The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-03-17
Win a smile.
You shouldn't marry"

life to-
1.-THE Red Cross?"
mo The hospitals at home-the
hospitals for the poor and homeless"
Ethel Hardin was coming through
the grounds toward them. Her face
was clouded by Il dark frown, and she
was visibly excited
Its all off" she announced as she
came up.
Where is the usual hero?" asked
Graydon.
I'm through with the real army
They've dismissed me. That is, father
and mother have. They are driving
me to the Salvation Army" she ex-
claimed. seating herself beside Gray
don. Il wish | were Jane and my own
mistress"
Dear me. Ethel, what an ambition!'
said Jane. What has happened to
upset you SOP
Father has,
II should have asked who, not
what"
Il suppose they expect me to marry
a Salvation Army man. They say Har-
~ isn't good enough. / think he Is
very moral young man"
Harry? Who is Harry?'
"Why, haven't you heard? Harry
Soper. I'm engaged to him."
THE lieutenantw
Certainly. He's going to be pro-
NOTED, though, if he ever gets on the
firing line. It's not his fault that he
hoe 10 Il Jt,txr tn, "a
aching to get out and fight But
father Here she paused, her lips
coming together with a firmness that
BODIED i'll.
Colonel Hardin doesn't approve"
mo. He says Harry is little pup
It's outrageous. Jane"
Don't cry. dear. The world is full
of men"
Not for me-" said Ethel doefully.
give picked Harry out of a hundred
or more. and I think my Giscrimina-
ton ought to be cons cred. I'm the
one to be satisfied. Father has no.
But how about that young fellow
back in New York? You used to say he
/ was the only one"
"He is the only ore in New York.
4 But look how far off he is! 1t takes
weeks for his letters to get to me-"
"But he writes every day"
Harry telephones every day. tell
you, Jane, the voice has a good deal to
do with it. You like to hear a fellow
say nice things. 1t beats ink all to
pieces. 1t will go hard with him per
haps, but he's young. He'll get over
it."
"You are young too. That is why you
have got over George"
I'm not as young as was. But I've
decided on Harry. If father doesn't
let US get married right away I'm liza
BILE to get over him too. It's silly doing
that all the time. One might never ge
married, you know. But father is firm
He says l can't. and he says he'll kicl
Harry into the middle of next summer
Father says | shall not marry into The
regular army. He says they don
make good husbands. I've got thu
joke on him. though. He appealed II
mother. and she forgot herself anC
said the same thing. They were quar-
reling about it when l left the hotel
1t was an awful jar to father. For tive
cents I'd elope with Harry"
ut would be pretty difficult for al
officer on duty to elope, don't yol
think?" asked Graydon, amused.
mot If he loved the girl. He doe
too. But l haven't told you the worst
Mother says l am being absolutel.
spoiled out here in Manila, and sh
says fatty that she's going to take IN
back to the States. Isn't it awful?
"Back to the fellow in New York +?
smiled Jane encouragingly.
Ethel thought for a moment, and
dear little smile came into her troubles
eyes.
81 hope he hasn't gone and fallen II
/ love with some other GIRL" she said.
It was true, as Jane soon learned
that Mrs. Hardin had concluded to RI
turn to the United States with Ethe
James aunt had grown immeasurabl
tired of Manila-and perhaps a littl
more tired of the colonel 1t was sh
who aroused the colonel's antipathy
little Lieutenant Soper. She dwell
upon the dire misfortune that was pos
sible If Ethel continued to bask in tn
society of those young ninnies." Th
colonel developed towering rage an
a great fesr that Ethel might becom
fatally contaminated before she coul
be whisked of of the island. 1t wa
decided that Mrs. Hardin and Ethe
should return to the United State
soon after the first of March to tax
up their residence in New York city.
Mother wants to be a soldier