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By MRS. WILSON WOODROW
"Dear Mrs. Wood row:
"Tell me, please, if it is wrong for
a girl to refuse to marry the man to
whom she is engaged because she
lias discovered that the feeling she
has for hjm is nothing more than
friendship, and not love at all.
"The thfixisbt of remaining single
all my life is unbeatable. I am ex
tremely fond of children, /jn/i to
think of spending the remainder b*.
my life absolutely alone is not to
be endured. Yet I feel the lat
ter would be a far more satisfac
tory life than to marry some one I
<io not love. I try hard to be cheer
ful and to feel that there may stilt
be some happiness for me, hut it
seems to me my sun has set and
there is nothing but darkness before .
me. It is because I cannot forgive
myself that I come to you for a word
of cheer and advice."
Evreybody at heart wants to do
the very best that he can with his
life. Rut. most of us are so busy look
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or sister has some dark secret in her
past which must be kept concealed
at any cost, or mother has some in
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TUESDAY EVENING, HABJRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH MAY 21, 1918. •
Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service *•* *-/ - *— * By McManus
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f THERE <oet> THAT MR*> JONEV YOU I>ARCAynC ~,u _ ,' ° t TH M t>o' I f ( —4U_ If I JL
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—A HERSELF- DV COLLY- THINK OF THE T ' V/HEN 1 CARRIED MY FAULT" + It\L L, Xl*
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the family skeleton, whatever it may
be, can be kept safely in the closet
is for the heroine to marry the un
loved man.The rest of the story is
that the unloved man either dies at
just the right minute, or else he wins
the affections of his unloving wife.
The other reason for contracting
the unwelcome marriage is a high
sense of honor in the girl which
which prompts her to keep her
plighted word at any cost to her
self.
Starting out with either premise,
the fiction writer can build up a long
novel. It has been done very, very
frequently. The long arm of coinci
dence can be used to jerk a lot of
events into place, and wind them up
neatly. And there's your happy end
ing. A fiction heroine would he fool
ish not to go on following the good,
old pattern, because, no matter what
she does, things will always turn out
so pleasantly for her.
But life is different and more ex
citing. One never knows just what
may happen next. From the stand
point of fiction, the fiction heroine
is all right; but from the standpoint
of life, she has always struck me as
not only featherheaded, but uncom
monly vain.
For instance, when the family
unite in trying to force her to marry
the unloved man it would be so much
more sensible for her to say:
"You got yourself into these dif
ficulties, and it's high time you
used your wits and your energies in
getting yourself out, instead of offer
ing me up as a sacrifice. I am quite
willing to work and to do all that I
can to help in the present emergency,
hut I am distinctly not for sale."
But the fiction heroine never
dreams of doing that. She is too
featherheaded.
And she is vain in this, that she
imagines that her grudging and un
responsive presence is a sufficient
return for a man's lifelong devotion
and perpetual maintenance of her.
As a matter of fact, the human
being does not live who wants to be
closely associated with any one who
feels either dislike or indifference to
him.
And now my dear unknown cor
respondent, to come down to your
particular case.
Although this man for whom you
do not care may feel wounded and
hurt, when you tell him that you do
not love him enough to marry him,
there will be enough chagrin min
gled wih his disappointment to help
him get over it very nicely.
And why cross bridges until you
come to them and make yourself
unhappy at the possible chance of
remaining single'.' If you are attrac
tive enough to have won one man's
admiration, you may be sure there
will be others. If not, and you are
fated to be free, why, that is not the
greatest tragedy.
But don't face life with the I
can-forgive-myself attitude. Stop
hugging your past mistakes to your
heart and worrying over them. For
get, forgive, ignore everything,
even yourself—especially yourself.
Stand free of such dreary burdens
as your real or fancied mistakes.
Yesterday's gone, and all the re
gret in the world won't bring it
back. To-morrow isn't here. You'Ve
only got to-day to be good ajid glad
in. Then be good and glad to-day!
Korniloff, Former Russ
War Chief, Killed by Soviets
Moscow, Friday, March 17.
General Korniloff, the former Rus
sian commander-in-chief, has been
killed in a battle with the Soviet
troops near Yekaterinodar. His army
of 10,000 men has been defeated
and is retreating.
The belief is expressed in gov
ernment circles that this ends arm
ed opposition to the Bolsheviki in
the south, as the remaining rebel
'jhief Filimonoff, is a small menace
with his little army of 2,000 men.
"Outwitting the Hun"
By Lieutenant Pat O'Brien
(Copyright, 1918, by Pat Alva O'Brien.)
11111-II Apparently they
, didn't understand,
I \ but one of them
JHH \lunteered to con
1| j duct me to the vil
j lage. They seemed
'.j in he only too anx
| r ' I dontly they realized
&*FhJ I was a British sol
when my compan
ion finally escorted me into the vil
lage, but he aroused some people
he knew from their beds and they
dressed and came down to feed
me.
The family consisted of an old !
lady and her husband and a son,
who was a soldier in the Dutch
Army. The cold shivers ran down
my back while he sat beside me be
cause every now and again I caught
a glimpse of his gray uniform and
it resembled very much that of the
German soldier.
Some of the neighbors, aroused by
the commotion, got up to see what
it was all about, and came in and
watched while I ate the meal those
good Dutch people prepared for me.
Ordinarily I supposed I would have
been embarrassed with so many
people staring at me while I ate as
though I were some strange animal
that had just been captured, but
just then I was too famished to no
tice or care very much what other
people did.
There will always be a warm place
j in my heart for the Dutch people,
i I had heard lots of persons say
j that they were not inclined to help
I refugees, but my experience did not
| bear these reports out. They cer
| tainly did much n\ore for me than
■ I ever expected.
1 had a little German money left,
I but as the value of German money
lis only about half in Holland I
didn't have enough to pay the fare
| to Rotterdam, which was my next
i objective. It was due to the gen
lerosity.of these people that I was
able to reach the British Consul as
quickly as X did. Some day I hope
to return to Holland and repay ev
ery single soul who played the part
I of the Good Samaritan to me.
With the money that these peo
ple gave me I was able to feet a
third-class ticket to Rotterdam, and
I was glad that I didn't have enough
to travel first-class, for X would have
looked as much out of place in a flrst
j class carriage as a Hun would ap
-1 pear in heaven.
I That night 1 slept in the house of
I my Dutch friends, where they fixed
|me up most comfortably. In the
morning they gave me breakfast and
! then escorted me to the station,
i Cheered as He Hoards Train
■ While I was waiting on the station
ia crowd gathered round me and soon
| it seemed as if the whole town had
i tin ned out to get a look at me. It
|was very embarrassing, particularly
'as I could give them no information
j regarding the cause of my condition,
' ulthouKh, of course, they all knew
! that I was a refugee from Belgium.
As the train pulled out of the sta-
I tlon, the crowd gave a loud cheer
| and the tears almost came to my
I eyes as I contrasted in my mind the
I conduct of this crowd and the one
I that had gathered at the station in
! Ghent when I departed a prisoner
en route for the reprisal camp. I
j breathed a sigh of relief as I
I thought of that reprisal camp and
! how fortunate I had really been, de
-1 spite all my suffering, to have escap
jed it. Now, at any rate, I was a free
! man and I would soon be sending
I home the joyful news that I had
■ made good my escape.
1 At Einhoffen two Dutch officers
• got into the compartment with me.
They looked at me with very much
! disfavor, not knowing, of course,
that I was a British officer. My
| clothes were still very much in the
1 condition they were when I crossed
i the border, although I had been able
! to scrape off some of the mud I had
| collected the night before. I had not
I shaved nor trimmed my beard for
| many days, and I must have pre
-1 a sorry appearance. I could
I hardly blame them for edging away
j from me.
| The trip from Einhoffen to Rot-
I terdam passed without special incl
| dent. At various stations passen
gers would get in the compartment
| and, observing my unusual appear-
I ance, would endeavor to start a con
: versation. None of them spoke Eng
! gllsh, howeve?, and they had to use
j their imagination as to my identity.
When I arrived at Rotterdam I
I asked a policeman who stood in
1 front of the station where I could
j find the British Consul, but I could
| not make him understand. I next
, applied to a taxicab driver.
"English Consul—British Consul
—American Consul—French Con
sul!" I said, hoping that if he dlchi't
understand one he might.recognize
another. •
He eyed me with suspicion and
j motioned me to set In and drove off.
j I had no Idea where he was taking
! me. but after a quarter of an hour's
j ride he brought up in front of the
J British Consulate. Never before
was X so glad to see the Union Jack!
I beckoned to the chauffeur to go
with me up to the office, as I had
no money with which to pay hjm,
and when he sot to the Consulate
1 told him that if they would pay
the taxi fare 1 would tell them who
I was and how I happened to be
there.
They knew at once that I was an
escSped prisoner and tfrey readily
paid the chauffeur and Invited me
to give some account of myself.
They treated me most cordially
and were intensely interested in the
brief accpunt I gave them of my ad
ventures. Word was sent to the
Consul-General and he immediately
sent for me. When I went in he
shook hands with me, greeting me
very heartily and offering me a
chair.
He then sat down, screwed a
monocle on his eye and viewed me
from top to toe. I could see that
only good breeding kept him from
laughing at the spectacle X pre
sented. I could see he wanted to
laugh in the worst way.
"Go ahead and laugh!" I said,
"You can't offend me the way I feel
this blessed day!" and he needed no
second invitation. Incidentally it
gave me a chance to laugh at him,
for I was about as much amused as
he was.
Afttr he had laughed himself
about sick he got up and slapped me
on the back and invited me to tell
him my story.
"Lieutenant," he said when I had
concluded, "you can have anything
you want. I think your experience
entitles you to it."
"Well, Consul," I replied, "I ;
would like a bath, a shave, a haircut
and some civilized clothes about as
badly as a man ever needed them,
1 suppose, but before that I would
like to get a cable off to America to
my mother telling her that I am
safe and on my way to England!"
The Consul gave the necessary in
structions and I had the satisfac
tion of knowing before I left the of
fice that the cable, with its good
tidings, -was on its way to America.
Then he sent for one of the naval
men who had been interned there
since the beginning of the war and
who was able to speak Dutch and
told him to take good care of me.
After I had been bathed and
shaved and had a haircut I bought
some new clothes and had some
thing to eat, and I felt like a new
man. .
As I walked through the streets
of Rotterdam breathing the air of
freedom again and realizing that
there was no longer any danger of
being captured and taken back to
prison, it was a wonderful sensation.
I don't believe there will ever be a
country that will appear in my eyes
quite as good as Holland did then.
I had to be somewhat careful, how
ever, because Holland was full of
German spies and I knew they would
be keen. to learn all they possibly
could about my escape and my ad
ventures so that the authorities in
Belgium could mete out punishment
to everyone who was in any re
spect to blame for it. As I was in
Rotterdam only a day they didn't
have very much opportunity to learn
anything from fne.
The naval officer who accompanied
me and acted as interpreter for me
introduced me to many other sol
diers and sailors who had escaped
j from Belgium when the Germans
' took Antwerp, and as they had ar
rived in Holland in uniform and
under arms, the laws of neutrality
compelled their internment and they
had been there ever since.
The Ijife of Those Interned
The life of a maj\ who is interned
in a neutral country, I learned, is
anything but satisfactory. He gets
one month a year to visit his home.
If he lives in England that is not so
had, but if he happens to live fur
ther away, the time he has to spend
with his folks is very short, as the
month's leave does not take into
consideration the time consumed in
traveling to and from Holland.
The possibility of escape from in-
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ternment is always there, but the
British authorities have an agree
ment with the Dutoh Government to
send refugees back immediately. In
this respect, therefore, the position
of a man who is interned is worse
than that of a prisoner who, if he
does succeed in making his escape,
is naturally received with open arms
in his native land. Apart from this
restraint however, internment with
all its drawbacks, is a thousand
times, yes, a million times better
than being a prisoner of war in Ger
many,
It seems to me that when the war
is over and the men who have been
imprisoned in Germany return
home, they should be given a bigger
and greater reception than the most
victorious army that ever marched
into a city, for they will have suf
fered and gone through more than
the world will ever be able to under
stand.
No doubt you will find in the Ger
man prison camps one or two faint
hearted individuals with a pro
nounced yellow streak who volun
tarily gave up the struggle and give
up their liberty rather than risk
their lives or limbs. These sad cases,
however, are, 1 am sure, extremely
few-
Nine hundred and ninety-nine out
psiim
Spring is in the air - the
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And to add io the zest of
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every So carry it always with you„
of a thousand of the men fighting I
in the allied lines would rather be in
the front lino trenches, fighting
every day. with all the horrors and
all the risks, than be a prisoner of
war in Germany, for the men in
France have a very keen realization
of what that means. 1 j
(To JSo Continued)
U-Boats Let Loose
z Off Norway Again
C'lirlsiiiinin, .Norway, .May 21. —Ger-
man submarines again have started
unrestricted warfare on Norwegian
fishing boats in the Arctic ocean
north and east of the Norwegian
coast. Fishermen saved from sunk
en vessels and landed at Hammerfesf
report that the commander of a Ü
boat stated that all vessels met by
him would be sunk. Norwegian
ships especially would be destroyed,
because, he said, the Norwegians
were, sending fish and seal oil to
England. This, however, is untrue,
as the export of oils is forbidden and
Germany knows it.
The U-boats are said to shell ves
sels without warning and, according
to the survivors, direct a Are against
lifeboats.
When the commander of one Ger
man submarine was advised that
Russia was at peace with Germany
he answered that he acted the way
it suited him. The U-boat measured
180 feet in length, and surprise is
caused in shipping circles that it can
carry enough,oil for a cruise so far
up the Norwegian coast.
BKKNT IS A K. F. CHAPIiAIN
New York, May 21.—Bishop
Charles 11. Brent, of the Episcopal
Diocese of' Western New Yot-k,' has
been appointed chaplain of the
American expeditionary forces, ac
cording to a cable message received
here yesterday.
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