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Vanity Specialist Finds Many Obstacles d s in Her Way By THURDE RAYLE BRUCE VERY good specialist finds his level by and by, but mary who are vain of their specialty get a start with. difficulty. The friendless, trust-to-luck one who comes to the city with just one little talent to depend on doesn't succeed as does the girl who can boast of doing one thing well, another thing better, and one particular thing best, and who isn't too proud to do either to get a slart. That sanguine specialist who comes to the big city with grand dreams ought to be prepared to make some sacrifices be fore she can get the big positions. There waa a mulsic teacher oneo-the kind who sneered at every other occupation but that of running delicate white fingers over piano keys. Her home town showered her with compliments until it became too nar row for her, and pastures new in Chicago was the natural alternative. She would have a choice studio in a choice locality and get choice pupils from choice families-in fact, her whole dream was so choice that Provi dence chose to bestow some choice disillusionments. She came and saw but didn't conquer much-not even fifteen pupils wherewith to pay her studio rent. 11er funds gave out and she was too vain of her specialty to fall back temporarily on something less pretentfous, also not wise enough to realize in the first place that Rome isn't built in a day where there is fierce com petition. During this period of stress a friend offered her the position of cashier in a jewelry store and suggested that she take the place for a month or so until she could get more pupils, and was also advised to get. a position as piano player in one of the stores. She only sniffed haugh tilj that all these positions were beneath her, and passed the matter up because "sliding along that way" was awfully distasteful to her and "not her style at all," and that "her art was too dear after all." Perhaps so, but if she had really loved her art she would have been brave and strong enough to make some sacrifices for it. The versatile girl in the city who is willing to utilize her lesser talent in behalf of her beloved specialty can float along quite a while without dange'r of sinking. One girl with artistic ambitions kept accounts and did the correspondence in a crossroads cheese fac tory. She went to the city to take a courme in art with $50. Ier fifty had inelted at the end of two months, when there wasn't the- slightest prospect of getting returns from her drawings, and it was up to her to secure night work of some kind or go back to the cheese factory. The upshot was that she diligently followed up half a dozen ads one Saturday when the futuire looked particularly murky. Her versatility and willingness to make use of her lesser gifts while perfecting her specialty has been her main boost to victory. It veri fies the truth of the idea that all great people are not afraid to appear small whon a good object de mands it. Problem School Whether to give a boya high school education or ghive him an to laa rn ours t havtw eans. u yea inhgho scoande Chicado fahrs, mould o coli g As mae iso mno ff _________________________ mye byeas, 0( l but tree mnhatt hefo wouldst tho hennal twetoe isshrt. 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She was half-gigglingly com menting to herself as she tagged dog ;edly along after Aunt Eliza's amply .onstructed, black broad-clothed form, hat Uncle John ought to be prosecuted Ior bigamy, on the ground that he had ,wo times as much wife as he had when he first married, when she dis ,overed two grey eyes, under a broad iat brim, answering her chuckles with wrinkly twinkles. The haughty disdain which she duti. !ully tried to spread over her amuse nent fell before the good-natured ap preciation of her need of a relief ex pedition. She bowed, tentatively and reservedly. The hat lifted in a most lignified acknowledgement and its )wner advanced, holding out his right hand. Margaret placed her brown glove within his reach, with the aflirm ation: "I am very glad to meet you here, very glad to see you again," in answer to Aunt Eliza's backward look of in luiry. The aunt's exclamation at tracted the attention of Uncle John. Margaret led her new-found friend up to her guardians. 'I am glad to introduce to you a very old friend from Iowa. This is my uncle and aunt, with whom I am spending my summer vacatior, Mr. Livingston." Aunt Eliza only exclaimed again, aloud, and started to say that which Uncle John interrupted by an em piatic wave of his big capable-looking arm. "I am delighted to know you, Mr. Livingston; delighted to know you." Then taking an observation of the young man's evident intention to fall back in step with the niece, he reached forward firmly for the young man's arm, pulling him into step. "If you are from the middle west, most of our agricultural processes and products will be new and interesting to you. Now, here is- " and begin She Ecpdand Found Refuge From the Situation. ning with a peroration about prunes, based on the huge elephant construct ed out of dried specimens of that much derided boarding house favorite -a frightful, wobbiy-khieed examphlle of what industry, coup~led with violence of imagination, energetically misdi rected, can perpetrate--Uncle John led him by dried-fruit-bound paths into the mysteries of Califor-nia farming. Silently, not to say patiently or re aentfully, Margaret walked along with Aunt Eliza. What profit from heri transgr-ession if it not only furnished no escape) for her, but even afforded a new sacriflee upon the altar- of Uncle John's zeal for acquiring andl impart ing Information. Piloted l'y U~ncle John, the humorless, the quartet stoppledl befor'e a model fr-uit farm, worked out in papier macho. "TVhis ranch, Margaret, wvhich is hero reproduced, belongs to your aunt's nephew, Jacek Jenkins. I have asked him to take dlinner- with us at the hotel tonight and you will meet him there. Hie's a good chap. never caught him in a false p)osit ion but once, and t hen I think the fault was not. altogether- his." The young man, with longing looks towvardl Margaret, showed signs of breaking away from her- uncle's re firaining gr'asp). "All he needs is a housekeeper--n wife, I mean, home-maker, like yomi Aunt Eliza's been to me," droned U~ncle John, stating that romantic sit uation as one might speak of the nm ber of seeds in a prune elephlant. "IBut ho is not much for women folks. Ht says it takes him six days to figure ot what a woman means by what sht says and by that time lhe's forgottei what it was she said." 'The man with tihe sombrero fluished with shame over this account of sc unap~preciative a mlemb~er of lis sex. "Perhaps he never met the one wo man," he hesitatingly offered in ex tenuation. "Maybe," answer-ed the guide of thm .)ersonally. conducted party. "lie ham sense enough about other things. Nov hat raisin plant is modeled after om1 >f his." Margaret lagged farther and farthei ehind out of hearing. An alley, lined wilth gnolcn nvrn ense.of Humor BAUGHMAN -sonciated Literary Press.) iids of oranges, opened before her. Mr. Livingston might listen until nightfall or hoarseness silenced Uncle John; she escaped and found refuge from the situation, if not from herself, in her quiet hotel room. liefreshed by a bath and fortified by a fresh gown she awaited the arrival of her uncle and aunt. Uncle John caie into the parlor excitedly discuss. Ing the probability of finding her here as he opened the door. Margaret murmured something about having stepped into a side aisle to look at some very beautiful prunes and thus losing her way. Uncle John assured her of his regret. Aunt Eliza was silent. The stranger looked un comfortable, almost embarrassed. "Mr. Livingston is stopping here, too, so he'll take dinner with us," ex plained Uncle John, as they departed to make ready for that meal. Wondering how it would all end she made her way with her chattering relatives to the table it the small din ing-room. She was grateful for the chilling presence of a black and white automaton of a waiter. He seemed, in some way, a means of postponement of the moment of judgment. "And what time do you put the corn crop usually?" she heard Uncle John say. With unbelieving ears she heard the answer: "Oh, at. the end of the rainy season in February or March, as a rule." Iowa's rainy season, in March! Margaret gasped in anticipation of Uncle John's scathing remarks. Uncle John had spent his boyhood on an Iowa farm. But he only inquired fur ther: "I didn't suppose the ground would be ready to work no early In the spring." "Oh, yes, it's muddy sometimes, and disagreeable to handle-too soft in fact." Margaret closed her eyes and caught a glimpse of an Iowa corn field in M arch-the grayish-yellow stalks sticking up through four or five feet of s)ow drift. Maliciously, it seemed to Margaret, did Uncle John lead the con fused young informant through tortu ous ways of misinformation. From cocktail to demni tasse the in quisition lasted. With an almost over whelming desire to scream, Margaret finally led the procession of four from the dining room along endless, red carpeted corridors to the little sitting room. A chango, even a scene of the torture, was a welcome rest. "I thought your nephew, Mr. Jenk ins, was coming to take dinner with us tonight," she said by way of conversa tion to Aunt Eliza, to whom she sup posed the amply-proportioned shadow beside heri on the window curtain be longed. "H-e (lid," slowly answered the voice of the blunderer about corn crops anid Iowa harvests. In wiild-eyed amazement Margaret raced him. "Hec-and--you are-" she gasped. "Yes, he (lid and I am." "And the fruit ranch and the--." Words failed her in the recollection of Uncle John's minute description of the Jenkins homestead. "Yes," very carefully, as one on un safe treading, "but I'm not the mis ogamist, Uncle John-" "And Uncle John madIe Aunt Eliza keep still. Those two old geese are up in their room laughing their old eyes out. lHe loves a joke better than a good meal of Aunt Eliza's own cook ing." "Uncle John loves a joke! Why, I thought Uncle John had no-and now he'll think-you'll all think-" "Uncle John has asked me to go for a visit with them and you to their ranch in order that I may tell you [ think. Shall I ?" How Cloves Grow. Clov'er are the ulnexpanded flowver buds of a beautiful evergreen tree which grows only in tropical coun tries. The buds are at first a pale ('01or andl gradually become green. after- which they dlevelop) into a bright r'ed, when they nare ready fiu' collecting. During tihe drying process they are exposred to the smoke of a wood fire and theni to the action of the sun, which alccounats for their dlark brown color' wvhen ready for' the market. Thle clove tree, which attains a height of 30 feet. is a native of a small group) of islands in the Indian archi peligo called the Spice Islands, but in the last four centuries it has been carried to all the warmer parts of the world. (loves were one of thle, principal oriental spices wvhich early excited the culp'dity of wvestern commerce communities, having been tihe basis of a rich and lucr-ativo trade ince the early part of the Christian era. Where Ho Hit Her. A young coupile keeping house on thr second floor were vecry often anlnoyedl by their quarreling neighbors belowv. One night' tihe young manm was met at the door by Is wife, who ex claimed: "Oh, John, they hmave been flghtinmg diown stairs nearly all day, and lie's liti her again!" "is that so?" said .John, sympa thmetically. "Well, where did lhe lit her- this time?" "I heard them running all over the house. but I think ho finally hit her; in the pantry." |LEmm -' W ILbU. L NE SWT The Call of the Road "lPollow me, andl( follow men!" thle little road Is Calling; "I will take you where the snow of aipple bloom Is failing. I will lead you to thle fields-the greenest aind thle cleaniest Where the benting sky above Is bluest and serenest; Out of aill the# city dust and aill thle jan gling riot Into G3ods own wonder-place of beauty a nd of quiet. "Follow mie and follow me between the flowered hledges, See the ferns that touchi withi lace thle mlossy eCliffs aind ledges; IHear thle brook thiat sings and sings to melodies of laughiter, Catch the message of lthe breeze-of days thant shiall come after; 110, I'll lure youar feet afar fromt all your fear,; and frettings, Till your sonl 1.9 steeped Inl pence that comles of fair forgettings. "Comle and( see the Shadlows dance When twilight's; hushl Is comlinlg. Murmitir all the lazy words thle happy bees are- hlummiin, Ilevel in the Iliac scent thle vagranit wind Is flinging. Dream about the roses thant thle sumimer timeo Is briniging Sunl andl shade, and shande and sun, and gold-and-silver finslhing Where lthe whirling butterflies are flut ter-ing anld dashin11g. "Vilolets aire daningil now, the dogwood trees aire whitenedl WNith at weamith of hlossonms till thle dis ltnt wood Is brightened Can't y*oul hear thle call of m, made uip of love andt pity? What hiave youil with) brick and stone and 11ron of thle etty? Comoi anld see thle mlar1vel-sweep of roll Ing hill anld hollow, Come and brother withi thle world. Fol low mie, andt follow!" The Fly. 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