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15*22. by McCtur« Niwiptpcr S>ndicai«
Five yeurs had sped since Dalton
Drew was graduated from Millard col­
lege, anil now he was revisiting the
little college town for the tirst time
In ail that long lapse of years. To he
sure It was a matter of business. A
client of the law tirm of which he was
a Junior partner lived in the outskirts
of Millard, and Dalton Drew hud teen
detailed to take this necessary trip to
see him. Dalton arrived at six o'clock
of the evening preceding the morning
when he was hooked to call on the
client, and at the railroad station got
in touch with one of his fraternity
brothers whom he knew to be still a
resident of Millard. Henson Forsyth
had married und lived at home, but he
apologized to Dulton, ns bis wife was
taking a vacation, und us the cook had
tukeu French leave, he could not play
a very good host.
Dalton, however, took a taxi to the
home of Benson Forsyth,
f
"There is nothing to eat In the
house." explained Benson, “ and there
isn't « thing In town by way of amuse­
ment. Sometimes we have a good show.
We'll have to go down to the Millard
house and have dinner and then come
to my home here for a quiet evening.”
“ What is the matter with Barlow’s?”
asked Dalton, recalling the confection­
ery restaurant that had been a verltn-
lde Institution among the college boys
when he was In college. “ Barlow
hasn’t gone out of business?"
“ That's the trouble,” complnlned
Benson. “ Barlow still gets all the
business. Tonight Is junior prom. The
whole junior class will be dining at
Barlow's with their girls. We could
probably get a table—Barlow always
puts up extra tables and lias extra
waiters, but It’s enough to take your
appetite awav— "
Dalton did not understand, so Ben­
son explained. “ To see all those girls
— most of them just foolish girls from
country homes— coming to their first
big college dance. Going to Barlow’s
with some grass-green college student
Is a great event. Some of them are
pretty enough, but no style. After
what you’re used to in the city. I ’m
afraid you would he disgusted.”
“ Still,” deliberated Dalton, “ we were
Just as green when we were juniors,
and the girls we thought perfection
were probably just as simple and de­
mure. Fact is, Benson, I ’ve an idea
It would he Interesting. I’m no great
admirer of the self-possessed, self-sat­
isfied girl of the big city. Let's go to
Barlow's.”
That Is how It happened that Drew
and Forsyth, of the class of 1916, look­
ing quite worldly wise and middle-
aged to the hoys and girls who were
dining at Barlow's that night, took
their places at a small table set up In
one of the aisles. It was they, not the
students, who felt a little embarrnssed
at the contrast. They made no com­
ments until the waiter had set before
them the first course of the famous
Barlow table d'hote, especially elab­
orate on the night of one of the big
college dances.
“ They’re not so tame looking as I
thought," said Benson Forsyth with
considerable self-consciousness ns he
became aware o f the fact that he had
been looking with considerable lnfetd-
ness at the diners at a table nearby,
which, however. Dalton Drew could
not have seen without turning around
in his chair. “ I dare say girls, even
country girls, are more sophisticated,
know how to dress better ami all that
than girls of that so if. used to. At
the table behind you—you can't see
them now— there are a couple of cnl-
low-looking Juniors and two of the
trimmest looking little twins you ever
saw—bobbed
hair. Jade earrings,
poaches and cream complexions. Do
you see anything that looks good to
you r
“ Yes." said Dalton, “ the girl at the
little table to the right.”
Benson Forsyth turned enough to
notice the girl In question. “ Yon're
joking—poor girl, she looks scared
enough to choke. And she's with her
brother. He's Jack Mnteland's young­
er brother, fraternity brothers of ours,
poor girl. Funny she's so plain— Jack
and Tom are good-looking fellows.”
Dalton Drew looked agnin, reflect­
ing on the obvious difference In his
own and Benson I
To
be sure, the girl he admired was not
well dressed. Likewise she was lack­
ing in assurance. The stiff hat that
crowned her smoothly brushed hair
seemed too large and from time to
time the girl lifted a slender hut awk­
ward Index finger straight before her
nose to raise the brim of the hat that
seemed In peril of eclipsing her face
entirely. When she did this her round
eyes that she kept wide open and that
looked a little humid from excitement,
seemed to cross Just a small fraction
4 ' ■ degree. Awkward as the gesture
and expression was. It struck Dalton
Drew as amusing and really delight­
ful. He enjoyed his feeling of ad­
miration, the more because It took con­
siderable perspicacity to realize that
she wss really very pretty. He cast
his eyes about the dlmng room, turned
enough to catch a glimpse of the twins,
and reflected that thli* Jane Matetand
was undoubtedly the prettiest girl af
Barlow’s— a fact that he did not
vouchsafe to the unappreciative Ben­
son Forsvth.
When Bcft^on and Dalton rose to
leave their table It happened that Tom
Matefand. Junior, and h.'s sister had
also Hsen at the same time. At the
door there were Introductions and an
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exchange o f the fraternity handshake
between the men.
Dalton Drew stepped ahead with
Jane Mutelund when they had gone
out. “ You are going to the prom?” he
asked, and Jane, with some coufusion,
said that she was not.
“ Sis will go »m ie other, time."
laughed Tom with obvious embarrass­
ment, and they parted, Tom and Jane
In one direction and Dalton and Ben
son In another.
“ You put your foot In It,” laughed
Benson. "The women have been gos­
siping about It for a week. Jane was
going to be allowed to go to the prom
this year. Iler grandmother gave her
$50 to buy her first evening dress, and
she bought it und all the fixings. But
none of the boys nsked her. Can't
blame them. Then they counted on
having Tom take her. hut Tom, It
seems, had got engaged to a girl of his
own, and the little fiancee wasn't going
to let Tom take little sister. It seems
that the girl lives In town and her
folks wouldn't let her go to Barlow’s
to dinner with Tom, so Torn took Jane.
She looked a little wistful-—kind of
pathetic, having the dress u4ld every­
thing—”
There was a pause. "Is there any­
thing you could do to amuse yourself
If I excused myself for the rest of the
evening?" said Dalton Drew.
“ Sure thing. Tonight's the night 1
bowl," said Benson. “ I thought your
appointment wasn’t until morning.”
“ My law work Isn't until tomorrow,
but I have a sneaking Idea I'll go to
tluit dance. Y'ou and I are a (tout the
same size and shape. Let me go home
nnd slip Into your evening clothes, it's
7 :30 now and the dance Is at 9. I
guess we can Just about make arrange­
ments.”
First there was a telephone com­
munication with Tom Mateland nnd
Dalton Drew at the Mateland house.
Dalton had come to town hoping to he
able to go to the dance, he said, hut
he had no partner. Was it possible
that his sister would consent to go?
Then the florist had arrived with a box
so full of orchids that little Jane
Mnteland's eyes overflowed with tears
of happiness. At 8 :50 Dalton Drew,
looking the Incarnation of evening pro­
priety, hut smelling a little of the For­
syth's cedar chest, arrived. He was
Immeasurably relieved to find that the
evening dress bought with her grand­
mother’s $.">0 did not fit so well or look
so smart as to rob Jane entirely of her
charming awkwardness. Dalton bad
a great longing to tell Jane that
she was the most charming girl he had
ever seen— he knew It would be the
first time anyone had ever told her
that. But he didn’t tell her then; he
wanted to wait until he could gather
Jane and her stiff pink silk dress Into
his arms nnd feel the firm smoothness
of her cheeks ugnlnst Ids own.
Many n fate has been sealed and a
destiny shaped within the five or six
hours of a Millard Junior ball. To
those who sit In the patronesses’ box,
deafened by the music and fanning
themselves to keep away the drowsi­
ness, there seems no opportunity down
there among the dancers to full deeply
In or out of love.
But It was possibly the only environ­
ment In which Dalton Drew could have
brought himself to this Important de­
cision, for the whole place was laden
with associations of his youth. There
was a glamour about It that seemed to
close In about him ns he started to
dance with Jane Mateland and that
did not depart from him when, two
days later, he found himself back In
Ids law offices with the knowledge that
he had nsked for and received the
hand of Jane.
WHY AND HOWTO Shaker Sect Is
CULTIVATE SOIL
Fast D w in dlin g
Of Much Im p o rta n t That Roots
of Various Plants Re Given
Supply cf Air.
MAKE PLANT FOOD AVAILABLE
Many Persons Make Mistake of Work­
ing Too Deeply and Cut Off Feed­
ing Rootlets— Steel Rake Is
Useful Tool.
Most Remarkable of All Religious
Groups That Found Sanctuary
in Colonial America.
TWELVE COMMUNITIES LEFT
GIRL IS ATHLETIC STAR
iu 1776, she founded the first Shaker
village at Watervltet, New York.
“ In such strange fashion was Insti­
tuted, the y.-ar that America dales her
national liirth, the Western world's
first experiment In communism. Lat­
er S'icteycs, or 'families,' grew up in
New Y’ ork, Massachusetts, New Damp
shire, Maine, Connecticut, Ohio umj
Kentucky.
Introduced Idea of Equal Right* for j
The Shaker Platform.
Women Two Year* Before Declara­
“ The cardinal principles of the Shak­
tion of Independence— Prac­
ers’ religion are virgin purity, con­
ticed Re.’ I Communism.
fession of tlieir sins, complete separa­
l i ’ r e p a r e d b y t h# L’ ntt«*d S ta te s D e p a r t m e n t
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tion from what they term the world’s
Most people have an idea that gar­
Washington, D. 0 .— The idea of vanities, and a communism which ap­
dens are cultivated solely for the pur- equal rights for women was Introduced proaches political socialism. If a mau
l>ose of killing weeds. As a matter of la America two years before our Dec­ and w ife Join a Shaker community
fact, the killing of weeds is just one laration o f Independence declared, "ull they nre supposed to live ns brother
object of garden cultivation, say* the men nre created equal.” Spirit mani­ und sister.
United Slates Department of Agricul­ festations, akin to the recent popu­
“ Until recently they prohibited the
Miss Dorothy Rough, here seen giv­
ture. The roots of plants require air larity of other world communication, taking of photographs and they for­
just the same as do the tops, uml if had a vogue In the colonies before the bade pictures of all kinds as Idola­ ing over the hurdles, was a stur per­
former In nn athletic meet In I hila-
the ground is packed or hard or is Revolutionary war.
trous. Even tlie cultivation of flower
dolphin. She made the 75-yard dash
sunbaked over the surface after a heat­
Those facts ure recalled by the pro­ gardens for decorative purposes was
In ten seconds, tying the women’s rec­
ing rain, the roots cannot get air, and posed abandonment of the Shaker coiu-
frowned upon In former years. And
ord.
for that reason the plants will suffer natU ty in Enfield, New Hampshire,
there Is still doubt among the older
If not cultivated. The same thing is which is reported to have dwindled
members about the propriety of musi­
Lays Real Golf Ball.
true where the land Is poorly drained from 350 members to only six sur­ cal Instruments.
Independence, Kan —I,. Kenoyer’e
and waterlogged. The water keeps out vivors, say* u bulletin from the Wash­
“The Shnker community Is ns nearly famous hen Is again In the limelight.
the air and the roots cannot feed the
ington, I>.
headquarters of the Na­ self-sustaining ns possible and about
This biddy a year ago laid eggs on a
plants.
tional Geographic society.
the only Importations In tlieir begin roof, shied them off nml then grabbed
Cultivation hns another object. In
“ Of ull the religious groups that nlngs were Iron for tlieir plough
them as they fell. She devoured her
that it breaks up the soil particles nnd
found sanctuary on the soil of colonial shares. In their Industrial nnd agri­ own eggs. One day recently she laid
makes plant food available for the
America the most remarkable, perhaps, cultural development they have con­ a round egg, which Mr. Kenoyer, after
feeding rootlets of the plants. Many
were the Shakers with their customs tributed many valuable Ideas which treating with acetic add and formalde­
persons, however, make ttie mistake of
that were partly medieval and partly have been seized upon for general use. hyde, flmls makes an excellent golf
cultivating too deeply, ami by so do­
far ahead of their day,” the bulletin They nre credited with the revolving ball. He lias refused $500 for the
ing cut off or injure the feeding root­
continues. “ And the persistence of harrow, cut nails and the planing ma­
hen.
le s nnd deprive the plant of its source
a firmly grounded religious belief Is chine. Raising herbs for medicinal
of nourishment und support. Frequent
aptly illustrated by their survival to use was one of tlieir early major In­
Powdered shark’s skin Is used for
shallow cultivation during dry weather
this day although their virginal vows dustries."
polishing diamonds.
results In the formation of a layer of
provided no younger generation to car­
fine dust which serves as a mulch or
ry on their tradition, and their delib­
ct to retain moisture.
1 ’
erate Isolation In self-sustalnlWg com­
Cultivating After Rains.
munities gave few opportunities to
The soil should always l>e cultivated make converts.
Just as soon us it is sufficiently dry to
“ The Shakers never had more thnn
be sufely worked after heavy ruins. 5,000 members and the 12 communi­
If it is not cultivated, u crust form\ the ties remaining today reported 367 mem­
surface hukes, and the crops are in­ bers In 1016, which means n population
jured. The same will apply where ir­ of not more than n thousand. The
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rigation Is used, uml It has been found longevity o f Individual members, com­
best to give the soil a thorough soak­ bined with their abstinence from meat
Is Big Hindrance to Travelers nn Inside office to he searched. Mrs.
ing, then cultivate as soon as It is nnd fish, their prescribed manual labor
Tennant nnd her husband protested
dry enough, and apply no more water and hygienic living, have made their
and Exchangeable for Less
strongly and pointed out the fact thnt
until absolutely necessary.
communities Interesting human experi­
they were not carrying French hut
Than
Bank
Drafts.
The hoe and the steel rake are the ment stations for the biologist ns well
American gold, which they had brought
most important tools for cultivating as the geographer. The bodily move­
Into France. Protests were of no avail
the small garden. On u lurger scale ments as they worshiped closely re­
nnd Mrs. Tennant was forced to dis­
a wheel hoe or a horse cultivator may semble tlie noon day gymnasium exer­
robe down to her last garment. The
be used to advantage. The wheel-hoe cises of many an American business
woman Inspector even tore the lining
outfits are provided with a number of man.
out of her hat and ran her fingers
different attachments adapted for the
Fined for Attempt to Leave France through Mrs. Tennant's hair.
Arrested for Gyrations.
different types of work to be per­
A fter tlieir trunks were examined
With United States Coin She
“ Ann Lee, self-styled, ‘Ann the
formed.
These Implements have the
In 11 vain quest for more gold, the
Brought In— French Law Lim­
Word’
but
known
nmoiig
her
follower*
advantage that one can go over the
Tennants were marched by a half
its Amount Taken Out.
garden very rapidly and break up the as ‘Mother Ann, founded the Shakers,
dozen officials to the prefect of police,
whose
official
title
Is
‘
United
Society
surface of the soli In a comparatively
who took the American gold, figured
Paris.—Americans traveling In Eu­
short time. It Is generally necessary, of True Believers in Christ's Second
out a very low rnte of exchange nnd
Coming.’
After
four
children
died
In
rope who persist In the time-honored
however, to follow with the hoe and
gave Mrs. Tennnnt French notes for
their
infancy
Ann
Lee
sought
soluce
custom
of
carrying
about
u
certuln
the fingers to remove any weeds tlint
her gold. He then fined the American
among
an
offshoot
of
the
Quaker
sect
amount
of
gold
may
profit
by
reading
have not been destroyed by the wheel
woman 50 francs for attempting to
cultivator.
Even where horse-drawn in England, which had been Influenced of the disagreeable experience of Mrs. carry gold out of the country. Mrs.
tools are occasionally used, the great­ by the early Eighteenth century wave Palmer Tennant o f Hagerstown, Md. Tennant was so upset by her experi­
er part of the work, especially during of 'manifestations' nmong what we Mrs. Tennant bus Just returned to ence thnt she paid the fine lest any
would call ‘mediums.’ Ann could not Purls after eight months of travel
further Indignities be offered her, nnd
read or write, nnd her liushnnd later on the continent and In North Africa
continued on to Geneva with her hus­
deserted her. For her shouting, leap­ with her husband. O 11 leaving New
band after four hours’ delay.
ing nnd bodily gyrations during her York lust August Mrs. Tennant and
Subsequently Inquiry has developed
exhortations she was arrested In Man­ tier husband bought 11 small amount
that the woman Inspector nt Belle-
chester.
of gold to use In uny emergency In
garde makes u specialty of gold dig­
“ While In Jail the young woman ns- case they arrived In nn out-of-the-
ging, whereas the male Inspectors nt
serted that the Christ appeared to her way place where checks nml letters Bellegrnde usually make only a most
In a vision, told her ho was one with of credit did not pass current.
cursory Inspection, and. In most cases,
her, nnd upon serving her sentence she
Mrs. Tennant kept $100 In gold pass trunks without opening them at
gathered a few followers and set out pieces In an envelope In her dressing all, lifter mnklng the usual Inquiry ns
UNIQUE INDIAN OCEAN ISLAND
to Amertcn to proclaim herself the bug. She passed through various cus­ to dutiable tobacco, liquors and per­
embodiment of Christ In Ills second tom houses without any difficulty or fumes. An American woman with two
Christmas Remarkable in That It Was
coming.
dcluy save for the usuul formalities. children had $350 In American gold
Not Populated Before Its Dis-
“ On the way across the ship’s cap­ On arriving at Rellegurde on the taken away from her recently by the
covery by Europeans.
tain forbade the Shakers to Indulge French frontier on her way to Geneva same woman Inspector at Rellegurde.
In their athletic form of worship. a few days ago Mrs. Tennant fell Into American men carrying gold piece* on
Christmas Island, In the Indian |
Whereupon, according to Shaker liter­ the hands of the only woman Inspec­ their watch chains have been similar­
oceun, Is believed to be unique In that 1
ature, n storm arose, a plank was tor In the Rellegurde customs. This ly relieved.
It is probably the only troplcnl Island! ' 1 ' v -
sprung, and the vessel began to fill. woman, uftcr being assured that Mrs.
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Gold Is Hindrance.
capable of sustaining a considerable
‘Mother Ann* reassured the captain Tennant hud nothing dutiable to de­
....
The French law prohibits any per­
population which bad never been
saying two angels had appeared before clare, started to make a minute ex­ son tnklng more than 5,000 francs in
peopled until after Its discovery by
her In a vision to promise her safe amination of the contents of Mrs. Ten­ currency out of the country. Gold 1»
Europeans. Except where sheer rock
passage. Just as the crew was be- nant's dressing bug nml picking up not only n hindrance to u traveler, but
walls occur it Is heavily wooded from
coming exhausted from pumping a an envelope of the Hunker's Trust It Is exchangeable at a lower rate
the water's edge to the summit. Coco­
nuts and sago palms as well as many One Section of a Well-Planned Garden. huge wave again struck the ship and ' company found the five $20 American than a bank draft. Paris banks recent­
Jammed the plank hack into place!
gold pieces, which she immediately ly publ 10.95 francs for American dol­
other tropical trees grow In profusion.
For two years ‘Mother Ann’ worked confiscated.
lars In the form of bank drafts or
Beneath them Is a tangle of'tropical dry weather, may he performed by
She then ordered Mrs. Tennant Into travelers’ cheeks, but only 10.20 franca
undergrowth, but In this jungle are no means of a common steel rake. It Is In New York as a washerwoman, then.
for American gold. Travelers coming
wild beasts and only a few harmless not necessary to go very deeply Into
the soil, hut merely to stir the sur­
front Germany who admitted to tlu>
reptiles.
face.
customs officer that they were In pos­
But one pestiferous creature Is
A Tool That Helps.
session of more thnn 3,000 marks were
omnipresent — a wicked-looking red
Invited to band over the surplus or go
A handy little tool for loosening the
crab. Some of these creatures attain
to Jail. In ci eh rase they were given
in bn made from ¡1 nice* o f thin
a size of nine inches across the hack
a receipt for their ninny nnd In­
They do not confine themselves to board 2 inches wide and 14 inches long,
formed thnt they could redeem It when
the shore sands, hut range all over | with one end whittled down to form n 1
they
returned to Germany.
handle
nml
tlie
opposite
end
provided
the Island, and always In groups. Some- j
One Amcirtu., who Innocently told
times armies of them march along. with three No. 6 <>r No. 7 wire nails.
a German Inspector that he had only
They even climb the trees and feast on | This little home-made implement can
$500
hut that Its equivalent was in
be
used
Very
soon
after
a
rain
to
loos­
the succulent nipa palms. As an off- j
German marks, had to turn over all
set to the crabs the Island, unlike j en the surface, so that any small seeds
hut about $.'10 with which to make his
virtually every other tropical land Is 1 # n break tlir< .' .
way ns best he could south, through
mosquitoless. This boon it owes to | It should be borne in mind that the
Switzerland, to catch Ills steamer. This
time to kill weeds Is when they nre
its porous soil and steep slopes.
Incident happened nt Basel, where
Jnst coming through the ground. If 1
the German Inspection of trunk* is
allowed to become established, it Is
Good in Kindergarten Work.
most minute. Anything h light in Ger-
much more difficult to get rid o f them
There Is nothing that can make life
m giy and not declared Is confiscated.
thnn If they are taken In time. I f the
*0 Intensely Interesting, that can soi
The Immense purchases by foreigners
top 2 inches of soli Is kept continuous­
develop broad-mindedness, that can I
In Germany bus brought about U 10
ly nnd thoroughly loosened, there will \
so fill one with a motive power, as ]
most rigid scrutiny of baggage.
he no serious difficulty In keeping out
to have a work which is so vital as j
weeds.
to absorb one. Kindergarten training \
JAP SCHOOL BOYS SUSPENDED
has in It all the elements which pro- |
mote a young woman's growth. It fu ll-, SOY BEANS F IT IN ROTATION
Call Principal “ Despotic" in Ditcharg.
fills Spencer’s description of a train­
Ing Old Professors— Vote “ Want
ing that best fits for self-preservation, Take Place of Oate and Are More
of Confidence."
for the discharge of parental duties. !
Profitable ae Cash Crop— Of
for the regulation of social and poli­
Benefit to Soil.
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Kyoto, Japan.—The hoys of the hl*»h
tical conduct and the enjoyment of j
school of Kyoto who passed a vote of
nature. literature and the One arts.— | Soy beans fit perfectly in rotation In
"want of confidence'' In their principal
Exchange.
the place of oats, making a four year
were suspended for a week. The non-
rotation com, soy beans, wheat, clover,
confidence vot" was bused on the al­
they being more profitable than oats as
Different Method«.
leged “ despotism" of the principal In
The City Kid— lo o k at that cow 1 a cash crop, and leaving the soil In
Marshal Foch presenting to American Legion Boat No. 1 In I'aitR the discharging old professors. As a cun.
licking her calf. What’s she doing It much better shape, both as to mechan­ symbolic canvas "America,” the work of M. RenlMel. official painter to the Terence between the principal and the
ical condition and fertility, a* little or French minister of war. The painting, of an Amerlcift soldier aiding a scholars could not come to an agree­
for?
The Rural Kid— I dnnno. That ain’t j no preparation for wheat Is needed on wounded French comrade, will hang on the wall of the post headquarters ment, the suspension o f the hoys was
land from which a crop of well culti­ in Paris.
decided upon.
the way my maw tick» me.
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vated soys has been mowed.
A m erican Gold
Perils T o u rist
MRS. TENNANT IS SEARCHED
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Painting Given Legion Post in Paris
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