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Boys a d Girls
ONE SUMMER DAY
BY ANNIE M. LIBBY.
Three pairs of linen, three pairs of aidlooked silently for a moment over
Scotch plaid, hanging dejectedly on
the clothes line, one pair of gray,
with little rivers of pie juice flowing
down the front, one pair of navy blue,
with a big tear in the back—these
were Clem's short, broad trousers.
the burying ground, then sat down,
and Bialy jogged on.
"Did you see Injuns?" asked Clem,
anxiously.
"My woman's buried over there,"
said Uncle Retire, pointing his fore-
- And mother was so unreasonable! linger over his shoulder.
if he could only go, he would wear "Why, there's a woman at ;your
the grays and Ms ulster, or the blues house now.
and sit still all day; but the party sail "She? Om, she's nothin' but a sec -
ed away down the Narrows without and womanl 1 s'pose I cried a pint o'
him, and left him standing alone by tears when Eunice died," said the old
"Gibraltar," a big rock on the shore. man, meditatively. I was putty weak
think I'll cry," he said, "but
--I felt bad. She was an awful good
"They 'l
I won't!„ woman. Gong Billy!
They i'ode a long way in silence.
Two bright drops rolled down his "Nothin' but a second woman, and
cheeks as he spoke. wantin' to be skipper'!" repeated Uncle
Clem looked surprised. Retire softly under his breath.
"Some of that babys tears, she's By and by Clem fell into a doze,
1....,'a crying on mei" he said scorn- which lasted but a short time, when
f ee, he awoke and saw a little man ahead,
hen he dug his toes in the sand, in thr n `cid% of the road, a queer-
w.shecl every stick lying about was
-ie'rish or einnamung," and "Gib-
raltae" a great sugar doughnut.
After a time, he saw Uncle Retire
unfastening his big barn doors, and
went over.
He asked Uncle Retire if he was go-
ing peddling, and the old man "caY-
lated he might g'out a spell"
Clem looked on while Uncle Retire
ran out the big red cart, led out the
old white horse, and harnessed him
into the shafts.
"I should like to go out a spell,"
said Clem.
"Wo! shl" said Uncle Retire.
"I'm all alone," moaned Clem.
Uncle Retire brought out several
bags and stowed them in the cart
"It's going to thunder an' lighten
storm to -day," argued Clem, "and I'll
be killed."
Uncle Retire didn't say a word until
he was ready to mount his cart; then
be looked at Clem as if he just rem-
embered that a doleful -looking little
bay stood there.
"Ain't there nobody to your house?
Where's that furriner?"
"Maggie? Well, I don't have much Clem into the barn.
to do with her."n "Did you ever see a calf with ten pulled in—how his back and legs
"Where's Fannie?" an' legs?" he asked eagerly. ached!—and then, then what were
tier's got the tofache, my Clem didn't know. aching and waiting when Uncle Re
-
Clem pig's dead, too!'" "There's one," said Ephraim, point- tire took out one of those little blue
` Clem climbed
git up." ing to a pretty red and white calf in pails, and gave hint for his own?
Uci climbed up, And Lee and Fannie and Josie ren usually have several dimples on
Uncle Retire was a short man, with a "Two forelegs makes eight, and two Bryce and Scott Tinker all came to their backs and shoulders,
scanty white hair, a red face and blue hind ones tent Don't ye see?" meet him for mother had come from
eyes, Dimples usually accompany a smile,
One of his saucy young neighbors Clem said ""Yes" in so calm a tone the picnic long ago, and they had had end, when they appear on other pee-
r id he bore the national colors whet- that the boy was suspicious, and want -supper, pie's thioles we seldom think of their one considers the traditions in which
e ar he went. ed to knew if he ever heard that be -I shall get some water for my own , couse. Underneath the outside skin the coir a the British throne was
He had been a sailor in his younger fore. supper in my new pail," said Clem. 1 of the face aro fibres of varying length, reared. Before 1814. the Prince Clem couldn't remember, but guess- Scott and Josie swung on the long Which run in all directions • Oocasion-
of the ander never unlearned had learned mind I ed some of the calves at his grandpa's swsep, to bring it down in Clem's i ally these fibres are too she' rt in a car- friends were chosen for him, and since
of queer phrases he had had as many as 'leven legs. reach. tain spot, and so pull the skin which the idea prevailed at the Euglisk court
on shipboard. ""How could they? Now prove it. "You'll lose it, Clem; you'll sure] that members of the royal family
There were some funny black fig -y forms the dimple.
said Prove it same's I did to you."lose it," said Lee, but Clem calmly;—..s.,---
a
a
ax ship under hands,es on his and
sail was y had
marked No. Clem wasn't sure. Maybe slipped his treasure over the catch 4
upon 'twasn't ':even, maybe 'twas five, or with the big wooden bucket, and they
Clem couldn't
c couldn't believe that— three; but he promised not to tell went down with a plunge—went down,
"'Twould hued" about Ephraim's calf, and Ephraim but only the big pail cane back. 1
A detachment of Royal Canadian. Mounted Police are shown taking part
in the historical pageant at the Calgary stampede recently.
•
sizes—for tha biggest bag had burst,
"Jes le' me git this hoss hove to,"
said Uncle Retire excitedly.
"I'd help," said the little girl, "but
looking thing coniine toward then. Im going to carry this pail of milk to
13y gating sharply for a minute, my grandmother, and the wolf might
CIem saw it was n toy walking beak- catch me if I wait, for it is almost
dark now."
So she skipped away.
The peddler and Clem went back to
pick up the rags, Clem looking a little
anxiously along the road for the wolf.
He had heard of going round the spire
world—he was sure that stream of get a green one instead of a blue one?
rags did, but he never thought of stop- Basila in that mellow peace the Eng- get didn't you go to a cheap place in -
ping until the last one was in the bag lisp know, stead of an expensive ono?"
and the hole fastened up. Then, Tho ordered quiet of the English
shire. At Iret the harried victims flee from
perched on the cart again, with a long home to some place where no cue
yawn, he asked if Uncle Retire didn't knows thaw well enough to ask them
A tranquil haunt, yet down that
wards on 1118 feet and hands.
Just as the horse reached him he
jumped to one side. and looking sur
between lois legs, :railed out;
"Say 1"
Billy stopped, as he always did
when he met anybody,
"My another— Who's that boy w! -h
you?"
"What Co you want?"
"1 wanter know who that boy is.
"Na -ow, look a -here, Ephraim
Elalce, of your mother wants nn} wish Billy was an "okatrrtch, so they
thing, say so, or I'll go right along," could get home awful ttviek."
and the peddler gathered up the reins.
"She does," said the boy, still star-
ing at Clem, "She wants a pint, an'
she's got the rags to pay for it."
There was no house in sight here
either, but Billy turned down a lane,
A Thames Backwater.
My boat swings free to this mid -Eng-
land calm,
A calm too deep for labor at the
oar—
Cuckoo and singing reed, an air like.
balm, I
URTEUL
'HOME TRUTHS"
"_Dorothy Dix on Family Mischief-iViakers.
The great cry nowadays seems to bel Next, I would suppress rho suggest -
for labor-saving devices and -house re- er. There are few homes in which any- DESCRIBED BY F. G. J.
form. But what we need is• not se ene can do anything he wants to. do
much to improve the houses we live int without Having a family argument COMEAU, HALIFAX.
es the spirit within therm.' There is 1 over It. If you want to go to the
not such a burning call to enlarge our .theatre, mother thinks you shouldn't
rooms as there !s to give the members go because it looks like rain, and fan. -
:
the family More personal liberty. er thinks you shouldn't go because you
T Wo all have our own ideas about howl were out late the night before last.
the home should be reformed so that if you want to buy a now-toothbr-fish,
it would be, in reality`, the home of our 1 Aunt Sallie thinks you should USG a
APPLE BLOSSOM TIME
IN NOVA SCOTIA
Great Flower Display Enjoyed
by Crowds of Visitors in the
Annapolis Valley.
dreams, the dearest spot on earth to. soft ore because she likes a soft one, One of the rarest sights to be seen
us, instead of being the vicinity from! while Aunt Maria suggeets a herd one in Nova Scotia is, without doubt, the
which we are most anxious to get because ,s'he likes hard ones. You may, apple orchards of the Annapolis Vel -
away, be micldie aged and succoesful,. and ley; in full bloom whtc'h this year was
Pithily Cross -Examination. Have your opinions respected by the between. June 1st and lOtli.
sity of this great Flower Garden,
I should begin home reform by ung- world, but that dons• not keep your own Wlueu it
is recalled that ilio apple
family from trying to. .altaose your, orchands of this province exceed in
:Possibly it le. because we instinctively
ing every Family to put the ban on acreage; quantity, and crop result's by
clashes' for you, from telling you what
nearly 400,000 barrels all the other or-
oherda of Canada combined, one can
well forum a good Idea of the tunnel
the questionnaire, Why we all loathe
and hate to answer questions I do not
know. Probably because we recognize
them ae a deadly blow at our. rreedonl.
Next, r would cue our plate. H " `ae 7 t five thousand acres of apple or-.
In the family •circle. No truths aro so '� Y'
to eat and whom to associate with.
Abolish Plain Speaking,
resent the stripping away of the re- unpalatable as home truths. It is just
serve in which wo clothe ourselves, betaines our fanome ltnaw, our week-
end the vulgar prying Into our per-
Anyway,
so well that their criticisms hit
soual affairs.
Anyway, there is notliing that Mee the mark and reticle in our memories.
us so quickly or Taps out nerves: so At the table we do not hesitate to
criticize food it has taken a th•ed wife
surely as being put through a erose
examination about everything that hale
peas t0 us or doesn't happen to us.
Faintly curiosity- is the bane of family
11Po: It is the thing that estranges
more husbands and wives and drives
more children away from home than
chards in full bloom is what greeted
the eyes of "those who made the trip
through the Annapolis, Cornwallis, and
Gaspereaux Valleys duffing Noes=
week.
The great apple land of Nova Scotian ,
and mother hours to prepare. We telt, contains within its bounds the beauti-
fol towns
of Windsor, Hantaport, Wolf -
Susan how fat she is getting, and how villa, ICentvili,e, Berwick, Middleton,
absurd she looks in a tight dress. We Bridgetown, and Annapolis, all of
matte a tush of B e ttinga's age, San the which are progressive towns,_ and as-
fact that she is getting e, be an tie slet'very materially in making the or -
maid. We ridicule Mamie, and make or-
chard business what it is to -day, name
last anything else on earth, a jest of her first levo affair. We ly, .aim od the best businesses in East -
A dulcet Thames above the ""Where are you going? Why are groan when John starts a story, and
lvein"s roar. you going? Whom do you expect to say that we lave heard it a dozen
.ho a meadows cool with af• see? When will. you be back? What tithes before.
Beyond t s are you going to say to him? I These aro only a few elementary
"Where did you 'got your new hat?
Why did you buy one? Why didn't you
terglow,
A thin smoke rises and an ancient
"Here we be!" said Uncle Retire,
turning into a new road. "There's
your house over there, and here is the
barn," he added, as Billy stopped with
his nose against the door.
round a corner, and they came to a Clem scrambled down, said "Good -
small, white house, close by the water, night," and was running away, when
A woman looked out, ran back, and Thiele Retire asked frim to stop a
appeared again with a big bag of rags minute.
which Uncle Retire began to weigh Clem waited a minute while the
and bargain for, while the boy invited horse was unharnessed, while the
horse was fed, while the cart was
dreamy tide, a single question.
Dim-pinnacled with sunset, Loudon -
waits— f
Loudon, the Pool, the purliene scatter- II
ed wide
gates•. Chllinan. II
—Erie
ern Canada.
We read of the efforts made on the
Pacific Coast to attract travel to the
Wenatchee Valley, an oeehard district
1
about how we could im- in Washington State, turning Blossom
prove ct . homes and hone life. 11 Week into a week of sports, where
wouldn't make much difference what pyrotechnic displays are used in ad -
sort of house we lived In if our famia dltion to the blossom attractions to
lies would refrain Prom nagging, draw a crowd. Elven this not sufficient
queetioutng us, and telling us' of ourand and on two nights during Blossom
faults. Any place where we had a lit- weer a carnival is put on„ when every
tie liberty of thought and action would clock in the Apple Cavite], of the State
be home, sweet home: is allowed to stand still, and the
attests ane thrown wide open to Bene -
9
Of earths first city and lien hundred 11
'1THEI�R1l+10E S
'RIENDSHIPS
How Dimples Come.
Have you a dimple? If so, do you
know what it really 1s?
A dimple is actually nothing more
than a dent or depression in a part of
the body where the flesh is very soft.
Dimples are not c:onflned to the cheek
alone, and babies frequently have dim-
pled elbows and knees... Phnnp child -
When the Prince of Wales returns
to York House again after his South
American tour he will bring back with
him, among many other trophies, some
photographs of new friends he has
made, and these will be added to .a
special photograph album he posses -
see made up entirely of people lie has
met and really liked while visiting in
different parts of the world.
For the Prince of Wales has a na-
tural gift for making friends. There Is
tween.him and the common people of
the countries he has visited.
When he "visited George Laue, a
Canadian rancher, he met a cowboy
who had served in Prance during the such spectacular attractions. The ap-
war, The Prince got into conversation pie blossoms themselves are sufficient
wlbk him while riding across the ranch to draw crowds from all corners. of the
and soon the two were comparing ex. Maritime Provinces, from Neth Eng.
perienices and •cracklug jokes• es is they land, and from other parts of Canada. -
had been two old pals, and by the time There is no wonder in the fact that
the Prluce left the ranch pals they bad so marry people visit the Annapolis
become. , Valley on this particular occasion,
A Scot hailing from Aberdeen, and when nature dons its best garments
now the club professional of the links and adorns itself with the best per -
at Banff, has his photograph In the fumed flowers that myriads of trees
"special" album at York House, When can produce.
the Prince visited Banff he played a Two Million Bearing Trees..
round with this man, and as he knew There aro trees of all ages bearing
the part of the country he came from varieties of apples of all kinds' of corn -
no effort. about it, no condescension, very well he talked to him about it. mercial values, Bare, trees can be
and is is all the more powerful when When the round was over the Prince seen which were planted two months
and the "pro" sat smoking, talking ago, and again trees which have been
and laughing together as if they had bearing for up to 150 years and even
known each other all their lives. Nor more. Picture to yoar'self a tree over
was this the last time they met: 100 yeans old bearing a crop of 25 to
Not long after the Prince had left' BO barrels in one year, and you have
Alberta a Frenchman visited the same an idea of what the blossoms Hurst be
could be intimate and friendly only links and esiced the "pro" what he on such a tree, both small and large,
with those of royal blood these friends thought of the Prince. "He's the kind' bearing blossoms, and you have be -
of man ye would jest dee for," was the' fore you a moving picture reel such
were few. But the war changed all'
aa only She Master Maker can p•raluce.
that, and now the Prince chooses bis reply'
In Wenatchee one of the dispha'ys
own friends.
ing to the music o'e many orchestras,
while caimivad events last well into the
"wee small hours."
Iu Nova Scotia there is no need of
Uncle Retire didn't talk much, but gave him a rubber bottle stopper and
Clem was too happy to care. a large slice of raw turnip.
He tried to see how long he could Clem was hungry and ate turnip
Iooit at the sun without winking; he until Uncle Retire begged some gin -
watched the horse's feet, to see if the gerbread and milk for him at a house
hind foot went in the track of the fore- where they called. Uncle Retire had g
Josie almost went down, too, look-
ing in.
Lee talked philosophically of a look-
ing-glass
ooking-glass and magnet, but most of
them concluded it was "gone for i
cod,,
"For there isn't any bottom to this!
well," said Scott.
"No, sir!" chimed Pliny Wade.
".Maybe a Chinaman's got your pail
this minute, drinking puppy soup out
of t"
""iNever mind, Tittle brother," said
Fannie, "you• can have another:"
Cern winked hard.
"Yes," ho said, "I can go peddling
most any clay and get another," and
they all went to the house.
"And so," said his mother, kissing
him again and again after hearing his
adventures, "my little hero toiled all
day, and lost all his wages!"
"Not all, mother."
"Why, your rubber, you lost that"
"Yes, I'spose it's 'lost. I don't know.
where it is."
"And your turnip?"
"Yes, I ate that up."
"And now your pail?"
"No, not that,mother," says Slem,
putting down his mug and shaking
his head earnestly; "that isn't losk,
I can't get it, but I know where it is!"
" • „
foot; the green ribbon turfs, to see • what he ea ,e a bite before they
how nearly the wheels grazed without started from home
touching; the while -sailed boats going All the long summer afternoon they
down the Gurnet; the crows and rode, stopping here and there, to buy
hawks flying over to Pitch -Pine Hill 8 cents' worth of broken glass a boy
--and forgot Uncle Retire until the had picked up, a bit of old iron, a few
old man said: ' rags, or to leave a skimmer, a coffee
"1 dunno as I ought to a -brought pot, or a broom.
ye. Did yea, mar say that ye could Cern liked to stand by when the
go anywhere?" sides of the cart were let down to
"No, sir," replied Clem truthfully. show the tins.
"She didn't have time, 'cause all any Ile saw some especially lovely little
of them said was: 'Where's the salt• red and blue tin pails, and made up
and who has the pickles??' But one his mind to have his mother buy one
day I asked her if I couldn't be a ped•- as soon as he got home.
dler, and she asked me when I got On the whole, Clem liked peddling
some money. And I don't have any very well, but the sun had gone down,
money. 0 had 10 cents, but it got and he was hungry again, when they
away. All my money gets away!" heard a voice calling, "Mr. Peddler,
Isere the old horse stopped at the Mr. Peddler!" and looking back, saw
top of a steep hill. a little girl running up to the cart.
On one side of the road was the "Mr. Peddler," she said, "your rags
graveyard, thickly set with white is a-spillin'!"
stones and overrun with golden rod E What a sight! Back as far as they
and low blackberry vines, On the' could see was a stream of rags fol -
other side were pine woods. ?owing -them. White, black, green,
The old man, stood up in his place pink, blue, all colors, big and little, all
REG'LAR FE! .1.FRS—By Gene Byrnes.
I 0083T WOWS
EAR YOU
WHERE YOUR
CWR15t
OLD TAN CAP' 'II
"•l
Had Never Seen It.
She—"Don't you think this touch of
rouge improves my complexion?"
He—"What kind of complexion have
you?"
Since his tours started in 1919 lie
has made real friends of people in all
parts of the world and in all ranks of
society, many of them men of compara-
tively humble degree.
A typical incident occurred when the
Prince visited the Japanese court on
hle way home after his Indian tour.
He went out boating one afternoon on
the lake in the palace grounds and
was attended by a servant from the
court, one who, like many of the Jap-
anese court .circlrq, spoke English
very well. Now, this servant had Shade
a hobby of the study of botany, a fact
the Prince soon learned, and he began
to balk to Trim on the subject. The in-
terest the Prince took in all the ser -
Irish. want had to say on his pet subject was
Two Irishmen bought tickets for a ,Perfectly sincere and natural. Never
football match, and noticed that each had the man a mare attentive or 1n-
s1•ip of paper had the red imprint "Not telligent listener, and by the time the
Transferable." Mike was puzzled, and Prince's row on the lake was finished
asked what it meant he had won the devoted friendsship of
"Shure," explained Pat, "it means
that you will not be allowed to go in
if you don't go yourself."
Then She Was Suspicious.
Caller—"Your children play so quiet-
ly„
Mother—"Excuse mo a moment"
King Solomon Stull, put on as a special featurethis year
In a coal camp in the heart of the was "The History of the Apple." This
Rockies, a justice of the peace, with I hes been relsorted as an aheclutely
a desire to emulate Solomon, was lis l unique, specially designed feature In
toning to a caste involving the owner- lite gravid closing climax of the display,
ship of a colt. There were wltneeaea showing the history of the apple in
of equal veracity on each side. The j four lmmonee pyraleclinlc tableaux.
justice was undecided what to do; The first Scene was intended to show
but — the apple figured in the story of our
"Each of you Yellows bring your original ancestors. Eve was shown
mare," he told the litigants, offering the apple to Adam, while in
They did so. the background the wily serpent
He ordered one mare tethered to his swung from the Tees of Knowledge.
right and the other mare tethered to Me second scene showed Hercules'
his. left. search for tlse Golden Apples of Juno
in the Garden of the Pair Hesperides,
"The colt will go to its motheHesperides,
told them, after taking pains that colt :when he faced the dragon who was
should see both mares. guarding the Golden Apples. The third
Then lie slipped the halter from the scene showed the old Greek legend of
colt and struck it with a whip. the "Magic. Apples of Venus." The
The colt went up over the hill, fourth scene depicted the "Apple Tree
_ of Wenatchee,"
Poor Pay. Beautiful Annapolis Valley:
Anyone leaving Halifax by the Do-
"I4ins, Cassaday," said her: grater, minion Atlantic Railway trains, and
enjoying the pleasant and comfortable
trip through the Annapolis Valley, par-
ticularly between Windsor and Anna-
polis, a, distance of over 80 miles, can
enjoy the beauties of the apple or-
chards such -as no other part of the
American continent can produce, The
history of the apple he put on by the
Wenatchee has nothing cn this pro-
vince. Our apple growers are familiar
with the history of the various tab-
leaux portrayed as a special show In
the Pacific State, and well know the
part played by the apple trent Genesis
to our day.
While "Blos•soin Sunday" features as
the beat day on which to see this bias -
80111; when thousands of visitors are
directed to this province, it is general.
ly known that the blossoms are usual- -
iy at their best about June ilial to Sth.
The seems 'n•l=oobnmber-
od•,.and W]soOfville0e, ICpentvillot0'erenuesu] ]ler-
wick this year made special efforts
to receive the visitors, to enable them
to see the great Flower AisplaY to the
very best advantage.
His Odd id:a.
First Steno—"The idea of your work-
ing steady eight hours e day! I would
not think of such a tiring!"
Second Steno—"Neither would I.
It was the boss that thought of it."
Plants grove faster between 4,and (1
a.m. than at any other time during
the day.
his attendant. Tho man spread his when she called to do her day's mar -
praise of the Prince everywhere, and .keting, "your. neighbor; Mrs. Clancy,
something of what he said got into the
press aud helped to make Ihe Prince's
visit to Tokio a most complete suc-
cess,
Friendships of this kind have con
tributed enormously to the success of
his tours and have formed a link be -
OH V1SL.L, WEAR''
YOUR GEST ORA"(
GAP THEN:
CAT
ITS OVER AT
CON!
wants to open an, account with me. Do
you think she's be good pay?" -
"01 do not!" was the reply; "She's.
owed 109 an apology for three years!"
If you want to see a girl's face light
up, offer her a good match.
Fifty -Fifty.
IP
.
BUY, MaM,
PUDDINHEADS BEST
HAT AN BUMP ie osola
guNDAY CAP AN'
SHORTYS CAP ARE
HERE! 1 CAN WEAR
oNE OF THEM
ANT 1?
(Copyrl • ht, 1925, by Tho ' Balt Syn • irate, Inc.)
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