‘Joo Finally. . Comprehonds By H. IRVING KING Copyright. 191.5, by The Medium li'eu-opoper syndicate. looking as Susan—but In Joe's eyes she was far superior. Things dragged along In this manner for some time. Joe. began to lose weight. "He don‘t eat enough to keep a. canary alive." his fond mother declared, Then one day. to his great eurprise. Van Beekrnen called upon Joe at the ofllce of the little yarn mill which Joe had in- herited from his father and the business of which he was rapidly extending. Quite an important per- son was Joe In the community— financially. He received Van Beek- man rather coldly and asked what he could do for him. “You probably have noticed." said the suave Van Beekman. “my atten- tions to the beautiful Miss Flir- banks.“ "I have." glows ed Joe. "I have. and allow me to to you that I have not. seen them with pleasure. Who are you, sir. to come into this com- munity and try to captivate the beat and prettiest girl in town? What are your credentials?" "That is just what I came to show you.“ replied Van Beekman. "You may look me up in Bradstreet's. end here are letters. documents and ref- erences which I think will satisfy you." Joe looked at the documents and he looked at Bradstreet's. “Humpli.” said he "seems to be all right. But what have i got to do with it?" "Why." returned \‘an Beekman. ”when I told Miss Fairbanks that her sister Susan and myself had come to an understanding. and re- the opinion that Minerva Fairbanks had “thrown him down." but he was not quite sure. He had known her. it seemed to him. for always; and for some time he had been taking It for granted that he should some day ask her to be hie wife—and she would accept. But then came that dashing Martin Van Beekman around and Joe began to think that he had taken too much for granted. Whatever a “man of the world“ is \‘an Beskman was that. He had a most engaging personality. talked fluently and dressed perfectly. Joe. on the other hand. while refresh- ingly wholesome. was not much of a conversationalist. and sartorially left much to be desired. Van Beek- man had become a constant visitor at the Fairbanks home. and the girls —Minerva and her younger sister Susan—found him. as Sue expressed it. “perfectly fascinating." “'hen Joe happened to be calling at ithe same time Van Beekman was. it was as much as he could do to get in a word edgeways; and when he did, his best thought-out remark seemed to act as a damper on the company. Minnie. after one of these attempts of Joe's. would look at him doubtfully for a moment and then resume her repartee of “wit. wisdom and allegory" with Van Beekmsn. Joe hoped at first that it was sister Sue that Van Beekman ed- mired. But Minnie appeared to be much fender °t V8“ Beekman's 50' quested her consent to our marriage. “9W “‘3" h" “5‘"- J°° "mm“ “as head of the family. she said that to expostulate. in a blundering way. 'she and you had been long engaged with Minerva; only to he told thatland were soon to be married and she did not know what right he had therefore as her husband you to criticise or control her actions. would be, the real head of m; fem- ending with: "“'hy. Joe. you talk as ilv and were the one to be con- if you and I were engaged." " = OSEPH SCARBOROUGH Wu J rather of suited." That was Joe's opportunity. but "Oh. I see. yes. certainly. of he did not seize it. and it was two course." gasped Joe. "Your ere- hours after that he thought of what he ought to have said. When he did think of it he resolved to go to Then he put on his hat and went Minnie and have a "straight out right up to see Minerva. What he talk" with her. But when he ar- said to her neither of them 'over rived at the Fairbanks home thathold. But they were married a. everlasting \‘an Beeknian was therenmonth before Susan and Van Beek- and he went away leaving unsaidlmon were. what he had come to say. He would i keep away from the Fairbanks; house and "let ‘em go it." he thought. ““‘ho knew anything about that \‘an Beekman fellow? He was an adventurer—Joe was willing to bet on it—and was trying to capture an heiress." Joe kept to his resolution of abstention for e whole week. and then called upon "the Fairbanks girls" with the usual unsatisfactory results. Susan talked to him and tried to cheer him up. but Minerva kept chatting away with Van Beek- man. only giving Joe a curious look now and then, which he could not in the least understand the import of. and one saying: "Joe. why don't you talk? at‘s the matter with you lately?" “Nothing." said Joe. and presently k his leave. .‘ow Minerva and Susan Fair- banks were orphans. They had no ncnr relations and their father had left them both very well off. Joe felt like saying to Van Beckman: "If it's merely a fortune you are after. why don't you take Sue and let my Minnie alone?" “But it If both the Nine of Hearts and : wouldn't make' any difference if I Nine of Spades are in the same pack I did." thought Joe. "Minnie is so as your card. it means that some ’ much the prettier." As a matter of obstacle will have to be overcome be- dentials are perfectly satisfactory. sir. I congratulate you." WILL YOU GET YOUR WISH? Shuffle the cards (this is one the stance where you may deal the cards for yourself), thinking hard of what you wish might happen. Then deal them into three packs. Pick up each pack until you find the one in which Is the card representing your- self. if very light your card in Queen of Diamonds; if medium blond the Queen of Hearts; if very dark the Queen of Spades, and if medium dark the Queen of Clubs. If the Nine of Hearts is in the same pack your wish will certainly come true. if the Nine of Hearts is very near to you it will come true very soon. and the farther away it ie Increases the time you may have to wait. If the Nine of Hearts Is not there. but the Nine of Spades is in the same pack as your card. either your wish will not come true. or it will be a long time before it does. or it may bring sadness with it if it comes. an ll fact she was nowhere near as good fore your wish can be realized. l SCHOOL DAYS - . SHORT STORY mm m m" 1101 .deu now ehe. sees about euboidiaiag t o ehlpowliere. if eur'beeineee mes won't tax: heavily enough already. § Br MILDRED MARSHALL SAPPHIRE HE taliemenic gem for today ie T the sapphire. which was believe by the ancients to protect its wearer from danger. When worn in a ring, it Is one of the luckiest stonee that one can possess. attract- ing good fortune to Its wearer. bring- ing him great riches and the respect of his fellowmen. The eerdonyx is the natal stone of those born on an anniversary of this day. It is supposed to make them eharp-witted. and to bring them good luck in legal matters. There is an old legend which claims that no one who wears a sardonyx can be falsely convicted. Today's lucky color is black. Worn by a young girl. It signifies coquetry. On these who are frivoloust in- clined. it exerts a quieting effect. making them grave. and industrious. The flower for today is the orange blossom. symbolic of beauty and youth. . FASHION NOTE ‘ The Aster Shade Then there is a deep rich pur~ ple that is well called aster. be- cause it follows so closely the bus of the purple aster th shares with golden rod the task i paint- ing the fields and roadsides In 'eu- tumn. Personally you may prefer this color when it mingles with en autumnal landscape, You may not like to see It wor non fat women in city streets in the bright sun- shine of a midsummer day.‘ You may not consider it an ideal shade for the work-a-day frock of your husband's stenographer. You may protest when your debutante daughter announces her intention of wearing a sport frock of this almost suffocating shade of pur- ple. But you really cannot deny that It is both smart and popular. ‘2 By leg. on Best! LOOK if“ , THAT Bass DOWN 55'. v 661' us “"8685 Tease moon'- \ CAN 55; um As PLAIN s5, DA‘I wml wt Flori SPECTACLES xvi-5‘ \ x f“. -——.___... t‘rs Slum “a sweep Down a .07 0.: rise SCALB has A' new no Hm \‘I’ will NELYIO was sup Muse. smtmes - ue. Can see Tm wwr »- vent \ 3. \ THRILLING warfare of radio A signals and radio wits may bl expected almost any day be- tween rum runners off the Atlantis Coast and Coast Ouarde. It has been known for some time that vessels on “rum row." equipped with high-class continuous wave transmitters and euper-heterodyno receive”. have been exchanging oe- cret code messages With ates on shore. arranging for safe landing of illlccit liquor. Now. as e. counter move. Uncle Sam is fitting out his new Coast Guard poet with elaborate radio equipient. including low power tube mnemit- ters, larger spark transnaittore. abort wave receivers. universal wave re- eoIvora. and radio direction finders. The rum deet apparently is in for a lively time dodging the govern- ment wireieee net. Hereafter voeeele of the United States Navy will be able' to receive on several dideront wavelengths eimul oouely while the regular watch or distress-signals is being maintained on the international wavelength of 000 meters. This has been made possible recently by new radio experts who have perfected a new system of antenna coupling. The system has been installed on the steamship Leviathan. One of the new pieces of radio ap- paratus is a tuner that combinee e seven-plate variable condenser with stationary and rotating inductance coils, all in one unit. The smell condenser is made possible by the low capacity in the inductance used. The device is said to be adaptable to many different hookups. Another unusual innovation corn- bines an efficient loop aerial with a radio map of the United States on which are marked the locations of all the broadcasting stations. The loop serves as the frame for the map. At the base of the loop is a scale A RADIO cowm 31 none INA! that tells in what direction the loop should be pointed to receive our given station. The base also cen- tains the connection to the resolving set. rsnnanromn OnoDoilyl'ootlieeLiotneee Three Kinds of Coupling are em~ played more or less frequently in modern radio dmuite: resistance (or conductive) coupling. inductive coup- ling and capacity coupling. Coupling itself. you remunbor. is merely the radio engineer's name for the passage of energy from one part of a radio sot to another. For example. in the two-circuit radio rev eelvor (which we discussed in the Primer recently) there are two separate wire circuits in the receiver. The radio signal from the when. enters only one of those circuits and peeeee of: thence to the ground. The message to transferred to the seond circuit of the set through the ether. just as it came in in the tint. piece from the broadcasting station to the antenna of the set. 'It is transferred. that Is. by the coupling between the circuits. Going back. now. to the three types of emplIng: resistance coup- ling meane that the two (or more) circuits are coupled to each other by being directly connected. through a resistance. This Is sometimes called conductive coupling. since a reele- tanee is really a conductor and in this type of coupling the energy is really passed along from one circuit to the next by conduction through a direct wire. Inductive coupling is the type in which the two circuits. or parts of them are placed close to each other, so that the radio energy goes across by induction: that is. by ether waves sent out by the first circuit and picked up by the second. Ga- pacity coupling is the type in which the two circuits are connected to each other through a condenser: one set of the condenser plates being connected to one circuit, the other plates to the other one. Lyrics of Life I . RUN. SHEEP. RUN Than are games of long ago You remember well. i know. Games you played when school was out. Games that took you all about. Up the alley. down the street— Still I hear the running feet. Still I hear old playmates shout. "Run. sheep. run!" One old cat. and all the rest. Run. sheep. run I liked the beet: Here and there and ev’rywhere. Hiding under eomeone‘s stair. So we scattered up and down All the byweys of the town. Till our leader would declare. "Run. sheep. run!" Scattered now and scattered then. Now they never come again. - How I wonder where they are! Some of thorn have wondered are! Some of them have wandered fer: Of the boys who used to be. Some have sailed beyond the sea. Some have eailed beyond the star. Run. sheep. run. But perhaps some other day We who toil again will play. W. who fight and hate and doubt. Forgetting what it‘s all about, We. the rich. the wise. the great. All may gather at the gate. Bearing some old comrade shout. ”Run. sheep. run." TO MY SISTER. ON HER BIRTHDAY A sister's love has naught to gain. Arid yet it is as freely given. Through joy and sorrow. peace and pain. As any love this oide of heaven. A love thet loves through all our will Ag well in our divided days As in the days we walked together Through childhood storms our first guy weather. Across today’s dividing miles. My sister. I a greeting send you. I hope all day that heaven emilee. And heaven‘s stare at night defend you. Ah. many loves we learn to know That link our lives to one another. But there Is something different. though. That binds a sister and a brother. MEDICINE I know We rather sticky stuff. I don't Just like its looks myself: But'have you over figured why your mother keeps it on the shelf? She doesn't keep it there for looks. ‘for taste. nei- certainly for smell; No. Mother keeps this medicine for just one thing—to keep you well. For children. I am sad to say. don't always eat the way they should: They eat too fast. they eat too much. they eat the things \that aren't good. And lots of times, they're not to blame. there's lots of ways of getting sick; So here’s the bottle. here's the spoon —nowbeamanandtakoit quick. For when you take your medicine. whom do you really take it for? remove you think it is for me. perhape it Is for Mother more. But have you ever figured why your mother keeps it on the shelf? You aren‘t taking it for hep—you're taking it for lust yourselfl How Do W Say II? Common Emm In Enplleh and How to Avoid Them By 0. N. LURIE INCORRECT USE OF “WHICH” HE word "which" is used some- I times incorrectly. or in the fol- lowing examples: "The captain saluted the quarter deck. and all the ofiicero saluted him. thch he returned." "But he made another enemy of the Pope. which he did In this way.” The former was written by Charles Reeds. and the latter by Charles Dickens. To correct the error. it ie necessary to divide the oontenooe into two ports. or recent them thus: "Th. captain oaluted the quarter deck and all the ofiicore saluted him. He returned the solute." "But he made another enemy' of the Pope. doing this in the following way." As in so many other cases in Eng- lish grammar and usage. agreement in condemning the usage criticised here is lacking among authorities. However. Professor George R. c”. pentor, in "Rhetoric and Englieb cranpeoition." says: "Though the usage objected to ie accepted in modern W. "Id Ml m N a ebenin authority oven In English. it “h 2-. “" fl I .1 the whole. to avoid it” mummiiuiismu .r' Wearing Dainty CIefltee May Io an Important Part of Your Little Olrl'e ldueetion. I! talent for fastidious dressing T is more e. matter of very early training than most people real- ise. Thet habitual air of being well cared for and well dressed without an effort seldom comes to women who were not accustomed to atten- tion in matters of dress from thoir - early childhood The characteristic knack of dressing well that one dude among so many French women they be traced to early childhood. For French mothers have been not, ably indulgent to their children in this matter. dressing their little girls up in flnery that would have seemed preposterous to most. English moth- ers and many Americans. On the other hand. this innate talent for dnelng wou ie for lees often found among English women. whose girl- hood io spent in the nursery and who are kept in tho plaineot elotboe until they are fairly well grown. Of course. there are many well-dressed English women. but they achieve thie result with what seems to be far more of an effort than do French women. So if you like you may regard the time and money and thoughtyou devote to considering your little girl'- clothes as part of her educa- tion. From her tender years you should train her taste. explaining why you reject the things that you do and why you select other things Of course we should probably be spared a lot of trouble if we dressed our little girls always In checked blue gingham. Our neighbors would doubtless say we were very sensible. But it would not be quite fair to the little individual who, whether you like It or not. has got to grow up into a world where clothes play quite an important role. In the sketch you see one of the more eleborete little-girl frocks. It is of printed silk. in white. green and pink. with collar and bend on skirt of white organdie. The parasol is also of white organdie and the hat is of green straw with pink velvet ribbon. ' WISE AND OTHERWISE THE MAUVE TONES trifie deft on the subject of violets. mauvee. purples and orchids-all the tense that are com- bined or some proportion of red and blue. in cities throughout this land of ours deep purples have suddenly become so overwhelmingly popular that you rather hesitate about. get- ting one yourself. At the matinee the other afternoon we counted in an inter-act twelve young women in purple frocks. and that was with. out twisting the head at all. These pansy or purplecaster shades are more widely liked and more usually becoming than the fuchsia and thistle shades that were so widely seen a few months earlier. It seems as if every one we know THE world seems to have gone a " either has just bought a purple hot or is planning to say purple the next time she goes to the miliiners. Imported flock for little WI of printed can in white. area and pink. The caller and bond on skirt are of white emanate, and there Is a pom soltomtoh. Themuofmen straw, trimmed with pink velvet rib- boo. Orchid and .cyclamen. lighter shades of the same route. have been stamped with royal approval since Queen Mary appeared at the Ascot races in gown. toque and psresol of orchid and Prinoeep Mary wore a cyclamen colored frock. And ‘ ow we have word from Paris t a really new color has been launched by the dressmakere there. it Is described ee “a delicate. almost faded tint. neither pink nor mauve. but something between the two with a. hint of brown in its softness." It is called ashes of rooeo. The name at any rate isn't especially new. but doubtless there is novelty in the hue. In line with this same onthueiu arm for all shades of a mauve or purple nature. the sweet pea. ehadee were said 'to be most in evidence among smartly dressed women at the English races this eumnier. There really must be some psyche- loglcal explanation for color prefer- ences of this sort. It is not a mere matter of follow your leader 'tbat makee women in hence. in end in America all turn to the shades of the violet. the pansy. the ~ aster. the sweet MW e few moons ago they were as partial to the yello reddish ehadeo of the neaturtium d the sinnia. WHAT’S IN A NAME? Peeto about your name. Ito history; Ito mooning. Wheneo It was de- rived: Ito eIgnIfioeneo; your Iueky dey end Iueky Jewel. \ LILLIAN .4 ILLIAN is one of the charming fiowei- names which are on pet» uler in the English. language. Like all flower nemee. it is some- what difficult to trees. but it is known that the name was a favorite with Italian ladies so early as the fourteenth century. because of its romantic allusion. (hiriouely enough. Lillian ie not derived from Lily as is popularly supposed. though it is called by ety- mologiets a "flower name." The consensus of opinion some to be that it has the some origin as Ce~ oelle. though the connection seems a. trifie difficult to perceive. However. Cooler Vivenne. an Etruscan gen- eral. who named the aeolian hill and gene. is the root from which a num- ber of names containing the syl- lable "lie" is derived. There woe a Liliela Gonzago in Italy in 1840, and she is considered the first instance of the name. Idiiae was another form. which is etill in popular use. Lilies Ruthven appears in Scotland in 1557. She was probably so called from the old ro- mantic poem of Roesel and Lillian. which was a great. favorite in Soot- lend. The Lillian of this ballad is the Queen of Naples. The English adopted the name as it etood and claim that It comes from Lily. using it as such. The Scotch have alwm preferred Lilies or Lillias. but Amero ice adopted both Liliae and Lillian. Tennyson Is reeponaible‘for the picture of Lillian as a charming thistle-down sort of maid: "Airy. fairy Lilian. li'litting fairy Lilian. When I ask her iif she loves me. Clasps her tiny de above me. Laughing all she can: She’ll not tell me if she loves me. Cruel little Lilian. 0 O t» So innocent arch. so cunning-simple. From beneath her gathered wimple. Glancing from black-beaded eyee. Till the lightning leughiers dimple The baby roses In her cheeks: Then away she flies." Lillian'e jewel in, the lovely lapie . . I . lazuli. the Oriental gem in blue as tboeeewitb tinygolddeokalikebito of ounebme. It has tbooowoe to cure melancholy and is also believed to have medicinal. value in intermitbut fever. To dream of it moonstfaétbfulu llog. lenient flower 1' M '- arr morniu glory. the fairy bloom which scarcely eur- vivoe the dew that vanishes bedsre the sun's reye. Her luela day is Thin-eddy end 2 ie her myetic number. wno WRIIJE THIS? A SeeIeo of Popular Quotatienofrem Famous Authors. Selected By J. WILSON ROY l—J‘Wo are two travelers. Rage: and I. Roger's my.dog." z—“Vieo ie a monster of so frightful I mien. As to he hated needs but to be ”a." 8—“W. have met the enem’ and they are pure." H213!“ they be bloat. but Tame. was glorious. O'or a‘ the ills 0' life viotorioue.‘ s—“Hail to the chief who in triumph advances" eo'fioaven haenoregolikelovoeo um turn“: 5 i—‘The apparel oft declares the man." a-“Give me but one hour of Scotland. Let me eee it ere I die." ANSWERS 1-4. '1‘. Trow- 5.SIr Walter bridge Scott z—Alexander Pope e—Thomee Con- 8-Oliver Hazard grove Perry 7—Shakeepeere t—nobm Burne 8—Williem at. , Arturo
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