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Mr. Fellowea, wlthh whom 'I had been . dining, hail in- ,~' slsted upon taking me for s drlve around the ipark bsforq he put int-vi. on thetraln for home. All through Y pg... it scarcely showed. l “qy dinner ‘ me limping ; gratefully. uardlen Office" ‘ . I'm-atrium te I v mar, K. 0. I-I. l. Faliner larrleta ete. "l: of Nova hfpll“llllldlllfl one‘! fig], has escort, Mr. , lie. ‘this man had teased me. He had worked ine into a state of nervous excitement He "called me "a little devil . an al- though he teased and annoyed me, I had been too ignorant really to fear him. ' wllh him and driving through the park, and he had attain-pied by force tn take me In his arms, had the real danger l» was - running downed upon me. It had swept over me in a wave of instinct. It given me strength ‘to fight the man off. I had managed to strike him with all my strength and then, as almost spent I flung myself back- ward against the door of the taxi, I had felt the door give with me. Without an instants hesitation I hud turned ville handle and In spite of Mr. Fellowes’ wurnlng cry. I had flung myself from him back- ward on lo the hard road of the park. There hail been a quick sense of pain, a fleeting glimpse of a taxi with a man's scared face looking buck at ine from fl, and llien-~silence. Probably it was only for a mom- ent that I lay In n huddled mass. I started to rise and stifled a little cry at the sharp pain which stab- bed at my knee. I felt, too, that my palms must be bleeding. 'l'hey began to sting where I had thrown them out to save my face In the fall. I rose gingerly. Well, any- how, I was able lo stand! My leg was not broken~ . "Hello!" said o voice close be- side me. “What's up?" I turned, scarcely able to think, all ready lo do ibaille once more. Like a young wild animal. trapped, I ivas fo‘r the moment at war with all the wnrld. In the half light of the park I saw the figure of a young mnn beside me. Whencc he had come I did not know. "HelioP he said again. “What's up?" Let's help you. The words were simple enough; crude enough. But something in the voice went straight to my v t _" Dora. the telep- , 4 _ through my resentment at his advances. Not until fwas alone In the taxi ' ' bHN I. QUILDERIQN 1'. d. norm, farrsbord, N. s. “I suflenediihuith Rheumatism for five years, liavitigift sobadly at times I was unable to up without assistance. I tried dilferentimodloines“ I saw advertised add was treated by doctors in Amherst, also In my home town, but the Rheumatism came back. In I916, -,I_s'aiv In an advertisement that ‘Fruit-a-liues’ would atop Rheu- matiunwand took one box and got reliefflhen I took them right along fer about six months and the Rheu- matisnrwasiall gone and I have nave: felt it since. Anyone who would care to write me as regards ‘Fruit-a-tives’ I would be glad to tell them what ‘Fruit-a.- tlvss"did for ine." JOHN E. GUILDERSON, Contractor and Mason. 60c. a. box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25o. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Frult-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont. But anyhow I'm not hurt. I guess that will leach me a lesson, all right." The young man turnednround. For the first time I fell his glance searching my face steadily through the shadows.‘ "Were you In need of u lesson?" he queried gently. He slipped his hand beneath my chin and raised my face so that the light shone more fully upon ii. And this touch I did not resent. "Why, you're only a kiddie!" he heart. soothing me us might my mother's own hand had it been laid suddenly on mine. "I---I fell,” i stammeretl. "Yes? said the young man dry- ly. “l saw you. Ynu didn't fall from the clouds, either. light. Let's see how mucii damage has IIGEII done." l lei the strange young man put his hand ibeneaih my arm and "lead in the bench he hail I sank ilown upon it For n moment I sat ' silent. I was gelling hack my self- (lilIllrOl—.'l(l]LlSfiIlg myself-wreath- irig more slowly. The man beside me did not speak. He did not ev- en stare at me. Instead, he waited patiently until I moved. "Now then," he said, "let's look at your paddles, first." (lbedlenlly I held out my two trembling hands. I had hail on black cotton gloves. ‘They had been torn away in my fall. My palms were scraped and bleeding. The young man looked at them for a moment and whistied. Then took a clean handkerchief from his pocket and flipped it in a drinking fountain that was near; came buck and wiped the dirt and blood from my palms. Then be washed the handkerchief again, quietly tore It Into stripes and bound up my two hands. “Now then,’ he said in n busi- nesslike way. "How about the knee? Your sklrt's all torn." _ I looked at him big-eyed in thé dark. "I—I—." I stammered. "Oh, I see," he said. “All right. I'll turn my back and look at the moon while you look, Here, take this hit of wet handkerchief and wash your knee off If it's dirty. Dontlet the dirt slay in lt." _IIe' thrust the piece of damp lin- en into my hand, turned his back and began to hum. I found that I was more bruised than cut. Pro- bably my leg would be stiff next day, ‘but that would be the extent of the damage. “Us all right," I said in a small pointed out. voice. "You can look around. My sun's all torn. Oh, dear, I wish It wasn't! It's going to look awful in the day time with a. patch (m! F—— eoeoeee the test ehuwa that 9°" 51”‘! i‘ Io a very poor condition, yeflbz: qqmplildly run-down. “d Dyepepule. Llv"-T'°“ ° a Constipation. \°°- M)’ "wmmm " alien to you Ie a botilo 0i DriWilsont l ed made reliable flTgyfiuflnn’ h and other purl- aa old, from the prlaclp drake, Burdw Mo] herbs. A the remedy fo gee (lid Ind, die bailda up he entire eyetein. " “ . M's-.-.::r......"~" r common ills- inu lull»! In‘ l‘ “II think I'm hurt a little-not much} lIereJ conic on over lo ihat bench in the] ENTERS I "la, uaiolJumfi-l you've ibecn a naughty girl! Come on, now. tell us about it. Let's get it straightened out." Nly lips quivered like a baby's. "Oh. ilear!" I began , and my over-wrought nerves The tears and sobs came in a torr- out. urul about my shoulders. Wdthout 1i word he pressed another hand- ikeriwliief into my hand.‘ My head i went down on his shoulder with a where I wqrk_-_-' gurgle. "Go on." he said. out im pupil's shoulder! you good." It will do (Thapter XII ates, I raised my hciid from the strange young man's shoulder. IIe gave me a liiiie pa! in encourage me. I mnppeil my eics with his handker- (rliief. “That's right," he suidPFeel any better now?" zl managed to make hlin under- stand that. I did. "Nowf he said, "I'll tell you what we're going to do, You're gning to stay still for a few minutes, then you're going to hike my arm and We'll walk out of the purk. We'll find a nice quiet little place where you can ‘go In the ilressing room and wash your face with nice, cold water and straighten your holi- then we'll have some ice cream, or something like that-that little girls like, and then you are going to tell me all about it. And I will give you o good scolding and take you home—anrl you will promise nev- BI‘. never to do It again!“ ~' ‘ "Yes," I said chlldlshlytffl will," "All right!‘ Lsald thpljstrange young man, "come on. =Let's get tmllel‘ way. Mly namdils Hugh Trotter." ~ . l. "Mina ls Nell Blrneyflfl, said In a very meek voice. ', " “Well. Miss Nell Blrniey," said Mr. Trotter, “you just coins right along with me and mind eyirything I say, as though ‘I were your big brother. Because, believe, mo, I know something of this wonlduand I think I can guess what you've been doing!" "How?" I asked. “Well, for one thing,’ Mr, Trotter told me. “I'm, more than twenty- one. And for another I'm n repor- ter on iihe Dally Sphere. Being a reporter. If you are on your job, does not allow you to daily long in the outer darkness, otherwise Igno- rance of ‘the World. I am one of these sophisticated and hnrd young men who smokes and drinks ‘Blue Law besr—the kind-you read about. But, ,strangs as lt-vmny seem, I am nnruiterly rotten§ to the core. S0 I will, "on occasion, behave quite (lecontly towards young ladies In dlstreiis- particularly," he added beneath his breath, "when they have a pair of eyes and are only babies, anyhow." I put my little bandaged hand upon his arm and paitered along obedlently at his side. Once as we walked. he looked down at ms somewhat quizzicslly. "You're a good little thing," she suggested, "when yQnb-e not bad- aren't you?" ‘ i "I'm not bad! I declared, with the first show of spirit I hail been able to muster. ' "I did something naughty but I'm never going .to do It again." "Of course not!" said Mr. Trot- ter. “Where have I hoard thorn wards before?“ i - ' I-Io led rne through the darkened paths of the park and out Into the side strreta again. At the end of two or three block: we turned ., __ , . .... I’:~v n, v _,_v~ . v. y} _ 11:41” . a very quiet little Netan he seemed to know. lime. The place seemed deserted 2. ght. sing room. your face. you come out!" Indicated. Viewed ~ I was able to pln It into folds so Then unwrapped Mr. Trotters y bandages‘ from my palms. had ceased to bleed. Jr-sorubhofl myself clean, as he hnd dlrecteibl hair. Then I saw some powder on a little dressing tabla. It was some- ‘thlfig I seldom used. I hndvbad no for toilet ai-flfices. Now, however, I brushed my face lightly with a bit of cotton dipped in the powder‘ then I bit my lips andlplnched Joy cheeks to bring back some dolor‘. I stared ln a mirror at myself. What I saw was a slip of a girl about five feet three inches tall who weighed about one hundred hair which I wore brushedvback quite plainly from my face and in a huge, heavy, shining knot at the m..." inlay ' It was "after the dlnuerhour and ‘before lheli-II Mir. Trotter waved his hand to the ;"0ver there," he said, “is a, dres- Go on now and Bomb You're a sight! And brush your hair and you'll see. I'll have something nice for you when I retired behind the door he had in the white _ light of electricity the rent in lily gown was not as bad as I feared pa!!! ' took off my, iiai nun‘ siuusieh‘ m . '~ um. in my‘ short labor-ridden lite‘ ‘l’- SCIENT i Made in Canada and fifteen pounds. I would have called myself uunhotlceable. As a matter of fact, t oug l, I was-not , ‘ _ utterly plain. ' My eyes were‘ vsry Write for Llleralllrl _ ;\ large and dark, and my mouth was _ ' ""-__ full and curved and would have Hound Walflmm smiled had there ever been any- 189s‘ Jam" s‘ ,. thing In myllfe thus far to-smlle ' ' ' about. I hail quantities of black our" \ back of my neck. My hat was a plain black sailor. My shoes were shabby and my gloves were gone for good. “I'm simply a horrid looking llt- ile thing!" l told myself and turn- ed from the mirror with a shrug. Chapter XIII iiiiiih e. A “ RIVERSIDE " ‘ One of these master minds was Duane H. Church, who, among otli ' - ' . I ,. _ ECI-IANICALLY, defined, a watch is a machine (contain! from I50 parts) whose sole end is to “keep moving.” anjd is best-as a timepiece the motion of which approaches tofiibsolute uniformity, : ' ~ ' If you open your watch and examine its mechanism, youo substantially of two supporting plates, between which is ' of meshed wheels to take cure of the mo wheels are called the train. , ‘ The lower supporting plate in a Waltham watch is the foundation u which every unit revolves- and is permanently fixed. This p ‘l; with minute holes to take the pivots, screws and pinionsoft erebiprm parts which form the movement proper. . T; ‘_ During the 69 years of watch development at Waltham many ilhistrlou; names have been _udded_ to the history of horological achievemenfg-mgp whose genius for invention, whose supreme skill in making cdncreta the]; vision, ave produced marvelous machinery that has revolutionized the art of watch-making. ‘ i If n '1 ' '1 . giii fi .. P“! yenienii recqrdlng {knew 11° er wonderful machines, invented one that drills, threads and finishes the 01.132 plate of the Walthnm watch. This machine accomplishes many operations with such methodically exact, automatic continuity that one instinctively imagines a superhuman‘ brain is hidden in the multifolil action controlling its extraordinary work. It makes every operation (and there are l4l);witli ‘infiinitesimal exactness, to the fraction of a human hair; flawless, beautiful in complete simpllclt tho table. said. "Ilow old are you? Seven- tccn—clght+>en? Look heremwhat m“ have you been up lo? I mink anything. You've been foo scored. Now drink ihai hot soup and see If you don't feel ibctter." _, ray that I bfifier- n ' ithfuk vcry much of your grog", Now sold Mr. Trotter, "Ive or- graut-grllnii-filtllel‘ friend. - You gave wny_ ilereil something for you to eat, but know, n-Imt clinches my opinion or I , I felt the strange young man's; n-hout it.’ "Go on---cry it Trqtteig quickly. I still like Dora and I am ti!" Y“ "I" 3”“ advlclh" not feel that my calamities were‘ ili-‘I’ fault. “l mean," I wen! I cried hard for about ten min- "she is very nice tome and that's 'I‘hei1 l began to feel better. 1,11 that mauer5_ isn't m’ nice clothes, of course. Accent‘ on the ‘nice clothes." "I-Iello!" said Mr. Trotter as I came out of the dressing room. "Richard is herself again! Come on to the iparty and see what I've ordered for you.“ I ifollowed him to a table and sat down. Somehow, in spite of this young man's glib tongue, I felt ut- terly at home with hlin from the first. ‘He? had fold me that I was to think of him as though he Were my big brother. I did. I trusted hlin and liked hlin at once more than I knew myself. A cup of bouil ion stood steaming before ine on C07!!!‘- .\ I. t i i ., "Of course, you've been to il-in- " he said, "but you didn't eat’ game along. And that's all." ‘ - “w u.‘ All] vi . T ., I ma I15 he told me and I am feel “m; imfii, 1 ‘,;.,,,,,',°"" Wm‘ a want you to begin and tell me all _him is that I ilont seem io'reinem- ber his coming back, after you left ihlni tlllwfllllrrlefll)’. to "there's a girl w"? I took a long breath. , y _ No, my dear, Pmimtr; m establishment he“ "wéu," I ibegen, the tailoring $1: ll egg! Go on and‘ ‘eat- , your littlsscrnmbled egigs and‘_san- - t , t I M sages. -'D0n't you open your mouth m Prrup e‘ ‘ r Qxcepfto put food in it. for a few moments. because I'm going to I1 “Oh, of course!" "There always ls a girl." “But she's a nice girl,’ I said enamel- . xiv ForJHfQvQImomants Hugh Trot- ior watchedme and saldnothing. l was’ too nervous and hungry to resent his glance fastened on me. lie had found me In the park, a lit- ile hurt and very scared. He had offered me his immediate protec- I nodded my head. Hon‘ _ .. man iseemed psychic l Now probably, in the light of the "And she asked me." I told him. restaurant where he had taken m8. “if I wouldn't dine with her onil he was able to get his first good two genuemen (rlendgy rook at me, and decide for himself "And you dld,’ supplemented Mr.’ 110W H1110}! 0f my 8W1‘? W!!! ""9- Tmmm |Although,at the time, I remember‘, "Yes: I said “and I guess iiw ii dldnt occur to me thaythin mun who was with her was all young man mlkhi doubt my tale’- right. Anyliowahe liked m“... lot. I was unflwuswmed‘ w ‘Hanan? And she talked to him und didn't sell In consequence. I was Imiw- pay any attention to me; and the Cllsi-"med ‘m 719M118 ally 0B6 3011M man I was with Wils perfectly hor- "l? Ywrd- v1 hi"! 101d m9 simllie rid! Why, I declared, in a burst 711ml» of indignation at the TGCOIIEPIIOII,‘ I rushed to her rescue. on to explain, v "Yes," said Mr. _Trotter.~“Go'on. I gel yoh. We won't go lnlo that. She is very pretty and she wears T0 ine llils So now, having finished boul- napkin and things, and touching my skirt!’ I rushed on. "And you didn't like It," said the‘ young man. “OI course, you iliiln"t - Nice, good little girl so ‘for. Only very foolish to have gone to dinner with the mist dnan.‘ _ "And than‘ was hot," I contin- ued, "and f wanted to go home; and Mr. Fsllowes said he would take me, only v‘ Instead we drove around theopark first." "Ah-l said Mil‘. Trotter. "Now there's n had mistake! Surely a WNW“ little girl who earns her living W" ought to know better than that." you 1W1 a vsry narrow escape." I flushed jmcomfortably. "Well, I did," I admitted, "and I broken my arm!’ sold ‘f did not want tq go; but I didn't know how to get nut or it. And, anyhow, before I knew it, I, W85 In the taxi, and we started to my throat and face‘, drive, andihsn he went f0 kiss me "Oh no!" and-mud told lhlm he couldn't! ,muoh damag ' ence." ’ I put down my knife and.‘ and opened my hands—palm,i,-. wards. _\_ “U0ok'!" I said, “They don't‘ hurt very much to matter.’ $11.76. man in s. low voice. I hit h-lm!" . man kiss ma. "Hard, ‘I hope." said Mr. Trotter. somehow!" - arm." ‘ltwlllylng to do anylhin "I don WA "u"? 310"“ .015 “"115 W“ 01d you see that If your mother could illness: to be ‘myafllttllrltlltgrhe could ‘S: ‘Zgglpqgvgfigprfdtiigrgféléih“gig possibly sell one"of your that she . ‘ n er. I ' ‘ -- axellldilefnstrilisitgrandaiaiher." said °""‘,"'-“"f°{,“.’§' Iklfmk“ ‘m m"! wqilllfgfli’)? In if??? siae. She Mrlérgoltltei; solemnly. m l d snypggta befiergil.“ a; suggested would bed-wuuldpfltpi e?’ "n sear s sum 011.. -.~ ‘was, ‘t - ." Hh mine at the ta-ble and dropping his 1 V" “'1 been iwkmg Y°“-~.9Y l" n on ow ‘up ed by your expel - Roi‘! all now. They're iscratched, or course,but not enoaih‘ u Hugh Trotters face becainéiqiiite "iNb," he said, after me, "you're hed-—-Ibut not enough to mat- Though I've been thinking "Yes, I admlivteiLfll might have "Or your heart." aald the young I felt a slow flush creep up over I said hurriedly, "It Wfls never as lblid as that! I really And he said ‘he would anyhow. And "wouldn't have let that horrid old Ild have got a/‘way v I protested heart- .» ',‘Dai youpppuppose I'd have ;my;ael=f'out of that taxicab . "But, you see. An ideal gift for the young man commencing hi’: business Ask yflur jeweler. pretty, easy-going, and yet what this man would call a "ibnd girl". l-Iis verdict seemed to me unfair and unt-rue; so— "If you say that, you don't know!‘ ltold him. “I'm s-ure lots of what you call “bail girls‘ are awful-ly nice. They mean to be nice and kind, anyhow. I told you about this girl friend of mine‘ avid-naked ‘Fine to dinner. She doniJmeap to get me Into all this trouble. "It's my own fault, and yet»- "Oh, I know her kind, fbroke in Hugh. “And, believe me, girls like her arethemost dangerous. _You knowhlr wickedness were always ugly, my ilear, there _\vguldn't be any temptation ‘for anyvof us." “But how can you callagirl w-ho ls generous and nice to other 5MB bad?" I persisted. "I wonder if you're old enough to understand?‘ said. Hugh, half t0 himself. "Listen to me. child. The woman who sells something which is not for sale ls bad.‘ Can you un- derstand that? Perhaps I can make it plainer to you. I ‘think I can guess ' the kind of home from which y0u come-‘tln-ee or four babies and not enough money to out working. Isnt that so," i] nodded silently, listening. "And yet," said Hugh, "no mat- iér liow much your mother needed money, can you imagine that she would sell one of her babies? And lf she wouldn't don't you suppose ‘It's because she loves you‘! You see. that's one kind of love. Can't went on, "thst'“ _ “ another love lniilncmive * ' ‘of nil-that n that the" girl or iiweinan who can sell any ‘klnd , Jove has some- thing wrong w y down Inside of use‘... Irwfst way/Qt the root?" ' ‘zw- ‘a i " Chapter XV Hugh Trotter and ‘I were both quiet for a few,_1nomsnts. I felt that this young madame-telling ma things that woul give me food for thought for many days. And yet. his words about my mother brought ‘back to me a vislon~ of my father, too. And suddenly: - "Oh, yes" I-snld-and my young volcagrew harder-"I suppose It's way about girls. a But how about men? How about my father? n't he to be willing to work for us my mothir. ‘willing '!" do you know a. _ fraglat? Bat you tack. child. 0i , bad men, just as thé men. But there’ i. ‘ ,red~hot suf B a . ..._...u. ll. . fleshed into mar were awfully happy together, eet-teiaperee een it work gut, I i action of the liver and bowels '11 yon-wage ily good all the way ~bad luck in the - sin. Many a i ed by . ,~_. "A wonldnt have been nice girl - ma _ some horrid ' i Chase's KIdnfl-Iilvcr , “f. ‘rm t all." He frowned younl chap; ‘and. i ‘f’. y a nice buy ‘ ‘ i. f a . ' .. g‘. ' _ " he said. "yon marries some _, NH» _|; o: a i ' . " v f-Ill. e, attqgsenae. You're girl. But- yoiffl- Iahtymean- o y a ' fiat iwblby! And spirited. silly I -li_ personif you _"_=.. | let v, something, young said the who] Itutlflp orqnn- ' ‘ middle course rlage was w -- ‘.1 on that ac- ‘ dam?!‘ or hi6. count. New I'll, you the way go round,- and your mother worn . just aslsacred as your mother's - ove for you? ~~An¢_cap’t 'you"faef p all very ‘well for you lo talk that Oughtn't he to love us, too‘! Ought and protect us. just as much as head onmlogiqlied. "Well, I also are!" lid salu. ‘What n the wrong s there are are bod wo- swful lot of I feel abontft. My mother and fa- every plate a res Waltham stands!‘ _lica_ of every other plate, an indisputable proof lzation gives a uniform standard of highest quality every owner or purchaser of a Waltham watch. . To test the truth o! this we have only to compare the Waltluim plats wit that made by entails. know it can he done Bu; l have banged around the world a. whole lot, too, so I know the right coinhln. ntlon doesn't happen very often. I expect I'm pretty nearly in your ‘boat. I've seen, ie best, so I won't -be conten-tuvl It aify second best. You've seengthe worst, so you're scared L0 ‘tr ‘anglhing’ Hugh's pleas ' ngiillps bart- ed In a smIle.;-‘1~ "» out hil, hand across pf; u azipe. _ ‘ "Shake?" he ‘acid-Rind r slipped my hand into his. i"‘Let.'s you and I be the President and Vice-Presl- dent of the Anti~MBl‘IfliIgB_'Ass0cii1- tion." ' . "~- I knew this boy was half ""18?! lng, but I was wholly In earnest. “You wait and see." 1 said, as I shook his hand. "Yol lust wait and see! I'm nevefgolngto mar- .y"! v i . "I don't know that I'll wait. said Hugh, “but I'll promise to see!" Then he looked athhis WMCII.."AINI I do see this’ much‘ he added. "It's time for nice llttle girls ‘to be home with their mothers. where they be- long. Where do you live’! Out of town?" ' I told him the name of my sub- urb, and that I could get the train i at u, station only a‘ few ‘blocks from the restaurant in which we were then. As we rose to go and he helped me on with my coat, he said: "You won't forget the new association. i hope]! I have your address. The vice-president will have to confer with the president occasionally." I smiled and nodded. There WEB some quality of youth in this b0!’ caught myself wishing he huddle my big ibrolher. ' About on hour and a half lat after my first expedition Into world, I was letting myself‘! wake thechlldren or‘ ta oarcvely was the ‘gall than my mother's sha ,_bhllnd me fro-m "the da "‘Why, mother!" I whispered, you're still drhssedl’ - ‘ w came hack. "Oh. Nollie. worried about you! Why. eve}';dliI_ you siny out so late child!" I crept close to her and ‘cuddled down on hei- shoulder fora mom- ent. , ' "I'll tell you about it tomorrow. mother." asked, "would you sell mef-I mean, If anyone offered you ii whole lot of money, ._so you would never have to work any mors,,and you- could give alLthe children everything they wanted, and live in a beautiful castle. with lots and lots of servants——would you sell me, another-for that?’ My mother's arms closed arond me o little tighter. "My goodness! whispered. Sell you’! Why, there isn't any- thing in this whole wide world that Pdiexchnnge _for your little finger!" i - » I- ltlsseduher cheek. "You're an awfully good woman, mother, are n't you?" I said. "why no, child!" ‘she answered Nellie!" mail. had missed all my life. Ha wag “such a good playfellow. I with a little pat on my shoulder. ~>“Im just like all mothers!" cool-coalition he‘ d; hand and subject to all the variations which this hand proces H A THE wonws WATCH oven TIME dining -, "Of course. dear, she whispered, l I've been. so. And then: "Mother: I. she_ "Ara you crazy, child’). E corms-flakes You aee, ‘I've a .....:_>-...'-. .-...t ans- _. "m... ..............., m.» x Pay No More; . But you get _ ' i bettet- corn flakes when you specify Posi" TOASTIES! ' by name,-aiid. make sure that the grocer gives‘ them 1'9, you obtain from! every package ‘of, ; ;Posi-.Toasties i“ f grocers ev pi ._ non/nun... an... chasm... YQIII-fi. l . "Him-d as I could!’ d1 ilgclaretl‘. ' yibe!‘ said Hugh . “The “iDosen“t~-' ef’masked Hugh. v ‘fioik- ‘ "An I ‘bounced aroun all, Wrlg- poi t Ie- u're not very hi5. you "No, I answer "and I don't ‘be- ' ‘ _. Bled away frorg hlirih ‘door oiaytndgz. dndohyou- filial?! know very llervsinpu ev ' -- few; ‘NCVBT 811C}! , Y’ the taxi opens , an e opon- mu of t s wor .' It takes a men are , ' _ , . _ . ing, and I didn't cure! I just threw! lieUbnex-perienced Juggler to play think the . ' " . i‘ dn't flavor u myself out in the road. "Then you ~' thyflhb; "Amateur! keep out.’ marry onevof th ._ _ . anything!’ ness sealed u in i WBut Itold you I wouldn't do any- iBuddealy Hugh ‘threw back his P pas