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The Washington times., 1921-03-10
When a Girl Marries
A Story of II
EARLY Welded LIFE
By ANN Isle.

stow away. and will you keep h
until Iwant ity'
Run and get II ready" said
Jeanfe with commendatory smile.
"And II l happen TO guess that it's
some specially dear gift from jim
mic. I'm not embarrassing the brids.
am II"
"Don't guess" I tossed back Il
her as / Ned to get q box In which
] might hide, not a precious gift OF
Jim's. but the octagon coin Lane
Cosby had given me.
1t had to be put away for safe
keeping until such time as j. could
get IL back to him without seeming
to use II for the purpose he'd given
IL to me. / couldn't return II now,
for that would be sending for him.
And i couldn't risk losing 1t. for
some day ! hoped he'd long to have
1t again as a sign Of his complete
return to his old-time alteration of
Val. ft ~
1t took only a rev minutes TO
dash upstairs. find a box in which
l could put the ccsl and to return
again to the living room with my
little package. Virginia was watt
ing for me and we made a half
humorous rite of slowing away tbs
package. As the safe door swung
to upon IL, however, I realized that
/ had cut myself of from one
source OF holm on which I might
have depended in case our affairs
took turn for the worse. ~
WHO is ITs
For a moment OF panic ! wanted
the coin again. 1t seemed as n
I'd promised to preserve Walls ro-
nance at Jim's expense, ThenII
smiled the thought away. I knew
perfectly well that my proud boy
wouldn't be likely to ask help in
any event But now the circuf1i-
stances put it out of the question.
In our gayety over the ceremony
of the safe neither Jeanne nor I
heard the doorbell, so when He'd
wig ushered in Anthony Norreys he
came as complete surprise. We
both rushed forward with greet
ings, which told what kind OF a
surprise he was.
When Virginia had finished
Pumping up a tempting array iof
cushions for him in the couch and
had chuckled in delight over the
fine dinner she had wisely sent
Hedwig and Ivy off to get. Tony
turned to me with a merry twinkle
in his eye:
Lady. / have to send you out into
the dark and the cold" said he
In his dear, dry way, but one waits
in my car who's the immediate
cause OF my driving over. He
wants to have a nice little con-
fdential chat with you."g
"Who is it?" / asked
who is 1t? Well. I'll leave you
to guess. merely telling you that
he isn't sure my ethics meet with
his approval He wants you to Tell
him II I'm the right sort of person
Tor him to-know. It's so critical
moment In his life. Lady, and
though he doesn't quite, trust me,
he has complete faith in you"
To BE Continued SATURDAY,
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in her satin lap, and saying to the
sender thereof:
You made a mistake. / can't ac-
cept such generosity. It-really--it
isn't being done this year"
WE'RE NO STRINGS.
- And when a perfectly legitimate
and self-imposed boss calls little
Edy into his office and gives her a
$500 note and says, II want to make
you present of this ;" do you think
little Edy's going to register indig-
nation, and say how dare your"
No! Really, it isn't being done
this year!
But quite seriously, and without
any attempt at vain humor, I'm richl
And I'm going to be richer. When
those wells begin to spout oil--oh,
boy! i can just see my picture now
in all the papers, and a long story
with big headlines, about the "for-
mer Washington war worker who
is now an airy heiress!"
or course, I wouldn't have. taken
the note II there'd been any strings
ted to 1T. But there were none.
And / wouldn't have taken IT IL I'd
thought Mr.. Alvarez had any ul-
terror motiver-which is highbrow
for bad intentions-in giving IL to me.
But I'm sure he didn't. Mr.. AL
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varez is a gentleman of breeding
and integrity, IL I'm any judge.
And assure you I am.
He might try to hold your hand,
but not in the office. In the office
he's strictly business. When he's
in there, that is. Which isn't very
often. He comes in in the morn
ing, but he doesn't stay long. And
when he's there. he's usually
closeted in his own little private Of
fcc with some other man.
He seems worried about some
thing. I'm afraid his oil business
isn't going across as well as he
hoped IL would. I'm sure IL he were
doing terribly well, he'd get a nice,
regular suite of Offices down in the
The Offices we have now are a dis
grace. A couple of little, old, dingy
rooms on the third floor of an old,
tumbied-down building on street
NOT SELLING STOCK.
When / think about nice, clean
Offices I worked in over in the War
Risk building 1t makes me home
sick.
But we can't have everything
as someone has so aptly said. And
I'm sure 1 have no kick coming.
It's no fun to climb two flights
of creaking stairs to get to work
every morning. But when it's
taken into consideration that 1
spend only a few hours each day
in the office, and that / do less
than nothing while I'm there and
that Mr.. Alvarez not only is won
derful to me in the office. but is
grand about taking me out to
dinner and places, well-well as
Grace would say guess things
could be worse.
I've hardly done enough work
during the few weeks I've been
employed by Mr.. Alvarez to know
what it's all about. But I'm sure
that after you get into 1t it's quite
interesting-the oil business. And
/ know that some day this is go
ing to be big company.
They're not selling any stock.
you see. It's something entirely
different. As nearly as ] can make
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The policeman was not impressed
with this imported talent. SAY.
can't we handle this case by our
selves without boosting a Sherlock
Holmes into 1T? What's the big
idea?"
mot SO much lip" snarled the
sergeant. ''Stover's on the job, SO
look sharp. Hey. Is there someone
listening In on this wire?'
Nothing doing" snapped the po-
liceman, hanging UP the phone
simultaneously with Peter, but
with much more noise.
So Sergeant Linton. stranger to
the three policemen on the job.
charge OF the cane. Peter had an
idea. Suppose he we're to come
into the room as the aforesaid
Linton and assume. command?
What then? He might as well be
arrested for stealing a sheep as a
lamb. 1t was worth trying. He
caught down a derby and a coat.
left his swallo*-tail and. climbing
deftly out of the pantry window,
slipped around to the front of the
house
What he had to do must be done
swiftly; he posted himself on a
railing under which the third po-
liceman had to pass and, in an
auspicious moment Peter. leaping
down like a monkey, grappled with
the bluecoat.
To he Continued Tomorrow.
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TOR several minutes I stood
rafting the telephone hook
up and down, striving by
every means in my power to
coax back some sign of life to the
dead line so tina II might hear my
Jim's voice again. Then suddenly .
voice challenged me from the room
itself.
whats the game you're playing
with Central. Anne? Seeing how
often you can flash your light in q
minute?"
"oh, Jeaniew / cried. hanging up
the receiver with Anal click Of
transportation. where Is every one
In this house. II only some one
had been here to answer this phone!
Jim's been trying to get us by long
distance for an hour and ] came In
Just in time to hear his voice and
then to be shut or"
HE will call you back" Virginia
said carelessly.
"If only some one had been
herew found myself waiiing
again. "It's no use now. He won't
be able to call me again, for he
had-oniy ten minutes before
leaving"
JEANNE didn't notice my momen-
tary hesitation and the way 1
avoided committing myself to an
exact statement of where Jim was
leaving and how and why. Instead
she promptly took up my question
of her household arrangements and
/ had a chance to tell her 1 had
met Envy.
NOT SAME GIRL.
as she In black? / passed some
one who made me think Of Envy.
but / didn't believe II could be-"
Eyes, Envy is in mourning" ! re-
piled.
"She looked so different. Actu-
ally not like the same girl.
'She isn't the same girl. Her
whole attitude Is different"-
'iJeanie, I've found the Keepsake
/ was so worried about, and I'd
like to put 1T into your safe" /
exclaimed. following the inspiration
given me by my thoughts OF Envy.
MAY go up and get 1t ready to
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CONTENTEDLy MARRIED.

have been married about two
years. Would I care to be a single
girl again? A thousand times mo"
| would not give my two years of
married life for all the years that
passed before or for n whole life
as an Old Maid. | certainly pity
those Old Maids who NOPE around
home with the excuse that they
must help their mothers perfectly
able and healthful mothers, by the
way). If | were an Old Maid. I'd
go to work so as TO be out of my
own way and other peoples too.
MRS. NJ. u. II.
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BOOKS

Up THE SEINE. BY Anna Bowman
Dodd. New York: Harper & Bros
1t is only once In a while there
comes writer gifted with the
fuslon, of ~vitalizing imagination
and the eyes of a keen observer, and
rare treat is given of the people
ana places of today. enriched by all
the historic glamor of the past.
those who have followed Mrs. Dokld
on her excursions in the past know
that the gift is hers.
The sense of breath and motion.
the feel of the suns warmth and
the delight Of gay. pleasant colors
are present to reward the trayehr
from the moment he starts on the
aiiuring trip up the Seine Bath
neids, From Havre clear up TO
Houen the story carries the reader,
while memories are jpstled by such
reminders of the present as an ar
Sument' between a wrathy Norman
river captain and his oarsmen
and an animated discussion by fel {
low travellers of the relative meritsI
or Foch's and Napoleon's cam
paigns.
On the highway to Amiens a sight
that needs no comment greets the
travellers eyes-the words "Abri,
pour 5O-abri pour 1O0"-pasted on
door jamb or house wall, tellinsf
the story of gallant stand. Then
Villers-Brentonneux. Tanks with
broken bodies half buried in the,
mud; miles and miles of barbedi
wires, zig-zagging in apparently ir-'
resolute lines across what were,
once fields and groves of trees.Y
The grave of lone American SOL,
dier--then a glimpse of khaki, u
laugh and the CHEEKY voice of 4
Texan, and the trip is ended
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, out from what Mr.. Alvarez has
told me and what I've learned
from the few letters, I've writ
ten. they sell what they call first
year gold lien notes"
You buy one of these notes for
thousand dollars, say. and at the
end of the year you get your
money back. and bonus of nearly
half that amount. know it
sounds unreasonable. 1t did TO me
at first. But not since Mr.. Alvarez
explained IL to me and since I've
read the prospectus.
What they're trying to do, as
nearly as l can fathom it. is to
raise money 10 develop the i'm
mepse oil wells they have down in
Mexico. They've got a lot OF oil
tsnkers. Those, and the property,
are their security.
SEEMED so RIDICULOUS.
Mr.. Alvarez makes it sound very
simple. He's got all kinds of maps.
And he knows more about Mexico
than / know about Washington.
He used to live there, he told me,
while he was preparing to organ
ize the Mexico-American Oil Com
pany. his company, you know.
He told me all about IL yester-
day afternoon when. he gave me
the FIVE hundred dollar note.
81 want to give you this" he
said in such a way that the most
prudish among us couldn't take Of
Tense, land / want you to take Ii
to make you feel an interest in the
business" he continued with that
wonderful smile OF his. mot that
! don't think you'd be interested
anyway" he added. But"
"Of course 1 interrupted. as I
reached out and took the note from
his hand. You never can tell when
one will change ones mind. But
/ tried not to seem precipitate. "Of
course I'm interested in the BUSH
ness. I'm always interested in my
work But this" / glanced
down at the funny looking piece
of paper he'd given me DO you
really mean it's worth FIVE hundred
dollars, Mr.. Alvarez"' 7 asked, I'm
afraid trifie too enthusiastically.
To He Continued Tomorrow.
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TWO MAKE A QUARREL.

1t takes two to make a quarrel. 1
believe that the wrecking of mar
riages is a fifty-fifty proposition.
Give me a man whom / love and
I'll make him love me.
There will be no eternal triangle
or quarrels with us.
Disagreements that finally lead
to the divorce court only come IL
two people are willing to quarrel.
Either one of the two can make
quarreling impossible.
l feel that with love present.
nothing else would matter TO me.
would do what every wife should
do--make my husband love me by
dressing. acting and being to him
what he would have me-a sweet
heart. And he could not help doing
the same for me-.
If husbands first care is to
please his wife, and a wife's first
care is to please her husband, there
will be no home wrecking.
A NJ w
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SHE Is RIGHT.

In reply to the letter signed "Ex-
perience.r she calls herself a fool.
She is right. For any one who
thinks such of all male sex Is too
narrow-minded to see the better
half in some of them.
The broad-minded man does not
expect a woman to stay at home,
even after marriage: but there Is
always a stopping point to good
times.
She claims that all men are alike.
They are in sex, but some are just
as different from others as day is
from night. Her only reason for
thinking so probably Is because she
picked out the wrong man for a
life pardner.
If she will but look around she
will see many happy married people.
G. A. X
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Advice to
LovelOrn
Dr. Roafriao ENairfay
By Beatrice Fairf;
SyUB HER.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAA:
received this letter from q young
lady of eighteen:
Dear R.-You may not remem-
Der me. but / surely do remember
you. How could I ever forget you?
"You know, think you are ador-
able. so please come around and see
me soon. You know where live.
Tell p. like him, too. But. oh!
I like you better. I hope ! shall
see you soon. Lovingly, X"
met this girl at a house dance
recently for the first time. This IS
the first letter of this kind ! have
ever received, and am at loss as
to what to do. Is she sincere or
just "stringing me along?" Should
l call on her or not? BOB.
There are a lot OF silly girls in
the world, with not enough work 20
do to keep them we'll occupied.
This letter comes from one of them.
She deserves q spanking. even IL she
is eighteen, for writing such
letter. 1t is so downright silly and
cheap. The young lady should be
snubbed.
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MAN THE HoME-wRECKER.

The man is responsible for most
wrecked marriages, believe. Man
is essentially polygamous Woman
is essentially homogeneous. The in
stitution of "pair-marriage" and the
family as we know IL is the work
of woman alone. She has always
had difficulty in keeping man to the
agreement.
The story of the temptation of
Adam has been mans alibi through
all the ages. Men are like the
ancient hunters, always on the
chase. Today they chase pretty
faces. The love OF a man Is not as
deep as that of woman. There
are exceptions, of course. but they
prove the rule.
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Is HE MARRIEDs

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
1 am thirty-three years old and
considered a good girl. I have
friend; he likes me and 1 like him.
Our only 1quarrels are that can't
, see him but once a week. and. that
doesn't suit him much. And for
what reasons I am not allowed to
see him but once a week, / do not
know. II he has business to attend
to on the night he is supposed to
call. and can't come, / can't see him
any other night in the week. So
please give me your. advice and tell
me what you would do.
LONESOME A. B.
II this man works at night, try
and be content with the time he can
spend with you. II he does not
work at night, he should be able to
offer a plausible explanation why
he cannot see you occasionally more
than one night a week.
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ICE CREAM.

One quart of milk. brought to a
scald. Stir in it:
2 eggs beaten together
u cup of -four
l cup sugar
Stir till thick, then remove from
fire and add a tablespoonful but
ter. Crumble some stale cake in
the freezer and put a half cupful
preserved cherries or Watermelon
ginger preserves, then pour over
the custard. Add to this one pint
cream and freeze.-Mrs. Percy Du-
vail.
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STRING BEANS WITH SAUSAGE
AND ONION.

Boil in sailed water string beans.
When tender, drain and set aside.
Cook a fairly largo cake Of fresh
sausage in a frying pan until 1t
is well Drowned. Cook at the same
time with the sausage an onion,
that should be sliced very thin but
not in any way allowed to be too
brown or burned. When these are
cooked add the string beans and
toss them about in the pan so that
the sausage and onion are well
mixed through the beans. Serve
as a vegetable.-Mrs. Percy Duvall.
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oLD-FAsHIoNED POUND CAKE

l pound butter,
pound sugar.
IL eggs-i pound of flour.
Cream butter and sugar-add
eggs we'll beaten, little at
time--work in thoroughly. Sift In
-four grsdually-add extract and
work thoroughly. Bake in steady
oven for one hour and thirty min
utes.-Mrs. Margaret h. Frost, $500
O street northwest.
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Is Marriage a Success?

Men and women should make UP
their minds to be frank and honest
with each other before and after
marriage. They must be real friends
as well as lovers. Marriage, based
on passion alone. will never endure.
.-.,0 ..... ..... ". T..
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ICED COFFEE.

In serving this as a drink, have as
large pieces Of ice in the tall glasses
as can be had. Sweeten the coffee be-
fore it is poured over the ice, when
it is hot Place a spoonful of whip
ped cream on the top Of each glass
Mrs. Percy Duvall.
Copyright. 1890. by Mrs. Percy DuvalL)
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Maryland
Cooking
Recipes From the Mel
wood Cook
Book.

(CEp them out and paste thsm
in your scrap book.J s".
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Prize Cake
Recipes
Washington's Best Sub
mitted in Times Cake
Contest. Clip Them.

I cup sugar.
u cup butter.
u cup sweet milk.
Whites Of eggs.
. cups foour.
1 teaspoon baking powder.
FILLING.
cups sugar,
n cups Karo syrup.
u cup water.
Whites of ? eggs.
MRS. ]. KNOX WOOD.
sos l. street northwest.
CREAM COCOANUT CAKE.
I pound OF sugar,
pound of flour.
6 eggs.
II pound of butter.
1 pint of milk.
cocoanut,
2-ounce bottle of vsnillal
teaspoonfuls of baking powder
Mrs. Emma Prince, 1110N Sixth
street northwest,
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500

stepped back quickly so. he
wouldn't see me. Then l hesitated.
Grace was leading the way. ready
TO follow the waiter to table near
willard and the girl. Bob was
standing aside waiting for me to go
next. And / knew / couldn't do 1t.
1t wouldn't have been humanity pos
sible for me to have sat through
dinner In that dining room with
willard and that girl in the room.
He hadn't seen us. ! was sure of
that Also,'l was equally sure he
wasn't going toA
Come, Edy---" Grace called to
me over her shoulder.
Fl" for just a minute. hesi-
tated. Then had a happy thought.
T--please. Grace. dear, can't we
go somewhere where we can dancer.
/ asked. "I'm--' hummed a bit of
a tune and pirouetted a minute on
my toes to show my enthusiasm.
I'm just crazy to dance
"Why-I-we---" Grace glanced
from me to Bob and from Bob to
the waiter, I knew she didn't
want TO do anything to disappoint
me when / was so blue and every
thing. And she didn't want to to
spicuous, like walking out and
going somewhere else
NO MUSIC IN SOUL.
Sure" 1t was dear old Bob who
came to the rescue. He stepped
over and slipped a bill into the
walters hand, and the waiter grin
ned most graciously. "We1l go
UP TO the Washington roof and have
dinner and Dance he said. I'm
sort or rarin' to shimmy myself"
Grace looked at Bob half approx
ingly. But we went. And though
j danced and shimmied through the
evening. the music was all in my
feet. There was no music in my
soul, 1t was all discord and aches
and mute suffering.
CHAPTER s.
IF anybody ever had told me that
one day I'd be the proud and hon
est possessor ola five hundred dol
lar Inrst lien gold note, rd-well, I
might not have told them in just
so many words that they were tell
ing an untruth--but i would at
least have laughed at the absurdity
OF the suggestion.
ed. Am / lucky? I'll say j am. And
do feel like a bloated bond holder?
You can bet your sweet life / do.
An oil magnate at the age of
twenty-one. That's me. Or that's
If you insist.
Gee! Won't willard fall all over
himself with jealousy when tell
him what happened. And maybe
he'll say--onc never can tell when
willard is going to become prud-
ish-maybe he'll say / shouldn't
have taken IL And maybe he'll
say ] should give it back. Just let
him ask me!
When mama drops right out of
heaven into little Edy's lap like
that, do you think little Edy's 60
ing to give the quizzical and vir-
tuous double-o to said mama and
return II, with thanks? Can you
imagine little Edy walking up with
said mama gathered scrupulously
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u ER. CARLETON was almost
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/ ,prowess, but all he could say
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