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The Washington times., 1934-11-24
MINER swamp
LAST GR|DFOE

The maroon and gold football
team of Miner Teachers College
ended it's season yesterday by over
whelming North Carolina State,
AZ to 0, in Walker Stadium. 1t
was the Teachers fifth straight
victory and the sixth out of seven
starts.
The game was played in a light
rain. with mud.
Miner scored in every quarter,
crossing the goal twice in the sec.
ond and third. The visitors made
poor showing and we're never a
great menace to the Teachers
goal. Summaries.
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DuqueSne
OverC. D.
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
Times Staff Writer

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. "a.
Catholic University plays it's vale
dictory game of the year here this
afternoon on the sodden turf Of
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College Park, I am forced through alumni
ties to be present here in this throng of 80,
900 soles and heels to see my alma mater
play against Notre Dame, of South Bend.
Ind.
You see we Army people will walk, creep,
crawl or hitch-hike, wherever we are, in
China, Haiti Nome or Kankakee, to see our
Alma Mater run amuck on field Of foot
ball, and so here am, not so much as q
sports expert or observer, as a pop-eyed
Army rooter because I love the Army,
right or wrong, love her-Army- whoop-
nee
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CHARGERS IDLE

Cleveland Chargers desire a
game for tomorrow with some
team in the 15O-pound class. Call
Bill Macpherson, Columbia
9546-W,
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And why shouldn't love Army
Amt she my Alma Nanny!
Didn't graduate from the Army in June 1919 aIter
when sunny spring the sheriff of our county
drove up his onehoss shay and stopping right in front
of house. stretched his long, booted legs outen the
dash board staked right smack up to front door, ana
said methe while he reached out long scrawny hand
and put my shoulder-Son yer country needs ye!
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On the first play of the final
canto, Campbell, Nodak punter,
booted one out of bounds at G..
WIS one-yard line.
Alnh nnse "Tnffv, IeemanS
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TOuChuOWnS: Mlner-IIHnOT. FOTSyIhe
(2). Franklin. Virgins, Covington.
Safety-Covington. Points after touch
downs: Miner-Tignor (2). Franklin,
Best. Substitutions: Miner-Bearfield
for Cole, Stewart for Gibson, Carter for
Franklin jackson for Forsythe. Frank
lin for Virgins. Curtis for Crutchfield.
Mcneil for Covington. Savoy for Crutch-
field, Murray for Ware, Cooke for Cole,
Best for Cyrus, and Cyrus for Tignor.
Referee-Mr. Westmoreland. Umpire
Mr.. Trigg. Linesman-Mr. Payne.
Jud1a-Mr Hunter
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His Alma Mater Calls
Miller to Army
Us. Notre Dame
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

I WtHS DpUTLS EUtLU
YANKEE STADIUM, N. Y, Nov. M-Much as hate
10 turn my back the football piece de resistance of the
South the Maryland Georgetown football game at dear old
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enatOr Mrs. Caraway
Duncan U. Fletcher is chairman
Of Banking and Currency. Sen.
atOr Morris Sheppard is chair
man of Military Affairs. Senator
Royal S. Copeland heads the
Rules Committee.
Senator Copeland might be
tOilling to relinquish the Rules
chGirm1nShip because of the i'm
portGnce OF commerce in his
State OF Ne1O York.
The next man in line is Sena-
tor Josiah w. Bailey, who is
chairman of the Claims Commit
tee. Bailey is from North Caro-
lima, a State which is interested
in the Claims Committee.
Following Bailey on the list is
Mrs. CaraWay, who now heads
the minor committee on En-
rolled Bills.
In the working of things, Mrs.
Caraway has the chance to be-
come chairman of Commerce.
She would be the first woman to
head an important Senate COM
mittee. Mrs. Caraway probably
would like the job.
In Arkansas, where she lives,
the affairs of commerce are rela-
lively unimportant. Some hard
boiled shippers probably would
not approve of a woman head
ing the committee.
1t appears, however, that the
diminutive, quiet woman from
Arkansas might get the job.
In 1903 a young man arrived
from the Middle West to take
job with the Steamboat Inspec-
ton Service.
Today, as assistant director
of the Bureau of Navigation and
Steamboat Inspection, he be-
comes a national figure because
OF his conduct OF the Moro
Castle tnUeSt1g1ttOn.
He has followed the sea, but
is not a "sea.farin' man." He
has never been a sailor or an
officer on Shipboard, but has
learned what he knows about
ships by inspection and inquiry.
Dickerson N. Hoover has no
great love of yachting, has no
boat of his own.
Spending much of his time on
inspection trips land he believes
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Elsie Robinson 1Ouc years
lived in the wilderness. Several
hundred miles of wilderness,
with nobody to keep me COM
pany but a flock of hills. There
were no people to manage in
that wilderness. There were no
committees to organize or evils
to reform. There were no radios
or victrolaS or soap-box orators
or other human hullabalooS.
There was only silence and the
hills. And the night and the
day. And the clear call OF a
bird at dawn and twilight.
Think of setting a chronic
fusser down in the middle OF
that!
But there was and I Ger
tainly was plenty sorry for Ill
Elsie for quite some while.
But after I had thought
about myself until 1 was good
and sick of the subject, be-
gan to notice the hills.
The hills that had been sit
ting there so quiet while I
was turning cartwheels.
They were very old hills.
They had been through a
great deal.
They had spent millions Of
years under the ocean.
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thenics?" There is one question
I would like to ask, but this is
not the place for it.
In the first place, let me say
that, to my mind, a nation Of
neurasthenics would be a very
amusing nation in which to live.
Always something doing. But
when I say a nation of neuras.
themes, I mean a nation of them.
There would be no slackers get
ting underfoot all the time.
Everyone would have to be jump
ing and leaping and scratching.
One or two phlegmatic people
in one town, muttering: What
are these guys-crazy?" could
spoil the whole project. There
could be no dilly-dallying.
And there is where my first
doubt would come in: Do we
really suffer enough from the
wear and tear of modern life to
become nation of neuras.
themes? Are we really as rushed
as we think we are? We mustn't
go into this thing blindly, if we
are not prepared for it..
Let us take the prime ex-
ample Of the nervous modern
existence " Wall Street and
American business life in gen.
eral. There is almost a whole
generation Of Wall Street men
who have never done anything
but sit in their offices and play
backgammon while waiting for
the tide to turn. There is no
strain in thiS-unleSS you worry
about losing at backgammon.
In the field of athletics:
How are we supposed to be liv.
ing too fast for our nerves?
Turning our heads from side
to side following the ball at
a tennis match? Jumping up
and down while watching foot
ball or baseball? Making wise.
cracks while watching a prize
fight? Or plodding around a
golf course, worrying about the
little boy carrying the clubs?
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LISTEN, WORLD
By Elsie Robinson

They had been upheaved with
terrific violence into the light.
And for another million years
they had lain there, sleeping
in the summer light, crouchlng
under the driving winter storms.
They had known darkness
and dawn, and drought and
flood and frost and bliStering
sun. And they had known
infinite change.
All these processes through
which they had passed had
worked their changes upon
them. The scars were there,
on their sides. A geologist
could read those scars as you
and I can read a book.
Those silent, biding hills had
passed through tremendous
things. But, whatever the
tumult that fell upon them,
they themselves had been quiet.
And within that quietness they
had lived beautifully and gen.
erously.
They had brought forth rich
grass and delicate little flowers
and tall trees. They had
brought forth food and beauty
and strength and lovelinesS.
They had done big things in
spite of their QuietneSS.
And presently I perceived
that they had done big things
because of their quietness.
They had done big things be-
cause they had not wasted
their strength in doing little
things.
They hadn't fused.
They had given themselves
up to life, patiently, proudly,
and life had made them great
and abundant.
They were Serene-those hills
and sure-and stored with
treasure. And they had been
that way through the vicissi-
tudes of million years. While
I had been raising Cain con-
tinuously for my few foolish
years. And what had I pro-
duced. Try m find it!
I learned a lot from those
hills.
Copyright. 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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T Human Side of the News - By Edwin c. Hill

It was in the writings of that
great raconteur and globe trot-
ter, Bob Davis, that I first
heard Of DR.. F. w. Fitzsimons
and his work.
Bob discovered the doctor way
down in Port Elizabeth, South
Africa, where he shepherds and
studies no less than 1000 of the
deadliest snakes that the Dark
Continent can produce.
Bob learned a lot from him
and duly reported to his Ameri-
can audience that the fastest,
deadliest and wisest of reptiles
is the mamba, which runs IL feet
in length, fears nothing and
brings death within an hour
with its sting. unless anti-snake
serum is used Immediately.
DR.. Fitzsimons has just been
paying the United States a visit
to find that we are quite snake
conscious, what with our inter-
est in DR.. Ditmars' quest for
the bushmaster and a pastor in
Tennessee seeking to prove his
faith by permitting himself to
be bitten by a rattler.
The doctor, a native of Ire
land and curator of reptiles in
the snake park in his home city,
has been looking over our
snakes and advancing his theory
to medical men that a non
toxic serum derived from puff
adder venom is often a cure for
epilepsy.
He told a gathering of scien-
lists that the serum possesses
tremendous therapeutic posi-
bilities and that it did cure 20
per cent of 500 cases Of epilepsy.
The puff adder toxoid's &C.
tion, says DR.. Fitzsimons, is to
cause intense blood congestion,
which in turn brings the white
corpuscles into the attack on
the abnormal cell area.
Now I have no means Of
knowing the potency of snake
serum as a cure for anything.
DR.. FitzSimons is an established
authority in his field, and be-
tween him and the medical pro-
fession, this matter may be
worked out. But I do know
that the doctor can tell a classic
story and I am going to set down
one which is worth repeating as
a New York reporter heard it
from his lips.
It seems that a farmer had
brought a python to the Port
Elizabeth museum. This mon
Ster, which is non-venomouS, but
which crushes leopards in its
coils, was a bit out of sorts. so
. DR.. Fftzsimons took him home
to nurse him around.
He put him into a room and
after two days treatment had
him coming along in fine shape.
''It was full Of vitality" said
the doctor. when Paddy went
into the room to get some odds
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been approached By persons 1Uho
suggested it might be q splendid
time to drop the number one
brain truSter from the rolls.
These suggestions emanated
from gentlemen who believed it
would be splendid grandstand
play to have Mr.. TugWell resign
on the eve of elections.
There is so much reported OBJ
lection throughout the country
to the rah-rah boys that the ad.
visers said the Democrats would
secure many rural votes if Rex
were let out of the scene.
Whatever his standing may
be in the farm areas, Rex rates
we'll with many of his influ-
entail superiors and has enjoyed
a number of pleasant receptions
at the White House.
So, it's said, they wouldn't let
him go.
But to appease the objectOrs,
to get him out of the political
field for a time and hush him,
the boys figure they gave Mr..
Tugwell a nice little trip.
Copyright 1894. The Washington
TlmeS)
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trunk for what she wanted,
when the big oak door slammed
and the knob of the lock fell to
the floor.
"The python had been lying
on his quilt, but the noise
startled him. His great coils be-
gan to unfold and that sensitive
fOrked tongue began darting
out and in. The room was ten
feet by twelve feet.
"The python was seventeen
feet in length and more massive
than a strong mans thigh.
Paddy knew perfectly well that
it would crush her to death in q
few minutes and she could not
open the door.
paddy stood with her back
to the wall and watched the
snake begin stalking her. She
noticed that its head was rising
very, very slowly.
"She realized also that she
was utterly incapable of moving
or crying out. 1t so happened
that the snakes tail, which was
swiShing back and forth, Tapped
around the base of a large
Egyptian earthenware jar.
"The jar fell with a crash,
bringing Paddy to her senses and
putting the snake off its stroke.
Paddy jumped as the python
struck, and the snakes head hit
the wall, breaking its front
teeth.
From then on the snake at
tackled with its tail. Paddy
climbed over trucks and boxes
and finally threw a bundle of
old clothes over the pythOn's
head, and while it was graphing
with these, Paddy climbed up to
a small ventilatOr, screamed for
help, and some one came and
opened the door. I knew nothing
about all this until 1 came home
in the evening""
But" asked the reporter most
impatiently, who on earth is
this Paddy? You haven't told
that"
DR.. Fitzsimons smiled as he
answered:
Paddy is my wife"
Copyright, 1884. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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The Greatest ShOW
On Earth
By John Snure, il.

in strict inspectiOns), he sees
enough of the sea.
He was 54 years old on Sep
tember 9.
In 1882, a fen days before his
birthday, he 1D1S on his Ddy to
NeD York. In tGricab acci-
dent he WGS injured before leaU-
ing Washington.
Just the other day, a short
time before his birthday, he was
in his office here. He was dis
cuSSing events of the year in
preparation for the annual re-
port to Congress.
At that time he advised:
This is q bad time of year
for me. / always have bad luck
at the time of my birthday.
have trouble or get bad news.
81 have a hunch that this
year the news will be bad"
He received the report that
the Moro Castle had burned on
the morning of September 8.
While RexfOrd G. Tugwell,
college boy UnderSecretary of
Agriculture, continues his travels
abroad, there are those who
wonder why the faculty farmer
WanderS.
In view of the fact that there
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believing and
beefing about
something or
other. Try
ng to ru n
people. Try
ing to under
. t a n d life.
Trying to get
m y d e a S
q cro SIS to
God. Hurry
ing madly to
put my stuff
q cr SIS ! n
time.
T en- for
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WMe Words

Be a good husband and you
will get a penny to spend, a
penny to lend, and a penny for
a friend.
will ever?" No. you will
never while you ask that ques-
tion.
Where you cannot climb over
you must creep under.
'Tis perseverance that pre-"
walls.
He who fears death lives not.
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IS no reason
for Agricul-
ture to make
a survey re-
garding dispo-
sition of a sur
plus of our
crops, it is un-
likely that DR..
Tugwell could
h a v e G on e
a b r o a d Tor
that reason.
The sugges-
ton floating
around town
is that the eS-
teemed Rex
ford narrowly
escaped t h e
ak.
1t Is said
t h q t tn e
-@anono l. ~ -
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Nobody collapses from this, un.
less he was going to collapse
anyway.
In the field of entertainment,
where we are supposed to be
engaged in a mad rush for
Utilization of the senses. TAX
ing a taxi three blocks to a
party and a sedan chair back.
That rush to get to the the
ater at $50 after a heavy
dinner followed by a short nap?
That plodding around a dance
floor at half-time, to the music
OF an orchestra which thinks it
is playing the Dead March
from Saul. If one nerve cell
has been destroyed, will en-
dow a bed for it in the
Benchley Memorial Ward Tor
Shattered Nerves.
When we think back on our
forefathers, with their sedentary
lives of forest-chopping, railroad
building, fortune-founding, their
fox-hunting and Indian tanning,
their prancing about in the ma
zurka and polka, with their coat
tails flying and their bustles
bouncing, to say nothing OF
their all-day sessions with the
port and straight bourbon, and
to go even farther back, the lit
tie sessions devised by Tiberius
and Caligula for their guests en-
tertainment, we must realize
that we are nation, not OF neu-
raSthenics, but of sissies and
slow-motion sports.
The fact is that if we ever
hope to become a nation of neu-
rasthenics, with all the fun that
it implies we have got to step
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Senator from
Arkansas.
The elimi-
n a t on of
Senator HUI
bert D. Ste
phenS from
the Senate by
M S S i ssippi
voters leaves
vacant t h e
Craftsmanship
of the Senate
c o m m e r ce
Committee.
Th e m e n
next in line
who usually
would get the
job by senior
ity have other
i m p or t a mt
committees.
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Orange County
Two Hundred Years Old

With significant pageantry Orange County, Virginia,
is preparing to start fourday celebration of the BIZ
centennial of its founding.
It is pleasure to congratulate the county and its resi-
dents not only the celebration but the lustrous
history which has marked that community and it's sons
and daughters since the county organized in 1884,
Orange County is a remarkable evidence of the hber-
ality with which America divided up by its early
settlers This county when it organized extended as
far West the Mississippi and included territory which
embraces Chicago st. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincin-
natl and Detroit
The celebration which starts tomorrow will commem-
crate the countys founding and will direct attention
the many incidents Of historical Importance which have
occurred within its territory
The citizens of the county perform service to the
nation by recalling the countys great deeds and occa
sions It is becoming increasingly important that the
country whole should devote more and atten-
ton the history of the country should ponder upon
the trials and trbulapns which beset the founders and
those who succeeded them.
FROM THE HISTORY OF SUCH COUNTIES AS
ORANGE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OF TODAY CAN
GAIN RENEWED CONFIDENCE AND RENEWED
COURAGE.
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on it. Just because our automo-
biles and airplanes go at light.
ming speed does not mean that
we are wearing ourselves out:
We are just a generation OF
sedentary Snails at heart; that
is why we live from 20 to 80
years longer than the old neu-
raSthenics did.
Copyright 1884, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Friday.
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Beauty and Utility
A Project Combining Both

A Project Combining Both
The National Capital Park and Planning Commission
at its meeting this week will be asked to consider and to
give approval to many plans for the orderly development
of the National Capital
Some Of these plans will envisage the development of
the city from the standpoint of beauty alone Some will
be devoted to the utiltaran needs of city Of half al
million people
ONE PROJECT WHICH THE COMMISSION IS
BEING ASKED TO APPROVE WILL COMBINE TO
ENHANCE THE BEAUTY OF THE CITY AND TO
MAKE 1T MORE COMFORTABLE AND ADVAN
TAGEoUS PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE. THAT
PROJECT IS THE WIDENING OF STREET, BE-
TWEEN SEVENTH AND NINTH STREETS, IN Or
DER TO PERMIT THE USE OF THE STREET FOR
TWo-WAY TRAFFIC.
There is little doubt that the commission will approve
this proposal of eliminating totally unnecessary as well
as unsghty nuisance in the busiest portion Of city
The commission has too fine grasp of the needs OF
our people and of their aspirations to do otherwise
IT WOULD BE STRANGE INDEED IF THE COM
MISSION DID NOT APPROVE THE PROJECT
EVERYONE ELSE HAS. EVERY COMMISSION OR
BOARD WHICH HAS EVER GIVEN THE MAT
TER THE SLIGHTEST CONSIDERATION HAS AP-
PROVED IT.
Every civic and trade organization which has consid
the maJLef mas given appTOVa VI
District has raised any objection of the program.
But wholesale approval coupled with utter absence
of opposition has failed to accomplish the result which
has been sought for many years.
Everybody talks about what an improvement the ex
ecuon of the plan would bring to the city but no one
does anything about it.
Now the National Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion has the opportunity to give the project final ap
prova and to give the additional push which is
sary to accomplishment
For several days The Washington Times in series of
stories has described the various plans which have been
offered for improvement of conditions It has outlined
the efforts which have been made by public spirited
group Of citizens to bring about the necessary reform
Unfortunately these citizens have met with the stua
tion which too often marks efforts to improve
munity-they have met with continual shifting of re-
sponsblty and have been led into the familiar game of
buck passing.
FEDERAL OFFICE PASSES THE BUCK TO A
DISTRICT OFFICE. THE DISTRICT OFFICE HANDS
IT BACK. THE CITIZENS TAKE IT TO ANOTHER
FEDERAL OFFICE AND THE GAME STARTS ALL
OVER AGAIN.
THAT SYSTEM WILL SOME DAY BE ELIdI-
MATED. IN TIME THE DISTRICT WILL BE ABLE
TO CARRY THROUGH ON PROJECTS WHICH ARE
NECESSARY AND WHICH HAVE UNANIMOUS IN
DORSEMENT.
In the meantime, however, we look to the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission to do what it can
to expedite this particular improvement.
AS the project receives the necessary action on
the part of Federal and quasi Federal agencies the Dis
rct Commissioners are ready with the money and the
plans to put through the program.
Let's get the final approval and eliminate the bottle
neck.
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and ends. She knew the
python was there, but she wasn't
in the least afraid of it. You
The Washington times., 1934-09-24

One of our foremost women
politicians is extremely inter
ested in the outcome of the
Mississippi primaries.
She is Mrs. Hattie Caraway,
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That NmUe Strain
By Robert BenchIey

The big question Of the day
is: Are we living too fast for
our nerves? Are we in danger of
becoming a nation of neuras-
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Don't Be a FuSser!
I used to be a fusser.
I was always twittering and
pickering and squabbling and
Souawking and prancing and
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see she had often helped me in
handling snakes.
Paddy was fishing in a
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TEE TINES published week in the
4 ]. Fitzpatrick managing editor
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-08-02

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that 1t could. she reminded herself.
She had. by constant compromise.
made herself fabric for the wife OF
Godfrey or of some one like Geof-
frey. She could never be. and with
all trying. the suitable wife for Bob;
aud she knew it--too we'll! +,
A T the end of the week she began
- to wonder whsther Bob could
love her il he knew why she had
become his wife. The question per-
sisted; grew strong; it turned her
silent often and it led her to look at
him questioningly.
Tired of me?" he asked on one Of
these occasions.
She wanted to answer with a VIC
lent, Il shall never be tired of you!
a lifetime won't give me enough OF
youl I'm a secondrate, shoddy
piece. but no one could love you so
well, IL that counts"
She said. Not exactly" Drawled
It.
He had been standing by the
hearth; tapping bricks with an
emptying pipe. He turned to settle
on the broad arm of her chair; ~
ann beginning to know yea3 he
said slowly. tShe Sfeit his, hand on
her hair; he was always so gentle!)
And | know You wanted to say
more. but old habits cling! Am I
right?"
EYES," she admitted. Within, she
said 30 him, panic at heart. Don't
know me too Welt"
He said. "a little gain. dearest
one!" She felt him kiss her hair
and then he rose. And again before
the hearth he filled his pipe with
great particularly and gave to 1t
his entire attention.
II, instead of looking slightly per.
tufbed she were to say. 'You dear!
| feel that way tool" Or perhaps.
with a touch, make him understand
that she knew what all his floun.
derings and groupings through sud.
denly inadequate words, meant.
(cobyriShf, 1884. By K. HaViias1-TsylOyl
Bob and Marsha 90 20 town, to.
morrow.