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He shrugged his shoulders. "Who
began it?" he demanded grimly, lean-
ing closer.
She shrank delicately aloof. "I
thought I could trust yob., Ted."
He straightened swiftly. "You can,
Kitty Pennsylvania forever and ever,
amen! And now, let's get back to the
beginning—your chauffeur humbly
begs, fair lady, to know whither he
is bound."
She laughed with relief as the strain
of his manner relaxed, moving a bit
closer to him again with a little snug-
gling motion that showed, adoeably, a
renewal of her faith.
"Ted," she began, making a large
gesture, which included all the green
about them, the gold and blue above
—"Ted, to -day has gore to my head—
it's so transcendently beautiful. Some-
how, I'ni afraid to -morrow won't be as
perfect. I have an absurd premonition
that there will never be another day
quite so gorgeous as this. I had to do
something silly --I couldn't help it!"
"Like going for a drive with me?"
"It isn't the drive, it's the end of
the drive," she murmured. Her head
was turned directly away from her
companion. All the view he had of
her was a triangle of white neck and
a bonnet of yellow straw. "I'm going
to take you to see my new home, Ted,"
she went on, in a queer, choked little
voice. "It's a very- great honor, for
you're the first person to see it! I
haven't even shown it to my—my
sweetheart, yet. My father gave the
this old house; I've rebuilt • it and
furnis'fied it all myself; it's dad's wed-
ding present to me. It was a whirr of
mine not to Iet anyone see it till it
was done. This bringing you here to
see it first, you can .call it what you
Live Live ofi Next
and Thrive
wish. I told you I was crazy. Am I?
Do you think so, Ted ?
There was a long moment of silence,
if that terra may be applied to a pas-
sage of time in which the absence of
speech makes fairly audible the thun-
der of two hearts, drowning the puls-
ing beat of a powerful motor. When
• Ted spoke neither lie nor the girl could
have recognized the voice as his own.
"If I told you what I thought, Kath-
erine," he began passionately, then
checked himself with an obvious effort.
"You're hardly fair to me," he went
on more calmly, with set lips and
whitening nostrils. "You put me on
my honor by your faith in me and
then purposely, it seems to me, you
tempt me to forget my promises, and
myself!"
•I don't mean to, Ted," the girl
answered appealingly. "I'm doing this
because—oh, say it's because I'm fond
of you—because you represent the
past to me—my lost, happy childhood.
I want you to see the little home to
which I'ni coming as a bride, Ted. I
want you to go through it with me,
look at the dear, pretty things I've
bought for it—quietly, unemotionally
—as if I were your sister. Will you,
Ted?"
He dropped his right hand from the s
wheel, and with eyes still on the
stretch of road ahead, felt for and t
found her own and gave it a gentle t
squeeze. "You're a funny kid," he i
answered. "You're giving Hie a mighty
hard job, Katherine, but I'll do my a
best to behave as you wish."
The house which Katherine had a
-selected after long search, as her wed- t
ding gift from her father, had been 1
paid for with a check so ridiculously c
modest that Benjamin Penn had smil-
ed to himself as he signed it. When
the bilis for alterations came in,
ever, his smile went somewhat aw
It costs money to transform a bl
dilapidated old Noah's Ark, fo
square and sharp -roofed, into a 1
caved, gabled cottage; that
"Home" written all over its sq
stone chimneys and latticed wind
panes; complete in every detail fr
copper -screened sleeping porch a
electrically lighted garage to the
dial in the flagged terrace.
It was'as if a rich man had to
some plain, prim, overworked little
maid and married her, clothing her
purple and fine linen and setting
in the very lap of luxury. The dw
ing was remade, within and withou
rejuvenated.
And when it was done Benja
Penn himself admitted that the vi
alone, from the broad piazza• m
than paid for it all. Away to t
west, when the day was fair, ran
ghostly silhouette of a distant mon
taro range, the foothills of the Be
shires; while to the east, in a cl
between two slight elevations,. lay
straight blue line of the sea. •
l3raxmar swung his car betwe
low -mortared posts overrun with fla
ing nasturtiums up a smooth are dri
which bordered a close -clipped law
He tossed his cap to the seat as
alighted, and stood bareheaded
Katherine's side in the shelter of
porch. From her wrist she slipped
gold bracelet by which a small bron
key was attached by a fine -link
chain. Without a word she handed
to Ted. Her heart was, racing,,madl
and so was his. In, silence he fed
the key and. turned the latch; in s
ence, side by side, they crossed the
threshold.
The great, square hall into which
they stepped appeared at the first
glance to occupy the entire lower
floor. At the rear a broad stairway
curved upward, branching at the top
to form a gallery from which the
second -storey rooms opened. It was
as if the whole house spread wide its
arms to them, and to all the guests
who would ever enter there, crying—
"Welcome to every corner • of my be-
ing!"
The furnishing was complete, with
the soft sheen of rugs, the dimmed
luster of mahogany, the harmony of.
deep -toned pictures. Through one
door Ted caught a glimpse of the din-
ing room; through another, a study
with book -lined walls.
In the large central hall, which was
actually the living room, was a huge
fireplace of field -stone, wide and high
and deep, a broad mantel above it, an
ample settle upon either side.
"It is the only one in the house,"
aid Katherine, as they stood before it.
'I think the fireplace is the heartof
he hone—and nobody can have more
han one heart. So I had this built
n here. I don't want my family or
my guests to sit apart—I want thenar
lways to gather in one spot, and
that spot—when the nights are cold
nd stormy—is here; before the fire,
o•read or sew or talk with the big
amp lighted—the cat asleep on her
ushion and my dog Mike , on the
earth -rug --oh, can't you just see it,
Ted? Isn't it the very soul and spirit
home?"
Bremner's fine color had .paled a
ttle—his hands were jammed into his
ockets out of sight. There was a.
low in the depths of his eyes that
shot their grayness through with
sparks of gold.
"It's 'home' because you're in the
icture, Katherine," he answered.
You can talk all you wish of the fire
and the cat and the do„—it's the
woman's presence that makes it
'home,' and you belong here as though
you were made for the place." Ted
turned away hastily. "Aren't you go-
ing to show me the rest of the house?"
he asked.
Katherine laid aside her hat and
coat and smoothed her hair before
the mirror, with little dabbing pats.
Through all the rooms they went, even.
to the kitchen, where a gas -stove
awaited the touch of the match, and
every bit of copper and alum:num
hung in its ordained place.
`Then she flitted before him up the
shallow stairs, like a restless butter-
fly; gave him a peep into a tiled bath-
room; into guest -rooms immaculately
dressed; into a well -stocked linen
closet. But upon the panel of one
closed door
she laid a trembling hand
forbiddingly, and no one had ever seen
in Katherine Penn's face the look that
rested there now, as she lifted glori-
fied eyes to Braxmar's and passed the
chamber by.
At five o'clock they were sitting on
e porch, facing the west, which
ready bore the first faint hints
the coming sunset. Katherine's
ows were propped upon her knees,
✓ clenched fingers supporting her
in. Her &ant:e, though carefully
ar.ded, strayed in spite of herself
wn the road. Her color was high;
✓ eyes shone feverishly, Her small
its teeth caught nervously at her
e'er lip.
(Continued in next issue.)
An International Language.
how- J.. inborn and Inbred.
Bale, - Sane qualities and instincts are in
ur- the very blood of us, so that while we
oW- live we cannot deny them or act in a
has .tuhion untrue to them. We depend
uat ton certain people, because we 'know
ow 'that' In their very natures they are
rid rioble; •their essence is truth, and
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honor dwells at the core of their be,
Ings. They will surrender life before
]ten they will capitulate to any infamy,
old There is a pride of life that is for-
in
or-
x ever pointing back at a distinguished
ell ancestor—and that form of ancestor-
ell-
worship
ncestor-
worship is worth very little, if it does
not lead to emulation of that which
min brought honor to the bygone figure.
ew Whatever transmitted characteristics
ore there may. be, if a praiseworthy kind,
he They are obscured by the conceit that
the" is forever prating of the mere descent.
rile And ,sometimes the descent from the
eft high plane on which our forebears
the lived is to an abysmally low level of
thought and of feeling that shames all
en the bast.
m- Much may be donetoward impant-
ve ing'in a character what was not there
he by nature. It is the teacher's triumph
at to overcome heredity. Children of
the families depraved and debased have
a been redeemed by a loving patience
ze that would. not accept a failure,
ed For a. letter to a younger brother
it the Russian writer Chekhov lists the
Y, qualities.that are to be found in. one
ed who may rightly be called a person of
culture. He tells his brother that his
chief fault is his ignorance of the
things that are. beautiful to do and
good to know; and this is a fundamen-
tal shortcoming.
The graces of character are not like-
ly to come by training to one who
neither knows nor cares what they
are. •
Some boys with their way to make
in the world have never learned the
first and the best of charms, which is
that of gracious manners. Perhaps
there is a fear of insincerity, because
politeness has been the armor of some
who were false at heart. But char-
acter never yet suffered from cour-
tesy. No boast of family can hold a
candle to social urbanity. What you
are now to us means more than what
your ancestor did to the French on
the Plains of Abraham. If you have
acquired no manners, who cares how
many dollars you have rolled up?
Your orations about your wealth and
your consequence do not move us so
much as the gentleness, simpleness
to Nothing
ittle—his
to an Amazing Degree
A Japanese house is one of the sim-
plest things ever built, for it consists
of little more than four posts and a
roof. But such impermanence, which
is also seen in other things, is a part
of the strength of the nation, for no 1
people in the world have so few wants.
The Japanese have no bread, no
beds, no fires. no boots or shoes, no
trousers for the men, no petticoats' for
the women—for both sexes wear
several dressing gowns, one over the
other. In their houses they have no I
windows, no doors, no walls but paper
shutters fixed in grooves., no ceilings,
no chests of drawers, not even a wash-
stant1.-
In the kitchen they have no range,
no pots, no pane, no flour bins, ne
kitchen tables. But then they have
no tables or chairs in the drawing
room, and in the real native house the
drawing room itself i5 only a lot of
bedrooms with the paper shutters
taken down. neve is no reason why
you should find anything in a Japanese
house except mats and a charcoal
stove for warming your fingers and
making tea.
These and a cushion or two and a
quilt to ,'deep on. with an elaborate
conventional politeness, constitute the
furniture of a Japanese house, except
the guest chamber, And tele articles
in the guest chamber consist of a
screen, a kak emono and a flower vase.
should think Intolerable. This extra- o
ordinary patience and whole hearted b
enjoyment ua1er all the niggardliness el
a his lot Marks • tile: Japanese as w
nilitine alum the peoples or the 111
world,w
Ile lives t nextb clothing and ed
thrives on i, lie ,+.t c ye has a simile, w
He works whenever be can get any
Work to de. They are all week days to - ei
Win* beetend or x Seventh day, Sun- w
day, lie has his realm a national hall- th
p)
day e" a temple reatival. In either 1n
'Mike p{.t 1. 'a f r rg to some temple tan
aside t d:i F Lie +hlldeen or a friend. HOE^
is never too poor to have money to
treat them.
He gives himself a holiday ot::y
when lie is out of work, and his holi-
days are inexpensive. He just walks
a hundred miles to see some famous
garden in its glory; he carries his bag-
gage in a box, wrapped in oil paper,
and gets a bed at an inn for a sum
equivalent to a cent in aur money.
His food is almost as cheap, and when
the last turn in the road shows him
the irises of Harikari or the house and
cherry trees of Yoshino on the day of
all the year he would not change
places with the King of Great Britain
and Ireland.
Judging by Western ideas, Japanese
babies have a hard time, yet there are
no healthier children in the world, The
Japanese baby is dressed and un-
dressed in a frigid temperature in win-
ter, and in summer no care Is taken to
protect its tender little eyes from the
full glare of the sun, In winter the
small head is covered with a worsted
cap of the brightest and gayest de-
sign and color. The black hair is cut
in all sorts of fantastic ways, just like
the hair of the Japanese dolls import -
de into this country,
The babies of the lower classes are
eneraliy carried on the back of the
mother or little sister; sometimes the
mall brother is obliged to be the
urse maid. The kimono is made ex -
a large at the back, with a pocket of
ancient size to hold the baby, whose
ound head reaches the back of the
ecic of the person who is carrying it,
It is not an uncommon sight to see
lilclren who are barely old enough to
one s
(Idle burdened with a small brother
r sister sleeping peacefully on their
tacks. At first one expects to see the
bird stagger and fall beneath the
eight, but apparently none of its
ovemeuts are impeded, and it plays
ith the otter children as unconcern-
ly as if it were not loaded down
ith another member of the family,
At Nagasaki among the women coal -
a who oar
c the ships sees nary
ho carry babies on their backs in
is way. The mothers work a]1 day
the rain o1' the sun or the snow,
d the baby seems indifferent to
rerythie•
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along with hts magnificent want of r
wants, so to speak, the Japanese corn- n
biter: a capacity to get huge pleasure
out of what we would regard as trifles, el
and after Mors and sacrifices that we to
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Since he had been to France lie was
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friend one evening he said:
"Au revoir!"
"What do you mean?" asked his
friend.
"1 mean good-bye,. 'du revolt° is
'good-bye' in the French language;
said the would-be linguist,
"Oh, I tied," retorted hie friend.
"Well, carbodic acid to you!"
"What on earth does that it mean o
"
"Carbolic acid means 'goodbye' in
any language," was the reply; and a
grin played on the speaker's features.
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IN THE WORLD WAR
PARIS WARNED OF MR -
CRAFT BY PARROTS,
Canaries Saved Many Lives
but Homing Pigeons Did
,Biggest War Work -
Parrots were tried out early in the
recent European conflict as war birds.
A number of them were kept in cages
on the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, to give.
warning of approaching aircraft.
They acquitted themselves wonder-
fully, announcing by their squawks
the approach of an airplane or airship
twenty minutes before its coning
could be detected by human eyes or
ears. Unfortunately, however, they
were unable to distinguish beteveen
enemy and friendly aircraft; and,
growing indifferent after a while, they
ceased to be trustworthy.
The big war work was done by hom-
ing pigeons. Even when badly wound-
ed, they would do their hest to deliver
the messages they carried.
A remarkable case in this line, was
that of pigeon No. 2709, which, on Oc-
tober 3, 1917, flying from the frontline
to divisional 'headquarters, was struck
by a `bullet that 'broke its leg, drove
the metal cylinder containing the mes-
sage into its' breast and passed
through its body. Nevertheless, it
struggled home to its loft, nine miles
away, and delivered the message, dy-
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in a museum at Whitehall, stuffed,
with a label, "Die'•d of wounds received
in action," A soldier who had done
like service would have received the
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In 1918 a pigeon post service in Lon-
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Tank Bank in Trafalgar Square. •
The Germans sometimes camou-
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paint, and in some instances at least
hey made the cotes gasproof-
Canaries, as is well known, saved
he lives of thousands of fighting men
y the warning they gave of poison
as, A percentage of it in the air hn-
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hem to drop off their perches --a sig -
al that it was time for .the soldiers
o put on their gas masks. But 111
ashy caiaes the birds, became such . .
eta that the men would keep them,..
n places as sate from gas as poeeible,
us negativing the purpose far which
hey 'Were meant to he used.
Gulls, actuated perhaps, by curiosity,
d a way of following and hovering
ver submerged J -boats, thereby be -
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ast unsatisfactory to the Germans,
ut highly profitable to the Allies
un ling for them.
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he clever suggestion that they might
advantage be crossed with the hom-
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liver the messages.
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is:
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rtner. I am a business man. If you
e agreeable, I will draw up a mar -
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tnesses, and then we can carry on
th the world's work."
She gasped, but presently regained
r composure.
"Fortunate]y,",s]ie said, "I've had a .
tie business training myself, so we
n discuss this proposed contract.
operly and dispassioarately,
'I'm glad to find you so sensible,"
e told her.
She smiled sweetly,
'I regret I can give you nothing bet -
than second option," she said.
'What!" he exclaimed.
'fin afraid I have to inform you I
already engaged—that is to say,
first option is already taken. But
first option does not necessarily
an a closed contract, If yon don't
nt to take a chance on a second op-
t, say so; if you do, I'll drop you a
e if I find myself on the 1natrhuonial
il,;in,"
Thet<t'sagacold blooded!" he cox -
hied.
It's business!" she averred.
I'd rather have Lust option:" he
ded.
A first option in such a case never
been, and never will be, secured
business methods," site replied.
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