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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.
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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
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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.
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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. -
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"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. ,
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.) -