Here He Is, Girls! ! Death Pides With in “Buz-z-z” Hum the Bees in the The New Screen Slat Tornado Southwest Bonnets of Christmas Shoppers How would you like lor .lust one be so deaci sure. Oh, well, she is Afternoon to be able to read the saying, "ol course if ya don't want hearts and minds of your fellow to look t’ see if ya ain't get just travelers tor*. diis vale of tears? what I want, cha ain’t got to!" And Wouldn’t it you, for instance, away she struts to repeat the pro- to wanuer aL .trough one oi the gran: at other counters. bi^ departim stores during this See her glare at those two curli- fever of holiday shopping, and haired little she has bumped standing beside this or that pur- into. Let’s follow- them to the toy chaser be able to understand just department. Why, they’re stopping what was going on in his or her at the department. ''Gee,” mind, just what sentiment lay back dark-haired one is thinking, of his or her actions? Yes? Well, my "wouldn’t the kid be s’prised if he friend, the fairy queen waves her ] knew I bought that jack-knife for hand and oft we go himj Gosh, I’m glad we earned that That pompous looking woman in extra dollar shoveling walks! A sealskins who raises her lorgn&ite so pair of for mother and superciliously, as the equally some handkerchiefs for Dad." And haughty appearing clerk displays through thp light curly head simi- that beautiiul lace collar-let’s edge lar thoughts are running, mingled a bit closer and intercept her with a problem in anything but thought waves ‘'Bzzz,” they aw run- simple arithmetic which has to do ning on. “I wonder if that poor with stretching a given amount of clerk is as tired as T am. How my money far enough to cover a trip to feet ach.M I’d like to slump over on the movies. the counter like that little stock Wonder if that woman is as cross More than 20 are dead and 130 ♦ Southwest. The picture shows where storm took toll in girl is cLing. What a bore to have as she looks. My, see her scowl as heavy injured as a result of a series of the demolition of buildings on a life and to keo j this everlasting pose. that other shopper crowds by! Come property. up tornadoes which have the * farm near There’s Mrs. Wellington-Jones with up nearer and find out what men- swept Bethany, Oklahoma, her new daughtzrinlaw. And here tal operation is going on within her. come the Wallace-Emersons light "Oil dear," she sighs, "it's getting to this counter! How do you do, dreadfully late. Wonder if the chil- Mrs. Emerson!—$14.93 did she say? dren are all right! Aren't the store Pleads for India at Ho hum, the $12 one would do every decorations pretty and isn't Christ- Glad It’s Over whit as well and $3 will go quite a mas lovely! I shouldn't have spent I London Conference way toward the washw: man’s quite so much. I ’spose, but, oh, dear Christmas basket. Christmas only comes once a year “Poor thing, I must put in a tur- and Will and the kiddies do enjoy key no matter if they are high. I things so. I can make it up by be- don’t care if Point de Venice is ing more economical in the kitchen. more dignified. I always did rather Ouch! My elbow! That poor woman like those dainty net ruffles. No, I is in as big a hurry as myself. I don't care if Mrs. Emerson is taking didn’t mean to look so cross when that real filet at $23.98. It’s ncnJ she bumped me." of my business and she can afford What a splendid looking creature to. Her husband’s income is twice that clerk over there is! Apollo what John's is. What a wonderful dow-n from Olympus to study us complexion that little stock girl na^. mortals at close range. Notice the And it’s real, too, what's more. Poor grace of his every motion. We must little thing, she does look tired, and make anexcuse to stop at his count- how sweetly she smiled hack at me er. "They ain’t nothin' no better —And handing out $12 and wish- made,” the godlike one is gurgling ing the clerk behind the counter “a i to the sweet young thing at the merry Christmas,” she sails on, kind counter. of heart and thoughtful of others What’s the Matter, Anyway under hgr haughty exterior. This elevator operator looks pleas- A Side Trip to “Gents’ Furnishings” ant. “Yes. ma’am, victrolas second Let’s step over here. That little | aisle to the right.” “No. madame, golden-haired miss with the leather books on the first floor.” How sur- Richard hitherto un- and raccoon . She’s look- prised “Madame” would bo if she Cromwell, known Los art at silk scarfs over in the "Gents’ knew as we do that the suave smil- Angeles student, ing who has Furnishings.’’ Isn't she the mean ing woman in black, who is oper- splashed upon the cine- little thing! And she looks as meek ating the lever is boiling within as matic cyclorama in his first pic- as Moses! She is straining every she thinks, "What's the matter with ture (and he won the part by nerve to find out whether the pleas- the pests? Can't they read? Wonder rhance). ant blonde back of the counter is she wouldn't look at the floor di- of the bleached variety like herself. rectory! It’s big enough! Poor boobs, The hypocritical minx has .iust $8- ! more money than brains!” 40 in h?r purse, $2 of which she And so it goes all over the store must keep for expenses during the and all over the world. Oh, fairy, week, and yet she is asking that wave your wand again. The old saws "All is Air poor girl who has been on her feet are all true as true can be. Ace Weds all dav to take down box after box I not gold that glitters;” “appear- of scarfs that cost from $20 upward. ances are deceitful;” “Beauty is only Boston Beauty In fact, she hasn’t the remotest skin deep;” Kipling was right about Idea of buying a at all. She’s “the Colonel’s lady and Judy wondering if Bob is going to give O’Grady;” "Kind hearts are more her a diamond for Christmas and tnan coronets” after all; and there's ■whether it wouldn't have been wiser more truth than poetry in that bit after all to be a little nicer to Bill I of vehnacular which says, “You and sort of let Bob see he needn’t I can’t sometimes moot always tell." Your Troubles and Hie to the Setting a sensational precedent for, Pack Up a high-caste Hindu woman by ap- pearing before strange men with- Marion Roberta, who was the i the a Taste of Real Christmas hero-worshipping King «f out the , the Begnm Shah Country for sweetheart of Jack “Legs” | Underworld muscle-men now. Nawaz of Sir Christmas belongs to the country. when all the Aunt Marys In the (above), daughter Diamond, is back with her She’s simply sorry for him—nt.ti Muhammad Shafi, influential Pun- Tts ownership is granted by unwrit- world are gone. no one mother now. She Surely ia through for herself. jadi the «tae of ten law, and no one who has con- delegate, pleaded can cook like his. It Is a rather modern Indian womanhood sidered, with all gravity, this state- before he the India ment, will dispute it long. Of course comfortable feeling to think that Remarks Round Table Conferenc*1 Arouse Storm in one can enjoy Christmas in what- can enjoy a good,cigar after dinner, London. to be (all At IV. ever clime he happens rather than find his discontented Carolina College equal), but he can’t things being to the nearest theater, for i revel in it, he can’t get the glorified way just the sake of doing something on outdoorness of it anywhere except Christmas afternoon. One can in the country. Somewhere, some- Like This smoke in the city, and this is Christ- Train time, every person has spent this Robbery mas in the country. holiday time in the country.. If he hasn’t, right now he should mark “Jingle Bells'* the 25th of December down in his Somebody mentions a sleigh ride. diary, and this year, next, or the Bundled in furs, heads swathed in into the year after, steal back to old Aunt woolen , they slide Mary’s for one taste of a snowbound open sleigh. Not the Sunday-go-to- Christmas. meeting one, but the work sleigh. And off they to the tinkle Becky, the rooster, rouses him at go merry of rusty bells. (The bells do get early dawn. And he must heed his on the best of farms). Over early greeting, or the day will not rusty the sparkling white blanket, be started He probably will up right. hills and down fteal down the narrow, winding old long rolling slopes, at back stairs, lest he wake the house- jumping every thank-you-ma'am. I_-i While the horses are hold. But there will be no need. plodding up Lieut. Thomas H. Robbins, crack a long some out Aunt Mary will be there before him, steep pitch, get and walk, and at a time like that Navy flier, with his bride, formerly bustling round the low ceilinged who can resist one’s favorite Barbara after in brown washed kitchen. (He prob- pelting Little, marriage relative with a snowball? ably will get the idea that it was Boston. she who wakened the rooster.) He When night comes, the living has hoped, to do a mile or so be- room is cleared for action. And fore breakfast. Not time enough, this means that a real old fashioned a twin- dance is imminent. The Aunt Mary avers, but, with country Milton A. Junior class- she that are invited for the occa- Abemethy, kle in her eyes, suggests neighbors man at North Carolina State Col- sion, and the old deacon the chopping wood always aggravates plays lege, wrote of the school: “The one’s the corn muf- fiddle, with his wife at the organ Ideal Costume appetite—and game of cheating at North Caro- fins are not quite done. and his hearty son "callinf off.” “Fisher’s lina State College is not equalled Whetting His Appetite Hornpipe,” “Money Musk,” For Street Wear “Portland and by any other sport." For these He tackles the woodpile, and gets Fancy” the ever pop- ular follow one remarks he was tried by the Stu- lour sticks done in longer time than quadrille another and One dent Council and ordered suspend- BANDITS GET OVER This is how It takes him to sell his most obsti- swiftly merrily. placid $150,000. robbers held waltz, “Tire Blue ed for two years. He appealed to nate customer. However, he finds Danube,” must up a Southern Pacific passenger train near satisfy the No fox the Student-Faculty Court and was Berkeley, Cal, that the country isn't so cold as he younger people. trat nor of con- and cleaned out the mail car. had and starts to shed conversational walk there! acquitted misrepresenting supposed, Like all ditions. his mackinaw, when one of his regular dances, there is an intermission when refreshments are young cousins calls him to break- served. cider fast. After breakfast, this active Doughnuts, that has been carefully the youngsters offers to share his bob- guarded against occasion. and sled with him, and the man finds aDples popcorn balls. Menace to “Hub” Crookdom! one Food fit for a king! ■MMHyRMfl! th^t coasting is something I ’& -■2saasc#?'-Tas* mi©iwr prows away from rather than out- When the last, bell has tinkled out grows. of hearing, the living room put back in order and the last His bother him a bit, and cup washed, one takes his tin he shoves them into his pocket. candle holder and the candle’s fitful Struck by the horrible thought that by flame seeks Case Heads Board his feather couch. What luxury to ol he might have a spill, roll on them sink into the nest of and break them, he is appalled, but down! Won- Bank der if Aunt these Huge he decides to take a chance and Mary got feathers Merger from that cro. s trust to the skill of his pilot. old gander who innw made in the mill The morning passes quickly. bathing penri such a What wuth watching the hired man precarious venture? Well, no matter, it beat his own milk the cows, rub down the horses mattress. The the and his own puffing efforts to pitch country’s place to enjoy Chr'stmas. no like hay to the horses, the man decides place it. Sleep seems so delicious! that the roaring fire in the ‘‘settin’ And down in the room the last of that room" and a good book have charm. living spark valiant old winks its But who can read w’ith a talkative log goodnight. circle of cousins, aunts, uncles and inlaws drifting back and forth from MY FAVORITE TREE kitchen to parlor, and in and out of Some people like the rugged oak, the long rambling rooms? So he Which grows so straight and tall; talks, and listens, listens and talks Some like the maple tree because and lets the roaring yule log toast It’s gorgeous in the fall. his benumbed toes. A pervasive odor of spice and browning pastry Some like the pine and some the envelops the room, the log snaps its elm. welcome, and outside a tiny flurry And some the apple tree; of snow makes the inside all the But just about this time each year,-* more alluring. The Christmas tree me! And that dinner! The man won- —Mary F. K Hutchinson, in the ders what Christmas will be like December St. Nicholas.

Knows The Ropes. native labor was employed in the Passing Show. construction. On a bronze tablet in Plumber (to for applicant job): the entrance hall are the names of Got any references? w mm mm r*» r all the men who had a part in the Left ’em at home. Ill Applicant: building, names of the members of J. Herbert Case, chairman of the and ’em. go get the school board, and others. Some board of directors of the Federal Plumber. All right—you’ll do. of the furnishing is copied from an- Reserve Bank of New York, kai tiques in Mr. Young’s home. As been selected as board chairman Q. Please tell something about the school is to be a center of com- of the new billion-do’lar bank the school that Owen D. Young munity life, the assembly hall is merger, which includes the Bank gave to Van Hornesville, N. Y. R. M. equipped with a moving picture Particularly smau is this coat ot of the United States, Manufactur- A. Mr. Young's object in build- screen and pictures are shown twice brown leader cloth, trimmed with ers Trust Company, Public Na- ing the new school in his home weekly. All conveniences are af- alink fur. Slightly fitted, with tional Bank and Trust town was to the and girls forded two Company give boys including swmming -over front, it features m and the International Trust Com- advantages not formerly to be had A teachers' beautiful- pools. house, wide-standing collar and shaped pany. The new will be end to teach them to live success- of the company ly equipped and same style ■tuffs. It ia suitable fat the fourth the and The is of eminently largest in Waited fully happily. building of architecture, adjoins the school States. Georgian Colonial stvle. None but building. itreet weat i