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By DANA Bir.:NET,
It was midafternoon of a vivid
April day in the year 1850. Along the
wooded shore of the St. John's river
the sunlight, felling through masses
of brilliant green foliage, cast light
upon a world voluptuously decked and
blossomed; for this was in Florida,
Where the spring comes swiftly, in a
gtorm of color, and where April is
a child with full breasts. Even the
distinctive Spanish moss, which makes
the landscape drip and gives to na-
ture the quality of a dry -point etch-
ing, had taken a softer tone of gray.
And was like a virgin's drapery, half
concealing, half adorning the beauty
now approaching the moment of its
bridal adventure.
Upon the bank of the stream -a
which the Indians called "strange,"
because it flowed north—stood, in a
tempting grove of live -oak trees, a
stately white -pillared house, whose'
broad portico overlooked a rank green
lawn.. Beyond the ;rouse, and across
a bright extent of viewer garden,
showed the slave out,n e xterr-
sive cluster of buildings it w In=wt lived
some two hundred 'Meeks, nor ee.unted
their lot an unhappy ane; for the
were the property of a man who .:or.•
sidered that harshness to an inferior
was as unbecoming the tenets cel
gentleman as stet~ iiiy to an sinal.
iseeifintee
the• famous orchid of your =bun ly,'
Ph ip?"
' .es," answered the colonel, ands
oda. I lightly, but with an undertone
cif serious conviction, "As lung as this!
flower blooms, Sophia, no harm can:
befall us!"
She laid her hand convulsively upon'
itis arm, "Do net go to town to -day,'
Philip! Stay lit home with mei"
"My dear Sophia, are you not
well?"
"Oh, yes. Philip; I am perfectly,
well. But as 1 stood here just now,
1 thought that --I thought that a
shadow had fallen upon us--"
Colonel Philip's hlaek brows eon -
traded In a frown.
"That is nut unlikely...+•ince we are
standing beneath a tree."
"It was not a shallow of the tree,
Philip."
Came conte rladam! flow often)
mast I request you not to vex me with
your little superstitions. What man'
worthy of the name would permit him-
self to be turned aside 1 y shadows?"
Sophia remained silent for an in-
aant, then Said in a ILw voice, "For-
give n"-. Philip; I knuwv that it was
only a foolish fancy."
Tier voice with its quaint precision.
a. pint and charm a accent fell
raa,aaltinalv aeon the colonel's ears.
lie rook ilia wife's hand in his and
Lua.,1 Iewv ower it, sweeping off his
]tat as he .lid 3n. Then he turned and
rafted at a leisurely gait to the
let+', Iia •deat, stepped into the wafting'
dua-ont and took his place in the stern
sheets. The canoe dit'ted out into
the Ftream. The e:oiooel grasped the
tiller -rope and leaned forward.
-Give way!" he said gently, and the
hear, at the word, leaped half its
length through the water• The six'
',legatee:. each wielding a twelve -foot
t t u:tr arranged upou an outrigger,'
fell early into ti long swinging
stroke, their half -naked black bodies
swaying taek ani forth like so many
part_ of a senoethly working Machine;
and as they rowed they sang;
`•I'at t rl , r . to n i by de co't-house
do
Lc ,,- zaanse a Rigger. en :tab he tae. 1
dat nigg ;tow?,.
-c:bast Philip. hie broad -brimmed
1 . 1 i :' (lawn over his eyes, laid
r 1 co 1,. e far the town wharf, some
rc .way, and gave himself up
to carton.; reflection;. His thoughts
w,-: &nkfiy of his beautiful' young-
wife,
oungwife, of her charm and grace, of her
exquisite breeding, of her subtle mys-
tery, What a picture she had made,
standing there beneath the oak, with
her lave lifted to the flower. How the
golden tint of the o:ehid had matched
ee s••ft glow of her flesh! She, her
self, was like some -rata plant magic-
, ally growing in his home,
He had met her in Havana during
the uou;se of a business voyage to
that city in the previous autumn; he
had seen her standing tall and won -
In the distance, asfar as tl:e eye
could see. extended the peach and
orange groves. the iron i ic•Ids cel'
sugar -cane, of indigo, r eotrnn—x13
belonging to Colonel Philip Gardiner,
inter
ex -soldier of the Scmus Ie :tad
the lordliest planter in northern Flor-
ida, whose five thousaral as—fee streach-
ed for utiles along tis r1 e—s'-frunt:
whose house was fillet, with mahogany
furniture, oil paintings, fine linen and
rare sifter ter u 1 tram England by
former Gardiaers. t i .l ;Oise youthful
Spanish wife leas tlie most n .,utffal
woman in the .ataray. One would
have said that here Via; a man doomed
to a veritable nonor,ony of reend for-
tune; for there is no drama -n sang-
nifl once. Ent Colonel Philp had a
v-eakness. Ile loved the bmard eftre
R1- +t,n n e r of one it
1.. 1.u,n 1 lt. l r deet-',
ttnv• I,in; I:.. :1e,i11}-
he
n_ .. l,eLakels:ices'' a ,n. and. is
sr .,ha -n ;rL a'rere r.. 'ern? c'. : ,r
stn, nun '1 l tinAgo1.1 1--)ker aume
wit:: I "n . oat 1,rt n _ lh
of eine.
On the afteenoun mentioned,,n the
st.,:! w of the dock that reach al teem
the lawns edge to the clear water,
floated the colonel's private dugout --
a (raft hewn from a sino]e eyprea.;
log, some thirty -fro feet i.;rg 1:
three feet wide. Seated -in the dugout t
and lul!'ng on their oar.. were : is
gigantic negror . three to a side. who
laughed and conversed Itr lazy, musi-
ea! voices, while ktaming an expectant
watch upon the Ore who had
twee che,vueg' n p c 1f = ea -.'ane spat
oat the white r'.C,. ii::rla into a set of
teeth ;vl'-'tet' stili.:,.,,. ❑-a deep, bas,
mice sang:
•
'Yailigator au•.ttiin' in :t eypre-s bog,
Long come a nigger en fell oft de lege
Whar dat nigger now?"
•
Arid the five others, in a dolefal
chant, repeated the refrain:
"Whar dat nigger new ;'
1':addrnly, however, tae inquiry C011 -
Peening the fate of *he incautious nig-
ger ceased and decorum settled upon
the heat's crew. Down the steps of
the house and acroat the lawn came.
v-ith his lady en ids arm. the lord of
this terrestrial paradise. Tall. slender-.
trent, with deep-set black eyes, long
d-oorin,g nsrstaahes and a honked
nose. Colonel Philip Gardiner -.sac a
Share typical of oil Florida. a living
example of the gentleman planter u'i
the fifties. He v, s clad in imus n.
late white linen—the e'+lone]'s
furnished exclusive employment for
one Stout negro laundress--arri wore
a low, turn -over collar with r. 'eleen
stock.
At hie side. and almost as,a l]
he, walked his wife. the nc-a.rtiful
Sophia. She, too. i, dee e f
ba` had thrown over hoe head and
shcn,lders a Luck Ince meat'1a that
gave infinite grace to the movements
of her lithe, willowy body. The soft
frame of this mantilla aceentuat,.d
the pure oval of her face, -with its ex-
quisite golden pallor, its huge dark
Byer fringed- with heavy lashes, its
delicate, sensitive nose am, red mouth
slightly drawn up at the earners. The
',fleet of this rharacteri.tie was to
give her the appearance or being eon -
lineally about to smile, aa effect that
*as at once baffling ane agreeable,
Moreover, she had a habit of looking
un from beneath the half -lowered eye-
lids that invested her with a certain
'mysterious detachment, as though she
walked behind a lovely mask. It must
he confessed that she was something
of an enigma to her husband, whe,
though finding her a faultless wife,.%
superb hostess and a faseirating orna-
ment to his home, had never been able
to assure himself that he possessed
the fealty of her soul, Sometimes he
doubted whether she had a sou]; she.,
wasalmost too beautiful to have one.
.
Near the rivet's edge and directly
in the path of the approaching couple
stood a magnificent live -oak, decked
out now in its new coat of greet; a
veritable monarch, whose vast limbs,
Sweeping the ground at their ex-
trometies, were hung with majestd.e
stala,etites of Spanish moss. As they
passed beneath the branches of this
tree the colonel paused abruptly and
pointing upward exclaimed:
"The orchid, madam! It has bioorn-
edl"
Sophia raised h tr lovely, languid
eves and saw drooping above her a
remarkable flower, an orchid, some -
whit larger than a lily, the heart of
r which nes a pale gold. For some
reetrents ,eelremained thus, gasing
nn st 1115 strange blossom with an
a 0,11 ,roe there then eirrioeity,
, thine," " site rake! fierily, "i's
T"i-E,: NEW VANCOUVER STATION
ATION
'i o now \'YneOU, r Station built by Oanadem National Railways at o Cost of it
'iie• a dollars, tied which Is ono of the best equipped and up•lo-date stations in the
1
i .,,0. It In constructed generally of brick with stone dressings and feature, and
. ib rf attractiveness probably lie, in its simplicity of design. It has a frontage of
; t trrt with n depth of 105. On the ground Moor are situated the largo general waiting
rwml adjacent and opening Isom which are separate wahine rooms for men and women,
dining And brach conger, barber ahem, ticket office to roll and steamship, commeeial
telegraphs, head baggage, general baggage, government moil, express and steeping and
dining ear departments. The two upper Rom sueomtnodntc the general unlace, with
maritime,. distinct from the station proper, with elevator service. On the rear side of
Motion, directly opposite 111e main entrance, are situated crnern lending to a colored
"course 50 feet in width, running tine Whole length of the building, Prom this eon.
1 ,urso are ',silo to the vurleun train platforms, Which Ivo also eovcr•ed, In all there are
16 !roan lending into tlm station, the overage length of each platform being about,
5,200 feet,
dc•rfal on a balcony in the Malecon
1 --one of these marvelous gained bal-
1 conies that the Cubans put neon their
houses, like so much fine iron lace.
For days following he had ridden to
and fro beneath her window, and she
had looked down at hint, slowly fan -
tiling herself with a huge silver fan,
land apparently smiling. Eventually,
he had sought an introdug.tion to her
' father, a wealthy Spanish nobleman,
and thereupon had presented his suit
in formal 'fashion. He had conducted
iris courtship under prescribed diffi-
eulties—wowing his lady in a cavern-
ous room filled with Sophia's relatives,
Who eat facing one another in two
long rows of chairs placed clown the
centre of the chamber and who poured
out interminable floods of Spanish—
alone spoke English—mean-
waving their fans in unison, as
thragu to brush the air of spent
fie had married Sophia upon her
t :entieth birthday --he. himself, was
twelve years older—and had sailed
with hes to Florida, there to establish
her as the mistrasa of his estates. She
"au t l c n her place in hi.; life with
dignity of a queen aswsaming a
throne. and in all matters had arrang-
ed her tastes to ennfoem with his, Yet,
at tines, he felt that she was 31,111 an
rt,,.r stranger to him an c •otic. and
a cu countable as the golden orchid
that, nest to ; oehi:a herself, was the
chief treaatire of his exist( nee.
This orchid had bloomed for genera -
Goes eerie the body of the great oak
at the. to"t. of the Gardiner place. So
far a ]known, it was the oily
orebii to erne. in that section of
Florida aa,t a.3 a one of the marvels
of the enur,tt, ei.,, Tn a story was
Out the first Gass ince i nn 'ag on this
shore after Hoary t, isle b;; land and
welter, had looked up to see smiling
upon him the golden orchid and had
accepted it promptly as a good omen.
Since that. day the flower had remain-
ed the inviolate talisman of the Gardi-
ner heirs and was c.onaidered gener-
ally to exert a mystic influence epee
the family fortunes. There was a
legend that so long as the orchid
bloomed wuli;sturbed end was not
picker,, so long the bowie of Gardiner
would Sower, Colonel I i.lipe though
eat of 0 superstitious turn of mind,
believed implicitly in this legend, and,
indeed, regarded the orchid as an (de-
test eisnost sacred.
(To he centime: )
Remarkable 'telephone.
• The Queen of Spolnl possosaos wltatt
IS ctlaimod to be the tined rernarkablo
telephone in the world. It is of solid
silver with a gold transmitter, and Is
; supported by four bronze lgm'el,
among which a boy leaning aginst a
Spanish ermt•of-arms fs conversing by
telephone aa golde;t wiry.—with , an
bhtglish lion. The work of art stands
on hor Majoaty's writing table, and
connects with the Royal nursery only.
D2inard'e Y, int:helot Curve Diphtheria,
Pants Used For Tanning.
The essential feature in tanning is
the precipitation of gelatine by the
chemical substance to which the gen-
eral terns "tannin" is applied, as the
result of which hides become leather.'
The tannins are of eery wide occur-,
rence in the vet enable kingdom and',
occur in almost all parts of the plant,.
but not always. in sufficient quantity
to be of commercial importance. In!
the plant known as Canaigre (Rumex,
hyntenosepalus), which is really a:
epodes of dock occurring in Texas, it!
is found in the root; in many trees
such as Hemlock it occurs in the bark;
in the Sumacs it is abundant in the
leaves; while in still other plants it,
is found hi the fruits or in certain'
pathological growths known as
"galls," such as those on various,
species of oak.
Among plants growing wild in Can-
ada which contain tannin in consider-
able quantities are the following'
• species: The bark of hemlock (Tsuga
eanadensis) yields nearly 14 per cent.
of tannin; the bark of white spruce
(picea eanadensis), tamarack (Larix
laricina), and balsam fir (Abies bal-
'saniea), contains 7 per cent to 14 per
cent.; the bark of chestnut oak (Quer-
cus Ps' nus), white oak (Quercus alba),
• and real oak (Quercus rubra) yields
12 to 15 per cent.• the wood of Am-
erican chestnut (Castanea. dentate)
' yields 8 to 10 per cent. of tannin,
while the stems and leaves of different
species of sumac contain 16 to 24
per cent.
The horse chestnut (Aesculus Hip-
pocastanum) although not a native of
Canada is fairly hardy at Ottawa. Its
bark yields a considerable quantity of
tannin, while analysis of the leaves
made in different months of the year
•showved a percentage varying from 2
to 6'14.
While the harks collected in May
and June are said to contain the
largest amount of tannin, further in-
vestigation seems to be necessary be-
fore
e
fore the point can be regarded as
finally settled, as the analyses that
. have been made of sonic species do
not seem to bear out the above state-
ment.
Increased attention is being devoted
at present to the sumacs as a source
of tanning materials; in this group
it is not necessary to destroy the tree
as the leaves and not the bark are
used. There are three Canadian spec-
ies whose leaves furnish tannin in
considerable quantities. Dwarf. sumac
(Rhus corallina) occurs in Southern
Ontario, white or smooth sumac (Rhus
glahra) extends from Nova Scotia to
British Columbia, while staghorn
sumac (Rhus hirta) is found from
Nova Scotia to Ontario.
The best time to gather the leaves
is during the months of Jnly, August
and September. The branch of the
current year should be cut or broken
in such a way as to leave a few buds
at the base to continue the growth
neat scaaon. The leaves contain
much greater amount of tannin than
the stems. Green sumac loses 50 to
60 per sent. of its weight in drying.
World's Simplest Post Office.
The world's simplest post office 10.
in South America. From a high,
reeky cliff overlooking the Strait of
Magellan is suspended by a long chain
a barrel which receives mail. It has
no postmasternor is there any rc;;'u-
htr letter carrier or. collector. Every
ship that goes through the Strait
stope and sends a beat to this e eriests
little post office, looks ever :et Is' 'ors
that are in it to see if to a c 1, r'• any
for the men on board hat. l,aa s ., a: r
Ruling the Roost ----a Fable.
A hen hustled for bugs and scratch-
ed for worms the greater part of each
day in order that she might be able
to lay eggs for the suburbanite. But
at night her rest was disturbed by
the lusty crowing of her lord and mas-
ter. She stood it fora while. and then
forsook hint and took up her roost
in a tree.
"Why did you leave me?" le asked
the next day, after he had fooled her
into running to himbychuckling and
acting as though he had found some-
thing to est.
"Because I can not and will not be
kept awake all night by your foolish
crowing."
"Very well," replied the rooster.
"Our position in society is maintained
solely by my -famous crowing. When
I lift up my voice an answer cones
from all the roosts in the neighbor-
hood, and I wake up our master every
morning at seven o'clock. Since you
do not appreciate it, you may herafter
do the crowing yourself."
The hen tried and tried to crow, but
a shrill cackle was all she could pro-
duce. Being a bright hen she quickly
decided on a course to pursue,
A' day or so later, when she had
come near enough do the rooster to be
heard she said: "The corn and scratch
feed are given to us solely because of
my ability to lay an egg a day, but
since you don't appreciate it you may
hereafter do the egg -laying yourself."
The rooster tried with all his might
to get into the habit of laying an egg
a day but none could he produce. '
After a ten-day separation and deep
thinking for the same length of time,
a reconciliation took place and the hen
and rooster are again occupying the
sante roost in contentment and affec-
tion—
Or, they kept up the fight, the hen
striving to learn to crow, and the
rooster straining every nerve and
muscle to produce an egg.
• You may take your choice,
Child Mirth.
Mirth seems to be a result of good
feeding. The underfed cannot play.
oof spontane-
ous
have not the power ontane-
p
ous expression of. happiness.
Recent studies of children in Ger-
many and Austria by physicians and
teachers in their public schools inform
us that as early as the severe Winter
of 1916 children were apt to sit indo-
lently gasing in front of them, to be
roused only by some strong stimulus
and soon relapsing into inattention.
Dr, Ililda Clark wrote last June that
she had been in Vienna four days be-
fore she saw a child play,
Dr, A. Thiele, of Dortmund, says
that though the nervous system re-
sista deprivation of food well, the lack
of certain important 'universal salts
soon produced in the children a ten-
s dency to rapid mental fatigue, easoci-
ated with excitability. Loss of energy
, and initiative speedily followed; final-
ly all desire for mirth and sport died
away, and coarse, primitive ,instincts
bbegan assert themselves.
g to
Of a total population of 300,000 in
Dortmund, Prof. Engel found 5,000
ehildren between two and seven years
of age who were unable to walls,
The Lancet (London) predicts that
the maj` pity of children in Vienna will
grow upwith stunted 'oodles and ques-
I tions whether their mental life will
• ever again overflow into mirth and
, the exuberance of animal spirits.
Most Beautiful Women.
In the opinion of many travelers,
the most boar tifel women in the world
mr
the 'Math moan it of the 7'elhnan-
it lar. c l' n to 'et,
lee ea. 1111 n 1,;l w what 1he esna
• •, 11'114, .•5125 , .. -
n.:as.rn'tt Ctucs Cella, We.
ship, and places herein it 1 i as for
seamen on hoard Iul,;i that• t, 1•f ire',,,,.
to be heading fen the idtra't.
Charge the Enemy, Fear.
"Perhaps the greatest obstacle to
success is fear. Many a young busi-
ness girl fears ridicule of her asso-
ciates and the criticism of her employ-
er. She is overwhelmed by a thousand
nameless terrors. Constant apprehen-
sion not only destroys her efficiency,
but creates an atmosphere that reacts
to her detriment. When I find a girl
of reasonable ability held back for
some unaccountable reason, ten
chances to one investigation proves
that ,it has its root in groundless ap-
prehension."
This remarkable statement by the
highest salaried woman executive in
America, Miss Henrietta F. H. Reid,
assistant to the president of the Bush
Terminal Company, appeared in a re-
cent issue of a woman's magazine, in
an article addressed to girls. It seemed
too good to confine to young business
women who are consumed with the
desire to "make good." In fact, it
seemed to me that it belonged more
to the farm boy and girl than to the
young woman in business, for it has
been my experience that the people
most liable to underrate themselves in
this world are the boyo and girls who
have been bred on the farms, kept
through force of circumstances from
rubbing up continually againet their
fellows.
Looking back to school teaching
days in the old country school, it
seems to me now that the majority of
poor marks the boys and, girls got
were given then,, not because they
didn't know the lessonbut because
they werd afraid to recite. I can recall
many a student whom I knew must be
able te answer every question I asked,
but who only dumbly shook ibis head,
while some more self-confident class-
mate arose and rattled the lesson, off.
There was nothing to do but put clowyn
a bad marIt, though. e
Fear of making a mistake, of being
laughed, at, held these children back
in school. It will probably hold them
back through Life' unless they make a
determined fight to overcome it. Those
"thousand nameless terrors," how well
the sensitive person knows them. And
no one but the sensitive person knows
what untold bravery it takes to over-
come them. Going over the top re-
quires no greater courage than charg-
ing the enemy—fear. Fear of ridicule,
fear of failure, feet of making a mis-
take, as Miss Reid puts it, keeps more
people back than any other thing,
And the country bred person, I be-
lieve, is more liable to those fears than
the city -bred. The boy in the city is
I.
early accustomed to measuring him-
•s
elf by fellows, The street is his
his
playground, and while
it may
be un-
desirable
from many points of view,
at least it affords him ate opportunity
to find himself. He as inspired by the
daring of his braver fellows to try
each fear -producing stunt, and learns
in time that one failure isn't going to
wreck his life,
The :farm child hasn't this oppor-
tunity. He has only the short recess
and noon hour at 'school to moot his
playmates, and then hurries home. As
a result he is apt to grow shy and
distrustful of his own ability, to be.,
come a victim of apprehensions which
keep hint back from success. The best
cure for this le to keep hila :ss much
with other children as is porsible.
ways works in one or two ways, either
we grow timid and are afraid to ven-
ture, or we become perfectly satisfied'
with ourselves and when we are:
thrown with others we fail to grow be-,
cause of the contact.
If you're a victim of terrorism begin
your tight' against it to -day. Haven't
you watched many then and women of,
your acquaintance who "do things,"i
head committees, manage clubs and
fairs and granges, and wondered how
they could do it when you, better edu-!
sated perhaps, c'luld never do it? It
is simply because they have self-con-
fidence, while you are fearful. Per-
haps you have even greater ability,•
and are simply afraid to _ase it.
We had a copy in school, usually
onto a month, which may help you:
"We lose the good we oft might wan
by failing to attempt." If you have
been losing out through this failure,
begin neer reform to -day.
Brewing Tea.
All that one needs to mance good
tea is an earthenware pot, some tea
and water that is boiling at the time
it is poured on the leaves, which
should then be allowed to ,infuse for a
few moments, when the liquor must
be poured off. That sounds easy and
it is all there is to it; it is astonishing
how seldom this simple formula is
followed out iu actual practice. The
housewife's most common mistake ,is
to use water at a temperature below
the boiling point. No matter how
choice the tea, if the water is not at
boiling temperature the important
• constituents of the leaf are not dis-
solved. Now that everybody is talk-
ing economy it as a good time to call
attention to the least° caused dry using
water below the boiling point. To
prove that one can waste in making
tea get two grades, one a very cheap
tea and the other a tea of the same
kind but double the price. Draw the
cheapest tea with boiling water and
the better sample with water below
the boibing point. Yon' may be stir -
prised at the result, but the taste will
convince you that boiling water drawn
off cheap tea makes a better drink
than is possible to brew with water
which is not boiling even when the
tea itself is of good quality.
Tea is often served, in a china tea-
pot containing the tea leaves and a
larger pot supposedly filled with boil-
ing water.. Tea made by pouring the
water into the small pot through the
tea is often unsatisfactory because of
the difficulty of keeping the water up
to the boiling point. It may have been
boiling when pouted, nut the cold pot
chilled it just enough to snake it too
cold to draw a good cup of tea.
Wasted tea leaves are just as real
waste as uneaten bread, or fat thrown
into the garbage can. It is not nec-
essary to economize to the extent of
cutting out your cup of tea, but when
you draw it see that you get all the
virtue there is in the leaves... Use
boiling water and practice real
economy.
A(l grade% Write for primate
i"KOftf )rrO (MIT WORKS
q 6t A, di lits TORONTO.
Isolation la bad for everyone, It t,i• .,..,.�.,�. w.�;M <...w.„.
HUM NATURE
IN EATING -HOUSES
TEA - ROOM ROMANCE
AND TRA.GED'Y..,
London Waitress Describes
the Various Characters of
Her Customers.
Human nature? 4011, I"thlnk I can
tell papular novelists some things they
don't know about human nature, 1
Imven't been a waitress in one of the
busiest restaurants in central London
without learning a, little about man-
kind and womankind in general. We
get call sorts in here, from brewers to
bishops, girl dower -sellers to College
girls,
If a man doesn't glow all over with
geniality when he has had a good,
hearty meal, he's hopeless, and the
one who doesn't show Isis true charac-
ter when he is hungry hasn't been
born yet.
You can size people up by the very
way in witch they give their orders.
'fin're is the woman who takes five
admires—while I'm standing hy, pea
ttently waiting-- to decide she 1s going
to have a wimp of tea and a scone; and
the mail who orde.rs'rtcalc pie aucl by
the bele you bring it ha„ ell:nrged 111s
mind to sausage ane, menti. i'ailnres
in life, both of them.
Again, there la the pi's mina old toff
who rings a 'wnplote petit en the ben
if yon are not waiting on the doorstep
to nuke his order, and eom,,L•.in: that
the roll% remind lllm of Ilia British
Museum. Yon can afford to rniile at
him. You know lie's henpecked at
helmet
I don't know which I hate mast. wo-
men who grumble at everything I
bring them, or rnen who try to be un-
pleasantly familiar with me adtt Ball
me "dear,' just because I'm a wait,
me.
Tips? They are always acc•ept:lble,
of source.' :111 the same, 1'd rather
hove the cheerful person who treats
me as one who is human, and no
money, than the impolite "grower"
told his twopence. Some people think
a copper "r two will cover pp all the
rudeness they have hark:] at Inc. :1
boiler lid wonidn't.
Dirty cuffs rad r. Smile.
0nr aalar c.usilmars are the rest
1 retuenlbc}' one oil elms) well. Ile
wore dirty ;tarebci1s Ills and never
had auything but a roll alto a cup of
tea for his Ismail. He came five days
every week for years. never grumbled
onse.:uu1 always had a smile for me.
Then sudrienly Ise stopped covin„
and—I could shed an honest tear over
that old man's grave.
Otte little drama jI recollect, for I
nppeso you'd call it that., A. young
fellow ,•atne in, He was almost too
rugged and down at heel to be ad-
mitted to euy respectable tea•honse.
His food disappeared as though it AS
before it hungry wolf. Just by him
was a Pretty girl—probably a typist
in a city office—stud whets she crane to
pay her bill she discovered that she
had left her purse at home. We have
to be very atria in each Cases, I:e-
cause there are so many "forgotten
my money, but 1'11 send it on" people
about. But this girl was genuinely
distressed. In a moment, up jumped
the ragged boy and paid her bill, and
off she went, blushing, but happy,
Wlien the fellow came to pay his owvn
he had just threeha'lience lett. I3e
couldn't give any address, not even
that of a common lodging -house. A
Policeman took hint away, and I didn't
know whether to laugh or cry.
Yes, lots of romances here. I often
• say marriages aro made in heaven—
and eating -houses, One girl canto In
Isere day after day, always contriving
to get a particular scat where she
could see a certain big, black-)tah'ed
I fellow, though he would never look at
herr. But you could tell they had been
'friends once; 8o I interfered, Cheek,
was it? Well, all women like to try
to put matters right after Uatn Cupid
has sometimes made such a mess of
them. A little manoeuvring and I got
both at one table, That day they
walked out. together, I found out af-
terwards I had clone better thin I
(thought, for I had reunited husband
and wh
Thenet there was a shy young fellow,
one of our "regulars." filo rarely
spoke to rue. but when I brought any.
thing wrong for another customer, he
would alive If say, ''I'll take that,
miss. It will save you the trouble of
taking it back" What happened thea?
Oh, I'm going to marry the feliosiq
What else could I do?
Wettest Spot on Earth,
For a little archipelago, the Ha-
ivaiian Islands offer remarkable var-
ieties of climate. Parts of thein have
much less annual rainfall than our
eastern provinces, whereas on some of
the lofty mountains there is an almost
con'tinuou's downpour through the
yeaThr.
us the island of Kauai rains up 50
a peak nearly a mile high (inaccessible
except. to experienced mountain climb-
ers), and upon its lofty stones there
fell during five recent years an mantel
average of 475 inches of rain—nearly
fo.ty fent, that is to earl
','his, however, is not a maximum
for that wettest spot on earth., In.
1014 and again in 1918, as shown by
weather bateau rain -gauges, fifty feet
in depth of water fell from tete skies
aeon that one mountain top, -
Baenhao trees cbe riot Titoesom till
they are thirty years old.