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TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1908. 0 THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. HER MAY MORNING. By CECILY ALLEN. Copyrighted. 1908, by Associated Literary Prs. Tno world sntd Eleanor Carey would never marry again. Her first matri monial experience had not been strewn with roses, though money for their purchase had not been lacking. And the events of her widowhood had been enough to turn nny woman hard, cyn ical and unromantlc. Not that Eleanor Carey looked either bard or imblttered as she presided over Mrs, De Witt Smith's tea table one balmy April afternoon. Robed In oft, clinging topaa colored silk, with neavy incrustations of lace the famed Carey laces-she looked not a day older than the daughter of the household who was that day making her social debut And. Indeed. In point of years the fair debutante had little advantage ever the fairer widow whose coming out had been followed almost directly by her marriage with Henry Carey, re tired broker, multimillionaire and con firmed bachelor. Younger men had envied the fishy eyed groom. Older women had envied the radiant bride who rumor said had acquiesced smilingly in her bold sale In the matrimonial market That she bad paid the price of fami ly honor and her father's good name with outward calm and inward revul sion was something Dame Grundy nev er guessed. Her reward came sooner than she bad dared to hope. Henry Carey died within a year of their marriage, and then came what rumor said was enough to harden any woman. Ghosts of Ca rey's ugly past trouped forth after the reading of the will. His first cousin, apparently well started on his elder rel ative's downward path, first laid siege to the widow's heart and, being re pulsed, then started the contest which had made Eleanor's face familiar to ev ery newspaper reader in America and arraigned the dead man in all the bald ness of money drunk eccentricities. That any woman could believe In any man after going through what Eleanor Carey had gone through was past even the belief of her own some what cynical social set So far Eleanor's attorneys had held ct against the siege for the millions left entirely to her. So far Eleanor Carey had never been Interviewed by "MY DKAE LITTLE SWEETHEART OP LONO AGO," IT ItAN. either public reporter or private friend. She had simply resumed her place in society after laying aside ber mourning and let the legal and social tongues wag. . So It happened that three men who had come to pay their respects to Mrs. De Witt Smith and her youngest daughter lingered to play court to the i presiding genius at the tea table. One of these was Dr. Dalton, a man who had won his spurs inthe world of SHE'S A QUEEN is an expression that is always heard at sight of a well developed woman. If you are flat chested, with BUST undeveloped, a scrawny neck, thin, lean arms the above remark will never be applied to you. 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Jimmy Dnruton, was a newly made copper king from the north west, whose family, well known lu tho eastern social whirl, had sent him west to I forgotten as the family ne'er-do-well and were uow only too glad to re member him and receive him with open arms. Neither of these men could be ac cused of caring how Henry Carey's tor turn was finally disposed of. The third man was Donald Gregory, born of a stern Scotch father and a mercurial French mother in tho storm Jeked New Englaud town whore Eleanor Carey had lived In her girl hood. In his father's eyes the young chap had wasted what Bhould have, been a useful youth. Today tho stern old father unfortu nately was not alive to witness the artistic triumphs of his son, but the mercurial little mother was waiting to welcome him In the New England town. He would have joined her days before but for having met Eleanor Carey the very day of hla arrival In Kew York from Tarls. And to each of these three men Eleanor Carey bad given the same re ply, as quietly and unemotionally as she had laid the extra lump of sugar on the saucer beside their cup of tea. "I am going to Cralgmere the first of the month. If It Is for the best, I trill send for yon to come there." All the world seemed a-movlng the morning of May 1.' Worried middle class housewives wrangled with Im pertinent van and storage men, and humbler families carried their belong ings or shoved them from old homes to new In a borrowed pushcart Eleanor Carey's town house was as serene as Jf the entire establishment retinue of servants, canaries, Angora kittens, mistress and all were not to be removed that very afternoon to Cralg mere. The mistress of the menage. In bil lowy masses of lace, awaited her morn lug mail and her coffee. When the latter had been served the maid re entered the room laden with letters and parcels. There were violets and lilies of the valley from Dr. Dalton, a corsage bou quet large enough to hide the front of Mrs. Carey's traveling coat. From Jimmy Daruton there were pink roses, long stemmed, perfectly tinted, and crystalline with dew showered by the florist's rubber sprayer. There were bulky envelopes from her lawyers and doffodlls from a girlish admirer. There were whines from Individual mendi cants and carefully phrased appeals from charity organizations. And, last the maid, with a correctly blank expression on her face, handed her mistress a curious floral offering, a basket made of soft willow twigs Interwoven and lined with damp moss, which overflowed with the most com monplace flowers violets with only a faint woodland odor, a few sprigs of late arbutus, many, many faintly tinted hepaticas and some dainty Quaker la dies. Silently she sat fingering the fragile blossoms while her deft fin gered maid arranged the pink roses and the hothouse violets. At last, with a long drawn sigh, Eleanor Carey opened the envelope tied to the May basket by a blade of stout grass. "My dear little sweetheart of long ago," it ran. "do you suppose for one Instant that I Intend to wait for yon to bid me come to Cralgmere? I will be there to bid you welcome not on the stately terrace of your Italian villa, but down In the woods where I gath ered these. And, what Is more, I want you to come to me with clean hands and an empty purse. Send for your lawyers. Tell them to take what they want and give the rest to the hounds who are fighting you. Turn your back on it all the ghastly skeletons of the past, the scandal, the publicity, the bit terness of It all. You have never had a happy day since your purse was lined with his gold. Come, love; 'tis May day, and the world Is still young for you and me. Be the queen of my May today and for every May day to come. I am waiting." For almost an hour Eleanor Carey sat there, the spring blossoms fading under her hot clasped hands. Her breakfast turned cold. Hr maid slip ped In and out of the room, silent and apparently unobservlng. Then her mistress turned to her suddenly, "Adeline, call my lawyers; you know the number, Broad. Tell Jenkins we will take the 1:45 instead of tho DEVELOP THE BUST SHE'SlA SIREN , t ,, . ' .L.x I portage n you win mention mai ycf The sample alone may be suffice:.') 31 West 125th St New York LYDIA C. INKHACTS VEGETABLE COMPOUND No other medicine for Woman's Ilia in the world has received such wide-spread and unqualified en dorsement as has Lydia E. link ham's Vegetable Compound, made from native roots and herbs. No other medicine has such a record of success for woman's dis eases, or such hosts of grateful friends as has Lydia E. Hnkhain's Vegetable Compound. For more than 30 years It has been the standard remedy for feminine Ills, Inflammation, Ulceration, and consequent Spinal Weakness. It has relieved more cases of Back. , ache and Load Weaknesses than,poR RENT FURNISHED HOUSE any otner one remeay. HnTOim0nf. ' ... Weakness of the Stomach, Indiges tion, Bloating, Nervous lustration, Headache, General Debility, quickly yield to it j also deranged organs, causing pam, dragging sensations nd backache. Under all circum stances it acts in harmony with the female system. It removes that rearing feeling, extreme lassitude, " don't care "and want -to -be -left-alone" feeling, 8xcitability.irritability,nervousnes8, dizziness, faintness. sleeplessness, flatulency, melancholy or the "blues." These are indications of Feminine disorders, which this medicine over comes as well as slight derangement of the Kidneys of either sex. Women who are sick and want to get well should refuse to accept any substitute for Lydia . Flnkham Vegetable Compound. 3:10 train fo Cralgmere. That Is all" At 4 o'clock that afternoon Donald Gregory waited on u moss-grown log In the wood adjoining Cralgmere. All around him bloomed the ,unfragrant, exquisitely tinted wild flowers, while dogwood petals fell In a snowy shower on thick moss and modest blooms alike. Ills Parisian friends would hardly recognize him. Gone wiw the Van dyck beard, gone the shabby cordu roys, the flowing tie. In their stead Gregory was clean shaven as In the old days when he had made and filled Eleanor's May basket year after year. For the corduroys he wore a light gray suit, a soft madras outmg shirt, a soft gray silk tie. He looked the boyish lover, not the successful artist. And toward him. treading the path way among the dogwood petals, camo the lady of his heart, clad In n simple frock of .blue and white wah stuff and a low flat hat wreathed with flowers. She held out her hands. He took them and the smiling woman to his heart. "Dear girl." he murmured In her ear. "it is good to be young In May." And the woman raised her eyes to his, eyes from which had passed every trace of bitterness and anxiety and dis appointment, as she answered stead fastly, "Yes, Donald; It Is good!" Old Occupations. i We are apt to forget perhaps bow j many strange sounding occupations have now become obsolete. One has only to glance down Stow's list of old city companies to wonder what In the woriu are innoiuers, upholders, cur riers, foystars, lorlmars, pattenmakers, yet they were important enough In Elizabeth's time, though they varied In importance, inholders being allowed iuo messes at the lord mayor's feast and upholders only one mess. Hatband makers had no business with the out Tard insignia of mourning, but, In the words of an old chronicler, "were In corporated by King Charles I. In, the year 1638, when rich lint bands were much worn; but, that fashion having been many years set iisiilc, the busi ness Is now much reduced, there being few of that profession." So It Is not only women who are responsible for that prime cause of unemployment seasonal trades. London Chronicle. Queen Amelie's Courage. The late king of I'ortugul once said. "If I were ever put to the test I should prove that, though the king of a small nation could not hope to defeat a pow erful enemy, he could be brave and loyal and' could die for the honor of his flag." "And I should not let h king go that way alone," immediately added the queen, who Is now a bereav d widow. "A woman's place Is not m the battlefield," remarked a courtier. "A woman's place and a queen's Is al ways at her husband's side, through rood renort and 111. ntul I nhnnM an nun him." said Queen AmHi . Subscribe to the Morning Astorian. CO cents per month. 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