" When a Girl Marries" By A.N.X 1.151.K A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problems of a Girl Wife v —' CHAPTER CCXLVI. *- Copyright, 1919, King Features Syn dicate, Inc. It was Evvy Mason who leaned across Jim's big flat-topped desk. Evvy, alone with Jim In his empty office. For half a second I stood in the doorway unnoticed. I became conscious of a lump of lend where my heart ought to be. "Do I intrude?" I asked in a voice that contrived to keep level and cold, although imps of jealousy were searing my eyes and clawing at my nerves. Evvy's eyes tore themselves from Jim's face and found me. I had a brief impression of a smile trem bling at the corners of her lips, . then there came the quick scrape of Jim's chair and he came toward me. His face was very grave. His eyes searched mine. "You never intrude, Anne," lie said quietly. In that moment I forgot Evvy — dismissed her. This was between Jim and me. ITgly thoughts were in the outer corridors of my mind knocking for admission. Neal had just left town for home. Jim had made a point of asking me what I'd been doing this afternoon, and had been safely accounted for by my automobile lesson. Before those thoughts could for mulate themselves, something big ger came to conquer them—to push them out of my mind. It was my love for Jim and the faith which was growing to be part of that love. In a moment of revelation I knew I believed in Jim's loyalty— that even if I didn't understand him, I trusted him. However this situation looked, I knew it was all right. I knew it. A customer might have reason to stay with the head of the concern after the office force had left. An old friend might conceivably come to consult Jim after business hours. To make it concrete, Evvy Mason — j oh, Evvy Mason might do anything. But, as far as Jim was concerned, i I loved him and belteved in him, ' and I was "too modern" to see a sit- j uation in a harmless visit to a man's . office. All this flashed through my mind | in a brief moment. But I think some of it went into the handclasp ; I gave him before I spoke again. "I was out for my first road les- ; son in the car and I stopped by to ! drive you home. If you and Evvy • have finished" Jim's eyes warmed me with ap proval. even as Evvy broke in with a husky little laugh to emphasize her words. "Oh, we had finished. It was Just a little matter of investments I wanted to consult my oldest friend about. You're sure you don't mind, Anne?" I think T meant the laugh with which I replied: "Mind! What mercenary, modern city wife minds having an old friend turn into a new client? You know. Evvy, unfortunately, doctors and lawyers and brokers can't always count on having their friends for customers. There's room for four in the car. 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It i contains nothing which could irritate | the tenderest skin even of a tiny baby, i All dr-jgriu !i fti*oi. Tr"*l (rc. Win* D*pl. I K, kino,. Bmlhmme. Md MONDAY EVENING, 1 and take the little rumble seat, and finish the business discussion there while I give my attention to 'giving her gas' and 'handling the clutch,' and such like trifles, of which my instructor still knows more than 1." "Oh!" replied Ev\;y, and then added with a mental gasp I could almost hear, "Do you know Neal's gone away for a week?" "That's right. You'll be lonesome. Will you come home to dinner with uS? We might get in a fourth this evening and give you folks the op portunity of martyrizing yourselves by teaching me bridge." "Are you sure you want me?" began Evvy, with a flash of her eyes from me to Jim. He still said nothing. I could see that Evvy was recovering, and was beginning to take a mischievous de light in what she considered his lack of ease. I knew Jim wasn't in the least ill at ease—knew it with absolute certainty, and felt that he was gallantly leaving the situation (if indeed there was a "situation") to me, and watching me with admi ration and approval. For the first time since I had known her, and learned to fear her scratches, I was enjoying Evvy's game—and my part in it. "Of course we want you," I in sisted, determined that Evvy should see 1 was making nothing of her visit to Jim. "Who shall we get for a fourth, Sheldon Blake? We've not seen him for ages." "Oh, not Sheldon," murmured Evvy self-consciously. "Lets make it a family affair. Let me ask Tom—or you call him, Anne." "There's nobody at the switch board," I began, but Jim explained that his line was plugged into Cen tral. So I sat down with serene good fellowship and called Tom Mason's office. No answer. I called his house. He wasn't there. 1 left word that when he came in, he be asked to call Mr. James Harrison at his home. "And now, are we all ready to start?" I asked. Whereupon we closed the office and descended to my waiting car. In the elevator, Jim slipped a bill into my hand. "Give it to your instructor," he whispered. "No hand it back. I'll give it to that youth and tell him how pleased I am with the good care he takes of a certain little lady." The biil didn't pass back to Jim's hand without a long pressure of his fingers on mine. Somehow I knew ,we were telling each other that Evvy Mason didn't count. When we got to the car, I clam bered at once into the seat next the driver. It took him a minute to open the rumble seat, but he re turned with his face abeam. "The boss slipped me a fiver. Gee: that's great!" he said. Then we wound our way uptown through the traffic. Suddenly I felt Evvy's hand on my shoulder. I turned to find her leaning forward. On her face there was a queer ex pression. half chagrin, half some thing I couldn't name. "Did you see that cab go by?" she exclaimed. "No? Well you missed it. Cousin Tommie and that Coeby woman were In it. Anne. Anne. I'm thinking you'll have to look to your laurels all along the line." "A cab!" I cried, "a regular horse cab? What fun! We'll probably overtake it at the apartment and overtake it at the apartment and have a chance to ask Tom and the Cosbys to join us this evening. Evvy's hand dropped from my shoulder, and she stared at me in titter astonishment. Then she sat back in the rumble seat without saying another word. To be continued. Returned Irish Soldiers Organizing Themselves Dublin, July 14.—The returned Irish soldiers are organizing them selves and asserting their right to be heard. In Cork it was proposed by the local Municipal Music Committee fo appoint as professor of traditional Irish music a German musician. There was no personal objection to the professor except that he was a German, but the soldiers would not have it. Four hundiyd of them turned out in a body and prevented the ap pointment. Daily Dot Puzzle 82* •35 2d • • _ 2b 87* T 26 51 34 39 ••• • • . I*s ,4*24 . 3fe ", 1? 9 ? hJ 111.• v - • ,*4244 f 2. \ 5 • 20 ' • f.• * . 75.' * 74 * F/Sfr"' '*** ,1 n -V s ! "> " S "'.A • 4 *>!• / \u f •>>) V v \ WjV . 7 "\^ - s — Bft* Draw tram on* to two mid *o on Ui Iko •*. Bringing Up Father - •/- Copyright, 1918, International News Service *- * - - By McManu si~ AH INVITATION to - MM4IE-KIN I (JO TO I WELL-I'LL ITLL e>E ALL "<EV OUT WHY L I WELL * I THOUGHT IP YOO RFAT 1 /MHrilMle ■ ■■■ OUTIH" • I OONT CROCANt, OOTINS <-> THINK IT j-> RKHT THEN? WERE "TOO EJO | ME OP FOR TO < 0 -I D ' \ H fl: I IBP WANT TO M.E.%-THAT- NEt WEEK? J •'■>■ O/ER'. J V CONSIDERATE. T 0 J _ M WELL IN TIME TO <0 1 1 I - . - LITTLE TALKS BY BE A TRICE FAIRFAX War has a way of inspiring young people to early and ill-considered marriage. Wedding bells seem to be part of the prevailing stir— the fluttering flags, bands, marching soldiers—and strange to relate, the boy who is too young to go to war feels he is getting into the picture by taking unto himself a child wife. So many child marriages have been made as the result of this en thusiasm that among the new crop of vaudeville jokes, one may expect something about the kindergarten classes at Reno for the benefit of infants seeking divorce. Misunderstanding almost invaria bly follows when the wife is fifteen, sixteen or seventeen and the hus band a year or two older, and both ought to be in school studying in stead of trying to cope with grown up problems. However, if these boy and girl marriages have occurred, young people ought to try hontstly to make the best of them, instead of assuming a "take my little dishes and go home" attitude. Don't talk afterwards about hav ing been too young to understand., unless you want to put yourself in the defective class. Every boy or girl of sixteen or seventeen knows that in repeating the marriage cere mony, he or she is promising to be faithful to one person "until death us do part." And after the fateful words are said, it is too late to plead "1 did not understand." A Divorced Boy Ridiculous Parents do not help matters along by listening to the grievances of the child husband and wife. The young people are legally married, and in seeking a divorce before they have really given their marriage a fair trial is a clear case of jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. A divorced boy is a ridiculous object. Xo one wants to give him work or admit him to the company of young people under their charge. He may be blameless, but his role is absurd. He might as well go to high school in a pair of false whiskers and expect to be taken seriously as to face the world di vorced before he is old enough to vote. And the plight of a divorced girl is even more unfortunate. She pre sents herself a picture of dismal sophistication, a child in years, yet one who has well nigh run the gamut of human experience. So if the fledglings have set up a nest of their own, don't make a bad busi ness worse by sympathizing with their little quarrels until divorce Is the only remedy. Divorce is sometimes necessary, I know, when a boy falls into the hands of a harpy or a girl into those of an adventurer, but it-is a remedy akin to dynamite and ought not to be applied until everything else has failed. Dately I have had scores of let ters from child wives, confiding in me their tragi-comedies, which are just as real even if they do happen to reproduce the absurd quarrels of children. They want to get divorces •and in a number of cases they must sue through a guardian, they are so pitifully young. Had to (lo Hungry One seventeen-year-old wife tells me that half the time she has noth . l< ?, e , at becaus e her nineteen jear-old husband "wants to look big and treat "a bunch of girls" to ice cream soda nearly every evening. He cannot forego the im portance of playing Great Mogul at the corner drug store, even if his poor little wife has to go hungry No boy ought to be placed in such a position of responsibility he has u , greediness and vanity of childhood and yet a girl must go hungry on account of his lack of development. Another tells me almost the same story, though her husnind's dissi pations are not as Innocent as ice cream soda. And the one who suffers in that family is the poor lit tle baby who has to do without clean, wholesome milk because the dairy won't leave any more till the back bills are paid. There is a jungle law that un mistakably dogs the footseps of ill of us through life; a distin guished novelist has called it "the aw of the supplanter and the sun planted." Hook about you and from casual observation you will lee that more things than curses -°me home to roost. In other words 'as ye sow, so shall ye reap." Some day this particular tragedy nay knock at your own door—some firl will steal your man away, just is you stole some other woman's nan from her. What Map Happen Perhaps some day you will have o see a frail baby's life fade away lerause the money that should have ieen spent to save It was wasted on oy rides and other hectic amuse nents. Then you will have experi ■nced to the fullest the jungle law if the supplanter and the supplanted. Very lately there has sprung up imong women a greater senso of alrness and decency—"feminine sol darity," I believe it is called. And teaven knows, when we read ac. ounts of the "drawing aside of klrts" because some unfortunate las brushed by us, we realize how nuch we need the Christ spirit in lur dealings with each other. Women ure less savage to women han they were even a generation go. At present no woman, unless be Is a very unworthy one, will de iberately rejoice In another woman's ILAJtRISBTTFtG YELEGR3LFH , misfortune and try, by every device j in her power, to prevent her from rising again. But many women did this in the past. And apart from the inhumanity of sueh conduct, women have begun to realize that men, while taking advantage of this fe line trait, do not admire it. The tabby-girl, with her claws ! barely sheathed, did not wear well. I Men prefer a girl who has what they ' are pleased to call "a man's sense | of honor," never dreaming that they jin their blindness have developed these feline traits in women. I If by any possible chance you should happen to belong to the | ever-dwindling feline type and you i feel that you must "vamp" some- I thing now and then, let me beg of I you to forego "vamping" the child | husband. You are not only en ! eouraging a young fool to improve |on nature's job, an dtake two or three more degrees in the way of I folly, but you are also helping to | overturn some girl's doll's house. And the girl who marries at siiu j teen or seventeen has troubles j enough without bor rowing any of j some other woman's making. She is | young enough to crave parties, thea j ters, admiration and joy rides and yet she often has to sit up with a 1 sick toothing baby. The world looks I black enough to her without adding any more charcoal to the picture. There are a few things that men do magnificently, and chief among I thorn is the way they stick together and uphold each other. Let's try to be "copy cats" of our fellow men in this respect, instead of being "taby cats," as, alas; a good many of us have been for generations. HONEYMOON ON" FIRE TRUCK Marietta, Ohio., July 14.—Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Edgell, following their marriage here, took their honey moon on a fire truck. The groom i is a fireman, and following the cere | mony his fellow-workers kidnaped j the couple and with bells clanging and sirens screaming rode them over j the city. 1 DAILY HINT ON FASHIONS A BECOMING BUSINESS COSTUME Waist 2885, Skirt 2865. In this you have a smart shirt waist coupled with a comfortable, stylish skirt. Sport's silk, .crKe, linen voile or gabardine could be used for the skirt and linen, crepe, voile, sat in, flannel, batiste or chambray for the waist. l'attern 2885 supplies the waist model, it Is cut In 7 sizes: 34, 36 38. 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust meas ure, and requires 2** yards of 36- Inoh material for the 38-inch size. The skirt is cut in 7 sizes: 22. 24, 26! 28, 30, 32, and 34 Inches waist meas ure. Size 26 requires 4- , i yards of 44 inch material. Width of skirt at low er edge and plaits extended is about 28* yards. This illustration calls for two sep arate patterns which will he mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents for each pattern In silver or stamps. Telegraph Tatteni Department For the 10 cents inclosed pleaae send pattern to the following address: Size Pattern No • Name Address City and state BUILT TUNNEL TO ESCAPE PRISON Automobiles Foil Plot of Ger mans and Aus trians Sydney, Australia, July 14.—Sev eral hundred Germans and Aus trians made an attempt to eecape by tunnelling from the Holdsworthy concentration camp here recently in order to l'oil the purpose of the Australian authorities to send.them bae kto Germany and Australia. The military authorities had pre viously notified the interned Teu tons that they were soon to be re turned to their native countries. Shortly before they were to be taken out of the interment camp, the authorities discovered a tunnel 150 feet long which led from one of the barracks underneath the fence enclosing the camp and thence to the surface outside. The tunnel was the work of about 150 men and apparently was begun as soon as the prisoners deceived warn ing of intention to send them home. They had planned to break free from the camp on the night before the sailing of the steamer for Eng land. Earth removed from the tunnel had been so disturbed around the camp that it was not noticed until t,he tunnel was almost completed. When the tunnel was discovered the Germans made a hostile demon stration but the guards suppressed it. The prisoners watched with chagrin the filling in of the tunnel. Advice to the Lovelorn CANNOT MARRY THE MAN SHE LOVES Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a stenographer, twenty-one, and find that one of the young men . formerly employed here is very much in love with me. 1 am in love with a certain young man. but for a very good reason cannot marry him. Would you consider it wise for me to continue going with the one who cares for me? Of course I do not love him, but I like him as a friend, and T am sure he would make an ideal husband. He makes a very fine living nnd promises a good home for myself and my mother. He has asked me several times, but I always put him oft. I shall act upon your de cision. IN DOUBT. If you accept the attentions of the young man who cares about you, I solutely "fair and square" with him. should make up my mind to play ab- Don't marry him for a home, and don't pretend to love him if you do not. But realizing his good qualities, I think it not improbable that you may learn to love him, if you put the young man you cannot marry for "a good reason" out of your mind. HE DOES NOT BELIEVE HER Dear Miss Fairfax: I am twenty and really and truly love a man sixteen years my senior, yet I can't make him believe 1 do. He tells me that he thinks I'pi only fooling him and that because I'm so much younger than himself that I would not always love him. And I wish you would please advise me as to how I can make him believe I do, and also tell me if It is proper for a girl to give up other boy friends just because she loves one friend, but yet Is not engaged? NELLIE. Whert a girl tells a man she loves { him and he declines to believe her, it is usually because it is more con venient for him to assume the role of a "doubting Thomas." In this case, I should say the man perhaps doei not return your affection and he lakes this source of gracefully evad ing the issue. No, I should not give up my boy friends unless you had something more to go on than this man's waving aside of the situation. TWENTY IS YOL'NG Dear Miss Fairfax: I am eighteen and am going with a girl about the same age. Her par ents want her to get married within the next two years. As I am young and making a reasonable living, is it proper for me to get married in the next two years? M. k K. Twenty seems very young for a boy to marry these days, particularly as the barest living expenses have Increased so tremendously, that It Is doubtful if you could make enough to support a wife. You are only eighteen now, and very probably the type of girl who Is now congenial would not interest you when you are older. SAW GHOST IN JAIL Rock Island, 111., July 14.—Eigh teen negro prisoners in the county Jail are in consternation- since the suicide of Robert Cook, who leaped front a court house window after hearing a Jury return a verdict of [guilty on two murder charges. The other night the guard was aroused by negroes shrieking they had, seen Cook's ghost pointing at them from his former cell. * "Why Lose EfiW __ " Itching; Your Hair &*£ Against Nationalization of French Coal Mines The French Chamber of Deputies has been investigating the effect of private versus public ownership of wasting industries. Reports have been submitted, giving the results of many years of observation of pro duction in both private and state owned mines. Professor H. Couriot, in a signed article in the Genie Civil, states that in the German owned coal mines of the Saar, but 109 tons per liectar (about two and one-half acres) were raised annually, whereas at Lens the French raised 558 tons per hectar, and at Saint Eteinne the French raised 821 tons. The fields are equal in richness and therefore may legitimately be compared. Re ports show that the State employed miner of Germany produces from one-eighth to one-fifth of that pro duced by the privately employed French miner. The new French bill proposes to limit the duration of leasing con cessions under royalty to a period of from fifty to ninety-nine years, and to increase the royalties to be collected by the States. Professor Couriot calls the atten tion of the French government to the fact that in England, where a coal leasing and royalty arrange ment exists by law, there is a scandalous waste of coal in the mintes so operated, based upon the claim of the operators that the small coal so wasted Is not worth paying royalty upon. This, asserts Professor Couriot, is not mining in the commercial sense of the term, but is really robbing the coal mines of the cream of their contents, leaving an enormous B Each Bottfe of CloverdaSg ami I GINGER ALE C contains two I jjj glasses j Split a Bottle with "the wife" or kiddies— Share your enjoyment of this delightful ginger ale with the rest of the family—there's not a person young or old who is not cap- Eu Laj tivated by its delicious flavor and sparkling goodness. 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