5Jw'"H'Sij EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEff-PHnJADELPfflA', MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1918 9 And So They Were Married Episode Two (Each Other's Friends) By HAZEL DEYO BATCUELOR Coriright, ltlt. lu I'uH'o Ltiotr On, RHAPTEIt XVII lrnHB door softly opened and Iluth l etonDed Bobbins as though by magic Vu It Rcott? Rurelv It couldn't bo rn.n . Alice i riut It was Alice. Sho had been dcler- Krnlned to get Into the bedroom somehow I'.-and to find out for herself whether Ituth naa a heauaciie as bcoh earn or wkuih as. ahe, Alice, atroncljy suspected, Scott and IUjth had had a quarrel. AVid bo she had kept at Scott with her questions ICimtll nnnltv nhn had said! "I'm going In to see if I can do any thing for nuth." " Scott Instantly protested. "No, pleaso don't disturb her, she asked not to be bothered." "0. -of course, sho doesn't want to bo bothered by' you, but a woman can al ways find something to do for another. "Htnow." KuAnd, of course, Alice had gone In ana had'toTinu Ruth dissolved In tears, cry lng her heart out Into her pillow. "Why, Iluth," Alice aslted In a con cerned tone of voice, "what Is It, dear?" " ''Nothing, pleaso go away." "But can't X do anything for you. ',Vo." "Ib your head so bad?" "Yes, O please go away. Cant you "-see I must be alone?" "I think I ought to do something. Hulh, you are terribly upset, let mo mix ypu some aromatic spirits of ammonia." ' ituth sat up In bed and pushed her hair out of her eyes. "Pleas$ go." sho aid nlmost hysterically, "jou had no business to" come, you knew I wanted to be alone: pleaso go out now that you have seen everything that you came '''-'"Well, I must say that you are cer tainly rude," Alico was the more lun oualy angry because she knew that Ruth had understood her motive In coin ing in. It must bo said for Alice that she was not altogether mean splilted; but to find that Ruth and Scott did have differences Juat as other married couples did, delighted her. She had felt from, the beginning that there was something between Ruth and Scott that did not exist at all In her own married life. Of course, life itself was not an easy thing with Alice as a wife, and her husband had openly "resented her dom ineering interference on many occasions. Freauent quarrels wero the result, and Aitnorimrt hlrp.idv accented life as a1 I j humdrum thhig'of Jars ana disappoint- mentB. Willi ner miciiB.il y .....-... naCuro It. was not possible for her to Buffer -any way as Ruth could, but still her attitude fron. tho beginning of her visit had been due in great part to a certain feeling of jealousy whenever she saw Ruth and Scott together. There was a.certaln bloom about their relationship, a. certain look In Scott's eyes when they glanced toward Ruth, a certain Bhyness in Ruth's own when they unexpectedly encountered hta gaze. Of course, prac tical Alice did not believe in romance, and concerned with her own brother she could conceive of nothing of the kind. Still there was something that made her vaguely envious, something that mado her eager to see the tlrst break between them. Little did she suspect, however, that the break had been over her and that Scott had thought It his duty to do fend her. That would have been more of a tribute than sho had expected. IVlien she came out of Ruth's room her eyes wero blitzing. "I'm going home," she announced. Scott had been sitting at tho disor dered table, his mind In a turmoil, his slim boyish hand held up against his head. "I told you not to go In and bother her," ho ouchsnfed. "She needn't hae ocen Insulting, I simply went In to help her." "And I told you that all, ahe wanted was to bo left alone." "Well, I'll go thenJ' "All right, come up again soon, when Ruth Is better." ' "Oh, you didn't fo61 me, Scott Ray mond," said Alice suddenly, "I knew that you had had a quarrel before I saw Ruth, now I'msure of it." Scott looked up at that. "Do you mean to tell mo thnt you went In tliero qjjf of Idle curiosity?" "Don't be Filly, Scott, you always wero dramatic. Why don't you be sensible? You remember mother and I nlways used to laugh, at you, when you got on what wo called your 'high horse.' I always told you that you had too exalted an Idea of life. Now I suposo you've discovered that Ruth Is human, just lll'o the rest of ut, and you don't llko It." Scott flamed Inwardly. lie felt as he had felt when as a little boy Alice had ridiculed him. Sho had always made fun of his dreams luirt of his queer ideas of things. She had had the power to make'hlti squirm beneath her contempt, liven his pretty .bother had always sided with Alice In u way, she had neer entirely understood him. Ruth had come nearest ro It, but Ruth with her mother, and her upbringing hadn't had much of u chance. Then. Alice liHd laughed at Bmall things, boyish Ideals, things too fragile to bear the flight of day, that Scott had cherished carefully. Now It was just the same, only that jVIIco was mocking his Ideas of mar riage, his Ideals of what companionship sto'od for, 'sho had laughed at his shat tered efforts to make more out of mar riage than there really wnn In It. and only thai very' ceultiB Scott had de fended Ailed when Ruth had Innocently said that Alice had been hypocritical. All the time he had known in his hcait ot hearts that she had. (Tomorrow, Iluth tries to decide on n poitlbl way oat.) Day to reach tho soldiers nnd sailors 'entertained there, nnd to tell them how and where to obtain employment. Thceo are a few of the plans formulat ed by tho employment servlco nnd tho Blxtecn co-operating welfare organiza tions in nn effort to And peacetime em ployment for more than 176,000 workers reluming from war. A meeting lias bueIT arranged for this afternoon to further tho campaign ar rangements. At this tlmo tho board of managers, including ore representative from each of tho welfare organizations, wilt bo named. - No tlmo Is being wasted by the or ganizations that gave their aid to en listed men .during the war and who have now turned their effortB to recon struction work, A. P. Goldberg, of tho Jewish wclfnre board, reported that his organization was nlrcady in touch with 300 employers In, Philadelphia. Thomas D. Kane, of t,he Knights of Columbus labor bureau, said twenty-two councils of tho organization had pledged their assistance to tho peacetime-employment campaign, Mrs. J. Willis Martin, chairman of the woman's committee of tho council of na tional 6fcnse, has sent letters to all council chairmen ashing them to nld tlio movement. Members of fifty-two women's organizations In tho State will help can vass Industrial establishments and fur nish volunteer assistance to tho employ ment bureaus. "We plah to thoroughly cover eey part of this Stats and to give our aid In other Stntcs In this great campaign," declared C. K. Stakes, chulrman of the new Joint bureau today. "Eight thou sand posters have been sent to post ofllces in the State, explaining the plan of peacetime employment nnd giving addresses of employment bureaus. Post offlcos will serve as Information bureaus and In many places employment bureaus -.l II a Inntn.l In th I.V.Irrnl liiiMillneru Letters and posters hnvo been sent to military camps. Posters and spoakera will explain tho movement In theatres, clubs, shops and public buildings." L y.,iwm:.i, ,mr, For Protection nalnt irprnvbornft dlsraats our nUco'Kormalftn havo prowd their ffneacy notably durlnir lhe recent epidemic. To present coldn and ur.-uer infections they uliould be regularly used ! adults and chlt Iren. Handy bottles. .'5c. LLEWELLYN'S Philadelphia' Htandnrd Ilrar Store 1518 Chestnut Street Glrco-rormalln (liquid), 23c, rjc I 1518 Chestnut Street P Glrco-rormalln (liquid), 23c, rjc I; WANAMAKER'S ' WANAMAKER'S A S" c-o. : c o- 1 : A- A' c .0. ' r ' m . En MtF - ... i m m ' 'a' 'i' I ASCO. AS I m MWHWMkPk I MY CO. ASCO. ASCO. J v -- V - - n, . I-,- - -- -- i M aaAaMal BM !, j, j, a a. .a..,.. '? i I STORES CO. Ik mil ! .a-iil -1 1 jmA mAM.-wgrnm-tJ ,si kOl ASCO A S c 0 2i LIEUT. GEORGE BENZ DEAD OF INFLUENZA Health Wrecked in Trenches, Young Newspaperman Suc- cumhs At Conshohocken Word was received here today of the death of Lieutenant George II. Benz, ' formerly with the Rainbow Division, a we,ll-known newspaper man. He dled.of Influenza at his home in Conshohocken last nlalit. LteutenaiffBenz was thlrty'yeara oldJ At tho time ho entered the service of hs country. Lieutenant Benz was city editor .of tho New Orleans Item. Immediately after receiving his com mission as first lieutenant at the offi cers' training camp at Little Rock, Ark., he was sent toVrnce. As a member of the Rainbow Division he went over the top .many limes. Qrfi-ini fmm shell shock. Lieutenant Benz, after eight months' active service In France, was invalided home during the summer. Being lncapacuaieu iui further military service, ho wan given an honorable discharge and returned to his home in Conshohocken. He was the first Conshohocken boy to return from France,. Although suffering from tho effects ot trench hardships he was ready to do his bit, nnd on several occasions made speeches to boost the ale of thrift stamps. , , , Lieutenant Benz longed to be back with his regiment and hoped to recover his former strength and return to France before the war ended. In the early fall Lleutmant Benz ac cepted a position on the staff of the New York World. H0 camo to Conshohocken to spend Chrl8tmns wlth hls Parentl' Mr and Mrs. Christopher? Benz and expected to leave shortly fcrffJIouston, Tex., to be come city editor ot the Houston Post. JOBS FOR SOLDIERS : ARE SOUGHT HERE' Employers Asked tb Send Requisitions for Labor to U. S. Employment Service Thousands of employers o labor In this vicinity today were-uskeo td send to the United States employment i service, requisitions for soldier or sailor employes. Representatives of the employment servlco began this morning meeting all , trains passing through Philadelphia and giving circulars and verbal explanations ; to returned service men concerning cm-. ployment. Four-minute speakers will visit all tho, I service clubs in the city on New Year's I ASK FOR and GET , Horlick's The'Orlginal Malted Milk For Infants and Invalids OTHERS irolMITATlONS Sa!lr.r Held In Killing of Two Negroes ''J'.wm.F Iv-nlirlit todar held without "ball for the Orand Jury John W. Stokes, forty- yearn ld. sailor In the United utntpd nnw. for shootlna to death Oscar , Whitfield, twenty-three years, 1232 SL Albans etrect, nnd Edward Thompson, twenty-one years, of the same address. All tnree nro negrcea. in hiiiiuk, ii la alleged, took place following o. crap game. Whitfield died November 23 nnd Thompson December 24,,, both In tho "Howard" Hospital. WEST BRANCH Y. M. C. A. Study o f Languages ENGLISH Elementary school work and courses for foreigners. In dividual attention given. FRENCH Conversational French under Instructor who Is a native of France and an experi enced teacher. SPANISH For business men, salesmen and U. S. Marines. Conver sational method used. Open to both sexes. Write, phone or see THE DIRECTOR G2d and Sansom Streets I. ' "J 1 r " Tftcre.is no ned of enduring tho (lf.:Qmfort that comes from n skin yrhich, itches and burns ,or Is mar ymj; UeslnoJ Ointment usually ro Hieyts itchinu at once, and quickly Wakes the akin clean and healthy again.. tA S' c-o, A s c o LA s-i c o i A s c o- i A. N f'1 o K - A Si c O V 0- - . A' A' Si c. ro rA .s: ci n s' C o- A' .s- c o .i Iteslnol Ointment is ircntlo and soothing and has been a standard skin treatment for over twenty years, so you need not hesitate to use it or recommend it to your friends. " Hold by all druorl'l". J'ralnol tihcivhw Htlck tend to prevent trrltntlnn. afTak W B tdZ2i!iR IVninll li A S C o a Ui Old Ring Out Hk Rail the IXhv Within a few hours the old year will have vanished, except its memory, and the new ushered in-. The year 1918 goes down into history as the most trying, more vexing problems to solve, as well as the most momentous to all earth's peoples than any other in the World's history. Despite all the difficulties it has been one of the most successful in the more than 30 years business life of the various units now forming the American Stores Company. Thanks to our Valued Customers and the Public in general, as well as to our faithful employees, who through , all these trying months, gave the best that Was in them. We wish you one and all a very Happy New Year, and that measure of prosperity that is labor's just reward. American Stores Co. Our Stores Will Be Closed All Day New Year's Day. Open Until 9 P. M. Tomorrow Night, to Better Serve Our Customers. Campbell's Tomato Soup E 9ccan r Ivory Soap 4 cakes 25c Fancy Yellow w N Onions e 2lA h .A It. Cholcr Plain Olives 7cbot AscoPork&Bcans42Sc Fancy selected beans cooked ready to serve, packed in a delicious tomato sauce dressing. Buy a dozen cans at this exceptionally low price. ioiccTomatoes12M8"c Finest quality, packed in sterilized cans, the only difference is the size. Choice Peas "15C Hxtra cond duality peas. Sweet and tender, packed with all their garden freshness This price is unusually low when you consider Quality. ?.Xc"Beans,canio"c Quality A-l. Cooked ready to serve, handy for a quick meal. Buy a few extra cans. Best Granulated Sugar lb. 10c Fancy Calif. Apricots can 15c Fancy Calif. Pears lb. 20c LemOn and Orange Peel . , .lb. 26c Calif. Walnuts, "" '" lb. 30c Calif. Almonds, whlto thrr lb. 30c Brazil Nuts, .wu"' th" '" ... .lb. 25c Best Filberts, w""' th'y u"t- . .lb. 20c Mixed Nuts, ""-" h" ta,t lb. 25c Choice Rice lb. 10c Calif. Bonila, ,J"1 liL' Tu" fl,h' n 19c All Wheat Flour, . . .12 lb. bag 75c Our Very Best Mince Meat, lb. 15c Best Yellow Corn Meal lb. 5c Best Pearl Barley lb. 5c Best Soup. Beans lb. 12c Calif. Lima Beans lb. 15c Whole Green Peas ....... ,1b. 13c Choice Salmon lAVb. can 15c Fancy Spaghetti can 10c, 15c Seedless Raisins pkg. 14c Sweet Sugar Corn, can 15c-18c-20c New Tender Peas can 15c, 19c Every Day Milk can 7c, 14c Cereals: For All Ages A sco Rolled Oats pkg. 9c Qua. & Motlier'a Oats. pkg. 10c KeHogg's C. Flakes, tpkg. lie Post Toimtics pkg. He Shredded Wheat pkg. 12c Puffed Rice pkg. 13c PufTed Wheat pkg. 13c Grape Nuts pkg. 12c Pillsbury Bran pkg. 13c Asco Farina pkg. 9c Catsup and Relishes Mors Rose Catsup. . .boU 10c Ritter's Catsup boL 12c Pride of Farm Cataup,bot.l7c Blue I-abel Catsup. . .hot. 18c Salad Dressing bot 14c Asco Mustard jar 12c Prepared Mustard. . .glass 7c India Relish bot. 12c Table Sauce bot 12c Uorse Radish glass 9c . Soaps, Cleansers, Polishes P. & (1. Naptha Soap, 1 cakes 25e Good Laundry Soap, ck. 4'tc Old Dutch Cleanser. ...can 8c Good Cleansers, can 4c-'ic Bon Ami cake 9c .Snowboy Powder ...pkg. 5c Gold Dust pkg. 5c, 2,')C Electro Silicon box 8c A-l Metal Polish.. can 7c-10c Cutz Polish (Iiquid),can9c-16c ttttiammmmm aiiiumi ainiin m i urn wBiUmiiialliiii imi i ina mi.aiiiiiin Uictor Bread 8C loaf The finest quality baked in theao United States. The nearest approach to the Best Homc-Mnde you over served. Baked in our own Bit; White Kitchens, and sold ohly in our 1200 stores. Specials in All Our 150 Meat Markets Fresh Killed fT Roasltaffl Chickens, 39c " CITY DRESSED PORK Pork Chops, 35C ib. Porlt Roast, 35c lb. ' Fresh Shoulders, 35C lb. Fresh Roasting Hams, 3$c ib. t c o A s c1 CM A S c o A I u A S C" o A. O i i 1 A' S' c. i a: s - A" Ci o- - A. 5 C O A S' c o M s c O i A ! o A' o A b C O A i A S TIE DOWN STAIRS STORE Dec. 30, 1918 at Wanamaker's To Wear These Lovely Hats is reason eiiouRh for going South. You need an unusually fertile imagination to imagine half of their graceful beauty or trim smartness a3 the stylo may be. The little trim tailored styles in dark and light straws and the elaborate creations act as perfect foils to each other. Then there are innovations of rough straw; these are excellent contrasts with the light trans parent hats. Lisere is being used with great suc cess on tailored sports hats. (Market) Men's Evening Clothes for Winter Affairs Now that the season for festivities is here a man will want to supply him self with good-looking, well-fitting eve ning clothes of proper cut. At $25 all-wool coat and trousers that are well tailored; the coats with silk body linings. There's a Nip in the Air that a good, warm overcoat will keep out. Just such an overcoat as these good looking, all-wool, Oxford gray cheviots at $22.50 to 35. There are single breasted box coats or double-breasted ulsters and ulsterettes. (Oallrrr, Murlttt) Evening Frocks Poised for Flight Into the Social Whirl Tho light, airy dicsses of prettily-colored tulle seem about to take wings and fly away. Some of the frocks show long folds of tulle, while on others are innumerable narrow ruffles. Then, too, there arc soft, lustrous satin di esses full of grace. Alto gether you will find a most attractive showing in the little gray salon of tho dress stoic. Prices arc as low as $15, and there is good choosing among evening frocks up to 30. Georgette Crepe is delicately lovely when wrought with exquisite taste into dresses' quite suitable for any afternoon occasions and the informal affairs of eve ning. Many of the dresses am beautifully beaded, whileoth ers arc embroidered in silk. $24.75 to S-18.75. New Spring Models of serge in navy blue, bur gundy, brown and plum ate elaborately trimmed w i t It braid and show the fashionable collarless necks. $16.75. Soft taffeta frocks' in navy blue, gray and sand are stitched in contrasting colors. The skirts are made in panel effects in front. $19.75. Other new models in taffeta aio $24.75 and $29.75. (Market) Inexpensive Coats Now $12.75 to $23.75 Are Going Fast Looking at them one would easily know that they have boon much more and are worth every bit of their former prices. Women appreciate this, and the coats are sellingf ast. It is a big opportunity not to bo missed. Best come in the first thing on Tuesday morning! At .$22.50 Men's White Gloves nro needed for dress occasions, and New Year's Eve is usually one of these, not to mention the various evening affairs that are being planned. The gloves are made of fine glace lambskin and arc cither overscum or pique sewn. $1.25 to $2.50 a pair. (Central) Gold and Silver Ribbon Surprise yourself by watching how a.f resh bit of bright, new gold or silver ribbon will change tho whole aspect of an evening dress, a pair of slippers or perhaps a fur hat. The ribbon is U of an inch to 5 inches wide at 18c a yard to $2.60. (Central) The Lightest and Airiest of silk tulle comes in all the lovely colors .for evening frocks, scarfs and such delectable things. In Nile, turquoise, rose, flesh, pink, maize, orchid and American beau ty. Two yards wide at $1.65 a yard. (Central) Luxuriously Soft Silk Underwear Pink glove-silk underwear of good quality at moderate prices. Envelope chemises at $4.85. Loose or tight-kneo combina tions at $4.85. Plain vests, generously cut, $3. These all have band tops. Bloomers, cut good and full with clastic at the waist and knees, at $3.50. (Central) At $15 for instance there are fully lined coats of cheviot, pompom and velour. Many have fur cloth trimming and others are plain. The price is less than wholesale. Many fully lined coats of ve lour, broadcloth, burella nnd pom pom which originally sold for much more, A large number are sample coats. And So It Goes through the entire stock of coats with extra values at every price from $25 to $85. v. Evening Wraps are included. They are lovely things, and tho selection is worth whilo with but one or two of a kind. Women who like individual oyening . wraps (a,nd what woman doesn't?) will be able to "get one in tlmo ' for the festivities of the opening social season. (Market) Scrim Curtains $1.65, Special These are pretty curtains M white or cream color scrrni with a hemstitched border edged with imitation Cluny lace. These curtains are suit able for dining rooms, living rooms and the like, and havo been selling much higher all along. (Clieitnnt) Don't Forget Those New Year's Cards! Here they are, engraved or printed, as you like, with envelopes to fit! All of them are clean and white. 5c each. (Central) Snowy Curtaining Special, 20c a Yard Eight hundred yards of pretty striped curtain Swiss has been marked special for Tuesday. (Clieatnnt) "Today Is- let mo see, m-m-m today is what date is today 7" That need never and will never happen in your home nor in your Ofilce if you get n large wall calendar like tho one sketched. It is 75c, nnd other sizes are priced up to $1. Desk calendars of all imaginable kinds arc 85c to $1.50. Large picture calendars to hang on the wall nt home are well mounted and show attractive pictures. 50c each. (Central) Excellent Corsets for Evening Wear For $2.50 you can get an at tractive figured pink broche model for slight to average figures. Elastic, pretty pink silk embroid ery and a ribbon bow finish the top. For $3,5p corsets of fine whlto mercerized poplin nro delicately striped with silk and embroidered .with silk dots. They will fit aver age to stout figure?, Dustlines are low in front' and higher in back. (Central) Violets and Fresh White Gloves are associated in most women's minds with the jollifications of the New Year. For afternoon wear nothing is so appropriate as, fresh white gloves of French kidskin. They are overseam sewn at '$2.50 a pair and pique sewn at $2.75 a pair. Then Longer Gloves are needed for evening. Gloves of white glace lambskin, in 16-button length, arc $2.85 a pair. French kidskin gloves in 8-button length are white or black. They are overseam sewn nnd nro prettily embroidered on the backs. $3.50 a pair. (Central) Pretty Hosiery will add charm to any costume, nnd for all the gay evening par ties of the Winter women will want such things. Silk stockings with tho tops nnd heels lined with lisle for re enforcement. In bronze,, cham pagne, silver, taupe und African brown at $2.16 a pair. White silk stockings with mors corized cotton tops and feet havo double knees. $1.85 a pair. (Central) m January m M vtluUGy Evening Slippers for Dancing Feet You have u wide choico in tho Down Stairs Shoo Sterol With turned soles and high, covered heelrf there aro slippers of black, blue or pink satin and slippers of gold cloth. Thoy are good slippers, too, and only $3,50 a pair. Southward-Pound t women are coming more and more to the Down Stairs 3 to re to fill their footwear needs. Tics and pumps of black calfskin, patent leather and tan calfskin aro $4.75 to $4,00 a pair. Spats Are Special In white and chamois they are 00c a pair. White Shoes, Too High lace shoes of white kidskin on long, gracefully slender lines' have turned roles and covered nceis. f 1;U0 a pair. , (Ctteatnni) i'S AA 1 k vKv ""-a. M i i . i rfil if ,1 M ' IB ) U, 1 V-C-oII 1V1; Ki I flflW 'WB r Kk 1iPWaf & rli , 'v-W--'"-- 0i-qrrmp'l'l'ni "'WF"'-y jri$)m9Hmf& l' 1. 'IH ASCO. ASCO.1 "?- ASCO. ASCQ. .,. AO0 Asco. ASCO, ACO. I a-n-an iVi, iHb Ma'uiii' i1B iK.i ji'tijfc.ifti iii-i ---- nniii- - L4ii . 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