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Meade County news., 1917-05-17

81 laughed" she said, because you
have been deceived" And she added
quickly, 81 don't believe it's quite so
deep on the sidewalk, is it?" With
that she waded away toward the curb.
He followed, then led the way to
a lee wall that offered, comparatively
speaking, shelter. Then, "Where's the
deception?" he asked.
On any other day, it's probable she'd
have acted dlfferently-would have
paid some heed, though a bit con-
temptously, perhaps, to the precepts of
ladylike behavior, in which she'd been
admirably grounded. Today being to-
day, she consigned ladylike considera-
tions to the inventor of them, and
gave instinct its head.
She laughed again as she answered
his question: "The deception was that
I pretended to do it from principle.
The real reason why I shouldn't pay
another fare is that I only had one
more nickel. It's only about half q
mile to the station, but from there
home it's ten. So you see II rather
walk this than that"
"But that's dreadfulr he cried.
"Isn't there Couldn't you let
"Ch," she said, at isn't as bad as
that. It's just one Of the silly things
that happen to you sometimes, you
know. paid my subscription to The
Maroon. :" She didn't laugh
audibly, but without seeing her face
he knew she smiled, the quality Of her
voice enriching itself somehow. {.
"And ate bigger lunch than usual,
and that brought me down to ten
cents"
"You will make a complaint about
that won't you?" he urged. "Even if
it wasn't on principle that you refused
to pay another fareH And let me back
you up in it. I've his number, you
know"
"You deserve that, I suppose" she
said, because you did get off the car
on principle. But-well, really, unless
we could prove that paid my fare,
they'd probably think the conductor
did exactly right. OF course he took
hold of me, but then-well, think what
1 did to himw
He grumbled that this was nom
sense-the man had been guilty at least
of excessive zeal-but he didn't urge
her, any further, to complain.
"There's another car coming" he
now announced, peering around the
end Of the wall. "You will let me
pay your fare on it, won't your"
She hesitated. The rain was thin
ming. 81 would" she said, "if honest
ly wouldn't rather walk. Thanks, really
very, very much, though. Don't you
miss it," She thrust out her hand.
"Good-byW
''I can't pretend to think you need
an escort to the elevated" he said. 81
saw what you did to the conductor.
haven't the least doubt you could
have thrown him off the car. But
Td-really like it very much if you
would let me walk along with you."
"Why," she said, "of course. I'd
like it, too. Come alongp'
Meade County news., 1917-05-17
CHAPTER II.

What Happened to Frederica's Plan.
At twenty-seven minutes after seven
that evening, Frederica Whitney was
about ten minutes before the hour at
which she had invited guests to dinner
not quite near enough dressed to
prevent a feeling that she had to
hurry. Ordinarily she didn't mind. To
Frederick at thirty, the job of being
radiantly delightful object of regard
lacked the sporting interest of un-
certainty-was almost too simple a
matter to bother about.
But tonight she wished she'd started
half an hour earlier. Even her hus-
band discovered it. He brought in a
cigarette, and stood smiling down at
her with the complacent look that
characterizes a married man of forty
when he finds himself dressed in eve
ming harness ten minutes before his
wife. She shot a glance of rueful in
quiry at him, and asked him what time
it was.
"Seyen twenty-five thirty-six," he
told her. She made no comment ex-
cept with her eyebrows, but he must
have been looking at her, for he want
ed to know, good-humoredly, what all
the excitement was about.
"You could go down as you are
and not a man here tonight would
know the difference. And as for the
women-well, if they have something
on you for once, they'll be all the
better pleased"
"Don't try to be knowing and philo-
sophlcal, and-Havelock Ellis, Martin
DEAR" she admonished him, pending
minute operation with an infnitesi-
NAL hairpin. ''It isn't your. lay bit.
Just concentrate your mind on one
thing, and that's being nice to Her
mione Woodruff, and on seeing that
Roddy is"
He asked, "Why Rodney" in tone
that matched hers; looked at her,
widened his eyes, said "Huh /" to him
self and, finally, shook his head,
Nothing to it." he pronounced.
She dispatched the maid with the
key to the wall safe in her husbands
room. "Why isn't there?" she demand
ed. Rodney won't look at young girls.
They bore him to death. But Her
Meade County news., 1917-05-17
Then in the Doorway She Saw Him.

door opened-a voice with q crisp ring
to it that sounded always younger than
his years. What they heard the but
Ter say to him was disconcerting.
'You're terribly wet, sir!"
Frederick turned on her husband a
look of despair. "He's walked through
that rain! Do run down and send
him up to me. 1 can imagine how he'll
look"
She was mistaken about that.
though. For once Frederica had over
estimated her powers, stimulated
though they were by the way she hearf
her husband say:
"Praise heaven you can wear my
clothes. Run along upstairs and break
yourself gently to Freddy"
She heard him come squudging up
the stairs and along the hall, and
then in her doorway she saw him. His
baggy gray tweed suit was dark with
water and toned down by a liberal
stipple of mud spatters. Both his side
pockets had been, apparently, strained
to the utmost to accommodate what
looked like q bunch of pasteboard-
bound notebooks now far on the way
to their original pulp, and Topped de-
spondently outward. A melancholy
pool had already begun forming about
his feet. His face, above the dis
NAL wreck, beamed good-humored, in
nocent affection at her. 1t was
big-featured, strong, rosy face, and the
unmistakable intellectual power Of it
which became apparent the moment
he got his faculties Into action, had
trick of hiding, at other times, behind
mere robust simplicity.
"Good graciousl !" he said. "I didn't
know you were going to have party.
thought it would just be the family.
So instead of dressing, 1 thought I'd
walk. And then it came on to rain.
so l took a street car-and got put
off. And here l am"
eyes, here you are" said Frederica
''Don't be impossible, Rod. Don't you
even know whose birthday party this
ISL"
He looked at her, frowned, then
laughed. He had great, big laugh.
"I thought it was one of the kids"
he said.
"Well, it isn't" she told him. "It's
yours. And the people we're having
were asked to meet you. And you've
got just about seven minutes to get
into Martins other dress suit. I'll
send Walters to lay it out"
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

mione can understand fully half the
things he talks about. She's got lots
Of tact and skill, she's good-looking
and no older than and I'm two years
younger than Roddy. She'll appreci-
ate real husband, after having been
married five years to John Woodruff.
And she's rich enough, now, so that
his wild-eyed way Of practicing law
won't matter"
"All very nice and reasonable" he
conceded, "but somehow the notion of
Rodney Aldrich trying to marry a
rich widow is one I'm not equal to-"
He looked at his watch again. "By the
way, didn't you say he was coming
early?"
She nodded. They heard, just then,
faint and far away, the ring Of the
doorbell.
"Wait second" he said. "Let's
see If it's Roddy."
There was no mistaking the voice
they heard speaking the moment the
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

her stride purposeful enough to dis
courage offers of company. They oil
seemed young to her today. ALI her
student activities seemed young. AS
If, somehow, she had outgrown them.
The feeling was none the less real
after she had laughed at herself for
entertaining it.
She noticed presently that it was a
good deal darker than it had any
right to be at this hour, and the sudden
fall Of the breeze and a persistent
simmer Of lightning supplied her with
the explanation. When she reached
Forty-seventh street, the break of the
storm was obviously a matter Of
minutes, so she decided to ride across
to the elevated-it was another mile,
perhaps-rather than to walk across
as she had meant to do.
She found quite a group Of people
waiting on the corner for a car, and
the car itself, when it came along,
was crowded. So she handed her
nickel to the conductor over some
Meade County news., 1917-05-17
THE BIG STEP

Most romantic fiction ends
with the hero and heroine about
to marry and "live happy ever
after" The author of this un-
usual serial begins his story
with marriage and carries the
romance for a period Of several
years into the realm Of "double
harness." Taking a couple from
the well-to-do scale Of the
Middle West social scheme, Mr..
Webster uses them to bring out
some Of the important problems
confronting a great many young
men and women who enter the
bonds Of matrimony in these
days Of equal suffrage, Of wom-
en- who'd rather work down
town than stay at home, and Of
new complications in the busi-
ness of raising a family. "The
Real Adventure" is thoroughly
alive with action. You will en-
Joy the story not only for its ro-
nance but for the element in 1t
that will make you think-and
ponder the intimate happenings
In your own family and in the
families Of your neighbors.
THE EDITOR.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

begged his pardon, and assured him
she'd try to do better.
Another girl who had been waiting
to speak to the professor, perceiving
that their conversation was at an end,
came and stood beside her at the desk
"a scrawny girl with an eager voice,
and question she wanted to ask about
Robespierre; and for some reason
or other, Rosalind Stanton's valedic-
tory smile seemed to include a con-
sciousness of this other girl-a con-
sciousness of a contrast. 1t might not
have been any more than that, but
somehow it left the professor feeling
that he had given himself away.
There is nothing cloistral about the
University of Chicago except its
architecture. AS she went out Rose
felt that the presence Of fat abbot
or a lady prioress in the corridor
outside the recitation-room would have
fitted in admirably with the look Of
the warm gray walls and the carven
pointed arches of the window and
door easements, the blackened oak Of
the doors themselves.
She wasn't fully conscious of it on
this March morning, but something
had happened that made a difference.
If she'd been ascending an impercep-
tible gradient for the past months,
today she had come to q recognizable
step up and taken it. Oddly enough,
the thing had happened back there in
the classroom as she stood before the
professors desk and caught his eye
wavering between herself and the
scrawny girl who wanted to ask a
question about Robespierre. There
had been more than blank, helpless
| evaporation in that look of hiS and
1t had taught her something. She
couldn't have explained what.
She went swinging along alone, her
shoulders back, confronting the warm
March wind, drawing long breaths into
her good deep chest. She had just
had, psychically speaking, birthday.
She played a wonderful game Of
basketball that afternoon, and it was
after five o'clock when, at the con-
clusion of the game and a cold shower,
rub, and q somewhat casual re-
sumption of her clothes, she emerged
from the gymnasium. High time that
she took the quickest way Of getting
home, unless she wanted to be late for
dinner.
But the exhilaration of the day per-
sisted. She felt like doing something
out Of the regular routine. Even a
preliminary walk of mile or so before
she should cross over and take the
elevated, would serve to satisfy her
mild hunger for adventure.
So, with her notebooks under her
arm and her sweater-jacket unfasten-
ed, at a good four-mile swing she
started north. In the purlieus of the
university she was frequently hailed
by friends of her own sex or the other.
But though she waved cheerful re-
sponses to their greetings, she made
Meade County news., 1917-05-17
BOSCHEE'S GERMAN
SYRUP
Panacea of the Home the World
Over.

Why will you allow a cold to ad-
vance in your system and thus encour-
age more serious maladies, such as
pneumonia or lung trouble, when by
the timely use Of few doses Of
Boschee's German Syrup you can get
relief. This medicine has stood the
test Of fifty years. 1t induces a good
nights sleep with easy expectoration
In the morning. For sale by druggists
In all parts of the civilized world in
% and 70 cent bottles.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17
Practical Peace Plans.

"Aren't you for peace?" asked Mr..
Rafferty,.
Il am" replied Mr.. Dolan. "That's
why / want to get in as soon as pos
sible and finish up the fighting"
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

If people would reflect more they
would be brighter, and if they were
brighter they would reflect more.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17
woMAMs cRowNINe GLORY

Is her hair. If yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use LA Gre
ole" Hair Dressing and change it in
the natural way. Price $100.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes
weak women strong, sick women WELL no
alcohol. Sold in tablets or liquid.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

Marriage merely gives one woman
the exclusive right to find fault with
man.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

An ounce of seeing it yourself is bet
ter than a pound Of hearing others tell
It.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

Be friendly with a fool in private
and he will slap you on the back in
public.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17
Suspicious.

Suspicious.
Poet-The editor has taken six of
my poems. That guy must be nutty
enough to write poetry himself.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

This is a beautiful world to the girl
with q new hat.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

This bluff young man sur
prises his scheming sister with
the smart way in which he
eludes her trap to marry him
off-read it in the next INSTALL
ment.
Meade County news., 1917-05-17

A medicine dropper that also serves
as a bottle stopper has been invented.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-21
BOBBY'S NO SISSY

when 1 was at Aunt Mary's they
wanted to put a girls nightdress on
me-"
well, did you wearit, sonny?"
mo, l saidPd go to bed raw first"
Life.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-21

AMT NATURE WONDERFUL
A Tip.
Y know fellers, girls are funny
creatures. Dye want to know how
to get your girls goat? Especially
when she raves about some boob
movie actor, his handsome face.
wonderful hair, Grecian nose, soul
full Orbs, firm chin and all that junk?
Here's how we did it.
The other night we took our girl
to a movie. Oh, we're a regular guy.
And one of these simp handsome
VOLTS was the hero of the movie.
How she raved about him! And
when we'd say he was hick she'd go
into all the more spasms just to nab
our nanny and say, why, ! believe
you're Jealous" Y'know, mates,
how they do it.
Well, after the show, to prove we
wasn't a piker, we took in a soda grill.
Across the aisle sat a fella and his
violet. We got a bunch.
We said, There's what call an
attractive girl, knows how to dress,
right up to the second in style and
good looking"
WOW! Did it get her? She near
ly strangled trying to unloosen her
self from the soda straw. OW! The
way my girl lit into that DANES
style, beauty and attractiveness was
a scream.
Her hat was "atrocious," She
made up" she had no sense of
STYLE" she was very, very, ordinary
looking" and she couldn't see where
I could "see the slightest traces of
attractiveness in her"
Heb! Heb! It's dangerous, fellas,
but it's a good comeback for the
silly, empty-head, clam-eyed, hand
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-21
WHY, MYRTLE!

Alice-I saw you our driving with
Jack in his new car yesterday. The
funny thing was that Jack seemed
to have only one arm.
Myrtle-Oh. it was around some
where, I guess.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-02-22

New York. Feb. 1.-THE head men
of the big eastern railroads are in
session here today trying to solve the
problem of preventing the wholesale
rotting of food commodities now piled
up in the freight terminals of the rail
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-02-22

roads, because American ship own
ers refuse to send their ships to sea
on account of the submarine menace
1t is estimated that Chicago alone
is holding 100000 bushels of grain
for shipment TO the east. and that
nearly three times that much grain
is held in country elevators. and the
storage capacities of many cities are
thus seriously affected. The railroad
men declare that sS0.00000 has al
ready been lost in earnings by the
railroads. and that they see not much
prospect for relief in the near future
Every possible influence is being
brought to bear to have the United
States government take some action
which will warrant the American
ships in again venturing upon the sea
and thus relieving the congestion and
averting an immense loss.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-02-22
JOHANN HEINRICH
Won BERNSToRFF

Count Won Bernstorff. more than
any other single force. has striyen to
maintain the friendly relations be-
tween Germany and the United
States. With rare ability he pene-
trated the psychology of the Ameri-
can people. Against overwhelming
odds he fought and fought well. He
leaves, the victim of circumstances
not Of his own making. Our good
wishes go with him.
We believe that his work has not
been entirely in vain. He has aided
the President in his desire to main
tain peace. But for his supreme skill
and tact. the dark forces arraigned
against him, would have succeeded
in bringing about arupture between
the United States and Germany i'm
mediately after the sinking of the
Lusitania, and again after the sink
ing of the Sussex.
Bernstorff has served his country
well, but he also served our country.
If it were not for him. the fields OF
Flanders would be strewn with Amer.
lean dead and the sea Redeemed with
American blood The Ambassador
departure leaves the forces for evil
stronger than ever. We hope, never
the less that the last dread calamity
of war between his country and ours
will be averted. We hope that We
may see him again in this country
where his wife was born. where he
had found almost a second home
The Fatherland.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-23


story, ION our way to Philadelphia. l
had never been in the city and was
rather curious to see it and meet
some Philadelphia people.
1T makes me smile now, Margie,
when 1 think of how little of the city
l saw and do not think met sin
gle Philadelphia in the short time l
was there. Yes, l can smile over it
now, but at the time l thought that
in the City of BrotherIy Love- l ex-
perienced the most tragic event of
my tragically eventful life.
"On the way over Earnest Lawton
seemed a little peeved because Ruth
persisted in staying in the picture.
We lUnched on the train and when
we started for the diningroom she
came along, as a matter of course,
and she also followed us on the plat
form of the observation car. won
dered at her Obtuseness, for Ruth
was not so egotistical that she would
not know Immediately if her cOmpa-
ny was not wanted.
Earnest was almost rude and
once or twice l caught their eyes
meeting and clashing like rapiers of
finest steel Especially was this
true when Earnest said with an elab-
crate affectation of Indifference: 4
thought, Paula, as you know nothing
of hotels and the discomforts of
travelling, I had our manager get you
a room at the Ritz-Carleton. It is
quieter than the BelleVue-Stratford
and am sure you will like it.
Ruth looked straight at Earnest
when she spoke to me.
81 am glad you are going there
she said, because I too am going to
stop there. Don't you thing it would
be nice if we could have connecting
rooms?'
Before I could speak Earnest in
terposed: 4 am afraid Paula's room
is already engaged, Miss Dayton
Sc,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-23

a. sinister quality in EarnestS voice
that l had never heard before, and,
besides, l had never known him to
be so formal with Ruth as to call her
by her last name. She was smiling,
and it seemed to me there was some
thing underneath it all that 1 could
not fathom.
However, neither of them left me
minute. Each seemed to be moth
ering me as an old hen does a soil
tary chick, and regarding the other
in the nature of a hawk waiting for
its evening meal
7 even when we drove to the hotel
Ruth insisted upon getting into the
taxi with us and making Earnest sit
backward, thing he detests to do.
At the hotel the clerk gave me my
key and also handed one to Earnest.
That was the first moment realized
that he was to stop at the same ho-
tel.
What kind of a room do you
wish, miss?' l heard the clerk ask
Ruth.
81 did not catch her answer, but
ulSLlncTly neard Earnest swear I'M
der his breath.
81 went directly to my room and
it was lovely, done in French gray
and rose. I had never seen a hotel
bedroom before that did not look as
garish as a.Pullman car. Here felt
that I could rest.
ga little later when l was unpack-
ing my trunks Ruth came to my
door. 49,.
g 4 thought would tell you Paula
she said in rather a loud tone, that
my room is just across the hall from
yours. I thought it might make you
feel less lonely in strange hotel to
know that some one you know is
near you
There was a crash in the room
next to mine, Margie. Some one had
dropped some toilet bottles evident
". I did not thing it was ANYTHING
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-26
TO Spend $1so
FOR Inlueo

WASHINGTON, Jan. ee-A0
ate today passed a $25.0oo .
ton for Inauguration expe1na
the debate Senator NcCumhW
lican. urged the incOrpos111n
provision to. prevent hotel
from raising rates He saf4 -
had informed him that . rooD -
Inauguration week would O.
Senator Works. republics. -
the Inauguration services aE0 -
isb.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-01-26

Mrs. F. W Haskell and son. Ben5a-
min. motored over 70 Orlando yester-
day. taking TO that city Mrs Albert
Halves. OF Chicago. H.. who had been
here for about a week with MI and
Mrs s. c. Archibald at their home
on South Beach street Mrs Haskell
and son. who are occupying the
F. W. Pope residence on South Beach
street again this season. returned
from Orlando in the afternoon. the
start from this city having been made
in the early morning