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CHICAGO
I “A Double-headed Conspiracy
(Continued From Page 9)
ning on square wheels:
“Has the bus for the 11:10 gone?"
‘Ya-as sah!" Cotton replie "It done
left right smart while back."
''“'as 1
trunk here. She’: gwlne l‘.' be back."
“That's your woman," the clerk sold
me. "You've Just missed her.
her name when you
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tlrsted started talking we could have
‘caught her."
“The 11:10 is the I. & O. for the city.
-'isn't it?"
n More or Less nmm-bed My Equlllb-
, rlurn.
"Surel It leaves in
generally it‘s on time.
I wanted to explain to the clerk that
it generally was on time because it
started from Elrado, only nfteen miles
eight minutes and
anoe
e, but it seemed more impor-
tant to me, Just at that moment, to get.
to the depot.
DID my d-dest, to quote my tavorite
poet, but it just wasn’t to be. In the
first place Eversdale‘s taxicab must
have been in the back shop and in the
next place there is ordinance in
Eversdale against fat women leading
fuzzy little candy-hounds at the end of
log chains, loitering on depot-platforms
at train time. In the absence of the
taxi I endeavored to establish A new
y e
wobbied a little but I got to the depot
)n time to get a ticket and thereby beat
a rival line out of the extra fare I would
have had to donate to it it I had paid
the conductor on the train. Just as the
the door and into the midst of a log
chain with a fat woman on one end oi’
it and one of those upholstered peanut
spaniels on the other.
Hitting the middle 0! the chain that
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way, I more or less disturbed my equi-
librium, not to mention the amnle lady's
temper and the dog's nlacidity; it being
understood that pla dliy is vouched (or
by at woman’: college of very high
standing and tuition.
With one foot held by the chain and
one arm held by a woman of quite sub-
stantial parts and what might be called
an srtesian vocabulary and with the
last dog oi’ a. vanislilng race trying to
choke itsell swallowing rn ther
toot, there were about three obvious
reasons why I didn't swing on to the
11:10 as it pulled out.
When the last vestibule joined the
memories of yesteryear, so to speak, I
that, occasionally. we still read of two
trains trying to pass on the same track.
In this latter case the result always is
depressing, to say nothing or the ex-
Dense incident to litigation on damage
2:.
For a. minute I feared the ample lady
would have
ment P.-it would have experienced it she
had encountered this astonishing i’arnil -
arity with the dictionary. ‘
I could do nothing but stand and hope
for the best. Littlo Fido accompanied
his mistress in 3 shrill, frightened so-
prano until she gathered in the chain and
elevated the woolly y n to a. place or
protection on her own agitated bosom.
V“.'hen the woman ceased her conversa-
tion with m%monopolizlng both ends
of it. so to speak+and tried 0 Booth
little Fido‘s troubled spirit by kissing
him on the nose, I made bold to inquire:
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Victoria Greyjs Talks
to Women
(Continued From page 10.)
the very hospital from which she gradu-
ated. t was a. very distinctive honor:
she demurred a long while, thought of
eye. accepted the after.
so. Helen was left alone. She worked
as trained nursejor a. year to help earn
her tuition, During this time she had
several proposals ct marriage and two
opportunities (0 travel companion-
nurse and one wonderful position offered
er in the national bacteriological
laborntory. But she hewed to the line.
entered medical cnllcire. was graduated
from it and started practice. Today she
is the head 0! a widely known children's
hospital. is the author at many book
and is married to one of the country's
greatest surgeons.
say, he who travels furthest.
nnds the rest or the company gone at
the end of the Journey.
5! R 7
WHQT IS YOUR PROBLEM!
Editor's Note: Have you a pecu-
liar problem of the heart that is vex-
ing youl’ Are you puzzled as to the
rule to follow in some social event
in which you are to participate? Do
you wish specialized information on
any subject? Do you wish to con-
sult some one upon any phase of
painting, sculpture, music, the stage,
or writi P Do you want to ask a.
question concerning beauty culture?
so, on are invited to put your
question to Victoria Grey. The chief
condition at publication in the column
which will appear on Page 2 is that
it shall be oi‘ general interest-one
that all of us may read with prom
to our understanding. Only your
initials will be published in our col-
ums, or, if you prefer, your pseu-
donym as it appears at the bottom of
our letter.
Victoria Grey, born and reared on
farm, has been in turn it successful
portrait and landscape painter, s suc-
cessful actress-starring on Broad-
way’, and a successful musician. In
the many short-stories and widely
published novels which have iiowed
from her pen she has constructed
literally thousands or heart problems
and other kinds, too, and solved them
all for her readers.
It you are beset with any kind of
9. problem just send it in to Victoria
Grey, care of the Ledger, and it of
general interest you will find it an-
swered in Victoria Grey’: new depart-
ment,‘ to appear soon on Page 2. ..,
LEDGER
“Lady. does you love your teeny weenY
doggie?"
Her head went up with such a Jerk
that 1 cannot figure out why her neck
did not break. Ilcr silence, doubtless.
was intended to be the heel that would
utterly crush the worm. but enough life
remained in me to enable me to warn
"I! you do, lady, don't kiss him for
nine days because you ave some or the
symptoms at hydrophobia. and "
at was just like dropping another
nickel in the electric piano and being in
no tmme or m n u enjoy another rec-
ordi I turned my back on the episode and.
deliberately and with quiet dignity. re-
traced my steps to the hotel to see if
the Conclusion that Bursleen had been
I lrequent patron of the hotel (or more
than a year, most. or her sojourns being
week.-ends. For the last three months
her mother had been living in the hotel.’
Duraleen seemed to be I very busy wom-
In with no visible business.
to travel much and, evidently. to talk
little. As she had not checked out and
as her mother continue to occupy a.
room adjoining the one Burnleen held,
it was reasonable to assume that she in-
tended to return to Eversdale soon.
Interesting as this conclusion,was, it
held nothing helpiul for immediate use
and since I had important and untinished
Business in the city, involving the tuturo
welfare oi’ two unsophisticated young‘
things. I decided to return to the city.
“'hen I want to prove to some one that
you can't always Judge a. tellow by his
looks and be right. I use one or t e eu-
graved curds tor which the Continental
System paid. I passed one or these to
the hotel clerk and waited A minute for
the line "Assistant to the General Man-
ager" to soak in and then said:
"it is important that I see Miss Dis-
hoft as soon as possible. It you will win:
or te e me as soon as she returns
I‘ll make it right with you when I call
I Shall They Suffer
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Makes teeth dingy
Modern science t-races mostfooth
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c
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