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Who Holds Unique Position i'm
the Writing World as an Au-
thority on the Problems
of Girls.

A YEAR or two ago there
IA was a play on in New
Il - York which, in the midst
of much saccharine absurdity,
carried one or two lines that
were true and vital.
A man came in from a moonlit
garden and announced vaguely
to his best pal that he was en-
gagged to a girl for whom he had
never shown any signs Of real
caring. The chum inquired as to
how such q thing had ever hap
pened and the startled and i'm
promptu fiance announced in
puzzled tone that the honey
suckle was so sweet and the
nightingale sang so rapturOusly
and he hadn't anything to discuss
with the girl, so he asked her
to marry him.
Some summer engagements have
about as much impelling causes
as that. They happen just by the
way Of conversation. They &C
cur because the man in the case
Tor the girl in the case) is trick
ed with the glamour of the sun
or the moon or the sea or the
hills.
SO l am going to quote again
this summer great and wise
man from whom l borrowed my
text and inspiration once before
GUST eleven months ago to
day0. The dean of Manchester,
England, said:
Sweethearts must know each
other at home as we'll as on holt
day. Young people who become
entangled in amorous attach
ments while on a holiday shout
not allow the entanglements ID
continue until they have seen
each other at home"
The dean is wise and right and
just.
A man and woman should
know more about each other
than the summer holiday reveals
If they plan to settle down to
the workaday business of spend
ing their lives together. The
glamour of moonlight rides and
sunlit sails and swims Is unde-
nlable. But their freedom from
routine and lack of restraint
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RASS = Novel of Marriage = By Charles G. Nor
Thrilling and Gripping Serial of Married Life From the
Pen of Successful American
Novelist.

patiently scattered the neat stack
of personal mail that awaited
him over his desk-blotter, the MAD
hope asserting itself that among
the envelopes there might be one
from her. He could not fasten
his mind to his work. The thought
of the unusual morning hour given
to laborious dictation sickened
him. He directed the telephone
girl to break several business APP
pointments.. He could not bear to
keep any Of them.
He would stare unseeing out or
the one window in his office at
the gray brick wall of the oppo-
site building, and attempt to con-
lure UP against its slaty back
ground the tall figure in satin
draperies with downcast eyes and
linked fingers. Moments OF un-
comfortable impotence possessed
him. He would stand up sud-
denly, jerking back the heavy
armed desk chair, his fingers grip
ping it with whitened knuckles.
He would pace the few feet be-
tween the glass partitions of his
office, back and forth, back and
forth, back and forth, his great
hands showed deep into his trous-
ers pockets, rolling a cigar be-
tween his big teeth, his forehead
knit into a constant scowl.
TO Be Continued Tomorrow
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SUMMER LOVE MAKING
A WARNING TO HOLIDAY LOVERS

. helps on the natural physical
attraction from two carefree
young things who are looking for
the romance summer suggests.
Home making and family rear
ing are not 100 per cent ro-
mance-though they grow out of
it. They have their completely
practical side.
A great doctor argues that
temper and physical attractions
are the two outstanding factors
in married life. In the summer
romance physical attraction is
bound to be the impelling factor.
Temper has not much cause for
OutburSts on a holiday The
Grange from the routine of the
city's work soothes the nerves.
Holiday spirits find their outlet
in search for pleasure, not in
the fight for existence.
"HeH DOy meets a new en-
virOnment he is under influences
strange to his normal life. There
is no hurry of work, no neces-
sity for getting things done on
schedule time, no adjustment to
the responsibilities of life as it
is lived for fifty weeks out of
the year.
Holiday sWeethearts may
plunge into marriage as gaily rs
they dive through the breakers.
But they don't know enough
about the tides, the coast forma-
tons, the rocks, the undertow
o" even the possibility of sharks
to make the plunge a wise one.
And marriage isn't a brief dip
It is theoretically and ideally at
least a voyage across the sea to
an undiscovered continent of
. maturity.
Don't marry your holiday
sweetheart until you have put
him to the test of time and of
town. Love doesn't see very ac-
Curately when it is clouded by
excitement.
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elist.

Incompatible woman? Perhaps
after all she was the woman it
was intended he should marry
his natural mate!-his true wife!
The thought brought him to his
feet, his jaws gripped, his fists
tight shut, his big chest rising or
a great breath. God! What d
woman! What a marriage!
A Box of Blooms.
He sent her flowers the next
day, a fragrant box of violets and
lilies-of-the-valley. and the day
following he dared to call. He
was relieved to find her out, for
his nerve had forsaken him. He
could do no more without en-
couragement from her, and tried
to compose his soul to wait with
patience. !.
But he could think of nothing
else. At night he dreamed of her;
the first conscious thought when
he awoke concerned her; her visit
full eyes. her spiritual face, the
long splendid lines of her graci-
Gus figure haunted him. He
thought of her as he lay in bed,
as he slowly dressed, as he stared
unseeing at the newspaper propped
against the water-bottle at the
breakfast table, as he walked
downtown to his office in the
glittering sunshine, as he set
tied himself at his desk and i'm.
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By Mary Roberts Rhinehartt

by mary ROBERTS zimmerman
" HE train wreck had taken
fire. The first little leap
- ing tongues, licking their
way through shattered windows
chimney-like transoms, had given
way to solid sheets of flame. On
the bank, full in the glare, a man
was sitting, his night clothing
torn and dirty. with little
scorched places here and there
which told of the struggle he had
made with death.
A trainman ran past, holding
battered red lantern. He was
hatless and coatless, and one arm
hung limp beside him. AS he
came abreast of the man on the
bank he stopped suddenly, look
ing at the lantern with fear
haunted eyes. Then he gave it
a fling toward the flames.
whats the use of a lantern
in hell? he mutteredL catching at
his broken arm with gasp of
pain. Then he became conscious
Of the man beside him. They'll
blame it on me-" he babbled.
"You see if they don't. I went
clear back over the trestle but
that cursed fool on forty-five
wouldn't stop!'
A man partly dressed was
coming alone up the track. He
passed the trainman with a
glance and kept on, but abreast
of the man on the bank he
stopped suddenly and looked at
him. It required second glance
to recognize the altered face;
but. apparently satisfied, he
touched him on the shoulder.
The man on the bank shifted his
position uneasily, but without
taking his eyes from the gap in
the flames.
Hurt any," asked the new
conner. He was a big man, in
trousers and undershirt, one bare
foot thrust into a low shoe. the
other unprotected from the Gin
ders. He sat down beside the
other and looked at him closely.
Hurt any?" he repeated.
The man on the bank shook
his head without speaking.
"Any one with your" asked the
other.
This time the nod was affirm
alive. The big man got up again
heavily.
"Who was it?" he asked. I'll
go and look"
But the other drew him down
again with a convulsive gesture.
Don't CO." he said hoarsely.
I'll don't want to know"
"What was it,"
"Wife and baby" /
They'll come, sure" he said
you'll know Them" said the
other, "if they come. Margaret
was-is tall-and straight. with
great coils of brown hair. and the
baby has yellow curls. My Cod"
he repeated, chose little yellow
curls."
The big man stirred uneasily-
"I have two children at home
myself" he said bit thickly.
"Why have been saved?"
went on the hopeless voice. eve
been a fool, and worse. Why,
this very trip was flight, that's
all. Flight He sat up and
stared at a Young woman who
had come across the track and
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By Ann Lisle,
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Have Won a Big Popular
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SUCCESS
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<~rES, mother" she said,
cheerfully, huskily.
I'm quite ready
really quite ready. -. :. Oh.
no!-It's past nine. :" She
turned to Philip: Goodnight
we meet soon again. hopper"
"Shall we get down to bust
ness?" I asked, breaking the ST.
lence which she seemed to be
enjoying.
eve may perhaps talk first and
eat afterward," agreed Rosa.
Though I think maybe it is nicer
we shall be fed and comfortable
before we-agitate ourselves"
Realizing that Rosa was play
ing with me wouldn't give her
the satisfaction of Directing. So
we made small talk until our
lunch came and we'd had time TO
eat it and set the tray outside for
Jerry to take care Of. n
Then, with a mental pounce,
Rosa demanded:
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THE LOVE GAME
"A ROMANCE OF CITY LIFE.

: Beautifully! l never had such
a heavenly dance with any other
man." Butt, as an after-thought,
"I never danced with you, Don
AID"
Her companion threw back his
head with a light laugh. NO
you never did! We have not had
a chance except Oil the weekend
l spent at Hopatcong. Then
wanted to talk to you so much
that 1 forgot that you might pre-
fer dancing. 1 am sorry"
- you need not be-" she said.
ST had a nice time with you as it
was. And you have had so much
social life that that kind of thing
would not mean to you what it
means to Richard. 1 am very
sorry for him, Donald"
TALKS OF RICHARD.
She was eager to talk of the
young reformer now, while Don
aid was in a gentle and uncritical
mood. His sympathetic attention
moved her to continue.
You don't mind if 1 tell you
something about him, do you,
Certainly not, dear. 1 want to
know of anything that interests
you"
well, he does,' she hurried on.
Just now, especially, he is up
against a bit of hard luck. l
never saw him as companionable
and lovely as he was this week
end. 1 know that being at the
Lake and away from certain
troubles was like bit of Para
disc for him. And it had to end
so soon.".
"An earthly paradise often
does" was the only comment.
But the girl did not heed it.
You see," she exclaimed, "a
friend of his, whom he trusted,
duNlSSO NH W put d IOI VI LIlAI
money you lent him into some
thing that was, apparently, sure
to make good-that will eventu-
ally be a big thing. But there
has been a hitch somewhere,
Richard says, and he may be
held up for a while before he gets
In T. &C.
get"
That is what is worrying
Rankin?" Muir asked.
YES. That is one of the
things. He is not worrying on his
own account-in way, for he is
used to doing without things.
But he is so honorable that it
would trouble him terribly If he
had to make anybody wait for
money he owed"
Naturally it would" Donald
agreed. But is he sure that he
cannot pay what he Owes-any-
body?"
"Oh, nor the girl explained.
"He will not be certain for sew
eral weeks yet. And / know he
will do the honorable thing"
Then, If you know that, you
have nothing to worry about-on
his accountant neither has he"
was the dry comment. Come
we are nearly in dock. Let us
go back to the car"
During the following days,
Winifred Scott saw Donald Muir
and Richard Rankin less fire.
quently than had been her custom.
Richard now called only once
week. When he did come, he
told her that he was too busy and
too anxious about his affairs to be
a pleasant cONpanion.
90 n Ntinuadl
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By Charles G. Norris.

UT somehow I found myself
* relieved. by her decision to
put her cards-whatever
they were-on the table.
He bowed and tried to return
the cordiality of her smile. AS
she moved slowly toward the ele-
vator, her bare arm about her
gentle mothers figure, splendidly
Indifferent to the appraising
study of the old ladies Of the
hotel, Philip thought he had
never seen a woman so superb,
20 divinely beautiful, SO gloriously
regal.
Lucy and Wilbur were waiting
for him in their room upstairs.
AS he came in, his sister fixed
her eve upon him, studying his
face, an amused smile upon her
lips.
"WelI-Philip! Whence this
sudden interest in the female
sex? Our shrinking violet no
: longer breads the suns hot rays:
Wilbur gave a short laugh.
Beautiful Minerva's got him
goingT'
Philip felt the hot blood rush
ing to his face. He bfushed Vio-
iently, hotly, his eyes swimming
with confusion.
%Why, Philip! Wny'
Philip" exclaimed his sister, sur
prised at his emotion II do be-
Heve the mans in love!
Is He In. Love?
Was he? He asked himself the
question repeatedly during days
, and nights that followed out
could satisfy himself with no
definite answer. He had sup
posed Marjorie possessed all the
love he could ever give a woman;
he supposed that part Of him to
be dead, that he could never love
again. But it was not long be-
fore he was asking himself IL
the emotion he had entertained
for his wife was to be compared
with that which now disturbed
him. Had he ever really loved
Marjorie? Was that old feeling
ANYTHING more than calf love
masquerading as something more
enduring. He had been no
more than a boy, and she
a little girl whom he
had considered rougish and cum
ming. They had not known the
meaning Of love! How could
they?
Marjorie had married Roy North
almost Immediately after the year
of waiting made necessary by the
interlocutory decree, and Philip
had been told that North had
taken her to New York where
he had obtained a job as car
toonist on an evening newspaper.
Lillian had been disposed of some
how; Philip did not know the de-
tails. He wondered If Marjorie
had found in North the man she
really loved; the one for whom
she should have waited? If her
first choice in husbands had been
a mistake, might she not have
chosen more wisely the second
time, and be playing the role of
wife with greater success? Philip
wished her no harm; he honestly
hoped North would bring her the
happiness she had not been able
to find with him. All the hurt
pride the bitterness and anger
that burnt in his heart for two
years, had disappeared. This new
softening toward his late wife had
come about only since he had
known Mary Rowland. If Marjorie
. could find her real happiness with
Roy North, why could he not find
his own with Mary Rowland?
What was there to prevent him
from re-marrying? He was free.
What obstacle was there? Why
should he not aspire to win this
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the handsome Pat Dalton ne
speak. So I open me the door
like little mouse so shall net
disturb him. You understand it
is not to do the eavesdrop ain
so cautious. You know that,
Anne"
smiled, refusing to commit
myself to denial of her poten-
tialities as an eavesdropper. Rosa
waited a moment, shrugged her
shoulders and went on curtly:
well, then, come in like lit
tie mouse. Jaime he do not
hear me. jaime, he go on talk
ing for minute. And what I
hear is that you insist on looking
for the young crook, and Ralph
is so bamboozled by his affection
for the boy that he is putty.
Then jaime, he stop, swear
little, and act as if the putty he
talk about is something the good
Pat uses in some of his build
ings. But mel have heard
enough. Is it not so, Amer"
MY dear Rosa, what you heard
means nothing" I began airily.
How am to know what Jim
discussed with his clients and
friends over the telephone?"
VERY good" said Rosa judi
cially. VERY good, indeed, for
ore who is always so much for
the truth like you are, White
Lilac. But I think it would may
be be good for you if you know
more about what Jaime, he talks
over the telephone. / could tell
you perhaps-but no. We stick
how you say?-to the business
in hand: That is the right Eng
ish-not?"
Its excellent English" I gave
back dryly. But have we any
business at hand?"
"Oh, so it's at hand?' Well.
we have the business all right.
am partner in J. HI. Harrison
Company. use there my
Ramon's money" intoned Rosa
virtuously. 81 think I must know
more about what it is Neal
Hyland have stolen"
Meal hasn't stolen anythingr'
cried Indignantly, permitting my
feelings to have full sway at last.
bent my eyes sternly on Rosa as
she sat smiling at me SO impishly
that my little office seemed too
small to hold all the. malice she'd
brought into it. How dare you
ask such a question? If you're
trying to be funny, or to tease,
you've selected a poor subject for
your jest. And 1 don't know
where you get such an absurd
idea anyway"
Have it as You WILL replied
Rosa after a silence fraught with
all sorts Of potentialities. She got
to her feet lazily. licking her lips
as daintily as cat that has
Toasted on a saucer of cream. tI
hear from Jaime-what / hear.
I know-what I know. Your
brother Neal has stolen some.
thing very important--and has
disappear. 1t is a gift you have,
White Lilac, for to associate your
immaculate self with the crooks
always the crooks. How ID that
to be explain?"
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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Wrong.

while you was out Mrs,
Smith called"
Right.
while you were out Mrs.
Smith called"
The second person of the past
tense of the verb ito be" 10
0,uora -
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Whales and BUrnGcLes.

w kind of barnacle is different The barnacles on
whales do not to much discomfort to the
monsters of the deep.
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HOlU DeUihish SLUinl.

extraordinary feature of devfsh is it's method of
"A swimming 1t draws water into its body and then
forces out of hole just below the head The force
of the water it rushes out propels the creature
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-13
WHEN DID IT
HAPPEN?

1. When, prior to the American
Revolution, were British troops
sent to Boston?
2. When was the spinning
mule" invented?
8. When was New Haven, Conn,
founded?
4. When did George Eliot write
THE Mill on the Floss?"
S. When did the Huns first APP
pear in Europe?
Answers to These Queries Will Be
Printed Monday.
ANSWERS
To Yesterdays Questions.
/. The United States Philippine
cable was completed in 1908.
2. Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty
was presented 20 the United
States at Paris, July 4, 1884.
3. President Diaz of Mexico re-
signed May rs, 1911.
4. "a Groatsworth of Wit" by
Robert Greene was published
about 1892.
S. John Hancock, noted Ameri
can statesman, died October s.
1898.
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By Virginia Terhune
Van de Water

Author of Nationwide Reputation
and Writer of Popular Novels
and Short Stories.
Copyright. 1923, by Star Company
A NY more than seeing me
often makes you like
me any the less?" she
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The sea covers three-fOurths "
the earth's surface, or a total of
about 145, 100000 square miles?
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"Bassinette" is really a W0rd
of French origin, meaning "a
cradle made q ECKER? n
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-13

EAGLE MEAT MARKET. 1852 M st.
n. w.
HOME MARKET. 1877 First st.
N. w.
LEADER MARKET. sAOI 18th St.
n. w.
JOHN GABRIEL, 1909 9th st. N. w.
HAMILTON COURTS MARKET,
22nd g. n SITS. N. w. ~
HARRY'S MARKET, 1413 Pea st.
n. w.
KRAFT BROS, 1928 14th st. N. w.
MANHATTAN MARKET, 5000 Mt.
Pleasant St.
j. G.. MCQUEEN, 1871 18th st. n. w.
HARRY l.. MEADER, 1922 First st.
j. A. PEARSON e. BRO, 23S UpshuR
Po =; MARKET. 1000 goth st.
JACOB Refill, 5O1 II st.
ROBINS MARKET, TIA l4th st.
A. G.. SCHMIDT, 4424 Georgia Ave.
K. W. THOMPSON. is25 SOth st.
e. ID. THORSE,' 1900 First st.
VICTORIA MARKET, 2I28 14th st.
YOU ST. MARKET, 1908 You st.
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MAX HOFFMAN, Brentwood, Md.
NJ. H. BINDER, Cottage City, Md.
LYMAN BROWN. Bladensburg, Nd.
j. b. POOLE, Bethesda, Md.
WOODSIDE MARKET III. e.
Barnes). Silver Spring. Md.
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FRANZ y. ALTEMUs, 27lt 14th St.
N. w.
FEANK =. ALrEMUs. sSes Hath St.
FRANK Z. ATTENDS. 21ss IAth Of.
n. w.
LOUIS ALTEMUs, me-. Pleasant q
Lamont Stss
ARG0HNE MARKET, I76S Columbia
Road.
b. #, BAKER, 1901 a5th st. N. w.
BAILEY'S MARKET, 500 Upshur st.
n. 3 w. MARKET. sos nth st.
n. w.
BURKA'S MARKET, 200 Rhode Is
land Ave.
j. BURKE, 2Ist q H Sta. N. W.
CLIFTON MARKET, 24O0 1Ath st.
N. w.
COLORADO MARKET, sos Colora-
do Ave.
CONNECTICUT AVE. MARKET, 1900
Connecticut Ave.
r.. A. DODGE & BRO. 1920 18th st.
n. w.
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Maryland.

CARR BROS. AND BOSWELL,
HyatfAvule, Md.
CARR BROS. AND BOSWELL,
RiverdaIe. Md.
CARR BROS. AND BOSWELL, Mt.
Rainier. Md.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-10-24
Bohemian yesterday morning.

Bozeman yesterday morning.
The principal witness summoned for
the defense is Florence Danner, the
ten-year-old daughter of Danner by
his first wife, and a half-sister of
Mrs. Iva Banner, former wife of the
defendant. She was seven years of
age at the time of the alleged commits
sion of the crime, and was expected
to be a valuable aid to the prosecution
in proving the ~innocense of her father.
She had been living at the home of
a relative in Spokane, to which city
she was taken early in the year from
this city after undergoing treatments
at the Deaconess hospital for NAL
nutrition and Acknowledgment.
Her action, in refusing to make any
statement whatsoever in reference to
her father or her step-mother, Mrs.
Iva Danner, who is also her half sis
ter, flying into a passion whenever
she was pressed for information at
the hospital, is considered one of the
most remarkable and inexplicable
phases of the entire case.
Not since the hanging of a China
man for the cruel and cold bloodec
murder of a fellow-countryman in E
Tong war some years ago, has the