| HOME BEAUTIFUL |
j; By FLORENCE KNOWLTON. jj
It was an hour for dreams, but Bar
bara Fanning’s thoughts were more
practical than romantic. “I’ve just got
to forget the cold, unsatisfactory fig
ures and trust that the Lord will pro
vide,” she remarked, putting out the
• light, and gazing wistfully through the
window, across the field, to the row of
lights along the shore and beyond,
where the lighthouse was blinking one,
two—one, two.
When the great ancestral home had
been left to her, the only living de
scendant of a fine race of men and
women, she had been alarmed almost
into a panic by the prospect of being
sole mistress of such an elephantine
estate. Whatever could she do with a
house of 50 moms, a quiet, spinster
woman like herself? She sighed
heavily. How she would have loved
to fill every room with children, and a
husband, nursery maids and all the
paraphernalia of a real home! But
jt alas! She was thirty-two years old.
and though not bad looking, yet so des
perately shy that the mere sight of a
man caused her to hide her head like
the ostrich, and her tongue became
paralyzed completely.
Her desire to do some mothering
overcame every obstacle, and she soon
figured that she could have children—
some one else’s to be sure, but chil
dren nevertheless. So she founded a
home for the mites, where they ran
wild through the big rooms, and grew
fat and healthy in the fragrant air
that blew in from the ocean. For
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three months happiqess prevailed.
Barbara had just finished her ac
counts. She was satisfied that her
private income was sufficient to pay
rood bills, nurse s and cook s salaries,
and the other running expenses of the
house. But there was not one red
cent left for clothes! How were 15
pairs of feet to be booted and 15 backs
protected from the wintry blasts?
“The Lord must provide,” Barbara
reiterated, trying to throw off all care.
“Why, what have we here?”
It was little Bertha, tugging at her
skirt. “Miss Babs, Miss Babs, I heard
a burglar in the house.”
“Only the wind or a creaking stair.
Old houses like this are full of
sounds."
“But this sound was of an opening
window and a tumble.”
This convinced Barbara that it was
time to act. She tucked Bertha into
bed, seized her revolver, and stepping
into the elevator, slid noiselessly to
the street floor. There, silhouetted
against the dining room windows, was
a man!
He turned like a shot when Barbara
approached.
“What’s the idea?” asked Barbara,
twirling the revolver so that it glit
tered in the dim light.
“Why—er—why—” the intruder'
stammered. “I hope you don’t mind
my calling at this hour?”
“Mind!” screamed Barbara hys
terically. “At midnight?”
“I declare,” murmured the man.
“She takes me for a burglar.”
“What else could I take you for?”
Barbara snapped peevishly. “You cer
tainly aren’t making a social visit.”
“My dear Miss Fanning, as per my
usual stupidness, I’ve made a mess of
a kindly-intentioned act. I’m your
neighbor, Philip Mead."
Barbara hardly knew how to act to
l^tevard the man she had heard so much
BHof, but had never met before. “Let’s
' sit down and talk it over,” she sug
gested, impetuously pulling out a
chair.
“Oh, don’t sit down,” cautioned the
visitor, but Barbara had already struck
hard object which caused her to leap
instantly from the chair. The next
moment she was holding up a pair of
shoes. A second survey betrayed a
box on every chair, a heap of stock
ings before the fireplace, and outside
os the porch, a pile of boxes the con
tents of which she could well imagine.
“What have you done?” she queried,
in bewilderment.
Philip swayed nervously from heel
to toe. “You don’t know how many
times I’ve watched you and your chil
^ dren. I’ve envied you with my whole
W heart and soul,” he began. “All my
life I’ve wanted to be loved, to marry,
to have a home and children. But
I’m too blamed shy! I lose my wits
whenever I meet a woman (the dark
ness was helping him along), and
there’s no one that cares a row of
pins for me anyway. When I saw
what a grand, self-sacrificing work you
were doing I just had to help. I didn’t
dare to offer money, so I brought
these.”
“You darling!” Barbara forgot her
ofm awe of the male and flung her
arms around Phil’s neck. The next
moment they were laughing and chat
ting as if they had been friends for
years.
“We’ll nominate you ‘master of the
wardrobe,’” stated Barbara. “You
may visit us as much as you please.”
“Thanks. That will do very well for
the present,” remarked Phil dryly.
“After that, perhaps—er—don’t you
think the children might need a little
fathering along with the mothering?”
Barbara laughed, wondering why her
throat was filled up, why her heart
.was leaping wildly and painfully.
* “I gimss you’d better go now,” she
murmured. “We are ready for callers
after ten in the morning.”
Phil strode to the window. “I’ll go
as I came for good luck. I’m going
home to dream of the home beautiful.
Gooe* niaht. Miss Babs.”
NEW CHARTS OF
New charts of Prince William sound
which have been corrected up to date,
’ eliminating many errors and proving
a valuable aid to navigators, have been
issued. The north shore of the sound
has been embellished with corrections,
the work of James W. Bagley, who
spent^-four months along the north
'shores of the Sound as cartographer
for the Geological Survey. In compil
ing the data Mr. Bagley used a new
’method of map-making by photog
raphy, invented by him, and used for
the first time here. The shore line
was surveyed from Port Wells to Free
mantle, the launch Pathfinder and a
crew of five men assisting in the work.
Previous to the 1919 survey by Mr.
Bagley all information on the subject
was derived from old Russian surveys,
’transferred to United States charts
i by the Coast and Geodetic Survey.
These charts were very inaccurate
and fragmentary as to sunken rocks,
reefs and bearings from elevations.
Mr. Bagley completed his survey in
September, going to France when the
war broke out as major of engineers
in the aerial service. While in the
service he invented an aerial chrto
graph or mapping camera, wrhich takes
three pictures at once, mapping a strip
of territory three and a half miles wide
'at an elevation of five thousand feet.
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