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THE KAN'S AS CITY KANS A i nmrsday, June 2, 1921. WIELDS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW QTORIESof a3 he. STREET Bt A.E. JOULW YOUR HEALTH The Kansas City Kansan FOR YOU AND TOUR TOWN BOCK ME TO 81EEP. turn backward.

Time In iiignt. Make me a child a rain just for tonifrht By BOYAL 8: COPE LAND, SI. V. Commissioner of Health. New York City what "Acromegaly" is: sometimes called "glvntism" BY ARTHUR CAPPER shored8 back the echoless This straight line on the whereabouts Take me again to your heart as of yore; Tubby was supplied by Park Com-Kiss from my forehead the furrows of niissioner Harry Kaelin, probationary Official City Paper and the only Daily Paper and the only Sunday Paper in Kansas City Kansas, 545 Minnesota Ave.

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Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers your Jovlngr watch keep Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to Backward, flow backward, tide of the Toil without' ult vain Take them, and give me my childhood again I have grown weary of dust and decay Weary of flinging- my soul-wealth away; Weary of sowing for others to reap: Hock me to sleep, mother rock me to Eieep, Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue. Mother, mother, my heart calls for you I Many a summer the grass has grown Blossomed, and faded our faces between Yet, with strong yearning and passion ESJiUi. f-r. Come from the silence so long and so deep Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to BRANCH OITICES. Chieare: 101 N.

Dearborn St. Omaha: 412 S. Nineteenth St. New lark: SOI Fifth Avenue. ft.

Loel: 141a Pine St. Philadelphia: 1121 Liberty Building. Oklahoma City: Continental Bids. Detroit: 103 Ford Building. Kanaaa City.

Graphic Arts Bid. Cleveland: 119 Sloan Building. Topeka, Capper Building. Indiana poll 21 Humeiansur Building. ing to" remove one of the ductless glands, have been recommeaded and in a few instances have appeared to do good.

Sometimes, however, the proposed cure Is worse than the disease. We must not be too ready to submit to' doubtful surgical procedure. I feel hopeful as regards many of these mysterious diseases. Able research men are working day and nlcht, seeking to solve the problems of medicine. One by one the dark corners are being illuminated.

Some day, and rer-haps soon, we shall know what to do to stop the ravages of acromegaly. to Health Questions. E. W. I have suffered for years with bronchitis, and have been unable to get anything to cure me.

Is there anything you could suegest that I should do for this? A I would suggest that you go to a tuberculosis clinic or consult the physician in charge of the nearest large hospital for examination. Follow the advice that will Ik? given you. H. V. C.

I have a brother who suffers with heart trouble and snores terribly while sleeping. What can he do for this? What tan I do for gas on my stomach? A Have your brother consult a doctor, and have his heart examined. Be governed by the doctor's advice. To avoid snoring he should not sleep on THE KANSAN STANDS F0 New court house and soldiers' 'memorial auditorium. Equitable freight rates and better rfiilroad service.

North and south traffic way and more cross town car lines. Industrial and retail trade development and public market. Completion of Seventh street viaduct and passenger station. Renewed Northwestern railroad freight and passenger service, Street and road improvements and garbage disposal system. Definite city planning program.

Public parks and playground equipment for children. Over my heart in the days that are flown F.ort Leavenworth, altho since her mar-No love like mother love ever has shone riage she has been in camps in various his back. 2 For the gas on your stomach try drinking a cupful of hot water half an hour before each meal. A new thins: for motor car tires has horn invented bv Oscar Renfrew of Leavenworth, -a former Kansas City man. The device for which Mr.

Ren frew has asked a patent, consists of putting; oia tires into iutu treating the cut edges with a vnlcan process and fabricating these strips into a cross-bar rectangle or a wiatn sufficient to envelop a wheel much nfter the fashion of a chain. These strips around the motor tire about an inch or so apart prevent puncture, are light and resilient, save, the tire and make the use of chains unnecessary. The cost is trifling and Kansas City people who have seen the device ap plied say it will revolutionize ine ure business in radical cost reductions, and minimize puncture bother. The thing is being kept sort of an open secret until the patent is issued, arter wnicn it is reported, a factory and headquarters with oodles of money back of it is to be establisned in Kansas uuy. Bert Gooke, presiding genius of the A.

C. Cooke Coal eompany, who has a famous habit of making things con venient and satisfactory for coal con sumers, extends the same system to in clude the work of his employes. Which is why some robbers chose his yard of fice at Ninth and the Northwestern tracks, ill which to play Memorial Day Mr. Cooke dubs thorn robbers because they broke in. altho they robbed the place of nothing save some ice water.

This loss was more than offset by four pop bottles, which the invaders evidently had emptied in their brief raid. They also left their weapon, which is wide open carelessness for pirates. It was a bean-shooter. Mr. Cooke is practicing with it for the joy of seeing how it feels to be a boy again.

Jim Galvin; secretary of Gate City Homestead, the largest Yeomen lodge in the United Stats, was in St Louis, Sundav before Decoration Day. He had. an hour or two to loaf and went out to get a paper from home. He found The Kansan on sale at two places, but no other paper from either Kansas City. Ed Busby, who recently made a trip to Colorado, stopped at Dodge City on the way back to visit an old friend of his father's, who is in the Soldiers' Home there.

Mr. Busby says there are 200 double cottages for men with their families, and every convenience is provided, lie ate two meals and the food. he said, is as good as one could get at any hotel or restaurant in Kansas City, tho the variety might hot be quite so ample. There is music and courteous treatment and no old soldier nor his wife nor chjld is required to do any sort of work in or about the home. Mr.

Busby says he never has seen 'anybody who did not have a grevious kick about something, no matter how auspiciously situated. He was curious to know if the old soldiers at Dodge City find anything to kick about. They do. Before he left one or two of them complained to Mr. Busby that.

old soldiers aid their families niav have a guest for three days only. The waiters and cooks and other faelp may entertain a guest for a week. Probably Not "Work Is a sovereign remedy, even for bootjegging," remarks George Bailey of Texas. But can anybody induce a booLIcgger to experiment with work? History et Home. The proposal of Kansas City of Kansas City and AVyandotte beginning "of next season should of club work.

It will be, without be club work in this city generally. It is perfectly all right to know I what Caesar did on the Rubicon and how Leonidas fared at Thermopylae, and what led Constantine to pick three hills upon which to lay out the first townsite for Rome. But why call that all of history and stick there. It may not sound didactic, but it si just as interesting and infinitely more inspiring to learn something about the old homestead and Its historv before we arrived. The history of "Wyandotte and of Kansas is Irexel and Fairfax.

club women to take up the stucty county and Kansas history at the a great stimulus to that branch doubt, also a great stimulus to full of romance and examples of marriage license in "Wyoming, have a physician's O. K. on his individual are here surrendered society. More and more such laws and Twentieth-century American. oats and acquires a social disease, crop without the assistance of a PAPERS SAY Uncivilized? quoted, it follows that in his opinion patriotism.

It has a story of sacrifice and labor which leads up to our very doors and is the beginning of our lives as they are today. the women will not let the men join their clubs when they begin the study of history here at home, they will doubtless be good enough to repeat the news at the supper table. Two Men Who Have Made Good, The Kansan the other day printed stories of remarkable records of service made in Kansas City by two colored men. One is a teacher, who in three years has built up the "Western university for colored people into recognized po'wer as an academic and industrial school known thruout all America. The other is a minister who within six years has increased his membership-more than three times what it wasv making it the largest colored congregation in Kansas; and the largest Protestant congregation of any church in Kansas City.

These are records that would be highly creditable to any white man in America. Because the men who made these records are of a different the accomplishment is not diminished, but the credit fof it may be even increased. There is another aspect of the case. This ismore than individual. Because these men have succeeded, the entire race has been lifted to a higher level.

The record made by it, considering the condition of that race sixty years ago, is on the whole creditable indeed. There is something wrong with the white man who is not slatlof it. Growth is determined by the activity of the ductless elands. Whether a child is destined to be a dwarf, or a giant; depends on this function. When science shall have fathomed the mysteries of these glands, physical development may be under control At present it is to a considerable degree accidental.

Parents above the average in size and strength may have one child who is almost a pygmy and another who is larger than either father or mother. A little couple, both undersize, may have a son who stands well above six feet. In another proceeds nor mally in his physical growth, reaches manhood without noteworthy varia tion from the usual course, and then in his early thirties suddenly takes on rapid growth of some part of his body. Bones Grow Big. This condition, of course, is far from normal.

It is called "acromegaly" and is characterized by increased size of the bones, particularly of the limbs and face. Most giants have acromegaly. In deed, the affection is sometimes called giantism;" In this disease most of the changes noted take place in the bones. While the whole skeleton is enlarged, the trouble is most apparent in feet and hands. The facial bones are affected and, in some cases, the ears and nose grow to great dimensions.

All the features are distorted from the overgrowth of tissue. Hats, gloves and shoes of the original size are no longer of service. Unfortunately the enlargement of the head may not be uniform. One side of the face may grow to great size while the other side remains but slightly larger than it was before the attack. The voice box may increase in size.

On this account the voice changes. It may become hoarse and deep. There may be no marked subjective symptoms. However, it is not unusual to have headache, irritability, failure of vision and even mental unbalance. All nutritional diseases are apt to have complications of some sort.

Acro megaly is no exception. Goitre is one of the complicating conditions. Diabetes is another. Rarely Fatal. In spite of all the embarrassments of the patient over his changed appear ances, he nitty continue in good health and in his usual employment for many years.

The disease itseit is rarely fatal. Unfortunately, treatment has been of little use. Operative measures, seek- Bootleggers Best One prohibition officer who got friendly with the bootleggers of his city and learned some of their secrets, reports" the booze they hand out contains 20 to 30 per cent' of pure ether, or enough to eat away the linings of the stomach. Ten men in that community recently died from booze poisoning. In Chicago most of the bootleg stuff consists of diluted tobacco with a large percentage of nicotine.

Nicotine in concentrated form has a "kick" sufficient to wreck if Jiot kill the drinker. Then there is a ynixture of wood alcohol, ether and prune juice that is as deadly as prussic acid. Give the bootleggers time and they'll make the enforcement of the prohibitory law easy. 1 In the Light' of History To Lord Chancellor Birkenhead's remarks at the annual banquet of the allied brewers of England that there need be no alarm over England's going dry, the Springfield Republican makes the retort that "the nation which gave birth to Puritanism and later to Methodism is not incapable of prohibition." In spite of Lord Chancellors and the modern British beerage. MTINKIN' and yv BLINKING "How could I ever lose my way," thought Billy Bunny as he swung his knapsack over his shoulder and started to hop away from the Cranberry Patch.

"Ooodness me! I don't believe it's the old Cranberry Patch by the Rail Fence after alL" Pretty soon he began to whistle. And this is the little song, altho I can't write the tune: "Carrot pie is very nice, So are lettuce leaves on ice; But a. lemon lollypop, Makes me want to hop, hop, hop." Just then, all of a sudden, out walked a porcupine. Oh, what.a dreadful looking thing she was! "Please be careful," said the little rabbit. "I almost ran into you." 'Well, I thought I'd stop you," said the pin-headed ugly porcupine.

"You woke me up with your silly song about 'carrot Now," yon just give me one or I'll stick you full of needles and Little Billy Bunny opened his knapsack and handed a carrot pie to the ugly porcupine. "What else have you?" she finked in cross voice. "Watercress cake, cranberries, lolly pops and a rubber boot. And -one if By 8TKVK A Tp 'Earl (Tubby) who used to be one of the city's bravest fire fight ers, is now selling automobile tires and Other auto equipment in Ottawa, Kan mtmber of the "Fields Afar" club. Gus A.

Sandstrom, whose home was at 537 Elizabeth avenue, formerly sold 1 perfect-fits at the Nelson Shoe but he was getting stoop-shouldered in this channel of commerce so he went to Harrisonville, and has opened pro the "Just Right" cafe. Arthur Henn is a Kansas City boy, "IT crowd, who deserted the cosmopol- itan precincts, and beat it for the rural districts. He is the owner of a stock i arm near irieasant mil. and is breeding cattle of exceptionally high standard. Art at one time was a buyer at the stock yards for Wilson Co.

Later he speculated in livestock on his ovfn account I Salle Hughes, a niece of Senator W. J- Buchan, and extremely popular in I local society a number of venrs nirn. hs the- wife of Colonel Hunsaker of the regular army and is now a resident at stations of the ennnrrv la TTnn Miw i tt is in the real estate business in Galveston, these days. Harry M. Anderson, who was more or less of a court reporter during the years that he resided in this citvis now manager of the St.

Joseph. branch of the L. C. Smith Type writer Co. K- T.

Stokes, an oldtime real estate dealer, whose office was at Quindaro boulevard and Georgia street, disap peared irom the old stand about a year ago and has been missed by a multi tude of friends. A scout renorts thnf Colonel Stokes is passing the twilight day? in the National Soldiers' home at Leavenworth. The Colonel had a unique catch phrase in his real estate advertising, He called himself "Stokes the dicker-man." One een tn Day By IKE MACEUIiER The honorable, the industrial court of the state of Kansas, in solemn ses- sion and giving rapt attention to tne grievance of a lady coach cleaner, who cot tne 11. Jvaeiin, me iaih commissioner, who said he would have more benches in Huron Square if he had to get a hammer and saw and make em himself Burton, the distinguished mayor, with his walking stick, and he oh his way to the Optimist club luncheon; the major smiling better than at any time since the election. Smith, the famous war hero, who confessed to me that he was chaplain for the local post of the American Legion Charles Philander Craig, the oldtimer, who smoked and relished, this seegar being somewhat milder than anotner and iQr(ror fT.no nmffereH inter bv Mr Littie, the finance commissioner, and nnfPntflte of the "Fields Afar club F.r the Roman Catholic haberdasher; who sold me some union suits, which.

he. has had in stock since before the war. Horseman, the creator of end man comedy, and L. K. Wells, the banker, these two spending their money like drunken sailors in the Lake drug store, and I wondering if J.

Paradowsky was aware of their presence below the dead line. F. Palmer, the master boiler- maker, back from his Tulsa trip and lucky for him that he got back, too, if the telegraphic reports be not exag gerated A. Mellott and L. O.

Carter, the barristers, they in heated discussion over the proposed removal of the court house and both of them against the project and strong in their denunciation of it Evan Browne, the banker, to whom I reported progress. I having deposited so far nine dimes in the uniaue savincr device which he proffered me a week aga. Brad Dougherty, the bookseller, much cooler under the collar since his lease was extended to August 31 Horace Hughs, the veteran ex tracter, who told me his brother, was named for the celebrated hopeful, Damon Roberts, down the -r ovainifl anrl I havitiir mririn ciicmimnn thai- Afr nlnre fnn. siderable value on this healthy and good-natured infant. potatoes in the adjoining restaurant, this the first fruit of my campaign for sweeping reforms in the Karnaze restau rant.

for Thursday Nothing can be produced out of nothing, cried n(J ma Dlogenes, yet here is this column of palaver, day after day. I'm The Guy By H. AIJUCB I'm the guy who drapes himself over the stenographer and dictates, with a smelly, dead cigar in his mouth. Why shouldn't I like to be close to her. I want her to hear me.

The cigar is mine. What difference does it make? She should expect -to be snuggled up to once 1 a while, and being in the office bother her. She's used to it. As for the cigar, its mine and I can wear it dead or miming, as i see nt. And I can't help it if it smells.

Every itnai' mtra. rlnoc dead-cigar does. That oughtn't to bother her much, either. I don't see why I should consider her. She's just the stenographer and doesn't count much.

And she doesn't mind it a whole lot, anyway. If you don't like it, that's your worry, not mine. If I want to drape myself over her that's my business. And if I want to have a dead butt in my mouth, that's up to me, too. If you object, don't look, or forget it.

That's feel about it. a to a rso otner worship aoiaes ana endures uaitmui. unsemsn, ana patient iwe None like a mother can charm away nam From the sick soul and world weary orain. creeo Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to sleep. Come, let your brown hair, just lighted with cold.

Fall on your shoulders again as of old; Let it droD over my forehead tonight. i my For with its sunny edged shadows once more Hapljr- will throng the sweet visions of yore Lovinelv. softly its bright billows sweep; Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to sleep. Mother, dead mother, the years have been long Since I last hushed to your lullaby song Sing, then, and unto my soul It shall seem Womanhood's years have been only a dream. Clasped to your heart in a loving embrace.

With your ngnt lasnes just sweeping my Never hereafter to wake or to weep Rock me to sleep, mother rock me to sleep. Elizabeth Akers Allen. So She Sent Them to Jail In Europe it is' still considered a discrace to be an old maid. One in Switzerland got to feeling so bad about it that she hired two men tto drown ner in iiaKe ueuoii auu iuciu 300 pounds in advance for their trou- ble. They accepted the money but didn't fulfill the agreement and she sued them and both have been sent to prison.

In this country they might have drowned her, earned a second payment of 100 pounds wnicn tne woman promised them, and nobody have been the wiser. But murder is a pretty 'serious crime in the old coun- try except in war." The Way to Fix It "Something is wrong with uur laABjsicw, Cray. There certainly is and the aver- age taxpayer knows what it is. Taxes are too nign. me reuieuy is simpie make 'em lower.

mother's captious ideas backing him up in any objection ne might evolve. But I resolved to wage the most manor- able battle of my married life in order to carry the thing thru. The title's all right," Mr. Olcott in- terposed sullenly, "It's insured by a big trust "Then everything else is all right," I said gayly. "Now, if you'll come with me to the bank, Mrs.

Burgess, "What Lillian Suggested. "I don't need to go to no. bank," Mrs. Burgess declared stoutly. "I guess I know an honest face when I see one.

You give me a check for whatever Jim ad has near worried the.life out of me" My heart warmed to mtj KII1U1 ic saj tilings iu us uuu j. urew out my folding checkbook with the sooth ing sense of assisting at a homely tea- drinking instead, of completing a cold financial transaction. The feeling stayed with me even thru Mr. Olcott's frigid handling of the remainder- of the business his disappointment seemed positively to have congealed him and I went out of the place light-heartedly. But I promptly came down from the peak of my high spirits at a casual suggestion from Lillian.

"Don't you think, if you're going" in tonight, that you'd better telephone the Dicky-bird instead of wiring him?" I purposely had postponed telegraphing Dicky; of his delayed message until after I had seen the real estate ajrent. I hopied.that I might be able to offset his anger at my not meeting his mother with he news that he had an abiding to i piace. tiut ro teiepnone jjickj nere imnKs rignr to oma tne Bargain, and then I'll go home, and tonight I'll have the first night's restful sleep I've 1 TTOLDING A HUSBAND Jt ji Adele Garrison's New-Those of REVELATIONS OF AJSVIFE Copyright. 1921, by Newspaper Feature Service. Inc.

The Right to Be Born Clean. Every man who takes out a is now required bv a new law to physical condition. The rights of to better safeguard the richts of are being upheld as constitutional The young man who sows his wild should be requited to harvest the third generation of offspring. WHAT OTHER Are Women the HOW MADGE AND MRS. BURGESS "CAME TO TERMS' Constant Reader.

For the past week I have been troubled with something sticking in my throat. I have tried cough lozenges, but I cannot scm to get relief. What would you recom mend? A I would suggest that you consult a throat specialist for examination. Bo governed by his advice. Mrs.

E. L. I am hard of hearing and have been treated six months without relief. What would you advise me to do? A Ask your doctor to recommend it good ear doctor or go to one of the eye and ear hospitals. You will need treatment for many months.

Doctor CoDelanii will annwer for remWn ff thin paper questions on medical. Iivk'lenlo and sanitation euMecta that urn of general Interest. Where tile subject a Inter la such that It cannot be puhlihe! In tlua column. Doctor, Copelnnd will, when tlia question Is a proper one. write you per- sonally.

If self-addressed, stamped envelope Is enclosed. Address all Inquiries to Dr. It. S. Copeland.

In rare of this office. (Copyright. 1921. by Newspaper Teatura Service.) Zittle Benny Note Book By l'APK Yestidday in skool Miss- Kitty wan telling the class about grate deed and nobel acts, saying. The nobelcst net eny man can perform is to do something that will aid the cause of suffering hunianitty.

now is there eny body in the class who duzzent know wt I mecn wen I speck ofmiding the chum of suffering humanitty? Wich nobody raised their hand, prov- ing everybody thawt they knew wat it ment weather thoy did or not, and Miss Kitty sod, Ve-y well then. I will call on somebody to Rive me on illns' tration of a deed that would ihelp th cause of suffering Lf.wmnnitty. Benny Potts, I will call on JW Wat would you do if had your choice of deeds to aid suffering humanitty? Id do something so grate they would make another holliday without eny skool every yeer celebrate it. I sed. Wich everybody started to dap their hands as if they thawt I had did it alreddv, and Miss Kitty banged with her ruler, saying.

Sllenti. Ini serprized. I must say I think that Benny has very selfish conseplion of suffering humanitty. Think of the grate ami nobel sergeoa who ferst discovered anriN-theticks. That was aiding the cmnc of suffering humanity.

Now tcrhaps James Egan can give us another Ixani-pie and tell us wat he would do to aid the cause of suffering humanity. Wich Jimmy Egan g't up. Maying. Id be grate sergeon nd perform ot-eratlon on children beds mi they could lern twii-e as mutch in a day as wnt they can now. and then they would ony haff to go to skool every other day.

Wich everybody started to clap ngu and Miss Kitty hanged with her ruler something fearse, spying, Silents, the entire class will remain after kool for half an hour. Wich we did. Advice to Girls lr 3 By AXXIE LAURIE Dear Annie Laurie I am 2:1 yearn of age and my husband Is We havo leen married nine years. He Is a man" that don't care to go anywhere. I am not much of hand to go.

but like to once in a while and he does not euro to go at all. When he comes or goes to work, I always want to kiss him goodby, but he won't let me. lie never does kiss me or take me anywhere. Ho is good every other way. He gets mo anything I want and be don't care if I go places, but there is no fun to go by yourself.

The first boy I ever went with is here in the city and he wants mo to go with him. I love him and always did, but my mother would not let me marry him and made me marry thl one. I know the other one loves )n for he said, when I got married, ho never would marry any on and he is not married yet. Please tell what to do. WONDER.

Kansas City, Kan. Wonder You have no right to' go with this other young man, my dear. Your husband is good to. you and tries; his best to please you, and your duty to make his home as pleasant as you can for him. If you wish to go nut occasionally, why don't you go with' some of your women friends? Don't Women, according to Prof.

Hamilton P. Cady of the University of Kansas, are far less civilized than they were the so-called barbaric ages." Then men painted themselves and women didn't; as time went on men "came to realize the futility of such deception," and painting the body was abandoned by them, but women have A 1- A A -i v. ti wt Skn If Professor Cadr is correctly men have advanced in civilization while women have been slipping back. This is alarming if true. Men have just given equal political Bayard Taylor and not Lord Byron, -j geemed have ltmmma Roberts, rights to women here, in England, and in many other countries.

If it turns out that women are retrograding, the males have blindly invited the destruction of everything humanity has won thru the ages. "We may be permitted to hope Professor Cady is unduly agitated. He is a chemist in a coeducational school, and consequently has excellent opportunities for observation. Yet his conclusions should be checked ap before they are finally accepted. Fortunately, we may be able to compare them with the outcome of the studies of our young women now being made by another chemist.

Thp colleague of Professor Cady whom we have in mincmay be known to him by reputation; We refer to Mme. Curie. -New York Herald. A screen director would have paid Mr. iOlcott, the wizened old real estate, dealer, a goodly salary if he could have regTster.ed for the camera the same expression of disappointed avarice that his face portrayed when the buxom owner of the farm next to the Ticer home announced that she would "take four thousand cash for the dratted old place." She had cut in half the price he had set and I fancied I could see his lips move lu a calculation of the 5 per cent commission on the other thousands which his client's precipitous action had lost him.

"Why, Mrs. Burgess!" he wheezed, while his forehead contorted into a re markable frown. "This is madness! You are throwing away your property." Mrs. Burgess turned on him with snapping eyes. "Now look here, Jim Olcott," she said, "I've listened to that song and dance from you now for over five years.

Wait till you git your price wait till you git your I could have got six thousand dollars six years ago when prices was low, but you advised me to rent. And look what. I've got on my hands now If there's anybody wants it for four thousand they can have it. The land's worth that." Long years of teaching high school pupils have taught me to watch for the psychological, moment when, a person Is at the crux of a decision. Mrs.

Bur gess' mentality, I saw, had. never ad vanced beyond the school age, and I knew if I tried lo press any- further reduction on her she would 'balk, and the whole wonderful bargain be lost. A Quick Decision. So, without, waiting for the signal from Lillian, which she had said; she would give if the occasion demanded, I made my decision, and promptly acted upon it. "I'll give you four thousand," I said.

"If you will come over to the bank with me they will identify me, and I'll give you a check for whatever you wish to bind the bargain until I get to the city, 111 go in on the af ternoon train, and will bring out a certified check for the full amount to morrow. And you can have your at- torney draw up the deed in the meantime. There need be no delay unless there is some flaw in the title, for my husband will come out with me to sign the "papers." I spoke with a confidence I was. far from feeling, for I had no idea how Dicky would react to this sadden decision on my' part especially with his Pert and Pungent. sailor's not.

Washington American shipping Post. What's in a name? The Isle is tied.upbyfa of Man has a woman town clerk. the end of National Baby week, as4 Providence Journal. A grouch is a man who has tried life nd acts as if he found it guilty. San Francisco Examiner.

Don't forget the girl you left behind you may eventually catch up. Atchison County (Mo.) Mail. The bigamists 's three indignant wives all talking at once, made his oral defense seem weak and ineffective. News item. The unspeakable Turk! Kansas City Star.

face the mood he would be in when he with her I can do it as well as any-found that I would not eet there in one else. Besides, it oughtn't to Fortunately we have reached thing besides, a little pink parasol," said the little bunny, half frightened death. "Give me the parasol." said the cross porcupine. It's just what I want. "And now you can hop along," he went on, holding it over her head.

"But never wake me up again unless you have a blue parasol in your knapsack." New, wasnVthat mean of that Porcupine Lady? She ate all the carrot lie and then took the pink parasoL This made the little rabbit very sorrowful, and he hopped away without whistle, wishing he'd never met her, but wishing doesn't make things any bcUer, Pretty soon, just as he was getting more mournful than ever, he hefcrd a little' bird sing: "Life's too short to worry, Life's too short to cry; Sun is always shining Somewhere in the sky. time to meet the train from the south seemed an insuperable ordeaL But I ajrrteed with Lillian that I must do it, I could not explain matters over 5 A. 1 V. I wire, aua j. wameu nun 10 imuw awui the house, and to mull it over in his mind; before his mother arrived there.

I made my way with reluctant feet to a drug store telephone booth and called Dicky's studio. Then I endured the delay and the getting of wrong numbers seemingly inevitable to the llong distance telephone service. And when the operator finally secured the right number it was not Dicky's voice that answered, but that of Edith Fair fax 'it seems to have referred exclusively to that Stillman baby. Grand Rapids Press. Sinn Fein could get at John Bull's throat a good deal more effectively if some one would only help it off with its Ulster.

Philadelphia North American. The woman who killed her dentist husband was acquitted. We are interested in knowing whether it was becaus'e he was her husband 'or. her dentist. Arkansas Gazette.

1 Surgeons now are becoming skillful and successful in curing wounded hearts, Shux! The courts have been doing that for a long time, El Paso Times. see this other man again, dear. ANNIE LAURJC.