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Bf ANN EISEE *
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of a Girl Wife
(Copyright, 1918, by Kings Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Chapter XLY
"Don't always carry a chip on
your shoulder. Anne. Of course Vir
ginia meant to include Neal in her
invitation. Aren't we three one
household? Now don't put any non
sensical ideas into the boy's head,
and start him to weighing motives
and splitting hairs"
'Jim!" I cried, startled at the
clearly implied criticism of myself.
"Jim! I may have been too sensitive
-—but I don't have to swing to the
other extreme and force my brother
or> people who may not like hirti."
Jim swung around, his dark hair
Boyishly tousled, a military brush
in each hand, and enveloped me in
a bear-hug.
"Goosic, daring!" There's little
danger of your ever forcing your- j
self where you're not wanted—and ;
equally small danger that you w-n'tl
bo, darn near welcome wherever you j
go. I want my sister Jeanie to love ,
you—so for my sake, won't you for- (
get yourself and try to break
through the reserve that comes
pretty- near being—a tragedy for
iter!"
"I will —indeed, I will try!" I
cried, putting my lips against my
boy's check to seal my vow.
And as we clung together it came
to me that Jim had broken through
his own reserve and had 'given me a
clue to Virginia's story. 1 wanted to!
follow It up—but somehow I never j
can cross-examine the people I love,
for I feel that they will tell me what
they want me to know. 1 wonder if
I'm wrong—and if they think I lack |
interest when all that fails me is |
courage. So now—stupidly, perhaps '
—I switched the conversation, and !
burying my face in Jim's coat, I be- j
gun to talk about the thing it is al- i
ways so hard for me to discuss with
my boy.
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IWe will win this war— |
Nothing else really matters until we do!
I Be patient here—Our Boys are getting I
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TUESDAY EVENING-
I "Jlmmie, dear, I got into a horrid
j moss to-day. I—l invited the girls
I to lunch and found 1 hadn't enough
| money to pay, so 1 had to borrow a
i dollar from Virginia. I explained
to Iter that I was dreadfully careless
. about money and that you'd be wild
j if you know I'd come out without
I enough. Well —and then after I'd
done that, it turned out to be unnec
> cssary, for Sheldon Blake came over
| to the table to have ccffee with us
j and he took the check—l think he
; has a regular crush on Virginia,
j Jim!"
"Did she seem interested —im-
! pressed at all?" asked Jim anx
| iously.
It seemed queer that this was the
! part of my narrative that interested
j him most, i had thought he would
j cither be annoyed at my borrowing
from Virginia, or amused at the way >
i it turned out that 1 need never have I
| done it. But his mind was very
1 thoughtful, and he scowled a bit
and went back to brushing his hair
1 again in silence when 1 told him that
Virginia just took Sheldon's admira
tion for granted, lie settled his cuffs
and selected his tie and collar before
he spoke again, but his words made
me realize nothing I said had escaped
him.
"You must have a regular allow
ance, Anne. I'm going to turn over
the IJaldane check to you each
| month. I wish it were more—but, at
j least, you can be sure of that hun
jdi ed dollars. And with this game
ankle of mine about all you can be
sure of is the money I make —writ-
! ing about it."
"Oh, Jim, tell me the truth!" I
I exclaimed, rushing over to tie his
j scarf. "Is that inspectorship too
j much for you? You must give it
I up at once"
j Jim laughed.
"There we go—off at a tangent
| again. I like my job—fine. Now
111 go see how near ready young Neal
j is—and you stop prettying me up
and do a little prinking of your
own."
1 hurried into my very best gray
chiffon—chief extravagance of my
engagement days—tucked an orchid
—artificial and guaranteed to last
a season —into my belt, flung on my
last year's coat of amethyst chin
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| chilla clotli, and with a little prayer
that Virginia might like Jim's lilac
lady, I hurried out to join my two
handsome 'boys."
On the way out Jim stopped at the
telephone desk to leave word that he
was at the Rocliambeau in case Mrs.
Bryce and Captain Winston called.
I couldn't stifle a pang of jealous
wonder. Was it Betty with whom
Jim had made plans for the evening
—without consulting me?
In another moment X just choked
that fear to death and girded myself
for the winning of Virginia.
She greeted us Very graciously on
our arrival—and her cordiality ex
tended to Neal, who was too ab
sorbed in Phoebe to notice whether or
not Virgina was among those present
at her own party. Things went along
splendidly at tirst, and 1 began to
hope that the beautiful hostess
might at least like me—even if the
warmer loving were several degrees
removed.
After a cdlicious and well-cliosen
dinner that stayed within the war
time "three courses," Virginia sug
gested that we go to the little "game
room" for our coffee and cordials.
And when Neal followed Phoebe's
lead and said he didn't want so
much as a creme dt menthe, I de
cided that this was indeed the end
of a perfect day.
Everything looked peaceful and
like the best lithographs of "The
Happy Family." There sat Jim and
Virginia and I sipping the pretty
HKKRISBURG a!ssi£& TELEGRAPH
emerald green mint through tiny
straws and chatting together with
real interest, while Neal and Phoebe
balanced the little tumbling figures
of the odd little game called "cul
buto," and Phoebe clapped her
hands with delight whenever her op
ponent Juggled one of the leaden lit
tle men into the hole marked '100."
Suddenip X became aware of the
fact that Jim was watching the
game with avid interest, and that
Virginia was watching Jim with
two creases between her swallow's
wing eyebrows. There was something
breathless about the pose of both
brother and sister. But even while
I was wondering what It could.all be
about, Jim straightened up, glanced
around f,he room and with a glad cry
rushed over to greet Terry and Bet
ty, who stood in the doorway search
ing. no doubt, for us.
Betty was marvelous in the jade
green she so often affects. She was
as distinguished in her old, mer
maid way as Virginia in her marble
Greek-statue beauty.
"Who is that charming woman?"
asked Virginia in the most enthusi
ast c tone I've ever heard heard her
use to or of any one save Jim.
"Betty Bryce—she's a friend of
Jim's—he met her abroad," I re
plied in a tone 1 struggled to keep
even and uncolored by a new phase
of the Jealousy Betty always caused
me.
But all during the rest of the eve
ning that fear grew. For the Vir-1
ginia who was revealed to Betty was
warm, interested, gracious, anxious
Ito please. Without effort Betty
I evoked in Jim's sister a friendly
warmth I had struggled in vain to
summon. In a chill premonition I
was myself "outside the pale" and
Betty and Virginia—friends.
(To Be Continued)
Plenty of Milk
Each Day
Two general maxims should be
learned by the people of the United
States: "Every adult should have at
least *a third of a quart of milk
each day,7 and "no family of five
should buy any meat until it has
bought three quarts of milk."
One reason for urging the use of
much milk, is that it is our best
source of certain mineral salts, nota
bly lime, which the body -needs. It
is so easy to use milk in cooking that
one scarcely needs these reminders
of different ways: from the United
States Food Administration.
For Breakfast—Milk to drink on
cocoa, on cereal, milk or creamed
toast.
For Lunch, Dinner or Supper—
Milk soups and chowders, oyster
stew, cottage cheese, creamed sauces
for vegetables, meat, etc., custards,
ice creams, sherbets, bl&nc manges,
rice puddings, tapioca puddings,
junket, in all baking and in milk
drinks, such as malted milk, egg
nog, etc.
No "Fourth Meal"
Patriots are not having fourth
meals. Three meals a day are
enough. A fourth meal uses some of
the food that should be on its way
ucross the Atlantic in cargo ships—
food that this country has pledged
itself to send.
When the country' pledges itself,
that means you. One way to keep
the pledge is to stay away from aft
ernoon tea, when you have had a
good luncheon and expect to have a
good dinner a few hours later at
home.
Other fourth meals are late sup
pers, church suppers and sometimes
banquets and club luncheons. When
these meals take the place of the
regular luncheon or dinner or sup
per there can be no objection to
them as long as they follow the reg
ulations of the food administration.
In that case they are not a "fourth
meal'," but one of the three neces
sary daily meals.
If you belong to a club or church
or society that is planning any kind
of banquet or luncheon see to it that
this meal is a third and not a fourth.
The fourth is no more necessary
than a iifth-wheel on a wagon.
King George Rejoices
to See Dawn of Peace
London, Nov. 12.- —Speaking from
the balcony of Buckingham palace
to the crowd celebrating the sign
ing of the armistice, King George
said:
"With you I rejoice. Thank God
for the victories which the Allied
armies have won and have brought
hostilities to an end. Peace is with
in sight."
Crowd Tries to Smash
Statue of the Kaiser
Paris, Nov. 12. —During revolution
ary disorders at Cologne, a crowd
tried to demolish with machine gun
Are a statue of William 11, but tlnully
contented itself by muffling up the
■tatue and placing upon it a card in
scribed, "A Good Journey."
It is reported that j'rlnce Henry
of Prusslu has fled to Denmark, tak
ing wjth him his personal fortune.
LIFE'S PROBLEMS
ARE DISCUSSED
There are people who would rather
be convicted of any one of the seven
deadly sins than to confess their
justifiable ignorance of some per
fectly simple and immaterial mat
ter.
That is partly the reason therp is
so much wrong information in the
world.
if I wanted to go to one of the'
suburbs of New York and were to
inquire my way of the first half
dozen men I should meet, tile chances
are that I would get exactly six total
ly different answers, and none of them
correct.
Each of the half dozen, instead
of frankly leplying, "I don't know,"
would stare at me fishy-eyed for a
moment or two and then stammer:
"The way to Suburbia? Why, iet inc
.see. Oh, yes; you go such atjd sucli a
way," giving cuuccinct directions,
which, if followed, would land one
almost anywhere from Pawtueket to
Peoria.
And it is not from any conscious
intention to mislead the inquirer. In
fact, they rather hope they may be
right. But. ashamed to appear ig
norant, they are willing to take a
gambler's chance to your expense.
I will give you another experiment
of the same character. Mention soma
book, play, picture, newspaper ar
ticle or prominent personage to any
five people of your acquaintance, and,
although tliev may all be absolutely
unfamiliar with the subject you bring
up, it will be a very exceptional in
dividual who admits it. They may
not Openly fib, but they will so hedge
and squirm and camouflage their re
joinders as to give ail the effects of a
barefaced deception.
With the great majority of us a
seared conscience is far easier to
bear that the rfjortiflcation of avow
ing our ignorance. Lecturers and
talkers especially those who are
the mouthpiece of some cult—con
stantly trad 3 upon this weakness in
human nature.
"You remember, of course, what
Propertius says," they coo, and their
audittors nod knowingly, although it
is probably the first time they ever
heeard of Propertius in their lives,
and no one outside of a dry-as-dust
bookworm could possibly be expect
ed to remember any statement he
ever voiced.
But is Is in the fields cf folly that
this dread of betraying ignorance
reaches its rankest growth. The
r.tcrnest-soulod and most blameless
Roman matron is flattered at being
accused as a flirt. She will bridle
and slant her eyes in the endeavor to
appear subtle even while she de
nies the Imputation. "Never have I
known a man who did not claim to
be an adept at mixing a mint julep,
nlthough lie probably did not know
a single one of the ingredients re
quired outside of the mint.
The other day in a public con
veyance I overheard a discussipn be
tween two men on the evils of gamb
ling. Finally, in disgust at some rash
statement which was made, one of
them exclaimed:
"Why, I don't believe you know
what a faro bank looks like."
"Oh, no," replied the other with
obvious sarcasm. "Never saw one
in all my life."
I was satisfied that he was speak
ing the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth. His appear
ance and manner and the almost
angry protest he made all bore ine
out. But the impression he sought
to convey was that in his gay, young
life faro was as common a diver
sion as prunes for breakfast.
Why do we labor so hard to make
people think us worse than we are?
We feci that we can afford almost
IT WAS SHOP TALK
BUT IT HIT RIGHT
Steel Man Says It Was a Tip That
Made Tilings Hum
I'or Hi in
"I don't know Just what my trou.
ble was, but 1 know I felt all In,"
says Benjamin F. Strow, a temperei
at the Bethlehem plant, who lives
at 515 North Thirteenth street, Har
rlsburg, Pa.
"X had no appetite and I always
had an eggy taste in my mouth.
"I'd heard a lot of the men
around in the shop talking about
Tanlae, so, thinks I, I'll try it, maybe
it will tlx me up, and sure enough
it did. Just fixed me right up in
no time at all.
"Now that eggy taste is all gone,
my mouth fee s clean and my appe
tite has come back strong. I have
gained four pounds already and still
going. Iv'e got plenty of energy
now and I go at my work with a
vigor that makes things hum. Tan
lac is the boy to put you on your
feet."
Tanlac is now being introduced
here at George Gorgas' Drug Store.
Tanlac is also sold at the Gorgas
Drug Store In the P R. R. Station;
in Carlisle at W. G. Stephens' phar
macy; Ellabethtown, Albert W.
Cain; Greencastle, Charles B. Carl;
Middletown. Colin S. Few's Phar
macy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft's
Pharmacy; Mechanlcsburg, H. F.
Brunhouse.
The genuine Tanlac bears the
name "J. I. Gore Co." on outside
carton of each bottle. Look for it.
anything better than to appear un
sophisticated. We would die rather
than be called a "boob." innocence is
the last virtue to which we aspire.
Yet none of us can know every
thing. And crch of us knows some
one thing bettor than anybody else
in the world. It may be a very
simple, little tiling merely one
slant or. angle of a certain sub
ject or question. But that is our
talent, and Instead of cultivating it
and priding ourselves upon its pos
session we will nine times out of ten
hide it away in a napkin, while we
air the empty bubbles of our pre
tenses.
I have never yet found a man or
woman uninteresting when ho was
talking simply and unaffectedly
about the thing he realy knew. It is
only when they get launched upon
their hobbles or fads, or pound the
table and grow red In the face over
things of which they know little or
nothing, that tlicy become bores and
nuisances.
And what a tangled web of de
ception one is lured Into by all this
pretense! "You are familiar with
jfriTPr 1 "" - Value *MO :UHb v M
Wliy Compare Beef and Coal Profits?
Swift & Company has frequently stated that its profit on beef
averages only one-fourth of a cent a pound, and hence has practically
no effect on the price.
Comparison has been made by the Federal Trade Commission of
this profit with the profit on coal, and it has pointed out that anthracite
coal operators are content with a profit of 25 cents a ton, whereas the
beef profit of one-fourth of a cent a pound means a profit of $5.00 a ton.
The comparison does not point out that anthracite coal at the
seaboard is worth at wholesale about $7.00 a ton, whereas a ton of
beef of fair quality is worth about $400.00 wholesale.
To carry the comparison further, the 25 cent profit on coal is 3Vfc
per cent of the $7.00 value.
The $5.00 profit on beef is only 1% per cent of the $400.00 value.
The profit has little effect on price in either case, but has less effect
on the price of beef than on the price of coal.
Coal may be stored in the open air indefinitely; beef must be kept
in expensive coolers because it is highly perishable and must be
refrigerated.
Coal is handled by the carload or ton; beef is delivered to retailers by the
pound or hundred weight
Methods of handling are vastly different. Coal is handled in open cars; beef
must be shipped in refrigerator cars at an even temperature.
Fairness to the public, fairness to Swift & Company, fairness to the packing
industry, demands that these indisputable facts be considered. It is impossible to
disprove Swift tt Company's statement, that its profits on beef are so small as to
have practically no effect on prices.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
Harrisburg Local Branch, Seventh & North Streets
F. W. Covert, Manager
NOVEMBER 12, 1918,
such and such an author?" someone!
asks, and either tacitly or openly you
indicate that you are. Then conies
the question, "What did you think |
of the way tlio heroine acted in hisj
last book?" and immediately you are
in bog and have to stumble around
frenziedly in the effort to extricate
yourseslf. How much easier simply
to admit one's ignorance, and so bo
in a position to ask questions and
possibly gain valuable information.
How much easier! Ah, that to
most of us is the hardest thing in!
the world! We try to make the
very skim milk of our knowledge
masquerade as creeam. We like to
have it appeear that there Is noth
ing in the heavens above, in the
earth beneath or In the waters un
der the earth or on Broadway
especially in Broadway that we
do not know.
And usually we make a mess of
It.
HUN TROOPS RETIRING
With the American Army on the
tiedan, Nov. 12. —Germans who came
into the American line late yesterday j
said their orders had been to retire!
with as little delay as possible. They I
added that they had expected to be I
back in their homes in Germany a
week from Sunday.
ARMY STRENGTH TO DATE
Washington. Nov. lii.—The Ameri
can Army had reached a total
I strength of 3,764,677 men when hoe-
I tilities ceased, according to official
I figures at the War Department. Of
that number 2,200,000 had been sent
to France, Italy or Russia. The re
mainder were under arms in camps
in this country.
Washing Won't Rid
* Head of Dandruff
The only sure way to get rid ol
dnndruff is to dissolve it, then pou
destroy it entirely; To do this, gel
! about four ounces of ordinary liquid
arv.on; apply it at night when retir
ing; use enough to moisten the scalj
and rub it in gently with the fingei
tips.
Do this tonight, and by mornlnj
most, if not all, ow your dandruff will
be gone, and three or four more ap
plications will completely dissolv<
and entirely destroy every singlf
sign or trace of it; no matter hoy
much dandruff you may have.
You will find, too, that all itchin)
and digging of the scalp will stop ai
once, and your hair will be fluffy
lustrous, glossy, silky and soft,
look and feel a hundred times better
You get liquid arvon at anj
drug, store. It is inexpensive ani
1 never fails to do the work.
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