* " When a Girl Marries" By ANN I,ISLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problem of a Girl Wife ————————————— : CHAPTER CCLXXVII. (Copyright, 1919, King Feature Syn dicate, Inc.) "Before you say another iword listen to me!" said Carlotta Sturges in a tone that brooked no denial. Facing the sudden, steady, quiet strength I had always subcon sciously known must lie under the Hash and glitter of her, I prepared to tight for my respect for Carlotta and her friendship which had come to mean a great deal for me. I meant to save it whole if I could. But if it had to go that was beyond me to avert, for there was some thing bigger at stake. This some thing was Virginia's happiness. * had always known that some t ay *'d have to enter the lists for Virginia, and now the preliminary had struck. Just because Virginia's j pride had actually estranged Jim \ at last, I was all the sorrier for her. j She seemed bound to drive happi- i liesa away from herself and from ] those she most loved. She couldn't | save herself, but 1 felt I could save j her. Pressure for pressure* I returned Carlotta's handclasp as I answered her firmly: "This is your day for interup ing, Carlotta! Why do you insist | on sidetracking me in the middle i of a sentence?" "Because I don't want you to say anything you'll be sorry for," re plied that surprising girl, and then plunged into the middle of what i she had to say: "Anne, ever hear that old say- | ing: 'Never apologize, never ex- \ plain, never retract. Get the thing j done and let them howl'? Well, ■ that's been yours truly Carlotta : Sturges until I met you. I never , gave a hang what anyone thought. ! But I give a couple of hangs what 1 you think. Oh, this is hard —too i hard." "Then why go on?" 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It had come all right, he grinned to himself. But not the kind of a chance he had imagined. The clothes were slightly tight for him. He noted with satisfac tion that the vest was not as loose as when he had slipped it on soon after his return from France. He j was glad of this, for it was proof positive that he was gaining flesh, and regaining strength. He wanted to do a man's work in the world. "The war does not need me now," he muttered, "so I have not that in centive to get well as quickly as possible. But I do want to tackle a man's job, and the sooner I get husky the sooner I will be able to be in something besides the chauf feuring business. This is too easy a berth for me —easy in one way, hard in another." He looked very grave as he stood lost in thought. "It's getting a bit too dangerous for me," he mur mured. "If I would keep my peace of mind. I'd best quit soon. I never thought I'd be such a fool. And yet," his face softening, "who could help it—when he saw her every day? Well," straightening his shoulders. "I can try to fight it down. But if I can't do that, I'll just get away—that's all. There's no use in making myself wretched j thinking of what might have been. It can't be now. I'm poor, she's rich. That in itself would settle the matter even if I had not put myself where she would never give me a serious thought. "But she's kind to me peril ously kind. She could not know what those words of her's and that hand clasp in the cathedral meant. They made everything look dtffer | ent to me." ! Then he set his jaws "Darned | fool!" he exclaimed. "Go and get I your butler's suit pressed for your | job to-night.' That evening, when he took a j final survey of himself in his mir- I ror before leaving his room, ho I laughed. "Some transformation!" he told ] himself. "I don't look so tremend | ously like a butler—in spite of the I black tie and vest that I am wear i ing to make my outfit appear less j festive. But neither do I look much 1 like the comfortable, complacent I chap who left Baltimore a couple of years ago. That fact gives me courage." Desiree Leighton had requested her aunt to act as chaperone for the little celebration this evening. Mrs. Duflield arrived early, and, as she entered the drawing room smiled approving at her niece. "My dear," she declared, "you are perfectly lovely to-night. I have not seen that yellow frock be | fore. It is both pretty and 1 becom ! ing." "I am glad you like it," Desiree | replied. "I think myself that this pale gold color is exquisite." "I wish," her aunt said, "that you had your pendant to wear this evening. It would add just the touch that light gown needs." "The pearls will do very well in stead," the girl remarked. "I, too, wish I had the pendant but I haven'.t —so why worry?" . "What does your father say about i it?" the matron inquired. "I have not told him yet—but I I will later." Desiree answered hast ily. Samuel Leighton had gone into I the rear hall in answer to a sum i mons to the telephone, and Desiree I lowered her voice so that he might | not hear her last speech. | As she glanced at her parent's • face when he returned to the draw ing room, she saw that something was very far wrong. "Why. Dad, what's the matter?" she asked. He answered her question by an other. "My dear, why did you not tell me that your amethyst and dia mond pendant has been stolen?" "But it has not been stolen!" the girl protested. "That is just why I said nothing about it, for fear you would accuse some one." "You should have told me," Samuel Leighton insisted, "Perry \ telephoned to ask if we had found it. He is worried about it, and fears that you did not appreciate the value of your property." "I wish he would mind his own business!" Desiree said. "I was going to tell you about it to-mor | row. Dad. It has not been stolen." | "Then what has become of it?" ! her father demanded. | "I don't know. It's lost, that's all. j There's some explanation. , "There is some explanation," her j father agreed, "and I fear it is only ! too obvious." | "What do you mean?" I "That some one in our employ ! stole it," was the stern response, j "We can do nothing yet; but I ad vise you to keep your eyes open to night. You've had Annie for sev eral years, and Smith may be all right, too. I hope he is; but he must be watched." To be Continued. Scientific Discussions by Garrett P. Serviss Is matter inert or is it eternally charged with life, or the possibility of entering into new combinations and producing new forms? Is there inorganic life as well as or ganic, and if so where does the one be gin and' the other end? Where did the first germ of life come from, and how did it assimulate to itself a material body? I have heard it said that Prof. Loeb claims to have produced life in his I laboratory, using only matter. Is this , true? ARTHUR ECKENBERG. j Life is like an axiom in that every body regards it as self-evident in its nature, but to explain it logically by rigid analysis is very difficult if not impossible. To speak of "inorganic life" is a contradiction in terms, since the words "organic" and "inorganic" were invented for the purpose of dis t'nguishing between living and non living things. It is true that if it can ever be proved that *ife is only the product, or ' result, of the operation of chemical and physical forces a continuality will be established between the reactions that go on in the inorganic world and the processes of life in the organic world, and then it will only remain to link them up logically so that we can trace clearly the intervening steps. But this, I think, is very far from having been done. The manner of origin of life is still a mystery that has not been satisfac torily explained. Once started in the cell, or germ, life goes on in ways that can be controlled, but experiment has, up to the present, entirely failed to develop new life from nonliving mat ter. As to the source from which the first germ of life came, I have never been able to see the necessity of assummg, as was done, for instance, in Lord Kel vin's hypothesis of a visiting meteor laden with life spores, that life could not have begun on this earth as well as on some other world out in space which was afterward blown to pieces. That looks to me like a very cumbrous and expensive method of distributing life through the universe. I do not believe that it was sent about by celestial bombs from some central distributing plant, which had to perish in the process. I do believe that it originated on the earth itself, but precisely how it was done nobody knows. If its origin was due to come peculiar state of matter which no longer exists, then wo cannot hope to produce life from nonliving matter, unless that ancient state of things should be revived. It may be thought that science could discover a way to revive the necessary conditions although Nature has aban doned them. At any rate we are face to face with the fact that, as far as | can be seen at present. Nature no longer brings absolutely new life into existence. She continues to extend it in an endless chain, which branches off many ways, but no new chain of life is begun—at least not to our knowledge. There is a tendency in bioiogy to interpret many of the actions of liv- j ing things as simply reactions to stim-1 uli, such asylight or heat, and not as • the result of free choice on the part of : the organism. If this be granted for I simple forms of life the question im- j mediately arises whether it applies universally throughout the whole | gamut of life. Are we. who stand at | the top of the list, also enly machines j acting in obedience to prearranged , forces, and is our . fancied self-de- I termination merely a delusion, or are I we exceptional, and if we are ex- j ceptional are there other creatures. below us which arc exceptional in a j similar sense, though not enjoying so 1 high a degree of freedom from auto- | matism? These very old questions,: which have fascinated thinking men I from the remotest historical hges, j seem to be as far as ever from a definite answer. I do not believe that Professor Loeb j has ever claimed to "have produced: life in his laboratory using only mat ter." What he and others have done ' is to cause the eggs of certain crea tures, for instance, sea urchins, to pro-1 uuce youn;,- without being fertilised in the normal manner. But this is a totally different thing from producing life out of nonliving matter, since the eggs are'already charged with life, and all that the experimenter has done is i to supply artiflcally a chemical stimu lus needed for their development. Life's Problems Are Discussed i Twenty-five dollars a week 1 In these days of mounting costs, and with all the complex demands of modern life, could you conscientiously advise any one to engage in matrimony upon it so as to meet satisfactorily the re quirements of family life as they exist to-day? That is the problem which has been submitted to me by a group of young people in New York City who are very eager to get married, but are sensibly pausing to look—to consider ways and means—before they leap. Here is their letter: "Dear Mrs. Woodrow: Of all the many writers in the various news papers, we have chosen you as being both popular and practical, and are therefore writing you to ask your help in solving the difficulty which con fronts us. "We are a number of young couples who have become thoroughly disgusted in trying to figure out how we can get married on twenty-five dollars a week, since that is the average salary each couple will have at its disposal, and things are so high at present that the proposition looks hopeless. "What we need, if it can be done, is to have some one tell us how on that amount to secure and furnish a house in the suburbs, how much money will be needed for this and for a start at house-keeping, and also how much should be set aside each, week for rent and other living expenses —in short, the entire financial end of the under taking. Once started, we girls feel competent to handle the housekeeping, j as we have all had practice at conser- j vation during these war times. "There are of course dozens of ar-1 tides appearing every day touching on! | the question, but they are for the most | part only cooking recipes or household ! 1 hints, or else, 'What I Did in a Time J of Need,' the experience of some one in a situation such as could probably only occur in that one instance and be cause of some special opportunity. "What we want is some sound, prac tical advise such as a father might give to a son or daughter about to be married; only present-day fathers ours, at least don't seem to know anything about how things are man aged nowadays, and so can give very little real counsel. "Perhaps, though, you can help us out of our quandry, or else can start something set the ball rolling to call out from others suggestions which will be of aid to us. There must be people who would take an interest in our case and be able to give us the desired information. Please don't dis appoint us, Mrs. Woodrow; we are so in need of help. Now, there is an appeal that cannot fail to arouse sympathy. Twenty-five dollars a week. For two that means $12.50 apiece. How is it to be appor tioned so as to cover rent, and food, and clothing, and light, and heat, and j amusements, and doctor's, and den tist's bills, and emergency expenses, and insurance and at the same time lay by something for the inevitable rainy day? Frankly speaking. I doubt if it can be done. Not in New York anyhow. In other parts of the country where the purchasing power of a dollar is greater, it might be a feasible under taking ; but it must be understood that in those places the salaries paid for the kind of work upon which these young men ore engaged would prob ably be proportionately less. Also I am aware that even in New York many married people do live and raise families and lay by money, and Daily Dot Puzzle 31 .32 .33 3o* 26 33 *.- 1 * 34 • . -3b .33 37 •* 42 -' I^3! i V a. '•* . s • V i. 1 * • 16 '• IO ,6 6 4 7 • a • . *4b •ii & 7 • 14. 1 5 17 • .58 ft i p: \ 5 *-•' m : 54* .63 J i Draw from one to two and so on j { to the end. $ AUGUST 19, 1919 at the same time enjoy a degree of I comfort, all on an income often less | than twenty-five dolars a week. I take [ oif my hat to them. They deserve to ! Ibe rated as great financial geniuses. j But lacking that genius and it | is hardly likely that all of this group ] of young people possess it—the attempt j in almost sure to end in shipwreck. In j the unceasing struggle to make both ; ends meet the blooming bride becomes i in a feif years a dragged-out, hopeless drudge, the husband, with his nose for ever to the grindstone, a disappointed man who finds his ambition thwarted and liis development stunted. Still there is a solution. This is an era of combination and co-operation. Why, then, do not these young people —a presumably congenial coterie | pool their issues instead of trying to go i it alone? Suppose there are six] couples of tliern, and that each pair i would agree to contribute ten dollars a | week toward a common fund. For this amount a house could be | secured in the suburbs large enough to j give each couple their private living j apartments, while the meals could- be I served in a general dlr.'ng room. It) would be a sort of permanent house party. This community plan has Its dis advantages of course. There would have to be stringent rules to guard against jealousies, disagreements and intermeddling; but it is certain that for sixty dollars a 'week a family <;1 twelve can have comforts, conveniences and luxuries that would bo denied to a family of two on twenty-five dollars. And, each couple would have fifteen ' dollars for themselves. If anybody has another or better suggestion, I would like to pass It along. Food Societies Are Disbanded J Berlin, Aug. 19. 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