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By H. LO U IS R A Y B O LD
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((fe. 1921. by M cC lur# N iw iy a p tr S y n d ic a te
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F ar Away and Long Ago.
Tin* brew ers’ parade la New York
city In 1788 hna never been duplicat
ed. T here were hogxlieuds entwined
In hop vlnea and a live Bacchus waa
the featu re of the m arching fete. Hut
auch a procession did once wend Its
wuy through New York streets. In cel
ebration of the adoption of the fed
eral constitution. One historian say*
In p a r t:
"The display of the brewer» was
happily conceived und appropriate. In
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uddltluii to their Im uneis nattering I
gayly In the air, they paraded cars
with hogsheads and tuns, decorated
with festoons of hop vines Intertw ined
w ith handfuls of barley. Seated on
the top gf a tun was a living Bacchus
—a beautiful boy of eight years—
dressed In flesh-colored silk, fitted
snugly to the limb», anil thus disclos
ing all his fine sym m etrical propor
tions. In his hand he held a silver
goblet, w ith which he quaffed the nut-
brown, and on his head was a garland 1
of hops and barley ears."
Since Ladles Smoke.
“T our wife used to object to your
smoking."
“Yes," replied Mr. Meekton. “T ha
was before H enrietta became so In
terested In great public questions
Now she has me light a pipe now
and then so that when she m akes a
speech she won't mind the cigarette
smoke In the audience."
Everything for Q U A L IT y l
—nothing for show
T
H A T’S OUR IDEA in making
CAMELS—tjie Quality Cigarette.
Why, just buy Camels and look at the package!
It’s the best packing science has devised to keep
cigarettes fresh and full flavored for your taste.
Heavy paper outside—secure foil wrapping inside
and the revenue stamp over the end to seal the pack
age and keep it air-tight.
And note this! There’s nothing flashy about the
Camel package. No extra wrappings that do not
improve the smoke. Not a cent of needless expense
that must come out of the quality of the tobacco.
Camels wonderful and exclusive Quality wins on
merit alone.
Because, men smoke Camels who want the
taste and fragrance of the finest tobaccos, expertly
blended. Men smoke Camels for Camels smooth,
refreshing mildness and their freedom from ciga-
retty aftertaste.
Camels are made for men who think for them
selves.
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atrletly tailored « It, sm all veil-bound
turban and dark shoes and gloTea. Mrs.
Otis could not refrain from saying. (
“It would be so lonesome for you
here, without Mr. Gray."
The other woman started to reply, f
thought better of It, smiled whim
sically. and bent down to the other’»
ear. "Don’t tell a aoul," she m ur
mured. Mr. Gray and I are------elop
ing 1"
Mrs. Otis opened both eyes and j ,Co% for TUI® D®p*rtm«nt tuppli®4 b f
th « A m o riro n L®glo® N ® w S t t I c # )
mouth. "Eloping 1” she cried. “But
you are m arried 1”
Miss Belmont nodded.
GIRL GETS SERVICE MEDAL
“And you're not % widow?”
Miss Belmont shook her head.
Emblvm Presented »• New York High
"And you're not divorced?"
School Miss In Recognition
Again she shook her head. “But
of Patriotic W ork.
we belong to each other," she whis
pered fatuously, “and th at la all that
As a tribute to her patriotic serv
counts 1” and, seeing Bete stoop to ices during the W orld war. Miss P aul
crank up the bus, she walked airily ine Henkel, a fourteen-year old New
down the steps and climbed In.
York high school g irl waa presented
Some m inutes later, as the W hite with a patriotic service gold medal by
M ountain E xpress hummed over the | F. W. G albraith, Jr., national com
rails, two of Its passengers exchanged m ander of the Am erican Legion, in
confidences.
behalf of S. R ankin Drew post. The
X‘‘I alw ays m aintained, Alan." said presentation cerem onies took place la
one of them, “th a t the one person to front of the F ifth Avenue public li
really appreciate youth would he an brary in New York cltt.
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old, old man, and the one person to
The guard of honor for Mias Henkel,
enjoy a trousseuu and honeymoon who Is known as the “L ittle Colonel,"
would be a wornout mother, tired of was composed of members of the m a
the responsibilities of housekeeping rine corps under command of lieuten
and making one gown do the work of ants M iller and Gum pertz and Ser
three. Well, running aw ay up here j geant Janssen, congressional medal of
and pretending we didn't know each
men.
other was som ew hat like that. Any- j honor
Although
only ten years old
way, It was great 1 I hope we find at the start she of waa
the W orld war, the
m other and children all right."
L ittle Colonel sold $3,830,250 worth of
"My conscience bothers me a little j Liberty
m ore than any other
about the other guests—especially ; minor In bonds,
the country, and also was
those old ladles," adm itted her hus- i recognized aa one of the most effect
hand. “Perhaps we ought to have ive patriotic speakers and w ar w ork
told them at the end."
“I don’t think so.” said B etty ' ers W In ith America.
return of the Am erican
thoughtfully. “We will surely never soldiers the
to
their
native land. Miss
see any of them again. And I really Henkel 1* still devoting
to their
think they alm ost enjoy being j welfare, as attested by herself
the following
shocked 1”
And she was right. It had been i quotation from her speech of accept
the m ost wonderful sum m er of their ance:
moment of my life
lives for the Rocking C hair Brigade. will “T he be happiest
when It la a fact th a t the
wounded, disabled and unemployed of
SEA SHELLS AS CURRENCY our boys have been taken care of in
a m anner befitting the sacrifices they
Were Once Extensively Used as Me have made. The cause of the disabled
AMERICAN
©LEGION®
T hat « u the unanim ous verdict of
the rocking chair brigade a* it rocked
and knit und gossiped aw ay the uuin-
mer afternoons oa the broad veranda
of the W illard'M ountain bouse. "P er
fectly scandalous, my d e a r A n d , no
doubt, the sentence waa a Just one.
At any rate, the fucta apparently
spoke for them selves. M ariou Belmont
had arrived only two weeks ago. Two
days later had come John Anderson
Gray. T hat much inform ation the
hotel register vonched for. Yet in
ti e ridiculous short tim e since, the two
had scraped up an acquaintance, de
veloped It Into a flirtation and were
now spending hours together, unchap
eroned, clim bing the m ountains, pad
dling on the lake or occupying the
buck seat of the hotel bus, with l’ete
hired to drive them about the country-
side.
“They didn't come In until tw enty
five m inutes past eleven last night,’
whispered Miss I.upbum w ith pursed
lips and biutlng eyes. "H e left ber
outside ber door, which Is opposite
mine, and I beard them giggling and
laughing for quite ten m inu tes:”
"Yea," went on Mrs. Otis, who, ex
cept by the grace of applied chem
istry, would huve been decidedly white-
haired, "and every m orning before
breakfast she Is down w aiting for him
on the veranda I" T he old ladles
knitted faster than ever.
Kven little Miss Scoble could not
refrain frmn adding ber contribution
to the rest, and she wus the least
gossipy of the whole crew. “I was up
In my room getting ready for my imp,"
she breathed, “when I happened to
look out of the window. They were
coming up the path by the spruces.
And Just before they reached the turn
they stopped and I think—I am sure
he kissed h e r!”
dium of Exchange Among Indian
Meanwhile the shocking pair were
Tribes Along Seashore.
Idly drifting In und out of pine-scent
ed, beauty-haunted hays of the little
“B utter tasters" Is the name chil
m ountain lake. M arlon Belmont, no- dren give to the violet-tinted, worn
cording to the register, sat lazily hack fragm ents of clam ghella th a t are to
against the cushioned thw art of the he found on most beaches. These
canoe, her slim hands folded on the ‘‘butter tasters" were an Im portant
soft sport hut In her lap, her eyes medium of exchange among the Indian
resting dream ily on the tanned face tribes living along the shore in their
of the man In the stern, John Ander trading w ith other natives farth er In
son Gray, according to the register.
land.
“Alan," she said suddenly, "does It
It can readily be understood that
seem possible that you have been here Indians sufficiently adept in the art of
nearly two weeks? How the tim e has chipping arrow heads and other Imple
flown !"
m ents of hard flint could easily m anu
"It 1ms, Indeed, B etty," he replied. facture rude “money" out of the more
“And, hang it all, I have simply got attractively colored pieces of these
to get back the first of next week.”
water-worn shells; and this they did,
"I know,” she said. "And of course giving to this medium of exchange the
I m ust, too.”
nam e luckahauk, som ewhat after the
"W e m ight as well go together, I style of wampum.
suppose," he said.
It may he surprising to many, espe
“W ouldn't It look—rather odd?" she cially to craft workers, to know what
asked, hesitatingly. "I am afraid we really beautiful "stones" these same
have come In for considerable discus so-called luckahauka will produce
sion as it Is from the row of Mrs. when cut and polished Into sym m etri
cal form from piece» of sufficient thick
G m ndles on the veranda !*•
"I’ve an Idea," suggested the man. ness and showing the rich and beauti
"L et's give them som ething really ful violent coloring th at many of
them possess.
worth worrying over. L et's elope!"
Such as are found on the beach are
The person addressed dropped her
eyes. “Oh, Mr. Anderson, I mean necessnrlly dull, w ith no polish, due.
of course, to the w ear of the sea and
John, I really, really do!"
And If Mrs. Otis could have over sand, but by proper treatm ent on the
MISS P A U L IN E H E N K E L .
heard the conversation she would not laps are brought to a very high polish
have needed the little episode In the and look very rich. Indeed, being en should come above everything else In
post office to supply her with the In tirely unlike any other “gem."
Having considerable hardness, they our hearts. I.et us take care of fhe
form ation she gave out later to her
men who saved our co untry; we owe
friends. Chancing to be In the little will w ear alm ost Indefinitely when them
an obligation we cannot afford
office Immediately in the rear of Miss once polished. The color* blend beau to Ignore."
Belm ont's w hlte-lawmed figure, she tifully w ith sliver, either In bright or
could not help overhearing the lat antique finish, while their beauty la
ter's luqulry for the mull. "Any let heightened by treatm ent or em bellish LEGION POST ADOPTS CREED
ters, please." lifted the low contralto ment with small baroque or seed
voice, "for Mrs. B rad—or, I mean. Miss pearls, small am ethysts or other har Mombor of Somorvlllo (Mass ) Organl-
monizing stones.
Belm ont?"
zation Is Author of Paragraphs
"She isn't using her own name," was
W orthy of Consideration.
South American Monopoly.
the m essage Mrs. Otis brought her
According to the bureau of foreign
confederates in dissem inating scandal.
Somerville (M ass.) post of the Amer
and dom estic commerce, quebracho ican I-cglon has adopted the following
“And she's m arried!”
"I wonder If he knows," ventured wood, which Is extensively used in tan creed, w ritten by one of Its mem ber»;
Miss Scoble. who concealed a lurking ning. Is one of the natural monopolies
"I believe the American Legion is a
adm iration for the tall, well-knit fig of South America, as potash was
dependable organization.
ure of John Anderson Gray. “If he natural monopoly of Germ any and Jute
“I believe that the American I-eglon
doesn't, it might be a kindness to let is of India. The trade a t first waa la a potent factor In the community.
him know before she—er—spoiled his established In quebracho logs, but In
"I believe that the Am erican I-eglon
the last 25 years the industry of pre atanda for equality for all ex-aervtc*
life, or anything like th a t!”
The Idea held an appeal to them paring the extract has been built up men.
all. for, womanlike, they found It In South America and Is now In a
"I believe that the American Le
easier to blam e the woman than the flourishing condition. (Juebracho la gions Ideas never will be shelved.
man. And. heads together, they plot not lndl*|>ensable to the tanning In
"I believe that the American Legion
ted how to drop the news with seem dustry. hut It 1» a useful reagent, will gallantly atand by what Is right
ing carelessness to the victim of the siuce It produces In a few days re and help to destroy w hat la wrong.
sults that other tanning m aterials take
Ind.v's charm s.
"I believe that the American Legion’«
They managed It th a t very a fte r weeks or m onths to accomplish. The principles are Immovable by any vlo>
noon with whnt might he called con Im portance of quebracho In the war lent or radical Individual or organiza
siderable finesse. Miss Scoble was wus largely owing to Its rapid action, tion.
the appointed spokesm an. "Oh. Mr. and now th at the dem and for leather
I believe that the American I-eglon
G ray." she said Invitingly as that gen Is not to urgent other m aterials will will help to bring peace out of chaos
tlem an came out fro m the office for he used to a greater e x te n t—Youth's
"I believe that the American I.egtoo
the moment unaccom panied. "Isn't It Companion.
la looking forward, not backward.
a beautiful day? By the way. Miss—
I believe th at the American Legion
Forca of KabiL
Miss Belmont seems so young, you'
ta a constructive unit, not a destruc
"Look here, young man." ejaculated tive unit.
would never think she was m arried’ P
“Indeed not," agreed the gentlem an the Judge to the prisoner at the bar.
“I believe that the American Legion
addresser!, most heartily. Then. In "How la It th at a form er soldier la la tD asset to ex service men, not a lia
surprise, "M arried? M arried? Oh. no, j charged with shoplifting? How did bility.
“I believe It. Do youT"
not m arried 1" And he disappeared you learn such a mean buaineaa?”
"It's this way. your honor," replied
suddenly within.
,
Taka "Movies” Seriously.
"Poor man.“ they m urm ured. "I am the offender. “In the arm y I spent
most of the tim e policing the company
Moving picture* are a marvel to .the
afraid It will go hard with him."
And apparently It did go so hard streets, and I sort of got Into the South Sea islanders, according to a
th at the very next m orn’ng the "poor! habit of picking up things as I went recently returned Visitor to that Rtx-
tion of the globe. The tragic p art of
m an.” w ithout even w aiting for the along."—American Legion Weekly.
the film la too much for the natives,
'hu*. left the hotel, hag In gland. Juat
he aald. and there la so much weep
In tim e for the nine o'clock train.
A V o c alist P ro v o k ed
A few m inutes later the ’bus drove I “I knew there was going to "be ing and groaning th at a man has to
np to the veranda steps. And the wait I trouble as soon aa the mule heard the go up In the gallery ^ 1 tell them
tng new of ladies gasped to see Pet* honk of our new flivver," rem arked th at It will all come out all right In
the end. Thus assured, the audience
p u ttin g # 'I «s Bein t s trunk Wa- F an n er Oomtossel. ruefully.
proceed* to wipe up and w atch for
»he following Mr G ray? Proha hi)
“How did It affect the mule?"
not. More likely she could not beat
"Threw him Into a fit of profésateos’ further developm ents, and when the
to stay, knowing her deception hac 1 Jealousy so violent that he^baeked ur heroine la rescued and the villain la
been discovered
and kicked t h ^ e a r tracudMsioa cleai thw arted, pandem onium breaks loose
for the people n S aly shout, but
A* the .-a J t out, very trim In • through the raSator."
-ance w ith Joy.