WOMEN'S INTERESTS
| "THEIR MARRIED LIFE" I
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"But I don't think you ought to go
down there to-day, Mrs. Curtiss?" re
monstrated Mary.
"But this is the first chanca X have
had to do something for the club,
Mary,' and I promised. Yes, I really
must go."
"It's so hot you'll be exhausted be
fore you have been out ten minutes.
You know how you mind the hoat.
ma'am." Mary knew Heten pretty
well and was genuinely attached to
her. If Helen had not been so deter
mined to get out and do somthing she
might have heeded Mary advice.
The heat did affect her terribly as
she expressed it, she felt like a wilted
rag from the beginning of July until
the middle of September. But her de
termination to do something in the
world had led her to take an active
part in the Current Events Club, and
this was the first opportunity that she
had had to call on a woman who need
ed advice.
Helen had dressed as cooly as possi
ble. She wore a frilly blouse and a
white linen skirt with a plain little hat.
She wanted to be inconspicuous, but
she looked sweet and altogether smart,
much more so than she imagined. She
had the address in her pocketbook, and
as near as she could make out, she
was to take the subway to Spring
street and then walk to her destin
ation in one of the most crowded parts
of the city.
Helen knew little or nothing about
the way people lived. Of course she
had heard indirectly of the poverty
and squalor, but she thought these
conditions were painted worse than
they were. She knew Warren would
be furious at her for taking a trip of
this kind, and after she had reached
Spring street and began to walk the
heat made her head swim.
She reached the house at last. It
had a stone stoop and an areaway
crowded with pails. Some children,
dirty and ragged, played in the gut
ter, and they stared at her curiously
as she paused. An old woman sat on
the top step against the grimy dooor.
and as Helen went slowly up the steps
she moved a trifle.
Helen Asks For Information
"Could you tell me where Mrs.
Mapes lives?" Helen asked sweetly.
The woman started at her, a cun
ning lobk in her little eyes. "Mapes,
you want Miss Mapes?" she queried.
"Fourth floor back; she ain't in a good
humor to-day; better come back some
other time."
"But I want to sec her to-day," Hel
en protested.
"All right, it ain't nothing to me, go
on up," and the old woman shrugged
her shoulders and turned away as
though she were washing her hands of
the entire matter.
Helen began to climb the ill-smell
ing stairs. Rubbish was piled in heaps
on the landings, and once in a while
she caught a glimpse of family life
through half-open doors. Women
peered at her, and children came out
and stared openly. Helen was like a
being from another world, but she was
determined to see the woman she had
set out to see.
The fourth floor was dark and ap
parently deserted. Helen picked out
the door nearest the back and knock
ed. After a moment there was a shuf
fle of feet and an unkempt head was
pushed out.
"What do you want?" inquired a
woman's surly voice.
"I want to see you," Helen said
clearly.
"Well, I' don't want to see you. I
know who sent you; one of them clubs,
where everyone has plenty of money
and thinks they ought to butt in on
people who haven't so much."
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"But 1 don't want to butt in," Helen
declared. "And besides," she said,
smiling a little, "I haven't much
money, so you needn't be afraid to let
me come In for a few minutes. I'm
awfully warm."
The woman was evidently surprised
at these tactics and opened the door
a little wider. For a moment she
stood inspecting Helv> from head to
foot and then with a bitter laugh, she
opened the door wide enough to enter.
"It's so hot out to-day," Helen re
marked, looking about out of the
corner of her eye. although she pre
tended to be looking straight into the
eyes of the woman who started at her
belligerently. "May I sit down?"
The woman placed a chair and sat
down awkwardly on a stool opposite
Helen. _ „,, .
"What do you want with me? she
asked again. "I know the line of talk
you're going to hand out, all about try
ing to live better, and making the best
of what I got. I guess you ain't never
had as little as I have, or you wouldn t
be coming around here bothering me "
A New Situation
The room where Helen was sitting
was small and dark. The light came
from the back, and there was only
one window. There were very few
pieces of furniture, but the room was
comparatively tidy, at least it was a
welcome relief from the dirt and fllth
outside.
"I suppose you want to ask me about
my husband." the woman interrupted
Helen's thoughts, "and if he is giving
me enough to live on. Well, he aln t.
there's another woman now, one of
them cheap little girls he met at a
corner. The last woman who came
here to see me, wanted me to try to
make the place more inviting for him.
They said it my fault, that a wo
man could do anything these days.
Go on, if you have some of that stuff,
I'll hear you then you can-get out and
leave me alone."
"But I don't want to tell you any of
those things."" Helen said quickly.
"Why should I? I didn't even know
your husband wasn't good .to you.
They didn't tell me."
Helen was thinking rapidly. For
the first time in her life she realized
what it was to be poor, and to have
outside Interference coupled with the
troubles that came from within. Per
haps the Current Events Club did not
realize that in a case of this kind any
good that it might do must be accom
plished carefully. Already they had
done more to make this woman bitter
than to help her. (i
"I was asked to come to see you,"
Helen explained, choosing her words
carefully, "and I thought you might
tell me a little bit about yourself and
I could tell you a little bit about my
self, and we might get to know each
other. I think you could help me as
much as I could help you."
The woman at her incredu
lously.
"I mean It," Helen went on. "I
know what you need. You'd like to
make a little money in your spare
time, so that you could be more inde
pendent."
"What could I do?" the woman said
scornfully, although Helen noticed
that a trace of interest had come into
her face. Again Helen thought rapid
ly. If the woman could sew, plenty of
plain sewing might be had for her. It
seemed that what was needed here was
a little interest in life, independence,
perhaps, surely not patronage. As for
improving the woman's domestic af
fairs, that would come later.
(Another Incident in tills Interesting
series will appear here soon.)
Social fimtes
Story No. 14
THE MUSIC SWINDLER
Plat by Qaaraa IrtnMn Howard.
Navalizatian by Hugh O. Wair.
Copyright Kalam Company.
(Contlaned from Te'tertar,)
Back In the girla* flat, Mona, at
about thla same time, was relating
gleefully to a little audlonce, consist
ing of Carson. Grant and Winnie An
drawa, the details of Herrman'a visit
and Mary's epectacular Intrusion. Car
son listened to her atory with an un
usual gravity.
"You don't aeem aa enthusiastic as 1
expected you to be!" the girl cried
suddenly, looking up at him,
Carson ehook his head. "I And that
man. Herrman, la a dangerous charac
ter—the kind that would stop at noth
ing to aave himself If he fancied him
self in a tight corner. Besides—" H«
broke off suddenly, and stealing to th»
hall door of the fiat, auddonly threw 1:
open. A crouching man outside wat
almost precipitated Into the room, ant
the next moment Carson had fastened
his hand In the other's collar anl
yanked hlra to his feet. Mona repressei
a cry as she aaw that the Intruder was
cone other than the so-called theatri
cal "manager," whom Herrman had
presented to them earlier In the dar.
There was another cry of recognition-*
this time from Winnie Andrew*.
Carton Quickly Yanked the Fellow
to Hi* Feet.
"You villain!" burst out the girl, Im
pulsively, springing toward him. "He !»
tbo scoundrel who posed as a money lender,
and killed my poor father!" she cried
Carson compressed bis lips grimly, and
draggod the man across the room to aa
inner bedroom. Into which he thrust him.
and locked the door. Without a word IK
sprang to the telophone and called the offlo
of the Twentieth Century Vocal Academy
A moment later Mary's voice greeted him
over the wire, and he was explaining wh.it
had happened. In return, the girl toVl
briefly of her Interview with Herrman ard
Us result.
"If you can hold the man for half tn
hour," she finished, "It will give me time M
finish. Do you think you can do It?"
"We can hold him all night!" said Carson,
but be was mistaken. When he opened the
bedroom door be sprang Into the room with
cry of dismay. The window was open, and
as he reached it he was Just in time to se<
the prisoner leap from the fire escape to th<
ground below, and disappear into tne dark
ness.
Carson darted back to the telephone an<
again called the number of the Vocal Acad
emy. but there was no answer. Frantically
be importuned the central exchange find
what was wrong.
In the meantime, Mary, awaiting the pro
fessor's return, In Herrman's private office,
was engaged In one of the moat excit'ng ex
periences of her life. It was not due to r>.
defective connection that Carson's second
call failed of an answer, fer the girl beard
the bell, and bad even taken the receiver from
the book to reply when she was h«ld rlglrt
with terror. The door bad burst open, and
the figure of Herrman's accomplice, tho
pseudo theatrical "manager," darted toward
nor.
She dropped the receiver, and was backing
away from the desk, when her glance fell
01. an open drawer, in which was > revolver.
Desperately she snatched It. and leveled It
toy ard the advancing man just as his arm*
closed fiendishly about her. She felt herself
swaying, and tben her finger Dressed tho
trigger of tbo weapon, and she sank to tho
floor..
It was this shot, echoing dully over the open
wlro. which greeted Casper Carson, back in
tbo flat, as be tried In vain to establish a
response from Herrman's office. With a
S-oan he dashed toward the d»or, calling to
e others to follow htm. What had hap
pened? He knew Herrman's record well
enough now to bo convinced that tho man
would not stop even at murder. Had tbo
other, In a burst of rage and terror, killed
the girl who had tricked him?
In the offices of Herrman, Mary Burnett
lay motionless on the floor, her white faco
upturned to the light. Th* man, bcndlnn
over her, Bprang back with a gasp of mortal
terror. In his eyes was the look of a hunted
animal at the thought that tie woman at his
feet might be dead. Cruablsg his hat down
on his head, be darted out at the door, leav
ing the motionless girl behind him.
As the door banged shut. Mary raised
herself dizzily on an elbow, aad surveyed
her surroundings. She had not been shot—
but had collapsed under the neruus shock
of the situation. Now rte caugat hold of
the desk, and managed to scramble uncer
tainly to her feet aa the door opened again,
.and Professor Herrman walked In. For a.
second, the girl thought that he, too. had'
learned of the trap, but she was mistaken.
With a snarl, Herrman tossed a bundle of
bank notes onto the deski.
Mary tucked them Into her bacd-fcty. and
on a sudden thought, draw * pr,l of paper
toward her and scribbled a receipt.
man took it with a oneer. Before he could
docipbcr its contents, she walked to the door,
and preassd the elevator button. Two min
utes later she was in the street—and in tho
arms of Mona. who was the first of Casper
Carson's rescue party to spring from tho
taxlcab. that* had paused outside tbe build
ing. Mary disengaged herself from the
other's embrace, ana. reaching Into her hand
bag. extended the bundle of bank notes to
Winnie Andrews.
"I think this money Is rightfully yours,
dear!"
Upstairs In his office. Professor Herrman
had Just finished reading the following re
ceipt : »
"Thanks for the return of the five thou
sand dollars you swindled Miss Winnie An
drews out of! You will be overjoyed to
know, too, that the woman upon whom you
were calling «onlght Is also my accomplloe.
Call again! We shall all be waiting tor
you wuh open arms—and an officer!"
Herrman slowly crumpled the paper Is
bis band, and smothered an oath. Even
•Mfes would not do Justice to bis snuXkMU I
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FIGHTING AMID
ETERNAL SNOWS
Mountain, 11,500 Feet High
Scene of Battle Between
Italians and Austrians
Headquarters of the Italian Army,
July 20. (Correspondence of the As
sociated Press.) Adamello, which
Virgil crowned "King of the Italian
Alps," is the most elevated spot in the
world where war has ever been waged.
Through the courtesy of the Italian
general staff, which is desirous that
the world outside of Italy should know
the hardships of this unprecedented
campaign, the correspondent of the
Associated Press was the first civilian
allowed to witness the fighting on this
colossal mountain, which is 11,500 feet
high and covered with eternal snows.
The correspondent saw the moun
tain swarming with thousands of
white-clad Alpine soldiers, singing,
alert, eager, crossing glaciers, chal
lenging avalanches, charging the en
emy with fixed bayonets—all above
the clouds.
There the correspondent witnessed
the action of heavy artillery, a battery
of which fired from the highest point
in the world where artillery had ever
been placed or from which it had ever
been fired. It seemed almost a miracle
that such big guns could have been
transported in two months of hard
labor from a distance of fifteen miles
in one of the alleys below. Over two
hundred men had been required for
the dragging of a single one of the
pieces and at ame stage of the work
an avalanche had swooped down from
the mountain sides and swallowed up
the cannon and devoured forty of the
m The professional mountain climber
never attempted to reach the top of
Adamello, but in summer the view
of the surrounding Alps with Mont
Blanc, the Jungfrau, and Monte Rosa
In the distance is considered the best
In Europe. Winter and summer, the
fighting there Is under conditions that
prevail only in the Arctic regions.
There Austrians and Italians meet in
silent death grip, their deaths and
their deeds all but unrecorded save in
dry army annals, given but a brief line
in the terse bulletins of General Ca
dorna. .
While the Austrian and Italian can
non rumbled lazily, exchanging rude
courtesies, or seeking to dislodge aval
anches to better destroy and hamper
the enemy, awakening echoes that
leaped from dozdns of miles up and
down the abrupt peaks, the genial
Italian colonel accompanying the cor
respondent remarked that in no other
war had such fighting ever been, that
neither the armies of Hannibal, nor
Caesar nor Napoleon ever dared en
gage in such work, that their armies,
which did go over mountains not half
the height, were hardly larger than a
regiment of Alpine troops as to-day
organized, that above all they did not
winter in the mountains nor deal with
heavy artillery, nor drag up to these
fastnesses pound by pound, plank by
plank piece by piece, their food, their
supplies, and the guns and ammuni
tion.
Whole Line on Mountains
These conditions are not limited to
the Adamello region, but repeat them
selves on two-thirds of the Italian
front, or over a line of 275 miles of
mountain chains going from the Swiss
frontier down to the banks of the
Isonzo river from which can be seen
the "bitter" blue of the Adriatic, as
the poet d'Annunzio described it. Along
this line titanic struggles take pla>.e
daily of which the outside world never
hears. It took five days for the corre
spondent to slowly climb the Adamello
crest and in this period the Italians
succeeded in blowing off the top of an
other mountain called Coldl Lana,
which suddenly burst Into the air with
Its defenders who were on their side
trying to explode a mine which would
blow to pieces the Italian troops.
One of the curious facts connected
with this mountain front is that no
where have the song birds deserted it.
"If I were to write home that every
night I go to sleep listening to the
boom of cannon I would be readily be
lieved, but if I added that often
I lie awake for hours listening to the
liquid trill of friendly nightingales in
the nearby wqods, my statement would.
be taken for a soldier's yarn," said an
artillery officer late one night as he
and the correspondent stopped on
their way across a wooded little valley
to listen to a nightingale's song. "That
song is not an exception," he explain
ed, "I have crossed this valley about
this time of night for weeks on my
way to my quarters, and that bird is
always singing, no matter how violent
the artillery noise."
Birds Stick to Haunts
In the upper mountain districts the
correspondent noted that the skylarks
held to their usual haunts with the
same tenacity as the nightingales in
'the lower country, flying high in the
air until they went out of sight above
the snowy peaks, apparently undis
turbed by the whizzing of the shells
that went through the air hundreds of
feet above the soldiers.
This explanation was advanced by
an officer of the Alpini who had been
many years in the mountains: "These
birds are used to the noises peculiar to
the mountains, such as caused by the
cracking of avalanches, the rolling of
boulders from the peaks into the val
leys, and as artillery fire here makes
a noise not so very different from these
others, the birds are not frightened
away."
From here the correspondent re
turned by devious footpaths, on the
backs of the older soldiers of the re
serve, on sure-footed little donkeys, on
railway airlines that bridge the val
leys, to the lower country where the
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fighting is better known, along the
Isonzo river, where hills are hardly
more than a thousand feet in height,
where they drop to five hundred, three
hundred feet, before the line slides
off into the Adriatic.
That the new effort of the Italians to
advance will be unhandicapped by the
difficulties of a year ago, when no'
only men but small arms and cannon
were lacking, may be appreciated by
the fact that now the army is equip
ped with numerous heavy cannon, new
artillery, manufactured in Italy.
The correspondent saw these guns at
work towards Monte Kuk and Monte
San Michele, the hitherto impregnable
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hills held by the Austrians and aga.il
and again taken by the Italian soldieri
at tremendous sacrifices, only to bi
compelled to surrender each time th<
crests of the hills because of the laci
of heavy artillery to silence the
, I Austrian cannon.
PASTOR ACCEPTS CAUJ
Special to the Telegraph
\ Waynesboro, Pa., July 27. Th<
Rev. Dr. John M. Frances, of Sun'
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Waynesboro Lutheran church, to sue
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