Baxter Springs news. [volume], January 14, 1909, Image 7

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A SISTER-IN-LAW
By WM. K.
(CopyrlUt, by
They wero Bitting In. a ditch, or
rather, Teddy was Bitting, and Phyllis
was stretched luxuriously at full
length, with her shiny bronze toes
pressed bard against a tree at the bot-
10m of the bank, and her back propped
against a moss-covered trunk at the
top.
Teddy, on the other hand, looked de
cidedly uncomfortable.
Teddy was an ordinary clean-looking
boy. He was just drifting through the
second year of his happy-go-lucky ca
reer at college.
Phyllis had always been accustomed
to a willing army .of male slaves and
admirers, and found undiluted femi
ninity rather oppressing at times. So
ihe welcomed an occasional meeting
With Teddy and kindred undergrade
Ite spirits.
Teddy was In a decidedly bad tem
per. He knew, that Phyllis had had
her photo taken recently; ho had, In
fact, seen the proofs, which were
charming, and of course, he had ex
pected one to put on his mantelpiece,
there to create an Impression among
his friends.
"Why the deuce she won't give me
one beats me," be thought gloomily to
himself.
Phyllis had relapsed Into silence,
and was ruminating on things in gen
eral. Everyone bad always considered
that Teddy and Dorothea, Phyllis'
younger Bister, had been cut out for
ach other from the cradle. Since
their nursery days they had roamed-
about the countryside, birds-nesting.
'
Her Brain Worked Rapidly.
Ushlng or skating, and getting into a
thousand scrapes together. Teddy, in
bis boyish way, was Dolly's devoted
adorer, and she had nearly wept her
Syes out when he went to school for
the first time. She was a lovely girl
of 16 .when the young man came from
college for his first vacation, and even
Teddy, the unsentimental, felt a sud--den
thrill when he saw her again after
considerable lapse of time. With
the advent of manhood his devtion had
Increased. His succeeding vacations
had been spent in Europe or with col
lege friends, and consequently Teddy
had not seen much of Dolly, while he
and Phyllis bad met at all kinds of
college . functions and festivities.
Proximity is an all-powerful influence
with a young man of Teddy's suscep
tible age, and Phyllis, thinking over
bis manner to her of late, came to the
conclusion that it was decidedly on
brotherly. "Bless the boy," she said to her
self, "I hope he isn't going to fall in
love with me. It all comes of our be
tsg so much alike, I suppose. I'm cer
tainly not going to appropriate Dolly's
property, and I shan't let Teddy break
her heart, either. He'a got about as
cinch mind as a chameleon; but if be
can't make it up for himself I shall
hare to do it for him."
So when Teddy begged for her new
tote, with a look in bis eyes which
Fbylils had never seen there before,
srjtfc Quick, tactful Intuition, aba said,,
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shortly: "No, I can't, Teddy," and
took refuge In a half-real, half-studied
nonchalance, while thunder settled on
Teddy's seldom-ruffled brow.
The girl lay still, unconscious of the
storm sho was arousing in the young
man's breast
However, she merely supposed that
something niUBt be done to break the
silence and coax Teddy back to good
humor, so she began casually:
"I wonder what Dolly's doing Just
now?"
Teddy flung away his cigarette.
"Hang Dolly," he said, in a way that
made Pbyllia open her eyes and stare
at him. "Look here, Phyl," he went
on, "do you think you will ever like
me well enough I've been In love
with you for months, well" rather
sheepishly "for weeks, at any rate"
, Teddy stopped short, conscious that
he was bungling the thing horribly.
Phyllis relaxed the tension of her
limbs and slid rapidly to the bottom
of the ditch. Her dress bunched up
round her, and her chin, on a level
with Teddy's, rested on her two
hands.
Her brain worked rapidly.
She must tide over this phase of
Teddy's till be saw Dolly again; then
she would bring off something defi
nite, and it would come all right
Phyllis endeavored to make her aoft
blue eyeB look hard; she failed utter
ly, however, from want of practice.
She also tried to smooth out her dim
ples, which she had frequently been
told were bewitching, but she only
succeeded, although she did not know
it in pursing up her red lips Into their
most inviting shape.
Disaster must inevitably have fol
lowed, had not something Inside her
suddenly given way. Her white teeth
showed themselves In a smile, and
then peal after peal of rippling laugh
ter broke- from her, till her sides
ached and tears stood in her eyes.
Now, disdainful eyes, even absence
of dimples, is no barrier to love's ar
dor; but a lover, particularly If he be
very youthful, can never survive ridi
cule. Teddy suddenly felt he had made
a fool of himself. Awful enough at
any time, but In the presence of a
girl above all, of Phyllis. He was
furious with himself, furious with her,
he became more and more crimson.
"Teddy, dear," Phyllis at last man
aged to gasp out, "I'm really awfully
sorry; I wasn't laughing at you,
but"
"Perhaps you'd rather be getting
back as you seem to find my pres
ence so odious" a scrap of eloquence
from the "Footlights," a collego play,
In which he was to act in the ap
proaching commencement came to
the aid of Injured dignity.
Phyllis rose, shook out her crumpled
skirt and settled her Panama hat.
"Oh, Teddy, you are funny," she said,
trying hard to recover her gravity.
Teddy helped her out of the ditch,
and strode off, if one can be said to
stride in patent-leather pumps rather
down at the heels.
"Who's Teddy Randolph got up, I
say, old man; two fair girls and a
portly mamma?"
The speaker, a youth of blase ap
pearance, lounged on the window seat
of a room, gracefully buoyed up by
numberless cushions. He was scan
ning the brilliant kalcdloscope of sis
ters, cousins and undergraduates
wending their way in light summer at
tire and shady hats about the cam
pus. The other occupant of the room,
who was laboriously picking out an
air on a banjo, ceased his absorbing
occupation and came over to the win
dow. Contrary to his custom, be
waxed enthusiastic.
"Why, they're the Misses Bletch
wood, of course, the prettiest girls on
the campus at the present moment, or
I'm no Judge of fluff. Teddy's sweet
on the little one, and their people ex
pect them to make a match of it.
Jove! I'd give something to be in his
shoeB."
"Oh, so that's the matter."
Teddy, as host of two such pretty
girls, found himself the hero of Uie
hour. Third-year men, even seniors,
bad suddenly become unbending and
affable. His own set vied botly with
each other in invitations and atten
tions. Teddy's manner was becoming
tinged with-the superiority born of
success.
It was the day of the sophomore
dance, and his fickle allegiance re
turned in full force. Teddy's be
bavlor during the afternoon was ex
emplary. He devoted himself to Mrs.
Bletchwood, arranging her cushions
and assuring her they were not In Im
minent danger of twigs and spiders.
"How college does improve a young
man's manners!" sh remarked ap
prpyJjDjij to Dorothe,
How much I few weeks can accom
plish In a young man's education
could have been gathered from the
adroit manner in which he broached
a certain topic.
Dolly was gazing plnkly into her
billowy parasol when, after a pro
longed absence, tbey joined their
party.
"Nobody could have said," Teddy re
flected to himself with considerable
satisfaction, as be was settling bis tio
for the dance. "Nobody could have
said I didn't take the thing coolly."
The only approach to a hitch in the
proceedings had occurred when sho,
though merely for the sako of not ap
pearing to let him have it all his own
way, had said demurely
"Are you quite sure you want me,
Teddy? Sometimes I have fancied
that you were fonder of Phyllis."
Thyllls." cried Teddy. "Of course
I've always liked Phyllis. She'll be a
corking Blster-In-law."
"We are not at all too young,"
purred Dolly to Phyllis that night aft
er the ball. "Mamma was only 16
when she married. And Teddy thinks
you'll be an ideal sister-in-law."
And Phyllis was ungracious enough
to make no response.
MAKE READING A PLEASURE.
College Professor Tells How It May
Be Accomplished.
"Reading can be made a much great
er source of pleasure to those who
now only read when they can find no
other pleasures," said a Columbia lec
turer on English literature the other
day. "You have perhaps noticed with
what keen sense of satisfaction some
people read the newspapers. Do you
want to know the secret of their abil
ity to extract enjoyment in' this way?
Well, you have probably noticed that
those who can so rivet their attention
to the printed page are the ones who
make it a point to talk about what
they have read. That is the secret.
Try it. Read something, then tell
some one about it. Do this with books
as well as with papers. Soon you will
notice that in reading a story you fix
in your mind the things you want to
relate. You get the writer's point of
view, then you fix upon the points
he has presented. At the beginning
your Btory telling will lack the com
pleteness of the story as written, and
you will notice that your shortcomings
in this direction are due to listless
reading. This will correct Itself just
to the extent of your ambition to be
come a reader for all there is In read
ing. I have given this bit of advice
before and have been thanked many
times by those who followed my direc
tions. Try it and mark the results."
Crowding Out All Native Things.
In New Zealand, the native Poly
nesian race, crowded by Europeans, is
becoming extinct. Many of the im
ported animals run wild and multiply
rapidly at the expense of the native
species, even the streams being filled
with European and American trout
which grow to great size. Introduced
plants thrive quite as remarkably.
New forests are being created design
edly because the native trees, though
yielding excellent timber, grow very
slowly, and nlready many millions cf
larches, oaks, spruces, Douglas firs
and eucalyptus have been planted,
while seedlings from them are being
continually added.
Is It Napoleon's Bible?
An Italian journalist Is said to have
discovered the Bible which was used
by the Emperor Napoleon during his
exile on the island of Elba. It is of a
common type, illustrated with large
wood engravings, and bears on the back
the letter "N," surmounted by the Im
perial crown. It was found in the
Chapel of the Madonna, on the Island
of Elba, and near which the emperor
stayed for 17 days at the beginning of
his exile. It possesses Interest from
the fact that the emperor has under
lined many passages bearing on his
state of mind at the time.
Education of Actresses in Japan.
Japan's first school for the educa
tion of. actresses has been formally
opened at Tokyo, under the direction
of Sada Yokka. Of the young women
who presented themselves for admis
sion about twenty were accepted and
they will take a two years' course.
More than twice that number, all hav
ing the educational requirements, ap
plied for admission, but could not be
accepted because, as the head of the
school,- explained, "their small stature
precluded their assuming the heroine
parts which belong to the dramatic lit
erature of Europe."
The Eternal Puzzle Baby.
Not so very long ago it was cus
tomary to treat children as if they
were stupid and naughty grown up
people. - Now there Is a tendency to
run to the opposite extreme, and to
treat tbim as if they were a great deal
cleverer than their parents. There
are even people who set themselves
deliberately to "study" their children in
much the same spirit as a biologist
would study a new' kind of germ.
London Mirror
More graduates of all the British
nnlversltles except Oxford are found
In the Wesleyan Methodist ministry
this year than In 1907.
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Show us a man who acts smart and
we will show you one who Is in a posV
tlon to make a donkey of himself.
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A new cook may bring the best of
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Lewis' Single Binder straight 6c. You
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He Isn't much of a baker who eats
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B.nk detrings in Seattle for November. 1908, totaled $38,810,322, a pun of
13.000,000 over November, 1907. Building permits issued ut November. j'Waggre
eated $1,253,180. a gain of 300 over November. 1907. Of this amount, $ 80.000 was
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MORE BIO CROPS IN 1908
Another 60,000 set
tiers from the United
States. New dis
trict opened for set
tlement. 320 acres
of land to each et
tier, 160 free
homestead and 160 at $3.00 per acre.
"A rait rich country and contented pro
peroue peopl." Extract rm tvrrtiforultnci
tf m National Slitter. viiit to Wtittm
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Many have paid the entire cost of their
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$20.00 per acre as a result of one crop.
8pring wheat, winter wheat, oats, barley,
flax and peas are the principal crops, while
the wild grasses bring to perfection the
best cattle that have ever been sold on
the Chicago market.
Splendid climate, schools and churches
In all localities. Railways touch most ol
the settled districts, and prices for produce
are always good. Lands may also be pur
chased from railway and land companies.
For pamphlet, map and Information retarding-
low railway rales, apply to Superin
tendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or
tbe authorised Canadian Government Agent:
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