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Montana RUBBER AND METAL STAMPS? Stencils, check signs. PACIFIC STAMP WORKS, W. Ilf Sprague Av.. Spokane. Wash. shdTyourThic^^ NYBTRAND POULTRY CO.. Butte. Montana, tor Top Price* and Prompt Returns. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FISHING RESORT— 2OO ft. water front Including tide lands. 18 goods boats. 8 cabins, completely furnished. A money making proposition on the wonderful Hood canal. SMALL FARM—Kitsap county. Washington. 20 acre farm. 8 room house, modern. Barn, chicken sheds, outbuildings. 3 cows, 300 chick ens. Crop all in. Blacksmith shop and tools. Water, lights, and telephone. Farm machinery. 50 minutes to Seattle. Will make money from the start. This will bear Investigation. S. G. WOLFKILL. 404 Cambrian Ave.. South, Bremerton, Washington FIVE FAVORITE RUSSELL PRINTS Stock! cl which were cshhwtol tor MV* ml ■•■the, hr* mbl. cvcllcblc. They »rci COWBOY uni The CINCH RING FIRST WAGON TRACKS IN WITHOUT KNOCKING When HORSEFLESH COMES HIGH 50 Cents EACH (Postpaid in the U. A) DeeertpiHe list of M other Raeoeß Prieto, on ronnoot. AS are In ooloro. MONTANA NEWSPAPER AMN. GRRAT FALLS, MONTANA M. N. A, JULY if, IMT <D This Courting Chair Carried Romance By CHRISTINE JOPE-SLADE Published by Special Arrangement With The Chlc.,o Tribune-New York Ncwe Syndicate. Incorporated IN TWO PARTS—PART TWO The flat was deserted except for Mary the maid when she brought in her crowd. There was the drawing mas ter, the matron, the maths master, the French mistress, the assistant head mistress—all the usual outfit of a big modern co-educational day school. was Jerky and casual in her hos pitality. The headmaster was watching her curiously. He had always regarded her with enormous admiration, a modern Joan of Arc. He was a widower of 47* and her vitality, her hearty gusto for living made him feel old and dry and dusty and academic. Tonight she sur prised and startled him with some quality of wistfulness he had never associated with his slightly strident games’ mistress. It piqued and bewil dered him. • • • Not one of her guests, her familiar associates In her daily work, guessed for one moment that her knees were trembling under her as she deliberately crossed the room and sat down In the Pollack women’s courting chair She had mocked it, derided it, paro died its family legends, disbelieved in it—and now she supplicated the power of a magic she denied. She sat there watching her guests from her vantage and there was a quietness and a sweetness about her they had never seen before. “Did you see the funny little Japan ese delegate at the conference?” some one said. Some one else said: “Didn’t you teach in Japan, Miss Pollack?” “Yes; for a year.” 1 The headmaster had forgotten. Per haps he never knew. They plied her with questions. Sitting in the courting chair, Petunia Pollack began to talk. She had not known she could talk like that—painting things in words. She laid Japan at their feet—and some thing else she did not mean to reveal; her own clean, immature, half-boyish philosophy—the Greek ideal—a fit mind I from a fit body. Listening and watch | ing her, the headmaster saw clearly I that all this passionate zeal for physical fitness among her pupils had one origin —the production of shining, simple, decent, If slightly elemental, human beings. He thought: "If one but touched that mind in that splendid body, how it would unfold with all that love and belief in youth behind it—that desire for service.’’ He felt sad and uncertain, and deeply touched and stirred by this revelation of the mind and soul of a girl whose splendid character and physique he had long admired. It was an unexpected revelation. It upset him. He left the flat with all of his con freres. Then he yielded to a sudden over whelming impulse, and when he had said good-night to the last of them he went back to Petunia Pollack's flat. He said, stammering, but with mount- I ing excitement: "This is unpardonable! i But I wanted to thank you for a mar velous evening—for all your experiences iin Japan. You held us spellbound. I couldn’t go to bed without thanking । you again." She had loved the Head such a i long, long time. She knew that now I quite simply and honestly. Ever since i the day when he had engaged her she had loved this big, grave, quiet i man. “I want to resign," she said sud denly, fiercely. "I found that out to night when I was talking about Japan and those Japanese girls," she said. "I found it out quite suddenly; some thing I never knew before." He followed his bewildered Amazon. She sat down in the magic courting chair. She did not know she sat there. Once more the gift of speech touched । her and set her free of herself. “We shouldn’t make girls like men,” she said slowly. “They shouldn’t be too strong, too self-reliant. We shouldn’t make fighters and free men of girls. There’s a loneliness—and —a sense of frustration and misdirection in it that is wrong. I was born strong. I’ve built it up and built it up until it has set me apart. I have to ‘act’ athlete, ‘talk’ athletics. I dress sporty —and I can’t escape! Do you know that all my life I’ve ACHED to be a little woman—even delicate! Yes. even that! I'm six foot and I’ve never had a day’s serious illness in my life! Why should any one think I’m tired and carry a bag of golf clubs for me when I can shoulder a trunk. Why? I’ve been noisy out of a kind of shame be cause I was so big and hefty. I've ached to be looked after and petted ever since I can remember. It’s natural to all women and natural to all men to want to pet them and care for and firotect them. I am not going on train ng girls out of their heritage—not now I see.” He said slowly: "I have wanted to pet you and look after you. I have wanted to make a little girl of you. I'm so much older than you are. You seemed so superbly able to care for yourself. Oh! Pet! Why didn’t I guess! Why didn't I guess before! The years we've wasted when we might have been together. We'll find a happy combination of your work and mine—the perfect coopera tion of mind and body. We'll work to gether! Together we’ll build a brave new world for youth." He did not know he was talking wildly. She did not know she was crying wildly. They were in each other's arms in the courting chair. How the Courting Chair Affected the Life of Maude Pollack, the Youngest of the Pollack Sisters. Maude had lived with the super efficiency of Madelalnc. who was thirty; and the strenuous athleticism of Pe tunia, who was twenty-five, for ten years, ever since her mother died. She had been subject to the two different power-complexes; the passion for ef ficiency and law and order and the passion for physical fitness. To save her own personality she had been forced to go too violently In op position. It had made her a slut, a muddler and determined dreamer. By temper ment she was none of these things. She was successful as an artist. She made twelve pounds a week at her popular commercial work. She got up when she liked, bathed when she liked, ate when the liked deliberately and firmly. She was as un tidy as an unconscious protest against the now silent protest of her elder steer; and sluggard aa defense against GLACIER COUNTY CHIEF the contempt of her “open air” hearty and hardy games mistress sister. It was the only wav a girl of her type could live with them. There was a young man in love with her. The trouble was that he was whole heartedly approved of by Madelaine and Petunia. “George will get you out of this," they said. "George will have you out of bed in the mornings,’’ they said. “George won’t let you wear your hair like a bird’s nest.” “George will make you clean your teeth before you go to bed.” "George won’t let you get up in the middle of the night and paint and go back to bed with your pajamas smoth ered in paint and muck up the sheets.” “George will civilize you, Maude.” She would have had a nervous break down if she had not had character; a resistance, even if it took as odd form of self neglect and slackness and indulgence. She really was an artist. She could not live and work to a business routine and a "time sheet” like her sisters. Her come-back was always the same. George was philistine. He had a mind like a suet pudding. She would rather die than marry him. He was dull. “Dull,” she shouted at them contemp tuously. “Dull!” If they hadn’t turned George into a mixture of prospective policeman, schoolmistress, doctor and disciplina rian for her she would have married him, for she loved him dearly. When Madelaine and Petunia were both engaged to be married they re doublied their efforts to marry her to George, who had every virtue, includ ing good looks and a huge income. In their affectionate anxiety they went quite the wrong way to work. They roused her to sullen, definite rebellion. Real affection for her sisters kept her a prisoner to them, and gratitude to Madelaine who had helped bring her up. Then came the last Saturday before Madelaine was to be married and set sail for Australia; and Madelaine, un able to sleep, brought her a cup of tea at seven; and “Georged” her for her own good. Maude had been awake all night with a new and exquisite idea for a fairy tale that she wanted to write and illustrate. She was happily ob sessed by it as creative artists are by new ideas. EVENING IS BEST TO FORD RIVERS SO OLD-TIME FREIGHTERS SAID; MADE NIGHT CAMP ON OTHER SIDE Early-day Montana freighters who had a stream of any size to ford, used to try to reach the cros sing place in the evening. The late Charles AV. Cooper, for many years one of rhe leading woolgrowers of the state, but who as a youth en- I gaged in freighting when he first i came to Montana, used to say that this was because the horses or mules, having been going all day, were well warmed up and pulling well together, which made the task much easier. If the stream were one of considerable size, all the horses or mules would be hitched to a single wagon for the crossing. In the summer of 1879, O. G. Cooper, a brother of Charles Cooper, took a contract to move 500 sacks of flour from Bozeman to Rosebud on the Crow reservation. Charles Cooper, who was working for his brother, drew the job of bossing the outfit, and made five trips over the trail during the summer, hauling 100 sacks to the trip. They crossed the Yellowstone river at Liv ingston, at several points they had to do considerable road work. The outfit forded the Yellowstone in the evening and camped on the other side for the night, thus giving both men and mules a chance to dry out and be fit for an early start the next day. Mr. Cooper was born at Memphis. Mo., in 1858, and came up the Missouri | river to Bismarck, Dakota, on the steamer Far West, and from there to Fort Benton on the steamer Western, in 1879. His brother, O. G., was freight ing in the state at that time, having come to Montana from Texas in 1876. He gave his younger brother a job and the latter made many long hauls, principally between Fort Benton, Hel ena and Fort Ellis, which was located a few miles from Bozeman. The fol lowing winter Charles Cooper was em ployed by his brother-in-law, Con Cammon, who also was engaged in the freighting business. In 1881, while he was making a boat । trip down the Missouir river, the boat was held up by a herd of buffalo crossing the stream near where the town of Poplar is now located. Another brother, Frank Cooper, had come to Montana ahead of Charles and was engaged in the sheep business. From him Charles conceived the idea of also embarking in the sheep busi ness, and in 1880 ne and Marion Harris purchased 1,100 animals from a man named Holbrook, who had been pre viously in partnership with Frank Cooper. These sheep were run on Du- Euyer creek in Teton county, the first and taken into the section of the state. Mr. Cooper continued in the sheep business for many years and for 18 years made his home at Choteau. In 1902 he moved his bands of sheep into the Porcupine river country in what is now Valley county. There it grew into one of the leading sheep outfits of northern Montana. In 1917 he sold his livestock Interests to Ills sons. For several years after that he and Mrs. Cooper made their home in California and spent all of their win ters there up to the time of Mr. Cooper’s death several years ago. The summers they spent on a ranch which Mr. Cooper owned near Avondale, de voted to wheat growing. Frank Cooper, hale and hearty at an advanced age, lives in California, and when he wants to come to Mon tan* or go elsewhere to look after business matters, or lust for a trip, usually travels by airplane. GALLATIN TO VOTE ON COUNTY MANAGER FORM AT NEXT POLLS More than 5,000 Gallatin county voters were ready to go to the polls on Aug. 24, to vote on the county manager form of government as the registration books closed. At the present, Bozeman is the only city in Montana which has the managerial form of government. ‘ "i* l - 1 1 ♦’■ l \ ■■ 1 1 . Game protecting authorities determ ine whether a species of bird is a pest by killing one and analysing the con tonto of Ito stomach to seeif it feeds on valuable grain or harmful insects. “How long since you’ve had your hair shampooed, Maude?” "Five weeks.” “You must have it done today before George takes you out tonight.” “I’m busy.” "Not too busy for that,” said Made laine. Then Pet, not knowing anything about the long George-seance with Madelaine, turned the bath on for Maude. "And give yourself a jolly good scrub because you’re going out with George, Maudie,” she said, as if Maude were two. “And do you a lot of good to sluice down with cold water after.” Maude refused to get up. She lay there “planning her book” all day and smiling vague, sweet, ob stinate smiles. They brought her lunch. They brought her tea. They argued, coaxed. They used George as a plea—and a battering ram. George would be so "grieved” and so "disgusted” to find her in bed with her hair uncombed and un bathed. They treated her like a naughty girl, which in a way, she was. She retaliated by behaving like one. What they did not realize was that it was “cause and effect” created by years of their own attitude and at tempted control of a type and person ality alien to their own. • • • At 7 o’clock George came to take Maude to the theater. She was still in bed. She had not stirred all day. Madelaine was just explaining she "wasn’t well” when the door opened and Maude, uncombed, her dressing gown dragged round her, walked in. She said: "I’m not ill, George. Don’t believe it. I had a grand idea for a book and I wanted to work it out; so I stayed in bed." “Well, why not?" said George. He was very quiet, rather white. He had common sense. He saw that his high-strung little lady was on the edge of a nervous breakdown. “They want me to marry you. George.” “So do I,” said George. “Even if I didn’t have a bath all day—and stayed in bed—and didn’t put things away—and painted in the middle of the night—and forgot to clean my teeth, or order lunch?” “If you considered the ignoring of those things necessary for your hap piness and work, my dear; but I per sonally think they could be worked in without much effort.” Maude sat down in the Courting Chair. Suddenly, without warning, she was crying and explaining—to George—to Madelaine —to Pet. “I do want to marry you, George,” she said. “I can’t help the kind of person I am, or the work I do! They’ve tried to turn me into another kind of person ever since I can remember! I think my soul has gone on strike! I couldn’t have worked and been the kind of person they wanted!” "Why didn’t you tell us they way you felt, Maude?” Pet said. She was white and aghast. “I don’t really like being untidy or eating at odd times,” said Maude wildly. “I’ve been driven to it, or I would have had to leave my most im portant work to go and eat. I would have had no private life at all. It would have been all walking and play ing tennis and getting up and going to bed to the minute and keeping ac counts and remembering where every thing was. I’ve had an awful lifelong fight to keep private time for the pic tures to come in my head. They come there first, George. They’ve got to GROW there before I can put them on paper. That is what Madelaine and Pet never understood. I’m sorry I’m late tonight. I had a whole book grow ing.” “I was afraid she’d grow up a slat tern, without method or order.” "I was afraid she’d grow up slack and soft,” said Pet. They sat there with white faces. “Forgive me, Maude.” said Madel aine. “I’m rich,” said George, quite simply. a Be on Ac r , _—- — r Ai 1 INI / yJI fl —.v... .. ... . . ————_—.— u ' ——— It’s safe to side with the millions who have bought over 100,000,000 bottles* of Crowns safe to with Seagram’s 80 years of experience... and the unmatched blending skill which produced the famous "Crown” taste. to "think before you drink ... Say Seagram's — and be sure.” 7 mown ^4® fgj A Richer Whiskey ( ode IX ' J s crown 1,(5 Z^^ For BE Hfß I with- AND BS SUREf ******** ?”.***—. Ktlln — OMV. ns MIM «M*ks ■ek steM ■IMS S M MII MM SS« 7I« SM MMe ‘ ******■*—*■»-><**■ *»«MM*r»,ew. wm mm miskiv.is,mism mu. issm.wmm■!,»»■<*sms «M*tealMSnH«keSMlsiisslsisNMMM CM ■ssssMwOaM/Nsetee "You won’t have to bother about the house much. Only me. I do under stand. I’ve seen how It has been a long, long time. I think you'll be happy with me, Maude —and free.” • • • It was that very evening the post brought three letters to the three sis ters. They were from their late aunt’s so licitor. H wrote in abject apology. The chair that had been sent was not the famous “courting chair” be queathed to them by their late aunt. That had been inadvertently sold by mistake and they could not trace the purchaser. The chair they had was of the same authentic period but unfortunately of no “sentimental value.” Its commercial value was identical with the courting chair. Unless he heard from her to the contrary he would consider the most regrettable mistake generously con doned by the heirs. Very slowly Madelaine dropped her own and the letters addressed to her sisters into the fire. Why should they ever know? BOULDER HOT SPRINGS HOTEL The Waters from these springs are most effective in the treat ment of RHEUMATISM Liver and Kidney Trouble t Announcing .... 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Great Falls Lv. 5:00 PM 6:40 AM •Service suspended pending airport improvements. ±Daily except Sundays and holidays. ^Because of nnlighted airway between Helena and Great Fall* It to necessary that Trip 4 stop overnight in Helena. FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 4271 GREAT FALLS OR WRITE National Parks Airways, Inc. Municipal Airport—Salt Lake City, Utah Together the three of them had created a new courting chair from an old family legend. It should be handed on intact to their children. Already it was rich in "sentimental value.” Her little nod of happiness in the direction of the chair bequeathed It smilingly to all their heirs in perpet uity. COOL OFF . . . DURING FAIR WEEK AT MEALTIMES in the x Club Cafeteria THE ONLY AIR CONDITIONED DINING ROOM IN GREAT FALLS MONTANA’S GREATEST Health and Pleasure Resort Write for Rates LYMAN REED — Manager