"When a Girl " , • By ANN LISLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problems of a Girl Wife CHAPTER XIII (Copyright. 1918, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) "Patriotism" is a word I have al ways been able to speak quite glibly. In fact I've always thought that I meant something when I said it Love of country waving flags cheering parades applauding noble speeches saving two dollars a week to pay for a Liberty Bond giving up candy so the Red Cross might have my money and the soldiers might share it also. I think this is about the way the war had come home to me up to the moment when I discovered that my husband, the man to whom I had been married less than a fortnight was going to oe caught up by the war again and swept over the sea to the battle fields of France. The day's events whirled cinema fashion across my brain. I saw a 1 moving picture reel. The apart ment Tom Mason had offered me the keys of Betty Bryce's home Captain Winston, rekindling before my eyes Jim's longing to be a sol dier again—the letter from tlie War department, which I had hidden lest his dismissal from the Army spoil Jim's dinner with another sol dier, one who was free to serve! I stood leaning against the bu reau where I had staggered for support at the moment when it came to me that perhaps my husband was not being "taken" by a cruel War department, hut might have volun teered to go back to France. There was silence between us. At last Jim ventured to break it. He spoke very gravely, and I felt that in the crisis love would not count in my favor. 'I did ask to be reassigned to ac ■ I I— II The Choice of the Epicure GOLDEN ROAST COFFEE 30c lb. At All Grocers R. H. Lyon Importer Harrisburg I Don't Scrub Walls and | Woodwork CCRUBBING ruins the tinting and finish, causing walls and woodwork to become soiled more quickly and making them harder to clean. • I J better and easier way is to make a paste of | BORAX SOAP CHIPS ! by dissolving one cup of the chips in two cups of boiling water. Apply to ||| j| | surface to be cleaned and remove i! I jH with a wet cloth. The Borax in the 11 | RORAX f chips quickly softens and removes all % H 1 an< * stains without scrubbing. 8 I CHIPS | "It's the Borax with the Soap that H f ' does the work," jl | I AT ALL DEALERS 1 THURSDAY EVENING, tive duty. Why not? Making speeches and doing recruiting work isn't my job. I'm a trained aviator. They need me." I wanted to fling my arms around him again, to crush him close against my quivering body.— to use every lure of voice and charm to hold him. I But instinctively I knew that it would do no good. Jim was all soldier now. The wiles that might hold a man, a lover, would only repel him. "You think you are fit for active service?" 1 questioned. "I do. I'm practically sure of it. This limp won't matter when I'm flying." Jim spoke gravely, as if he were discussing the matter with another man. He seemed quite un aware that he was alone with his wife—the woman he loved. "It's 11.15. Will you call the por ter on the phone. Anne, and have him get me a berth on the train for Washington? There's one in about an hour. I'll pack up while you at tend to that." I carried out his bidding me chanically made reservations and discussed plans with the porter quite as if it was the editor of Haldane's magazine for whom I was arranging —and I again "Barbara Lee," effi cient business woman. Then 1 turned to my husband. "Was this before you met me?" I asked. Jim looked up impatiently from the bag he was packing: "Was what before I met you?" "Your application to the War De partment?" ' • "I don't just remember what does it matter?" 1 dared not tell him but to me it mattered beyond everything else in the world. If Jim had made his ap- Slication before I came into his life— ad made it because he was a soldier and felt the stir of battle in his blood I would try to accept pain and loneliness as a soldier's wife must. But if it was after I had come into his life then it seemed to me that | our love was a failure. I had been jealous of Betty Bryce that was nothing compared to the hideous bit terness I felt now. Though my brain again and again flashed these questions: "Wife or country? Wife or coun try? Does a man ten days married go back to war if marriage has I brought him happiness? Has Jim i tired of me already?" 1 remembered something he had ; said to me on our very first morning j at Walgrave. I had to put it into words to discuss it with him. "Jim. do you remember just two] days ago when you brought me here' —that you said perhaps you'd never | had any right to marry nte? Was i this —why?" "Anne, can't you see I'm trying to ] make a train? I'll never get my 1 things packed if you keep nagging i at me. How do I know what I ] meant a couple of days ago? Give a i fellow a hand here there's a good old girl." And so with the unanswered! question between us. I helped Jim I pack. He needed my help, and hand ing him brushes end combs and I handkerchiefs and packages of doc- I uments gave me back the feeling of belonging in his life. The world might totter about me later, but for the present I must see that my hus band didn't start off without the proper quota of pajamas. When I could keep silence no longer I ventured a question. "Jim it's our first separation. Will*you—miss me?" "I sure will," replied my husband heartily. Yet he'd used as deeply | emotional a tone in discussing the lack of wheat bread in America. "I'd like to go to the station with you. It won't cost any more. I'll walk back," I suggested. "I should say not! I wouldn't Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service By McManus ~n SA*. IF XOU CO od-T- 1 . vH-( Lj Br* 40LUT-VM 4ETTIN' ' \ r \ IfeN'T THAT I IT'S AN Av(* T HOW MANX 4'MMC A V/ITH THAT TIE ON -"YOU! I 1 THIS t*> VSRRIEO ABOOt THM BOX- | " I 9 A BEAUTIFUL 1 TO P,c -* OUT - DO "YOJJ THOUSAND <ET TmE WQe MEO NE WOT H. J ffl; # o T.fS YMBH-S.R? JObT LIKE ORi?t> UKIa LE -- V/ITH THAT TIE ON- I MUW i A \ X.u ™ N<;V DQKT JHIB ONE- I I BE- trust my girl to a strange taxi driver at this hour of the night, and walk ing is out the question." Of course, as a business woman, I had traveled the streets at all hours of the night, but Jim's protecting al titude gave me a tiny shrill of joy. After he was gone I got cold com fort from wondering if he had been j afraid I would make a fuss at the station. • Jim's arms were strong as he held me close his lips throbbed against mine. ."I'll be back to you in a day or two, dear l'll want you all the more because I can't have even a kiss for a while." But I knew he was eager to be off for Washington. Ahead lay the short separation —' and then what? Ten days married and the war was calling Jim. Even before he had been my lover, he had loved his country— he had been a soldier! Could I give him back to his coun try to my country? Could I be brave as were other women all over our land? I made a little prayer for strength strength to give him gladly, strength to forget the ugly, storming fear that after ten days of marriage my husband was glad to leave me. "Don't let me be jealous of my country. Don't let me fail America, I prayed. To Be Continued Advice to the Lovelorn j Dear Beatrice Fairfax: We are two girls seventeen and ! eighteen years old. Our friends tell I us that we are, very good looking. We J have many girl friends, but only a 1 speaking acquaintance with the boys. Can you tell us how to attract a steady gentleman friend? CHUMS. Chums: Your minds should be on something .more serious than "at tracting steady gentlemen friends" during such serious periods of the worlds history as this. There are things more important in life than having steady company. Girls your age should take a healthy interest in their girl friends, and in all their boy acquaintances. rather than waste their time worrying about their lack of a fellow. If you are attractive, as your friends tell you, the friends you de sire will be attracted by that fact alone. If vou are really anxious for boy companionship, there are numer ous ways you can find it. through little social gatherings at which you can invite your boy acquaintances, and through the social functions of your chfirch. BEATRICE FAIRFAX. HAJELRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax Why Is it that everyone else's problems seem easier of solution than our own? Is it that we get a bet ter perspective on them, or because we know none of the people Involved and our Judgment is not warped by affection, prejudice or other emo tions? Before me is a letter* from a wo man who has evidently done her best in regard to an impossible domestic situation. She and her husband are growing apart, her most unselfish ef forts are disregarded, and while her husband is making excellent wages, she is unable to save a cent or buy the necessary clothes for herself or her children. Still, none of the people concerned see that the one. solution of their difficulties lies in breaking up the home as it now exists—that two j households instead of one would save | what once was a happy marriage and develop in the other a sense of re- I sponsibility in which they seem now j wholly lacking. j My correspondent says: "I have I been married nine years and have | four children. The oldest is eight, I the youngest a baby of five months, j My husband's father and two younger j brothers—both under draft age have | been living with us since they landed jin this country, nearly two years ago. Making the Best of WageN "All of them have excellent Jobs and are making the best of wages, when they first came they stopped with us as guests for three months; then as they were all working, the three paid me thirty-flve dollars a month for room, board and washing. You can readily see at the present cost of provisions, that I fell behind trying to room and board three men at a little under twelve dollars a month apiece. "Still they always complained that they were paying too much, and the trouble was that I was a bad mana ger. They suggested thaat I buy food of a poorer quality and get it !at wholesale rates. So to keep peace, I changed our way of living and bought everything wholesale, j but this did not please them any bet- | ter than the first way. And they thought ur another scheme: "I was to put down in writing everything I bought for the day and they would pay a share of it, when they ate their m.als at home. This did not satisfy them either, Miss Fairfax, because you see they were used to prices of food in their own country and could not understand the I high cost of everything over here. So they had still another way, but I was full to the neck by that time with schemes. "They are now paying me forty five dollars for the three meals a day and two rooms and I am going back, back, back all the time. My husband' makes good wages, but I am unable to save anything at all or get any clothing for myself or my children. And my husband has begun to side with them against me that I am a poor manager, though he never thought so before they came. They Have Good Bank Accounts In the meantime, they—my hus band's father and brothers—have all got good bank accounts and add to them regularly every week, besides sending money to the family, still in the old country. I am so tired with doing all the work, bookkeeping, catering, and trying to keep, what was once a happy home, going, that i I hope you will, at least, give me aj little sympathy. "A CONSTANT READER." You certainly have my sympathy. Any one up against a puzzle of this sort has my sympathy. And I must say when everyone Is profiting by FASHION'S FORECAST (By Annabel Wortliington) The leading fashion authorities agree that the plaited skirt holds first plane this season, and whether it is box plaited or side plaited depends on the preference of the wearer and also on the pattern of the material. As many of the smart skirts wSSsSliSljli 5| are made of broad striped or plaid ma aw terial. the design must be taken into con sideration when planning the style of the skirt. Jf very wide stripes are chosen and there is sufficient distance between, wiwWu iiuj there is nothing more attractive than a jjffcc? Gjj well pressed box plaited skirt like No. eBKhI I® y! jffl 8875. As the model has six gores, it is If "t Hwi?j mfm Pffl possible to nse contrasting materials In- I \\ KM stead of one if preferred. I \\ v* The lady's six gored box plaited sfcbt ! II No. 8875"is cut in six sixes—24 to 54 II )IJ I® 7 ® waist measure. Width at lower edge is I! /J 2% yards. All of one material the 2(1 II L inch sire require* 2V> yards 54 inch ma ll I* p terial. Price, " cents. This pattern will be mailed to any address upon receipt of 12 cents in stamps. Address your letter to Fashion Department, Tele graph, Harrlsburg, Pa. the arrangement, but you and your husband, what is the use in going on with it, particularly as no one is satisfied. Forty-flve dollars a month as the lump sum for the board and lodging of three men makes just fifteen dol lar apiece, and very frankly I don't see how you can plan three meals a day and include their share of the house rent too, on such a figure. 1 Maybe there exists a financial gen ius who could balance the family bud get on the sums you name, but such feats of arithmetic are beyond the average mind, and there is no earth ly reason why you should go into debt while your "in-laws" amass three separate bank accounts and send money home' bersides. Father Not Old noil Dependent If the father were old and de pendent on you, I shouldn't have a word to say, as sons and daughters ought never to let old fathers and mothers suffer. There comes a time when their own children have to .con sider such questions, and they have a way of remembering, these young people, the treatment that was hand ed out to their own grandparents, and either consciously, or uncon sciously, it effects their attitude to their parents, when their time comes to be dealt with. But this case is different. The "in-laws" are prosperous; they all have "Jobs" and are getting fabulous war wages, they are all flourishing under the system, while the hard working mother of four children is falling back in her accounts. Besides, she and her husband are not as happy as when they had the house to themselves. The friction of a divided family is telling both on the husband and wife. It is unfair to themselves and more unfair to their children. They ought to have a "straight talk" and then tactfully suggest to the prosperous relatives that they seek another home. I have not given all of my corre spondent's letter, but it seems that her husband's wages—thirty-five a week—which was formerly ample for all the family needs, now goes chiefly for provisions and nothing is being put aside. People with four children owe them something. And in these days of high wages, they should consider the lean years that are apt to fol low such tremendous increases in the pay envelope and put by something for a rainy day. The easiest way to save is to buy a Liberty Bond and pay something on it regularly till it is yours—a golden egg of the future. And when you begin to collect 'eggs" conscientiously and systema tically, it is not long before you have a basket full. The troubled little mother who was written to me had better put her gifts into golden egg collecting as represented by Thrift Stamps and Liberty Bonds, and let her "in-laws" transplant their food problems elsewhere. And doubtless she and her husband will again find the "happiness they have lost in their hectic endeavors to make both ends meet. NATIONAL QSL WAR GARDEN V>7 COMMISSION J -L Preparing d**- d products for stor ing. Vari""' uv* of containers are here shown, 'ogether with melted paraffin and brush for sealing. For more detailed instruction send s two-cent stamp to the National War Garden Commission at Washington for the free canning book. I Life's Problems Are Discussed I ll}- ,lIHS. WILSON WOODItOW 1 did not know why, but as I j glanced through a letter in a round, I schoolgirl hand which lay upon my j desk my mind reverted involun j tarily to a village in which I once | spent, several months. It* was before the days of motion pictures, and the only attraction was with the lApollo like leading man of a ten, twent' and thirt' repertoire company appearing at the end of the third act to make his nightly announcement. "And on Saturday afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, we will give a special matinee for the ladies and I children, at which time we will pre | sent, by special request, 'Kast Lynne,' j with appropriate scenery and the full I strength of the company. The prices remain the same —ten, twenty and thirty cents." There was never any change in that announcement. Always on Sat urday afternoon the bill was "Kast Lynne," and always the house was packed with eager girls and women each carrying her handkerchief con-, veniently within reach. Almost any j one in the audience could have prompted the actors had they stumbled in their lines, I am sure; yet the sticky sentimentality of the hackneyed old play never seemed to grow stale. The "ladies and chil dren" continued and perhaps may still continue to weep over the sorrows of Lady Isabel and shudder gloatingly at the crafty deviltry of Francis tevison. Ah, that was the magnet that drew 'em Sir Francis, with his curled mustaches and sinister graces and shiny silk hat and inevitable cigaret. Every woman there, from fifteen to fifty maid, wife, or widow pictured herself as the hapless Lady Isabel, and secretly wondered whether she would have the strength to resist the arts of so engaging and debonnair a villain Vicariously they all thrilled to *the lure of danger. I had supposed, though, that the I handsome scapegraces as a type dear I to the famine heart brotherhood I of Lovelace and St. Elmo a, .1 Bertie Cecil had somewhat gone out of fashion. In these days when woman is demanding an active rather than I a passive role, it has struck me that a more favored creation was the j vampire lady of the movies; to pose I in one's dreams as the slant-eyed Circe luring men to their ruin was preferred to serving merely as a fluttering victim. And perhaps this is true of those who have reached more sophisticated years; but "Sixteen," I find, still clings to its melodramatic idols. It wants to recoil shrinkingly from the wiles of a Francis Levison, the more insidious and designing the better. And the proof of it, lies in the school girl letter which I have before me. Not in what it says.. Oh, no! But in what I read between its lines. She is sixteen, she writes. Re cently her imagination has been in trigued by some of her girl friends with dark tales regarding the boys of her acquaintance. She is shock ed and disgusted by these revela tions. Can such stories be true? she asks. Oh, Mrs. Woodrow, tell me they are not true! Calm yourself, my child. The stories are not true. I assert that boldly and with absolute conviction; for, although I have no acquaint ance with the particular boys to whom you refer, I have a knowledge of the masculine nature in general. And from the cradle to the grace one of its strongest passions is to "show off" for the benefit of the opposite sex. in tenderer years this takes form in exhibits of inonkeyshines or feats of athletic prowess to win the ap proval of some scornful Goldilocks. But us adolescence approaches, a more subtle note is struck and there after maintained in greater or less degrees throughout life. Tha\ is the j pose of one who has sounded the I deeps and knows all that the World, ! the Flesh and the Devil has in shop. This is seldom conveyed by an open recital of experiences with cor roborative dates and circumstances, but rather by hints and innuendoes, manfred-l'ke frowns and portentous shakes ol the head. I have talked to all sorts of men from clergymen to cab-drivers, from senators to stevedores! but never did I know one who, if the opportunity offered, did not take pains to sug j gest that he might reveal a particu larly lurid and variegated past. And of all the "pasts," the lurid est, the most scarlet and sinstained | is that acquired Just about the time i of graduation from school to college 1 I Then fancy runs free, Imagination ! I is unfettered by any question of doubt | |on the part of the round-cheeked Salvation Army Cap tain Praises Tanlac Says It Brought Back His Old-Time Vim and Vigor "Thanks to Tanlac I am back to my old energetic self and can once mora So my work with enthusi asm. says Captain M. Neilson, of 2218 Atlas street, Harrlsburg, Pa., head of the Harrlsburg Salvation Army Unit. / "I was all run down from working night and day, and I had been too busy to take the time to care for my system and was completely ex hausted. "Something seemed to tell me to take Tanlac and It has done so much for me. and brought about a com plete restoration of my health and strength that I feel that It is an evidence of God's love towards mankind to endow men with the talents to bring forth such a won derful help to mankind as Tanlac." Tanlac is now being Introduced here at Gorgae' Drug Msm AUGUST 29, 1918. girl who sits thrilled by his veiled and cryptic references. The mustard seed of the parable has nothing on that wavering tree of invention which a boy of six teen or seventeen can raise from the smallest grain of actual fact or from none at all. Instinct tells them that by pre tending to be "men of the world" they can best invest themselves with interest in the eyes of a Francis- Levison-loving sex. and they play it to the limit And will continue to do so, 1 have no doublt, until their girls establish some worthier object for their secret admiration. No, my dear: the little boys with 308 Market Street New Fall ! . 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