Life's Problems Are Discussed | This is the story she writes t me: j "Dear Mrs. Woodrow: I was mar- I ried when I was twenty, and have never known one happy day since 3 am twenty-seven now. WJen 1 first met my husband, he seldom | worked. I tried to help htm in ev- ! ery way, (and when we were mar- j ried I furnished our home. 1 also j kept on working, while he did noth- j Jng, knowing that 1 would support' him. When I was a girl I was very t philanthropic and being brought up ! that way 1 thought it my duty to him." I will break off my correspond- i ent's narrative here to say that the bother with most of us and the! fruitful source of many of our tron, bles is that we think with our hearts' and not with our heads. Good, judgment arises from a combination of the two. Xo faculty was given us to remain unused. Having minds, we were intended to think with them, and to think to some purpose; in the direction of our affairs. This girl, naturally kind-hearted! and sympathetic, was trained in the belief that she must always be help-; ing others, which is right in prin-1 ciple. But there's a sane way to ap- ! ply the principle and a foolish and j suicidal way. And right here wei come back to the old question, Ami 1 my brother's keeper ? I am not; j no one is. A higher, greater, more; omniscient power is his keeper andl mine. lam here to aid and encour-1 age him in assisting himself; thati is all. This woman's husband needed no! assistance. He needed a hard lolt.i He needed to be awakened to the, fact that he was a cur to ask a! woman to marry him and then allow j her to work to support him while! he loafed. And she, meaning to be kind and! helpful, was merely encouraging! him in his worthless, shiftless hab-! its and his determination to bene-! tit by the labor of someone else. Suppose a mother was so anx- | ious to save her baby suffering that! she would carry it continually in, her arms instead of letting it stand 1 alone and have many a tumble j learning to walk and many loud j wails because it fell and bumped its' nose? Would the child thank heri when it came to years of discretion ?! Hoes this man thank his wife for her sacrifices ? Far from it. Her letter goes on: "After three years a child was' horn. I could not go out to work. 1 so T had to take work in the house.! J also kept a few roomers who were| friends of my husband's. When tl)e ! child was two vears old I put him in! charge of a woman and went back| to business. Rut things got stead ily worse, and 1 was forced to leave j m.v husband and board with my child in order to support the little one. "After a year my husband camel and asked me to take him back.! claiming that he had changed; so! 1 gave him another chance. 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I /fssSKi Alterations Free "fgj OUR BIG CLEARANCE IF OF EVERY SUIT, COAT, \ MQ / DRESS,, SKIRT AND \ TO? / WAIST IS THE TALK OF 4 ii * THE TOWN DID YOU fhV M ATTEND? THURSDAY EVENING, HAJUUSBUTIG tIMHIfI TELEGRAPH! MAY 9, 1918. Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *•' ** *•* By McManus to leave him for the child's sake. "He now threatens to take m> child from me by force, saying that he will make his friends say thai I nm immoral. He says dreadful things to me which shock me. 1 work very hard l'or my living and try to be a true mother to'my child. He doesn't give even one cent to its support. But even so. he will not stay away. I am earning $lB a week and can take care of myself and the child. "As I am all alone and have no one to ask advice of. 1 ask you pitifully to please advise me what to do. Can he take my child from me ? I have no knowledge of the laws and know no one to ask about Ihem. My child is the only thing 1 live for, and it would cause me great pain to have him taken from me." If the facts are correctly stated] in this letter—and it bears every J mark of sincerity —l can say most ] emphatically that the husband can-1 not take the child. The wife hasj nothing whatever to fear from him.j Legally he has not a leg to stand ou.| On He cc/ntrary, it is he whoj should be afraid. His wife could sue him for the support of herself and the child, and he could be put in jail if he did not pay the amount decided pon by the court. She would also in view of the facts be able to secure a legal separation from him. together with the cus tody of the child. The law is .-ery reluctant in any; case to take a child from its i mother. It is only when she is proven to be in unfit guardian for! it and unable to give it proper care! that this is ever done. There could be no question of! such a thing in thi case, where' for years a woman has by her cwn | exertions supported not only her-1 self and her child, but a worthless! husband as well. She should refuse to be either! bullied or threatened or bothered by j him any longer. "Outwitting the Hun" By Lieutenant Pat O'Brien (Copyright, 1918. by Pat Alva O'Brien.) leeidcs to Fight It Out It had occurred rftim 1 that tlle amount -iaaSyr - <fs demanded was so ,j : . '■ fabulous that 1 - JFjAfc I might have signed ! tlie order without | any danger of its SH|K" -S! ever being paid, but nian - who had claimed to be be friending me. en deavoring to make ] capital out of my plight galled me so I that I was determined not to give in | to him whether I could do so in | safety or not. i "No, Huyliger," I replied. "I have I decided to get along as best I can I without any further assistance from you. I shall see that you are reason ably paid for what you have done, but I will not accept any further as : sistance from you at any price, and ! what is more, I want you to return ' to me at once all the photographs s:ind other papers and belongings of | mine which I turned over to you a : day or two ago." "I'm sorry about that. O'Brien." : he retored. with a show of appar j ent sincerity, "but that is something i I cannot do." "If you don't give me back those papers at once," I replied hotly, "I will take steps to get them, and I damned quick, too." "1 don't know just what you could ! do, O'Brien," he declared coolly, I 'but. as a matter of fact, the papers land pictures you refer to are out of 1 the country. I could not Rive them . back to you if I wanted to." Something told me the man was I lying. "See here. Huyliger." I threatened, j advancing towards him, putting my | hand on his shoulder and looking ; him straight in the eye, "I want those j papers, and 1 want them here before midnight to-night. If I don"t get them I shall sleep in this place just once more and then, at 8 o'clock to morrow morning, I shall go to the German authorities. gi<*e myself up, show them the passport that you fixed for me, tell them how I got 1 it, and explain everything." A Throat for a Throat Huyliger paled. We had no lights j in the house, but we were standing j near a landing at the time and the | moonlight was streaming through a ! stained glass window. The Belgian turned on his heel and started to go down the stairs. "Mind you," I called after him, j "I shall wait for you till the city | clock strikes twelve, and if you i don't show up with those papers | by that time, the next time you will i see me is when you confront me I before the German authorities! I am I a desperate man. 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I j would have been shot, as sure as I fate, for after all I had been able to I observe behind the German lines I ( would be regarded as a spy and | treated as such. At the same time I thought 1 de ! tected a yellow streak in Huyliger, j and 1 figured that he would not want |to take the risk of carrying out jmy threat even though he believed i there was a small chance of my I doing so. If I did, he would un doubtedly share my fate, and the pictures and papers he had of mine were really of no use to him, and I have never been able to ascertain why it was he wished to retain them I unless they contained something— : some information about me—which accounted for his complete change of attitude towards me in the first ! place and he wanted the papers as! evidence to account to his superiors and associates for his conduct to ward me. A Strange Turn of Affairs When he lirst told me that the plan of placing me in a convent dis guised as a priest had been aban j doned, he explained It by saying that I the Cardinal had issued orders to the I priests to help rfo more fugitives. | and I have since wondered whether ! j there was anything in my papers j which had turned him against me J ~ ' I Daily Fashion I 1 Hbt I I Prepared Especially For This f Newspaper | 11 COLLARS COMMAND ATTENTION The outstanding feature of this I Taiege voile frock is the large round | collar with ends plaited and slipped ! under the belt. Frills of accordion plaited net outline the collar and trim the deep cuffs. The vest is tucked as is also the skirt, tucks being one of the most fashionable forms of decoration for soft mate rials. If-preferred, the collar may be finished with deep ends falling over i the belt. Medium size requires 5 I yards 40-inch material. Pictorial Review Waist No. 7737. | Sizes, 34 to 46 Inches bust. Price, !20 cents. SkiH No. 7735. Sizes. 24 ! to 32 Inches waist. Price, 20 cents. and led hint to forsake me after all he had premised to do for me. For perhaps two hours I sat on that staircase musing about the pe culiar turn in my affairs, when the front door opened and Huyliger as cended the stairs. "I have brought you such of your belongings as 1 still had, O'Brein," he said softly. "The rest, as 1 told you, 1 cannot give you. They are no longer in my possession." X looked through the little bunch he handed me. It included my identification disk, most of the papers 1 valued, and perhaps half of the photographs. "I don't know what your object is in retaining the rest of my pic tures, Huyliger," 1 replied, "but, as a matter of fact, the ones that are missing were only of ssentimental value to me and you are welcome to them if you want them. We'll call it a beat." I don't know whether he under stood the idiom, but he sat down on the stairs just below mo and cogitated a few moments. 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Price sixty cents; Special Strength (stronger and more' active) ninety cents. —Advertisement. you turned it down and that's an end of It. "At the same time, I hate to leave you to your own resources and 1 am going to make one more suggestion to you for your own good. I have an other plan to get you into Holland and if you will go with me to an other house I will introduce you to a man who I think will be in a posi tion to help you." "How many millions of pounds will he want for his trouble?" 1 asked, sarcastically. "You can arrange that when you see him. Will you go?" I suspected there was something fishy about the proposition, but 1 felt that 1 could take care of myself and decided to see the thing through. I knew Huyliger would not dare to deliver me to the authorities be cause of the fact that I had the tell tale passport, which would be his deathknell as well as my own. Accordingly, 1 said I would be quite willing to go with him when ever he was ready, and he suggested that we go the next evening. I pointed out to him that I was entirely without food and asked him whether he could not arrange to bring or send me something to eat while I remained in the house. J,eft Without Any Food "l'm sorry, O'Brien," he replied, i "but I'm afraid you'll have to get 1 along as best you can. When 1! brought you your breakfast this: morning 1 took a desperate chance, j If I had been discovered by one of the German soldiers entering this! house with food in my possession, j I would not have only paid the pen-! alty myself, but you would have been! discovered too. It is too dangerous i a proposition. Why don't you go out by yourself and buy your food at the l stores? That would give you conll- s dence and you'll need plenty of it when you continue your journey to; the border." There was a good deal of truth in what he said and 1 really could not blame him for not wanting: to take '' n/ And You May Purchase Our Pianos on Very An initial payment and subsequent monthly payments will put any instrument in your home, and if you have an old piano we will take it in exchange. These are the pianos we sell —all known to you: Chickering Poole Sohmer Bush & Lane Mehlin Shoninger Haines Bros. Marshall & Wendell Kimball Foster & Co. They arc not the cheapest pianos sold in Harrisburg, but we believe them to be the best at any price between $265 and sßso—-below which it would be unsafe to go and extravagance to pay more. In additioji, we will place on sale today a limited number of good used pianos, at little prices, that should be seen at once. Store Closes at 6 J. H. Troup Music House TROUP BUILDING 15 SO. MARKET SO. any chances to help me in view of the relations between us. "Very well," I said. "I've gone without food for many hours at a time before and I suppose I shall be able to do so again. 1 shall look for you to-morrow evening." The next evening he came and T accompanied him to another house not very far from the one in which 1 had been staying and not unlike it in appearance. It, too, was a sub stantial dwellinghouae which had been untenanted since the beginning save perhaps for such occasional vis its as iluyliger and his associates made to it. Huyliger let himself in and tcon ducted me to a room on the second lioor, where he introduced me to two men. One, I could readily see by the< resemblance, was his own brother. The other was a stranger. Defies Three or Thein Very brielly they explained to me that they had procured another passport for me—a genuine one— whic hwould prove far more effective in helping to get me to the frontier than the counterfeit one they had manufactured for me. 1 think I saw through their game' right at the start, but I listened pa tiently to what they had to say. "Of course, you will have to re- Plant Supports Jor Tomatoes—looses —Dahlias Hydrangeas and many f S , other bushes and vines. """" The ADJUSTO is a practical.very cample, un | breakable, and, low-priced support which makes for more healthy, thrifty stock. It can be adjusted to any height, and will last a life time. Auk your ilosli-r r write im. FORREST SEED CO., Cortland.N. Y. 7 turn to us the passport we gave you before we can give you the real one." said Huyllger's brother. "1 haven't the slightest objection." I replied, "if the new passport Is all you claim for it. Will you let me see it?" 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