OF INTEREST TO THE STRUGGLES OF A WIFE By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER 11. .(Copyright. 1916, by Star Company.) During the days following the con versation with her daughter, Myra Webb almost forgot Grace's words, which had for a time impressed her so deeply. The Easter holidays came, and with ibem such gayety as Grace enjoyed. There was a luncheon for Mary El liott, her engaged friend, a little dance one evening, a dinner party another, and all in the Webb home. Mrs. Webb Aad efficient maids, yet entertaining meant thought and plan ning on the part of the mistress of the house. So busy was she that she stop ped watching her husband to see if he was depressed. In fact, he was away from home more than usual Just now, for he had to run on to Boston one week, and, a few days later, to Buffalo. When he was at home, he said nothing about his own affairs, but seemed to interest himself in the gay eties in which his wife and daughter were concerned. At the dinner party—composed principally of Grace's friends—he was especially gay and merry. His wife, looking at htm from the opposite end of the table, remembered suddenly her forebodings of a fortnight ago, and smiled at herself. Kcassurnnce Surely she had been morbidly anx ious. Were matters not all right with Horace he could not laugh and jest with these girls and young men as he was now doing. How good looking he was, how stylish, how altogether dear and tine! She felt that she loved him more than ever. Vet, that night, after the guests had gone away and he and she were lying in their own room in the darkness, she heard him turning and tossing in his bed. "What's the matter, dear?" she asked at last. "Can't you sleep?" "That coffee was pretty strong," he replied, by way of explanation of his restlessness. "Don't bother about me, Myra. Go to sleep." She had no trouble in doing his bidding. His matter-of-fact tone had reassured her. She would not worry. College reopened the following day nnd Grace returned to her work. Myra missed the girl as she tried to apply herself to some letters that must be answered. The vague anxiety that the wife had been able to banish was returning. She reasoned with herself, reminding herself how much she had to be thankful for. Her child was at college right here In town, coming home each afternoon; Horace was well; she had no ungratified wish. Why, then, was she uneasy? Depression Laying down her pen, she leaned back in hi chair and gazed out of the window. A dreary Spring rain was falling. She wished that the sun would come out. If it only would, she might not be so depressed. She wish ed it was late afternoon so that Hor ace would be at home soon. Yet she started as a familiar foot stop sounded on the stairs. Was that Horace? Why was he coming home at this time of day? She caught her breath nervously as her husband entered the room. 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MONTGOMERY > # «no—either phone Srd and Chestnut Streets C Try Telegraph Want Ads Try Telegraph Want Ads THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 16, 1916. face was pale, and there were deep lines about his nose and mouth. "Dearest!" she exclaimed, spring ing up and hurrying towards him. "What's happened? Are you 111?" He tried to smile. "No, not 111 a bit," he replied. "But, Myra, 1 have something to tell you." "Yes?" she whispered. Her hands were upon his shoulders now, her face was raised anxiously to his. "What is It? Tell me, quick!" she commanded. He was a strong man and did not falter. "My business has gone to smash," he said, in a hard, strained voice. "That's all." She did not cry out, did not faint. She seemed suddenly to have become as cold and calm as he. Companionship "Sit down, dear," she said, gently, "and tell me all about it." He did as she bade him, and, in a dreary monotone, told her all. For a year he had been fighting against this catastrophe, and tried to save matters by sending good money after bad; had risked everything; had hoped against hope. And now the crash had come. Everything was gone. "And I am at tho very bottom of the ladder." he said bitterly, "just where a man of twenty begins. And I am past forty-flve years of age." "But you will climb," she said con fidently. "Climb!" The expression was con temptuous, Impatient. "And starve meanwhile. You forget that we have to live. Look at this," with a gesture that took In the luxuriously furnished room, "this has all got to go. I tell you we're penniless, Myra—worse than penniless, for I am In debt. "But we have each other," she re minded him. If he would only take her In his arms, as he. had done when their only other sorrow had come to them —when their little boy died! But no, he would not show the tender side of his nature while talking of his troubles, even though he was worn out with the strain of the past anxious months. "Yes, we have each other," he said gravely, "but that fact does not pay our bills." "We Will ray!" "But we will pay them!" she ex claimed, raising her head defiantly. "And I can do my share." "How?" he demanded, cynically. He did not mean to be unkind, but his tone cut her. Yet she would not show that it did. "By changing out style of living," she told him, "and," with a timid suille, "by working." "Working?" he repeated. "You," — But she interrupted him. "You forget that before I married you I used to write occasionally. What I did never amounted to much, for I was only a girl then. Now I can try again and do better. Dear, just le"s pull together and It will be all right. I know it will!" Distressed as she was, tho wife felt a strange elation as tho man she loved put his arms about her and said, with a break on his voice; "You are the bravest, finest wife any man ever had!" (To Be Continued.) SILK OR WOOLENS MAKE THIS DRESS Broad Collar and Chemisette Give Touches of Style to Costume 8920 (With Basting Line and Added Seam Allowance) One-Ptece Dress, for Misses and Small Women, 16 and 18 years. This is one of the newest and most j interesting developments of the one-piece | frock. It is really in one piece for the j bodice and skirt are cut together. At 1 the front, they are left plain but at the ! '•ides and back they are shirred and stayed by a narrow belt and the orna mental belt is arranged over the shir- ; rings to be buttoned .into place at the ends. On the figure the front of the | bodice is faced to give the chemisette j effect. That treatment is a pretty one but not necessary and the plain dress can be made without it. The collar be round or in sailor style. On the figure, gabardine is the material with trimming of poplin, but this is a frock that can be used tor gabardine and for serge, for broad cloth and for poplin and for wool mi | terials of the sort and also for silks, £ro» de Londres and taffeta and the various others that are to be worn throughout the late winter and spring, while it is equally desirable for the washable fabrics that always are interesting at this 9ea«on of the year. Linen or gingham made in this way would result in a cnarming warm weather frock. For the 16 year sire will be needed, f>)4. yards of material 27 inches wide, 5 yards j6 or 44 or yards 54 with *4 yard 36 inches wide to trim as shown on the figura. The pattern 8920 is cut In sizes for 16 and 18 years. It will be mailed to anv ad dress by the Fashion Department ot this paper, on receipt t>l ten cent*. Miss Fairfax Answers Queries YOUR COURSE IS WRO.VG DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: For the past three years I have been 1 going with A. About six months ago I met B and have been going out with liim unknown to my friend, but only as a friend, as B is engaged to a young lady in another part of the State. I ! have promised to marry A at some fu ture date, but am not formally engaged. Am I wronging either young man, in asmuch as they do not know of each 1 other's identity. W. D. j Indeed, your course is dishonorable. | | And the fact that the young men do | | not know of each other only makes the whole proceeding more underhanded. You have no right to go about with an other girl's fiancee, and you certainly owe it to the man you intend to marry 1 not to accept attention on the sly from another man. KTIfttETTF. OF ENGAGEMENTS DEAR MISS FAIRFAX; t During a conversation of a few nights ago the question arose as to whether | it was proper for an engaged couple to go out with different fellows and girls. In explanation I would say that one ! of the girls in the party is engaged and is to be married fn April, but was In the company of a young man other j than that to whom she is engaged, and i she took the stand, as did two of the I other fellows, that It was perfectly proper. F. B. S. I am distinctly not In favor of a situation such as you mention. Why en gaged couples need seek social enjoy ments outside ot each other's society is a rather startling question and leads a step further. How congenial is such a marriage going to be? How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollar* Reward for nnj ease of Catarrb tbat cannot be cured by Hall'i Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. We. the undersigned, hare known F. J. | Cheney for the last 15 years, and belieTe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially üble to carry out any obligatl>nj 1 made by bia Arm. NAT. BANK OF COMMERCE, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Care la taken internally, acting directly upon the blood nnd mucous surfai-es of the system. Teatlmonlals sent free. Price 75 eents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Tike Hall's Family Fills for conitlpatloa. NEW TREATMENT FOR ASTHMA Relief In Every Rub I To quickly ease the struggle for ! breath, stop the wheezing and bring blessed relief, ask your druggist for an original yellow box of true Mustar- Ine which costs about 25 cents. I Apply plentifully night and morning, ' and remember to rub up and down only, over the entire chest from the throat to the stomach. True Mustarine is made by the Begy Medicine Co., Ro ' Chester, N. Y. It is also fine for Rheu matism, Lumbago and Neuralgia. (Jet the genuine. All druggists guarantee it,—Advertisement. GRANGERS START CAMPAIGN GOING Meet Here and Submit Plat form For the Next General Assembly of State Candidates for the Legislature will have to meet the grangers as well as the woman suffragists this year. The executive committee of the State Grange, which has been in session here for a couple of days, last night launched Its campaign for the next Legislature, issuing a statement of what it wants to be enacted. The committee, which is composed of the worthy master. John A. McSpar ran, Leonard Rhone, William T. Creasy. Allan D. Miller and E. J; Tuttle, asks the State for more money l'or schools and roads, as well as local option. The resolutions call attention to the reports made by State authorities that townships are receiving less money for schools than a few years ago and that children In rural districts are not re ceiving all of the educational advan tages to which they are entitled. A demand is made for more money for township high schools because only 2 per cent, of children go to colleges and for extension of vocational edu cation. The resolutions commend changes In the State Highway Depart ment, but advocate adoption of the Grange highway bill of last year, and oppose issuance of bonds for roads. A budget appropriation for charities on a basis of charity work done Is advocated, it also being recommended that manufacturing companies be subjected to State tax on capital stock, coal, oil and gas be taxed for roads, incomes and inheritances be taxed and that the cost of government be re duced. Criticism Is made of the cutting of the appropriations for dirt roads, fail ure to provide aid for wiping out cattle tuberculosis, placing primary election costs on counties, reducing of county fair appropriations, reduction of rural school aid through operation of exist ing law and what is styled "additional exactions of departments on country people." An antitreating law and prohibition of liquor in clubs are demanded and on national issues the committee de- i Clares for national prohibition, de- j natured alcohol legislation, conserva tion and new oleo laws and against limiting parcel post to fifty pounds. GROWTH OF THE V. W. C. A. The Young Women's Christian As- j sociation started in 1870 as an auxil-j iary to the Ladies' Christian Union. In those days it was plainly called I "The Young Ladies' Christian Associa- | tion," and the aim set down briefly i in its first annual report was "to give | help, entertain and show Christian kindness to young girls who have left modest country homes to find work In the city." The first home of the Young Wo-! men's Christian Association was not a I very large room on ■s'niversity Place. ] How the girls worked over that room! They made it attractive with rugs! and hangings and pictures: they fill-! cd it with books and magazines and music. And then they waited for the! young women to come and enjoy themselves. Folk are more or less inclined to be skeptical about new things. The eager to-help young ladies had announced that they were opening a room for the j entertainment of lonely girls. They J promised social evenings and parties J and pledges of friendship—for noth ing; and the shop girls and stenog raphers and lonely little schoolgirls, who had discovered that the city gives very little for nothing, were frankly ! nervous about accepting the invita-. tion. Tt was three months before the j first girl stepped shyly into the attrac- | tive room and found tnat the prom-| ises were real promises of real things. | Now, in the Central Branch alone, i there have been 2.835 members, and! in a year 10,012 guests. The Central j | Branch Is only one of the thirteen Young Women's Christian Association buildings that flourish in Greater New j York —nine in Manhattan and four in j Brooklyn.—-The Christian Herald. AX ISLAND MADE TO ORDER Hawaiian soil Is being used to build j | up the small coral island in the Pacific. ! Ocean known as the Midway and j , used as a relay station by a trans- j Pacific cable company. A quantity of j earth is taken there every three j months by the schooner that Is sent ; with food supplies for the operators. | The task of building the island has ] 1 progressed so far that it is now pos sible to keep a cow on the pasture. Popular Science Monthly. New York Society Girl to Wed Naval Officer \ T ' ■ New York March 16.—One ef the early Spring weddings that is interest ing society is that of Miss Barbara Thaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex- j a.nder Blair Thaw, and Lieutenant ! Scott B. MacFarlane, U. S. N. The 'wedding will take place In the Church of the Heavenly Rest on April I 28. 1 Miss Thaw's sister. Miss Beatrice Thaw, was married to the Marquis Francaesco Tbeodoli and "lives in the jCastello di Clcilliano, Preno. Rome, | Italy. Her second sister Is Miss Katherine B. Shaw, She is also a niece j of Benjamin Thaw of Pittsburgh and I [New York. Her mother Is an accom-j ! plished artist and was before her mar- j jriage Miss Florence Dow. ! Miss Thaw made her debut a year i ago at a dance given by her mother. | She has played in many amateur en tertainments for charity and his spent much time abroad. | Lieutenant Macfarlane Is attached i to the Oklahoma, now on temporary duty at the Torpedo Station, New -1 port. BIG ALL VALUE I FURNITURE I THIS SALES WEEiC 3-PIECE PARLOR SUV, SOLIDLY up to $125.00 From SI.OO to $3.00 Down and Same Payments Each Week EXTENSI ° N TABLES Regular $24.00 Full Beds, $9.50 up to $32 $9.00 up to $ SI.OO Down, SI.OO Weekly SI.OO Down, SI.OO Per Week SI.OO Down, SI.OO Per Week OPPORTUNITY SALE, Thursday, Friday & Saturday QW. THIS WEEK OF WELL-KNOWN Excelsior Stoves A K FOR MR - MOORE Representing the foundry manufacturing this line, he will he here in person during this demonstration and you can be assure of honest values. This large sized oven $30.00 range, 6-hole top, with thcrmome and shelf complete shown sl9 50 SI.OO DOWN sl.OO PER WEEK. "OUT OP THE HIGH REINT DISTRICT y PRUNE THE GRAPE VINES RIGHT AWAY This Is the Advice Given byi Stale Zoologist Surface to State Grape Men Owners of grape vines are being urged to prune their vines immediate ly by the State Department of Agricul- 1 ture experts. In a bulletin just issued J it is said: "Grape vines should be pruned at! - This Every trace of dirty, soapy water gone the porcelain white and clean. Simple and practical, isn't it ? Surprising the number of ways Altantic Rayolight Oil i does help keep the home bright, . sJ'Z cheery and clean. Thousands P (nil ~j 1? of careful housekeepers tell us II AT LA NT I c (as a result of our advertised ji ly s ' IJryv wxl |Wl<i "d- request) that Atlantic Rayo- I = light Oil is the very best thing Sr T for such purposes as polishing 11 windows and mirrors, bright ening up linoleum and restor ■ ing dull and faded carpets. I \»li/ Of course, for this kind of work, the very finest kerosene is the batll needed; that's why these ex- B « . i . . . perienced, competent women I jS 13 S " inm 9 use 1 4 %/ C^eail ATLANTIC I Rayoliffht ■ * ts ever s0 better for IB Wliem tlie purposes of lighting and heating. Q k VjR j 7%7fXtMro ou see^urns sl° w, y an d economically, H WillCl JJJOWS> yielding an intense, constant, steady heat It 3w M 1 j | without a jot of smoke or smell. A steady, ■ \ V* r ""' O """* L' 'CI . flickerless, soft, white light beams from ■ » 1 almost any lamp in which it is burned, but £§ * * M\ f« Is liable to make your to K et ,h * best and most light for the least I * favorite nook a pretty money, use a Rayo Lamp filled with Allan- H shivery spot. But, with ** c "•jrohght Oil. P a Perfection Smokeless Y ou buy It certain that it will give the I Heater in the house, cold greatest heat, the finest light and that care need have no terrors. It fu , refining makes jt beßt for household will warm and keep any purposes. But, with all these advantages, ■ room warm and comfort- Atlantic Rayolight Oil coats no more than H I _ }* 9 ln s P ,te .°* the the unknown, unreliable kind. H iJaHPI v — /Mm coldest, rawest wind. K • a 1 / most heat, at the Atlantic Rayolight M light Oil. Inquire I || Philadelphia Pittsburgh , onco. I)o not wait until the weather |i i has bosun to warm up and the growth j i ; takes place, then the vines bleed and ,: are weakened by the pruning, j "Most grape vines are not pruned i severely enough. By careful observa tion the grape growers in the Chau ! tauqua grape belt have found that to produce an annual average crop of the first class fruit, a Concord vine should be pruned hack to twenty-five buds. lowa, Worden and Moore's ; Early Delaware require shorter bud | ding, eighteen or twenty buds being sufficient. Lady, Elipse, Brighton, I I Brilliant, Green Net and Niagani | require moderately long pruning, about twenty-five buds, while Jeffer i son. Herbert, and Vergennes required J somewhat longer pruning of about thirty buds. "Where more buds are left than! necessary, more wood growth is made and it docs not ripen properly, so that the crop for the succeeding year is shortened. Bulletin No. 217 of the State Department of Agricul ture discusses thoroughly grape cul ture in Pennsylvania." SEAM RIPPER FROM OLD SAFETY BLADE A handy device for the housewife ! may be made from a safety razor j blade. Cut a wooden handle 5 inches long. Bore holes to conform to the holes in the blade. Two screws, pass ed through the blade and the wooden handle will hold the blade firmly. This device will be found exceedingly use ful to rip the seams in cloth while sewing. Popular Science Monthly. 13
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