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Esther Ralston
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s t o r y ; IÎXX/ 7 >' Î
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Immensely.
He didn’t complain and
long for other w eather.
“King Cobra Is changing his skin
<i V ES, I’ve been asked to toll m t
* »lory,” Mid Mr. Yak. "anil I for a new one, but he Is so cross. I.ast
y ear when he did this they had a
am tndood glad to oblige.
"1 like to think that p«M-ple are In horrible tim e with him.
•T h e old skin didn't com* off across
terested In knowing about me. and I
always like It when children come to his eyes and the keepers tried to help
him with It. hut gracious, he'd try to
the loo and when they ask what I am
“ It Is nice to have .wople Interested attack them, and they had to keep on
th eir guard.
In one.
“As It was they ran great risks In
“Of course It la nice to have peo
ple Interested In two or three, hot w hat they did. But they were brave
alien I said that It was nice to have and splendid about It.
“King Cobra didn't really deserve
people Interested In one I m eant It
the way I ve heard creatures talk—I such atientlon. for they w ere trying to
meant that It w >s nice to have people help him and he «-as ready to kill
InW toied In me I said "one1 because them I
“T h at wasn’t very decent of him.
th at sounds b etter and more superior.
“ Well, we come from Tibet and > Vn- was ItT
“Well, they forgave him and put
tral Asia, and we are hitched to wag
tins In the home country and carry hushes with twigs and underbrush In
his cage so that he could rub against
people about In these wagons or carts
• We also carry bundles and we pull these and help pull off his skin, but he
plows. We do a lot of work at home. w asn't grateful In the least.
“He Is certainly a bad creature.
“ Yaks give milk and from our hair
“Rut here I am. a good creature,
splendid rope* can he made, and be-
end many of us have given rope and
fixvl and u.ce and cloth and fly sw at
ters. and no emi of gifts to people, as
l*ve said.
“I am g ratefu for my happy home
In the soo."
“Well." said Billie Brownie, who
had been listening to Mr. Yak's story,
as you may Im aglre. “I do like you,
Mr. Tak. I like your name.
I like
everything ahout you. Is here any
I thing else you can tell mcT’
“1 believe I forgot to tell you the
most Im portant thing of all." said Mr
Yak
“I belong to the oxen family. And
of course, perhaps I should not be
boastful about not being a w eather
grum bler on the cold days when oth
ers are complaining, for when Yaks
are free and wild they live near places
•We C>.ni« From Tibet and Central « h e re there Is alw ays snow.
Aaia.”
“Well." said Billie Brownie. “I like
the wlnte.- too, and now th a t we're
cause they saw us hitting flies so suc
speaking of It I will sing you my win
cessfully with our tails many of our
te r song which I made up on my way
falls have been made Into fly swatter*.
here this afternoon
I do hot-e you
“If we meet an enemy we fall on
will like It. snd If you do It will be
him to show him th a t we think be
s great honor If you will allow me to
aught to go down bef >rt us.
dedicate It to you.
“But for the most je r t we’re Tery
“T h at means. Mr. Tak. that I would
Cood matured. W eather doesn't bother
like to put on the top of the song that
as.
In fact we like the cold, cold
weather which some of the animals I* Is TO MY GOOD FRIEND MU
don’t like at a ll And we're happy In YAK."
"Oh. Indeed, such a compliment,"
the soo
“We believe th at lace and all sorts said Mr. ""ak.
“W alt until you see If you like the
»f wonderful things have been made
from our hair and you will admit song.“ said Billie Brownie, and then
he sang this song:
that It Is handsome balr.
I
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M r Y ak, th e P o la r B e ar and I,
All feel so v e ry , v e ry sp ry .
For we like ths cold which Is so brac
ing.
And w e 're h ap p y t h a t th e w in te r tim e
w e 're fa cin g .
And Mr. Yak thought the song a tine
one!
(C o e rrlsh t. I
•
How It Started
By J ean N ec to n
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oooooooooooooooooooooooooo
THE “DRESSER”
VISION
usage the word "dress
HE characteristic American ques
I N er” POPULAR
designates a piece of furni T tion ts, “W hat will 1 get out of
ture which belongs In a bedroom—a
rbest of draw ers usually, with a mir
ror. the place where milady makes her
toilette. And many people who have
aever given the word a second thought
gill be surprised to learn that this Is
nerely an American colloquialism
without foundation In fact or ety-
nology.
“P -esser" comes from the French
‘dessolr" a n d Its original and legitl-
n ate significance Is an adjunct of the
dtchen. For the original dresser was
t sideboard on which meat was dressed
yefore being served In the dlnl..g
rhamber. And the word Is so osed In
SDgland today. How the corruption to
ts use in this country came about Is
lot known, unless It may be explained
jy the fact th at the ean y colonists,
lvlng sometimes In one room, and be
jig dependent frequently on one a r
dele of fu rniture for various purposes.
>uilt draw ers In which to keep their
tlothes under the bench on which their
!«od was dressed, and so gave the
* rn dresser a new significance which
m s survived to the exclusion of Its
iriginal meaning.
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GIPIIGAG P
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"If you know what I mean." says
Soliloquising I.II, “the little bit of bad
In the best of us makes Hie worst ot
us when It gets the best of us."
GASSED
ItT' A v e rj wise question under cer
tain conditions, but a very foolish one
under other conditions». It all de
pends upon the purpose In asking the
question. If the dominating thought
regarding work is “ W hat am I going
to get out of ItT ' the result Is likely
to be that we will get very little out
of It. As a rule a person gets out of
bis work Just what he puts loto It.
The law of progress In the economic
world ts not chance but vision. The
most valuable Investment we can
make Is not the amount of money put
into an enterprise, but the am ount of
wisdom. ability, commonsense plus
vision. The dividends th at such an
investm ent will declare will be In
term s of an enlarged earning ca
pacity. The spirit which determ ines
the size of a week's pay roll Is not.
''How much will I get.” but, “How
much was I willing to give."
A hoy will be an erran d boy all
his life If he has only an errand boy's
vision. Running of errands may be
necesrary but It should be thought of
only as the beginning of a Job and
not th e end of I t Victories In life
are won not so much by the toll of
the hands as by thoughts of the mind.
Visions are the creators of success.
"As a man thlnketh in bis heart so
Is be."
It Is Impossible for a person to
achieve more than be thinks he can
accomplish. A person Is not likely
to arriv e a t a definite success unless
he expects to. A narrow visioned
life creates no Impulses th at urge on
ward, no am bitions th at reach o u t
ward. and no burning purposes th at
fires the Imagination. All men who
have achieved th eir goals have flrst
had a clear and definite vision of the
end they sou g h t
Vision determ ines success or failure.
W here there Is no vision Ideals and
am bitions perish.
Charming E ith er Ralston, te jtu .e e
••movie” actress, the -M rs. Darling" of
"P eter Pan" was practically brovght
up in the theater. Her parents wer*
principals of “The Ralston Tamily,
M etropolitan E n tertainers." E sther at
the age of two already had made her
debut as p art of the act of her p ar
ents. She has been seen to good ad
vantage In many Im portant produe
M o m .
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Uncommon Sense
5y John Blake
SAVING POWER OF TALK
T H E outbreak of crim e which fol
I F lowed
the w ar had been regarded as
perfectly n atural, and excited no com
ment. civilization Itself might soon
have disappeared.
But people will talk.
And th eir talk, even If It Is gos
sip, or has to do only with scandal.
Is an effective force In the w orld
The discussion of m odem plays—
which may be pernicious and may
not be—will bring people to consider
them carefully, snd th a t will settle
the problem by and by In the way It
ought to be s e ttle d
The fact th a t every so-called "crime
wave" Is widely discussed puts an
end to It a fte r a while.
Through the new spapers th e offl
d a is and law m akers heed the voice of
the people.
In the people they recognize their
m asters, and by and by they are
stirred to activity, and the bandit
finds his trad e no longer safe.
s e e
One of the best things about mod
ern life Is constant discussion of nil
Im portant happenings—and for that
the world has to thank the new spa
pers which keep them Informed about
these happenings.
Any wrong th a t can be kept secret
Is dangerous.
Any evil, discussion about which Is
tabooed, will sp re a d
But let everybody have his way, let
fam ilies talk around the fireside and
men across th eir desks, and women
at afternoon tens, and by and by the
evil will be rem oved
Often public discussion of every-day
events sounds like Idle ch atter, but
out of th at Idle ch a tter comes thought,
and thought brings results a fte r a
while.
s e e
Public talk and exchange of Ideas
have righted many a great w rong;
brought about many a revolution
against tyrannical rule, and Improved
the conditions of life since the begin
Ding of the w o rld
Sometimes the talk Is led by a
speech or a book by a great reform er,
but more often th e reform er gets his
Idea from the talk he hears, and m ere
ly gives It point and effectiveness by
his superior use of words.
It was s wise statesm an who dis
covered th a t the suppression of the
right of free speech w as dangerous.
The B ritish governm ent has acted
with great Intelligence In perm itting
people to talk as freely as they like
In public places, thereby letting off
steam which If confined might have
resulted In an explosion.
.
It Is common enough to sneer at
talk and talkers, and to believe that
nothing was ever settled right by nd-
less palaver.
Yet talk has been the stabilizing an I
sane force In human history always,
and the more liberally It la employed
the sooner will we discover the way
In which we m ust go to be saved.
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heen going with th a t talkative Miss
Gabb Is quite sick." W illiams—"Yes ;
the doctor says he's showing the e f
fects of having been gassed.”
Pop W a t U p in th e A ir
Jackson—“I hear the goof who has
Republican National Convention in Session
Br RING LARONF.lt
ABOUT MR. YAK
“It has been said somewhere that
women had beautiful hair, but good
ness me. Yaks have beautiful hair, too.
Women shouldn't keep all the glory to
themselves.
“Now Methoselah. the Giant Tor
toise, shows a gooc disposition.
He
»Joyed the last snowstorm we had
An Evening With
the Spirits
It was past midnight and ominous
tram p of heavy feet was heard on the
stairs.
“W hat Is th at?” »lie cried, clinging
to her airm an lover,
"Sounds like your fath er coming
down out of control," he replied In
the jargon of his profession.
( A h r H e c t a r e N e w e p sp e r S ra d ic e te .!
H a rd L u c k
Squire—Did yon suffer badly from
the floods, Mr. Giles?
Mr. Giles—I should think I did.
Why, I was sir i up In the house with
the m issus for nearly a week.—r a i s
ing Show (London).
Sliced W ith a Spoon
To the E d ito r:
'The o th er I*. M. they was a bunch ot
us up In Yonkers talking about what
terrible spirits you get around N. Y
now days and 1 of the bird* In the
party uam e Herb ray s be knew where
they w in some hemiltful spirits and
we said lead us to It and he took u»
down to AS st. and ft axe. and they « a s s
doctor's nam e on the door and I said
to myself this guy will prohtihly gt\>
us a prescription th at will knock u*
for a goal. But the doc took us In a
Inside room and Introduced us to a
lady whom they all call Medle, witch
I leuru w as short for Medium so you
see the kind of spirits wo got and the
kind we thought xve w as going to get
was 2 different kinds of s p irits Medle
was u Medium ra re blonde lady that
could of lose 30 or »0 pounds and still
talk back to Gene Tuuney.
Well, pretty soon Medle and the doc J
and our party went luto still another ^
room yet w here they w as about 2t>
other guests mostly female th at looked
Uke the end of u perfect wash day. A
NOIH*»V\>0
alm a uiater of Ohcrlln college ast un
to look at a kind of a close line tliai
T hls plclurv g ltcs a generai xh xv of thè ItepuhIUan Ballottai convention In K ansas City. The plinto,:rapii waa
was stretched acrost the room utnl on
taken shortly a fte r thè convention xxas calici! lo ordcr un thè o|ienllig day of Ilio seaaloli. It gite* a getterai
It w as a hunch of toys such as doll*
Idea of thè seatlng arrangem ent for thè delegate» and »botta thè lux lati display of llug» and bum log l mt deco
and cooties and etc. witch Medle had
ra ted thè Interior.
told her w as for the baby sp irits to
play with when they got cross.
We was ull put uround In a circle
like Yale learning their signals In the
-Ith quarter. I set next to Jack and |
Ills Mrs. from Yonkers and the rest ot
we ekeptlcnis was scattered uround I
am idst the believer*.
“ Is there somebody here name It"
says Medle so I says yes It was me
- Is Edward" MJS (lie Spirit U d
Medle ust me If I had a brother Ed
ward and I say* yes. So Medle soys
"T his Is your brother Edw ard that
w as killed In a accident a long wile
ago w asn’t heT’ So I says yes 3 yrs j
ago. Thou Edward said Hello ther. I
aud 1 said hello Edward how are yon
and he said hello there and I couldn't
refute It so he left the field with the
last word and give his megaphone 1 «
a Irish comedian.
"Oh. here’s Bat O 'B rien" rays the
doc. “lie Is a funny Irishm an that Is
with us every ulght, get bis brogue
So then But told a Irish story tbut
Twelve hundred and fifty pupil» of the John Alluma Junior Idgh school In Los Angeles, Calif., forming the
died even longer ago than Edward
w orld's longest “human mesauge." They a re making It plain th at they a re In fu tu r of a propoacd >20,400,000
but you don't feel like razzing the
school bond Issue.
spirit so everybody laughed the rlghi
amount.
Before the darkness had fell I bad
MADE OPENING PRAYF.R
noticed a bird retting oxer to the left
of me that was a countrym an of Nora
Holmer und now all of a sudden a
spirit spoke to him In Norskl and h-
answ ered buck In the sam e stralD an i
I never understood Norway before bui
as toon as these birds begin to talk I
knew they xvus saying hello Knut hello
there and etc. ITetty stain Medle
turned to the live rkl Junqwr and told
him his mother was going to die
"She was all right the last tim e I
seen her" says Ellert. "Well she 1»
going to die" says Medle and |>ersonl>
1 think she xxns right ns E llert xvs>
around 41 yrs. old and when a man
gets that age their mother Is seldoai
never trying out for the Y assar basket
ball team.
“ H ere's a beautiful spirit, who-doe.*
he w ant” says Medle uexL “ lie says .
dear boy.”
“Lots of people call me th a t" says
Herb the guy that had broughteu us
there at
a crack.
“ Yes It Is your father and he a n y
he was on the river once In a boat
when he was a little hoy anil wu>
saved from drowning ami he say»
something about a dog. Did a tlog evet
llUtinp S. •*. l'nrtiidiif* of lb© ilio«**»*©
swim out and save your fath er from
of W©st Ml imm » uri, who op©n«*t| tlu* lt«*-
drowning?"
puhllrnn tintinniti com ont loti with
“ Well no” says Herb a fter a terrlblc
prayer.
pause. “But a dog barked and roused
up the neighbors and they come to the
Scene In the cellar of police hendqmirteca In New Y'ork when officials
rescue."
BEST AT ANNAPOLIS
burned up inurphlue, heroin and o th er seized drugs valued ut ubout a
“T here th a t’s evidential” says the
million dollars.
doc and several fem ale voices says
wonderful.
“Sliish" says Medle “Is there some
one here that lost their wife?"
“ I did" suys Jack from Yonkers.
"Hello sw eetheart" rays the spirit.
“ Hello Kate" say* Jack.
“ Hello sw eetheart" says the spirit.
“She must of forgot my name" say»
Jack In my ear.
“She is a beautiful spirit" say»
Medle.
A long about this tim e I got rest
?
less for a smoke and begin rattling a
cigarette paper and a new spirit
whanged me on the knee cap with a
megaphone ond says w hat have you
got there.
“T h at's Bright Eyes talking” says
Medle. "She w ants to know what you
have goL"
“Tell her i got a sore knee" I says
“ Be serious” suys Bright E yes
Well they wu* a lot more of them
that give us all the latest news from
Over T here like hello dear and hello
there and hello mamma and finely
Tld* huge sen turtle, believed to bo about 200 years old, w as caught the
Medle came to and turned up (la-
o th er dn.v a t D aytona Bench. Fin., by W. K. Blodgett. It weighs almost out)
Midshipman C harles It. W atts of
light* and we all shoved off to 18 st.
pounds, Is four feet wide and six and one tin If feet long.
/.anestllle, Ohio, who graduated with
“Well" says Herb. “Did you have
a brother that got killed 3 y r s ago?"
first honors front the United Htntc*
Naval academy this year.
“No” I says “But I know a man thin
C arried S n a k e in F ur
B ir d t A d o p te d h y S ta te t
lias u brother Edward that ought to ol
The m ystery of a "live'' fur th a t has
The National Assoclatlon of Audu-
been killed 3 y rs ago hut what ahoui
been carried by a London roclety bon societies say* Ilio fullnwlng state»
that dog story?*'
INTERESTING FACTS
woman ha* been solved. The fur, bave adopted h lrd s; Kansas, W estern
'•Well" he says “ Bart ol It Is true
which was new and of foreign manu inenduwlark ; Florida, mockinghlrd ;
We uee to have a dog once and he use
Enriched by snle of tim ber It owned.
facture, seemed bewitched.
When Kentucky, cardinnl ; Maino, chlckadee; Urbe*. France, has built n public gym
to bark."
ever the ow ner laid It down It would D lstrlct of Columbia, w oodttirnsh; nasium, th eater and hath.
Then M rs Jack from Yonkers bulleit
change Its position with alm ost Im- Louisiana, brown pellcon ; Alabama,
Jack out und we all thanked Herb
An ex-ofllcer of the United States
5 >erceptlhle slowness, Finally she took
for taking us to where they was noth
fllrker ; Missouri, hi nettird; Virginia, nnvy will have control of m ilitary and
It to the furriers, who, a fte r some olc- rohln; Maryland, B altim ore orbile; naval aeronautics In Beni.
Ing but peaullful spirits and he says il
servatlon, w ere equally as puzzled. So Oregon, W estern mendowlnrk ; Wiscon
you xvnnt the had kind you enn go to »
The charleston. H ill popular In
they opened It and found—a rraall sin, rolliti; Texas, niocklngblrd, and France, Is blunted there for an un
Medic evil.
(IB Or IDs B e l l S y n d i c a t e . I n c . )
snake.
usual num ber of aprnlned knees.
Nebraskn, W estern mendowlnrk.
Colleges and universities In the
United S tates represent an Invest
F a m o u t G ra m m a ria n
Firet T h ro u g h C anal
O th er M a n ’ • S h o et
ment of more than 92,000,01)0.00».
Prlsclan was the meet noted a*
On August 1.1, 1014, the Rnnnmn ca
Among ancient Norsemen, when a
American Y. M. C. A. school* In
Latin gram m arian* lie Belonged to
nal w as opened to the world. The man adopted a son, the |ierson adopt
France have as pupils 1,300 Russians,
the early part of the Sixth century
first passage a fte r the declared open ed put on the shoes of the adopter.
who fled from the Soviet regime.
teaching Latin s i t 'onafantinople
ing w as made hy the steam ship An The phrase, “To stand In another
T he num ber of persons Injured by
probably at the Imperial court, since
con of the Banamti railroad service. man's shoes,” m eans “to occupy the
he received a government salary.
The tim e of the passage w as nine place or lay claim to the honors of an autom obiles In New York sla te Inst
y ear was 81,802, an Increase of 18,041.
hours.
other."—L iterary Digest.
Indians of C entral America used
These School Children Are “Telling the World”
Burning Million Dollars in Drugs
Big Turtle Caught at Daytona Beach
R eeolution
In tru th , there Is no such thing In
R ufus—Doe* y'all liks greens?
man s nature as a settled 'an rt full re
Itastus—We shuah does! Mali wife's
solve either for good or evil, excep:
out now seeln' kin she fin’ some of the
golf kind Ah heard mah boss talkin' at the very moment of execution.-
I Hawthorne.
about.
F rom S h ee p , N o t C at
O n ly L ive V olcano
C atgut, contrary to Its name, does
not come from cats but Is prepared
from the Intestines of sheep, according
to an answ ered question In Liberty.
t.nssen peak, C alifornia, which was
In eruption In 1014, Is the only vol
cano In the United States proper that
can be considered nctlve.
rubber for making little Images and
burned It ns Incense In th eir tem ples.
Rome celebrated Its tw o thousand
six hundred eighty second tilrtInlay by
startin g excavations nt the site of th s
ancient Circus Maximus,