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STORY FROM THE START
In th usually quid horn 01
Rev. Mr. Tolllver of Hrd Thrush
Iowa, hi motherle daughters
Helen. Miriam and Bllea "Uln
rr Ell" r Susy grooming'
their latr Marjory for partlcl.
patios' Id th -beauty pageant'
that trailing. With Eddv Jack
ion, proaperoue young fartnar
her escort, Marjory leave tot
th anticipated triumph. Over
work ha effected Mr. Tolllver'i
ye to th point of threatened
blindness. Dinger ha tried I
many way to add to th famtly'e
(lender Income, but abe I m t
dlacouraged. Marjory win the
beauty prise, HO 00. 8b give
th money to her father aa pari
of th ipna neceaaary for the
treatment of hie ye by Chicago
apeclallata. Mr. Tolllver leave
for Chicago with Miriam. Ginger
meet Aleisnder Murdoch. Mr
Tolllver return, th doctor giv
ing him little bop.
CHAPTER IV Continued
"And everybody wbo buy one, will
Bell fonr mora "
"And It all started from on. On,
tingle, solitary, llttls one."
Tba glrlg talked on and on. Bat
Dinger drew berteir sway from tbetn.
lat enwrapped In unpenetrable Uinughi
Eh remembered th old cbain let
ters. They bad cum with some fre
luencj s few years ago, prayer for
almost STerytblng, toi tbe sirs for
foreign missions for prohibition, for
fundamentalism, for tbe second com
Ing of tbe Lord, for tbe release of
anarchistic prisoners condemned to
leatb
"And everybody sends It on to so
fcany mors, and every one of them
lends It to so many more, snd they
lend It"
Ginger got np suddenly snd went
nt of tbe room. Sh walked dizzily
Ebs went upstair, cx tbe abort lad
ter from the linen closet snd bat
Snced It against the wall under th
trapdoor. Sh noticed that her band
trembled. Rut she climbed carefully
k-the ladder was old poshed np the
trapdoor, end pulled herself through
tbe opening. From frtre of habit, for
h wss not then thinking of trap
Boors, she locked It behind her, snd
made ber way carefully over the
beams to ber sanctuary under the
former window. There she sat down
heavily, to think. Kbe thought, and
thought, and thoogbt until aer bright
lyes were so wide, so bright, so blue,
that of a sudden thy seemed to hurl
ter, snd she shut them hard. Her two
imatl hand were gripped so tightly
srltb fingers Interlaced so clngely, that
Suddenly she knew they were throb
ting wltb pain, half paralyzed, so that
he had to work them apart, slowly,
I finger at a rime, tlut she did not
stop thinking,
"Chain letter on snd on all over
tbs world thousands and thousands
and nobody dares to stop because no
body would dare to break the chain
for tbe blind s home for the blind
no snd on snd on."
8udenly (linger burst into low
Dervous laughter, snd isughed snd
tried snd twlated ber little hands snd
rocked hack snd forth oo the stool
In so scstasy.
"Oh, oh. buw heavenly, bow perfect
ly heavenly I I never could have
thought of surb s hrtlllnnt tiling. Uh.
as father says. I see the hand of tbe
Lord In this I"
She pulled (be stool to the low table
Whleb she used ss s desk, and eaten'
berselt wltb S professional brlakness
Indicative ot tbe oneness ol purpose
Which prompted ber Selecting three
pencil from s large dumber in in
drawer, si sharpened them nrlkly
Then she drew her pad of paper
toward ber. and opened IL
Then she studied intently, chewing
tier pencil. Sh wrote a nasty Hoe.
nd quickly scratched It out. Again
he wrote, again she frownlngly dls
carded IL Several times shs re
peated this painful process, nut at
last as so often haptens, persistent
(Tort brought Inspiration, snd she
rrots fluently, without a psus for
thought.
"Our parsonage hums for the blind
Is ssdly Id ueed of rund to carry on
lis nobis work. Will yon not con
tribute Ten Cents to this very worthy
csnset And complete the chain ot
good vibrations by fending aipies of
this letter to three jrt your Mends In
whom yon have confidence) In this
Way, this valuable Institution will en
Isrge IIS circle of friends snd will be
nahled to continue Its care of lbs un
fortunate snd oeedj Mind.
"We dejwnd ou yon,
"Iw not brenk lb chain.
E. Tolllver. treasurer.
"Bed Thrush. Iowa."
Ginger wus greatly pleased wltb the
formal tons ol this letter Hh knew
ry well that If she received sticb so
appeal, she would coiittilmie gladly
tf she bad tbe oiuoe). 81 read II
Ethel Hueston
Illustration by
win Myers
III Co. W.N.U, ,S-R.viCt
over snd over, adding a word, omit
ting a word, substituting s word, until
the final version seemed. Impossible ot
Improvement.
The question to whom ths leitei
should be sent was subjected to deep
thought Indeed, It was more than
thought. so deep It was Wen. she
knew, were more susceptlhls than
woaSen to personal appeal partlcu
larly when the personal sppeals came
from not unattractive girls But wom
en were more superstitious snd would
be more reluctant to bring npun ihem
selves the Implied curse that would
result from s breaking of tbe chain
Women, thee
As for location, she was not pur
tleular, except that it would be best
to start st some distance from Red
Thrush. Methodist Interests sre close
ly silled In neighboring towns, snd
he realized the Importance of pro
tecting the family name. Now (linger
berselt was deeply enamored of the
chain letter Idea, to ber It smacked
absolutely of the hand of Providence.
But one could never know Just how
fathers snd older sliters would react
to things, hence she realized It would
be the part ot discretion to avoid
questions whose answers could out be
evaded. Ginger's unfailing resource
In an emergency was the dally press
8he got the last Issue of the Burling
ton Hawkeys, snd studied Its col
omna. Now. theore'lcally, s chain
should start from e single link, but
she wss not willing to trust the
foundation ot ber fortunes to one
mull dime which might not be forth
coming.
She decided opon three ss a fair
start "Three links sre better than
one." she said thoughtfully. "And If
It starts three chains, so much the
better."
When ever she came to the name ot
a woman mentioned prominently, shs
put her finger on the place, closed ber
eyes, snd tried to get a vibration
bout It Finally the three letters
were written, enclosed In envelopes,
addressed, snd Ginger took them st
once to tbs corner mull box. snd put
them In.
"Ah," shs breathed ecstatically as
she turned back toward the parsonage.
Her heart was ss light ss tbe wings
of a butterfly. It seemed to ;arry hei
home. Already the old house looked
a new place to her. a rosy place, bright
wltb Bowers, fresh paint new furni
ture. Thousand npon thousands
Helen herself had said It Thonsands
upon thousands
"Ob. wish I bad asked .or qnnr-
ters." she thought. "Such a eery good
cause, nobody could begrudge It"
Had It sol been for the pleasnmhls
excitement attendant opon Helen's
wedding. (Ilngt-i fell she could not
possibly have endured the strain of
the days that foll-iwed. Her enfl
denr In the outcome of her chain let
ter home-forthe-hllnd waa absolute
Winters might come, with their run
sequent coal and coat hills danch
ter might go. lth their petty love
affairs, hut (linger Ella snd the chnln
letter would go on for ever.
Plans for the wedding took prece
dene over everything else, for Helen,
yielding to the argument that for her
In this case the way ot genuine sncrl
flee la J In gracious scqtilesrenr to
plans already made, proceeded calmly
wltb her arrangements She knew In
her heart that sh would hav pr
f erred s more spparenf display ol
her unselfishness Hhe would have
enjoyed a rei martyrdom. She would
have been proud to stand glorlousli
forth, to ber father, her sisters, snd
Ited Thrush, giving op her marriage
for a year, for ten years, for ever. II
need be. Rut she was honest enough
to realize that the course of true
denial followed another channel
Mental rest, the doctors bad pre
scribed, and that could never he had
In th sacrifice of his daughter's plans
The wedding was to be held In the
church, with the girls ol Helen's fun
day school class, th Hut beans, sere-
Ing a buffet luncheon In the 8unday
Riven Diverted From
It Is a long way from present-day
floods along the Mississippi river back
to th great Ice age, but happening
of the latter period have considerable
hearing on the trials snd tribulations
of the valley dwellers.
Before the great fields of Ice worked
their way down from the north, st
least two rivers the upper Missouri
snd the Yellowstone flowed northeast
and emptied Into Hudson bay With
the advent of Ihs sheets of Ice, how
ever, these two rivers wer forced ft
run to th sotgh. snd their combined
wsters cut ths gorge now followed
by ths Missouri through the Dakota.
At th sain lime the Bed river be-
csme a hug pond called glacial Lake
school assembly room, the room that
was used tor church dinners, socials
and the Ilk. This luncheon was to
ink the place of a home reception.
The details of the ceremony had been
carefully practiced. Horace Langley,
wltb Ei lily Jackson s his best man,
was to wait lu the small room at the
left side of the pulpit The brides
maids we, to guttler In tbe primary
room, just Inside th mnln entrance.
Helen decided thai when all th
Invited guests snt silently waiting
within the church, she, wltb ber fa
ther, would walk quietly scroas ths
Intervening space from parsonage
to church such s very llttls way
snd while El leu took I Im on sromd to
ths pulpit room on the right of th
altar, shs would join her attendants
In the primary department
For fully a week, although but ten
days had elased since the turning of
the first link that was to grow Into
an endless chain ot silver dimes. Gin
ger had dogged the steps of tbs post
man. "Letter for met There's not! That's
funny."
Rut on the very day before the
wedding, as though to till ber rnp to
utter overflowing, th postman deliv
ered three letters sddresaed to B.
Tolllver. sll In strnugs handwriting..
"Well, that's funny," stammered
Ginger, and held out a trembling hand,
and wltb the guilty consciousness of
the evildoer, sure th very post no
must be suspicious of such s sudden
burst of correspondence, shs sdded.
"Bunch of iris. I supiiose." Shs was
so exdted that she fell off the ladder
three times before sh Anally got her
selfand the three letters Into tbe
sttlc studio under the dormer-window.
She was trembling nervously, fler
chilly Ongers tore uselessly st the
stiff paper, she hsd It open st I ft, a
dime rolled nut upon the floor. She
seized snd kissed It
"You're my nest egg," shs whis
pered, "you're my lucky piece, you're
what som dumb farmer would rail
pay dirt"
8li opened th other letters, three
dimes resulting. A son of stillness
csme over her. She sat huddled
Into a smull buncb oe the old stool
snd read the letters pleassnt letters.
sympathetic, "It Is a Joy to help In
sucb good work." "God bless tbe
cause," "Pleasure to sdd my mite."
"Tbe darlings." said Ginger. "The
dear, sweet generous. Christian
souls." Ginger hsd s significant bablt
of Judging one's Chrlstlaairy, not by
his thought s but by blr contributions.
Three dlmee to her tepresented threw
devout Christians. Very still shs sst
oa th old stool, very quiet enveloped
In s sweet snd grateful gladness, tier
mind leaped swiftly on, to expensive
curstlve treatments for ber fstber.
new rich furniture to replace their
threadbare shnbblness, coal snd steak
and chickens -
8h kissed ths letters, one sfter the
other, snd crumpled them in ber hood.
to be burned
'Little white sngels." shs celled ten
derly.
Then she cast about for a proper re-
ceptable for this incipient fortune.
Three dlmee. of themselves, did not
require much treasuring, but the
highly Imaginative eye of Ellen Tolll
ver looked already npon ths thousands
snd thousands, In neat Utile stacks.
that were to come. In another part
of ths sttlc she ferreted out so old
doll's trunk, very dusty, very shabby,
but stout, well mad, wltb a strongly
hinged top. snd best of sit. with tb
old lock still Intact snd ths key
dangling from a siring. Within It,
aids by slds. shs Isld tb three dimes.
snd tomed th key it th rusty old
lock. Then sh moved everything
else off her desk, snd directly in the
middle of It shs placed ths trunk,
royally alone. The key she fhmst un
concernedly Into the table drawer.
She was not afraid of thieves.
Her sigh was s great and glad one.
At last fortune smiles opon the par
sonage, and sll the Inlllvers In It,"
she whispered Joyously. "Perhaps not
much of a smll so far just a llttls
giggle, hut s nlc mil giggle. Th
poor little church mice are going to
surprise folks ons of these days"
She wished greatly to tell her sis
ters of this sudden turn In ths fide
of the fnmlly fortune, but thai llttls
Inner monitor, which Glngei most on-
scrlptutnlly tolled hunch, warned
her against this confidence, and sh
buried herself snd het seething emo
tions ss well ss she could In plans
for the following dsy.
Long before the high hour of noon
on Helen's wedding day, shs was
daintily arrayed In her hlus organdie,
pirouetting up and down th hall from
mom to room, hurrying everybody.
criticizing the general appearance of
her sisters, tiflering endless pert sug
gestions and always Inciting them U
greater hast.
(TO HI CONTINUED)
Bed by Field of Ice
Agassis, with an outlet to th Minn
sots rher valley part of th water
shed of th Red river became a per
manent source of water for a river
flowing to the south snd lite original
head of the Missouri river. This river
Is now known ss the James river.
With the melting of (he great Irs
diim, th lied river resumed Its normal
flow to the north, hut ths others coo
tluued to the south. Exchange,
Is th Rear t Stay
Be on time In llfs In both amnll and
large things Keep up to date. Don'l
limp Into line after everybody elss uai
arrived. American Magazine.
T? Buildmcj
Citizens Should Check
Up on Town's Problems
What can the sveruge citizen do
bout the highway problem? II
knows that titers la a problem, that
there Is trnlllc congestion, a need for
wider roaila, for more pavements, for
blghwny safety devices; yet the high-
'iiy, Ilk golf under 7'-, Is somewhat
uf s mystery to John Per Capita, ac
cording to K. E. Puffy, highway educa
tlotml writer.
Communities hav mndo mistakes In
projecting and fltinnclng Improvements,
tid probably they will continue to do
to, John Per Capita may see that mis
takes are being made, yet, feeling
that his voice If aroused lu protest
would be but a snmll squeak, he does
nothing about it Tbe one great thing
Hint th citizen must lenrn In order
to be a good citizen. Is that there
may be many others who agree wltb
blni that In the Interest of better gov
ernment certain procedures should bs
taken or eliminated, as ths ens
may be.
To Illustrate: Recently In Chicago
a city official took It upon himself to
Instlgute a street -rosurfi dug program
In one district where th pavement
were so bad that a motorist couldn't
keep mors than on wheel at a time
out of til boles Tbe street surface!
were so shattered that obviously they
wouldn't even serve ss s practicable
base, Inasmuch t s flexible topping
would soon be ruined. On property
owner saw th folly of this resurfac
ing project and busied himself, through
his community business sssoclatlon, In
defeating ths plan. An Injunction
against resurfacing was granted and
now In all likelihood ths streets will
be repaved solidly, saving ths com
munlty considerable money over
period of years. There srs many wayi
ths citizen may scrvs his community
snd slso his own pocketbook, by di
recting his sttentlon to Improvement!
wherever shoddy or unstable construe
tlon Is contemplated.
No Particular Season
for Modernizing Horn
Modernizing 1 a year round possl
blllty. Ths season of tb year hni
llttls Influence on modernizing fm
the movement is broader than a build
Ing season.
During ths dead of winter or tht
heat of summer It Is possible to Im-
provs the sppearance and accessories
of th home.
Modernizing starts when ths horn
owner begin to make plans for need
ed Improvements about the house. It
starts with the Idea that th old home
stead Is behind the times. It start
when the man of th house begins tc
plan for a new heating plant or a re
modeled exterior, when the lady ol
the house purchases varied accesso
ries to beautify the home.
Any effort to Improve the appear
a nee, convenience and beauty of tbe
home Is modernization.
Every endeavor to make ths home
op-to-date places ths home owner to
step with the movement
Bey lot th Horn Tswa
Social economists commonly agree,
that too much of the population of this
country is located In great cltlea. and
that conditions would be better If th
drift to those cities should stop, and
If more people would stay In medium
sized cltlea snd suburban snd country
towns Otis cause for this drift Into
big cltleg la that In past years many
people got th Idea Hint they could
gain an advantage by buying their
supplies In these great centers. Thnt
helped transfer business to such
places, snd took It sway from the
mailer communities. Tbs people st
lenst can do their shnrs to counteract
this undesirable drift, by buying their
supplies of their own town merchants,
thut keeping their money In build up
their own town, rather than sending
It elsewhere to build up bigger cities.
Newark Advocate.
MaMag Beit Ua ef Land
Houses should fit ths neighborhoods
la which they are built If maximum
values sre to be secured from resi
dential real estnts sites, says Ihs Ns
tlonal Association of Ileal Kstnte
Boards In s series of article on whnt
ma .es urhtin land values. Ths horn
builder would do well to look over
the other homes in me neighborhood
In which hs Is contemplating con
struction snd see thnt bis home con
forms to th general cost level of th
other structures If he wishes to Dink
tin best use of bis lund.
Wha Horn Crew Old
The average home built ten, twenty
or more years ago needs only alight
exterior changes to glvs It modern
lines. Stnlned shingles laid right over
ths wood or stucco walls; perhnps sn
old porch changed Into i sun room or
replaced with sn Inviting entrance;
some "gingerbread" removed, are easy
ways to Improve the looks of a brnor
growing old.
Avoid Low-Crad Material)
Th us of low-grade materials, no
matter what kind of workmanship Is
employed with them. Is surs, In ths
end, to show heavy expense for re
placements and repairs, placing sn un
duly heavy loud and an entirely un
necessary ons, on ths ownership ot
homes.
Rubber Planter's
rfreparM by the NMI.mel tlerpkle
Society, Weihlnaluu, D. G.I
TIIIC Federated Malay states,
on Asia's southernmost cn In
sula, hav hern lllsrslly
snatched from an all eorurlng
wild vegetation. Where once tbe
choking Jungle crowded men buck, a
Jungle so thick thai a man swimming
In a stream could hardly land because
vines snd plants hugged so close to
th water's sdg broad fields hav
now been cleured, and Malays plnu
tatlons srs suiting ths richest In th
world.
forty ftvs years sgn s few pars rub
ber plants smuggled out of Brazil
fruited hers. Today, three-fourths ol
th world's rubber comes from this
region. And In Ihta magic develop
ment Americana huvs played s lead
ing role.
This Malay peninsula, stretching
hundreds of miles from th Klames
frontier down toward th equator,
forms a vast humid region of dens
forest of Jungle, wild elephants
snakes, and naked people, rlc Acids,
rubber plantations, and tin mine.
Ther Is a governmental minor In
this region. Slngniore, built oo a liny
green lal of th snmc name, which
lie just off th end of th peninsula
and nearly on Hi equator, la tb rap
ttal of the British crown colony coin
monly called (he Straits Settlements
This colony embraces the Province of
Wellesley. th findings and Malacca
on th mainland, end Hi Islands of
Penang snd Slngnpor.
Tb Federated Malay states, on th
penlnsuls snd adjoining the Strain
Settlements, comprise th Stale of
Perak. Kelangor. I'ahatig, and Negri
Sembllan. Kuala l.umpur Is th cup
Ital. Just opposite Singapore, on th
mainland, Is ths lndcendctit natlv
state of Johore, which has Its own
sultan and government, but which la
under British protection. The British
governor of Slngnpor la also high
rnmndsalnner for the federated Mirtay
states snd Brunei, snd British agent
for north Borneo and Surawak. thus
Unking up British possessions snd
spheres of Influence in sll Mnlaya and
establishing close contact, through on
man, with ths colonial nflic In Lon
don.
Many Race Thr.
"Th Melting Pot of Asia." they call
thla prolific, potent petiliuula. because
of the haM of races, colors, snd
castes which Its wealth of rubber and
tin bus drawn to It But In all this
Industrial army of ruropciins Chineae.
Japanese, Tamils Hindus, and assort.
ed South Sea Islanders, th Chinese
sre the most numerous snd powerful
Ths Malay himself Is loo lazy even
to be a good ftshermnn. He grow s
little rice, a few coconuts, and nets
the fish be needs; but nature Is to
kind Hint It Is said one hour's effort
s day will supHrt him snd his family
It Is Ihs Chinaman who la the (In
miner, the farmer, shopkeeper, artisan.
contractor, and financier. The Tamil
and tbe Hindu sdd to the stock ol
local labor and own small farms and
herds, but Hie many millionaires made
In Malays have mostly been Chinese
The palatini homes of the rich Chinese
bosses In Singapore and Penang, In
contrast with the miserable shacks ol
the natives, sfford proof enottiih of the
singular commercial superiority nf th
yellow race,
Uere, Indeed, Chinese Immigration
has worked a modern miracle In th
ning'.c reclamation of this ones reek
ing, fever-cursed. Jungle-grown wilder
ness. Ths Chinese II was who first
tirsved the poisonous darts of the lurk
ing savage, th perils of tigers snd
reptiles, the flames of fever, and the
danger of dysentery. In compter these
Jungle and dig the tin thai put Mu
laya on the map of the trailing world.
Chines say thnt tin "grows" and they
uss the divining rod lo locale It
SliigaKir Is both s great trailing
center snd fortress of lite Far ICast,
U Is a shining example nf how Great
Far Trimming
The fur-trlinmed frock bus been
mentioned previously ss the most
fushlonubls. It really I s very In
teresting fancy, Perhaps th not ot
fur Is only to bs found In s few but
tons holding s frill. Or ths shoulder
flower Is of fur. A very modem touch
is a bell of fur rather than of leather.
Satin Lingerie
Malz satin fashions a lovely tin-
erl set for the discriminating sports
woman. Th Utile punttos srs tai
Horn In Malay tat.
Britain hag "muddled" ss ths British
themselves pul II Into possesalou of
som of th world's most Important
strategic gateways fllngapor la nu Is.
land 27 miles long by H wide, aud
Just misses being tb southernmost
point of ihs continent of Asia by a
half.mtln water channel. It Is at th
funnel point of ths Strait of Malacca.
How Raffle Mad Singapore.
Mills mors than a hundred years
ago lb Inland, owned by lb sultun
of Johor on th nearby mainland, was
S deserted Jungl ear for a llltl Hill
ing village. Ships In the Chins Irad
passed It by ss they passed muny so
other Jungl ahor; the only port of
call In that region of the world were
those on th Dutch Islnmls of Sumatra
and Java. Hut tin ports took a big
toll In fees, and Sir Stamford Unities,
sn olIKIal of th Kast India company,
began to dream of a five British xrt
lhal would facilitate trad In 1 Hill
he obtained tb seemingly worthies
island of Slngapors for hi company
for s small fee. (tevelopiueiita quick
ly proved hltn a prophet, for within
two years th llltl trading center he
established had s population of tti.issi.
In th llltl more than s hundred
years sine II waa founded, the Jungl
of Singapore has given place to a hug
city of close lo fii.ii population, car
rylng on trade valued at billion dol.
lar annually on of the metropolis-
of lb British empire. Its quaya and
anchorages serve thousand of craft
of all sorts snd sires from tb pic
turesque, graceful Malay satnpnna and
the stodgy Chinese Junks to the fit
miliar freighters of the West, ami
what Kipling auerta are th "lady
like" liners. They build op Singa
pore's shipping to the tremendous lo
tnl of I7.issi.isgl tons yearly.
Though Singapore Is free from du
ties, and to this fact owe Its very
existence, still the people wbo inuk
up th rlty take their toll from tb
stream of world trade lhal flows aUo.t
litem. They live. In fact, by and for.
and In an atmosphere nf commerce.
Tens of thoiinands make their llviiii'
by raring for shipping, conditioning
and supplying vessels, and taking purt
In loading ami unloading gooil Tb
imrt Is primarily lran shipping point
for both Imports snd exports. It give
what the econnmlnts would call "pine
value" to hundreds of comtiinllil-s
which trickle lo SlngaMire'a reser
voirs of goods from score of districts
In the Kasl and are there oMnlnnhle
In tbe large quantities that worbl irndo
demands In Ihe city's "godowns"
aa the Knst calls Its warehouses are
handled a very large part of the
world's finest ruhlier before It lieg'n
the long Journey Hint will tnke nio-t
of II eventually to American hlghunya.
So, too, much of ihe world's tin Is
smelted In and shlpiied from Singa
pore. It niU'bl he dubbed "the worbl
pepper pot." for more'pi-pper Is neaetn.
nled there than Is ever held In any
other port.
Rl Cosmopolitan City.
If ever a city could claim lo be cos
mopolitan, Singapore can. At one of the
principal world crossroada, and wl'lt
s population UK) per cent Immigrant.
It could not escaps cosinniolltnn!ain.
It has drawn Its population from prac
tically all parta nf Asia, from Oceania,
the Malay archipelago, Africa. Kurope
and America. The Chinese predoml.
mite, making up about one half the
populntlon. Ther hav been rutin y
thousand of Immigrants from India.
F.uroieiins, Americans and Australians
number less than 10,000. and there are
probably as many Jnpnne.
Th appearance of Singapore shows
Its mixture of many Influences. The
visitor may ride In 'rlklxhas or elcc
trie cure, automobile or ancient horse
druwn carrlngea. In the chief busi
ness district he sees modern street
and buildings, and In the Asiatic quar
ters he encounter facilities and sights
and odors that smack of the Orient,
SlngiiiMire's houses of worship funilnh
an excellent Index lo vurled life.
lored to fit the hip) perfectly, with m
deeply pointed yoke and slender little
shorts. Ths crep side of th satin
works out chrysanthemums on encty
leg. The fitted petticoat ha a bor
der of ths same flowers.
Selvedgei Trim
Selvedges thnt were once cut awsy
or turned under by dressmakers ore
now used for trimmings, and many of
ths new tweeds show selvedges, well
over sn Inch wide, that art used te
trim suits and dresses.