WW all iKe forcJh] IPPjI " When a Girl " By ANN LISLB A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problem of a Girl Wife CHAPTER OCCXXXIV. Copyright, 1919, King Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Jim and I had a joyous reunion on his return from the trip North with Uncle Ned and Pat. Chiefly because we had so much to discuss and re late, we spent the first hour or so telling each other how glad we were to be together again. At our cozy little home dinner we started to settle down to a discus sion of all that was going on in the background of our lives and spreading out over the foreground in such fashion as to make us for get our personal concerns—or that we could ever have any. "You're sure Pat's journey— isn't to the far country from which no mortal returns?" I asked se riously as we finished our coffee and adjourned to the living room away from Hedwig's ministrations and keen ears. "Sure," replied Jim, settling down chummily with his pipe. "That is, as sure as one man can be about another. Pat doesn't give me the impression of being crazy. He's sad alright—main spring sort of broken—but I think he's just going off on some long trip, and when I see how keen he is to keep young Neal informed on every new de velopment in the business I'm dead sure I'm guessing right." "I'll make myself believe you're right, dear," I replied. "Glad you and the kiddies had that week-end," murmured Jim, puffing reflectively. "And gladder yet young Neal is planning to beard the lioness in her den. I believe he'll talk right up to Virginia. Not that I think it will do much good." "Do you think she's actually ca pable of having the marriage an nulled if they elope?" I asked. "Don't know the law of that — precisely," said Jim with a frown. "But that woman's capable of any thing." "You talk as if you hated *-• And she's your sister," I reflected reproachfully. "I wish I could hate her. She de serves it. But Jennie gets into your lilood somehow," replied Jim, un consciously falling back on the clear old love name. "That's the worst of it. That's why Pat can't get free. Now wo'll have to sit back and let young Neal make the next move. He's one dandy boy. The more I see of him and hear of him the more I realize htfw darn lucky the little Phoebe-bird is." "Of course I hate that," I beamed disclosing some of the sacred feel ing Neal had shown in protecting Phoebe from the world and—him self. Then I went on to tell Jim of my luncheon with Tom and of his revelations. "Pretty good old skate—Thomas J.," commented Jim with relish when I concluded the story of Tom's attitude toward Daisy and the whys and wherefores thereof. "And you never said, 'I told you BO," as any woman—your wife in cluded—must have done," I cried. DON'T LOSE YOUR GRIP; Make-Man Tablets Hold You This well known Iron tonic will Increase your vitality, enrich your blood and tone your nerves. 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I Choice Recipe book free. 1 Walter Baker &. Co. Ltd. Established /78 °- Dorchester, Mass. SATURDAY EVENING. bending over to lay my face against my boy's hair. "Why should I?" asked Jim, pat ting me gruffly and evidently In tent on other matters. "We both know a darn sight more abqut each other and the world than we did when we started trotting in double harness, don't we, girl?" he asked at last. His tone suggested there were things hidden under the words he said—concealing more than he re vealed. "We do," I agreed. Then, compel ling myself not to try to force Jim's confidence beyond the point he was ready to have it go, I con tinued with Tom's story. "I'd have been perfectly clear in my mind about Tom —only as soon as he got me comfortable about Daisy and his attitude toward her he switched off onto something equally puzzling." "And what was that, kitten?"— very tolerantly from Jim. "Irma Warren." "Indeed!'? A whistle from my hus band, expressing question and ac ceptance at once. "He wants us to dine with him down at his home," I went on. "We two. Miss Warren and Mr. Haldane. I don't understand his putting him self out so much. I don't under stand his interest in that dear, simple, old-fashioned girl who's so different from all the people he travels with." "Don't you, my dear?" asked Jim, I pulling me around and studying my ' face quizzically before he gave me a quick, saucy kiss and let me go again. "Don't you?" "Well, then—explain if I'm so 1 stupid." i "Oh, if a man like Tom Mason gets round to settling down," re marked Jim, in a tone that showed he accepted it as all right, "what's more natural than that he should pick out a girl just like Miss War ren? Splendid family connections. Simnle and unworldly—pleasant contrast for Tommie's jaded sou; Money. Distinguished background and all that" "Jim Harrison! And you think that's decent?" "Decent? It's admirable," replied Jim, looking at me with a puzzled frown. "Good enough for a fresh, un tired soul like Irma Warren? Good enough for her?" I protested vigor ously. Then something stoped me. It wasn't just that I had vowed to quit playing "Miss Fix-it.' It was bigger and more vital than that. The difference in my atti tude and Jim's regarding Tom's fitness to be a suitor for Irma War ren s hand—provided Philandering Tom were at last as serious as that was the basic difference In viewpoint between my husband and me. The Harrison view of life ver sus the Dee outlook. And I saw plainly the signals set read: "Danger ahead!" To Be Continued. Advice to the Lovelorn CAME BACK TO GET REVENGE DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I met a young man about three years ago and he proposed to me. I accepted him but gave him up a week later as I didn't like him. A year later he came back and asked me to go out with him again, and I accepted him and I learned to love him. After I had gone with him two months he con fessed to me he came back to get revenge on me, that is, to make me love him and then leave me. Rut he he couldn't do it. as his love for me was too strong. Now he is in the army about ten months and he has accused me of things I didn't do. I gave up all my friends and pleasure, but that didn't help any. I feel he is going to be very mean to me after we are mar ried. All my friends and relatives want me to give him up, but I love him and don't know what to do. WORRIED. From your account of this young man he does not sound promising. If he came back to get revenge it was certainly a very unworthy motive. Your relatives advise you to give him up. They know the circumstances of the case better than I do. Why not be guided by their judgment? MEMORIAI, PARK ADDITION The Suburb Unparalleled.—Adv. Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1919, International News Service - By McManus ftAV-XOOLL HAVE THERE'ti bOME NICE P£.ATf> DO OMELETTE* CLEMENTINE-1 NEVER MIND-l'M COIN' 1 # /HHfNDKUC TO READ THIX FTiC CERTMMLW JOUR BRUXELLOIt>E- PORCN -REMOULADE TO A RESTAURANT ,J < • (| [ l"-> ME - I FERdttT ' >J~ ?>AUTE OFBEEF-PIQOANTE' <— / % I S>AUC.E ANO- • —5 V/HERE. E<iGb b \ . ' 44" ~ S 1 NO I-t -eTT AU ) I VVONOER * ' ~>J C C/VN ' T ~~~ 'r r J ' THE LOVE GAMBLER By Virginia Terhune Van de Water CIIAPTKR DXXIV. (Copyright, 1919, Star Company.) David DeDaine found the condition of affairs well night unendurable. He was too much perturbed to re turn to his hotel when he had left Miss Bristol's hospitable home. To go to bed and to sleep would be out of the question. Something must be done —but what that something was he did not know. It was useless for him to try to argue with himself, as he would have argued with another man. Ho was now independently wealthy; the war was over; he had done his share; his health, which had been menaced, was almost completely restored. Three months ago all these things combined would have made him very happy. Now they seemed less than noth ing when he reflected on Desiree's opinion of the David DeDaine of whom she had heard and whom she believed she had never met. She despised him. She would always re fuse to meet him. In the excited state of his mind he may have exaggerated facts. Yet, even had he been more calm, he would have been forced to admit that the -girl he loved thought him capable of agreeing to the terms of his aunt's will. To this evidence against him he must add the circum stances that he had deliberately, entered her father's employ under an assumed name. When she discovered his identity she might even think he had done this with the secret plan of winning her affections and thus becoming heir to his aunt's fortune. He clinched his hands and swore softly to himself for a fool. He also said violent things about Aunt Jeanne's fortune. He wished that it was sunk in the depths of the sea. "I would not touch the infernal property if it meant my death not to do so" he muttered, "and I will make Andrew know that I will not. Then—in some way, heaven only knows how —I must make her under stand." He Thinks It Over The "her" did not refer to his departed aunt. What she had wished and hoped for was now as little to her nephew as his present worries were to her in the abode of departed spirits. David walked northward for two hours before turning his steps to ward his hotel. Baltimore's beauti : ful streets lay quite silent in the I DAILY HINT ON FASHIONS i . A COMFORTABLE HOUSE OR WORK DRESS 3016—This style is especially suited to mature figures. The pockets and band trimming may be omitted, and the sleeve may be finished at the seam to close with buttons or snap fasten ers. 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In the morning, the bellboy had to knock and call several times before he could make David understand that it was halt past eight The hour nt which he had said he was to be called. After a hastily eaten breakfast— to which he took scant appetite— David DeLaine went down to Henry Andrew's office. He was so early that the lawyer had not yet come in. There was a long hour to wait before his ar rival. In this hour David wrote on a sheet of paper a statement which he submitted to Harry Andrews, when, at last, that gentleman enter ed his office. "There's no use in arguing about it, Mr. Andrews," David burst forth when the lawyer raised his eyebrows and shook his head. "I will not touch one cent of my aunt's money." "But, my deaiman, can't you com prehend that you cannot give away a thing that does not belong to you? —and this property will not be yours for almost two years, anyway—and then only if you comply with the terms set forth in the will. I may promise to give you my watch at the end of a year. You cannot take it this morning and make a present of it to my office boy—or to anyone else." "I know that!" David sprang to his feet and strode up and down the floor. "Rut T will not. remain under the implication that my aunt's money will ever be mine, i A Positive Assertion "Even had I been so fortunate as to know Miss Leighton, and even had she honored my unworthy self by her regard (pray forgive me for suggesting that possibility of such a thing!)—l would never have accept ed that legacy. And I must insist that you have this paper properly drawn up and let me sign it. It is certainly not such a great thing to demand." 'But it is not legal," Andrews protested. "I do not care whether it is or not! It will give me satisfaction to sign it. Even if you just stick it away in your safe, and, at the end of the period of probation destroy it, it will he some balm to my wounded pride to know that it has been written." Andrews read the paper again. It was a brief declaration to the effect that David Smith DeDaine here and now renounces any claim to any part of the property of his aunt, the late Miss Jeanne Deßaine, and that under no circumstances—whether he were to marry or remain single—would he touch a cent of it. Andrews smiled whimsically. "You may never meet Miss T-eigh ton," he ventured, "hut if you did — stranger things have happened and were you so fortunate as to marry her —what about this docu ment?" The young man flushed crimson. "It would hold good more than ever!" Andrews shrugged his shoulders. "How could you escape accepting what would belong to you?" he questioned. "I would either prove that my aunt was of unsound mind, or, fail ing that, I would give the entire property to her favorite charities," was the vehement reply. (To Be Continued) Scientific Discussions by Garrett P. Serviss "Has the popular belief in lightning striking repeatedly in the same spot any foundation in fact? Would there be any danger in building a house on a site where two trees are dead and a few yards of grass apparently scorched supposed to be the result of lightning striking there at different times? Is it possible, or practicable, to take pre cautions against, or to neutralize, a possible recurrence? J. O. H. Staple ton, N. Y." There are places where lightning is peculiarly liable to strike owing to the presence of some attractive material, such as a deposit of iron underground. Underground water may serve as an inducement to lightning strokes, and the near neighborhood of a body of water is generally regarded as in some slight degree favorable to the occur rence of lightning, although the danger from this source is practically negli gible. It has been contended that certain soils are more attractive than the av erage to lightning. In Germany, for instance, an observer, Hellmann, has estimated the liability of lightning strokes occurring on different soils in the following ratios: Chalk, 1; clay, 7 ; sand, 9 ; loam, 22. In general very dry soil is safe un less there are metallic lodes, or large springs or sheets of water, at no great depth beneath. It has been strongly affirmed that certain species of trees are particularly liable to be struck by lightning. A German authority gives the following ratios :Beech 1, pine 5, flr 39, oak 57. But such lists, though they may have been made out with considerable care, are based upon local observations, and are not likely to represent any very wide state of facts. However, It has been noted in different parts of the world that the beech tree seems to be espe cially immune to lightning. If this be due, as some have suggested, to the smoothness of the bark of the beech, which causes it to be readily wet ! in a uniform manner, from top to bot tom, thereby acting as an easy lino of discharge for atmospheric electricity during a thunderstorm, that tree might perform the function of a lightning rod for a house standing close to it. An oak, or a fir, on the other hand, would appear to be a relatively danger ous neighbor during a bombardment of lightning. While such a tree might catch a stroke that would otherwise attain a nearby house, yet a violent bolt often tears huge branches from trees, so that the silent action of the beech, harmlessly drawing off the ac cumulating electric charge, would be preferable. The Indians knew the lightning-shielding property of the beech, and were accustomed to seek shelter under trees of that family dur ing violent thunderstorms. With regard to warding off lightning by artificial conductors, there is con siderable difference of opinion as to the effectiveness as to the methods used. From the nature of the case, the evi dence of success can only be statistical, and the statistics are more or less doubtful on account of wide practical differences in the arrangement of the conductors, and particularly in the ob servance of the many precautions re quired. The cortbequence is that when a failure occurs it is ascribed to some imperfection in the apparatus, and no certainty can be arrived at. Moreover, there Is reason for think ing that there is one kind or type of lightning against which it would be practically impossible to protect a building. This 1b what has been called by Sir Oliver Lodge the "B flash,"- which is distinguished from the more simple, and less dangerous, "A flash" in this way: "When a charged cloud approaches the earth without any other clouds Intervening, the air between) the earth and the cloud experiences a steadily increasing electric stress, and the points of lightning-rods, on ac count of their form, are well suited to drain off this charge, or to receive and it safely away if it bursts forth in a flash. But when there is an intervening cloud between the charged cloud and the earth, the two virtually form an electric condenser, and if a flash takes place from the first cloud to the sec ond, the disruptive discharge to the earth becomes so "erratic," or goes with such an "impulsive rush," that the points of the conductors are un able to receive and dispose of it. However, it is a great comfort to know that, generally speaking, the danger to man and his constructions from lightning is one of the least press ing that we have to encounter. But, of course, if a case should occur in which it could be conclusively shown that a particular locality was specially subject to lightning strokes, the wise man would choose some other spot where to build his house. As to any attempt to neutralize the unknown source of attraction for the lightning, that might prove scientifically interest ing, but economically expensive. EVIDKNTTiY NOT Bess—Somebody passed a coun terfeit dime on Bob a year ago and he hasn't been able to get rid of it since. Maiden Aunt (horrified) —What? Does that young man never go to church, then? —St. Paul Dispatch. Daily Dot Puzzle * #,Z 14 15 " . . * <5 io . a *l7 7 * •* 5. • •'* • fc 2 .° '8 : 5 i //T* i 1 2 * • 25 • • 2 • • 27 • on 2b 26 * #3O ! 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And she can do both so well that the big fellows in the magazine world keep her busy. Melora lives in "THE BIG CITY" in order to be near her work. Her peo pPe have a tiny cottage in a far suburb of a town that has just worked its way into the class where It can be called a city at all. And once a week all year around Greta comes to do the washing and ironing and help with the heavy work. The Pomeroy home is kept up by the ceaseless toil of Carrie, Melora's step-sister, a gaunt scare-crow of a woman who was an "old maid" when Melora was the belle of the high-school. There isn't any glowing tragedy about Carrie Pomeroy; she never was attrac tive enough to have a romance In her life. To Melora she is Just a predestined grub, a dear old sister; content to lead a drab and colorless life of the sort to which Greta was probably also destined by a wise and discriminating fate. For two weeks every summer Melora goes home. She spends her vacation at the old homestead. Thus she glad dens the heart of her father and the invalid brother whose horizon has a radius centering at his Invalid chair. And because she spends a yearly fort night radiating sunshine all about the environs of her drab home, and sends home a weekly part of her earnings, Melora feels that as a daughter, a wo man and a human being she is a com plete compendium of the virtues and crowned with leaves of bay and laurel and maybe gold and diamonds. One day last summer Melora was standing in the kitchen waiting for Greta to do a hurry-up Job on a frilly white waist the daughter-guest of the house of Pomeroy was plartnlng to wear on a motor-trip with the home-city's most eligible bachelor. "I have a right to be scrubbing the front steps," complained Greta. "So 1 don't, your beau thinks maybe we keep no clean house. So I don't, maybe Miss Carrie she goes and does." "Well, if the steps aren't cledn, I don't mind," replied Melora indiffer ently. "But Miss Carrie she do. She mind, and she scrub. And it'se no her work," protested Greta. "She's a lady, Miss Carrie is. She no should work." "Well, I don't want her scrubbing the front steps on my account," said said Melora amiably. "I'll tell you, I'll iron my own.waist, and you run out and do the steps." "All right," agreed Greta. "Just so Miss Carrie she no scrub the steps. She hasn't right to be working so hard. Miss Carrie a lady. She has a right to be waited on. She got it too hard. She has right to be waited on. She a lady." Melora smiled, divided between de [ light that old Greta appreciated sister ; Carrie, and amusement that the old J woman didn't appreciate that she— ' Melora Pomeroy-—working all through | the year at the beck and call of editors, I labored twice as hard as Carrie. Presently Greta returned from doing the steps, and Melora, hot and agitated 1 from her efforts with the waist, held i It up for the old woman's inspection, i "See, I worked, and it didn't hurt I me," she said with subtlety which 1 amused her. No More Mustard i Plasters or Liniments That Stain and Blister <?ei , It's Wonderful For Relieving Pain, * Stiff or Swollen Joints, Tired, Aching Feet and Muscles, Sharp Rheumatic Twinges, Neuritis, Neuralgia, Lum bago, Colds In Head, Throat and Chest "Joint-Ease" is better than mussy old plasters and liniments—it will not stain or blister! Has a delightful odor and leaves skin soft and smooth! Rub it in or Inhale it, then watch your troubles quickly disappear Sold in small, convenient tubes in this city 1 by Geo. A. Gorgas, Kennedy's Drug gtora and all jropd. dmgglsf. . r OCTOBER 25,1919. 1 "Sure, That's right," agreed Greta, "You're a working person. You used to work. You kpow how it is. Miss Carrie a lady." 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