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; collar, and all other ladies so
stylish with high collars under
their ears. Yes, Of course, the
minute Maman looked at her,
you saw how ashamed you'd De Of
Cousin Hetty it she came to visit
your school at Bolton. And yet
there was the other Cousin Hctty
you'd been having such a good
time with. You just flickered
away from Maman's way Of sea.
ing 1t to yours and never could
make up your mind which was
the real way.
Marise shook her head, drew
a long breath and looked down
again at her spelling lesson. It
was a list of the names Of fur.
. niture and household utensils, all
very familiar to her from OLD
Jeanne's thinking them so ter
ribly important. My! How much
more Jeanne cared about her
work than any girl they'd ever
had in Bolton.
Lit sommier
traversin .. - all the names
Of the complicated parts OF
bed, a sacred French bed. AS
Marise looked at them on the
page she could see Jeanne in the
mornings, taking poor stupid lit
tie Isabelle's head right off be-
cause she didn't make the bed
up smoothly enough; and all the
time It was about a million times
smoother than any bed ever wis
in America! Marise didn't believe
the President of the United
States had his bed-clothes pulled
SO tight and smooth. And she
wondered it Jeanne worked in
the White House, If she would
let even the Presidents little girl
sit down on the bed in the lay
time. How particular they were
about things in France! About
everything. When you bought
anything in a store how they did
drive you wild with their slowness
in getting it put up in the pack
age just so, as If it mattered,
when you were going to take it
out of the package three minutes
later, as soon as you got home.
And at school how they did fuss
about neatness! The lessons were
easy enough to learn. Marise
never had any trouble with les
sons, but how could anybody ever
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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

do things as neatly as they want.
ed you to. And how the teacher
jumped on you II you didn't, ever
so much worse than IL yoa got
the answer to an arithmetic prob.
lem wrong. Mercy! How she did
scold! There wasn't anybody In
America knew how to scold like
that even If they wanted to, and
they didn't. 1t had scared Marise
at first, and made her feel like
crying, and she never had got
entirely used to It although she
saw how all the other girls did,
just took it and didn't care and
did whatever they liked behind
her back.
Marise couldn't get used to
Jeanne that way either, to her
yelling so when she scoldei.
Marise hated to have people get
mad and excited. And low
Jeanne did carry on about the
house being neat, the part that is,
where company could come; fun
der the kitchen sink it smelled
awfully and was full Of greasy
rags and yet she'd shine Up the
salon floor over and over when
1t was already shiny, and neve"
think Of those rags. The least
bit Of clutter left around in the
dining-room, or even your own
room, and how she would scotd!
And yet she was so awfully good
you big, smacking kisses, and
hugging you, and she always
saved over the best things to eat
when Maman had a lunch party.
and you were at school. Even when
Maman had said you couldn't
have. any Of something Jeanne
always brought 1t to your room,
under her apron, after you'd gone
to bed. 1t wasn't very nice to do
things behind Maman's back, but
everybody seemed to be doing
things behind everybody else's
back. Mannan did behind Fathers
lots Of times, and it was perfect
ly understood between them that
Marise was never to tell Father
on her. And it would be telling
on Jeanne if you told Mother.
And anyhow Marise didn't see
Maman so very much any more,
to tell her things: it was mostly
Jeanne who did things for her.
CTo Be Continued Tomorrow
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THE RHYMING|
OPTIMIST
BY AIine Michaelis-
Dull Days.

~ ULL days must come to every
man, so tradesmen all COM
H. plain; there is no camp or
caravan where every deal brings
gain. Sometimes, in spite Of crafty
plan, the peanuts will not sell, and
then the gloomy peanut man de-
MES that all Is well. Some days
the bears start chasing stocks, and
such times they play hob; poor
chaps who once had loads Of rocks
must hunt another job. Some
times to work the jlngler plods
with heavy tread and slow; his
lazy muse lies back and mods, his
mental wheels won't go. WThe luck
less fellow knows despair as by
his desk he sits, in vain he means
and tears his hGir, while daylight
swiftly fits. In vain he burns the
midnight oil. there's still a fatal
hitch, in vain he signs for heavy
toll: I'D rather dig a dltch! He
mutters, as the hours go, and
leave him worn and spent. az had
thought a week ago, I wonder
where it went" For every man
some days are dull. so what's the
use to wish a schedule that is al
ways full? That's when wise fell
lows fish. Oh. when the rhymster
cannot rhyme and peanuts go to
waste, no man should call his luck
a crime, but Woodward he should
haste. Out there, with rod and
fishing line and can of wiggly
bait, he soon will see that life is
fine and things are going great.
Dull days strike chaps of every
rank, they come in every scheme
and get the banker in his bank,
the writer with his dream. If to
the creek he'd hustle out, he'd
sing. slack seasons praise, for
angling weaVes it's charm about
the dullest sort of days.
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The Story of Two Young People Who We're Destined fO
Each Other, Though Every Influence Seemed
To Keep Them Apart

stares; but none of the FAMILY
have any manners, if 1t comes
to that"
The child made a quick move
now and still moving swiftly
stepped to Jeanne's side. To
Jeanne's establishment she put out
her small white fingers and took
Jeanne's gnarly old hand in a.
firm grip. "Bonjour, Madame"
she said, smiling family at her at
tempt to speak the foreign Ian
guage, although her eyes were
grave.
Jeanne had for an instant a
strange impression that the child
seemed to think that she had
found what she was looking for.
At the sight of the little girl, at
the living touch of that small
warm hand, Jeanne forgot the.
chic madame with the shallow
eyes, and the dull monsieur with
the tired eyes. She looked down
at the child who had eyes that
were looking for something. The
old woman and the little girl eX-
changed long serious gaze, one
of those deep, inarticulate contacts
of human souls which come and
go like a breath taken, and leave
human lives altered for always.
Jeanne drew a long breath. She
said in a low tone to the child,
forgetting that she could not un-
derstand, What do you call
yourself, dear?"
The child answered in French
haltingly, but with a pure accent,
81 call myself Mary"
"Oh. yes" explained Anna. 1.-THE
little girl is picking up French
fast. 1 can make her mother un-
derstand now. through her. She
does the ordering for them at the
Bouyenval pension already. They
are taking their meals there, till
they get servants to begin house.
keeping. Madame Bouyenval was
telling me this morning .. :"
Jeanne interrupted her niece,
speaking in Basque, We'll If you
think you can make that feather
head of her mother understand
anything, you can tell them that
I'll come tomorrow to stay, and
I'll bring a chamber maid with
me-"
To the foreign lady she said re-
specially in French, with defer.
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tionless. Her eyes were fixed on
the candle flame, burning brightly,
fluttering and throbbing In the
draughts which came into the old
room around the decrepit window
casing, under the door, through
! the worm-eaten Dashboard. There
seemed to be a thousand wan
dering puffs from every direc-
ton. What Marise called her
thoughts were burning bright,
fluttefing. and throbbing like the
tiny flame at which she stared.
They too were blown upon by a
thousand breaths from every di-
rection. If they would only hold
still for moment, Marise thought,
and give out a steady light that
she could see something by! If
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<<T M going to build CASTER!
80 exclaimed Bobby one day
Il as we were camping on
the bank of the great Amazon
River in South America.
watched him with great inter-
est as he gathered small stones
and laid the foundation for the
fortress. Soon he had 1t COM
pleted and he finished off the top
with a round tower.
Now dig a moat around it," 1
suggested.
whats a moat?" asked Bobby
promptly.
"a moat is the big ditch they
used to dig around castles in old
en- days so that the enemy
couldn't get into the castle easily"
l replied.
Quickly Bobby dug his moat
and we viewed the castle with
pride.
Nov, how about some grass
about 1t, Bobby? Castles always
have beautiful lawns"
What shall / use for grass,
Foxy Grandpa?"
We'll, when I was little boy, l
used to gather moss and fit it all
around the houses 1 built. And II
l was lucky and had a little piece
OF looking glass / put that in the
moss for a lake."
I'll run and get some moss. I
saw some right down under that
big tree" cried Bobby, and off he
started.
In my pocket I had a tiny mir.
ror and while l was arranging 1t
In the earth for a surprise to
Bobby when he came back,
heard him shout:
Foxy Grandpa! Foxy Grand
pa! Hurry up over here! I've
found something's
Jumped to my feet and has.
tened to answer Bobby's call.
when I reached him found him
on his hands and knees staring at
the earth.
What Is It, Bobby2 don't
see anything"
III show you something, Il
you'll lEneel down."
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find when dining furniture to be repohed
It's all well your that the removal be done in
suppose YOU don't understand that
old carpets fit the and that don't need half the
electric fittings in the
MR.. GEORGE This is absurd If we don't want them, why
be such hurry them down and put them again
We shant want them any next month
MRS GEORGE weary Because want to have little dis
tubance possible house The paint the there
is all OF course, suppose if doing it
Mr. GEORGE: should the fatal day have staff
Of movers, electricians, carpet layers etc.
MRS. GEORGE (sarcastic): suppose the carpet layers
would remake the carpets that day.
MR. GEORGE: Don't bother with details should have
sa lot of layers taking lot of
carrying them another lot of carpet layers put
ting them down, and there you
MRS. GEORGE: What wonderfully organized mind you
have! Now understand why when got married. bed
carpet carefully laid in the drawing
by Syndicate Ine.l
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By Dorothy Garfield.
Whose Novel, "The Brimming Cup"
Achieved Popularity Through
out the Country.

~ encOunterins a new mem
Der of the male sex,
~ Jeanne, although she had
long passed the age when
she needed personally to make
the distinction, always made a
first, sweeping division of them
into two classes: those who were
dangerous to women and those
who were not. She instantly put
down the monsieur Of the new
family among those who were
not. although he was not bad
looking, not more than forty five,
with all his teeth still in his
mouth and all his thick, dark
hair still on his head. But
woman of Jeanne's disillusioned
experience of human nature knew
from the expression Of his list
less brown eyes, from his careless
attitude in his chair, from the in
different way he looked at the
three women before him, from
the roughness of his hair, evil
IDENTIFY conbed but once a day,
with no perfumed Sressing on it,
that he was not now and never
had been a man who cared for
conquests among women, or who
had had many She Immediately
felt for him a slight contempt as
for somebody not all there men,
tally, and wondered if his wife
were not occasionally unfaithful
to him. She looked as though she
might be that kind, a rafting,
birdheaded little thing like that,
reflected Jeanne behind her down.
cast eyes, changing imperceptibly
from one humble, self-effacing
pose to another.
Ann now turned to her aunt
with a long breath, 81 cannot
make her understand" she said
in Basque. Think of nice,-
pretty-looking lady like that not
being able to talk! I cannot make
her think anything but that you
have come to be the cook your
SELF
We'll, might do worse" said
Jeanne unexpectedly. her mouth
watering at the chance for pick
ings. She spoke in Basque. Her
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she only had some shade to put
around those Pickering thoughts
so they wouldn't culver 80! It
upset her, jerking around SO, from
one way Of seeing things to an
'other. What she wanted to know
was, how did things really look?
OF course 1t was worse here in
France, where everything was so
uncertain, but it had started back
home in America, it had always
been going on ever since she could
remember. It had always made
her feel queer, as though she
were holding an envelope up to a
mirror to read the address and
saw It wrong end to, the way
everything looked different at Ash
ley the moment Maman came up
to Vermont to take her home after
vacations with Cousin Hetty.
Marise loved it so there at Ashley,
the dear darling old house in the
mountains, with its nice atticky
smell that no other house in the
world had! 1t just fitted all
around you, when you went in
the door, the way Cousin Hettya
arm fitted around you, when she
took you up on her lap, and
rocked and sang, I'VE hunted and
we hallooed."
HOmesick.
At the memory, Marise's heart
gave a great homesick throb. How
far away she was from Cousin
Hetty and Ashley now! How long
since she had sat on anybody's
lap.
And yet when Maman came to
take you away, from the first
minute she went in and looked
around her, you could see right
through her eyes and what you
saw was something different.
After all 1t was just a hornely
old house with ugly crocheted
tides on the chairs, and splash
ers done in outline stitch back
of the wash-stands, and old red
figured carpets on the floors, the
way nobody did at home in Bel.
ton. And Cousin Hetty talking so
queer and Vermonty, her white
hair. smoothed down flat over
her ears instead Of all -oughed
up, fluffy, over a rat the pretty
way other ladies did, with her
funny clothes, her big cameo pin
holding down her little flat round
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By Maria Jeritza.
The Famous Prizna Donna of the
Metropolitan Opera Company and
One of the Most Beautiful
Women of the Day.

Metropolitan Opera Company and
One Of the Most Beautiful
Women of the Day.
"H woman who is engaged in
the beauty quest cannot
- afford to neglect her hair.
Beautiful hair lends attractive
ness and charm to any woman.
no matter how plain her features
may be. And it is impossible to
attain beauty until your hair
reaches a high standard of love
illness.
Therefore. it is we'll worth
while to give cheerfulIy of your
best in order to bring about a
fine, healthful condition of your
scalp, which will result in at
tractive hair.
But even though you are
obliged to shampoo your own
hair, do not be discouraged. This
can be done with entire success,
provided you are careful and use
the shampoo and other toilet
requisites best suited to your own
particular needs.
A small brush like toothbrush
for rubbing the soapsuds into
your scalp. pure soap and a bath
spray to help in rinsing your hair
are valuable aids. The original
outlay for a bath spray will soon
be saved. because it will make
rinsing your hair quite easy and
effectual, and so you may acquire
the habit of giving yourself sham
poos.
Be sure to choose a pure SOAP.
Dissolve half of the cake in q
gallon of warm water. part your
hair and with your brush thor
oughly scrub the part with SOAP
suds. Part it in another place
and repeat this process. Continue
until all of your scalp and hair
are washed.
Now empty the bowl, fill it
with fresh warm water and dis
solve in the other half of the
cake of soap. Wash your hair
and scalp again. this time with
your fingers instead of the brush.
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half the electric fittings have
gone, and the telephone
never stops ringing. / wish
you'd remember it's a house
full of furniture that is
being moved, not a depart
mental store.
MRS. GEORGE (irritat-
ed): / do wish you'd stop
talking and let me think.
MRS. GEORGE: Yes, do
think! it'll do you good.
MRS. GEORGE: How can
l when you talk all the
%Svaon9 VXTLon IT, %,exy11 - ~ -
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YOUR BEAUTY
SIMPLE WAYS TO KEEP THE HAIR LOVELY

With your bath spray rinse
your hair carefully at least three
times. 1t is the rinsing that
usually determines the success of
the shampoo.
Dry your hair by rubbing it
with Turkish towel, and be-
tween the palm of your hands.
Do not use a mechanical dryer or
fan, especially if your hair is in
clined to be brittle. Dry it in the
sun if you can.
Now rub your scalp thoroughly
with the fingers of both hands,
massaging in an outward and up
ward movement with your thumbs
braced at the base of your neck in
back.
Even though your finger.tips
are dry to begin with, you will
find they soon become moist, for
rubbing releases the oil from the
sebacious glands and It flows
more freely, softening your hair
and starting its growth.
Follow the rubbing with a good
brushing to distribute the oil
evenly.
Why not try doing your hair a
new way7 Take an hour off after
your shampoo and experiment
until you find an ARRANGEMENT
that is becoming and comfortable.
In. summer time it is wise to
find a more simple, comfortable
coiffure that makes elaborate curl
ing unnecessary. This change rest
your scalp and so stimulate the
growth of your hair.
Do not shampoo your hair less
often than once every two weeks.
You will find this lotion delight.
fully refreshing for a dry scalp.
Rub 1t in twelve hours before
your shampoo.
Oil of sweet almonds. Al. grams
Essence OF rosemary. AS grams
vi OF mace. ..............k gram
Begin today to give your hair
the systematic care 1t needs. Be.
fore long you will realize you are
succeeding, for you will begin to
receive compliments about your
beautiful hair.
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HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS

Lemon juice is an unequalled
cleanser and whitener Of the skin,
although glycerine and cucumber
is preferred by some women.
Good olive Oil or cold cream
rubbed in at night Is an excel
lent emollient.
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Shoes can be softened by rub
bdng with paraffin.

Shoes can be softened by rub
hing with paraffin.
To make brooms fresh and
clean, dip into pail of boiling
soda and water and dry in the
sun.
Stuff the leg, Of old stockings
with bits Of cloth, and use as
pads for floor polishing.
When boiling potatoes add a
pinch of salt and sugar. This
makes them dry and foury.look-
ing when cooked.
Before cleaning copper-utensils
fill them with boiling water and
they will polish more quickly.
Pull stockings into shape while
still damp; they last longer II
they are not ironed.
A tar stain-should first be
softened with grease, then rubbed
with a rag dipped in turpentine.
After subsequent washing the
stain will disappear.
Try serving apple sauce with
fried sausages. It takes away the
richness.
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Household Hints

To clean light-colored real buck
skin gloves. make a mixture Of
three ounces Of Paris white. three
ounces Of scraped pipe clay. and
two ounces Of Eelatine melted.
Boil oil ingredients, stirring we'll,
and when cool apply to the gloves.
When dried on to tho gloves, beat
out, and press the glovos into
shape.
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entail inclination Of her tall strong
body, "A votre service, Madame"
CHAPTER VII.

Marise sat in her room, in front
Of her table, a copy-book open
ing blank pages Of coarse paper
before her, a thin, mean-looking,
pale.blue book marked "Mots Usu-
els on her lap. 1t was her own
impression that she had stopped
for a minutes rest from study
(although she had not yet begun),
and that she was thinking hard.
But she was not thinking. She
was feeling.
She sat with her elbows on the
table, her chin in her two hands,
braced so that she was quite mo-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-30
DO YOU KNOW

The Tyre bird Of Australia is a
mimic. In the early morning 1t
Is at its best, duplicating the
whistle Of a locomotive, the bark.
ing Of a dog, the call Of a maybe,
and the buzz Of O circular saw In
varying tones.
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A RECIPE YOU.
WILLLIKE
EGGS IN RICE.

Required: One breakfast cup
Of rice, one ounce of butter, six
eggs, half a pint Of tomato sauce.
Boil the rice until tender, and
drain well. Return it to the
saucepan and reheat with tho
butter. Boil the eggs till hard
and make the sauce boiling hot.
Arrange the rice in an oblong
shape on a hot dish, make linden
tation and place the eggs, either
whole or halved, in them. Pour
a little of the sauce over and
the remainder round the dish.
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French Perfume Secret.

A GERMAN scientist claims the discovery of the secret
~, the French perfume Different kinds Of flowers
he says kept for least ten years in butter and the
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An Ancient Clock.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY clock adheres to the ancient
" custom of marking the time with single hand. 1t
has been in the northwestern tower for $50 years,
though it's works reconstructed half century ago.
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Chintz or cretonne covers and
draperies may be dry-cleaned
with bran, powdered chalk, and
salt mixed together in equal pro.
portions, and rubbed over the ma
terial with a piece Of flannel.
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To remove scratches and re-
store polish to black walnut fur
niture nothing is better than a
cloth slightly moistened with par.
affin. Paraffin will also exter-
inmate insects that infest furntt,
ture.
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". L. George and His Wife
ACROSS THE BREAKFAST TARLE
Moving House.

MR. GEORGE: can't understand why it is the house gets
Vh Yes, know we're moving house,
~ hear nothing Whatever happens it's because
we're moving house. # the and the dog have fight it's
because we're moving But it isn't going to happen for
six weeks meanwhile carpets the curtains down.
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WHEN DID IT
HAPPEN?

1. When was Enoke's Comet
discovered?
2. When was Puccini's opera,
La Tosca," first produced?
3. When did the Reign of Ter
ror exist in France?
4. When was the Sans Souci
palace at Potsdam, Prussia,
built?
5. When was Rhode Island SET.
tied?
ANSWERS to these queries will
be printed tOGnOrrow)
ANSWERS
To Saturdays Questions.
1. Ellen Terry, the noted Eng
lish actress, was born February
27, 1s48.
2. The German kingdom OF
Westphalia was founded in Az
gust. 1907.
g. The battle of Fredericks-
burg, in the civil war, was Tough:
December 10, 1862.
4. The Franco-Russian. alliance
was formed in 1891.
s. Nevada was admitted to the
Union as a State in 1864.