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Good Luck
is thought to go t long way, but
Good Judgment goes farther.
TO USE
IS GOOD JUDGMENT.
"The Tea that i:`9 a/ways , Reliable."
traid I would go and find himtat-supe.
1 went. I drove to my club, rang ,up !
Mrs. Clavering: Clayton, the cultured
one, and asked whether Bellamy was
there. She was rather tart with me,
and said he wasn't there and hadn't
been. He had been coming to dinner
the night before and hadn't turned 1p.
She rang off. I wondered how Billy's ,
friends had culled Bellamy so • early,
in the evening. I rang up Enid
Cooper -Calhoun, the rackety one. Mrs.
Cooper -Calhoun came to the telephone
and she also seemed peeved:bg my In-
quiry. She said that she didn't know
where Mr. ' Tong was in such a tone
that I gathered that she didn't :,care.
"I understood that he- was having
11343 tea with Miss Cooper -Calhoun," I said
at a venture. '
"He never came!" she snapped, and
rang oft'.
I gave myself plenty of time to get
to Chipperfield Common. It would
----a. never do for Billy Pride to be on time
The r ng Man's D •g t
BY EDGAR JEPSON.
PART I.
It was no fault of mine that Susie
married Bellamy Tong. I was away,
doing business in the South Seas --
pearls. I came back to find her desper-
ately in love with him—and he with
her, for that matter. Love is a tick-
lish thing; and it is best to leave it
alone. It would have been quite dif-
ferent if Susie had been a robust'
young woman. I should have stepped
in .briskly. A heart break or two does
not seem to do that type much harm.I
But she was not a robust young wo-
man; she was delicate, almost fragile,
and tender-hearted and affectionate.
A heart -break might almost be the •
death of her. I thought it wiser to
sit tight and do nothing and say no-
thing.
I did not like Bellamy, and I trusted
him even less. He was altogether too
beautiful to be true. Of course, I
knew that a man who is really fond 1
of his daughter is apt to be prejudiced;
against any one who wants to take
her away from him. But Bellamy was
most certainly not the type of man I
should live chosen for a son-in-law.
e He was tall and slim and dark and
pale, with large brown eyes and black
hair, brushed straight back without a
parting, and when he laughed he
showed a row of long white teeth. And
he had had a fond mother.
That was why he had not gone to
a public school or to the war. He
spent the last three years of it in Ire-
land, the home of the safe. As far as
I could make out Bellamy did nothing
except talk nobly.
I hate sentimentalists. At bottom
they are generally as hard as nails.
I had little doubt that the base of Bel-
lamy Tong's beautiful" nature was
good hard diamond, for I noticed that
if things didn't go exactly his way his
eyes would go rather harder than the
next man's.
But, as I say, I came back from the
South Seas too late to do anything.
So I let her marry him. But I gave
him his warning. He came to me to
ask my consent. He really seemed to
like the job, and he did it in many of
the noblest words I have ever heard.
with the goods and me not there to
receive them.
4 It was easy driving. The streets
were clear; the road was clearer; and
' no haze dimmed the November moon.
I was at the corner of the Common .at
2.85. At once I heard faintly in the
stillness the slow beat of hoofs and
the ..creaking of a cart on the Sarratt
/ road. At 2.44 there came round the
' corner a van drawn b a
1I did not know him. Why should.I? Mose, y fat
1 heard him out andgave m consent. horse, and driven by a lady. A shawl
y hid quite as -much of her face as my
Then I said quite quietly; "From my muffler and goggles hid of mine.
point of view, you're in the world just She pulled up the horse and said:
t 1 S h
o make use I- dont
I I'll give you heli. "Yes," said I.
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Susie appy you "Is it Mr. Brown, of Islington?"
Susie came back from her honey-) "I've brought the pritty gentleman,"
moon very fit, stronger than she had she said, and got down.
ever been, and as happy as the day is, I got out of the car to help her. She
long—a bit too happy for my liking. • needed no help. She opened the door
It is dangerous to be too happy. You of the caravan, took the "pritty"
have to pay for it. j gentleman by the ankles, lugged him
However, it seemed to be lasting out, snoring, hoisted him on to her
quite well, so, two months later, I went shoulder, stepped across to the car,
off on a business jaunt to Mexico—f and tumbledehim into the tonneau, for
gun running with a fairly easy milli, all the world as if he had been a sack
I came back three months later, pleas- ofpotatoes. I
ed with myself and with a great deal "Thank you, my dear. Here's some-
more money. When I set eyes on thing for your trouble," I said, and
Susie my heart sank plumb and fetch-' gave her a tenner. I
ed up with a jolt. She was not happy She looked at it by the light of my
any long. I lamps, squeaked, and blessed me.. I
I got busy and made enquiries. Of I said goodnight and drove off. I
course, women were Bellamy Tong's had a long run across country before
weakness, or, rather, not his weaknessme. I have a country house, Bostocks,
—Bellamy was that—but his diver- , on aa hill near Pulborough. When I
sign. There were two of them in our; reached Bostocks I found Mrs. Whits
own set, a rackety girl 'and a cultured comb and her son, Harry, who rim the
woman—married and thirty, of course., house and garden for me, asleep in
I did riot need telling that it was a the kitchen, waiting up for me. They,
perfectly infernal mess. It is always , are trustworthy people, Once 'on a
a risky business to interfere between I time I had pulled Harry out`of a devil
husband and wife; and this particular l of a rness. If he showed his face in
husband made it harder. It was my i the West Riding the police would have,
guess that if I made it hot for him 1 him in twenty-four hours. He only
the young hound would take it out of shows his face, and that not too freely,
Susie. I decided to say nothing. After on that hill near Pulborough. They did
all, action is my long suit. not show any surprise at Bellamy's
But the matter was so important to sleepy condition.
me that I did not feel quite sure of Bostocks has a big, high roof. Under
myself, and I took advice—at least, I it is an attic, the length and width of
asked it. I went to my brother Wil- the house, with sloping walls, lighted
liam, who is the parson of one of the by one small wormer window. We
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carried'Bellanxy upstairs, hauled him
up the ladder; through the trapdoor,
into the attic, took off his overcoat,.
and laid him on a small mattress on
I the floor in• a corner.. Then I hand-
cuffed him and with a safety razor
! shaved all that fine black hair off his
head. Even by the poor' light of the
'candle he did look an extraordinary
person. It seemed a pity that he should
lose such an amusing sight; and I sent
1 Harry down for a mirror. He hung
it on a nail by the window. Then I cov-
ered the snoring Bellamy with a blan-
ket and his overcoat Gild went down to
coffee and eggs and bacon. I enjoyed
them very much,
Then I drove home. It was nearly 6
when I arrived and I had not been in
the house five minutes when the tele-
phone bell rang. It was my guess that
it had rung often during the night.
Of course it was Susie. I did not
wait for her to- get in a question. I
said in a bitter voice: "I've been tip; all
night looking into the matter of that
silly young ass of yours."
She accepted the description 'and
said, meekly, but eagerly: "Have you
found him?
"I've found him," I said. "He has
got himself into a'devil of a mess, and
you won't see him for at least a fort-
night. I'm not going to tell you what
the mess is, or where he is. But lie's
quite safe; and not a . woman in the
world can get at him.. Don't come
around. You won't see me. I'm going
to bed; and I'm not going to be dis-
turbed until 2 o'clock."
With that I put. the receiver back.
Relieved of anxiety, she should sleep
herself till 2 o'b`ock. At a quarter
past 2 she found me at breakfast. I
told her that the less said about the
silly young ass' scrape the better. She
was not pressing. I think that she had
tumbled to it that the one place in the
world in which a woman can't get at
a man is prison. Shocking, of course;
but it couldn't be a serious offense if
he would be out in a fortnight, aed,
after all, no woman could get at him,
and that was what she really wanted.
She saw at once that I was right
and went away fairly cheerful, I was,
pleased not to have deceived her at all.
What Bellamy was exactly getting
was fourteen days without the option
of a fine.
(To be continued.)
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and used to being consulted about just
such things, and I went to my brother
Tom, who for ten years had been col-
onel of a crack cavalry regiment and
used to handling young !nen, and ask-
ed their advice. They were both of
them frightfully sick about the busi-
ness, for they were fond of Susie; but
they were as hopeless as they were
sick. Both of them said the same
thing in different words—that when a
man has once fallen out of love with a
woman all the kindness in the world
is no use and drastic methods no
better.
"Drastic methods" gave it me. -1 had
had something of the sort in my mind.
In fact, I had been stopping myself
from thinking that Susie would be
rnuch happier as a wide
• iv aturauy
I have not knocked about the bad
lands and the Seven Seas for all these
years without making some useful ac-
quaintances. Seine of the toughest of
them live east of Aldgate, and they
will do quite uncommon things for sur-
prisingly little money. I thought at
once of Billy Pride. What the crinkled
old crimp doesn't know about shang-
haiing isn't worth knowing. He ar-
ranged to hand Bellamy over to me at
the corner of Chipperfield Common at
2.45 a.m. on the following Tuesday.
For the next few nights I took Susie
out to dinner and the theatre and on
to supand dance at the Midnight Fol-
lies. She did not want to go; she
wanted to mope at home. But I put it
that I had been having a hard time
on the Mexican border and needed re-
freshment. So she came, and Geof-
frey Franks came with us. I thought
that he was good for her. He had been
in love with her for a donkey's years
and he was still in love with her and
showed it. I could have done with
him as a son-in-law very well. He is
a first-class soldier and a great deal
more than a soldier. There's a lot of
i
wounded vanity to these broken
hearts; and I was sure Susie would
find it soothing to have it dinned into
her that she was still uncommonly at-
tractive. Geoffrey would din it in all
right. He did do her good—a little.
I was shaving on the Monday morn-
ing when she came round to the house
and burst into my room in a devil of
a state, Bellamy had not come home
the night before; j
That was just like Billy. You could
always rely on him to be. on time.
"'Well, what about it?"I said. "He's I
probably got caught in a poker or.
Chelnmy game and at it still.
She wouldn't hear ofit—Bellamy.
was not like that.
I kept telling her that nothing could
have happened to Bellamy. ' Then I
fairly dragged her off for a motor
drive in the country, and we lunched
at Canterbury. Coming back, we ran
out of petrol in an out of the way
country' :lane.. I was trying 'a short
cut; and I knew I was short, too, of
,petrol. It was 8 o'clock when we
reached their flat.
She fairly dashed into it, asking for•
Bellamy. He had not come home. She
was in a terrible state.
I
helped her, I said: ,I expect that -
4,1
lentTHE NEW WORD.
Beatrice, stopping at her chum's
house on the way back from a shop-
ping trip to the city, plumped herself
into the nearest chair, flung her bag
toward the sofa, which it missed, and
declared with emphasis: "Never again
will I invite any girl to spend a week
with me until I've known her intimate-
ly for ten years!"
Celia gathered the fallen bag and
the spilled purse and parcels from the
floor and was still pursuing an elusive l
quarter behind the radiator as she in-
quired with mild interest: "Why?"
"Because," said Beatrice, "I've
learned a lesson from that horrid,
horrid Cynthia Murdock. Oh, I know,
and you needn't look at me like that.
She is horrid! I don't care how charm-
ingshe is,she'shorrid1"
,
"Again why?" asked Celia. "I:
thought she was lovely, and so did all
the girls, I supposed her visit was a
grand success."
"So did I," admitted Beatrice rue-
fully. "But it seems it wasn't; and I
tried so hard, and she seemed so pleas-
ed and thanked ins "so effusively for
the heavenly time I'd given her! But
on the way up in the train this morn-
ing
orning I. sat behind two attractive looking
girls whose talk I couldn't help over-
hearing, Almost at first I found out.
that they came' front Cynthia's town
and, presently, that they knew her inti-
mately. Then before I half realized
what was happening one of them be-
gan telling the other about the visit
the poor girl had been makingto some-
body she's met last summer traveling
and had taken one of her fancies to
and of what a terrible time she'd had.
It seemed her hostess had done every-
thing just wrong. She'd taken Cynthia
out sailing, and Cynthia hates picnics
and is always seasick -the kind of sea -I
sickness that leaves her dizzy and up-
1
set for days. Then there were dogs in
the family, and Cynthia is afraid of
dogs, and they were underfoot the
whole time along with a couple of un -
licked cubs of small boys who nearly
drove her wild. That's Bobby and
Billy, you understand, and she called
them darling cherubs to mel And she
wasn't comfortable at night, her bed
was so hard; she's used to a feather
bed. And there was no screen in her
room, and she faced the morning light
And there was no shower in the bath-
room, and --oh, everything I"
the lily young nes has been dipping ,,
into the "underworld—it's'the fashion- skirts its Pl eared $1.
able -thing to do,�ou. know—with only
three pounds In his pocket and is in
pawn somewhere."
She was furious, like a furious suck-
ing 'dove end gyve rli' a fine 'grossing
frlown. That wa • what I wit iced
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secretions of the throat .and nose from
the very start of what may be called
the measles cold, which, as already
,mentioned, beginsabout three or four
days before the measles 'rash begins
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As we feel sure that the germ iso
passed along in the tiny droplets of
liquid sprayed out. in coughing and
sneezing it would seem to be a simple
Matter to prevent the spread of the
disease. In reality Health officials are
almost as Helpless in preventing it as
they are with the"flu" for the sante
reason that the damage is done before
the true nature of the beginning
"cold" is suspected. The best that can
be done is to keep children with colds
from mingling with others at home, in
school or in public places.
This is one of the diseases which
each man and woman must help in
preventing. Learn blow the disease is
spread and apply the knowledge in
daily life.
Those actually sick shoiuld be kept
, away from other people until the rash
has all gone. That is best done in a
somewhat darkened comfortably warm
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room, the air of which should be kept
moist and soothing to the air passages
by means of pans of water or by wet
sheets or blankets which may advan-
tageously be hung across doorways.
"I don't wonder you call her horrid,"
said Celia with sympathetic indigna-
tion. "Rewarding your hospitality
with a string rof mean little fussy
complaints!"
"I shouldn't mind so .much if shed
hadn't pretended all the time she was
so pleased," lamented Beatrice. "It was
all so unnecessary, her being miser-
able. I could have had a tea instead
of a picnic if she'd given me the least
inkling of how she felt; I could have
kept the dogs out and the children
quieter,—she said she enjoyed their
lively ways, so Qf course I didn't try,—
and she could have had a screen and
her pesky old feather bed; and, though
we haven't a shower bath, I'd have got
daddy to put one in if she'd only given
me notice enough !"
Celia burst out laughing, his
g g, andira
moment Beatrice, relieved by her out-
burst, joined her. "I suppose she
thought thatall the time she was pre-
tending she was being beautifully po-
lite," she conceded. "But I don't think
she was really. She was—I know what
she was! The English language needs
a new word, and I've invented it. She
was mispolite 1"
MEASLES.
Few individuals reach adult age
without }laving had an attack- of
measles. It is generally considered a
disease of childhood but adults also
suffer from the malady. It is not so
often contracted by adults because an
attack in early life has made them
measles -proof. •
As most experienced mothers know,
and as the inexperienced should learn,
an attack of measles begins just like1
a common cold, with a•. cough, slight
sore throat and running of the nose.
It is only after three or four. days of
these , symptoms that the rash comes
out on the skin arld the doctor is
called to see the child.
The measles germ has never yet
been seen but observation and experi-
ments in monkeys teach that it is pres-
en in 'the:'discharges of the nose and
throat of the patient and may be pass-
ed on in the tiny droplets sprayed out
in coughing and sneezing. When ruche,
droplets, • loaded as they must be with
these germs are breathed in and settle
in the air- pass^^ �^s of one who has
never hest measles, the germs' quickly
make'' themselves. at home. They find
their way into the blood, increase
rapidly in numbers, and at the end of
GAMES FOR THE PICNIC.
Try this "bean-bag contest": Line
up the players, girls in one line, boys
in the other. At a given signal each
leader starts a bean-bag down the line
by tossing it back over his head. The
player behind him must catch it and
throw it over his or her head, and so
on. The last in line runs forward with
the bag to the head of the line and
starts the bag again. When the orig-
inal leader again reaches the head of
the line the game is finished, Prepare
ribbon badges for the winning side.
"Crows and cranes" is a good drill
for the boys, who form in lines about
ten feet apart. Those in one line are
called''cranes. The leader explains:
"When I shout 'crows,' the cranes will
dash off and the crows will chase
them." He . then calls: "Are you
ready?" then begins with a "c -r -r -r -r;'
that keeps, both lines standing tense
and eager, awaiting the word.
"Crows" comes out at last. The crows
who bolt, instead of dashing after the
cranes, drop out, while the cranes who
dash instead of bolting also drop out;
the side with the largest number of
Men remaining wins.
Do you know the old game "Jolly
Miller?" This is the song which the
players sing
"Happy is the miller who lives by the
mill;
The mill turns round with a free,
goodwill,
Hand in the hopper, and the other in
the sack,
The ladies step, forward, and the `gents'
fall back."
Players choose partners and ford}
in line, each couple holding hands, left
hand in left hand, right hand in right.
They march around, keeping step to
the music, and when the last line of
the verse is reached, the girls "step
forward" and the boys "fall back"
causing a change of partners every
time. Continue until original part-
ners meet again.
Follow with a "life-saving contest,"
in which the contestants consume
doughnuts and lemonade. Every one
will want to enter for this contest.
MUSIC PROMOTES GOOD HUMOR.
There is no doubt that a little music
in life removes many minor troubles,
says a writer in Musical Opinion, who
goes on to tell of a friend who was
having his house decorated, with
painters all over the place. One morn-
ing he came down to breakfast and
nearly fell over a pail on the stairs.
The whole household seemed to be in
a bad temper through being harried
from room to room and with every-
thing out of place. So he hurried to
his study for a little quietness. A
music -book was on the piano and the
hymn, "When the Mists ;Have. Rolled
Away" was facing hirci. He. -started
playing and singing this, and very
soon everybody in the house was hutn-
ming the tune, including the` painters,
some of whom were whistling. The
effect was marvellous, the gloomy
aspect was changed, and everybody
was in good. humor. -
about ten days the sufferer begins to
cough as if with a cold. In • reality,
it. is the beginning . of an attack of
measles. • The disease is passed along
from one to. ethers by the discharges
of the mouth and nose. "
The measles ` germ' is present in the
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Two elderly Scots visited the towns
new cenetery. One of them, who did' -
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said, "I'd rather dee than be buried in
sic a place."
The other said—"Would ye, man?
WI' me it's the very reverse. I w.nna
be buried anywhere else — if I'm
spared."
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