Readier firWamaivd all the ] Finns With Shaffer | VISITING LETEtS FROM I I>AIPHI- V BOY TO HIS MOTHKIt V _ J: K"e(|IBle Spad SS. fcccjear Postal -F>, K. < 2- August 1". li' 1" Dear Mother: . I need a ehfcye worse than need this letter, bi since the: ' - telling how soo:i 1 will be -eft over the new lines, the si. >\ ' wait, because nuny things h: ie '■ '> pened in the last tow days. No: much thrilling as tiring, iff sooner had we been settled in hastily erected barr cks at the c; near Vitey-le-Iranccls, than ordc ■ came to move igaii this time m 1 Chateau-Thierry. he sad . ' about this * quick flange of ' was that I had jusi finished pare' ing my room. One v hole day it me and the svoat ol honest toil * standing on rey no le(?) brow great drops ere I ha ' finished, for ■ am far from skillful n the hang::-: art. And then came the order 'o move again—and I h d just finish?': unpacking. There was nothing to do hut repack though which, didn't take me so Ion?, as I am getting fa'r ly expert in this line with pract As one pilote okingly put it. "If " can't get an' other .ioh after the war. we will be thoroughly exper ienced moving men," and he wet" thru the pantoniine o? ringing 'he bell, tipping his hat to the ladv ■!• swering and demanding if she need of a man to move anything These Frenchmen are all actor- probably beet. is. thi-y talk with parts of their be y- -thus his pa: " mine of his after-t ie-war job most amusing Several of us V ving packed ur •' quickly, found w had a whole at noon on our bar. Is As there wer' no orders, we on d see a rather time ahead of us as camp is a n." l *' uninteresting plaoe to kill time especially when a big town is wi easy auto difince. It was Sut too. and ever' one would be otr parade an I 1! e Frenchmen as as I would certainly enjov It, in ferent ways o: co 'sc. Tie Fro men would wiFm it dr übt right down b. sld a tall glass sidewalk ". Si riot < briers Our eomfnander would not the three of .is > tractor tho, b'i* / win this | ; really matters until we doI 1 !fow a n no h 0 fl e8 u adrU,e was mm lo go WOH W ly Kave us permission at to cot a ®*Pltcit orders :rlv the no*t" aS ?' e Wou,d lca ' * -*. v tne next morning rtelmr -> vcU Know, mßelf he knew - nkinJ gn F ro butation for "vwn)pat l" d milk he laugh "sec the big S.dV r V nted hot^K y f r ,d h ' m whlchwai > definite plans f • < reality a n^ e ho'ilda i ;: Tanv T:T do , lnter<>st ie-tally the feminine portion 7 ame nta 0 Vu > "Ic-Francols inks the FVeniif Reclined with , rink I ht", 16n offpr to hav t rinK. i had seen ->, iv -.ii f >, res.' the dny before . I"told -oi fyrmcr letter, and J not see - , : th r' n d ?d I k Wanted tC 1< ok at again h. 1 did know where there was a • <- with some nifty.i, , ki , he stored ,ki 'lrk. .he store was open fpit T v aid spend several pleasant hour* •r ing op gloves, and m prove ur • ench at the same time Heaven -•••"ws. it needs improvement Tr V S open, as well as several others put .n the rest of the afternoo' - oping and all I bought was a rob cloves and some thumb tacks r ' h er of which I have anv use or—but oh bov! what a grand an. . rtOUS feeling to have a French discover you're an American! All Pressed Up Even .ill dressed up lii< e a stine* • - 1 was. what with a "fourragir. " over my shoulder, the Lafaycttr !ge of geld and the French • ring one beside it on my righ breast, a uniform of light blue set iff by high led hoots and a stream ' ? hat trimmed with orange braid m qujcltlv discovered. (Ha! Ha!) Do you think you would Know ir son under all this parapherna ? Incidentally I did some discover-1 g on my own hook, I learned with' msement that many Frenchmen e not above swiping the reputation 1 honor of being an American —to guiless (? i h ip-girl anyway— one "petite cliere" told ne. This e happened to be rejl-headed and scovered my nationality by my ac-i # —. ■ ■ . Brinsms Up Father ' • m * Copyright, 1918, International News Service *- t By McManus ® o*+ II tf [ —.. \l. breaking THAT , — YI ~~ 1 THEX pat cent, and then was when I learned •' it many Frenchmen affect this same accent so as to be taken for Americana. I can't say 1 blame them, seeing what a "chic" little clerk this was, liut I have a sus picion thiit it was the same brtght ; ped dame that gave me a bad two franc piece. Iga it somewhere that| day. but I went so many places that day that 1 wasn't quite sure just wliere I acquired it. \cctls "Identification'' i>n our way home I had the auto stop at ti camp of Americans, where: I created quite a sensation by want-J dig American dollar hills changed! nto francs. It's the quickest way XI have > el discovered to prove I am nnj American so don't forget the "ldea*| tiflcation tan" in each letter. And •ou would hav, Peer surprised to ae how many f those Americans wanted a dollar bill "just for a souvenir". It seemed just like a letter from hon le 'o them. Having ten of thi in. I brought considerable joy into ti nt camp, and took away some cho olate candy, matches and a suit of overalls to wear over my uniform A hen flying. This last I had lor- been wanting and several' American mechanics had promised, to give me cne if 1 t ailed around, j I had c;i 1 led jind when 1 voiced a. HA^Jltsburls request for same, they promptly gavel me a new one, which only had a hole I in where a mouse had made a warl breakfast. They even apologized for the hole, but I said that was all right. If someone got inquisitive I could explain it away by telling how close a Boche bullet had come. I I was only too glad to get it, because j my French combination is entirely | too hot for summer. Warm Work ] spuds are very warm any i way, and even at 6,000 meters heavy j clothing is not a necessity, so you I can imagine how warm it is at 1,000 meters on a bright sunny August day. Whew! but its hot! And do i you know, when one comes down i from the cool region of 6,000 meters! and drops in this hot air at 1,000 it's some change, and reminds me of diving into deep water, only re versed. Alter one has dove down some six feet the water isn't so warm anymore, and if the searcher | after coolness keeps on going he is | liable to think he has mistaken hisi I mother's refrigerator for the swim | ming hole. It's the same in the air, J ! only the heated part lies under- j neatli. Honestly when I came down i the other day into this warm air I i it felt thick, so hot it was. One could even tell where It started by the blackish haze, and on i hitting that haze, maybe 1 didn't] get bumped around. But flying in all kinds of weather as we do, get ting bumped all over the map is so | much in the day's work that it's not! important enough to comment on. j When one wing goes down we me chanically pull it back, or if we are interested in something else at the moment, let it drag. No, we wouldn't fall. It would surprise you at what an angle sideways an air plane can fly without going "off on I a wing". When we hit a hole there I is nothing to do but sink, and a bump nothing to do but bounce. And speaking of air holes, I don't think an aviator really knows what one is until he has an "archie" olow up right under his plane. A Real "Hole in the Air" That is a real air hole, made to order, you might say (the pilotes are rare, however, that would order then ati that place, I think), for the 1 force of the explosion blows all the air from under you. Of course, it only lasts for several seconds, but it's the most helpless three seconds a man ever spent. The plane tust wobbles down until it strikes' air that is not all shot to pieces. For tunately. every time this happened to me, which has been quite often by I the way, I have been very high, no that it did not matter much whether I tumbled 200 meters or 1,000. But here I go rambling along say ing nothing and writing a lot. Let's see, we Were in town when I strayed by the wayside and began, talking about air holes. Hard Luck Well, one bright young thing van tried to sell me a cane. Imagine it' And me going to the front the next day! I coulo not see where I could , use it, *js I am not expert enouch yet to play air polo, even with the incentive of a Hun's head for "he ball. Judging from the number of times I have missed with two guns I can't see where a mallet would be an improvement. In case you may be worrying about my being kissed again, it may ease your mind to know that the particular uniform that caused that calamity*?) was lost >n the shu e the first time we moved The other day I gave my black uni form to the tailor to press, with the result that he went to Paris, and when he came back my pants 'were gone, and all the official machinery I have set In motion has not un earthered them as yet. You cer tainly will agree with me that the fortunes of war are not much in my favor. Really. I feel quite certain T shall wake up some morning and find mv right boot gone and my left sock. We left the next morning on time, the Frenchman, owing to their life long habit of drinking, not netng drunk, hut only a little hit up. Surely, ve flew away! We always move that way. A map is given us. our new "piste" pointed out— "allez, en route," and away we go Our baggage is taken in trucks. As my plane was still at Mele'te having the molor changed, I war. given an other plane in which to ride to my new home. The Obstinate Moflor For one whole hour we tried to get that motor to talk, but there was nothing doing, and since all my comrades had long since departed, ' was given a different machine. The facilities for mounting a map were few in the limited space in a spad, where most of it is taken up with important deals, so having studied the map before hand 1 had a gen eral idea whither I was bound. Fortunately another escadrille bound for the same place was "taking off" at the same time I was, so to pre vent brain fag and to be sure 1 was right, I swung in behind their for mation and followed along. They took an entirely different way from the one I had intended following, so I soon was at sea as to my exact whereabouts with onnly a vague idea of th<* direction: To make things worse, the sky was dotted with in numerable small clouds, so white and thick and tiny that it reminded one of a t cotton field. This "cotton" patch was quite large and extended as far as the eye could see. Nat urally. It hid a lot of ground, which prevented me from picking out the landmarks I had committed to inem orji However, we were bound "When a Girl " By ANN LISLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problems of a Girl Wife CHAPTER XXVII j [Copyright, 1918, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.] ! My taxi whirled up to the station j and I flung three dollars at the driv- I er. The meter registered ninety cents—but Anne, the practical, had no time lor change! It was eight minutes past two by the station clock. If I could reach ; Jim in lime, the driver had earned it his enormous tip. Across the great j waiting room I dashed, and out co ■ ward the train-shed. The gate to I the 2:15 train was open. There were ■ j still a few strangers going in. The j guard stopped me. "Ticket, Madame!" he demanded i inexorably. j I peered over his shoulder—and| for one triumphant second I almost I blessed Jipi's lameness. It had | slowed his progress and he was I just leaving the last step and turn j ing the rail to go to his car. "Jim! Jim!" 1 cried, not caring a jot for the angry protests of the guard. "Jim!" I wildly shouted. My husband stopped, turned in! puzzled wonder, looked up the ] j stairs and saw me standing there | I half distraught. It was 2.10. In Ave minutes hisi train would go. Jim spoke to some] one ahead of him, and invisible to! me, then turned and came up the stairs. "Anne! What's happened?" he cried anxiously as he passed the guard and pushed me back through the sacred gate I had been threaten ing to enter. Unable to answer I stood gasping for breath. Jim's face hardened into a mask of sternness which I realized was covering anger: "What docs this mean?" "I had to come—Jim you can't have anything to do with Snedden & Company. You can't." I Jim turned as if to brush me aside and to pass through the gate again. I "Did you hear me, Jimmie-boy? | They uren't—straight." "Nonsense, Anne —they're a big] firm. What sort of moonshine is this? What do you know about it, anyway? I'll miss my train." "Please miss it, dear! I had lunch with the Masons and Sheldon B.lake. They know. They said you'd tarnish your reputation as a war hero if you had any dealings with those men." Jim's -eyes narrowed thoughtfully: "I must look into this—the train will have to leave without me." and then he said slowly, "How I'll ever straighten it cut I don't know—and there's Snedden to face If you are wrong." I slipped my arm through his and there in the station I repeated word for word what Tom Mason had said. Jim listened quietly, almost as. im partially as if the whole thing ap plied to some one else rather than to him. Then Jim went to a tele phone. When he came out of the booth his mouth was set In a Arm line. "Dickey and Sheldon are too blooming well bred! Guess they have water in their veins Instead of blood. But they told me when 1 asked them point blank. Tom's a real friend—eh what, Anne?" he said when I had finished. "Will you accept his offer about going into his office?" I asked. "Did he mention it again?" "No —how could he before Evelyn and Mr. Blake?" I replied. . "That's l ight—he couldn't. Prob ably we'll hear from him later on to-day. Now, to 'phone and sever my connection—with my Job." Jim came out of th<; telephone booth flushed and uncomfortable, i | i northwest by compass, which was in the general direction we should go, so I kept right on trailing my chosen leaders, passing over much beautiful scenery, doited here and there by a chateau with their beautiful grounds. Three-fourths of my time was spent during this trip in hunting chateaux and listening to my motor. One false note and down little Walter would have dove for the front lawn of one of- those beautiful chateaux. But I never did have any luck for the motor ran like a charm all the way. Finally we arrived over cha teau-Thierry, waa the flrst land-mark I recognized. After that I soon discovered my new home, "and haviqg located it, came down close to the ground and flew over several villages to see the effects of the Boche artillery when they were there. There was quite a lot in evi dence. Holes there were everywhere and as for the towns, looking down on them as X was, it looked us If they had been plentifully sprinkled with stones. Fortunate It is tnat the French bull'*, all their houses of mud and stone, else fire would surely be added to the horror of bombard ment. As It Is, a lot of stuff Is blown up and there is an end of It. i WALTER. ■ I. i could see that he had had a bad quarter of an hour. He didn't offer to tell me what he had said and I, accepting again the remoteness and reserve that were as much u part of him as his generosity and extrava gance and boyish sweetness, asked no questions. He walked home slowly, each dreading the moment of taking up the routine of the past week. Ahead was the old, weary round of looking for work—unless Tom Mason re newed his offer to teach my boy the real estate business. When we got back to the apart ment, there on the marble Floren tine bench in the entrance hall sat a familiar figure. It rose as I came in, and a moment later I was caught In strong young arms. "Neal! Neal! This is wonderful! | Oh, my blessed brother!" I crieii, ] accepting the miracle of his pres sence without question in my rush of joy at seeing Neal. Although Jim and I had been married a month, this wajt the first glimpse of the network of family ties which formed the background of our lives. • There was something war and homey and stable In the mereact j of introducing my brother and my ] husband. 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