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She was young and b9hy-&aced, with flying curly short shingled hair the color of butter, all curves and smiles and ripples and pep The men craned forward, the women either tut-tutted or tried to look preoccupied, the children miekered.
 Margie tore into jazSy little opening number, something up to date, for the music 'pluggers" keep these shows fresh, even if the dramatic brok CTS don't. She got generous applause, mostly from the children, for the men were too delighted to dare admit 1t and the women were too peeved to disguise it And then MarGie 'went into" the star item of her stock routine, "Come and Play Weez Me"
 She had already, as she always did, scanned the house during tho tragic scenes for a mark. And her quick eye had found an ideal one-fat, hair less, oldsh, standing out of the mob like a swan in flock of crows by virtue of Palm Beach suit, the glaze on his dome and position in the front row on the aisle.
 Her pick was even better than she knew, for the man was Je6 Stillson, richest man for leagues around, the orange king and real estate czar and canned tarpon emperor of the whole region Still son was known where Palm Grove had never been heard of. He was worth millions. He lived in Florida because he had been born there and be- cause he loved it. He went to "rep" shows be- cause he craved them. And he was a widower because for twenty years, since the death of his wife, who had been the flower of Southern ariS- tocratic clan, lie had never met woman who could disturb his well-fed, adipose repose.
 Everyone liked Jeff StiIlson, even though his riches were envied. He wasn't bad sort at all. The folks about him were all neighbors t i'm. He mingled in their pastimes, lent them money on
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all over the world-and they'd see every one of them their honeymoon.
 That was Tuesday afternoon. She married him Friday morning Florida was rocked as though by an earthquake. "Rep' shows haven't elevated standing, even where they're liked, and Stillson was a nabob, magnate and blc-'.
 Margie bid farewell to Kip Hillyard's Greater Tent Show Enterprises and Jeff sent handsome gift to every trouper. Saturday the new Mrs. Still. son and her. old bridegroom started around the globe on his yacht. Marge had thought that be- cause she had hit all the one-night stops and tank stands in the East, she had travelled; but sha learned much in six months; she saw the wonders of Europe and the Orient and the Occident.
 She came back to Palm Grove and settled down: She was the first lady," even though everyone knew where she had come from and how She had servants till she fell over them, more rooms than hotel, the rich wines and languorous luxuries of a universe.
 yards Greater Tent Show Enterprises, featuring that year Lydia Lee, Manhattan's Newest Toe. Dancing Darling. And Jeff and Mrs. Jeff sat in the first row the first night. The members of the company who were still with the outfit greeted her across the footlights. The bill was "Princess Q Patches'-the lead in that had been her favor lte, and here a bush league toe-trotter was mak. ing monkey of it. Margie suffered
 The oleo, she thought, was terrible. Lydia LeA had no "kick" She was just split-week mechan- 3 toe 6T @ on 'Rd Rar s b bo he
 
 it had been. She and Jeff stuck around after cur tain and went "back," and Kip Hillyard ruefully admitted it wasn't to be mentioned in the same State with the old show. Margie sighed. She and Jeff took in every night of it, and it seemed to get worse.
 The week played out the show pulled up stakes and slid off in the night in it's trucks
 At four o'clock in the morning the vehicles were grunting and strainng over the uneven backwoods roads, when high-powered foreign motor was heard humming after them; the car overlook them and drew up to the forward truck, on the seat of the truck stopped Out popped Oleo Margie "oh, Kip" she cried. "Kip! I couldn't stand it.. I've had almost year of bein' Southern lady an it's klin' -. Take me back .... please write your own ticket"
 Kip almost fell off the seat
 "H-how about your John-I mean your bus. band?"
 Don't make me laugh" said Margie. "He gives me the heebie jeebies. He's good guy an soft .. but what kind of life is that for me? go off my nut wond'rin' what to do with my hands :; an when smeIIed the oP tent I couldn't go it no longer saY Mrs. Jeff Still son is pretty good name in Florida |. will you feature me over that Lee emon?, ,,.
 "Yeh," said Kip Hillyard. "Climb in, and let this be lesson to you"
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The ingenue of Kip Hilyard's Greater rent Show Enterprises was Margie Bunton, cute little blonde bob-haired bandit, in whose repertoire was every 'xid" role from Little Lord Fauntleroy" to .eTess O the Storm Country" She had talent as well as youth and charms-oh, lots of them have' for some of the foremost Broadway legt stars have risen out of the "rep' ranks.
 She was bearcat in the "oleo," was Margie. She sang "audience" songs, which means lyrics in the second person. by direct address aimed at some blushins, habbergssted man Tout front in one of the first few rows of camp chairs set on the sod.
 Marsie's opus was Wont You Come and Play Meez Me?"-the French ditty made immortal by that greatest of all audience singers and most
 sored of soubrettes, Anna Held. And when she t going in high came down on one dimpled knee right at the edge of the footlights, extending her pink arms out toward some mature acre-owner, and pleaded with him to take her home and play weez her-well, the man was never again the same. He had lived
 Elderly, portly, bald-headed men were her fa- vorite fos. In country communities, working on one of that sort was even more effective than in town, for everyone else gathered there knew the man, of course, and his thrilled embarrassment never muffed for panic of merriment and ap- plause.
 Kip Hillyard's Greater Tent Show Enterprises came to Palm Grove, Florida, and opened to ca pacity Hillyard's theatrical menagerie was an annual visitation and the rubes knew that the show was always the goods. This year he an- nouncing "Broadway's Latest Find Mschievous Margie Bunton," in flapper roles and featured in the ''oleO-" The opening "bill' was ''The Two
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kind of conversation doesn't go by the boards, no matter what boards they are.
 "Yaiss, you can, ''s ,.. said Jef, a tremolo in his voice. You got me tonight. Ah'm old enough to be yo' grandfathuh, An gaiss, but some times the old ones make the best hus- bands, Ah'na told."
 Where did you get like tn a t ? '" snapped Margie. "Are you proposin marriage to mel"
 "Yes, Miss Bum ton. Ah'm wild ovah you" --...
 "Wild? You're cookoo."
 "Ah mean it. Oh, you don't have to, ansuh now. Inquah about hyere an ask anybody who Jeff Stillson is-what he is-whethuh he's 8 gentleman, whethuh his word is good. whethuh he could provahde fo' a wife and whethuh he'd. treat Mrs. Stillson white. Tn i n k it ovah, little dahlin, from ev'y stand- point. Ah'll call fo' you about one in the aftehnoon, if An may, with one of nah cahs, and take you around and show you some of ouah land. Good night"
 Margie went to bed and had a laughing fit; then she began to turn things over and over. It didn't dis turb her slee ?, though. And when she came forth in the sunshine next day, in a W h it g. frock, and a colorea footman held open, the door of a Paris car wherein sat Jeff, in a silk suit, it be. gan to listen like. something. That day she saw orange groves and palm plantations and fields and houses and Jeff told her she hadn't seen any thing yet He had factories on tho coast, a bank in town, a n arrow gauge railroad, of. fees and warehouses 5
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oMargie

THERE is class of theatrical attractions"
 manned by class of troupers, about both
 of which the city-bred know next to uoth- ing: "Rep" shows.
 "Rep" Is trade abbreviation for "repertoire" Repertoire is necessary because these outfits ap- pear "under canvas'' at crossroads stands and usually remain a week, playing different ''bill' each night. They come, they play, they blow the lot and sneak of in the night, to the next 'loca- tion, where the theatre-tent is pitched and where the repertoire is run again.
 Many yokels see no other shows than ''rep" shows. Of late years the movies have invaded the further most fastnesses, and alas! the genuine sap is being wised up until he believes that Chinatown is a S mysterious region of sinking, slant-eyed opium lounds; that young girls are dazzled by rich old mems limousnes, and that sleek vampires sink and slither away the feeble-spined husbands of better and sadder women, and that there is no Santa Claus.
 But the repertoire show under canvas has not lost it's kick. It is still human, whereas the films will always be celuloid. And the tent stuff usu. ally isn't its own sole drawing card; it is often part of travelling carnival with free exhibits and side shows and freaks and stunts and fakers and all the tip and toss rackets that always did and al. ways shall exhilarate the heart of the rube, if the screen flicker itself green to enlisften the be- nighted.
 In the 'rep" shows there is more shan the nlav at any performance. The "artists" all "doubie. Some play musical instruments, others sing. soma dance and tumble or whistle or yodel Between
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OAAO oSHo OA G@SS Lynne" or "She Loved Him Mad ly" there is 8 sort of vaudeville con
 tibuted by the actors before the curtain. That curtain is painted in oil, and is usu- ally covered with ads, and it's tech llical name is the "oleo." There from has sprung the denomination of the speciality entertainment be- fore it, which is known as the "oleo, '' also.
 in the .'oleo'',- the ingenue, whc has just come d o W Il f r o m Heaven as Little Eva or has just come home with her rag baby in w ay D o W Il East, '' com c s simpering forth, after a lightning change for which she was under dressed, and she cings to the &C., compartment of the minstrel band as an orchestra; she sings the warmed ov r sure fires of mu- sical comedy and vaudeville ac- tresses. And the locals drink her in and think she is deviish and a witching, win some, wick e d
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Evening star., 1924-10-24
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Evening star., 1924-10-24

Due to the large number Of
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we are in position to trade some
small cars at an advantage to
the customer. The prices and
terms below are positively be
yond comparison. Certified
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Evening star., 1924-10-24
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WATCH OUR
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Evening star., 1924-10-24

CARPETS AND RUGS-Foreign service official
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of pieces of very high-Grade Peking which
Ia" has brought back for own use; new, taste
full colors and designs: enough to furnish en-
tire house. Price $500 Cal Col S004 after
z evenings, or before $50 mornings. 23s
Evening star., 1924-10-24

DAVENPORT BED, beautiful tapestry, new;
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Evening star., 1924-10-24

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Evening star., 1924-10-24

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Evening star., 1924-10-24

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Evening star., 1924-10-24

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Evening star., 1924-10-24

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Evening star., 1924-10-24

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Evening star., 1924-10-24

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Evening star., 1924-10-24

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FURNITURE AND RUGS-The Bargain House
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Evening star., 1924-10-24

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brain is lessened and the resist
ance to the flow OF blood from
the heart to the brain is mate
rally diminished.
In this way the students stoop
helps good thinking by helping
the brain to a good supply of
blood.
Many great thinkers have
awaited themselves Of the force
Of gravity in helping to keep an
adequate supply Of blood flowing
to the brain. This is done by
lying down during serious mental
tasks.
Descartes wrote and worked in
bed every day until II o'clock.
He advised Pascal, the mathema.
tician, to do the same. Leibnitz
did heavy thinking while lying
upon the floor. Rossini did mucn-
OF his composing in bed. Mark
\ VAIN WIOte IN pSUs
Blood for thinking purposes may
be coaxed to the brain by the
process employed by the great
church orator, Bishop Bossuet. who
kept his head swathed in hot
towels while composing his dis
courses.
In other cases the necessary
blood is driven TO the brain by
putting the whip and lash 70 the
other end of the circulation, as
was done by Schiller, who found
that he could work best with his
feet in ice-cold water.
Stimulants such as coffee, tea,
chocolate and alcohol are freqGent-
ly used to keep up the supply Of
blood TO the brain for thinking
purposes. This habit is not con-
ducive to clear thinking. 1t tends
to excessive blood supply to the
brain, which, in turn, tends to
confusion of thought. Of which
drunkenness, deliriIlm and ecstncy
are extreme manifestations. The
reaction from such over-stimula!
ton always tends to mental de-
preston.
1t Is far better to cultivate the
students stoop or to lie in he'd
and study than to rely on any
form OF Stimulant. 1t is better
to overcome brain flag by sleep
than by any other means.
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Foxy Grandpa's Story

up shyly. Then he wiggled one
big leg nervo1sly.
We went into the kitchen. !
took a lowell wasn't going to
burn my hand as Bobby dld-took
hold of the oven-door carefully
and opened
Empty exclaimed. who
could have been in here and
stolen my bread?"
''Tango's the only one who's
been around here said Bunny.
Surely he could not have got.
ten loose" said l, walking out
Of the kitchen-door and over to
Tango.
bent down to examine the
chain. 1t was only wound around
Tango's, leg. 1t wasn't fastened
to Tango's leg.
Tango, what have you been
up to-" l asked.
Tango lowered his head and put
his trunk in my hand. His trunk
had little particles of half.baked
dough on it!
How ashamed that elephant
looked! If he could have cried,
tears Of modification and humilia-
ton, he would have done so, 1 am
quite sure.
Tango did it," said / as 1 re-
turned to the kitchen.
Don't be hard on him, Foxy
Grandpa" said Bunny, HE looks
so sorry"
Wonder If he used towel to
open that oven-door," said Bobby,
examining the blister on his
finger.
HE didn't need to. His hide
is tough enoughp' said Bunny. 4,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-10

stronger than a flour-and-water
paste to make a man stick these
days.
The modern girl camouflages it
with so much pep" and applied
enthusiasm, that you'd never sus-
pect that she was simply mark
ing time until she hears the
strains of the wedding march.
Justice may be all you actually
owe your husband; but what
every man NEEDS from the
woman who loves him is faith,
hope, charity, and above all
MERCY.
A good wife and good diges-
ton are blessings that a man
never stops to think about, un.
less they happen to bother him.
A woman never realizes how
MUCH her husband means to
her, until he goes away and she
has to wait until he gets back to
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w HEN IN
DOUBT
Holding Friendship
nEAR MISS FAIRFAX.

M@-S @NA1eSAS = A@@AS1 AA@A'
For the last nine months I
have been going out with young
man on the average of once or
twice a week.
1 know have disposition far
from perfect, being inclined at
times to be quite fresh, even to
the extent of wanting to be coaxed
to speak.
I love this young man with my
whole heart and must admit I am
quite jealous.
The other night we went out
with party OF SHINY girl friend,
another girl and the three "hoy
friends" My hoy friend hardly
knew / was there, paying all his
attention to one of the other girls,
even to the extent Of admiring her
and telling her how nice she
looked. Do you not think that
rather cheap of him?
felt very badly about it. In
the very near future we are going
out again. / would appreciate it,
il you would advise me how to act
IL he should do the same thing.
BLUE.
VOU admit you are inclined to
= be jealous so it may be that
your jealousy exaggerated the at
tention paid by your friend to the
other girl.
But you shouldn't resent 1t IL he
is just pleasantly complimentary
to other girls. There was no harm
IN his telling your friend she
looked nice. And remember he's
not engaged to you and you have
no claim on all his attention and
time.
Also, it's just possible that know.
Ing YOU are little jealous he
leased you by making fuss over
her.
Your best plan is not to notice
III IL he again shows an inclina.
ton to be attentive to any Other
girl than yourself. Don't allow
yourself to be leased. Then he'll
stop trying to tease you.
Above all overcome your mood.
ness and jealousy il you wish 10
hold his friendship.
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live deeply, since the happiest
people are the shallowest? AS
Mark Twain says when Satan
robs the old man Of his brain,
there is kindness for you! Now,
the old man win no longer grieve,
no longer feel the slightest sor-
row r
Shallow people may De the
happiest, but since you are not
shallow, Nora Lee, you viii never
be satisfied with a shallow life. 4
hope you won't try it. It is the
tragedy of many women today.
They are trying to pass their days
as idiots. They are evading re-
sponsibilities; drugging their minds
and spirits. They turn their
BACKS on the dynamic vitalities
and plunge into the superficial.
If they were all shallow, they
would be happy. But they aren't"
He turned from this earnest
tone to question whimsically: as
it so necessary to be happy, Nora
Lee?"
Happiness, Pain.
Fhey were walking slowly and
now reached a slope hemmed in
by trees. Nora Lee dropped to
the ground, folding her arms
about her knees. He found
place at her feet, and glanced
upward at her half-turned face.
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get the curtain rods up Or the
radio fixed.
4 y 80
A girl used to flatter herself
that she had broken "a mans
heart but, nowadays. she is salts
fled IL she can just manage to
dent it little, in a brand new
place.
When q man closes the front
door in a soft apologize manner,
instead Of banging 1t after him
like victorious army, his wife
knows intuitively that he is feel.
ing contrite about SOMETHING.
A**
Take away a flapper's vanity
case and she could never in the
world express herself"
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