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" When a Girl Marries"
By ANN USEE
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of a Girl Wife
CHAPTER LXXXVI |
(Copyright 1918 by Kings Feature'
Syndicate, Inc.)
"That was a most excellent din
ner Nora McGinnis cooked for us, i
Tony. I'm mighty glad we had it—
and this little visit, for I won't see ,
you folks again in a hurry," remark- !
ed Betty as we all strolled into the
big living room at Noroton.
Our host, Anthony Norreys, gave
Betty a little nod of understanding,
and with another chummy little,
nod, he gave me to understand that
I was to have the honor of pouring
the after-dinner coffee. But Terry j
flashed round at Betty.
"You're off again?" he asked re- [
sentfuily.
Yes —the Vocational Education
people need me once more." replied
Betty with a trace of uneasiness.
"That's the work for rehabilitat- ,
ing war cripples and finding them j
jobs, isn't it?" asked Anthony Nor- j
reys with great interest and no self- j
consciousness.
"Betty—why didn't you tell me?" I
exclaimed Terry. "I'd have arranged •
for a trip at the same time. You
know I can make things easier for j
you. This work takes enough toll of
you without you having to book your
own trains and hotel rooms. I must,
plan to get off directly you do."
"Please—don't Terry," said Betty :
in a colorless voice. "I go to-mor
row. This is my job—you can't take
—all my hurdles for me. Y'ou have
a few of your own, my friend."
"Betty, I want to make things
easier for you." pleaded Terry as If
he had forgotten we were there. .
Betty looked at him almost sadly j
and shook her head. Then, jerkily,)
and with no consciousness of her j
gesture, she lifted her scarred white
hand again and laid it againstsher
cheek with the ugly red gash press
ing harshly against her mouth.
I sought Jim's eyes, but they were
closed—in detached weariness. Then,
as if his eyes were summoning mine.
I turned to Anthony Norreys—and
in the silence his thoughts seemed
to become audible to me. It was as
if be said:
"Poor Terry! You aren't making
things easier for Betty at all. She
has to hurt you—and every hurt
she gives you lacerates her kind
lieart."
We had our moment of tinder
standing. and then Anthony Nor- ;
ryes found a way of breaking the ;
painful silence of t.Vs room.
"And what war ■ • rk are you do- '
ing, Mrs. Harrison?"' he asked. '
Instantly Jim catapulted Into the
conversation.
"None—thank fortune" said he. j
"All these untrained women rushing
into the limelight of 'war work' and
letting a little notoriety and a few
compliments from their ex-butcher i
boys and their former ice men turn ,
their heads! Jove, it's sickening! |
Anne's place is at home."
"Jim—Jimmie-boy!" I wailed. "I;
didn't know you felt this way. I j
couldnt guess. I thought of course |
you'd like me to —help. And the 1
very day you came out here I went!
to the committee and signed up for
canteen work."
Jim straightened up in his chair.
Then he rose and limped over to me.
There was a cutting, menacing qual- I
ity in his voice.
"Indeed! And you chose to hide!
this from me. Now. may I ask why '
you suddenly decided to take my i
friends into your confidence at the i
same time that you condescend to i
Inform me?"
I felt as if Jim had struck me. j
To be assailed with his cold sar- |
casm so publicly startled me so that!
1 couldn't think—much less speak. |
"Don't be an idiot, Jim!" cried i
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I Betty sharply. "Anne was so Inter
ested In your big job that she for-
I got to bother you with her little
i one. And if Tony hadn't assailed
her with the direct question I dare
' say she'd have gone on forgetltng
until her first call came."
"Thanks for your clear explana
tion of Anne's motives. You and she
j have always understood each other
1 so well that I feel you are an au
thority on her mental processes. Per
haps, however, she will speak for
herself now that you've given her
time to make up a reasonable story."
Jim's brutal sarcasm brought the
j painful crimson to Betty's face and
| the scar on her hand fairly leaped
out in ugly relief. And again she
pressed that sear to her lips—per
haps to hold them back from speech
—perhaps to cool the pain in the
old wound. 1 forced myself to speak
! for I was conscious of Terry's boil
: ing anger at this treatment of Betty's
I loyalty to me: and and I couldn't en
! dure the shame of a scene before
j Anthony Norreys.
"Jim, I was a goose, which seems
to be a specialty of mine," I said.
I "But when I saw you plugging away
at accounting—to oblige Terry—and
j because you'd been told that you
could release a man for the war—
! I just had to do something, too. And
. I wanted to come to you in my uni
form and surprise you. I thought—
! I might 100k —nice. And I hoped
you'd like seeing me ready to do
a mite where you'd done so much.
Then—just now, when Mr. Norreys
asked me —I couldn't —lie."
I couldn't keep a choke out of
: my voice as I ended. I wobbled along
: the edges and broke • •
And almost before I had finished
Jim caught my hand in his and
turned to face the room.
"Folks, I don't see why you should
forgive me—but I reckon you're all
such good friends and good sports
that you will," he said with his most
winning smile. "I'm only half a man
these days—and that half's tired—
but that's no use acting like a brute
to the dearest wife and the most
loyal friend any man ever was bless
ed with"
Anthony Norreys interrupted iiim:
"It's I who am to blame, lad. If
I hadn't gone blundering in with
my forward question, the little girl
j might have had her secret—and you
; your surprise. But you'll all forgive
. mc when I tell you the reason I ask
' cd was to beg permission to help
| Mrs. Harrison's work if there's need
! for a bit of cash from a disabled
old codger. Do you suppose I can
! arrange to feed a boy or two who
I hasn't the price of a meal?"
"Oh, how wonderful!" I cried —
and for the moment in the light of
Mr. Norrey's kindness I forgot the
; humiliation Jim had made me en
. dure.
(To Be Continued)
j Yankee Fleet Moves
Toward Home Yards to
Have War Scars Dressed
By Associated Press
New York, Jan. 4.—The great
i American armada which has lain at
j anchor in the Hudson here since the
< arrival of the overseas fleet on De
! cember 26 will be entirely dispersed
I within a few days, naval officials
j announced to-day.
| The dreadnoughts Florida, Wyom
| ing and Nw York left their berths
| yesterday and proceeded to the New
| York navy yard for repairs. All the
other seventeen battleships are un
! der orders to proceed to their home
I yards for repairs, it Is said.
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OUR CHILDREN U
A Series of Plain Talks to
Ray C. Beery, AJk, MJL®;.
XpJs J >resi^at °* the Parents Association.
(Copyrighted. 1918, by The Parents Association, Inc.)
MOTION pictures are exciting.
They present scenes of lively
human action which always
interest children. And the pictures
are all right for children, providing
they are well put on, do not flicker
unduly and are clean in subject.
Of course, it is unfortunate that we
do not have good theatres especially
adapted to children. Even though
certain films are made to interest the
children, the average program de
signed to interest all ages and
classes, contains at least some objec
tionable features.
But the problem that parents espe
cially have to consider is the habit of
too-frequent attendance. Some chil
dren think of little else and when
their love for pictures reaches this
stage, it is a serious matter.
To cite a typical case, one mother
writes to me:
"My son, twelve years old, wants
to live at the 'movies.' He would go
every afternoon and evening if I
would let him. He thinks of little
else. Do you think, the pictures are
demoralizing to boys and girls of
this age?"
Yes, a great many pictures are de
moralizing to boys and girls of
twelve and to adults for that matter.
However, when a boy like yours has
already formed a liking for the pic
tures, I think that the best policy is
to take the boy personally to the
show once every week or so and put
the emphasis upon the good points
of the show, so that he may have the
advantage of seeing the good parts
of the show and the undesirable
parts, being observed with you and
in connection with your slurring
conclusions about those parts, will
not be so harmful as if he were in j
the midst of poorly educated boys of
his own age. He will not object to
going with you if you help to explain
the pictures to him and make him
have an enjoyable time.
If he is not accustomed to go with
you, it may be well to introduce the
matter somewhat in this fashion:
"Son, what do you think of this?
Let's go to th* picture show together
next Friday night and see how many
ideas we can get to try out here at
home the next day. Maybe we could
see a wild west show and watch the
cow-boys lasso the steers and then
we could make a lasso at home and
lave some great fun. Shall we do
that?"
Make him like to go with you and
Tunnel Through Which Ex-Kaiser Fled
After Signing Abdication in Castle in Spa
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This hole In the ground Is the entrance to a passageway leading from
ex-Kaiser WllhelreTs castle at Spa. It is said to be several miles long. It
was through this tunnel that Herr Wllhelm Hohenzollern fled toward
Holland after signing his abdication in the castle The tvali of the castle
can be seen in the background.
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then whe he asks to go again, if it
is too soon after the last time you
can put him off a few nights by say
ing, "Wait till Friday night so I can
go along. We can have so much
more fun when we go together." If
he asks you why you can't go be
fore, you can tell him truthfully, no
doubt, that you have several things
that you wish to do first.
Change the subject as soon as you
can do so naturally .to some other
interesting topic. Whenever he starts
to talk about movies, enter into that
subject with him for a minute or so
and then with enthusiasm turn the
trend of this thought into some other |
channel.
If your child has been attending
the theatre two or three times a
week, I advise you to manage to go
with him at least ctce a week. And,
along with this, plan a substitute
for other visits that are being omit
ted. Do not speak of other things as
being substitutes, however; simply
develop them in a natural way, mak
ing them seem very attractive.
In case you find it •ecessary, plan
to use strong substitutes that will ■
easily compete with the pictures at !
first, until you get his mind more on '
other things. Get him some machin
ery that he will love to work with or
provide a delightful privilege of
some sort. While one thing is cap
tivating your child's mind, be plan
ning some other wholesome activity
to succeed it.
By thus showing an interest .n
your boy, co-operating with him and
directing his play and amusements,
you will be exerting the greatest pos
sible influence upon him.
Cold Wave in the West
Is Likely to End Today
Chicago, Jan. 4. The cold snap
will be broken by to-night in the
whole territory of the Mississippi
river as well as Illinois, according to
the weather forecaster. With a mini
mum of 8 below zero in Chicago yes
terday, two deaths were attributed
to the cold.
Although there was no relief from
the cold, which reached such fig
ures as 35 degrees below zero in
Mitchell, S. D., and from 15 to 22
degrees below in Nebraska, the tem
perature is expected to rise slowly
to-day.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
"The Germans," remarked an In
terrogated British officer, "are good
fighters, but they're no sports." Ev
eryone remembers how they crowed
over victories, how they went to
pieces at the first taste of defeat.
"He who does not exult in the hour
of triumph," remarks Harold God
dard in his new reconstruction hook,
"Morale" (Doran), "will not be de
pressed In the hour of defeat. There
was no bellringing in Paris even aft
er the battle of the Marne. • • • But
the chill of pessimism that ran
through Germany with the fading of
the hope of military triumph is the
reverse sid e of the morale of suc
cess, showing the dangers that an ex
cess of it entails."
For the month of January George
H. Doran Company will publish the
following books of fiction:
Arnold Bennett's "The Roll Call,"
a novel of the influence of war upon
the son of Hilda Eessways; "The
Dough Boys." by Patrick MacGlll, a
military yarn of the American boy in
France; "The Human Touch," by
"Sapper," silhouettes of the multi
farious characters that make up an
army; "Patricia Brent, Spinster,"
Anonymous, a story of love and war
in English society; "The Navy Eter
nal," life In the British fleet in bat
tle, by "Bartimeus."
"There is no doubt in the minds
of the friends of Joyce Kilmer," says
the New Y'ork Sun, "that Robert
Cortes Holliday, his intimate friend
and literary executor, exquisite mas
ter of words and values as he has
shown himself so often, is the per
son of all others to have written his
memoir, it will be found in the me
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mortal edition of the poems, essays
and letters of Joyce Kilmer (George
H. Dorun Company). 'Joyce Kilmer
did not talk poetry,' Mr. Holliday
writes, 'but he did talk exactly like
his essays, which admirably present
the brave, humorous wisdom of tho
man as his intimate friends knew
him.' And so it was with his let
ters." And the Sun adds, "Those
who have not known his letters have
not known the man,"
Irvin S. Cobb, who found himself
many times in the neighborhood of
heavy artillery, tells in "The Glory
of the Coming," just published by
George H. Doran Company, of the
tremendous respect he had for a
French battery of nine-inch heavies:
"Every time that one of the nine
ir.chers spewed its bellyful of high
explosives forth, the sound of it dom
inated and overmastered all other
sounds. First, there was the crash
—a crash so great that our inade
quate tongue yields neither adjective
nor noun fitly to comprehend it, the
trouble being that the language has
not kept step with the developments
of artillery in this war. Our diction
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when this Job of licking Germany is
finished."
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JANUARY 4, 1919-
HIXDENBURG DEPOSED ?
London, Jan. 4. Field Marshal
Von Hindenburg and General Groe
ner, Ludendorft's successor, are re
ported to be deposed, according to
a Zurich dispatch. Both aro said
to have declined to recognize and
take orders front the Berlin soviet.
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Agree on Status of
the Former Kaiser
Amsterdam, Jan. 4.—The British
and Dutch governments have ar
rived at an agreement regarding the
status of the former German em
peror, according to a dispatch to the
Telegraaf from The Hague.
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