Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 142, 25 April 1914 — Page 8

1 PAGE EIGHT THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914 Married Life the Third Year Mile. Says "She's Not at Home" By Nell Brinklejl

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Helen opened the door to the grinning French maid with the coffee and rolls. Thre girl looked uncertainly around lor eome place to set the tray, lor on the only table Helen had unpacked her traveling bag. -Wait, you can put it here," and Helen hurriedly cleared off the table. l ne maid, who could not understand cr speaK a word of English, put down uio tray, chattered something in i-'re;ich, and hurried out. Breakfast come?" called Warren from the bedroom. i he tray's come, but I shouldn't call it breakfast," answered Helen, viewing it with disgust. "Just see how tney serve things nere?" It was certainly not an attractive tray. There were only coffee and rolls. A roll and a blackened spoon and knife was thrust in each of the thick, chipped coffe cups. There was a small plate of butter, a brown earthenware coffee pot, a pitcher of hot milk, a saucer witn a tew lumps of augar and nothing else. There were no napkins, and not even saucers for the cups. "Well, they don't, believe in unessential, that's certain," was Warren's comment as he surveyed the tray. "Look at that silver!" exclaimed Helen indignantly, taking the blackened spoon and knife from one of the cups. "I d hardly call it silver. But come on tfraw up a chair there. It's after nine now and I ought to be out of here." Helen spread a fresh towel on the table to serve as a cloth, and arranged on it the meager contents of the tray. "Here, dear, this is as good as paper napkins," taking from her trunk some crumpled tissue paper. HELEN IN DISTRESS. "Oh, don't be so darn particularly," pouring out his coffee, while Helen wined our her cup and spoon with the

paper. "You've got to put up with a ; lot of things when you travel." ! "1 can put up with almost anything ; if it's clean. But I don't think this ; plate IS clean. Hadn't you better tell j thorn as you go out tnat were not going to stay." "I'vo no time to look up any other place,-' he frowned. "I'm here on business and got to be on the job. We can put up with this for a couple of weeks won't be here longer than that." Helen flushed. "Dear, I CAN'T stay at this place. I tell you it isn't CLEAN! I cant eat here," pushing back untouched the cup of muddy Brown coffee. "See here, the place for anybody that's as blamed fussy as you is at home! If I'd had any sense, I'd left you there." "But can't I find other rooms?" pleadingly. "I haven't anything else to do I can start out the first thing this morning. Dear, you said we didn't have to stay here if we didn't like it." "Well, I like it all right. This is pood enough for anybody. We've got two big rooms right on the boulevard, within a stone's throw of the opera house what more do you want?" He pushed back the shabby red velm, MABEN WAS MADE WELL By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegiable Compound and Wants Other Suffering Women To Know It. Murfreesboro, Tcnn. "I have vanted to write to you for a long time to tel 1 y Ou what your wonderful remedies have done for me. I was a sufferer from female weakness and displacement and I would havo such tired, worn out feelings, sick headaches and dirzy spells. Doctors did me no good so I tried the Lydia E. Pinkbr.m P.eTTiedies Vegetable Compound anil Ffir. vJve Wash. I am now well end strong and can do all my own work. I owe it all to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and want other BufTerirg women to know about it." Mrs. II. E. Maben, 211 G. Spring, St., Murfrocsboro, Tenn. This famous remedy, the medicinal ingredients of which ere derived from native roots and herbs, has for nearly forty years proved to be a most valuable; tonic and invigorator of the female organism. Women everywhere bear willing testimony to the wonderful virtue of I.ycia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Why Lose Hope. No 7oman suffering from any form cf female troubles should lose hope until the has given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a fair trial. If yon want special advice write (o r.rdia T.. Pinkbam Medicine Co. (confl- ' intial) Lynn, Mass. Yonr letter will ! c opened, read and answered by c vonian and held in strict confidence

Monsieur Danny is keeping the wires curled this time of year! Evenings pile up on him with nothing to do but elevate his little pink heels and muse on the times that were. No girls. This season of the year they skid by him with their eyelids over their bright eyes, their chins tucked into their dickies, one shoulder up, vet arm chair, crumpled the tissue paper into a ball and threw it on the table as he arose. "Now I'll be back here about halfpast six, and we'll go out to dinner. You can fool around the shops or do anything you like but we're going to let well enough alone and stay right here. Understand!" He strode into the bedroom, brushed his hat, jammed it on his head, got some papers out of his suit case and started for the door. "Now, you've got enough money?" Helen nodded. "Well, the American Express company is right around the corner they'll tell you how to get anywhere. You might stop in there and see if there's any mail for us." AN APPALLING THOUGHT. Helen followed him to the door, realizing that when Warren went out on the street he would be lost to her there would be no way she could reach him until 6 o'clock. To be left so alone the first day in a foreign city seemed suddenly somewhat appalling. Warren kissed her hurriedly, and drew away from her clinging arms with a curt: "Now, take care of yourself. Don't get run over. You have to look where you're going here these cabmen'd sooner run over you than not. Go to the Bon Marche. That's a big shop you can spend most of the day there." When he had gone, Helen glanced around with a dismayed sense of her loneliness. And this place she HATED it! The strong morning sun lit up the shabby carpet and the dusty worn, red velvet furniture. The bedroom with its now disordered bed and untidy wash stand was even less attractive. A few minutes later Helen, armed with her guide book and a book of French phrases, locked her trunk and started out determined to. find other rooms in spite of what Warren had said. She knew the Continental hotel was very near, for he had pointed it out as they drove from the station. When she entered the lobby, it was with a sigh of relief. At least this looked more like the hotels at home. One of the clerks who spoke English informed her that they, had not a single va

longing in their side-glance, but stiff lips that will not show a laugh. Danny's like a fellow just come to town the same day all the girls he knows have just left. He's frantically trying them all and dining night after night alone in chubby blackbrowed splendor. He calls on the telephone: "Is this

cant room and would not have for the next ten days. From there Helen went to the American Express company. She paused to view the opera house, which the guide book said was the heart of Paris. It was a majestic building, but Helen was not in the mood for sightseeing this morning. The wonder of being in Paris was somewhat dulled by what she considered the "wretched" place at which they were stopping. For Helen had none of the instincts of a real traveller. Her first demand was for cleanliness and comfort to her the joys of sight-seeing were secondary. SOME MAIL. The American Express company was a big, hospitable building on the corner. Two-thirds of the Americans in Paris have their mail sent to this office, and when Helen entered a dozen or more were there writing letters and taking advantage of the guide books, dictionaries and bureau of information. At the mall window Helen asked timidly if there was anything for "Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Curtis." The clerk took down a big package of letters from the "C" pigeonhole, shuffled over them quickly and threw out three for Warren and one for herself. Helen went to a desk by the window and eagerly opened the letter from her mother. Carterstown, Mo., June 24, 1913. My Dear Helen I am writing this several days before you sail so that it will be waiting for you when you reach Paris. Do hope your voyage will be a 3mooth one, and that you will not be seasick. I am sending you a clipping from the "Daily Trumpet." I don't know how they got the news out here, but you see they do. Everyone here thinks it's fine that you can travel so much. To go to London last year and to Paris this yearthat's more than anyone in Carterstown can do. Did I tell you that the Episcopal church had made up a fund to send their pastor, Dr. Eldridge, abroad this summer? The two Dobson girls are going also. But they're going on a cheap line from Montreal. You are very for

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She s gone to church? Oh my goodness! Excuse me. Listen, Central YOU know ME give me the girl with the voice like slowdripping honey. She'll talk to me. Hello this is Danny Danny the globe-trotter the fat chap with an extra plate laid away for him at every table in the tunate to be able to go on the best line and in such grand style. I know you will enjoy all the sights in Paris and the many beautiful shops. Send me a post card when you can. I will not expect you to write much, as I know you will be too busy. I hope Warren will be successful in his business, as you write that this is only a business trip. "With love to both. MOTHER. The clipping from her home town paper, Helen read with an amused smile: "Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Curtis, of New York City, are sailing for Paris ou the Kaiser Wilhelm. Mrs. Curtis was formerly Miss Helen Allen, of this city, and has many friends and relatives here. Mr. Curtis is a prominent lawyer in New York. We hope that their trip will be a pleasant one." She slipped the letter back into the envelope, wondering if they would think Warren and she were traveling in such "grand style" if they could see the room she had left this morning. A DARING PLAN. Helen looked up quickly as two American women sat down nearby. "You're staying at the RItz, aren't you?" asked the other one. "Oh, no, we discovered the most wonderful little hotel this year. We've two beautiful rooms for only twenty franc a day! Everything's so clean and the service is PERFECT. PerSALT RHEUM IS THE ITCH FIEND Salt rheum is one of the worst and unfortunately one of the most common of all diseases. How it reddens the skin, itches, oozes, dries and scales, over and over again! Salt rheum comes from humors In the blood. This is why. local applications do so little good. Ask your druggist for Hood's Sarsaparilla. It goes to the source of the trouble. It cleanses the blood and has given perfect satisfaction in thousands of cases. Get it today. t Advertisement)

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