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| the vast majority of women can bea1
children, the only women who coul(
get well paid for it, would be those
exceptionally qualified, or exception
ally proficient. This is economics
now, we're talking. Other considera
tions are left out. No, tell you
economic independence, if she really
got it-the kind of woman I've been
talking about-would make her very
sick"
"She'd get over being sick, though
wouldn't she," said Rose, "after
awhile? And then don't you think
she'd be glad?"
Rodney laughed. 'aThe sort Of wom-
an I've been talking about" he said
would feel, when all is said, that
she'd got gold brick"
Rose poured his coffee with q
steady hand. They were in the library
now.
eff that's so," she said, "then the
kind of woman you've been talking
about has already got a profession.
AS Doctor Randolph says, she's cashed
in on her ankles. But maybe you're
mistaken in thinking she wouldn't
choose something else if she had a
chance. Maybe she wouldn't have
done it, except because her husband
wanted her to and she was. in love
with him and tried to please. You
can't always tell.''
1t was almost her first contribution
to the talk that evening. She had
asked a few questions and said the
things a hostess has to say. The
surprise.
But surprise was not the only eff
feet she produced. Her husband had
never seen her look just like that be-
fore. The flash in her eyes, the splash
of bright color in her cheeks, the ex-
citing timbre of her voice, was new
to him and very alluring.
Barry saved him the necessity of
trying to answer, by taking up the
cudgels himself. Rodney didn't feel
like answering, nor, for the moment,
like listening to Barry. His interest
in the discussion was eclipsed, for the
moment, by the thrill and wonder of
his wife's beauty. For the next half
hour she matched wits with Barry
Lake very prettily.
When Jane declared that they must
go, her husband protested.
81 haven't managed yet to get a
word out of Rodney about any of his
things. I want to know how far you've
come along with your book on Actual
Government l want the whole thing.
Now"
"Ive had my fling" said Rodney,
with a sort of embarrassed good hu-
NOR. "There are no more intellectual
wild oats for me. Have you forgotten
you're talking to a married MANI"
On learning their determination to
walk downtown, he said he'd go with
them part of the way. Would Rose
go, too? But she thought not.
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Roddy-not tonight! I can't stand II
to have you touch me tonight"
He stared at her, gave shrug OF
evaporation, and then turned away.
"You are angry about something
then," he said. II thought so when
first came in. But, honestly, I don't
know what it's about"
"Im not angry" she said, as stead
lily as she could. She mustn't let 1T
go on like this. They were getting
started all wrong somehow. "You
didn't want me to touch you the night
when came to your Office, when you
were working on that case. But it
wasn't because you were angry with
me. Well, I'm like that tonight.
There's something that's got to be
thought out. Only I'm not like you.
can't do it alone. I've got to have
help. I don't want to be soothed, and
cOmforted like child, and / don't
want to be made love TO. just want
to be treated like human being"
II see," he said. Very deliberately,
he lighted a cigarette, found himself
an ash tray, and settled down astride
spindling little chair. "All right" he
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wouldn't answer. He didn't want te
talk to anybody. But no one can re
sist the mechanical bell ringers they
use in exchanges nowadays-the even
spaced ring and wait, ring and wait
so manifestly incapable of discourage.
ment. At the end of forty-fve sec
onds, he snatched open his door
punched the jack into it's socket
caught up the head piece, and bel.
lowed "Hellow into the dangling
transmitter.
And five minutes later he was call.
to this! Barry Lake and his wife are
here. He just called up. They got in
from New York at five o'clock, and
I've asked them out to dinner.-Barry
Lake and Janet What's the matter?
Can't you hear mef Why,
they're about the best friends I've
got. The magazine writer, you know,
and his wife. And they're coming out
to dinner-coming right out. 1 told
them not to dress. I'll come straight
home myself-get there before they
do, I guess. All right! Good
by!"
But he sat there frowning in a puz-
zled sort of way for half a minute.
Roses voice had certainly sounded
queer. He was sure she hadn't
planned anything else for tonight. He
distinctly remembered her saying just
before he left for the office, that they'd
have the evening to themselves. And
it was incredible that she minded, his
bringing home two old friends like
the Lakes on the spur of the moment,
to take pot-luck. Oh, well, you
couldn't tell about peoples voices over
the phone. There must have been
something funny about the connection.
An opportune taxi just passing the
entrance to his Office building as he
came out, enabled Rodney to better
the fifteen minutes he'd allowed for
getting home. But in spite of that
fact, he found Rose rather splendidly
gowned for her expected guests.
"Good gracious ~ he cried excitedly.
"What did you do that for? I thought
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VOLUNTEER FOR GOOD ROADS
We Can Have Anything Good If We
viii Get Together and Work
Hard for Desired End.

Why, bad roads, even, is a moral
question. Why should men wade in
mud and punish their beasts when
they have the power to prevent itf
1t is moral in that we fail to use to
advantage the powers and possibili-
ties that God has given us, writes r.
F. Beasley in Progressive Farmer.
We can have good roads if we will.
We can have any good thing if we
will-communities acting together.
Half a dozen men could volunteer to
delegate themselves as leaders in a
good roads movement and the people
soon would follow them.
A million volunteers will rush to
arms to shoot down a million others
who have done them no harm; why
should not some volunteer to be lead
ers in the romances of peace and
progress?
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Bad Roads 4 Hindrance.

Poor roads are bar to better mar.
kets, better schools, better churches
better living.
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said. 'Now, come on with your trou-
bles." He didn't say little troubles, -
but his voice did and his smile.
Rose steadied herself as well as she
could. We've made a horrible mis-
take" she began. II don't suppose it's
either of our faults exactly. It's been
mine in way, of course, because it
wouldn't have happened if I hadn't
been-th oughtless and ignorant. ]
might have seen it if I'd thought to
look. But didn't-not really, until to-
night"
He wanted to know what the mis-
take was. He was still smiling in
good-humored amusement over her
seriousness.
'It's pretty near everything" she
said. you've hated the way we've
lived-the way this house has made US
live. haven't liked it, really. But 1
never stopped to think what it meant"
"What it does mean," he said, with
a good deal of attention to his ciga-
rette, sis that things are desirable to
me now, because am in love with you,
that weren't desirable before. I don't
see anything terrible about that"
"There isn't" she said, "when-
when you're in love with me. But you
aren't in love with me all the time.
And when you aren't, you must hate
me for what I've done to you"
His face flushed deep. He sprang
to his feet and threw his cigarette into
the fire. "That's perfectly outrageous
nonsense" he said. 81 won't listen
to it."
'If it weren't true" she persisted,
"you wouldn't be excited like that. If
1 hadn't known it before, I'd have
known it when I saw you with the
Lakes. You can give them something
you can't give me, not with all the
love in the world. never heard about
them till tonight-not in a way I'd re-
member. And there are other people
you spoke of some of them at din
ner-who are living here, that you've
never mentioned to me before. You've
life; to go to dances and the opera
and things with me. You did it be-
cause you loved me, but it wasn't fair
to either of US, Roddy. Because you
can't love me all the time. 1 don't
believe a mana real man-can love
a woman all the time. And if she
makes him hate her when he doesn't
love her, he'll get so he hates loving
her,"
You're talking nonsenseI" he said
again roughly. He was pacing the
room by now. ''Stark, staring nom
senseI I've never stopped loving you
since the first day we walked together
And I should think I'd done enough to
prove it."
That's it." she said. you've done
90 much. And you're so sorry for
me when you don't love me, that 1t |
makes you do all the more"
She had found another joint in his |
lrmor. She was absolutely clairvoy-
int tonight, and this time he fairly
ried out: "Stop it"
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CHAPTER XII.
A Defeat.

The gown which Rodney had spoker
of apologetically as coronation robe
was put away; the maid sent to bed
Rose, huddled into big, quilted bath
robe, and in spite of the comfortable
warmth of the room, feeling cold clear
into the bones-cold and tremulous
and sure that when she tried to talk
her teeth would chatter-sat waiting
for Rodney to come back from seeing
the Lakes part way home.
She gave a last panicky shiver
when she heard his latchkey, then
pulled herself together.
"Come in here, Roddy," she called
as he reached the head of the stairs.
II want to talk about something"
He had hoped, evidently, to find her
abed and fast asleep. His cautious
footballs on the stairs made clear his
intention not to waken her. "Oh, I'm
sorry" he said, pausing at the door to
her dressing-room, but not coming in.
81 didn't know you meant to sit up
for me.s If I'd known you were wait
ing, I'd have come back sooner"
II haven't minded" she told him.
"I've been glad of a chance to think.
But now oh, please come
in and shut the door!"
He did come in, but with manifest
reluctance, and he stayed near the
door in an attitude of arrested de-
parture. It's pretty late" he pro-
tested with nonchalance that rang
a little fiat. "You must be awfully
tired. Hadn't we better put off our
pow-wow?"
She understood well enough. The
look in her face, some uncontrolled
infection in her voice she had meant
to keep so even, had given her away.
He suspected she was going to be
tragic" If he didn't look out, there'd
be a "scene."
1--WE can't put it off," she said. II
let you have your talk out with the
Lakes, but you'll have to talk with me
now"
'We spent most Of the time talking
about you anyway" he said pleasant
y. They're both mad about you.
You were a perfect miracle tonight,
1arling, when they were here. But
low, like this :" He came over
% her with his arms out.
But she cried out "Don't!" and
vprang away from him. @Please don't
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PROPER WORKING OF A DRAG
Rules From Highway Magazine Tell
How to Get Best Results-Drag
Whenever Possible.

If dirt road is properly built, the
road drag will keep it in good con-
dition. Like any other work there
is best way to do it. These rules
from the Highway Magazine, tell how
to get the right results.
'Use a light drag.
s'Haul it over the road at an angle
so that small amount of earth is
pushed toward the center of the road.
'Drive a team at walk.
"Ride on the drag; do not walk.
'fBegin at one side of the road, re-
turning up the opposite side.
'Drag the road as soon after every
rain as possible, but not when the mud
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is in such condition as to stick to the
drag.
'Do not drag a dry road.
"Drag whenever possible at all sea-
sons of the year.
"The width of the Travelled way to
be maintained by the drag should be
from IS to 20 feet; first drag a little
more than the width of single wheel
track, then gradually increase until de-
sired width is obtained.
always drag little earth towards
the center of the road until it is raised
from 10 to II inches above the edges
of the Travelled way.
eff the drag cuts too much, shorten
the hitch.
"The best results for dragging are
obtained only by repeated applica-
ton"
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ARMY ENLISTING ROAD MEN
Corps Of Thoroughly Experienced spe-
ciaIists in Constructing Work
Being Organized.

Enlisted men with a knowledge Of
road building are being recruited in
the engineer reserve corps of the
United States army. This is the corps
Of experienced men which is being or
ganized as reserve body Of thorough
ly trained specialists in every branch
of construction work
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(To BE CONTINUED
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iTyiHA " rIStP ooeh VI sHSih Wv VI
Their Wraps at Once.
I told you over the phone the Lakes
weren't going to DRESS"
II was-dressed like this when you
telephoned," Rose said. "And I was
afraid there wouldn't be time to
change into anything else"
"We weren't going anywhere, were
we?" he asked. There's nothing I've
forgotten?"
mo-" she said, 1--WE weren't going
anywhere"
"And you dressed like that just for
a-treat for met"
She nodded. "Just for you," she
said. "Roddy, who are the Lakes?-
Oh, know his articles, think. But,
where were they friends of yours, and
when?"
"Why, for years, until they moved
to New York. They used to live here.
I know / must have told you about
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Obtain Best Results

Best results are obtained by drag
ging the road as soon as possible after
each rain.
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Measure Community Value.

The roads furnish a yardstick to
measure the value of any community.
A settled country that is not worth q
good road is not worth living In.
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PUZZLES HER HUSBAND-AT FIRST HE THINKS
SHE'S PEEVISH, BUT SHE IS NOT.

Rodney young
instantly taken Chicagos
exclusive social the whr of the rich folks
first few months
feel that living
butterfly ornament
something
and utilize her talent education
about himself thinks
his wife
study social service of
following
satisfactorily this problem
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1917-11-16
ALLEGED WOMAN
FAXED RosssRiEs
Houston Man in Divorce Petition Asks
For CUSTODY Of Their Child

Houston, Tex. Mrs. Mary Nc.
Kaskle, a bride ef~two months. has
been sued by Clarence w. McKaskle
for divorce. At the same time and
In the same court former husband
sued her for the possession of their
misunderstanding.
Mrs. McKaskle Is a beautiful young
woman whose recent performances
have had Houstons police force
guessing. She has reported five sue
cessive burgiaries in the McKaskle
home in as many weeks. All these
burglares were alleged TO have taken
place in the daytime, and on one
occasion Mrs. McKaskle was found in
AZ fainting condition from apparent
fright. she having called her husband
by. telephone from his work in the
Union National Bank. The furniture
was thrown around in a promiscuous
fashion, there were stains looking
like blood about the floor and an
Overturned bottle of carbolic acid was
found which Mrs. McKaskle asserted
a burglar attempted to force down
her throat
McKaskle alleges in his petition for
divorce that his wife developed
ideas without a parallel In human
history. ideas of imaginary murders.
suicides, burglaries and other crimes
frequently possess Mrs. McKaskle."
reads the petition for divorce. IF she
rehearses a sensational burglary. she
poses and plays as the victim, pre-
tends to lose valuables, to have been
knocked down, i'll treated and abused.
"The vulgar gaze of curious public
was trained upon the privacy OF our
home when the daily newspapers OF
Houston published glazing headlines,
such as: Bride, 10. Found in a Faint
Says Man Sought Her Life
When the police discovered that
the supposed burglaries had not been
committed, Mrs. McKaskle was quot.
ed as saying she was merely testing
the love of her husband for herself.
Parents of Mrs. McKaskle declared
that the bride had pawned jewelry TO
purchase necessary supplies and had
then resorted 10 what amounted to
mere practical jokes.
The suit filed for the custody OF
the child by the former husband. J.
Russell Winston, also asks for an in
junction restraining Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence McKaskle from removing
from Harris County, Texas, Frances
Rebecca Winston, Is months of age.
The child had been awarded to her
custody at the time she was divorced
from Winston last September. one
month before she married McKaskle.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1917-11-16
GRANDMA USED SAGE
TEA TO DARKEN HAIR
She mixed Sulphur with it to
Restore Color, Gloss,
Youthfulness.

Common garden sage brewed into q
heavy tea with sulphur added. will turn
gray, streaked and faded hair beautifully
dark and luxuriant. Just few appliea.
tions will prove a revelation il your hair
is fading, streaked or gray. Mixing the
Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe at home,
though, is troublesome An EASIER way Is
to get a 50.ceut bottle of Wyeth's Sage
and Sulphur Compound ut any drug store
all ready for use. This is the old time
recipe improved by the addition OF other
ingredients. ...,.a
While wispy, gray, faded hair is not
sinful, we all desire to retain our youth
full appearance and attractiyeness BY
darkening your hair with Wyeth's Sage
and Sulphur Compound no one can tell.
because il does it so naturally, so evenly.
You Just dampen sponge or soft brush
with it and draw this through your hair,
taking one small strand at a time; hy
morning all gray hairs have disap geaicd,
and, after another applications N two,
your hair becomes beautiful ltss dark,
glossy. soft and luxnriani.
This preparation is a deliahtinl -t,slet
requisite and is not intended for tie cure,
mitigation or prevention OF diS-ase.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1917-11-16
HAVE ROSY CHEEKS
AND FEEL FRESH AS
A DAISY--TRY THIS!
Says glass OF hot water with
phosphate before breakfast
o. washes out poisons.

To see the unge OF healthy bloom
In your face, TO see your skin get
clearer and clearer, to wake up with
out a headache, backache, coated
tongue or a nasty breath. in fact TO
feel your best, day In and day out, Just
try inside-bathing every morning for
one week.
Before breakfast each day, drink q
glass OF real hot water with teaspoon
full OF limestone phosphate in IL as a
harmless means OF washing from the
stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the
previous days indigestible waste,
sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action OF
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach is wonderfully In
migrating. IL cleans cut all the sour
lamentations, gases and acidity and
gives one a splendid appetite for break
fast.
A quarter pound of limestone phos-
plate will coat very little at the drug
store but Is sufficient TO demonstrate
that Just as soap and hot water
cleanses, sweetens and freshens the
skin, so hot water and Limestone phos-
plate act on the blood and internal or
gans. Those who are subject to con-
stipation, bilious attacks. acid stomach,
rheumatic twinges, also those whose
skin II sallow and complexion pallid,
are assured that one week OF inside
bathing will have them both looking
and feeling better In every way.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1917-11-16
EAT LESS AND TAKE
SALTS FOR KIDNEYS
Take q glass Of Salts before breakfast
ifyour Back hurts or Bladder
bothers you (

The American men and women must
guard constantly against Kidney trouble,
because we eat too much and all our food
is rich. Our blood is filed with uric
acid which the kidneys strive to filter
out, they weaken from overwork, become
sluggish; the eliminative tissues clog and
the result is kidney trouble, bladder
weakness and general decline in health.
When your kidneys feel like Jumps Of
lead; your back hurts or the urine is
cloudy, full of sediment or you are
obliged to seek relief two or three times
during the night; If you suffer with sick
headache or dizzy, nervous spells, acid
stomach, or you have rheumatism when
the weather is bad, get from your phar-
macist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful in q glass of
water before breakfast for q few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the acid
of grapes and lemon juice, combined with
lithia, and has been used for generations
to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys,
to neutralize the acids in the urine go IL
no longer is a source of irritation, thda
ending bladder disorders.
lad Salts is inexpensive; cannot In.
jure, makes a delightful efferyescnt
lithia-water beverage, and beiongs in
every home, because nobody can make
mistake by having good kidney flush.
ing any time.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1917-11-16
WOMAN EATS AN ONION;
STARTS A RIOT IN CLUB
Apology for Violation Of Boycott
Anglers Mothers and Hair.puIlina
Match Results.

Boston, Mass. Mrs. May Levine
ate an onion. The other night the
meeting of the Maiden Mothers Lea
que in Bryant Hall, was converted in
to hair-pulling session and almost
ended in a riot as result.
AS Eve partook of the forbidden
fruit in the garden, so did Mrs. Levine
allow a gnawing desire for an onion
to cause her to fall from grace in the
Mothers League. For, be II known.
the delectable and detachable onion
10 among the forbidden fruits" in a
boycott the club has started.
II Mrs. Levine had not been one Of
the important pickets In a recent
siege of grocers her indiscretion
might not have assumed such alarm
ing proportions. But when she public
ly confessed that the call of the onion
had proved irresistible. her apology
proved poor balm for the wounded
feelings OF her dumfounded compatri-
OTIS.
A commotion followed, during
which cries of sympathizers to the
effect Of: Have a heart; maybe an
onions her weakness" only served to
enrage the feelings OF others.
Whether 1t was pure envy or mat
ter Of principle, nobody took time TO
state. There was generous reach
for convenient heads and the squeals
that followed showed that consider.
able enthusiasm was employed in tug.
ging the browning Joy of woman.
The matter was finally arbitrated
along the lines of every woman hav-
ing weak moment at least once in
her life and of the irresistible quail
ties of the impressive and fragrant
onion
But the meeting did not close until
a committee of five had been appoint
ed to obtain list of names and adj
dresses OF every person buying boy
cotted food with the avowed purpose
of refusing to allow their children 10
play with the children of the non-boy
cotters.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1917-11-16
GOAT pEvoURs FLAGS;
LOCKED UP As spy
Animal Olives Battle When Women
Try to Drive Il Away.

S~sbtutat 0tvSo S6kkO vvUSU "SW'0V
Try to Drive u Away.
Los Angeles, Cal. - A spy suspect
lettering around the home Of Mrs. w.
q. Burke of Halldale avenue. 10 stiu
imprisoned In Mrs. Burke's garage.
The subject Is stray goat that ap>
peared at the Burke residence and.
after attempting to demolish the gar
den. attacked and ate two American
flags.
Mrs. Burke became aware OF the
goat frat when she heard a loud com.
motion on the front porch. II proved
to be the goat lunching on young
peach tree at the edge OF the porch.
Mrs. Burke endeavored to coax 1t
away. AS a protest 1t tore around the
garden till It spied the two American
flags on the garage. Without hesita-
ton 1t began to eat the flags.
The daughter made a dash to rescue
the Stars and Stripes and 1t was then
that the goat became spy suspect.
For at her appearance 1t charged In
and finally butted her 80 far away
from the garage that 1t managed to
swallow the last bit OF nag before she
could counter.charge.
Finally. however. with the aid OF
neighbors. the goat was driven into
the garage and firmly tied. But Mrs.
Burke and her daughter hope the
allies of the goat will come and get
II.