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This Day in Our History
William Jennings Bryan, famous American statesman, was born
fa Salem, 111., on March 19, ¥B6O. Mr. Bryan was the Democratic
■ominee for President on tw/6 occasions, but was defeated in both
instances.
Love in a Millionaire’s Mansion or In a
Poor Man’s Flat Is Lily’s
Problem of Future
Read This First:
LILY LEXINGTON is the spoiled only daughter of the CYRUS
LEXINGTON’S, who have always lived far beyond their means. She
realizes her greatest ambition when she becomes engaged to STALEY
DRUMMOND, a rich bachelor older than herself. On the day after he
proposes to her she goes down town to meet her chum. SUE CAIN.
On the way she sees a man watching her, and feels herself oddly
attracted toward him before she notices that he wears a uniform and
stands beside a taxicab. Moved by sortie strong impulse, she jumps
into the cab, forgetting Sue, and is driven home." He tells her on
the way that he is cab driving because it pays fairly well and gives
him his mornings to himself. He is working on a piston ring inven
tion. As Lily leaves the cab she takes his identification card
bearing his picture and his name, PAT FRANCE. Later he comes
to her house to ask her for it, and Staley, overhearing their talk,
becomes suspicious that Lily is carrying on a flirtation with the
driver. Lily denies it indignantly. ,
The next day she hunts up Pat and his .cab, and tells Pat that she
did have his identification card. But he says that he won’t need it
much longer, for he has just decided to sell his cab to the independent
company he works for to raise more money for the piston ring. Lily
decides to see as much as possible of him before he gets rid of the
cab, but the next time she asks him to drive her home from down
town he refuses, to the huge enjoyment of Sue Cain, who sees him
do it. Sue takes Lily home and tells her she must have lost her mind
to pursue a poor cab driver when she can marry Staley, who’s at
tractive as well as rich.
Mrs. Lexington announces the engagement just as Lily’s made up
her mind to tell Staley that she doesn’t want to marry him, and she
feels like mouse in a trap—helpless. But she makes up her mind
to see Pat once more and finds him in his cab talking to a small,
plain girl, who leaves him when Lily comes up. She finds a news
paper in the cab with her picture, that had been in the society news
that morning, torn out of it.
Now Go On With The Story.
“Don’t you stand there and
tell me what I am! You put thia
basket in the car and we’ll
get out in the country some
place where we can talk! —I’m
a long way from being married
to Staley Drummond, so just
write that on your cuff, Mr,
Taxicab”!
He shook his head again, stub
bornly.
“You do as I tell you!’’ Lily
told him at a shout. She
stamped her foot on the cement
of the driveway.
Carrie came out upon the hack
porch and pretended to be shak
ing crumbs out of a tablecloth
that had no crumbs in it.
Lily knew she was listening.
“Please let’s go, Pat,” she begged
and put the heavy basket into
the car herself. She slammed
the door upon it. “You don’t
want Carrie to hear every word
we say, do you? Come on, hop
in and show me some speed.
Let’s see if we can find a bab
bling brook by 8 o’clock.”
“We shouldn’t do it, you
know.” Pat said, but while he
spoke he was getting into the
car. Lily jumped in front on
the other side and they started.
31-Guiltily she started 994-95-108!
“Carrie will probably run right
upstairs and tell mother that I’ve
eloped with the chauffeur,” she
laughed as they rushed through
the cool morning air that was
sweet with th? fragrance of lilacs
and little new green leaves and
young grass. •
It seemed to blow all her trou
bles away, and for a minute she
forgot Staley Drummond and the
engraved wedding invitations that
the stationer had delivered at the
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house yesterday, and the white
satin wedding dress and the lace
veil with its coronet of waxen
orange blossoms all ready' for the
10th of June. She forgot her
mother and Sue Cain and the dia
mond engagement ring that she
had left lying on the top of her
dressing table. • • »
“Well, here we are, Pat! Just
you and I—and isn’t it heavenly!”
she sighed, and laid her cheek
down against his sleeve.
Pat made a short grunting
sound in his throat and shrugged
one broad shoulder. "I don’t know
whether it’s ‘heavenly’ or not.”
said he. “Your friend. Drummond,
JERRY
But second because of an al
most murderous resentment about
that thing she had told Sylvia—
that thing about supplying him
with the money for the contest.
He wanted to hiss down at her:
“Did you dare to tell anyone you
GAVE money to me?”
Said Mary, rubbing her cheek
against his chin: “Why the grand
silence, beast? I’ve just finished
proposing to you.”
“The answer is NO again.”
“But the ayes have it! It's
been yes for three weeks steadily."
“Did I ever ask you to marry
me. Mary ?”
“t beat you to it.”
“Did I accept?”
“I think your charming speech
was this: ‘Marriage with you,
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is going to be'pretty sore when he
stops at your house this morning
and finds that you’ve gone on a
picnic trip with your chauffeur.”
Lily didn t care. “I’ll have this
one day, anyway,” she made up
her mind. “And suppose Staley
does stop at the house and find
me gone? I can think up some
kind of alibi to square things with
him.”
She giggled. “Carrie -was cer
tainly fixing you up a banquet this
morning when I stopped her,” she
said. “Flowers on the table and
the best silver, and a dish of bar
le-duc—Jimminy crickets, but it
was funny. I never thought I’d
have Carrie for a rival’’ —She
stopped short at the grim half
angry look that crossed the face so
close to hers.
“Yes. that’s just It! You and I
don’t belong in the same class,” he
said gravely. “I belong to the
class that works hard for its liv
ing, and you’re at the top of the
pack!—We’re as far apart as the
two poles, you and I.”
Mary, would be less Intolerable
than with any woman 1 know.' ”
“But still intolerable.”
“Never mind the gallantry, ole
dear,” said Mary, reaching her
hand to his cheek. “But serve me
food now* and I’ll serve the love
later. I’m sorry I launched you
into this prize affair. You've
thought of nothing else.” a
That did it.
“Did you launch me into this
contest. Mary?”
“I suppose I'll have to take,
about three-fourths of the re
sponsibility.' I never did such
talking in my life.”
He took a choking breath and
plunged. “Mary, did you tell any
one you were financing me?”
“Certainly not. That's just be
tween us.”
“Oh—so you think you are!”
“Don’t be quarrelsome. You
know how I figure ycu, Saxon.
I’d be glad to back you for a
great deal more than $4,000.”
“Well, I don’t think that you’re
backing me, Mary! You advanced
the commission on the English
manor house."
“Well, hell’s bells, why the ex
citement! Figure it anyway you
want, darling. Who cares? All
the same two or three months
from now.”
An instinct warned him to de.
sist. Too late to argue about it
now. The facts were clear. The
Pennings had engaged him io <lO
this English manor house. lie
had submitted innumerable
sketches. The plans would ha»e
been finished and the place
builded. But they changed their
wishes from week to week. Then
the mother went to Europe for
the summer. Everything was
tied up. They were going ahead
with it in the spring. Mary had
advanced Saxon this tee.
He now contemplated the trans
action with a violent misgiving.
He wondered hotly what he had
gotten into and began to figure on
reckless means of getting the
money and returning it at once.
The presence of Mary here wish
her head on his shoulder brought
the question of marriage repel
lantly to mind. Why in heaven s
name will you marry if you can
avoid it!
Mary reached out and flicked
the pencil from his hand: “Now
I've been good enough. Sacksie
love. Eight-thirty. Let's wend!"
♦ * ♦
About the same moment Jerry
was stepping along gaily in 'he
warm October evening. She was
in a blessed mood.
"Now I’rn free of him,” she
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► “It's your fault if we are, Pat.
I want to be the best friend you
have anywhere. But you keep
pushing me away. • • • You
keep telling me that I ought to be
true to Staley Drummond when I
don’t want to be. I don’t want
anybody but you, Pat! —Ever!”
She was swept off her feet by her
feeling for him, in that moment.
“Ever since the first day I saw
you I’ve been chasing you. haven’t
1. Pat France? I’ve made a fool
of myself—and I’m not through
making a fool of myself. Pat, I
want to marry you—now, today,
before I can change my mind.”
He did not answer.
But he slowed down the car,
turned it in the road and started
back towards town.
“You’re not taking me home?”
asked Lily, and he shook his head.
“I want to show you something,”
he told her. “Better get into the
hack seat, hadn’t you? You might
pass Drummond or your friend,
Miss Caln, of someone like that on
the road- and it would look better
thought happily. “All that a wench
can do is ‘did!’ If he lives, he
lives; if he dies, he dies'.” And
laughed, recalling his trembling
hand and the urgence of his:
"Won't you please come and see
my plans, Jerry? I’ve been wait
ing and waiting for you to ask.”
She would go indeed. And if
she found Mary sitting up in her
coffin, she’d gather more vicious
nails and hammer her down hard!
But the next w’eek passed. She
found no time. Two very absorb
ing things happened—one delight
ful and one tragic.
It was the beginning of the holi
day rush. They were very busy
at the shop. But Jerry had man
aged between times to do an oil
<>f the ferry lanes at night. This
was the high and mighty event.
Her former teacher, Macphail,
sent her into a heaven of delight
with his comment. He said: "This
is your high point, Jerry. Better
than the promise of all your other
efforts." Immense praise from
him. He hung it and put a price
of $75 on it.
So Jerry soared into dreams.
She began to count the minutes
in the day, grudgingly careful of
them. Next year she’d do an oil
a month.
And they would all jaunt on to
Europe. Marza was aching for a
trip. Robert Caples would be
going again next year. And
Stephanie by the summer would
be truly well. Oh. what a gay
gypsy caravan!
They talked about it dashingly
in the long evenings that they
now spent at home. Quite a dif
ferent home than they had known
a year ago. Almost any night
you cotild see the lights in the
living room now.
“Real old tabbies,” Marza com
mented with a gay irony, as she
cooked dinner with the aid of sev
eral young men who were paying
ardent attention to Stephanie.
They couldn’t take her out, so
they called and helped to set the
table and borrowed books which
they didn’t return and sang songs
and washed dishes.
One of this retinue—a dashing
youpg interne whom Stephanie
met at the hospital—brought his
moving picture machine to the
house twice a week and gave them
the choicest in 10-year-old movies.
“Do you have dances in the
spring?" Stephanie said one eve
ning. "f wonder if I'll be able
to be really up , and going by
then? I'm so afraid the world
will slow up before I’ve a chance
to take my fling.”
"Aren't you having your fling
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THE UGLY DUCKLING
A mother duck was sitting
on her nest by the water.
She sat for a long, long time.
At last the little ducks
came out of their shells.
There was only one big egg left.
“Why does this egg not hatch?”
asked Mother Duck.
“I have sat and sat,
but I will sit one day more.”
(Copyright. 1928. by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
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for you to be back there where
you belong.”
“I’ll stay right here,” said Lily,
her soft chin set firmly.
She sat quietly in her corner of
the seat while they went back over
the familiar ways to her own house.
They swept past it and on into
town.
Through the business section
they went to a humble section be
yond the A. & B. railroad tracks —
a section of little low houses with
neat little back yards, narrow
sidewalks with children playing
on them even at this early hour,
and 4-o’clock hedges—a neat, clean
little neighborhood of people who
were not too poor and certainly
not too rich. A neighborhood of
the finest’ class in the world—the
lower midcHe-class. The back
bone of this great country of mid
dle-class people.
The car turned into a little nar
row street.
“This is where I live,” said Pat,
“in this next honse.”
The house was a low, white one.
By ELENORE MEHERIN
now! Heinie, Erwin. Jimmie and
your gaj r young internes. You’ve
done most remarkably well for
an infant only fifteen months out
of the convent.”
“But,” said she. “I can only
ride a few blocks—only take two
dance steps—can’t hardly even sit
very long. And I want real wild
times.
“Think of the funft when we’re
rolling home tight together!”
She was an orderly small per
son—this Stephanie—and she ad
ded a piquant gladness to Jerry’s
daily hnnwomincs. She even
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MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928
Paste Monday’s first picture on the out
side of your book cover. Cut out pages from
strip and paste in your book. Page opposite
cover is page 1. Read your story and
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• with dark brown shutters. The
morning sun shone in its front
windows so that it seemed to twin
kle and wink from behind its neat
white fence.
There were brown rocking chairs
on the front porch, and big pots of
begonias and scarlet geraniums.
The curtains in the windows were
; crisp white dotted muslin ones, and
a white cat was curled up on one
window ledge.
"Would you live in a house like
that?” asked Pat. “And do every
lick of work in it yourself?”
CHAPTER XIV
If there was one thing in the
world that Lily Lexington knew
absolutely nothing about, that one
thing was housework.
She never had swept a room,
washed a panful of dishes, or
boiled a kettle of water in her
life. She never had so much as
aired her own bed or hung up
her nightgowns in the clothes
closet.
She got up in the morning to a
clean house, to a well-cooked
had regular moments for saying
prayers.
Almost every night when Jerry
arrived, she. found Stephanie
writing to Heinie, who was now
gone to Seattle. Stephanie was
quite in the open about it.
“You miss him more than two
bits’ worth, Steve?”
“Oh. vastly more than that. In
a whole year he didn’t fail me
once. Wouldn’t it be lovely if
you were grateful' and would
marry him for such princely de
votion!’’
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
The Cost of America’s Discovery
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Christopher Columbus himself got only about $2,000 at the rime.
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pedition lasted from August 3, 1492, to March, 1493.
breakfast served to her on a bed
side tray, to a household of which
she was the petted and coddled
darling.
And so she laughtil and shook
her head at Pat’s question.
“Could I do all the work in
that house? Why, Pat, I couldn’t
do the work in any house! I may
as well be honest. If anyone
gave me a basket of socks to be
darned or a pan of dough to be
made into loaves—well, I just
wouldn’t know how to set to
work, that’s all.”
Then her face grew sober. "But
I could learn, I suppose,” she
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“I will sit just one day more,”
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said, slowly. “I am awfully
clever at picking up things.
• • • Why did you ask me if
I’d live in a house like that?”
Pat neatly turned the car at
the end Os the street and started
down the other side. ‘‘Because
yQU said you'd marry me today,”
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give you some idea of what mar
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