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CHAPTER xV-continued.
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not met; but he understood that she
had ~comprehended HIN fully. Today
he would be away from the Santoine
house, and away from the guards who
watched him, for at least four hours,
under no closer espionage than that OF
Avery; this offered opportunity-the
first opportunity he had had-for COM
munication between him and his
friends outside the house.
He went TO his room and made
some slight changes In his dress; he
came down then TO the library, FOUND
a book and settled himself TO read.
Toward noon Avery looked in on him
there and rather constralnedly prof
fered his invitation. Eaton accepted,
and after Avery had gone TO get ready,
Eaton put away his book. Fifteen
minutes later, hearing Avery's motor
purring outside, Eaton went into the
hall a servant brought his coat and
hat. and taking them, he went OUT to
the motor. Avery appeared a moment
later, with Harriet SantOine.
she stood looking after them as
they spur down the curving drive ana
onto the pike outside the grounds;
then she went back TO the study. She
dismissed Miss Davis for the day, ana
taking the typewriter sheets and
some other papers her father had
asked to have read to him, she went
up 10 him.
Basil Santoine was alone and awake.
"What have you, HarrietY' he asked.
She sat down and glancing through
the papers in her hand, gave him the
subject Of each then at his direction
she began to read them aloud. AS
she finished the third page, he inter
rupted her,
"Has Avery taken Eaton to the
country club as l orderedY'
ayes"
81 shall want you TO 60 out there
in the afternoon | would trust your
observation more than Avery's TO de
termine whether Eaton has been used
to such surroundings"
She read another page, then broke
off suddenly.
"Has Donald asked you anything
today, FatherP'
"In regard to what?"
81 thought last night he seemed dis
turbed about nay relieving him Of part
OF his work"
"Disturbed7 In what way?"
She hesitated, unable to define even
TO herself the impression Avery's man
ner had made on her. II understood
he was going TO ask you to leave 1t
still In his hands" gN
"He has not done so yet"
"Then probably l was mistaken"
She read again for half an hour
after luncheon, finishing the pages she
had brought.
"Now you'd better 90 to the club
the blind man directed.
She put the reports and letters
away In the safe In the room below,
and going to her own apartments, she
dressed carefully for the afternoon.
AS she drove down the road. she
passed the scene Of the attempt by
the men In the motor to run Eaton
down. The Indebtedness Of her
knowledge by whom or why the attack
had been made only made 1t seem
more terrible to her. Unquestionably
he was In constant danger Of its repe-
tition, and especially when-as to-
day-he was outside her fathers
grounds. ~Instinctively she hurried
her horse. She stopped at the club
house only TO make certain that Mr..
Avery and his guest were not there I;
then she drove on to the polo field.
AS she approached, she recognized
Avery's 1.-the, alert figure on one Of
che ponies; with o deft, quick stroke
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hiu!, Aspirations.

Nine-year-old Joseph Mckee amazed
eve his own mother. the other eve
ming They were discussing autonie-
bile accidents. and expressed the hope
that they would have none. when he
said:
Mother, l know of a way I'd rather
die than in I'm automobile accident.
I'd rather die In an electric chair. IL
would he tie quickest way Of all
Wouldn't 1T"
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~ S''~S
he cleared the ball from before the
Feet OF an opponents pony, then ne
booked up and nodded to her. Harriet
drove up and stopped beside the b.
her; people hailed her from all sides.
and for a moment the practice was
stopped as the players trotted over to
speak to her. Then play began again,
and she had the opportunity to look
Tor Eaton. Her father. she knew, had
INSTRUCTED Avery that Eaton was to be
introduced as his guest; but Avery
evidently had either carried out these
instructions In a purely mechanical
or had not wished Eaton to
Be with others unless he himself was
~; for Harriet discovered Eaton
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Origin of "BunqaioW."

Bungalow" comes from "bonglaw,"
meaning Bengalese, or built in the
style of the Bengals, an East Indian
tribe.
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We have no Minute Men now. But
the country is full Of men any inspector
would class as seconds
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If YOU would amend men, begin
with yourself.
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The emptier the head the less IL
takes to fill it.
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AS n rule a man who can handle
men likes to.
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Too much dignity merely scares the
children.
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Never judge the beans by the siz(
OF the pod.
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A court Of last resort is q divorce
court.
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The ethics of golf, its code of sportsman
ship and it's call for generosity and calm
fairness are such that a cad can't play
the game at ALL he either ceases playing
or ceases being cad, and most times the
latter is the god sent result. The true golf
player delights in being just a little more.
than merely fair; concession is his hobby;
he will not argue with an opponent; and,
while doing his darndest to beat the other
chap, he will find keen joy in any bril-
lance of play the other manifests. This
code, not printed and posted about the club
house nor in any other such Grass way
flung into the faces of the golfers, but
carried and treasured in their hearts, is
enforced Not by fines, censure or expul
sions indeed, but rigidly enforced for all
that. The transgressor finds it increas-
ingly difficult to get a match; the cordial
ity ,wanes; he is quietly left out when club
activities are arranged; at some gather
ing of theI members the president will
make a speech in which he gently touches
on the matter of golf etiquette, mentioning,
concretely. the poSats in which breaches
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Life AS a Great Adventure

opponent to compulsory Greek and Latin.
AS for such knowledge bringing the ordi-
nary man into touch with the Greek spirit,
he insists that sit does nothing of the
kind"
There is much in the later part of this
autobiography that throws interesting
light upon world politics, and especially
upon the problems of British Imperialism.
notable episode, N the chapter on THE
Ethics Of Journalism" is his clash with
Cecil Rhodes, when in the exercise of his
watchdog function in journalism" he had
to do "a good deal of barking" against
Mr.. Rhodes's policy of the open checkbook.
To Americans probably the most interest
ing single chapter in the book is my
American Tea Parties" in which he mar
rates his organization Of a weekly meeting
Of the American correspondents in Lon
don, soon after the opening of the world
war, for the purpose of putting them in
touch successfully with the highest British
officials from the Prime Minister down, so
that they would be able to cable to their
chiefs that they had heard from head
quarters the general outline of the stua-
ton, even though they were not at liberty
to publish what had been told them in
confidence Incidentally, these tea parties,
begun along the hard track Of duty, turned
out to be a primrose path of pleasure"
Mr. Strachey had expected to deal with a
body of severe strangers. and he found
himself with "a band Of brothers-men to
whom you could intrust your secrets in the
spirit in which you intrust bank with
yOlI- money"
At best, however, in reviewing this book
one can only skim the surface, touch upon
a few of the high lights, mirror back a
stray ray or two Of it's opaline diversity
of color Although it's author has spent
lifetime fighting political battles and help
ing to mold the form of British imperial
ism, and although this volume contains
perhaps the best argument ever put forth
in defense of a constitutional monarchy
like England's as against republic like
our own--nevertheless, this autobiography
is essentially that of man of letters. and
it's enduring value lies inothe thousand and
one little obiter dictd, luminous flashes Of
critical Judgment on all manner and grades
of makers both of prose and of verse. Inn
pressionistic criticism. it essentially is
than which no other kind is better or more
helpful, when the writer has that rare
combination Of wide sympathy, fine artist<N
the best traditions of the world Of lcZNerSs
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The Middle-Aged Woman in Fiction

igence, by wit. and above all, by the broad
tenderness of an experienced heart In
that sense, where the elder woman some
times fails in looks, she often triumphs in
the realm of thought and feeling. She
knows men better than her young rival,
knows how they think, what attracts them,
what soothes and encourages them when
they are unhappy. and she knows
how to flatter them. While often the
younger woman, being enthusiastic and
greedy for life, thinks of taking more than
of giving; being stronger she is often
little hard to weakness; and the one she
likes to flatter is very often herself.
Claire Caldecot, aged thirty-eight, is
fit heroine. l think that a woman such
as herself, woman of years, who has
thought and felt, is infinitely more cap
able of true passion than the young girl
who is still experimenting with life. re-
alize that Romeo and Juliet were very
young, and indeed a great love may arise
between boy and girl but as a rule
such a love does not develop. The true
grand passions are the passions of women
in the late thirties. One does not at
once become capable of passion there is
such a thing as passionate education, an
education which is given by life. To enjoy
to the full, one must have enjoyed before;
have learned to sacrifice; and above all,
one must have learned that certain rela-
tionships between men and women are
so valuable that fortune and life itself
may well be thrown aside for the sake OF
such a bond. The older woman, a woman
such as Claire Caldecot, can love more in
tensely because she has learnt to feel, and
she CAM still love more intensely because
she realizs that the years are short, that
beauty is fleeing, that for the moment
fate is kind in giving her a chance to love,
that fate will not always be kind, and
that here perhaps is her last chance.
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things in woman's life took place, not be-
fore her marriage. but after. OF course,
people went a little too far; the pioneer
novels which threw aside the idea that the
story of a wedding was not so interesting
as the ending of a wedding, made out that
the fate of women was to be married, mis-
cradle and misunderstood. Still they did
show that marriage does not deprive a
woman of attractions and of dreams; that
it, does not place her outside life upon a
sort of shelf. The movement began with
young wives; just before the war number
of novels concerned themselves with mar
ried women, aged twenty-five to thirty.
Now we so further, and in Her Unwel-
come Husband" 1 show the tragedy of
Claire Caldecot at thirty-eight, when her
lover cares for her no more, with her hus-
band, blackgdard and blackmailer, coming
to wreck anew a life he has wrecked once
before, and when above all man who has
long loved her stoops to trickerv /.
though she is thirty-eight. At thirty eight
Mrs. CaIdecot can still command the love
of men. 1 do not think this extraordinary.
Indeed, I suggest that it is natural and
right to choose a heroine not too young
as a subject for a romance 1t is a mis-
take to think that a woman reaches her
maximum attractiveness at twenty-five.
Or even at thirty. She may do So but if
she does she is slightly forward in de-
velopment. She may be eXquisitely pretty,
possess a loneliness which rends the hearts
of men, but as rule she has not touched
maturity. She lacks what a woman be-
tween thirty and forty so often possesses,
a sort of ripe fullness a certain majesty.
This may not last very long; it may be
the prelude to old age, but it has the mag
nificance of summer, while earthly youth
has rather the pale grades of spring. Also,
love is not a question of beauty. Love is
determined by the attraction, not only of
the appearance, but of the mind, by intel
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Buying Power of Frances Paper Francs

States Government bonds during our civil
war.
In our bank panic of 1907 the Bank of
France placed tens of millions of dollars in
American gold eagles which were in it's
vaults at the disposition of the Bank Of
England, which was trying to ease the
strained situation.
In spite of the gold indemnity of 81 ,100,
00O,00 which she had been obliged to pay
Germany, after the war of 1870, and in spite
of having had to pay by herself for her own
reconstruction, France before the war was,
as the United States is now, creditor of all
nations and debtor of none. She paid her
debts then and her people earned their own
living; and they are earning their living
now, and expect to pay their Governments
debts. They only ask that English and
Americans shall not mix up very different
things to their disadvantage when talking
about them.
When it is said that the French Govern
ment faces a deficit and that its budget
does not balance that means it does not re-
ceive enough money in taxes from it's
citizens to pay it's expenses. Now, the
French people do pay enough money in
taxes to Government to settle all such eX-
penses as the Governments Of the United
States or England have to meet. The deficit
less than 1000, GOO, 900 francs or, at this
years rate of exchange, about $500 ,00O
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By w. L. GEORGE.

z has been remarked by critics, some
kindly. some iless well disposed, that
the heroine of my new novel, Her
Unwelcome Husband" is a little unusual
because she is a middle-aged woman. In
deed. as rule, the heroine with whose
miseries we are asked to sympathize, and
whose triumphs we are expected to ache
for is either sweet seventeen or lovely
twenty-nine. The heroine of 'Her Unwel-
come Husband Claire Caldecot, is thirty
eight; this is supposed not to be romantic
age and l am asked how I can expect the
public to be interested in such character.
I would answer in the first place that
there are in this world many women of
thirty-eight, and that life does not end at
thirty-eight. 1 see no reason why the
heroine of a novel should not be forty
eight, or fifty-eight; I know of one novel
where the heroine is a grandmother of
sixty. The idea that people cease to be
interesting at thirty-eight seems to me
entirely false; in Her Unwelcome Hus-
band" 1 have tried to show that at thirty
eight one still may be the object of pas
sion, and one may still live colored life.
OF course. this attitude is to a certain eX
tent new. In the novel of fifty years ago
it was not only unusual to find a heroine
older than twenty-five but it was even I'M
usual to find heroine married on the first
page; she used to be married on the last
page, and that was the novel. AS regards
age, our ancestors, were very fierce; among
my-notes I find an extract from a novel,
dated 1881 which saws of one of the char
acters: "She was past the bloom of her
first youth; she was twentytwo.'
All that changed between the year 1880
and the year 1900. Certain novels, such as
1.-THE Woman Who Did," 1.-THE Heavenly
Twins the stories in the yellow Book, set
up the new theory that the really exciting
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By STERLING HELLO.

T KNOW of a great American business
in France that had to be closed up
some time before the war. The turn
over had been annually more than 100000
francs, then equivalent to 100000. Ac-
counts were settled slowly but steadily
until the impatient head office in New York
ordered that everything remaining should
be written off as bad debts. Now the
amount still outstanding is $4,000 francs. or
about $4,000. The representative in Paris
insisted that efforts should still be con-
tinued to collect these small accounts, say
ing: cit would be a scandal for American
business not to do So" Before the business
year was over all had been collected with
the exception Of 800 francs, or $780,
This is a striking example for the present
difficulties = after the war The French
complain that they are not having a fair
deal in the foreign press. 1t is forgotten
that before the war they had the most
money per head, and money most evenly
distributed among the population, of all ma
tons. In proportion to their number. they
loaned more money to other countries, gov
ernments and public works and companies
than any other people. The great loan
bank, the Banque de Paris, which is now
behind the French Standard Oil, was per-
haps the first in Europe to place United
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editors of the Spectator could draw Cabinet
Ministers to advertise their paper"
"Above all L was fortunate in my father
and mother" is the opening sentence to a
delightful chapter on the authors home
impressions. His father was an ideal talker
to children and young people, because he
had 'an innate kindness and sympathy
with the young, and was in perpetual
mood to answer questions" His mother
was a woman of quick intelligence and of
specially attractive personality; "to her we
children owed a great deal in the matter
of manners, giving ourselves airs,
or any other form of juvenile vulgarity
were well nigh unforgivabley sins" But
what one feels to have been an even more
potent formative influence was a remark
able old family nurse, Mrs. Leaker. OF
the many anecdotes he relates of her per-
haps the most striking is that of her adj
venture in stumbling quite by accident
upon the Venus of Milo in the Louvre.
81 never thought to see anything so beau
tiful'' she reported, land the broken arm
did not matter at ALL for she stood there
like goddess" But although all beautiful
p6EC6pI1Ou anu a. I1lHu IlClly SlOI6u W-Ch
things appealed to Mrs. Leaker,> literature
was the element in which she lived:
"She cropped all the flowers in the
fields of literature, prose and verse.
She was quite prepared to read us to
sleep with the witches in Macbeth or
the death scene in 'Othello.' . AS
she sat bent forward, declaiming the
most soul shaking things in Shakespeare
between and 10 at night we lay in our
beds with our chins on the counterpanes,
silent, scared but intensely happy. We
loved every word and slept quite well
when the play was finished
One would like to linger over the chap
ter on "Boyhood: Poetry and Meter" in
which Mr.. Strachey imparts his early pas
sion for the metrical art and the ode
lirium of delight" with which he absorbed
Byron and Shelley and how he 'fell tooth
and nail upon Swinburne, Morris and Ros-
setti," and thought, or pretended to think,
that Marlowe, Beaumont and Ben Jonson
were the equals of Shakespeare. Equally
significant are the chapters on Oxford,
which cover the annals Of happy days. even
though the author "miserably squirmed his
wav through Mods and brought away
lifelong luminosity toward Greek aorists
and "the double damned Digamma." Be
cause of his Unborn inability to learn Ian
guages Mr.. Strachey has been a consistent
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lis entirely due to interest on reconstruc-
ton expenses, which the peace treaty said
Germany should pay.
When it is said that the French Gov
eminent is getting money to pay these re-
construction advances on what ought to be
German payments, the French people an
swer that it is they who furnish the money
by buying up their Governments bonds
just as the North did for Lincoln's Gov
eminent. And when this is charged with
"inflation"-that is the French are charged
with using what is merely paper or fiat
money-they point out that the French
franc is about where the American dollar
was after our own war until specie pay
ment was resumed.
In point of fact, the franc to-day pur-
chases about 40 per cent. value of it's par
at gold-and the equivalent gold cover Of
it's entire paper currency is still over 10
per cent, or what the New York law not
so many years ago thought enough for
trust companies. If the Government adj
vance of paper money furnished by rnS
Bank of France for reconstruction is de-
Quoted, the gold cover for currency in
normal circulation is over 80 per cent.
When this is brought home to their
critics, particularly in England
urge: 1.-The French are so thrifty that IN
ten years they will be able to pay all theft
own reconstruction and SO let's cancel the
German reparations debt
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By ARTHUR F. MCARTY.
President Kansas State Golf Association.

have occurred, but naming no names. And
that cures that.
Golf is the only game in which the in
terest of the player is fixed as much or
more on lowering his own record than
beating an opponent. This is so univer
sally true that a player finds much pleas
ure in going around alone, and even when
playing in twos most friendly games are
characterized by this intense desire to
lower records, and intrigues them to
greater degree than the contest with each
other. Thus the incentive to bet is re-
moved.
l am not saying that no bets are made
on golf games, nor am I condemning the
practice or those who indulge in it. Any
man who plays golf is golf brother, and.
q golf brother is but one degree removed
from blood brother; therefore, what he
does is all right with me SO long as he
observes the traditions of the game. But
any game is better if free from gambling,
and that is the way this game is played,