The Saturday Evening Post 1920-01-17: Vol 192 Iss 29

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Harry Leon Wilson—Irvin S. Cobb — Frank Ward O’Malley—Grace Sartwell Mason Corinne Lowe — Harry Snowden Stabler — Hugh Wiley — Alonzo Englebert Taylor

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; THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ¥ eter z Sleet f Aig ipen I~ ror ey We Stclox MAT hy rn Made if "Ry he met esi Westclox—for these dark momings T takes real courage to get up when the room is dark; when the floor’s like ice; when you dread that dash to the open window— when the bed clothes hug you warm as toast! Your Westclox understands: it lets you sleep right up to the last tick. That’s a good alarm clock’s most important job—calling you on the dot. Then, of course, tt must keep good time all day. All Westclox are good clocks; each one has that same good con- struction principle that put Big Ben where he 1s today. You sow you can depend on a Westclox alarm. Each one has the name Westclox on dial and tag. Western Clock Co—makers of Westclox La Salle & Peru, Ill., U. S.A. ae [ ee -s

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 Saas == "TPT PRET ELE TET RE ETP TTT TP TPT PPP eee Pe PT Tet ee — ———_—___—__- - i: | u Ww Lal ba } ion: ah wa a i e “4 Clothes saving starts with all-wool —.: fabrics and fine tailoring in clothes mean longer wear. Longer wear means fewer clothes to buy each year. And fewer clothes to buy each year means money saved. You'll get all this out of our clothes; if you feel you don't, after you've worn them— money back Hart Schaffner & Marx CEPT PPT ETT TEL TT CLE ET LeLLeLeLeeLirlcLertLiultd ieee ——— ———————— = —— —— ——— = { \ iA tai Be ve i! | ! - aa == a SS = See | ARR RRERBRARREDRERERER ERE RHRMERMBARRRES

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~ Published Weekly the Curtis Publishing Company Cyrus H. KH. Curtis, President il i 4.v «-Pre dent and Treasurer enerel Business Manager Boyd, A i erti g& Director pendence Square, Philadelphia London: 0, Henrietta Street Covent Garden, W. € Volume 192 dc. tag George Horace Lorims oF H. D. WalKer, E. Dinsm ntered as Second-Class Matter, No» IST, atthe Post Office at Philade Founded A°D' 1728 Ay Benj. Franklin Uinder the Actot More Copyright, 1920, b nad y the Curtis Publishing Company in the United States =r PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 17, 1920 eat Britein Post-Office Department, Ottawa, ¢ le PT Bg here Number 290 Lille NEW FAIRYLAND -——————_ 5 } / Tyr I ae Ay : a a 5 irs a ‘ Ir ) i © af \ il I atta I W ( I Wi ‘ D t i r iT ‘ ( be If ‘ rese? r \ vi W \ OV ie ‘ is beer i he me ipé I i we e been t eng t! TRA TE ODO I Y I \ ‘ D I t ° a“ paid f ‘ ) yst amazeme irtling phenome

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 Sparrows g and the Incomprehensible Simplicity Continued on Page 162

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THE ZE nup of a warm ntnne LB darry Smowdlem n shorts and PLEC Sc FRAGT ES BY wR nes ed ri f iy i — i } hed ¢ ‘ é r f he w} } ‘ i \\ \\ id kK ( | 1) 1) ey \W ere iW f $ | ey \ I re | Sere] er me d sscended a rough narrow road Round a bend in the pike a mile farther oah Valley Pike a half mile on he brought the mare up short wit! sudden “Whoa, hoss!” to stare at the tant attentior pictured answer to his tion, pasted or d good horses. Save the side of a tobacco barn which stood a of an old-fashione i copper few yards back from the road. it telligent eyes, the mare’s To the huge colorful posters of to-day lilar sleekne of the newly the sma two-sheet alfa r, printed fron n the open bur. She wore woodcuts, was like a lady’s handkerchief ir bridle except a headstall, compared to a double blanket. With so ck and against her chest little perspective and color how could an ed boy about twenty vear entire World's Congre of Wild and Sav- alsack. Hewas barefooted, age Beasts be pictured upon such a sn uulder ina | made of — poste he ere the ull were lj} t had been turne pside the top of what seemed to be an immens¢ n of head atad net eliff the lord King Of beasts 1 ed red feat t ere hail oper wu 1 «it i e to a re era wide hur ) t beasts packed close be hit Offa ‘ ng strains of Old Da le a springbok sprang into the air no le nthe firea ed Wrapped in the ¢ ol a e pyt! . Make de nica in such ragtime as no Below them, near the bottom, an elephant é with upraised trunk was trying to defend itself { closed nod iy- Royal Bengal tigerw} e teet j \ erefaste f the tune as if m r the huge creature's ba vhile the elephant’s 1 re ““‘Wuz I Ridin’ Dat Mule or ‘ Didn’ I? I Sho Wuz! An’ ef I Rid "Im Who Dat Mule B'tong Ter?" y1 // wond (F¥7 | (B) TO P tald el nds passed HARRY “Gret Day, Man! Evil«Minded You ‘Lowances j ( 1 tle Don’ be Soa : ; s Got ter \, " fo a ‘ t, 1 \ ‘ He \ I i ‘ \\ ‘ ae Af \ ‘ VW es’ ( \ i 1¢ \\ Ihe ‘ I f ' ( ( ‘ I ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ yf eX ( r ‘ t al } N () a ————

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THE SATURDAY EVENING January 17,1920 stonned ppeda to the His feet scarcely If Any Young Man in the Audience Can Ride n Round the Ring He Can Have the Mule o a Hundred Dottars in Cash

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"THE SATURDAY EVENING POST hirled and let fly both heels, which Scared to death the fell e mule’s face, and going up to the ring- ne lat stoma WwW in excited, angry pantomime. ied held up his whip to attract the atter 1 pointing to the clown said: ‘He ne to ride hin If any young man in the ( ! yu the ring he can Nha the mule t had told the truth after all. But in the ( ne ited before Jumping »> the arena © peo 4 young white man had gotten f the « wn he sat down on the edge of the the white man button his coat carefully wn tight. The mule stood still, looking e the would-be rider locked a pair of eath } be and art rou 1 his neck. it praying over the outcome, which needn't it all. {1 the man, drawing his head in like a t t nt the clown let go the long ear its owner was ya living combination of India rubber and three or four jumps forward, with »him like a leech. Then as if on a pivot } ’ cat, he whirled completely round and I eemed to be aone in one motion, pped idewise in the oppo ite direction, hold of his locked ankle Before he could head went down, his heels flew ip like er band. The man flew off, to hit the ill fours. The place was rocking with mirth with a sheepish grin, came back to his seat. 1 the clown, beckoning to Sawney. ipproached the mule, 1 had resumed its 1 attitude, and strok nose A thrill as the lips nibbled at his fingers. ‘“‘I im,” he said confidenth; ind was aston t rood-humored fellow with the funny face iss voice: “‘ Like hell I \ you can, nigger! Get his arms and legs as the white man had rely as a precaution, the negro laid his dark face against the animal’s neck and crooned prayerful “Ride me, little feller baby, ride me, an’ you my mule! Tur . The clown did so, and sprang back with arm Before he pe rhaps him loose, bos outflung. ] ] + +? +7 could recover the mule had caln rotted « fifteen paces, almost to the entrance to the dressing room. Sawney sat up straight, with feet ur locked, snatched off | hat, and was about to wave it triumphantly overhead, when he heard a swift 11ou oath alongside of him. A hand was slipped under his knee; the mule bucked with the effect of an explosion, and off he went, landing his back. Bewildered :) Ing 1 A pair of yy the collar and rreeches anc it and through the dressing room. The owner of those hands yelled, “Hey, rube!”’ and Sawney felt the impact of a heavy foot where one of the man’s hands had been. He stumbled forward into the hands of two others, who with« going. They too yelled, ‘ Hey, the sur light. Witha p arting kick they turned him over to it pause kept him 1 aL rube as who came two more men, The y repeate d the process with even greater dexterity and speed, for the next thing the negro knew he had lit in a pate h of dock weeds outside the roped-off area, Feeling as if he had been picked up and slammed round by a whirlwind Sawney lay still, trying to collect his scat tered senses. He worked his arms and legs, feeling himself A slow, irrepressible grin the realization that he was not really hi managed somehow to keep hold of his ha “*Man, suh,” jes passed me ‘long, jes passed me “long!” Slowly raising himself to a si for he never wanted to see there—he pulled the cockleburs off his head and taking a homemade twist of tobacco from a pocket bit off a chew i “Wuz I ridin’ da ‘I sho wuz! *d dem people whouvver rid ’im could too, sho ez I’m - all over, } he muttered, ‘‘dey sho knows how! Dey ting posture—no higher, those men who might still be d began to ruminate. mule or, didn’ a I?” he asked himself. t idn’ de boss man } wid de whip say ’fo’ have ‘im. He cert’n’y did, t’other man, An’ ef I rid ‘im 4 a nigger. who dat mule b'long ter YY OV { we lit ule i saw er the t in nt ou Sudde Wa tne juired, cr ich led. **Bin | a wide well-reme tched the nN le, “Little f * don’ le Crossing bearing ie, unt ind t j Sul ) , f the mule } t de man ¢ J iniwe kled at the re iecth yg from the t tir 4 -. i { here A wre ; \ X etter from } \1 ‘ hda w t e exclaimed I « e coat her ‘ D ! Tee ‘ f N ‘ ‘ hee p ‘ ‘ ‘ } t ‘ Nin i] fir ‘ ‘ he muttered, we WW pe. ? ¢ ri a | A rit i Ww t } +} ‘ ¢ of go out of ht he st | fer Gawd ake do 4 ¢ le ) 4 branch he | ed df ved its sl 1 satisfied smile he ne ? t ‘ l & t i ri { he if i 1 fact Continued on Page 104 ~s

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y Wiliy Miz Lolbell lil By IRVIN S. COBB HE nal ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 0oplexy reformed and married Little Nell, the unspoiled child of Death Valley —were the smartest frontier get-up of current year’s vintage that the Chicago mail-order houses could turn out; if Little Nell’s fat! pear _ = ; ing contemporaneously, da cording to the mode laid Gown for Ps Forty-niners by such indubitabl j | , authorities as Bret Harte; if the sheriff stalked in and out of ler range attired as a Mississippi River gam! was popularly supposed to have bee attired in the period 1860 to 1875 and if finally the cay Iry troope from the near-by army post sporte the wide hats and khaki shirts w} came into government il] vopue the time of the spanist War, a ‘ DR weiland good. The action was eve thing; the sartorial acce es We as they might be and were and yy quently s ll are t Along here there intruded a s B f when the Lobel sl op tentative é perimented with costume dran the Prisoner of Chillon we f conventional black and white in alte nating stripes of a Georgia cl i j} and doing the old Sing Sing lox ‘ \\ \ and retiring forthe night to his dor M cell with a set of shiny and rather modern-looking leg irons or ankles; Mary Queen of Scot i! ‘ ‘ Catharine de’ Medici in costu ‘ " strikingly similar; Oliver Gold , in Sir Walter Raleigh’s neck ruff | he | Captain Kidd’s jack boot But this season endured long. Costume stuff was nix. It forf not what the public wanted. It w ‘ over their heads. Mr. Lobel | ‘ { | said so. Wake him up in the midd rye of the night and he could tel ind f exactly what the publie did and © @X] not want. Divining the popular \ | i fig exct amounted with him to a gif ting the pa | approximated an exact art; rea f tomacher t formed the corner stone of | ieee i few yea | Likewise he knew—-but tl fe when he edge perhaps had come to him part j ! ime Lobel by experience rather than altoget} | Mr. Lobel ha by intuition—that historical ter ' +} g-picture reelers dealing with epochal eve ‘ y in the life of our ow: people were er } vays bee tirely unsuited for general consur ; beaten " tion. ‘ When this particular topi: untact Ar ‘ th fully was broached in his presence M. Lobel Compa Mr. Lobel, recalling the fate of the athe elaborate feature entitled Let Free | ‘ dom Ring, had been known to sput \\ f } is regar | ter violently and vehemently. Upor ‘ idvent into | this production—now abiding a g fiel memory only, yet a memory bitter a ite aloes—he had spared neither expense e president and nor pains, even going so far as pe Mr. F. X. Qu sonally to direct the filming of all th L struggling a — — principal scenes. And to what end Lepping If it Could be Played Vampishly, the Principal Rote Went Without Question to Vida Monte Captious critics, including those who f ar of } wrote for the daily press and thos« amitt t immers at Coney, _ be called fa medium prominence in the moving-picture who merely wrote in offensive letters—college professor ere he guided the professional field. In other words, it now was able to pay its stars and such like cheap highbrows—had raised yawping voice f } ‘ it, t Egyptian seerist, in alaries running up into the multiples of tens of thousands to point out that Paul Revere galloping along the pre- ' vy, M F. X, Quinlan née Clardy. of dollars a year and the bank which carried its paper had Revolutionary turnpike to spread the alarm passed e1 ‘ N neon Geltfin, had not yet felt justified in installing a chartered accountant in route two garages and one electric power house; that } ind ned, dangied . ‘ er go labs V i g iat N $9.80 Bargair lake fo Bi | 60 ind hese ‘] ‘ Were Ur | Mr. Be ( x, numbered if eer. In the ‘ , f, Lemu : . ‘ ( gy ( fax at the ime . i | r a reper t tr ipe | f ‘ the Middle West ‘ ‘ 1 continuity writer, he ina t iit ed advertisements for a 1 the home offices to check the finances and collect the in- loans outstanding. Before reaching this position the concern had passed through nearly all the customary inter Nearly a decade rearward, back in the dark ages of the filmic Period of pictures, so to speak, this little group of path- finders tracking under the chieftainship of Mr. Lobel into almost uncharted wilds of artistic endeavor had dabbled lap-stick one reelers featuring the plastic pie and the also the trick staircase, the rvening stage cosmos, the Jurassic erous seltzer siphon, educated mustache and the performing doormat. Next—following along the line of least resistance—the rs went in more or less extensively for wild- dramas replete with stagecoach robberies and If the head bad man—not the all through, or the treact adventur abounding in hair pant econdary bad man who stayed bad bad man who was fatally extinguished with gun bad man who in Reel Two, but the chief, or primary, Washington crossing the Delaware stood in the bow of |} skiff half shrouded in an American flag bearing forty-eight stars upon its field of blue; that Andrew Jackson's rifl men filing out from New Orleans to take station behind their cotton-bale breastworks marched for some distanc¢ beneath a network of trolley wires; that Abraham Lincolr signing the Emancipation Proclamation did so while seated at a desk in a room which contained in addition to Lincoln and the desk and the Proclamation a typewriter and a Persian rug; that at Manila Bay Admiral Dewey wore spats and a wrist watch. But these primitive adventurings, these earlier pioneer ing quests into the realm of the speculative were all ir limbo behind them, all wiped off the slate, in part forgiven, in a measure forgotten. Since that primitive beginni and those formulative middle periods Lobel Masterfiln had found their field, and having found it, now plows and tilled it To those familiar with the rise and t

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST I r rvement of this now the fourth largest indus- or is it the third? ‘ ge f itionary developmer ¢ f that industr wher A lealt preponderant wit ul A ft ynit ied to handle ict le ‘ is es fro the country. sé irift among la lel ¢ h incidenta a ‘ whiskers | He } is rare beautiful he-juvenile the hair combed sl back off c ed H n seal effect plendid e, v might have dged a draft or hed f hefore the mera t ij eve noug! ij it mceeded ¢ P e CT! y ‘ jure and at. 7 ' i , “Oh, if You Love Me, Monte, Give Me Footage on That Kiss! pro ( a mptl ara her crea tow! Chicago it t 4 to t t an ange Reel O would 1 y would be changed 1 I of Destir t some good catchy and or three I mportant point the enario ed ma heine fart 1 : character in t or, was the da Indiana who ol irn tne gitte e pe epor earte wit it buta e wit ene ea tne title which w ap ' iin executi\ Fate ‘ le i 1 take ( a orig t re ‘ } pee ‘ ript i é een 1 a Clading tra f f frer or ( ‘ ‘ } i to New Hold itt Hoid it! i Keep on Hotding It! yu j fd irs to Zz i } ‘ " t t Va \ ( \I j 1 ' aA \i H & - ré mle t ‘) he vf l ' ( ‘ Ar | ‘ ' i () Continued on Page 94 SSS

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 SINGLE FELLOWS 2ySxriaseto~= ‘The Stock Exchange, of course urmised scornfully. ‘“‘What ama hine of a mar Mr. Henry, however, seemed quit neonscious of his infirmitie He wa ] unconsclou of Mi Kir Ilment monogramm«e with which she alway 1 +} d come to D« now the new dre an Ballet that h: unning Downing } j had beer — nannei of comme Her - . adepartm — —EE a = é it Surprise Him, Give it to Him for Christmas Then He an't Offer +o Pay Af ach exercised nage! We | wel leg ne began ( mornitr “*How about that l l 1 norni I thought Ta ked you to mark that cut of the a heavy Ben Day. The whole effect was ruined.” Tom Re ivis, a t all, sallow chap who had beer paper man be fore he came to the store, looked up wit} » which always maddened her replied, l I ‘T suppose I was a little flu t as I was marking up the copy md kid was down ¢ hought the baby seemed feveris! exclaimed Miss Kirkpatrick. Her hort » awe of the unfamiliar. She stood there a were trying to picture an uprising of the savage tribe of Mesopotamia. Tom Reavis caught the groping, for the grin returned ric 1 “Hard for you single fellows to understand, isn’t it broad-shouldered gentleman in his late Miss Kirkpatrick? Don’t know what it means to ride f 1 his perfectly fitting brow: t, the an hour out to the suburbs and then to find the cook g juare chin with the lef no dinner, the sick kids trying to sneak out of their be extending to ¢ cli and the radiators not acting right.” imperson lance : ir Miss Kirkpatrick did not say anything. But when, b in her office, she could hear through the partitior face and domestic en brows contracted.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i! \ e Sf me ¢ ‘ I ) N ( ( ‘ ) N i i n Ww ‘ ) of he Va q ea ‘ O the | N H d She p to the Oh, yes, Miss Kirkp tJ 1 We , ( 5 r ¢ ‘ a f dav.” \\ i phe gave LleSW ( I 1 pre ed M I ctions as to the selling of she stared e pretty ] Miss 1 1 4 ‘ " rw ‘ a P . ‘ i ‘} ‘ ment disg ! N :’ W ! ‘ ( ear ¢ V é i 1 I D> ‘ I kK | re ‘ Ti f \f ; G ( ‘ \A | ; \\ i Now } Hall « é Ve€ | « a ! eat 1} to ihe ertwo ‘ ‘ And ee ( eco f] b t e- é » a e¢ ) ere € mor Cc of e me i ay . en ] e- The d " ove There . ¢ ave ‘ 0 g ‘ t icancy. T : . rt, rt »eu Continued ( ymen at arms. Nibs and Lisie Sailed Off Together and Miss Kirkpatrick's Heart Sank She Was Alone With That Man on Page 133 {

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 OVIE SIGNBOARDS » UT an deova mt ian a Ha, TO rm 8 OPT 3 | las Aldvertised American Goods in Foreign Lands y LEWIS R. FREEMAN rewing with th first ty duced > Laying the Foundations of the Hindieh Barrage, Mesopotamia, the Work on Which Was Greatly Accelerated by the y of American Brick:Machines, Introduced After Being Seen in a Karachi Movie irt of a vignetted fade-away. The Dutch _ tect fror guest of the evening I chanced to be, | thatched hou highly illuminative incident as would be to acer rt down an orchid-scented avenue they would have to my hotel instead of Hit of the Evening t Java long enough,” he them as the utter what other refine- less ge will usually have layed Great Publicity Opportunities y everything that a itside of the fact that they “N°, THOUGH I have ne a sort of syn bol of social the pec ple would find t? lite respectable 1 ave ifforno other reasor ve noticed that all of the m: nes give them—I hardly ink the time 1 ll affairs hardly la ! duction of the foot pusher into Java. But im} orter least exhibited ir made in the dental to their commodity trying to abroad ingly display ible throug! of actual den ‘In Europe manufacture of f pecially in Frar Germany; yet ever anywhere from twer five per cent of the ] Yankee origin. A few Frer pictures find their way but this side of Suez ‘ China and Japan > American films are el doubt that the sudan Railway First Got the Idea of Steet Water Tanks From South Africa and South America is a Yankee Movie Show in Khartum the same. For what it is worth

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» America. I have no doubt that in time THE SATURDAY EVENING POST cinema signboard follow up the re- sults of movie signboard adver- tising I more and more im- belongs almost ires will be taken fully to exploit the became lent, which I have taken the liberty of pressed with the lerable detall, occurred sever character and in- or eight et i before the outbreak of the tellige nee of the ment—though I had occasionally ree men who had ! te ed bv the pe ple ot this or bought, or endeav- ner of the world in some special ored to buy, arti- e or contrivance seen for the first time cles of American 1 never come e tome what a manufacture which le asset we had in the movie sign- had first come to e down to the present [have missed their attention on ee y te ertently in every the screen of a cin- vere showing t he we tin this way ema theater. There e consequence were, of course, nu- merous Instances where—as in the case of the Java- i explain that by movie nese peasants— the interest of a more or less primitive ignboard I pe of tilm made and sent out for amuse- of which would doubtless classify more than anyone dreams of at the As I began to f ee — - = Brazil, Until They Got the | I nd in which the di play of some article people was roused Thie Was the Way Coffee Was Loaded at Santos, é export quite incider tal to the deve lop- in some article Endiess:Chain Conveyor From a f These are, of course, quite distinct from which it was not d demonstration films, which both practical to supply them with. Thus several ui our consu Arabs never \ I pean manufacturers have sent abroad stationed in South and Fast Africa told methattheshowing tangible « { , i ‘ f ‘ ‘ \ ‘ , ¢ ible ( } ( [ l i] ‘ ever heard } ‘ vr - ba bee gone ‘ The Brickyard at Hindieh While the Oid Hand Method of Brick Making Was Still Being Followed If I dare ; of what the movie signboard could do in the _ of a certain comedy film had started a lively inquiry among — have includ at al interest was not forgotten, the blac for flexible rubbe hammers and daggers and lac or two of thatafoldingopera throne which he — hat which had ti ipon | enrapt ‘iy a Ta a 5” ired exter ely in ¢ ed Indian pt m had se he ni Re ient te ‘ earning for ( le the posse of tl W e of t e el emerald 1 ¢ A. pe \ ol Great M l headgear ~ ! | ‘ lar ] was told in inyt r ‘ M it, Bushire ‘ Bagdad Aley Damascu i number of conte n Sout OMIT « weste Asia that | ! the showing of a Ame ul vi ‘ ‘ 1 A ‘ lo wed b I tempt he } { of ‘ Ar f lear how could prov ( y ol tne vdd eecaciendiins ii anata —————— cannot fall out of But on ever A Round-Up on the Pampas. A Steady Modernization of the Crude Argentine Methods of Handling his intere Cattle Reported Since the Showing of Wiid«West Films Has Become So Common in That Country Movie Film | Continued on Page 61 Idea of the ger ae

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¢.> (\ & THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AISTER ’ By Hugh Wiley “Boy, Let Me Yo’ Shoa Lets ILLUSTRATED You "Em Ramble You Lays Down Five Francs. B J. J. GOULD You Speaks to 'Em Gentle. Whang! An’ They Reads Seven. Yo’ Wins Five | , nos’ all de time. How’s good fraternal gatherin’s?’ . band of blood brothers juick’s I lan’s at yo’ out the Wildcat, and presently sought to outline the ahead of him: Ther I loads myself up on game Does I git tired ] al I goes huntin’. I id yams. a automobile o’ mebbe Sure glad Ise out of de Army. All y's too small since I begun b drivin’ an’ de the night noises in the dense jungle about mebbe if dese other boys gits by I Lady Luck, when- I gue ose to Ball Head. F roun’, here I is a drink of a boy git Out of the circle of firel toward him. ‘In our hills there are no such things.’’ The bled for a moment with a knot of his kk the hunter is tired, when the hunter is cold, wher the trail has long, forgetfulness nagic of this bean.” He extended |} the Wildcat. I beans the size of “Take of tl ““Do not eat more ght the guide came wal in cloth come wi his open paln } v fit mn it lay grains of corn. one em, said. it. They are very potent.” The Wildcat disdained the a “‘When I aims to git | aims to git jazzed up. Give beans.” of lowed them. He put five mouth and swal Twenty minutes later, going strong, Wildcat alone by the camp fire rest of the caravan was tered through the distances fr In ildeat tar the } Jungie a bear ] + ycione the late W ned down. **Come on here, boys aim to } he lurt you. managed to collect sociates. ‘ Ball Head, how mar more of dem “At the 1 storehouse full.” “How many mort wid you?” ‘You ate th replied. The W “Let? rigl tno The evidence in tl gation e Wildcat’ mander showed that of tl Jack had deliberately gx Yo’ Agitates "Em Francs" A. W. O. L 1 Paris finally had been for a good many landed him in the judge advocate lived up to the technical hed with C ooned wit! dragnet in The his office and officer’s future was fes when he finis iron bars. “Sure to | desertion. Unquestionably the senator parer sweetheart the ir gle the known world when it car f “What can you do, C these damr was greatest tary, “‘dealin’ a female offspring cause some damn prodig al fix lost himself in this A. E. F. shuff Get the State Departmer on tne general. t busy. trail him down, and if you can, hi foot and delivered to the hotel.” Some hours later in the adjutant general’ Washington *he wandering-boy inquiries were and immediately became a part of the great sea finished business. With greater simplicity and more frankness the clerk at the Staté Department file similar cablegrams, which he had received, of a large wicker wastebasket. ive him bound har i < what is dem varmints runnin’ r “Ball Head, hills?” The Wildcat at the head of a marching caravar toward an open space in the jungle through which re great hills that lay about the valley of Ball Head’s tr “Goats,” the guide replied. ‘‘ Food for womer must not be eaten by warriors such as you and me.” The Wildcat thought of Lily. “Once I had a mascot goat. bring me good luck or bad. Good or bad, she sh drownded when me an’ de fire department sunk river at St. Sulpice.” But in this instance the Wildcat had the Lily at the m was enjoying the companior wrong ment “y it} law! Oo Id One by Neveh could figger did sh January 17,1920 Whe: f

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eS. S. Texar id votted the win ‘ . I W leat’s vocabulary leepin’ mo ( e cre f the Texan she M. ¢ ed himself inter ed d finished hi t fhe pp nds of grape I cos 1 it was feeble id been rece | I nese thea tar e drawe \ A There i fra i et he hice ' M.G ed the tle dra ( e cablegran ri f lc to } Ww D iffled the me iges W nt Aha! 7 Premier of ‘ é r é re- r ire a tne e D ‘ d the et Se the Asso- i | Pre a he 1s e ¢ e pie x ba et t ‘ worth a pe ired sa ‘ 4) Vise hey An gt arded ca- x I xf le vt pr ) ( J ied to ‘ r ‘ etwo f } her ‘ ‘ i? r’ t Vore | ted a ol hed a little rried e of i rbon r ! H “ il ‘ i! Ww } W een f gray , y hlue } e of the Af he é tiv ' é the ( e said r whe had he et, alt THE SATURDAY EVENING POST re the money en put. He er which he Witdcat Gatloped Down the Trail The Wildeat absorbed | it prompted by long hours on the tra ‘After you finish,” the guide sa enemy worthy of your courage ¢ man-eating lion ha rried of above u He expected here t I will show you where to stand have claimed to be a great hunter you amusement.” En route to the place f the eyes fixed upon a ceremony in wW native were engaged Hlow come d t i er de quired A lodge brother is be ng initiat of Hunters,” the guide replied The Wildcat thought of his rer eating lion pealed to him considerably more beast the opportunity of seatterir there through the tropical foliage stating his preference What I craves mos’ is * the guide replied to join d “Even so, A first-class initiation Wi } | ul he mie le thar gh “Jazz Bean ‘He W por er a i Wi Prayed, ll wait.” “Stan Me ‘ where A | I t k 4 | re i etu ! | W | ers | I H } B He ! W Mi f \\ if | r | WW | Hy 0 Continued on Page 8&6 Se (a

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 OJLIOHNN YITOWN oe Ee - Ne 7 a 0 wtlh ““An every-day occurrence,” al . got it in bales and they are spending it by hat woman was never in this store before. I spotted her In a minut act we hay ver had such a busine our high-priced g , and ninety r cent of tl who people like woman, Vv lla worth here b » hands of new people! There riot of ¢ xtravagance, of w a commodity 1s worth a rice is high, of luxury buying, the jev Iry store A of the excited and per and prodigal determi ion to | asked whatever immer the ow Pearls by Day, Diamonds by Night reat as it ever had } De l e nal! “OF ASSUREDLY! But if madam l rdor \ an from Pittsburgh I vest that the ver | Lode t iode of ver r he: coming WU é twit an her out of it, but it home w salesman house heir aggregate wages were seven hundred dollar A man from Chicago told of a woman wh« ockery st et of di ome iuxXurle are i duplicate these instance ; of eage r extravagance and heedless buyi: extends from the Atlantic to th York that it has reached it nnytowr of all the w the stor are greater IS ZOINs newly ri ing on one toes to counte get up to the rs to spend their money, and the higher the prices are the better they like it. No tariff is too steep for them. The more a thing costs the bet- ter it is, from the Cheero is the Word Among the Art Dealers viewpoint of their

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 17 \ eX . Ty N ] A r me Ni \ > ne W ‘ ice | r it ‘ } Vi t f ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ id | i j ‘ W ‘ 4 ; i - | I+ i } x \ \¢ e the " Yo | \ eV ‘ I ive ‘ | { . ! “ i t ‘ ‘ ri ‘ ‘ { | T { \ r t ‘ \ \W ‘ I H ¢ j , iH ( J i i ‘ : } \ i I : New \ i ' price W de | j 1 ‘ isa a W Too Cheap \ é QPEAKING ‘ ‘er Ay DD é ) ‘ t 1 a ; . } iH Easy Marks fies N she t ‘ that ‘ 1d | ¢ t pe ‘ i : e] i \ . | ‘ to € 4 ‘ 1 eT } ‘ : \ i listu ‘ Voulé . ‘ vy her a hat ito tyle of i _ | ' ' The juee personage de ‘ é ved he | s) i& r, ta r “ . - ev ( a CK n ease My Restaura it Prices are So High Now That I Expect to . . | (| tie tl 7, ald the queenly pe! age. \i be Arrested Aimost Any Minute,'’ Said the Owner of a Big . = . est and becoming.” and Fashionable Place; “‘But Most of My Guests Act a Bit ere tot t t t ' Hlow mu ’ faltered the visitor. Sore and Disappointed Because They are Not Higher" gage whe the elt, Just ( vould at? f ' “Only four thousand dollars. Phi t ‘ when t em ! ‘ i et some really expensive ones. ‘our hundred and twé ’ ; . \ l ¢ ¢ in } 0” } } *Bu prot ¢ | ‘ t r rd I } t A L he i lad ‘ ( 1 are a ira ive ‘ é i icommonp f er piace Tor ie ‘ ( ¢ C eT , ed rece to New ¥ tw t e « ‘ r i ‘ ‘ are d went to a mo i pe place to The al i j e are ‘ i ¢ ‘ j e, i 1 the place full of wome a ¢ 0 e the I to their ra i I W ‘ ‘ Aft i i Salt é he vyhat her ¢ ist haughtily. | l j here lw unt her w her desir Phe demand is great the supy ‘ ( i ‘ elped now did she d ean evening he said ‘Wedo lle the cheaper ¢ ( VW : ri ¢ id irs, or a e fro ever And they are b y the t these | ¢ i } ‘ ‘ | { ( e wanted to look at a simple little bu gy them as fast as the res can get ther | , are acce he mple a ‘ t orou nott Kl tL because the t ire fl gx to MN t W he ‘ ly regarded her w rcold temptuouseyve with their new 1 ey in their hands to get ihe tead of ‘ : p , yi came back with three or four dresses trailing frocks at four hundred dollars a throw and more complex diagr tarting t iy vw art. He, { lt ' Oo. nes at higher prices, well as simple everything else at Continued on Page 157 \ ’

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é How Poor klmer Made Good | I i I t ‘ f v1 , ‘ \ ‘ i Doe . | } Why Don't You Go Miles Off Somewhere and Disisice! f my people living bac THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Al Plea for Young Male Parents by Frank Ward O’Malllley ‘LL PRESTON for Pitt-ee'’s Sake, Ed, ‘mer up and down, separated fri gd raced thro oh the eatherins ont ‘ | Let Us January /7,1920 ) And be it recorded to the everlasting and glory of all fathers from father rabbit poor Elmer’s ere ature com ; imself telephoned to father rabbi The Births of Fiction DID nothing of the kind jumped ir j it the who far T i T t fant a t, ( ir bab iverag me i orne t) Ipon a I D ¢ t have T oot colored the mn th sion la own bat me as hav No discussi¢ l scramble to be father the ea ‘ Mr. Hox iy the « ‘e funct is | ’ I vhie é ! I ) lelirious excitement Here e-pou i mi! ¢ it i ) r ( » newborn babe tl L have ear to mea g up in pulcl j il the et it rt ( exception of our bab ind do imp I am one of those idiotic pare ng some sort of vintage crop tl Vit the average, or off-sea 1 of fool parent; I am the fir to stretch a point to do tl regu featured, brig { ich he na ghborhood I 1 training lavished upon him tl yngenital gift I say that with t rain and a group of bioodl faced maims anyone els¢ i the news to the suffering baby have come, and now

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: THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 19 \ ed female relatives are yawning above their black some female relation of the ee and the uproar of the midnight hours has subsided prospective mother parked \ equally nerve-racking “*S-s-s-s-h”’ of hissings through in his path, the whole ex nger tips at the slightest sound; and still the cited crew figura- é ule father not sure whether he is a father or tively flyingabanne: 4 ror what. Only slowly and vaguely do they begin brazenly inscribed emember f **Keep your dis- W onde here Ed is?”’ someone finally mumbles, and tance, you poor i + ibsolutely no note of interest—pep—in the query. male—this our yi Vunno, yaw inother someone wearily—adding per- party!” | f f of scorn with which only a It is putting it =f e neal i dear to one’s wife can vitiate the mildly to say that | I calm night’s sleep in |} room, | Ed received there- i e tne , thing in the world going on.”’ after even les it Ye tention from the \ ¢ { ‘ is said in a way that proves wife's folks than he } er beleve tne mi plie of the got or his marriage ¥ nall tar enough wher they placed day and on that Sle ‘ M and “Arson” in their list of first great occasion pe ips the or ly \ od riddance too,”’ the voice goes on. ~ If ever thought about Ed | t izy excited chump uncaged it was Ed last that had entered the = ! 1 en ybody else was trying to be calm and combined intellec- F ent. If I tripped over that big moon-faced calf once tuals of the bride’: r | ved a thousand times. And he drove the — side of the house was | ‘ When she was at her very busiest what asudden andannoy- I ) é it of The Room to blubber whether ing realization of the et | ye milk or castor oil or several more fact that some big lone L, I could have killed him!” awkward male per son had galumphed 4 Old Ed Gets a Raw Deal his way right up ta : j Winifred’s elbow and i i pte right there where the wife’s relatives begin bra seemed determined to H 4 ‘ to drag fiction into the realthing. Edwasn'’tabit stand there all during } etl i wouldn't be and didn’t. Ed being thoroughly the ceremony, Just where In Some More Humane Households the Young Mother Also is Good Enough to Grant Him It ft fa 1 man, even when suffering great his big lubbering hulk the Weekly Boon of Dropping All His Own Work and Other Affairs on the Nurse's Day Out | ‘ birt! always a reasoning being and that cut off a lot of the bride e altogether ruled by their emotions, merely had from the view of eve dy on | le of the chancel and di-i-i Wi the pra ; ige whole affair systematical] What And now on this second great occasion of Ed and Wit nk into ibled ing 1 it ‘ Eve e he had attempted to move help- _ fred’s young married life the best Ed gets i Get out!’ and row dually he be ert | f the female in-laws cluttering up the Nevertheless for a time lly | round the ‘ re ting that he n \ | t t ler him. And he 1 it slept general neighborhood of Waiting I ingdog ist i! the a ! t ( vVhile being accused of the erme | fashion, being tepped or irleda B the put eye i WA “ f ip with it all very humbly, wistfully ng toa fatuous — gre é y tice isi t | belief that even the wife’s relatives in the wn good time I le 1 t ! G will calm down and admit that he is at least related tothe — ge ew he ¢ Ay i newborn babe perhaps merely related b nar re ta He use ) the bet p f f Ed relative. He does not mind it so much when they totally closed G i | \ ( es ‘ ignore his anxious inquiries during the greater maxes aS have ¢ t I e} ‘ they s uttle past him, Ed ex ising them on the grour i that A ert i t iw they, unlike himself, are overexcited. He entertains no all new f ‘ f f It w bitterness when they bang the swinging door of the butler’s a I t t I | i i pantry into his facade and savagely shove him aside. But the Ed bn : when the wife’s snip of a young sister turns on him fero- — be inders indtoG ! irs¢ 1 ar t ! | | } | ) , | The Sympathy of the Bar IKELY he | et i | Nia t : oe f } have ed } f ‘ t ‘ ‘ We it | : Yep! ¢ I } i eve I | j \ | . H ‘ | ; ' { Hug | f t. We f Me, a Regular This Bird is Supposed to be So Thoroughly Equipped That He Can Statk Into My Own House and Tell Me Father —to Siep Away Back and Sit Down! e, Hughie : | soon oy ! ! Continued on Page 149

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 Views ofa Layman on Bo VISmH es By ALONZO ENGLEBERT TAYLOR most demar to short hours high wages To tive over previou authoritie veloped scneme ment The told th: est crime of : is sabotage the wor Twoway to them en rations, withdrawal of rations for inciting ke and shoot in strike. Even when at work low. The reports ir contain innumerable productior darity; the pov These conditions for mining Government by Committee — ALIZATION done against the judgme bait to the workers Unuse eeeettyy against the programs of the center larly the case with the textile cent plant that had material and fuel the summer of 1917 to 1918 fell to 27 the result of disagreement between cet er The leaders have latter]; housework patterned after the Switzerland that, of course, cannot of lack of intelligence The best way of judging the prox the country is to estimate the ou Moscow Looking East Above —View of Syzran To-day, a City of 32,000 Peputation in Southeastern Russia, Destroyed by Revolutionists 120,000. The steel workers have whose raw materials are indigenou Let u from 240,000 to 47,000. limestone and clay, which abound in Bolshe for the first half of the The factories forthe manufacture of cement hav },130,000,000 rubles,and The quarries and brickyards have mostly closed y 2,860,000,000. Three- ufacture of lumber for building purposes ha of Moscow are closed. small fraction of the normal. For these labor nt apologists are not in har- able in unlimited numbers. carcity of metals was due to The manufacture of matches badly needed ibing of the country by Germans; then we aretoldthat tration in point. In many parts of the country left under Kerensky. Asa mattér of fact, Russia are to be bought. A number of matcl goodly supplies of raw materials and the Ger- close down because of lack of timber an muggle ot a little out. Little has been used tories had to close because they were and supplies remain for which no matches for which no distribution could t state of disorganization. same was true of other commodities. A number of n zation developed after the spon- ago the government ordered a free issue of operation of manufacturing plants matches to each person per year was rigid, autocratic and minute. Far more important than scarcity of materials wa ssaries stands a State Economic ficiency in organization. The programs were made ou ommi e general programs. Under this theorists; they were executed by councils of work: alliances, of the several trades none of whom knew anything about quantity product nder the center in each plant is the costs of production or forced output. The more trouble f a plan of a workers’ committee is developed the larger became the councils. Depression of may be appealed to the eco- production in manufacture is greatly aggravated by lin to the commissary concerned. Inthis tation of facilities in markets. Industries run by cour h workman is a cog and his oceupa- means managers, engineers and organizers selected by the name of the workmen’s state. councils. Here appeared the worst faults of commi labor deserve particular mention. government—worse than the selection of civil serv ‘ + } ? r of 1917-18 and have by politicians. Men of effici y cannot be selecte

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\ | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ol \ ‘ the inefficient cannot be weeded out inthatway. than they did with cement works and sawmills, conditior per cent of the l ‘ . N . were the organizers usually theorists, they were would have been little better with free importatior witht } figures of " ite ‘ ‘ ralter ! only were the councils usually Under blockade the factories of the country had a I ‘ ft Bolshe ‘ f petent, they were sometimes dishonest monopoly in a land er g for commodities and w gto threet " , ! t I e official trade and govert mental « p iny price Yet the opport t ( j t he seized ( teh I") j e beer with stories of reprehensible grafting even for the goods for which the cour HOSsesse iw eight! ‘ he ‘ ‘ Leather has been ver earce and three-fourths materials. The Urals and Turkesta re } n Bolshe tilly | Isnt ¢ € A re i t trading he national tic control, but tl \ a ttle good if the produ re t I . mit oe t vn to be riddled with grait a yive ich ma in it i ot ( rite ! ‘ { A | ed hot. In rece mont the other indige mater ya ‘ ‘ a = EN t itior un t ! ch about When the Gert vere short o x ‘ ‘ | exe I hevist official me used to didt d Ihe illocated what the > essentia a ble by I ter-revolutionist indu And for the rest they de ed replacement pe ‘ ft ‘ b I ire ‘racy was a heavy burden. The and substitutior 1) \\ ‘ 1 were numbers—multiples of the Did the Russiar do anything like that? Nothing! product low? . I b ler normal conditions, These all They did not have the physicists, chemists, engineer i ed good ) ! ‘ [t has heen common enough to have the these would not work for the Bolshevists. Shortage educed f e] below wages and salaries of councils, rubber in Germany was combated by new processes for ‘ f for upkeep and depreciation; not enough ation of old rubber. Of the skill seen in Germat tion. Wher iddit . e Tue ind raw material, because labor "16, '17 and 718, nothing has been seen during the ment f all th by in ou é , ‘ the receipts. The accumulated two years of Bolshevist Russia. Incompetence opera irprise hat the pe ‘ t ' f e ¢ harged up to the original owners or tion and workmanship, not blockade, has ruined Russiar methods of distributior t | a ere es from the Peoples’ Bank. ndustry. for the most eff t thir R fy \ ite | re |! was operated, the deeper the debt. The end results in terms of commodities cat be app \ j — i plants have received Irom veri mated, The Russia of prewar days imported sixty per cent The Hopeless Railroad Situation ent I f ne int of their ¢ tal some of its manufactured goods. The evidence from soviet le Of the products in the year has been below ources indicates that the present manufacture ome LANSPORTATION t per cent of t! ipita In sor 1e plants the wages alone where between a fourth and a third of domesti prewa | terivrated « jit I> ( e been " ‘ les value of the product lo output. That would make the amount of goods availabk trenuous effort were ‘ pia i g a certain period the government cor to the people somewhere in the neighborhood of fiftes transport, aided great H ed 96,000,000 ruble 66,000,000 going for wag of Ru 1 Much railway ¢ ( i j he { for 15.000.000 ruble ma Poland Ava } i l 1 ind € hat are to be read ir he pmet nto Ru fr e | } f re t t the thought that ar lu Ke ind the United Stat« t} r i ( a ! ind taker ip unchanged rmal gauge isé { | f il ¢ has had grave results for their When the revolutior 1 \ lelicate piece of mechanism found the shops of Ru A ‘ 4 k is pe t t reacts tc teria The great d 1 . I Da A going industry ind expert 2) y the I | ed I 1 certalr ‘ © ar ndustr tio! trathe were | e 6 f man forces in it, rises above the B ( tst lou ‘ b vy ¢ ( t é take countr We tion bv ra i 60 pe ‘ | € ee and assume that the it management the se ‘ | t I eve disturbance of organiza ng the la ¢ the ¢ y called industry, throws it to lack of tr ) 4! ; ( . t to get it bact operat ( ear late ! i ' \verage run per engine | i3| When the Milkers Struck 1918, thirty-five ‘ ( tussia esti he presé ‘ { (bo reaction of the thing calle per cent of the ‘ i the worker was well illustr from Bolshe ‘ ‘ I In this ¢ little codpe We ‘ ‘ the ex coms , t} , The | t t } eoul , | } le tO prod > “And ye terday,”’ he ! ha t due ed, “‘the w t happened. You know I have demobi t the a ‘ i " twenty-sevé ‘ beautiful creature At noon the ! et em} ent , | ers came and said, ‘We str And they left.” villingn \ et 1 ed And what w ou do? } ged A the p What will I ered impatient That mi itl vhatIw Wh ; : , . ‘ : Dp . t ‘ : ) ‘ | ) | ru y ler. , i 1 he resu I i ins 7 I ' jone 1 ‘ to R , nufac F é ol fue nortat Pe i he justri¢ vit} j 1 1 raw inlimite teria i ! I\ those wit} hort | ages. If the Ru ns had done etter with : ported iror i nper, tin, rul me Continued on i her nd eotton Baku. A ““Spout’’ on the Famous BibisEybat Oil Field. Above —An Oil Borer Page 69 }

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r January 17,1920 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST TOUJOURS DE L’AUDACE : vcCmmns ats DY Ben Ames Williams ILLUSTRATE DO BY HENRY RALEIGH “‘vou've Got Plenty of the Old Nerve, Stim,’ She Told Him Approvingly. “If it Was Me I'd Want to Make a Clean+Up and Get Out I'm Nervous" Somat ited myself to ‘ , rder to pic yughts ar of a smirk in his bearir » Mr. Ammidown, | i 1 we are not formall fora ; it happened, they came just I erry’s steps and P. D. Q. paused, tur o. You'd best steps and his face to Perry. peect your J rough your

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Ree THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 23 But I am ver ire there will be no real obstacle wi Daly made suggestions, but they seemed to Perry to be That afternoon Perry mad rrange e right,’ he added. ‘A charming git Camilla.” clumsy and of doubtful value He meant to be so well tar to Nave three I Perry had been simmering for some time. He was wil armed when next he struck that by no lirming could I'm cu is to see if P. D. Q ! ve P. D Q credit for audacity and skill, but the P. D Q escape hin He yave the other man as muct explained Pha ne reas I’m ¢ j If he ingered and ! relere! t to ¢ i! i credit lor a yer ‘ 0 | 4 i 4 t Perr) tru hie ‘ | ed the i r. &. g moveme | I'd lil ea 1) ! ft ‘ ¢ \ ‘ Itd me | 1) } f Pe $ i i I ‘ hae ) I ’ ; ' t. He i fa N p P tw \ le \ ! ent ‘ ‘Tha 7 I 1; fell awa He 1 w pa efore | | , HH i | What e hell goo 1 Powe yur ¢ vi!” D eep rue N H tld t ee t I . Gy ‘ X mn r yu he ire he i t i ‘ i me the ge | ‘ Wi I Via e defit I've a r I'll spring it myself x | PD. @ | I'll be ‘ eve promise right in P. D. Q.’'s eye | Pert But though he wa ‘ ‘ ‘ Hi , j Ihe etter than eve ‘ I've en ner of e de escape \ ls bn I ‘ ‘ f yew eve ” ui ) bey ng to worry ‘ Z l ‘ Du t I ‘ H ‘ ice é eric lv than it dese | 1 re ] I i l | I Loc ! ‘ ‘ y |’ v not he for Jimmy Stee 1 e « Here i t \ Pe 4 | Dog ‘ I i k ( } lL) Q) re had ne ‘ | | t ‘ ‘ ! He et Jimr mm Washing So | rw. f 7 etl \ fourt! i il ! th P. D. Q } 4 iH classn i iW e other tir al ha ‘ xt he ited He w Dep f ! j P' RR day iw! er P.D.Q " d friends w did ‘ } Lk norA ( He ict 7 et et 1 ( X J iW i Y i I e! H A the S a P it ! G ! . ! ( is we i iny reé t ire {nd gra ¢ re v t be expe er » ao ¢ iT ew é himse ive pare P eda id He J \ \ . lie was ¢ ‘ ked the vanted to ww where Perry 5 et eye a | I f hice and tl et with iid An oar hit And J gh If Pe eve go ‘ a day’ iid that was a new ( i t Bu ime t e he was quite d tely dete The had t Deen together tl y second elore e eye I ! it iH D. Q.’s apple cart. He was going todo demanded: “When are you going up to Hanover watched Perry’s retreating is Pe le | lela Nas that he had not yet Il nd the iever membered By Gad, I forgot all about it!’ he ex ed bar i ea t ‘Had other things on my mind.”’ ige addressed to the Bankers’ I He felt that P. D. Q very vanity had betrayed him; “Forgot your tenth?" Jimmy « ed He peered at Bost rhe message , f Eve | tP.D.Q.! g the tale of his own exploit had put Perry seriously. “Not elf Perr } i He ew there must be some Perry laughed D ‘ ( ‘ t be “When are you going 1 At « t la “Midnight to-night.” pa . ( ‘ ” li ne “T’ll meet yuu at the al Per \nd ng t I) ‘ issi ne ht I Jimmy sai ire he would 1 th int t | to have i gether Continued on Page 78 Dogs Got Out of His Way ard Parked Behind Him, Chitdren Dodged From His Road -

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January 17,1920 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE GORGEOUS GIRL | woul. By Nalbro Bartley such mood fell \V eo A ‘ ‘ ‘ t ei st ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES D. MITCHELL al d and oct I Shalt Not Buy the New Dinner Set I Had Halfway Ordered Papa Can Give it to Me for My Birthday if He Wants To. Gifts HOU Don't Count, Do They, Stevuns?"’ a real tate. The fact that she hac so made her miserable for over a wee k, during er in most flattering fashion, neglect n iil round You men ) voman } what then? Lif WO! n: once a } t quite hate him even if her hear l labels him as a rainy very th : atural squareness the sort of woman to indulge discreet point. She he could not become a devotee ng some wild \ en! Whereas if she never knew t finding : ild mission In rr ; have trusted you: fascinating anc acting subject. Her really ly mmed through her studies. she told ret happens to concern yoursel , , is that you will never quite hat . he overly fond of children. As Trud; ome moods you might even try } ‘bing things and goodness . | u cared too. Then I should not or ly ever 1 ny } own she would i stop caring.” enough nurser un parlor with panels 1 smail. Out t; there was every ing in ft child psychologi f ions. But take care of one of them? The actual responsi 4 Heavens, whata fa ¢ y: oberly that Mary’ bility ! She would engage a traine¢ her clean desk pad baby nurse—ani I irsery for a few moment } ing was going well

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Ph este THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ana he } aa Sometimes Nature take her own methods of revenge, pea vit! he irlo t ‘ ( ‘ would see that the daughter married p \ and to Mark Constantine’s child she saw fit to send no sor on the bed legs, the burea \ ‘ ot she was th nking of Steve, Trudy did not dare to Or daughter Constantine never mentioned hi nunger lor are ng table and ne et I t she evidently as she added tl me might grandchildren. He had a strange shyness al idmitting Emp f China er i u ette r ir I erished jeman a e in ar the de d the plans he had made for ther But t \ i I f the rved sphere of t nd ‘ than marr he saw the completion of this villa and realized the thou- { i ( é ‘ » neve ttempted to be a r ands of dollar juandered upon it and the imp ble t et X a A 1 der ed of one int ence up to ertalr existence his daughter would lead ng there e went to | f f t, and ta f eT e, but ( een! ntouched ] vom, | it or ‘ ‘ eb tellect A] e knowledge ‘ tor tot ) ‘ how ida me abe f the f nger or } temper meant nd pr ve tende He fur ed in menta haos as to the mea ‘ la I | ‘ t? che r . 2 ‘ ere all t! nonsense a mved I re than ever f if let ( ‘ | | ( (air € t ed and ) i t ! mer I xt approach him ! ty ager i t ‘ ‘ to-da A f ! ps ( pane quest f ! ‘ ‘ f ee? ( f fused to the 1 e of a nurse he formal Venetian ball which Be e gave , 2 ne ‘ Love-gardenit he title | ne ‘ ! f ere amused Steve ) re | ‘ I ned ge é ( te are ied ! e! te 1 ol ! gir He ite ‘ ( Then Beat ri I e J 1B r t ‘ ‘ f ) he e and ther A i eal t a | t t ‘ r er f ‘ Gor t J as alwa harve ‘ wing rl if per id ‘ e } t ince of the except f f rk there He ed ope it each dela ture ‘ ' le A tt ‘ ¢ eT ¢ 4 ’ ) id ile 1 | ir They te the ’ ’ ’ T ‘ le if i | IM 4}? ne rer ere i o t t i pet Te b yhe! t r te iT r?f 1 td i ! ‘ ‘ taPill i J ire ther e 1 e | r é ! nN toid the lege 1 of I he and Cupid, had bee | ‘ i { ( Residen |] . trie ' tem of edu , Da Sons - ite from Florence bores ‘ } f he est he bee t , ( ] \ Ro e | (; W i ‘ i ‘ t pos e degree At « B ‘ ‘ i the ne { ‘ \\ ‘ efore th it ough he did no no ilpha Steve ad through ea I I ya ! wt k t f r how to te me and had never beer iddle r he } f hispered M Faith e fou esl ‘ ed to leep with nurse € i ) ning menta ell I imused Ni nat he cor bere t i ) ‘ , re \ i j te rew t f Ler i l itl eliel { ! Be itr t it) i i ne : a 8) y Bu ‘ t ig roadste¢ B e int ‘ ( I t } rt ru e up nert ind Keep her tf LD I ‘ h Trudy de hat if ever hae she too pers f} He ight out father ‘ } ‘ lid develop the poke n him rather than the ad plain roon th nut set and stand of detective G ‘ is a Cla ind est t of Mother Goo are nd sat dow? ‘ I, though the men hor ‘ t f And ( Of ‘ eve ld lye a ly ref ed fror ya ce pe ! ne ‘ ‘ t \ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ! mit is if t natior eDe | At the ill Beatrice appeared in a wonderful } y PVE t r it | 1 never } nderful and expensive that it eator had given it a ite: 1 t bud, } Y mn to |} He d, in front of J hat he dist title The Plume. Steve did his d is a | 1 e pl | xt wee l t i ell a Linte h rich el} en, f ‘ 1 passed e figurehead, as someone called him; after wh f f | f f r meal t t { is free ) ! n ‘ ! i) ‘ ( rf nt pt nurse! e muct if nne If ! ted t ir e same thing. Quite ely of hin pent it7"" An inspe n of the house had t place Be ‘ id 1 not ppre er giggle trice ind Gia eur g the proce ” ind Aur Belle i ‘ i t jy I'n e the ren get on well enough. J hit f the rear. The « i ahs and « matior ( ! t ‘ Ma 1 to plar he meals and dress and undress them resultant of f cocktails, rewarded Beatrice niled ! 1 the i igh, Ir er ld! At er eve nditure, Wher e brought ther » her I egins | ‘ ent rie ibout e nurser | oO he stood ba hile Ga pe t f I \ 1 be \ ‘ eglect cl er lope them or do something dreadful I of the greatest achievement and novelty of the « ( 1) | t eur nply leave the roor He actually told M Ostrander house itching the faces of her guests so as to catch the Steve t t he i er nurse ip her child acro the tac ind rst expre m ol er whict hould reveal itself re é H M ¢ | eeded to a I never fair te ( i that The novelty cor in the set of bedroom furniture rer | reeds bad thi in nin And he ! I n, ti igh the rest of the house wa i ( Ame ! hing: itw t? e’ t explaines i nw nese rama! p rye Continued on I nerves.’ Of Irse ind Lid In intricate de two dragor ting t Page 113 i forget it. N Mrs. O a4 « ler member of the Al ne ( ind adear ; é ed ‘ ( ’ ire nurse ind eads all their bos be e allows the irse to read em aloud ire no hildren were ever bro ¢ nD as ent i p have a wonderfu ed She told me e had never held them exce en th ere } ‘ ire made never! ind ft t ngstrengthensthelur Of purse teve ay ‘ faed our ip do ‘ ! ‘ I ne 1 int t t loor on the b en he trie it ial } n vou do with such a person? lo which Trudy agreed Trudy agreed to a ng Beatrice mig l the Vere tle Valle est gondol: oul eee enc Truc rf poy yeyt : y 1 herself 1 r > ' . sne was s aine apart ‘ uuse and that her 1 whom she loathed more each day, had actually crambled into the position of being the best decorator in Hanover and was almost feverishly busy splitting ing commissions New York art dealers. with “I'll Show You Whether or Not You Can Wear Diamond Stickpins While I Have to Endure a Wedding Ring Like a Washwoman

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26 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°D'! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR jubscription $200 the Year. Five ption $2.50 the Year. Single Copies Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers len Cents sch ws at least two weeks before ur d address as well as ion. Single Subscrip | Postal Money Order PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 17,1920 Business is Business 1 not the final argu often more pote nt without about beginnir the grar ‘he politiciar heets and are backing the favor d the h« rformance ar pe that they will rur that true to form. The public is backing them for reasons will mostly be found in the dream bool For instance, ng ar at th time on the real eral Wood, the reason that we hear y opinior for favoring him is that he was “‘the is an hor the friend hip of Roosevelt, but dely different reasor d both Houses of Con 1 friend y men of varying merit and for w o honored ; cy at could ea of Roosevelt, and would he en | oO’ for the gove rnor hips and ke 1 il \ *the Loer i few state a matter of fact the country ce elected riend of Roosevelt” to the Presidency, sjlonel himself was the first man to decide that a The ¢ The to another. mantle of one states Taft ind he quickly ordered his own clothes was not a riticism might be passed on their cut, the Wood ha have an extensive ward- it if he is uperficial jumping to conclusions and il was never shoddy :own and he will to wear elected. “amr yinions when the election of a business man A large part of the public can think of terms of ledgers, syndicate profits and ind of business men as meaning a dozer ed and often self-advertised multimil- Manhattan Island o well-adverti resident o1 . » as those of Captain Kidd always THE SATURDAY EVENING POST These men are no more representative of the big, broad, construcfive business of the country than is the book- keeper who has humped over the same set of ledgers for twenty years. Some of them are accidents of birth, some just plain accidents, some leeches, and some a fortunate combination of circumstances and other men’s brains. But toevery one millionaire of this type, both in Manhattan and elsewhere, there are a thousand who deserve what they get and got what they deserved for fine constructive work that has made the world a better and easier place in which to live. Some day we shall write of these men in terms of the work that they have done instead of the millions that they have made; of their offices and factories instead of the The deeds of the r houses and hobbies. buccaneers of business are as immortal From the day of publishing on papyrus it has been the lone pirate, and not the thou- and honest mariners, who has engaged the pens of the writing men. We have pec ulator, first been so busy first glorifying and then damning bowing before and then trying to builder, ve that the sen the trust that we have really come to ations and yellow headlines of business genius of America is business; the real leaders in The to specialize on some part of The America are busine great doctor tends con- men. tantly to narrow his range, body, and then to specialize on some part of that part; the great lawyer narrows his practice down to one bran¢h of law; the great teacher becomes constantly more absorbed in his one subject; but the great business man ually broadens the range of his interests and activi- and finally becomes a world trader, with world-wide real busine of statesmanship is business, and we tatesmen who are informed and practical on their Recently we | ] ave had the spectacle of a group of of the United States in ibject tatesmen tl future inking of the terms of a ¢ , and they are not grocers either. The the orner ore ry { cery Americar people tand on a middle ground between malism of Wilson Republican Irreconcilables. Wi type of internatic and the provincialism of ' need men in office with the constructive-engineer mit d for re building the world is a job of con- truction, a business job. Men of broad view, of dynamic of trained br but found in if we look for them in the right place. power! carce In every occupation, they can be American business, as well as in the profe ion , but do we really know what busi- Business is busine , ne is Stand clear for a moment from the ledgers and the moneybags and look it over as the force that motivates the world; the power that penetrates and that binds the earth with rails and circles it in ships; that feeds, and dominate ettles the wilderness; that mines, smelts and forges; that adventures, dares, It hires the the doctor and endows the professor. It clothes and houses the nations; gambles, hesitates, shrinks and plays safe. lawyer, pay inspires war and forces peace, yet the business man has been bluffed into believing that government is something acred and apart, for which his lifelong training as a builder He has half accepted the fic- tion that there must be one particular kind of knowledge, and an executive unfits him. that is best obtained in a law office, for governmental business, and another for private business. and hard that paradox true I give: gross and the unseen oul are one. Walt Whitman was himself a paradox in that he was a poet who understood the true significance and over- whelming dominance of business in the scheme of things. In our experience men in the professions and out run about alike fundamentally—some bad, some fools, some not so foolish, a small number with the exceptional qualifi- cations necessary for leadership. Just why his training in business unfits a business man for the biggest business job in the world needs explaining. We doubt, for instance, whether a professor could have made a better distribution of food geographically; whether a general could have overcome obstacles more forcefully; whether a trained diplomatist could have handled delicate situations more January 17,1920 tactfully; and whether a lawyer could have done the job with fewer entanglements than Hoover. Yet Herbert Hoover is just a plain American business man, and there are more like him on the job. Eating Your Cake \ A y E AMERICANS appear to be in a fair way of losing our reputation for being an imaginative people, for there is no surer means by which the imagination of a man or of a population can be tested than by noting the way they spend their money in seasons of unusual prosperity That lusty miner who advertised his affluence to an admir ing throng by ordering forty dollars’ worth of ham and eggs immortalized himself not by his vigorous play of fancy but by his epic indorsement of our national dish. require no Primitive ways of spending easy money imagination. They stand out like sore thumbs. Topping the list come rich and abundant food; raiment whose very material and texture proclaim its costliness; musical instru ments that heighten good spirits and make time pass pleasantly. These have every right to be counted among the good things of life, though they are luxuries that appeal as strongly to the clouted Hottentot, who is now buying gaudy thirty-dollar blankets, as to the steel worker who is drawing down one hundred dollars a week instead of his old wage of forty. Imagination in expenditure may often be measured by the it. If a workman in the rosy flush of pay day puts one remoteness of the benefits that are to be derived from hundred dollars into a dozen silk shirts of the banjo or minstrel varie ty, he knows he will have those shirts under his arm at the end of the minute it takes to wrap them. In ten minutes he can have one of them on his back and the advertisement of his prosperity will begin the instant he shows himself in public. Such a deal in shirts requires no vision; but to have parted with that hundred to make the first payment on a little plot of ground or to buy shares in a building and loan association would have called for enough imagination to look years ahead, to visualize a house and lot all paid for; to conceive some little investments that would prevent the wolf from ever howling in that particular dooryard. Per- haps in the long run such an imagination might be worth having. What is true of the brotherhood of the banjo shirt like- wise applies to the Georgette sisterhood, though discussion of it leads one’s steps over far more delicate ground, for every normal human entitled to wear trousers has an in- born weakness for neat and shimmering ankles above gracefully shod feminine feet; and no self-respecting girl feels that she owes any allegiance to the man-made laws of economics. But for all her fine independence those same laws will get her if she doesn’t watch out. She sees nothing humorous or even pathetic in buying a three-hundred- dollar fur coat on the installment plan, though a mere glance at the calendar would tell her that hot weather and a change of fashion will overtake the idolized garment long before it is really hers. J The benighted Hindu girl manages far better. Her little hoard of coppers goes to buy silver rupees which she pres ] ently hammers out into bangles, anklets and earrings | They are not only ornaments but quick assets and they like an overcostly If the she gets out her little hammer do not deteriorate in her possession wrap or a collection of silk stockings. tyle in arm lets and bangles change and her jewelry changes with them. India is the land of famines and Indian mint officials estimate the sufferings of the population by the value of gold and silver ornament turned in for minting by the natives. America will probably never have to face a famine, but unless all history lies she will sooner or later have hard times. When that day comes it is to be hoped that those who are to-day buying silks and furs and other pleasant perishables will have more hockable assets than a wornout wardrobe. Miss Georgette, who can no longer restrain her indig nation, here rises to put this poser: ‘‘Of course I do not save my money, but why should I? In another year or two or three I shall probably marry; and as I am almost

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, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ind to take e, why ente I i law b N 4 ture? In the meantime, am I to You cea ive r cake and eat in ¢ " bore ’ ¢ t e pretty tne Ww i et ) t ildre pro ed wa i i t 1 ‘ we A iwa ‘ Xx " lo that exte A ( N I he i ver itr anch \ \ Miss G i ea end \ I ‘ st ad ed \ r ° ° he 2 on Superspecialists future Kpe ely a 1 dre OTHING revolu iry seems to have I t I i i fey that the me i t | gia \ A 1 i t r 0) t { \ ind who it wou ippe t | ( ¢ 1 to irr p t ma pa I N 1} I the arrange i A I a med ii at i | (a Ww ne te I strate At lea \ t i t fl ed 0 ‘ Ww i 1 1 i height of W ] W) etter il experts ha ivid I | \ é I l € |} I {Te lar gt I i Spe ilizatio ea ‘ é Th A 1 applicati of the ful p | I f I 1 ‘ ‘ Suffering huma x 1 i det | ilist f y i he i but it i he tha p i i t , " This Business of Boring ¢ rule that vou cannot have yur cake = a poor auger that won t bore both ways ner Eve had tried it on her apple. The When the stanch American workingman finds that agait } i larter 1 se up and imported mossy-cnl ed tinkers in his labor organizatio ha n ce The Conquerors! re sree ——_—on

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28 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 The Odd Case of the Second JBaclk ‘ } Kve ‘ ‘ fy , f t } ist v 4 ‘ ‘ r ‘) f ply , foreigne he he and the | ‘ ! ‘ har te ‘ , y enham W ' } ! t warrer f } y t burned ew here e wilderne twee Hi I ! ind | t t im W f t f t ist mea t ira 4 ’ ise wt tr ' ing ’ of greer i ed Dia ered t ir y ‘ I ; Kk the ra t battered face. Three turnings to the right and et ! ett i Nowhere ydenham Wa ] t the r | kre f t ilpice ! i ‘ } 1 rusted iron pa the 4 publi house inder the liotel de Flandre, be nd even houses ali a e and all with the ler il legend Rooms and Table Board,’ By ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE ar CLARK FAY ILLUSTRATED “Bad day, Mister Straight; most wretched day. If now the snow would come instead of this perpetual rain —honest snow, Mister Straight.” The seemed eager to drive a con- versational wedge the Er glishman’s reserve “Quite so,” said Straight, and started to move on. Almost entered second-back lodger into note a wheedling Mr. Zweich’s next essay: ‘“*“You are wet, Straight If now room to protect you from cold just a little gl: h?” Chris opher some faint of pathy for this fellow lodger at Mrs. Murfree’s, this pitifully masquerading singer of Lu- theran hymns who called him- self a Swiss. To be sure, the stamp of the Teut Mr. Zweich curse of Cain Mister you are cold, yes. you will enter a good glass of Geneve my iSS, € felt sym- Straight stirring marked the broa Ly But this was the winter of 1920; Novem- ber of the armistice was two gone and Christopher Straight possessed no Gallic genius for preserved hate. He accepted Mr. Zweich’s invi- tation, even while unber ding from his native aloofness very little. The Swiss gentleman’s tiny as years room was a duplicate of his tawdry A penny-slot gas stove filled it with odorous heat. Every- thing in tumbled disarray clothes, newspapers; the floor was carpeted with Straight noted own cheerlessness. books, newspapers. perfume to w ler down the a large Bible lying opened on Wal For the rest of the a table, with steel-rimmed sr—ba gy winte the spectacles carelessly asprawl Wall f t« lrab acro the lines of fine Ger- @ 7 } hetween fa ind man type. The corners of his g tice it a corridor mouth trembled when his eyes t e Seve Cir fell upon a tiny silk flag of Ch topher raigt the Swiss Federation stuck mackintoshed and Here into the crack of the mirror ww t the dampne ib} over the dressing table. hat dow tilted hed the ‘Quite so!”’ was the Eng- ra t ed to ivdenham lishman’s unspoken com- Walk from the o— ingle ment. beyond the churet 1} Mr. Zweich bustled about ed to the se | e from his hospitality. From a small the parl ire. Christ trunk he brought an earthen pher Straight w i third ware flask with a gaudy label tant secreta . ehod and two liqueur glasses. of porta he Foreig Straight noted their fineness Office e of t ‘ —— —— 7 . — aid of cut crystal. These Mr. abl . , ' Straight Let His Gaze Travel Indotently From the Other's Slippered Feet to the Roach of Stiff White Hair Zwe ich filled brimming with ber ‘ Dow Crowning His Brow —an Englishman's Way of Expressing Disapproval the water-white liqueur, treet which hely | which smelled strongly of Empire va | ha n I's tray { back. As he was passing the round of the banister at the anise. He presented one to Straight with an exaggerated r The | tact i | Dow g second floor he heard a sound of singing from the second air of formal ceremony eet wa ) he im of ‘ for Straight ba rhe singing was in the German tongue. Straight “Tothe International Tribunal, MisterStraight,”’ Zweich labors that he wa iined t ve at Mrs. Murfree recognized the old Lutheran hymn, Tower of My Strength. gave the toast, ‘‘and may it vindicate outrage of justice.” on the W bee " breakfast at twent hillings the Once he himself had sung it as a boy in school at Munich. “Ek—what?” The Englishman was taken a little off week, with after ea if re That would be Mr. Zweich, the Swiss gentleman, the guard. “I say, what about the International Tribunal Life wa t for Christopher Straight Thirty Downing Street clerk noted with a flat smile—Mr. Zweich now?” ear behind Cambridge, a comn on with up to his old game of singing Lutheran hymns in the The Swiss gentleman was instantly voluble. His speech the K Own I hire Rifles and three years at the German. Swiss; quite so—Swiss! raced and Straight saw a flickering light in the other’s eyes | t: and de wn beneath the unemotional surface of Straight struck his foot against a trunk in the dark and ““But does not the former German emperor come to the } eg ‘ ible pictures of the agonies of me stumbled onto the banister. The Lutheran hymn abruptly Tower to-day? Ordo the papers lie—that is, are the paper: I the steady-pa if the English p 1 stopped and in another instant the door of the second back misinformed when they report to-day the battle cruiser g: he ne f en y that had carrie m opened. Mr. Zweich popped out his head with the me- Lion brings this man from Amsterdam to the Tower, where gh tl nme, ¢ ! the Hindenburg Switch chanical suddenness of a Nuremberg surprise toy. His he awaits trial? The Dutch, they withdraw objections, i ‘ i whole " et w e Foreign Office mat of outstanding white whiskers continuing a heavy hair it not? Wilhelm is in London this day to face his ac- “ ght « gl line from ears down and round a sharp-featured face com- cusers--so?”’ ght let | elf » Mrs. Murfree ffed the home _ pleted the illusion of a bogy man on a released spring Straight standing a bit stiffly with his glass in hand let att here of gled kipper and irpets with sub- “Ah, Mister Straight it is! I thought it was the slavey his gaze travel indolently from the other’s slippered feet to recog uN the ht of the gle gas jet with tea. Excuse.” the roach of stiff white hair crowning his brow—an English g bel ‘ ed red globe ‘ he newel he Mr. Zweich ducked his head with a nervous bob of man’s way of expressing disapproval. He thought he saw va HI wa he third floor apology, but he did not withdraw it. Continued on Page 30

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST — MADE BY THE MAKERS OF CAMPBELLS SOUPS a : mw 1 , “WITH Tomato SAUCE | ‘ J ¥ al. JUS r al. COMPANY, EPH GAMPBELI ‘ AM[ EN N The joy of well-cooked beans! Most people like nothing better than a dish of beans, if they are well-cooked. You have them that way, not sometimes but every time, if you serve Campbell’s. In the famous Campbell’s kitchens these beans are slow-cooked until entirely digestible. Their rich tomato sauce gives them a flavor all their own. Appetizing; satisfying; wholesome. 15c a Can west of M ppi River and in Canada kx ept amfpitells. BE LOOK 2IFR SrZ AZOAAN D2 WrJISZ LAS ZL _—

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Continued from Page 28 } r ed —} i heen at Mr Murfree’s a month wher i ome bu 1 h, how wretched a thing tframe t rative ope he, Jerusha, I heard carryin’son ton ! If we had now only But M myster lodger’s room and quite natura he’d a little ymething.” f ) f ed nit lhere was that bal Swit er’l nis out Stra It Was a fr ghtful bore t eou essing gown standing witl e hand the to have ear. More than that, Good Book and a-wavin’ of the other whiles he made a_ Christopher Straight had a keen distaste for beir y e t elf the mirror Just ‘ yme big-wig toar nversat whict adadre of the rt a Teut i I ig He wv mie rt lasp tnat w I isna pr I nig perte t l-watered opinion of Mr. Zweict He’d murder the exactly mee [ i F heir bed me night, the avey alway erted « ‘ é f eme fter her third glass had probed the she f he irface ecretar f Dow g Street. So Straight chose mono é perceptions and flicked her dormant imagination beneatl ‘ eve g infl the othe “onve | M Primpton of the first parlor, who « ed Mr il stream a va ved elf-<« US ag I ‘ Murfree confidence in return for the iSlO in of Mr. Zwe | é ept returning to! Husine | eA i? ple il t to ment the official sts to the W he t pe é refused to drop a k t he gentleman friend, who w 1 dey | ¢ inte wative lead t tne suse or re It I t t | face f pe f Holborn boroug! 4 free reference expe M Z I i | n tne pic J f Mr. Zw nif she were maint espe able ig I to ter g informatio M r g he eanda odd etl ime tor vith her You s¢ Mister S gt I have | W ed a he'd it I Ye M Murfree t | efore he ! f ‘ f e sang-f iw vu Eng ' t brought disgrace on the house. Miss Primpton engaged Inere e M ell her gentlen friend abou © sé Iba int When I f } } f ! n Throgmorto e considered it her duty to the to take stey Of re [ foxy from the Tower. So I sav t he yurse the manicurist’s gentleman friet {have Mr. myself: ‘Zwe ear we shall take the oppor ft Ve p a jiff f or he’d say the word t A th pia ee tne wads tna ! The r g after the paper inno ed thea i I the iss¢ Die I I e where the ce ight exile f Amerongen at the Towe v A W f i ye ‘ th | ind f £ I go igh era t Towes Mister Straig! may not ¢ t tr I I t i ent geon where ! i People pushing "FF , » be nea ! N y ! Tw rt \ ‘ t gw bitte t i ee} \ ib ige , y ent u } t t all! I t extraor ( ( gaze Mr. Zweict 1 i lace I tne , ‘ ' eaded vw mo ‘ the rp et lor t p i i } ‘ ft l | f Cre t ! Ww i r 1 ew 1W ght to dust P } ¢ | ‘ ’ Regent Z00 I of MN ire | ) i t that re a f | t gr } ] ft f Mr. Zweich rht. turned \ f rage in his eyes 7 - — I t .u Square and I A to ! ging As he PTO} t ipstairs Power of My Strength througl 1 } room as coe é ‘ t e boarder y est ed if eep n - ere gra yan East End x t ght iught her eyé ed he hought he \ ‘ f I busine of " becoming positively a possible M Zweict NJ , , an ts ak ishew re rtot f ‘ bold, M per | e on the w et 4 1 a t ‘ top th t t r cove SWICK An’ 7 he Foring Orfice, Mister Stryte, ve ‘"E’s ’awkshawin’ of the n’ of ’m in charge as a dynger- If you is that, Mister Stryte, f Je } | her trie e barmaid at the Hotel “Tr Syes to Myself, I Syes, ‘'E's "Awkshawin’ of the Switzer continued on to his roon . ‘ . if the second i Previous to Givin’ of 'm in Charge as a Dyngerous Spy,’ I Syes"' Continued on Page 32

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ee REPUBLIC IIRES With S~tAG&ARp Studs THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘i wonderful strength and toughness of Prodium rubber, alone, would give to Republic Tires the qualities that make them last longer. But, added to that slow, even wear—like the slow, even wear of steel—is the still longer life and service of the Staggard Tread. The design of the Staggard Tread is not accidental. It is scientific, both in principle and in application. It is calculated to, and does, reduce road-friction, and wear, to the minimum; and increase road-grip to the maximum. It is easy to see why. The studs are long and oval. Their rounded shape meets the road without resistance, and presents no sharp edges to grind down quickly. They are always headed in the direction of wheel travel, and hug the road as a well-dressed belt hugs its pulley. At the first suggestion of swerve or skid, the full length of three whole studs is at work, broadside- on, to oppose it. We do not believe it is possible to overestimate the actual extra value of Republic longer life, or the very real extra protection of the Staggard Tread. The Republic Rubber Corporation, Youngstown, Ohio Export Department, 149 Broadway, Singer Building, New York Rubber J i mannan eee AO i AIR cg = ee Nee a ne nang sects Cm ce cma Mm op —mergnennmme_ Hs ew

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Continued from Page 30 “Not at all—assure you,” Straight put in, feeling the I have iti ( topher Straight possessed the tuation demanded speech from him. ‘Lots of people nimum of imagination and rare permitted what he walk-—I mean to say, quite common thing to do—walk.” had But } e sat } room with the An eerie sense of impending dénowement was gripping f ¢ lormer window hir The heat-drenched and tobacco-stale air seemed all ‘ etonius | fancy astir with psychic forces of revelation battling to be freed. t chamber below. Why he hould be sensible of this thing Straight did not But the f ght ed imagina know. His bally imagination cutting up again. ea ‘ In the midst In the big chair opposite sat an elderly German gen- ‘ f the Ge as he had seer tleman with quinsy and a deformed hand he preferred to nthe bustop, popped conceal; no great promise of surprise from that source. ft ewhich And yet f t e pipe ra A You are a Christian gentleman, Herr Straight.” Mr. ‘ f ithed eather, Zweich’s speech came now only at cost of painful effort. t hen q } le The an W hurrying as if he knew his time was short. i} i se 1 not so is ‘Always I have considered all Englishmen Christians and elf Zwe gentlemen--except their rulers of the cabinet and Parlia- i esse Hlow ‘ he ild me [ am to be ill—perhaps very ill. In all England for t 1 g almost to not afriend. You perhaps i i seen Zweicl A spasm closed his throat and ‘ bef he half struggled to his feet in Rot! t « it ' 7~ his fight for breath. Straight, i . knowing no other manner of aid, But { hi ‘ ‘ poured more whisky. Mr. Zweich | found himself temporarily easier esque after the drink. He continued in ned He ‘ , ul a ragged whisper j \“\ | ‘ ‘ YT th ‘I lose my voice, you ind ! { eep see. It may be God’s ‘ mercy I lose also my life. f ‘ t My doctors always have y i f ry told me—there will be a ‘ veneath last of these attacks. If , ling f | He med the doctor you bring f ‘ the } t ling a good doctor I shall pay } ed | } iw dre yg well —if that doctor says yy ‘ ‘ folds about at any time I shall die f {hand pu I pray you, Herr the psa | h Straight—my cousin at i ‘ Buckingham, your la Asse ind t ne t king—find a way to tell , ard a f the t ‘ ‘ him Wilhelm von int of the chamber below hin ‘ Hohenzollern ii third nis 1 of e | ‘*Eh—what?”’ cried ‘ ‘ ‘ f } Straight butcle " —_ Miss} Sut Mr. Zweich lying { eering econd pat limp in his chair waved {M Murfree’s birthday ro his unpocketed hand } eM eicl toward his throat and ] ( nt habited } miled apologe tically. f t } if ri Whatever impact the i t ick man’s last words | , ly krat fresh from had on the conscious- } : if ‘ d dripy y ne of ( hristopher ‘ f fr eve r Straight was for the time ‘ hing His face wa purely automatic, for ‘ f 1 1 whe he t the nece ite of the mo- ‘ f scent br il d ment did not permit any ‘ ise trusior I must beg of nu the ce analysis of the revela charity of you tove A crooked penny I have had the ‘ tior He gave Mr. misfortune to put in the slot of my gas feeder and no ga Sivatahe’e Mestad Boss Pehed Zweich an arm down to con You see | am wet—a man of my years—and I Sut the Snare WhitesMeaded his own room, tinkered iffer from the ut « tant difficulty.” Pigure of a Man Sitting a Lite the faulty penny out of ome gy of quiet dignity in the voice empha ized the tle Apart and to the Right of the gas-stove feed slot upp il of } patent distre Immed traight urged the Judges’ Dais so that heat would hir t ente With clun olicitude the Englishman come to the morguelike Lweich divest himself of hi drew the ngle arr hair before the fire, finger f pre prewar ote} Mr tne i | I exhaust Thoug! ! isola ttle ting of = Light ed { tl withered hat completely mcealed in the deep side po jacket I'he e wl hf owed the ew himeelf bef ‘ he ry reflect r of have bee emba gy to anyone l Straight poured himself a drink, lit hi room 4 i chair He glanced ineur The man’s head } id faller ona omewhat vivid cravat which howed above the but toned lape f } icket H ‘ oles eT Atte . minutes Mr. Zweich t eff { ed ‘ yhta lafa parted |} beard I have w ed and walked in the ra good f ‘ I ar t accust sf Light ‘ oved }t pipe from } bowed a pol Quite la i in who lab under a ¢ the other resumed ind h voice tl vith eve i » 1 wall Thre he i yo etuai ra lott f | I ye i ] the dr pping cape coat, uusly at his visitor. ightly forward, his chin resting chamber, and after he had seen the sufferer under the bed- poured out three clothes he tramped out into the sloppy darkness in search Zweich accepted of a physician. It was near midnight when the doctor juor with the languor of con ple te came to Suydenham Walk. He gave the speechless Mr. Zweich exactly that modicum of diagnosis and pre- cription due a second back on Suydenham Walk from a It was carried Bloomsbury Square physician who'd been dug out of a ket of the visitor’s bridge game at his club, and pocketed a guinea. “May be serious,” the grumpy man of pills vouchsafed 1ame as he did it, mer’s settling of as he wrote a prescription on his knee. “Perhaps only gas stove would severe tonsilitis. Depends. If bad turn comes advise hos- an Englishman. pital. Old man—severe exposure—never can tell.” pipe and sat in the He cut his words bluntly and brutally as if his patient were bereft of hearing as well as speech. It was while he was ranging the wet vacancy of Holborn questing a night pharmacist’s bell that Straight began to were shut. He , ponder the mystery of the sick man, his startling revelation of identity. The Englishman went at the crux doggedly, d himself with an albeit with a strange clamoring of the tongues of imagina- nt apol wetic smile tion threatening to outery reason. ‘Wilhelm von Hohenzollern!” he sighed It Of course there was but one man in the world answering to that e and all the world knew this one was come to 9s and gravely the Tower to await summons to the bar of the International | Tribunal the coming fortnight. Safe and snug in London's at trouble load,” ‘Tower was the William Hohenzollern whom governments and people held accountable for the world’s travail. Yet days now I wall a German posing under Swiss colors and living at Mrs. Murfree’s a full month before the cruiser Lion brings the fallen ex-Kaiser from Holland—a German who fears death struggles with a closing larynx to whisper a message for his for the King! ‘ower once agar “cousin at Buckingham”’ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 “Rubbish! Simply off his dot—like all the Germans.” Straight snarled this denial of imaginings at a cat that was slinking across a zone of lighted pavement. The beast hurried with a dot-and-carry pace. Straight noted it ran on three legs skippingly. One forepaw was carried stiff and useless like a withered hand. In a calcium flash of interpretation came the picture of a stiff gloved hand he had seen one afternoon on the bus top—thrown out to steady its possessor, then instantly concealed. He had pummeled his brain to answer why a deformed hand belonging to a man calling himself Zweich was some illusory mark of identification. Now the sloppy and light-streaked Holborn pavement became a cinema’s silver screen and upon it were projected picture after picture—a Kaiser in the uniform of a field marshal and with a half-concealed hand propped upon a marshal’s baton; a Kaiser in the guise of an admiral with the shamed hand playing about a sword hilt; a Kaiser in mufti in a shooting box and tipping up his fowling piece with his single sound hand. Ever the stigma of the withered hand. “By George!” Christopher Straight surrendered himself completely to the logic of deduction, even if his doing so outraged all his sritish convictions of the regularity of things as they appear. With his surrender came flooding contributory evidence: Mr. Zweich’s strange excitement over the com- ing of the distinguished prisoner to the Tower; a “prisoner of the world” was the phrase he’d used. Mr. Zweich’s outburst against the lethargy of the mob which had not dignified the supposed ex-Kaiser’s arrival by so much as a complimentary gathering outside the Tower. Those wanderings in the rain, self-confessed, which always brought Mr. Zweich back to the place of his proxied incar- ceration. Finally, his confession of identity of an hour back, wherein kinship with Britain’s king was urged on the morbid predicate of a deathbed scene. Egotism—the consuming egotism of William Hohen- zollern, which demanded first place in the world’s eye even after cowardice had found a dupe to play the cul prit before the world’s judgment seat. Blind self-love, envious already of the burden of infamy shifted to an- other’s shoulders, craving the spotlight of martyrdom even though fearful of its substance. Indeed by all the plain tale writ by psychology the sick man at Mrs. Murfree’s was William Hohenzollern and functioning to form. “Extraordinary!” Straight summed the whole unbelievable situation in a word. He was conscious immediately of some vague duty to the state his exclusive knowledge imposed upon him. But his immediate duty, he reflected with a slow smile, was to return to Mrs. Murfree’s with three shillings’ worth of cough medicine for the late Emperor of Germany It was one in the morning when he let himself in at the Suydenham Walk house. Lights still burned in the second parlor, where the landlady’s birthday party had been progress, but a clamor of voices from the floor above indi cated the festivities had been moved. Jerusha plunging headlong down from the second-floor landing greeted Straight, ascending, with a torrent of news “"E’s 'opped the ’ouse, Mister Stryte, just like I syes right along "e would. Lud’s mercy ’e didn’t murder us all in our beds afore ’e went, ‘im bein’ the wicious "Un spy wot ’eare. An’lI g “What's all therow?”’ Straight growled. ‘“‘ Who's hopped the house?” ““W’y that Switzer— Mister Swick. Orf in a four-wheeler not an arf ‘our ago—a ‘oppin’ of ’is rent, but leavin’ ’is trunk behind, which Miss Primpton’s inspector friend’s goin’ through wiv this minute.” Straight took the remaining steps in a bound and entered the second floor back. There the birthday party was reveling in the dissection of a mystery. With suppressed coos and gurgles of ‘thrilled nerves a half dozen women formed a knot about an opened trunk in the middle of the floor while a red-faced man burrowed into it with official zeal, ““What’s this? What’s this now?” rumbled a male voice, and Miss Primpton’s gentleman friend from the Holborn police office sat back on his heels and pawed open a leather-bound portfolio. A score of photographs slid into his lap. “A-ha!” he boomed. “’Ere we're gettin’ warm.” Straight, looking over the ring of shoulders, saw the photographs held fanned out like a bridge hand in the dep- uty inspector’s fist. The Kaiser on horseback; the Kaiser taking the salute of a goose-stepping battalion of Guards; the Kaiser on his yacht, in coronation robes, in every conceivable uniform—these the subjects of the vanished Mr. Zweich’s collection. “Now if I only ’ad that good old Defense of the Realm Act be’ind me I could seize this evidence,” the depu y inspector gloomed disappointedly. ‘“‘But that’s all orf now, an’ more’s the pity. My advice to you, Mrs. Mur- free, is just ’old on to this trunk an’ contents. This ’Un will be ’ungerin’ for these pictures of his dear lord and master, an’ whatever sent him chevyin’ orf at midnight, *e'll come sneakin’ back ’ere arskin’ for’is belongings. Then Continued on Page 173

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M4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 natures that knows what it wants and goes ber ral se being New England By Grace Sartwelll MIQGOM ivrit straight. Before the end of Eadie Lawrence’s first week in Greenfields he igent’s point of view — Almira Steb seztvsTtaavraen BY LESLIE S. BENSON was aware as he left the hotel to go toa pronou 1 of course Almir rt rehearsal that a girl was waiting for ed at her christ him at the entrance to the post office f f if e being and she x Eddie always knew when there was a eaut A i flame her : girl watching him! He saw at once that it was the tall, slender angel ‘ ed name in that with the tawny, blessed- f New Eng Greenfields and ' damosel hair and the un-angel-like flame in ‘ é f her eyes, so he smiled encouragingly and ft ume ‘ stepped into the door- est | ( way beside her. ‘ or te She had been to fetch sdstone ‘ her uncle’s mail and she the Bost i crushed it in her nervous | In f ‘ fingers as she talked, but ‘ ead ey her eyes plunged straight \ into Eddie’s. “IT want to be an a . o Reno ell “ tress,”’ she said, her face i} wh = flaming. ‘‘What shall I , ed twent | do? Where shall I go to liar wy) tta | learn?” shome © t} ” Perhaps after that ‘ eld ‘ iz beginning it was not Oe Ww Eddie’s fault. He had a weak chin but astrong thirst for \ be admiratior Also, he very soon made himself acquainted Here stood the} e | t for the \ ge with the fact that Uncle Eleazor Stebbins was one of the Reverend Samuel St ns, who wa } . three well-to-do men of the place. The very night that ed by the whe neiping ~ 2 Leslie spoke to him in the post-office doorway he strolled to defend this stockadt past the Stebbins house and sized it up, with its high white No wonder the Stebl ea have fond zor and Cousin Mattie _ pillars, its beautiful doorway, its wide lawn with an elm or more if their f if nur Some Instinct Totd Her to Take it as the allow her to be, but deep either side and under them twoiron deer. The deer seemed their Ort I posed to the Attic Along With a Batdwin underneath tl affection, deep under- tohimelegant. It would be handy to have a home like thi tock Leslie was born and ct tened Appte and a Handfat of Cookies neath every nherited habit, was a to fall back on. Also, Eleazor was a director in the bank \lmir At six she wa phaned hunger and a prescience. She was only Leslie never tried to excuse herself on the ground that | left to the strictly « ent re of | e Eleazor waiting for something he did not know what—to release she fell in love with Eddie Lawrence. Of course there was i} Dp er dau te ( Mattie St | r her from Greenfield Every day of her life was a semi- on both sides a certain infatuatior It seemed to Leslis Kleazor was known throughout the district { probity « is preparation for that miraculous moment. It that Eddie knew so much, his savoir-faire was so wonder- 1 uncompromising uprightne Cou Mattie was a sunds abnormal. but in reality she was like the other ful, his small feet so amazing, his voice so dramatic. Just Dowel the cl } he was a t i } ung ¢£ with whom she walked arm in arm the w iy he had of smoothing back his wavy blond hair ad ‘ led on tm 6 and af la ler the « f the town. The only difference was that and then snapping his fingers at some clumsy’ amateur tight bunch of red yol ‘ immer | et e Leslie had the divine spark and they had not. And be-_ thrilled her. And to hear him speak casually of Broadway, ed Leslie muel er « ( e would a vy her t cause it was repressed and hated | Cousin Mattie and of the stars he had played with, of the managers he stood i she vv hoor letermined that the cl ild grow 1 e Eleazor it grew brighter in the secret place where in with, made something within her stand on tiptoes with rood—-good in Cou Mattie wn w he fed it awe. It seemed to her that he was her fate—and indeed the time Leslie was twelve I e | t 1 Cousir e was seventeen before she saw even the inside of a he was. rd he ed f ; ‘ i te theate On one of |} rare shopping trips to Boston with He was both too timid and too shrewd to take her away } he wa , ‘ esl i Cou Mattie she stole down a ba treet to a grimy with him, but he told her that on her eighteenth birthday, ' we f, forehanded member of the little vaudeville place. It did not repel her. It filled her which would come a few days after he left, he would meet with pity But she still knew she was going to be an her in Boston and they would be married. They would Rut i top shelf of | e Eleazor’s librarv was a grair actre then return to Greenfields and placate Un Eleazor. How of dynamite the form of ved e of old | It wa on after tl that Eddie Lawrence came they ever found place and time to do their love making Eleazor did t eve va ere it Leslie, r to Greenfield Iro ily enough, Cousin Mattie’s own and arrange these details only youth knows! But each of ; ng on a ‘ ) as he chu was the means of bringing him there. The church them before the end of the kermis had surrendered to food ' to ta t to the at needed a new roof, Eddie Lawrence needed money. He secret tides of ambition and longing. They met as planned y with a B , f ‘ was ¢ y about that time fro yne small town to an-_ inthe railway station in Boston on the afternoon of Leslie’s I'w af ‘ ‘ ‘ i a other ge p wi a kermis, eighteenth birthday. They were married within an hour een-4 y eX er ¢ 0 , t of le ¢ and made and the next afternoon they came back to Greenfields f it " fd i ‘ iitable for the et and for Leslie never forgot that afternoon; for years afterward I’ve been | g ar ( \l ‘ i the dea thems« the thought of it had the power to turn her as cold as the lrean 1 I've want to be a sel er vung thir rreenfields irondeeronthelawn. She had written a letter the night be- teacher. Tam ‘ ( took part the fe e the like fore so that Uncle Eleazor would be prepared. They came he seed at } f she } n t to be f which the wn | up the walk between the two gracious elm trees, Eddie nar , } D ext few Leslie was fina but only carrying their bagsand trying tostiffen his chin. The place the eare d the fan ee on botl lt to see if the alter pa onate tear ions made looked all at once very sweet to Leslie. She was feeling by ld sy it the rotten branch that had handed dow by Cousin Mattie that she should be nothing lower than now shaken, bewildered and strangely lonely. She had perverted fruit. ‘7 were safe hidde the in angel in a tableau, or possibly an Indian maiden. On only one clear thought and she clung to that: Eddie had ittic a e of tar at they id no account was she to take part in the wicked and inde- promised that as soon as they had won over Uncle Eleazor er was the |} t of speaking pieces every Friday after corous dance not even with a Maypole as an excuse. he would begin to teach her to act. Then she noticed t { é ‘ Ted at tl for Cousin Mattie had stood out bitterly against the kermis, a white-lace curtain had fallen back into place over the trangely « yh she had never been particularly good at and she would not demean herself even to attend a re- parlor window like an eyelid that drops, and she knew they peaking piece But a e proved obdurate and insisted hearsal, mistrusting the very air of the opera house; but were wat hing for her. Then Uncle Eleazor stepped out it she had s3 en st isly when she said she was going he called for Leslie every night after rehearsal, waiting tothe top of the porch steps. He made a queer iron gesture eae P e was give gy sea to sew and kept for her on the Simmons’ porch next door that paralyzed them with their feet on the lowest step it of scl I iy afternoor he never aga rid Cherefore she did not know —what half the young folks “Go back,” he cried at Eddie, ‘‘you mountebank! Get hat |} r e wa d to be an actre f Greenfields knew —that Eddie Lawrence talked to Les- off my land with your dirty dancer’s feet!” But in her il strange and fantastic things took place. lie at every opportunity, that he detained her while the He turned to Leslie. His ruddy face was gray, with In the atti hs ered a s¢ et door to y ther world others were putting or their nats, that of all the angels splotches of Imson under his eyes. After a while she it need the bo f plays to ope he had singled her out to say three lines and flourish the “As for you, Almiry, hear what I have tosay! You have door. An old lace curtain for a veil, a bit of pasteboard trumpet, that once he had asked the Indian maidens to disgraced my name; you've dishonored my old age; you’ve , crown, and she was off in a land the like of which come early and then had done nothing but talk to Leslie stooped to the gutter. But I'll take you back. I'll try to Cousin Mattie would have thought herself insane if she behind the shelter of a property cottage do my Christian duty by you on one condition: You'll had r 1 Long afterward Leslie said that Eddie was not to blame never see that man again or speak his name or communi Of course t was a passing phase. By the time she was for what followed. At the end of the first rehearsal she had cate with him in any way. I want you should put out of een she had ceased ike gestures in the attic, but the known that Eddie was the way out of Greenfields. In her your mind forever this wickedness, Never in my lifetime estures went on in her mind. She knew quite clearly and innocent ignorance she believed him to have the key to or after are you to speak or think of play acting again!’ pare that she was § be an actre she was a the whole world of the stage. Hers was one of those Continued on Page 36

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January !/7,1920 antinued from Page 34 ev i better pr et tha f ev Late Eleazor had met her and Eddie at the top of the steps, ar ‘ " f wander New Y \ e Ed id a e remeé ered to ( in Mattie’s eyes of I ‘ gv e-painted gue promise of wor 1 vaude e tear Here begar She could face the te rs of a lonely future better than the | lance LA ‘ experience of the ge va ioletul nur itl £ gt t Cire elds in the reun A r | ‘ f h with hope 1 f i I t stance id t rood isions by this tir I l ‘ f na throu f ( I 4 1 Dut never he elle! er d Via te I ( re gz ¢ ¢ € il and p! " ( La ‘ A ji I i ( pa N Na é t i rf et I r we é t ‘ ne t A Leslie i ) She t i cheaper root r Leslie st ed the t f eme here wa i le ‘ e! \ i ne el i yw t ¢ pre wat fet € ‘ \t ne i a t A ' rit e accepted the certaint ive e st l there ‘ f } 4 . , j Bd p {T ‘ 1 ‘ ‘ ‘ i} f ere b t » wit ] pa : 4 ! } re proj e. 7 ‘ ight é A f ing t espe f ‘ ) f | ‘ wed to e te 1 fte ‘ ‘ é r é gh! f And the e ¢ ‘ " ered, we I ere to t e of i 1 purse. She was not quite t 1. Whe ! i te ! what rt gy to ppe i want to ) la } Va ve She na v come me! Ma el { ( I | i ( isa lied 1 v1 é I t el tior ‘ . it ipa tie vo Da to Cire elds f the } ! t t 1 lear I 4 ei i t © | ed r tle da £ A g ) t } t ‘ ill draped el vet ite e came e from the theate t ist awful « yunter v I e Ele B I g lag t empti f | f here w i She t t the I t he ep W I t f t f et ‘ to \ i f i i S i t I f e [ f A i r expre ! t f f et ‘ He left a I et ) uml { f . ‘ 1 to it ag ! ed t t ! ed ner go to ever met g { b here . where t ther and the Cree lle w ‘ ‘ e! e? ey a on New Eng i inite of her ‘ f f b ‘ { A \ matter of fact f I Ir ‘ she 1 t be arted f f i few e cl f ex x e heard f ! Vice ev t opportu: to develop a tale ght ‘ W he t wear i ‘ it the good t g he was alwa eX In the 1 time, wv e she w g for a re Leslie he ew al | gy ne ime | va One d e three yea th etter, she went to ‘ ! ‘ t A i pre tle. With } iter, W ‘ i manage hee, she } ed up a theat of the restaurant 1 offered to e her two-r | g pumps he il paper and read of the death of | Lawrence 1 flat until Le got her fe ‘ ‘ ‘ f 0 4 ill tow Kansa The tw ‘ e of | deat! When the letter came f I Wlea é tl ght ! i et! ‘ i t inf Ed t i e to go 4 Crree that 1 e Ele \ 1 ta t t ne | —-—_4 , | | | f | ‘ | sarge | | M1 | | MI y | I if | ‘ ’ ly | he ! to ‘ | ‘ She fe | exXa is il € | | t ( | | i he iga } | f I e Ele | ] ( ed | ep he | f | | i Hev if f Dr { eslie p ( that r } } } } i ld t } rhit ) I ter i \ 1 tha Wa 1 ane t t tage } i I t ne { t wed tf near, ‘ ! f i igre ol e ¢ ne In That Hour She Chose Her Star and Set Her Course by It | | Continued on \ — — a Page 5j

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38 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 Concerning Coughs and Coughers By STANLEY M. RINEHART, M.D. line the walls of the air cells, and taking in exchange the products of combustion, which are cast off in each succeeding exhalation. And if the inhalations and ex- halations did not succeed each other with considerable regu- larity, at the average rate of about eighteen times a minute, or twenty-six thousand times a day, or five-sixths of a billion times in the three-score years and ten, the owner of the lungs would depart before his allotted time. So it behooves us who are the beneficiaries of this important breathing apparatus to know something about it and what may be done to keep it fit for its duties. The Sunday Throat MAGINE a hollow tree up- side down, its bulbous hollow roots at the top, then the trunk, then two large limbs. Farther down, smaller and branches, the minutest twig ending ingroupsof hollow leaves. Bind this tree’s branches leaves together with a soft, deli- cate, elastic, but firm substance that holds all the parts together as a whole. Throw overitalla covering of smooth satir y ture. Then plac eit ina box lined on all sides with the same cover- ing. The box must S and bottom that are movable, to smaller and tex- nave give it the power of expansion and contraction. A our tree hollow and as the roots have openings, expansion of the box will cause air to rush into thi eee tree, through the trunk, through the smallest branche into the groups of hollow leave and contraction will expel of the air, not all but al to be replaced again by more air a part arge part, with the succeeding expansion. It is really not a far-fetched e toliken the lur gs toa hol low tree. If it were possil mold of the breat! ng apparatus which would incl from the mouth to the le get a ide and ‘st air cells, everything nose remote the resemblance to a small tree would be remarkable. But as this cannot be done because of the extreme minuteness and del- icacy of the terminal structures, we shall have to stimulate our imagination by further descrip- tion. First, the roots of our tree: Let them be the mouth and nose, OUGHS hould be an in- teresting topic at this time f ir because Oo many ple are ibject to them dur- the winter montl And igh is not a condition, erely indicative of a cor fact it may be ir e of many and diverse among whict may I tioned Cold flu ry garettes, peanuts, pneu hoe buttons, gern mouth breatt ng ver eating ifety pir and a wea heart. That will do for the pre é but the list could be made ! ger. A cough is Nature’s method f expelling something from the passages tha uld be ere But Nature annot a A 1IS¢ Inate betwer tha which can be expelled and that which t, betwee i real Hbiect and merely a s8eé it | thi eason Wwe igh whe mn ive inhaled somethi yg irr g, and also when there mmation from disease peaking of uling some v ritating, no one would elieve, unl } " ke nt the itter, how ma object ‘ { U! air pa ipe l i ‘ Dbyect not tended ) ‘ haled or eve wallowed M persor t all of them ren by any 1 i Int ! t ut? temy rary po ‘ f thing not meant to Na ved; and ¢ 4 i et lips dow with a en inhalati hen there eX} e p x I t tsurp ed and tig ‘ pt t Nat eat! ) I ‘ truder ] ‘ eff , ] il ‘ } ever | ‘ biect i i to ‘ i | te I ible How Fish Breathe fips discovery of the X ray has helpe 1 to locate foreig I in the -air pa inte iM cat ! tly they ca lenser hha vthanthesu indingt ‘ but until ver ‘ the removal required long, tedi ind dangerou operatior Lat an instrument has bee ke ed forlooking direct low het it It is*ealled the br me It is a straight tube “ han elects lig t al er i ind e has to do a sw vil vying feat to get it dowr but with considerable dexterity ‘ the part of the operator and 1 throat rendered insensitive by a local anesthetic it can be done There are medical men whose specialty is to oct il d remove fore gt bodie that have been ir haled. \ curious fact has recently been discovered: It is that the innocent, commor garder variety of peanut not one with the shell on but the smooth kernel—causes more trouble, greater destruction than a bean or a screw or a pipe stem. But they are all destructive and none was intended to enter the breathing apparatus, This article, however, is not especially concerned with rather with It will deal ore frequent and ordinary causes of coughs to avoid them, But fir should be the breathing apparatu You may remember the time wher rdinary and ial coughs ( and how said about ts function. t somethir £ , its mechanism and you stood by a bow! swallowing. Perhaps you how of goldtish and watched them lered soon they were going and possi- or disap- were fascinated and wor to burst bly you roInte d with high water pressure from within, recall that were relieved you learned that they were not swallowing may when you the water at all but passing it out at once over their gills. And later still you were told that they were not breathing the water but the air which is held in solution in the water, \ fish uses air very much as we do, but it must have the nixed with water. The gills are the fishes’ lungs. They are crowded with minute blood vessels and when the air in solution passes over them it is extracted. After you had learned all this—which is really more marvelous than what you thought was going on—you probably lost some of your interest in goldfish. Before a child is born it breathes like a fish—that is, it gets its oxygen from the stream of the mother’s blood, through an apparatus very similar to gills. The child’s lungs are not yet in use; they are totally empty and collapsed. But with the first gasping cry they are ex- panded, and from that moment they are never entirely empty of air. The tide of air alternately rising and falling leaves always a residual reservoir. The lungs are a chemical laboratory, extracting oxygen, transferring it to the blood through the capillaries which because they are directly con- nected with the tree trunk. But just below the back of the mouth two tukes lead downward, one collapsible and the other always standing open. The latter is the trunk of our air tree. Down through the col- lapsible tube pass solids and liquids, into the stomach. But once in a while when eating, and always when we least ex- pect it, we choke and cough and strangle. After the explo- sion is over somebody may say something about Sunday throat. The Sunday throat was not intended for the pas- sage of food or drink; its function is to receive air only— on Sundays as well as on weekdays, For the purpose of guiding food in the way it should go, at this parting of the ways is placed a valvelike covering which fits down over the air tube when one swallows, but at all other times is lifted. Sometimes we are careless and breathe when we should swallow. Then the valve, the epi- glottis, does not cover the opening and the particle of solid or liquid goes the wrong way. Just below this opening, at the inverted base of the trunk, is the voice box, or larynx, a projecting part of Continued on Page 40)

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 the blood streams have brought up the army of white of pneumonia or of tuberculosis one who cannot cough is cles, These troops hastily mobilized storm enemy in a very serious condition. He is in imminent danger of pu

e sw trench after enemy trench until finally they have re- drowning in his own secretions. f x gained all the home territory. And the casualties are The causes of coughs being so numerous and so various, ‘ t whe thrown out with the expectoration. Then the home to speak of prevention one must necessarily include the ‘ tense troop ithdraw into the blood streams, which once more conditions which produce them. First, then, the nose. f varying widt! rough wl the air rushes, causing resume their normal size, repairs to the battlefield are To have a normal throat and healthy lungs there should rate, to produce sound. inder way and peace supervenes. Peace, not armistice, be free, unobstructed nose breathing. Air which is taken t proper of our tree beg it the lower margin for there can be no cessation of hostilities until Victory in through the mouth is germ laden, dust laden; it may of ¢ r x ty on down about four and one-half ilights upon one banner or the other. There are no drawn be too moist or too dry or too cold. The nose should ‘ efore gy into the two main branches, or battles in the fight against disease. cleanse it, warm it, moisten it; or the air passages will ‘ f wh h leads to the right lung and the other But at times the issue m y be long drawr out. It may suffer. ft. Each br hus beg to branch after enteri: be that ar strain of germs is more virulent and Children with adenoids are especially subject to coughs ing nd the } ‘ ibd le intil f y the that its invasion finds the defenses weakened. Then the because they cannot breathe through the nose. The est tubes are t re than one-fiftieth of an inch destructive warfare continues and more territory is in- adenoid child has a peculiar facial expression—a flattened, umeter, Th the e their cylindrical shape and vaded. By this extension the inflammation may progress pinched appearance about the nose, which from lack of fla ‘ uy g the groups of air downward, through the smaller bronchi the branchlets use is almost invariably smaller and narrower than it should ‘ These air ce e the g f the fish mtain the of the respiratory tree—until it reaches the terminal leaves, be. And the adenoid child nearly always has large tonsils. CSSt through w h courses the t Mi that ha the air cell Mouth breathing leads to disease of the ton They e from all parts of the body, bearing the products of When this occurs the sufferer no longer has bronchitis are placed in the throat partly as a filter for use in such to ex e for oxygen, with which it returt only; he has broncho-pneumonia, a much more serious emergencies as occasional mouth breathing. But to ignore ‘ ies, t y ‘ mbustio disease, to which the very young and the aged are more the nose altogether and take in air continuously through lhe whole of the a pparatus, from the throat to the prone than those of middle years. the mouth is to place too much burden on the filters. They ur tubs i ed with nerves of sensatior Most of the germs that ordinarily obtain entrance into become diseased zs a consequence, and in turn they are a | ‘ e heart, w h being « osed and the respirat tract have no harmful effect unless its cause of coughs. ected |} ) it at But Nature very pru ng surface has been injured. The same is true of the Adenoids should be removed, and the channels through le p the y ind tube vitt el tion to r The hands come into daily contact with hosts of the nose otherwi e made clear if there is ar y other obstruc ‘ e one t } e effort to exp hatever bacteria, especially the pus germs; but the outer layers tion. If this is done in time it is probable that the tonsils i ‘ mes from without or is manufa of the n are protective. If, however, the skin is broken will be saved from chronic inflammation and from the ed as a product of disease or tne t ues bruised the germs set up their destructive ty of removal. And ver Vise places 1 e nerve f sensatior | Sse he upper air ] , which are nearer the source of Within the air passages a sudden chilling of the surface, Some Occupational Diseases ext il danger For t reason, and because the nerve I reathing intensely cold air, and the reactionary cor t judge between a foreign | | ind the rritatior gestior Vill destroy the integrity of the lining But the f poncany a cla of ailments called “‘ occupational dis- juced t “ ‘ t ‘ nflar it of the throat I t frequent cause is dust, Irritating particle nnaied ease ,’’ because they have the r origir in certain occupa- causes more t : ind ‘ nt coughing thar have an erosive effect n the membranes. Then the tions Among these are the chronic bronchitis of coal mal I re seriou iit nm the ing themselves, ger enter through the broken surface, miners and stone itters’ consumption. A curious fact has Living in a dusty atmosphere will cause chronic bror been noticed about il miners, especially those who mine Everyman's Air Filter eniti [he membranes become thickened and there is a bituminous coal: They are easy victims of chronic bron- 7 more or less constar 1 of mucus, with a chronic chitis, of asthma and of emphysema, or permanent dil: — most frequent abnormal « fthe upper air cous rhis th ‘ lining, when it reaches the _ tion of the air cells; but they are comparatively free fr passage 7 " ! t have irted illest tubes, make ion difficult. tuberculosis of the lung No one has been able to explain nthe head and g ‘ A ey people, howeve But iriou out 1s impeded more than it t! phenomengr tisfactor ly, though several theories the gest may be; the f ea or the bronec! breathing, because expiration 1 ordinarily ive act have been advanced And yet physicians who practice in I esr i t witht ewl have obstruct t \ e inspiration 1s the re ult of muscular ef “he chest the Dituminous-coal regior are convinced that there are the e. wit ‘ e freque a very dust “ raised by forcible muscular contraction, which fewer cases of consumption among the miners than among it phere ind tl ‘ ‘ ‘ i cause the inrush of air, but when the chest muscles and men in other oc a dos t t ar ‘ ‘ } tior the diaphragm relax the boundaries of the lungs come On the other hand stonecutters and men who work at of a | 1 of sr ew the ire a iss by closer together, narrowing the space between. We can emery wheels are particularly prone to tuberculosis. The themselves only be e they are more frequent inhalers breathe out forcibly when we choose, but in unconscious _ irritating particles cut their way into the delicate structure of smoke respiration expiration is entirely passive of the lungs, making a fertile soil for the growth of the I rder to have a | the throat or chest two cond When there is a chroni thickening of the lining of the bacteria. tions 1 t } resent The ‘ First. bacteria mall air tubes one can get air into the cells through the There are many other occupational consumptions also, ‘ 1 lessee | r ve Inde he ime narrowed passages, but it 1s difficult to get it out again. as for instance that of those who work with cotton fiber, Uses are esse ‘ y of almost a acute And so taking in a little more air than can be gotten out with tobacco and with flour—all of them dusty jobs disease a ere | ‘ the air cells become permanently dilated. This Which merely substantiates what has been said about Nature has 3 | e air pa we ever ! ble pr ices the barrel chest so commor among coal miners dust being a potent cause of troubles in the throat and feyuard ag td © 4 Ihe e filters then ind those who work in a dusty atmosphere, These persons lungs, and emphasizes the warning that it should be t is mer une t re the harmle have a chronic cough, a shallow sometimes gasping respira- avoided as far as possible ; t ‘ r ‘ ‘ riace t tion, and a wheeze Colds are infectious, there is no doubt about it. No tantly wave the by the way the ume in. And the nt will be required here to prove it, because every ecretions of mueu itch them and they are washed Different Kinds of Coughing one has noticed that they spread from one to another in way. But no one breathes entirely through | e and home or shop or office. A cold hits one in the weakest e ot the ger get tarther dowr ihere the ime \' OUGH may be usele ss and harmful or it may be bene place One who has a weak throat u ually gets his cold ] ‘ ‘ ire carnmed ! because the ning membrane & ! al. If there is a foreign substance in the air pas there, either at first or very soor after it has begun in the at thee ame } r} membrane has four duties to ives or an accumulation of secretion coughing is the only nose. Now a weak throat is almost invariably the result of perfor It « t tself witt 1 secretion for it owr I ethod of expu ion. The use of a sedative ir uch a case me long mtinued indiscretion that can be avoided. protection against la t helps to warm the air before would be wrong. Taking medicines to deaden one’s sensi rhe inveterate cigarette smoker is liable to coughs at all t gets to the « ‘ ‘ p bacteria and bility to the presence of anything that should be gotten times, because he inhales the smoke, and to an acute npuritie it destr acteria » under ordinary cor rid of would defeat the purpose of the cough inflammation of the throat with every cold. As to preven- we are f free f harn But suppose the But frequently coughs are due merely to irritation of — tion in his case the answer is obvious In the case of those | ire t or and that a 1 has already the nerve ends, caused by their being caught and pinched who work at dangerous occupatior dangerous because bye the ' i is bee y ed and gested swollen tissue This kind of cough is rasping of the peculiarly tating lity of the dust created glected, It goes dov tha by exter n it affect exasperating and futile. It should be quieted because it the mouth and nose should be covered with a moistened é | en the trunk of the breathing accomplishes nothing cloth of fine mesh to strain the respired air. para the t ‘ Coughing will cause a cougt Persistent hacking will But whether one has a suscept throat or not, inti- | here ‘ f P ma } d ¢ e] " tself produce congestior of the throat ifficient to mate contact with the victim of a cold hould be avoided, ‘ ‘ f the rface, with hoarsene and continue the gough indefinitely. Here is an instance of a because one may come in contact so continuously with the igh. V nm the irface becomes moitt and © cough that was started by the imagzinatior A nervous, various bacteria by continuous association with the victim ‘ ‘ ecre f mucus, whicl hysterical patient had been afflicted for years by imaginary of a cold that their very numbers and assiduous attacks Nature ittemprt ei ea vv coughed up and But her troubles, though various, had always beer will overcome h resistance expelled elsewhere than in the throat or lungs. One day her mother As with other infectious diseases, one’s susceptibility to Nature never give ip a fight unl the odds are over caught cold and developed a dary cough with hoarseness. colds depends very much upon one’s phy ical condition. whelming wa ‘ ( flict rouses her antagonisn The next day the girl was coughing continuously. Exam The instructions in a previous article on how to ‘ er fighting forces are called into act {they ination of the throat and chest discovered nothing wrong. catch a cold and oid it apply here as well as to were not, ever yer which most frequently cause She merely imagined it all. But with the persistence of cold in the head. ey imply only good common tart ‘ “ i be victorious, and they are not the hysterical ne Kept up the coug! ing for day $s, and sense in the care y. A great deal of frest alr; < ‘ 1 ally she lost her v ice completely, being unable to tall enough rest and plenty of food, but not too much But from the beg y of the attack there have been above a whisper. Later examinations disclosed a deeply nor too rich food, eating only as much as is required by ar disagreeable sensat here was probably a cl ind ¢ rested throat with great redness and thickening of the appetite not stimulated by alcohol or condiments; fre- v there me fever, also a g and soreness of the vocal bands. She had kept at it until she had produced a quent bathing without excessive rubbing; warm water iscles and a general tired fee gy. All of these are duc real condition, and soap, followed by enough cold water to cause a reac- directly to the gert against which the body is fighting. his is related to illustrate the kind of coughs that is tionary glow. They produce certain ] ms which are absorbed into the harmful. Coughs do not get anywhere should be Sudden chilling of the body may or may not induce a wd, causing mu disturbance and discomfort. suppressed, if possible, or soothed by medicines if they cold, depending on or e’s general condition; a cold is espe- However, washing out the germs by an excessive secre- cannot be controlled. The purely nervous cough can be cially likely to result if one has to remain long in wet tion of mucus and a cough is merely a defensive process, stopped by an effort of the will. But it would be folly to clothes on a cold day. ire has off ve forces also. With the first congestion use opiates for a cough that gets results. In the later stages Concluded on Page 162

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SAR ae a Ih = di “ay Wee won Bay: ee es Yi i - te t 2 Sloat Pt 7 eat z “4 ¥ Er ; THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ~ “a - ¥ : ¢ % jor od - % wet + A New Year, every year, all the year—one happy fact remains true—BREAD is your BEST food. Supreme in nutrition, Bread is lower in cost than the same amount of nourishment in any other form. It is the most economical food today! Resolve to eat more BREAD; resolve to give more of this health-building, muscle-making food to your children. ei are 41

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An Automatic A ze Py goin b t ‘ ? ! i I | eu ‘ | ' f ‘ { i ‘ ‘ t a huma ‘ r Dp . he t ] ‘ ! hine or ) ‘ al ce ‘ in | enaing ss pe the wer of his own hané Not ~ e 2 onal in, besides being a wat fare ryvma | inte vas | wn doct a the I ! pa teact the family school | ‘ vise he was a manufacture f useful implement ox plorer and transportat inager But th eTa 8001 passed and thi multiplicit f functions was delegated i number of individual ind organizatio lo-da ve | e reached the age f specialization and to mort will be a new ep ' w hie the lowlhest ‘ . A i perforn the ird labor of industry that i heretofore fallen to ft tot the hur nind At the present rie ever commodtit ries it eLne it i it | { yma horse-power | ir that we ¢ ! te ition in whic ve ‘ ime earth all of the power-«l erating it would be } iflicient pe ple t I | ‘ modities that are mw be iving device For t people would be required itput ol wire i il tr produc were t evert b vhen the old wrought-i Labor cot ts of ty fa bach day machine I place the power or ener eep pace w irmect factor contributed | t more high developed vhat iv take of tl avoid the that hold w t ‘ | ertain | ‘ mati trol { nent w be a ble yy i ise WwW ‘ ‘ t er i or | weaith per ¢ ‘ provement ! productive | The g ‘ va f mac er f iKe he piace { hat ‘ 4 ene ‘ ‘ ‘ ther These ‘ . te ‘ yur If we ‘ jual ar ie wit! t in 1 ! auce of rn +) the is made energ ‘ irge ‘ pine being n ‘ j can ¢ nd ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ } } te t iH w } “ é THE SATURDAY EVENING POST USINESS Electric pie, contair for thi rree of rea civil ver of that are now op 1 onto tl ylobe ount of the cor the aid of labor iggine how mat e prese t eur iking tl useful ethod employed by hand ind intelligence it ed to re that if we would t the intelligence ist be more and il No matter po bie torusto ape the tranwgle more to impose tity? of aut \ t! leve t 1 ! ‘ Th v here he ep! ictior f therel hve r of man? ‘ ty for all tes to-da n the irive i¢ “ that ‘ 1 ‘ i 1 \ rt be 7 is to © 1 tted 1 ue 1 t i “ tre " ent Iper Int t, but re “ be engaged l ’ atte ? iting mecnat hmore. His cor ~ Motors De All the Work in Driving Twisting Frames in This Textile Mill 154 65 « alorie . erage man of pound without The av approximately When he i expend of energy an hour while sleeping standing at rest the 140 calorie ame man expends 100 calorie typewriting carpentr 40 calories; industrial painting 10 calorie walking actively, 240 calorie tone working, 400 ecalo it iwing wood, 480 calorie runt g, 500 calorie and evere exercise of almost any nature about 600 calor Vt hour expenditure of energy | the average , in, though it but approximate, has a dist t and teresting bearing on whether and | this energy can be eplaced b 1 machine order that the man may be over agalt y he ‘ oe many men de t A few mact es could d It é lent that i expe i ah es ol energy doing somet! 4 ! t more efficient accomplished by a machine emt ‘ ive 50 ilorl of human « erg } } tot mechanical ce ef the human w ma { 1 mits the man to be used In a way that more } ¢ both to himself and to } emp! ¢ r} certainly the age of power ‘ t rT M Rushmore In 1890 the total horse power produced | elect motor the manufactu nadustrie { the LU nite i State amounted to 15.569 N ‘ ¢ iter } ‘ te the total ! i rea ‘ ‘ t { ” j ! e& power! ind i ther e vears the ta had become 4.817.140. To-day. without definite figure ible 1 « ‘ t e estimate w i} the horse } ver ] luced } electr n t it al it 9.000.000. If ‘ vy else were needed th ‘ isa f . eve k Ww x mporta t ot rhe re ed |} y f ting from the substitution of machines for m¢ I example et us take a spec ( tance he ry lust During a pe 1 of te ears the prima } ‘ power used increased from 1,649,299 to 2,706,553, while the elect © powe reased [ror 4 »s 1.20 , On the ther hana the mber of wage earne n the reased tror A HZ toor ’4s t ID y the ame inte he production of ste« t reased f 13.6,0,592 to 5403 95% Analy res we na tthe prima horse power ‘ ent and the ele horse power 475 pe ¢ earner creased 20 per cent and steel production it cer that istosay, the increase in the number « ‘ if 20 pe r cent | uught abou i) nerea duction of 71 per cent, which larger production resulted r pa from the great ease the use of elect January 17,1920 motors. similar conditions ex! most other industries.’ somewnh Follow ing lines laid dowr in tneé along the by Mr. remarks just quote d, let m¢ tushmore touch on some of the actua savings from the use of simple machines in ou! Take, for ir tance, the question of food everyday life is already an established ct that meats will no muc n W h en us when cooked directly by fuel this saving amounting to from 4 to 8 per cent. Wit! electrical devices the cooked electrically heat is developed close to where it is to be applied and this permits the utilization of a large percentage of the energy consumed. In the case of the old-fashioned cookstove we follow the wasteful practice of heating the surface of the tove up to a high tempera- ture even if we attempt to heat only a single pan my engineer entire One of friends the losses of fuel in domestic who investigated operations arrived at some interestir g cone lusions. He found that on a conserva- tive basis the coal con- } imed per month in the average coal range total not less than 800 pound Compared with this the imed per month in an average elect P ] electrical ric is 125 kilowatt range—based on figures for 25,000 ranges hours. Dividing 800 by 125, therefore, we find that a little more than 6 pounds of coal are replaced by eac! kilowatt hour. Thi ame investigator discovered that ve hours’ ironing with an electric iron requires 2.5 kilo- hours, requiring on the average two pounds of coal watt hour, orat ital of five pounds of ‘omparison it coal for the five hours. In making « pounds of 28 pounds of coal in the form 25 pounds of coal used directly in a kitchen brought out that tl five was equivalent to range for the same p irpose. Forty years ago Thomas Edison predicted that one day ‘ ricity would be used for heating, cooking and cleaning ir f The grand old man has lived to see the f ment of prophe¢ Twenty years after Edison’s forecast ventors got busy taking out patents on various pes of he r | cooking appliances, but the time wa t yet ripe for the successful application of this art to cu eve la fe. It recently that thé chief difficulties ‘ rie t jtod tT Le ir proper al drawback has been a lack of elements to make good iting material With the com- ing of nickel-chromium alloys the problem became easier These a posse two u ial quality a high degree f nonoxidizabilit ‘ pecific resist- ‘ Asare oft 1 theelectrical- ipphance bu ( pe uch products e produced | re than two hundred manufacturers Upward of eight million electric heating appliances are ~ isé { yuuntr 4 i five 1 of the se, which are fla uve oO isewives not less than VO Dillior tep twee ne g board and the stove eact eal Che fa w ost ot ( £ the question ol choosing a method for performing domestic duties in out } ‘ ‘ the ed view we take the matter, The ymmon practice to t} only of the direct operating eXpe e and gnore the many benefits that accrue tr the way of ene ind time saved. In this country we employ upward of ten n n domestic coal ranges. This means that our housewives and their servants are obliged to carry between forty 1 fifty n tons of coal yearly fron coal bins to the ranges an er carry away about five million tons of a When we compar should also place a value on time, comfort. and cleanliness. Whether in office, factory or home, drudgery Continued on Page 44 commence to costs we AR ~~ - oe A

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44 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continued from Page 42 has its price in health. Let us not forget that the human ‘ e is the t tly of all to keep in good order. More than f r thousand electric stations throughout | ed tate ive p lished cooking rates of five t ‘ watt | bette and quite a few have xed three-cent rate At th latter figure electric cook- i t t iy be j es sfu ed with art al gas in most com | t iat ©A t certa I part f { exas and the Northwest Even the folks who erval “ ry ym pe led eventually to fall in ef whe elp fir waken to the easy of the electr A they will refuse to work in a e where they « t k dinner by turning a switch, in with a i eeper, sharpen knives and polish er by pre gy a button, and stir ice cream or grind ffee with the ume ever-ready electrical current. Per- ere W e the additional st pulation demanding in ele foot rmer for chilly night He's a brave man- who will venture a prediction cor ng the relative position and importance of housewife ind se ant ( ! g da 1utomat tehe If it shou rhe wite A te mpe le i to ¢ te er é hiefl t le * autocrat per her cook and her maid, then she ‘ i ' ‘ } f t! it oOmeone ha de Vi ed the ~~ mechanical methods to lighten the hardships of her domest res] ibilithe Coaling the World A CAREFUL examination of the attitude and demands CL of 4 malt er the United States leads to the belief that an effort is being made here to duplicate the labor development t have taken place in the British coal lusts The workers in the collier acro the ocean icceeded in winning their fight for higher wages and rter hour As a result Great Britain has been placed in unfavorable | in the present strenuous race for world upre! y { i matter of vital concern to the whole nation wheth« r not the United States in the next few years is to he ind ipped in like fashion There i " é the world to-day that is of yreat | to na i whole than the jus of i py ffuel. If expect to ee this ab te power of il and oil over humanity P t by } { , | engineering but for the moment a Lior ire at the mercy of the ent fuel industri It is no wonder, therefore, that the of all countries are coming more and more to view the product f is a mat fy rather than i et i lustrie 1 a wation of business often produces an effect that is either local or of ted ext ; } ; wl Ve ; the ! \ f fuc fron it ginal sour we at t ‘ tM {1 INesst but the life of the whole nation at its deepest root A famous Britis entist 1 1 recent addre to his i ymetr rid We are ving in an age when world power depends upon the relatively cheap production of ‘ land ir \ ition that deliberately throws away or diminishes its advantages in this respect is, economically pe iking, digging . grave In order to make clear just what tl suthority was driv- ing at let me devote ar ite to the British coal situation. In 1913 the or raw material wi h Great Britain produced in ex of her requirements were coal, clay and salt. In the arn year the I ! production amounted to 287,000,000 gr tor while the exports to fore countries totaled 76,000 OOO tor In addition to the foregoing | ! he upplied 22 000,000 tor to coa \ { ind f | bunker In fact, just he war the B | i nated thel gncoail ‘ that the act t ul icted re tha event pe ent of the ¢ tire sea-b« e coa " | I world I 1919 ling t he be ‘ ite now a ible th | product Great Britalr a 1 ted to sbout 217.000.0000 tons and xports totaled I thar 5 000,000 tons, Considering that the im- porting power of Great Britain has been based largely on coal exports, there appears to be good cause for some disquiet concerning this serious loss in business. The chief question in the minds of well-informed British- ers to-day is concerned with the alarming movements of those two vital factors, production and cost. In 1913 the annual output of coal. per person in British collieries was in 1918 the output had dropped to 232. In 1913 the price per ton at the mine was $2.42; in 1918 the price id climbed to $6. It is further true that this tendency of the British miner to produce less did not start with the EO tor commencement of the war but has been going on for many years. In 1883 the average individual production was 320 tons; in 1895it was 296; andin 1905 it had dropped to 279. In this connection it is interesting to compare individual in Great Britain with that of the United States. In the eight years prior to the war, while the British produc- tion was decreasing from 289 tons per person to 254 tons, the American production was increasing from 590 tons to During the war British production showed a further slight decrease, while the American miner jumped his output from 680 tons to about 775 tons. This 680 tons per person. discrepancy between British and American mining is due only in part to the greater use of machinery in the mines of the United States, If the British miners’ federation has been able to bring about such a condition in the coal industry of their coun- try there does not appear to be any good reason why the United States should copy the action that produced this catastrophe If government control everywhere means that the cost of production will be trebled, as has proved to be the case in Great Britain, let us not handicap our American industries by copying such a plan. Right here it seems appropriate to say a few words cerning the fuel situation in other countries Germany, y ranked second to Great Britain as an ex- ter of coal prior to the 1 cou ar, will not be able again to this class of trade. By the terms of the Peace Treaty she will not have enough coal for her own needs, losing as she does the upper Silesian and Saar coal fields, the first to Poland and the latter to France. The Teutons are also required to furnish 23,000,- 000 tons annually to France and the other Allied countries. Italy, which before the war imported 11,000,000 tons, her entire coal requirements, is badly in need of fuel to-day, at least 5,000,000 tons per year being urgently wanted. In 1913 France was using 63,000,000 tons of coal per year and producing only 43,000,000 tons, the balance of her requirements coming from Great Britain, Germany resume her mportant place in and Belgium. At the present time the French mines are producing at the rate of only 32,000,000 tons per year, so that addition to the tonnage given her by the Peace Treaty the French needs are in the neighborhood of 17,000,000 tons ar In this connection it must be nual remembered that Alsace of | France All the neutrals of Europe are badly in need of coal owing to their previous dependence upon Great Britain ,orraine now has to be taken care and Germany for the greater part of their annual require- ments. Then there are the smaller but important needs of Africa, Egypt, Algeria, South America and the islands of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. According to the director of the coal export bureau of the United States Shipping Board, the world’s shortage of coal to-day amounts to 62,000,000 gross tons, this being predicated on postwar production and export estimates. January 17,1920 The question now arises: ‘‘What is the opportunity of the United States in the present situation and how are we prepared to take advantage of the condition?” With this thought in my mind I sought out F. R. Wadleigh, authority on coal exports, and asked his opinion in the matter. Said he: “‘At best we can with our present coal docks and pier equipment only fill a portion of the world’s shortage, even if we had all of the ships required To-day the total coal-loading average capacity of all our Atlantic Coast export coal docks is about 131,000 tons per ten-hour day. This means that working ten hours for three hundred days in a year we can load only 39,300,000 tons of coal. Now these same docks must also handle a considerable tonnage of coal annually for New England, as well as 4,000,000 tons of bunker coal for the use of ships. It is evident therefore that unless something is done promptly to enlarge our coal-loading facilities materially the United States need not hope to gain a permanent position as the world’s leading coal export nation. “The United States shipped about 25,000,000 tons of coal to foreign countries in 1918. Our exports for 1919 probably reached 26,000,000 tons. Prior to the war we were shipping something like 22,000,000 tons, so that it is evident this country has not stepped in to take the place of those nations that formerly held control of the world’s foreign coal trade.” One thing is certain, if America is serious in her desire to take rank as a leader in foreign trade careful attention must be given to the problem of the world’s coal supply, for in this field there lies a great basic opportunity which we should not fail to accept. Something New in Philanthropy i mes common conception of a successful man is on¢ wi 10 has been shrewd enough to amass a fortune. If we are told that a certain individual has valuable ideas we immediately inquire, “‘Has he capitalized them?” If the answer is “No” we say he’s an impracticable dreamer—a man long on imagination and short on sense. Many a poor devil who has spent most of his days in a vain struggle for shore against a ceaseless ebb tide has had occasion to get down on his knees and thank*God for having mixed a few of these rare dreamers into the mottled fabric of mankind. Were it not for some of our visionary brothers a lot of song and sympathy would pass out of our lives and only cold materialism would be left us. Throughout the earth are men famed for their bene- factions. Many of them deserve our sincere respect for their worthy efforts in helping those who have been less fortunate in their fight for personal independence. But somehow or other we just can’t put the right kind of fervor into our hallelujah when one of our worthy citizens hands forth a million-dollar benevolence to-day and adds two millions to his own individual account at the bank to- morrow. In such cases, try as we may, it’s difficult to banish the thought that maybe the fellow is only giving away something he can’t use and doesn’t particularly need. We are reminded of the old game, ‘‘ Two for me and one for you,”’ in which the other fellow is always “‘ me.’ The other day I said to the editor: ‘I want to write a couple of stories about some real men. What are the specifications?’ He replied: ‘Tell about the fellows who have done big things and haven't talked too much about them; the men who have advanced industry without demanding all of the fruits of subsequent success; the people who value their art above wealth or power and who are more interested in the advancement of useful science than in the ex- ploitation of finished com- mercial products.” This looked like ar order for a fiction story, but the following night I sat in the Engineers’ Club in New York talking with a modest, plain-spoken man who fits snugly into the bill of particulars laid down by the editor of THE Post. Why had I not thought of Frederick G. Cottrell before? Here, just as I was preparing for a search, was my man right at hand. Here was a dreamer, the inventor, the man who has devoted his life to the advancement of science in preference to the piling up of a huge for- tune—Cottrell, who is loved and respected by the engineers and chemists of French Coat Docks at Marseiites many countries, the friend Continued on Page 46 seers ge se = we erg —— el

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46 Continued from Page 44 ‘ ‘ " ‘ 4 f the uN \ ‘ ( ‘ i hope ( ( f i wv ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ té i i ‘ f rh ew é if i y ] , ‘T | ‘ ‘ | , 1 ’ 5 i rhe ‘ ‘ ( f } f "Os f 5 HH xcept e | (‘onte } , ble t ‘ f I graduat v , \l ( r ege M ( , tea y ‘ ' it Ti av ‘ igh fr i get } . the pent a est Berlin, wv i Va Hoff, t far i ‘ me hewasr tered { Ber 1 ce ted el ly of | } t 1 magne ! 1 t edf ea ' I ' Leaving Berlin he went to Ls . Prof Ostwald f } fb tor { ] RO! } ‘ y 1) ( ‘ " ! «tar lal t I 190% re rned Calif , ructor in pl il her ate he | ime a t t | r ye work t sccept tl ip] tant director of tl rea I br_etl etel the life ‘ icat ind « t r vere to « } t wou I t ‘ ible bu DRE ‘ a] i K it ! i . Process Not in Operation and procure 1 the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 proceedings against the smelter com- panies, with the result that most plants of this kind operating to-day have Cottrellized their fumes. This wide adoption of the process in a commercial way caused other industries to bring their smoke-and- fume problems to Doctor Cottrell, no time the same scheme of being and in electrical precipitation was used to bring down poisonous arsenic, valuable metal dust and other sub- stances that had been polluting the atmosphere in many localities. oft In addition the scheme was applied to the big cement works of the Pacific Coast, and not only did the process . thus save thousands of acres of orange groves from the evil effects of the cement-kiln smoke, but the owners of the plants found it pos- sible to collect large quantities of i . - SaEEEeeiaiatae potash from this same smoke and Dr. F. G. Cottrett (on the Left), Inspecting the War Ruins at Rheims use the material to fertilize the fruit rroves instead of destroying the trees ‘ el ree waste any more time stumbling over such things as cal- by clogging the tender pores of the orange leaves. The ) iti B endar dates and job No one who has read thus far will story of how the so-called Cottrell process has been ex- teaching and sional d t that Cottrell has a brilliant mind. A fellow can’t tended to varied uses in many industries throughout the n to Germat where he innex a bona fide sheepskin in a four-year college by world is a tale not only of great industrial saving but of king and studying with doing three years’ work unless he’s some smart. But the nuisance elimination. Dutch chemist. At the count ed with valedictorians who are working for Of more pertinent interest in the present story is the tudent in the University _ tail-ender o I'm not going to brag about a attitude that was assumed by Doctor Cottrell in the dis- | ble tothe scientifie talit it tead tell the uncommon fact posal and administration of his successful scientific idea. ecia ng on the potasl he-man who } elf fought so hard against o After the scheme had become an assured commercial suc- m the celebrated Stra his ideal in life became centered about a sing et he entered into an understanding with his backers busine of smoothing the way for others whicl stipulated that, when the rece pt from the business where he finished his lacked the nece sary support to get their ide: that was organized hould have repaid the initial invest- degree ving his graduation Mr. University th last d irs Visiting Germany, yermany and France and — scient where he was made ar the tate iniversity. 1906 wher fe ind 1911 left electrical pre pitatior ent as chief metal He believe jureau of Mine He ha was ther nt eT e and is now While ackr has so faithfully served ich as fog Doct Cot fara ve have t ‘ erned und if the sources of be the tale of a man’ po ble } t ! lloweve Throug! e tha t t f nelters, ear ve wont have to tons of ily vast I intr 7 terial lo oncentrated Let me now return to Doctor Cottrell’s first and exhalation air pollutior years at the of California subsequent to his return from and thus pass over the dozens of remarkable ific papers that he had already contributed to the technical literature of the day. It was no longer ago than lating to the wide. he began his investigations re of particles of liquids and d that one of the important prot lems of the age aintaining of a clear and unpolluted atmosphere. owledging that there were natural phenomena from decaying vegetation that contend with. he asserted that most of the were man-made and as far ould be eliminated. out the United States at that time were many h of which burned off da ly from 250 to 1000 hur from its ores into the atmosphere. These imes seriously damaged the irrounding by getting into the drainage The ma ¢ were also seriou . for each tor of ll us thrown off would make three te of ulphuriec acid and six of superphe phate fertilizer. Doctor Cottrell went to work or the } oblem and soor proved that the precip tatlor of suspended matter, whether in gases or liquid may be accelerated by electricity in the form of direct or alternating current rhe theory wa that, if we bring a needle point connected to one side of a high potential direct current line opposite to a flat plate cont ected to the other betwee! particle ] made at not fate Cottrell farmers the same sign as the needle point, and any inst body brought into this space instar tly receives a charge of the same sign. plate of opposite charge. his idea, phur fumes. a powder plant in California. Here he used hairy electrodes made of asbestos, which succeeded in precipitating sulphur from the wet fumes. process, however, was not sufficiently profitable and the entire scheme would probably have died had close the precipitation plant, even to-day is still producing dilute sulphuric acid as a by-product. As soon as it was known that the smelter gases and smoke could be captured the fume-pestered ide of the | ne, becomes highly ‘ harged with electric ty ¢« f ed we find that the air space If this body is a floating it will immediately be attracted to the Even suspended gas molecules undergo the same process, though the gases themselves may be perfe ctly transparet t. Doctor Cottrell continued the development of to sul- devoting most of his early attention The first installation of his system was The come to the rescue. Near by was the Selby smelter, which plant was close to one of the tunnels of the Southern Pacific Railway. the wind blew from a certain direction the sulphur fumes would fill the tunnel with choking gases and the railroad company finally took legal measures to When smelter. At this critical juncture Doctor was called in and erected a small electric which met the difficulty, and all throughout the West started legal } ment with reasonable interest, at least a considerable por- tion of the patent rights should be turned over to some pul lie institution to be administered as the nucleus of a fund for the promotion of research. It was the idea of the might set a precedent and stimulate similar contributions from others. In accordance with this proposed plan Doctor Cottrell and his offered to transfer as a gift to the Smith rights in the patent ipitation After careful cor ideration the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- tution decided that it was t for the institution inventor that tl associate onian Institution extensive covering the pre processes, not expedier to become the direct owner of the proposed gift, but the directors voiced the opinion that the institution might properly accept a declaration of trust from the owners of the patents to! 1 and operate the same in the interests Continued on Page 169 Cottrett Precipitation Process in Operation See ~~ 2

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 17 These 12 Meatless Menus Will Cut Meat Bills in Half —And Note How the Family Likes Them YCOR of women don’t kr that tl t of on us tried then \ t Iriet , ‘ali i i S' RES ' W As x is you's 1 them, you ; But Get Real California Limas B ¢ } y * it t r B sii e os a 7 The ‘‘Bone-and-Muscle + ” c Beat ; Wa i e ’ . > » ) i ! ! . } Dish for Children _— he ) , R prot | wr , both th i ind i bea 1) r t h ¢ \ ch ‘ i t vy ft | ( , \ W ashy ‘ be , o : wi k tl WV a va flay Tt } . ) \; 4 } i t 1 | I i i tic a th | 1 \ t ist | t how " See how tl | 4 low ! how tl , CALIFORNIA EASID LIMA BEANS LARGE LIMAS BABY LIMAS E The ‘Protein’? Beans that take the place of Meat Thin-skinned, Tender, Sweet — Nut-like in Flavor Lima Beans and Bacon Lima Bean Loaf Lima Bean Croquettes Meatless Menu No. 1 M Lima Bean Salad “atless Menu No. 7 Meatless Menu No. 10 Recipe for Lima Beans en Casserole Meatless Menu No. 4 : Recipe for Lima Bean Roast Recipe for Lima Beans and Celery in Cream | Recipe for Lima Bean Croquettes } Meatless Menu No. 8 Meatless Menu No. 2 i , ‘ ea Meatless Menu No it Recipe for Lima Bean Loaf Recipe for Lima Bean Chowder Recipe for Lima Bean Timbales w Meatless Menu No. ; Recipe for California Lima Bean Salad t t ) as r } Meatless Menu No. 12 Meatless Menu No. 3 Recipe for Lima Bean Soup Meatless Menu No. I 1 Bea th I I Meatless Menu No. 9 l I I H I - I Recipe for Lima Bean Roll with Rice Harvard I \ oO Recipe for Lima Beans with Bacon California Lima Bean Growers Association A co-operative, non-profit organization of growers Dept. F—Oxnard, California Lima Beans en Casserole Recipe for Baked Lima Beans Mail This Coupon California Lima Bean Crowers Association i ' i i ' | ' ' ' ' ! ' ' ' ‘

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 STORIES OF THE OLD WEST The Overlamd Mail—Bv Frederick R.Bechdolt WA ILLUSTRATE DO BY HARRY WicKEY ROM thetimew ‘ East in large typ Men were falling f t and earded out over the ame | tical 1 } ere their 4 ‘ f fr ed buckskin rode which embroiled mer by the Atlantic seaboard; they wer t int tive ivave West 1 ive the ume excuse for embarkir g in the same sort of business venture traveling that hard road toward the setting sun. The ear But two thousand miles of wilderness separated these pathfinders maintained there must be all manner of higl “ye two ci ions. The vast expanse of prairies as level a priced furs off there beyond the sky line. The emigrant the sea sagebrush plains, of snow-capped mountair who followed in the da f Forty-nine informed their It Took Those Six Hundred Apaches Three Days and and silent deadly deserts was made more difficult by neighbors that they were going to gather golden nuggets it Three Nights to Kill the Seven White Men ! ls of hostile Indiar ( for i The teamsat ho d e the heavy freight ly Europe such an interval would have remained fc wagons over the new t i few vears later told their rela iway, where he is overhauled and ignominiously dragged centuries, to be spanned by the slow migration of the tive and frie ls that the vere yg y West to better their back to eclvilizatior whom ill fortune and bad goverr ment had driven from the fortune And when the Concord coaches came to carry That individual —the only one of them all who did not more crowded communities on either side. During that the mail between the frontier settlements and San Frat attain the consummation of } hopes, the oniy one who — time these two « ] ions would have gone on in their the men of wealth who financed the different line had to stay at home— is the sole member of the fore; own Wa developir r own distinct customs, until ir ‘ inced there w g mone the venture. The mer list who acknowledged his true motives. For he a the end they would have become separate countries of action who operated them claimed that high wage loud and with lamentatior that the spirit of adver But the people east of the Mississippi and the people brought them into it ture was blazing within him; he wanted to go out West to west of the Sierras were Americar ind the desire for a » now you see them a pathfinder, argonaut, team fight Indians and desperadoe close union was strong within them. Their business habit ter, stage driver, Pony-Express rider and capitalist aly Resisting the temptation to indulge in dissertation r were such that the ould not carry on commercial affair g their consciences and soothing away the t lations cerning the beneficial effects of the dime nove n the without it. Their political beliefs and their social tender f their womenfolk with the good old American excuse morale of successive younger generations, we return to the cies kept them chafing for it. And furthermore, it was that they were going to make money \ i matter of men who said that they went be yor d the Missi sippl to their characterist not to ac knowledge Nature’s obstacles fact, that excuse was or in excuse and nothing more. gain money. Like the schoolboy they were hot with the as permanent. Two thousand miles of wild prairie, moun- In their inmost hearts all these men knew that they had lust for adventure. The men of action wanted to risk their tain ranges and deserts simply meant a task, the more ther motive lives and the men of wealth wanted to risk their dollar blithely to be undertaken because it was made hazardous There wa ( | | who did not try to hoodwink Which does not imply that the latter element were anxiou by the presence of hostile savages So now the Fast begat } elf or others about this Western | ‘ ind if you to lose those dollars any more than it implies that the to cry to the West and the West to the East, each voicing " but take the time t nto} ine ou will be able former expecte 1 to lose their live But both were eager a desire f rqu er communication, and to get letters from i to diagnose an itching which was troubling all the for the hazard New York to San Frat co on fast time became one of the est ther, Like the schoolt ill of them dreamed dreams and saw problems of the da That individual wa ially taken most acutely with \ ” And the dreams were realized— the visior bye rhe first step toward solution was the choice of a route, iilment « iwarm Mayr r e of those morning came actuate and while tl Wil gton the proof on which it when the lawl t f the lage decided to play Few of them justified their excuse of money-ma gy; rested was up to the men of wealth and the men of action the afternoon and test the temperature of the man ume out of the adventure poorer in this wor d Immed ely two rival groups began striving, each to . ming hole Or h a morning he was to be found goods than they went into it But every man of then prove thi ts route was the quicker. Russel, Majors and vhere near the cente of the choolroom, thi being had the time of } life and lived out | days with a wealt Waddel, who held urge freighting contracts on the r rth the 7 t most remote from the distraction of open wi of memories more precious than gold—memorie of a ernroad from Inde pene ce, M ouri, via Salt Lake City, low ind hence selects for him bv the teacher He wa man’ part in a great roug! drama to Sacramento, bent their energies to de monstrating its ‘ ut t le vhose top was deeply red by ‘he Winning of the West someone ha illed that pract! ability; the Wells-Butterfield coterie of stage-and ed tials andy wera f rude desig linked in® drama. No actin the play attained the heights which were express men undertook to show that the longer pat R them the b liye f touch nece irv when one reached by the last one before the coming of the railroad, from St. Louis by way of the southwestern territor to 4 1 have |} irt impre the beholde An open book the one with which tl tory has to deal, wherein bold San Francisco was the better. that desk top, but the eye f the individual were men allied themselves on differe es to get the contract In 1855 Senator W. M Gwin, of California, who had t f ised on its page of carrying the mails by stagecoache ym schedule time conceived the idea with F. B. Ficklin, general superintend i gazing—aslant so that the teacher would not cross the wilderne And in the tale of this great strug ent of the Russel, Majors and Waddel Company, intro te " t igh e of those remote en Wil there inother motive in addition to the love of ad duced a bill in Congress for bringing the mails by horseback \ And he wa t seeing the roofs of the ttle town venture ind like that love, unacknowledged by those on the northern route, but the measure was pigeonholed. t illuring e of low wooded bluffs across the river whom it stirred —the stror ve desire for a closer w in the mour ns was the m argument against it lle wa eeing swarn f Indians mounted bareback or union which exists among al ins Jame Birch got the contract for carrying a wift po wart 1 swart of ther tripped to In the beginning there was a frontier two hundred miles semimonthly mail from San Antonio, Texas, to San Diego ew t. be thered, .rousered in tightly fitting bucl or so west of the Mississipp: River. Behind that frontier The southern route’s champions had won the chance to hey were de gy all the laws of gravitation by the wide-stacked wood-burning locomotives were dfawing long prove their contention. Save for a few brief stretches in er in which eve ‘ ing by a gle el to his trains on tracks of steel; steamers came sighing up and lexas and Arizona, there was no wagon road. El Paso and tang, allowing } ly t op alongside in a negli down the muddy rivers; cities smeared the sky with clouds Tucson were the only towns between the terminals. A we gracef uttitude These savages were circling of | smoke; under those sooty palls men in high hats few far-flung military outposts, whose troops of dragoor {and round a stagecoac And on the top of that and women in enormous hoop skirts passed in afternoon were having a hard time of it to hold their own against the are ach, with } trusty rifle at } houlder while the promenade down the side walks; newspapers displayed the Comanches ar d Apaches, afforded the only semblance of er beside hir ed a painful deat) at the dividual day’s tidings in black headlines; the telegraph flashed protection from the Indians elf—none other And he was certainly playing havoe messages from one end of that land to the other; and Horsemen carried the first mail sacks across this wilder h those red where the sharp church steeple of the most remote village ness of dark mountains and flaming deserts. On that We need not undergo the wea deal of waiting with cut the sky the people read and thought and talked the — initial trip Silas St. John and Charles Mason rode side by while the clock’ thful hands creep round the dial ame things which were being discussed in Delmonico’ side over the stretch from Cariso Creek to Jaeger’s Ferry, We ma p the interval—as he would do ever so gladly at the same hour. where Yuma stands to-day. That ride took them straight ‘ ld —ar ee him that night as he climbs Beyond the Sierra Nevada Mountains there was at through the Imperial Valley. The waters of the Colorado, m his bedroom window rawls down the woodshed other civilization. In San Francisco hotel lobbies men and which have made the region famous for its rich crops, had ind drops from the w eaves to make his way acro women passed and repassed one another dressed in Eastern not been diverted in those days. It was the hottest desert unt lot next door and thence—out West. As far fashior some months later but Eastern fashions none the in North America —sand hills and blinding alkali flats and as the next town, which lies seven miles or so less. Newspapers proclaimed the latest tidings from the Continued on Page 51

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— THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 } — ‘ iil ‘ L/OU 7 1 A Driver ; } SAasrr ¢ i Be Fu a » 8 . « ; 7] i é Q i . : 3) ' } Tf I ‘ Hi f ) » ! - JF.IOR PA it Speed 73 ¢ 7 { — 5 a rt. Drive to Clearrer’ i a : 24—4 Vert Drive tc : all : ‘ og i Bnd pi ae Ay Ce pea, Drive cd 4 ply A wngtite ; Washer PE } 4 ply Chiide = TT | to Blanche Croc 4-4 | . MH 14 Wy Min gite | i 4 4° Shaft Centers Poo aes ih a ee dS ee ee as A a ad) ME ALLL, LLG ee i "a" Faw Fangnte. I 6 i 4 tay Fergie SKETCH SHOWING My toy Kurigtire ' M i ‘choles >) 4-7. aa -5-4 4B ARRANGEMENT OF DRIVES, *4ply Kiingtite FORT ATKINSON CANNING CO. (O10) 5... 1 Grades 2nd Moor Ctoc 3-6 | SEFFERSON,W/S. MG" Driven Pulley 16" x 4" CC Shafts 9-8" Copyrig y & Rubber Co, f h idea ur WOO ame—and the | 9 ® e ® They ne never used a Goodyear Belt. Their experience with Note the belts specified to their particular uses: for the light a the belting they had in their parent plant had been generally drives, where the conditions are small pulleys run at high speed » ! . ‘ satisha tory But the Fort Atkinson ( inning Company did and uniform load, Goodyear Glides; for general transmission and } know Good ye ir reputation for quality knew it by the willing moderately heavy duty, Goodyear Klingtite has been used. 3 testimony and the demonstrated experience of other concerns Width, plies and type are specified to the service required. The the country over who were reporting notal le successes with very natures of the Goodyear Belts employed meet the pec uliari- Goodyear Belts on every kind and condition of drive. ties of the situation. For instance, the belt on the canning And the plant analysis idea proposed by the G.T. M.—Good conveyor, due to its particular construction of cover, fabric and q year Technical Man struck them as the logical way to insure friction, insures against the action of acids encountered in the ) the right belt for every duty Chey had opportunity to test the raw material it carries. ' c of it ore 7 ] v¢ nlant ed anal oa “ " = ugh i C "I g Fifiawe « acne ee The unfailing performance of these Goodyear Belts substanti- ates the pl int analysis method of applying belts to the specific So they specified 100% Goodyear equipment— transmission service Their freedom from belt troubles—no slipping, no belts, conveyor belts, steam hose, water hose for their new can- stretching to an appreciable amount, which usually causes an nery at Jefferson, Wis., all on the basis of the G. T. M.’s plant interruption in production in order to ‘“‘cut out’’ and take up the analysis, and their confidence in Goodyear products. slack-—is their own best service assurance. The Jefferson plant is an efficient linking of different trans- missions and conveyors. No one type df belt, however well Both Goodyear analysis and Goodyear Belts dre at your adapted to one form of om could be depended on to fulfill with service. The G. T. M.'s expert study of either a single drive or a equal capacity ill these varied demands An expert analysis comp lete pl int installation is without obligation on your part. that insured the full effectiveness of every drive in relation to the For further 7 formation about the Goodyear plan of p lant ans ilysis entire unit appe iled to the superinte ndent as the only right solu and the G. T. M., write to the Mechanical Goods Dept. of The tion ol the power prol ke m Goodyear A & Rubber Cai Akron, Ohio. BELTING PACKING HOSE-VALVES

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST casene ren gw, It Was the Hottest Desert in North America -~Sand Hiils and Blinding Aikali Flats and Only One Tepid Spring in the Whole te » One 4 i ? Hundred and Ten Miles (Continued from Page 48 six-year contract for ca ng letters twice a week betwee re a storehouse and stage stat were Da one tepid spring in the whole distance—one hundred St. Louis and San Francisco to John Butterfield of Utica off. The roofing of these two rooms and some iror ind ten miles, and the two horsemen made it in thirty-two New York. Thus the Wells-Butterfield interests scored the gate remained to be mpleted. The main urs without remounts. the first decisive victory the party moved on to the San Pedro River, lea rhe company now began to prepare the way for stage- Butterfield’s compensation was fixed at $600,000 a year St. John in charge of six men to attend to thes coaches. During the latter part of November St. John and the schedule at twenty-five days. The route went by The three Mexican bandits were membe of ti and two companions drove a herd of stock from Jaeger’s way of Fort Smith, Arkansa El Paso, Tucson and detachment. The other three were America I} Ferry to Maric ipa Wells. The latter point had been se- Jaeger’s Ferry. Tie one end of a loose string to Sar ! was right « the road wl Apache war partie lected for a relay station because of water and the presence cisco and the other to St. Louis on your wall map; Sonor For t reason a guard maintair f the friendly Pima and Maricopa Indians, who kept the the cord to droop in a semicircle to the Mexican boundary inset to sunrise St. John alw woke at mid Apaches at a distance During that drive of somethir y and you will see the general directior of that road, whose change the sentrie ike two hundred miles the pack mule lost his load one le th was two thousand seven hundred and sixty n iles. One right ght, when he had ] ted the pi night in the desert. The men went without food for three Of this nearly two thousand miles was in a hostile Indian was to wate! daw t. John went back to } days and for tl irty 1X hours traveled without a drop of country the unroofed 1 m t t wi ny orwe . tati water in their canteer Twenty-seven hundred and sixty miles in twenty-five dropped off to sleep for an |} ) 1 was r The first stage left San Diego for the East in December days meant a fast clip for horses and a lumbering Concord noise among the sto« the rral. The so i with six passengers. Throughout the trip a hostler rode coach over ungraded road And such a clip necessitated and groans followed t. Jol eaped from hi behind, herding a relay tean The driver kept his six frequent relays, which in their turn demanded stations at just as the three Mex rushed to the roon horses to their utmost for two hours; then stock and short intervals. While a road gang was removing the them were armed with axe i the third wit! wearied passengers were given a two-hour rest, after which ugliest barriers in the different mountain passe which The fight that f ved ted t} 1 minute the fresh team was hooked up and the journey resumed. was all the smoothing away that highway ever got during t. John kicked the fore t murderer the In this mar ner they made about f fty miles a day Luc the stagecoach era—a party went along the line erecting ind as the man fe he any for a rifle wl nh ne was with them. There were several runaways along tl adobe house These houses were little forts, well suited the room. The other two at ed him with tl route. At Fort Davis, Texas, they found the garrison, for withstanding the attacks of hostile Indiat The cor- He parried one blow aimed at | head and t which they had expected to upply them with prov . rals beside them were walled like ancient castle yard buried itself } hip. While the man was tuggir according to orders from Washington, short of food, and William Buckley, of Watertown, New York, headed thi the weapon St. John felled him with a blow they subsisted for the next five days on what barley they party. Bands of mounted Comanches attacked them or The third Mex n st down at most the felt justified in taking away from the horses. They arrived the lonely Staked Plain of Western Texas. Apaches crept tant, almost seve g St. John’s left arm near th at Camp Lancaster just after the departure of aComanche upon them in the mountains of Southwestern New Mexico. der. Then the white man got his one good ha Nal party, who had stole: all the stock, and were obliged Of the battles whicl they fought history contair no rifle and the three r rderers tled Ihe had } ¢ » go two hundred miles farther before they could get a record, but they went on driving the Mexican labore to the Americar who i leeping in the inck relay But tl » incidents and « de lay or two because of their toil under the hot sun, and the chain of low adobe another dying near ! nd a third gasping \ wollen rivers were accounted only small mishaps. They buildings crept slowly westward le the pate came through with tl ; and the mail sa: or In those days Mexican outlaws were drifting into Ari 2 inched the blood from |} vou ter days behind the ona and New Mexico from Chihuahua and S« i crawied he toy of b pi of grair I whence Thereafter the Birch line continued it service ind these cutthroats, to whom murder wa ee over the ul oled Wall Here he st edi ul letters came from San Francisco to St. Louis in about six hood, were almost as great a menace ast ree ind three night With « er} nrise the mag weeks. Occasionally Indians massacred a party of travel- of them got jobs on the station building gang and waited — buzzard ne in great flocl » sit up the w ers; now and then renegade whites or Mexicans robbed their opportunity to make money after their bloody fas! the 1 sated themselve the corral, and wat e passengers of their belongings and looted the mail ion. At Dragoon Springs they found their opportunity With eve nightfall the wolve ink down f{ But such things were no more than anyone ex Here where the Dragoon Mountains come out into the plain iins and fought over the body outside t ected. James Birch had proved his point —the southert ke a lofty granite prom« that faces the sea the part Night and day the thirst-tortured mule e} te w prac nd in 1858 the G ‘ ment let a nad completed the w of a stone corral, within wl} ! I ier l Continued on Page 53 —— eletincentiiiiaiati — — aniiasnieinaiganeecipainaiiiiaiciiti

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 “FE [ . IR x VEI-ReCacy COPYRIGHT. F919 iit: ; ‘Thal +, 1s ; AMERICAN SAFETY RAZOR CORP. Every bristl: vulcanized a = ee. See Ss x - > é be A: 4 GE y Cross section of Evea-Reads Brush. Note that ferrule is acked with quality bristles focked in hard rubber érip . TRACE MARK FACE cm A I piye & ie at +g Pe AN ot Prt iS Saas ergs nag p SS ae Fe es why ie Ren r ‘ Ph on P 4 ¥ = aN oO ©.“ Peat se & Sg * F cx,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 53 Continued from Page 51 They eal i the route a road As a matter of fact that fron outh of the boundar The road agents went t \ road-grading party came along on Sur day morning. term was a far-fetched euphemism. In some places ap- work along the route and near Tucson they did a thri They gave him such first aid as the y could and sent arider proaches had been dug away to the beds of streams and _ busine Yet with all these enemies and obstacles it is a t I t Bu t I The doctor amputated the absolutely Impassa barriers of the liv ng rock - ad matter of re rd that the Butterfield ( ind yr wa the left ¢ A} uund had been inflicted. been removed from the mountain passes, but that was all late only three time I pite of runawa bad r i hree ¢ ter St able to ride a horse to What with the long climbs upgrade and the bad going _ flood ind storms, battles and holdups, the t i A UCSE throug loose sand or mud it was always nece iry for the west! ind stage isually made the t f tw t re Silas St. Johr ffered as a sample of the men who driver to keep his six animals at a swinging trot when they day And there was a y terval during 1859 wl built and operated the overland-mail lin Among the came to a level or a downhill pull. Often he had to whip the two ma which had started on the same day f ( te i messenge there were mar dead run for miles where most men would the two te met each other at exact the halfw other f nm me It wa t ea to | them ve a buckboard at a to-da ! and ere Wa ith in their bodies the Kept ralr ea the river { that muthweste Ap] rent e We B erests had won the or ‘ if rutte eld and his ass ates were made d to demonstrate that the had irighnt to the rugygie ‘ e wa t ‘ i i the ripe of the t these employee h the ever pretended to live up at other sation was doubled. The ad ‘ i was handled many hundred thousand dollars these pi yneer in- time by funning Dar i These the ir thie that id bee how ( ve $ put into their line before the turning of a single coffee-colored tloods were underlaid }| be, y. | I { these f steam and Whee Is not } NI It must have beer on t ne and elect it ( nae tal ¥ mer near a n yn, and this was in a day “ner did such t ys with | efles} The qua f were not i n as they are now: a civ, m the ‘ ‘ ‘ eS eX that. One " Lyre when nothing ul pusine was certa al t t quality t i i which t we g ret f e | ed tk 4 rhe ‘ i ne et! one hundred st et Pa is the old-t ( elled it tions along that semicircie through the savage is the irre pro t i gap west. They bought some fifteen hundred n the mounta vi f Lor irg, New horses wi vere sent out along the r ‘ Mex he ithe Pa es t if these na i grain were fre gnted | cases | tw indred miles and the 1dS arrive One afternoon Mangus ( 1 ¢ nise ut the worth a goodly f we the neighborhood with six hundred \} e wart whe i smoke signal from d unt its t them that the r 1 stage ‘ ippro ! v vit il mea f wt | tw hief | ed their naked f wer ‘ ithe ro i waited the arriv { their Wher e remembers that ich ge ils a ( k have expressed their adr it { the trategy of Cochise and that Mangus ¢ rado vas the man who taught him one w ea that Stel Pa whict iin il jited Tor purposes of ambush, must have ‘ 1 efficient death trap when the ¢ ge came rumbling and ratt g westward { that } yg afternoor Chere were K passenyge the ich, a I t i-t er n the West. and the are Nearly all t itlay was made before the b known as the Free Thomp party, f the the first triy It was the greate t expenditure LITi¢ f the eader Ever yrie I these me gle transportatior project of ts kind up to th \\ i ed wit i late iodel rifie and w t Ame \ ere were a thousand ha g i 1idvantlage I the compar le W ! wilderne to be irred, a thousand obstacle i ved the car ng of as much ammunit i ‘ to he ( neé efore the venture could be pr pleased They had several thousand r is of ‘ t The é f ye had done their part tridge Su i seasoned compa i ! was notal ‘ is rea for the opening of traffic. Or to g to ay f e Ste ¥ without taking f Septembs 858. the mail sac tarted { i k or two ahead, and six hundred Apaches wer ind S Fr It is up to the mer fa } i to offer me « lence of their prese e t them thr ig A the schedule went Ket eye NI } bab expla tu? ‘ the i “W e tor t twenty-seven hunare vere 1 } ed at once for the VeTe The mile , drive Va ble to get the coa to the j t of lhe west-bound low bare knoll a little wa ff the road The Free twer four hour } | part le ‘ t jon that } { ' evening wds | rhe vere vol men, u ed |} e fe f deat! } Ww cle the { { f i plug f eu gt " bye ‘ } po mepmnt Dhy tg gin we = “.. , . { eos ' marl ' ’ the people by the Golden Gate appreciated the occasio! ip e adva t tf overwhe rf In St. Lou the east-bound mall Was an hour earier. { estimate the 1 her f vards wh } . ‘ os John Butterfield stepped from the Missouri Pacifie trair ne these things are Known of them and it “ with the sacks and a great proce on Was On hand to escort He Brought the Prisoner Back to Julesburg and Bound Him to that the } f ere they made the I him to the | t ofthe Bands and carriage and a tre the Snubbing Post in the Middle of the Stage Company's Corrat I t it bare | unde il k me j spla f red-white-and-blue bunting « ened rou t ta k of ve y Ay ne e whol t President Buchanan sent Butterfield a thie trata of qi ind. Oceca one of the mpl he Né lew TI ff x ‘ f tele i f grat atlor absorbed a mac! ind le the I er Was prett I I Y } e { se ( ( the . It looked as if the northern route was out of it for good took unto itself two three estor beaten laces, their ila mit ‘ ‘ now, but it remained for the men to keep the victoriou the eeches t ed the ’ el peratiol What had been done wa only i begir i! were on the ir] ! 4 et KE ber t t ! ¢ y he ng grind of real accomplishment still lay ex On the gre taked | ‘ f ( presse eto head t ind vod and Indian ma cre were ma i Stage 1 driver ad pa eye peering M4 ¢ dent } jury lr wa were n ‘ f routine i e a running fight of q e the t e went g bey t t I ; g on the ta rhe stoek was for the most part ed the stations, tw hre ire horse \ ture es ¥ ‘ he agent ende who f the ear \ ¢ ever ge the fresh tean tarted off or woKOUt, UsUa i el e to t g lace You ot ot ‘ al y I the driver had a wide pla where retreat le the thi 1dobe f the g, 1 t ¥ ¢ } rset b b k he ) et ‘ mesquite or which shelter the ye ‘ vere able to d e the ‘ ‘ r ‘ t \ ‘ greasew 1, while the times on two” without any particular damage. But sometimes they were ed the f Wher metime ” mself lucky. forced to watch the enemy go wi ping away with the hou Ever | ! I ev mal at road led over stampeded stock from the corral, and now and again there f f I ri nt ong nigt banked Was a massacre, ol A ‘ ting the sur pices, and on Under Mangus Colorado, whom historians account their Night f ed d hot ng ‘ | tretches it was the exception for greatest war chief, the Apa es were bu n New Mexico l ntide the full g re of the Ar na alternoor ( the coach to overturn. and Arizona. They worked more ef than the and night agal The rifles « € f iT 4 The bronco stock was bad enough, but the green m Texan cousins and went to ambush er the yuld Phin jet fp 1 flame irted fr ‘ tne were the worst. It was often found necessary to lash the There is a gorge along the line in tl which got the Phe bullet ed up little dust ¢ t stage to a tree—if one could be found near the station, and name of Doubtful Cafion in those suse the or and three nig for it t those ! ed A é if not to the corral fence—while the long-eared brutes were thing a driver could count on there with any certainty wa that lengt f time I the seve e meé being hooked up. When the last trace had been s1 apped a fight before he got through to the other side But before the ist of them died the Free 7 into place the hostlers would—very gingerly—free the Nor were the Indians the only savage men in that wilder- party slew betweer one hut area and t é vehicle from its moorings and as the ropes came slack leap ness. Arizona was becoming a haven for fugitives from hundred and fifty Indians. In after years Cochise told of for their lives. California vigilance mmittee nd renegade Mexicans the battle.

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f ii uf \ \ ‘ e Cit ‘ ly ‘ } hx ‘ ve ter ed i ty era rer ‘ ett n ‘ ‘ ‘ n } | kk the t t e } } ‘ ‘ i \ ea © ¢ vas W ‘ te ve road iwi ‘ 1 THE SATURDAY

! ] ( ‘ ‘ ‘ ] re and twe ‘ et é e! ( ‘ rider dismounted I the | e hu et last time i turned the pouches ¢ rtoa 1Cce Vf \ In tl r ‘ the ft went acrTo praine and ( ish pla thr rmomou é the i passes where the Ww deep beside ea the beaten tra 1 across the wide silent 4 y reache of the Great American Desert t ' ‘ And the time on that first trip wa ten days for east and west bound pouches. M The ride vere ght of weight; the ‘ ere ved ft ( no weapor ive a the I ‘ fe and re er; the lett were 1 wh tte on t eT rto ive weignt the ( t the 1 ( vere istened to a leathe | f ‘ r fitted over the Idle and the Nid ted wit one movement from \ | | ist | eto the! i W | ( ‘ ft ‘ é ene! came W ( t of a stat he alw raised hi ‘ he ’ nr ‘ té ‘ | i ‘ ‘ t hat Trial « ed the w ito r ble ‘ the i vho were dut imbied Pans et the waiting ho to its place ) the : M f these half-breed 1 tangs were I t I ‘ we t lal t ‘ r é t tb g. There ! ‘ the ‘ eH i ind he w 1 te t M and ' dve that he getting , ear { eve ' " vyho used to de the vester! b pane ‘ i, a ne i ‘ e to De They'd hold a bad } ef a fe W { e big Me nurs fasten in the hair 1860 I'he Via ( i that he e for ( f i had he w t of it was that the pony would tner, V tire |} elf out with | pitching ‘ New Ye id e time I remember one that ‘ r (s eft me prett | tove up lor a while ey i that the ! 1} 1 the itisfact of kno & he'd ‘ } I ‘ i? r’ ‘ rt ny t | ‘ rie heme w But bad horses were a part of the gan ‘ \ el i mer evel el the | ne ex twelve miles t pected ther i t them as a matter of the wild lhe riders of the Pony Expre } ed } } to } re el lent because of the ble irved t | ‘ iventure with wl h their hi ‘ = ¢ ed ere filled ed} here was the ride of Jim Moore, for a the ente y time tar i mo g the exploit on the ‘ t kK ! er H te went from Midv ‘ ! tut to old Julesburg, one hundred and t 1 Wa el fort mile acro the great pla of West ‘ lew I er Nebraska he station were fr te t ew to fourteen mile ipart Art yr at the } | end of that grueling journée he we 1 e had rest for two days before making the retur tu Phe tr , 1 stand One day Moore started westward from Midwa tation, | wing that his partner, every te who carried the mail one way while he was ilt Lake he taking it the other, wa ek at Julesburg. ‘ not a ‘ It was a question whether the man would { I he be able to take the east-bound pouche tt with Sena d if he were not there was no substitute pleted the chair on hand. Realizing what might lie ahead vento, pu of him, Moore pressed each fresh horse to eed mu { utmost peed dur ng | rd ed ny the ride, A man can endure a i wi term of punishment he i} le feed and himself what minutes he could right in the e intermount beginning. He made that one hundred and es beating forty miles in eleven hour eep drifts of the he partner w bed—no hope I g for a day or two. The we if April 60 ‘ er started toward one of the e saddle at get a bit of rest, but before he | e leaped o 1 himself on the blankets the co M i W the east-bound rider sounded up vad heered It was up to Moore to take the tne |} t ( ( place now While the hostlers the ¢ is ot that a i} and ke ding it outl 1 dead the tation he itched some col r so a re from the table, gulped down a cup of luke r As he warm coffee and hurried outside. He wa in let ta just in time to swing to the saddk He ed | " il clapped 1 the pony and kept him or ‘ ‘ ‘ charged aru Oo wilh eac! ieceeding mount; pra to the d when he arrived at Midway he had put ed the pouche the two hundred and eighty miles of the rt he is quik round trip behind him in twenty-two hours, ‘ y the} lr Western Nevada, where the Piute f } fresh horse Indians were on the warpath, several of the a | ect tatior were little fort and rider fre- i iried from quent raced for their lives to these adobe

EVENING POST Bob Ha am maae ind-eighty mili rae gy desert He while the

one day

wort to t war parties whose azing at the time or ndred 1 t W he he sor Liver, sixty mule the ttlers had seized tation for use in the campaign against the avages. He went on without a relay down the Carson to Fort Churchill, fifteen miles farther Hers the man who was to relieve him refused to take the pouche Haslam wa the the Carso got a fresh horse and made the next thirty mile vithout a drop

of wat changed at Sand spring ind aga it Cold ind after one hu

Smith's Cree Pe Bob got nine rest. Then he began t retur t Cold Springs he found the statior ng hamble The ee De 1 stoc had been killed, the hor driver

It was grow r dar He rode |} led anima the thirty-seven-mile t to d rings, got a re W d p! to the nk of the Carsor Af it was found that du r the nignt he had ridden straight through a ring of Indians who were headed in the ime¢ direction he was going From the I he completed his round trip of three hundred } mishap, ar ur nou the

ifter the opening of the

a

Eexpre earried the ws of the attack on Fort Sumter from St. Joseph to San Frat ( o in eight da ind fourtes hours Newspap ind busine mie had wak ened to the tit orta e ol tt quick com mur t ind bonuses were offered fo the de of important news ahead of he Pre lent Buchanan's last me ive | eretofore held the record for peed passage, going ove! the route In even da ind et time was beaten Dy t rying of I co ‘ eT da ut } t ent record transmitt ind |} es! rhe firr Russel a spent $700,000 on the Por expr | in something I ‘ e hundred do lar but the l hed what the id t out to do | 1860 the Buttertield r \ noti 1 to transier it il t { { the west end of the northern route 1 I ils got the maul e ract lor the easter! port lhe Wells-Butterfield ests were 0 the underside now

ured 1 connection W moter Holliday, who mall torekeeper in had made one canny ul at the time when t northern route he owned several steamship lines, large freighting interests and was h« ginning to embark in the stage busine firm of Ru sel, Majors and \ del g money, due in part to bad finar cial management and in part to the « - ageous venture of the Pony Expre

January 17,1920 yperty early | transportatio ime, the first American to One of

merger in that industry. his initial steps was to improve the opera tion of the stage line. Some of the effi ciency methods of his subordinates were picturesque, to s the least. burg, which was In J ile

of Lodge Pole Creek in Nor was an rado, the agent

after whom the place ha This Jules had been feathering his own nest at the expense of the company and the nev inagement supplanted him with one Slade, whose record up wa either 1

ineteen or y K Julesburg wit!

Slade was put in charge at instructions to clean up his division. While the new super! tendent was exterminati ich highway rob! i horse thie i little settlement, watching lor a chance t

ade came into the genera t alr tation and the Frenchman, vho had seen a good opportunity for am bush here. fired both barrels of a double barreled ityu into his body at a range of s« ty feet “i took to } but he was made of the stuff which $s mu id witl out al great amount I permanent Narr He was up again in a few wee} He hunted down Jule Ww » had taken refuge the Indian ce y to the north on hearing of recover! He brought the pri er ba to Julesburg and bound hir » the nubbing post in the middle of tl age compar ‘ orral. Accounts of what followed differ. Some authorities maintain that Slade 1 Jule Others, who base their assertio ym the

tatement of men who said tl} y were ey

witnesses, tell how Slade enjoyed himself for some time, filling the prisoner's clothing th bullet holes, then exclaimed Hell! lead to kill you,” and ] loose, . You ain’t worth the t But rrat igree on thi Sefore Slade unl i the living Jul r the dead or ever it mav have bee é eut off the prisoner’s ear ind put them i

It may be noted in passing that thi trucu ethic expert i aft vea wound up his days at the end of a rope i \ ’ a Cit Montana. Be H lay car? i the mail ‘ ind throughout the ea tie Bu luring the mmer ¢ 1864 e Indiar f the plair fc the rst time their } t made a ) They united in or ¥v l war par p nst the outpo L101 the lir d for a dista f four hund é tne dest ed itlor murder my et 1 made off wit! ‘ l} to the mpatr was ! ilf il l a i It crippled He a ind thneG ‘ nt delayed « deration of claims for reimbursement that he was glad to sell the p t

‘ < I JU, the « e of the (¢ War, took the ove It wa tne 1 We Butterfield Comp The first winners in th ‘ e were e lant Che railroad « Men said that day of nture W over But tl id venture has not ended yet. While this sto was being written ar otner pioneer aied or that overiar i-mal route. And when his aéroplane flut r down out of Ir ne sno zg Ww! it ol a driving ow crash In a mass ¢ tangled wre« tne de of Elk Mountain, Wyoming Wales went to his death withi: rile shot of the road f } Came torm t

f

where pr dece rs gave up tl r even as he was then striving communication between the the Pacific

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Kneeling there with her baby tucked up under her chin, Leslie laughed and sobbed. All the years of her repressed girlhood, so recent and yet so far away, pressed in upon her. The evening when she had told them she wanted to be an actress, her bewilder- ment at their horror, the attic, the lace- curtain veil, the yellowed book of plays, twilights when she sat alone on the steps of the porch and ached with forbidden longings, Eddie Lawrence, the rapture and wonder of that first rehearsal in the Green- fields Opera House, the curtain rolling up and the row of lights in her eyes! Somehow she had fought her way to these sensations and emotions, but being a Stebbins as well as an artist she had suffered all the whiplashes of conscience it was possible to suffer. The tears she had shed over her own ingratitude, her treach- ery, her perversity! And now she was asked to bind over her daughter to those repressions, those tears. Also, she saw many other things—the various rooms she and Eddie Lawrence had lived in—the dirty, sordid, cheap rooms. And she saw the exquisite cleanness, the order and spaciousness of Cousin Mattie’s house. She saw the patient, hopeless lines in the waiting rooms of managers and the green elms of Uncle Eleazor’s lawn. She recalled tales of suffering and of glory. She saw in that hour both sides of the two lives that were offered to her daughter. But from the moment she had finished reading her uncle’s letter there was small question in her mind as to her course. In that hour she chose her star and set her course by it. It was allin the broken prayer she uttered as she buried her face in the baby’s dress: ‘* Dear God, help me to give her a chance. If I'm wrong forgive me, but don’t punish her for it. If I’m right, dear God, help me to let her grow up free and strong in her own way—in her own way.” Just off Broadway, south of Times Square, is a tea house beloved of young actresses, architects and newspaper men. The ac- tresses are not from the girl shows. Mostly they are quite earnest young souls—some of them from Washington Square, some from Iowa, now and then an old-time pro- fessional who comes here for the waffles, now and then the modest young star of the serious drama. During the winter they eat rowded together in a dark, dingy little room whose walls are papered with old playbills and whose mantelpiece is horribly littered with dusty jugs, vases and dried grasses quite touchingly like the mantel of a country parlor. But with the first warm noons of spring green-striped umbrellas are hoisted over tables in the sooty garden at the rear, fresh gravel is spread underfoot, a few shrubs are placed against the wall at the back, the high fence between the garden and the back yard of the antique collector next door is painted green and everyone fights to lunch amid these vernal surroundings. It was in this place at luncheon on a late spring day that I first saw Leslie Lawrence. And it was here that my Cousin THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE SHINING MOMENT Continued from Page 36) weeks with a Number Two Company on the road and she had jumped into Number Two straight from ten weeks in stock in an up-state city. She probably felt as old and battered as a sailing vessel beating its way into harbor after a long cruise in dirty weather, but all her lines were as gallant as the sweep of that vessel's sails. | have never seen a woman who so looked the captain of her soul. So many women look as if they have either starved their souls or lost them. But Leslie Law- rence looked as if she steered the gallant craft of her spirit by the light of her own unequivocal star. The little upward gay quirk to the corner of her lips seemed to be saying: “Rummy old world! It’s beaten me lots of ways, but I’ve got something it can never touch, no matter what it does to me!” And her lovely eyes, serene and gay and kind, were infinitely more youthful than the eyes of the eighteen-year-old actress who sat at the next table. There was some- thing fearless even about her gown. It had probably cost less than the hat and gloves of the young actress, but in six months of hard wear it had achieved what the younger woman would never have—a distinguished air. Indeed I saw as I studied her ensemble that a thoughtful cleverness had gone into it. The bronze brown of her straw turban, the paler brown of cloth, the inspired touch of creamy lace brought out the bright tones in her tawny hair and the golden-brown flecks in her eyes. It was a costume that could be—and probably had been—worn week after week on the road, sent to the cleaners as soon as it got back to New York and then presented serenely before the most sartorial-minded of managers. She had, I could see, a quick, warm ex- pression of curiosity, of interest that noth- ing had ever staled, in human beings and in what was going to happen round the corner of to-morrow. But to-day it struck me there was something or somebody she was especially waiting for. She kept glancing toward the door that led from the restaurant into the garden, and finally I saw her face light up quickly. A girl was coming down the gravel path—a girl who looked so much like Leslie that I thought at once, ‘“‘Her younger sister!” It was plain that Leslie Lawrence adored her. Her face became softly radiant, her eyes brooded tenderly, happily over the girl; her lips curved in a proud, welcoming smile. It came to me suddenly that this was Leslie’s reason why the rummy old world could not touch her. This was the star by which she steered the craft of her soul. The girl was tall and slenderly graceful, as Leslie must have been at her age. In her simple, beautifully cut cloth gown and wide straw hat she looked as finished, as polished, as perfectly groomed as any young aristocrat. Curiously enough Leslie Law- rence appeared no older beside the girl and I figured it out that this was partly because of the brightening of her face and partly because the girl herself had reached the serious and dignified age. Her face, which so startlingly resembled Leslie’s in features and coloring, was not nearly so carefree and merry in expression as her companion’s at this moment. A sense of humor is the compensation of years. But she certainly was a beauty. As she took a chair under Leslie’s green- triped umbrella she turned so that she faced me and looked back at the door. To my surprise I heard her mention my Cousin Channing's name: ‘I met him on Broadway and he said he was lunching here— oh, there he is now!” I looked up to see Channing coming through the door. I waved a hand at him, but I might have saved myself the gesture, for I was quite invisible to him. His eyes passed quickly round the garden, crowded by now, and then as if they saw what they were hungrily looking for they sudder became guarded agair But that only made the happiness in his face more notice- able Never having seen anything approaching this light in my cousin's face before, I followed his gaze with the liveliest interest. He was looking straight at Leslie Law rence. He hastened past me, his guest, and with an inarticulate word put out his hand to Leslie. He is a man of self- possession, but I’d have sworn that the hand he extended was shaking. And Leslie—I saw that there had crept up to the feathery fringe of hair on her forehead the faintest blush. Her lips—up to this instant so warm had grown thinner, as if they defended them- selves. From Channing? No, most like from herself, from something she did not want to show. But she, nevertheless, wel- comed him charmingly. Channing, stooping under their striped umbrella, his distinguished head with the touch of iron-gray above the ears, was about to accept the chair they offered him when my stare must have got to him. With a word to Leslie he then came over to me, explained that he wanted me to know the most charming woman on the American stage and carried me off to join them As our chairs were scraping into place, Channing must have dropped the word “playwright,” for Leslie turned smilingly to me: “Oh, won't you write a play for my daughter?”’ I did not try to conceal my astonishment as I looked from her to the girl opposite. “Your daughter!”’ They both laughed delightedly The girl cried: “Isn’t it lovely, mummy, how they never believe it?” And I saw in the glance they exchanged that they were the most understanding of friends. Love and pride and comradeship were in that glance. “T want you to know,” Mrs. Lawrence laughed, “that my daughter played with me all last winter and not a soul outside the company suspected I was a parent.” She turned to Channing: “She has it, Channing, the real thing. I wish you could have seen her in Waifs. The house loved her. That play made me realize I am going to have a very serious rival.” iunchneon “Oh, mummy, what nonsense!” the girl flashed quickly “Mr. Channing, you know I'll never have the lovely voice sh: has. And the way she speaks! There isn't anyone who has the feeling that she has for the beautiful sound of words, is there, Mr Channing?” “There's no one on the tage to-day who speaks so well,”’ affirmed Channing gravely Then he looked at Le ilmost as if he pleaded, and I knew he had asked her the ame question betfore “When are you going to give ip th deadly road business, Lesli« Don't think it’s time now, with Eileen ready 1 launch out on her own, for you to try for Broadway season? I hear that Ebert | a new play and he’s hunting for just you type. Won't sut she stopped him with a raised finger and a smiling shake of her head ‘Too much risk. Ebert's play may fa tranded. But a good saf Number Two Company seldom falls dow on one and after all, sixteen years on the road have left me with unlimited power it endurance you go over to see him and leave me wslie, yo i've said the same t} ing to me every year for six years!"’ cried Cha ning “You've let more than one £ j chance slip away sa “Don't, please, Channing! You kr why I've always played safe Their eyes met, hers concealir wistfulness under a defiant smil sad with an old protest And I saw Eileen Lawrence’s hand creep across the tablecloth and cover her mother Her head drooped a little and a shadow wa over her face She, at least, understood perfectly why her mother had let those good chances slip past. Leslie saw this shadow instantly and she rallied gayly: “But we haven't told you our wonderful secret. Shall we impart it, Eileen? Only, of course, it mustn't be whispered until the whole thing's settled. You both saw Breakfast at Nine last winter, of course?” We nodded. Huge audiences had seen the sparkling comedy, which was still going strong and showing signs of continuing through the summer and _ into winter. It had introduced and made the fortune of its producer, Jeffries, and its star, Marguerite Waring. Now, it appeared from what Mrs. Lawrence went on to tell us, Jeffries had found a new and equally promising play for Marguerite Waring and he was looking for someone to take her place in Breakfast at Nine. Channing gave an exclamation of delight “And you ——” “T got a copy of the part. For three days and nights I put Eileen through it and this morning’’ — Leslie paused dramatically to give the next words due emphasis “this morning Eileen read the part to Jeffries! And she’s going to get it!” “Mother! You're not sure. Mr. Jef- fries didn’t say ” the girl protested, “That's just why I'm sure.” Leslie looked from one of us to the other, her face sparkling and triumphant. ‘‘When Jeffries is polite and bows you out, abandon hope. Butwhen hestands at the window with anothe: Channing told me her story. As sat there waiting for Channing I watched Leslie Lawrence sitting alone under one of the green-striped umbrellas, eating cheerfully a rather frugal luncheon. Even in that place I knew she was the most attractive woman I had ever seen. She was not young, accordingto Broadway stand- ards. There is a good old word whose dictionary meaning is“ Home- like beauty—sweet and fair.” Bonny she was exactly that. I learned afterward that she had just come in from twenty-six his back to you and waggles a hand toward the door in absolute then you ve got him thinking He'll telephone ' nence us this afternoon that Eileen’s to have the part you'll see! She stood up, drawing on her gloves. I made my congratulations, but Channing tood silently beside his chair, his face « ifl- ously dark. When Leslie and her daughter had gone Channing till stood as if he had forgotter where he was and when hea last dropped be into his seat it was to sit In silence Staring into his coffees if

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usto -fite FARBERWARE PRODUCT etme ete EVENING POST Then suddenly he looked up at me. I | was astonished to see how gray his face had gone, as if all light and warmth had ebbed away from it. “T suppose you know,” he said unevenly, as if the words were jerked from him, “I suppose you know I’m in love with Leslie Lawrence?” From Channing I knew how much this meant, and I merely nodded gravely. He leaned his head on a hand and stared past me at the trellis behind By now the garden was nearly empty. The roar of Broadway and the Elevated was cut off by the monstrous buildings on two sides of us. It was a moment of incredible, golden quiet. “It happened six years ago when I saw her in a summer stock company in Detroit. Every year since then I have asked her to marry me. But there was always Eileen. You know my books never have gone very well until this year, my income was small and Leslie refused to burden me, as she called it. Eileen must have the best schools, she must have every opportunity to make a success when the time came for her to go on the stage, for she is talented. I .n0w Leslie isn’t fooling herself there, and she is certainly beautiful. And she has the same love of the stage that her mother has always had. So even as long ago as that Leslie was making all her plans with a view to Eileen’s future. For her Leslie kept on all those years with those damnable road companies. For her she let slip more than one opportunity to try her luck on Broad- | way. My Lord, think of it!” Channing gripped his hands on the table is, and sat staring down at them, as if he saw to the last detail those years of unremitting hard work, poor living in the grime of rail- way trains and second-rate hotels and no compensating glory. | “As far as money goes,”’ Channing went | on with a gesture of exasperation, “she has veen all right for the past few years, I | fancy. The managers know her value as an artist. And that is the ironic part of it. Leslie Lawrence is known and has her big following all over the country, but never having had that one big moment, an ap- pearance on Broadway, she is for all prac- tical purposes unknown. I have known her to go out on the road with a Number Two Company playing a Broadway success and do the leading part better than the original | star. But who knows her name? When I introduced you, for instance, you had never | heard of Leslie Lawrence, had you?” I admitted I had not. ‘There was a good deal she would never tell me,’’ Channing said, “‘ but I know that the year after Eileen was born must have been horrible. We were passing through the hall of an office building once when she stopped and looked down a side corridor with a curious smile on her face. When I asked her what she was looking at she said, ‘Myself, scrubbing that floor.’ Then she laughed and said quickly, when she saw my expression: ‘It wasn't so bad. And when- ever I look at Eileen I know it was all worth while.’” Channing paused and looked at me wistfully. ‘You think Eileen is beautiful, don’t you?” I assured him that I thought she exquisite. ‘That is the word Leslie used. She said that out of the ugliness of those days she has brought a human soul and given it a chance to grow beautifully, to express itself in freedom and peace. “T think she is right,” I interposed. “There wouldn’t have been any freedom ; and precious little beauty if for the sake of living in safety she had gone back to Uncle Eleazor that time.’ | Channing stooc up in silence as I pushed back my chair. Just as we were leaving the ga: ‘den he sighed: “TI know that is so, but—I wish—it gets unbearable sometimes when I think of the sacrifice of herself she has had to make.” I was thinking of Leslie’s face when she saw Channing coming into the garden. “Perh: ips now that success t come to ’ | suggested, ‘‘she won't think herself Or if Eileen gets something good | for next season: if Jeffries | “He won't,” said Channing gloomily. | “ And Leslie will have a summer in stock in some benighted hole, and in the fall she'll go | out on the road once more—well, let’s talk about something else.” was you, a burden.

We walked up Fifth Avenue, circled through the park and came back down Broadway. There were several things I | should have been doing, but I hadn't the | heart to desert Channing. The gray look January 17,1920 was still in his face and he fell into long silences during which his feet dragged. At Forty-second Street we turned east toward the Elevated. I was taking a list- less Channing down to tea in Washington Square. In silence we climbed the long flight to the platform. As we passed the ticket-chopper’s box I was ahead of Channing and so I saw before he did that at the extreme south end of the platform a woman stood. Except for this figure the platform was empty. She stood rigidly quiet, her hands clasped to her breast, looking off over Bryant Park to the back of the Public Library. But I knew that what she saw was nothing outside herself. At this instant Channing uttered an ex- clamation. She could not have heard him at that distance, but she turned quickly and faced us. I saw then that it was Leslie Lawrence. She gave an incredulous stare and then started walking down the platform toward us. I use the word walking, but flying would more nearly express the sort of movement she made toward us. High on that narrow platform, against the background of sky and towering buildings with the sun outlining her in gold, she darted toward us with something ecstatically alive in every line of her. She did not appear to see me, but both her hands were stretched out to Channing. And after my first glance at her face I fell behind my cousin. Something had hap- pened that had stirred her to the depths. She wanted only Channing. “Oh, I’m so glad it’s you!” she cried. “T came up here to be alone for a minute, but I wanted you, Channing, more than any one.” Channing took her hands and stared into her face. She was white to the lips, but her eyes were amazing, flaming and very dark. Channing's lips moved as if he asked what had happened, but he did not make a sound. “T’ve seen Jeffries,”’ she went on breath- lessly. a My dear!’’ Channing made a pity. “‘He doesn’t want E ileen?” She looked up into his face with the most curious mixture of radiance and of rueful- ness. “No, he doesn’t want Eileen,’’ her voice thrilled. “Channing—he wants me!”’ There are no adjectives that quite ex- press the incredulous white radiance in her face. “Channing, can you believe it?’’ she cried as he shook her hands wildly. “He wants me for Hilda in Breakfast at Nine! Me! A safe success, no risk and probably a long Broadway engagement. And Ebert is to do a new play for me next season. Jeffries had him there to meet me. And Eileen is to have a lovely bit in Ebert’s new play.” Her voice broke, the color began to flood back into her face, she drew her hands away and frankly wiped hereyes. Channing could not speak coherently. The joy in his face transformed it. “T knew you should have had Hilda,” said. “Oh, but, Channing, I wanted it for Kileen! I didn’t think of trying for it my- self. I knew Eileen was a bit young, but I worked with her for three days on the part. She read it beautifully. This morning in Jeffries’ office I fed her her lines so care- fully. And Jeffries says that all the time he was watching me, listening to my voice. Once Eileen slipped and I took up the line for her. And Jeffries says it was then he knew I was a better Hilda than Marguerite Waring.” “Of course! How could he help it?” “But, Channing, I can ‘t believe it! Do you think I am dreaming? After all chese years—I—can’t—believe—it!”’ She looked up and round her at the sparkling sunlight on tall buildings, at the figures on the benches in the park, at the people crossing over toward Fifth Ave- nue from the Broadway matinées, and she stretched out her arm as if she took it all into a rapturous embrace. “ After all these years—on Broadway at last!”’ she cried. “‘ Eileen and I, both of us. Channing” she turned to him, her face very tender—“‘it’s like getting home after a long hard journey, a dreadful journey. You and I can begin to live now!’ I did not hear his answer, for at that instant a downtown train came in and I slipped on board. Neither of them saw me go. They stood there on that roaring, vi- brating platform, holding each other's hands in what was to them an ineffable silence. sound of he

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THE SATURDAY MOVIE SIGNBOARDS Continued from Page 13) and follow it on one of his state elephants for an hour at astretch, and then come back to the palace and have the film showing it—which I may not have mentioned that he bought outright after its first showing run for almost as long. _A great institu- tion—the cinema—I say. But though these more or less humorous examples of the manner in which various primitive people have reacted to what they saw on the movie signboard are not with- out significance, a far more dependable sort of testimony was demanded to con- vince one that this form of accidental ad- vertising was really getting over with the class of people who count. Just such testi- mony, however, came very rapidly to my attention, once I started to uncover it, and a number of the most illuminative instances in point I will set down in brief outline. The engineer in charge of one of the greatest engineering projects of modern times is scarcely a man one would expect to be finding material help from a photo play, vet such I found to have been the case when I visited the Hindieh barrage on the Euphrates, a few miles north of the site of old Babylon, just previous to the outbreak of the war ‘One of the greatest difficulties we have encountered,”’ said Mr. X as we stood looking down into the excavation where several thousand fellahin were working on the foundation of the dam which has since thrown the Euphrates back into its old channel and brought something like a million acres of desert under ditch, “has been to turn out brick fast enough. We started in turning them out by hand, and I must admit—by a method that marked no great advance over that which Nebu- chadnezzar employed when he built the walls of Babylon. Short of labor from the first, it was not long before I realized that the brick output was greatly in- creased the three years inside of which we had planned to complete the dam might easily be stretched to twice or thrice that length of time.” unless The Brickmaker’s Romance ‘We had never paid much attention to brick machines in England, and though I had heard in a general sort of way that they had been used with some success in America I had no idea whether or not they were of 1 character that could be handled by the had here, even if we were able to the deliv them. It was while [ was in the midst of this eet that I made a hurried trip to Bombay. To hel Ip away the half day of en ae delay it Karachi on the voyage | onal Within half labor we ery of while returr with a friend to the pictures an hour I had seen something which gave me good reason to hope that our difficulties over the brick output at the Hindieh barrage might soon be in the way of solution. “*T haven’t the least recollection what the drama was about, except that the honest hard-working hero was employed—by way of variety, I suppose—in a_ brickyard. From a mere puddler of mud this energetic youth went through successive promotions until at last he invented a brick-making machine which revolutionized the industry and—according to my very hazy recollec- tion—opened the way for him to marry his employer’s daughter. The invention I saw at once was a well-tried-out machine which only needed to be fed with mud at one end to turn out a continuous string of bricks at the other. Doubtless because it was the kind of mechanical operation cal culated to interest the average crowd, its working was shown in considerable detail quite fully enough to convince me that both on the score of simplicity and efficiency it was most thoroughly adapted to just the work we had in hand at Hindieh.”’ Old Euphrates Conquered “A wire to Bombay brought word that the film had been sent to India from a dis- tributing agency in London, which had secured the rights of foreign exhibition from the American producers. Cabling this information to our head office in London and adding that the installation of a number of these machines at the Hindieh works ought to put us in the way of solving our problem of brick manufacture, I con tinued my voyage to Basra and Bagdad “Being fully advised of the trouble we were having in turning out brick fast enough, London lost no time in following up the clew I had uncovered. It must have cost them a good deal of money to rush things as they did. At any rate the first machine was delivered inside of three months and the others you have seen this morning came on shortly afterward. More than fulfilling my expectations of them, they increased our brick output until it finally became a question of finding suffi cient labor to handle it. This we have managed to do, so that now it seems likely that the barrage will be completed well within the time Sir William Willcocks originally set for it.” As an interesting commentary on this statement, I may add that the Hindieh barrage was finished in January, 1914, wher such of its waters as there was use for were turned into the channel of the old Iu phrates and subsequently diverted to t land which had not Leen irrigated since = wy ia ’ eal An Automatic Conveyor Carrying Frozen Beef to a Steamer at Montevideo. American Labor:faving Devices Have Become Common on the Rio Plate Since They Began to Figure So Regularly in Yankee Moving Pictures t EVENING POST 6! \ | | { ° | F you have a spendthritt battery, giving out more | than it takes vou want to know it before it goes bankrupt. Nagel, on your dash, | shows at glance whether | |} your battery is thrittily storing up current or losing | it in wastetul chee If there is battery trouble ahead, Nagel warns vou in time In use on more than 4 1,250,000 cars. i | The Nagel mm it mel fllen. Auburn. B i ( ”) kn 7 \/ Moore. 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—————— THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Pera is but ' master pencil. Some day you will try it, and then, forever alter, quickly to your mind when you think of | 7 the best pencil ye that name | HE man who wishes to be well groomed at all times will find his taste wear at once gratifhed correct lines and simple distinct- iveness of these shoes Faithfal to the Last” They fit glove-like but supple ease smart yet refined sentially serviceable. You will find this shoe better boot shons Nunn. Bush NUNN, Milwaukee, Wie \ ©) 4 one DOLAD heir design is They are es- on display Style Book on Req: BUSH & WELDON SHOE CO, = 4 one master pencil name will come \nd ut have ever used. SAMPLE OFFER \" “ you en I e will m ‘ full ion th h doul he ‘l t booklet | Pi i | | re CO.. | D pt. 8], Jer ( N. J E in foot- by the witha at the eB | the time of Harun-al-Rashid. Had not the brick production been accelerated by the introduction of the American machines there is no doubt that the project would have been far from completion at the out- break of the war. Since this region was in the hands of the Turks for most of the period of the war, there is no possibility that anything could have been done to- ward completing it during that time, while |the present scarcity of capital, labor and materials—to say nothing of the uncer- tainty as to what country will be given the mandate for Turkey in Asia—might well have conspired to prevent work being started again for many years. As it was, however, the land put under ditch proved an important factor in feeding Maude’s and Marshall’s armies of occupation. No insignificant contribution, this, especially considering it was made possible by a movie signboard. Ideas in Railway Equipment Railway men of all the remoter parts of the world have repeatedly told me that they found Yankee moving pictures a source of never-failing interest for the re- vealing glimpses they so often gave of contemporary transportation practice in the United States. As their roads are mostly financed from Europe—the bulk of them from London—they admitted it was |rarely possible to take advantage of any- | thing seen in this way, even though it might | have been greatly to their interest to have done so. A South African manager, how- ever, showed me an extremely compact and serviceable folding metal combination washbasin and table which he had tracked down and ordered after having glimpsed it in a sleeper scene from an American movie; and in the Sudan I was shown some water tanks and sand breaks which one of the officials of that famous desert line said had been suggested by things of the kind jhe had seen on a Yankee film shown at Khartum. On my remarking to an official of the Calcutta Tramway Corporation that the prevailing type of car in use struck me as being more of an American than an English January 17,1920 design he admitted with an amused smile that such was undoubtedly the case. “We started in here with a very primi- tive and inconvenient type of car such as was in use in England ten or twelve years ago and which indeed has undergone few improvements down to the present. From the first we had no end of trouble through the pushing of the sheeplike Bengali in the narrow passages and ¢ doorways, and as from previous railway experience I knew the futility of trying to break them from crowding I began casting about for a type of car which would multiply the exits and entrances as much as possible without reducing the seating space too greatly. I had designed something pretty near to what I had in mind when a car which I saw in a moving picture one evening came along and discharged its passengers and I had at once just what I wanted. It was what I have since learned is called a summer type of car in America and is used only during the months of mild weather. It was open all the way round, had seats straight across and steps running along both sides from end to end. “T arranged for a private showing of that part of the picture and the design was so simple that the sketch I made in ten minutes was all my draftsmen needed to go ahead with. We could not, of course, afford to import the cars from America, even if our board would have sanctioned it, but this did not prove necessary, as our shops in Calcutta were quite able to turn out exactly what we wanted. I am always pleased, however, to give the credit for the idea where it belongs—to the American car and the American film which first brought it to my attention.” Effective Comedy Films Comedy films, even of the most slap- bang order, I found to have been surpris- ingly effec tive as signboards. Going into : barber shop in Hobart, Tasmania, I had the most agreeable surprise of finding prac- tically all the accessories of unmistak- able Yankee origin. Half expecting to find exiled American who had taken this Continued on Page 64 some of Paraguay. It Was This Yankee Ax Has Effected a Revolution in the Colorado Quebracho Industry “Discovered” in a Lumber:Camp Movie in Asuncion

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST If you ask at the store for a Kodak camera, or Kodak film, or other Kodak goods and are handed something not of our manufacture you are not getting what you specified, which is obviously unfair both to you and to us. “Kodak” is our registered and common law trademark and cannot be rightly applied except to goods of our manufacture. *TRADEMARK: Any symbol, mark, name or other characteristic or arbitrary indication secured to the user by legal registration, adopted and used, as by a manufacturer or merchant to designate the goods he manufactures or sells and to distinguish them from the goods of competitors. STANDARD DicrioNary. Lf it wwt an Lastman, tt wswt a Kodak. KASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester, N. Y.

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64 Continued from Page 62) way of providing himself with a home ate phere, I asked for the proprietor, only to be confronted with a lankily typical ‘ pode who far from having come from the States had never even been across e strait to Melbourne. He told me the tor f how he had been impelled to the extravagance of importing American fit tings while he removed the grime of the Mount Wellington trail from my face with 1: Yankee hot towel and followed it with an Australia ! epenny haircut and a one- ind-six New York shampoo, it appeared that his introduction to American barber-shop fittings had eventu ited about a year previously in the course f the exhibition of a typical Yankee knockabout film at one of the local picture palace The principal victim, it seems, had been some sort of a hobo-—called a indowner by my tonsorial friend —who had stumbled into a city barber shop to have his anment growth f hair and beard emoved. The mixing of plaster of Paris with the powdered shaving soap produced in all-too d lather, which rapidl lid ng left the “ba indowner tiffe ip like a bloomin’ marble tachoo The chipping of the ich vietin out ! ist | a Ci | terand a plumber each with |} ful omy lement of tool . furnished accord y to the barber no end of how Delighted a he had been with the med however, it wus le these refined Ya et barber tie that had awakened his interest than the operatior of t! hairin which the tim had been to ired The manner which it wa ruised, lowered ad ind spun to bring the } wl of it upant toany desired posi t tirred in the Australian a passior f possession which sould not abate u { t via at fied With the aid of a pathetie \met { at t Aire 1 4 imoorte 1 ire i ! practi ill identical 1 type wilh the one wh in the pieture was bought and delivered Its appearance ind action had produced so favorable an tr pression on the buyer that he forthwith sent order for a hot-towe woker, a m pressed-air hair duster, an elect massage ittachment and a number of other modern tor rial refinements wt were turned out by the same compan) Though the impor tation of these articles almost one at a time had proved rather exp e, the venture had been justified mat times over by In ised busines His principal worry at the moment was over the fact that two or three of his chief rivals had announced that they had already ordered and expected rt to install the latest American fit Xv Yankee barlh« he opined, would be as common and as popular in all | iA { lia Yankee dentist ind Yankee ba The Sidehill Plow Another film proved | hly helpful to the | ’ nager of one of e largest rubber | ‘ fthe M i isula it is a lucky o f me whe I t e Kuala Lu picture palace ‘ ght about « te t ro a las | vule } mo i Wi nim the merest cl e | got tra if t gs which have been of the greatest t most dificult problems we have to face rting a rubber plantation is that of ‘ ring the native jungk Not only have tive grea forest tree to he felled and burned, but ways have to be devised of x ng rid of the undergrowth as well. I'he practice has been to cut down the latter with cutlasses and then to keep it from THE SATURDAY interfering with the growing rubber trees by repeating the operation every few weeks as the new sprouts became large enough to interfere with them. “Some time ago I began working on a plan for getting rid of the network of under- growth roots by plowing, a scheme which now that I have finally succeeded with it leaves only an easily cut grass to be kept down. I found that turning over the soil a foot deep put an end to the root growth quite effectually wherever this could be done thoroughly. The operation, however, was proving a very difficult one, princi- pally because of the way in which the matted roots threw out the points of the only plows available at the time—ordinary walking affairs drawn by bullecks. “Then I got hold of a number of double- disked American plows, which sufficiently weighted down and with enough animals to pull them did the work all right so long as the ground was fairly level. On sidehills and nullahs”’—ravines or gulches—‘‘how- ever, this implement was quite useless, be- was constructed so as to throw a direction What I[ cause it furrow in only one wanted was a sic disk plow—one so 1 as always to throw a down-hill furrow in whichever direction it was driven—but up to the time I saw the pic- ture I have mentioned I had no idea that such an implement was in existence or even that it was practical to build one. In short to use one of your Americanisms — | thought that I was up against it so far as plowing sharply sloping ground was concerned ‘In the picture I have spoken of the comedian was being chased up hill and down dale by a constantly augmenting mob and in an endeavor to give them the slip changed clothes with a country bump- kin he encountered quietly plowing a grassy slope and started to drive the team himsolf. Of course the team ran :away with him and, of course, he plowed up hay tacks, flower beds, chicken houses, lawns and a line of washing before finally coming to grief in a duck pond. It wasn’t exactly what you would call refined comedy, you know, but a man who hasn't been home in four years doesn't need that kind of a thing to make him laugh. I was guffawing uproariously and in my enjoyment of the show failed to notice except at the very last that the plow was a disk affair, not greatly differing from those I already had in use. It had two disks, I seemed to recall, but I couldn't remember having noted that it turned more than one furrow. But the thing that stirred my interest more than anything, as soon as I began to ponder its significance in the interval that followed, was that no matter how it serpentined, laid down, rolled over, jumped through and doubled back upon itself at least one of the disks was always busily engaged in cutting loose and folding back a broad deep furrow. contriver EVENING POST “‘That’s my plow,’ I said to myself. ‘I only hope it isn’t just a property machine rigged up for the occasion.’ ‘Fortunately there was another running of the film that evening, following which closely I quickly made up my mind that the plow was a real working implement and, moreover, just the one I was looking for. The next morning they cut me out several bits of film from which to have enlarge- ments made and from these I framed a cabled description to a San Francisco exporting house which enabled them to recognize at once the very implement I desired. The following day I received a reply stating that half a dozen of the plows had been found in stock in San Francisco and were being consigned to me by the next boat to Hong-Kong. These arrived in due time and after proper adjustment and a few days’ use to accustom our bullocks to the reversible swing at the end of a furrow proved all that I had hoped them to be. You see, both on the level and on the slopes, how there is nothing but light grass to be cut where before it was a constant hacking of young wood.’ Jenuary 17,1920 ressed-sheet-iron work that receptacle was; ow strongly and easily cleaned its rounded unseamed bottom would be; how that close-fitting cover would both keep out dirt and leaves and prevent slopping of its contents in transit. I have bought several thousand of those buckets. Indeed it would be hard to say whether they or the reversible sidehill disk plows have rendered me the more valuable service. In any case you will understand why I am rather more interested in picture shows than the artistic merit of the Yankee films they send us out here would seem to warrant. I never know what I am going to find in even the most atrocious of them.” A Sawmill Drama It wasatypical blood-and-thunder thriller shown in the ramshackle old frame Bio- grafo at Valdivia, Chile, which was respon- sible for the fact that new and thoroughly up-to-date American sawmill outfits came to be installed in the mills at the head of Lake Panguipulli, where the picturesque Paso de San Martin begins to pierce the lofty wall of the cor- dillera ofthe Andeson Type of Old Water-Dricven Sawmill of Southern Chile, Now Largety Supptanted by Modern Millis Using American Miichinery I reminded him that he had mentioned there were two suggestions of value he had received from the film in question, ‘*To be sure,”’ he laughed. ‘‘ There is the result of the other suggestion over there — those buckets for bringing in the latex.” Looking where he pointed, I saw a line of dusky East Indian Klings threading a path between the trees, each with a large galvanized-iron bucket balanced on the top of his half-shaved head. “Yankee garbage cans, by all that’s fresh and fragrant!” I ejaculated, contract- ing my nostrils and sniffing suspiciously from long force of habit. ‘“*How did you ever come to hit upon them for carrying round your embryo motor tires in?”’ “I’m afraid you're right,”” he admitted with a grin. ‘“‘As you doubtless gathered, the man who wrote the scenario of that photo comedy with the plow in it did not have exactly what you would describe as a delicate and refined sense of humor. Well, earlier in that reel the comedian in fighting his way out of a cul-de-sac at the end of a blind alley used the cover snatched from a can similar to these as a shield while he fought a duel—armed with a poker—with one of his pursuers. Driven to his knees and all but taken, as a last desperate resort he seized the can of garbage itself and clapped it down over the head of his an- tagonist, thus saving himself for further merry adventure. ** At the first running of the film, as blind from laughter as the victim was from the drooling rotten eggs and tomatoes which the text took great care to state were in the can, I failed to note what my quickened perceptions instantly recorded at the second showing—namely, what a fine piece of its way through tothe open stretches of the Argentine pampas The heavy growth of timber resulting from the excessive rain- falls of this region has been drawn on for years to use for build- ing purposes in the scattered towns of the southern Chilean littoral. In the early days it was roughly worked with axes and used for cabins and stockades. Laterthe whipsaw was intro- duced, by which crude boards were worried out of the green logs by t labor of two men, and then three or four decades ago came the primitive steam mill, with its engine and circular saws. The latter greatly i: creased the output of lumber, while at the same time decreasing he its cost, the principal objection to it being on the seore of its wastefulness in re | ducing so great a part of the log to sawdust This was a more serious trouble in Southern Chile than in North America, the comparatively small diameter of the logs of the former region making the percentage of loss in sawdust and slabs two or three times as high asin the latter. Inasmuch, however, as there had never been an attempt to bring anything more modern to the attention of the local sawmill owners, they were for the time being content with what they had How the change was finally effected was amusingly related to me by the American mining man who had been assistant to our vice consul—or it may have been commer- cial agent—in Valdivia at the time. “One day a couple of years ago,”’ he said, “just as I was about to close up shop for the afternoon three men, talking and ges- ticulating excitedly, came to the consulate One was a Frenchman, the head of a com- pany building a narrow-gauge railway from a junction with the state line at Collilelfu through the San Martin Pass; another was his contractor, a German and the holder of extensive cattle and timbering concessions from the government; the third was a Chilefio, who operated a number of saw- mills both on the Valdivia River and along the chain of lakes which it drains. They were an unscrupulous trio of rascals, but clever as the devil and real hustlers when it came to getting things done. “They asked me to come with them to view a picture on exhibition in front of the Biografo—something which had to do with a film Yanqui billed for the coming week. Stepping round the corner to the movie shack, we found the sidewalk blocked by a crowd made up mostly of Chilean cowboys and lumberjacks. When my com- panions had elbowed a way clear for m2 Concluded on Page 67

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ers, and they said, “palm and olive oils Tell Me the Truth | About Beautiful Skins | HIS; And it | is been 50 for ipes. Ancient women put the pk 1 to seers. Their >the ple i of millions. answer has been du, up lately, carved in hiero “Use dlyphics. It was, Palm and Olive oil And we know that incient beauties followed their advice Go to a modern scientist and he will tell you this: Cultivate jood health Get plenty ( f exercise, tre h ir and sleep Use haht massage to foster circulation. In cases of larje pore ifter washind, chill the skin with Ct “But what map you u k, “what emol hent shall I empl y He will say, “Cleanliness is all important Not surface cleanliness, but clean pores.” He will idvise a x ntle, penetrating, soap \ pertect ip made by y scientilic A soap whose basis is Palm and Olive oils men Thus he will ex ho the advice which seers dave ( leopatra There's nothing new [here is almost nothing new today in wavs to jood complexions There is noth ing new in rain or sunshine either , ’ it is madé The Palmolive Company, Milwaukee, U. S. A. >} } The Palmolive ( PALMOLIVE by ompany of Canada, Limited, Toronto, Ont. “e ‘ po ytd. q 1 Keep the skin clean. Remove the dirt, dust, waste and oil. Clean out the pores Do this with a soothing, penetrating, soap. Do it with Palm and Olive oils combined. Some of the finest soap chemists in the world supply the method in Palmolive Soap. And the best opinion is that science can never improve that method How popularity reduces price Palmolive, if made in small quantities, would be a very expensive soap. The Palm Oil comes from Africa, the Olive Oil from Spain But this is a soap that every woman needs. Not merely to remedy a faulty skin, but to prevent it. Women of every age should use it every day. It forms the simple, natural way to healthy, radiant skin. As a result, there are millions of women who daily enjoy its benefits. There is not another faci il soap in the world which compares in popularity. So the Palmolive factories work 24 hours a day to supply the demand. Injredients This are ordered in enormous quantities sigantic volume reduc¢s cost. [hus we are able to supply Palmolive at a very moderate price It costs no more than ordinary toilet soaps. Palmolive is sold by dealers everyw here, January 17,1920

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—— (Concluded from Page 64) I saw that the picture was just an ordinary movie lithograph in colors depicting a wild- eyed girl lashed to a big pine log and appar- ently just about to share its fate of being sawed down the middle. ‘The first thing my friends wanted to heii was whether it was an established North American custom to cut up mucha- chas in this manner, and when I assured them it was not—that the saturnine villain fom ring at left was undoubtedly going to be foiled by the golden-haired hero rushing to rescue on right--they seemed much cast down. Then that beautiful saw with its long, thin, shining blade must also be falsely represented, they said; quien sabe what the yanqui would try to put over on the m next, ‘Then I noticed that the saw, instead of being the usual rip-tearing buzz variety, was apparently an endless belt of steel such as I later le ool was called a band saw. Though I had ne seen one in action, I recalled hav ing heard i that something of the kind was coming into use and so felt sure that the lithograph was a crude representa- tion of the real thing. “My three friends had been quick-minded enough to see at once in the type some- thing that was not calculated to dissipate and waste anything like the amount of good lumber a buzz saw would; indeed that is the very purpose for which the band was perfec te “d. ““Now that their suspicions were roused, however, they were hard to reassure. The Yanquis were quite capable of making a thing of that kind out of rope and scrap iron just to use in the picture, they said; they would not delude themselves with any more high hopes until they saw the film tself. Luckily when the onda g came it was found that the producers—to heighten realism at “s show the fate which waited the heroine had had a « ouple of logs reduced to slabs and boards by _ saw-—-which was in a real lumber mill before the one on which the girl was bound nosed onto the creen. The perfect efficiency of the beau- tiful machine was evident to the most skeptical. G & Co. of Valparaiso were not long in locating the manufacturer by cable and the installation of the first outfit to arrive was soon followed by orders for imilar ones for most of the larger mills of Southern Chile.” The Ax for the Job Another lumber-camp drama of the American Northwest, exhibited on the film at a moving-picture theater in Asuncién, Paraguay, is credited with the responsi- bil ity of working very important changes 1 the colorado quebracho industry of that country. This valuable wood is the main source of a certain kind of tannin much in demand in Europe and North America. Up to a decade and a half ago it was logged in a hit-or-miss sort of way by small groups of Paraguayans working wherever the trees could be located and by methods so crude as to make the price all but prohibi- tive. Then a couple of enterprising Yankee THE SATURDAY portefios—native-bornsons of North Amer- ican parents—began operating in the in- dustry, and before long had it sufficiently organized to make them able greatly to reduce the price of colorado quebracho in the world markets and at the same time put by liberal profits for themselves. This was brought about largely through their discovery that the logs, which were a good deal heavier than water, could be safely moved down the river if their outer rings and barks were first removed by squaring and the raft containing them given increased buoyancy by combining logs of lighter floating woods with it. This made it possible to tap the great forests of the Pilcomayo River, where the best growth of this rare and valuable wood is found. “The almost unbelievable slowness in squaring the logs with the crude adzes al- ways used by the natives almost defeated the success of this plan,”’ one of the broth- ers told me when I visited his main camp some years ago. “‘The wood is terribly tough, so that a man was sometimes two or three days cutting down a single log. This didn’t amount to much on the score of wages, but it did keep our output down to a point where we saw we could never meet our contracts unless there was a great im- provement. We experimented with every kind of ax we could find in Buenos Aires, but with little better success. What we needed was a special tool, but as neither my brother nor myself knew much about work- ing wood just what design of one was more than we could determine. Then one day I was in camp at the time—I had a letter from Gus in which he said that he thought he was on the track of what we wanted, and would I hurry back to Asuncién as quickly as I could? No sooner had I ar- rived—about ten days later—than he an nounced that he was going to drive me over to the picture palace to see a special run of a film he said he had bought. As that was all the explanation I could get out of him at the moment I began to think the boy’s worries over our business had driven him off his nut. My doubts on this score became a certainty when I found that we were the only people besides the operator in the darkened hall and that Gus was ordering him to start the second reel about halfway through, just as he’d been doing right along. “The method in his madness appeared at once, however, for no sooner had the machine begun to click than there jumped into life on the screen a big bearded lumbe r jack se a lump of a long-handle« Seuide -bitted ax on a hulking pine log he was squaring. I never dre amed a man could make chips fly like that. Inside of two minutes, in spite of the diversion of a plump little squaw who came pushing up on snowshoes, he had skinned one side of the log and turned it over to start another. Indeed the fact that he never stopped to rest was the one thing we had against him. **T’ve been trying to get a line on that ax three or four hours a day every day for the last week,’ Gus said finally as the chop- ping scene gave place to one of a log jam, ‘and I’m half blind without getting any nearer it than the first time I saw it. I've EVENING POST about made up my mind, though, that the slashing w way it ¢ uts is due to its compara- tive thinness and the fact that it is flat on one side. Anyhow, the best thing for us todo is to try to find who makes them and have a few cases rushed down here to try. Que- bracho is two or three times as hard as pine and that lumberjack is twice as good an axman as the best of our Paraguayan peons, but even allowing for that it looks like a better tool than any we've ever tried.’ “‘Our New York agent did the sensible thing in sending us samples of every ax he could lay hands on that seemed to come anywhere near our description, and among them was a thin, flat-sided, double-bitted tool which seemed to match that flying piece of steel in the picture. The men we gave it to doubled their rate of work inside a week and doubled that again in a month. With a slight modification of this ax, made especially for us from a design we sent the manufacturers a year ago, the rate at which we are now squaring quebracho is from six to eight times as fast as it was with the old native tool. “*We wore all five rolls of that film to a frazzle looking for any other lumbering hints which might be of use to us, but the only one that impressed us was a steam logging engine. We bought one of these as soon as we could afford it and now have three in use and four more on order. They also have been of much help in meeting the greatly increased demand for quebracho.” An Engineering Tip How a glimpse of the pressure pipe and power plant of a California hydroelectric installation in a moving picture shown in La Paz saved a Bolivian mining concern from the useless expenditure of a huge sum of money and the loss of two or three years of time in an important development proj- ect was related to me several years ago by the head of an American exporting house of Lima, Peru. The Bolivian concern in question, in opening up one of its extensive tin-mining concessions, had discovered what it believed to be a ve ry favorable site for the erection of a hydroelectric plant ca- pable of generating sufficient power to run its dredges and a railway to its works. As practically all of the considerable hydroelectric development going on in Chile up to this time, as well as what little had been done in Bolivia, was being handled by an aggressive German com- pany, one of the engineers of the latter was called upon to draw the plans and make the preliminary estimates for the construc tion of this plant Now it chanced that the mountain torrent to be harnessed, though of small volume, had a very considerable ill, the ideal conditions precedent for the installation of the undershot-water-wheel type of plant, which was first used and brought to its highest state of development in the California Sierras. As the German concern had had little if any experience in this type of construction, all of its work having been done where low heads and ample water made the turbine the proper installation, it was not able to furnish machinery for an undershot-wheel plant anything like the time the Bolivians desired it. Rather than lose the contract, however, the German engineer promptly recom mended and drew up plans for a turbin pi int similar to one his company was then building near Valparaiso. The Bolivians, knowing nothing of the technical side of the project, were about to sign the contract when one of them chanced to see in the lo cal biografo a Western mining-camp drama in the course of which some strikers in order to cripple the mines tried to blow up the power plant. No sooner had this part of the pictur: appeared than the Bolivian was struck by the similarity of the physical conditions under which this plant had been built and those which obtained on his own company’ property. He arranged for a private show ing of this part of the film and took his board of directors along to see it. Even to their unpracticed eyes it was quickly apparent that the type of plant shown on the pi ture—and plainly the kind called for at their mines—-was by no means similar to the one shown on the drawings of the German engineer. Saying nothing to the latter, they called in a local American mir ing engineer to advise them. Though by no means a hydroelectric expert, he knew enough to be able to assure them that they did not have water sufficient to run a tur bine more than half of the year without further expensive development, which—he suggested — the German might be interested in forcing them to do. He advised getting in touch with an American house ir iL ima, which he knew to have furnished machin ery for a hydroelectric plant in the high cordillera of the Cerro de Paseo district This was done, with the ultimate result that the first important hydroelectric plant to be erected in Bolivia was furni hed by America instead of Germany. It will hardly be necessary for me further to multiply instances to prove the incaleu lable help—-direct and indirect American foreign trade has derived from the fact that well over nine-tenths of the goods showr the movie signboards of the world are of Yankee manufacture. The question that now rises as we stand at the threshold of ar epoch in which international competition of a bitterness never before known will be restored in foreign trade is: Can the movi gnboard be made even more helpful in the future than it has been in the past? Such advertising as has been done in this way up to now has been absolute ly ace idental incidental to the photo play itself. In not one of the instances which I have cited, nor in many similar one have I been able to find evidence that the machine or imple ment which filled so great a need for some one was originally brought into the picture to give it publicity. The intriguing sp lation is—can this be dene? Can the moving picture we send abroad, like every newspaper and magazine, be made to help our trade? How I have heard exporter and importers, consuls and moving-picture directors and distributors express them selves in this connection I will set down in another article

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THE SATURDAY VIEWS OF A LAYMAN ON BOLSHEVISM (Continued from Page 21) Russian yards are filled with cars and en- gines out of repair. The fire boxes are burned out; the ne tubes were allowed to crust up until they split; the journals are without bearings. In Mé arch, 1919, only one-third of the total rolling stock was able torun. Of the 20,000 locomotives in hand not more than 2500 were in working order in the summer of 1919. Maintenance has been a problem of re- pair. With such efficiency in repair as must have been possib le the equipment could have been largely restored. The head of locomotive repairs reported that in 1919 he should have been able to repair 800 en- gines, but the actual restorations were scarcely more than 10 per cent of that figure. The extenuation is pleaded that the materials for repair were not at hand. This is incorrect, in the sense that it contains i huge exaggeration. Normal supplies of matetiale have not been available. Where has that been the case in Europe? The materials needed in repairs of cars and engines are iron, copper, zinc, lead, tin, lumber, rubber and cotton. Russia pro- duced all these except rubber and tin. Fair stocks of rubber, cotton and tin were on hand when the Bolshevists took control, but during the first year of Bolshevism they were not conserved for the essential ng Rubber was used in the manufac- ture of all kinds of civilian commodities. During 1919 conservation of these materials is undertaken, but then it was too late. It is absurd to suggest that with labor freely available the ratlways could not have been supplied with indige —_ lumber, iron, copper, zine and lead. Inefficient organiza- tion has been the cause of deterioration of transport during the last two years; the problem was more one of quality than of quantity. Entirely apart from indigenous production and stored materials it should have been possible to comb copper, tin, rubber and cotton from the population. A fraction of the ingenuity exhibited by the Germans in combing these materials out of Poland, Rumania and Serbia would have yielded in Russia large amounts of these materials. Materials were not plen- tiful, but with adequate organization there were enough. Germany obtained as the result of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk not only gold but also materials. And up to the time of the armistice Germany maintained in Russia an organization for the obtaining of raw successor to the one the representatives of the Allied and Associated Powers tried to oppose during the régime of Kerensky. And they have obtained them!

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Bolshevist Incompetence A great deal of the transportation of grain was done by boat. The water trans- port has collapsed as badly as the rail- ways—and for the same reason. In the prewar days Great Russia used to import by water more than 100,000,000 bushels of grain. This has er: ~ to almost nothing. The breakdown of shipment of grain has had a direct effect on the acreage, since facilities of shipment stimulated planting. Production of petroleum went badly. in Bolshevist hands. Each winter it was the custom to build up a stock of pe *troleum for the summer boats on the Volga. In April, 1917, the stock was 60,000 tons; in April, 1918, the stock was 1200 tons! During 1918 the number of boat trips on the Volga fell to below ten per cent of 1917. Replaceme nts have been vers’ expe nsive, the cost of a new locomotive built out of materials in stock being 600,000 rubles. Zesults with new work were so unsatisfac- tory that latterly nothing but repairing has been attempted. Malleable iron that cost in 1916 one ruble a pound now costs sixty rubles. The operation sheets of the railways show large deficits. In 1917 the South- eastern Railway showed a profit of 20,000,- 000 rubles; in 1918, a deficit of nearly 100,000,000. In 1916 the roads of Bolshe- vik Russia had a surplus of some 140,000,- 000 rubles; in 1918, a deficit of some §,000,000,000 rubles Russia has wood, peat, coal and petro- leum in large amounts. Before the war the consumption of coal was not more than 30,000,000 tons per annum—less than five per cent of that of the United States—the consumption of wood and peat more than ten times that amount. More than 400,- 000,000 acres of forest belonged to the state or were in lands of the crown. Timber stands more or less in all portions of the country, and no nation in the world was and is—so prepared to face scarcity of coal and petroleum as Russia. The coal was lo- cated largely in three basins—the Donetz, the Moscow district and the Urals. The metals and minerals are largely in South tussia and in the Urals and Siberia. There was a problem of fuel during the years when Russia was in the war, but it was not marked. In a tabulation made by the Russian National Manufacturers’ Association in November, 1917, lack of fuel was given as the cause of closure of only 45 out of 565 industries closed up to July, 1917. Up to the close of 1916 the coal produc tion had fallen off only ten per cent. During the Kerensky régime the production of coal fell poe. When the Bolshevists assumed control all the cae bearing districts were in their hands. In South Russia the Mensheviki were very strong; in the Urals and Siberia the social revolutionists. These two par- ties were opposed to the program of the solshevists. The Bolshevists sent military forces into these sections of Russia to over- come opposition and set up their com- munistic program. Do-Nothing Policies From these Bolshevist invasions date the splitting off of the ten parts of European Russia that desire independence and are anti-Bolshevik. These have resisted con- quest by the forces of Trotzky. As the result of these military situations the Don- etz and Ural areas of coal have been lost to Bolshevist Russia. This has left them with but one basin, that of the Moscow area, which with the lesser areas cannot supply enough coal—not more than a quarter for the railways and industries. Strikes have hampe ‘red the full operation of this he lk l. It is necessary that this sequence of affairs should be recognized, Since we are being const intly told that the blockade is responsible for the failure of transport and manufacturing. Lack of coal is one of the causes of —e wn in transport and manufacture, but lack of coal is the fault of the Bolshe vistic political and industrial program. They tried to seize the portions of Russia containing great coal mines and run those mines in a manner ab horre nt to the Russians of those sections. They have lost their coal because the coal-bearing parts be Russia declined to be Bolshevized. rr yetroleum was lost in the same way Wh a the Caucasus revolted against Bol- shevistic rule Trotzky sent military sup — to Turkey to be used against the casus! ‘Hovine lost their coal, what did the Bol- shevists do? Cut wood and dig peat and adapt the locomotives and furnaces to use these fuels? They did nothing—that is, but erect elaborate paper sc hemes se in cutting of wood, digging of peat and transportation to the consumers, schemes that brought in less fuel in 1918 than they had possessed in 1917 and with no better results during the past year. The wood cutting for houséhold consump- tion has not been maintained. The cutting for timber has fallen. Labor was more than abundant—it was a positive embarrass- ment. With even nominal efficiency in organization, wood and peat could have been procured in amounts sufficient to have compensated in large part for the loss of coal. Even the coal in pos ssion was not allocated for essentials in a competent manner. When the coal supply of Italy was re- duced sixty per cent during the last two years of the war, what did she do? She con trolled the use of what she had and came through with her war program. Switzer- land has managed to weather critical scarcity of coal, as has the Argentine Re- public and to a certain extent every coun- try in Europe. But none of them had the labor, forests and peat bogs that were avail able in Russia. The scarcity of fue! in

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70 Russia i direct reflection upon Bolshe- vist power f organization and is ex- pla ed t tr slone There were also elaborate plans for electric power installa- tio in rivers that will come to nought for he present, because Russia possesses no plants capable of constructing such elec- trical unit All finance in Russia is on paper and in pape The fiscal estimates read like astro- ymical tables. The outlays ore staggering. During the first half of last year the out ls “a 50,000,000-000 rubles the army—the intake 20,000, The total projected budget for t ear is 150,000,000,000 rubles. The trictly governmental budget is 30,000,000,- 000 rubles — the deficit 17,000,000,000, ts of Russian councils and to find entries of large In the accou banks it Is commor! hgure without specification; there is no stem in the bookkeeping of the banks, the councils, the centers or the requisition ommittees. When the banks were seized many of the rich were able to get possession of their bank deposits Industries necessarily become competi- tive, even in communism, if each material, commodity or stage is required to pay its own way, and some would be controlled by others. We would have again exploitation of one cla by another If in communism eact tage were ipposed to pay its own way, as in cay lism, this would lead to financial priorities that are distasteful to the spirit of communism, If each stage does not pa it vil then deficit rise and accumulate. These must be paid out of taxation or earnings of stages that are profitable if the fis tem is to remain sound In Russia the deficits from the Peoples printed for that | paper mone either against against resource that were seasion of individual are paid by loans with paper money TI ese | ues of tate or the pos , intro d inflation but complhcation, since the re itior of indu into utter confusion. not deter onee or corpor itior duce not mere unlimite h other pa the Peoples Bank are the solve of the industrie fram, just as when Germar to Austria tries to enc Loans by mined by but by the prog war loi during the ined money Four Kinds of Rubles The banking tem in con detined a i tern of be with the confusion existing trie tate and Dar ng, itist ¥ not even that. The issue of paper ittained thedimensionsof: daily, which would cover half budyet imunism 1s and among indus OK KeepINgE money hus at ‘00,000 000 of the provisiona ibove Four kind n cireuls Romanoff, Kerer , Bolshevist and Ger man counterfeit. The best value is retained old Romanoff ruble resent government ha not counterfeits of } the least chat itior because the been able to and in addition ce of repudiation t form of them government | hoarded the when a permaner established he currency of the old régime rhe issue of word that euts both ways Every depreciation of the ruption of the banking repudiat of obligations olvency of institutions and indus curred during the first year of 1, because welcomed, peo e have paper money is a currency, every di tem, every every in tries that o« Bolshevistic régime was it proved that capitalism was stroved. In the second year, when the im plements and functions of capital had to be resumed by the communistic régime, it ber clear that the communistic state had amputated its own First the industries are to be destroyed, then they taken over and run for the people! beir x de ame limbs. are to be It was against the repetition of this folly that Lenine warned Bela Kun, but the temptation was too strong and the same destruction of alue and functions oc curred in Budapest Che régime of the Czar included a ma of civil servants, since the government be lieved in show in administration and was in addition inetficn Directly after the accession of Bolshevism the civil servants struck. The strik is labeled sabotage by rrotzky, who repressed it with methods of terror Since then the old class of civil servants has gradually dissolved In its place has grown the new bureaucracy of Bolshevism. much larger than under a different part of rhis bureauc the Czar and is composed of 1 of people, consisting in large acy | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST workers and peasants who had notraining in administration. The new civil servants and the army have first call on commodities, and as it is attractive tg have a hand in the making of the regulations that one is to live under the recruiting of the bureaucracy has not been difficult, so far as quantity was concerned The inefficiency of the new civil servants has been so crass that recently the leaders have realized the necessity of placing trained men in the affairs of state. They are now hunting out the submerged old civil serv- ants of all grades and by means of offers of large salaries and promises of security in the administration of their offices are striv- ing to induce them to return to public serv- ice. Toa certain extent they are returning. But so long as the commissaries are selected on qualifications of political convictions rather than on qualifications of training little improvement can be expected through the efforts of underlings whose experiences have not made them anxious to display independence. High Death Rate, Low Birth Rate With breakdown in transport, reduction in production and depreciation of currency, distribution cannot function. The people of Russia are rationed in practically all commodities. When there is little to al- locate a large organization is required to do it. The army, the bureaucracy and the workers stand highest Men and women out of work receive unemployment stipends and a reduced ration. In theory the mem- bers of the army receive two to three pounds of bread a day, the heavy workers one to two pounds, the middle class one-quarter to one-eighth of a pound and the classes of ex-means nothing A common ration is 200 grams of bread and three herrings a day. A _ bushel of wheat costs in illicit trading 1500 rubles. The food trains are often plundered and no attempt is made to check contents of ship- ments against bills of lading. The bourgeois receive practically nothing from the state. Children more than 12 are suppose to be fed and clothed by the state. Few of the rations are fulfilled except to the army, because the supplies are not availa- ble— often for weeks at a time. In the country the peasant and his family subsist as they but are rationed in all the manufactured things they need. Control of food is the chief power in the hands of the government. When it is re- ealled that work is allocated, as well as food, clothir g and commodities, it is real- ized that the inhabitants have abundant precautionary motives for fidelity to Bol- shevism. The plane of living descends con- tinuously and it was not high to start with in Russia. The birth rate is reduced; mor- bidity and mortality are both very high. It is when contemplating himself as a con- sumer that the Russian appreciates the remark of Steffens: ‘‘They have destroyed all this, and having destroyed it they are lost —strangers in their own land.” With agricultural and industrial produc- tion on a low plane, feeling like strangers in their own land, they are being regaled with innumerable movements for the develop- ment of culture. If materialism is to be combated by the withdrawal of materials the Russians are on the right road. The reduction in the population of the large cities of Russia that has taken place during the last two years stands unpar- alleled in history. The Bolshevists have discovered a new back-to-the-land move- ment. Petrograd had a population of some 2,000,000; Moscow about 1,500,000. In the capital eity were many foreigners Germans, Poles, Finns especially. Moscow had fewer non-Russians. The migration from the cities began early in 1918 and has been continuous. To-day Petrograd is stated to have not more than 600,000 and Moscow not more than 900,000 inhabitants. The foreigners have left. What has become of the Russian population? Petrograd had a heavy preponderance of due to workers in the mills, on the and in governmental service. These workers are to a large extent in the army. The civil servants have scattered, since the Bolshevistic government has its own bu- reaucracy. In the prewar period in the capital city was the bureaucracy of the na- tion; now there is bureaucracy all over the nation and the capital city has a smaller body. The death rate has been very high. The deaths in rioting and from execution have contributed to the exodus. Finally males, wharfs starvation and unemployment have driven many to country districts. As the army de- mobilized the stream of refugees flowed in the direction of the cities; with the realiza- tion of conditions there the stream reversed and poured toward the country. We may be certain that thousands dropped by the wayside, as did the soldiers of Bonaparte. One important political meaning of the depopulation of the cities must not be over- looked. The smaller the cities the easier the problem of military control by the Bolshe- vists and the less the liability of counter- revolution. Government of the people by the people has two kinds of faults—those that spring from inexperience, and those that come from overexperience. In the early days of the provisional government the Bolshevists worked with the other groups of socialists. With the advent of Lenine and Trotzky this ceased and the Bolshevists divided Russia into two classes—those who be- lieved in their methods and those opposed to them. Included in the opposition were several previously prominent groups of socialists, notably the social revolutionists—inter- nationalists—and the Mensheviki. The antagonism between the Bolshevists and the Menshevists dates back to the London conference in 1903, where the Rus- sian delegation split into two factions—the Bolshevists, majority the Menshevists, minority. In order to carry out the system of control by councils it was necessary to organize a political machine large enough to include and control this bureaucracy, otherwise the soviet system would have meant a despotism of countless small com- mittees. Never was such an opportunity offered for the tactics and practices of the ward heeler, never a mass of people so un- critical and so easily manipulated. Never- theless, the control of this political machine has encountered great difficulties. Fre quently peasants would send delegations that had ideas of their own and would not take the program. These had to be sent back and suppressed. With the rising consciousness of the petty bourgeoisie in the peasants these con flicts between country and city soviet have become frequent and distracting. It was found impossible to carry on the workings of the political machine except through the aid of a nationalized press—that is, all anti-Bolshevistic press is prohibited in Russia. American apologists for or sympa thizers with Russian radicalism are prone to hedge in discussions of this subject, but there has been no shame for the policy in Russia. In one of his brochures Bucharin ex- plains in detail why it is impossible to con- cede to the opponents of Bolshevism any freedom of the press or speech, any right of association or meeting. Bolshevism is good, opposition to good is evil and evil cannot be tolerated! But when repression of propaganda to destroy the American Government is suggested, that is violation of freedom of speech! Democracy and Socialism Dead no matter how defined, of socialism in the classical sense, there is no trace in the Russia of to-day. Aided by this control over expression of opinion, the political machine of Bolshevism has ridden roughshod over all opposition within the ranks and without. The tactics have been as autocratic and arbitrary as the pro- grams have been extreme. If the Germans had possessed in their censorship a fraction of the control over public opinion exhibited by the Bolshevists they would have got still more work out of their overworked people during the war. Such power in a political organization lends itself not only to autecracy but also to corruption. And this corruption will not be exterminated by executions for graft now so frequently re- ported in Russia. It is integral in the sys- tem and will persist, because each thief believes he can avoid detection. Five years ago it would have been im- possible to have judged the workings of communism in industry by the facts of human experience. We should have been compelled to reason from theory and anal- ogy. War control of industry has, how- ever, provided us with abundant experience in kind. The nations of Europe on both sides of the fighting line, and to a certain extent the United States, have established in the state a veritable communism that differs from Bolshevism only in the ends sought. Of democracy, January 17,1920 England and Germany developed war collectivism to a far greater extent than did France or Italy; England because of her dependence upon imports, Germany be- cause of her being under blockade, besides which the Latin temperament lends itself little to such organization. There were eighty-five war boards in England. In 1915 sixty per cent of German civilians were di- rectly under governmental supervision. With the passage of the Universal Service Law all civilians were under compulsion in work, wage and standard of living. Germany, that had the maximum of war collectivism, is most weary of external con- trol of economic processes. The machinery of war control of industry is the same in kind as that of Bolshevism and the reac- tions observed in the former may be em- ployed to elucidate the results in the latter Wartime control is a test of the adminis- trative side of production, distribution and consumption under communism, not of the receiver side, as the profits did not go to the state. As a matter of fact, the same may be said of communism in Russia and Hun- gary, as there have been no profits to go to the state. In war collectivism and in communism all citizens yield rights possessed by them under the previous system in order to attain solidarity of purpose, concentration of effort and efficiency in the pursuit of a denominated end. In the case of commu- nism the end is the destruction of capital and the obliteration of the wage system. In the case of war collectivism the end is maxi- mum codrdination of civilian forces in order that the military forces shall be ac- corded support to the uttermost. Spiritual Motive Power The motive power of communism is al- truism. The motive power of war collec- tivism is patriotism. Neither can rely upon the usual relations of production, distribu- tion, transportation and consumption. Both must install a bureaucracy that shall develop programs designed to meet the new objectives and carry them into effect. The particular objectives will not be the same in a communistic program in time of peace and in a collectivistic program in time of war. But the attainments aimed at in the general operations of industry must be the same. In each case there must be a striving for maximum production of mate- rials and commodities in accordance with an order of priority of essentials; elimination of waste, avoidance of luxury, conserva- tion of resources, limitation of consumption in certain directions; equity in distribution as between classes, zones and individuals; maintenance of health and nutrition; con- trol and elaboration of transportation; and development of new methods and increased efficiencies. In each system there must be a departure from the financial basis of nor- mal operations. In war collectivism as in communism each individual must yield many previously termed rights of private action. The elemental producers upon the land and in the mines must adapt their programs to the program of the nation. Raw materials must be withdrawn from the open market wholly or partly and allocated for different uses in harmony with the purposes of na- tional control. There must be a ration di- rectly or indirectly of all commodities for civilian consumption. There must be a ration directly or in- directly of all foodstuffs. The law of supply and demand is suspended and prices are fixed for raw materials and manufactured commodities covering the entire population directly or indirectly. With each system there will be the basal paration into foodstuffs and feeding stuffs, finance, raw materials, transporta- tion, fuel and shipping. Within the food administration will be subdivisions for grains, flour, packing-house products, dairy products, canned fruits and vege- tables, vegetable oils, sugar, and soon. In the administration for raw materials there things will be departments having in charge leather, rubber, iron, the precious metals, copper, tin, the subordinate nonferrous metals, tanning materials, chemicals, dyes, and so on. The administration of fuel will control production and allocation to mili- tary and civilian industries, manufacture of foodstuffs, railways, household consump- tion, and so on. The various nations at war had all of these organizations and they exist to-day in kind in Bolshevist Russia. The human Continued on Page 73)

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Continued from Page 70 machinery by which this control is imple- mented must be practically the same in communism and war collectivism. But the method by 1 the implements are selected are different. TI e difference lies in the selection of men o fill these positions of control. In war collectivi m the leading experts in each to governmental posi- essed into pul lic serv- ice with the imy »>command that they subordinate all i e interests, both in their personal lives and in the affairs of their corporations, and enter upon the management of the } icular activities in which they are specialists without concern for personal emolume - These men give their entire attention to the governmer tal undertakings, shaping " private affairs of all men to the rhoses of the carrying on of the war, endowed with { nal authority and corresp nding responsibility. The war control of the nation at war represents the collectivism of the _ best ability in the nation. and capital formally sign a truce and everything is sus- pended ex ept the work of the moment in

business are with er th uslasm, 1e case of communism each citizen has nothing to fall back upon but a name- less faith in an unknown program, a blind tin a Utopian hypothesis and the feeble conviction of a worker under strange lead- ers. When anything is lacking under war hard, to subordinate se!

THE SATURDAY control everyone recognizes that it is a temporary privation. When anything goes wrong it is'a temporary inconvenience. When mistakes are made these are recog- nized as involving only temporary results. But when in communism anything goes wrong it cannot be held to be temporary. Inconveniences that rise suggest themselves as inherent in the system. Mistakes are recognized as having not temporary but continued results, Under war control the citizen is full of impulse and empty of criticism; in com- munism he is full of criticism and the posi- tive impulses are prone to subside. To be successful in popular estimation a wartime control need only be moderately successful in fact, but to be successful in popular estimation communism must achieve a dis- tinct success in fact. Wartime control has everything in its favor; communism [ttle in its favor, despite voc ife srous proclamation in favor of the new system by the masses, whose altruism will be dissipated by the first disappointments. Individualism’s Reactions When certain reaction of various sections of the population have now been observed in war collectivism we may be sure that these same reactions will be observed in communi These reactions of men as individuals to external control over the work of their lives have been clear-cut and unequivocal in every nation involved in the war and in the neutral nations compelled to endure war restrictions; ar d —- have been equ illy clear gary and in the mildly ‘of Europe. These reactions hold for men oe 0 work with the hand as much as for men who work with the head. They represent the elemental reactions of incividualism The vast majority of men work, plan anc live under the impulse of self-interest. ey will not work hard, plan wisely or strive effectively if self-ir They wish to acquire possessions for them selves and families and bequeath them to their children. Progress in the production of the necessaries of life is to be attained only throug zh intensification, humaniz ation a idea ition of the impulse of self- interest, not through the abolition of it. Only a small minority of men can innervate the mind or muscle with altruism. The vast majority of men will work from the motive of patriotism, work hard to attain a national ideal in offense or defense. A very small minority of men are interna- tional in ideals; these, with conscientious objectors, pacifists and weaklings, comprise the small group that resist the impulse of nationalism. War experience has taught us that con- trol of a commodity is much more effective with imported than with a genous prod- ucts, not because the domestic producer is less willing than the baperte r but because the proce lures are in the one instance scattered, in the other concentrated. Fore it yg production by st of price will succeed labor be av: The difficulties have been greate distribution, because we know least mechanics of distributior Control of distril ution succeeds or ly

terest is lacking.

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when the scl 100led tracers get theirs houl- ders behind the wheel; it will not go by ng pull ed by committtes Trade is in the final a complex of more or less intangible factors and slight breaks will lead to ever widening g Governmental contro! l tion, unless operated through the trade itself, everywhere lacks punch, due p rtly to the fact that an outsider does not know where to aim the punch. Control of con- sumption has also revealed unsuspected weaknesst We. have learned that the technic of production is far more ad\ and understood than the technic of con- Sumption. Let one take a basic product, say copper, and trace it out into the various ramifica- tions of ultimate uses, and the increasing complexity of the progression from pro- ducer through distributor to consumer will become graphically apparent. The rela- tions between the three are not rigid; they shift with success or failure in management. Distribution should not cover over a cer- tain volume of the cost of commodities let us say, for a certain product fifteen per cent—but an external control may greatly increase this fraction. Flexibility in con- trol is essential and this is not to be at- tained unless the programs are in the hand of men of training. Government operation

zation anced EVENING POST of individual industries is child's play com- yn of war pared to collectivistic administrati control or of communism Leaving the general side of the proposi- tion and coming now to particulars, every single breakdown in the development of communism in Russia and Hunga was to have been predicted from our experience in war collectivism. The reactions of the farmer are identical in both. The difficu ties in the allocation of raw materials; the need of establishment of priorities in trar portation; the problem of equity in division of supplies of fuel; the tendency to inequality in the distribution of com modities; the breakdown in the correlation between different groups; the failures in coope ration between industries and |} we n men in industries; the impossibilit f harmonizing enlarged needs; the hiatus oh ate n heavy work and restrictions in 1eS all these experier ces have beer

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made to greater or lesser de gree In @V country that has practiced war control. The hardest things to attain in war collectivism were competent organization, up-to-the-minute administration, correct evaluation of producti e avoidance of competition [ for materials or workers. lso

been the hardest things to attain in Russia and Hungary. They were not attained and that has been the principal reason for the breakdowr It has along the line, but the worst failures have been at the top. The bureaucratic control of industrie was not applied early in the B régime in Russia. It was app: sumed that tl s would go on more or less by themselves, despite the formulatior of external control as expounded in the program of Bucharin. But it was soc realized that the control of the operatior of the law of supply and large organization necessary and tha bureaucracy would become larger and more intricate the more production diminished r y of commur tie control is supposed to “resemble a cylinder, Ir truth it follows the lines a a pyran id, and in Russia an inverted pyramid. Wit ignorant people the minutiw# of control is greatly multiplied; and on paper the cour try has been under all price fixing to an That this bureaucracy has been riddled with corruption as well as vitiated by ir > ! } been breakdown all

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competence is only what was to have beer expected. If tl socialism of universal type, a communism; if to each group in the population are to be distributed obligations, work and commodi tie sin proportion to the this could on the basis of historical exper ence be best proc ured under an absolute monarchy. ere isto bea governmental sir needs and deserts Conciliating the Extremists Bolshevism is an oligarchy in fact and in

operation, but an oligar« ny from the out side, not from the inside. An absolute government would operate a te f communism in industry better than a de mocracy, because single administrat procures in t selection of men be re sultsthan multiple administrat I clear that communism cant be attempted by the masses, it could conceivably suc d only under guidance of engineers and tec! nicians in production and econor But times are changing rapid Lenine is now extending the olive branch to the other groups of socialist cla What does tl me the leaders have decided to hedve, and « ciliation of opposing groups of radica one of the step the ne progran ind the hedge has the earmar ot a retre from communism to a |} 1 of state ‘ ism. But this retreat in the prog f industry carries with it no Ange thie idea of as The leaders are cor vinced that ce the soviet represent ’ iin coded af ties peasant the only tri t ! of governmen he Posse¢ t as his own, no change of government is required except to induce the other radicals and the x class to participate—or rather to allow them to participate. It is a mixture of bluff governmentally and hedge industri , but it ber wes not mean that Bolshevism - Jess inimical to other countris i sians have made the discovery tl at I high wages and low prices are a - possible in society as low wages and }

prices—each kill production. Therefore thev are compelled regretfull as a ten porary expedient to return to some of the

1 functions and practices of pitalism, to use the machinery of the em they | tried to destroy. It is i that the forces of altruism in Russia have not been strong enough to atta I production needed in the state It is re ed that the bureaucracy erected to replace the failing tructure of altruism has a tiled to p cure produ It is realized that org zation has inadequ distribut fragmentary, portat deticie i consumption unfulfilled as t result large of internal re ed that Ru aisla ! trat tule r the bureaucra to « ver it. It realized tl t ed to ma those vil na al e growt f the populati ind the maintenance of the plant I'herefore this is the eason for hedging. he hedging is in four directior toward worKer repre nta and the bureaucra to the peasant has: bee pe int | ha issed » petty bourge Whe ; ‘ sciousme Nes ASSO iated with middle cla pr tv interest the peasant class will rule issia rhe lustrial we é CO lence f the leader nized t taretu 1 ist he ovment forced in one The workers have beet tandardized basis of out estal ed ouput must be the orKer bea wrded ( eatio tu! hatever goes the low i rating The Tayl tem ol ie to beintroduced; wage overthe minimum i by the piece (the premium wage tem d bonuses for overtime 1 overprodu HI tion restored; and thesystem of exploit n i reapplied in order that the lus valu I the worker mi go to the , A Rose by Another Name ! If the wage worker ment under capitalism mit to it under comn exchanged an indivi ] t t le ve master, and t one to approach ar language, La re Import blockade: that cred vithout grant r ext resisted this tre

for exploitati ! ft the re l and that foreign capita dealing wit! thosewho have tion of capital The annou

of the foreign debt is t the proviso that { t eparated Finland, P li bear a pl ’ the ire ng to d hut rf ¢ de ts are invited to sele ‘ of Russia ope e,. Preparat it t > ae t ‘ the de tact the elves to re ert ¢ I erna 1 10 yn cal nd é tal to ae It especia ke otate lid gt t} ( ( ent ‘ olfer the | ‘ ‘ i elere ‘ t ‘ l ‘ Representative e R ilist

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Brackett, of Ohio, has earned over $200.00 “One writes us, “was day's profit,” he $27.25," the same opportunity to make big, easy profits is open to you And Your Spare Time Too Is Money! | Would an Cl h week extra each wee spare Extra Money Each Week Ri ht » I 1 7 ) ? ! i ‘ al wl i tew h t ich w t help t i ! ‘ ina f / + / fou ind 7 ( It vou hav All tl . eacacccncocscccceccoes CLIP HERE voccccccecceccccccccce The Curtis Publishing Company, 664 Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa. extra SI0.00 to $ be welcome to you? | Ny hours. We $25.00 Extra Mr. A. C. Bayless, of Ohio, who earns $25.00 extra each month for his spare-time work alone, says “any man who keeps up with the times is a good prospect " There are many suchin your ne ighborhood — 5.00 in more, i ro even ( will buy them —fo nity \ Yi "t need experience You ! ‘ ! you ear All that have eve you i spare hour or to spar ‘ 1 day : for mor pr } We w furnish FRI i ‘ wh equipment of sup }] l ve vou tull instruc (; t tor vour work Do YOU par t want this 1ob It you do, send th pon TO-DAY Iw y a Month oo You car No Experience Necessary Mr. F. S. Attwood, of Minnesota, is seriously handi« apped in his work, yet in a single day he has earned $7.00, spare-time and his Curtis work has been a constant source of liberal profit to him oD Cane your pay envelope have that much you will sell your r cash! | amounts EVENING POST The hedging of the Russian leaders was forecast in Germany a year ago and the recent developments have had a depressing effect upon the Spartacists, in addition to which Russian gold no longer flows freely in Germany. These hedges represent not merely re- treats of a tactical nature; with some they indicate moderation of views. A Hungarian writer, Palyi, published a year ago a modi- fied program of communism. The results of the production of society were to be divided as follows: 1. Each person receives the minimum requirements of existence. 2. Each head and hand worker receives the stated wage or salary. 3. Upkeep, depreciation and new equip- ment to be paid. 4. Interest—low—on the ployed in industry, 5. Honorarium for entrepreneurs Taxes to cover expenses of state, schools, and so on, Anything left over to revert to the state, but this is supposed to be nil because the items under 2 are sup- posed to be calculated to that end. capital em- Palyi draws a distinction between indi- vidual and private possession—the former cannot be passed on to heirs and only indi- — we alth is permitted. No person is o be permitted to employ his net savings, the differ nce between income and cost of living, in any way that involves employ- ment of labor and the paying of a wage. He may spend his income as he pleases; he may loan to the state, which for a specific rate of interest will invest in industries under communistie control, but he may not himself invest it and employ labor. The incentive to saving is to be destroyed thereby. One of the socialists attending the Inter- ational Conference in Berne last February al the situation succinctly from the social- ist position as follows: The communists of Russia will have to back water to about that position in socialization of institutions as had been attained in Germany and New Zealand—all the rest carried through to destruction of lives and values. Similar hedges were in evidence in Hun- gary before the collapse of Bela Kun, These hedges, or temporary compromises, are not made in good faith, since they involve repudiation of programs that ac- cording to every evidence have not been given up. There is evidence that the polit- ical position of Lenine has been somewhat compromised by these hedges, just as it was when he advocated the ratification of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. But he weath- ered that storm and will probably emerge undispossessed from this. Syndicalism Ogles Bolshevism There is evidence that a large section of the Bolshevists would like to shelve com- munism for good and all and return to the system of capitalistic industry under a soviet government. It is at the same time clear that another group is much more radical than Lenine and opposes the hedg- ing, arguing for extension of direct action throughout the world. Syndicalism has also taken a hold on many Bolshevists. But the divisions among themselves mean little. The moderation of program is a maneuver in tactics; it does not mean abandonment of communistic agitation elsewhere in the world. A new radicalism has appeared in the world. Marx once said that the “sun of socialism would not have risen until the crowing of the Gallic cock.” Is syndicalism the Gallic cock? It ap- peared as an offshoot of union labor in France late in the nineties. Syndicalists organized in this country in 1905. The Bolshevists talk more and more in its terms, The old-line socialists of Germany and Central Europe have become reconstruc- tionists; the Spartacists, direct action | socialists and communists have become syndicalists. The movement is growing in the land of its birth, in Italy and in Switzerland, Holland and Sweden. The number of adherents is not large, but they are all radical and are tireless in agitation, The I. W. W. is syndicalism, Syndicalism is opposed to labor unions of the usual type. It is opposed to strikes, It disdains all political action. It teaches that the workers should operate and con- trol the industries. In a certain sense the method is the reverse of that of the direct- action communist. Instead of the prole- tariat seizing the reins of government and January 17,1920 employing governmental control to operate the machinery of industry, syndicalism would have the proletariat seize the reins of industry in order to operate the govern- ment. The tactics of the syndicalist are revealed especially in two things—employ- ment of sabotage and restriction of opera- tions to key industries, a Teutonic imperi- alistic program taken over into a French labor program. There is sabotage in strike and sabotage in work. Under sabotage in work is meant everything that will reduce production, increase costs, restrict profits, retard dis- tribution or impair consumption. It means a systematic effort to reduce the standing and efficiency of industrial opera- tions. It is based upon the proposition that the class war is always on and sabotage is the guerrilla warfare. It is defended on the ground that the relations between employer and employee being a modus vivendi the worker owes no moral obligation to the em- ployer to do a day’s work merely because he has agreed to do so. “If the workers consider that sabotage is necessary, that in itself makes sabotage moral,”’—Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Sabotage de Luxe Innumerable and ingenious are the de- vices of sabotage, such as inserting high- grade materials into low-grade patterns, shifting the temperature of the hardening bath so thé at ball bearings will break under load, annealing glassware so that it will be overbrittle, introducing sophistications into foodstuffs in order to blacken the repute of the goods, and so on. Sabotage need not be physical; it may lie in mere rumor. Anything that affects the quality, quantity or service that an industry offers the public lies within the domain of sabotage. The ultimate idea is to make industry so unprofitable that the owners will resign it to the workers, aided by a final strike when necessary. Syndicalism does not bother about plumbers and carpenters. It aims at key industries—mining, transport, textiles the attack v: arying with the country. It is everywhere bitterly opposed to labor unions, aiming first to subordinate them, or failing in that to ingratiate agitators into the unions for the purpose of disrupting them. Labor unions make agreements with employers—the cardinal sin for syndicalism. There are three groups of syndicalists in Europe. One group strives for syndicalism of key industries in order to bind all work- ers into one big union. This is the tendency in England. The second group hopes through syndicalization of key industries to enter upon communism. This is the tendency in Germany and east of there. The third group strives to obtain control of industries directly for the benefit of the workers concerned, without any reference to workers in other lines, expressed or implied. The Zeiss Optical Works in Jena is an illustration in point. It belongs to the workers and is operated for themselves exclusively and not in the interest of other workers, This is the tendency in this country apparently. And this corresponds to the criticism of the evolution: ary school of socialists, that syndicalism is in the group sense individualistic and not con- structive, even from the standpoint of the class war. Are the Plumb bill and the Townley bills syndicalistic in the sense that they aim to turn industries over to workers? The *lumb bill provides that the railways are to be turned over to a tripartite board for operation. The board is to represent three groups—the classified workers, the officials and the Government. Rates are to be fixed under supervision and control of the Inter- state Commerce Commission. Wages are to be fixed by officials and workers. Excess profits, after upkeep, replacements and new investments, are to be divided be- tween workers and Government. In theory rates would be so laid as to cover costs of operation, upkeep and replacements, new investments and interest on the bonds, leaving no profits. Values are to be ap- praised and the confiscated properties paid for in government bonds. The bill may propose a collectivistic op- eration or a syndicalization—it depends upon the classification of the officials. If we call them workers then the roads would be managed and operated by the workers— that would be syndicalism. If the officials Concluded on Page 77)

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76 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 DUPLEX TRUCKS FOR BU SIN ECE S S&S

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——— (Conciuded from Page 74) are classified as representatives of the Gov- ernment, that would be government opera- tion. The proponents of the bill believe it would result in more efficient service to the people and in the elimination of stock watering and financial manipulation. The opponents contend that it would mean con- fiseation of property in the case of good roads and giving money away in the case of poor roads and would lead to deteriora- tion of service. The North Dakota legislation is state socialism pure and simple. The farmers can- not be classified as workers; they are cap- italists. The new legislation provides for state operation of farm banks, elevators and flour mills, with provisions for hail in- surance. The bills are stated to have been badly drawn and the interests of the state inadequately safeguarded, in which event losses are inevitable. But the bills propose nothing more than has been done in many parts of the world. It would have been more in harmony with the spirit of our in- stitutions to have done these things through cooperative association rather than through state ownership. The need for elevators is alleged to rest upon cleaning and grading practices that result in more wheat being shipped out of the elevators than enters them. The Fruit Growers Exchange does for the orange grower of California, apart from the banking, more than is contem- plated in this legislation. Because the farmers have formed a non- partisan league and cut loose from tradi- tional legislative practice should not blind us to the fact that this is nothing revolution- ary. The sole purpose of the legislation is to increase the profits of the farmers, to make wheat raising more remunerative; if it means anything out of the way it means merely a gouge of the public by one group of capitalists. When the farmers hold con- trol of all their a and there is no com- petition among hundreds of grain dealers we may find them trying to corner hard spring wheat and then we will have no doubt that it is a purely capitalistic proposition. Considered philosophically, the remote causes of Bolshevism in Europe lay in the forms of government that denied to the common man the effective expression of his convictions and in the crystallization of society into rigid classes that denied oppor- tunity to individual talent. Considered psychologically, the immediate causes of Solshevism in Europe lay in the degrada- tion of war and in the poverty, suffering and starvation entailed by the failure of industrial and economic institutions to en- dure an overfought war. Mental, Not Social Unrest None of these causes of social unrest ex- ists in the United States. High prices cause dissatisfaction; but so long as ih high prices we have an orgy of spending, no seri- ous social unrest can be founded on them. There is no more internal reason for social unrest in our country than there was five years ago— probably less. Agitation in this country springs from mental unrest, from a false concept of internationalism and from direct instigation at the hands of foreign agents. We have lost our viewpoint, lost it 2 A strike that five years ago would have been regarded as a strike for cher r wages is to-day regarded as an erup- tion of nation-wide unrest. Apprehension has taken the place of analysis. This loss of direct grasp on their problems is noted with employers as much us with employees. Men who have worked to- gether for decades now begin to distrust each other. The basis of mutual reasoning remains, but the basis of mutual confidence is felt to have become insecure. Both em- ployer and employee seem to have mild cases of delusions of persecution; the rela- tions have changed more as the result of nerves than of facts. This state of appre- hension is being utilized by professional agitators, who must be combated and sup- pressed. Radical agitation need hold for us no terrors after we have returned to our- selves. The signs of restoration of the normal viewpoint are already in sight. The public is getting tired of controversies between THE SATURDAY organized employers and organized em- ployees. The organized workers forget for the moment that the interests of the public are a factor in every program of wages and hours. The organized employers forget for the moment that they operate in large part with the capital of the people, loaned to them for the purpose of production of com- modities and development of society. The failure of communism and the hor- rors of Bolshevism should inspire to greater efforts all those who believe that there is need for betterment in our society and that the present is the appointed time. It does not lie within the scope of this writing to discuss constructive social and industrial programs in the United States. The fiasco of the recent industrial conference in Wash- ington suggests that investigation is more needed than discussion, investigation*as to the transition of society from the hand-age to the machine-age. But it may be permis- sible to state briefly the indispensables that a review of developments and conditions abroad predicates as necessary for the stab- ilization of the social system: Such a plane of production of materials, commodities and services must be assured as will annually raise the standard of living available to all classes materially and cul- turally. Such a plane of production of materials, commodities and services must be assured as will provide, through savings, for that annual expansion in our national plant ne- cessitated by increase in population and re quire ments, Americanization Imperative The relations between employer and worker must be humanized through the de- velopment of fellowship and fused through the intensification of craft sense. Increase in wages, division of profits, participation in ownership, bonuses for efficiency, shop committees— these all are elements of ma- terial justice in the division of the results of labor, but they will not succeed fully in the absence of the psychological attitude of mutuality. The relations in society, industry and gov- ernment must conserve to every American the full opportunity for advancement as the expression of individual initiative, tal- ent and leadership. Class consciousness is a menace to the future of the Republic. Americanization of immigrants is an im- perative duty. If they are not American- ized Americans will be foreignized. Governmental control of corporate ac- tivites must be extended in accordance with correct definitions of economic functions Strikes and lockouts must be eliminated from key industries— industries upon which the elemental needs of the public depend, such as mining of coal and transportation The officer in the Navy may not resign, the policeman may not strike, physicians and nurses may not quit. The miner and railroader are as essential as these. Relin- quishment of the right to strike must no be exacted; it must be paid for in tenure, elevation of occupation, wages and pen sions —the price the public has to pay for stability in essential institutions. 4 method must be established whereby wages are tied to prices——that is, the cu wage index must be attached to the curve of price index. Thisis the problem of cons tive industrialism,an enlightened meliorism. The country is again being flooded with appeals for the recognition of the Bolshevist government in Russia. It is intimated that orders for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of American materials and goods will be placed at once, to be paid forin gold! It cannot be too strongly emphasized that Bol- shevistic promises to respect our institutions cannot be trusted. The Bolshevist leaders have often and explicitly pledged themselves to the program of destruction in all countries of all institutions opposed to communism Bolshevists have repeatedly stated that communism could not ten in Russia unless it existed in the United King- dom, Germany and in the United State Bolshevism has stated that it cannot com promise with our cannot compromise with it. 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N AA New Shoulder Idea for OTHING \ THE ‘Young Men 1 Half Hour in Vew York I iny Way hy iT a % , aw tr fit 1 1 in i f ‘ i \A () ‘ yf few But { ’ hot ¢ l t ' , t Cortley Clothes by COHEN & LANG In fh i Style Authors 2 « ity of New York / SATURDAY EVENING POST YOUJOURS DE January 17,1920 TE iT fO) Py) DB) (FAX c L*AUW DAC Continued from Page 23 Perry was surprised and he looked it. ‘*What for?” told him, and door. Che cashier?” he asked. He didn't say,’ the mar Commons, next ome perplexity, bank Inside he and then the from his desk at turned toward the Perry looked after him ir then he went into the looked round him curiously ashier beckoned to him one end of the room ar The said Perry asked: ‘‘ You wanted to see me?” “Yes-—waitjustaminute. I'llbethrough nere Perry crossed over, cashier ‘Sit dowr He was reading a letter, open on the desk before him, and Perry waited, but he did not sit down. He was iely uneasy. The window beside him was open, It looked out toward the street. He saw a drive up to the bank In a alight and toward the bank steps. Perry marked that the man had left his engine running, and he smiled a little ‘Saves cranking,” he told himself. Just then someone touched his arm and aid: ‘‘Hello, Parker.” Perry turned round in some surprise and looked at the newcomer. He saw a man of with a grizzled mustache and i heavy chin. He looked this man up and down and smiled good-naturedly. ‘*Guess you've made a mistake,”’ he said cheerfully. ‘‘My name’s not Parker.” The man looked to the cashier and asked: ‘This him?” The cashier nodded ‘That’s |} im,”” he said “I’m Martin, Bankers’ Protective,” said the man to Perry. ‘‘What’s the matter with you? Did you think you could get away with it twice in e place?” Perry’s thoughts were racing The cashier said, with a certain pride in is voice: “I knew him the minute I saw him. He got over five hundred dollars from us the thirteenth and fourteenth of March As pretty aset of forgeries as you ever saw.”’ ‘*He won't do it again,” said the dete tive. ‘‘He’s tried it too often One of the most marvelous things in the orld is the speed with which a man can think when he has to. Perry had suddenly seen a blinding light. They were charging him with forgery—fourteenth of March. He had not been in Hanover for more than 4 ear. Someone who looked like him countrymar shiny new automobile, come middle-age the sa and P. D. Q. had proved that he was skilled withaper ind P. D.Q. had reached Boston fifteenth of Mare on the They thought he was P. ID. ) Perry wanted to laug! rhe situation appealed to him. His first reactior vas one of protest It was cut Pr. D. @ n fact had never occurred to hu . t was so ridiculously obviou ZPD. Q , im he must look like I probit m! Ch armor! The sure weapon with vhich the faker might be overthrown! He had only to get back to Boston, make some brief arrangements, do a little stage man izing e laughed aloud at the supreme licity of the thing Then Martin touched his arm Might as 1 come along, ne l gested. ‘* We eatch the afternoon trair That gave Perry a measurable shock. If obvious that ! to do. He he were In jal could not do could take no advantage « it was quite what he me of hi this palpably simple fact that he ooked like P. D. Q lr lentally, if he were in jail he would probably stay there It was quite impossible for him to prove that he was not P. D. Q. so long wa in jail. Ergo, he must not go to ) He looked toward the teller’s windows. The countr was involved in some dis- cussion there Perry cried sharply ing for the man ‘That man’s reach- money ! The cashier whirled to look, Martin urned like a cat to see—and Perry leaped through and past them, flung himself toward the window that was open, slid and scram bled across the sill, dropped to the turf out side on his hands and knees and jumped into the countryman’s automobile. Off with the brake, on with the gas, in with the clutch! The car jumped ahead, shifted from low to high, took the corner by the Com mons on two wheels, droppe d like a plum met down the long hill toward the station. His engine roared so that he nothing of the tumult behind Perry was under no illusions. He knew would be tumult. He did not wish to become involved in this tumult. He gave the car all she would take and bent all his ener gies to the task of getting away from there. His eyes were dancing, he was chuckling exultantly. He had the answer to his puzzle—let him once reach Boston. ‘‘Look out for yourself, P. D. Q.,”" he shouted, and took a hill on high like a ] quirreil going up a tree, could hear him, but there OW, that particular automobile which Perry had commandeered for his im- mediate use in this impromptu flight of his had many merits. Among other things it has added vastly to the store of American humor. From a somewhat more practical f it is equally important. It will do many things that no other auto- mobile may safely attempt, but in at least one feature it deficient. You cannot push one of the things up to any ly break-neck speed, and Perry wanted speed. If he could have reached Boston in thirty sec ynds he would have done so. He is in a hurry to reach Boston; he was ¢ tearing | behind him the leave already point of view really pina hurry to knew must be Mar tin would pick a fast one and pick it quickl would follow for the In a straight erhauled before But he had per ; full of automobiles and scores of others if the sport to be had y race he would be ov he could snap his fingers. haps a mile of start; he could take any road that offered, while his pursuers must stop at ever, ntersection to pick up his and this was by no means a straight It was ar downhill and round the corner sort of game. T se the chance trail oo steep thought he could keep ahead of the pursuit for a few minutes, perhaps half an hour “That means I’ve got half an hour to think of something else,’ he told himself grinning with excitement Half an hour ought to be about sixty nes too mucl His front wheeis struch a He yank ed the light car back into stone, jerked SIGeW Ist ++] the tnrottle the road and gave t anotne! ot rtwo loujours de l’Audace Pe ry he told eu Figure out mething! Cross the ) f vu ' He did not for so much as a minute cor er the} } tv of a surrender In the first place, Perry w not of the stuff that surrenders; and in the second place, he dare not. Free, he could destroy P. D. Q. He had found the formula. But if he were ailed the law would effectively destroy him. Therefore, he must be free He swore at himself good-natu edly for not having seen the weakness in P. D. Q.’s positi ‘You've leep Perry,” he told himee Asleep at the switch Deser\ But it’s not too late, y £ get away from this incl He looked back from the top of a hill and mile caught a glimpse of the road half a behind him. Lnere were scur ing cars ar of dust rising over that along that road, a pu Pe rr went down swiftly thar | more each one y safe rot to strike something faster than L' ve % this flying machine,”’ he told himself cheer fully. ‘‘Change horses in midstream. If another horse would only come along!” He swung narrow dangerou to the right abruptly along a road followed it at a and speed, bouncing root to wood from bowlder ind from bowlder to root Don't know where I'm chuckled, ‘but they'll step on my heels if I don’t get off that road.’ rhe way he had taken open meadow —skirted the edge of meadow After half a mile of it he struck He was not quite sure } knew he came out into an this another road where ne wa bul he wanted to go some where else o he went p one hill and down another and up a third. From the top of the third he saw the river below him, and a town and some railroad yards. “The junction,” he told himself, and had an idea and looked at his watch. A train Continued on Page 80

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‘ el qaow t ithered i eared ‘ i ’ t ij? | © ¢ wi ! na t { r i e trathe ‘ j j ‘ if ‘ i sughed ‘ t 1 ‘ ‘ | “0 it ' ! ve é b ( t t Cree eld ew I iH \ ya | { iv ) Afte 1; moment the \ { \ e seem ) l me hit ( The «¢ pres ‘ ‘ i ‘ i } ‘ ‘ Br ‘ ‘ Ila ‘ ‘ eed, | t Wil \ La e to Gree eld. to 1 rv is a eit ‘ tra rea ed Gires erg ‘ i £ eed that he Thee x sident of ‘ eye THE SATURDAY {escaped badly wounded. Perry grinned, s ff at Greenfield, waited impatiently for an hour end a half and took the Boston ain. No one molested him. At a quarter past twelve that night he knocked on the door of the room which he and Daly shared and Daly called sleepily Hello! Come i “< Perry told him the door was locked and Daly got up and let bade him make haste.

hin W here’d you drop from?” hedemanded Thought you were in Hanover.” Perry grabbed his hand. Got it, Daly!” he cried, Daly said: “What're you t t time o’ night? What ide | know how we can show up P. D. Q.,” Perry told him. That’s what you said before.” | ight to have thought of this before i o darned imple it’s a crime.” What is this big hunch?”’ Daly asked Perry cried: “It’s sure fire!” Daly lighted a cigarette, sat down on the culge f the bed, I'n istening,”” he aid | tell you,” Perry promised, and xv | yl RRY vot back to Boston in the small hours of Sunday morning Monday evening at a quarter before eight o'clock Katie answered the doorbell at Camilla’s home and saw Slim Attucks, alias Perry Danton, alias P. D. Q., standing in the doorway. She looked quickly back over her shoulder, then smiled at him and said: Hello, Slim.” he not here the man asked. Went out right after you telephoned,” Katie told him. ‘“* What up? What do beckoned with a movement of witch out this porch light and come out here,” he said. “‘I want to talk to you uw minute Katie pre her hand, then joined him on the and shut the door behind her. There wa ed the button within reach of porch a faint moon that enabled them to see eac! other, They stepped to the end of the veranda I'm getting a little leery,”” the man said. Has Danton been round here again?” Katie shook her head. ‘Not a sign of him—not since that day he turned up here with the beard all over his face. you is till looking bad.” I see that eye he gave The man nodded “I'll even that up when the time come: You know what happened to him? He went up to his college commencement—-the vorked last March—and they potted him in the bank and wired for a He got away, but that’s what's col » to him sooner or later. He'll get pulled for me of my work, and ther You've got plenty of the old nerve, m he t id nh approvir gly If it was me I'd want to make a clean-up and et out I'm nervy ihe mar icKied What the use? I'm settled for life where | can take ire of all of you at the ame time There’s plenty for us all.” got Ammidown fooled?” Absolutely.” ’ ea wi I tell you, the only one that worries me is Unis ¢ | here Ha he shown any sign t t she W Isé Not a bit.’ Watch he Katie.” ire, that what I'm here for.” | ul see her acting queer, thinking t ic! w! let me Ww What ido? Grab everything tand beat ? He Le Une Lhere me way I can see to fix

ret eT ! i “1 t »\ yu,” the gested. “I think she'd fall for y: I’m not ready for that yet,” and shook his head Wait till t ng ettle dowr I'd feel better if Danton was in ja Frame him ther The man laughed You've got good ideas, Kate,” he I've thought of that Maybe l Whi I'he or ly thing you keep me agreed he nodded Sure EVENING POST ll right,” he said. “I'll move on.” He laughed. “You may tell Miss Hoyt I called.” The girl said gayly: “Like fun I will! This one was on me.” The man moved down the steps and she watched him take the drive toward the After a little she went indoors,

street. Tuesday morning the telephone rang in Perry’s home on Beacon Street and old rklay answered. He said, “Hello,” and “This is Arklay,” and ‘Very well, sir,” and then stepped to the foot of the stairs and called Hasket. “Mr. Danton wishes to speak to you,” he told the valet. Hasket might have answered on the ex- tension on the second floor, but chose to descend to the booth in the hall. He lifted the receiver from the shelf and said quietly: “This is Hasket.”’ The man at the other end asked: “* Where are you? Where's Arklay?” Hasket replied: ‘‘In the booth. Arklay’ in the dining room.” ‘No one listening? ‘No. What’s up, Slim?” ‘Has Danton been up there?” ‘No. What do you mean?” ‘I met him downtown here. he said gave me the idea he was going up to try to see Arklay again. Something Don't let them get together. Old Arklay might see the light Hasket replied: ‘‘I’ll look out. He won't get the chance Don’t worry about Ark- lay. I've got him fooled—-or you have.” ‘I'm going to get rid of the old codger pretty soor ™ ‘No hurry. Let him stay. He's the best proof you've got. He'd swear on a tack of Bibles you were Danton.” “That's all right. I hope he won't have to. Watch out though.” ‘Sure!”’ “We won't be on Easy Street till Dan- ton’s out of the way.” “That's what I told you. If you'd done n the first place he wouldn't a good job have come back, “I’m not for rough stuff. May have to though.” ‘I'd have done it first thing.”’ “Well watch out for Arklay.” ‘Sure! The other man hung up the receiver and Hasket left the booth and went back up- stairs. Fifteen minutes after this telephone con- versation Miss Judy Hatton, who was in charge of the telephone switchboard in the reception hall of Ammidown’s suite of offices, looked up from the book she was reading between calls and saw who it was that had just come in and said with a smile: “Why, you’ve changed your suit, Mr Danton.” He nodded. “Car splashed me from a pu Devonshire Street,”” he explained, » | ran out home and changed

“It a new one, isnt it pe He had stopped by her des} Fis? Eksiededl uel sapbiadniiee

doors into the various offices were closed and asked soft! “Everything all right?” She said: “‘Sure!”

‘I’m nervous,” he told her. ‘Come out of it, Slim,”’ she urged. ‘‘ You never had a nerve in your life.” “This is a risky game though. “You're getting away with it.”

“Danton hasn't been round again, has he?” “No.” Mr. Ammidown’s door opened and

Ammidown himself came out into t , ception hall. He said: “Hello, Perry! I’ve been waiting for you. Take these papers up to Flood’s office, will you? I'd rather not trust them to a messenger. He handed the other the papers. The girl at the switchboard winked behind Am midown’s back and her lips sound r formed the words: “ Brace up, Slim.” As he went to the door Ammidown ac- companied him, giving some final instruc- tions. He looked back from the doorway and the girl blew him a kiss, but Ammidown was watching him and he had no chance to return it, When he was gone Ammidown returned ce and Judy returned to her book. An occasional man came or went. She was beginning to wonder why Slim did not come bac k. Some forty minutes after his departure a man whom Judy did not know came in and asked to see Mr. Ammidown. She asked his name essly to nis of January 17,1920 He said: “I’m David Lloyd.” She communicated this name to Mr Ammidown and Mr. Ammidown bade her send Mr. Lloyd in. xvi | pane a few minutes after Judy Hatton sent Mr. David Lloyd in to see Mr Ammidown nothing happened at all. That is to say, nothing happened in the reception hall of Mr. Ammidown’s suite of offices be- yond the occasional passage of some mem- ber of the firm from one office to another and the clatter of typewriters behind closed doors here and there. Judy herself sat at her switchboard, answered a call or two, tucked up the lock of hair above her ears three or four times and read industriously It would be more accurate perhaps to say that she tried to read industriously, for there was slowly falling upon Judy a rest- lessness for which she could not account Her thoughts wandered from the printed page. She found them centering for no particular reason on Mr. David Lloyd She had never seen him before—she was : and he had not the appear- ance of an officer of the law. He was, she attorney of the old school, a Ammidown. Obviously he was on friendly terms with Mr. Ammidown, for she had heard Am- midown greet the newcomer as “ Dave” hefore the door closed behind him. There g in all this to make Judy rest sne was, and could not throw off

guessed, ar man almost as old as Mr was noth less, yet tne feeling It seemed to her that she had forgotte: something or failed to do something or over looked something. She had that hollow, Vacuous sensation which ace ympanies the act of groping for an elusive memory. She tried to put it away from her and return to her book, but she could not And the ar- rival of Daly, the reporter, made Judy more nervous and ill at ease than ever. Daly came in from the outer hall of the office building and smiled at her good naturedly and took off his hat and said “Good morning.’ She remembered him a here with the real Pe

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was more nervous than ever. She said: ‘Why should I mind? So Daly sat down on the bench that was placed just across the hall from her switcl t board, and she trie

Che telephone took a little spurt of busi ness and kept her occupied for a few mir utes. People passed to and fro in tl farther end of the hall from ollice to office When she had a little lull she thought of trying to get | id of Slim. i e was some! she did not know where he was somew here, “Up to you to hold the fort, Judy,” id herself gr mly. ‘Ss K tignt, Kid She had a feel in danger. But probably

N 3 l ly relieved when she looked up at the sound of the opening door and saw Slim coming in from the hall. Her heart pounded with relief. She had the } f in him and the mere sight o fears that had 1e@ Wa nmense¢

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him allaye | those shad yw) begun to distil in her mind She caught Slim’s eye and smiled and he smiled at her Then he saw Daly and laughed and said cheerfully: “‘Ah, the power of the press is wich us again, eh, old man?” Daly grinned and said, “‘Yes, I’ve got to see Mr. Ammidown. . ber t o-day? Somet ling e:se “Nothing I can do?” Slim suggested, and Daly said humbly: “No, Mr. Danton.” That reassured Judy immen that even the rep 1 Zz Perry Danton. It meant, she judged, things were quieting down, that the worst of the danger was past. She was glad of that. It had been a good deal of a strain Slim stopped by her switchboard and asked casually: ‘“* Any message for me, Miss Hatton?”

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Continued from Page 80 She shook her head, smiled up at him. “No, sir,” she said, and because he was in such a position that he hid her from Daly’s eyes she ventured to wink at him. Slim returned the wink. Then he went past her and turned into his own office. She noticed that he left the door open behind him and she heard him raise the window that faced the street. At that sound Judy’s eyes hardened again and her cheeks went a little white. She shot a quick glance at Daly, but he was reading a newspaper. She waited for the window to be closed again—waited in an almost breathless anxiety, for Slim Attucks, as Judy well knew, had one pe- culiarity. He did not care for open win- dows, for air currents blowing through a room in which he was sitting. Judy had been with him in the hottest days of sum- mer and had suffered from this peculiarity of his. She had reason to remember it; she had sweltered in discomfort more than once on his account. Furthermore, though this day was late in June there was an east wind blowing and the window which Slim had opened faced the east. Judy could already feel the current of cool air upon her back. Her restlessness crystallized into suspicion; her suspicion hardened intoa certainty; and this certainty threw her into something almost like a panic. Her face as white as death, she began to vork the plugs on her switchboard in a feverish effort to locate Slim, for this man who had spoken to her and gone into Perry Danton’s office and opened that window was not Slim Attucks. Slim would never have opened the window. The man must be Perry Danton himself. She had to reach Slim, give him warning. She tried his house-—-he was not there. Arklay answered, and Judy dared not take time to summon Hasket to the te lephone and warn him. She tried a hotel, a restau- rant or two on the chance of catching him at lunch. She tried the office to which Ammidown had sent him and grimaced at herself for that, since it was not Slim whom Ammidown had sent on that mission but Danton himself posing as Slim—this man in the room behind her. Judy was not a person of great initiative. She adored Slim Attucks and served him passionately and devotedly and well. But there was little fighting blood in her. She was the sort you would expect to break under the strain of a sudden crisis. She was feeling very close to tears now. And as she realized this and was groping about in a desperate scurry to find her tiny hand kerchief the outer door of the suite of offices opened F in. She looked that way and saw Camilla Hoyt and saw—imme- diately behind Camilla and ushering her in—Slim Attuck He was looking toward Camilla, speaking to her, laughing. Judy prayed fiercely that he would look toward her so that she might give him warning time for him to pet there was away. But Slim’s attention was all for Camilla till he reached the switchboard itself. Then he looked down at Judy with Camilla watching him, and at sight of her white face his eyes hardened But he asked in the cheerful tones of Perry Danton: ‘‘ Any message for me, Miss Hatton?” She nodded, “Telephone call from Mr. Rakes in New York. Wants you to catch the first train and run over there for a conference to-night THE SATURDAY on that—that—that bond matter.” Her voice was shaking. Just then Perry himself stepped out of the office—out of the office Slim had occu- pied—and said casually: “Hello, Milla!” Camilla whirled in some astonishment to look at him, and Judy whispered des- perately to Slim: ‘‘Beat it! They’re on!” Slim touched her shoulder reassuringly. “They can’t prove a thing. I'll bluff them out,” he told her in a low voice. Then he, too, turned to face Perry. Daly, the re- porter, had risen and stepped to the outer door of the offices, but no one of them marked this. Camilla looked from Perry to Slim and back to Perry again and she laughed. ““Why, which is which?” she asked gayly. Judy hated her. As if there could be any doubt! It seemed to Judy that when you saw these two side by side they hardly even resembled each other. Seen thus together, they were differentiated by adozen things by the lighter shade of Slim’s eyes, by the darker hue of Perry’s cheek and the greater fullness of his face. Slim’s hair was crisper. Judy knew that if he allowed it to grow a little longer it would curl. Seen separately it might be hard to tell one from the other together there could be no doubt. Slim looked at Perry and said slowly, a little threat in his voice: ‘Hello, you’ve turned up again, have you? You sion seems to persist, young man.”’ Camilla looked at Slim. ‘Is this the man who claims to be you she asked him, and smiled, ‘‘Isn't it all funny?” “It’s passing the funny stage,”’ said Slim severely. ‘Not at all,” Perry told him. ‘The trouble is, things have come to the point where you can no longer see the joke.” ‘You've both even got traces of black eyes,”” Cam exclaimed, laughing, and she said to Perry: ‘‘Why, if I met you on the street I think I should believe you actually were Perry!” She dropped her hand confidingly on Slim's arm as she said this, and Slim shot a glance at Judy as though bidding her watch how the scales were turning in his direction. Perry nodded at Camilla’s words and hi eye were dancing. ‘*A natural mistake,” he said. ‘‘No one d Diame you obse coul Then he locked toward Daly, who had gone to the outer door, opened it, stuck his head out, drawn it back in, shut the door id joined the little group by the switch- ‘Daly,” said Perry, ‘‘see if Mr. Lloyd is ady for us! Daly stepped toward the door of Mr. Ammidown’s office and knocked. After a moment Mr. Ammidown’s voice called to him to come in and he opened the door and asked: ‘‘Are you ready for us There was a moment’s hesitation, then Mr. Lloyd asked re they both there?” Daly said they were and Lloyd bade him usher them in. Daly turned to face them; Pe rry bowed to Slim ** After you, sir,”” he said. Slim laughed. “What's this? Some new play of yours?” **T will explain—if you Slim looked at Camilla and smiled. ‘Come in with me,” he suggested. “You'll be interested in seeing the end o this young man. I’m going to ask his con mitment to an institution.” EVENING POST Camilla’s eyes were shining. She went before Slim into Mr. Ammidown’'s office and Slim followed her and Perry followed Slim. Daly came in last, shut the door and leaned his back against it. They all saw at once that old Mr. Am- midown had been powerfully disturbed by his talk with Mr. Lloyd. His white hair was rumpled, his cheeks were flushed and his eyes were uncertain and angry. He swung round at his desk and looked at Slim and at Perry. He seemed not to see Camilla, and she slipped to one side and sat down by the window. Perry remained standing, Slim sat down. Lloyd was sit- ting beside Mr. Ammidown’s desk when they entered, and he rose till Camilla was seated, then sat down again. Ammidown stared for a considerable time at Perry. He stared just as long at Slim. Then he asked harshly: “Which one of you young gentlemen is the impostor?” Perry looked at Slim; Slim looked at Perry. Neither spoke, but Slim laughed ‘I thought we had settled that, sir,’’ he said respectfully. Ammidown looked at him bleakly, then at Perry again. He marked the garments Perry wore and caught at them as a drow? ing man catches at a straw. “You’re the man who's been in my office here this past month,” he said Perry shook his head. ye Jo, sir. Only once or twice.” “Damn it,”” Ammidown exploded, “‘stop lying! You were here this morning! I sent you out with some papers! Don't you sup pose I remember that suit of clothes? Perry laughed. “I was here this morning—ye few minutes. And I was here a few day ago with Mr. Daly and a day or two before that while I was still unshaved. Those were the only times.” Slim said pleasantly: “In other word sir, he’s the crazy man we let off once I don't think we'd best let him off aga ‘ Ammidown swung in his chair to face Slim, and his brows contracted He grunted something that might have beer assent, might have been noncommittal ‘You're the one that’s been studying here this month past?” “Naturally. I should imagine that you could tell us apart when we're together, at least. The whole thing’s damned nonsense. Amusing though, in a way.” “Young man,” said Ammidown angr “T’ve been given reason to believe that you're a clever crook; in other words, an impostor. What have you to say to that? Slim looked round sharp! He said with a trace of anger in his voice: “I’ve this to say, that I’m tired of t tomfoolishness. It’s ridiculous, but it’ also damned provoking.” Ammidown cut it “That's twice you've sworn in one mir ute without apologizing to M Hoyt Profanity in the presence of ladies is the privilege of my years, but not of your I don’t care who you are.”’ Slimlaughed. Heglancedtoward Camilla. ‘I beg your pardon. I’m angry rally, 1 think I didr texpect they would ceed in befuddling you, Mr. Ammidow: Ammidown snorted. He turned to his desk and lifted some loose typewritten sheets that lay there. “I've affidavits here,”” he said. ‘They record three conversations, one held last ht and two this morning.” Slim looked at those sheets of paper with some faint trace of appreher on in his eve atu- “‘T assume they're the proofs these — t} impostor has brought forward." “They tend to show that you are the impostor.” “Then let’s hear them Let me rea them I can answer them readily enou but hardly without knowing what they ar He got up as though he would ha reached for the affidavits, but Ammidow: held up a severe hand “One minute,” he said. “I'll read them They are not long. Please listen without interrupting.” Slim smiled “Fire away Ammidown eyes ran down the sheet it down again " he said before him. ‘I'll condense somewhat,”’ he explained “get the meat of thi All sworn to by the same men—three of them. Substance of this first is that a man appear to be Perr Danton went to Miss Hoy n t last night and rang the bell maid apparently known as Katie, answered the bell The talked t wether on the poret turning out the light Here are ome ot the things they said “ KATIE Hello, Slim, what’s up “MAN I'm getting a little leery Ha Danton been r ’ KATIE Not since that day he turned » I ict 10 hat ¢ There ! ‘ alor y the ime line Slim exclaimed, “See here, I Wait!” Ammidown interrupted. “ Let get the evidence a Here's the re { 1 telephone ca Pe house uj Bea reet. The man calling ed Hasket and when Haske ime t et pi & the had me tall Here l ‘ i} ‘That will do for them. Here's the last one A man appearing to be Perry Dantor came into my reception room this morning talked with Miss Hatton, my telephone girl. She told him he had changed } t 4 he explained that a r had splashed mud t. Then we have tl MAN: Everything right? Mi HATTo Come t of it You never ida erve | j f MAN: Dant | t bee yund has he? “Girl said ‘No,’ and then they were in terrupted.” He laid the paper i le “Well, what have i got to say to that whoever you are?” — Slim laughed and it w | that the man was immense elie Concluded on Page 85 . _—____— A

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=. ————ESE oe Concluded from Page 83 “Why, I simply say the whole thing is a lie—a tissue of lies. I didn’t go to Camilla’s house last night; I didn’t telephone Hasket this morning; and I didn’t have any such talk with Miss Hatton.”’ “Prepared to prove that?” “Of course— if it’s necessary. I dined with friends last evening and was with them from six o'clock till midnight or after. What time did these interviews take place this morning?” Ammidown consulted the affidavits and gave the hour. Slim smiled. “T’ve been with Miss Hoyt constantly during the time they cover,” he told them. ‘She’ll corroborate me on that.” Camilla from the window said cheerfully ‘Yes, that’s right. I met him on Tremont Street and made him go shopping with me.” ‘In short,’ Slim added, “‘the whole thing, as 1 said, is a piece of perjury — some- thing else to lay to this young idiot’s door.” He looked toward Perry. Ammidown also looked at Perry and his brow was thunderous. “Young man,” he exclaimed, “is this another joke on your part? Have I been made a butt? For I tell you I'm not to be tampered with. Someone is going from this office to jail.” Perry got up. He was smiling a little ‘It’s only fair to say,”’ he explained, that my friend P. D. Q. tells the truth this once. He did not talk with Katie last night; he did not talk with Hasket to-day; nor did he talk with Miss Hatton.” *“By heaven!” thundered Ammidown but Perry held up his hand. ‘‘One moment!” he urged. “It was this way a simple thing. I went up to Han- over for my reunion and was arrested there is aforger. I understood at once that they took me for—our friend here. Which sug- gested to me the great and sterling truth that if he looked enough like me to im- personate me I looked enough like him to impersonate him, so I did it.” y ou what i ‘*Came back here,”’ said Perry, “laid my traps, impersonated this crook and led his three confederates into betraying them- | and him. So 5 Ammidown was slow to understand, but Slim was not. Even before Perry had fin- ished the forger was out of his chair; he had leaped to the door and flung it wide. In another moment he would have been gone But unfortunately for P. D. Q. there were two policemen waiting just outside the door. selves xvVII ERRY and Camilla had lunch together, but not immediately. Certain matters kept them at Mr. Ammidown’s office for a little while. They saw Slim depart between two officer He was as well poised, as debonair as ever, and he grinned at them audaciously as he disappeared. Perry said to Camilla: “I’m almost sorry for him. The man has nerve.” “I’m more sorry for the little telephone girl and for Katie.’ “They won't be Perry told her ‘We yvave them a chance to get arrested,” “Hasket too?” ¢ imi nook his head No. Hasket will have to share pot luck with P. D. Q.” Daly came to wl that he wanted to get some sort view from him and from Camilla Perry laughed and told Daly to write any- la asked, and Perry ere they stood then and thing he chose You know what we ought to say,” he explained And tell the boss I’m going the afternoon off | l report in the rning.’ After Daly had gone they sat in Ammi- vn's office and had some talk with the Ammidown was still more than a little indignant at the befuddlement to attorney. which he had been subjected. If this thing ever happens much for my gray hairs,” them, half joking, half in earnest again it will he t ld Not going to happen again,”’ Perry de- ired. “P. D. Q. won't be able to try it yn for awhile. I lerstand they've a long t of forgeries to la it his door.” THE SATURDAY Camilla, smiling a little, said: “I don't see how he fooled you so, anyway. I knew Perry the minute I saw him.” Perry looked at her quickly. “You did?” “Yes, when you came up the drive that day looking like a tramp.” Perry chuckled. “But you hadn't seen through him in the month before that,’’ he reminded her; ‘so you're not so terribly wise.” She flushed faintly, protested: ‘* W-e-ell !’ Ammidown snorted. “Huh! If you knew him, why didn’t you say so in the beginning and save al this muss?” Camilla smiled toward Perry. “‘T wanted to see what he would do,” she said. “‘I thought it might be good for him to have to—have to fight a little for a while.”’ The lawyer coughed loudly and hid a broad smile behind his hand and he got up and waved them away from him. ‘Get out of here, you two!” he com- manded. ‘‘ You'll be the death of me!” They went to lunch at the Parker House and over their viands Perry talked and talked to Camilla. He had so many things to tell her, and she seemed well content to listen and to watch and study him. He was the old Perry, yet not the old Perry. There was a new fiber of strength in him, it seemed to her—-something that made her tremble a little; something she liked to see. Perry had become in even so short an experience an enthusiastic newspaper man. He told her so. “I’m going to stick to it,” hesaid. “It’s the greatest game; like being on the inside, behind the scenes in everything that hap- fascinating. And you're digging into things all the time, trying to outguess people, trying to make them do what you want—talk when they don’t want to.” And a little later he added: “After a while, when I’ve learned enough about the business, I’ve a mind to buy a paper my self—here or somewhere—and try to run it. I'd have some fun anyway and I can't think of anything I’d rather do. There's always a chance to accomplish something too.” “T thought you lawyer,” she suggested. head ‘Not enough action. In this game there’ something doing all the time.” After a little, while he still poured out his plans and his dreams before her, he noticed that she was not listening. She was watch- ing him, but he could see by her eyes that her thoughts were not on his words and he demanded quickly, ‘“‘What’s the matter? W hat are you thinking about?”’ She turned her head away, would not look at him. “Il was just wondering if a reporter works very hard.” Why, they invented work!” Perry told her laughingly ‘Hardest work in the world—for nerves and mind and muscles But good fun too. The best of fun Wh were you wondering?” ‘Well, you see,”’ said Camilla, “I've al ways said I wanted to—to marry a working m in "v Perry stared at her; round the crowded restaurant and he ieaned across the table. “Milla,” he whispered, “you don't dare say that to me when there’s no one round!” were going to be a But he shook hi } ] l j ’ * he looked quickKi Camilla’s eyes were sparkling ‘“You know, Perry,” she told hit | never take a dare.” Perry got up; the waiter scurried * said Perry abruptly. The waiter kk some consternatior t he scarcely touched food upon the table ~wKed 1n ‘Is anything ,wrong, sir? he asked solicitously. Perry laughed. erything’s eternally right,” he said “But hurry with that check, man.” A moment later he had paid, and having paid he turned to Camilla. He looked dow: at her for a moment without speaking, then he said: ‘‘ Milla, let’s get out of here.”’ And Camilla, rising, answered read “Yes, let's, Perry.’ THE END EVENING POST 85 ROOPINGS and ALLIED PRODUCTS the complete line of building materials made from Asphalt, Asbestos, Magnesia and felt. 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He swam to the log, and early in the afternoon the houses of the African coast town lay before him. He drifted into the bay and thirty minutes later he was being hauled over the side of a cutter which had swung away from the United States Destroyer Graykill. Aboard the destroyer the Wildcat heard English white men for the first time in It sounded good to his ears. dis boun’ fo’ spoken by Boy, you say boat's Bordeaux, Le Havre and then across the Channel.”’ Me, I unloads at Bo’deaux.” The Wildeat in his gratitude at getting where white folks was resolved whatever fate might await him avengers of ome place to accept at the hands of the military Base Sectior Three days later the Wildcat walked up the stone quay at Bordeaux. He headed for the Allés de Tourny. Number 2 Boun’ to meet some boy there—some D | knows.” An M. P. hailed him: Get it of town by twelve o'clock. ‘ 1 closed burg in the afternoon.” Ayvuin the old fear of the law surged over him. His feet led him down the Rue Ste.- Catherine and presently between the Midi tation and the railway bridge across the 1 a run-down rattling Garonne he flipped ttle wreck of a freight train. The Wildcat hoped that mebhe he was headed toward Lady Lucl He felt that he was starting out in life with a fresh deal. His capital co ted of a pair of overworked dice, his charge papers and a handful of the jazz Pera ftly to a cadence of flat wheels, high ( ‘ ind low joints, he sang / ride a freight tr ’ I don’ pay no fare / nrivd if}? i mo "ar yunere Dat'’s de reason Ise happy a a hee I don’ Work don’ bother me the Wildcat ate bean and got sassy with an hother worl himself a ja M. 1 Mebbe I got a mil’tary bearin’, boy,” he uid Mebbe dese spiral leggin’s is ! tar Mebbe I got mil’tary pants, mebbe I looks mil’tary to you, but me an’ de Army got a divo'ce a long time Whang! A quick swing with a loaded b tamed the military Wildcat consider Yessuh! What you says I doc “Come on with me and shut up.” The M. P. wandered across the irds to the telephone booth. freight He rang headquarters A. W. O. L. nigger you come.” An hour later the Wildeat dragye 1 his remains through the portal of the house it Pari One thing sure,” he reflected, “I ext \r that’s the best news heard fo’ a week.” Mess call sounded The Wildcat and a g line of victims of his color formed in the bull pen. . Forty feet away was a similar ne of white soldiers and beyond tnem a mall and more select aggregation of spur licers. A unit of thisSam Browne Ip, king about him, saw the Wildcat Wildeat,”’ he called, “‘come here!"’ He turned to the sergeant of the guard near weak to that I'll hold him until wearing of nigger a Waltham, Mass., U = EVENING POST (Continued from Page 15) He looked round him and in an instant his eyes fell upon his former commanding officer. Captain Jack looked considerably run down ““Sho’ is proud to see you, cap’n. like dese triflin’ cooks ain’t fed yo’ much. You’s thin. Lemme bring you a mess kit f'm de otheh line. Dey feeds heavy over whah us boys is. Cap'n, how come you here?” Before Captain Jack could reprimand the Wildcat for his impertinent curiosity a sergeant of the guard stepped up to the Wildcat and addressed him: “Are you Vitus Marsden?” “"At’s me,” the Wildcat said. feat it! We hold you. The records show you were discharged from the Army five weeks ago. Get out!” “Sahgeant, ‘at’s what I tol’ ’at boy, but he sapped me oveh de head an’ brought me heah. Me, I looks mil’tary, but = A sudden spark of hope burned in Cap- tain Jack’s heart. “When you get out, Wildcat, hunt up Senator Benton and tell him I am here.” Looks can’t “Cap'n, you means Judge Sam what was in de state house when yo’ pappy was gov'’neh?” ‘I mean Judge Sam. He is in Paris. Find him and tell him I am here “Cap'n, yessuh.” The Wildeat left the guardhouse one meal ahead of the game. On his way out he accumulated a pretty fair-looking over- seas cap and a blouse that was hanging on the wall “T looks all run down. belongs to some boy ‘at kin git ol’ supply sahgeant.”’ Three blocks from the guardhouse the Wildcat festooned the new blouse about his military bearing. He looked at the chev- rons on the sleeve of the blouse. ‘I see Ise a again. Wish I could git mea coat wid bahs on deshouldehs. Sahgeant beats nuthin’.”’ In front of one of the cafés on the boule- vard the Wildcat forgot that his present object in life was to find the senator. In- side the café on a little stage a pair of lan- guid Jamaica dancers were doing the best they could to agitate the dust under their feet with a soft-shoe performance. At the conclusion of their efforts the Wildeat, still going a million under the surge of the potent jazz bean which he had eaten, gave his itching feet permission to see what they could do. At first his steps synchronized with the cadence of Casey Jones Pres- having exhausted his repertoire of funereal music he kicked into some steps in which the spark of life still flamed. Halfway through this intermediate move- ment he crunched his teeth down on one of the jazz beans and then in the resulting tornado of foot work he became conscious of a cyclonic crescendo of applause which swelled about him He heard the clink of silver coins falling at his feet. He stopped suddenly and accumulated winnings which lay thick about him. “Fifty-five, sixty, eighty, a Hund’ed an’ seven!” He made his grandly to a table at which there was a vacant seat. “‘ Easy come, easy go. Is you got any high-toned drink The waiter, trained to but one reply, an swered him: ‘“* Voila, m’'sieur.” Dese army clo’s more f'm sahgeant ently his hund’ed! way Presently the waiter returned with a quart of champagne. At the popping of the cork the Wildeat’s chest extended ar foot The proprietor of the café hurried toward him **M’sieur Nagur, for three dances after- and evening two hundred francs a other noor day!” The suddenness of the transaction left the Wildcat a little in doubt ‘You mean franes for burnin’ The discussion you pays me two hund’ed mah foot six times?” of the contract was inter- Senator Benton stood before the The Wildcat jumped to his feet. r pted Wildcat January 17,1920 MISTER LADY LUCK “Judge, suh, ’scuse me fo’ sittin’ down whilst yo’ is standin’. How is yo’? I ain’t seed yo’ since befo’ de wah begun, back in a ““Come along here.” briefly. ‘Judge, yessuh.” The Wildcat left his champagne un- touched, left his two hundred francs a day, left the bright lights and followed a voice which he had known. For awhile the sena tor questioned him and then in a breath he fixed the Wildcat’s immediate future. “I am here on this Peace Congress bu I want you to take care of me as long I will take you with The senator spoke ness. as we are in France. me when I go back.” “Judge, yessuh. Sho’ is gran’ to meet up wid yo’. Sho’ isproud to take care of yo’ ’Ceptin’ when I gits back—Cap’n Jack needs me when I gits back at Memphis.” At the mention of Captain Jack’s name the senator exhibited a wide-eyed interest “Son, where do you suppose Captair Jack is now?” ‘Las’ I seed him he was standin’ in de mess line oveh at de guardhouse. | *spect “What guardhouse? you mean? ‘Judge, yessuh. Place whah at de back lid officehs goes when dey ketches ’em A. ¥. 0 “ The senator stepped into a taxicab. the front seat with the man Tell him to drive to Paris headquarters A. E. F.” “Judge, yessuh.”” The Wildcat to the chauffeur. ‘Boy, ramble. quarters, A. E. F.” The chauffeur looked at him “Como?” “Start quick or I'll como you. Me and de judge wants to go where at de mil’tary Here in Paris, do Loose.’ “Sit on turned Head auffeur took a long chance and guessed right An hour later an order was issued parol ing Captalr Jack until his case could come up for a rehearing. In brief, as far as hi military was concerned, hi troubles were over. Leaving headquarters the Wildcat carried the senator’s coat. He fell in three paces behind him and thus they marched to the senator’s hotel The next day in the offices of the Amer ican delegates the Wildcat was officially installed as the senator’s messenger. In reality he functioned as a continuous vaudeville performance for the senator and his associates in the great rooms where big men and little were adjusting the past, present and future states of little nations and big ones After a few days there were moments when the Wildcat found time hanging heavily on his hands. He tried in vain to interest the French servants in the business of toying with the risk cubes. “Boy, let me show you.”” He produced the baby gellopers from his watch pocket “You lays down five frances. You speaks to ‘em gentle. Yo’ agitates ’em. Yo’ lets ’em ramble. Whang! An’ they reads sever Yo’ wins five francs.” “Zis is not ze same as roulette." The French messenger shrugged his shoulders “It is not interesting.” “What's dis roulette?” “Ze wheel wiz numbers. spins. You lay five franes. Voila! francs is lost.” **You play de losin’ games. baby cubes an’ Lady Luck action.” For a period of ten days the Wildcat lived a prosaic life in which gambling had no part and then one day, no longer able to endure a riskless career, he took a piece of chalk and numbered the six blades of the electric fan which whirled above the sena- tor’s desk. It was early morning and except for a small group of minor French confinement Ze leetle ball Ze tive Leave me de I sho’ craves Concluded on Page 91

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ng is this book that we doubt if you could t any of its 530 pages without becoming in it. Whether you own a Victrola or not, d of book you will find yourself browsing pr the pleasure it gives you. And if you are Mthis Victor Record Catalog will increase your d appreciation of good music many fold. portraits of Victor artists with biographical has a complete Red Seal section devoted to Featest artists who make’ Victrola Records. also portraits and short biographies of the ‘s, and a pronunciation table of the names osers and operas. » to this, the Victor Record Catalog gives f the operas, shows illustrations of various THE SATURDAY EVENING POST scenes, indicates under the title of each opera the different acts and scenes, and lists all the selections in the exact order they are sung or played in the opera. There is no other book like the Victor Record Catalog. It is a book which only the Victor Company can produce. More than 5000 Victor Records are listed in it. Looking through its pages you will be impressed with the wealth of music the Victor Company has amassed for your benefit in its 22 years of experience; you will appreciate the im- mense amount of time and labor and the millions of dol- lars of expenditure which were necessary to make such a catalog possible; you will have a clearer understanding of the meaning of Victor Supremacy. Be sure to get a copy of this interesting book—the greatest cata log of music in all the world. There is a copy for you at any Victor dealer’s, or we will gladly mail you a copy upon request. Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J., U. S. A. z PA EE Re OS Oe Ms eta CAR Chale ee a ey

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 — youve overslept! never heard the old clock clang its head off and give up in despair—would have slept till noon if Ole Sol hadn’t looked in the window. You paddle off to shave while “the wife’’ streaks for the kitchen. a hutry call fov breakfast - can't go without breakfast what'll be the quickest thing: Aunt Jemima Pancakes, of course. Nary an egg, nary a drop of milk, no baking powder does she have to use! Just a cup of water to an equal cup of Aunt Jemima Pan cake Flour, and—zzz they're sizzling on the griddle before you have tied your tie. ) —and she can’t help but think, as she watches you off to work— of all those eggs, milk, baking powder and things she saved by using Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour. \ a regular brealcfast =C mee §6the breakfast *Y | ees that saved the day/ AUNT JEMIMA PANCAKE FLOUR

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ee a | i Concituded from Page 86 employees and himself the offices were de- serted. On the back of the number-three blade, opposite the six, the Wildcat— unob- served—stuck a wad of denatured chewing gum. “I craves to gum up de game a little. It helps de percentage.” He addressed the audience: “Frogs, rally roun’. You boys claims you knows roulette. I’llroulette yousome.” He pointed to the fan. “Bets five frances on de six.” The bystanders were quick to assimilate this new diversion. The senator came in at ten o'clock just as the Wildeat was counting his accumulated winnings “Run these Frenchmen out of here, son,” the senator ordered. 2 major out there in charge of those troops I want to see him a minute.” The major came in. “They will be here any minute now,” the senator said. ‘‘I want you to do just one thing: Keep the newspaper men away until after this meeting is ended, and keep the crowds back. Tell the newspaper men I will see them at noon.’ Prompted by an instinct which he could not define, the major conmimanding the guard of honor saluted this civilian before he left the senator's office. Twelve minutes later the great men had been greeted by the senator. One of them looked at the senator and nodded toward the Wildcat. eH s man?” he questioned, ] = ilgnorant nigger my personal serv- ant The Wildcat withdrew to one corner of the room where for a while he watched the two white gentlemen who were speaking in low voices with Senator Sam. Presentl) the Wildeat’s head drooped and he wa asleep. He was wakened a few moment ater by the senator: “Son, if you have any dice with you let me have them. I want your dice or a deck of ecards.” The senator turned to his two associates: “We are men of action. Long-winded debates make no hit with me. The quickest way to settle this deadlock is to shake dice for it or cut the cards.” ‘ Agreed.” The diplomat spoke quickly. In the eyes of the other great man there flashed a twinkle of amused consent. ‘“‘Impractical,”’ he said. ‘‘ Especially the Not, however, that I sus- pect the senator. Roulette might ss The Wildcat handed the senator the baby gallopers “Judge, tl ey sevens strong,” he whis- pered. The senator handed them back to him ‘We won't use them. Have you got any ecards?’ dice business. * Judge, no sul The Wildcat got the roulette suggestion made by the great man. ‘‘On dull days u boy : roulettes wid de ‘lectric fan.” *“Not bad.”” The senator pointed to the electric fan above his head. He addresse his two associates: ‘‘Six-bladed roulette, i you are agreeable."’ The diplomat nodded his head. This was a game he understood. The other smiled “Quite so,”’ he said. The senator turned to the Wildcat. ‘“Ctart +¢ otart tT his fan when we tell you to Shut her off and let her whirl when either of these gentlemen give you the word.” The Wildeat reached for the switch and stood ready to function as Fate’s assistant engineer. ‘“‘We shall each select a number,’’, the great man said. ‘It is understood that the policies of the winner shall obtain in each debated instance without further argu- ment.”” The senator nodded. “You said it.”’ “y ’ i l agree.”” The diplomat relaxed. play the one spot,’ the great man In- ru 1. “‘Unity of empire.” I ty, fraternity,”’ quoted the diplomat. ‘‘The great triumvirate. | equalit f ect number three The Wildeat remembered the wad of gum which adhered to one of the blades of the fan. ‘Fo’ a killin’, judge, I advises de six.”’ ‘I shall play the six,’’ the senator an- nounced. ‘“‘Shoot!”’ For thespace of t hirty minutes the fate of nations swayed with the swing of the Wild- cat’s wrist upon the electric switch. The ion ended. The great man staggered to is feet and extended his hand. THE SATURDAY ‘I congratulate you, senator report complete success —except in tail of Mesopotamia.’ The diplomat applied a delicate linen handkerchief to his perspiring brow. He relapsed into his native language “ Mondieu!”’ hesaid. ‘Inthirty minutes we have accomplished those thir which the diplomats of the world have struggled in vain throughout a period of five months. Diable! Not once did I win.” The senator escorted his visitors to the door of his othice As tl ey left the buildir vv long lines of soldiers executed sudden and violent military honors. Inside the senator’s oflice said **’Scuse de compliment, judy; you cleaned up big whuteveh it wuz.” The senator smiled at the Wildcat ** Damndest run of luck I’ve had since that 1 poker game lr Vicksburg.’ EVENING POST of responsibility greater than old man Atlas ‘ * Regular orating politician— my troubles would make two loads for Atlas. I'll only keep you a minute.” Followed by the Wildeat, the senator and Captain Jack entered the senator's office. The senator looked at Captain Jack “Shoot!” he said Captain Jack took a deep breatl lady daughter, he beyar “yo r nter ha t promised to marry me e— here in Paris.” © Seé was ent irrange tne t tt y cr ‘ eve You now the blood i ( ) Jac uid I'he e tor put ! irm about the bo nalcle . Happine be with 4 i! Where do we go T+ here? Het ed For the Space of Thirty Minutes the Fate of Nations Iwayed With the Swing of the Wildcat's Wrist noble “The what?” The Wildcat teached the ball of gum from the blade of t The ia | ator fell ba 4 “When did you load that fan?’ “Judge, me an’ Lady Li } t lese froys loose f'm de I fixed de wheel wher Heavily and lent the senator be The Wildcat handed the little ball of chewing gum. ** Judge "Rage As the senator and the Wild« office they were confronte iby ¢ “T want to speak with you ( back to your office with me.”’ The senator smiled at the uv pon the Electric Switch Car Jack il he suid, “whe Lon I'he t it I il ‘ i | Wildeat faced the e of de 1 P | ; ] | Ise ( J l ‘ ‘ ej ' \ t ri ‘ 1 ‘ ‘ ect | I ‘ I ‘ ‘ Ihe wr tamed dow \ ; wi ; t f I ' ‘ come up, Jackie he sa ] ( J looked at the f 4 meé lire ypposedt “3 The W | t f i i up t tle w ‘ { I ite ‘Lady Luck,” he prayed, ‘stan’ by me Unobserved he fixed the gum to a blade of the fan **You shoot the three,’ the senator said “T play the six to win. Wildeat, turn her on,” The fan spun for a moment. “Shut her off.” The senator gazed intently at the whirl ing blades. Finally they stopped “Damn!”"’ he said. ‘“*The Army has all the luck rhe second bet I've lost to-day Mesopotamia first and now my Wildcat Captain J miled * Whe i get back vu can have him.” ° ‘Til go ba with you,” the senator said Let’s get this wedding business over with.’ Five days later Captain Jack and the icy girl were married in the presence of a the gold braid in Pari Well in the bact " ground in the jungle of palms the Wildeat carrying Captain Jack's motor coat watched “Lady Luck,” he said, ’ yo’ sho’ done In the oper ea off the mouth of the Gironde the lady girl got seasick, Captai Juck and the senator, resting in the lee of the chart room of the Texan, sent the Wild eat after their overcoat Nothin’ like keepin’ warm,” the sena iid. “If she had put on her coat whe | told her to she never 'd been sick.” Ihe eu will bring you wisdom i ‘ ’ ‘ ] “YX ” t , He th The Wild reached eagerly f his old familiar dice “Cap'n, yessul Babie come t yo’ manager. Cap'n Jaci th, kir you ’scuse me fo’ a few moments? The Wildeat went below. He muugnt out a group of the ship's crew “Where at’s de boy what craved iction?”’ he que tioned loud] | = commandin’ twin clickers an’ I rarit ’ to go.” One of the sailors looked at him ‘Shove off,”” he nd lhe Wildcat threw a dollar bill t the desk I stahts ea Shoots a dolla} he sailor covered the bet ‘Alabam’! shoot two lollal ve Nu! mone Dice t ! t M p’! Wi ! Shoot f j | rave ‘ AVN 1 . f j } A Wham' A | ‘ evel rot eigt d } t M ‘ | ‘ | ‘ \ ed t} ro ' ( if } | blouse The Na r to eat up The W cat |! tated on! f moment He «¢ ed t me to the face W ¢ to cove the bet ] 1 Lu it feet (sa le ee ] id even! I Ie } { » hund’ed Ary crave NY " ‘ ’ lve t 1 ‘ Ihe Lulor » | t f ‘ ‘ the 5 i Iw ‘ that d i mu ere ‘ fayunt “ sure a dirt whe | ed 1 out of th egved |} iy | \\ { | 1 ‘ | '®) 4 : e | | if I i i I Lady Lu ! W l t Da t , t ‘ ) ‘ ad 1ee the n ect p t I i€ he nd I don’ | J i! t but Mer

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‘ | ; ' 92 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 WAP L, - D. J % “oS. i © War } i This is an actual photograph of the impression left on a snowy street by the Good- “a ; year All-Weather Tread ; = | Ul

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST In winter’s snow as in tropical sand, wherever roads lead and motor cars fol- low, it is written in the clean, sharp characters of the Goodyear All- Weather Tread that more people ride on GoodyearTires than on any other kind. WN

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rne, Monte, give me footage on that kiss! That's it hold it! Hold it! Keep on hold- But, Mr. Lobel, now,” protested Col- fax, born a ms but living it down and feeling that never more than at this minute, hen rudely the steersman’s helm had been natched from his grasp, was there greater reed that he should be a Colfax through ind throug it, Mr. Lobel, it my lea that up to thi point anyway the if I hould be played restraint to t of prepare t! Way lor What d i mean restraint Well, I thought to emphasize what mes later—for a sort of comparative ilu that if we re ta tle subtle at bey ing ifficient, Colfax! Listen! Don't me talking to me about no subtles! When i i‘re working the supporting members of the t 1 maybe yuld stick i! me ubth nce in a wh to salve them cen- rs, but so far Mont neerned 1 Don’t but me any buts! Listen! Ain’t 1 taken my paralyzed oath that this here picture should make all the other vamp ich ever were taken joo} alike pike! I hay ! For Monte, the way I feel, | shouldn't ire if she don’t do a ingls ubtle in the whole dam: picture ; He had taken his paralyzed oath and he Kept it It wa a wonderful stor Phe queen of the apache ruling the Par ! nderworld by courage, her country, attempts by ren wile to educe from the path of duty Capt i esant Schuyler of the U. S. A. general pictures wl her fire, her beauty, het accepts German gold to betra tall; almost ucceeds because of | blind passion for this gloriou inful creature At the crucial moment, when about to sur render to his Delilah secret which would destroy the entire Allied cause and open the gates of Paris to the saved by a vision of hi ainted, lade-in onquering foe, he and-fade-out mother’s face Overcome vith remorse, he resig: iis commission, and fleeing from temptation returns to America, a broken-hearted man prove heart | broken by constantly pre ing lenched hand to left breast as though to prevent pieces from slipping down into the abdominal cavity Distre of the apache jueen on finding her intended victim gone. uddenly a real love, not the love of the wanton, but a purer, deeper emotion wal ens in her breast. Close-up showing mus ular retlexe produced upon the human lace by wakening processe in the heart Quitting the gay life, she follows Land of Free, Finds him about to marry hi veetheart of childhood, a New York ociety girl worth uncounted millions but ust middling looking. Prompt bust-up of childhood sweetheart’s romance. Abandon- ing of social position, wealth, everything by Schuyler, who declar he will make the tranger his brice companying subtitle, ‘What should we care what the world may him to ily For after all, love isall!”’ Discovery on day before marriage of papers proving that Lolita that the lady apache’s nan i really Sel tyler’ half sister, due to irying-or of Schuyler late father as a young art student in Paris with Lolita’s mother, a famous gypsy model. Renunci- ution by Lolita of Schuyler. Her suicide by imbibing poison from secret receptac le nring. Schuyler, aiter registering copious grief, reénters American Army under as umed name as a private in the ranks. Returns to battlefield in time to take part n decisive action of the war. All the offi- cers fa his brigade above the rank of cor oral having apparently been killed by one devastating blast of high explosive, he issumes command and leads dauntle charge of the he Avy art llery through the Hindenburg Line Is made a colonel or he spot. Rides up Fifth Avenue alongsice f Pershing in grand triumphant parace f ‘ y bei l) n, carr ng a irge flag and occasionally chatting plea tly with Pershing. On eve of marriage » childhood's weetheart, who remal 1ithful, he goes to lonely spot where Lolita ies buried and places upon the silent mound her favorite flower, a single long- temmed tiger lily Fade out — finish! Artistically, picturesquely, from the ndpoint of timeline from the tand nt { 1 Dp a} ‘ f ' 1 ta j | " t i t if fie | every ema i THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WHY MR. LOBEL HAD APOPLEXY Continued from Page 9 It was one succession of thrilling, gripping, heart-lifting scenes set amid vividly con- trasting surroundings—the lowest dive in all Paris; the citadel at Verdun; grand ballroom of the Schuyler mansion at New- port; the Place VendOme on a day when it was entirely unoccupied except by moving- picture actors; Fifth Avenue on its most yala occasion—these were but a few sam- ple The subtitles fairly hissed to the ibilant swishing of such words as traitress, temptress, tigress and sorceress. And the name of it you’d never guess—the name of it was The She-Demon’s Doom! When Mr. Lobel spoke those words inspired he literally took them up in his arms and fondled them and kissed them on the temples. And why not? They were his own brain children. He had kept his paralyzed word and he could prove it For because this Vida Monte was one of those mimetic pieces of flesh which, without any special mental codperation, may alter the body, the face, the muscles, the ¢ xpression, the very look out of the eyes, to suit the demands of prompters and teachers; because of the plan of direction so powerfully engineered by the master mind of Lobel and, under Lobel, the lesser mind of Colfax, born Sims; because of the very nature of the rdéle of Lolita the abandoned, this picture was more daring, more sen ual, more filled up with voluptuous suggestion, with coiling, clinging, writhing snakiness, with rampant, naked sexuality—in short and in fine was more vampirishly vampiratious than this, the greatest of all modern mediums for the at the moral uplift and the enter- tainment of the masses, had ever known. And then one week to the day after Mr. Lobel shot the last scene she up and died or nim hat is to say, a woman named Glass- man, a Hungarian by birth, in age thirty- two years, widowed and without children or known next of kin, died in a small bungalow in a small town up in the coast range north of Los Angeles. When the picture was done and Vida Monte took off the barbaric trappings and the heavy paste jewels and the clinging reptilian half gowns of the rdle she played, with them she took off and laid aside the animal emotionalism, the theatricalistic fever and fervor, the passion and the lure that professionally made up Vida Monte, movie star. She took off even the very aspect of herself as the show shop and as patrons of the cine- mas knew her; and she put on a simple traveling gown and she tucked her black hair up in coils beneath a severely plain hat and she became what really she was and always had been—a quiet, self-contained, frugal and —except for her splendid eyes, her fine figure and her full mobile mouth a not particularly striking-looking woman, by name Sarah Glassman, which was, in fact, her name; and quite alone she got on a train and she went up into the foothills to a tiny bungalow which she had rented there for a month or so to live alone, to do her own simple housekeeping, to sew and to read and to rest It was the day after the taking of the last segment of the picture that she went away. It was four days later that she sickened of the Spanish influenza, so called. It was not Spanish and not influenza, though by any other name it would have been as deadly in its devastating sweep across this country And it was within forty-eight hours after that, on a November afternoon, that word came to the Lobel plant that she was dead. Down there they had not n even that she was sick he doctor in that there little jay town ul ere by the name Hamletsburg is the one which just gets me on the long-distance telephone and tells me that she died maybe half an hour ago.”’ Mr. Lobel in his private office was telling it to Vice Pre ident Quinlar ind Secretary- l'rea irer Geltfin, the only two among his education KNOW 'T th >t i wiates that his messenger had been able to find about the executive department at the moment. He continued: ‘Coming like a complete shock, you could ‘a’ knocked me down with a feather, I assure you. For a minute I couldn't be- lieve it. This doctor he has to say it to me twice before I get it into my head. Shock- ing huh? Sudden—huh? Awful—what? You bet you! That poor girl, for her my Dead and gone like that, ' practically no warning! It heart is bleeding with absolutely don’t seem possible! Taken down day be- fore yesterday, the doctor says, and com- menced getting from bad to worse right away. And this morning she goes out of her head and at two-forty-five this after- noon all of a sudden her heart gives out on her and she is dead before anybody knows it. Awful, awful!” Mr. Lobel wagged a mournful poll. “*More than awful—actually it is horri- fying!” quoth Mr. Geltfin. Visibly at least his distress seemed greater than the dis- tress of either of the others. ‘All off alone up there by herself in some little rube town it must come to her! Maybe if she had been down here with specialists and sur- geons and nurses and all she would ’a’ been saved. Too bad, too bad! People got no business going away from a big town! Me, I get nervous even on a motor trip in the country and i “Everything possible which could be done was done,” resumed Mr. Lobel. “So you don’t need you should worry there, Geltfin. The doctor tells me he can’t get no regular trained nurse on account there is so much sickness from this flu and no regular nurses there anyway, but he tells me he brings in his wife which she under- stands nursing and he says the wife sticks right there day and night and gives every attention. There ain’t nothing we should reproach ourselves about, and besides we didn’t know even she was sick—nobody knew. ‘“‘Dead and gone, poor girl, and not one week ago—six days, if 1 got to be exact she is sitting right there in that same seat where you're sitting now, Gelttfin, looking just as natural and healthy as what you look, Geltfin; looking just as if nothing is ever going to happen to her.” Mr. Geltfin had hastily risen and moved nearer the outer door. “An awful thing—that flu!”’ he declared. “Lobel, do you think maybe she could ’a’ had the germs of it on her then?” “Don't be a coward, Geltfin!"’ rebuked his senior severely. ** Look at me how I am not frightened, and yet it was me she seen last, not you! Besides, only to-day I am reading where that big doctor in Cincin- nati, Ohio—Silverwater—says it is not a disease which you could catch from some- body else until after they have actually got down sick with it. Yes, sir, she sits right there telling me good-by. ‘Mr. Lobel,’ I had just handed her her check—‘ Mr. Lobel,’ she says, ‘always to you,’ she says, ‘I should be grateful. Always to you,’ she says, ‘I should give thanks that two years ago when I am practically comparatively unknown you should ’a’ given me my big chance.’ In them very words she says it, and me setting here at this desk listening at her while she said so! ‘Well, I ain’t lost no time, boys. Before even I sent to find you I already got busy. I’ve got Appel starting for up there in half an hour in my car to take charge of every- thing and with orders to spare no expense. The funeral what I am going to give that girl! Well, she deserves it. Always a hard worker, always on the job, always she minds her own business, always she saves her money, always a perfect lady, never throwing any of these here temperamentals, never going off in any of these here high- sterics, never making a kick if something goes wrong because it happens I ain’t on hand to run things, never It threatened to become a soliloquy. This time it was Quinlan who interrupted: “You said it all, Lobel, and it’s no need that you should go on saying it any more. The main points, I take it, are that we’re all sorry and that we've lost one swell big asset by her dying—only it’s lucky for us she didn’t take ill before we got through shooting The She-Demon.” “Lucky? Huh! Actually, lucky ain’t the right word for it!’’ said the president. “When I think of the fix we should ‘a’ been in if she hadn't finished up the picture first, I assure you, boys, it gives me the shivers. Right here and now in the middle of being sorry it gives me the shivers!” t does, does it?’’ There was something so ominous in Mr. Geltfin’s sadly ironic re- mark—something in tone and accent so lugubriously foreboding that his hearers swung about to stare at him. “It does, does it? Well, all what I've got to say is, Lobel, you've got some shivers coming to you! We've all got some shivers coming she says to me January 17,1920 to us! Having this girl die on us is bad business!” “Sure it is,’ agreed the head, “but it might be worse. There’s one awful big salary cut off the pay roll and if we can’t have her with us no longer there’s nobody else can have her. And the profits from that last picture should ought to be some- thing positively enormous—stupendous sensational. Listen! I bet you that from the hour we release ——’”’ “You ain’t going to release!”’ broke in Geltfin, his wizen features sharpening into a peaky mask of grief. “*Don’t talk foolishness!’’ snapped Mr. Lobel. ‘‘For why shouldn’t we be going to release?”’ “That’s it—why?” onded the demand. “Because you wouldn’t dare do it!"’ In his desire to make clear his point Mr. Gelt- fin fairly shoveled the words out of himself, bringing them forth overlapping one an- other like shingles on a roof. ‘‘ Because the public wouldn't stand for it! Always you brag, Lobel, that you know what the. publi: want! Well then, would the public stand for a picture where a good, decent, straight girl that’s dead and will soon be in her grave is for six reels doing all them sugges tive vampire stunts like what you yourself, Lobel, made her do? Would the publi stand for calling a dead woman names like she-demon? They would not—not in a thousand years—and you should both know it without I should have to tell you! With some pretty rough things we could get by, but with that thing we could never get by! The public, 1 tell you, would not stand for it. No,sir; when that girl died the picture died with her. You just think it over once!" Out of popped eyes he glared at them They glared at him, then they looked at each other. Slowly Mr. Lobel’s head drooped forward as though an unseen hand pressed against the back of his neck. Quin lan casting his eyes downward traced wit! one toe the pattern of the rug under his feet On top of one sudden blow, heavy and hard to bear, another now had followed Since Lobel had become one of the top notchers with a reputation to maintain, expenses had been climbing by high jumps but receipts had not kept pace with ex penses. There were the vast salaries whic! even the lesser drawing cards among the stars now demanded—and got. There were war taxes, excess profit taxes, amuse ment taxes. There was to be included in the reckoning the untimely fate of Let Free- dom Ring, a vastly costly thing and quickly laughed to death, yet a smarting memory still. Its failure had put a crimp in the edge of the exchequer. This stroke would run a wide fluting of deficit right through the middle of it. The pall of silence lasted no longer than it has here taken to describe how it fell and enveloped them. Mr. Geltfin broke the silence without lifting the prevalent gloom Indeed his words but depressingly served to darken it to a very hue of midnight. *‘Besides,’”’ he added, “there is anyhow another reason. We know what a nice clean girl she was in private life. We know that all them wild romance stories about her was cooked up in the press department to make the suckers believe that both on and off the screen she was the same. But she wasn’t, and so I for one should be afraid that if we put that fillum out she’d come back from the dead to stop it!” He sank his voice, glancing apprehen- sively over his shoulder. ** Lobel, you wouldn’t dare do it!” “Lobel,”’ said Quinlan, “he’s right! We wouldn’t dare do it!” “Quinlan,” admitted Lobel, “‘it’s right I wouldn’t dare do it.” In that same instant of his confession, though, Mr. Lobel bounded out of his chair, magically changing from a dumpy static figure of woe into the dynamo of energy and resourcefulness the glassed-in studios knew. sah got it !’* he whooped. at got it!’’ He threw himself at an inner door of the execu- tive suite and jerked it open. “‘Appel,”’ he shouted, “‘don’t start yet! I got more in- structions still for you. And say, Appel, you ain’t seen nobody but only Quinlan and Geltfin—eh? You ain’t told nobody only just them? Good! Well, don’t! Don’t telephone nobody! Don’t speak a word to nobody! Don’t move from where you are!” ” Mr. Quinlan sec- Continued on Page 98

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06 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 Wi What are you going tovarnish? That determines the kind of varnish to buy | You buy one kind of paint for the out- side of your house, another kind for your porch Hoor and still another kind for your inside woodwork. You have learned from viedat i experience that a single kind of paint will as ii Wi Nv y not do for all of these different surfaces. Have you learned this same lesson about a varnishes? ‘ Varnish, like paint, is nothing more than a film that protects only so long as it will stand the wear imposed upon it. i —_— Different varnished surfaces get different kinds of wear just as different kinds of painted surfaces do. It depends upon their nature, their location and the uses to which they are put. Ordinarily one varnish for all purposes doesn’t work out satisfactorily . The wear | of weather and the wear of walking, for instance, are not the same. A varnish that will resist the pounding of heels will not necessarily resist sun, rain, snow, freeze and thaw. Each Sherwin-Williams Varnish, like ' each Sherwin-Williams Paint, is made ’ with a particular surface in mind and a knowledge of the kind of wearto be resisted. THEREFORE, each Sherwin Williams Varnish is bound to give greater durability and greater satisfaction on the surface it is made to protect. PAINTS, VARNISHES, PIGMENTS DYESTUFFS, DISINFECTANTS

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rf } ’ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 97 f | | ; | | Different surfaces get different wear ! So there must be or — in 2 a oe a nee | > . Each ts « seaside nied ria jt niga ar - : | | a different varnish for each Ask the S-W dealer for the new varnish fle ) | well as appeara . =~ . That’s logical, isn’t itP You do not walk on tables, but you do | on floors. You do not subject your furniture to heat, rain, snow and ice, but outside surfaces must stand such exposure. All of these varying kinds of wear have been scientifically met by three Sherwin-Williams Varnishes. Each is water-proof because water comes in contact with all varnished surfaces at times. But beyond that quality they differ—each being made to best protect the surface it covers from the kind of wear such surface gets. for floors for furniture and for all outdoors Hasatoughn indelasticity woodwork It is made to stand weather that resists the trying wear It is famous for the beautiful the severest wear that var floors get. Holds its lustre polish it takes. It will stand nish ever gets. In govern- t repeated cleaning and the knocks and rubs of usage, ment tests for airplane use | tands up under the wear of — and is heatproof and water it successfully passed 34° of r and moving — proof. Hot liquids will not scar the severest tests ever given ibout of furniture. it of turn it white. a varnish. These three varnishes used on the surfaces for which they are made will give lasting protection. All Sherwin-Williams dealers carry them and will give you the right one for your purpose. THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS Co. \ I Main Co pondence Office, 601 Canal Road, N. W Cleveland, Ohio a 7 es CHEMICALS, INSECTICIDES, COLORS AND WOOD PRESERVATIVES

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Continued from Page 94 ‘ ‘ 1 t 1 ayair t if ile secreta a t tl u face ! imazed ii h!"’ he proclaimed to them tr minute t sight it up myself { t Il, alway in a big | n think fast jsten! No t going w Monte is dead; 1 yea t be for two year i i ‘ icture is old and t: not et good and ready i] \ Monte, she goe living t he word hut ait, ca If | must do all y | lidn t es ye iewa What | ” let me ead y But nobod Quinlan, and t Appel in this next room t ! up there at Ham t and } wife she ! body in all that town And } don’t the know the I it a womarl iral (sla i that 1 dead that sick? i doubt changed hat ¢ ! f them rube ever go to a feature fillums there didn't recognize her if t othing when she wa lid the ispect somet} 1? The houldn’t and int! What vive me the idea mbered that when the d poke only arm ime M te He te hey didn't j ilive for wt ng now she they won't and wa I just re octor called me Glassman, not me he cal D THE SATURDAY here because he finds in her room where ne died a card with the name Lobel Master hin on it And likewise also | just re membered that in the excitement of getting such a sad news over the telephone I don’t tell him who really she is neither.” “Holy St. Patrick!” blurted Quinlan, up now on his feet **Y ou mean, Lobel ai “Wait, wait, I ain’t done--I ain’t hardly tarted!’"’ With flapperlike motions of his hands Mr. Lobel waved him down. “It’s a pipe. Listen! To date her salary #28Y) ) paid. The day she went away I gave her a check in full, and if she done what al ways before she does it’s in the bank draw ng interest. Let it go in the bank drawing interest » know, he ain’t got no people in this country at ill. In the old Hungary? Maybe, ye But Hungary is yet all tort ip by this war—no regular government there, no regular mails, no American con ils there, no nothing. Time for them foreigners that they should get their hand one year from now or two They couldn't come to country in on her prope rty years or three laim it even if we should notify them, which we ean't. They don’t lose nothing by waiting Instead they gain— the inter est it piles up ‘Should people ask questions, why then through the papers we give it out that Mi Vida Monte is gone far off away somewhere for a long rest; that maybe she don't take pictures for a long time. That hould make The She-Demon go all the better And to-morrow up there in that quietly we bury no more ittle rube town very Sarah Glassman, deceased, with the burial made out in her own name.” impt certificate 7 He paused a moment to enjoy his tri EVENING POST soys, when I myself think out something, am I right or am I wrong?” He answered his own question. “I’m right!” By the look on Quinlan’s face he read conviction, consent, full and hearty ap- proval, Sut Geltfin wavered. Inside Geltfin superstition wrestled with opposing thoughts. Upon him then Lobel, the master mind, advanced, dominating the scene and the situation and determined also to dominate the lesser personality. sut—but say—but look here now, Lobel,” stammered Geltfin, hesitating on the verge of a decision, “‘she might come back.” “Geltfin,” commanded Lobel, “‘you should please shut up. Do you want that we should make a lot of money or do you want that we should lose a lot of money? I ask you. Listen! The dead they don’t come back. When just now you made your spiel, that part of it which you said about the dead coming back didn’t worry me. It was the part which you said about the public not standing for it that got me, be- cause for once, anyhow, in your life you were right and I give you right. But what the public don’t know don’t hurt ’em. And the public won't know. You leaveit to me!” It was as though this argument had been a mighty arm outstretched to shove him over the edge. Geltfin ceased to teeter on the brim—he fell in. He nodded in sur- render and Lobel quit patting him on the back to wave the vice president into activity “Quinlan,” he ordered as he might order an office boy, “‘get busy! Tell ’em to rush The She-Demon! Tell ’em to rush the sub- titles and all! Tell ’em to rush out an an- nouncement that the big fillum is going to January 17,1920 be released two months before expected on account the demand of the public is so strong to see sooner the greatest vampire feature ever fillumed.”’ Quinlan was no office boy, but he obeyed as smartly as might any newly hired office boy. If it was Mr. Lobel’s genius which guided the course of action, energizing and speed- ing it, neither could it be denied that cir- cumstance and yet again circumstance and on top of that more circumstance matched in with hue and shade to give protective coloration to his plan. Continued success for it as time should pass seemed as- sured and guaranteed, seeing that Vida Monte, beyond the studios and off the locations, had all her life walked a way so secluded, so inconspicuous and so utterly commonplace that no human being, whether an attaché of the company or an outsider, would be likely to miss her, or missing her, to pry deeply into the causes for her ab- sence. So much for the contingencies of the future as those in the secret foresaw it. As for the present, that was simplicity. As quietly as she had moved in those earlier professional days of hers, when she played small réles in provincial stock com- panies; as quietly as she had gone on living after film fame and film money came her way; as quietly as she had laid her down and died, so very quietly was her body put away in the little cemetery at Hamlets- burg. To the physician who had ministered to her, to his good-hearted wife, to the official who issued the burial certificate, to the imported clergyman who held the service, to the few villagers who gathered Cencluded on Page 101 “It's a Cinch! If I Must Say it Myself, Always in a Big Emergency I Can Think Fast. Listen!’ A A RT ee

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———— Concluded from Page 98 for the funeral, drawn by the morbid lure which in isolated communities brings folk to any funeral—to all of these the dead woman merely was a stranger with a strange name who temporarily abiding here had fallen victim to the plague which filled the land. Of those who had a hand in the last mortal role she would ever play only Lobel’s private secretary, young Appel, who came to pay the bills and take over the private effects of this Sarah Glassman and after some fas} on to play the roles of next friend and chief mourner, kenned the truth. The clergyman having done his duty by a deceased coreligionist, to him unknown, went back to the city where he belonged. The physician hurried away from the cemetery to minister to more patients than he properly could care for. The town people scattered, intent upon their own affairs. Appel returned to head- juarters, reporting all well. At headquarters all likewise went well ; n fact that under the urge for haste things essential were accomplished in less time by fewer craftsmen than had been the case since those primitive begin- nings when Lobel's, then a _ struggling rt-handed concern, frequently had doubled up its studio staffs for operative ft laboratory. Re- porting progre to the preside nt, Mr. Quinlan expanded with self-satisfaction. I’m fixing to show you something in the way of a speed record,”’ he proudly pro- claimed. ‘The way I looked at it, the fewer people I had rushing this thing through the f } ] so briskly well service in the makes} factorv the | chance there was for loose talk round the plant and the less loose talk there was going on round the plant the less chance there was for maybe more loose talk outside. Yes, I know we'd figured ve’d got everythi caulked up air-tight, but I says to myself, ‘What's the use in i a leak if you don’t ‘ turned the big part of the job— developing and all the rest of it over to Josephson, same as we used to do hack yonder when we was starting out in this game and didn’t have a regular film cutter and the camera man had to jump in and develop and cut and assemble and print and everything. Josephson shot all the scenes for The She-Demon—he knows the run of it better even than the director does. Jeside Josephson is naturally : - cl ose-mouthed. He minds his own business and never butt \ e. To look at him you can’t ne hat he’s thinking about. But ev suspected any- thing—and, of » don’t — he’s the kind that’d kr to keep his trap shut. So I've 1 working like a nailer and he’s pretty near done. “‘Soon as he had the negative ready, which was late yesterday afternoon after you'd went home I had it run off with no- body there but me and Josephson, and I took a flash at it—and, Lobel, it’s a bear! No need for you to worry about the nega- tive—it was a heap too long, of course, in the shape it was yesterday, but it had everything in it we hoped would be in it and more besides “So then without losing a minute I stuck Josephson on the printing machine himself. I'd already gave the girl on the machine a couple of days off to get her out of the way. Josephson stayed on the job alone pretty near all last night, I guess. He had things to himself without anybody to bother him and I tell you he shoved it along. “Connors ain’t lost no time neither. He’s got the subtitles pretty near done, and be- lieve it or not, as you're a mind to, but, Lobel, I’m telling you that this time to- morrow morning and not a minute later I’ll have the first sample print all cut and assembled and ready for you to give it a look! Then it'll just be a job of matching up the negative and sticking in the sub- titles and starting to turn out the positives faster than e shipping-room gang can handle’em. I ss that ain’t moving, heh?” “Quinlan,” said Mr. Lobel, “I give you right.” By making his word good to the minute the gratified Mr. Quinlan derived additional gratification. At the time appointed they sat in darkness in the body of the projection room— Lobel, Quinlan, Geltfin and Appel, these four and none others— behind a door locked and barred. Promptly on Quinlan’s order the operator in the box behind them started his machine and the accomplished rough draft of the great masterpiece leaped THE SATURDAY into being and actuality upon the lit square toward which they faced. The beginning was merely a beginning graphic enough and offering abundant proof that in this epochal undertaking the Lobel shop had spared no expense to make the production sumptuous, but after all only preliminary stuff to sauce the palate of the patron for a greater feast to come and suitably to lead up to the introduction of the star. Soon the star was projected upor the screen, a purring, graceful panther of a woman, to change at once into a sinuou python of a woman and then to merge the feline and the ophidian into a si er, sple ndid, menac ing composite bespeaking the dramatic conception and the drar presentment of all feminine evil, typifying in every move of the lithe half-clad body, in every shift of the big eyes, wi kedness unleashed and unashamed. Mr. Lobel sitting unseen in the ve blackness uttered grunts of approbation. The greatest of all fil lvet ilm vampires certainly had delivered the goods in this her valedic- tory Neve r be fore had she so well de liv- ered them. The grunting became a happy rumble But all this, too, was in a measure dedica- tory - a foretaste of more vivid episodes to follow, when the glorious siren, display to the full her powers of fascination over the uuls and the bodies of men, would rise to heights yet greater and the primitive passion she so well simulated would shine forth like a malignant jewel in a setting that was semibarbaric and semicivilized, too, and altogether prodigal and lavish. The first of these bigger scenes started the scene where the queen of the apac hes set herself to win the price of her hire from the Germans by seducing the young army officer into a betrayal of the Allied ca the same scene wherein at the time of film ing it Mr. Lobel himself had taken over direction from Colfax’s hands. The scene was launched, acquired head- way, then was halted as a bellow from Mr. Lobel warned the operator behind him to cut off the power. ‘“What the hell!”’ sputtered the master. **There’s a blur on the picture here, a sort of a kind of smokiness. Did you see it, Geltfin? Right almost directly in front of Monte it all of a sudden comes! Did you, Quinlan?” . “Sure I seen it,”’ agreed Geltfin. “* Like a spot—sort of.” “It wasn’t on the negative when I seen it day before yesterday,” stated Quinlan “I can swear to that. A little defect fron faul y printing, I guess.’ All right then,” said Mr. Lobel. “Only where you got efficiency like I got it in thi plant such things should have no busine rring occurrin g. “Go on, operator let’ ee how goes it from now on.” Out again two shadow figures— the vampire and the vampire’s prey— flashed in motion. Yes, the cloudy spot was there a bit of murky shadow drifting between the pair of figures and the audience It thickened and broadened— and then fron the sud lenly constricted throat of the four watchers, almost as though all in the same moment an invisible hand had laid gripping hold on each of their several wind pipes, came a chorused gasp. For they saw how out of the drifting patch of spumy wrack there emerged a shape vague and indistinct and ghostly, but taking on instantly the sharpened out- lines of one they recognized. It was the shape, not of Vida Monte, the fabled wrecker of lives, but the shape of her other self, Sarah Glassman, and the face it wore was not the face of the stage vampire, aflame with the counterfeited evil which the actor woman had so well known how to simulate but the real face of the real woman, who lay dead and huried under a mound of fresh-cut sods seventy miles away—her own face, melancholy and sadiy placid, as God had fashioned it for her. EVENING POST Out from the filmy umbra it advanced to the center, thus hiding its half-naked double writhing in the embrace of the de luded lover, and clearly revealed itself ir long sweeping garments of pure white—fit grave clothes for one lately entombed with great masses of loosened black hai: falling like a pall about the passionle brooding face; and now lifting reproachful eyes, it looked out across the intervening void of blackness into their staring eye and from the folds of the cerement robe raised a bare arm high as though to forbid a lying sacrilege. And stood there then asa wraith newly freed from the burying mol filling and dominating the picture so that one looking saw nothing shrouded figure and the head and the face and those ¢ ye and that upheld white : Cowering low in his seat with a s } eyes to shut out the accusing j i else save the apparition, Mr. Geltfin whispered — be tween chattering teeth: “I told him! | told him the dead cou! imay be come back!"’ Mr. Quinlan, a bolder nature but ever so terribly shaken, was muttering to him self: “‘But it wasn’t in the neg swear to God it wasn't in the negative It is probable that Mr. Lobel heard neither of them, or if he heard he gave no heed. He had a feeling that the darknes was smothering him “Shut off the machine!" he roared as he wrenched his body free of tl chair in which he sat. ‘At 1 lights in this room-—quick! And let me out of here quick!"’ Lunging into the darkness he over Appel's legs and tumbled headlong out into the narrow aisle. On all fours a the lights flashed on, he gave in a choking be llow } Is commal! d 1 that print- you hear me, burr ’ acrive | 9° now! And then burn the negative oo Quick you burn it, like I am tellir : ‘*But, Lobel, I'll swear to the ne *T wouldn’t touch it lar roared Lobel. “ you! And bury the ashes!’ Still choking, still bellowing, he scram bled to his feet, an ungalr ly embodiment of mortal agitation, and ran for the door sut Mr. Geltfin beat him to it and throug! it, Quinlan and Appel following in the order named Outside their chief fell up against a wall panting and wheezing for breath, his face swollen and all congested with purple spot They thou ht he was about to have astroke or a seizure of e sort But the were wrong This merely was Nature warning to a man with a size seventeen neckband ind a fort x-inch ¢ measurement. The roke he was to have on the foll ing da Prol ably Quinlar ind Geltfin as expe enced busine mer hould have now! better than to come bursting together into the office of a stout middle-aged man w! » latel had suffered a cor iderable ner ou ! k and still was unstrung and |} ing after such unseer fashion burst ir then to blurt it their tiding n concert without first | ft and sooth r word preparing the heare ter rece ‘ the tidings they bore. But themselve they were upset by 4 \ learned and so perhaps may be pardoned for a seeming unthoughtfulne Both speaking at once, both made red of face and vehement by mingled emotions of rage and chagrin, each nourishing a perfectly natural and human desire to place the blame for a catastrophe on shoulders other than their own two pairs, they sought to impart the tale they brought. Ensued for in exciting moment a baffling confusion of tongue “It was that Joseph on done it the mousy little sneak!” The e words became ir telligible as Quit Jan, exerting his superior vocal power dinned out the puttering inarticulate cents of Gelttin ‘He fixed it so that you'd pill the bear Lobel! He fixed The She-Demor Josephson. And me trusting him! ‘How should I be knowing that all t} time him and that girl wa ‘ to be married? How should I be knowins that he would find out fér himself the day after the funeral that she was dead and yet never say a word about it?) How should J be knowing that he would have a uc away somewhere a roll of film showing he dressed up like a madonna or a saint or martyr or a ghost or something which he took privately one time when tl a , tovether on locatior lipy gy awa with her and taking ‘em without nobody know Ing about it? How hould [ be knowing that without tipping his hand he would cook up the idea to work a fal you, Lobel, and scare you into kil ng off the whol thing? How should I be know ing that while he was on the print chine all by himself the other night that he would work the old double exposure stunt and throw such a seare it to you the pro jecting room yester By reason of | ilar resour: M Quinlar n ht } it louder tha Celt fir But he could not shout louder than M Lobel. Nobody in that section of Southert California could. Mr. Lobel outblared hin “How should you be knowing? You come now and ask me that wher il along it was you that had the well idee t him into the laboratory all by himself where he could play some funt isine Yout” But it was you, Lobel, that wouldn't listen to me when I hegyed you t Vail ane burn up the uu that the ney een it run off.” You told me? It’s a lie!” “Sure [ told vou! Geltfin remembe y tel ' you, Geltfin? You're an old bird, Lobel--you ought to know by now about retouching and doctoring ar a mv tellir g you, dor " all. You know how ¢ y itis toslip over a double exposure But it wa only the amp! doctored. The nega tive you wouldn't ter “That's right too, Lobel!” shrilled Gelt fin. “‘I heard him when he yelled out t itnhat y ishould wait! Quinlan amplified the indictme Sure he heard me ind nu! But no, you had to lose nerve ‘ ir he | ist beca ‘ 1d t l ‘ T vent nto Ve I never ee] head! IT never loser nerve! denied Mr. Lobe He turne t counter tide of re minatior nG ! Ar now, t wa nu tarted {; { i ) m the t place ris ere ! dead coming ba 4) fi fool t I y 1 never have had the idee of a t t Andy now when t i pilt mill 1 two ¢ eal ()} but bee (ye t remembe iwa one t it i negat ‘ ! ned | ‘ ‘ 1 \ now it’s burned p! Mr. Lobel wa ed t ‘ ! ‘ n hi vn office ‘ ‘ If re bu ing to be d ‘ ‘ own candidate a irged wit distracting regret . had at spiration, "He would turn the flood of cusation away from himself Where is that Josep} n? he } Ta ‘He is the one actually to blame, not Let me get n hands on that Josephso ar et’ You can't! ered Quinlar He quit he gone he beat it! He wrot me a note, the ! ind mained it ba t rie when he Vil beating { t f } t ng me to te you } k hed rke it on you He felt in } p et 1; that note here mewhere here it ] read it to uu, Lobe he 1] il inare n one place ind ar i ( n another sat : " Look out h him Qu ¢ Mr. Geltfir Look at |} face t ! » faint mmething The prime inter ( forth at the beginning, was t el) I Mr. Max Lobel had an attack of apoplex That original purpose having now bes carried out, there remains 1 ing more to he added and the narrative « aa wren sna

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Od I ‘ t ‘ he ibbed the Then he took the ! rved f ‘ i ‘ ' ens , nat the le f , } ‘ , t wn the ‘ j yw tne Live I 0 eft the sa f juarte f ne ( whien he irefu f t int e bhed-t bag ) ‘ ‘ { evera ect f tring and rt nthe w i le the he | ‘ rt ta Then he ame out it down on a ba I ia 1 put e questior ne 1 neg no i it ¢ pre Byrd }) ac’ Ly unnel in } tice taikil é deb il ! t lamnin ae i ! rey ‘ J te iro] y tne nar ( f the 4 eiba I he it it el’phunt 4 } me ng «ce mad in de night tirree { ‘ eere it twenft leur lone } ed e mer one momar if i he tween hvar an’ Lee ig. How big lat thing ¢ } I 1 done seer > Thee folk he t twent foot t mit ' le ia ered up wid a blanke té kee ie | ‘ f'n eein’ t But I re ie | ‘ KIT mell m cle far} ‘ el ef ce int im IT good O} es, he was all of twenty feet tal vith a snout as long as he high, and irs as big as a lap robe, But about that plantation of Colonel B It’s astor hir } vw quickl e people can become blase De place bout xteen mile f'm | ir m de right ¢ if? main f id ! Is et back ‘bout quarter t ! I in ina clump oO iple vid a big black gum tree ticking up in de middle You can’t rt it: bridge cross de creek jes fo’ you git dar Yassuh, cunnel mighty fine mar Got mo’ niggers dan ‘Cyarter had oats.’ My, mj you cert'n'y is perfe le harmonicle! the old fellow exe i iwney cre that instrument fe 1 began to show off In spite o mall but enthusiast ner time he pent the ft for i feed for tne mare f the bigger at wher n the kitchen of th road! ise, where he managed to sh eX 1 iple of ‘ of bread and mea pocket The last remaining shinplaster ent for a ticke 1 hased th even greate iif? t { ul before, in the glare f half a dozen tor ‘ fastened on the end { the ticket wagor The crow as even bigger than before and wre now hay y interest ww ne animal only mt no mie n gett v to the tent where ther ‘ i It wa irpr ngly well lighted by hundreds of candle inged ' ow 0 ' fad er yoodel handel haped e | il ! \ hung from the top of & tent He x i eat seve 1 row back ! ne er no r hat nobod vould re ‘ ehim and i) ny that nobody “i tM pie to ride the le Ihe perf nance Was ex ‘ ime before ip to ey] t ere the t ai ti a two mel one | hor had tuck so tight that the animal just i nand lled hi fl othe huge ade nt f ave hod awn t ked | k and forth, | long face \ ‘ nto a gri .’L knowed it! \ not bu e and dat Is ma | i, ’ But he was mistaker for here came a third man slouching into the ring. He wa ire like the poorest of poor white tra it readest of clothes Afte ome r irgument with the clown he got ot hat muie backward, hooked his feet under and grabbed it by tne tail. The f his ear and the mule fa ts foreleg own let go tore up the sawdust bucking and kicking. But the tramp not only stuck on, to ever) body imazement, he somehow manayed to undre himself and _ finally at p traight n beautiful white tights. lle turned round on the mule and k hand to the lady across the ring on the cream-colored horse She stood up and cried, ‘“‘Houp la!” in a high thin voice As the horse started to race round, the ! le vith the man on his back, tore after nem As the tiny reature drew alongside the running horse the mule’s back and sprang up beside the lady the mule stopped almost dead in hi tracks Ther aynin the mat when the horse came round jumped off beside the mul raced off by himself. and when horse THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 7 were me py ne tne man took a back and uj ind mule inning jump to the mule’ beside the lady again Watching this failed to realize how breathless performance near he had ng up the afternoon's act ~awney come to gumn Ain't nobody but me an’ dem sukkus men rid ‘im yet,”” he said, dropping off the of the bench as the elephant came in ringing a dinner bel tarted t« animal tent, but he thought suddenly dark He and within a apling at the edge of the branch near the pike ‘Ain’t no teams comin’ now, I reck’r but, hoss, I ter goodness you keep hyar.”’ The negro slipped bact and thanking his stars for ed over the branch Sawney © out, as through the found made straight for the stable had tied the mi: himself outside in the few minute etoa iong dis road ho’ does hope still ontel I gits back down the road the moonle in front of the horse lot and crept up into the tall nignt cros veed Across the lot torches flashed, har ne eha rattied and men swore as horse vere already being hitched up taking the road In the darkne at his end of the lot Sawnev could barely make out the form of the mule, a light blanket having been ifter his recent exertions. thrown over him Howdy) little feller the negro greeted oftly, stepping up, erect in the gloom The mule snorted, pricking its ears for- ward tut Sawney felt the nose nuzzle into the palm of his hand Nevertheless, he ringer tooped and very ging picked up one of the sharp tiny hoof e owner simply blew of welcome down the back of a breatl his neck Working as quickly as the darknes shod all four feet of would permit the boy the animal with pieces of the meal sack, tying the ends round the ankles as tightly is he dared — talking all the time in a low monotone ‘Little feller, I sho does admiah you Seem ter me he chuckled, “you got mo eve'ything wid you ter move wid ‘cept wing but I lay you sump’n live dem think you done flew right up lin’ now. But ikkus foll way f'm whar you standir 1 can't fly wid dis thing or He quickl inbuckled the blanket, flung t some distance away, untied the halter, ind rising from his knees looked about ir the dar Then without a sound negro and e stepped over the bank into the half- long time over the ito take hima might to guide the mule in the darkne stones to the point where the mare } oose Lipper was tethered. She would have broken had he not begun to talk to her while he was yet twenty yards distant Riding the mare he hit the pike and kept going for several hours at a stead f foot Keeping « me to the r nt ile vu the road. leadingther leontheoutsidewiththe ! test po ble halte in case the ho i meet a ye he negro began to peer ro 1 uneasil is the ti fa big vellow over the tree It had har } we t i re ne imme the creek bene: c i third of its usual size Afraid to go any farther in the bright moonlight he toe down the of a snake fence hidden by where it wa bars yin bushes, led ching | partly his charges into the field and down under the bridge [ying both animals to one of the heavy supports farthest away from the stream he looked about for a comfortable ti pend the rest of the night He could not find anything softer than the ind on the other side of the heavy ip right, so he against it and promptly fell That night under the bridge was pe rhaps the worst tl Sub wooden curled up asleep it Sawney had ev y his mind, already the swiftly moving events of the day and evening, tlew fantastic dream to another Well on toward morning the thunder of vehicles across the bridge return rspent excited by CONSCIOL from one ing from the circus became the roar of a upon lion, whose open jaws were almost him. A tall man with a high hat and a long whip struck the beast in the face. This en abled him to wriggle out from under the paw that had lain on his chest, and to jump over an elephant, to which he had foolishly given a chew of tobaceo. In order to escane he revenge of the enraged beast he got t le of a lit striped mule, which threw him clear up on the apex of a pyramid of blazing candles But, somehow, that long curling snout, with the queer little finger on the end, had almost curled about his ankle to pull him down when he awoke both irms hugging the wooden post, the sun an hour high, blazing in his eyes Cold and stiff in every joint from the mist which had arisen along the creek during the night: and feeling as thougt him half to death, Across the shock that ¥ tehes had ridder ind looked about hin a field of corr he creek wa arose in the slanted up to a grove of golden-yellow ma ple overtopped in the center by a big black gum tree with foliage as red as blood, a liv ing flame of scarlet in the autumn morning irafamousland ll the country round light mark for at that timeofthe ve “Thank goodne the boy exclaimed “Dis mus’ be de place,” and promptly crossed over to procure a breakfast for the mare and the mule After eating his own stolen food he spent a leisurely hour in the warm sun, rubbing some of the fodder, the inside of the animals down wit! giving them a final polish wit the pieces of meal sack which he took off the mule’s feet. So it was not until about half past nine that he crossed the bridge, ri ling the mule, and sought the front gate He found it at the head of a double row of maples, more than two hundred yard long On of the entrance the boxwood hedge had allowed to grow tall enough to admit a carriage team, and clipped close in the shape of two doves, their bills meeting in the center overhead. At the far end of the vista could be seen the stately white pillars of the house, which had been built with either side there was no gate beer bricks brought from England before the Revolution. ‘Umph, my soul!” the boy exclaimed with a sniff, check ng his charges in the middle of the road ‘ Dis is de fines’ place - po uvver I seed. 1 wonder He was interrupted bya loud laugh, deep and raucous with mirth. It came from a negro girl who, suddenly rising from behind the hedge, stood looking at him. The hedge, well over five feet } igh, was almost even with her shoulder She was as black as ebony, with eyes set well apart under a low forehead: her mouth, showing the ivory-white teeth, was half open ‘Name o’ Gawd!” she burst forth at last. ‘‘Hit’s dat sukkus mule; an’—an’ de ame nigger ridin’ ‘im. Well, well’; she continued the comment in a slow sarcasti a iwi ¢, he baked de hoecake j he el dé rog ter min’ if Frog, he went tuk er nap \ ‘ ard come ? ole it \ you dar—at de sukkus?”’ Sawney ed eaget ignoring the thinly veiled it or Silent] continued to eye him with a ga neerting that he took inother tac Whut i standin’ on, gal?” he asked iddenly, the corners of his mouth taking an upward turr I'm standin’ on my feet, nieeer mar she retorted with a disdainful toss of her hea Whut yo’ ““My feet on de groun’ uppity nigeer. Whar you come f'm, ar whar you git dat mule?” feet standin’ on?” You sho’ is one The irrepressible ingratiating smile that so few could resist spread over Sawney’s lor g face L did sister! Dis de ed live at?” turned , at a smiling nod 1 got a good look at her. if not quite six feet in height, barefooted, and straight as a young pine as she stood wit}! r hips. The left wrist;was encircled by a wide, bracelet Though she it had belonged to an African king, her great-grandfather “Marse Tip done house bin gone two days.” “Dat don’ make no diffunce,”” Sawney replied with a careless gesture. ‘‘De young lady whut I wants ter see “i *Deys two uv 'em,” the girl interrupted, him curiously. “Miss Jinny, she Something insid com pletely over as he rode ir from the girl, ar She was almost hands resting on he well-worr knew it not copper gone ter de cote January 17,1920 gone ter Baltimo’ a de te **Dat’s de one ‘Yistiddy v come a **Gret day i de mawnin’!” The girl looked toward the house and then back. “ Big blag ill come dou de medder long tail an’ jarred de ” Shook a ribber, she quoted derisively. ‘*Who is you, nig ger?”’ laughed, looking deliberately sne i over his head ‘Who is you, wich you come ridin’ dat sukkus mule an’ axin’ bout white folks’ ay? Whut’s yo name an’ whar you come f’m, ennyhow?” Who me?” Sawney paused until | tent gaze lrew her eves and held ther “Who " he repeate And leaning across ile’s neck he began with slow desc je emphasis and gradually in creasing speed an impromptu version of Juba I’m de ruby eye o’ de ’simmon see ~e n come hoppin’ in U in time; uv ! iba dt an’ iba dat Juha done |} le ldey ler t Fer sniffin’ at de kettle o” pe Whoop ahoy! I’m de boy Wid de doubl f ) He had not finished three es when the girl's hands fell from her ps, her feet he gan to move and he ody to sway slight as he « tinued the ne lar ragged rhythr Somehow I sho’ d e dis pl Oh, 7 u et Gr y Groce She loo homely de fe ind forty poun’ o' ca lle gr NSettin’ on de mante l piece 4 Juba choke ‘im on ¢ pu Oh, yimme ay ¢ harp ¢ Fer ter cut dat nigger’ O Whut et up all den i With gaze glued to Sawne the body had relaxed and grown limhe« nd she began to weave the motio cal t ( described — as he continued You wid de oats an’ me id ce We ain’ nu er qwine ter 4 oe yf S lrach, Meshach a Ahednego I don’ keer whether you like it or no ( ip dar, you gre 7 nigger, Can't you p ne a little juba \o hen’ double e de hick’ ry lin Cat n de ater y he can't swin ( 00 or ’ ray at de moo Waitt fer catfish ter come ‘long soon Jawhone wal n’ jawhe tal Like it ain’t qwine ter rain dis day, But ef jube y it » gwine ter rair You better not cut de hay Shake er foot, juba;: slap it in ded Double step o’ juba, wid de lef’ foot fus Juba an’ jawhone take er little we e. Jawbone say ter juba es The as abouta ird more of this, but in his sity of concentration Sawney’ troking the mule’ wandered up between its The hee-ee-haw broke the and with a half hysterical laugh the girl took to her heels The boy watched her disappear the house, with a snif lad beer neck, ears pell round T of appreciation as he looked about On the right of the long avenue of maples, a stretch of lawn be tween, the cornfield, with the shocks i: serried rows, rolled away and down to the creek A whitewashed picket fence sepa rated the left-hand side of the lawn from a flower garden, also ir low Farther on a road led through a gate in the fence, n from a field of the corner of the the sere and yel garde going through the field. the | } join the pike belo N g of the house stood the | irrounded | icircular x horse rac Sawney was ty a girl came sa across the lawr } is charges to it when front ste ps and ippeared to ing | sail, or rather to flo now and then could a small pantalets round the ankle be r the wide voluminous skirt. She was not more tl five feet tall, the skirt making her appear horter. Her brown hair was parted in the middle, to fall in restless curls over her neck Her brown eyes, quick and bright as a bird’s, were snapping even } } and shoulders with excitement as she ran up to the mare Continued on Page 108

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7 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST . January 17,1920 The ABC ADDING Getting the total” is a great figure need of business, consuming annually millions—if not billions—of dollars’ worth of time. Whatever the total cash sales, charge sales, bank de posits, ledger columns, payrolls there is a Burroughs Machine built for the job— including a long line of machines known primarily as Add ing and Listing Machines BOOK~ KEEPING Another group of figure operations is that in which many figure facts are recorded on the same sheet — as a ledger page, statement, stock rec ord, control sheet, etc Here again for any business, for any department, for any bookkeeping need there is a Burroughs Bookkeeping Machine, which prints the items and computes and prints the balance CALCU~ LATING Any Burroughs Machine can be used for multiplication and division as well as addition and subtraction; but the Burroughs Calculator is the one speediest and most convenient machine for all those figure opera tions requiring no listing of items such as checking an invoice.

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— a ee THE SATURDAY EVENING POST OF BUSINESS in which American business men have invested °75,000,000 in the last five years This confidence of business in the Burroughs product is based in part on the mechanical excellence of that product. In part, also, it is based on the world-wide service which goes with that product — which follows it in every daily operation and assures its continued efficiency. But these two factors are not alone suf- ficient to account for an investment on the part of American business men of $75,000,000 in Burroughs equipment dur- ing the past five years. The real reason lies in the fact that Burroughs serves a vital and ever-present business need. It is today an accepted fact that accurate accounting is in very truth the “A B C of Business”—the corner stone of credit, of administration, of satisfactory profits. The relation of Burroughs to this great need of the business world is funda- mental. William Seward Burroughs was not simply the inventor of the Adding Machine; he was the founder of a busi- ness institution to serve business, by mastering every figure operation in all business transactions and finding the most convenient, speedy and economical way of reducing every one of those opera- tions to automatic accuracy. —Bookkeepin¢g— This covers the needs of the biggest as well as the smallest business. It embraces all three great groups of figure operations: Adding, Bookkeeping and Calculating. The retailer’s sales slip, the bank’s ledger, the merchant's statement and the jobber’s invoice are alike provided for. It is a fundamental Burroughs service and obligation to business to devise newer and better machinery, to help the user keep that machinery in effective operation, and to engineer it properly into the pecu- liar needs of each business. No lesser ideal could give this result— to devise, recommend, and install the one machine best suited to a single business requirement, needs the broadest ex perience with all business operations, and with all figuring machine principles. With that background every new idea is tested in the cold light of practical expe- rience. It must prove that it will work and stand up to the job before it can join the ever-increasing company of Burroughs machines. It is precisely because Bur- roughs has been dealing with all figure problems for thirty years, that its judgment in regard to any, one specific problem is reliable. Calculati ng Pip Machines 107

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108 (Continued from Page 104 “Oh! Oh, what a beauty! What a per- fect beauty!" she exclaimed breathlessly, troking the mare nose, “Where did she come from? Who does she belong to? And what are you ‘I don’ know edzackly, but I spec’ she I ng tem you, missy Marse Sam, he tol’ me 9 rhe | mused exasperating!ly to fumble in his pockets, while the excited virl's face flushed to a delicate pinh ed reck'n dis hyar letter kin tell you more’n i i he aid fina unwrapping a piece f brown paper from the envelope It was addressed to Miss Sally Byrd Tranquillit Hier name Philopena,”’ the note be- gia “If you will secept her in place of poor old Sassafras, | promi e never to ride her after her re ication is completed She ue tle, but rather high tr and ha never been ridden with a Kirt Now, V erbium ap if you please ‘The boy’s name is Sawne He is a wizard with horses, complete master of the harmonica, and I think the funniest negro the world He is also free and going to live at Riverdale. Please let him stay at Tranquillity until | come— in a few days “Thine, SAM eventeen tut I hope *P.s Sorry I did not see the iles on your birthday cake all the rest of them.” ean to see The girl read the note twice over, holding it with one hand, while the mare nibbled at the fingers of the other. Then drawing the brown forelock aside it was exactly the color of her own hair— she kissed the white spot in the mare's forehead Out of the tail of his eye Sawney watched the negro girl come out of the house and take a seat on the horse block in front of the stone steps. Again that something in side of him flopped over as he noticed that he had put on her shoes, stockings and a red ane 1-yellow head handkerchief. Appar- ently he took no notice of her “Judy, quick, bring me some sugar! her small mistress called Noticing, too, the sudden adornment of her maid's head and feet Miss Sally giggled outright and a inced at Sawney Jut that idividual had suddenly grown bashful as well as cunning, for he was now kneeling down pretending to examine a forefoot of the mule he girl's expression of changed instantly ‘Why, I almost forgot! Boy—Sawney, what are you doing with that mule?” she demanded. * And to bring him here too!” * Miss Sally, dat’s de mule whut wuz wid de sukkus, w'ich de boss man in de ring say amusement ennybody whut kin ride ‘im kin have ’im. Yas'm, dat’s a fae’, An’ I wuz ridin’ ‘im when t’other man wid de funny face come up ‘ sg ide o’ me “Yes, I saw it,’’ Miss Sally said. “But you poe to have known Lawd!" the boy exclaimed, is mighty glad ter heer dat.” “Yes,” Miss Sally repeated there, and so was Judy *Settin’ right behin’ you,” the tall black girl laughed, coming up with the sugar “T cert’n’y “I was ‘Now didn’ you-all heer de man say ennybody whut rid ‘im could have ‘im? had Sawney protested “De mule flung de white man an’ nearly bust ‘im open; an’ 1 rid ‘im, did’n’ I?) An’ how ‘bout de hundud dollahs?” he added triumphantly, having thought of the money for the first time. ‘You reck’n dey would * Go "long nigger!"’ the black girl jeered. You talk jes like a nachul-bawn fool.” But Miss Sally suddenly realized that, remarkable as it now seemed, she had seen the mule trot off quietly with Sawney on until he had suddenly fallen off, e had not seen just what caused it ‘How did you doit?” she curiously. ‘I kin tame mos’ ennything.”” Sawney glanced at the tall negro girl with a ¢overt smile. ‘Il mean ennything whut walks on fo’ feet,” he added hastily ‘I meant to ask,” Miss Sally verely, “how did you get him away? steal him?” Sawney did not like that word a bit. **No’m, I jes tuk 'im,” he said, scratching his head dubiously. “‘Dat mule, he come long wid me jes ez nachul; jes follered me like a dawg,” he concluded lamely. Miss Sally had to smile. She knew well the difference the average negro makes be- tween pony ind just taking things “Where has the circus gone?” its back though s! isked said se- Just THE SATURDAY gone on down ter ‘I heer ‘em say dey Lynchbu’g an’ Riehmon ‘Well, I don’t know that anything can be done about it now," said Miss Sally. “Father will be home to-morrow; he will know. You are to stay here until Mr. Sam come Judy, show him the way to the stables and tell Hiram to give Sawney a place to sleep. I am going over to River- dale to-morrow,” she said to the latter ride Philopena over you a saddle and “and I want you to with me. Hiram will give bridle.”’ “Ef Marse Tip gwine ter git enny wuk outen his niggers he better git rid o’ dat sukkus mule,” Judy commented next day as Miss Sally was standing before the mir- ror tying the strings of a riding bonnet under her chin. “He might have too,”’ the girl smiled ‘Dar he come now ennywhar widout gwine ter let 'im tiverdale wid you? “Tam not. He should have let the to git rid of Sawney Dat nigger can’t go dat mule. Is you dat thing over to ridin’ take ani- mal stay in the stable,’ said Miss Sally, coming to the window. ‘Gwine ter rain ennyhow,” Judy com- mented, looking at the sky. “I'm not made of sugar or salt,” her small mistress replied, throwing a long black riding skirt over her arm. Sawney was tying the two animals to the rack, where another horse was waiting, as she came up, the yellow maple leaves blow- ing round her feet “Can she gallop?”’ Miss Sally asked, while the mare nibbled at the lump of brown sugar. “Jes ez easy single-foot an’ swered proudly. “I help ter gait her. But she ain’ ben rid wid a skirt yit. How fur ter Riverdale? Look to me you might git wet ‘fo ‘long, missy.” “Four miles.”” She looked doubtfully up at thesky. ‘Oh, I tell you what we can do instead!”’ She clapped her hands at the idea. “You, Sawney, go over and tell Aunt Charlotte I say to lend you the old black skirt—the one that caught fire—if she hasn't cut it up. Judy can tie it round you,” she giggled; ‘‘and you can begin right now to teach Philopena not to be afraid of it.” Tickled to death with the idea Sawney mounted the mule and trotted off across the field to the negro quarters. “ Judy, I'm just dying to ride her!"’ Miss Sally exclaimed as the mare turned her head, looking for more sugar. “Here, give me your hand. Oh, I'm just going to sit perfectly still. [ won't even take the bridle. She’s just as gentle as a lamb. Aren't you, honey?”’ The mare shied a bit as the girl rose to the saddle. The small foot was slipping into the leather loop above the stirrup when a little whirlwind of maple leaves scurried up under the mare’s nose. It caught the skirt, ballooning it. Turning an instant, the whites of her eyes showing, the mare sprang back, snapping the bridle. In all likelihood nothing further would have happened; but Judy ran forward with outstretched arms and cried, “Jump off, quick!" With a terrified snort the mare bolted straight for the gate in the picket fence. The girl, with one knee hooked over the man’s saddle, both hands gripping the long mane, clear of the seat as the mare went over the gate. Luckily she took the right-hand fork of the road, just as Sawney on the mule came over the rise, old Aunt Charlotte’s dress under one arm. The negro, nearly frightened out of his wits, had flung the skirt away and was about to jump off, when his steed whirled round, almost unseating him. He had not regained his equilibrium when, true to its training, the mule sprang forward as the mare came alongside and naturally swerved a bit toward the high bank which fell away to the other road below. But the mule stuck close to her, its small flying feet fairly drumming along the turf. The third attempt of the boy to grab the broken bridle succeeded, and the mare was slowing down; but the mule stopped al- most short and Sawne y went over the long ears, still gripping the bridle. The plunging mare’s uplifted knee struck the back of his head; the hoof struck the small of his back, when she stopped, trembling. Miss Sally slid off, stumbled, half fainting, across the road into the arms of her father, who had been driving up the other road with his overseer ez a rockin’-cheer—pace, fox-trot too,”’ Sawney an- bruk her myself an’ rose EVENING POST 9” “Oh, honey, my beby! Are you-hurt? The colonel’s legs: were shaking so he could hardly support himself, much less the small figure of his daughter. In a moment or two, very white of face, but entirely unhurt; the girl reached up, caught the tuft of white hair on her father’s chin, pulled his head down and kissed him. “I reckon—I’m all right—-daddy,”’ she smiled; ‘‘but very wabbly. Help me up.” “*Look! Henderson, look!” said the old man, taking off the black slouch hat and pointing to the bank not ten feet away, where the red clay gullies, deeply washed, had been filled with bowlders and trash to stop the erosion. But Henderson and Judy were bent over the unconscious Sawney. The mule had wandered off, looking as bored and dejected as ever, to get a bite of blue grass. “That boy hurt much?” the colonel in- quired, coming over with an arm round his daughter. “Don’t know, sir,”” the overseer replied. “Hard to tell; knocked senseless, but his head don’t seem to be even bruised. Run and tell Hiram to come here, quick,’’ he said to one of several small negro chil iren who stood round, the whites of their eyes rolling. Somewhat more composed the colonel looked about him—strange mare, but a beauty; man’s saddle on her; just escaped killing herself and his daughter—an arm tightened round the latter—strange nigger lying in the road, and that lop-eared jackass! He had seen the ending, but how did the affair begin? “Judy, catch that thing and bring it here,”’ the colonel ordered as the negro foreman and a stable boy came running up. **Henderson, you and Hiram take this boy to the house, and one of you drive over right away and ask Doctor Kemper to come over as soon as he can.” ee And, Mr. Henderson,” the daughter added, ‘“‘put him in the end room of the east wing. It’s empty. And tell Mammy Lou to make a good soft pallet for him. I’il be there directly.’ “Sure you are not hurt, my darling? It’s it’s a sheer miracle. Now, where did these two animals come from?’ the re- lieved parent demanded as a boy came up leading the horse, and Judy the mule. But for the unconscious negro on his way to the house the near tragedy had become near comedy. Miss Sally drew forth the letter from Sawney’s Marse Sam. The colonel, glanc- ing at the signature first, merely said ‘*Humph! “And so you want to keep the mare, daughter?” he presently questioned, look- ing down at her with a pretended frown. “Of course, daddy !"’ she replied, twisting a button on the white vest, the bonnet ee the pink face. ‘It’s only fair, after he broke Sassafras’ leg on the fox hunt, isn’t it?” “Well, I reckon it is—maybe. Con- founded reckless young rascal!"’ he smiled. “But where in the devil did this thing come from?” Both girls, the white one and the black one, laughed as the colonel pointed to the mule, ‘Stole him from the circus,” the daughter replied. ‘‘ You know, Judy and I went with the Riverdale folks. Sawney brought him along with Philopena yesterday, and I “Well, I'll be hs unged! The infernal im- pudence of it!” the colonel exclaimed, not knowing whether to laugh or to swear. “Yassuh, dat’s right,”’ said Judy, hand- ing the mule’s halter to the boy. ‘‘He sho is one uppity nigger.” And taking the tale from her small mis- tress she described every detail of what they had seen, from the time the mule came into the ring to the runaway mare. To their in- tense amusement the tale lost nothing in the telling as they all walked toward the house; except that Judy carefully omitted to tell —first, because she wouldn’t, and then because she couldn’'t—how she had invol- untarily patted juba at the front gate. She was in the midst of a description of the mare going over the picket gate, when the rapid grind of wheels on gravel caused them to turn. A man in a buggy driving a cueball horse swung into the half circle in front of the house and stopped not twenty feet from the horse rack. In a flash the colonel realized who he was, also that he was about the meanest-looking white man he had ever laid eyes on. The opinion was almost instantly veri- fied, for the man jumped down just as the January 17,1920 colonel started forward, and cut loose with a torrent of the swiftest, vilest language the old man had ever heard; and he had been a captain of artillery in the Mexican War at that. Struck dumb for a shocked second the colonel thundered, “Stop, suh!” And the man did stop in his tracks. “By your manner and language, suh,” the colonel said with slow emphasis, the little white goatee curled up in the effort to control himself, “‘I judge you to be the owner of that jackass. But you adopt the wrong method of obtaining “The hell I do!” the man growled sav- agely. “If I have to blowa hole i in you as big as my hat I'll have him now. As he spoke he turned to the buggy and was in the act of drawing a shotgun from under the seat when a powerful black arm—the one with the copper bracelet slipped under his chin and round the short bull neck. His head came back, his hands flew to his throat as a pair of knees struck the calves of his legs; and he sank to the grass, floundering and flapping round like a fish strung through the gills, with Judy’s arms slowly choking the life out of him. “‘Somebody git de gun, quick, so I kin turn ’im loose!’’ the black girl gasped. Rising from her knees as the colonel rushed forward and picked up the weapon Judy went over to the foot of a tree, sat down and began to cry. “Tt’s all right now,” Miss Sally whis- pered, patting her on the shoulder with a trembling hand. ‘Don’t be afraid.” The big black sunny-natured girl had never laid violent hands on a white person in her life, but now all the latent savagery in her nature had come to the surface. “‘T ain’ skeered uv ’im,”’ she said, rising. ‘Lemme git "way f’m hyar. De devil in me big ez a hoss.”” The colonel, with the gun lying easily in the crook of his arm, watched the man struggle to his feet, feeling his throat. A hand came away with blood on it, where the square bracelet had cut into the flesh over the jaw. “Nota aaaee out of you,” said the colonel with uplifted hand. “I am a magistrate of this county and I could send you to jail for this.” He tapped the gun stock. “Well, what are you going to do about it?” the man snarled. “Not hing; until you get an explanation of how that jackass came to be on this place. My daughter here tells me that a negro, who doesn’t belong to me, stole him after he had ridden him at your performance. In his ignorance —— “‘Any fool ought to have known ——” the man began “Yes, I know,” the colonel cut in. ‘Any fool ought to have known better than to come here and threaten me with a gun. Now it's high time that you and the rest of your ruffianly gang go back the way you came. That damned elephant of yours has caused some forty or fifty runaways and the death of five people, besides a dozen cripples, since you left Washington. And I am going to do my best to see that your outfit goes no farther into this state.” He turned as the overseer came up to say that Sawney had recovered consciousness. ‘Henderson, ride with this man and his jackass to the gate, and when you get there give him this gun.” The colonel turned on his heel, looking for Judy. But that individual, just as she had looked over the hedge at Sawney, was now peering at him over the sill of a win- dow near the ground floor of the east wing. He was lying on a pallet in the corner, and for a confused second he was looking over the hedge. A painful but irrepressible smile twitched at the corners of his mouth. “What you standin’ on?” he asked. He got no rise out of her this time, for she laid a pair of heavy arms on the window sill. “Nigger, yo’ mule done gone,” she chuckled. “‘Sukkus man come an’ got ’im.” It was quite in keeping with Judy’s char- acter that she made no mention of the cir- cumstances under which the circus man had come and gone or of the part she had played in them; besides which, she was yet a little shaken from that adventure. Sawney raised up painfully and fell back on the pallet. “Gone? Gret Jimminy! I rid dat mule. Did de man leave dat hundud dollahs, wich —— “Well, well, ef you ain’ de beatenes’ nigger uvver I seen! Did dat hoss kick all de brains outen yo’ haid?”’ Concluded on Page 110

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Concluded from Page 108 in’t studyin’ "bout my haid; back; feel like hit mos’ bruk in two.” ‘“‘Hyar come Marse Tip an’ de doctor met ‘im in de road,” said Judy, ppearing You say he was kr t or Kemper inquired, ocked unconscious?’ bending over the repied the colonel. matter with that skull aid “Clean out,” ‘Noth Hit’s my back, suh,”’ Bout de middle on dowr ‘Draw your legs up and throw your feet it All right Now, turn over and lool a TI knowing dded and pressed here and there. " the old doctor announced “Tf he is three days erebre pinal mening might de velop neo the pawney,. let’s ‘ Nnqulsitive wink about ‘to cut out No, Edw: wWoawney gave asmot doctor y You are all rig if nly bruised \ ttle f | fix you up. Lie still for laughe Lou's niment wi a day or two.”’ Neve ip Sawney rthel limpec shine and sat on a ol beside loor as Judy came int with his dinner. He d at the contents of the tin ow su! the orner ooke waiter with Chicken in de bread tray mighty Mammy gimme me runnin’ mvyse’f ter death roun’ hyar waitin’ on you,” said e laid the platter acro his knee Ef dat ain’ "null you je | tchen yo'se’f.”’ Instead, a walk down by the pond, where the girl showed him the vine, f of luscious fruit, whict vered a the bank, ind offered to climb up and get him some But he tep roun’ ter however, they tool great fox-grape nearly c¢ tree or black and ted in a huge lay tied with a rope tail was more intere yum log which ilmost submerged among the cat Whut’s dat?” he inquired “Chris’mus log,” said Judy, him “Whe w! Does all you nigger git holiday tille le y bu'n dat thing thoo? My Li rou ez er flour bar'l, an’ soakin’ in de water right now, two mont’ ‘fo’ Chrismus!” ‘Dat’s jes de middle o’ de tree,” Judy replied ‘We all bu’nt de big butt en’ las’ Chri he laughed. “*‘ Marse Tip made out like he wuz mighty mad when dey got cle bigges’ black gum on de place an’ he ay we-all tuk de ‘vantige uv ‘im an’ we got ter keep on wid dat same tree eve’y Chrismus till we gits ter de small en’ at the top. He says dat’s de onlies’ way he kin git even wid us niggers. But, shucks! He jes foolin’, ’ I heer ‘im laffin’ "bout it ter Miss Sally.” ‘I reck’n de cunnel mus’ be man,” Sawney observed, de fines’ place mighty fine young man een de place whar he live at. He ter take keer o” his hosses. But The looked down, pu hing the end boy of the dogwood tick into the soft bank. itting down Poesia awd, big amu eause \ mig! ty an dis is Marse Sam Ain’ nuvver want me good CCT ivver | too ‘But whut?” Judy asked. “Is you a free nigger?” ‘Bawn free,” Sawney replied. And as if the spoken words stiffened both his back ind his resolution he looked the girl full in the face; his hand fell over hers lying on the grass. “‘ Dis is de place fer me,” he said tis my THE SATURDAY “You know whut I’m gwine ter do? I’m gwine ter ask de cunnel fer de The girl drew her hand away and rose, a slight tremor running over her tall figure. The wrinkles appeared round Sawney’s eyes and his mouth turned up at the corners. **Cause I’ hpee nu se de ruby eye o’ de ’simmon seed, A come But with a startled exclamation the girl turned and fled. The boy sat still in the warm sunshine, gazing across the fat fields with half-closed The sweet pungent scent of wood smoke drifted to his nostrils; the red cone of the sumac blazed in the corner of the snake fence like the burning bush of old; chinquapin and chestnut hung in the open bur; hay in the loft and corn in the shock with the green wheat already carpeting the rows between; the lazy cawing of the crows mingled with a snatch of song that timed eyes. the falling of an ax in the woods. His senses swimming in the warm lazy comfort of it all, the boy drew forth the harmonica and lorn soul into it; his hands making the minuendos as perfect as began to breathe his love the opening and closing of crescendos and di- the pedals of an organ. Two yellow-hammers— man and wife dipped onto a thistle a few yards distant and began to dig into the pods, scattering the white fluffy down in search of the ripe seeds. The music ceased, the player watched them idly. Yes, everything, the whole world, was ripe Lawd, Lawd, whut a gal!” he mut- tered Putting away the instrument he started for the house. He was about to sit down in front of his door when Judy looked round the corner *Marse Sam done come,” she announced. “Out in de front yard wid Miss Sally.” His feet rustling through the fallen leaves Sawney came upon them before he knew it itting behind a tree on a twisted iron bench—a most uncomfortable place to do one’s courting. The instant the negro saw them he knew that something had hap- had been about to happen. s Sally’s face was colored a deep pink smoothed the wide skirt farther out over the bench The black eyes of the young man were shining like shoe buttons, but his tanned hawklike face wore an as- umed look of gravity as he looked his erstwhile messenger up and down. ‘You got here a day late, didn’t you?” he began without preliminary. pe ned or Mi as she ‘Why, howdy, Marse Sam!" the negro grinned, taking off his hat. “‘You sho is lookin’ mighty " An expression of a hand » limped udden pain supplanted the smile; went to the small of his back as he forward a step. “ Ya-as, suh, |—-I reck’n I did, suh; but hit’s dis way s ‘And I hear you have been mule steal- ing; and not only that ay “T 'elar’ ter Gawd, Marse Sam, I rid dat mule!” Sawney burst forth. ‘‘ Miss Sally, hyar, an’—Judy, bofe uv ’em ‘ He turned in appeal to the former, but that young lady was busy tying a slipper. ‘And not only that,” the young man continued accusingly, “you have been strutting about here casting sheep's eyes all round this place, trying to catch other things besides runaway horses, and just raising the devil generally among the women! I wonder you haven't asked for the liberty of this plantation.” The negro’s face had been a study during the long indictment, intuition he terrible after all. plantation! “Good Gawd he gasped, =~ which with a quick perceived was not so very Sut the liberty of the A’mighty, Marse Sam!” lat’s de ve’y thing I wuz gwine EVENINC POST ter ask de cunnel "bout dis day; an’ hyar you come 2 ““Sawney,”’ the young man said solemnly, leaning forward, one hand be hind him gras sping that of his companion—‘‘Sawney, it’s in the air.’ “Suh? In de air?” The bewildered negro looked round. ‘‘Whut is, suh?”’ “The sweet breath of the gods; a breeze from Olympus. I tell you, it’s in the air,” repeated the young man, carried away by his own happiness. ‘Go put your fortune to the touch—like I did,” pointing to the brick office. ‘“‘He’s in there.” “Oh, you mean de cunnel? I’m kind 0’ skeerd uv ’im,”’ Sawne y said, scrate hi ing his head doubtfully. ‘He ain’ rippin’ an’ tearin’ roun’ none, is he?”’ A shriek of laughter reassuring him some- what Sawney limped off to the office. Out of the tail of his eye he caught sight of Judy behind one of the tall white pillars of the ‘‘ great house.” Presently the door of the office opened and the colonel called to the pair out on the bench. They found him seated at the table, with Sawney standing in the corner fooling with his hat. “Fine day,” said the colonel, taking off his gle asses an d pulling at the white tuft on his chin. ‘‘ Must be in the air,”” he added, with a jerk of a thumb toward the corner. “Tell me, Sam, what you know about this boy. He has just asked me for the liberty of the plantation and — By George, it’s Judy he’s after!” “The boy is free, colonel. He was born on Judge Wilmer’s place in Appomattox. The judge is a very old man, was a great friend of my father, and he let Sawney come with me. The judge thinks well of him, and so do I, As to this circus-mule business a He turned to Sawney. *Marse Sam, I ’clar’ ter goodness I rid dat mule!” “So I have heard you say before. I really think that infernal jackass has hypnotized you. Forget it!" the colonel snapped. “Yassuh,” said the obedient Sawney. “I done fergot it a’ready.” How about Judy, daughter? her state of mind? There must be no mis- take in this matter.” ‘Haven't been able to keep her in the house since he came,”” Miss Sally giggled. ‘I believe he has hypnotized her too. Oh, yes, sir, her mind is made up.” ‘Boy,” said the colonel, “I never saw but two or three niggers in my life whom I What's thought good enough in every way to marry Judy.” ‘If he ever treats her badly ” Miss Sally began. “Oh, you needn’t worry about that, my dear,”’ her father chuckled. ‘And now” to the boy in the corner—‘‘do you know the meaning of the word ‘upright’? “Yassuh, cunnel, I reck’n I does, suh. Hit mean you got ter walk a chalk line,’ said Sawney. “‘Suppose we call them all in—now,”’ said the colonel to the pair behind him. The two lovers ran out gleefully to the tall pole behind the office and seizing the rope together swung the plantation bell The man in the field looked up at the sun, yet nearly two hours high, and left the plow standing in the furrow as the mellow tones came from the distance; the stable boy dropped his currycomb, the housemaid her broom; Hiram, the foreman; old Aunt Charlotte and Mammy Lou-—old and young, some thirty or forty of them, came hurrying to the office. They crowded the room and filled the windows outside— all but Judy. Nobody had seen her or knew where she was, “Hiram, you and some of the rest go find her and bring her here.”’ January 17,1920 The nervous Sawney in the corner, the absent Judy—she who was ever the first in everything—revealed the meaning of it all; and off they went with whoops of laughter. Presently Hiram came back, grinning like a Cheshire cat. **Marse Tip, dat gal ’way up in de hay- lof’ on top o’ de hay. She say ef I teches her she gwine ter bre’ k my haid wid de pitch- fork han’le, an’— an ’ she’d do it, too, suh!”’ “Well, Sawney,” the colonel laughed, “you know now what you are in for if you don’t walk that chalk line. Go get her yourself,”’ ***Scuse said that me, Marse Tip, please, suh,” individual, seized of a sudden bashfulness. ‘“‘I can’t climb ’ way up dar. My back ain’ well yit.’ **T don’t blame you,” the colonel chuckled to himself, and aloud to Hiram, ‘‘Go and tell her to come here at once or I'll com after her myself.” They pushed the tall black girl into the room, half dead with embarrassment, and trembling so they made a place for her against the wall. “Judy,” said the colonel, pointing to the boy in the corner, who was in much the same predicament, ‘“‘Sawney here has asked me for the libe arty of the plantation. Do “~ know who he wants?’ I reck’n I does, suh,” Judy gasped, tw ist ing her hands in her apron. “Do you want him?’ **Ya-as, suh, I reck’n I does.”” **Sawney, do you want her?” “T don’ reck’n nuthin’ "bout it, Yas- suh. suh, I does,’ Sawney corrected, in the laugh th: at ran round the room. ‘Judy,” said the colonel, ‘“Sawney is a free negro—free to come and free to go when and where it pleases him, and—you don’t belong to me.’ “I knows who [ fb’longs ter,”’ said the black girl, straightening up, pointing at the white re e behind the ce hair >, ain’ nuvver gwine ter leave her, an’ I ain’ nuvver gwine ter leave dis place ‘lessen dey take me 'way feet fust.”’ **Listen to me,” said the colonel. as our mother and father came to Tranquilli with my wife, and you shall never leay here as long as you live—unless to do so, “You and Sawney shall be married in the back parlor,” the old man continued amid the hum of voices all round him, ‘“‘at Christmas time, and that day you will be free woman.” When Colonel Byrd had begun to speak Judy had shrunk against the wall, staring at him with all her might. As he turned to his daughter to receive her smiling confirma tion the black girl rose to her full height, arms flung aloft. Glory be ter Gawd!” she gasped and, turning away, stumbled through the door. On such oceasions— when a wedding is in the air—the man most concerned simply cuts no figure at all. Some such idea was in the back of Sawncy’s head as they pushed him out into the late sunshine. However, he gathered courage as he followed the tall figure of Judy through the gate in the picket fence, though in such moments some people had better be left alone. She heard his low laugh behind her as they came to the rise in the field over looking the pond, swung round and faced him, her eyes shin- ing like the sunset on the water. “Ever gwine ter start dat ‘ruby ’simmon seed’ bizness wid me ag’in?”’ she demanded as Sawney limped up to her, something inside of him flopping over and over, “Not, not ef you don’t want me ter,”’ he replied meekly. ‘Well, den,” said Judy, *“come on, let’s go down an’ Chris’mus log.” you want eye, taking his hand, look at de

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i | } i The next thing of interest to keep Bea- trice at home was the advent of a real lion cub, following Monster’s departure to canine heaven. Being too impossible of shape and disposition for anyone’s pride or comfort, Monster was disposed of and buried in a satin-lined coffin with a neat white headstone telling salient facts of her short existence. While’ Steve was giving devout thanks for the event Beatrice was realizing that the gardens needed a dominating note, as Gay said. During her reading of old fables and romantic legends about superwomen or extremely wicked matrons she had discov- ered that they nearly all possessed a lion or a bear or a brace of elephants to gambol on the green. Such a pet symbolized its own- er’s power and fearlessness, and any young woman who could have the Emperor of China’s bedroom suite brought posthaste into Hanover, U.S. A., was entitled to some- thing in the jungle line for her front yard! For the first time in his daughter’s life Mark Constantine made a faint protest, suggesting that she have a _ taxidermist mount several lion cubs and group them about the hall—while Steve sat back in cynical amusement and asked if she were going to request the goldfish to step aside in favor of a few Alaska seals? ‘If she gets a live lion —and she will, be- cause I’m writing to a circus man now,” Gay told Trudy —‘‘I’m going to sprain my ankle and be laid up from the day the beast he won't tarry long, But I’m not going Still it would never do o make a fat commission on the deal and ; if I were afraid to come over and play cannibal-cannibal with him. I guess you can go ” he added insolently. Trudy looked at him in scorn. ‘‘ You are cheap,”’ she said. ‘Well, I will go! I'd just on be eaten by a lion as to have to live rrive intil he goes the police won't have it »take any chances then act as with a shrimp.” The lion arrived in due time and was named Tawny Adonis Beatrice consid- ered hin a perfect love He was gay young cub and quite effec tive in the new background, well tentioned but lonesome for his olu atmosphere of circus life and mother and brothers. He is given a large run in the Constantine grounds, and while Aunt Belle stayed locked in het room the greater share of the time and Gay immediately prained hisankle andwas forced to send Trudy as his messenger Mark Cor stantine and Steve found their time well occupied in ‘ neing the authorities that the town infantry would not be devoured piecemeal, Hanover had never really approved of having an Italian villa crammed down its throat, and it was cer tainly not agreeable, east, to have a lion cub at large as a dominating garden note. ‘*You cannot keep him, even you pulled all his teeth and taught him to bea dope fiend,” Steve said in desperation after the roars of Tawny Adonis had been reported to the police as annoying. ‘‘He is growing bigger every day and all he has done is demolish flowers and i} hrubs and chew up fence posts I'm sorry for him and I’m not particularly afraid of him, but if there was an accident with a hild even the owner of a domi- nating garden note could not expect to go scot free,”’ Her father and her friends implor ed Steve’sstand in the matter and, after a little rebelling and pouting and having the ple asure of sé ng her name in all the papers as the owner of the lion cub and so on, Beatrice consented to part with him on the cor dition that she be allowed to give him a farewell birthday party, he being nearly ar old. She was going to ask the ildren of all her friends. But getting a hint of the event her friends hastily arranged a Tom Thumb wedding for charity, and then assured Beatrice it was merely a coincidence the two things interfered with each other—wasn’t it a shame? Realizing that this dominating note was not a social asset, Beatrice to Say the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE GORGEOUS GIRL (Continued from Page 25) hastily sided with her father and the au- thorities. Besides, she was tired of Tawny Adonis; he was destructive, and a secret source of worry if she could have been made to admit it. So she prepared for a birthday féte and determined to have the public-school chil- dren as the guests. But these refused her invitation as well; so she went into the slums and collected thirty harmless waifs who felt that a lion’s birthday party was not to be despised, and brought them triumphantly into the Italian gardens. The waifs gathered round an outdoor table, too busy swallowing food to bother about their possible and likely fate. In the center of the table was a huge birthday cake for Tawny Adonis. It was made of raw Hamburg steak, generously iced with bone marrow, and the single anniversary candle took the form of a blanched soup bone. After the children had eaten their fill Tawny Adonis was let loose upon the scene and at the birthday cake, and during the wild smashing of glass and china and the excited shrieks of the waifs Tawny went to the birthday cake and devoured it, soup bone and all. Gay was out of town the day of the party but Trudy bravely assisted, as did one or two others, Mark Constantine and his sis- ter sitting in the windows to watch the procedure while Beatrice in a gown of tur quoise velvet with a coronet of frosted leaves played Lady Bountiful and dismissed the slum brigade as soon as possible, send ing them home with the confused knowl edge that a beautiful lady in angel clothe anda wildanimalsometimes meant plenty of ham sandwiches and ice cream, as well as the opportunity to slip a fork into one’s pocket Steve declined to take any part in the celebration, but at the - clusion of the event he ip peared wit}! poli emen and a patr ol wagon con- taining a “= 7 c--~ a NEO NED cage, and amid gay farewells and grim coaxings Tawny Adonis was escorted to the railway station and shipped back to the cir cus man at a loss of five hundred dollars not counting the damage done— to the Gor- geous Girl! xv RUDY was keen as a brier whenever her own realm was threatened. With the shrewdness which caused her to refrain from ever speaking ill of a woman when talking to a man and never speaking aught but ill of women when talking to their own kind, she foresaw in Gay’s constant at- tendance on the Gorgeous Girl the possi- bility of an unpleasant situation. For the Gorgeous Girl had said not only to her husband but to her friends that she must find some other kind of a good time now the novelty of the Villa Rosa was ex hausted. Even inky people bored her, she added; poets were no longer permitted in her drawing-room and the circle of pet robins and angel ducks had somehow wan dered out of her safekeeping. An unusually pretty flock of sweetsome débutantes had thinned the bachelor ranks and Jill Briggs’ youngest boy died of some childish ailment, disturbing fJeatrice more than she ad mitted for some reason, and making her own thoughts poor company It was while she was talking of thi child’s death with Trudy that the latter “How Much More Money Do You Want Me to Pay You? You Know it Has Reen You Besides, I Can't Get On Without You" Who Have Done Your Own Stave Driving. glimpsed the handwriting on the wall and with scantily concealed enmity determined to beat Beatrice at her own game “Jill is going away for the winter, poor thing,”’ Beatrice said. ‘I don't blame her; it would be too horrible to have to stay and see all his things about. And it’s the second child she’s lost Goodness me, she has spent hundreds on baby specialists and nurses! Well, you know yourself, Trudy you've seen how wonderful she has bee This boy's death has so upset her she ha decided to have two nurses stay with the children instead of one. Mighty sweet of her, as it all comes out of Jill's pocketbook and not her husband's. She says she car not think of leaving them with one person, and she must go away because her nerves are frazzled. “She is going to the West Indies with an artist friend, and they are going to make a marvelous collection of water-color paint ings of birds and flowers, a sort of memo rial to the boy. Jill says she will sell them and give the proceeds for the eréche chat ity. Well, that is all very well for Jill to do she has a real heartache to live down. But when you have no earthly reason to go and paint wild birds and flowers and you are bored to distraction with everything . She shrugged her shoulder “Meaning yourself?" asked lrud **Really?’’—-delighted that this was so “Are you ever bored?” “Only enough to be fashionable You ee [ have to live Gay’s life and career and y my own at the same time.” Instinctivel Trudy knew this caused envy in her host ess’ heart for a multitude of reasor Ga never amounted to anything until we were married" she paused for this to take fu effect—‘‘and | enjoy playing the game. | have grown fond of makeshift and make believes ! and hedging, bluffing talliny jumping mental hurdle it’s fur t keep you alive and never weighing more than a hundred and thirty pound Trudy rose to go. She was a chi t vixen in a fantastic costume of black velvet with a jacket of blush pink No one but Trudy could have worn such a thing emi-Dick Whittington effect -and have gotten away with it Though she was physically very tired from sew Ing late the night before ind malnourished because he was too indolent to bother to cook, Trudy looked quite fit for a long tretch of hard running “Why don't ously?” she purred. “It’s o right for your true friend to you diet The double chin is pe manent, I'm afraid.’ he shoo her hapely little head, to Bea tell you trice’s inward rage As Beatrice sat looking up at t! mpertinent little person she suddenly became anyered to think he had ever bothered “ with an ex-office girl or permit ted Gavlord to coax her into being I e to his wife And if th mpossible person yuld t gy Gaylord into the rank if s prosperit nashort time, mat ny ever me accept her Nhat suldn’t she, Beatrice O' Valle lo with Gay if she tried ‘ ously tried? He would not lings beside Trudy if Beatrice ga him to understand there was a place for him at her own heart! he knew Gaylord too well; he iddenly assumed the fig e form of a goal, as she had or i imed to Leve i pla pa né he true rise A rea n id t play off ype ! he hal 1a Vomit not excepting | ! wil h Beat erea ed L ny i ive i ui ghit he many thir Ye nuld be et tu phave a prope 10 ‘ ye own, different from the im personal | armies herd of boys and poets, a really innocent pastime if you considered it in the eyes of man-written law. What alark —toswitch Gay from this cheap red-haired little woman, dominate his life, suddenly assert her starved abilities and make him be come far greater than anything Trudy had ever been able to do! It would Continued on Page 117

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114 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Same Men Built January 17,1920 Both Essex Proves Right In First Year It Makes New World Sales Record To Its Leadership The Essex is a year old. We have never made claims for it. We said the public should judge it. Here is the verdict: More than $35,000,000 has been paid for 22,000 Essex cars now in service. That is a new world’s record. It tells in unqualified terms what motordom thinks of Essex. What Is the Charm Of Essex? Men have called it irresistible. You have only to hear what owners say of its quality and performance to understand why so many thousands wanted it. Think what a stubborn fight the new car of con- ventional qualities must make for even limited recog- nition. What then was the Essex appeal that took motordom by storm? Certainly it was not prestige, borrowed from Hudson. For we purposely withheld the identity of its makers. We required the Essex to establish its own position, on the clear-cut issue of merit. Only a few in the trade knew the builders of the famous Super-Six were also responsible for Essex. This Is the Issue Essex Justified The Essex won because of the way it combined the wanted performance, riding ease and endurance, hith- erto regarded exclusive to large, costly cars, with the economy and convenience which all acknowledge are light car advantages. It was built to fill a want so strong it amounted almost to a mandate from the motoring public. But there was no haste to put it on the market. Years were spent in its development. All that was learned in building 60,000 earlier Super-Sixes, and as a type making it the most famous performance car in the world, was applied to the Essex. Its Speed-fame Traces Back to Hudson The same men designed it who made the Super-Six winner of all the worth-while stock car speed records. Is it any wonder then that Essex is everywhere noted for speed? And in the light of Hudson’s endurance proofs that excel any ever shown by another car, it is not difficult to understand why Essex durability is acclaimed by all who know and depend on it. Mark what exclusive advantages it brought. Prior to the Essex many light-weight cars fell short in endur- ance and performance. They offered little except low cost and economy of operation. Durability and the finer car qualities were expected only in large cars, too costly for the average pocket. It was inevitable that the Essex with light weight, moderate cost and the finest standards of perform- ance and endurance should win friends as fast as its fame spread. If you would be assured of delivery of an Essex when you want it, you should place your order well ahead of the desired delivery date. Now is not too early to order for spring. Both Are Products of World’s Largest MOTORS OETROLT USA

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- the Super-Six and Essex hl ee THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ef ’ Hudson’s Four Year Old Prophecy Fulfilled The Super-Six Motor Patented, Controlled And Exclusive To Hudson Has Met Every Promise “‘The superior type which all must concede”’ is a claim we made for the Hudson Super-Six nearly five years ago. Today close to 80,000 Super-Six owners and scores of official records reveal the truth of that prophecy. Hudson originated through the Super-Six a princi- ple which added 72% to power and 80% to motor effi- ciency. It reduced vibration almost to nil and thereby increased motor life. The forces which in other types are usually destructive in automobiles are directed to useful employment in the Super-Six. They account for Hudson’s becoming the greatest speed, hill-climbing and transcontinental car ever built. Its position is not questioned. Everyone knows it. Hudson Alone Controls The Super-Six There is little doubt that all would adopt its inven- tion were it not for the patents which Hudson holds. Think what it means to add 80% to efficiency with- out increase of weight or sacrilice of simplicity. That advantage was recognized by engineers as soon as the principle was revealed. Everyone admits the unrivaled position of Hudson. Who questions its superior ability in any performance that calls for power, flexibility and endurance? Each Year Has Seen A Greater Hudson Further development of the first Super-Six was in- evitable. Improvements have come through refine- ment and in raising other car units to the standard of its motor. No one at first realized the Super-Six capable of withstanding such punishment as it has taken in the hardest tests ever imposed on a motor car. When the fastest 100 miles ever officially recorded of a stock car did not show Hudson’s endurance limit, harder tests were imposed. The twenty-four-hour run was one; and although a Super-Six stock chassis in that time traveled a distance greater than from New York to Denver, its endurance limit remained unknown. Th« trip across the continent from San Francisco to New York and return in 10 days, 21 hours gave proof of endurance never equaled by another car. And Everyone Admits Hudson Leads in Style Look about in any assemblage of fine automobiles and note the dominant distinction of Hudson. It is openly admitted that Hudson sets the style in body types. and this style point is frequently emphasized as though it were its most distinctive. But Hudson’s greatest advantage is its patented motor. Remember the Super-Six motor made Hudson the largest selling fine car in the world. Buyers have always had to wait for delivery of favorite models. They are waiting today. You will surely want a Super-Six sometime within the next year. Now is not too early to order. Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit Experience in Fine Car Building

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116 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 a SEASON, all-purpose work demands from i motor equipment the dependable, economi cal service that is the standard of Buda engine performance. Mastery of road conditions and independence ot weather are assured by such features of Buda design and construction as efhcient radiation, unfailing lubrication, and the special manifold that makes the most of even indifferent fuel. The quality result of engineering, and painstaking workmanship, is that unhesitating power with Which Buda responds to every duty laid upon it. In more than seventy of America’s representative automotive products today, the Buda engine is demonstrating the instant and long-continued worth of these principles of design and construc- tion founded on 38 years of manufacturing and enyineecriny expel Pence. THE BUDA COMPANY, Harvey (Stic), Id. ESTABLISHED

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| | i | f ol Continued from Page 113) eause such a jolly row and excitement and pep everyone up. Pet and flatter him and show Trudy that after all she had only been an incompetent clerk in Steve’s office! **Perhaps I will diet,’ was all she said, smiling sweetly. ‘And tell Gay he must ome see me to-morrow. I havea plan that I want to tell him—and no one else. Be- sides, there is a flaw in the last pair of candlesticks he bought for me.” i perfectly well that sweet- ness from the lips of an obese lady, after one has assured her of the arrival of a dou- augurs ill for everyone. Originally Trudy had determined to use Gaylord as a stepping-stone, a rather satis- Trudy realize ble chin, alway But since Beatrice’s ommission to do the villa and the stream of like orders from the new-rich who were trying to unload their war fortunes before they were caught at it, Trudy had grown ontent and even keen about Gaylord in an She felt that she could not better herself if he continued to do as well as he had the last few months, and that she vould continue to do her share of hill- limbing indefinitely. In other words, having won Gaylord in the remnant depart- ent, Trudy decided to keep him and make him answer the purpose of paying her board bill Besides, though she admitted it only to Mary, she felt anything but well. The more money Gaylord made the more he spent on himself, and he seemed to expect Trudy to manage out of the ozone, yet to appear as the indulged wife of her enterprising young isband. It never ended—the eternal earching for bargains, dyeing clothes and nenaing, cleaning and pressing, living or lelicatessen food, sitting up nights to help with the work, often doing odds and ends of sewing, and appearing the next tomer’s house to admire factory first husband mpersonal sense afternoon in the ¢ the effect of the new drapery and tel of the bright-eyed Italiar an who had done the work Trudy saw little of Mary Her better celf made her aloof lest she win from er friend other details to add to her already ifeguarded secret And she She fought shy him when he was about, wisely limiting tempted to amuse steve ‘ erself to shy nods and smiles and occa onally a very meek compliment, which he ially pretended not to hear. As she walked home from the villa— Gay ad the roadster — she told herself she must watch out or Beatrice would attempt to poil Gay to the extent of making him wish » be rid of his wife. She realized that Gay vas extremely scornful and careless of her. Having married her and satisfied his one- vlinder brain that he was a deuce of a chap and a democratic rake and all in marrying this dashing nobody, Gaylord turned bully and permitted Trudy to take the cares of the family on her shoulders. He was now enjoying the fruits of her industry with a fair credit rating, very different from for- merly, a bank account of which Trudy knew nothing, and the congenial work of pussyfooting about boudoirs and guzzling tea on Beatrice’s blue-satin gondolas. He no longer needed Trudy. He could ee now that to be single-handed once more but with his new standing and profession would be a most satisfactory state of affairs. In fact if Trudy would only fall in love with i traveling man and decamp~— what a chap he would soon rise to be! For a broken heart is often a man’s strongest asset and a woman's gravest suspicion. Trudy, how- ever, gave him no hope in this direction. She hung about her fireplace contrary to her former plans concerning it. She really put in an eighteen-hour day as both slavey and sylph, and seeraed filled with everlast- ng patience and jazz Coming into the Touraine apartment Trudy found Gaylord showing old prints to some womer istorners and advising to the smartness of having them framed and used in sun pariors or any intriguing rarden personality — and Gay eicom Had Trudy not come in Gay would have erved cocktails of his own making, whicl vould cause ther to order the prints at fabulous prices; and then sat in the dusk talking about the o Persian pussy cats and how to make lt and the popularity pear and cottage heese salad and serve t on cabbage leaves, which was quite the node It never does for an_ interior particularly if specializing in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST boudoirs, to have a wife, Gaylord decided as his customers patronized Trudy and de- parted, Gaylord seeing them to their car and standing bareheaded to wave his be- jeweled hand as they whirled round the corner, He then returned to give Trudy his un- biased opinion. ‘‘I thought you were going to stay away until evening,” he said. “You spoiled the sale.”’ “Did 1? What were play soul mate if they'd take the old thing l’m the one who found those prints in a you about to do secondhand store and had sense enough to buy the lot. I’m the one who found the remnants of cretonne you paste them on and told you to charge ten dollars eax and I’m the one who sits out in the little back room and pastes them on too!" She threw her purse down with an angry gesture, “You are the crudest thing,” he said “T slapped you once for calling me a crude litde fool and the next time you try it I'll do better than that!” She was unable to control her temper. “If you think being a bachelor and languishing in this place would keep you afloat you're mistaken. It’s me—I'm the one that buys the bargains and runs the sewing machine half the night, sends out the bills and wneedles the salesmen into looking at you—to say nothing of doing the house keeping, and keeping every good-looking woman afraid of me, yet polite. Why, if you were alone any real business man could come in here and start a shop and put you behind the bench overnight. You're noth ing! You never were. You lived on a dead man’s reputation until you married me, and now you're living on a red-heaced girl’s nerve. I'l! scold as shrilly as I like. If the neighbors hear, all the better!” Trudy had lost control of herself. Be sides, she was very tired. ‘*Who told you to wear gray-velvet smocks in your drawing- room shop and to have soft ties poured down softer collars?) You look a hundred per cent better than when you hopped round in a check suit that gave you a game- board appearance, I did that. If I'd ever worked for O'Valley as I have for you, thinking I'd get a good time out of it some how, I'd have had Mary Faithful on the run.” She did not add the rest of her ideas that Beatrice O’ Valley, not contented with her store of possessions and avenues of interests, contemplated playing property doll with this half-portion little snob who stood before her in his ridiculous smock costume, half afraid and half sneering. The interview concluded with Trudy’s going into the kitchen for some kind of a supper and Gay's driving off posthaste to see Beatrice, When Steve returned from his hurried two-day trip he asked Beatrice if she real- zed the amount of money she was spending. ‘““Why should 1?” she answered aggriev edly. Steve looked unusually handsome this afternoon; he seemed to fit into the antique chair, and in contrast to her con- templated property doll Beatrice felt amiable and willing to play for favor. ‘“*T haven't asked you for even one quar- ter of it.” ‘That’s the trouble—your father has gone on paying your bills and you don’t seem to realize | am not an enormously rich man and never will be, abnormal business conditions having ceased. We are back where we started, so to speak, and I don’t look for a time of unheralded pros- perity for some days to come. I was figur ing up while I was away, in detail; and here are the results.”” He handed her a memo randum. ‘You see? I earn a splendid living and I have a neat nest egg not to be despised. But I have no {talian-villa income. Your father has, so you came back to your father to take his meney, and I am merely a necessary accessory to the " His voice was bitter She was quite the entire ensemble “Oh, no, Stevuns!” romantic parasite as she came and knelt beside him in coaxing attitude. ‘Why, papa wants me to have everything I want. He would be terribly worried if he thought I had to do without a single shoe button!” “But must all the shoe buttons be of gold?”’ Steve interpolated. She paid no attention to him. “I’m papa’s only heir~ the money is all mine anyway and it always has been. You know how simple papa’s tastes are.” ‘*Like my own--like those of all busy people who are doing things. We haven't time to pamper ourselves.” “Someone has to buy up the trash! And you ought to thank us rich darlings of the gods for existing at all -we make you look so respectable by contrast."” She waited for his answer. He rose and went over to the carved mantel, standing so he could look down the long room crowded wit! “But this place isn’t the home of ar American man and his wife li’sa ov place —bought with your father’s money! And I’ve failed I'm not supporting my) wife. Good heavens, if 1 were I'd have to be cracking afes every week-end to do it I can’t make any more mone making— and iay at large cannot go on living off your i I won't have it! I won't be that kind of failure!” “What shall I do with the money, throw it to the bire ee Her head begar to ache as it always did when a serious conversa tion was at hand ‘Wait until it is yours and the pend it on something for the good not the delight of someone eles or of a yreat many other people. Be my wife let me take care of you,” he beeged earne Beatrice hesitated I couldn't.” wa her final answer. “TI couldn’t man: the allowance you give me—don’t worr dearest, there’s no reason at all that we shouldn't have as good a time as there ij Papa wants us to.” “Don't you see what I'm trying to get at?” he insisted. ‘Won't you try to see Just try—put yourself in my place, make yourself think with my viewpoint as a starting place ar Suppose you had been a dreamer of a boy with a pirate laring and a poet’s unreal delusions, and you com- bined the two to produce a fortune, a for- tune everyone marveled at, the lucky turn of the wheel. Suppose you used that for tune with the same daring and fancy, loving someone with all your heart, to make money in a regular business and under the iidance of a well-trained merchant like your father--and then you married the person you loved and saw her deliber- ately belittle your manhood by going to her father’s house to live, spending her father’s money and leaving you quite alone and without the joyous and needed re sponsibility of supporting your wife. Now what would you do?” “I'd start right in spending my own money for things I wanted,’’ she decided glibly. “But suppose you did not want things everlasting things, glaring, uy holstered, painted, carved, what not lugged from the four corners of the earth, not harmonizing with your own aims or cluttery interests? Suppose you wanted to create an individual and representative home and take care of it and the guardian angel who presided therein—-then what would you do?” “Oh—you mean you want another sty! of house? Then let’s buy a country tract and I promise to let you build and furnish just as you wish. That's a bully idea, dear, to have an abrupt contrast to this house old English-manor type would be wor derful!”’ The dinner gong brought a merciful re lease. Beatrice danced through the arch way throwing him a kiss as the rest of her aecision, It was at this identical moment that Steve concluded it was too late for his wife ever to develop anything more than a double chin or so xvVI URING Beatrice’ which twenty or so equally Gorgeou house party, at Girls and their husbands were quartered 11 the Villa Rosa, while a string orchestra darced them further along the road toward nervous prostration each night, a fire ig ited in the offices of the O’ Valley Leather C ompart steve office and Mary’ adjoining room were damayed by water rather thar by the slight blaze itself and during ar enforced recess from work both Mary and Steve found that a fire in an office building may cause a loss of time from routine yet be a great personal boon The day following the accident, Steve having been summoned at midnight to view the flame Mary came to the office { +} to rescue the files and sweep asice débris **Nothing is really hurt, but they alwa mess things up,”’ Steve said, coming to the doorway to hold up a precious record book “See this? I wonder why they alway 117 leave such a lot of stuff to clear away Now the whole extent of damage is the destroying of that rickety side that is never used and could have been done away with long ago. Some boys play ing craps and smoking left the makings o tairway the tire, and before it touched these roon there Vu wate poured into the whol plant \ a msequence we ave a three Aacatlo ind instead of having the esta orn down I'm in line f achur Tu irance Even the te t spilled from 1 ‘ Mary answered l : Wonder wl the ised tl le stair Vay for It i kety when | vught the place e He looked wat the blackened ‘ n of steps I don’t know,” Mary answered abser mindedly She uuld have added tha henever she looked at those tairs or the sed door he aw but one tl ing Steve mm his wedding day as he came stealing up > AS) ibout he long-al il telephone all iwiow witl ippine ind dream For her own reasor therefore, Marv did not regret the destruction of the le tair They've shoved this cabinet over as if they had a special antagonism to it,"” he Was saying, righting a small piece of fur niture containing mostly Mary paper There not hurt, is it? Do the drawe oper »” He hegar pulling them out, one after another The last refused to opel What's in tl one it’ blocks the pring? Mary tried her hand at it “Something wedged right at the edge I'm sure I don't ee what it an le I never used that drawer for anything but E At their combined jerk the drawer came flying into space, and with it the rem a white cardboard box with the grams of B C land S. O. entwined t of a cupid and a tiny wreath of Dried cake rumbs lay in the be the drawer box of wedding cake which Mary Faithful had found on her desk Neither poke immediately kinally Mary said l omen as to break a mirror under a ladder It was the Gorgeous Gir uppose that’s as bad an on Friday the thirteent! Now hall 1 have the men sweep the office out? There l no reasol we cannot get to work to morrow Wait a moment about sweey offices and going to work,” Steve If you want to break the hoodoo y just brought on yourself b ma } wedding cake le me talk and a priest She shook her head ‘You promised, and you've been true-blue don't spoil it Beside it can do no good “IT want to ask a question,’’ he insisted I'm not going to break faith with you or take advantage of knowing what you told me I shall always try to appreciate the honor done me, no matter if Lam unworthy ] want to ask a question ina rsonal a way asif | wrote in toa woman's columi He tried to laugl ‘Ask away."’ Mary sat down in the nearest chair, the broken cardboard box at her feet ‘Why is it that a man can honestly be in love with the woman he marries and yet in an amazingly short time find him elf playing the cad in feeling disappointed, affection utterly lacking happening Why is it he discontented, It's a ghastls saw no handwriting on the wall’? Lam no tupid, Mary, neither am I given to in constancy "ve had not to have my mind made up once and for all time Why didn't | see through tl veneer of a good time that these Gre ryeou { to struggle too much Girls manage to have painted over their real selves? Why did I never uspect And what is a man tow hen he di covers the disill Y ee it all there no sense¢ ! tting it wil j Il find n elf if euse t tense now table ove trifle now j lespor fernt is Pla ilk nd despondent a inimal iecesstu wed and ihered ' must perforce iy pul yet hich w not afford it py the itisfaction of ilking wistfully fror aye ne t ipye orner and Aling wu i i! ered anguist Is it as bad as that he ed softl He nodded as he mitinued ] ye ‘ feel the wa the mor fraternit fat Oxford when the iimed ‘they bar hed God and admitted womer | want a man-made world Vomanie Without a ingle trace of romance or a vood time Continued on Page 120

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January 17,1920 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | RAILROAD QUESTIONS I What do railroad managers consider the primary aim of a correct national railroad policy? To secure the best possible transporta- tion at the lowest possible cost. What is the controlling consideration in shaping an effective railroad policy? To make sure of being able to obtain in the future the necessary money with which to develop existing railroads and build new ones. Why is this controlling? Because our country, as a whole, is still undeveloped and railroads have been and will continue to be the chief instru ment of development of our natural opening up territory that needs only railroads to become more resources, productive, and making in every part of the country a market for the goods other country. Furthermore, in highly de- veloped parts of the country growing produced in any part of the railroad service demands more track better Such means prosperity, which facilities and terminals development other way can be obtained in no Why is that of importance to people not dependent upon railroad jobs? Because unless the country continues to grow and new markets are opened up businesses cannot expand and new and better jobs will not be available. On the other hand, as new producing areas are opened up, as more products are made available in every part of the country, the standard of living of each citizen, however humble he may be, will be raised and the cost of living made continually more reasonable. Inadequate railroad facilities curtail the production of the necessities of life and thus cause an increase in the cost of living What has been the guiding principle on which American railroads have been developed? fo reduce unit costs. In other words, to build such heavy tracks, such large freight such powerful locomotives, cars, and such adequate terminals, and to encourage the carriage of freight in such that each ton great quantities, of freight could be carried at such a low price as to make it possible for farmers and for producers, especially of manufactured products, to place their goods in any market upon a basis wherein the freight charges would be relatively negligible. Just what does that mean in its practical application? It means that the farmer can ship his cattle, corn and wheat long distances and help to keep down the price of food in the great cities; that the fruit growers can place their products in the markets thousands of miles distant at prices which will permit a greater use; it means that fuel, lumber and raw mate- rials for building and manufacturing can be moved long distances, and that man- ufactured articles can be widely dis tributed, thus giving the consumer access to many markets and the benefit of competition. What is the average charge the rail- roads in the United States make to the public for carrying a ton of freight one mile? About one cent. Two tons are carried one mile for the price of a postage stamp That is the articles, like coal and ore, are carried at average charge; heavy lower rates because they can be handled in great bulk How does this cost compare with the freight in other parts of the world? The average freight rate on the Ameri can railroads is lower than on the rail roads of any other country in the world. rates How about passenger rates? The passenger rate in the United States is three cents per mile for travel on a first-class coach. The rate in England for first-class travel is six cents a mile In both countries the charge for parlor or sleeping car accommodation is additional. Second-class rates in most of the European countries run about four cents a mile, and third-class rates about three cents a mile, but the second and third class accommodations, as they are in Europe, would be highly unsatis factory to American travelers. Have rates steadily declined in the United States? Up to 1918 there had been a continuous reduction in the average freight rate charged on American railroads, for a period of thirty years. This was made possible by the continued attention to development of railroads, building new lines, opening new markets, and making possible a constantly growing amount of freight to be carried at a continually declining unit of cost. The recent increases made under governmental control have been due to conditions brought about by the war. IV Were there not evils attendant upon this development of American rail- roads? but the fact that incidental and not Without question ; these evils were inherent is shown in the fact that American railroads have had the lowest capitalization per mile of any of the great countries in the world, have paid the highest wages of any railroad system in the world, have paid the highest taxes in proportion to investment of any railroad system in the world, yet have given their service to the public at a lower price than any other great railroad system in the world Has the possibility of improper prac- tices under private management of railroads been eliminated ? The possibility of dishonesty in any line of business or government can never be altogether eliminated, but under public regulation, as favored by railroad man agements today, there is the utmost possible protection to the public against dishonesty, burdensome rates or injurt- ous practices. v What, as the railroads see it, has been the chief weakness in the system of regulation as practised up until now? That it has been punitive for past errors rather than constructive in encouraging development of new railroads against the increasing demands of commerce This advertisement is published by the Association of Railway “oxecutiver Those desiring information concerning the ratiroad situation may obtain literature by writing to The Association of Railway Executives, Room 2101, 61 Broadway, New York

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ASKED AND ANSWERE Have not the railroads in recent years been developing fast enough to take care of the normal demands of trade? They have not. Most of the money spent on railroads in recent years has been in building upold lines with assured traffic rather than building into new territory and opening up the undevel- oped parts of the country. And even on the old lines the expenditures have not been adequate to keep pace with the growth of business. In what way is this shown? By one fact, for example, that it has for several years past been practically impossible for an American railroad to sell new stock in the purchase of which the investor took any chance whatever; practically for the past ten years investors in railroad securities have insisted upon obtaining bonds in volving an actual lien upon the prop erty. That is, no one would invest money in railroads as a business for the sake of the possible profit. They could only lend money on a mortgage bond or a short-term note for the sake of the in- terest return. This has resulted in a steady depletion of railroad credit and a constantly increasing difficulty for the railroads to obtain new money for further development. What has been the result ? Walker D. Hines, Director General of the Railroads, in a public statement issued at Washington, recently said: “Even prior to the war, railroad facili ties were not equal to the demands During the war, the addition of new facilities was greatly restricted by scar- city of material and labor. Since the war, it has been impossible to enter upon or carry out any extensive program for enlargement of railroad capacity, be cause of the uncertainty as to the status of the railroads.” Would not the railroads have fared better if their managers, instead of saying so much abcut declining rail- road credit, had assumed an opti- mistic attitude and given encourage- ment rather than discouragement to those who might invest in railroad securities ? The railroad managers have sought to present the situation as they see it ; they could not have justified themselves in painting a glowing picture of promised profits if their expert knowledge and experience showed them clearly that the tendencies at work in the business were in the other direction. What has been the most serious of those tendencies? The constant increase in expenses, but with no power on the part of the rail roads, without permission from regulat- ing bodies, to increase their charges for service. Vi Do not the managers of the railroads maintain that they should have un- limited earnings? Certainly not. They believe it to be in the public interest that rates should be reasonable and be regulated by public authority in the public interest. But how does the business situation of the railroad manager differ from that of the manufacturer or the merchant? The merchant may increase his prices when he sees his costs going up, and as a matter of fact all merchants and manu facturers have increased their prices in recent years. The tendency of railroad regulation, however, has been to hold down railroad charges in spite of the he steady increase in expenses, with t result that though there has been a very great increase in railroad business in recent years, the railroads themselves and investors in the railroads have found themselves confronted with restricted net earnings. How much more were the expenses of the railroads in 1919 than they were in 1917? Expenses increased from $2,850,000,000 in 1917 to $4,695,000,000 in 1919. In other words, though the railroad rendered less service in 1919 than they did in 1917 the actual cost of rendering that service was approximately $1,800, 000,000 more. Do the railroads favor a reduction in the wages of railroad employees? No! The railroads are distinctly it favor of all employees receiving the highest wages it is practicable to pay, realizing as the managers 1O the important nature of the service, the risks that are run, and the extraordinary value of having competent men in the service enthusiastically interested in doing efficient work Vil What do the railroad managers propose as a way of meeting the rail- road problem? The key to the problem, as they see it, isin the recommendation of the Associa tion of Railway Executives that Con gress pass a law directing the Interstate Commerce Commission and all rate making authorities to provide a system of rates for the railroads of this country which will enable them to pay adequate wages, provide a fair return on the invest ment and accumulate a surplus to pro tect railroad service in lean yearsand thus attract the additional capital necessary to provide the facilities required by the public. Are the railroads in favor of public regulation of the issuance of railroad securities and for complete account- ing of the proceeds of all sales of securities? Yes; the railroads have embodied a recommendation to that effect in a communication to Congress What is the general recommendation of the railroad companies to the people of the United States? As railroad experience in this and other countries clearly points to the fact that private management secures the great est economy of operation, the most com petition in service and provision of ade quate facilities for public requirements, it is our recommendation that 1. Expenses should not be placed ar bitrarily upon railroad properties without making provision to meet them 2. There should be complete publicity about railroad manage ment and thorough-going regulation in the interests of the pe ople, ind, 3. A sufficient margin between expenses and earnings should be allowed to attract the capital necessary to provide the facilities which the public needs This adverlisement is published by the Association of Railway “orecutiver 119 rmation concerning the railroad situation may erature by iation of Railway Executives, Room 2101,01 Broadway, New York we o~ Ours

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120 (Centinued from Page 117) Not right, is it? Sometimes I think I'll ra . inder the pretense, go raving mad and ream out the whole miserable sham inder which I live—and every time I in I uch a reverie I find myself duige my self riting Beatrice an extra check and going th her to this thing or that teel hammer pulses beating at my forehead and alanguor hout even the atte breathing M: } ‘ p j P ished hea | ‘ ‘ é M eaprie UY i f } ithe of } ‘ ‘ ‘ | ‘ me an ¢ is ‘ mie ff f e ete i | y i whe here ‘ d | out of rt f I have we ‘ ho And y y pla ‘ I \ eo Viepl ‘ And ( ‘ Me pl - ; of i ‘ dex ‘ e th t i ‘) ‘ ‘ rhe ‘ ‘ ired One ‘ yu te ‘ nu thought ine ad fe A f the orld——do you member I uJ 1 had not told me. It ist another thing to irritate I'm driven mad | trifle In tarved for a hig tragedy; that’s the way this craving for a fortune and a good time playing boomerang I's © infernally weary o hearing about the cut-gla lipper heel of some chorus girl and so hungry to hear about a shipwrect a new creed, a daring crime that ‘You foolish, fun boy,” she said, taking pity on his involved analysis, “‘don't you see what ou have done? It's quite the mmon fate of get-rich-quick dream ers: ou merel yibolized your goal by Beatrice Constantine she stood for the ombined relationships of wife, comrade, lady luxury — and you captured your goal, and the greater effort cea ed. You have had time to examine your prize in microscopic fashion. It isn’t at all what you intended Put it quite what you deserve, No one can make a lie serve for the truth—at all times and for an indefinite period. Some thing is bound to come a cropper some where sual! where you least expect it, And you lied to yourself in the beginning, a” passive sort of falsehood, in merely re fu ing to see the truth and groping for the unreal You had to justify your race for wealth. so you said, ‘Oho, I'll love a story book princess and let that be my incentive. Storybook prince os are lovelies and you have to have money bags expensive to jingle before their fair selves!" So you became more and more infatuated with the fairy book princess who happened to be in your pathway and it was Beatrice. She made you feel that anything your slightly mad and quite unrealizing young self might do was proper, Just as the boy with a new ir rifle deliberately sets up a target to hoot away at because the savage in him must justify hitting something besides the ozone, so you have merely wooed and won your own falsehood and disillusionment.” ‘You say it rather neatly but that isn'tall rhe thing is I'm not game enough to go on and take the punishment. Are you surprised?” = Hy are vou prepared to give up the t hing which won her? *My money? I've thought of it.”” He folded | is arms and began walking up and down the littered, water-soaked office. ‘Would you like me any better?” he asked tenderly Mary eves grew stormy ‘If the men go to work at once we can have the rugs ent to the ean ind put dow! old matting fora covering —and ! ean go ahead faking invente P was her answe! “IT see Steve ide himself respond ‘Well I it ‘ i ve il ‘ whi pered i ‘ isseqdi fhe eave ‘ lding teu ft ‘ i ‘ f ‘ i i ! pope y al before eve ea ‘ 4 vas being ne she had Opose hat raviord refurnish the office in an arts-and rafts fashior ad ng seemed t 1st Inart ‘ ind « priac yhen Steve refuse ne and told hat a splint-bottomed chair and a kit ur ere his office equipment some wo she sent for Gaylord on her ow? t ina ‘ ni » beard he hor THE SATURDAY den to see if he could win Steve to the cause of painted wall panels typifying com- merce, industry and such, and crippled beer steins and so on as artistic waste- baskets There had never been an active feud between Gaylord and Steve; it was always that hidder enmity of a weak culprit toward a strong mvaan. Neither had Trudy heen able to win Steve by her Titian curls, baby-blue eves and obese compliments. In fact Gaylord had vided Steve the la one Beatrice ca year He was the th ner, he ac iled upon ied her shop- ompar ping, even unto the milliner’ and had New York one time when Beatrice had gone down t about buying Not e kne actually adopted an and squired Heen if } o set a mote en Trudy he had j onocie ith the attitude of “‘I hate ou and am only waiting to prove t but meanwhile I'll play off the friend lizard no matter how painful.” But after a few ‘“‘my dear fellows” and **old dears’ and gibes about the disordered office with its prosaic chairs and Mary Faithful, quite flushed and plain looking us she dashed round giving orders, Gaylord found himself being neatly set outside on the curbstone and told to remain in that exact position, ‘I hate this decorating business,” Steve said in final condemnation. ‘I agree with my father-in-law that when a man ap- proaches me with a book of sample braids amd cretonnes under his arm I feel righteous that he be shot at sunrise—and now you know how strong you stand with me. I don’t mind Beatrice having her whirl at the thing. A new color scheme as often as she has a manicure; that’s dif ferent But my office stays as I wish it and you car "t rush in any little globes of gold fish and inkstands composed of reclining young females with their little hands form- ing the ink cup, while a single spray of cherry blossoms flourishes over the hook I hang my hat and coat upon. Oh, no, trot back to your boudoirs and purr your prettiest, but stop trying to tackle real men,’ Gaylord’s one-cylinder brain had be come more efficient by dint of daily sparring with So he retorted, ‘She is going to make you a present of it— your birthday his wife. gift, I understand. Does that alter the case?” a Steve looked at him with an even wilder frown. “Tell her to build a bomb-proof pergola for herself and mark it for me just the same. When we redecorate round here it takes Miss Faithful about a half hour to plan the show. Good-by, Gay, I'm awfully rushed. Thanks just as much,” Gaylord sauntered outside, smiling ap- parently as if he accepted the entire uni- verse. But his one-cylinder brain harbored an unpleasant secret which concerned Steve. Gaylord knew Steve had not reck- oned with his enemies and that he was in no condition to begin doing so now, Con- stantine was no longer at the helm, fear- less, respected and dominating. Steve was quite the re kless egotist, out of love with his wife, mentally jaded and weary of the game—and his enemies surmised all this in rough fashion and were making their plans accordingly. How wonderful it would be if certain catastrophes did hap- pen! How lucky Beatrice had her own income! She would never cease ordering bomb-proof pergolas or bird cages carved from rare The next day WwW oods. before Beatrice and Steve had a chance to argue the matter out to a fine point--Mark Constantine had a stroke. It was like the sudden crashing down of a great oak tree which within had been hollow and decayed for some time but to all exterior appearances quite the sturdy monarch. Without warning he be came a mighty thing lying day after day on a bed, fussed over and exclaimed over and prayed over by a multitude of people hen he assumed the new and final proportions of a childish invalid—his fierce true grasp of things, his wide-sweeping and ambitious viewpoint narrowed hastily first to the four walls of the sick room. Instead of the stock-market fluctuation bringing forth hi Gad, that's good!" or oaths o disapproval, the taste of an especially good way the masseur neglected cause for joy or custard or the his left forearm grief Life had suddenly changed into the monotonous and wearing routine of a broken, lonesome old man who had plenty of time to think of the past with his wife were EVENING POST recalling incidents he had not re- called until this dull long day arrived. And after reaching many conclusions about many things Constantine was forced to realize that no one particularly cared for or sought out his opinions. He was placed in the category of all fallen oaks—someone who would have one of the largest funerals Hannah, ever held in the city. And friends mur- mured that for Bea’s sake they hoped it would not be long. But it was to be long—for with the tenacity of purpose he had always ex- bited Constantine readjusted himself the narrow realm of four walls. His former tyranny toward the business world was now exercised toward his daughter and on-in-law, his sister and his attendants. He resolved to live—or exist —just as long as life was possible, to vampire-borrow from those about him all the vitality that have eve ry care and comfort new doctor ever heard of called now said he wished he could, to and every in to attend him; he to live as many years as God willed. There was a God, now that he was partially paralyzed, a very real God, to whom he prayed in orthodox fashion. He wanted to keep remembering the past with Hannah, to shed the tears for her death which he had never taken the time to shed, to decide what it was that had been so wrong in his life in order that his death and hereafter might be very properly right. Aunt Belle had taken this new affliction after the fashion of a Mrs. Gummidge. It affected her worse than anyone first because the ridicule and fault-finding to which her brother had always treated her were tripled in their amount and qual- ity, and yet as she was dependent upon this childishly weak brother she must en- dure the treatment. Secondly she was reminded that her age was somewhat near Mark Constantine’s age and perhaps a similar fate lay in store for her. Lastly it tied her down— propriety demanded that someone be in the sick room a share of the time and certainly Beatrice had no inten tion of undertaking the responsibility. Steve had acted as Aunt Belle fancied he would act, genuinely concerned over the catastrophe and seeking refuge with this tired old child a greater share of the time. By degrees Aunt Belle left Steve to play the role of comforter and companion, since no nurse ever stayed at the Constantine else, bedside for longer than a fortnight. So she was allowed to gambol about in her pinafore frocks and high-heeled shoes, won- dering if her brother had made a fair will, taking into account the fact that a woman is only as old as she looks—and with a tidy fortune who knows what might happen after the proper mourning period? Beatrice had been prostrated at the news. For two days she stayed in bed and sobbed hysterically. Then she was pre- vailed upon to see her father and to take the sensible attitude of preparing for a long siege, as Steve suggested. ‘How cold-hearted it sounds—a long siege!" she reproached, ‘But it is true. He will not die—he will live until that splendid vitality of his has been snuffed out by a careless law of rhythm, so you may as well buck up and run in to see him every day and then go about as usual.’ “A sick room drives me wild. I wish I had taken a course in practical nursing instead of the domestic-science things.’ Steve did not answer. “T can't bear to think of it. It’s like having life-in-death in the very house, Oh, Steve, can’t you talk him into going to a sanitarium? They’d have so many inte resting kinds of baths to try!” ‘He won't mind your parties, if that is what is bothering you. The only thing he asks is to be left in peace in his room with plenty of detective stories and plenty of medical attention, and he won't know if you dance the roof off. But if you really want to hasten the end send Gay up there with plans for remodeling his room— it will eithe yr kill or cure,” he laughed. “I must do something to help me forget make it easier for him,” said soberly. “I’m going to try a faith healer not because I believe in them but because I don’t want to leave any stone unturned, I think a new interest would help papa. Would you try adopting a child or my taking up classical ds ancing in deadly earnest?" She was quite sincere and emo- tionally wrought up as she came up to him and laid her head on his shoulder. “Oh, I'd take up classical dancing,” he advised. and she January 17,1920 She gave a sigh of relief. ‘Yes, it’s what I really think would be the best. I will dance on the lawn so papa can watch me.” He gave vent to his father-in-law’s favorite expletive, “Gad!” under his breath. He did not add what was an unpleasant probability, that having to assume full responsibility of affairs there were likely to be astonishing complications. Crashed down oak trees are quite helpless concert s, reckoned upon or other wise, and Steve, who had never taken count of his foes, would be ealled upon to meet them all single-handed ing their enemie xvil N A JEWELRY plosshe, wrapped in wine-colored was coquetting with diamond rings glass and trying to affect an air of indif ference concerning them. With all he husband's rise in the world he did not see fit to bestow upon his wife any substantial token of his regard. The vague and tran sitory idea he entertained of playing off fairy godfather to her and placing a for tune at her feet had become past history. Now that Gay did run a motor and wear monogrammed silk shirts he saw to it that Trudy had as little as the law allowed. She still continued remaking her dresses and haunting remnant counters, sewing or Gay’s work, playing off the same over strained, underfed Trudy as in the fir days at the Graystone apartment. But a it was for a good time she never thought of faltering. She had decided, however, that it w: time now to adopt other and more for« methods of obtaining the things she cra and felt she had earned. Foremost, as with many women, was a diamond ring. After obtaining this she would turn in her we ding ring for old gold, the price to apply or a platinum circlet studded with brilliants For months Trudy’s eyes had glittered greedily as she observed Gay’s clientel with their jeweled bags, rings, watches and what not—yet she possessed not a single gem. She had often enough asked Gay for one, to which he would sneer, “‘What do you want with a diamond? You know I'm always on the ragged edge of failing!” ** Because you gamble and drink and are a born fool,” she protested. You could make real mone} y if you would listen to me and keep quiet. “TI can’t see what that has to do your wanting a diamond ring! If make real money you can have one but not when auto tires are as high as they are ” store Trudy Vonde- yeiour under once ete es, with ever “And when husbands grow tipsy and drive into ditches and have to be brought home by horses and wagons. Oh, no. But you'll go shopping with Beatrice and pick out her jewelry and tell her jewels have souls and a lot more bunk, and then get a commission as soon as her back is turned! Why don’t you get me a diamond instead, and omit the bunk? I'll take one with flaw—I’m used to seconds. You must be- lieve ‘me when I say that, because I married you. Gay no longer feared Trudy; in fact he felt he had little use for her. She was an obstacle to his making an excellent mar- riage. Through Trudy and all the rest of the complicated ladder climbing he was now recognized, and real men were ex- tremely busy these days getting the tag ends of war-débris business in shape. It was quite a different situation—he could have had his choice of several widows. Take it all in all he preferred a matron: his days at playing with débutantes were in the discard. The business of buying and selling antiques and interior decorating had so inflated his one-cylinder brain that he really fancied he needed a mature panionship and understanding. ‘I'll buy you at diamond ring, old dear, he said lightly, ‘‘when you have me in a corner, hands up—so set your wits to work what you can do about it.” It was over their hurried breakfast that e discussion took place, with Trudy, quite a fright in a tousled boudoir cap and negligee, scuttling about the dining room with the breakfast tray and planning to send out bills, reorder some draperies and call up her friends until one of them should offer to take her to a fashionable morning musical in the near future. After which would go downtown and make good at her star act—window wishing. ‘You make me so tired I wonder why | don’t clear out,’’ she retorted. ‘ You think Continued on Page 123 com and see she

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January 17,1920 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 2 Stee meant “ft Win — >. * —_ - Al TT PT a a en ~ - — The Real TOBACCONESS’ of the Pipe \e W)\\: i- AN $3 | {| \\ For the full enjoyment of the blessing of good tobacco you’ll never Se beat a well seasoned pipe. Since the days of Sir Walter Raleigh, i ; | \ patron saint of all good pipe smokers, no one has ever devised a means i? | / \\ of getting closer to the genial heart of Nature’s gracious gift to man. ¥ | \ ‘*The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan,” \ says Lord Lytton. No tribute to the pipe was ever truer Try tobacco in whatever form he will, the true devotee returns again and again to his pipe as the highest form of tobacco enjoyment. In time of stress, in perplexity, in the quiet hour with good books, ‘“‘ when good his pipe 1s ’ a-foot or on wheels, a-field or a-float fellows get together, a man’s true friend and boon companion. ND a good pipe at its best is a pipe filled with Velvet. What is Velvet? Not ordinary Burley tobacco— not a mixture of Burley and other tobaccos — but the rich, mellow Burley tobacco grown only in the limestone section of old Kentucky. Then follows two years’ natural ageing in the wood. You know what that means. Here’s the long and short of it: Velvet is the finest smoking tobacco grown—naturally matured by long ageing — manufac- tured right— honest from start to finish. Couldn’t be better at any price. King ae , oe ee Write to Velvet Joe, 4241 Folsom Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., for his 1920 He will send it FREE. There are a lot of pipefuls in each big generous tin of Velvet, and each pipeful is good tobacco at its best. Almanac.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 120 el I lal ‘ 0 nd et f t ivil won! iause ‘Tru | | & ‘ il i to i diamond ring ne ima und n resolve ol t | ‘ irge t to Wi me!” S ve tood } ibrupt ind dered I e Beatrice be ‘ ‘ t Ju , ee wha happe! W no kind friend saw fit to enter at U! ble LHe I I Droppi hit i mome! He would have re llv welcomed fine } nae 1} } { \f t t rru re} to >the dishes ana ‘I husb He | ed t ‘Trudy i erself ne ! i ( { t viggie a r i the floor brief! briet did me take Steve ng these hand option 1 be ef ¢ i ner t € ente Do er nad da to look i Crore yu (y i! (ror So e rele 1 Steve i tie i j | ‘ ade ll ' re Girl seconds and re e the whol of nversa nd watel the te } he f e > , ited ge e é ment ae t of their purpose and rori¢ t hat i et edto M é ‘ the t € ive I ‘ et tii ot i to have more ¢ i ‘ i or del ri cle ‘ ‘ ' le t \l ‘ " | r i bef ‘ ed, gold ‘ velvet uirve pe | ler he e nose ‘ ‘ 7 i i ) ele to the breakfast I ed ¢ yhnateve the I i¢ ( no nearer bta i I ed ef left the a thir flaunil he 1 elt t! whe he be ef I t She ingerou ver ' ( ‘ ‘ Ace pI! ‘ [’ 1 ; MM ? ‘ G t where he f inf ed he I re I t | I t ( é l blouse for He did not a ( | lea ! t t f ! She told him she wa ver r tr iraged Tr ( I ‘ I ! ‘ { ite ¢ I j iirl good i on down tne { ‘ re « t i ‘ er { ( f hade Gav d HH dear Mr. (¢ ul r irve Ma } Bea ( ere ‘ I} ! ‘ He did Ihe ‘ ‘ t nked fort } | r the } } ¢ } ned i | t I ‘ ! r i I ere ‘ ed ‘ { his pit i me ] é ‘ é ‘ é | ‘ | ‘ i f ‘ ( exc I ( \fte i ‘ t é ent é t mu ‘ ‘ her She i ‘ ‘ ‘ er ¢ W had lingered ‘ ( bye ‘ me ‘ ‘ | rite ‘ ri rdown at the é t ‘ Of ‘ et me / erful e! I ! ! nee i ) t I irt i | 3 ‘ ‘ | ] ‘ ¢ i (y r 1 1 ‘ ‘ eve 4 + r ‘ f r hit r r { ‘ l i : Mf . , , F ’ , \ H 4 ; fe | ee Bea ‘ , ‘ t ‘ f N M i I ( ; 1 t , , y | ‘ [ \ } esst ( eT ‘ ell, eve time I ‘ ea ere ( t ! t ‘ eT ‘ ‘ \ ] i ‘ ‘ { i I ‘ e G hu herar he o'*\ \! if | ‘ é ind t ( ‘ | ‘ ‘ t 1 i ! i ne ar 1 se , nd pre , r ( ¢ ( HI i \ . | } ‘ \\ e he ed ‘ ne } ‘ ¢ ( | | | i ! ‘ ‘ he ‘ ‘ ( ri | the ‘ ( ! r ! ( ‘ Orie ) ! ‘ f ) : ¢ af Past ¢ ‘ i ne ‘ { 1 1 ‘ i t ‘ ‘ i | not } —_ 4 é ‘ er ¢ f ‘ ( ) | | | t MI i i ‘ uf \ } ‘ ed | ewe ¢ ‘ ‘ ‘ ’ é M i ) é ( é ‘ et r () | } ' ' | ‘ ‘ i é ‘ \I | ' ' | ‘ ii I ‘ at | \ \f l eered } t t f } } ne l é ( ‘ ‘ é f ‘ é ‘ ‘ { 1 ; ¢ | ’ 4 i ; ‘ ; ed f ( : : f ‘ ed that ‘ r ; ‘ ( x ‘ is B ‘ ! A! ] it ; ‘ ‘ 1 | ‘ ‘ { ‘ i] ( \l } i t ‘ { j ; \ t t t ‘ ‘ ' | | I i i ‘ | ‘ ‘ f ( ()"' ‘ ( ea em to ! ‘ y ( me ) \ ‘ ‘ ¢ loo | [ pre \ ‘ 8) ‘ f those ‘ eve é l ‘ ‘ I ‘ ne ! ex} ‘ f t Y } f j ‘ { e }t ie eye eve ‘ ‘ ‘ | l | | y ‘ ‘ a re Ni ‘ r } ‘ aa ‘ | \I Vondet ¢ ] ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ Beat ‘ f , , é } , ( | fi | l b ¢ i t ‘ ) ‘ ‘ } ‘ l f | nee M ( ‘ ’ , { , " n | ea é { ‘ T 7 e 1 ? N I ‘ l ‘ } efe mer ‘ ee?! ‘ { ‘ t ‘ ‘ ‘ | t 1 i ; eve ele e far ' ‘ et the er ( ) ‘ for camping t G i | ; " “e , ’ ne hy l | ’ ‘ ) } ¢ ) ‘ ething ‘ ‘ | he eve fu ind feathe l he ( ‘ } ng ere ‘ ( H ‘ W ould 1 beleve he ‘ M i Steve O'*\ ‘ } tered H ‘ e fe ‘ iat ! I I | ‘ i ‘ een seventy-five he mig} ! to e ( offe ‘ ethe 1 ‘ ‘ e } eve he B he mere 9 T irat ‘ j ) ) te } ¢ ‘ " | ive ‘ re ed 1 nd sa i ‘ us a draft tro e! i No, Bubsele ‘ ul et ‘ ( ! , } j the mone t irt a fund t he ! the fore G ne vhat ppe é 1 Piqued vrned to Marv Faitl of aged and infirm | ; he iy had left the house \ wge , sate ‘ ; f Mary 1 nderful girl, isnt she Of S ition Ar has neve ir ri { p ‘ erk ; | . t t ¢ ' ! 1 ‘ i ‘ ; Irse l ea Gorgeo Girl too pu V r ! | be great miracle had happened. And ! vife had requested it f I ! ed | ‘ I Continued on Page

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a) Continued from Page 123 l gut t | ‘ { i te i rie love er l was the A that had ever wn existed. Of course all le ive si tions of perpetual adora that rt of thing, and Steve is a ive man first d t, bless his old heart they had passed any midchannel whict ght « t and were happy for all time to me rt eldom quarreled and she no ger t i to make Steve over to her ng ma au“ ana he eldon ffered er sugyestic Moreover, he i od her father ind of e everything is a t should be It wa ply the ither drab fashion in wh h most ‘ ire ed, and Beatrice w suite contented he had never gotten another toy dog, not ve a i trast to Taw Adonis Really, Gay answered a multitude of needs! But Tr yY was a real persor one u stant reminder of what Beatrice rself ght have been, and therefore Reatrics ever ceased to envy her or to picture how much better he could do were she wu Pruady place he preferred not having er about Beside Trudy was impossible ltaliar iia he belonged in a near ahogan atmosphere wit! cerise t lrape ind gaudy vase Ave-old ele incies did not harmonize with her so she was not overly cordia n greeting Trudy But Trudy, with an eye to mis hief, managed to draw her little-lady-i id-lace hoste into a heart-to-heart talk And before the afternoon ended Beatrice idl experienced the first real shocl of her fe Her husband smoked a pipe in Mary Faithful’ living room at d never told her; ind Mary Faithful admitted she loved meone very much and was with him each lay in business and m; and Trudy had een the smile pa gifie the perfect oh, she did not know a tenth of it, dear not a tenth of it! It was one of those ibtle, hidden thing nothing tangible or lreadful ike a purgatorial state of n | hich may result in brimstone or lovely ingels with harp Neither could she do inything about it since they were both per fect dears and alway would be Not for rids, in Trudy’s estimation, would the er take it upon thems es to prove the brittlene of 5 After which Beatrice thanked Trudy wishing her a speedy death b wa of yrautitude, going to her room to decicde vhat her attitude hould be lo accuse Steve was crude besice he must be positive it was true l »yyet up an iffair herself would be no heart balm since he had never ceased having affairs well bred episode rather, perfectly harmk vhen all is said and done, quite like Steve for that matter! She could not find a new nterest in life until she had reduced at east twenty pounds since her dieting and eRETCISEOS TE juired all urpiu will power and thought She “oy yo away only her phar were made fk months ahead She ould not tell her father the shock might kill him Chere was really nothing left to do but iffer be wretched and wonder if it was true \ horrid state of uncertainty to ask herself how it could ever have happened and what would be

the end, and terrible thing ist hings! No matter how large a ct right rite to bt herself a new toy it ild have no bearing whatsoever upor e matter rhe hed t heaven Trud d contined her ¢ » to the funr litt nanicure wit! haumpagne eyes wt flirted ! eone else h bat ’ r} wa er Tt ird for having taker ip wit! 1 hopgirl per on! Ihe final conclusion she reached wa that she did not believe a word Tr idy had i te xXvViti JEATRICE took occasion to go to see ) Mary within the next few day Ina vuarticularly fetching costume of green satin vith ftly-away sleeves steadied by silver assels and a black hat aglow with iride ent plumes she surprised Mary at an hour vyhen Steve would be absent. On this occa n Beatrice dressed to dazzle and intimi fate one of her own sex tut the result wa insatisfactory She found Mary quite assable in cloud-blue organdie, a contented ok in her gray eyes Her own satin costume and plumed bon et seemed a trifle theatrical. She wished had worn her trimmest tailored effect

») impress upon this tall young woman at no one else ¢ vuld we or tailor things 78) vell as Mrs. Beatrice O'*V; y if she chose te) ’ THE SATURDAY ‘What can I do for Mrs. O’Valley?” Mary said, almost patronizingly, Beatrice far d I came in to say hello. I’ve neglected you lately tut you have been so horrid about not coming to see my gardens that you deserve to be neglected Her dove colored eyes watched Mary closely. ‘* Be sides, I want to get something for Mr. O’Valley’s de as a surprise. You must help me because, as I have realized, you know so much more about him than I do . There, am I not generous sig ‘Very.”” Mary surmised that something of greater importance lay behind the call than showing off the satin costume or se- lecting a surprise for Steve ‘What do you suggest? I’m such a frivolous person my husband never tells

me his affairs or wishes. The rugs might be in rags and he would never ask me to re- plenisl I understand now so much more clearly than ever before wt business men and women are prone to fall in love with each other: they see each other so con tantly under test of each one’s abilities, They have to ask each other favors and yrant them. Sometimes it is a loan of a pencil sharpener, more often it must be the aid of the other fellow’s brain to help solve a problem And they are so shut away from my world. I'm just the pretty mis- chief maker who squanders the dollars, and by and by when self-pity sets in they find there is a mutual bond of admiration and sympathy. Quite a step toward love n't it? As | came in here to day I could not help thinking of how beautifully you keep business house for my husband. Why, Mary Faithful, aren't you afraid I am going to be jealous?"’ She was laughing, but the intention was to have the laugh blow away and the sting of the truth remain Mary knew thi and Beatrice knew that he did. So trying to make herself as for midable as a bunch of nettles Mary took heed to answer I'm afraid you have been reading novel the ones where the business woman grows paler and more each day and somehow happens to b wearing a tempting little chiffon froc! interesting looking when the firm fails and the young and handsome junior partner takes refuge i her office and proceeds to brandish a gun ind say farewell to the world. You see, you don't come down to play with u enough to know what prosaic rows there are over pencil sharpeners or who ha pirited away the drinking cup or why the window must be six inches from the top be cause So-and-So has muscular rheumatism I don’t think you are fair, Mrs. O’Valley 1 I'm going to risk being quite unpopular by telling you that you have no right to say

ich things even in jest Mary's eyes were very honest and her face seemed even firmer of chin as she leaned her elbows on her desk, looking up at this pretty figurine in satin and plumes ‘Do you fancy it is any fun to go to work at thirteen or fourteen? To rush through breakfast to stand in a crowded car, to have to make your heart very small as the Chinese say, in order to appreciate the pennies and keep them until they become dollar when all of you longs to play Lady Bountiful? To rub elbows with untruthful mischief-makers, coarse-mouthed foremen, impossible young fools who wish to flirt with you and whom you do not dare to re buke too sharply, to take your hurried noon hour with little food and less fresh air and come back to the daily grind, to walk home or hang onto the tag end of a street- car strap and finally get to your room or your home so tired in body and mind that you wish you had no soul protesting faintly against girls and women having to be in DUSINGS ‘No, I don’t think you do realize. Or to run errands icy-cold days, down slushy treets or slippery hills? To carry great bundles of such daintiness as you are wear ing and leave them at the doors of big your own, numbed, hungry, envious — and not understanding the where- fore of it? To catch glimpses of warm halls, the sound of a piano playing in a flower- scented salon, to see girls your own age in dainty silk dresses sitting in the window ind looking at you curiously as you go down the steps? Oh, I could tell you a great deal more, Mrs. O’Valley.” ‘Well?” ‘Eventually some of us survive and some donot which isanotherstory! Those of us who do, who endure such days that we may go to night school, and who wear houses such a mended gloves and queer hats, forgoing EVENING POST the cheap joys of our associates—we do forge ahead and grow grimmer of heart and grayer of soul. We realize we are earn- ing everything we are getting —perhaps more—only we cannot get the recognition we deserve. We are quite different from what you stay-at-home women fancy. Tempting chiffon frocks and love affairs de luxe with handsome junior partners are furthest from our thoughts. We plan for lonely old age—a home and an annuity, a trip to Europe or some other Carcassonne of our thwarted selves. We revel in things as you women do- but we revel in them be- cause people are shut away from us. You women shut away people that you may revel in things. ‘All this time the handsome junior part- ners and so on for whom we keep business house and through propinquity are sup- posed to love—they have fallen in love with sheltered girls such as your own self, ind everything is quite as it ought to be. Now do you really think the capable busi- ness women of to-day are letting their abili- ties be spent in useless rebellion against their fate and loving the members of the firm in Victorian fashion or doing their work intelligently and earning their wage? I hardly think there is room for an argu- ment. You must understand that the years of errand girl, night school, underpaid clerk — have taken out of us a certain capac- ity for enjoyment which you women have had emphasized. But thank God it has also taken from us a capacity for hysterical suffering, for going on the rocks when we see some Joy we crave yet know can never he ours!” “Oh!” Beatrice murmured, wishing Steve would come in or else Mary be called to the telephone “Or ” ‘But I do think there is a certain justice developed among modern business women which home women do not comprehend as a rule. Oh, not that I underestimate the home women or the sheltered women. There is a distinction between the two but I say that the business. woman who earns a man’s wage and does his work has a certain squareness, for want of a better term, which makes her say, ‘If I earn some- thing it is mine and I shall not hesitate thus to label it Look out anyone who tries to take it from me!’ Do you se« Mary paused, annoyed at what she had been prevailed upon to say, and wondering if by good fortune her opinions had been ce ‘live red to empty ears ‘So you think you would | f figh t for some- yee thing t to which you felt entit ?’’ ‘Perhaps.”” The gray eyes had a war- rior’s strength in them ‘Fight, win it, and then spend no time in sentimental regrets. We learn one thing that all women should learn in this great age of selection: That you must earn the things you win, and if you do so you will most likely keep them.” ‘And if you felt you had earned some-

thing ——and another woman had not — you would play off the con jueror and take the poils?’ ‘If I felt it the right thing to do.” Feeling as confused as a bank cashier when caught studying a railroad map Mary suggested a picture of Beatrice handsomely framed as asurprise for Steve. She was sure he would like nothing any better. Beatrice felt chirked up upon hearing this. She told herself Trudy was an inveterate gossip and this queer young person must be thinking aloud about revolutions in Russia or something like that; anything else was too absurd. Soshe repeated her invitation to come to see the gardens with their jewel- like pools and riotous masses ‘of color, and went on her way to select a most gorgeous frame for a most gorgeous portrait of her- elf Steve expressed his thanks for the sur- prise picture quite properly, and after giving it a few days of prominence on his desk he relegated it to a shelf beside a weather-beaten map of the Great Lakes which had always been in the office. And here another phase of the Gorgeous Girl’s effort to do — ing and exercise her faculties occurred. Though she regarded Trudy’ 8 ZOSSIP as absurd she did not forget it. Nowoman would. It lay in waiting un- til the right moment. Her father’s illness and Steve’s worried look as he came home each night caused Beatrice to cast about for something noble and remarkable to do. The conclusion she reached was that it was her duty to re- trench; she was not going to have floor- scrubbing duchesses corner all the economy feats. She would make it the mode to live January 17,1920 simply, even be penurious in some ways now that she had the Villa Rosa and a season’s budget of frocks. She began look- ing over the monthly bills in deadly earnest The result was a blinding headache which prevented her going in to see her father. She retired to her room in cream lace with endless strings of coral, and left word for Steve to drop in on his way to his ow: room. ‘Deary, I’ve been too extravagant,” s began faintly as he opened the door. She reached out her hand to find his. He brought a chair over beside the chaise-longue and sat down obediently, holding the small fragrant fingers in his own. “I'd be mighty gl: id if you felt you could live more simpl) ‘You duck! Just what I’m about to di ) I’m going to be the loveliest Queen Calico you ever did see—I’ve no doubt but what I'll be making you a beefsteak pudding before long.” Steve smiled.

‘Who will take this castle of gloom from under us?” “Oh! We may as well stay here—I don't mean that sort of retren hing I mean in other ways. I’m not going to give expen sive bridge parties or keep three motors and a saddle horse —I can’t ride any more any way —and I’m not going to have a profes- sional reader for papa. Aunt Belle, you and I can manage that—that will take fifteen dollars a week from the expenses Besides, | am going to have three-course dinners from now on—no game, fish and extra sweet. That will make a difference in time. I shall not buy the new dinner set I had halfway ordered —it was wonderful of course, but I have no right to use money for nonsense. Papa can give it to me for my birthday if he wants to. Gifts don’t count, do they, Stevuns? ‘Then there is the servant question Now cook is seventy-five dollars a month; the three maids are fifty each, besides all they steal and waste; the laundress and her helper, the chauffeur and all the garden men; the food, light, heat —to say nothing of extra expenses; my parties and trips and the enormous bills for taxes and upkeep that papa pays— I'm afraid to say how much it comes to each month. But it is going to stop! Then my clothes —I’m just ashamed to think—while you, poor dear, exist on nothing Oh, thank you, Elsie.” A maid had brought in a supper tray. “*T didn’t want to come downstairs, so I sent for some lunch.”’ She watched Steve’s amused expression. ‘‘Aunt Belle gets on my nerves and unless we are having people in, the room is too big to have a family meal.” , On the tray was a dish heaped with tartlettes aux fruits, cornets a la crime, babas au rhum, petits fours, madeleines and Napoleons. There was another dish filled with chestnuts glacé and malaga grapes preserved in sugar. <A few faint wedges of bread and butter pointed the way to the pot of iced chocolate and the pitcher of whipped cream. ‘We ll,” Steve ventured, looking at the tray, ‘I’m afraid I don’t agree “I know your ideas. You think I ought to be frying chops for you and giving prais¢ because I have a _ nineteen-dollar near- taffeta dress. I can just see you walking round a two-by-four back yard measuring the corn and putting the watermelons into eiderdown sleeping bags so they won't freeze; then telling everyone at the shop what an ideal home life you lead! No,deary, I'm retrenching because it’s a nove ity, and you would like to retrench “Because I may be forced to do so. I kate to worry you-—I never mean to un less there is no cther way out —but I must warn you that the abnormal war condi- tions are no longer inflating busirtess and everyone is watching his step. I cannot take your father’s place; he carved it out step by step. I fairly aéroplaned to the top step and found that while I was sitting there in fancied security other people were busy chopping down the steps and I should find myself having a great old fall down to earth. Now 4 “*Don’t tell any more things,” she mur- mured, deep in a fruit tart. “I can’t un- derstand. You are a big strong man. Go keep your fortune; let me play. I'll re- trench for fun, and you must love me for it.”’ “‘But you are not sincere,” he protested. “You don’t earn anything. You don’t save anything ——” Beatrice sat upright, laying aside her plate and fork. ‘So you believe that too,’ she half whispered. Continued on Page 129 — are

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a Continued from Page 126 added in desperation. “I wish we were back in the apartment a simple house. I wish we kept a cook and pee here, Steve or a maid and you had a simple outfit of clothes and a simple routine. I wish we were just fol you know the sort ou don’t nd them any place else but in Amer ica--it’s a tremendous chance to be just uld only realize. I feel as if , as if we were game al) folks if you we this were a soap-bubble castle deliberately playing a w round.” “You ged; ‘‘and if he thinks I’m unhappy he will write me other check.”’ “Then the retrenching is to be the elimi- nation of the fifteen-dollar-a-week profes sional reader, who needs the work and earns the money, ar d two courses from our al ready aldermani als? What else?” “*T shall send the silver to the bank and The smartest people do that. | shall make aunty embroider my mono grams; she can as well as not—the last were frightfully expensive. I’m going to bargain sales after this, and take cook and drive out to the Polish market. Why, are two and three cents a pound rong te Dp an- me use plate thir gs che aper Steve rose abruptly, t pping over the dainty chair as he did so. He tried to traighten out the pinky rug and set the hair properly upon it ‘7 Then he juared his shoulders and jutifully stooped to kiss s economical ttle he t “All right irling he said glibly, feel- ing that Gorges G re get-rich-quick men’ hatre . ‘that will be very amus- ng for vou t will tide you over until the horse-show seasor Jow if you don’t mind I’m going below to asl what che chances ire oast 5 foward Christmas, when Beatrice had gone to New Yor th friends and Mark Constantine discovered that dying 1s ever » much } er than death, Mary told Steve she i r lering a new position, with a firm d gy in fabrics, a firm of old and honorable reputation She laid the letter from her prospective almost wanted employers on his desk, in fas} It was as if she this was no woman’s thre naive to show at but a bona fide and I And if she blushed from sheer foolish joy at the dis- appointed and protesting expression that s face it wa after undergone before she ; step. businesslike proposition. small solace had made herself take th ‘You are not going,” he be “I'm damned if you do!” “Oh, my dear, my own dear, d within. Outwardly she gan angrily shook he THE SATURDAY How few hours a day will you consent to work? You know so well it has been you who have done your own slave driving Besides, 1 can’t get on without you.” “You must; I haven’t the right to stay Steve stood up, crumpling the letter in his hand. ‘*You mean because of what I said—-that time?” “Partly; partly because I find myself disapproving of your transactions.” “They are a safe gamble,” he began vehement] ““Arethey? I doubt it. Don’t ask me to stay. I want to stay poised and conte: If I cannot be radiantly happy I can be content, the sort of old-lavender and star dust peace that used to be mine.” ‘“‘Have I ever said things, made you feel or do — “Oh, no.””) Asshe looked at him the gray eyes turned wistfu! purple ‘But it is what y or do, Mister Penny Wise.” “So we may sa Steve looked at the crumpled letter you are going over to staid graybeards who deal it and woolens, and play com- mercial nun to the end — is that it?” cotton “Veg **And you docare?”’ he persisted brutally. “Yes,” she answered detiantly . Well, I don’t care about fool laws they are mighty thin stuff her with quiet emphasis Mary did not answer but the purple of the eyes changed back to stormy gray. “Why don’t you say something? Abuse me, claim me e ‘I haven't I love you,’ he told the courage even if I have the right,’’ she said presently. ‘‘ Besides, this last year I have been loving an ideal the Steve O’Valley who existed one time and might still exist if other things equal. Butin reality you are a premature; were nerve-shattered blundering pirate; not my Steve.” She spoke his name softly. ‘‘ The failure of my ideal—and it’s a little hard to live with and work with such a failure My hands are tied, yet my eyes see. Be there is Luke to think about and care for until some other woman does it. I car not endure this tangle; neither can I get you out of it. So 1 am going away I'll keep on loving my ideal and find the old-lavender-and-star-dust sort of peace.’ ‘You g!’*herepeatedsharply, taking her hand. ‘‘Do you hear? I love you. I have loved you enough to keep silent about it ever since that day. Does it mean nothing to you?” “Don't say it again it is so hopeles part of the tangle. You haven't the faintest idea of how hopeless it is; you are so in volved you cannot My hoy, don't sides, are not gol! judge you see that the whole trouble ijies in get- ting things you have never earned? The sort of joy you people indulge in and try to EVENING POST worth while when he is too happy or too successful. That is why success is a wiser and more enduring thing when it comes at middle age. The young man or woman ha not been tried out, has not had to struggle and discover personal limitations. It’s the struggle that brings the wisdom “But when you havea ready-made st market fortune handed to you, and a Gor geous Girl wife, and the world comes to fawn upon you—you soon become intox cated witha false sense of your own achieve ments and value It dor not last nor does it pay. Such joy periods are merely recuperative periods By and | ome thing comes along and bumps into you and you are shoved out into the truggling seas the learning and conqueri: y game It is not asad state of affair but a mighty wise one Then how can you. who have never , expect a joy to be yours for ever? ‘You have struggled and earned. Y« have the right to love me “Perhaps —but you cannot hide behind my skirts and claim the same right. I sha give you up. Why, this is no trage« t is the Way many commercial nuns find the lives are cast Commercial nur just like religious sisters, serve a novitiate 1 + ’ vocation being tested out. We who find that the things of our fancy are husks leave them behind and go on in our abilitic are needed women to-day we must have recognition and re spect We tain unwomanly accordi standards, which possess a cer honesty makes us say sucl as I have said to you. I love you, the of you; yet I am hope less to realize it I refuse to keep on making my petty moat for sympatl y when all the time the bigyer part of me demands work and content and thing there must be a way out : just like Gorgeous Girls I can’t yo lose you. Do you know what it will mear I fancy I do.” The gray eyes were so Radice iy ‘ y e@} maternal that Steve felt comforted ‘Are you pushing me out of a stagnant joy poo he tried saying lightly ‘Perhaps I'm heading that way when I top serving you he fore all eis va Mary, Mary, quite contrary her a gentle little shake , \ Then tell me if this i your mind and sta You must ay or else you don’t love me ‘Eternal masculine! That beaten, cry loudly, tell our must prove back to have you ki shook her head. “‘Y the world recognizes with sentiments and sent ! Why, my boy, do you know that ol tio ( hange at our afiectior we 3 the b ou cannot beliey i difference betwee women ment womer convictions, real « ,domakeacor ead briskly and added, “Yes, lam. The hold as your own is a state of mind and tof aman, put a mental b d chain or hours the salary - emotion from which no lessons may be him which he can never > I have The deuce take that stuff! How much learned calm, stagnant pools of superla- told you my conviction: convinced more money do you want me to pay you? tive surfac® pleasure. No one learns thing I should be doing wrong to both of u | to stay ] ill go spend my salary in s¢ “im not afr 1 of himself insist Nor I B not marr i Not ever i Unecor 1 the photogray I the G down on them in f Not ever,” she There wa i ‘ steve was ol i it about ‘ ir witho i he as to what w being When he rushed | } ! ne eand blot I hid { had drop] mda , t , } ’ er hav brcag | I j { A { fifteent Hle tore the t i ol e and t M ette is the ( re ed Five t t that up to I t i | lerana f of a ! t. tle hadt i $ e hil a nece ar vent home He walke cit juare wate! rt men with their t vrinkled-faced womer parrots, and si ur ind down, bent « ! about huma being self; and might cou took atax he sho forgotten t Ir homea ] ilver gauze in ntermand the ndwonde for bet ere W with ar eted him. t train Beatrice gre as well remain invisibl ning, it would look te ippea in nour tate w ind a there iy hman who made re for her everyvthi Papa, minus the prof esome, He had « mplaint of | ‘ me an audie With relief Steve tanting r ! ind ar ind boxe ‘ir hior letective stories, he to the re ! \ nt must be takena t} ‘ the best of do TO Bi

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130 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Delco- Light pumps the water January 17,1920 nl | Delco- Light does | the washing Delco- Light lights the house Delco- Light is used on hundreds of boats Delco - Light lights the barn Delco- Light saves time for the farmer Delco- Light makes the home ce ymfortable Delco- Light benefits over one hundred businesses Delco- Light betters living conditions Delco- Light brings city conveniences Over 90.000

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 131 ¥ Delco- Light operates the churn operates 2 Reeuaseanneeemeeecnneen — — : sf i} | | Delco - Light | | easserbletiate | make > | | ‘A | b! | the vacuum POSSIDKE | a modern | cleaner fe | | I os bathroom | n rural communities the world | | : : | over, wherever electric light and | | — oo power can be used to advantage — there you will find Delco-Light. ‘ And wherever you find Deleo-Light you ) + ha are sure to find a satistied user. Delco- Light , * ; ' 5 ae =~ Delco-Lightwas designed and builtto meet runs the “ the exacting demands of farm use. It is feed grinder simplein designandverysturdy in construc tion. It requires little attention and can be ~ depended upon to operate twenty-four == hours a day under full load, if necessary. - . . . . . . onmeneenereeerenenosesee=svomsnasineseasenceeeaaaa The engine is of the famous valve-in-the- ‘ — ; head type, and is air cooled, hence is free ] se Me, , ( YI ( COOTE( it st r . | aor 3 from freezing, boiling dry or other water — | a | troubles. 1} | sie ri we In. ° ‘ } —s Se il Delco- Light It runs on kerosene in any climate. | Delco - Light } / operates Phe Delco-I ight storage battery also is of separates } the milking special design. Itis very sturdily built, with — | | ; | machine extra thick plates that are slow to wear | ene and with wood and rubber separators — | | te ‘ that add years to the life of the battery. | | be SS There’s a Satisfied User Near You 1 Delco- Light helps with DELCO-LIGHT:PRODUCTS “Dayton, Ohio the chores Satisfied Users

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132 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 E SA) INTULALGTAUOOTOGGNAGCASOCCUSOOSSOUCAIOUUOOOOO AAA SUOUOOSGSGQOOONOAAGOUCAT ACEO AC OCONEE AOS Oe I IE i Nothing so clearly demon- strates sound engineering and right manufacturing as the ability of Garford Motor Trucks to give —Low Cost Ton-Mile. Lima, Ohio LENOMTESETOTO TATA A TTT TOPE STOOD Cc A | a ee = Se Sin LLIDOOOOQDIOTOTLNTTOVOOUONOUTITOOUNLOQOUOQONOCOLACTNUBINIUUCQOLODOQNIVILNIOUUTIIUNNONI MAUUUTLUUUAAEATECTRUETRTEEC EAU ETA TALES TT HANA EOUUVUVUNTUOMAUVLATETOOL ULVAEUS TRUCKS eiill

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“Bring grapefruit, bacon and eggs and cocoa for the young man, Jean,” said she firmly to the waiter. ‘‘Coffee and rolls for me and hot, please.” The menu had offered a small respite. Now that breakfast was ordered, Sue stared at the boy helplessly. It had been two years had seen him. For the past few summers she had always found some satis- factory reasc y she could not possibly visit at her sister’s sm e in Scranton. Eve n dt time that she had seen

since she

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Say, you know, about that last dance he said, looking up with a twinkle big blue eyes, ‘‘that was funny. You see, when a fellow doesn’t pick out a girl he knows he generally gets one from Dorton Hall—that’s the girls’ school right near ours. They send ’em droves for every dance—chaperones and all—and of course a fellow doesn’t know what he's going to draw till the dame gets there, Well, I was out of luck this time.

over in Gee,

pla minu e I thought lemon one, So I took her and Waiting eagerly for the of stoical performa ‘aught the reason for Accidental the gray

(

opposite

Nibs she had found him something « ( tional problem. Now. } } 1 howevy

POSSIDI) aout wit this strange being—} lf pup, half wise old dog? “Um do they give you good board at school?’ ‘Oh, pretty fair.” Her last ques- been cor

such a

ne ot er 1 v ex st lil ns—<¢ g be evening en— deserting the din-

ner at the club— she had gone tothe Pennsylvania Station to meet her trange nephew Three weeks more of tl ! Heavens, what should he d She waswonderir gt ic wher something made her eyes wider At that moment she iw Mr. Christopher Henry en- tering the door. He, too, was not alone 1 as

Miss Kir csi little fifteen-year- old girl who preceded him to his usual tabl derstood the patri pretty

that clean | y face. It was indeed with the first tolerance she had ever been able to establish for Mr. Henr that she watched him tryingto put offthedoom of conversatior H« W measured the slowne with wl “) he pushed | compantor ; chair to the table how h

Another, too, had been watching these move- ‘Quite a neat dame,” ommented Nibs in a tone of casual eurship as the big gray te Mr. Henry. His aunt’s expression lightened at the lead “Are youalady’sman, connolis-

Nib he asked Her nephew flushed a

] eas het iat the } tedsil irfwiththe re mental stripe

‘ eT \ té end en te ey r — ** Beastly Kind of Woman,"’ Said Mr. Christopher Henry's Hazet Eyes. ‘Beastly Kind he adde nd Blue Eyes Just as Forcefully them— if they can talk.” H new expar lve his indif Ke ‘ ng for glance had been returne ference. Miss Kirkp: a I ell glasse that his cheek had flushe elief. Here was a sul *h woul her face i £z ng a tug half appre at least through the breakfast. She went Sometim assuring —to P nittec on drawing him out. What sort of girl did that he just regimental stripe he like? Did he go to many of the school “Ah. yuth—charn dances? Gradually his answers grew more rps?”’ repeated his aunt Eve outh,”’ sighed M Kirk free from embarrassment. Gradually Mi thing about that trained mind of he [It was more than a cor Kirkpatrick felt more t relief. She was every one of the antennw reaching explanation, fo ist. the being amused by ar h new type, out for fresh mater » wa being stimu id met ti eof Mr. Her an absolutely new point of vi lated by this strange narrative is not such as to cause

an e her up,” ex- “We ‘Well, for just a I'd have to. thought to myself, don’t be yellow a } just because you happened to draw out t equel of tk tale b le Miss the Mr ia ne j i ‘ Kirkpatrick ar udden halt. Mi ibs’ glance had wandered to with j Henry rhe virtue of Man," Retorted the i la i } j ‘ e, half re “ } arf t the d i The nger ] abney to herse fort It wa bre I the ‘ l Then I just “Wh ll

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33 1 ther appened? oh vhere was I anyhow? QO} do you know, she didr turr i lemon after all he took off glasses and she put on a kind olf ind she was a peact! fa dance is eighteen years old! vhole n 1 danced t this irresistible array of e ought to have gone t ee her sists ist mmer instead of ta gy that 1 ng trip n 4 ada vith P} isand Adeline! It wa my tant to get ntouch withay nt of view like t} ! va the te quict hool . Dow? not? | forward t Inspire And ther Kirk} bered something he had not looked at the Downington ad tt morning The rea " tion brought a ‘ worried tug at the brow So much work on hand! And here was Nib what wa he going t do with hin It was Nil himse who settled that i tior I'm going to meet one of the fe fro chool this 1 t ‘ i inced ca with a last " \ the gra eye f Mr. Henry he f wer } aunt out of the re taurant. ‘He mins in at the Penr ania Station.’ But N ro tested hi iunt feet who going t Lal ou? : Take me norted he indignant! ‘Did I see now Ww ime ao in the taxi last nigl Besides, I just got one of those Guides to Ne York at your hotel th mort ng.”’ And a e heard the self-posse nm of } voice, a cor ¢ e bre by mar ye I expe ence tr i i Manual, | nt re ized ygratef \ nat ‘ ( 11d ais N i timeentertainment f her mind V< Le did s , ceed thaty ’ i " ng t! ! | N Throug ill he ishaunted bythe i ed more ty tr ai nm thre wat ed ¢ ot ont ¢ f t | i rea | p e her ng up atheat ye! AY M K son } ' resst ‘ | {lal ! ‘ ‘ hye itifu ( ‘ rug ¢ } ‘ ‘ A | i | thar t her met r ore x! t ‘ ‘ r nN mace ‘ ‘ f } , l k f i tothe D mant I ‘ ‘ ’ , ‘

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134 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 oe CLEAN WHOLESOME FUN sweeping round the world and 1 ITOVO king the millions to light- hearted laughter is provid ed only in FOX . Shey make for happi LESS, for health and the he arty eijoy- ment of life ' [heir cost is as great as the cost of hey form a part of the really great producti lONS of the day a ds sit thesis cites os KO) _ ERTAINMENTS humankind cannot be measured in millions: ttend the theatre that — — hresents them + [ SVAUNLELE SRLLEL ESET WWE LERLLEEEEEESEEIESESEE MM Re Dy a — | ” FOX NEWS,MUTT @&/JEFF and FOX SUNSHINE COMEDIES were the motion pictures selected by special request tor the entertainment of H.R.H.the Prince of Wales at the Academy of Music,New York,and his enthusiasm and enjoyment proved so hearty that the newspapers frankly recorded the fact- > 4s Sie H-‘R-H- THE PRINCE FOX FILM CORPORATION OF WALES WILLIAM FOX. "Ty fresitdent é; ts ss a ~

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Mutt yee 4 the moving cartoon cre ations of CA PT P B UD FISHER, are so droll so whimsical, so abso lutely funny that they have become a weekly ha bit with the beoples of many countries: \ INNOWING the wheat of news interest from the chatf of the common | place, an organization of csr §=650,000 enterprising men ) and women reaching from the four. corners of the earth provide for vou twice each week a trip round the world us you sit comftorta- bly in your theatre and see \{ M iit NM leat a SEWEWEEEEE Me Mutt MiJeff my +. 2 } rou opserve great events } } / : npr j ; hrew Aunmor ls UNLIVEKYSdl } ’ j + — ~— i.» aoa adhla theirs bo Al CONQUEST ° ie }) of the wo) li- ] e ie and you receive them first- Y } You see the novel, the — fox Vews has bees new, the strange, the ditfter ot — | seinen tapes en ent, the odd, the unusual ey alse form part of pat I Sarg and the tremendously inter EF ()X lieve this to be 10 esting ° ENTERTAINMENTS exaggeration: It forms part of Iitend the # 7 —_ ~ . Titend the theatre FOX ENTERTAINMENTS Ss Thad { 4 , ‘mente: inter AUC PV€S€nts Tres Attend the thea t re that presents them ° ° ’

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136 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 HAUGHTON ELEVATORS “Made in Toledo pew oe ee a

pi RESENT Haughton standards ar the result of years of experience im of the highest quality, producing elevator yf to meet the most extreme demands <¢ ervice, The ereatest po sible care is accorded to each detail in their ce ign and con- careful attention

truction, and the sam is given to the machines attet their continuc dl

they have

been installed, to imsure efficiency in actual operation, Our Haughton Elevators have given Hlaughton users expect service of the typ indicated by this statement. It is one of the reasons why 40% of all orders for Haughton Elevators are re-orders.

n i ae rHE HAUGHTON ELEVATOR & MACHINE CO. measeuan duit taba deaiie LOLE DO, OHTO

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 137 Continued from Page 133 one frugal statement. He was not and Sunday papers sne merely glanced at e never would be a he vamp ( mate aire yn t iWa ! advertisements before starting on a tour of , Nibs,”’ she pleaded at last after f ist vhich had linke er brie ‘ { sight-seeing. She took Nibs up to Central they were settled in a seat of the car, | ” ot the past \ John Ki { Park in a taxicab, pointed out the Obelisk ‘‘where in the world are you getting the not edat Ma t I et and then with the least possible discomf money for this trip?” ever hat ir n t have watche Cha to boyish sensibilities shot him through the “Worked on the ice wagon last summer,”’ possible mar Bold, M kK Mr. Her pictures of the Metropolitan Museum. At he retorted, ‘‘Got paid nearly a hundred “Aw, Aunt Sue”’—the bov's tone had faced each othe ( four o'clo k, ir er li Kirk- a mor for that.” taken alarm from her lool uu wouldn t “i care to ‘ grow le patrick was usu having tea at the club ‘But you'll need that for clothes, won’t mind himso much. Why, he was one of th His verb hardly express¢ with her two he and the b ry were you?” most famous halfbacks Princeton ever had! t n to what eemed the 1 ‘ pena ot the glass cases at “Oh, no, a fellow doesn't need much at Of course he’ old now ind everyt ny Through eve measure school except a sweater and a pair of cords. but His look finished the argume f Mr. H I echr nther »** 1 keep this suit I have on for good and that A meteoric past such as this could not leave to plod over he the atched the ( does me. Of course then I got a dres lit. even thirty-three quite unlighted ‘ \ ‘ t h through the water. And say, I sure was in luck about that, Sue smiled at tl uren¢ Then the over ulated ‘ is gift of be gy touched Aunt Sue! One of the fellows wa gyping smile died as she iW s” face He wa M hk it le { g, she Was really t old dre suit for a new one and | all pup now, with a pup’s pathetic wat But through enjoying tnis, her first v ttothe Aquarium picked it up for eighteen bones, It’ 1 fulne f eve na ein her expre e! t ir good one, too,”” he added proudly ‘braid pup’s sense of the finality of her de ! | int me ( t did not ar er her I lo r the dow the trouser and white est and For just one minute e delayed ‘ ‘ ! i ld direction of his eyes, she v riled to see everything \ tht, N 1 Miss Kirl eaning over the g right be e them M Kirkpatrick did not answ But f it mea that mu t ‘ I Line ‘ Mr. Christopher Henry and his fifteen-year is he talked she suddenly turned away her go five more dance ust’ N , old charge. He was dressed very Sund head. It was to hide the mist which quite Half an } later ag ed N ‘ ! ‘ ‘ afternoonly, but the adequacy of shining ina muntahl came to her eye as she ou t r n her apartme ‘ top hat, ‘pearl gray pat ind wa ne remembered that he had just paid two ) ed } iunt i ve ! We ‘ ‘ ick could not conceal some deep inad« hundred and fifty dollars for her new your very best evening thes, ha i ( er i quacy of soul. Miss Kirkpatrick could not bla elvet dinner dre Why didn’t you wear just a Tuxedo get ya \ , . : The next evening when she entered the The } flushed Hy re hotel on Waverly Place he found Nib Is th too much dressed | He \ ‘ ‘ eate efore tl imita n coals of the looked dow ineasil " he ‘ he { t } 0) | ‘ ! vom fireplace A second glance braid on | econdhand suit Of course he iwf it revealed the identit f the person occup I don’t want to look as if I] were show n that dre And gy the.big leather « I n the opposite off or anyt ny I th ignt eve “ Aur sue ! e of ‘ replace, It was the prett iressed tl Wa n Ne Yor Y et t t Elsie ‘ ttle cl e of Mr. Her Ne old me the suit had got rid of > men in evening ‘ tner i l ny, but il Wa qi y another fe The ] I tl 4 M Kirkpatr that he h trange rea i tie 1 ho i rear I N } I eve ru 1a perfect communication eve Her tone, howeve ning « ‘ t t \ Ir ( ilé ped up 1 che ind ! na over to |} iu? es wert bit too dressed u tid she f 4 ‘ t seemed ome sel you what I'll do. I'll get fortable New Y ache t eep from spea ng before the and we have 1 regula tirred l if t the elevator. A on as they entered here of dre eff | nade ‘ | he burst out breathlessly: ‘‘Say, Aunt Sue, in front of her t t ble a dinner coat! W ft i didn’t you say we were going some place iter M Kirkpatrick 1 ht isivene f ned the J to dance t . ht?’? have bee rratified } her refleetior “he t rhit {M Henr gly e nodded her head. black-velvet dinner dre "\ h had just buried si 1 Well, L we eT f you’ nd | f cost her wo ! ired and It 1 i ‘ I ig? 1} ( t} the girl I was just t g to ell, howed throat and arms of firm te. A tensive e tixed } i if | e says her uncle is going to take her to flush had effaced the fine lines begir r |} butt } the | ido to-night and I t t to show on either le of her mout} Ay cou niece! We ‘ ‘ eer su said you were kind of out of prac inder the side eep of Marceled browr rather nice of hu \! ‘ i tice dancir hair eyes that were usual i lert had 1 I | ‘ tot ! f I see, N You int us to go to the become trange I int f t Pole l ‘ ‘ | Eldorado too A something that did not come f the once ! ‘ { O} f irse it doesn't matter—only massage and the la t 1e | le i the hea we 1) f Elsie her u e's out of practice { which Mi Kirkpat i four ! n re H ‘ t time ne had to keep looking ! ! ft la ‘ ! nm te N had t passed his midyear n busine iddenl ed her with the It wa fact as a ‘ é geomet ’ eted, tulip ted f f the past iddresse the ‘ - But, N he is opening the do But she was not thir g of |} elf just e togethe ‘ of her apartment now ww about it ther I He 1 he i day t} Ide friend p of yours? How I'll ivy e hit i i lawye i ‘We'll go home | the Sixt A venue it zo te thinking to herself e} ed ‘ t There ‘ ' ‘ Elevated ne al inced 1dader ‘ The b pbiue eye none n ¢ r de bit of powder fr ! e nec f IT he ‘ ( el et she stared at mazement "wo fe t vet a I'll give it t mii (} M kK he days, and New York astered! A first Oh, that! She was explaining all about ma Then he can’t offer to t f ttle feeling of pride in Nib ipplanted that to me thi n. You see, I f When they a ed at the Eldorado | f | t of vir MA her amused interest in a new type out of luc een ti 1 uncie¢ and her unct ere not et ere M of self ! ‘Oh,”’ she demurred VI not a taxi? of hers for a year ind kee Kirkpa h ir¢ i I I ¢ rf n that t I hate those old Elevated they’ re Oo treating her just as if she were some kid.”’ even yielded to N * Importunitic and time ile ‘ et rowded.”’ I see,” replied his aunt gravel taking _ tried a fox-trot The next ht N “No.” he retorted firmly, ve’ve beer off her moleskin coat. ‘“‘And she had to Fine and dandy,” he kept assuring he the ever taking taxis a t a f i e to m that she isnt Hlow old i \ 1 need e pra H ‘ ! ind a ! ferent I could i yu But ‘ I ‘ the wa u're lighta i feathe Vy t t f | you set ne isned in € issment N nung ! head a littl ! t , ‘ F I’ve or got € ug ived up to go We f oni iteer She had not danee f three ea Ir thie I ea fifty-fift a rone with older fell« des he frequent led to M Bo ‘ t e, the She wheeled al it ) iddenly that she i see That doe make we and M t il that yutl i t ne f ( Y lisengaged herself from | arn fere e, doesn’t it, Aunt Sue pe ) vhere yu rited ind to be asked ‘ ‘ ri ) Fifty-fifty!” cried Miss Kirkpatrick. | “And how did you meet * to dance by men that could never dance ¢ ' Why what do yuu mean, Nibs? Don't he asked a itting down It ind that for her part 1 e-aye meat t ! 1 know yu’re 7 guest?”’ the ndow she took one of her long mono a comfortable immunit ‘o-night, } rT is a ‘ t ‘Nothing. doing, Aunt Sue. I’ve been grammed cigarettes from the silver box or ever, the mu egu nee of that stror i Keeping account f everything you've een the tabie rg arm used to iving a it | t ‘ pending on me and I’m going to pay you Oh, she dropped a paper down there pounds of ice ibove a the sense that nm the ect ) back What do you suppose Ikam any- tjusta e were both getting the keys of our this arm was her nephew’ exhilarated thing vil va a he vamp?” apartments. I picked it up ind her tremendou he never wanted » f ‘ ! ¥ She stared up into the downy pink face ther why, what’s the matter Sue? top And a ej ed Nib t - t A bove its white « irand regimental st ‘ Chere isn’t anything queer about n et ipping for an ¢ rea flu ol ex I So th vas W t had all meant—! t r to her, was there? ment made her | really bea fu e! \ ‘ erted reading the Dyckmann menu, | (jueer? Of course not It wv 1 his flush was still there when five minute opens ‘ iwed giance t ner ia h tips, that habit fect natural iter e grave ed her hea i t | ‘ 5 of neve ! eye from the taximeter! As a matter of fact, the woman was re acknowledgment f her introductior to labor tu tne ( f sne tt back over her reckle ex calling that mgnt when he herself had Mr. Christopher Henr moder If Whe oe M but penditure f the past two days. She re dropped a paper and when Elsie’s unele By the time that Mr, Henry and } came to her I alled that night at the club when she had had picked 1 ip fo her ( irge arrived the orchestra had laur ed re r nt greeted the news of his imminent visit “_ yout! charming, ingenuou into the first strains of the Missouri Waltz. th the nice Ing ni the 5 ig with a groan over the added expense, and youth,” she sigh again as she had the “How about it Elsie?” iid N Sue neglecte r t of the ‘ shamed to the very depths of her soul she otner morning in restaurant It was promptly beaming down on an | eina didn't i 4 x 4 regarded the amusing new type. her on ich different epilogues cloud of rose tulle, an Elsie whose leaf ! gramme gare hye r t All the way over to the Elevated she tot rolo But in her heart of gold hair was wound about her small head — into ‘ 1 thought of how Nibs had argued with him. Of course he was her hear ew it did not explain in two he ( | t t he 1 stared guest. She had never once thought of any- sé ’ don’t nd going to the They K ( f he t y thing else. Why, what was her salary for Eldorado, do you, Aunt Sue?” patrick’ ‘ I t W ‘ eight thousand dollars a year and nobody She hesitated a moment that mar loating ( f 4 dice to spend it on but herself? All in vain, “Well, of course, there that couple ed that he in't home t however, ss met every plea with the uncle ] IPpose I'd have to meet hin table il ) t Continued on Page 140

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AGreat Business Service built upon four fundamentals Bu f hizher costs and labor work of any office It adds, subtracts, ircit Phe Dalton sers this situation ! ultiph 3, CIN 5, figures fractions, pet through its four fundamental advantage centages, computes interest scount nit , / ) aT, P ' + t tabulate mat nif tot j / i cre ( al bial r ou ments, cet Daltor npl tv 1 in ; jen key } fo? A figu I u }™ bility of It t pavrol ! p t tl crt 1-1 ld I npa vith or iry Cin} nt ber omput imounts ! mach I rs a pl 1 att t It verifi wires y iki re -~ ultiplication and Ih Da n keyvboar | i ()' tf ti rwidition, figur the count, pru t th usual arm and finger movement ly net total t pel thle by anyone One hand ‘ <o" cove t Oo gropin hesitating Dalton durability and after-purchase serv rT } or hesitating | | res are writt 19 with ly Net ice are established. Ask the Dalton users | with pencil on pay soem, th Dealt ut ite pl ' h mo any wits fi t ort tm il or I Let monstrat Da r off Dalt ) ' 1} or ! Q)perat yout { Ther } ! } learns t h meth perat nan hour Dalton Sales Ag t if 0 Look tor Dalt hol wali t 1} operator \ oO not ying uit pn DOOK ¢ eu , fer ' back a torth trom work to machin th for hi i fi t ouch the meht | : rr \ ; Dal Oh \“ rly mail ve altor | t " put t tr} machine faster ’ t i uu l l fteratur Thal ul t th i ount i | Khe Dal As THE DALTON ADDING MACHINE Co. hy leon the ymbol of versatility ‘ It | ' rr 4129 Beech St. (Norwood) Cincinnati, Ohio \ \ is both an adding and a } ' } ’ ] +} te Agents for Canada—The United Typewriter Co ae rch It sees the vat a oronto and branches

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140 The Economy Coa f ! But that’s only half the story. course, They're economical, too. They'll service and longer service than you could buy any other way for twice as much, You t The fact of it was that there were everal thing vhich she had planned to i niu One was European credi a sub- ect with wal he had long bee Wres- tiing Mr Henry “di he I | ind a e followed eacl enten e with that rest- mental curiosity of yaze \A n- formed her face she realized that ng to Elsie’s uncle involve talking to Miss Boswell or Mi

At the end of an hour she ecepte eluctantly Nibs’ benevolent offer of : tep. The | beamed down at her grate fully as the danced “Say, Aunt Sue he commented afte 1 few minutes of silence ou're doing a great job on that bird. Ol ‘ i | gotta swap for you too. Elsie sa he say re a very intelligent womar he sep ited eac! ble mpressively. “He he cant o you just like he can toa man,” Sue acknowledged tant after the for a compli- never winced, but she to herself that ir word ‘ the one in swap” he had hoped ment, not an epitaph, ‘An intelligent womar he that old? The long mirror in which she just then caught a glimpse of herself said that she was not. Sue realized a little pain- fully that her trouble must be deeper- eated one than age. At all events she showed resentment toward the author of the epitay | “But,” sh hour later in reply t !” Heavens, was no him half ar had just e Was Si ying to o somet! ing he aid, ‘‘your democracy amounts always to an oligarchy of some kind or other, There’s always a ruling and vicious minority to enslave the ignorant majority. That's why I'm for the acknowledged minority rule eally more chance for benevolence.” advancing this argument with just as much enthusiasm as though did not sun it regularly every week at Xanthus Club. Mr. Henry looked at angrily *‘Rot!” said he. ‘I was just reading in Green's History of England last night about the importance of preserving the forms of freedom, ever. when their efficiency to have departed. If the English P. ment had not kept up during peri of _ there’ She was she the her SCC TILS arlia- od ‘Hello, Aunt Sue! Nibs’ gay call to her as he guided El right in front of the table Mr. rey seated Kirkpatrick from benefiting by where she and prevented Mi the were whole

of her companion’s intellectual contribu tion. Her eves followed the young couple to the far end of the room. Dear boy, how radiant he looked to-night! | handsome, too— with the big « b eyes and the heavy sweep of his parted brown hair, rather like a sweet old- And then her delicate mouth moved in the faintest smile, ‘Upon my word,” she thought to elf, “you'll be thinking next what a strong well shaped nose he has!”’ With that new something in them which linked Miss Kirkpatrick briefly with her ingleted sisters of the past, he r turned to Mr. Henry. She was ready to take up now the of the Stuart Par- iments, Mr. Henry, however, deep bewilderment he fashioned dag ruerreoty pe! her- eyes re- theme In wide, oe staring at the woman in her black-velvet dinner dress. That magic wdhovver wher Galatea said “How do you could have wrought no greater change in Pygmalion than had Miss Kirkpatrick’s deflected soft- ness of gaze in the New York clubman., He leaned his arms on the polished table. He hunched his powerful shoulders, kept powerful by a rigorous course of athletics in business one had to keep fit—toward her was not, pretty first do” and started to speak. Then he changed his mind, “Miss Kirkpatri ’ he growled at last, ‘why have u never married?” She was naturally startled. The change from the Stuart Parliaments had been abrupt. Still the question had to come sometime arious lur heor ind dinners conducted on business lines had convinced her that the world was filled with indignant EVENING POST males who resented a business woman's in- dependence of their sex. Now she gave her usual answer. “Oh,” said she witha smile, “his rocking- chair always squeaked or he wondered why he hadn’t worn his rubbers.” The explanation usually sati when it did not content. Mr. ever, did not accept it with the | laugh which othe men, conduct- ing their impersonal research, had vouch- safed her. Rot!” sfied, Henry, how- early even r business retorted he grimly.

had been a different kind of woman you would have thought his rocking-chair a part of the celes hoir and your heart ach ise he 1 ne the damp paving sto f kpat as mu too inte nave made tl u t I hment he re Mr. Her How could he } e di yvered ur Well,” said she a littl earily after a moment lence vhat of it? Why am I not a different kind of won ‘aa His bre drew togethe harply a ae erated, Vhe it last } i er came rprised her even more than his ] as, ‘Beeat ise,”’ said Mr. Henr Pm en mer ‘you're a womar thout any talent for love.” She raised her glass of lemonade and touched it with her lips. It was mer to gain time for an Should she be angry or

mportant decisior merely amused She decided finally on the latter course, ‘Well, well’’—she gave a soft, well- trained little laugh—‘‘you'’re not blaming me for that, are you, Mr. Henr iny more than you would resent my m t bel able to sing in grand opera oe Perhaps Mr. Henry different kind of answer. At al tared at he in a lrange vaffled way id heen expectir ra She was quick to seiz ‘Tell me, Mr. Henry,” she asked, ‘why haven't you married?” ‘Easy! When I was } mood I had no money, By the time ] { the money I had no mood,” ‘Nonsense! If you had been a different kind of man you would have married on your twenty-five dollars a week, paid down your first installment on the little bur ga- low in the Jersey suburb and _ help ed | wife train the wistaria on the **T couldn’t have been that mean to ar y

girl. It wouldn't have been r “But if you had been a diff nt kind of man you would have been irresistibly wrong.” Again Mr, Henry could 1 no repl This being the case, he located a nev premise, ‘But now I ask you, Miss Kirkpatri what kind of life is this for a woman? ‘You mean your kind of life?” inter polated Miss Kirkpatrick sweetly. A few minutes later, when Nibs and Elsi came up to the table, they found Mr. Henry working surlily on a lar l and Miss Kirkpatrick taking puffs of her superior cigarette. T were looking studiously out into the but it may have been clear to even two preoccupied that which never meet may be inter cigar

few room, observers such some ded } gyiances for each other. That night when they returned to her apartment Sue pooled about the room

rather we lV. he ine se Tug for which she was still in debt, ns great bron; trolier that was an phe copy of one in a Venetian palace, the inlaid ebony table descended from Early-Victorian days why did all these luxurious touches, which made her abode like that familiar to most of u only through the rising of the first curtain, fail to give her a sense of well-be ing? **Nibs,” slowly her moleskin coat and laying it upon a chair, ‘I think I'm a bit tired,” **Aw, Aunt Sue!” She caught the look on his face. Le ele (-

said she, taking off **No, no,” she cried quickly, “I don’t mean that. It isn’t you, dear—why, I’ve enjoyed every minute of your visit. Only,’ she hesitated a moment, “‘ well, it’s this way. Monday I've got to make a speech aa The interrupted her with an ex- clamation. “Gee,” boy he exclaimed, ‘‘and I got marked sixty last term in public speaking!” The admiration in her nephew's eyes and voice was very sweet to her just then With a swift involuntary appeal that sur prised herself she wheeled about to him January 17,1920 from the long mirror into which she had been looking. ‘Oh, Nibs,”’ she cried, ““you don "t think I've led a bad sort of life, do you ? “Bad? Well, if I ever got to eight thou a year o making

Oh. no, no, Nibs—not that ind her \ was really warding off something— it isn’t the wretched money! But I have done a big job, haven’t I—a man’s job? My life hasn't been wasted?” TI he boy stared at her in alarm.

“Wh it is the matter, Aunt Sue? he inquired anxiously. ‘‘As if everybody didn’t nk hat a suc you are! Why I l€ t ra about sne says if e could only havea ke you!” ‘El repeated M kpatrick bit- té¢ el< ‘RE ¢ ! In her ear he wa save N that benig! ted uncle of | S i al t e paused for a minute and in that e regained her composure, ‘Well,” she said, sitting down in the great chair under the Venetian electrolier, set t going to tell you about Monday.

I’m going to make a speech then on the opportunities for women in a department tore, It to be given before the most f nable women’s club in town and it’s eally awlu important not the speech elf, you understand, but what it will | ¢ about.” Nibs nodded. He was proud to be taken for the first time into tl business eon- ni le nee, “You ee, Nibs, what I've heen working

on all this year is to build up the Downing- dressmaking department. It got aw- run down and a number of rich women who used to come to us took away their trade. Now I[ want to get them back-—the carriage trade, you see, means o much to us. It isn’t that Newport and Fifth money is worth more than Central Park West money, but it’s that we can say to the unfashionable rich, ‘Ah, that is the model Mrs. Astorbilt was ad- r this morning’—it’s an advertise- ment, Gee, to think of any woman knowing all that’’—-this was what Nibs’ silence said to her ey ‘minute and she drank it in as balm. ‘Well, one of the ways to meet the fash- ionable rich is to make speeches at the clubs and help along their pet welfare wor! And’’—her eyes sparkled—‘“I hope to do a great deal by this speech of mine on Monday. I'll meet the very women we want to get as patrons for the dressmaking t. And then after Christmas, are going to have private show- ngs and teas in the dressmaking depart- ment, I « xpect them to come.” T il awed enjoyment there lac ng only the one pe rfect crown. breathed, looki her with his hands in } Elsie could he depart mer Was

Gee,” } down at “if only

ng is pockets, ‘ar you now!” ated Miss Kirkpatrick bit- iad just a moment ago. Then he recovered her composure ‘I’m telling Ni os

you a his, to explain something. You know that Henry asked us all to go to the Pwo dieg aber 8 night well, I

home to- and prepare my I’ve gi and Sunday J ist ean't go. night spee 7 The boy’s face fell ‘Aw, Aunt Sue!” t to stay morrow

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‘But you won't mind, Nibs.” Rising from her cha = taken wp at hin a little wistfully. You'll have Elsie, you know. “Yes, but it’s more fun to have you too Sesides, what'll Mr. a slow time Henry do? He'll have with just us two.” “Oh,” said Miss Kirkpatrick lightly, “T think Mr. Henry will be given strength to meet the blow.” Later oh in her own room Sue tried to apply to the first paragraphs of her speech on the opportunities for partment It would have surprised Ibsen and Euripides, it would 1 doubtless have been a great 1 to the women of the fashionable club whom she was to address. For as de- livered before the mirror be oween dabs of the lanolin tissue builder which Miss Kirk- patrick never 1 eglec ted—in busin had to keep looking young—this was the way it ran: “Of course he wouldn't think much of my life. Oh, no, the only success a woman can possibly have with him is that she should marry somebody —anybody—every- body. Building up a big business is noth- ing compared to producing several children herself Monday women in the de not tore.

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SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continued from Page 140) | who look like their father’s homeliest sister. And how a great big self-indulgent creature | like that does hate to see a woman smoke

| or have money enough to pay for her own dinner or do any of the things that he does! What kind of life is this for a woman? Ugh! He’s the kind of man that wants all the luxuries for himself and the very last luxury is looking up to women for not doing the things that he does.” The next evening as she sat alone in the front room of the apartment the same thread of thought persisted in obstructing her more vital thesis. All that day Mr. | Christopher Henry’s words had heen com- ing back to her and each return brought a stronger tide of resentment. By the time that the offending gentleman himself was waiting with Elsie and Nibs for the rising of the third-act curtain Miss Kirkpatrick had worked herself up to an ultimate stoni- ness of heart. “Well, I'll never see him again—never! I can’t help it whether Nibs minds or not. Let me see—oh, yes! I should say of course that the first requisite for success in the department store is interest. One must think, breathe, act one’s work. A woman without any talent for love! The impu- dence of that! I wonder what special gifts he thinks he has? I have seen girls serving in a department store and I have seen them erving time. Of course it is perfectly evi- dent that if Susie behind the counter is thinking all the time how she is going to please Jimmie she will not be pleasing her customer. My, how glad Iam I had the excuse of writing this speec h to-night! If he on ily doesn’ t bel leve it! And then suddenly with a gesture almost violent Miss Kirkpatrick threw down her pen. She tore up such extracts of this speech as had been committed to paper. It was absolutely no good. She couldn't get up and utter such piffle even to society women. What was the matter with her? Perhaps after Nit i$ was gone she had better spend a few days in Atlantic City. It was now ¢ ‘aun n o'clock. Restlessly Miss Kirkpatrick moved about the room. She tried to soothe herself with a cigarette and wouldn’t soothe. At last she went to the window and threw it open. It had been raining heavily all day and now a dense white fog poured down over Waverly Place. It flowed thickly like milk between the dark branches of the trees on Washington Square, which she could see as kneeling beside the window she looked up the street. “How beautiful!” thought Sue with that wonderful gift of hers of being touched by outside impersonal loveliness. And how good the damp air felt as it touched her forehead! It was so grateful that she won- dered if she were feverish. Quite suddenly he wished that she were, for as she knelt there three figures emerged from the chalky fog into the lighted entrance of the hotel. And at the sound of Mr. Henry’s barytone voice ringing out in a hearty laugh Sue felt itterly, unreasonably forlorn. The next day Sue did not spend as that previous Sunday. She allowed Nibs to conduct his own sight-seeing and immedi- ately after breakfast settled down to her peech. It was nearly noon and she was getting it well under way when the tele- I T one I an Pr. “Hello! Yes, this is she. Oh, yes!” These words had taken up a very brief period of time, but in that time Miss Kirk- patrick’s face had changed from prov sional mile to determined hostility. It did not soften during the remainder of the conver- ition and when she went back to her desk her text was once again marred by a few extranecus comments, “Wanting to see me on a matter of busi- ness,”’ she fumed. “Acting just as if noth- g had happened—as if I'd be grateful for another chance to be ir — Well, Mr. Henry will fir nd out before he is done with me that there’s another talent [don't have! It’s for stupid, | Oring New York ubme on. As if I'd ever see him again as ee ras | live!” She quite believed it too. And perhaps under other circumstances she might have been worthy of the belief. But the deity who must have undertaken just at this moment the collapse of Miss Kirkpatrick’s dignity arranged the very next morning a combination of events that might have tested an even firmer resolution. She and Nibs had just paused at the office for the morning mail. The aunt was just breaking it to her nephew that they were not going to the Dyckmann that morning for breakfast, that she was getting January 17,1920 awfully tired of the place, that Jean was utterly spoiled and the whole service gone off, when Nibs was called to the telephone booth. He came out with wide frightened eyes. “Mr. Henry’s been taken awfully sic tt he cried breathlessly, “and Elsie wants to know if we won't come up right away.’ Something made Miss Kirkpatrick’s eyes widen in response and the hand on the office desk certainly trembled a little. Per- haps, however, this was due only to the special kind of constern: ition which showed in her very first words. “But, Nibs,”’ she protested, “I can’t take the time to go up ‘ave now. This morning at eleven I have to make my speech before the club and before that we have an awfully import: ant conference at the store.” ‘But, Aunt Sue, you don’t understand! Mr. Henry's awfully sick. He fainted when he tried to get out of bed this morning. And Elsie’s there all alone. She's fright- ened to death —why, she was kind of crying through the phone.” The incredulity in that young face Miss Kir kpatrick thought it was that which had so moved her. It had been nine days now since Nibs had come to her Every one of those days, she felt proudly, had advanced her in his admiration. The decisions of that strange new tribunal had heretofore been favorable. Now, however, if it were to be proved that she could leave Elsie—she knew that the final verdict rested upon this one point. She gripped the edge of the office desk to hide the trembling of her hand. And those who blame her for her next words must remember that the one exclusive emotion of twelve years is not lightly shaken off. “Nibs,” s he crie¢ i desperately, “ I’d come if I possibly could, but I can’t! The merchandise manager has ¢ alled this con- fe rence this morning —— Sut Nibs did not wait to hear more of an ounth-wes ont pe Without another word he had moved off to the elevator. As if carved from gran 4 his aunt watched him leave her. Then with a sharp little excla- mation that was almost a cry she ran over to join him. She thought it was to keep that precious, oh-so-much-prized affection that she was going now to see Mr. Henry. She still thought so as she stood for the first time in that comfortable, even luxuri- ous, apartment of his. She had no reason to depart from her the ory during the next half coun, In that time she called up three doctors. None of these could come immedi- ately. With the fourth she was imperative. “But it is very important,” she said in her crisp tone born of long years of busi- ness command. ‘‘ You must come at once. This is a dangerously ill patient.””. Then turning from the phone she smiled down on El 1e and her nephew, ee ng her wit! awed eyes from a bi lg dout le —~<lown cout h. ‘This one will be here right away,” she assured Elsie. ‘‘Don’t worry—he'’s right roun 4 the corner.” , Miss Kirkpatrick,” cried Elsie sud- den i “you're so wonderful! I just don't know wh at I would have done if you hadn't ri cute How do you talk that way over the

pl yne? She just sounds like a queen, doesn’ , Nibs?” Nibs’ « eyes beamed with pridg. “You bet! I tell you when she says any- thing to a waiter he just hops.” There was silence for a few minutes and Miss Kirkpatrick looked at her wrist watch. It was only a quarter to nine. If the doctor came when he said he would she 1ight yet make the conference. She was tapping her foot nervously when suddenly Elsie rose to her feet. ‘ : “T’ll go and see how Uncie Christop! er is now,” said she. At the doorway she paused and looked at Miss Kirkpatrick a little wistfully. ‘“‘Perhaps he’d like to see you,” sh e said. “Oh, no, no—please don’t suggest such ie!” cried Miss Kirkpatrick swiftly. “I’ m sure it would be the worst thing i in n the world for him to see strangers.’ In a few moments, however, Elsie re turned with asentence, Uncle Christop sher r had asked to see her. An instant later she was stooping—with knees that trembled under her—over a very-much-altered Mr. Christopher Henry. “Beastly head,” he muttered, “can’t move it.”” That was his only greeting, hi only preliminary. Then with fever-glazed eyes he stared at her moleskin coat. ‘‘ What ish that?” he asked thickly. She thought that he was delirious. Heav- ens, what was it—typhoid, pneumonia, Continued on Page 145

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(Continued from Page 142 appendicitis? It had been so many years since she had had any experience with sick- that the swollen scarlet of his face appalled her. **What is what?” “That fur thing. “Oh, this is moleskin.’

ness she whispered. W hash it calle dd? e She was still humoring his delirium. ‘‘Do you like it?” He tried to nod his head. The n, with gaps between his words, he made clear what was the business matter upon which he had tried to see her yesterday.

“Elsie admired—your coat. Will you get—one—for her—see? My Christmas gift in’t get it myself.”’ Through quick, understanding tears Sue im. Solemnly she nodded tears were not all for that went through her he had not been wanting looked dowr at her head. Yet the him. And the pang as she learned that |

tosee her for her own sake, because he was sorry that he had offended her, was too sharp for self-deception. She lingered for a minute beside him. She looked down compas ior ately at the tossed pillow. His whole room was in frightful disorder. Involuntarily she looked

about for a push button. Then * with a final — glance of pity—anxious but inept as t of any mar he left the room. ni ilf an hour later a terrified Elsie tip- toed out of the ck room. ‘The doctor says it’s pneumonia,”’ she whispered with a little ery of dis- tress she added: “‘Oh, I ; just be-

know it’

cause he would go out on Saturday night without his rubbers! ww he got it into his head he woul ar them any more, and he’s used to them. That's one of } ior 3 abo it Uncle Chris- my chi topher— he was ; his rubbers.” Witho impre ‘ ilways so particular about straight 1 word Sue stared

ahead of her. There was a touch of humor even in this situation, but once again Sue failed to get out on the curbstone and watch herself pass. » could think of was her little speec] topher Henry that other night “ldorado ‘His rocking-cha r alway ked or he won- dered why he hadn’ rn rubbers.” The two y yuung people stood there talk- ing together ir hispers and still Sue did not spe ak. At last Nil noticed her sile n her white tense face He came over and sat down beside her on the double-dowr Cou h. ‘You don't need to stay now, Aunt Sue,” he bega x isly. “* You’ve missed uur conference, I guess, but "ll have lots of time t ‘ » the club for your peech. Elsie I can get along alone till nurse comeé Nota ‘ idow of the « trade which he Va ndor yr d 3 aunt's face Speech be hanged!” said Miss Kirk- patrick with t efulne of ex] ! which she occasionally used to M rut haul and M Boswe I'm g r to tay.” Eleven days later Miss Kirkpatrick again at on the same double-down couch where he had made her tremendous choice The floor and the table and the chairs were day strewn with tissue paper, with red s these and Christmas seals. Acro evidences of a Chr ribbon tmas celebration de- Year's afternoon Miss where Mr. Henry , ferred until tl Nev Kirkpatrick looked to tting up for the first time since his illne lay propped amid the cushions of a deep- hearted rocking-chair. "He was wearing a bran d-new brown-velveteen dressing gown bleached now almost to led and his ht ige paw, about a brand-new

delicacy, wa book. Kirkpatricl ! book he mused with ‘Now why do you

puzzled e smile. ippose E selected that for my Christ- mas present? Do you fancy she’s been brooding all of zoop hytes? “Perh aps that’s it,”’ retorted Sue witha mile. ‘You know we modern women are demanding that a man should be more th lan 1 companion for just our lighter hours.’ He grinned cheerfully During these bi- daily trips to see him - had discovered a sense of humor—more appreciative per- haps than creative— which had surmounted pain and fever and even a husky fellow’s feeling that sickness had made him ridicu- lous. It was only one of the unsuspected virtues with which he had surprised her. this time upon my ignorance 99 Now as the eh, went out the re was some- thing x of boyish eagerness in his face.

“Say, Miss Kirkpatrick,” he said, “‘she really liked it, don’t you think—I mean the fur coat I gave her? “Oh, she was a ly crazy about it!” “You don’ t think she had the least ink- ling of it? ‘*Dear, no—I saw to that.” He gave a grim little laugh. “Do you know,” said he, “that’s the ed honest-to-Chris tmas gift I ever gave Elsie in my whole life? All I’ve handed her out before this year was a filthy check—a niserable twenty-five-dollar check that 1 didn’ t have to spend any time over. And do you know what a pig | was? Every time I'd write it I'd think to myself, ‘Twelve ble: ssed ‘months before I have to do that again! “Why,” way I’ve always

“that’s just the with Nibs! Until gasped Sue, been I got him a Tuxedo and some new scarfs and things this year I was just too stingy—stingy of any thought and care, I mean—ever to get beyond a check. And I just went round crying over the snowshoes and wonderful penknives and all the things he would have loved so when he was a little boy.” **Ah, yes,” said Mr. Henry little tighter, “‘but in my case it was worse, My brother—Elsie’s father—never could get along. I could have done for Elsie all these years.” “My oe r-in-law makes just half of what I do,” after a minute’s hesi “T never did a thing for then.” “But I never di a thing for anyl I growled Mr. parm “All ’, gripping his book a so much turne d Sue brave ly tation.

was work and goi to my club and having my rolls hot in rning R never vave I squandered. ver » Dyckmanr i hoarding my savings. ‘T always over- tipped him an Eldorado quite that you didn’t seem to see ‘that I really had benefited the race, even though I haven't married. You can’t build up a big you know, without build up the world.”’ “Sure you can’t!” business, he retorted energeti- cally. ‘But now tell me honestly—you've worked because you liked work more than anything else in the world, haven't you? Of course you have. So have I. There hasn’t been one bit of self-sacrifice about it. What’s more, we haven't renounced the honey—the rewards of our labor—not by a darned sight. We've spent that on being

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BAKER IMPORTING COMPANY 46 North Second Street 116 Hudson Street MINNEAPOLIS NEW YORK MAIL THE COUPON | Kaclosed tnd We for Soluble Barrington Hall Coffee to which please send one standard tin of Address Grocer’s Name Grocers Address | cause we like to b | much alert intelligence. EVENING POST comfortable—on taxis and waiters and good clothes and *with a grim look at the couch on which she was sitting “double-down upholstery. Now those bachelor-girl bees you’ve been reading of work—just like us—and they haven't got an ounce of sentiment in their lives— just like us. We're all single fellows together. But the difference between us and the others is that they’re single for a purpose and at a big cost of fun. We’re single be- he’ Sue looked up at him tho igh tfully. “T see,”’ she said at last. ‘You think we’ve taken over the most social civil Za- tion in the world and made it individual- istic. And } I you don’t think any work I’ve we've done xg “Can atone to society for the formation of a class of loveless workers? No, by heavens, I don’t! So long as we can’t transplant the queen bee to our human hive, so long as motherhood is not intrusted to one single person in a community, we can't take over the ngle-fellow worker. We're cramping the world’s sty le if we do. We're working against the community not for it. We’ve got to mix personal love and work together— we human bees— or we get to be just machines. And the more machines in this world the worse for so- ciety. Why, as if you and I couldn’t both of us have done our work as well and better if we had had some real affection in our lives!” He had put his finger on it at last—that little difference between being efficient and being effectual—which had been haunting her of late. And it was characteristic of the woman that she met the truth intellectually and not emotional]; She was glad to see with her mind what was the matter wit her The man stared into those blue eyes that had been following what he said with so Suddenly the bleached paw closed tig! tly about the arm of his roc king-chair. Don't!" eried he fiercely, “Don’t what?” ? “Don’t look a if you were talking about the Baltic Provinces, as if nothing under God’s sun or moon could touch you but ome abstract consideration of European politics!" He hesitated for a minute and his face grew tense ““Miss Kirkpatricl ’ “‘do you have any idea what happened to me that night at the Eldorado?” Only the most experienced could have * he asked abruptly, detected any difference between this bright hich she now gave him, and qul k gla l “You started to prepare your bee the then, didi you, “Don’t be flippant! This means too much to me. I saw you look at your nephew while he was dancing. I hadn't thought of you before that as a woman at al You were just January 17,1920 omething to talk to. But that— well ‘s He drew along breath. She attempted ut could not quite finish—one of those bright quick glances. And it was to her downceast head that he addressed his next words, “T got that little picture of you then not as a single fellow, not as a pretty work machine, but as a real woman, one that could love if she just let herself a “Ah,” interrupted Sue bitterly, stil without raising her head, ‘‘but you sai that night that I was a woman without any } 1 j i talent for love.” **T didn’t mean that !” he cried eage rly : ‘I was excited, indignant. Somehow it seemed all wrong then that you should go on in the old way—my way. Not that it vas wrong for a woman—not that it was , worse for you than for me—we were both failures as human beings, you see. As f I would set mvself up to you! But when 1 looked at that kid—I’ll never forget t— just as if you loved everything about him—I knew then—it was only a matter of practice wv ith you. Workir g, livir g alone uu had got out of practice in love. You had got into the wrong groove, see? just as I had been doing until Elsie turned up I couldn't bear your going back to the old way ther I wanted you to keep on practicing after all, that’s what you have to « two of the great big things in this life religion and love—first get yourself ir the track of them and then keep ng to stay there. Oh, I know I’'n + . ] 7 ' des f 1,] + talking like an ass! But if you could jus understand how I feel about it Pe There was a long silence during whicl ym that small downcast head. with its rippling sweep of light-brown hair. When he spoke again the big white hand on the arm of the chair shook ever so sligl tly. “You thought I meant just marriage,” he began huskily, ‘“‘but I didn’t. I’m not that stupid and—male. I wanted you to go on loving somebody—anybody * Then for the first time in these long min- utes Sue raised he r eyes to his. As what was in them his own eyes changed. “It’s a lie!” he shouted. ‘I wanted you y me! I still—want you!” tant he leaned forward and that i ; rocking-chair uttered a plea of its own. There is no use to put it in that pretty way. It squeaked. Blushing to the roots of his hair, Mr. Christopher Henry consummated his romantic declaration with a terrified grin. Christopher never took his eyes fr he Saw bewilderment, S tared at him in almost in horror. Then suddenly she re- it a i atv AlN membered. TN El ett nae eee, ma a - ae a tn neem

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148 ee THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AMERICA Tat e"% e — Wear, Washing and Your Clothes Why do clothes wear out? Is day to day use a principal factor? Has laundering a weakening or strengthening effect? How much has the quality of the manufacturer’s work to do with wear? What can reason- ably be expected of a given piece of fabric? In behalf of housewives whom they serve, these questions have been searchingly delved into by modern laundries. Tablecloths made of real linen, well woven, can be laundered as many as 100 to 150 times before showing wear. This is the average in modern laundries handling linen that has been finely made and properly cared for by the housewife. Flaws often appear in curtains at the point } sabe below the shade, where they are most exposed to dust-laden air and the action of the sun’s To che ck many housewives have their influences e = vher rays. these corrosive curtains laundered oftener than cleanliness alone re- ae ‘ Jen ] quires. If a few drops of a harm- ke ~? / -" Agunary 9 ful fluid, like the solution in an automobile storage battery, have fallen on a cloth, holes will develop during the first washing. A new starched collar, such as is commonly worn by men, can be continuously washed in a modern laundry as many as 40 times before it will begin to fray. But if a collar is worn between washings, it can: be laundered only 20 times or less. Personal apparel and household linen are bleached, dyed, woven, tailored, packed, shipped, stored, unpacked and used before they reach the laundry. If at any stage there has been poor workmanship, misuse, or abuse, “it all comes out in the wash.’ >, But when you have purchased with judg- ment, and used your things with care, the cleansing methods of modern laundries will help you prolong their usefulness. There are modern laun- dries in your city that make " an art of clothes conserva- tion. Send them your ' family washing. ts. al 4 - to the The American Laundry Machinery Company Executive Offices, Cincinnati January 17,1920

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THE SATURDAY Al PLEL FOR YOUNG MALE PARENTS Continued from Page 19 scout? Am I right, Jimmie, or am I? I leave it to you as mar ! What did I say, Jimmie, about Hug ie right here at this bar being always a gentleman un all circumstances ghto! You said all of it right there, Jimmie, and you haven't said the half of what I said about good old Hugh ie. ‘No, no more, Hughie; too much is plenty. And, Hughie, it certainly is a won- derful feeling—how!—it cert linly, were saying, is a wonde rful feeling be ena man realizes for the first time unde or the circumstances the wonderful feeling that — a fath—no, Jimmie, I just had one with Hughie and I naturally want to keep my head clear during the present circum- stances and there’s nothing like becoming a father to pull a up short and show him he’s gotta cut out the rough stuff and ) is you get down to bra . ‘Well, of cours« tg ~~ - tl I'll go you one, Jimn t I just for one or T Vo at tne pat TI I’m through. Believe it or not, Hr lg \ that’s my last drink till my son is twenty- one, Is that the ri irit under the circumstances, Hughie, or is it? I ask you. I leave it to these other gentlemen along the bar, Hughie, if I’m—tell the gentlemen, lughie, at way, droppe d that if they'll pardon me for in- tances I'd like to one more health under the circum explain the cir- emen, Hughie. ntlemen, and been my argu- gone no further ist a le led with ir in int, ! friend } ere i mpatl! vith } If é oung father were of ensi tive, moody nature ne may have remained ec g in Gill il antil he had begun to } d, ue over tne ! 1 ¢ heaped upor e | Ly American colo ma it | natel ! ‘ ( t « re ma mar £ father were of a more ¢ ‘ I ? hty ht have iken the lt of ¢ y ou from G 1 } ng the local pra band t« f nin mmediate to the } ‘ n order » serenade the ing mother and child by the bedside, He 1 have done either of these or milar thing he hang-over on himself—all the in-laws, as the days and wee ks of parent ood progress even the mother herself, straight- 3 i irt ght to demons especia lv d gy Lie baby’s ¢ me «de ilé their minds as to whether or not he evel related by mar riage to his own 1 off pring. Winifred, it is true, does soften toward him at intervals to the extent where she permits him to hand out fifteen bucks once a week to the tarehed and superior being known as the ‘trained baby nurse,”’ In some more humane households the is good enough to ly boon of dropping ng mother grant him the all his own work and other affairs on the nurse’s day out so that father can give his whole to standing by with the gold safety pins during stormy moments or rustling along the kitchen clothesline in earch of some simple little garment or other, which though of slight intrinsi value may be absolutely essential to a baby’s well-being and therefore handy to have about the house when Precious is young. Nevertheless, throughout that nerve cracking day ae which he is pasoreses to understudy the nurse, giving the best that is in him oe n fetching and carrying from the clothesline or standing tense and ready with the gold safety pins, he cannot | eep back the feel ling that ‘ inifred is con ly murmuring to herself in a patroniz ing way: ‘‘Poor old Ed! “ he only a little more brains he’d be half-witted.”’ At best he is made to re alize that in knowl edge of handling infants, in the matter of intelligence in general, he has far to go intellectually before he can hope to matct wits with a baby that at least knows enough not to offer fool suggestions, It is not until child has passed tenth—sometimes as late as its twelfth month and eighth tooth that the young father is first graciously recognized as being \ aguely related to the baby. Then it is that at some trying moment or other an exasperated mother—who has learned sud the sense of hearing n down and broken abl ing Winifred had given to (ape to quiet him—turns to fathe Pr and ir ingle sentence gives Ed the accolade of fat therhood, admits him at last to a place in the family circle, stant denly, let us say, that baby ha thr whatever Cak hat’s just plain temper e’s old enough to dis ld enough for you to Then to Precious: Dadda will *pank! indicating to Preciou horrible thing, which at last has been installed in the only job an otherwise-pleasant family circle, is none other thar Repul lve Ed, the Iron-Handed Spanker And Winifred’ ardonic pants ne and horrendous voice tones at the moment plainly after the manner which probably was a imed by some other humble character of history when long ago he growled at the ne-time Bad Boy of Europe: ‘There’ ] ‘Iba, Mister Bonaparte, just our sta’b’d bow, and that’ ' ire patterned I looming off hi po ition ‘Dadda will *pank”’ right on up to and after the age of baby talk has been passed and Winifred Fre m now on\ has reached that stage where she is wont to ntone portentously: “‘Just wait until your father comes home this evening, young man! He ll atte? i to you ‘ He! Gosh—the way she says it! Hei the stake and the pile of oily fagots in the mumps personi walking embodiment of sul timate ed tor he. When he is not op treet door nights to enter ar one ne probably naving the life opening a little door leading from the ng Sing death house and cheerily calling out, ‘‘Next!”’ He is human prickly heat and has cornered all talcum. He is some pardonably motherisl r and her female band of 1 ] ives that fo ter and scarred father of ignominy upon tne head of the altogether nec il the child; the whole false philosophy and absurd scheme of things is egged on by entire regiments of rank outsiders who don’t know enough to mind their wn darned busine It’s a con swageied sven the family doctor himself, o starts in by daring to bar a man vom hi own wife’ bedroom and gets away with it, works hand in hand with the rest of the outfit. Then while the baby is being nourished up to the progressive point where it can get croup and mumps and everything, vecialist and further en along comes the modern child cour ges the deviltr ’ The nearest I ever came to getting a glance of recognition from the baby spe cialist who comes to our house was one day when I had the effrontery to step into the nursery, whereupon he looked me over coldly for a second and then intimated to the nurse that he could not go on with whatever it was he had to say to her until the room had become less crowded, EVENING POST | nile Shoe WWE Shoe Standard World A Beautthul Boot for. Vi'sses HE illustration shows a new last Juvenile designers. Beautiful but retaining the orthopaedic features. creation of the every line, distinctive, Shoe System pring iples lace boot, of full grain wood pe gged heels and our It combines all of the characteristi Juvenile of shoemaking: Goodyear Welt, fifteen eyelet rich mahogany calf, felt padded tongue, famous flexible solid oak soles You can be This boot is sold under the following registered brand Kute Kix, Little Wizard sure of better style and longer service if you buy Juvenile Shoe System footwear Sport Walks, Seminary Girl, John Foster, If your dealer ant supply you, ser 1 us his ne The Quality is Higher than the Price THE JUVENRS Pas E CORPORATION iP ral Jl VIAL — rv 1S President 149 ee ee | nee ean

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iSsvU THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Here's a Belt that’s shaped to your body Superficially, the Braxton looks like any other belt, ‘5 but inspect it—wear it—and you'll quickly grasp why it is the pre-eminent belt with those men who re mindful of style and « omtort 1 The Braxton is a belt that haped to your body instead of pressing, it rests easily and naturally on the hips. Handsomely finished leather, durably sewed ind smartly grained, with snaps for interchangeable bhucklh that’s what you see when you look at Unrestricted freedom at the waist; a straighter neater hang to your trousers; a shirt that isn't what you enjoy when you wear the Braxton. A belt that will outlast ny other; a belt that will retain its looks and a tyle all the while mn \\ 1, rever creeping up that’ ‘hen you buy you wear it that’s GENUINE elt say “ Braxto | What you get when PROOUCT youbuythe Braxton hetter men’s sho ON FoR Men somet I cat I self wonderir , men of the caliber f Dr. I } Y Dennett, Dr. ¢ er pe List nave rent thought the of « lren neve ( ba to the disce f , n he ne children without ‘ Do you ever remember having seen tl rd ‘“‘father”’’ used once, even once the he elling bal hook on } Dennett or Griffith or H Neither d I. Sofar as I have beena to le if careful attentior ( iblished ‘ ng mv ow! Fe 1 lonesome mont f parenthood, Emmett and Roger ( ‘ ist pu he « ‘ fT ‘ r S er ome rainy Tuesday be een ¢ ( hou ind irt nt | ( ecifications of a new book with the clea i mption that all babi eithe fatherless or, so fa i? é irer concerned ire bor? ! l I 1 A r ad A A Baby Book for Fathers They write whole chapters about mother fortS and req mer The entire t i-health litera i w ‘ ] und and abouttr the 4 yl } | admit adn ible and helpful, but fa from suflicient Come to think of it, I do mistily re no , ir bal hye the , ‘ aire M 1 i Ui irsed nan t ea t ¢ the a ¢ na t nit ] , ect t ir sé here ere i t ! ue f it I t ‘ te ed t rn é But doe ‘ 1 I gra roan ¢ ( ‘ is he ise ‘ 1 te ! i ed a bar ! yme r ir nece er é fe n which he figura i r ‘ lathe and te nir f ere nt ier the pe ( ma ed the ng and st er nicht wher t own |! f ind 1} Gy I ire sed tol You ean bet Do \ or eS! But w e mother’ it e} ire erned tnat differs ! J t t ente he ned ¢ d to ‘ i that pote m t avoid a ! il ga 1 immediate ne ead to tea hole ! ‘ ? ne giver ibject te Beve ge to the Mother Who I Her Bee But not fathe I e brute t | r . » the ; } ! Ente fficer! ere 1 enerou ew ft ‘ f the i le mit if these } ‘ i ( rie t t the t ‘ tor ted ‘ the ‘ ela ‘ tye ! ‘ itu t ‘ Va é itple fer ri ‘ il ‘ elative ew «le ‘ fron e ol ‘ ise ‘ edne ind eT ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ed | ‘ e ft ? the f et T ‘ 1.M f ‘ r ¢ 1 ir ire? Pre 1 } e he " t ( r these ema gil ere ‘ ‘ t { tr ‘ nd the i ‘ d buted before father ca ‘ f \ il f these rhat e or oad-! led . ike of the literarv bal pec s ull ind passive accept € i the absé te ‘ ted | 10 il theor now 0 ‘ lent i} arenthood pre , ‘ he hat i ‘ 4 t t if ithe t t ‘ 1 ey t entation. Why? Be ‘ neve \ Fathe ‘ ) d « I er wn t { t Who ick! i ver the f op when the abs f indeliberate ¢ laid? The ‘ er And t t i ( i the fathe Y «le et ence ever tne rY I tup \ theabt entandy] oxical domest ] i ly al ¢ must have a father no father may have a ba ° hould eto get out one of t ose Dba book rY ell, « i east what one of these u i eT I meaica men reter oOo as a el nal the and perhaps I shall some day It would be from the heart and written by a father for fathers, the material all based on my own experiences as a prac il parent Our first is about a yea! Id January 17,1920 eve ind ¢ I t ‘ l a ear ‘ more than a ye old, | might s out re ' ngt € ith, when it con e? tte { the e ol the garments he requires and a mental and physical growt! i ympare bors dre ‘ ? u d ] “a igh my boe cal paper, ld be add ed primarily to fathers | would fashion my effort with the humble } Y; | it out of it our the re head of the house is really deser yy re exalted position in the d mest of things than his present 1, the Horrible Headsmar ar ail the cornful chort chuckles and guffaws rising from t vhole learned tribe of Dennetts and Grif fiths and Holts when they hear that a mer aymat father hints at intruding upon the particular quarter section of science. | t hical a pr fe on as medicine even a father of ninetee be it known that in so ultrae children is still but a layman father, neve 1 profe mal—and what word in the lar ve carries with it more scorn ar i contempt tothe syllable tl the word “‘lay ma » ~6Just how muc ntensive st ind | ‘ the more or mi ( gy of he g fathe ecessa before 1 uated t f the ‘Ss Ol la! fatherhood and becomes a_ professional lather and there fore the eves of the etl zed properly equipped to write about the ever has bee tated by the pro f¢ ] f me ‘ ss i ne KeeT t i 4 I n extravag t } d jut ar f ‘ trade f y eve ‘ ‘ ‘ met \ ‘ cate } en hundre , eases observed |} y ited Db iw f ! i tota one e thousand tw e« es of the estdispu d \ it K] ¢ nd Absurd on the Face of It If rofe had dared to utter a after 1 eying round { i i { i} eat y of VT t ire \ is wart he rest of e profs A 1 make him give >! inior bted! till would refuse to consid t ( prof al father eve t i reached tl blasé stage of m where the fathe following a the late crate of le ¢ ¢ | ‘Let keep that ( ‘ the wa Vhat I} r t the absurs that the W t thir pou hilare i »> be a fathe untle he ha nent f , ear lea what ht } r e refined elements of the ‘ trade, combined with a course ir fa et va of the butche f d ne ev and t tatting ea-] ret how t MAKE ind ol ge ( e toa T é ence be r able micro ) Tere it ince th ‘ ‘ | { f i t ‘ t yy { ‘ t wi f v SPOT t et ider, pra b wit! of parent } ul I’ve hese lad 1 that isa And the has messed ind al vears, and 1) i iS ar terne ther ict im hy | ears old and y ch is supposed e so thoroughly equipped professionally that he can stalk into my ow! house at r ng moments and tell me me, a regular father —t away back and sit down! ‘I Ro omes His Room for days before a r the child is borr But me, I'm b t d when he is not present in pers © run not or ly The yuusehold he emphati wn that he has temporarily but the lets it be sublet the + entire works to a white-enameled Catharine of Russia disguised in porcelain as a trained rse Continued on Page 153

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST illions of White Teeth Are Seen Nowadays—Ask About Them You see glistening teeth wherever you look among careful people now. They are conspicuously attractive, and you know they are cleaner and safer. Ask about them. Millions of teeth are being cleaned in a new way. Every day thousands of new people Teeth grow cloudy because of a film. And dental science finds that film the cause of most tooth troubles. Film is that viscous coat which you feel with your tongue It is ever present, ever-forming. Dentists call it bac terial plaque. It clings to the teeth, enters crevices and stays. Then night and day, month after month, it may do a cease le ss damage. How It Ruins Teeth That film is what discolors-*not the teeth. It is the basis of tartar It holds food substance which ferments and forms acid. It holds ‘the icid in centact with the teeth to cause decay. Millions ot germs breed in it. And the Y Cause other serious troubles, local and internal. That film has long been known to dentists | Statements Approved by High Dental Authorit start it. adoption. as the teeth’s chief enemy. Dental science has for years sought a way to fight it It was re moved, from time to time, by vigorous cle ining in a dentist's chair. But the vital need, all den- tists knew, was a daily film combatant. Now It is Found Now science has met that need. It has dis covered an efficient film destroyer h irmle ss to the teeth Convincing clinical and laboratory tests have proved it beyond question Count less dentists who have watched it now advise it And millions of teeth every day are bene fiting by it. or home use this method is embodied in a dentifrice called Pe psode nt \nd, to quik kly prove it to all people, a 10 | Jay lube is being sent to anyone who asks. [his is to urge you to get it. Leading dentists everywhere are urging its Ask if Pepsodent has done it, when you see teeth to admire. If so, see what it does for your teeth. Write for a 10-Day Tube. People are Fighting Film Pepsin is Applied Pepsodent is based on pepsin, the digestant of albumin The film 1S albuminous matter The object of Pepsodent is to dissolve it, then to constantly combat it. It must be ictivated, and the usual agent is an acid harm ful to the teeth But science has now found harmle ss activating method And that gives us Pe psin long seemed impossible a h urmle 55 film de stroyer whi h 1s wondrously efhicient. It Proves Itself Pepsode nt needs no argument You can te it without cost. See what it does, read the rea sons, then judge it for yourself Do this for your sake and your childrer sake. [nding film is of supreme importance. Let your own teeth show if this new method does it Cut out the coupon so you won t forget Watch Them Whiten Send this coupon for a 10-Day The New-Day Dentifrice Pepsaodent A scientific film combatant, now advised by leading dentists and used on millions of teeth every day. Druggists everywhere are supplied with large tubes. Tube Note how clean the teeth feel after using. Mark the absence of the viscous film. See how teeth whiten as the fixed film dis appears. [his ten-day test will be a revelation. TEN-DAY TUBE FREE THE PEPSODENT COMPANY Dept. 969, 1104 Wabash Ave.. Chicago, Ill Mail 10-Day T be of Pepsodent to . varne Address

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152 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 Ciants on the Job 16 Minutes vs. 45 Hours 4 } 1 , HI Poledo Cran e Power Pol ( ranes ret cost quicker Hlouse of the Toledo R dl { othe op equipment. They | war load , ) / { 106 mn / 4 \ ‘ ‘ I ( Pht tdie Pole O § hirantes depend ib and dural It means eco nomical simplicit precision in design 0 tons unloaded @nd construction and a leadership built j } I l ) . \ny capacit 5 to 400 ton for any I nent () 1 a er + l ervi () etins will be mailed at your request. awa > > , KY we LPN. THE TOLEDO BRIDGE & CRANE CO. TOLEDO, OHIO o ee-F

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(Continued from Page 150 The first inkling I get from him that he knows the child was not born out of wed- lock is when I see that he has got my Even then he gets itive that he fancies that y I am to be found dowr —

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THE SATURDAY going to press, have I known their secre- taries’ typewriters to weaken, even though the great doctors themselves—cut to their ethical souls as they are by seeing their names brazenly displayed in front-page newspaper boxes ad nauseam—finally throw up their hands in disgust and let the news- paper boys in their own poor unethical layman way fashion a final bulletin which alas must run: ‘1:04 A.M.—And in conclusion we, the attending pl ysiclans, regret to remark while tiptoeing out that Governor Grubb, acting absolutely against our combined and nl

emphatic advice, insisted this evening upot trying torelieve the tedium of convalescence by picking at the covers and amusing him self by practicir veral difficult strains of g Se I the death rattle. We have therefore thrown up the case en masse and regretfully must refer anyone anxious for further details about Governor Grubb’s condition to the management of Finnigan's Funeral Par- lor It’s up to Finnigar Signed ATTENDING PHYSICL.NS.” But will these same scientists make half as much fu over a live father as they |} over even a dead governor f And sup- | + they could be induced to waive the e wl ey n pub ( writi ] , there wou t a tective and pre itl i I e «ce ed to prevent the man from gras} what an or il paper i it in case the me il publicat W hit ( r ed iccidenta be placed by a carele maid on the wa m t e, v fice ed to A } ] rrip ‘I e Ye me, a pp e «¢ ed Complete Report of the Sixtes \ Mex Congre it At i Cit and a 1 f la ve ( { ¢ Cie ‘ ( Weekly Wa ( The w ! cal me! I ey “ Ww ind evel f at nye f vord ‘ 1 e the n f f ‘ i ma re i med i wl 1 mpa make i | i- iph in a Henry James sentence seem as ple as McGulfy’s First Reader. Try This on Your Phonograph I give y 1 i brief ¢ xtract ofa sentence or pape 1 he la 1 re ‘ ecent before t New Y \ Me ‘ I had

I M Kt en \\ e attent ‘ 4 ifa f ‘ ( i Lo re l t igt erie ) i! t mon ‘ Ve i ‘ ret t ‘ ent rt pa} he ‘ ‘ Luj ntat ‘ Mt wi f t paras I it ¢ grapl e- I I W ] quote ] e! Futile and al efforts, gentlemen ive er made pre ‘ yma wrens ‘ the f le from nt of ina prese ‘ ‘ 5 4 i eT, nd eve ‘ tne © al 1 nie i! ne iré ect i ‘ f re ect to P ‘ +} , espective f the ‘ ( ye ‘ ‘ the | ( ola t i ay tive nan te i} - tive 1 vith increase ] potent cer gated ‘ re a ease in n na ‘ ‘ to ! ‘ fferentiated | ‘ 1 fu hence ne i t t ina Pp ( « uti eS ti Polite applause ( pro- ce ‘ dom ite ar ib the i ut ‘ 1 fugations, centripetations, 7 een vious.” Hearty ap} lause and cre of ‘“*Hear! Hear!’’} Not to me, brother, was it obvious, 1 I didn’t yell “‘Hear! Hear!’ One might y that the explanation of just as well i EVENING POST

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January 17,1920 154 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST leave a few helpful words of advice and i ying cheer with the thousands of young father English language back to consciousness I who, I am sure, are wistfully sean: made bold to climb over the ropes and ask these lines with the fervent hope that out the new champ what subject he had in of my own experience as a parent I will mind when writing his paper, if any. The concretely show them the way to back up title of his effort, he said pityingly—after their own strivings for a place in the domes- cautioning me not to quote him—was self- explanatory “The Cosmic Mechanical paternal efficiency. I am afraid, however, ti that I shall have to disappoint them For that even then I one thing my knowledge at first-hand of a had delivered his last wallop and the sec onds were trying to sponge and fan the ing ne tic sun witha proper dl play of convince Principles of Furuncles Patiently I explained muffed him, especially the “furuncles’ father’s duties and prerogatives at the part. And it took me a long time to pin actual time his baby is born is slight, owing him down to admit point-blank that furun- to the unfortunate fact that immediate! cle is a slang term in the scientific world after our baby was born and for some day thereafter | was not in close touch wit for plain, homely, home-grown boils on the neck. But the word “boil’’ must not domestic events. I had had no intentio appear once in his paper on “boils,” it that morning of leaving the estate for so eemed, because “boil” is a word of one long atime, but merely set out to talk over syllable, except in some stretches of the some pressing matters with the local hotel Middle West, where the preferred pronun- keeper in the river town which our estate ciation sanctioned by the best local usage surrounds on three sides. I shall go into “6 : “‘boy-erl.”” more details about my estate in serial form Here is the dearest home yer and at : But enough, perhaps too much, has been _ later, incidentally or immediately after last one that we can afford.’ \ devoted in the little space at my command my gifted colleague, Mr. Cobb, has ex- : to hopes for help for the young father at the — ploited the last of his little leasehold liter- hands of men of science. Instead let me arily up to the hedge where the estate ON , nti aa) me you call brief attention before concluding to proper begins. And during my jaunt dowr OK INE fe | nd toda the ominous fact that in these days of toward the village I met up with a neigl ()} | | terliy social unrest even the youn male parent boring young landed grer tleman motoring 1] : dor ; may be driven just so far and no farther. home from the city to breakfast in the As I write these lines the only classes not gathering day. I PM on strike are the American fathers and the y ive m ind t American tramps—and even the Amalga- The Blot on the 'Scutcheon ited Order of American Hobos, according to late newspaper dispatches from Chi Needless to say, I told him of my anguish cago, contemplates walking out in protest of the preceding night during the birth of / against their present winter living condi my first-born and he decided to delay }t ‘ ms —if they can achieve the thing with- breakfast long enough to pick me up for mposin ' out walking ll that is necessary now is aspin toa near-by country club to talk the one | ; to have the fathers organize and cease pro whole great and glorious happening over, . ' duction and the tie-up by the producing and one thing led to another all morning, ul rated - ee class will be unanimou and in the late afternoon we decided to lor a Y Os on LODAY That would be astrike which would bring motor home from the country club by way i bor ‘ mothers and their in-laws up sharply and of Manhattan; and some place in the city make them realize the inexorableness of the we got out and I lost my friend in the crowd mathematical truism that even a better and I decided thereupon that it would be f nd soothir gy toreturr | ome leisurely Hudson on a river teumer that signal at my dock, and when | a steward was pounding at my stateroom door and I was in Boston. | - + , - half never assays more than exactly filty per cent Let the young mother and her female in-laws reading these lines pause and onsider what the plight of Eve would ha been if apples had always disagreed fatally with Adam, notwithstanding the fact that must have boarded the w ng boat. Eve was so prominent among the mother And then when | hurried out to the of her time that she was virtually the whole Copley laza to freshen up a bit before thing at every mothers’ meeting held ir hurrying to New York by train I rar her day into a man whose name, I think, was Buck ) | alew. Then when I did mi ome days Spare the Mothers ater to tear away from tl kalew per I | son, who had fastened him upon me, and i ti] And what was Eve herself, according to go home, I ate something— probably on the Send This Coupon Toda ! the chronic lers of her time? Merely a by- train —t! at must have been canned. At y: product of Adam and properly set down in any rate I lay prostrate on my sickbed for . d ; the history of her period just for what she more than a week, with no message fror } | i was, a parasite. Turn to those same chron- my wife, no word from my own child on lers of the good old days of Genesis, you a room or two away, in all that time. By who doubt that the present exaltation of the time I had struggled to my feet agai: the so-called better half is an artificial and the baby had advanced to tl € poi t where { therefore false development of an eficte it had been christened—and without cor ivilization, and read for yourself in best- sulting me. While I lay helpless, spoken to | t} } LOW remembered passages of our earlier history only by my servants, rac ked and torn wit} t how much the old historians bothered stomach troubles, they had named the International Mill& Timber Co. themselves about the maternal parent ak Gitena | Ist “And Henoch begot Irad, and Lrad begot 1 our domestic circle I am not permitted Maviael, and Maviael begot Mathusael, for some inexplicable reason so much as to and Mathusael begot Lamech’’—so on refer to those hideous first days of father ere was not another hood. Wherefore I do not feel fitted to bout matters that Dept Bay City, Michigan down the page until t} beget or begat or begot left in the crude write authoritatively , » to do with the initial tages of father and poorly equipped type fonts of those ha . —_—* primitive days. Henoch, Irad, Maviael, hood. And now our baby, as so ofter : % | these, the first fathers, were properly re- happens in the present deplorable state of garded as the real begatters of the race in American domesti is precociously ad the beginning, each being looked upon, and vanced ment y to the point | properly, in the days when biblical babies where it is able to creep and hide jer a came, as the real base of his own domestic bed whenever I open the door. tiny triangle, not treated, as he is now, asamere, Gideon already has been cruelly taught to fertrum quid. look upon me as the one blot on its young I am not one who in the—to coin a escutcheon. s I have observed phrase—last analysis advocates that moth- and studied the child as closely as I have ers should be abolis! but I do believe been permitted to do so and have written that the time of unre as come when she down and elaborated much data, but I di is about to be shown where she gets off. not feel that the rehashing here of what Particularly must her in-laws and the aver- I have learned about our own infant would age nurse be shown, not where they get off be of use to other young fathers, inasmuch but get out. as I have yet to observe at first-hand any- In parting with my readers nothing thing at all about an ordinary average would give me greater asure than to child, i : 1 Mill & Timber Co. Bay City, Michigan Internationa Dept. sil

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156 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 a ~ rare — = ne Air Valve outweighs the : boiler in your heating system : Peete eS a ad HE. purpose of your steam heating system is to boiler may generate steam, the pipes convey it up to keep you warm. There are tons of metal, and a the radiators and still no effective heat is obtained. bd a nsive coal for that purpose. But suppose Why? Because steam and air cannot occupy the same ia c space at the same time—hence the importance of the Fs y Suppose your bath room radiator drips hot water on air valve. The valve must open to vent the air that i the floor until you have to jump in your bare feet for fills the radiator when the heat is turned on. It must | the dry spots. Suppose the bedroom radiator refuses close tightly at the first touch of steam. It must snap i to warm up and you dress in a room as cold as out of shut when water approaches. It must automatically tu doors. And then in the dining room the radiator distinguish between air, steam and water. . i bangs and sputters, but remains so cold that you ; : 7 ; bi 4 shiver all through breakfast. If it does these things, it saves tons of coal in a season. : There's no heat waste because radiators can become Mi It's a little thing that makes or mars your comfort in ; and stay hot at low steam pressure, the early morning hours. To give satisfactory heat each radiator must be completely filled with steam, Your architect or heating contractor knows that with- and it’s the little nickel air valve that causes this result out good valves any heating system is a failure, and so more than all the pipes and boiler put together. The he always specihes the best valves. HoFFMAN VALVES ‘i | more heat from less coal ft hi Hoffman Valves are all metal and non-adjustable; they are built right, then tested; they cannot 4 be tampered with; they are sold throughout the country by progressive heating contractors. ~— Hoffman Valves let all the cold air escape Hoffman Seninges Radiators don't bang or aN from the system and the radiators when thump because ve steam has all the room steam 1s generated in the morning, there are no ‘air poc ke ts.’ Hoffman Equipped Radiators heat quickly Hoffman Valves close instantly when the and thoroughly because they can be com- ste cl “ *‘m. ‘re 4 F | a : recs! “4 m There is no gradual pletely Cod wth bud oben. IOs cons 4 on. . . ’ Hoffman Equipped Radiators won t leak on Hoffman Valves turn back all the water to rugs and hardwood floors because escape ot the system. There is true siphonic action water 1s stopped by the valve. i nan | ’ tre ! Se uw N York Office for “More Heat f from I Coa 1 klet ich te shout ' ” wir ‘ , n ; i” he " , rae ¥ hawt val d HOFFMAN SPECIALTY COMPANY, INC., 512 Fifth Ave., New York I os Angeles Chicago 1s W eventh 130 N. Wells treet 4 ‘treet An Unqualified Guarantee The satisfactory operation of Hoffman Valves is guar anteed for five years. If, for any reason, you are dis satisfied new valves will be furnished or your money whichever you prefer without quibbling X ret urned ( | No Hissing No Half Heat”

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THE SATURDAY COLLOILJOHNNYTOWN Continued from Page 17 EVENING POST } pictures and for art in its other and variou rhese theatri nanagers are not so smart and Fifth Avenue fe P i t rn is they are said to be. They could just as Vi is sadder during the e: days of the well get five dollars a seat. The spe nders ) ir than the countenance of the proprietor tuld be glad to pay it, and think better | f a gallery for the sale of Old Masters and of the shows. The more a thing costs the | ind e aggregate intenances « t bett I } . ; re gioom than the institution of per Wherefore, we come to the matter of | } taxes did in high financial circles, which wa rent I met a despairing person on the \ ract Lily i t e g on there Nal i here street t] ‘ othe r d ly who has had an ot! ct noth tt an Old Master for the conduct of his business in a dow: } inged hands or a tapestry moved except — tow office b ililding. He was scurrying when the woebegone owner of it dusted about for a place to put his filing cabinet } t off He told me that his rent had been raised in } Now Cheero the word ng the downtown place one hundred and sixty i | the art de e rush of them to get five per cent, a five years’ lease required q | iror it e to Fifth Avenue so they and a deposit of two years’ rent in cash in | a e patl I the new n t 1 designated bank at the moment the lease H | ‘ t i t Ip the va gned. Otherwise it was the cold curb- } t for irself ire stone for him. So with everybody else in \ } f leries tt formerly hel e} ! the building. So with many othe n other ng with dimmed pictures of the son and — buildings. Extraordinary demand, theland abe he of the Right Honorable Sir Perci lords said. Many men moving into New : il Braz me, Bart., of B ome-on York to do business at the center of things } I r ome Bs int 4 i and spend at the me center the money ! i ed by a distinguished but now dead they made back in the bushes. wade! an i i ct ws the se and | heir to be suffering from hookworm or Real-Estate Profiteers met ’ r. but ever icant store st | grabbed by other gallery And these men have brought mother and entieme ( e to display the the g . Hence the same situation exist ithority ind as to house rents and apartment rent be for the enticement of Eve y man who live in a rented pla e ha dducing proletariat. They are com- his tale of woe The newcomers do not care fron e byways to get their share how much rent t them. They insist or } , fit and that what they are getting. Iti being New Yor A man and wife from } ervatively estimated that et erat West were tolerated at a hotel at | ney at the birds began the — thirt e dollars a day for a suite. They } d their ted | { , | ite ‘ ' eve ‘ t i te ; 4 ‘ ‘ the de ‘ ‘ 1} ] \ t ¢ I ‘ ( ¢ | 1c} i 7 e he | int. 3 “M What I é ao | halls and chateaus forth, ne ama, at Is Peanut Butter? ‘ t i i eve old rf | iat Can You Say? f Loaf | a an You Say: ! Ten-Dollar Theater Seats You ( take the d make shift é ; ; We've got the money, | he ! And |} intil the building was completed. The | \ ( the minute we get that e becor patror wife hurried bac She had been away for t f ‘ I ‘ No i Whe he arrive atl f ure ¢ ‘ her de tn her hand at ( he } ethet ey} ts hung on tl | : \\ of 1 our was t e. The age | ge of it, let col ler the drama _ told r that a man who had made some | f j A | ent-day aspect is Treg Is the mone ! ar contracts came along filleen | \ le | lrama ilso getting the I tes after she left and signed up for ter \ ‘ en the spende ive t! id rs a year for an apartment hed the ‘ they have no other that existed o in the blue prints, not so The ent fa a hole in the ground ever { i nyie re irce lor an ever yg’ entert 1 hie 1 Iliad of ich experiences Is a nent other than the ‘ So mother put long as from New York to Mexico. One er er? ‘ “al 1 father crowd more: An apartment house in the Fiftic J himself I ‘ g ‘ 1 A p for a fe l \ looked at la ey § rhere are f the There one e that might r f eate Ne \ I r do. The agent ) be quite re, but } illed a ! d sever t r it ven thou d five hundred } e palace ne I ther it! é a i yt might get it. However, tl ( x tho people igetsad i ‘ tentative A weel ter the te cet Lor St ed eat ‘ j tentat ed to eignt thousa 1d ‘ ‘ i fi i pretty p ] ea | i the demand became so U 1 hou } + t « cal i t the e? 3a 1, th t the te tat ‘ iy 1 a pre ola that « ‘ pl t I 7 eu isand dc i | 1a ! e rer ed An) ye Then t far q Probal Z eat iy { ther ive y é ’ t! ‘ tha i i ie weet iy to three ind ee anda hall d t t t ( i le thousand dol i ‘ i I re r ft t ] I et et 1 id iT Nor hat | e,] y the agents comn ! the es in a place of that cla ( | } pf ; er premiums a : bring ut tm gee . aed | y_ ; " One r? f wer tal eoften Cc ] al \ s\ rw irs a seat f pening a } had g? | ly! But aided a | | it the p © TE } the i and et d by the prodiga / f 1 i ; hin che bas e opened P ire bl { the inet f (8; \S 3) \ \ those mana ire 1 ( f er be | “wees 5 | eth tga change Coen pst Peanut Butter ) i ne lid [ ¢ t I | | g | I The anu u e i 1 a hundred « i f a ta ’ ‘ pe ya e high } r I} Other Van Camp Products Includ y inight « i} ! paid so orl » % the pe » pa tne nd ‘ ( F osm : — Mill ; Ba. 's Chis . \ ‘ ‘ ent. The spender Ne equ culy Bu . ¥ ° hunare of Irse fol Prepared in the Van Camp hitches finds r the en int ‘ ‘ il ~ | : iis | n the Friday night and t eT } | : als ' ‘ hundred isand dollars for three hundred and twenty-seven d rs and fil em . i > — “ re Nt é Mit. a ° | tw | . a ee ES pada: stg hae ; peg nan Memes ¢ eget te | = Oe ‘ ' ‘ H iy l ye ‘ ma rand a ‘ 1 i at ‘ | — yy | ts mu rure that up on the | Did you know that the higher-priced | | ™ | Coat Van Camp's Pork and Beans Van Gamp's Soup IS Kinds

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This is the purpos } of all foot device but the Wizard way of accomplishing this | vill be a revelation to you | ‘ . — 7 Adjustable Foot Appliances ji are oft, te itherlight leather No metal is used : I he ’ support is formed by soft inserts in over lapping pockets, which permit immediate, un j limited and accurate adjustment for the exact ; it) 0 7 shape of your foot, and the exact condition of d \ } your foot troubles This is a patented Wizard ' } prin ipl The immediate relief and pertec tcom J are entirely cat t due to this principl That's why you cannot . are obtain Wizard re ults from anything but Wizards ] If you have callouses ’ fort that Wizards give from the first, , A | have Wizard Ca Re ver fitted t it foot and walk 6 “J che . i Th ft is sup 4 ] | \ If your feet ache ” ak arch robably the trouble. Wizard Arch Builder a " 1 . . entle t oe | gs immediate re f then “e * Werard Callous Remover “+ , ; - — rr at ‘ ert nm gra t norma © over : sockets | : ig pockets ar nserts permit perfect adjustment f ba t der, usually ' anger tl nadity f il arch roves \ wu Ca ' —~ If I “a ” Fd oe your reels run-over th t ’ a lue t A misalignment it rec! " anh Vizard Heel Leveler rre sth . un, @ events shoe heels from running | At shoe stores everywhere ; | =a | there are experts traimed in the Wizard stem, wh an fit Aa | “ the 5 per Wizard device to give u rehef, and : na giv u expert service in fitting shoes f you € A—Wisard Heel Lev- cant ate the Wizard deals vear ¥ wire us . eler | 3 Send for free booklet surgical supply houses stock Wizards WIZARD FOOT APPLIANCE CO. 1701 “Locust St St. Louis, Mo. y Physicians a ae Pe a ee et Se ae EVENING POST Oh, yes! Every newly rich ly must have a dog, and does—prin- y tiny mutts that retail for forty Well, the must take their dogs into the hotels with them and the precious things cannot be turned over to rude porters or venal servants now? an ounce or thereabout bell hops. So the dog servant has been evolved out of the necessities of the affluent times Dogs, however tiny, must eat, a! d that fact has of aog menu A man and wife from the West man knowing the j family dog along, paying five fare for the dog, by the way, on They went to a and and in the due course of needed sustenance. ‘Ring for a waiter,” brought about the establishment and dog mei Yo Amer money and and | rought the dollars extra the train. hotel the dog moved to New a sane, conservative ican and wile is wortn ol orgulous time aid the husband, ‘“‘and we'll get the dog some scraps. The floor waiter came and when asked to bring some food for the dog explained with some hauteur that he was the floor waite ind not the dog waiter, but would Wa desires of the waiter arrived in course of Lime ament of the dog was explained to hit The dog waiter wrot down the order carefully and departed Presently he returned bearing a silver tray on which were d daintily variou arti s of food ome vegetables, some meat and a cracker or two “What's that?” ed the husband, ex amining the ontent of the tra) wit! Phe ce for the dog, sir,” the waiter eplied How juch 1 t? One d ir Che husband tool he tra Get the dog a bone ne l. “ll eat | It’s the best-looking meal I have se« in the place, and the cheapest ‘hus having touched in the sketchiest fashion or me of the evicde ¢ of wild and meaning spending that are to be “Nev observed in Yor only me if them we come to the real headqu of the saturnalla, whict Wall Street the stock Exchange Ther is where the bo and * rls too wit! ne mor rushing in the manner of the tributed cla who pre forw ingels fear to tread. Not that there are any irigee in W Street, mart but where ey would fear to tread if there were a A ‘ >W tne marke The Why Not Ciub The market has beer ince our earhest days the place where it has been easiest to put money in dest to get money mut. And it is pa ly enticing for ea . Any mar sweated out fortune with money hot sweat considers before he cold sweats it into the market conside! and, unless he is congenitally a fall guy, frain I t is the Elysium for the bo where ten do sare n one grew befor o the they get a little ahead they hurry for Wall treet, and join the Why Not Clul the Why Not Club to which candidate are admitted on their own proposal and with the ritual which e of walking a few times round the corner of Broad and Wall, pulling down their coat lapels, patting themsel ve bosom and reciting, Jim Kee and Ber Baruch did and Da: 1 it and Bill Thompson did it—and why t me?” No reason at all The game is there, wide open for all who want to play it and with especial advantages for the bo vho have t made their »> they have been ing ever since the old game got or a r iter the w and the morat ind they are coming yet ] of the velcomed | the inside it hands to put-up-more-margins graves e it easy and attractive they have in ed five fold th opportunitie sf rgetting i The opportunities for getting out re main the same. The stock list nowaday has scores and scores of stocks listed on it that were not here in the ol and scores of further opportuniti to gamble. It used to be that the list confined itself to the railroads, the big indu als, the miners and some others. Now it bulges with every sort of thing If the newly rich boy ¢ January 17,1920 he can take a flyer in Saratoga Potatoe Limited; or Tide Motor, Preferred; or Goldfish tights; or Cucumber Sunbeams Common. As soon as the insiders realized just what it meant to them to provide a greater source of inlet—not outlet — for the of the Why Not Club they provided such sources of array any board room or look at the e daily papers. The ts are four times as long as they used to lists of the stocks and the lists of both. back in the war-baby days, but ned out that bunch expeditiously, and then the market dawdled and dol drumme dalong,wit ht he profe ssionalstry ing in one another, until this after-the-war came into being. That was mann the They set themselves to reap the harvest and they reaped it. It lot of gamblers—a new lot of feverish, unskillful, amateur gamblers A’ react in the old-accustomed They pulled a lot of new stuff on the professionals They kept pouring in f lads inlet in generous Step into market reports in th icKerTs, to sk ! . splurge right from Skles, Was a new buying. Money came rom all parts of the United States and from the newly rich abroad Stocks soared. There was a great bull movement Then when the professior als ought that things were about ready for the big melon cutting they began a few old time-tried stunts. They sold out or the sucker They ci ed bear rumors by sections. They r felt ire that t new boys would ru aling, and allow the profe ssionais ti t fear ' ‘ fa p Old Stuff Gone Wrong The new boys did nothing of the sort for that. Wher went out they dug They hung zg t The The were too new the wild i for more t down and put margi! ip their margins. on, no knowing enough to qul market bounded back. The old stuff hadn't vyorked. Then call money went up to enty per cent. That broke things some, but didn’t break many of the new boy OUT de d bac k ayvaln rhe new 0 re hanging on, making up margir ind lit as y “Why not?” Then call I if ent up to thirty per cent “hat ok Out some more of the new boys, re duced the ! r profit to nothing ind tore to the reserve Did it dishearten tl m? Notabit! They ey took their losses and re right back at again as this is written n late Ne mber and sti tight Jim Keene did it, and Bernie Bar . Why not? You can’t ich a new dog old tricks. The fact that the new boys are hanging tight the fact that predicates a considerable hrinkage int prom ious spending ind extravagance, and about the only one vet ernil Diamonds and art and clothe ted automobiles i may not get them, but old Isador Wall Street will ire! | rted iutomobiles were the last t of the old-time rich, and now that t t is stormed. Time was when the ssessi of a flock of imported auto- Pile I knew a man who had nine was the absolute outward expre on of 1oney; not that the imported automobile vere better than our native brand, but that they cost a lot more. Many million iires in the war-baby days complained bitterly over the rush to buy imported automobiles by the boys who skyrocketed ip with Bethlehem Ste¢l and other rocket but that complaint was but a murmur t the protest now. Imported automobiles are getting as common in certain circles a Detroit ones. The agencies for them, after five year f cobwebby quiet, are now bustling emporiums, and the people who are treading on one another’s heels to make deposits and get on the lists are not the | ud ones who used to claim distinctior they rode in a fore ign car that but did hay rty-seven grease cu} because didn’t r hunadr , f wo hundred and I have a self-starter } f4 ead ott wenty They are not the ones who felt that would be but justice if the price of gasolin« was raised to a hundred dollars a gallon sO that none but themselves might ride. The are the boys who are spending their money and the fact that one outlet is the imported automobile is proved not only by the activity of the agencies for those car that were established but by the opening now, a all over the place \ ugencies tell an imported automobile as far as Conctuded on Page 161

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 150 The proof that one plus one is more than two | F every addition to the power output of America’s industries called for corresponding increase in fuel consumption, our boasted industrial progres would be a mammoth conceit. j' A plant that can double its output only by doubling its fuel consumption adds far less than it should to the general wealth or to the bigger interests of i those it serves. i Each year engineering contributes new with allied materials it furthers plant efi , devices, new methods and new knowledge ciency, in packings that prevent leakage and that add to the great total of all technical prevent friction and again in high-heat knowledge and so tends to overcome the cements so necessary to boiler furnace oper r apparent necessity of applying twice the ation. More and more as knowledge gains, i cause to get twice the effect Asbestos becomes the bodyguard of fuel ; P through products like the : Plants no longer need to double their coal A} sie 1 1 } ] best and Yo Magnesia insulatior 7 bill to get twice the power. Roughly they nore r ‘ n : | l ; rsteam and hot water piping rtite Boile | less than double it and get twice the result, Se C ar ' + en ~ ; or they double the input and get better than +, herp titi (R ee wee ( ae, Sa 1 emperatul actory ements i twice the output — not by burning more fuel boil és ’ ree y) 1 for | . oiler settings; Asbestos Sheets and Bloc! } wastefully, but by cutting fuel losses MEE vk p ane I ; 1B ( ‘ ior insulating hot surlace nsulating ( through insulation knowledge and materials — t ™ ments; Monolithic Boiler Baffle W Johns-Manville Asbestos in its wide usags tight, durable, easy toinstall — prevent s! | in heat insulation has become a great ally circuiting of hot gases; Sea Ring Pacl f to fuel in accomplishing this. Nor does its eliminates unnecessary friction bet use stop there, for in various combinations or plunger and packing RS H. W. JOHNS-MANVILLE CO., New York City { ahnatantats 10 Fa*tories—Branches in 63 Large Cities i Through— For Canada, Canadian Johns-Manville Co., Ltd., Toronto and its allied products / INSULATION that keeps the heat where it belongs CEMENTS that make boiler walls leak-proof ROOFINGS —y that cut down fire risks PACKINGS 4 that save power waste ‘ LININGS that make brakes safe Serves in Conservation FIRE PREVENTION PRODUCTS

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January 17,1920 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Concluded from Page 40 A very cold dry wind will sometimes symptoms the lungs may not be suspected cause congestion, but this is usually only But.where the cough is obstinate the lungs if one breathes through the mouth. Such should be thoroughly examined. a congestion is a reaction. The cold air Coughs that occur in the course of other causes the small blood vessels lining the diseases need attention, especially if they te it and bronchial tubes to contract, and ‘ade Mark are of the dry, harassing kind, because they cause loss of sleep, mental unrest and add afterward they dilate. This is the same Such coughs call process that may be observed in the flushed face or the tingling reddened hands after exposure to cold. to the general distress. for a sedative. Except in acute inflammatory conditions Portables Chronic coughs may be due to other much of our coughing is unnecessary and A A 9 causes than dust and mouth breathing. A can be controlled. You don’t believe it weak heart will cause a sluggish blood cur- Have you ever been at the theater watch- rent and the blood will stagnate in the lung ing a thrilling play? Have you sat, looking, Then there will be a constant soaking of listening, almost breathless in the tense the tissues. In chronic kidney disease fre- palpitating silence? Have you seen the quently there is the same result. In such interest suddenly die, killed by the intro- duction of something incongruous or by one of the actors? Then have you heard the perfect storm of coughs rising from all parts of the house, coughs people had been saving cases the avoidance or cure lies in correcting the primary troubles. A chronic or frequently recurring cough hould awaken the suspicion of tuberculosi ! This disease, however, is often masked and — while they were enthralled? Keep a | there may be no cough or at least so little Yes, much of our coughing can be sup- N | cough for a long time that though there pressed and should be, because coughing keen may be great weakness and other profound — will aggravate a cough. ‘ | edge \ } Ge 7 GO on } | THE NEW FATRYILAUNID Continued from Page 4) volume tell 30 the bet Let us leave “there are Tools useful well-informed Henry Talbot has never heard of evil spirits or of battles. Remember, there is nothing else that Henry has betrayed ignorance about. He knows things so mysterious and fearful that he can only tell them to Mr. King and not to us; he speaks as one having large I have not by me that ing where everyone was hereby offered to all takers Henry with his affirmation that il spirits; but there is a missing link which leads to messages being born, no eV ' somew here garbled.” Remember that! There are no evil authorityinthespiritland; heisateacher pirits in Henry’s spirit world. one holding the lamp. And yet he is pro- And again let me insist that a firm foundly ignorant of a condition over there belief in the waiting heaven of Sir Arthur which involves every resident spirit in the Conan Doyle and Henry Talbot would most exciting contest. He has never ever very soon result in the utter depopulation heard of the evil spirits that constantly of this quite inferior world. wage so terrific a battle against decent No convinced spiritualist would linger people both over there and here. here where uncongenial toil is too often the But why suspect Henry? Why not sus- " ” h i fi f i hen across the border is ect the ~w lot? : F ite of man whe acro ¢ vorder 1 pec 1e new ! Type G Benc rin ers another world, where “no living thing does Well, suit yourself. But if you can own will,” and where — believe one and disbelieve the other of two anything against its sharp - “we ¢ make | | light is too strong porta pa Who would stay it witnesses who come with the same creden tials you are more supple of mind than | a frame of too fallible am. As Doctor Doyle 1 it ‘annot mistakes because the erindinge casting This typ \ general production tool tor mall tool Is not con- wholly 1) drills, cutter and other beime mounted on base which can be easily carried to any part flesh when a world beckons where the freed ceivable that a spirit can be mis- . pirit need never again ache and will yet taken about the sphere in which it is of the hop or lactory. \l built in Wall ty pe for mounting be something that needs to wear clothes actually dwelling. And it is not conceivable on side wall or pillar and in Pedestal type for mounting on floor, | and with power to do perfectly those things that Henry Talbot and the chief spirit of \ ' | . it has done here so clumsily, where we shall The Seven Purposes can be so wholly mis \lotors fitted with high-grade ball bearing all be twenty-five years old and all beauti- taken as one of them must be, for it is as if Shops. { tov 1 iz | ltl inders ful after our kind? Why, I know people an educated native of the United States ps, Factories, mi and tool rooms need these erinders, as who will cross over merely to be rid of their should go off to some other world and say thev increase the efficiency of workmen and the tools thev use. rheumatism and others who will go to find that on this earth we had no bad people and J at last the pe rfect golf course for ‘‘there had never known a war. Write for the Temco talog and select a tool best suited are games and sports of all sorts.” In fact, to meet your requirement all the people | know will cross for one Bored by Henry’s Buttered Words reason or another — the moment they feel So then if one of these spirits is so out rageously mistaken about his own land it must be inconceivable, according to the cold logic of Doctor Doyle, that he is a spirit at all. And if one of them is not a spirit at all, which one is it? And why not both—since, whatever they are, they are obviously of the same breed? This is why I have been given pause in my flight to a better land. I think we should insist on some sort of general agreement as inced that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been tricked sat in darkness in the medium’s room and listened to spirit from the mouth of a tin trum- pet held aloft by no human hands. But just as it seemed that here at last was a neat way to foil the high cost of living — for there are no economic problems, no worries about rent or coal or groceries or tailored garments—just as it seemed to me that I s! conv not as he The Temco Electric Motor Company Ohio, U.S.A voices issue Leipsic, over hould accord my full approval to an over-there movement be- fore the advent of a winter that promises to be unusually vexatious, what happens but that I fall upon a new book about over there and it tells a story so different that I think it may be well to pause. At least I myself have paused and I shall continue to pause until certain discrepancies are cleared up. Conflicting Tales of Spirit Land spirit book, called The Seven Purposes, describes a land far differ- ent from the peaceful, placid, joyous, effortless elysium of Conan Doyle’s messen- gers and the able Henry Talbot. Henry, you remember, said there were no evil spirits. But this new book has the place overrun with them. It indicates that their existence is the only problem with which good spirits have to contend; fighting these evil spirits is their only occupation. Everybody Is engaged in the battle, young and old, male and female. It fills their spirit life to overflowing And yet the For this new endurance. to the conditions over there before we trust the messengers who rap on tables. It would add much to their credibility if they could get together on simple facts about which no one could be mistaken. And so far these messengers fail lamentably to agree. They unite in telling us they are very, very happy over there. But after that, testing one by the others, they are the most universal and inveterate liars that have thus far engaged the notice of man. But let us hear about these evil spirits The book jthat tells of them is more viva cious than Henry Talbot. I confess that Henry occasionally got on my nerves as he pattered and chattered along with his but tered words about spirituality and waves of rhythm. In fact, though Henry did not admit it, my own control, Chief Wugalug, informs me that Henry’s passing on to his present beautiful abode was brought about illegally by certain impetuous beings of the earth plane whom he had bored beyond But no matter. Let us hear about the evil spirits. Continued on Page 165)

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it4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 Cg ) It is really but a step from the prefer- | Of those who use wire wheel equipment, the become so great majority regularly specify the Hayes. general, to the more decisive preference tor the Hayes. ence for wire wheels, now Kven casual observation in your own locality will reveal the breadth of preference for the | laye Ss. Vlakers and owners of higher priced cars first began to single out the Hayes, because of | ‘The fact is that your own local conditions are certain very definite superiorities. Now you — really a reflection of the Haves standing all see this wheel on cars of all types. over America. Motor car manufacturers very evidently have © Many owners will have their cars equipped convinced themselves of the great value. of with Hayes Wire Wheels during the period these unusual features. of winter lay-up or overhauling and painting. Wire Wheel Division Hayes Wheel Company Jackson, Michigan Branches at Albion, Michigan, and Anderson, Indiana Haves Motor Truck Wheel Company. St. Johns, Mich Haves Wheel Company, Ltd., of Canada, Chatham, Ont Hayes Wheel Company, Ltd., Windsor, Ont. Largest Builders of Wheels—Wire, Wood, Steel Wo fia’s

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Continued from Page 162 first we will consider their origi explained by the good spirits “There was no great primary idea of on,” say they ‘*A lot of idle force together and finding itself behind procession W trength, radiance and began et ng and coveting and ting, and from that to destruction ot, indeed? Is it not inevitable it of e will i t and te and t pernicious forms? + it Her ry lall it f this himself, when it is so h this book. It is e author to contain “revelations ‘ ‘ » be withheld from ive revelations of which ‘ e most vital and of It n in eternal twe f ¢ f progress and and ( 1 ses Of disintegra the messa tonly igt 1 be t but rational ) 1} ‘ The author whit ‘ \ nedium, wa 1 | ‘ e serie f ne I i Wa ed i! ‘ ( ler It ‘ ‘ er e histo of the ence ha be ad t enable u te e the te the W i le ‘ lese { { l ‘ idt it e the { wel t} | o the ne ‘ ( the } ( t 1 we mucl They feared that if these ¢ eve we | hed it w } r i ibya ( the tried to prevent f the } i i varned the aut . I nt it compelled ent We were t the but é lal used And there i! ¢ tla by these | ] 1 aga they boast to the author r ed \ 1? A 1a le ( boast the b } € t is and be ! to ither ¢ « i ‘ e€ A t the bad spirit l t t i it the ki g i iv veto bea pe I purpose good } Ose € Phe bool t ( ( | l ill tr t 1 t e here It et The Perfe is Purpose. I I pose Force Force Pe Ne é Truth i one of the t I t Be it i ) tice indar The Seven Purposes ing mastered this, and remembering ne bad spirit fignt ayainst the Eter- 1 f etails of the pur ‘ I t 1OT if l | iret ( ! e demands Ju t t “A The é ( ruct Ir} e all to serve You begin t ee it all now ot? rt, The Seven Purpose : t Hea r, Build ] tice ‘ Progre ( é And é hese each of u ‘ ne t e the ¢ tr ) great pur ( T es tr tne v have but e end, how truct No pe \ ibe t rh et t be é iryve he t i t ea y of t I f es of di tegration are 1 tle of wits and n il it so pl the 1 di otion that these are Jol i personage mere ies per They are actual personalities—that disguise then ; shrewdly ‘‘ before daring to enter the ciousness of mer Jo, indeed, these are no shadowy, im able attribute The author insist “the actual existence of intelligible ble forces, constantly doing battle for against spiritual progress.” It wa forces that ba ely tried to keep her book off the press, and furthermore the sé + 4) at hand when great cor tir purposes will meet in combat for the ometimes, I notice, it is said that tl flict will be eternai and again it} id by the same spirit—-that they wil nt all purpose of destructior een conquered and transformed and reat Purpose rendered free to pro to greater glorie without end ayall ounds reasonable, « pecially we remember that “ Buildings m. Fait these are what the for if. Spirits Explain the War he t t t ‘ j mu One 1 Bruce ) } Just and Pre i ngt ht per} t i! i f i l a ! ful th e great force Mo ft ‘ fe f , } i | here ‘ irsel ve ) ‘ ‘ , } gi ) ter t } ‘ Fred i | doe Pur} ‘ , fo ( IS € f Fre ione t verpow thelr i ‘ pe ? ee} itil then part it ind ( na ) et lriving the ke 1 hig i M« it them Inst ind our pu es agall l t t ! T t that i ba l ti good ‘ * |e Mi i r ‘ General Hea ¢ ; of these ! er told before ‘ eu the ‘ ! r ted ht Ou e the K cen t ol eem to me mu to be fra t f ipe I rt ! i tne t f ire the Ay ile t ( eared one f ! ve ere? ‘ the t y Are the of spit ith there Fort n effect 1 vhat the i. 3 erfu And the H | { t t na nite e fill up w I d Holt in this book indicate £ 3 fear is not thot a ba e is,”’ says Mr. Holt, ‘‘a large 1 of the undeve THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Common Sense and Digestion The routine use of Beeman’s Pepsin Chewing Gum ten min- = : 1 r . . utes after each mecai aids digestion by stimulating the flow of saliva which is so essential for the propel digestion of tood. Business men and. busine women often attribute to other causes a decrease in their eth ciency, When it is really due to slight indigestion resulting from hasty mastication and insuthcient saliy il.

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166 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 | and is not purposize a lovely word? Little meat ng to the ordinary human mina y intimate touches like this make it all seem — present constituted : so real. So here, by one set of spirits i And now Mrs. B. asks: “ Do dogs exist heset with evil forces an , | after death?” Only to be told: “They do waging forever agains not come as animals exactly.” pretentious pur! ng old flut This in face of assertions by Conan says there are no es ¢ Dovle’s friends and the inform: Henry spirit world where all our Talbot that not only dogs other animals survive, tho ol animals exist after death and do as they _ spirits declare that ar 1 like on the other si ig over, except one dog Again someone a Do animals have become a mo 1orab ¢ ouls?”” This sitter also told no—that t almost seems conl here is “‘no persistence of individua!- disagre e t until birth as a human being begins t, ; and dogs and monkeys are not human. : \ ays the ee much Turt ne Yet later in the ol we learn of a dog for into the future hat e do, but that the whose death the d grieved, “He came are not allowed to tell us many things. O and grew into a better force and ome day the other hand, Frederi says they do! he'll make an adorabie bab) see much further than we do. I should say the reader is meant to take Mary lall menti her new scier his choice in this matter, Lille y Vv t me pride but Her Then from Frederick we have a gem of Talbot uses a gr many words to assur purest ray: us that none of the real set over there ‘Physical forces follow physical laws. descends to language, since the have Forces of Eternity affect them to some tl spirit extent, but do not govern ther ” It is thi ave! ndulge Frederick who say ih a bi g gospel we of hope ‘and beauty all for » and ; ” are giving you; a ind construction, Building and Justi From another | rit, one i ” But 1 ‘ i e ge i! g Kenda we glean: rpose is the force of what they do that draws. Force is the purpose that pushes.” And she adds another axiom that Not a Gospel to Bite On might—-or might not—have intrigued Eu- lid: “All combination of force adds b I think if a band of explorers came ba the sum of its part pation to the orig! al from ye remot region of this present amount of force combine gi ynit licting each other as t How little we should have suspected this US asp ind features a! at first, but how simple it seems after Mary stor it even Sir Olive has worked it out for us. } fe ‘ entists would And this same Mary Kendall s that eld a { the im} t be ome of “my newly acquired vocabulary” li hey pieced out the has been taught her by William James, of observatior ich t as tr this t ~acher @ Say : a lot of idl ithered together and “He i till a leader of thought and began envy 1 coveting and ba accomplishment, but his instruction is dy- biting. I tl the ‘eports from the namic. He is a very fine force and is doing other plane e by any less dubiou nagnificent work here, but he no longer | n jarkened : mothers it in language ting trumpet or the Smart Sayings of Spirits to a more dr . ieve they would the Mr. Kendall, Mary’s hu band, pre ent in ris as a new reveia the fle h, professed to be ‘imbued with the tion. talizing quality of this touch with the “Tt begins to loo e a gospel, doesn’ } inse ’ and presently he a 1 i it?”"’ say s one of the thrilled listeners in The vife: ‘Is your S Mary repli t the place 1S e] | \I , ' “T believe it vho we are told | a 1 matters, “TI bes 1 | t | t in anyt ‘ " i that rrised to learn t ul Trut! comparative, | \\ | tt (5 | ) Die ¢ t vhile here itl not dogmatic.” \ » that “‘ Every ure spirit once and will be again.” And perhaps you would like me to play " \ 1O19 th ] over a few of the epigran culled here and here from the sayings of o rs} t friend i N ! | t | i ! | hood rade be iu ful it I , \l No mar free who commat no r have I found a e utte! | elf in ot them t it by) re D t ‘ | He who is not for progress is against it. word could be called spiritual, Further ; Growth is alway tru t are a vain, wind lying, bombas There are many pha lopment lot, with their shoppy patter and the Ry | | each look vard to the next ecstasies of flubdub and apwhoodle \ ’ When things are ft nd gospel, indeed! The old-fa yned meeting \ purpose continues to progre house gospel ha g in it ( | Ne t \ Force is What moves t! hite o but arc}! y nee : S rity is the crowning virtue this windy, wordy mist Cor | V Belt . vor Faith is a positive force; doubt, being Dovles and the Sir Oliver L } I \I \ | it negative, hampers us, trying to find the bones in a t \ And no itter w ‘ , And perhaps it was these profound and phenomena attend of r workmen know the differen triking truths that the evil forces wished — these spirits, no mi he Send for ‘' The Difference Book,'’ just off the press to prevent the author of The Seven Pur- t aside t poses from disclosing. At least I have been contra t VIANNING \BR \SIVI COMPANY, Ini inable to find : other in the book that » those t ny fair fn so Ba ev 1 force could possi! Sir Arthur was right Too mucl } ain at iny l i ted il i A ir ; 4 ‘ I Al y, Troy, N. ¥ hiect to. In fact. these are about the tion has been paid to the telephone bell at Kea ITA Se My SS ANE. = = _—— , rae SOHN SRR TD ‘ ! | a» GARNET PAPER FLINT PAPER ( \ GAKNET COMBINATION HANDY ROLLS \ DURITE CLOTH GRINDING DISCS (4 4 ently maa METALITE CLOTH cLiori DURUNDUM PAPER sees i EMERY PAPER DURUNDUM CLOTH arian we ay

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Think of the Convenience—Refrigeration W7thous Users write us Cold Maker, the vreatest conve home Ince electru hye hot. Phev sav its drv. clean, even cold thi ) Huctuating match is ahead of thy the ifety \\ ith | ko thre hi on the frozen millpor fem perature Is NOW a matter of turning an electric switch. they consider [sk iseholdis no | mnnver dependent ’ the Electri electric cold, dependable, nevet nience for the , kor t rte IS¢ any beve IT Wife lit cry tal lire cube far ahead I [hie ( are ome of tlie ‘ HV « of melting ce Ont nk ale she i Hint and steel, worries it would pre nt! t dd.) ketheent refrigeration coun st oecanm Ae lnenetr is elit Qurr cle tive t. We tl \\ { Once ] ko 4 installed, ther Is noice card to put oe. al riaddye cade ddr ot ¢ t ut, no ice bill to pay, no drainpipe to cle are a , 1 t ti r ( ip ) } t | I Pe | ] ; ISKO ( I WW l the Kitch a rey that ft | poll O I Ver end or hoo Is] ii bis fits An y Ice Box Ice!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 17,1920 Nhe Ditto Mark, Probably You Never Knew Ditto Could Do This Observe your stenographers and typists. See how lon it takes them to arrange the many sheets of paper, to & pack the carbon, to roll it carefully into the typewriter when they are making several copies of work. On this same work Ditto saves, on the average, 50% in time, 50% in labor, and 50% in materials over the carbon paper method, where more than four or less than a hundred copies are required. THE QUICKEST WAY TO DUPLICATE Four to seven mistakes an hour are made by average typists. Watch the time consumed when they stop to correct an error. Be sure to note, also, that they write slower when making several copies = ten per cent slower on the average. Probably you never knew that Ditto helps your typists in this work; that but one sheet of paper, the master copy, is used. No carbon to pack; no extra care in put- ting the work into the machine. This master copy is written quicker, the impression secured on Ditto’s copying surface and clear, non-smudging copies of the work are completed faster than the carbon way. Probably you never knew that Ditto does more than save time and money in your typing. It is the business short-cut. It speeds up and records inter-departmental communication, and centralizes authority. The Ditto Idea is worth knowing. When you see its application to your business - as you probably will « you will want Ditto, the machine that makes the Ditto Idea possible. Write for the Ditto Book or send for a Ditto salesman. Duplicator Manufacturing Company, Chicago Offices in All Principal Cities

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the institution and pay over to the ist now Doctor Cottrell has new hob- nit ( an the net profits therefror \ One the product n of cheap oxy- i re iit ol 4 lé t it i I it l { If ! }t cual ri reall ed there w | le

to mene { b | e used to supply means for the advar tion. Oxygen now ¢ two hundred dol- ent exte ) of te | | ‘ i { what w t invest t The : of the i i for one d cor nv | been extreme } table i ead insw nent | charge of RB 904 he ft { H ex ts has been est ed ‘ pora hquid-air plant and be ti 4 : : n the field the ult neg : . f use f ts pre tat } esses but cheap lustrial oxyye ! rious W gy ald to the ut i- = he is equa ‘ t ort einvent rr é ( VI n the j ol ‘ ifficient promise of promoting the Othe eve pI i ( ve to the ! atte t rht t istify the belief that Doctor to } old love [ox ( ( r dream will « ne true and we mu ¢ ove to that the comy handling } initial W ! and P will f he e to do for the on the pruase t trial ts what the (¢ negie, R ‘ attempt to d ver d fell is I i re see to he produced f{ Ise for the ence f I re 1 for t t ed to the Ul my eme I ial « t1o re ise ot it i ile nertne ind none- But if 1 1) r ¢ trell to-d to nma { the proper x for use ¢ { } pre t proce 1 wilt in Da y” Ol all Known gases it the er imme that his mind is now 1 test t rogen. having about j elsew here i} ‘ fact |} out the ( two pe ent the latter's bu int ; ol t cteristic of e mat H r t | ) ‘ or about half the t 1 re t W he the clou ol ¢ yt { ugh the ballo fat It re ices the | l ¢ r } e been cle ead a ri ird! ) { ¢ liarv bullet | ( er é t has re ved its¢ bu natr phe electr ind elin F a ( t t int t su nates the eatest dr ul the develop r ind he ‘ new field to ment of ter-t ( t uer I} th ft idea that In 1917 hen the | ted ites entered f I can't f A entific pursuits with the w r V im Ramsa ae ' ; e full f e of and t 1s} t hut Doctor ¢ ‘ vho had bec pr r me t ( lé a t! one must ed to re 1a lett I I W im sent e betwee ‘ 1 dollar to a friend thi unt rT th d ! elf it | been ¢ ed } l } 1 be me interested the ~ he w e ye I } ‘ ind " trument ha g the il career f f etime n ‘ ter | 1 to the ention of the of D ent of a1 ant ‘ pes e of at . on e for the W he I t 1) ( ‘ ! 1 I ed States Army. Uptot time the nd the ell t it I f rid there had j ‘ not bee e who | A t iH ! e than one hundred cul et f he : ( ( tere I i i f ‘ ire ] ta t 1 it isual I ( ed merit and the ej es! a { t t ¢ e! t become it the rate of eventegn hundred trong t those t a cubic foot. About this time D | ee. OF remade enenscheat THEN t the ect to the ed the l \ i f i that the ! ‘ i nt. Ou the | ‘ f ¢ ) t I ente ned no hope : | ; a aaa shane sk see ra Ie ( , r , it the car i 1 cu feet } | | ‘ } ( he ‘ pt me elt to be } e f On, ¢ . to Cot { It here t i ( Creem t! He 1 ( t \ , Dot ( t turned t ¢ } , f ir he ‘ f i} et t i e drea l I bre | niy TY ‘ N i i t i 4 ‘ 1 the . ] DD W ey ¢ t ‘ M ist | ite 1 He | eve i é ! t ! i ] ‘ ‘ 3 ' eve ne i he i i the il i to } ng the 1 | ere tt fro e Golde i 1 Ir. Nort ! e ye I er Speed note ed to Wa t j is ¢ ed \ ' | tia I ( tre Irie 4 the | eau of Mines to act l lt ) { to free ( f la erude I Phe ‘ to the eve ment | emulsified v Let M eed himself eliu ‘ { the te ew Inst (; ‘ ( ( i tale f : | r } | f ! i W hie I it the ’ ‘ ‘ } , rj ‘ 1 l F ma *? ‘ ! f ‘ t the iria i ! es the ite wali i thie I ever ‘ ea I rif ‘ thie expre W hat vill ha pe ‘ was that three 1; t ‘ yuilt | | i high ele t tre he heliu I ; t ‘ then int te qu ! Fort W Le one mndred 1 ’ i fow 7 ite t ‘ ere throw t et r t tf t ‘ ir < eaker ol two pie | ‘ ‘ 1 I No! | \ re t he eer ‘ 1 f ; the ‘ ; i e Call i ¢ i bee ed! l’« Within a few minutes, on a |} f to the ftir l l¢ the I y there , f ‘ é t ( f the emulsifie A ? hed f — ibe ; . gre. Whe , er plant ; ' etapa / lusive Manufacturers ( I ( A put in operat the it the t e the ! ‘ ‘ in the field of the micros ope like the i nine three-per-cent helius va on th Iron City Products Company dance about and jiggle themselves into Europe. At pre-war prices t Dept. 15, 7501 Thomas Blvd. | 000.000 sip | ag ying ; ; Vanufacturers of Rees Double Worn for Passenger Cars, Trucks, Railway

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EVENING POST extradition and jurisdiction. Christopher Straight was delegated to burrow through the archives of Department C, Subsection Seven, find the desired documents and deliver them to the proper crown officer at Westminster This he did, keen for opportunity to have admittance to the trial. It was midafternoon when he presented himself at the door of Westminster. Long the visitors’ gallery had filled and a cordon of policemen denied admittance to all but officials. A pass won him through and a solemn-visaged attendant tiptoed ahead to conduct him by a side passage to the great trial hall. The attendant swung back a heavy door, waved the Foreign Office clerk through. A vast dim vault, smelling of age, heavy with the weight of years of undisturbed air, ucked him into its vortex of silence. Dim hts, which only made the twilight dusk ponderable, revealed blending masses of blacks and grays—the black of judicial robes, the gray of curled wigs; behind and beyond a Gothic rail spectators’ faces in long rows of putty-white; be- a red-and-gold canopy, heavy as the drape of a catafalque, sat the five who since showed neath judged. Straight’s roving eyes picked out the spare white-headed figure of a man sitting a little apart and to the right of the judges’ dais. He knew this was the man come to judgment —the man called William Hohenzollern. Straight delivered his memoranda and found an unoccupied seat within the rail. A voice thin and pattering as the trickle of rain in an eaves pipe was droning inter- minably. It hardly bruised the silence. Straight heeded it not at all. His eyes and ; thoughts on the gaunt man with the white head who was sitting a little apart, marked from all the rest in that great hall h were the one who was the pivot upon which all this weight of solemnity and enginery of ritual turned. Who was he? What manner of man this one who dared the greatest hoax of history in sacrifice for a craven master? The clerk from Downing Street felt a wild impulse battering at the armor of his elf-control. He should stand before those ve who judged and say: “You are being made fools. This man is an impostor, whom you are crushing with this pompous engine

January 17,1920 A voice cracked the ancient hall’s deep hu It came suddenly, stridently. It timbre was strained and harsh. A figure had risen amongst the first row of gallery spectators—the figure of a tall white- headed man who carried one hand stiffly in a pocket while with the other he gesticu- lated wildly at the judges under their canopy. p “Stop this trial! It is a farce! Your prisoner there is not Wilhelm von Hohen- zollern! He is Wilhelm Mueller, actor of Berlin. Iam * A great stir and buzzing in the dim hall. Spectators craned their necks, half rising from their seats. The gray pool of wigs rippled. There was a sound of hurryir feet —a single voice shouting an order. “T am Wilhelm, former emperor of Germany” —the voice had risen to a gut- tural scream—‘“‘I am the prisoner of the world! Look upon me, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern!” Two bluecoats were by the side of the interrupter. Straight, who had been gazing spellbound at the man he last had seen sick and well-nigh helpless in Mrs. Murfree’s second back, saw the withered hand whip out of the pocket to battle against the officers. ““Wilhelm Mueller!”’ came the desperate cry from the gallery. ‘‘Wilhelm Mueller, I, your emperor, command you—declare yourself—declare [I am _ that Wilheln whom te The voice died in a noise of scuffling The officers dragged a struggling man be yond sight. Straight looked from the gallery to the man who was prisoner of the court. He had not moved, had not turned even his head. White-faced, he looked steadily up at the five. And line for line, feature for feature, his was the face of Mr. Zweich, erstwhile lodger in the second back at Mr Murfree’s—the face of the shouter from the gallery. Two days after the incident in West minster Hall Straight read in the Time this paragraph: ‘The German unknown who on Wedne created a scene before the Internationa! Tribunal in Westminster Hall by declaring he was William Hohenzollern and_ the prisoner at the bar merely an actor of Honor, day

of the law, The real criminal is abroad Berlin was adjudged insane by His in London I talked with him no later Justice Mayfield, in Westminster Court than a fortnight ago. In a note addressed yesterday, and commifted to the asylun to me he signed himself in proper person at Highcombe The police could find and i ord of him.” | Rion as | ~ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ae More Than Two Million and a Quarter Weekly } | | | Table of Contents | January 17, 1920 | | SHORT STORIES a | The Zebra Mule— Harry Snowden Stabler ) Why Mr. Lobel Had Apoplexy Irvin Cobb s | Single Fellows — Corinne Lowe 10 | | Mister Lady Luck— Hugh Wiley 14 The Odd Case of the Second Back— Robert Welles Ritchie 28 } The Shining Moment —Grace Sariwell Mason 34 SERIALS Toujours de | 'Audac Ben Ameg Williams 22 The Gorgeous Girl—Nalbro Bartiey ' 24 ARTICLES The New Fairyland— Harry Leon Wilson 3 Movie Signboards— Lewis R. Freernan 12 Coaloiljohnnytown— Samuel G. Blythe 16 A Plea for Young Male Parents— Frank Ward O' Malley 18 Views of a Layman on Bolshevism— Alonzo Englebert Taylor 20 | 1] Concerning Coughs and Coughers—Stanley M. Rinehart, M. D. 38 Stories of the Old West — Frederick R. Bechdolt 48 } | DEPARTMENTS Editorial— By the Editor 26 Everybody's Business—F/oyd W. Parsons 42 r ml | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST is fully protected by copyright. Nothing | that appears in it should be reprinted without special permission. The use of our articles or of quotations from them for advertising promotions and stock-selling schemes is never authorized. | J

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