77i£ Four of Hearts A Serial of Youth and Rma(* By Virginia Van Dr AVRtfr I CHATTER LVIV Copyright, 1918, by Star Co. I She could not marry Gerald Stew- : art. That was the conviction that im-j pressed itself upon Cynthia Long's | mind after she parted from Milton j YanSaun. In stead of going directly to her uncle's house, she crossed Fifth I avenue into Central Park, walking { rapidly, as if the exercise would , help calm her mental turmoil. She had always known that a| loveless marriage was a sin. Yet I she had promised to enter into such a union. She had done this because she was sorry for a man whom she liked and respected and who. she believed, loved her. But this after noon Edward Van Saun, with a i manner that made her feel as if her I own father were speaking, through him, had said things that recalled I that father's teachings. Then Milton Van Saun had voiced exactly the j same sentiments, and her heart had j echoed them. She remembered now | the look in his blue eyes. But she must forget that look, j That had nothing to do with what | her conscience was saying to her. She must not marry a man she did ' not love. What about Gerald himself? i Would he not suffer in the break- I ing of his engagement. It was the weak part of her na- [ ture that asked this question of her sterner self. She answered it | promptly. Even if he did suffer. | it would be kinder to allow him to endure that pain than to deceive him with the prospect of an im- 1 possible happiness. A fine rain like a Scotch mist had j begun to fall, but she did not no- I tice it, until, looking up the Mall. ( she saw the electric lights reflected ; in the shining pavement. Then, j with a sudden appreciation that her I i oat was damp, and that it was late, j she turned about and retraced her ■ steps quickly. It was seven o'clock when she j reached home. The butler who ad- j mitted her told her that dinner had ! just been announced. At the head ; of the stairs she met her aunt. Dora Out of Hearing "You are late, my dear." Mrs.' Livingstone remarked. "Why-—you ; are wet! Had you no umbrella?" "Xo." Cynthia admitted, "I did ! not notice that it was raining." 1 "Dora has gone to bed with a j headache," Mrs. Livingstone in- j formed her. "Please make no noise i in your room. I have shut Dora's : doors so that your light will not j waken her. I hope she is asleep. Hurry and change your wet things." j "Don't wait dinner for me. please. Aunt Amanda." Cynthia urged. "I j do not want any soup, and will just begin where the rest of you are when I get downstairs." "I will have your soup kept hot i until you come down," the matron ' rejoined gravely. "You must not neglect your health, Cynthia. 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New York ST'ougU Stilun Rpre..t*tiT—National Starch Co., 135 South 2nd St., Philadelphia, Pa. tha* can be rolled. ————————————— Cut shape and ———a———a———m try in hot Mazola. . WEDNESDAY EVENING, HAJmiSBTTRG TELEGRAPH MAV 15, 1918 Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *-* ' *m* By McManus \ HAVE THE If ) f-- I T] firVELL-VHAJ HOW 00 Do -MS jk-c-5. f| | SHOULD SAV IT run - IIM II ( l!' HOMOR or T/Md he would not call to-night, and that she might defer the pain jful scene for twenty-four hours. But ' she would not shirk it now. She had put her hand to the plough that must drive a straight, direct furrow. She dared not look back. Very softly Cynthia went about her room, changing her damp clothes for dry ones. Xo movement from Dora's apartments. Only a few minutes had elapsed when Cynthia Long presented her self at the dinner table. Mrs. Liv ingstone regarded her in surprise. "Well, my dear: you dressed very quickly!" she approved. "Did you hear any sound from Dora's room?" Not Much Satisfaction "None at all," Cynthia replied as she took her seat. "I hope she is sleeping. She seemed tired this afternoon." "I noticed that she did not seem as well as unsual," Cynthia ad mitted. "She was very nervous and ex cited when she came into my room after leaving you at the Van Saun's," Mrs. Livingstone declared. "I do not remember ever having seen her in quite such a ridiculous state. I almost lost patience with her, she was so absurd. But after I had talked with her, and she had rested a while, she was more like herself, although she insisted that her head ached so badly that she wanted to go to bed." Stephen Livingstone spoke his mind with decision. "I hope, Cynthia, that if you hap pen to be with Dora when she is as hysterical and as unreasonable as she was this afternoon you will discourage such nonsense. For that is what it is—as her mother and I made her acknowledge at last. I must ask you to back us up in this." "I hope she will be much better in the morning," she said lamely. And with this response Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Livingstone had to te content. (To Bo Continued) GOLDEN" EAGLES AT STMH RY Sunburj'. Pa., May 15. —The open ing session of the state convention of the Knights and Ladies' of the Golden Eagle was held in the Arm ory here yesterday when Burgess Charles W. Clement welcomed the delegates and turned over the keys of the city to them. A feature of the convention was the big parade this afternoon in which cormnanderles from Erie, Pittsburgh. Philadelphia, Reading and other cities took part, i "Outwitting By Lieutenant Pat O'Brien (Copyright, 191S, by Pat Alva O'Brien.) , A Night of Dissipation I ' ,<*'" 1 The place began 10 ti 1 I up rapidly. [ J^HLSr°* x N Kvery second per t <■ son who came in f ip!P>** f ; the door seemed to I f ! nie to be a German ; i soldier, but when ■> they were seated at ,• ■ the tables and I 1 ti- K°t a chance later . s on to make a rough count. I found that in all there were : , not more than a • I hundred soldiers in the place and ' I there must have been several hun - I dred civilians. 1 The first people to sit at my table I were a Belgian and his wife. The , Belgian sat next to me and his wife s next to him. was hoping that oth er civilians would occupy the re t maining two seats at my table, be . cause I did not relish the idea of having to sit through the show with ; German soldiers within a few feet 1 01 me ' That would certainly have spoiled my pleasure for the even : ing. Every uniform that came in the c.oor gave me cause to worry until I was sure it was not coming in I mj direction. I don't suppose there ' was a single soldier who came in the door whom I didn't follow to his i seat—with my eyes. Just before they lowered the t lights, two German officers entered. They stood at the door for a mo ment looking the place over. Then they made a bee-line in my direc j tion and I must confess my heart I .started to beat a little faster. I I hoped that they would fipd another j seat before they came to my vicin , j ity, but they were getting nearer and | nearer and I realized,with a sicken j ing sensation that they were headed I direct!} for the two seats at my . 1 table, and that was indeed the case, Germans at Same Table | These two seats were in front of i, the table facing the stage and ex ?, cept when the officers would be eat 'l ing or drinking their backs were to >jward me, and there was consider ! I consolation in that. From my ' seat J could have reache.d right over Vf ? ne of 'hem on his bald Ihead. It would have been been more than a touch, I am afraid, if I could have gotten away with it safely. As the officers seated themselves a waiter came to us with a printed bill of fare and program. Fortu nately, he waited on the others tirst and I listened intently to their or- i ders. The officers ordered some light wine, but my Belgian neighbor ordered "Bock" for himself and his kwife. which was what I had decided ; to order anyway, as that was the 1 only thing I could say. Heaven knows X would far rather have or- I dered something to eat. but the bill ] of fare meant nothing to me, and I 1 was afraid to take a chance at j the pronunciation of the dishes it set! forth. j j There were a number of drinks I listed which 1 might safely enough ! have ordered. For instance, I no ticed "Lemon squash, 1.50," "ginger beer, 1.—," "Sparkling Dry Ginger Ale. I.—"Apollinaris, I.—and "Schweppes soda, 0.80," but it oc curred to me that the mere fact that I selected something that was listed in English might attract attention to me and something in my pronuncia tion might give further cause for suspicion. It seemed better to parrot the Bel gian and order "Bock," and that was ; i what I decided to do. • Whetted His Appetite One item on the bill of fare tan talized me considerably. Although it was listed among the "Prizzan der 1 drunken," which I took to mean "Prices of drinks," it sounded very i much to me like something to eat, i and Heaven knows 1 would rather | have had one honest mouthful of | food than all the drinks in the ; world. I The item I refer to was "Dubbel i Gersten de Flesch (.Michaux),'' A double portion of anything would have been mighty welcome to nie, | but 1 would have been contented j with ii single "Gersten" if I had only I had the courage to ask for it. To keep myself as composed as ; possible 1 devoted a lot of attention I to that bil|y of fare, and 1 think by the time the waiter came around 1 j almost knew it by heart. One drink | that almost made me laugh aloud j ! was listed as "Lemonades gazeuses," j | but 1 might just as well have intro- Iduced myself to the German officers ; j by my right name and rank as at- i i tempt to pronounce it. A\ hen the waiter came to me, I therefore, I said "Bock" as casually j |as 1 could, and 1 felt somewhat re- j I lieved that 1 had gotten through I this part of the ordeal so easily. While the waiter was away I had I a ohance to examine the bill of fare ! and 1 observed thai glass of beer! cost 80 centimes. The smallest j change I had was a two-mark paper i bill. I Apparently the German officers were similarly tixed and when they offered their bill to the waiter, he handed it back to them with a re mark which I took to mean that he couldn't make change. Can Tip in Any Language Right there I was in a quandarv. To offer him my bill aftei he had just told the officers he didn t have change would have seemed strange, and yet I couldn't explain to him that I was in the same boat and he ! would have to come to me again I later. The only thing to do, there-j fore, was to offer him the bill as though I hadn't heard or noticed what had happened with the Ger mans, and 1 did so. He said the samq thing to me as he had said to the officers, perhaps a j little more sharply, and gave me < 1 back the bill. Later on, he returned i I to the table with a handful of I change and we closed the transac-1 tion. I gave him 25 centimes as a tip—l had never yet been to a place | where it was necessary to talk to do I that. i During my first half hour in that theater to say 1 was on pins and needles is to express my feelings mildly. The truth of the matter is 1 was never so uneasy in my life. Every minute seemed like an hour, and a dofcen times I was on the point of getting up and leaving. There were altogether too many soldiers in the place to suit me, and when the German officers seated themselves right at my table I thought that >vas about all 1 could stand. As it was, however, the lights went out shortly afterward and in the dark I felt con siderably easier. After the tirst picture, when the lights went up again, 1 had regained my composure considerably and I took advantage of the opportunity to study the various types of people in the place. From my seat I had a splendid chance to see them all. At one table there was a German Medical Corps officer with three Red Cross nurses. That was the only time I had ever seen -a German nurse, for when 1 was in the hospital J had seen only men orderlies. Nurses don't work so near the first line trenches. Enjoys the Situation The German soldiers at the differ ent tables were very quiet and or derly. They drank bock beer and conversed among themselves, but there was no hilarity or rough-hous ing of any kind. As I sat there within arm's reach of those German officers and realized what a chance they had to capture an escaped British officer, I could hardly help smiling to myself, but when I thought of the big risk I was taking, more or less unnecessarily, 1 began to wonder whether I had not acted foolishly in undertaking it. Nevertheless, the evening passed off uneventfully and when the show was over I mixed with the crowd and disappeared, feeling very proud of myself and with a good deal more confidence than I had enjoyed at the start. 1 had passed a night which will live in my life as long as I live. The bill of fare and program and a "throw-away'" bill advertising the name of the attraction which was to be presented the following week, which was handed to me as I came out, 1 still have and they are among the most valued souvenirs of my ad venture. 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Try this receipt on! the family: Shepherd's Pie—Two-cups leftover I meat or fish cut in small pieces; one | cup gravy or soup stock thickened with 1 tablespoon barley flour or 1-2 tablespoon rice flour; 1-2 teaspooni salt; 1-4 teaspoon pepper. Put tIU diced meat or lish in baking dish, add sauce, cover top with mashed potato, brush with milk or fat and bake 20 j to 30 minutes. Potato Souffle—Four cups mashed) potato; 1 tablespoon melted butter or fat; 2 tablespoons milk; l teaspoon salt; 1-4 teaspoon pepper; yolks of two eggs; whites of two eggs. Mix all in the order given, beat thoroughly and last fold in the stiff ly beaten white. Pile in baking dish and cook until mixture puffs up and browns on top. Wanamaker Mails First Letter in Air to Capitol By Associated Press Philadelphia, Pa., May 15.—The new air mail postage' stamps were placed on sale yesterday at the Phil adelphia post office. The first ten were purchased by Postmaster Thornton who was followed by Ex- Postmaster General John Wana maker, who bought two. Mr. Wanamaker mailed the first 'etter in Philadelphia bearing one f the stamps. It was addressed to ostmaster General Burleson in Washington. The sale was in prepa ration for the inauguration of the air mail service to-day between Washington, Philadelphia and New York. 5 NATURALIZATION COURT JUNE fl Notices have been sent to aliens applying for citizenship papers to appear in court June 6 it was an nounced at the prothonotary's office to-day. No noticas have been sent to any subjects of the Central Pow ers as ordered by the Attorney Gen eral's Department of the United States. A number of aliens from the countries with which the United States is at war have made declara tions of intention to apply for na turalization. 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