Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 160, 16 May 1914 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1914

Married Life the Fourth Year

By MABEL HERBERT URNER "Beter eat something," advised Warren. "You will not feel like eating Dn that Channel boat." "Oh. do you think it is going to be rough?" anxiously. "Can't tell; but it always a mean trip. Looks like it is going to be foggy, too." Helen glanced out of the window at the low, marshy country through which they were now whirling. It had been misting when they left Paris, and nw the mist had thickened to a drizzle. "How about a piece of French melon?" suggested Warren; "that is refreshing," as Helen listlessly pushed back her plate. "No, I can't eat on these French cars things don't look clean." "Well, they are a darn eight cleaner than those Channel steamers. Seven years ago they were pretty punk and they are the same old boats." When they left the dining car and made their way back to their compartment, they found they had it to themselves. "Since we are alone, I think I will lie down," for Helen was almost ill from the strain of the last few days in Paris. Last night, because it WAS the last night, they had stayed at the Cafe de la Paix, watching a gay thearte party, until almost 2 o'clock. And when they got back to the hotel Helen had still much of her packing to do. It was 5 o'clock before she got to bed and they were up again at 7 o'clock. "You do look played out," yawned Warren, as he settled himself in the opposite seat. "Don't feel any too well myself. Pretty strenuous week, wasn't it? Well, we wil have a good rest-up on the steamer. Why don't you take your hat off? Can't lie down comfortably that way." HER HEAD ACHES. "I don't believe I can lie down," as she sat up wearily and smoothed her hair. It makes my head ache worse. Is it much longer now?" "About an hour and a half. We are not due till 1 o'clock. Want something to read?" dividing the week old New York paper. Helen glanced at the headlines. How familiar they looked. It would be good to get back. This morning she had felt depressed at leaving Paris, but now the eagerness og getting home was upon her. Her head ached too badly to read, and she gazed listlessly out of the mist blurred window. She was dreading the Channel trip. Wiuld she be ill? Every one complained of the English Channel and the wretched boats. "We are going into Dieppe now," announced Warren finally. The train was slowing up through the straggling outskirts of a city. As they drew into the station a number of sailors came running down the platform. Warren signaled one and handed him out their baggage. Everything was bustle and excitement. The passengers, English and French, were streaming out on the platform instructing the blue-bloused sailors about their baggage. "Come on, let's get out of this." Warren started off toward the steamer, which lay in an inlet just beyond the station. So this was one of the much criticized English Channel' boats, thought Helen, as they made their way up the gang-plank and around the narrowdeck. Everything looked unpainted and dingy, and through the open doors of the cabin came a heavy, sickening ship odor. It was almost an hour later before all the baggage was on and they were finally off. The mist had thickened, and every now and then came til' sound of some distant foghorn. The damp air was chill and penetrating. Warren had unstrapped their rugs and wrapped them about Helen, who lay back in a steamer chair, looking over the gray, roughened Channel. Already she was feeling the sickening roll of the boat. She had no inclination to move about, but Warren insisted she would be better off if she "stirred around a bit." and not give up so easy. Clinging to his arm, she walked around the wet deck, the wind flapping their raincoats. A few passengers were bundled up in chairs on the protected side, but the heavy mist had driven almost every one below. "Come on down; let's see what the cabin is like. They have got a buffet luncheon down there." HELEN HORRIFIED. Helen followed reluctantly, for she had had several whiffs of the odors from below. The cabin was a strange combination of dining room and a public stateroom. Around the walls was a double row of bunks, and in the centre was a large table, from one end of which stewards were serving cold sliced ham, roast beef, tongue and salad. "Convenient arrangement," grinned Warren. "You can eat and then lie down. Everything handy. Feel hungry?" glancing down at her with an amused smile. Want some cold ham and salad?" Helen shrank back in horror. "You know I couldn't eat down here!" indignantly. "Let's go back on deck. I will be sick if I stay here any longer. The odor is something awful." Helen almost ran up the stairs to get to the fresh air again. "Are these the best, boats that, cross the channel?" she demanded resentfully. "Surely they are not all so old and dirty?" Warren shrugged his shoulders. "They are all pretty rotten. That is because there is no competition. One company controls all the steamers." They were back to their chairs now. Helen, who had "stirred about" all she could, sank into hers, while Warren wrapped the rug about her. "Look at all those basins," she exclaimed suddenly, pointing to a long wooden bench under which were attached a hundred or more granite pans. "What do you suppose they are for?" Warren grinned. "Guess they need 'em when it is rough. Looks like they would have enough to go around." "Oh, Varren, how AWFUL! You do say such disgusting things!" "Well, you wanted to know what they were for, didn't you?" Then he buttoned up the collar of his coat, pulled down the rim of his soft tweed hat, relit his pipe and started for another stride around the deck, while eHlen lay back and gazed at the Channel. The clouded sky and roughened water were the same leaden gray. The mist had thickened, and the foghorns were continuous. "Dear, can't you move my chair to the other side?" she asked as Warren paced by. "I keep getting a whif of that odor," nodding to a door Just be-

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yond, "and I don't want to see those basins, either." "Nonsense. You are too blamed finnicky; besides, it is all wet over there. That is the weather side." HELEN INSISTS. But Helen weakly insisted that she did not care how wet it was as long as she got away from the ship odor and the suggestive basins. "Now that is all foolishness. Here, I wil move you up this way a bit," dragging her chair a few feet along the deck. "Now stop your fussing and take a nap that is what you need." As Warren strode off again the lump of resentment in her throat added to her growing feeling of nausea. Another whiff of the hot, sickening odor from below and she got up unsteadily. She WAS going on the other 6ide if she had to drag her chair herself. 'Where do you want to go, miss?" asked a big English sailor who had just run down the ladder from the bridge above. In a few minutes he had her settled on the other side, and had brought a big rubber apron which he fastened over the chair. She did not mind the wind nor the mist which blew into her face. Then she saw Warren striding angrily toward her. "So you got over here, did you?" raspingly. "By George, you are the most stubborn, headstrong" "Oh, dear, don't I I feel so sick." "You will be a lot sicker if you sit here in the wet. 'Nough to give anybody pneumonia. Why the devil do you have to be different from everyone else? Nobody is on this side." He waved down the wet, empty deck. "All the other women have sense enough to stay down in the cabin.' "You know I couldn't stant it down there! I would be sick in a minute I MUST have air." WARREN INSISTS. "Rot! You can get air on the other side, can't you? It isn't air you want, it's your own infernal way. Get up from there now and I will move you back." "Dear, I don't WANT to go back! I am not getting wet!" With an angry glare and a muttered oath, Warren strode off. Helen leaned back, sick, wretched and unstrung. She knew if she had staid there, he would not have come near her for the rest of the voyage and there were still three long hours. And the twohour train trip to London he would probably not speak to her all the way. But she felt too sick and too wretched to move back now even if she had wanted to. For over an hour she lay there alone, struggling with the dizzy sickness that swept over her with every roll of the boat. Not a passenger came out, and if Warren was still pacing the deck, he kept to the other side. At last she could stand it no longer, and when a sailor ran by she asked him to help her back to the sheltered side. But Warren was not in sight, and only two passengers were still on deck. It was some time before Warren appeared, and then he paused by her chair with a brief: "How do you feel?" condescendingly ignoring the fact that she had moved back. "Not very well," weakly. "Oh, you will be all right when we get in. Only an hour more now. Sheer up!" and he strode on, leaving Helen to gaze after him tearfully, z.iresfdfdrtu shrdlu hrdlu rdlu rdlulh

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CHICAGO. May 16. A man supposed to have been E. R. Rodman was instantly killed yesterday by jumping frojn a window on the nineteenth floor of the Insurance Exchange building at Jackson boulevard and Fifth avenue.

CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our many thanks to our neighbors, friends and relatives for the kindness shown us during the sickness and death of our dear beloved baby, and also for the beautiful floral offerings. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Kettler.

BUTLER ORATOR RETAJSCOIITEST (Continued from Page One)

United States. He was awarded the third place In the contest. "Speed, speed, more speed and the onward sweeping cry for results," Is the reason for the ruthless slaughter of human lives. Scott's oration was filled with tremulative, anti-climaxes of dramatic interest and his delivery likewise effective. Asks Co-operation. Co-operation was the recommendation for solving the problems of industry by Stanley Newell, of Iowa Wesleyan college. "Capital and labor are at constant war, one distrusting the other as a matter of common occasion, while the secret of the differences lies in the lack of co-operation," was the striking comparison of our modern day situation. "War is an international delusion," was the thought expressed by Robert W. Peden, of Hiram college, Ohio. He went on to show that because of the intricate, labyrinth of finances existing betwen the great nations of the world that war would result in devastation within the own ranks of the victor as well as the vanquished. Pointing out the fact that modern day jurisprudence is characterized in the words, "The courts are tools for the rich and tools against the poor," Robert J. Hamilton, of Olivet college, Michigan, was placed sixth in the contest. Eulogizes Livingston. Theodore E. Lentz, of Park college. Misouri, eulogized the sacrificing missionary to the African wilds, David Livingston. Thoughout the oration the theme of service predominated as it did hold the uppermost in the mind of the great light giver to the African negro. The plan to eliminate women from further interstate oratorical contests was frustrated when at the session of the executive committee yesterday afternoon, Miss Syblie Mittholtz, Ohio's representative, stamped her foot and loudly protested against such action. After a few minutes talk she convinced three other young men that girls should not be barred from taking part. The resolution as defeated by a 5 to 4 vote. Admit Nebraska. Representatives of Nebraska wera notified that their state association had been recognized and incorporated as a member of the Interstate association. This makes ten middle western states in the league.

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tive body there was a sharp contest against the Iowa speaker, said to have been brought about by the Illinois delegation. The neighboring state speaker had previously been eliminated from the contest in the manuscript judging. Charges of plagarism were made by the Sucker state representatives but the charges were never substantiated. The business session resulted in the election of the following officers: President, William Jewell, Liberty, Mo.; vice president, Gerald Norman, Galesburg, 111.; secretary-treasurer, Prof. I. M. Cochran. Northfield, Minn. It was decided that the interstate contest shall be held at Knox college, Illinois, next year. The Earlham College Glee club and high school orchestra gave brief concerts during the intermission.

SHOCKS TOPPLE THEATRE. MOSCOW, Russia. May 16. The Imperial theatre was partially destroyed by fire today with $500,000 loss. Much costly scenery was burned.

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Why Don't You Huy a Ford at- Mow? You can't buy a better car. (Might get one that looks different, but it would be out of style quicker.) Ever see a Ford out of style? Ever see one stuck? County Agricultural Agent Cobb will take you a ride over a plowed field in his Ford if you say the word. Our County Surveyor spends his time straightening out bad roads. He drives a Ford. We'll take you the smoothest, slowest, fastest, steepest, or any other kind of a ride you ever had if you will give us a call. Ask us to take you over the "Circle Trip." It will open your eyes to the possibilities of automobile travel. Let us show you. HOOO People IRflight Otfiake a (Mistake But not 500,000. Henry Ford has built and shipped over half a million Ford cars. Is there any better proof that the Ford is right ? Don't brood over it any longer. It's like buying sugar it's staple. Order Your Ford Today

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