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WN U device. CHAPTER IX—Continued —11— Janet Church, tired of standing by herself and very curious to know what was going on, edged slowly to ward the table at which Tommy was sitting. The king, who has very sharp eyes, noticed her. “By the way.” lie said, “why did you bring your aunt with you? Cas imir tells me that she's your aunt. I suppose she is your aunt? I used to say cousin myself sometimes, and occasionally sister—not that any one ever believed me — but I never thought of aunt. 1 suppose now that she isn’t—but she can't be. can't pos sibly be. But still some men have queer fancies. I suppose she Isn't Miss Temple, is she?” “No, she's not.” said Tommy. “That's almost a pity.” said the king. “I don't think Calypso would have objected to her. I don't think even the patriarch would have mind ed. However, if she isn't—" He had to drop his voice at the last words, for Janet had come quite close to them. The king greeted her in the most friendly manner. “I’m just giving your nephew a little advice," he said. "1 was talk ing about the financial position of Lystria. Low rate of exchange and all that, you know. But the worst of It is that the people simply won't pay their taxes. At least, they wouldn't In my time. Ever since I've been here I've been thinking things over and I see now that I went the wrong way about collect ing taxes. All governments make the same mistake. They send ’round dis agreeable men with large blue pa pers and threaten people who don't pay up. That's the wrong way to get money. As head waiter In the Mascotte I make more In a single month than I ever got out of Lystria in a year. I don’t threaten any one. I don't ask any one for a tip. A good waiter can make a man feel like a worm if he orders anything cheap er than champagne, and without speaking a word can see to It that he gets a ten per cent tip at least on every bill that's paid. 1 take fifty per cent of what the waiters get. That's revenue, collected without the slightest difficulty. What I'm ad vising your nephew to do Is to try the same plan In Lystria. Fire all the exlsitlng tax collectors. They're an utterly worthless lot, and their methods are antiquated. Hire a staff of waiters from some place like this. Employ them on a fifty-fifty basis, and Just see what you get tn. Now what do you think of that plan. Miss Temple?” “My name isn't Temple,” said Janet “It’s—” “Of course not,” said the king. “Norheys told me It wasn't.” “It's Church. Miss Janet Church." She spoke stiffly. Her impression was that the king was a very drunk head waiter. “Church," said the king. "How very ecclesiastical! And Norheys says he's a curate. You ought to be able to handle the patriarch between you." "I’m going to Lystria," said Janet, “to enlist the patriarch's sympathies in the cause of World Pea< e Through the Union of Christian Churches." The king looked at her for a mo ment with a little puzzled frown on his forehead. Then he turned to Tommy. “I must say you’re managing this uncommonly well," he Said. “If you can start the patriarch arguing about religion, he’ll forget— It's .in extraor dinarily ingenious plan 1 wish I'd thought of it in my time. But then I never had an aunt who could have done it. I wish I could be there. Miss Church. I’d like to hear you and the patriarch at it t .-ether. But I can t go. They’d never let me cross the frontier. Besides, I must hold on to my Job here. It's all I have to live on.” Janet turned away. Drunken head waiters who babbled neither amused nor Interested her. She left the rosin with great dignity. I! it an hour later, after receiving a great deal more good advice. Tot pny managed to get off and go back to bls hotel. CHAPTER X I have bad sevoril talks with Tom my about what happened In Berlin. It was easy, or fairly easy to get at the facts. It Was very much more difficult to find out what Tommy thought about it all. "But didn't th "hole thing strike you as odd?" I as ed him. "Of course it did,” said Tommy. "Odd is hardly the word for IL It was simply mad." "Still, you went on with ft. I mean to say, you didn't try to clear things up." “I did nothing else except try to i clear things up,” said Tommj. “I kept on trying. I told every one I met there’d been a mistake, that I wasn’t the man they took me for; but they wouldn't believe me." “So at last you made up your mind to take the goods the gods provided, a princess and a throne?" "Well, of course, there was Calyp so," said Tommy. "I uldn’t really think ut first that 1 had much chance of getting her. marrying her, I mean. Well, I told you how I was feeling about her." “Yes. 1 understand that. But all the same—what I'm trying to get nt is this: what did you think was happening? How did you explain It all to yourself? Did you try to think It out?" “I thought It out all that night.” said Tommy, "at least as long as I stayed awake. I dare say I was awake for as much as an hour or an hour and a half after I got Into bed. and I was thinking hard all the time, partly about Calypso, of course. But—" “Mostly about Calypso, I expect." “Well, you may say mostly." said Tommy. "Still, I did think about the others. Casimir and the king, and about the absurd way they were go ing on. Insisting that I was some one I wasn't and all that." “And what conclusion did you come to? How did you explain It to your self?" "It sounds rather absurd." said Tommy, “and I dare say you'll think me a fool. But you know the way that fellow Casimir keeps on quot ing Shakespeare?" “I have beard him do it and mar veled.” "Evidently he’d read a lot of Shakespeare," said Tommy, “and ad mired him and all that." “These mid-European peoples," I said, "all admire Shakespeare 1m- Janet Church, Tired of Standing by Herself and Very Curious to Know What Was Going On, Edged Slowly Toward ths Table at Which Tommy Was Sitting. mensely. They know him a great deal better than we do.” “That's what I’m geftlng at,” said Tommy. “Casimir admires Shake speare tremendously, and I dare say the king does too. I don't profess myself to know all the plays off by heart. Still I’ve read them. At least. I've read most of them. Do you re member the beginning of one of the plays—I didn’t remember which It was at the time, but I’ve looked it up since, and It’s "The Taming of the Shrew." At the beginning of It there’s » kind of little play which hasn't anything to do with the shrew, or the tarn lug or anything else.” No more than Tommy am I a Shakespearean scholar. But I recol lect that there was a kind of pro logue to "The Taming of the Shrew.” "It’s about a sort of spoof,” said Tommy, “which a lot of people played off on a ragged beggar called Chris topher Sly, pretending to believe that the poor man was a king or a great lord or something until they very nearly persuaded him that he was!" I remembered the scene when Tom my described It. A certain lord, re turning from hunting with his at tendants, all of them In merry mood, found a beggar In a bed In an inn. And out of sheer gaiety of heart set to work to persuade him that he was a wealthy nobleman. “My idea was,” said Tommy, "that they were trying that trick on with me. I don’t know how the game end ed In Shakespeare. In fact I don't think It did end. But I thought I might just as well go through with It and see what happened. There was Calypso, you see.” "Yes,” I said. “You’ve told me how you felt about her. Did you believe she was a princess?” ■‘óf course. I didn’t." said Tommy, “At least, not at first. 1 thought she was just a dancing girl. And I thought her father wus a head waiter, and that Casimir was a silly ass who'd got Shakespeare on the bruin I'd have chucked the whole thing and kicked Casimir next time I saw him, only that I really did want to—" "You wanted to marry Calypso?" "Moat frightfully," said Tommy, who la a very simple soul. "Considering your position.” 1 said, “and your profession, and—and my sister Emily, don't you think you ought to have hesitated about mar rying a girl like that?” "I suppose 1 ought." said Tommy. “But I didn't. A fellow doesn't, you know, when he's— 1 told you that Calypso laid me out, absolutely a gone man. the very moment 1 saw her." That Is all very well; but I still think Tommy ought to have thought what he was doing. If he married her. supposing her to be. as he thought, simply a German dancing girl, he would have had to take her home with ‘him and she would have been the curate's wife In my sister Emily's parish. What sort of exam ple was Calypso likely to set to mem- J tiers of the Girls' Friendly society? What would the members of the I Mothers’ union have thought about her? What would dear old Canon Pyke, simplest, gentlest, most Inno cent of men. have thought of a cu rate’s wife who kicked her legs Into the air on the platform of his paro chial hull at the annual entertainment of the Temperance society? And Emily herself? My hnaglna tlon utterly failed when 1 tried to Imagine Emily’s reception of Calyp so. She had not a very high opinion of Tommy before he went to Berlin ! In her original letter to me about his i disappearance she had said that he was not altogether suited to be a clergyman. She would have been con firmed In that opinion when’he came back with Calypso for a wife. There was no real harm In the girl. She was as thoroughly respectable as Vlo I la Temple was. But Edmund Troy- te, who was a man of the world, shied at the idea of his nephew marrying her. Emily, who Is a lady not of this world but of the next, would have been outraged and scandalized, if Canon Pyke’s curate, a man who preached to her on Sundays, brought home Calypso as a wife. How would Calypso have taught a class In Sun day school? Emily would regard it as part of the duty of a curate’s wife to teach a class in Sunday school. There are things which Tommy certainly ought to have thought about ; but did not. As he said, “a fellow doesn’t" when he has fallen suddenly and .violently in love. And, of course, there were other consid erations. Calypso really was a prin cess. Tommy did not know that, at the time. Perhaps no one In the par ish would have known It at first ; but In the end it would have leaked out. : What would have happened? My sis- J ter Is no more a snob than the rest of us; but, like all decent people, she has a respect for royalty. She might severely condemn thè manners, cus toms and morals of a Berlin cabaret dancer; but she is not the woman to do more than whisper nasty things about a prim-ess. Her position would be really awkward. A curate’s wife occupies a definite, quite humble place In a parish. But a princess In any well regulated church Is recclvt-d at the door by the clergy In full ca nonicals, has a gilt and crimson chair to sit on. Instead of being herded in to a pew like other people, and Is often prayed for by name In the course of the service. What could be done about a princess who Is also the curate's wife? But these complicated problems did not trouble Tommy; He was able to go to sleep after little more than an hour's wakefulness, rest quietly and awake n--xt morning prepared to play out to the end what he sup posed to be Casimir’s game. When he came down next morning he went to the head clerk In the re ception office and asked whether Count Casimir had called or sent any message. Casimir had done neither. But the head clerk, who felt It his duty to watch over his guests, told Tommy that he ought to go to the police office at once to show ids pass port and obtain permission to remain In Berlin. This, he said, was neces sary in the case of all foreigners who wished to stay more than two days. The whole business, so he assured Tommy, was purely formal; tiresome, but liothlng worse. Tommy bad noth ing to do except display his passport. He would Immediately receive the necessary written permit. It was called—Tommy wrote down the word to make sure of remembering It— an Auswels. (TO BE CONTINUED ) Conec’ence Ruled Him One of the witnesses at a royal com mission appointed to Inquire into a case of alleged bribery In an election stated that he had received $25 to vote Conservative, and In cross-examina tion it was elicited that he had also received $25 to vote Liberal. Mr. Justice Matthew, in amazement, repeated : "You say you received $25 to vote Conservative?" "Yes, my lord.” "And you also received $25 to vote Liberal?" "Yes, my lord." "And for whom did you vote nt the finish?” asked the astonished judge, throwing himself back In the chair. And the witness, with Injured dig nity In every line of his face, answered with great earnestness: "I voted, my lord, according to my conscience 1”—Vancouver Provine«. OOOOOOOOOOvAOCOOCXJOOOO XJOOO Norma Talmadge s In the ® JUNGLE With Cheer ups and theQuixies z^Grace Dliss Steward PATH TO CHEERUPS' DOOR ••MiflV Ju«t look nt that path, Brlghteyes," called Cheerups to n little brown Qulxle who wus pr<-;e Ing out of n bush near by. "You couldn’t really cull It a oath, (sntld you. Mr?" Risked Brishteyee, "Hardly a blade of grass 1« worn off.” "No, that’s Just the trouble. Bright eye«; there'« no one to wear It off," replied Cheerups. “Nobody come« to ses us. Maybe they can’t find the way. Known as “svsrybody’s favorit«," Norma Talmadgs was born at Niagara Falla, N. Y. Sb« entered pictures at the age of fourteen. She is a recog nixed leader In modest robes, but she 1« bettor known as a great emotional actress. --------- n--------- THE“COOTY” ARASITES are pres, nt everywhere P In vegetable life, like the mistle toe upon the ouk and the beautiful orchid, but not all are so attractive us these. They are equally prevalent In ani mal life—in fact it seems to be na ture’s plan to give every anlmul and । plant some kind of an enemy to fur- ’ nlsb a good excuse for the struggle for i existence and the maintenance of the species. In man there are twice ns many varieties of parasites as in any other animal. Of the parasites tn human beings there are more than fifty varieties, some living on the outside of the body, I others In the Intestines, muscles, eyes. . liver and elsewhere. Three-quarters of the human parn- sites are on the skin or In the intes tines. The "cooty," or body louse, 1s of very great Importance, not only be cause of the annoyance he gives his hosts, but because he may curry the genu of spotted or typhus fever. This disease was widespread and deadly In the enrly part of the war; and when Serbian soldiers were cap tured by Germans, the first thing done | for them was to round them up nnd' entlaueMn. that Is, un lice, them. Uce live and propagate In the hnlry parts of the akin—particularly on the hair of tllf scalp, but also on the eye brows, eyelashes, beard, armpits and elsewhere. They seem to prefer the bnlr on the back of the head. One variety makes Its home In t?ie seams of the clothing, but migrates to the skin when hungry. The eggs, or nits, attach themselves to hairs, and It Is very difficult to dis lodge them. They are small, 'white, globular bodies near the root of the hair or at nny point along Its shaft. In the careless ami neglected, they are found In the midst of dirty mid matted hair, mingled with pus, sen' s nnd other evidences of Inflammation. The sexes of lice are distinct, an 1 there are separate varieties for dif ferent parts of the body. They fasten themselves to the s' in with their booklets and when feedln; thrust their nose Into the skin, like the mosquito nnd withdraw blood. The female lays fiO to GO eggs which she glues to the hair with n very tenacloua secretion from her body. i The Itching nnd scratching they ex cite ennse Inflammation nnd suppura tion. and the pus In the neglected cases produces the matting of the hair and general filthiness. An ernptlon like eczema may be pro- dm ■ d nnd tbo-e n ,y be sweHh-g and soreness In the glands of the armpit, groin and neck. The parn- 'les am? thefr eggs mny be destroyed by a sonp, or lotion, or bath containing sulphur, tobacco or mer cury. ('rude petroleum or kerosene, alone or mixed with sweet oil »or bnl- snm of Berti (to destroy the odor), Is effective, ns nlso Is nn Infusion of the flowers of larkspur or the fluid extract of the seeds. Unless these preparations nre used thoroughly, and both lice nnd eggs de stroyed, the result will be disappoint ing. It Is often desirable to destroy the eggs by themselves after the lice have been destroyed; and for this purpose strong preparations -t’ soda, vinegar, borax or alcohol may he used. They must' be applied liberally nnd thoroughly. In .order to dissolve the material which fastens the egg to the hnlr. As the clo’hlng of tho«e who have vermin upon the body Is nlso Infested, In very many cases, It Is well to sub mit It for a sufficient lerfgth of time to the vapor of formaldehyde, or to live steam. (ft by Georg« Matthew Adams.) “I Hav« an ld«a,” Called Ch««rups to HI« Companion. It must be that, for I’m sure they would like us If they could get here." "Ill g" once more nnd look,” cried Brlghteyes. “I'll climb toe very tallest tree on the tlpmost top the nmun tain nnd look us far as 1 can to see If anyone Is coming,” and he Jumped aboard a passing breeze and fiew away through the air. , There ant Cheerups In the doorway of ids little house. It was only a bole In the side of nn old hollow stump, but jhls Jolly little fairy liked Ids home nnd was so happy that It would have made you laugh Just to look ut him. "What’s in a Name?’’ By MILDRED MARSHALL r»ct* about your nanw. It» history; maanmg, whanra It -u derived, eg. lUScanra. your lucky day. lucky h ~«I georgian X But even If the rest of the world hadn't gome to Cheerupik he had frieBds. Anyone so Jolly and kind couldn't help It. There were four little Quisles who were Id« faithful companion«, and they were called Brlghteyes, Quickear, Soft foot and Snlffsnlff. These t^ilxles lived up III the Great I'lna Tree whleh waved It* whispering branch«« over cite« ruim' hollow stump, nnd they were no much alike that you couldn't tell them apart unless you knew them very well. They were u> ■lender and brown n« (Tieenipa wm plump nnd green, and being so «lender and brown, they looked like brothers to the pine needles which fall from ths great pipe tree« and feel so soft under your feet In the wimh I s . Brlghteyes could see very well In deed Ills eyesight was so wonderful that he could almost see around n cor ner. Qulekenr sal t thut be could hear the gruss grow. Soft foot stepped so lightly that even Qulekenr couldn't hear Idin, nnd Nnlffsidff could smell a violet a mile away. Of course, with such good friend« near him, Cheerups couldn't be very sad about the luck of visitors. It wu« really because ho was so glad that tine morning that he winded to share his good spirits with every one. “Yea. I’m sure they would like ns If they could only get here," mur inured Cheerups to himself. "I would so love to broaden my acq mi I nt line«. They ray travel does it. That's It. we'll travel! oh, Brlghteyes. Quirk ear, Softfoot, Sniffsniff; 1 have nn Idea!" "Yes. sir. here I nm. sir; I coufdni see anyone from the top of the inoun tain coming thia way. sir," cried Brlghteye«, as he fluttered to th« ground. "Never mind that now," shouted Cheerape excitedly. “I have a won derful Idea. We'll go to them!" "To them?" pitied Qulekenr. “To whom?" chirped Softfoot "To where?" sputtered Sniffsniff For they had all dropped down from the Great I'lne Tree nt Cheenipa’ first coll. "We are going to travel." chuckled Cheeraps. "Isn't It exciting?“ "But please, sir, when do we start?" chimed the Quisles In chorus. "We begin here and we start now," cried Cheerups gleefully. "All alamrd for Somewhere," uml he hopped on a passing leaf and rose Into the air The four little Qulxles were most too astonished to move but they didn't want to be left behind, so each grabbed n bit of thistledown and followed Cheerups on his voyage of discovery. (X) by LlUk Brown A c’o ) <THE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS By H. < I R V I N Q KINQ SPIDERS EORGIANA Is a modernism which o SEE n spider spin down before has quite a bit of Interesting his T you Is an omen of good luck. That G tory behind It. It means "husband Is the broadest form of the spider super man" and dates back to the allegorical saints of the Greek church, one of whom was culled by ‘a Greek name whleh meant "worker of the earth." The fame of St. George and the dragon carried the masculine name to extraordinary heights of popularity. From It various feminines were formed with a distinct Idea of honoring the saint. It wns not a slow growth, but a deliberate manufacture. The first English lady bearing a mime akin to Georg« 11 god child of Anne of Denmark, who had her christened Georgia Anna In commemoration of herself nnd the popular saint. Later the two names were run together and Georgiana Is the result. Georgia Is now regarded ns n con traction of Georgians, although It has the right to separate existence. Georglne and Georgette are French ver sions which have also acquired popu larity In this country. Tlie emerald Is Georgiana's tails- manic gem. It Is believed to^uard her from unfortunate love affairs by giv ing her extraordinary keenness In Judg ment. Wednesday Is her lucky day and 3 her lucky number. by WhFclei Mvn«H' »t*, Inr.) ■tltlon which extends to all parts of the world. The more restricted form says that the spider sometimes called the "Book Spider" and sometimes the "Money Spider" that little .fellow who drops down on Ids slender thread from ceilings and window ledges Is the brlnger of good luck. His appearance, spinning down before you. Is n sure sign of money coming to you. Some say thnt It Is almost as sure a sign of good luck to find one of these spldi-rs on your clothing. The origin of the spider supersti tion has been seen by some In the old Hebrew tradition telling how David, beiflB pursued by Saul, took refuge In a cave across the mouth of which a spider at once wove a web. Saul, coming along and seeing tin* un broken web, said; "Nobody In there," and went on. Therefore, the spider, having saved David, was reverenced ever after. Others cite tin- story of Robert Bruce, who was Inspired, when bls fortunes were at their lowest, to make another attempt to restore the Independence of Ids country by watch ing the persistency with which A spider, after repented fnllirt-es, hnuhsl hjmself up by his slender thread. But the spider superstition prevnils In countries which never beard of Bruce and where the legend of David's spider Is unknown. It Is nn ancient superstition of psychological origin a Cognate Idea arising from a fact. Old Fuller mentioned the spider superstition 300 years ago and gave as the explanation of It the fact that "such us Imltiite the Industry nnd per- aevernnce of this contemptible Insect mny, by God’s grace, weave for them selves wealth and the purchase of a large estate," (IS) by Mcdur« N«wspnp»r Syndlcnto.) ----------- o----------- Desert Arventures ( qj by McClure NfW«paper Syndicat«.» The Journey across the Libyan des ert from (Jairo to the oasis of Slwa nnd buck, n distance of 1,200 miles, Ims been ncconi|4lshed on motorcycles by T. M. Moore nnd A. Whitaker In 1 i days. Their arms were badly swollen from the strain of holding up their machines In the saud. ■ - ■ jjar?
