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I THE DAILY
| SHORT STORY
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*" The Landlord.
BY LOUISE OLIVER.
counterpart of thousands on streets
exactly alike except for the names.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson hail taken
root, HO to Bpeak, In the brick and
cement of tlio city and it had taken
many montlia ol persuasion for Cornelia
to convlnco tliein that view Vnd
freah air and individuality would
compensate for inconvenience in setting
to town and that the reduced expense
of living would in time enable
them to buy a motor car.
For days Cornelia had scoured
agencies and scanned lists, waded
turough mud and lost her way, ruined
clothes and caught colds, and altogether
it had been a most disheartening
process. But her courage remained
unshaken and her will at last
found a way, for one day she came
across what she wanted?exactly! A
bungalo on a hillside with a superb
view of the river. This was no mere
house, it was explained to her at the
office, the owner having built it for
himself, hilt he ivns nn Vnffllahmafl
and had gone to war and was now
lomowhere In the trenches in France.
Uoving day came. Cornelia rose
at six and atter a hurried breakfast
took the car to her future home. It
was a wonderful morning, cool and
brisk, and even the bare streets of
the city had found It impossible to
crowd out spring. Bits of clover and
grass were making green patches in
every available Inch of ground, dead
looking branches were being rapidly
covered with yellowish-green budB,
and behind several Iron fences brava
patches of tulips and Jonquils bloomed.
As the car sped on and the distances
between houses widened, nature
showed her handiwork In gardens
of wonderful shrubs and spring
flowers.
"Itfs Just like getting out of Jail!"
thought Cornelia, watching a fat robI
in on. a lawm tug at a worm. "It Is
worth atithe ramping and hard work
ty be-able to live in the country. I
can hardly believe It is true."
PThe conductor began to call stations
Instead ot streets. At one ot
these Cornelia got oft and made her
way along the roads toward he haven
on the hill that was to be'her
home.
She mounted the steps of the terrace
and took out her key. Then the
hum ot a powerful motor caught her
ear. Down the road were coming
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>: CONFESSION'
"'How do you do. Miss Newton
drawled Geraldine, without offerins
her hand, as Earnest carefully Introduced
me to the party sitting opposite
us at one of Poll's long tables.
"My first inclination was to say, 'It I
can't be, Jerry, that I am so changed i
that you don't know me,' but before 1
could say a word the drawling voice
of the Englishman said, MisB Townsend,
you certainly bave seen Miss
Newton's wonderful delineation ot the
American young girl.'
"'Yes, I've seen Miss Newton play
Elga,' was Jerry's crisp reply.
"Poor Lord Beauchamp looked rath
or crestfallen, but much to my surprise
he moved over to where 1 sat at
soon as the place was vacant.
"'Oh, I say, Miss Newton,' he said,
. "I've been wanting to meet you ever
since I saw you play the other night,
and when Mr. Lawton said he was going
to bring you down here to dinner t
persuaded the Misses Townsend to go
>, slumming too.'
"I laughed, Margie?wasn't that Just
Uke a tactless Englishman to suggest
that Poll's, the place In all New York
where you find youth and enthusiasm
and Bohemian Ism. was slumming.
'Something in the White Che pel way,
dont you know,' he said.
" 1 don't think you quite understand
our American Institutions and Ideas,'
1 said to him.: 'For Instance, everyI
one you see here tonight, with perhaps
the exception ol your friends ana yourself
and Mr. Lawton and myself, knows
down in his heart that he could make
| this old world over if he thought it
I 0 was worth while. It is youth In its exuberance
you are seeing, the youth aiiu
temperament of America which after
all leavens the lump of conservativenesB
and helps the old world on If not
I ?S in the way the youngsters would have
K it" ?
, " 'Now, doesn't she talk like an old
r woman ot experience, that baby child,
there?' said Earnest, who was shameaSp'
lessly leaving Geraldlne and Gertrude
to themselves while he was trying to
enter conversation with us.
% f "Jerry, who was always more like
Aunt Rachel than Gertrude, pricked
up her cars when Earnest called me
'baby child.' X could just hoar her repeating
the wordB to, some of my oldife'tlme
friends. The spirit ot contrarla'fiicss
took possession of me and t said:
.jfk- '"My dear Earnest, you must not
l call me pet names in public. Besides,
ygn such young women of the world as the
| Misses Townsend. whose names 1 see
Etin the society columns almost dally,
Kwlll hardly concede that an actress
?| could be so unsophisticated aa to merrjV*
,hp nttme 01 baby child."
.. "I know that would bo enough for
L^BfgEamest, for whatever his faults he
would never allow any ouo to cast aa
(Copyright, 1917, by the UcClure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
stttHEN moving time came it was
W/ unfortunate for Cornelia that
"" both her parents had, to be
(IWaV fltlMlAse hail <-11.
ness the other, and even Ben, her
college brother, couldn't make his
epring vacation coincide with moving
time.
80 with black Judas and his wtte,
Violet, she bad managed to get china,
rugs and furniture into shape for
transportation across the city to the
cosy new bungalow on the hillside
above the river.
After all it was Cornelia's own
idea, tho bit of country and the
roomy, spreadout place with wide vo1
and as and fruit trees, so different
from the high, narrow city house, the
MILITARY HELM
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By BETTY BROWN
Our love of peace will have nothing
to do with otlr spring millinery, i
for the military flare so dashing and
piquant will appear upon many a
spring bonnet.
To show the women who read The
two Immense trucks loaded with furniture.
"Some one else moving out this
way!" she commented and inserted
her key In the lock. The sound ceased
and she looked around. The
trucks had stopped in front of the
bungalow.
"I don't see how they could get
here so quickly." Her brows drew
together. "Mr. O'Hagan said it would
be an hour."
Then around the corner of the
house came a man who called, "Hello,
Sorgan! Come on and help me get
a door open. I forgot to get the
keys!" Then seeing Cornelia with her
^key In the lock, he hurried up the
steps. "Good morning! I see the
agent has sent out the keys. Stupid
of me to forget them, but the arrangement
was made by phono and I
never thought of them. Hut it was |
kind of you to bring them. Thank
you very much."
"I don't quite understand," said.
5 OF A WIFE TT|
Persians upon the thing he loved best
next to himself ? his adored proles- i
sion.
" 'The sweetest, best, truest and 1
most devoted women I have known ;
were actresses,' he asserted.
" 'i can well believe that,' said Lord
Beauchamp with a low bow to inc.
"Jerry got up with a flounce.
" 'Don't vou thi.-k we hate had about
enough of this?' she asked, and Gertrude
and Lord Beauchamp sot up too.
'So glad to havo met you,' said Jerry
extending her hand.
"1 ignored the httnd and said, looking
her straight In the eyes. 'Do you
know, Miss TownBend, 1 hpvo been
thinking what a wonderful actress you
would m?ke.'
" 'Do yon mean that as a compliment.
Miss Newton,' she asked with nn
acidulous Bmile.
" 'Not so much a compliment, as a
fact, my dear Miss Townscnd,' was my
parting shot.
" 'Baby child, I never saw you cattish
before,' remarked Earnest plain
lively.
'"J,did not mean to bo, Earnest,
dear, but you can see what an actreBB
Jerry Townsend Is when 1 tell you
she is my own cousin and for years i
was as Intimate with her as a sister,
before my mother died.
" 'Well, I'll be d ,' remarked Earnest
as I burst into tears."
THIS \4ILL BE T)1E I C
RRST MASQUERADE I M'
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West Virginian an advance spring model
of the soldierly little turban, I photographed
this "helmet" In the studio
of Mme. Esther E. Wright of the Fashion
Art League of America. It Is highly
polished black llsere. The feather
Is the wing of a goura bird.
Cornelia. "I rented this house a
week ago and we are moving In this
morning. There Bcems to be some
mistake. McAlpin & Co. are the
agents, and If you are not convinced'
jou can call'them and ask about It."
The man regarded her quietly for
a minute. She was very pretty, was
Cornelia?very?and one would* have
Uflif! thllt It I a t" Inil wnn ? > * I ??1 --
?..V?V ...u ??uu nuo UUb CUUlCt/
upon the fact that some one else was
I trying to move into the same donil!
cile with himself.
Cornelia, in turn slightly belligerent.
but calm withal, saw a tall, pale
man, well dressed, who held his hat
wiih the grace of the king of Spain,
or any other well-bred monarch.
"What shall we do to McAlpin &
Co.?" asked the man iiuietly. "They
assured lue the property was without
a tenant, and that I could certainly
move in. But, you see, such large
agencies, with so many clerks, do
make mistakes. However, to annihilate
them won't help matters much,
will it? That wouldn't change the
house Into two houses. And for us
to demolish 0110 another wouldn't do
either, \Vould it, because"?he paused
an instant?"well, because it
wouldn't. You said 'we' were moving
in. That implies a family?" interrogatively.
"Yes. my father and mother and
brother. I am Cornelia Anderson."
"So, you see. to do away with you
still leaves a lather and mother and
hrother. Now with mo it's diitorcnt.
I'm alone: And if you will look at me
with a little more tolerance. I will
heat a hasty retreat and take my
cook stove and rocking chairs along
with mo."
"Cornelia, completely mollified,
held out the key. "Under the circumstances
we have no more right to
the house than you have. I can't j
possibly move our furniture into iti
knowing that I am leaving an American
and a gentleman out in the cold j
worm \jiinout any Home."
'They laughed together. "But," he
protested, "you wouldn't exactly bo
leaving mo without a home. I really
was only going to uso the pla<* as a
sort of storage houso* tor my things
for the time being?not a home, you
sec, at least for some time to come.
Moreover, thn world Isn't cold?not
now. I though it was a little dreary
and chilly this morning, but things
have brightened wonderfully. Besides
I'm not altogether an American gentleman.
I'm an English soldier just
now."
"Then you?then this is your
house! You are my landlord!"
"Don't call mo that, please?it
sounds so unfriendly."
"But the house 1b yours! They told
DOINGS 0
i dropped
*1 - have the. pr1ver jffBjl
op'
m? all ahniif'vmi at iho !
"True enough! But that hasn't I
anything to do .with the case. I'm i
home on sick leave. I'm going back i
soon. All'I'm doing .now Is to make
havoc of other people's plans. So I'm 1
better out ol the way." I
Cornelia was silent a minute. I
Then, "There's an Immense attic! i
would that be of any use?"
He caught her meaning. "That's '
a bully Idea! Don't you need it?the <
garret. I mean?" 1
"No, Indeed! We'd be glad to have i
you use It!" i
"Thanks artfully. Then It's settled, i
I'll tell Dorgan he can put the things i
In. I must be off on the one o'clock i
train, and I've some business to attend
to before I leave."
Cornelia was silent. Try as she
would, she could think of nothing to
say in parting. But the soldier went
on. "Will you come to the end of
the veranda with me where there is
a better view of the river?" 1
She went with htm.
"A soldier In active service cannot 1
afford to lose a minute. Don't think
me abrupt, It you can help it, but try 1
to understand that after the next few
minutes I may never see you again.
And I'd like to go awiy with the feeling
that you'd hope for me to come
hack. Ik It a hopeless wish?"
Cornelia did not stop to understand
tho panic in her heart as she
answered him slowly:
"No?1 do hope very much that
you will come home soon?safe and
sound. I shall be very, very glad to
see you."
He caught bqr hand suddenly in
his. "Dear girl," he said enrnestlv.
"I'll come!"
^HEALTH HINTS I'
It is hard to check many communicable
diseases because tho germs are
often spread by well people, called
"carriers," who cannot be detected and
isolated as sick people are.
In diphtheria, however, the bacteriologist
can detect these carriers easily
an dcertainly by examining a culture
taken from the throat.
Diphtheria germs enter tho body
by way of either the mouth or the nose.
They may be coughed out and Inhaled
or by spitting they may be spread
about in a most dangerous manner.
They have been found on public
drinking cups, and they may be on
HOW I WILL BRII
BY BILLIE BURKE.
("Written Especially for tliia Newspaper.)
(Copyright. lDlli, by The Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
Both my nurse and my (lottor have
told me the chief cause of infant mortality
is expressive and irregular feed-'
ing.
My doctor said: "Most babies are I
literally killed by mistaken kindness. I
if a child cries from overfeeding, its j
mother feeds it again and its little
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owuuiai;ii in i\u|,h uiaivnuvu^ lliUIl W11UU .
the child begins to hiccough, the
mother flies to the sugar bowl?a rent- j
edy worse than the dlsoaso."
My nurse says that when a liaby j
begins to develop stomach trouble it,
is her plan to give the digestive or-:
gans a complete rest of from six to
twelve hours, giving nothing except a'
teaspoonful of cool water every fifteen
or twenty minutes and that she keeps
the child outdoors as much as possible.
She tells me that when this method
Is strictly carried out all nausea and
vomiting will cease, and a small
amount of nourishment may be given
and It will be found the baby will
retain and digest it.
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jencils, chewing (rum. pieces of candy.
:oys, or any of tho other.objects that
are passed around and handled by
children. I
A number of diphtheria epidemics
tare been caused by Infected milk and
lies may carry the germs about and
leave them where they will reach the
mouth and throat.
Diphtheria is one of the diseases for .
which we have a definite and specific *
cure in antitoxin. The serious symptoms
and death by diphtheria are caused
by the poison or toxin formed by
the germ. The antitoxin neutralizes
This is the method 1 shall pursue
with my baby It she needs It.
My nurse tells me constipation, as:
well. Is generally due to overfeeding.!
The tiny stomach, ovorburdened>
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itiwu iuuu, vuiitiui uifecai iiiuyuriy Ctttll
new supply of milk which comes In
contact with the semi digested coagula
of the preceding meal and the
maBs will pass into the intestinal canal
and Impact causing constipation
and oftentimes serious Illness.,
Because I know much intestinal
trouble is caused by lack of pure cool
water I am giving teaspoonfuls of cool
water to little Flo between meals.
This amount of water will be increased
as she grows older. The water
should be only cool, for a baby's
stomach is too tender for very cold,
or very hot food. j
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una makes me mxin narmiess. 11
used early It Is practically certain to
cure the disease.
Economy in Cooking!
By BIDDY BYE
To boil a cracked egg wrap It In
greased paper.
To mako a very tough piece of meat
tender, rub baking soda Into It and let
stand several hours, then wash thoroughly,
and cook.
Boll sausages eight minutes before
frying them and they will neither
shrink nor break In the frying pan.
Melt the butter or lard for baking
paBtry. beat it to a cream before mixing
with the flour, and the quantity
required will be about balf that given
in ordinary recipes. This is worth
testing.
By adding a tcaspoonful of salt to
a quart of milk, the latter can be
kept sweet for several days.
To stone raisins quickly, pour boiling
water over them and let them soften
a few minutes.
Be careful not to roast meat too
long. Considerable weight is lost by
a drying out process In the oven.
Let boiled meat, whether beef, ham
or corned beef, soak In the kettle after
cooking until ready to serve.
Moist meat cuts for serving with greater
economy than dry meat.
Cook chops and cutletB In a crumb
batter.
BURNS FATAL TO BRIDE
WHEELING. W. Va.. Jan. 9.?Mrs.
Nick Kowalskl, aged 22, a bride o(
three months, died at the North Wheeling
hospital from burns sustained
when she attempted to start a fire with
the aid ot an oil can. Her husband.
In an attempt to save her, suffered
burns which will probably cause his
death.
fG UP MY BABY.
3ILLIE BURKE AND HER BABY,
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THIS STOPS HAIR
FROM FALLING OUT
Ever count the dead hairs in your
:omb and brush? They are nature's
warning of futuro baldness and proof
that the dungerous dandruff germ is
ausy on your scalp.
Dr. Sangerbund. the famous Paris
specialist, first discovered that danlruff
and falling hair are caused by a
microbe. Then came the discovery of
the value of the real Parisian Sage
(liquid form) ill destroying tho daniruff
germ and promptly preventing
the further loss of hair. The effect of
inly three days' use of Parisian Sage
s simply marvelous, and,the Amerf-.an
people haJte now awakened to the
fact that tbey can be quickly rid of
landruff and save their hair by using
Parisian Sage. I
Parisian Sage Is sold by the Mountain
City Drug company and good drug;ists
everywhere. It's inexpensive,
lnintily perfumed, free from stickiness.
and will surely cause hair to grow
ioft, lustrous and really seem twice as
xbundant.
Quality
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special Values I
ON NEW ' I
suits. Coats
Osgood's trip to the
;t week resulted in a
ntagous purchase off
Suits and Coats.
styles and Models rep
1T1IU- VV 11AIU1 1TIUUCI9
srefore very desirable.
prices are very low,
;n bought at a similar
i of course will be
;r quickly to you, on
rrgin of profit.
i New Suits and Coats,
with our remaining
cks are now on Sale at
)ne-Third f"
Less I J
ban Regular 3 i
Price
choice is presented to
h rlioncore
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put a figure (no two alike) In each
square so as to make a total of 16 by
adding them up and down and cross
( ways? As an advertisement we will
I deed a lot at Atlantic City, Md., which
has one of the tlneat beaches in the
.world, to any one (white racei solv!
lug this puzzle. Small fee tor deed and
expenses. Send your solution with 4c
i In postage tor copy of prospectus to
THE ATLANTIC REALTY CO,
206 North Calvert Street
Baltimore, Md.
The four elements of suojssful
medicines guaranted
by our label on your
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