" When a Girl " Br ANN 1.151.K A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problem of a Girl Wife CHAPTER CCCXXV I (Copyright, 1919, Star Feature Syn dicate, Inc.) This morning the shrilling sum mons of the phone roused me from a sound sleep. I woke and lay for a minute reconstructing things and re membering how wonderfully close Jim and I have come. I have at last sloughed my old business-train ing habit of feeling I can think things out for myself better than any one else. I have come to com plete faith in my husband and to a willingness, nay, a yearning, to lean on him. And he, in return, has shown not only love and under standing but a beautiful respect for me and a great happiness in the fact that life is bringing us closer and closer to each other. Suddenly I had to laugh at my self. Here I was mooning away and listening to the phone without a move to answer it. "It must be early," I told myself as I pattered across the floor." Evidently even Hedwig isn't up yet." Then I took down the receiver and said a sleepy "Hello!" "Bless my heart —if that isn't our Anne. You're up early in the morn ing. It's your Uncle Ned," came the unmistakable accents over the wire. "Is Jim ready?" "Ready for what?" I asked. "Ready to start—child." "I didn't know he was going to start—anywhere," I replied, feeling the blood drain away from my face and the heart sink fathoms deep in my quivering body. "He isn't going to start anywhere to-day, is he?" I asked, adding in a shaken, little half-voice, "On my birthday" "Didn't you get the message last night, child?" asked Uncle Ned al most impatiently. "The train goes in an hour. This is most important. Will he be ready?" "The message came that you'd phone him early this morning and ho should be ready. I asked, "Ready for what?" and the man didn't know. And I forgot to tell Jim. Things came up. And he hadn't said anything about going. I only knew Pat and you " "Hurry, child, hurry! Wake your Jimmie and chuck a few things in a bag for him as my bride is doing for the old uncle. This is impor tant. We musn't waste time chat ting much as I always enjoy it. I'll call for your boy in a taxi in just forty-five minutes." Then a quick good-by and the conversation ended. In daze I called Jim. He never wakes easily and a romantic kiss wouldn't have done —even if I hadn't been shaken, somehow, out of the mood for kissing. When Jint was roused at last and reached sleepy arms to me, I blurted out Uncle Ned's message and forced back the jealous accusation that was try'ng to fight its way up into words. Tn a great rush Jim leaped from bed and began firing orders at me. Whereupon in a jiffy I ran Jim's bath, got out his shaving things, packed his bag and hurried out to the kitchen between whiles to see bow the coffee I had started was doing. There wasn't time for much to be said between us. Jim was munching a piece of toast when the lax! was announced. All there had been t'me for was an occasional: "Will three shirts be enough? Do you want your gra suit? How many collars?" Now as I stood waiting for the elevator, I ventured: "How long will you be gone?" "Not more than three days at the most," replied Jim. "I hate to leave j ou, dear. But when Uncle Ned descends on me like this, you can see it's rather important. Never could have made it but for you., Well, here's the car. I must run for it. I'll send you a wire as soon as we land. So long, dear." Then a quick clasp of his strong arms—a kiss or two and Jim was gone. Back In the apartment I sank on the couch, staring unseeing ahead. This was my birthday morn ing. And Jim had gone off without a thought that it was my day. I would be alone again as I had been last evening. Two or three tears forced them selves between my eyelids and rolled down my face. I brushed them away. It was silly to cry. Beside my pain was too deep for tears. That Jim had forgotten my birthday wasn't what really mat tered. It wasn't being left alone that hurt. The thing went deeper than that. It was bigger than any petty personal grief over a day and date on the calendar. ii rr* rule | VV h PRINT s ▼ ▼ I-l PUNCH H w 1 ¥ OOSE I I EDGER i 1-rfEAVES | S To Meet Your Specifications H Prompt and Efficient Service ♦♦ H A Phone Call Will Bring Our H H Representative H S SALES DEPARTMENT H H Telegraph Printing Co. ♦♦ Printing, Binding, Designing, Plioto-ICngraving $% H HARRISBURG, PA. § WEDNESDAY EVENING, What hurt was this. I have come to the glorious place where I want Jim to lead and only to follow him. My trust in him was absolute last night and I showed that I wanted to confide in him completely. I thought he understood, reciprocated rny feelings, but he must have been laughing at me. He must have been sneering at me for the weak, clinging thing I am letting love make me. I'd let him go without a word of reproach. I couldn't have asked a single question to save my life. But I felt sure without asking that all along Jim had realized he was to go with Uncle Ned and Pat. He hadn't found the courage to tell me. He hadn't given me faith for faith —confidence for confidence. He doesn't trust me completely. I have taken Jim into the inner citadel of my life. And I am more than ever shut out from his thoughts—from his real self. What a birthday this is to be! (To Be Continued.) New York Writer Owes Bride to Air Raids Over London I-ontlon, Oct. 15.—An air raid ro mance has culminated in an inter national wedding at the famous old Church of St. Mary's, in the Wim bledon section of London, when Miss Olive Stokes, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Stokes, the former a retired official of the Great Western Railway, was married to Hayden Church, for 20 years an American journalist in Great Britain. The story of their romance goes back to the dark days of the autumn of 1917, when the war was far from won and London was being relent lessly bombed. Mr. Church at that time lived in the Russell Square sec tion of London's West End, a dis trict which suffered with especial severity. The result of the week of raids was that Mr. Church betook himself to Ealing, a suburb west of London, in order to resume his habit of writing evenings. It was here, at his hotel in Ealing, that he first met Miss Stokes. Senate Debate on Shantung Provision Continues Bitter By Associated Press. Washington, Oct 15.—Bitter feel ing engendered by the Peace Treaty's Shantung provision got close to the boiling point again yesterday In the Senate. Repeatedly during a flve-hour de bate on the subject the gavel sound ed to bring order out of a confusing crossfire of oratorical projectiles, and once it was ruled that language used had violated the Senate's rules by imputing to Senators conduct un worthy and unbecoming. The declaration to which formal objection was taken was made by Senator MeCumber, Republican, North Dakota, in the coilrse of a heated exchange with Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, and had to do with charges that Japan was acting in bad faith in the promise of her statement to return Shantung prov ince to China. Penna. Odd Fellows Adjourn After Dance; Elect New Officers Williamsport, Pa., Oct. 15. —The following officers were elected by the twenty-sixth annual session of the Department Council Patriarchs Militant Pennsylvania Odd Fellows, which closed its sessions with a dance in the armory last night: Presi dent, Major General J. B. Andrews, of Altoona; vice-president, Brigadier General Richard J. 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Now he has not called me, and I feel I very badly, as I wished very much to talk with him. What shall I do? I don't know his address, although I could obtain same from a girl friend of mine. Do you think it would be proper for me to write and ask him to excuse me for not being able to talk to him. I would like very much to be friends with i this young man, and I feel as though he does also. Please advise me. C. L. Yes, 1 think it would be all right for you to drop the young man a note and say you were sorry to miss him when he phoned the other day. However, if that failed, I would not be too eager to follow up this ac quaintance, as many girls lose their friends that way. SOUNDS DIKE TRUE DOVE DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: There is a certain man in our office who smiles at me, and it seems he would like to speak. I know I love him, but I can't seem to be able to get him to take me out. I notice how he blushes when he sees me, and when I come in in the morning and he is at his desk he seems glad. I don't go out, but stay home evenings and dream about him. I am going to leave this job any day now, not because I want to, but because it is only temporary. I guess I am just fool ish, but one thing T do know, I feel over him the way I never felt for anyone else. LONESOME. It would seem tp be a simple enough matter to become better ac quainted with the young man in the same office as you .are. And if he smiles and seems glad when you come in of a morning, it looks as if the interest was mutual. Why do you not get some friend who knows you both to get up a picnic, movie party or a dahce, and invite you both? When two young people are glad to see each other, a more friendly footing is easily arranged. HXRMSBUR.G TETLEGHXPH LIFE'S PROBLEMS ARE DISCUSSED It looks sometimes as if, not find ing our trouble crop a very large one,' we are tempted to do a little intensive farming in order to secure a more abundant harvest. 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Let us hope she has a sense of humor; she may laugh you out of this idea that you are impos sible to live with. She probably has a temper of her own also. She! would not be human if_she had not. And you and she do not have to duplicate the lives of your father and mother. You have no doubt I very different ideas and views from the ones they held, and it is hardly likely that you will meet with the same experiences. | It never pays to be afraid of life, long as you believe that any-1 thing has the power to hurt you, it will certainly and sorely torment you; but if you resolve to take the day as it comes, good-naturedly, se renely and determined to enjoy it, you will find plenty of things In it that are good and glad. Don't let your sub-conscious mind boss you. Boss it. It will do as you tell it: therefore, assert to your self every day, and again and again if necessary, that you are not going to brood over the old, unhappy memories of childhood, and also that you are a very good-tempered and pleasant fellow. As for £our tendency to spend too much money, time and increasing responsibilities will probably rectify that; and there are few wives who fret over that particular crime on the part of their husbands, provided they themselves have a share in the expenditure. Father Throws Childs to Safety; Loses Life i New York, Oct. 15.—The quick ac i tion of her father in throwing her ; from his arms to the sidewalk just | before the was struck and killed by ian Eighth avenue car saved Mary, 1 3-year-old daughter of Cornelius I Murphy, from a similar fate. The I child escaped with a lacerated scalp and will leave a hospital In a few j days. j BANK TO COPY TREASURY i Chicago, Oct. 15.—The Treasury | Building, in Washington, has been j taken as a model for the base of the | bank and office building which the! ; North American Trust Company will erect. i Jj Mazola is pure, sweet and wholesome, and | o^Cate o< k it. Yoijr grocer sells CQRN pRODUCTS REF i N i NG CO , p. 0 . Bo* 161 Nmw York City Little Talks by Beatrice Fairfax A Bulletin of the Federal Census Department reveals the fact that more than 10 per cent of the marri ages in this country end in divorce. And that the number and proportion of divorces have been steadily in creasing for the past 30 years. Since 1906 the number of divorces has increased in every state of the Union except Colorado, Maine, South Dakota and West Virginia. These states are sufficiently far apart, geo graphically speaking, to eliminate the question of climate, food and laws as factors in the conservation of family life. The only conclusion one might draw from these four banner states, domestically speaking, is that each has a large agricultural population, and that people who live on farms are toe busy to squabble. But as the ar gument fails in regard to other states with equally large farming commun ities, we are driven to believe that these four happy valleys are entirely a matter of chance. Divorces Degan to increase in the United States rapidly after the Civil War. From the year 1867 to 1876 they climbed to 12,212 per year; in 1916 the official figure showed 112.026 decrees. In the ten years preceding the last Federal Census the popula tion of the country increased 20.7 per cent and the divorces increased 68.4 per cent. The detailed statistics of 108,702 decrees granted in 1916 indicate that 31.1 per cent were granted to the husband and 74.8 per cent to the wilje. Desertion and non-support, which are the commonest cause of breaking the marriage tie, leads the department officials to suggest that it is due to this fact that the hus bands appear as the chief sinners. The question of infidelity and the divorces granted for this cause af ford food for thought. More men were granted divorces for unfaith fulness on the part of their wives than vice versa. Of the 12,436 de crees granted for this cause, 6,859 were for infidelity on the part of the wife and 5,636 on the part of the husband. One may be pardoned for specu lating on prevailing fashions end the part their provocative audacity may have played in the securing of these 6,850 decrees. Impropriety in dressing, on the part of the women, reached its zenith during the Napoleonic wars, and present day styles are not far behind—may the League of Nations grant our eyes a longed-for respite from the "bternal feminine" chroni caliyl on view. Desertion is the most fruitful source of divorce in the United States, being the aause