8
OF INTEREST T
SHALT NOT FLIRT
By DOROTHY DIX
This is the eighth commandment of
matrimony:
Thou shalt not flirt with other
women, or roll thine orbs at the man
With whom thou fox-trotteth, for jeal
ousy is as cruel as the grave, and the
short cut to Reno.
One of the favorite amusements of
both men and women, who find matri
mony dull and monotonous, is to en
gage in what they call harmless flirta
tion. Which Is as If one exploited an
innocuous stick of dynamite or a. frol
icsome viper.
Now, the married flirts are not nec
essarily conscienceless villains. Neither
are they always traitors, or even really
untrue to the partners of their bosoms.
They are merely bored. They are vic
tims to the curse of domesticity, which
robs married life of all its illusions,
strips from it its pink chiffons, and
leaves it bare and bald and common
place.
Loves His Wife, But—
In his heart a man may still think
his Matilda Jnne a model of all the
virtues, and the pattern of what a
good wife and mother and house
keeper should be. If he had to marry,
he would marry her over again.
BUT—
Well, there is no alluro in making
love to your own wife when she listens
with half her ear to your impnssloned
vows and the other ear and a half
cocked to hear the bay cry. There's
no thrill in sending her favorite flow
ers to a woman who v/ould rather
have the price to go on a now pair
of shoes. There's no glamor of ro
mance in having a little dinner some
where with the lady who has the legal
right to face you across the table three
hundred and sixty-five mornings and
evenings a year.
And the woman who is bored with
the eternal roast beef and boiled po
tatoes of matrimony, and whose palate
cries out for something with a little
more pep and ginger in it, is tempted
along the primrose path of flirtation
by pretty much the same impulses as
her husband is. She, too, is a-hun
gered for romance, and, more than
that, she is beset by a devilish fear
that torments her and will not let her
rest.
Her husband has quit making love
to her. He has ceased paying her
compliments. He treats her with as
little sense of her being a woman as if
she were a feminine mummy of the
time of the Ftolmies. This raises a
horrid suspicion in her breast. "Am I
old and ugly already? Do Ino longer
K.eep Vigorous
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attract men? Have I thrown away
my bait or lost it?" she questions of
her mirror.
Disaster the End
Whatever the reason of the flirta
tions of married folks, however, there
is but one end to them, and that iB
disaster. You cannot play with the
fires of passion without getting burnt.
This is especially true of women.
A woman's flirtation may not bo skin
deep in sentiment. It may have been
Inspired by the moßt fleeting impulse
of vanity, just a whim to see if her
eyes had lost the goo-goo trick of her
girlhood. She may have merely writ
ten and received a silly note or two
or had a cup of harmless tea at a
restaurant. Her soul and her slate
may be absolutely clean, and in reality
she may still hold her husband as far
above the man she is flirting with as
the stars are above the earth.
Nevertheless she is running the risk
of wrecking her life and home. Thou
sands of women have been damned
for Just so little. She is miring l the
hem of her garments, and there will
not be lacking those who will point
out the stain and call her husband's
attention to it. And she can never,
never, never explain. And nobody
will ever, ever, ever believe the truth.
Least of all will her husband believe it.
When a married woman flirts it gen
erally ends In divorce for her. When
a married man flirts it doesn't end so
often in divorce, for necessity forces
wives to forgive things in their hus
bands that husbands do not have to
forgive in their wives; but it ends in
broken hearts, just the same.
There is no safe flirtation in which
married people can indulge. All the
ways of dalliance are closed to them,
and thoy stray over the bars at their
peril. Therefore, say to Cupid when
ho comes whispering in your ear, "Get
thee behind mei Satan, for I partake
no more of romance, except of the
wpll-known domestic brand that is
made at home."
Thus shall you keep out of trouble
and safe within the fold, for this is
the eighth commandment of matri
mony: Thou salt not flirt with other
women, or roll thine orbs at the man
with whom tlioa fox-trottcth, for Jeal
ousy is as cruel as the grave, and the
short cut to Reno.
(The next article will be on the
ninth commandment of matrimony,
"Thou shalt exalt no other place above
thy home, neither thy business office,
nor thy bridge table, nor any cause
shalt thou put before thy home, nor
neglect thy homo for it."
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Missing Lawyer and Wife
Are Found Alive in Shack
in New Hampshire Wood
Dixville Notch, N. H., Sept. 25.
Joseph A. Dennison, former assistant
district attorney of Suffolk county,
Massachusetts, and his wife, who had
been lost for nearly four days In the
wilderness of the northern foothills of
White Mountains, were found yester
day. They had suffered greatly from
exhaustion and lack of food and sleep,
but it was not thought their hardships
would cause permanent injury to their
health.
The Dennisons were discovered in
an abandoned logging camp on the
shores of Dead Diamond stream, in the
Dartmouth College grant, a wild sec
tlon of country near the Maine bor
der and ten miles from the hotel from
which they had set out Wednesday
afternoon for a stroll.
In seeking to return they had lost
their bearings in the almost trackless
woods and for two days had wandered
in quest of a habitation. Not until
Friday did they And shelter in an old
lnmber shuck, where they remained
too tired to walk any longer, and not
knowing which way to turn. Mrs
Dennison's feet were so /painfully
swollen that it. was doubtful whether
she could have continued much far
ther. i
Discovery of the missing: lawyer and
his wife was made by Earl Gould and
Scott Copp, employes of the hotel, who
had joined with scores of other per
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successful efforts they are entitled to
a reward of $1,500. of which SI,OOO
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Boston, brother of Mrs. Dennison, and
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HARRTSBUKG tfgjjfftl TELEGRAPH
Silver
Sandals
A Detective Story of Mys
tery, Love and Adventure.
By Clinton H. Stagg
Copyright, W. J. Watt & Co.,
International News Service.
(Continued From Yesterday.)
"Yea," Colton nodded gri'mly. "I
had them called oft to give you your
chance. That's why I was so careful
to tell you that Bracken would be
homo to-day. I knew you'd be desper
ate to get the thing before he arriv
ed. I knew that when I stole the
cryptogram the only thing you could
do was to come here and try to find
it without. 1 forced your hand at
every turn of the game. But your
slipping away from the hotel after
calling from your room that you
weren't to be disturbed was a master
stroke. You could have slipped in
again, and every employee of the hotel
would have sworn that you never left
it. Their Jobs depended on it."
"What a fool!" murmured Carl, and
there was a bit of awe in his voice.
"What a fool!" He touched the back
of his head tenderly. "Pity I couldn't
have got a jolt like that before," he
smiled grimly; then he glanced toward
the huddled, twitching Norman, and
a disgusted look came to his face.
"I'm glad you got him, too."
"What did he have to do with the
death of Nelson?" asked Colton sharp-
Norman raised his head. "I didn't
have nothing to do with it!" he
screamed. "He said he couldn't find
the crow, and I left him in a saloon
on the water front."
"He's right," growled Carl. "He
wouldn't have the nerve to push him
In."
"The waiter had the one missing
link," Colton said quietly. He reached
out his hand toward where the dis
trict attorney was sitting. "The feath
er?" he asked. Silently the attorney
extended it. "I thihlc this will find
the rubies," the blind man declared.
CHAPTER XXT
No Human Hand
Each person in the room leaned
forward to see the thing the prob
lemist held in his hand. Even Syd
ney Thames, who had seen the silver
feather before, looked at it with new
interest that the blind man's words
had brought. Was this simple thing
of silver the cause r the murder of
the man at the hotel and the death
of the waiter whose body had been
found In the river? On the faces of
those around the big circular room,
with its littered papers and torn-up
rugs that Norman and Carl had pulled
up in their frantic search for the
rubies, was depicted the whole ga
mut of human emotions. Silver San
dals' eyes were on the face of the
blind man, trying to read the thoughts
behind the words he had spoken. In
the eyes of Kuth Neilton was only
sorrow. There was no interest in the
thing that meant so much to her.
She seemed only to see the death and
suffering it had caused. Bracken
stared frankly his wmaaement. The
district attorney face held the same
puzzled look that had been thero ever
since he had visited the morgue. On
Carl's face was disgust, and he was
looking at the slouched figure of Nor
man with death in his eyes. Norman
looked down at the floor. McMann
and the square-jawed detective leaned
back comfortably, with their eyes on
their prisoners. Their case was end
ed. The Fee grinned frankly at the
effect of the blind man's words, and
shifted the perforated box a bit be
tween his knees.
"The cryptogram was as strange
as John Neilton himself." The blind
man's voice was very low, but the
words came clearly. "I puzzled for
hours, trying to find a solution by all
the known rules of cryptography. It
was not until I entered this house that
the answer came. That, too, because
of my blindness. John Neilton knew
that Silver Sandals could solve any
puzzle by the short, cuts and turns she
had learned in the years of working
over hieroglyphic fragments. So he
made the crow the key. She had the
crow. She was supposed to have the
cryptogram. But there was the silver
feather that he never spoke of. He
mentioned it once to the girl. Once
he told Silver Sandals the same thing:
Only a feather stands between you
and the rubies. She had never seen
the silver feather. What he intend
ed to do with it so that she would find
it when she was clever enough to re
member I don't know. But in some
way the waiter who was at the house
got hold of it. Probably he took it
only for Its intrinsic value and because
it appealed to him. Tha words of
Silver Sandals that Sydney told me
when I was bringing him from the
hypnotic state were instantly sugges
tive. Only a feather! Only a feather!
She remembered then. While we
were waiting she told me the facts.
She thought it was a feather of the
crow that was m-eant. Then Miss Neil
ton dropped the feather in her haste
to go away. I found it."
"Thf solution! What is the solu
tion?" Silver Sandals was standing.
Her husky voice made of the words
exclamations rather than questions.
She seemed to tower over the seated
girl like a great black specter in her
satin gown that she had worn in the
restaurant. She had forgotten every
thing else in her eagerness to find the
solution that the dead man had left
her as his legacy. Sydney Thames
realized, as did Thornley Colton, that
It wasn't the rubies nor the fortune
they represented that the woman
wanted; It was merely the answer to
the puzzle that she had been unable
to solve.
"As is the case when a really clever
person tries to work an unsolvabie
puzzle, John Nellton made it sim
plicity itself. It isn't a cryptogram
at all." It's a map!"
"A map?'' Silver Sandals took the
papyrus sheet, with its strange figures,
from the bosom of her dress. She
laid it on the table in the center of
the room. Colton, too, was on his
feet, walking slowly around the room,
touching the circular walls with his
hollow, slim stick.
"I said before that my blindness
figured the thing. I haven't proved
it, but I'm cortain. My lack of sight
has made step-counting automatic
and unconscious. I can't help it I
knew every lino of the cryptogram
because blindness has made the de
velopment of my memory an absolute
necessity. The minute I walkod down
the hall in the house here when I had
brought back Carl a peculiar thing
struck me. There were just as many
steps from the front door to a door
that led through a eihort passage as
there were crows pictured on the
top straight line of the papyrus; eight
I turned to my right. Three Btepsj
and there wae another door. A turn
to the left two steps, and I was in
this room. It is circular. You have
known that for years, yet because
your eyes had accepted It as a com
mon thing, you would not get the sig
nificance as I woulot, because I have
always been compelled to figure my
steps and the shape of things. From
the door, nine steps around the cir
cumference of the room."
Breathlessly they watched him
count off the paces. Then an exclama
tion of disappointment rose. He was
standing at a irindow, Sydney stood
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up with the others. The window
overlooked the grove of pines. Out
side of it a giant maple kept all the
sunlight from the room.
"Nothing there!" There words
came from Bracken disappointedly.
"Wait!" The command came
sharply from the blind man's lips. He
flung open the window. "Sit down,
all of you!" he ordered. They obey
ed meekly. On the window-sill he
put the silver feather. Then he step
ped back.
"Release the crow. Shrimp."
Colton resumed his own seat. The
boy lifted the cover of the box. With
a screeched "Caw, Caw!" the crow
fluttered out. It circled the room
slowly. It perched on the green
glass shade of the heavy light that
was suspended over the table by a
silver tube from a - raised design of
Egyptian scarabs that made a circle
in bas-relief as large as the globe it
self. They hardly dared breathe as
the crow walked around the heavy
glass shade, his head cocking from
side to side as he regarded them
with his wise eyes.
"Poughkeepsle!" it suddenly
screamed. "Pough-kee-psie!"
It seemed to see the shining silver
then. It swooped down, picked it up,
and was out of the window.
"Crows are the greatest thieves in
the world," Colton said slowly.
"They'll steal anything that has a bit
of shine, no matter what it is, and
hide it in some place they have pick
ed out. That's why the feather was
made of silver."
"He's takin' It up in the tree!"
The Fee was the only one who had
not been impressed into silence and
immovability by the weirdness of the
thing.
"Good-by feather," laughed Carl
jerkily. "It's Great Lord!"
His exclamation was only part of
the startled chorus. The whole heavy
shaded light and the design of scar
abs had swung downward. Where the
heavy raised ceiling decoration had
been was a square of silver. On it
was painted crows!
"The square design!" cried Bracken.
In the center were pictured, with
startling vividness, the under sides of
three crows, with their heads together.
And to complete the effect, six tiny
legs of silver cord dangled.
(To Be Continued.)
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SEPTEMBER 25, 1916
Chisel Jeweler's Safe,
Lost $15,000 in Gems
Baltimore. Sept. 25.—Defying de
tection from the hourly visits of a night
watchman, crackmen arly yesterday
c'uiseied their way Into the Inner re
cess of a 3,000-pound safe In the Jew
elery store of Steman and Norwlg and
escaped with gems valued approximate
ly at $15,000.
No window or door was broken, but
the burglars cut through the floor
ing and celling of (lie second floor and
used a rope to lower themselves di
rectly in front of the safe. Instead of
blowing the safe, the cracksmen broke
through from the door, cut away a. steel
plate half an Inch thick, broke through
six inches of concrete backing and
chiseled a second hole in a second steal
plate. Despite the large amount of
work done within the building and the
quantity of dust from the broken ce
ment, not a finger print was to be
found anywhere.
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Former Chorus Girl Sues
Her Millionaire Husband
New York, Sept. 25.—Mrs. Mable Cal
houn, formerly in the Ziegfeld chorus,
has begun an action against her hus
band. .lames Edward Calhoun, son of
Colonel John C. Calhoun, head of sev
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week alimony and counsel fees. The
papers are on file in the Supreme Court,
and the first hearing is set for Octo
ber B.'
Mrs. Calhoun says that recently her
husband and his father made $1,000,000
In an oil deal. In her complaint she
said, that it isn't money she really
wants, but "love—the essence of the
marriage contract."
After Justice Shearn set aside a se
paration agreement under which M.-s,
Calhoun had agreed to wave all litiga
tion against her husband for the sum
of SSOO, she began an alienation action
against her husband's father for SIOO,-
000.