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i . do not use SEER esa PER - Address? 2 By ETHEL CHAPMAN HARING. L From- her sheltered corner of the hotel verandah commanding the finest view of the glacier and its surround- ing "peaks, Ruth Goodnow lamented that romance had passed her by. Here -she was, engaged, almost married, and in all her comfortable life she had ex- Jetieticed not one real adventure to ook back upon with a thrill, Her fignce was a serious-thinking, slow-moving man of thirty, as safe as a government bond and just about as exciting. His very name, Hiram Babbitt, was unromantic. Babbitt was well enough, to those who knew the 'excellent family it indicated, but!i Hiram! grandfather who had laid the founda- tion of the family fortunes by manu- facturing automobile tires--FHiram, King of Tires, he was facetiously known to the automobile world. Most of the younger Hiram's energy went|sand years since I saw a real girl." into the inherited business, which re- a. him interest as a good business shot!' the rest was spent in a mild and steady devotion to herself, He took "her to symphony concerts and to plays which came to town with the wriginal casts. To quite half of these entertainments his mother and hers accompanied them--as on the present holiday journey, Adventure just didn't connect with Hiram. Not even the war could bring it. 'To do him justice, he had tried his best to get into the service, but his nice blue eyes were of no par- ticulat use to see with, and he had been: rejected for the officers' train- ing camp and the Canadian Army. Of course Ruth loved him. But like every' dther woman in the world, she had come of cave-dwelling ancestors, and an old ghost of cave-day memor- ies flickered at the back of her brain and Had not yet been laid by an =x perience' with what she thought shé craved. She wanted her man to be more Zedvé-manly. She did not con- sider that cave-age conditions are sel- dom met with in civilized life, that cave-man characteristics' would hard- ly qualify: Hiram to conduct the busi- ness which made their financial pros- pects go pleasant. Least of all did she consider what a very poor consort she herself would make for a cave- man. But she was just as unhappy as if her discontent had sprung from some yalid cause, and as her wedding day approached, this lurking sense of disadvantage gre She 'looked Ee the hotel gardens to the: old bed of the great ice river whose melting body became the white stream issuing from the bluish mouth of the glacier which yawned a mile up the rock-strewn valley. Just op- posite, the mountain sides were rich Rith the spring verdure which comes late in the Canadian Rockies. - Next above was the sentinel strip of dead overgreen; - Above the timber line, vast and dazzling from a recent snow- fall, lay the source of the ice tongue crawling slowly down. - Highest of all, the mountain tops 'of brown splintered rock pjerced the blue. Here and there, -hurey g. like a white, tangled plume green velvet cloaks, foamed a rom brook, snow-fed. Adventure ought. to develop in an here like this, but it wouldn't, They, been at the hotel a day and had en the usual walks; another dey and they would have taken the usual *drives and finished the place. That was the way things | ned | when Hiram managed them. He was bargaining now with the bandit who owned the livery pnivilege for a rig to be used that afternoon, The con- Jeyatios, woul would hs the best obtainable and thie driver the safest. would return. agreeably hongEy, | in oa nty of time dinner. e would | board. pot rine fr ent of te the train which brought a {fresh su ly of tourists. She looked i agatal Still; it. 3 ; it. was a Srnatment, Ruth was not ray the Fateh dR id lctmett ref sed to rum. refu oH A, fi while was Tomad back and train Lary At' phe Ib SS had Not everyone was aware! had risen. Then he included the gla- that he had received it in honor of the! office they had often met before Hast: had | his black ¢ "Teddy!" she led, Es submitted with h SEiacy 10 his embraces." ~ girl!" the man exclaimed in a big, out-of-doors bass. "The For-' estry epartment gave me five days off, and I found that if I traveled Tour | of 'em I could connect with your itin- erary. And it was so long singe I'd seen anything from the old town-- even a parent--that I took the hop. You must have got my wire." He patted her back in filial fashion, looking over it the while at Ruth, who turned away with a blush at be- | t ing caught looking and listening, and then set her down gently but definitely in the steamer chair from which she cier, the peaks, the valley and the bystanders--particularly Ruth-- in one quick and comprehensive glance. "Slick 'spot. Know anybody here? If so, for heaven's love save my life by introducing me. It seems a thou- The mother followed his eyes dot- ingly, while Ruth strove to look un- conscious. "There's only one really nice-look- ing girl at the hotel," she murmured, "and T haven't met her, But--" "Well, by all that's lucky!" her son interrupte her, staring now beyond Ruth and striding in her direction, "Excuse me, Mother--if there's not Hiram, King of Tires!" and reachin; out his brown, hand he grasped that of Ruth's fiance, who had: just come around the corner, It appeared that Hiram's firm had had mutually satisfactory dealings with the young man's father, in whose ings had found the city too stifling and had "taken to the woods." "I wanted to get out and buck up against nature. Well, I've had my wish. Mother, the third generation of tire kings, Hiram Babbitt; Mr. Bab- bitt, Mrs. Theodore Hasfings of" To-] ronte." - Mrs. Hastings smiled with elderly coquetry, and Hiram introduced both strangers to "Miss Goodnow, my fiancee," Hastings acknowledged the "in'ro- duction with a rueful laugh. "Fiancee? Lucky man! Wish I had one here! There are more of your party, then?" Hiram nodded. . His even reply con- trasted with Hastings' impetuous ex- uberance as his high forehead and benign expression contrasted with: the aggressive nose and snapping dark eyes of the other. The two were Rea- son and Romance. And it is a path- etic truth that while Reason has its points, picturesqueness is not one of them. "Our mothers are resting for the drive this afternoon. I've just ar- ranged for a buekboard to call at thrce to take us to In jration Point and the Lakes in the Olouds." The other ina his admiration for Ruth to become perfectly open. "Well, she'd need two chaperons-- ee to her, sal e: Hiram' 's mild, spectacled eyes with a twinkle in his own. "But the situation puts me out of luck. Mother's not up to walking, and I had Miss Goodnow all cop out for 2 tramp and the grip. to the glace this afternoon. hadn't met her a but she looked good to me, and that could have been arranged. Another dream dashed!" and he wrinkled his pugnacious nose humorously. "Not necessarily," said Hiram with cordiality. "Of she's seen the glacier once, But she might prefer see- ing it twice to going to drive. Glaciers are rarer than mountain lakes. aq Mrs. Hasti isn't a food » walker, fould take! uth's Place 'in the buc Both men looked at Ruth. "Having your. lord's permission, will you go with me?" adked Hastings, . egg. | But there is a simple device where-. f by the ugoup can be doris away with I Why, a detective could not have kept try the patience of. hie Yat women who are successfully these very things, and' they certainly 'deserve more than they ges 'at the hands of both families and he: on- looking public. In our community is a young wo- man with four little. children who has with her her very old father. The old gentleman adores and spoils the 'chil- dren, yet when he wants' them to be| rs quiet he expects them to obey instant, ly. Of course; they do not and then he reads the mother Tong iach. about what children did when he young, and how there is no respect; shown now for old people, together with 'pessimistic reflections. on the hard fate of elderly people in general. He becomes irritable with his daugh- ter and the children and refuses to be pleased with every effort she makes to pacify him. To make matters worse he tells outsiders what a hard lot he has, how little consideration is shown him, then they come and "labor" with the young woman as to her plain duty. And in the midst of it all she must try to make a good home for them all 'and do all the work for the big family. The other day I heard a lady saying unkind things about a neighbor be: cause the neighbor's mother wore such soiled and worn clothes. "Mrs. Hig young and able-bodied," she remarked severely, "and I should think - she would be able to keep her mother looking decent. Her children always look well and she does, too, but she lets that old lady go looking like a tramp." Now, as a matter of fact, the old lady stubbornly refuses all efforts to get her into clean, whole clothes, though she knows it worries: Her daughter a great deal. "Thess things are plenty good enough for me," she says stubbornly. "I'm not so stuck up as the rest of you." . So the poor, woman not oily has to be ashamed" the: way her mother" goes 'about the house but she must bear the es of the neighbors 4s well. It is easy to say, "O, 'well, every- and| body knowns old people and' their| whims, so why worry?" People who have had experience along that line never say such things. 'The woman who has had to hush down her chil: dren until they dislike home, to keep the house quiet enough for some elder- 'ly invalid, who has had to listen to the hints .of neighbors, and who has done her best only to find herself criticized, knows that it is a task from which it is impossible to divorce worry, It sounds very well to say tact and patience and sympathy will solvé the problem, but in dealing with peo- ple 'whose physical and mental powers are waning, all the tact and patience and sympathy in the world will not avail on occasions, Of course, they dre not normal but that fact does not make them easier to deal with in their whims. + ? In our community lives a woman who simply had to keep everything} under lock and key lest her aged fath- er would carry it away to give to children or anyone he met, but people criticized her severely for not having patience enough to watch him without going to such measures. Watch him! track of that mild mannered, bland old gentleman. the real heroine iin the community just cast about for the young woman who is a good wife, a good mother and a is normal and in possession of every the "childish" period comes trouble is sure to come with it. Blessings on the keep the peice and allow her children enough freedom +10 make thers harpy So if anyone wants to know who is} good relative to some cranky old per-|* son. Of course, if the elderly relative] | faculty things' are different, but when| woman a who ean sweetly and serenely | Belinas rick gas escape, - a 'the 'boxes with drops of solder, | may be reasonably'sure that the con- the solder should also furnish a clue to the age of the box. If you are still in doubt about the quality of the sardines after you have bought them, place the box in a basin filled with water and punch a tiny hole in the cover with a sharp awl. 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