Much Efficiency
By '
I?KC;iX HERE TODAY
JOHN W. BROOKE, widowed
hardware magnate, before leav
jnsr the city for two months,
nrrarges with a firm of effi
ciency engineers to take charge
„f his home during that time.
II,. fails to tell his plans to his
aro-vn children, Constance, Billy
Alice. They soon find out,
however, when.
H. HEDGE, assigned to the
job, tabes control of the Brooke
household, occupies John W.’s
private suite and turns the li
brary into a.n office. !Ie is now
;M the process of buying an
officitpey hat for Constance. He
ha« sdccted one from quite a
number sent to the house by an
exclusive store. Constance trying
ii ,m admits that she likes it.
Ho turns to the saleslady and
a-ks the price.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
•All right. How much is it?”
“Wo have not- the price," said the
•’chief saleswoman. “They wore not
sent up with the hats. But if mon
sieur—'”
"Never mind. Monsieur can toll a
cheap hat when he sees it, likewise
a -trongly built hat. Miss Brooke
"l.uvs this hat. Tell them to send up
th bill. ’Phone me, by the way, as
1 want to get it in my records today
and send the regular requisition
Now, you can bundle up all that
millionaire stuff and sell it to the
os-v-marks. Good day.”
The two ladies from the Luxem
bourg put the extravagant hat back
in die boxes, while Constance hur
ried un to her rooms. She planted
'herself before a mirror and made a
short speech to the hat.
"You 1’itlo dear!-’ she exclaimed
softie. “1 love you for being so soft
ly. "I love you for being so plain
arid simple and cheap. And !'m so
glad they sent un all the other hor
rid ones. But—oh, I’m afraid some
r ring is go;ng to happen. But be
bought you; he said so. And I won’t
give you up. I’m going to make sure
of you wearing you—right now!
We’re going out for a walk, .little
bat—.i'fst you and I. Come—let’s
hurry!” ...
While Constance and her little hat
went for a walk. H. Hedge was grin
ning in satisfaction.
"It's not going to be such an aw
ful job to put economy and efficiency
;t"(. - on this house, after all.” he
mused. ‘‘Miss Brooke has just learn
ed an important lesson. Took it
sensibly, too. That girl has a head
fi her shoulders, if she'll only use
Twenty minutes later the tele
phone rang.
"Oh. it’s the Luxembourg, it it?
All light. Yes. I took that small hat.
It’s what? Oh., I don’t care any
thing about the model being exclu
'uo. That stuff is all rot, anyhow.
No. and I don’t care whether it’s
from Paris t,r Pittsburg. That’s
msro rot, too, .Tu t send the hi!!, ami
let rao have the amount now. What?"
H. Hedge’s dark hair bristled.
“Say that a stain! What?"
He had staro. <1 to wr.te a memo
randum, hut h;; fingers trembled.
“A hundred ami fifty dollar d Cut
that out! 1 didn’t bay all the hats—
just one: The little one!”
He swallowed hard and listened
ago::
“That was most expensive hat
in the bit; mil? Paris—exclusive? \tul
a hundred and fifty! Suv, are you
a. milliner or a ■burglar? Whit Hold
the wire!”
He raced out into the hall end
marring1 aim.Ser.-ly «<h a pad. Hut
n: mark.- gradually a. sumed the form
of letters:
STUNG
Hilly had been crisscrossing the
tloor nervously, with h>s hands deep
ir. Ids p.vdents. The outbreak alarm*
t (1 Alice while it inspired astonish*
'tent in Constance. Normally, Billy
was easy-going.
“Uh, it’s, all r:j:’H for you to smile,
('or ni he raid savagely, “You
worked him pood and plenty, but
only because he didn’t know it. A
fool hat, is on > thing, and gasoline
}'■ a.'hjcthinsr else. But it isn’t that
so much either, 1 don’t care if ) v<:
or rref anything- otu oi
talk."
“What talk?” asked .ice
hastily.,
“ll', these .good old friends, of th.
family- the ruhber-neek crowd. I’ve
beer, out a hit today. I’m hearing the
ip. Ycy told mc rot to say any
'i.in/. so l -ouldnT*explain. But
the.v’re . king questions about E. E.
and every cue of 'em has different
Tell him? Xyt for a minute—Jir* i [ "i him cat. that’s
all”
bumped into Matilda.
“Where is Mi. •• Brooke?” he de
masded.
“She went for .a walk a f-.-w min
utes ago.-' i
“Did—did she wear a new hat?”
“She did,” answered Matilda stoni
ly.
H. H'edgu pulped, wiped his fore
head, and walked slowly hack to the
library. The receiver off the tele
phone hook attracted his attention,
tie picked it up p nperly.
“Send up your bill," he. said.
“What? Why certainly! I know a
hat when I see one.”
Then he rat down heavily anti bp
dope..-’
“What frc they saying?”
“Eve:ything! One line of talk is
that father has picked up some fav
orite nephew anil made him a pro
tege and taken out guardianship
paper:;.”
“He doesn’t need a guardian,” re
marked Alice with a shake of her
head. “He need a keeper end a pad
ded cell:’’
“Vkerc.’s another yarn that this
guv i v British nobleman,” contin
ued Billy, ignoring his younger sis
ter; “that ho ir. u house guest for
an indefinite time, and that maybe
he’ll bo a son-in-law.”
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AREY BROTHERS
Constance flushed vividly.
"How absolutely absurd!" she ex
claimed.
"I'm only giving you what they
say,” declared her brother wrnth,’ul
! ly*. “Another one has ii that he's a
j clacsmate of mine wh > is just hack
1 from South America. where lu-Y
| been on a ranch. And yet this
there's another yarn out that K. K
is a famous portrait-painter who';
putting the whole family < a canva •
They’ve yore so far with that that
Alice is already painted, and I’m tru
ing to be exhibited next spring.
They're going to call ii ‘Girl \N itn
Kan.’ or something like that."
1 '■■■• r«b suable declared C
.slam ...
Unspeakable,” affirmed Alice.
“Well, it'll end anytime you say,”
said Billy, coming to ;> halt and in
dulging in un emphatic gesture.
Alice displayed alert kb rest.
“I don’t understand," said Cou
I stance. "You mean that you have- a
I plan? You have some way to end
it?"
"Sure. I’ve had one from the first.
Only you’ve been going into argu
ment:; with him."
The son of -lohn W. Brooke spoke
with assurance ar.d ea: e.
“The plan, please," aid Constance.
“Chuck him.”
“How?”
' Billy stretched lany and guir.cea
down at his own considerable bulk.
“You propose to toll him to leave
the house?”
“Tell him? Not for a minute. Why
tell him? Just put him out; thnt”s
all.”
Alice looked at her big brother and
bei rayed excitement.
“Really, Billy?” she exclaimed.
“Why not? Any reason why it
cannot be done? You two have been
beating around the bush with yom
schemes, when there’s only one easy
way. And it’s so darned simple. 1
supose that’s the reason you never
thought of it.”
He viewed Ins sisters magnani
mously.
Constance pursed her lips and con
sidered the idea. Beyond question it
was necessary to terminate the dic
tatorship. Argument and compro
mise had failed. Yet Constance in
stinctively revolted at anything so
vulgar as the employment of force.
It was something unknown ir. the
Brooke household; something foreign
and distasteful. Still, the situation
was also new and unknown since the
day she could first remember any
thing.
“I'm for it,” declared Alice prompt
ly. “Will you reallly do it, Eiily?”
“Watch me.”
“How about you, Connie ?"
“Well,” said Constance cautious
ly, “I'll watch—-if he'll do it.”
'•< > ino on."
\F\T CHAPTER: Efficient danc
ing.
•Stupid Fellows at Nice. Exclusive
Ur.ncc:; Driving (he Smart Misses
to the Cabarets.
New York,- Ellin MacKay, 21
year old daughter of Clarence I!.
MacKay, | '*sidcnt of the Postal Tele
graph i ompany and cousin of Alic
Dyer Miller, the novelist, broke in
to print today defending; visits to
cabarets bv flic young smart set.
In The New Yorker, a magazine
o writer, that, paradoxically, the
young..’ gen. ration of the smart set
prof c. the privacy of public caba
rets ' to rtibbup: elbows with the hoi
l oilo; at exclusive dunce:-; given by
their a'nxiovr. and solicitous pmhjntr-.
Miss Mae.Iv; y's first article, to be paid
for at space rates, declarer, that “cur
elder:- attribute to ns sins too gaudy
to lie true. The trouble is our elder:;
are a trifle gullible; they have swal
lowed too much of Mr. Scott Fitzger
ald and M ss Gent rude Atherton.”
Mentioning cabarets, trie l.nio
Veni'ce, recently padlocked for dry
irv. violations, n- described by Mi.1
Mac Kay as “puUdy ianocuou;
“We like to go to cabarets,’’ con
tinues the article. “It is not, as out
elders would have it, because we en
joy nibbing- elbows with all sorts of
people. We do not particularly like
dancing shoulder to shoulder with
"unify and fat drummers. We do not
like unattractive people.
“If oar elders want to know why
v/e like to go to cabarets, let them
go to the beet of these, our present
day exclusive parties, and look at the
tag lines. There they will lie extreme
ly unalluring specimens. A third or
two of the stugs are attractive agree
able young men. The rest are just
stags and pretty terrible.
"Wo go to a party and take pot
lack and the luck is four to one
against us. At last, .tired of fruitless
struggles, to remember half familiar
faces, tired of vainly trying to avoid
unwelc.jinc dances, we go to a cab
aret.
"We go to the cabarets because cf
the very fastidiousness that-our eld
c:s find so admirable a quality. We
hav privacy In a cabaret. What does
i‘ matt r if the flapper and her fat
ti. h boy friend are wi iggling beside
us as v.e dance? We go because we
prefer rubbing elbows in a cabaret
to dancing at an exclusive party with
all seres und kinds of people.”
1* it Fair?
What became* of the consumer'*
dollar paid for cotton . heeling ? The
Department of Ajf.'icuVturc i* quoted
ax jrivinit tli5. answer:
Cent*
(' •(ten grower _ -- 19-8
Kneltanq. trader . 3.1
Freieht to mill 1.3
Cloth Manufacturer _.. 3D.3
Jobber and retailer - -- - - 36.5
It is thus seen that the farmer
who plants, tends, piclts and pays
for ginning cotton receives only one
llfth of the dollar. The manufactur
er gets twice as much for converting
if into cloth, and these who sell it
also receive nearly twice as much as
the grower.
Is this fair and just .distribution?
—News and Observer.
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