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The Arvada enterprise., 1913-11-27
CHAPTER |.
Five Years Before.


The Woman looked up from her task
OF fitting the trunk tray into exact po-
sition Standish noted vaguely that
the effort of packing had not made her
red or frowsy. Even as she sat there
on the floor beside the jnearly-full
trunk. with litter of garments about
her, her pose was not ungraceful. Yet
her face was oddly tense, and her
clenched hands spoke of self-control
hard to maintain.
No. she said patiently, as though
trying to teach lesson to some rather
stupid child. that isn't what l mean,
at all. l mean, it's-over. Can't you
understand"
Why. yes" answered Standish, "of
course l understand Why shouldn t
/? It's over. You will be safe at your
aunt's house by six o'clock this eve
ming, and you will start for Europe to-
morrow. just as you arranged. And
our wonderweek is ended. And for
the next three months I'll be counting
every"
oh" interrupted the Woman. her
hard-worn patience going to pieces
Wont you understand? | said it was
over. Over! Not for three months
or for any other time. But for always.
Why do you make me put 1t this
way? | tried to say it more"
you don't mean"-he began thick
ly. his throat sanded and sore.
The Woman nodded.
But" he protested lamely. TIT
can't be. Why, girl, you love mel"
81 thought did. Oh, | was 30 sure
I did! But little by little, for days.
I've begun to understand. Don't look
at me- like that! Do you suppose
enjoy talking SO? 1t has to be said.
And you're not making it bit easy
for me-"
Forgive me-" he answered, a bitter
note creeping into his heavy voice.
You are wrecking me. You are
making my future as barren as a
rainy sea. Forgive me for not making
the process a bit easy for you"
You have no right to say such
things" she fared. 1T is cowardly.
1t is ungenerous."
why? Because you are woman
A woman may fay a man. She may
break his life to pieces for her own
amusement II he dares to protest, he
IS cowardly and ungenerous. Because
she is a woman. A mans hands are
tied behind him by that asinine old
tradition. How about the woman who
pommels a man when she knows his
hands are so tied? Isn't she as cow
ardly' and 'ungenerous' as ! would
be II thrashed cripple? And yet
women clamor for their rights!'-
Rights With one-tenth Of the rights
that silly chivalry showers upon wom-
en-, ! could conquer the whole world"
But you could not conquer one
woman. II | begged you to avoid a
scene It was as much for your own
sake as for mine. Since you will have
one, let's get It over with as quickly
as we can. Here is the situation In a
handful OF words: | met you. You
weren't like any other man I'd ever
Known. You didn't fall down and wor'
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II Mnn a pItY

They have a wise ten.yearold boy IN
an east end family, and some Of HE
sayings are really worth peddllng Al
least, his father thinks they are, or he
wouldn't tell this one
The other day tho younstcr mp.
preached his father and stared at him
for some time
Daddy he finally said, you think
mamma Is the most beautiful person
you ever saw. don't your"
"Of course" replied the father, with
great promptness,
Again the boy scrutinized his pa
rent.
Gee, daddy" he finally said. IT.
an awful pity She can't say the same
thing about you. amt ~"
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ship me at sight-or pretend to, which
comes to the same thing. 1t didn't
seem to interest you that had money
and that other men made fools of
themselves over me. And then your
Quixotic ideas about politics and gov
ernment and all that sort OF thing, ap-
pealed to me. These and other rea-
sons of the same kind made me think
l was in love with you"
You didn't think. You were!
And"
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Does it
matter-now? Isn't that also an eff
fort to save the anchor after the
wreck? But never mind. | thought
I loved you. With your impractical
high-souled ideas about political re-
form and the peoples wrongs you
seemed to me modern Galahad; in
stead of just Don Quixote."
"Ah,"
I'm sorry 1t makes you vince. But
it's the truth. And the truth is gen.
orally painful. When you wanted to
marry me, felt as though a demigod
had stopped to earth. That isn't the
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way to feel when one marries. didn't
know 1t then. | do, now. And per
haps the knowledge that | would not
be allowed to marry you Just yet. or
even acknowledge our engagement.
helped strengthen the lnfatus ion
Then when | found must 20 to Eu.
rope so soon, and you begged me to
give you just this one perfect week.
1t all seemed so natural-so right-so
beautiful"
Il was wrong!" he cried. Il was in.
sane. | had no right to suggest II.
had no right to let you consent"
But. womanlike. she would not le,
him blame himself.
''It was not your fault" she cried
"Or II there we're fault at all It was
mine as much as yours. say you
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did. 1t was not with her eyes. And
before he could speak, the telephone
buzzer rasped out.
Wanda" said the young man who
was leaning over the rail.
1t was the third time he had broken
in. But. busy rattling the switch pegs.
she did not hear.
Wanda Kelly!" he exclaimed. e1-
asperated.
She looked up with n suddenness
that startled him.
"Well?" she asked sharply.
"Will-will you marry me?" he
blurted, her unexpected word and look
though he had been struck between
the shoulders.
"What?" she queried In polite sur.
prise.
Il asked" he said. trying to cover
up his impetuosity with weak show
of irony. 81 asked II you are going to
marry me or not"
mo" she answered, unruliled. 81 am
not. That's the answer. Same as
when you asked me before. And the
time before that. And so on back to
the beginning. And then some-until
you can learn to take No for an an.
swer"
Il can't take It," he returned glumly
"and won't take It. Maybe you think
! get a lot OF fun being thrown dowr
like this. 1t means more to me thar
you've got patience to hear. I'm goInf
all to smash, oh, you needn't laugh
1t isn't so funny to me"
(TO BE CONTINuEDI
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DIZZY, HEADACHY,
Sick 'CASCARETS'
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 10.cent box.

Sick headache. blliousness. -iizzi-
ness. coated tongue. foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed. fermenting food In the
bowels or sour gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged In the In.
testines. instead OF being cast out
OF the system is re-absorbed into tho
blood. When this poison reaches tho
delicate brain tissue 1t causes con.
gcstion and that dull throbbing, sick.
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases. take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons In Che bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straightcn you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a lO.cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. ADV.
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sired; and n system OF buckets oper.
ating upon these bridges win make It
possible to lit coal from tho storage
basin, and by means Of convcyors
raise II to loading machines that VIII
drop It into colliors o. lighters The
Cristobal plant will b. capable Of un.
loading 1000 tons and loading 1000
tons Of coal each hour. and the Bal
boa plant 500 and 600 tons
Vessels requiring bunker coal viii
not go alongside the wharycs OF the
plants, but will be conled In mid
stream from bargoB
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HOWARD E. BURTON "ssAysssAsO

Specimen prices Gud silver. Lead a. Gold
tl'"f ibc Ggd Do, Iins or Copper, H. hniiins
envelopes and full price list sent on hppllratlnn
Control and umpire n0fs solicited, I.aiyiil~
Col infofonoa' Carbonate National Hank.
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CHAPTER II.
The Girl and the Boy.

The Hotel Keswick telephone girl
was character. Even the politicians
who made the big Washington cara
vansary their headquarters recognized
that Some of them had sought to un-
bend from their labors at law building
and law-sapping long enough to try to
improve their casual acquaintance with
her. But they had one and all aoan-
doned the effort.
Not that Miss Wanda Kelly was in
the very least shy. No, she had re
sponsive word for everybody. Only,
sometimes that word had a queer way
of soaring instead of flattering.
"lf Joan of Arc had been brought
up in the alleys" once observed the
Honorable Tim Neligan, "and If she's
been nursed on iron tonic and learned
her alphabet from George AIDES fables,
she'd have been dead ringer for Wan.
da Kelly"
To which the more or less Honor
able Jim Blake had made reply
Maybe that hello girl was all Wan
da when she started out. But a Kes.
wick switchboard course has made
her all Kelly. | don't know why no
one reports her for being fresh. Ex-
cept maybe, that he'd have to tell
what he said to her to bring out the
fresh comeback"
In any case, no one did report Wan
da Kelly. There, in an alcove under
the great garish stairway, she sat day
after day manipulating her racks of
switches. To her left we're the tele-
phone booths; to her right the corri.
dor where all the political world pass
ed her in review. Behind her-and.
when voices chanced to be raised in
eagerness or dispute, in easy ear-shot
was a spot where far more history
was made than in the Capitol itself.
This historic place was deep niche
known to local fame as "the amen
corner" 1t was off the beaten track
of the corridor yet vantage-point
whence everything was visible. Here
jim Blake-long, lean, sa urnine mas.
ter of the machine-had a way of sit.
of his mouth, his slouch hat aslant on
his head or under his chair. And here,
like filings to the magnet, the men who
CLEANED in Jim's wake, and whose po.
litical life hung on his curt nod, would
cluster.
One evening as the dinner crowd
was drifting along the corridor toward
the huge dining-rooms. Wanda noted
that the amen corner held but two
men. Both OF them she knew, and
both were very evidently awaiting Jim
Blake's return from the Capitol. More
than one passer-by along the corridor
nudged his companions and pointed
out the elder OF the corners two occu
pants.
The object OF these surreptitious
glances was fine-looking, rather
portly man of early middle age-thc
Honorable Mark Robertson, former
governor of New York. present repre-
sentative in congress from the same
state and-equally important-Jim
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Second St, w. s., Streator, Illinois.
Philadelphia, Pa. -"It was at tho
Change Of Life that turned to Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
using it rs tonic to build up my sys-
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Crioga) Phila., Pa.
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and thank the Compound for it rec
ommend it to young girls and to women
of all ages. Mrs. G. BARRIE, 3052
25th ST., San Francisco, Cal.
The success of Lydia f. Pinkham's
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II you want special advice write to
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Seer

SccT
He stopped before n blind peddlor
and bought n pencil, putting five
pennies into the mans hand.
How do you know these are cents
I've given you?" asked the purchaser.
well, sir, ! can distinguish the
touch of cents by my sense of touch"
was the blind mans prompt reply.
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pullu Wherever L
go. 1t has done mo
so much good at
Change of Life, and
it has also helpedmy
daughter. 1t is ono
of the gran d est
medicines for wo-
men that can be
bought 1 shall try
to induce others to
try it. Mrs. J. II.
CAMPBELL, 206 N,
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Puncturcd Happiness.

Miss Ethcl-Katc says she's weary
of living In a small apartment.
Jack Cara case of fiat tire, eh7
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THE WEEKS PLAYBILLS

NatfonaI-s'The Garden OF Allah"
1.-THE Garden of Allah,'' the wonderful
romance of the great desert and its en-
virons, will be the attraction at the Ma
tional this week.
The production may be considered as
a series of pictures distributed through
four acts and an epilogue. The most
important episodes of the original novel
were selected for the stage production.
which are these in substance, though
the original story is familiar to many:
Boris Androvsky is one, who, formerly
a member of a Trappist Monastery in
Tunis, escaped from the order to secure
happiness by means of some of the
pleasures OF this world. In the Hotel du
Desert at Beni-Mora he meets Domini
Enfilden, who, also unattended, seeks a
life of solitude in the desert, and falls
in love with her. She has friends, how
ever, in two visitors to the place-Count
Anteoni and Father Roubier. Boris
meets the lady at an Arabian dance, and
as she is alone, he offers to protect
her, which offer is declined. Finally,
however. he persuades Domini ITO marry
him.
They retire to the solitude Of the
desert, and in the course of time, follow
ing terrific sandstone, the count ard
Father Roubier arrive for shelter, and
they spend the night with their two
friends.
The count suspects that Boris is none
other than the Trappist he met several
years ago, and finally induces him to
confess his identity, promising also to
make the same confession to the wife.
The outcome is that Boris returns to
the monastery, penitent, and the final
scene shows Domni several years later
happy with her young child.
To Dorothy Donnelly and Lawson
Butt fall the two leading roles of the
play. The other members Of the cast
include Edward Mawson. Edwin Brandt,
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Frank Norris Jones i'm Recital.
MEETING OF DRAMA LEAGUE
PUBLIC LIBRARY APRIL II

AS a sequel to the lecture a few weeks
ago by Percy MacKaye on 1.-The Peoples
Leisure and the Civic Theater,'' the
Washington Center of the Drama League
will hold a meeting at the Public Lii
brary on Thursday evening, April Il, at
o'clock. to discuss peoples festivals and
their value for public educational and
recreational purposes. There VIII be a
programme of addresses as follows:
THE Folk Festival and Its Relation
to Community Life by Mrs. Glenna S.
Tinnin, teacher of dramatic literature
and director OF the suffrage pageant Of
March 3.
1.-The Eleventh Annual Spring Festival
at Neighborhood House." by Mrs. ]. P.
s. Neigh, of Neighborhood House.
THE Festival and the Schools" by
Miss Sarah E. Simons, head Of English
department. Washington high schools.
Rhythmic Training in Relation to
Physical Development and Music by
Miss Alys Bentley director Of music in
the public schools.
"a Field Day for School Children" by
DR.. Rebecca Stoneroad, director physical
training, department Of the public
schools.
Public Recreation in the District of
Columbia; How 1t May be Made More
Efficient from the Standpoint Of the
Fairgrounds by Edgar 8. Martin, head
of the District department Of play
grounds.
The meeting will be open to the pub
lie, and all persons interested are most
cordially invited. The addresses will be
followed by informal discussion.
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at chrysanthemum-he Eva's Salome-
what do YOU say?

at chrysanthemum-h Eva's Salome-
what do you say?
The regular season of the Columbia
Theater closed last night when the cur
laugh-maker, "A Night Out" The stock
ason of the Columbia players-sure
harbinger of summer-wili have its COM
mencement tomorrow night with but
three changes in the personnel of the
company, the most important OF which is
that of the leading woman, who comes
this year in the person Of Helen Holmes.
a San Francisco girl, who, despite a list
of stage experiences as long as your arm,
is little known to Washingtonians.
A. III. Van Buren's return to the Co.
lumbia Company after years absence
necessitates an equally interesting change
in the Poll Company. By a strange CO.
incidence Thurlow Bergen, the new lead
ing man of the, Poll Players, and the
new leading woman OF the Columbia
Players both hail from California, where
each is reputed to have a tremendous
and enthusiastic following.
Florence Rockwell, the young Shakes:
pearean leading woman with Robert
Mantell, who was accorded sincere ap-
probation during the Mantell engagement
at the Belasco Theater last week. made
sharp retort to Oscar Hammerstein,
who, speaking before the Womans Press
Club, of New York, decried the morals
of the men and women Of the stage.
THE stage can be cleaned of all its
impurities only through the efforts Of
the managers themselves Miss Rock
well declared in strong protest when
managers will cease encouraging sensa-
tionalism at the expense of ability; when
they will insist upon a degree of in
telligence and morality among the MEM
bers of their companies, they will find
the improvement Mr.. Hammerstein
claims to desire. Without in any way
agreeing with Mr.. Hammerstein, who,
being a manager, should be in an excel
lent position to judge the matter, I de-
clare that when the manager insists
upon responsibility he will have respect
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able companies but the initiative must
come from him. In the Shakespearean
companies there is a noticeable lack Of
suspicion in this direction, which simply
means that a successful portrayer of a
classical role requires a high order Of
intelligence, which in turn implies mo-
tives which are the cleanest and the
best.
THE people OF the stage have been
defending themselves for years against
Just such attacks as that made by Mr..
Hammerstein, and. so far as 1 can re-
call. no manager has ever come forward
with manifestation of interest in the
people who make his financial success,
nor a word in their defense
There is no woman on the American
stage who. by virtue Of her own high
order Of intelligence, is more capable of
suggesting a remedy for the mawkish
sehsationalism of certain branches of
the theatrical business than Miss Rock
well, whose protest is entirely just and
whose suggested remedy is both fair and
logical
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WOMAN RESPONSIBLE
FOR GARDEN OF ALLAH,

Mary Anderson. it is pretty well UNDER
stood by the literary and theatrical
world. has been the inspiration and pow
er behind the throne, so to say. in the
writing of the dramatic version OF Rob-
ert Hichens' The Garden of Allah"
which comes to the New National Thea
ter this week. Mr.. Hichens went to New
York and superintendent the staging Of
this notable production. and in an inter-
view the celebrated English novelist
acknowledged that the play would never
have been written had 1t net beaa tor
Many Anderson.
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WASHINGTON TO SEE
FAIRY TALE PLAY

Winthrop Ames' production of the fairy
tale play for children, Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs,'' dramatized by Jes-
sic Braham White from the famous fairy
story of the Brothers Grimm, has been
booked to play many of the larger
Eastern and Middle Western cities next
season. Among them is Washington,
where the play for children will be seen
early in the. winter.
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extraordinary in the largest theaters of
the country.
Gruet and Gruet will head the supple
mental features with their sketch, Sam
at the Circus Lloyd and Hayden will
introduce an exhibition of Novel Dances
Of the Day" Fossita will be featured in
selections on the characterization. OF
which ne is said to be a master; Made
lyn Nash will entertain with comedy and
song, and Ingliss and Redding are ex-
plotted as extraordinary laugh makers.
The Pathe Weekly Review, picturing in
ternational events of importance, will
head the film features.
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Lyceum-Dixon's Rig Review.

Henry P. Dixon's Big Review Company
Is to hold the boards at the Lyceum this
week. The vehicle used is Hickey in
Politics." and frankie Heath heads the
organization. Miss Heath will be seen
in the role of "Glorianna,'' a stranded
queen of a comic opera.
The dances, musical numbers, and spe-
cialties have been devised by Mr.. Dixon,
under whose personal direction the pro-
duction is presented. Conspicuous among
the men folks is Harry LIE Van, the
midget comedian. sg
In the way of original song material
there seems to be nothing lacking. There
are twelve different numbers, including
Beautiful Dream" Take Me Back to
New York. Come Down. Mister Moon
Man." 1.-The Girl Who Stole My Lovin'
Man Away" Somebody Else Is Getting
IT, Put Me in My Little Bed" THE
Ragtime Soldier Man. "Syncopated
Boosie Boo."- and 1.-THE Girl Behind the
Man" Friday night the country store
will be repeated.
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Casino-Vaudevillc.

With Selma Selinger, a. gifted young
Washington soprano, and La Chester. a
star in acrobatic and fancy dancing, as
leading features, the Oliver Comedy
Company, galaxy of talented boys and
girls, will be presented as the headline
offering at the Casino this week in a
musical -melange
Clara Throop, "the brainstorm come
dienne'' of the Tanguayesque type, will
be leading feature in a baseball mono
logue The Three Bittners, in their rural
comedietta, will tell the story of city
wait and how it drifted to home and
happiness through the 'fresh-air" fund. ;"
Price and Price will have an aerial trapeze
Offering; "Buss" Kelly, comicalities in
blackface, and the Ragtime Trio in rollick-
ing songs with instrumental accessories.
Three first-run photoplays of the CEN
sored kind are shown at each perform
arce.
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Poli's-Old Heidelberx. -

{ Thuriow Bergen, the Poll Players new
leading man. will make his debut at the
Avenue playhouse tomorrow night In
'old Heidelberg" the play which helped
to establish the immortal fame Of Rich
ard Mansfield. Mr.. Bergen will be seen
in the Mansfield role of Prince Karl. the
young German heir to q throne, who
comes to Heidelberg to learn something
of life at first hand. In the opening
scene Karl is seen as difident. retiring
youth. unaccustomed to association with
young men OF his own age, but in the
second act he is seen to have entered
with delightful zest into the student life
of the famous university city. He in
deeply IN love with Kathie. daughter Of
the innkeeper. and this romance gives to
his life rosy hue that he believes moth
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Sheridan Block. Jose Ruben, Frank
kingdom. and Florence Johns.


Belnsco-Mssk and Wig Club To.
morrow Night.
Maid in Germany" a typical produc-
ton by the Mask and Wig Club, will
be the attraction at the Belasco Theater
tomorrow night. This twenty-fifth an
nual production of the famous college
organization is a musical-~comedy in
two acts, with its locale in and near
Berlin, Germany. The book is by d.
H. Smith, scenario by Edwin N. Lavino,
and the lyrics by Charles Gilpin. who
has been responsible for so many of
the former successes of the Mask and
Wig Club. AS is usual with the Pro-
auctions made by the "Wiggers,' the
most brilliant feature is the dancing of
the girl chorus and principals. In
fact. Maid in Germany is said to
possess every characteristic of success
ful musical comedy-every type Of
character, riotous color personified, with
folly and fun supreme. The show is a
shade ahead of the minute in every
thing from skirts to slang.
The leading comedy role will be played
by j. H. McFadden, jr., who had a
similar part in last years Miss Helen
Of Troy" D. A. Hogan. Of last year,
eoAepHoho sHi ldiie' pays Clarlce, tHe
head manicurist; B. B. Reath will be
seen as the "vilIainess' Vadka, premiere
danseuse of the Russian Imperial Ballet;
X. 9. Morris plays Lydia, Montaine's
niece and beauty model; ]. B. French
plays Frederick Weber. D. E. Rorer,
as Gen. Weber; w. T. Towneley as
Hans Slick, c. H. Barnard and Thomas
Hart as Mr.. and Mrs. Sterling; w. M.
Wright. as Hulda, the German waitress
The chorus will appear as beauty
models, manicurists, sanatorium pa
tients, German military officers, John
MES. barmaids, Miss Muffetts, Eskimo
maids. men and dogs, Jack-in-the- Boxes,
&C. The elaborate costumes are said
to be not the least important factors in
the colorful success OF the production.