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FOR LOVE
BY Ruby M.
AYreS

: other self who had spoken so dip
PANTY.
.-pm getting horrid-horrid" she
thought, in despair. What VIII be-
come of met"
She broke into the silence desper-
ately. There's the carpet TO choose
for your smoking room, Philip.
hadn't you better choose II yourself
instead OF leaving 1t to me? A mans
taste Is so different to woman's."
He reused himself with an effort
"oh, choose anything-cant the
man at the shop tell you the right
sort OF thing?"
"Oh. yes, / dare say he can" she
said indifferently. 81 only wondered
IL you wouldn't prefer to choose II
yourself"
II shan't notice II there's q carpet
OF not" Philip said hardly.
She remembered his words the
next afternoon when she was in the
empty smoking room OF their apart
ments.
Most OF the other rooms were dec
grated and finished--she had so
hoped that Philip would take
little interest in this one at least
She looked round her with heavy
eyes; the empty place depressed her
the rumble of traffic seemed to be
miles away.
Eva clasped her hands together
feverishly.
and all my life will be like this
always" she thought in sudden
panic
with every day she and Phillip
only grew farther apart; she knew
that Philip was changing even as
she herself was: he was more
cynical. less contented, and she was
powerless to prevent it
She wondered why he had alluded
to the night of that dinner party
before their marriage.
Her cheeks burned as she remem-
bered how on that homeward drive
she had put her arms around his
neck and kissed him-she covered
her face with her trembling hands,
and suddenly she felt the tears on
her fingers.
She had been so happy then-lffe
had been like a beautiful flower
slowly unfolding its petals before
her; and now she looked around
the empty rooms-empty, as her
whole future must be!
Looking back to the first night of
their marriage, she wondered that
Philip had ever troubled to pretend
that he cared for her.
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he might stop at some roadhouse-
Then when he arrived Tor lunch
the cocktail that should have been
the first found 4 jolly companion
waiting for 1t and people who had
known him for years declared that
it dumbfounded them to find that
he had so much wit and mischief
In him. He developed delightful
faculty of making the wicked ana
irrational thing appear to be the
logical thing. the Christian thing.
and the WISE
The pleasant. ins1dious. deadly
cocktail grew upon him. Upon
starting back to town he began
soon to find that he had not had
quite enough to drink with his
lunch, and to stop here and there
to remedy the deficiency So 1t
came about that across q little glass
or so of wine, or claret. or q
whiskey and soda, the jolly oppor-
tunist cocktails that were in him
often found themselves shaking
hands with those scheming and
virulent malefactors, white mint
and brandy.
Now and again the cocktails that
he had drunk before lunch had
enough Life left to utter dying mas
sages to the cocktails which he
drank before dinner. and these in
their turn. and doubtless upon the
advice received in the dying mes
sages. formed wild and inconsidered
friendships with divers pints Of
brut champagne.
Some nights he returned to his
apartment with the idea that he
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grafters who build them. 70 the
lovely landscapes which continually
stream past. and Of coruse to ''the
fool in the other car"
Frank Manners knew a vast
number of people well. and he
formed a habit of inviting himself
to lunch at their houses. And
hostesses. even IL the luncheon
happened to be q carefully bal
anced and formal affair. an even
number Of men and women seated
just SO, were always delighted to
have an extra place squeezed In
for a man who, IL not actually
famous. was widely known and
distinguished. and who. especially
of late, brought an immense en-
ergy into the conversation. and
greatly helped others to appear
at their best.
Cocktail Habit Grow.
He had friends all over Long
Island and Westchester County,
at Bernardsville, Tuxedo and Nor
ristown. He liked to arrive just
when the cocktails were brought
In. After q long, fast drive there's
only one thing better than cock
tail for setting heart-broken
mans tongue merrily wagging and
that's two cocktails. Sometimes
he had the second one first.
He might have it at some coun-
try club of which he was a mem
Der, or at some private house
where he had intended to lunch,
only to find that the owners were
lunching somewhere else, and that
the butler was an old friend, or
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TO TREAT HEAT VICTIMS
By Brice Belden, M. d.

When the case has been cscer-
tanned to be one of sunstroke the
patient should be carried into the
shade or some cool place imme-
diately and his clothing should he
loosened. IL the skin. III hot he
should be sponged with Ice water
and when moved indoors placed in
a tub of cold water and cold
cloths or an ice cap, II they are
available, applied to his head.
When the patient remains uncon-
scious he may be given cold drinks
and kept in a quiet, cool room.
On the. other hand. when tho
skin is found to be cold and
clammy and the case shows the
symptoms of heat exhaustion be-
fore mentioned, the victim may be
treated by stimulation, being COW
cred with blankets and stimulating
drinks administered II he Ia con-
scious. Aromatic spirits of am
monia is a useful remedy in this
condition.
Heat victims should be sent to
the hospital Immediately IL this is
possible
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A Story Replete With Dramatic Epi-
sOdes and Conflicting Passions
Made Into a Motion Picture

who marries the female Herriot Is
lost. II Mrs. Herriot ever married
again she would marry some man
who had money and no position.
That was her only chance. Mesrf-
while, because he seemed 70 love
her and didn't. Mrs. Herrfot was guile
madly in love with Frank Manners,
80 much so. indeed, that 1t seemed
impossible that she should take
money from him. But she took the
money and soiaced herself with the
thought that II she hadn't taken 1t
she couldn't have afforded to be
faithful to him
A Put-up Job.
Often when he knew that Diana
was elsewhere CMrs. Langham kept
him posted Manners drove out to
Westbury and spent patient hours
with Tam These were priceless
hours for Tam. but for her father
there was hell mixed with the
heaven Of them. 1t was impossible
that the child should not come to
harm and through his own fault
There are things that simply can
not be got around" he said once to
Mrs. Langham. II was older than
Diana, she loved me with all her
might. I didn't keep her love. and
/ didn't make her happy"
You couldn't keep her love, you
mean" Mrs. Langham had retorted
quite sharply. ''and you couldn't
make her happy"
NO" said Manners. that isn't
what mean; 1 didn't Once 1 was
served with a glass of tokay worth a
dollar drop, hit the top of the
long-stemmed glass with my sleeve
and spilled the stuff all over the
table. Now. didn't have to do that.
But did it. You see you're down
on Diana I'm not.
You think she was Just naturally
doomed to be unhappy through her
folly. But there were splendid quail
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tiles In Diana No. you don't know.
And she trusted the shaping of them
to me. and glory; what a botch I've
made of it."
"She gave you her character to
shape, and trusted you completely
until the moment when you sug-
gested something sensible and pos
sibly self-sacrificing, no surely self
sacrificing az all sensible things ara:
and then she very proudly took back
her trust and her character and pro-
ceeded to shape the latter for her
self. It's too bad it's not q shape
that can be seen with the eye She
would have too much sense Of
humor to let 1t stay on exhibition"
you don't know Mrs. Langham.
More and more recall things that
have done to hurt her. They
seemed very little at the time. but
mountainous now and far-reaching."
On another occasion Mrs. Lang
ham said to him:
Everybody OF course knows now
that Diana is getting divorce.
People who knew you both are
serenely sure that it Is a put-up job.
What do you wish said?
Il don't want the matter minced
in any way" said Manners. II wish
the people who are 30 cocksre to
be jolted into uncertainty. It Is in
finitely better for Diana and Tam
that people should believe that 1
have treated Diana very badly for a
long time. As indeed I
have, since / had her love and her
happiness in my keeping and kept
neither. But don't say that. Say
this: Diana is too proud to stand
being treated badly, she stood it as
long as she could"
But that is fragrant. downright
lying"
Go be continued tomorrow.)
Copyright, 1919. International Maya
zine Co.
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ITEMPERS ON HOT DAYS
BY Beatrice Fairfax
Position I'M derful vac

derful yacht cruises on yachts or
sojourns in mountain and lake re-
sorts. There's nothing much to do
about such seeming unfairness but
grin and bear it." There's nothing
much, as a matter of fact, TO do
about anything of this sort but grin
and bear it, or not grin--and bear 1t.
Don't take anyone's sharpness or
acidity seriously these warm days.
Just regard them as going with the
weather. And If there's nothing to
be gained by letting your own tenn
perature go up when the other fell
low starts getting hot under the
collar, how doubly true is this when
the whole town Is enduring the same
grilling misery.
It's hard to be sweet when your
face is purple and your forehead
dripping. But next time you find
yourself starting to get ugly just
smile and remember how much like
a turkey gobbler your face must look
without adding to it's parboiled effect
by letting your temper raise your
temperature a few more degrees.
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WHO Occupies . Unique Position In
the Writing World rs an Authority
on the Problems of Girls.


UT was an insufferably hot and
humid day. 1t came a. a climax
= to a week of high temperatures
and tempers to match. A middle
aged couple got in the elevator with
me. He had his hat jammed down
on his head at a belligerent angle
and a cigar at a related angle in the
corner of his mouth. She had her
lips pressed primly together.
.Drivs faster. boy" he snarled.
Take your time" she said with
elaborate sweetness. You needn't
endanger everyone's life just be-
cause Mr.. Harperly is in a hurry"
No one in the car smiled Every
one was too much concerned with
the heat to care about this mani
festation of its effects. The e'e-
vator boy didn't change his speed.
The car reached the lower hall and
Mr.. Harperly stalked out, leaving
his wife to follow at what speed
she could manage in the dragging
heat.
: Irregular hot weather frazzled-
temper husband and wife stuff
commented my companion, adding:
II sometimes think that II folks
don't get so Disguised with each
other that they want to call 1t off
IN summer marriage is likely to
stand pretty much anything but
utter tragedy"
Later In the evening we found
ourselves getting miffed over the
yoriest trifle. Looking at each
other. we laughed over the recog-
milton Of absurdity which Is some
times all that saves folks from
serious quarrel And it occurred
TO me that about all folks haze to
zee them through the time Of the
year when brains add.e ind tempers
eizzle isr-humor.
It's a terrible nervous strain to
have to sta yin the city and work
throughout the hot months It's
hard to see that life's playing fair
with you II other folks go whirling
by in large, breeze-manufacturin
cars. 1t isn't at all easy to manage
with a weeks vacation in some lit
tie second-rate place when the rest
OF the world is racing off to won
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A Dramatic Story of a Devoted Hus-
band Who Discovers His Wife Is
In Love With Another Man

because I have your love the
world seems all fun OF friendly
people"
And presently the poor little
lowe-sick fool fell asleep and the
precious note slipped from her
breast TO the bed and from the
bed to the floor.
Sio transit gloria mundi-
CHAPTER XIX.
Over-stinuiation both by alcohol
and tobacco. insomnia and the IN
creasing certainty Of his belief that
II he had done differently matters
would never have come into this
terrible pass. literally stripped the
flesh from Frank Manners bones
He should have gone into the coun-
try somewhere with trainer. He
should have given up all forms OF
stimulation and exercised his body
at the expense of his Imagination
A wise doctor would have prescri5-
ed just this for him; but he did
not consult a doctor, and merely
followed along the lines Of the least
resistance
This, however, kept him In the
open air a good deal. He fell heir
to the racing car in which hts cou-
sin had so nearly driven Ogden
Fem to his death, and forthwith
developed mania for distances and
speed. He had felt some COM
junction at accepting so valuable
a present even from Peter Manners,
but his objections had been over
ridden. And when he found that
at first anyway, driving the car
fast gave him periods of mental
relaxation akin to sleep he was
delighted with its acquisition
You may not care whether you
live or die, but you cannot drive
fast over the average American
roads without considerable atten-
ton to their blind corners. to the
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THE RHYMING OPTIMIST
BY Aline Michaelis

.YOT long since when folks were
~ sickly they took tonics, po-
lions, pills which they
thought would cure them quickly OF
all sorts of aches and ills. And
whenever they were ailing. feeble
and infirm. for the doctor they went
sailing, knowing he could Dust each
germ. Now the mode is changed
completely; IL an old man or a youth
says he isn't sleeping sweetly. why
the doc says; That's a TOOTH
Teeth are cause of all your trou-
BILE: you should have them pulled
today; Ills will vanish like a bub-
BILE once those teeth are gone TO
stay. II you're doomed to sleeping
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4 oMETIMEs Philip found himself

II =
looking at her and marveling
that she had 80 greatly changed
II seemed impossible that he had
once been remorseful because he
thought she cared for him.
One night at dinner, when Eva
had just returned from a shopping
expedition 10 New York, he asked:
DO you remember that dinner
party mother gave before we were
married?'
She raised startled eyes. Yes
when Kitty Arlington tainted"
Philip frowned. II wasn't think.
ing of that l was thinking OF The
drive home Afterwards" He lesnei
a little forward. his face flushin-.
1T didn't seem much like pretense
then, did it?" he asked.
She met his eyes steadily. 81 think
we were both rather clever" shs
said lightly.
Philip. looked at els wife with
challenging eyes.
81 wonder what we would both
give to be able TO 60 back to thai
night- he said
II wonder!- Eva was peeling a
peach She KEEP. her eyes steadily
on her task. She wondered what he
would say IL he knew what a con-
trast the unhappy shrinking soul OF
her was to the girl he could see IN
her dainty evening frGck who looked
so calm and spoke so indifferently.
What would he ray were she to give
way to the almost overpowerins
longing in her heart to rush round
to him and sob out oil her lionel
ness and misery. No doubt he would
be horribly emb arrassed. No doup.
he would ring for the maid or
something. She laughed fe-
verishly at the thought
I'VE must have some more dinner
parties when We are settled in
town." she said. IT hope you have
lots of friends. Philip. I mean to be
very gay"
She felt herself to be Just an on-
locker, watching with wide eyes OF
amazement listening with aston
ished ears to this other girl whJ
was Mrs. Philip Winterdick, this
other girl was was striving dcs-
peretely to make some SORT of
thing OF life out of the ruins of be-
dreams
Philip did not answer. but h's
eyes turned Involuntary to nts
fathers empty chair. and Eva
flushed crimson.
She knew what his thoughts
must be, and she hated her new.
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Marble Cake.

Marble Cake
Y pound butter
s eggs
l pound sugar
pound flour
u pint milk
level teaspoons yeast powder
2 teaspoons vanilla
Beat butter and sugar until light,
then add beaten eggs, milk, and va
nilla, one-half flour, beat light; then
add yeast powder and rest of flour.
Divide this mixture in three equal
parts, leave one part yellow, make
one part pink with fruit coloring,
and the third part with chocolate,
which is made of one-third cake of
chocolate put in a small bowl over
steam to melt, then add teaspoon Of
melted butter, Q tablespoons sugar.
and 3 tablespoons milk, "A teaspoon
full yeast powder; mix well. Bake in
a pan which has been lined with
manila paper. first one spoonful Of
yellow, then chocolate, then pink and
SO on until batter is gone. Bake in
moderate oven one hour or until
done.--Mrs. George T. Berkeley,
319 d street southeast
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But have no wish to exaxgerats
his Lapse Of habit and character II
was only now and then tina. he got
going too hard. and ended his day.
quiet enough and even dignined to
the eye. but potentially very much
upset In the stomach, and very
drunk In the mind No ono saw him
drunk--not tin several months after
the divorce, and 1t was not for long
time that the notion got about that
he was drinking hard.
Life. he believed. would be more
tolerable II only he could be moro Of
an average man and rid himself of
those wild-goose instincts which had
been born In him. ''Some night
surely" he thought. II shall think
how pretty she is. how desirable.
how affectionate. and my thoughts
will stop there. I shall not feel like
a hound and traitor"
But things did not fall out as he
hoped. and when he realized that
they were never going to, he wanted
to break with Mrs. Herriot- But he
was too knd-hearted. and. while she
remained in love with him, he could
not expect to find any resdy-made
excuse. He began to fear that after
the divorce Mrs Herriot might want
him to marry her.
But he need not have worried
Mrs. Herriot's varied experience had
taught her a good deal Of horse
sense.
Good women she knew sometimes
acquire position and standing by
marrying the male Hsrriots Of the
world; but the man. good or bad.
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THERE are two forms OF
symptoms resulting from eI-
IRENE heat and 1t Is vel
for every one TO know how TO deal
with these during the summer
months One of the results OF hot
wea her is sunstrohe ana the other
is heat exhaus'ol, and the treat
ment of each is different
A victim of sunstrokc win feel
tired at first and will have a sense
of oppression in the head. Later
he may become dizzy and then On
conscious. Up to rhlJ point the
two results of heat are very much
the same. The sunstrokc patient
will, however. have deeply
flushed appearance and his breath
ing will be labored. The skin is
dry and hot and 1t viii be noticed
that the pulse is irregular and
weak.
In the case OF heat exhaustion
the patient becomes cold and
clammy and the temperature Is be-
low normal. II treatment IL not
administered promptly the patient
may succumb very rapidly.
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WY HY not look over your entire
" kitchen equipment with
w view to eliminating useless
articles?
one woman told me that after an
inspection such as 1 suggest above
she found that she was giving stor-
age to seventeen disgracefully In
adequate utensils-and that In a
kitchenette-
once you have decided on the
discards, you will find among the
newspaper advertisements many
high-class shops announcing busi-
ness-stimulating sales for the warm
days.
Every housewife has attempted
to bake a layer cake only to find
the pan just sufficiently large to
prevent another pan being placed
in the oven at the same time This
necessitates baking one layer at a
time-not only a waste OF time, but
of high-costing fuel.
Since you cannot take your oven
to the shop with you, the next best
thing to do is to take a paper pat
tern of the floor Of your oven with
you. The merchant can readily lit
the combination to It,
HOW SOIDt VI tile new
bination aluminium utensils. For
instance, the kettle you, buy for
boiling water may be quickly con-
verified into double boiler. Then
there are triple saucepans. They
fit In combination over the one gas
burner. By their aid one may cook
potatoes and two other vegetables
for the meal with the minimum ex-
penditure Of fuel.
Many shops are showing combi-
nation sets of knives for the home
kitchen. Some sets include a small
but effective cleaver for the bones
that ruin the edge of the unfortu-
nate knife. The spatula or pal
lette knife. timber knife so useful
in removing the last of the batter
from bowls or for Tipping cakes,
is a most useful knife about the
kitchen. More than one vegetable
pairing knife is needed in even a
small kitchen.
OF the materials for cook pots,
agate. enamelware of the first quail
ity and aluminium are still among
the best liked. Buy only a few at
first during replacement, but buy
the best.
A well-equipped kitchen with use
able utensils of just the right Sort
undoubtedly lightens the labor of
getting the usual three squares a
day, -.
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sickness, asthma, hiccoughs. dropsy,
govt these will pass with pleasing
quickness II. you have your teeth
pulled out" Since this remedy's a
wonder, serving humankind so well,
would IL work the same, we wonder,
for the earth on which we dwell?
For our planet suffers evils, war and
murder. force and wrong; like a
lengthy string of devils these have
always tagged along. Maybe II
would cure the errors of the ma
tons hate and doubt II all ceased
from warlike terrors and the fght-
ers' teeth were out. Maybe living
would be saner II the bugles' notes
should cease and our duties nvghs
be palmer in a world of light and
peace.
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could paint again. and that he
would begin In the morning. Often
he returned with the feeling that
no had not had quito enough to
drink. The whiskey that he learned
to drink by himself sometimes at
focted him like opium. Somsttmes
1t divorced his thoughts entirely
from the things that troubled him.
Here lay the danger. In those
hours Of chance quittance he would
have risked hell. and indeed he did.
During those periods OF genuine
hallucination he seemed to find In
his own thoughts and character
beauties which he had never even
suspected In other peoples thoughts
and characters; beauties and abili-
ties and shortcuts
Average Man.
He dreamed wonderful dreams.
And after the dreams he would
tumble into bed and actually lose
consciousness.
II the whiskey could have done
just these things for him. and moth.
ing else. he might hSye had some
slight justification in drinking 90
much and so often. 1t has perhaps
in Its day actually helped a man here
and there over some very hard place,
relaxed his mind in time to keep it
from swapping. But II did not help
Frank Manners For the one time
that It soothed him and sent him
peacefully to sleep, II excited him
two times and kept him awake,
smarting with injustice and jeal-
ousy, dark and vengeful.
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FRANK MANNERS, an artist deeply in love with
his charming wife.
DIANA MANNERS, beautiful young woman, who
falls in love with
OGDEN FEM, young chap, who makes no secret
of his affection and to whom
PETER MANNERS, cousin of Frank, who also
once loved Diana, appeals to prevent break.
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More Prize
Recipes
Chocolate Layer Cake

Chocolate Layer Cake
Y pound butter
/ cup of sugar
eggs
Y cup water
cups of flour
teaspoons baking powder
u teaspoon of vanilla
ICING.
n 1o-cent cake Bakers chocolate
j cup brown sugar
tablespoons milk
u teaspoon of vanilla
Thornton, 1906 Columbia
road northwest.
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DO You KnOU
That

As result of more open-air
sports British women are develop
ing larger waists and natter chests.
1t IL the movement OF the air and
not any chemical property which
enables a wind to impart bracing
effect
A boot or shoe should be three
sizes larger than the foot wearing
II. according to an orthopedic spe-
cialist.
Rouge and powder. IL used to ex.
cess, clog up the pores of the skin and
cause much damage.
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THE WILD GOOSE BY GOUVERNEUR NOR
Who's Who in "The Wild Goose"

MRS. HERRIOTT, woman aboutstown, who helps
Frank to get divorce to free Diana
ROBERT HASTINGS, husband. Of Mary, devoted
more to money making than to home making
MARY HASTINGS, his wife, and friend Of Frank
and Diana.
TAM, the little daughter Of Diana and Frank, who
adores her father.