Am, Father's Heer. By JANE OSBORNE. When George Waltons friend, Jaok Gray, said he Had been trapsiered to San Francisco, dnd that he was wor- rying shout what to do with the litthe home he had bought at Bredon, 'a wearby town that boasts a small college, George bad' an inspiration. "I'll rent the home mysell," said he; "It's just the sort of guiet place I'm looking for, where 1 can = finish "this story ' I'm writing." One September day George estab lished himself in the Grey " hungulow on the outskirts of Bredon. le con sidered himself lucky. He didn't know a soul, so he need fear nd interrup- tion. 'And he bad .a thorouyhly re ligble housekeeper in the person of middle-aged Mrs. Bridget Macoon, who had kept his bachelor apart ments in' town ' and whose -- only drawback was - her motherless grand son, Vatsy Peary, aged two and =n half years. On the morning after s George was dwelling on blpssings when his reveries were in- terrupted by a quick rap on the screen door. He looked up to see a young girl--perhaps just past twenty --a comfortable, substantial looking sort 'of girl, with fresh color, warm brown eyes and a definite way ol doing things. George could tell that by the way she put one. firm brown . hand on the knob of the door. "May | come in?' she asked. his arrival his many "Tent this the Gray bungalow 7 * weeks, but he wants me to stay 1 \ Assuring her that it was George stumbled offer a chair in his hurry open the door. He begged her to be seated and after she had composed herself comfortably in one of 'dlc wide wicker chairs he sat down op- posite her. 'You' re just the person I want to see,' "she said, and George felt flatter ed. "You ses, I'm Miss Stace, Ann Stace- And I'm visiting my brother, Walter Stace. 1 came for only a fw the winters You know, brother's an in struetor at the college, and like ull the rest of them he's as poor ad a church mouse. So I told him] wouldn't stay unless 1 could earn enotigh money to take care of mysell. Im not a bil clever, and I don't, know how to téach or do anything. But the other day | had an idea. | "I hate to play gards 'and I love to take care of children--that's just the opposite of most of ihe women about here. There's a card ub 'a least once a week--and card parties in be "(Ween the trips to town for shopping and the matinee. And all the girls who are married to faculty people gel their husbands to take tare of their children afternoons, when they wgnt 10 have a good time" So 1 though! I'd be not mother's helper, exact, but--= futher # helper.' Am her recital breathless and lau os it a jolly idea?" she wont on. "And it isn't a bit expensive for you fathers. Club afternoons I enter tain the children 'for fifteen cents apiece--and call for and deliver them, too. For a quarter apiece 1 take them on other days--private treat ment, you know, and I have to charge more, for there aren't so many children those days. "Walter's wile knows Mrs. Gray- not very well, but they belong to the same club. So she sent me over to see you. I thought maybe you'd In one of my customers.' For the first time Ann stopped long enough to let George explain. She looked at him, appealingly, from her soft brown eyes. "But I'm not Mr. Gray," spid Hea with real regret. "I'm just The Grays have gone to California," and Ibe bungalow. You see, » alton ur Nalan. taken their write stories.' "Oh, I'm s0 sorry, "1 must have seemed 80 really beg your pardon." George was canting about for an ex- cise to detain the charming Ann, when Patsy ran into the room. Me had bright blue eyes and bright yel- low hair.' His face was pink and freckled and his baby lips smiled be: witehingly as he ran confidently up to George. Z . "Oh, but after all," said Ann, when boy, "maybe you do " Isn't he a dear!" he, now ¥' said George with idea for seeing more of 'Ann came into his head. . "And Mre. Walton does play cards, 1 suppose ?" questioned Ann. "Why -- you -- --sce--"" blundered Gectpe, "Mra Walton's not here." Be Ang monosyllable was com- prehensive. The scene before her be- * apologized Anp. stupid. "1 LY big man whe was Jrying to fill another's place to the small boy--the child's' gleeful ance of the whole ' not Ve any, words | Leary, looked | guileless ag rot ho ped ~ THB DAILY BRITISH wHIG. FRIDAY. DECEMBER ~A Coliee you cat auioy every Men, every day --A Coffee, so wholesome, fragrant and delicious - that when you drink the first cup, you will say "I never knew how delightfal Coffee could be" 3 1911. Wealso give you, free,a $1.30 French Drip Coffee Pot 50 you can make this Coffee properly. To get to the heart of the Coffee question, you must do as we did---get to the héart of the Coffee berry. The Coffee berry i is protected by Nature from die | insect world, By a tough inner shell or coat. 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If by unahle to-fill your geacer is. us you are GOOD Na 3 ¥ Coffee d Carriage Collect" but af George had explmined | he had a to have Patsy: that sorb a little yea tion and rel nement phary momin, to rent boy for a x Sry 'a week, that 2 able child's grandmother,' gave in and promised to say 'never a word - te nobody." She consoled herself with the assurance that, thou gh doubtliss out of his mind, Mr. Walton was neverthel ss gentle and harmless. Ag for gossiping neighbors, George did ds voi, and he vowed continue not to have di wake "Oh, 1 see," he 'said, Ann, already miserable, someting was wrong. 'See here, Miss Stace," he said, af- ter a moment's hesitation, owl are in a mess and I don't see how I ever can 'get out of it. But. this non: sense has gone on long «now You see, When x first saw you knew 1 wanted y Just ei a stalwart young man with freckles and yellow hair, and with murder in his_ clear blue eyes, OLO PEOPLE'S HOME FAIFS Inmates Thrown on Charity. 'A "home for old people" recently became bankrupt in Detroit, and many - innites who had paid into it- every vented 'the youngster = so that rd 'dollar' they had in the world, ex- have an excuse to keep you near. me. pecting to be assured of a co -{¥From the first 1 wanted you." able old age, were thrown on chir-] Ann's cheeks were pink agit. "Perhaps," 'she said, "you keep me without an excuse." comfortably. | stalked into the room from the felt that | rection of the kitchen. In the was the frightened Mrs. Magoon. "What's this 1 her, Mr. Walton, about me son, Patsy *" he deman led, Aun turned pale. 0 George turned cred." "Mis. Magoon began to wring her 'hands--and Patsy "threw himself rapturously on the "speaker. "Daddgd 5 Daddy I". he screamed And hearing tmelf thus addressod for the first tink, and seeing the boy iat and happy, Patsy's father gathes ed the child in his arms and decided that perhaps after, all the treatment he had been: daily subfected to hadn't harmed him and retreated with ' the hysterical Mrs. Magoon to the kitch- en. "The that he would any. n months couple of sudd, to enty alton," she cried, . "do comie. here. Little Arghibald has Just learned a word. I've been trying fo teach it to him for over so long, bur you kucw hey a little backward a k todness he is,". 'mattered nimself, as he followed the HN living room, where Patsy 'Playing with his 'tin soldiers. She hn beside jig's up, Ann," said George Walton. "You see what 1 did. | could wir ay, © . e say that every 'institution of this natube ought to be under super- of the rtate sa such things = could wot happen. It is the duty of the "jyonmg and strong to safeguard the welfare of the old and feeble. r health and vigor, for ex- mph should be kept up as much as possible. Nothing is so good for this purpose as Vinol, our delicious cod liver aml iron prepsratfon with- Teaching Freshmen Their Place, Cornell Daily Sun. H you could remember a few of the enriimd virtues how much better it would be for evervone. That that alk rat ap in in always to worn, save 3 excepted cases. That oon! on the campus is not Archibald Walton, alias Satay blue eyes were his first distinoy word : "Pivil hit," he viction. il a ssid, with con oes fmonth wore twiiching, bu but he faid for you. That the dearly prized pre- paratory school insignia show to bet ter advantage ripped off, and the high school jin, evy even though hid beneath your dout, does surely break the spirit of the rules. That on the Tthioa street out oil, Miss "A. H. Ralston, of Mt. Vernon, N¥s says: "As a to wie 1 think Viol is exceliont ly for an old person. condition for general debility had Jasted for months . win Jooked at George wih right -- rr MARVELOUS HAT. Have Produced That is Sensible. A wom an came forth from a depart: | ment store with a smile as of one who has stumbled on a gold mine or found $10. In her hand she grasped a nar- row parcel. Her fond gaze rested on this parcel, with the consequence that she bumped into a friend as she turn ted a corner. Well 1" exclaimed the bumped friend, as she righted herself and saw who had caromed against hey Well, you look. uwneommonly happy. " Been shopping ¥"* "Happy I" haven't been Inventors a Style y - 7 replied the. other. "1 so happy in two whole reasons. I've heen wearing the same clothes since 1909, because the new beginning to think I would seon have fashions were so preposterous. | was to take to a blanket and a shawl tied over my head--for 1 cannot and will not wear the present styles. Bat to day, lured by something | saw upon another woman, I ventured, not too hopefully, into a shop, * gnd behold my hat 1" And she held forth the slender parcel. "You don't mean to tell me there's a hat in that lean. litile, light bug dle »* x "Certainly there is--a pretty hat, a sengible hat, a comfortable hat, snd a hat that will never be pierced with hatpin to maim my When 1 hotught this hal from - the counter it had a shape. It was nice ond even, with the brim turned up all around. It was soft and light, and flexible and big in the erowy. 1 pu it on my head. 1 pulled it down and gave the brim a little chirk. Then } cautionaly looked into the mirror. n fellow -citizens believe it, Clara, 1 looked ton Yo be tree, ni [ter all these a becoming hat, gently thumped it poke. ation, and "Another twist; shape, I almost daneed. different over buy it and to stick have it sen as quickly wake up and find it 'was here's the hat in this tin felt, vou down, the rolled * up virtte of , cheapness La Grippe There: is Grippe and that is which rerms brane and actly what ome), dow concentrate forces of breathe i Hyome drogyist fo care La Geipge, (Catarrh, | Comghs, C Proschitia | ee 1 5 OF Pm outfit copsisis of a pnd Croup wr pocket Hyomei. bottles of All droggrisis, BR. T. Bomb Eris, Ong. 4 B. . Beliove or not, transformed itself into a different up om ms these does the rest. yoar had becomes heatiache disargears and in the cold is broken up. \ { ears, ta find once more | But that isn't. all I} and admginisterpgd a | Clara, that hat ore still it was becoming - and again it more becoming I hastens to Buy a pide litte fi the: side. 1 wouldn't t. | wanted to get it home as possible for fear 1 might eam; And reel, soft brim tifrnad d fiat t hw find keep wah a than ito or with the whale thing tight. Perhaps wonderful 31.49. 1 are, mud greatest in its inter How to Cure It. only one way to cure La by att hive enteral the digiodye them Hyamei {pronouncdd High Hyomei i& simply the d hiraling and antiseptic nature combined. Ye vasences and ) After inhaling Hy clearer, the mpeht men This i= ¢ is guaranteed by our Asthing, olds, bm. The neat hard rub inhaler and a lottle of This costs vou 8. (Extrp Hyomet, if pecestury, de. or pret paid. from the Co., Limited, Fart Sold ned gnaremtead" by acking thy tho) TH ented 4 shape mer, gear, wWiniey gaving my hat each. das For with their eversoomioriable head will. have nothing on me. It the first time VPve dared buy 4 hat in two Lhe igventor of it philanthropist, for it's a blessi your head "New York Times ance 8 " Vegi's #Sabbath Room." which attracted the Internationa! One of "the exhihite much attention Hygiene exhibition at hve old-fashioned furnished room designai he catalogue Sabbath It was.an. exact reprochue va 1 writer he Vienna hrift, "of best ro if a poor family thich ' SOT up ios and 3 ook its best ~ exhibit re ¢ fuet that it was this d the observance of the sanitary shih y the a and strength to New York Tribu wider; was gu ed in ki the! room ie tion," n Wochena the boi J ow cleaned Hn the sly ie LInony fnws people wha ole vercome hard Where - Language Fails, t's, Le i fish Ene towday of four thousand werds. ly two hundred times as the most effusive gossip has need for: and vet, despite this h of material at our disposal, en- th consiruct elaborate sei i philosopities, find oir out adequate means to press properiy' some remarks Fwerybody should have his or her purse with him or her when le or she travels Where, oh. where, cone we ox of the simplest is the common gender pronon that a "ate va thie