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CHAPTER vi.

The First Question and Its Answer.
Roses instructive attitude toward
the group of young to middle-aged
married people into which her own
marriage had introduced her was
founded on the assumption that, allow
ing for occasional exceptions, the hus-
bands and wives felt toward each
other as she and Rodney did-were
held together by the same irresistible,
unanalyzable attraction.
Oh, there were bumps and bruises,
Of course! She had seen Rodney drop
off now and again into a scowling alb
straction, during which it was so evil
dent he didn't want to talk to her, or
even be reminded that she was about,
that she had gone away flushed and
wondering, and needing an effort to
hold back the tears.
These weren't frequent occurrences,
though, and did not weaken her idea
that. barring tragic and disastrous
types-unfaithful husbands, cold, mer-
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HIGH MARK IS SET
BY FOOD EXPORTS
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS FOR
ONE MONTH ECLIPSED BY
APRIL SHIPMENTS.
DOUBLE SINCE LAST YEAR
According to Figures Just Compiled
Michigan Shipped S2e,847, 1873
Worth to Foreign Lands.
(From Our Special Correspondent

(From Our Special Correspondent
Lansing.
According to figures just compiled
the exports from Michigan for the
month of April again established
high record. The total value was $780,
SAT, 1873, an increase of $3,230,000 over
the highest previous total and of s12.-
100000 over the total for April, 1916.
Iron and steel and the manufactures
thereof again lead with about 40
classes, representing a total of $S,021.-
062. Meat products came next with
total Of $5,S64,990, Of which $685.
100 is in hog products and $2,097 1874 is
beef in various forms.
There were GA commercial automo-
biles sent abroad with an average
value of $1,314 each and 1862 passen-
ger cars with an average of 1898. The
total value of automobiles and parts
was S2,156,057. This is about twice
the valde of the horses and mules
shipped, there being 5,409, the former
valued at S949,5O3 and 635 Of the latter
figuring up to 1927 900.
Breadstuffs figured up to s2,003, 492,
of which $1,710,905 was in corn and
cornmeal and $168.991 in rye. Other
food products were represented by
$44S,931 in fruits, mostly from Cali
fornia and $430,S23 in vegetables,
largely beans and peas.
OF metals and their manufactures
other than iron and steel, there were
the following, mostly, 1t is to be pre-
sumed, for war uses: Brass, $1,271,-
416; copper, sS7,905, a much smaller
amount than usual; lead, $920,728 and
zinc, $396,110.
The other classes that have over
half a million each are: Chemicals,
drugs, dyes and medicines, $716,210;
coal and coke, $763,587; raw cotton
and cotton goods, S742,944; oils ST.
472,194, of which over half is cotton
seed oil; wood and manufactures
thereof $793,456.
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Food City Selected As Camp site.

The cantonment camp site for the
Michigan-Wisconsin division of the
new national army will be at Battle
Creek, according to dispatch from
Washington. General Barry, comman-
der of the central department had
forwarded the recommendation of this
site to the war department.
Approximately 10000 men will be
called ito service from the two states
and put in training there September
1st.
An idea of what this means to
Michigan and to Battle Creek in par
ticular can be obtained from the fact
that it requires 1000 carloads Of lum-
Der and materials to build the can
torment. One and two-story barracks
will be built.
After the first incremet of soldiers
is called into service and trained
second increment will be called out
next March.
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CHAPTER v.
The Princess Cinderella.

When the society editor Of "Ame-
fica's foremost newspaper" as in its
trademark 1t proclaims itself to be,
announced that the Rodney Aldriches
had taken the Allison McCraes' house,
furnished, for a year, beginning in
October, she spoke of 1t as an ideal
arrangement. AS everybody knew, 1t
was an ideal house for a young
married couple. and 1t was equally
evident that the Rodney Aldriches
were an ideal couple for 1t.
In the sense that 1t left nothing to
further realization, 1t was an ideal
house; an old house In the Chicago
sense, built over into something very
much older still - Tudor, perhaps -
Jacobean, anyway. In the supplement
tary matters of furniture, hangings,
rugs and pictures, the establishment
presented the last politely spoken word
In things as they ought to be. If you
happened to like that sort Of thing,
It was precisely the sort Of thing you'd
like.
The same sort Of neat, fully ac-
quired perfection characterized the
McCrae's domestic arrangements.
Every other year they went Off around
the world in one direction or another,
and rented their house, furnished, for
exactly enough to pay all their ex-
penses. On the alternate years they
came back and spent two years In
come living In their house.
Florence McCrae was an old friend
of Rodney's and 1t was her notion that
It would be just the thing he'd want.
Rodney knew for himself what the
house was-complete down to the
corkscrews. And six thousand dollars
year was simply dirt cheap.
To clinch the thing, Florence went
around and saw Frederick about 1t.
And Frederick. after listening, non
committally, dashed Off to the last
meeting Of the T. ursday club Gall this
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how to dress. For the first hour, or
day, or week, Of an acquaintance, they
have charm quite Incompatible
And, up to a certain point, they ex.
ercise it. Your jeunes files are amaz.
ing. All. over the world, men go mad
about them. But when they marry
:" She finished the sentence with
a ghost of shrug, and turned to Rose.
"Can you account for them? Were
you wondering at them, too, with
those great eyes of yours? Alors
Are we puzzled by the same thingl
What is 1t, to you, they lack?"
Rose stirred little uneasily. 81
don't know" she said, except that
some of them seem little dissatisfied
and restless, as if-well, as If they
wanted something they haven't got"
"But do they truly want it?" Ma.
dame Greville demanded. II am
willing to be convinced; but myself,
find, of your women of the aristocrat
class, the type most characteristic is"
she paused and said the thing first
to herself In French, then translated
''is a passive epicure in sensations
sensations mostly mental, irritating or
soothing-a pleasant variety. She
waits to be made to feel; she per.
petually-tastes. They give stranger
like me the impression of being per
fectly frigid, perfectly passionless
And so, as you say, Of missing the
great thing altogether. A few of your
women are great, but not as women
and Of second-rate men in petticoats
you have q vast number. But a WON
an, great by the qualities of her sex,
an artist in womanhood, have moi
SEEN"
ooh, I WISH" cried Rose, shat ]
knew what you meant by that!"
"Why, regard now" said the actress.
an every capital Of Europe (and !
know them ally, wherever you fad
great affairs-matters of state, dipio-
macy, politics-you find the influences
of women In them = women of the
great world sometimes, sometimes OF
the half-world They may not be
beautiful have seen a faded woman
of fifty, Of no family or wealth, whose
salon attracted ministers Of state
they haven't the education nor the lib.
critics that your women enjoy, and, In
the mass, they are not regarded-how
do you ay?-chivalrously. Yet there
they are
"And why? Because they are capa.
BILE Of great passions, great desires.
They are willing to take the art Of
womanhood seriously. make innumer-
able sacrifices for it, as one must for
any art, in order to triumph in It."
Rose thought this over rather du-
biously. 1t was new notion to her
or almost new. "But suppose" she
objected, zone doesn't want to tri-
umph at 1t? Suppose one wants to be
a-person, rather than just womanf"
'"There are other careers indeed"
Madame Greville admitted, land one
can follow them in the same spirit
make the sacrifices pay the price
they demand. Mon Dieu! How
have preached. Now you shall talk
to me. 1t was for that I took you
captive and ran away with you"
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cenary wives-which had to be adj
mitted as existing-marriag was a
state whose happy satisfactoriness
could, more or less, be taken for
granted.
1t was something that Simone Gre
vile said which gave rise to her first
misgiving that marriage was not, per-
haps-even between people who loved
each other quite as simple as 1t
seemed. No one has studied our lei
sured and cultivated classes with more
candor and penetration than this great
Franco-Austrian actress. She had
ample opportunities for observation,
because, while she played to houses
that couldn't be dressed to look more
than a third full, she was enormously
In demand for luncheons. teas, dinners,
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"Oh, that's too bad" he said with
concern. "Can't you manage some
thing 2"
TOO badw said Rose In lively dis
sent. "It's too heavenly! I've got a
whole day just to enjoy being myself;
being" she reached for his hand,
and, getting it, stroked her cheek with
1t being my new self. Portia used
to think faxed pretty well. But /
never was-don't you know?-right.
SO, you see, it's real adventure just
to say-well, that I want the ear at
quarter to eleven and to tell Otto
exactly where I want him to drive me
to. always feel as If l ought to say
that IL he'll just stop the car at the
corner of Diversey street, / can walk"
He laughed out at that and asked
her how long she thought this blissful
state Of things would last.
Forever" she said.
But presently she looked at him
rather thoughtfully. "Of course it's
none Of it new to you" she said,
not the silly little things, nor the
things we do together-oh, the dinners,
and the dances, and the operas. Do
you sort of-wish I'd get tired Of It'll
Is 1t dreadful bore to you?"
$50 long as 1t doesn't bore you," he
said; $50 long as you go on-shining
the way you do over it, and I am
where can see you shine"-he took
hold Of both her hands, $50 long as
it's like that, you wonder" he said,
''well, the dinners and the operas and
all that may be piffie, but 1 shall be
blind to the fact"
She kissed both his hands and told
him contentedly that he was a darling.
But, after a moments silence, little
frown puckered her eyebrows and she
asked him what he was so solemn
about.
Well, he had told her the truth.
But precisely as he said 1t, he felt that
he was not the same man he had been
six months ago. Not the man who had
tramped impatiently back and forth
across Frederica's drawing-room, ex'
pounding his ideals of space and lei.
sure. Not the man who despised the
clutter Of expensive junk. That man
would have derided the possibility
that he could ever say this thing that
he, still Rodney Aldrich, had just said
to Rose-and meant. And the terrify'
ing thing was that he hadn't resisted
the change-hadn't wanted to resist
didn't want to now, as he sat there
looking at the slumbrous glory Of her
eyes.
So, when she asked him what he
was looking so solemn about, he said
with more truth than he pretended
to himself, that it was enough to make
anybody solemn to look at her.
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New Railroad Bond Issue o. KID.

The state railroad commission auth
orized the Boyne City. Gaylord & AL.
pena Railroad Co. to issue bonds
amounting to sSOO,OOO in order to com.
plete the road, purchase new equip
ment and discharge obligations incur
red by the receivers. Nine miles OF
track between Atlanta and Alpena
must be constructed before cars can
be operated over the entire line from
Boyne City to Alpena, distance of 81
miles
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Specific Tax Nearly Collected.

Auditor General Fuller has collected
$4,341,370 of the specific tax for 1916.
This represents all but per cent of
the total specific tax levied last year.
The unpaid railroad tax amounts to
$265 900 of which the Ann Arbor owes
$4,000 and the Detroit, Grand Haven
& Milwaukee railroad, s122,000.
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After her talk with the act
ress, Rose begins to understand
more why II 10 that married
folks don't always get along
very we'll together. An inter-
estIng problem is unfoIded In
the next InstaIIment
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had ready-made armies. thanks to con-
scription. Haig had to fashion an
army before he could fight it.
Then. too. this war is always chang
ing. first. because the zones are so
vast and. second. because science is
constantly Transforming the weapons
of warfare. War used to be a COM
paratively simple business of fighting.
Now it is conflict between machinery,
and this machinery is hardly in use
before it is obsolete. The aeroplane
engine is conspicuous example of
what I mean. Experience has shown.
during the past three years that the
mechanism which represented the, last
word in the spring was almost use
less by the time the leaves fell in the
autumn.
Now you realize something Of the
task that confronted Sir Douglas Haig,
something of the burden that rests on
the shoulders of this man who sits at
desk from which radiate the. COM
Inands that cause hosts to leap to
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action. Bound up to these hosts are
millions of hearts and homes to whom
the daily reports signed by him bring
joy or sorrow.
l had. of course, heard a great deal
of Sir Douglas Haig before ] saw him.
man of action and achievement. His
name ran like strain up and down
the far-fung fighting line. buggy"
and I'D. H. is the way the 'Tommies"
refer to him in anectionate intimacy
Yet not one out of ten soldiers in the
army has ever seen him. To them he
is a sort of great. directing mystery
and force.
For days and nights / had been with
his fighting iegions. The whole world
seemed an immense battlefield shaken
by tremendous din. Then, on bril-
liant sunlit day. 7 left the tumult and
the crash behind me and made my way
to a very modest chateau that stood
off the beaten road almost hidden by
trees, 1t had an atmosphere of brood
ing peace rather than any suggestion
of being the very nerve center of one
mighty phase of the mightiest war the
world has ever known. Behind me
on the dusty roads / had left the
marching troops, the endless ammuni-
ton trains. the trailing squadrons of
motor trucks, the rafting professions
Of artillery. 1t all seemed very far
away.
entered what seemed to be the usual
charming interior of the conventional
French country house. But there was
this difference: There was an almost
incessaut rattle of a typewriter, and
down the hall. a telephone bell tangled
constantly. Orderles came and went
Through the open door you saw officers
at work. Still there was nothing to in
dictate strikingly that this seclud ed
building was the headquarters Of a
conductor of war, who at that very
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and Many
Other Forms of Cabbage

causing a root-like swelling, in tho
kohlrabi, or a tall growth of the stem,
as in the Jersey cabbage: il may be
applied to the formation of buds which
develop with the peculiar luXuriance OF
brussels sprouts; or may be withheld
from the lateral buds and supplied to
one alone. which develops into the big
head of the common or "drumhead
cabbage. The most highly evolved and
the final variety of cabbage is the
caulifiower, in which the vegetatire
force acts upon the Towering head.
The common cabbage is said by some
economic botanists to have been intro-
duced into England by the Romans, and
that it was little known in Scotland
until it was carried there by the SOL
diers of Cromwell. and it is also-said
that its introduction into Ireland was
through the same means. But there
seems to be no measure of certainty
about the parentage of the cultivated
cabbage. The wild or sea cabbage Is
found on the coasts of the British Islands
and continental Europe. and there are
two or three species that are still grow
ing wild along the shores of the Mediter-
ranean Which of these the cabbage of
today is descended from. or assembled
from, is question over which learned
men dispute.
The principal varieties as one sees them
today were known in continental Europe
at least as far back as the sixteenth CEN
fury, but. of course, many of the minor
varieties have come into being since, and.
in fact new varieties of the older forms
are continually coming into use. These
varieties differ from one anotheG some
in great degree and some in minor and
unimportant way, but all differ greatly
from the original wild cabbage
All the forms of cabbage known now,
such as "drumhead" cabbage, or the
common cabbage of the white. green
and red varieties; Scotch kale or bore
cole. brussels sprouts, Portugal cab
bage, Jersey cabbage, kohl-rabi. savoy.
broccoli and cauliflower, seem to be
very old vegetables. Cauliflower is said
by some authors to have been intro
duced into continental Europe from Cy-
prus, where 1t has been eaten for un-
numbered centuries. -----..
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said Sir Douglas Efficiency counts
above all other things
Haig himself is the incarnation of eff
ficiency. The biography of his days
work is the narrative of we'll ordered
and well nigh ceaseless effort that
sheds light upon that most fascinating
mystery of this present crowded hour
how war is waged. When you sum up
other human being who has partici-
pated in this war finds out-that war is
work.
Here you get one of the many paral-
lels to tn, conduct of war with the con-
duct OF business The headquarters es-
Establishment is the first instance. In
other days the centers Of war opera
tions often proclaimed the work in
side. Flags waved, orderlies dashed up
on -fecked horses; you got some
of the thrill of great or impending
events
Haig. as you have already seen fand
Pershing will doubtless duplicate HIND,
is ensconced in the most modest and
unassuming of places. withou: splash
or spectacle, and this represents the
quiet concentration essential to war
operation. One reason for this com
parative isolation is that very modern
motor car, aided by the telephone and
the telegraph, have annihilated dis
lance and made the courier, once a IA
miliar feature Of war, almost obsolete.
A general today does not need intimate
contact with his men. He is like the
president of the United States Steel
Corporation. who sits at his desk on
Broadway. New York. and directs the
greatest Industrial enterprise. employ
ing a hundred thousand men through
out the United States.
When couriers are needed the motor
cyclst is used. These messengers. /
might add, constitute one of the most
daring and unsung adjuncts of the
war. Day and night ] have seen them
rafting along the roads of France at
what was literally break-neck speed.
In wet and dry. sleet and slush, heat
and cold. these men keep to their path
I have often marveled how they man
aged to do it, and also how they man.
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~ \ the outside of the markets. as
IL u well as on many of the vege.-
table stands. one sees at this
season large stacks of kohl-rabi.
Market men say that Washingtonians
are developing hearty appetite for
this vegetable. and that today r'any
persons are using it on their tables who
two years ago had not even heard the
name and would not have known kohl
rabi had they seen it, 1t seems to be
coming into popularity throughout the
United States. 1t may be that there
are still persons in Washington who
do not know what kohl-rabi is, and to
these it is necessary to explain that it
is one of the several distinct forms of
cabbage. The dictionary defines it in
this way: "A turnip-stemmed cabba Se
having turnip-like protuberance just
above the ground. which is the most
edible part of the plant
The varieties of cabbage are great
in number, and it has become one of
the worlds common articles of food.
It's chief varieties are kohl-rab. in
which the growth force is carried back
into the stem. which swells into a
turnip form; the common cabbage, in
which the vegetation is developed into
a compact head. and the cauliflower.
in which the Towering head is enor-
mously developed. Other varieties are
the brussels sprouts and the Jersey
cabbage, the latter growing princi-
pally in the Channel Islands. In the
Jersey cabbage the stem grows eight
or ten feet high and it supplies small
timber for building fences or for use
as spars for matched roofs. and is also
converted into walking sticks.
An authority on the subject of cab
bage has said that the changes in the
forms of this plant are easily accounted
for. The present form is of highly
vegetative character, as is shown by
it's habit and it's habitat. The surplus
vegetative force NAV express itself
simply in an increased development OF
the leaf, which is thrown into wavy
folds, as in the common kale; it may
remain in the midribs, which become
succulent. as in the Portugal cabbage:
may be carried back into the stem,
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o'clock he has read his mail and is at
his desk. From that time until the
luncheon gong sounds at 1870 he is
constantly occupied.
The morning is devoted to the recep-
ton Of the chiefs of the different de-
partments who are located in a small
town less than five miles from the
charming chateau which houses the
business office of the head of the Brit
ish army in the field. From it he gets
the reports of the operations of the
night before, which. during the course
of the day. go flashing forth through
out the world with their news of ad
vance or reverse. and. with them. those
casualty lists that are the price Of
glory.
The most trivial reporter. rather.
what would seem at first glance to be
the report of an insignificant action
may be full of important military in
formation. For example. a communi-
cation from a brigade commander con-
tanning the news Of a trench raid that
only netted half dozen prisoners may
change the operation of a whole di-
vision, because these few prisoners
may disclose information about the
movements of the enemy which may
upset long-laid and elaborate plans
Most of these reports are brought by
department chiefs themselves. One of
the first to report is the head of Mill
tary Intelligence, or the m. L., as 1t
Is more commonly known in the army.
This is the section that ferrets out
the news. that makes the maps. that
takes the airplane photographs. that
interrogates the prisoners, that brings
details of new enemy equipment and
that conducts. in short. the secret serv-
ice in the field. 1t is tireless. many
sided and represents to the very last
degree the extraordinary eff1clency OF
the British war organization. Nor is
its work confined to active service.
You find these gallant men of the
IN J." wherever men travel, and. for
that matter. wherever the Union Jack
flies
From his chief of staff Haig gets the
news of operations; from the director
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our company is to get behind the gov
eminent and lick the Germans"
All or the statements are indicative
or similar enthusiastic activity. A
New York concern says This year
nearly all OF our employees at our
quarry have taken land. We have done
the plowing for them and have financed
their seed. Not only will they be much
better off as a consequence. but far
better satisfied. The eight-hour sys-
tenn which We put into effect gives
them an opportunity to till their
land and has produced very different
social atmosphere from that which ex-
listed before"
AN IRON company in Michigan says:
think ! can assure you that the
acreage under cultivation in this sec
,ion this year viii very considerably
exceed any previous season with which
| am familiar Sig coal company in
the anthracite district of Pennsylvania
writes: Our company is doing every
thihg in its power to induce employ es
TO cultivate gardens. not Only render
IN every assistance, Lut in additica