Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-19

already IN progress IL was Utmost
eleven o'clock when they emerged on
the street again.
Slowly they made their way back to-
ward the station.
Lets go in here and have supper"
he suggested as they were passing a
cafe.
"As you like" she assented.
An o~bsequlous waiter, on their en-
trance ushered them to a table near
the dancing floor. He then took their
order and departed. While awaiting
his return, the man and the girl chat
ted together.
"Oh, boyr" he exclaimed, 81 wish /
was young again" A dislnterested OBJ
server would have given him about
thirty as his age.
Don't you know the saying, "A man
is just as young as he feelsT" she
asked, demurely.
Back In the station once more, he
grayely asked her:
swell. young lady, do you still in
sist hat your home is In California,
or shall l buy a ticket for some other
part of the UnionT"
"Bronxville will do very nicely,
thank you" she answered prlmly.
1.-TWO tickets for Br~onxville." she
overheard him say to the ticket agent.
An hour later they descended at the
| little station of BrOnxville. A fve-min-
| ute walk from there brought them to a
neat little cottage that stood a few
steps from the street. They walked
inside the yard and up the porch
steps, but paused at the door for an
instant while he searched his pockets
for his latchkey. When he had finally
found 1t, he unlocked the door and
they stepped inside. She Immediately
went upstairs, but he doffed his hat
and coat and hung them on the clothes
tree in the hallway before he followed
her.
A few minutes later he was tugglng
industri0usly at a snarled shoe-lace;
while she, with her hair down over her
shoulders, was sitting before her dress
Ing table engaged In her nightly trib-
ute to the goddess Of beauty. Sudden
ly she paused, her hands In mid-air.
Addressing his reflection In the mirror,
she abruptly observed:
We've had a splendid time this eve
ming, haven't we, D~icky-boy?"
"Finel" he exclaimed, smilingly. An
other struggle with the refractory
shoelace was crowned with success,
| then he added: would you believe it
o,ya 80 tipo ao fhio avonin0 II ntn-
| ally caught myself imagining that l
was single againl And the funny part
| of 1t is that l was flirting with my W
| wife,"
In the Ukraine, we were told. typhus
and influenza have affected most Of the
population.
A report from Vienna, dated Febru-
airy IL, said: There are rations for
three weeks. Death stalks through the
streets of Vienna and takes u%nhinder-
| ed toll.
Budapest, according to our informa-
ton, ID one vast city Of misery and
suffering. The number Of deaths Is
double that Of births. OF the 100, 600
children in the schools, 100000 are de-
pendent on public charity. There are
10000 workers idle.
Typhus and smallpox have invaded
the four countries composing CzechO-
Slovakla, and there is lack of medi-
cines. soap and physicians.
In Serbia typhus has broken out
again and there are but 200 physicians
to minister to the needs Of that entire
country.
In Montenegro, where food Is rum
ming short, there are but five physf
clans for a population Of 100000.
America Overlooking With Riches.
Returning to the United States =
few weeks ago with all these horrors
ringing in my ears, I found myself
once more in 4 land whose granaries
were overlooking, where health and
| plenty abounded and where life and
activity and eager enterprise were in
the full food.
asked myself "what IL this plague
and famine were here In the great ter.
ritory between the Atlantic senboard
and the Mississippi valley. which
roughly parallels the extent Of these
ravaged countries and that 65.000.000
Of our own people condemned to Idle
ness by lack Of raw material and
whose fields had been devastated by
invasion and rspine were racked by
starvation and pestilencs and II we
had lifted up our voices and invoked
the attention Of our brothers In hap
pier Europe to our own deep miseries
and our cries had fallen on deaf ears,
would we not in our despair exclaim
against their heartlessness"
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