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- Custard HorenccBm^iam Livingston COPYRIGHT bv OtXJROE H DORAM COMPANY _ 3 . - .. i LETTIE SYNOPSIS.—I.Jvinj? In a barn, converted Into a dwelltnK, Mrs. Pen Held Is manager of an apart ment building known as “The Cus tard Cup," originally "Cluster Court." Her Income Is derived from laundry work, her chief pa tron being a Mrs. Horatlus Weath- erstone, whom she has never seen. Living with her are “Crlnk" and Thad." homeless small boys whom' shs has adopted. They call her •Psnsle” Thad tells Penile a strange man was Inquiring for her under her maiden name. CHAPTER II.—Conti r»u#d. —2— Above these rooms was a loft. "tPr used for hay hot now entirely rot off from the gniumt ffrx>r It rooM. however be epprriorhed by a led*lev est the ootrtde- and was e*. ap preorhed h| Crlnk during winter ra.ae when tt was the Iasi rew**rt far drytag rloChea ll was •epleT»r-*-f The I slif**ewU rsMTi— was la its gt«ey. the days were vena end height, oel »e1 edge»l wWh the *-ei«emeew fall IVtnh W ^ ta orhewl. lira iVnAehl was ■« M e «*ae Ohe h*4 US«n eg he* hwsnse ai rieia n starve*! fee the vned •hew the heff *eag Thae * e# serV’ty is 11 r hsh » • eh »w wseml swePths hwewwws M ■« I iw >e« I three* •df*' *4 wtBhewe taeeeehvesaw. I fltrtror n chilil ought to be ills’ppoinl- od at least once -u week. In order to get used to life." She discarded n broken clothespin and reached Into her pocket for another. "I guess likely you aimed to have folks think he was your own kid,” Insinuates! Mr. Wopple, testing the strength of his old priming-shears. "Land, no. I never claimed he was. He’s mine ’cause I adopted him and love him, and 'cause he loves me. That’s all there Is to It" Mr. Wopple thought otherwise, "It’s easy said, Mia' Penfleld, but I’ll bet there's a lot more to It. Where'd you get Thud. Mis' Penfleld?” With a quirk movement she lifted the sheet and pinned It Into place. “The record* are for Thad when he grows up.** Tou got some records, then?” .“Mehhe” she recumed. on guard “I don t nee what dUTmnre It maksw. 1 * “Well. I should any It made a lot. Voume yon’4 want to know what kind •' folks ho hud Might ho thing* thai'd crop .»«( You'd ho (ho mm la hu diw V ho waa m tarn mm a ■h •m'T nhlTe Jl you 0M ha Mu I •» Thud aMrd •hut wsy ||wa ► e»oe w*«, *a>4 to •Wan. I don’t • uho tnterrufHod And If ro«># got a grain < ' yMtll pet your mind on o(Im Kv’rylwwly Jlven In hta own tlon; be ain't Just reflectin' what'a been lived before hip I know where Thad rkmo from, and It's all right. Ho you think you can remember that. Mr. Woppler - - Mr.* Wopple, with some hesitation, admitted that perhaps he could, Mra. Penfleld having hitherto been a satis factory neighbor; and she ncknowl- edged ids courtesy by a smile, half conciliatory, half abstracted. But when she had taken up the en*f>ty clothes basket and gone back Into the ll Shft aat for .fleyeral mlnmww looking Into space, her busy hands idle, a mist of compassion in her dark eyes. Once her lips moved. “Why, why can’t I wipe out the han dicaps entirely,?" ' she breathed. "Don’t seem rij£* for any child—’’ She was still sitting there when Thad came in. Mis. Penfleld gathered the boy Into her arms and kissed him. "1’enzie," he gasped, “squeeze m« softer, please. I ’most can't breathe. What you do It so hard for?" She laughed. "Bless your baby heart! I expect I was keeping ev’ry- thlng away." “Why. 1‘enzle, ain't anything here— Just you and me.” “Sure enough” she said, more, lightly. “And we muatn't alt here, I doing nothing. I've got to' get to work, and you trot along and play.” A few minute* leter he.cu'ue run alng to her In great glee. “See. petule. I found MNuep'a.” f|w held up a small package. It wag flat. •4>l«>ag. tied wttk earl "Where did yea get that. Thad 7" “In year re*aa all 4mm up ta DOY Aspirin I Say “Bayer'’ and Insist! fcT Nnwnnwi Caanell at Ik* Sooam •( A marten, i hate the •wa eua. IV ha e*we ■ha hrd he p a nku’ * M •*mmS wei » •-*. • W*< • <••/«* » <H*ilf » AI* t # m%t*m % «WM •e met * *Cm 9 %+**++* • mm 4 * — *e § ut, Its temdtm it k*M* B to 41 % flN'Utoto flto- M- - • h*o •*•♦ UMkl S H Ygfto lifltaiji Mum*. tou • • • •*« me*. •4 a •<e*ae m. w** . U * • • •to 1 *v* ****■ eb* to ( v arw»i% • fltfl **t (Nfl i ' I • • t mV Mo *1 «to *ZSkZ • u«Ui ily'd !*■• We* * ’ V<w P.ujRuM r*au •*.! ••• * • MX • v u« «to Wuw * 11 t • to mm’twe e tov ar 1 ■ rUI w -uf t» ito »Sr*1 ■ ftk tov to •Art Aa* Sto uttog I tH* 1! r.m-m »Kr emfig V t-lee t-*-v Nreuth I IB slterf Mtth«'*e>* of •ptnt Till* fhr h g; pleof i^r* of her u««rk . ahe lovs^l the air the *«jr tahlne r» n'.“ rolled • ra*;>!n< *<>|i-e "IVhy, Mr Wopt'le g-x^l iu<>rQlrtg ■he returned brlskl) “Ain t it * grand d*y?” "Well pretlv ftdr." oinciMb-d Mr Wopple grudgingly lb- n.-'cr «<> fnr en(<»nnig*‘d nnytiung, *mch the weather, n- to gl\e If un.pnllt'.ed up proval. Mr Wopple wa* n night Wntcbmun In some vague building near the water front ; ami no one in The (’’us tard Cup qu*stIon<Ml his lioing emi rcntly ndapted. to exactly that work. Watchfulness was the keynote of bis personality ; he sacrificed many hours of pos.s;Me day time sloop by bringing his professional activities Into the homo field. “Yes, It’s a grand day," repeated Mrs. Penfleld. quite as If she bad to celvcd more encouragement. "How ha a SCHOLARSHIP AND SCOUTING That boy scouts stand high because of their scout induing in th^r estima tion of their schools is attested in the responsibility placed upon them in clasA-oom work and play, school activ- Itles and afalUgSrt. government. The presidents of the freshman, sophomore. Junior and senior classes the past school year in the Pasadena high school were boy scouts. Three of these class presidents are Eagle Scouts, the otitfr one is a First Class Scout. The four lads have rec ords of efficient and active participa tion Iij all school activities, and have been_ outstanding members in athletic teams, In dramatics, and in school management and executivesbips. The “School Democracy" of Public School 9G, Queens, N. Y., furnishes an example of the demands that are made upon scouta because of their training In group responaihlllty. The way in which the scouta have carried out their duties In school management has won the praise of the organizer of the sys tem. Mrs. Bridget Pexlotto, the princi pal of the school, who says that the piaa would not have worked out half so auceeosfullr had ft not her* for the exlstr«<w of the mhooTs trout troop. In this aslffue •rtf gmermuMut plan, •umber* of the trout troop, la addV- UMI la aettrul Mhtc pupil a act as ■flirt ra Ik-out tag has helped «a rw- •arhahtj ta the | irf*rm*a< ■ af our vkrVous dMteu.' aasd Mru rvmMta ro- *vM«f *We had that hy rmltag the Sruuc tntaah aufl Law* ike iflsufts kt ha •Malawi hy the mu Ism Wfly. the u«th Ik surMefl ufl H a for an ee tdLteui MMk*e thaa fl uuuM he awlMaMly I M Hhai aM stUaui pMurapuhi ougut ta twfll kp the muut smmmussm uud fla afl aa umm gwuue M Mhoutuge •he aepkMMMMI of tewnipo Ik the M%wMk sff utflflh dkw* are aa Mhssjn TV* gflkk of Mu mtsmt 4homwreuep at It tuau too dkkuflMoa •**■* oath tnoaa Moat f>*‘Ui fhu tmed groM up ph* ah uawMMpk TW koufl «d a* **o ms «uc sawk-M okw ONBMh OOtU MMk Me* 1 O* 1 * th OliMfle of Oht Ue komask fomot mmt towh of «SM >w»too «"immniwi a a «aM-M • • ou ie* e* oo ’Omo* %• kUtf Mo fwOh •* *- •’». e CO Ml flhk tow i •ou ta • UMMuirf less yon see th'» name "Bayer” on package or on tablets you are not get ting the genuine Bayer product pre scribed by physicians over twenty-two years and proved safe by millions for Colds Headache Toothache Lumbago Earache Rheumatism Neuralgia Pain, Pain Accept "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” only. Each unbroken package contains proper directions. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Drug gists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is "the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcacldester of Sallcyllcacld.—Advertisement Re&nol helps to bring out the real beauty of the skin Cosmetics only hide skin trouble, but Resinol Ointment, aided by Kesl- nol Soap in most cases clears away blotches, roughness, and similar de fects, keeping the skin soft and smooth, with the natural color of health. Give the Resinol products a trial. For sal* by all druggists. ‘ Impouibls. Doctor—Put out your tongue—more ' than that—all of It. Child—But. doctor. I can't. It*k fas tened at tiie other end! _ | Baby Was Soon Playing With Daddy Again COCK Sulphur mpound in your Bath For Eczema, Rheumatism. 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I Mra •ar,r.- d “1 flalabod tlui up Uat night l a •urry tTa pink raaae u don'’ go with hla h*lr tha b*ut esev. but lllUt kiet glug^ua Mar Dark Cyos ■lasad. ■ ••n't ncv*r get mlze*l up with II .i^sin He didn't Inherit nothing that I'm iifrHlil of. and one of the main rcawin* I'tn ||\lng la to »er that he dexelyps 1u«t the any he‘a started. IP* a gixKl way; I like It; and If the Lord spares me. he’ll be ready to meet the world face to face when lie's growed up." Her neighbor's thin lips twisted. "Ail is," he said slowly, digging his broken shears into a post, "I thought mebbe you'd like to know there’s talk started. You see, Ben Simmons come in t'other day and he saw Thad. He said he couldn't get over it—Thad looks so much like a kid he knew about, a year ago. Perfect 1 msge, Ben says!" ' Mrs. Penfleld made no reply. A flush rose in iter cheeks, but she placed her irtns carefully in the last garment. "Well, Ben says this kid didn't have no famMy he .could ire proud of. Seems ids mother run otT soimnvhere and died it, and ids ^father was 'rrested for somep'n and—" Mr. Wopple was gazing at the |»o*t, and therefore dirt not zee Mr*. Pen- flHrt's reception of bU speech. “Stop!” she cried. He looked up In Injured hew 11 drr- °**ut. Mrs PeuAHd was sundting In front of hUn Thu twine WM higk Is e**g Mskwd ■rwmg •t I ho kino giwhArd ■ bwmIL thM polf «f bright Mach ryru t'rtnk, the ryru of * girl about hi* own age Uho had l-*- o conducting a series of Investigation* of her own from th* reor of the hg. "Hey, leggo there,” cried frlnk. “I.eggu yourself," retorte*! the girl. ’’Shan’t. I got here first.'* “You didn't neither. If you had, you'd ha' taken It. wouldn’t you?” For a moment the boy was stag gered. He had been prepared for ac tion, but not for reasoning, and the latter had driven him Into n corner where speech would merely weaken Ids cause. By a quick movement Crink lifted the wheel, but the girl's counter-pull flopped It back again with a smart whack that sent a cloud of ashes Into the air. The contestants gulped, coughed, Ignominiously sneezed, glared at each other with reddened eyes but with no diminution of will. —"Now look here. Intended voice a wheel’s mine." “Prove It, why don’t you? dummy!" “Gosh!” he wrfthod. “Quit niiine*. you little lighting devil." “Now you got my number." she re turned "Join you make me one hit III "II fMI begun Crink, In a to be terrible, "you | nothing. This here Rutrimj^ calling ot tiw * Mow# *d e* UMI rating IhM like ffrYaMM mm#* m iirukmg hy «wr Mmi Huh* ku* keen I hut Of help and tkM given lu the Hoy ttcuM movrmenL* llammrffa, null* and aaw* were evl dm* «-« of recent practical o*a*t ni* tlv« work for better b«»)hoi*d. when l»uin vllle, Ky^ hu*!ne«<» n*en ■saetiilded at the iu*otit cuni|»-slte to erect a new me** hall for the t*oy*. A KIwanhiB wa* the flrst man on the Joh. *uy* a local rej*ort: n ltotur- lan the first to saw a board. The mayor of the city acted as water bear er, and representatives of the Lions', Optimists' and Exchange clubs, as well as the American Legion, the Engineer's’ and Architects’, Advertising. Automo bile, Co-operative, Electric, Fire Un derwriters’, Transportation and Retail Merchants' clubs, the City Publicity league, Safety council and others, all plied their tools and pounded the at tractive new buildD'g into readiness. A hit of warm human Intereat was associated with the re<*ent visit to ten of the large easteiRi cities by Troop 10 of Akron, Ohio, a troop of father- ArtUlron’s home- 'Chls trip was financed entirely byv.thc local Merchant s’ n§socjatIon and the Rotary. Exchange, Khv^nis, Lions’, .Opfrmists and Clvltan clubs. In addition th< touring cars for the trip were •*ur ni>rtHMl by five large tire and ruhhei companies of Akron. FLORIDA’S NEW SCOUT HERO The old story of never-falling Inter e*t. Out M uatlM k hvn*» Mo tpit , (well. WM retold » he., scout Ware J« taw* •flruumu* f*am*k*Si**k *—**M ta-u m • UM*UgFk*WHkg w»fl* •mo t* kogy* tko Indkovw l**o* uud Mod * dkw fls Mo o**% uomou wsuwApI ikgy Sk*uM fla ■ounff ta*ai Vuo gMsfl iko msi sd f*M* ll • odd kg afl 4*wuw*e* -w us worn uud ■ aflowM ho|y ywu N • «uk*e taflasy mota SUM ho* ao *M*W tawud* Wm mm I* gn nwuuu*Bo** sud ■sort ** «w*o If you wt*fl tm to uw tko »« pe*fwfun><u nwd tow v*wt* l« Dr A Cw S ugtonfn X T, M • Wtou wrung to •or* and Ikw toper — A<fvwin*n*m. AMO 7M MUflflCS HINDCRCOHNS Cvoodps grtfl Qroodmu. “When I was a young mall." said] grandma, "we u««*d to !»• reproved for reading dime novel*.~ “Ye*,“ refoine*! grandpa, “and 0€>w I _ ^ you pay a dollar and a half for worse " | W. N. U, CHARLOTTE. NO. 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