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Legend of the! ,
Easter Children) ,KA
By LESLIE PINCKNEY HILLh
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T' HE legends say Children were first sepdr
1 To be abroad that Easter day regit
When morning out of darkness burst,
And angels rolled the stone away.
'For children's hearts are quick to feel
a F` The deadening pall of mortal pain,
And children's hearts are first to heal
SWhen light and comfort come again.
And then had loved the Lord Christ's face,
And on His knees had laughed and cried,
And heard Him say, the heavenly, place
4, Is where all child-like souls abide;
And they had often ;heard Him tell
Strong men by pride and greed defiled
,. ` That they could neyer please Him well
Till they were humble as a child.
. And they had heard the tale that grieves
All little hearts:: how One so dear
Was nailed upon a cross with thieves,
} And tortured with a poisoned spear;
' And how the temple's wondrous veil
A. Was riven by the lightning stroke,
While, mingled with the women's wail,
The earthquake: and the thaunder broke;
. And how black night came down at noon,
And ghosts from graves that opened wide
2. Skulked out beneath a blood-red moon,
When He that lovedl the children died.
,, " For two long days'no girl or boy
. * ,in Galilee or Jordan plain
Could laugh or sing, for hope and joy
IF every little heart was slain.
hthen the earth that third dad morn
Was flooded with such golden light
As never since the world was born
Had come to dazzle human sight,'
. vejry child, the legends say,
Knew that the time was at an end,
' w that the stone was rolled away,
,iAd flew to meet the ,risen Friend.
. .Aud long before the Magdalene
::/Had reached the ,empty sepulchre, , o.
iQpetPetrhoardwhvat she had seen,,
.",Oir fileet Joke hmstened after her, fa
scatts'nd lliies onihe ground,
' Ad seen ills sm~le, and 'heard Him talk. o
A,.hld was puny, halt, or lame,
.'.., hungry, or in tatterscld
alted as ,if ki li~ht they came, ab
,:,iAad all worewhole, and strong, and glad. ru
They "thread the city through the gateS i
liaiht up' t Joseah's garden hill, .
': W~areH ta l~evee the children wais
ibe dance they slg, they cilmb the trees,
,!hLku' orW thyanOt 'fi to please,
:" Ad wmuthe guwvon of Hitosmile.
Q m mla~ tlif.ihnt "flb owtersp .lon -
'* j.$.Te dtlrn to l ome and reig
Tb garewnt flame wtht flovers ]ih,ae •bow
The whrldre are I at oi sle
,u some,,. .ti o" ,aster pLaown,
i Th.f, ' ,,U ..
• EASTELIboES
..hiad lp l edge.. ..- ",-"
I Wraps Have Fur Collars;
Capes Worn This Spring
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F UtI collars are the correct thing on
spring wraps this season. Even if
they do, perlhaps, suggest "the wed
ding of May and December," they are
logical and sensible, especially in this
age of nmotoring. Then, too. col
breezes have a way of springing up
even on "a perfect day in June." A
separate fur neckpiece is a constant
responsibility, for it has a way of los
Ing itself, nmuch to the disturbance of
YAC A :. : -ti
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Wrap of Navy Blue Veldyne.i~
one's peace-of mind. Here. again, the
fur-collared wrap courts favor.
The new fur collars are ever so
flattering, and they are fashioned to
come up high, about the throat.
Caracul and gray squirrel are the
selected summer furs for these col
lars, with perhaps a greater number
of the, former. This predilection for
cocoa-colored caracul comes about be
cause of the popularity of cloth wraps
in the lighter shell brown and toast
shades.
There is a fancy to use gray fur on
rust or henna cloth. This combina
tion is wonderfully effective. Often
the tones are carried out by embroider
ing the henna cloth with gray anlgora
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Separate, Cape" andl Cape 'Costume.
woQlk supplemented with oxidIzed
silver buttons and perhaps a gray
metal girdle. •
A# to fge, it Is coming in stronger
than evef, .nd especially as aý trim'
mtng on the new capes. This season
it is of exaggerated depth and finds
laviS, placement on the garment. It
is matched perfectly to the wrap and
the'hand-tied fringe Is- favored,
The idea of tying strands at inter*
vals over the skirt of the blouse rape
like wraps is very good. In this wad
yery effective resdlts are obtained with
* hiinatmhUafr use of the silk.
The wtap pictured is a navy blue
veldyte,, ylth fringe used to the ex-,
treme. The collar is of the leading
cocoa-colored caracbl
ave y joind te (pe brigade?
It not, you, u toiitedly wiltl for if
M. · w'I dvotee:
roti e `eotff orie lentiiI de' a. d,
' prco adw idt~ba dof them
-leer
fashion's prophecy ritgs true, few
there aire who will go capeless this
season.
There are more ways than one to
yield to the cape temptation. Most
of us are choosing the three-piece suit
route, for it leads to capes at every
turn. In the cape to match the frock,
designers find a new field for exprer
SioIl.
Almost instantaneous succest
marked the entree of the cape-suit.
This is due, not only to the pictur
esque charm of the long, graceful cape,
but the fact that it is "useful as
well as ornamental" makes the cape
suit of paramount importance.
The caie-suit adapts itself to every
age and to every occasion. This is
true in regard to fabric as well as
color.' Matrons are content with se
date nuvies and blacks in rich crepe
like weaves. The one-piece dress of
simplest cut fastens up the side-front,
according to latest dicate of fashion.
Youth is reveling in coarse home
spun and tweeds in most astounding
colors. Some of the leading shops are
featuring these costumes in bright mi.
nosa yellow, heather blup and violet
tones, also the French favorite-old
rose-and' the new willow green
should be mentioned. Some are
strictljr tailored, some have. a reverse 1
side of plaid, while still others are
lavishly done lf yarn embroidery.
Striking indeed is the cape cos
tume herewith of white serge with
black wool fringe and white braid.
The Separate cape is also the fash
ionable wrap for this season. These
are elaborately lined, as shown in our
illustration, the same being black
duvetyn with scarlet lining and deep
fringe.
S eI a w tmuaoT n sHraAm6 uron
out. It the arelsa i straight. There is
j-, Aloude body bItng: Use silk crepe
fabrics, crepe de chine, crepe satin,
Srept meteoir, barmeuse, foulard,
Spete. tower edge, ,3%
- inehks ,eu neatqr.
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Ramsey Milholland
By BOOTH TARKINGTON
Copyright by Doubledry, Page & Company
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DORA YOCUM.
Synopsis.-With his grandfather,
small Rlamsey M1ilholland is watch- is
ing the "I)ecoration Day Parade" by thle
in the home town. The old gentle- ton o
man, a veteran of the Civil war, listelli
endeavors to impress the young
ster with the signitecance of the ilctor:
great conflict, and many years aft- dol't
erward the boy was to remember "the
his words with startling vividness..
In the schoolroom, a few years
afterward, ILRamsey is not distin- Never
guished for remarkablh' ability. hour
though his pronounced dislikes are e
arithmetic, "Recitations" and ;er
man. In sharp contrast to Ram- Call
sey's backwardness Is the precocity hliere
of little Dora Yocum, a young lady un !'
whom in his bitterness he denomi- 111a
nates "Teacher's Pet." In high
school, where he and Dora are 10111
classmates, Ramsey continues to ol th(
feel that the girl delights to mani- thie s1
fa est her superiority, and the vin
dictiveness he generates becomes
alarming, culminating in the reso- Iariot
lution that some day he will cit(m
"show" her. At a class picnic Ram
sey is captured bag and baggage
by Milla Rust, the class beauty, Wit
and endures the agonies of his first electi
love. Ramsey's parents object to soluti
Milla and wish he'd taken up with f
Dora Yocum. Ramsey kisses Milla.
Then Milla suddenly leaves town. co-ed
to ex
to thi
CHAPTER VII rathe
-7-- ' cheel
He never saw her again. She sent the
him a "picture postal" fruom Oc('olnoIo- signe
woe, Wisconsin, which his father tdis- age
engaged from the family mail, one lnIll(n
morning at breakfast, and considerate- he t(
ly handed to hint without audible com- leaf
ment. Upon it was written, "Oh, you gral)
Ramsey!" This was the last of Mllla. writi
Just before school opened, in the
autumn, Sadie Clews made some reve
lations.. ":Milla (lid like you," said
Sadie. "After that time you jumped
in the creek to save her she liked you
better than any boy in town, And I
guess if it wasn't for her counsin MUlt
up in Chicago she would of liked you
the best anywhere. I guess she did,
anyway, because she hadn't seen him
for about a year then.
"Well, that afternoon she went
away I was over there and took in
everything that was goin' on, only she
made.me promise on my word of honor
1 wouldn't even tell Albert. They
didn't get any wire from the uncle
about the touring car; it was her cou
as sin Milt that jumped on the train and
came down and rixed it all up for
Milla to go on the trip, and every
rv thing. You see, Ramsey, she was
turned back a couple of timhes in school
as before she came in our class and I
don't know how old she is, and she
don't look old yet, but I'm pretty sure
she's at least eighteen, and she might
on, be over. I didn't think such a great
a deal of this Mllt's looks myself, but
he's anyway twenty-one years old, and
got a good position, and all their fam
Ily seem to think he's just fine! It
w~vgsn't hris father that took In the tour.
ing car on the debt, like she said she
was writing you; it was Milt himself.
He started out in business when he, ter
was only thirteen yerirs old, and this tol
trip he was gettin' up for his father ly
and mother and Milla was the first a
vacation hie ever took. Well, of course to
she wouldn't like my tellin' you, but
I can't see the harm of it, now evei'y- the
thing's all over." fin
"All--all over? You mean Milla's
going to be-to be married?"
"She already is," said Sadle. "They p1
got married at her Aunt Jess and Un- in
cle Purv's 'house, up in Chicago, last
Thursday. Yes, sir; that quiet, little Ih
Milla's a regular old married woman co
by this time, I expect, Ramsey!"
When he got over the shock, which di
was not until the next day, one pre- o
dominating feeling remained: It was fr
a gloomy pride-a pride in his proven
maturity. He was old enough, it ap
peared, to have been the same thing R
as engaged to a person who was now
a Married Woman. His manner thence- o
forth showed an added trace of seri
ousness and self.consideration. ft
Having recovered his equipoise and t
something more, he entirely forgot that a
moment of humble admiration he had a
felt for Dora Yocum on the day of his s
flattest prostration. When he saw her II
sitting in the classroom, smiling bright
ly up at the teacher, the morning of tl
the school's opening in the autumn, a
all his humility had long since van- t
Ished and she appeared to him not a
otherwise than as the scholar whose v
complete proficiency had always been s
so irksome to him.
rolet "Look at her!" he muttered to him
-old self. "Same ole Teacher's Pet!" t
ren Now and then, as the days and sea- t
are sons passed, and Dora's serene prog- t
verse ress continued, never checked or even i
are flawed, there stirred within him some
Slingerlngs' of the old determnination I
os- to "Show" her; and he would conjury I
ith up a day-dream of Dora in loud la- 1
baid. mAntation, while he led the laughter 1
fas- of the spectators. But gradually his
rese feeling about her came to be merely
Sour a dull oppression He was tired of
lack having to look at her (as he stated
eep it) and he thanked the Lord that the
time wouldn't be so long now until
he'd be. out of that ole school, and
then all he'd have to do he'd just take
care never to walk by her house. lt
was easy enough to use some other
street when he had to go down town.
"The good ole class' of NIneteen
Fourteen is about gone," he said to
ee is Fred Mitchell. who was still his most
epe intimate friend when they reached the
t, senior year. "Yes, sir; it's held to
gard gether a good many years, Fred, but
S 3 after ,Tine it'll be busted plum up,
and I hope nobody starts a move to
have any reunions. There's a good
Smany members of the ole class that
aong I can stand arid there's some I catlt,
~ O( ~u atthere's one I just won't! If W
v et v onrd l :a ~tunioa, that ole Yt
[i~¾uit fl wo)ild start in right away
i ~,li~b e ehebang, and that a
far sib
i,~ ·- 1
the thinig I thlink Is tle ote biggest the
Ienefit of gradualting from this o!e solet
school? It's never see'ti' Dora Yocuml "Ifat
again." "f hi
This was aIgain his tlhemne :ts he sait a1
by the sitie fricnd'is side, in the rear itnt
r'ow of the c'lass at ('onlletlll 'elllentIl. I1'IIs
listeningi to the delivery of the Vale- ail
dllctory. "Thinks she's just soohldile, out
dotl't she!" lie whisipered morosely. i'nl.
"She wouldn't trade with the l'Presi- ini
dent of the Iinited States right now. synkl
Never miiind, .iust about ai half-an- lire
hour lmore iull that's the list o' Vio, to o
ole girl! Yes, sir. Fred'; one thing we of ti
can feel pretty good over: this is 11i
where we get through with Dora Yo- the
ull !" who
Illamsey andl Fred lIad arrnged to Ilo
rotom together at Greenfield, the seait reer
of the stale university, alad they inude 'vatr
the short journey in conipany the fol- nius
lowing September. They arrived hi- the
hlrious, alnticipating pleasurable ex- grit
citements in the way of "fraternity" can
pletlgihigs anid initiations, encounters A.
witlh solholnores, class meetings, and A
elections; land, also, they were not ab- had
solutely without interest in the matter etyv
of Girls, for the state university was and
co-edlucational, ind it was but natural was
to expect in so broad a field, all new Iner
to thena, a possible vision of something atom
rather thrilling. They whispered pro
cheerfully of all these things during ter,
the process of matriculation, and ics,
signed the registrar's book on a fresh A
page ; but when Fred had written his wil
alitie unlder Rainsey's anld blotted it, Mil
hlie took the liberty of turning over the to
leaf to examine some of the auto- sta
I graphs of their future classmnates, rea
written on the other side. Then he ut
e dec
aeym
bet
It tog I afte 't/ ke ol
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r- "What on Earth's the Matter, Ram
he soy?" ol
he, tered an exclamation, more droll than t(
is tolorous, though it affected to be whol- ie
er ly the latter;, for the shock to Fred .
rt was by no means so painful as it was o
rse to his friend.. -11
ut tRamsey leaned forward and read t
y- the name indeicated by Fred's fore- y
inger. - -
I a's DORA YOCUM. .r
re t. When they got back to their I
pey leasant quarters at Mrs. Meigs', fac- t
n- ing the campus, Ramsey was still un
Last able to talk of anything except the 1
tte lamentable discovery; nor were his j
an companion's burlesquing efforts to con- I
sole him of great avail, though Fred I
tlch did become serious enough to point I
pre- out that a university was different
was from a high school.
'en "It's not like havin' to use one big
- oom ase a headquarters, you know,
I hg Ramsey. Everything's all split up, and 1
yow she might happen not be in a single
nce- one of your classes."
erl- "You don't know my luck!" the af
flicted boy protested. "I wish I'd gone
and to Harvard, the way my father wanted
that me to. Why, this is just the worst
had nuisance I ever struck! You'll see!
his She'll be in everything there is, just
her the way she was back home."
ight He, appeared to he corroborated by
Sof the events of the next day, when they
imn, attended the first meeting to organize
van- the new class. The masculine ele
not ment predominated, but Dora Yocum
hose was elected vice president. "You
been see?" Ramsey said. "Didn't I tell
you? You see what happens?"
him- But after that she ceased for a time
to Intrude upon his life, and he admit
sea- ted that his harassment was less grave
prog- than he had anticipated. There were
even about five hundred students in the
oome freshman class; he seldom saw her,
flton and when he did it was not more than
njury a distant glnmpse of her on one of
d la- the campus paths, her thotghtful head
ghter bent over a book as she hurried to a
, his nhitssroom. This was bearable; and in
EON 000 RO O HEELEHAN
LESSONS FROM THE ELEPHANT
Be Careful Where You Step and Take
Credit When Due, Is by No
Maans Bad Advice.
A circus man says that an elephant
is aly'ays careful Where he steps. He
goes forward one step at a time, and
doesn't lose his hold upon one plnee
of security until another is gained.
If many of our business men had
acquired this elephant phllfsophy and
had followed it they wouldn't be hang
ing over financial precipices now.
rf one goes about thinking that the
world is filled with' crooks and schem
era, the world it filled with crooks and
schemers.' On the ofher hand, if one
lýeleves that the world is -tiled with
,ne ueIghborl1, helpful, kindly folks,
t1l thliti efring :.titati ans f beling
soult, anti e\en huntllllled, Iy several
"fra:lterniiei s" silull; ll eotl ylý (l.esiroll s
of his heconling at sworn Brother, he
almonst forgot her. After a hazardous
illtolth thl' tr nnllllllates ftell into the
u'lnts of the last "fret" ito seek them,
and having ulndergonle an evening of
olltrage which coniluded with touch
in rlhetloric Ia i ilnl ot th taken at
nithnight, they proudly vworie jeweled
syml.ols on their breasts and were
free to tiurn part of their attention
to othller aflairs, especially the affairs
of the Eleven.
hIowever, tlhey were Instructed by
the obler Irethret of their Order,
wh'l e G lt y it \\" n tto assist in the
propeor lnlleouv'erlinl of their yorng ca
reers, thllt, :tllhllt hu S supplllt f the
'\valrsty l I ntlls \waV imlt ortant, they
must llct neither the spiritual nor
the intellectual hbyproducts of under
graduate doings. Theref' re they be
c(amO memhOrs of the college Y. M. C.
A. and of the "Lumen Society."
According to the charter which it
had granted itself, the "Lumen Soei
ety" was an "Organi'Ation of male
and female students"--so "advanced"
was this muniversity-"for the develop
ment of the powers of debate anti or
atory, intellectual and sociological
I progress, and the discussion of all mat
ters relating to philosophy, metaphys
1 ics, literature, art, and current events."
A statement so formidable was not
without a hushing effect upon Messrs.
Milholland and Mitchell; they went
Sto their first "Lumen" meeting In a
state of fear and came away little
;, reassured.
"I couldn't get up there," Ramsey
declared, "I couldn't stand up there
before all that crowd and a make a
speech, or debate in a debhte, to save
ly soul and gizzard! Why, I'd just
keel right over and hat tot be carried
out."
"Well, the way I understand it,"
said Fred, "we can't get out of it. The
seniors in the 'frat' said we had to
join, and they said we couldn't resign,
either, uter we had joined. They
said we just had to go through it, and
after a while we'd get used to it and
not mind it so much."
"I twill !" Ramsey insisted. "I
couldn't any more stand up there on
my feet and get to spoutin' about
sociology and the radical Tnetempsy
chorus of the mettyphysical. bazooZum
than I could fly a flyin' machine. Why,
I---"
"Oh, that wasn't anything," Fred
interrupted. "The only one that talked
like that, he was that Blickens; he's,
a tutor, or something, and really a
member of the faculty. Most o' the
others just kind of blab-blahbed
around, and what any of 'em tried 1
to get off their chests hardly amount
ed to terribly much."
r "I don't care. I couldn't do it at
all !"
i.n "Well, the way it looks to me," Fred
observed, "we simply got to! From .
what they tell me, the freshmen got
an to do more than anybody. Every oth.,
01- er Friday nigf't, it's all freshmen,and
aed nothin' else. You get a poIt1 card
as on Monday morning in you5 npitl, ad4
it says 'Assignment' on it n
ad then It's got written undei'neathkwbhat
re- you haf to do the next Friday night
-oration or debate, or maybe just .
read from some old book or something,;
eir I guess we got to stupd up there a i
ac- try, anyway. •
-. "All right," said Ramsey. "If thet1
he want me to commit suicide they ea'
his send me one o' their ole 'Assignatentls
on. I won't need to commit suicide, though,
'redI guess. All I'll do, I'll just fall over
int in a fit, and stay in it."
rent And, in truth, when he receive'hblS -
first "Assignment," one Monday motl"
big ing, a month later, he seemed in a
ow, fair way to fulfill his prophecy. h'
and attention of his roommate, who sito:
gle at a window of their study, was at
tracted by sounds of strangulati°p.
af- "What on earth's the matter, Rato*
one sey?"
ted "Look! Look at thifs !"
orst Fred took thie card and examined It
ee! with an amazement gradually werg
Ijust ing Into a pleasure altogether too per
ceptible:
Iby ASSIGNMENT
hey Twelve-Minute Debate, Class of 1918.
ele Subject, Resolved: That Germany
m is both legally and morally justified,
'um in her invasion of Belgium.
tl (Debaters are notified that each will
Ie e held strictly to the following sched
ime ule: Affirmative, 4 min., first. Nega
t tive, 4 min., first. Affirm., 2 min., seec
end. - &g., 2 min., second.)
e Affirmative, RI. MILHOLILAND, '18
,e Negative, D. YOCUM. '18.
ri in (TO BE CONTINUED.)
one finds people of that class In the
great mnjority.
It isn't well to have too much hu
mility. The man who gets into the
habit of refusing to take credit for
the good work he does is quite apt
to he surprised when he discovers that
people accept his denials as. the truth.
It is much better to be' like the little
girl in the old story who, when she
was asked. "Who made you?" replied,
"God made me that length," Indicating
with her hands the ordinary size of a
new-horn babe, "and I growed the
rest myself."-Forbes Magazine. ,
Badges, symbolical of the name, are
being supplied to many ships in the
British navy.
