The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine

The Atlantic Ocean and the breadth of Europe including half of Russia lay between Mr. Duncan Campbell and his daughter, Wilhelmina. But that did not prevent Mr. Campbell from thinking of numerous delightful surprises for Billie and her three friends in West Haven. Sometimes it was a mere scrawl of a note hastily written at some small way station, saying: "Here's a check for my Billie-girl. Treat your friends to ice-cream sodas and take 'em to the theater. Don't forget your old Dad." Sometimes the surprise took the form of queer 6 foreign-looking packages addressed to "the Misses Campbell, Butler, Brown and Price," containing strange articles made by the peasants in the far-away land. He sent them each a Cossack costume with high red boots and red sashes. But some three weeks before the Easter holidays came the best surprise of all. "I believe the Comet needs a change of air," wrote Mr. Campbell. "A fine automobile must have as careful handling as a thoroughbred horse, or, for that matter, a thoroughbred young lady. What does my Billie-girl say to an Easter trip to Florida with Cousin Helen as guardian angel and Nan and Nell and Moll for company and the Comet for just his own sweet self?"