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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

Dear Miss Grey: Being a
constant reader of your
items, and gaining much in
formation from same, would
like an answer to one little
question.
In playing eroquet, when
a person hits his opponents
ball, how many more shots
is the player allowed?
Thanking you in advance,
A QUIZ.
An the games 1 have played
wa always allow two more play
to one hitting an opponents ball
Whatever You agree on at tn.
beginning of the game Is all right
II You want to play according q
HOyie. the highest authority W,
have on games, consult him At the
library.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25
|CYNTHIAI
| GREY'S
LETTERS

Dear Miss Grey: have
read often In yoar column
and | would like you 10 try
and aid me = little. I send
you enclosed q letter I re-
ceived a few days ago from
q fortune teller In Europe.
and | would like TO know
what you think of IL. | do
not think much of IL myself.
but would like another's
opinion. IL you think Il II
worth further thingfng about
l will be guided by you. That
is. do you think il is worth
sending two dollars to this
fortune teller? Ii SO. do you
think what he would tell me
would be worth thinking
about further? Hoping you
viii put this answer in soon,
1 am, q. II.
A.-The method adopted
when tempted to spend my hart
earned money foolfshIy was Q,
repeat this old admonition Q,
myself; "a fool and his none!
ire soon parted"
YOu would better follow this Ia
regard to the European fortune
ieller.
1 know that fortune telling Il q
ietriment to those that put faitf
m IL. The AIl-wise reveals q
ZACH of us - much as we are ca
lable of understanding, and IL We
i've today the best we can. tomor'
'ow will be q little better for &C.
md so ON through our entirs
uture.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25
CHAPTER 1s9.
Copyright, 1914, by the News
paper Enterprise Association

paper enterprise AssOctatiOu.
II wish Harry could see you"
l said impulsively to Eliene this
morning as | watched her in the
garden.
She was lying in a hammock
and the twins were on a blanket
spread on the grass beside her.
Eliene was simply beautiful and
so girlish and happy-looking.
1t was the first time that l had
mentioned Harry to her, al
though ! had seen two or three
foreign letters addressed to her
on the tray where the letters
were left, but as she had not
mentioned his name l did not
feel that 1 might intrude upon
her affairs.
A vivid blush dyed her face as
spoke and she asked: "Why?'
Because you are SO lovely
that l am sure he would be
heartsick to think you unattain-
able" ] answered boldly.
II am not sure that | am I'M
attainable," she answered slowly.
What do you mean by that.
Eliene, dear?" was my question.
(You see, little book, that could
be understood two different ways
-Eliene might forgive Harry or
she might fall in love with some
one else.)
"Only that I a mso happy with
the children that | feel like for
giving all the world"
Don't you feel that Harry
has done the one thing which is
objectionable when he left you
for another woman" asked
somewhat cruelty.
"Margie, l don't believe there
is one thing that is unpardon-
able between husband and wife.
81 am quite sure that Harry
did not really intend to be wick
ed and l can see where he must
have gotten very tired of my con-
slant fault-finding. Harry loved
peace and selfishly sought 1t
where It could be found"
Are you still in love with
him, Eliene?" l asked very much
surprised at her calmness in
speaking of her husband.
II don't know, Margie. The
longer l live the less know
what love between married peo-
pie is. / was simply crazy about
Harry before l married him. Il
seemed as though would surely
die IL anything would happen
which would separate us. and
yet here 1 am happier than I
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25
Society

The Lakeside club will give a
Jolly little dancing party at the
pretty club house on American
lake this evening in honor of
members and friends. The dance
is one of the pleasant entertain
ments arranged for the summer
months by the clubs social COM
mittee.
Miss Genevieve Birmingham.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Birmingham, has as her house
guests this week Miss Louise
Raymond of Seattle, William u.
Uhquhart of Seattle, and Miss
Hazel Catching.
Miss Genevieve Wilson will en-
terrain at a thimble tea Satur-
day afternoon for 20 intimate
friends in honor of Miss Norma
Allen, whose marriage will take
place this month.
Judge and Mrs. w. o. Chapman
entertained at luncheon yester-
day for Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
sharpstein of Walla walla.
Mrs. Walter j. Thompson will
entertain tomorrow at her home
at Gravelly lake for the annual
picnic of the literary department
of the Woman's club. The club
women will leave town on the
car leaving 9Th and G streets at
$3.50 a. m.
Mrs. G.. w. Rounds. Sis North
Ainsworth avenue, will entertain
tomorrow afternoon for the Phil
achrista class of the First Metho-
dist church. Among the speak
ers will be Prof. Mabel Marsh of
the College of Puget Sound.
The Junior Day Nursery girls
had a jolly time yesterday in the
form of an indoor picnic and
luncheon at the apartments of
Miss Ava Jane Raze in the Rut-
land.
Mrs. Mcdowell of Seattle. and
her nieces, the Misses Fox of
Iowa, were dinner guests Tuesday
evening of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Birmingham.
Miss Jennie Porter, whose mar
riage to Frank Schwahn of Van
couver, B. c., will take place next
Wednesday evening, was guest of
honor at a miscellaneous shower
given yesterday afternoon by
Miss Laura Berquist and the
Misses Lima and Gladys Miller in
their home at the Malone apart
ments. The guests included init
mate friends of the coming bride.
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The Confessions
= of a Wife c

have ever been in my life, and I
am not sure that | shall ever
look upon Harry's face again.
Every day, as l watch the I'M
folding of mind In these babies /
have feeling that l am assisting
at a wonderful rite, that | am of
use in the scheme of things.
"Margie, I never had that
feeling after l was married.
never was necessary to Harry.
Yes, / know" she said
quickly as I tried to interrupt
her, the first few months of
marriage are like a sojourn in
an imaginary garden OF Eden
where the whole of Gods uni
verse circles around one man and
woman, but the angel with the
flaming sword soon turns us out
in the world of work, of care, of
multiplied temptation and you
know the rest.
'Margie, l have never yet
known a woman who has been
married over five years who has
found married life what she had
imagined and been taught to
believe II was"
But" / expostulated. surely
you know and have known many
women who have been married
fifteen or twenty years who are
contented and entirely happy"
Not 'contented and entirely
happy my dear, rather resigned
and comparatively happy-but,
my dear, every one of those
women has gone through the aw-
full desert of disillus1on. Some
traverse 1t earlier than others
and seme are left only a pathetic
heap of bleaching bones on its
burning shifting sands, while
many reach the other side and
are content to rest and not suffer
any more.
My dear Margie, not only our
ideas on the morals of sex are
wrong, but our sex education is
started from a basis and carried
on in a manner that makes one
blush for our civilization.
IT realized this the moment I
felt my heart go out to those
dear babies, they were as perfect
as nature could make them and
yet to the whole conventional
world they spell disgrace.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

Los ANGELES. June 25.-Re-
Gently the members of the alI-star
cast which produced Rex Beach g
great Alaskan romance, THE
Spoilers, were seen in the real
as well as the reel" Each was
introduced and said a few words
regarding the production of the
tremendous picture from in front
of the screen.
Bessie Eyton, a popular Los
Angeles girl, made her first pub
lie appearance on any stage. Miss
Eyton is a success as Helen Ches-
ter. Thos. Santschi, as the vii
lain, Mcnamara, and VIM. Far
mum, as Glenister, agreed that
they would not be careful in the
film fight and that a few bruises
and cuts would not make any diff
ference. They got a few days off
after the scrap, which in truth
was realistic.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

Miss Genevieve Wilson will en-
terrain at a thimble tea Satur
day afternoon for 20 intimat
friends in honor of Miss Normi
Allen, whose marriage will TAX
place this month.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25
AT THE TACOMA

Showing an entirely new pro-
garm of features, including the
Grand Canyon of Arizona, the
Lyman II. Howe Travel Festival
Will be seen at the Tacoma thea
ter for the balance of this week.
including Saturday matinee.
Among the other features of thu
new program which will be shown
for the first time tonight are:
Thrilling rescues of survivors
from an ocean greyhound during
q terrific gale: a conflagration OF
several thousand barrels OF oil:
an aeroplane ride over Paris:
wondrous forms of marine life:
a study in palmistry; yachting
off Monte Carlo; motor ride
through the French Alps and q
number of others, including the
ever-popular Lyman Howe funny
pictures.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

Dear Miss Grey: am a
girl IL years old and was
told that cherries caused
very bad diseases. l wanted
TO know for sure SO thought
i would write to you and
ask. Is it true7
Now, Miss Grey. please do
not throw this away because
am anxious to know. Please
put It in the paper as soon
as possib BILE. ANXIOUS.
Any dear child, cherries
are representative of Gods res
supply to ms, SO how can they b.
but good? Gods rea
supply is love, happiness ant
health. When you hear such re
marks don't believe them, and ri
the same time do not censure tn,
ones making them, for IL Is ignor
ance that prompts them.
he happy. hold all that il good
and know that anything that Il
not good Is not for you.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

You can get 81 reduction on
any pair OF shoes or pumps by
presenting the ad of the McDon-
aid Shoe Store at the store. Look
on last page today. adv"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

stitch or satin stitch and French
knots. The "cross-stitch" letters
are for working on materials of
canvas thread.
Use impression paper to trans
fer the patterns. other letters
will follow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

Any woman or girl who knows
how to sew can use these letters
for making towels. table linen.
handkerchiefs, bedding. or under
clothes.
They can be worked In outline
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

See the Battleships
Launch Fox leaves Belts boat
house, south side nth sc. bridge,
every half hons.
"Advertfsement.-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

Dear Miss Grey: Is IL Gus
tomary to kiss each other
when you are getting mar
ried? 1t used to be, but /
don't know If Ii Is now, or
not. Please answer my
question right away, as I am
soon to be married.
A GIRL.
Al am sorry TO say it is still
the custom among some peOpl,
for the officiating minister 9,
kiss the bride; the bride, tn
groom and all the relatives an,
intimate friends i'm succession.
wouldn't stand for it were 1 th,
bride, but everybody to hi,
liken," as the old woman sal,
when she kissed the COW.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-25

Dear Miss Grey: This is
the third time I've written
and twice before sent
stamps.
"a I wish to ask IL Edi-
son Is dead, and what is his
address IL not?
CD How does a detec-
tive manage to get his mail
and to answer? Can regis
tered letters reach him d.
rect, or is the registered
card forwarded him to sign
and return to his old address
before the registered letter
is sent direct to him?
Your advice and answers
are so correct | enjoy read
ing them, and Is so much to
be learned from them for
old and young. l am a sub
scriber and enjoy the paper.
VERY ANXIOUS.
A.-Your stamps were not re
ceiyed. do not remember
or not the letters were
Tor l receive so many there Il
often delay In replying. when q
stamped envelope Is not enclosed
people write they have
enclosed stamps and we find
none as they have forgotten Il
put them I'm.
DD The inventor Edison 4,
very much alive. Mail reaches
him at West Orange, New Jersey
(2) III "a detective is travelling
and leaves a forwarding address
the letter follows him, and the
official at the point
where he receives it attends tC
the register card.
The sun., 1914-09-13
BREAKS ONLY THE BEST.

THEH were preparing 10 move and
the mistress herself was packing
the china. She had reached a set
of bread and butter plates in which she
particularly dclighted-a simple white
and gold pattern Of exquisite hncness-
and ono was missing. She hunted
through the kitchen and half empty
pantry, ana as last resort unpacked
"A neatly closed box she had Just fin
ishcd. She thought of asking Delphinc,
the faithful old deaf maid but the effort
required to make her hear seemed too
great
Delphinc, however, whose keen eyes
missed nothing, when she saw her mis-
tress on the point of losing her patience
came over to her and explained:
"Ill have to tell you now. ! broke
one o. them things t'other day. I don't
break anything very often, but when I
do It's something Of some consequence"
The sun., 1914-09-13
] ] 7
Barbarian and Women.

War; and it takes eighty-four hours
to make a twelve hour journey from
the Alps To Paris; the cable is dead I;
the telegraph is dumb; letters go only
when smugglcd over the frontiers by
couriers; You look about you and find
you are in "A medieval and mysterious
world You stand amid the melancholy
ruins Of cancelled cycles. The mailed
fist OF war has smashed your world to
pieces. You do not know II.
The man you thought of as brother
looks at you with eyes OF passionate
hatred; you have eaten bread and salt
together; YOU have drunk together; you
have been uplifted by tho same books;
you have been subimed by the same
music; bue he is a German and your
blood was made in another land. and he
looks at you with suspicion and hate
The sun., 1914-09-13

THIS was early in The war. The sheer
lapse into barbarism had not Yet come.
soon the German newspapers an
nounCcd.
Great concern ~ expressed IN press
and public ut;eranccs lest prisoners Of
war receive anything i'm the line of
favored treatment. Newspapers have
conducted an angry campaign against
women who have Venturcd at the rail
way station To give coffee or food TO
prisoners Of war passing through; COM
manding officers have ordered that per-
sons 'dcmcdniug themselves 10y such
unworthy conduct are tu bo immc-
diatciy elected from the stations and in
response to public clamor official an
nouncements have been ISSUED tina; such
prisoners In transport receive only
bread and water"
And the French followed suit: no
"coddlng' Of prisoners; back to bar
harism, the lessons of humanity forgot
and savagery come again.
Civilization in the old world is
smashed. | have traversed the ruins:
and my feet are still dirty with mud
and blood. But I can tell YOU what
is going TO come out of that welter OF
ruin. There will come a sane and
righteous hatred of militarsm. What
will he surely destroyed Is Casarism
Prophecy? This is not prophecy;
am stating an assured fact. Even at
this hour of hysterical and relentless
warfare there lies deep in the heart Of
the democracy of Europe a consuming
hatred Of miltarism.
Drops Of water tor blood) do not
more naturally flow into each other than
did the English hatred of Casarism
blend with the high French hatred Of
tho evil thing; and when the palaces
have done fighting. tho cottages of Eu-
rope, from tho Baltic to tho Mcditcr-
rancan and from the Black Sea to the
llchridCs, will proclaim It's destruction
And You will sec 1t; you will SEQ
CWsarism drowned In tho very blood
il has shed. And the German, mark
yOu will not bc tho least bitter of the
foes of militarism. lie will be indeed
n relentless foe.
Reversal to barbarlsm, say you? A
shuddering lapse into savagcry?
quite true: that is the state of Eu-
rope over tho farest and most highly
civilized provinces. The picture of Sir
John French strolling mp and down the
battle line smoking cigarette does not
give n fair idea Of IT.: nor do you get
It from tho Kaiser on hilltop survey
forth patiently To battle; all that be-
longs to the picture books of war.
The real thing is dlrticr
The sun., 1914-09-13
III" breaking Point of Civilization.

.'i" VAS war. ana tho whole ma
cIn '' ~ CNll zatiou stopped
N'a"ru civilization Is the most COM
pos Wtchiuc imaginable; its infinite
c'II d wheels turn cndlcssly upon each
o'''r, and perfectly il accomplishcs it's
hH.uiarlous purposes; but smash one
N'.0' and u all falls apart into nuddlc
s1d rum. The declaration Of war was
I" 'NrustIuS mailed fist into tho in
Ut. iie works uf a clock. There WAS an
eN1 "i the perfected machine Of civiliza-
ton Everything stopped.
NAT Was queer world VIC woke in.
\ world that seemed new. so old 1t was.
Money had ceased TO exist. II seemed
- mat moment an appalling thing. |
"I' ON tho edge and frontier of a neu-
'". S'aic, ! had money in bank, II
'i-'d to be money. \ thousand franc
motto Was paper. \ hundred mark note
W. rubbish. British sovercigns were
refused at the railway station. The
swiss shopkoopor would not change n
SWISS note. What had seemed money
US not money.
Values were told in terms OF bread.
'' Nis swift and immediate return
= the economic conditions of barba-
.m Metals were boarded and where
i"ro had been trade there was barter,
ana u all happened in an hour, in that
h'-. n"rco panic of war.
Traffic stopped with clGng as of
rusty iron. Tho mailed fist had dis
."'l.l th" complex machinery Of Euro
traffic. Frontiers which had been
," n" landmarks OF travel became sud
HIy formidable and impassahc bar
ron, guarded by harsh. hystcrcal mcu
WI haNouots.
War makes mon brave and Coura =
'r? Euhbish' II fills them with the
'."'' of hyStcria and tho panic of the
u1Nu'wn. ! am not talking ,f battle,
N.I'h Is different thing But | say
w" men who guarded the German from
N"r and I darcsay every other from
''f- In the first stress ,of war. were
"''n'hcd and shaken with vcritable
"'-l'rli. At Saint Ludwig and Con-
'-0'" those husky soldiers in iron
'-"'E, with shaved heads and boards
'' " Standing ears. fell into sheer
'-'IN not hrcauSe they were bad
So\'-" men, but simply because
The sun., 1914-09-13

raNas"d tl- ,p.lH-r. OF N.Sd,e vas
your brother and mine. and the Mag
var beyond the Danube and the Cossack
at kovna. only they had gone back to
the terrors OF the man who dwet in a
cave.
Traffic stopped; and when It stopped
civilization fell away from the travellers.
That was strange. Take the afternoon
Of the day war was declared, the date
being August /. in the year Of our Lord
1914 and the hour 80 T. NJ. Berlin
time. II was the las train that reached
the frontier from Paris. Between Dele
ana Bicourt lies neutral zone about
three kilomctcrs- nearly two and
a half mllcs-ln extent on one side
France and invasion and terror and
war. on the other side of the zone the
relative safety of Switzerland. Six hun
drcd passengers poured out of the French
train at noon into that neutral zone and
started to walk to Swiss safety. a blaz-
ing August sun: road of pebbles and
singing, uptown dust.
The passengers had been permitted to
bring on the train only what luggage
they could carry; 50 they were laden
with bags and coats. dressing bags and
jewel cases-all they had deemed most
valuable. Mostly women German la
dies fleeing for refuge; Russian ladies'
, English, American: and a crowd of men,
urgent to reach their armies, German.
Swiss, Russian, Austrian, Servian. Ital-
ian; withal. many Of the kind of Ameri
can men who so to Switzerland in Au-
gust.
And the caravan started in the dust
and heat of a desert. A woman let fall
her heavy bag and ploddcd on. An
other threw away her coats. Men shook
off their bundles. Tho heat was stif'ing.
And through tho clouds Of dust panic
terror crcpt II was the antique terror
, of the God pan--thc God All Il was a
fear as immense az the sky.
woman screamed and began 10 run,
throwing away everything she had safe
guarded SO she might run with empty
hands. \ score followed her. Men
began to run. They thrust the women
! aside, cursing; and ran. And for over
, two miles the road was covered thick
with coats and bags, with packages and
jewel cases. Tho greed OF possession
! died out in the causelcss fear.
These hoarse, pushing men, these
/ sweating shameless women had gone
back ten thousand years into prehistoric
+ savagcry. Lightly they threw away all
| the baublcs and gewgaws civilization
had fashioned for adorning and dis
gulsing their raw humanity, and the
] habits of civilization as well.
They had touched but the outermost
edge of war, and their very clothes
| fell off them,
The sun., 1914-09-13
SWIFT REVERSAL TO BARBARISM
WHEN WAR CAME IN AN HOUR

sity has always been the tyrants plea;
1t IL the business of a soldier to kill
and torrifv: If hc restricts his killing and
terrifying lac is "A bad soldier and bad at
his work of barbarism; but
There Is n more sinister side to
Europc's lapse into barbarism. The
women are paying too. dear. And to
make them pay dear is not really the
business Of soldier. not even bad
soldier. Yet the woman Is paying, God
knows. a tragic payment.
The sun., 1914-09-13
Vance Thompson Tells How the Machinery of European
Civilization Stopped Suddenly Scenes of Hvseria in
Germany, of Panic on the Frontier-.- Those on
Whom the Real Stress of War Falls

they we're hysterlcal. The fact is worth
noting
II explains many bloody and in
Famous deed in the tragic history of
sad Alsacc and Of little Belgium The
war hcgott"n reversal to savagcry
brought with 1t all the hysterla of the
savage man. The sentries at St. Lud-
WIG struck with muskets and sabres
because they were hystercal with
terror of the new. unknown state int,
which they had been plunged not be-.
cause they were not men like YOU ano
me. surely the savage Uhlan VIII,
The sun., 1914-09-13

perhaps you are spy (The spy
mania! Dear Lord. what absurd. bloody
and abominable stories could write of
this madness which has Europe by the
throat, this madness which is only an
other form of war hysteria) \ re-
versdl To barbarisn You and the man
who was your friend have gone back
to the fear aud hatred uf primitive
savages. meeting at the corner Of a
dark wood. All of humanity We have
cquircd in the slow way Of evolution
sloughs off us.
We are savaSes once more. For