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.
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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.)
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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?