The Powder River County Examiner from Broadus, Montana • 2

By R. RAY BAKER ooc-oooooooooooc "Let's Elope" 0 0 ooooooooooooooooo' by tne McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Two persons nnd 200 miles mine Ethelyn Ramsdell and Charles Halstead. The persons were her father and liis mother. The miles were those that intervened between Harbor Springs. northern Michigan town, and Grand Rapids, the furniture manufacturing center of the same state.

Charles had voted for ihe first time in his life nnd Kthel.vn had just passed eighteen, when he decided he had been single long enough. She agreed to help liim out of his state of unwedded uniiappiness, when lie broached the subject to her, and they stayed up till midnight to discuss the they would have continued the discussion heedless of the fact that there things such as clocks, and persons such as fathers and mothers, if they had not heard Mr. Ramsdell step suit of bed on the floor above and bis throat. This brought Charles nut of ids semi-trance and he suddenly recalled that the air outside was invigorating and that his Hungs needed some of it. The next morning Mr.

Ramsdell vailed his daughter into his study and took the negative and winning side of the debate: "Resolved. That a young Indy, just past eighteen, ought to leap Into matrimony with the only young man she has ever known, especially when he has no financial prospects whatever." Rthelyn argued In vain that she never could care for any young man Imt Charles, and she pleaded tearfully vtnd at some length, but her father said he was looking out only for lier welfare when he forbade her going about with Charles any longer. About the same time Mrs. Halstead was having a similar interview with her son in the house next door; for The Halsteads and Ramsdells were neighbors. When Ethelyn was a child her mother tiad ditfd, and Mr.

Halstead had departed from (his earth before his son had mastered a vocabulary of fifteen words. Ethelyn and Charles had gone to school together when they were in the lower grades as well as in high school, and he had been graduated only one year-ahead of her. Charles had not made a confidant of his mother the matter of his love affair, but she had kept an eye on him and intuition, coupled with his long absence from home on that imliortant night, told lier that the cltimr had been readied. "What can you know about love?" she demanded. "You're too young.

I know you are of age and ought to he capable of judging for yourself, hut just ttie same I'm going to for your own sake." The young people knew very well that they could not give each other tip. especially since their affection seemed to increase KM) per cent, after they were forbidden each other's So they met offered and when esc opportunities did md come sufficiently frequent of their own accord they were manufactured. But Charles was wasting his time, nnd lie realized it. He had no profession, no business, and if lie was to marry lie must find a way to carve a career or at least obtain a job that would provide for two. Furthermore, he felt ashamed that Ids mother should continue supporting him out of the comfortable but not inexhaustible sum liis father laid left tier.

At last he decided to leave Ids home town and seek his fortune In a larger city. To liis surprise Ids mother consented, even encouraged him in 'lie Idea. dislike having you leave home, son." she said, "but 1 realize it is for Ihe best. My sister will come and live with tne. Yes, it is for the best." The young people had not abandoned their plans for the future.

After once bringing up tile of matrimony Ethelyn Yiever mentioned her intentions to her father, for Mr. Ramsdell's yofnsril to consent to "any such nonsmsc" hail been firmness itself. Iliarles had met like failure in liis attempts to prpsuade his mother that Ethelyn was the girl for him so they continued ttieir clandestine meetings, secretly rejoicing in the risk and niys4 cry attached to them. When Charles left home lie wrote regularly three times a week to Ethelyn. and at first he received letter for letter in reply.

"At least they don't enre if we write." lie said. "That's some gratification-" Rut her answers became less frequent. He continued his three letters a week, hut the replies diminished to one a week and finally one every fortnight. So lie cut his correspondence in proportion, but he cared none the less for Ethelyn. His affection, the contrary', was increased during their separation.

Within a year Charles "made good" In a real estate office in Grand Rapids and decided the time was come when he could provide for a wife. He was apprehensive, however, that Ills sweetheart's apparent neglect indicated a lapse in her love. "She's forgotten." he told himself and referred again to her last letter, which seemed "rather cold." But Charles was desperate. By an effort he suppressed the timidity that gripped him and wrote a letter which, though it consisted of only a few lines, contained volumes. It read "Let's elope, Eth.

I'm well fixed now. It's the only way to do it. Come to Grand Rapids on the 5:15 train Thursday and we'll do the deed. Let me know by telegram if you'll come." The next day lie had all lie could do lo remain at liis work in Hie office. Every time a messenger hoy entered Charles' heart pounded iikp a pile driver.

Finally a blue-coated lad approached the desk and Charles sighed with a trembling hand. The message was: "I'll he there." So they were married and took up their abode In a hotel for a honeymoon of one week. Charles could not get away for a trip and Ethelyn agreed that they had better save their money, anyhow. 1 hey were considering the dispatch of a somewhat defiant letter to their parents when there came a knock at the door of their room. Charles answered It and a bellboy ushered in a lady and gentleman.

The newlyv eds were taken nback, hut Charles mustered enough courage to put his arm around his bride, resolved lo stand up to (he intruders like a man. "What's the meaning of this?" cried tlie young groom's mother as she swept Into the room. "That's what I want to know." growled Mr. Ramsdell, following her, a glare on his countenance. Charles spoke up bravely.

"It means we're married, that's what. Will you congratulate us?" The scowl left Mr. Ramsdell's face nnd a smile took its place. "Well, young man. you haven't a thing on us.

We're married ourselves mother and Charles and liis bride stood speechless, dazed by the news. liy er what how's that?" Charles finally stammered. "1 thought you didn't like each other because of Ethelyn and me." Mr. Ramsdell laughed heartily and his wife joined him. "It's very simple." he explained.

"You see. I know human nature, and I fixed it with your mother to have you and Ethelyn get married. I knew you wouldn't do it If we urged it. nnd was confident you would do it if we objected. It's natural for young folks to he that way.

"Besides, we wanted to give your affection for each other a test. I went so far as to intercept several of the letters you wrote to Ethelyn, in order to make your love the stronger. It was a mean tiling to do, hut all's fair In love and war, Is there anybody who could conceive of this being war?" He reached into a grip which lie carried and extracted a pack of letters, hound with a rubber hand. "Here's some letters that belong to you. Ethelyn." he said, handing them to her.

only stopped them: didn't read them. There's only one I did read, and that was the special delivery in which you were invited to Grand Rapids to your own wedding. You were away when it came, so I signed for It. steamed open the envelope, digested its contents, then sealed it up again. Then I decided it would he nice to have double- wedding.

aiV-1 Charles' mother agreed. came on the same train with you, hut kept out of sight in the next conch. Will you congratulate us?" How the Blind Play Chess. A chess game with a blind man is exactly the same as a chess game with any one else. There are some excellent chess players among the blind.

Tlie hoard lias a round hole in tlie middle of eaeh square and each piece has a peg on tlie bottom which sets In one of these holes. This keeps the pieces in place so that they are lint easily disturbed by a groping hand. The white set of chessmen cacli lias a little point on top, while the black pieces arc round on top. This makes if easy for the blind man to tell which are Ills pieces and which arc liis opponent's. Ho his hand lightly over tlie hoard and "spes" in his mind the layout Just as clearly as you see It on the hoard.

Checkers are played in much the same way. Tlie black squares on the hoard are hollowed out. The white checkers are round and the black ones arc square. He Was "Picked On." "Why pick on me when there are 1.8.000 other policemen in city?" apprehensively Inquired a cop. when a man coining out of the subway at Forty-second street pressed into his hand a bomb which tie said he had picked up in Brooklyn, according to the Pittsburgh Dispatch's New York correspondent.

"Why," said tlie man. am not collecting souvenirs, and this tiling looks as if It might lie loaded." So the cop took the bomb and dropped it into a pail of water. Hand grenades are timed to explode 45 seconds after tlie spring is released by a movement of the thumb, but this did not deter the man who found it from carrying It in a crowded subway car from Brooklyn to New York. Natural Conclusion. "Wall.

I swow, Sainanthy," said Cy Taters, looking up from the Beantown Evening Eavesdropper, "it says here that a flash of lightnin' only lasts a millionth of a second. "Pshaw, now, C.v, how do you reckon they kin tell that?" "Why, gol ding it, Sainanthy. I'm surprised at your dlsknowledge of current events. They do It with a lightnin' calculator." ZEST ADDED TO HOUSEWORK BY STRIVING FOR EASIEST WAYS OF WASHING DISHES lap WV 1 m. ms Stacked in Disorder.

Dishes Washed Before Meal and Dishes Neatly Stacked. (Prepared by the United Stater Department of Agriculture.) Thoughtful housewives in these days of thrift and economy are asking themselves pertinent questions as to the use they arc making of their time. Is it wasted, or does each count for something wortli while? Mere speculation over the subject will not help, hut constructive thinking, backed by experimentation, will. Remember that each housekeeper can plan better for herself than can anyone else. By watching herself, becoming acquainted with her own efforts and habits and by using some of tlie efficiency-engineering which is in each of us.

time and strength may lie saved in the performance of household tasks. No woman is fond enough of dishwashing to spend any more time over it than is necessary, and yet from lack ol planning many hours are squandered over the dlslipan. If you accuse a housekeeper of wasting time ovdr Hint task, the retort is likely to he: "Waste time washing dishes? I should snj not. for I don't like to wash dishes that well. I hustle through them as fast as I possibly can, hut even then it docs seem to take hours," Would It.

if sin- had used her brains as well as her hands? "Working Like a Whirlwind." There are women who start cleaning a iVtiWigV. were to lie through within the next ten minutes, hut Instead, the work hangs on for the next two hours. Why? Because all the hurrying was creating more work every minute. They sweep as a whirlwind with much the same result. They are the type who think usework is drudgery and they do not see that i( can he bettered.

Everyone has been in homes whore the housekeeper, overtired from work caused by lack of planning, was too tiled to lie pleasant. For (liis kind of a housekeeper salvation lies in studying her methods, observing where time and effort lias been wasted and then standardizing her tasks. "One of the best ways to observe says the office of home economies 'of Hie United States department of agriculture, "is to make a time, method and motion study of the different duties about (lie house. It will add zest to the housework, help to make you see measures necessary for your own reform, and make you STUDY UF WASHING DINNER DISHES Number of Method. Monday Stacked order at rlghr of silver.

china, pots, and pans. Washed dishes, then wiped 1 not stack dishes. Washed dishes as they happened to he piled, then Mashed pots and pans. Wiped all dishes faits and pans M-iiile preparing Stacked dishes. Washed and Miped dishes Total 45 pots and pans while preparing 10 Stacked, washed and scalded all table dishes, glasswure and silver, and let them dry in 05 4S 55 10 35 Total as Thursday and noted Hint tlie repetition of method saved time cooking pans while preparing Washed all table dishes under faucet without pan.

Let all dry in drainei wiped dry Total except sliver nnd glassware, which Mere (Note: More dishes than usual). Washed cooking pans while preparing Stucked dishes very carefully. Washed them In order drained china until dry, hut wiped silver and Total 80 15 20 35 15 35 50 ready to assist an inefficient neighbor." How to Find Best Way. A time, method and motion study sounds much mo formidable tluin it is. Take Hie taf of dishwashing, for instance.

You have done it in many different ways and probably have wondered which method was really best. To find out, try one method each day, keeping accurate count of the motions necessary and the time taken up. Looking at the accompanying sample record shows Hint on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday the methods saved more time than those on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday. On Hie days when time was saved you Mashed the pots and pans while you were preparing dim er.

You will also note that time was saved by stacking the dishes before washing them and by drying in a drainer instead of wiping them. Having found those timesaving Mays, Mhy not continue to follow them, practicing your methods and improving still further by repetition? Watch for waste motions. A fourth column can lie made for Hie number of motions, coaming as one motion each stop made necessary liv the placing of tIn- dishes and cadi complete motion of the hands, as placing the dish in the (Ujihicr and hack again. Tills does not mean "flan ''VTn'i do nur Merk like an automaton, hut thinking atout it in this May will sIiom- you Hint you are in the habit of making needless motions. Would it not lie worth Midie to cease guessing as to your efficiency and know the liest way for you to do the work? in some eases it Mill he more efficient to do the Mork one May than another because of some special arrangement of your time or kitchen conveniences, lnK you arc tlie one to find that liest method and benefit by the discovery.

PROTECTS BOTTOM OF SKIRT Clever Woman Will Stitch Narrow Lace Edge to Bottom Dainty Finish. A clever Montan when making lier thin summer dresses stitdies a narrow lace edge to the bottom hem, leaving about one-fourth inch to show. This protects the bottom of tlie skirt and also Is a dainty finish. WTO Li HUD I rf Chicagoans Enjoy the Dunes Under Disadvantages ARY, part of the country hopes to make a national park out of tlie dunes. In the meantime Chlcngoans by tlie trainload come out to the dunes Sundays and holidays.

Sunday the South Shore Interurhau that connects with the Illinois Central at Kensington, a two-coach train was crammed with tired humanity. There were loud and angry cries for more conches. At Gary a car was put on the end. It was soon filled. A couch was switched on tlie front end, but before anyone could get into it the train started.

W. W. Tenney, GG06 Kimbark avenue, seeking seats for liis wife and children, was about to step into the first car when he found the way blocked. The conductor stood in the doorway, keep the car locked. "How stupid," said Tenney.

"There's no reason why some of these people shouldn't get in that empty coach and we're going in." The conductor, it Is said, picked up an iron bar and waved it threateningly. 'Penny grabbed his wrist, and then began a battle, while the train tore on its way. Tenney had one foot on the sill of the second coach door, the other on the sill of the first coach over the couplings. The coach loud hack of him writhed in excitement and urged liim on. Women were fainting, men were swearing, trying to get past Tenney to reach the conductor, but the battle continued until the train pulled into East Chicago.

i Then the men from the second coach ran up the stairs of the fronrear, poured in, overwhelmed the conductor, took possession, and the train went on its way. Among passengers on the train were Prof. Wellington Jones of the University of Chicago and 10 university students, Jens Jensen, president of Friends of Our Native Landscape, and George E. Hooker of the City club. Indiana, Illinois nnd Michigan are trying to raise $2,500,000 by subscription to buy tlie dunes for a nationul park.

id MU. He had orders, he said, to This Gob Took Good Advice When He Ran Across It AK PARK, Fltzmorris, 1133 Oak Park avenue, paid a visit to Chicago the other uiglit. lie and two companions were in a Wabash avenue cafe. A slim, good-looking young gob entered. Quietly he asked each person at the bar to buy a copy of the Great Lakes Recruit for the benefit of the Navy Relief society.

He approached the Fltzmorris party. "You gobs are nuisances," said one of tlie men. "Have you got any credentials to sell that magazine? Bet you're a faker." The gob produced his credentials. The man read them over, then deliberately tore them into pieces. At one end of the room John Kuntz, one of the proprietors, had been watching the scene.

The gob walked up to him and asked in a very mild tone of voice "What would you do about it If you were "If this were any other place but mine I'd advise you to knock the tur out of that lout," said Kuntz. "That's a good idea," said the gob. "I'll knock tlie tar out of all three of them. They'll be coming time. I've got all night." In tlie course of events the three men left the bar.

A minute later patrons of the cafe heard a wild commotion outside. hey rushed to the street. The gob was having a party. The man who had torn up liis credentials mus lying in tlie gutter. The gob's fist was at that moment coming into contact with the nose of one of the other members of the party.

Before the police had been summoned the third man was nursing a very black eye. It was a most complete job. The gob walked away. When the police arrived the only member of the trio left was Fitzmorris, who mss sorry now that he had torn up those credentials. His two companions had departed.

jTD Picture of a Little Welshman, Mender of Shoes OLORADO l.iciv- in Colorado iwes a Weisiiuiaii Price. Stolid, round faced, bald of pate and slow of licccli, Boil hasn't much, to commend him to public attention except his capabilities its a first-class waiter in a firstclass cafe much frequented by tourists. But at home Bob is a different fello'v. And high over the mantel in Bob's "holy of holies" is posted his chief keepsake, a somewluit faded but recognizable photograph of a grizzled, wrinkled, kindly faced man, autographed with a scrawling, slipshod signature that is us unreadable as it is forceful. Thirty-five years ago Price was living at Criccieth, Wales.

Every day he was engaged iu hauling limestone. On every trip lie would pass the humble workshop of a little cobbler who never was too busy for a little chat with the limestone movers. Boh and he became great friends, liis little shop became the meeting place for the village loafers and here the little cobbler, dreamy, thoughtful, philosophic, would expound liis ideas and ideals of government. A feu years later Bob came to America to make his fortune. He paid little attention to the political kaleidoscope in England until a new figure thrust itself into the affairs of state, took a post iu the first war cabinet and later became premier ol' the tuition.

That man was the cobbler of Lloyd George. And Boh Price can recall every lineament of liis features, every characteristic gesture every oddity of manner and -speech of the shoemaker of his youth now Hu tnosi potent personality in Engluud. And that is why the picture hangs over the mantel in the Price home. Hg Was From Missouri When It CamG to Fighting CPMNGFIELD, W. Allee, son of a Missouri legislator, wanted to Wilr r.

was nly slxteen but wlth bis father's consent he enlisted in the navy February 28, 1U17. He was assigned to the battleship South Carolina as a bugler. Frank was happy because he wanted action and he was sure lie was going to get action. But there was no action foi Frank. The ship was in its war paint but it lay oft' Philadelphia awaiting orders while thousands of lads in olive drab were crossing the sea.

Sixteen months lie stood it, and lie dreamed now of trendies, of midnight raiding parties, of airplanes, and heavy rumbling over No Man's Land. Noth So one day he bought a civilian suit and in due 1 ing like that in the navy, course of time was listed as a deserter. A th thUe weU built tauucd wiry chap answering to tlie name Thrte tCd iU th Six Huadred aud Second engineers in Bosto was Brest and then, as the Yanks went forward 1 1 a ta a Thierry, in St. Mihiel. in the Argonne woods, fighting evei y- cioss the front he went, after the armistice, and into Coblenz He In been the thickest of the fighting.

And he was satisfied Jock Anderson was mustered out April 3. Then he was Frank vv Aim S- He wen. heme to hie pareats, ad mpera lle surrendered to Provost Marshal Lieutenant.