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that of speedy and welcome death.
These thoughts, with a slightly different
cast than l have presented in the foregoing,
fitted through my mind as I sat across tho
table from Antonio.
YES" l resumed, 'it is the system and
not the parties involved that maxes marriage
SO miserable. Marriage is all right for an
institution. Sometimes l think it is cor
rectly named institution, because one
usually feels that he is one But it should
be and can be, as proved by certain his
torical accidents, a find and sacred thing"
Cassese looked at me half humorously
and said dryly:
AS it would be when or if we should ever
be married"
81 think so, too"
at is absolutely necessary" l went on,
that the parties to a marriage contract
know each other we'll enough to predict.
within reason, just exactly how happy they
will be five years, instead of five weeks,
after the visit to the little church around
the corner or after the ceremony by JUS
tice of the peace. The law makes it easy
enough, too easy in fact, for people to get
married. 1t tries to discourage them when
they feel that they should live together no
longer"
"Well, I suppose marriage is failure
as it exists now" Cassese observed. at
must be improved or it is destined to die
out entirely within the present century.
! continued:
at has changed a great deal, in fact, if
not in the outward formalities and preten-
sions during the last 20 years. Just 10
years ago, woman who had been party to
divorce was censured, even if she were the
aggrieved one.
Now, it does not occasion more than a
passing furore when it is shown that
woman who really loved man, lived with
him, without benefit of clergy. Of the two,
to my mind it is much more cowardly and
actually dishonorable to stick to any man
under distressing circumstances than to
strike out boldly and defy the conventions
with someone who understands what love
is and what it is to be loved"
Cassese agreed that the old fashioned idea
of women's remaining bound to men was
dying out. He added:
"Men throw women out who are I'M
faithful, and sometimes feel like killing
them. Why shouldn't women take tip
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you, but l never would consider marrying
even you, Antonio, blindly. You see, now
| know you, all your whims and habits,
know after my experience with you, that
you are the one man who could make me
self is full of flaws. 1t is all SO unfair"
l am not the person, perhaps, to preach
to other girls of my age. | had been
married before l met Cassese. 1t was a
terrible failure. My husband was an actor
of mediocre attainments. We were utterly
unsuited to one another. Such marriage
is the ruin of spirited women. Some are
able to pay the penalty of Fastening into
matrimony with a stick of husband, but
human icicle.
That is what I did, and however terrible
my experiences have been since then, l do
not regret choosing adventure, defeat, and
hardship instead of fulfilling life-contract
with dull, stupid person who loved carpet
slippers newspaper and fire place
more than he loved wife.
l was barely seventeen when I married.
Following the separation of my mother from
my wealthy father, and his disappearance,
l was taken from a story book world-a
world of luxury and beauty-and thrust
abruptly into the most humdrum routine
imaginable. Countless hours at an adding
machine made me desperate. When this
actor fellow, is years older than I, paid me
court, l accepted him blindly. My mother
opposed him from the start.
If mothers only knew, no matter what
their honest contentious are, they would
not attempt to hurl cold water on a daugh-
ter's heart affairs. Here is where the ut
most tact should be exercised. Nearly ev-
eryone knows of some case, probably one
near to home, that illustrates the point I
would make. Time proved that my mother
was right, but youth has to be led rather
than driven.
Here was a man who was nothing to rave
about, it is true, yet he was the one ray Of
light that penetrated the dull, drab office
where I drudged over those stupid adding
machines. / was in the frame of mind
where 1 would, like young lady described
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, have married
Lazarus, provided he picked up crumbs
enough.
It would be useless for me to dwell at
length on my year of married life. The
same thing, with few variations, happens
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THE GREATEST SECRET SERVICE
STORY OF THE WAR
Continued From Page Fourteen

Continued From Page Fourteen
cumstances under which the two German
officers who had furnished valuable mill
tary information to the American army
have been brought to this country for their
self protection.
From the London Times, July 10, 1920
Suicide of Prince Joachim
Youngest Son of Ex-Kaiser
(From our own correspondent
Berlin, July 18.-It is officially an.
nounced that Prince Joachim of Prussia,
the youngest son of the ex-Kaiser and the
ex-kaserin, in fit of nervous excitement.
shot himself in the Villa Liegnitz at Pots
dam on Saturday morning. His injuries
were so great that he succumbed at /
o'clock this morning.
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youngest son of the ex-Kaser, was born
at Berlin on December II, 1890. He was
weakly child, and it is recorded that he
owed his life to the affectionate care and
unweared devotion of an English nurse,
who is called Mamma in some of the many
volumes which tell of life with the Hohen-
zollern family.
The uncompromising and fearless "Nan-
ma even waged war against the whole Court
when the time came to remove "Pykie"-
as he was nicknamed-from her care and
to confide him to professors. The rigid
educational machine, she shrilly proclaimed,
would ruin him, and for a while the amused
support of the boys father gave her VIC
tory. But in the end Mamma was dis
missed to England with an ample pension,
and Joachim was caught in the machine for
the preparation of princes.
Early in 1911 Prince Joachim entered the
Army and fall from his hore at maneu-
vers is all that is recorded of his early
career as an officer. In 1918, at a time
when official Germany had determined to
organize for German victory at the Olynl-
pic Games to be held at Berlin in 1916,
Prince Joachim was chosen as the represent
tative of his family, and solemnly took up
track athletics. This and other plans, how
ever, were interrupted by the outbreak Of
the war, when he Joined the regiment of
cavalry in which he ultimately became
captain. He was serving as an aide-de-camp
on the firing line in September, 1914, when
IL.
piece of shrapnel had wounded him in the
upper part of the right thigh without touch
ing the bone. A brief spell of hospital soon
cured this, and he returned to Berlin, to be
met at the station by his mother, who
pointed proudly to the Second Glass Iron
Cross on her sons breast"
The Washington times., 1923-07-31
COMFY ISLAND PERMITS
STOcKINGLESS BATHERs

NEW YORK. July 31.-The ban
on stockingless mermaids was lifted
ns coney Island and hundreds of
girls with their legs bare poured on
to the beach.
Their arms, however, were not so
bare. A fad, believed to be original
was seen when many of the girls
appeared with butterflies, bleeding
hearts, rising suns and other de.
signs tattooed to cover their vacrj.
nation marks. This latest craze Of
the flapper has been brought about
by the new sleeveless gowns, the
girls explained.
The Washington times., 1923-07-31
$500 Moscow Prisoners Free.

MOSCOW. July 31-Twenty-fIve
hundred prisoners have been re.
leased from Moscow prisons this
month through the efforts of spe.
cial commissions appointed to IN
vestigate the several sentences of
Moscow courts and over-crowdin0
In the prisons. or those released
800 have been deported to the
provinces.
The Washington times., 1923-07-31
CHINA AND HOUSEWARE
ITEMS ARE ON SALE ON
THE FOURTH FLOOR
China and Housewares Underpriced
SCREEN DOORS

SCREEN ID ID U II D
continental" make, A.
inch stiles-11s inches
thick. Selected pine
lumber, finished with
two coats of double
varnish, galvanized wire
screen. Sizes 2.10x6. 10
and 2.10x q - 20
7 Z; Special eDOeOO
The Washington times., 1923-07-31

ATLAS e. z. SEAL
FRUIT JARS-Cornplete
with rubbers.
"a pint size, 85c q doz.
1 pint size, csc a dOz.
l at. size, $1.1O a dOz.
"a gal. size, $1.65 a doz.
The Washington times., 1923-07-31

"CONTIN ENTAIL"
PLAIN SCR e e n
DOORS-4-inch stiles
70 inch thick. Selected
pine lumber, filled with
galvanized wire cloth.
Sizes 2.8x6.S, 2.1Ox6.10
and Sx7. Oh ~
Special, NJ nh
Choice. VAeVV
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-28
PLENTY OTHER WORK TO DO

There is a great Juror over whether or not ships of foreign
nations entering American ports can have liquor on board for the
use of the vessels crew and passengers. The supreme court has
decided that no vessel can carry any liquor whatever within the
three mile limit of the United States except for strictly medicinal
purposes. ANY vessel that does is liable to seizure and the crew
and owners are subjected to punishment under the laws of this
3 country.
Five nations have already protested against this ruling. While
acknowledging the supremacy of the laws of the United States
within the territorial waters of this country, it is pointed out that
such a ruling as has been made by the supreme court is con-
trary to the customs of international usages; such authority as the
Z supreme court exercises is used only when the peace and safety Of
the nation is threatened.
If the United States itself were anywhere near "dry'' and
il a real effort were being made to make it "dry,' - there might be
some excuse for the attitude which the federal authorities have
assumed in regard to foreign ships. But until we have
put our own house in order, it would seem as if we might let
s. foreign ships alone when they are merely. following the customs
of their own country. 1t seems like stirring up international COM
olcations for nothing. The comparatively small amount of liquors
carried on the ocean liners intended only for use on board those
Liners. is nothing compared with the vast quantities of liquors that
ARE being smuggled into the country every day and are being
consumed in hotels, restaurants and other public places in open
defiance of authority. Why waste energy and time going after the
) foreign ships that touch American ports and which have no inten-
ton of landing any of their stock here, when there is SO much to be
=ione drying up places on shore that are continually defying the
law and constitution
Foreign ships with foreign crews naturally operate under the
DAVIS of their own country and they follow their own national Gus
toms. There is no more ground for ~forbidding these foreign YES
sells to have liquor on board when they enter American ports
which are technically dry than there is %forbidding a man with
"a cigar in his pocket to enter a car or room where smoking is for
hidden. There is a certain amount of courtesy and respect due to
other people who do not always believe and act as we do. As long
as they do not attempt to bother US or flaunt their habits and Gus
toms before US, we cannot decently interfere with them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-28

A humdinger with a canoe was Big John Canadlan-thel
only man who ever shot the Lachine Rapids of the st. Law
renee River, near Montreal, in a canoe. That was years agos'
when Big John was a young Indian.
Once a year he performed his miracle OF skill, as pictured
by Artist Satterfeld in the accompanying penplcture. ana
when Big John went into action, Montreal shut up shop,
locked the schools. Nearly everybody in town flocked to
watch the master canoeist. They would resent the suggestion,
but possibly the lure was their subconscious hope that they
would see Big John drowned. That's what draws people to
all daredevil stunts.
A secondary attraction was the fact that Big John, IN
shooting the Lachine Rapids, was doing something that no one
else could do. The man who can life only 100 pounds is eager
to see the litter who can hoist 500. And the 500limit litter will
pay almost any price to see the champion who lifts more.
Skill is admired by most people,. In nearly all>cases is
physical, either of muscles or firm nerves. All this is a product
of a civilization carved out by strength, my man power.
1t will be many generations until all that will be ancient
history. Mechanical progress is booming physical skill OF the
individual. Brain skill is taking its place, the skilled mechanic
in many fields already losing his firm grip as the automatic
device or improved method takes his place.
The expression, Feel my muscle!' is gradually going
into ancient history. The Brain Era dawns.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-28
THE REFEREE
PIundei.
(By Albert Applet

Plumber
Lawyers are smacking their lips at
750 million dollars which the Sioux
Indians, by court suit, demand from
Uncle Sam as damages for seized
, lands.
! Attorneys who are handling the
case estimate that it will take from
5 to 10 years to fight 1t upward
through the courts. They refer to
appeals, of course, and the final bat
| tie in the United States Supreme
Court. With that much money :n-
volved, 10 years is a conservative
estimate.
II the Indians happen to win Ibis
case, they might go on and sue for
the total of seized lands" taken
| from them by their white conquer
ors. How much? About 500 billion
dollars, our entire national wealth.
Depends
When the Indians had America, 1t
wasn't worth" a dime a square
mile. Now the whole country ina
tional wealthy is 900 billion dollars,
or 100000 a square mile.
/ The difference between those fig
ures represents improvements by the
| white man. Just like real estate
worthless in itself, value is %altogetE-
err in human activity that takes
| place on it or nearby. If the white
man and his civilization left America
and the old-time Indian could return,
they'd be glad to trade large chunks
for a cask of brandy or peck of beads
again.
With the Sioux Indians suing our
| government for $50 million dollars
| damages for seized land" an Am
| erican gets thinking of how we stole
most of our country from its original
owners.
The viewpoint in some European
countries is that we wouldn't be so
righteously opposed to the principle
of co%nquering weak neighbors If we
hadn't already seized everything we
| wanted.
However, the ghosts of the old
| time Indians mus. be having a good
laugh as they see the mess we've
| gotten ourselves into. A patriotic
| circus clown carried a banner several
| years ago: 1--WE took this country
from the Indians. They can have it
| back after prohibition goes into ef-
| feet"
Flying
Who will win the British govern
ment prize of $230,000 for the first
helicopter flying machine to stand
still for an hour 1000 feet in the air,
and rise and descend virtically with
ease?
Some one WILL win it.
II you're alive 20 years from now
you'll find helicopter machines as
common as flivvers are today. They'll
be kept in garages with door in the
roof.
Crops
Smaller crops than last year, but
they'll be bigger than the 10-year
average. That's the government
forecast. 1t is the most important
item in the news, to millions of
American farmers, especially since
one of their main problems has been
over-production or something close
to 1t.
Give us an old-fashioned crop fall
ure and no farmer will kick about
the price of wheat. But isn't it bet
ter to sell three bushels of wheat at
81 each than two bushels at $1.25?
France
French government it
expects to balance it's budget" this
year. That is, not spend any more
than it receives. However, her bud
get system does not include "recov-
cradle expenditures such as pen
sions and reconstruction funds. Take
them into account and 1928 will pull
France deeper into the swamp.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-28
BUSES TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM

Towns through which the Jersey Central Traction Company
operate are not going to give up their trolley transportation with
out some effort being made to solve the problem which confronts
them. Perth Amboy is as deeply concerned as any Of them. They
should all work together in trying to find a solution.
It is quite true that some provision ought to be made for those
people who do not own automobiles to get from place TO place by
some form Of street transportation. But it is hardly to be expected
that any individual or set of individuals shall put up the money
to provide such transportation if it is not a paying investment.
Either the municipality must take over the trolley line Or some
other means must be found.
It is not feasible for the municipalities to operate the line be-
cause it is something that extends far beyond the limits of any one
municipality. 1t would be hard for them to get together on any
proposition. The only solution seems to be the buses, and there is
every reason to believe that as good, if not better service could be
rendered by buses provided they are of the right type and under
proper supervision. There is no doubt that such lines would be
established quickly enough once permission is granted to operate
in that territory,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-28

found to be true in the case OF all
but six of 4S2 children whose par
ents were all feeble-minded.
9. How much was the tax on
whiskey when such taxes were first
levied in this country? M. MIG.
A. Under the first excise tax which
was recommended by Hamilton in
1890 the duty on all native spirits
was from 8 to rs cents a gallon, ac-
cording to the strength.
Q. What circumstance forced the
vote to be taken on the Declaration
of independence? A. Fl. D.
A. 1t has been said that after sew
eral days of wrangling over the doc
ument as Thomas Jefferson had pre-
pared it, that the delegates were vis-
tied by a swarm of flies from a near
by livery stable. The flies attacked
the thinly clad calves of the dele
gates so voraciously the vote was
taken to accept the Declaration as
drafted, so as to escape from the
flies.
@. How salty is sea water as som
pared with blood? +. II. +.
A. If the percentage of sodium,
magnesium, calcium and chlorine in
sea water be compared with the per-
centages in blood serum, the figures
are respectively, sos and 50; S.19
and GA; IL and 10; Ill and 81;
55.27 and 45.0.
Q. What is the value of rubber
goods consumed in this country? A.
M. p,
A. American manufacturers pro-
duce annually rubber goods valued
at approximately 1000, 900. 900, nine
tenths of which is consumed in the
United States.
9. What are fox dogs? G. o.
A. This name is applied by certain
naturalists TO the wild dogs of South
America because of their fox-like ap-
pearance. Among these are the crab-
eating dog; the Zono, or Azara's dog,
and the small-eared Brazilian dog.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-28
DINNERS ON HI SUN
TOLD OF BY HASKIN
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

perature of the earth. But the lat
est scientific dope is that the sun
sports are now at a minimum, and
that the cold weather is due to that
fact. 1t is explained that as the
clouds of gas which constitute the
spots diminish in size, the materi-
ais of which they are formed make
a crust upon the sun and cut off
some of its heat.
1t is a deep question, anyway,
and n comes away from his re-
searches on the subject with no
strong conviction except that the
sun Is not as reliable a piece of
machinery as he had always be-
lieved 1t to be, and that the wise will
be prepared for almost anything in
the way of weather and climate in
the near future.
The sun spots, it appears, are huge
affairs, often six times as wide as
the diameter of the earth. Let us
hope they do not grow. They have
been photographed with a machine
called a spectro-heliograph, and the
pictures show plainly that they are
whlrls in some kind of a substance
but that seems to be about all.
A Second Theory
Meantime, another Washington
scientist, Herbert J. Browne, who is
considered an authority on climate,
has offered another explanation. He
sees the freakish weather we have
had recently as the latest of a series
OF climatic changes which have been
taking place in a regular cycle, and
can be traced for centuries. He APP
pears not TO have offered any ex-
PLANTATION of the reasons for these
changes, but to have contented him
self with an historical study to prove
their occurrence. He told a con-
gressional investigating committee
some time ago that this spring and
summer would be cold and peculiar
and that such weather will contin.
ue for the next few years and cul'
inmate in very ~unfavorable weather
for crop purposes about 1927.
He claims his researches show
that periods of cold and unseason'
able weather come in cycles of 10;
and 148 years. and also in a larger
cycle of 271 years, which brings the
worst weather of all. Thus the veal
1044, was a famine year wherever
records are available, and another
one came along in the year 1915
when there were short crops al
over Europe. He cites many other
historical famines and droughts I
prove his point.
This belief in the cycles of weather
seems to be very old and almost uni
versal. In the Southwest, where
drought is the curse of life, the ma
tives believe firmly in cycles of sever
wet years followed by seven DIR.
ones. You cannot prove any sucl
cycle by the records, but there 4
an unaccountable variation in rain
fall from year to year, with boil
wet and dry years frequently run
ming in series. There are places il
the desert country where decision
ally a corn crop can be raised with
out irrigation. while at other times
for years, hardly a sprig OF gras
grows.
The famous cold summer OF ISL
has been explained as due to tn
fact that a great many v~olcani
eruptions occurred in that year., in
Guiding those OF Etna, Mayor an
Tomboro. The idea is that hug
clouds OF volcanic debris over tn
/, earth sheltered it from the rays G
/ the sun.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-28
KEEP DEToURs IN SHAPE

tt gratifying to know that City Engineer Booz is fixing up a
,detour for Amboy avenue traffic during the repairing of that thor
o~ughfare. Under ordinary circumstances it might be possible to
have one-way traffic there, but it is evident that the highway can
not remain in general use while the work is under way. A detour
sven though it may not be smooth travelling, is much to be pre-
ferred to the dangers, delays and inconvenience encountered in
tryingt to use Amboy avenue in its present state.
1t is highly important, though, that the detour be made as
passable as possible and kept so while i. is being used. The same
thing applies to Brace avenue which is being used as a detour for
New Brunswick avenue. If there are going to be so many detours
in getting in and out of the city, they ought to be kept up. City
Engineer Booz is working along the right line in his Amboy avenue
project. The trouble is, the city did not begin this detour work
pan enough
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-05-28

Q. Is there a way of measuring
the fatigue caused by study? j. l.. p.
A. The ergograph is a machine
for testing a child's capacity for
study and which shows the degree
of fatigue that is experienced by
pupils. 1t is also a machine for regis
tering the exact effort made in any
feat of strength. testing the compar-
ative and relative strength of various
sets of muscles.
@. Why is it believed that the life
on Mars, If there is life there, is
more advanced than that on the
earth? A. W. p.
A. The basis of this belief is that
Mars is smaller than the earth and
must have cooled its surface millions
of years before the earth did. Hence
if there is life on Mars it must have
begun long before life on the earth
and would have had a far longer
period of development.
Q. Is it possible for feeble-minded
parents to have normal children? j.
p. c.
A. Almost without exception, If
both parents are feeble minded none
of the children will be normal. In
study of this subject, this was