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By RUPERT HUGHES.
its blessing and its bane, to move
over into a man's house and share his
room and her life with him.
Only,' now she was asked that at
the period when many women were re-
turning to a second spinsters'hip and
one of her friends who had married
young and whose daughter had mar-
ried young, was a grandmother. De-
borah was experiencing the terror
that assails youngbrides, the dread
of the profoundesrevolution in• wo-
man's life. Only in her case the ter-
ror was the greater fron'i the double
duration ofher maidenhood. She was
still a girl and yet gray was in her,
hair.
The thought of marriage was a -
most intolerably beautiful. •
How wonderful that she should he
asked to marry the ideal of her youth
—she the laughing -stock of the other
girls; and now she could have a hus-
band, a home, and children of various
ages, from the little tot to the grown-
ups. She would never have babies of
her own, she supjrosed, but she could
acquire them ready-made. All her.
stifled instincts flamed at the new
empire offered her.
And then she remembered Josie
and Josie's sneer:. "Poor old Debby.
She never was a rose."
And now Josie was dead a year and
r a.aa-�_ more, and Josie's children and Josie's
eae
lover were submitted to her to take
CHAPTER VII. He had previously sought diversion or leave. What a revenge it would
"Ws old Jim Crawford," Debby in the society of some of the very be! What a squaring of old accounts!
said young and very pretty salesgirls in How she would turn the laugh back
for all on them! I•Iow well she could laugh
who waited to the last!
Then she shook her head. What had
she to do with revenge? What mean-
er advantage could anybody take than
to flaunt a dead enemy's colors? We
can all deal sharply with our friends,
but we. must be magnanimous with
our foes.
a flourish No, it was impossible. Josie had
befitted a king. That he was a That long -silent door be became suffered enough in the ebb of her
widower and, for Carthage, wealthy, a thing to listen for of evenings. Jim beauty. Debby could not strike " at
may have had something to do with Crawford dropped round nowt iand ll- her in her grave.•
There was a panic of another sort his store, but he found that,
now, getting Debby's hands dry, her their graces, their prattle bored him,
sleeves down, her apron off, her hair They talked all about themselves or
puffed, he lamp in the parlor lighted, their friends. Debby talked to Asaph
Old Jim Crawford was some minutes about Asaph: He and she. had been
alder before he was adrr_itted. children together—they were of the
It was the first male caller. Deborah same generation; she was a sensible
had had since her mother could re- woman, and she had learned much at
member. The old lady received him the counter school. He got to drop -
with flo ish that would have ping round right often.
it. A fantastic hope that at last. then; the elderly floorwalker
somebody had come to propose to De- aber's dropped round one night and
borah excited her mother so that she I talked styles and fabrics and gossip in
took herself out of the way as soon' a cackling voice. When he had left,
as the weather had been decently the matchmaker's instinct led Mrs,
discussed.
Mr. Crawford made a Iong and pon-
derous effort at small talk and came
round to his errand with the sublety
of 'an ocean liner warping into its
slip. At length he mumbled that if sa]t
Miss Debby ever got t=ied. of Shill- and he simply raved over the
aber's there was a chance he might rising biscuits and the peach pus -
make a place for her in his own store. serves. After supper he asked if he
0' course, titles was dull, and he had might smoke, That was the last word
more help 'n he'd any tall for, but he in masculine possession. If .fxankfn-
was a man who believed in been' cense and myrrh had .been shaken
neighborly to old friends, and knowin' about the room Debby, and Mrs. Lar -
her father and all-- rabee could not have cherished then
It was such a luxury to Deborah to
be sought after, even with this hippo-
potamine stealth, that she rather pro-
longed the suspense and teased Craw-
ford to an offer, and to an increase in
that • before she told. hire that she
Larrabee to warn Debby not to waste
her time on him. 'Two old maids
taikin' at once is more'n I can stand."
Three times that year Newt Mel-
drum was in town and called on De-
borah. She asked him to supper once,
as they did the odor of tobacco in the
curtains next day. Mrs. Larrabee
cried a little. Her husband had smok-
ed.
Deborah was only now passing
through the stages the average wo
would have to "think it over." man ,travels in her teens and early
He lingered on the verandah steps twenties.
to offer Deborah "anything within Deborah was having callers. Some -
reason," but she still told him she tithes two men came at once and tried
would' think it over. When she thought to freeze each other out.. And finally
it over she felt that it would be base she had a proposal!—from Asaph!—
ingratitude to desert Asaph Shillaber,
who had saved her from starvation
by taking her into his beautiful shop.
No bribe should decoy her thence so
long as he wanted her.
She did not even tell Asaph about
t the next day. A week later he
asked her if Crawford had spoken to
her. She said that he had mentioned
,- the subject, but that, of course, she
had refused to consider leaving the
man who had done everything in the
world far her.
This shy announcement seemed to
exert an immense effect on Asaph. He
thanked her as if she had saved his
life. And be stared at her more than
ever,
A few evenings later there was an-
other ring at the Larrabee bell. This
time Mrs. Larrabee showed no alarm
except that she night be late to the
door. It was Asaph. He was as
sheepish as a boy. He said that it
was kind of lonesome over to his
house and, seeing their light, he kind
of thought he'd drop round and be a
little neighborly. Everybody was
growing more neighborly nowadays.
Once more Mrs. Larrabee vanished.
As she sat in the dining room, pre-
tending to knit, she thought how good
it was to have a man in the house.
The rumble of a deep voice was so
comfortable that she fell asleep long
before Asaph could bring himself to
going home,
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from Josie's and Birdaline's Asaph!
They had left him alone with Debby
once too often.
It was not a romantic wooing, and
Asaph was not offering the first love
of a bachelor heart. He was a trade -
broken widower with a series of as-
sorted orphans on his hands. And his
declaration was dragged out of hien
by jealousy and fear.
Jim Crawford, after numerous fail-
ures to decoy Deborah, had at last
offered her the position of head sales-
woman; this included not only author-
ity and increase of pay, but two trips
a year to Montreal as buyer!
Deborah's soul hungered to make
that journey before she died, but she
put even this temptation from her as
an Sngratitude to Asaph. Still, when
Asaph called the next evening it am-
used her to tell him that she was go-
ing to transfer herself to Crawford's
—just to see what he would say and
to amuse him, Her trifling joke
brought a drama down an her head.
Asaph turned pale, gulped: "You're
going to leave me, Deborah. Why, I
--I couldn't get along without you. I
don't know what I'd do if I couldn't
talk to you all the time. Jim Craw -
ford's in love with you, the old scoun-
drel. But I won't let you merry him,
I got a nicer house than whit he had
for you to live ,in, too. There's the
childern, of course, but you like chil-
dern. They'd love you. They need
mothering something awful. I been
meaning to ask you to marry me, but
I was afraid to. But. I couldn't let.
you go. You will, will you? I want
you should marry me—right off. You
will, won't you?"
, Deborah stared at him agape. Then
she cried: "Asaph Shillaber, are you
!proposing to me or quarrelling with
me—which?"
"I'm proposin' to you, darn it, and
I won't take 'No' for an answer"
Deborah had often wondered what
she would say if the impossible should
happen and a man should ask her for
her hand. And now it had come in the
unlikeliest way, and what she said
Was:
"Sakes alive! Ase, one of us must
be crazy!"
i. Asaph was in a genie; and he be-
sieged and besought till she told him
she would think it over. The sensation
was too delicious to be finished with
an immediate monosyllable. Iie went
away blustering. Her mother had slept
through the cataclysm. Deborah post-
poned telling her, and went to her
froom in .a state of ecstatic distress.
Her room was prettier than it had
been, and the bureau was more brave-
ly equipped. It was a place of biter-
esting mystery; there were curling-
• irons and skin -foods and nail -powders,
and what not.
Now she was asked to give up this
t]ofeliness, this lifelong privacy, with
She waited to announce her decision
till Asaph should call again, Then
she told him what she had decided, but
not why. He suspected every other
reason except the truth. He was al-
ways a quick, hard fighter, and now
Deborah had to endure what Josie
had endured all her life. He denounc-
ed her, threatened her; cajoled her,
pleaded with her, but Josie's ghost
chaperoned the two, forbade the
banns, seemed to whisper, "His bad
temper was what ruined my beauty."
(C.oncluded in next issue.)
As You Make It.
To the preacher, life's a sermon,
To the joker, it's a jest;
To the miser, life is money,
To the loafer, life is rest
To the lawyer, life's a" trial,
To the poet, life's a song;
To the doctor life's a patient
- Who needs treatment right along.
To the soldier life's a battle,
To the teacher, life's a school; -
Life's a good thing to the grafter,
Itis failure to the fool.
To the than upon the engine,
Life's a long and heavy grade;
It's a gamble to the gambler;
To the merchant, life is trade.
Life is but one long vacation .•
To the man who loves his work; -
Life's an everlasting effort
To shun duty, to the shirk.
Life is what we try to make it,
Brother, what is life to you?
Who Invented Railways?
George Stephenson? -Not altogether.
While everybody has heard of Stephen-
son and his first locomotive, "The
Rocket," few people have ever heard'
of his rival, an engineer named Isom- -
bard Brunel, who was known as the -
"Napoleon of railways,"
The difference between the ideas of
these two pioneers of the railway was
that whereas Stephenson favored car-
riages and engines of the same "gauge"
or width as those running to -day,
Brunel wanted his lines to be seven
feet wide instead of four feet eight
and a half inches. FIe claimed with
larger boilers we should have travel-
led at one hundred miles an hour if
his plan had been adopted.
His wide gauge was actually used
on several English railways for many
years, and only finally disappeared
thirty years ago.
The earliest excursion train on re-
cord ran from Birmingham to York in
1842, and the handbills advertising the
trip advised passengers to provide
themselves with great coats and tut-
brellas. In those days carriages were
like goods trucks, with wooden seats
all round, and the train never exceed-
ed a speed of from twelve to twenty
miles an hour.
.Railways were not regarded with
favor, and in more than one case local
authorities met to protest against the
proposal_ to build a station in thetir
district.
Defending a Friend.
"Yes, sir," said Brown. "Simson
were 1 fool. said you v e an old oo 1311t I s
by you. I defended you, all right.",; •
"Did you?" returned Smith. "That
was good of you. What did you sad'?"
"Oh, I said you weren't so very old,"
Reading by Musical -Box,
An instrument which enables a blind
duan to have his favorite novel trans-
formed into a sort of musical -boa., giv-
Mg- out a different sound for each let-
ter, and thus enabling hint to read
with ease, has been invented.
In the pest, blind persons have had
to rely on the Braillie and Moon eyes
tems of raised type if they wanted to
read:
The new machine, called the opto-
phone, which has been invented by Dr.
Fournier d'Albe, of London, and rnodt
lied and developed by a Glasgow firm
of engineers, enables any bock or
newspaper article to be read.
All that is necessary is to clamp the
book or article in the proper position,
place a telephone receiver over the
ears, and the machine does the rest.
The principal feature of the optophone
is the use made of selenium, a chemi-
cal element, the electrical conductivity
of which in one of its physical forms
(grey crystalline) varies in accord-
ance with the amount of light to which
it is exposed. With varying pulsa-
tions of light, which is obtained from a
small electric lamp placed beneath a
rotating and perforated disc, notes of
different pitch can be obtained and re-
produced in the telephone receiver as
the light passes over the letters of the
book.
The sounds heard by the reader are
quite musical, and are in the sol-fa
notation. If the light passes over, say,
the letter V, the sounds soh, me, ray,
doh, ray, pie, soh are heard. Each let-
ter of the alphabet has its own sound,
and as soon as the reader has learned
these, he has the whole range of book
literature at his disposal.
As the speed at which the machine
works can be regulated, the reader
can get on faster as he becomes more
proficient. He can start it and adjust
it himself, and is thus independent of
any outside assistance,
Oldest School in the World.
When children, puppies and kittens
indulge in play they are doing much
more than merely amusing themselves.
They are really, though they do not
know it, going to school—Nature's
school—and are practising the things
they will have to do later on.
A kitten plays with a cork or reel of
cotton, and in doing so learns to
pounce upon a mouse. Young wolves
pretend to fight and chase each other
because in after life they will have to
pursue their prey and 'fight for their
lives. Puppies do the same things for
the same reasons, though in the case
of dogs the necessity has ceased. -
Monkeys amuse themselveo by
swinging i and jumping from one
branch to another, and thus learn to
escape from their hereditary enemy,
the tree snake.
Boys' gauzes are really mimic battles
and survivals of the tribal instinct.
Football, for example, is only a sham
fight between two tribes, as are ail
games in which sides are taken. It is,
however, a curious fact that man—
like dogs and other domestic animals
—really practises for a life that is
thousands of years behind him. This
would seem to prove that we are not
quite as civilized as we imagine our-
selves to be.
The one hundredth anniversary; of
Jenny Lind's birth will be commeen-
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to use sugar as a condiment rather
than a medicine; for in that year navi-
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BRITAIN'S ESC
RESTING BABIES
PRINCESS PAT'S BABY
BOY AMONG THEM.
What Will These Children
Make of Their Heritage of
Brains and Beauty?
Which is the most interesting baby
in the world?
Yours, of course! But apart from
the wonderful babies owned by many
who read this, there are a number of
newly -born kiddies whose parentage
makes speculation regarding their
futures more than ordinarily interest
ing.
There may be a certain amount of
truth in the old saying -that clever par.
eats often have stupid children, and
vice versa. At the same time, much is
expected of a baby with a long family
heritage of noble birth, with, parents
noted for brains, beauty, and talent,
or personal valor. -
Consider some of the most famous
babies born .recently—what will they
become?
With a queen as godmother, and t
host of notabilities to witness the cere-
mony, Alexandra Prlsoilla Helen Bi-
besco, the infant daughter of Prince
and Princess Bibesco'and granddaughe
ter of Mr. and Mrse Asquith, was elhris-
tened recently 'at a Greek church in
London.
The mother of the baby is Elizabeth,
the youngest daughter of the former
Prime Minister, who became the
father-in-law of a son of one of the
most ancient and noble families of
Roumania when his daughter married
Prince Bibesco in April, 1919.
With a statesman as grandfather,
a brilliant social leader as grand-
mother, a witty -speaker, writer, dra-
matist, and actress as mother, and a
diplomat of Royal birth as father, this
baby girl in future years may despair
of living up to the reputation of her
family, although there is no recorded
instance of an Asquith failure.
Prince Bibesco, 'who, by the way,
has also achieved success as a -drama-
tist, belongs to an ex -Royal house, His
ancestors were the rulers of the prin-
cipality of Wallachia, which sixty
years ago became united to the princi-
pality of Moldavia, the two being
named Roumania.
Lady Patricia's Son.
A Month. before Mies Asquith map -
'led Prince Bibesco, Prhacese Patricia
of Connaught was led to the altar by
the Hon. Alexander Ramsay.
She was the first Royal woman to
marry a commoner during a very long
,period, the romance beginning in 1908,
when Commander Ramsay, who as a
naval officer accomplished great
things during the wa"r•, was acting as
A.D.C. to Princess "Pat's" father in
Canada.
The sequel to the romantic marriage
was the birth of a son on December
21st last—a boy who will be able
through both his father's and mother's
families to trace his descent back to
Robert Bruce, the hero of Bannock-
burn.
In future years, should the boys fol-
low in their father's footsteps, he may
meet on the same ship the Hun. -
George Patrick Rushworth Jellicoe,
the two-year-old son of Admiral Jells,
coe. Married in 1902 to a daughter of
the late Sir Charles Cayzer, the fam-
ous shipping magnate, Admiral Jelii `
toe had four daughters presented to
him before the arrival of a e.cn and
heir, and it is a curious fact that n
few days before the birth of the Ikon,
George Patrick, a son—Viscount Da-
wick—arrived in the ?ninny of Lord
Haig. He was followed a year• later
by another daughter, the previous
children born to Lady Haig being two
daughters, Lacly Alexatidra aiad Lade
Victoria, -
Before her marriage, in 1906; Lady
Haig was the Hon, Mand Vivian, maid
of Honor to Queen Victoria and Queeit
Alexandra. The famous soldier firs(
met his wife at Windsor Castle, where
he was a guest, and foll- in love With
her at first sight, The attraction 'was
mutual, and four days later. they be-
came engaged.
A Noted Irish Baby.
What' does the future hold fps' the
baby -son of Sir Edward Carson, "the
stormy petrel of Ireland." es he has
been described?
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wen. The baby -son of the famous law-
yer has two stepdaughter's, thirty and
forty; years of age, and a stepsister
who was married fifteen years ago.
Because of the advantages of birth,
great things may be expected of these
babies, 'But it is just ars like)' e t
the glen and womon destined ta ao
history in the future are now fern;
tra:dled in. far humbler homes.
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