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Page Four Section One ST. PETERSBURG TIMES MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 192S. OUR SECRET AMBITION MONEY LOVE By BEATRICE BURTON DAILV AND SUNDAY tb Poet Of flea. Times PubMshln Entered aa acond -class mutter at St Petersburg. Florida.

Published aver mornlni by Tha Company, from Tha Times Building. Firat Avenue South, St Petersburg, MEMBERS OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated free ts exclusively entitled tc the os for publication of all news credited credited In thte paper and also tha therein. of general advantage and benefit. If. as sometimes happens, projected plans hid counter to individual views axd purposes, the courts also are holding that the interests of the community as a whole are above those of the individual, themselves sometimes recognize intervention, which is manifestation civic spirit and, whenever and makes city planning and comparatively easy, with assurance benefits to all.

matters of present-day importance be, of necessity, as well as of of old-established theories and methods also, otherwise there and nowhere near so much happiness as is possible with that more nearly meet conditions. Cities, and towns, and as well, therefore must, of adjust themselves to new conditions arise, and that promise to be permanent, in order that they may and prosper, attracting individuals capital, by which cities and communities strength and permanency. PAITt POYNTER President C. CAKH General Mannger W. STHAI1B Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered By Carrier or Mall Payable Advance Dally and Sunday, One Vear -M Dally and Sunday.

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Univeraal Service and Central Press, -j C. Theta and Graybei Building. New York City, national representatives. OUR CONFIDENCE Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comcth. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keap thy foot from being: taken.

Prov. 1:25, 28. THE TIMES' PLATFORM St. PetersburgFlorida's Best City: The Tourist Metropolis the "City Beautiful" municipal planning- unification of railroads and harbor terminals public ownership of all public Fifth Street and Florida. or not otherwise local nana published more parks play of Gull beaches good roads.

27, 1928 drift into the diction long ago, anything said as individuals without court of a proper wherever manifested, city zoning of the utmost of "In many there must right, letting go practices, and of can be no progress, of prosperity and proper readjustments with modern rural communities, very necessity, as they more or less continue to grow and acquire Certain Already the McKay's other words good ment is resolving parts. That in process, and it break away from that he is expected to our old at this time is Of course this about the we do know for city government an exception as the water in Tampa bay the cian clever enough "representatives" will serve his The St. we are now it again. A to Run Down Hill stories go in Tampa that Editor-Mayor new "representative," or in old ward councilman, govern utilities better street planning grounds recreation areas boulevards bayshore and lakeside drives development a non-partisan, non-polltleal, business methods city government. Pinellas The Nation's Playground: Petersburg Its Metropolis the "County Beautiful" law in operation will make Pinellas Peninsula the Touriat Residential and Recreation Park of the itself into its really component is, the political lining up is is said that the majority will Dr.

McKay's control, and to retire and leave the situation friend Tom Henderson who vice-mayor. newspaper really knows nothing present situation over there. But the history of ward council-men offers no possibility for -that sooner or later as surely Hillsborough river flows into government of Tampa will TODAY'S FEATURE Nation, Florida The Great State: Better railroad service good roads fair transpor By Sigma Chi tatlon rates good roads National and State Highways good roads a modern Constitution good night to "talk things over seriously!" as he said. She was not ready to talk things over with him. First of all, she wanted to think them over herself If she married Staley.

would all of hor evenings be like this one? Either evenings that she spent alone with him, as she had spent the first part of it, or evenings spent drinking and talking rubbish with Sue and Jack Eastman or some other couple or couples? "I'm going with Sue and Jack." she said again, positively. "If you drive me home you know we'll talk for two or three hours more and 1 don't want to. I'm tired. I was up early this morning and I want to go to bed." She had risen at half past eigln. but that was early for her these days, although it would have been disgracefully late down in the neighborhood of the Jettersons'and the France family.

And so as usual she had her own way about it. She started home with Sue and Jack. How the accident happened Lily never knew. Even at the time she did not realize how close the big car was that turned Into Montpelier road from a side street about two blocks from Staley's street. One moment Its headlights seemed to be far away, and the next moment they were close to her eyes, blinding her as the car behind them crashed into Jack's roadster.

There was a terrific thud, and Lily-felt as if all her bones were twisted tight together, and that her head had been hit with a sledge hammer. There was a sound of splintering glass and the shrill, high scream of Sue close beside Iirr "O-ooo-oool We're terribly hurt!" She found herself lauKhlng a little. It seemed such a silly thing to say. somehow. Of course they were hurt.

Jack was bent over the steering wheel and his head rested on It. He had not made a sound. That was odd, she thought, so Interested In him that she did not notice the crowd that was collecting all around them. "Sue Juck's badly hurt," she said, and tried to make him speak. But he didn't, and Sue did not seem to realize that he was badly Injured.

She kept crying and laughing and wiping her eyes. Lily turned to look out of the car and then she saw how many inn-chines had appeared as If by magic. Tho road was fast filling with people, and a little group of men were standing around the other car or what was left of it. "Hurt, ladies?" asked man's voice, and tho handle of tho door beside Lily was opened by a short, stocky man whose eye-glasses twinkled in the light from the arch lamp above them. "Wo aren't, but the man with tin is," Lily answered shakily, wondering why she did not cry.

"I think we'd belter have a doctor or rush him to a hospital." Suo seemed to wake out of her daze at that. "Who? Jack?" she asked, looking down at him as If she saw the first time that something waa very wrong with him. Then she began to whimper, bending down close to see him and touching him with her hands. The man vanished, promising to call an ambulance right away. Then, in about two minutes, he came rushing back and offered himself and his own car to take Jack to the nearest hospital.

With the help of some other men who had stopped their cars to see the wreck, he got poor Jack Into his own automobile. Sue, at the last moment, climbed In after them and Lily was left alone with the car. An ambulance came clanging up the road and the man who had been driving the other car was picked up from the ground and taken away in it The crowd began to disperse, "What will I do with this ma- roada more and better advertising MONDAY, FEBRUARY personal control of some politi CITIES NEED PLANNING to form a combination of or ward politicians who political purposes. A COUPLE of decades or so ago, when The Times began urging city planning for Florida cities, there was no response whatever Petersburg Times made this pre and we have repeated it, and from any source except some lawyers. The press of the state was silent, and most lawyers reminding our Tampa friends of were silent, and those that said there wa3 nothing to it and could be nothing to it, because it invaded the sacred rights of Too Many Wasted LEAP YEARS 1928 Can Be Divided by 4 Ergo, a Leap Year According to Prevailing Vogue Girls and Un-Attached Spinsters and Unmarried Women Have the Conventional Right to Tackle Any Man They Like and Rope Him Into a Matrimonial Adjustment for the Happiness of All Concerned Question Raised Why Should Girls and Unmarried Women Not Have as Good a Right as a Man Any Day of Any Year, to Look Around and Pick Out Their Mate A Quaint Old Legend About St.

Patrick and St. Bridget. whose socks she'd like to darn to be her husband- do you? Why should it be that the burden of responsibility in the "asking" bo always regarded as belonging to the man? OPEN political city government, like water, may remain motionless a long time; but whenever it does move, like water it is absolutely certain to run down hill. 0 And Miami, Too Some of us here in St. Petersburg like to think that as a community we are a lot better in various respects than Miami is, and maybe we are, but just the same we have long held a sincere admiration for Miami's capacity for doing things.

It is really wonderful. CHAPTER LIII She waited for Staley to say something more about the piston ring. But he did not He just went on pouring out the champagne Into the thin shallow glasses carefully, never spilling a drop. "If there Is a better ring on the market than his, it won't be such a howling success, will it?" she asked slowly. "Especially if you put a lot of money into the other one." Staley shrugged his shoulders under his perfectly fitting coat.

His mouth lifted the corners of his little blond toothbrush mustache as he smiled to himself. "Well, that's not why I'm doing it. he answered. "I'm not an old-fashioned villain, Lily. I don't want to ruin your husband Just because he Is your husband I probably never will put any money into the other company anyway.

I just told you about it to see what you would say, more than for any other reason, I think." He -laughed. And that was the last Lily heard of the Scintilla piston ring for a long time. She did not take any of the champagne when he passed it to her. "I thought you were the girl who wanted to be gay and wild tonight," he said, looking at her in surprise. "And now you refuse my champagne." "There's nothing more gay and wild than champagne," giggled Sue, taking hers.

"What's the matter with you. Lily? Anybody who can get champagne these days and doesn't take It is Just plain crazy, it seems to me," Lily did not know, herself, what made her so blue and depressed After all, what difference did it make to her if Pat's marvelous piston ring wasn't so marvelous as he Ijad said It was? How could It affect her If it did not sell and if he went broke on it? Ho was all through with her just as she was through with him. "Ten cents for your thoughts, Lily," Sue called out gaily, startling her from them. "You look as blue as indigo." But no one could have called Sue blue at that moment. She waa Just starting to drink her second glass of the wine, and her cheeks were flushed and her eyes twinkled like winter stars.

'This was a great little idea of yours, Staley," she declared, turning to him. "Let's make a night of it after all. Let's load up with some flasks and go out to the new roadhouse celled the Zulu Hut. You know, they don't give you any forks and you have to eat chicken and waffles with your hands. Come on, let's go!" She had forgotten all about the suitcases that she had bocn planning to pack and to spirit out of the house.

She was ready for fun and plenty of it and the wilder it was the better she was going to like it, so she said, getting up to go. But Jack refused to budge. i What could be sweeter than this, ho asked. To sit here in Staley's big, warm, comfortable house, sunk deep In a cushioned arm chair, with drinks at his elbow, and the three best pals a man ever had right here with him? What could be sweeter, eh? He wanted to know, and Sue couldn't tell him. "Why, we're celebrating our big day in advance," he said to her, and for two hours Lily watched him celebrate it.

For two hours ho never moved from the depths of the big Sleepy-hollow chair except when he leaned forward to take another glass of the Bourbon that he had begun to drink with ginger ale, or to light a cigaret "If he were anybody but Jack Eastman, I'd worry about him," Su said when he finally swayed to his feet and announced that he was ready to go homo at half past nine. "But JTack always (-ays that the more be has had to drink the better he can drive his car and that's the unholy fact." "I'll go with you," Lily told her, getting up from her chair, too. "No. I'll take you," Staley interrupted, firmly. But Lily was tlce as firm as he was.

She simply was not going to be alone with Staley Drummond that Is so much printed about climate and sunshine, about the pier and other things wo have for pleasure, but they don't feed the working people. One industry that la needed here more than anything elso Is a fish cannery. Lots of men who are out of work now could fish for a living, if there were any place to sell their fish after they caught them. I know a man who caught over 300 pounds of fish a few days ago and could not sell them to the fish house because they didn't want an over supply that would bring the retail price down. How many hundreds of pounds of fish have been wasted because there was no place that would take them, would surprise most people If they knew.

I claim wo need, and want, a fish cannery, not only to give the fishing people a place where they can sell their fish but also to prevent the terrible waste of fish that is going on. As nearly everyone knows, the fish houses here have their ovfh fishermen. That Is why they don't buy the fish from others unless there are some fish that they are short of. Then they will take them, if there are not too many. Sure that is business, but a big supply of one kind to bring the price down to the publicnot much.

So they fiddle and pay the piper while Rome burns. Do we want Industries, or don't we want Industries? And one thing more. St. Petersburg la the name of this fine and dandy spot so many have found and loved good enough to make their home here. It suits us old timers, and any one else that doesn't like It con go back where they came from, L.

E. STODDARD. 1210 Thirty-seventh street boulh. February 20, 1928. INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON.

Feb. Congressional Investigation of the sinking of the submarine S-t now would bo useless in the opinion of Chairman Snell of the house ruins committee, who said today that he regarded the report by the navy court of inquiry on the dioa-rW as fair and comprehensive. property a man could not be required to do something with his property that he might not want to doand no American court would sustain such a revolutionary proposal as city planning. But nevertheless, city planning and zoning moved forward over the country, and the courts began to recognize their worth, and the United States supreme court itself has sustained the principles involved in both. The Times-Union, now an earnest advocate of city planning and zoning, notes how quickly public opinion has come to their support, understanding that their "chief purpose is the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people," and has the following to say of a re-eent Michigan supreme court decision "Recently the city council of Detroit, approved the city commission's "master plan" calling for streets of stated width in order to accommodate modern traffic.

Some of these streets were in process of providing in a subdivision, privately owned, the owners of which objected to the street plan requirements of the city planners. The matter was taken into Communications ot suitable nature and proper newspaper Interest are welcomed lor this department, tha editor reserving the right to decide what It suitable and proper. The) should be as briel aa the subject will permit, preferably less than 2D0 words anu always accompanied, by the name and address ol the writer as an evidence ot good faith Their publication does not necessarily mean any agreement on the part ot The Times with any statement of sentiment expressed In them. Industries are an issue with Miami, too, but Miami is likely to settle it by action instead of talk. E.

0. Sewell, a pioneer and outstanding business man and civic leader, ran for and was elected mayor down there on a platform the principal plank of which was a revolving fund for the securing of industries, and at once got busy on the job. He gathered together 100 representatives of large interests and investments in Miami and submitted to them his plan to raise a $1,000,000 revolving fund. In addition to the revolving fund other aids to new industries are proposed, such as tax reductions and low ground rentals. His plan was endorsed by the 100 men, and two members from each civic organization were appoint as a general committee to push it through.

All arguments that Honda cannot hope for any worth while industries to the contrary notwithstanding, just watch Miami go out and get them. We've known folks to keep company for years the neighbors were sure it was a permanent match but somehow or other no wedding bells went a-JIngling and it was all the man's fault he just wouldn't or didn't know how to There they are By and by they are sure they will set up housekeeping so they loved and lingered one was afraid the other "dassent" two happy hearts, with but one thought of a happy life together, In a little cottage, with flowers in the garden and chickens In the coop and the green grass growing all round and round and all that was needed was for either the man or the woman to speak up and "pop." A bit of domestic tragedy. But there is bound to come a change if a woman has a right to vote why not a right to look around and pick out her mate? She has and if she's up to snuff, she will. The thing for Susan to do Is to do Just exactly what Bridget did "POP" "Here Tom, I love you, you're my man let's hitch up and live happy ever after" that's what Tom is waiting for like as not. FORUM Mr.

Bartlett had no illusions as to the disposition of his average fellow citizen, who would certainly impute a wrong motive to him In this matter if it were possible, and he wished to clear himself of any such Imputation and this he certainly did to anyone capable of a fair judgment. Weighing his proposal regarding this 3714 acres, and his disinterested and vital interest in Its levelopment as a park, I could see that It was the benefit to the com munity in which he waa really concerned. Furthermore I have been told by unprejudiced people who know the facta that Mr. Bartlett has exhibited this spirit on more than one occasion when the ctty needed help in some crisis, specifically In the growth of our public school system. Mr.

Bartlett is not the type of public benefactor whose name is carved in marble enconiums, or in raised bronze letters on the exterior of some civic building, but when It comes to steady, efficient, hard working effort for the growth and development of St. Petersburg, Mr. Bartlett will be found right there doing it. You cannot abash the loud mouthed booster, but sometimes a man who works unobtrusively without regard to peans of praise is often sensitive to unjust criticism. The Idea that this tract should be named in hla honor was alien to Mr Bartlett's disposition and also to his expressed instructions in the matter It Is only just that the misunderstanding tshould be straightened out.

as touching this particular Item. Doubtless there will como a time when St. Petersburg will arrive at true appreciation of what Mr. Bartlett has done for his city. G.

II. De La VERGNE. (Tliia correspondent could not have read any Times editorial criticizing Mr. Bartlett In this matter, for no such editorial was ever printed or written or even thought of. The Times knows that Mr.

Bartlett had no thought or wish for the use of his name In such a connection. The Times did not criticize nybody, but merely commented on the tactical error on the part of the Southslde boosters in trying to name a proposed public park in honor of a citizen still living and from whom it would be bought. Editor The Times.) Ot lt F1MI1XU INDUSTRY Editor The Times: In retard to industries in our city, If there Is anything we need more I certainly would like to know what it is. Hoi a plant need rain? How does any one with common sense expect the home folks to live here If there Is no work for them? There It seems that leap year has slipped in on us and has been given scant recognition. Now, honest injun, is that quite fair? Have you ever taken a moment's time to the consideration of the pos sibilities of what might happen on one of these quadrcnnials, a bisex- tile, referred to in common, every day talk as leap year? Less than one minute's figuring would show you that In this Christian era there have occurred precisely 482 leap years and, Insofar as we have any information from the pages of history, not one of the recurrences have ever been Joyfully celebrated or properly fussed over, It appears that about the only thing that the general public knows about leap yeur, or even cares about, is that leap year is regarded as a period of one 12 months' duration in which it is altogether good form for any girl or unmarried woman, who finds her lover, or one whom she would like to be her lov er, too wearisomely slow in "popping tha question" to pop it herself, and thereby prepare the way for a life of double-blessedness.

From an old phrase and fable book cornea a story that may be of little or no historic value, yet interesting because It is hoary with age. By it we learn that the Scottish parliament iassed an act in the year 1228 something like this: Ordonit that during ye reign of her niaist blessed maiestie Margaret ilka maiden, ladee of baith high and low estate, Khali hae libertie to speak ye man she likes. Gif he refuses to take her to bee his wyf, he shale be mulct In the sum uf one hun-dridty pundes, or less as his cs-tait may be, except and alwais gif he can make it that It ap-peare that he Is bethrothit to anither, then he schal be free. M. Patrick and Bridget Now everybody knows that the patron saint of Ireland was none other than St.

Patrick himself about whom there are legends galore. This historic character Is allured to have been bm-n In Glamorganshire, Wales, and figured between the years 387 and 461. He came Into the world with a birth mime Succat. That was changed to Cothraigne, then to Ma-gonus. At the time of his ordination it was again changed to Patrlclus but It does not appear that anything was ever done to give a woman a legal right to take the aggressive and "pop" the question until something like seven or eight centuries after ft.

Patrick had been gathered to his fathers. Among other legends that have come down to us, one refers to this leap year custom, preserved In the old pliraso and fable book to which referenco haa been made. Here it is given In connection and as applied to leap year: St. Patrick and St. Bridget The ladles propose, and if not accepted claim a silk gown.

St. Patrick, hnving "driven the frogs out of the bogs," was walking along the shores of Lough Ncagh, when he was accosted by St. Bridget in tears, and was told that a mutiny had broken out In the nunnery over which she presided, the ladies claiming the right of "popping the question." Ft. Patrick said he would concede them the right every seventh year, when St. Bridget threw her arms around his neck, and ex-claimed "Arrih, Pathric.

jewel, daurn't go back to the girls wid such a proposal. Make It one year in four." St. Patrick replied: "Bridget, acushlu, pqueeiiP nio that way ngaln, an I'll give ye leap year, the longest of the lot." St. Bridget, Uihiij til's popped the question to St. Patrick, hlm-seif, who, of course, could not marry.

So he patched up the difficulty as best he could with a kiss and a silk gown. Four Years Too Restricted That's! a nice old legend and may have really been the genesis of the leap year ideabill for the life of Us we rant wee why a asirl or an unhitched up spinster or tin married woman now -a -days should have to wait for the dawning of leap yertr to ask a chap whose breakfast foot ahe'd dearly love to prepare and "BARTLETT PARK" Editor The Times: May I take this opportunity to thank you for the space you have allowed me from time to time in your valued paper. I happen to know that there are many people who have neither the time nor the inclination to write on certain matters of public interest, who like to have their views voiced, and therefor nm riVinhtv appreciative your courtesy in this regard. This communication is derived from a desire to do Justice to a man who has been unfairly critici-sized for a matter in which he had no share. Such a situation often arises.

A classic example is furnished by an incident that happened to Jacob Rels, who years ago accomplished bo much for the poor and unprivileged in the city of New York, and the Metropolis furnished a wide Held for that sort of effort. He fought for and obtained Battery Park at the end of Manhattan Island as a breathing space for the people, near the crowded west side, against the combined opposition of the politicians and the corporate interests. On the day set for the dedicatory exercises, he was standing looking quietly over his accomplishment when a burly policemen grabbed him by the shoulder and started to rush him out of the park that really was his own creation. "Ycr sot no business here, get out." The cops were tough In those days, but just at that crisis, Theodore Roosevelt who was then police commissioner of New York, hove on the scene. Enuf said.

So much by way of preface. Now touching a local matter the proposed naming of a park site that was made available to the city through the action of Its owner, Mr. Bartlett. The christening of It by his name waa wished on him with out his, knowledge by the proponents of the plan. Indeed, I.

have just learned that ho stated explicitly that he did not wish his name used in any such connection, and furthermore in his plan $10,000 was to be reserved absolutely tor the development of the park. The criticism in one of your editorials and In town talk generally, has been most unjust and unfair to Mr BartWt in this particular. I do not know Mr. Bartlett personally, but I heard him speak before a committee of the city commission and a group of representative citizens explaining his purpose and plan In regard to this tract. He spoke quietly and effectively.

set ting forth fully his llnanclal standing and status, the acknowledged value of this tract which ho was placing in reach of the cily and the explicit help would render iu developing" It. It waa evident that Ifhine?" Lily xaltod-out to a who passed close to her on his way to a brougham across the way. He came across the parkroad to her. In the darkness she could not see his face, but something about him seemed to bo curiously familiar. "Better call the automobile club," he answered.

"Or I will send a tow car up for It If you like. I'm in the garage business." Roy Jetterson The minute he spoke Lily knew who he was, and she was sure that he must recognize her. too. "I'll call the automobile club, thanks," she said coldly, and Tvhe.n he was gone she got out of the car and went limping back to Staley's house through tho chilly darkness. "You are going to take me home after all," she said to him.

"We've all just been in on accident." And she broke down, trying to tell him about It, her nerves shaken and shattered. She cried herself to sleep that night. The accident, somehow, jul was the last straw after a miserable day. "I'm not a bit happy," she sobbed to herself, "I thought things would be the way they were before I married Pat" But they weren't. Everything was all wrong, and even the people who had seemed so desirable, so entertaining, so funny last year, seemed very stupid this year In some mysterious way life had changed completely.

The next morning she awoke atli in? in every bone. Her bond felt as big as the room itself, as she sat at the breakfast table, trying to eat and to an swer all of her mother's questions. "You're going to be killed, sure fate, if you drive around with that wild Jack Eastman." said Mrs. Lexington, "He's in the hospital ru'ln now, but he'll forget all about thi when he's out in a few days." The front door bell rang and slv went down the hall to answer it. In a moment she came back, and ide was beaming.

Behind her was Staley, also beaming, and yet with a look of strain around his mouth. "I've brought mA, lawyer, Myron Mnntnn, to see you nhont last night," he mild quMl "And aho'ut that other mutter, "What matter?" asked Lily, knou -Ing perfectly well what he meant he said. (TU jjc wnXL'EDi court, with the result that ultimately the supreme court of Michigan wa3 called on for a final decision. In the course of its decision this higher court ruled that "Because of this necessity (of wider streets), there 13 nothing unreasonable in the demand of the city that the streets designated in the plaintiff's plat shall be of such width as to conform to the general street plan. It has been determined that streets of a certain width are necessary to accommodate traffic.

They are necessary for the public safety, and therefore the right to provide for them is within the police power of the city. "In this case the court gave due consideration to changed conditions for one thing, that the horse-and-buggy days have passed and that traffic requirements of the present time are entirely different from the time when comparatively narrow streets answered every purpose; that faster-moving and more numerous vehicles in use on streets, at the present time, call for more of street room, not only to facilitate travel but to provide for more of safety. Consequently, the court held that the city authorities were justified in doing what they did, requiring that streets should be of sufficient width to meet with newer conditions, that are certain to be permanent, although still wider streets will be necessary in the future, when evvery individual owns and drives a motor car on the public thoroughfares, as now seems likely. The court, therefore, wisely decides that in making provision for these wider streets the city authorities are acting 'within the police power of the "Not only in the matter of providing wider streets where increasing traffic makes such wider streets imperatively necessary, but, likewise, in other matters relating to judicious city planning the courts are in lino with progressive movements for city betterment, by way of proper zoning, and the like, all intended to be The Jury Again Of the number of varying slants that the history of crime trials continue to suggest in re the jury system there is no end. A new one is the case of the young North Carolina woman who an evangelist told officers of the law had after conversion by him confessed to him the murder of her father a year or more before.

She was prosecuted, and much discussion arose as to whether the minister had done right or wrong in giving her away under the circumstances. Anyhow, on trial she repudiated the confession and said her mother committed the murder and the jury promptly acquitted her. And why? Because the twelve men good and true believed her innocent? Or because the minister blabbed on her Dress reformers apparently hold that the form divine should not be too clearly dlvinaMe. Many nuisances formerly found only in rich homes are enjoyed by the working man now. Mirrors are great things.

They show you someone you can trust. The most expensive thing about a home is carelessness. Work seldom hurts a man unless he keeps away from it..

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