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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

Something queerly like a laugh
broke his voice when he answered.
"Oh, you darling! Yes. It's all right.
That isn't why I'm crying. It's just
because I'm so happy"
"But the baby" she persisted.
'Why isn't it here?"
Rodney turned and spoke to some
one else. 'She wants to see," he
said. May she?"
And then a woman's voice (why.
it was the nurse, of course! Miss
Harris, who had come last night) said
in an indulgent, soothing tone: ''Why.
surely she may. Wait just minute. "
But the wait seemed hours. Why
| didn't they bring the baby-her baby?
There! Miss Harris was coming at
last, with a queer, bulky, shapeless
bundle. Rodney stepped in between
and cut off the view, but only to slide
an arm under mattress and pillow
and raise her little so that she could
see.
And then, under her eyes, dark red
and hairy against the whiteness Of the
pillow, were two small heads--two
small, shapeless masses leading away
from them, twitching, squirming. She
stared, bewildered.
There were twins, Rose" she heard
Rodney explaining triumphantly, but
still with something that wasn't quite
laugh, "a boy and a girl. They're
perfectly splendid. One weighs seven
pounds and the other six"
Her eyes widened and she looked
up into his face so that the pitiful
bewilderment in hers was revealed to
him.
"But the baby" she said. Her wide
eyes filled with tears and her voice
broke weakly. 81 wanted baby"
you've got a baby" he insisted,
and now laughed outright. 'There are
two of them. Don't you understand,
| dear?"
Her eyes dropped shut, but the
tears came yelling out along her
lashes. please take them away" she
begged. And then, with a little Sob
she whispered: Il wanted a baby
not those"
| Rodney started to speak. but some
sort of admonitory signal from the
| nurse silenced him.
The nurse went away with her bun
die. and Rodney stayed stroking
Roses limp hand.
In the dark, ever so much later
! she awoke, stirred a little restlessly
and the nurse, from her cot, came
quickly and stood beside her bed. She
had something in her hands for Rose
to drink and Rose drank it dutifully.
''Is there anything else?" the nurse
! asked.
II just want to know" Rose said
have I been dreaming, or is it true?
Is there a baby, or are there twins?
Twins, to be sure" said the nurse
cheerfully "The loveliest, liveliest
| little pair you ever saw"
Thank you," said Rose. 81 just
| wanted to know"
She shut her eyes and pretended
to go to sleep. But she didn't. 1t was
true then. Her miracle, it seemed
somehow, had gone ludicrously awry.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01
Two Billion Bricks a Year,

At the annual meeting of the Amer
ican Ceramic society, J. B. Shaw Of
Alfred, N. Y, told of some very sue
cessful tests he had made in making
paving brick from blast furnace Stag
These bricks were worth about $35
per thousand in 1915. They may be
successfully made of almost any blast
furnace Stag at a cost of $5 to 81 per
thousand. He figures that there is at
present available about 100000 tons
of Stag annually in the United States.
after leaving 100000 tons for cement
manufacture. This would provide
2,OOO,0OO,0OO bricks for permanent good
roads every year-say, for 1000 miles
annually of 50-foot road.
Time and again failure has been en-.
countered in the effort to make pawn
brick in this manner, but the probe;
seems to be fairly well worked
now. The Stag must be treated hot
it comes from the furnace, and
brick must be heated out Of con-
with air or steam lest it become bri
Ellwood Hendrick.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01
French in ALGERIA
Have More Troops in 0ran Than
Any Town in France.
Streets Are Full of Soldiers In Pietur-
esque Costumes, Including Arabs
in Their Flowing White
Garments.

There are more French soldiers to
be seen in Oran than in any town In
France. Those in France are at the
front or in the points of concentration
near the front. They are there right
enough but one does not see them
at the front-because they are in the
trenches. But in Algeria 1t is differ
ent. The streets are full Of soldiers;
so the cafes, the street cars, the stores,
the docks, the public gardens. The Of
fetal figures give the population Of
Oran at 10000. To the casual visitor
there seem to be at least half as many
soldiers besides.
And they are all French-French or
French colonial, not allied troops.
Besides, the casual, familiar army
types, there is every kind Of exotic
fighting man, including native troops
from Indo-China, looking more like
Japanese than anything else, and uni
formed as ordinary French colonials
of the line. There are the zouaves.
with their baggy red breeches and
khaki puttees now O. days, instead Of
the white CATERS of the old parade
days before the war. Their short,
black-braided jackets, sashes and
blouses, however, are unchanged.
There are the Chasseurs d'Afrique-
the African light cavalry-with sky
blue uniforms and red fezes, the most
elegant of French military horsemen.
More gorgeous, however, are the
"tirailleurs," the sharpshooters, equal
ly in sky-blue uniforms, faced with
yellow, and also wearers Of fezes. On
active service this magnificence is sup
planted by khaki and khaki fezes upon
which a star and crescent indicate that
the wearer is follower of the prophet.
More characteristic of the country are
the "spahis" s"-Mohammedan troops, Of
ficered by Frenchmen. They wear
flowing scarlet cloaks and the soldiers
wear turbans and native costumes; the
officers, unequal to coping with the
turban, content themselves with fezes,
but sacrifice nothing of the resplendent
scarlet cloak. The most picturesque,
and the most numerous, are the
"goums," the Arab cavalry regiments
raised by the Arabs themselves. They
wear the flowing white garments, the
"bournous" Of the desert.
At tea time any sunny afternoon the
Boulevard Seguin, the principal street
of Oran, is crowded with these uni
forms, and more besides. The terasse
Of the Cafe Continental hasn't va
cant table, and the tables cover the
sidewalk almost to the curb. There
are no regulations about the hours at
which drinks may be served in Algeria,
for the war is far away and the garden
Of Africa is for those who are sent to
rest, to forget the war for while,
for the convalescents and for those
who stop a few days or a few weeks
between service in Macedonia or Egypt
or wherever else the world Of war may
send them.
There are French sailors in Oran,
too, for Oran is Frances nearest naval
port to the Straits Of Gibraltar, and
the great amphitheater harbor so full
of ships of commerce, whose enlarg-
ed wharves are piled with stacks Of
grain and acres of wine casks, is also
an important naval base.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

begin right away" Then she looked
up into his face. "It will be too late in
October" she repeated, "unless we be-
gin now"
The deep, tense seriousness of her
voice and her look arrested his full
attention.
"Why?" he asked. And then, "Rose,
what do you mean?"
"We're going to have a baby in
October" she said.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

ground, is doing some gardening this
year. 1t is unpatriotic and unfashion.
able to be idle. Even in small back
yards, allotted to city dwellers, women
are gardening with enthusiasm, and II
they raise only few vegetables for
the summer table, they are helping to-
ward conserving food for next winter.
In the smaller cities and towns wom-
en- have Il real chance to do real work
toward producing the food that is 60
ing to be needed to last through next
winter. Those who know conditions
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

lease on this house runs out. we can
manage, perhaps, to change the scale
a little. There you are. Now do stop
worrying about it and let's go to bed"
But she sat there just as she was,
staring at the dying fire, her hands
lying slack in her lap, all as if she
hadn't heard. The long silence irked
him. He pulled out his watch, looked
at it, and began winding it. He mend
ed the fire so that it would be safe
for the night; bolted a window. Ev-
cry minute or two he stole a look at
her, but she was always just the
same Except for the faint rise and
fall of her bosom, she might have
been a picture, not woman.
At last he said again, Come along,
Rose dear"
It'll be too late in October" she
salh That's why l wanted to de-
c1tp things tonight, Because we must
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01
She Stared, Bewildered.

You're getting on perfectly splendid
ly. But if you pull up and go to live in
barn somewhere and stop seeing any
body-people that count, I mean"
Rodney grunted. You're beyond
your depth, SIS" he said. "Come back
where you don't have to swim. The
expense isn't a capital consideration,
I'll admit that. Now 60 on from
| there"
That's like old times" she OBJ
served with a not ill-humored grim
ace II wonder If you talk to Rose
like that. Oh, know the house is
rather solemn and absurd. It's Flor
ence herself all over, that's the size
of it. But what does that matter. for
six months more?"
He pocketed his pipe and got up
| out of his chair.
There's something in it," he ad-
mitted. "I'll think it over"
Better cable Florence as soon as
you can," she advised.
Rose protested when the plan for
| living six months more in Florence
McCrea's house was broached to her.
| She made the best fight she could.
But Harriet's arguments, re-stated
now by Rodney with full conviction,
| were too much for her. When she
broke down and cried, as she couldn't
help doing, Rodney soothed and COM
forted her, assured her that this no.
ton of hers about the expensiveness
of it all, was just a notion, which
she must struggle against as best
she could. She'd see things in truer
proportion afterward.
Very fine and small and weak, Rose
Stanton, lying in a bed with people
about her, let her eyes fall heavily
shut lest they should want her to speak
or think. Then, for long time,
nothing. Then presently, a hand, a
firm, powerful hand, that picked up
her heavy, limp wrist and two sensi-
tive fnger-tips that rested lightly on
| the upper surface Of 1t. After that,
an even, measured voice-a voice of
authority, whose words no doubt made
sense, only Rose was too tired to think
what the sense was:
That's a splendid pulse. She's do
| ing the best thing she can, sleeping
. like that"
| And then another voice, utterly un-
| like Rodney's and yet Enthusiastically
his "a ragged voice that tried to talk
in Il whisper but couldn't manage it
broke queerly.
That's all right" it said. But I'll
find it easier to believe when
She must see him-must know
what it meant that he should talk
like that. With a strong physical ef-
fort, she opened her eyes and tried
to speak his name. She couldn't; but
someone must have been watching and
have seen, because a wOmans voice
said quickly and quietly "Ntr. Aldrich."
And the next moment, vast and tow
ering and very blurred in outline, but,
like his voice, Enthusiastically, was
Rodney-her own big, strong Rodney.
She tried to hold her arms up to him,
but of course she couldn't.
And then he shortened suddenly.
He had knelt down beside her bed,
that was it. And she felt upon her
palm the pressure of his lips, and his
unshaven cheek, and on her wrist
warm wetnesS that must be-tears.
And then she knew. The urgency
of a sudden terror gave her her voice.
"Roddy," she said, there was 60
ing to be a-baby. Isn't there7"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01
CHAPTER xi-continued.

But she went steadily on. you
were always so dear about it. But
tonight-oh, Rodney !" Her
silly, ragged voice choked there and
stopped, and the tears brimmed up
and spilled down her cheeks. But
she kept her face steadfastly turned
to his.
That's what 1 said about being
married and not sowing wild oats, l
suppose" he said glumly. 'It was
Joke. Do you suppose I'd have said it
If I meant it?''
''It wasn't only that" she managed
to 60 on. ''It was the way they looked
at the house; the way you apologized
Tor my dress; the way you looked
when you tried to get out of answer
ing Barry Lakes questions about
what you were doing. Oh, how l
despised myself And how I knew
you and they must be despising met"
"The one thing 1 felt about you ali
the evening"" he said, with the pa
tience that marks the last stage of
evaporation, twas pride. I was rath-
er crazily proud of you"
"As my lover you were proud Of
me-" she said. But the other man
the man that's more truly you-was
ashamed, as I was ashamed. Oh, it
doesn't matter! Being ashamed won't
accomplish anything. But what We'll
do is going to accomplish something"
"What do you mean to do?" he
asked.
81 want you to tell me first" she
said, chow much money we have, and
how much we've been spending"
81 don't know" he said stubbornly.
81 don't know exactly"
you've got enough, haven't you,
of your own I mean, there's
enough that comes in every year, to
live on, if you didn't earn a cent by
practicing law? Well, what I want
to do, is to live on that. I want to
live, however and wherever we have
TOTO live on that-out in the suburbs
somewhere, or in a fiat, so that you
will be free; and I can work-be some
sort of help"
you can wash the dishes and scrub
the fioors," he supplemented. "and I
can carry my lunch to the Office with
me in a little tin box" He looked at
his watch. "And now that the things
reduced to an absurdity, let's go to
bed. It's getting along toward two
O'clock"
"You don't have to get to the Office
till nine tomorrow morning" said
Rose. "And I want to talk it out
now. And I don't think 1 said any
thing that was absurd"
81 shouldn't have called it absurd"
he admitted after a rather long ST.
lence. But it's exaggerated and un-
necessary. Next October, when the
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

his pipe was properly lighted, wheth-
er he altogether liked this method of
approach or not.
Common sense always was sort
of speciality of yours, Sis he said at
last, land Strengthening out. You
were always pretty good at it," Then
| out of a cloud of his own smoke,
Fire away"
"Well, in the first place." she said,
'if you had your house today you'd be
lucky if the paint was dry and the
thing was fit to move into by the first
of September"
But we've got to get out of here,
anyway in October. And that means
we've got to have some sort of place
to get into. 1t is an awkward time,
I'll admit"
"No, you haven't" she said. "You
can stay right here another six
months, if you like. I've heard from
Florence. When 1 found how things
stood here, I wrote and asked her II
she'd lease for six months more II
she got the chance, and she wrote back
and simply grabbed at it."
Rodney smoked half way through
his pipe before he made any comment
on this suggestion. "This house isn't
just what we want" he said. "1n the
first place, it's expensive"
Harriet shrugged her shoulders,
picked up one of Florence's poetry
books and eyed the heavily fooled bind
ing with a satirical smile before she
replied.
"Td an idea there was that in it, !"
she said at last. FREDDY said some
thing. Rose had been talking
| to her" Then, after another little
silence and with a sudden access of
vehemence: "You don't want to go
and do a regular fool thing, Roddy.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

at the accomplished conquest of the
air.
The service suit" is made of khaki,
and it is good to look at, with conven-
ience and grace and stability to appeal
to the good sense of the out-of-doors
woman. And just as soon as the out
of-doors woman sees it, she is capti-
vated-and all is over except deliver
ing the parcel. For camping, fishing,
golfing, tennis, gardening, beekeeping
and farming, it is destined to become
the conventional suit.
The new garment is cut along lines
that are correct for women, and is no
more masculine than party frock is.
1t Is made trouser fashion, with the
full trousers plated to Shapely
blouse; it is well tailored and fastens
with bone buttons across the back.
The fastening at the back is covered
by a wide belt. Nothing about it can
come apart and no corset need be worn
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

Just at the moment when woman
kind was ready and waiting for it,
there entered the Service suit" 1t is
a new garment for the new woman.
and 1t has been given this name,
duly christened by the patent office
1t is the spirit Of the times translated
into apparel-a thing that we have
seen waiting for without knowing that
we We're waiting until it arrived.
Therefore it is welcomed with glad
acclaim, like that which greeted the
airplanes that made the heart to sing
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01
Rains Uncover Cold Nuduets

The days of 40 have been revived
here to certain extent, says the Sac
ramento (Cal.) Bee, several Auburn
men having brought nuggets worth
from 81 to $50 which were found in
the ravines and streams since heavy
rains have washed the dirt from the
gravel. One nugget, which, it is saiii.
is worth $40. was found
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01
Dininn Al EreSco.

The French people nearly all have
nm outdoor place to eat-either a din
Ing room, breakfast room or small
pavilion for serving tea. Nothing is
more cheerful than sunny little
breakfast room furnished gayly, with
while you eat.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01
Lace Trims NoiIe BIouses.

A vOile blouse which has as its Spc7
ciaI feature a convertible high collar.
has 81 ~"ry narrow vest Of tine val i
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

unter it; in fact. undergarments may
be reduced to a single union suit. The
trousers faSten with Il small cuff above
the shoetops and defy the most enter
prising mosquito or the most aggres-
sive bee. Hail to the service suit! 1t
marks the passing of the last imped-
iment in our way. 1t is no compromise
between masculine and a feminine
garment, but a new departure-and it
Is smart.
Even Il little garden is better. than
no garden at all and everybody, that is
anybody with patch of available
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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

COMES THE GREAT EVENT BABY AND
WoMANs PROFESSION is MOTHERHOOD
AWRY
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-06-01

tical service-in the strawberry patch
for instance.
The small apron has two pointe
pockets that mOnopolize a good shf
of its surface. One side of the cr~
is made of oilcloth, or leathere
there is small pocket at the
sunbonnet, as pictured, has
of shirred ribbon, but mig'
ed with a strap made
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-31
ROURKES DIVIDE
WITH THE BOOSTERS
Lose First tf Double Header
Off Musser and Win Sec
ond When Berger Lets
Down Bars.

Des MONIES, Ia, May 30-(Special
Telegram lin a holiday game, with
5000 in the stands, Omaha lost the
first of the double header here today
3 to 0, and won the second, 4 to 2.
Pa Rourke insisted that Paul Mus
ser was using some articihcal means
to put the hop on his fast one. Mus
ser allowed but one hit and struck
out nine.
Des Moines got two-run lead in
the third on errors by Krug, Brottem
and Smith and a hit batsman.
Spencer's catch against the center
field fence robbed Brottem of hit in
the second. Coffey doubled in the
eighth and scored on Brottem's error.
Shaw, who batted for Merz in the
ninth, got the first hit of the game,
with Texas Lacquer over first. The
first double play cut off chance of a
run.
Omaha won the second game in the
dark of late afternoon. The Rourkes
got a two-run lead with a hit in the
second when Berger walked three
men i'll a row and Ewoldt threw low
to the plate.
Omaha scored another in the fourth
when Thompson walked, stole sec
ond, took third on an infeld out and
scored on wild pitch. The Rourkes
filled the bases with none out on three
hits in row in the seventh. Krug
was caught at the plate. Shaw flew
to Hartford. Smith scored on a wild
pitch, and Woodruff famed.
The game was called at the end of
the seventh on account OF darkness.
Score, first game:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-31
SWEEPING CHANGES
FOR NEW U. S. ARMY
Divisions Will Be Reduced and
Regiments Increased; Dates
Set for Reorganization
Steps.

San Antonio, Tex, May 80
Sweeping changes in army organiza-
ton are in immediate prospect, ac-
cording to information made public
today by Brigadeir General James
Parker, acting commander of the
southern department.
Under the previous plans an army
division has consisted Of approxi-
mately $4,000 men. The new order
will fix division at two brigades, a
total of Approximately 10000 men.
Each brigade will be made up of four
regiments, this applying to infantry
only.
Infantry companies, will have 200
men instead of $50. There will be one
captain, one first and two second lieu
tenants. Formerly there were only
two lieutenants.
A battalion will consist OF three in
fantry companies and one machine
gun company.
As there are three battalions in a
regiment, this will give three ma
chine gun companies to each regi.
ment, where heretofore there has been
but one. The machine gun companies
will have one captain, two first lieu-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-31

tenants. and one second lieutenant,
with l47 men and fourteen machine
guns.
Under the new plan an infantry
regiment will contain 1851 men and
sixty-seven officers.
Several dates for definite steps in
the formation Of the United States
army were made public by the South
ern department on receipt of orders
from the War department,
On June | the task Of forming new
regular army regiments, using parts
of old regiments as units will begin.
On July Is, one-third OF the Ma
tional Guard troops will be taken into
the federal service, on July 2S, an
other third, on August 5, the last
third.
Guard units will be held at home
stations for fifteen days in order to
give opportunity for recruiting to full
strength and then will be sent to
training camps.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-31
Floth Out on Bonds.
Fred Curtis to Graduate
From Military Academy

Cadet Fred Friday Curtis, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Curtis, 1876 South
Thirty-hfth street, will be graduated
this year from San Diego Army and
Navy academy at Pacific Beach, Cal
take place Friday, June 8, after week
takd palce Friday, June 8 after week
OF social affairs and military exercises.
Captain Thomas A. Davis, super
intendent of the school, writes in
terms of high praise of the young
Omahan:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-31
Denver Bunches Hits
And Defeats Witches

Denver, Colo. May 30.4Bunched
singles in the fourth netted Denver
three runs and gave lead which
Wichita was unable to overcome.
Denver winning today's abbreviated
game easily, Wichita's only chance
for victory came in the seventh when
Wallace walked, Payton was hit by
pitched ball and Davis single scored
them. Boehler pitched himself out
OF the hole. The game was called in
the eighth because of rain and the
second game was postponed. Score:
WICHITA DENVER
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