"Henry," his wife chided, *' what in the world i$ the matter with you? I'm sure you didn't hear a thing." She paused for a moment, gazed at him intéfitly, and then added 3 LY * You are keeping something from me. What is it' ** Nothing---nothing, I assure you, my.dear," he replied, at the same time trying to kick Barry's foot and bumping his shin_ against one of the cross bars under the table "I'm sure there is no. reason why he should wish to keep anything from you, Mrs.- Wilkerson," Barry said "I noticed last night that he seemed to be greatly worried because he was being ept out so late." y ' You noticed it? How could you notice it?" Wilkerson was having another coughing spell, a his napkin frantically ¥t Barry, who supposed he signalled to "lay it on thick." "Yes. The moment we got the puncture he wanted to start for home. Blame me for it all. Alexander kept promising that he'd have the tire fixed in. a little while, and-she didn't want him to leave us without having seen the house, so---" "Henry," Mrs. Wilkerson demanded, * what mean ?"' *'It means," said Wilkerson, rising and flingin on the table, that I've been lying to you. he waved as being does this his napkin knew you Ise what [ll do: When 'I just double your income months father is out of danger, so He was fretting himself fo g v done me \ One morning about six weeks later private office What's on your mind, Ge orge you tell me thé wedding day is fixed you see you've death be elped on wrong asked Wilkerson "I've come for that raise.' Wilkerson got up and fervently shook the agent's hand "I'm mighty glad of i,' he said. "My wife's me a lot of embarrassing questions about you lately you ev "Thanks wishes "Why shouldn't 17" rrlasting happiness She will be glad to know. we/ have your good She was afraid you might not be eager to extend them." young provided you arrange it witfin three By the way, Miss Thornton has ust telephoned that her 4 to save a life he had Barry again entered the sales been asking 1 wish "There's no reason why you shouldn't, but she has had an idea that you might think she ought to die an old maid on your account." "On my account ? 'Betty Thornton." Who is she 7" SOME NOTED SINGERS AND CONDUCTORS OF GRAND OPERA l--Rita Fornia. 2 Alma Gluck. 3Olive Fremstad. 4--~CGatti Casazza (General Manager)" 6 -Lenora Sparkes. 13+Alma' Gluck. 14 21--Vittoria Podesti (Conductor). ' 10--Marie Rappold. 11---Riceardo Martin. 19--Willlam gi 18--Leo Slezak. 20--Gtullie Rossi. wouldn't believe me if 1 told you I 4vas out all n ht helping George and his future wife to find a house, so I told you that story about Betty Thornton's father. Go ahead, George, and tell the whole story. = Don't keep anything back on my account." When the coast was clear the next morn , Barry stealthily _entered Wilkersdin's private office and bestowed upon that gentle- man a look which was not primarily intended to pe friendly. 'It's all right, George," said Wilkerson. "Don't worry for a minute. It's the Juckopt thing that could have happened. Her confidence in me hasbeen greatly increased." "It has, eh? But how about her confidence in me? am [ to make good #¥ . : "The thing is very simple as far as you're concerned. All you have to do is to get married." . > Fine! I have & nice little, salary for two people to starve How "I'll make youg wedding present of a substantial raise ring the circumstances, | can afford to be jiberal. I'll tell raldine Farrar. 6--Allen Hinckley 2%. Pasquale Amato. = Faring the New Hear _ No man knows What the coming year has for him. it stretches dark and mysterious hearted regard it with fear its days even with rejoicing, t him who tackles some new tas 15--Alfred Hertz (Conductor). 7-Arturo Toscanini (Conductor). 16--Otto Goritz. 29--Louise Homer. ¢ 'Before us all Yet only the craven- Something within us bids us take up Why should men thus face their days? hy i 3 Why do we feof that he who'thinks of life as a thing to be endured is an unwo: hy being, a coward among his kind, and a traitor hough it be no other than thé joy of k. who grapples with some worthy foe to life's opportunities? Is it not because we set the present in the light of the eternal and think of life in terms of the infinite reaches o; They who live only from day to day, | set the years inseparation as weary mi our immortality ? ike driven cattle, who les to be taken one at a time, to be forgotten when trodden and feared when lying before, to such life 1s indeed a tale of bitterness whic Only the fear' its finish h cannot too soon find } 3 of the darker mystery of death binds such beings to the darkness of life. . EA EARNS Hi & No life can be 1 sor, a hundred easured in any allotted span. Seventy years cannot tell its tale. It reaches its roots far back through many centu t sends forth its fruits no man knows throug wm 2ven life drinks deep of immert ality And itis S St reach of oursclves'to the past and to the future that r { le"our living in the present This sense of belonging to an endless life is found in man everywhere. While the man of science writes of it and the intelli gent, civilized man talks it over with his neighbor, the Bushman of Australia is sitting by his fire under the stars and. far into the night, as the embers glow down, he talks with his fellows, on the whence and the whither of being; he dreams of life before and pictures bevond life . "This day and this new year, these are but part of eternity The life'that I must live through them belongs as much to the long past and the/infinite future as it belongs to this passing day. No day is complete in itself; it bears the fruitage of eternity; it sows the seeds of the unknown future. The hs iho living in eternity does not wait until after death for its beginnings; it is ours now So I take up these new days with joyous anticipation, for are they not to bring to me the accumulated wealth of days gone by? This new year must of necessity be a richer year than last, because it possesses all the eternal, undying elements of the last. 8--Enrico Caruso. 9--Marte Mattfield 17-<Geraldine Farrar. 18 --Antonio Scotti. 24--Emmy Destinn. 25--Glen Hall She Search for Happiness #jAEPINESS is not what we are to look for. Our place is to be . true to the best we know, to seek'that and do that; and if by "'virtue is its own reward' is meant that the good man cares only to continue good, desiring nothing more, then it is a true and noble saying--Let us do right, and then whether happiness comes or wubappiBess, it is no very mighty matter : f it comes life will be sweet; if it do not come, life will t bitter, bitter, not sweet, and yet to be borne. The well being ol our souls depends only on what we are: and nobleness of character is nothing else but steady love of good and heavy scorn for evil Oniy to thosé who have the heart to say, "We can do without selfish enjoyment," is there no secret. 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