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The Washington times., 1921-10-15
Strngers THE WINE OF LIFE James Montgomery EIagl
A Stirring Narrative of the Influence
of Love on the Lives Of a Girl
and Man.

When he opened his eyes and In
telligence once more rcmounted her
outraged throne. neither Michael
Mullay nor his sposs was within
hailing distance. They had triumph
antly. yet discreetIy Withdrawn. van.
ishins into home ports for repairs.
But Storrow. as he lay there blink.
Ing rusfuiIy upward. fonud no such
harborase at hand.
He found himself stretched out.
indeed. very much like a Dying
Gladiator. the center of a small but
an extremely deep sided amphithea-
ter Of spectators. From the serried
windows on each side of that narrow
area faces stared down at him. grin.
ming faces. vaguely commisserative
faces. indifferent faces. They
brought home to him the bitter mem
ory Of his undoing. He had gone
down ignominiously. unheroically.
at the hand Of a woman. And at that
very moment other women were con-
templating his helplessness. his hu-
initiation, his posture of self-ac-
knowledged defeat
The sting of that brought stor-
row back to his senses. He scran-
bled to his feet and spat the blood
from his mouth. Then. still lit-
tie dizzy. he staggered towards the
only cover that presented itself.
This, oddly enough. happened to be
the basement door which opened in
to the domain of Michael Mullaly
But storrow. with his head still
throbbing. was Indifferent to all
such details. The one thing he
demanded was seclusion. He ached
for the quiet and peace OF his
private and personal quarters, Just
as the sorely hurt grizzly aches
for his lair and the wounded lion
for his cave. He wanted solitude
and the balm Of Time on his
bruises. For his lip was cut and
bleeding, his head was a ball Of
pulsing fire. and about his body
were many spots extremely sensi-
tive to the touch.
Yet he dreaded the thought Of
public parade up through thai
peering-eyed hotel. for his habitual.
ly fastidious person was bedraggled
with gore and stained with min
gied dust and sweat 1t would in
volve explanations, and embarrass-
ments, and lead in all probability
to still deeper complications.
(To Be Continued Monday
Copyright. 1870. by Arthur strinssr.
published by Arrangement with Interna
tional Feature Service. Incl
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must do their work adroitiy. choose
their target more experuy.
The result OF this access to science.
of this coup d'etat OF Reason
against Passion. was a slight but
q distinctly perceptibls change in
the tide of conflict. A look Of BE-
wtidsrment came INTO Mulialy's
face. A vague uncertainty began to
mark his movements. He shambled
and shuffled and circied about his
narrow field of asphalt with IN.
creasins evidences Of distress.
Storrow made note Of that inde-
cision in timing and placing Of
counter.strokes that telltale prone
ness to fan the air. And his drag
sing spirits raised. revived and ex-
pressed themselves In q sudden
The Washington times., 1921-10-15
BY Ann Lisle
tcopyrishS 1891. King Feature sy,
TpC

(copyrisht 1871. King Feature syndi-
cate. Inc.)
" HERE was enough truth in
Dad Lees guess that I
wouldn't mind getting rid of
him to haul me up short for the
minute, so replied circumspectly:
"Of course, you must do a. you
please about giving my message to
Dick West. But II you could locate
him, think you'd do every one con-
cerned a good turn by giving him
my message"
Maybe II you want to get a rnas-
sage to him, the one to send 1t by
is that high and mighty young wom-
an down In your husbands office"
snickered Dad Lee with an intent
l could hardly fathom.
What do you meanf" demanded.
ooh. nothing. Only maybe she
knows Dickieboy better then she's
let on to you. Maybe that time you
met me down to your husbands Of
flee I was there to see II she'd tell
me where Dick is instead of being
there to spy on your husband, rs
you was unkind enough to let me
see you was thinking, m'dear."
We faced each other then for a
moment eye to eye. And the ques-
ton I'd hardly permitted myself to
enter tain In the deepest recesses OF
my mind burst from me then.
Tell me the TRUTH" I cried.'
Lets have done with pretense.
We've nothing to gain by evading
facts. You're alone in the city
and no longer young. I'll not de-
sert Won now-linder any conditions
won't leave you to your own re-
sources. I'll stand by. But first
must ask you one brutally frank
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vicious onslaught which brought a
futile gasp of protest from the
sweat-drenched Irish face.
Muliaiy was bleeding by this
time, bleeding profusely and pic
toriaily, streaking a sleeveless un-
dershirt already wet to the waist
as his huge paws failed the air and
fell 80 distressingiy on emptiness.
So wavering were his uncon-
trollsd stumbles about. that dusty
arena. in fact. that Storrow could
already coolly foresee the end. He
was even able to deliberate, with
one-half OF his still busy brain,
which hand 1t would be better to
use for that final blow, that ulti-
mate knockout which was surely
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BY Arthur Stringer,
Wsll-knowa Novelist and Author
Of Cesatrywids Reputation.

WET befuddied as that iordly HI
bernian may have been, stor-
row understood clearly enough
what interference at any such mo-
ment implied. And there was neither
concern nor hesitation In his move
ments as he swung about and
squared for action.
In his day Michael Muilaiy had
met and worstod too many IRON
workers to be intimidated by a
youth who failed even to observe
the ancient ceremonial Of removing
his coat before venturing into bat
tie.
A Combat Royal.
Imperiously and impersonally he
flung his battered helpmate to one
side. intent on disposing Of this
trouble-maker who had dared to
interfere with an honest man In his
= honest diversions.
Nor Was there any trace Of hest
tation. on the other hand. in Owen
Storrow's movements. He was
smaller than the bare-armed Her
cules In the denim jumper. but his
four months Of north woods life
had left him trained TO the bone.
Life In the open. all that spring
and summer, had crowned his
weeks of hardship with endurance
and acknowledges and the quick
footed resourcefulness of cat.
More than once, too. he had stood
up before men quite as burly as
Mullaly. and had been able to hold
his own. Yet behind that hard
won self-assurance was the fire Of
the Crusader, the will of the Fighter
of wrongs, the morale Of the lover
of decency outraged beyond endur-
ance.
This impression OF knightly en-
terprise was Intensified to Storrow
by memory of the girl watching
him from her open window. It
swayed him with determination to
have the affair clear-out one. a.
brief and decisive as 1t was dra-
matte. But the vast majority Of
fights In real life, unfortunately,
are not Of this nature.
1t is something peculiar to the
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automobile fiction"
"a new novel by the Williamsons
is in prospect and it is probably one
Of the last they wrote together. 1t
is entitled Vision House." and it
has, we are told, the same romantic
charm and vivid action as their
famous Lightning Conductor" At
the time Of Mr.. Williamson's death
several stories were more or less
mapped out.
Thomas w. Hanshew was once
spoken of as 1.-The man who shook
stories out OF his sleeve" He left
at his death a veritable pile OF
schemes for plots, notes and unfin.
ished stories and books. His wife
took up the pen where he dropped
1t and has finished more than one
manuscript.
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question. VIII you answer it7 VIII
you swear to answer nothing out
the TRUTH
sure / Will. Since when DO I
tell my ffily anything but the
truth7" asked Dad Lee. eying me
shrewdly. .
'Then tell me-teli me why you
came across the country to meet me.
Tell me what yo:- are to me. For
in my heart I feel that your can't
Cant be anything but the best
Of friends to you, eh, m'dear-in
spite of my fondness for the poor
boy you hate!" interrupted Dad Lee
suavely. 1T guess you're nervous
and overwrought today, my girl.
guess you had something bothering
you--or you wouldn't hurt your old
dad by raking up all these things.
That's It, amt it?"
mo. II isn'tr I cried. ct can't
believe that my father would ever
be friends with men like Slim Dis
brow End Dick West. ] can't believe
that any one Of my blood"--
Again Dad Lee interrupted me
with an air of authority there was
no denying:
You're like your mothor. She
was superior to me, too. But she
loved me for all that. Do you
set, out to be superior to your
mother7"
rs It fair for you to talk this
way7' l cried impatiently.
Fair" repeated Dad Lee, with
a dignity hadn't known he pos
sessed. II come across the country
to see you because you're Martha's
daughter and mine. You amt
treated me very kindly, Barbara
Anne, or acted like you was proud
OF me. You amt introduced me to
The Washington times., 1921-10-15
Ry Beatrice Fairfax
Who Occupies . Unique Position In
the Writing World as an Author
ity on the Problems Of Life.

Who Occupies q Unique Position In
the Writing World as an Author
ity on the Problems Of Life.
SSI WAS very much pleased
while reading your column a
few days ago to find that
there are still some young women
that have not lost their heads over
the latest dance steps and know the
real meaning Of the word home"
That's one of precisely thirty-nine
letters from men which camo to me
after ia published plea from u
girl who wanted to know II she wis
doomed to sit Mt home unloved and
unsought forever because she isn't
modern, doesn't paint and powder
and play the game" after the fash.
ion of so many of today's daughters.
Where are the men who like old
Cushioned Rirls7" she asked.
And thlrty-nine youths from vari-
Gus parts of the country wrote In
telling me where these men are and
registering their admiration for IL
girl of The simple, home-loving type.
That SCENE to answer her question
better than any assurance of min.
can do. Yet I want to quote again
what said to her and what Is borne
out by the testimony OF all theec
eager youths who long to know just
such a girl.
Don't be discouraged. my deaf"
I told her. There are plenty OF men
who are looking for a simple, horl--
loving girl and who will appreciate
YOU when they come to know you.
Don't change your standards. for
your character Is part Of you and II
would be like cutting off your right
arm to lower your belief in all that's
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lously disheveled young 0slabad
would surely have been crowned
with triumph had not Fate. In tho
form Of Michael Muiialy's better
half. seen fit 10 take a hand In that
contest. The blood that flowed 90
freely from his hide. apparently.
had washed away from his mate
the last OF her enmity.
Mere personal issues vanished into
thin air before the more momentous
indignities being inflicted upon her
lord and master. And dissrace. was
about to be heaped upon the name Of
Mullaly. ssttf-r
So quite unnoticsd by the pre-
occupied contestants shuffling and
grssping about that hish-wailtd
backyard. she vanished through her
basement door and sought posses
sion of that same coai-shovei with
which Michael Mullaiy had so re.
Gently demonstrated his strength on
her own indignant person. Slipping
back to the held Of conflict. she ap-
preached the still preoocupied Stor-
row, with this shovel poised above
her head.
She did not deliberate. because
there was no need for deliberation.
She saw her chance. and she seized
Il. With O strength born Of right
eous indignation she brought the
broadside Of that heavy shovel down
on the head OF the youth who had
so lightly insinuated his person into
the intimacies Of family relation
ships
No Friendly Haxbor.
1t was an unmeditated blow, II
was also a workman-like and well
placed one. 1t brought a world, COW
cred with asphalt. siapping up
against storrow's startled face. 1t
did not leave him altogether uncon-
scious, but 1t left him stunned and
limp, like a wet feather-pillow. 1t
left him with a child-like craving to
rest there. prone on his back, until
a much misbehaving universe could
again swing back into balance.
1t also left him with an altogether
newborn indifference as to that en-
emy on whom his interest had been
30 actively and so recently centered.
storrow preferred resting there, on
the comfortable asphalt. until that
momentary daze deserted him.
The Washington times., 1921-10-15

~ ARTNERSHIPS In writing arc
few: rarer still are partner
- ships between men and wom-
en-. husbands and wives. However.
the deaths Of three noveiists in the
last few years suggests trinity Of
partnerships In each of which wife
was an able collaboration.
The marriage of Egerton Castle
and Mary Sweetman gave English
fiction a new note. Their initial
novel, THE Pride Of Jennico."
stormed the heights Of popularity.
The williamsons, c. N. and A. NJ,
had, like the Castles, a love Of blood
tingling adventure, but they chose
at first to stase It In modern FASH
ion. In fact, these two. working
together over their plots, created
what one writer has termed modern
The Washington times., 1921-10-15
Household Hints

White ivory that has gone yellow
may be restored TO It's original color
by preparing a thin lime paste in
a pot. heating II over a stove, plnc.
ing the article into this, and leaving
until II turns white. Then take II
out. dry, and rub quickly with a
piece Of felt. which should be dipped
into a paste of putty powder and
water. "A
The Washington times., 1921-10-15
ADVICE TO THE
LOVELORN
by Beatrice Fairfax
No Cause for Alarm.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

nEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
About six months ago met
young lady whom I learned to
love dearly. The other day she
told me the first couple OF months
she thought Of me night and day.
She insists that she still likes me,
but not as In the beginning.
Is IL possible that gradually her
regard wilt wane and we be just
friends7 Can a person love as she
claims to have loved and then that
love cool7 PBRPLExED.
T DOUBT IL the feeling through
which the girl went at first was
worthy OF the name love. I'd call
Il an infatuation. Now that II
has steadied and isn't wild and
turbulent, It's worth more. Per
haps there's far more happiness for
the Rirl--and you as well-in this
saner affection she feels for you
than In any wild gush OF feeling
Don't worry about this lasting
quality of sane affection. Only Wild
emotions fail and fade.
The Washington times., 1921-10-15
THE STORY SO FAR.
Owen Storrow, q young

The SlONI 81 FAX.
Owen Storrow. q young
sculptor, comes to New
York from Canada to try
to perfect himself In his
art and to secure the ad-
vantages Of study and In
struction. From his room
in q cheap hotel he sees
on q fire-escape q charm
ing girl, barefooted, dry
ing her hair, watching a
man fighting with his
wife. The mans blows
arouse her loud protests.
The man looks up and
calls the indignant girl a
name that rouses the fury
of Storrow.
The Washington times., 1921-10-15
The Story of Ambitious Young Sculptor Who Goes to New
York Hoping to Win His Way to Fortune in
That City

; 80 when he fought he was able TO DO
90 with q stubborn and groggy
science by no means contemplate.
The situation. In fact. began TO
worry. storrow not q little. clearly
ss right was on his side and repeat
edly ~ he was able TO plant his
blows ON the hide of that thick.mus-
cled opponent. Intelligence ySas with
him. az was also slertness and the
rcsiliency Of youth. Yet the I'm
piacable laws OF Chance ordained
that at least an occasional blow from
that ponderous Celtic fist should
reach home. however parried by
guard-arm or rendered oblique by
sidestepping.
Storrow could taste the salt sweat
of his dripping face. He could also
see blood dripping from cut on his
lip. and the numb pain In his bruised
and batters1 knuckles became some
thing to be no longer overlooked. He
remembered through q mist OF Ia
tisue. that he was not cutting the
heroic figure he had expected. He
realized there was q definite limit
to the period which all things could
be endured.
What was worse. he awakened to
the fact that there were more faces
than one now watching him and his
ignominious efforts. fixed and i'm
pressive faces in window after win
dow above him. And with grip of
of the jaw he took himself in hand
and began to fight az he had never
fought before. ~
A SLIGHT CHANGE.
storrow startled his enemy by no
longer giving ground before supe-
rior weight. Even when forced to
his knees. he ducked. clencheds and
In some way struggled again to his
feet. Yet II he fought fierceiy, he
also fought deliberately. He knew
that there must be no waste of en-.
ergy. He worried over. his finger.
bones, oppressed by q foolish fear
that he might break one of these
and find himself with a useless
hand.
Skinned and burning as his
knuckies had become. from impact
against the obdurate hulk of which
they 80 repeatedly thumped and
thudded, ne remembered they were
all he had to depnd upon. that they
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1921-09-24
Who Made the Alphabet

II il takes a genius to make great
words. il was also genius who made
the alphabet which makes the words
The pedigree Of our alphabet can he
traced continuously for nearly 3Gp
years. and then comes hiatus. SAYS n
recent writer The genesis Of writing
must naturally be- sought In pictures
Cavemnn. when he painted his women
or beasts on rock walls. or carved olks
and elephants on antlers ana inskS.
was laying the foundations of one Of
the great human inventions. Behind
all this ap; artistic effort We nust see
some csoteric motive, for II was not
due merely "a the striving Of the crca-
tive soul after expression. Doubtless.
adds our authority. when caVeman held
an exhibition nf his works. his friends
praised the ingenuity and beauty Of
his pictures. hut there is something
more than the desire NJ simple repro
duciion hidden In his handiwork
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DELVING INTO MOTHER EARTH
Man Has Gone Far Underground IN
Search Of Riches That She
Has Concealed.

For centuries man has been engaged
In hnrrowing his way deeper and
deeper into the crust OF old Mother
Earth. in order Ia extract the minerals
which she hides beneath her surface.
a century age 1000 feet was though,
Ia be- a stupcndous depth for any
shaft for In those days there were
no engines capable of pumping from
greater depths. and no system of ven
tilation had been devised which would
make II possible To work in galleries
AT q greater distance from the surface.
Coal pits over 5000 feet deep are
now fairly common IN England. while
Belgium has two which exceed iUt'
feet in depth.
lIu; coal is not alone in having deep
pits. There is In Australia a silver
mine whose bottom is :..dD feet below
the surface. while gold mine al Ben.
digo, In Australia. has been sunk Z"
1900 feet.
A famous Transvaal gold-mining
company is sinking a shaft which,
when complete. will measure more
than 7.O00 feet.
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WORKED BENEATH TIE EARTH
Discovery in Jerusalem Solves Much
ef dystery Connected With King
Solomon's Ter-ple

How often great discoveries spring
from lrinue Incidents The trile re.
Election comes To- mind naturally on
hcar!n. how the quarries of King Sol
ONION were found. pr Allen Moore.
for II years resident Of Palestine
tells the curious tale
For many many wears says Doctor
Moore. travellers and psychologists
were puzzled To- know where The enor-
nous blocks Of stone still standing In
the ruins Of Snlnmous temple AT .leru
salem were quarried one day a lit.
tie dog CHASED a lizard down q hole
among The debris. The newt instant
the dog also disappeared.
Ills master. coming 10 the opening
pccrcd down in vain lie called, ana
to his nnaZcIcni his Voice came back
as from great depths. lie summoned
into immense >uhtcrrauean quarries
There were found huge ma~>e> Of
stone almost ready ia h. hoisied
above ground.
And don't YOU remember. asks
Doctor Moore. that we are told in
our Bibles that the temple war built
without sound at saw or OF hammer?
The fact that The quarryman worked
underground partly explains that"
Upon some Of The stones were found
inscriptions that perplcXcd the cxplor-
ers until one scholar pronounced them
Phornirian. The stones were wrought
by some of tina, army Of workmcn sent
by King Hiram of Tyre u aid King
Solomon IN his rask-Youth'S com
pani"n
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GROUSE LIVES LIKE ESKIMO
In Cold Weather the Bird Finds a
Safe and Warm Retreat
In Snow House

In the temperate months the grouse
Sistlng of q great variety Of berries.
small fruit. seeds. buds. clover, beech.
nuts. grasShupperS and a multitude OF
young, tender leaves. In the winter
one wonders at their survival; for
now the fall flight of the robins com
pl"tcly cXhnusts The berries. which
were wont "a lingcr and ripen well
into winter compelling the grouse TO
depend largely upon yellow birch
buds, with man! u forced meal on an
evergreen.
Fortunately, whenever the tempcra
ture j. far below zero the sky Is usu
ally clear and the grouse are active
and unconccrned. hut II the days and
nights are dark and cold or the air
filled with mercllesS pellets, they have
the habit of p!unging into deep snow
drifts. where foot below the surface
the heat and weight of the body form
a globular retreat. in which they re-
main comfortably until the storm
clears or hunger forces an exit
Sometimes in winter or the early
spring there may come rain or a
warm day that melts the surface snow
followed by severe weather. and then
thousands df grouse are imprisoned
and the heretofore safe retreat he
comes their tomb should weeks pass
by before the seal is broken.-Na-
tional Geographic Magazine
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young man spending II vacation
was walking about ia" country lanes
In an cndcavor io hid, from himself
entirely all town life or anything
which reminded him of town life
CHANGING across II country poStnan.
he stopped him and asked what time
II was.
Pulling out his watch, the poStman
deliberately replied
ats four O'Clock IN he afternoon
by the railway time"
by railway time calculated the
young man. Il should say tina; you
country folk, living in the open air. in
the heart of the country. n you do.
would take your time from the sun. "
"What for?" asked the rural post
man "Bean't we much closer to the
railway even II II be- IL miles-than
we be- Ia the sum Rehoboth Sunday
Herald.
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MNe Island Home

The original home of the Paca fam
lily on Wye island. Queen Anne county,
passed nj recent sale of the estate
OF William H. Pnc;i. the last male de
scendant of Governor William paca,
"a an owner not connected with the
family, for the first time since long
before the Revolutionary war The
Wye Hall farm Of M1 acres, with tn"
Paca mansion brought SG4.30 an acre
the purchaser being John Kinnamon.
Governor paca. one Of the signers Of
the Declaration OF Independence, and
later q federal Judge. II buried near
the farm.--Centra~" erver
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SANG WITH PATRIOTIC FERVOR
Britain Owes Great Debt to Charles
p,cdin for His Woek in Popu-
larizine the Navy.

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Remember The Girl

II UNDREDS of young women are busy in our many
central Offices in Maryland putting up telephone
connections. Day after day, and night after night the
work goes The little lights the switchboard never
to blink.
Many Of these calls Of the gravest Importance.
Some comparatively trivial But each call be
swered and comp leted as it in There is to
pick and speed up the important Business calls,
social calls = they all demand the operators attention
The operator giving loyal and cheerful service
and anything that may do help her give you better
service will be appreciated.
The Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Company
H. W. Cary.D District, Manager