" When a Girl Harries" By ANN I.ISMS A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problem of a Girl Wife CHAPTER OOCXVTI ((Copyright, 1919, Star Feature Syndicate, Inc.). Toward noon on the day after our excursion to inspect the estate Tom Mason wanted to buy, Phoebe ran in for a visit. "I've heaps to tell you," she ex claimed, as we settled down cosily on my living room couch like a pair of boarding school girls stealing an .fter-lights-out visit. "Some such dark secret as what a darling my brother Neal is," I said gaily. This produced an astonishing ef fect on Phoebe. Her face darkened to an uncomfortable crimson, and her eyes dulled over while her pointed chin set stußfoorning. "Don't talk about Neal. I can't bear it to-day. He's so set!" she cried explosively. "Virginia is mak ing life unendurable for me and Neal won't do a thing about it. It makes me—almost hate him, though 1 love him so." "Come now, dear," I ventured, plunging in where perhaps angels might have feared to tread. Isn't that precisely what you've come to "talk over with me?" "What do you mean to insinu ate?" demanded Phoebe, giving her head a Harrison toss. "You'd planned to start with our good times yesterday, and how at tentive Tom was to Irma Warren, and how lovely Hidden Brook is, and how remarkable it is that some one is putting the Harrison Place in order, and how loyal Irma Warren was in her insistence on going home to dine with her uncle and"— Smiling and almost out of breath and ammunition, I stopped and gave Phoebe's hand a quick little squeeze before I went on, "After we'd gone over all that, you were going to get around to what is nearer and dearer to both of us." "Indeed!" said Phoehe rather top-loftically, "and since yon know just what I'd planned to say, why don't you .say it for me?" "Is that fair, dear?" I asked. "Are you telling me I've been fcict less and presumptuous? Aren't ttfe sisters after all?" Then Phoebe softened and was an eager child again instead of the icy Harrison grande dame she auto matically becomes now and then. 'Til tell you, Anne," she mur mured. "Everything! Virginia is driving me mad. She goes around the house like an injured saint— stately .end aloof. She talks as little as she can and has the coldest expression in her eyes when she has to look at me. You'd think she was a poor, pale, helpless ghost. But there's iron and steel under neath. Tet I can't put my finger on her or pin her down to any thing." "Yes, dear; I can picture that. But what of it?" "What of it?" asked Phoebe in dignantly. "When am I going to discuss my wedding with her? Does she think I'm going to wait almost three years till I'm twenty-one? Does any one think that? Living with a silent, gliding ghost is bad j CL V. COOKING >| y IKr?l X/ Delicate, flaky pie crust the . Mazola is equal to butter and better than lard. 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Phoebe, how ever, flicking her eyes scornfully over my face, broke in. "I must wait! You sound Just like Neal with his everlasting idea that we must wait. If Neal loves me, why doesn't he take me out of my prison? We have only to cross the state border and be mar ried, and then what can Virginia do? If some one had the courage to defy her, it might bring her to her senses and show her she isn't the queen of the world. If Neal really cai es for me, wants me"— "If Neal only wanted you, dear," I said very gravely, "he would take you like this. You'd elope and be a nine days' wonder in all the scan dal-mongers' mouths. And there would be a family feud and more cheap notoriety because of that. But Neal has adoration and respect and worship to add to merely want ing you. He's giving you a big love for. your whole life, and that's worth waiting for. He's coming to the front door of your home and claim you royally before all the world. Isn't that worth a little time and patience ?" Phoebe's lips quivered, and then she flung herself into my arms and sobbed like the poor little spoiled child she sometimes is. After a minute of comforting she straight ened back, took out her little vanity case and with a concluding sniff or two gravely powdered her nose and adjusted her hat. "I'm better now," she said quaint ly. "I only wanted to hear you in sist that Neal cares for me as much as Ido for him. I can stand living with Virginia and having Sheldon Rlake snooping around if I'm sure Neal cares the way I do. But I have to be sure, and I lose courage to believe now and then." "Phoebe, look at me!" I com manded, seizing her shoulders in my two hands, "are you jealous? Are you going to let the green-eyed monster get you? Don't! For pity's sake, don't. Of all the misery"— " 'Course I'm not Jealous." said Phoebe, wriggling away and going to the big French mirror to prim a hit "Do I look nice—nice enough to go down to Mrs. Cosby's for lunch ?" "To Mrs. Cosby's?" I repeated dully. "To Vol's? "Yes, wasn't It dear of her to ask me too?" Then at sight of my blank face. "Oh, aren't you going? I'm so sorry. I hope you're r.ot of fended, Anne. I suppose she has you so often, she probably thought it was nicer not to have the family all together"— "My dear Poebe, I Interrupted with what I meant for graclousness, "Why should Val Cosby Invite me to every lunch she gives? Run along, dear, you'll be late." But I couldn't keep a cold, sus picious note out of my voice. Why should Val invite Phoebe and omit me? (To Be Continued) Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1918. International News Service - b *- Bp McManus t WAtsNa. <IT 00-r j | VOO IM^jECT 1 - TONI4HT AM t THINK- j ALL IS WELL - DOMT WHEN I <SET "YOO , SO FAR'. >f ° U LIFE'S PROBLEMS ARE DISCUSSED This is the story of Ethel May. I don't know positively that her name is Ethel May. Possibly it is Gwen dolyn or Doris, Alice. Maud or Mary. But In mythoughts I have christened [her Ethel May, so let it go at that. Ethel May is going on eight years old. When one is going on eight one ought not to have entirely lost one's belief in fairies and ought still to be able to thrill delightfully to such tales as "Red Ridinghood" and "The Three Bears." Yet ono Is be ginning to grow up; all sorts of vague '.impulses and Instincts are stirring which one does not complete ly understand. An Ethel May is con tinually asking of this big world in which she finds herself: "Why? Why? Why? Five years ago Ethel May was a baby—a pink and white cherub of ft baby with golden rings of hair and on adornable smile—the kind of a baby that people exclaim over. But her parents were poor and she had but few advantages. Conse quently, everybody regarded it as a streak of great good luck for her when a well-to-do sister of her mother's decided to assume the re sponsibility of bringing her up. This aunt was a woman about thirty years old, who had lost two children of her own, and was of a generous, kindly disposition. Both 0'J and her husband, a man thir teen yea.™ older than herself, we™ captured by Ethel May's winsome charms, and laid all sorts of am bitious plans for her future. They took ber Into their home, and have brought her up as their daughter, although not legally adopting her. They have given her every advantage to fit her to their Idea of what they think she ought to be. They have looked after her education, have sent her to dancing schools, have tried in every way to make her accomplished and well behaved. In short. they have sought to make her "a little lady." Yet, in spite of all this, Ethel May is a disappointment. Her dancing master complains that she HARRISBXJRG TELEGRAPH is inattentive;, her school teacher says that she sits and dreams; she "sasses" the maid; is disobedient and wilful; grumbles about her cioth.es; cries to go along if her foster-parents desire to go out to dinner or the theater, and if she sets her heart upon a doll, a book or some amusement will nag and pout persistently until she gets her way. To the distracted couple it seems as unreasonable as if Cin derella, having been rescued from her ashes and rags, had flouted the gifts bestowed upon her by the fairy godmother. They are , discouraged. Ethel May does not at all fill the bill of "a little lady." All she cares about is going to the moving pictures and getting money for candy. She is greedy, impudent, (Ungrateful, disobedient, uncontrollable, and she "gets on their nerves." When they threaten to send her back to her own parents she either tells them defiantly that she won't go or else cries and promises to be good, but the next day is Just as "naughty" as ever. "MV wife is actually wnsting away with worry over the child," the husband writes me; "and I am fast being 1 turned Into a nervous wreck by seeing how my wife is annoyed. TVte are both very ner vous people, and 1t might be that other parents would overlook fNlngs WQ find extremely trying.; We both realise also that we made a mistake In taking the child; but what can or should bo done now? Is she really an abnormal or bad child, or is it simply that my wife and I don't know how to bring her up?" There is no doubt that tills couple is thoroughly conscientious, that they have done their best ac cording to their lights. Neither can can there be very much doubt in regard to Ethel May. Almost any other child brought up in the same environment would show the same faults and failings. Almost every other child in the world, no mat ter what its environment, does show them in a .more or less ex aggerated degree. But there is one thing that every human being feels among its ear liest and strangest Impulses tne demand for Justice. And that is what Ethel May has not received. Sho was brought into the world without asking her consent; she was taken over by her uncle and aunt without her concent being asked; she has been brought up to conform to their ideas of what she ought to be, without having her own tastes and inclinations con sulted; she has been over-indulged and over-restricted, and then when she kicks over the traces or gels on the nerves of a settled, mlddie aged couple, she is scolded and pick ed on as "naughty." Sho is only "going on eight," and she is in the anomalous posi tion of having people for her par ents whom she knows are not her parents, and who admit they lack the patience of real parents; yet she is supposed to sho wthe re straint and understanding of a grown woman. Taking a child "to raise" is n serious business. People have learned from sad experience that something more is required for poultry raising than a patch of wire-netted ground and a few set tings of eggs, and for fruit grow ing than a few strands of sapling apple or peach trees. But still they assume without a quaint of feat the much more complicated task of developing and cutivattng a human soul. Justice is the civic rule to follow. You are not taking a pet dog to train according to your ideas, but a child who has a right to be studied and developed as God intend ed it to be. Col. Moss, Well-known Officer, Resigns After Many Years of Service Colonel James A. Moss, Infantry, U. S. A., who is among the best known officers of the army, resigned his commission as temporary Col onel, and also his commission as i..ieutenant Colonel of the Regular Army, to take effect August 31, 1919, and his resignations were accepted. Colonel Moss, who has seen ex tensive service, is a veteran of the Cuban and Philippine campaigns, and took the 367 th Colored Infantry. IT. S. A., to France in 1918. He is a graduate of the U. S. M. A., class of 1894, and is the author of a num ber of valuable military manuals. He some years ago rendered valu able assistance at the War Depart ment in the reduction of paper work in the army, in addition to a simpli fication of its card system. At one time he was one of the foremost bicycle experts in the army. Dur ing the war with Spain he served as a First Lieutenant in the 24th In fantry, taking part in the Cuban campaign, being in the battle of El. Cane.v and in the operations against Santiago. He was recommended for the brevet of Captain for galant and meritorious conduct. In the resignation of Colonel Moss the army loses a valuable and efficient officer. TO BE RE7TVRXED Ijewistown, Pa., Oct. 6.—Charles F. McCormick, who has been bag gage agent at the Pennsylvania Railroad station for the past 26 years, has asked for retirement un der the pension plan of the com pany at the age of 65 years. Daily Dot Puzzle .25 <5. 24. • Zl *4 -/*>• .to \ • % i 18 27 # v I • ,e • ll j 28 3 • 11 * / 4 f f -8 Si • 5- j. l 2 * 46 .46 7 •W • 47 ' 4 38 • • *45 . 35 • .55 5o 37 4o. #44 5,4 | 4i . • 4z Draw from one to two and ao on to the end, . LITTLE TALKS BY BE A TRICE FAIRFAX A dispatch from Manchester. New Hampshire, announces that; "Gov ernor Bartlett has personally investi gated complaints that boys have been flogged with rubber whips at the State Industrial School. That he found the reports to be true and had ordered the practice stopped. "The Governor said he had been shown the room at the school where the floggings took place and the in struments used. These he said con sisted of pieces of solid rubber a foot long with wooden handles." I wonder bow many boys have been brutalized beyond the point of reclaim ing by those "solid rubber whips a foot long, with wooden handles?" And it is safe to conclude that the taxpayers of the State will be pay ing for this error in discipline till the law takes its final toll of these unfor tunate boys. That children are not made better b> brutality is the experience of "re form school" keepers all over the country. They explain their failure by saying the children are incorrigible. Then, why allow these paid thugs to brutalize a child that is irreclaimable. For that is the meaning of "incor rigible" according to the dictionary "depraved beyond the possibility of re form, irreclaimable." Humane, Intelligent people have taken these so-called incorrtgibles and turned them into useful, law abiding citizens. But they did not do it by flogging, whipping and other forms of murderous assault. tVhatever has been done in the way of improvement has been done by an appeal to reason, by trying to awaken sensibilities til.. have been deadened by cruelty and in humanity. Advantages of the Blnet System The Blnet system has completely routed old methods of dealing with children. First know your child, is the principle on which the system is founded. Is he normal or abnormal? Arc certain of his faculties defective, what are his tendencies, what are his faults, in what does he excel, In what does he fall? The whole question of the child, his possibilities of development, his rela tively weak or wholly lacking powers are worked out by the Binet tests with the simplicity and exactness of a problem In arithmetic. Tho child is put before you as a workable problem to which you apply intelligence and patience. You have no more need of whips, cat-o'-nine tails and instruments of torture in bringing up girls and boys than you would require them to do an example in arithmetic. The popularity of whips, switches, clubs and other Instruments of. chas tisement is to be found, not in the good done the child, but in the relief af forded the angry adult. And "reform schools" unfortunately are not the only examples of this first aid to the angry. Parents, even kind and affectionate parents, often fall into this mistake of the dark ages in attempting to bring up their children. The law of Self-Preservation In beating a child a parent wholly forgets that self-preservation Is the strongest law of nature. And they wonder, these mothers and fathers of cruelty whipped children, why their beys and girls will lie, run away from home and do other violent deeds to escape such punishment. The child 1) merely obeying a law as old as life itself —the law of self-preservation. Children seldom forget such erhibi tions on the part of their parents, and are never deceived by any such Phar- Isaclal nonsense as "It hurts me worse than It does you." When a child is beaten cruelly, either in a "reform school" or at home something of courage, power, fineness goes out of that child, "something that all the king's horses and all the king's men" can never give back. You have hurt the child's self-respect; he knows himself to be the victim of another's arger; against this he has no redress —it marks the first dawn of reckless ness. A generation ago people spoke un hlushlngly of "breaking a child's will" not realizing they were killing the lit tie spark of divinity that God gave him to go through life. A CLEAR COMPLEXION RuddyCheeks—SparklingEyes —Most Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a Wen-Known Ohio Physician Dr.F.M.Edwards for 17 years treated scores of women for liver and bowel ail ments. During these years be gave to his patients a prescription made of a few well-known vegetable ingredients mixed with olive oil naming them Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. You will know them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-worker on the liver and bowels, which cause a normal action, carrying off the waste and poisonous matter in one's system. If you have a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out of sortß, inactive bowels, you take one of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets nightly for a time and note the pleasing results. Thousands of women and men take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets—the suc cessful substitute for calomel —now and then just to keen them fit 10c and 25e.~ OCTOBER 6, 1919. 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The only way to "Reform" Children (a to appeal to their reason and sens* clalized course of training and one before the sensibilities havs been blunted by beatings and brutal treat ment, but not successfully afterward. If the responsive quality tn the child has deteriorated from wrong punish ment or has been defective from the beginning then he will require a spe cialized course o ftralning and one that takes into account these deficien cies. But the whipping post and eat-o'- nine-tails play no part In these re forms. Have the Blnet test applied and then consult some one who has made a specialty of child welfare.
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