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" When a Girl "
By ASS LISLE
A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problem of a Girl Wife
CHAPTER CCCXXXVII
(Copyright, 1919, King Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
Carlotta Sturges saved me from
the embarrassment of thinking up
some plausible story to account for
Virginia and the absent Tony
must be made to understand.
"Are we waiting for anything?"
she asked, as we three stood there
in the lobby of the hotel whence
Virginia had fled at sight of us.
"For someone," smiled Tony.
"Virginia Dalton. Our Betty's other
dear chum."
Carlotta's eyes caught and held
mine for a moment She seemed to
be politely offering me the right
of way, but when I gasped, blushed
and cleared my throat in a helpless
effort to find the right thing to
say, she spoke calmly in my stead:
"Mrs. Dalton isn't coming. Another
appointment. You were both off so
early to keep this appointment she
couldn't reach you. I was the last to
leave regions where I couldn't be
reached by telephone. So I have
the message."
"I flashed Carlotta a grateful
glance. I couldn't tell how much
she knew, but evidently she had
seen Virginia come and go again and
had put two and two together. And,
as usual, Carlotta was jumping in
and helping a "pal" out of the hole
regardless of the mud she might
splash on herself. Tony made no
comment on things beyond:
"Then we may as well go in to
lunch."
But once we were seated and the
ordering attended to, he reverted to
a previous remark, and I felt that
he was telling me again what he
had said twice before namely,
that Carlotta Sturges was a brick.
"Betty Winston and you are kin
dred souls, Miss Sturges. I'll read
her brave, storm-tossed letter now,
if I may. There are things you i
must hear so you may stand by and
help us help her."
So he took Carlotta into our little
fraternity. But strangely enough,
I could see that instead 'of making
her proud and happy, it hurt and
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puzzled her. More than ever I
felt convinced that Tony was Cai
lotta's' ideal—the man she had in
mind when she said:
" 'My man is the sort who'd split
rails if that was his way to the
White House, or walk on the stumps
of his less to battle for his country
if the rest of him "were shot away.
But there's another woman who may
need him some day. So I guess I'll
stick to real estate and good pals.' "
I had surmised at the time she
spoke that she felt I needed Tony.
Yet. I couldn't find any way of pro
testing delicately. Now Tony was
making it evident that poor Betty
needed him. What a tangle!
By the time lunch was over I
knew Carotta would stand by Betty
if she had to let that struggling soul
walk to happiness over her heart.
When I left Carlotta and Tony at the
shop to which he'd taken me in his
car my soul turned to big melodies.
I felt that I was my best and most
worthy self.
Ten minutes later I knew I was
my smallest, pettiest self; and I
couldn't help the change any more
than I could control the chance
that brought it about
Looking across the aisle where T
was standing trying on gloves, I
saw Val C'osby and Aunt Mollie
Pettingill deep in conference at the
jewelry counter. So absorbed were
they that I couldn't get their at
tention. But I hurried with my er
rands and went around to join them.
Aunt Mollie became suddenly ab
sorbed in her purchase and in giv
ing quick directions to the clerii,
while Val, turning to me with her
most insolent manner, said in a
voice which hadn't a strain of wel
come in it:
"Where did you drop from, Anne?
Been here Ions? What were you
buying? Oh, that that counter over
there! Well, dear, just time for a
word, and then we must run. You
have to buy things a month ahead
nowadays to get delivery. Impor
tant shopping to do."
"Excuse me, dear," said Aunt
Mollie, turning from her absorbing
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"This was very special. Had to be
tended to and gotten out of the way.
Now where, Val, dear?"
They didn't ask me to go with
them. They didn't even pretend
they were glad to see me. They
made it evident that they wanted
to be rid of me, and right in front
of the clerk, who couldn't help wit
nessing my humiliation, succeeding
the eagerness with which I'd come
to join them. And when they rush
ed me away from the counter and
got me to the door, Val said sud
denly:
Oh, I ve something more to at
tend to, Aunt Mollie. Come back
with me, please. Can Jennings drop
you anywhere, Anne?"
No, thank you, I'm merely going
across the street," I said, feeling
hurt to the point of tears and far
beyond allowing Val to lend me her
car and chauffeur as the best way
to get rid of me.
I fairly bolted out of the store
As I crossed the street and walked
aimlessly through the fehop where
I hadn t a thing to buy, it came to
me that I couldn't whimper to Jim
about this. But, unless I found
some way of soothing my wound I'd
not be able to hide it from him.
frhen. K occurred to n*e that it
might be a good idea to drop in at
a movie and forget myself in the
drama of the screen.
Carrying out my idea before the
impulse died, I hurried into a mo
tion picture house that was near
by. The auditorium was dark, as the
feature picture was already on. But
the usher wljo piloted me down the
aisle in the little circle of light his
electric torch made, assured me that
the picture hadn't been on five
minutes
In a minute or two I got the
thread of the story anrl sat watch
ing with attention that I didn't have
to force. When the lights went up at
the end of that part of the program,
what was my amazement to see Vir
ginia only n few seats away. She,
too, was seeking solace and forget
fulness. I had an impulse to take
an empty seat near her, but sud
denly she looked up and caught my
eye. Her own expression was cold.
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almost unseeing. Evidently I didn't
exist for Virginia.
Feeling as snubbed as if I'd spoken
my thoughts of making up and she
had sneered at them. I turned and
hurried from the theater. The third
hurt of the day was lying in wait for
me in the lobby of my own apart
ment building.
As I prepared to step into the
elevator for its upward trip, Phoebe
got out.
"I'm in a dreadful hurry," re
plied Phoebe fairly brushing by.
"She was to Mrs. Cosby's," ex
plained the elevator boy as he took
me up. Loneliness engulfed me.
(To Be Continued)
ARMY EXHIBITS RESULT
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Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Lentz,
General Staff, U. S. Army, is in
charge of a detachment of foreign
born recruits, representing fifteen
different nationalities, who entered
the Army five months ago unable to
speak, read or write English. It
took the Army school just four
months not only to teach them the
English language, but at the same
time drill them in such a manner
that they have been pronounced the
equal of the best drill unit in any
Army in the world.
They are now at Philadelphia,
where they will remain for three
dbys, giving exhibition drills in va
rious parts of the city.
This unit is the product of the
recruit educational center at Camp
Upton, N. Y., .and is for the pur
pose of demonstrating to the world
at large what can be accomplished
by the War Department with alien
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Any foreigner, between the ages
of IS and 40 years, who has de
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citizen of the United States, is un
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LIFE'S PROBLEMS
ARE DISCUSSED
BY MRS WILSON WOODKOYV
From my experience in receiving
and answering letters, I have learned
certain things. One of them is that
when a woman sits down and writes
to me out of the misery and despair of
her heart, it is usually because she has
no one else to whom she can turn.
She has faced her problem night and
day until she has reached what seems
to her the limit of endurance. She is
writing in a stark sincerity, and she
wants no piffle, but sincerity in return.
The letter given below is from a wo
man in a blind alley from which she
sees no quiet. She says:
"I am so discouraged that I do not
know what to do. I was in hopes that
after July 1 things would be different
but they are just as bad as ever. My
husband comes home drunk as usual,
and my son by a former marriage is in
the saloon all day Saturday and Sunday
and sometimes Monday. My husband
works at night, and spends most of the
day in this same saloon. I am lucky
if I get half of the money I need for
the house. If my son loses any time
at his work he takes it out of what he
gives me.
"As they are big eaters, I have hard
work to get along with everything so
high. I only eat myself the scraps they
leave.
"I have done my best. I am always
at home, and have everything neat and
clean and mended. I would only be
too glad if they would bring their
friends here, but they would rather meet
them in the saloon. If I tell them that
any person I know is coming to the
house in the evening, they both fuss,
and say, 'What do they want here?' or
'What are they coming for?"
"Am I at fault? I really don't scold
or nag, and I don't let my neighbors
| know any of my business. I don't have
time to go out. Although my husband
is through his work at sevent-thirty in
the morning, he is often not at home
until late in the afternoon, and then
he comes in drunk. He was recently
brought home in an automobile so stupid
with drink that he couldn't stand up,
and as he became very sick he made the
house a disgusting place. They both
think I have no right even to speak to
them about the way they go on.
"I have no near relatives, and I can
not go to my friends in my trouble.
I do not sleep nights, and I feel as If
I was going crazy, I know how to work,
and I often think how much happier
I would be if I could go away and live
by myself and.earn my own money. Do
you think it would be wrong to do so?"
Dear lady, I think you are not get
ting a square deal; neither are you giv
ing your husband and son one. You
are bestowing far too much for far too
little.
Life isn't worth much to any of us
unless we are looking forward to some
thing. We all like to have a hand in
the construction of our futures and to
build to some end. In the circumstances
in which you live you feel the same
sense of discouragement that a child
does when he patiently constructs a
house of sand every day. and then sees
the waves wash it away. All your
work and effort goes for nothing and
leads nowhere.
J3y your present course you are only
encouraging your husband and son In
a
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their ways. When men reach such a
state of selfishness that they consider
nothing but their own appetites, a wo
man is a fool wlio ministers to them.
They are thinking of nothing but them
selves, and no amount of nagging or
pleading is going to do any good.'
Useless self-saeritice is one of wo
man's worst vices. She would not have
posed as a martyr through the centuries
if she had shown a little more common
sense and a little less sentimental weak
ness.
i Why do you not put both your lius
|band and your son on pronation? Take
| advantage of their more reasonable
| moments, and state your case to tliem.
Tell them that conditions as they stand
are unbearable, that your health is
breaking under the strain, and that you
are thinking of going away by your
self for a time and where they will not
be able to communicate with you.
If you should be forced to go. it
might be the means of bringing them
to their senses. They would no longer
be able to enjoy themselves after their
own fashion, and then go home to a
clean house, freshly-made beds, and
meals ready and waiting for them. They
would have to do some healthful hust
ling for themselves, and this would
cause them to pause and think a bit,
They would be very uncomfortable and
extremely anxious for your return.
Then you would be able to make con
ditions, and insist that they play the
game according to decent rules as well
as yourself.
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_ lingers town, Md„ Oct. 29.—Thieves
entered the United Brethren Church
at Williamsport, this county, and
stole about sls from a receptacle
into which birthday offerings had
been placed by members of the con
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by the sexton.
CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY 1
Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 29.—The Rev.
U F. Svvengel, D. D„ pastor of the
Evangelical Church, of .Mount Holly
Springs, yesterday celebrated *his'
seventy-second birthday. He is a,
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OCTOBER 29, 1919.
STEEL. EARNINGS
SHOW INCREASE
Effect of Strike, JHowever, Is
Seen in the Returns
For Quarter
New York, Oct. 29. —Earnings of
the United States Steel Corporation
for the three months ended Septem-
ber 30 last aggregated $40,177,232,
an increase of $5,845,931 over the
previous quarter.
Net income amounted to $29,111,-
429, an increaso of $5,787,323, and
the surplus, after payment of regu
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167, an increase of $5,796,580.
Earnings are equivalent to $3.43
applicab'e to the copimon stock,
against $2.29 in the previous quar
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1918.
The effect of the strike, which be
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quarter, is seen in the monthly re
turns, earnings of $12,880,609 for
September being less by $2,279,502
than those of August.
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ANNOUNCES SON'S BIRTH
New Cumberland, Pa., Oct. 29. —
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leaf of Geary
street, announce the birth of a son
on Monday, October 27.
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