"When a Girl Marries" By AXX LISLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problem of a Girl Wife CHAPTER CCLXXIX. Copyright, 1919, King Feature Syn dicate, Inc. "Hello Barbara Anne! This cer tainly is my four-leaf clover day!" cried Carl Booth, as he strode up to where I stood waiting after he had hailed me on tlje avenue. "Come on into one of these cute little boxes where they pour ice cream sodas and sich for the starving. "I haven't time," 1 began, but Carl's downcast face made me ashamed of myself. When had he ever been too busy to tind time tor me back in the days when I needed a friend like this big pink and white innocent of a man? "But I'll make it," 1 smiled. Carl beamed and we marched into a little tea room whose delightful front tables overlook the avenue from behind great outtlung case ment windows. There we sat lux urously sipping frosted chocolates and nibbling hermits, those deli cious little cakes with raisins and nuts and citron and all sorts of jolly surprises hidden behind their demure yet bulging brownness. And as we ate like happy children and chatted of the old days at Hal dune's, I poked out my pretty new pumps and told Carl the story of my shoe-shop spree. "They're scrumptious!" declared Carl, eyeing my slippers with favor. "And perfectly right you were to buy while the buying is good. I can remember the days when you used to liuy insoles and wear shoes that were too wide because the A's didn't come in the cheaper makes." "Oh. Carl, was. there ever an old dear like you?" i cried. "To think of your remembering that —and the width of my shoes. You have the most wonderful memory!" "About some things," said Carl dryly. "But I was almost forget ting the thing I had on my mind. Won't you and Mr. Harrison come to dinner at my diggings some night next week? I've a little two by-four apartment with a very young kitchennette, and though I bate to boast about myself, 1 sure can broil a steak. It' ever I lose my knack as a go-getter of ads, I'm thinking of becoming a steak chef. Name the night, Barbara Anne." "Oh you mustn't bother." I pro tested, knowing Jim probably wouldn't want to accept. "No bother. Pleasure," beamed Carl. "Name your uight." Since there was no way out but the ugl.v one of fibs, I suggested Thursday, and added: "If that's all right for Daisy." "Daisy?" repeated Carl. "Oh, yes, to be sure—Daisy. 1 a:a a o oial dub. Didn't realize that smce she was at the first party it would be a slight to leave her out of this. Daisy's such a quite little mouse, folks are likely to forget her. But you wouldn't Barbara Anne. You'd never hurt anyorm." Suddenly a CIOCK boomed the hour. "Six!"- 1 cried in chagrin and as tonishment. "Oh, Carl, you've up set all my plans: I was going over to the garage for . / car and then call for my husbaoa. I hardly ever miss driving him home on a pleas ant afternoon." "Want to 'phone you'll be right along?" asked Carl. I acted on the suggestion, but Jim's line was busy. So I thought it best t' hurry over to the garage and 'plie.,e trom there. At the gar age entfnnce 1 bade Carl a hasty farewell and hurried to the tele phone. Jim's line was still reported busy, so without more ado I drove over to the office. When I started into the elevator the boy stopped me. "Looking for Mr. Harrison?" he said. "Him and Mr. Hyland and his young lady left not live minutes ago." So there was nothing for me to do but to get back into the car and drive home. I felt annoyed with Jim. and yet—since 1 hadn't said I would call for him —there w;. .i't any reason why he should he waited. 1 knew I had only l ■self to blame. Still—stubbornly enough—l persisted in feeling hurt. Jim might have guessed I would come. I had a bad time getting the little car to start. One cylinder insisted on missing. It was fifteen or twenty minutes before I cleaned a con nection and got away. Then, at a crowded corner, a traffic cop held me up and delivered an angry ora tion because I hadn't observed his upflung hand and had driven along when he was halting traffic. It took me twice as long as it should have taken to drive home. And when I go_t to our apartment the little car wouldn't run neatly alongside the curb, but had to be backed and driven out into the street before I could park decently. So I arrived at my own door in a state of nerves—jumpy and uncom fortable. The final insult to my happiness and intelligence took place when a third search of purse failed to reveal my latchkey. Bertha opened the door in re sponse to my ring, and her smiling face sobered immediately on see ing me. /p^Dandruff rAfy head itched unbearably and my 1 hair was coming out by the handful. Afewapplicationaof Wild root loosened and removed quantities of dandruff— the itching stopped. Today it is thicker and more beautiful than ever." WiIPBOOT THE GUARANTEED HAIR TONIC For sale here under a money-back guarantee H. C. KENNEDY Wlldroot Shampoo Boap, used in connection I with Wlldroot. will hasten the treatment. J THURSDAY EVENING, "Mr. Harrison come in yet?" I asked, ignoring Bertha's individu ality and personality. "Ves'm, and gone out," said Ber tha sadly. "Gone out Where? When will j he be back?" I demanded. I "He said, ma'am, he waited at the office till quarter past six and here | until seven, and that he had to go j over to Mr. Tom Mason's on most important business, and would you I please follow him at once, as the three of you would dine together. And he'd no more than gone when the phone rings and Mr. Cosby asks if you'll please step in as soon as you come home. He said it's most important and that he wouldn't ask only he needs you special and with out delay." Bertha ran it all so breathlessly that I got the sense of grave things pending, and, turning, pressed my i linger to the elevator bell. "Bertha, please get Mr. Harrison ,at Mr. Mason's," 1 said, "and tell | him to call me at once at Mr. i Cosby's. Then you ana Angy have I your supper and go to a movie.' | At that moment the elevator ar | rived, so I hastily took four silver -4 quarters from my purse and thrust * ing them into Bertha's hand, stepped ] wearily into the elevator and hur j ried to answer Lane Cosby's sum [ mons. To l>c continued. Advice to the Lovelorn THI.VKS SWEETHEARTS Sl'PEIt- FLIOLS ; DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: j About eleven months ago I met a I young man some years my senior whom I respected very much. Since j then I have learned to care for him. iOf late, I often tind myself thinking of him during work. Now this young I man intends to go back to the coun jtiy of his birth, and does not want a i sweetheart. He is always very polite lo me and no more. I love him very I dearly and wish you would advise me. WAITING. Sometimes sweethearts do inter- I fere with ambitions. I don't doubt 'that your friend will achieve his am- Jbition earlier if he succeeds in remain ling heart free. But his security Is very uncertain. Who can be sure that he I won't fall in love next week, to-mor row, to-day? As for you, 1 am sorry that you have happened to fall in love with an unresponsive youth, but the only course Is for you to abandon hope in connection with a young man who insists on being merely polite, (and to meet as many other young ! men, cultivate as wide a variety of human interests as possible. PRECIOUS EIGHTEEN Dear Miss Fairfax: I am eighteen and engaged to a lady twenty-seven. We love each other dearly. I look much older than I am, and easily pass for twenty—three or twenty-four. Do , you think the difference in age is any obstacle to our marriage. M. L. J. It need not be. But in your case, ; since you are so very young, would it not be wiser to defer your mar riage for a year or two? Meanwhile you can both make sure of the reality of your affection and of your suita bility to each other. ! DAILY HINT ON FASHIONS I I ' "I' "H ' |KT A COMBINATION OF TWO POPU LAR STYLES ' Blouse 2934. Skirt 2605 Here is a model ideal for sports' wear. The blouse is new and attrac tive. The skirt is a plaited model, cut with necessary fulness and graceful lines. Satin, crepe de chine or Geor gette would be suitable for the blouse, and serge, satin, taffeta, linen or ging ham for the skirt. The Blouse is cut In 7 Sizes: 34. 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 Inches bust measgure. Size 38 requires 3 1-2 yards of 36 Inch material. The Skirt is cut in 7 Sizes: 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 inches waist measure. Size 24 requires 2 1-2 yards of 54 inch ma terial. Width of skirt at lower edge is about 2 3-4 yards with plaits ex tended. This illustration calls for TWO sep arate patterns which will be mailed to any address on receipt of 10c. FOR j EACH pattern in silver or lc. and 2c. j stamps. Telegraph Pattern Department For the 10 cents inclosed please send pattern to the following address: Size Pattern No Name Address City and State Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918, International News Service Bp McManus HOW KIN | I ttKWIVoF -fOUR-H MUCH L OH! HAR>f-WILL J TH*nk LJ II Z- OON'T BOTHER 1 ANYONE 3E HO- rHIP" I'aTHE LAZIEST HER TO HAw I YOU HAVE ZJ YOU- ' f/" 'O - \ aromtmf HUM:: [T fl TOMSKSSTJI Jgwawy Scientific Discussions by Garrett P. Serviss Referring to the question of the cause of the former genial climate in the Polar regions, which has been revived by Stefansson's discovery of coal on a new land within the Arctic circle, two correspondents simultan eously champion the theory that the great climatic change was due to an alteration in the position of the earth's axis of rotation. And both find support for the theory in the story of the disappearance of the mammoths. One of them says: "The axial change was undoubt edly due to a cosmic accident, be cause what apparently occurred was a violent, sudden change, as evi : denced by the overwhelming of the large animals feeding on tropical vegetation by an instant drop to Arc tic frigidity, which caused them to be frozen solid and to be so com pletely incased in ice as to preserve their flesh and stomach contents for many thousands of years." Now, whatever may have been the case millions of years ago, when the | coal beds were deposited, it is cer- I tain that there has been no tropical i climate in the Arctic regions and no I great and sudden change in the j earth's axis within the period of | time in which the large animals re ] ferred to, viz., the mammoths, lived in Siberia and Alaska. [ They seem to have reached their i meridian in the Pleistocene epoch, I during which the great glacial in ! vasions occurred, and they were con- I temporary with early man in Eu rope. Whatever the nature of the accidents by which their bodies were embedded and frozen in the muddy soil of the Siberian tundra, it can j not have been due to a sudden drop Ito frigidity in the climate, because | the mammoth was distinctly a cold I weather animal, specially clothed \ with long, heavy hair, supplemented ! with thick underwool. i He was used to an Arctic climate j and so fond of the cold that when the ice during the glacial epoch ad i vanced southward these huge mam | mals followed it, carrying their warm garments of hair and wool [ with them, as is sufficiently proved by the drawings that the men of the old Stone Age left on cavern walls and elsewhere on their gigantic ele phantine contemporaries. It is probable that the preserva tion of so many bodies of manmals in the frozen mud-sinks along Si berian and Alaskan rivers was due to local causes, such as thaws and floods, instead of to any vast and sudden climatic change affecting a whole hemisphere. As to the sup position that they fed on tropical vegetation, read the following, writ ten in 1915 by Dr. W. D. Matthew, a foremost authority on this subject. He is speaking of the bodies of mam moths found in Siberia and Alaska: "The contents of the stomach show that these animals fed upon the same vegetation, grasses and sedges, birches, alders, poplars, etc., that prevails to-day in the far north." In a word, the mammoth belonged to a much later age than that when genial climates prevailed nearly all over the earth, even including the Arctic and Antarctic lands. To re turn to what seems to be the most popular theory of the cause of that genial period and of its disappear ance, viz., a change in the earth's axis of rotation,., we may take up Professor W. C. Pickering's sugges tion that all the planeto formed by the breaking up and condensation of rings left off during the contraction of the original nebula from which the solar system was developed, would, at first, rotate on their axis in a retrograde direction, i. e., con trary to their revolution around the sun. This appears to be an inevitable result of the inverse square law as applied to the velocity of particles revolving at slightly different dis tances from their common center of motion. The outer particles of a ring traveling slower than the in ner ones, when the ring becomes a globular planet the effect of this dif ference in velocity would be a back ward rotation. But the tides produced in the un solidifled planets by the attraction of the sun would, in a manner the details which cannot be entered upon here, produce a gradual re versal of the direction of rotation by tipping the axis over. The end of this process would be reached when the axis, having been tipped over end for end, was brought into a position at right angles to the plane of the planet s revolution around the sun, the planet then rotating in a forward direction, after which there would be no change. Now it is a fact of observation that the outermost planet of the solar system, Neptune, still rotates backward, while the next nearer ono, Uranus, appears to be approaching the point of change from a back ward to a forward rotation. That Saturn and Jupiter once rotated backward seems to be indicated by the retrograde revolution of their most distant satellites. The earth has passed into the state of forward or direct rotation but its axis is still more than 23 degrees from perpen dicularity to the ecliptic. Extremely interesting possibilities depend upon these considerations, but they relate to an immense an tiquity, and there is no room to dis cuss them here. Another time they may be taken up. ' J WLRJRIHBURG TELEGRAPH THE LOVE GAMBLER By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CHAPTER. XLVI. Copyright, 1919, Star Company "Oh, father!" Desiree's exclamation of distress made her parent regard her inquir j ingly. - "Well?" he queried. "What is the matter?" "I cannot bear to hear you speak as if you thought that he —I mean that anybody in our employ had taken my pendant. .It is hardly ! fair." Samuel Leighton drew his brows I together. "My dear child," he pro- ! tested, "I am accusing nobody. But j I have common sense which tells ; me that an article of jewelry does j not disappear by magic. Your ro mantic nature makes you very un- j practical at times. Just listen to reason. Did not both of the maids come and go freely in your room I while the box containing your pen dant was there?" "Certainly they did," Desiree ad ; mitted. "But they have been in and j out of my roqm for two years, and j I never missed a thing. Moreover, j Norah and Annie had excellent ref- j erences from their former em-1 ployers." "Yes —which is all in their favor. : Nevertheless, I would like to know ! Norah's present address. Have you I | it?" Desiree shook her head. "No, I j i don't know where she is." "When you get a chance ask An- j nie if she knows. To-morrow will j ; be time enough for that —although 1 I agree with you that Norah is [ I probably innocent. The only per- i sons who handled that box after it I left your room were Smith and ] Perry. The latter called my atten- ! j tion to this fact." , "But," Desiree ventured. "My j Perry may not be sure. One of the clerks in his store might have j opened the box." Mi - . Leighton Is Positive "Impossible!" her father retorted. I "Perry took the case from Smith. I Nobody touched it after that until J he opened it and found it empty. "All of which makes me repeat my statement. Smith must be watched." Desiree moistened her lips. They felt stiff, and her voice was un steady as she remarked: "The letter you received from that man down in the South proves i that Smith is honest." "It would seem so," was the calm I rejoinder. "But there may be some ! twist in the matter. I admit the l fellow impresses me with a sense j of sincerity. If he is not honest I j am mistaken in my estimate of hu- I man nature. Nevertheless, appear- [ ances are not in his favor in this | case. • "I intend to take no steps in the i matter yet. To do so would defeat i our ends. But I mean to keep my eyes open. That's all. If Smith is all right events will prove it be fore"— He stopped abruptly. Smith stood in the doorway. "I beg your pardon," the chauf feur said. I just wanted to let Miss Leighton know that I am here if I am wanted.' Samuel Leighton looked slightly j embarrassed. Desiree sprang to her feet. "Oh, yes. Smith," she said hastily. | "Will you , step into the pantry, i please? J want to show you about arranging the glasses and punch bowl." Mrs. Duflield gazed after the man and girl as they left "the room. "Do you know"—with a nervous laugh—"he quite startled me coming in so suddenly and quietly as he did? I really thought at first that he was a guest—he looks so very 1 well in his evening clothes. "Don't you think, Samuel, that he | ought to have worn a different kind ! of a coat from that—a short-tailed j coat, you know? Why, one will not | be able to tell him from one of the | guests of the evening." Her brother did not smile. "You i evidently did not notice that Smith i wore a black vest and a black tie, j which are not conventional in eve ning dress," he remarked. "But he j certainly looked like a swell. That's I the trouble with him. He's too in- I femally good-looking. It's difficult | to believe that a chap like that could have anything out of the way [ in his character. It's especially hard for a wojnan to believe it. "Desiree is too romantic in her • notions. I could see that she was ! quite disturbed by my suggestion that he"—with a nod toward the dining room—"might not be quite ' honest. It's not a pleasant thing j to consider, but one must take no j chances." A Word of Praise "No, of course not," Mrs. Duffield ! agreed. "Yet I confess that when ! 1 saw him just now it seemed very ridiculous to harbor any suspicions of him. He is very refined in ap pearance." Samuel Leighton gave vent to a snort that might have meant deri sion or impatience. ' "I declare you are as bad as De- ' sirce!" he exclaimed. "Just because j a fellow has a certain air you are ! sure of his morals. I admit," he ■ added more gently, "that Smith is | good looking. And the friend from whom he borrowed that suit that he I is wearing to-night must have a i mighty good tailor for one in his j position. I noticed the good cut of the coat." "I hope he did not overhear what you said," Mrs. Duffield said, tenta tively. | "So do I," her brother returned. "It might put him on his guard." David DeLaine had overheard a part of the sentence which his com ing had interrupted. The words— "lf Smith is all right, events will prove it before" — Before what? DeLaine longed to know the answer to that question. He had received a distinct impres sion in the minute in which he had i faced the group in the drawing i room. Samuel Leighton had been j arguing with his daughter, and he j —the chauffeur —was the subject of j that argument. Desiree must have : been championing his cause in some i dispute! i He tried to heed what Miss Leigh ton was now telling him about the arrangement of a cut glass bowl and I glasses on a silver tray on a side I table. His eyes were fastened upon hers—but she was sure his thoughts were not on what she was saying. To be continued Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax I A correspondent in one of the de ! purtments of the Government in j Washington writes me a letter that j contains a few wholesome hints for j "Every-wontan." She says she is twenty-nine, but i looks forty because she hates her j job. All her life, since she can re-, j member, she has wanted to write, or las she puts it: "My life has been j passed not in reality, but in living , the stories I haven't time to write." She goes on to tell that it was | necessary for her to earn her living l as quickly as possible, owing to lack |of money at home. And that she I had to fit herself for something that [ could be depended on to bring in ] the pay envelope without any ele ment of uncertainty. Stenography and typewriting seemed surer than anything else, and she applied her self until she became proficient in them, and took a Government job. She has been earning her living and helping along the family by ! this means for the last ten years, j She says she has a good position, as such positions go, but that the work |is deadly and that she, "has no | words to express her aversion for it." i And she writes to ask me if her lack | of enthusiasm for her job is what i makes her look so old. Unhesitatingly, I answer that noth ing is more aging than earning one's I living by means of an uncongenial ! task And if she has arrived at the , point where it is impossible to put any spirit or enthusiasm in her work, the best thing for her to do is to seek another job. Enthusiasm the Best Tonic. The best tonic and preserver of youth and good looks is, undoubt edly, enthusiasm. A vital interest as a whetstone for every faculty and the years glide by leaving little or |no trace of their footprints. Gen j uinely busy people have no time'in j which to get old. Hard work never I ages like monotony and boredom. It 'is the daily grind, unsweetened by fervor or inspiration, that turns wo- So if you would keep young, vital, and interesting and yet have no con suming occupation to. fill your life, Daily Dot Puzzle . \ -2a kj, ; 27 4 S °* ' -liT J C .33 6* * 11% "14 I Draw from "i to two and so on to the end. men into pottering old creatures be fore their time. "it's up to you" to create one with out delay for entirely seltish reasons. The war did wonders for slowly mummifying women. It arrested their desiccating processes, and put spirit into their humdrum lives. It taught them to eliminate trifles, and for the first time it warmed their hearts and their hands in the fire of enthusiasm. i You were amazed when you met these women, hurrying to their Red! Cross or other war work, how young and attractive they had grown; just as you wonder to-day, when you see them slipping back into the old rut, how dull and listless they are be coming. And you wonder why any, woman in her senses lets go of any- j thing that worked such a miracle in I her appearance as having a consum-. ing interest in life. And as it is with boredom and monotony, so it is with hatred, vex ation, "envy and all uncharitable ness"—as the prayer book puts it. If your soul is devoured by these things it s a waste of time and money | to go to a "beauty parlor." Your I trouble is deeper than it is in the | power of cold cream and white lo tion to assuage. Skin food and face peeling are wretched substitutes for the "Divine efflatus." Do you recall Macbeth's lines: "Cure her of that. Cans't thou minister to a mind i diseas'd. Pluck from her memory a rooted ! sorrow. Raze out the written troubles of I the brain, And with some sweet oblivious! antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff v Which weighs upon the heart?" Doctor: lster h tTh n ims h elf.^ atient mUBt minA j twen ty-n i ne'Yut 'ZoZm g "fo7ty nw minister to herself. 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FOURTH ST. AUGUST 21, 1919. loves, study evenings and at odd times, and give herself a chance to develop. There are several excellent text books written on the construction of the short story, which is the branch of literary art in which she desires to specialize. She will be able to get these books in any lending li brary, and the amount of informa tion they have to impart is highly satisfactory. Rettcr to Have Tried and Lost There are classes in short stoiy writing several good ones here in Washington—that will not seem like study at all, so quickly does the time pass when one is vitally interested. Then I should advise her, having a working knowledge of the art in which she hopes to distinguish her self, that she take some leave with out pay from the department and set to work to put her ingenuity to the test. Even if she should not succeed in getting anything accepted by the publishers, she will have the satis faction of knowing that she has backed her own hand to the limit. 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