§ THE FAMILY CONSOLER I
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By HOPE AINSLEE. |
Durant looked up at the opening and
closing of the outer door to the studio.
“Just a minute, Jim,” said he.
It was not Jim She stood with her
back to the door and looked at him
with eyes full of accusation, biting her
lip to keep back the betraying tears.
‘Great Caesar’s ghost, Nannie,
where did you drop from?” exclaimed
Durant. “You poor little kiddie. Come
here."
Nan flung her fur scarf point blank
at him as he started for her.
“I hate you, Dickie Durant,” she
stormed. “You left me down home
there at the mercy of Aunt Pamelia
and Bob. And 1 hate Bob, and I'd hate
Aunt Pamelia. too, only she’s a rela
tive.”
“Why discriminate?” Durant re
sponded. “You hate me, your best big
brother. Bob doesn't count. You
can’t stay here, kiddle." He looked
around the studio.
“Why not?” Nannie set her suit
case dowrn and proceeded to take off
her velvet tam and cloak. “I’ll keep
house for you, Dicky. You may draw
my beautiful, high-bred profile, and
I’m sure it’s a whacking improvement
on the awful things you've been doing,
too, I can tell you that. I’ll be your
chaperon when you have models—you
do have them, I suppose, poor old Dick
■—and I’ll do anything in the world
you tell me to except go back home
to Aunt Pam. That I won’t do.”
“My dear child,” Dick drew her
down beside him on the couch, “my
dear, misguided, exuberant, willful lit
tle sister, will you listen,to old Dick
for half a minute. You can't stay here
with me. Jim shares this whole shack
with me.”
Jim? Jimmie Wethersell? I
thought he’d gone to the war.” Sud
den dismay overspread Nannie’s face.
"He said—he promised he’d go—I—I,
oh, Dick!”
"There, there, kiddle, don’t do that.
Hush now,” he urged. “I didn’t mean
to be Inhospitable. Why, I’m tickled
to death to have you here.”
He held her away from him, and
looked long and anxiously at her.
“Just lie down there while I make you
some tea in a jiffy.”
But Nan curled over on the cushions
and sobbed softly, wretchedly.
“I didn't know he was here,” she
said brokenly. “Oh, Dick, Dick, you
don’t know.”
“Know what?” said Dick, sternly.
"Now look here, Nan. This is all fool
ishness, you know. Jim's my friend,
and we’ve both known him for years.
I know Aunt Pam’s set against him
because his grandfather came South
alter tfagoyar gad made mansy. buy
Ing up our old tobacco plantation for
a song. That's not Jim's fault. It's
grandfather's, for being such a chump
he couldn't see ahead. Jim’s a bully
chap. Why don’t you like him?”
“I do like him,” came from the pil
lows, and Just then Jim came leisure
ly out of the inner room, one hand in
bis trousers pockets, the other holding
his pipe. Dick motioned him to be
silent. Jim stared from him to the
crushed, forlorn little heap of femi
ninity on the couch, and squared his
Jaws.
‘‘You seemed pretty anxious to have
him in bungalow 99, say, trench num
ber sixty—”
"I did not. That's what msde me
come away. Aunt Para wouldn’t let
me even speak his name, and I had to
find out where he was. Dick—can I
tell you, please?”
Dick came over quickly to put his
arms around her, but Jim was before
him. She did not raise her head, and
he sat beside her, patting her shoulder
tenderly, grave old Jim who had not
smiled naturally in weeks.
“You know the Dale house party?
It was such a wonderful place up in
the mountains, near Staunton. Jim
and I hadn't seen each other in
months, and it just all came back to
us, and he said he was going to the
war as artist for some paper, going
right away, and we were out motoring
together, so we just kept on going—
and we were married. Don’t speak
yet, please, Dickie. 1 can't bear to be \
scolded. He went away that after
noon, and Just as soon as we even
turned back I was sorry. But after
he was gone and I went home, 1
couldn't stand it when I didn’t hear
from him. If—if he'd cared he’d have
let me k.iow something.”
Jim laid ms pipe aside and aetiDer
ately gathered her up in his arms.
“Don't struggle, Nannie,” he advised
in his slow, southern way of speech.
"Maybe I’m a coward, but the Bible
even advises strongly against a man
going to war the first year he's mar
ried. So I came here to Dick. Seems
as if Dick's real popular as a family
consoler. You see, after the way you
talked to me that day. I thought you
were pretty sorry, and 1 felt sorry, too,
that I’d even coaxed you into slipping
into that little church and saying
you’d be my wife. Don’t go, Dick.”
But Dick strolled out into the hall,
and closed the door after him. Jim
looked down at the tear-wet face on
his breast.
“What did you do with the ring? ’
he asked.
Nan held up her hand with the ring
where it should be, and he held it
against his lips.
“Wife, love,” he said slowly.
Nan's arm tightened around his neck
and she lifted her face to his Just as
Dickie sauntered in, saying cheerily;
“The housekeeping studio’s to let
across the hall.”
(Copyright, 1915. by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
DUTIES OF OUR SOLDIERS
Strenuous Training and Discipline at
the Army Posts Teach Men Love
of Country.
A soldier's day is from the first note
of reveille to the last note of retreat, a
writer In the National Magazine ob
serves. In the gray light of daybreak
the bugle calls him from sleep. Prom
that moment until retreat sounds at
sunset the day is one of strict routine
and discipline.
A rough outline of a routine day at
Fort Myer Is: Rise, roll call, break
fast, groom horses, fall In line for drill,
which lasts several hours or until time
for the noonday dinner. For the after
noon there are various designated du
ties for officers and men, which may
include attendance at lectures, or dem
onstration work, board meetings, court
martial, training for extra drills, at
tendance at military funerals and
other services, either obligatory or vol
untary. At sunset again comes roll
call, followed by one of the most Im
pressive ceremonies of the day.
The troops assemble, facing the col
ors; the band plays the ‘‘Star Spangled
Banner” as the colors are slowly low
ered, every man standing at attention
till they reach the ground. The sunset
gun booms across the field; the bugle
sounds retreat, and the garrison work
day is over.
The strenuous routine and spirit of
patriotism that pervades post life
teaches reverence for the flag as noth
ing else can do. To the man on the
outside the flag means much, but to
the trained man of the army it is his
colors! He will live for it or die for
it as needs be—and he will do it un
questlonlngly!
And so it is "They bend the bow and
make ready the arrows within the
quiver."
Dame Fashion Says
You may have a dress distinctly
original, by painting some simple mo
tif in oils on the hem or in allover
design.
A dark blue straw hat, with the
crown garnished with light-gray rib
bod is a favorite color scheme of the
moment.
Brown is distinctly in favor for
quaint taffeta dresses—wood brown
tete de negre, cinnamon and Vandyke
are all favored tones.
Short-frilled basques are becoming
ly worn on many of the smart tafTeta
coats seen, over full taffeta skirts.
Straw and flowered linen make a
pretty combination for a child’s hat.
Mole fur is a favorite for summer
wear, partly on account of its neutral
color.
Veils are worn as a frill, draped
around the hat and falling just below
the eyes.
Public Education
in Arkansas
Eight Studies in Vital Educational
Problems.
EDITOR'S NOTE.
The Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas, in co-operation
, with the United States Department of
1 Agriculture, will ofTer this year,
through this paper, a free correepond
j ence course in "Education In Arkan
sas," consisting of eight lessons. Pre
ceding lessons may. be had on request.
PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ARK
ANSAS
No. 7. Vocational Education.
By A. M. Jordan. Assistant Professor
of Education, University of
Arkansas.
The democratic spirit which has at
last reached education says that there
must be equality of opportunity In
school work as well as in any other
work. What does this mean? It
means that all people must have that
preparation to live a life socially ef
flclent. To be socially efficient a man
must be able first of all to make a
living; second, he must have prepara
tion to fulfill his civic obligations,
and finally must be able to enjoy Ms
leisure time. Note that ibis philo
sophy economic efficiency comes first.
And Indeed why should it not? A
man who is unable to make a living
cannot be a good cltlsen. Poverty is
directly responsible for a third of the
crime In our land. In fact, of the In
mates of the prisons of the United
States as a whole, 76 per cent have
no definite occupation. On the other
hand, those of iis who have followed
the great reformatories of our land
know that when these young crimi
nals are taught a vooatlon along with
some other thing of lesser importance
that sometimes over S3 per cent go
out into the world and make good
HtiJipns Nor is that all. There are
t**n million people in the United
States who hare pot enough fq oat,
nor enough to wear, nor a retipdctable
place to live in for all the year. Thin
is directly attributable to a lack oi
training along lines that are neces
sary. Now turning for a minute or
two to the second phase of the ques
tion, that of good citizenship, we And
♦ hat there is little done in the school
looking directly to the meeting of this
demand. A little text book civics,
something about history, and there
you have it all. Civic righteousness
demands a healthy, moral and Inter
ested person. Hygiene, community
civics, history that shows the present
on the background of the past, cur
rent events; these are some of the
things demanded. There is scarcely
a turn made looking directly to the
broader moral obligations of the com
ing citizen. In the enjoyment of leis
ure time there is needed good mtiglc,
play, a love for good literature, art
and other things.
Rut the case for vocational educAr
tion does not have to be argued: it
speaks for itself. The means of ob
taining these ends is the trying ques
tion. How is it to be done? Can It
he done with the equipment we have?
\Vill it cost more money? Can we
get the people interested? Along
just what lines 'will we proceed? Now,
vocational' education ia broader than
many people would think. It includes
professional education, home making,
commercial, industrial and agricul
tural.
Professional education is well careg
for ia our country. The universitiee
throughout the land prepare persons
for law, the ministry, medicine, teach
ing or for whatever else one needs.
It is said that America has as good
universities as has any country.
The most important occupation of
a great majority of the women of our
country ia home making, yet up to a
few years ago there was little if any
thing done looking directly to this
work. Of the children that die an
amazingly large per cent die before
they reach the end of their first year.
These deaths are preventable in many
caaea If almost all women are to be
mistresses of homes sooner or later,
and if they are to have the care of
children they most certainly should
hav# some sort of direct preparation
for this work. Most ‘‘model house
wives” ars very wasteful. Many of
these things could be corrected by
means of a good course in Home Eco
nomics. it seems that if the kitchen
Is to be made a place where drudgery
Is not, something of the scientific and
artistic side of cooking must be em
phasized. Sewing, of course, la need
ed. for while clothes do not make the
man they certainly improve him In
many ways. n is saia mat lr you
take a dirty "down-and-out" and dress
him in respectable clothes he will act
quits differently* Then strain in sew
ing: as in cooking, when the aim ts a
work of art drudgery is to a large ex
tent lost. The home is the consumer,
the ultimate consumer. Whatever en
ters the home is directly concerned
with the woman. !b the food pure
which she feeds her baby? Is the
milk full of bacteria? Has the water
been thoroughly cared for? These are
some of the questions that the mother
Is asking. If she is concerned about
these things how vitally Is her life
bound up with the life of the commun
ity! Again, the woman does most of
iht purchasing for the household. And
how necessary it is that she know
something about textiles, about pur
chasing, about supply and demand,
and about all those things which de
termine the purchasing power «f a
dollar.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE,
St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROOK * MONROE 8T. 1
South North
6:39 a. m.Huttig.2:2? p. m
7:40 a. m.Monroe.12:26 p.m
, local. *
Leaves Arrives
1 1 ;40 a. m. Huttig. 12:16 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
NARMERV1LLE A SOUTHERN RY.
North South
5:01 a. m. Huttig 2:65 p. m
4:15 a. m..Farmerville 4:16 p. m
LOCAL, f
10:10a.m. Huttig .2:25p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
•Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
L. M. Despain, W. M.
C. A. Berry, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. G. Gibson, H. P.
D. F. Collett, Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320, Order of
| the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec’y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. 0. 0. F.
meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
W. E. Chadwick, N. G.
Harlan Sehon, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66.
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o’clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Lou Milstead, N. G.
Miss Murray Pilkinton, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 411 W.O. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
C. A. McCormick, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 146, W. G..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o'clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. W. R. Dickerson, Guardain,
Mrs, C. A. McCormick, Clerk.
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