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right on without anybody to warn him of what might be ahead of him. And so 1t was that as he came around the big rock he came face to face with Old Man Coyote, who was on his way home. Old Man Coyote had crossed over from the other branch of that cowpath-the one Johnny Chuck had not gone down.
 Huh" exclaimed Old Man Coy ote, and grinned, Huh. If this isn't Johnny Chuck! And what are you doing away over here, Neighbor Chuck?"
 Johnny Chuck is no coward. There isn't one teeny, weeny cowardly hair on Johnny Chuck's body. The proof of this is that now every one of them stood right up on end. Johnny did his best to grin back at Old Man Coyote, but his grin wasn't much of q success, excepting in that it showed all of his sharp teeth. Johnny backed up after q hasty look over his shoulder. He back up against the great rock. Then he looked straight at Old Man Coyote, and this time he did a little better in grinning. He did almost really grin.
 Old Man Coyote sat down, and as he sat there, looking at Johnny Chuck. something very like respect came to Old Man Coyote. Ills first thought had been to kill Johnny Chuck at once, but now, on second thought, he realized that killing Johnny Chuck wouldn't be such an easy matter. With his back to that rock, Johnny would be able to put up a dreadful fight, and Old Man Coyote didn't feel like 1t. Perhaps if he had been very, very hungry he would have. But he was hardly hungry at all, for he had had @ big dinner and was on his way home. So after watching Johnny Chuck a few minutes, Old Man Coyote walked around him at a safe dis tance, then trotted along up the path, Johnny Chuck remaining right where he was, with his back to that big rock He remained there for some time, long enough to make sure that Old Man Coyote was not coming back. Then Johnny once more went on his way.
 Copyright, 1926. by T. W. Burgessl
 The next story: Johnny and Jimmy Meet"
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(NoW GO ON WITH THE sToRY)
CHAPTER "


 Sylvia jumped up and shook out the crushed folds of her short, full skirt with great energy.
 Listen to mel she fairly rapped out the words, as she turned and looked down at Pays flushed, sulky face. If you've made up your mind not to marry Ran Phelps, that's your own party. Please don't try to drag me into ii. And don't try to tell me that Ran ever cared two pins about me. He couldn't have or he wouldn't have banged me down hard the way he did!"
 She caught her breath for an in- stant with the remembered pain of that awful night a month ago when he had 'banged her down hard and she had gone wandering around this very park, not knowing or car ing where she was.
 Fay lifted her big green eyes, with their circle of black velvety lashes. All right, have 1t your own way, but I know what I'm talking about, all the samey" she said and shrugged her thin, graceful shoul- ders. q fell for Ranny and I got him away from you, for a while. But way down at the bottom of his heart it's you he cares about"
 Does he say so?" Sylvia couldn't help asking that.
 Fay tossed her head impatiently. "Of course not, silly" she answered. "I still have him vamped to the point where he doesn't know whether he's coming or going. He still wants 10 make love to me all the time-but making love and being in love are two different things and Rams in love with you! You should have seen his face the day you sent his ring back to him! Hmm" The green eyes narrowed to a single gleaming line.
 She got up from the bench and, arm in arm. the two of them went on their way around the park, brave in it's fresh new green.
 [ They had almost reached the lilac walk TOT the StCOHu lllLlc W llIA oS vio spoke once more. Fay, she began, why do you tell me this bunk about Fanny? About his lik- ing me-"
 She knew Fay, and she knew that she had some deep. dark underlying reason for doing it. The only mys- tery was what that reason could be.
 Fay flushed rosily so that all her freckles vanished for moment.
 Ut isn't bunk - it's straight goods" she said, quietly. She stopped in the path for a second and turned her glove back from the watch on her wrist.
 Didn't you say that Peter Wilk was coming to your house for sup per at s o'c1ock?" she asked, glanc- ing sidewise at Sylvia.
 "Yes".
 "Well. it's 10 minutes to S." she went on. You'd better be off in a cloud of dust. Go on, without me I'm going to walk around for 8
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[ while longer and think things out" And she pushed Sylvia away. with a little laugh of farewell.
 At the entrance of the park 20 of 80 automobiles were parked, waiting for the turn of the traffic signal. At the very head of the line was a grey and red roadster that Sylvia knew well.
 She had seen it parked in the street before the Shirleys' big house scores and scores of times last win ter. It belonged to Eddie Carter, the debonair and well-to-do young business man that Fay had thrown over for Randall Phelps.
 He did not look like a discarded
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Ouicksands of Love
 Adele GarrisOn's New Phase of
Revelations Of q Vie

I and thence to our rooms. I paused | for a few seconds to pull myself to- gether and went in, to find Kath- crime reading. I wasted no time in : plati,udinous greeting.
 Will it be safe to take Junior in a heated car to the new apartment tomorrow ?" l asked.
 She answered me as promptly.
 Yes, provided he develops no ! temperature tonight. He Is really almost we'll"
 l drew breath of relief, for aI- | though l had put up brave front to Dicky the thought of having 8 convalescent child involved in a con- troversy over hotel quarters had shaken me sorely. I was infinitely relieved to find that there had been no real reason for my fears.
 There had heen no valid reason, either, from Dicky's standpoint, for my objections to his plan. I owned that to myself frankly, with a feel ing somewhat related to remorse, but so far from being real kin to that emotion, that it did not inter- fere with a glorious sense of free dom which was mine at the prospect of being my own mistress for awhile. I reveled in the knowledge that would be able to devote all the time to study that I chose, with the Knowledge that Junior was being beautifully cared for by Katherine that Katie was adequately steering my domestic boat and that Dicky in all probability would not get over his tantrum for the period of Li1- Hans absence.
 It was an absolutely novel feeling to me. Always before, in Dickys absences, there had been strong sense of responsibility 10 him and for him weighing upon me. But now l felt that his own anger and contemptuous attitude toward my economic importance as entrusted against his openly expressed admira- tion Of Edith Farfaxs activities had released me from more than one in- hibition.
 Do you know" said Katherine curiously, you look like the Miller of the Dee who envied nobody"
 T feel like him." I said.
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her up. Aunt Agony, who was chris tened Agnes. would like nothing better than to have Sylvia marry Peter Wilk, a bachelor some nine years older than Sylvia. Peter, who is not so good-loolIirg as Fanny, but twice as dependable, helps Sylvia through the dark days that follow her break with Ranny.
 One afternoon she breaks a date with him to go for a walk with Fay, who isn't on speaking terms with Aunt Agony and is afraid to come to the house. Fay tells Sylvia that as time goes on, the less sure she is that she wants to marry Fanny, or anyone else, for that matter.
 And she tells her, furthermore, that she is sure that Fanny cares more for Sylvia, still, than he does for herself.
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WoMAN's GREAT VIRTUE

The fact that I had been in dan- ger of being murdered got no sym pathy from Mrs. Riley, in fact, sub consciously, l think she would have been glad of it. It would have taken me out of Mamie's sight at least and she was becoming to be rather jealous of my intimacy with Mamie.
 "Men don't murder young girls in public parks" she said decidedly. And if her beautiful bag was stolen I expect it was nothing more than was coming to her. But let her look out for herself. She is altogether too independent for me. I don't want anyone around here that is asking my girl to imperil her im- mortal soul"
 Mother. mother, Judy did not do that. You don't understand" in- terrupted Mamie.
 "Yes, I think I do understand. I understand too much about this girl that you took into my house against my wishes.
 There is only one of two things . girl can be in this world, and that Is either good or bad. There is nothing else.
 "All this foolishness about voices and checker boards of destiny is poppycock. I don't know what they mean and don't want to, But I do know that I am not going to have my daughter running around with that Buddy Tremaine if I can help it. I thought that you had left him and gone to work respectfully, You have been bringing your money home like a good girl and we have been very happy You know that you are all that I have got with your sister at the sanitarium and
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The Woman Pays!

One of fifteen persons called be- for a New York magistrate on a charge of disorderly conduct for smoking on ferry, was a woman. The judge had imposed $3 fines upon the 14 males. The woman he asked, You were not smoking. were you?" When Miss Virginia Barnes admitted that she belonged to the smoking conclave. he gave her a s fine. flor having the nerve to do it." And all this in Gotham itself! Thing what an outbreak in that city If Judge Hay-in- the Beard of Town Pump Center had done 1t!
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After 10 minutes Of heated argu- mcnt, Sylvia promised to go.
 That's my idea of no way at all 10 spend q perfectly good evening, ' Peter said when Sylvia broke the news to him that they were going to q party, T suppose they'll have a radio going full blast and a lot of queer stuff to drink"
 Peter never drank. and he hated noise and eXcitcment-all the things that were the breath of life to Fays "crowd".
 But I'll go," he said" with you
 At o'clock Sylvia was all dressed and waiting for him 10 come. Aunt Agony had gone out for supper with
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Girls and Parbed Wire

Girl students of Oxford university are up in arms over a lofty, spiked, barbed wire fence about, their premises. School authorities erected the fence, it is rumored, after learn ing that co-ed out past the curfew hour got onto home territory by climbing a fence rather than ringing the gateman's door. I can hardly see American college girls standing the barbed wire fence longer than two minutes. It will be interesting to see what Fngland's flaming youth" does about the matteri
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his sister, Sarah, and to church aft erward.
 The house was very still and peaceful in the twilight Upstairs a faucet dripped into the bathtub-a cozy little sound,
 Sylvia stood looking at her shad- owy reflection in the dim old mirror above the parlor mantelpiece, and thanked fortune that she was pretty especially pretty tonight, for Ran ny's eyes. She had put on a dress that he had always like, a soft pur- plish gray thing that was something the color of those hirt's eyes of hers. At least Fanny had always said that Sylvia had the eyes of a born tlirt
 The front door bell shrieked through the silent house.
 Hello, Peter!" Sylvia began 6s she flung open the door, and then her voice seemed to choke in her throat.
 For the man who stood there in the moth-brown twilight was not Peter at all, but Fanny Phelps! He stood there looking at her, with not 8 word to say for himself, twisting and twisting his hat in his hands.
 Sylvia felt as if her heart turned completely over, at the very sight Of him. But she managed to triIl out gay, careless little laugh.
 Got the wrong address, didn't hn iorL, party's across the street at Fay's house."
 Fanny nodded. "Yeah--I know that" he stammered, "but she she sent me over to borrw that big punch bowl of your aunt's. IT guess she thought it'd be easier for Us to meet away from the rest of the crowd-for the first time, you know"
 Don't be silly. Ranny!" Sylvia broke in. and was surprised at the sharpness in her own voice. "Why should we mind meeting each othcr?"
 As she turned to go back to the dining room for the old Sheffield punch bowl that had belonged to Great Grandmother Starr, she made out Peter Wilk's tall, lean figure swinging toward them through the dusk of Bleak street.
 Here comes Strong-Ankle," re- marked Fanny, who never walked any place where he could ride. T hear he's been stepping you lately. Is that so?"
 It was on the tip of sylvia's tongue to say Why should it mat ter to you who's stepping me?"- but she did not.
 For Sylvia, who had been brought up in the Old School by Aunt Agony, was something more than Perfect Lady! She was a Good Sport as only the modern girl knows how to be one-and it was not good sportsmanship to rub it into Fanny that he had treated her badly.
 So she simply said. "Yes, I've been seeing quite @ lot of Peter" l1d walked to the edge of the porch to wave her hand to him. She smiled faintly at Ranny over her shoulder, and in the half darkness those fiirt's eyes of hers were as un- fathomable as violet lakes.
 The life of the party that night was Fay's cast-off admirer, Eddie Carter.
 She certainly had brass to ask him here, after they way she threw him down and got herself engaged to Ran Phelps." Peter remarked to Sylvia, with a sort of disgusted ad- miration as they joined the gay noisy crowd in the Shirleys' big, white-tiled kitchen.
 Everybody was helping with the supper, and at the far side of the kitchen Eddie Carter was measuring something from a flask into the punch that Fay had made. He had white apron tied around his fat
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That which is in front Of you, you can see; but that which is behind you, you cannot see and still keep your eyes in front, So it is most inn portant 10 make sure of what is be- kind-even more important than to make sure of what is in front. Even in times of trouble and danger there Is everything in your backing. There is nothing like having a rock at your back. That is. unless it hap pens that you want to run away.
 Johnny Chuck was exploring in the Old Pasture. Never had he been along this old cowpath before, and
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| suitor today, however. A light fell hat was placed iauntily on the side of his slightly bald head, and there was a white carnation in his but tonhole. AS he saw Sylvia he waved one hand in a yellow glove, and his 1 tiny mustaehe lifted itself sinartly above his teeth in a broad grin.
 Tho traffic policeman whistle rent the air and Eddie went roaring ahead into the misty green distances of the park. He turned his car to- ward the lilac walk.
 Sylvia gave a little gasp of aston ishmcnt. well, I'll just bet he's going to meet Fay" she said to her self. 80 that's why she wants mo to think that Fanny still cares about me! She doesn't want to marry him, SO she thinks she'll wish him back on me, We'll, just let her try it."
 Not for anything. so she told her self, would she go through the heartbreak and humiliation of the last four wecls-to have people pity her because she had lost her man to another girl--to have everybody know that he had grown tired of her and, worst of all. to give him up, It had been like tearing her heart out Of her body.
 No, she was through with Fanny forever and ever. She wouldn't even let herself think of him!
 But she did think of him. She lay in bed late that night long after Peter had gone home, long after Aunt Agony had begun to snore gently in the room across the hall and she thought about Ranny Phelps and what Fay had said about him that afternoon.
 As she lay there an automobile came quietly up the street and stopped opposite at the big house.
 Then Sylvia did horrid thing. She spied upon Fay.
 Getting swiftly out of bed she ran to the front windows and peeped. In the moonlight, a big gray and red roadster gleamed smoothly as it stood at the curb in front of Shir- leys.
 A man in light felt hat, with a. carnation in his buttonhole, helped Fay out of that car. Together they walked slowly up to the porch and disappeared into its shadows.
 It was long time before Sylvia heard the red and gray roadster start and then hum softly away down the street.
 X gay little toast of Ranny's popped into her mind:
 Here's to the girl who's mine-all
 mine!
 She dances and bets and smokes
 cigarettes,
 And I'm told sometimes she goes
 out and forgets
 That she's mine-all mine."
 And that's the kind of a girl she is all right" said Sylvia to herself that's Fay, and no mistake; and that's the kind of girl that suits Ranny right down to the ground!"
 
 The following Sunday early in the morning, Fay called up. Aunt Agony answered the telephone.
 And upon my soul and body, I do believe it's Fay Shirley!" she said indignantly to Sylvia. "She tried to change her voice so I wouldn't know it, but did, never fear! She'd rush in where angels fear to tread, wouldn't she? The nerve of a brass monkey-that's what she has!"
 Fay was having a few people in for supper that night, so she said, and wanted Sylvia to come.
 Just the old crowd" she ex- plained, Now please don't high hat me and refuse to come-you've got to meet Fanny some time or other, and you may as well get the dirty deed over with. Come at s and bring Peter with you, pleasem
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BY DR. HUGH s. CUMMING Surgeon General United States
 Public Health Service
 The classification af anemia is very simple. If by careful study we cannot determine the cause, we call 1t a primary anemia. If We know the cause, we speak of anemia as being secondary.
 Examples Of secondary anemias are those following hemorrhages Of various kinds, those which occur in malnutrition or starvation or in chronic infections, such as are called blood poisonings and in pyorrhea, malaria, rheumatism, diphtheria and other infectious diseases, and also in poisoning by certain drugs. Among the secondary anemias are listed also those caused by animal parasites, such as hook 'orm and tapeworm.
 Loss of Blood
 The loss of pint of blood by an adult will produce some temporary anemia; the rapid loss of two pints of blood will produce a severe anemia and the loss of two quarts of blood may produce death, di- rectly or from anemia following.
 Chlorosis is a fairly common dis case in young girls. It is very i'm portant that this condition should be recognized early and properly treated. The disease develops gen erally at about the age of fourteen to sixteen-rarely as late as twenty.
 It is common in young girls sel- dom seen in boys. If untreated, chlorosis may last many years and may interfere seriously with school work. It is usually fairly easy to cure but it may return.
 It is readily recognized by com petent physician early in its course but it may be unrecogniezd by par ents who do not understand its sig niicance.
 Symptoms
 The patient, as has been said, is generally a young girl. Her con- pleXion will be pale with possibly in some cases, a greenish tinge, hence the name.
 She may be even heavier than normay in weieht-She tires easily, suffers from shortness of breath often dizziness and faintness; she may have palpitation of the heart and sometimes swelling of the feet. The appetite is variable and she may be nervous and emotional and may suffer from dyspepsia.
 An examination of the blood will usually show a decrease in the num- Der of red blood cells to about four million instead of five million per cubic millimeter.
 An estimation of hemoglobin or coloring matter of the blood will also show marked reduction both in relation to the volume of blood and of the amount of coloring mat ter in the individual red corpuscles. The total volume is markedly in- creased.
 The cause of chlorosis is unknown but 1t has been attributed to tight lacing, and is much less common than formerly. The treatment should at all times be directed by a competent physician and will in- clude proper diet, proper clothing rest and exercise if necessary, cor rection of any defects or diseased conditions of the teeth and the ad- ministration of some standard preparation of iron.
 Treatment is usually very satts- factory and recovery is prompt. Neglect of treatment may cause much suffering. retarded develop ment, serious interference with school work and 8 certain amount of permanent injury to the indi- vidual.
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Sylvia Starr, who looks like a flirt but isn't one, is engaged to marry Randall Phelps. He phones her one rainy afternoon at the library where she works and asks her to meet him to talk over a matter of great inn portanCe.
 After Sylvia has waited for him in the rain for almost an hour, he arrives upon the scene and tells her that he's in love with her best friend, Fay Shirley, and wants to marry her,
 Sylvia releases him from his en- gagement, greatly to the satisfaction of Aunt Agony, who has brought
New Britain herald., 1926-05-20
Menus for he Family
BY SISTER MARY

Breakfast - Grapefruit sections, cereal, thin cream, frizzled dried heof crisp whole wheat toast milk, coffee.
 Luncheon - Baked eggs with cheese sauce, huttered spinach, pine apple rice pudding, graham bread, milk, tca.
 Dinner-salmon timbales. pota- toes au gratin, creamed new peas, ielHed fruit salad, floating island, bran bread, milk, coffee,
 The breakfast for a child under school age who comes to the family table must be something like this: alhuminfzed orange juice, cereal, thin cream. crisp whole wheat toast, milk. And be sure that the toast is so crisp it's "crunchy". The or ange fuice is slightly beaten with the white Of an egg. This makes a drink that is almost perfect for small children. However bulky foods such as sareal and toast must he included in their diet in order that their dummies may have chance to keep busy.
 Pineapple Rice Pudding
 Two cups boiled rice, F cup sugar. cup grated pinapple, F cup whipping cream.
 Drain juice from pineapple. Com hine rice, pinauple and sugar, Chill and fold in cream whipped until stiff. Turn into a mold and chill for one hour or longer.
 This is a simple delicious dessert, Copyright 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)
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pincannle Rice Pudding
Rl,tlbarh CbOrtral<P

Different, we'll tell inc world. One and onc-half pint rhubarh cut in small pieces, 1-4 cups sugar, ? tablespoons cornstarch, eggs, shortcake dough. Stew rhubarb with little water. Add sugar. Mix corn starch with little water and add to well beaten egg yolks. Add all to rhnharb mixture. Spread one layer of shortcake dough with the rhnbarh custard, make q meringue Of the cgg whites and 1-4 cup sugar. Spread on top and brown.
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For more than 50 years Anna c.

For more than 50 years Anna c. SiIlas made living and most com fortahlc one by sitting in show win- dows, her hair down her back. Her hair was feet and 1 inch long, golden, and sold thousands of dol- lars worth of whatever she said did it. A day or so ago Anna c. si1las with the lovely hair' had 1t cut. Aged 76, wanting a change.r