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den where trees and rc the stre too; ch Sfruit, with t.... - . Y.. corrugated t .:.ByS.ARAH FRANCES LIHDSAY the house r -------- the stretch (Copyright, by Short Stories Co., Ltd.) most beauti ..iOn; the height that overlooked the that .overlo4 "water lay a man, stretched full length It was, a .in the shade of a breadfruit-tree. His girl, who c, .;.poSe and- the outlines of his figure had on an even. the grace that comes from pure south- step was s e:: m rblood and the habit of leisurely face was ti t.ion To he skin of his face and to which s Iihands was brown-not with the clear getfulness. olive that indicates somewhere -a mind, unw trace of native Carib ancestry, but -those of ,..with the tan of a white man long ex- tance. po:i-sed to tropical suns. An ordinary Who wh observer would have, thought his eyes eyes and were closed. In reality they were Why was gazing in dreamy reverie, under half- What was -fallen lids, upon the beauty of the -nothing bay. In the :' The scene before him was brilliant faint rhyl with the colors nature loves best. accompan Down the street of the town, on to notus froi the bluff where he lay, came a girl, over aga dainty and fair, an unexpected bit of motion, t activity in the midst of the lazy heat. strain. She was young and she was romantic; "Pull a a visitor to this little Central Amer- It was ican town from out the strenuous Carib be :. north. She saw the figure of the man, burden c w*alked up to him, stood at his side tened to and laughed. He opened his eyes- and near thoughtful, poet's eyes-into which at bluff app !the sight of her there came the light light, th, ::iof passion. He raised himself into a garden t : sitting posture. step, un ' Sit down," he said. paused. With surprising quickness of mo- "Littl tion she dropped on to the ground at And his ,.,.his feet and laughed again. Then, with wh reaching out her arm, she picked, one In the ta: time, three long grasses and hers an. :-.wound them around her finger, while Toget bluff an dusky-sl on the S-they. soa stars, 11 light ft with m beyond , But will no And ;;x"ý:=} /. yielded Sand fa_ t T then ' : r lowed S , i e , g- arme .t - made locks templ drois laugh warm yet a wom a s1 ifce goi rew i oleinn and sweet. She way the blue water of the the x "s murmured. "You love the I t' niiore t you than people." con asked; "you 'love icton face ta l ake, with; its Be' j hg ~xo~'tlea~ t ' I'm often sir , Wibt i ethew so' little Cal '_j~paS ' buying mahogan str ibthexorehead ,ahd modish as thdays of ~ h r, who stood q~vr~~pe ~~p5O.toth frame boue, set in- Ia pcture3que0 Za1 den where cocoanut palms, banana trees and roses vie with one another in luxuriant growth. Orange trees are there, too, apd lime, and the bread fruit, with Its large, deep-colored leaves and .green, spherical fruit of \corrugated skin. On ail four sides of the house runs the wide gal!ery, but the stretch at the back commands the most beautiful view, for it is this side that overlooks the sea. It was, a comforting solitude to the L girl, who came onto that rear gallery on an evening late in the spring. Iir step was slow with meditation. Her face was troubled. Emotions held her, I to which she yielded in delicious for r getfulness. Then, crowding into her a mind, unwelcome, came other claims .t -those of her thrifty Puritan inheri t- tance. Y Who was this man of luminous ;s eyes and those few glowing words? 'e Why was he here, apart from men.? f- What was his life? A dreamer's? ie -nothing more. In the distance she detected 'the equal at faint rhythmical sound of paddles, 3t. accompanied at each. dip by minor to notes from a human voice. Over and df rl, over again with each repetition of of E' of motion, there came the same slow down at. strain. "N c; "Pull away-easy way." er- It was, she knew, the chant of a us Carib boatman who was bringing the the an, burden of his craft to her. She lis ide tened to the chanting, growing louder and nearer, until it stopped. Over the one at bluff appeared, silhouetted in the star- rebe ght light, the figure of a man. Into the D a garden he came with a slow, swinging step, until at the gallery's edge he prai paused. mar ".- "Little girl, 0 little girl," he said. nize I at And his heart whispered: "The love wen, with which I love you is a holy love." one In the truth of her woman's instinct In and hers answered. back: "I know." full hile Together they went down over the bluff and on to the water, leaving the dusky-skinned boatman behind them thi on the shore. An hour passed and a they. scarcely knew. Then, hiding the stars, little clouds came and stole the light from the night. He saw them for with misgivings. They were' far out .beyond the bay. "We must go in," he said. But she was willful. "Not yet. I will not go." And he, unused to woman's ways, - yielded, while th.e clads came 'hick and fat imtil the sky was solid gray. Then when his man's' judgment al lowed no more delay, he turned home ward without words. It was too-late. The gray rain caught them as it fell straight and thiclE through the heavy atmosphere., It drenched her dainty garments through and through and made of her curls Jlong, straggling locks- of:-hal that -clung about her temples. She shook them until the drops ' felt ,from . them, while " she laughed:- : S "I'm only wet;" .she said. "I'm very warm, not cold." ' • His lips grew thin, and inwardly he cursed himself. "The rain and the i night air," he thought, "and. she not yet acclimated." ".Good morning, sister." The clear, dark face of the Carib woman wore no smile as she spokec. loud, and. plaintively musical. With a slow- movement, plainly habitual,. she he walked in her bare feet to the door-6 heway and let more air and light into the low room. ag e Out of the long languor the girl on ": the bed had just opened her eyes to left e. consciousness. The hands on the cov- froi it rlet were almost transparent, the rul face- thin, the eyes unnaturally large; my and full of troubled questioning. She ran te looked through the doorway into the hat ten street of sunabaked clay nhd on to the landscape. opposite.:' Slowly there .es- formed fn her minid the picture of a up itle Carib house situated remote .and iso' to lated at the very end of the main any street of the.Carib village. cu S "::It ishis house?" she questioned, to soft ... e"Yes, sister," the Carib woman an an swered.:' ad -.Through it all--the fever and the its tier stupor~there had. been with the girl,;: dish as; a part' of an unreal world -vhereI i! everything was shadow, the conscious- + ! di nes pof two'forms. : Now she sought' to okehd 'to understand.: at The Why: am I here?" here?"er slow mind tood asked again for iThe white people, they afraid., of you: He bring, you here. :.We nurse them you he and I." Sthe "And my father-djidhe:iet him in?" . down "Yes, sister. BecauSe: back in the once States he learned of medicine." si The elids of the sick glrl drooped a her with weariness ,while the Carib, bend Sa urebloodshed tnew her owni -im Jiul munity She watched until the white says girl's breathing came in an eveu rise, I've end fall that told of ,healthful sleep. At Then the woman went back to: the ' i I Siddliy t.hrough the still, dry air :~ ~~girij~ltde:t:wiiite" : the-l-..~se:i: JSuddenly through t e ,'tilt, noyi" manI voices 'thiat :rose and flOl hi '1yngA:I le >-we. The~ earth ha i.`k learned `i i ,?~r beieyesO : th. an'.on -het" fac ; >. W 1.. .-i"ý"`:Y _-. '. a jOV-Neither -B -Husband Nor Wife Rule I ntrols D 13° ELEN OLDFIELD LHEN a man who contemplates being married seriously asks how he shall "manage" his future wife, it may safely be pre dicted that there is trouble in store for her. People who want to manage each other ought not to marry. The husband's duty is to "love, cherish and protect," the wife's to "love, honor and obey." Because every governmcnt m ust have a nominal head, the husband, being physically the stronger of the two, is regarded as the responsible head of the family, but the.loving obedience to his wishes which a wife owes her husband is in no way incompatible with perfect equality betwedn man and wife. If a woman does not look up to her husband and in all things fitting defer to his judgment, it usually is the man's own fault. From the days Iof Eve, wives, for the most part, have drovel amenable to the law laid down for the first woman: "Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." Any woman who loves a man will do all she can to please him; it is the joy of her life to make him happy. But when tle rule is selfish and unreasonable, foolishly indulgent one day and tyrannically unjust the next day, what wonder that wives rebel and fail to obey where they are unable to honor? There never yet was a woman, from palace to hovel, with whom praises and kisses were not more effective than curses and blows. The man who is tenderly consiflct"ate of the wife who loves him, who recog Snizes her efforts to please him, who. is patient with her mistakes, may make of her pretty much what he pleases, limited only by her capacity. ;t In justice to the men, it must be said that scarcely any of them are will fully unkind to the women whom they marry. They are thoughtless, pre Soccupied, ignorant of women's ways, and sometimes selfish. They do not m think it worth while to bother with the trifles which make up the sum of id a woman's life. me When husband and wife truly love each other there can be no struggle m for supremacy between the "two souls with but a single thought," whose 4 ut greatest joy is found in each other. While huslband Sand wife each have separate duties which the other is unable to perforn, their interests are identical, and together they :Tnist stand or fa'" W1 itever 11juries the one necessarily in greater or less degree must hurt ak . the other, and neither can wholly clear their skirts of the consequences of the acts of the other. Neither can ne - anything befit the one and not accrue to the advantage fte. of the other. "It is ill quarreling between the bark ey and the tree," says the old proverb with reference to nty man and wife. In "our office"-we.all call it that, frofi'm the proprietor, wlho spends his odd - .. i: : iinen looking up .Scotti ancestry that 1:P o f] .. :,can in--some way annex as a family tree- Nh - ort l there is a .division manager whom we .all the "goddess," who has (or had) an idea Ex The ; that she knows it all. d , This, in an office where there are some G odd e "- tten girls, all keenly alive to what is going -on in the world outside and each having By R oL -.:her own special hobby, is sometimes re By LEA REYNOLDS r enited. :-One day at an office gabfest they one and all.decided this same know-it-all man iager should .betaught she did not know it all.. Now this manager seldom As left' her ofice during tlie lncheon hour, bringing her toothsome luncheon from a well-filled, home-cooked table, while these girls for the most par: ruled over no one thing except hope, ii their hearts, but sat at a restan rant table ad cooked:appetizing dishes in their own rooms when they Li had time. Bright, sparkling eyes had the first girl who was to try the scheme a upon .the "Goddesss' 'she came in one noon hour. She made chance " to talk with the "Goddess" aiid so had her beyond her depths in the dis -4c ussilon, of some.intricateC. probl6. This wise girl related her experience to the othe girls ani from that on about once a week some one of the , girls would begin to-talk science, politics, arts, craft, books, .picture exhib Le. its, and one thing and another as their line of knowledge lay. :.-It, was not long until every girl in that office saw the gains she had mde m in her own favor. Since that time the "Goddess" has grown more ht :tolerant of those girls, many of whom are bier superiors (in many ways). a nd now knowcs that office girls have some other way of spending their -time than in mere chatter. of They have opened up a new world' to the manager and shown her-, se that she is not the only one .who knows a thing or two. : We may be all - r-ht in: our own line of knowledget but the world's knowledge is of man hie sorts, as are its" plasures, but we like the "Goddess,"Fare densely ignorant' of that which . the other fellow. knoi~ s and because .he does not know our nd- own-pet hobbies, or line'of . work, our interests, or '"butterflyin g, as the er renchh call ileasuring, we must not condemn .him as ignorant. vas n~- : .:·· ·:~: '-.'[ Why' are seven out of ten grammar and high school pupils poor writers? What is Sthe remedy, if there is a remedy? We 1answer that the -remedy lies with the School teacher. Yet, I am not censuring the teacher. She' does the best' she: knorws how P pils Poor The fault li'es w those in authority. teSytems of penmanship have little to do ith the esult What we need is not sys te but method . Copy books do no par By J. . BACUTJENKIRCHER ticular~ harm, although as they ar g4 otI4Isa19U * erally used they certainly do little good. Teachers will never be able to turn out good writers until the eachers themselves rax ~fr taug~ht lhow to ~write an& h91V to teach others to write, and this ~to uihftilt ~tjnu doi> Wjt is ~go~in about~in the right way. Ever~y thtsh nos, itihis the pca" wor ýr-~ X' - er'.. ý_u l .tlit'ieache :& th3 ."4 - -,:- `" _ `n {ý ý';wrta s`emaeves. ýe .a . toýýý" - }ýA 5.t ffi _ : t: ý+ýt: :dam : ,ý .,: v. ,Fý :,_,,.,... , ,ý: , ý:ýa:ý:.ýn" . : - ý.ý _ý: . r :+`+ ýV ý j: : . ý e K ý ,y.3p:rý "^,?:xrr k'i"s e .:s·ý:-.M`','r -4 ý:1 :ý,. :' c r:.. _',"ý ; '.;.",r ."' :5ýýk=" t x'tk:.ý .ý3 ·a.`ý'ý ::- a...ý ýyýý;`.4.''°.` .:a sri .ý ' ý._ý s ý=: ý- ý; ;hý, 'r.`? 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