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I 1 Through Fire 1 i si By John Elklns 8' .v.v.v.v.v.y.v.v.v.v.y.Nvv.YW (Copyright, W17, hy w. ü. Uhapman.) "I ought to Imve known better tlmn to marry an Englhmmnnl His ways arc not my ways. Tm it thoroughbred Yankee of the New England stock, and we don't pull together." Helen Birch had grown confidential with her old friend, Grace Mead. She seldom spoke of theso things to anyone, but she knew her friend had noticed that the domestic machinery was not running very smoothly, and that relations between husband and wife were not entirely harmonious. It really was a relief to unburden to a real friend the pent up misery of many months. "Well of course' temporized Grace. "I can see that your early training and views of life are different from his, and vice versa. But It scenes to me that might be overcome." "Life's too short for me to begin on the job," said Helen with an air of finality. "Oh," put in Grace. "I wouldn't say that!" "You would If you were his wife," . retorted Helen. "But you love John, don't you?" "Yes I did but it seems to be all killed out now. I can't stand the way he treats me. To begin with he thinks u woman of secondary consideration to the great god umn. She's all right to The Poor Fellow Was Quietly. Lying Very amuse him when he has nothing of Importance to do, or to put ice on his forehead when he has a headache. He never enters into a serious discussion of any matter with her because she hasn't brains enough to make it worth while." "If I were you," said Grace, "I'd wake him up to the fact that it was worth while.' " "Do you know how that works? Get the better of him In an argument, and he smiles in a superior, toplofty way, and says: I never argue with a woman. He considers the discussion closed, and that you are reduced to a proper realization pf 3'our Inferiority. You see he doesn't play fair when it's a woman." "That isn't exclusively an English trait," smiled Grace. "No, but you can't deny that it's bred in the bone with them. Besides they'll see a woman In the absence of a servant slave herself to death in the kitchen before they'd demean themselves by picking up a broom, or taking a hand with the dishes." "Oh," protested Grace, "my father was English, and he wasn't like that!" "Well John is. I've been without a maid here 'sometimes, and just ready to drop, and he's never offered to do a thing. Once when he'd brought a man up to dine, and I'd had to get the dinner, and do it all, I went out in the kitchen after the company was gone, and started to clear away the debris, and wash that pile of dishes. I was so tired, I took a sudden resolve, and went to the door, and called him, and told him I wanted him to help. He stood in the doorway and looked helpless. 'My dear,' he said, 'I never washed a dish iu my life. I'd be a first class bull In a china shop. There wouldn't be a plate left. Just leave them," and get someone in tomorrow to wash up." "You know I can't do that," I said. He walked away, and left me to do it alone. "Afterwards I said to him: 'If ever I have a son, he'll be taught just like a girl to help his mother out in a case of emergency. Be'll know how to wash dishes without breaking them, and sweep the kitchen if he has to. He's not going to sit and kick ills heels while he watches his mother or sister do all the work.' John looked at me with that frozen dignity that always rouses my wrath, and said : 'My moth er never allowed me or my brother In the kitcheu. She said that was not a man's place. I remember once when the servants had left, aud she was working very hard, I asked if I might help. I also remember the reprimand I received for suggesting such a tiling.

he said she wanted her boys to grow n manly. She didn't want any roolly.ddles around her. Besides I would only bother her with trying to help, and she was quite capable of managing che domestic department'" "There you see It was the mother's fault T exclaimed Grace. "Yes but they're all alike, those Knglish mothers. They were horn with the Idea that the boys must have tne best of everything, and tiie girls nn. take what'a loft. Oh It's a man's world over there In that little Island, all right I"

"Did you impart these views to John?" enquired Grace. "You better believe I did. But when I touched on the mother's fault, he tired up like at gatling gun, rallied to the defense of his mother, and shot off such a broadside at the American parent that I lined up in battle, and well that came near being the worst quarrel we ever had. Grace looked sadly sympathetic. Shu could see the fine, sterling qualities in both Helen and John. She believed they really loved each other, and here were these little differences of nationality and training driving them apart, and making a wreck of their happiness. They were both strong characters as far as forming standards and standing by them went. They were not easily swervcu from that which they believed right or just. It seemed useless to try to counsel Helen to Ignore or let puss the biased or unpalatable ideas of John for the sake of the larger, finer qualities he possessed. And as for John, she felt he would resent all interference of her's. So the pair were left to drift on to the final break. It came some six months afterward. Helen took the initiative, and John Birch wont to England ostensibly on business, but really to make the separation cause no gossip, until they could at least settle on the question of a divorce. After he sailed Helen heard no further news of him. A certain allowance was paid her every month by the attorney, and she asked no questions. Then came the awful news that August day when the air was rent by shot and shell, and a peaceful land met the horrors of an Invading host. Helen, lonely, restless, and unhappy seized anything that offered the opportunity of change, and the prospect of doing something of account. She went Into training for a nurse, and when fitted for the posit ton sailed for the service. An extract 'from a letter of her's t o her friend Grace gave some Inkling of the change going on In her mind. "How this war has changed everything," she wrote. Little harriers of prejudice are broken down. Every one Is more tolerant of the other fellow's views. Every one is kinder to the stranger. Perhaps because the common cause in which they are working mfikes brothers of them all. The woman too Is coming into her own. The men have had to realize her tremendous Importance in this struggle. Theso English women are splendid. And I must add the English men too. Such a quiet, cheerful facing of the inevitable is a thing too big for words. I am going to France tomorrow," What followed Is perhap's more quickly told gleaned from the facts afterwards confided to Grace Mead. Some badly wounded men had been brought In during the night, Helen found when she went to her post at the hospital In the morning. She paused to settle more comfortably the head of a man whose face was almost entirely hidden with bandages. They feared he might lose his eyesight, and she was warned to be especially careful to keep the dressing In place about the eyes. The poor fellow was lying very quietly just then under the Influence of an opiate. But after a time he began to murmur brokenly that he wanted to write a letter. Helen told him she was there to do It for him. "You see," he said, "she doesn't know where I am. But I want her to know. I I wish I could tell her tell her I know better now. Maybe we could get on together now. I've been thinking thinking we might. Maybe I'll never see her again. Maybe shell never know I wish she could." The voice trailed off into an Indistinct murmur. Helen wanted to ask him who this was to go to, but he lay as one dead. Suppos he should die before she could tin . out, and this woman would never know ! She ran for a stimulant to rouse him. As she bent over him with the glass he moved. His hand came out from under the bedclothes. Then the woman knew. She caught at the hand, and covered it with kisses. But she feared to reveal herself to him in his weak ttate. lest, the excitement would be too much for the shattered nerves. Some of the nurses wondered a bit at her devotion to this particular patient, but she only left him to snatch a few minutes' sleep day after day. In hours of delirium he babbled the old days when he "didn't know," and called on "Helen," telling her he wanted her. Her heart gave a great throb when one dav the surgeon tout her he was on the mend. They believed too he would not lose his sight, and were go ing that day to take off the bandages for a trial. Just before this was to be done, she said to him: "John, dear! don't you know my voice?" "Helen! Oh thank God! When I thought it was youi I believed I was dreaming !" "Xo, dear, it was I all the time! Pnt your hand on my hair then you will know." She loosened the nurse's cap, and ! put her head down on his breast. She felt his trembling hand gently strok ing her hair. She felt too how he drew a strand to his lips, and klss'ed It many times. "I hope they will let ma sc you first of all," he said.

What the Red Cross Must Do in Europe

A call for instant help has come to the Hod Cross from France one of the emergencies to meet which the lied Cross was organized has urtscn and the Bed Cross is this minute responding nobly. MaJ. Grayson M. P. Murphy, Red Cross commissioner for Europe, says thU he must have, for the American so'dlers and for the destitute people of France and Belgium, 0,000,000 warm, knitted, woolen articlesmust have them before cold weather. And the" Red Cross is making them. These articles do not take the place of the bandages and splints and hospital garments that the Red Cross must keep sending in a never-ending Sweater. stream; the 0.000,000 sweaters, muf(lors, "socks and wristlets must be had In addltlonjo everything else. Mere Is a part of a cablegram from Major Murphy to the Red Cross at Washington : "Last winter broke the record for cold and misery among the peoplo here. We Inexpressibly dread the coming winter finding us without supplies to meet the situation. We urge you, on behalf of our soldiers and those of our allies who will suffer In their frozen trenches, and also thousands of French and Belgian refugees, to begin shipping at once 1,500,000 each of the warm, knitted, woolen articles named. They must come before cold weather." The Red Cross took instant action. The nntftmal organization at Washington apportioned among the divisions the number of articles required, and notified each division director how many of each his people were expected to send in. For example, Director Tolin .T. O'Connor of the Central division at Chicago, was called on for 405,980 articles. Within 24 hours Director O'Connor had apportioned the task among the 1,001 chapters In his division, and had notified each chapter exactly how many it was expected to make. Then was apparent the wisdom which had led to the thorough organization of the country Into Red Cross chapters they were all ready. "We are ready send us the material and instructions," was, in substance, the Muffler. telegram which hundreds sent. Here is what each of. these chapters has done : Each had appointed a chapter committee on knitting; had mobilized all the knitters in its territory, whether Red Cross members or not; had chosen instructors to see that every article was made according to specifications; and had called on the Red Cross supply service for the yarn and knitting needles. Every member of every Red Cross chaptor iu tha United States is called

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on to help in the buying of wool and knitting needles, the shipment of completed articles as promptly as possible, ami stirring the enthusiasm of the workers to finish the Job at once so that the soldiers may have the entire consignment before they begin to suffer with the cold. riere are the directions for knitting each of the four articles, as determined upon by the Red Cross authorities at Washington, after carefully consideration of the army's needs; Equipment. Knitting machines may be used If desired.

Yarn may be either khaki or gray. The Red Cross supply service will carry the gray Oxford mixtures, 4-ply 10's construction. Knitting needles to be, as designated, No. L 185-1000 Inches In diameter: No. 2, 175-1000 Inches; No. 8, 200-1000 inches; or steel No. 12. General Directions. Studies should not be cast on too tightly. Knitting should be done evenly and firmly and all holes should be avoided. ."Joining should be done by splicing or by leaving two or three inches at each end of the yarn to be darned In carefully. All knots', ridges or lumps should be most carefully avoided, especially in socks, as they .arc apt. to blister the feel. Sleeveless Sweater. Three hanks of yarn (three-fourths pound) ; one pair Red Cross needles, Xo. 3. Cast on SO stitches. Knit 2, purl 2 stitches for 4 inches. Knit plain until sweater measures 25 Inches. Knit 2S stitches, bind oft 24 stitches for neck, loose. Knit 28 stitches. Knit H ridges on each shoulder, cast mi 21 stitches. Knit plain for 21 inches. lMirl 2, knit 2 stitches for 4 inches. Sew up sides, leaving 0 inches for una hol es. Two rows single crochet around neck and I row single crochet around the annholes. Wristlcto No. 1. One-half hank of yard ( pound); 1 pair Red Cross Needles No. 2. . Cast on 48 stitches, knit 2 and purl 2 for 12 Inches, and sew up, leaving 2 Inches open space for thumb 2 inches from the edge. Wristlets No. 2 (Made in One Piece). One-half hank of yarn pound) ; 4 Red Cross Needles, No. 1 (or steel needles No. 12). Cast on 52 stitches on 3 needles: 10-1020. Knit 2. purl 2 for S inches. team ;)& v Wristlet. To make onening for thumb, knit 2, a ' -r purl 2 to end of third needle, turn knit and nurl back to end of first needle, always slipping first stitch; turn. Continue knitting back and forth for 2 inches. From this point continue as at first for 4 inches for the hand. Bind oft? loosely and buttonhole thumb opening. Muffler. Two and one-half hanks ot yarn ( pound) ; 1 paid Red Cross needles ,No. 3. Cast on 50 stitches or 11 inches. Plain knitting for GS inches. Medium Sized Man's Sock. Four Red Cross needles No. 1 (or steel noddles No. 12), pound (2 hanks or yarn. Set up (0 stitches, 20 on each of throe needles. Knit 2 plain and 2 mrl for 80 rows (4 inches). Thirty dxth row knit 4 plain 'Stitches, knit 2 together; repeat this until the round is completed. There are now 50 stitches on the needles. Knit GO rows plain un til" let: measures 11 inches. (0 inches of plain knitting.) Take half the num ber of stitches (25) on first needle for the heel (leaving 12 and li stitches on the second and third for the Instep), add on the 25 stitches knit 1 row, purl 1 row alternately for 2G times (or 3 inches), always slipping the first stitch. Begin to turn heel on the wrong, side, slip 1, purl 13, purl 2 to gether, purl 1. Turn work over, slip 1, knit 4, slip 1, knit 1, and pass it over slipped stitch, knit 1. Turn, slip 1, purl 5, purl 2 together, purl 1. Turn, slip 1, knit 6, slip 1, knit 1, and pass it over slipped ctiteh knit l. Continue working toward the sides of the heel in this man ner, leaving 1 more stitch between depro'isps on every row until all the stitches are worked in. There should then be 15 stitches on the needle. Pick up 13 stitches on side of heel; now knit the 25 stitches on second and third needle on to one needle, which becomes your second needle; with your third needle pick up the 13 stitches on oilier side of heel, and knit 7 stitches

olf your first needle so that you will now have 21 stitches on the first needle, 25 stitches on the second needle, and 20 stitches on the third needle. First needle (a) knit to within 3 stitches of end, knit 2 together, knit 1. Second needle (b) knit plain. Third needle (c) Unit 1, slip 1, knit 1, pass sllimed stttch over, knit plain to end of needle. Knit around plain (d). Repeat a, b, c and d until you have 13 stitches on first needle, 25 stitches on second, 12 stitches on third. Knit plain 4 Inches. First needle (e) kntt 10 stitches knit 2 together, knit 1. Second needle (f) knit 1, slip 1, knit 1, pass slipped stitch over, knit 10 stitches. Knit 2 together, knit 1,

Sock. pass slipped stitch over, knit 0 stitches, knit 2 rows plain (h). Repeat e, f, g, and h five times, then narrow every other row until you nave 5 stitches on your first needle, 0 stitches on your second needle and 4 stitches on your third needle. Knit the ) studies on your first, needle onto your third. Your work is now all on 2 needles opposite each other. Break off yarn leaving 32-inch end. Thread into worsted needle and proceed to weave the front and back together as follows ; Pass worsted needle through first stitch of front knitting needle as if knitting, and slip stitch off pass through second stitch as if purling leave stitch on, null thread through first stitch of back needle as If purling, slip stitch off, purl thread through second stitch of back needle as if knittn,r leave stitch on. Repeat from unln nn tno st(tches are off the needle. Sock when finished should measure: Foot., from tin of heel to tiji of toe 11 inches. Log, from tip of heel to tip of leg, 14 inches. BUFF COCHIN fS VERY GOOD BACK YARD FOWL TO RAISE There is no bird on t lie lists of the pure-bred so easily bred up to standard perfection as the Buff Cochin. of all fowls. For the utility standard, as In the fancier's standard, no fowl Is more easily handled for what you want it to do. It is your own mismanagement if your docks of Buff Cochins do not come up to a large yearly record of eggs, both win ter and summer, and we who have raised the Butt Cochin know how grossly must the flock be neglected for them to go so much as a half pound below the standard set for them. The Buff Cochin is the ideal back-lot fowl. It bears confinement better than any one other breed. A low fence will keep it safe at home. It Is an old breed, and now well bred into an easy, lazy life. It never frets to get nut and explore the world, as does n Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, A Handsome Breed. rivmomh Rock and most others. In selecting your breeding stock of Bult Cochins, select always your largest, best shaped hens. It Is in the size of the mothers that "you must expect large-sized progeny more than In the father. In selecting males to keep over In this line select not youy tallest, heaviest males, but those short and blocky and very broad In the back. It .9 J A A is tnese mat insure you screngtn m the progeny. Armless Handwriting. An inventor in the United States has patented a device to enable armless people to write with their knees. An artificial limb expert in a London hospital said it would rarely be needed. "Give us a man with a stump and we will teach him to write. Special instruments are built to fit the stump and earn stylographlc pens. Three pages of manuscript, In a splendid bold, legible hand, written by one of the hospital's pupils, who has no right arm and only the stump of his left, were shown at an exhibition of work by disabled soldiers and sailors in London recently. In the first nine months of Its existence the British minister of mu nitions 3PCüt 2,300,000.

A PHYSICAL WRECK Laid Dp In Bed, Barely Holding Onto Life. Dotn'i Effected MarYeloui Recovery, "Without warning I was dragged to the brink of the grave by malignant kidney trouble," mya Kobcrt Wengntz, 114 Cypres Ave, Bronx, X. Y. "My kidneys seemed to top acting and

the pnuiB in my back were terrible, lüg, blcmty pufTfi enme under my eyes and attack of dizziness often blinded me. My limbs ßwullcd twice normal size and I could prens big dents in to tiie flesh. "I was confined to Krw? fiwl lind nti ml uirtno u II . tili ilflVt Will UifllUIIO nr. WeixtU. several times a dny. Despite the best of treatment, I grew vore and was taken to the ntxpital. I didn't improve, however, and was brought home ngnin, bnroly holding onto life. "Toward the last of 1013, a friend persuaded nie to try Doan's Kidney Pills and I cannot put into wonik what they did for inc. The first box helped more than all the other medicines and treatments I had taken. I continued and from an emaciated wreck of a man I have taken on good, solid flesh until I now weich '225 pounds and am in the best of health. Doan's alone deserve the credit." Strom to before mc, JAMES T. COUGHLIN, Com. of Deeds Get Dean'c at Any Stor, 80c n Br DOAN'SAV FOSTER-M1LB URN CO., BUFFALO. N. Y. U.S. SOLDIERS INSURED BY US Most insurance compnninca discriminate against our Sammies Wc do not. Send postal vdth name and date of birth. Rate only one dollar quarterly. AMERICAN TOILERS, 306 City Trust BUt., IaditMpelU PATENTS Wat Ron Yl. Galenmn, Patent Lawyer. Washington, D. C Atlvico aDl books froe. B&tus reasonable. Highest reference. Jicstsorvicet. Dipping in a si mug solution of alum will give new life to old hair brushes. Most pnrlieulnr women use Rod Cross Bnll nine. American inndc. Sure to plonso. At all good groecrs. Adv. Just So. "Their loy-mn king's course was perfectly even." "13ow oik !" Protein and Fat. Two of the principal food elements nro protein and fat. Soja Beans contain more protein and more fat than either Navy Beans, potatoes, wheat Hour, lean beef, milk or eggS. Alice Pork and Beans arc a dollclous combination of Soja and Navy Beans. Try them. Adv. . On Writing Letters. "I was told by dipt. Harry Light I he other day," writes a Canadian major, "that (hero is a now stylo In trench letters. The censor's duties Jiuve been reduced by many per cent. The soldier now has the sense of the situation engrained in his thinking. Tie sees through the need of keeping quiet even on matters that call for some criticism. There Is more humor and matter-of-faclness about his letters. One of my men who can't write very well, was telling me the other day that one letter a week is all that he can summon up his courage to write, aud he gave this as a reason: 'The people at home don't, can't understand life here. We have got to go through it. Why tease them with anxieties they have enough to put up with in pacifists and political grumblers.' And 1 think he is right. Don't you?" Fifty- Fifty. Bernard was present at a dinner party, In which some of the guests brought their children. One little girl wanted to play with Bernard's toys, but lie was selfish and wouldn't let her. "Now, Bernard," said mother, you must be a little gentleman." "Yes," said he, "but she must be a lady." The Point. "I am afraid our bulldog has a twist in his pedigree." "Don't worry. It Is only his screw tail." Too many things we wait for are iw worth the delay L , - 1 A wholesome table beverage with winning flavor. Used everywhere by folks who find that coffee disagrees. "There's a Reason if