The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-06-29

can be judged by handwriting is true.
When the lieutenant returned from over,
seas he took train quickly to Ossining
Most visitors to Os lining look long at the
gray walls Of Sing Sing. But Lieutenant
Rinehart's thoughts were Of pleasanter
things. Their engagement soon followed.
The young officer having done his duty
as soldier will enter the Dorsn publish
ing house His home win be at No. 242
West End avenue.
But one shadow will sit on their hearth.
1t will be the fear that the bride win pose
for other portraits for other books, as she
sat for that Of Bah. at would not matter
If mother were not so clever" Her friends
repeat her words. But she is a very
iend for analysis. For instance, did you
read Jane?%
Jane is the delightful but cholerie hero
inc of one of Mrs. Rinehal love stories.
Its setting, like that of many Of the novel
lists stories, is an hospital For while she
was still Miss Mary Roberts she was a
trained nurse Her own romance is one
of the hospitals, for she married DR.. Stan
ley Rinehart, then in hospital service, now
Major Rinehart, of the Medical Corps,
U. s. A.
Jane, according to the elder Mrs. Rine-
hart, had retired to an hospital to suIk
and remained there. The family came and
sat by her bed uncomfortably and smoked,
and finally retreated with defeat written
large all over it.
James complaint was temper. The
family knew this, and so did Jane, al
though she had an annoying way OF look
ing hurt, a gentle heartbrokenness OF
speech that made the family, under the
pretense of getting a match, go out into
the hall and swear softly under its breath.
But it was temper, and the family was not
deceived. Also, knowing Jane, the family
was quite ready to believe that while 1t
was swearing in the hall Jane was biting
holes in the hand-embroidered face-pilloW.
at had come finally to test of endur-
ance. Jane vowed to stay at the hospital
until the family on Bonded knee begged
her to emerge aand brighten the world again
with her presence. The family, being her
father. said it would be BANKED If it would,
and that if Jane cared to live on anaemic
chicken broth, oatmeal waters and mas
sage twice day for the rest of her life
she could -
With this as beginning Mrs. Rinehart's
analytical mind and gigantic imagination
strobe off into a thrilling, holding tale.
Assuredly the daughter-in-law of the wo-
man who wrote Jane must be on the alert
not to let her temper slip a cog.
AS to the little fashionable foibles, turn
the pages of Love Stories and you read
in Are We Downhearted? No.: ''The fel
lows don't respect a girl that smokes
That's the plain truth
To a bride Mrs. Rinehart's clever t"las
seem inconsistent. For instance. in The
Street of Seven Stars" she says: "The. IS
only one thing that's worth while, Th"''
the love of a good man." Satisfying GO
far, yet in "K" she writes: "ScmeN~Sy
else moulds things for US. and all we or
do is to sit back and suffer. ] am be in
ming to think the world is terrible Tla"a
Why do people so often marry the wrong
people? Why can't a man care for one
woman, and only one. all his life?"
Can't he? What a thought to SOW in the
mind of ride!
Then there is Seven Days" In that
output of her mother-in-law's brilliant
brain a couple is divorced Horrors! How
shall the daughter-in-law of a famous au-
thor order herNife?