" 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
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MONDAY EVENING,
enough. But when it has power to
] stand between you and all you want
| —can you think how dreadful that
! is?"
"But you must wait"—l began
with the patience it is so easy to
prescribe for others. 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)
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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
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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.
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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.
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But we know better than that now.
and it is a pretty benighted sort of
a parent who talks of breaking chil
dren's wills and spirits.
Another generation will probably see
the abolition of child heating by law,
even as this generation has seen al
most every State revoke the privilege
ot wife beating. Perhaps we may live
to see the abolition of that sorry com-
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mentary on modern life "The Reform
School," that never reforms.
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.