WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG VSKV TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 14, 1917. ' FIRESIDE READING FOR WOMEN AND ALL THE FAMILY WOMEN'S I "THEIR MARRIED UFE" Copj-rluhl by lnrrntlojml Ntna Service m - The atmosphere of the ordinary home life had been almost Impos sible to bear. NeU had, of course, kept himself in the background, and Warren had tried MO hard to act as though nothing had happened an attitude so foreign to him that it made Helen ashamed of herself. She was too unsettled in her mind to say anything to Warren." As was usual in any misunderstandings that she ever had at home, she was anxi ous for things to assume their nor mal basis once more; but she was more deeply stirred than she had imagined she would be, and it took an effort to look at things dispas sionately, let alone to suggest some compromise that might solve the problem. In her talk with Frances, how ever, certain things had been sug gested to her, and Helen had taken them home and had thought them over carefully. Helen, in spite of the fact that she had faults, was not entirely unreasonable. She did know that underneath all her surface emo tions there ran the deep conviction that Frances and Louise had both been right in their estimate of the position offered by Ned Burns. Helen felt, although she did not admit it even to herself, that the main attraction that the position held for her was a desire to appear competent before Warren and her various friends, a feeling of pride that she had been selected to oc cupy a position of trust, rather than a real want of real work. At meal times, try as she would, the conversation lagged. Mary was unusually quiet, and Winifred would, look from Helen to Warren, a deep reproach In her eyes, as though she was at a loss to understand which parent was at fault. Finally, one mined to break across the gulf that night after dinner. Helen deter-1 had arisen between them and to ask Warren what he really thought about it. "Warren," she began, tentatively, i "I do think that we ought to talk this matter out, don't you?" Warren's reply was not encourag ing. "If you have anything to say, you might as well say it," he re turned, as he nonchalantly lighted! a cigaret. Helen reected quickly and de-1 cided that taking second placej would be fatal at the present mo- 1 ment. "Well, Warren," she returned, with more confidence than she felt. "I have something definite to say, and I hope you will be agreeable about It." Warren said nothing to this re mark and Helen continued, quickly: j "I have been thinking about this subject and I have come to the con clusion that, after all, you are; right." Warren sat up at this juncture' and looked as if he were ready to repitulate. Xo doubt If Helen had; cried a little, which she felt like doing and which she might have done if she had not progressed sev-1 eral degrees beyond the Helen of a j ■ ear or two back- things might! 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Helen sat back as she said this and waited to see what effect this would have on Warren. "Wasting your time?" he re peated. blankly. "\es, just that: and, although I I do admit that taking an office posi tion would not be t]fc> thing at all, I j have another promotion to make Ito you, and I do hl not take me long to fall easily Into my fighting stride, so that In a few minutes the man began to realize that be had at last met his match. His face became livid with rage as he founJ my guard Impregnable, while blood flowed from a dozen minor wounds upon his face and body. "Who are you, white man?" he hissed. "That you are no Barsoomlan from the outer world is evident from your color. And you are not of us?" nis last statement was almost a question. "What if I were from the temple of Is8us?" I hazarded on a wild guess. "Fate forefend!" be exclaimed, his face goinsr white under the blood that now nearly covered it. I did not know how to follow up my lead, but I carefully laid the idea away for future use Rbould circumstances re quire it. , (To Be Continued.) WIFE CANT DO LIKE HUSBAND What's Sauce For Gander Isn't Always Sauce For the Goose By Dorothy I)iv A young and pretty woman is mar ried to a man who goes out as soon as he has had his dinner, leaving her to spend the long, dreary evening alone. He diverts himself in going to theatres and dances and cafes with other women and men, and his wife wants to know if she has not the right to follow his example, and amuse herself also. Of course she's got the right, but she hasn't got the liberty, and if she tries following in her husband's footsteps she will find that they lead her, by a short cut, to the doors of the divorce court. What is sauce for the matrimonial goose isn't sauce for the matrimonial gander, and there are very few men who will stand for the line of con duct in their wives that they expect their wives to put up with from them. A man, for instance, resents it as unwarranted nagging for his wife to ask him where he has been when he comes home at 2 G. M., but any woman who stayed out until that hour and refused to furnish a per fectly credible alibi would have a chance to tell her troubles to a po liceman. She'd find the door locked and barred against her, so that she would never get in to make her ex planations at all. There are thousands of men who rarely spend an evening at their own fireside and who are perfectly happy and satisfied playing poker at their club, or drinking in a saloon, as long as they know that their wives are sitting up bored and forlorn alone at home; but let the woman either invite company in to relieve the mon otony of her life or put on her hat and go forth in search of pleasure, and the mischief's to pay. Ail Injustice Of course, this is bitterly unjust. If a man won't stay at home and try to entertain his wife, he should not object to her finding someone else who will, but as Mr. Cleveland remarked concerning another mat ter, it's a condition and not a theory that confronts us, and the plain truth of the matter is that no mar ried woman dares treat her husband as he treats her. There's one rule for the wife and another for the husband, unless marriage is to end in u grand explosion. Suppose a woman criticizes her husband's faults and weaknesses as freely as he criticizes hers. Sup pose. when Mr. Jones made a bad bargain in business or got gorge ously gold-bricked in a trade, that Mrs. Jones not only at the time told him how many kinds of an idiot he was, but embellished the incident with a few humorous touches and kept it to tell as her favorite dinner story. What would Mr. Jones do and say to Mrs. Jones for exhibiting him as a fool before company? We pause for a reply. Yet all of us know dozens of men whose main funny story is some mistake that their wives have made, and whicb they never fail to tell, though the telling brings tears of mortification to their wives' eyes. When things have gone wrong at the store, Mr. Smith bangs into the house and slams the door behind him, and appears with a face so glum that the children hush their prattle and the cat gets under the couch, and the wife scuttles to the kitchen to hurry up dinner. He storms and rages and grouches whenever he feels like it, and Mrs. Smith spends her time trying to soothe him down ana cheer him up and win all out of his black humor. But suppose Mrs. Smith tore up the earth every time anything went amiss in the kitchen: suppose when her husband came home from work he found her glooming around, and she only grumbled when he spoke to her—would husband offer himself as a lightning rod to carry off her bad temper? Not much! He'd put on his hat and go out and find some place with a serener atmosphere. A Man's Possibilities And —whisper it low, sisters—why shouldn't a man take as much trouble to keep himself young and slim and straight-fronted and well-dressed and attractive to retain his wife's love, as a woman does to keep her hus band interested in her? Every woman is deathly afraid of getting fat and triple-chinned lest she be less alluring to her husband at forty-five than she was at twenty. But do you ever hear of a middle-aged man, who is getting bald-headed and bay-win dowed, worrying for fear that his wife will find him less attractive at fifty than he was at twenty-five? It doesn't even occur to a man that his wife could quit loving him or get tired of him, but he expects her to keep hustling to keep him perpetually fascinated. Suppose also a woman should treat her husband when he is sick as he treats her. When Mr. Brown comes home and finds Mrs. Brown sick, he is anxious for her to have a doctor and a nurse, and quarts of medicine if she needs it. Having duly pro vided these, he tiptoes over to the bed and says how sorry he is that his dear Maria is suffering, but he's no good in a sick room, and so he fares forth to the theatre or some other place of diverson where his mind will be taken off of the thought of how uncomfortable things are at home with illness in the house. But when Mr. Brown is sick, if dear Maria isn't on the job every minute of the time, if she isn't hold ing his hand and looking scared, and shedding sympathetic tears, why, he considers himself the most ill-used man on earth, and should she go forth to spend the evening while he was sick in bed he would never for give her for it. All of which goes to show that there is one code of matrimonial pro cedure for the man and another for the woman, and that any wife who attempts to treat her husband the way he treats her had as well pack her trunk for Reno. Copyright, 1913, by DoubUday, Pago 4 Co. (Continued.) The game was roulette. Johnny and the dealer evidently recognized each other, for a Hash of the eye passed be tween them, but they gave no other : sign. Johnny studied the board n mo ment, then laid In coin on one lof ' the numbers. The other players laid out small bags of gold (lust. The wheel spun and the ball rolled. Two of the men lost. Their dust was emp tied Into a drawer beneath the table and the bags tossed back to them. The third had won. The dealer deftly estimated the weight of his bet, lifting it In the flat of his left hand, then spun several gold pieces toward the winner. He seemed quite satisfied. The gambler stacked a roll of twenty dollar pieces, added one to them and ' thrust them at Johnny. I had not re alized that the astounding luck of win ning off a single number had befallen : him. "Ten to one—s22o!" he muttered to me. The other three players were laying their bets for the next turn of the wheel. Johnny swept the gold pieces into his pocket and laid back the orig inal stake against even. He lost. I Thereupon lie promptly arose and left : the building. I followed him to the hotel some what gloomily, for 1 was now the only member of our party who had not made good the agreed amornt of tLa partnership. It is significant that nev er for a moment did either Johnny or myself doubt that Talbot would have the required sum. Johnny, his spirits ; quite recovered, whistled like a lark. We arrived just in time for the first supper call and found Talbot and | Tank awaiting us. Yauk was as cool and taciturn and nodded to us as In differently as ever. Talbot, however, was full of excitement. His biscuit brown complexion had darkened and flushed until he was almost Spanish black, and the little devils in his eyes led a merry dance between the sur face and unguessed depths. He was also exceedingly voluble and, as usual when In that mood, aggravatingly indi rect He Joked and teased and carried on like a small boy and Insisted on or dering an elaborate dinner and a bot tle of champagne In the face of even "Tn to one—s22o!" he muttered to mo. Johnny's scandalized expostulations. When Johnny protested agairt ex penditure It was time to look out. We lit our pipes and sat down at one end of the veranda, where we would not be interrupted. "Fire ahead, Yank," advised Talbot. "There's two ways of going to the mines," said Yank. "One is to go over land by horses to Sutter's Fort or the new town of Sacramento and then up from there Into the foothills of the big mountains way yonder. The other Is to take a boat and go up river to Sacramento and then pack across with horses." "How much is the river fare?" asked Talbot. "You have to get a sailboat. It costs about S4O apiece." "How long would it take?" "Four or five days." "Aud how long from here to Sutter's Fort by horse?" "About the same." "Depends, then, on whether horses are cheaper here or there." "They are cheaper there. Or we can get our stuff freighted In by Greasers and hoof it ourselves." "Then I should think we ought to have a boat." "I got one," said Yank. "Good for you!" cried Talbot. "You're a man after my own heart! Well, Johnny?" Johnny told his tale a little proudly aud produced his required $220. "You had luck," said Talbot noncom mlttally, "and you ran a strong risk of coming back here without a cent, didn't you? I want to ask you one question. Johnny. If you had lost would you have been willing to have taken the consequences?" "What do you mean?" asked Johnny blankly. "Would you have been willing to have dropped out of this partnership?" Johnny stured. "I mean," aald Talbot kindly, "that you had no right to try to get this money by merely a gambler's chance unless you were willing to accept the logical result If you failed. It Isn't fair to the rest of us." "I see what you mean," said Johnny slowly. "No; I hadn't thought of It that way." "Well, as I said, you had luck," repeated Talbot cheerfully, "so we needn't think of It further." It was characteristic that Johnny took this veiled rebuke from Talbot Ward in a meek and chastened spirit. From any one else Ills high temper could never stand even a breath of criticism. "How about you. Frank?" Talbot asked me. I detailed my experiences In a very few words and exhibited my gold slug. "That's the best. 1 can do," I ended, "and half of that does not belong to me. 1 can, however, In a few days scrape up the full amount. There is plenty to do here. And, barring bull luck, like Johnny's, I don't see much show of boating that unless a mau set tled down to stay here." Talbot stared at me rumlnatively un til I begun to get restive; then lie with drew his eyes, lie made no comment. "I suppose you have your money," suggested Yank to him after a pause. "Oh, yes," said Talbot as though awaking from profound reverie. "Well, tell us about It. llow did yon get It? llow long did it take you?" "About half an hour. I figured that everybody iu a place like this would be wanting news. So I sorted out that bundle of old newspapers you fellows were always laughing at, and I went out and sold them." "How much did you get for them?" asked Johnny. "A dollar apiece for most and 50 cents for the rest. I came out $270 ahead all told. That, with Frank's and my $lO, gave me SCO above the necessary amount." Johnny arose and kicked himself sol emnly. "For not guessing what newspapers were good for," he explained. "Goon! What next? What did you do with the rest of the day?" CHAPTER X. Talbot Deserts. TALBOT leaned forward, and all the nnlmatlon of the dinner ta ble returned to his manner and to his face. "Boys," said he earnestly, "this Is tue most wonderful town that has ever been! There has been nothing like It In the past, aud tfiere will never be anything like it again. After I hau sold out my papers I went across the Plaza with my hands in my pockets. Next the El Dorado there is a hole in the ground. It Isn't much of a hole, and the edges are all caving n. because it is sandy. While I was look ing at it two men came along. One was the owner of the hole, and the other sold he was a lawyer. The own er offered to rent the hole to the law yer for $250 a month, and the lawyer was inclined to take him up. After they had gone on I paced off the hole just for fun. It was twelve feet, square by about six feet deep. Then I walked on down toward the water front and talked with all the storekeepers. They do a queer busiuoss. All these goods we see around came out here on con signment. The local storekeepers have a greater or lesser share and sell main ly on commission. Since they haven't nuy adequate storehouses and can't get any put up again, they sell t! - 1 stuff mainly at auction and get rid f it as quickly as possible. That's why some things ure so cheap they can make pavements of them when a ship hap pens to come in loaded with one nrtl cle. I talked with some of tbein and told theui they ought to warehouse a lot of this stuff so as to keep It over until the market steadied. They agreed with that, but i>olnted out that they wero putting up warehouses as fast as they could, which wasn't very fast, ond in the meantime the rains and dust were destroying their goods. It was cheaper to sell at auction." "And a lienp more exciting," put in Johnny. "I went to one of them." "Well, I wandered down to the shore and looked out over the bay. It wa full of shipping, riding high at anchor. I had an idea. I hired a boat for $5 and rowed out to some of the ships. Believe me or not, most of them were empty, not even a watchman aboard. I found some of the captains, however, and talked with each of them. They all told the same story." (To Bo Continued.) jj THEY WERE RUNDOWN How often we hear it said of a man or woman that "they were rundown in health" which accountsfortheir present sickness. For that reason it is impor tant that when you find you tire easily, when your nerves are troublesome or your work is irksome, you should strengthen your system immediately with the blood-enriching, tissue-build ing food in Scott's Emulsion which contains pure Norwegian cod liver oil and is free from alcohol. Saott * BOWM, BloomMd. N. J- IMI 7