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TIIE PAPAW TREE
BY BEATRICE GRIMSHAW,
NEA NM VOL I& AIL NAL IA Ilk NAL 1EL MIL va soonova,
PART III. was she that she should set herself
It had seemedto be ii the nature up to be better than "other ladies?"
of things, else, that Mrs. Lang, leis- —had ceased to- call. She took vel
re
ared, toileted, rejoicingly childless, netting, six feet high, and stayed it
with Plenty of long afternoons on her a -bout the long green, diamond -scaled
hands, should keep Angus amused trunk of the papaw tree. There
after five o'cleck. Lang was a heavy were eowe on Laulau that were al -
drinker, not often at hem°. Mrs, lowed to roam—horses, too; the
Lang told Angus what she suffered, horses were notoriously fond of de -
and how little she was understood. stroying papaws. She took no
He thought she would miss him when chances. The papaw- was well in its
. Jean came home—because, of course, sixth year; seemingly it was an
Jean would expect him to stay with Enoch among papaws, for its twenty -
her, foot stern was as stout as ever, and
But he was. very glad to see Jean week by week, month by month, the
back and he told he so. Jean laved load o green and yellow fruit gre
en that for quite a long time—that • heavier.
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and his praise for her boiled puddings. It was toward sundown, during th
Each pudding meant hours spent over . second week in February, that sh
the hot stove on a burning tropic noticed eomething wrong with th
morning, because as every Island birds in the big old lemon tree. Thi
housekeeper knows, a native cninot lemon was wide and spreadhng, an
be trusted with a boiled Pudding. But: its iener brandies formed a cave o
she would have sat up with the pud-i cool gween foliage sheltered fron
ding all night, if necessary. If she wind and atm. It was a favorite spo
eould hold him by the peteeeteaae way. with little Fellow hoeey-eaters an,
to a man's hi -ii -rt— i pigeons, and the bright green parra
!keets of the Laulaus. This evenin
She did not know how it had come to there was quite a crowd of them, a
that—holding him. Yet se it had usual, in 'the lemon tree. But the
iamee. She never acknowledged it to
-icrself. But she kept the blind of • were not, as on other evenings, sett
ling down quietly to roost, with con
her bedroom down. where the window tented chueklings, finding snug plac-
looked out upon the beautiful papaw
tree. It hurt her too 2nuch. i es on the branches, and preening
' einee tee cornfortably heiore sett-
/1.- happened now to Jean, as it ling down. They had all huddled to -
happened to many in the islands, that, e.ard the center of the tree, and were
she becaane veity :ziek for lame, Lau— erying ta a /est, frightened, subdued
lau was still lovely, but wonder had sort of way, like children who have
gone from it long ago, and Jean had been lett out •
in the dark and are
net the artistic soul that can live on efeeee we
beauty, even after it has become coins; - - --- -- --'--
Certainly the birds were afraid.
mon and familiar. Palm trees had i Jean Side's, siting on the veranda
long ceased to be amazing; coral
shores were ordinary; the flowers with some et her erellees houeehold
sewing in her hands, wondered why.
eeenned too glaring and too heavily ft looked like a' stormy night. but
eeentedz the picturesque brown eta- there had been. etorriv nights before
tives whose blossomy wreaths and in Laulau mid the birds had not
flowing robes had seemed so c.harm-' troubled themselves much. The is-
ipengsseevsegreeamottlymthateinragnalnadzymcroereatisurfiest. lands wei.e well north toward the
to make a eleeent tleter woman bensh., equator, almost, though nc.t 4)::ite,
out of the hurricane 'Jell. She sup-
wrLecitobl%iss7;,..70nwcoortzlelfitiooiLtvhceanzat,iict.. posed that.
it muet he a snake that
with a rengeance. for three diffeeent :ras trouiehig the peerakeets and
cheer:hes, eaeh strongly opeceied to 'inneyeaters in the lemon. There
the ether, had been elanoring„aniore.;,. eyelet! How the treeturee were sob-
the,„..r
And the
Laulau islander' 2' at least h ''s' ""' was UneannY. -
them fiver. wan had gone down behind a weal]. of
eighty years, eonvertieg
• . cloud, black- and szarlet as her child -
and over agairi-ur ,..,,, long in alnion,: ish fanc,es of the skies of Judgment
So the. days e e
and even the children could not fill a.S.'•
her heart. She ached for all sorts of .
. • , .
-A red sky et night is the shep-
el e t mg, ,,he eoule not have. ; nerd e delighe • she quoted to herself.
serge and flannel elothes, and boots, But; somehow the shepherd did not
ani the nip of east winds on the seem to fit in. .e The sun was down; a
cheek.. and the glitter ee innkues little light still remained. There was
viewed along a real, cold blestery some wend getting up, a .biggish wind
road. These eternal white muslins with a nasty cry in it. Jean noticed,
and white hoe.,, these endless -warm in the uncertain 'light that the under-
winde, wet or dry; these gardens -walks' sides of all the leaves kept turning
of staring coral under palms that tip, showing specter -white in the
rattled like shaken newspapers! she: duce. She did not remember having
wae sick of it. She grew :paler, with. Seen that before.
the yellow paleness of the tropics.; Something at her heart was troubl-
The Laulau stores had remedies for mg her. She could not for a moment
paleness, and at last she fell. pent: think whet. She watched the hud.n
It, en1 el. * . wonderfuldif- Tr / g .. an the oddly c is—
• • , . .
ference. But Angus never noticed W turbed leaves for a moment without:
--now. . emotion, Then suddenly the uneasi-!
Now gossip .began to filter. There ' nese lying dormant in her mind leap -f
had been a quarrel. between Angus ed awake full -natured and seized her
and Lang, the head engineer. It as . with a tiger spring.
said to be about a matter of unde'r- t "Angus! The beacon!" she cried.
water straine, of the position of piles, 1..t was on this afternoon that.Angus
of heights and widths. But the worn-, and another man, well skilled in un -
en giggled unbelievingly when they. derwater work, were to have gone
told each other so, and there were, out to the far reef nearly five miles
whispers behind hands. Jean seene.. away to repair the beacon that stood
ed to herself to be holding her breath. : en it. They had intended to work
She knew the whispere were nntrue; , until light failed altogether, as there
, was seldom chance of a suitable tide.'
he's a fool if lie obeys me," said Leann
fastening shutter after shutter with
hands that were Swift and able, des
spite the whisky he had .beertataking
all afternoon.
"No nee losing the Skylark and
'McNeill in add;ition to everything
-lee, 1 put the message ect he'd un-
..erstand it wasn't---"
"You murderer!" shrieked his wife,
:ailing on the lounge again, with her
handkerchief to her eyes,
"Oh, that's it, ie .it 7" Lang's eyes
were ugly.
"It's not, It's not," sebbeel Mrs,
Lang. "And you know it's net."
"Not so far," sneered Lang. "Well
I reckon the hurricane's going te
straighten things out,"
It did.
Jean passed the night ie, hell.
When moaning came and womee be-
gan coming in through the awful welt-
er of wrecked houses, fallen trees and
torn -up roads, to fatten on their fav-
ite dish of gessip and see "how the
widow took it," she endured for a
little while, staring seaward, so near-
ly mad that she hardly understood
what they were saying. They told
her that young Mrs. Jamieson was in
"screeching and kicking hysterics,
and had been all eight." They told
her that the bank had had its roof
taken off, and the hotel and the'
ehurch had been virtually wrecked,
but that most �f the private ,houses,
being low and protected, had escaped.
"It -Wasn't a bad hurricane," they
said.
"Bad enough for you, poor dear,"
consoled one. "Let me get you a cup
of tea. Try if you can't cry;
it would do you good. I know what
it is." s
"Ah, she does. Dideet she lose her
first when the Waeatah went down"?'
And never so much as a funeral!"
"Yes, it was the funeral I missed,
most of all. It seems to settle things'
down so, and reconcile you. Poor
dear, you won't have one either." c
• Jean vok t I tt h
these vultures of gossip were really
• many of that awful night, but a fact
.—and that they were teering stt her
Sorrow • with their crooked bels,
She tose to her feet. 1She looked
rreawkzilrlgthlYint1111;theheenisgehemt.ed te Lev°
"Oet eut," she said.
• They went—to tell the next gto
• that 11Irs. Shiela was out of her
Mind, and that eome one +ought te
teaskee dared
dy tthe,cacilhildren, But no one
frjerran atheewgroduaricis'Irithrearisietd hadhr
head
he 1
beaten. by the storm that wrecked her
life, She could see and think new.
The steamer was leaving in a day or
two more. It would be best to have
the- things auctioned. at once and 'go
by it. She thirsted to be away,
Home home, home!
On 'the day the boat eame in she
saw the papaw, consciously for the
first tine sinee the night of the hurri-
cane. Being sheltered by the house
it had survived. jean laughed an ure.
mirthful laugh as she looked at it
She -unfastened the netting, pulled
away the stakes and with a big kitch-
en knife shore through the eappy
trunk in three blows.
"I'll not leave that behind to mock
me" she 'd,
The tree fell prone, splitting—
bursting, rather—as it struck the
ground. Jean 6tood staring at it.
"Rotted through," she said. "It
would have fallen in another month
or so."
bsoloinSwhese. was conseimis of driving tiovaY
unspoken thought as if with
Then she picked a flower from the
fallen crown of blooms and put it
away in her bag. The steamer was
whistling below, the ehildren erying
to b ff. osec gate, with
one last glance -at the beautiful fal-
len tree,
"You and I," she said to herself,
wiping her red ayes under her veil;
"you and I have had our day."
(The wild.)
there—not a crazed eancy, like so amazes unfree:It tor sale evetwwitera
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Our children's Spending Money.
John and Mary were ten and -twelve
respectively when I, married their
; father, and I doubt if there were to be
found anywhere two children -with so
little settee of responsibility. • Their
clan mother died when they were
babies; their kind and faithful nurse
; was quite incompetent to teach or
train them; and tb.eir father admit-
ted that he was un.equal to the prob-
lem. Sornetirne 1 think that was why
he married me.
They were healthy, handsome, dever
youngsters, and as good as gold. But
they had the faults that come ;from
lack of training., and among these°
prodigal extravegance that was al
ready a source of real embarrassmeu
to their father. He did not like to tal
• ilenit money. and always gave them
• what they asked for. He even allowed
; them to charge what they wanted at
the stores.
;1 began by talking over with them
the family finances. They were im
; pressed and sympathetic. I showed
, them what amount had been set aside
to be devoted to each of them; wha
could be spent for their clothing
!school books, health conservation
I church and Sunday -school dues
}amusements, and vacation trips, poc
aet money, incidentals and extras
I They were delighted, being under the
impression that the sum allowed was
! larger than they had_ been accustom-
ed to have spent upon them, although
the reverse was tree,
eeplained to them that we were
trying to carry out a system that was
for the good of the whole family;
that was, to increase our happiness
and prosperity and to aid in preserv-
ing the peace and satisfaction in the
life of the father they really adored.
Then I showed them .that any kind of
system must be kept perfect at every
point, oz. the whole thing becomes
worthless.
They were interested, and looked
actually thoughtful. They asked what
they were to do if things they "had to
have" cost more than I had allowed
for them; how about pocket money
if "it happened so" they had to do a
it of treating? "Or suppose," said
John triumphantly, "prices went tip
and up and up? Looked like they were
going to."
I had my answers all ready. Things
that cost more than one can pay must
be done without.; in the matter of
reating cme must decide how far one
an go, and accept only the liniited
=cunt of hospitality that one can re -
urn; and if the prices go up and up,
astes fine requirements must go
(own and down. In case of great
teceseity, exceeding of the budget in
me direction must be met ley a cor-
eepenaing cnt in some other. Por
itt-
ta-ixce. if u friend had to be treated
eaie.y. (me voted cut out the expected
rip to the inevies to-movrow,
finished by saying that if jollies
r Mary'e. books did not balance at
he end a the quarter I would, have
o me:4 up the difference by taking
ometning Out of mine. At this they
,rotested vigercusly.
They found in the system a new
-ame to play.. They lilted it—liked it
turnensely, 0± course, from time to
time they backslid, Who •does net?
I3ut they did well on the whole; and
now, at the end of a year, our hey and
girl have learned, among other things,
the value of a dollar; they bave
learned how to keep their own ac-
counts, and keep them straight; they
Inc even happier than they used to bet
and they give every indication that
they will grow up to be sensible and
successful members of society.
• Money -Saving Hints From My
Card Index.
As our family is a small one, I have
always tried to do iny own household
work, with the exception, of course,
of harvest time and the canning- sea -
eon. And during our four years of
farm life I have experimented quite a
bit, and have discovered many small
ways of easing 'Ether; saving time, and
dispensing with trottille.. Each little
item in itself is not suell',a great help,
_ but taking theni all they amount to
t a great deal. And for fear I may for-
k get, when once I have proved a -little
"helper," 1 type same on a card, in-
dex, and place in a cabinet, ready at
any time.
I have not space to give nearly all
a these items, ,but here are a few:
_• As all _. housewives know, when
breaking eggs pieces of the shell often
get into the bowl, and it is difficult. to
remove .them. By just touching the
pieces with the half eggshell 1 find
that they- cling to it and are easily
taken out.
I always place a emall piece of char-
.,
coal in the kettle when cooking_ turnips,
cabbage, onions, or other vegetables -
of disagreeable odors. By doing this
the odor is entirely removed, Try it
and see.
All housewives krow how hard it is
to blue the clothes when using hard
water, without the bluing streaking
them. I found that a cupful 'of sweet
milk added to the tub Of bluing water
would always do away with the trouble.
Skim milk is all right if not "blinky."
y
Of nights, when the children were No launches were available. so as!
asleep she used to wander out alone the weather seemed fair, they had:
n the beach and stray up and down, taken out a small old whaleboat with
her feet tinkling among the broken a very email crew. If bad weather'
•eoral, her eyes on the lin: white line were indeel coming—and Jean now ,
• where the reef made, a song in the hatrno douht of it at all, for did not '
siienee. and a trouble in the quiet the birds know and were. not they!
eas. The reef -song has been a very warning her? —then Angus hadi
Lorelei to many in the islands, deaf- the young husband of the bride who!
ening them to the loudest call of des had come up last steanier were itt!
ambitious, the activiCes of the north-. deadly
ern world, and drawing them resist -1 Jean called the native girl, told heri
• lessiy front the brief crowded days of to look after the children and ran,
home to dream away life among the amid a bombardment of flying cocoa- E
, lands "where it is aiweya afternoon." nuts to the head engineer's home.. t
The shining of" the ieeon neon eilver... Lang. a little drunk, bet genial, came !
ed, tering peinei-ewhat has it not. Out tO Wet har. Yes, undouttttd1Y; t
meet to gipsy heerte? But jeade bed retie:her wae coming, had almost
.eve.'4 net the'gine!! fienein to the eorne—ea a flying piece of roof from r
emnr. of the reef vele 'feet a eeis.e.' a eottaen went down the street with
made by the eee, and the !Awn., iron elaneor. Yes. Shicie and eoung r
feieed$: ;t.n 11;:4 eons- out to the reef. !'
/115 4btlL7 the. eed volt the harbor Weed) out t
wee trete; that' people eaestee xe, Z11, Sot the doubt ;
reine!„ The joy ineines eeaty, ;wee, aeta 971.1 he back agaiel in half
troinc ceenhaeis and sy,l'ee an ho qrs. Shiele could .go home
liersahae Igen a In,n•.! tinw,e1 of •ece,.. 1;t•rif nts.siy. Then. he went t
anhood'S bufeetenheerileci bi'; j be:'1- into the Meuse, poured' out a I
haterea love. TIse time loal peeeele ,:n.! .ond to,,serl , it•down his s
1th it had named the hewer.
• And now she no 11-31itrp: Jovd Lie "Da:lo, it, Rost," iv. saki to hie 1
tft tre—e. With the rel. wife, "We going to be hard en me if
perstleloue tendency ef a mind not I have to do Siiie.ane and Jarniesen's a
too well furnished, and ceet in con- work as well 'LS my own until they
Mealy upon itself, she had come to seed oat anotlier mole of men. Shut
fear it. Her luck was in it; her life that deer or we'll have the roof blown
was in it. So long as it lived, Angus off!' a
would lova her, and no longer, • Mre. Lang sprang -from her •couch
$he did strange things in tbeso 'with 5 cry.
lenely days when work—it might be "God. Franit you don't think there's
--kepi Angus hours -after his tele in danger? Won't the larmch get
ho township, and callers, offended by them?"
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Is Masculine beauty or the lack of It,
a factor of any weight whateoever in
the ineuence wbich a inan May exert
upon the heart of a wornannWe are
In the habit of thinking So, and can,
cite as illustrations a few famous
stances of notably tandsome men whet:
seemed to draw the hearts of Women
as the sun affects; the liowers—saw
Lora Byron—but hietory also affordia,
many examples to offset these. Not;
ouly plebe but actually hideous menl
have been famous Don Juan s and "ladYi
easily outstripping handsome,
noble and wealthy rivals,
• John Wilkes, the famous English,
champlori of popular liberties, was a
dissolute roue, and so ugly that child-
ren ran shrieking at sight of aim in
the streets, yet such was the spell he
cast over women that ladies of beauty
and faehion vied with each other for
his zotice, "Give me a quarter of au
hones start and I will win any lady's
hatul against the handsomest man in.
England," he used to boast, and the
boast was not an idle one, for there
were few beauties, even the most high-
ly placed, .''hose . hand he could not
have had for the asking, He married
one of the most lovely heiresses of
his time, a lady who refused more than
one coronet to be his wife.
The great Lord Chancellor Broug-
ham Was repellently ugly and without
grace of speech or manner, and, cons
scious of his defects, tried to shun
ladle' society. Nevertheless, the most
lovely and aristocratic ladies of the
land fairly mobbed the ugly lawyer,
and a smile front him was happiness
and pride to any one of them.
Jean Paul Marat, one of the leading
and most infamous figures of the
French Revolution, was described by
a contemporary as "beyond ansques-
tion the ugliest man in the whole of
Y'rance—and not merely ugly, but
positively repulsive in person, habits
and manners." And. yet, in his early
years, he was theernose popular physi-
clan in Paris, not because of supposed
professional skill, but' on account of
his attractiveness to women, the most
"Wealthy and beautiful women of
Prance daily crowding his consulta-
tion rooms, pushing, alinost fighting, to
get a word or perhaps a smile from
him. That he turned a cold shoulder
to their allurements seemed only to
inflame their ardor, and at one time
he contemplated 'flight. so embarras-
sing became their attentions. Even
when he contracted a loathsome skin
disease while hiding in the sewers ot
Paris, l'ttir W0111C.-11 continued to adore
him.
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Poisoning by Arsenic.
The poisonous nasure of ersenie has
been known from the earliest period
of history, and doubtless the sub
stence Was a favorite with professie
al poisoners in remote times, as we
know it was among the Romans and
throughout the Middle Ages. Even
to -day cases of criminal. poisoning by
arsenic 'are not uncommon, and mei-
deetol poisoning, either acute or
chronic", occurs occasiopally. Al-
though now arsenic le Dever used es
a preeervative or as a eoloring agent
in articles Of food or drink. exeent In
countries where the. laws in this. re-
spect are lax, and there probably very
seldom, 1± 15 used freely as rat poison
and in the form of Paris green as an
insecticide.
At ono Stine, there were many eases
of arsenic poisoning among school
children in Europe, which were caused
by crayons and ink colored with erm-
ine pigments, Articles of clothing,
• too, colored with impure aniline dyes
containing arsenic often gave rise to
chronic arsenic poisoning, ' which, is
one of the industrial diseases that are
now befug done away with by instruct-
ing workers -and by instituting pre-
ventive measures.
In acute poisoning the first symp-
toms are asmetallIc,taste in the mouth
and a burning and itching in the
throat, followed by pain in the abdo-
men, beginning in the upper part and
passing downward. Soon the patient
has nausea and with it violent vomit-
ing and purging. The abdomen is dis-
tended, and the vietim suffers extreme
thirst and a violent headache with die-
ziness. The skin becomes cold, the
eyes are sunken, the voice is hoarse,
and death occure-at the Eine of from
fifteen to thirty hours,
The symptoms of chronic poisoning
come on very gradually. Stomach
and bowel troubles are the first signs.
The sufferer exudes from the skin and
in the breath a foul garlicky odor. The
throat is dry, the voice is husky, the
eyes are bloodshot .and smart, and
'other syror Canis resembling those ore,
cold are*cannmon:- The skin becomes
scaly and of a dirty dark color, and
there often Is troubles oin e itching,
*Neuritis, marked by tingling, pain and
sometimes paralysis. of the lands and
feet, is present in,many 'cases.
To -treat acute poisoning, give milk,
egg water or thin flour paste until
hseirated iron or magnehia, antidotes
can be prepared. Ta treat ohronkt
PaI6oning, remove the met).
• New.DiamendFekL
A. waterless, treeless, virtnally
deeert pear Traillgli, itt liceletana-
leech South Africa, is likely to be the
econe of • the greateet rush to stake
41airiond ailms in 011 l4outit A frinan
litstory. Amazing dories aro 111 of
rielnm.:s of the may field, which,
it 18 reported, Will bo clamea to Minere,
alaiet Much, 20, mid from the Gape to
the (tango men are preparing to van-
lere everything ou the, racc for claims.
Tonage is about. a hundred mikie north
of the great Wireberley mine%
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