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"Yes, we are Southern belles to-day," laughed Alice. "Belles every day," returned the lieutenant with a bow. "Nicely said!" laughed Estelle. "You are improving!" She and Alice wore the costumes of generations ago, big bonnets and hoopskirts. "Let's go over and see what they're filming there," suggested Alice, pointing to where a crossroads store had been put up.

When Benedict XIV. ascended the pontifical throne he established a severe censorship, and inaugurated the harsh system to which I have already alluded, with the effect of banishing immoral productions from the stage, though without improving its intellectual tone.

The good mother possessed an education beyond the ordinary, and, knowing its great value, insisted upon her son improving his spare moments in study. Jack was well informed for his years, for no one could have been blessed with a better teacher, counselor, and friend, than he was. Even now, when we reintroduce him to the reader, he held an old-fashioned spelling-book in his hand.

And as my mind grew more composed my appetite also grew better, and my health improving day by day, I soon, though quite unconsciously, began to take pleasure in the simple ways of Tonine, who now never left me at night before she saw that I was asleep.

Improving such communities must, of course, remain the primary responsibility of the people living there and of their States. But a soundly conceived Federal partnership program can be of real assistance to them in their efforts. Highway Legislation.

The Creative Will is that striving, longing, pressing forward, unfolding, progressing evolutionary effort, that all thoughtful people see in operation in all forms of life throughout all Nature. From the lowest to the highest forms of life, the Effort, Energy, Pressure, may be recognized in action, creating, preserving, nourishing, and improving its forms.

And grannie shook her head, trying to look stern, and hiding a smile in her serviette. "Your manners are not improving, Sybylla. I fear you must be incorrigible," said aunt Helen. When uncle Jay-Jay heard the whole particulars of the affair, he lay back in his chair and laughed fit to kill himself. "You ought to be ashamed to always encourage her in her tomboyish ways, Julius.

He waved a hand toward the fields shut in by heavy woodlands, where the shadows were already black. After a moment he continued: "Everything is settled for you, Asher. I've been pretty careful and lucky, too, in some ways. The men who didn't go to war had the big chances at money making, you know. While you were off fighting, I was improving the time here. I've done it fairly, though.

Medland," said an officious probationer, "he jumped over the rail and broke it." He walked up to the offender all listened for the storm. He calmly said, "Mr. Medland, you are fond of jumping go to Sadler's Wells it is the best academy in the world for improving agility." A student as he passed held up his drawing, and said confidently, "Here, sir I finished it without using a crumb of bread."

Mabel looked up in astonishment, then said promptly, "Miss Leigh, Lord Bromley." A slight tremor passed over his face, and he leant a little more on his stick, giving Bluebell an impression of extreme feebleness. After a mechanical observation or two, rather to her disappointment he walked away, without further improving the introduction. Mrs.