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Why the Marriage Of the Principal Characters Of This Novel
Was Able to Stand the Test Is Related In
Captivating Manner

interest In the talk Of the camp
outfits and compasses and packs,
but suddenly, looking down to
where the hoy stretched his long,
gaunt body on the porch floor,
he said. What say. Neale?
How'd you like to go along? You
could carry chain when they had
to run lire, and guess you're
smart enough to keep q fire going
and help make camp. amt you?"
That had been q graf month:
full Of discomfort and hardship
and fatigue and deep. deep salts
faction. Neale was the only boy
with three men, hardened. why
woodsmen, who had spent their
lives in forests. not at all IN the
loafing irregular manner OF
sportsmen, with occasional spurts
of nervous effort, and with long
periods. In unfavcrable weather,
of idling around q campfire.
Neale's three companions had al
ways worked in the woods as
regularly as his father worked
in his office. Rain and heat and
cold and insect plaques were
nothing to them. The main bust.
ness of every day was work:
and camp-life was organized
sketchiIy without much regard
for comfort). not to interfere with
work. Neale found that his
gymnasium practice, athletic
sports, colIege-life had left him
as soft as dough beside these
lean. iron-like men. He logged.
ly sweated himself into a hard
ness that made it possible for
him to keep pace with them. At
first when they turned in under
their blankets at night as soon
as dark came, Neale had been
too exhausted to sleep and had
lain awake aching. every one Of
his big bones bruised by the
roughness of the hastily-n1ade
balsam-bough bed. But inside q
week, he was able, as his com.
panions did, to stretch out with
one long, deep breath and to
know nothing more till morning
came. and the light woke him to
roll over and open his eyes to
the unimaginable freshness OF
dawn. filtering through the thick.
Ieaved branches over his head.
He drew In a. CHESTNUT OF the
sweet, new air, q heart-full of
immaculate beauty. and fell heav.
lily asleep again, till half-an-hour
later one of his companions kick
ed him awake to take his share
of getting breakfast and pack
ing up for the days tramp.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow
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The Story of Two Young People Who Were Destined for
Each Other Though Every Influence Seemed
To Keep Them Apart

his big brothers. Every day he
felt himself stretching up, broad
ening out, nearer to their stature,
though nobody else gave him a
thought. Life was full of big
and generous and absorbing mat
ter.
Then came Thanksgiving Day,
the climax and oh,
after that, what a vacuum!
nothing in life but classes! Holy
smoke! 1t was fierce! What did
the fellows do who hadn't had
anything but classes! How could
they stand it? But of course, it
wasn't such q come-down for
them.
Going home as Neale did every
afternoon, he had none of the
scanty, ill-organized college social
life. Sliding into college as he
had, with no introduction from
the right kind of Prep. school,
and with a noticeably colorless
personality, he was not thought
Of as a possibility for any fra
ternity. Time hung heavy on
his hands. Lectures took up but
three hours a day, on the busiest
days. To fill in the rest of the
time there was the swimming
pool, the Gymnasium and the
Library. He swan, practiced
the overland racing stroke, Owed;
in the Gym. he fooled awkwardly
on the parallel bars and side
horse; he tossed medicine balls
with any pickup acquaintance;
what he really enjoyed was the
line of travelling rings which
hung in front of the visitors gal
lery-but one day he heard an
upper classman refer to these as
'Freshmen's Delight" and there
after he avoided them.
At the Library.
The Library, the first one to
which he had had access, wasn't
so bad. Neale went there first
to look up reference for Comp.
Lit. A. OF course you ran the
risk of being thought a grind If
you spent too much time there,
but you could kill the hours very
pleasantly with the bound vol.
umes of the magazines in the
shelves about the general reading
room. Neale and most of his
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WHEN DID IT
HAPPEN?

/. When was the first settle
ment made in New England?
2. When did the "Alleluia Vic.
tory" take place?
8. When was the great Chris.
tan council of Ephesus held?
4. When was feudalism intro.
duced into England?
5. When did the last Roman
Emperor of the West reign?
ANSWERS to these queries will
be printed tomorrow.
ANSWERS
To yesterdays questions.
1-"Gunter's Chain" was in
vented in 1906.
2-xenophon, the ancient Greek
historian, lived from 430 to 357
B. c..
S-Rossini wrote his famous
"Stabat Mater" in 1912.
4-The Rothschild banking house
was founded at Frankfort, Ger
many, in the latter half of the
eighteenth century.
5-Jacob S. Rogers bequeathed
100000 to the Metropolitan
. Museum of Art in New York
in 1901.
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; that formed the dam.
AS we reared the stream
nearly fell over in surprise, for
right ahead of US was a little
family. They looked frightened
and scrambled into the bushes
for dear life as we approached.
Beavers! exclaimed Bunny as
he darted into the underbrush
after them. II thought So" he
called back over his shoulder as
his tail disappeared in the under
brush.
"Beavers-and he thiught =, !"
1 echoed.
What does he mean?" asked
Bobby.
II don't know" / answered.
We'll just wait here and find
out"
We waited a little while and
then out hoped Bunny.
We'll. what is it. Sherlock? I
chuckled.
Just exactly what I thought"
said he. ut was a beaver dam
and those fellows from the city
didn't know it,
What did the beaver family
have to say?" l ventured.
They told me they had simply
been worked to death this sum-
mer repairing their dam and their
house because every once in a
while somebody would tear it
down. They were DISCOURAGED.
Mrs. Beaver is all worn out with
working and taking care of the
children.
What are they going to do
about it?" 1 asked.
II advised them to move"
Bunny said. And they took my
advice and have gone to look for
new stream in which to build a
home"
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KITS the strangest thing I've
ever heard Of" said a
man sitting at the next
table to ours in the little restau.
raunt in small town in Canada.
/ don't listen to the converse
tions OF others when they are not
talking to mel know it's not
polite-but this man spoke so
earnestly and sounded so puz.
zled that I was listening before
i knew 1t.
Yes" he said to his compan-
ion, I've got to send a gang Of
men out there to that creek again
this week and have them tear
out that dam. Who builds it, I
can't find out. If it is allowed
to remain there the first thing
you know a flood will come and
then the whole bank along the
railroad will be washed away.
Then there might be a serious
accident"
This was too much for me, so
l said to Bunny and Bobby:
Let's go out to that place this
afternoon and see what the
trouble is. / can't believe that
an enemy would go to all the
trouble of working in the water
to undermine a railroad bed, and
1t doesn't seem possible that
anyone who knew what they were
doing would deliberately cause
an awful accident. DO your"
mo" answered Bunny. ''Peo-
pie aren't that bad. I have my
own ideas on the subject" he
added mysteriously.
Bunny seemed very anxious to
start, so we left right after
lunch.
1t was a lovely walk through
the woods and before we got to
the spot we could hear the pound
ing and splashing of the work
men as they tore away the logs
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your body in low and spill them
in their own territory? No, you
stoop up"
Neale's flesh crept. he was al
most glad that he had escaped
the fearful responsibility Of being
on the Varsity. 1t was terrible,
such a weight on your shoulders.
He shrank from it. and with all
his being, aspired to it.
He made no impression on the
football world, but his own in
terror world was transformed. He
was no longer an isolated, form
less Freshman, dumped down into
the midst of the most callously
laissez-faire of Universities, he
was no more a forgotten molecule
with no share in, or responsibility
for the ultimate reaction. He had
shelter for his personality
against the vast, daunting in
difference of the universe. He
was on the football squad.
He had feared he might have
some trouble in explaining his
absence from the supper.table at
home, but that proved unex-
pectedly easy. The second eve
ming after he began to play on
the scrub, he found Father. in
the library at home, reading the
sporting sheet of the Evening
Telegram.
Amy other Crittendens in col
lege, Neale?" he asked.
''Not that / know about"
That's you on the football
team, them"
"Only on the scrub. yes, I'm try
ing. We have dinner together
after practice. You don't mind.
do your"
Understanding Mother.
me? OF course not" said
Father.
Mother heard all this, apparent
ly had known it before, and did
not ask him to take care OF him
self and not get hurt. Neale
looked over at her gratefully.
Mother was all right.
The football season slid along,
the Varsity improving every
week. Neale glowed with caste
loyalty as Saturday after Satur-
day he watched the prowess of
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them confidently enough-an1 70
his establishment emerged with
passing marks, but with no great
credit. D in German was the
worst. and he'd studied German
since he was a little boy! Greek,
English and Latin marked him
as mediocre with a G. Compare
tive literature alone rated him B
and every one knew that Comp.
Lit. was a snap course. Neale
had never thought of himself as
a grind, but he had been used
to high marks at school. and the
low grades nettled him. He be-
gan to see that there was more
to this college work than he had
understood. The studies them
selves were not unlike those Of
high school; indeed they were
easier than the science and
mathematics that had been ham
mered into him at Hadley. but
the point of view was different,
and that had fooled him. There
was a take 1t or leave it, atti.
tude about everything at college;
the professors did not, as at Had
ley, hold their jobs only because
they were able to drive the
bright. the dull, the scattered
Drained, the sluggish, all through
passing grades for the next years
work. No, these college profes-
sors and instructors gave taer1-
selves no such trouble. They set
out their wares. If the students
helped themselves, 80 much the
better; If they didn't, so much
the worse - for the students.
.Neale mis-called the professors
for lazy time-servers; but he
wasn't going to let them put it
over on him that way another
time. He would read everything
they suggested and more! They
would be astonished by the bril-
lance of his finals. But just them
baseball practice started in the
cage end Neale forgot all about
his vendetta against the profess
sors.
:. At baseball he expected to
shine. This he had really played
before coming to college. April
saw the freshman baseball squad
practicing on South Field. I.
was a terrible jolt to Neale to
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
Vim and VigOr of Youth
In ''AfriCan Bark"
Scientist Produces an Invigorator
Superior to Gland Treatments
Wonderful Power of a Bark
From Africa.

Have you lost your youth, vigor
and "pep?" Does life seem dull and
work a grind? Don't worry. Science
has produced a new formula said to
be superior even to the much dis
cussed gland treatments. Many men
and women are now quickly and easily
regaining lost vim, vigor and vitality in
the privacy of their homes.
The principal ingredient il an ex-
tract from the bark of an African tree.
II 10 said to be a most remarkable in
Vigorator. Combined with IL are other
efficient tonic and vitaIizinK elements
of proved merit. In many cases the
compound produces marked improve
ment in "a hours In a short time the
vitality is usually raised. the circuIa-
ton improved and the glow OF health
10 felt in every part.
The laboratories producing this new
vttalizer. which is called Re-Bild Ia bs
are so confident of its power that they
have authorized the Peoples Drug Stores
troductory price of 81 for the next five
days, and on the guarantee that IL will
give results in "a hours or your money
back. II your local druggist cannot
supply you. write to Re-Biid Labora-
tories. Kansas City. Mo-. or to the
RE-BILD-TABS
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WHO SAID 1T
AND WHERE?

"YOu cannot teach an old dog
new tricks"
Many a man has excused his
unWillingness to try in these
words Of an old proverb that
comes originally from the German.
Poetry is the wine of the DEVILS"
st. Augustine, the great African
bishop, used this expression in
one of his sermons.
"A man is but what he knOweth."
Wrote Lord Bacon in his es-
say, I'm Praise Of Knowledge"
eff it Is not true, it is well i'm.
vented"
Cardinal D'Este Q479-152O) is
said to have made this remark
Of a story that had been told him.
His words have become a proverb.
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Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1923-09-05
THE RHYMING
OPTIMIST
BY Aline Michaelis-

~ N'-@~@eS~~
- T'S hard to pick the greatest
man in any special line. It's
- hard to designate the plan by
which chap may shine. You ask
one fellow: TELL me, pray, for you
have keen insight, who is the great
est man today? How did he reach
that height? He'll answer truth
fully, no doubt, and back his choice
with facts; the lawyer'H pick a law
yer out, the actor one who acts.
writerll tell you that friend, a
writer is his choice; the singers
sure to recommend fellow with
a voice. Opinions that you thus
collect are so diversified, it's hard
to figure what's correct, you'll
think Someone has lied" Yet on
one point all men agree. When
checking up a bit, you'll find that
in all company there's one who
makes a hit. The banker and
the bucapeer, the brother with
the hoe, the painter, pirate.
profiteer, one rule of great
ness know. You'll find that tramps
and millionaires, athletic men and
lame, like folks who mind their own
affairs and let them do the same.
For no man brings more peace on
earth, none spreads more joy and
bliss, none adds more happiness
and mirth than he who does just
this. Great men Of every cline and
age have labored far and near, to
leave a splendid heritage to those
who linger here. Yet most folks,
when a choice is theirs, will nomi-
nate for fame the chap who minds
his own affairs and let's them do
the same.
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cHAPTER xxIII.

The event Of that summer. the
only one that counted for him,
was a long, timber-cruising trip
which he took. as chain-boy and
camp-helper, up into the noun
tains Of southern Vermont. Grand
fathers whole life had been spent
In handling timber in one way
and another and all his old friends
and associates were In that world.
Every one had the greatest respect
for old Mr.. Crittenden's timber
sense even now when he was so
old that he could do no more
cruising, engage in no more
active speculation. Sitting around
on. the lumber piles at the mill.
or on the porch Of the Crittenden
House, grandfather somehow had
a finger in many a timber deal.
People came to consult him, and
to get him to so halves on buys
bigger than they had capital for.
From the time he had been
little boy Neale had been the un-
considered witness Of innumerable
such interviews, and had laughed
inwardIy with considerable family
pride to see how completely
grandfather in his baggy old coun-
try clothes held his own and
better against the smartly dressed
younger men who came to talk
business with him.
The summer after Neale's fresh
man year the proposition was
big buy of wild land from which
grandfather himself had SKINNED
the cream thirty years ago and
sold for nothing afterward. but
which old Mr.. Crittenden opined.
cooking a shrewd old eye In re.
Election, must have again come
to some exploitable value. Three
men were to go up unobtrusively,
and timber cruise through 1t,
back and forth, zig-zag. till they
could make a fair report on
what was there. The plans were
being made, one evening, out
on the porch where they all sat
in the long, clear summer twi-
light. Grandfather had not seem
ed to notice Neale's half-wistful
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EVERYDAY MISTAKES
In Sneakinp

Right.
sit couldn't have been they"
Wrong.
Aren't 1 able to look out for
MYSELF"
Right.
Am 1 not able to look out for
MYSELF"
The first question is often
used by people who would not
think of saying IT are not" for
IT am not"
Wrong.
$50 far as arousing the people
are concerned, B. was most eff
Gent"
Right.
so far as arousing the people
IL concerned, .. was IlOSL GILL
Gent
The subject Of the subordinate
clause is singular, and its verb
should be singular.
Wrong.
II don't remember of hearing
him say"
Right.
81 don't remember hearing him
say"
"Of" is not necessary. RE
member" does not require a pre-
position.
Wrong.
THE plank has laid there
nearly a month"
Right.
THE plank has lain there
nearly a month
The past participle of the verb
to lie" is lain"
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Syndicate. Inc.)
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friends wasted an uncomfortable
number of hours on those maya
zines: but little by little the
library habit began to form itself,
by slow, infinitesimal accretions.
He found it a good place to
study. wrote English A. themes
there, finally even got into the
way of running through the card
catalogue, and drawing books
with titles that sounded good.
Christmas came. Father, recog-
nizing manhood achieved, gave
him a box of a hundred Milo
cigarettes. Mother-poor. dear,
ignorant Mother!-gave him
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looking talks inteligenty listens talked to- She'd be
elegant but ahy modest but forward She would
be allurinp without trying be Witty CRUEL
witty the Of WELL at the expense Of
MRS GEORGE: Never at your expense. is what you
Mr. GEORGE: You're not being very reply.
MRS GEORGE: Good gracious darling, I'm not competing.
Why should /?
Mr. GEORGE: Why indeed, since you've got me?
MRS GEORGE: Yes darling, and I'm not going to let
p and so much you. You'd find difficult
replace know perfectly well that I'm exIavagent bad
honest all that but also know exactly how you like
your Mr. Gretz had neglected air last night
for that he talked good deal to
Did you notice charming he was?
Mr. GEORGE: No, didn't. had chance to talk to him.
You sitting in his pocket all the evening.
Syndicate
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white sweater decorated with a
light blue 6. Even more
than by smoking Fathers
cigarettes. Neale prove that
he had begun to outgrow the
cruel egotism of adolescence. by
kissing mother and thanking her.
without telling her that almost
any fool finally gets his diploma,
but only the chosen few. and
these as juniors or seniors-win
the right to adorn themselves
with the proud insignia of their
varsity letter.
y After Christmas came the mid
year exams. Neale went into
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By Dorothy Garfield.
whose Novel, ''The Brimming Cup
Achieved Popularity ThrougR
out the Country.

~-vER playsd7" asked the
est,, scrub quarter. ,..,.
He did not feel obliged to tell
how, little.
What position?"
"HaIfback," he lied brazenly,
having made up his mind that ne
hadn't the weight to aspire to the
varsity line.
Thew ran through signals. Then
= acrinmage started. but Neale
was not in the lineup. A scrub
back had his wind knocked out
and didn't get up quickly enough
for the coach.
put in that freshman beanpole.
Jump in, what's your name?"
On the Sidelines.
Neale jumped and floundered
for five minutes, then the peppery
scrub quarter consigned him pro-
fanely to the side lines. For two
days after that he moped without
q job, although still in a suit, out
in the field. Then he had another
trial.
Gradually he made sure Of his
place as right-half on the scrub
not that he was any good. as they
told him plainly; but because in
those days the whole squad, in
GLIDING hopeless dubs, seldom
numbered over thirty men, and
thanks to the work in the mill at
West Adams, Neale was physi-
cally fit.
With this place. minor though
1t was, came the great privilege
Of dinner, after practice, at the
football house. There he picked
up a little Of the theory Of
the game from the black
board talks: there after the Penn
sylvania's guards-back had bat
tered through for thirty points,
he heard the coach, white and
shaking with emotion, pour out
his biting post.mortem. You
Jackson" shaking his fore-finger
at the left-guard. "did you shoot
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Jealous, | suppose (lndlg-
nant), just because | hap
pen to admire another
woman
MRS. GEORGE: Because
other woman. It's one WON
an after the other, and
they're all perfect. Tell
me, DEAR, what is your idea
of an ideal woman?
MR.. GEORGE: You.
MRS. GEORGE: Leave
out the compliments and
answer me.
Mr.. GEORGE: Oh, it's
hard to say. I suppose the
ideal woman is yerv, 0ood
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Wrong.

Wrong.
Mary treated John contempt.
bly,"
Right.
MARY treated John contemptu-
ously."
Contemplate" means "deserv-
ing Of contempt" while "con-
temptuously" signifies Gin a dis
dainful manner" The speakers
meaning is that Mary was dis
dainfuI.''
Wrong.
''Is that what you're teached in
school"
Right.
"Is that what you're taught in
echool?"
The past partiple Of teach"
Is taught
Wrong.
at couldn't have been them"
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find himself in the discard. His
vacant-lot, lieht-of.nature game
had not compared favorably with
the play Of graduates Of well.
coached prep schools. He was
thrown back on the library. Per.
haps it was just as well. he told
himself with sour-grape philos-
ophy. After all, he was there,
among other things, to get an
education.
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This Day IN History.

THIS ID the anniversary Of the BIRTH in 1885, Of Card
nal Richelieu the greatest Frenchman Of his time
and the man who raised France to high place among
the powers thanks to the cooperation of Louis XIII
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DO YOU KNOW
THAT

The long familiar colored globes
in chemists windows were first
displayed by the Moorish druggists
of Arabia and Spain.
Genuine old Apostle spoons, very
popular in the sixteenth century
as christening gifts, fetch very
high prices in auction sales; the
largest sum was $24,450 for set
of thirteen dating from the time
Of Henry VIII.
Land and water tortoises. have
been known to live as long as
100 years in the possession of one
family.
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w. L. George and His Wife
The Ideal Woman

GEORGE: say, did you chance to talk to Mrs.
IVN Gretz last night?
AVA MRS. GEORGE: No. darling You monopoized her
MR. GEORGE (unsuspicioug): Did I? I'm sorry SO much
wanted you talk You it's not only that she's
good looking she's got magnetism Why do laugh
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LOndOn'S Underground KLDerS.
ONDON has several underground rivers, one of them
II known as the Tgris This is supposed to have been
ditch wdened by Canute to enable Danish vessels to
sail around the Notifications of the Thames.
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