A May Day Luncheon 
i|4Y Day is apple blossom time. Any 
jVl table decorated with large jars of 
Lnple blossoms is beautiful. To arrange 
oD e in an especially pretty manner, place 
3 the center a large cut-glass bowl, if you 
Ijave one. If like mine yours is imitation, 
shine it up in hot soap suds, and it will do 
just as well. Fill it with long branches of 
I (he blossoms arranged naturally. For 
ace cards tie an ordinary card with the 
I name of the guest neatly printed or writ- 
| eB on, to a spray of the apple blossoms. 
[ T se pink and green ribbon for tying. 
May time is also housecleaning time, 
1 gn d a novel way to entertain, which is 
vet along practical lines, is a “house- 
I cleaning lunch.” Receive your guests in 
a housekeepers' immaculate apron. For 
I a centerpiece use a feather duster planted 
bed of flowers. Tiny dustpans at 
| each plate should hold white peppermints 
jmoth ball shape. After lunch is served, 
I jive to each lady a flour or sugar sack, 
: jud ask each to make an apron. Have 
| scraps of percale of sufficient size to trim 
apron prettily, with bolts of binding 
tape, colored thread, etc. so that each 
I person can make an apron according to 
her own taste. For the best apron give a 
1 scrubbing brush, tied in a neat package, 
for the “booby” prize a brick of 
| scouring soap. Then collect the aprons 
and pin numbers on each one. Have 
your guests draw for numbers, so that 
each may take home a new apron made 
by someone else.— Mabel Fern Mit¬ 
chell. 
The Broad Highway 
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“Why, true. Gaffer, true, God bless 
’er.!” 
“She be one as ’ud pine—slow an’ 
quiet, like a flower hi the woods, or a leaf 
in autumn—ah! fade, she would, fade, 
an’ fade!” 
“Well, she bean’t a-goin’ to do no 
fadin', please the Lord!” 
“Not if me an’ Peter an’ you can ’elp it. 
Simon, my bye, but if Peter ’as been an’ 
rose ’er ’opes o’ freein’ Jarge, an’ if Jarge 
should ’ave to go a convic’ to Austrayley, 
why then—she’ll fade, fade as ever was, 
WHAT HAS HAPPENED 
DETER has fallen in love with the beauti- 
*ful and mysterious Charmian, but be¬ 
cause she fled to him for protection from a 
man he knows to be a villain, he torments 
himself with suspicions as tp her past. He 
asks her to marry him and she teases him 
happily without answering, but when he 
adds “whatever you have been” she scorn¬ 
fully refuses. Peter, heavy-hearted, goes 
to the forge where he works. George, the 
owner, has disappeared after a quarrel which 
Peter cannot understand. He is met by his 
friend, “the Ancient.” 
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an’ be laicl in the churchyard afore ’er 
poor old grandfeyther!” 
“Lord, Old Un!” exclaimed Simon, 
“who’s a-talkin’ o' fadin's an' church¬ 
yards? I don't like it—let’s talk o’ 
summ'at. else.” 
“Simon,” said the Ancient, shaking his 
head reprovingly, “ye be a good bye— 
ah! a steady, dootiful lad ye be, I don't 
deny it; but the Lord aren't give you no 
imagination, which, arter all, you should 
he main thankful for; a imagination’s a 
troublesome thing—aren’t it, Peter?” 
At this juncture there appeared a man 
>Q a cart, ahead of us, who flourished his 
whip and roared a greeting, a coarse- 
visaged, loud-voiced fellow, whose beefy 
face was adorned with a pair of enormous 
fiery whiskers that seemed forever striv¬ 
ing to hide his ears, which last, being very 
large and red, stood boldly out at right 
angles to his head, scorning all conceal¬ 
ment. 
“W’at—be that the Old Un—be you 
alive an’ kickin’ yet?” 
“Ay, God be thanked, John!” 
“And w’at be all this I ’ear about that 
theer Black Jarge—’e never were much 
good—but w’at be all this? 
“Lies, mostly, you may tak’ your 
oath!” nodded the Ancient. 
“But ’e’ve been took for poachin’, ah! 
an’ locked up at the ’All—” 
“An’ we’m goin’ to fetch un — we be 
goin’ to see Squire—” 
“W’at — you. Old Un? You see Squire 
—haw! haw!” 
“Ah, me!—an’ Peter, an’ Simon, ’ere.” 
“ You see is Worship Sir Peregrine 
Beverley, Baronet, an’ Justice o’ the 
Peace— you? Ecod! that’s a good un— 
danged if it ain’t! An’ what might you 
be wishful to do when ye see ’im—which 
ye wont?'’ 
“Fetch back Jarge, o’ course.” 
“Old Un, you must be crazed in your 
’ead, arter Jarge killin’ four keepers — 
Sir Peregrine’s own keepers too—shootin’ 
’em stone dead, an’ three more a-dyin’—” 
“John,” said the Ancient, shaking his 
head, “that’s the worst o’ bein’ cursed wi’ 
ears like yourn—” 
“A bit large, they may be,” growled 
John. 
“Large as ever was, John!” nodded the 
Ancient—“oncommon large! an’, conse¬ 
quent, they ketches a lot too much. If 
so be as they grows any bigger, you’ll be 
’earin’ things afore they’re spoke, an’—” 
John muttered an oath, and, lashing up 
his horse, disappeared down the road in 
a cloud of dust. (.To be continued ) 
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