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r?lii?sgf&. The faithful Fooching piloted us all that dangerous journey. Affairs at the great Chinese metropolis were less involved and stormy than in the interior. We bulked our energies, ran quite a profitable pBbto playhouse for a few months and by that time I had received a remittance from home. My love's brother went off to Aus- -o- tralia, where a good business pros pect was offered, and took Fooching with him. Arline and myself returned to America. Why not? My latest letter from my dear old mother had con cluded "We are all waiting to wel come your dear, sweet little wife." (Copyright by W. G. Chapman.) o- WHAT CRANKINESS SOMETIMES COSTS A 16-year-old girl in New York, back from an adventuresome joy-ride with a lad of 18 in a stolen auto, said to a woman reporter who visited her in the lock-up: "It was just a picnic. We never thought of it as anything else. I un derstand my father says he is going to have me sent away. I don't care. I don't want to go home. The 'old man' is so cross and cranky he gets on my nerves." This girl was once a pretty, smiling, promising baby, father's pe.t and mother's joy; a baby not foredoomed to be unloving and wayward. Some thing happened between the ages of 2 and 16 to explain her change of character. Without knowing in detail the family history, couldn't you pretty safely hazard a guess on the basis of that one assertion: "The old man is so cross and cranky?" The proper influence in a home is LOVE patient, tender, long-suffer-, ing love. It is a child's right. The child who is denied it is defrauded. Just as it takes the warm sunshine to bring out the beauty of the flower, so the soul of a child, and especially the soul of the woman-child, must have the warmth of affection, continuous and never-failing, to develop the graces which make it clean and sweet. We know not what cares, what sorrows, what aggravations, made this "old man" "cross and cranky." It may.be we'd forgive him if we knew. In any event, he's profoundly to be pitied, for clearly his crossness and his crankiness, robbing the daughter of "the home joys which were her due, have been among the forces which sent her to the bad. Amidst the worries, the stresses, the disappointments of life it is often hard to preserve a sweetened temper at Tiome. But lit is what the parent must do, or at least try to the limit to do, if the children are to have a fair chance. DIARY OF FATHER TIME At Rome, in the early ages, young persons under the age of thirty were not permitted to drink wine; but as for the women, the use of it was ab solutely forbidden to them. But this law was almost universally violated later on. The women often boasted of being able to go to as'great excess in drinking wine as the most robust of men. They would pass whole nights at table, vying with the men and attempting to overcome them. The Emperor Domitian passed an edict in relation to wine, which seem ed to have a just foundation. One year having produced abundance of wine and very little corn, he believed they had more occasion for one than the other, and therefore ordered that no more vines should be planted in Italy, and that in the provinces one half of the vines should be mooted up. MiMMMMttttflMttli mmmmammammmmmnmm