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8; Leonard, McAllister, Flowers,
Windsor. Two base hits-Bradley, |
2; Struck out-By Henry, 4; by
Bradley. II. Base on balls-Of |
Henry. 8; off Bradley, 5. Sacrifice
hits-Flowers and Sietz. Hit bats
men-Sullivan, Adams. Umpire
Phillips
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The Washington times., 1918-03-19
ADVERTISER ENT.
TROUBLES
ARE DUE TO AC|D|TY
Tells Safe, Certain. spsedy Relief
for Acid Indigestion.

so-cai:ed stomach Troubles, such indIges-
tion. Eas. sournsss. stnmach-ache. and IN
ability TO retain food are in probably nine
cases out Of ten simply evidence that eSces-
sivs secretion ot acid is taking place In the
stomach. carsing the formation Of gas and
acid IrdigssticE.
Ca. distsnds the stomach and causes that
flll, oppressive. burning feeling sornstinles
known as heartburn, while the acid irrttaicE
and infiaInes the delicate :iSiEg OF the stOTI
sch. .rhS t.rIble lies entirely 10 tie ez-
oeES devsloprIsHt OF secretion OF acid
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food Contsnls o! tns st0gRAch and to ne1-
traltzs tss acid, and make u bland and
h.rmIeSs. a teasroontul OF hisurAtsd mag
n aaia a guSd and effective eorrector OF acid
stonla.h should be taken In quarter OF
q Elass OF hot nr cold water after eating or
whanoVer Gss, scUrpess or actdiJy f. felt
ThIs Evsetcns the stomach and neutra!izes
the hcidity In - few moments and ls a per-
foctiy harmless AMI inexpensive ronlsdy TO
uss.
an sn.ncid, such as blsuratOd maRnesi0.
which can he obtained from any druggist; In
either powder or tablet form. cradles the
stomacl: TO do It's work properly w'tlo~t the
AID oS artificial Glge~tEuis Ma2LesIa curIes
n several tC=nls. ~ te-ttr To "a fof
and take cIiv FisUTr,trd MAST si't. wE.'h Is
skDeciAlly Issc4ICG -or lie ~L-.s sH--s-s-
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widened rapidly in spite of the fact
that she produced six children as
automatically as the most devoted
land detested) hausfrau of her &C
quaintance.
Shortly after the birth of Marie,
the breach became-a chasn, for the
chocolate firm, inherited through
her bourgeoise mother and the
source of Frau Won Erkel's wealth,
failed, and the naughty Bavarian
aristocrat was forced to keep up his
position in the army and maintain
his growing family on an income,
accruing from chocolate invest
ments, that should have been re-
served for pleasure alone.
However, there was help for it.
He renounced cards and such other
costly diversions as was possible
without lowering his standard as a
gentleman and an officer, and Of
course, the real privation was borne
by the women Of the family.
He even ceased to rage at his
wife, for she merely sat in her IA
vorite chair, her hands folded. and
looked at him with her subtle ironic
smile.
When Gisela met them, Frau Won
Erkel and her three daughters (all
in their late twentics and unmar-
ried) were living in a dingy old
house in a respectable quarter, with
one beer-sodden maid to relieve
them of the heavy work and bake
the cake for the Sunday coffee"
Colonel Won Erkel and his three
sons lived in bachelor quarters and
called upon the women of the fam
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Begin to Read Here.

Countess GIsela SlebuhT IL one Of three
Aaurhte-H OF a weIl-knoUn Jdnker lam
fly Of Prussia From long obseTvauon o.
the autocrstic bearing OF their fatner ln
his Domestic Affairs they have sworn
never TO marry. On the death OF her
father. Gipela free, enters German uni
Nersfty, gets q degree In letters Anu sOes
10 America as companion to the cnloreh cnl
OF q rich American. There she rneeu
Franz Won Nettelbeck. attAche Al the
German legation. with whom sne ioIihs
q close friendship. Won Nettelbeck has
been paying court 10 wealthy Amen
can girl. GiseIa does not reveal 10 Non
Nettelbeck that she Is OF bis class. and
he continues to regard her as OF me great
German middle class. Their attacnmeht
continues two years. after Whlcn .Non
Settelbeck Is recalled TO Germany 10
marry = titled woman, and GlselA ec-
cornpanies her employer on a tour Of the
United States. She 10 vastly impressed
with the extent and resources OF the
country.
Girela returns TO her native land and re-
sunaes her Studies She meets Won Net
tsIbeck at a court function. but he docs
not betray that she had been working m
eognita IN America. She receives pro-
posal Of marriage from fehoWstuoeht.
but is spruned when he nnos her one OF
the detested Junker class She writes a
successful play depicting the difference IN
the social position Of German and Ameri-
can women.
Then comes the wa. ana Shea 80
into hospital work behind the German
lIne1. The hrst exultation over The VIC
tories Of the army Of the Fatherlsnd is
followed by q revulsiop OF feeling over the
needless outrages Of the conquerors.
Gradually 81 becomes apparent that all
is not a. the war lords would have II
appear. II becomes common tax that
Tsrdun - a defeat and the fallacy OF
''strategfc retreats from the Aarne and
eoume are subjects Of discussion.
Gisela and her girl friends are horrfned
At existing conditions.
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CHAPTER III.

The three girls went to a little
hotel that had been favorite resort
Of Gisela's in times Of peace when
she had felt an imperative need Of
the high solitudes and eternal
SHOWS.
They planned a weeks rest. and q
fortnight or more of mountain
climbing, dismissing the world war
n'om their minds as far as possible.
Plans Are Interrupted.
But their gentle plans were up
sea on the eighth day of their ar
rival, when at .he end Of an hours
ha:id skating, clad in the bright
SWEATERS and caps of old, Gisela
suddenly stopped short and returned
the 1lard stare of two young wom-
en- who had drawn apart and were
eviden tiy discussing her.
Thai they were Americans Gisela
recognized at a glance, but for a
moment she saw them through a
curtain. of fire and smoke and
shrieknsg shells and dying groans,
50 deep in the background Of her
memory were the people and events
Of her naerely personal life.
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ADVERTISEMENT
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Simply moIsten the hair with wator
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"Oh God! Deliver Us From War; DeIive Us Men!"

vaIids. And 1 am a German girl.
too.
France has never had any call
for me. 1t is Marie who would be
all French II she could. Poor little
Marie, with her drab face and hair,
her poverty, her dynamic body, mad
to marry. and climbing out Of the
window when mother is asleep, to go
to Socialists meetings, and scream
off her pent-up passions. What a
hideous world"
She sprang to her feet and nuug
her arms above her head and glared
at the unresponsie stars.
Prayed for Deliverance.
"Oh God" she prayed. Deliver
US. Deliver us from war and deliver
us from men! Deliver US from
Kings and deliver US from criminal
jealousies and ambitions and greeds
that the innocent millions expiatc
in blood and tearsI Deliver US from
cowards-" She whirled suddenly
upon Gisela. "You-you-whyd don't
you lead us out? You have more
mind than any woman in Germany.
You have more influence. / have al
ways placed my hopes on you. But
now-now-you are doing nothing
but nurse disgusting men like the
rest OF US"
Hush. You are talking too loud.
And you are carrying your revolt too
far. These poor deluded men you
nurse are only 20 be pitied, and II
they merely revolt you. you have no
vocation"
when did I ever pretend to have
a vocation for nursing? Like all the
rest 1 felt 1 must do my part. and
heaven knows 1t is better than sit
ting at home making bandages and
watching my mother slowly starve'
II | had rolled one more bandaEe i
should have gone mad"
We'll, dear Heloise. as far as / am
concerned, the time for women to
battle for their rights is VIXEN their
country is safe, not in mortal danger
Be sure that when this war Is
over"
She fell silent A little famo had
ieapt In her brain.
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Called Fully Uniformed.

In full uniform, and imposing
specimens Of the German officer. they
sat stifhy upon the uncomfortable
chairs for about thirty minutes and
then simultaneously escaped and
we're seen no more for a week.
At first Gisela was intensely
amused at the vagaries Of the Erkels,
but when she saw the four narrow
beds in a row in one small mon
astic room (the first floor was let
to dodgers to pay the remit, and still!
more OF their almost hopeless con-
triving to hold their position In
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Munich society, to say nothing OF a
bare sufficiency Of food and raiment,
her sympathies, always more deep
than quick. were permanently arous-
ed. But they were confined to the
girls.
Charming and graceful as the old
lady was, it was evident that II above
the arrogance of her German hus-
band she was afflicted with the in
tense conservatism Of her own race.
1t had taken Aimee, the Oldest OF
the girls, three years Of persistent
begging, nagging, arguments, tears,
and threats Of abrupt demise. to
obtain permission to move her piano
"a present from relatives who oc-
casionally came to the rescue-a
bookcase and three chairs up to the
garret and have q room she could
call her own.
I Frau Won Erkel was scandalized
that French girl (she systematical-
Iy ignored the German infusion in
her daughters) should wish for hours
Of solitude.
But Aimee had the national gen.
ius for pegging away. and her
mother. who came in time to feel
that one nerve was being gnawed with
maddening reiteration, finally sue
cumbed; relieving her mind daily.
After that it was comparatively
easy, although there were several
notable engagements, for Heloise to
become secretary to Gisela Doring.
She never dared admit that she
received a generous monthly cheQue
for her seryice9. but Gisela was e
favorite with the old lady always
sitting placidly in her chair, with her
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The Weakness of Woman.

However, nothing was farther
from the minds Of the German men
Of war than that the women cogs
of their supremeiy organized land
should presume to criticise methods
which had, to their best belief. ter
rorized the world.
"But we are not the only ones" )"
said Heloise grimly, as they sat on
their refuge one Gusky evening.
"All but the sheep have q word
to say now and then. OF course,
there always will bs women who
will grovel at the feet of men mere
ly because they are men; but look
out for the others when this ac-
cursed war is over.
"God! How / hate men! To
think that once / dreamed and hoped
like the silly romantic girl was
that some day some man would
marry me In spite Of my poverty.
"Now / would not marry one Of the
Kaiser's sons. Sick or we'll, German,
English. French, i loathe them all
alike. Obscene beasts every one OF
them: but ! hate the Germans most
for they are ths most digusung In
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Now Go Right On With
the Story.

Mimi had been far more Of an
active rebel than the Niebuhr girls,
possibly because her life-stream was
closer to the source, patiently to her
self because she had magnificent
voice which needed only technique to
assure her q welcom, in any of the
great opera houses of Germany.
AdroitIy persuaded by her parents
to marry when she was not quite
seventeen, she had conceived an alb
horrence Of the rodent-visaged young
burgess who had been her lot; not
only was he personally distasteful to
the ardent romantic girl, but he
would not permit her to cultivate
her voice, much less study for the
stage.
Her revenge had been a cruel dis
dain. to which he had RESPONDED bv
lying under the bed all night and
bowling. Twice she had run away,
visiting prosperous and sympa-
thetic relatives in Milwaukee, and
both times returned at the passionate
solicitations Of her parents; not only
outraged in their dearest conven-
tions but anxious to be nd Of the
small rodent born Of the union.
Her last return had been but a
month before the outbreak Of the
war, and Hans Brandt, to his growl-
ing disgust, was promptly swept of
BY the searching German broom.
He was as much in love with his
wife as a man 50 meagerly equipped
in all but national conceit may be,
for Mimi was a handsome girl with
q buxom but graceful figure, and a
laughing face whose golden brown
eyes spsr,-lc with the pure fun of
living when they were not somber
with disgust and rebellion.
Gisela had always looked upon
Helcise Won Eikell as the most tragic
figure in Munich.
In appearance she had distinction
rather than beauty. for although her
features were delicate her complex
ion and hair were faded and there
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One Of the young women was very
tall, with a slim dashing figure, fine
hair, keen cold gray eyes, . naughty
nostril and upper lip: . beauty Of
the patrieian Americe- type.
The other was shorter but also
excessively thin, with dark dancing
eyes, a warm color. . eoquettish
nose and pouting lips-whieh some
how invoked the conplaeent visags
of the late Herr Graf Niebuhr-and
a brilliant smile.
In a moment Gisela recognized
Ann Rowland Prentiss and Kate
Terriss, now Mrs. Toby. This
american friend Of her childhood
had married an American whose
business kept him in London, and
her path and Gisela's had never
crossed since her finishing days in
Berlin; although she had CORE
sponded with Lii, for two or three
years and knew the family history
in vague outline.
Gisela skated directly over to
them and held out her hand to Kate.
at is a long vhile," she said, "but
perhaps you remember me-
(Continued Tomorow)
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Blonde of French Type.

She was a blonde of the French
type, and her light figure, although
indifferently carried and a stranger
to gowns, possessed an indefnable
elegance.
Under heaven knew what impulse
of romantic madness Frau Won
Erkel, then Heloise d'0remont, had
married a young German officer,
and although both fancied them
selves deeply in love the breach be-
gan shortly after they had settled to
the routine life of the frontier town
where he was stationed, and had
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hands in her lap, a faint ironic smile
on her still pretty face). and as her
literary style was extolled by her
exacting daughters FRAU Won Erkel
never read even a German newspa-
per, but subscribed for lie Fl
aro), and as she knew Gisela to be
a member of her own class, the new
connection was harmonious; and
Heloise at last experienced some
thing like real liberty in the tiny
garden house of the parterre apart
ment Of Gisela Doring on the Konig-
instrasse.
There is little time in the war
zones to meet and talk, but even
nurses must rest and take the air,
and during the month before the
frightful rush of wounded after the
British offensive on the Sonme be-
gan, the four girls, all in different
hospitals, unanswered to obtain
leave of absence at the same hour,
early in the evening.
They promenaded the desolate
streets arm in arm, their heads to-
gether, relieving their burdened
souls. There was no idea of trea-
son in any one of those rebellious
minds, for they still believed their
Fatherland to have been on the de-
fensive from the first, the victim OF
conspiracy, and they knew from
the expression of the officers faces,
to say nothing Of their tempersr
that the danger was by no means
past.
But being women, and women who
had thought for themselves fol-
many years, they must talk it out
and when too overcharged to trust
their comments to the narrow
streets, they retired to hillock out,
side the city which no spy could ap-
proach unseen.
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lily every Sunday afternoon at pre-
cisely 4 o'clock
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it burnt the fingers Of her WILL A'-
ways snthronsd and always ai
GUARD. As she stared at Heioisa
lovely In her Red Cross uniform, %
white torch against the dark h0r1-
zon, her tragic eyes once more
searching the heavens, it struggled
fol- life again and again.
She loved Heloise, and she felt q
sudden inclusive love Of her sex, an
o, empowering desire to deliver 1t
from the sadness and horror OF war;
a profounder emotion than anything
it had inspired in those far OF days
Of peace.
Alter all, however serious she had
believed herself to be, it had been
game, G career; for in times OF
peace one must invent the vital in
lterests of life. and ones success or
failure depends upon ones powers
/ Of creating and sustaining the delu-
sion. Only two things IN HE were
real, love and war.
Gisela, like many women Of donni-
mating intellect and personality, had
exhausted her power Of sex-love
with her first unfortunate but pro-
| longed passion, and although she
had no hatred of men, and, indeed,
liked many and craved their society,
she gave her real synpathies and
affections to her women friends.
She had no intimates, and this,
perhaps, was one secret OF her
power. A certain aloofness is es-
sential in intellectual leadership.
But if she had no talent for inti-
macy she had much for friendship,
and the friends Of her inner circle
were all women, partly because
there was no waste Of time Tending
on love-making, partly because
there were more interests In COM
mon, consequently . deeper bond.
Finds Her Hand Tied.
Tonight she was filled with an r.
resistible pity and a longing to set
them free. But her hands were tied.
She dared not even go to Great
Headquarters and protest against
the terrible fate Of the young girls
of Lille. She would have accom-
plished no good and become an in
/, slant object Of suspicion.
For many months she did her duty
doggedly, her indignation reused by
the disquieting fact that the Ger
mans were retreating from the
Somme; inch by inch, but still re-
treating. Once she might have been
satisfied with grandiose phrases and
scornful assurances.
But the long attack on Verdun had
ended In dark humiliation; q failure
that the most resourceful vocabulary
was unable to translate into a Ger
man advantage, optically inverted.
More than half a million young
Germans had fallen before Verdun,
and for what? That France, dis
dained these many years by the
mighty Teutonic empire, and numer-
ically inferior. might demonstrate to
the world that she was the greater
military nation Of the two.
What was 1t all for? What Of the
ever-receding fields Of peace, grown
green and Fat again? What OF the
racing past dotted with the broken
headstones Of promises Of victory BY
this means cr that?
But to attempt to answer historical
enigmas while working day and night
over the mangled Yctims Of the
Sonlme was beyond her powers. 1t
was not until she broke down. and,
with Heloiss Won Erkel and Mimi
Brandt, obtained leave TO spend q
month at st. Moritz, that she found
her answer.
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were faint lines on her charming
face.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16

trade unions and other organizations,
arc much more highly disciplined than
the Russian and recent anarchy.
Herr Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian Pre-.
mier. Is man of ideas and a poet. He
s sincere. but not a practical states
man. He has abandoned now his oppo-
sition to national assembly but still
thinks parliamentism Is only transit
tory form Of government and still hopes
to build UP out OF the present soviets a
new form OF democratic government on
basis OF vocational representation !;
that is to say, there shal! be an assem-.
bly including representatives OF all
classes, all vocations and all interests,
councils OF industrialists aad intcllec-
tuals as well as of soldiers. wor' men
and peasants.
Auer. on the contrary, is a prosaic
realist. and though he and Elsner
should naturally compliment each other.
they seem to lind considerable difficulty
in working harmoniously so far. accord
ing to my first informant who persisted
In hoping that the sound principal spirit
OF the German people would overcome
all difficulties.
He. pointed out that in some parts Of
Germany, In Hesse, for example, the
people were dissatisfied with the one
sided rule of the Soldiers and Work
mems Council and created peoples
councils representing all classes.
My second informant. an economist
was less optimistic In regard TO the
Bolshevik danger. He pointed out that
the military power OF the Russian Boil
sheviki was growing. that they were ad-
vancing very near to the German frontier
and that their declared ambition was to
establish q ~Bolshcvist front on the
Rhine. This was particularly serious AT
a moment when machine guns consti-
tuted such a powerful political argu-
ment In Germany and when so many
armed men were idle In the towns and
constantly attending political meetings
The young men who now rule Ger
many" said this economist, have eX-
cellent intentions and desire to maintain
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discussions are prohibited unless sane
TONED BY the American military author
TIES. The proclamation orders also that
all civilians turn over to the proper au-
thorities at once all firearms in their
possession. The burgomasters of towns
IN the area of occupation will issue H.
censes to the persons authorized to be
armed Tor police duties. after approval
py the American military authorities.
The proclamation says that prices of
FOOD and other things shall be the same
LOT the americans as for the Germans.
All goods must be sold at the usual
prices.
The detectives of the American army
various points. Spreading out like a
great fan, the advanced units OF the
americans took up their positions along
the boundary Of an eighteen-mile semi
circle plvoting on Coblenz.
The Thirty-second Division Is occupy
ing the bridgehead on the left, the Sec
ond Division comes next, and the First
Division Is on the right of the Second
Division. Two French divisions are
their position being on the extreme right
Of the Americans.
AS the various detachments reached
the boundaries of the bridgehead. the
infantrymen marched into the towns be-
hind bands playing spirited American
airs. In some instances the bands gave
concerts for the benefit Of the natives
while the infantrymen hustled about
looking for quarters.
The officers are using public build
ings as headquarters, but are being
billeted In hotels and private homes.
The main body OF troops Is encamped
just west Of the bridgehead