Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 305, 31 October 1913 — Page 10

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, OCT. 31, 1913

PAGE TEN By Nell Brinkley Married Life the Second Year Point of View

By MABEL HERBERT URNER. Helen knocked softly on the door f Mrs. Stevens room. There was no f.nswer, and she knocked again. She as lust turninn away, thinking that

perhaps after all ehe was down at the beach, when the door opened. "Oh, I'm so sorry I woke you. I should have known." "I'm glad you did," laughed Mrs. Stevens, cordially. "I always take a little nap alter luncheon, but I never want to sleep long. It only makes me Btupid for the rent of the day. Wait till 1 dress and we'll go down to the beach." Helen nank on a couch and looked up at Mrs. Stevens with troubled eyes. "It's something I want to ask you (something I want you to help me in and yet" with an uncertain little laugh, as she pulled nervously at the tassel of her parasol "it seems so foolish I hardly know how to tell you." Mrs. Stevens instantly interested, surmising some domestic trouble drew up a chair beside her. "Why, you know, dear," encouragingly, "if there's anything I can do?" "Hut this is so foolish. It's about that horseback ride Sunday. You know your husband asked if I could ride and Warren answered 'oh, yes, Helen's quite a horsewoman.' Don't you remember." Mrs. Stevens nodded. SHE WAS TERRIFIED.

"Well, I'm I'm not! I'm not! I've never been on a horse in my life but once and then I was terrified. But long ago before we were married I gave Warren to understand that I could ride and I've had to keep up that pretense ever since. Of course. It must seem absurd that I haven't told him the truth, hut the way it all happened somehow I never could He weed to be so strenuously athletic. He skated and rowed and was an expert tennis and golf player- and I could do none of Ihebe things. Oh, I used to feel bo humiliated ! " Helen hesitated a moment and then went on, her eyes on the figures in the rug she was tracing with her parasol. "And one day, he said half teasingly, half in earnest: 'What a little house kitten you are! There's not a single outdoor thing you can do.' I happened to be turning the leaves of a magazine and there was a picture of a woman on horseback. Oh. I don't know what possessed me but I said: "Oh, yes. I can ride. 1 used to ride a great deal and 1 really can ride very well.' And

he answered: 'Good! Ihats line: There's no better exercise!' Of course, that was before we were engaged. We mentioned it several tints afterwards, hut I naver had the courage to tell him the truth." Here Helen stooped over to pick up the parasol that had slipped from her nervous lingers, and went on hurriedly: "We've never been where they ve had saddle horses, so it really hasn't mattered until last night when you suggested that we hire horses from the stable here and go riding Sunday morning. I tried to get out of it by eaying I had no habit, and you said you had two and would drive in tomorrow and bring down both. And I protested at that, you said all I would need was a skirt, and they had those at the stables. So 1 couldn't get out of it. And Warren is so eager to go. He pays he hasn't ridden for years, and it will do him more good than anything e!se. And that if we can make a reasonable arrangement by the week, we'll both ride every morning before he goes into town. Now what shall I do? It seems to me I can't tell him after all these years. Mrs. Stevenson laughed comfort-inelv.

"Why, mv dear, that's very simple. This is only Wednesday. They've rid- . ing instructors out here, and all you've got to do is to take as many lessons as you can before Sunday. "But T couldn't learn In that time!" "Of course you can. I've never had a lesson in my life." "All you have to do Is to sit well back in the saddle and don't saw on the reins." SHE IS REASSURED. "Oh, hut I've always been afraid of horses. I love them love to pet them, but the thought of riding one terrifies me." "It won't atei you've ridden a few times. Wait "until I get dressed and we'll go right over to the stable now and you'll take your first lesson. They have" an enclosure there back of the stables and no one can see you." An hour later Helen was mounted on a sedate, gentle hourse with a riding master beside her. "Right shoulder back elbow in! Hold the reins a little lower please. There, that's better. No, not so tight, on the curb," were the bewildering instructions Helen tried desperately to

follow

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Before a heavy gilded frame stood and sat three ultra-smart young women. Close hair a la "ear-muff" enormua neck ruffs of lace and net, tip-tilted little hats with odd barbarous things flying out from them at surprising angles, coatees like sacks sewed up in the wrong places and edged with a whole animal fur just where fur was never put before, and all three in the "minaret" Bkirt, the "pegtop" like a slim-necked decanter upside down, the skirt which wraps, and hikes, and bitches, and swathes flows full at the top but cinches close to the feet that flash in and out in silk and cut steel buckles. The nineteen-thirteen Betty is an amazing and odd little figure to SOME people, but the most of us would have to step back or away from her a hundred years or so to see how strange and funny she is. We are used to her, you see!

I listened. Inside the gilded frame was a painting like a jewel a girl of seventeen-seventy- her skin like pearl, her breast crowded high with the stiff, tight, armor-like bodice that held an absurd little bowknot at its sharp point, velvet bands on her wrist and about her throat, her hair powdered and piled like a white tower over a "Heddus roll." curled in great ringlets like silver bracelets, and decorated on its far top with pearls and true lovers' knots. The girl In the chair smiled and mashed her flat black hat farther over one eye. And what she said was "ISN'T SHE FUNNY!" I smothered my own peg-top skirt and laughed. I wondered if the painted heart of the little creature on the canvas wasn't fluttering with amused laughter; if her long gone glack eyes did not find us "FUNNY," too! It was a place where the "pot" was calling the "kettle" black.

held her rm while they trotted slowly around the ring. By lifting her elbow at each step, he tried to show her how nd when to rise. But it was long before Helen could get into the swing of it. "No not so rigid don't hold yourself so stiff! Relax! Give yourself up to the motion of the horse. Put more weight on the stirrup. No, keep your heel down like this. Now, once more!" The lessons were costing Helen $2.00 each, and as she had arranged to have eight before Sunday, that would be $16.00 which would take almost all she had saved toward the

Scene from "Bought and Paid For'

At the Murray. Week of Oct. 27. "The Barrier." At the Genrett. Nov. 1 "nought and Paid For." Nov. 7. "Uaraascd Cootis." Damaged Goods. "If I could preach from my putp-.t a sermon one-tenth as powerful, at convincing, as far reaching and as helpful a. this performance of Hamaged Goods.' " declared IT. A brum Simon, the distinguisht-d rabbi of the Washington tlv t Hebrew congregation .after witnessing Richard I!cnnett and his co-workers in the great Nriex play. "1 would consult r that I had achieved the triumph of my life." Bought and Paid For. "Bought and Paid For." the greatest succss from the pen of George Broadhurst, which tomes to the Gennett Saturday matinee and evening, is a four-act drama full of human Interest.

of love, telling a story of every day people so naturally, yet forcefully that it gets a grip on one's heart that cannot be effaced, is the latest instance- of the magic of theatrical fortune. The play was produced in New York at th Playhouse by William A Brady, and proved to be the biggest sensation of two continent, as its wonderful run in New York and London attest. Mr. Brady relied absolutely ' and entirply upon his own judgment, both in the selection of rlay and actor. The Barrier. The Murray theatre la being well filled at every performance this week and the Francfa Sayles player are

making many new friends by their eicellent work in "The Barrister" and the play is proving to be one of the best of the entire season. The last

matinee will be given toimrov.

The Two Orphan. The Francis Style player have a treat in store for the patrons of the Murray theatre next week, when tbey

offer "The Two Orphans' as the pro

duction will be one of the greatest ever seen in this city by a stock company. The entire strength of the company will be seen in this play and two extra people have been engaged, beside more than twenty-five extra people, and no matter how many times you have seen this play, you will never see it presented In a more elaborate manner than you will eee the coming week.

the Isthmus they had calculated that it would not occur until after October 20. because not until then would a sufficient quantity of arms and munitions have been landed to aurply the revolutionaries. "Acting Id view of all these facta, I sent several naval vessels to the

Isthmus. The orders of the American naval officers were to maintain free and uninterrupted" transit across the Isthumus. and. with that " purpose, to prevent the landing of armed forces with hostile intent at any point within fifty miles of Panama. These orders were precisely such as had been issued again and again In preceeding years 1900, 1901 and 1902. for instance. They carried out. "Their necessity was conclusively shown by the fact that a body of Columbian troops had landed at Colon and threatened a reign of terror, announcing their intention ot

I killing ail the American citizens In J Colon. The prompt action of Can-

lm iiuoDitru. ui i lit- & u ii mjn 1 .u' ville. prerented this threat from being put Into effect; he rescued the imperilled Americans, and finally persuaded the Colombian troops to reembark and peacefully return to Columbia. "With absolute unanimity the people of the Isthmus declared themselves an independent Republic, and offered Immediately to conclude with our Government the treaty which Columbia had rejected, and to make It terms more favorable to the United States. No bloodshed whatever had

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As she was ignt ana vv' ;fe Warren at Christmas. But she shotHd have looked r I wold ha"e time to save something

but iter very eagerness iu ,

ly and her nervous fear made it more

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more before tehn. And now no sacrifice

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1 ne htm itsoun " -...j . j reins and the position in the saddle. : unaa eivins her much

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to hold them. And when she went

back to the hotel she tied some tape to the bedpost in imitation of the reins in a vain effort to solve it out there. The next morning, as soon as Warren had left for the city she started for her second lesson. This was on "posting" rising to the trot. The instructor rode close beside her and

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gemess to learn in s oshort a time. "No, you don't rise to the canter! Sit close to the saddle and well back. Give yourself to the motion of the horse it's a rocking chair movement. And watch that right shoulder! You do better if you didn't try so hard. You, but don't hold yourself so stiff. Take it easy. Learn to relax." Learn to relax with every muscle rigid with nervous fear. At times she was filled with despair it seemed that she could never learn. But after the fourth ride the instructor said briefly "That was much better. You'll soon have a good seat. Now, if yu'U only learn to handle your reins." And Helen's hopes were swept to the heights. She had two more days, four more lessons! Now that she was started, what might she not accomplish in that time? If only she could get through

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the failure of Colombia to ratify the Hay-Herran treaty, a revolution was

certain to break out on the isthmus. occurred, and it could not occur un

and that the people were in favor of less we permitted the Columbian it. and that it might be expected im-j troops to land. The Republic of mediately on the adjournment of the ' Panama was the re facto govern-

Columbian Congress without ratifica- ment, and there was no other on the

tion of the treaty.

Ready for Revolt. "In response to my questioning.

they Eaid they were certain that a

I revolution several different revolu-

Isthmus." Upon this assumption the Uni'ed States rcognized the new government, completed its treaty, took possession of the Canal Zone, and in

Hons were .eing planned indepen-1 that strip has since constructed tne dently of one aother would occur ! Panama Canal, to the final success after the adjournment of the Colom-of the uniting of the waters of the

bian Congress in October; while on ( Pacific and the Atlantic.

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was held at Earlham hall

RANDOM NOTES FROM EARLHAM

The Athletic association held a

' meeting at the college yesterday noon. I Nothing of general importance was

transacted.

The standing of all the freshmen in

Tho roirnior hnarH mPotinE was held ; their various classes for the first four

yesterday at the college and the regu- ' ; weeks has been ascertained by the

lar business of the college was dis-. iacuitj. ana eaca iresnman is requir-

cussed.

Colombia Disputes Beginning of

Work on Panama Canal by u. o.sijV

Kegaramg tne purcnase c: tne trovtrsy trom tne beginning, it win fi.. n th mnst mhnst ranRtitu- Krir-a Mrmir.nt results and it can

canal rights from France, or the I remr.:n a matter of dispute to the end. tion. At the first sign of a tendency be conveniently obtained of any nearFrench company. the American Theodore Roosevelt his summed to constipation give a small dose of by druggist at fifty centa and one doi-

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The men of the college will entertain the girls at a Hallowe'en party, which will be held in Bundy hall. It

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