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THl SUN, Ft. COVtlNITOlf, H* Golden C6pyrl*bt by Ben By PETER B. KYNE SYNOPSIS Theodore Gatlin adopts a baby, \Pern lope,\ in an effort to solve his matri moflial troubles. But hla wife never wanted her, and their affairs en< In the divorce court. Ten-year-of Penelope is given into the keeping oJ Mrs. GatUn. At a baseball game a ball strikes Penelope on the nose. Mrs. Gaf lin spirits the child to Europe. Gatli wills Penelope all his money, and about to begin a search for her when a motor accident ends hfs life. Some ten years later, in San Francisco, Ste- phen Burt, rising young psychiatrist, Is presented by Dan McNamara, chief of police, with a new patient—Nance Belden, a girl wtth a dual personality, for which her \saddle nose\ Is in part responsible. McNamara does not thin she is a criminal and obtains Burt' testimony in court. La-nny, tbe doctor*! office nurse, is also won over. Nance'i criminal record outweighs Doctoi Burt's explanation of her case and sh« Is sent to San Quentin penitentiary Lanny visits her and Nance persuade: her to smuggle out a fetter,. which t confederate' of Nance steals. Nance es- capes, although shot, and goes to Lan- ny's apartment. Lanny tells Chief Mc- Namara, who orders her to bring Nance to hts apartment. Details of Nance' escape are made public CHAPTER V—Continued —11— \Nance had no right to be there,' the man protested to McNamara. \The poor kid's queer.\ He tapped his fore- bead. \But she framed a sweet geta way, if it would work, and we figured It might So we thought we'd give the girl a hand. She's all right I've got a blind brother that would have starved to death If it hadn't been for Nanca Belden; as for the man the doctor's working over now, Nance took care o: bis wife while he was in the stir. Helped her when she had a baby. Chief, that girl's a saint The only trouble with her Is that she's a devil, too. You never know how to figure her.\ \You've figured her right She's queer. And what* s your wounded friend been doing since he got out of stir? What did be get in for?\ \He got In for bootlegging and he's been bodyguard for a boss bootlegger since he got out\ \H-m-nMn! And what's your spe- \Greet them kindly, ask them their business and Invite them to talk it over before they can tell you what ic Is. When they tell you permit them to search your home, and be cheerful about it\ The phone rang and Dan answered it When he rejoined Lanny he was smiling broadly. \You're a bum mop- per-up,\ be accused. \That was Flynn, one of the detective sergeants on watch at your house. He found two drops of blood you overlooked, so he thinks you and Nance are in the house but refuse to answer the bell, and he wants permission to break in, in the name of the law. He says be can slide the latch on your front door lock like nobody's business. I told him to wait another bour and then try if, but to be careful.\ Lanny's independent and belligerent nature was instantly aroused. \If I couldn't give a snooper like that cards and spades, the four aces, big and little casino, and beat him to death on the sweeps, I'd kiss a cow,\ she de- clared. \Guess I'll go home and make those big boobs feel ashamed of them selves for disturbing a lady.\ Whatever you do, be nice to them,\ he warned earnestly. \If you get snooty with them, Lanny, they'll just waltz you down to central station and stow you away for the night—with the excuse that the chief wants to see you. And Tve decided I don't know you. If I did rd go home wtta you.\ He escorted Lacny out to her car and with a flashlight examined it very %*reftri*y again for s&fis of blood. Be found two dried splotches and wiped hem away before permitting her to depart As Lanny entered the driveway and paused In front of her garage, there were no detectives in sight, although there might have been had she deemed it the part of wisdom to glance care- t know what line I'll take up, Chief. I've only been out of the United States army disciplinary bar- racks on A lea traz Island a month. I was a soldier—and I poked an officer.\ \Oh you're the machine-gunner, eh? Learned to shoot In the army, I sup- pose?\ -If r-hadSTr Td have kTIled that guard. I could have gotten him If I cared to, but instead I scared him with overs and shorts. Did I sweep the roof of that lookout tower?\ \You certainly did—and rattled the man at the Browning run there. Well, you're quite a fellow! What does your friend, the chauffeur, do?\ \Delivers bootleg. He took a chance for a friend.\ \You may go,\ said Dan MeNamara to the chauffeur. \Take your car and beat i t But Til remember you and if you pull any rough stuff In this city I'll land you out In the grass. On your way.\ The man fled promptly, and Dan turned to the ex-soldier. \I've got Nance out at my house,\ he explained. \Doctor Burt has fixed her up and I'm not going to turn her in. Neither am I going to turn her out because she wouldn't be out two hours before she'd be picked up. That saddle nose of heis is a dead-give-away.\ Tbe man nodded lugubriously. \We've got to find a quiet spot for your friend, too,\ the chief went on meditatively. \A man with three bul- let holes in him Is in an embarrassing fix—when he's wanted. So we'll take him oat to my bouse, too. That's the only safe place I can think of.\ -How about me?\ \You've been a soldier, so I suppose you can carry out orders?\ \Yea sir.\ \Well your orders are to come out to my house, too, and take care of your friends. The doctor will call every day and tell you what to do. y And you'll have to do the cooking.\ 1 can do that, too. Not fancy, but they can eat it\ \AU right you've got a job and a holing-ua place as welL m go home now and get my car and come back for you and your friend. Meanwhile don't you get cold feet and disappear. I want to talk to you some more. I want to find out all about Nance Bel- den, and you and your friend migat be able to give a line on her.\ \I don't know anything about her, Chief, except that her real name is Penelope Gatlln.\ Dan McNamara clasped his corru- gated brow In both hands and pon- dered. \GatUn! Gatlin I Penelope Gatlin! Now, where have I run across that name in my business? I don't usually forget names, and I seem to remember I had a call once for some- body by that name or else somebody by that name cabed on me. It was a long time ago. I'll have to look that up—I wonder if there's anything In the flies at headquarters.\ It was midnight before Nance Bel- den's two frieads were Installed with her in Dan McNamara's house. Lanny looked both men over carefully and confided to the chief that she wouldn't trust either one of them as far as she could throw a bear by its taiL to which Mr. McNamara replied that one of them couldnt raise any deviltry if he wanted to. while the other dared not Moreover, this latter was die only practical nurs* be coald secure. A trained nurse might talk; on the other hand, this friend of Nance's bad been educated to keep his mouth shut -And a very great virtue,- McNamara added. \Kls freedom Is In my keeping and my. honor U In his, so we have to trust each other. Besides, It'g high time you got home.* \How about ftose two cops waiting Mr awr she was aware that she was. about to entertain Detective Sergeant P. Flynn and Detective Sergeant A. AngellotL \Good evening, gentlemen,\ Lanny hailed them cordially. \Come In and rest your big flat feejt\ P. Flynn nodded wisely *o A. An gelloti. \She resents us, Amadeo,\ said he. \Oh I hope ^not,, Pat Let us hope it is not us she resents bat our hon- orable profession.\ The wretch bowed again. \Thank you, Miss Lannlng. And both gentlemen entered. Lanny led them down the hall to her tiny drawing room. Angeilott, like a hound, followed close behind her, but Flynn was in no hurry. ' He swept the runner in the hall with a flashlight first, then followed his partner into the drawing room, and sat down heavily on a divan. \Is this to be a long interview?\' Lenny asked cheerfully. P. Flynn shook his head. \A min- ute or two.** \Then Fll not bother giving you any- thing to drink.\ \Well it might take ten minutes, at that,\ Flynn countered. At least that,\ Angelloti agreed \Besides Pat, she works for a doctor and her stuff is probably good old prescription goods.\ \We been hours out In the cold,\ Flynn added sadly. Lanny mixed her guests each a highball. P. Fjyan «irank half of his at a gulp, set down his glass and said \Well Where's Nance B^den?\ \I see by the. p**et» at* eieaped from San Qaentin about six hours ago.\ \She came here,** Flynn charged. \Prove it,\ Lanny challenged tartly; whereupon Flynn went out into the .entrance hall and returned, dragging the end of the hall runner with him. He turned It over and revealed a large hen Lanny Almost Screamed. Instantly She Switched Off the Light, Got Her Little Pistol Out of Her Bag and Switched the Light on Again. fully about her. She unlocked the garage door, climbed back In her car, drove In, stopped the motor and switched off the lights. Then she got out closed and locked the garage door and turned on an electric light switch on the doorpost to light her way up- stairs to her kitchen. Then she almost screamed. Two big fellows wearing soft hats were stand- ing behind her ear, gazing at her owl- ishly. Instantly Lanny switched off the light, got her little pistol out of her tog and switched the light on' again. Now what do you two handsome Jeviis wantr she demanded. Like automatons the pair threw back their lapels and disclosed their shields. \Cops or no cops,\ Lanny announced, \my garage is my castle, and you 1't come into it uninvited without a search warrant\ The two detectives looked at each ither and Lanny realize/! that they ippreelated her very much indeed. 'She's a lawyer,'* said one of them. \Not a very good one, though,\ the other replied. \However Pat, let her have her own way. A woman\—the outrageous fellow bowed low—\and particularly a young, and beautiful woman—with a pistol—always makes nervoua, If you will be good enougk to open your garage door, Miss Lannlng, we win go out, come up your front stairs, ring the bell like gentle- and ask if we can't come in and have a little chat with you. If that satisfactory r \Eminently so.\ Lanny wax as po- lite as the speaker now. She felt for the bolt in back of her, slid It back and kicked the door open without tak- ing her eyes or her pistol off tbe pair. Thty went got, doted both doors be- hind her aad held them doted until had toot the bolt borne again. Then and went upstairs and let herself Just a* her doorbell rang; fo she •witched on the lights, removed her hat and coat, went to the door and ed i t Instantly two large hands thrust two cards at her; whereupon dark red spot \Blood J\ he an- nounced. Angelloti touched the spot \Fresh blood!\ \Human blood,\ Flynu went on. \Quite a clot of it She must have fainted after Miss Lannlng let her In. Undoubtedly she lay several minutes in the hall bleeding while Miss Lan- nlng was fixing a bed for her.\ \We know she came here,\ Angelloti charged. \We found two spots of blood on the sidewalk.** \That settles it,\ Flynn declared with ponderous finality. \Miss Lan- nlng, yon have this female convict secreted in your house and I advise you to give her up. Come now, give her up,\ he wheedled, \and we'll Just give it out that we caught her trying to get into your honse during your absence. We'll protect you.\ \Search my house,\ Lanny offered in a queer, choked voice. She loathed herself for having overlooked that large blood -«taln on her hall runner. TO BB ooimmnu>. Knew Their WnuU The ancient Greek navigators knew enough about the seasons and direc- tions of certain winds, such as the eteslans and the Indian monsoons, to utilise them in making-voyages that would have been difficult or Impossible without such knowledge, states a writ- er In the New York Tribune. After tbe Fifteenth century the trade winds of Hie Atlantic and the Pacific were similarly turned to account At tbe dose of the Seventeenth century the earliest attempt to chart ocean winds was made by HaUey, the fitegHab as- tronomer, whose erode map of the trad* winds and monsoons implies quit be bad a certain amount of statistical information at bis disposal. A» Early Pm»Um Hay A Passion Play was performed is Lucerne as early as 1470 SB the Wain- market square. Clergymen and tovt councilors played the cfefcsf xoles. By ELMO SCOTT WA'BSON STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER f N NAPLES, ITALY, In 1S96, John 4 Philip Sousa read a three-Say-old copy of tbe Paris edition or the New York Herald. In it was a brief dis- patch saying that David Blakely, i ager of Sousa's famous band, had dropped dead in his office. That meant that tbe bandmaster must assume the responsibility for the arrangements of his next American tour. Hastily cancelling the plans that he and Mrs. Sousa had made for a visit to Sicily, he booked passage on the first ship for America. As be paced the deck of the S. S. Teutonic, sad- dened by the news of Blakely's death and Ms mind filled with the burden of the task ahead, an uncanny thing hap- pened. Sousa became aware of the rhythmic beat of a playing band—just an imagi- nary band that was making music in hlfl mind. Throughout the voyagt across* the Atlantic, that invisible band kept on playing, playing. Never for s moment was it silent and it alwayi played the same nine 1 He tried to think of other things but the theme of the melody echoed and re-echoed in the back of bis brain. Psychologists today might claim that this was -com- pensation*' . . . tfce reaction of creative mind after a severe shock. Bat whatever the reason for it, Sousa made no attempt to set the ttine on paper while he was aboard the steamer. When he reached New York and found that mystical band still playing on and on, he could resist it no longer. He sat down and in a few minutes had re- corded the aH-tee-femiliar measures of that composition. Fn his spirited Iwto- biography, -Marching Along,\ State has written the fact tSiat not a note of that tune has been changed from that day to this. It was the \Stars and Stripes Forever,\ known all over the world today and the most beloved of all the compositions of the \March PIGS IS PIGS '« DIGS is pigs\ and they're also trou- * ble-makers. No less than twice did they seriously affect the diplomatic relations of nations and once they al- most brought on a war. In ISO, Monsieur de Saligny was French ambassador to the Republic of Texas, One day, a pig belonging to an Austin hotel* keeper named Bullock, strayed into M. de Saligny's garden. One t>f the ambassador's servants abused the pig. Whereupon Bullock proceeded to horsewhip the servant De Saligny Insulted Bullock and Bul- lock insulted de Saligny with tbe re- sult that the ambassador demanded bis passports and left the country. Dip- lomatic relations between France and Texas became strained and it required apology from President Lamar of the Lone Star Republic to restore peace. More serious was the pig incident that troubled the peace between Eng- land and the United States a few years later. On one of the tiny San Juan islands in Puget Sound lived an Amer- ican and an Englishman. One day tbe Briton shot #ne of the American's pigs and a furious quarrel resulted. But they finally agreed to settle It In court But which court—British or Ameri- tn? Despite the treaty of 1846, boun- dary lines were none too clear, espe- cially on this little island. So the dis- pute grew worse over the matter of Jurisdiction. Civil ofilcers were drawn Into Jt, then the military. Troops were mobilized and it looked like war. By this time the pig was forgotten in a controversy involving citizenship, boun- dary lines and international law. Eventually It was settled by arbitra- tion—with no less a person than the German emperor acting as arbiter In dispute that started over a pig! • • • \HE SHOT AN ARROW—*• qpHE capture of tne Important Span- A lsh fortress of San Lorenzo by Sir Henry Morgan, the famous English buccaneer, was not due to his expert generalship as much as it was to a strange chain of circumstances over hich he had no control. In his command were a number of pirates who had fought well for the cause. One day, during the siege of the fortress one cf these men was pierced in the side by an arrow. The cutthroat pulled it from bis flesh vow- to send it back to the Spaniards as fast as he could. He had no bow but, in bis anger, be used the one weapon he had ... bis musket Wadding cotton around the end of e arrow, he crammed It into the bar- rel of bis gun, took aim and fired. The missile went sailing over the fortress wall and was lost from view. It was merely a gesture of revere. No one dreamed of the consequences. But the cotton was kindled by the powder which in turn set fire to the thatched roof of a bonding inside tbe fortress. The Spaniards were franti- cally trying to get the flames under -control when tbe creeping fire reached the powder magazines. They exploded, bursting part of the walls, and Morgan rushed in to capture the stronghold, SVW-t«rn Newp*p«r Colon. Tl» \Petticoat Flag\ , • The \petticoat flag\ was a real red petticoat, \hooped and stayed\ and flown from tbe mast of tbe Fayette on the occasion of the first filling of the Cheshire level of tbe Farmingtoo canal on or about November 27, 1827. Plant. Used for Barrages Among the Plants that peoples of die world ferment or distil) to make beverages, the Field museum exhibits coconut palms, the century plant, a pepper plant bananas, and cassava roots. Uncommon! JohnBUkt •Why?\ \whys? of things, yoTmay got ktodergarten, and college, and at the end of your days yoi* will be lucky if you are able to do more than earn a bare living. Obviously we were intended by^the Creator to be curious. ^ ft is because of the able, wotukrmg All the good teachers I ever have had were men and women who, when I plied them with Questions, told me to go and find out for myself. The beat any teacher or professor can do is to awaken the curiosity of those In their care. Once start them wondering about the \whys\ and they will do the rest It was not so many years ago that the people of the earth took it for granted that apples on a tree, when they ripened, should fall down and not up. Then Isaac Newton came along, looked at thesame-kind of apples on the same kind of trees that had been growing for ages, and inquired of him- self why this should be. So the attraction of gravitation was discovered, and out of that discovery grew tbe science of physics. - It constantly occurs to me that we of this generation are fortunate In the date of our birth. We came into the world in <a think- ing and an Inquiring age. The intelligent people atl over the world are not satisfied to know that pples fall, that the sun shines, that water runs down hill. They demand to know the reasons. And as they discover them one by one they pass*them on to those who don't want to take the trouble to think. Always there are problems to think out, always there is work on hand, al- ways there are opportunities to prod others into a realization of how much is to be done, and how much can be done. Today the scientists are outstripping all other groups of people. But presently the men and women too are working to reduce poverty, to put an end to crime, and to increase opportunity In the world will have their innings. You and I have seen a great ad- vancement In thought, a great spread f education. We shall see much more of these things In our life times, if we use our eyes and ears as knowledge scouts, and our mind to put into use the In- 'ormation that they bring to us. Not long ago I was shown a copy »f a newspaper published; before the Civil war. Eyes of A scant third of it the World was news. The remainder con- Isted of opinions of the newspaper's iditors, or of prominent people, or of ong letters to the editor, written by ery dull people who obviously had a leep belief in their own ability. The newspaper reader of today ould be astonished if he found that kind of a sheet on his doorstep. Most of the news would be old, ometimes a week, sometimes six months. There would be no pictures, no tidings at all of great catastrophes, news of which would not reach the town or city of pub- lication for weeks to come. The newspaper that you are reading ow may be a great metropolitan pub- lication, or it may be a smaller paper rat in a town of a few thousand peo- le. But It will tell you what is going on 11 over the world. It will be your eyes and ears while on are sitting' at the breakfast table. It may differ with you in politics, >ut it will tell you as much about hat your political party Is doing as does about what Its own party is In & Reporters today are trained to state .eta briefly and succinctly, to write the news so you will know what is ac- tually happening, and why. Today the newspapers which do not ivor the administration give as uch news about it as the organs which, in their editorial columns, strongly approve of what is going on i Washington. | And in a town so small that it has only a weekly, you can still get the news without prejudice. I believe that more men and women are sending their children to college be- cause they, and the children as well, read what the colleges are doing, and bow modi they do for the young peo- ple committed to their care. I believe that in almost every depart- aent of modern life the newspaper is a •eat and growing factor. MoreoVer I am certain that every an and woman who reads a modern newspaper every day will increase his intelligence, and become more and more a factor for good in the world. I am not rooting for any given pa- per. I have worked and written for many of them. But I am for them. Without them this country would never have grown rapidly, and would never have been rented so wisely. St. A«gm*ti»e'» Ston* Cat** Reminiscent of 8t Augustine's three centuries of turbulence are the stone gates, erected more than 200 years ago, for a wail around the city. Lichen and i mellow tbe two stone pillars 80 feet .high. Taxa* fa ^ ...«,• Canada, like other self-governing members of the Brttistt eaplre or com- monwealth of nations does not pay taxes to the mother country nor ren- der other financial support, except by voluntary action. Influential Oratory \Do you prefer a political career to marriage?\ \Infinitely.- answered Miss Cayenne. It Is quite evident that a stamp speech commands more respectful attention than a curtain lecture.\ comparatively small comfort In reading JUST INDIFFERENT A man was baying a horse from a farmer, butbefore fie made any payment he asked the farmer to let him ride. Out In the pasture be got on the horse and tbe animal started across the field. He hadn't gone far when he bumped into A treeV Then a few yards farther! he bumped into the side of the bain. The man dismounted. •*! don't want that horse. He * blind I\ he said indignantly. -No, sir,*, replied the farmer, He ain't blind—he Just doesn't care what he does.\—Washington Post AMPLE REASON jdid yotj decide yon wouldn't have a new suit this year? Hfcbby—Whea I saw this blU for four new spring -outfit DUcre*t ^atbiui \Do you enjoy music? 1 * \Of course I do,\ answered Senator Sorghum. \What kindr* \Every kind. I see no possible rea- son for offending the musician vote.\ Protection \Where did yon get that black eye!\ 3M TryIng to keep a little boy from getting licked.\ -Well, well, that's nice. Who was the little boy?\ •Me.\—Washington Post No Objection Prospective Lodger—I like the room but the view of those factory chimneys Is unpleasant Landlady^-Oh, that Is only because It is Sunday and they are not worging —the rest of the week the smoke hides them. Objection Vetoed \What's the matter with Brown? He Eooks glum.\ \He's been protesting his wife's will.\ \I didn't know she was dead.\ \That's just i t She isn't\ No Class to Him Mrs. Pink—Is your husband a book- worm, Mrs. Mta? Mrs. Mitz—No, just the common kind, Mrs. Pink. OUCH! \Well how did Mr. Hammer strike OU?\ \Very forcefully.\ Correct interpretation First Star—I'm awfully sorry to see yon here to the hospital, but I never knew that pistol was really loaded 1 Second Star—Oh, that's all right eddents will happen. But what gets my goat was the way the director yelled. \You blithering Idiot, don't you know you're shot V r . Placing the Value Officer—Was It a very valuable car? Jones—Oh, the car wasn't worth much, bat-the tank was half full of gasoline. Frozen Grease Paint Mr. Knosit—I am surprised to. find you so hard op. I thought you had a contract for the whole season at $50 night . Herr Klavlerland—1 had, but they took me op to Alaska, where the nights are, six months long.—Detroit News. Bad Eyesight 'Johnny, 1 left two apples in tbe :lo*et a while ago. Now there's only ie.\ \Shucks—it was so dark I guess I didn't see that one.\—Washington Post, Canny Colonel A Kentucky -Coloort'* entered his illoplng mare In the Kentucky derby. He was loyal to bis horse, but doubt- ful of her speed. Accordingly, he issued orders to bis miner: \Put a hundred on her nose and a mortgage on her stable.\ Per F«t«re V— First Tramp—What would you do II you won the Irish Sweep? Second Tramp- -1 should bsve ail park seats upholstered. where government airplanes are bomb- ing government bat- tleships, seised by rebels. From the Averoff, pride of the Greek navy, \flames rose high\ when a 250-pound baby bomb struck her deck. What would happen if a 5,000- pound ijomb struck such a ship? Ancient names taking you back to school days are scattered through Greek cNa war reports. Teniselos, a true Greek patriot, supporting fbe revolution, dwells on the little island of Crete, where the Minotaur, half hu- man, half bull, used to live and de- vour youths and maidens from Athens. In this world of trouble, something must explode somewhere. . Ramsay MacDonald tells the com- mons that Germany's military activity compel Britain to extend her boun- daries ©f nmperkU air protection\ to the banks of the Rhine. Armies of men mean nothing. Floating ships mean HttleV A while ago Lord Rother- mete, warning his country usefully, as bis brother, Lord Northcllffe, did in the big war,' #as telling tbe British that, they must have at least SJJOO fighting planes. His advice at first ridiculed, is now token seriously and Britain will have^ the* planes. — ..V \'A Old American methods that have built up this country, such as It is, are called out of date by leading minds in Washington. Mr. Richberg, supposed to be closest to the President In thought, tells a Miami audience \the World war marked the passing of a civilization.'* What kind of civilization will take its place? With all possible respect for pro- fessors and reformers, you wonder if they can, offhand, manufacture a better one. < • 4 The death at seventy-eight ot Fre- mont Older, for more than fifty years* a courageous, fighting newspaper man in California, recalls Victor Hugo's words: \The death of the Just man Is like the end of a beautiful day.\ Fremont Older's life, character and work were worthy of his impressive stature arid benign expression. It may be said of him, as was said of Glad- stone, that \his heart was ever with the Weak and miserable poor.\ Every good cause found a defender in him* the most miserable convict released from prison, might find a friend In him. There Is a heaven, of course, and Fre- mont Older Is there. If there were no heaven, his character and merit would \make it necessary to invent one.\ Alabama voted dry, stands with Kan- sas, one of the two,dry states of the Union. Northern racketeers and boot- leggers must not hastily.conclude that Alabama offers a paradise of profit First, Alabama knows how to make corn whisky at a price per gallon that would discourage any bootlegger; sec- ond, the men of Alabama are not as long suffering as men of New York. Racketeers would find Alabama is bad climate for their health. Paris and American dressmakers tell woman that she must now dress in a fashion \revealing the outlines and curves of the human form.\ To know exactly what the outlines of the human form are, take a' walk through the streets of Miami near public or private bathing beaches. You. will see stroll- ing to their homes, as free from care or self-consciousness as little birds, hundreds of ladles, some tall and thin, a majority short and fat with literally nothing on from the waist op that could not be replaced by two half coco- nut shells fastened to the chest with a string around the back of the neck, and below the waist a wisp of material that would make Eve's skirt of leaves look like a ball dress. Such costumes are unwise \sales- manship.\ The old-fashioned muslin dress down to the ankle, up to the Deck, aroused romantic interest and uncertainty. The two half coconut shell costumes cause the eligible young man to say, \If that Is all there is to It, I shall postpone matrimony.\ On an island in the Pearl river, In- habitants of a Chinese fishing village dreaded and dfsliked a small settle- ment where 24 lepers lived nearby. A dispatch fcom Hongkong says tbe xA~ lagers have solved their problem by a massacre of the 24 lepers, followed by the destruction and burning of their settlement- That shocks us now. but such bar- barity was once the rule. The old were killed and sometimes eaten in primi- tive days. British medical men declare positive- ly that \drinking milk within two hours after eating meat is highly detrimental to tbe digestive system.\ Hoses could nave told them that long ago. Nfeotin*- in Tofcace* The quantity of nicotine la tobaoc* varies from 2 to 8 per cent the coarser kinds containing the larger quantity, while die best Havana cigars seldom contain mort than t per cent and often less. BattUb Was Not P*p«lar Tbe bathtub was Invented la 1842, but m% tbe beginning Its use wa« frowned epos by doctors. It took •bout 80 years before the bathtub be- came 'generally acceptable everywhere. -I*earson*» Weekly. I
