CHAPTER XI X.--Continul,
22--
through--and the
next morning, as early as
Crink set out for relleL
back an enormous bun-
from Mrs. Weatherstone's, as well
for the two weeks And
that day far outdistanced
as dinner in acceptability
little Penflelds.
Mrs Penfleld opened the bun-
that Crtnk had brought, silo was
to find that It did not contain
clothing as usual, but silks and
colored fabrics, a far
difficult washing, However. she
it the following morning,
' because It was cloudy,
, a slight wind. '/'he delicate arti-
cles could be hung in the yard and
would dry quickly.
must be collected, since
who had been away
were now home again.
Penfleld flew from one thing to
washing, collecting rent.
the silk curtains and era-
on the line, changing them
might dry as quickly
evenly as possible. She must get
before closing time.
t the midst of all this busHe, Gus-
Bosley came in, bringing a small
won't take It." She
Mrs, Penfield's objection.
ot to leave it wlth you."
it," said Mrs. Penfleld
me uneasy. You'd
box. Ain't any-
safe here if a burglar should
notion to come. I'm sorry, but
feel like taking--"
[n't take it." interrupted
Bosley. With s tl,htning move-
reached through the open
placed the package
apple-box cupboard. "The re.
on my head. Thank you."
out of the house, well ahead
who followed, pro-
teng, as soon :m she had snatched
p the package.
- Displeased but conquered, she took
the package back and dropped It in
her old suitcase. She was in far too
geat a hurry to do anything else at
It crossed her mind that
nerves must be going
her; but in that case, the.
box was the logical solution.
hurried to the yard and quickly
the silken articles from the
She could not go downtown
leave'them outside, oven with the
"bern. As abe came
lanced to see what time it
her breath in dismay.
was closed !
stared blankly at the
never simle
Under {'he
partlculari} because
one' head, mentally or aCtually, to
compensate for tle tilting. Otherwise.
one might fail Into error frmn long
with normal clocks.
"How did I ever /ll:ke such a blun-
gasped. "I'm twenty rain-
and I didn't know It I
read wrong when I looked
: time. My goodness land, now I've
money in the house. Like-
valuables more or less
ao much dlff'rnnce as I
later that same afternoon
Gerahline was secured by a
wlne leash fastened around one
yen an airing in the drlve
FII Caesar needed erercise,
t
Bonnie flequent
the driveway,
the germ8
my admiration that
the windows of
which had
before
"Never mind, LetHe," reproved
Mrs. Penfleld quietly, as she came into
the room. "I'm very sorry to have
kept you waiting, Mrs. Weatherstone."
Subdued, Lettle pushed back the
box and withdrew to a corner, watch-
ins her beloved Penzle with specula-
tive wonder. There was a subtle
change In Mrs. Penfield's manner, even
in her way of speaking. Lettle felt It,
but dould not know the cause. With-
out realizing it herself, Mrs. Penfleld
had reverted to the days when she
had had a real home and had re-
ceived callers on a basis of genial
equality, vastly different from her en-
forced experience in The Custard
Cup, an environment which was far
from encouraging to niceties in
speech and bearin. . Her manner was
as self-possessed ae usual, but touched
with a gracious reserve that would
have been fatal in her lntercourm
In alarm. "Walt tlll I get Bonnie Ger-
aldine out of the way."
With one daintily shod foot on the
running hoard, the lady paused. She
swayed slightly. Her hurry seemed to
desert her.
"What ?" she gasped. "What--
who---"
"Bonnie Geraldine," repeated Lettle.
"Wait till I wind up her rope and kind
o' pull her in. If you was to tl:lp In
it, you might throw her."
The lady's beautiful dark eyes fol-
lowed the length of shop-twine to the
bunch of speckled feathers, now con.
slderably agitated by the general com-
motion and also by Lettie's zealous
reefing in.
"Do you call that--that hen--Bonnie
Geraldine?"
"Uh-huhy beamed Lettte, flattered
by this attention to her pet. "Ain't It
a grand name? I took it from two
swell girls. She'- going to be a society
hen when she grows up."
The lady appeared to be having
trouble about breathing. Her gloved
hand fluttered at her throat, loosed the
sable scarf. She stepped to the ground.
"Don't you think you might call
your heo something more---more ap-
propriate?" she inquired, with greater
composure.
Lettle shook i,er head violently.
"Suits me. They're the swellest folks
I know, and--"
"Oh. then you know these people?"
Lettle tossed her head in disdain at
this literalness` "I hain't seen 'era, if
that's what you mean; but golly, I've
seen their clo'es. Swellest clo'es you
ever saw. I have to hang 'round the
yard and watch 'era when they're dry-
Ing, 'cause somebody might snitch
'era : and ifthey shouldLandy greet
Goshens, it'd bust The Custard Cup
to pay for 'eat."
The lady's interest had waned. She
was looking fixedly at the child's rag-
ged blue chambray. Lettie. with light-
ning reaction, resented the scrutiny.
"What's the matter with this hera
rig?" she asked feelingly.
"Its familiarity," murmured the
lady. "The same and yet not the
same! Will you tell me where Mrs.
Penfleld lives?"
Lettie. now cuddling the eawk-cawk-
lug Bonnie Geraldine In her thin arms.
sprang" forward, her great black eyes
shining with excitement.
"Jlmlny, do you mean it? Are you
rally coming to see us? Great gns,
ain't that the darndest good luck l
Ev'rybody "round'll be Jealous when
they see what a caller we roped in.
Follow me I"
ith an air of importance as ex-pan-
siva as a drum m,-or's, Lettle darted
in-front of the limousine lady and led
the way toward Number 47. But at
the entrance to the alley they ran Into
a youngster with auburn halr trod big
blue eyes that opened wide and wider
In delighted am:,ement, lie was
wearing the pink plaid which had been
made down from a garment once worn
by Miss Bonnie Weatherstone.
The lady stopped short. "Who---
who is this?"
"It's Thad," elucidated Lettie, some-
what impatient over this superfluous
detail. "He's my little brother--or he
would be if he was any related at all.
Here, Thad. take Bonnie Geraldine
'round to her coop and be sure and
fasten the slats. She's a precious hen,
so you look lively or you'll have me to
reckon with. Now--" As she slid the
big door on its ereakihg wheels, she
turned her attention again to the caller
"you hain't told me who you are. I
gotta tell I'enzle."
"Oh, yes. Tell her, Mrs. Weather-
stone."
LeHle paused with the door half
open. "Holy smoke l" she gasped.
"You don't mean lt.l Land, I'm glad
to see you at last. Come right along
In, and set anywhere you like. That
there chair's the best one, though, If
you ask me. I'll speak to PeuzieY
She darted Into the kitchen, closing
the door be!dud her with great fore-
thought. She returned lmmlately.
"Penzie'll be in right away," she re-
ported. "She's ironing somep'n mad
can't stop in the middle. Just make
yourself to home."
Launching this formal hospitality
with onIy the vaguest Idea of Its sig-
nificance, she was contented when
Mrs. Weatherstone merely coAtinwe0
to sit.
LetHe made conversation. "How's
your health. Mrs. Wrath'stone[',
The lady's llps danced, but she an.
swered as a lady should, "I'm very
well, thank you. How are you?"
"Oh, me!" returned Lettle Jauntily.
Mortality Rate :
for Men Lower
Women Fast Losing the re. the corresponding years, an light Is
thrown on the possible factors by con-
Ire also the ages at which the tn.lh
enza epidemic made Its greatest m-
roads and in which tuberculosis
showed the most pronounced decrease
during the last decade. It is entirely
conceivable, comments the statistician,
that each one of these three items
played an lmportaut part in the phe-
nomenon under consideration. Atten-
tion has been repeatedly called in re-
cent years to the excessive mortality
among women from causes incidental
to pregnancy and child-bearing, these
vantage They Formerly Had,
Statisti0s Show.
--Washington.Women ave fast losing
the advantage which they have poe-
sassed In the past of a lower rate of
mortality than men, It la indicated by
life insurance statistic€ The excess
mortality of men over women. It Is
said, has been one of the supposed
fixed relationships in vital statlstlc
In the United States the death rate
of males has always beau found to
be higher than that of tamales at
every age period from birth till
death and this condition has pre-
vailed quite generally throughout the
civilized worhL In recent years, how-
ever, the mortality of females has
actually been hgher than that of
slderatton of the age periods of life excesslre maternal death rates having
where these changes were most pro- sho-a, It Is Bald. the greatcat reluc-
nounced, tance toward Improvement_
Greatest at Child-Bearing Age.
It Is shown that among white per-
sons the excess of female mortality
was entirely limited to the ages of
twenty to thirty-four in 1921 and to
fifteen to thirty-four In 1920. Among
the negroes it occurred between the
ages of ten and thirty-four In 19"21.
ten and twenty-four in 1919 and one
and thirty-four in i920. After age of
thirty-five the male mortality has con-
tinued to be higher than the female
throughout the rest of life.
The ages, says the report, are deft-
nitely those of child-bearing. They
The influenza epidemic, beginning
with 1918. it Is thought, may have
been the exciting cause fo much of
this increased maternal mortality, It
having been noted early In the influ-
enza outbreaks that women at the
child-bearing ages suffered excessively
from the disease. This condition has
been marked with cacti new outbreak
of influenza. It Is further brought
forward that there Is no queatlem as
to the greater reduction o! tubercu-
losis mortality among males than
among femalee and this Is strikingly
marked in the ages under considers.
ties.
tlmt
staring,
stopped
contained
a dark-blue
t cunningly formed of dark.
She was tall and slender,
features and creamy
sable scarf; she car-
Most evidently she £yHan Eatt If
Before the chauffeur o, Amer-
she had lea?
Mrs. Weatheretono $prang to Her
FeL
with tenants who assumed speriortty
lest some,ne treat them as Inferior.
Mrs. Wea therstone, being a cultured
woman, was undisturbed by thoughts
of comparison. Therefore Mrs. Pen-
field could meet her on her own
groun ,
Mrs. Weatherstone proceeded at
once to her errand. "I have Just dis-
covered tltat one of the maids gae
mes among the Industrial policy-
holders of the insurance €ompanies In
the United States and Canada. In 1911
the mortality of white males insured
in one company was more than 13 per
cent higher than among female&
While the actual excess In male mor-
tallty varied somewbat from year to
year, the condition continued up to
and including 1918.
Change Also Noted In Negro Rac.
The year 1919 was ma-ked by a
sudden drop to about 5 per cent, end
by 1920 a reversal in the relationshlp
had become a fact, with the female
mortality 2.6 per cent above that of
males. In 1921 it was 1 per cent
higher. In 1922. the condition was
again changed to an excess of 1.2 per
cent in male mortality over that of
females.
In the negro race the difference
between the death rate of the two
sexes was never so strikingly marred,
but. nevertheles between 1912 and
1918 the excess of male mortality was
continuous, varying from 2 to about
10 per cent. The year 1919 was the
first year in which the mortality of
females actually exceeded that for
males, and this condition has contin-
ued since, including the year I
The fact tha reversa; appears
among both white and negro lives Is
considered significant. Very similar
relationships In the mortality rates of
males and females are apparantiy in-
dicated, it Is pointed out, in the fig-
urea for the registration area during
Wfl00 Use Gas
in Future Wars
Entire Armies Will Be Put
Sleep and Made Prisoner,
Says U. S. ChemisL
to history, one will find that the vic-
torious geueral conquered nls enemy
usually because of the fact that he so
chose his position as to have his flank
protected by Hver, mountain range or
New York.Whole armies put to some naturally strong barrier.
sleep and taken prisoner in gas war- "Much of the strategy of these bat.
fare Is by no means an Impossibility ties consisted In maneuvering so as
25 years hence, Col. Raymond F. to obtain the advantage of posltinn.
Bacon, chief of the technical division With the use of gas It Is possible to
of the chemical warfare service, A. E. [ saturate a piece of ground so that no
troops can cross it. and thus make an
F., says in a description of the pos-
sibilities of the future art of war
made public by the American Chem-
ical society.
The $2,000,000 spent on the research
organization did more toward winning
the war, Colonel Bacon asserts, than
any $200.000.000 spent In other ways.
Great Leson of the War.
One of the greatest lessons of the
war has so far gone almost unhaeded,
according to Colonel Bacon, who con-
tinues:
"To say the use of gas in warfare
must be abolished is almost the same
as saying that no progress must be
made in the art of warfare toward
making It more efficient or more hu-
mane.
"If one reads of the great battles of
Gompers Bust for Garment Workers
your son the wrong bundle. I sup-
pose you know it was a mistake."
"A mistake!" Mrs` Penfleld re-
peated the phrase In surprise, "No, I
dldn't know there was a mistake.
"You didn't? Why, didn't you get
the silk hangings and that embroid-
ered bedspread?"
"Yes, but I s'posed you intended to
send 'era." •
A look of alarm came into Mrs.
Weatherstane's face. "What did you
do with them? Her voice was tense
with suppressed anxiety.
"I washed them. Right now I was
Ironing--"
Mrs. Veatherstone sprang to her [ - _
feet. "You washed them !" she repeat-
ed, shocked and incredulous. "Do
you mean that you put them into wa-
ter ?"
Mrs. Penfleld blinked. "S]ra I dlC.
] 'ny not ?"
• "Into water I My choicest hangings !
How could you do it? You should
have known there was a mistake.
Those things were to be dry cleaned.
/'d gathered, up everything because
we're doing the house over and re-
furnishing. But water ! Why--"
"What's the matter with water?"
demanded Mrs. Penfi,ltL thougitfully
puzzled. "Dry cleaning ain't half so
cleansing, and things don't smell so
good, either.'"
"I know that, bat It's a slight mat-
ter compared with ruining--"
"Ruining ! Do you s'pose for a mln-
ate. Mrs. Weatherstone. that I ruined
your hangings and--- Why. I shouldn't
have touched 'era if I hadn't been sure
what I could do. They're !ooking
fine."
Mrs. Weatherstone's shoulders re.
laxed; the tension In her bearing
blended Into her usual graqe. "What
do you mean?" she asked weakly.
"I'll show you, but you'll hae to
come Into the kitchen." She led the
Moses W. Dykaar, who has made busts of the late Champ C1arlL Alex-
ander Bell and ex-Vlce President Thomas 11. Marshall, completing a aat of
Samuel Gompers in his office at the headquarters of the American Federation
of Labor. The bust was made for the lady garment workers of New Yorlv.
WELL DUG BY WASHINGTON
IN USE AFTER 167 YEARS
Water Still Being Taken From
H01e He OrUled in 1756.
Winchester, Va.Wushlngton's well
in the four-month drought that threat-
ened such seflous consequences to the
Shenandoah valley did not fall In
the mlsalon intended for it by the then
CoL George .Wasbington. constructor
and commandant of Fort Leaden.
Winchester. In 1756, with the IPreneh
and Indians moving slowly from the
west, Winchester, then an outpaet of
English civilization, was threatened,
and Colonel Washington. afterward-
general and President of the new re-
public, was ordered by General luP
den, commander-In-chief of the End-
llsh troop of America. to construct a
fort.
able. Within the boundaries are sltu-
ated the Fort Louden seminary and a
number of private homes. In the yard
of a home next to the seminary Is the
Washington well. No greater monu-
ment to that &merican hero ema be
found.
The well Is 183 feet deep, drilled
through solid rock. It Is about 8/s
to 4 feet In diameter and every Inch
done by hsnd; not even an expioslv
was used. 80 much trouble did the
engineer have In obtaining the right
temper for the steel that he brought
from his old home at Mount Vernon
his private blacksmith. There is no
record of how long It required to dig
the wellnot more than three or four
months at the meal
The history of Winchester records
that for 167 Years the old well has
"I,m as strong as a cow. I've made
as many's twenty trips today, 1
way and potted to a spread, thrown
A Portion
of the embankment contlnnally funotloned and has never
guess." across a line. It was of cashmere
thrown up by
Washington IS still I- been i,lluted. A short time ago. In
8aid Mrs, Penflald Mrs. Weatherstone seemed not to be st!n, woven in India end embrold-
• • and the line of fhe fort ts trace- Per oer the te
.... fitmlllar with the phrnseology of ered- ............. tact.
placing a concrete co
wta uellcate SHg8 in a ralaeG
dumps. Her, dark eyes strayed to a ,'-tt---- ........... -
8o Letrie ---'-'--b - ,, nunurens ann hundreds of
,. yo. mov,ug, ,nqu,-00 Valua ,,apomon Letter _._,,hA
some perplexity - Io
; • • Hand-made eald
"Land no,' erled LetHe In astonish, field casaall- - Mrs. Pen-
, y. "-a'ney don't usa any
I e meat. Them why them are beds. others for tha-*-' .... ,,
, t tuu or work
onn Lo'ok here !' She sprang up and gave (T B UED )
thai .... " - ,.
of a ORIGIN OF MAYAS UNDISCOVERED
Vary Of. Opinions Held, but No POol- [ illsatlon of Yucatan w-s -'
Proof Has Ever Been i u tne Imrent of i
tlvs
'that of uJgyp-- t---s0me AmeHc--an Colum." : : :::"
Brought=F--ird. bl::dg Africa.evidently-dled over aud :::: ,':i:,. --J. :,
Archeologists have wrangled war r I-:}:
ITm to where the Mayas came from. And :then again the Atlantis Cane" " ...... =' "
'tan from -the mouth, some said of the anc|ents that a great continent
the north° The reaemblaneeof was once ovemvheimed gradually by
ogiyphs and some of thetr what Is now the Atlantic ocean, say
Pe and carving to those of that the Maya and Toltec civilizations
I Ept led to the conJec- are ao mystery to them, Inasmuch as
of the norton they have esoteric Information to the
artificial barrier for the flank or pro-
tect the lines of Communication. More-
over, these artificial barriers can be
kept barriers for Just as short a time
as the strategy of the particular bat-
tle demands.
"These are but hints, but show the
tremendous unexplored POeslbllitie
of gas In warfare.
"One can easily imagine the aitua.
t[on at the time the fighting was hand
to hand with the spear or the sword,
and gunpowder was first Introduced.
which in those day, perhaps, permitted
the antagonists to fight at a range of
100 or 200 yards. There must have
been a great outcry as to prohibiting
the horrible new mode of warfare, and
it must have been felt that it was very
unfair to stand off 200 yards rather
than to meet in COmbat man to man.
"But no one looking back on that
period would attempt to ay it was
possible to have Atayed the hand of
progress and 4o have prevented by
any legislation or agreement the use
of gunpowder In warfare.
"Moreover,- the consensus of opinion
today would be that the hand-to-hand
fighting with Pear and sword was
more cruel and Inhumane thsn the
fighting with the gun and the bullet.
Similarly, at the present time we can-
not effectually stay the progres;, of
science, and to attempt to do se Is
not only unwise but la also prevent-
ing the poss/bll/tlea of a really more
humane type of war.
Woman Judge in raafilngton.
Wsshlngton`Mlss Mary Oroele.
one of the five Judges of the munlcllml
court here, first became interested in
the law while employed as a court
porter In New York city.
Represent 29 Nationalitlee.
t Vancouver. 'lNventy-nlne different
nationalities are represented among
the pupils attending one public school
in Vancouver, British Colombia.
If a man is wedded to art he Is apt
to find the dowry unsatisfactory.
of the well during the excavation.
there was dug out four-inch solid
cannon ball of chaPeoal Iron. A the
Principle Furnae at Prindpto, ML.
was the only furnace malting this class
of metal prior to the Revolution, it is
reasonable to supple fhst Wshlnlp
ton obtained his armament from this
p,aca, owned hy his two uncles, whe
as s youn man. he lind stndled tim
manufnetuPe of I
Blind Man Has Read
Bible Through 15 Times
Middletown, Conn.--The feat of
raading the Bible through 15 tlmm 1=
raised print has been completed b
Urban L. Penney, a blind man of Win-
sted. It has taken him almost fl/ty
years to complete the tssk. He h=m
"DIVINING
SOLVE
Gleam of Victim's
Haunts Slayer
Officer.
BURIED BODY
Blrmlngham.
barred window of
door, on its drab gray
donie grin of gold
man's Jaw haunts
farmer, as he begins
term for slaying Deputy
Trultt. of Birmingham.
of walking with the
by a confession of his
bring relief to
followed him behind
Hill killed the
veallng his
ising protection to the
Sardonic Grin Haunts
boys, according to
tession` The officer's body
in a shallow grave in
remained there for
Haunted by Go4d
No one saw the bt
pected Hill of the
vision of the man's
dirt was thrown on the
stayed with HIlL dn
mad.
Then a rare bit of
to Hilt one day. Gold
arrived In the countY.
mysterious "divining
pealed gold under the
Hill feared that the
opened when the rod
dead man's gold teeth.
Then he dug up the
the teeth, and buried
new grave was fould.
rested, and flmally
tried and given a life
Boy Sets Fire to
When ar
Brooklyn.--3ames SlY,
and motherless, was a ]
schoolboy to get
ing paper balls In his
School 5 In Tlllary
last spring. That was
In Children's court,
xpulsion.
The boy was In court
set fire to the schoOl
19. and after he did o
manded him for an
physicians. -SomethUg
with him," the boy g
Daisy Sly, said. The t
ties, Deputy Fire MarsbJ
questioned the lad. wa
seemed to agree. He l
room catalogued, at le
ws an abnormal boY. 31z
was thls:
"I did it for reve
kids were taken back a
of us had been fired, ut
I wanted to burn up th:
nobody conid go there.
"Talr enough," said I
old man who sat in t
now Started out to read the tUhle
through for the sixteenth time, at.
though some of the volumes are la
tatters In places from much handUtMg.
Mr.. Peaney learned the raised type at
00titu-on in 00oston in tha Lea,, ovar
t.y tm trom the late Dr. 8amue/ G. ....... had mS
- one day. When I w=,- ,
--'--'--"---------- band threw me ot
P II$$illlllillillllllll sta away until mY h w
rlumpDacJKe¢l ,almon t eam-t. The court or"
,; Run Breaks Record, ,' ton.e his wife .d "
I Beillbam, Woes.,--Humpback I in their ....
; mimon have become w abua- t .... ,
I dant here that tha eam=, --- : 8avsa w-,-,h
| refunw to t. th.-- =;"_" ! SunbuIT. pa.--J .o,.
. pea The ca has ! ........ 1
; derlin,,,a "m ..... ! nee tmlta respo,., at
- . eentL Not , ....... v, I
e anticiPating tomb t ........ '
.... • l!z a omtt - b
| a targe ruu sa has appeared, I ia tn al H w.
! most of the cexmeHes did not I trmm. :
: put aH of thelr machinery Into |
, workin order, mad did not pro- : -.=-- ,. FOOt ! tat
I vide nearly Io many cans as ! e. ...... nd M d.
WO " I umoerla ,
| - Uld be rqulred to take we a ,I,, o ,i....... Into his f'. :
, ot o00,ed. '
k ' .oa • thorn '" !
,, ,,,,--,,- ,,,,,,,,-I= b .. ,,Tdintef Ve
_ Ut asmatq--
Crewls From Crib to Death. mild.
Boffalo, N. Y.--Crawllng out of his Baby Caught
effect that they were founded by eul ..... - , crib at h borne In this city, tW.p Defiance.
tureo- refugees'' from- the catastrophe Of Vtlll iolnmervlr||e,; daughter. . , ol .'%" otttmerv|lie. , ltvlne in the old town year-ol-d Pa 8alisburg ellmbed-'to between the of
eetrmrt, Coan., m ctean|ng an okl tint of Na leon m Jo. the railroad
of Aflanrls, whleh they Identify wlth i se hIne fou p po and le prom tracks and sat down on a wall, Ronsld
P nd an original letter 0f Napoleoa whie membera talL e
ahTa u and other Inudatlons ': k m n ...L.,... at N ..._ h of lanco-mer- H wa_..11.overuyatrallL Both choked to €
.-t' .... = ........ i : . . ! ---:,,,u ew uaven vame atlWt]r tel havln= lmmrtam tumrl,,, em tim lm, a were ,,-,* , ..,a i.. a,_, .... . , ._
!gl,- ..... . .... - - tS later, bed bile M,
! r . ,
DHver of
Phlladelphia.--r£h tee
bile bandits in a
crashed Into a tree
was shot through
chasing police. Carl
thief, was driving
other occupants
car in time to avoid the
man w Injured in ti
other esca
?he courtroom.
Sawyer for you."
