"'When a Girl Harries"
By ANN 1.151.E
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problem of a Girl Wife
i
(Copyright. 1919, Star Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
CHAITKR CCCXV.
In a masse of words and explana
tions, we managed to convey to Tom
Mason that Miss Warren and Mr.
Haldane were merely calling on Jim
and me, and hadn't been invited to
his picnic. Whereupon Tom made
up for the previous lack of invita
tion and made up a hundredfold.
Scornfully 1 thought that if ever
a man was a completely consistent
philanderer, that man was Thomas
J. Mason, Esq. In the short time
I've known him, I've seen him
plunging into attempted flirtations
with each new woman he met. He
always has a good excuse—an open
ing gambit of family friendship,
sympathetic understanding or even
business. Something stirred un
easily in the back of my mind as
tiie word "business" went through
il, but I didn't deal with it then,
because I was watching to see how
Miss Warren took Tom's gallantry,
directed at her through her uncle
as it was.
But Miss Warren did nothing.
She sat back with a respectful wil
lingness to let her uncle deal with
the situation.
"Thank you, sir, but I never in
dulge in Sunday excursions," said
Mr. Haldane. "No prejudice or
principles in the matter. I know the
world needs its outdoor relaxation
and I'm glad it can get it through
the perfection of the gasoline en
gine. But I'm an old man. Medi
tation and the quiet of my home
are the rest I need. And I confess
to an every week chess game and
pipe smoking visit with an old
crony. I'm too old for motor ex
cursions—too old, sir. Come, Irma,
my dear, we'll not longer delay
these young folks."
Without a sign of a pout or a pro
test, Irma Warren arose. I could
picture the long, lonely, quiet day
she was going to have in the big,
old-fashioned mansion where she
kept house for Mr. Haldane. So I
cried impulsively:
"But Miss Warren—won't you let
us carry her off for the day, Mr.
Haldane? We've had no chance to
get acquainted at all."
Tom flashed me a glance of corn-
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mendation as Mr. Haldane, on
whose oft-displayed approval of mc
1 was counting, turned to Irnia
Warren.
"Would you like to accompany
Mrs. Harrison an dher friends, my
dear? Jencks will give me lunch
and bring coffee and sandwiches at
5. So you've nothing to detain you
at home. Now that 1 think of it,
you stay in with me far too much."
"I'm very much obliged, I'm sure
—but I'd best not go," said Miss
Warren staidly, but back of her
words I glimpsed youth and a long
ing for companionship and gayety.
Still, I didn't see how to break
through her reserve and make her
understand how welcome she would
be.
"Oh, please, Miss Warren." cried
Tom, with unmasked eagerness
which was almost awkward, "I do
so want you to come. You can't re
fuse on the plea of another engage
ment. So if you don't go, we'll have
to conclude that you—don't like us."
"Why, I do like you all, very
much. And I'd love to go, if ITncle
can spare me. I was just afraid
you were being polite and asking
me because I am here, and I didn't
wish to intrude;" said the girl,
flashing the white teeth and crink
ling her eyes in a sunny smile that
hadn't a particle of the self-con
sciousness or the coquetry most
women would have infused into the
situation.
So' this was settled, and Tom in
sisted on driving Mr. Haldane home
on th,e way to call for Phoebe and
Neal. Irma Warren made no pre
tense of hiding her delight over this
holiday. But that didn't make her
forget her Uncle's comfort, and she
begged for a minute when we ar
rived at his house.
"Of course, l'nt not much com
pany for a brilliant man like Uncle,
but I thought he might miss me if
T didn't put a book at his place,"
she explained gravely when we
started again, she riding in the ton
neau with me, while Jim and Tom
paired off in front—an arrangement
I suspected wouldn't last. It didn t.
"Want to go in to call for the
little sister?" asked Tom of Jim
when we arrived at the apartment
building where Phoebe makes her
home with Virginia.
"Sure thing," said Jim easily.
I knew, however, he'd go no fur
ther than the hall and telephone
from there that we were waiting.
However, Jim wouldn't have been
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consistently Harrison if he had by
word or gesture let Tom into the
secret of his unwillingness to enter
Virginia's domain. The moment
Jim limped into the portals of the
apartment house, Tom leaped from
the driver's seat and swung open
the door of the tonneau.
"Come, ride with me, Miss War
ren," he leaded. "This Harrison-
Lee-Hyland group is a sort of
closed corporation. The flnancee
part if it is stupidly in love. And
the husband and wife pair are
equally devoted, so let's console each
other and refrain from breaking up
the combinations."
"I'd be very pleased to ride with
you. Just put me where I won't
be in the way. I'm so happy to be
along that 1 can content myself
wherever you like to have me."
At this reply which didn't play up
to him in any way, Tom winced.
But when he spoke it was after au
almost dogged, challenging look at
me—a look I couldn't fathom.
"I like to have you with me," said
Tom Mason grimly.
Then something happened which
distracted my interest front Tom and
the interpretation of his tones and
glances. Fortunately he had his
back to the apartment and was ab- |
sorbed in making Irma Warren
comfortable in the seat next to his
so he didn't see what made my
heart skip a beat or two.
Out of the building, head high in
air and eyes unseeing, while her
lips chattered eagerly and artific
ially to cover the situation from her
companion, came Virginia. And
bending toward her with an unmis
takable air of devotion just verging
on possession, was Sheldon Blake.
(To Bo Continued)
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HAHRISBURG llfHitfjJ TELEGRAPH
Life's Problems
Are Discussed
We often hear people say in com
menting on the experiences of oth
ers, "I could have not have lived
through the things she has endured,"
or, "if such and such a thing should
happen to me I would die. I couldn't
bear it."
But human nature is a strange
thing. If the circumstances we
shudder over in imagination actu
ally occur to us we met theni
with a strength and courage we had
not believed ourselves capable of.
This was exemplified in a letter
I have had from a woman who has
passed through fire and Hood and
has come out triumphantly.
She was peculiarly alone in the
world, having been left an orphan
' without either brothers or sisters or
I any near relative. When quite young
she met a man who had the gift of
presenting himself and his affairs in
j a roseate light. Her illusions about
I him were soon shattered, for she
discovered immediately after inai
! riage that he was a conscientious
j objector to any kind of work, and
that his capacity for drink was un
! limited. He celebrated the birth of
their first child with a spree which
| lusted six months.
In order to live and take care
of her child, the woman went to
work in a factory- Hater, another
child was born and life became still
harder for her. The children weic
both ill front lack of proper nour
ishment; her small household el
fects went for food, and then under
the strain her own health gave
way.
But even under these circum
stances her husband remained a
martyr to his principles. He would
not work, and to drown his sor
rows he drank deep and continu
ously. In order to make his hard
lot more bearable, his parents sup- j
plied him with food and a little j
money; but they either could not or ■
would not provide for his fantilj.
"There were three weeks," the
wife writes, "in which I did not
sleep; and as for eating, there was
nothing to eat.
"1 suppose it was only imagina
tion, but one night as I sat by tne j
window I heard a voice say plainly: |
'Heave him! You are only digging I
your own grave and those of your J
children." And then and there 1 \
made my resolve and stuck by it. j
When I told my husbund, he beat .
me for the first and last time. He
never had another chance.
"1 left him, and lived in a shack !
with my two small children. 1 had |
not a iriend in the world, and not !
five cents to buy a loaf OL bread !
with. But somehow I got along. I
"1 succeeded In finding a good j
home lor my children, wnere they j
are well fed and looked after and |
are kept off the streets. And I am |
doing well. 1 am eurning good :
wages and regaining my lost healln.
1 have found friends, too. When 1 I
look buck to my married life, 1 !
don't know how 1 lived through it
j all."
j Another woman has written me
; of all experience similar to the one
j 1 have just related, although not so
I heart-rending.
j She married a man who told her
; glittering tales about his income
j and his prospects in life; but soon
I after the wedding she discovered
! that he was relying on her to ba
: the bread-winner and mainstay oK
! the family. After a few years, dui-
J ing which she accepted the posi-
I tion he had assigned to her, he was
apparently seized with a desire to
| travel and departed without leaving
her his future address. She asks
! me what I would suggest her de
; lng?
| . suggest that she rejoice in be
ing free from so useless an en
cumbrance, and that if he ever re
turns the only welcome she gives
him is that of a barred door.
The moral of these two stories
is comprised in the old saying,
"Hook before you leap." The moot
foolish thing a girl can do is to
marry a man without having in
formed herself us to his habits and
manner of life. Promises of reform
are not worth the paper they aie
written on or the breath it takes to
utter them.
It may be very romantic to de
clare: "I love him, and I know ne
will make good!" But there is an
other old saying. "Fine words but
j ter no parsnips," and most of us
like our parsnips buttered.
| It is easier to do without fine
words than butter.
Almost every woman cherishes
j the delusion that she can reform
i some man by marrying him. There
' may be cases—perhaps one in ev
| ery ten thousand—where a woman
i has succeeded in doing so. But in
I that event It was because the man
j had the desire in it's own, heart for
I reformation and the sincere dcter
| ruination to accomplish it.
One of the oddest things about
! the feminine heart is that where
j as a woman will spend any amount
I of time and thought In a
wardrobe, she will snatch up a hus
band from the bargain counter and
then spend the rest of her life b:
wailing her fate.
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BE A TRICE FAIRFAX
A man has written me an unusual
| and interesting letter. He tells me j
'he proposed to a gtrl whom he re- |
garded as the "best and noblest of j
' her sex." She confided to hint that j
j she was not as he thought her. in !
• early life she had thrown away her j
j birthright and paid the penalty in re- |
j morse ever since.
j She is willing to marry him, but'
: feels he ought to know the mistake i
|o. her early youth. My correspon- j
j dent asks me, What sort of a wife j
i do you think she would make? . |
j There are as many answers to this •
! question as there are different temper- j
! aments concerned. The first thing to I
S bo considered is what sort of a bus- |
| band would my correspondent make?]
j How large-hearted and generous is- |
he. how free from convention, and, !
above all, has he the ability to blot i
i fiom his memory this girl's confidence i
| —or to act as if it were forever blot
ted out?
I Very few men are cast in sufticl
i ently heroic molds to do this. The
| siiiall souled man would remember his
j wife's sin, and even if he never spoke
j of it. there it would be, a skeleton at
i [he hearthstone.
j In addition to the qualities of gen- |
l erosity, freedom from convention and !
I great-lieartedness necessary to make |
i a union of this sort successful, the hus- I
j baud should have a disposition that I
lis above suspicion. The situation !
would be extremely difficult in *ho j
case of a man addicted to suspicion I
oi jealousy.
Poor Otliello would be constantly |
| perturbed by his wife's most casual I
association with friends and neighbors.
He would see the proverbial mountain
in every molehill. His wife's past
would people Ills present and future
with fantoms. Such a partnership i
would be doomed from the beginning
—the domestic boat would be swamped
by the ballast of memories.
Must lie a Superman
So much for the husbund. Unless
he has a good, generous dash of super- j
man in his makeup he would better |
marry some sweet young thing whose j
past is a white page on which no his
tory has been written. But grant
ing, for the sake of argument, that !
he has in bis makeup the dash of j
superman which would enable him to i
bo the loving, considerate, trusting I
husband of a woman whose life has not I
been above reproach—what then?
One feels that such a man's choice |
ought to be worthy of such magna
nimity. And in the majority of cases I
it is the woman is overwhelmingly j
grateful because a man has been j
fcund who is generous enough to for-. [
give what the rest of the world con
demns.
And such a woman holds to' her j
honorable name and her honorable j
place with a passion of gratitude that j
the woman who has rever known the j
lack of these things seldom feels. !
For, please remember we are talk- j
ing of life, not as it ought to be. but |
aj it is—with separate standards of |
conduct for lien and women. No girl, I
particularly no "nice" girl was sup
posed to concern herself with her hus
band's life up to the wedding day.
Indeed, there used to be a particu
larly cynical proverb quoted to the ef
fect that a reformed rake makes the
best husband. And the entire domes
tic high-court of grandmothers, maiden I
aunts, fathers and brothers worked to- j
gether in a deadly conspiracy of si- j
lence to maintain that this law of the j
double Btandard was the proper dis- !
pensation of justice.
"Pretty little Dorothy dressed in j
white as an emblem of her purity !
would have been regarded as un- '
maidenly if she even speculated on I
Kegtnald's past. Her father, more'
I deeply interested in the worldly goods |
I with which his daughter was to be I
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endowed, winked an eye at the pec
j cudilleos of his future son-in-law.
| Then along came a French gentle
| man named Brieux, and he threw a
! stick of dynamite into this ageless
j convention. The stick of dynamite was
■ a play called "Damaged Goods," and
i it showed that very grave things may
j happen as the result of overlooking a
young man's past. Indeed, that stick
iof dynamite is still smashing and
jsi lintering the conspiracy of silence
I business.
j We are beginning to make Hie dis
| tinction between innocence and ig
, norance, and we no longer weep tears
jot sensibility when we sec a young girl
iin her white bridal robes being mar
| ried to the here of several oblique ro
| mances. Ureat-Aunt Mary Jaic may
I weep over "the pretty slgiit," but
Great-Aunt Mary Jane is not modern,
j She does not read Brieux.
I But to return to the question of
the woman who has strayed from the
straight and narrow path and if she
may come back—there is no question
about It if she Is normal. The irre
claimable woman is the near-defective.
The proper name for theni, I believe,
U morons. They are women of sub-
I normal intelligence, which very fre-
I quently is not apparent in ordinary so
-1 cial relations, but must be brought out
I by applying scientific mental tests.
I These are the women that are the
despair of rescue workers—they lapse
■ in spite of everything that can be done
for them. The despairing welfare
j worker will tell you the case Is hope
| less—there is nothing on which to
| build a foundation.
Case of Normal Girl Different
But take the case of a normal, in
| telligent girl who has been betrayed
through what is really the best and
| most generous in her nature. Hers
has been the saddest and most disil
] lusioning of experiences. She has been
I deceived, avoided and cast aside like
an outworn garment. Perhaps in ad
dition to this she ha* linown the hu
i miliation of having her own sex go
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back on her and the taste of life in
Iter mouth has been that of dust and
ashes.
She is not a moron. She has plenty
of intelligence with which to realize
her position. Scoff at the double stan
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declined to recognize any other.
A place in the sun is offered to this
girl who has dwelt long in the outer
darkness. Does she value it, does she
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live up to its responsibilities, does she
cling with H passion of gratitude to
the man who has given her her chanco
of rehabilitation?
She does—hut it takcu a pretty
high order of man to be able to ap
preciate these blessings and accept
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| got to he a morc-than-average man
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i back.
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