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Gordon wishes to see you both in her room," g I turned to John EE | j can't- go, John," I said | "Oh, you'd better do | it over." "But don't you see I can't do any | more today? I've got about to the end of my strength physically." "Yes, you can." he answered, "and the sooner we have it { er the better itewill be for you and | the easier it will be for me. ™ She Wants to Shout, "The easier it will be for him!" my heart repeated, "but what about ime? Does he make jt any easier for {me?" 'At that moment I wanted to { Shout from the housetops to every junmarried woman of my acquaitance g 'Until mothers educate their boys {to treat their wives differently, go on strike against the marriage tie!" : I hated the whole sex. Of course this insane | partly the result of my | although I did not realize it then. + I started, however, for my room. but John ignored my wish, and tak- | ing me by the arm in such a decisive anner that had 1 resisted in the { slightest IT should have been hurt, { he said: "Oh, come on, Katherine, Just | one more disagreeable job today : { then I'm. through. It's been | hardest day of my life." | "But what about me, John?" 1 | said aloud 'at this time. For every | time that John showed me his utter idea was condition, the § with gold line, delicate border, with sprays Robertson's Limited Rg i * QPEN STOCK DINNERWARE. Pp This is our latest offering fromthe celebrat- > ed Potteries of Johnson Brothers, Stafford- % shire. Rt is a very nice clear white body of roses; new shapes; moderate pric, et fe + + iCall and ssciour Hine + | selfishness I was again shocked and | hurt anew. i "Why, vou haven't had a very hard day, have you?" he asked in surprise "You smust remember it was your own desire to come home on the train that got us into this mess. If you had been here I never would have called upon Bess or gone out with her. Then it was your own proposition to go to the hospital and be seen all over town with me today. This is the first thing I have asked you to do and you buck on this!" © "Oh, all right; but I want you to take note right here, John Gordon,' 1 said with a quick flaming ang; energy, "that I can not remember « : CURIOSITIES Smet At six months a baby walrus will eat 50 pounds of codfish a day. Chamois leather is not the hide of the chamois, but the flesh side of sheepskins, Matches have not yet displaced the tindér-box in certain rural sections of Italy and Spain. * Thy Japanese say "east-north" 'if~ stead of "north-cast," and "wesi- south" instead of "south-west." Man iz the only animal whose nos- trils are open downward. Even in the highest apes the nostrils open to the front. Iceland has only ome policeman, and his beat is in the capital, Rey- kiavik. The residents ave so orderly that he has little to do. The little republic of San Marino has the longest national anthem after China. To hear it from beginning to 'end would take several hours ™ At one time it was the practice \ out with nth | time since we have been married | when I'have asked you !to do one thing for me and you have done it | willingly. Most of the time you! have either ignored my request or | refused it." 1 i Call Comes from Madam. Just here Henriette came out the room and said: \ | » "Mme. Gordon wishes me to- say that if you are not coming in to see | fi hed personal matters outside her door." I felt the hot blood rush to my | head. and followed John as he strode | angrily into the room "Just =o long as I furnish this home for you women I shall Stand and talk any place in it that 1 wish." John said loudly, glowering at his | mother. With marked resentment | ghe glowered back at 1m as she said fretfully: | +. "I think it is time that you should come to me with some explanatibn of this disgraceful newey story. I hope that vou have h staff arrested. 1 ean understand | why a reputable paper would allow itself to be bamboezied by one of its reporters into making such a ly- ing report." . N "But the story's e. Mme Gor- don," I said quietly, for their jang- ling had acted as a quieting draught Llo.my overwrought narves. She looked at me speechless with anger, Then she turned to John and asked tartly: "What does Katherine mean?" | "I expect she means just what she says," answered John. 'She usually does." "Do you mean to tell me, John Gordon, that the story in the morning papers of your being out all hours | ht with Elizabeth Moreland | hall killing innocent people, is of the ni Two Badly Hurt, "Reasonably 80." he answered. "1 was out motoring with Bess late last night, another car ran into mine. and i the boy and girl in the car were badly hurt. Kathérine and I have been at | the hospital and find that they will | recover." "Well, I can't understand why you | sver married Katherine, if you are | going back to your old love with Elizabeth Moreland." : I felt myself turning sick at heart. "Mother," said John horrified as he looked at me in consternation, "Well, Katherine might as well | understand this first as last," I waited to hear no more. "Katherine does understand per. | 'ectly," I interrupted, "and if you will excuse me I will go to my room." | I turned, groped my way to the 'oor, and left them together, Fomorrow Mmie, Gordon Must Not | Be Unhappy. among the Gefmans and Dutch to ae-{ cumulate soiled clothes and have a! wash-day only two or three times.a year, , | The Burmese phefer coins with a | female head on them, believing that! coins with male heads on them are | not so lucky. | The number four is in great dis-| favor in Japan, because of its name, | "shi," is the term for death. There | are no fours or fourty-fours in the | telephone directories of that country. | Ex-King "Manuel, of Portugal, has | kept a diary ever since he was able | to write. It now amounts to 25 vol | undies. A little more than a century ago in 1800, laws were passed by the British parliament which imposed very heavy penalties on any who conspired to raise wages. 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