THE HEART BREAKER A REAL AMERICAN LOVE STORY By VIRGINIA TKRHUNE VAN DK WATER CHAPTER XLVIII Tom Chandler appeared at his best this evening, as he talked with the Brent sisters. Quick at repartee, he and Honora were well .matched In wits. When appealed to, Mildred Joined but half-heartedly in the conversa tion. At other times she sat silent, her eyes resting moodily upon her hands, folded Idly in her lap. Tom commented on this fact. "I see you are not one of the knitters. Mildred." he observed. "Miss Honora knits steadily while she talks interestingly—which is a rare ac complishment. 1 think." "I knit, too," Mildred averred. "But, as I have to stop occasionally to count stiches, I do not consider it a compliment to a guest to give him my divided attention." Tom smiled. "I fancy that is ; meant as a dig at you. Miss Honora," I he teased. "If the shoe fits she can wear It," Mildred remarked. "But it does not fit," Tom de clared, "for your sister has not had' to stop to count stitches once. Un I der such conditions It adds to the pleasure of the occasion to watch 1 her pretty fingers busy with socks for some poor fellow in the trenches." Honora laughed. "Do you' fancy this thing is a sock?" she asked holding up her work. "It is going to be a helmet when it is done." "For me?" the youth queried, au daciously. "Most .certainly not!" Honora re plied. Had Gone Too Far Then as she noted the cloud gath ering on her sister's face, she sub sided into silence. In her effort to appear natural and to prevent Mil dred's yielding to Tom's fascina tion. she had talked more than she had meant to. For the following half-hour she said little, and gradually Mildred came out of her sulks, and, finding ! that Tom was now paying especial \ heed to her, became her usual gay i self. At last the caller arose. "I must ! go home," he said. "This evening j has been more of a treat than I j dared hope for. I had no idea that •i Modern Optical Offices ill We occupy the entire second floor at 22 North Fourth v street and have every modern facility for doing High Grade III] ||| Optical' Work. . [jjj | IF YOU NEED GLASSES SEE | (&ohl,Hinkenbach&Hotisfc OPTOMETRISTS AND OPTICIANS N0. 22 N. ATH.ST. HARRISBURQ, PA "Where Glasses Are Made Right" 'J V V T V ▼ T TT T■ T 15 Years in Business in Harrisburg < Studying Styles For Women New Spring Ready-to-Wear Garments Ready i I have disposed of all stock from the past season that I may be able to show only new merchandise for the Spring i and Summer, 1919. I have made the study of styles for i * women and misses my chief aim in business. My stocks are < i always chosen with great care as to style and quality and I 4 ► can assure my customers that they will get the best the < w ► markets afford in the way of stylish garments, here, at the ► lowest prices in the city. I want you to come in and see my new Spring styles and compare them with the high K priced garments sold elsewhere. < I HAVE HUNDREDS OF NEW SPRING < ' STYLES READY IN SUITS, COATS, DRESSES, < ► WRAPS AND SKIRTS AT SAVINGS OF < ► ABOUT HALF WHAT YOU WOULD PAY ► ELSEWHERE FOR THE SAME CLASS OF < , GARMENTS. ► I SHALL CONTINUE TO SERVE MY CUSTOMERS < , IN THE FUTURE IN THE SAME WAY AS IN THE „ . PAST AND ASSURE YOU THAT IT WILL PAY YOU TO INSPECT MY NEW SPRING LINES BEFORE " " YOU PURCHASE. . < ► B. 8100111, 19 NORTH THIRD ST. < * 3 Doors From the Penn-Harris < " r kida V EVENTNG. ' I would see both of you young ladies when I asked to see one." "Had you not been in the Service you would not have had that doubt ful pleasure," Honora told him. "Mildred and I have resolved to en tertain together all uniformed men who call." Mildred tossed her head. "That was my own Idea," she cor rected, "and Honora chooses to claim part of the credit. I said that as I could not fight, the least I could do was to make fighters welcome here. Oh. I wish''—stepping Impulsively forward and laying her hand on Chandler's arm—"that I were a man and could do something to help, real ly!" Her touch and the appeal In her wide eyes had the desired effect. Chandler grasped her hand as it lay on his arm. "You do more to put courage into a man than all the men in the world could." he murmured. Still holding her hand, he moved toward the hall. Honora remained, in the living room. She had done what she felt was wise and had vexed her sister thereby. Now that Mildred had nly these few minutes left with Tom, no harm could come of them. A Subdued Talk Neither of the pair seemed to notice that Honora did not follow them. They continued to talk in low tones while Tom Chandler struggled Into the overcoat he had left on the hat rack. Mildred insisted on holding the coat for him, in spite of his laugh ing protest, and as she was small and the wearer of-the garment tall, she had to stand on her tiptoe to perform this service. The couple stood directly under the hall chan delier, and could be seen through the glass of the front door by any outsider. But Mildred did not think of this until a ring at the doorbell made her start violently. At the sound, Honora came out of the living room and hurried to open the front door before her sister could obey the summons. She gasped in .surprise when she saw Arthur Bruce on the porch. "Why, Arthur" she began. But the new arrival was looking Bringing Ff J) FClthsr ■ ■,'* Copyright, 1918 ; International News Service **.*• - J] ]\F cIVICIIIUSI Uow-tr t wue\manor. i wudh you by<.oll.y-that ll L_J| 111 | sax- now many time;> VI .. .9 K f OFTHItjTOWN -THlN<it> WU2- MAYOR <OY WOULD TALK V-4!:. I NUVr 4 TE LL YOO NOT TO fu !! ® > ">* •* p :iW 5 WUZ WOULD BE OIFFERENT- ™J : ? 1 YOU TO DEATH- SMOKE IN HERE • CET OUT y *••* *1 C.W SATIN' WHEN J >tATALLIN' THnsinc. WOOLDN TQE __ ).—| OFTHAT CHAIR.-?>7OP YOU WENT right past her to where Mildred and Tom Chandler stood side by side. "Good evening!" he said, mechan ically. "Come In," Honora urged. He obeyed. Then, as if suddenly remembering himself, he spoke abruptly to Mildred and nodrfed to Chandler. "Good evening. Milly. I must paol ogise for intruding. I did not know you were engaged." Tom's laugh cut him short. "But I knew she was engaged, and to you, you very fortunate chap!" he eaclaimed Jocosely. "Such being the case, I suppose you are not sorry to see that I was just about to take my departure, and leave you the field all to yourself. I did not know it was so late. The evening has flown on wings in such good company as I found here. Still, I feel less com punction for having overstayed my time when I note that it is not after your own sailing hour. Good night to you all!" "Good night!" Mildred rejoined, fol lowing him to the front door, while Arthur stood looking after her. "Tom," dropping her voice as the caller stepped out upon the porch, "please let me see you again before you go back to camp." The parting guest caught her hand in his for an instant. "Do you fancy I could endure going away without seeing you again?" he chided. "My dear—how little you know me!" He strode doetn the walk, and Mil dred returning to the hall, closed the front door and faced the accus ing presence of the man to whom she was engaged.. (To Be Continued) ADVERTISING DESIGNS COPYRIGHT ISSUE Washington. —Federal Court de- J crees in the case of the Columbus (Ohio). Dispatch, which in effect held that-a' newspaper publisher was li able for infringement of a series of separhWCopyrighted advertising de signs only for one offense, and not upon each separate design of a series, were on Monday- reversed by the Su preme Court of the United States. Th e opinion was rendered in a $35,- 000 damage suit brought by the L. A. Westermann Company, a New York millinery advertising concern, against the Dispatch Printing Company for alleged infringement of a series of seven advertising designs, copy righted separately and alleged to have been published at different times in the Dispatch. The lower court held that publica tion of the series constituted only one case of Infringement, and limited damages to $250 for the single in fringement. The Supreme Court de cided that the amount of damage de termined upon should have been awarded for eich of seven infringe ments. DAILY HINT ON FASHIONS A NEW PLAY OR WORK UNI FORM FOR BOYS 2418—This style is good for khaki, gingham, galatea, drill, cotton, cord, uroy and seersucker. The trousers are cut In one, with the front of the waist, at the back, waist and trousers are separate. The garment is comfortable, and a splendid "overall" model. The Pattern is out in 5 sizes: 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 years. Size 10 will require 4 yards of 36-inch material. A pattern of this Illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. Telegraph Pattern Department For the 10 cents Inclosed please send pattern to the following ad. dreas: Sise Pattern No Name Address 11 City and State | +■ •* r 1 / '* ?L* *f3&..'" V 'J' ' v 7*^f w *•'■■ ttXRIIISBURG tfißk TEEEGRAPHf Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax \ "What makes married life dull?" a correspondent writes and asks me. "There is no question of my hus band's affection for me, or mine for him—but we have nothing to talk about." She continues: "Our dinners are especially trying, the silence is de structive of digestion—almost sanity. I feel sometimes as if X' would wel come the presence of a burglar, or even an assassin— an> thing to make a little conversation." This poor lady in several type written pages goes on to tell me something of the family history. She has a strain of Irish blood in her veins, therefore a meal to her means festivity, discussion, cheer. Whereas her husband, missing this saving grace,' likes to "stoke in si lence." In this sort of Jack Sprat and wife tragedy there is nothing to do but compromise. The man might agree to talk a little, just enough to prevent his wife from feeling that a funeral was in progress in the next room and that she was din ing on the "funeral baked meats." And the woman might agree to de mand less talk. My sympathy, however, is with the poor lady, the repressed wife with a strain of Irish blood that persists in being gay even if it is mated to that- awful wetblanket, "the tired businessman." In the tirst place, if "the tired business man" would only realize it, nothing is so restful and refresh ing as a good dinner with a little amusing small talk. He need not hold forth about business, what he made or lost, the increased cost of living, or anything else calculated to disturb his holy and sacred digestive functions. In fact, he needn't talk at all, the lady with the strain of Irish blood will probably do it much better. But he could listen with a fairly recep tive attitude and occasionally reward her with a smile of appreciation. I judge, however, that like a good many tired business men he stokes to the exclusion of everything else and pays almost Immediately by in digestion and a grouch. Don't Drop Interest With Honeymoon A good many married people never play up to the situation of be ing niariied. They drop the rules of the game when they come home from the honeymoon. Doubtless be fore the wedding this man was not possessed of a "dumb devil" during moals; if he had allowed himself to be, his wife in all probability would have declined to marry him. He comes home tired, and it is easier to succumb to the "dumb devil" than it is to talk, or even to listen politely to his wife—hence the lady's tears. A great many men and women are so lacking in imagination that they fail to see the wisdom of studying their life-partner's virtues and little failings. Possession seems to end all Interest. In this respect they are like children who tease, save their pen nies and cajole their parents into buying for them the beautiful white rabbit —then neglect it t.ll it starves. In like manner, the cheapest movie at the corner is better than the life drama going on.unde- one's own roof. Interest lies outside of the thresnoid. nevei by nr;v possi ble chance within. Perhaps the crux of the whole matter lies in a lack of imagina tion. Such men and women haven't enough unselfishness to make real happiness for themselves in trying to - make another person happy. Blessings within arm's reach goad them to weariness, while the com monplaces of life become blessings through distance. The Fatal Spirit of Adventure What ails a good many men and women is a fatal spirit of adventure. If they could only be persuaded to pack up the field-glasses with which they sweep the horizon In search of possible romance and look for it a little nearer home they would be happier. In the great problem of "How to Be Happy Though Married" hus bands and wives should be careful not to thwart each other's gifts or >even parlor tricks. If the husband is a good raconteur, the wife should not permit herself the luxury of looking bored even when John be gins for the ninty-ninth time to tell his best story. And if she recognizes, during the applause that follows the symptoms that forecast the telling of another favorite story of his, her smile should be one of welcoming'xepec tunc.y rather than maityrdom. For these little homely gifts of story-telling and ballad singing must; have the warm sun of approval to make tWem flower. And if they do not flower at home please remember that the necessary congenial tem perature may be waiting for them just around the corner. Nothing would help along married life so much as for husbands and wives to help each other develop their talents, instead of assuming a martyr's halo whenever there Is any mention of them. If your wife has a turn for writ ing, let her read to you her at tempts at a short story, and don't smother her fledgling efforts by an j overpowering and brutal criticism. The gift duly watered and culti vated may help to put your boy or girl through college. At all events, it will make her happy and a happy and contented wife is worth coming home to. And if John in a wavering and broken tenor insists on singing "The Bedouin's Love Song," beginning "On a stallion shod with (Ire, through the desert I come to thee," let him. Also applaud, it's the sur est way of keeping him from sing ing it to another lady. She's bound to applaud, so why don't you? ——— — i Life's Problems Are Discussed !l I Talk to a man—any man in the world—for ten minutes, and what is the subject of his conversation? Work. Within that ten minutes he will either talk about what is being done or what ought to be done, what he is doing or what he wants to do, or what some one else ought to do.. Talk to a woman—any woman in the world—for ten minutes, and what does she talk about? Trouble. She complains about this or that. She either discourses on her own or some one else's illness or griefs or worries. She dilates on some mis fortune which has befallen either herself or her friends. These are her customary themes. I am not speaking now of those souls bewildered, dismayed and dis couraged in those black hours which come in all lives, when the instinct is to reach out for help and sym pathy and comfort, but of the daily conversation of women who are in the main quite comfortable and who have every reason to be happy if they would • only allow themselves that privilege. For these reasons, the average man is a more agreeable companion than the average woman. And since it seems necessary to have some sort of a fetich, work is certainly a far better one than worry. To be always thinking of work, to have one's mind constantly oc cupied with the act of doing instead of the art of being, is no doubt a spiritual and mental loss; but it is a thousand times better for the in dividual than constantly to .be con templating some physical, mental or spiritual lack, and wailing about it. It has been said that women have a genius for making themselves miserable, and there is more than a mere grain of truth in it. I think it was the late Dr. Weir Mitchell who said, that feminine nerves had wrecked more homes than drink. Masculine nerves have in the past, and more or less in the present, found an outlet in drink: feminine nerves have had to find their belief from tension in tears and temper. All things being equal, it would be difficult to choose between the two. One is about as bad as the other. "Men must work and women must weep," is a horrid line. That the "Women must weep" part of it ever had any basis in truth is largely due to the absurd and erroneous up bringing of girls, and the fact that for centuries they have been cribbed, cabined and confined in a "woman's world." And a "woman's world" was and is a topsy-turvy place—a place where if a girl is lucky enough to secure a good husband and "provider," she Daily Dot Puzzle 12 •& o. IZ • JJy. • A " 13 ® 25 7•• v ) *l7. l, \ 8* • 7# . \ \ i* 14 ao , VrO • • f\ l. 9 • V \ ! o • 22, \ O I 9 l<> I I —. • v>T l J 5* 15 21 'W % .4 \j •--.3* 3o ], I a. • / j V •S3 / 4z c i ".vl Draw from one to two and ho on to the end. J is able to indulge her untrained and unfettered fancy for too many clothes, too many amusements, too much luxurious living to be good for her health, and therefore too many expensive diseases, and as a final consequence of these "blessings" too much -ennui and discontent. On the otheT hand, if a girl wasn't lucky enough to get a good husband and provider, she had to suffer for his incompetence, mistakes and fail ures, and either grin and bear her lot or else be shuffled about as a dependent among people who re garded her and her Children as more or less of an unwelcome burden. And the woman who drew a lucky m.—~i—* - *, —im _m=jLjiz=TT-nn inr— ASTMCETS ! I 3®® Msdkeft Sfareeft a New Popularly Priced I Spring Suits For j Women and Misses at 5 25 ,0 ° $2 and At these popular prices we provide undoubtedly the best values any store can give—the styles—the fabrics —the workmanship of these smart, new Spring- Suits I are superb. Poplins and Serges in Belted models—Box Coat and contrasting Vestee effects—Straightline models—but ton and braid trimmings distinguish many garments. Navy Sand Tan Beaver and Pekin Shades ———————————_—______ mmm _____ Q A Continuation of Our Sale of Higher Class Sample Suits On account of the rainy weather when we announced this sale we are continuing the sale for remainder of the week. In this remark able assemblage you will find all the highest tailoring the finest and most wanted materials and in the shades Fashion has approved for a correct Spring wear. Only one garment of a kind, each an individual creation. $39.50 to $75.00 j We'll Be Glad to Show You I the New Things Anytime You'll always find our salesladies anxious to show you every attention, regardless of whether you make a purchase today or defer it until later on in the season. We know that a great many persons like to see the new season creations as soon as they ar rive and to those we say —come in and we'll be delighted to have you view our bright, new, fresh stocks—you'll not be importuned to buy. We believe in good old-fashioned courtesy and prac tice it. Hosiery and Underwear ij Always Needed—Moderately Priced New Silk Lisle Stockings—full fash- New Canary Bloomers of Jap Silk ioned—white, black, smoke, CQ r Silk Crepe, Batiste and Striped Voile— 3 beaver, cordovan and gray plnk anJ OK to QQ „ white , I>I.SSO DI.S/0 Heavy Thread Silk Btockings—full fashioned—Russian Calf, champagne, Envelope Chemise—plain and fancy H whHe, black, cordovan, navy 95 styles —white and 25 $2 25 f Gowns of Batiste and Figured Dimity GT isr~ 98c ">51.98 Spring's Newest Shoe Styles J"% j|if '♦- bong, slender lines are quite the thing. We've a wonderful showing of them in either black suede, dull mat kid and patent fL * kidskin in seal brown and nut brown French or Military heels. MARCH 7, 1919. | number In tfee great marriage lot tery was considered a success, where as the woman who drew a blank was looked upon as a. failure. Unfair? Certainly, and will re main so until a "man's world" and a "woman's world" are merged in a "man's and woman's world," Parents will then understand that their first duty to the child Is to promote and maintain its health. Their next duty is to study Its pro clivities and tendencies, and see that it is trained to follow some congenial, self-supporting avocation. When they have drilled into thei daughters some idea of the import ance of good health, and have seen that they are skilled In some con genial work, they will have bestowed upon their girls a far greater gift, a far bettor chance for a happy life than if they had endowed each of them with a million dollars. The girl will have a sense of per sonal dignity, for she never need be dependent on any one. She can either marry or not, as she chooses. She is not a mere leaf to be blown about by every wind of destiny. She lias the right of choice. And If she marries and misfortune over takes her, she is not facing the black despair of helplessness. She knows that she can take care of herself unit those dependent upon her. • 9
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