Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — Page 3

Love’s Security

By BERTHA R. McDONALD

(Copyright, 1918, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) “j ap,v a ysTold your mother that She was a little fool to marry a man old enough to be her father!” exploded Jane Portsmouth. ; “RIIL. Aunt Jane, father arid mother were ideally happy.” "Happy enough—yes-—but the difference in tiieir ages made him shelter and slileFd her from all sense of responsibility, until now, when he’s gone, tbe«<wq of you are left with next door to nothing and neither of you any more fitted to earn a living than a butterfly I" “Please don’t say that. I know mother isn't strong, but I am and I’m going’ to find some way to keep the wolf from the door, tod-’* - -‘‘Don’t worry about the wolf. You can sell your house and come and live right here with me. I’ll tell you, Beth, why don’t you set your cap for the young duel or that’s just bought your father’s office?” “Don’t ever mention such a tiling to me'again, auntie’ I’m -not going to marry anybody, and besides, if I were my cap Tor Doctor Danforth and he saw fit to be caught he’d be taking me out of sheer pity, I’m sure.” “There, little girl, I didn’t mean to be hard, but I would so like to see you nicely settled, and that doctor man certainly is charming.” Neither of them heard the approach of the visitor who now appeared and coughed to attract their attention. “Oh, good morning, Doctor Danforth,” greeted Miss .Portsmouth. “I whs just congratulating Niece Beth on the good hands into which her father’s business has fallen. —Will yotr hard a chair?” “No, thank you, Miss Portsmouth.” replied the young man, openly admiring Beth; “I’ve only a moment. I called to ask about Doctor Longstreet’s office safe.” “What is’ it you wish to know?” “Your father’s safe—do you wish it sent to your home?” - .■ “The safe was included in the purchase of the office, and I went through the contents before I turned it over. I bid you good morning.” She sailed past the astonished pair down the flower-bordered path-toward. the gate, and Doctor Danforth was about to speak to Miss Portsmouth, when a frightened cry caused them to turn just as Beth fluttered into a senseless heap beside the path. The young doctor flew down the path, and lifting the limp figure in his strong, young arms, bore her tenderly into the house. Cool water quickly revived her, but an examination and the discovery that her ankle was really broken sent her promptly Into another faint, which lasted until her Aunt Jane had made her comfortable in the little guest chamber off the parlor. When- she regained consciousness this time Doctor Danforth was sitting beside her with one of her hands in his. “Home —I must go home to mother !” she moaned. “You must He right here for a fewdays. Your foot turned on one of the cobblestones in the walk and your ankle has been broken. Miss »’ortsmouth has telephoned your mother and I am going to bring her over this evening in my runabout.” "It will not be necessary to trouble you. Mother can come over with Joe Mead when he goes to the station for the mail.” “Please don’t be unkind, Miss Long-’ street. It really doesn’t seem like you, and my heartiest wish is to be of some service to you and your mother.” “I —I didn’t mean to seem ungrateful, or rude, but I —” In another moment she was sobbing among the pillows,Tmd,while the man longed to stay and comfort her, the physician knew it was best to leave her alone just now. so he slipped quietly through the door to the porch, just as Aunt Jane came la to take his place. While he was drawing on his gloves he heard her cry out hysterically: . “He’ll think I did this purposely—he’ll —he’ll think I’m setting my cap for him, like all the rest of the silly girls In town.” The man on the porch smiled and thought, “How I wish she would!” Beth’s ankle kept her at her hunt’s for almost a month, and during this time she was under Doctor Danforth’s constant care and attention. Gradually, day by day, he managed to penetrate the reserve behind which she had Intrenched herself, and then one day when be was taking her for a little spin into the country, he asked her to marry him.. ' > “But, doctor —Ned—l can’t marry anybody. Mother and I haven’t a cent. If dear old dad hadn’t lost what he had put by_to protect mother and me. things might have been different, for I do like you, Ned.'.’ "What did your father lose, and how?” “Oh, some papers—stocks—securities — bonds and things. I guess. Whatever they were he had the papers out on his desk one day when he received an urgent call, and while he was out the colored man took care of the place When daddy rame back the papers were gone. We questioned Jackson, but he swore he put everything back into the safe, and there yon are. Jarikson Was too ignorant of ta-ar vftlua to. take them, ao

after a fruitless search we decided they must have blown out the window.” . ... , __ “You are sure you have examined the safe thoroughly?” “Absolutely. There’s another thing of dad’s I haven't been able to find —a copy of the first edition pf ‘The Vicar of Wakefield,’ of which he was very Jfond.” “But—you aren’t going to make this final, are you, Beth?” “Please, Nqd, don't ask me again until I’ve found some way to take care of .mother,” ■ " —— That night Doctor Danforth sat (done in his office, trying to study, but, the pages were filled with visions ot Beth. —Hie ffdnd wandered to her story, of Doctor Longstreet’s investments and he began to wonder if possibly there might not be some fiir corner of the. safe which had not. been explored. He took his flashlight, and, kneeling before it, began half-hearted-ly to pile- the contents on the floor. He sighed as nothing came to light, and began to put the tilings back. The first thing he picked up was a box of rubber stamps, andr- feeling they would not be needed soon he thrust them tis far hack into the safe as possible.. —Tn —doing so hts hand -wr scratched by a piece of the zinc lining of the safe, and using his flashlight so see how badly ft_ was torn, lie discovered the end of something sticking up behind it. He pulled it out and found it to be a copy of "The Vicar of Wakefield." ' . ' The next day was the one set for Beth’s return to her homel and Doctor Ned was to take her in the.runaboul. lie found her waiting for him . ou—t he- front -steps-and- she like a breath of spring as she sat' there that —he leaned over mnd kissed her without a word of warning. “I’m asking you again, Beth, in spite of what you said, to be my wife. Before you. answer this time look through this old book.” She took the book wonderingly and opened it. “It’s dad’s ‘Vicar of Wakefield !’ ” she cried. “And what are all these papers. \’ed?” —“Don’t you seep~dear? They’re the papers which we all thought were lost. Jackson must have placed them between the leaves of this book and the book got wedged in behind a torn place in the lining of the safe. Now you won’t have to find any way to take care of your mother!” “Ned, you—you darling!”

ALL KNOW SIGN LANGUAGE

Peculiarity of Inhabitants and Visitors to Beautiful Island Town of Massachusetts. Sign language is the chief means of expression of the entire population of the township of • Chilmark, Marthas Vineyard Island, Massachusetts. With its rolling country, pretty lakes and inlets, it is the most picturesque part of this beautiful Island. Visitors who have invaded its quiet atmosphere declared Chilmark is a “paradise on earth.” Deaf and dumb folks rule the quaint old island township.— Tire general store and post office is conducted by a deaf niute; the village church is in charge of a deaf mute clergyman ; the fish and lobster Industries, the truck gardens and the dairy farms are all operated by deaf and dumb people. Indeed, there is no family of tlie 400 inhabitants In which the sign language is not understood and spoken. It all came about in this way: Thirty or forty years ago Chilmark was a deaf mute colony. Practically every family living there now traces from deaf mute ancestry. In a few cases entire families today are made Up of deaf mutes, aswereTheir fathers and mothers before them for over half a century thus afflicted. “Summer people”-have come in large numbers and they have all learned the sign language —in order to buy their supplies of tlie deaf mutes. Plenty of unusual experiences are to be had there. One family Of visitors recently was in need of potatoes. They carried a potato to a farm to show what they wanted. The farmer’s wife went into the house, got a telescope and signaled to another farmhouse on a far-off hillside. Very soon that neighbor appeared carrying a telescope and a bushel of potatoes. In every home there is a telescope and Mso a retired sea captain.

Church Made From a Single Tree.

There is a church In Santa Rosa which enjoys the distinction of being constructed entirely from a single tree. This tree from which the timbers, shingles were cut was a giant California redwood, and a considerable.amount t|f timber wasleft over after the building was completed. It has a spire of 70 feet, an auditorium seating 500, a parlor seating 80. a pastor’s study and a large vestibule. There are not many buildings in the world in which all the timbers, including its finishings, have been obtained, from a single tree. —• From “Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage," Carrie Adell Strahorn.

From the Front.

ReprespnfiWje Reavis of Nebraska tea's talking arwhit his trip to the-front. “I witnessed a mild quarrel at the front,” he said, “between two young chaplains of different denominations. The senior chaplain got the better of the quarrel. “‘Let us bury the ~ liatchet, my brother.’ hie’ said. ‘After all, we are both doing the Lord’s work, are we not?’ ■* “‘We certainly are,’ said the^ Junior chaplain, quite disarmed.'*' . .. “‘Let us, therefore,’ safdthq senior suavely, ‘do it to the best of pur ability, yon in your way, and I in his.*”

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Among “Going-About” Garments

It would not be easy to think up more useful “going about” garments than the chic coats of velvet on heavy silks, introduced to meet the needs of tourists and of _the_actiye. up-to-date, woman of many interests who spends the winter at home. Along with these are separate skirts of the same kind of materials. In the case of veF vet a coat and skirt to match, worn together, ten® up the wardrobe with a formal suit. Its usefulness is widened by providing a fashionable skirt to be worn with blouses of various kinds and a coat to be worn with handsome sport skirts. One of the new skirts of velvet, in company with a blouse —of white batiste, is shown in the illustration above. It is in dark brown and employs satin of the ' same’ color as a means of neat finishing—after the manner of this season’s velvet frocks. The front panel of this skirt is extended above . the waistline to the width of the rather wide belt, which it joins at each side, buttoning over satin-covered buttons. The sides of the panel are curved outward to join the side seams, and Its edges are

New Arrivals in Straight-Line Frocks

For those tvho like the plainest of‘ frocks and the simplest of lines, above all things, here Is an example>of fine designing that shows how much can be done, r with these' ends in, vlesN- It is a frock which may be in two pieces, or may not. It Is impossible to tell, this season, merely by looking, just how these! beautiful but misleading garments are made. Apparently it is u plain, straight-hanging skirt under an equally plain and straight-hanging over-dress which opens in a wide panel at the front. • The vogue of the waistcoat and the vestfee has saved the day for these puritanical frocks, that will not depart from the straight and narrow paths in unswerving lines. In the vestees and waistcoats one can Indulge In lively color or graceful decoration and redeem the frock from uninteresting Severity. Navy blue serge, in the frock pictured, looks especially well with a vestee or beige-colored georgette, braided at the bottom with navy blue soutache. There is a small

piped with satin. Two curved, slit pockets reveal exquisite tailoring and are an essential item to the completion of a skirt that Is—to play eras .roles, _____ — ' Velvet skirts and others of broadcloth, velours and goods of like char-acter-usually have a_special blouseof georgette crepe, matching them in color, made to complete an afternoon 6r dinner toilette. These are more or less elaborate, according to the requirements and taste of their wearers. But these skirts are just as much at home with a dainty blouse of voile or batiste, sjmply made, such as is pictured here.

Short-Sleeved Suits?

Sleeves go up and then they come down, and then, of course, they go up again. They do anything this season to make -themselves different from what they were last season. Hence it is that there is already interest in possible, street frocks and even coats with short sleeves, and there is some indication that three-quarter length sleeves will be seen on suit coats.

Twned-baekeolthr of georgette. At the bottom of the side pieces in the over-dress there are parallel rows of silk braid stitched on with exquisite evenness. There is nothing that inspires admiration more surely than such perfection or workmanship. Among late arrivals in frocks there are some stunning models of tricolette and satin with long skirts narrowed at the bottom add over these very long panels, falling from neck to hem, and sometimes embroidered or covered with narrow braid, or they are unadorned except for long tassels placed at each side of thehem at the bottom. These may be -of silk or jet, and they weight the panels sufficiently to make them hang gracefully. Short Chinese coats with plain necks and sleeves that flare at the hand, In fur or fur-fabric, makp the smartest of new coats for outdoor wear, with these chic dresses.'

STORIES of AMERICAN CITIES

This City Is Solving Its Own Peace F' “ LINT, MICH—It is a self-evident.truth that If every American community toolc case of IfSTownTproblems the United States would have fewer national problems. Every community should be as nearly self-sufficient as ’ possible.

/it’ I’liiit mi I HptiiHi Ixit-tl to - conditions of employment and to modify the inflation of the cost of living caused by the war. They have resolved to keep their employees at work at their old jolts with their old wages while at the same time seeking to effect substantial price reductions in the necessities of life. They have hud the price of milk reduced by one a quart by agreement, the price of shoes by 10 per cent and the price of coal by from 3 to 5 per cent, or to a figure below that fixed by the fuel administration. Landlords have voted a 15 per cent reduction of rentals for 90 days. Is Flint to become an industrial Altruria ? It has started what it hopes will become a “nation-wide movement to break the upward trend in prices AVhefher or not That broad ideal is realized, the city has - attacked—the problem of- h igh prices- and industrial unrest where it is logically open to "attack. Curing local evils first by local means should best effect an improvement of general conditions.

Chicago “Kewpies” and Their “Bureau de Amour”

CHICAGO.— The police of the Windy City aretaking on great airs these days. They claim they have something on every other police department In the United States. What is it? Well, it’s a sort of “bureau de amour,” as

the police put it. And the detectives who are doing Cupid work don’t know whether to blush or light when addressed as “Kewple.” The reason for this bureau is a letter from Marcel de Vermeuil, the acting French consul in Chicago, who asked Chief of Police John J. Garrity to investigate three young men, American soldiers in France, their families, their standing in the community, and so on. Object, matrimony. The acting consul explained that

the request ‘for this information, following French customs, came to him from three countrywomen of his, who have accepted Chicago boys to be their husbands. Not wishing to take a pig in a poke, even if said pig appears to be A No. 1 in every respect, these young Frenchwomen have exercised native caution in finding out just who the boys are and all about their families. Their names? Well, M. Vermeuil explained that the requests came to him in a confidential manner, that he did not wish to make the names public, but it was intimated that all three of the young men lived on the South side before they enlisted and sailed for La Belle Francaise. Chief Mooney, to whom Chief Garrity turned over the request. “I am going to assign three detectives to the work and they will make their report direct to the acting French consul. As there will be more of them the men assigned today may find they have a more or less permanent job for a while helping out international marriages.”

“Diana of the Dunes” Weeps Over a Giant Friend

VALPARAISO, IND—Paul Wilson, 6 feet 5 inches sans footwear, Is awaiting trial in the Valparaiso jail on charges of housebreaking preferred by Henry W. Lehman of Evanston and C. H. Spring of Chicago, both of whom

which a crate of eggs disappeared, Johnson followed tracks to Dianas shack. There he found Diana and a man whose bead was up among the rafters. He was too big to be stopped and made off, notwithstanding Johnson’s rifle. “Fish” Johnson found City Marshal Pillapaugh of Chesterton near by and a man hunt developed which led to Wilson’s capture under a tree as he slept. He was taken to Chesterton and locked up. 1 _ Diana came and gazed through the bars at the being to whom she had given shelter. He hung his head and turned away. Diana came sorrowfully . forth and wept. ; “The man asked for shelter and I had no idea he was paying for it by robbing my neighbors,” she said. *1 took him in because he was cold and wet and hungry;”*' ~ ■ A notebook found on Wilson contained memoranda tothe effect that he whipped Carb Morris twice and earned d draw from him 4hfe. The dunes are the famous sand dunes of along the shore at the head of Lake Michigan. Chicago hopes to eSHkish the Dunes Natural park here. It is now a wilderness enjoyed by many Chicagoans. .

It Just Happened; No Joker Could Be So Cruel

BROOKLYN. —Counselor George E. Brower occasionally indulges in a, “friendly little game.” George was sitting in the other evening for a short session and the kind dealer gave him tltree deuces. He drew two cards, and

glancing casually took note of the fact that one of them was a two-spot. So he shut up his hands like a jackknife and tried to hide the fact that he had four of a kind. The center of the table began to look quite attractive after a few moments. Finally there were only .Brower and one other in the competition. The other man paid for the privilege pf seeing what George was holding so tenderly, and George, with a confident flourish, spread his five* cards on the table.

They were all of the same denomination, the whole five of ’em, bgosh, and everybody began to look askangg at Brower. ‘ He was right there with the alibi and the replevin and all the other legal defenses, but the jury did not seem to take much stock in his protestations. A committee was appointed to investigate, and when the pack was counted it was found to consist of 56 cards, eight of which were two-spots. Everybody In the room said “me-ow” in a loud vulgar way KoffW kitty opened her maw and swallowed up the makings of two theater tickets, twd suppers and the price of a taxi in. a twinkling. George says he never did believe in a “deuce wild” game. b.,’ . ’/a Of course It just happened; no joker could be so cruel.

Very few communities have made so much as a beginning. Even during the active food conservation hundredsand thousands of communities Were sinning against its first principle—local consumption of local food products. Flint has set out to solve the problem of re-establishing Industry on a with energy that gives the experiment great interest. Without waiting for federal initiative and proceeding on the theory that the way to readjust is to readjust, the business

live betimes in the Indiana dunes, close to nature and to Alice Gray, better known as “Diana of the Dunes.” Diana slipped back to nature some time ago and supported herself vicariously as she disported in the sands. She eked out her uncertain larder by gifts of her neighbors, who included Lehman and Spring and “Fisherman” Johnson. A little while ago Diana’s neighbors began to miss butter, eggs, guns and blankets. After a rainy night, in