Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 288, 11 October 1913 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1913

Married Life the Second Year By MABEL HERBERT URNER. THE green shaded light on the table by Helen's bed, threw a soft glow over the sick room. Helen lay with her eyes fixed on the white rrmslin curtain which had blown out. the open window and were, fluttering in the warm night air. One hand was thrown over the pillow; the other lay out limp and white on the coverlet. A glass of cracked ice and one of orange juice were on the table beside her. Her mother came in now with a cup of broth. "Your father says- you must try to take some of this now. You haven't had anything since three o'clock. Helen shook her head "I can't," faintly. "You must, dear, you've had nothing but a little orange juice today. You must have some nourishment." Reluctantly Helen took the spoonful her mother pressed upon her, and then turned her head away. 'No, no, 1 can't I can't take anything more," drowsily. "I'll try a little later." "Do you feel that, you could sleep nowT" " Helen nodded. Her mother lowered the light and went quietly into the next room. But Helen had uo thought of sleep. Site only wanted to be alone. SHE GUESSES THE TRUTH. She had overheard something that, afternoon which made her helieve they had sent, for Warren. It had heen her father's voice. "If he left last night, at 8 he ought to be here tonight on the 10:30. Hut we'd better not tell her till he comes." That was all she had heard, but it had been enough. Oh, why had they done this thing? Why had they sent for him against her will? Would he show that he came reluctantly that he resented the time and the expense of the triy. With the furious perversity that often comes to people who are really sick, Helen felt that she was not ill, at least not seriously so not ill enough to justify sending for Warren. She moved restlessly to find a cool place on the pillow. Her head was so hot. Oh, why had they sent for him! Why had they! That kept heating in her mind. They had defeated the purpose of her trip. She had come on this visit

hoping that her action would make Warren miss her would make him feel the need of her. And she had secretly intended to stay until he should send for her until he could no longer do without her. But now all this was defeated by her becoming ill and their sending for him. She heard her father enter the room. She closed her eyes, pretending to be asleep. If she spoke to him at all, she feared it would be to reproach him for telegraphing Warren. And she felt too siek and weak for that. Dr. Al It'ii was standing be side the bed. In spite of her closed eyes he knew she was not asleep. Tenderly he smothered back the hair from her hoi forehead. "Helen you must take this now," as he raised her bead and held the medicine to her lips. Agaiti she closed her eyes and lay motionless while he sat silently beside her. She felt herself growing drowsy. Was it the medicine, she wondered, vaguely. A TROUBLED DREAM. Then she fell into a troubled doze in which she dreamed that Warren had come and was heartily reproaching her for having sent for him, saying that she was only pretending to be. ill to get him here. He seemed to be standing by the bed his hat in his hand and his overcoat on his arm while she was trying to hold him, begging him to stay. He answered coldly that he was going back at once on the next train. He was moving towards her, and she seemed to be dragging herself to follow him when she awoke. Would it he like that? Was this dream a premonition of his coming? She was alone, but she could hear her mother moving softly about, in the next room. Her lips were parched and dried. She reached over for the glass of cracked ice on the stand beside her; but it was too far away. Her mother, hearing her stir was instanlty by the bed. Helen motioned for the ice. "Won't . you take a little of the broth now?" Helen shook her head. Ice was all that she seemed to want. For days she had had an insatiable craving for ice. "Mother." she asked, abruptly, "why did you send for Warren?" Her mother started. "Why, dear, what makes you think he's been sent for?" Helen waved her hand in faint protest. "Oh, I know I overheard you

talking of it. You must tell me! When

did you send the telegram and what did you say?" excitedly. "I want the exact words." "Why, dear, I don't remember," her mother answered evasively. "Your father did that." "But vou know what he telegraphed?" "You must tell me." "Why,' he just said you were ill." "And what did Warren answer?" "How do you know he is coming?" "Now, Helen, you musn't talk about this. It is only excitintc you." "How do you know he is coming?" she repeated': "Did he telegraph back?" "Yes," relueantly.

1 "Let me see the telegram." ' "But. Helen " ! "Let me see the telegram." I Feeling that she would only excite her more by refusing, her mother brought Warren's last telegram. j "Leaving tonight at 8." j "Is this all?" "Did he telegraph thij J as soon as you sent for him?" Knowj ing instinctively that her mother was ! keeping some thing from her. "Didn't ! he telegraph something before this?" HELEN DREAMS THE WHOLE TRUTH. ! Her mother hesitated. It had always i been very difficult for her to tell an ! untruth and she could not now. i I "Bring me the other telegram the : one he sent before this!" Weak as she was, Helen half rose on her elbow in her insistence. ! Realizing the futility of denying it, Mrs. Allen brought Warren's first let- , ter. I "Is my coming imperative? Almost impossible to leave now. Wire if con- ; dition is crit ical." Helen dropped back on the pillow : with a groan. "Oh. I thought so oh, ! 1 thought so. So he wouldn't come un- , til you insisted? Oh, why did you send ; for him? Can't you see he doesn't j want to come? He doesn't think I'm very ill. He thinks I'm pretending j most of it just to make him come!"

Pretty Hands and Rough Ones A Contrast

j A MARVELOUS ESCAPE. : "My little boy had a marvelous es- '. cape," writes P. F. Bastiair.s of Prince I Albert, Cape of Good Hope. "It oc- ; curred in the middle of the night. He i got a very severe attack of croup. As i luck would have it, I had a large bottie of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house. After following the dlrec- ! tions for an hour and twenty minutes , lie was through all danger." Sold by , all dealers.

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Some Early Fall Fashions

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and back again, and were never still would never be as mutelv elouuelit.

AYOUISI woman who sat in a car VVATCH HER HANDS j WHAT TO DO. near me the other day had j heal. 'r(M,U(,ntl v from voung men, t 1 want all my girls to pay due atneither book nor baby to occu- -how may I know the manner of girl tention to their appearance, and. bavpy her mind and it. suaigmaway un v, no w jn ,11;tke a good wife?" j ing completed their toilet, to forget it. back upon herself, and she showed it , My snn wat(h hoi- hands! I Let self fade from mind with the last by the manner in which she moved; There was a time when the mark of glimpse of the mirror. When on the her hands. tnP useful hand was the callous ex- cars or train there is always someOne hand smoothed her hair. The i pense cf the comfort of her family, thing of greater importance to oe other gave a tilt to her hat. It then ' There is such a thing as spending so cupy one's mind than one's back hair became necessary to feel of her neck- 'much time polishing one's nails that'

lace, and both hands flew from there no time is left to help mother polish to her breastpin. Her right hand the pots and pans. There is such p smoothed a fold in her dress, which . thing as putting more work on one's reminded her that it was time to use hands than in them. There is the danLhe left hand to pull up the right j ger of thinking, "What can I make of glove a little smoother. my hands?" instead of "What can I i "Surely," I thought, "her toilet is ', make with them?" ! completed at last," but a self-satisfied ; The needed woman, the bet worn- i look she cast on her dress showed that an, the most worthy woman, is the one ' the tie on her Oxford was not stright. j who considers the work she puts in . Then it was her hat again, followed her hands of more importance than by the application of a powder puff to the work she puts on them, and this her nose. I is written in due appreciation of the ' I watched her for an hour, and in ; importance of the work that must be that time her hands were never in re- I put on them. pose. They moved incessantly, indicat- j But, well kept or negletced. if they ing in every movement that she was a are constantly employed in flitting most self-centered person, whose sole ! from breastpin to belt buckle, they : joy and ambition in life centered speak as eloquently as the hands ' around her attire the human dupli- j printed on a sign board and the story cate of the peacock. they tell is not in the girl's favor. -I An older woman next to her sat with j She is vain. She has an idle mind, her hands folded quietly in her lap. She is sel '-entered and selfish, .he: They were hands that looked as i is concerned neither with magazines' they had worked untiringly for oth- nor books, and hasn't an ambition ers, and in this labor had lost all ! above her attire. Her mind flits from beauty of shape, color, texture and j face powder to 'neck ribbon and her proportion. They were strong hands, . hands move with it .telling of what the kind one associates with those she thinks as plainly as the hands of who bear more than their share of the , a clock tell the time, burdens, and I felt quite sure that the 1 The woman who is planning, hop-better-groomed hands of the younger ; ing. thinking of others in her idle woman that flitted from hat to shoe ; moments doesn't keep her hands fly

ing from her hairpins to her belt t If a girl can't, for some Rood reaaon, buckle and back to her eyebrows. i employ her mind in reading, she can

with advantage to herself employ it in

studying human nature.

She can fold her bands quietly in

her lap and THINK of and for others. She is not thinking; I could almost say she is not using either her heart, brain or isoul. when her hands are incessantly occupied with her attire. My son. watch her hands.

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Wholesale Prices in Steady Advance

Advance in the prices of various ' canners also report inability to fill rnmr.rtitiH hne hn an steadv and orders in full. One local wholesale

in excess of last year. Local wholesale

house ordered a carload of corn from

an Indiana ranncrv and has been ad- '

grocers have eliminated buying large vised tnat none 0;in ,,e SUI)I)Hed. ( quantities and will continue this pol- j sockeye salmon, a favorite brand in icy until there is some decline. Cali- I thjs pan pf th1 ronTry. has advanc-' fornia raisins have risen so high that j fd as wel, as tho various kinas ot 1 no decrease is expected for many j Red galmon i,M.ause of the low weeks. catches. The sockexe salmon is caught The opening quotation on California jn Puget Sound, walnuts is announced here at 2 , All grades of sack salt have advanccents a pound. This price compares ed twenty-five tents on the barrel, with 18 cents of last year. Imported! Bleached and brown cotton goods walnuts will be few this year, due to ' show advances of from '2 to :: cent.- a the fact that the California nuts are 'rd. Shortage of supplies for miof much better quality. mediate delivery and nearby requireThere is a ten per cent advance in tnents, with the higher price of cotprices of buckwheat because of the ton and the government statistics short crop In Pennsylvania and New showing the crop less than last year York. This, however, is expetced to cause the advances. In the east, mill have little effect in this part of the agents say the shortage of the goods country on the price of flour in small rather than high priced cotton, is the prepared packages, retailing at 10 cause of . the advance. Mills in the cents. majority of cases are sold ahead for Prices of Richmond wholesale gro- the next ten week? and can not ac.-rp! cers have advanced' two and a half further orders for delivery within th:i' rcntc ah ranncH wirn Strino- hemu l-eriod Crtter. goods are the or.lv dry

I also show an advance of 5 cents. Both goods to show present advance-. I the advances are due to small crops, it Low priced grades of hulk (.! e : is said. ' av advanced one-half c;it a pourd.

New York canners say that deii- due to the ore r, w anvmn-e in the eries on the 1913 pack will be short green coffee m nket. iletf-r crads sixty-five per cent on fancy and seven- .-how no change of ; ri --. and local ty-five per cent on standards. Maine grocers arc not expcciir.s: any.

Models of the early Fall fashions in frowns for afternon wear display points of piquant interest. In the figure to the left is shown a jrown altogether different from the usual simple dress for the young: girl, yet in no way eocer.trie. It is of cherry foulard dotted white. The blousing bodice is opened over a girlish waistcoat of white net, gathered at the neck by a "coulisse" or small ribbon, of black "comete" velvet. Flaring slightly from the shoulders, with an armhole almost normal, the half-sleeves are stopped at the elbow and finished by a small flounce "en forme" of the same material and a small "deutele" of embroidered net. The neck of the same embroidered net is wired to stand upright at the back, drooping downward in front to frame and waistcoat. The skirt, draped and round, shows at its upper part a tunic, which, plain in .the middle front, lengthens in front on each side, finished by a tassel of passementerie, white and cherry.

In the picture to the right, the appearance of the frills shows that the lingerie blouse will return to favor. They are not so difficult to keep in order as would seem at first glance. They are of plaited net. and may easily be taken out and replaced by new ones. With this model they are the. only trimming of a pretty afternoon gown of lettuce-green charmeuse. The bodice is a small "blouson" with low armholes. The sleeve, long and fitting simply, is finished by an insertion over the wrist of a piping of charmeuse of the material. Cut in a deep "V" in front and back, it is trimmed with three frills of the same plain net. A "Cayadire" belt, brocaded, in the cashmere tones, girdles a high waist. The skirt is draped in front in a movement of crossing and the fulness is given by the broad pleats gathered at the waist. It is cut slight, rounded in front and $ small slit shows the foot.

STREET STORIES

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showed the member? what was required. "You " over the bar. !"fc this, then on to them at and ur.der U. over this bar. then tack under the

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I dianapolis institution, is told regard- ) ing one of his classes. The physical ' director is alw ays clad in white duck

while on the floor and it is to this the following story has reference: R. J. Horton, the new physical director of the Y. M. C. A., made his first bow to the members of the

classes last night. An obstacle race. 1 in which the members of the senior class were divided into two sections

and raced from one end of the gym-.see yon craw under it!" j nasium to the other and back again.; And he soon had ali his clan y(,Hwas a new stunt. On the way they ing the same thine. IHit Horor. ::: (had to crawl over two parallel bars not crawl under :t. He evidently

and under a long, heavy gymnasium knew that it would spoil the looks of mat in the center of the floor. Gym- ' his white suit, and jvidsine bv ?he

'nasium mats, as a rule, are not the clothes of the class members who d'd .cleanest things in the gym. : crawl under it. he would have looked. Horton, in explaining the race, j like a coal heaver's brother.

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This shows a section of the enor- .-an be gained by comparing the rir.n. mnu? locks of the Panama canal, cf the rr.an with the height ot the rewhich yesterday linked Atlantic and lainln3 wall. Pacific. An idea of its great Leisnt,