INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS HOKMIIM OWES The Luck of Larkin For the Hostess HER By Stacy Baker LIFE TO E. Chat on Interesting Topics of Many Kinds, by a Recognized Authority FRUIT GATHERER IS USEFUL Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Prm them neatly, I won't be accountable Train 16—pride of the Prather system—left Most Ingenious Time Saving ContrU An Animal Party. starting point is the winner, as well Lydia E. Pinkham's for what happens if you attempt to the tracks at the curved vances Prevents Damage to Rather a novel party was given recently as the girl who lights the cigarette go. Your hostess—I can vouch for entrance to the Moorstown tunnel, and Apple as it Falls. Vegetable Compound by a mother with two little for him. A prize may be awarded to this—will be perfectly willing for you resolutely tried to plow its way children, aged seven and ten. Each each. The match boxes may be'used to remain, although I should not ask through the rock. One of the most ingenious of time child was asked to come wearing an as shields to keep the match from Chicago 111.—"I was troubled with it if there was a hospital, sanitarium Steven Larkin, after extricating saving contrivances is the fruit gatherer blowing out, but the girls must do it article that would indicate some anianal. falling and inflammation, and the docsaid or decent hotel in the community." Ihimself from the debris of the last designed by a Kentucky man. It with no aid from the men. In the excitement When all had arrived the children I could not Larkin, too spent to protest, lay Pullman, found himself with a broken collects all the fruit that falls from £d some girls had to light three were to guess all the animals well unless I back on his pillow. He had been put "wrist and badly damaged side. a tree and holds it where it can be an operation. or four matches before the man could represented. It was an interesting to bed by the determined physician. "My good fellow," he called. Lar"kin quickly picked up and placed in a basket, II knew I could not go on his return and some did not menagerie, I assure you. It made a Thanks to sedative, he closed his eyes was an actor. "My good fellow, also saving the apples, pears, or stand the strain of Jolly half hour. Then there was an succeed at all. The other contest —and slept. come here." A bearded rustic, gaping one, so I wrote to whatever they may be" from damage animal "hunt." All over the lawn, the was a needle race. As in the cigarette Before the week was done the housewas you sometime ago at some little distance away, hurried by falling. porches and on the lowser floor of the race four young men ran to the cleared of patients with the one about my health forward. A circle of stakes is driven around four girls, each girl having a needle large house animal crackers had been and you told mo exception of Larkin. He stayed on. "Is there a doctor hereabouts?" the tree in a radius wide enough to in one hand and a thread in the other. what to do. After hidden. There were cunning little Every day he was fearful lest the "None nigher than eight miles." include anything that faHs from it. A taking Lydia E. The man who first returned to the baskets given to each one to hold the physician announce that he was well "I can't continue this way," complained circle of canvas, with a hole in the Pinkham's Vegetable starting place with a threaded needle spoils basket and crackers to be kept enough to resume his interrupted Larkin, petulantly. The numbness middle to receive the trunk of the Compound and in his hand was the victor. It was and besides there was a prize of those journey. of the sudden break was commencing iTtinnn ptmfier I am tree, is fastened around the latter and permitted the men to hold the girl's cunning little animals to be found at William "Where is your father?" asked the to-day a well woman."—Mrs. to die away, and the deep, also fastened to the stakes with the wrist to steady it as she threaded the Ahrens, 988 W. 111. Japanese stores. A toy animal also 21st St., Chicago, actor one morning, gazing at the girl throbbing pain substituting itself, outer edge of the ring lower than the needle. made, a unique prize and a "Noah's Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, with appreciative eyes. "I haven't brought with it a disgusting nausea. ark." Best of all the fun was moulding made from native roots and seen him since the day of the wreck." "Not much you can't," contributed herbs, contains no narcotics or harmful animals out of clay, each child Bridal Superstition. the other. "It'll hours before the "I—I, why, he isn't here now," be drugs, and to-day holds the record being protected by a large towel tied I have been asked so often by prospective track's clear enough for trains to stammered the crimson-faced maid. }arf.es^number of actual cures around the neck and in around the brides for omens concerning and Best thing you can She hurried from the room. Larkin come go on. of female diseases of any similar medicine waist. After that a good elder sister the month in which they had set the I reckon, is to stop here, and—" followed her exit with surprised eyes. do, in the country, and thousands of told animal stories, while the refreshments auspicious day, that I am glad to give avaricious gleam crept into the "Hmm," muttered the man. "I voluntary testimonials are on file in an were being made ready. There the following, which is a new version the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn, «yes the locaiite—"I'll use you as wonder what I've said to hurt her of Mass., from women who have been was creamed, chicken, wee sandwiches, to me: "well as any one, and for as little feelings. Come to think of it, the cured from almost every form of ice cream with animal-shaped Married in January's hoar and rilAe, money. You'll find my house the third old chap didn't look very honest. Maybe female complaints, inflammation, ulceration, good things will come if you wait your cookies. Then they had a game on the right hand side of the road, if he is in jail." But when the girl displacements, fibroid tumors time. played Just like Stage coach, only they you want to go down there and stay returned to the room the flush was Married in February's sleety weather, Irregularities, periodic pains,backache! all had the names of animals and tonight. Doctors will be in soon from gone from her cheeks, and she was life you'll tread in tune together. indigestion and nervous prostration. turned around when their names were Married when winds whine and Every such suffering woman owes it to all around. I'll see that you get one. her usual composed self. The subject roar, your home will lie on a foreign called. When it came time to go herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's My daughter will come to the door. was not brought up again. shore. a vegetable Compound trial. home the mother came out and said: Tell her who you are, and that I sent Larkin, by complaining about nonexistent Married 'neath April's changeful skies, If you would like special advice "Now you are all changed into little you, and for her to give you the spare a checkered path before you lies. pains, kept the doctor from Married when bees o'er May blosfoms about your case write a confidential mice and must run away quickly to room." The Moorstown man turned allowing him to leave the house. flit, strangers around your board 1viU sit. find your houses before the old cat letter to Mrs* Pinkliam, at away. He and his nurse became close Married in month of roses—JTinG —life gets out," and such a merry scampering In the gathering dusk of the evening will be one long honeymoon. Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free, friends. There was nothing of the as there was, with "Good byes" Married In July, with flowers ablaze, Larkin made a comprehensive survey ftnd always helpfuL rustic about her. Her mind was keen bitter-sweet memories in after days. and "lovely times" from each little -of the badly dilapidated train, the and broad. She was well Informed. Married in August's heat and drowse, guest. If coaches of which, strewn along the afflicted with 1 Larkin delighted in telling her tales Thompson's Eys Wator lover and friend in your chosen spouse. •ore eyes, use were here and there being eaten Married in golden September's glow, Tails, of the stage stories of his own struggles smooth and serene your life will go. Fruit Gatherer. and the conservative success following. At a Pre-Nuptial Luncheon. Married when leaves in October thin, MISUNDERSTOOD HIM. Miss Nun—this was her name Besides the usual love symbols of toil and hardship for you begin. portion around the tree. Around the —followed him with large eyes and a Married in veils of November mist. Fortune hearts, true-lovers' knots, slippers, outer edge, too, is a wall to keep the your wedding ring has Mssed. wonderful Interest. etc., at a luncheon given for a September contents from rolling off to the Married in days of December cheer, "I have always cared for the stage," bride-elect, the hostess had a ground. Love's star shines brighter from year to she said simply, and brought hiit surprise in the ices, which when year. MADAME HERRI. around to the subject again. brought on proved to be relative to QUINCE A PROFITABLE CROP Time went on. The day of Larkin'a some personal occasion in the guest's return to the city could not be postponed life. For Instance, that for the bride much longer. A contract and represented an engagement ring it Cultivation on Increase in United tiresome rehearsals called him back. was a circle of rich yellow cream with States Where It Has Been Grown With the spirit of his kind, the actor a huge solitaire diamond made from for Many Years. carefully diagnosed his feelings for lemon Ice. A young girl known to be Immense hat pins are still used. this simple maid whom he was leaving much interested in a soldier received (By J. E. MANDELL.) Pink linen is extremely fashionable. behind. In habit of growth the quince is a a perfect little miniature officer with Fans are so huge that they are most "Love," he ruminated, "and me, of low dwarfy tree which admits close a sword. Another maiden whom It awkward^ all people, to be listed for a part In planting in the orchard. Ten feet was suspected had turned down a All the new neckwear shows the the skit, yhe worst of It is I know apart each way is sufficient distance prominent society chap had a cold I'll forget my lines." effect of the frill. white heart of lemon ice. Every one for most varieties. Planting the trees "I—I have a confession to make," The girdle is a pronounced feature at the above distance will give about caught the significance and there was stammered the girl, her cheeks red. a merry time. of the best gowns. 435 trees per acre. "I don't want to answer you until The kimono to or below the elbow While the quince will grow on almost after you have heard it." Larkin had s" any kind of soil, a medium leads all others in sleeves. 11 3 Amusing Contests. proposed. "I live here alone, and I heavy clay loam, being easy of cultivation, The blue and green combinations "My friend," said the solemn matt This very funny contest took place wilfully led you to believe that the is the ideal soil for it. In such on the railroad tran, "do you drink of metallic effect are popular. on ship board, where all sorts of nonsensical man you saw at the wreck was my a soil the quince readily responds to intoxicating liquors?" All the blues are popular up to the stunts are planned to beguile father." good cultivation, and if given good "Sure!" cried the convivial chap. faintest Marie Antoinette tint the time away. It is just as funny on "But he told me he was," persisted care it will continue to produce good "Much obliged for the invitation. Got Plain colored satin ribbons made land as on sea. Perhaps some may -He and His Nurse Bec*m« Close Larkin. crops of fruit for many years. In a flask with you?" into rosettes are a fad of the moment object to the cigarette race, but this Friends. "He lives In the next house down. case the soil should be hard or deficient The most favored fans are of satin may be overcome by using cubeb ones. I—I wanted you myself. I didn't tell Doll House Library. in plant food liberal application into by thin threads of flame. Sweatgrimed and lace with extremely long handles. Out on the lawn or on a breezy corner A search for a child's short story, you of your mistake. My father and of manure "will be very helpful Light old rose tints are genuinely employees of the road, and of the porch place four girls in "The Griflin and the Minor Canon," mother are dead—and I am so lonesome." in making the soil a better one and Moorstowners co-operated in rescuing girlish colors for millinery purposes. a row, each having a well-filled match in a volume all by itself revealed to a keeping the tree in a vigorous condition. the wounded and dead. It was the The new summer stockings are embroidered box at a distance of, say, 20 feet persistent city shopper the thought Larkin made a move as if to gather most disastrous wreck of the year. place four young men with cigarettes in vivid colors on instep and money that are expended on the her in his one good arm, but she held The quince does not require a great Larkin, weak, limp, and in the unlit in their mouths. When the signal and ankle. furnishing of dolls' houses. Book up a protesting hand. deal of pruning. About all the care throes of an acute pain growing keener "Go" is given the men run to the Foulard veiled with chiffon makes stores had not the story in a single "One moment. I am not finished." that will be necessary along this line each instant, stumbled down the girls, get the cigarettes lighted and up simple little afternoon or visiting volume, but in a department store She looked at him half sorrowfully. will be to remove and cut out the Troad in the direction given him by the the man who first gets back to the gowns. one young woman interviewed had recently "I have deceived you even more than surplus shoots and dead branches. An native. At the door of a small, gray been transferred from the toy that." She stopped for a faltering occasional shortening back of the Jiouse, with a white gravel path leadling Morning Frock department and was able to contribute second and then hurried on. "I am longer branches may be necessary tc up to it a path dividing a spacious a helpful hint. Nancy Nun, the California actress, keep the tree In its natural form. yard with the bloom of spring "I think," she said, "you can find it now under the management of the The best time for pruning probably In its syringa and lilac bushes, its long in one of the dolls' houses downstairs." Firnans and due to open my season in is just before the beginning of the feeds of pansies and lilies of the valJey New York next fall." growing season. Any wounds made Larkin stopped. He tapped at Curiosity had by that time become "You—Nance Nun!" gasped Larkin. the door. at that time usually heal promptly. a sauce to literature, so the shopper The girl flushed. "I loved you," she The quince is propagated in many The slim girl answering the summons hurried downstairs to inspect the doll said simply. "I wanted to be wooed ways. The methods most in use are was the very antithesis of the houses. Three of the most expensive as other girls are wooed. Can you forgive by budding, grafting, cutting and image in the mind of the man. She houses contained libraries consisting me?" from seed. The method of propagating had dark eyes, keenly sensitive to the of a score of diminutive books and Larkin did. by cuttings is the easiest The predicament of the tall youth with the each book contained a child's story cuttings should be made from the set jaws. A firm little hand assisted complete. One of them was "The Smallest Working Railway. fresh young growth of the previous him to enter. Griffin and the Minor Canon."- The Eaton Hall railway enjoys the season and be treated as any other "Your father," gasped Larkin, now distinction of being the smallest working cutting. well beside ^himself with the agony of A business man's leisure is simply railway in Great Britain. The line The quince begins to bear early, Ills hurt wrist and wounded side, "your the time he doesn't know what to do runs across many of She park drives usually In two years after planting. lather sent me here." with. and over small streams, spanned by The size of trees and kind to plant depend From the great easy chair in the steel girders. Sometimes as many as to some extent upon the locality pretty furnished parlor, the actor, Convenient three hundred tons of coal a month is and the taste of the grower. Two senses self-centered by pain, failed to year old trees seem to be preferred hauled by the miniature locomotives notice the start of surprise followed by most planters. ty the little smile curving the perfect and wagons. There are two engines, For Any Meal lips of the girl. The quince Is so easily grown that the largest of ^hlch has a tank capacity the care required in raising it is more "I will do the best I can for you," of 70 gallons, a boiler pressure than amply repaid by the value of the Post •said the girl simply. am glad you of 175 pounds to the square inch and "I fruit produced. When the quince Is came. Others—and a physician—will weighs four tons twelve hundredweight. b? here shortly." properly prepared for the table by the There are 44 good wagons, many methods recommended it is a The parlor door closed softly the two brake vans, one carriage, one parcel as ddor. Th« very delictus fruit. £=rl went to answer the ear and one tool van. The passenger Toasties pretty house dress and the firm, easy The qu&ce finds a ready market car runs on two four-wheel rxrriage would have impressed LaK and sells at a good price, all depending bogles, Is 20 feet long, and has seating kin at any other time. oh the quality. The price paid accommodation for 16 passengers his boatess, "Other victims," explained the past season ranged from two to It lias carried many a royal passenger. returning. "My—er—our hcflise three and a half cents per pound. —Westminster Gazette. is small. There will be no more pa* The quince h^e been grown in various Are always ready to tients, but the doctor is here, and he localities throughout the United Cat Was Too Wise. Tsill be in to see you." Larkin ac- States since the early days. Its cultivation serve right from the box In a backyard in Rothesay, a duck *cpte7J a glass of some stimulating is on the Increase and in some hatching her eggs was disturbed by with the addition of leverage an'd closed his eyes for a sections we find it planted on a commercial a cat, who, after devouring the onlj ifcrlff moment. scale. But owing to the fact cream or milk. two ducklings out, coiled itself rouni The door opened again. Careful flnssrs that the quince, including all the the remainder of the eggs, and the I touched the broken wrist of the varieties, is unfit for eating uncooked E specially pleasing other ducklings were dispatched into young man. But, supersensitive, the has kept it from taking much prominence puss's interior as soon as hatched. youth instantly came out of his daze with berries or I fresh Among the commercial orchard After a consultation the neighbors decided and little lines of pain furrowed his fruits fruit. that the cat must be executed, •strong face. Tfce U5.e& to which the quince m«y and the sentence was duly carried ou' "J "Umm," murmurred the elderly phyeieian. be put are many, but its chief value Delicious, wholesome, by" a shooting expert. "Bad break." ,The doctor Is as a preserving fruit. Where the clipped his sentences. "Too bad. economical food which quince is grown it is naturally more Logical. Caieftil now." He examined the wrist! used. In France and some of the saves a lot of cooking in "Mother,"' asked little" 'Ethel, "riov Suddenly his two hands closed over otter European countries, large quantities that you're in mourning fer Consir the hurt member. There was an hot weather. of the quince are used yearly Adelaide, will you wear black night .audible snap and a smothered scream for making quince marmalade and ••The Memory Lingers" from Larkin. The wrist was* Set.' dresses, too?" ... wine. The marmalade industry, especially "You must not move for a "What an absurd question child'!" in France, is quite ak extensive -cautioned the medicine man, after an "Oh, I only thought you might he asorry one, and the finished product examination. "You have three broken at night as you were during »b P08TUM CESIAL CO., finds quite a ready sale. rib*, I tniiagul and, although bare day/' ventured Ethel.—Harper's H&iar The gown shown in the illustration is of natural color linen, with white Battle Creek. Mich. crocheted buttons and loope of cotton cord.