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OUR COMIC SECTION Events in the Lives of Little Men ?<>rrn;M. w s\ v > THE FEATHERHEADS ~T say. fanny... aren't you ' PAYING A STIFF PRICE FOR THINGS I AT YOUR MARKET? MOW MUCH UMS \THAT COUNTRY SAUSAGE TONIGHT?, Eye to Business Excitedly the manufacturer of the world's greatest Insect exterminating powder burst into his export office. "Hey," he bellowed, "have we got an agency in Egypt?" "Why ? er ? no, sir." "Well, why haven't we? I saw a film of them pyramids last night, and It said they was covered with millions of hieroglyphics." ? Legion Weekly. For Evening Use James* father had recently bought an open car in which James was very Interested. In telling some of his com panions about It he said: "My daddy has a fine new low necked car and takes me for a ?ide in It every evening." The Qualifications Father ? Who is the brightest boy Id your class. Tommy? Son? Fred Wells. He can eat ap pies behind his geography book and never get caught. ? London Answers. Au Lucifer Social Worker ? Do you believe in the transmogrification of souls? Fisherman? No. I likes 'em fried In the reg'Iar way. ? Pathfinder. Smack ? Smack ! Fonda Love ? You certainly have a pretty mouth. Miss Huggins ? Go on with your fooling. Fonda Love ? 1 said it's a pretty mouth, and I'm going to stick to it. ? Pathflndor Magazine. HE WAS LOYAL Blllson? "Why didn't you tell me that confounded stock of yours wasn't worth a nickel?" Johnson? "Because j I'm too much of a man to Jump on a poor stock when it's down." Hit Intentions Father ? Mr. Sweeting Is very wealthy, Joan, and a nice fellow to boot Joan? Oh. dad, please doo't do IL Modest Declaration ?'You have served your country h great mftny years." ?*I have," admitted Senator Sorghum. "Your people have absolute confi dence in you." "I won't say that they always have j absolute confidence. But it has always happened that they'd rather take a chance on me than they would on the other fellow." Resourceful Dad Son (hinting) -Dad. the second In stallment on my saxophone is due. Can you think of any way I could keep the music company from coming out and taking it away fr m me? Dad ? Yes. wrap it up a .d send It back to them! What Did Sbe M?an ? Mrs. Jones ? I hear your car was wrecked, Mr. Johnson. Johnson ? Yes. the car was smashed, but I was unharmed. Mrs. Jones? What a pity I Now, Listen Here ? - "Do you ever read in bed?** "Not now. I often lie awake and listet to a lecture, though." ? Path finder Magazine. S Ii\ THE WOULD I 1 '-?* r?i i THAT WAS | ?? TLOWERLAW $ I _ =x! -:p By fan:-; if. i il k st i|; <o>'o - ?'? O o a ^o> ?"? h? UcClun v- nvnniK-r SvtHll?at*-. ? ? \V N I ScnrlM.) "1 lltoM the time Ituth Adieu was j 1 |-H lift ecu. and had *"?iuit school,** ;is i A. the s.iyini: ?im>s anion? the Untb Adlons. she ha<l heer. an "instruc J ??r" in a dance hall known as "Flow ??rland." It was one of th??se resorts where. I'or an entrance fee. you may purchase a strip of tickets; sis for twenty-rive rents. Kach ??;ie at the-** entitles you to a partner for one ? lance numher. There were ahotit fifteen ;:irls and six or seven tnen employed in the same capacity as l llntli. They were professional part ! ners. Ituth Adlon's fervor for the dan<*e was Something that seemed to stir j I :<s her own vitality. She was tire j ! lo^s. Frssjile. io what soeinef! a break* i in? point. nervous. slender, and of n j : wax-like pallor, her feet, even on ? those rare occasions when sin* sat on j i lie sidelines, when a partner had not i "laimed her with his tleket teetered. The rhytlun of the jazz music seemed to run throusli her veins, and to keep her constantly excited She was one j of the hest (if not the best) dancers I at Flowerland. The system there was on a com mission basis. Your income consisted i ->f a percentage on the numher of tickets you cnlleclwl durins an eve nine. Ituth earned more than any girl ; on the staff. One of the Voir, lis employed In ?l similar capacity at Floworland was in love with Ruth. Mis mime was rhrfsifan Cowon. Ruth to tea so i hi in about this name of his. it seemed I so incongruous. considering I ho en vironment. Anil so it was. A* a mat tor of fact. Christian was t ho son of n Mot liodist minister in a smalt South orn town. lie had driftea eastward, i chiefly to escape his father's insist ence that he follow in ilio ministerial footsteps, lie too was n frail fellow, distinctly of a social class ahove thai of his colleagues, yet strangely at ! home In the cay. relaxed, whirling world that was Flowerlaml. It was extraordinary that such an 1 environment could have turned out n girl as unworldly as Ituth Adlon Her partners were lust so manv customers to her. At I he close of her work a ] day. or ratiier her work a-night, she forgot tiiem as promptly as a salesman i forgets the string of people to whom tic had sold coffee over the counter during an afternoon. In fact it might ! ho said of Ruth Adlon, that she was a girl's girl. She enjoyed the gossip | anions them She liked to walk homo with one for n companion. It was i seldom that she consented to an out side engagement with ono of the partners she met in Flowerland. Not that she had any scruples about the life of the dance hall, hut Ruth was not ^Interested. That is why her affair with Chris tian Cowon, when it came, was one that from the very first started in to he of more serious moment than Is usually the case in such an environ ment They fell In love and Immediately their solemn young eyes fastened upon the goal of marriage. Ruth enter tained no illusions ahout the ambi tions or the potentialities of Christian. To her ho was merely a darling boy who needed her. And Ruth needed him. On the Initial equipment of lov ing one another deeply, and ahout one hundred and seventy-five dollars be tween them, they were married, and continued their Joint work at Flower, land until four months before Ruth was going to have her child. In the sixteen months of their mar riage, these two little dancing people so curiously dependent upon one an-% other In the vast amusement world in which they whirled, had feathered their tiny nest of an up town flat and settled down to a happiness that was drenching and all-sufllcient. except for one fly In a smooth ointment Christian, who loved his dancing wife with all the tenacious capacity of the frail, was branded in his make-up with a broad streak of Jealousy. Be cause she was so delectable to him, it was inconceivable that she could be anything else to the hundreds who ?7ere fortunate to hold her In the dnncc. When their baby girl was four months old. a stroke of invisible light ning, as it were, smote the happy little household. Whether during the dance, or in some twisted motion of which he had not been conscious. Christian after suffering some weeks of pain In silence, went to a physician who X-rayed his hurting spine and found a fracture. _ - - _ if not only heca use ne?es.:ry. hut it i - ? %r fo, Kuth r?? lake upon her si : r dfitt the entire respond. b li > 0f tj,e household. For eight m??mhs. chr . :t r?WPri lay flat on his back in a r _?l |?l:lN;,.r cast on a hospital cot. i months. Hut Cowi-n twink l <,n ^(>P toes, to jjicot the expens ?. ?,f faal driven little household. an-1 stransely enough, thrived doing it. Aivl s.i ,j; \ ln*r hahy. Ii was itnposs to em. ploy the services of a tiur-.- Jn the household, and so. to her . imir ar first, she was obliged to entrust the i cliild to a nursing home fo,- infants. But the little girl, even as her mother, seemed to hh?om and blossom un<ler what might normally ho cot.v; h>r*wi an adverse condition, and Kuth beheld this take place, her heart ?m tiiat score at least was I within her. It was a strenuous. nerve mekins life, darting like a frenzied t ?--en^er of sweetness, between the dan.-e hall, the nursing home ami the hospital where Christian lay strapp* I tf> his cot. fli<5 recovery was tedious - v and torturous And yet. Uuili \\ ' > hov ered so lovingly over him not know the most tortuous n>:?e? ? of h. Lying there day sifter da-. week after week, month after tivm'h. th<* pressur* of the secret i?*:i ' earn? to he almost unbearable t?? r!ni>!ian. Kvenitigs. when the ward l:_h*s wen* low and the patients about him had dropped off to their trouble.! sleep. |-,P was forced to lie there, visioning Kuth in the arms of others. It v a* impos sible to Imagine that the men who held her did not thrill to her near ness as he did. It was imo - Mi* tn fight down the frenzy. know-Ins that even as he lay there, she was desir able to others. It made of him. rn the months wore on. a freifnl. nervous, Irascible patient, sharp with Ms nurses, critical, even cruel, in his remarks to Uuth. There came a time, however. whi?n Christ inn. on crutches. was t.? leave the hospital: was even able. of on evening. to bobble down. when as sisted by Ilnth. and sit on the sidelines in the flame hall ami wateh the scene. It was his idea that this might ease the secret torture. On the contrary, it only seemed to inflame It. The sight of her. tireless, enthusiastic, playful, even with the bunion of her responsibilities full upon her. actually seeming to delid.l In the act of the dance. was even more than he could bear. Poor Christian. In his sense of de feat and in his love for this girl; and in his fear and torment f.?r her. he was all warped inside, and of that Kuth knew nothing. She only s;iw her maimed, nervous husband through the eyes of her desire to serve him and to ameliorate, if possible, the dreariness of the semi-invalidism that ! seemed to stretch wearily ahead By now. the hurt ins Jealousy of Christian's began to take on a certain menace. He plainly detected that in Ruth's dancing there was a ioy-of-life. There was one Spanish fellow in particular, who used to spend his en lire strip of tickets in dames with Ruth. toward whom she seemed to lift a face as dewy as a flower Sitting on the sidelines with his crutches he side him, slow smoldering hates began ! to burn in the maimed husband of Ruth. The two things that Christian loved best in life, that small, dancing mother and the small child she had begot, were in peril. And somehow, to the fever ish brain of the troubled young hus band, the Spanish fellow who came to | the dance hall once or twice a week began to be the symbol of that peril. One evening, there occurred in that dance hall what seemed a miracle, al ! though medically, and in the colder annals of science. It is known as "trauma." In the midst of what was the routine 1 performance of Ruth dancing around the floor in the arms of the young Spaniard. Christian, unable to bear any longer what seemed to him the amorous clasp of these two. jerked himself to his feet, ami forgetful of his spine, rushed without his crunches out to the center of the floor, hurling them apart. In ihe confusion and the unpleasant notoriety of the moment, one outstand ing fact was revealed to Ruth. Chris tian was standing erect and strong on his two feet. Christian was able to walk off that dance floor without the aid of crutches. That was the beginning: 'he begin ning of h great many things in their little household. Also It revealed to Ruth the pitiful, tortured mental life that had been her husband's through out the months. More than that, it revealed to her the power of his mind over the matter of his body. Christian, who walks as normally 1,8 anyone now. has a paying position with a commercial house: Ruth is now able to carry on a life she loves even over and above the life of dancing. She Is mistress of a little home an of the day-by-day destiny of two growing children.
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