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Romance

broke ofr-the car had turned into
the station yard now. and a cheer
was being raised by an excited
group of people who had collected
to see the newly-married pair leave.
IT was impossible to escape the
well-meant greeting: Philip forced
himself to smile and bow and look
as IL he wore the happiest man on
earth-he did not dare even TO glance
at his wife.
and II seemed an eternity till they
were safely in the stateroom re-
served for them, and the door shut.
Someone thrust a bouquet OF flow
ers through the window just as the
train was moving, and there was
Tom Calligan, hatless and red in
the face. ...,.
"They said couldn't get here in
time" he panied. But ] know I
could .. Goodby and good
luck Best OF everything"
He spoke to Philip, but he looked
at Eva all the time. and suddenly
she rose and came across to him,
leaning from the window as the
train gathered speed.
Goodby - come and see us as
soon as we come back" she said.
You bet" the answer came back
on the breeze as the train slipped
out of the station. and everybody
that had hitherto counted in her
life was left behind - except
Philip.
at makes one wonder what they
would say il they knew the real
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an sa%"sss As.oss"e BY RUBY M. AYRES

blame than / am. You wanted
money and r'-she drew a long
breath-"I suppose" i thought 1t
would be a fine thing to marry into
a family so honorable and blue
blooded. We've both got what we
wanted-and so we're quits; but to
pretend that you love me
Philip covered his face with his
hands. Had she really known all
the time? Had she really been
playing a double game, even as he
had? IL so, his burden OF shame
and remorse would be doubly hard
to bear.
1t seemed a long time before
either of them spoke again, but in
those few moments Eva had gained
another respite. and gathered her
forces afresh.
Il don't know that there is any
need to be so tragic about IL, is
there?" she said. IT'S not as IL
you've discovered anything fresh.
You've known all along that his
was just a business arrangement
/ never pretended toto care :"
You did - He raised his
white face. and his blazing eyes
accused her.
you did pretend TO care in
thousands of little ways 3. I told
you that 1 was ruined man be-
fore asked you to marry me, and
you said IL made no difference
you let me see that you cared"
CTo be continued tomorrow.y
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truth" she said. Doesn't it7"
Philip was standing up. slowing
the various traps on the rack. He
turned now and sat down oppo-
site to her. He was very pale and
there was a desperate look in his
eyes.
"And what is-the real truthr
he asked.
His hands were clenched and
all his spoiled life he had never
suffered as he was suffering now;
their knuckles stood out white. In
all his spoiled life he had never
suffered as he was suffering now;
and the worst was yet to come,
he knew.
She raised her brows dellcately.
The real truth! Surely you don't
need me to tell you that, my dear
Philip "
He had never heard her speak in
such a voice before; he had never
seen that look in her eyes; she was
like a stranger. and yet
he loved her now as he had never
thought 1t possible to love any
woman.
'If you're trying TO punish me-"
he said violently you're succeed
ing; but for Gods sake put an end
to it. love you-I love every hair
OF your head. I've behaved like a
brute and a cad. I know. There's
no excuses to be made for me; but
forgive me-forgive me-"
There's nothing to forgive" she
said, coldly. You are no more TO
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When q Friend Fails
DON'T THINK THE WORLDS GONE WRONG.

decent and honest and square I'll
alter my judgment OF him and con-
clude that either he's outgrown
his former ways or that I've called
up something better in his nature"
But one manifestation of decency
wouldn't persuade Betty to trust
the former offender with anything
of great Importance.
The case is even stronger wnen
friendship stumbles for once and
falls. The moment may be caused
by any one of a dozen trivial or
great causes. But it's only mo-
ment
No matter how a friend offends,
IL back OF that moment of failure
there stretch days and months
and years of faith and devotion,
are they suddenly become nothing?
Isn't their testimony all in favor
of the person who may have been
i'll, or mentally below par, or star
tied. or temporarily lured from his
normal attitudes when he failed?
II a friend who has always
seemed tried and true fails once
his failure is not so great ,as that
OF the person who refuses to give
him another chance.
When Betty says that Jack is
too proud TO acknowledge his fault
she means that he is so ashamed
of himself that he dare not ask
for mercy. And when she practi-
cally dares me to advise her TO
ego to man who has slighted
her horribly and tell him she'll
stand for his insult she Is only
striking an absurd pose.
The thing for any generous per-
son to do in a situation like this
is to act in the name OF "A tried
and proven friendship, not under
duress of a mere situation which
scarcely counts for anything at ali.
II there is an explanation. think
how touched he will be by the
loyalty which for once he failed. So
Friendship isn't a matter OF SEN
arate incidents-it's a strand woven
OF many happenings, And the past
deserves a loyalty and faith big
enough TO cover something even
greater than one failure to measure
up to its fine standard.
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Famous AstronoWer and Writer on
Scientific Subjects of Popular
Interest.

~ oMETIMES a question like a
theorem of Euclid carries
~ more corollaries than Demon
strations. A correspondent In De
Kalb. ILL.,, writes that he has long
wondered why the beech trees In
his native Croatia always grow
on the north side or the mountains
and avoid the southern slopes.
Most people, 1 imagine, would not
wonder. at all about such thing,
simply because they would take IL
for "dispensation of nature,
with which they had no concern,
even If they noticed 1t at all. When
q man like my correspondent In
Illinois not only notices such things
In his youth. but carries the mem
ory of them and the memory of his
early reasonings about them to the
far-away home of his manhood on
another continent across the wide
ocean, he affords an interesting
glimpse of what is best in man
undyfng curiosity about the world
in which his life has been cast.
Such a man can never be very
lonely, because the outward world
surrounds him constantly with
talkative companions.
Now do not know why the
beech trees of the Croatian noun
tains all grow on the northern
slopes, but / am pleased to hear
the question. for it calls before me
a vivid picture of a land that 1
have never visited, presenting to
me a feature of that land which i
might not have noticed If ! had
visited 1t, and henceforth l shall
never read or hear the name
Croatia" without thinking OF it's
beech trees and remembering the
curious question about them that
haunted the mind OF one who had
spent his childhood among them.
know from the botanists that
the beech loves chalk soils. and in
that fact may lie one of the many
possible clues to the conduct of the
beeches of Croatia.
As the correspondent himself
suggests, the trees prefer shady
and cool localities. have an i'm
preston that such preference is
exhibited by the beech In this
country. 1t Is also tree that is
apt to take possession OF areas
that are favorable to II, driving
out all rivals.
II is itself a maker OF dense
shade and a lover of it's own
shadows, under which few plants
are able to grow, although the
leaves and nuts OF the beech are
enrichers of the soil. for the nuts
contain considerable oil which
serves both for food and for other
purposes. The nuts, which have a
peculiar three-cornered shape. are
we'll known to all country boys as
very good eating on holiday excur-
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FOR LOVE
(TTHINK we've both been ,
rather 1Iernr da.h. ..-..

((ITHTNK we've both been
rather clever, don't YOU 20
Eva asked. as they drove to
the station.
"Cleverw He could only stare at
her heIplessIy. 81 don't know what
you mean-I can't understand"
II think you do. F" sh.
deliberately fastened knot VI
flowers in her frock-fiowers which
Calligan had thrust into her lap as
she said good-by to him; yiolets
they were-sweet-scented, Parma
violets.
I'VE have both fulfilled our share
of the bargain ." She raIsad
her eyes to his. "T suppose You
thought ] didn't know" she said
calmly. II must have acted even
better than l thought 1 did"
Il don't know what you are driv-
Ing at" he said roughly. For Gods
sake let us have the truth.
Have you forgotten that this is our
wedding day? That we have to
spend all the Sest of our lives to-
gether?"
His voice was hoarse and strained,
but she did not finch.
You should have thought of that
before" she said quietly. 81 thought
you must have done. You seem to
have counted the cost pretty thor
oughly in every other way. I'm
afraid it's too late now to
go back! ."
IF this is just trick; IL you
are trying to test me--to see how
much 1 will stand ." He
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|ADVICETOTHE
LOVELORN
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
II AM thirty-five years old, consider
ed well Off, and have been 60
ing about with young man
of twenty six for four months.
This young man claims he loves
me, but at times / have reason to
believe that 1t is only for my money
he cares. Some friends of mine told
me that they saw him in the COM
pany of other women at various
times. Tell me what to do, as /
idolize him and life without him
would be unbearable. Do you be-
l!eve the difference in our ages is
too much? ALICE L.
The difference in your ages
wouldn't keep you from being
happy II you were capable of rec
oginzing the rights OF. the man you
love to his own individuality. III
you're going TO demand that he
live his life only through you and
to let jealousy and suspicion creep
into your relation it's bound to be-
come unbearable in any case.
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A Delightful Tree
A SCIENTIST WRITES ABOUT THE BEECH
By Garrett p Seryiss

sions In the woods. But other ami
mails are fond of them. too. and in
Europe, where they are called
mast they constitute the food
of hordes of swine.
A beech forest-there are too few
of them left now, even in America,
where IL we had employed simple
common sense we should still have
an abundance OF trees of all kinds
"a beech forest, i say, speaking
from personal recollections, is one
of the leanest, sweetest, shadiest
and coolest of all the resorts that
nature offers to her lovers.
The beauty OF the broad, spread
ing tops, the clean, smooth trunks,
the pleasant odor that fills the air,
the little breezes that the shapely
leaves seem to fan. the remarka ble
forms that the great roots rising
out of the ground sometimes as
sume-these are things that must
be seen and experienced IL you
would know these great and friend
ly trees.
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Who Occupies n Unique Position In
the Writing World ~ nm Author
ity on the Problems of Life.

sSEoR four years we've been
friends" writes Betty. 'T've
always known could
count on him for anything wanted
to do. Jack has been devotion itself.
And that's what makes it so terri
BILE that he should have failed me
completely and without any warn
ing.
II know he feels cheap, but that
doesn't alter matters. He's too
proud to acknowledge his fault,
and surely you can't expect me to
go to a man who has sighted me
horribly and tell him it's all right
and I'll stand for his insult. This
makes me very skeptlcal. Are there
any men girl is to trust7 II a
friend of such long standing and
who seemed so tried and true can
treat me so shsbbily. how dare i
ever again have confidence in any
one?"
Letters OF this type come to me
oally. they have note OF bitter
ness which the facts do not justify.
To weigh against q moment OF
disloyalty there are years OF devo-
ton. To Offset one hurt, there arc
countless kindnesses to remember.
And yet the paramount issue
seems always to be the one cruelty
rather than the many courtesies.
suppose II were the other way
around. Imagine that some one
who had shown four years of bru-
taltty and enmity and ugliness
were to do one fine thing. Would
that wipe out every trace of sus-
picion and rancor7 or would
Betty say:
That was an astonishingly fine
thinE Jack did. II seems as IL
he Is beginning to regret his mean
ness and unfairness and TO show
great deal Of character. I'll watch
him. and IL he goes on being so
The Washington times., 1921-06-20
Silk Suits for Summer
BY Rita Stuyvesant

big pockets are patched to the
front. A narrow belt of seif-ma-
terial is buckled around the waist.
Plain white low shoes and a tailored
hat complete this outfit.
The younger girl will welcome a
lovely Juvenile suit in Algerian
silk with a pleated skirt The
jacket is a Tuxedo model, with a
long sash that girdles the figure
twice and hangs on the right side.
heavily fringed. A demure sport
hat, that half conceals the facs,
tops this suit
II one thinks this suit in natural
tan will soil too readily for
"peppy fourteen" IL may be had in
the brown, navy blue, gray or
black. 1t is very attractive too in
all white.
Navy blue Canton crepe lavishly
embroidered in gray silk creates
a clever suit for daytime fetes.
The jacket was bordered by en-
broidery in odd motifs, and there
was a tucked vest in gray crepe.
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|" HE first warm days in town
find the tricotine suit lit

" HE first warm days In town
find the tricotine suit a lit
tie too uncomfortable, and
hence the advent of the silk suit,
which follows the straightest of
courses and is strictly tailored.
Silk shantung, pongee and Algerian
silk crepe, as well as Canton crepe,
are all represented.
A good-looking Tuxedo suit for
street wear is developed in Alge-
rian crepe silk, with slit pockets
and a belt at the top. The Jacket
follows the Tuxedo effect with at
tractive turn-back revers, and also
features patch pockets and a slim
fringed sash. With this jaunty
suit. one wears a soft sport hat and
low white shoes with black strap
pings.
Something a bit more tailored
is offered in a suit of silk shantunG
in natural color. The coat is the
long length, so favored in the
spring tailleurs, and is fastened at
the front with the link-button. Slim
mannish revers finish the neck, and
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Prize Cake Recipes
SPICE CAKE.

SPICE CAKE.
cups of brown sugar.
II cup of crisco.
N teaspoon salt.
1 cup sweet milk.
cups -four.
eggs.
Q teaspoons baking powder.
1 teaspoon nutmeg.
teaspoon cinnamon.
1 teaspoon cloves.
l teaspoon vanilla.
Cream sugar and crisco and
salt then add eggs and beat
good then milk and vanilla and
beat again. then -four, baking
powder and spices and beat good.
This makes two nice square
layers.
You can use any kind Of icing
you prefer.-Mrs. w. i. Fisher,
East Falls Church. Va.
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The Story So Far

Frank Manners. an artist OF
reputation. is doing some work
for a rich woman in California.
He has always been devotedly
attached to his wife, Diana. He
reads over her letters OF the last
few months and feels that she 10
neglecting their small daughter.
He decides to go East without
letting Diana know beforehand.
On train he meets a hunter who
tells him tale of a wild goose.
When Manners arrives home he
meets Ogden Fem. the man with
whom Diana is in love. He is
keenly disappointed in Diana's
conduct and in ner coldness to-
ward him. but finds much JOY in
the love of his daughter, Tam. He
tries to find out what ir troubling
Diana. and she finally tells him
she is in love with Ogden Fem.
Manners then tries to persuade
her to give up Fem. Failing in
this. he tells Fem he must give
up Diana
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ISMARRIAGE
A SUCCESS?.
FORGOT THE CHILDREN.

" HE Dear Young Person who
writes that wonderful treatise
= on married life, presenting the
proposition that people go into the
nuptiaI partnership for a stated num-
ber of years. has evidently forgot
ten the possibility--or probability
of children. II she would only
stop to realize that children are
being born: that it really is being
done this year, she perhaps would
understand the impossibility of
such a marriage contract
who is going to take care of
those children when the family
splits up. Are they going into an
orphanage or home for found
lings? Or Is one parent to have
the custody of the dear little lives
which have to be trained in the
better way, while the other grieves
for his or her flesh and blood?
Furthermore, what do men and
women marry for-love or some
base passion. or a business partner
ship. Heaven knows there is lit
tie enough love in life as IL now is
without placing marriage purely
or rather, impurely-on a CONNER
cial basis.
Some day, when this dear young
person has discovered what IL is
to labor for one she has loved and
to rejoice in the little services, the
little cares, and the little joys that
mean big happiness she Cor he)
will hang her head in shame that
shc was ever guilty of proposing
proposition that would so COM
mercialize marriage. Our divorce
courts, with their shortcomings,
are far better solution of the
marital tangle than this PROPOSE
ton. ONLY A MAN"
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; We've had lots and lots OF
good times together even after you
stopped loving me. IL you take the
big step and find you've made a
mistake. why there's no getting
back-even to them. Just year.
Diana! Just a year In which to
make sure whether all that's left
OF our lives really must be rear
ranged or not? Somehow / don't
picture Tam getting along without
both of us. And your mothers
happy with us :"
You could see Tam whenever
you liked" Diana interrupted; you
could have her for part of the
time"
"You won't even consider what
I propose7"
Couldn't Keep Promise.
Look here" she said. ~ might
promise not to see him. ! couldn't
keep it I'd just die. And there's
"o SShSC III ~ bo you ahinh II
gives me pleasure to hurt you?
Do you think it gives me pleasure
to give up all the things I'll have
to give ups Why make me any
more wretched than / am? You
say you want your chance. Frank,
you haven't got a chance. Even
IL Ogden didn't exist, don't want
to go back. We've been miserable
together for years. And you know
it,.
1--WE haven't~ exclaimed Man
ners. 'And you know 1t. / ask
for justice and fair chance. Ny
heaven, that's not asking for much.
You don't even think of Tam!"
why drag in Tam? You don't
think of her either. You want to
keep me and that's all you think
about"
Il ought to know better than to
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CHAPTER X.

SI1fT Il En- n.
Diana had gone to bed. She had
talked very little at dinner. After
dinner she had read at a book II
might have been any book. IT
made no impression on her. She
had already forgiven her husband
for what he had said about Fem.
1t was wrong to have seen Fem
six times in two days. II wasn't
playing the game. She knew that
She knew her own faults and fall
ings very well indeed. But she
hated to admit them, and she had
neither the will nor the strength
to correct them.
When she rose to say goodnight,
her face had an expression of great
sweetness. She turned a cool cheek
for her husband to kiss and gave
his shoulder an affectionate pat.
Then she went upstairs. Mrs. Lang
ham and Manners heard the sound
of her door closing.
Manners looked for a while at
the advertisement sheet of the eve
ming paper which concealed his
mother-in-law's face. He made up
his mind to speak to her about
Diana and Fem. He wondered IL
he should tell her now and give
her a bad night. Or IL he should
wait till morning. And all of a
sudden IL seemed to him impos-
sible to put off the telling The
need of counsel and sympathy was
imperative. His own mind had
become impossible company.
(To he continued tomorrow
1919. International Masaxin,
Company
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try to argue with you when you
are sick. I'm sorry"
The coidness in their voices was
awful. 1t was impossible to be-
lieve that the woman was very
fond OF the man, and that the man
was passionately in love with the
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and all the coldness In his voice
melted as before sudden hot fire.
II love you kind or cruel. / love
every inch of you. Every good thing
In you, every bad thing. I've loved
you since you were a little girl.
When say that I'll always love you
II means something. If you'd died
when you were a little girl I'D
never have married. I'd have mourned
for you all the rest of my born days.
And come back after long months
TO what I've come back, and tell
you can't stand IT. I'm your hus-
band. You belong to me. And I'm
not going to be chucked for
whim !-or a little pinheaded sneak
who's made love to you behind my
back.
Red-Hot With Anger.
With the speed OF lightning,
Diana sprang to the bureau and
snatched up her hat.
That's the endi" she cried saw
sgeiy. 81 can't stand any more. I'm
going away with him."
'Tf you do I'll kill him like a dog"
"Then I'll kill myself"
There was a sudden rapping on
the door, and in the silence that fell
between them Tam's shrill voice
could be heard gaily demanding ad-
mission. 1t was as II Manners and
Diana, red-hot with anger. had been
suddenly dipped in ice-water. The hat
fell from Diana's shaking hands
"Just minute, darling!- she
called. And her voice sounded al
most natural, even to Manners. He
came close to her and spoke in a
whisper.
"Don't do what you threatened.
Anything but that. Forgive a man
who's half mad with love and dis
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nent With Him.

woman. Almost II seemed as TX
they hated each other.
"Sneering isn't the way to get
anything out of me-" said Diana
"No. Nor loving you. nor being
faithful to you. nor going in debt
for you. Nor can anything be got
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ten out of you by reason or by
logic. / wish to God could stop
loving you"
'If I'm such an utter rotter, why
in heavens name do you want to
keep mey'
Because / do love you," he cried.
The Washington times., 1921-06-20
BY Gouverneur Morris
Auther of "His Daughter" "When
lGy Ship Comes In" 'SThs Seven
DarIinGs.v and Other
Notable Biction.

<<VYoUR first blow-up stopped
hurting you three months
after you stopped seeing
What s-his-name. Stop seeing this
man and 1t viii be the same" said
Manners
You don't understand" she said
in more restrained voice. I'm
older and 1 know my own mind"
Test Love for Fem.
IT'S your heart you don't know,
Diana. can't help going on prece-
dent. Your love. even your friend
ship, is not to be relied on. But II
you are so sure this time. why not
test the matter out? That's only
fair to me. love you. and want
to keep you, and / think that in
the long run your best chance of
happiness is with Tam and me.
Test your love for Fem. Promise
not to see him or communicate
with him for year, and then IL
you feel as you do now, why TIL
furnish grounds and you can di-
yorce me and marry him in no
time at ALL"
The Idea of separating her from
Fem for a year obsessed him. He
spoke eloqusntly of it's advantages;
of its fairness to all concerned.
Speaking for himself, the year
should be free from recriminations.
He would make 1t pass as quickly
xnd pleasantly as possible. 1t
should be passed in the gayest and
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EWILD GOOSEN NGOUVERNEUR MORN
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His Wife is in Love With Another Man and
Battles to Keep Her Love

fAfs stsry has been made into .
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appointment. Ican't feel about him
the way you do. But / certainly
didn't mean what / said"
Diana's face and voice were re-
lentlessly cold.
, "1f you ever say one more word
against him-Tll walk right out OF
the house and I'll go straight to
his rooms. SO you'd better be care
full Now pull. yourself together
and let Tam in"
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This Day in Our History.

THIS is the anniversary of the confering in 1852, of
a patent giving Maryland to Cecil Calvert, third
Lord Baltimore. From the first the colony prospered
and assumed leading place among the settlements