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search of Sister Anne queer tremor fell on her. Suppose-how must 1t seem to be beyond thirty and never anybody making love to you?
 She hugged Anne tight before send- ing her away, cautioning her: Don't you look that lamb-to-theeslaughter way; it would be too. encouraging. Make him sweat-he deserves it. When Big Sis had got half down the wide stairway. Lalee had an inspira- tion-nothing less than to eayesdrop the ministerial proposal. Dead easy they were seated in the hall she could steal to the upper landing, where every word would be audible. Moving shadow-like she gained her cOign of vantage just in time to catch a rotund, Under God, you are my help and com fort. Sister Anne, now that I face the Great Crisis of Life"
 Capitals hardly do justice to his emphasis. Sister Anne murmured something Lalee could not catch. But plainer than cannon boom came after it: My desire is to have you in truth and fact for my-sIster. To help me win the most wonderful creature liy- ing. She is so fair, so sweet, so young, feel it laid specially upon me to guide and guard her-tO bring her intn the fold. You will, you must help me know you love her so we'll you must long have understood"
 ''Shr didn't-she couldn't! Nobody did!" LaIee cried, sweeping down on Jhem. the moral and pattern of fury. You'd see yourself how ridiculous you are-nnly you're too conceited to see anything hut yOurSelf-"
 Right. little sister" Judge Emory hunmed from the piazza. He had come home with dad and walked across into the ltuuSe instead of coming in the ear. "But I'm glad to find out Pm not the sole prize idiot-trying to marry H,ttrr-bit like you when there's the very best woman in the world in plain view"
 'pcar me! Who can you be mean ng: thought you'd end by going in- to a beautiful decline and leaving me ynur fortune when I found somebody tu marry" T.alee said saucily. Mccall luin purple faced, tried to speak. The .it;, ~p motioned for silence and took Si>.rr Anne'S hand. saying:
 "I.aven't done penance long enough clear, fora young old mans folly? You said you couldn't trust me, when IjrAt ,realized how foolish l had Etta-"
 ''Nevpr you mind about her. I can Iust you. You're just the man this family has needed" Lalee cried joy s>Iv Then tn the minister: Say, to show you bear no malice, marry them right an the spot-they have wasted lime enough"
 Several years too much," the judge said. taking Anne's hand in a tight grip. McCaIlum did not marry them then and there, but the rector made up for that al little later, with all the .. "lnttA S.dp dancing at the wedding.
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NATURE KEEPS HER SECRET
Chemists Have Never Been Able Eo Satisfactorily Determine the Gem.
 position Of Wead.

WOad, with which the ancient Brit Ons used to stain themselves, is grown in that part of Lincolnshire, England, which abOunds with dykes and wind mills, and along the borders of Cam bridgeshire. If allowed to go to seed the wOad weed often grows to three and four feet in height and has a pret- Ey yellow flower.
 The first crop of tender green shoots la picked in July or August, and during the harvest men and women are to be seen creeping along the fields on their hands and knees all day long.
 The shoots are put into large wick CT baskets and sent to A factory, of which there are three or four in that part of the country. When they arrive they are squashed into pulp and al- lowed to ferment. Later they are made into balls and dried.
 These balls remain drying for sev- eral weeks and are then broken into pieces and stirred for lengthy period. Eventually they produce a coarse, pow derlike substance, deep blue in color. Lastly the powder is damped. stored in vats and sold to dyers and manu- lecturers of wOolens and other articles of apparel.
 The enduring blue of the police mans uniform Is obtained from wOad, and, though 1t IS an expensive dye at the outset, 1t is the cheapest In the long run:
 
 this secret of nature, but without suc- cess; and 1t Is doubtful if the industry would continue to exist but for the Of- ficial desire to procure uniforms that are durable and of fast color.
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MUD PACKS FREE ON BEACH
"Cure" That Costs Nothing Is One of the Attractions at Famous
 Coney Island.

Mud packs. which cost $2 apiece at beauty parlors, and which enjoy con- siderable fame as wrinkle eradicators nnG skin beautifiers among the fair sex, may be had for nothing at Goney Island, writes New York correspond ent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Which explains the amazing sight offered visitors to the beach, when 800 bathers appeared in mud masks, their faces coated with black and yellow clay.
 Tl.e mud for the masGs was obtained where contractors are working on the new Coney Island boardwalk. Sand from sand suckers is being pumped to build the new beach. pipes foot in diameter throwing up clay, mud and water. The clay is caught as it comes from the pipes and applied to the face, where it hardens into a black m"ss The bathers then lie on the sand in the sun, in order to get the flell effect of the cure"
The Press., 1922-12-07
When Flappers Were clipper..


 One evening 1 was walking in the plaza when I saw female ahead. who appeared to be the prettiest nodded little vessel that I ever cast my eyes on. I followed in her wake, and ex- amined her; such clean run I never Deheld-so neat, too, in all her rig ging-everything so nicely slowed un- der hatches. And then she sailed along ill such a style, at one moment lifting so lightly, just like a frigate with her topsails on the caps that can't help going along. At another time, as she turned q corner sharp up ill the wind, wake as straight as an ;irrnW-nO IeeWay. I made all sail tc sheer alongside of her, and when under quarter examined her close. Never saw such a fine swell In the counter. and all so trim-nO ropes towing overheard. "Well, Mr. Simple" said to myself, "d-n it, if her fig urthpad and bows be finished off by tl:" same builder, she's perfect" So I "',0t ahead and waved little ,cnH@at a peep at her through her veil and saw two black eyes--as bright as hn"'!S and as large as damsons. I s:'w quite enough and, not wishing to :" i-tten her I dropped back astern - F.""m "Peter Simple" by Captain Me"ryat.
The Press., 1922-12-07
FIND CHEESE SUBTLE THING
Reason That Is Advanced forsthe Ap- parent Impossibility Of Initiating
 the Genuine Camembert.

man interested in agricultural products wanted to make cheese of the type of Camembert. but while he had the same ferment, employed the &ume methods and used what seemed tO be the same kind of milk, neither he nor anyone else in this country ob. tuined the same result.
 On visiting France~he found that the makers of the cheese in question were very particular about their milk, ob- taining it from the dairymen of cer-- tain district only. In the fields of these farmers there grew, he found, sprink- Ing of certain grasses that he did not fild elsewhere, and it Is possible. and even likely, that these make the subtle difference in the milk that shows in the cheese which distinguishes the gen. u'ne from the artificial product.
 And yet. the special grasses were only incidental; they were not the main grasses of the pasture, which rerr the same as those found else Hendrick in Harper's aIa azine.
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Golf on HorSehack

An old lady from the interior of Vir s:i'.i1. who. upon several occasions be- fcrr. rGming to Washington had seen th" golf players knocking the balls ar",.Hd at White Sulphur. returned to h." home in the mountain fastness 4F;,'r having spent a couple of days in lis city relates the Washington >'t;-r.. Upon being asked what she t.-t;:"!it of Washington. she replied
 '''.tA. they've got lots of big build
 = and good roads, but they never .,'jA to be contented. Why, they .,,f-''l'" l'Iay golf on horseback. The "..r rhi soul had heen shown a game
 '5.- .;'',' '..s. sta. in tL. f.ifv
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all the summer, the morning into hu- man shape. thus doubly blessing our eyes
 "fd say quit your kiddin'-only you're Il preacher" Lalee said, pout- ing and snutching away her hands.
 'Why?" the minister, Angus Me CulIum, asked eagerly.
 i.aiee giggIed gIeefullyA Big Sis would make me stand in the corner facing tl:;' wall full ten minutes" she said. "or else say shouldn't go to the Daisy dance tnrlorrow."
 You like to dancer" from Mccall ium.
 LaIee shook her head. No, I love it. So well you could almost tote me np to Heaven by saying I could dance there foFever-slnd never get tired"
 Suppose you fuLnd something you Icyed betteF2" McCallum's voice was curiOusly husky, Suppose 1 turned 10 an airplanr-and flew away with myself--and Big Sis"
 Lalee flung back That's as likely as the other"
 "H-m, l hope l may see your sister -prirateIy." McCallum returned with significance, I.alec tlapped her hand over her irrpprt~sible mouth to strungIe an 'I knew it Oh. l knew jtr' and whipped away, decorously silent. She did not wish McCallum luck in his wOuins-hut she did long deeply for Big Sis tn have d real sure enough
  and alt the mother LuIec had ever known. She wHs neither beautiful nor Hgly, had iine temper and fair wit tu say nothing of being a queen of housekeeperS, and general prOvi- denCe tn all in need or trouble. Why no man had sought her had been q puzzle tn l.alee since she was out of short fr0ckS. Shr could not realize that Anne'S dellcate uluafneSS had chilled many an incipient inclination. or that her seeming content with the estate in life wherein she found her self had duunted SuitnrS bent upon marriage on the nCck-0r-nothing prin- ciple. +
 I.alet. had heen -u belle even befort S4C UuA 0p AEE NutlSs 0AtlAd Judge Emory her fathers chum at college. had seriously proposed to her when she had reached the ripe age of fourteen and d half, She ought to have known nothing about it-but dad had no secrets from the child whose coming had cost him so dear. He had married at nineteen-Sister Anne was just twenty years his junior. She had laughed with him merrily over the proposal-if there had been anything or hurt below the laughing, nobody had ever guessed 1t.
 Naturally there had been, there still were, others. Yet at almost nineteen she was heart-free-to her own dis gust Often she said stormily: Don't see why anybody wants me, with Big Sis about-nor why can't find some body to fall in love with, and have done with 1t. Dad needs a son-in-law badly. We need somebody. all three of us, to make us mind and take life seriously"
 Stlll she had not felt quite easy when McCaIlum showed signs unmis- takably Anne-ward. He must propose, that would save the situation but Big sis of course wouldn't think of him for . minute. Yet as shs ripped in
The Press., 1922-12-07
The {. Ham Sandwich
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By I. WRIGHT
eo by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate,


 Merwin Palmer straightened up from his cramped position over the engine and rubbed his greasy hands down the tan Overalls he wore. II tell you, Dave," he said, with sigh. 'I'm going up to that house and ask for drink of water. 1 need little something after three hours of this work" -.
 The man lying in the road under the car snorted 'sG' wan, then," he retort- ed shortly. We're not going to call garage man in for this little job If 1t takes all day."
 No, that's all right with me--but I'm going to have drink of water. And say-if I saw ham sandwich right n0w-What I wouldn't do to it ,"
 For ~a civil engineer with a nice, new diploma from college and d pretty fraternity pin that no, girl ever yet succeeded in getting away-well, you sound like a hungry tramp" And the man in the road turned over on his side and stretched two fingers up into the motor and said something softly under his breath.
 Up at the house on the hill girl with soft golden hair and violet eyes stood on the porch, watching the prog ress of the man coming up. His fig ure is like Merwin's," she whispered to herself But Merwin-" she sighed a little and sat down at the white kitchen table, which was spread with two large loaves of bread, butter, mus tard and pretty pink ham.
 'May-may I have a drink of wa ter?" asked Merwin Palmer moment later. This heat is frightful."
 The girl with the violet eyes did not look mp from her bread cutting. "The pump is there and the dipper is hang ing in the apple tree directly above, Help yourself" Her voice was low and her tone cordial,
 As soon as he had turned to go to the pump she looked after him. Afraid of tramps, she was somehow fascinated by his figure-a figure so similar to
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the college man she had met in the city. His shoulders dropped as he pumped, and he looked very tired. When he called out Thanks" she was again looking at her bread,
 If he stared at her Queerly she did not know 1t, for she was not even glancing his way.
 Maybe tramps are a lazy lot and don't deserve anything" she said half aloud, but I'll bet a sandwich would taste good to him. Say!" she called out. She did not know how to address him, and say" seemed to be adequate.
 He turned.
 "Wopld you care for ham sand- Wichq"
 He turned and hurried toward her.
 For moment she was startled. She had heard dreadful tales of tramps knocking girls senseless and going through the house to take everything of value; she had heard of one place near the next town where d tramp had set fire to the house. She almost re- gretted her impulse.
 Il don't know that you're hungry" she said timidly. He looked so large now that he was coming up the porch steps and in the screen door. "But-I thought ham sandwich"
 "Why,'' he said cordially, in boOm- ing voice, ''Td commit murder right now for ham sandwich. I was just telling my pal down the road that ham sandwich"
 She paIed; he had pal down the rOad-she did not dare look at him.
 "May I help myself?" he asked as she made no effort to hand him the plate
 She nodded; her throat felt dry and hot and she wished that some of the family were home. "YOu-yOu might take one along to your-pal-" she said in very little voice
 "Fine-" he said, eating the sand. wich with great relish. Although a fellow who swears as he does doesn't deserve anything as good as this. It seems to me that you have met me" he said, and then stopped short.
 Her face famed: why had she called hin' :" - ' he was on his way out of the yard! She dared not lcok at him.. Panic overwhelmed her.
 Aren't you Faith Darrow?" he asked. ....
 She looked at him now in surprise. Yes" .-..
 ''Im-" u. .-.
 You're never Merwin Palmer?" she gasped.
 He nodded placidly. "T'm glad you remembered. thought you didn't, and"
 She laughed nervously. ''Well, why why didn't you say so at the start? -you-thought you were tramp-in those clothes-'
 He stared at his tan overalls. "The car broke down and Dave and I thought we'd fix it ourselves"
 There was strained silence as each followed thoughts concerning an eve. ming where there was dancing, a bal eony, certain w0rds-and then the in- terruption of crowd of dancers.
 " know" 1t was Merwin Palmer who broke the silence As he spoke he was christening the shoulder strap of his overall, revealing a well-cut suit beneath. "Y' know, always had a notion, Faith, that my fraternity pin
The Press., 1922-12-07
REGARD GOLD AS WORTHLESS
FIjian Natives Evidently Look Sn Precious Metal as Something Worth
 Only What 1t WeIOhe.

Ordinary money is entirely unknown amongst the inhabitants of some of the more remote Fijian islands in the South Pacific ocean, its place being taken by plug tObacco-sO many sticks being worth one pig or one wife, aa the case may be, writes Col. T. R. St. Johnston, formerly district commis- siOner for Fiji.
 One day a trading schooner put in at Apemama island having on board R goat. beast never before seen by the astonished eyes of the natives.
 To please the ''king" of the place the trader made him a present of the animal, which, as Is the playful habit of goats, had been accustomed to chew up anything offered to it, even to- baccO.
 "What do you feed 1t, on?'' ask the king.
 "TObacco," replied the scheOneF's captain. in mischievOps mood, and thereupon handed 1t a stick, which 1t promptly ate up.
 '"Iake 1t away!" cried the mortified king; q shall he ruined in a week!''
 Somewhere in Fiji there exist rich gold deposits, but no one knows their whereabouts, for the natives are ex- traordinarily reticent regarding this one subject. Colonel St. Johnson tells of the following remarkable incident:
 One day a trader brought him two specimens of quartz richly velned w1eA gold. They had been hidden In one of number of bags of copra (drt0d coconut) brought in by some natives: the object being, not to smuggle the gold, but to add to the weight of the contents of the bag, and so defraud the purchaser.
 The colonel himself tested the spsct. mems, which proved to be very rich 1n- deed in the precious metal. The trader at once began to make inquiries as to who had put stones" in their sack of cOpra, but the natives imagined a trap, and not one would own up, de spite his offer of mo awkward Ques- tiOns and a rich reward" And to this day the mystery has never been solved
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Wrong Impression.

..",No. I never hunt for ideas" the eminent author assured her. "When feel in the mood for work, climb to the summit of a hill, and there. with the scent of the mountainspine in my nostrils. find my inspiration
 "Just fancy!' gushed the girl. "And then you descend and write it all down, I suppose?'
 Indeed I don't That would be a sure way of losing it. I carry my lit tie typewriter up with. me-"
 "Oh, how good of you! Butt does she-er-does she never turn giddy or anything?"
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would look better on you Fhan on ahy one else in the world suppose We--" He was holding out the pin, which had never before been out of his hands.
 snort made them turn around. "So this is what you call getting drink of water while lie under that car and sweat?" It was Dave. hot and tired.
 Here's a sandwich and there's the dipper far down the yard there by the pump. Gwan and get a drink" urged Merwin Palmer, with more cordiality than he had ever shown before. "G'wan, we're busy here." .l.
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Sure of His Job.

Solomon has a great reputation for wisdom"
 "How do you suBrose he got that wayY
 Maybe he had ann ie leisure to cul- tivate his mind. UnlFise modern rulers he didn't have to keee his ear to the ground all the time to ind out whether he'd die with his crown on or soon be writing home for money. Birlning. ham Age-Herald.
The Press., 1922-12-07
Sea Lion. invade a Lloh&house,

The keeper of Brides island light, below Cape Flattery, has appealed to the federal authorities in Tacoma for weapons and help. No sooner does he open his door than sea lions force their way into the house and make free with his possessions. At night they surround the place. barking for admittance. until sleep Is impossible. One big fellow amuses himself by climbing the exterior steps to the light, to plunge headlong into the sea. To kill one, would only attract more, for the smell of putrefying meat Is an irresistible attraction. Scientific American.
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His Better Judgment
By MARTHA M. WILLIAMS
s:sR@.R.:.a.s R.sR.sRtsg "s.'

t@ by Mcclure Newspaper syndicatel '.Somebody's coming! eoming coming Somebody's coming-but I'll not say
 whol"
 Lalee chanted with her wicked twinkle, nodding toward the far gate leading upon the deep lawn from the highway. Sister Anne turned brick red. for all she bridled, and made to be absorbed in the crochet intricacy under her hand. Lalee, the young vixen, giggled to see. then flung up her head. canted it slightly sidewise, made a feint of sticking ner hands into inn aginary pockets and rumbled out in her deepest voice: ID. V. Miss Anne, hope see you we'll and hearty"
 shut up. you plagueF from is ter Anne.
 "Shan't do it!" from Lalee the law less. You know that's just what he'll say. He's getting down now-if was a horse l wouldn't carry man that looked so like he was made of ram- rods. Riding circuit twenty years ought tO have learned him better than t0 get down stiff-legged. But he's too pfous to nave room for common sense. or anything but bass voice and a biz appetite"
 Again Sister Anne cried shut up" this time effectually. Heavy feet sounded upon the front steps, a pom derouS knocking rang through the cool front hall.
 Do go ask him in!" Sister Anne entreated. Lalee giggIed again. No need of primping up-he's already swallowed hook, line and Sinker." she said hushedly, yet moved to greet and seat the visitor. who stood frowning faintIy over the slight de lay Sight nf her banished the frOwn, even brought pale glow to the cav ernons eyes. Both his big hands went over the scr;Ttche and sunburned paw she held out in greeting, In his most mellifiuous voice he said: How won derfmI are thy ways, O Lord. To put
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1922-03-08
IlVTERESANTES DECLARACIONES DEL
SR. BARCELO ACERCA DEL ASIJNTO
de $1,000 de QUE HABL0 EEL TEMPO
10 QUE DICE Ell DIARIO REPUBLICANO PRUEBA QUE MIR.
REILLY NO VEDO nj TUVO QUE YER CON LA ASIGNACION

que hablar con el un asunto de suma
importancia, Y que el auditor, SUPO-
NIENDOSE QUE Sc TRATABA DE
LOS CINCO MIL DOLARES, Sc 10
dijo al dfa siguiente al Gobernador,
dejando ell asunto en- sus manos pa
ra que 10 resolviera".
Claramente Sc We por este, que ell
senor C6rdova Davila nj lie habl6 de
este asunto al Auditor, nj tampoco
al Gobernador, quedando asf demos
trado la incalifcable afrmacion que
acaba de hacer ahora el Represen-
tante Ticher en- el Congreso, a nom
bre del Gobernador.
Lo del veto resulta ridiculo, por
demas, porque cuando el Gobernador
Reilly lego Puerto Rico va esta asig-
nacion figuraba en- los estatutos des-
de el ano 1918 por una ley espe-
cial, Y despues EN- los sucesivos pre-
supuestos hasta el ultimo que voto
la Legislature, con la aprobacion ex-
presa, primero del Gobernador Yager
y despues del Gobernador INFERNO
senior Benedicto. La Legislature, que
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1922-03-08
Ell COmiSiOnadO de Agricultural
y TrabajO preSenta impOrtan-
les temaS para diScutir

lares por su falta de cooperation. Ya
10 We Ud.; nal puede no haber 'teni-
do exito alguno' quien no ha desis-
lido en- sus propositos
Hecha esta aclaraci6n y Siendo 20
el que le he invitado a esta discussion
me corresponds la iniciativa, con su
permiso voy empezar:
L. jPor que entrego Ia Association
de Productores de AzGcar de Puerto
Rico la Estaci6n Experimental de Rio
Piedras al Gobierno?
e. ICuales son, a su parecer. los
benefcios derivados de los experimen-
tos investigaciones hechos en- la Es-
taci6n Experimental? FL Pueblo de
Puerto Rico ha gastado aIrededor de
$30o,0o0.0O en- ella.
s. GQu6 acuerdos ha tornado esa
Association, en- relaci6n con los result
tados de los trabajos de investigation
realizados porS Sla Rstacion Experiment
tai Insular."
A. GHa visitado I'd. los campos de
experimentation de Ia Estaci6E Expe-
rimental Insular de Rio Piedras?
s. GConoce I'd. los trabajos lle-
vados cabo por la Estaci6n Experi-
mental Insular, en- beneficio de los, pro-
ductores de azicar de Puerto Rico?
g. iQue acuerdos ha tornado esa
Asociaci6n ante las epidemias del Matt
zado, la Gomosis, y la Enfermedad de
la Raiz de la Cana?
q iQue acuerdos ha tornado esa
Association para aumentar ell az1car an
tes de negar a la factoria?
g. 5Ha tenido conocimiento esa
Association del alto rendimiento &C azd
car conseguido por Ia suceci6n Sierra
lies de Ponce?
e. TIA gestionado esa Association
la uniformidad de ell pago de cana
en- proportion con su contenido de azt-
car?
TO- JRecibe esa Association los in
formes semanales de las Centrales azu-
careras de Puerto Rico?
IL IQue 'acuerdos ha tornado esa
Association en- re1aci6n con Ia clausu-
la de la Ley organica que prohibe a
una corporation Ell controlar mas de
500 cuerdas de terreno?
En- ell Reglamento de esa Association
hay un artfculo que dice asi:
"Act. 2. Su objeto y fines seran