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CHAPTER X%XIN.
A Hopeless Situation.

Perry had never before experienced
such an emotion as surged through
him when he realized that ne was
helpless to do anything about Natalie.
How delighted she had been to fling
her challenge in his face. 1t was just
as if she had said:
II am going to meet Lucien Bart
lett. and what are you going to do
about it,
What was he going to do about it?
What could he do?
OF course, the whole situation was
absurd, ridiculous. lie was in love
with Natalie DennisOn and had only
just realized it. She naturally had no
inkling Of such a thing. and blamed
him for having discussed her with
Martha.
She had shown him only TOO plainly
at the tea how much she disliked him,
and yet he was too much in love with
her to allow her TO 80 on with this
dangerous game she was playing.
But what could he do?
He hadn't the faintest idea where
Natalie was to meet Lucien. and if he
had known and decided to follow he4..
what could he accomplish by doing
that?
He couldn't make scene. lie
couldn't drag Natalie home like a
naughty child And yet he felt as If
he would like TO do that very thing.
He loved Natalie. loved her as he had
never thought he would love. She
was precious 10 him. he wanted TO
protect her.
Natalie, in the meantime. was eX-
xultant. Her spirits We're soaring. her
blood was rushing quickly through
her veins. and her mood was danger
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Arrold's Army in Distress.

AMERICAN CAMP BEFORE QUE
BECK. CANADA, Apr. /, 1776.-A
graphic description of the difficult cir
cumstances of the American Camp is
given in a letter despatched by Gen
eral Benedict Arnold on Saturday to
Silas Deane. General Arnold makes
no attempt to conceal his distressed
situation, yet writes cheerfully.
From January / to March /. not
more than 700 effective men were on
duty--sometimes as few as 500. The
enemy force within the citadel is per
haps four times this number. The
new New England troops will be of
little service for some time, as the
greatest part have the smallpox
That fatal disorder has got into camp.
though every method that prudence
could suggest has been attempted to
prevent it. IN Colonel Warmers COM
pany, 271 Of the 373 men are now sick
with smallpox by incubation. The
surgeons are without medicine, and
hospitals crowded and in want of al
most every necessary.
A few small cannon cannot be ex-
pected to effect the reduction of
place so strongly fortified as Quebeck.
Three mortars, few shells. and those
too small. will cut despicable figure
at a bomb.battery.
only one Artillery officer" says
General Arnold, "and 20 mattresses
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HOW TT STARTED
By JEAN NEWTON.
"One Foot in Grave.

One can hardly imagine a phrase
that would smack more OF slang, or a
modern expression with characteristic
modern pertness, than ''one foot in the
grave" which lis so commonly used
to describe one who is so i'll or so old
or so decrepit that he has not much
longer to live. Yet the story OF its
origin reveals that the phrase is as
modern as Plutarch-Who lived and
wrote about nineteen hundred years
ago
1t was in his essay ION the Training
Of Children" one of the many we'll
known didactic discourses of this great
writer. that we find his reference to
IAN old doting fool. with one foot al
ready in the grave
The early English writer's were en-
thusiastic students Of Plutarch. and in
a play called The Little French Law
yer" (Act /. Scene y. by those two
famous collaborating friends, Beau.
mont and Fletcher, we find the express
sion, "One foot in the Grave" just as
il is used today.
Beaumont and Fletcher produced to-
gether "a plays in a period of about
10 years before Beaumont S death in
1916, at the age of 80. Whether it
was from their play or direct from its
ancient source in Plutarch' S work that
the expression received its impetus in
everyday language we do not know.
Suffice it to say that it has survived TO
popular use in modern speech.
Copyright. 1920
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Our Children By Angelo Patri

that four-leaved stage. The time
comes to move them again and you
discover that the sturdy wee things
have a root growth that would suf-
flee for a young tree, the very best
support for the top growth and the
blooms.
Children give US many a trying day.
From one difficulty to another they
move toward maturity. We who are
so eager to see them arrive can dis
cern little growth and much of what
we fear is wrong. The thing to do
is to keep on holding up the light,
teaching and hoping, picking them up
every time they fall and cheering
them each step forward.
And always in faith that the work
of the spirit is of sight unseen.
Mr. Patri will give personal attention TO
inquiries from parents and school teachers
on the care and development of children
Write him. care Of this paper, inclosng self
addressed. stamped envelope for reply.
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DAUGHTERS OF TO-DAY
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR

Gus. She was intensely stimulated by
what had happened. Her anger
toward Perry made her turn instinc
lively To Lucien, and aroused in her
disarminG tenderness.
She would show the whole bunch OF
them that she was no child. She
would do something TO give then
cause for cOnsterna uon, and as this
thought occurred to her she remem
bereel suddenly that she had it within
her power to lie reVcnged upon them.
she could go away with Lucien as he
had asked her to do.
OF course, this was only thought
and she instantly rejected it. That
was absurd. Of course. She could
never do such a thing not even if she
loved Lucien to distraction, and she
wasn't at all sure that she did.
But even though she had rejected
the thought of such a thi1g. it had
occurred to her. and her subconscious
mind PLAYED with the idea. II de
lighted her to think that. if she
wished she could play havoc with the
whole family. The news that she had
eloped with Lucien Bartlett would
stun them all-might even arouse her
father to the knowledge that he had
q wife and family. II was a thrilling
idea and. yet of course, il was alb
sLrd. II could never happen. She
Natalie, was much, much too sensible
She knew too much about life aud
the world. Yet il really was thrilling
and it was a lot Of fun to think about
doing it. even though she was SURE
she never would.
Natalie felt very confident of her
self, very wise. entirely sophisticated.
She even laughted softly as the taxi
Whizzed down Fifth avenue. In q
few minutes she would see Lucien
and the look he always wore in his
eyes when he saw her would 90 far
toward restoring her wounded self
esteem.
lEnrit..,-.ht fnnE
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BEDTIME STORIES BY " 1H1HAE9S sTScHsS

headed down towards the Smiling
Pool. and my, how fast they were
coming. They could see the two little
forms of Peter and Jerry sitting on
the bank. How their wings We're
whistling through the air. They We're
almost over Peter and Jerry before
the latter noticed that whistling
sound. Whats that" cried Jerry.
lie didn't wait for an answer. He
plunged heaGloug into the Smiling
Pool And as he plunged, he more
than half expected to feel the great
claws Of one OF the Hawk family.
AS for Peter Rabbit. he made a
flying jump to one side and then he
started for the aiders at the head OF
the Smiling Pool as fast rs those long
legs of his could take him. He. too.
more than half expected to feel great
claws. But he didn't He plunged
headlong in amorg the alders and
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Martha Dennison. at n, faces the
fact that her husband has drifted
array from her, as 1rCH as her tcO
children, Arthur and Natalie. she
meets an attractive bachelor. perry
Macdonald. and accepts his attentions
1ithout realizing the danger In such
an attachment. arthur is infatuated
lUith Mimi q dancer, and Natalie half
in lore qCith Lucie11 Bartlett, mar
ricd man. Perry becomes intere8ted
Ia Natalie through desire to pro
tect her. and ends by falling IN lore
1oitI her, 1chich makes his friendship
acith Martha embarrassing. arthur, IN
the meantime, is suspicious Of Mimi,
1cho as deCeiUin0 him and accepting
the attentions of another man. Natalie
meets Perry at a tea and treats hfm
ictly.
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"HJMPH" EXCLAIMED PETER.
''WHAT DO YOU THINK OF Me-
had waited so long, was surely near.
# wonder" said Peter, how it is
that Peeper the Hyla knows when to
begin singing"
Probably Old Mother Nature tells
him" replied Jerry. "She must wake
him mp down there in the mud at the
bottom of the Smiling Pool. My, but
it is good TO hear his voice, Now, if
We can hear Winsome Bluebird and
Welcome Robin. we shall know that
warm weather soon will be here. /
am quite ready for it myself.
"Humph." exclaimed Peter. w hat
do YOU think of me? If you are long
ing for warm weather, just imagine
how some of the rest of us feel who
haven't had nice comfortable Win
ter such as you have had
Now it happened that as Jerry and
Peter sat there on the bank of the
Smiling Pool. two old friends of theirs
arrived. but they didn't know il. They
were Mir. and Mrs. Quack. who had
come up from the Sunny South. They
ncv high over the Smiling Pool! look
ing down: and SO it was that they
saw Peter ard Jerry. The latter We're
50 intent on listening for the voice OF
Peeper the Hyla that they had no
ears for other sounds. They did not
hear the faint whistle of wings high
above them as Mr.. and Mrs. Quack
tlew high above the Smiling Pool. MIR.
and Mrs. Quack noticed that neither
Peter nor Jerry looked up.
"WeH give them a little surprise
party" said Mrs. Quack to Mr.. Quack,
as they circled far out over the Green
Meadows. "Well fly low from be-
hind them and make our wings whis,
tie. so that they will think one of
fheir enemies of the air is after them.
|They will be so surprised that they
will not stop to think that there are
no hawks flying at night. Wen just
play a little joke on them
So Mr. and Mrs. Quack turned and
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French Mustard Dressing

Stir teaspoonful OF flour into d;
teaspoonful Of melted butter and adt
boiling water TO make as thick as
white sauce. Cook for a minute OF
two, then add reaspoonful of sugar
half a teaspoonful of salt and two tea
spoonfuls OF dry mustard. stir until
free from Jumps and add vinegar &c
make as thick as salad dressing.
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As Peter Rabbit and Jerry Muskrat
saJ on the bank of the Smiling Pool,
they didn't know that it was the eve
ming of the first day Of April. But it
was You know that is the day when
everybody plays jokes on everybody
else. on at least tries to- Peter and
Jerry were too happy TO think of any
thing but the fact that they had just
heard the voice Of Peeper the Hyil,
and that meant that Mistress Spring.
Sweet Mistress Spring. for whom they
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once safely there ne sat up to listen
He heard TWO faint splashes over ir
the Smiling Pool. Then he heard a
low ".Quack quack. quack."
Peter jumped right up III the all
and kicked his long heels together
"Mr. and Mrs. Quack have arrived"
ne cried happily. "They must have
scared Jerry and me just for a joke. y
Which is exactly what had happened
AS YOU and I know,
Copyright. 1926
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Continued in Tomorrow star.
Tomato jelly Salad.

Take a can of tomatoes. strain.
then mash through q colander. Pu1
the juice in saucepan and brIne
10 the boiling point. Then remove
from the fire and strain again through
a piece Of Choesecloth. NIiN the Juice
with half box Of instantaneous gel
attn dissolved in half a cupful oi
water. Then season nIth pdprikd and
salt Pour in jelly noldS and put or
ice to cool. Serre on lettuce leaves
with a rich mayOnnaiSe dressing.
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sketched can be purchased in most
large city stores for few cents each.
The method of applying the trans
fer is simple. Brush a thin coat of
white glue onto the face OF the pat
tern. Rub the pattern down hard on
the surface to be decorated, working
from the center out, so as to force out
all air bubbles. Let it dry for a half
hour and then saturate it well with
clear water. When it is sufficiently wet
the paper will slip off easily. leaving
the transfer film. Then use n soft
cloth. also wet with clear water, to
pat over the design gently and re
move al excess glue.
Copyright. 1926
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HOME NOTES
BY JENNY WREN.

Bright-colored decalcomania trans
fers are now much in demand to de-
corate furniture, woodwork, lamp
shades, glass dresser sets and other
decorative novelties. These transfers.
of which four typical designs are
Evening star., 1926-04-01

AN ATMOSPHERE OF INFOR-
MALITY Is DEAR TO GUEST AND
HOSTESS ALIKE.
when the family consists entirely of
adults, or where there are little
children TO consider. the season of the
Easter holidays is joyous one. q
time when lenten seclusions and eX-
clusions are at an end and there is a
return to social functions. Many
women wish they knew how TO
simplify such entertainment 50 that
Nhe work involved would not exceed
their strength or the pleasure to be
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Simplify the Easter Entertaining
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

Easter vacation means Easter enter
tanning as veil as the family enjoy
mont of th young folk when they
are at hom skor Il brief period Even
Evening star., 1926-04-01

Margharita Sarfatti. widow of a
Milan attorney. is one of the chief
lieutenants of Prime Minister Musso-
lini of Italy.
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AWAY with washboard and bar
N soap!- Away with the red
dened hands and aching backs of
old-fashioned washdays!
This new way is easy. No weary
toll over the washboard. You Just
soak-rinse-and your weeks wash
is whittier than you've ever seen it.
And out on the line hours earlier!
Millions of women now let Rinse
do the hard work of washing for
them.
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An April First Joke.

YouH find this true OF every ioke,
Tls always best on other folk.
old MOTHER NATURE
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Saves clothes
easy on hands

Rinse is rich, gentle soap-eran-
nlated. It's all you need on washday.
No bar soaps, chips or powders.
No laundry soap is easier on hands
or safer for clothes. Contains no
acids, harsh chemicals or bleachcs
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"HU-MPH," EXCLAIMED PETER.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ME-"
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to injure white clothes or fast colors.
No matter hoav hard the acuttr,
Rinse gives thick, lasting suds. Soak
the wash in these creamy suds-
and the dirt and stains just loosen
and float off. Even the most soiled
parts need only gentle rub between
the fingers. Thus, clothes lastlonger
for they aren't rubbed threadbare
against washboard.
Try Rinse this week, and know
the JOY of a whittier, sweeter wash
without hard rubbing! Your grocer
will supply you. Just follow easy
directions on package.
Evening star., 1926-03-28
II BET ON HIS MOUNT CAN'T SAY NO MORE THAT HE
NEVER RODE A CRAWFISH"

goes to the hospital. Visitors from
the north unanimously falls off still
more unstable float called the water
wagon and goes mad. Then they go
to one of the famous restaurants and
eat oysters a la Rockefeller, q dish
which is as rich as their namesakes,
but if he had ever eat much Of 1t he
wouldn't be still galloping around
8 hole golf course.
Our party got in on one of the
dances, but it was the final ball where
the King of Rex comes over with his
queen and meets the King and Queen
of Comus / might exclaim that the
different dances is given by different
organizations like Rex, Comus, Momus
and Proteus or something. The big
ball comes on Mardi Gras night and
the two organizations participating In
it are so named because by that time
everybody is. either wrecks or in
state of Comus. Four out OF five of us
catched the flu setting out dances and
as we" started for San Diego the next
day I might say that we flu from New
Orleans to California.
BY the time the Rex king and queen
showed up / couldn't see very good.
but the Queen of Comus was beauti-
full girl named Miss Williams and it
was hard to tell whi9f was the most
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she or the king,

fascinating. she or the king.
After the ball the organization
meets and elects their kings and
queens for next year and the persons
honored Is kept secret from every
body but New Orleans people and out
siders.
We was warmly reed. in America s
most interesting city both by the
weather and people, chief amongst our
hosts being Mr.. and Mrs. Keen who
invited us to dinner en- famille. You
never seen such a famille, / alone
counting 1872 guests in l rm. and the
entire party making one of Conde
Nast's soirees look like mixed three
some. Mr.. Keen showed us the cotton
exchange one morning. but it was a
dull day because all the exchanges up
north was closed.
That afternoon we was taken into
the Fairgrounds race track free, but
didn't get out the same way. The
Fairgrounds at New Orleans is one of
the prettiest race tracks in the coun-
try and the afternoon would of been
all together successful If the horses
hadn't of behaved so funny. After one
of the races we was escorted down to
the room where the Jockeys are ana
introduced to a bunch of them. There
was one named Johnson about as big
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Perfect Fool Explains How Number Is
Came to Be Accepted Cause of Bad Luck

you get your job you1l be used to
the bed.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: Who started the
idea that "13" was an unlucky
number?
Sincerely, SUE PERSTITION.
Answer: In 1903 a man was ar
rested for killing a woman. He was
tried and convicted and given life.
He blamed 1t on the jury and the
judge. That's how it started. He
figured II men on the jury and /
Judge made 10.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: read in the paper
that a man fell from the roof of a
10-story building into a wagon filed
with soda water bottles. The news
paper claimed the man was not hurt.
If this is true, how do you account
for II?
Truly yours. / DOUTIT.
Answer: That could happen, espe-
cially so If the soda water bottles were
filed. In this particular case the man
wasn't hurt because he fell into a
wagon full of soft drinks.
Dear Mr.. Wynn: I am O. boy. 9
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morning, see, and was due to wash,
don't mean myself, / mean our
clothes, on account the laundress
hadn't showed. But when ] put the
boiler on the stove, 1t commenced fry
ing at the bottom and splitting at Ine.
and l positively never fry my clothes,
] don't believe in it. So it just seemed
as IL the boiler leaking and prevent
ing me doing anything with the dirty
clothes outside of playing ennie-
meenie-minie-m with them, which
had already done, was just too much
sorrow and that certainly nobody ever
had trouble like mine.
But bad as I felt over all them
dreadful things, l wasn't as yet
miserable enough to be thoroughly
enjoying myself. so l commenced rak-
ing up old troubles such as that time
when George forgot our wedding an
niversary and the time the telegram
come and / was afraid to open 1t for
two hours thinking mother was prob
ably dead, and then it was merely
from the bank saying your deposit
received.
And since that wasn't enough to
get me down and out, laid off rak-
ing up troubles and tried fine-tooth
combing for them, recalling the tooth
aches l used to have before had my
teeth fixed. and the bills / used to get
after I had 'em attended to. And SO
with one thing and another I was
about ready to cry and would of done
so if there had been anybody around
to give me one word of encourage
ment.
RUT Hot Bozo! with Junior gone to
school there wasn't nothing to
comfort me except the used break
fast dishes. And so | decided that
since they had apparently got dirty
to spite me, / would leave them lay
while and run over to see Mabel
Bush, the ones that married to that
Joe Bush of the Hawthorne Club. She
was my best friend and it seemed only
right she should share my troubles.
There amt many women | would
give the satisfaction of knowing how
thoroughly miserable | was, and, of
course, if she was to of told me / led
a wretched life and hadn't no luck
and etc. why l wouldn't never speak
to her again, that being the kind of
thing which is all right if you pull it,
but if anybody else does, it's a insult.
However, l wanted her to agree with
me that / had the worst time of any
lady she knew and that l was a Won
der to bear 1t all the way / did.
So with this intent in mind, and
cooking up a little abuse on the part
of Geo. and that awful mother of his
and how she was coming to pay
little visit, but what she was really
up to was to come and snoop around
and influence my husband against me
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least rs per cent, Of the supper was
eaten on the spot.
Unfortunately the expenses of the
affair proved heavier than was ex-
pected. Taking into account the fee
for Bimbastis Orchestra and the cost
Of bunting, flowers and supper, our
committee is faced with a deficit of
about $500.
Some of the ladies' OF the commit.
tee have proposed that we give this
entire deficit to the family from Cy-
prus, or, perhaps. try to buy them
a camel with it.
But the general feeling is in favor
of carrying the deficit forward and
wiping it out by an informal vaude-
vile entertainment to be held in the
hall Of the guild next Saturday eve
ming.
In view of the high cost of the tai
ent to be engaged, we have decided
to place the tickets at S25, or five
for $100. | am venturing to send
you five, which you are at entire lib
erty to keep and send me the money,
or, If you prefer to do so, you may
return the tickets with the money.
Meantime l regret to say our field
committee has reported one or two
more very distressing cases. We have
on our hands the case of a man, a
master mechanic, by trade a maker
of blow torches, who appears hope
lessly addicted to drink.
The man himself confesses that he
Is quite unable to get along without
alcohol. Our workers find it extreme
ly difficult. under present conditions,
to get him any. But they think. and
the man himself agrees. that if they
could give this man a sea trip to
South America he would need no
alcohol, at least until his return.
Our committee is anxious also to
obtain funds to buy wooden leg for
g. professional beggar who needs it in
his business 1t seems that he has
inadvertently lost the leg he had. A
week ago after his work he put his
leg into his valise and carried 1t
home as usual. But there in some
way 1t disappeared.
1t is now proposed that all these
cases shall be collectively disposed
of by our special vaudeville entertain
merit, and I trust that you will un-