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The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-13
State Grange Opens.

CHfCKAsHA. VITA several hun
dred delegates expected TO attend
from every section Of the state. the
annual Meeting of the state grange
will open In Chicago. Tuesday for
three day session. Members oi
the Business and Professional Won
ems club will entertain the visiting
women with a reception In the Elk's
club.
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Another scinlo Victim ncnd.

M'ALESTER, IT ,rl PurneI is
dead at Scipio. being tae scc' nd "'t-
tim of a shooting affray 1eo- there
thursday night. Fiity +. rd. deputy
shyriff. was the otl.ee Victim. The
difficulty bringing or the shooting
vas said TO be an Odd gru1ge.
-
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-13

Permanent waving, Vogue Mari
ncllo Shop, 52t S. Main St.--Ad-
vert tisemcnt.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-13

Palm oil 20 being used ms steamer
fuel In the Congo with good results.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-13

Threatens +. \. Captain.
ARDMORE.--T1r against the
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-13

Dried figs are. weight for weight,
more nourishing than bread.
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When q Girl Marries

to get the two men together for a
meeting and then have the police
step in and take Slim barrow. But
1 don't want you to appear in 1t ex-
cept as an innocent bystander."
You don't want nothing of me.
ma'am?" asked Lyons, with q hang.
dog air. II Amt bit of use to you
no more?"
You are in the game, but you
don't appear" i smiled. what I
want of you, Lyons, ia this-make
an appointment with barrow and
Dick West. Have 1t at a corner with
apartment-right along the route
you take in driving me home from
downtown. Make It for five
Alibi yourself carefully by telling
them that IL you're late It will only
be because I held you'up with the
car. But say I've been sick and
generally so home early. Lay q lot
of stress on the Importance Of seeing
them-so they will be sure to be
there at s. That's perfectly clear,
isn't it,"
Clear as honey" agreed Lyons.
"Only, begging your pardon, ma'am.
don't see through It,"
I'm glad you don't" said.
That makes It more certain than
ever that I'm not getting you into
danger. The more innocent you
are of my plan, the better"
rs 1t all clear to you, ma'am"
asked Lyons anxiously,
I've thought II out very care
fully" 1 replied.
II needed a final proof Of his
loyalty and devotion. I got II when
Lyons looked at me pleadingly and
said:
Please don't take any chances,
ma'en, that / could be taking for
you.S
no ones taking any chances"
assured him. IT won't appear In
the matter either-except driving
home at about ten minutes past
s, just too late for you to keep
your appointment. And now, Lyons,
I want to shake hands with one OF
the most loyal, honest men I've ever
known"
Then he got back on the drivers
seat and turned the car toward the
downtown district. When we ar
rived at the hotel stopped on the
curbing and said loud enough to
be heard by anyone who might be
standing around to carry informa.
ton to barrow, West 4 Co.
I'm lunching with a friend, Ly-
ons. Don't know how long I'll be
here. I won't neeo you until four.
Call for me then at my husbands
office. j. II. Harrison & Co., you
know"
Then I hurried into the lobby and
a telephone booth. When l got my
number 1 asked in guarded voice
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BOBBIE AND HIS PA
BY William F. Kirk.

sed Ma. Here Is a kind Of sweet
littel verse in my album, sed Ma, 4
then Ma read out loud:
Wen sad q forlorn L roam In the
glen,
Till a sweet smile from you maiks
me happy agsenn.
That was rote by the hansuniest
boy that ever went to our skool.
scd Ma. His naim was Jimmie
Tracey 4 the gurls were all wild
about him.
I know how you must have felt
about him II he was hsnsum, sed
Pa. All the gurls at skool felt that
way about me.
Thay did7 sed Ma.
That Is what thay done, sed Pa.
o memories OF the golden past, I'd
have YOU often II j daSt, sed Pa.
Ditto, sed Ma. Thare Is nothing
mosr sweeter than thinking of
sweetharts Of childhood, sed Ma.
But j felt you newer felt the saim
adorashun for none OF them Hinks
like what you feel for me, sed Pa.
Hevings, no. sed Mr How cud II
You are my All in All, sed Ma, a
yure naim Is rote on the otto-Rraft
album OF my hart, Ma sed.
Grand. sed Pa, I ouddent have sed
nothing better than that myself,
sed Pa.
Thsre Is gittins to be a awful lot
OF mush around our house.
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FOR LOVE By RUBY RUBY M
Ayres

Calligan?
Eva made no attempt to disguise
to herself what difference he made
in her Nfe. There was something
about his personality that made II
impossible TO b dismal when he
was about. there was something in
his open admiration Of her that in.
creased her self-respect. Philip
least there was somebody who did
She was no longer even actively
conscious of deliberately trying to
rouse Philips jealousy. She had
begun to believe alphabetically that
he had never really been jealous at
all-that 1t had only been q sort OF
dog-in-the-manger snarl OF which he
had long since been cured.
She went on reading her letter. II
was from Peter, and he suggested
coming to town TO stay with them
for . week. Kitty was in town al
ready. II appeared. with friends.
This place seems to be the limit
this autumn" 10 he wrote. You've
no idea how I miss you, old girl.
Hope you are well and happy"
She mdae q little vry face over
this last line. Happy! She had
given up expecting to be happy.
She sighed As she folded the
letter and put II away. She looked
at Philip.
Peter suggests coming to stay
with u.s." she said.
No answer.
Have you any objection
II" He looked up, his eyes
rather hard beneath their dark
brows. The place is yours. Ask
whoever you like to stay here. of
course"
Very we'll" She turned away
and sat down at her writing desk.
Il may as we'll write at once, then;
II will be nice to see Peter again."
You talk as IL you've been part
cd for years" said Phi@s dryly,
He watched her as She sat there,
and the hardness slowly died from
his face leaving It rather sad.
II may az well give those tickets
away for tonight" he said present
ly. "Its q pity to waste them"
Eva's rapidly flying pen stopped.
She looked up. "Oh, but I can 60.
I've nothing else to 90
(TO be continued Monday
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OF
THE FAMOUS

The celebration of the centenary
OF the birth of Flaubert, the great
French writer. author of Madame
Bovary" and "Sslammbo," will
take place on December IL next.
Anstole France tells an anus
ing story of F1aubert.
A beautiful young actress set
her heart upon winning the poetry
prize from the Academic Franchise,
but on one occasion she forgot to
compose her poem until the day
upon which 1t was due.
In despair she appealed to Flau-
bert to write two hundred lines on
Immortality" before midnight, and
she locked him in her library to COM
plete the task.
At 1870 he had not written
line; then, bestirrine himself. he
took down Lamsrtine's Harmon
les" from a shelf and copied out
the necessary number Of verses.
Unaware of their true authorship,
the lines were submitted by the
actress TO the Academic. which
awarded her the prize and printed
I.amartines verses over the sigma.
ture Of Louise Collet!
II was a capital joke against the
"Immortsis." but Tlsubert never
confessed his part In 1t untn Iona
afterwards. -.... d.
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IN HEN . bar Of light from his
room that had streamed out
across the landing was sud
denly extin1uished. 1t was followed
by the shutting Of his door, ana
then--then there seemed nothing In
all the world any more but silence.
Philip let himself into the apart.
ment; shut the door with q little
slam behind him and went on into
the drawing.room.
A maid WIS coming out Of the
room as he entered. and he spoke to
her casually:
rs your mistress int Oh. there
you are
He had seen Eva standing BY tho
fire reading a letter. He closed the
door behind him and went forward.
I'm sorry" he said formally.
But / shan't be able to take you to
the theater tonight after ALL for.
got / had an enga gement."
She looked up from the letter she
was reading.
"Oh, very well--it doesn't matter"
and her eyes fell again.
Philip kicked the fire into blaze.
1t was a chill October day, and
outside a boisterous wind was whist
ling up and down the streets and
round the houses.
Eva and Philip had been In town
a fortnight, and already to both OF
them 1t seemed an eternity.
To Eva the departure from the
Highway House had been the final
swapping of the thread Of hope to
which she had chung 80 desperately.
Ever since that last night when
Philip had ignored her note nothing
seemed to have mattered.
They had come to London, and
they had been about together great
deal more than they had ever done
in the country.
But 1t had all been purely for out
side effect. at home the same
strained relationship continued, and
Eva was forced to acknowledge to
herself that things were gradually
getting easier to bear.
She no longer cried herself to
sleep at night; no longer was so
conscious OF the intolcrable heart.
ache. 1t was there, all the same.
but other things were beginning to
smother 1T and deaden the pain.
There was so much to do and see
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ADVICETOTHE
LOVELORN
Beatrice Fairfax
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
About two years ago / met a man
of twenty-six, five years my senior.
We became good friends; later our
friendship turned into love.
My p4rents object to him because
he is of a different religion and has
not enough money to marry on.
am willing to walt until he makes
enough, which, we hope, will be in
about two years.
When he calls, my father makes
things very unpleasant. He says II
I marry against his will he will dis
own me.
What shall dor love them
both. 1t would break my heart to
give up either of them. have al
ways been good to my people, who
are all / have IN the world. and have
always tried to obey them. We have
tried for over year to overcome
their prejudice, but haven't made
the slightest progress.
Do you think religion Ia a barrier
UNHAPPY.
Religion isn't an impossible bar
rier-but difference I'm training
and ideals comes pretty near being
a stone wall. IL you care deeply,
the sincerity and unchanging
quality OF your fealings can't help
impressing your people. Don't
struggle so desperately. The money
difficulty In the immediate barrier.
Perhaps once the boy for whom YOU
care has proven his fitness to make
a home for you, your people will feel
differently. You can't blame them
for wanting TO make sure OF your
future and Tor hesitating to entrust
n to one who hasn't much to offer
YOU besides q romantic devotion.
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pps
- 80. - ne -. a.,
one s'u 'nnss 70 YOU "Ne
'ha' "~ '
She Is too proud to confess that
she has made q mistake. She
VIII never confess 1t. She VIII
never repeat it-or any OF her
oio MISTAKES shs 10 greatly
chahseo' All tnese thinss are Ia
nor iace
Tired of him7~
mot that. She never loved him.
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What Shall She Do?

graciously, possibly hold out youf
hand and say. amiably. How d>
you do, Miss Smith," or any otheA
formula of pleasant greeting? Why,
not be as friendly and human ID.
acknowledging an introduction t.,
q man? u
Human that's the keynote.
word. That's the thing that would;
do away With all this worry about
questions of etiquette and the
proper thing to do" In all cur
social relations with other folks,
the thing to do is to be amfAbl2
human.
Our entire education lays tod
much stress on the fact that Tho
world is divided into men and
women. 1t ought to emphasize thu
fact that we are human beings, END
1oyins the same educational frees
dom and the same right to develouf
into thinking. intelligent beings!
IL doesn't help us q bit to be elab-
oratefy self conscious in our sociaf
manners, customs and actions.
OF course, Mamie can't help Il n
her heart thuds when Jack coined
along, but she doesn't need to emS
phasize the thing to the point Of nod
being able to treat Jack like q
human being. And surely fo6
every man a girl meets she doesn' Z
feel the heart-stirring emotion which
makes 1t hard for her to be herself&
Most social customs are question:
Of usage and Of geography. Moso
books of etiquette are written by
folks who haven't spent their lived
with crowned heads and who are
Just simple humans like you and mel
And all they can record is CUSTOM
and good taste.
The unframed boy or siri doesn \
always know what custom and
usage recompend. but alert eye2
can soon discover and an, acf1v(
brain can adjust itself to seven fork.
OF varying shape and size. Kindness
and a quiet manner, without fuss
or feathers, or q desire TO exploit IL
self at anyone else's expense will
generally tell anyone who stops &C.
think what is the gracious and
thoughtful. thing to do-and that's
better than any amount OF proper
things.
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WAS looking at a old otto.srstt

r WAS looking at a old otto graft
album this A. NJ. sed Ma to Pa
wen he calm hoam last mite. 1t
revived old memries. too. sed Ma.
Heer Il Is. & Ma showed Pa the
otto-graft album.
l used to have one Of them things
onst, sed Pa. You wuddent believe
II now, perhaps. sed Pa, but used
to run around the skool grounds
with my otto.graft album under my
arm & ask the pritty littel gurls to
rite in II, sed Pa. Sweet recolleck.
shunsl sed Pa.
Here Is littel verse In my old
book, sed Ma. that was rote there by
my first childish sweetheart:
IF you love me like love you
No knife can cut our love in two"
That il a old wheeze, sed Pa, The
Rurls that rote in my otto-eraft al
bum, sed Pa, rote dainty httel
stanzys. One l remember went like
this, sed Pa:
You are so tall 4 strong A broad
That wen ] see you I am awed.
You are a hero. a man apart,
NJ Richard OF the Lion hart"
That IL the way the ruris tbot OF
me wen I was a child at ykool. sed
Pa.
You doant mean to tell me, sed
Ma. How thrilling romantick,
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justice opened wide and the bile and
gall gushed out Of them. He wrote
Diana one terrible letter. Then he
left the city, and went for some
weeks into the Canadian forests
with half-breed to guide him. He
fished very little, ate very little.
smoked a great deal. and asked
great many questions which the
half.breed answered according to his
experience OF life in the back woods.
and their settlements.
III your wife, wambolt," he
asked, fell in love with another
man and wanted to leave you.
what would you do7"
XIII that man for sure. and
beat her up GOOD"
''If you wanted more children
and she wouldn't have any morel"
IT give her good beating, then"
But suppose you fell in love
with another woman and wanted
to leave your wife7 That would
make . difference, wouldn't itf"
she beat me UP them" said the
half-breed. Maybe she scratch
her own face, and shoot me down"
In any case you wouldn't mess
and fuss and wransls and dispute
and get bad and good advice from
the neishbors."
Got no time" said wambolt.
TOO much trouble to buy food and
shoes and keep warm"
Manners spenta week In Quebec.
He had begun now to think
very seriously of spiriting Tam
away to Canada. He felt that ha
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Dramatic Story of a Devoted Hus'
band Who Discovers His Wife Is
In Love With Another Man

you had no hand In making some
other man who loves you leg1u-
mately and in perhaps the same way.
as unhappy as that"
From that moment his mind ran
more and more on the fact that
Diara was going to have a child
and the longing for his, own child
grew upon him.
In May he wrote to Diana asking
her to let him have Tam at least
for the summer months. Diana re-
fused, almost CURLY. She did not
go into her reasons for refusing.
In Canadian Forests.
She had the impulse to tell him
the truth. II won't let you have
her." she might have written, be.
cause the happiness that I looked
forward to is ashes. don't love
my husband. am bowed to the
ground with shame and humiliation.
But 1 am not going to play this
husband false. There 10 good in me.
and l shall try to redeem my sins
against you, by doing right by him.
IT have only Tam to keep me
going. without her l should falter
and fail. Somehow have got to
keep my head UP. God means me
to. 1 am going to have a baby. If
my husband wants others shall
give them to him II can. God
cares moro about the children than
about the complex motives that
bring them into the world and keep
them out >"
But Manners could know nothing
Of this.
"She f. going to give him the
children that she denied me-" he
thought. And she has taken away
from mo the one child that she
gave"
Once more those intolerabls
wounds made in his nature by in
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A Story Replete With Dramatic Epi:
sOdes and Conflicting Passions ].
Made Into Motion Picture ~

sympathetic admiration at this
guess.work estimate Of the new
forces at work in the woman who
had spoiled his life.
What is the man like?" he
asked.
II think that he guesses what
l guess, and that no man ever
admired a woman more than he
admires Diana. I think that he 10
a little trying about his money at
fairs, which do not march forward.
And / think that deep down he
has the horrible fear that some day
Diana will get tired Of being good
and will servo him as she served
you"
MARY" he said. Perhaps this
win surprise you. would not take
Diana back II I could get her and
she wanted to come. There IL no
getting over the injustice she did
me. There is no cure for II. There
IL no forgiveness Tor anyone who
committed the crime Of separating
Tam from me. Besides that I do
not believe In divorce. 1t is not in
my prayer book. believe that my
wife Il living 10 sin, that her child
in the sight of God will DO tllegiu.
mate. I do not choose to have my
own child brought up In such an
atmosphere"
IT you fell in love again, Frank.
wouldn't you marry asain3"
'If~
She had no need to probe the ques-
ton any deeper.
IF Diana died. I might" he said.
But she Is my wife ana only death
can end our marriage"
Then why do you say that you
would not take her back?"
81 am wrong to say that. /
would. ia have to. Z meant that
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THE RHYMING!
| OPTIMIST
BY Aline Michaelis

|" HOSEold chaps were badly
foosled whom they made the
calendar; they were very
much bamboozled in just one partic-
ular. They had studied old earth's
motions, whixxing through the at
mosphere. till they got some funny
notions how to divvy up the year.
Now. could anything be hummer
than the way they did some things;
one took golden days Of summer.
slipping by on fragrant wings, say
ing, Here's q weighty feature
days are longest now Of all" Say.
that poor, old. added creature never
was a boy at ALI Else he never
would have stated such q bit of
persiflage IL he ever once had wait
ed through DEFENDERS endless age.
Any boy who has been fishing
knows June days go all too soon,
and remembers fervent wishing to
retard the August moon. Scientists
paraded knowledge, prating OF the
sun and pole; but chaps who have
not seen college argue by the swim
ming hole. Then, to clinch the mat
ter wholly, they recall December
days; snail-like. creeping by so
slowly to their wild. impatient gaze.
Days that seemed forever passing,
days when they were mild and good.
never talking back or sassing. doing
chores and Juggling wood. Yes, II
was some musty scholar who said
summer days were long. l would
bet my bottom dollar any school
boyd call him wrong. Days that
set the soul to soothing, lasting
eighteen hours each, come with
Christmas in the offing, which 1t
seems you'll never reach! Days
along in mid-December, when the
spirits droop and fall. these are the
days the boys remember al the
longest DAVIS of all
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could not do without her and
ought not. Diana" he thought,
has everything she wants. i
have nothing. II isn't fair"
He inspected several houses that
were for rent. and visited eoms
elementary schools. ~
Diana could come to see Tam
when she liked" he thought.
But soon she win be so busy
with her new family that she
won't be able TO come very often.
Tam and 1 wouldn't have to stick
In Canada. There's all Europe,
and the wonderful Rivieras."
Plans to Steal Tam.
And he determined finally that he
must have Tam and that II neces-
sary he would steal her.
Diana had no more been fair about
Tam than about anything else. He
could never love any woman but
Diana. That was proved. Neverths-
less the love that he had for her
drew back ~ II were and hid all its
brightness In some dark cavern Of
his heart.
How badly Diana might feel at
losing Tam was no longer any con-
Germ OF his. She had made her bed.
Let her lie in 1t. Losing Tam would
merely be one Of the rough spots.
Let Fem comfort her.
He could be happy II he had Tam.
He could do fine work and leave her
well-off. without her he felt that
he had shot his bolt. and could not
bend his crossbow again. He had
suffered too much. and his creative
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impulse needed someone to love all
the time and someone to love him
back.
~ will give Tam little responsi-
bilities," he said. And make her
definite practical use and import
ance to me. That will help to make
her happy"
But Mary Hastings had heard
with mingled sorrow and alarm OF
Frank Manners determination to
steal his little daughter, and take
her out Of the country.
You haven't treated me fairly
Frank" she said. ''You tell me that
you have an important secret to con-
fids in me. you make me promise
that, II shall 20 no further, and then
you announce that you are going to
commit q crime"
yes" he said. tive been un.
fair; but this IL life or death to
me. Mary, and 20 I can't release
you from your promise"
And before knew that there
was anything In the wind" she
said, you mad me tell you all
about my visit with the Fsnn's at
Combses. and which was Tam's
room. and about the ladder leaning
against the woodshed.
You have made me . party to the
crime. I think must tell you
some more about that visit. Moth
ing that win help you. Things
that might hinder you. Do you
want to make Diana wretchedly I'M
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In my eyes she Ii utterly contain
mated and soiled."
''But piease-about Tam-you
must change your mind. No man
NOT even you--is quite 1T Ia
bring up a little girl" -sS
"As soon as there is another child
in the house Tam will not recsive-
impartial treatment from the man.
1t Is better that Diana should die OF,
grief than that Tam should gros !.
up In an atmosphere of Injustice
Death Can End Marriage.
"oh, but Fem is such a kind,
really nice person. ne wouldn't BE
unjust"
rs he human" e-s
Yes" -cr
will he love his child more than,
he loves miner"
"Of course. but"
Then in an excess of justice he
viii very likely favor my child at tn
expense of his own: That would b.
as bad for Tam as the other thin
My mind is all made up, Mary. Affs
all the details are worked out. II,
elopement is for Saturday. ! wai
Fem to be on hand when DIAM
finds out that Tam is gone. sh
might do something foolish.
Tam's got good nerves. There wont
be any disturbance. She sleeps with
her window open. of course. There
won't be any noise
At length Mary Hastings gave up
trying to shake him from his pur.
pose. She wanted him to have what
ever II was that he wanted. The
tragedy of his heartbreak was all in
his face now. She had never felt so
sorry for anyone. He only thought
that he would be happy with Tam.
Go be continued Monday q
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