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could make something out of it, and you
see-I-can't."
"Who takes care of it for you now?" she
asked, a little puzzled, but sympathetic.
ooh, have Jap from the house-clean-
ing company an hour day to keep things
tidy, and get my meals at the hotel next
door to the store. It's handy-but l
don't enjoy it,"
at does seem too bad for such lovely
place to be shut up that way Elsie
examined the thought somewhat sadly
moment, then launched out resolutely,
with a child's smile: II can't imagine
having rooms enough. We're awfully
cramped here, you see. That's why I'm
trying to get some teaching to do. You
knew about my application, did you? I
wanted to speak to you this evening. I
thought maybe you'd help me-
At last, not without some regrettable
violence, Elsie had brought the conversa-
ton to face it's real duty. She had
wrested it at stroke entirely from Hum
phry's service. That habitual puckered
little smile of his was rather pitiful as he
looked across at her sitting there, still I'M
conscious.
"You don't want to teach school, Elsa,
he said very low.
81 guess I've got to, Elsie hesitated,
taken aback disappointed. "Dane and
Henrietta can't afford to have me just
stay at home and keep house for them y
with an appealing smile. II ought to help
earn money"
"Men are the ones to earn money, Elsa.
If nice girl like you would rather keep
house How"-Humphry seemed to
find great difficulty in articulatinglA
"how'd you like to keep mine?'' -,
SILENCE. How would she like to keep
- the Humphry house? A surge of rap
ture, the exquisite faith that comes just
before we wake from dream, showed her
to herself as housekeeper of that mansion!
"Could land not have to teach?
Could we manage it? Would it--lookfall
right? If Halle and Dana"
"Yes-yes-you could have them with
you. There's plenty of room. Oh, would
you come, Elsa?"
In her bewilderment she backed off a
bit. Humphry was up and had both her
hands in his.
what is it?" she breathed.
"Im asking you to marry me, Elsa"
"Oh!"
1t came too suddenly to be quite COM
pretended Elsie let her hands lie in his
and looked at him. She was quite with
out any sense of attraction-yet there was
no repugnance. With flash of inspired
wisdom, he said softly:
@The house needs you, Elsa, as bad as
do. If there's anything you
want changed about it, say
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the word; you can have it
made just to your liking
Humphreys gods were with
him so far, for he paused
- there. Elsie's attention was
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them around in the parsonage. But he
says it spoils bachelor to have too much
done for him; so l only get the chance
when there's guild meeting or some
thing
NEITHER Elsie nor Humphrey was maxi
ing any real Roadway toward the point
secretly aimed at. He sat and listened to
her prattle, plainly scarce hearing it. Once
more he sought to meet her glance, to
hold it; but again his own wavered and
fell. As he looked down and failed to
speak, the girl ventured overwhelmingly:
I'D just love to come over and pick
your flowers and put them into vases for
you any day you wanted me to-"
Humphry got redder than ever. He
sat so long studying those excellent shoes
of his and making queer noises in his
throat that Elsie concluded she had said
something wrong. OF course she was sew
enteen-not little girl any more. She
began to doubt her abilities as wire
puller. Maybe she would have done bet
ter to ask him quite simply for his infu-
ence. She wished Dana had stayed. She
was growing uneasy, when her visitor
spoke:
"Elsa-you don't mind my calling you
Elsa, do your" When she shook her
head, he went on: II wish you could come
up to my house and-and tend to things
there for me. That's what brought me
here tonight. I-well wish you could"
II don't see why can't" Elsie smiled.
"If you liked me we'll enough Hum
phry put in quickly his anxious eyes on
her young face.
"Oh-I do do like you," she declared
eagerly.
"Do you really, Elsa He reached over
and got hold Of her hand, the one that
held the bag of chocolates, and hung on to
it rather awkwardly. "Do you like me a
little bit?"
"Of course l do, she laughed, embar-
raised, and gently man9uvered her hand
free. You've always been so nice to us.
Why 1 never go into your store that l
don't get something given to me, whether
I buy or not. I'll come and pick the
flowers tomorrow; maybe l can have
some for the church. We're almost out of
white ones. and your Shasta daisies are
just lovely"
She was so pleased with the arrange
ment that it seemed little surprising to
have Humphry sigh and settle back in his
chair. The pathos of his eyes was un-
readable to her; only when we are old can
we know the grief of that look which is
sent after vanished youth.
take anything in the garden or the
house-Elsa. he said heavily. aid like
to give it to you-for your own. You
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up to San Pablo. She was awfully sorry.
Dana'l be in in a moment. Oh"
From the back room came the sound
of chair falling, as if some one had
jumped up and knocked it over; door
banged, a plunging stride went along the
hall.
"Oh!" Elsie finished lamely. Il guess
Danes gone out"
Humphry nodded vaguely, and again
put forward the paper bag. His face may
have been red from the walk up the hill.
This time Elsie took the bag.
"Chocolates!" she cried. "How did
you know that l loved this kind better
than any?'
Humphry smiled outright.
IL notice what you buy, Miss Elsa, he
said eagerly. II see you, whoever's wait
ing on you in my store. Taste those and
tell me how you like them. They're a
little .different-some drummer just
brought in to-day. If you say they're
good I'll lay in a stock. .----'
Gravely Elsie picked out brown cone
and set white tooth in it's edge.
"They're delicious she pronounced at
the first bite. :; - A.i r. a. - ...
@That settles it, said Humphrey. sI'n
give that Teller the order he wanted"
HE seated himself in the big Mission chair
= near the table, his feet wide apart.
Elsie, standing opposite, reminded her
self that she must use diplomacy. Here
was the president of the school board at
her mercy. Yet she mustn't just bawl
nryf ut hi
ton; so she moved the vase on the table
an eighth of an inch and suggested con-
versationally: :"
"Don't you love flowers? l think they
make house so much more homelike"
ayes, do" said Humphry; and, his
own enterprise heavy upon his mind,
added the instructive appeal: II don't
have anybody to put posies around in
my house now"
"That's too bad-and your gardens so
full of Them" Elsie's response seemed
satisfactory. The warm look she gave
him brought the little man up in his
chair, leaning over toward her, speaking
huskily:
"I've got pretty good garden, and
pretty good house, Miss Elsa" He tried
to look straight into her eyes, but before
her frank gaze, little wondering, his own
fell to the shabby carpet before him. He
cleared his throat distressfully, then con-
cluded with a rush, "All my house needs
is somebody to take care of it,
Elsie thought with certain compassion
of Mrs. Humphry having been obliged to
leave such dwelling, even for paradise
people you hire wouldn't care about
little things like arrang-
ing flowers in vases,
would they?" she agreed.
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not drawn to the granite fact that if
there was anything she wished different
about the master of the house it would
be rather late in the day to attempt
changes.
"Oh," she said. Then, ~The place is
just perfect as it is"
Men get things in this world by taking
them. Humphry put his arms around the
bewildered girl, and when she instinctively
ducked against the rough sleeve of his
coat, an awkward dab of kiss lit some
where near her ear That was about the
way Dana would have kissed her; but
Dane would not have held her so tight,
his breath would not have been coming
unevenly,S or his heart beating hard
against her cheek. Half terrified herself,
she wondered a little at anybody being
disturbed like that on her account.
"Then it's settled, is it?' Humphrey
urged in half whisper. a
Eyes," said Elsie. 'sT
THE first weeks of Elsie's engagement
went unbelievably well. Beyond doubt
Humphrey was afraid of his own success.
He let her alone as there could be no rea-
son for surprising that he wanted to do.
He made haste to enter into arrangements
for Dana's invention; he offered funds for
Henrietta's medical college term.
The ~ring-a big white diamond-natu-
rally, he should have kiss for it-why,
surely; most reasonable. Fathers and
uncles and elderly male relatives expected
to be kissed enthusiastically for much less
imposing gifts. Yet Elsie was aware of
a restraint in Humphreys demand. He
seemed willing to take her bubbling
thanks, and the heart-whole lifting of her
face to his, rather formally; he didn't kiss
her on the mouth, as she expected him to
do She liked him for it. Maybe he
didn't care much about kissing, anyhow.
1t was a comfortable thought.
In those days Dana was study. He
didn't quarrel, but he looked leaner than
ever, was more taciturn, and stayed away
from home great deal.
The invention gave him an excuse for
that. Now he had first-class place in
which to work on the model, room to
himself down at the Milling Company's.
Elsie stopped him once, as he was going
out, to ask him about it. He answered
in monosyllables, and when she said,
"Aren't you pleased, Buddy" looking at
him wistfully, he paused with his hand
out toward the hat-rack for his hat, and
asked, not looking back:
PLEASED with WHAT"
"Why-with everything quavering
little. Il am. I'm ver-ree happy"
"Hell!' said Dana, jerked the hat down
over his eyes, and walked out of the front
door.
ELSIE looked after him blankly. What
Humphry had done for her brother
was both generous and delicate-and
Dana hardly spoke to him when they
met Henrietta was different; Henrietta
was managing everything. She had urged
that they go to Bob Osborne and have
him draw plans for the remodeling of
Humphreys house, so that it might afford
a practically separate home for the Cros-
bys, when they came to live there after
the marriage. Elsie, with her big dia-
L.
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little things Ike arrang-
ing flowers in vases,
would they?" she agreed.
II love to. / tend to the
decorations for the
church. Sometimes Mr..
Cunningham let's me put
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l do. If there's anything you
want changed about it, say
the word; you can have it
made just to your liking
Humphreys gods were with
him SO far, for he paused
there. Elsie's attention was
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them around in the parsonage. But he
says it spoils a bachelor to have too much
done for him; so l only get the chance
when there's guild meeting or some
thing"
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met. Henrietta was different; Henrietta
was managing everything. She had urged
that they 60 to Bob Osborne and have
him draw plans for the remodeling of
Humphreys house, so that it might afford
practically separate home for the Cros-
bys, when they came to live there after
the marriage. Elsie, with her big dia-
mond on her finger, went with her fiance
and her sister to Osborne's studio to dis
cuss plans.
The young architect had never before
given serious glance to brilliant Hem
rietta Crosby's little sister; but Hum
phry's fiancee. by the bizarre match she
was making, demanded his notice. For
the first time, he received genuine inn
preston Of her appealing loneliness while
she sat silent looking wistfully about her,
and Henrietta very capably did the
talking
As for Elsie herself, she studied Os-
borne's big room, little bare, but well
proportioned, well lighted, its walls Jul
diciously tinted; though work-place, full
of livable charm, and tinctured by q
vigorous young masculine personality,
The angelic house began to seem bit
out-of-date and over-furnished. Yet,
when Humphrey, coming to practical ques-
tons with Osborne, appealed to her, as he
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10 the confer. .- Of tho grade q
Field Marshal IN the army of Prussia.
instead ~ N The German army and
TO emphasize thus King Louis Of IA
varia last uunmer appuinted his eldest
sof. Crown Prince Rupert. II his
brother. FRINGE Leopold. To be Field
Marshais " tho Hawaiian army. q
measure which excited NJ end u irri-
tatiop al Reran and at the head.
quarters ~ Emperor William.
The tSmp,uor himself has only been
a Field Marshal of the German army
since 1918. when on tho occasion Of
the silver Jubilee Of his accession 60
the thrvne and M his " suggcstkon
he was requested TO assume the dig
nifty by all his fellow scvereigns az
the confederation. IN presented him
with u jewelled baton. lie had already
prev gous thereto teen appointed to tho
honorary rank of a Field Marshal In
the Aus,ro-iiungarian army by I'm.
peror Francis Joseph.
Besides the full dress baton 81 MAr.
shall there Is likewise what Ia known
as tho Field Marshal's stick, or ''M-
term" baton. which il carried by the
Fcld Marshal when In undress uni.
form. II II n very fne maiacCa cano
about half M inch In diameter. almost
IA long as n hunting crop and tipped
with silver caps on which are mi
hsSssst tho imperial or royal artns.
II may t1 rccall~d that In nearly ell
the Bocr WAL pictures IN which Field
Marshal Lord lioberts appeared he
was invariably portrayed carrying an
his hands u short cane of this Kind.
trins tho only officer thus pictured.
The fact q the matter Ii that from
time immemorial tho stick or baton.
rather than the sword. has been the
emblem OF supreme military commN,d
and authority. In ancient times kings
and emperors on state occasions car
ried In their right hand not the swtrd
OF state but their sceptre. which Ii
merely a giorifed stick. and monarChs
In medieval times. even when fully
accoutred In battle array on horace
back. are how bearing the sceptre.
The great Duke Of Wellington is repps.
scented in paintings Of tho baltic ot
Waterloo as carrying a short canefin
his hand. heinz the only officer to doho.
II was not by Way of bravado. but
with tho object Of impressing the
'!ves with the feeling hat no WIS In
supreme command that Gen. Chinese
Gordon made "a point OF always HoFng
into action II leading his troops. frSt
In China n afterwards In the Sudan,
with nothing hut n mere riding cane
In hi, hand. Until the beginning OF
thu present war II was contrary to
military etiquette for any one sfva
tho general In supreme command TO
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his Generals. ministers and court
dignitaries. all covered with gold and
silver lace.
There are no Field Marshals at pres
ent In Russia. The last two command
ers to hold that rank were the late
Field Marshal Gourko. Governor-Gen-
eral OF Poland. and the late Grand
Duke Michael Nicholaiovitch. who,
when ne died. was the patriarch Of the
imperial house Of Romanon. Grand
Duke Nicholas Nicholaiovitch. who,
after commanding the Russian forces
on the western front during the first
year Of the war. has since been Vi
ceroy Of the Caucasus and in supreme
command In Asia Miner. merely holds
the rank Of General. which he already
rlled In the former war with Turkey.
just forty years 70.
England has to-day seven Field Mar
shals. including King George. The
others are his uncle, the Duke OF
Connaught. until recently Governor
General OF Canada: Sir EVELYN Wood.
Constable Of the Tower Of Lorly1 and
q Victoria Cross veteran OF the Crit
mean war and Of the Indian Mutiny
Lord Grenfell. who won hts military
laurels In the Sudan; Lord Methuen.
Lord Nicholson. who alone of his rank
has seen no active service. and Lord
French. commander Of the home arny
in England. General Sir Douglas
Haig will. Il n expected, receive his
baton in the near future.
The best known OF the Field Mar
shals In the Immediate past have hcen
Lord Wellesley. Lord Roberts and Lord
Kitchener. In England the rank ~
Field Marshal Of the army is assiml-
lated to that Of Admiral OF the Fleet.
who ranks above tho full Admiral.
The English Adm!rals of the Fleet
differ in this respect from the Grand
Admirals Of the German nav In that
they do not carry the baton Of Mar
shall.
In Austria-Hungary there Is hut
one Field Marshal. namely. Archdukc
Frederick. who since the beginning ~
the present war has been acting as
commander In chief Of all the armed
forces Of the Dual Empire. He is a
brother Of the Queen Mother ot Spain
and heir to all the colossal fortune Of
his uncle. the late Archduke Albert.
who had won his MarShal's baton on
the battlefield of Custozza.
Frederick's youngest brother. Arch
duke Eugene. commander In chief on
tho Italian front. holds the rank OF
Colonel-General. which Is one degree
above that Of full General. the only
other officer OF the same grade Us
Eugene being Baron Conrad won Hot
xendorf. chief OF the General stan
! and virtual head Of the war party az
Vienna. The full Generals in Austria
bear the title OF 'Feldzeugmcis,cr"
Master Of the Ordnancel when they
belong to the artillery. Whitehall Lieu
tenant Generals are known "a 'Feld-
marshal Lieutenant a title which is
being continually mistranslated abroad
as that " Field Marshal.
In Italy Scandinavia. Belgium and
Holland. and In the armies W the
Balkan States. the rank Of Field Mar
shall il unknown. although the late
King Charles Of Rumania had re-
ccived tatons from CAR Nicholas II.
and from thu Kaiser. while King Con
stantine Of Greece is n Field Marshal
In tho Prussian army NJ his brother
in-law. Emperor William. Portugal
too has dispensed with Field Marsha.s
since the death Of that wicked old
Duke OF S~aldunha. whom the late
Queen Pia on one memorable occasion
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WORK OF AMERICAN WOA1ENs WAR RELIEF FUND IN LONDON
CmSE been %@D During the Past Year. 203 Soldiers Have Bn Cared Emt It's khmMnlnx%mm mn~M

this workroom. Tho garments needed
AZ the American women's war hos
piial arr made here and the commit
toe receives orders on behalf Of other
hospitals and institutions. During the
year clothing has been madc for vari-
Gus orphanagcs, warn suits for send
Ing TO Belgium. babies outfits Tor ma
ternity homes and overalls for buffet
and hospital wear. Every worker in
the Victoria street workroom WAS a
proud on the day n letter OF
thanks and congratulation was ~
ce!vcd for the ncatness and expedition
with which An order for hundreds ~
thousands OF tricolor hidces for
Frances Day" had been turned out
For tho year ended August 81, 1915.
2.eel hospital garments and articles
wero made At Victoria street, and
$50 other garments. AZ the Isling-
ton knitting factory tho workers "
the fund knitted ny hand b?5 PAIRS Of
mems socks, 1903 warm bed covcrs from
the varlcgatcd scraps ~ wool sent TO
the fund by friends and zoo other
knitted garments
When orders fall short garments nrc
made up FOR hospital inmates and Tor
childrrn and are distributed ny the
American worncn's war relief fund to
the poor in Great Britain who are sur.
fering from the war. or To hospitals
needing supplies.
Among tho supporters or the work
~ tho American womcn's War Relief
Fund since Its inception are Mrs
Adnir. Miss Mary Ames, Mrs, W
Re.erson .A%rhuthuot, Robert BACON.
Mrs. otto Reit, Edward j. Bcrwind,
Y. T. Bird, T., Cortlandt Bishop, Harry
Black. Mrs, Bostwick, NJ. Raynrd
Brown. Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden.
Walter S, NJ. Burns, Lady Arthur Hut-
Ter. Mrs. Arthur *. Buxton, Lady
C'amoys, Mr., and Mrs, Andrew Carnc-
gle, Mrs. A.. =. carhart, &. 8, car
stairs, i. Ambrose Clark, Senator Will
lam a. Clark. Y, q. Glrn-Coats. \. =.
Cochran. Mrs, william Baynrd cutting,
Miss Mary Dodge, Anthony prcNcl.
Mrs, Anthony Drcxel, Mrs. John Il
Drexel, j. II. Duke. Mrs. Marshall
Field, Cameron Forbes, II, g. Prick,
Robert Goclct. Howard Gould, tho
Countess Of Granard, tho Hon. Mrs,
Frederick Guest, Horace Harding. Mrs,
Hartley, Princess Hatzfcldt. Lady
Henry, Lady Herbert, Mrs, n. V. Hig-
gins, Mrs, II. G. Hoover, II. &. Hoskirr.
Mrs. Archer Huntington. Mrs. II. II,
Huntington, the Misses l.ewisohn. Mrs,
Henry Lotus, Mrs. i.orlllard, Clarence
siackny, Mrs, W. N. Mcmillan, Mrs,
bradley Martin, Jr,, Mrs, Ogden Mills.
Mrs. Clarence Moore, Stanley MORT
mer, Mrs. I. I, Morton, Mrs, Charles
A. Mum, Miss Margaret V, &. Ogden,
Princess Edmond de rolIgnac. Mrs.
Whltelaw Reid. the Duchess OF Rox-
burghe. John D. Ryan, Mortimer
Schifr. james Slillman, Mrs, Edward
7. Stotcsbury. Mrs, Robert Straw
bridge. II. u, SRA wbridg". Mrs. Martin
Nogcl, Mrs. George Rlumonthal. Judge
Gary, Mrs. Edwin Gould. otto kahn,
Sir Gerard A. Lowther. Mrs. Frederick
w. Vanderbilt, s. u, Gugpcnhcim and
Mrs. Herbert l.. Ratterlce.
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.REAT good has been accom-
plished by the American wom-
ems War Relief Fund which

ems War Relief Fund which
was organized in London at the be-
ginning OF hostilities. A detailed ac-
count Of the results achieved during
the first twelve months was printed in
THE Sun last year and a second an
nual report has just been issued.
Tho fund has at its head Lady Pagct,
Mrs. John Aston. the Duchess Of MARI
borough. Lady Lowther. Mrs. Harcourt
and Walter s. NJ. Burns. The COM
mittees In charge Of the various
branches Of the work. include Mrs.
Walter H. Page, Mrs. Walter Burns.
Lady Randolph Churchill. Lady Henry,
Mrs. H. c. Hoover. Mrs. ]. Wilcox
Jenkins. Mrs. Reginald owen. Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid. Mrs. Robert Straw
bridge. the Hon. Mrs. John Ward.
Paris Singer. Mrs. Anthony Drexel.
Mrs. George Fox. the Hon. Mrs. Fred
erick Guest. Lady Hadfeld. Mrs, Cecil
Higgins. Mrs. Irwin Laughlin. Mrs.
Shane Leslie. Princess Edmond de
Polignac, Mrs. Cavendish Bentinck,
Mrs, Curtis Brown. Mrs. Alfred Clark.
Mrs. Lionel Harris. Mrs. I.oring. Mrs.
st. John Midway. Mrs. Edgar Rick
ard. Mrs. A. T. Stewart and Mrs.
Thursfield.
The most prominent feature Of the
work undertaken by the American
women is a hospital at Paignton, where
UP to the date of the report 3.203 SOL
d!ers have been treated. These include
2,al0 surgical cases and 500 medical
cases. and while the total number Of
dQnfha haa hoon nnyx, fhirsaan 2ln
cases have been definitely cured. the
soldiers being restored 10 good health
n either discharged on furlough or
returned directly to the army.
The average monthly cost OF run
ming the hospital, including all salaries,
food and upkeep. but exclusive OF
building improvements, has been $1l,-
453. the average daily cost of each bed
being about S1.44. These figures ex-
coed those of the previous year for
three reasons: first. the great rise In
the price Of all food and in general ex-
penses; secondly. the extra salaries
which fell upon the fund owing to the
recall OF American Red Cross units;
thirdly. in 1914 no patients were re-
ceived until tho end OF September,
therefore several OF the maintenance
charges covered eleven months only.
From the time patients arrive at
Paignton station until their discharge
from the hospital every expense IL
horne by the American Women's War
Relief Fund. no allowance being aiken
from nor any charge Of any kind made
upon the War Office.
An important branch OF the work
Undertaken by the American WOmen'S