The Saturday Evening Post 1918-06-29: Vol 190 Iss 52

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THE SATURDAY EVENING T NOTICE TO READER. Whe Ge. this agazine acea U. 5 “tal Irvin S.Cobb—David Lawrence—Roland Pertwee—William J. Neidig— Harold E. Wright Charles E. Van Loan— Albert W. Atwood— Mary Brecht Pulver— Eleanor Franklin Egan

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HAT bre iktast Crisp, fresh, br Welch's as the an appetite it whet: icing. course s! It put fruit * Wi h’ th Nat , } | " ; 10c ¢ in. ‘Ine - Welch Seentienn Company, Westfield, NY olass of Welch's. It’s < Drink, 1

Like a breath of October mornings. 1 fast-growing custom to drink a small glass of to begin the day. How it sets you up! What s pian in your eye and spring in your step. d to national efficiency. Founded on the the nation’s standard of manhood Is an prin f muddled, it raises a thirst-quencher. Just the pure juice of Extra-quality Concords are demanded How many coming , ither. , ] , ways do you when you get 1 +} good THINS lO! their growing. lightful surprises delicious drinks and other It aid some de for making 1 book today. y free. is wholl 1 up, from your grocer, druggist or confectioner. Say ina kook for the store where Welch’s is displayed.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | Above photo shows why we dare Guarantee Barrett Specification Roofs for 20 Years— \bo 1 photograph (a ) of a Lower Cost per Year of Service Guaranteed for 20 Years sme i Hey > om ee 1 \ 1! The buyer natur ills isks, Do such roofs cost nallt is of hitty square ) ! cities more than others? Our answer is, © No, they of 25,000 or mor and in smaller if 5 do not. where our Inspection Servic ts avatlabl ; aie las will give th eve Barre ih oO i Vol the fi llerr g layers j ‘p fication The experience of many year has prove i that 1 20-Year Suret RB fs , y th wel . ; r A d ¥ Feuch and Felt i ferp? fing Barrett Specification Rool c st I. ss pert ’ | g ( I , ] oO I Xx 4 t ity n\ service than 1y Other kind It is because they ly f } ii , oo } ) eC of Balt J ive l LO! ¢ | co rat tt feu type ol 0! ‘ r t of t , . This bond ts build from all roof r man ent ru j ol i r ty rooh i i barr andi il €€1 1f f twenty ye t ( ‘ re t It is be e of t et ts t t le rch t rr ‘ y y 1 ' ty } : } t | waterpre material u fini ( > enemas l rooh: niet eieniies _ {here 1s no charge to bond Our onl { gine ,»andt hing contractors every te where are coOperating with us tn the better requirement that the ro cont? ) ; | , —— F ] T he ‘ t of t } ofr material 1 roofs movement and why large construction : Approved . t t : Eri 10 . _ ] | } rret ~ | ) 50 ] to | ft.. « t ith companies like the Turner Construction Cor ihe barrett t ( Viay t, ste to 100 Ib : Re ee f pany, the Fuller ynstruction Company, [| he In the y : root \ustin Cor pany ind many other are ) Is blot explaining ( 20-)5 ar ( wranty a } trong t Barrett o ! tion Koot a copy of lhe B S / f , / j ‘ ler j $4 f dare rant ich oo

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 Oal Meal Drop Cakes— Wheatless Dainties An ne in this country who can get along with less wheat and 1s not doing 4 is helping the German cause United States Food Adm C ATMEAL drop ci ikes are savory little morsels. The blend of oatmeal and barley flour gives them Val Meal Drop ( ake eS : . { recipe tested unusually gratifying flavor. They are shortened ‘ectas atte with Crisco instead of butter and therefore measur up fully to the war-time demand that we use vege ful sugar 4 ¢ Lall it f I le RI S CO t] ; , Son Hegng fae Shortening Rak cates beet é for Cake Making Dobie inane tl t #] } . 4 , , ' tl D Cri holly vegetable, a rich cooking fat, which, having neither C. ist ly de y to tood It is the s 4 I I ' LN 1 — i . ne h high quality that housewives find it a sati A Cook Book for all Seasons t J butter in all cooking and depend wholly atmea kies” are recomn 1 by Janet McK ; ; Daily Diet”, as deserving a . \ t Tt k, by \ k B Cook > r 4 at ff ule T t ] tt ‘ | d, air-tight, sanita ry cans. Try it the next eat f They are ca , ‘1 . - r and mental activity | k fat. You will understand why millions tains the interesting Story > t Ww y ] D K.-8, I I & s

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Published Weekly George er the curs Pubiching LIE SATURDAY -:.. Company Cyrus H. A. Curtis, P

eet Corner in Paris After Hun Aeroplanes

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THE SATURDAY. EVENING POST June 29,1918 } 6 y irve age i it ae i Una ¢ 4 x r uircrait spewée t S at é cKS anea I ( € at I I i op cor pass throug The wre ige Was a elleve r i er ve crawied masna neadulie a ] i i j er i { g of vent t 4 to a regime me 1 ‘ } j = : r ¢ € our I i he € é juarte 7 | ‘ a wre i ive se up to the fr ‘ I I ig i e¢ r she I 114 I a ‘ ‘ ry the trench refare that } ’ Pp 1 + : \ ( I L , * € rt ‘ Wariare i 4 PeUeU ra a P « x Wahaa® | ( r Ge ells ad s ( i re ag t r al f t Yet e¢ ene i i i ‘ it rior ar g ar I ti ¢ l | ‘ i ea i iyTee ‘ | ed r ¢ iug rT l i ‘ i Ka i jar \ France a « i ree t I i ry ar ¢ na a r ed , es time e fa ‘ | € ! ree a | ite it ‘ rr t r l a ¢ eased i t i ana i t { et ‘ « ‘ J i t T t " ] € \ mie we made a lay exped I , ' ) Ver . I} rreat . ne offer ¢ {f - . ms Yow ane & 7 ’ . Middle-Aged Heroes at the Rear iy to the westward, wa en in its second week and t ‘ rt » , NI A 1 y . \ lun area er ed mpara ‘ eace Jeverthel NA rN i f ‘ } + + } ¥ , for ? ‘ , a A} ha , t I ra r a | . t t ‘ y t 4 P| 5 ‘ e] ! lefense é ‘ ri i ! here One where an Amer ’ Followed About by Bombers ISé an Ame in g taff, and wher Y eint t N Sf ( eg ‘ ng r ine x t a { ‘ At b W ‘ i i It Gert I é ¢ r ] j Continued on Pag / m= A Square in Paris Torn Up by Bombs f nm German Gothas « a House in an Italian Town Wrecked by Austro:German Artillery Above —Agricuitural Machinery Destroyed by the Germans

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST O) == (s = wane ae } G Wye > 7 mia ib ta®| O\W WLU USSD Lore VQ LW YY ILLUSTRATED BY M I BLUMENTHAI **You Ain't Sore. Too, are You, Henry?" He Asked by Way of Greeting

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19185 June 29 SATURDAY EVENING POST THE

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» to Kansas!"' THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 UPTHE RIVER TIGRIS Qi : By Eleanor Franklin Egan ats we the Exp e I rT r k 4 ( kK I Appe t I a eve \\ | itG } 4 } I ‘ ‘ ’ Troops on the Way to the Front at a Marching Post on the Tigris \ f , 1 ‘ ( | ’ i I rhe ( i i kK ‘ . tH ( I f ‘ } , , t | 4 | General Maude, the Wonder+Worker else unde , tha 1] e of f te pathol The Busiest River on Earth t their retreat é e | f 4 | f : Continued on Page 29 Pilied and Pyramided Supplies on the River Bank Above The Stockade at the Edge of the Paim Grove j .

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MARY EILDON’S AUNT K ase“ By Roland Pertwee i have ze nh ILLUSTRATED BrY FRANK STREET ~~] In an Instant Mary Was Beside Her, Pouring Forth an Avatanche of Affectionate Protestation Nt | t i t i W 1 by ¢ 1 | ‘ i il ¢ ua | ' ; \1 ) Ni ‘ li I ‘4 1 I \ be ‘ } \ 1] ) i ‘ ‘ M ( A | | ‘ ( | | I If I I \ 1 l ( ' ‘ \ it » | ‘ | ] roe ) £

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 ) M "i I ‘ ‘ } VW \ f 1 ! 1 ' 4! 4 i i “If I Break My Beautiful Piece f China it Will be “ Because I Heid it Too Tight. Good«by'"* ! 1 » i i I a \ MI } | i { i a M AY i \ | | \f vf ‘ r } . ’ \ I ( N Hi I M » . k \ i | Af I ! W a I W I \ i . \ } \ i } ) ‘ | t \ ~ ‘ t ) | I Au tug 1 e! ~. . : ! é ‘ N t ext remar Ma . \ te é | t se i vf Bs

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST , e we ‘ y ed t t i i i f eve S , , } as t ¢ [ r ‘ t iu t? \ Some people are fore 10 ea | 1 inde i i Sta ed or offe led a { { I na A Vi a il \t Mi il i ae , } 1 a } é it e there y I gt inge nat happe ‘ rf rse } i } \ ga j re t al e sna t t} . t Wa jert 4 i, and pe ( me ) } “She Told Me, for One Thing, That if Anybody Wanted to Kiss Mel Had Better Say ‘No’ Continued on Page 65

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 FATITERLAUINID AIBOVIE PART TY Wiss By DAVID LAWRENCE Brit } re | ar S arded ( t 4 rie 4 « i! eve I ( at 5 eo | rar WI I } ol rue (y G t Brit | Fra 4 { ince or r Power r \ I \r in Jj ur \ ive f ( ‘ } var | G al bee G a ~ i I I large r et é ( t I i a ‘ ‘ gy ( ar a ipe it beheve ( ! rhe I} a ge ¢ te At . } I 4 of Ar I G want 1 . | ol a } i Ar f t mere ene « ¢ tense pre ! e¢ i te kk la i Ad f ( nal i r le il issue n } Some Secret Political History trer i of the Ger I r and examine a y é [' IS er that 191¢ Great |] iin eX] f ( f Cha | Hug in | t propag { Catering to the opula by pagandists. have given the Germ Foreign Element it in pury 3 and practice were to kr ng O KI f na ~aTOoOW son: it the true } f ++ ; - + / r } \Tlr .%! | ep alive prejudices iong since lorg en Dy ir voters tried to punl \1 \\ Y \ y , " ¢ ' tiny that ietory for } r \W , 4 ‘ _™ 1 ‘ ‘ e indigr And when the iro} pDrok ou ry nize thelr } i é , at a Mr. H \ I in War é a and ! I maginary Br at Ay e ght i i g 1 ) eB e€ t me ered | se I ea et America, a A large } ea es ol N G An \ eve that e | an VW We have a native sense of tsmar \ a t t G r I ai ines It I I itte i € \ t y re I g r ¢ é y I i if ent Ar ‘ f for exam! pa i \\ \ ri ties ral 1 party | é | sta (y ernment ale M r " é t ind Er 1, ha y either {| I at y i ik rT ‘ i rhe t r ro d = ‘ Wi e Germans W I 1 Ar 1 we hi mo Canada ; er Br I t Ir We | a eT € lurir the i pte ] Ay IY s t \t al t A ‘ ex (a WI G loated par dida of the é \ t ne i 1 r i at la n oi I ( Continued on Page 73 More Raw Material Needing a Little Government Control

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | ULLER BROTHERS Toiinicdt ictus By Mary Brecht Pulver LUSTRATED BY w H D KOERNER ) | i 4 } i I ( | 1 | ‘ ; ‘ i} { 4 1 | 1a \ \\ } “Call Me Honey:Bunch, Chariey,’’ Mrs. Lutu Was Murmuring ‘ toW W } B ‘ At I , | 1 ‘ ¢ ( VW \ 1 - - K I t I U ! I ' ! ’ | \\ | ( I T ‘ 4 . \ } } ) ( J 4 i ma al . r ) ( r t f r 4 1 \ WV } ( r \ a i ere I r Br

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 4 , 4 Mar a € a f airs e ¢€ g i er T ner ig ( r es a ' ( he f r ne ¢ i * i ra t ( 4 \ 1 4 i { H j ( ‘ | ( t Ke ( } Why, in Heaven's Name, Couldn't Chass Have Cared the A , for One of Them? . I ’ | ( ‘ } \\ \\ It | ( a t { | ‘ | ‘ 1 ( | x . i ‘ \W \\ ‘ t i) ( \\ ( (it ye B ( I r ( Fulle g Wi i I £ ‘ ‘ ad beg \1 ( | ‘ i ( ‘ i ever call ( ! ¢ t ‘ a x \ ( iss } t 4a t gna t Al T 4 ‘ - &

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘ ‘ t é t ( ( Wi i 1 i { " A j 1 4 | i \ ( + ~ Af ‘ } e of ‘ { I ‘ fri ! ( } ] \ i ‘ l t ( ‘ é i t ‘ ) } ‘ } as a et é ‘ ( ( 4 \l I ‘ Rr \ W } . ' AT \l 5 t é ‘ ( { } \ t ! } ‘ i ‘ Pa , | é ‘ r Ye il (j Halla ( ha Xe t ‘ ‘ ‘ ( ri afte ( \ i i ( ; ‘ YW t \\ \\ le ed é M I ‘ | ( \ * 4 Af t i eve 4 He'd rot ¢ ( Continued on Page 37 ' ; ‘ “‘One Day — Well, I Met Her —and I —I Love Her. I Can't Live Without Her

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June 29,1918 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST imi FIRE FLINGERS | TT 7 2 ] ° 7 IAW ° 77 © ) Rwy UY; Wha — AT. 2 ol 2 oe R e) Y VV MEE UaIM Ye AVECIaY, @ r CORNWELL WY) ILLUSTRATED BY DEAN

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f THE SATURDAY EVENING POST rp t I t i At 4 ] W 4 ¢ \ H R ’ i [ é € I a i I I i if é \ ; r t i U! Ni i ( } ‘ ‘ | | \ ( r ‘ e re | i I A . A | | , f ’ ‘ t y t ma it ( t 1) Git ' I kK HH ( ( ‘ ep! "a | ( } If ) \1 l ‘ \ | y i. . i 4 t i ( Pre ( I t * t y eplie | } \ R V r | j 1 ‘) I I Y | . i if Mr. ¢ W Continued on Page 76 Wl. 2 ee eee “I’m Sorry to Bother You About Our Bills, but the Men Refuse to Deliver to Us Any Longer Without Payment

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°D‘' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDF PENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR $ 6 Dt te T w s, I » PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 29, 1918 The Prussian Hope The New Revenue Bill \ | SATURDAY EVENING POST The Next Congress agement of the Rey in Part The Fourth of July June 29,1918 Why Men Embezzle Imitation Thinking Economic Pipe Dreams

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LS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

4 oO v7 77 = *) os —s a D ? I~» <P (FEI TD / l4 » ACES HIGH ®y Sergeant Pilot Harold E.Weight OF THE FRENCH FLYING CORPS AND THE LAFAYETTE FLYIN r C

Ain Aviator Testing His Machine Gun Good Advice and Farewells Fine Pictures From Great Heights

Americans, Billeted in a Smail French Viliage, Off Duty

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June 29,1918 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘ ¢ " g i t ng al £ overne 1 I I le é ‘ r ¢ x T | i I l ‘ ‘ Pe fers f e Fre ) M Pic ¢ | c ‘ Ky | ete ly I H Heinie f é ' ' tear? ‘ else t One ? He } Ove . f tif] atical. | | I ‘ be please ibt, that the q , A i t r camera Were | ters, but x p | , to G headquarters t the ra , ( Sor y 0 In e fir | ‘ + ¢ i | t t I 1 il » at \ t a im t t t re Fre I the 1 Zz é Kaiser rule, f f € i ' I ‘ ’ y 1) 4 - * 4 , { ] ‘ 1 f 1 I ' gl ‘ y re , e. 7 ve ‘ I f f In the Midst of the Enemy ‘ ‘ ‘ ex i I ‘ j t HA*! eve Re g I { I i t Zz ilké i r Fr t br | i et 1 ¢ ‘ ‘ | j + | i 1 I } i ‘ i ¢ i It \ \ ( Nursing the Radiator i B l de é W j ‘ I \ , i ye f a i if I é \ me t ' I i ert ‘ Fritze i N Carrie iy é ene é ted t « e g t t t ey ’ 4 i The es beg ‘ I fle me. a I é | 4 | é Ay 1 - \ ' f i for ‘ 1 { Continued on Page 22 — ~~ - | > = —_ ° — a " -4 . “2 - 7 ae SR 2 et a me Sep me , de® ae mi = - - * ~ A Group of Bombing Machines Above—A Giimpse of an Inundated Trench

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— a Ne. > conservation plans and also benefit your family bot yj e ** health and purse. s THE SATURDAY EVENING POST When the Eagle fights— Every American is glad to help America is in this war to the last ounce of energy, the last dollar, the last man. This means “woman’, too—the bravest and truest soldier of us all. To maintain the cheer and comfort of the home, to make the home table in viting, to keep her family physically ‘“fit’-—this is woman's strenuous and vital task. We are gratified to feel that Campbell's wholesome Soups mate rially lighten this weighty burden. In these nourishing low cost. They provide elements of nutrition which are specially valuable in pro soups the American housewife finds high food-value at moting active streneth and good condition. They take the place, to some extent, of foods on which the Government asks_us all to economize. ‘y ‘| hey come to you perfectly cooked and blended, ready for youn ; table in three minutes. You have no added materials to buy, no cooking E35 cost, no bother, no waste. You save money, fuel, labor, time. You help the national h IN) Avoid extra deliveries by ordering a dozen or moreat , ; Avoid extra deliveries by ordering a dozen or more atatime. 21 kinds 12c a can Asparag Clam Chowde Ve Beet ( prime I

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 Continued from Page 20 ne lett ear yf ea tu | United State Va ery ] r ir. Ot 1 my game must be 1 One Thanksg g Day I ull r rf f I i ge Nove 9 ) ) é I a encan Gert r I lear 4 ‘ ; . r r lagain. It at Am 4 i] e at I Ar a Hu ? € Te It ( i £ i i ige al . 4 r u i f ere i Howe e had } i is I t I r tt \\ At the f t ‘ W 2 r e | the ¢ ‘ t eve I ¢ f [ have é Our i € \ f vasr g d We ere fe r | T er after t a r é 4 I f ¢ r tor’s Ar r i! I 2 £ i r ing r The Dlar t it 4 ere i ea ne r ed £ r linner nad K ner th ge f irke H ! t vet irs feathe eside é f \ é f 1 tug | eaten a ‘ I fu Acie I J 4 A Sausage Hunt for the Visitors ‘ ¢ : } , e de ‘ me ne } , ‘ tne , to f He i i k re t or e Tampat ‘ é Ip ra « este g e of whit ‘ His proy ilw \ i I I eos t " f r er F ee | yg A} i go over tl ) t t » \I { tne vere I M4 Forwar Ir k ene Drache r Sausape } ngie to permit b g right at the M listar The ‘ked e three ti t . or t take then nasweeping are. The ace de ied that these L1uSage e « t a few | t nm it tar ‘ I . , , 1 the y M inding whee vere there regulate artillery fire ‘ ¢ | kor shoe comftort ert ty ee oF eeadeeiaiad hs ne rt gg oe “| ty ' ; ; Me : . - - : : : poe th , i “ a “ . t a sia y y t try Neolin Soles. e went up ten feet orso,adipand _ I consented, and we went and ou will get not it and piled up—ascore or more of them; In a way it was a great cor 7 - ere ng } ir i Furthe me only comfort but ye air. Furthermore, 1 ‘i wit it a rat vner ney lid nave We each set ] his own, ea to ta waterprootness oc mae rensy Vm er had they fired a Drachen of the same size. I elected t ! ug i imx ] Oo take me I lit me ind the aces took the othe t+ + . | — . en it he same way with on the right a 1 left flar . The Sausage in Flames and the E€COM-__| them—oneextreme or the other. We have To the uninitiated perhaps t} at the best way Oo outgeneral a mpl to ta ea big. umber me } D | omy of longer bh so often shows in one feren or ether, say even ecund fe peer sperten oe Nowe. 4 trv direct ‘ winter the But ler that to get at one f wear besides. ~ sy oe cadiaeeeas Sahel Horseflesh for Turkey viting a flee ene ting i ) 4 r r é f Bi ‘ i 1 por MN ng i fair he gnt I ed barrage, from the gur on the ground { tl i netur t iusag © bullet damage the wings, fuselage and beneath the balloor gul NI e€ OI l Ul \ ol t — 11 SS b i pparer! the eC ex t er t ri e, Dearing In mind that seve illa a I . I Nleolin ne my motor good, for now she¢ powerful asse Planes are hovering a é toa i ed away In a | ‘ i i ery triur int t protect it i ng inded attack t i A ¢ | iff gu PS / m Press ! ! 1 wer t ttle no meal mpl rhe battleplanes flying " " im} g uj N New Y r i mu i vw I i i ind round the gas bag are there f =~ Br A vith a frie or for the irpose of protect t and I the l ght I the \ a they 1 ( driving off ar Allied plane i i i ‘ t N i I "77 t i 1 t I i t P attack tna‘ | I I { 4 } me — t et isand ori r t ¢ ur — ( A ( t i ralt ¢ t ‘ e ama ] i Iw to ] ! \ i \ a il ] i e € n n i ine ea ‘ ¥ ind ¢£ I 1 t | ‘ e€ O71 n | hing, Long \ } ! \ ‘ How I i t eve vit? i Ww sta ear Iw 1 ratner \ CK er ‘ la é age f ‘ hasse single | i ‘ ot ! i i l nan ta ( i i i i ‘ { i it | é er W W It a ance I I I ) ten mi t ] w t 4 t 1 \ i wn escadrille. Si it yg I nking over this amoment the read as 1 | ) i i? ive een | bie whe I rst 1ou ess Will agree wit! it i ] i t F i d the I I res e time mbat one can at least € ( , é n ised t hat extent But t ¢ t f angerou he ia W ' W \ leo! man sa even though he did 1 that « ‘ ate sires e what a sh thing war « be g to do ve 10 a fe t . In a way I felt sorry for the poor de\ ance ch thous If | rece ed my bullets. How I wish every 1 eal l la l Ss ind v i a & |] ( German I have had to shoot had been one and prepared by the me wn W i offer a ange . f the Kaiser’s spies right in America in- chanics and finally we were set. The ace and so I pancaked - tead! in a robin’s-egg-blue machine took the air r maneuver is ver ard t W he I got back same little bird first He began to cut capers all over the from the ground, and, as I expected, the 1} hed or hangar. He was eld, dangerously close to the ground, and next high-explosive shells burst far over pcYerrw nevereeer or: are notajinx. Hewasaregularmascot! When then shot up, doing a few flip-flaps. Continued on Page 24

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a “2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘The Comfort Car | OW little all this comport costs 1s the most comforting thought of all. The Hupmobile owner ves travel in ease, and with efficiency —he “ves reduce even the ordinary effort of driving. But all this at a cost so low that it 1s far under the best records of the best Hup- inobiles that have gone before. Mileage costs per gallon of gas and oil, tire maintenance, repairs and tuning-up processes—in Zhe Comfort Car all are at a minimum which satisfies the scruples of even the most conservative war-time saver. Ge sac be

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**Thermos, the bottle, is a godsend to the boys in camp and at the front.” SERVES THE NATION— CONSERVES THE KATION Thermos vs.Camouflage AMERICAN THERMOS BOTTLE CO 47 West Slat Street, New York THE SATURDAY Continued from Page 22 A Sure Cure for Colds | i t \ ‘ i ' ' i ‘ 1 ( ‘ 4 ( EVENING POST erv deaf Ha lone va r Ik rer te lad = } } ¢ 2 ¢ NoMa ae P™ r ra VUur r ife f “ ar er ir ¢ e and « entire cam] ler Hun fire. Fine! I 1 that ind er | r +} I'w Tee eXce it : I | then ¢ gt fe. We Our or r ] \ { é t ‘ t t air ft { ¢ We i ) t I | a We Ge l { r me. a Ir gt } a f re i ; ’ i ( ( i r we t t erver aR f f . ( | - ? i wa i did 3] i if 1a G t I \ i rt He j ‘ 1 ‘ } r ) ‘ ict r} { G a £ ( i ( i igre it g ir I Fu r ¢ r; ea g ere ] ‘ 7 Ar + ‘ a I a é it are ¢ (ty ( ] ¢ wu al ‘s er pear i , Bu l ure t W | i - ste I f r a é Ov é e ¢ ‘ The Tricks of the Camoufleur : ) 4 i : | pre H ‘ M | ¢ | t a pt t i | t t ; t t efr nde bags i Cr +] . I I i i if a ‘ ve. We f - ‘ ] i I " i Vv \t ' , I t f ss T v A He t . - p i 7 June 29,1918 Concluded on Page 27

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; | | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST + By % 4 KIS K NON-SKID Ew i i N is the vreatest that money can buy CONnSIsSt ently dependable, alway x \ A \ 4 ‘ ca P \ aM wy AY 8 r = ge OA PZ tig OO. — - Tae 3 _ * ike cg ” ein». Seen ne uA, oa” ‘ a, 4 ill 4 > A is Ma | Me ~ gs

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26 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 - eo F ae’ Ba 6! a pee: ‘ > a

Every Iwelfth Man an Inspector Of our thousands of factory employees, one in every twelve is

engaged in inspection work. Every ounce of raw rubber, every fibre of cotton, every material of any kind entering into United States Tires is subjected to * painstaking scrutiny. nited tates : Each tire, during its construction, must qualify in many separate examinations which permit not the slightest deviation | ires from our principles of perfection. iat a : . , . ’ This combination of large-scale production and controlled are Good lires accuracy works out in hundreds of extra miles and lower ——— cost per mile. Put United States Tires in service—on your commercial or passenger car—now, when it is more than ever a vital, war-

Nobby ‘Chain

time necessity. Compare results. In period of life, in mileage, in freedom from delays, United States Tires will justify the purpose behind them and the system of conscientious manufacture 8 . a’? that brings this purpose to fulfillment. < ee

Also Tires for Motor Trucks, Motorcycles, Bicycles and Aeroplanes.

‘Royal Cord’ aH Bare

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Conciuded from Page 24

I first met a pair together and then one, or whether the lone pilot picked on me first ler’s advice I with- re until the last instant, letting che er me; and when I pi 1; ed shot first at one, d off atasharp angle and tackled

As I passed the second man f forgive me if I tell *k—I held my 1) chil lly You see, ar under such quently do it. ive enemy turn trip, flying west, I met two

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more, one snort | wing the other, ex- changing fire ¢ time. Setting out east- d again I wa n engaged with still y ther a Invariably they picked on me first, me more fight ‘ nt into a verti- I et d er an exchange t ) f us scoring and doing

h other’s wings

uge ear Perhaps he was out of f er stalling. Clouds r g his landing. My bullets had not taken effect. A Pancake Landing

On the last few miles of my journey my Spad began to act queerly. It wi ( ind t dithicult to cont the bulle r t te ng to ’ rips. Wh ist the plane p iked t earth wit} I y rev ent thar I liked \ ! f of holes I begar 1 T elf ir head to foot Id ] tretche Chen I tw ed rt t K at! heeis and she lers What é r—ad g ir- self?"’ one é ed I 1 eiflg t al ‘ I 1 ind went to r e out The fe y he far a remark at ¢ the rice é In the ¢ , g n Nove er, 191 enem\ mest t , he of e ( to get | . . were ist ¢ it! g for: iding a of Ge 1 S } , ‘ é n the n int I had bee I wa m Rheims at ¢ . ment I t Iw N ered

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sectional feature — eliminates | chances of misfit and lows you to enjoy the benefit of the upholstery to the | fullest extent ~ Gordon Covers are easily cleaned with whisk broom or with soap and water r your dealer. He will show you 24 popular shades of tan, gray, green Quick delivers Prices $9.00 Up. brown and nov eities no measuring no fitting GORDON EASY-ON Protect your spare tire w er. The hand The J. P. Gordon Co. 407 North Fourth St. Columbus, 0 TIRE COVERS Eas est ve mn the market

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST If pictures | could only show their flavor! HERE th y are—two notable examples of the V 1dea of going for foods w herever the finest of each kind 1s to be found One, Libby's Sweet Mixed Pickles—tender little cucumbers from **nedi rreed’”’ plants; delicately- tissued young Spring onions; and extra-select Long Island caulitlower—pickled in pure white wine vinegarand flavored witha blend of rare spices and dainty seasonings known only to Libby’s chefs. June 29,1918 The other, Libby’s Olives—the choicest that old Spain grows; each one a perfect specimen— plump and sound and ‘‘ meaty,” and of a fine, rich, dusky-green color. If these pictures could only show their flavor! Then you’d know why thousands upon thou- sands of families prefer them to any other kinds. Then you would hasten to enjoy them—before another meal went by. Libby, M°Neill & Libby, 274 Welfare Bldg., Chicago

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST UP THE RIVER TIGRIS Continued from Page 8 The Log of Corporal Harte An Amazing Voyage , i : ede y c é he pe I Robbed by Arabs Continued on Page 3 as Hats Off! | Tl RE never was a time invour lifewhen America’s National and Patriotic songs so stirred and thrilled you to th very core. Why not hear them every day! This ‘**kFourth!’’ And often after ! Why not have them all in your home — sung by freatl voices, played } by tine orchestras and bands — on records Here are a few of the Pathé Patriotic Records “ Them att \ M \ ! s) + l l lf H ‘ big As He ¢ { I xn Nig ( ) ! \ I 1 Back My D M Ha Met f \ Waris rit ‘ You | ) S ’ ris I W You can play Pathe Rec- ords on your own ma chine. On any machine, no matter what the make Ilear them at the nearest Pathe Dealer’s—today | HE FRERES PHONOGRAPH Cr This Fren Tenor of internat fame i é ustvely for P Ne r Hear s battle-1u red (No. 630607)

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June 29,1918 <A LINK of STRENGTH he VICTORY Drive

REAT main drives connect- ing long aisles of ingenious machines in the factories of America, each machine a vital part in the production of munitions, food, clothing and supplies, and every turn of each machine de- pendent upon a belt and its ability to continuously transmit power. —Belts are the victory drives swinging the wheels of industry upon the task of keeping up the flow of munitions and supplies for America and her Allies. But belt performance is limited by the strength and durability of the belt at its joint. Literally, production in this time of industrial crisis hangs upon the belt joint— the link of performance or weak- ness in the victory drive. on ey Rg TPE ~ Rather notable achievements of technical skill are belts—the result of years of accurate, scientific study of power transmission. Yet in too many instances, belt strength and durability are discounted by de- structive methods and inefficient workmanship so often used in belt joining, which reduce, and actually destroy, dependable belt service.

How Crescents Save OW that so much depends upon uninterrupted production, it is most important that each shop owner, manager, superintendent and operator know about and use Crescent Belt Fasteners, as a means of insuring con tinuous and complete service from his belting equipment. The Crescent Belt Fastener has earned its important place in the modern pro

duction cycle. It is designed in accord ance with the best engineering theory and practice and it is the accepted stand- ard for belt joining today. It has to its credit the conservation of power and the reduction of maintenance and production costs, totaling millions of dollars. Many records of money savings on in- dividual drives have been made. For in- stance: The Equipment illustrated at the left—two 10-inch heavy-duty belts, run ning at aspeed of 5,000 feet per minute ona hot-saw drive cutting steel girders—had an average life of six to eight weeks. The best record for a belt joint was three weeks. On this identical drive, two belts joined with Crescent Fasteners ran 71 weeks more than $2500 saved in belt cost alone, in addition to time and money saved through continuous service. A single case, yet not an extravagant ex ample of the efficiency of Crescents, and one which can be proportionately applied to every belt-driven machine. Service Information RESCENTS maintain production in any belt-driven plant. They cut power losses and belting costs—prevent losses of production, time of valuable machines and time of skilled operatives. Crescents are a link of strength in the victory drive. The Crescent Belt Fastener is unim portant in cost—remarkable in its power for saving. The introduction of Crescents is your responsibility if you are a mechanic, a foreman or superintendent —if you have any executive or investment interest —in a plant employing belt-driven machines Salesmen will not call to urge you per sonally. It 1s you who should take the initiative. Weurge youheretowrite tous for service information. This is our wa} of reaching you in the interest of proving the relation of our product to your needs

Crescent Belt Fastener Co. 381 Fourth Avenue New York Citv Branches and Distributors thr e World ESCENT BELT FASTENERS

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 29 the mr f it r ’ ta The I helieve +} +} f+ T + + ‘ . I ‘ } | e died Frar ’ + y Hi n ¢ r eT iwher ‘ 1 that 1 . " ‘ I e frie I S-81"" ste worse of hy -elnogt . | Af I r ire I And t it } Britanr Ma . = Nort r wal r ‘ I lar age ! t ‘ : t Aral to he -long a I lift | e inhabitar te | I f r t ] lf il 1see tha er } P-] er FR barge dl ni cca Dag i 1 ) ntr ne ¢a (; Ay ¢ ( Ar é ( God bel ! | ind il S.A f re get £ t I é Te 7 é he « ‘ , ‘ | i not t } I rie « I 1 ‘ te t t ne i\ é eventes t to engine i I eV a \ be re ly t yeta ? e st ‘ ‘ t . RB fter + | ( ¢ ‘ me frequer i ) ‘ Moreove ' Y believe f tor e | i | S-] therwise Ste ele Nur Lt t te t ‘ t One e } itonw me Ar ‘ i ,’ M4 eT | y y i ; Ip i ; ‘ 1 tug ‘ jown the Tigr and ¥ . } M She } n | fe i il per P I He is f : e Ira e she made } ] . t} r the A } I ‘ ‘ ndergone at } f ( t \ I r it f g improve 1 ha ‘ M he mo: hrilling i f ed ¢ en G ! They rr) isand ton a chi lurkish retreat from Kut-el-Amara, rar h plenty o’ et ré jrawabout General MacMunn aboard and with } two foot iter! ' These Britisher at her wheel, and, after General M The Journey's End n't know not rivers nohow floating headquarters, was t n they nt Tt forar er ste t the taking of Bagdad \ irs i l é ( ‘ ew , , y T ‘ +} . 9 9 11 " . se sesigt : : paddle The Shortcomings of Ezekiel \ é ‘ ers al W ‘ le RB VM ‘ ! Ar ! I ‘ he f f } n’em! W Kurna at f | eleve ilw ! ‘ ) K i rd betimes, f 1 I } ‘ \ ese d i! ive t ( inaged, with ar t ‘ ) we e way! he e of t x I ist « t eve bed ar hy P Mak . ’ é vs Y I t na Dox Da igre \ ‘ I i ! \ d ‘ ‘ ) ' . most good i , ' y + i} P I NI nes Fin ah lie “ } 1 O I ildr ‘ | j mes f{ Pr ; ny 1 t.a hatt } granaf her w Fr. “= H k i So tr isa f d seve } ire I r ¢t I ( ‘ gl t he } an important 17 + ty . } 5 Bas i ‘ t et t 1 1d rt ell t t hold jot tor \ } } . ~ t me rn | y i ‘ i erable ju itio ind Ne expe 1 Du 1 while I ] -¢ Pec i : cit , Florence Mfg. Co A 1 ar A Westerner I wa dolefulenumeratior f} ont * = Florenc Aass = hi " ens 2 hse : - a 32 Pine St t=) : ij = that t tine Wrong the Every t el de le to fire hit Canadian Address : na new tne r r rt t vot LOT ng tne \ rst servant no ever r 425 Coristine Bldg * f t tar i ? (ne Y e-e-« peer vin’ in the ta cert r l’ } » high” and e % Yukon’s Opinions 1 1a commotion even among the a z eghrve: : nd A e.te Continued on Page 33

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ty iii) one dha CADILLAC _¢ 5% a NOaRD OF THE wo STANDARDIZATION In England and the thought of \merica, for many years, standardization has been ] closely linked to the name Cadillac. lhe two have been almost convertible terms. Now, the war has given to the phrase and to the pring iple of standardization, a new and a wider significance. Kivery nation has a wonder-working word. In that word is implied or expressed the speci OCcniLus of its people. Is it not possible that that word, in America, is standardization? Standardization is a peculiarly American ] principle. ' ° 1 It 1s the capacity to think in large volume— ’ , ‘ ’ , so? , , ’ a reckle ) , Awe sNeastirements. IS ¢ iaracterized by a noble bigness, on the one hand; and a scrupulous smallness, on the ] OT TV ’ } } . Standardization dreams large dreams— 47 1 ie’ rhs LACH MEU ith PIC POMNECLE? ACCKTIACY. It is not afraid of big figures when thinking materials, or machines, or money. in terms ol MarKncts, OF But it is mortally afraid of big figures when part is fitted into part. Standardization laughs at millions—and worrles over a loose bolt. lo the unthinking, it seems to talk in the 9 language of the spendthrift. [he initiated know that 1n execution, it is the very essence of economy. Standardization can be applied to base ends but, in America, it should not be. When it seeks volume alone, it is merely the apotheosis of brute force—the perpetuation of cheapness. But when standardization and quality are wed the fruit isa product superlatively fine. Standardized ships and guns and aeroplanes and motor cars are speeding across the ocean to save the world. War has shed new lustre on wonder-working word. America’s We feel that we may with propriety point out that this wonder-working word has also } . 1 . been the watch-word of these works since the Cadillac business began. NK June 29,1918 N

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Continued from Page 31 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST rd r ¢ uat ‘ i a tree over there g over the don ne lo bel planted by All of which n ‘ ext . N Ss al Fathe every hand ar I i seem far le Age f Eu ‘ it realizing i Incidentally 1 ugh a spring Mesopotamia dou It accepted by ! { mplicity ¢ lerstood t ed Was only loes descend upor nd forty nights es it is not ther i thems é ind in the ibseque l relief of K earth” during m od Was accom] nde I y ber of the family f t the ¢ eT I ed in f the n juit er-hearted parent he night in | nig turbed t he ol agon I Tor + offere contr n to ¢ ‘ me ith t munication meé of the natural sur ind arn not accused DY a quitoes, and I ha t t ed upon me t € iOOK 11K@ a SNOW though they do make a m t, knew all abou them ‘‘the waters prevailed, and hands visible Concluded on Page 35 For men who like their knees covered Write f Swmatcn LASTLONG UNDERWEAI! 349 Broadway Ne JASTLONG TRADE MAK FEATHER-WEIGHT* . FLAT-KNIT Union :Suits [pVaR ; fe — = = = — “a | Put “punch” iato your Drill | | RegulationW 1DrillGur | | V4 ti,

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Canepa ME NEP RES Siog: 6 ee rs ea =~ ee

June 29,1918

Phe part plave | \ th nner tube in the service delivered by an automobile tire is of intense and essential importance. ‘| he cood tube, \\ hic hy holds all unfailingly, supports the casing in all its work and cushions it safely against every shock. The poor tube, in failing to do these things, Invites unnecessat trouble and often works the pre mature ruin of the tire. Every motorist should. saf guard the mileage capacity of hi the best tubes he can bu Lhe Aind of lube We Build GoopyraAr Luses are built of pure gum = rubber — many thin sheets laid one upon another and casings by equipping them with } t the whole vul« nized together. Chis laminated construction guards against all defects in ma- terial, and gives the tf tbe a cross- grain Which combats splitting When punctured. Lhe valve patch in GooDYEA! Tubes is not simply stuck on after curing; it 1s made an integral part f the tube itself by vulcanization. Our present product 1s even thicker than formerly in_ sizes WW here added thic KIN \< uld 1th- prove it,as much as l¢ thicker Im some cases

Used By More Motorists Than Any Other Tube In our ' many years, we have built red tubes, black tubes, heavily com- pounded tubes and pure gum tubes, in in ettort to di COVe!l vhich is best. GoobdyYEAR Tubes are pure ¢ tubes of laminated construction bec ause VE are are be a CONVINCced these hey are grav in color imply because thev are mad pure gui. No Other Lube Has This Endorsement Forty per cent of all new cars such cars as Locomobile, Packard Cadillac, Franklin, as well as those ot lesser price—are equipped at the factory with GoopyEAR Tus Mlore motorists today use GoopyvyrEaAR Tupi than ise any other kind. Yet with our enormous tube sales less than one-seventh of one per cent of our tubes ever come back for adjustment—less than one 1n seven hundred. This 1s largely due to the severe “twenty-four hour test’? which every GoopyrAR TuBE must pass with perfect score before it 1s al- lowed to leave the factory.

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Conciuded from Page 33 il t water awing stations he | and the vate I t I must ot th my) irne i ther We but thev are . it ms thes iero the th i e'| os A ‘ kK ir? ther m gardens ur 2 er wh ha framew rl > It to wastes. thatt g P t \ { i 4 i y t t l r i Att ¢ one ¢ P , 7 ‘ 1 ‘ ‘ ‘ f ] N ¢ € t t ti ¢ irna J ( t € t SN \ “Now ¢ ¢ f ( iW ‘ ‘ ‘ \ Artaxerx re i } } a vent f . oo ; t ° e ’ i i Va Y i nad I \ ‘ l i vik oo antiseptic \ t B . Mi aaa F no é I i ' y ilong é Ble ‘ | ity f Ar l it i I . t} \ Ar ‘ Ar i is n é 1 fore the F ' At é é G ef rt ‘ ‘ é 4 t D () Ar , We ‘ I I é ery | vou i! \ ey i he ea 1 mosq ce toml 2 : rales f ne to I i's I lt ent } ent a decidedly Mohammedar ‘ AR IC RM ge ng rv gees : Antiseptic Shaving Cream i ert that got t el Z la ] Ve pr mad iue t the fact that t ly! It ¢ ¢ Te uit 1 t i ‘ t I ‘ xz W | i ‘ t ‘ x! dow i in stretches ning shadows of palm trees lying in it rmishing in its immediate vicit LEHN & FINK, | t é t é i ( ‘ ¢ t I na ! ed t c i reate i Wa N 1 t f i I A Le Brit ho a i he paim g ‘ t t Ar I iW \ I I > at 4 4 ‘ ‘ t i. gle d she ‘ I t ene i i \ pa 7 } ¢ COMMENT OF Tile WIEEIK The Dynasties Fixing Food Prices Farm Credit and Tenants MWENTY ence, ! ibt, there ! MAY become advisab'e for the Gov a, ? > . “ 1 produ a eat and oa tural Cre A ‘ Just the thing for Soldiers ave ; ‘ - oo 2 henge : ; , and Sailors i t ed W c ving that a producer ! t receive promises ) rrect it LOV ntere rate , ; r i t i i i iX iOng © al I \“\ f ‘ f i that € l t 1 ce farm « er l é I - | ou , , < ra ‘ f r« ‘ I H g \ ¢ r ala t t I 4 f é t It € . 4 4 € ) € eme at Ww il ere ive Te N: r i . \ “4 1 i Kg é pat ement f er Appe e—excl gy nes ‘ e ( ¢ e Wa i r ri é i ‘ ire r arkets yg ere ( & ‘ , - Ice] if ¢ a r a é \ turr ‘ ‘ i AY { | 4 I im he w get the higher —— ur value he twent t isand The Brush You Can e lhrough £ g A x I f r t te t t yn f 4 se ( re t A £ .\) 1u | ( We é Canada I ( t i t t Lk KS Ss ix 1 i i ne € é a parent : fe ~ SANITAX BRUSH CO. "2 & 2343 S. Wabash Ave * rece e more i €

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36 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 Pe Sa eet _ x se f ' + ‘ Hd . t juss e demand for better ; J. Ort Metal’ ® : offices has built this § Neer ae : 350O-store organization 4 PETE RS. Sa EF OES ey . i n buying a 4-draw et ’ : be ° | | r fil | t as a novelty. %: ; Bi. ' =o 1 | , + 3 Today, more than 125 othces use the hundred ie : a ‘ ] ‘ , 45 en -_ wa Ae Vit O Art Me tal steel hies. aS Well as steel desks, s we 1 { j 1 } : ) Abe cupbo is, waste baskets, dé k trays, “2 | tc © 2D I this demand, requires 350 Art Metal res and Branch Ofhces—backed by the three largest steel furniture plants in the world. ew me St Send for catalog Art Metal Construction Co., Jamestown, N. Y. FS REY ES L. |-—~ \ PB [ \ d . es nS GE. Waaet EEE. en omen | Steel eee Furnitare. Safes" and Files ETS 6 SERGE Bane ex é $a Bee ee Ee REE | ae. ate i eh Oe ale > tage ey eM Wei

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(Continued from Page 15 world, and consecrated now to the sacred rites of Wednesday’s baking. And pristine glowing and Johnny Fuller, with e and a letter in his nto this

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inwor nted gra f fae pocket yd man, the pea-pod replica of siender, dark-eyed, r Krie t befo the oven door removing iisin pit He had the pie clutched between a supporting dishcloth and a« the blue -orner of apron he wore—one of the most precarious points in @ ples career But Johnny had no mercy on the pie Chass,” he said a little hus kily, ‘ NM ive i etter for y It got mixed wit the fir mail and I opened it by isitabe I t ignt t home to you

+) } restrained v ‘ ] ’ expected this Chere eg e likely horror me embarrassmer f ips even denia]l—or foolish C} rt when confronted. Thus his f I | now Chass onl} lace I } l Let me } e it Johr exte vo finger ( throat—“I ‘ n't ha elie I never thought it p bie that | I alte l ¢ t es a ‘ Per r plar ’ He stopped unce i y before thestrange Oo} n Cna eye There w: something € and en here severit a certalr sternness, a rT nee of anner, alr st Johnny bega ‘ 1 and I had th s fixed out I th ere settled. We are settled of that. But getting yourself into a thing of this kind—ever ‘ porar Who said it i I i nny could carce peneve | ea I Chass had turned pal i begun to sp most bitter Loc here, Johr a you m¢ we til—l € e may ell have tl ul g rig? ) aig? Now is go i any time I’ve alwa mht with you I hing nd t r , Oo? } fetogether, bu r lif e! There a I s eve ma 1 gue Anen he thir f ‘ it a matter of t kind. I’ve y re f ite We t y u i ea i ! ne r Fohny but I—I ' g else ; fe II want to ge ed! Jo} epeated, cold wit! Wi ee weeks age yuldn’t ! € € € a thing i? y want tor And Mrs. | Attle i Wi + ( ‘ the ira it Johnny é But Cha as pa f He had f n to pacing the e! I te ou ght to the e, but i man gets br i I t when he me ee wet ago 1! ! f 4 thing a it it i I met he i | ] e ne nt A her— ever e la ead night l vas | e t e the pect ri ( i ma ter i of sell ( I tell 4 na t il isned r suddenly ¢ erf ! You don't w her _ r ot tne pure tT i, | ve g that the hot pie I a circle in the h t ‘ tea na et r ne e her } Nailed ge | a ase where expostulation was futile He irnea on [ ef bitterly, and went out nto the garde past the neat vegetable beds he and Chass had dug; past the cinde walks they had measured and rolled in con- cert; past the grape arbor they had made and painted—to the neatly 1etted chicken run, where the Leghorns they owned to- yy lucked. He the whole place was bond, sentient with gether and ¢ stared at the fowls mournful pec qd pecked

eloquent of their

voices ou of the past crying the tale of happy hours together And now C spiritual habits ple hass morass. ast aoe ne

ire o the Leg rure on ight ng iarge I golden < n out of a bowl with her pu ana-wl Sho ng wit __. ene rf i quite IKeLY ( ny noise at the rsed

the sort issociate a baby face. All her e tendrils ir would be tightly ed in little kernel- like pale-gray pa es re g on her fore- nea Johnr I ee! adies e this ( ens of t ¢ } bitterne now he palr ed in all de Dut wou make r difference at f to Chas Some reintheo ( } er , } y ’ he f me, ; g expre ? ‘ man in | y ’ it was an Int e picture t J 1 wo ¢ he sa i pa < ely But what wa ( ] brand face the He las tior \ r ne rot t F lf ; ¢ ‘ . The ng to do » see M ] l Attlel » herself Ay ' ‘ ¢

I but one could do bett than that One could be his brother's rival—< P ( iss at the busines Cold, im} pitiless, he hir f iid lay sik Irs. I 1 Atil i vhen ¢ asS WAS COr ed of t fu f a pe he would toss Mrs. Lulu A ef one tosses an a ] loaf r ‘ not one pang of n his he f M Lulu in this rdle A lady of her ex pe { e, sne mignt fe ij for he elf , no ( ipt W lid, he imme ite | ‘ is t ive ( r | ut r his brother he had ? lé r PP ly t V T 4 T ‘ e from between ther \ . k ng int 1 t » hot-l What € against pio ? Ca l ny craf (y y Johnr ak ed t se no He vy id ellect a meeting that wee { | ( upon ner a lew da It was not a ili Gu ult to! M Lulu; 1 he had t a small M Mabe Lee, and ¢ entlemar rw i begun to find he i parior at ve Morgan Case, the undertake Johr inderstood, had showed nsiae t t- tention to Mrs Lulu a eady; la iY named Reedy, from Marston, a widower of fa ivanced years. Yet neither of these gentlemen offered much impediment t Cha lit. Thev 1 e a poor showing whe nt ( rood loo £ | j h and | mf ble income I} Cha had not carried } mad } mf elf-destruction beyor the a“ tages Was € nced 1n a Cet ntere on Mrs. Lulu irt on meeting J nny ertalr ite J tea yiance from her re 1 blue eye She ir i him to call on Frid I’m going to | ne Friday eve Mr. J Johnny there was the

hint of a sigh in her voice at the word alone Pathos ola cet lin type was clearly Mr Aétiation And Johnny agreed to call. He dressed V deliberate re on Frida ght and e] efully to Mrs. Lulu’s cottag: She greeted | t the door } elf. put iking his ha pret ur ol tude You | f brother, Mr Fuller. Only, if i don't mind my sayin, it a mite! ) r ny bowed, looking over his shoulder into her little p rtod ver in advance what manner of | er it was in which thi Lady of Shalott wove her spells over hi nw kling br ther and cushion Small imerable A glowing lamp, omed It was a ty} cal bower crowded it photographs like a gigantic on the center tal ]

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EVENING POST

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“The Secret— of Dainty Wash Dresses ge —is no secret at all. For launderin’ my dainty Summer things I find Roe rystal White

; the unsurpassed soap, because it cleanses per- ’ " ; ; fectly, without the slightest danger of harm 4 ; to the most delicate fabrics.” rg : Pao: | 4 me | ' \ \ ) Crystal White is known and used by millions Re Wy of housewives because it means quicker work a a EN in every cleansing, task—in laundry, kitchen o SS < and throughout the household. PEET BROS. MEG.CO. ° bw

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Continued from Page 37 novels that lay underneath, over some trifle of woman's sewing, and a silver dish of Turkish Delight. Mrs. Lulu came in the pink glow and Delight to Johnny “Do have some, Mr the city for it. I’m candy you ever saw.” Johnny took a piece perfunctorily and Mrs. Lulu took two, tucking them into her small mouth with a little dainty final lick of her powdery fingers. 7 do love sweets!”’ she sighed. “Perhaps it’s a case of sweets to the sweet,”’ suggested Johnny with — antine lightness, making a mental note to ply her with candy. Mrs. Lulu only laughed. “Oh, you’re a kidder too—like your brother. You've both got a sense of humor, haven't you?” “T dunnoas I ever noticed it Johnny was saying He was looking at Mrs. Lulu analytically. Reluctantly he was forced to admit she had a certain amount Perhaps it was the rosy lamp, or her artless infantile eyes, or the way she had licked her little pink finger tips br it she was not the sort of per- son you could get very angry with. There was a saccharine softness about her that got you strangely; and she was actually almost g in a frock that echoed the lam pshade ‘’s tint, with a touch of white tulle at her throat. Yes, it was no wonder that Chass, the ass, had been taken in. Unless a man were of ste rn metal she made a certair pres Why, just to watch her eat Turkish De- light was a fascinating thing. She was about liking sweets, but it was a dainty gluttony, a picturesque ghoulis ness. She got away with it gracefully. Going h Johnny turned the evening’s events over in his mind thoughtfully. It had not been an unpleasant experience. Apart from the lofty and lacable pur- yed susté ined him confessed truthfully that he had well-nigh forgotten the passing of time in Mrs. Lulu’s round and sat directly passed the Turkish Fuller! I sent to the greatest girl for in Chass, of charm. “t pretty, sittir pose that Keyed nd iy, a personal touch, that was ng. She made you feel that ne—mattered very much in cosmos. There were all the bits of talk; the questions she asked; the advice ithe constant defer- ring to your opinior » pretty tion that woman was a p oor, helple trifle at best, a rudderless ship man's saner guidance—an implication few men can resist There was her manner of farewell too—the impression you gathered i to cause ’ must come that you mus her unhappiness, you positive again: the while Mrs. Lul ess you wi blue eyes leaned upon you Yes, Johnny had ne ind he had promised t ne was dol concern. ng over to Ham igett’s, but I ’s afterward.” , that you re rent from the a whole lot ute!”’ it cried it afterward sit- low Chass had 1e corn into the te and Louise, had Johnny looked driven over fror at the mM though A re was only two years’ difference between them, but they looked like twins, slim, handsome brun¢ ttes in their twenties. Why, in heaven’s name, couldn’t Chass have cared for one of them? They were fine girls, dandy housekeepers, independent, thrifty and talented. They drove well, played tennis, were good musi- cians, had sensible business heads, neat dresses. No Turkish Delight about either one! On Wednesday Chass called on Mrs. Lulu, and on the succeeding evening Johnny ap- peared at her door again. He was armed THE SATURDAY with a gigantic box of chocolates; and Mrs Lulu made a great ren over both of them Time sped on this evening as formerly The lamp glowed cozily, the chocolates were devoured in concert, and Mrs. Lulu opened her soul and spoke of her relatives, her future, her plans here in Briggsville, even her finances; and other matters She let him have a glimpse of her appall- ng one! iness she said. ‘“ No- body knows wh at it means to a woman of that kind to be alone in the world.” She mentioned the matter of investments, the money she had laid by. But she didn’t understan d money anyhow; that’s where a man came in. There was some stock she owned, for instance. She had put her little all into it in a Western copper mine. She had bought it of a friend. Oh, a perfectly wonderful investment, with big dividends; but it troubled her, handling things like that. It rent with a man. Perhaps he'd look at 9 certificates some time, and ad- aps he could even help her find a purchaser for it. His brother was going to look at it too. Johnny pricked his ears in a he offered yf the firm, anyhow.”’ m a sensitive oman, was so di vise her; perh arm. Chass isn’t ‘Let me see it,’ the business end ¢ She promised ‘You're so clever! Everybody knows you havesuch a wonde rful head for figures!” She said more than that She called him John before he left. “It's — been favorite name,” she said with a little sigh; ‘it’s such a manly, sensible name, | think.” She wrote him a note the very next day, using it, ‘My dear John,” and signing it “Yours affectionately, Lulu,” and in spi of himself Johnny was a little moved by it. It wasn’t her fault that Chass was making a fool of himself By the end of the week all Briggsville knew that Fuller Brothers were calling on Mrs. Lulu Attleboro—rivals in chief at the fair widow's court. Relations between Chass and Johnny had grown very strained. There was a formal] stiffness, a polite cons traint between them that was vastly painful. In his heart Johnny deplored it all, but he was firm, “the end must justify the means,” and their future be saved. Once let his brother realize the hoplessness of his passion for Mrs. Lulu, once let him actually step aside for Johnny and time would do the rest. Wounds of this sort always healed; and he, Johnny, could find some saving means whereby to free himself. For that he was to have ultimate success } no doubt. Mrs. Lulu had made it ear that he was the central sun in te t was on this third visit that she had let her stock certificates. Five ‘lars’ worth of shares in the Copper mine in Arizona, I wouldn’t show these to e murmured; “I a him look at accept help from just anyone. I only men- tioned it to your brother; but it’s di flere nt with you, John. I'll do whatever you say about i It’s all I have in the world, and, well—I think I'd like to get rid of it. And you have such a good head you can advise m¢é He had a good enough head to know that there was nothing in the Ether-Welkin Copper. They were handsome certificates, rich pieces of engraving—that was all But you co t come right out and say all that to a an who had been fooled into the purchase; not when it was, as she said, her little all; not when she stood beside you, a hand on your arm, her baby face lifted helplessly to you. willing to break Mrs. Lulu’s in't tell her to her teeth that sl pauper. Jesides, all this wasn’t hi ry al So he had fended for time, promised to think it over, advise her later. It was plain looked to him Chass was ina that she leaned upon him, for counsel and advice. Oh, fool’s paradise, making the grand toilet and spending his Wednesday ee to no avail. Indeed, Mrs. Lulu had hinted thi much to Johnuy. She spoke in an indul- gent, almost sisterly way of Chass, men- tioned some of his little foibles. She was a person clearly of more sense than Johnny had at first suspected. Indeed, Johnny was beginning to feel more and more that he had misjudged Mrs. Lulu. It was not her fault that men gravi- tated toward her, that Chass, foolish moth, (Concluded on Page 42 EVENING POST If it’s paint-— specify ARCO Perhaps you are a builder of ships—a home owner—a con- tractor—a maker of machines or of automobiles You may be the head of one of America’s great industrial corpora- tions or yours may be one of the little plants tucked away by the thousands throughout the villages of America. 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=— Supreme inSeattle- A Totem Pole when transplanted to one of the Miracle Cities of the West, loses the mystic sym- bolism which it holds for the Indians of the Northwest. But it serves to couple this new country to the past to make the contrasts all the sharper. With hydro-electric power at her doors, it is not surprising that Seattle makes such extensive use of electric current in her homes. Doubtless you would expect that 90 of the homes would be electrically lighted; they are. You would expect that every home would have one or more electrical conveniences; it has. But you might not have expec ted that more than half of these would be Hotpoint appliances; they are And among the dealers Hot- points are specialized by about the same percentage as in Phila- delphia. gyi 7 9797900 isan § oe THE SATURDAY EVENING POST At every lamp socket in your home both light and heat are at your in- stant command day or night. One —see that all wasteful use of electric lights is stopped Let us suggest how you can use this combination lighting heating system to help win the war. Two—sccure highest lighting efhe iency by replacing all carbon lamps with Mazdas Three —-do more ol your household operations elec trically The big saving in coal (67%) is made because 262! pounds of coal burned at the Central Station and used by you for electric cooking is as efficient as 800 pounds of coal used in your range, and the saving is 100 water power or burns oil. "? when the Central Station uses June 29,1918 ~the food saving ~ ll the way from Philadelphia to Se same— America’s Service Army are going into use all over the count servation suggestions. For the very bé — because, during the past thirteen years put the electric wiring in their homes to w« to some of the idle lamp sockets. These women are living proof that food, save time and energy, and that With frotroinl. lamp-socket appliances, you cx —toast only so much bread as is needed. Each slice d —bake the hot cakes, fry the eggs or the bacon, or what in No. 5, below) of how to do two operations at the —pul coffee and cold water into the percolator, in 8 or | Always the same; no spoilage, no waste. Mor cups —read about No. 2, below, and learn how you can b biscuits, or a pie, or a loaf of bread yes, even a chid nor is it necessary to waste time and money wher Immersion Heater (see No. 8 below) 1s 87% efficient. Here are interesting details about Hotpoint ¢ nized andles, gives this Panelled Coffee Urn a commandingly ] The gracet il lines, the highly polished nic kel finish, combined with € pleasing appearance It is equipped with the famous Valveless per lating device—no traps, valves, floats or other bothersome contraptions. Protected against burnouts by ur automatic switch. 9 cup size, as pic- tured, $18.00; Grecian design, $15.00 You can use ordinary dishes on this Radiant Stove. Use it wherever there is a lamp socket; coils glow instantly \ fine toaster, too. ] in diameter. $4.50 Radiant Stove and you have a pertect Highly polished nickel lust use the Ovenette over this 1 baking equipment will bake anything that vou can put into it, as well and as quickly as largest oven. 11'' in diameter, 6" high. $3.50. Make vour toast right on the table as fast as it is wanted —serve it crunchy-brown and hot And for the family’s toast your electri current will cost less than a cent Sound interesting Hotpoint Toaster is handsome — highly polished nickel. $5.00, including detachable rack, as shown. | The most widely sold household ele tric appliance e He tpoint Iron has enabled millions of women to turn ironing day drudgery to pleasurable work Banishes waiting walking and lifting you just *» and tron Many exclusive features, suc h as ce | handle hot pomt—attached stand-—-thumb rest—cord protector. 3 Ib. size $4.00; » and 6 lb. sizes (for household ironing) $5.00. You carry on two operations at once on this Radiant Grill: endless combinations— bake cakes or boil above, while you broil or stew 1, | | ] } clow, etc Extremely economical of current; use on any lamp »”, Ine luding re ike griddle two dishes socket. Highly polished nickel. $7 and grid lhree heats Ovenette (No. 2) can be used over it

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(Vv t 4 fuel saving way attle you will find that the story is the mobilizing — frofrotnf appliances , ry to carry out the government's con- St of reasons— 1ore than 3,000,000 women have decided to ork for them by attaching Hotpoint appliances Yotoint{ appliances save fuel, save you can just as well ok right on the table runchy-brown, hot, delectabk ever it is, just as wanted—no food wasted. See details same time 0 minutes you pour amber-clear coffee with full aroma. per pound ake right at the table—not trivialities, but a pan of ken or roast. And the expense for current is trivial you want a little hot water quickly—the Hotpoint ippliances that will help you save and serve. This Boudoir et is the travelers outht de luxe 3 lb. iron with 6 attached stand and cord attaches to any lamp socket. Stand on which iron ts inverted; receptacle for heating curling tongs; folding tongs (shown in use in right hand picture No. 6). The inverted iron can also be used as a small stove. $5.00 « omplete, in felt bag. nousan ave been sold [he same valveless percolating levice 7 This is the most popu ilar Hotpoint Percolat tor, and several hundre« 1 ; : No ] and safety switch as Using cold water, percolation begins in alf a minute, and you pour six cups of perfect coffee in ten minutes 1 } Current will cost iess than a cent As pi tured $9 0; made ot aluminum, s ame design, $8.50; an artistic design with panelled sides, $10.50. Instantly, day or night wherever there isa lamp soc ket, you can snap 8 a switch and this He tpoint Immersion Heater will be in service Plunged into any liquid, it soon brings a small quantity to boil. A nickel cylinder self sterilizing and easily kept clean. Small (as illustrated) $4.50; large $5.50; Crookneck $6.00 , The day of the always-clean home is with us—the day of spasmodic : : : - 1 9 cleanings when dust and dirt are brushed from place to place, 1s over With Hotpoint Vacuum Cleaner the dust is sucked up and removed Attaches to any lar p socket and the attachments enable you to clean ceilings, clothing, hangings, etc. Cleaner $30.00; attachments $8.50. HOTPOINT DIVISION vue ELECTRIC APPLIANCE COMPANY, Inc. rk 5660 W. Taylor St., Chicago Ontario, Calif Vianufacturers of these three well known lines of appliances Hompoint == Gewttme © Huge New THE SATURDAY EVENING POST World's largest makers of electric household appliances. Distributers everywhere. gO . SS Predominate in Philadelphia It stands on the north side of In- i dependence Square, this plainly built two-story brick building, hallowed by patriotic memories. Tt was in Independence Hall that the Declaration of Independence ey was drafted and promulgated; it : was here that the Constitution of § a the United States was framed @ and ratified; here was the first § seat of Government here Old Glory was first made; and in the central corridor the Liberty Bell | = % 4 2 is still exhibited. fut the City of Homes has its wr TT TTT. TRALS Cit tpi modern appeal, tor it is one of the very first among our manu- tacturing cities and trade centers. And so it is only natural that § be Philadelphia should rea lily adopt 4 F electrically heated appliances tor its homes. And it is a striking commentary on Phi iladelphia’ s alert merchan- dising that 75% of the dealers in suc h artic les are enrolled among the 8000 Hotpoint dealers throughout this country Careful tests have been made which satisfy us that the actual food saved by electric cooking is considerable. For instance — —when you take a five-pound roast out of an electric oven, it weighs about a half-pound more than if you had cooked it in some other oven—you have saved a half-pound of meat. Also—you cook at the table as wanted and serve everything temptingly hot, thus reducing the excess and spoilage to the minimum, Electric cooking simplifies the whole cooking proposition to such extent that you will have much more time to devote to war-time activiti And your family will be better nourished the while.

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Concluded from Page 39 was trying t r } ving There " r der g she 4 re Kve he with } ) 4 é ‘ of it: her presence ‘ n him at time came evening he J ocking and ur € He had gone the little g at the Leg egetable { if ncer ( the neat er i tne nad measured a 1 loge tt grape arbor they ha nd painte togethe to the nette cke r awareoia r ‘ i ‘ standing belore tne é i ing larges { t ofa to the hicker A | A bewitching figur teeteriny n high hee “hye wore me thing pink with a touch of nite at the throat, anda t of fine It ringiet iye approached, tos eat! ! There w a trace of Cha n the whole picture And | neart ened t name ure and horror mingle It was | own n of Mr he had created her out I the gossamer! i? thoughts and planted her here s he had done once betore, t! r thale ings Planted } for his owr easure t Was it ? He drove the phant Mrs. Lu boro from his mind and wiped | fore ur kerchief. Then he laughed. It was utter absurd. He had no interest Mrs. Lulu in the world — persona And yet It was only the next time | ed t the unthinkable happened. They had | a pleasant evening, ea f Garga tuan box of indy hel | brougnt, talking of divers thing ! the farewe Then Mr Lu é [ the r stock agal “You naughty Jo} ghed and pout.d, “you promised t p me! You promised to find me met y to buy it, and you never have Arer you going to help Lulu?” ’ es,”” he said idiotica I'm going to—-if I have to buy it myself Mrs. Lulu’s blue eys widened, grew misty “Oh, John, how dear iare! he said; and then—he never ki: he t hap pened— his arm was round her and he had kissed her And she was his-—apparently! She stroked his shoulder and cried a little, and called him Jack, a term none on earth had ever used to him before and iution woke somewhere in Johnny’s brain and rebuked him shrilly **And now I'll just turn the stock over to you, Jack, and to-morrow y i can let me have the money right aw It'll be the same, wont it when we re when we re going to |—er Johnny de ar herent sound and got out of g her aga But when he staggered fr the e he realized what 1 nap ed He | com} 1 his } e. and a great more. He w ! tte gaged. A more, he had been dragged obligat f \ he ime ear the ga ? ( 7 en here w , e of M Lulu feeding the { Wi é t; he had perr ed M l t ¢ ‘ } { - the : actua engaged Vee} tw it ner reque ( Sas a An f lol i fort ' There WW ‘ ‘ basili the w lH] a LL ERSTE Rpepnesmes eat ne Pe * Te: ea nd Ces ei) “ os THE SATURDAY liberate himself as he had imagined; that he might even go so far as to connive against himself a dl quality + her And then of course there was the Ether- Welkin Copper He was still shrewd and cool enough to lerst 1. Mrs. Lulu might love him as he protested, but love him or leave him his destir was to be indissolubly mixed with e thousand dollars’ worth of mining stock It aj ¢ d > Was the possi- that he wou lly pay it. That pe tent placable softness of Mrs. Lulu. And when you got your arm round her she Knew ! ¥ to assert it We thar God, Chass was saved all t at least! As for himself, in some wa me ¢ n. he must work out |} uit a te t ty He was to go to supper, his first meal, with Mrs. Lulu the next evening He approached her home torn by mingled emotior He wanted to see Mrs. Lulu and e wanted to flee her presence. He tried to e mself against her sirenic charm, and wanted to yield t—never more than I'he t , all rosy and is! ! sh Delight on the table dining room a green ferr iing table set lor t e cooked the supper all myself, Jack, ist for we two. That's one thing I really ean do, too, if I dosay it that shouldn't. I always was the greatest girl for cooking,” Mrs. Lulu wed. She led him to the table and plied him with food And Jc ‘ked at her in awed wonder It was the most terrible food he had ever eater From the cooked-out steak to the thin, sour floury pie it was terrible beyond descriptior And the biscuits! Leaden gray lumps like dum-dum bullets. A mem- iller’s flal y featherlight bis- t t Why, the w cults I f know what cooking was! She had ruined her palate, her judgment— if she ever had had ar with candy, Tur h Delight! ; and wear a pink dress and sit here beaming at you; she even love you; but a woman that cooked like that was a menace, no less. suddenly returned. irce power was gone forever. biscuits like that wasn’t And he had nothing to She might have a baby face lohnnv’s &% power Mrs. Lulu’s ¢ A woman who mad a woman at all! fear from her When at the close of the meal she men- tioned Ether-Welkin again and reproached him for tardiness he met her collectedly, graveiy even I will attend to it, Lulu I'm going out of to when I ce right away He meant it too If he had to part wi to meet her he« and very soon wn fora few days. But yme back I'll take it up with you He pondered it going th five thousand ling, to keep Chass—it was cheap at the price And it was worth five thousand to get lear-headed Hack Nis ¢ home self. Horrible! If he had been thrown slong in with the five thousand! No, thank ‘ he entirely saved forever: bu é ul lecer I r iined ela I he r t Chass at present he offered XT il it f I sie 4 jaunt to Ande ( iss, 1 guided creature, wouid ! ‘ vhile he was gone, f e good it did I ed oll the trair I An I a gentleman car ra knotty prob r a secret worr he walked with a lou b ste And as he came EVENING POST Mrs. Lulu’s parlor was lit—diml) was a warm evening and her front door stood slightly ajar, an inch or so, giving a thin loophole into the roseate bower be- yond the hall. It was Chass’ night’to call her, and Johnny had no least doubt he would find him there. He hoped he would, in fact. He wanted to come in on C and say his little say and have done. oO Nass Yet some instinct the furtive streak that a partially opened door wakens in ar one—bade him go up the veranda steps noiselessly. Chass was sitting on Mrs. Lulu’s sofa Mrs. Lulu beside him, her head on his shoulder. She was stroking his coat sleeve, murmuring. And he was the most unhappy- looking Chass Johnny had ever seen. “Call me honey-bunch, Ch > Chass muttered something. ‘You do love Lulu, don’t you, dear?’ “Yes, dear.”” There was a suggestion of resignation, of patience in Chass’ voice that wrung Johnny’s heart. But he re- mained cool. He even got out his tobacco and began filling his pip “You look so much like your Charley—-only you’re so much handsome Oh, Charley—dearest , Johnny did not flin« lowed. There were words he did not ca “If I could get the money by Saturday, You could look after the whole for me; and if you love me so Johnny had his match out but did no strike it. The misery in Ch: him ‘Not that picking up his bag went siler Chass would have to pass the feed store going home. He would wait for him there. Johnny had not long to wait. It wasn’t quite ten when he saw Chass flitting home- ward through the quiet street, and Johnny rose from the step to confront him ‘“*Well, Chass,” he said easily, pleasantly, “IT see you've been call Mrs. Lulu Attleboro.” “What if I have?” he as } “‘Nothing—only you looked so happy “Happy?” “Yes,” said Johnny bet I can tell you why. brother aear ,” he said suddenly, and way away patiently; “and I You’ve been to supper—supper, Chass—at Mrs. Lulu’s Chass turned white “What are you trying to insinuate?” he asked hoarsely. noblest, the dearest “i ‘I know.” pipe thoughtfully. Johnny t: “Tt's she cooks too I met a m: coming from Andes who ate one of them— when she was staying in Andes a while ago.” “What is this drivel?*’ Chass cried pas- sionately. “ You're speaking of the woman I love; the woman “The woman you're engage you're not going to announce it for a weel or two.”” Chass stared. “Oh, I could tell you more things than that. Her favorite name is Charles becauss it’s a manly, sensible name; and she rns to you for advice because you've got a dandy level head and business oughtn’t to I er a little , anyhow. You see, I know, because I’m engaged to her too. And la Friday nig her favorite name was John Wi you liar! You uu— why, she’s been playing with you! s,”’ corrected Joh ent She—she thinks good-enough fellow, but slow as the dickens. She feels only sisterly toward you e told me so nd here ar lyou some- thing roing to relieve her of a iot a Western copper mins ‘you know? Why, she only men- June 29,1918 Johnny was drawing on his pipe thoug are—are no good, It isn’t for that; 3esides, even i I—I’m willing, John and I I love her.” “T know,” said Johnny. ‘“‘That’s where she overplays her hand. I mean her sup- pers. Why, George Lambert told me ers Chass groaned. Oh, you ought to talk to Lambert, Her favorite name was George then; and she played him for a sucker like a house afire: the way she’s tried to play n Way Chass. she you and me.” Ch tidy ass didn t , answer. “She thousand and she , 1 don’t say she mightn’t , but not likely. She’s playing for a sure thing—her money in her fist. And Lambert tells me she’s going West *s some fellow out there her five Ur take a man thrown ir wants wants 1t quick. again soon. There she ¢c: *] her!’’ Chass mourned. Yet cing sound. rrected Johnny. } ured out, Chass, it’s is: ve always palled together; done everything together, and well—women have got their place, and that’s true enough. Perhaps a fellow does want a look in on that sort of thing too. But, anyhow, if we’re going in for that sort of thing there’s no re: why it ought to break up our lives—turn ’em into one of these damned triangles. And one woman’ll do it every time. What we want in this situation is two womer two women we know with tastes and views like ours; and then we could take up the thing together Johnny spat meditativel AY o— I’ve been thinkin’ a little m lf, Chass. The Milner girls nave \ ever noticed? They’ re real pretty girls too; and we could go over there and Ca Say Satu vuld go together.” I guess yo "said Chass. “Our owr nd of girls—that we know about’s what we want. But good Lord,” he said bitterly, ‘“what good’ll it do us—or me when I'm engaged to Mrs. Attleboro?’ Why, as to that,” said Johnny, “‘so am I. And that makes it all the easier. We'll just cut loose together He got up and went into the feed store Chass f ving yhnny went to the desk and 1 sssly took pen and ink and paper the firm’s paper wi Fuller Bros., Briggs- ville, N. Y., Feed —Grain—Fertilizers. We Aim To Plea ipon it And he began to write—thus with beg to in- bur engagement lhe, matter over fully between ourselves with an old friend, George Lambert, o and we realize that this step can only be an accommoda- tion toy nd save you much mental wear ar tear ae i 10 Na lor claim. With best wishes for your lifelong pros- perit and success in all reasonable fields y Yours , laid down It was the kissed the leaving a violet to custom. personal touch. ript: rR” ioughtfully t} & C.J “T guess *T he t Sa that'll doit. If we drop it in the post-office slot going home she’ll get it by noon.”’ And on this Chass put out his own hand a ig | he said;

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 43 OPER Ww; BENNINGTON SPRING NEEDLE UNDERWEAR ~ r HE tine, close, elastic stitch f of Cooper’s- Bennington spring needle machines makes the underwear with the Cooper’s- Bennington label in the neck band America’s standard of comfort and durability. Because it has the stretch that springs back, Cooper’ s- Bennington fits without bag or drag in any position, and its extra mile of thread gives an extra year of wear. f When your dealer shows you that label on knit under-garments or nainsook Summer- wear you may buy / with confidence; for better cannot be produced. : ER'S Beam - i: CO ~ PS pRING NEEDLL Om “ BLACK CAT TEXTILES COMPANY, Home Office: Kenosha, Wis. Makers Also of Black Cat Reinforced Hosiery for Men, Women and Children Factories at Kenosha and Sheboygan, Wis.; Harvard, IIl., and Bennington, Vt.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 ane ‘ _ ograph of dual equipment of Goodyear S-V solid tires in ven-ton unit of t/ onsumers Company, Chicago ds 0 OD

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Essentials of Truck Tire Merit —— pneumatic truck tires are opening up new fields of em- ployment for the motor truck, the solid tire is yet essential and advan- tageous in slower service. From the beginning of the truck in- dustry Goodyear has been developing solid tires, to a result now commen- surate with such effort and experience. Out of the experiments we have made, the tests and demonstrations we have conducted, the clear fact emerges that the merit of a solid truck tire depends upon three essential qualities. These three qualities, vital to efficient and economical service, are long tread wear, freedom from chipping and cutting, and resistance to separa- tion from the base. It is not a hard matter to embody one of these qualities in a truck tire, but it is exceedingly difhcult to in- clude all three in effective proportion. The marked superiority of the Goodyear S-V solid truck tire con- sists in the fact that it does embody all three qualities in extreme degree. It wears long and persistently, it defeats ordinary abrasion and damage, tire and base are fused into an almost indissoluble unit. Proof of the tire’s goodness is best seen in its performance, a_perform- ance uniformly remarkable for efti- ciency and thrift. No Goodyear truck tire is an un- tried quantity—a system of intensive testing establishes each type’s merit before it goes on the market. This practice affords yet another sound assurance for the public that the Goodyear tire it buys will serve ably and well. THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO SOLID TIRES |

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46 TAXING WHS By ALBERT W. ATWOOD months longer there is sure to be an in- istent demand in this country, just as there in England and France, for a shifting of the huge burden of cost. At present we are paying for the war to an astonishingly large and unheard-of extent out of the production and possession of wealth. In all fairness and justice it is high time that the spending of wealth, luxury, extravagance and waste began to do their share. Through the tax on business profits and incomes the creators and savers have been carrying on the war. Now let the spenders and wasters put their shoulders to the wheel. France has been imposing a tax since April first upon the retail purchase of a large number of luxuries; Andrew Bonar Law, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, recently an- nounced that his government would adopt taxes similar to the French; and Canada is considering like action in her new budget. The handwriting is on the wall, and experts for the Government are now quietly but busil; working upon an elabo rate and revolutionary Ae ee 4 |: THE great war lasts more than a few has been \-- system of taxes upon : . ) j x expenditures, which - ov . y % a can be incorporated in- eTThe \ | , ‘ to the new revenue law. o4\) t ith Ns These new and pro w~d a ) .e posed laws aim to hit es oe ¢ a. ") the free and easy \ aT rr spender, and while it is hoped to reach the rich +," more than the to pay if they squander a whole week’s wages upon a single pair of shoes, a waist or a hat. Food and other neces- saries, such as modest priced articles of clothing and even !ow priced luxuries, are exempt. But the idea is to catch the working girl who lavishes her whole savings upon a single garment no less than the millionaire who buys a $50,000 antique for his library or a $25,000 necklace for his wife. It is true that the present revenue law contains a few very moderate taxes upon articles for which the public spends money, such as automobiles, musical instruments, jewelry, sporting goods, cos- metics, patent medicines, chewing gum and theater tickets. But, with the exception of theater tickets, these taxes are levied upon the manufacturer instead of upon the consumer, where they really belong. In other words, Congress was afraid not only of the administrative difficulties of imposing expenditure taxes directly upon the public, but it probably feared public resentment against such measures at the very beginning of the war. It was natural to attack wealth first. That is always the most popular course. Heavy taxes are bound to offend somebody, and it seemed wiser at the start to offend the relatively few who are primarily producers and savers rather than the many who are spenders. In the original House bill there were many expenditure taxes which the Senatestruck out. Indeed, the Senate bill, at least in one of its stages, provided that only one-twenty-sixth of the total revenue should consist of taxes on expenditures, whereas more than seven-eighths was expected to come from busi- ness profits and incomes. The law itself as finally passed did not provide that more than thirteen per cent should come from luxuries. ‘‘ As the war progresses there will have to be an extension of the tax system,” said the leaders, and let it go at that. When Taxes Curb Extravagance JUT political and administrative questions can no longer ) prevent the spenders from carrying part of the load. Not only has the conviction grown that too much of the burden was put on the processes of industry rather than upon the garnered and enjoyed fruits thereof, upon the bee rather than upon the honey, but an even more pressing argument is that taxes upon luxurious expenditure might tend to discourage extravagance. Such a result would mean more money saved for Liberty bonds and war-savings stamps, and it would mean a more rapid shifting of labor and materials into “essential” industries. If taxes reduce extravagance, well and good. If people keep on spending almost as much as before, despite the eat hig on poor, '— .. 5 ~ \ 5 the poor also will have eS — ; —~r,7 § 7 > Va The Sentiment Against Seeing Husky Young Flunkies Do No Work Except Serving a Dinner or Opening a Carriage Door is More Than Most of Us Can Much Longer Endure THE SATURDAY EVENING POST higher cost, which is not im- possible, then also well and good, because the revenue from the taxes would be very high. Such at least is the theory, and if it is correct the nation is bound to benefit either way it works. But that is not all. If the Federal Government con- tinues in hasty and haphazard manner to pile up the rates on incomes, corporation profits and inheritances, many of our largest states will soon be left without any source of revenue. All the European nations are hesitating about forcing these taxes to the danger point, and are steadily increasing their expenditure taxes to keep pace with those upon wealth. This is true even of England, which, largely for social-reform purposes, has led the world with its levies upon incomes and inheritances. No modern legislator likes to impose a tax upon spend- ing, because it is supposed to add to the cost of living. And this was true in the past. For centuries the poor and oppressed of every country were ground down with a multitude of taxes on the necessaries of life. Until very recent times the rich and powerful so controlled the gov- ernments that it was always the poor who paid. Before the French Revolution it is said that practically half of the peasant’s income was taken from him in taxes. “The only objection I have [to the revenue bill],’”’ said United States Senator Norris last September, “‘is that on the large incomes it does not take enough. It may be necessary before the war is over to tax the consumption of the poor, to tax the medicine of the sick, the blind, the crippled and the insane who have been returned to our shores from the blood-drenched trenches of Europe; but that time will never come with my consent until the last swollen dollar of war profits and excessive income has been conscripted. “Instead of sufficiently taxing war profits and swollen incomes it is proposed to tax coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, molasses and medicines. These taxes are small, it is true. They are levied in pennies, but the burden, small though it June 29,1918 is, is sustained by countless thousands who are already bowed down in poverty, al- ready struggling in every possible way to feed and clothe themselves and their fami- lies. It is a less hardship for the holder of a $2,000,000 income to pay $1,000,000 of it in taxes than it is for the poor widow, struggling to feed and clothe her children, to buy a pound of sugar or a pound of coffee.” Senator Norris was only reéchoing the century-long cry of reformers, humanita- rians and “ classical’ economists. To them it seemed self-evident that a tax upon ex- penditure is unjust, because it bears most heavily upon those least able to bear it. The poor workingman needs just as much salt per day as John D. Rockefeller needs. Perhaps he needs a little more, and prob- ably he buys just as much. But if you tax each ounce of salt one cent to the buyer you are evidently discriminating against the poor man, for he cannot afford that cent as easily as Rockefeller can. Is anything more obviously unfair than taxing a man according to his need rather than his ability to pay? Adam Smith’s Idea UT what if you tax luxuries instead of neces- sities—some rich man’s $100,000 organ, let us say, instead of salt? Then surely the tax is not unfair. The poor workingman does not buy church organs. To this there has been a ready reply, as glib as a mathematical formula, first propounded by Adam Smith, the founder of political economy, and followed blindly ever since by most of the economists right down to one who is now a high government official. A tax on luxuries, they said, would yield only driblets of money, because there are not enough rich people. Adam Smith’s idea was that the total purchases of the “inferior ranks” so far exceeded those of the higher ranks that no large lucrative revenue could be obtained except from staple articles like salt, coffee, tea, cocoa, liquor and tobacco, which are consumed by the masses of people. To this list later writers added petroleum. Even the rich scatter their pur- chases over many things, it was argued, and do not buy much of any one luxury. At one time even the wisdom of a tax on liquor and tobacco was debated. It was feared that people would not use whisky and tobacco at all if they were taxed. It was argued that because the use of powder for the hair and ladies’ chip hats had fallen off after taxes had been imposed upon them, all articles would suffer in the same way. “In the arithmetic of the customs,” said one great man, “two and two instead of making four sometimes make only one.”” But Adam Smith saw clearly on this particu- lar phase of the subject, and largely due to his teachings England adopted and made the chief feature of her revenue system for nearly a century the heavy imposts on liquor and tobacco. The taste for them has been so widely diffused and deeply ingrafted into the habits of the people that no amount of taxation seems to have lessened their use. Alexander Hamilton proposed a tax upon whisky just after the American Revolution, but people objected so strenuously to the prospect of a rise in the cost of booze that they actually rebelled. “‘Odious, unequal, unpopular and oppressive’’ were the mild adjectives applied to Hamilton’s scheme. “It is the horror of all free states, is hostile to the liberties of the people and would convulse the government.” For whisky was regarded in certain sections of the coun- try as a necessary of life like any staple product of the farm. To convert grain into spirits was regarded as much a natural right as to make flour. Had not the people just thrown off the tyrannical taxes of the mother country? Was not every man’s house and whisky still his own castle? Especially did the Irish elements hate any mention of taxes on what they ate, drank, wore or lived in. But these violent opinions and sentiments did not con- tinue. From Civil War times down to 1909 the Federal Government depended to a large extent upon the liquor and tobacco taxes, and men had long ceased to question their wisdom and justice. The consumption of malt liquor and distilled spirits was about ten times greater in this (Continued on Page 49

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What It pays to buy any car if you can afford to own and operate it. The answer to that question should be in- teresting both to the man who buys a used car and to the man who buys a new one—because the resale value is equally important in both cases. There was a time when the purchase of a used car was seriously questioned by many good judges. There was a time when it was considered only a matter of getting rid of cars which dealers had to take in exchange. But times have changed. The used car business today is a real business, a legitimate business, and it is handled by men who are as jealous of their reputation, are as careful to give Sood value as those in any other line of human endeavor. GUARAN > TOURING DRIVEN NLYTHOOQR TIMKEN AXLES. & BES 1918 TOWN CAR LIKE NEW RE NEW ‘TIRES : COND TIMKEN AXLES FULLY EQULEFED Aw 197 COMPLETELY ; Sart! ove my BR Le THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Kind of Used Car Does it Pay to Buy? These men know that it is not simply the sale price of a used car that the buyer should consider, but the condition of the operating parts of that car, the reputa- tion of the maker, the performance that cars of that make have given in the past, and the probability of the performance they will give the new buyer in the future. And in the new car or the old car, the life and usefulness of the entire unit and the expense of operating it, all go back to the design and durability of the fundamental parts of the vehicle. Four or five years ago the Walden Shaw Livery Company of Chicago operated a fleet of twenty taxicabs, and literally wore them out in the severest, most con- tinuous service that a motor car can have. But under those cars there were two units that could not be worn out, the Timken-Detroit Front and Rear Axles; and those axles, after an average of over a hundred thousand miles of service, were built into a new set of cars for the company. That represents a real practical resale value that any car owner can see. So if you are considering the purchase of a used car, don’t forget the importance of axle sturdiness when you are looking at tires, listening to the motor, or examin ing the upholstery. And conversely, when you buy a new car, remember that it is a fact proven out in many, many cases that the cars equipped with Timken-Detroit Axles have today the highest average resale value in proportion to their original cost. . THE TIMKEN-DETROIT AXLE CO. Ww N Detroit, Michigan v idest and réest builde of f t i f e r both passenger ca and motor trucks TIMKEN: DETROIT AXLES

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48 Imported from Porto Rico Pacifico Size Box of 50—$3.50 Corona Size Box of 30— $4.0 . **Who discovered RicoroP My friend Smith,’’ said the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 Imported from Porto Rico Who Discovered RICORO? inv eae a) architect. At his home, the other evening, he opened a Pi box of fine, Corona size cigars. ern **After we lighted up, I noticed Smith dropping two dimes in his youngster’s bank. ***What’s the idea?’ I asked. ***T used to smoke 25c cigars. Now I buy Ricoro at 8c and put the difference in the boy’s bank.’ *** Well, if there’s a difference in the quality of the cigars, it certainly favors Ricoro, I agreed.”’ Sooner or later yowll discover— Ricoro will increase your smoking enjoyment and decrease your cigar oe expenditures, because Ricoro is imported duty free from Porto Rico. Ricoro gives you a rich fragrance and a mellow mildness, exclusive to tropic- grown cigars. Made in a dozen sizes and shapes, —from 6c to 2-for-25c— simply the question of size. The quality is the same in all. Invincible Size 3 for 25c it Box of 50—-$4.00 Sold Only in United Cigar Stores—‘‘ Thank You.”’ UNITED CIGAR STORES COMPANY Over 1200 Stores Operated in over 500 Cities. General Offices, New York

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(Continued from Page 46) country in 1917 than in 1866, and the consumption of tobacco was from twenty to thirty times greater. The revenue from both sources was about twelve times greater. Certainly there could be no more complete proof than this that heavy expenditure taxes do not always defeat their own ends. Taxes on liquor and tobacco, especially on the former, have been almost too good to be true in both England and this country. Concentrated as these things are, in great warehouses at a few points, the taxes are exceedingly easy to collect, and there is no longer any tendency in either country, as on the Continent, to regard certain forms of liquor as necessities. Even as long ago as 1775 Adam Smith in his famous definition of necessities and luxuries said that “custom nowhere renders it indecent to go with- out whisky and ale.’”’ But beer is regarded as almost a necessity in Germany, and wine in France, Spain and Italy. Taxes on cheap wines in the Gallic countries and on beer in Germany are never very successful. In the same way more revenue relatively is derived from coffee in England and from tea in Germany, because coffee is more of a lux- ury than tea in England, and vice versa in Germany. When Adam Smith drew up his famous principles of political economy, the articles taxed were salt, wheat, soap, leather, candles, coal, wool, and the like. No wonder that taxes on spending were odious and hateful! Anyone who ate white bread in Holland had to pay three guilders and fifteen stivers a year for the privilege. Salt had been taxed for centuries, and still is reached, even in the hands of the pauper in backward countries like India. Until very recently the Italian peasants had to pay their octroi on almost every bare necessity of life, such as a dozen eggs. To-day in Mexico one cannot ride in a rowboat without paying a tax. If a country is very poor, without industries, accumulated capital and large incomes, it must get along as best it can. If it does not have good objects to tax, it must tax bad ones. French Taxes on Hats and Lampshades NDEED as recently as the Civil War in this country a tax upon expenditures could mean only one thing, prac- tically speaking, and that was a tax upon necessaries. It was truly a tax upon the cost of living. But this country to-day as compared with Mexico, or with Italy or India of a few years ago, or with our own country in the Civil War, or with England and America of a century ago—that is a very different story. New wealth has been created in such vast amounts, and luxuries, comforts and conveniences have multiplied and spread so far, that Adam Smith and his followers would not know the world to-day as the Same one in which they lived. Taxes upon spending money to-day need not fall so much upon the cost of living as upon the cost of high living. There is no doubt that taxes upon spending can now be devised to fall largely upon the rich and add several hun- dred million dollars a year to our revenue without involv- ing any appreciable burden upon the poor. Such taxes should reach luxuries, the higher classes of goods and large transactions rather than the cheaper goods and the smaller transactions. As wealth increases people spend money more and more for the higher priced, higher quality articles. Invention has provided a multitude of low priced substitutes for what were once luxuries. But people who are comfortably or well off do not want cheap substitutes. A hundred years ago a millionaire would have considered himself fortunate indeed if someone had offered him a modern three-dollar phonograph. But to-day that type of musical instrument is within reach of the working classes, and the millionaire wants an elaborate musical apparatus costing perhaps hundreds of dollars. Indeed it is a serious question whether or not the count- less thousands, perhaps millions, of people who seem to have unlimited means in these days really object to high prices. The millionaire who pays $50,000 for an antique would be rather proud than otherwise if the dealer added $10,000 for a Federal tax, because it would prove that he could afford it. The higher the price of many articles the more keenly many people want them. This is true of thou- sands of commodities. When dining cars raised their charges from a dollar to a dollar and a quarter and then to an a la carte basis where a modest meal could hardly be bought for less than two dol- lars, there were more rather than fewer persons standing in line at each end of the car awaiting their turn. If tickets can be had for a popular show only by paying a dollar or two extra toaspeculator, everyone wantstogo. Parlor-carseats are more in demand than ever before, in spite of the war tax. To a very great extent taxes upon expenditures will actually make articles more fashionable and popular by making them more expensive and exclusive. To keep up appearances, to follow the style and maintain or better one’s social station—these aims fit in far better with high priced articles than with those of low cost. All the old objections to expenditure taxes disappear when the progressive principle is applied. Of course it is THE SATURDAY EVENING POST unfair for a workingman and a capitalist to pay the same relative tax when they buy a musical instrument, one a three-dollar phonograph and the other a one-hundred- thousand-dollar organ. But if the rate of the tax mounts as rapidly as the price goes up, the unfairness vanishes. If a man chooses to buy a five-dollar dinner in a restaurant he should be taxed a higher proportional rate than the man who buys a fifty-cent dinner. Progression is no new thing in principle. John Stuart Mill, one of Adam Smith’s followers, long ago spoke of the “flagrant injustice” of taxing the superior and lower grades alike. But the practice of the principle is new in this country, and will no doubt be applied to expenditure taxes just as it has tothe income and inheritance taxes. For of course no one has to buy expensive things if he or she does not care to. A woman can keep warm in a fifty-dollar coat just as well as she can in a five-hundred-dollar coat. An expenditure tax based on this principle need hit no one unless he is willing to be hit. It is not only elastic, but it makes payment of the tax practically voluntary. Last May the House of Commons was listening to the Chancellor of the Exchequer enlarge upon the new budget. He was discussing the august subject of dog taxes. There would be a slight increase in the tax upon one dog, he said, and a very large increase upon two dogs or more. There would be a still greater tax upon anyone “who has not a dog now but wishes to take one—that is to say, any new dog [Laughter]. The dog would not be new, but the owner would.” France now has a luxury tax in force which recognizes the progressive principle, but only to a limited extent. There are three classes: First, diamonds, pearls and other objects, luxuries by nature; second, objects which become luxuries when they cost too much; third, “objects luxu- rious in their nature which are not so when used for some service, such as an automobile for a doctor.” In the second class the luxury tax does not begin until a moderate price is reached. Lampshades, for example, must cost more than two dollars to be taxed. Dogs must cost more than eight dollars, men’s hats more than four dollars, women’s hats more than eight dollars, and so on through a list of seventy-seven groups of articles. But when once the fixed line is passed the tax is a flat ten per cent all the way up. Experts in this country will urge Congress to carry the progressive principle much farther. By way of illustration, a woman’s hat at ten dollars might be taxed ten per cent, at fifty dollars at least fifteen per cent, at two hundred and fifty dollars possibly thirty per cent or forty per cent, and so on up the scale. The French tax on luxurious expenditure has many ingenious features, but since its introduction on April first it has already become very unpopular. Any new tax is always odious just after its enactment. Any inequalities and administrative imperfections are most glaring at the start. Our present revenue law with its high rates on large incomes proved a shock to the country when it first went into effect; but the country soon became accustomed to it. The most clever feature of the French tax was leaving the decision as to what constituted luxuries to district boards or committees composed of mayors and other repre- sentative citizens. The law provides that merchants add the tax to the sale price and keep a record of these sales in a special sales book. All bills above one franc in certain hotels and restaurants which the district committees have designated as establishments de luxe have a ten per cent tax added to them. In the city of Paris 360 hotels and restaurants have been so designated. Flat-Rate Luxury Taxes Unjust OT only would this law naturally be unpopular on ac- count of its newness, but also because no country is more keenly susceptible to taxes of this kind than France, due to the fact that she probably has more purely luxury trades than any other part of the world. So-called luxuries form a more integral and important part of her industry than in most other countries. Just think of the réle which tourists have played in French prosperity. The shops of Paris, the newest fashions—all these loom large in France. Rich and resourceful country as she is, there are no such ample basic resources of shipping and manufactures as in England; or such incalculable mineral, agricultural and manufacturing wealth as in this country. After all, even a tax on spending money must be applied with caution, so as to injure industry as little as possible, and France is about the last country in which to apply the experiment. Besides, a flat rate is a serious mistake. The French Government expects more than $100,000,000 a year from this tax, and yet it imposes no rate higher than ten per cent. Gold, jewelry or a small sailing boat at $100 is taxed just as much relatively as a diamond tiara or a steam yacht at $100,000. Then, too, the French appear to have started off with too many articles at once. It would appear wiser to start with a dozen or a half dozen articles of typical expenditure and gradually extend the list. The great thing is to make a start, not to reach every conceivable article at once. The French have left nothing out. They have swept the boards 49 clear. Not only have they named obviously luxurious commodities like jewelry and expensive works of art wisely imposing no tax upon sales made directly by the artist himself —but they have included folding eyeg!asses, chandeliers, gaiters, fire irons, bath robes and about every- thing else that the mind of man can conceive of. During the first month the tax was in force only 15,000,- 000 francs was produced. But the Minister of Finance expressed satisfaction over the amount, as it was obtained despite the fact that many persons bought goods ahead of their requirements to avoid the tax, while many others postponed payments, hoping the tax would be repealed. Easter holidays also acted as a handicap. The French may dislike an expenditures tax, but they were even more opposed to the income tax. They fought over it for years and nearly split the republic in their wrangles. The criticism of any tax is usually delivered with an air that seems to assume that there are other forms available which are ideally perfect; but when we examine the other forms we find to our disappointment that their shortcomings are great also. The ideal, of course, is no tax at all. But the next best thing is a combination of several forms. Each form has its shortcomings, so that there must be a mutual supplementing of shertcomings. It is like fitting together a picture puzzle. There is no “‘single”’ or perfect tax. Income and inher- itance taxes catch the miser; expenditure taxes catch the spendthrift. One corrects the imperfections of the other An expenditure tax may be irksome to many, an apparent interference with one’s rights. But it does not pry into one’s private affairs like an income tax. Besides, even under the most rigid system there will always be those who by change of residence, shifting of investments and other devices will be able to conceal their incomes. These selfish citizens will be reached by a tax on sales. Nor does it discriminate against the successful, the thrifty and provi- dent, like an income or inheritance tax. A Blow at the Yellowplush Tribe O DOUBT much of the prejudice against all forms of taxes upon expenditure goes back to the efforts in Eng- land and other countries to levy directly upon the ownership and use rather than the purchase of articles of luxury. England long had and perhaps still has a tax upon man- servants, armorial bearings, carriages, horses, plate, watches and clocks. For a long time it had a tax upon the use of hair powder, the vexation and loss of time involved in levying which made the whole revenue system ridiculous. All efforts to tax adequately the ownership of jewelry, watches, silver plate, fine clothes, gloves, and the like, long ago broke down. Articles of great value but of small bulk can easily be concealed or removed, and attempts to dis cover them involve far too much expense and administra tive difficulty as well as inquisitorial activity on the part of the government. Moreover, the revenues from such sources are small and out of proportion to the annoyance caused. But condemnation of such taxes under all circumstances is rather hasty. The English tax upon male servants has been criticized because it yielded less than a million dol- larsa year. That isa paltry sum now, but in earlier days it was necessary to fall back upon accumulated wealth as expressed in the use of such luxuries. There was no such annual increase in wealth, which can be reached now by taxes upon incomes and expenditures. Probably more money is spent yearly in this country to-day upon so-called luxuries than was represented in England a century or two ago by all the accumulated jewelry, plate, watches, and the like. It is a curious fact that despite the relatively small revenue—$800,000 a year—which England recentiy received from the male-servant tax, many people in both England and this country are advocating the use of this supposedly discarded device as a war measure. Whatever the administrative shortcomings of such a tax may be, the sentiment against seeing husky young flunkies do no work except serving a dinner or opening a carriage door is more than most of us can much longer endure. There are those in England who would like to tax titles as well as flunkies, and such a measure, though yielding a small revenue, would afford the public no end of innocent pleasure Our own Civil War taxes throw a flood of light upon the whole problem. There was no such line of millionaires with fat incomes open to attack as there is now. There were no huge corporations able to pay scores and even hundreds of millions of dollars apiece. There was no unbelievably vast consumption of liquor and tobacco, and taxes upon these commodities were new and untried. Finally, there such widespread wealth and prosperity as to-day. So the Civil War had to be fought with taxes on a bewildering variety of manufacturing processes and upon expendi tures, including all the necessaries, like cotton goods, coal, pig iron and petroleum. Every phase of manufacturing was reached. From nine to fourteen taxes were paid on the making of cotton goods; from twelve to fourteen on All manufacturers, jobbers, wholesalers, dealers and retailers as well as the was no books.

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Little shoemakers, dressmakers and milliners had to pay, as well as the richest manufacturer. ‘“‘The citizen paid every day of his life, both directly and indirectly, for each act of his life; for his movable and immovable property; for his business as well as his pleasure.” The householder had to pay a tax even on repairs, and it is no wonder that at the é ~ of the war a committee recommended } ‘hereafter taxes be confined more to i and less to necessities.”” It spoke of the advantage of “freedom from multi- tudinous taxes, espionage and vexation; freedom from needless official impositions and intrusions; freedom from the hourly provocations of each individual in the nation to concealments, evasions and false- hoods.”’ But the remarkable fact was that despite the odious character of the taxes they yielded an enormous revenue. At the same rate of taxation and including only a few of the articles and processes then inc luded we could at the present time obtain more than two billion dollars a year from this source of revenue alone. More remarkable yet was the cheerful and patriotic spirit in which people paid. Taxes That Kill Business 4 foreign diplomat said to Secretary of State Seward: “I can understand your young men flocking to the colors. I have oon that in other countries; but I never be ‘fore saw a people clamoring for taxa- tion.’ Yet the Civil War excise was obviously unsound, difficult to collect, inquisitorial and often unfair. It resembled too much the famous alcavala of Spain, to which Adam Smith imputed the ruin of that country’s agriculture and manufactures. Every contract of sale and process of trade was taxed, and the levying of the duty required a multitude of revenue officers, suf- ficient to guard the transportation of goods not only from province to province but | from shop to shop. Such excises may have been necessary in ancient Spain or even in the North at the time of the Civil War. But modern scien- tific opinion holds that taxes should be open and aboveboard. If it becomes de- sirable to lay a tax upon gasoline it must not be put upon the producer, the refiner, the transportation agency and the distrib- utor. They can be reached through their business profits and their corporate and personal incomes. There is one place and only one for a tax on gasoline, and that is upon the owner of a car when he fills up his tank. If it is desirable that the owner of a pas- senger car pay more for gasoline in the form of tax, he should pay it directly where he can see it, rather than have it passed on down to hen, more or less imperfectly, through a blind cumulative series of bur- dens upon production. It is always unwise to tax raw rials that enter into production, too many different industries are hit. If Mr. Rockefeller buys a fancy wrought- ironwork trellis for one of the gardens at his Pocantico Hills estate, at a cost of several thousand dollars, he should be taxed suit- ably, fifty per cent if need be. If a fat, elde rly sportsman buys a high priced shot- gun for his next winter’s shooting party in Florida, he should be taxed up to the hilt on that gun. He can stand it and the gun can stand it. But don’t tax pig iron or steel itself, because it goes into countless essen- tials of war—into battleships, big guns, rifles and trucks; and the tax will add to their cost. There is no place where a product’s value is so great as just before it enters the con- sumer’s hands. The raw material in Mr. mate- because Rockefeller’s trellis is not worth much, and a tax upon it would not produce much 1 as when the finished Rockefeller’s hands. before the » project of a nothing like as muc trellis passes into Mr. It is Fre nch significant that, even and British took up the EVENING POST sales tax on luxury, several prominent busi- ness organizations and individuals in this country had publicly advocated the meas- ure. Mr. Otto H. Kahn, the banker, more than a year ago suggested a sales tax on all articles above a minimum, like a dollar, and except on raw — food and certain other necessaries. Mr. L. F. Loree, presi- dent of the Delaware ae Hudson Com- pany, and a committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States made similar suggestions. It is commonly supposed that if a tax is added to the price of an article the retailer will seize the opportunity to add more than the amount of the tax. But this is more an assumption than a proved fact. Besides, it would be difficult to juggle the price if the exact amount of the tax were known to the buyer and actually added to his bill. There is very little chance for concealment in such a case. Unwarranted boosting of prices is more likely when the taxes are imposed farther back, where the consumer does not know and cannot see them There are also a number of stamp taxes that have not yet been employed in this war which could readily be used. In former wars we had a stamp tax on checks. This is now opposed by some banking experts, be- cause they fear it will reduce the use of credit and increase the use of money at the very time when money should be conserved. But if small checks are exempted and if the rate of tax is small a large revenue will be obtained without appreciably reducing the use of checks and without falling upon the poor at all. In fact such a tax would fall mainly upon all the more comfortable and well-to-do classes. Such a tax is no burden, because it falls lightly on an infinite num- ber of points and heavily upon none. It might be possible to draw considerable revenue from the consumption of articles of luxury of low and even trivial cost, such as soft drinks and candy, by using the stamp method. It would be too much work for retailers to keep separate books of ac- count for taxes upon such sales; but it is conceivable that a system could be devised to compel retailers to sell a thrift stamp for two or three cents with each sale. Government Monopolies In Continental countries there is a grow- ing tendency for the governments them- selves to monopolize articles of widespread consumption like tobacco and electricity, thereby in some cases netting a profit over the amount of taxes they would receive under private ownership. But such meth- ods are less in keeping with our institutions and have not been suggested here. There is, of course, a possibility of —_ revenue, if the country becomes very hard up, from a tax upon the tenants of rented apart- ments and houses. This has been suggested and worked out in detail. It would provide a charge at a progressive rate upon the renters of apartments, houses and hotel rooms for more than three months’ occu- pancy. The tax upon renters would naturally be aimed chiefly at the large cities, and espe- cially at New York, where rents run as high as $30,000 a year for apartments. There would be an exemption of course for low priced tenements and apartments, begin- ning perhaps at $50 in New York and naturally at lower figures in smaller cities where the scale of rents runs lower. The rate would begin at perhaps three per cent on apartments costing $100 a month and would run as high as twenty per cent on those at $20,000 a year. In order that rich bachelors living in one or two rooms might not escape, exemptions wouid of course be made for children, and a regular bachelor’s tax like that suggested for England could be adopted to supple- ment the tax on rent. A tax on rentals would be easy to collect, because rent cannot be concealed like in- come. It is an item of general knowledge. Such a tax could not beshifted, and it would reach a good many splurgers who perhaps June 29,1918 now escape. But it has many disadvan- tages and will not be used except as a sort of last resort. After a lapse of a century we are revert- ing in our revenue system, as in so many other matters, to the Hamiltonian policy of government. Hamilton believed in a com- bination of taxes, but had no success in introducing them. Indeed, until 1860 this country depended upon customs dues almost entirely and, after the Civil War crisis had passed, continued to depend upon customs with the addition of a few very lucrative taxes upon expenditures—namely, upon liquor and tobacco. But this system enabled the wealthier to escape taxation, and the injustice of such a condition was the more marked because in state and local affairs the general property tax had been breaking down, thus letting out the wealthier classes locally also, except so far as they owned real estate. A salutary reaction from this whole sys- tem set in a short time ago, resulting in a general introduction of inheritance and in- come taxes, both state and Federal. This was all the more necessary when the Demo- crats came into power, because they were pledged to a reduction in the tariff. But the war has suddenly raised the rates on in- comes to an unheard-of height, and thus unless a careful system of expenditure taxes is devised there is grave danger of making incomes bear more than their share of the burden, Growth of Population EGISTRATION of births in such a uniform way as to make the record valuable for statistical purposes is a new thing in the United States, though it has long been practiced in every other advanced country. This year, for the first time, the Census Bureau is able to present a report of births derived from such registration. The report is for the year 1915, and “overs the six New England States, New Y ork, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia—containing about a third of the total population, and where conditions, on the whole, are prob- ably not far different from those in the remainder of the country. The birth rate is a fraction under twenty-five for each thousand of popula- tion, and the death rate fourteen; so, exclusive of migration, the population in- creases a trifle over one per cent, or by something over one million persons an- nually. That is satisfactory. The records show that foreign-born mothers are decidedly more prolific than native-born mothers. Though no exact ratio is worked out, the presumption is that the white population which has been domiciled in this country for two genera- tions or more is increasing very slowly by the excess of births over deaths. Whatever else the United States and the world may lack, they do not lack —— Our immigration in the last dozen years has come very largely from Austria-Hun- gary, Italy and Russia. Those countries have a birth rate decidedly higher than ours. They also have a decidedly higher death rate; so the increase in population through excess of births over deaths is greater here than in any of them. Russia’s birth rate is forty-four to our twenty-five minus; its death rate is nearly twenty-nine to our fourteen. So births are only a hun- dred and fifty-two per cent of deaths against our hundred and seventy-eight per cent. Russia’s birth rate is the highest among important countries. Her infant- mortality rate, also, is the highest. For every thousand births two hundred and forty-eight infants die under one year of age—nearly two and a half times as many as in the United States: Turn the records as you will, indiscrim- inate breeding is the sign of poor social conditions and a high death rate. The problem is not more children, but taking better care of the children we have.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 The Beagle in American Sport shooters are selling their bird dogs. They are endeavoring to do this by means of advertising. And right alongside this going- out-of-business' advertising appear almost equal numbers of pages of advertisements of beagles, representing a business just coming in. Quail shooting is a very expensive sport. Rabbit shooting is very inexpensive, very convenient, very practical, and very sim- ple. It costs a lot of money to train a good bird dog—and when you have done it he isn’t a good bird dog for the most part, be cause there haven't been enough good birds to shoot over him. On the other hand, just over in grand- pa’s woodlot there always have been, and always will be, world without end probably, enough rabbits for the breaking of a half dozen beagles; and the half dozen beagles will not cost so much as one bird dog, nor eat so much, nor be so much trouble and expense to transport. Beagle hunting is a coming thing in America, because it is a practical thing. As we welcome Molly Cotton we must also welcome her little friend. The beagle has been known in the United States for a great many years of course, and has been in sporting use, more especially in certain of the Eastern States, for a very long time. In any country of heavy cover he is as natural an adjunct of sport as is or was the spaniel on woodcock, or less fre- quently on grouse. It was entirely natural that the use of the beagle, known in Eng- land since the time of good Queen Bess, should come to the fore on this side of the water. The only thing that kept it back was the abundance of sport of higher class. I do not doubt that any man accustomed to the use of the shotgun over good bird dogs would classify that as higher-grade sport than the good fun of running rabbits with any sort of dog. It was not until feathered game began to become rather scarce that the beagle made its way into the Western States. From that time on the increase in the use of this breed has been slow but steady. To-day there are a great many in Wisconsin, in Illinois and Indiana. As far as Texas you may find quite a beagle cult, and even in Oregon and Washington as well. In the South the little hound has been known for a long time. The beagle, mixed as is his derivation, may be called a true hound to-day. The hound himself is a noble dog and the most ancient ally of man in sport. Of course every separate importer and breeder of foxhounds is of the firm conviction that his kennel alone produces decent specimens of I: THE Northa great many former quail the breed. There is no more contentious individual in the world than the profes- sional dog man. What has been the story of the foxhound in America to some extent has also been that of other species of hounds. Old-Fashioned Coursing Some twenty or more years ago the English idea of coursing hares attained a certain standing in America. There were at that time regular meets held in some of the Western States, where greyhounds were used in coursing the jack rabbits—certainly a good substitute for the English hare. I saw a great many of these early Americar meets, but must confess | never cared muct for this sport. It had in it not the natural competition of hound with wild game but the artificial competition of one hound wit! another-—-the winning of a course depend ing not upon the kill alone but upon the scoring of a certain number of artificial points of merit. Moreover, there was a sort of brutality and cruelty in the idea of a couple of dogs running a frightened little animal to death Many were glad when the coursing meets fell more and more into disrepute—a fact that was largely due to the overcommer- cialism and overprofessionalism of the men engaging in the sport, but in part to the limited field for the practice. Coursing deer with greyhounds was a distinctly higher grade of sport. Only a few men have ever engaged in that, though it was my fortune at one time in my life to have a considerable experience with a grey- hound pack with which we did kill many white-tailed deer in the old Indian Nations It took some riding to see this sort of race. The same pack was able to account for antelope on the open plains—something which could be said of almost no other dogs in the history of the Western country, for the antelope is, or was, the fleetest of all game. But all these uses of the hound of one strain or another in wild sport in America have practically passed away now. We have with us to-night the surviving hound— the hound of the future. He is not a splen- did, upstanding, fighting creature, but a miniature hound, about a foot in height, not with the hound melancholy on his face, but the merriment and the affection of the spaniel thereon. Indeed the experts will tell you that the beagle, at one time or other of his career a mixed product, has both hound and spaniel in the pronounced features of his make-up. Cut off his head and he is all hound. Extract his disposition and he would not be beagle. Cut off his body and look into the eyes and you will see the soft spaniel look. The spiky nose is the weakest feature about him. Otherwise he is a stocky, sturdy, practical, coarse-haired little hunting dog. The Traits of Beagles It is always difficult to make friends with the genuine old-time hound, even the deriv- ative of that ancient breed, the blood- hound, which was the base of all our varied hunting packs that have grown up since then. A hound will follow at your heels, and will depend on you and obey you, but he is not your companion so much as the pointer or the setter or the spaniel—or the beagle. There is something merry and affectionate and winning about the beagle which is bound to endear it in the heart of anyone acquainted with the breed. He has the sprightliness of the spaniel about him, and yet knows the endurance and perse- verance of the hound. All the gameness of the old foxhound to run and to keep on running, and not to quit until the chase is ended, belongs to the pure-bred beagle of to-day. He ‘is in every sense of the word a sporting little dog, while at the same time he is a very lovullis little dog as well. You can make a pet and a companion of a beagle as well as a hunting machine. We Americans have rather reduced the stature of the beagle in our development. tye a sixteen-inch beagle is a little bit faster than a twelve-inch or a ten-inch; and that was necessary in England, where at one time, after the introduction of A rabian‘blood i in the English hunting horse and after the lessening of the old wooded covers in which footmen once hunted additional speed was demanded in the breed. From hound down to harrier and from harrier to beagle were natural gradations in stature, and we extended that gradation on this side of the water, where ten-inch beagles are not unknown and are not called impractical. They crawl through woven wire fences that stop a larger dog altogether and so end a chase. In classing, beagles are usually rated as those under fifteen inches and those under thirteen inches, the dividing line between large ones and sma!! ones being thereabouts in the opinion of judges. There are some packs in America, and very good ones, where the average of stature is twelve inches or less. It will be seen that such a dog is no very bulky specimen. He is not as yet fashionable enough to sell for any ex- traordinary price—a farmer boy may get a good puppy for fifty cents or five dollars or ten dollars, as the case may be, anda grown- up man may buy a very good one, partly trained, for as little as thirty dollars. You cannot begin to buy or break a bird dog for any such figures as that. If your bird dog has been trained by a professional handler he will perhaps have cost you a couple of hundred dollars before he is fit to shoot over—and then probably he isn’t fit. Not so with the beagle. You can own him your- self, hunt him yourself and train him your- self. In beagle hunting it is nice to be able to own a pack well assorted as to type, whose voices are in attunement, and which run and work well tegether. This, however, is refinement in the sport. For practical results you need not be so finicky. You will beagles, get as many rabbits ahead of a pack that contains a squeaky voice or two as you can with the most mellow and mellifluously accorded mouths of any crack pack of the effete Eastern States. You can take a dozen beagles with you in a flivver, and you surely will not have to travel three hundred miles to get to a good cottontail country. Put down your dogs and at once they will begin to show you that there are more rab- bits in your country than you ever had dreamed. It is simply astonishing how much sport a bunch of beagles can dig out of a country that has long been considered practically barren. A rabbit lies very close, but not so close that these keen-nosed eager little chaps cannot dig him out. It is in this personal or amateur use of the breed that the greatest interest and its true value-attach. Given a few acres of weed patch, a sidehill with a clean opening for the gun stations and a half dozen or a dozen beagles, and you can still see con- siderable fun in any state now lying under the Star-Spangled Banner. So much cannot be said of the use of any other species of sporting dog. As they say in New York, “You gotta hand it to the beagle.” With even one beagle a very practical rabbit-hunting machine can be installed. i recall that many years ago I once in a spirit of amusement joined a country rab- bit hunt on the Kankakee marsh of Indiana, where some local shooters were out working among the timber mottes of the marsh— very good rabbit country indeed. We had only one beagle, a slow, deep-voiced, gray- muzzled old dog, which I suppose would have stood about eighteen inches in height. This dog could not go fast enough to make a rabbit keep warm. Our method was to get on top of a stump and wait for the rab- bit to stroll round. Quite often one could see bunny hopping along, stopping, sitting up, pricking his ears, waiting for a time, and then hopping on a little bit farther as the old hound’s voice came closer. I don’t suppose that dog could have caught a single rabbit in a hundred years, but ahead of him were killed a sackful or so that afternoon. It is not precisely thus that one pursues the chasse au cottontail in our best circles to-day. Perhaps we would better have along eight or ten beagles used to hunting with one another. All the better if each of these is a good hunter, but surely there must be two or three good striking “dogs i in this pack, as in any bear pack. The others will honor the mouth of known trailers and strikers. On a Sporting Basis The average pack will scatter a little bit in running a trail, but almost always out of a dozen dogs you will see six or eight at the same time nosing along, lifting their heads once in a while to bay in their delight in the chase, and then going on, precisely like a miniature fox pack in their work. A pointer or even a setter will hesitate at going into very heavy brier thickets and dense weed patches such as furnish the best cover for cottontail rabbits, but the beagle pack, being of very low suspension, will bolt directly into such cover without a moment’s hesitation. If there is a rabbit there they will be sure to find him, and when they find him you are sure to know it. Of course a good part of the sport, just as in bear hunt- ing with hounds, cons in the music of the pack and their ability to run the trail to a finish; the actual shooting of the game is not by any means the best of the fun in black-bear hunting, for instance. If you are using only one beagle it is easy enough to tell where he is all the time, but if you have a dozen or more the matter is quite otherwise. It is practically necessary that there shall be an M. F. H.; and if you own dogs the master of the hunt may be yourself. You must have a horn to assem- ble the pack when necessary. You must understand the habits of each of your dogs and know the mouth of each if you are to hunt successfully anc get out of the pastime all there is in it. The longer you. hunt your own pack the more sport you will get out of the pack itself, and the less you will care for the killing of the game that they pursue so eagerly. It is not in the least difficult to kill a rabbit with a shotgun; in fact it is too easy _ ZR to be called sport. Some use the twenty- two caliber rifle. I know of one ardent beagle hunter who kills his rabbits with a bored-out army six-shooter loaded with shot. This puts the thing on something of a sporting basis all round. Of course almost any kind of gun or any kind of charge will do for rabbit shooting. The quail-hunting load of Number Eight shot is usually heavy enough, as the range is customarily short. Sevens or Sixes will stop a rabbit farther. The worst thing about shooting rabbits ahead of beagles is that a rabbit is very heavy after he is killed. A half dozen in one’s game bag make a back load, and a dozen constitute an anchor. As the best part of a rabbit is the saddle, the ribs and forelegs not being so delectable, a very good way is to amputate your rabbit amid- ships as soon as you kill him, leaving the fur on the hind quarters and saddle. The entrails of course are thus removed entirely. You have saved about all of the valuable part of a rabbit, and it is much lighter to carry. Be careful, however, if you clean a rabbit in the field, not to leave any of the offal lying on the ground. The dogs will surely find it and eat it, and that will put them out of the chase for the rest of the day. What Beagledom Wears The more you see the beagle in use the more you begin to admire him and to in- quire about him and to regard him not merely as a good-looking little dog but as a true and valid sporting dog. The actual origin of the breed is not known, though it is usually considered a very ancient one. It is said that the fox terrier, the blood- hound, the dachshund and the spaniw all have contributed to the beagle strain at various times in its history. Of all these the hound’s type is, of course, the most dominant remainder. The beagle is a com- pact hound, and little else. His coat is strong and good against cover. His tail is stocky and well haired out, and carried with not too much bend. His back is short and strong, his chest broad and strong, his legs short and strong, his feet round and strong. His long ears are those of the an- cient hound. Only the soft eye and the rather weak-looking muzzle make him any- thing but a typical running and fighting dog. When you come to examine "~ whether he be in white, black and tan, i pepper and salt, or even the least desirable pure white, you will have to admit that he is a very considerable individual. Indeed, he is the biggest little dog of them all. Though English writers refer to small beagles dating back to the time of Queen Elizabeth, the arrival of the breed in this country is relatively recent. There were scattered importations many years ago without doubt, but all authorities agree that it was a Western man who first put the American beagle on the map. This was old General Rowett, of Carlinville, Illinois, who about 1871 brought over some high- class beagles from England. It is not known to-day from what English kennels he ob- tained his stock. The Rowett kennels were seattered after the death of their owner, and some of the best specimens made their way into the Eastern States or elsewhere. They joined importations of other gentle- men engaged in establishing and extending the breed in the United States. To this day General Rowett is, however, spoken of with reverence by all the cognoscenti of beagle- dom. For a long time after his death the numbers of the strain did not increase very much in the — state which was his home. Within the last ten years, however, the beagle industry in the Mississippi Valley has advanced very rapidly, and there are centers of distribution, not so far from Carlinville, which might be called the origi- nal capital of beagles in this country. If you are interested yourself in a picto- rial capacity perhaps you may care to know that the correct costume for a master of beagles is a dark-green riding coat with but- tons carrying the letters of the hunt; breeches of white buckskin, four buttons above boot tops; black hunting boots with sewed tops of brown; a brown thonged crop; white buckskin gloves; a copper hunting horn carried carelessly in the bosom of the coat; a white stock tie with a plain pin. The wearing of jewelry is not being done to any great extent in the best beagle circles.

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54 ‘ ee et FRIEND or ENEMY- which kind of cigar do you smoke ? If we asked you point-blank whether you would rather have clear wits or dizzy wits, steady nerves or shaky, a strong heart or weak, there wouldn't be any doubt about your answer. So there can’t be any doubt about which kind of cigars you ought to smoke. The Girard is a friend that cheers, comforts, stim- ulates and inspires—a true friend that never beguiles your wits, betrays your nerves, or attacks your heart a The ilrar Never fe. ig ll nerves Smoke Girards exclusively for two weeks. Stick to your usual number of cigars per day — smoke neither more nor less than usual. If you are an average smoker, this test will convince you that the Girard Cigar takes the danger out of smoking. If you have been a smoker of heavy cigars, our prediction is that this test will bring a definite benefit to your feelings and enjoyment. Real Havana 10c and up Any cigar dealer in America can sell you Girards. If he hasn't them in stock he can get them for you from us.. Put Girards to the test—today. Antonio Roig & Langsdorf Established 1871 “Broker,” 10c¢ Actual Size Philadeiphia eee - SL | | ee | | A OR Rn. 5 yp oad eS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 | BILLY THE KID (Cencituded from Page 7) “The minors for me, I guess.” He tried to speak lightly, but the false flippancy did not deceive his hearers. “You know what a rotten season I’ve had—just couldn’t get going somehow. Sauers says that nobody in this league wants me—and I guess that’s the answer. “Oh, he did, did he?” said McCoy. “Nice cheerful thing to tell a kid to tide him over the winter! Well, I can afford to forgive the long-legged stiff. Half of your purchase money came out of his pocket!” “He says you knew something when you sold me,” said Billy. a did,” said McCoy. “So did Mac- Lagan here.” “Tf you knew something,” said the boy, ““why couldn’t you have told me about it? Then I wouldn’t have felt so bad.” “Well,” said McCoy slowly, “I had a lot of reasons. Billy, do you remember the night we got into the argument as we were Gael ing the park? You was after me to let you play, and I turned you down hard.” “You needn’t have been so mean about it, John.” “There was a reason though. I wanted Sauers to buy you. I wanted him to think I had you on the bench because we'd had trouble. Ordinarily I couldn’t have given that old thief a ball player; he’s kind of suspicious of me on general principles. My game was to make him buy you; and, Billy, all that talk was pulled for his benefit. He was just ahead of us, and he waited and stole an earful.” “And that night,” added MacLagan, “T got gabby and helped things along. But | I never told him any thing but the truth— | part of it anyhow.’ | ‘T still think you might have told me.” “‘T didn’t dare,” said McCoy. “You see, my boy, you’re too much of a kid to keep a secret.” “You're not,” said Finch. “You haven't told me yet why you wanted to sell me or why you kept me on the bench so long. Sauers said you knew something. What is it, John?” “I’m coming to that now. Can you stand a bump without squealing?” ““Why—I—I hope so. Yes. Go ahead.” “All right. You remember you looked pretty bad in spring training? And in the exhibition games - “T was awful, g said Billy steadily. “Go on, John.” “Then you broke your finger. And a couple of days after that I took you to see an oculist.” Billy Finch laid hold of the table edge with both hands, and his knuckles whitened through the tan. “But the oculist didn’t say there was pyres the matter with me. My God, n! You don’t mean ——?” McCoy nodded and looked out of the window. “But I can see as well as anybody!” cried Billy. “Of course you can,” said MacLagan. “There’s nothing wrong with you that glasses won’t help. You've got just enough eye trouble to make you uncertain. That’s where the booting came in. It’s tough luck, Billy, old son, but—you’re through playing baseball, that’s all.” “ All!” cried Billy. “ Ain't that enough?” Because he knew they were sorry for him and dared not meet the pity in their eyes he turned his head away and looked out of the window. Down in the street the elec- tric lights suddenly grew blurred and indis- tinct. He was conscious of McCoy’s voice, flowing on in a steady stream; it seemed to be explaining something. From time to time phrases reached Billy’s ears, but their meaning eluded him. He was listening to two words, repeating themselves over and over and over again, hammering themselves into his brain: ** All through—all through—all through.” The accompaniment flowed on, undis- turbed and unheeded. “Ballardsaw itthesame wayI did . . . heart like an ox . didn’t want to see you get the worst of it coming to Sauers ... twenty-eight hundred bucks, — interest . it figures out pretty close —— A sudden blaze of light leaped into Billy’s wavering vision—ten feet of white flame, where before there had been darkness. A new electric sign was flashing its first mes- sage to the hurrying thousands below. Billy found himself staring at the winking letters, fascinated, dumfounded. At last speech came to him. “Now I know my eyes have gone wrong! Do I see that thing—or do I just think I see it?” McCoy laughed. “Considering the trouble we had getting it installed in time, it would be a pity 1 if you didn’t see it. Can you see it, Mac? “Why, yes,” said MacLagan. “* Billy Finch’—that’s what it says, in letters three feet high.” “You see, kid,” said John McCoy, “Sauers owed me something, so I took his half of that check and set you up in the cigar business. The other haif will go back to the men it came from. To-night is your grand opening, Billy. Don’t you think you ought to be behind the counter—in case anybody drops in to get a smoke?” BEING BOMBED AND SEEING IT DONE (Centinued from Page 4) You see that the highways are kept in repair by boys of twelve or thirteen and by grandsires in their seventies and their eighties, and by crippled soldiers, who work from daylight until dusk upon the rock piles and the earth heaps; that the fields are being tilled—and how well they are being tilled!—by young women and old women; that the shops in the smaller towns are minded by children, whose heads some- times scarcely come above the counters. You see where the tall shade trees along the roads and the small trees in the thickets are being shorn away in order that the fur- naces and the hearthstones may not be altogether fireless, since the enemy holds most of the coal mines. I have come in one of the fine state forests upon a squad of American lumberjacks, big huskies from the logging camps of Northern Michigan, with their portable planing mill whining | and their axes flashing, making the sawdust and the chips fly, in what once not long ago | was a grove of splendid timber, where beeches and chestnuts, hundreds of years old, stood in close ranks; but which now is being turned into a wilderness of raw stumps and trodden earth and stacks of ugly planking. You see an old woman, as fleshless as a fagot, helping a dog to drag a heavy cart up a rocky street, the two of them together straining and panting oe the leather breast yokes. For every kilometer that the foe advances you see the refugees fleeing from their desolated steadings; indeed, you may very accurately gauge the rate of his progress by their anmuber. In one lonely little town ina territory as yet undefiled by actual hostilities I went one morning not long ago into a quaint thirteenth-century church. It was one of three churches in the place; and in point of membership, I think, the smallest of the three. But in the nave, upon a stone pillar gnawed by time with furrows and runnels, I found a little framed placard containing the names, written in fine script, of those communicants who had died in service for their country in this war. The list plainly was incomplete. It included only those who had fallen up to the beginning of last year; the toll for 1917 and for 1918 was yet to be added; and yet of the names of the dead out of this one small obscure interior parish there were an even one hundred. I dare say the poll of the whole commune would have shown at least three times as many. France has shown the world how to fight. Now it shows the world how to die. But of all the tragedies that multiply themselves so abundantly here in this bloodied land it sometimes seems to me there is none greater than the look of things that is implanted upon an unfortified town that has been subjected to frequent bomb- ings. Itis not so much the shattered, ragged (Centinued on Page 57)

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(Continaed from Page 54) ruins where bombs have scored direct down- ward hits oat drive home the lesson of what this mode of reprisal, this type of pun- ishment means; rather it is the echoing empty street, as yet undamaged, whence the dwellers all have fled—long stretches of streets, with the windows shuttered up and the shops locked and barred and the rank grass sprouting between the cobblestones, and the starveling tabby cats foraging like the gaunt ghosts of cats among forgotten ash barrels. And rather more than this it is the expression of those who through ne- cessity or choice have stayed on. I am thinking particularly of Nancy- Nancy which for environment, setting and architecture is one of the most beautiful little cities in the werld; a city whose an- cient walls and massy gateways still stand; whose squares and parks were famous; and whose people once led prosperous, con- tented and peaceful lives 7 "lace Stanis- laus, on a miniature scale, is, 1 think, as lovely as any plaza in E ane ’ Since it is so lovely one is moved to wonder why the Germans have so far spared it from the ruination they shower down without abate- ment upon the devoted city. It is well-nigh deserted now, along with all the other parts of the town. Those who could conveniently get away have gone; the state in the early part of this year transported thousands of women and children on special trains to safer territory in the south of France. Those who remain have in their eyes the haunting terror of a persistent and an un- ceasing fearsomeness. To be in Nancy these times is to be in a stilled, half-deserted place of flinching and of danger, and of the death that comes by night, borne on whirring motors. I walked through its streets on a day following one of the frequent air raids and I had a concep- tion of how these Old-World cities must have looked in the time of the plague. The citizens I passed were like people who dwelt beneath the shadow of an abiding pesti- lence, as indeed they did. To them a clear still night with the placid stars showing in the heavens meant a terri- ble threat. It meant that they would lie quaking in their houses for the signal that would send them to the cellars and the dug- outs, while high explosives and gas bombs and inflammable bombs came raining down. They knew full well what it meant to stay above ground during the dread passover of the Huns’ planes, when hospitals had been turned into shamt and supply depots into craters of raging fire. Yet there re- mained traces of the racial temperament that has upbuoyed the French and helped them to endure what was unendurable. A little waitress in a café said to three of us, with a smile: ‘‘Ah, but you should be in Nancy on a rainy night, for then the sound of snoring fills the place. We can sleep then—and how we do sleep!” In Nancy they pray before the high altars for bad weather and yet more bad weather. And so do they in many another town in France that is within easy striking distance of the enemy’s batteries and air- dromes, les A Night in Adelphi Arches Of all city dwellers I am sure the Lon- doner is the most orderly and the most capable of self-government, as he likewise is the most phlegmatic. Because of these common traits among the masses of the populace an air raid over London, consider- ing its potential possibilities for destruc- tion, is comparatively an unexciting episode everywhere in the metropolis, save and except only in those districts of the East End where the bulk of the foreign-born live. There, on the first wail of the shrieking sirens, before the warning ‘‘maroon’’ bombs go up or the barrage fire starts from pro- tecting batteries in the suburbs and along the Thames, these frightened aliens, carry- ing their wives and children, flock pell-mell into the stations of the Underground. They spread out bedclothes on the platforms and camp in the Tube, which is the English name for what Americans call a subway, and sometimes refuse to budge until long after the danger has passed. At the height of the bombardment they pray and shriek, and the women often beat their breasts and tear at their hair in a very frenzy. But this is true only of the emotional Russians and Rumanians. The native Lon- doners proceed in the most leisurely fashion to the subterranean shelters. Indeed, the chief task of the police is to keep them from exposing themselves in the open in efforts to THE SATURDAY get a sight of the enemy. People who live on the lower floors of stoutly built houses mainly bide where they are, their argu- ment—and a very sane one it is—being that since the chances of a man’s s being killed in his home at such a time are no greater than of his roof being pierced by lightning during a thunderstorm he is almost as safe and very much more comfortable staying in his bed than he would be squatting for hours in a damp cellar. No matter how intense the bombard- ment the busses keep on running, though they have few enough passengers. From one’s window one may see the big double- deckers lumbering by like frightened ele- phants, empty of all but the drivers and the plucky women conductors, who invariably stick to their posts and carry on. The Lon- don bobby promenades at his usual deliber- ate pace no matter how thick the shrapnel from the defender guns may splash down about him in the darkened street; and the night postman calmly goes his rounds too. One night in London aftey the alarm had been sounded I invaded the series of walled caverns and wine vaults known as the Adelphi Arches, which are just off the Strand, near Charing Cross. Several hun- dred men, women and children had already taken refuge there. Near one of the en- trances a young mother was singing her baby to sleep; alittle farther on a group of Australian soldiers were trying, rather un- successfully, to open beer bottles with their finger nails; and at the mouth of a side base- ment opening off a layer cave half a dozen typical Londoner civilians, of the sort who wear flat caps instead of hats and woolen neckerchiefs instead of collars, were warmly discussing politics in high nasal notes. No- where was there evident any concern or distress, or even any considerable amount of irritation at our enforced inconvenience. The Raid Preacher's Ministry Still, any man who figures that the Eng- lishman is not stimulated to stouter resist- ance by these visitations from the German would be mistaken. Beneath the surface of his apparent indifference there is produced at each recurrent attack an enhanced cur- rent of hate for the government that first inaugurated this system of barbaric warfare against unforti fied communities. There is something so radically wrong in the Prus- sian propaganda it is inconceivable that any mind save a Prussian’s mind could have imagined it. His imagination is on back- ward and he thinks hind part before. In the folly of his besetting madness he figures that he can subjugate a man by mangling that man’s wife and baby to bits—the one thing that has always been potent to make a valiant fighter out of the veriest coward that lives. They may not waste their rage in vain and vulgar mouthings—that would be the German, not the English way — but one may be sure that the people of London will never forgive the Kaiser for the hideous things his agents, in accordance with his policy of frightfulness, have wrought among innocent noncombatants in their city and in their island. They are entering up the balance in the ledgers of their righteous in- dignation against the day of final reckoning. After I had seen personally some of the results of one of the nocturnal onslaughts I too could share in the feelings of those more directly affected, for I could realize that, given an opportunity now denied him by the mercy of distance andenuch intervening salt water, the Hun would be doing unto American cities what he had done to this English city; and I could picture the same unspeakable atrocities perpetrated upon New Haven or Asbury Park or Charleston as have been perpetrated upon London and Dover and Margate. There was an old clergyman of the Estab- lished Church who lived in a rectory not far from Covent Garden, a man near seventy, who probably had never wittingly done an evil thing or a cruel thing in all his correct and godly life. He came to have the name of the Raid Preacher, because at every aérial attack he went forth fearlessly from his home, making the tour of ali the shelters | in the neighborhood. At each place he would cheer and quiet the crowds there as- sembled, telling them there was no real danger, reading to them comforting pas- sages of the Scriptures and encouraging them to sing homely and familiar songs. He had been doing this from the time when the Zeppelins first invaded the London district. He had held funeral services over the bodies of hundreds of raid victims, so they told me. EVENING POST The Right Footwear for Summer Keds For walking, hiking, golfing and sports—outdoors or indoors, town or country — whatever the occupation and wherever the place, Keds are always good form. Men, women and children find that the flexible canvas tops of Keds re- spond to every foot-movement. The live-rubber soles add spring to the stride—make for easy, graceful walking. If you would have Summer shoes that fit well, look well and also wear well, buy Keds. Not only for your- self but for every member of the family. 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JENKINS VULCAN SPRING Co. 1402 Chestnut St. 1024 Hennepin Ave. uth Houston St. 538 Franklin St. 29 Caldwell St. | twisted trunks; EVENING POST Regardless of the religious affiliations of the dead, or the lack of church ties, their families almost invariably asked him to conduct the burials. One night in the present year—I am for- | bidden to give the exact date or the exact | place, though neither of them matters now— the raiders came. The old clergyman hur- | ried to a cellar under a near-by business establishment. where a swarm of tenement dwellers of the quarter had congregated for safety. He was standing in their midst in the darkened place, bidding them to be of | good and tranquil faith, whenatwo-hundred pound bomb of high explosives, sped from a Gotha eight thousand feet above and aimed by chance, came through the build- | ing, bringing the roof and the upper floors with it. A great many persons were killed or wounded. When the rescuers came almost the first body they brought out of the burn- ing ruins was that of the Raid Preacher. They had found him, with torn flesh and broken bones, but with his face unmarred, lying on the floor. His thumbed leather Bible was under him, open at a certain page, and there was blood upon its leaves. Men who saw his funeral cortége told me | of it with tears in their eyes. They said that people of all faiths walked in the rain be- hind the heagse, and that the biggest of all | the funeral wreaths was a gift from a little colony of poor Jewish folk in the district, and that one whole section of the sorrowful procession was made up of cripples and con- valescents— pale, !ame, haltmenand women and children who limped on crutches or marched with bandaged heads or with and these were the injured survivors of previous raids, to whom the | dead man had ministered in their time of suffering. In a hospital I saw a little girl who had been most terribly maimed by the same missile that killed the old rector. I am not going to dwell on the state of this child. When I think of her I have not the words to express the feelings that Ihave. But one of her hands was gone at the wrist, and the other hand was badly shattered; so she was | just a wan little brutally abbreviated frag- ment of humanity, a living fraction, most | grievously afflicted. Her wounds had ceased to pain her, the head nurse told me before we entered, and for the rest of the time she | was a good patient, one of the best in the | ward. She was lying, when I saw her, with her | head propped upon a pillow that was no whiter than her face was, and there was the pitiable wraith of a smile on her poor little pinched commonplace face, and to her breast, with the bandaged stump of one arm and with her remaining hand that was swathed in a clump of wrapping, she cud- dled up a painted china doll which some- body had brought her; and she was singing | toit. The sight, I take it, would have been very gracious in the eyes of His Imperial Majesty of Prussia—except, of course, that the little girl still lived; that naturally would be a drawback to his complete enjoy- ment of the spectacle. Facetious French Firemen There was mingled comedy and woe in | the scenes at Paris on the memorable day when the great long-distance gun-—which the Parisians promptly christened “‘ Bertha” in tribute to the titular mistress of the Krupp works where it was produ ced—first opened upon the city from seventy-odd miles away and thereby established, among other records, a precedent for distance and cepe in artiliery bombardments. Paris was in a fit mood for emotion. The people were on edge; their nerves tensed, for there hac been an alarm the evening before. The raiding planes had been turned back at the suburbs and driven off by the barrage fire, but the populace mainly had flocked into the abris and the underground stations of the Métropolitain. At ten o'clock that night, after the danger was over, a funny thing occurred: The crew of a motor-drawn fire engine had fud- dled themselves with wine, and for upward of half an hourthedriver drove hisred wagon at top speed up and down the Rue de Rivoli, past the Tuileries Gardens. With him he had four of his confréres in blue uni- forms and brass helmets. These rode two on a side behind him, their helmets shining in the bright moonlight like pots of gold turned upside down; and as they rode the two on one side sounded the alerte signal on sirens, and the two on the other side sounded the “all clear’ on bugles; and between June 29,1918 blasts all four rocked in their places with joy over their little joke. In London the thing would have consti- tuted a public scandal; in New York there would have been a newspaper hullabaloo over it. It was typical of Paris, I think, that the street crowds became infected with the spirit which filled the roistering firemen and cheered them as they went merrily racketing back and forth. Nor, so far as I couldascertain, were the firemen disciplined; at least there was no mention in print of the incident, though a great many persons, the writer included, witnessed it. At one o’clock the following morning I was standing at the window of my bed- chamber when something of a very violent and a highly startling nature went off just beyond the line of housetops and tree tops which hedged my horizon view to the north- ward. Another booming detonation, and yet another, followed in close succession. I figured to my own satisfaction that one of the enemy planes which were chased away the night before had taken advantage of the cloaking mists of the new day to slip back and pay his outrageous compliments to our unsuspecting municipality. Anyhow a fel- low becomes accustomed to the sounds of loud noises in wartimes, and after a while ceases to concern himself greatly about their causes or even their effects unless the disturbances transpire in his immediate proximity. Life in wartime in a country where the war is consists largely in getting used to things that are abnormal and un- usual. One takes as a matter of course occurrences that in peace would throw his entire scheme of existence out of gear. He is living, so to speak, in a world that is turned upside down, amid a jumble of acute and violent contradictions, both physical and metaphysical. An Interrupted Breakfast With two companions I set out for a cer- tain large hotel which had the reputation of being able to produce genuine North Amer- ican breakfasts for North American appe- tites. In the main grillroom we had just finished compiling an order, which included fried whiting, ham and eggs country style, and fried potatoes, when a fire-department truck went shrieking through the street outside, its whistle blasting away as though it had a scared banshee locked up in its brazen throat. There were not many persons in the room—to your average Frenchman his din- ner is a holy rite, but his breakfast is a trifling incident—but most of these per- sons rose from their tables and straight- way departed. The woman cashier hurried off with her hat on sidewise, which among women the world over is a thing betokening agitation. The head waiter approached us with our bill in his tremulous hand, and bowing wished to know whether monsieurs would be so good as tosettle the account now. By his manner he sought to indicate that such was the custom of the house. We told him firmly that we would pay after we had eaten and not a minute sooner. He gave a despairing gesture and vanished, leaving the slip upon the tablecloth. Somebody hastily deposited within our reach the food we had ordered and withdrew. Before we were half through eating a very short, very frightened-looking boy in buttons appeared at our elbows, pleading to know whether we were ready for our hats and canes. Since he appeared to be in some haste about it and since he was so small a small boy and so uneasy, we told him to bring them aiong. He did bring them along, practically instantaneously, in fact, and promptly was begone without waiting for a tip—an omission which up until this time had never marred the traditional eth- ics of hat-check boys either in France or anywhere else. Presently it dawned upon us that as far as appearances went we were entirely alone in the heart of a great city. So when we were through eating we left the amount of the breakfast bill upon a plate and ourselves departed from there. The lobby of the hotel and the office and the main hallway were entirely deserted, there being neither guests nor functionaries in sight. But through the grating in the floor came up a gush of hot air, licking our legs as we passed. This may have been the flow from a unit of the heating plant, or then again it may have been the hot and feverish breath- ing of the habitués of that hotel, ’scaping upward through a vent in the subcellar’s roof, (Continued on Page 61)

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(Continued from Page 58) Outside, in the streets, the shopkeepers had put up their iron shutters. At intervals the plug-plug-blooie! of fresh explosions punctuated the hooting of fire engines racing with the alarm in adjacent quarters. Overhead, ranging and quartering the upper reaches of the sky, like pointer dogs in a sedge field, were scores of French aé roplanes searching, and searching vainly, for the un- seen foeman. The thing was uncanny; it was daunting and smacked of witchcraft. Here were the projectiles dropping down, apparently from directly above, and they were bursting in various sections, to the accompaniments of clattering débris and shattering glass; and yet there was neither sight nor sound of the agencies responsible for the attack. All sorts of rumors spread, each to find hun- dreds of earnest advocates and as many more vociferous purveyors. One theory, often advanced and generally retailed, was that the Germans had pro- duced a new type of aéroplane, with a noise- motor, and capable of soaring at a height where it was invisible to the naked eye. Another possible solution for the enigma was that with the aid of spies and traitors the Germans had set up a gun fired by air compression upon a housetop in the environs and were bombarding the city from beneath the protection of a false roof. In the doorway of every abri the credulous and the incredulous held heated arguments, dodging back under shelter, like prairie dogs into their holes, at each recurring crash. Presently it dawned upon the hearkening groups that the missiles were falling at stated and ordained periods, Twenty min- utes regularly intervenéd between smashes. Appreciation of this circumstance injected a new element of surmise into a terrific and most profoundly puzzling affair. This was a mystery that grew momentarily more mysterious. Business for the time being was pretty much suspended; anyhow nearly every- body appeared to be taking part in the de- bates. However, the taxicabs were still plying. A Parisian cabby may be trusted to take a chance on his life if there is a fare in sight and the prospect of a pourboire to follow. Two of us engaged a weather- beaten individual who apparently had no interest in the controversies raging about him or in the shelling either; and in his rig we drove to the scene of the explosions, ar- riving there within a few minutes after the devilish cylinder fell. less No Wonder She Resigned There had been loss of life here—no great amount as loss of life is measured these times in this country, but attended by con- ditions that made the disaster hideous and distressing. The blood of victims still trick- led in runlets between the paving stones where we walked, and there were mangled bodies stretched on the floor of an impro- vised morgue across the way — mainly bodies of poor working women, and one, heard, the body of a widow with half a dozen children, who now would be doubly orphaned, since their father was dead at the Front. Back again at my hotel after a forenoon packed with curious experiences, I found in my quarters a very badly scared chamber- naid, trying to tidy a room with fingers that shook. In my best French, which I may state is the worst possible French, I was trying to explain to her that the bom- bardment had probably ended—and for a fact there had been a forty-minute lull in the new frightfulness—when one of the shells struck and went off among the trees and flowerbeds of a public breathing place not a hundred and fifty yards away. With a shriek 7 maid fell on her knees and buried her head, ostrich fashion, in a nest of sofa ~ eg I stepped through my bedroom window upon a little balcony in time to see the dust cloud rise in a column and to follow with my eyes the frenzied whirlings of a great flock of wood pigeons flighting high into the air from their roosting perches in the park plot. The next instant I felt a violent tug- ging at the back breadth of the leather har- ness that I wore. Unwittingly, in her panic the maid had struck upon the only possible use to which a Sam Brown belt may be put—other than the ornamental, and ‘that is a moot point among fanciers of the purely decorative in the matter of military gearing for the human form. By accident she had divined its one utilitarian purpose. She had risen and with both hands THE SATURDAY

had laid hold upon the crosspiece of my | main surcingle and was striving to drag me inside. I rather gathered from the tenor of her contemporaneous remarks, which she uttered at the top of her voice and into which she interjected the names of several saints, that she feared the sight of me in plain view on that stone ledge might incite the invisible marauder to added excesses. But I was the larger and stronger of the two, and my buckles held, and I had the advantage of an iron railing to cling to. After a short struggle my would-be rescuer lost. She turned loose of my kicking straps and breech bands, and making hurried ref- erence to various names in the calendar of the canonized she fled from my presence. I heard her falling down the stairs to the floor below. The next day I had a new chamber- maid; this one had tendered her resigna- tion. Not until the middle of the afternoon was the proper explanation for the phenomenon forthcoming. It came then from the Min- istry of War, in the bald and unembroid- ered laconics of a formal communiqué. At the first time of hearing it the announce- ment seemed so inconceivable, so mar festly impossible that official sanction was needed to make me believe Teuton ingenu- ity had found a way to upset all the pre- viously accepted principles touching on gravity and friction; on ares and orbits; on aims and directions; on projectiles and projectives; on the resisting tensility of steel bores and on the carrying power of gun charges—by producing a cannon witha ranging scope of somewhere between sixty and ninety miles.

French Calmness in Danger Days of bombardment followed—days which culminated on that never-to-be- forgotten Good Friday when malignant Chance sped a shell to wreck one of the oldest churches in Paris and to kill seventy- | five and wound ninety worshipers gathered beneath its roof in celebration of the cruci- fixion of a merciful and loving Redeemer. After the first flurry of uncertainty the | populace for the most part grew tranquil; now that they knew the origin of the far- | flung punishment there was measurably less dread of the consequences among the masses | of the people. On days when the shells ex- ploded futilely the daily press and the comedians in the music halls made jokes at the expense of Big Bertha; as, for example, on a day when a fragment of shell took the razor out of the hand of a man who was shaving himself, without doing him the slightest injury; and again when a whole shell wrecked a butcher shop and strewed the neighborhood with kidneys and livers and rib ends of beef, but spared the butcher and his family. On days when the colossal piece scored a murderous coup for its masters and took innocent life, the papers printed the true death lists without at- tempt at concealment of the ravages of the monster. And when it resumed its even terrors women went shopping i in the Rue de la Paix; children played in the parks; the flower women of the Madeleine sold their wares to customers with the reverberations of the explosions booming in their ears; the crowds that sat sipping colored drinks at small tables in front of the boulevard cafés on fair afternoons were almost as nu- merous as they had been before the persist- | ent thing started; and unless the sound was very loud indeed the average promenader barely lifted his or her head at each recur- ring report. In America we look upon the French as an excitable race, but here they offered to the world a pattern for the prac- tice of fortitude. A good many people departed fron: Paris to the southward. However, there was calmness under constant danger. people, who were in Paris in numbers mounting up into the thousands, likewise set a fine example of sang-froid. On the evening of the opening day of the bombard- ing, when anvone might have been par- doned for being a bit jumpy, an audience of enlisted men which packed the American Soldiers and Sailors’ Club in the Rue Royale was gathered to hear a jazz band play Yankee tunes and afterward to hear an amateur speaker make an address. The cannon had suspended its annoying per- formances with the going down of the sun, but just as the speaker stood up by the piano the alerte for an air attack—which, by the way, proved to be a false alarm, after all—was heard outside. There was a little pause, and a rustling of bodies.

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Paint Your Ford for $1.25 Think of it—only one coat of Glidden Auto Finish and you have a new looking car You can easily do it yourself and in less than 48 hours you'll be driving again You'll have a rich, brilliant finish that will give you lasting satisfaction Go to your regular dealer $1.50) for 1 quart of Auto Finish Black to—THE GLIDDEN CoO., If he cannot supply you, send $1.25 (Canadian Imperial Quart 1519 Berea Rd., Cleveland, Ohio. Canadian Address, Toronto, Ontario N of Deal oe Send at once for yur Marketin Then the man, who was on his feet, spoke up. ‘“‘I’ll stay as long as anyone else does,” he said. “Anyhow, I don’t know which is likely to be the worse of two evils—my poor attempts at entertaining you inside or the boche’s threatened per- formances outside.” A great yell of approval went up and not a single person left the building until after the chairman announced that the program for the evening had reached its conclusion. I know this to be a fact because I was among those present. To be sure, the strain of the harassment got upon the nerves of some; that would be inevitable, human nature being what it is. Attendance at the theaters, especially for the matinées, fell off appreciably; this, though, being attributable, I think, more to fear of panic inside the buildings than to fear of what the missiles might do to the buildings themselves. And there was no record of any individual, whether man or woman, quitting a post of responsibility because of the personal peril to which all alike were exposed. The Picture at Saint-Gobain Likewise on those days when the great gun functioned promptly at twenty-minute intervals one would see men sitting in drinking places with their eyes glued to the faces of their wrist watches while they waited for the next crash. For those whose nerves lay close to their skins this dam- nable regularity of it was the worst phase of the thing. There was something so characteristic- ally and atrociously German, something so hellishly methodical in the tormenting certainty that each hour would be divided into three equal parts by three descending steel tubes of potential destruction. Big Bertha operated ona perfect schedule. She opened up daily at seven A. M. sharp; she quit at six-twenty Pp. M. It was as though the crew that tended her carried union cards. They were never tardy. Neither did they work overtime. But if the Prus- sians counted upon bedeviling the people into panic and distracting the industrial and social economies of Paris they missed They made some people des- perately unhappy, no doubt, and they frightened some; but the true organism of the community remained serene and un- impaired. I had the small advantage of being able to visualize the setting in the forest of Saint- Gobain, to the west of Laon, for I was there once in German company. I could conjure up a presentment of the scene there enacted | on the day when Big Bertha’s makers and masters sprang their well-guarded surprise, | which so carefully and so secretly had been evolved during months of planning and constructing and experimentations. Behold, then, the vision: It is a fine spring morning. There is dew on the grass and there is song in the throats of the birds, and young foliage is upon the trees. The great gray gun—it is nearly ninety feet long and according to inspired Teutonic chron- iclers resembles a vast metal crane—squats its misshapen mass upon a prepared con- crete base in the edge of the woods, just on the timbered shoulder of a hill. Its long muzzle protrudes at an angle from the interlacing boughs of the thicket where it hides; at a very steep angle, too, since the charge it will fire must ascend twenty miles into the air in order to reach its objective. Behind it is a stenciling of white birches and slender poplars flung up against the sky line; in front of it is a disused meadow where the newly minted coinage of prodi- gal springtime—dandelions that are like gold coins and wild marguerites that are like silver ones—spanglesthe grass asthough the profligate season had strewn its treas- ures broadcast there. The gunners make ready the monster for its dedication. They open its great navel and slide into its belly a steel shell nine inches thick and three feet long, ready and girthed with beltings of spun brass. The supreme moment is at hand. From a group of staff officers advances a small man, grown old before his time; this man wears the field uniform of a Prussian field marshal. He has a sword at his side and spurs on his booted feet and a spiked helmet upon his head. His hair is almost snow-white, and his mustache with its fierce upturned and tufted ends is white. From between slitted lids embedded in his skull behind unhealthy dropsical pouches of flesh his brooding mor- | bid eyes show as two blue dots, like touches June 29,1918 of pale light glinting on twin disks of shallow polished agate. While all about him bow, almost in the manner of priests making obeisance before a shrine, he touches with one sacred finger the button of an electrical controller. The air is blasted and the earth rocks then to the loudest crash that ever issued from the mouth of a gun; forall its bulk and weight, the cannon recoils on its carriage and shakes itself; the tree tops quiver in a palsy; the young grass is flattened as though by a sudden high wind blowing along the ground; the frightened birds flutter about and are mute. The bellowing echoes die away ina fainter and yet fainter cadence. The anointed of God turns up his good wrist to consider the face of the watch strapped thereon; his staff follow his royal example. One minute passes in a sort of sacerdotal silence. There is drama in the pause—a fine theatricalism in the interlude. Two minutes—two and a half minutes pass. This is one part of the picture. There is another part of it: Seventy miles away, in a spot where a busy street opens out into a paved plaza, all manner of common ordinary workaday persons are busied about their puny affairs. In ad- dition to being common and ordinary these folks do not believe in the divine right of kings—truly a high crime and misde- meanor. Moreover, they persist in the heretical practice of republicanism; they believe actually that all men are born free and equal; that all men have the grace and the authority within them to choose their own rulers; that all men have the right to live their own lives free from foreign dicta- tion and alien despotism. But at this particular moment they are not concerned in the least with politics or policies. Their simple day is starting. A woman in a sidewalk kiosk is arranging morning papers on her narrow shelf. A half grown girl in a small booth set in the middle of the square where the tracks of the tramway end is selling street-car tickets to workingmen in blouses and baggy corduroy trousers. Huck- sters and barrow men have established a small market along the curbing of the pavement. A waiter is mopping the metal tops of a row of little round tables under the glass marquise of a café. Trains and wagons are passing with a rumble of wheels. Here there is no drama except the simple homely drama of applied industry. When the Shell Felli Three minutes pass! Far away to the north, where the woods ure quiet again and the birds have mustered up courage to sing once more, the Regal One drops his arm and looks about him at his officers, nodding and smiling. Smiling they nod back in chorus like well-trained automata. There is a murmur of interchanged congratula- tions. The effort upon which so much invaluable time and so much scientific thought have been expended stands unique and accomplished. Unless all calculations have failed the nine-inch shell has reached its mark, has scored its bull’s-eye, has done its predestined job. It has; those calculations could not go wrong. Out of the kindly and smiling heavens, with no warning except the shriek of its cleaving passage through the skies, the bolt descends in the busy square. The glass awning over the café front becomes a darting rain of sharp-edged javelins; the paving stones rise and spread in hurtling fragments from a smoking crater in the roadway. There are a few minutes of mad frenzy among those people assembled there. Then a measure of quiet succeeds to the tumult. The work of rescue starts. The woman who vended papers is a crushed mass under the wreckage of her kiosk; the girl who sold car tickets is dead and mangled beneath the flattened booth; the waiter who wiped off the table tops lies among his tables now, the whole top of his head sliced away by slivers of glass; here and there in the square are scattered small motionless clumps that resemble heaps of bloodied and torn rags. Wounded men and women are being carried away, groaning and screaming as they go. But in the edge of the woods at Saint- Gobain the Kaiser is climbing into his car to ride to his headquarters. It is his breakfast time and past it, and he has a fine appetite this morning. The picture is complete. The campaign for Kultur in the world has scored another triuraph, the said score standing: Seven dead; fifteen injured.

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64 From a Ford to a Iruck in 60 Seconds THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 Gf) 1 V0, Touring Car One Minute; Delivery Truck the Next A Ford touring car equipped with the Heath DUPLEX is changed in one minute to a delivery car, or back again. The Heath DUPLEX is a delivery body, per manently attached to the Ford without alter ation of the chassis. It folds away under the regular Ford tonneau and is entirely concealed when not in use. It has a carrying space 4 feet 4!4 inches long, 32 inches wide, 10 inches deep. In making the original installation, the ton neau is detached and made removable. There- after it can be taken off or slid into place in 60 seconds, and the front seat of the Ford remains undisturbed. When the Heath DUPLEX is opened up, the Ford becomes a large-capacity, economical delivery car, properly fitted out for its work. When the Heath DUPLEX is folded away and the tonneau in place, the Ford is again a passenger car, with no outward sign of its double utility. The Heath DUPLEX is fully guaranteed by the McCord Manufacturing Company. The Heath DUPLEX comes securely packed, ready for installation. Complete instructions are furnished, and anyone handy with tools can readily make the original installation Until the dealer organization is completed, the Heath DUPLEX can be bought direct from the manufacturers. Price-—F. O. B, Detroit, $57.50 le PATENTED MAY 12 1908, DEC 19 /F16 Lift off the Ford tonneau, open up the Heath DUPLEX, and you have a staunch, strong delivery car. Fold up the Heath DUPLEX, put back the tonneau, and you have a Ford touring car. Either way, the change is accomplished in a minute’s time or less. The Heath DUPLEX delivery body folds up out of sight under the tonneau of the Ford touring car. It is a permanent attachment, always ready for instant use on any Ford car, new or old. Once the Heath DUPLEX is installed, your Ford is forever after ready as passenger car or truck in 60 seconds’ time. The Heath DUPLEX is manufactured by the McCord Manufacturing Company of Detroit, maker of McCord Radiators for passenger motor cars and motor trucks. It is built with the conscientious care that has always characterized the work of this company—built to last as long as the Ford lasts. It comes to a million or more Ford owners who habitually transport goods in the tonneau of their cars, as the one practical, simple and economical solution of the passenger-delivery- car problem. No tools are required. It enters a ready-made market that includes every community in the country. Its wholesale and retail distribution requires a widespread organization. Dealers and distributors now established in the motor-car business are the logical men to assist in Heath DUPLEX distribution. This is particularly true, now, because of the acute shortage of new cars. The Heath DUPLEX market is among the thousands of Fords already in use. Bankers and other business men are en- couraged to form companies to take over Heath DUPLEX territory. The McCord Manufacturing Company re- quires, of individuals and companies, personal and financial integrity of the highest order. Applications should be filed at once, by wire or by mail, direct with the McCord Com- pany, which will send a representative in cases where a personal call is necessary. McCord Manufacturing Co., Inc. Detroit, Michigan

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MARY ELDON’S AUNT (Continued from Page /1) “Why didn’t you marry someone clever, Frank?” ° ‘*] was engaged to one once fortwo years.’ “Was she clev = “Oh, very!” he replied solemnly; then, in rather a hard tone: “Damn clever!” Mary looked frightened. ““Why didn’t you marry her, then?” “They were very unhappy years, little Thingummy.” “TI don’t understand car “She swered. “That’s horrid— horrid! wish you hadn't told me.” “Let's prete nd I didn’t.” “Yes; we'll pretend that. What was her er? Tell me, so that I wasn’t clev he an- “y enough,” er * said Mary. lame? **That’s not much of a beginning.” ‘But tell me.” “Her name was FE] ‘And she wasn’t cle eanor Broon.” » 9” ver enough? “No.” “Tn fact, she was silly?” “She was silly then; and now let’s forget all about it.” But Mary didn’t forget. As with all simple-minded folk, the small seed of doubt, once implanted, took root. She regarded Frank curiously when he was not actually looking at her, anc an aching wondering oppressed her as to whether her small stock of attainments would be sufficient to sat- isfy this big man’s requirements. She found herself criticizing the character of her replies to what he said, and realized that almost invariably they were the same: “Oh, yes, Frank—let’s!”’ or ‘‘Oh, Frank, you are funny!” It is an awful discovery to catch oneself in repetition. It was just then when Frank began to worried. Certain business interests n which he was concerned were becoming which pointed to the neces- sity of going abroad for a while tostraighten them out. He delayed telling her as long as possible;

100K rout lesome . but meantime his manner was preoccupied and distrait. He answered her questions vaguely, as though his attention was otherwise occupied. It required only this to set Mary’s alarms more solidly. And then came bound in a green cover and entitled Change, by Eleanor £ Broon. disaster, The newspapers acclaimed the book as a work of astonishing wit and insight; and the public, ever appreciative of a savory diet, lavished upon it their praises and four-and-sixpences. Frank returned from the city with a copy one evening and stayed up half the night reading At twelve o’clock Mary descended the stairs and found him enthralled. “Frank,” she said reproachfully. ‘Um!” “It’s ever so late; it is * “ Right-oh, little Thingummy. be long ei ‘But it’s lonely as anything in bed!” He smiled at her over the top of the book. ““You’ll catch cold in your nighty.”’ “Do you like that book better, than me in my nighty?”’ “I shall if you catch a cold. ‘Is it clever?” “Yes: J suppose it’s clever *“Who wrote it?” “Eh! Oh, it was written by friend of mine— Eleanor Broon.”’ “Oh!” said Mary, and quietly mounted the stairs. In bed she lay with her eyes wide open and the lights out. Eleanor Broon! She had written a book—wonderful enough to keep her Frank poring over its pages late in the night. And this was the woman who wasn’t clever enough to become his wife! Followed a more startling thought: They had been engaged two years before Frank cut the ties with Eleanor; whereas she Mary—had known him but twelve months. The arithmetic was obvious. If he had tired in so short a while of someone clever enough to write a book — in itself an achieve- ment of such immensity as to stagger the intellect—then he would clearly have drained Mary’s slender resources in a far shorter period. She reflected that never once had Frank said she—his wife—-was clever. Always he had laughed or kissed her when she had put a question on this point. No-there was no escaping from the truth; she was not clever; she was just a silly little thing, I'll not old an

and as sucl numbered. And, lying lonely in her white bed, Mary gasped, as fear laid hands of ice upon her warm little heart. The next day Frank told her he would have to go away. “It is wholly wretched, little Thing- ummy,” he blurted out. jut I'll be gone only two months at the outside.” He expected tears; but they were not forthcoming. To his surprise, she nodded gravely. He was not to know that, despite the misery the thought of his absence caused, those two months opened to Mary a path to deliverance. She had been think- ing and had arrived at a mighty resolution. She had decided that to keep his love she must become clever; and here was the chance to do so. Eight weeks’ wretched- 1 her days of happiness were ness was worth enduring when the prize offered was a lifetime of happiness. It was a tremendous undertaking; but “TI won’t start until he has really gone,” she told herself, and the few days before his departure were the closest and coziest of all her love memories. And then the day of departure came, and she was back in the empty house, con- fronted with the task of becoming clever. So Mary read Change, and hated it. The essence of the book was provocation. The male must forever be kept guessing; he must follow the woman’s moods through a labyrinth of dark galleries, leading to no- where. From high spirits she must drop to melancholy, without apparent transition; when his mood was adjusted to hers she must vary the program with cynicism. These principles, and many others, were set forth in novel form with a spice of wit that was undeniable. What little Mary comprehended filled her with pious disgust, and this made her strenuous efforts to suit these qualities to her own personality the more praiseworthy. Frank would expect her to write every day, even though the mail went but once a week; and to do so was a natural inclina- tion. She perceived, however, that to do so would not suit the new character, and so forbore to address more than one short letter to him in each seven days. To ease her conscience for this fearful sacrifice she wrote him a nightly letter, in which she poured forth her sorrows; and this she posted under his unrumpled pillow in the big lonely bed. In the daytime she studied neurotics and committed to memory phrases such as “‘How weirdly fascinating!’’ or empty epigrams culled from expensive periodicals. She learned to touch her temple with a sensitive third finger—play a chord of music—slam the piano cover—exclaim “Ha!” and walk quickly from the room. She visited the best theaters and observed how the best wives shivered in their hus- bands’ arms—eluded the touch of their lips; and, with horror, she listened to their heresies about babies. It was a particularly awful thought that to be clever one must express contempt and apathy to the appeal of tiny beings. It came to Mary at a time when she herself THE SATURDAY

was stirred by first lights of the dawn of motherhood. Her tragedy was thus complete; and that night of discovery Mary hugged Frank’s pillow and howled dismally. Then she pre- tended it was a baby and, cradling it in her arms, cried herself to sleep. On the sixth week of the separation little Miss Eldon, who had written repeatedly, but without result, to ask Mary to come to see her, packed a basketwork suitcase and traveled to town to find out what it was all about. The first things she noticed were that the parlor maid had on a grubby apron and that the white stair treads ‘‘weren’t’’! She found Mary with her hair brushed off her forehead, and a book, entitled Hints to Young Mothers, screened behind the | voluptuous sheets of La Vie Parisienne. Mary’s impulse was to spring to her feet and envelop the little old lady in a smother of embraces; but her six weeks’ unrelenting study opposed the action, and her first words were the only really serious offense she ever committed: ““My dear aunt and so unexpected!” Miss Eldon opened her gray eyes wide, sat down suddenly on a small sofa, and burst into tears. In an instant Mary was this is too delightful, > ‘ Pima: Khali Bir oy ? Mitel be WEAE ProONE: eu Fa a i heal 9 ROT BR od ition! | Be v is ich) fe elk AUeati” ii} Bou Fall IF ae cds rere om FLATO +5 lima ik ES Hi ili +O ti? Hig: ei beh! ‘yA at 1st Bs ipie bee oi eal a cs He 3 Pte bsee ~—y¥

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Those silver candlesticks are quite tar- nished and I’m sure that isn’t a proper paper you were reading.” “No,” confessed Mary; “and I have to shut my eyes when I look at it.” And then, without taking breath, she launched into a de. SC ription of her woes and endeavors. “But was he tired of you, dear?” “No, auntie, not yet; but soon he’s bound to be, and that’s why I am learning to be clever.” Miss Eldon shook her head. “Oh, dear,” she said; ‘I’m sure you are being very wrong. Think how awful it will be if you are!” “Don’t,” wailed Mary. “He got tired of someone who was rez ally clever in twoyears. s “But that, doesn’t prove anything.” “It might.” “Show me one of the clever things you’ve learned to do.” “Then promise you won’t laugh.” “I promise. And Mary performed her touching chord-and-slam exit. “That was very nasty,” said Miss Eldon. “Do you do any more?” “Yes,” said Mary ruefully; “but that’s the most difficult.’ It would be idle to follow so absurd a conversation to its finish. All that was temple- | achieved was to shake poor little Miss | a rule, thought slowly. Eldon’s convictions. —— must just think 4 over, darling,” said; ‘‘and perhaps ask a few people.” So she retired to her room, with a copy of the Times, to review the situation. In one of the columns was a paragraph dealing with a fashionable divorce case. As Miss Eldon did not read matter of this kind; but circumstances demanded a wider range of experience. So she put on her spectacles and read, and felt exceedingly wicked. There was nothing, however, in the conventional tale of misconduct to bring enlightenment; but she observed that the name of the solic itors—Messrs. Levis & Levis — recurred in several other more briefly recorded cases. “They ought to know all about what makes people unhappy,” she thought. “I wonder whether they would tell me. At any rate, I can go and see.” With as little disturbance as possible she slipped out of the house and climbed to the top of a bus. Occupying most of the seat beside her sat a navvy of middle age, who sucked at a short clay pipe with that ami- able expression of vacuity which a pipe produces. “It’sa lovely day,” ventured Miss Eldon. “Ah!” came the indorsement after a re- flecting pause; then, since he saw that the little old lady was of agreeable mien, he generously offered her a larger share of the seat. “That’s very kind of you.” “Don’t do me no ’arm, missus.” “I suppose not; but lots of people wouldn’t have thought of it. But you're wrong in calling me missus, for I’m not married.” “Ah! Likely enough you'd more flesh if you ’ad been.” “Is that so? That’s very I wonder why. You are married “A she ‘ave a bit interest ing. yes? ‘And are you happy?” “Never thought about it.” “But you’re not unhappy?” “Not that I know of.” “And is your wife always the same? “Think I’ve got ’alf a dozen of ’em, then?” **T mean, does she alter much?” “Puts on flesh a bit.” “But in other ways?” “T dunno.” “‘But you would know if she did. I mean, suppose she changed her ways—didn’t an- swer when you spoke to her; or behaved oddly, and wouldn’t let you kiss her, and that sort of thing—would you like her any 9, better for that? The navvy scratched his head and “I can tell you,” he replied with mean- ing,‘‘that she wouldn’t hke me none the better if she tried it on.” “Oh, I’m so glad!” cried Mary Eldon’s aunt. “And I’m sure, really, that you’ re tremendously happy—aren’t you? But he relapsed into vacancy again. June 29,1918 “Never thought about it,” he said. Miss Eldon walked through the sober closes of Lincoln’s Inn Fields until she came to the offices of Levis & Levis. At her entrance a clerk rose and s “Yes?’’—with a question mark. “T want to see Mr. Levis about a di- vorce,” replied Miss Eldon with self- possession. The clerk eyed her in surprise. “T’ll see if he is disengaged,” and went out. After a while he returned and, asking her name, ushered her into a gloomy inner office, where a comfortable-figured gentle- man of past middle age sat before a large writing table. “Mrs. Eldon,” said the clerk. “‘Miss!’’ corrected Mary Eldon’s aunt. “Tf so,” said Mr. Levis as the clerk closed the door, “‘why do you wish to see me about a divorce?”’ “I’m afraid it wasn’t quite true; but I wanted to see you and thought that would be the surest way.” said said he, Mr. Levis’ bushy eyebrows came to- gether. “Tf you are a reporter ——”’ he began; but she reassured him with the words: “Oh, no; I have come professionally. Indeed, I took the trouble to get together the exact sum of six-and-eightpence for your fee, and then stupidly gave the odd twopence to the bus conductor.” Mr. Levis was, of necessity, a man who judged character at first sight; added to this he possessed a sense of humor. The little lady in black, with her simple sincer- ity and her six-and-eightpence, impressed him favorably. ““Won’t you sit down and tell me how I can be of service?” “It’s difficult,” she answered, “and per- haps you'll think my questions very fool- ish. I want to know what makes people get tired of each other?” “You are speaking of men and women?” “Yes; husbands and wives particularly.” **Generally someone else.” Miss Eldon shook her head emphatically. “‘T am sure that is nonsense,” she said. **No one looks at other people’s possessions unless they are tired of their own.” ‘Admitted, my dear lady; but the ques- tion can hardly be answered in a genera] sense. Broadly speaking, one might say that stupidity lies at the root of most un- happy marriages—stupidity and misunder- standing. They discover too late that they have not got what they bargained for, or what they do possess has deteriorated.” He placed his fingers together and leaned bac k in his chair. ‘It so often happens that goods do not improve on closer acquaintance. We buv a necktie or a blouse—delightful in the shop window, but disappointing when the wrap- pings are removed in our own homes. The parallel occurs with human beings. We find our choice falls short of our expecta- tions; the very pattern to have altered.” “Then what makes a happy marriage?” “Confidence that we have secured pre- cisely what we hoped to secure. I am speaking from the man’s point of view, and more men are alike in this respect. At only one part of his life is a man very clear as to the exact qualities he desires in a woman, and that is before marriage. After marriage he is worried as to whether or not he has obtained them.” seems “Oh, you d larling!’’ said Miss Eldon irre pressibly. ‘* Then a man isn’t always on the lookout for his wife to be suddenly clever and difficult and brilliant?” “Not unless he took her on those condi- tions.”’ “IT was sure of that! clever women—do they? “Indeed, yes, my dear lady; a very clever woman to realize band’s ideals.” *“By clever I meant stand— moody, and Mr. Levis nodded. “T know,” he said. Men don’t like for it takes her hus- difficult to under- Oh, you know!”’ **And very few men desire the neurotic, highly strung, super- sensitive being; not because there is any great harm in those qualities, and not be- cause there is no good in them, but simply because the average man is too lazy and too stupid to bother with anything problem- atical. It is so easy for a woman to be clev- ped than he r husband, and so clever of her if she isn’t. “Oh, I must remember that,’’ said Miss Eldon; ‘‘for it seems to cover everything. You have been kind to tell me.” (Continued on Page 69

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Continued from Page 66) “Won't you repay the kindness by ex- p laining why you wished to know? ‘his Miss Eldon very readily did. “Beautiful!” said Mr. Levis. “And any other husband would love her for it, but not her own. You understand that? “Yes; I have all along, but I wanted to be quite suré “Tt will be difficult to stop her now after all the pains she has taken.” “T shan’t try; but I'll manage some- how.”’ She rose and began to fumble in her bag. “‘Thank you so very much. And are you quite sure that six and eightpence is your fee?’ “Why, no,” said Mr. ously. “That w ““Oh—surely?” ‘Believe me, I have never charged more for an interview of this kind.” “Well, if you say so.’”’ She tock out some coins. “There! I} ave nothing but a shilling with a hole i “Tt is the only ] a believe you “Not at all; in it is the re: Good-by! Miss Eldon returned to Mary with a greatresolve. Very deliberatelyshe fostered the clever movement; and, just as she had taught Mary the shaghh little waltzes, she put her through the paces of her new moods. And poor Mary wou!d perform the silly travesty with improving artistry, but in- creasing discontent. Then one day Miss Eldon noticed a light in her eyes that comes to a woman at only certain wonderful times. It was a light no real woman can misread. “You never told me!” “No; but it’s why I can’t let him be tired of me Miss Eldon took Ma ary by both handsand dre w her to the rug be side ‘her chair. “‘Listen!’’ she said. “If by any tiny means you can see that Frank would love you bet as you were, then forget forget in an instant all this silliness. What’s going to happen is a real cord that binds to- gether two people’s happiness for all time. Don’t take any risks, dear. Throw all the rest away—thisis what matters. Promise!”’ “I promise; but first I must let him see I’m not really silly.’ Two days later Mary had a wireless. “He'll be at Southampton to-morrow night, auntie,’’ she gasped. “I’ve a lovely new frock, and we'll go down and stand on the end of the pier and wave our hankies and shout ‘Hurray!’” “Nothing of the kind!” replied the little old lady. “‘That would spoil everything. You mustn’t meet the ship; you mustn’t think of such a thing. You will stop quietly at home until he arrives.” “Oh, but, auntie “‘What would be the use of all these prep- arations if you show him you are really pleased that he has returned?” ‘*Mayn’t I even go to the station?” “Perhaps you might go to the station if you say you happened to be in the neigh- borhood id **You'll come, too, Levis very seri- ll be one shi ing. in it.’ id I ever accept.” » laug!) ing at m e.’ ing with a hole of frie ondship.

urrency she said. can’t—can’t ter just ” then—just in case he’s cToss: “Certain country I’m going back to the morning. ly not; to-morrow ‘“‘But suppose I can’t doit properly a] “You have got to doit properly. Every- thing depends on doing it prope arly. Eve ry- thing depends on the first impression. Mary’s face screwed itself up into a very small shape. “I wish—I wish I didn’t have to do it,’ she said. ‘There! Don’t worry, dear. Perhaps you won't have to do it for long, after all.” “‘But won't you stop and help me just a little while?”’ “No. It would spoil it all if I didn’t go away. Now off to bed with you! You won't look the par t if you have dark rings round your eyes “You’ re con ing g te »0?”” **Soon,”’ said little Miss Eldon. But it was a long time before she climbed the stairs. She spread a newspaper on the dining- room table and, collecting all the silver from different parts of the house, gave ita thorough cleaning. “That’s morelike!

’*shesaid. Sherubbed her small nose reflectively. ‘‘ Now I'll just do the stair treads and—oh, of course!” “Oh, of course!’’ was the death knell of Mary’s smart papers. Several expensive periodicals went up the chimney in flames. The air seemed clearer after they had been consumed. “Now it won't do any hi arm to have clean curtains all over the house.” ‘his was something of an undertaking, but the results justified the labor; and when, at last, the little old lady retired she was feeling happier than she had felt for a long while. “At any rate, he will see that the change is only a superficial one,’’ she thought. At breakfast next morning she forbade M ary to come and see her off. “Tt will be good practice for you,’’ she said. “So, when I've finished my cup of coffee, I shall slip quietly away. Don't for- get all you’ve learne d, dear; and don’t forget your promise!” Without waiting long enough for a scene to develop, Miss Eldon lowered her veil and, gripping the pilgrim basket, passed hastily from the house. She did not alight at the small country station in Hampshire, how- ever, but remained in the train until it reached Southampton. At Southampton she purchased a spray of pink roses and tucked them in the belt of her dress. “If he saw me all alone on the quay, and in black, the poor boy might think things!” she reflected. She picketed the extreme point of the jetty, and her kerchief was the liveliest of all when the big liner drew alongside. Frank was one of the first passengers to come ashore; and, though he smiled, there was a note of anxiety in his e xpre ssion. “Where's little Thingummy?” he de- manded. “IT wouldn’t let her come.” “Is she ill?” “Of course not! But she is building her nest, and people mustn’t travel when they are building nests.”’ “You old glory!”’ exclaimed Frank. it true? | fae ““Of course! Now there’s three-quarters of an hour before the train starts. Will you take me to lunch, please? For I have lots and lots to say.” “Is she very happy?” “T’ll tell you everything at lunch.’ They found a quiet corner in an old hotel and little Miss Eldon spoke the story in gentle, even tones. “Bless her heart!” said Frank. “But you musin’t,”’ came the warning; “for that i is what you ‘woulk isay toa child.’ ‘And isn’t it just a child she is?” “Ts show off. She is trying for a grander mo- tive, and that’s what makes the little effort so pathetic. Frank, have you ever told her she is clever?” “Why, no.” “Then do—do! For isn’t hers the sweet- est cleverness of all—that knows how to make others happy? If you had married the girl who wrote the book, wouldn’t you have done your best to find the way to her inner thoughts for the sake of making life sweeter?” mel suppose I should; as it is. ‘Then—then, for God’s sake, don’t take it for granted. There! I have never used language like that before; but it is so fright- fully important; so much better to know the hearts of simple things than of difficult. Don’t be lazy because happiness has come easily. And remember what she is doing now as an effort—an unreal effort— might happen again as a reality. “T shan’t forget,” said Frank. rather a wonder—aren’t you?” “T’ve just taken care of the things I a that’s all. Once, years ago, | smashed a beautiful little piece of china because I didn’t hold it tight enough. I shall never break another for the same rea- son. Now you must hurry or you'll miss the train. “You're not coming?” “Of course not! Why, I come to meet you.” “I see,” he said. “‘Of course you didn’t! But how am I to act?” “You must decide that,”’ she said. “All I know is that you must let her see you are grateful for what she is doing.” “T’ll manage,” he said. you!” Just as the train moved from the station he said: “If I break my beautiful piece of china it willbe becauseI heldittootight. Good-by!”’ She stood long after the last carriage had vanished to a pin point of dust—a quaint little figure, with a pilgrim basket and a very glorious understanding. “T think it will be all right,” she mur- mured, to the great surprise of a porter. but life is so sweet “You're didn’t even “God bless THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 69 6a lebio es —<“i—S No; for a child tries to be clever to

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As Frank jumped from the train she moved impulsively toward him; then checked herself and extended a limp gloved hand. “How late you are, Frank! It wassucha bore waiting.’ And then a most amazing thing hap- pened. Frank just nodded and smiled over her shoulder to a liner acquaintance who was lifting his hand luggage from the train. ‘Ah— Mary!” he said. “‘ Excuse me a minute. There’s a man over there —— And, without waiting for her reply, he passed on and began speaking to his friend. The shock of his indifference was so tre- mendous that Mary stood where she was, her hand still outstretched. Presently Frank returned. “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” he said; ‘“‘but, really, you shouldn’t have bothered to come. I shall have to see to my kit, and I ought really to go round by the city before coming home.” The cold douche of his words in some measure revived her activities. She floun- dered for an answer and produced: “T shall have tea at my bridge club, then.” “*Good idea!"’ he answered. ‘I’m pretty This your taxi? Right! Where shall I tell him to drive? **My bridge club,” faltered Mary. “The Ladies’ Bridge Club,” said Frank. “I don’t know where that is, no more’n death,”’ observed the driver. “Nor do I,” replied Frank; “but drive on all the same. It doesn’t matter.” Outside the station yard, and speaking with prodigious self-control, Mary gave the driver an address. As a man of experience he considered the district named a trifle residentia! for a club. Five minutes later, with his luggage be- side him, Frank was driving homeward. He deposited the bags in the hall and Good-by for the present. | marched upstairs to the drawing-room. As | he approached the door he heard the un- | him when he mistakable sound of a sob. He cleared his throat noisily and delayed entering the room to give her leisure to compose herself. Mary was standing with her back toward came in. “Had a good game?” he cheerfully in- | quired. } come. | they seek entertainment, | tered Mary ; “Yes, very; no—that is, how did you like the city?” “Oh, very much!” he gravely replied. “T felt the freedom of it—a sense of wel- We ll, here I am back to the old gray life again!” Mary . ked up his words. “Gray life?” she said. Frank nodded. “Yes; for, after all, there was the sun- shine out there and the broad expanses of Nature. For companionship one had a horse to ride—and not a bad companion, either. After all, a horse gives a whinny of his stall in the in that, you welcome when you visit morning. There’s comfort know. “‘Sometimes I’m disposed to agree with men who hold that a dumb animal is more constant in his affections than a human being. Generally spe aking, what does the life of two married people consist of? Merely existence under a single roof. If usually they seek it elsewhere and apart. The return of a husband who has been away for weeks is not of sufficient importance to postpone a game of bridge to celebrate. Rather sad and rather futile in its way!” “‘I—I didn’t go and play bridge,” fal- then, suddenly realizing that she had given ground, she turned about and raised the lid of the piano, and said “IT couldn't be bothered.” Jure 29,1918 “T make no accusations. After all, you and I are sufficiently married to have no illusions about these matters—are we not? “Y-yes. How tedious you are!” “So glad you agree! We are in the en- chanting position of being able to do as we like with each other, and say what we like. Isn’t that so?” Y-yes.”” “Don’t say so if you don’t agree.” % d-do agree.” Capital! Can’t I persuade you to con- tribute a few sentiments toward the dis- c ussion? *T-too much of a bore!”’ ““Well—er—won’t you something?” “No; thank you.” ‘Just as you like. smoke? * ‘Do, by all means.” Her back was still toward him. Frank never took his eyes from her as he produced a cigarette and lit it. “Do you mind if I sit down?” She gave a slight movement of assent. He took a chair, his eyes still resting upon her. Presently he said: “Do you mind if I yawn?” “ play a little Do you mind if I “No; you may yawn!” said Mary fiercely. ‘‘You may yawn as much as you like.”’ She struck a mad chord of music, slammed down the piano cover, and threw up her head. There was solid reality in her actions. Then she swung round and made for the door. But as she moved her toe caught in a rug and she pitched forward, and Frank caught her in his arms. “Oh, marvelous being!”’ he exclaimed. “How wonderful of you to show me how dreadful life might be!” She flashed a look at him and the new- born resentment in her heart died in an instant. “D’you know that I never realized be- fore how gloriously lucky I was until you met me as some wives might meet their husbands? For that’s what you were doing, wasn’t it?’’ He assumed an expression of huge anxiety. ‘“‘You were just playing a part, weren’t you?” “Yes,” she nodded. “But you?” “I was playing a part too.” “Oh, Frank, | am glad! But I couldn’t have played my part very well if you guessed so soon.” “You played it wonderfully; but I just know you are too beautiful all through to be really like that. Oh, little Thingummy, you don’t know how I’ve longed for the same old you.” “Have you?” She snuggled against, him, her head all tucked in his shoulder. “‘ And you wouldn’ t love me better if I were clever? “You are clever!” “‘T mean clever enough to write a book.” “TI should hate it. It is much cleverer to fill the hours with yourself than put a lot of old words upon a page.” “Then I must always be as I am?” “Forever and ever. Amen!” “And I mustn’t change at all?” “Never the smallest scrap.” “S’pose I ¢ an’t help changing—just a tiddy wee bit? ‘Be kind, then, and change gradually; for lam only a silly person and I might not unde rstand. ‘I think you would—at least you ought to.” And she whispered a secret in her tiniest voice. “Oh, you clever, clever darling!” he whispered back, just as surprised as if he hadn’t known. ‘Is that being clever? “The cleverest thing in the world!” “Then,” said Mary, “‘it’s a lovely easy way; and I don’t why, in time, I couldn’t become very, very clever indeed.” And a very nice little sentiment, too, ” see when you come to consider it.

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for the advancement of policies more Euro- pean than American. Not until the sinking of the Lusitania, in 1915, did the Americans of German descent at the head of the National German- American Alliance show their hand. They had been delving in state and city elections through the local societies for the perpet- uation of things German, but they never took serious issue with the Government of the United States. Yet the record shows that immediately after the news of the destruction of the Lusitania and the loss of more than a thousand men, women and children without warning and without a chance, President Charles J. Hexamer, of the National German-American Alliance, telegraphed to the presidents of the forty- eight state alliances as follows: ‘Telegraph to President Wilson that your members and an overwhelming ma- jority of the citizens of your state do not approve of any drastic measures against Germany, since they are unjustified, and cause all your branch so cieties likewise to send in telegraphic protests.” Not a word of denunciation of the Ger- man Government, that had ordered the crime, n t a plea for the preservation of friendly relations for ssntionsnteal reasons, not a word of sorrow or regret that Amer- ican lives had been lost, but promptly a protest against “‘drastic measures against Germany, since they are unjustified.’ The telegrams came—and in that form by the thousands; not merely, however, to the White House but to members of the Se nate and House of Representatives in Washington. It begin ning of z cor test that was to trouble the f those legislators who worried more poner was the consc.ences eir political future and what the German voter would do to them in the next election han about the policy their Government should pursue. Mr. Wilson Attacked about the same time protest meetings were held against the exportation of arms and ammunition to Great Britain; these gatherings took place in Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Wilming- ton, Portland, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Indianapolis. On almost every occa- sion resolutions were adopted and telegrams sent to members of Congress. Usually in- fluential citizens, in the states and districts of senators and representatives respec- tively, were sought and especial efforts made to get signatures that did not imme- diately betray the German sympathizer. Count von Bernstorff, the German Am- bassador, who knew, as did the German Government, that the export of munitions was legal, wrote a protest to our Govern- ment just about the same time, and the Department of State returned a firm and comprehensive answer. Then the official organ of the National German-American Alliance, speaking of America’s reply, said: “The answer framed in disgustingly bombastic style one present a single sentence which is logical or worthy of consideration as proof. ‘Professor Wilson will again be a candi- date for the Presidency. All friends of true neutrality would be guilty of a capital folly if they again ry a the fate of the States to him. The only answer which they can give to the we apon. peddling firm of Wilson & Bryan will be 4 at the ballot box. The writing on the e wall should be apparent to President Wilson himself. Germany fully e xpe ected her offspring in America to use political coercion to help offset England’s advantages. For in a book ntitled The Greater Germany, published in 1915, for example, we find this confident assumption, typical of many others of milar purport: ‘The reproach often brought against the German-American that as soon as he goes to America he becomes a citizen is unjus- tified. For if the German who intends to remain there does not become a citizen he has no vote at the elections, no influence of any kind on the conduct of the nation’s political affairs. He must become an American; he is permitted, however, and All over the country does not can and ought in heart, thought, nature and act, to remain a German.” How true those words were one can judge by examining the, sent invitation German appeal and out in May, 1916, to all THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FATHERLAND ABOVE PARTY (Continued from Page 12 societies for the formation of a National German-American Conference Committee. It was issued and signed by John B. Mayer and Adolph Timm, president and secretary respectively of the executive committee of the German-American Central Bund of Pennsylvania, and is amazing in its bold- ness. As printed in the official bulletin of the organization it reads: “To the executive committee of the State Alliances of the National German- American Alliance; to the societies of Germans from similar districts in Germany; to German orders; to veterans and sol- diers; to alliances of singers, of turners, of gun societies; to societies of men of all confessions, and to the representatives of the German-American press: **German-Americans: In the firm con- viction that a united and common forward march is necessary in order to give expres- sion to the united opinion of the American citizens of German descent and birth with reference to certain presidential candidates, and in order to give that opinion expression and weight, the executive committee of the German-American Central Bund of Penn- sylvania herewith issues an appeal and an invitation to the formation of a national German-American Conference Committee in order that through representatives chosen by this committee the wishes of German- Americanism can be expressed clearly and unmistakably to the powers that be, either before or on the day of meetings of the conventions of both political parties, so that they may understand that they have to deal with a united German-American vote which will not permit itself in the various states to be disintegrated by political tricks and schemes. ‘For the purpose of organizing a confer- ence meeting there will be held on Sunday, the twenty-eighth of May, and on Monday, the twenty-ninth of May, 1916, in the Kaiserhof Hotel, near Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, a meeting. . . . The above- named committees of the above-named societies are heartily invited to send repre- sentatives to this meeting. Alliances which do not find it possible to be re presente d are requested to give their concurrence in writing. iow “The idea of tl committee of all e formation of a confer- German-Ame alliances is not new. For years —— German-Americans have regarded the cre: tion of such a neutral ground as the cal possibility. Never was this working to- gether so necessary as in this very serious time. These men who have for a long time had the idea of a conference committee are requested to give their coéperation and their presence.” ence rican Germanism Through Politics ““Come, all of you, you presidents of the many great alliances, you mighty warriors of the pulpit and the pen, in order that that thing os ich glows in the heart of every German-American can finally be brought to expression in united action and in a manner which will impress the political powers that be, who have respect only for a firm, closely locked organization. Let us take an example from the German people. Let the barriers fall, and come. If we are united, victory True enough the idea of political unity of Germans irrespective of American political party principles was not new. Indeed, the Chicago City Alliance in March of the same year had already organized politically and recorded its act in the official bulletin of the national body with this comment: “German ideals can be realized only when we have become a political power; and has there ever been a time when there has been more need for us to be united politically than at the present time? Are we not surrounded everywhere by ene- mies? “We must abov e all things tear ourselves away from every party yoke so that we may be in a position to give our votes in the next election without reference tothe past.” In other words, never mind whether you were a Republican or a Democrat before, but put the Fatherland above party. These words were used in the appeal sent out by the State Alliance of Germansin Illinois and published in the official record in May, 1916: “To the branch alliances and vereins: The State Alliance of Illinois in the Na- tional German-American Alliance resolved 1S Ours. at its annual convention in Peru, Illinois, to take part in the future in national politics also. But the chief and most im- portant part of this political activity con- sists above all else in this: That under all circumstances with the exertion of all our strength we shall aim to prevent the nomi- nation at the national conventions in June of the candidates mentioned. “Our slogan must be: ‘Against Wilson and Roosevelt.’ “To enumerate all the German-Americans must take against Wilson and Roosevelt is unneces sary. Only the chief reason shall be ex- pressly stated here: We are aga.ast Wilson and Roosevelt because in their whole con- duct they have proved themselves to be so un-American. We wish an American Presi dent, no tool of perfidious English poli- tics. ‘The ts ask to-day as in the past is to free America from the English yoke! And so the cry resounds again: ‘German s to the front.’ “We must act. As is well known the German vote is div ide d almost equally between the two great parties. It forms in a sense the tongue of the wagon. If the German vote sw side the other proved in why we stand reasons our ings to one lost bev =“ h: } is lost beyond hope, as has been earlier elections.” Teutonic Congratulations “Now is the time. The parties -will nominate their candidates in June. If the German-Americans now begin a powerful agitation it may be expected that at least one of the parties will see the handwriting on the wall ad nominate a truly American candidate. The other party would have to take the consequences. Therefore you German-Americans: Away with all party wrangling at this grave hour. The Father- land above party.” In such an atmosphere did the self- styled leaders of the German element in this country forgather to ‘ *punish”’ Colonel Roosevelt at the Republican National Con- vention and President Wilson at the Demo- cratic National Convention. Not only were repeated efforts made to stir up trouble in both parties, but the following letter was sent to all the Republican delegates at the Chicago convention in June, 1916: “In accordance with the resolution adopted by the German-American Alliance of Chicago and of the state of Illinois, we protest against the nomination of The odore Roosevelt or Elihu Root for President of the United States and take the liberty of bringing this to your attention. As for the Democ ratic convention, the tactics were equally futile, but it is inter- esting to observe that this foreign group carried them on nevertheless; and when Robert Emmet Burke stood out alone and prevented the renomination of President Wilson from being unanimous he received the following telegram from a branch of the German-American “We congratulate you on the stand you have taken in opposing the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. You have proved true to the people who elected you as a delegate to the Democratic convention. Assuring you of a continuation of our support, “G. F. HUMMEL, Pre ‘THOMAS P. BONFIELD, Chicago Alliance: ide nt, Secre tary.”’ Just what took place at the Chicago con- ference, where it was determined to use German vote to punish those who stood for a neutrality that was not oa yiased in favor of Germany to suit the German sympathizers in this country, is indicated by an official report made by John B. Mayer, president of the Pennsyl- vania Alliance, A ie issued the call for the conference. Said Mr. Mayer at the state convention at Erie, Pennsylvania, on August 5, 1916: “When at the proposal of our legislative committee your president called a meeting of the country’s German-Americans in Chi- cago on May twenty-eighth and twenty- ninth of this year, it was scarcely to be wondered at that re pre sentatives of forty- two states attended, men who represented religious corporations, singing societies, turn societies, military societies, state branches of the national alliance, et cetera, and who there unanimously resolved to oppose un- just attacks and defeat them. It was one of the 4 memorable meetings ever held by German-Americans.” had suth- Publicity committees were and the state al That was berai American A and had promi ities appointed lances took the initiative the National Germar ice had a Federal cl arter sed not to participate in | n fi act when the request for a charts was pending in Congress, in 1903, the se retary of the organi wrote Rey tative H. W. P Penns) stating the the national ; part ization resen aimer, of aims of as follows: It is a purely Party politics and religion are cluded.” So the national ation strictly ex- patriotic organiz organization got round ) this barrier by having the state alliances d« naively, t all the work —or, more vy making and not an “ offi- question, as witness the following letter written on October 12, 1916, and sent out broadcast to American voters of German descent by Charles J. Hexamer, president of the National German-American Alliance the man who was decorated by the Kaiser: National Alliance cent for the the subject a” cial” pe rsonal io ‘Dear Sir: Since our . not permitte j to spend a ection of a Federal official, without its on sid ind its board of directors being liable, saearaine to Paragraphs 83 and 37 of the United States Penal Code, to impris- onment and fine, I am using for this letter my private business paper. The contents of the inclosed letter explains itself. The time has come now when German-Americans must come “ut openly and fearlessly for Hughes and Fairbanks. If Wilson is elected our political impotence will be ac compliohe d and we shall be made powerless for a long time. nobody fora mo- As stated at the outset, ment believes that Mr. Hughes would have been any more +” isant for the German than Mr. Wilson; but Mr. Hexamer and his following wanted to demonstrate their punitive power and particularly use it as a club in Congress, where legislation impor- tant to the aid or detriment of Germany was sure to come up in the future. Alliances in all parts of the country ap pealed to the national heads for advice, and by examining the official bulletin of the National German-American Alliance for 1916 one can pick out almost at random the various states in which the German voter was being canvassed to he Ip punish the Ad- ministration Here is the official re port of the annual meeti ngof wa German-American State All lance of Jersey: “Certainly the most important conven- tion which the New Jersey State Alliance has held since it existed was the one which took place in the Turn Halle: of the Vor- waerts Club, Elizabeth, N. J., on April 2nd. The climax was reached through the adoption by an overwhelming majority of the resolution of the Central Alliance of Essex County: ‘Against Wilson, Roose velt and Root.’ A Request for Orders The Sacramento, tion among others National German California, organiza addi itself to the American Alliance head quarters in Philadelphia to know what presidential candidate it should support That appeared in the official bulletin, and in the same issue the purpose of the nation wide political agitation was thus expressed ‘In these hours that are so dark for Germanism, we must use our votes to the best of our ability. We mu gard to previous MP re and desires, vote only for those who are the friends of Germanism.” essed without re These very same phrases appear time and again in resolutions adopted throug] out the country by “ al socie ties; and it interesting to obs erve that ex-( hy ssman Richard Barth« ldt, ets "eSsSINg the Germar societies of St. L ouis, said early in 1916 “We must now forget our party and without consideration for our previous in clinations and wishes vote only for those who are the friends of Germanism. We must remind ourselves of our political rights, and exercise them. I give this warn- ing to all who are assembled here to-day, with the hope that they will take this warn- ing to heart.”’ Other typical extracts from official pro ceedings show how well the political leaven worked: ‘The president of the Indiana Alliance, Joseph Keller, urged the members of the

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74 lliance to united procedure politically on questions affecting the welfar e of the land, or Germanism. ‘The Mic higan St ate Alliance sent word to all German-American voters and ur- gently requested them at the coming elec- tion to lay more importance than ever before that absolutely liberal men for Congress, legislature and administrative offices, and if possible only Germans, be elected. . . .” 4 brilliant victory is won by the Na- tional German-American Alliance of Penn- yivania. ‘The Alliance’s secretary, Adolph Timm, acted as campaign manager. Two hundred and seven representatives were up for election to the State legislature. Only 39 who had received the indorsement of the legislative committee failed of elec- tion.” On every side there was indeed political activity, but with uniform Confused counsels, however, inside the Ger- man group, and not any substantial resist- not success, ance by —— Americans against Teutonic oe can be held responsible for the erratic impulses and judgments that so often ‘gove rned these conferences. Take for instance the So plan, known as the “Wisconsin Idea,”’ by whi h it was thought control of both Republican and Democratic national conventions in 1916 could be easily obtained through the simple process of having German-Americans elected as a ma- ority of the delegations of pivotal states. Leo Stern, president of the German- Americ ‘an Alliance of Wisconsin, was the author of it, and he tried to secure its adoption by other state alliances. He wrote a confidential letter in the early part of 1916 to other state executives, which is in part as follows: “In conjunction with the presence in Milwaukee of Dr. Hexamer, president of the German-American National Alliance, the question was brought up of the position of German-Americans in the coming presi- dential election and of those persons fa- vorable to our cause After considerable discussion we have decided to act in the following manner, and believe the interests of the German-Americans generally will be served in that manner. In giving you the plan, I am doing so with the request to keep this matter strictly confidential, and with the hope that the Wisconsin Idea will meet with your approval and also be put to work “The Wisconsin Idea is as follows: It is known to us that the present President of the United States will be nominated byaccla- mation; that all opposition candidates have withdrawn from the nominations and that even those Republicans who are of an anti- German frame of mind will be appealed to to vote for the Democratic candidate so that the past policy of the Administration, and particularly its attitude to Germany and its allies, will be carried out.’’ Ten Out of Twenty-Six ‘A Republican victory under these con ditions is only possible if a candidate is set up who is conservative in his principles, who shows and sanctions only real neutral views, and who shall express neither pro- British nor pro-German, but solely and only pro-American tendencies ‘To secure the nomination of such a Republican candidate, it is necessary that such delegates shall be sent out of each state to the Republican national conven- tion who shall in their entirety guarantee that they will vote only for a candidate who represents such truly American ideas To do this it is necessary that a portion of the delegates to the Republican national convention — a quarter to a third — shall consist of approved, distinguished German Americans ‘With this end in view an interview with the chairman of the Republican state mittee is necessary. I personally have done this here, and out of 26 delegates to the national convention we hone been ceded 10. I believe that equal represen- tations should be secured in every other State, and if in majority of the States this number could be secured only such a candidate would be nominated as repre- sents the neutral American situation de- sired by us. “We here in Wisconsin have in view, after we have settled with the Republican state committee as to the number and names of delegates, to acquire the codpera- tion of the Associated Societies [the National Alliance] in order to deliver not only a prac- tically unanimous vote /Republican] but a!so com- con- THE SATURDAY the Democratic vote of these organizations. Of course, it is necessary that the support of the German press be secured. “T am turning this proposed plan of Dr. Hexamer over to you for consideration and approbation, and hope that it meets with your approval. Of course, conditions in various states are different, and it is left to you to use your judgment as to just how far you are to go. “‘I will be pleased to receive an acknowl- edgment of this letter and your opinion of the same. “With friendly regards “T am, “LEO STERN.” Mr. Stern is assistant superintendent of German in the Milwaukee schools, and until recently was vice president of the National German-American Alliance. The plan was not carried out. Ex-Congressman Richard Bartholdt and others objected to it as im- practical, and Mr. Stern himself later ad- mitted that by the time delegates were about to be chosen conditions “had changed.” What probably happened was that the more cautious members of the National Alliance began to advise discretion and no definite commitment to either side so as to be better able to dangle before the eyes of both parties the prospect of the solid Ger- man vote. This appears to have been the idea of Henry Weismann, president of the New York State Alliance, who warned his compatriots against arraying themselves definitely against Wilson and Roosevelt be- cause they “‘ might get someone worse than either of those gentlemen. From the Official Record Mr. Weismann frankly outlined the situa- tion thus in the official record of the Alliance: “Tt is plain that the newest change in the President’s position, after it was assumed that the difference with Germany had been settled, was due to the extreme anti-German jingo talk on the part of the Republican leader, Senator Root, and the position of the English-language Republican party press which adopted the position of Senator Root. Although I am under normal politi- cal conditions a Republican, I must admit that the Republicans in and outside of Con- gress, especially those of the eastern states, have the appearance of being under an even greater servility to the munitions and finance kings, and that they have proved this in the past and also prove it at the present time that they take this extreme position even more than the Democrats, including the President. “Upon this party, namely the Republi- can party, as it is constituted to-day, and its leaders there can be no reliance what- ever for the cause of true American neutral- ity. For what concerns the threat to our peace and our national jingoism is more to be feared from the element that holds the whip hand in the Republican party than in the Democratic. “The German-American element in its political activity, which, thank God, it has now entered upon, should not on account of this opposition to the unneutrality of President Wilson be misled and obtain for itself the impression that under all cireum- stances it is against Mr. Wilson as a presi- dential candidate. All the signs indicate that if there is no change we would come out of the rain into the shower by going into the Republican party. . ‘This attitude of taking a de finite posi- tion now injures not only the present situa affairs in Washington, but on the tion of EVENING POST contrary is injurious to a better control of political conditions for our Germanism in the future.” That was in April, 1916, and whateveridea the German sympathizers had of friend- liness by President Wilson to them was promptly dispelled by that individual in a message to the Democratic National Con- vention at St. Louis in June, demanding a plankintheplatform whichshould denounce in unmistakable terms the hyphen. Some of the politically minded Democrats who showed that they cared alittle after all about the German vote begged for language much less severe, but the President himself in his speech of acceptance made it very clear that he did “‘ not seek the favor or fear of wrath”’ of any alien element in the United States, and went to the country on that principle. So it happened that from an inclination to support President Wilson the leaders of the German vote became angered, and though they had no reason to suppose Mr. Hughes would be sympathetic with them, nevertheless the desire to punish Mr. Wil- son was strong and the movement to help elect the Republican candidate, especially in the so-called doubtful states, took on the aspect of an unsponsored but nevertheless widespread and well-organized campaign When the Rev. 8S. G. von Bosse, the last president of the National German- American Alliance, was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago, Senator Wolcott, of Delaware, asked this question: “You were aware of a rather large move- ment, were you not, to get the German- American Alliance not only to vote against Mr. Wilson but to vote for Mr. Hughes?” “There was a spontaneous movement that I was aware of,”’ replied Mr. von Bosse, and then added after a pause: “I will cor- rect myself; yes, there was a movement.” “In the German-American circles?” “In favor of Mr. Hughes.” “Ts it not true that the German-American Alliance officials, national and state, par- ticipated in that movement?” “Partly; Doctor Hexamer sent out let- ters as an individual on his private sta- tionery, announcing the fact that he was sending these letters out as an individual and paying for them out of his own pocket.” “ Did not the official organ of the Alliance give publicity to what was going on in con- nection with the movement?” Testimony Galore “‘T will not deny that the national officers countenanced the movement in that way; but I know that Doctor Hexamer always said that it would be a policy of hands off for the national body.” Here it was that Senator King, of Utah, interrupted to ask Mr. von Bosse if the state organizations took the matter up. ‘“*Some of them did,’’ was the reply. “But most of the state organizations and most of the loc al organizations, pe rsisted Senator King, “following up the instruc- tions from the state organizations, took the matter up?” “So far as I recollect, yes—a large part of them,”’ Mr. von Bosse answered. “And they have done that from time to time in political matters, such as school matters and prohibition?’ es. arising within the = And other matters There is testimony galore to prove that the National German-American Alliance June 29,1918 engaged in politics and thus violated the purpose for which it was granted a charter by Congress. But more than that, it proves that hundreds of thousands of voters were under the domination of German so- cieties. Just what membership the Alliance con- trolled no one knows definitely, though it boasted 2,000,000. And it is only fair to say that the great majority of them had no intention of being un-American; indeed a large number refused to take orders. The propaganda in the German-language press, however, misled thousands All the witnesses who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in expos- ing the political intrigue of the National German-American Alliance unhesitatingly expressed their confidence in the loyalty of the majority of Americans of German de- scent. Since the United States entered the war the official publication of the Alliance has not been particularly vociferous in con- demning Germany, but there came at last, in November, 1917, in the bulletin of the organization something that is unequivocal and clear: “We are citizens of a republic, and know no other allegiance. America is our coun- try, and any disaster to America would be our disaster. Whatever our language we have the same flag. Whatever blood runs in our veins there is but one loyalty in our hearts. The victory of American ideals in this war means for the German people the realization of the hopes and dreams of the Revolution of 1848. America, now and forever.” Politicians to Blame There is a lesson in that disillusionment. Not even the organized votes of those who sympathized with the European nation of their birth were sufficient to alter the policies of the United States Government in either the executive or legislative branches; and the majority of the Americans of German descent made at the crucial moment the choice they always claimed they would make—a choice in favor of their adopted country. But if there are embarrassments and in- conveniences and suspicion now it is, after all, the fault almost entirely of those Amer- icans of German descent who pretended to speak for the rank and file of the German societies and local organizations. There is a lesson in this also for the for- eign-born who have come to America from countries other than Germany. The truth is we have been trying a great experiment in America, only we have not been con- scious of it. Can we gather together people of different races, languages, creeds, condi- tions and aspirations and merge them into one? Can we produce out of the component parts of other nations a new nation, dis- tinctive and cohesive? We never had a real test until the Euro- pean War came. With the exception of the episode with Spain, we have lived in peace with Europe for more than a hundred years and have received immigrants in un- limited numbers. We took only a per- functory interest in the naturalization of foreigners. It made little difference to us for what purpose the organizations of the foreign-born were banded together— politi- cal ends or anything else. Our politicians insisted on writing into our party platforms planks pleasing to these alien groups. Had the pre been discrimination against the for- eign-born it might have been compre- hensible. Then it might have been truly American to denounce discrimination. But what the politicians have done is to create discrimination by paying particular atten- tion in their campaigns to the organized bodies of foreign voters. This makes it easy for the foreign-language press to keep them united and easy for demagogues to continue their un-American hypocrisies. We can make a homoge neous nation in these United States. The war has so proved. But the results will not be permanent un- less we effectually squelch on every occasion, large or small, the sycophantic politician, and at the same time, through improved processes of education, teach the American- ism that embraces true liberty for the indi- vidual, and the meaning of the American state in terms of the average man—his opportunity in free America. Such an Americanism must grow out of this war as will make of us, indeed, a nation “one and indivisible,” always ready where foreign policies are concerned to rise above political parties and the whole geographical roster of fatherlands.

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| invite her | to face with the dead man’s wife. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE FIRE FLINGERS But Richard hastily stopped him. “*T’ll see you to-night,” he said, and hung up the receiver. For he did not wish to discuss matters so intimate as men’s clothes over a public telephone wire. x1 ICHARD HATTON was indeed a sen- timentalist, he told himself —a quixotic sentimentalist. What was Mrs. Olwell to him? What did he care that she had been driven from her own house by a man who was now dead, and could not return be- cause she did not know he was dead? He did care, however. “If I picked a splinter from a dog’s paw he’d be grateful to me for the rest of his life. That beautiful woman lifted us up when we were down. Whatever happens, she must not be made to suffer.” It began to look as if she would be the first to suffer, whatever happened. Several plans for making her position happier had suggested themselves. The more practicable of these involved his in- stant disappearance. As Olwell he would to return to the house, and before she arrived he would have gone. The un- willingness of Chris to make his escape alone as they had planned rendered such a disappearance difficult if not flatly impos- sible. Unless of course he should disappear into a cell i in the jail. ‘A cmthaantelial ought to be proud to go to jail rather than cause a woman anguish. But if I were to go to jail wouldn’t that cause her as much anguish as these few hours of deceit? It’s six of one and twice three of the other. She loses, any direction I look,” Nevertheless, he could do something for her. Since he could not leave he would remain; but Mrs. Olwell must return to her home. He could remain in his rooms and not see her. She could know that such was his intention. The situation need not last long—possibly a day or two; not longer than three or four days at the outside. “Under a gentleman’s agreement with myself.” But he was not a gentleman; ex-convict, formerly an actor, playing the part of a gentleman man who had beaten his wife. “Under an ex-convict’s agreement with myself,”” he substituted. Thoughts of Mrs. Olwell obtruded them- selves thus upon his mind all the morning. After luncheon they became more insistent. At three o’clock he threw down his book and rang for Ellen. “Has Mrs. Olwell returned?” “‘No, sir.” “Do you know why she is remaining away?” “‘I think she is doing some work for her cousin.” “When are you expecting her back?” “I think she isn’t intending to return, air.” “That Is n "t this he T home? ** Yes, sir. “Ww as it some thing I said last nigh he was an now only a gentle- he asked. Ellen. doesn’t seem reasonable, ” t?” “Yes, sir.’ “y don’t remember speaking to her harshly. If I did I am very sorry. I won- der if you could tell her so.” “Yes, sir.” “Tell her that I did not mean to disturb her usual habits. Tell her that she is to use the house as before, of course. Tell her that I am remaining in my rooms upstairs, and not to mind me. Do you think you can find her and tell her all that?” “Yes, sir.” “Very well. Better do it at once.” A little later he saw Mrs. Olwell and Ellen enter the gate and pass up the front w uk to the house. Mrs. Olwell carried her own rattan suitcase. Ellen was weighted down under two large, heavy parcels bound with rope. After that his mind did not wander so much and he was able to give more attention to his reading. Richard Hattea, playing the part of a dead man, found himself unexpectedly face The situa- tion was unlike any he had ever known. His feelings were not in the least those he had imputed to Menwchmus Sosicles when con- fronted by the wife of Mengwechmus of Epidamnus. Life is a stage—and also it is (Continued from Page 17) not a stage. In real life one’s emotions are as new to oneself as they are to others. They are not foreordained. They spring from one knows not what and lead one knows not where. The actor has the out- come of the play at all times in his mind. The man from real life whom he imitates does not learn the outcome until the final curtain, and even then he cannot be sure he has learned it. Winifred had called, she said, to inquire about his injury. Was there anything she could do for him? He fancied he could read a shrinking from her errand in the tones of her voice. “No, thank you,” he rassed. He had not realized b ~w exquisitely small and young she was. He wad seen her stand- ing near Ellen in the dining room the eve- ning before. She had not looked so small then, perhaps because Ellen herself was only a slender slip of a girl. But now as he faced her he saw that the top of her head barely reached his chin. She seemed almost like a child. She could not have been older than twenty-two at the outside, he thought, and looked nearer eighteen. She was, in fact, twenty-five. Winifred tarried for a moment, seeking for a personal word, however casual, that she might speak. “‘T hardly knew you without your beard,” shesaid. ‘‘ You look almost like a stranger.” “T feel entirely like one.” And he did, in both senses. At that mo- ment he despised himself for a cheat and a coward. “T think I should though.”’ “Am I as changed as that?” “You're greatly changed in appearance, Richard. You’re changed more than you realize—in appearance, and in other ways too. It’s your manner of speech, I think. One’s appearance sometimes affects one’s speech and actions. My appearance af- fects my actions, I know. When I’m look- ing cross I always act cross.” Richard had the strongest desire to tell her that he could not imagine her looking cross or acting cross, but he managed not to commit that folly. “I’m not so sure. Anyhow I’m glad my manner of speech hasn’t wholly betrayed me. He thought she seemed surprised at the qremark. **How is your injury? Sometime when you are stronger I'd like to go over matters with you.” replied, embar- have known you, ‘‘Matters? I don’t believe I under- stand.” “‘About our separation.” at ft “T arranged with my lawyer this morn- ing to file papers. I think I ought to tell you. Of course you have known for years that I intended giving you your freedom ultimately.” Now Richard, who was playing the part of Olwell, knew Olwell well enough to know what he would have said. Olwell would have said that he was damned glad she saw the point at last. Winifred would have looked hurt and taken herself off. The case would eventually have come to trial and no harm done. But instead of this natural sentiment, what Richard said was merely what Olwell ought to have said. “‘It’s too bad we haven’t been able to hit it off better.” Again he noticed that Winifred seemed surprised; but she met the remark very sweetly. “It is too bad, isn’t it?” “Tf there is anything I can do —— “Oh, no! I'll try to be reasonable about a settlement. Beyond that there is nothing to be done for the present.” “T’ll try not to frighten you again as I did last night. I’m sorry about that.” They were standing at the door; Rich- ard inside, Winifred outside in the hall. Richard was wondering whether he ought to ask her into the library, but had not done so, when she continued as if in reply to the thought: “I can't stay. I was merely meaning to ask about the injury, It isn’t serious, I hope. You didn’ t say.’ “Not serious. He smiled whimsically. *“*T shall have to remain indoors for a few days, so that when I lose my soul I shall know where to look for it—or Ellen will.” June 29,1918 ““T don’t believe Ellen knows much about a man’s soul,” “*She’ll know mine.” Winifred seemed puzzled by his mood, and reverted to the subject of the injury. “‘T blame myself for asking the men into the house. I’ve been wanting to tell you so, Richard. I didn’t dream they would attack you. How did it happen?” “T hardly know myself.”” He was care- ful tospeak the literal truth—and knew that as she understood him it was the blackest of falsehoods. ‘‘I remember there was an attack by a tall man wearing a beard, anda grappling, and a fall. The next thing I saw was the man who attacked me lying mo- tionle “ss on the floor.” “He must have struck you a very severe blow.” “T don’t remember his striking me.” “Did you have the wound dressed properly?” “Oh, yes “Doctor «a an? “No. Another man.’ “You should have had a doctor dress it. There might have been a fracture.” “Nothing like that.” “I’m glad there wasn’t, and that you came off so well. If there’s anything I can do for you at any time you must let me know.” “You are very kind.” “Tt isn’t kindness, but selfishness. I think people are only happy when they can do something for others. If I were a philan- thropist trying to do good I think I should roam up and down the world looking for people who have no one to do anything for. I think I should get them all to do some- thing for me, just to make them happy. I think perhaps I should even wear glasses, so that I could drop them and have them picked up for me by the poor in gpirit. I think I should.” “‘T should be the first to pick them up for you.” “You, Richard!” “The poor in spirit.” Again she seemed puzzled by his mood. “You make me ashamed of my worldly philosophy,” he added. ““What philosophy would that be?’ “Save yourself, no matter who else suf- fers.” The bitterness of his tone upon her. “You are unfair—otherwise you would be saving yourself now, and you are not. I think I’ve never known anyone who has had any such philosophy. I understand well that in a panic men will sometimes fight to save themselves against the weaker, but that is mere fright. Brave men are some- times overcome by fright.” “That is my philosophy. no matter who else suffers.” “No, Richard.” “Some day you will see that I am wholly selfish.” “The only way you could prove it would be by stealing bre ad from a woman.” “Or money. “ Possibly.” “Or her knowledge of the truth.” pt don’t understand.” “Or her social status.’ “Tf you mean 44 “T mean nothing.’ She thought the reference was to her impending suit for divorce and looked grieved. But if she was pained Richard was more deeply pained by the thoughts she had aroused. As he closed the door upon the woman who thought she was his wife his revulsion of feeling almost led him to call her back and tell her the whole truth. His position was rapidly becoming impossible. Wini- fred’s complete acceptance of him as Rich- ard Olwell, the legal steps she was taking to free herself of him, her talk of a settle- ment—it was all unnecessary and wrong. And he and Chris had hoped that they were honest! Even after they had told her that they were former convicts she had taken them into her dining room and fed them. He remembered her words of cheer. Honest! “Save yourself, no matter who else suf- fers.” Then he began defending their actions. “Tt’s only for a day or two,” he told himself. “‘And anyhow we’re more honest than Olweil was. Where would she have ’ was not lost Save yourself,

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been if it hadn’t been fx or us ? two that we shall keep hers will more than be The day or out of what is in the settle- her re paid ment— that is, unless Olwell left a will cut- ting her off.”’ And even then For if he was Olwell, Olwell was not dead, and such a will could not be probated. XT HE summons was received by telephone late the aftern Richard found the coroner in his office, after which the Vv walked down the street to the undertaker’s. He noticed the peo} le he Pp yassed as a mere matter of instinctive self-defense, even to the extent of returning their salutations. It did not occur to him as ironical that he should thus be spoken to. He was a trained actor playing his part. Had he thought of on. the matter he might have been puzzled, considering how little he really resembled Olwell. The explanation was that Borealis had by this time heard of his changed ap- pearance and was pre par ed for it. Besides, the bandage helped identify him. He followed the coroner through the front roorns to the morgue behind. Richard rea i the mistake he had made the moment he saw the coffin. He and Chris had left the dead man with his beard partl hacked away and clad in cheap threadbare clothing. They had counted upon his rot appearance thus groomed and dressed, and upon the ] in his pocket, to mis] papers a the police into supposing | im th eex-convict Hatton. Then he, the real Richard Hatt n, of sane mind ably intelligent, had asked the er to undo all nan he casket before him was clean-shaven and had been supplied with new linen. He no longer looked like a tramp. He looked more like Olwell than Richard Hatton did. ‘Is that the who attacked you?” a ed the coror hard had set himself and did not Nats the t ou positively recognize him?” n the house, you ‘It was.” “He struck you first and then you struck him? “He tried to strike me.”’ “But you succeeded in striking him.” “I don’t remember striking him.” “Hed ’t rob 1?” “No? “No matter. He undoubtedly would have ro bbed you. You had a very lucky escape, sir.’ ‘If you can ¢ it so,”’ said Richard. “T can, indeed. He might have killed you. Very clearly self-defense, sir. I con- gratulate you on your courage. Vc It was plain that even the grooming and clean line ; had suggested no doubts to the coroner. But the man he congratulated could only press his hand to his forehead in laze. t about the time Richard was leaving e city hall with the coroner, Miss Maggie Driver, with time on her pretty hands, was walking aim! yng the street toward her room. She had finally decided to use her Los Angeles ticket and had had it re- dated and *ullman reservation wired for; there was now nothing except the lack of an immediate train to keep her in Borealis. As she sauntered thus aimlessly along she all but came face to face with Olwell, as she thought, in the company of a stranger. She instantly found herself interested. She owed Richard Olwell a life-size grudge. She thereupon followed them at a discreet dis- tance to see where they going. Then when they disappeared in Baird’s under- taking parlors she took a position in a door- way across the street and waited to see what would happen next. The thing that happened next was Rich- ard Hatton, called Olwell, emerging alone and seemingly in a daze, his hand to the bandage about his head. Now Maggie had read the papers. She knew that Richard had been attacked by a thug lying in wait for him, felled by a blow on the head, and then rescued. He was wearing the bandage because of the blow. But why was he looking dazed? Why was he holding his hand to his head? He had not seemed distressed especially when she saw him with the stranger. 1. 1 eSS|Y ait another were THE SATURDAY Another question, not unconnected with the others, occurre 2d to her as she watched him. What had taken him into Baird’s undertaking shop? What had he seen in- side? She had indeed read that the thug who attacked him had been cornered and killed. It did not occur to her however that he had seen this man’s body at Baird's. The daring thought came to her to stop him upon the crowded street and ask him. Richard stood for a moment in front of Baird’s; then, seeming to recover his poise he began crossing the street toward her. Maggie, who was not in concealment, saw him approach. She saw him look at her coldly. She saw him stride past as if she had been a stranger. That decided her. Miss Driver, piqued at what she thought was a snub, decided that she would make Mr. Olwell pay for his rudeness. Leaving her doorway, she started up the sidewalk after him. “Dick!” she called, when she was near enou gh. There was no mistaking the person in- tended,and heturned. His hand automat- ically went to his hat. When he recognize her he flushed. “Where are you going?”’ asked Maggie. *‘T don’t believe 1 know you,”’ he said. “Yes, you do!” ‘‘Suppose we put it that way. I’msorry, but I haven't time to discuss the matter.” With the words he abruptly changed his direction. He had several reasons for refusing to continue his acquaintance with Maggie. One was, he did not wish to be seen with her in broad daylight en a public street. An ex-convict cannot be too careful of the company he keeps. Another reason was that she bored him. Still another was, her acquaintance was dangerous. And if an additional reason were needed, the fact that Mrs. Olwell might hear of the episode would in itself have been sufficient to cause him to shun her. Maggie, however, was not to be shaken off thus. She had intended paying him for a rude snu This second snub merely served to quicken her anger toward him. She likewise turned, and in a moment was again at his side. “Who do you think she demanded. “IT don’t want to walk with you, Maggie,” said. ‘‘Haven’t you any sense?” “‘T’ve got a lot of sense. I’ve got sense enough not to take a turn-down like what you handed me. I didn’t ask you whether you wanted to walk with me. I asked you who you thought you were?” Richard quickened his pace; he was tall and rangy, and his forceful strides carried him forward at a rate difficult to keep up with. But Maggie trotted along beside him, increasing her speed as he increased his, so that there was no getting rid of her in that way. Besides, they were now at- tracting attention—far more attention than if he had accepted the situation and walked with her at a reasonable pace. When he saw that, he began walking more slowly. By this time they had passed out of the more ¢ rowded blocks into the older section of town, where the buildings were weather- beaten and the shops smaller and poorer. you are, anyhow’ he The street was one that Richard did not know. In a general way he knew he was headed for his house, but not by direct road. And then he saw Mrs. Olwell. Winifred was coming down the street a little more than a block away. In some- thing under fifty seconds they would meet. She was reading a letter and had not as yet seen him. There was only one thing for him to do, and he did it. Without so much as a second’s hesitation he plunged into the nearest doorway, leaving Maggie gasping on the sidewalk. But only fora moment. Quickly recover- ing herself Maggie darted into the doorway after him, perhaps with some wild thought of catching him by the coat tails and drag- ging him forth. The door which Richard had so hastily opened and slammed behind him proved to lead into an abandoned hallway of some kind. This hallway seemed to have no uses except as an entrance to the floors above; at least Richard saw neither windows nor doors in the darkness beyond. A flight of stairs, however, was in evidence; and be- cause he felt sure that Maggie would not allow her sun to set thus abruptly without snatching for it, he ran up these stairs two at a time. EVENING POST The stairs led to a small landing above, from which three doors opened off. Here Richard pause -d to listen. had feared Maggie was following him. heard her open the door below, of dismay at the littered condition of the floor, heard her steps as she proceeded along the hall. He waited until she returned and began climbing the stairs; then moving as softly as possible he opened the nearest door and slipped inside it, closing it behind him, “Man pursue od by woman has three doors of escape,”’ he mused. “Three, and three only. One is the door of blinding light; one is the door of darkness; and one is the door of the other woman. I think I must have found the second.” The room in which he was standing was almost as dark as the hall. He could see, however, that it was empty and none too clean, that the windows had been boarded up, and that it opened in to oth er rooms be- yond that seemed equally dark and aban- doned. And since he knew that Maggie would eventually open his door he decided to retreat toward the rear. He had hopes of finding a back stairway down which he could make his escape. He discovered that his surmise was cor- rect; thefe was such a stairw ay in the rear, with undoubtedly a door at the foot of it through which he could pass out. The dark- ness of the rooms, or even of the hall out- side, was like the glare of the sun, however, compared with the blackness of this beck stairway. But it had a landing at the top, and a railing, and he reflected that every ladder must have a bottom rung. He would better have retraced his steps and mew the door of blinding light. He began the descent of the stairs with caution andinsilence. He was not disturbed by his pursuer. Maggie had evidently de- cided that he would not choose the first door he came to, but either the second or the third; at any rate she did not open hi door at this time. Had he been guided by so much as a glowworm he would have descended with still greater caution; for the stairs were so old they would not have borne the weight of a cat. He had begun upon the cautious descent of the dark stairs, feeling his way step by step, and was halfway down them, or nearly by his estimate, when the entire struc- ture suddenly seemed to give way under his feet. He maue a frantic clutch at the air for support. And that was all he knew until he came to his senses a half hour later. As he} He 80, Richard returned to consciousness by de- grees. After a little he remembered who he was, where he was, and something of why he was where he was. Then he began examining himself for damage. He found at once that he had no broken bones. He found also, and was grimly amused by the discovery, that this time he had received a genuine blow on the head sufficient to supply him with any excuses for remaining indoors that he needed. The decrepit stair- way had evidently pitched him upon his head against a beam. He was bruised and sore and weak, but after recovering his hat he managed to pick his way past the col- lapsed stairway to the door. Once outside he brushed his clothing washed his hands and face at a hydrant, removed his make-believe bandage from his head, cleansed the not-make-believe wound as well as he could, and bandaged it. He was obliged to climb fences and cross back yards, but after a little he reached the street, and eventually his bedroom. Here he gave himself a bath and a complete change of clothes. The wound on his head he then washed out carefully and dressed, using an odorless wash rather than the iodine’or carbolic-acid solution available. 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78 to inquire whether she herself could render assistance to the invalid. thereupon knocked at the door of the library. Richard, thinking it was Ellen, called for her to enter. one When he looked up from his book he saw her. She was standing inside the door, a faint flush in her cheeks, hesitant yet kindly, eager to be of service and yet diffident about offering her aid. “Oh, Mrs. Olwell!”’ he cried, forgetting in / rprise that he was not addressing her as O] well would have done, Winifred noticed the form of his address and her flush deepened. Her kindly inten- tion, however, did not change. “Eller off for the evening,’”’ she ex- plained, ‘I thought you might not know. If there is anything I can do for you ; Richard upon seeing her had sprung to his feet—another action Olwell would not have been guilty ol N Vo, re ally ad He toppe d, en barrassed. He could not permit Mrs. Olwell to go and buy him a toothbrush and safety razor. He could not even explain to her what he had done with those he had been using I'm trying to guess what it is you want,” said Winifred. ‘‘ You needn't be afraid to tell me. Is it a tray, and a bow! of cracked ice, and somet}! ry from the sideboard, and a glass?” “Not that. Nothing of impor- ‘I can think importance Richard found himself laughing at the unexpected jibe, and Wini- fred found herself joining him. Neither of them intended the thing and yet there they were dividing an apple from the tree of wit as if they nad just met each other and were’ not an old married couple about to obtain a div “We haven't laughed together like that in five years,”’ said Wini- fred. ‘I’m not sure that I’ve heard you laugh even alone in five years.” “Not in five years and a half,” replied Richard, suddenly grave. ‘Perhaps that’s what has been the trouble with marriage.” Richard felt the ground tremble, but he could not think of anything to say that would put firmer foun- dation beneath him. It did not occur to him that he was not making even a pretense of acting like Olwell. Olwell would have ordered the whisky, and would have sworn at the woman, wife or no wife, because she was so slow in bringing it “Why do you say five years anda half? ‘Because I remem- ber so distinctly the exact time.” ‘If you won't let me bring you thetray, what then? ¥ ou rang for something, Rich- ard Please let me get it for you.” of nothing of less orce. our If Olwell would not have spoken to her so, neither would Winifred to him. She could not have done so. The eer in his eyes would not have per- nitted it. And yet here she was asking her husband to be rmitted to do something for him. And the incongruity of the action did not occur to her Richard, when he found himself em barrassed for a reply. made the mistake of trying to invent an evasior *! will get it,”” he said ‘Why not let me?” “Why should you do my errands that I do myself?” Because you—y “I’m not bedridden ‘Very well. You may have your way. What is it you are intending to get?” The evasion led to the of in- a war cal ou’re an invalid.” necessity venting Miss See Where They Were Going THE SATURDAY “I thought I'd like to see the evening paper,” replied Richard sheepishly. It was now Winifred’s turn to laugh, and Richard’s turn to join her. “Why,” cried Winifred, my room!” Her room! And he did not know which room was her room. Laughter is the result of an emotional disturbance, usually a humorous one. It is both a symptom and an expression. People who laugh together have by that act testi- fied that they have shared an emotional ex- perience. As she had said, Winifred had not shared a laugh with her husband in five years. And now heandshe had laughed together twice within five minutes. The bare recognition of that fact gave her another emotional experience that she could not have shared with him had she tried. “We'll both go for it, Richard,” “if you don’t mind.” And they did. Richard, clutched by an embarrassment that was not wholly un- mixed with pleasure, accom- panied Winifred to her room and obtained the newspaper. Then they both returned to the library. “We both went for it, and we will both bring it back,” she said, once more laughing. “Then we will both read it.” She noticed the disturbed look on his face. “We will both read it,’”’ she re- peated. “I’ve al- ready read it. When you read it we shall both have read it. Do you ? Did you think I meant to read it over your shoulder?” But she had not quite intended saying so much, and the next moment became soberly formal, as “the paper’s in she said, see at first. “T'll say good night, Richard. I hope you will be well again in a few days.”’ “T shall be, I’m ” sure. With that the door closed upon her and he was again alone. But not wholly alone. He had his thoughts for compan- ions. And perhaps his thoughts caused him more discom- fort than an equal number of people could have done. For Richard Hatton was thinking of Winifred Olwell, and of his false position in that house as her supposed husband. He waited until later for his foraging expedition—that is to say, until toward bedtime. Then finding a hat and top coat he slipped out to the nearest drug store, Driver Feliowed te EVENING POST four blocks distant, where he made his purchases without incident. Richard saw Winifred again the follow- ing morning as he came upstairs from break- fast. He had rung for Ellen and asked to have service in the library. Ellen had re- turned shortly afterward to explain that Mrs. Olwell hoped he could get down to the dining room as usual—he would find it so much more cheerful. He could eat alone quite as conveniently in the dining room as in the library. She did not explain that her mistress had arranged the table with espe- “ial care. Winifred emerged from her room across the hall as he was about to enter his door. ‘Can youspare mea moment, Richard?” He could have spared her anything she asked, except a smiling welcome. He could not have given her that—neither that nor its semblance, actor though he was. Olwell would not have done so, but he dis- regarded the fact. He opened the door, stood aside and asked her into the library. “4 moment—all the moments you like!” She accepted his invitation, seating her- self upon an uncomfortable straight-backed chair as though to tell him that her intru- sion was merely for the brief time she had asked. “It’s milk and vegetables, mostly,”’ she said. “I’m sorry to bother you about our bills, but the men refuse to deliver to us any longer without payment.” She was asking him for her own money! “lac much do you need to tide you over?” heasked, producing his pocket-book. “Will around forty-five dollars be of any service?” ‘Indeed, yes! Richard had called himself a quixotic sen- timentalist. Had he been anything less, surely he would have counted the amount, and not handed her the entire contents of his bill book, leaving himself with less than a dollar in small change. ‘If you can make this do for a couple of days unti 1 we can get down to the of- fice — She did not notice his use of the word +e. “Tt will be a great help.” The readiness with which Richard had given her the money was in such marked contrast to her previous experiences that she remained another moment to show her friendly apprec iation. He was standing against the table, facing her. She looked at him almos: admiringly. His dark grayish- brown eyes, that were the same color as his hair and yet were not, seemed more lumi- nous than she had remembered them, his brow seemed of a healthier, finer smooth- ness, his mouth an’ chin both kinder and firmer. It was almc.t as if she were making a new acquaintance. But of course she understood, and she knew he also would understand—she had told him about filing the papers. Had she known the workings of his mind, not to speak of its secrets, she would have left at once. “T’ve taken up some outside work,” she said lightly. ‘“‘ Did you notice the parcels I brought home with me? Of course you did not. They aresome police finger- print records I am to classify for Cousin Benjamin. I think I’ve never told you, but I’ve been making a study of finger prints. Some day I may become an ex- pert.” Richard Hatton, six months out of San Quentin, could not have met her eye at that moment if her happiness had depended on it. “IT did not know,” he managed to say. “I suppose I’m interested in the subject because my cousin is chief of police. I haven't at all the police point of view about criminals. I believe police systems are use- ful, because ordinary men can use them; but beyond that I haven’t yet made up my mind. I think I have a good deal of sympathy for criminals, partly because their position is so hopelessly warped. I some- times wonder if I’m not warped myself; I know you must think Iam. If I am, then I might become a criminal too. But not for my own gain, I think. If I couid help some one I loved by committing a crime I think I might commit it.” Richard knew that she was utterly un- conscious of the significance to him of the words she spoke. He stole a glance at her. “You will never commit a crime.” “If I do it will not be because I do not know the difference between honesty and dishonesty.” She looked over the room. June 29,1918 9” “How will you manage to pass the time? I can read and I can think. I’m in- tending to read some books to-day that I ought to have read before. The books I most need, however, are not here.” She became instantly eager to help him. “Which books are they? Cov. in’t I get them for you?” He forced himself to meet her eye for a moment. Then he looked away. “You have something on your mind, Richard,” she said. “I noticed it last night.” He wished he could tell her what was on his mind. “I’m pretending to be an honest man, though all the time I know I’m dishonest,” he would have said had he dared. ‘“‘I, too, know the difference between honesty and dishonesty.’’ Orelse: ‘ Idon’t know whether I’m honest or not.” But he did not dare, for she would have recalled the words of Richard Hatton, the ex-convict. Either way, he did not dare say it. Suppose, however, he could have said i “Of course you’re honest, Richard,” would have replied had she not talked with Richard Hatton. “Why do you think I’m honest? Is it because I’ve never stolen money —that you know of?” ““No one has ever questioned your hon- esty.” ““You’re wrong. I’ve questioned it.” “No one but an honest man would ques- tion his own honesty, I think.” ‘*You can say that, but is it true? Ifa man steals inky money and leaves finger prints, as you call them, he is a thief. Will he not question his own honesty? And if the money is not inky, but polished through much slipping from hand to hand, will he not safeguard what he has stolen and thus question it? And suppose he doesn’t steal money at all, but only a bad man’s worth- less name—will he still not question it? Is it true that only an honest man will ques- tion his own honesty?” “The fact that he him honest.” “Then a man can be a thief same time be honest.” And so it would have without end. But she did not know that he was both a thief and an honest man and he did not dare tell her what was on his mind. He preferred to talk to her of other matters. In order to steady himself he returned to her question about what he did to pass the time. ‘I haven’t fared so badly so far,’’ he said. ‘‘Some of these books are worth re- reading every six months. I hadn’t reread them in six years, nor in sixteen. I have had them. Then, too, I have been able to make plans for the future, and shall need to make many more.” ‘Plans for your office? “Business plans.”’ ‘That is where a man has the advantage.” It occurred to him to talk to her about printing-office problems. He could not well ask her if she knew this or that about the Olwell Press, for as Olwell he was supposed to know. But by care- fully introducing technical allusions he soon found that she knew next to nothing about printing. She had not so much as visited the Olwell Press since the first weeks of her marriage. When he had sounded her knowledge of the business he tried to tell her, without seeming to, some of the broader facts she ought to know about it. He became so much interested in delicate task and Winifred seemed so glad to listen to him that he quite forgot his previous mood of self-accusation. We’ ve really had a most interesting talk,’’ she said when she rose at last from her stiff chair. “I’m glad you called.” He could say this with a clean conscience, for he knew that she would remember and profit by some of the points he had made. “I’m glad, too,” she replied simply. Whether she was or not she had been very fine about a trying interview. He de- cided when he came to think the matter over that she had probably felt the desire to be remembered kindly. It did not occur to him that her kindness was the spontaneous response to his own courtesy. He thought that if she was more than ordinarily gracious it was from relief that their nominal ties were so soon to be severed. she questions it renders and at the gone, s¢ yphistr l€ his TO BE CONTINUED

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST How Big Should the Gasoline lank Be? A Motoring Question that Demonstrates Franklin Economy Suppose you could fill the gasoline tank only once—with 270 miles to go; how big should the tank be? “It depends on how much gasoline the car burns up’’—would naturally be your answer to this question. Exactly; and your answer leads directly to the reason why the Franklin is the most economical fine car in America. he Story Told by the Gasoline Tanks The Franklin Car (the one on the left in the above picture) because it is scientifically free from unnecessary weight, runs 270 miles on its gasoline tank capacity of 13% gallons. This is at the rate of 20 miles to the gallon. The average heavy car (on the right) to run the same distance, would re- quire a cumbersome gasoline tank holding 27 gallons—at the rate of only 10 miles to the gallon. Why? Simply because of the mechanical law —as old as the ages—that weight requires power in proportion to move it. And the more power needed, the more gasoline consumed. Wherever there is excessive weight, there is fric- tion, wear and drag—and it ahways shows up in the gasoline tank. Weight Means Waste This question of motor car weight has made people think. The vital na- tional need of the times is economy— in motoring as in everything—and the average heavy and rigid car is handi- capped in its attempt to comply with the demand. It is bound te burn up extra fuel in moving its own excessive weight, while the easy rolling, Scientific Light Weight Franklin, with its flexible FRANKLIN AUTOMOBILE COMPANY, SYRACUSE, N. Y. construction, delivers the maximum force of its fuel into actual mileage. Light Weight Means Tire Economy The same fundamentals of con- struction decide tire-results. Heavy weight and rigidity pound out tires before their time. Franklin Light Weight and Flexibility give them every opportunity to deliver the full mileage that is in them. Motorists are no longer blind to the handicaps of weight. They are aware that they may be expressed in terms of dollars and cents, and people today are not throwing money away, in the unnecessary upkeep costs of a wasteful motor car. They are demand- ing motor car efficiency that at least is comparable to the Franklin facts of daily performance— 20 miles to the gallon of gasoline—instead of 10 , ) LO,OOO miles to the set of tires—instead of 5,000

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80 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 29,1918 How he enjoys the home meal again OW delighted he is to be home —with his mother and old Mary making so much of him. They give him his favorite meal the bacon he has loved from boy- hood—and beam to see the relish with which he eats it. It is Swift’s Premium Bacon. His mother never served any other kind. She knows that this bacon has always the same even mixture of fat and lean, that cooks into almost-brittle curls of juiciness. She knows that only in Swift’s Premium can she get that delicate, mellow flavor. For Swift’s Premium Bacon is given a special cure that brings out all its deliciousness — until its very heart is mild, sweet and flavory. Whenever you buy bacon, always look for the Swift’s Premium brand which distinguishes this finer bacon. Ask your dealer to show you the label. Swift & Company, U.S. A. Swifts Premium Bacon Comes in three convenient forn in the strip; sliced in the box; or sliced in glass jars

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The Day of His Going In a million homes, pictures are keeping the story of the war as it touched those homes. John in his first khaki is he proudly marched away, and John, tanned and hardened, as he looked when home on leave. More than ever the Kodak Album is keeping the home story. ‘To-day that story means history, and more than ever it is important that it be authentic history—that every negative bear a date. Memory plays strange tricks and one of its favorite vagaries is to fail in the all important matter of dates. The date—and title, too, if you wish—is written on the autographic But with a Kodak there’s no uncertainty. It makes the Kodak story authentic and tilm at the time the exposure is made. And it is there permanently. doubly interesting. It is all very simple, is the work of an instant and there's no extra charge for autographic film. Let the Kodak keep the dates. Catalogue free at vour deale} EASTMAN KODAK CO., Rocuester, N. Y., The Aodak City