| Lite's Problems Are Discussed Looked at from any angle there is no denying the (rrim note about war marriages. There is the thrilling background of war. the blare of mil- j itary bands, the fluttering of flags, | the marching and counter-marching of soldiers; these things cry out to instincts as old as man. They draw hearts together ill a spirit of consecration. The ceremony becomes one of "for God and coun try," rather than the simple mating j of a girl and boy in love. But this sort of ceremony demands j stouter hearts than the simple fire-! side romance with its delightful par aphernalia of trousseau, gifts, home making and all the spoiling and pampering that starts the young peo ple on life's great adventure. In considering war weddings one. feels inclined to think that some: conviction deeper than the usual love story must be back of these stark ceremonies. At least our vital statis tics record that 50.000 more mar riages than usual have been made during the past year. Reflecting on these figures, one is' almost inclined to believe that some, truer instinct, something akin to di-i vine inspiration, has warned these' young people that out of the human | wreckage into ' which war hasj plunged the race, comes the death- J less cry life must survive. This cry has hung out above the > din of battle to the women on whom j the burden of war falls heaviest —j the burden of suspense. It's the girl who always desides on' the war marriage. In the face of the unknown future, she is more cour-j ageous than her soldier. And with the frankness that is be coming characteristic of the modern , woman, she decides if the man she i loves must take his chance of life! and death for the greatest of human j < auses. the one thing that could i make the loneliness and suspense en- j durable would be the rearing of his < hild. Being a creature of inspiration—! 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One ton of coal is released for war work for every cord of wood substituted. "Save a Ton of Coal a Year" should be your motto. United Ice and Coal Co. Ferntr A Oorrdeit 8t. THURSDAY EVENING Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, Intenrational News Service *-* *■* By McM N L WAOX FOR f >1 I &EC, PARDON-?>* I _ 1 DIDN'T I ALL R*CHT < OT " f ° C ? O o >LU -HOW MUCH SUTTOU-ER- Ui- FAT Restaurant must I W- J *• ir> the. bao news? haven't included I , divine inspiration it would seem at times—her vision goes beyond the practical reckoning of dollars and cents. The colossal scope of the thing —a world-war in which her man is taking part—urges her on to assume any burdens: his return an enfeebled wreck, and the probable care of a child. Nothing is too great for her strength, if only she can help a little. Should She Be Allowed to Take Such Risks? But should this instinctive capac ity for sacrifice Vie taken advantage of. without a corresponding measure of resource for her to fall back upon? If life were only simplier, and love and sentiment filled the place of sordid cash consiiiprations. we'd all rise and sing 'The Star Spangled Banner" as the soldier and his bride walk to plight their marriage vows. But alas, life is not simple and in spite, of commissions, investigations! land other legal measures, the cost ( of keeping body and soul together; mounts day by day. And we are driven to the conclu-; sion that war marriage presents al- j , most as many different questions as ' i there are couples. Questions that are' ! beyond the control of the soldier and \ his brave little wife: questions that: ; bear upon a future that one of them I ; may not survive to share. ! Money is. of course, the great sol- I , vent of the war romance. It is cruel at such a time, when these splendid j lads are going away in the full glory I of their young manhood, to tell them Ito wait and run their chances of I ' coming home battered wrecks be- i .; fore marrying the girls of their j 1 choice. i But when a war marriage might 1 j create grave responsibilities that in ■ all probability may survive the sol- J dier. what else is there to say? i The Wage-Earnin: Capacity of the Girl If there is no inherited money in i the family to enible the young ; couple to marry, the next question to be estimated is the qualifications of the girl as a wage earner. Time and again 1 have had com munications from girls willing and eager to take any risk, to assume any burden, when the first glance at i their letters would make one ques i tion their ability to even look after themselves. Not every woman may assume the heroic role of being the mother of a war baby, or caring for some pitiful bit of human wreckage, when he re ' turns from "over there." This is the privilege of the special. ! of the self-supporting girl who has in j ' telligence. skill and ability to make a good living. Such a woman is in i the financially independent class, and hers is the privilege of choosing i her own fate. But for the girl who barely scrapes along on meager wages and who has | nothing to fall back upon in the way | of special training, the risk of a war i marriage is a risk indeed. I The next thing to be considered is the attitude of the girl's family, of the soldier's family, and if they are willing—and able —to help. The . assistance of a family of either would pre-suppose them to be people of means, and highly favorable to the i match. for no honorable man could ex-1 ' pect or endure the thought that poor: , old people were again forced to put I . their heads into the yoke for wife! or child of his. t And no stress of feeling, nor torn I ' hearts facing eternal separation I 1 justifies the selfishness of forcins 1 j poor old people to make over again i ! the sacrifices they made to rear their! i own children. Even if they should, ' agree to give up the comforts their | 'industry has achieved to make more' ] tolerable the evening of life, no i : young people of decent principles are j ; justified in seeking their happiness | : at such a cost. The intuition of the woman in re- j I gard to the war marriage is right; j ■ it is the conserving force, speaking; through the maternal instinct. 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Take two or three after each meal or whenever pain Is felt, and you will soon be telling your friends j how you got rid of stomach trouble, iße sure to ask for 81-aeala, every j genuine package of which contains a binding guarantee of satisfaction or J m™*v back.—Advertisement. HAHMSBURG TELEGEAPE " When a Girl By AXX LISLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problems of a Girl Wife [Continued From l'agc One.] 1 of his wonderful calling—l suppose I I I must have seen all this at a ! I glance. The Real Man I But what I really saw—what I caught and held my eyes were his eyes—gray and flashing like steel behind thick. curtaining black lashes. As he talked, they darkened j to smouldering black—or became ; j remote and green like the far ocean. He told so simply about his two i years in the Britisn Flying Corps before we entered the war—of his ' transfer to our own service—about j his fall and the Hunnish bullet that ! shattered the bones of his ankle — of the broken ribs that sent him a wireless even now. He was good- ' natured and smiling. But he was 1 as strong as a whole battery sent ■ against Germany. The boys fairly i poured up to volunteer. Later I met him. Afterward I couldn't keep away from the meet- j ines where he talked. I think I fairly ran after him— ■ but he didn't know nor try to run ! away. Yet that I, Barbara Anne • Lee. secretary to the editor of Hal dane's Magazine, ambitious young I authoress, woman-bent-on-a-career, should run after a man was some thing brand new! I am twenty-six and for about one-third of my years I have been refusing emotional admittance to the citadel of my heart and to my consciousness. A career was what I wanted. I had so announced to myself and the world. And now my "career" is to be Jim's wife! After a week of sneaking to meet ings where he was going to talk, a week of skulking—yes. skulking— after Lieutenant James Hunter Har rison. he walked right into this office ;to see Mr. Haldane about an article \he was to do for us. And Mr. Hal | dane turned him over to me. Old Friends of a Week i Lieutenant Harrison looked at me j as if he suddenly saw me. "Miss Lee and I are old friends— Iwe met a week ago." When we got to the little cubby j hole office I gasped out my amaze ! ment. "You meet so many hundreds of , people, how could you remember j me " I He laughed. "Your eyes—olive drab like our uniforms—more like amber perhaps I —or sunlight through old sherry." "You have a gift of words." I "You will help me with the ar | tides?" ! I lunched with him that noon and every noon for the week it took to i do his article over in shape for Hal ! dane's. And then my heart stood still, suppose—but as I placed the last period he ventured: Daily Dot Puzzle 25 J <2s • • * . Z7 2.. / 4 . * & •J 12 0 *35 #• '4 '. s 4 ,i * 4 * • 4o 1 P 41 'i^^' F Is for Flicker— This gay fellow sees That summer has come By the looks of the trees. Draw from one to two and so 01 to the end. | "Miss Lee —would you come out i to dinner to-night to celebrate?" J Two hours carried us further than ! a week of lunches had done. He asked my given name. "Barbara. They call be Babs." J "Barbara? It isn't you." "Barbara is my name, though. I Barbara Anne Lee." "Anne —Princess Anne! I'm al i most afraid of you. The German [ Big Bertha never got me—trem ! bling like this. Anne—it is smooth i and lucious like your lips, pale coral i made for Oh, let's get out of | '.ere!" In the taxi he took me in his j arms—and taught me what my lips j I were made for. And so we were I , engaged. To-morrow we shall be married, j . Our lives lie back of us in shadow- j j land—unknown. And the future lies ! ahead—unknown—in sunshine, I i pray, not shadow, j Oh, Jim, Jim. be good to me! I ! | love you so! I belong to you so ' j completely. Barbara Lee was a hap- ! j py, placid, busy girl—and unawake. ! | You have awakened her. dear. Ev-j ery fibre of her Is awake—for you. ' | On her knees she vows to try to ful ; fill your life in happiness! Jim, Jim. perhaps you are sleep ! ing to-night while I lie awake j through all the long hours that shall 1 bring to-morrow and give us to each other. But even in your dreams, | hear me, dear, and swear—swear |to make the Anne Harrison who 1 shall spring to life from Barbara i ! Lee's chrysalis, a happy woman —a j ! happy wife! (To be Continued Saturday In the Telofcraph) j j Advice to the Lovelorn THE GIRI. "TREATS" j DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: i I am 17 and intimate with a girl lof the same age. I happened to re ; mark one day that I would like to 1 see a play. She immediately announc , ed that she would like to take me to that performance, as she already had j tickets. I offered to pay her. She re , fused, so T suggested buying her a J box of candy. She felt offended. I admire and like my friend. How ever. I feel somewhat guilty in per mitting a "girl to treat me." j B. R. T. ■ Tour feelings were admirable, but I you were still a bit too young to j know how to express them in the . ; delicate, pleasing social way. Prob ! ably your girl friend was given the ' 1 tickets. No discussion of money and 1 paying her could possibly make her I comfortable. Nor when you asked to . i buy her candy would she feel com i fortable about accepting. Suppose you I j take her to the theater or send a i box of candy now. By showing her ' ' a little friendly attention and appre ciation. and not letting her feel that I you are trving to "pay off your in ! j debtedness," you will make everything : comfortable and pleasant. FI.IRTIXG WITH A SOI.DIEH DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: There is among my friends a young man whom 1 met through flirtation. Recently he left for camp and re -1 quested me to correspuond with him. i I have known him only a short while ; (two months), but in that time he i has proved himself a gentleman, and j I have come to value his friendship ! highly. Shall I comply with his request, or shall I terminate the friendship in view of the fact that it was based on flirtation? I dislike taking the lat- I ter course, but will take your advice. NORMA B. I heartily disbelieve In flirtation. I 'as heartily disapprove of making j someone pay for your blunders: You should have never met this soldier as ' you did: but now that he is leaving for I lamp and you are unlikely to see him i again—don't suddenly get "remorse." ; letters will mean a great deal to him, for he will be transplanted and lonely. I If you don't write he is likely to say I to "himself that you had no scruples I while he was giving you a good time j and developed them later when he I needed the cheering influence of your | letters. "My Feet Used to Swell So/' She Says Trouble Was So Ha