"When a Girl " By ANN LISLE A New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing Problem of a Girl Wife CHAPTER CCCLXVIII | (Copyright, 1919, Ktng Features Syndicate, Inc.). "That's about the last thing you thought I'd do, wasn't it?" asked Val, after telling me that she wanted Jim to try to reach Lane by long distance. Then she collapsed. She went off Into a long faint, which was almost a coma and didn't come out of it until long after Jim and Ptt had carried her up to the guest room, and Jeanie and Bertha and I had undressed her and had laid her'in the big four-poster. The doctor said it was shock, wrote prescriptions galore, ordered an ice bag and digatalis for her heart and left orders with the nurse that no one disturb his patient. But scarcely were we through the breakfast which had been so long, delayed as to become breakfast lunch —"brunch" as Jim called it— when the nurse appeared with the information that Mrs. Cosby insisted on seeing me. "You'd better come. It's best not to let them work theirselves up," said she. "Shut the door," commanded Val when I appeared in answer to her summons, "and lock it." I did as she bade me. Then I sat down beside the bed. "Mustn't agitate yourself, Val." "I won't. But I'm not so sick that I don't know what 'm doing. ROBINSON'S Third and Broad II ROBINSON'S s|S|Christm&s O* is "ear- And the Up-Town Store Is Full of Beautiful CHRISTMAS GIFTS With the idea of having as pretty and as complete an assortment of Xmas Gifts as any store in the city, we've been planning our Xmas displays for months. So we can, with confidence, invite you to inspect these stocks and make comparisons—both as to quality and prices. We claim our prices arc lower than elsewhere, due to our low operating costs. Are they? We invite your inspection and comparison. FOT Women Kid Gloves . .$2.98 to $3.50 Sweaters and Scarfs, Boxed Handkerchiefs, $ 3-0 o to $14.98 5c to SI.OO Umbrellas .. .$1.50 to SB.OO Silk Hosiery . .SI.OO to $5.00 Bedroom Slippers, lot Men „ , ? 0c r? Silk Shirts. .$3.98 and $5.98 Aluminum Cooking Utensils Madras Shirts, Jewelry 25c to $2.50 $1 50 and $2 5Q Velvet Hand Bags, Suspenders ...59c to SI.OO $2.95 to $5.95 Beautiful Ties, 75c to $2.00 Leather Purses and Bags Warm Qloves SI.OO tO $5.95 or i. n (Jq 7c Traveling Bags Boxed Hosiery> 39c to si ; so T J■, • , Fancy Handkerchiefs, White Ivory Toilet Articles, t c q u 1p 1 ** \° |i f n Night Shirts and Pajamas Bath Robes . $3.98 to $7.50 0Q tQ $ 2 5Q Kimonos .. .$1.98 to $6.98 Hoge Supporters> 25c to 59c Silk Petticoats, R u $3.98 to $7.50 r rL ..j Fur Scarfs sls to SIOO tor Children Smart Coats ....$25 to $75 Dolls 59c to $7.50 Beautiful Dresses, sls to SSO Hair Ribbons. Voile Waists, $1.98 to sls Hosiery. Silk Waists ...$3.98 to sls j Purses. White Aprons, 50c to $1.50 Boxed Handkerchiefs. Silk Camisoles, Boys' Neckties. SI.OO to $3.00 | Bedroom Slippers. Robinsons Uptown Department Store THIRD AND BROAD CLIP THIS COUPON and t~% g rmi • Present This Save $1 Coupon and Save on an y $l.()0 Pair of Shots in our Saturday, Dec. 6th, 1919 Store Orner's Boot Shop, 24 N. 3rd St. Saturday, Dec. 6th °ONLY y Select any pair of shoes from our regular stock and they are yours at SI.OO less than regular prices, provided you present the above coupon when making payment. This also applies to any pair of shoes in the Spe cial Sale at $7.65. A large invoice of Low Shoes which have just arrived is included in this offer— This is a bona fide proposition. Save a dollar and get an unusual value in Shoes of Quality. Orner's Boot Shop THIRD O /™ FRIDAY EVEN INC?, ' HARRISBURC t&dk&Z TELEGRAPrt DECEMBER 5,1919. t I'm not going to tell you a thing," she declared. "No, Val, the only person you must tell anything to is Lane," I re plied. Val stared at me for a moment with an air of looking through my head into my mind. Then she asked tersely: "Has Jim reached Lane yet?" "Not yet. But the call is in for Montreal and the stop either side of there." "Oh—that's good! What's Jim going to tell Lane when he gets him?" "Just that you were smashed up a bit by a tumble down the river bank on the boundary of the Harri son Place." "Well, that's so isn't it?" de manded Val. "If that's all, I'll open your door and call the nurse." "No—wait!" commanded Val. Af ter a moment she asked: 'Have you had any news from Mason Tow ers?' " "Pat went over," I replied. Val dragged herself up in bed and winced with pain. But she demand ed with a sort of breathless vigor: "What did she say?" "Evelyn? Pat didn't see her. She wouldn't come down. Mrs. Mason told him" "Told him what? Talk faster." "Told him that Shelly is gone," Bringing Up Father -Copyright, 1919, International News Service - By McManui BY <£OLLY• THE \ j I f HOW DARE. YOU 111. 111 ' = I I I I I An I THlt> Pb H I : '-E jj OFT,,N I replied, trembling with fear of the effect my words might have. "I knew that," said Val, looking at me inscrutably. "He was gone when we got to them down there by the river. He died in Evelyn Mason's arms. He was speaking to her when he died. I wonder—l wonder —what he told her?" Her voice trailed off. and my as tonishment banished discretion. "Val!" I cried. Val! You speak of his going—as if a pet poodle had gone. You don't seem to care. Sheldon's dead. I thought when Evvy took him home that he'd come out of his swoon and the doctors could bring him back. But he's dead." "He died in her arms," repeated Val. "He died speaking to Evvy Mason. I've had plenty of time to get used to that idea. What's death? Nothing. It's living that's* hard sometimes. Living when you're restless and always unsatis fied, always wanting to conquer and to go on —on to what you haven't got. But what's the use— you wouldn't understand." "I don't," I replied, "but wouldn't you be happier if you explained?" "I wonder what Evvy Mason's going to do?" replied Val, ignoring I what I'd said. "I wonder." She stared at me for a moment as if seeking the solution in my eyes. Then she laughed oddly. "Only a day or so ago you thought I was a heroine because I put out the fire that was threaten ing the little Wilioughby girl. I had to. I can't bear to see beauty marred. But death? Pooh! And to-day you think—no, on the whole I won't say what you think. But you're wrong. You're always wrong about me, Anne. Run along now and send Jim to me. He speaks my language." "Val, dear," I forced myself to utter the word, "you're getting yourself wrought up to a fever. You musn't see Jim." "Send him, please," said Val, and so saying she turned in the big bed so that onl ya shaking shoulder was revealed to me. "You must be quiet," I protested. "I'll come back and let you know as soon as Jim reaches Lane." There was a knock at the door just then and Jim's voice sounded I through the panels: "May I come in? I've a message." "Let him in," said Val in a voice that seemed to hold either stifled laughter or muffled teatrs. "I won't vamp him." Then she pulled back the covers and revealed a face distorted by pain, with burnt-out embers for eyes and ashes for lips. "Jim's safe with me," she mut tered. "Anyone would be. I'll never play with fire again so long as I live. But I must talk to a man —a man like Jim —before I see Lane. Oh, Anne, if, you want to help, if you ever cared for poor Shelly—go to Evvy Mason! Find out what she means to do. She hated me enough before. I wonder if she'll make a dead man pay for that? Now let Jim come in, please. And keep the nurse away. And I hold tight to the fact that you'd j invited me down here for the week-end." To Be Continued. Cox Calls Operators and Miners Together Columbus, Ohio, Dec. s.—ln an ef | fort to settle the coal strike so far as Ohio mines are concerned. Gov ernor Cox called a meeting of oper- I ators and miners' officials for 11 a. m. to-day in his office. ! This action was taken after con | ferences for several days with lead- I ers on both sides of the issue. LITTLE TALKS BY BE A TRICE FAIRFAX ' am going about with a young man and all our recent talks have been on the one subject, 'What is [love?' My idea is that if a man and (woman go about with each other and feel happy when together, and take pride in each other's company, and then on leaving one another are anxiously waiting the next meeting, then they are In love. My friend, however, insists that love is surely of another nature." This letter in to-day's mail ex presses a question I am asked over and over every day and every week and every year. Why not? This is one of life's biggest problems. It's one of the things hardest to answer, most difficult to measure and define, and yet it is the great crux of much of human happiness. Love which is genuine and true is the feeling that can be trusted to illumine all, of life. Romance is the great dream of the human soul. We all long not only for romance but for the Great Romance—the ro mance and mystery clad joy that comes from the One Great Love. We reach for it and miss It. We are given it by the kindly fates and de stroy it. We have it, perhaps, and never know it. And one of our biggest human problems lies in the question, "What is love?" and its corollary, "How are we going to know it when we have it?" There are a great many people to whom love is nothing more than physical attraction—the magnetic leaping of some force from eye to eye—the "biological pull" between man and woman. Love to others is a sublimated friendship of the mind. Some fancy that love is tenderness and devotion. Real love, however ,is all of these and more. Life isn't built on a floor plan of water-tight compartments. You can't shut off friendship from love and liking from loving. There aren't walls between the var ious human emotions. Do you remember the childish game of "cancelling names?" We used to tell fortunes by bracketing ,our name with that of the boy we liked, and after striking out the letters they had in common we said a ritual or revelation over the let ters that remained. As I remem ber, it went: "Friendship, hatred, love, indifference, marriage." What a silly game it seems! Yet how much joy we got out of a kindly verdict that said Reginald loved us and we were his friend. Of course as we grow up, all of us dis card the absurd game. But we carry on with us into life, the ab surd attitude that divides off states of feeling from each other and doesn't see how all feeling merges into what has gone before and what comes after. There isn't a wall between friend ship and love. Some one has wisely said that friendship is love without flowers and veil. That's true. A deep, splendid satisfying friendship between man and woman is perfectly possible. It may remain a friendship and nothing more to the end of time. But it holds the germ of other feelings. Or perhaps we might more conservatively say that Daily Dot Puzzle .b" 5 V • ' - 4 " 2 s^r = T •=> " / • ?.2 J ; J/ 2l ( 3• • # 4* .• Ox i 7 2a . 44* 4*7 22 24 -A # 45- 25 ' *27 C 4a -.A, * #2 *' I ft — 3' \ *4o • . . 3b 33 34 * # .35 • 35 • a? 32 37 36 • Diaw from one to two and so 'o the ena. it is fallow ground for the germs of other feelings. When a man and woman enjoy each other's society, respect each other's opinions, are satisfied with the stimulation .which being to gether brings they have no more than a splendid friendship. They are in the state of liking each other. And that state may remain static for years or forever. But it is full of potentialities. It has kinetic energy. Love worth having must be based on liking. Emotion worth possess ing must have the background of respectful friendship. The fusing of flesh where there is no calj of spirit is debasing and can't last. Love is friendship. That means love is congenially and respect and interest and liking and regard pnd courtesy and kindness. But love is friendship—plus. The affection deepens beyond liking to desire. The congeniality grows to a feeling of interests shared, and multiplied a thousand fold in value because shared. The respects deepens to reverence. The courtesy to tenderness. And the kindness to A protective passion that would suffer rather than give suffering. Love is the beautiful trinity of spirit and mind and body. And never-unless the heart, hold all three and reverences all three feel ings—has true love come to abide. Advice to the Lovelorn TEI.I, HIM THE TRUTH DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I have been going out with a young man for a few months. He is very | much in love with me. but I am oe ' ginning to realize that I do not love him. I do not know how I can show him that I do not care for him, as I gave him encouragement. Please ad vise me what course to pursue. Tell the young man the truth. That is the only fair and honest thing to do. Pursue this course in fairness to yourself and to the young man you want to spare as much as possible. Don't keep him dangling until you find some one you like better, telling yourself all the while that you do this to save him. A quick, honest pain is endurable. Treachery isn't. ... DON'T BE MERCENARY DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: A young man who works for the same company as X do. only in one of our branch offices, calls me up quite often, and while on his vacation sent me several letters. What I would like to have your advice on is this: When 1 talk to this young man in person he never asks me to go out with him. P. G. K. Perhaps the young man can't afford DAILY HINT ON FASHIONS A COM FORT A COSTUME 2800—This style will be pretty and attractive in lawn, percale, dimity, dotted Swiss, nainsook, voile or ging ham. The skirt Is a two-piece model. This pattern Is cut In 7 sizes: 81, 36. 38, 40, 43. 44 and 46 Inches bust measure. Size 38 requires 4% yards of 38-lnch materia Width of skirt at lower edge, is about two yards. A pattern of this illustration mail ed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. Telegraph Pattern Department For the 10 cents Inclosed please send pattern to the following address: Sice Pattern No. ....... Name Address City and Stat* to take you out. His salary mav have to stretch far enough to cover family obligations. On the other hand, he may feel that knowing you through busi ness doesn't give him the privilege of inviting you out socially. Don't be mercenary and pleusure seeking enough to sacrifice an interesting ac quaintance because you feel it isrrt giving you enough "good times." WIIY JflHig HERf DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am twenty-seven. When X was discharged from the army last Jan uary 1 fell in love. A month ago I asked the young woman to be my wife and she consented. I now learn that for months this young ladv has been going out with other men on the nights I did not call. READER. Why should you judge and condemn this girl? Don't you believe there is A GOLDSMITH'S is the real Christmas Store filled with beautiful, sensible, useful, practical gift-things that will add to the attractiveness of every room. You 11 find it profitable to visit us when in quest of sugges tions for Christmas. 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When you were not yet engaged she had every right to enjoy the society of other men. And even POSSESSING J 1 UlSj v3ftn TIES YET ABSOLUTELY HARMLESS ALL SHADES. 4 nmr I DOTU DRRECRSOH WHY SOT KCTAIN YOU YOUTHYUL J I 11 T?%-4y TSHT 1 ATfEAKANCtI ASK YOUR FAVORITE DEALER FOR 1 1 lIW jyij "DARLING" HOLD-TIGHT ROUGE. 35c A ox J 1 after you were eengaged and she wdrn your ring you might have trusted her enough to understand that she could spend an evening with a man friend just as innocently as with a girl. The . evil of which you write has been first lof all in your own mind—and no nvhere else in all likelihood. 11
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