OF INTEREST TO THE WOMEN J THE STRUGGLES OF A WIFE By Virginia Terhune Van de Water m CHAPTER vin (Copyright, 1916. Star Co.) It took Myra Webb the beat part of four days to write and rewrite the article she began on Monday morn- JaR- Tet it was but a short paper. Thon she sent it to a certain typist and had it copied. On Saturday after noon she mailed it, with stamps for its •eturn in case it did not suit the edi tor to whom she addressed it. At the end of another week it came back to her with a printed slip stating that it was not suited to the needs of the magazine to which it had been sent. She should have been prepared for this, the would-be author told her self. Had she not heard of hundreds of writers who had had the same ex perience? it was a score of years since she had attempted to write for publication. She had probably lost some of her knack with her pen. She hoped all those other writers were not in as much need of money as was she. She had not been idle, however, during the days after her first lit erary effort had been completed. She had begun to write a short story— one she thought would interest the women readers of a household maga zine. She had found lizzie's interruptions disconcerting while writing her article, but, once launched upon her story, she found them almost unbearable. She had fancied that she possessed a fair amount of self-control, but when, ns she was deep in the experiences of her imaginary heroine, the maid came to her on some trifling mat ter, Myra was shocked at her own sudden impatience. "I must be left undisturbed!" she exclaimed when the girl told her that «he had '•clean forgotten" to men tion that they were "out of sugar." Myra Explains to the <iirl When the maid had withdrawn, closing the door after her. Myra sat long, gazing into space. Her joy in her story was gone. What she had hoped was inspiration had died a vio lent death. What could she do? Did all women writers go through this kind of thing? She had the uncom fortable conviction that she .had wounded her employe's sensibilities. At last, exasperated at herself, she arose and went out into the kitchen. She must settle this matter, or she would not be able to concentrate her thoughts upon her work. It was as she feared, Lizzie had been crying. "What's the matter?" Myra asked. The tears rushed again to the Kirl's eyes. "Please, ma'am." she whimpered, "my feelin's is hurt." "What about?" «he demanded, with portentous calmness. RIB BACKACHE AWAY M "SI. JACOBS OIL" Rub Lumbago, Pain and Soreness from Your Lame Back-Instant Relief! Doesn't Blister-Get a Small Trial Bottle-Wonderful Liniment When your back Is sore and lame or lumbago, sciatica or rheumatism has you stiffened up, don't suffer! Get a small trial bottle of old, honest "St. Jacobs Oil" at any drug store, j pour a little in your hand and rub It; right on your aching back, and by the time you count fifty, the soreness! and lameness Is gone. r \ Are You Prepared For A Coal Strike? The supply of coal for American industries and for American people is placed entirely in the hands of the Coal Miners Union. If the operators refuse to grant the miners' demands we fear that mining operations will be suspended on March 31, 1916. As long as the miners think that a satisfactory settlement can be reached without a strike, they state they will work pending a settlement of the Wage Con troversy now on. History shows that very few miners have ever been able to operate pending a wage settlement. In other years the men agreed to remain at work, but the records show that this agreement has never been lived up to. After April Ist a supply of coal may be difficult to get. We are advising all our coal customers to put in enough to last them until warm weather. How much have you on hand? United Ice & Coal Co. <• " Pomter & Coitdi n \ \ I / / Hnuiincl & .Mulberry AKUn/ / Third flttd* 15th & Ckeatnut Also Steelton, Pa •wwwwwwwwwswjvwwiwywwwwwwwvw j Arthur C. Hauck ?; 1637 N. THIRD STREET % Successor to T. M. Mauk & Sons UNDERTAKERS Bell Phone 1750 / Lady Attendant Furnished Free , . ...... * -n - n n nm mm MONDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAP I MARCH 27, 1916/ | "We. ma'am, you spoke to me very short just now. In my last place the | lady always wanted me to tell her as ■ soon as 1 remembered anything I'd i forget." j "Perhaps." Myra suggested, "that lady did not have to write as I have | to do." i "Indade she did.' ma'am. Many's j the letter I've took out to the cor i ner and mailed for her. Yet she never minded my speakin' to her when she was writin'." "But I am not writing letters," j Myra tried to explain. "I am wrlt 'ing for the papers and magazines." "And are you, ma'am?" Ufzliii stared at her, wide-eyed. "And is it ; you that writes all them pieces in the | evenln' paper that Mr. Webb brings home?" "No," Myra said, unable to con ceal the smile this question produced. ; "Not those pieces." Then a happy thought came to her. "I don't write any of those." she said, "because 1 don't have time. The people who do that kind of work have offices where they do nothing else. "Perhaps if I had a place like j that, where I would not be disturbed. I. too. might have what you call •pieces' in the papers, or, at least, In the magazines. And I.izzie, you can help me to get them done by keeping | things as quiet as possible for me while ; t am at my desk." "Sure, ma'am. I will," the good ' nat tired creature promised, her re sentment forgotten in the sudden sense of her own Importance. "And will you have your name fast to I them in the paper?" "Perhaps." Myra replied, j The next morning she resumed her task and the story went better than siie had feared. She wrote It with almost feverish haste. It was finish led. but not revised or copied, by Sat- I urday noon. And that afternoon her j first article came back to her. ; She would not be discouraged, she 1 resolved. Grace, seeing the long eiir levope on her mother's desk, asked f practically if "something had been rejected already." | "Why not take your stuff in per son to various periodicals?" the. girl queried. "A man who does a good j but if writing told me once that that was the best way to get things ac | cepted." "»,)h, r don't feel as if I could do that!" Myra Webb said with a gasp, j "1 should feel as if 1 were a beggar or a peddler." At which foolish remark Grace shrugged her shapely shoulders and went on into her own room. (To Bo Continued.) Don't stay crippled! This r-oothlng. penetrating liniment needs to be used only once. It takes the pain right out and ends the misery. It is magical, yet absolutely harmless and doesn't burn tiie skin. Nothing else stops lumbago, scl at'ca, backache or rheumatism so ! promptly. It never disappoints! In use for over sixty years. MUST HAVE CAPE ON SPRING GOWN Styles of Long Ago Are Pre vailing With Some Slight Modifications By MAY MANTON 8808 {With Basting Line and Added Seam Allowance) One-Piece Gown, 34 to 40 bust. Here is a gown that can he used for a great many different occasions. It is really perfect for the skating that is such a feature of the midwinter; it is charming for afternoon visits and it is indeed available in many ways. It is exceedingly smart and absolutely simple withal. The bodice and skirt are cut in one. shirred or smocked at the waist-line to form a girdle and arranged over a foundation belt. Beneath the cape there is a plain yoke to which the full gown is attached. The cape is circular with the flaring collar that is so much liked and is closed at the left shoulder. The pockets make an all important feature. The openings are designed to be trimmed and they can be made purely ornamental or both ornamental and useful as liked. As a matter of course, they can be omitted if for any reason a gown without pockets is preferred. In the illustration, broad cloth is trimmed with braid but the gown is appropriate for any material that can be shirred successfully. For the medium size will be needed, 8 3 t yards of material 27 inches wide, 7)4 yards 36 or 5 3 4 yards .14 inches wide, with 17 yards of braid. Tne width of the skirt at the lower edge k 3 yards 24 inches. The pattern 8898 is cut in sizes from 34 to 40 bust measure. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of ten ceuts. MltS. CATHARINK MATT KB DIES Millersburg, Pa., March 27. Mrs. ; Catharine Matter died -at the home of her son. 11. F. Matter, in East. Cen ter street, after a long illness. She was in her eighty-ninth year. TWELVE TAKE EXAMINATION Dauphin, Pa., March 27.—Exami- 1 nations were conducted on Saturday! and to-day by Professor Miles C. Hum mer for entrance to the high school. Twelve took the examinations. Chafing Scalding Of Infarts Quickly Yields to 1 <sl/k&S ( /comfortA \JPOWDERy Grace D. Andrews, a Trained Nurse, of Lynn, Mass., says, " In all myexperi ence as a nurse I have never found any thing equal to Sykes Comfort Powder to heal chafinff. scalding, eczema, bed sores, or any skin irritation or soreness of infants, children and sick people." This is on account of its superior medication which combines healing, soothing and antiseptic qualities not found in any other preparation. 25c. Trial Box Rent free on rrquefit. THE COMFORT POWDEB CO., Boston, Mais. TIME TABLE Cumberland Valley Railroad In Effect June 27. 191 L TRAINS? leave Harrisburg— For Winchester and Martlr.sburg at 5:03, *7:52 a. m., *3:40 p. m. For Hagerstawn, Chambersburg, Car lisle, Mechanlcsbur* and intermediate stations at •5:03. *7:52, *11:53 a. m. •3:40. 5:27, *7:45, *11:00 p. m. Additional trains for Carlisle and Mechanicsburg at 9:48 a. ra.. 2:16, 3:26. 6:30, 9:35 p. m. For Dlllsburg at 5:03, "7:52 and •11:53 a. m., 2:16. *3:40. 6:37 and 6:30 p. m. •Dally. All other trains daily except Sunday. H. A. RIDDLE, J. H. TONGE. G. P. A. STOP COUCHING !!! DEPTONOI I MADE IN A HEALTH RESORT. AT DRUG STORES-Sl ooPerBOTTLE THE PEPTONOL CO ATLANTIC CITY ISI .Ol fc.. /-. *iKOSSS, 119 .Market SL, Harristmru. Pa. FINKHAI. DIRECTOR HARRY M. HOFFMAN (Sneeenanr to .1. .1 O(rlabr) UNDERTAKER 310 North Second Street GEORGE AONEWOmMBmAIN CQPY&KsHT uSy THE CENTO/3Y C(X SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I—Alan Wayne Is sent away from Red Hill, his home, by his uncle, J. Y., as a moral failure. Clem runs after him in a tangle of short skirts to bid hlru good-by. CHAPTER 11—captain Wayne tells Alan of the falling of the Waynes. Clem drinks Alan's health on his birth day. CHAPTER lll—Judge Healey buy* .1 picture for Alix Lansing. The judso defends Alau in his business with his employers. CHAPTER IV—-Alan and All* meet at sea, homeward bound, and start a flirtation, which becomes serious. CHAPTER V—At home, Nance Ster ling asks Alan to go away from Allx. Alix is taken to task by Gerry, ner husband, for her conduct with Alan and defies him. CHAPTER Vl—Gerry, as he thinks, sees Allx and Alan eloping, drops everything, and soes to Pernambuco. CHAPTER VII —Alix leaves Alan on the train on<l goes home to lino that Gerry Ims disappeared. < CHAPTER VIII— Gerry leaves Pcr nambuco and goes to Piranhas. On a canoe trip he meets a native girl. | CHAPTER IX—The judge fails to irace Gerry. A baby is born to Alix- CHAPTER X—The native girl takes- Gerry to her home and shows lliin the ruined plantation she Is mistres.- of. Gerry marries her. CHAPTER XI At Maple house Collingeford tells how he met Alau — "Ten Per Cent. Wayne "—building a ■ ridse in Africa. CHAPTER Xll—Colllngetoid meets Alix and her baby and be gives hei i encouragement about Gerry. CHAPTER XIII —Alan comes bac* lo town but does not go home. He .nakes several calls in tlie city. CHAPTER XIV —Gerry begins t> improve Margarita's plantation and builds an irrigating ditch. CHAPTER XV—ln Africa Alar, reads, Clem's letters and dreams ol home. CHAPTER XVl—Gerry pasture* I.leber's cattle during the drought. A l baby comes to Gerry and Margarita. CHAPTER XVI l Collingford meets Alix in the city and tlnds her changed. CHAPTER XVIII—AIan meets Alix J. Y. and Clem, grown to beautiful; womanhood, in the city and realizes that he has sold his birthright for a taess of pottage. CHAPTER XlX—Kemp and Gerry become friends. CHAPTER XX—Kemp and Gerry visit I.leber and the three exiles are drawn to gether by a common tie. CHAPTER XXl—l.leber tells his story. "Home is the anchor of a man's soul. I want to go home." CHAPTER XXII—Tn South America Alan gets fever and his foreman prepares to send him to the coast. CHAPTER XXIII—AIan Is carried to Lleber's fazenda, almost dead, and Gerry sees him. CHAPTER XXIV—Alan tells Gerry the truth about Alix and Gerry tells him of Margarita and the baby. Alan wonders and is disgusti.d. CHAPTER XXV—A flood carries away Mwrgarita and her baby, despite Gerry's attempt at rescue. CHAPTER XXVl—Fever follows Ger ry's exposure. He send a note to Alix by Alan when Alan and Kemp go home. t He tells Lle'oer he can't go home. CHAPTER XXVII—AIan gets back to the city and sends Gerry's note to Red Hill. Alix calls on Alan, but he refuses to toll her G»rry's story. Alan goes home to Red Hill. Alan was entertained almost amused. "What do you do when a ge.vser spouts?" be asked. "What do you do?" replied the girl. "I ruu." "I'm afraid I haven't run—always." said Alan. "I generally try to clap a tin hat on them." "You must be stroug to do that. I'm not very strong." Alan glanced over her frail body. "What are you?" he asked. "I'm a missionary. At least, I was a missionary. I've had to give it up. One needs so much to be a mission ary." "I never thought of it that way." said Alan. "I always thought that It was the people that were unfit for al most anything else that turned to mis sionaryltig as a last resort." "Oh, no!" said the girl, sitting up very straight in her chair and fixing her eyes on his face. "How wrong you are! Mlssionarying. as you call It. is Just another name for- giving, and how can one give a great deal unless one has a great deal to give—strength and youth and vitality?" "And you have given all?" asked Alan. The girls eyes filled. "No, you haven't given all," went on Alan quickly. "You are still giving. I must not borrow your last mite. But —your voice is like a nurse's hand." When Alan went to bed he could not sleep. For a while the little mission ary girl held his thoughts. He was filled with wonder, not nt her, but at himself. For once in his life he had not been flipp.ir.t before grave things From the girl his thoughts turned to Alix. He could have cabled to bet about Gerry from I'ernambuco, hut he 1 had not done so. The note that he was carrying for fjetry was light—only a ' half-sheet, probably. The lightness of it told Alan that the things Gerry had •to say to his wife could not be put on paper. Alan bad almost cabled. Now he was glad he bad not done so. j "Alix." he said to himself, "isn't walt ■ lng. she's trusting A cable would have lengthened waiting by a month." Then, without volition, his mind j wandered front Allx and raced ahead ' to the goal of his Journey. What was the goal of his Journey? Whither was he bound? Ho reached for Clein's let ter and held it In folded hands. He had no need to read It again. The words were nothing: the picture was | all. It stretched before his mind, a ; living canvas. Once when Alsn w«s wandering ; with Englishman in the hills above 1 Granada, a faint odor bad brought them to a sudden halt. It was the I Englishman who made the surprising discovery first. "Blackberries, by Jove!" he had exclaimed. "Good old blackberries." And then they two had stood together, yet half a world apart, j sud stared at the berry-laden bush. What vision of a tanvled. lilgh-walled garden burst upon the Englishman Alan never knew, hut to himself had come a memory of East mountain In autumn, so clear, so poignant, that it had brought his throbbing heart into his throat. It was so now with Clem's letter. The words were but a hurried daub, but they touched his eyes with a magic wand. The daub became a scene, a picture, a world—his world. Red Hill was spread out before him, s texture where the threads and colors of life were blended into a carpet soft but enduring. Men walked and little i children played 011 it. Alan closed his eyes and sighed. What had he been doing with life? Making sacking? Sacking was commercial. It paid In cash. It was the national industry. But what could one do with sacking on Red Hill? Then, almost suddenly, the full spirit of Clem's letter seized him. Oue did not take gifts to Red Hill. To every one of its children Red Hill was the source of all gifls—the source of life- On that thought he slept, i When he was l>a« - k once more in his rooms, before Swithson had had time to open a bag, Alau re-dlrected Gerry's note to Alix to Red Hill and sent Swithson out to post it. He did not try to temper the shock of the note with a covering letter. He was too weak and tired. Besides, he felt that the note carried Its own antidote to Joy. The next morning a message came ! by hand to Alan's rooms. Alix had come to town and wished to see him at once. Would he please come around? 1 He replied that he was too ill. Half an hour later Swithson answered a ring at the door and Allx slipped quickly past him into Alan's sitting room. There was a flush of anger in her cheeks, but Alan was pleased to : see no trace of tears in her eyes. A ! woman's crying always touched him j on the raw and seldom awakened his ! Pity. At sight of him Alix forgot her con cern for herself. "Why. Alan!" she cried, "what is the matter?" Alan laughed. There was a pleasant note in his laugh she had never heard j I "Well, Is That All You Have to Say?" ! before. "I'm all right. Allx. Don't I make any mistake. I'm a resurrection in the bud. Doing tine. I don't have to ask how you are. You're well. , j You're looking Just as well as a little slip like you can ever look. Sit down, do." I Alix' thoughts went back to herself I and immediately rhe flame burned again in her cheeks. She pulled Ger , ry's crumpled not» f!'o::i her glove and tossed It open on tto table before Alan. , He read the two or three lines in ; which Gerry told her he would arrive ( shortly. The brief note was intentlon [ ally colorless. "Well?" he asked. \ Allx turned flashing eyes on him. ,! "Well? Is that all you have to say? r | Alan, It Is not well. I've come here _ | because you must tell iue—somebody must tell me—now —all the things that 1 that note hides behind its wonderfully • blank, weazened, little, hypocritical j face." ' (To Be Continued.) ' ' _______—_____——________ I'iilillr Accountant and Auditor J. C. Shumberger , Union Trust Building Harrisburg, Pa. ; «. VST K.MS ORG AMX KT) , j AUDITING iTATESIEM'S PREPARE Reports veri( tftate All Agree that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Wonderfully Relieves Woman's Suffering. From all parts of this country the clearest evidence is constantly coming to the office of the Lydia E. 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Ga. ;! ai/ Sain Short has gone and gotten in J trouble again. Teacher was teaching ;! ■J j language en she wrote on the board "you •} !; \ /,£/)) cannot have the penny and the cake, two." Jj Ji Then she asked, "What is wrong with this j> sentence," and Sam lie jumps up en scz, |! " Taint true, that's what's wrong with it." "j !- readier scz, "Explain yourself, Sammy.' 5 \ i So Sam. lie throws out his chest en scz, j! I j f L "Vou can have the penny and the cake too, J ■ 5 an 1 can prove it." • I" SHIII *»L» orl Teacher, looked sort a provoked and sez i !• Jun .T. l „7i" st r as cold cz icc - "Prove it Sammy." J £ "You can take five cc.'ts for a cake of £ / scouring soap," says Sam, "and you can get a cake of SAVE-A- 5 % CENT and have a penny left." % i "Impossible,"-said the teacher, "you can't take five cents from >[ ; f five cents and have a cent left." S i 5 Just then tlie closing bell rang—but Sam had to stay in after £ Ji school because teacher heard him sayln under his breath. "Well you 5 ; / ;an't expect no old maid school teacher to know nothing 'bout sensible !• i ? subjects like scouring compounds." „■ , ? I thought the same thing meself—so did Susie Smart—but we wuz £ •J *'ise enough to keep quiet. Yours respectfully, J Monday. SLIM STEVE. Ji I;; SAVE-A-CENT •; Soft Scouring Compound i i does everything any scouring pow- h H t der does, does it more easily and [1 1 5 lasts as long as any three 10c cans. I// 1 5 because it does not waste. Yet it Oft h// I ? costs only 4c, at any grocer's, while "y I «r cans of scouring powder cost 5c / J J and 10c. ; I "Try it for Soodness us or Convenience Snyder, Millie Minnich, Ruth Color, Sarah Sharp, Margaret. Snyder. Mary Umholtz, Mary Miller, Thelma Yergey, Leah Mucher, Florence Buckley, Ruth Potticher, Beatrice Botdorff, Joseph Mack, Annie Kerr. Lillie Kerr, Ueorge Kerr, Annie Morgan and Charles Um holtz. The family will go to Chris tiana, Lancaster county, where Ilia Rev. Mr. Kerr has been stationed. 7
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