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Mrs. Huntley gazed at her
across the white and shining
breadth of the little table, with
sympathetic, tender eyes.
You're tired, Honey-bird," she
said, using an old nickname for
her. You go and take off your
clothes. and III fix you a nice
hot bath. And you'll feel better
when you're in bed. Maybe
you'll take q drop of tea. then.
too"
The girl shook her dropping
head. No, I'll help you with
the dishes first" she answered.
"You have been on your feet
all day long, too. The trouble
with me is that I'm soft-I
haven't done anything for a
year but play cards and drive
around In Angela's automobile
and have breakfast in bed at ten
or eleven o'clock. I'll be ali right
in day or two"
Mrs. Huntley was thoughtful
Pof course. ! don't want Won to
have nickel that doesn't belong
to you. Honey LOU" she said,
but ] do think Jack ought to
send you a little money now ana
then. After all, it was he who
left you. You didn't leave him
in the first place, and he owes
you some kind of support"
Honey Lou shrugged her shout
ders. i suppose that's true
although I'd send It back to him
II he did give me anything" she
answered. Il don't want his
money"
She began to stack the dirty
dishes together.
II always knew your married
life would turn out badly" her
mother said, out of clear sky, a
few minutes later. Remember
how 1t rained the day of your
wedding? That's always a bad
sign. / never knew 1t to fail"
Honey Lou burst out laughing,
and all but dropped the platter
she was wiping with a clean tea
towel.
Mother, you're a scream" she
declared. II tried on my wedding
veil before / was married. too.
and that's a bad sign"
well. isn't that what I'm tell
ing your" asked Mrs. Huntley, in.
dignantly.
Not Unlucky
But my marriage wasn't an
unlucky one, in a way" Honey
Lou replied. ut was wonderful
while it lasted. / really haven't
been married to Jack since last
April. But before that 1t was
heavenly
"well, It's a good thing you
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
Problem of the Lazy Child

disturbed child whose "laziness"
often il an instructive defense. II
he finds himself behind in school
work and il convinced he Ii stu.
pid he will frequently pretend to
be indifferent rather than have
the reputation of being duh. The
doctor cites such case in the
clinics records where, he says,
the boys sense of failure de-
pressed him and that in turn
slowed up his thinking and made
him self-conscious."
"When teachers and parents APP
proach, not only the problem of
laziness, but all other behavior
deviations from this inquiring
point of view" the 'Children's'
article concludes, 'they win find
that understanding will replace
prejudice and constructive meas
ures will change the behavior"
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
The Adventures Of Business Girl in the Night Life Of
Great City Form the Plot Of This Amazing
Story of Young Love

blustefing, swearing Joe Meadows
was gone-that the office was
empty, too.
at must seem pretty sad down
at the old place" she said to
herself, thinking Of 1t In an I'M
happy homesick way. For she
had loved it, in spite Of its ugli-
ness and its noise and its filth.
Hadn't she met Jack there?"
Jack!
She closed her eyes and his
face came before her as she had
seen it that first time-the blond
hair shining above the tanned
face and the blue, blue eyes.
Other things came back to her.
The night he had kissed her and
she had struck him. The night
he had. brought her home from
Angela's house. The way he had
looked at her ON The afternoon
OF their wedding. And the gen.
tie possessive way he had taken
her in his arms that night on
the gathering, roaring, rushing
train.
Quite Blue
She shook her head, as she
bent over one of Uncle Henry's
thick ledgers, wondering how
Jack felt over the shutting down
OF the mills.
Pretty blue, l reckon" she
told herself.
At noon she put on her hat and
went out for lunch in little
Greek restaurant across the road
from the warehouse.
She stood, with her hand on
the door of it, for long minute.
Then she glanced swiftly at her
wristwatch. She had three-quar-
tiers Of an hour for lunch. Uncle
Henry liked his people to work
as much as possible, and he took
only Is minutes for lunch him
self, every day.
'I mustn't be late" Honey Lou
said aloud to the christening
street, and then turned on her
high slender heels and dashed
along the sidewalk to the street
car.
In 20 minutes she was in Ex-
change Street-narrow and gray
and dirty as it had always been.
Above it the autumn sky was
coldly blue, and the clouds sour
ried like the silvery-white sails
of fairy ships.
But the street, itself, looked
practically the same-winter and
summer. 1t looked just the
same to Honey Lou today as it
had looked to her on a day two
years ago when she had first
entered 1t.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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C'AN i good wife be a spOrt'

NAN a good wife be a sport?
OCan she flirt q little and pet
d little in the fashion Of smart
younger society circles today
and not want to go further?
She cannot, confesses one who
has tried it, writing in the March
issue of Smart Set Magazine.
Strangely enough" she says,
at was my husband who urged
me to do a little petting. Alan
often kissed other woman and
even went so far as to tell them
he was crazy about them. Such
things didn't really mean any
thing at all. Only the effect Of
too many cocktails and the fact
that almost everybody was doing
1t. My faith in the idea that !
was the only woman he really
loved had never been touched.
"But his urging made me ask
myself: Was missing the thrill
of romance because wanted NO
love making from anyone except
my husband? / determined to be
q good fellow"
Husbands friends are always
ready to help q wife be a good
fellow" she found, especially
when the husband is playing"
with the friends wife. From her
husbands friend she quickly drew
this challenges:
"A great many women like
yourself cling to the idea that
they are incurably homogeneous
because, in believing 1t they
shield themselves from tempta-
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
LINCOLN THE
STUDENT

A N instance Of the indomitabls
"A determination Of Abra ham
Lincoln to get the best educa-
ton possible is ,told by DR.. Will
lem e. Barton in an article in
this weeks Liberty, in which
he draws a comparison between
Lincoln and George Washington.
"Lincoln's eminence in the mat
ter OF his education grows upon
u.s." DR.. Barton writes, when
we remember his subsequent at.
tempts to make good, in part,
the disadvantages of his early
preparation. There is nothing
in the career OF George Wash
ington that can be cited as a
parallel for the way in which
Lincoln studied law In Salem,
nor for the way in which after
his term Of Congress. and at
the age of 40, he mastered Eu.
cid and the Elements of Lcgis."
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
CHAPTER LxIII


Margret and Steve were mar
ried on Thanksgiving Eve.
And on the first day Of De-
cember Honey Lou went to work
for Uncle Henry in his old ram
shackle warehouse on Front
street. down near the river.
The warehouse was very ram.
shackle and the offices were dirty
and untidy. There was a sleepy
air. about the place.
But In spite of all that, Honey
Lou knew that Uncle Henry car.
ried on a fine and irving bust.
ness there that brought him in
many thousands of dollars every
year of his life-dollars that he
hung on to, desperately, like the
miser he was.
He imported all sorts Of lovely
things from China and India and
Japan, and sold them at breath
taking prices. All day long, and
every day, buyers came from all
over the United States to Uncle
Henry's old red warehouse.
He's coming a mint of money
down there, il you ask me-"
Honey Lou said to her mother
at the end of her first day.
And I wish you'd tell me what
he's going to do with all of IL
when he dies. He hasn't a living
soul to give it to-"
HE has your Aunt Lucy and
you and me and Margret," Mrs.
Huntley reminded her, measuring
tea into the silver pot with the
family crest on it.
We'll, 1 wish he'd hand over a
little of his jack to me, right
now. / could use 1t, this minute!"
the girl answered with spirit.
Very Tired
Her voice had a note Of weari-
ness in it, and her face was
flushed and not very clean-look-
ing. A day in the musty, dusty
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
AN ATHLETIC
WRITER

BECAUSE of his size and
- strength DR.. Samuel johnson
was advised by q certain luclxless
publisher to get . porter's knot
and turn porter. Set upon one
night by four footpads. he kept
them at bay until the watch
came up.
He frequently in his younger
years walked from Litchfield to
Birmingham and back again. q
distance of 80 miles. without
fatigue. and in his trip to the
Hebrides Boswell saws that
"ninety.five days were never
passed by any man in more Wig.
orous exercise"
He was a bold swimmer. and
though he ordinarily moved like
q manacled elephant. he at So
writes delightedly. 81 ran q race
this day and beat Baretti. Sci.
entific Monthly.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
Now Go On With The Story.

IS A MOTHER woman in the
"A case?" she repeated, trying to
keep her mind off the chocolate
inarshmallows.
For an instant the fat peaceful
looking face Of Jane Ayres floated
before her vision. How could she
swear that there was another
woman in the case, and that that
woman was Jane Ayres.
No court would believe her
and anyway, she only half-belIeved
II herself-tl1at Jack was in love
with Jane Ayres.
suddenly she saw what she was
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
nlHE parent who calls child lazy

TINE parent who calls child lazy
is frequently only branding
\ himself as ignorant, in the opinion
< OF DR.. Frederick III. Allen, director
Of the Philadelphia Child Guidance
Clinic.
Whenever child appears lazy
there's a reason to be found by
the wise adult, he writes in the
February issue of Children, the
Magazine for Parents, telling how
apparently indolent children have
been made interested and active
I by scientific, discerning handling.
Z Frequently the cause is physi-
cal. The undernourished child, the
4 one with infected tonsils, with ade-
noids or glandular disorders will
1 tire quickly and so lose his incen-
/, tive to effort, he says.
Another cause is the nagging par
ent and Intellectual teacher. The
child semi-consciously balks at
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
Do You Know?

land OF Promise" is the curl
ously inapt name given to a small
thoroughfare in London, which
has no houses and leads only to
the poorhouse of the Shoreditch
Guardians.
Al fat-day. slim-day diet. taken
alternately, Is becoming popular
in London. The slim-day diet con-
sists of meat, fish, fruit and eggs,
and the fat-day one Of milk, but
ter, potatoes. jellies and buildings.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
Should a Wife FIirt q Bit?

would want more filtration, more
excitement. In spite Of the fact
that I still knew it was cheaper.
ing. liked it. Honestly. I'd give
everything not to have found that
out. I wish were still the girl
I thought I was. Everything mat
tered then. Now nothing matters,
for nothing seems sacred and be-
yond reach. =
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

in for. She would have to tell all
sorts of horrid beastly little things
about herself and Jack ito this
lawyer. She would have to unroll
for him all of their married life
together. Their life together!
No Ones Affair
And it was none Of his business.
It was no ones business! She
couldn't tell anyone about 1t. Any.
one! why, 1t belonged to Jack
and to her, and to nobody else. 1t
was sacred-even the cruel and
bitter part of it.
She got up. Her tiny perfumed
square of handkerchief dropped to
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
CHAPTER XIV.

don. You don't know right now
that you would like to kiss
man, me, for instance. You only
think you would like to- And
80 she tried 1t.
''PhiI kissed my upturned lips.
I kissed him back knowing ! had
fooled myself" But as the affair
went on Suddenly realized I
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

being driven. His loss Of interest
and lack of response take form
which the undiscriminating adult
most often sees as lazlness. But
given consideration and under
standing, the same child fire.
quently will give a willing re-
spouse, the doctor says.
Then there's the emotionally
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
lou Will Want to Know the Beautiful Honey Lou Heroine
Of the Most Interesting Love Story Of Flaming
Youth By a Modern Writer

the floor, but she did not pick 1t
up. She did not see 1t.
The light from the window be-
hind Mr.. BrumeIly shone dazzling.
" in her eyes--and there were
tears in them, too.
I'm sorry. Mr.. Brumelly," she
said to the astonished lawyer. II
reckon I don't want to divorce my
husband after all.
At the door she turned to him
again, and flashed him that won
derful winning smile Of hers.
II always did change my little
old mind every ten seconds" said
Honey Lou.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
Salient Facts

There are about $4,000, 900
eubic miles of water in the ocean.
To supply the newspapers of
New York City with paper, 5000
3 spruce trees are cut down daily.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

her life before. She sat at sup
per, trying to eat mashed pota-
toes and meat balls, but 1t was
like eating so much lead.
I'm not hungry" she said,
and pushed back her plate.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
Mystery of the Sea

THE spawning herring Of the unsolyed
mysteries Of the Other fish species spawn tines
the herring changes its spawning season. that
has not yet been discovered.
The Washington times., 1927-02-08
STOW Of Young Love

can look at It that way" re.
marked her mother dryly, and
wrung out her dishcloth, a. IL
she owed It a grudge.
A half hour later, when Honey
Lou was brushing out her chest.
nut hair. she came into the little
white bedroom carrying the even
ing newspaper In her hands.
my, but there's more news
about people we know In this
thing, lately" she said. and be.
gan to read q story on the first
page.
"'Wife Sues Husband, Charg.
Ing Cruelty" she began, and
Honey Lou leaned over her shout
DEF.
There on the printed sheet was
a large photograph Of Ann Lud.
low, holding her baby in her arms.
Beneath it was the news that she
was asking for q divorce on the
grounds that Joe Meadows had
been unfaithful to her and cruel
besides.
"But look herel Wis. this?"
she asked in q loud, startled tone,
while Honey Lou was still reading
! AQOuL AIM LANAOW &uGU0ONGa
She ran her finger down the
page to another headline in small
print.
"Hmm-'WaIlack Mills shut
Down." she cried. That's why
you haven't been getting any
money, Honey Lou.
With a tiny nod Of her head.
Honey Lou read the little story to
it's end, 1t did not say very
much-onIy that the Wallack FSb-
rio Mills. one of the oldest estab.
lishments in the city, had closed
its doors that day
81 suppose that's why Jack let
Margret co." she said slowly He
wanted to give her plenty of mo-
tice so she could find a new posi-
ton somewhere"
But that did not explain why
he had not let Jane Ayres %!
Honey Lou dropped off to sleep
that night thinking about the
placid stout girls face.
CHAPTER LXIv.
All the next day while Honey
Lou worked at her high, uncom-
Portable desk in Uncle Henry's
warehouse, her mind was on the
Wallack Fabric Mills.
She could not imagine the mills
shut down. 1t seemed impossible
that the weaving room was not
filled with deafening noise and
lightning-lfke machinery and the
smell Of wool and oil.
She could not believe that the
shipping room with its bales ana
its boxes was empty, and that
The Washington times., 1927-02-08

Identifying Persons 800 Feet Away
XPERTS declare that broad daylight person average
~ eyesight able to identity persons well known
distance of 800 feet At will distinguish
the approaching persons eyes.
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tcopyrirht 1927. Kinr Texture. syndicate, Ind
Evening star., 1927-05-16

Tor two DUCKS Is not just as goou q
smoking implement.
This, Of course. remains to be seen.
Only by the smoking thereof can one
| know a pipe.
This cheaper pipe is such a good
| imitation of the other that even
Freddy was fooled by it at first as we
| sat at table.
"Is that new pipe?" he asked.
mo-" we lied, that's my old one. "
Fred said nothing. but kept looking
suspiciously at the shining bowl. Now,
| this pipe is of an unusual shape, with
comparatively long stem and fat,
squat bowl If it had not been so
complete a copy of the other, line for
line, he would have spotted it.
AS it was, he looked for the magic
insignia on the stem, and, failing to
see it, realized that we were attempt
ing to hoodwink him.
That's new pipe" he said at last.
Yes, it Is so much like the other
that couldn't resist buying it,
Freddy took the bowl in his fingers
for a close-range critical examina-
ton; then handed it back with words
of faint praise.
Its a good copy" he begrudged.
AS a matter of cold fact, in mere
appearance it was better than the
original. The bowl and stem were
more streamline, the wooden portion
from the bowl to the bit was longer,
and the latter fitted better into the
wood.
Yet we would not say land we offer
this as a sop to Freddy that our
cheap pipe is better than our expen-
Sive one.
That the latter is worth five times as
much as the cheap one, however, is
something we cannot admit.
That we must never smoke any
other pipe is another thing we are not
willing to admit.
After all, what is it a man smokes,
the pipe or the tobacco?
Freddy has placed the emphasis on
the pipe.
We, in our turn, feeling that to-
bacco, after all, is what Is smoked,
have gone through some 60 or more
brands, hoping to find the ideal mix
ture.
A perfect brand, in cheap pipe,
should smoke better, in our opinion,
than a cheap mixture in a perfect
pipe.
Here. Of course, the pipe.smoking
world will split into two great parts,
leaving on the outside a gathering
of pipe heathens who will smoke any
old brand In any old pipe.
Maybe the barbarians are right,
after all!
After the cake Is in the bowl, what
difference does it make, anyway? We
will say for the expensive affairs that
they are much easier to "break in,''
and that is something.
Personally we prize our first dollar
pipe, and wouldn't trade it for all
Freddy's galaxy Of expensive crea-
tions.
We cherish It as an object lesson,
that common sense often finds some
thing good where youth, with It's en-
thusiasm, is likely to pass by with fine
scorn.
The open mind, the mind that dares
to judge. is special sort of enthusi-
asm. one off the compensations of
maturity for the loss of the glorious
old enthusiasm that made youth a
magic time.
Evening star., 1927-05-16

the through travel Of Its citizens. On
these main lines at every intersecting
| road Is a stop sign for crossing
traffic. This sign Enthusiastically warns
cross travel that 1t is approaching a
highway on which speed of thirty
five or forty miles an hour is per-
mitted with a complete right of way.
Even the dullest person knows the
results OF a broadside collision with
car travelling at fast pace. But
this realization and the fact that the
law expressly prohibits entering such
a highway without a stop and with
out making certain that no fast
traffic is approaching do not deter
the individual motorist. He sails
blithely into danger and too often it
is his last earthly act.
The root of the evil, which dates
from almost the time that the first
automobile was invented, is the ease
with which permits to operate
potential killing machine can be pro-
cured. Even now with an ever
growing casualty list, no concerted
effort is being made to clear the
streets and highways of the incom-
petent, the careless and the defiant
automobile driver. Any person, no
matter how stupid, can put up a few
dollars and go his way armed with
an apparatus the potentialities OF
which are frightful to contemplate.
Until there is rigid tightening up
all along the line, first in the grant
ing of permits, second in the check
up as to responsibility. both financial
and moral, of the applicant, and
thirdly, a strict and unyielding su-
pervision over the manner in which
the licensed driver runs his car, with
and permanent revocation
in case he abuses his privilege, there
will be no reduction in the appalling
yearly toll Of the automobiles. Is 1t not
about time for the Nation to consider
a plan to remedy a condition which
yearly takes twenty thousand lives
and puts six hundred thousand peo-
pie in suffering through injuries?
Evening star., 1927-05-16
One Hundred Thousand Killed.

1t is only when the public is con-
fronted with statistics on the huge
fatality toll of the automobile that
there seems to be any disposition to
stop and think. Unfortunately, how
ever. the statistics, no mater how
startling, are quickly forgotten. and
the full effect of their significance is
invariably lost. The same treatment
will doubtless be given to figures made
public by the American Roadbuilders'
dred thousand persons have lost their
lives and three million people injured
In automobile accidents during the last
five years. The Importance of this re-
port is brought home to every parent
by the fact that thirty thousand of
the hundred thousand total killed
! We're children.
In the World War America lost
T5.602 of its young manhood and 210,-
9S4 were wounded. When it Is real
lied that war means the gathering Of
every available death dealing machine
to do battle with the enemy, and that
hundreds are wiped out in single
attack, the automobile is shown to be
a more potent killing apparatus than
poison gas or the machine gun. So
that although few people realize it a
T war Of great intensity is going on
: daily in the United States, a war
I brought about by mans inability to
handle properly a unit Of the trans.
portatjon system of the country.
State and city officials are doing
everything in their power to lessen
4 the unreasonable toll from the traffic
war. The best minds the world over
are studying the problem with un'
tagging intensity. But nothing. Or
/ practically nothing, can be accom-
/ plished without the close cooperation
Of the individual motorist. And here
! enters into the equation the pitiful
I element, because the individual CO
/ operation is lacking.
An example can be easily cited A
Estate creates a main trunk concrete
\ lAighWay System at great expense fol
Evening star., 1927-05-16
Lucrative Log-Riding.

Lumberjacks OF the great north
woods have made some rather i'm
pressive records for log-riding, but 1t
seems that they must all doff their
bilIycock hats to an executive Of a
cotton plantation owned by lumber
company in Tennessee along the Mis-
sissippi River. This man, Henry B.
Day, jr.. by name. rode log for two
whole days and two whole nights.
This southerner was working with
a gang of negroes to save leyee
when the banks caved in and he found
himself suddenly In the raging flood.
He swan with 1T and finally found a
perch on a giant log. 1t is not stated
whether he rode his fortuitous rescue
craft standing or straddling-probably
the latter, as it is doubtful if he was
properly equipped for the upright po-
sition.
The northern lumberjacks use boots
with long spikes or "caulks" set
therein. With q little jump upon q