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Thej ? v.-s now list s :i.i the 1 1 **r hi*nd startled Ma/.e of ' I '?*, Soiuu -'.il w<?rk ? a - hands ?? -'"n-hed knew ? t's i lieek. 'errjfyinjj, ' ;i mix* - fresh ?!? t i ti;i l>le - >U that She was I I i en she " An, ln ? ti. i|Iy to Chapt( I ?"??IlowinR Stdlna ???dm ; re i ? 4 t hese ?.?? jjrlm ?iM-thiflK i -trance - it- were fi^t her ns. Into ? When ?Jay, vol ?jt her I" d, 'W let-ling of ? i truck '? l'ralrie no! No! ? that her ' She, ;p.v wa.v i ny one ' I'rairle SO BIGi By EDNA FERBER <?. Doubled&y, Pane ft Co.) WNU Service. ? \ winter was ro have been only an epi sixlr. Not her life!' She looked at Maartje. oh, she'll never be. like that. That was stupid, unnecessary. Pink nd blue dresses In the house, for her. I rills on the window curtains. Flow .?is in bowls. Some of the pangs and terrors with which most prospective brides are ns sailed she con tided tv Mrs. Pool while that active lady was slamming about the kitchen. "l?id you ever feel scared and ? and v'tt of? scared when you thought about marry, Mrs. Pool?" .Maartje Pool's hands were in a great hatch of bread dough which she pum ii eled and slapped and kneaded vig orously. She shook out a handful of :lour on the baking board while she hold the dough mass in the other hand, then plumped it down and again be -un to knend, both hands doubled into tists. She laughed a short little laugh. MI ran awn v." "You did! You mean you really ran but why? l>idn't you lo? like Klaus?" Maartje l*>ol kneaded briskly, the color high in her cheeks, what with the vigorous pumtnellng and rolling, and something else that made her look strangely young for the moment ? girl ish, almost. "Sure I liked him. I liked him." "l'.ut you ran away?" "Not far. I came back. Nobody I ever knew I ran, even. Hut 1 ran. I knew." "Why diil you come back?" Maartje elucidated her philosophy without being in the least aware that it could be called ny any such high sounding name. "You can't run awa&, far enough. Except you stop living you can't run away from life." The glclish look had tied. She was world-old. Her strong arms ceased their pounding and thumping for a mo ment. On the steps outside Klaas and Jakob were sounning the weekly re ports preparatory to going into the city | late tnat afternoon. Selina luid the difficult task of win ning Iioelf to her all over again. He was like a trusting little animal, who, wounded by the hand he lias trusted, Is shy of it. Still, he could not with stand her long. Together they dug and planted tlower beds In Pervus' dingy front yard. It was too late for 1 tulips now. Pervus had brought her i some seeds from town. They ranged all the way from popples to asters; from purple Iris to morning glories. | The last named were to form the back* porch vine, of course, because they grew quickly. Selina. city-bred, was | ignorant of varieties, but Insisted she wanted an old-fashioned garden marigolds. pinks, mignonette, phlox. She and Koelf dug. spaded, planted. Her trousseau was of the scantiest. Pervus' household was already I equipped with such linens as they Her Cheek Knew the Harsh Cool Feel of a Man's Cheek. would need. The question of a wed 1 ding gown troubled her until Maartje suggested that she be married In the old Dutch wedding dress that lay in the bride's chest in Selina's bedroom. "A real Dutch bride." Maartje said. "Your man will think that is fine." Pervus was delighted. Selina basked in ids love like a kitten in the sun. She was, after all, a very lonely little bride with only two photographs on the shelf In her bedroom to give her courage and counsel. The old Dutch wedding gown was many inches too large for her. The skirt-band over *X*X*X*X*X<'X<'X?>X*X*X->XvX<-X* Income Tax Has Never Imaginative persons seem never to ?ire of conjecturing as to which of modern man's accomplishments would must ustound our ancestors. 'iue motorcar or the airplane la | usually the favorite, but if one could j select a chosen few, comprising many I of the kings of England along with their councilors, probably the achieve ment which would bulk lurgest in their eyes would be the collection of the Income tax. Starting with Edward III, who dis tinguished himself by collecting $130. (XKJ by a graduated ""capital levy In 1 li'2 1 without cuusing a revolution, the history of the efforts of the rulers of our race to yoke us with! this burden is interesting. Edward Ill's levy was very modest, 'says A. G. D. in the Win nipeg Free Tress. It ranged lrorn $30 to 8 cents, according to the position of the faxpuyer. Kichard II ? his Ill-starred grand i son? almost lost his throne before he I had got firmly seated on It, because he lumped her slim waist ; her slender llt tle bosom <1 i?l not fill out the generous width of the bodice; but the effect of the whole was amazingly quaint as well as pathetic. They were married at the Pools'. Klaas and Maiurtjc had Insisted on furnishing the wedding supper ? ham, chickens, sausages, cakes, pickles, beer. The Ileverend I>ekker married them, and all through the ceremony Selina eluded herself because she could not keep her mind on his words in the fascination of watching his short, stubby beard as it waggled with every motion of his jaw. l'ervus looked stiff, solemn and uncomfortable in his wedding blacks ? not at all the hand some giant of the everyday corduroys and blue shirt. In the midst of the ceremony Selina had* her moment of panic when she actually saw herself running shrieking from this company, this man, this house, down the road, on, on toward ? toward what? The feeling was so strong that she was surprised to find herself still standing there in the Dutch wedding gown an swering "I do" in the proper place. After the wedding they went straight to DeJong' s house. In May the vegetable fanner cannot neglect his garden even for a day. The house had been made ready for them. Throughout the supper Selina had had thoughts which were so foolish and detached as almost to alarm her. "Now I um married. I am Mrs. l'er vus DeJong. That's a pretty name. It would look quite distinguished on a culling card, very spidery and fine: "MltS. PERVUS DE JONQ At Home Fridays." She recalled this later, grimly, when she was Mrs. l'ervus DeJong, at home not only Fridays, but Saturdays, Sun days, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednes days and Thursdays. They drove down the road to De Jong's place. Selina thought, "Now 1 am driving home with my husband. I feel his shoulder 'against mine. I wish he would talk. 1 wish he would say something. Still, I am not frightened." l'ervus' market wagon was standing In the yard, shafts down. He should have gone to market today ; ^vould cer tainly have to go tomorrow, starting early in the afternoon so as to get a good stHnd In the Haymarket. ISy the light of his lantern the wagon seemed to Selina to be a symbol. She had often seen it before, but now that It was to be a part of her life ? this the DeJong market^ wagon and she Mrs. DeJong ? she saw clearly what a crazy, disreputable and poverty-proclaiming old vehicle it was, in contrast with the neat strong wagon in Klaas I'ool's yard, smart with green paint and red lettering that announced, "Klaas Pool. Garden Produce." With the two sleek farm horses the turnout looked as prosperous and comfortable as Klaas himself. l'ervus swung her down from the seat of the buggy, his hand about her waist, and held her so for a moment, close. Selin?said: "You must have that wagon painted, Pervus. And the seat-springs fixed and the sideboard mended." He stared. "Wagon!" "Yes. It looks a sight." The house was tidy enough, but none too clean. Pervus lighted the lamps. There was a fire In the kitchen stove. It made the house seem stuffy on this mild May night. Selina thought that her own little bedroom at the Pools', no longer hers, must be dellciously cool and still with the breeze fanning rfbsh from the west. Pervus was putting the horse into the barn. The bedroom was off the sitting room. The window was shut. This last year had taught Selina to prepare the night before for next morning's rising, so as to lose the least possible time. She did this now, unconsciously. She brushed her hair, laid out tomorrow's garments, put on her high-necked, long-sleeved night gown and got into this strange bed. She heard Pervus DeJong shut the kitchen door; ? the latch clicked, the lock turned. Heavy quick footsteps across the bare kitchen floor. This man was coming Into her room. ? ? ? "You can't run far enough,' #MaartJe I'ool had said. '"Except you stop liv ing you can't run away from life." Next morning it was dark when he awakened her at ^our. She started up with a little cry and sat up, straining her ears, her eyes. "Is that you, father?* She was little Selina Peake again, and Simeon Peake had come in, gay, debonair, from a night's gaming. pervus DeJong was already padding about the room In stocking feet. "What ?what 0me Is it? What's the 'matter, father? Why are you up? Haven't you gone to bed. . . Then she re membered. < X-i'iVilVAVAVAVAV*VAV?v.v? . - r Had-Creat Popularity levied n still tnbre modest fax, rang- I lng from $5 to 8 cents. Wat Tyler, before he was murdered, so convinced j the rulers of Britain that an Income ' tux was not a practical form of taxa tion that it was more than 200 years before such a levy was again at tempted. All Fixed Up Tony was being examined in the civil service commissioner's room for a laborer's position. He was tiuent in most of his answers, and it appeared he would pass without any difficulty. But his downfall came when they asked if he hud been naturalized. lie seemed a bit puzzled, but at last his face lighted up and he said: "Ah, I know whata you mean. Scratch^ da arm. Yes, lasta week."? Kansas City Snir. If one finds he can deceive without J half trying, the temptutlon Is feai^ul. ) ? . l'ervus Do Jong laughed and crime toward her. "(Jet up, llrtle lazy bones. It's after four. All yesterday's work I've got to do. and all today's, lireak fnst, little Lina, breakfast. You?are a farmer's wife now." " Dirk DeJong was born in the bed room off the sitting room on the fif teenth day of March, of a bewildered, somewhat resentful, but deeply inter ested mother; and a proud, foolish, and vainglorious father whose air of achievement, considering the really slight part he had played In the long, tedious, and racking business, was dis proportionate. The name Dirk had sounded to Selina like something tall, straight, and slim. l'ervus had chosen it. It had been his grandfather's name. Sometimes, during those months, Selina would look back on her first win ter In lllgh I'ralrle ? that winter of _"A "Farm Work Grand! Farm Work It 8lave Work." the Icy bedroom, the chill black | drum, the schoolhouse tire, the chil blains, the Pool pork? und It seemed a lovely dream ; a time of ease, of free dom, of careles^ happiness. Pervus DeJong loved his pretty young wife, and she him. But young love thrives on color, warmth, beauty. I It becomes prosaic and Inarticulate when forced to begin Its day at four In the morning by reaching blindly, dazedly, for limp and obscure garments I dangling from bedpost or chair, and to end that day at nine, numb and sodden with weariness, after seventeen hours of physical labor. It was a wet summer. Fervus' choice tomato plants, so carefully set out In the hope of a dry season, be came draggled gray specters In a waste of mire, of fruit the field bore one tomato the size of a marble. For the rest, the crops were moder ately successful on the DeJong place. But the work necessary to make this so was heartbreaking. Sellna had known, during her winter at the Pools', that Klaas, Iloelf, and old Jakob worked I early and late, but her months there had encompassed what Is really the truck farmer's leisure period. She had arrived In November. She had mar ried In May. From May until October It was necessary to tend the fields wltfc a concentration amounting to fury. Sellna had never dreamed that human beings tolled jlke that for sustenance. Toil was a tiling she had never en countered until coming to High Prairie. Now she saw her husband wrenching a living out of the earth by sheer mus cle. sweat, and pain. - During June, July. August, an<J September the good black prairie soil for miles around was teeming, a hotbed of plenty. There was born in Sellna at thid time a feel ing for the land that she was never to lose. Perhaps the child within her had something to do with this. She was aware of a feeling of kinship with the earth; an illusion of splendor, of ?fulfillment. As cnbbages*had been cabbages, and no more, to Klaas Pool, so, to Pervus, these carrots, beets, onions, turnip9, and radishes were Just so much prod uce, to be planted, tended, gathered, marketed. But to Sellna, during that summer, they became a vital part In the vast mechanism of a llvlpg world. Pervus, earth, sun. rain, all elemental forces that labored to produce the food for millions of humans. She thought of Chicago's children. If they had red cheeks, clear eyes, nimble brains it was because Pervus brought them the food that made them so. Something of this she tried to convey to Pervus. He only stared, his blue eyes wide and unresponsive. "Farm work grand ! Farm work is slave work. Yesterday, from the load of carrots In town I didn't make enough to bring you the goods for the child so when It comes you should have clothes for It. It's better I feed them to the live stock." Do Selina and her husband "live happily ever afterward^? ft is obvious that there )? po tential tragedy in the situation. (TO BE CONTINUED.) ^ Cruel Old Custom There was a time when 'laughing" faces were actually manufactured to meet the demand of those who wished to be amused. Up to the end of the reign of James II, human "sculpture" work was carried out by roving tribes of gypsies called Comprachios, who were of Spanish origin. They bought and even kidnaped children, and prac ticed a science or art of human disfig uration. Children thQs treated grew up with an immovable and fantastic grin. They were an attraction at all successful traveling booths and entertainments until the custom was repressed bj William 111. NOOK FOR BREAKFAST IN FARM KITCHEN Breakfast Nook in Virginia Farm Home. (Prepared by the United Statea Department of Agriculture. ) In many modern houses a space is especially set apart, either In a corner of the kitchen or between the kitchen and dining room, for what has come to be known as a "breakfast alcove." The fashion has been to have a painted stationary table in this alcove, and built-in benches or seats to match. When painted in gay colors these little alcoves are cheerful and attractive, aifd as they are so close to the source of supplies and so easily kept clean they save the housewife considerable labor. A farm woman *ln Chesterfield county, Virginia, who found it convenient to serve breakfast in her kitchen decided that even If she had no space or materials for building a "breakfast alcove" she could apply the Idea to her own needs and the furniture she had already. So she set one end of the kitchen apart for a "breakfast nook" and made" It as gay and cheerful as she could with little corner shelves, a bowl of flowers on the table, a fresh table runner, and a fright homemade rug on the floor. Two windows let In the sun shine. and the old table and chairs were given a coat of varnish and polished to make them fit into the general scheme. Except for the varnish no money was spent. The picture was taken by the United States Department of Agri culture. * LAUNDRY METHODS HELP HOUSEWIFE Much Drudgery Can Be Re moved in Ironing. ? (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Clothes should be sorted according to the kind of garment and the amount of soli, the United States Department of Agriculture advises. Stains should he removed, and the clothes should be soaked In cool water one-half, or if convenient, soap badly soiled parts, roll up, Just cover with water and let stand over night. A soap solution makes suds more quickly than soap in the cake*. It also cleans more evenly, with less wear to the material,' than soap rubbed on. A quantity for use as needed can be made up at one time by dissolving one cake of white soap or two cups of soap Hakes, chips or scraps, in three quarts of hot water. For blankets add two tahlespoonfuls of borax and one-fourth cupful ammonia. The clothes may be washed either in clean, hot,* soapy water or in cold water and naphtha soap. After rub bing. put In boiler of cold soapy water and boil Ave minutes. Boiling helps to sterilize and whiten the clothes. Itinse until no dirt or soap comes out Into the water. I'se warm water In /he firsl rinsing so the soap will not harden. If clothes are dried In open air and sunshine, bluing should not usually be necessury ; but If white clothes have 1 become very yellow or if they must be dried indoors, bluing may be used In Have Irons Clean and Hot. thf final water. It Is better to make a dark bluing water and ' then add enough to the final rinsing water to bring the desired shade. Stir well. Use less bluing for fine, soft materials and linens and more for coarse thick materials. Some bluings contain a compound of iron which will cause rust spots if it comes in contact with soap. Therefore it is necessary to rinse out all soap before bluing. The rolls of the wringer should be set tight for cotton materials and loose for linen* or linen can be squeezed out in the hands. Hard wringing creases It badly. Fold buttons In flat to pre vent tearing in the wringer. Soft water Is necessary for easy laundry work. Soften- either by boil ing or by chemicals carefully meas ured and thoroughly dlss<*ved in the wash water before pitting In the clothes. To each gallon of water add one-half tablespoonful of* washing HOUSEHOLD NOTES Cheesecloth makes pretty and Inex pensive curtains. * * * Iirlght colors are appropriate ifor north rooms, but those with plenty of sunlight should have light tones of gray or green. ? * * ^ Oil of lavender Is a great fTCshener. A few drops on the book slfelves will overcome the musty smell that may arise In long spells of wet- weather. soda, or else teaspoonful of lye for or- ; dJnary white cotton and linen ma- I terlals and one tablespoonful of borax , for other fabrics. For silks, woolens, and colored ma terials use lukewarm water with no change of temperature between the washing and rinsing. A soap solution Is much better than ^oap rubbed on the fabric. Use a kueadlng motion with these materials rather than rub bing. Silks should be put through a wringer with very loose rollers. Much of the drudgery Is taken out of the Ironing of white- cotton and linen materials if the clothes are even ly dampened and the irons are clean and hot. Iron with the thread of the goods, preferably with the lengthwise threads, until thoroughly dry. Iroh as large a space at one time as pos sible and iron first the parts which hang off the board when finished, and which would dry out quickly. WATERGLASS KEEPS EGGS MANY MONTHS Surplus Product Should Be Preserved. (Prepared by the United State* Department of Agriculture.) If you have chickens it Is quite probable that from the beginning of April to the end of June you will have a good many more eggs than your family ordinarily needs. Why not save these* surplus egus for use in the fail and winter months, when the hens do not lay so well, and prices in the mar ket for supplementary eggs are very ; high? Eggs preserved In waterglass solution will be good for all purposes for the table and for cookery after six or even ten months If properly put down. Three simple points must be observed: The eggs must be abso lutely fresh when they go Into the pre serving solution ? right off the nesj or one day old Is best ; never more than two days old. Every egg should be examined by candling for minute cracks which might cause spolluge. Every egg should at all times be com pletely immersed In the solution, at least two Indies below the surface. Get several large stone crocks ? three or five gallon size, according to your needs ? and put them In the cellar or other cool, dry place where they can remain undisturbed until all the eggs are used. If a Jar is moved after the eggs are In It some of the eggs may crack and spoil, which would affect the entire crock. Thoroughly clean the crock you are ready to use, scald it and allow it to dry. To prepare the waterglass solu tion add nine parts of water that has been boiled and cooled to one part of waterglass (sodium silicate), which can usually be purchased at drug stores. Stir well and fill the crock with the solution. Put the eggs down j into the crock very carefully, from day to day, as they are gathered. If any of the solution evaporates more should be mixed In the same proportion, and added. Very little evaporation will occur, however, If the Jar is covered with a tight lid or waxed paper. Many housekeepers who buy all their eggs arrange In the spring to have a few extra dozen of guaranteed freshness delivered for putting down i In waterglass solution. When the re- j tall rate is going up they will have ex-* cellent eggs on hand, bought at the season's lowest prices. Even when the ? family prefers freshly laid eggs for j the table, a supply of eggs put down in waterglass will be found both econom ical and convenient for use in cakes, puddings and other cookery. Try serving orange fritters to ac company fried ham. * * * ' Turn a steak by passing a knife under it, and never put a fork Into It. ? * ? If water and soap won't clean your oil mop, try hot . water, ammonia and a little washing powder. * ? ?' Boiled puddings should never b* turned out as .soon as done, as the? are liable to breaks Let stand a half hour or so. ter EVery Met Pass it around after every ineaL Give the family the benefit of its aid to digestion. Cleans teeth too. Keep it always in the house. (p 'Costs little -helps much WRIGHTS "S Recipes famous for fifty years are in this book. Alto the lat est bakery treats for the faov ily. It's yours for the asking. Send 10 cents today to cover mailing cost. Be Bekiig PwwJ* Cew, Chchetii, 0, 250Z.25 1 A tried Hid prowd bak ing powder. Every can of Snow King ii full of (nndnim Economical, too? 25c for 25 ouncM. Lawyer Presidents Twenty of the twenty-nine of our Presidents have been lawyers. They were t lie two Adamses, Jefferson. Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Bu ren, Tyler. I'olk, Tierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland Benjamin Harrison, McKlnley, Tji/i, Wilson and Coolidge. When You Buy Shoes for Hard Service See that they have USKIDE SOLES The Wonder Sole for Wear? Wmarw twice mm long M burnt leather I ? and for a Better Heel "U. S." SPRING-STEP H?Im United States Rubber Company jor all your walls For sleeping rooms ? formal parlors and reception halls ? dining room and living room ? for the library ? and for public buildings. Properly applied it won't rub off. Ask your dealer for Ala bastine Colorchart, or write Miss Ruby Brandon, Alabas tine Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. ?Alabastine ? a powder in white and tint*. Packed in 5-pound package*, ready for use by mixing with cold or warm water. Full directions on every package. Apply with an ordi nary wall brush. Suitable for all interior surfaces ? plaster, wall board, brick, cement, or canvas. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Restore! Dandruff -Stop* Hair FalHa* R act ores Color ud I Btauty to Cray and Faded Hair I 60e and II .00 at Drocrfsta. HIscot Chetn Wka .PatAogqe.W.Y. | HINDERCORNS Removes Corna, Gal* louses, etc., stops all pain, ensures comfort to tba feet, makes walking put. lie by mall or at Zww> tfista. Uiscox Chemical Works, Patctagne, HI.
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