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Well" said Bunny, lust this.
I'll wager that in the spring that
dormouse will be as slender as
a reed"
"How do you know that.
Bunny?"
you would be, too, Foxy
Grandpa, II you didn't eat any
thing from now until spring,
wouldn't your"
"Slender-I'd be dead-dead from
starvation" .r-=
"This little animal WON'T" said
Bunny.
How does he do it," I asked.
HE simply hibernates," replied
Bunny.
Whats 'hibernates'?' asked
Bobby, wrinkling his little fore.
head.
Going to sleep for the winter"
said Bunny.
Tell me about it," said Bobby.
Well, commenced Bunny,
"that little dormouse is getting
ready for his long winters nap.
AS soon as it gets very cold he'll
just crawl into his little nest with
the side door, curl himself upcin
a ball and go to Sleep" ~ -
."For all winter?" asked Bobby.
Doesn't he eat at..all?"
mot unless a warm spell comes.
If the weather moderates he
might wake up and nibble on an
acorn. But then he would go to
sleep again until spring is really
here. Then you see he eats the
acorns which yous saw him storing
when we arrived" -e.-s'r
my goodness, he must be hun.
cry when he eats that first break.
fast" said Bobby, giving a last
look at the little. nest before he
turned to go back to the house."
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Fridays story tells why the wild
ducks came to town.
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When he encourageth the manicurist
his youthful looks, and the barber to a
locks with violet water.
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Read This Entertaining Serial in Which
the Author Has Woven a Thrilling
Romance Of the Problems Of
Married Life.

; in voice or attitude, stood aside
without making further protest.
+ Envy went, in, closing the outer
door after her. +,
did you see that dingy, old Not.
tingham lace curtain quiver?" de-
nanded Ralph. suddenly. They've
seen us. They know we.y1, here.
But they'll be, clever, = lough, to
get another bride from Envy to
overcome their seeming reluctance
to let us In" N
you don't-believe III" I whis,
pered. z 8. y, . :..,
. "Now = r.. na,f
Ralph's voice was low and
guarded. But it had the effect of
ringing out. It gave me a flicker
Of hope r, ~:
.'FWhy?". 4 whispered.
II, tell you there's too much the
air OF A. deliberate plant" Ralph
answered IN a voice. SO low could
hardly hear 1t. ut all fits in too
well. II Neal were really gone,
they'd be likely to keep 1t from
us as long as they could. Why,
the men Envy saw and heard
through that crack in the door
might find themselves up on an
ugly charge -"
The door creaked open an inch
or two. Ralph broke off abruptly.
Now the door above US opened
another crack and Evvy's beckon-
ing hand slipped through the
aperture. Ralph applied his
shoulder to the heavy oak door
and he flung it wide aside and
let me precede him in the little
square Of semi-darkness.
.y"Quiet" admonished Envy. Mrs.
Stebbins says it's as much as her
life is worth to be seen letting
'swells' like us into her place.
But I think she's really taken
rather fancy to me. A dubious
compliment, perhaps. But still-a
handy situation, isn't it, Ralph?"
Ralph smiled. He wasn't capa.
BILE Of depriving Envy Of her little
triumph.
you've managed splendidly," he
said generously.
Then Envy motioned to the in
ner door, which was slightly ajar.
And when Ralph had pushed this
open in turn, she led the way into
a hall smelling of creamed cod and
mackerel and spirits in defiance
Of law and order.
Up the dark narrow stairs
slipped Envy like a little fitting
shadow Of silence. We followed.
One stairway and then a second
flight of still more rickety steps.
Down a dingy hall where murky
gas jets flickered in the foggy
gloom we went. And then Envy
led the way into little room
family lighted by an airshaft win
dow.
Here's where 1 was when
overheard them," she whispered.
AS she stepped forward to the
big double doors which were ajar
only SO much as their rickety fall
ure to close neatly necessitated, a
sharp sound startled me. 1t roared
out like a shot. 1 jumped, but I
found Ralph's teassuring hand on
my arm.
"a window curtain flew up
across the court" he whispered.
II think we're being-observed."
Not even Envy heard his whis-
per. 1t came quickly and so low
that only my familiarity with
Ralph's voice made me certain Of
his words.
Ralph stepped forward to the
double doors. Envy gasped out a
protest. But Ralph pushed them
wide; revealing an empty room.
Envy and 1 followed Ralph into
the room beyond the double doors.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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WHO SAID IT AND WHERE

"Our country, whether bounded
by the st. Johns and the Sabine,
or however otherwise bounded or
described, and be the measure.
ments more or less, still our
country to be cherished in all our
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When he doffeth his sober black, and goeth
in for becoming" cravats, and checkered tweeds
and a red carnation in the button-hole.
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hearts. to be defended by all cur
hands,"
This was the toast proposed by
Robert c. Winthrop at a banquet
in Fanueil Hall, Boston, July 4,
1S45.
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of her punctuation. :.
When ne oseth all interest in middleaged widows, bginneh
10 ENJOY the md conversation Of debuantes and appr
When he feeeth sudden and violent impulse the
first note of saxophone.
When he puleth his b rusheth desperately
and ALMOST decideth to give up eating potatoes.
When he ceaseth how dodge
and beginneth to wonder if he is missing any.
him.
When he begnneth to realize that fe Short"
how MUCH Of and delight into
what is left thereof
When he feeeth his vanity slipping struggeh hard to
cling unto his last illusions about himself.
verify verify THIS the Dangerous Age of Mantle perous
Dgnnng OF Indian Summer when good husband
less, millionaire chorus girl and
hardsheed bachelor fndeth himself standing
rbboned altar where he had thought
YET be of good cheer and chide him not Daughter
he that hath been little foolish never be
greatly wise and that hath missed Youths
hath missed ifes greatest thrill!
SELAH!
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WHEN DID 1T
HAPPEN?

1.-When were the knights of
Labor Established?
2.-When was Benjamin Frank
lin born, and when did he die?
3.-When did the Crusades end?
4.-When did Albert Smith
Barker, U. 8. N, run a line of
deep sea soundings around the
world?
5.-When did Henry Clay write
his Alabama Letters?"
ANSWERS to these queries will
be printed tomorrow
ANSWERS
To Yesterdays Questions.
1.-George Rogers Clarke cap
tured Kaskaskia, ILL.,, and Vim
cennes, Ind, in 177S.
2.-Plato, the great Greek
philosopher. lived from 429 to
347 B. C.
S.-The French poem Romance
Of the Roses" was composed
about 1860.
4.-The Socialist Fabin Society
Of London was founded in 1883.
5.-The British D. S. o. was
instituted in 1896.
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- When he selecteth stenographer by the
color OF her hair, rather than for the accuracy
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BY Ann Isle,
Whose Serials Of Married Life
Have Won q Big Popular
Success.

Have Won Big Popular .
Success.
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Syndicate, Inc.)
" HERE'S too much coincidence
in Evvy'S story, said Ralph
- suddenly" To the newspaper
man or the detective, coincidence
always suggests plant. know
that some women believe in it.
But when the long arm of cir
cumstance gets stretched too far.
always feel it's. stretched out
Of joint"
"You think I was taken in?"
demanded Envy.
I couldn't be sure whether she
was offended or relieved.
II think you did wonderful
work." replied Ralph. But
think any one stands a chance of
being taken in when forced to
trust-a woman who takes brides.
You bought the woman who keeps
that sailors boarding house. No
matter how much she was drawn
70 you and your money, there's a
chance that folks of her own
world have an equal hold on her,
and may have paid her still more
to play their game for Them"
"But heard those men with
my own ears" moaned Envy with
stubborn conviction. "And 1
saw -things-through the
crack
The picture her word called up
was hideous. I found myself
1maging those birds of prey claw
ing Meals clothes-the material
things that remained after he was
gone. I .gasped out a protest.
Ralph spoke briskly:
What's to stop us from going
straight down to that house?
Your friend will surely let us in,
won't she, Evvy?"
YES" answered Envy.
"Can you stand going again."
I cried.
You'll both have to stand it
it's the one way to-make sure, !"
sAid Ralph.
At last the cab. turned into a
vaguely familiar street.
And then we stopped before the
very house where Ralph and The
Searcher for Lost Persons had
taken me after we heard about
Evvy's recognizing Neal on the
dock. We had missed Neal there
by fraction Of time.
Envy led Ralph and me UP the
ramshackle steps. A trick Of
memory made me feel that the
place betolSened suffering. At the
top Of the steps Envy turned to
US and said:
"Wait here while 1 go into the
vestibule and persuade Mrs. Steb-
bins to let me bring you in
"She's probably expecting just
about this" urged Ralph. Let
us make one test by stepping up
boldly and asking to be admitted.
II she is ready anw willing you'll
Gee that this is probably all a
plant"
"Oh, no!' I pleaded Historically,
afraid to risk it. "She might
turn us away. And I want to
know-for sure. Don't take any
chances, Ralph. We've more to
learn by going to the room where
Envy heard the men talking of
him."
couldn't bring myself to say
Meals name there in an environ
ment which might produce new
evidence Of his doom. And Ralph.
who feels the most delicate shades
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- zzS Copyright. 1874. by King Features Syndicate Inc.
dismounted
nyngthey Had they gaoped side by side
months? And unkncwng had master and
mistress disclosed the most treasured OF all secrets to hemf They
they asked
take their journey home-WALT VAN AREDALE.
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SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON
BY Helen Rowland
lat is the Dangerous Age of Man, my Daughter?

For, unto al woman, there cometh the
Witching Hour when the feeh and youth ame again
in the heart
Yea, verify the Dangerous Age of Man that melting
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-09-01
OFFICE SUPPLIES
AWAIT LEISURE.
Of CUSTOMERS
To Serve and Serve WE'LL
Aim of Hitler Company
SAYS Official.

Instead Of waiting for the sales
man to call on you when you are
TOO busy to talk to him or buying
come in and ''mosey' around.
r. c. Hitler says. I'VE are here 10
serve you and serve you we'll. We
kinds Of prices for your office sup
plies. Hitler Office Supply Company,
% s. Pennsylvania St. urges YOU TO
through a catalogue and paying all
should like 10 have the same relation
with our customers as a lawyer has
to his clients" The service offered
by this concern assures you OF en-
tire satisfaction. You are urged 10
drop in and flook around" to see
what they have that may suit your
needs. They urge you consult with
them and benefit by their knowledge
of efficient offices. This in the long
run. says Mr. Hitler. will be cheaper
and more desirable all around.
BY the way" he said, There are
many firms which have installed
expensive, complicated fling systems
that Wa could have saved lot Of
money for by selling them a Duplex
system"
He Is eager to tell office managers
about the Duplex system because,
he declares, It is the hest on the
market. Without obligation on the
part OF customers he is willing to
explain it's selling points.
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POLICE ARRESTS
SHOW DECREASE
Raids on Alleged Gambling
DenS Net Several.

Two alleged gambling games
netted twenty-six arrests over the
weekend which helped swell the
police states that fell below the to-
tails set in previous weeks this year.
John White, and Clarence Robin
son, both colored. 500 S. Capitol Ave,
are charged with being the keepers
Of a game at that address where
twenty men were gaming. according
to Lieutenant Hudson and squad
who obtained a torn dollar bill and
two dollars in change.
George Taylor, 80, colored. 1913
Pomeroy ST, is charged with keep
ing the game at that address, where
six colored men were alleged to have
been gambling.
The states show that 152 men and
eleven women were slated on various
charges. Twenty-three men and one
woman are charged with intoxica-
ton, eleven men and two women
with operating a blind tiger, ana
sixteen men with vagrancy. Twenty
two men and two women are charged
with assault and battery.
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WIDE RANGE Of
OFFENSES KEEP
POLICE ACTIVE
Tourists Complain About
Missing Tires From
Autos,

Several thefts, including purse
snatching. pickpocketing, sneak
theiving and burglaries were on the
police states today. Many tourists
complained of spare tires taken from
autos parked for a short time.
Miss Nola Iwert, Seymour, Ind,
states her purse, containing SIT, was
snatched from her at Market and
Pennsylvania SITS. She said a young
white man grabbed the purse and
ran.
Police are searching for a lady
thief, who was in an auto with
Brooks Jost, $40 Park Ave, and who
left the car that he parked near
Michigan st. and Indiana Ave,
while he was away. He returned
and found a coat, watch and chain,
valued at SAT was gone. Jost told
the officers the woman's name and
her mothers address, where she is
thought TO have gone.
Members Of the police department
believe they have a good description
of a pair of men who have been
holding UP filing stations.
Patrolman Ross, assigned to watch
the filing stations in his district, was
standing in one at Geisendorf and
Washington SITS. when two men In
a couple drove in. One of the men
started to alight and when he saw
the policeman inside got back inside
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WORKERS
WANT WAGE BILL
Begin Nationwide Drive for
Its Support,

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, u. c.. Sept. Il
National representatives Of postal
employees at a conference here today
decided to wage a vigorous fight for
passage through Congress in De
cember of the postal salary bill, Sen
ate Bill No. 1898. known as the
Kelly-Edge Bill.
Spokesman for the Nationa, Asso-
citation of Letter Carriers. National
Federation of Postoffice Clerks. Rail
way Mail Association. and the Ma
tional League Of District POstmas-
tiers pledged the active support of
their respective groups TO a Nation
wide educational campaign for pub
lie support Of the bill. which passed
Congress by overwhelming MAORI
ties at the last session, and was
vetoed by President Coolidge.
The opinion was expressed at the
conference that this bill more nearly
meets the needs of the postal work.
ers than any other measure. and its
eventual passage can be effected
through the proposed educational
campaign to acquaint the public with
all facts.
Postal pay standards, It was
stated. have not kept pace with ris-
ing living costs and Congress will
be asked TO alleviate the unsatisfac-
tory conditions Of postal employment
by promptly taking up this bill for
passage.
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THROWN
WITH Fatal. AIM:
NOTORIST DIES
Weekend Accidents Take
Two Lives-GirI Falls
From Street Car.

Police today were seeking the per-
son who threw a tomato Sunday
evening with fatal aim.
. Tullie Handlon, 81, Of 123 S. Ar
lingtOn Ave, is dead as a result.
The tomato broke the windshield Of
his automobile, a silver cutting an
artery in Handlon's throat. He died
in fifteen minutes.
Handlon was driving west on Thir-
ty-Eighth St, between the fair
ground and College Ave, with We
others in his auto. AS sedan, with
two elderly people in the front and
two boys behind passed, occupants
of the Handlon car saw one of the
boys toss out an object, apparently
with no intent to hit the other car.
Before he died. Handlon told an in
terne at the city hospital some one
threw a pop bottle through his wind
shield, but investigation showed a
tomato instead.
Handlon is survived by a wife,
Mrs. Alice Handlon.
Accident is Fatal
Following the death Of Charles
Floyd, so. Of SAB n. West St, Sun
day in the city hospital as a result
Of being struck by an auto driven
by George Taylor. 1901 Yandes St,
Saturday night. Taylor has been
slated on manslaughter charge.
The accident happened at North St.
and Indiana Ave
Miss Anna Smith, 7o7 Russell Ave,
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THE YOUNG LADY
DEMONSTRATES AN
ELECTRIC COOKER
Foods Prepared in Window
of Merchants Heat and
Light Company,

Mr.. and Mrs. Public OF Indianapo.
LIS. mea, the lady OF the delicious
foods and attractive appearance who
has been tickling your appetite from
the window OF the Merchants Heat
and Light Company for the past
fortnight.
She is Miss Marian Wick, a Do.
mestic Science student from Deca-
tur, III, and she has been cooking
everything in the way Of delectable
foods on a Westinghouse Electro
Range and an Excel Electric fire.
less Cooker.
Now, besides making a most lus
cious display Of foods and whetting
the appetite eof even the somewhat
squeamish. hot summer day toilers
Of the town, she has been demon
strating the virtues OF these electric
stoves. The actual cooking is done
within insulated walls OF the oven
Of the range in a manner similar TO
he firelcss cooker. Even vegetables
are cooked. rather steamed than
boiled, inside the walled oven.
Especially attractive is this demon
stration to summer housewives who
are not so lucky as to be off having
meals cooked by hotel chefs. For
the only possible heat escaping into
the room is that from cooking on
the top Of the stove, thus keeping
the temperature of the kitchen down
considerable. Moreover. the heat in
the oven is automatically controlled,
never allowing the food to become
over heated.
Incidentally electricity is an eco
nomical fuel with which to cook.
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the car and sped away. Police have
several clews and are investigating.
Misses PocketbOOk

the car and sped away. Police have
several clews and are investigating.
Misses PocketbOOk
Police are investigating the theft
of a pocketbook containing $40 that
was taken from Ted Chadwick, 915
E. Fourteenth ST., while he was in a
drug store at 1249 Cornell Ave. Chad
wick told police he cashed a check
and left his pocketbook lying on the
counter while he went outside to
show his wife an article. When he
returned he found the pocketbook
gone, he said.
Argle Vliet, zoos Ruckle St., told
police he was playing pool in an
Illinois st. poolroom when the man.
ager asked him to change a IS bill.
Vliet said he did, and later found
that all his money, totaling $40,
missing.
Burglars entered the he Of Jo-
seph Healing, 1924 N. Alabama ST..
while he was away with his family
Sunday. officers said,
HOld-U Ups by Five Men
Abraham Lewis. colored, rear of
1914 n. Illinois ST., told police he
was held up at Pratt ST. ana Indiana
Ave, Friday nigho by five men, who
ordered him into an auto and drove
him into the country and took SIS.
George Gaty, 4310 n. Meridian St.
has been unable to tabulate all the
loot taken from his home by burg
lars, he told police. His place was
entered while his family were on a
vacation.
Mrs. Eli Schloss. 1929 Central
Ave, told police she lost her dia.
mond-set swatch, valued at S400,
while passing from the market
building to her parked auto.
Ear Drops Lost
Mrs. James Murray, Of 80 N.
Capitol Ave, reported to police she
missed two diamond ear drops, val
ued at $500. She said they We're
wrapped in a green handkerchief
and left in her machine.
William Wilson. colored, 1928
Yandes St. night Waterman az In
diana National Bank. called police
early Sunday when two young men
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toll Ave-, being arrested Hayes was
driving a car on Sixteenth st. and
Parkway Blvd. when a toy balloon
on the radiator broke loose and
struck him in the face, causing the
car to strike a machine driven by
Charles J. Hoffman, 916 Union ST.
Mrs. Hoffman, and Mona Hattona
955 S. Delaware ST., who was riding
with Hoffman were slightly bruised.
Hayes is held for assault and battery
and speeding.
Five Charges FILED
Arthur Weber, So1 Cable ST. Is
held on charges of drunkenness. op-
Grating a motor vehicle while intox-
icated. assault and battery, trans
porting liquor and vagrancy, follow
ing an accident Saturday night when
the car which he was driving struck
machine parked on Pennsylvania
St, near New York St., owned by
J. B. Smith, 1924 n. California St
Mrs. Weber, who jumped from
the car, received bruises about the
shoulders and arms She was sent
to city hospital
Joseph W. Thixton. 245 S. State
St, who was with Weber, was ar
rested on charges Of drunkenness
and vagrancy. Police say they
found a half-pint of colored "mulep
on the running board of the car.
Eddie Barrett. $50 Nickel ST., is
suffering from a broken left arm :as
result of an accident at Ray and
Maple SITS. Sunday. a car driven. by
Abraham Patterson, 1925 Silver Ave,
struck Barrett's machine, Motor
cycle Policemen Wachstetter and
Hague said. They arrested both
drivers on charges Of ASSAULT and
battery.
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began to argue with him. They asked
Wilson if the bank had been robbed
recently and stated that it may be
again. Police later learned from M.
n. Holman, Waterman at the Kresge
Bldg, that the men were drunk and
hunting a place to sleep.
Four friends" who took Ta1mage
Latta, 222 Manson Ave, for a ride
Saturday night, slugged him and
obtained So at the White River
bridge on New York St. Latta said
he got in the car at Patterson and
New York SITS, and was left laying
in the street after he was robbed.
Police were unable to find the rob-
bers.
Ray E. Colglayier, 1929 Brookside
Ave. reported two dozen pocket
knives valued at $25 stolen from his
car parked at the ball park.
Fletcher Biddlecomb, 451 n. Gray
ST., and Earl Stuck, 1858 oliver Ave.
reported bicycles stolen.
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COMP ANY HANDLES
ACTORS LUGGAGE

Absolute dependability must be as
sured theatrical companies when
their baggage is left in the hands
of transfer establishment. The
Terminal Transfer and Baggage
Company. 800 S. Meridian St, han
dies the luggage Of the companies
appearing at the Lyric and also
transfers films for Famous Players
Laskey and Realcraft films corpora
tons.
Two large trucks and two smaller
ones are on the go constantly. says
Frank Wesner, manager. There is
effort made to render service
that may be depended upon.
/ Saturday nights when theater peo-
pie are moving out and Sunday
morning when they are moving in
there are moments Of concern, no
doubt, but the theatrical business of
this transfer company has been such
that their attention to detail has
essentially become a part of it,