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this, Sally?" and she held 1t out Tor
them all to see. "Fanchon's imported
a lot of them-rouge, gowns and lip
sticks to match; Dad told me he'd
send me to the country with Aunt Sye
if he caught me using this, so Gibbs
has to park it in his pocket for me.
Going to dance with me, Keith?"
Sally, finding herself toddling with
Gibbs Hunter, studied him for mo-
ment, and wondered what could be
Pats charm for him. He seemed too
earnest for her determined flippancy,
too conservative for her scorn of the
conventions. Pats had known Keith
Gilbert "a hours-and called him by
his first name, asked him to dance
with her, and then openly embraced
him with the music as an excuse.
Passing a mirrored wall at the mo-
ment, Sally was startled to find that
her own arm was about Gibbs Hunt
ers neck, and to realize that if her
embrace was perhaps less clinging
than Patricia's, it was an embrace,
nevertheless.
You can't dance this way and stand
a mile away from the man." she told
herself, angered at her own critic
ism The companion question, why
dance that way, them" she ignored.
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the seat at the end of the table that
she had occupied almost every night
for ten years.
Humphrey was busily sharpening
the carving knife. He began to laugh.
only it isn't served. Catch Bridget
serving" he observed. Whats
anything suit your
This pleasantly only made matters
worse. Mile answered mo" sharply
and ate in silence.
1t was the usual meal of every cont
Portable family in Wissakeagan-a
roast, potatoes. one other starchy veg
etable, something canned, probably
hot biscuits, and to finish off, pud
ding, pie or canned fruit with cake
and large cups of coffee to be taken
with the meal
Some families had soup to begin
with, but Humphrey called soups "hot
i dishwater,' and announced that wheT
he was hungry, he wanted to get his
teeth into something" so soup was
reserved for company.
Bridget brought in the fresh course
removed as many of the other dishe;
as she happened to think about, ant
after the meal was over, sang loudly
as she ratified china and pans clean
ing up" for the night. Her voice
reached Mile and Humphrey as the,
sat in the living room.
The rain poured as dismally as ever
There semed to be no end to it.
For heavens sake, let's do some
| thing, go somewherei" Millie cried gu
suddenly, about o'clock.
Humphrey looked up in alarm a
this continuation of temperament II
his sweet tempered wife. He wa
| perfectly willing to do something.
! The endless tales of chorus girls VIII
| skated on the edge of the thin ice
propriety and who neither fell in no
sought safer place, were beginnin!
| to bore him. But the weather was 81
| bad the movies had closed for lack o
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playwright-her mother-in-law had
openly bewailed the fact that she
knew no one who knew him person
ally, and that formal request that
he speak at her club had met with a
courteous refusal.
The music began again, seductive,
intellectually appealing. She stepped
into Keith Gilbert's arms with a fleet
ing little smile that he could not quite
solve. She was looking back on her
self as she had been the day before
when her husband offered her vaca-
tion-and wondering whether, if he
had forseen its course, he would have
been so urgent
IomorroW-Playing With Fire.
Copyright, 1922, by The Wheeler
Newspaper Syndicate).
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RICHARD BRABANT. a successful
young lawyer. has suggested a years
leave of absence for his bored wife.
SALLY, hoping that she will learn
enough of life to become less butter
fly and more a helpmate. She begins
by meeting childhood friend,
KEITH GILBERT. always labeled
Dangerous" while on her way to tea
with
BARBARA LANE. an old fashioned
PATRICIA LoRING, a modern flapper
who Is out to capture Gilbert and Is
much surprised when she meets Sally
at big costume ball with him.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES GLORY
Sally's brain whirled as she faced
Patricia; she was uncomforta0ly
aware of the girls keen eyes and crit
ical thoughts.
Nice party, isn't it?" Keith Gill
bert came to her rescne in time to save
her the blunder of explaining her pres
ence at the ball and so seeming to put
herself in the wrong. why didn't
you tell us last night that you were
coming? We'd have made it party.
Patricia looked nonpulssed. You
didn't say that you were going to be
here" she protested, but Keith's laugh
ing insistence that he had done so dis
armed her She introduced the man
with her, clean cut young chap whom
Sally liked instantly; something about
the straight line of his brows and the
uncompromising cut of his jaw re-
minded her of Dick.
why don't we all have supper to-
gether?" urged Keith. as they walked
back to the box. "Or are you with
someone else?"
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"No-Gibbs and
/ just wandered
over here for a
while; we'd been
at the Mortons'-
the deadliest COM
ing-out party | ever
suffered through"
declared Pats, fish
ing In her partners
pocket for her lip
stick. How'd you
like the color of
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AsT 0o2R on leave
S4Ss-./ o2 mu.ra as1 nsraanan. ar.ll @'

During the next intermission,
heightened by the performance of
some professional dancers, Patricia sat
on the wide, low railing of their box,
smoking Keith's cigarettes, laying her
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sit there alone and try to knit, or to
have Humphrey there to quarrel with
Tomorrow-News from Patty.
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fhtShOzO
batKeith'S

~ 4dnight-
k~1ame has a mysterious
'5ez{ Eeith's an New Years
5tion to the regular bill.
49, ggleston has. arranged
- diana Magical Fraternity,
49, Of business men, to put
~ Of stunts as a special
60 the second show. The
- this club make magic a
all are expert in their
those who will appear are
81. Maley, Celest Coryn, E.
: ,hols. Tom Roberts, A. W. C.
James and Catherine Har-
&Bert Servaas. Each Of the
'Ss have selected two tricks
VI they excel.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-05-31
AND / can remember JUST now frignt-

| And can remember Just now rngnt-
ened felt "But isn't there any doc
tor anywhere that can stop it?"
He shook his head and gave that
queer little laugh again.
"Im afraid not" he sighed "As
for it's being a dsease-there are
people that call 1t disease, and there
are others who call it a cure; and
there are still others who say it's a
to cure. But, there, you baby! What
am | saying? Come, come my dear,
just forget 1t. It's nothing you should
bother your little head over now. Wait
till you're older"
Till I'm older, indeed How I hate
to have folks talk to me like that
And they do-they do 1t all the time
AS if l was child now, when I'm
almost standing there where the brook
and river meet
But that was just the kind Of talk
got, everywhere, nearly every time
l asked any one what a divorce was
Some laughed, and some sighed Some
looked real worried cause I'd asked
it, and one got mad (That was the
dreSsmaker. I found out afterwaro
that she'd had a divorce already, so
probably she thought | asked the ques-
ton on purpose to plague ber) But
nobody would answer me-really an
swer me sensibly, so I'd know what it
n1H g,Di
Run away, child" or You shouldn't
talk of such things or, "Wait, my
dear, till you're older; and all that.
oh, how l hate such talk when |
really want to know something How
do they expect us to get our education
If they won't answer our questions?
l don't know which made me angri-
est mean angrier. (I'm speaking
Of two things so l must, / suppose
/ hate grammar y TO have them talk
like that-not answer me, you know
or have them-do as Mr. Jones, the
storekeeper, did, and the men there
with him.
1t was one~day when 1 was in there
buying some white thread for Nurse
Sarah, and it was little while after
l had asked the doctor if a divorce
was disease. Somebody had said
something that made me think you
could buy divorces, and | had suddenly
determined to ask Mr.. Jones if he had
them for sale. (Of course all this
sounds very silly to me now, for l
know that divorce is very simple
and very common. It's just like a
marriage certificate only it unmar-
ries you instead of marrying you;
but | didn't know it then And if I'm
going to tell this story Eve got to
tell it just as it happened, of course.)
Well, l asked Mr.. Jones If you could
buy divorces, and if he had them for
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an plain what he thought of her gal
livantln' round from mornin' till night
with them young students an prOfes-
sors, an havin' them here, too, such a
lot, till the house was fairly overrun
with them. He said he was shocked
an scandalized, an didn't she have
any regard for his honor an decehcy.
If she didn't for herself! An oh a
whole lot more.
Cry? No, your ma didn't cry this
time. met her in the. hall right after
they got through talkn', an she N'ns
white as sheet, an her eyes was ike
two blaZin' stars. SO know how She
must have looked while she was in the
library. An | must say she give it
to him good an plain straight from
the shoulder. She told him she was
shocked an scandaliZed that he could
p talk to his wife like that; an didn't
he have any more regard for her honor
an decency than to accuse her of run
rim after any man living-much less
a dozen Of them An then she told
him lot of what his mother had said
to her, an she said she had been mere
ly tryln' to carry out those instruc-
tions. She was tryin' to make her
husband an her husbands wife an
her husbands home popular with the
college folks, so sic could help him
to be president if lie wanted to be.
But he answered back, cold an chilly.
that he thanked her. of course, hut
he didn't care for any more Of that
kind of assistance; an If she would
give little more time to her home an
her Housekeeping, as she ought to, he
would be considerably better pleased.
An she said, very well. she would
see that he had no further cause to
complain. An the next minute | met
her in the hall, as just said. her head
high and her eyes blazin'.
AN things did change then. lot.
I'll own. Right away she began to re-
fuse to go out with the students an
young professors an she sent down
word she wasn't to home when they
called And pretty quick, of course,
they stopped comm.
"Housekeepin'? Attend to that2
Well, yves, she did try to at first, a
little; but of course your grandma
had always given the orders-through
me, l mean; an there really wasn't
anything your ma could do. An l
told her so, plain. Her ways were
new an different an queer, an we
liked ours better, anyway. SO she
didn't bother US much that way very
long. Besides, she wasn't feelin' very
well, anyway, an for the next few
months she stayed in her room a lot,
an We didn't see much of her. Then
by an by you came, an'-well, guess
that's all-too much, you little chatter
boxw
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Divorce rs cownrG5 retreaI from
the battle Of life" Captain Harris SAID
this. He spoke slow and decided. Cap
tain Harris is old and rich, and not
married. He's the hotels star boarder.
and what he says, goes, most always
But it didn't this time. | can remem-
her just how old Mr.. Carlton snapped
out the next.
Speak from your own experience,
Tom Harris, an Pm thinkin' you amt
fit ter judge. | tell you divorce is
what three fourths Of the husbands an
wives in the world wish was waitin'
for em at home this very night. But
1t amt there" / knew, of course, he
was thinking of his wife. She's some
cross | guess, and has two warts on
her nose.
There was more, quite lot more,
said. But I've forgotten the rest. Be-
sides, they weren't talking to me then.
anyway. SO / picked up my thread
and slipped out of the store, glad to
escape. But, as | said before, didn't
find many like them.
'Of course know nOw-what divorce
Is, [ mean. And it's all settled. They
ITO be contlnueS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-05-31

Mrs. o. H. Stanley of West Berk-
shire was instantly killed, hel
ther-in-law, P. H. Stanley, was
severely injured and her husband
0. H. Stanley, was slightly hurt
when their automobile turned turtle
at East Franklin late May "a, after
hitting two cows. Mrs. Leon Going
and her two children, who also were
in the car, escaped with bruises
0. H. Stanley was driving the auto
mobile.
The accident happened on what is
known as the William Patten hill
The automobile was descending the
hill just as the Patten cows were
being driven from the pasture to the
barn. Mr.. Stanley endeavored to
avoid hitting the cows and in the
effort overturned the car, Mrs. Stan
ley striking her head on a rock.
She was so years of age.
Two cows were killed in the ac-
cident.
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sale; and you ought to have heard
those men laugh. There were six of
them sitting around the stove behind
rue.
"oh, yes, my little maid" (above all
things l abhor to be called little
maldD one OF them cried. "You can
buy them If you've got money enough
but | don't reckon our friend Jones
here has got them for sale.'
Then they all laughed again, and
winked at each other. CHATS another
disgusting thlng-winks when you ask
a perfectly civil question! But what
can you do? Stand it, that's all.
There's such a lot of things we poor
women have to standD Then they
quieted down and looked very sober
the kind Of sober you know is faced
with laughs In the back-and began
to tell me what a divorce really was.
/ can't remember them all, but / can
some of them. OF course l understand
now that these men were trying to
be smart and were talking for each
other. not for me. And l knew il
then-a little. We know a lot more
things sometimes than folks think we
do. Well, as near as can remember
II was like this:
"A divorce is a knife that cuts a
knot that hadn't ought to ever been
lied" said one.
"A divorce is a jump In the dark"
said another.
mo. 1t amt. It's a jump from the
frying pan into the fire." plped up Mr.
Jones.
"A divorce is the comedy Of the rich
and the tragedy Of the poor" said a
little man who wore glasses.
Divorce is a nice smushy poultice
mat may help but won't heal" cut in
q new voice.
Divorce is guidepost marked.
H to Heaven but lots Of folks miss
the way, just the same, notice"
spoke up somebody with chuckle.
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Pointed Paragraphs

The sea of matrimony is dotted
with leaky boats.
The pit falls of life never bother
those who step over them.
People never amount to anything
with doing something.
The mruly tongue is best curbed
by keeping the mouth shut.
Between routine and radio comes
the toll that pays for both.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-05-31
ITO be contInueS
VERMONT STATE NEWS
DR.. E. G. Stevens of Orleans died

DIR. E. G. Stevens of Orleans died
recently.
Somebody stole 100 week-old
chicks from a brooder in Pownal
Center recently.
T. Yabashi, of Toxic, Japan, head
of marble industry, employing 300
men in that country, has been in Rut-
land looking over the marble
quarries there and ordering ma
chinery. Two carloads of machinery
have previously been sent to va
bashi's plant.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-05-31
TELEPHONE HEARING JUNE 81

The Daily Caledonian and 700 tele-
phone subscribers, who petitioned for
a hearing on the adjustment of free
tolls at st. JOhnsbury, have won a
hearing as above.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-05-31
Lamoi|Ie Valley Cow Testing Association

The following table gives the and records of the
in the Association which produced than 40 pounds
butter fat 1000 pounds of milk during the period of 80 days
ending April 3d. 1922.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15

The fire started in the center of
the block bounded by Van Buren,
Canal and Clinton SITS, and West
Jackson boulevard of unknown
origin, burned every structure in
that area, leaped north across
jackson boulevard and wrecked
the 21-story Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy railroad general office
building and burned nearly
through to Harrison street.
The fire was not brought under
control until nearly 5 O'Clock. One
fireman was killed, another seri-
ously injured, ten or more slightly
hurt, and an unknown number of
the 100000 spectators slightly hurt
by falling bricks, burning timbers
or sparks.
Every piece of fire fighting APP
paratus within five miles. was call
ed out in a series of ten alarms.
Shirley ?. High, city fire attorney,
early today, announced the arrest
of an unnamed man, on informa-
ton supplied by H. T. Schif, pre-
sldcnt of the Confectionery Spec
ialty Co., at 521 West Jackson
boulevard where the fire started
Hr High said that he was being
questioned regarding threatened
letters Mr. Schiff said the man,
former employee, has sent him.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
RULES
FOR GAME OF
FATS AND LEANS
Sam Moore, Arbiter, Finds
No Guide for Such
a Contest
Mexican Rules.

Mexican Rules"
That's the cdict Of Sam Moore,
al bitcr of the championship CON
test between the Fats and Leans,
to be played at the Armory to-
morrow night for the benefit of
the Charity Fund of st. Johns
bury Lodge of Elks.
81 have looked over Rcach's
Guide of Professional basketball
and Spaulding's Amateur rule
book but | don't find anything in
either book that would be of
much assistance to me in deciding
important points of the game. For
in: tancc, there is nothing in either
rule book to say whether time
shall be called or a penalty i'm
posed upon fat man who falls on
his back and is unable to get back
into play without the assistance
of other players. There is al.
no penalty provided for one
player hitting another below the
belt line. Now what use is rue
book in a game where Billy KIM
bal is opposed to Earl Bradley
and they arc both jumping for the
tall. For Billy to hit Earl above
the waist line he would have ~
have a step ladder. And there is
nothing in either of those book
which includes step ladder as
part Of the apparatus needed in
a basketball game.
'ln view of these. and other
facts, have but little choice in
the matter and that is to open the
game to. original interpretations
and decide each point of the game
a it develops. ] have there re
decided that the game shall be
played under Mexican IxIcs. As
you perhaps know that means mo
law and no order. Armed intcc-
vcntion will not be tolerated. The
boys can take d tip from me and
leave their shooting irons at
home. If ! sec any attempt 1t
violence on the referee | have tne
assurance of Capt Cheney Of the
Company d Machine Gun CONF
pany of his unqualified support"
There was a rumOr about town
today that some of the Fats are
under weight. They must tip the
scales at 200 per before the game
or they will be disqualified. Some
Confined on Last pape
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
NEWBURY HENS
GET A GOOD
DICKJNE

The sudden advent of
spring found one Ncwbury
citizen unprepared.
The floods descended from
old Mount Pulaski so sudden
ly the other night, and swept
through John Goodwin's hen
house with such force, that
before John could swap his
carpet slippers for rubber
boots, a big colony of fancy
bred fowls had joined their
ancestors in the happy chicken
grounds of the beyond,
He is not discouraged, how
ever, but now proposes to
cross his breed of hens with
ducks, and see if he cannot
raise something that can swim
out when the waters surprise
'cm.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
BOSTON MARKET
REVIEW OF
CURRENT PRICES
Quotations on Staple Eat
ables During the Len
ten Season


The current quotations of the
Boston produce market as issued
for the present week under the
direction of the bureau of crops
and market estimates of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture give
the following figures for dairy
products, fruits, vegetables and
meats:
Dairy and Puultry Products
Butter prices have been unusual
ly low for a number of months,
and many dealers had figured thai
they would continue low for the
remainder of the season but the
past week has seen an advance
that has brought values higher
than they have been at any tim4
this year. Fancy fresh butter has
been extremely scarce and active
bidding jumped the price from BIC
up to 40c for tubs and forced up
all other grades corresponding
amounts. Print butter has sold
easily up to 43c and even dairy
goods have brought &c. Chcc G
prices are little changed from la st
week but are very firm at 21 y c
for fresh and 24c for cured stuff.
The poultry market has reacted
slightlv from the high levels cS-
tablishod last week and most kinds
are a little lower. Dressed fowl
sell at 32-35c, chickens from 30
SC for frozen and up to 43c for
capons. Roosters have brought "a
26c. Live birds have not been any
more plentiful but the holiday de-
mand is over and Nriccs have drop
ped, fowl going out at 32-35c, and
chickens around SOC E"Ps have
been irregular, farmers holding
back nearby eggs for Matching
purposes, making nriccs f'Imcr a.
30-35c. Wcetcrn fre-h arc about
steady at 23-26c. A few are bciny
put in Storage but not in any vol
umc "a yet.
Fruit ard VeEo able
New Southern vegetables. APP
pcared in increasing quantities and
We're generally weaker, other line,
fairly steady. Apples plentiful but
unchanged in price, best New York
A grade BaldWin5 bringing $3.50
and No. Maine Ben Davis $5,I0-
500 a bbl New Cahha"c plen'jful
and weak, Texas sc!lin" $250-27J
a bbl. and Alab ma and Florida
stock $2.00-2.50 per 100 h. crate.
California caulifloWer steady an
$1.5O-2.75 and weaker ot 50 r0-oo0
crate recording to ,ize. Nativ"
hothouSc lettuce SOC higher at ST..
75-2.00 n 'bu. boz a9d C2I-
fornia Iceberg lettuce steady a.
Sc 00-6.25 q crate Mas-. oriou-
selling slowly at last Wcek'~ range
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-03-15
BRANCH AND
CHAPTER
MEETING
Red Cross Workers Dis
cuss Thrift Shop
Project

The Thrift Shop, It's wide scr
vice, how it can be carried on
to render the most usefulness 20
tie community. came in for much
discussion at the meeting in the
kcd Cross rooms Tuesday night
Of the Caledonia county chapter
and the st. Johnsbury branch. Tic
Joint meeting was presided over
by +. c. Smith, chairman of the
chapter and the discussion of the
Thrift shop was full and free.
The chapter heartily conculrcd
With the plan submitted by Mrs.
II. II. Eldridgc, that committee
OF five with an advisory hC"d be
appointed to look after the Thrift
shop thus distributing the duties
"nd fhc responsibility Mrs
Eydridge has steered the project
since ITS Inception and feels that
she cannot continue to carry the
responsibility of the fast growing
work. No decisive action was TAX
c1 at the meeting but the plan
will be worked out by the branch.
Miss Narncy in her report of
home service work showed that
OF the 76 families assisted in the
month of February, 2S were SOL
diers families. Many routine mat
tiers were disposed of and reports
o. an interesting and encouraging
Continued on Last Pace