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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1921)
o Site of Chicago’s Pageant of Progress Exposition this time she was Joined bjr the other two. “And there are no burglars after all?” suld Helen, disconsolately. Hazel looked at her, astonished at her tone. “You regret it?’ she asked Helen shook her lieaL "No—of course not. But I was Just telling your brother how deadly dull It I* By RUBY DOUCLAS here visiting my aunt and this had given me hope of a little diversion at least.” t(£ by M cC lure N ew apuper t i> a d lc * l«.) “Why don't you—but oh. I'm going Tom Foster opened the door of the away on the afternoon train. I wus little apartment he shared with his going to nsk you to come in to see sister, lie had left some important us,” Hazel her. papers lu the pocket of unolher suit “It Is good told I'd love to come.” and had been forced to returu home Tom quIcMy of you. came to the subject. from the office to get them. “Hazel won't he gone long, Miss Rog He stepped back in amazement at ers, and perhaps. If you don't mind, what greeted his eyes. Then he you could happen up on the roof after closed the door behind him and looked dinner In the evening and I—well, I about the little room that served could be looking for further burglurs,” Jointly as his sister's bedroom aud he laughed. their living room. Almost every draw Hazel looked at tier brother. It was er hud been pulled inside out and the unusual for hint to have so resourceful contents were lying all about the a mind. He was not given much to room. doing anything but attending to his “Burglars,” he said to himself business. "And by the time 1 get home “And 1 can't tell what is what in you will be better acquainted," she Hazel's belongings. I wouldn't know said. is charming loary Miles Minter, If anything were stolen. I'll take a “Would you?" Tom naked. “Would i the Thia winsome and famous fi'm favorite, look at my own things.” Yes—his own you be able to <fo that?" as she sailed for Eu chiffonier drawers had been rum Helen nodded. “Yes. Aunt goes photographed Miss Minter goes abroad to rest maged also, but not to such uu extent. about a lot to meetings, nnd I can rope. and see the sights. “Looks like the work of women easily get to the roof. And----- ” --------- O--------- “Oh, yes; and after I return I’ll thieves," he suld. looked about for other signs of make the acquaintance of your aunt If T uo vlews of Chlcugo’s Immense in un t<-i i >:i 1 pler, Uie alte of tlie Pugeaiit of Progress exposltlon for wblch thè the He burglurs' work, hut everything else you like and you may come priq>erly to city Ima bet'ii prepurlng (or tuonili*. , THE RIGHT THING seemed to he lu good shape. There see us,” Hazel told the girl. "And now were bits of brlc-a-bruc, a good small I must hurry and pack. Sit down— | AT DARING GIRL ARTIST rug or two and some silver In the side- do.” THE RIGHT TIME hoard. but evidently the thieves had Tom had to get back to his office with the papers he had been forced j not cared for that sort of loot. By MARY MARSHALL D l’FFEE There was a skylight in the room; to return for. and Helen said she | would stay and help Hazel pack If she j it was a studio apartment in a build ing adjoining other edluces of the needed her. “I’d love to put back the IN A STRANG E T O W N . things and tbly up while you're get same character. ting ready!” she exclaimed, girlishly, “I am not a Virginian—but an Ameri Tom got out the little stepladder “It's almost like being back borne with can."—Patrick Henry. that he and Hazel used as a chair my chum Mary, I miss her so.” when they had extra guests. He This little IS always a bad Idea to knock the quite touched | I T other climbed up and out onto tlie roof to Hazel, and the admission mnu's home town. Esiieclally two girls worked to see if he could get trnce of the thieves. gether for nn hour. poor policy is It when you are making He decided that they must have been When Hazel Foster returned from your living there. Yet there are ul- In the rooms within a couple of hours, young men—and women, too— vacation at the shore she found ways since Hazel always remained to have her who seem tuke pecullur satisfaction something warmer than friend In passing to uncomplimentary brenkfust before going out to teach. that had developed In the relations be on the city or town of their comments adoption. On the roof he came upon a start ship tween brother and Helen. ling picture. A very lovely young "And her They don't seem to remember that the I'm so glad.” she whispered to woman was drying a mass of gold- Helen after many things had been man or woman who 1* at home In that bronze hair In the sunlight. She held loan Is In a position of host and that “I—I’ve been wanting to tell a to scathing rem arks uhout the a book on her lap under the curtain said. man that I’d marry him, but town make Is almost rude us to make of hair and she evidently had not certain I didn't know what on earth to do scathing remarks us uhout the house of heard him come up through the sky with Toni If I did.” the man whose guest you are. Especial light. “I'll take care of him If he asks me,” “I’m sorry,” Tom began. ly Is this so when the town Is small. confided. The stranger In u town like New "Oh,” the girl cried, startled. “I Helen "He’ll ask you, all right. He may York or Chicago really harms no one did not hear you come up.” waiting to know what to do with but himself when he continues to pour “And I did not dream there was be forth his dlsgruntlement over the city any one here. 1 am looking for me." of his temporary sojourn. No one thieves," announced Torn. "Thieves7” The girl threw hack ST. G E O R G E AND T H E DRAGON takes offense. At most they are bored the clouds of hair aud looked Inquir Why the Patron Saint of England or amused. But when a stranger In u small town assures the natives that ingly at the Intruder. Fought With and Slew It Is away hehlud the times, that the Racer to sketch cliff dwellings nnd "Yes; I happened to return home the Monster. buildings ure atrocious, the streets the to catch the exquisite colorings of and have found the drawers in our canyon walla, Miss Dora Montague of apartm ent all ransacked. Have you, St. George’s day—April 23—Is ob worst paved In the country, the res Salt I.ake City allows herself to be perhaps, seen any strangers on tbe served In commemoration of the patron taurants and hotels the worst run. the women the plainest nnd the movies swung from dizzying heights on a nar roof?” of England, who, according to the oldest he Is giving real offense, row board seat. The photograph The girl shook her head. “No. I saint ancient legends, was a prince of Cap shows her sketching while swinging have been here for an hour drying my padocia, says London Answers. Some besides, of course, making himself Aerini photographs allowing Hit* former German U boat 17-117, Just before over a sheer drop of hundreds of feet hair, but I have seen no one." She writers differ and have doubts con very unpopular. Klie una sent to the bottom ofT Hampton ltomls, by bombs ilroppetl from naval In Zion National I’ark, Utah. hold him how sorry she was and he cerning St. George, the record having It really Indicates nothing more than planes, anil the «iene as the semini sulvo of bombs struck the vessel ami the found himself telling her all uhout his It that he was a native of Cecilia, and a person’s own narrowness to “knock” surrounding water. another town In this way. If the man sister ami Incidentally about himself. was born In a fuller's shop. MAY VISIT WHITE HOUSE He hod forgotten all about the bur However, St. George has long been from a large city goes to a small one glars and was observing the wonder regarded as the protector and patron he should tnke It for granted that ful lights In the girl's hair and the of the English, and Is commonly re things would be different. If u North same tones In her large, soft brown presented on horseback, In full armor, erner goes Mouth he should bear in mind that Southern climates muke eyes. with a formidable dragon writhing at people more Indolent nnd he should re “Could I, perhaps, give you a little his feet. that If he remulns there long assistance In divining a reason—find The ifrawlng, which has become so member ing a clue?" she asked, when they had familiar to us on our coins, nnd more enough he, too, will possess something of that Indolence. And If a South returned to the suhjeet of tbe sneak recently on our pound notes. Is founded erner goes North he should remeinj>er thieves. on the tradition that AJa, the daughter that the natives of the northern cities “Would you—come down the lad of an ancient monarch, was once met have really to do with the raw der and see?" he asked. by a dragon, which uttneked her nnd climate nnd nothing that the very progresslve- “Of course," she said, proudly. “I threatened to devour her. ness which has brought him North to am visiting my aunt In the apartment At tills fearful moment S t George do business robs dally intercourse lielow and 1 am almost dying of ennui. passed by, slew the dragon and rescued of some of the charming courtesy Out West where I live there Is some the lady. makes. Southern life so different. thing doing all the time, so that I The legend has probably cotne to us that The renl man of the world soon for Jump at the chance to have even so from the East, and belongs to the age gets any local prejudices he may have, little excitement as tills.” She laughed of the Crusades, when St. George Is or rather is wise and well b'red xs she followed Tom down through said to have been honored with the enough to he forget them. He realizes name “Victorious.” The ancient Chris the skylight. that it Is through no fault of the na “It does look like sneak-thieves tian emperors bore emblems of this tives the town where he sojourns looking for something In particular,” knight upon their standards, and at that he of has to remain among them Rtid tributed n miraculous power to these the girl said when she had viewed that theoretically at least he Is free the contents of the emptied drawers. sacred banners. leave the town if he does not Ilk« Just then they heard footsteps on St. George was supposed to have In to It. Just at present there are a goi>d fluenced the English warriors at the the stnlrs outside. many shifts In business and Industry. “Sh—” said Tom. his fingers on his siege of Antioch and It was at that bat The end of the war nnd demobilization tle that "St. George” became the En of the lips. soldiers nnd the closing of glish war-cry. They stood motionless while the certain wnr Industries snd the b ^ footsteps drew nearer. Modern Crusoes. , ginning of other peace Industries hnve Presently a key was Inserted In Crusoes of made It Inevitable that a good many today are not so few ss flit lock and Hazel stood before them, many people suppose. Notwithstand-1 i young Sleet barge lot, tied up at a dock In New York, was tbe first grain laden ' men should find themselves In A recent portrait of Mrs. Charity her arm s full of packages, a bag In vessel to carry a cargo from New York to Duluth without transference to j a new environment. City men find ing that In these times almost every • canal barge at Buffalo Karges like It are hallt to weather the lake stormi, Malvina Ketnsberg of Santa Aura, yne hand. themselves In the country or village, part of the seven seas Is traversed by | Cal., sister of President Harding, who, “Tom." she cried. hut are stunll enough to pass through the canal. and country village men find ships, lonely castaways are being res themselves for nnd . _.___ .__ - __________________________________________________ I it Is said. Is planning to accept her “Hazel,” her brother replied. “There cued the first time In the big every year. Now an Instnnce distinguished brother's invitation to have been burglars here!" F'astemers find themselves In from tbe Pacific, and now from cities; pay a visit V the W hite House. Hazel looked at the girl with her | comes the West, W esterners find themselves the South Atlantic. Yet there are East, Northerners hair all about her. “Oh,” she said. awake to the fact castaways who are discovered too late. | that great opportunities await In tha New Yorkers Get Lott In City. "No—no,” Tom began, seeing her Recently a United States "wind Jam and Southerners on dis Many of the lifelong residents of mistake. •This Is a young lady I rounding Cape Horn had occa-1 land of cotton In the northern ports dis New Y'ork know little of the city's! found drying her hair on the roof mer” slon to send a boat ashore to look for 1 embarking rapidly expanding transportation sys-1 when I went up to look for the wnter on one of the desolate islands 1 cover that there are opport uni ties for there that they have not at tern. They arc acquainted with those thieves.” the Patagonian coast. They found j them home. If you are one of these young minor sections they use dally, but I f ! “Helen Rogers," the girl explained. off more than water. In a roughly-made ! they have occasion to travel to unac T stepped down with your brother to little wigwam built In a sheltered spot men In a new environment ahow your customed quarters they are as puzzled offer my assistance." good sense and good breeding hy not tbe shore, they discovered the re- I knocking as the stranger. It Is usually the new- | Then, to the amazement of both Tom near the town of your sojourn- mains of a seaman of unknown na- \ comer - h-nt of a few in and his companion. Hazel Foster tionallty. By the wreckage strewn i •ng. (Copyright). or years, «ho even pretends to know I threw herself on the conch and emitted about. It was i onJrCtUfPd he was the ---------O--------- the subways or the streets of any con-1 peal after peal of merry laughter. sole survivor of some vessel that had stdcrable section of the town.—N'cw gone down In that neighborhood. York Sun. Tom. “Yes—what amuses you?" Helen Morb Fir*t to Wear Spectacle*. Beard Stands for Health. added. A Florentine scholar Invented eye- 1 Dr. Arthur M ad 'onald, of Washing I “Oh. It Is too funny for words. 1 g! » If wes In IJs'i that the Idea ton. has taken the role of the patron suddenly got an Invltat' -n from Mrs f «t struck hln^ for aiding his falling saint of the beard and Is the author George Sanders to go with them for a eyesight, with two lenses attached In I of a lengthy treat's« giving many rea week to tbe shore to brush up little I front of his eyes by two wires hooking i s.uis «hy man should wear a beard Grace's mu«lc and I da«hod homo to on behind his ears. His name was I He claims that the heard offers Im put some clothes together. I never! Alexander de Spins. He was a learned munity for many diseases which we realized that the room would look like1' monk who lived In Florence. While i are now subject tOk Including coughs, i a cyclone or that T--m would be at at work on a beautifully Illuminated E A S IL Y A D J U S T E D Lane Technical School of Chicago Is the only high araool In the world to colds, toothsche, relaxed uvula, dea-1 heme before I could explain. I even missal. In 12AS, his eyesight grew dim. I l e t F rls n d i M ab e l, d o e* y o u r dog maintain Its own baking shop, and aome of the future bakers of Chicago a rt be quamatloc and all the rheums. Besides searched In his draw-rs for seqg» odds and Intent upon finishing his task, he | m atch y o u r new b row n suit? 2nd F rie n d : A ll but a litt le w h it# ing trained there, th e baking is so goad that the student* of tbe school speud this Is the Item of the saving of »<* *« and ends of things I keep In there." constructed the first pair of spectac’es. usually spent In shaving. spot on th e end o f his ta il, b u t I'm many o f their pennies for tbe output of this shop. Hsiel began to langh again, and Tha rest w es a««* going to hava th a t trim m e d off. i~ — " Through the Sky light in the Studio Bombing Test on a Submarine Built for Both Lakes and Canal Baking Shop in a High School 1 M ary Miles M inter