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THE TILLAMOOK Page Six Friday, April 2i, I922 HEADLIGHT Of course I changed schools, found that “prospective suitor” in a head, looking around again with a story a week ago, and I Just love it. quick little glance for some one else knew Mother'd want me to, when she knew, and so I told her right away. I It means you probably will want to to talk to. But still there wasn't anybody there. thought she'd be superb and haughty marry her, you know. I use It all the They were all over to the other side and disdainful sure this time. But time now—lu my mind—when I'm thinking about those gentlemen that of the room talking, and paying no at she wasn’t. First she grew so white come here (the unmarried ones). I tention to Mother and Mr. Harlow, I thought she was going to faint away. He looked and Then she began to cry and kiss and forge >t and used it out loud oue day only the violinist. to Aunt Hattie; but I shan't again. looked, and acted nervous with his hug me. And that night I beard her She suld, "Mercy ” and threw up her watch-chain. But he didn't come over. talking to Aunt Hattie and saying, hands and looked over to Grandpa the I felt, some way, tliht I ought to go “To think that that poor innocent way she does when I’ve said something away and not hear any more; but child has to suffer, too!" and some I couldn’t without showing them that more which I couldn’t hear, because she thinks Is perfectly awful. But I was firm and dignified—but I had been there. Bo I thought It was her voice was all choked up very polite and pleasant—and I said better to stay Just where I was.. They shaky. ' Eleanor H. Porter Mother Is crying now quite a that I didn’t see why she should act could see me. anyway, if they'd Just like that, for of course they were pro look in the mirror. So I didn’t feel You see, her six months are 'most spective suitors, tiie unmarried ones, that I was sneaking. And I stayed. and I’ve got to go back to Father. And Then Mr. Harlow spoke again. His I'm afraid Mother Is awfully unhappy anyway, and even some of the married ones, maybe, like Mr. Harlow, for of eyes grew even more soulful and de about It. She had a letter last week Illustrations by course they' could get divorces, and— vouring. I could see them In the mir from Aunt Jane, Father’s sister. I % H. Livingstone “Marie 1” interrupted Aunt Hattie ror. heard her read It out loud to Aunt "Madge, It seems so strange that we Hattie and Grandpa In the library. It then, before I could say another word, or go on to explain that of course should both have had to trail through was very stiff and cold and dignified, Mother couldn’t be expected to stay the tragedy of broken hearts and llvee and ran something like this: unmarried always, though I was very before we came to our real happiness. “Dear Madam: Dr. Anderson de sure she wouldn't get married again For we shall be happy, Madge. You sires me to say that he trusts you are 8YNOP8I8 until it was perfectly proper and gen know I’m to be free, too, soon, dear, bearing in mind the fact that, accord teel for her to take unto herself an and then we—’’ ing to the decision of the court, his PREFACE.— Mary Marie” explains her apparent double personality" and Just But he didn't finish. Mother put up daughter Mary is to come to him on other husband. wny she la a "croas-. urrenVand a contra- But Aunt Hattie wouldn’t even listen. her hand and stopped him. Her face the first day of May. If you will kind «lcuon; she also tells heb rcaawn- for writing the diary—later to be a-4iovel. The And she threw up her hands and said, wasn’t flushed uuy. more. It was very ly Inform him as to the hour of her diary is commenced atMnrdersonvlllor “Marie I" again with the emphasis on white. expected arrival, he will see that she “Carl,” she began In a still, quiet Is properly met at the station.” the last part of the name the way I ry begins with Numa of her (Alary n)z birth, simply loathe. And she told me never, voice, and I was so thrilled. I knew Then she signed her name, Abigail y interested her i , father, fattier, who la never to let her hear me make such a something was going to happen—this Jane Anderson. (She was named for astronqmer, less than a ' i th^n Mw sU va,» discovered /he . _ same jama speech ns that again. And I said I time she'd called hltn by Ills first her mother, Grandma Anderson, same night name is a -compri wni imlse. her mother would be very careful not to. And name. “I'm sorry," she went on. "I've as Father wanted them to name me. owl to c«M her- VI</* arid u. her father Abigail Jan« The you may be sure I shall. I doift want tried to show you. I’ve tried very Mercy I Tm glad Uiey didn’t. “Mary” child qi_. that her home in some to go through a scene like that again! hard to show you—without speaking. is bad enough, but "Abigail Jane”—I) ynt Frem her rem itrose'of tlTufr small fr an jmasTe.1 thereat, She told Mother about It, though, I But If you make me say it I shall have Well, Mother read the letter aloud, Nurse or 'ner tier mot mother's ar- think. Anyhow, they were talking very to say It. Whether you are free or then she began to talk about it—how rival at ndersonv l as a bride and how were st the sight of busily together when they came into not matters not to me. It can make she felt, and how awful it was to jHd girl whom the library after dinner that night, no difference In our relationship. Now, think of giving me up six whole *ar,-hatl chosen for a and Mother looked sort of flushed and will you come with me to the other months, and sending her bright little plagued, and I heard her say, “Per side of the room, or must I be so rude sunny-hearted Marie Into that tomb- g her story, lain why the Imps the child does read too many as to go and leave you?’’ llke place with only an Abigail Jane to e one to the She got up then, and he got up, too. flee to for refuge. And she snld that novels, Hattie.” and mother nderstandhig, And Aunt Huttie answered, "Of He said something—-I couldn’t hear she almost wished Nurse Sarah was •ach tqa-yrtoi ay attempt to course she does I” Then she said some what It was; but it was sad and re back- again—that she, at least, was 811)00 thing else which I didn't catch, only proachful—I’m sure of that by the human. CH s of the time the words "silly" and “romantic” and look in his eyes, Then they both “ ‘And see that she’s properly met,' spent he "perfectly all rig "pre-co-shiis." (I don't know what that walked across the room to the others. Indeed!” went on Mother, with an In- teel a respectable" divorce arrung for, arid her I whs sorry for him. I do not want dlgnant little choke In her voice, "Oli, last means, but I put it down the way mother1» < Jinucou bit kQmvIor. By the cou It sounded, and I'm going to look it him for a father, but I couldn’t help yes, I know! Now, if it were a star reo the lid I» X m spend six months , / tb« year h her mother being sorry fwr him, he looked so sad or a comet that he expected, he'd go B.) and six mon.. itha with h< Alber. Boston Is Motber'.H Then they turned and saw me, and and mournful and handsome; and he's himself and sit for hours and hours art Mary leave Anderson 16 spend ey didn't say anything more. But got perfectly beautiful eyes. (Oh. I watching for it. But when his daugh- the first six m rhe next morning the perfectly lovely do hope mine will have nice eyes when ter comes, lie'll send John with the CHAPTER IV—A m Mary be- story I was reading, that Theresa let I find Idin!) horses, like enough, and possibly that come« "Marie." She „ hted Sutli her me lake, called “The Hidden Secret,” As I said before, I don't believe precious Abigail Jane of his. Or, may- mw home, so differin' n the gloomy house al Amlersonvllle. e number of Save 1 couldn't And anywhere. And when Mother'll choose Mr.' Harlow, anyway, be that is too much to expect. Oh, gentlemen who call on mother lends ner to speculate on th the i»Hlblllty of a “Dr. Anderson is not a wretch at all. I asked Mother If she'd seen it, she ovefi when the time comes. As for any Hattie, I can’t let her go—I can’t, I new tattler. She classes .bu > «liera an H’ j is an honorable, scholarly gentle said she’d given it back to Theresa, of the others—I can’t tell. She treats can't!” wrappers “prospective suitors,” fins r decldlne the I was In the window-seat around the choice Is to bo between tile vlollnlsl ’ man. Without doubt he meant to be and that I mustn't ask for It again. them all just exactly alike, as far as I and a Mr. Harlow. A <: vér«atlon she kind and considerate. lie simply did That I wasn't old enough yet to read can see. Polite and plensant, but not comer of the chimney, reading: nnd I overhears tietween heje r ther and Mi Good for >________________ at nil loverlike. I was talking to Te don't know as she knew I was there. Barlow convinces her th lt wfll not he not understand me. We weren't suited such at or lea. _____ that gentleman, and "to valuable nllnlsg’ seems to each other. 1'hat's all.” . There But I was, and I heard. And I ’ ve ter one day nliout it, and 1 asked him. It is again! I’tn not old to be the likely man. M An<l<jrson re- And she got up mid Swept out of the enough. When will I be allowed to But he didn't aeem to know, either, heard other things, too, all this week. premiums calves a letter from “Aun Lblgall Andcr- •on, her former husband slstor, whl Is room. I’m to go next Monday, and as it , take my proper place In life? Echo which one she will be likely to take, if keeping house tor him, rc ding hor that Now, wasn't that funny? But I answers when. any. conies nearer the time Mother's" get “Mary ' 1» expected at A ersonvllle for the six month« she Is to nd with her just loved It, nil the snme. I always ting worse and worse. She's so un Peter's about the only one I can Well, to resume and go on. tether. Her mother I* stressed, but has no alternative, and ' arle" depart* love Mother when she's superb nnd Wliat was I talking about? Oh, I ask. Of course I couldn't ask Moth happy over it. And of course that for Andersonville. haughty and dlsdnlnfitl. know—the prospective suitors. (Aunt er, or Aunt lluttle And Grandfather makes uie unhappy, too. But I try not Well, after she laid gone Annt Hat Hattie can't hear me when I Just write —well, I should never think of asking to show It. Only yesterday, when she CHAPTER V.—At An onvllle Aunt Jane meets her at the « on. Her fa- tie looked Ht Grandpa and Grandpa it, anyway.) Well, they all come Just Grandpa a question like that. But was crying and hugging me, and telling ther t» away aomewher studylng an Grandpa ns they used to, only there nre more Peter—Peter's a real comfort. I’m me how awful it was that her little eclipse of the moon, arie—"Mary" looked at Aunt Hattie, now—Instinctively comp Aunt Jane, shrugged his shoulders, nnd gave his of them now—two fat men, one slim Mire I don’t know whHt I should do for girl should have to suffer, too. I told prim and severe, with her tutlful, dainty mother, much to the forA *■ dlsadvan- hands a funny little flourish; and Aunt one, and a man with a halo of hair somebody to talk to and ask questions her not to worry a bit about me; that tag«. Aunt Jane disapprove» ................ the daln- . Hattie lifted her eyebrows anil said: round a bald spat. Oh, I don't mean about things down here, if It wasn’t I wasn’t suffering at all. I liked It. ty clothes which the child 1» wearing, and "Well, what do you know about that any of them are really suitors for hltn. He takes me to school and It was ever so much more exqRlng to replaces them with "»ervlcoable" serges and thick-coled »hoes Her father arrive» that?" (Aunt Hattie forgot I was In yet. They Just come to call and to back again every day ; so of course I have two homes Instead of one. But home and »eeine surprised to see her. The she only cried all the more, and child soon begins to notice that the girls the room, I know, or she'd never in the tea, and send her flowers jpid candy. see him quite a lot at school *esm to avoid her Her father world have used slang like that!) sobbed, "Oh, my baby, my baby!”—so Speaking of school. It ’ s all right, and And Mother isn't a mite nicer to one appears Interested tn the life Mrs An- derson lea<la^*U_Boston and asks many “And after all the things she’s said than she is to any of tlieVthers. Any of course I like It though not quite so nothing I could say seemed to do one fllle«tl r manner which about how unhuppy she was!" tlnlsheil body can see that, And she shows well as I did. There are some of the mite of good. pussle nda out that her Aunt Hettle. But I meant It, and I told the truth, ■tbool HMiO|twlth her very plainly she's no notion of pick- girls—well, they act queer, I don’t i bdlg divorced. Grandpa didn't say anything, but Ing anybody out yet. But of course know what Is the matter with them. I am excited. And I can't help won- I school. Angry When hj learns just gave his funny little shrug again. I can't help being Interested and They stop talking—some of them— derlng how It’s «ill going to be at Fa- it ri the r ilfiaUon declffss And It wag kind of queef, when you watching. when I come up, and they make me tlier'a. Oh, of course, I know it won't 'e wgll hear her that •__ , _ , .«»w w?*1 **' be so much fun, and I’ll have to be loasona In Aunt Juu'« andVhsr __ )er I father's come to think of It—about Mother, I It won't be Mr. Harlow, anyway. feel, sometimes, as If I didn't belong. absanr» MargdresSteTtl tn« partly clothes mean, wasn't It? le phetty May lie It’s because I came from a little “Mary,” and all that; but It'll be I ’ m pretty sure of that, even If he has •he brought frtJm Woston end ole . —- ------------- Jay« th« something different, and I always did Jlv»l!»»t tun«» know», on (hi llttle- started In to got his divorce. (And country town like Andersonville. But funesi »ho sho know«. 02 ths u»»d piano. ". Tnen, overoome by her lone- ONE MONTH LATER they've known that all along, from like different things. Besides, there’s he has. I heard Aunt Huttie tell AsmsaaaÄ-1 ■ha --------------- - ----------- ladillge« In a-arvlng spell Well, I've been here nnother whole Mother so last week.) But Mother the very first. And they didn't act at Father's love story to watch. Maybe which hw "- father'» father's tin»xp«rtri. unexpected appear ... Maybe he ance Interrupt*. Alic sob» out the story month, and It's growing nicer nil the doesn’t like him. I'm sure she doesn't. nil like that at the lieginnlng. Maybe he's found somebody. litrnsy way time, I Just love It here. I love the didn't wait a year. Anyhow, if he It's Just their way down here. If I He makes her awfully nervous. Oh, Afl.w >» appears did find somebody I’m sure he wouldn’t sunshine everywhere, nnd the curtains she laughs and talks with him—seems thluk of It I'll ask Peter tomorrow. tlsa.iint o <1»«tre to make her stay more pit ______ _______ ______ d»r moth»r writes ______ asking that Mi tnrv be up to let it In. And the flowers In the Well, I guess that's all I can think be so willing to wait as Mother as If she laughs even more with him lllowert to come to Poston for the he.ln- would. You know Nurse Sarah said >ln< of the «« hoot term, and Mr Ander rooms, nnd the little fern dish on the than she does with anybody else. But of this time. ton consents. though from an expression dining-room table, the books nnd mag Father never wanted to wait for any- she's always looking around for some 1« let» fail Mary believe» he 1» »orry «he thing, l'hat’s why he married Mother azines Just lylnfc «round ready to lie body else to talk tp; and I’ve seen her MOST FOUR MONTHS LATER » solns. picked up; Baby Lester laughing and get up and move off just as he was It’s been ages since I've written so quick. In the first place, But if Well. what waa I saying? Oh. I there Is somebody, of course I’ll find know—about asking questions. As I singing all over the house, and love coaling across the room toward her, here, I know, But there’s nothing spe- The best paints are scientific in A ROTTING building is abso- ly ladles and gentlemen In the draw and I'm Just sure she saw him. There’s etal happened, Everything has been out wlwn I’m there. So that’ll be in- said. tlierc Isn't anybody like Nurse formula and preparation. We’ve been teresting. And, anyway, there'll be ing-room having music nnd ten mill lute waste, because a small about ns it did at the going along Just another reason, too. why 1 think Moth- Barab I nk I can’t u^fletfetand Olga, little cakes when I come home from er isn't going to choose him for her first. Oh. there Is one thing different the girls. I shall have them. investment in paint will save it. making them for 73 years. and ThcuiSS. the othef litnld, Is Juat The best materials—PIONEER I’ll close now, and make this the school In the afternoon. And I love lover, I heard something she said to —Peter’s gone, He went two months A building that is not protected WHITE about «« had. Aunt Hattie's lovely, LEAD, pure linseed oil, pure end of the chapter. It’ll be Anderson It not to have to look up and watch him one day; nn twfully old chauf- ago. We ’ ve got by paint must either be rebuilt but I can’t ask questions of her. She zinc, and pure colors—are combined ville next time. nnd listen for fear Father's coming In feur now. tine with gray hair and Isn't the kind. Besides, Lester's al "She was sitting before the fire In the or repaired in a few years at a in Fuller's Paints in scientifically and I'll be making a noise. And best His name is ways there, too; and you can’t discuss library, , ion itml I he be came in. In. There were glasses, and homely, too. exact proportions with long-time skill. costly figure. of all I love Mother with her dancing CHAPTER V finally affairs before children. of other people there, quite a ■Jot of Charles. The very first day he came eyes nnd her laugh. mid her Just be Check the costs. Compare the course there's Mother and Grandpa them; but Mother was all alone by Aunt Hattie told me never to talk to When I Am Mary. prices of paint and lumber. Can you Desmond. But questions like when ing happy, with no going in mid find- the tireplace, her eyes looking fixed Charles, or bother him with ques Ing her crying or looking long nnd fix afford to bear the expense of rebuild Il’s proper for Mother to have lovers and dreamy Into the Are. I was In tions; that It was better he should Andersonville. A on Painting edly at nothing, nnd then turning to ing or repairing your home, when to Well, here I am. I’ve been here two I can't ask of them, of course. So me with n great Idg sigh, nnd u "Well, the window-seat around the corner of keep bls mind entirely on his driving. Ask our agent for adriee, \ save it costs so little? She needn't have worried. I should days now, and I guess I’d better write there's no rate but Peter left to ask. color cards, etc. the chimney reading; nnd I could see dear?" that Just makes you want to When you paint, make an additional Ask the Faller Specifies- Peter's all right and yery nice, but ha Mother in the mirror Just ns plain ns never dream of asking him the things down what's happened so far, before ■o hurt and go and cry because It's Department about the LriM' RV I forget it. saving by using -he best paint. It tion doesn't seem to know anything that could be. She could have seen me, I did Peter. He's too stupitL Now most desirable color S'hemee, Y heart-broken. oh, I do just love It First, about my leaving Boston. spreads easily—saves labor cost. It color harmony and any other V 'V'j***x*e I want to know. So he doesn’t amount too, of course, if she’d looked'up. But Peter and I got to be real good friend« all I covers more surface per gallon than details. — until all of a sudden Grandpa told Poor, dear Mother did take on dread to •<> very much, after nil. she didn't. Makers of Rubber Cement | And Mother I'm sure she “ cheap” paint. fully, and I thought she Just wouldn't liltn he might go. I don't know why. I never even thought of hearing I'm not sure, anyway, that Mother'll Floor Paint, All-Purpose Varnishes. Silkenwhile JL, Is. Somebody I don’t see as I'm any nearer finding let me go. She went with me to the anything I hadn't ought, and I was want to get married again. From lit But more important, the best paint Enamel. Fifteen Jor-Floors — her every moment—-seems so. They serves five or more years longer than Varnish. Washable Wall Finish, Auto Enamel, tle things she says I rather guess she just doing to get down and speak to . tit who Mother's Inver will be than 1 Junction where I had to change, amt uii* so glad to get her back again I asked the conductor to look out for “ cheap ” paint. Bam and Roof Paint. Porch and Step Paint, mis four months ago. I suppose It's doesn't think much of marriage, any Mother myself, when Mr. Harlow aad PIONEER WHITE LEAD. know they are. I beard two ladles crossed the room nud rat down on the still too soon. Peter said one day he me. (As If I needed that—a young way. One daf I heard her say to talking one day. and they said they thought widow« ought to wait at least lady like me! I’m fourteen now. I Auul Hattie that It was a very pretty sofa beside her. a year, and he guiKsml grass-wtiiows had a birthday last week.) theory that imirrlages were made In were, They culled her “Poor Madge." ''Dreaming, Mudge?" he said, low •nd “Dear Madge,” and they said It But I thought at the last she Just were Just the same. My. how mad I hea“«, but that the real facts of the nnd soft, his soulful eyes Just devour was a shame that she should have was nt bltu for using that name about wouldn't let me go, she clung to me case were tliut they were made on Ing her lovely face. (I read that, too. had such a wretched experience, and my mother! Oh. I knew what he so. and begged me to forgive her for earth. And another day 1 heard her they for one should try to do ev- In it book last week. I Just loved It!) meant. % I'd heard it nt school. (I nil she'd brought upon me; and said it say that one trouble with nuirrluge that Mother started and flushed up. efything they could So make her for know now wlint It was that made was a cruel, cruel shame, when there was that the husband and wife didn't “Ob, Mr. Harlow !" she those girls act so queer and horrid.) were children, and people ought to know how to play together and to rest get. (Mother always calls him And that's what they all seem to be i here was a girl -1 never liked tier. stop and think and remember, and be together. And lota of times I've heard "That’s another thing. He her say little tilings to Aunt Huttie trying to do—to make her forget. I calls her "Madge." you know.) “How nnd I sus|*cct she didn't like me. willing to stand anything. And then. t that slowed how unhappy her mar There Isn’t n day goes by but that do you do?" Then she gave her quick either, Well, she found out Mother In the next breath, she'd beg me not te MT MP PASTE IT IN YOUR R OTE BOOK somebody sends flowers or books or 1 My bMMDenb matins. Fuller. SpedflcMiou H ook Paint. or. k W by th. following A sms : riage had been. little look around to see If there wasn’t had a divorce. (Y om see, I hadn’t forget her. and not to love Father bet But lust night a funny thing hup- candy, or Invites her somewhere, or somebody else near for her to talk to. told It. L remembet^I how thou» girls ter than I did her. (As if there was PURE PREPARED PAINT AGENTS m»t West bragged.) Anti she told a any dpnger of that I) And to write to (a>ned. We were all In the library takes her to ride or to the theater, But there wasn't. G. W. PHELPS. GARIBALDI reading ufter dinner, end Grandpa or comes to see her, so that Mother "But you do dream of the old daya. lot of the others. But It didn't work her every few minutes. Then the conductor cried, “All looked up from his paper and said Is In just one whirl of good times from sometimes. Madge, don’t youT’ he be at all as It had In the Went. None of NELSON & CO., BAY CITY aomethlng about a woman that waa morning till night. Why. she'd just gan again, soft and low, leaning a lit the girl« In this school here had a di Aboard!" and the bell rang, and she ______ A c & H. ANDERSON. NEML e M vorce In their fnmllle«; ami If you'll had to go and leave me. But the last sentenced to be hanged and how a have to forget She doesn't have any tle nearer. - lime to remember I think she Is for whole lot of men were writing letters "Of when I was a child and played believe It. they acted—some of tliem— I saw of her she was «raving her hand NOTICE FOR PUBLIC protesting against having a woman getting. too. Oh. of course she gets doll« before thia very fireplace? Well, as If It waa a disgrace, eveu after I kerchief. and smiling the kind ef a driver of the U. S. Land Office at Department of the Interior kaagefl; but there were only one or tired, and sometimes rainy day« or yea, perhapa I do," laughed Mother. told them good «nd plain that o«rs •mile that's worse thaa crying right Ijtnd Of fr« at Portland. Oregon Portland. Oregon, on the 8th day of twilights I find her oo tUs sofa In her sil a perfectly respectable and gen oat load. Mother's always ilka that two letters from women. And Grand And I could see the drew away a Ut April 10th. 1923. ’ June, 1922. teel divorce. Nothing I could say natter how bad aha feels, at U m pn said that only want to prove how room not reading or anything, and bar ile. “There was one dell with a bros Claimant names as witnesses: Ja- NOTICE la hereby given that Har face looks 'most as II used to rime made a mlts of difference, with «ome ■Inute she comes up bright aad ry H Brown, of Beaver. Oregon, who cob. Nickla« of Beaver, Oregon; much more larking la a sense of flt- en head that—" of the girls, and then la «'ben 1 first smiling, and Just as brave as can be. I ’X" ',ay *’ 1*1 *• mode Homestead Louis N. Sandos of Beaver, Oregon: J Mos of things women were than men times after they'd been having one of "I was «peaking of broken hearts. Rut I 1 bad a wonderful trip to Anderson And ho was Just going to say more their Incompatibility time*, Interrupted Mr. Harlow, very mean heard that perfectly horrid word v'o. 08375. for NWU. Oliver Klnnaman of Beaver, Oregon; i "graas-widow." So I knew whs' ville. Everybody was very kind te me. 1 .when Aunt Hattie bristled up and don't find her that way very often, ngfully. 1' Town>h‘p «8. Range 9W. W. Thomas Nicklaua of Beaver. Oregon. I and It doesn't last long Ro 1 really and there were lovely things to flee deriiWan. has filed notice ___ of _____ lnten- lOU1 * 112 tossed her chia, and said, real indlg "Broken hearts! Nonsense I As If ter meant, though I was furious at Li* •-. think she Is forgetting. here were such things In the world'” for using It. And I 1st him ear a eat of the window. The conductor j Hon to make three-yewr proof, to es- aantly: About the prvapecHva suitors—1 casse ta and spoke to see several tit tabllth claim to the land above de “A sense at Stases of tkpigs, 18- ried Mother, with s little toss to her good au«l pmia. ALEXANDER 8WEEK, scribed before the Register aad re- (Continued next week) Register. | ¿MAR Y ¿MARIE A* A* deed! Oh, yes, that's all very well to say. There are plenty of men, no doubt, who nre shocked beyond any thing at the idea of hanging a woman; bnt those same men will think noth ing of going straight home and u.uk- iug life for some other woman so ab solutely miserable that she'd think hanging would be a lucky escape from something worse." "Harriet!” exclaimed Grandpa in a shocked voice. “Well, I mean It!” declared Aunt Hattie emphatically. “Look at poor Mudge here, and that wretch of a hus- band of hers!” And Just here Is where the funny thing happened. Mother bristled up— Mother I—and even more than Aunt Huttie had. She turned red and then white, nnd her eyes blazed. “Thai will do, Haitie, please, in my presence,” she suld, very cold, like ice. Satisfies the sweet tooth and aids appetite and digestion. Cleanses mouth and teeth. A great boon to smokers, relieving hot, dry mouth Combines benefit. pleasure and Don’t miss the joy of the new WILEY’S P-K-the sugar- coated peppermint tid I The Cost of Rotting Buildings now running into millions Free Advice