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Thomas Rogers and Richard Brown
had never met until they chanced to
be members of the same class at the
same college. They were not even re­
motely related and yet their resem­
blance, both in aiipeurance, physique
and temperament, was quite apparent
to everyone who met them.
“ Tom aud Lick ure very much
alike,"
the
uuiversity
president's
daughter was quoted as having said.
"Only Lick is so much more so." And
from that time Richard Brown lost his
front name and became known as
"Moreso."
Their similarity of temperament and
physique brought them into irequent
rivalry. They were both of football
physique, but Lick being more so mude
the team and Tom Rogers did not.
They were both good mathematicians,
but Tom lost the coveted scholarship
for a year's post graduate work for no
other reason than because there was
uue man who was a better mathema­
tician than he— Moreso Brown, The
same pretty girls always found them
Interesting, but as Moreso's blue eyes
were a trifle bluer and deeper set, and
as his broud shoulders were a trifle
broader, as his engaging voice was a
trifle more appealing, as liis laugh was
a trifle more contagious it was always
Moieso who received the boxes of
home-made candy, the embroidered
cushions and the Invitations for sum­
mer house parties.
The uncomfortable part about it
was that Thomas Rogers and Moreso
were most congenial. Moreso wanted
to be his friend, but close friendship
seemed awkward between two men so
obviously fitted to be rivuls. So their
ways parted. Moreso Brown took his
post-graduate course In his own col­
lege and Tom paid for his at another
university. When Moreso started in
his career In an engineer’s otlice In
Chicago, Tom went to New York. Both
succeeded. Eight years after gradu­
ation they were spoken of us in the
front
ranks of their profession.
Neither had married, though Thomas
Rogers' friends looked wise when usked
If it was true that Tom was engaged.
At this junction Moreso Brown made
his appearance In New York. Not to
have gone at that particular time
would have meant the first back step
In his forward march of success.
“ 1 fancy New York Is big enough
for Thomas Rogers and me both," he
laughed when he happened to meet an
old classmate at their graduate club
who reminded him of the old rivulry.
"Hasn't married, has he? Heard
something about his engagement,
though."
“ It hasn't been announced," replied
the classmate. "But I guess It's pretty
serious. Met the girl in business— no
money, but good family. As pretty a
little dark-haired girl as you'd want
to see."
Moreso Brown didn't give the mat­
ter much thought, save to he glad that
his old friend had found the girl of
his dreams.
Then Moreso met I’aula Yates. He
had carried a letter of Introduction to
old friends of his sister and one Sun­
day afternoon when making Ills first
cull he found Paula drinking tea there.
She was the pretty little brunette type
—girls that took Moreso’s eye always
were. Apparently neither he nor Tom
Rogers hod changed In this regard.
Moreso's hostess helped matters along.
"She's the finest girl I know,” she
told him after Paula had gone. "Ex­
cellent family, hut no money. Paula
supports herself—much to her credit.
I'd like to have her here when you
come for dinner.”
So they met again at dinner and
after that Moreso called at Paula's
house.
The friendship progressed.
Moreso mentioued his college ami Ida
class numerals.
"That's
very
Interesting,”
said
Paula. "Perhaps you know Mr. Rog­
ers, Tom Rogers. You know you and
be look a lot alike, only o f course
you're taller and—and everything.”
“ Do you know him well?”
“ About as well as anyone could,”
laughed Taula. “ I —I work for him.
Besides being my employer he— he la
a very good friend. I admire Mr. Rog­
ers immensely.”
Suddenly, as Dick recalled his con­
versation at the club concerning Tom’s
poss.ble engagement, depression seized
him. He was determined to know the
that Sunday when be « cut to liava
• upper at Paula s bouse, and be was
determined then and there to propose
to her aud then abide by ber decision.
Of course he w ould not mention Tom
Rogers, nor would he {¿lent ion the life­
long rivalry that had existed between
him and his old classmate.
It was after supper when Paula and
Tom had goue Into the back drawing
room of the old-f.tshloned New York
house where Paula lived, on the pre­
text of looking at some old prints,
that Tom found opportunity to pro­
pose. He had determined to do this
abruptly. If she really was Tom Rog­
ers' girl Dick didn’t want to possess
the memory of eveu the touch of her
hand in his.
"Paula,” he began, closing the book
of prints that she had oltered for his
Inspection, “ you ure the girl o f my
dreums. I want to marry you. 1
am telling you this now. though per­
haps 1 should not. If there is any
reasou why you feel that it wouldn’t
be quite on the square for me to press
my suit, 1 wish you'd tell me."
Paula looked confujed. "Y'ou haven’t
said you—you loved me," she faltered.
“ We can't talk of marriage until we
talk of that— can we?”
“ I don’t want to talk of— of that
until I have got a right to,” said Dick
very stoically.
" I don't know whether we ought to
talk of marriage now," said Paula.
“ Why not?" demanded Richard.
“ Well, you see. Tom—Mr. Rogers—
needs me so much. I promised I
wouldn't leave him In the lurch. Rut,
Dick, you know I love you more than
any one else in the world. Perhaps
In a year or so we could talk— talk
about marrying."
An outstretched hand, a wistful
smile seemed to invite a caress, but
Dick was adamant.
“ It Is ns I feared." he said. Then
he opened the book of prints and per­
functorily examined them. Fifteen
minutes later be rose and after having
bade Paula's family good-night aud
having pressed Paula's hand tenderly
In hla In the front hall he hurried
away.
Two weeks passed and Dick did not
go near Paula nor did he hear even
Indirectly from her. He had made up
his mind not to stand In the way of
Tom Rogers—even if this decision
caused Paula pain.
To solace himself he went frequent­
ly to the graduates’ club. There one
day he chanced to see Tom Rogers.
He would huve avoided him, but Tom
hailed him with a hilarious cor­
diality that hail never been character­
istic of the Tom Rogers of college
days.
"Congratulate me," demanded Tom
Rogers, slapping Dick Rrown on the
back. “ I'm the happiest man In the
world. I'm going to be married next
week. You'd like her, Dick. Kite's
just the sort you and I always liked—
little, dark and all there.
Dick winced. "I do congratulate
you,” he said. “ I happen to know
Miss Yates."
"There's another fine girl,” cried
Tom. "She told me she had met
you—”
"Another?” demanded Richard. “ Rut
It’s Miss Yates you're going to marry."
Tom burst out laughing. "Lord, no,”
he cried. “ No man of sense marries
his own stenographer. She knows
him too well. I'm murrying another
stenographer, though. Miss Maud
Davis, one of Paula's best friends.
It's too bad about Paula, though. Some­
thing's happened that has broken her
all up. She's— "
Richard did not stop for more. He
abruptly left Torn, rushed from the
club and hailed a taxi at the door.
Fifteen minute« later he was with
Paula In the hack drawing room of
the Y'ates home.
"But you said you couldn’t leave
Tom in the lurch—that he needed you
—that you’d he the first one to know
when he really was engaged.”
“ Well, I'm Maud’s best friend and
Tom's stenographer— who else would
know better? And I did promise Tom
I wouldn't give up business within a
year—but—'*
Richard had taken all there was of
Paula Y'ates Into his arms.
“ Never you mind about that.” he
said. ‘T ’U take a chance with Tom
Rogers.”
Natural Wonder» of New Mexico.
One o f the natural wonders of New
Mexico Is the Alamogordo, or Tula-
rosa, desert.
It Is a sandy plain,
measuring from 100 to 125 miles from
north to south and from 35 to 50 miles
from east to west, and It represents,
in the opinion of many authorities, the
upper surface o f a gigantic block of
the earth's crust that sank after the
deposition of the cretaceous strata.
It Is surrounded by an elevated bor­
der. and on the east, especially, the
W orst
• l heard he was engaged." he said cliffs rose sheer to a height o f 1,000
with an effort to be casual. “ I ad­ feet. The curious Oregon mountains
mire Tom Rogers, too—perhaps you are on Its southern border.
Within the plain, where floods of
will offer him my congratulations."
" I am quit# sure there Is no actual lava once welled up, are vast depos­
engagement—yet," smiled Paula. "And its of gypsum, which forms dust as
I think I would know as soon as any white as snow, which the wind drives
Into vast drifts. The vegetation is pe­
one."
Dick Rrown had vowed many years culiar and highly interesting to bot­
before never to be a block in Tom anists.
Rogers' path again. He bad taken the
Sinking Island.
graduate scholarship from him, he
would not be guilty of -taking away
According to Prof. A. E. Terrill the
the girl he loved. Still, reasoned Dick beautiful Bermuda Islands are merely |
In the long sleepless night that fol­ the remnant of an Island very much j
lowed, It was the merest accident larger than the present entire group, [
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that had brought him and Paula to­ which has sunk In the ocean.
gether. Rut early that morning he re­ original island bad an area of 300
solved that h!a only honorable course m 4 « m square miles, whereat the Ber­
o f action was one of retreat. He did mudas o f today are only about 2 0 j
pot rail on Paula tlpit week as he had square miles In area. Within a com­
Intended to. and tried to be formal paratively recent period, says Profes- |
when she got him on the telephone tor Terrill, the Bermudas have sub­
and asked ' # 1 to take Sunday supper sided at least 80 or 100 feet. Their
at her house. He really had to accept. base Is the summit o f an ancient vol­
After all. If Paula reallv liked him cano. while their surface Is composed
better It would not be fklr to her to of shell sand drifted into hills by the
withdraw. Such was h i t reasoning wind and consolidated by Infiltration.
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D AD D Y
L O X C iL K G S
upon a time an E'fin Prince
O NCE
fell In love with a fairy, and the
Queen of the fairies gave her cousent
to their marriage.
All the magie folk were Invited, and
to make the wedding more beautiful
all the butterflies were Invited also.
Now, It happened that one large
blue and black butterfly had once been
a Goblin, hut an old witch, to reward
him for some favor he had done, gave
him the power to change his form
w henever he liked.
The Elves and the Goblins were al­
ways In a dispute, and never had been
friends, so when the Blue Butterfly
Goblin heard of the wedding he at
once determined to go and make all
the trouble he could.
The Elfin Prince had one friend
among the Elves that was very fond
of him, und while the wedding was
taking place, Tanto— that was the
name of the friend—noticed a bit of
red showing under the wing of the
big blue butterfly. lie crept close and
found it was a bit o f the Goblin’s red
cap that he saw, for of course, no
Goblin, whatever his form, ever Is
without his cap.
Tanto knew that some mischief was
going on, so he watched every move
Blue Butterfly made, and Just as the
wedding was over he saw him slip his
cap from under his wing and become
a Goblin, and before anyone could stop
him he had the fairy bride in his arms
and was running away.
The Elfin Prince ran with Tanto nnd
other Elves, hut the Goblin had called
to his friends, and the Prince was
made a prisoner by the little red-
capped men.
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“What’s in a Name?”
By M ILDRED M A R S H A LL
Factt atout your noma; Itt hltloryt
moaning; if Acne« It if at derived;
significance ; your lucky ¿ay
and lucky leccai
E T IIE L
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" P T IIE L Is In itsolf a name, hut It
has so many suffixes ns to seem
almost a syllable itself. It is another
of the Teutonic names which signify
noble, and Is derived from Aethel, the
same prefix, which In High German,
Is Adal, from which comes Adlnide.
The early feminine form of this simple
little name was Aetbelth ryth. An­
other. less complex, was Ediltrud.
Teutonic and Norse tradition seem
to merge somewhere along the course
of Ethel's history, for the splendor of
the Valkyr lingers in the name. It
was popular among the women of
those early times because it signified
the Ideal woman o f the period when
"a resolute will and a strong hand,
were woman's best title to respect,” as
one writer puts It. Nowadays, Ethel,
shorn o f her complexities, suggests a
Huffily feminine name rather than a
Amazonian Ideal.
Saint Aethelthryth was a queen of
the Amazon type who must have been
a very uncomfortable sort of wife and
who finally retired to a monastery. She
was canonized as Saint Ethelreda. Her
saintly name has come down to us
with a small degree of popularity, but
Ethelberta and Ethelfreda are much
the favorites. Ethel Is the most preva­
lent o f all and stands alone ns an In­
dependent name.
Alberta and Alhertlne are regarded
as other offsprings of Ethel.
Ethel should wear an agate If she
wishes happiness and success. Accord­
ing to Its promise. It will bring her
the desire of her heart, give her cour­
age and a dauntless will. Thursday Is
her lucky day and 4 her lucky number.
The wild rose Is her flower.
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Hundreds ami hundreds of other
Goblins kept the other magic folk
back, und the Fairy Queen, who had
left her magic wand at home, was
powerless to help them.
But then- was one who had escaped
from the Goblins und was after the
runaway, und that was Tanto. With
leaps and hounds he was soon up with
the Goblin nnd the stolen bride, nnd
when he came to a tree that had over-
barging branches he caught at one
nnd swung himself so he could snatch
the red cap from the Goblin s head as
he passed.
Quickly dropping the stolen bride,
the Goblin put both hands to his head;
but It was too late. His cap had gone,
nml with it the power the witch had
given him.
Tanto placed the cap on his own
head and making the Goblin prisoner
he took hint back to the edge of the
woods and tied him to a twig.
He told the fairy bride to follow, but
to hide until he called to her to show
herself to her husband. Then Tanto
crept up behind the captive Prince
aud slipped the cap Into his hand.
The 1’ rlnce knew nt once w hat to do
and while his captors were busy chat­
tering lie put the cap on his head und
called to the witch to appear.
I'p front the ground slowly came the
old witch. "Bring forth the one who
stole my bride," said the Elfin Prince
to Tanto, and when the Goblin was
brought the Prince commanded the
witch to chnnge hint into a long-
legged creature that would always be
on the run whenever anyone came
near.
The witch did not dare disobey, for
I the Elfln Prince had the rod cap upon
| which she had cast the magic spell,
and she feared that he ru'ght work
harm to her.
With a wave of her magic stick the
Goblin disappeared, nnd over the
ground ran a long-legged creature that
Is now called grundduddy longlogs.
Then the Prince called for his bride
and the wedding feast went on, while
the Goblins, who now were terribly
frightened, run away In all directions.
The Prince flung after the long-
legged creature the red cap, which
changed Into a toad when It touched
the ground and quickly hopped out of
sight.
farms, was 17,000,000 in the year 1020.
according to figures recently Issued
by the census bureau at Washington.
O f this numlier 7,195,000, or 40.9 per
cent, were owned by tlielr occupants,
and of these 2,855,000, or 30.7 per cent,
were mortgaged. The total amount of
these mortgages Is estimated by the bu­
reau to be 90.000,OOO.fmO, w hile the to­
tal value of the homes is placed at
$14,009.000,000. The ratio of the In­
debtedness to the value la 42.0 per
cent.
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Glva me a long-forgot de­
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The merry atara play "peek-a-
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Right merrily
With me.
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And even though I reap bat
chaff
F »n aa a little child I laugh.
And childish laughter now end
then
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JOHN BLAKE
SW ELLED
H EAD S
By E. R. PEYSER
Has a Man Like This Proposed
to You?
Symptoms:
Awfully
noisy,
big, clumsy, always falls over
things and makes things fall
over. Loves to sing though he
has no voice.
Always telling
Htupld nml long yarns and roars
with laughter whether you do or
not. Awfully happy, does every­
thing the wrong way, never Is
In a hurry, his favorite pastime
Is a cornet. . . .
IN FACT
It’s nnother way for him to
blow off.
Prescription for Bride-to-be:
Buy domes of silence for
£
the home.
Absorb This:
Fightln* the Little Cornet
Where You Are Will Not Corner
the Silences!
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Y O U R ’-
By John Kendrick Bang«.
clouds
T HE by fleecy
night
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V T ' 'D will find victims of swelled
heads on every bench in the park,
in every bread lino, In every poorhouse.
In every Jail.
It is an easily communicable and a
deadly disease. The only cure for It
is a severe jolt, und sometimes it Is
the remedy that success Is mude of.
Reinember that a little success Is
often easily come by. Sometimes It
Is due almost wholly to luck. Some­
times it follows advancement through
favoritism, which Is probably the worst
thing that can happen to anybody.
In any event, no success can sur­
vive a swelled head.
I f In the early years o f your career
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you find yourself well uhead of the fel­
lows who started with you, look out.
Y’ ou have still a long way to travel.
How to Road Your
I f you are satisfied with yourself,
I f L M IA
jl C h a ra c te ris tic s
he sure you will never get any better.
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u d Tendencies — the
And If you don't get any better you
Capabilities or Weak­
will soon begin to go back.
n esses That Make for Success or
Authority cannot safely he entrusted
Failuro as Shown in Your Palm
to any man till he shows that his
head will not be uffected by It.
SHALL I TRAVEL?"
Once let him begin to tnnkn had use
of It, to domineer, and to bully, and
T I T MEN a line of travel, on Luna, he might ns well hid any further prog­
» * ends In a small cross, we may ress good-by.
foretell or read a voyage that has
Remember always that big men
ended or will end In disappointment. never get the swelled head, or If they
A lino of travel that ends In a square do get a slight attack they soon re­
shows danger arising to the subject cover.
from his travels, hut he will he pro­
If you have begun to think that you
tected, since the square Is called the
are "doing pretty well thank you,” nnd
“ mark of preservation."
to pity the poor devils who are not ns
Note whether the line of travel bright as you nre, stop and take stock.
ends In an Island, no matter how
Don't think nliout the men you havo
small. I f It does, loss through the passed, but about the men who hnve
Journey Is indicated.
passed you. Consider the Important
When the line of trnvel reaches j men of your acquaintance, and o f Ills
Jupiter, the Journey will he very long. tory.
When It runs to the mount o f Saturn,
Read tlielr blogrnpbles, nnd not#
or fate, some fatality will govern the how they eontlnually struggled to
entire Journey. It will he subject to make themselves capable of bigger
good or evil fortune, as the other nnd better work. There la no time to
signs In the hand Indicate. Rut when get a swelled head when a man Is
the travel line runs to the mount of really going up. It Is the rhnp who
the sun, or Apollo, under the ring stops to admire himself who fulls vic­
finger, there may be expected, or tim to conceit.
there are Indicated, very favorable re­
I f you nre as great a mnn as Lin­
sults from the Journey, such as riches
coln, as Shakespeare, as Napoleon,
and fame. When the line of travel
puff and strut all you please. But the
reaches the mount of Mercury, at the
chances nre you are not. And until
base of the little finger, sudden and
you are perfectly sure that you nre,
unexpected wealth from the Journey
keep on trying. The study of big men
Is seen.
will give yon less time to ndmlre your­
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self, nnd thereby save you from a
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malady that Is absolutely fatal to any
Homes in America.
Important success.
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The total number of homes In the
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A LINE O' CHEER
THE P L A Y F U L SKIES
WPRUJS
Has Anyone Laughed
At You
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fi Because — P t Y i l l
You Say You Don't Mind Be
ing Poor?
o f course "poor” Is a relative
term. Some would think $10,-
issi annually a miserly Income.
Some would think It mnnlflcent.
Y'ou may mean you don't mind
not owning a yacht, three coun­
try houses, a “ movie" picture
theater or two or you may mean
you like being threadbare. Once
there was a poor lady who
thought It vulgar to alt tn the
orchestra, hut as soon as she In­
herited money the gallery and
bnlconles In the best ventilated
theaters became foul wlth^had
air. If you are poor and are
not rebellious you deserve a
certain kind of credit. But It's
as vulgar to vomit poverty aa
to crow about wealth.
You
make folks Just as uncomfort­
able snd bored.
SO
Your Get awray hart Is:
You aro happy In “ whatso­
ever'’ placo in lift you find
youreelf.
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W h y d o n 't yo u li v e a c h e e r fu l l i f e
And m a k e th e best o f t h i n g » ?
F o r d is c o n t en t me ans c o n s ta n t s t r l f s
And o t h e r Ills It b rin g s
I t Is hard t r a m p i n g on ll f s ' s pike,
I k n o w t h a t this la trua ;
But I f you c a n ’ t do w h a t you like.
T r y l i k i n g w h a t you 4
THINGS FOR THE FAM ILY TABLE
Y X / l l E N preparing soup and a
• • dumpling Is desired, try these:
One-half hour before the soup Is to
he served drop Into It a Inrge potato
and cook until done.
Put It Into a
bowl with a tablespoonful o f butter
nnd mash fine, add a slice of grnted
toast, an egg, a dash o f salt nnd nut­
meg ami work well with a fork. Drop
this paste In small pieces Into the soup,
boll up and serve at once.
Alleghany Muffins.
Take one und one-half cupfuls o f
sifted flour, one cupful o f milk, one
tahlesiMionful each of butter und lard,
two teaspoonfuls o f baking powder,
one-half tensporiful o f salt nnd one
egg. Mix all the dry Ingredients and
sift through the sieve. Melt the but­
ter and lard In a cup. Beat the egg
very light nnd add the milk to It.
Pour this mixture Into the dry Ingre­
dients, add the melted fat and beat vig­
orously for a minute. Pour Into but­
tered muffin puns and bake 15 min­
utes.
Rlcs Flour Pound Cake.
Dream one-quarter o f a cupful o f
butter with one cupful of powdered
sugar, add the beaten yolks o f two
eggs, one teaspoonful o f vanilla, the
grnted rind of a lemon snd one-half
cupful of cold water. Mix thoroughly
and add one and one-half cupfuls of
rice flour that has been sifted twice
with one and one-half teaspoonfuls of
baking powder.
Fold In the stiffly
beaten whites o f the eggs and bake.
Spring Salad.
Shred a head of lettuce and line a
salad bowl which has been rubbed
with a cut clove of garlic. Gut two
large tomatoes Into slices and arrange
In a ring around the lettuce. Sprinkle
each slice of tomato with a tablespoon­
ful of chopped water cress nnd cover
the whole with a highly seasoned may-
otinalse which has been enriched with
a half cupful or more o f whipped
cream. Serve very cold
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Mero Child’ s Play.
"As to fny prosfa-cts, air," said the
would be son-inlaw bombastically, "I
Intend leaping up the lofty ladder of
my ambition a dozen steps at a time.”
“Then It will be mere child'* play
for you to clear my 30 front ateps
downward at one JurupT' said hla de­
sirable, hut nndealrlng, father-in-law,
polishing the toe of hla right boot on
the hearthrug.