when she was angry or seri-
Gus.
Anne, smiling demurely over her
white sewing, was small, prettily
made little woman, with silky hair
trinity braided, and a rather pale,
small face with charming and regular
features. Anne had admirers" too
Cherry reflected, looking at her to-
night, but neither she nor Alix had
ever been engaged-engaged-en-
gagged!
Aren't you home early?" said DR.
Strickland, rubbing his cheek against
his youngest daughters cheek in
sleepy content. He was never quite
happy unless all three girls were in
his sight, but for this girl he lad al
ways felt an especial protecting fond
! ness. He had followed her exquisite
childhood with more than a fathers
usual devotion, perhaps because she
really had been an exceptionally en-
dearlng child. perhaps because she had
| been given him, tiny crying thing in
a basket, to FIJI the great gap her
mothers going had left In his heart.
Mr.. Lloyd had to take the nine
o'clock train," Cherry answered her
father dreamily, land he and Peter
| walked home with mel" She did not
add that Peter had left them at his
own turning, a quarter Of a mile away.
81 thought he wasn't going to be at
Mrs. North's for dinner" Anne OBJ
served quietly, in the silence She
| had been informally asked to the
| Norths for dinner that evening her
self and had declined for no other
reason than that attractive Martin
Lloyd was presumably not to be there.
"He wasn't" Cherry said. HE
thought he had to 90 to town at six. !
Just stopped In to give them Dads
message, and they teased me to stay.
You knew where was, didn't you
Dadf" she murmured.
Mrs. North telephoned about six
and said you were there, but she didn't
say that Mr.. Lloyd was" Anne said
with a faint hint of discomfort In hel
tone
Alix fixed her bright, mischievous
eyes upon the two, and suspended hel
reading for moment. Alix's attitude
toward the opposite sex was one Of
calm contempt, outwardly. But sh,
had made rather an exception of Mar
tin Lloyd, and had recently had
conversation with him on the subjec
Of sensible, platonic friendships be
tween men and women. At the men
tion OF his name she looked up, re
membering this talk with litu,
thrill.
His name had thrilled Anne, too, al
though she betrayed no sign of 1t a
she sat quietly matching silks. Il
fact, all three Of the girls were quit
ready to fall In love with young Lloyd
If two Of them had not actually don
so.
: Cherry had not been at home whe
Martin first appeared In Mill Valley
and the older girls had written hel
visiting friends In Napa, that she mus
come and meet the new man.
! Martin was mining engineer; h
} had been employed In Nevada min,
r but was visiting his cousin in the va
t ley now before going to a new positio
: In June. In Its informal fashion, MI
, Valley had entertained him; he ha
b tramped to the big forest five mile
h away with the Stricklands. and ther
+ had been q picnic to the mountain-to
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WIN NV So'S W WE SS'' 'e' stH
Lloyd.
head. She considered Cherry suffi-
ciently precocious without Uncle Lees
ill-considered tolerance.
He would have had them always
children, this tender. simple, innocent
DR.. Strickland. He was in many
ways child himself. He had never
made money In his profession he and
his wife and the two tiny girls had
had hard enough struggle sometimes.
Anne and her own father had Joined
the family eight years ago, in the
same year that the Strickland patent
fire extinguisher, over which the doc
tor had been puttering for years, had
been sold. 1t did not sell, as his
neighbors believed, for million dol
lars. but for perhaps one-tenth Of that
| sum. 1t was enough, and more than
enough, whatever 1t was. After
Anne's father died II meant that the
doctor could live on In the brown
house under the redwoods, with his
girls, reading, fussing with a new In
vention. walking, consulting with
Anne, laughing at Alix, and spelling
his youngest-born.
Fair play., 1921-10-29
By
KATHLEEN
NORRIS

everybody making the hard climb ex.
cept Peter Joyce, who was trifle
lame, and perhaps little lazy as well
and who usually rode an old horse
with the lunch in saddle.bags at each
side. Alix formulated her theories of
platonic friendships on these walks
Anne dreamed foolish, happy dream
Girls did marry, men did take wives
to themselves, dreamed Anne; II
would be unspeakably sweet, but II
would be no miracle!
1t was just after that mountain pic
mic that Cherry had come home; on a
Sunday, as 1t chanced, that was her
eighteenth birthday, and on which
Martin and his aunt were coming to
dinner, Alix had marked the occasion
by wearing a loose velvet gown In
which she fancied herself; Anne had
conscientiously decorated the table,
had seen to It that there was Ice
cream, and chicken, and all the acces-
sories that make Sunday dinner In
the country national institution.
Cherry had done nothing helpful.
On the contrary, she had disgraced
herself and infuriated Hong by decid-
ing to make fudge the last minute.
Hong had finally relegated her to the
laundry, and 1t was from this limbo
that Martin, laughing joyously, extri-
Gated her, when, sticky and repentant,
she had called for help. 1t was Mar
tin who united the checked brown
apron, disentangling from the strings
the silky gold tendrils that were blow
ing over Cherry's white neck, and
Martin who opened the door for her
sugary fingers. and Martin who
watched the flying little figure out of
sight with a prolonged "Whew-w-w y
Of utter establishment. The child was
beauty.
Her eighteenth birthday Martin
had been shown her birthday gifts
books and a silver belt buckle and q
gold pen and stationery and handker.
chiefs. A day or two later she had
had another gift; had opened the tiny
Shreve box with a sudden hammering
at her heart, with presage of delight
She had found a silver-topped candy
jar, and the card Of Mr.. John Martin
Lloyd, and under the name. In tiny
letters, the words "Oh, fudge!" The
girls laughed over this nonsense ap,
preciatively, but there was more than
| laughter in Cherry's heart.
From that moment the world was
changed. Her father, her sister, her
| cousin had second place, now. Cherry
had put out her innocent little hand
| and had opened the gate, and had
passed through it into the world. That
hour was the beginning, and 1t had led
| her surely, steadily, to the other hour
| tonight when she had been kissed
| and had kissed In return.
| "So--we walk home with young
menr' mused the doctor, smiling
Look here, girls. this little Miss Muf
fet will be cutting you both out with
that young man, IL you're not care
full"
Alix, deep In her story, did not heal
him, but Anne smiled family, ant
family frowned as she shook hel
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"WHAT A MESS-MESS-MESSW

NO she whispered to herself almost audby noit can't
God it has been that all the time that all The timednd
knew tt neuer dreamed it!
"s Peter and Chery They hare to care for each
ote-tey have for each oth she said to herself
thoughts rushing and tumJng in mad confusion she tested
and tried the new fear "t be But can't be so~ Alir
interrupted herself or wha shall dowhat shall
dol Cherry wih Peter But Peter my huSbandhe
my husband Peter pho has aways been good to
generous 10 me-and it Cherry all the time.
Cherry the older said aloud. "Poor little old
Cherr-fe hasn't been kind to hri She and Peter must be
so sorry ashamed about iS And Dad oud be Of
all things waned that Cherry should be happy Pehap
touqh Alr che realized that Of nature she must
love and ue! But why did he let her
Martini ry asnt he here to keep from marrying PeterY
What a observation-disclosures weue made of it all!
"Cherry woud be dsgracsd and Marn-Martin wold kill
her, he found her out! oh, my little sister, She would
talk reckless she woud do anyhinghe wOud
be public scandal and the papers would hare her pictuDads
little yeo-haded Charty Oh Dad she said looking up into
the dark what dol need you so! Won't you somehow
tell phat to doY"
Indeed, "me.s" For Alx Cheys older sister And
Peter is Aiix husband Cherry Martin. And Ax
And Martin and Cherry drifting
of the 1t works
for but for the others the results unexpected But who shall
for the best?
Kathleen Norris. knows is California .uthore
ability handle big like this "Sitrs
of the of stories that has her large
and friendly public.
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CHAPT Err |.

Cherry Strickland came In the door
of the Strickland house, and shut 1t
behind her, and stood so, with her
hands behind her on the knob, and her
slender body leaning forward, and her
bosom rising and falling on deep,
ecstatic breaths. 1t was May in Cali
fornia, she was just eighteen, and for
twenty one minutes she had been en-
gagged TO be married.
She hardly knew why, after that
last farewell to Martin, she had run
80 swiftly up the path, and why she
had flashed into the house, and closed
the door with such noiseless haste.
There was nothing to run for! But 1t
was as If she feared that the JOY with
in her might escape into the moonlight
night that was so perfumed with
1ilacs and the scent of wet woods She
was afraid that 1t was all too Won
derful to be true, that she would
awaken in the morning to find II only
q dream. that she would somehow fall
short of Martins ideal--somehow fail
him-somehOw turn all this magic Of
mOonshne and kisses into ashes and
heartbreak.
She was miser with her treasure,
already; she wanted TO fly with It,
and to hide It away, and to test It's
reality in secret, alone. She had
come running in from the wonderland
down by the gate, just for this, just
10 prove TO herself that 1t would not
vanish in the CommoupIaceneSs Of the
shabby hall, would not disappear be-
fore the everyday contact of everyday
things.
Dad was IN the sitting room, with
the girls. Tie doctors house was full
Of girls. Anne, his niece, was twenty.
four; Allx, Cherry's sister three years
younger-how stGid and unmarried
and undeslred they seemed tonight tt
painting and glowing and glorifiet
eighteen Anne, with AliX's erratic
help, kept house for her uncle, ant
Cherry, too. But she hadn't beer
sharp enough to keep Martin LlOyC
from asking her to marry him, exulteC
Cherry, Rs she stood breathless anC
laughing In the dark hallway.
An older woman might have gon'
upstairs, to dream alone Of her new
Joy, but Cherry thought that 1t woult
be "fun" to Join the family, and "ac
as II nothing had happened" Sh
was only child, after all.
Consciously or unconsciously, the,
had all tried TO keep her child, thes
three who looked up to smile at he
as she came in. One of them, rosy
gray headed, magnificent at sixty, wa
her father, whose favorite she knew
she was. He held out his hand to he
without closing the book that was 4
the other hand, and drew her to tn
wide arm Of his chair, where she sci
led herself with her soft young bod
resting against him, her slim ankle
crossed, and her cheek droppe
against his thick silver hair.
Alix was reading. and dreamil
scratching her ankle as she read sh
was a tall, awkward girl, younger ia
at twenty-one than Cherry was q
eighteen, pretty In a gipsyish way, vi
tidy as to hair, with round black eye
high, thin cheek-bones marked wit
scarlet and q wide. humorous mout
thst was somehow droll In it, EXPIRE
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Cow Has Six 1eata.

A farmer at Riding Mountain, Mani
toba, writes that he has COW with
six teats, and milk Is obtained from
them all. He says that whereas 1t
is not uncommon for COW to have
more than four teats, he has never
heard Of getting milk from more than
four. Is this record?
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Out Of the Ordinary.

NorthTThere was something un.
usual about the Vaughns' home tonight
that can't quite place.
Mrs. NOrth-Dont you know7 Mr..
Vaughn was at home!
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"You darling-you little sx.
quisite beautyv
(TO BE CONTINUEDD
Cold Comfort.

CoIu Vomt0FG
The maiden Of forty or so was up-
set. Said she to younger friend:
"Kate talks SO outrageously. Yestcr-
day she told me l was nothing but
hopeless old maid"
That's pretty frank" exclairr ed
her friend. "Still, it's better than hsv.
Ing her tell lies about you"
Fair play., 1921-10-29
Makinu IL "keepn

1t Is hard to tell in some countries
whether liberty Is preserved or canned.
Post.
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France has so sporting clubs for
women.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

land, who was renowned for her good
heart and was mother to the English
poor. BY her prayers she saved the lives
of Wycliffe and of the rebellious peasant
leaders in their uprisings against the Eng
lish aristocracy.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
History Shows High Plane
On Which Czech Women Stood

AS a matter of fact, the whole course of
Czech history shows the high character
Of the women, their fine relation to the
men, and an esteem and hearty collabora-
ton between the sexes.
In Bohemia's most glorious epoch (the
fifteenth century, the Czech woman was as
educated, as full of enthusiasm for the
reformation of moral life and as deter
mined even to lay down her life in defence
of the truth and for freedom of thought as
ever was any man. She accompanied her
husband into battle with the whole family,
when it became necessary to defend the
country and religious freedom.
Eneas Sylvius, who became later Pope
Plus H., wrote that every old woman in
Tabor knew the Scriptures better than an
Italian priest.
The history of the Czechs is rich in
legend. There are many both mythical
and historical women characters, who are
examples of the fine types of the female
part of the population. There were the
three daughters of Keok-Libusa, princess
and prophecies in one person, who is be-
lieved to have founded Prague; Lita, q
priestess. and Kagi, physician. st. Ludi-
mila, who propagated Christianity, and the
Princes daughter Donbrawka, who mar
ried Polish king and so brought Chris
tianity to Poland. There were also many
queens and daughters of the royal families
who were great benefactresses of the peo-
pie.
The story of Dagmar, Queen OF the
Danish King Valdemar, whose memory
still lives in the songs of Danish peasants,
is familiar to Americans. Then there was
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given it for breakfast. Swallows and mar
tens do not battle every day because they
will use only fresh rain water. Tame ducks.
too, seem very fond of rain water. With the
fall of a shower they ruffe up their feathers
and, let the rain soak in. Afterward they
soak themselves down carefully using an
oil which their bodies contain. in order to
get the perfectly smooth and even effect they
desire. Wild ducks by the sea will fly long
distances over land to obtain fresh water
for their bath.
Likewise the birds that use soil for their
baths are most particular about its quality.
Larks and sparrows choose fine, dry. gritty
dust They splash and futter in 1t as other
birds do I'm water, and after they have
finished they carefully dress their rumpled
plumage with their beaks Partridges clean
themselves in loan. They scratch out the
dirt and shuttle backward in II until their
feathers are full of it, Then they shake
themselves, and when fully dressed are as
clean and fresh as any lady stepping from
a white tiled bathroom. The barnyard hen
bathes herself in much the same way. by
wallowing and shaking herself in the dust.
Animals of the feline family spend more
time than any others at their toilet. In the
jungle lions and tigers use their fore feet
which they wet. for bath sponges and their
tongues for combs, just small kittens do
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

Rabbits and opossums also wash their faces
with their feet. Dogs, too, dislike dirt An
experienced hunter has said that whenever
his dogs fail to clean themselves on bushes
or grass after days hunt he knows that
they very tired Dogs are especially
particular in keeping their feet clean.
Horses and cows in a field may be seen
taking turns in licking one another. The
general belief is that the two species are
great friends and that that is their way of
exhibiting their love for one another. This
assumption is not altogether true. They
may be friends. but they are In such case
merely aiding one another to dress. One
may in this relation cite the case of horse
and COW that lived in the same lot for
years. The horse was a spoiled and petted
creature. In some way he persuaded the
cow to clean his glossy coat for him, but he
was never seen to do any such favor for
the COW.
The dainter animals of the forest. the
giraffe, the deer. the antelope. always assist
one another. Cornish. the naturalist tells
of one giraffe In ZOO" which. when put
into the institution. at once washed itself
and made it's coat glossy and bright every
where except on its neck As the weeks
went by the neck became several shades
darker than the body, because the creature
could not reach IL with its tongue
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Type of -Slovak girl hitherto
denied the rudiments of education, but
now given ample facilities for study.

ing to Czecho-Slovakia to study her public
health organization.
With all this, why should not Czecho-
Slovakia be the most cheerful and prosper
Gus element of Central Europe to-day?
There are good reasons for her being so.
Alone of the Central European nations,
old and new, she seems sufficiently con-
tented with what she has acquired to be
able to put her whole energy into the con-
solidation of her gains. All her national
enthusiasm, suppressed for so many years
under Hapsburg rule, is now active in
laying the foundations OF an enlightened
and progressive State Her hopes are we'll
founded-she has reasons to be cheerful
In the character of the bulk of her peo-
ple in her central position as to trade, in
the actual and potential wealth of her terri
tory she is fortunate. In a world that has
more than it can we'll digest of dissatis-
faction and covetousness Czecho-Slovakia
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

then should we not grant them more than
A B C and drive them away from further
learning and books?'
So wrote a Czech on the woman ques-
tion 800 years ago.
But this opinion did not prevail for long.
In 1920 citizen of Prague writes
'In 1926 the Hapsburgs were called to
the throne of Bohemia and ever since
aimed at the destruction of the enlightened
character of Czech civilization, of Czech
personality, and endeavored to break it
down. They recognized only the argument
CT the sword and of violence, where Czechs
knew science arts and education" Books
were burnt by heaps, educated men and
women executed or banished, estates of
Czech nobility confiscated and given to for
eign hirelings, who helped to subjugate
the nation that was striving for freedom
and liberty Words cannot describe how
alien and averse was the spirit which ruled
over the Czechs for 300 years. And in this
spirit of violence there was no place for
justice to women and we saw girls not
only excluded from high schools but hav
ing to fight for their right to visit craft
schools and universities"
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

great fight against the spread of this
plague.
Normally, however, the Czechs are a
hardy race, living under healthy cond-
tions. They are devoted to outdoor sports.
Here at Prague, where the city spans
the Moldara with its beautiful medieval
bridges, the shallow river seems in sum-
mer, to be full of bare legged boys splash
ing in the water and padding about in
canoes. Football is the national sport,
and all through the country on Sunday
afternoons the game is in full swing, be-
ing played by girls as well as boys.
The Government has just sent twelve
young doctors to America to study methods
of public hygiene and sanitation. On the
completion of their course twelve others
will go. while those returning will put into
active practice the ideas they have ac-
Quired.
Showing how deeply in earnest they are
in their desire for progress, it is interest
ing to note, at the same time that these
themselves with modern methods, the Off
cials under whom they must accomplish
the desired results are also being put in
touch with advanced ideas number of
the highest health officials in the Govern
ment are now in America studying sani-
tary problems. This will make for unity
of purpose in the future and prevent OBJ.
struction in high quarters.
AS corollary to the absorbing subject
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Bounteous Crops Make Old Bohemia Almost
Independent of Outside Aid and New Found
Liberty Permits Full Education for Girls,
and Women Denied for Centuries Un-
der Austrian Tyranny

of child welfare there is great interest in
the establishment of system of district
nursing. The rate of infant mortality
under Austria was disgracefully high.
The present Government is determined to
improve these conditions, and is planning
a wide system for the instruction of
mothers.
An American who has been in intimate
touch with the progress of these reforms
makes the statement that, in the light of
the present programme and achievements
of the authorities in these vital matters,
the officials of older and less enthusiastic
Nations will in fifteen years time be COM
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Animals Vain of Their Appearance
UTE naturally IL might be supposed
that in the case of most creatures
they would be. upon awakening in

NUITE naturally it might be supposed
that in the case of most creatures
they would be- upon awakening in
the morning. all ready for the days fun or
the days work. Such would be an erroneous
assumption. Animals, like human telngs.
must dress" themselves. and although
dressing" in their case consists merely OF
some sort Of bath and the smoothing down
and arranging a their feathers or fur. a
great many animals are not satisfied with
themselves until they have done that. Most
Of them are very shy and seek the loneliest
spots early in the morning: others like the
pet dog and cat, will spend hours dressing
themselves on the hearth rug
Birds are perhaps the neatest members Of
the animal world. Many species must have
. bath every day. Some employ water for
the purpose and some the soil others, again,
use both~water and soil. The water bsthers
are particular to the kind of water they
use. Any one who has ever watched a pet
canary viii remember how il would refuse
to plunge I'm unless the water and the bath
tub were perfectly clean. and also how. when
nobody appeared TO he watching It, the bird
would first take its bath, arrange its feathers
and then eat the fresh seeds that had been
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
IADVANCING IN CHEERFUL, CZECHO O-SI OVAKIA

DOST-WAR conditions of aOomen
IN Europe being discussed By
Mrs. Borden Hartman IN a.
series of articles for The Neao York
Herald Magazine centre to-day
around the l0omen of Czecho-
Slovakia. The noted sociologist
delves into history freely IN this
article and shoaOs hoaO through all
rne centuries, IN spite of enormous
handicaps, the aOomen of the new
republic haze kept their desire for
advancement. NoaO that full Liberty
is assured the sea is making great
strides fOra0ard, especially IN
educational lines.
BY MRS. BORDEN HARTMAN.
Speci,Ii Correspondence to THE NEW York
HERALD.
PRAGUE, Sept. 25.
A LII signs seem to justify the original,
e ~ belief of Americans that Czecho
Slovakia was going to be stable
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is to-day a pleasant example of compare
tive contentment.
The rich farm lands Of Bohemia are
deep in bountiful harvest. The many
little towns along the rivers and among the
gently rolling hills are busy with their
individual life, and the large cities. with
their smoking factory chimneys, substan-
tiate the impression of industrial enter
prise.
Such scene is due to no accident OF
national policy or adventitious circum-
stance. Although CzechoSlovakia seems
to be the one country that gained what
she wanted by the Peace of Versailles, her