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V THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND. APRIL 21, 190T. 11 .ess"'" VNw' i t v j 7UVSTJ2ATW from. WGfOJ?Pofhemj& PMS " lAiCor of the Thr Bam, by Kate and YjrgU D. Boyles. Illustrated. A. C. Mc- UuTg ; Co., ChlcaffO Instinct with the pulse and charm of the old West that is fast passing away the West with Its land-barons, cattle r up tiers, cowboy dead-shots, thievesand steers. The novel chiefly concerns one Paul langord, who began a crusade to end rattl lifting in his particular section of South Dakota and was the ally of a fighting district attorney of the Heney type. Jesse Black Is the chief villain and Tampas bad-man of the book, and wherever he happens to be gun play and trouble follow. The character of George Xvilliston. rancher and owner of a scraggy pony named Battleaxe. Is strongly drawn from the very first. WIIHston represents the type of a small and Independent ranchman who had a precarious struggle to find a living against the encroachment of more wealthy cattle owners, and he is painted in this fashion:. WUMston was being hounded by two pro ltflo sourcts of trouble, these tources having a power and Insolent strength contemptu ously Indifferent to any claim t up In their paths by one weaker than tUem rHves. On the one hand was the wealthy cattleowner, whose ever-increasing wealth nd consequent power was a growing me nac to the Interests of the small owner whose very bread and butter depended upon hli ability to buy and sell to advantage. But with blfiger Interests slowly but surely gaining control of tho markets, who might foretell the future? None beheld the ominous signs more apprehensively than did WUJIston. mho for more than two years, striving desperately to make good mistakes and misfortunes made back In Iowa, had felt the inching grow more and more acute. On the other hand was the vicious combination of the boldness, cun ning and greed of the cattle rustlers who harrassed all the rang country of the Da kotas and Nebraska. Annihilation was the sword of Pamoclei held over the head of the small ranchman. A hand lifted to avert Impending doom would have set the air In vibration and the sword would have fallen. Nemesis was as sure to follow at the hands of tli fellowship of rustlers, as ever It ass at the hands of the Secret Tribunal of old. Jim Munson, a cowboy who boasted that "he waa afraid of nothing," carries on a good deal of action, and the story of his duel to the death with Jesse Black has the real dramatic thrill. Two girls, Louise Dale, the court reporter, and Mary TVilUston, dead-shot and ranch favorite, add brightness and domesticity to the cowboy atmosphere. There's a breath of the "Virginian" in 'L-angford." The excellent illustrations In full color are by N. C. Wyeth and are marked by bold touch, and a dash that holds atten tion. Although only conspicuous for a year or so, Mr. Wyeth'a artistic work Is now In demand and Is sought when a vivid presentation of men of the plain and mountains is desired. A splendid draughtsman, he believes In the effective blending of tints- Somehow, It Is from such surroundings that the great American novel will as suredly be written before long because no land under tho sun except America possesses the peculiar boys of the som brero, schaps, gun and cow-pony. Yqu know the picture, with the added beauty of aHd prairie and the distant cliffs yel low with the setting sun. The Iovem Club, by FhHetus Brown. Tha .Old Greek Press, Boston. Mass. After tasting; and deliberation, this knowing little volume must be labeled as belonging to the new literature of passion. It savors of Oscar Wilde tinctured with the safety valve of Ethelbert Hubbard. The book's environment comes from the teaching of a band of en thusiasts who 15 years apo in New Tork City called themselves "the Greeks," and dreamed of pictured pas sions painted with warm. Oriental col ors not in vulgar daubs but with strong, esthetic awecps having the di vine glow of inspiration. Of course, the publishing barons would have none of the new work, because they saw no money in it-In those days. Chief among 'the Greeks"' were Richard Hovey, the poet and dramatist, the present manager of the old Greek Press, and Phlletus Brown. Hovey died In 1S& and Brown three years later. The creed they left said; Paint the Dassions of the human heart. Paint them boldly, truly and with beauty. So. It Is a voice from the dead that speaks to us In the book now under review. What is "The Lovers' Club? The Intimate records of Wednesday afternoon meetings of men and women, of culture and assuredly of elegant leisure for surely people who had to worry about the pursuit of their dally bread and butter. would not have wasted so much valuable time In the busiest portion of the day telling their own idle lif experiences to one an "Because in the extent of their fame they stand apart from all other literary workers, Tolstoy, Kip ling and Mark Twain can be grouped. The one other living writer who comes nearest these three in renown is Maurice Maeterlinck." J.B. G. in Putnam's. I 7 llif -fSlfli TfS l-V Mm other. The half" dozen intimate rev elations, and four or five preludes, postludes and interludes are by turns grave, gay, suggestive and often pro found. The style may be described as poetical and finely sympathetic. The most amusing story in Its close study of crude, puppy-love is "The Infection of Mary Ann,' giving the experiences of a young servant girl who admits the guests Wednesday afternoons and imagines herself Inoculated with a spurious passion for a big- man "at the theayter." But when she makes his acquaintance her romance receives a shake-up and she slaps his face. In the ten chapters there Is much to admire for original style, and some times a shock comes like a spark of electricity. The last sketch, "Real Tragedy Is very much of the Wilde order ami leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It is a smear on the other wise likeable picture. Congressman Pnmphrey, by John T. Mc Cutcheon. Illustrated. The Bobbs-Mer-rlll Company. Indianapolis. Xnd. Mr. McCutcheon is admittedly one of the really great cartoonists of this coun try, and his work in the pages of the Chicago Tribune newspaper has reached the hearts and tickled the understandings of a large aoid growing constituency. Here Is a new book of the McCutcheon drawings showing the great McCutcheon in a very funny vein. Some of the sketches are familiar through their hav ing already been seen In the Chicago Tribune, but enough new work has been since added to give added worth to the presentation. The satire Is delicious it is one long chuckle. Congressman Pumphrey is "the people's friend" from Minerva Junction, and he egins his first term at Washington. D. C, with the conviction that he Is a pat riot and also a muck-raker destined to cr-r-rueh the corporations. He makes new friends in Colonel Harrison K. Bunk er, railroad attorney, and United States Senator James B. Octopus, who 'hint how they wish him to vote, and they explain proposed railroad legislation as they- see It. To make their meaning clearer they allow him to win from them over $6000 In poker games and give him tips how to play the stock market. Pumphrey about this time develops a sudden taste for high society, champagne and long, black, fat cigars. He also gives utterance to this wisdom: "We treat those we fear better than those we love. It's the gun that's turned against you that needs to be spiked, and not the one that's with you.' His wife and daughter leam to play bridge and to lose money. The book closes with Pumphrey In a re flective mood wondering what he should do with his acquired Washington. D. C, tastes on the basis of a Minerva Junction conscience. Among the World's Peace-Makers, edited by Hayne Davis. illustrated. Paper covers. SI. The Progressive Publishing Company. New Tork City. Of significant interest at the present time, in the light of the meetings in New Tork City of the National Peace Conference. Mr. Davis Is known as the secretary of the American delegates to the ISth and 14th conferences of the Interparliamen tary Union. In this Interesting book of 400 well-printed pages he gives an epit ome of the Interparliamentary Union, .and sketches of eminent members of this in ternational house of representatives of the plain people, and of progressive workers who are promoting the plan for lasting peace, which this union of lawmakers has espoused, a preface Is contributed by Andrew Carnegie, in which he gives his well-known views on peace, and 4n one sentence he says: "1 would fain see established upon earth the reign of peace." Many of the chap ters given have already appeared in well known magazines, but the message they bring comes with such a clear call that it is a gain to this special branch of literature to enjoy reading these ad dresses In collected form and within the dimensions of a book. Bpt : Two Hundred and Two Cleausaera. Compiled by Clarice T. Courvolsier. Paul Elder & Co., New Tork City. Calculated to bring delight to the soul of the earnest housekeeper, and under the skillful directions gtn lightning changes are accomplished mostly In the apparel llne The classification: Fabrics, household, laundry, personal and miscel laneous. Family Secrete, by Marion Foster Wash burne: I1.2.V The Macmlllaa Company, New Tork City. Bight chapters of gossipy, optimistic talk relating to home life just the sort of & book that pleasantly appeals to women. The writing has a piquant touch, especially that part of it deal ing with new neighbors In the first sketch, "On the Edge of the Town:" The men had one recreationregu 1- - I larly every Saturday night they rode into town and got drunk. You heartl them coming home about midnight singing, swearing at their tired horses, laying on the blows. Many of the children died in early childhood. All the women lost hair and teeth at an early age. It was a mark of distinc tion and prosperity to have a full set of false teeth. I knew one woman whose whole mouth was a yellow dazzle with gold, and she smiled constantly in com pany In order to show her peculiar wealth. . . These neighbors of ours were mostly Americans of several generations on this soil. Some of them were Holland Dutch, others Pennsyl vania Dutch. Dlmblf and I and Amelia, by Jlnbel Barnei Grundy., Illustrated; $1.50. The Baker & Taylor Co., New York City. At first sight, you say here's a novel with an odd title. And then you plunge Into such & perfectly delicious, satis fying picture of English country life, in which love and married happiness are idealized, that you experience the joy of being under tho spell of a real novel, without worrying about its name. So beautifully finished is the stor5. In which a delicate humor perilously ap proaches to a teardrop, that one is re minded of the spell of a Thackeray or Dickens. In the concrete, the novel is just a story of a husband and wife. Dim bie is a pet name for the husband, and "I" is tlie wife Marguerite. Amelia is the cook." and the scene of the story is Surrey, England. Marguerite is a cripple, and arising above physical pain, she makes her life one of uniform sunshine. Once, she says: "Will ZJimblo ever realize how much I love him? I don't seem to be able to let Dimble know what he Is to me. Human language is not sufficient speech is so bald. Some times In the night when he- Is asleep, I press my Hps to his kinky hair. But. I'm always afraid he will awake and find' me out, and I whisper: "Qod, I thank th?t for Dlmhie! . . . What a beautiful thing is a lane in which the grass rune swiftly riotous, t want In my heaven cool, grassy lanes, soothing and comforting to tired feet." "Dimbie and I and Amelia," is one of the principal novels of the year. Its music always sings of a happy home. It grips the heart. Bales of Order, by Charles M. Scanlan. Reld Publishing Company, Milwaukee, Wis. This is the second and improved edi tion of a popular and meritorious little volume of 110 pages giving rules for the government of societies, conventions, pub lic meetings, legislative bodies, etc. It is also valuable to the man or woman who wishes to know how to behave on the floor of debate. Mr. Scanlan has taken note of changes of rules made in Congress, late law decisions, and has spared no pains to make his presenta tion reliable and up-to-date. He deals with special occasions, general occa sions, motions, questions, procedure, de bate, - motions alphabetically arranged, etc. The whole Is creditable to the com piler. Ackroy d of the Facu 1 1 y , by Anna Ch apl n Ray; $1.00. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. A curious study In novel form of social maladjustment affecting the life of Andrew Ackroyd, a member of the fac ulty of one of our larger American uni versities. At the same time the type Is surprising for should not education and environment give a college Instructor the ease of manner and the dominant intel lectuality requisite for any grade of so called society? Ackroyd, however, Js under the handicap of heredity. The studies of "Viennietta Hall and Connie Everest two opposltes and a thrilling de scription of a railroad accident lend fresh ness and charm to a well-told college tale. J. M. Q. IX LIBRARY AXD WORKSHOP Jean Webster's "Jerry Junior," a tale of Americans In Italy, and Luttiw Burbank's treatise on "Tha Training of the Human Plant" ara announced for - Wednesday. . e Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, the Writer, re ceives a legacy of $20,000 and a share In the Boston Athenaeum through the will of Mn. Susan B. Cabot, of Saiem. Mass., who died recently, leaving a large estate. That interest In "Everyman" does not slacken Is shown by the announcement by Duffield A Company of a new edition of the old morality play. This makes. an edition for every year since the ancient drama waa first reprinted by this house tour years ago. Miss Mary Cholmondeley, who has lately suffered from poor health. Is now much bet ter, but her phyalcian adviea her ayalnet any Inclination on the part of his distinguished patient to write a new novel, although he has permitted her to write a few short stories. Another fall-sized novel from Miss Cholmonde ley can hardly be expected for two or three yeara yet. Her latest novel. "Prisoners," has been, or in some case Is about to bet pub lished In translated form in France. Italy. Germany, Sweden and even Holland. where, al though there la no copyright, a conscientious publishing house firm has paid her for the privilege of translating the book into Dutch. - . "The Plays of Our Forefathers," by Pro feasor Charles M. Gayley. after several post ponements. Le announced for issue in the com ing Autumn. The author, who is professor of English literature in the University of Cali fornia, at Berkeley, is a special authority on the early drama. , . Clarence F. Blrdseye's forthcoming book on "Individual Training In Chir Colleges" will be an Important contribution to educa tional literature. The importance of the book from the educator's point of view may be gauged by the fact that It la introduced by Dr. Elmer E. Brown. United States- Com missioner of Education. - Dr. Emit Reich, whose latest book. '6uc cess in life," has just been issued, has re cently been giving lectures on Plato that have been all the rage in lymdon. It is related that the Duchess of Portland, unable on one occasion to And a seat, sat down on the floor and so listened to the entire discourse. It is announced that Mr. Bteele MacKayes acting version of Jane Austen's famous novel. "Pride and Prejudice." will be presented this spring at the University of Michigan. It has been the practice of the students hitherto to produce nothing but Shakespeare, and in this connection one of them remarked egotistically and perhaps somewhat Irreverently: "It would please Jane to know about It." . Robert Morwt Lovett. whose new novel, "A Winged Victory." is out. Is professor of "Eng lish literature In the University of Chicago. Some of the cens In the new hook depict ing "co-educational" life In the university, may be expected to contribute an unhackneyed note In fiction. Professor Lovett was a con temporary at Harvard of William Vaugton Moody, author of that eueceaaful play. "The Great Divide," with whom he collaborated wome yeara ago on "A History of English Literature." . Mrs. Roger A. Fryer's forthcoming book about Jamestown. "The Birth of the Na tion." might by a slight stretch of the term btf called a historical novel. It fs of course a story of actual events, and of fiction In e strict ense there Is none. But Mr?. Pry or s wid knowledge, her pleasant style snrl above- all her gift for narrative writing have enabled her to relate the story of th flrft five years of the Jamestown colony with a fluency and abundance of detail that make the book read like fiction. - A vivid, and yet artistic story 1 that called "As a Man poweth," written by G. B. Ian caster. It appears In the May Popular Magazine. Mr. Lancaster's tale is written . round the building of a big bridge in New Zealand, and has the same realism that characterised Kipling's best-known stories. The plot is an Ingenious one and centers I around a man f strong personality- man I gifted with wonderful ability to control others, and yet signally unable to control himself. y Beccnt accounts of the exercises at Har vard commemorating txingfellow'a) ona hun dredth anniversary name aa "literary men from whom letters wera read." James Whlt comb Riley, Charles EKbert Oraddock. Andrew l. White end EXSmund Clarence fi ted men. As Charles Rgbert Craddoek Is, of course, no other than Miss Mary Murfree, long famous for her tales of the Tennessee mountain folk, this only goes to show that a woman with a masculine pen name has always a chance of bring taken for a man. Miss Murfree new book, to be called "The Windfall," will be issued during the current month. ' . Samuel Gordon, whose novel. "The Ferry of Kate," has Just been Issued, la a close friend of Israel ZangwU), from whom he got bis first encouragement and recognition. Mr. Gordon was born in the little Prussian town of Buk. near the Russian border. In 1871. but ha lived In tendon since his thirteenth year, with the exception of his university days at Cam bridge. His new book Is eaid to have no cigarette-smoking princesses nor Siberian ex iles, nor any characters with names Impos sible to pronounce. It is just the sort of a Mory one's own friend might write If he lived In Russia and possessed the novel making talent. Elinor Glyn. who won friends as the author of "The VlFita of Elizabeth." ha written a novel that Is to be called "Three Weeks." Tt deals) with a tremendous episode in the life of a runaway Queen. It has been maintained that "Elinor Glyn" Is a pseudonym, and that there In no such person which is not so at all. The author is known in social life aa Mrs. Clayton Glyn. Although she spends much of her time on the continent, her home Is In Egaex. She is as attractive and piquant as her heroine, slender and graceful, and always ex quisitely gowned and blessed with wonderful : masses of red-brown hair. She hopes to visit America this Fall. . The title of Miss Emma Brooke's novel, "The Dower Woods." has been changed to "Sir Elyot of the Woodn." It will be pub lished In Sngland by Helnemann. The new novel Is described by the author herself as follows: "The story concerns the life of a man In whose heart two strains of thought and feeling were so closely Interwoven that they seemed to him a ningle thing and in divisible until the psychological moment ar rived." The American edition will contain a frontispiece by Allan Gilbert of the famous woods which play a part in the story. The bride of The Dower Woods chose them as her portion rather than silver and gold. Sarah Bernhardt eligibility to the Legion of Honor of France, long since a mooted question. Is now virtually settled. As a step preliminary to her election, she ha been ap pointed to a professorsthp at the Conservatory of Music and Declamation, In order to satisfy the requirements of the chancellery of the Legioa that actors can be decorated only in the quality of professors. This change of attitude toward the divine Sarah is perhaps Indicative of an awakening on the part of the watch-dogs of that august body to the Import ance of the stage In general, a tendency al ready evinced by the recent awArd of the Cross to an American, H. C. Chatfleld-Taylor, in recognition of hie contribution to the an nals of the French stage in his lately pub lished "Life of Mollere." "The late Thomas Bailey Aldrlch. Ilka many another well-known writer." says the New- Tork Tribune, "had numerous stories to tell of his experiences with autograph 'fiends. " The writer continues: "He waa always ready to grant a request for hi sign manual when he believed that It came from an honest admirer who desired "It as a personal token or for his or her1 prefer ably her-r private collection. It was the pro fessional autograph-hunter who sought a specimen. -of his handwriting for commercial purposes, setting pitfalls for the unwary author, whom he tried, not always suc cessfully, 1 to avoid. On one occasion, Mr. Aldrich related not long ago, he received a pathetic letter in a woman's hand telling of the death of a little daughter and asking the poet if he would send In his own hand writing a verse or two from Bable Bell' to help assuage the grief of the afflicted house hold. His sympathies were touched and he wrote out the whole poem and sent it on Its comforting mission. A few weeks later he saw- in an autograph dealer a shop the Identical manuscript, displayed for eale at a good round price." e " a In speaking of the practice of brimstone remarks In fiction, the "New Tork Times prints this story of Sydney Smith, the great Ekigllch wit: Smith was traveling In a stage-coach in which two army officers were also passen gers. As they Journeyed they told stories to while away the time. IPach officer Interlarded his narrative with many oaths suggestive of 'the army in Flandera." as waa the custom In those days of less delicacy of thought and expression than present times. Sydney Smith drew from his ample stock one of his best and told It In his best style, interjecting In the middle of the liveliest sentences the words "shovel, flre-tongs, and and iron a" Ona of the officers at the close expressed his ap preciation of the story, but remarked that he did not see the appoflteness of the expres sion "shovel, m-e tongs and andirons,' so frequently used. "Yes, yes," said Smith, "neither could I see the appropriate nees of your many oaths." It Is said that the Officers "saw" the fit ness of the rebuke, and that for the residue of the journey swearing was under the in terdict of good manners. . ! EW BOOKS RJDCErVXD. "Under the Harrow, by Ellis Meredith. 1.50. (Little-Brown). "France and the Pope." by General "Wil liam Blmey; "The Right to Be t-ary," by Paul Lafargue, 10 cents; and "The Eigh teenth Brumalre of Louis Bonaparte,' by Karl Marx, 25 cents. (C. H- Kerr & Co., Chicago). "The First True Gentleman, a study In the human nature of Jesue, with a foreword by Edward Everett Hale. (Luce 4k Co.. Boston). "The Ego and His Own," by Max Stlrner, a translation from the German. . (Ben R. Tncker, New York). ' - . "The Sowing df Aldereon,Cree," by Mar garet P. Montague. S1.30. (Baker ft Tay lor). "Abe Martin." by Kin Hubbard, illus trated. (Bobbs-Merrill). "Art and Citizenship." by Kate Upson Clark, 75 cents; and "The Marks of a Man." by Robert Elliott Speer, being the Merrick lectures for J90o-07 at the Ohio Wesleyan University. (Jennings-Graham. Cincinnati). Seeing Things With the Googan Girls MR. CRANKSNIFF AND THE FAIR MOTORIST BY HELENA SMITH DAYTON (Copyright. 190T. by Vf. a. Chapman.) "I REFUSE te be rescued by any one but the Googan Kirls," whimpered Mrs. Fuffington from the middle of Frog Pond, whither she had gracefully glided In her brand new electric phaeton. "But oh dear, oh dear: WhafU I. do till they get here?" The sole witness of Mrs. Fuffington'. plight stood on the bank and eyed her with mingled disgust and amusement. She was a girl of 14 and lived in the only house In the vicinity of Frog Pond and was at that moment the only member Ht home. Mr.. Pufning ton's fate rested in her hands. . "I fion't know any Googana 'round here," she called across the. divide. "But I can call up some men at -e nearest house on the telephone and they'll come pull you ou!" "That's Just It they'd pull me out and I'd be worse off than I am now, and the laughing stock of the town. No slrree when the Googans rescue you they do it right. Call 'em up at their studio or I'll die in a watery grave!" And then came another down pour of Mrs. Pufflington's grief. She stomped her foot at the girl in ex plaining how to reach the Googans- and she was well splashed for her im patience. While the girl was carrying out her instructions, Mrs. Pufflington's pearly tears mingled with the emerald waters of the stagnant pool, nor were they all shed for terror or discomfiture. While she was sinking deeper into the pond, Mrs. Keeney, her bitter rival In motoring craft, was getting deeper in the affections of Mr. Hzra Cranksnlff. ... j When, in an incredibly short time, the Googan. girls dashed up to the re lief of Mrs. Puffllngton, they found her reduced to a. weeping Niobe. ' "ShO'd make a nice fountain design." commented Tilly, na she surveyed their patient. "She's a pretty big limousine body to haul 'out of the puddle," said L.illy. "Who is going to row out and attach the towing rope?" . - ' "You'd make a regular pond 1111 y," suggested Tilly. . -Til start up our car when It's time for-the tug of war." The Googan girls were clever at get ting people out of predicaments of this sort, so in short order Mrs. Puffllngton was dividing her thanks between Heaven and the Googana for restoring her to dry land. -But it was not done without a few April showers, for Mrs. Pufflington's other troubles Increased as her danger lessened. "Look at me!" she sobbed. "And It took me all the morning to get fixed up swell!' "We brought our repair kit," whis pered Tilly, "and we'll have you lovely In ten minutes. That's" part of the Googan system to cover up all trace of mishaps." "Well, that's a blessing," sighed Mrs. Puffllngton with relief. "I wouldn't have Henrietta Keeney see me like this and know the truth for all the world. And as for Ezra Cranksnlff " she broke into a dismal howl. "Do tell us about It," urged Tilly, light ing the little burner to heat the curling tongs. "Well I don't know but I just as soon tell you as not your are such nice- sym pathetic girls. Tou eee, there's a gentle man of my acquaintance who has paid me quite a lot of attention and I will say for him, I haven t seen such a likely man since John Fuffington died, though I al ways did say I wouldn t marry the beat man living. Now this Mr. Cranksnlff is all wrapped up in automobiles of all kinds. There s a very designing person a sort or friend of mine that was by the name of Henrietta Keeney and what did she do? She bought an eleotric machine and asked Mr. Cranksnlff to teach her to run It! I bought a car about the same time but not to catch any man, I want you to under stand that.. I bought my car to please myself not Mr. Cranksnlff, though it was awfully sweet of him to offer -to teach me. So after all Henrietta Keeney didn't have anything on me! She Is " "Tou are making Mrs. Puffington blush more on the right side than on the left," interrupted Lilly critically. . "Well I'm not a landscape gardener by profession," retorted Tilly, making an other dab at Mrs. Fufflngton's expansive face, i "If I do say It," resumed Mrs. Puffing ton, "I got on much better than Henrietta and Mr. Cranksniff was very complimen tary. He said if he ever loved a woman it would be one who could handle a car well. Dear me suz. how times have changed! Why when John Puffington was calling on me it was considered enough If a girl was ladylike and a good housekeeper. Nowadays, if you w,ant to attract a man you've got to be able to run a locomotive if the gentleman happens to have a fancy for railroading. "Well, Henrietta saw the hit I was mak ing with Ba Mr. Cranksniff, and she goes off on the quiet and takes lessons of an expert maybe it was you girls Well, anyway, of someone. Elver since it's -been Mrs, Keeney this and Mrs. Keeney that with' Ezra. "There is a sort of crisis In the air to day. I heard he was going to be at the Brightwood Club and I knew that Hen rietta knew It. I decided to get ahead of her for once ride out there the first time I've ventured out alone surprise Ezra and take him for a nice spin. I got the .tart of Henrietta everything was go ing so nice and then I met a pair of hor rid horses hitched to a dreadful rattling wagon, and I Just lost my nerve and went right off the road into the pond. I al ways was an excitable woman. John used to say" "It's up to us, Tilly, to get Mrs. Puf fington out to the club," said Lilly briskly. .- . Mrs. Henrietta Keeney sat In her electric victoria by the side of the road, a most dejected and unhappy woman. She was miles from anywhere suspended as it were 'between town and the Brightwood .THE GOGAN GIRLS WASHED AJfD IKONEU MBS. FLFFINGTON. The GMfant Receive a &fe.Mir From Across Country club, because she had overlooked the Important Item of having her car charged and the current' -had been coaxed to the utmost limit. From a brisk pace that would land-Mrs. Keeney at the club before her friend and rival, Mrs. Puffing ton, the car had settled down to a dis couraged Jog, then to spasmodic Jerks that almost refused to surmount a "thank-you-ma'am," and finally the car stopped alto gether. Mrs. Keeney .had been sitting there over an hour, trying to devise some way out of her dilemma, when she heard the honk, honk of a motor car. It was the Googans transporting the sub dued and grateful Mrs. Puffington. "Why if there isn't poor Henrietta Keeney In trouble!" cried Mrs. Puffington. "Oh ia that you Sarah asked Mrs. Xbe tilrls Mr. Cranksniff Ift Behind Hlin. Keeney. "Well I'm glad to see anyone." "Which isn't much of a compliment to present company," commented Sarah Puf fington patronizingly. "But we'll be charmed to give you a helping hand, won't we, girls?" And so the Googan girls acquired Mrs. Keeney. Mrs. Puffington waa so delight ed at her rival's discomfiture and her own Inconspicuous escape that she made her self very agreeable to Henrietta. ... "Isn't that Mr. Cranksniff getting into Fannie Wheeler's automobile?" demanded Mrs. Puffington, clutching Mrs. Keeney 's arm. "It Is!" stated Mrs. Keeney with tight ening lips. , "Ezra Cranksniff has got a carburettor instead of a heart!" sniffed Mrs. Puffing- llmm the Pont to Drop Everything and Come. ton. "Oh the two-facednesa of that( man." "The three-facednesst" corrected Mrs. Keeney. "Oh!" Indeed Mr. Cranksnlff had loved and ridden away. The girls he left behind him for a gasoline widow watched him whirl out of sight. Then they turned to the sisters Googan. "How much do you charge to teach any one to run a gasoline car?" they asked in, the same breath. It was ill wind that didn't blow good for WHEN MIDAS MOVES (Continued Prom Page Three.) with a butler who knows her taste in flowers and sees that they are always in place, with a social secretary to do her the mistress of a big modern country house would have little to do but to stand aside and let the machine run itself. But the chances are that she la worked harder than any of her score or more of servants, for she has to be the command ing general of the forces, and upon her own tact, initiative and ability her social mDiuonH must sianu or iau. Not every country establishment, or city establishment, either, for the matter of that, enjoys the undivided, services of a social secretary. In nearly every case the social secretary divides her time be tween several houses. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the elder, for instance, em ploying the same one who serves perhaps half a dozen other rich women. Social secretaries are generally women whose families have suffered reverses, and who therefore cannot remain In the circles of wealth and society. It would be hard for a woman who hag never lived in such cir cles and who therefore does not know the likes and dislikes of the people in them, to carry on the necessary correspondence or to help at the important task of seat ing the right people together when a big dinner is on. To the servants In most millionaire houses the social secretaries are known as "broken down ladles, poor things." The mistress of the big country house where plenty of entertainment ia the rule is worked quite as hard in the Summer vacation term as In the Winter's social season. Some of the palaces in which the millionaires dwell have 20 or 30 guest rooms, with accommodations for servants also. If the guests choose to bring them. The guest-rooms in such houses are fur nished with every imaginable convenience. Each has a telephone, each an electric bulb on a stand at the bedside for late reading, and each contains a framed card on which is printed information concern ing the location of the telegraph office, the nearest railroad station, the time of closing the malls and the departure of trains, the location of all the churches in the neighborhood, the time of ser vices, etc. Bearing in mind that the number of guests she is entertaining must Include persons with differing tastes the mistress of the bouse prepares various pro grammes, any one of -which any guest may choose on the next day, from an other card conveniently left in the room every" morning. -Automobile , drlx-es," yachting on the lake or bay if navigable water is near by. canoeing, coaching, ten-, nis courts, golf links, squash courts, horseback riding, all these recreations are provided, the guest being requested only to Indicate a preference before 10 o'clock. One big country house has a separate wing for bachelor guests, plunge, shower, and needle baths being provided, together with extra attendants who are masters of the "art of valeting." Another bouse has several guest suites, each consisting of bedroom, sitting-room and bath, for mar ried guests, and breakfasts are served in the guests' rooms as they would be at a hotel whenever called for. No house of that grade would be without a roan ser vant who could act as a barber on occa sion, as a matter of course, nor would it be lacking: in plenty of books, billiard and pool tables, etc., to furnish ways of amusement in case of bad weather. To be a guest It t modern country house is decidedly pleasant if you lika that sort of thing, and if you can afford the customary tips. To carry on such a house in a first-class way is as difficult a task as It ia to conduct a good-sized hotel or other business. (Copyright, 1307. bv Dexter Marshall.) -