Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1920 — Page 8

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Buttons and Bachelors

By CORONA REMINGTON

i(©, 1920, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Elizabeth Langston scowled at the ireflection in her mirror and upbraided herself severely as she put the finishing touches to her hair. “He may be the loveliest and most considerate employer a stenographer ever bad, and he may be killlngly good-looking, too, but that's no reason for going crazy over him, especially as he’s probably married and has a dozen children.” She bad said the same tiling to herself perhaps forty times during the past two months, but it had had little effect in changing her feeling toward the charmingly irresistible individual who dictated letters to her all day, and once In a while confided his business anxieties. With a gesture of impatience she jabbed - a final hairpin into her soft brown hair and started downstairs. Half an hour later she had reached the office and was glancing over the morning mail. There were several letters that she could not answer without Mr. Thompson’s advice, so she rose and went over and placed them on his desk as usual. As she did so her eye fell upon a hand-written letter lying there, and before she realized It she had read it. “My dear Margie,” it began. “I hope you won’t feel I’ve been neglecting you by my long silence, but everything has been at sixes and sevens In the office lately and l.’ve hardly had time to sleep. Things are getting straightened out at last and henceforth you’ll hear, more often. “Miss Langston is the most wonderful stenographer I ever had —absolutely efficient and thoroughly charming. it’S too good to last.

The American Red Cross

"Too bad little Jack’s had the measles. Look out for his eyes. “I’m sending SSOO to the National for you to check against. Let me know how things are coming along. “Love to the boy and yourself. “JACK.” Elizabeth sank weakly into the nearest chair while the deskand type-

Elizabeth Sank Weakly Into the Nearest Chair.

writer seemed to jump up and down in front of her. It was just what she had expected and just what she had told herself all the time, yet when it came to facing the fact she found that she had not really expected anything of the sort. A moment later John Thompson*walked into the office and immediately noticed that something was wrong.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

“Why, what's the matterr’ he asked with concern. “You’re as white as a sheet. I hope it's not bad news." “No—yes—that is— Oh, I can’t tell you. It’s really nothing much after all,” she ended bravely. “Well, whatever it is," he said, placing his hand gently on her shoulder, “just remember that I sympathize and only wish I could help you. If you ever feel like telling me, and there’s anything I can do—l’m right here.” His concern and sympathy made it all the harder to bear, and Elizabeth had difficulty In controlling herself, but she dragged somehow through the day and at last was able to go home. Reaching there she made a hasty excuse to her mother, said that she would not be down to supper, and rushed up to her room to think it over. By next morning she had decided to resign at any cost, and in the dark she rehearsed her little speech to her employer over and over, but when later-In the morning, the moment arrived, she had forgotten every word. “Mr. Thompson - ," she began, her voice trembling, “I’ve —I’ve—I’m going to resign,” she blurted out at last “Ye gods!” he exclaimed. “I knew something went wrong yesterday morning, and if I’m to blame I’ll apologize. Do tell me. I can’t let you go like this.”

“You haven’t done a thing. I wish I could convince you hut I’m afraid you’ll just have to take my word for It.” “You’re simply all worn out. That’s wht.t’s the matter,’ he said soothingly. “Take a month’s vacation in the country; then you’ll be fit as a fiddle again; but don’t go too far away, because I want io watch over you and see how you get along.” “You’re too good to me,” said Elizabeth gratefully, "but Fve really deaided it’s best to resigtf.” “Well, anyway, I won’t accept it until you’ve had a month’s rest.” They argued back and forth for half an hour or more, and Thompson won In the end. He chose the place and even engaged the room, and Insisted upon her leaving the next afternoon. During the following days he was untiring in his attentions, and often she wondered whether she was doing right to accept so many kindnesses from him; yet he did nothing that she could actually criticise. He was simply a most considerate employer, and from his letter to his wife, she knew how much he valued her services. It was cloubtlees half self-inter-est that prompted his actions. When the time finally arrived for her to leave the country, Elizabeth decided naturally enough that she could not possibly desert hi A after accepting so much from' him, although during the entire month he had never once mention her returning to work for his firm. That evening as the two sat alone on the old-fashioned veranda, Elizabeth decided to broach the subject. “I—l think I’ll go back to the office tomorrow," she said rather unevenly. “No, you won't,” he declared, to her amazement. “I know that, somehow, you didn’t want to continue there, and the only reason I didn’t let you sever your connection was because —because I’ve loved you ever since the first minute I saw you, but I was afraid that If I proposed to you then you’d think you didn’t know me well enough.” “Propose!” echoed Elizabeth blank-

ly. “Yes,” he said, losing his last vestige of self-possession, ‘‘for the last two months I’ve simply had to sit on myself to keep from doing it, but I ought to tell you, Elizabeth, that we can’t live in the affluence you might expect, because I’m supporting my widowed sister and her little boy.” “But —but I was sure you were married.” stammered the girl. “What made you think so?" he asked, and Elizabeth felt the blood rush Into her face as she realized the quandary she was in. “Because —because all your buttons were on and on straight, and bachelors jelther have one or two missing, or else sew them on wrong," she ended triumphantly. “You’re left there,” he laughed happily. “There’s one off my coat this minute.” “Then I’ll sew it on some time, maybe,” she said rather breathlessly.

Society.

Sue —My ambition Is to become a member of high society—to join the Four Hundred. Lou —There aren’t that many movie stars, are there? —Film Fun.

Wakeful Conscience.

By this time you should have made enough to retire on.” “Retire 1” exclaimed the profiteer. “What’s the use of retiring? These Investigators won’t let me sleep.”

Comparative Values.

“They say that in England a dog license costs more than a marriage license.” “Yes, but then it isn’t always easy to get a good dog.”

Tact.

"She’s tactful, isn’t she?” “Very. She never introduces us to' her new friends as ‘old friends of the family.’" Se-ling, wife of the Chinese Emperor Hoangti, who reigned about 2637 B. C., is credited with the discovery of the value of the silkworm and it is the belief that she first discovered and taught silk spinning and weaving. In Sweden a physician can not sue for his fee, while in Belgium a lawyer Is in the same position.

HEMPHILL EXPLAINS ORGANIZATION OF NEAR EAST RELIEF

Prominent New York Banker Says Aim Is 100% Relief of Starving Peoples. “Just what Is the Near East Relief? Is the question that many people are asking whose Interests have been awakened to the terrible conditions existing in the Levant today,” says Alexander J. Hemphill, President of the Guarantee Trust Company and well known New York banker and financier. “In prosaic facts, the Near Eust Relief Is a body incorporated by act of Congress the object of which is ‘to provide relief and to assist in the repatriation, rehabilitation and re-es-tabllshment of suffering and dependent people of the Near East and adjacent areas; to provide for the care of orphans and widows and to promote the social, economic and industrial wel-

ALEXANDER J. HEMPHILL

fare of those who have been rendered destitute or dependent, directly or indirectly, by the vicissitudes of war, the cruelties of men or other causes beyond their control.' 100 Per Cent Relief. “The aim of the organization is 100 per cent relief, the relief which puts, those aided on a self-supporting basis, which Instills in them a confidence for the future, places in their hands the means with which to begin life anew, and in their hearts the courage to go on, Work, that is the prescription subscribed and provided by those loyal men and women who have Journeyed into perilous places for the sake of their fellow men; to make these people independent for the future, to encourage the flickering fire of national pride. “There are 82,291 workers employed in the Industrial establishments of the Near East Relief, where wool is furnished for the women to spin and weave, and all the girls who are strong enough are washing wool, sewing beds, grinding and sifting wheat, tailoring and learning to make lace. The big problem is to make these women independent. “About 500 American men and women, Near East Relief workers, are now In the field, including 36 eminent physicians and surgeons, 76 nurses, 7 mechanics, 15 industrial experts, 16 agriculturists, 14 bacteriologists, 197 relief workers, 25 supply and transport workers, 19 teachers, 20 administrators, 34 secretaries, 7 engineers and 45 army officers. Where Money Goes. “Funds for relief purposes are distributed in two ways: First, the vari ous relief centers are authorized by the Executive Committee to draw sight drafts on New York for specific amounts each month; second, by supplies purchased in America, the major portion of which arj shipped to the committee warehouses at Derindje, and the remainder either to Beyrouth or Batoum.

“The relief is rapidly expanding and meeting the situation, but the future depends on the continuation of American support.” According to Mr. Hemphill, the need for American help to see the destitute peoples of the Near East through the crisis of present conditions is greater now than ever before on account of the uncertainty as to the future, the truculence of the Turkish government and the danger of bolshevism from Russia, which threatens to engulf the whole of Armenia. Who Direct the Work. Mr. Hemphill Is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Near East Relief. Other members are Dr. James L. Barton, Secretary of the Foreign Department of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Edwin M. Bulkley, banker, of Spencer Trask & Co., New York; Judge Abram I. Elkus, former United States to Turkey; Harold A. Hatch, a well known New York cotton man; Herbert Hoover; William B. Millar, one of the Secretaries of the Interchurch World Movement; Henry Morgenthau, United States Ambassador to Mexico; Edgar Rickard of the American Relief Administration; Charles Y. Vickrey, who Is Secretary of the Near East Relief, and Dr. Stanley White, the Board of Foreign Mia siens of the Presbyterian Church.

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Harem Victim Tells Story

Stolen from her home on the night before her wedding and Imprisoned for live years in a Turkish harem, Aghavni Millian, a beautiful nlneteen-year-old Armenian girl from Bitlls, has at last been discovered by her lover and through the assistance of the Near East Relief forcibly taken from her master and brought to one of the American Rescue Homes In Constantinople. Here she will stay until arrangements can be made for her marriage and her return to her old home. “My story—it is like hundreds of others,” Aghavni said simply. “I was stolen from my home on the night that the massacres first began In Bitlls. It was the night before I was to have been married. I was Just folding my wedding veil away when the Turkish soldiers broke Into the house. They carried me oft. 1— They took me up to Constantinople to the house of the man” — She stopped and put one hand over her eyes, a hand that bore the tell-tale tattoo of her Turkish master. “But what does my story matter I” she exfilalmed. “I am only one of so many. It is my people and their future that matters. Somehow we must rebuild our nation and show to the Turks who tried to beat out our life and to the whole world that, despite what we have suffered, Armenia Is still unconquerable.” Aghavni Milian is, as she says, only 'one of many. It is estimated that one hundred thousand girls are still held barer-" The Near

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East Relief, America’s official agent in Armenia, is making this work of rescue one of the most important features of its program, and it is to them and the support they receive from the American people that Aghavni’s unfortunate sisters, still captive, must look for their release.

AGHAVNI MILLIAN.

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