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well, should like it-that is, you'd
telephone beforehand-she might not"
Telephone nothing!' l said. peggy
won't faint, and we can walk it in fifteen
minutes" | swung him toward the door
way. "How long is it since you've been
there?"
81 ought to have had my hat cleaned, :"
remarked Narrower, as we went down the
steps. "Why, ten years. was seven
teen, and she was younger than /"
"She probably is yet" | advised him.
"When | used to go up this same way
every night" he remembered, al wore
tennis shoes, and carried pumps in my
pocket used to stop in the summer
house to change. It's still dusty, isn't it?
| suppose we could have stopped for
shine"
WE turned up the hill to the left. He
recalled that, as a boy, he had turned
the same way when going in the same di-
rection, and seemed thrilled at the coinci-
dence. A stone wall, clump of larches,
a clearing where violets had grown-all
these affected him with memories, running
chiefly to pronouns and adjectives. Sub
sequently, as we came within sight of the
Ashtons' lawn, he spoke at length without
saying anything; and by this time l
realized that, although we had set out in
company, only one of US was going to call
on Peggy Ashton.
For few moments we had been aware
of motor laboring up the hill behind
us. Now, as a small car struggled abreast,
we saw that it contained two passengers
"a very young man and girl who was
driving. From the forward pitch of her
shoulders, she appeared intent on assisting
the car with all her strength; but, in spite
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of this gratuitous moral support, the en-
CINE took to pounding in outraged over
work.
ats going to stall!" gasped the girl.
IL knop it's going to STALL"
"Shift!" said her companion calmly:
and, when the motor gulped once more
and relapsed into silence thirty yards
ahead, he added without passion: Bone
head!'
Instinct told me to loiter. After ten
years hiatus in their acquaintanceship,
Narrower wouldn't want to meet her lust
after this Characterization. Somehow,
one doesn't center romance in boneheads.
So | lotered; and when the car had
sprung into life again, and curved around
the next bend, Narrower looked at me as
if had deceived him.
wasn't that Peggy he demanded.
"Who was the man with herr"
Brother assured him. "Don't you
remember Ted Ashton?"
"Oh!' said Narrower, and he laughed
cheerfully. "That's so-he must be
twenty-one or -two?"
"Eighteen-he's great boy! thought
you'd rather wait for little more for
mality-"
"Much rather-thanks. So that was
Ted, was it?'
zone of the best sports Knowles
great golfer
We turned into the driveway. Across
the lawn we could see the simmer of
white dress and of white flannels under
the trees; we could see wicker chairs
placed to catch the transient breeze from
the Sound; we could see the vignette Of
maids uniform moving from the house.
I THINK Narrower was in love with
Peggy from the instant he touched her
hand and made the startling comment
that it was some time since they had met.
And the novelty of the situation rose, not
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0VHE decade must have had things
all it's own way with Narrower, for
he had changed amazingly. In
- fact, when we first saw him climb
ing out of a taxicab at the Country Club
veranda, Starbuck remarked that there
was face that only mother could love.
Its anxious expression suggested that the
man had recently been bitten by some
thing and heard another buzz in the i'm
mediate neighborhood. Even when he
came up to us, and quite spontaneously
called Starbuck and me by name, we
weren't quite certain whether he was
process-server, or merely an acquaintance
of some distant relation of ours who had
told him to look us up when he was near
New York and we'd see that he had a
good time.
II guess you don't remember me?" he
said, with that quizzical pleasantly which
always makes the other fellow feel so
much at his ease.
Starbuck, bluffing nobly, said: "Why
shouldn't WEI"
Then there was fearful silence, until
some one tactlessly snickered. Ten min
utes later we were all down in the grill,
and Narrower was trying to show the
steward how they make Bronx cocktail
with pineapple juice in Honolulu; and
Henderson had already mentioned the
good golf he had played three weeks ago
Saturday; and Starbuck and had agreed
that, except for his hair, complexion, and
mustache, Narrower looked just as he had
ten years before, and that we'd have
known him instantly if he'd only taken
his hat and glasses off.
NOW, there are only three reasons
three logical and sufficient reasons
why a man of twenty-seven should make
pilgrimage to the town of his youth
after all his family have moved away; but
It wasn't until we had finished our remi-
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court. On the other hand, when the re-
action comes, in proportion to the sur
viving population the marriage rate may
not rise so high as usual, because it has
been forestalled, discounted, by the alb
normally stimulated war-bride move
ment. To be sure, many of the war
brides will then be war-widows, whose
chance of remarriage will be handicapped
by children to support. Even before the
war there was no dearth of widows in
Europe. Germany alone had over 2, $780,
600; and this sad host is likely to be
doubled if the conflict endures another
year. Indeed, the social statistician must
perforce calculate the post-bellum mar
riage rate on new basis: not according
to the total population, but according to
the number of manageable males. For,
if the unprecedented slaughter continues
much longer, the huge normal deficit of
men in the warning lands may be doubled
or even trebled.
The chances of the surplus women to
secure proper mates will not depend solely
on the number of surviving males Of mar
riageable age. Allowance must be made
for host of returning soldiers whom this
war, like all wars, in it's pitiless selection
of the unfit, has rendered unsuitable for
right wedlock. One should set aside the
moral, the social, and the physical wreck
age: the depraved, the diseased, the
crippled, and those spoiled for steady work
and the arts of peace. The stock of male
damaged goods will be large.
Will Womanhood Be Cheapened?
IN the coming sex crisis, then, will
womanhood be cheapened through the
keen rivalry for mates? For generations,
notably during the last half century,
women have been regaining their print
tive right of choosing. The ideal of mar
riage has been rising. Has the hand on
the dial of progress been turned back?
After the war, will there be an increase
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peace. Especially is this true Of woman's
share. Or perhaps the shock is felt more
keenly because lately we have become
more fully aware Of the true value of our
spiritual goods; of the fact that the war
is menacing the highest and hottest pos
sessions of modern society; that it is
squandering not merely the fruits of hui
man toil-food and clothing and temples
and cities-and vainly consuming ma
lures bounty in mineral and other
material resources, but also that it is
pitilessly wasting ideals. For it is not true
that war forces out and strengthens ideal
ism. War stiles the rising voice of race
brotherhood in the scream of Ernst Lis
sauer's @Hate-Song" and Heinrich Vie
rordt's homicidal frenzy. War recklessy
squanders the emotional energy displayed
in the courage, devotion, sacrifice, and
heroism that it demands; and it depre-
ciates the vastly nobler and harder tests
of these virtues called for in the normal
conflicts of peaceful life. War is the blight
of ideals.
"War-Brides" and "War-Babies"
THE European war, in more deliberate
and cold-blooded spirit than is recorded
Of any preceding war, is menacing the
basic social ideals that center in courtship,
wedlock, and the family: in the relations
of mother, father, and child. The modern
safeguards Of the marriage institution,
slowly and painfully constructed, are be-
ing torn down. The newer conception of
wedlock as essentially spiritual compan-
ionship of all life, resting on the mutual
choice of equals, is giving way to the car
nal or tribal view of marriage as child
breeding alliance to satisfy the Unsuitable
greed of the warrior state. More sons
must be produced, even if wifehood and
motherhood and childhood be sacrificed.
Never has there been such ruthless dis
count of motherhood as the movement
for "war-brides" and "war-babies" re-
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Simply a Streak of Luck

HVHE decade must have had things
all it's own way with Narrower, for
he had changed amazingly. In
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-29
BY Edgar g. Wheeler
Why should q wife want to
leave her husband, or a

iehve ner nusDnnO, or u
mother her children?
Il There is no reason" is the
answer of Mrs. Lydia Munee of
Tacoma. the first woman in the
state of Washington to be arrested
as lazy husband"
There are many reasons, >,
says the prosecutor who caused
Lydia's arrest. "But the chief
reason can be traced to the par
ents of our girls today and to the
speed of modern living"
Mrs. Munce, girl mother, has
not been punished by the law as
a lazy husband" Alex, her hus-
band, needed a mother to care for
his three little children. With a
warrant and an officer he went
to Seattle where she had gone
with 1.-The man next door," and
brought her back.
She has returned to the big job
of being a mother!
A Good Mother, Too.
why did | do 1t? l don't
know. There is no reason" is all
that she will say.
The neat little Munce home at
1913 South ] street proves the
girl to be a good mother, too. 1t
Is kept spick and span. The
children bear signs of having been
combed and scrubbed often and
hard. They are happy looking
children.
Lydia may be a 'lazy husband"
but she is not a lazy wife.
But there Is a distant look
in her eyes, as IL they had
seen visions of freedom from
the drudgery, burdens and
sacrifices of a home. There
are sober, set lines about her
mouth, as II she had learned
big lesson and had paid
dearly for II.
my husband and I are trying
to forget; we want to start out all
over again." she says.
II Lydia doesn't know why she
deserted her children, who does?
Deputy Prosecutor James w.
Selden, who has handled scores of
cases like Lydia's, is willing to
make a guess.
There was man who daZzIed
her eyes with visions of freedom
and a good time For a moment
she was blinded and forgot about
the job of being a mother"
But she is not wholly to
blame, any more than the many
other girls just like her are
wholly to blame"
4
Selden's records show that
i'm the last 10 months the
number of young wives who
have deserted their homes
and families has almost
doubled!
The reason for this startling
| increase? Here are some the
prosecutor gives:
Our fathers and mothers are
training the youngsters of today
to live at altogether too fast a
clip. You can hardly blame a
youngster for wanting to be on
the go for good time, can you,
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Two girls in his home town, 1t
is said, came to Chicago and In
June the Iowa man, visiting here,
called on them.
He had been In their apart
ments only few minutes when
the door bell rang. One OF the
girls answered 1t and in going out,
closed the door, leaving the man
and girl alone in the room In
which there was a bed. It Is asid.
When the girl returned from
answering the door, she was 40
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when the father and mother are
always on the go?
To-day our wants We call
necessities
Marriage, to a big proportion
of the modern girls, is lark In
which hubby supplies the funds,
and wife does the town. That's
what they expect.
Have Not Been Taught.
Many of our girls when they
marry haven't the least idea of
the sacrifices, the hard work and
the economy that marriage in
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wolves. They have been brought
up without any knowledge of the
economic conditions they must
face
"A large number OF them get
married, over-estimsting the abil-
ity OF their husbands to provide,
and Understanding what Il will
take to maintain a home. In
their search for a good time, they
have no regard for his earning
power.
THE stringency in the money
market has cut down the wife's
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-29
Tor her liberty

to make break for her liberty
at any cost
1.-THE opportunity comes. The
man next door entiees. She is
gone.
Her children demand that We
bring her back to care for them.
Society demands II for the pro-
lection of the home. Our lazy
husband law was framed to force
fathers to care for their families.
Why shouldn't 1t apply to mothers
who desert their children equally
as well?"
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allowance.
The high cost of food and pro-
visions doesn't leave pin money
for the wife after she mas con-
sumed the money for necessary
expenses.
with marriage. comes a rude
awakening. The girl wife finds
out for the first time what a big
job she has tackled. She chafes
under the restraint. She longs
for freedom and wants the good
time which has become a neces-
sity In her life. She determines
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-29
HOME TOWN SIRENS
ENTRAP RICH IOWAN
Goats

ton @. Clabaugh, federal inyesti-
gator. here today.
c. r. Wheeler and w. n. Jay,
attorneys for the Iowa man, ara
keeping his name secret until
after his daughters wedding.
which a 70 be soon.
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companied by two men, one, Of
whom said he was a lawyer.
The Iowan says he was charged
with violating the Mann act but
was advised he could hush up the
affair. He paid $500, II is said.
Later, the lawyer and the two
girls visited the Iowan's home
town and there extorted $4,000.
They are supposed also to lave
taken two notes for $1,000 each.
These are said to have been left
with lawyers with the under
standing they would not be ne
/ gotiated IL there was the slightest
hint at publicity.
| II Is said there was no viola
ton of the Mann act involved.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-29
LIFE, ONCE CRITIC,
PRAISES WILSON
Special to The Times.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 29-"Life,
the fearless oracle Of society. once
an unsympathetic critic OF VII
son, has seen the light. In the
current issue, out today, 1t ven
lures the opinion that Wilson Is
the greatest American progress
sive since Thomas Jefferson,
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5U1u r<ens Leased Wire.)
CHICAGO. sept z9.-The 9TH
no of khe story OF m Iowa
|<>cr mans alleged ei1tanele-
e. 1Efrorp6 payment Of 316. 900
~ mene<s rlH be told to Hin
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
INVESTIGATING G GOVERNMENT
 OWNERSHIP

WASHINGTON, Aug. Congress has created joint committee to make an investigation of the rail way situation in the United States. This committee kas also been in structed to report on the adVBa- bility cf government ownership of all or art of the biggest transcon-- tinental lines which run. across the continent.
 The Child Labor bill which is up fur the consideration of the sell ate is being opposed only by the southern members of the body. The opposition comes from the south eru Democrats, who infer that the kassage of such d law would work a hardShipl upon iEe various indus tries which demand child labor in the south.
 President Wilson Is anxious that the Child Labor bill pass in its original form and has his cO-work' CTS centering their efforts on the passage of the bill. Other import ant legislation Is being cleared thru the senatorial chambers and congress is anxiousIy awaiting the adjournment day
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
WHITE PASS CLUB MAKING INTERIOR
 IMPROVEMENTS

The past two weeks have witness e6 a transformation at the White Pass Athletic Club. The entire in terlor of the building has been re painted in an attractive light gray cClor. that portion Of the floor not covered by can Jas has been given two coats 'oT floor paint, the stair way qas been covered with. cork linoleum with brass finishing, a new FiDle runway covers the bal cony. and the reading room has been newly papered and painted.
 A New Gerard piano has been purrnased to replace the olf in strument which has done duty for the past fifteen years, and will be used at the dance tonight for the first me. Other improvements will be made in the very near future. and wher al! has been com pleted the members Of the club will have every reason 'o feel proud of this insT tuition which has meant so mulh to SkaSway in past years and W. ich will mean even more in the future.
 The officials cf the club are to l @ congratulated on all that has been accomplished within the past year. A year ago the club was nearly one thousand dollars in debt. Today every ceut of indebtedness has been paid, several hundred dol lars cave been spent in much need ed improvements, and there is still q balance in the treasury. The members of the club have stood by legally during this time of financial reJleuishment, anI in return the officers are doing all in their pow CT to make the club more atrac- tive.
 One o' the club officials todayr in talking with the AlASkan reporter said,
 The Club needs and solicits new members, and we can say without hesitation that new members will take advantage O all that we have t. offer them. Citizens who have an interest tu the community should join willingly. even though they may not use the Club to any great extent. It is an institution that Is Q God-seni, particularly to the ycUng men of the town, and we feel We are entitled to an even greater support than we have had lD the past"
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
CHOOSE TANNER
 FOR SENATOR

JUNEAU, Aug. 4-Special-Dhe Democratic Convention finished its political program late yesterday af- ternoon and adjourned. The plat form adopted by the delegates en- dorse Senator Sulzer for Alaska's delegate to congress- shows its faith ill Woodrow Wilson and all Democratic legislation passed by the national body.
 An economical administration 'of tine affairs of Alaska was advocat- ed, strong support for d community property law was unanimously Voic- ed by all of ths attending dele gates, ,aey oppose granting of fran chises 10 private fish concerns and advocate a code form Ol court pro- cedure so that needless expense will be done away with in litigation.
 J.. M. Tanner was the unanimous choice For senator. Those nominat- ed for the House are: J., J. Con- nors, Juneau; J. G. Bayles, Thane; Nels Anderson, Treadwell; W. w. Casey, Juneau, and for Road Su- pervisor, P. S. Early of Juneau.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
C.P.R.USE MOVIES
 IN BOOSTING ALASKA

The Canadian Pacific Railway Co. is laying deep soaled plans for a monsrerous advertising campaign of scenic AIaska- During the summer mouLus the transcOntlne-t- al railway line hus hired two moV- Ing picture experts to tatKe pictures Of every polnt or ihlelest of AL aska and the famous Yukon Terri tory l .I
 Representatives from tine Es- sanay Film Mig. Co.,, of Chicago having finished the work in the interior have Deen taking interest ing scenic views Ill the Garden City vicinity. The dredges working on the side creeks in the Dawson coun- try Werc snapped by tue movie men, the river boats, showing the crowds getting on and of% the White Pass Tourist trains, heavy freigh ttralns steaming over the summit and thousands of scenes which will appeal to the globe trotter have teen woven into the film service which the Canadian Pacific will use to advertise the great territory or Alaska. ...I
 Freeman Owens and Roy Spark two men detailed to do the work have mad experience in placing on the circuits advertising films for the santa Fe and other big lines operating in the states. Their ex- perience has taught them the art of choosing the most interesting and attractive scenes. The c. P. R. has especially requested that the true and representative spots be snapped so that misrepresenta- tion would be impossible.
 In the immediate vicinity the movie men have snapped Den yer Glacier, Dead Horse Gulch, the Summit, Bennett, Lynn Canal the roaring waterfalls around Skagway and other important and attrctive natural scenes
 The film service will be released thru the Essanay Film Co.,, and be flashed on he movie screens of every city throughout the United States and Canada. The railway company believes that it will serve two purposes, it will educate the general public on. true conditions in Alaska and the Yukon and be an incentive for added travel to this country. From here the operators will 20 to Ketchikan and take movies of the immense fishing in- dustries which. arc carried on in that section, of the country.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
OF TERROR
 VAS PLANNED

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4-Evi- dence placed before the county Grand Jury, which is in session. in this cit, leads 10 the belief that Thomas Mooney, labor agitator, and charged with murder in the first degree, had planned to inaugurate a general reing of terror all over the Pacific Coast.
 A fiendish plot to- dynamite towns all up and down the coast has been unearthed by the police and wit nesses attending the Grand Jury. The movement was to start in this city by importing of direct action agitators and reds from coast cities. Having accomplished their purposes here they were to move On to ether coast cities.
 Indictments have been returned against Warren Billings. ex-conVict, Thomas Mooney, laboI agitator, Mrs. Mooney, nts wife, Edwin Mo- Ian and IseraI Weinberg, with mur- der in the first degree in, connec- ton with the onlb explosion at the San Francisco preparedness par ade.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
RUPERT IN WITH
 IS TOURISTS

The Prince Rupert clipped 15 minutes off her scheduled time and made this port at 6:45 this morning. Officers on the boat re- port a splendid tnp up the inside passage and q most enjoyable out ing for the many tourists who made ne northern trip. One hum dref and ninteeR passengers made the Garden City call and a total of IA for the whole trip. It carried about 50 tons for this port. It wili cl"ar for the south at 6 ?. III. SatuId&y.
 A special pulled out from the docks loaded to the 'brim for the Summit and Bennett at 9:3O a. m. Sixty round 'trippers made the ex- cursion trin to the Summit and back |! 's evening On the in bound train. Six purchased tickets for the AIl;n ride, eight are enroute for Dawson and twenty two left for All of the round trip peTs will return in time to catch the popular boat out of this port tomorrow night.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
MEXICO ACCEPTS
 J. 5. VIEWS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-Carran- ga has informed President Wilson that he has named three cOmmis- sioners to sitOn the arbitration board which will try to settle the difficulties of the two. nations. Prest dent Wilson will make known his appoin+Ces some time next week.
 The Mexican heads seem favor able to the acceptance of the Am erican views and all that is lack ing now is the calling of the meeting and the threshing out of the details of the settlement. The commissioners who will sit on the respective boards will be- endowed with ful power to make a final settlement which will bindboth na- tious.
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
RENEW NATIONAL IDEAS

LONDON, Aug. 4-Every- town and village throuyLout England has or will hold meetings in commem- oration of the anniversary of the the European war. The organEa- tiou has been stared to renew na- tional ideas. It Is spreading to every p:ese of land oyer which fies the British flag
The daily Alaskan., 1916-08-04
ANA WILL
 MAKE SkAGWAY

The freighter Santa Ana, sailing under the colors of the Alaska Steamship Company will bring north the left oyer cargo of the Mampcsa. It is scheduled to make this DOT: on or near the middle of 7e mrnth. It will make the first trip of theSeason for this freighter in Lynn Canal waters.
 It carries a cr.w of 25. It is 1S2 feet long, has a 36 foot beam and uraws 12 feet of water A grocs tonnage of 1O50 tons is reg istered for the boat. It was built about fifteen years ago at Marsh field, Oregon, and has been supply ing cahneries and fishing stations for the better para Of the summer