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The White Desert
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By Courtney Ryl e y Cooper
A series of mysterious accidents In the
lumber mill left him by his father cn the
condition that he maintain a high out-put,
has convinced.
BARRY HOUSTON that his super
intendent,
FRED THAYER, Is guilty of sabotage.
Motoring from Bcsron to the timber
lands in Colorado, Houston's automobile
plunges over a cliff a few miles from
Tabernacle, where the mill is located.
Houston is nursed bach to health by
BA'TISTE RENAUD, an eccentric but
whole-hearted French Canadian who be
came a trapper following the tragedies
of his son's death in France and the
unsolved murder of his wife. In
Ba'tistle’s cabin, Houston meets.
MEDAINE ROBINETTE, a girl of 20
who owns adjoining timber land.
Ba'ciste agrees to assist Houston and
they decide to investigate a mysterolous
telegram which caused Houston's trip
from Boston.
CHAPTER lll—Continued.
“Is there ever a time when the operator
Isn't there?”
“At noon, ne go out to dinner, and he
leave open the door. If eet is something
you want, walk In."
“Thanks.” Astrange eagerness was in
Houston's eyes. "I think I’ll be able to
get up tomorrow. Maybe I can w;Hk
over there.”
CHAPTER IV.
“Bon —good” came from Ba'tiste, as
they turned Into the little Tillage of
Tabernacle the next day. "Bon —the
agent is leaving.”
"Yon walk as though going into the
station to loaf. Ba'tiste will come be
hind—and keep watch.”
Barry obeyed. A moment more and
he was within the converted box car.
Houston turned hastily toward the file
hook and began to turn the pages of
the original copy which hung there.
Suddenly he bent forward and ex
amined a notation in a strange hand:
“Missent Houston. Resent Blackburn.”
It explained much to Barry Houston,
that scribble of four words. It told
him why he had received a telegram
which meant nothing to him, yet caused
suspicion enough for a two-thousand
mlle trip.
X. C. Blackburn.
Deal Building, Chicago, 111.
Our friend reports Boston deal put
over O. K. Everything safe. Suggest
start preparations for operations in time
compete Boston for the big thing. Have
Boston where we want him and will
keep him there. THAYER. j
Hastily Houston crawled over the rail- ;
lng and motioning to Ba’tiste, led him
away from the station.
The giant traced out tha words. He
looked up sharply.
“Boston? You came from Boston?”
“Yes. It must mean that Thayer's
been running my mill down, to help
along some competitor. You’ll notice
that he says he has me where he wants
me.”
“Oul—yes. But has he? What was
the deal?"
“I don’t know. Suddenly Houston
frowned with presentiment. "Thayer's
been going with Medaine a good deal,
hasn't he?”
“Oui—yes. When Ba’teese can think
of no way to keep him from It.”
“It couldn’t be that he's made some
arrangement with her—about her for
est lands?”
“But Ba’teese would hare heard of
eet,” came the repetition. “No, eet Is
something else. Ba'teese will try to
learn who eet It Is, this Blackburn.’’
They parted, Ba’teese to lounge back
tiny town. Houston to take the
He glanced ahead and noticed the
trim figure of Medaine Robinette swing
ing along the road, old Lost Wing trail
ing in her rear, artride a calico pony
and leading the saddle horse which she
evidently had become tired of riding.
She had not seen him, and Barry hurried
toward her, Jamming his cap into a
pocket that his hand might be free to
greet her. He waved airily as they
came closer and called. But if she heard
him. she gave no indication. Instead,
she turned—swiftly, Houston thought—
and mounted her horse. A moment lat
er, she trotted past him. and again he
greeted her, to be answered by a nod
and a slight movement of the lips. But
the eyes had been averted. Barry could
see that the thinnest veneer of politeness
had shielded something else as she spoke
to him—an expression of distaste, of
dislike, almost loathing I
It was thus that old friends had
passed him by in Boston; it was thus
that men who had been glad to bor
row money from him In other days had
looked the other way when the clouds
had come. A strange chill went over
him.
“Thayer’s told her!”
He spoke the sentence like a man re
peating the words of an execution. Ills
features suddenly had grown haggard.
He stumbled slightly ns he made the next
rise in the road and went on slowly,
silently, toward the cabin.
There Ba’tiste found him. slumped on
the bench, staring out at the white and
rose pinks of Mount Taluehen, yet seeing
none of it.
“Yon worry, huh? Ba’teese help. There
are men at the boarding house.”
“The Blackburn crowd?”
"So. Seven carpenters, and others.
They work for Blackburn. They are here
to build a mill.”
“On Medaine’s land then!" But Ba’tiste
shook .his head.
"No. Bet Is on the five acres own’ by
Jerry Martin. Eet is no good—recks and
rocks—and rocks. They build eet there."
Houston shook his head.
“I can’t see it. I have the only timber
SISTER MARY'S KITCHEN
Drop Cookies
■ ■ O yon like cookies ?
‘ They are easy to
make and yon’Tl
find them always
convenient to hive
. B *8 In the house.
m Stale, dry cook
-51 5 les can be crum-
SA/g* J ® bled, moistened
tSSjF *as with fruit Juice
SS Jf 2m and served with
3 J Jjg whipped cream.
3] This makes a truly
S ' ry delightful and novel
Drop cookies are
Quicker and easier to make than rolled
cookies. >
DROP NTT COOKIES.
Two tablespoons butter, \-t cup sugar,
2 eggs, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking
powder, cup milk, 1 cup flnely chopped
nuts, 1 teaspoon vanilla:
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and
beat with a dover beater. Mix and sift
flour, baking powder and salt. Add
to first mixture. Mix well, taking care
to scrape the mixing spoon and having
every bit of the dough thoroughly mixed.
Add milk and vanilla and mix again
carefully. Stir In nuts.
Drop from a teaspoon onto an oiled
and floured baking sheet and bake fif
teen or twenty minutes In a moderately
slow oven.
DROP MOLASSES COOKIES.
One-half cup sugar, % cup butter. 1
cup molasses. 1 teaspoon cinnamon, JJ
teaspoon gir.-er, ’4 teaspoon cloves, 2
teaspoons r.-i.i 1 run ’:-ig *"nter,
21* cups flour, o _ cup chopped
laislns.
around here with the exception of Me
dalne's land, and you say that she doesn't
come Into that until next year. I’ve
never made a cruise of the territory
around here.”
“What you know about lumber?”
"Not more than any office man could
learn In a year and a half.”
“Then we shall learn. Tomorrow we
shall go. Perhaps Ba'teese can tell you
much. Bten! We shall take Medaine,
out? Yes?”
“I—l don’t think she’d go.”
"Why not ?”
"I’d rather ” Houston was thinking
of a curt nod and averted eyes. "Maybe
we'd better Just go alone, Ba’tiste.”
“Tres bien. We shall go into the forest.
We shall learn much.”
CHAPTER V.
The road narrowed to a mere trail;
Batiste tugged on the reins and motion
ing Barry, left the wagon, pulling forth
an ax and heavy crosscut saw as he did
so. Ba'tiste stopped and motioned toward
a tall spruce.
The ax gleamed In blow after blow.
A deep Incision appeared in the trunk
of the tree, and at the base of it Ba'tiste
started the saw, Barry working on the
other end with his good arm.
“Look ott!”
A crackling sound had come from
above. Ba'tiste abandoned the saw, and
with one great leap caught Houston and
pulled him far to one side, as, with a
roar, the spruce seemed to veritably dis-
Suddenly he bent forward and exam
ined a notation In a strange hand.
integrate, its trunk spreading In great
splintered slabs, and the tree proper
crashing to the ground in the opposite
direction to which it should have fallen,
breaking as it came.
A moment Ba’tiste stood, with his
arm still about the younger man, waiting
for the dead branches, severed from other
trees, to cease falling, and the disturbed
I needles and dust of the forest to settle.
; “Eet break up like an Ice Jam!” came
at last. “That tree, he is not made of
1 wood. He is of glass!”
| Barry Joined him, studying the
S splintered fragments of the spruce, sud
‘ denly to bend forward in wonderment.
! “That's queer, nere's a railroad spike
driven clear Into the heart.”
[ "Huh? What's that?” Ba'tiste bent
j beside him to examine the rusty spike,
then hurried to a minute examination of
j the rest of the tree. “And another,”
; came at last. “And more!"
j Four heavy spikes had revealed them
selves now, each Jutting forth at a place
I where the tree had spilt. Ba’tiste
I straightened.
"Ah. oui! Eet is no wonder I See?
The spike, they have been in the tree
| for mebbe one, two, free year. And
j ’he tree, he is not strong. When the
j winter corns, last year, he split Inside,
from th# frost, where the spike, he
! spread the grain.
“But why the spike*?”
j "Wait!” Ba'tiste, suddenly serious
; ;nmed away Into the woods, to go slow
ly from tree to tree, to dig at them with
j his knife. “I have found another!”
i “The spike, they are all in this little
j section,” he said finally. “I have
| cruise' all about here—there are no
; more.”
j “But why should trees grow spikes?”
j “Ah, why? So that saws will break
at the right time! Eet Is easy for the
iron hunter at the mill to look the other
j way—eef he knows what the boss want,
j Eet Is easy for the sawyer to step out
j of the way while the blade, he hit a
! spike!”
A long whistle traveled over Hous
ton's lips. This was the explanation of
! broken saws. Just at the crucial mo
ment!
“Simple, isnf It?’’ he asked caustically.
, “Whenever it's necessary for an *accl
-1 dent’ to happen, merely send out into
■ the woods for a load of timber from a
certain place.
“I've seen enough, Ba’tiste. I’m going
to Denver and contract myself an entirely
j new crew."
They drove 1n silence to the clearing
: of Barry’s mill, with its backhouse. Its
diminutive commissary. Houston leaped
j from the wagon but at the door of the
I commissary he whirled, staring. O bug
gy was Just coming over the brow of
j the little hill which led to the mill prop
erty. Rome one had called to him—a
woman whose voice had caused him to
: start, then, a second later, to go run
! ning forward.
Agnes Gurdon was beside Thayer in
Cream butter and sugar. Add mo
lasses and mix well Mix and sift flour
and spices. Add to first mixture. Dis
solve soda In boiling water sad add
to dough. Stir till perfectly smooth and
blended.
Beat eggs tni light and add to batter.
Add raisins and drop a spoonful of the
batter Into buttered and floured gem
pans. Bake fifteen minutes In a hot
oven.
ROLLED OATS DROP COOKIES.
i One cup sugar, 1 cup butter and lard
mixed, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons sweet milk,
1 2 cups rolled oats, 2 cups flour, tea
: spooon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon
; cinnamon, 1 cup chopped raisins.
Cream butter and lard and sugar. Add
lone-half cop flour. Add eggs well
beaten. Add rolled oats Mix thor
oguhly and add milk. Work Into dough.
.Mix and sift flour, salt, soda and cin
namon. Stir raisins Into dry mixture.
Add this to first mixture. Drop from
teaspoon onto a buttered and floured
baking sheet and bake twelve minutes
in a hot oven.
DROP BROWN SCOAR COOKIES.
Two cups brown sugar, 1 cup but
ter, ,1 eggs, 6 tablespoons sweet milk,
2 teaspoons baking powder, V 4 teaspoon
soda, 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon,
1 cup curants, V 4 teaspoon salt.
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs
well beaten. Mix and sift flour, soda,
baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Add
currants to this mixture. Add half to
first mixture. Add milk. Mix thoroughly
aDd add remaining dry ingredients.
Trop from teaspoon onto buttered
'loured pans and bake In a hot orwfl
CopyJght, 1022.
the buggy, leaning forth, on* hand ex
tet. ed as Barry hurried toward her,
her black eyes flashing eagerness, her
full, yet cold Ups parted, her olive
skinned cheeks enlivened by a flush of
excitement as Houston came to her.
“Agnes," he gasped. “Why did you — r
“I thought—” and the drawling voice
of Fred Thayer had a suddenly sobering
effect on Houston, “that you weren’t
hurt very bad. Your memory came back
awful quick, didn't It?”
(Continued in Our Next Issue).
LOCAL COUNCIL
CLOSES SEASON
WITH PROGRAM
New officers for the coming year were
Installed and accomplishments of the pas
year review ed at the last regular meet
ing of the Local Council of Women Tues
day afternoon at the Fropylaeum.
Mrs. A. J. Clark, former recording sec
retary and newly elected president of the
council, was presented by Mrs. Allen TANARUS,
Fleming, last year’s president, who ex
pressed her thanks for the cooperation
which she received last year, and con
gratulated Mrs. Clark tipon her election.
The other officers who began their term
of office Tuesday were: Mrs. Felix T.
McWhlrter, vice president; Mrs. E. A.
Williams, recording secretary; Mrs. O.
C. Lukenbill, treasurer; Mrs. C. L.
Stubbs, corresponding secretary; Mrs. B.
S. Gadd, Mrs. Melvin Moon, Mrs. T. W,
Demerley, Mrs. Fleming, Mrs. Frank H.
Lahr, Mrs. W. H. Blodgett, Mrs. S. R.
Artman, committee chairmen.
Committee reports were given by Mrs.
W. T. Demerly, Mrs. W. H. Blodgett,
Mrs. O. C. Lukenbill, Mrs. B. S. Gadd,
Mrs. S. R. Artman, Mrs. E. A. Williams,
Mrs. Mattie Ryder, Mrs. Philip Zoercher
and Mrs. E. A. Butler, as well as from
the corresponding secretary, Mrs. C. L.
Stubbs, and the treasurer, Mrs. O. C.
Lukenbill.
An interesting program made up of a
vocal solo by Miss Js’orma Mueller, ac
companied by Mrs. J. A. Moag; a musi
cal monolog by Mrs. S. R. Artman, for
wh;?h Mrs. C. B. Fawkner acted as ac
companist, and an amusing comedy,
“Pioneer Mothers Listening In,” written
by Mrs. Artman, in which the characters
were portrayed by Mrs William Gadd,
Mrs. O. C. Lukenbill, Mrs. A. J. Clark,
Mrs. W. M. Alford and Miss Carolina
Thompson, was given.
WILL DISCUSS
LEGISLATION
A discussion of legislation to be taken !
up at the Lafayette State convention will
be a special feature at the meeting of j
the League of Women Voters, Friday aft ‘
ernoon in the Chamber of Commerce. 1
The league has a membership of between
eight and nine hundred members, ac
cording to Mrs. Allen T. Fleming, newly
elected president.
Mrs. Fleming, who has Just retired as
president of the Local Council of Wom
en, will be Installed as president of the
league at the Friday meeting.
Clubs and Meetings
Members of the auxiliary to Bright
wood chapter of the Eastern Star, No.
399. will meet Thursday afternoon at the j
home of Mrs. Robert Alexander, .">312 j
Roosevelt avenue.
T. W. Rennet Circle, No. 23. Ladle* j
of the G. A. R., have postponed their (
meeting, which was to have been held ;
the first Thursday in the month, until j
the third Thursday of the month.
The Past Chiefs' Association, Myrtle !
Temple, No. 7. Pythian Sisters will meet j
Thursday with Mrs. Jean King, 1711 j
Bartli avenue for a 1 o’clock luncheon. I
DANCES AT SPRING FESTIVAL
MISS IRIS MYERS
One of the most attractive members of Alls* Hester C. Bailey’s bailee, ap
pearing'Wednesday evening at the annual spring festival in Connersville, Is lit
tle Aliss Iris Myers. This young dancer has been seen in oriental and toe
dances for tho last two years. She is also a charming member of Alias Bliley’s
“Pink and Blue Revue.” She Is tho daughter of Air. ana Mrs. Fred Alyers.
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COURTCUSTOMS
Democratic Spirit of Real
Queen Wins Admiration
of King.
Two wonderful girls, one who ran a
telephone for the Army and another In
the “Y,” both from tbe Middle West,
were at headquarters the day the king
and queen of Belgium arrived. With
others they were sent to serve tea, and
they served It. The “Y” girl, taking a
young captain whose presence made her
eyes glisten to her Majesty, said:
“Captain Blank, meet the queen.”
And the queen, holding out her hand
and never batting an eye to show that
all the conventions had been thrown to
the winds, said;
“Captain, I am very glad to meet you."
They served tea—served It to tho king,
the queen, the general of the American
Army, and other Important people. There
was cake besides tea, and it was not easy
*■o drink tea and eat cake standing. The
telephone girl Insisted that General
Pershing must sit down. The king was
standing, and of course General Pershing
continued to do the same.
“Will you sit, down?” said another girl
to the king, “There are plenty of chairs.”
The girl had done her Job In France—
a Job of which many a man might have
been proud—and on her left breast she
wore a military medal for valor. The
king touched the medal, smiled at her,
and said he was gl.ul there were plenty
of chairs, for he knew places where there
were not.
But General Pershing and his cake s till
bothered the little Illinois girl, who went
back at him again and asked hlin to sit
down and enjoy his cake. The king in
dicated to the general to be seated.
No one but General Pershing would
have k iown what to do between the rule
to stand when a king stands and the
rule to obey tbe order of the king. He
gracefully placed his plate on the side
of the table, half-seated himself on It,
which was a compromise, and went on i
enjoying himself. The king sat down.
—From the March Delineator.
fStgaadll
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Springate, 913 East
Maple road, have as their house guests
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Sprlnggate of Spring
field, 111.; Mr. and Mrs. Don P. Strode
and Mr. Robert Strode of Kokomo; Mrs.
It. I>. McCandless of Eustla, Fla.; Mr.
and Mrs. Will Miller of Oxford and Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Wills of Muncle, who will
attend the wedding, Wednesday evening,
of Miss Ruth George* cn a Sprlnggate uud
Arthur A. Browne.
The marriage ceremony will be per
formed at 8:30 o’cloA at the Episcopal
Church of the Advent.
• • •
Mrs. Donald A. Foxter, 3742 North
Pennsylvania street, was the hostess
Tuesday for the Inst meeting of the year
of th-> Ileyl Study Club. Luncheon was
served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs.
Preston C. Rubush. pink tulips were at
tractively used in decorating. A talk hy
Mrs. Demarches Brown on “Greece" wus
given following the luncheon. Mrs. Fos
ter had as her guests Mrs. A. M. Alexan
der, Mrs. Frederic C. Bala, Mrs. Laura
Blanton, Mrs. Harvey Crossland, Mrs I*.
A. Davis, Mrs. F. P. Carter, Mrs. William
C. Gardener, Mrs. Tilden Greer. Mrs. C.
B. Hardy. Mrs. Joseph B. Keeling. Mrs.
George Knodle, Mrs. ,1. Burdette l.lttle,
Mrs. It. B. l ong. Mrs. John Mary, Mrs.
Walter Mayer. Mrs. Fr.inklln McCray,
Mrs. J. B. Murphy, Mr*. O. F. N>u Mrs
Willard New, Mrs. Vern B. Shitrrlt*.
Mr* W. II Shell, Mrs. T. N. Shinier, Mrs.
F. P. Woolery, Mrs. Charles Morgan, Mrs.
C. A. Borchers, Mrs, M. T. Flannery of
Trinidad, Colo.; Mrs. Demarchus C.
Brown, Miss Mary Gary and Mrs. C. T.
Foster,
• • *
Mrs. L. J, Shirley, 5377 East Wash
ington street, was the hostess Wednesday
morning for the Beta chapter of the
Delphian Society. The subject for dis
cussion was “Babylonia and Assyria.”
Mrs. Demarchus Brown led the discus
sion, In which the following members
took part: Mrs. R. M. Moore, Mrs. W.
L. Ewing, Mrs. Cora Williams, Mrs. Si
mon Relfler, Mrs. H. E. Robertson, Mrs.
George Hughey and Mrs. C. W. Whaley.
Mile. Jeanne Badaire spoke Tuesday
evening before Le Cercle Franca'is at
the Woman's Department Club on “Ko
tynd In History and in Literature.” The
meeting was the last of tha season for
this organization.
* •
Mrs. L. W. Beasley spoke on "Legends
of Our Island Possessions” at the
Wednesday Afternoon Club meeting in
the home of Mrs. B. H. Bass, 3527 Broad
way. Other features of the program
were tho local council rei>ort, “current
events,” the Bible lesson and several
musical numbers.
* •
A guest meeting of the Theta Mn so
rority will be held Wednesday evening at
the home of Mrs. Edward Mackey, 1003
Ilarvey street.
• ■* *
The Minerva Club held Its regular
Wednesday meeting at’the home of Mrs.
W. H. Russell, 2844 North New Jersey
street.
• •
“Some Things Parents Should Tell
Their Children" was the subject of an ad
dress by Mrs. I. N. Londaon, before the
Wild Flower Clnb Wednesday afternoon.
The club met at the home of Mrs. Louis
Kosfelt, 1558 Ashland avenue.
* • •
Misses Norma and Alma Eiwert enter
tained members of the Sigma Delta Sigma
sorority Wednesday afternoon at their
home, 4153 College avenue. •
* • •
Mrs. Richard Stuart left Wednesday for
her home In Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Stuart
has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Mere
dith Nicholson, 1321 North Meridian
street,
• • •
The annual spring recital of Miss Anna
Denny's primary pupils will be held
Wednesday evening In Cropsy nail. The
following students will take part
in the recital: Mis 4 Constahce Borman.
Miss Harriott ftnd Lucllo Meyer, Miss
Vera Mania, M.*s Velma Nolting. Rus
sell Simpson, Miss Rosemary Dugan,
Mer!o Walker, Miss Wilma and Miss
Thelma Gahan, Miss Alma Flnkaman,
Miss Merle and Marguerite Kelly, Harry
Rhutt, Miss Allco Hoenor, Miss Freida
and Miss Hilda Ruble, Miss Florence
Grossman, Eugene Kraekenfelds, Miss
Ixdsann Buchanan, Miss Margaret
l’yers. Miss Helena Baumer, Miss Anna
Shafer, iMlss Grace Buckler* and Earl
and George Dudley. Assisting them will
he Miss Roberta Carlys'e, Ray Saunders,
Charles Spoon and Wayne Van Sickles.
* • *
A theater rrty at the Murat Thursday
afternoon will take the piace of the regu
lar meeting of the Woman's Advance
Club.
• • •
The Aftermath Club will meet Thurs
day at the home of Mrs. C. F. Weir, 242S
Broadway. “Australia" will he the sub
ject of tho afternoon's program.
Mrs. L. W. Saotin wiil b the hostess
Thursday afternoon for a meeting of
the Mystic Tie Club at her home, 2170
North Meridian. Mrs. John Brenner will
have charge of tho program, which will
be on "Mother's day."
"Picturesque Spots iti Indiana” was
the subject of a pap t by Mrs. Roy Stuart
at. the meeting of t.O Irvington Mothers’
Study Club, which net Wednesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Max Keasoner,
Tenth and Arlington avenue. A tulk on
“Thrift" by Mrs. Moore nnd several
musical numbers were also a part of the
afternoon program.
• • •
The Women’s Social Circle of the First
Baptist Church entertained in tbe parlor*
of the church Tuesday afternoon. The
afternoon's progrt m w as in charge of the
section of which Mrs. T. B. Davis and
Mrs. Nora McCain are tha leaders. Yel
] >vv and white, carried out in the draper
e* and the floral decorations of Jonquils,
lilacs and splrea, prevailed throughout
the rooms. Refreshments which also car
rled out the prevailing color scheme, were
served The program of the afternoon
included a talk by Mrs. Felix T. McWhlr
ter on "Reading the Bible In the Scnools,"
n number of piano selections by Carl
Sell, vocal numbers by G"i\je Ca ’.el, ac
companied ly Mr, Sell, and a Maypole
dance by the kindergarten pujdls of Miss
Whitlock.
• • •
Mrs. Charles Silvers, 2516 Martiudale
avenue, was the hostess Saturday eve
ning for a surprise party in honor of the
twelfth birthday anniversary of her son,
Clarence W. Layton. Thirty guests, his
schoolmates, enjoyed an evening of
games and contests. Refreshments and
decorations were appropriate for tho sea
son.
A Woodruff Place home will be the
scene of an attractive wedding ceremony
Wednesday evening. Tho ceremony will
be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Valen
tine Bachman, 798 East drive, whose
daughter, Charlotte, will become the
bride of Leiand Carter at 8 o’clock.
• * •
Yellow tulips in a graceful black bas
ket and gold tapers In holders of black
decorated the table for the luncheon
bridge with which Mrs. Frank Wampler
entertained Tuesday afternoon at her
home, 2161 North Meridian street. Airs.
Wampler's guests were Airs. Hays 11.
Buskirk, Airs. Earl Matlock, Mrs Hubert
Woodsmall, Airs. Hadley Green, J r. Wil
liam Barton, Airs. C. Ai. Gibbs cud Airs.
Charles Gennner.
• • •
One hundred members of the Drama
League and their guests, under the di
rection of W. N. Otto, president of the
league, were entertained Tuesday evening
at the Alurat for the opening perform
ance ol the Stuart Walker Company.
* * •
Afrs. C. I. Smith, 8300 North Meridian
street, entertained Tuesday evening with
a dance at which announcement was
made of the engagement of Miss Ethel
CroSvson of Birmingham, Ala., and Wil
liam Rue Scuff,
• • *
A luncheon at the nooster Athletic
Club, followed by a theater party at
Keith’s, will close tbe season for tho
women of the Klwanls Bowling League.
The following members have sent In res
ervations; Mrs. John Hook, Airs. Harry
Krais, Mrs. A. E. Chambers, Airs. O. F.
Hammer, Mrs. C. B. Mayor, Airs. R. P.
Obllnger, Mrs. T. F. Ross, Airs. 11. L.
Repp, Airs. L. AV. Turner, Mrs. John K.
Weiser, Airs. C. R. Ammerman, Mrs. H.
L. Dittmnr, Airs. Charles Pittlnger and
Airs. W. D. Keenan.
DUST.
When sweeping a room, it is best to
lift up the edgos of tho rug. Dust
gathers there and blows out into the
room proper.
DID YOU
KNOW—
You should acknowledge wedding
gifts on note paper of the conventional
size. White is an excellent choice, but
pale gray and cream are quite correct.
You should acknowledge gifts r.s
promptly as possible, addressing the
note to the wife If the gift is frtrn
a married couple. Suggested phrase
ology would be. "The very beautiful
cut glass vase which reached me yes
terday, with your own and Mr. Daw
son's card attached "
AIRS. DF.MARCnUS BROWN.
At 1 o'clock guest luncheon, Wednesday, at the Columbia Club, at which Mrs.
Demarches Brown was the principal speaker, marked the last meeting of the
year for the Jesse Brown .Study Club. M rs. Brown is one of the city's most
prominent club women and lecturers. Her subject for the Study Club luncheon
was her recent trip to Florence, Italy.
The ADVENTURES of
Raggedy Raggedy
ffipL Ann and Andy Jgßa
By JOHNNY GRDELLE
As Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
sat In the grass down In the yellow
meadow they watched two little* spider
boys Jumping about from one blado of
grnss to another. "I guess they are
spinning their webs to catch the little
tiny Insects!” said Raggedy Andy. “I
guess as soon as they have their webs
finished I will take my rag hand and
wipe the webs off the grass, so none
It treat ure j w pet caught la
t hem !”
“Maybe we had better 'shoo' them away
before they have ail their work for noth
ing!" saiil kind-hearted Raggedy Ann.
"I would not Ilka to think of some
poor little creature being caught,” said
.At^
Andy. “Rut don’t you know what they
J .ire doing?” asked a tiny little voice Just
j above Raggedy Ann's head, and, looking
up. she saw a cute little Meadow Elf
I only two inches high, sitting upon a
j swaying weed and making himself swing
t by kicking his feel out in front of him.
: "No!" Raggedy Ann and Andy replied
! in one breath.
j "Then, I'll tell you!’’ the little Meadow
j Elf laughed in a teeny weeny tiukly
i Ellin laugh. “Those little spiders are
the tiny creatures telephone linemen and
they are stringing the telephone lines
from one little teeny weeny village to
another, so that the little creatures can
talk to one another without having to
walk so far."
“1 never thought of that!’’ Raggedy
Andy said. “I'm glad wo did not wipe
their webs away;’’
“Y'es, Indeed!" tho little Meadow Elf
j said. “That would have made them a
j great deal of extra work! Haven’t you
ever noticed early in the morning after
a heavy dew, that the grass is covered
with .fine spider webs.
‘ They stretch them great distances and
they tiro plainly seen when covered with
dew
“Yes, wo have seen them lots of times!”
Raggedy Ann replied.
“Well,” said tho little Meadow Elf,
“those are telephone wires stretching
from one teeny weeny village to an
other!
“It makes It very nice for Mama Lady- ,
bug If any of the children get the Lady- j
bug colic, for, instead of Daddy Ladybug
having to fly for the Doctor, all he has
to do Is to tinkle the llftlo Bluebell tele
phone, and soon the Doctor Is there to
give little Baby Ladybug a spoonful of
loney.
“Why, Just the other day Mama Lady
oug said to little Willie Ladybug: ‘Wil
lie, run down to the Junebug Grocery
and get me a sack of flour and a dozen .
eggs and a boltle of milk. I want to I
make a cake for supper.’
"So Willie Ladybug hopped on his lit
tle velocipede and with a basket on the
handlebars and fifteen Bugpennies In his
pocky, he went spinning down the path
toward the .Tunebug Grocery. But when
Willie Ladybug came to the great, large
Brown-up-people’s path, a boy and a girl
came along and stepped right on Willie’s
velocipede. Willie just managed to jump
upon the little boy's shoe, and lie hung
there until he was carried to their house.
“Well, sir,” said the little Meadow Elf.
“when Willie Ladybug did not return
with the groceries, Mama Ladybug called
up Aunt Jennie Junebug and asked: ‘Has
little Willie Ladybug started home yet?’
And Aunt Jennie said: ‘My goodness,
Mama Ladybug. He hasn’t been here!’
So then Mama Ladybug called up every
body and finally me. I hunted every
where for Willie Ladybug and finally I
flew by the home of the little boy and
girl and I heard someone say: ‘Ladybug,
CLUB LEADER
Lady-bug, fly away home. Your house
Is on fire and your children will burn!'
Os course they did not know that the
Ladybug they had was Willie Ladybug,
I Just a little weeny teeny boy Ladybug,
and little Willie's heart was going pitty
pat so fast ho did not know what to do,
so I flow up to him and whispered:
‘Spread your wings and fly out of the
window.’ Tho two children could not Me
mo so when Willie Ladybug flew out of
tho window they thought he was (lying
home '.o his children! Ila, ha, ha!” And
fir- ,’ittle Meadow Elf laughed so harl he
lost l's balance and fell right into Rag
gedy Ann's apron pocket. After taking
oft h'.s little hat to see if the feather was
broken, he went on: “So as soon as we
got out of sight we flew down In the
grass and called up Mama Ladybug. ‘Pve
got Willie!’ I told her. It took us a
long time to fly back home, but we got
there before the lightning bug boys lit
the Weeny Weeny Town street lights,
1 and every one was happy.
Daddy Ladybug had gone to the June
Bug’s grocery and we had lovely cookies
and honeydew Ice cream and J unchug
lollypops for supper, and I stayed ill
night with them!
"Hello!” cried the little Meadow Elf.
“there goes my telephone bell now!” and
wilh whisk he was up and away skim
ming over the tall grass toward his home
amongst the wild rose bushes.
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
looked with renewed Interest at tho lit
tle spider boys putting up the telephone
wires and both thought “we will be care
ful after this that we never brush them
down a* we walk through the great yel
low meadow.”
MRS. KAHN IS
PRESIDENT OF
JEWISH WOMEN
Airs. Nathan Kahn will succeed Afrs.
Benjamin Aioyer as president of the
Council of Jewish Women, as a result
of the election held by the council at Its
last meeting. Airs. David Lurey was
chosen first vie© president. Airs. Leo j
Krauss, second vice president; Airs.
Henry Rlatt, recording secretary; Airs.
Samuel J. Mantoll, corresponding secre
tary; Airs. IT. Benjamin Malks. financial
secretary; Mrs. Herbert Sclig, auditor,
and Airs. Helen Danby, tre surer. Di
rectors who will bold office from 1922
until 1925 are Afrs. David H. Kahn and
Airs. Wolf Sussman.
j Why I so obstinately proceeded down
i the street, except from plain temper, I
' shall never know. An soon as I was
! quite sure that Mr. John Cutbbert Mad
ison was pursuing his bride, I felt de
cldedely better. But I kept on walking.
Jack on the opposite side of the street
and a little behind me.
Had I known any one in the neigh
borhood I would have invented an ex
cuse for a call, anything to relieve the
tension of the situation. After wo had
turned and twisted through a dozen
streets I wearied of the chase.
I wanted my man to overtake me. I
had been so silly, Jack was so good, I’d
be decent, I’d tell him so.
As I neared the park a sudden inspira
tion animated me. Thero was a certain
lonely walk through the deepest uoods
where Jack and I‘ often had wandered.
I would lure my husband to the fa
miliar spot and then I would surprise
him; I would turn suddenly and tnen we
would make up.
The steps of my pursuer lagged, finally
I lost the sound of them. Doubtless they
were deadened by the carpet of decaying
leaves.
I smiled to think how obstinate my
adorable husband could get when pushed
too far. It was a discovery. Jack was
obstinate merely because he didn’t un
derstand me, not because there was a
single disagreeable trait about him. I
could hardly wait to make up.
It was warm after the spring rain. I
was fagged when I reached the fallen
tree In the secluded /nook where Jack
and 1 often had rented In our engaged
Our First Year
Chapter XXXII—My Almost Tragic Mistake
■— BY A BRIDE.
MAY 3,1922.
MRS. COOLIDGE
THEN AND NOW
IN WASHINGTON
Tells of Order to ‘Please Step
On’ When She First Visited
White House.
The wife of the Vice President of the
United States, like the First Lady, is
exempt from making calls, and except in
acknowledging dinner or luncheon invl-i
tations, is exempt from returning calls ’
If, however, she is a sociably inclined
woman in good health, it Is wise for the
Second Lady to do some polite visiting.
Mrs. Thomas R. Afarshall was an inde
fatigable visitor. She liked it—-and liv
ing in a hotel, with no family cares and
with all the world as her playground,
she visited every day in the week in
time of peace. During the war she pre
sided almost every day at a sewing
circle composed of the “Ladies of the
Senate.” These ladies—wives, mothers,
daughters, sisters, and sometimes moth
ers-in-!aw of Senators—are still hold
ing weekly meetings under Airs. Coolidge,
who succeeded automatically to Mrs.
Marshall’s place. Considerably younger
than her predecessor, but with a wide
social experience to guide her, Mrs. Cool
idge nevertheless frankly enjoys her po
sition. She is fond of telling of her
first visit to Washington some twelve
or fourteen years ago.
This was as a spring tourist, with a
party of New England school teachers.
Aliss Grace Goodhue, as she was then,
“doing” the White House paused in
amazement at the sight of the concert
grand gold piano in the north end of
the east room. The highly enameled
crests of the States that form the deco
ration of this unusual instrument at
tracted her particular attention causing
her to linger some thirty seconds or bo
zehlnd hpr companions. In those days
no loitering was allowed, even In the
White House grounds, and Aliss Good
hue was civilly but emphatically re
quested to "please step on” by a mem
ber of the District police force.
As the young matron to whom Mrs
Coolidge (“id this story remarked, “Well®
you certainly have stepped on!” —From
the Delineator.
HOW TO VISIT
AT WHITE HOUSE
Society Editor Outlines Proper
Method.
In an article published in the March
Delineator, on “White House parties.”
Margaret Wade, dean of Washington so
ciety editors, tells what one must do if she
wishes to call on the wife of the Presi
dent of the United States.
“The procedure for the average visitor
is to leave a card at the big front door,”
says this authority. “Every card is sup
posed to be duly cataloged and ultimately
acknowledged by an Invitation to a gar
den party, reception, musicals or tea. In
vitations to dinner are decided by official
reasons, in which Invitation seeks tha
guest.
“Following the leaving of the card or
cards—one of her own and two of her
husband’s, as he is supposed to be catling
on the President and the President's
wife —the visiting lady goes home and
writes a note to the social secretary, or,
if the acquaintance warrants it, to the
President's wife, asking if she may have
the honor of calling in person.
“These written requests are rarely de
nied, the custom of past Administrations,
as well as of today, being to send an en
graved card, bearing the seal of the
United Kiaies and the name of the
dent's wife.” ™
Dr. Bishop's Talks
BV DR. R. 11. BISHOP.
VERY red-blooded boy
who has “snitched”
green apples knows
jfjj I ■ what cramps are.
1 ► Green appies are dear
to the heart and bad
for the stomach of
|Jg li the small boy, and
•jB ; diarrhoea are usually
< • the price he pays for
-. eating them,
j lAh J Diarrhoea and
i cramps are due to the
jL-A same cause, something
fatWa. \ i n the stomach or
Intestine that Is Irritating. When the
stomach or intestines try to expel this
Irritating matter, then cramps and diar
rhoea results.
The best treatment Is to give something
to get rid of the irritating material. Cas
tor oil or a Seidlitz poyder ire the best
household remedies. If the cramps are
severe, a little sirup of ginger in hot
water will help to control the pain. A
hot-water bag on the abdomen will also
be valuable for the same purpose.
It is well take little food or water dur
ing such an attack, as they will make
both the diarrhoea and the cramps
worse. When the patient begins to feel
better, milk, preferably boiled, is the
best thing to take, then some soft milk
toast. afterward eggs, getting back to
tho usual food gradually, and going back
to milk If other food causes the diar
rhoea or cramps to return.
Sometimes snch attacks are very severer
Tho pain Is Intense, and prostration so™
great that one can hardly raise his head.
The simple remedies mentioned may be
given at once. with a teaspoonful of aro
matic spirits of ammounia in half a
glass of water for the prostration.
Do not neglect to send for a doctor,
however. Yon may have ptomaine poison
ing or appendicitis. Remember, that al
most all patent cholera mixtures contain
opium and are dangerous, and even
deadly, for children.
i days. The log was damp, tut I sat
down to listen for Jack's following steps.
I heard a twig suap.
I calmly adjusted my hat, opened my
handbag and powdered my nose daintily,
the action was supposed to indicate my
complete indifference to the man behind
me.
Another twig snapped.
A heavy hand clutched my shoulder. I
stiffened with terror. Jack had never
touched me like that!
A rough voice growled close to riy ears
"Keep still! Give me them pearls!
Quick!”
I looked np Into an unshaven face, a
red, vicious face.
The daring of the creature made me
furiously angry.
“Take your hand away!” I cried, as I
sprang to my feet and faced the man,
and beheld also a small gun partially
concealed in his huge hand.
"These are cheap beads, not pearls,” jg
explained. “They mean something to me™
You can ■ have my handbag. There's
money in It.”
“Maybe. But they’re a snappy looking
job, all right. Good enough for me. Hand
’em over. Or shall I take ’em ?”
"Here's my watch.” I took it from
iny handbag.
At that moment the bushes behind the
man parted softly.
I smiled pleasantly at the gunman. I
chattered persuasively, kept talking to
gain time.
Jack was not armed. The man bad a
gun.—Copyright, 1922.
(To Be Continued.)