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^^Hotise ^To Let" What the Sigp hi jhe Window 1? S > Started] [ ? . Jenkins was anweminently respec*' fcble bachelor of forty. m , \ OJJ lay b'e reced ed Ah invitation iff goVith a fri^enu who lived in the suburbs for dinner and tfyp night. *pie j difference ^b^ree* a house AithilNvoman iiW ftf *to say nothing qj. several impish children, and his own solitary apartments was apfhlling. * -Li-his own -bedrooln h?T5ould awaken in the morning amid to^lllA Inj this abo(?>f of a faijw til la/Jiwale for nearly an hour listening to unceasing sounds that seemed like music to mm.' u ^ ,u .,%J * 9 There'-frere-a eorrstaht crpetifng'' and shotting' lof^door^Achildren shoutipg, ,^il4riih.?C<in[led>*chiUUeu, ^itteck^uow a fjw dftop7toaes &?Fl a father warning Johnny that 11 he j didn't stof) fooling and dress himself he would get a spanking and now a feminine call to Edie to 5omG?nifleti* d^Voiir hair." It was the contrast of this life about & hearts' anft' irr*epe6ts?with his silent chamber and. hate the other. . Jpnlfina returned. to_ the city, spent thie day" inlris ollice, went to his room^hfS^itfg^rsigirjk *Aen"| tered it?dressed /for Jtliffevening" and start&f Shortly> before reaching it he passed a neat loidrihg t*o gMlyjstone frofit dwelling in a window of which was a pJatarfi *t*o ?et."-' E& etood leaning on his cane looking at. the house; then went on muttering: 'It's no use. I've no wife." /The fest > nipW'm*** i^e all, it would be better than his rooms and ^ would go in and look at-ftj I A| th4'toorajent>" 'teWtqine voice 6&id to him: <|Tfcer$ doesn't appear to be any wo?d?on the notice where to dpply. Jenkins turned and saw a joung w<jKiajo| whose appearance was; as refined as her voice. Her attention was all directed to the and Jqflkinsjfc^ lifted piat sfceTiad made the Observation to herself rather than to him'. X^vettketeBs he raised hiftjiat and said: "Perhaps it means that one may inquire WTthin." "It doesn't matter," sai<^ the l^d^ptyyiytb ,h?asplfi3ha|f him. -LMPJMum* jnew apum;b? iv uic same tone with which the day before he* Ua<L*aicU4o twmselk "It's wj?e-'* < <TTring ii you like?' said Jenting. - ? "Oh, thank you. Neye?,gaip<jl on my account." jv intending to malf^ inquiries for thyself, though i have ifo definite idea of taking a house. I don't need one." * * ,<Jor L? . v m went up off to'the shoop and rang the ball,?Bis- oummono was answered by a. middle aged person woo' ifrvW i&tbiiTKiifefce/tj evidently i caretaker. The lady waited for Jenkins to act as spokesman, but ha -hesitated. Ife did not know whether to say "this lady wishes to look1 Jifcr the< house"* or' fT wish to lQok at the house." He comproio?k >' th? bouse, he said. *"Ohl Walk in t" ^ "There arp eight rooms," said the ebretakbf,' leading the Way through the apartments. "On this floor par lor, dining rooim ttbaarjl lid kitchen." Then, leading them upstairs 'Tour bedrooms uj) Jhere. This ffSlit toom will make a. beautiful room for you and your wife, sir, and 4hiaJitil4 room adjoining it just "bi^^nAugh for the children, if you have them. There's another small room back, that would make a good nursery and a guests' room. The bathroom is at the end of the hall." IlfJfcbl podr^dbiah .Md been cog-1 rnt of the terrible blunder she making she would have been deeply pained. And yet she would hAve had no cause to be pained. Though-.Jenkins put'on a wooden expression, there was a very pleasant feeling about his heart. Though the lady bluslfcd a tody red, there was a suspicion of t smile playing on hecJipa., ""How nfany* children have you, afcfam ?" asked the woman, suddenly breaking in upon her description of the house.* ' ^0,children," replied the lady, ignoring the woman's inference that the t vo we're married. how^t uooin tiSfiem to me that peo. pl^ are matried rill'the little tots' come.-- Without- them folks are, "'7V u 1 . ?w - - ' * ' I k i liable to ran to cats and doga, a! {)oor makeshift for children. Dear ittle souls! How nice it is to see them romp and play! I like the girls best, of course, but little boys , are nice, too, especially when they're fine, manly little fellows. But in 1 every family there should be both ! bo- s and girls." ViThile the woman was running ! on, unconscious that the picture she was drawing was the unfilled desire of the two people she was talk- ] ing to, that they were not married 1 and both had for years wished to 1 be^-m^rried, especially for the home she had suggested by her remarks \ upon children, Jenkins was looking at the ceiling, out of the window, 1 itlij piai'C CAtUJH nwic lit llll^ui be expected to look. Suddenly he ' turnqd his eyes upon the lady be- ] side him and saw blushes coming and going like an aurora borealis, 1 with smiles on the lips like sunlight 1 on ripples of water. Then their eyes met. 1 The usual happening from such * meeting of eyes under such cir- ^ cumstanccs might be embarrasstpejot, or it might be half embarrassment and half amusement, or , it might be anger. The look beYfreen these two was neither of ' thdse. There was more in that . glance than has been written in ;U4EV a volume, and no volume could express as much. The man's eyes said, "Let us fulfill the pie- , ture." The woman's said, "1 will.'' "Do you think you will take the , tiouse ?" asked Jenkins as they stood , on the sidewalk about to part. "Hather, do you think you'll take j iT?" was the reply. ; "I am certainly not so ungallant as to stand in a lady's way." t "Nor would I think of taking it if you 'want it." t Jenkins stood thinking for a mo ment before replying, it was tnein artificial relations that were occu- . pying his thoughts. ; i "Suppose," he said, taking out his card, "you send me word as to your decision." "I will," she replied in a low tone. ( "On second thought, I will not put you to so much trouble. If you ' will let me know where I could get ' vour reply I would be pleased to call for it." i "I 'should be happy to have you J do so." She gave him her address. "Good morning!" "Good morning!" In a few days Jenkins called ' upon the caretaker, with whom the renting of the house had been left, with a couple of leases in his pocket and executed one for the owner and another for himself. "When will you move in, sir?" ; asked the woman. "I don't know. I would like to have you remain as you are and take care of the house for me for the present." \f Ka^APO AQTA. iuuuiug pnsscu uiiui? i>uv \.wv taker got her order to do the cleaning. Then everything was made spick and span, and furniture began to arrive. Jenkins went to the house and saw that it was arranged as properly and with as much taste as could be expected of a bachelor, then when all was finished left it in charge of the woman and went away. The next she saw of him he drove up to the door in a carriage, wearing a frock coat, a silk hat and a chrysanthemum in his buttonhole. He handed out the lady who had inspected the house in his company, and when inside and her wraps were thrown off she waa very beautifully dressed. Years have passed since these two strangers met at the "house to let" and later went to live in it at man and wife. A family such as the caretaker described are there and all are happy. The house is but a stone's throw from the club, but Jenkins never goes there. He says he has no use for it. Th* Myttie Savtn. A certain fond father sent his son to a university last falL As a farewell piece of advice he told the young man that "his success was almost assured, since both the word 'success' and your name contain seven letters." The midyear examinations, however, proved to be his | doom, and he was compelled to return home. "Well," said his father, "didn't you keep in mind what I told you -loout the seven letters?" "I did that, father," answered i the boy, "but you must rememberj.( that there are also seven letters in 'failure/ "?Exchange. A Joke That Failed. Once tfhen Henrik Ibsen was en- : gaged in writing a play he by chance i < dropped a scrap of paper on which were the words, "the doctor says/' ; Mrs. Ibsen determined to have a joke and one day casually remarked: "Who is that doctor in your new play? I suppose he'll say some interesting things?" Ibsen at first was silent with astonishment. Then he broke out into a fit of rage, full of reproaches for her spying. SOME MAMMOTH LETTERS. , Mountains Wsar Thsm For tho Univorsitios Thsy Rsprsssnt. High up on the bare slope of the J Wasatch mountains, immediately behind Salt Lake City, is an enormous white capital letter "U" that is visible from every point in the ijreat Salt hake valley. It is the letter of the University of Utah. It is a hundred feet long by fifty feet wide, and is as everlasting as the mountain it rests upon, for it is made of solid concrete. x- -* A iL _ A # lears ago u was trie cusium iur each of the two lower classes at the university to try to put its numerals on the hills behind the college and to prevent its rival from doing the same thing. The resulting fights became so violent that the student body took steps to put an end to them. The class numerals were replaced by a great letter <rU," made by the entire student body. It was of earth and was whitewashed, but the rains soon washed it away. The letter had to be made every year. In 1907 the boys decided to make \ permanent letter of concrete. They raised a sum of money to buy materials, drew plans, dug the trench, made the concrete and fashioned the great letter. Ever since, April 16 has been set aside as "U" day. On this day all the students and many townsfolk besides climb the steep slope of the 1 \ \ A. At. . CCTT 99 mountain ana assemDie at tne u. The workers are organized beforehand, and most of the hard tasks fall to the freshmen. Quantities of lime and water are carried up the hill, the letter is swept clean and a ;oat of whitewash applied. By noon the work is completed, and the letter stands out sharply in its new white spring suit. Then the students descend to the campus, where the "co-eds" serve luncheon on the lawns. The afternoon is given up to sports and dancing. Farther west, on the hills over looking Berkeley and San Francisco bay, the traveler beholds another great letter?the golden "C" of the University of California. In size it is 60 by 30 feet. It, too, is made of concrete. It stands 800 feet above tide level and is colored a golden yellow ? for the university colors are gold and blue. This great letter has been strung with wires, and on the occasion of an athletic victory it blazes out against the dark background of the night, flashing its message to all the country round. Near Ogden, Utah, a great "Y" adorns a steep slope in honor of j the Brigham Young college, and' Livingston, Mont., gazes out on a j huge white letter "L." ? Youth's; Companion. j ????? Insultad His Lags. Aprojpos of knee breeches a cor respondent 01 me .uonaon iiiipreBB' 2notes an anecdote from Captain) ironow's "Recollections" which! ?nts the whole case in a nutshell.' 'he Bailie de Ferrette was always dressed in knee breeches, with a cocked hat and a court sword, the Blender proportions of which great-, ly resembled those of his legs. "Do tell me, my dear bailie," said Montrond one day, "have you got three j legs or three swords? Soon after which, we should imagine, the bailie went home. j I Tragic Family History. The following inscriptions are to be seen on a tombstone at Debrec- j sin, Hungary: "Joseph Moritz, murdered at sixty-two by his son. Isabelle Moritz, wife of above, poisoned at fortyseven by her daughter. Elizabeth Moritz committed suieide at twenty after poisoning her mother. Joseph Moritz, Jr., murderer of his father, died in prison at twenty-seven."? London Standard. Useful Firswssd. Fireweed, otherwise known as the "great willow herb," 6eems to have been created as an antidote for one of the ugliest sights a landscape may offer?burnt over ground. The fireweed is a genuine cosmopolite, for it sends its consoling shaft above the ashes of burnt forests not only throughout America, hut in Europe and Asia. Tripolitan Proverbs. "You cannot," says a Tripolitan proverb, "escape your fate, even on a horse." "Whoever," says another, "has maize will soon find one who will lend him flour." "If a dog is to be beaten," 6ays a third, "there ia no lack of sticks." A fourth proverb points out that "whoever is seeking pearls must go to the depths of the ocean." Leave It to Pat. An Englishman when in a crowd performed a trie!: of which he Doastcd no one else in the crowd but himself could do. "Any fool could do that," said Pat, who was looking on. "Well, ". hy don't you try it?" said iho Englishman. "Begob." said Bat, "I'm no fool.'" ' CARNIVAL OF GHOSTS. An Alaskan Festival and Its Speaking Tubs Trickery. Nobody knows who first invented the speaking tube, but it may have been the Indians of southern Alaska. At all events the contrivance is well known to them, and it is of a wholly original pattern. It is nothing in the world but the stem (sometimes as much as 300 feet long) of the monstrous sea? - J ikrt ^/n'nni Irnln " weuu L'auru uiu BAaAJw flourishes in vast beds all along the north Pacific coast. When dried it furnishes a hollow pipe?a speaking tube ready made, as one might say. Dr. Franz Boas of the American Museum of Natural History says that a speaking tube of this kind plays an important part in an annual religious festival of the natives of southern Alaska, called the "carnival of ghosts." The festival is derived from a tradition that tells of a journey made by an adventurous individual to a region beneath the earth inhabited by phantoms. Beneath the floor of the sacred lodge house are laid kelp tubes in such a way as to terminate in the fireplace. When the ceremonial is in progress the performer disappears into a hole in the ground behind the fire, and presently voices are heard coming out of the flames. The phantoms are supposed to be doing the talking, but in reality the s\f nnrcnnc VllrlflO VUlt'CS ell C lin/nc Ui Jfvicvug ?? in adjoining rooms, who speak through the tubes. The enormously long stems of the giant kelp, rooted at the bottom of the sea, are supported at the surface by huge hollow bulbs that serve as floats, each of them bearing a great frond of leaves. These bulbs are used by the Alaskan Indians as bottles to contain oil. The stems arc also employed as worms for primitive stills (the only other essential part of the apparatus being a tin can), in which potatoes are distilled to obtain a kind of whisky called "hoochinoo." This beverage drunk raw engenders immediate madness. Origin of "Not Worth Hit 8alt." J 1 IV . A subscriber wants to Know me origin of the expression, "He is not worth his salt." He says he ran upon the expression in a book printed many years ago, and he desires to know if it is an ancient expression. It is, and, like many of our expressions, it comes from military sources. At one time in the history of the. world soldiers were paid in salt for fighting. Salt was a very nrecious commodity, and to induce men to fight an allowance of salt was given them. The pay was known as salerium?from the Latin sal, meaning salt. That is the origin of our word "salary." It means "pertaining to salt." ?o if a soldier was not worth his salary he is not worth his "salt." Ana to tnis gooa day we use the expression at times to describe a worthless fellow.?Columbus Dispatch. Medieval Doors. During the medieval period doors were small and narrow, so that only one person could pass through at a time owing to the universal need for protection against attack. For this same reason external doorways were sometimes set in a recess, commanded by openings through which arrows could be shot. The doors themselves were constructed in one piece and not divided from the center and were fastened by strong oak * ' *- 1- - J pars, wmcn couia ue urnwu oi-iuea from one side to the other. Piocadilly. This famous street in London was first mentioned in a seventeenth century edition of Gerard's Herbal. It is believed by many that the name was originated by a tailor named Higgins, who made a fortune from the sale of certain turnover collars which he called pickadelles or piccadillies. At length retiring from business, Higgins built himself a home in the vicinity which he called Piccadilla Hall, so in all probability it was this that introduced the name. Roof Ornamants In China. The roof ridge of a Chinese house is usually decorated with an elaborate plaster ornament in the form of a design embodying the character "fu," signifying happiness. To prevent the ornament being damaged by crows the owner of the house sticks large numbers of ordinary sewing needles point outward into the soft plaster. ? London Standard. Auburn Haired Women. History avers that women with auburn hair have wielded a strong influence in all ages. The women familiar to history who belonged to this sisterhood were Isabella of Castile, Helen of Troy, Catherine I. of Russia, Joan of Are. Elizabeth of England. 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