" When a Girl "
By ANN LISLE
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problem of a Girl Wife
CHAPTER CCLXXV.
Copyright, 1919, King Features Syn
dicate, Inc.
"I can't, Babsie, dear— l can't.
Don't you see that I can't?" begged
Neal.
I was sitting in his office, where
I had gone at Jim's bidding to tell
Neal that Virginia was implacable
and that the only way for him and
Phoebe to find happiness was to
take it in spite of her. The great
idea—the inspiration of the night
before —was no longer attractive to
me. But to Jim it looked like the
only way. And his whole gambling
instinct fought for it.
But Neal was refusing to avail
himself of the permission Phoebe's
brother had sent him. Refusing to
carry out this "bless you my chil
dren, o. k.'d in advance, elopement.
His attitude roused me, first to
curiosity, then to normal, human
stubborness.
"I'd like to know why not?" I
asked indignantly. "Are you in
sinuating that Jim and I would
want you to do anything that
wasn't perfectly all right?"
"Babbsie dear—as if I didn't know
my big sister's sweet, cjean heart i
by this time! But I can't sneak
around to the back door of the ,
Harrison establishment and drag j
Phoebe out through the kitchen. It |
isn't good enough for my little
sweetheart. She's only—a baby,
sister dear."
I caught Neal's hand in mine as
he spoke. To me he has always
seemed "only a baby" himself." But
his feeling for Phoebe was all a
man's love—sturdy, strong and pro
tective. It made my heart ache to
think that Virginia's blindness
wanted to deny Phoebe such a love
as this. Aloud 1 said stumblingly:
"Laddie I love you more than I
know how to say. You are so chiv
alrous to all women—so blessedly
chivalrous. And where Phoebe is ;
concerned you're adorable. But"— |
"But me no buts, Babbsie dear, i
Phoebe's worth waiting for. Vir- I
ginia can't hold out. We —care too j
much. She'll come to see that after
a while, and she won't deny it." I
"Jim will be furious. Every one j
is defying him," I said uneasily. j
Neal gave my hand a reassuring ;
squeeze.
"Jim would be furious if it came
to a showdown and he couldn't give
Phoebe away at a lovely flower
decked altar," he said.
1 pictured the occasion. Then I
shook my head. "Not without Vir
ginia. No matter how seriously
Jim and Virginia may have quar
reled. when it comes to a formal
wedding she'd have to be there.
The Har. .son dan feeling would
demand that. Jim can't give Phoebe
away at the altar when there's no
chance in the world that Jeanie will
ever consent to her going there
with you."
"She'll have to consent," said
Neal, stubbornly. "I'm not going to
have my little Phoebe's Wedding
anything but a flower-decked, beau
tiful thing. 1 want her to have it
to remember happily always. I
want her to have only happy things
to remember from now on."
"All right," I said meekly, trying
to adjust myself to the various and
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SATURDAY EVENING,
varied masculine viewpoints with
which I was compelled to deal.
At that moment in strolled Car
lotta Sturges, more flamboyant than
usual in a shiny black sailor and a
skirt of black and white plaid,
topped by a black velvet sport coat.
Her hair haloed out from under her
sailor. Her color flooded up to it.
Her gold bags tinkled at her side in
a most unbusinesslike manner.
"Howdy, Anne! Hello, kido!"
she cried, heartily. "They told me
over at the other office you were
looking for some documents in evi
dence, and as I was traveling
thence and thither, I brung 'em with
me."
She flung a fat package on the
desk as she spoke. Neal seized it
eagerly, and Carlotta, motioning
him to his chair, cleared a corner
of his desk and flung herself upon
it, to perch there nonchantly. At
once Neal fell to studying his pa
pers. Carlotta turned to me, say
ing in a stage whisper:
"Got a luncheon date with broth
er or hubby or any one?"
"Not with me," said Neal, look
ing up with a grin. "Nor yet with
Jim. We've an engagement of our
own and very important matters not i
for mere femininity to hear will
there be discussed. So Babbsie's as !
! free as air, 1 was wondering how
| I'd find her a partner so she
I wouldn't be mad at me for my lack
|of attention. I'd thought of Pat—
but here's partner provided by
Fate."
"Pat can meet us, if you like,"
said Carlotta with what struck me
as a completely proprietary air. ]
"Shall I 'phone him?"
Again Neal looked up with his
grin changed to a frown of per
plexity.
"No—better not," he said. You
two girls go it alone."
"All right," said Carlotta amiably j
"I'm tickled to death to have a visit
with Anne. We don't seem to have
i many get-togethers these days. I'll
] run out to my desk and look over
| the mail and you blow for me when
j you're ready Anne."
j The moment she left the office
Neal looked up anxiously. Coming 1
I very close he stooped and said in a
j low voice.
j "Anne, you remember Jim's dream
|of buying back the old Harrison
place and my difficulty in finding
out anything about it? Well, I've
a full list of—particulars now.
Guess why I had so much trouble
|in running down the present
owner?"
"Why?" I asked, and then added
eagerly. "Now it's all clear sailing
for Jimmie. That's why you want
to lunch with him, isn't it? He will
be happy."
"Will he?" asked Neal.
His tone chilled, my enthusiasm.
"The old Harrison place," stam
mered Neal abruptly. "The old
home where I think Jim had once
hoped to see Phoebe married is
listed in—is down with title clear
and plain. Babbsie, to old Harri
son place is Virginia Dalton's prop
erty."
"Virginia!" I cried. "Virginia—
but how?"
"I don't know," said Neal. "But
I think. I see. That's why I told
you I might have to talk to Pat."
To be continued.
Bringing Up Father -;- Copyright, 1918, International News Service -* - By McManus
THE LOVE GAMBLER !
By Virginia Terhune Van de Water
CHAPTER XDIV.
I Copyright, 1919, Star Company.
1 During the ten minutes which
elapsed before David De Baine ap
peared in answer to his employer's
summons Desiree tried to knit.
At last, when she had dropped
five stitches in as many minutes,
I she laid down her work.
"Father," she began.
"Yes?" Her father looked at her
! inquiringly. "What is it, my dear?"
"1 was wondering," the girl con
i fessed, "if you would mind telling
i Smith that you want him to take
| the place of butler to-night?"
Her father laughed. "1 declare
I you look scared at the prospect!"
|he teased. "Certainly I'll tell him
if you wish. But, my child, you
I will have to give him full instruc
tions as to what' his duties will be."
• I "Very well, 1 will," the girl
I agreed faintly as she heard a ring
]at the front door.
"Tell Smith to come in here," Mr.
' I Leighton said to Annie when she
! | announced the chauffeur's arrival.
) "Good morning, sir," David said
i j in acknowledgment of his employ
i er's greeting. Then, with a glance
lat Desiree —"Good morning. Minis
I ! Beighton."
David Astonished
Briefly, Samuel Beighton ex
. ! plained the predicament they found
I themselves in, ending with—
j "There is but one way out of the
I difficulty, Smith. It is that you act
' as butler this evening."
David started violently, taken
completely off his guard.
I "I—l—sir—you mean me?"
I Desiree glanced warningly at her
father. if Samuel Beighton saw
this glance it annoyed him instead
of moving him to drop the matter
- then and there.
"Yes," he said testily. "That is
: what I mean. Surely you would not
I object to helping Miss Beighton at
a time like this! It is not much to
ask, but if you feel that this is not
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| your work I will pay you extra for
your time this evening."
David flushed with vexation.
"You misunderstand me, sir," he
. said coldly. "X am willing to do
' I any work that Miss Leighton de
j sires."
"Then why did you appear so
, startled at my suggestion?" the
older man questioned.
David De Laine was now thor
oughly master of himself.
"I was surprised, sir, and very
uncertain as to what kind of a but
ler 1 would make. X can drive a
I car, but 1 have not had practice in
' ! passing dishes."
: I His smiling explanation brought
I an answering gleam to Mr. Leigh
' j ton's stern face.
"So that was why you seemed so
I put out, was it?" he said. "Well, X
guess you'll get on all right. Miss
; Leigthton will tell you just what
your duties will be for the evening.
But, lirst of all you must hire a
; dress suit."
"X have one, sir," David began,
■ then checked himself.
' But he was too late. His em
ployer had heard what he said.
1 "You have a dress suit?" he re
' peated.
! | "Yes, sir." De Laine must think
; i fast if he would not betray him-
I self. "That is—X know where I can
I get one—from a friend —that is—
' without hiring it at a public place.
' | Excuse me, sir, if I say so —but X
! do not just fancy the idea of wear
: I ing a suit that's hired and has been
' worn by people of all kinds."
Out of the Woods
1 "I quite understand your reluc- j
I tance," Samuel Leighton admitted, j
"Are you sure your friend will lend j
' I you his suit?"
' ; "Yes, I am sure he will," David
1 | said. "He's a willing kind of chap j
: I —and he has no need for his suit |
these days. He's changed his occu- |
5 pation," he added byway of ex
t planation.
t "Oh, X see he's given up the
> waiter's job," Mr. Leighton ob
t served. "Then if his clothes tit you,
' get them by all means. If you have
; to hire them from your friend, let
| me know ho wmuch they cost."
"I don't think he'll charge me 1
| i anything, thanks," David replied.
i Samuel Leighton was not an im-
I aginative man, either did he have
i the intuition peculiar to women,
i Therefore it never occurred to him
I that David was concealing anything
from him.
But Desiree was sure that David
I ■ was keeping something back. Why
; had he said at first that he had a
j j dress-suit, later speaking of it as
I belonging to a friend?
Perhaps he had been a butler be
| ! fore he went into the service. If
so, he was very foolish to be
i ashamed of it. There was nothing
I 1 disgraceful in it. Yet —she could
I not think of Smith as a butler.
But she must think of him in that
capacity now —for it devolved upon
I her to explain to him what his
| duties would be for this evening.
| Her embarrassment lessened as
! she talked to him about the prep
| arations. The refreshments would
i not be served until late in the eve
ning. The cook and Annie would
j bring them to the pantry. Smith
and Annie must pass them to the
1 guests in the dining room.
When she had assigned his duties
1 to him Smith made a request.
I "Miss Ijeighton," he said, "I will
Ibe glad to wait on the table. But
might Annie open the front door
I for the guests?"
Desiree was puzzled, but she
agreed to this arrangement.
"Thank you," David murmured. "I
might make a botch of it, you know,
i "I never thought Smith diffident,"
i Desiree mused when he had gone.
. It seems strange that he should
| object to opening the front door to
admit people whom he does not
know. I suppose it is some whim
of his, and I am perfectly willing to
humor it, since he feels about it as
I he does."
To be continued.
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I Scientific Discussions
by Garrett P. Serviss
BY GARRETT I'. SERVISS
Here are two questions to which I
the asker says he can get no an- I
swer:
(1) "If a vertical line to
York be extended through the earth
adnade to project from the other
side, will this projecting line be a
vertical line?"
(2) "if a running siphon oe
placed under the receiver of an air
pump, and the air be exhausted to
one-tenth, how much more slowly I
will the siphon run than when uu- I
der full atmospheric pressure?" I
I cannot undertake to answer a'l !
questions of this kind, but only i
those which, like the above, involve !
broad principles and facts which it i
would be useful and interesting to j
everybody to know. They are of I
the nature of the mental food on i
which Isaac Newton nourished the j
beginnigs of the mightiest scientific •
intelligence ever developed by a hu- j
man being, as when, for instance, I
in his boyhood, he undertook to j
measure that force of the great tent- j
pest that roared over England on I
the day that Oliver Cromwell died |
by jumping first with the wind and j
then against it.
(1) A vertical line at. New Yoik j
extended straight through the earth i
would not except by a miracle of
chance, be a vertical line at the
point where it emerged. It would be
vertical if the earth were an abso- j
lutely perfect sphere, of uniform i
density throukhout, because then a i
line which was vertical at any point. ]
on the earth would be vertical at i
any other point, since all such lines j
j would necessarily meet exactly ot I
! the center.
But. the earth is only approxi- j
| mately a sphere, or, more nearly, j
an ellipsoid, with the line through ;
I its poles of rotation serving as the
i minor axis. Or it may be called an
! oblate spheroid i. e., a solid re
i sembling a sphere, slightly flattened
at the poles.
In truth, the most careful inves
tigations of the earth's shape prove
that it does not perfectly accord
with any regular geometrical solid.
The consequence is that lines which
are vertical to its surface at one
point may not be vertical if trans-
I ferred, without change of direction,
Ito another point. In other words,
such lines would not all pass
through the center.
Then, too, the direction of the.
plumb line at any place on the .
earth is not determined solely by
the attraction toward the center of |
gravity, but in part by the centri- J
fugal force due to the earth's rota
tion, and this force varies with the |
distance from the equator. More- j
over, the substance of the earth's j
interior is by no means of uniform [
density, and variations of density |
cause corresponding differences in
the direction of the plumb line. i
There are places where the !
plumb-line falls as much as ten i
seconds of arc aside from the po
sition that it would occupy if the
rocks below and all around were of ;
uniform density. Some of these
cases are very puzzling, indicating
the existence of surprising centers
of local condensation, or masses of
strangely heavy material lying at
no great depth below the surface.
There is a place on the coast of
Scotland, in the County of Banff,
where the mysterious local attrac
tion is so strong that the romantic j
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imagination might picture a vast \
pocket of solid gold, as big as a
mountain, lying just under the
rocky shell. Every great mountain,
or mountain range, and every ex
tensive tableland draws the plumb
line aside.
All these causes of variation in
the direction of the vertical are the
source of fundamental trouble for
astronomers and geodesists, of
which the ordinary public never
hears. One of the most important
things for the astronomer to know
with exactness is the location of
his zenith, or point directly over
head, which, of course, is deter
| mined by extending the indication
I of the plumb-line to the sky.
I On this depends the determina
tion of latitude on the earth. But
I if the vertical is misplaced by some
j unexpected side attraction all Hie
i delicate calculations based upon it,
j are vitiated. Few imagine the in
j finite pains, the measureless in
t genuity and tho tireless application
j required to furnish us euriotis
j minded human insects with tiie
' really remarkable amount of knowl
edge that the best specimens of our
fussy little race have accumulated
about the spinning globe on which
we live, as well as about its inac
cessible celestial surroundings.
(2) Since the action of a siphon
depends upon the ratio of the pres
sure of the atmosphere to the
weight of water to be raised to the
! top tho tube, if either of these elc-
I ments is altered the limit of height
I at which the instrument remains ef
-1 feetive must vary proportionally.
I If the pressure is reduced to one
• tenth of its normal amount, the
| weight of the water remaining the
I same as before, the siphon will
j cease to act at one-tenth of the
I former height. The velocity of flow
j is governed by gravity, and varies
! in proportion to the square root of
j the height, or "head." In a perfect
i vacuum the siphon would not work
!at all. In ordinary circumstances
j the maximum height to which the
water can be carried is about thirty -
| three feet.
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AUGUST 16, 1919
Advice to the Lovelorn
I.ONESOMIC at fifteen
I am fifteen and have no friends,
as I am not allowed to go out in the
evenings with anyone. 1 seem to lie
thrown aside by everyone who comes
to my house, and as they are grown
up young men and girls, they go out,
leaving me behind. Will you please
tell me how to make friends with the
girls and boys at home?
LONESOME.
As you are rather young to go out
with the others, why not spend your
evenings in preparing yourself for tile
good times in store for you in a year
or two. if you read a bit and keep
your mind alert you will be twice as
attractive as if you were stupid. You
could take up music and make a good
musician of yourself. As you know,
music is always in great demand
among young people and you would
find in several years that you were
well repaid for the time spent in prac
tice and preparation. Another accom
jplblnncnt which most girls overlook
• is cooking. Girls who can make really '
j good candy and delicious little calces I
i are very much in demand, and so few
j girls take the time or trouble to learn I
j how. If you start in now to learn.
I something of this kind. I am sure the
time will fly by and before you know
it you will be the center of attraction.
And for the times when you are not
busy with things of this kind you will
find that with a good book and a few
apples you will never get lonely.
NOT MUCH TO GO ON
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX.
I am deeply in love with a man ten
' years older than I am, who I see fre
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quontty. I often see him speaking t
another girl. 1 used to take walks
with him of an evening, but I feel that
I T am forcing myself on him. I have
I given up all the boys I know for thia
man's sake, yet he doesn't seem to
I care. The other day I asked him if he
would take me somewhere, as all my
friends were going, and he answered
very decidedly "No."
HOPEFUL.
I am very much afraid from the tone
of your letter, all of which I have not
given, that you have very little to be
hopeful about in the case of this
young man. You were very foolish to
give up your boy friends on his ac
count.
A lIIItTIIDAY GIFT TO A YOUNG
MAN*
DEAR MIPS FAIRFAX.
I have been going about with a
young* man for six months. The young
man's birthday is in a very short
time, and as I received a birthday
present from him, I would like to
know whether it would be proper for
me to give him anything. '
A CONSTANT READER
It would be perfectly proper for you
to give the young man a birthday
present. I would suggest a book,
which is always an acceptable pres
ent and would be appropriate in this
case.
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