King
ommy
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By George A. Birmingham
“TOMMY’S AUNT*
SYNOPSIS. — In London th«
teller of th« story of th« adven
ture« of "King Tommy." end
known hereafter as "Uncle BtiL"
Is Informed by Lord Norheys,
son of an old friend, that Lord
Troyto, head of th« British for
eign office. Norhoys* uncle, has a
scheme to make him (Norheys)
king of Lystria, In central Eu
rope. through marriage to Ca
lypso. daughter of King Wladls-
laws, deposed monarch of that
country
A financier, Procopius
Cab!« knows there Is oil In pro
fusion tn Lystria. and with an
English king on the throne th«
output could be secured for Eng
land.
Norheys. in love with a
stag« dancer. Viola Temple. Is
not enthusiastic over the propo
sition.
The patriarch. Menelaus,
highest
ecclesiastical dignitary
In Lystria. is heartily In favor of
the restoration of the monarchy,
and Cable has generously financed
the sentiment. Calypso is mak
ing a living dancing In the "Mas-
eotfe." Berlin cabaret.
Norheys
refuses to entertain the idea of
giving up Viola Temple, to whom
he Is secretly engaged.
"Uncle
Bill s'* sister Emily urges him to
secure a passport
from
Lord
Troyt«
for
a
certain
Janet
Church,
strong-minded
female
who wants to visit Lystria In
the Interests of a society for
world peace. Janet Church leaves
for Berlin. "Uncle Bill" Is ag^ln
appealed to by his sister to find
a certain curate «name not given»
who has left his parish In Ireland
for a visit to Berlin, and cannot
be found. Lord Norheys and Viola
Temple disappear from London.
Procopius Cable receives infor
mation that N »rheys. with the
princess, has left there on his
way to Lystria. but Norheys ap
pears with
the
former
Viola
Temple, now his wife. The ques
tion is. "Who Is the man who has
gone to Lystria with the Princess
Calypso?"
Casimir
introduces
himself, and Janet Church, vainly
seeking from the British consu
late a passport to Lystria, be
comes acquainted with the two
men in the Adlon hotel. Tommy
mistakes Casimir for a hotel
thief and refuses him admission
to his room
Casimir insists on
Tommy dining at the Mascotto.
Tommy again meets Janet tn a
telephone booth, where he had
gone In an attempt to escape
from Casimir.
CHAPTER VIII—Continued
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1 Troyt» was the head of the consplr-
! acy. They knew that If Janet once
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got Into personal touch with the pa
triarch of Lystria the Union of Vhrls-
He was an Innocent and inexpe tlun churches w ottld be accomplished
rienced young man. But even to him and a great world pea. e eidahliuhed
“They are afruld of that,” she said
Janet Church did not look like a
grimly, "afruld of It because they
prima ballerina.
"Fm Just as much a dancer as know that a world peace would put
you’re a curate. But. as I said to be an end to their trade of se< ret di
plomacy. That Is why I want to be
gin with. I don’t want to ask ques
tlons. Il’s quite enough for me to Introduced to Count Casimir.”
It was a little difficult for Tommy
know that you’re an Intimate friend
to follow the working of her mind. I
of Count Casimir’s.”
“I’m not," said Tommy, “but I sup do not know that any one at that
time could have guessed exactly
pose it’s no use my saying so.”
“And I want you to Introduce me what she meant Looking back over
the whole thing now It seems plain
to him."
“1’11 do that with the greatest pleas that with the help of Casimir she
ure." said Tommy, ”lf I ever see him hoped to get into Lystria without a
passport. He was. as she had some-1
again. But I don’t expect I shall.”
"You’ll see him tonight at the how managed to discoxer, a consplr- |
ator and a secret agent. He would
Mascotte.” said Janet.
therefore hate no objection to break j
“I’m not going to the Mascotte"
“Oh, yes. you are.” said Janet. “I ing the law and would almost cer- ’
heard you making an appointment to talnly be in a position to do so suc
meet Count Casimir there. I shall be cessfully. With Ids help she would
there too and you can introduce us." get Into touch with the patriarch,
“Very well,” said Tommy, helpless unite the churches, establish peace,
and so—
ly. “Be there at half past ten.”
“The Foreign office won't he pleased
A feeling of recklessness born of
bewilderment was beginning to lay when they hear of It." she said vin
hold on Tommy. He did not In the dictively. "and I.ord Fdmund Troyte
least want to Introduce Janet Church will be furious. Bu’ the first thing
to any one. He did not at that mo Is to get to Lystria. And Count Cas
ment even know her name. He did imir can do that for me If he will,”
“I've no doubt that he will," said
not want to see any more of Count
Casimir. He did not want— But a Tommy pollte«y.
curate Is only a man. and though
■'I'm very glad to hear you nay
Tommy had no Intention of entan that. for. of course, you know.”
gling himself with an unknown lady
"I don't know In the least,” said j
at the Mascotte, he thought It might Tommy. “I don't really know any- I
be Interesting to see her. speak to thing. Indeed, if you asked me this j
her. perhaps to offer her a glass of minute. I could not tell you where I
wine. Tommy was Inexperienced In Lystria Is.”
such matters, but he thought that
Tommy finished the last sip of life
any lady to be met at the Mascotte cocktail. He felt elated and ex
would probably expect to be offered tremely cheerful.
a glass of wine.
"In Introducing you this evening.”
“Of course," said Janet. “I have he said, “shall I tell Casimir all about
more or less made Count Casimir’s the world peace and the Christian
acquaintance already."
She
was churches, or shall I simply say that
thinking of her interview with him In i you're my aunt?”
the corridor outside Tommy’s bed
“I am averse to nny form of de
room. "But It's always better to have ceit." said Janet. But—”
a formal introduction." she added.
"There are times—” said Tommy.
Tommy was not paying much at
"He might not grasp the full sig
tention to what she said. He was nificance of my mission to I.ystriu ”
thinking of the lady at the Mascotte
"Then I’d better tell him you're
and wondering whether his phrase I my aunt," said Tommy, “unless you'd
book provided the German for “May . rather I said sister."
Janet looked at Tommy. He Is
only twenty-six an,I looks younger. !
owing no doubt to the virtuous life !
he has had to load under the eye ■ f
my sister Emily. Janet Is superior |
to the desire to appear younger than ;
she Is, which Is supposed to be a
' weakness of her sex.
"You’d better say aunt," she said.
’’Very well," said Tommy. “My
aunt, who Is looking after me."
“A young man," said Janet, “Is !
. the better off having an aunt to look i
| after him In a city like Berlin. I feel ,
sure that the Mascotte Is a dangerous ’
and undesirable place."
The door of the telephone box
opened and Janet Church came out.
Casimir, like Tommy, recognized her
at once, though he hail only seen her
once before and then in a dressing
gown and boudoir cap. He was not
particularly pleased.
Perhaps she
bad talked to him in the morning as
she had been talking to the third
secretary at the embassy. He bowed
to her. but he moved away.
“Please.” he said to Tommy, “half
ten at the Mascotte. Till then—”
Ha pulled himself together and pro
duced another quotation. “ ‘Now, good
digestion wait on appetite, and
health on both.’"
With another bow he turned,
crossed the hall and passed the
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whirling glass door, narrowly escap
ing a determined effort of the guard
ian boy to hit him In the back.
Janet Church watched him till he
vanished. Then she turned to Tom
my.
• I’ve been asking questions about
that young man," she said, “and I
find he’s In Berlin on some kind of
secret mission connected with the
ex-klng of Lystria."
“Oh, is be?" said Tommy. “I
thought he was a tout for a night “In These Continental Towns," Sho
club.”
Said, “It’s Generally Dangerous to
“That’s what he pretends to be
Drink Water."
perhaps,” said Janet, “but he Is
strongly suspected of being engaged I offer you a glass of champagne?”
In some royalist plot. The third sec Champagne, he supposed, was the
retary at our embassy told me so proper wins to offer to a lady at |
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the Mascot’e.
this morning.”
The waiter whom Janet had chased
It the third secretary had been In
discreet enough to tell Janet Church away when they first sat down was
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anything about anybody it must have hovering round the table again. With
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a
recklessness
which
surprised
him
been before she began talk ng to him
about her passports. No young man, self Tommy ordered: “Bring two
unless be was reduced to terror by ! cocktails."
Janet turned on him with an acid
threats of violence would I ave spok
en to her at all afterward. But I I smile.
“It's rather unusual.” she said, “to
do not think it at all 111 ely that any
diplomatist, even a third secretary, find a curate drinking cocktails at
would have shouted con.'! lentlal In ten o’clock in the morning. If you
formation Into a telephone It seemed really are a curate you wouldn't do
to me much more like’’, hat Janet that."
The waiter, who was interested In
Church had been ma' mg Inquiries
about Casimir from th- I »ad waiter I their talk, was very quick in fetch
or the hall porter. All pi den of ho ing their cocktails. He set them
tels like the Adlon know a .treat many down on a little tray in front of
Tommy. Janet looked at hers with a
things, both true and untrue.
Tommy pushed the
“I suppose he’s a fri- nd of yours,” fierce «cowl.
thing toward her. She looked at it
said Janet.
“No, he isn't,” said T >mmy.
“I again with a milder scowl. Tommy
took it off the
tray
and
set
mean neither of them 1 "
He was uncertain at the moment It down before her. Janet stopped
whether she was speaking of Count scowling.
“In these continental towns," she
Casimir or the third secretary.
“Just come over with ie to a quiet said. "It's generally dangerous to
place," said Janet. “I want to talk drink the water.”
It is the British teetotaler who Is
to you.”
Tommy follower! her, unwillingly, to responsible for the superstition that
a retired corner of the hall, and sat all the water on the continent of
down beside her on a deep sofa. A Europe is poisonous. Having accept
waiter hovered round them and asked ed that as an article of faith he holds
whether they wanted cocktails. Janet to It firmly. He Is, therefore, entire
ly against his will, obliged to drink
drove him away at once.
“I’m not asking you to tell me who wdne when he crosses the English
you are,” she said, “or what you’re channel.
Janet tossed off her cocktail. Tom
doing here.”
"I don’t In the least mind telling my, who did not know that cocktails
you. I’m a cura' ■ and I’m in Berlin ought to be swallowed in a single
gulp, sipped his.
for a holiday.”
Now, the effect of cocktails taken
“Very well,” said Janet grimly,
"and Count Casimir Is a restaurant on almost empty stomachs by people
tout, and I’m the prima ballerina of unused to wine of any sort Is sur
prising. Janet became confidential.
the Royal opera In use In Vienna."
Janet prides herself on the power She told Tommy that the officials of
the British Foreign office had con
of sarcasm.
"Surely,” said Tommy, “you can’t spired together to prevent her going
to Lystria. and that Lord Edmund
be—”
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T"\AD meant him for a merchant.
d—‘ id* brother for a bank;
Slater thought that acting was
very thing for Hank.
Grandma thought that preaching
the thing he should bo at.
And nil the while Insisted that
meant the boy for that.
nnd
the
was
she
Mother—well, n lawyer mother meant
her boy to be.
Grnnddnd was a sailor. so he mennt
him for the sea.
Some pulled for the ocean, some pulled
for the shore—
There were so ntany matters that so
many meant him for.
Now, of all hfs mentors only one, of
course, could win.
Maybe you tuny wonder whom ho fol
lowed <>f his kin?
Well, he met a maiden, ns will fre
quently occur.
And the maid at once decided that the
boy was meant for her.
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IS IT BYRD?
differs not nt all from Bird
B YRD
In the matter of derivation and
mlud because she wns the oldest of
the family.
"1 will tell you why," sold Mr Gan
LD MR. GANDER hnd suffered
many things In the barnyard der when he hnd them nil behind n big
rock where no one could hear what
from Handsome Mr. Rooster and bls
he said. "Don’t you know the farmer
family. They called .Mr. Gamier a
gooso nnd all Ills family silly geese Is trying to fatten all the barnyard
fowl?
who wore nil very stupid.
"If thou» willy hens nnd their bril
, Mr. Rooster alw ays crowed louder
liant Mr. Rooster wunt to get fat, let
when the geese were around nnd strut
them, and off will go their heads, but
ted about shewing Ids beautiful tall
wo will keep uwny from thut corn,
feathers for them to admire.
cut only n little, und not grow fut uud
lie even went so fur ns to any in
the henring of Mr (hinder, to some of plump.
"They will not pick out the lent!
Ids family, “Don't be a goose. Mrs.
geese. Now be wise mid follow m)
Henny.” when she ran over In the
field und wns chased by Mr, Fox. example and keep your lieuds."
Pretty soon ull the hens and Mr
“Don't you know nny better than to
leave the barnynrd unless I go with Rooster went so fut they looked us If
they hud been blown up with nn nlr
pump mi<l Mr Rooster did not miss s
chance when he snw Mr. Gander to
tell him how poor Ids fnmlly were
looking. "I hoard the farmer telling
Ills wife the other dny,” atild Mr.
Rooster, holding hla hea l very high,
"that those geese were ns thin and
lean us a bone nnd they would not
be worth n thing. I thought I would
tell you. Mr. (¡under..........Fhank yon,"
replied Mr. Gnnder, “I’ll tell you
something In n ahort time that will
Interest you. Good morning."
One day Mr Gamier railed his fum
•ly nnd told them thst they could ent
ull they liked. “There will b» fewer
hens In the barnyurd nnd you will get
ii big fonat.”
poor Mr. Ilooster did not atrut on
Called All of Hla Family to Follow
that dny. All the beat looking hens
Him.
In Ids fnmlly were missing und h« hnd
you? You belong to my family. Please heard the farmer say. "‘¡’hut rooster Is
remember that, and do not be a silly too old nn<t tough, ao I guess we belter
goose again.”
not tuke him."
Mr. (hinder bore It nil meekly, but
Mr Rooster sorrowfully picked up
he did not forget nil he was made to n few bits of corn. The geese wore
bear, and one morning when the fann busy enting their till, but Mr. Gnnder
er threw out n larger supply of corn stopped long enough to remark. “You
than usual Mr. (hinder stretched his do not seem to be ynjoylng your din
neck and called nil of his fnmlly to ner. Mr Rooster, und your family
follow him down the rond.
seems small.
“Look ut those foolish gwse," lie
“I told my fnmlly* It wns hotter to
heard Mr. Rooster telling his family be n lean goose with n head than a
as he walked sway with nil the geese । plump hen without one."
following him.
“Now. I wonder what thut silly fel
"I can’t underatnnd why you culled low menns.” thought Mr. Rooster.
us nwny from the biggest breakfast “He Is a goose, that’s what ho Is. und
we have hnd this year," said old
he la always talking nonsense ”
Granny Goitse, who always spoke her
I’lE M«Ulur« N»w«p«p«r «rn llcAt« )
WISE MR. GANDER
O
the matter Is usually settled by say
ing that the name Is from the com-
mouly accepted meaning of bird, ami
was probably first used ns a surname
us a nickname. The original bearers
of the name, In other words, doubt-
loss possessed some birdlike qualities
that made the name seem appropriate.
But there really seems to be more
to It th^n this. In early times, hyrd or
bird mount only a young bird, white
fowl was the word used for birds In
general. In the Bible fowl la used
In this wny, as "the fowls of the air."
Later for u time bird wns used to In
dicate the young of other living things
■ nd sometimes mennt children.
In this country the name Byrd hns
especial significance because It wus
borne by the founder of Richmond. Yu.
This wns William Byrd who was boru
In western Virginia In 1074. Ills fa
ther was William Byrd, the colonist
who had come to Virginia a few
months before the birth of his son nnd
By MILDRED MARSHALL
namesake.
William Byrd, second, was a man of
Pacts «bout your name, «■ M»tory;
meaning, whence It waa derived, tig-
grent benevolence ami showed the
rdAcanc«. your lucky day. lucky
greatest kindness to the colonists who
settled on his land. At one time he
received 300 destitute French Hugue
MONA
nots <>n his place nnd made It ftosnible
for them to establish themselves In M/rONA hna the unusual distinction
their new home. William Byrd was ■
of being n diminutive of n name
a man of literary taste and hnd a II
whose original form Is not In use. It
hrary of 3.500 volumes. which wns the mesns “little nun” mid nt first glance
largest library at the time In the col It would seem that Motuicellu. tho
onies. WHUam Byrd's wife was n original form, should be the diminu
At half past nine Tommy drove up daughter of Col. Dan Parke, nn aide tive rather than Mona herself.
to the <loor of the Mascotte. He was , de camp of Marleborough at Blenheim,
Monucella Is a Welsh nnme, mvun-
received by a stately fnan In a hand- ! nnd sent ns a messenger to Queen Ing honey-colored, or yellow. It was
some uniform and led up a flight of Anne to bear the tidings of the vic first made famous by Saint Monacello,
thickly carpeted marble stairs. At tory of Blenheim. By this wife Wil a little nun who saved a bare hunted
the top be was handed over to a su liam Byrd had two daughters, nnd by by Brocmael. prince of Powys.
percilious young lady with startling his second wife, Marlon, daughter of
Mona Is a distinctly modern appel
ly red Ups and very pallid cheeks, Thomas Taylor, he hnd a son, known lative. The original name was never
as
Col.
William
Byrd,
from
whom
all
who took his overcoat and hat from
transported from Wales but Mona
him. Under the guidance of another of the name and family are descended.
proved extremely popular with the
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splendidly clad retainer he passed In
English and Is also much In vogue lu
to a very large and most Impressive
this country. For some curious rea
room. The lights were dim and faint
sons It Is consldercil rather affected
ly pink. The air was heavily scented.
and Is much used by romantic young
Tommy looked round him a little
ludles.
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nervously. He hoped that he might
The opal Is Mona's tallsmanlc gem.
see Janet Church. Her companion The turnpike road to people'« heart« 1 Contrary to superstition It will bring
find
ship would have sustained and helped
her good luck for the machinations of
him. But she was not there. Except I Lies through their mouth«, or I ml»« the wicked fairy said to be Imprisoned
take mankind.
for six servitors In gold and purple I
In the stone will be directed toward
clothes, there was no one in the I
her good fortune. Tuesday Is her
SUMMER DRINKS
room.
lucky day and 1 her lucky number.
Two of these men took charge of ;
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Tommy. They walked one on each TOURING the warm weather cool,
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drinks
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side of him, both a little In front of
Revolutionary
Hero
him. They conducted him across the come.
Jack Jouett was a Virginia hero who
Wedding Punch.
room. At the far side of It they halt
Grate the yellow rlnd of two oranges overheard a plot to cajlture Thomas
ed in front of a pair of heavy cur
tains which bung over an archway. and three lemons Into one quurt of Jefferson at Monticello. The tavern
With a solemn and dignified sweep water; add two pounds of sugar ajid keeper, Jouett. covered 27 miles In tin
of their arms they pulled the curtains stir until the sugar Is dissolved am! hour and three-quarters. Ills warning
apart to right and left. Then, bow boll ten minutes; after It begins to made It possible for Jefferson to es
ing low, they motioned Tommy to boll take from the fire ami strain. Re cape Tarleton’s troopers who hnd been
pass on.
turn to the fire, add a tumbler of each sent out to surprise the House of Bur
He entered a still larger room, of the following: C'irrant, raspberry gesses In Charlottesville and to cap
Mix and strain ture the author of the Declaration of
very brilliantly lighted, so brilliant and blackberry.
ly lighted that for a minute he stood through a colander, ami when cold mid Independence. The legislators also es
blinking, unable to see distinctly.
a grated pineapple and u pint of grape caped.
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Juice. Cover nnd let stand over night.
At serving time add 12 ripe peaches
Authority on Cards
mushed, or a can of pouches, a fourth
The expression “according to Hoyle" of a pound of conserved cherries cut
refers to Edmond Hoyle, u writer on Into quarters, nnd n quart of straw
games, who was born In England In berries. mushed. Stir nnd put n pint
1672. LI'tie Is known about Hoyle's of the mixture Into a punch bowl, add
life. Tradition says he was educated a pint of ginger ale, n pint of shaved
for the bar. At any rate, he went to Ice and n quart of plain or efferves
London, where he spent much of his cent water.
time writing on games and giving les
sons in card playing, especially whist.
Grape Granlto.
He published a book in which he sys
Put a pound of sugar Into n pint of
tematized 4he laws and rules of whist, water, boil for five minutes. Take
a game on which he was considered an from the fire, add the Juice of a lemon
authority. His name became prover nnd nn orange. When < oo! mid a pint
bial as an authority on games.
of grape Juke nnd shuv, 1 Ico to chill.
Playing a game “according to Hoyle"
came to mean playing It fair nnd ac-
Indiana Punch.
cording to the recognized rules. Hoyle
Boll n pound of sugar, n quart of
died In London In 1769.—Kansas City
water and the grated rind of a lemon
Star.
for five minutes; strain, add a tea
spoonful of bitter almond extrnct, the
Church to Be Home
Juice of three lemons, a teaspoonful
In Belgravia street. In London, there of vanilla and two cupfuls of strong
Is a church building that for many tea. When very cold add Ice and a
years has been In disuse. Recently It pint of effervescent water.
was bought by u woman resident of the
community and she Is converting It In
to a residence. She obtained posses
sion at a public auction.
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“What’s in a Name?”
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By
H.
I R V I N q KI N q
CEDAR CURE
TYM kNT people In this country and
Csnnda are n'customed to carry
pieces of cedar wood In their pockets
to cure or to prevent iheumatlsm.
This Is a very common custom among
the lumbermen of Michigan nnd, per-
haps, among the “lumber Jacks” of
other regions. The lumbermen prefer
for their pocket amulet pieces of cedar
wood with double knots In them.
This superstition Is a survival of
the undent veneration In which the
cedar tree wns held. It Is a remnant
of tree worship of the worship, of the
cedar tree god which some have Iden
tified *!th Osiris. One myth Is thut
the cedar sprang from the body of
Osiris, another that the tree ts s visi
ble representation of that god. But
aside from any Egyptian connection
we find thut the cedar tree was wor
shiped ns n god for Itself n tes ago
among the Aryan races nnd today In
some parts of northern India the cednr
tree Is regarded as the god of fructifi
cation for the crops; and, when the
first wheat Is planted, there are elab
orate ceremonies Into which the bark
of the tree and Invocations to the tree
god enter. Even the plowman who
draws the first furrow Is given first to
ent of n cake made of wheat and cedar
shavings.
In the Punjab, In the dnys before
the influence of British rule hnd pene
trated to that region, n young girl
wns annually sacrificed to the cedar-
tree god In order that crops might be
plentiful and pestilence kept nwny
from the land. Tho cedar tree god ap
pears nt nil times, nnd 1n many places,
to have been considered ns n proper
god to appeal to for protection against
dlaense and the superstition under con
sideration Is tin Inheritance of that
Idea. Tho carrying about of a piece of
the protective tree god in one's pocket
Is, In effect, nn Invocation of his pow
ers. The writer has only known of
tho cedar being carried as n charm
against rheumatism, but perhaps in
some sections the cedar Is carried to
ward off other diseases as well.
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