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Only popular people are given fa-
miliar names, writes Evelyn 'Graham
in Pearson's Weekly. Prince Nicolas
of 13umania is always called "Nicky,''.'
and he' is probably one of the zgost-
poeular and charming young men in
Europe. Someoue .nice said; "You
always want to begin .to la u h wh
Nicky begins to talk,,' and this
very 'true. He has a sense of
which never, seems to end.
What a dare -devil of a yo
Prinee he isl Twenty-five is the
to be adventurous, and Prince Ni
certainly courts adventure. His
has been a varied cad interesting o
Little pictures of Prince Nicolas s
before me when I think of him
blue-eyed baby boy with fair
and his beautiful mother's eyes
eel -Kral -boy at Eton; a midshipman
the British navy, a Rumanian pri°
with the quick temper of his r
dashing about the country in
automobiles.
Nicky is perhaps the Queen of
mania's favorite child. He is probe
one of the most satisfactory, too.
education has been ` just what s
wanted. • An amusing story is told
how the queen gained her way
having Nicky sent to Eton. Her mi
was made up, but there remained t
king's mind.
Tho queen was' clever instead
asking the boy's father herself, s
told of the glories of Eton to an o
general from whom the King alw
asked advice. When, a. little let
the king asked the general's advi
about schooling for his son, the 'o
man at vase said Eton. When t
king told Queen Marie that he h
decided to send Nicky to Eton' :t
Queen. only sailed. She is a wend
ful diplomat,
Prince Nicolas when home for
holidays from Eton did pretty, mu
as he liked, and was often out all d
in his car. Ile is.an expert and da
lug driver, and it is necessary: to.
this in Rumania, for many of t
roads are terrible. He laughin
tells the story that once, when he
driving home, the roads were so b
that the car had to be taken down
the bed of the river and driven at
Drawl between the rocks.
The prince ant his mother are mo
delightful friends. `Often they are
be seen arm in aria together, : "lelo
beautiful women" are fust content
be beautiful," he once said, "but m
mother is understanding as welI."
is' to his mother that Prince Nick
comes when he wants to confide i
someone about the latest "most ado
able girl in the world."
Now that Prince Nicolas has bee
made the guardian of little King. M
eheal of Rumania, be will` probabl
have to give up the navy as his pro
ession. It was the queen, again, w'
insisted that he must go into th
British navy:
The prince loves the sea, and h
so likes to show off his beautifu
mother` to his fellow officers, . Ono
when he was- leaving to rejoin hi
ship the .queen arrived at Constanz
from Sinai, and on the eve of he
son's departure gave a supper t
which were invited the British sta
officers and Rumanian officers to mee
them. Nicky was radiant. As he sat
afterwards, he was only an unknow
ieutenant, but now he would. b
known everywhere he'went becaus
of his mother!
Prince :Nicolas' friends are legio
—the excitement at Sinai when
elegram arrives saying that Nicky,
eturning on furlough is tremen
dous. Princess. Illeana; especially, i
always very elated, for she and he
brother have great times togethe
when he is home. Both of them are
ntirely without fear, 'and often ge
up to the most hair-raising larks. Al
Queen Marie's children are good -look
ng, but perhaps .'Deena . and Nieky
re most striking, and their exploits
re a byword all over Rumania..
Once when Prince Nicolas name
ome on furlough he travelled all the
way from London with his own ear
nd without a chauffeur. He kept his
anvils- informed of his progress by
elegram and finally, one evening, he
elegraphed that he had crossed the.
umanian frontier. He reached home
midnight and arrived down to
reakfast without the slightest. fuss
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Nicknames for Mussolini Ai
Mussolini's nickname —= ft an-
us Romans talking about', i In
tbllc—is "Alta." I1 is not �c"v se to
it1cize hint openly, for Fascist ears
e everywhere. He may be referred
as plain Mussolini (or Duce) in a
newspaper headline, hut in the body
of the text he i:a almost invariably
described' as ''His 'Excellency the
Head: of the Government." • In court
documents he is "Chevalier Musso-
lini," from his rank in the order` of
the Anuunziata. "Mr. Sones" and
"Ma a Jackson" are terms Anglo-Sax-
ons apply to the Premier when they
refer to him within the hearing of
persons who might misconstrue what
they say.
Pigs as Cnireney.
A traveller who has returned from
the Pacific has been tellingsome
amusing 8 01105 of things that - go JIr
in thr-. New Hebrides. figs, he says,
arcs not. only. eaten on a large scale,
ottt Prcy are the standard enrrency in
the island,' There are certain cere-
monies at 'which it is - very important
t0 .tr:. ' pigs, and they are frequently
fro s c,,ved. The men who lend pigs
are like moneylenders, demanding in-
ter : a- on their loan, and when the pig
is paid back it:Inust be the size the
plc„ that Was loaned would have
grown t0 during_the time it was
borrowed.
l'12 Mousers, One Chimney.
la anew settlement nE,ar Dlrisberg,
lrr Germany,, although there aro 442
ileuses, there is anger one eltimtiey,
_1i the houses are supplied with heat
and hot water tram one house, which
°et -m h:e the middle of the settlement,
Ad all cooking ' done by gas
hting i aleetrio.
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CHAPTER 1
What's the Use?
Grandmother Page refused to bud-
ge, I turned her over again, but
there was no .sign of life. I squirted
gasoline into her cylinders, but she
didn't seem: to care for it.
As you may have surmised, Grand-
mother Page is a relation of mine
only by adoption and 'purchase; She
originally was created and assembled
by the Page Motor Company of De-
troit, but that was so long ago that
her years fully entitle her to' the title
of "Grandmother."
She has had a hard life, too. For
four years she has been going nearly
everywhere -that I go, 'and for a long
time before that she was the travel-
ing companion of a suburban real-
estate man who could gold. bricks to.
placer miners. I suspect that he
taught- her some of her deceitful
tricks.
It must have been from him t
she got her love of the country.
revels in green fields and'runn`
brooks and sand -banks and m
holes. Whenever she finds one
always wants: to' stay there all d
The farther it is from the city
better she likes it..
I personally am fonder of the ci
and when she decides to remain
night on 'some road fourteen or f
teen utiles from :anywhere I h
sometimes -walked home rather th
share the sylvan solitudes with he
Under my breath I murmure
"Durn you, Grandmother," and
the engine a vindictive tap with
monkey wrench.
"Maybe there is no gasoline' in t
magneto," suggested Maryella, w
had watched my struggle from t
front seat.
I made no reply. When some o
begins offering rile suggestions aft
I have tried every known trick on
stalled rnotor;I find that theionly rVay
to preserve my reputation as a gen
deutan is to keep' absolutely silent.
Even Maryella,, whom I have been
trying for two years to persuade to
become Mrs, Tom Bilbeck, can draw
fire from me' on such: a dynamic oc-
casion.
"We've•. got to get home, Tom," she
fretted. "There's a rehearsal of 'Pyg-
malion and. Galatea' to -night; and if
we're away they can't do ping."
No, reader, we are not . actors. 1
am positive of that. Our stage -work
receives mention .only in the society
coltitnn.. We perform for.charity. be-
fore people who have to like us be-
cause we reiiresent such worthy caus-
es. 'Whenever the Social Settlement
sends up a yell for funds we spend
a thousand dollars worth of time end
tieing five hundred people to part
with fifty cents e�ch to hear us forget
our lines. '
When Belgium needs bread or th
Fiji Islanders run out of pants; wh
comes to the rescue regardless of con
sequences? The Sheridan Dramati
Club!
And now we were doing "Pyg
tnalion.and Galatea" for the Old Sol
diers' Home, which needed some new
window -shades or an electric piano,
'I've forgotten which.
"Besides," continued Maryella, shiv-
ering. slightly, ``it's getting colder,
and I think I felt a drop of rain a
minute ago." '
"That being the case,'' I observed
sarcastically, "we'll start,"
"Let's," she encourag111.
Grandmother. Page and I repeated
our,:-, justly celebrated repertoire of
tricks, from adjusting the spark -coil
to putting gasoline in our eye while
lying prone under the tank, Each
separate adjustment was preceded and
followed by reducing -exercises with
the starting -crank.
"Jim Cooper has a self=starter on.
his car," Maryella observed sympa-
thetically while 1 was trying to catch
my breath.
"Then uvlty,", I inquired in icy cx�I
asperation that I regretted instantly,
"why don't .you marry. Jim Cooper,
if you're so' crazy about a self-start-
er?"
"Ohl" exclaimed Maryella, inartic-
ulate with rage at my remark. "You
have no right to insult ' fee like that!"
"I didn't uaeatl. to insult you, dear!„
I forgot Grandmother Page for; the
moment in t,Ily aytxiety to square .my-
self` for any tactical blunder..
It was the wrong move, My very
huirrility blade her think that she
really had been - offended ,in some way
so she dabbed at her pretty eyes to
see if she could not scare up a tear,
She could tan. ',Mat made her more
angry,
"I know Otte thin," s1ne sta et,,
clambering oait of the scat, "I'll . CV-
er ride in your old car again as ong
as Ili el"
hat
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She started down the road.
"I'll, walk home first!"
Why are girls of twenty so ador-
able -and why are men a few years
older such fools about them? The
answer to that question may explain
also why 1 followed her through the
dusk that was part twilight and part
gathering rainstorm.
"`Listen, Maryella," I called after
her: "Be reasonable."
No response,
"You can't walk all the way home,
It's ten miles."
"I'd probably have to walk any-
way," she observed. dispassionately,
"so I might as well get started be-
fore dark,"•
That remark about walking home
Dane
anyway was the crowning insult-, to
me and Grandmother Page, It: hurt
the more because it was probably'
true. I: turned back angrily. She
trudged on.
Down the road came a purring mo -
extra seat, but you could sit on the
gasoline tanks at the rear; I think
it will hold you."
He surveyed me doubtfully,
A slight snicker from the lady in
the car spurned me to a quick refusal.
"No, thank you: , I'll have my car•
going- in a few minutes."
"Ohl Miss Waite told Inc it
wouldn't go at all."
"Did she?" I murmured" politely,
"I didn't . know that she was inter -
ested."
"Maybe we. had better wait," he
suggested, "until you get started, and
follow you into town. Then'if any-
thing goes wrong we can pick you
up
. along the road.'"
"Please don't," I urged; . with just
a shade of feeling showing in my
voice:
"Just as you say, old top:, I'd like
awfully well to help you if I could."
He got back into his car and insult-
ed us once more with the subdued'
Maryellr Watching the Struggle from the Front Seat of
, ,Grandmother Page
tor. I had hardly expected a car to but efficient purr of his electric start -
pass that way. I had purposely 'cho-
sen a back -country road for my drive
with Maryella that day. This ma-
chine was coming from town.
I looked at a turn of the roa.d a-
round which it would presently ap-
peal-. Maybe it was a friend of mine,
The car rounded the turn. ssvore
under nay breath.
It was the racing runabout belong-
ing to jim Cooper. Np situation that
I could imagine would please him
more and me less than that in which
we were placed,
He ' pulled up alongside of Mary-
ella, -who had proceeded about two
or three bloclts before he arrived. Af-
ter a short P‘arley she got in beside
him. gnashed my teeth, but thank-
ed Heaven that I would soonrbe alone
to expiess my opinion ,on autonao-
biles, nature, human beings and
things in general.
No such luck The car was com-
ing on toward me. It pulled up
alongside of Grandmother Page.
Maryella looked, off across the
fields on the Other side of the road,
but the driver got down from his
seat @aid inspected .Grandmother
"What's the matter? Won't the
engine run?"
Jim Cooper is the kind of a man
who would ask a question like that,
His sense of humor is very low, just
above that of an anthropoid ape.
When brornidioms were being passed
a.rouncl he took one of each.
"I'll admit that he is rather a good.
lookhag chap. His hair just escapes
beieg too blond and he has a wisp of
a mustache sucti as you see on the
men in the clothing advertisements.
Nature did all she could for the
otttside, but let him go without filling,
in the place which was originally ie.
tended for a mind, Whatever people
seem to be doing he does without
questioe,ing whether there is any
sense in it He plays golf because
so many others seem to enjoy it, not
from any love of the game. He' is
one of .Maryella's adinirers for the
same reason.
Maybe I am prejudiced, but I can't
believe that he really appreciate$ her
Maryelia is flattered by his atten-
tion, not knowing what a small tri -
byte it is, Thc fact that he asks her
opinion die every 1110V° be makes,
from changing brands of tooth -pow.
der to buying a summer home, caters
to her love of power,
"Are yott sate you've got gasoline
in the tank?"
jim Cooper continued his ruthleas
assault on the remaining shtedS o
my tempo-,
"The trouble is in the spark," I
'volunteered briefla, leoking around
for a weepon ie case he shottid ask
another question.
"Ohl C'att I give you a lift home
old man? Of emir, there isn't an
er. Then waving at arte airily, he
turned about and disappeared in a
cloud of dust toward the city. '
I sat by the roadside and -told my-
self that I was probably one of the
seven worst "fussers" in the United
States and the.Dominion of Canada.
I had played nay game like a fifteen -
jeweled boob. The first rule for mak-
ing a girl eat out .of your hand is
never to let her know when you get
Mad. The second is not to be sorry
if you do I had g blow-out in both
While I sat there is began tordriz-
zle, but I thotight too little of myself
to care to move, so I didn't. Instead
I 11- ecoll e ct ed with delightful pain how
eminently desirable Maryella was.
Slim and slender and cool -looking,
beauty -loving god wito wanted to
show what he could do. But she had
eyes, dark ones, that came from no
heavenly .work -shop. In them there
was a bit of temper, of daring and
an invitation to come along that was
If a man must lose his head over a
woman, Maryella's type offers the ut-
^ � � •eaessestea
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A "Snowmobile" used in the Maritime Provinces
m,
DOWN in the Maritime Provinces
V the Canadian Fords wear snow
shoes.' Here is a Ford "Snowmo-
bile" all set' for a hard winter:
Proof that it will get over the
roads no matter how high the
drifts may. be is furnished by Cap-
tain Donald McMillan, the famous
Arctic explorer, who was first to
use a "snowmobile": in the Fax
North. With his Ford thus equip-
ped he travelled nearly two: thous-
and miles. over ice on one: expedi-
tion, at the rate of twenty-five
miles an hou`r.. This, of. course, is
far better than dogs can do in or-
dinary circumstances. The McMil-
lan "snowmobile" has a tractor
tread and runners.
A Model A Ford, such as that
shown in the accompanying-illur••-
tlation, is used by a lumber con-
cern in `the Maritime Provinces. U.
travels regularly over a rough.
wood road at ten miles an nour..
Another used by a large hotel,-'has;i
accomplished a speed of twenty-•:
five to thirty. miles` an hour with,
ease on well built roads on which;;,
however, three or four feet of snow-
has
now
has accumulated.
The "snowmobile" has skiist,
'where • the front wheels ordinarily
would be. Heavy: chains furnish;
traction for the' rear wheels no,
matter how wleep the snow may be..
A Ford dealer has just reported,
that one' such car regularly car-,
ries five passengers over a •woott
road to a lumber camp.
most justification. If you had an
curiosity and a wee bit of nerve, yo
made up your mind that you soul
have to find otit whether to believ
her eyes or the rest of her face.
Up to that afternoon I had bee
doing pretty well, too. Not havin
money in bales, I had started agains
Cooper with a considerable handicap
He worked short hours in his father'
office, which would eventually be his
while I plugged away for a salary—
a good one, but nothing that would
make the mint work overtime to keep
up with me.
There is no use concealing wha
my job is. A good many people
know already from having seen my
name signed at the bottom of a col-
umn of alleged humor which I con-
duct daily for a syndicate of news-
papers, Any one who has \read my
stuff knows that I work hard for my
money, especially when write verse.
Besides my syndicate work do all
the big stories for the Daily Mail,
which is the principal morning paper
of our city. It is pleasa.nt because I
do not have to be in the office con-
stantly- like a regular reporter. When
they need ine they send for me. When
there is a big political convention or
usually cover it.
I had been offered a job as war cor-
respondent, but declined. Just be-
cause Irvin S. Cobb got back with all
his arms and legs attached is no sign
that they wouldn't be able to hit the
next fat man that went over.
When I was thoroughly wet
through so that it didn't- make any
difference what I did, I decided that
I might as well start for home. , It
would be more comfortable to die of
•
pneemonia in my own bed. So I got
tap and sloshed over to the car to get:.
my coat, which I had lain aside wheu
the contest between me and Grand-
mother began.
Just by way of a passipg expres-
sion of my feelings I gave the crank
a turn.
The engine started.
I stood in, the rain a full minute -
longer relieving my mina before
mounted to my seat and steered:
Grandmother Page bapk over the
sloppy roads to the city.
What wiS the use now?.
(Continued Next ,Week)
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Douglas had been prombted to pos-
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was anxious: "And please God," he
prayed that night, "Wake me early
in the morning. Shall we say a quar-
ter to eight?"--Tit-Bits.
Oriental Imagery
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essential, as nurse to Baby Austin.
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