Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 102, 16 March 1916 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, MAR. 16, 1916

Getting the Fever Very Early

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Helen and Warren; Their Married Life

By MRS. MABEL HERBERT URNER Originator of "Their Married Life," Author of "The Journal of a iseglected Wife," "The Woman Alone," Etc.

The dingy lobby of the Earlton was typical of the email, second-rate hotel. A colored youth in a shabby uniform lounged on the bench by the elevator and a thin, palid-faced clerk stood behind the desk, languidly sorting the mall. Helen approached the desk and then drew back In confusion. She had forgotten the name she was to ask for! Stepping behind a dusty artificial palm that graced the lobby, she hurriedly consulted the note in her purse: 1 am at the Hotel Earlton, , 124 W street, registered under the name of Mrs. Wilcox. Can you come to me here? No ; one else must know. EDITH M. COLBURN. Again she approached the desk. The clerk turned with an inquiring air, but without glancing up from the letters. "I should like to see Mrs. Wilcox." "Expecting you?" "Yes, but perhaps you'd better announce me Mrs. Curtis." "Oh, you can go right on up. 4-B." Helen stepped into the elevator, and the boy, shuffling off his bench, took her up to the fourth floor. Four B was the last door down the narrow, red-walled hall. Helen knocked twice before she heard the slipping of a bolt, and the door was cautiously r ported. The moment, she entered, Helen felt the emotionalism with which the room was charged. Mrs. Colburn was in a loose gown, her hair in two loqg braids. On a chair were her street suit and hat. and a large traveling bag stood on the table. Rebcltlng the door, she turned to Hebm with a desperate, reckless gesture. She had not spoken. "When did you come here?" asked Helen tensely. "Last night." "He doesn't know where you are?" "How ran he? I'd never even heard of this place before. I drove round in a t.T.i and stopped at the first cheap, ohfc;:ro-looking hotel. He might look for me in the big hotels but never here.'' "Hut you can't stay here," glancing around the cheerless room with its fcciured wallpaper and faded carpet.

'I can tor a while. It's quiet and chf ap that's all I ask just now." She had dropped into a chair, and row as she leaned forward, her hands rigidly clasped. Helen saw how utterly worn and haggard she was. In the gray light from the out court window her face looked ashen. "Last, night," asked Helen gently, "was he so much worse?" "Oh, he was drunk, of course he hasn't ome home sober for a week. But it wasn't that it was something very different. Something I hadn't dreamed of before." Opening the bag on the table, she took from an inside pocked a square blue envelope. "Read that," quiveringly, handing it to Helen. It was addressed to Mr. Ed. W. Colburn. 1138 Wall Street, which Helen knew was his office. The note was short, and in a crude, sprawling' hand. Eddie Boy: The wrist watch is a braut! But you needn't think you can always square things with a present. I waited there until 9:30, and I was pretty sore when you didn't' show up. Make it the same place Friday, and this time you'd better be Johnny-on-the-spot. Yours, FLO. "Well?" with a sort of fierce impatience. "Oh, I don't know what to say," faltered Helen. "If you'd put up with a drunken, brutalized husband just because you believed he was true to you, and then found that note in his pocket, wouldn't , you have done what I'm doing?"

"I don't know I don't know. I might not have the courage." "Oh, I haven't much courage," contemptuously. "If I'd stopped to think it over, if I'd waited until this morning I probably wouldn't have gone. But last night I was WILD! Within ten minutes after I read that note, I'd thrown some things into that bag and was out of here. He was too drunk even to know when I went." "What time was that?" "After 12. I told the hall boy to call a taxi that a friend was sick and had phoned for me. Oh, it wasall"so weird," shuddering, "that drive through the night, alone and stopping at this place." "Yet they gave you a room. I didn't think they would a woman alone after midnight." "Oh, it may not be even respectable here but what do I care?" Then taking her purse from the bare bureau top back of her. "Will you get this

! check cashed? I can't cash it here.

and I dread going out just yet. If you'll do this, and bring me the money tomorrow " "Of course I will! Only I'm afraid I'm helping you to do something that'll not make for your happiness." "Would it make for my happiness to go on living with him? As long as I thought he was true to me oh, I think a woman can put up with anything if only she feels sure of that! But now after that note " "But if he'd been drinking can't you see a man might do a thing then that he wouldn't if he were himself?" "He hadn't just met this girl her note shows that. And it's all the rest

too this is only a sort of last straw. If I've a shred of self-respect, I'll never go back. As soon as I can pull myself together, I'm going to Dr. Gardner to ask him to get me into a nursing school. He's always been our physician, he knows Ed better. than any one and I believe he'll uphold me in this." "A nursing school?" repeated Helen, amazed. "What else can I do? I can't go into an office I don't know stenography or bookkeeping. But I can enter a training school for nurses and in throe or four years I'll have a profession." Helen looked at her wonderingly. Could this delicately-reared woman, unused to work, go through the arduous drudgery of a hospital course in nursing? Wa3 she physically strong enough? "I'm stronger than you think," divining Helen's thoughts. "I've had to be, or I couldn't have gone through this past year. I'm 26, rather old io start to learn a profession, isn't it?" bitterly. "But they'll take you in a nursing school up to 30. It's the only thing I could take up now, and if I

wait much longer I'll be too old for that." . : It had grown dusk before Helen finally started to go. "I hate to leave you here! This room is so gloomy the whole house is so depressing. Can't you go to a more cheerful place?" "Oh, I don't think of the place. I dread the night, but if I can't sleep I'll take some bromide, and in a day or. so I'll see Dr. Gardner." At the door she caught Helen's arm and held it with rigid tenseness. "Now, I don't think Ed will come to you. " He won't dream that you know. But if he should I can, depend upon you not to tell him? You mustn't think that anything you could do would bring us together now." "No, I'll not take that responsibility. I'll not try to shape things in any way I'll promise you that." When Helen reached the street, it was a quarter after six, and for once she overcame her deep-rooted economy and signaled a passing taxi. She must' get home quickly. Warren was probably already there. It was the hour of the home-going .crowds, but Helen leaned back, still absorbed with the scene in that dingy hotel room, the very air of which had vibrated with Mrs. Colburn's intensity. She pictured her going there after midnight. What must have been her sensation when she found herself alone in that strange hotel. How had she spent the rest of the night? And today? And now tonight? But she had said she would take some bromide if she could not sleep. Was she all wrong? She had endured so much from her husband should she have tried to endure this too? It took courage, infinite courage, for any woman to leave a comfortable home and go out, wrholly unfit for the grim, sordid struggle of earning her own living. Would her courage hold? Would she have the strength to go on or would she let her husband seek her out and yield to his plea to return? When she left the taxi at the door. Helen's upward glance sought the windows of the eighth and ninth floors. The Colburns' apartment was dark it seemed a sinister darkness. , But her heart leaped at the cheerful glow that shone from the windows on the floor below. WTarren was there! She was conscious of a sudden feeling of guilt that she could never quite appreciate her own well-being except by contrast with the distress of some one else. Once before Mrs. Colburn's unhappiness had brought to her the realization of the peace and security her own life held. But now she would make this realization permanent. She would no longer let the trivial things blind her to the greater ones. And Warren's faults of irritability seemed now so trivial! They had seemed trivial before, yet always they had loomed large again. But hereafter she would keep this moment before her. When his ill-humor was the most trying, she would remember

what she felt NOW.

Aglow with the enthusiasm of this resolve, she hurried in to the elevator. Yet under the thrill of ' thankfulness for her own happier lot, was the

haunting thought of that dark, empty

', apartment and Mrs. Colburn alone in

that gloomy hotel.

RASMUSSEN LEAVES FOR THE FAR NORTH

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Knud Rasmussen, the Danish Arctic explorer, has acbled the Museum of Natural History that he will start

from Copenhagen early in April to explore the remote region between

Peary Land and Greenland. He will

take messages to Donald H. MacMil

lan and his party, ice bound in Etah,

Greenland, and to Dr. E. O. Hovey, of the relief expedition at North Star

Bay, off the Greenland coast.

POULTRY SPECIALIST LECTURES AT EATON

EATON, O., March 16. To deliver the first of a series of lectures planned by the Preble county poultry association, Milligan C. Kilpatrick, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, will come here Thursday, March 23. "The Farm Flock" is the subject he will discuss. The meeting will be held during the afternoon in the Commercial club rooms, and is free to all. All farmers, and especially those interested in poultry raising, are urged to be present.

SHAMPOO

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Every one of the gold producing states in the United States increased its output last year over the year before, except Washington.

Many people are losing their hair today because they are using soaps and shampoos containing free alkali. Each hair is an oil plant and should be washed regularly with an oil shampoo., never with free alkali soaps. EVERY, WEEK Anti-septic Oil SHAMPOO contains mineral and cocoanut oils which produce a rich creamy lather. It removes dandruff and leaves the hair soft, lustrous fluffy and healthy. The best shampoo for all cges. Large bottle 114 ta,"oonfuls) 50c at

MICHIGAN BOOSTER EXHIBITS PRODUCTS

Apples, potatoes, fruit in glass jars and exhibits of grain are on display in .a Main street furniture store window. The exhibit is part of an advertising campaign conducted by several counties of western Michigan in connection with the G. R. & I. railroad. The organization is promoted by a tax and by contributions from the railroad . and operates as the Western Michigan Development company. It is not operated for profit, but as the name indicates, for the improvement of western Michigan. Last year the company induced 3,000 families to move to the counties represented. Each family is estimated to be worth at least $1,000 in earning power. John T." Gibson, representative, who is in the city .with the exhibit, is enthusiastic over the possibilities of western Michigan land.

CANADA TAKES UP LIGHTNING ARRESTER

EATON, O., March 16. Recognizing the efficiency of his multiple lightning arrester, Charles E. Cox, inventor and patentee of the appliance, has been advised by officials that the device will be adopted by the Canadian government. Mr. Cox is manager of the Eaton Telephone 'company and is a natural genius along lines electrical. Sales have been large since the device was placed on the market and many telephone systems throughout the country are being equipped with the appliance.

DR. LIGHT 8PEAKS.

DUBLIN. Ind.. March 16. Quarterly meeting was held at the Methodist church Sunday. In the evening Dr. Light of Richmond, district superintendent, gave a short talk. Dr. Stone of Indianapolis, was the speaker of the. .evening. The meeting was well attended.

According to a French scientist; potcssium must be added to the list of radio-active substances.

Today's Aid to Beauty I

An especially fine shampoo for this weather can be easily made at trifling expense by simply . dissolving a teaspoonful of canthrox. In a cup of hot water. Pour slowly on scalp and massage briskly. This creates a soothing, cooling lather that dissolves and removes all dandruff, excess oil and dirt. Rinsing leaves the scalp spotlessly clean, soft and pliant, while the hair takes on a glossy richmess of natural color, also a fluffiness which makes it seem very much heavier than it is. After a canthrox shampoo arranging the hair is a pleasure. Adv.

A lady, demonstrating NoFault, will call at your home within the next few days.

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In a recent ' message from Cedar Rapids, la.. Mrs. T. F. Gaines, the mother of three children says: "I am pleased to recommend Father John's

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lundreds of wise and economical furniture buyers have attended this sale and bought liberally because just us soon as they looked over our big stock they were convinced that they could save from 20 to 35 on their

Spring Furniture needs if they bought now, and the result was they bought, and all were more than satisfied. This big March sale continues during the remaining days of this month, which gives you plenty of time to come to ouy your Furniture needs and if you are contemplating furnishing a home complete there is no better time to buy than now during this big sale. We positively save you from 20 to 35 on every purchase. Read the following prices. They are but a few of the many values we are offering:

GO-CART SPECIALS $35 Go-Carts, big values, $28.00 $33 Go-Carts, new styles $26.40 $25 Go-Carts, new styles, $20.00 $20 Go-Carts, new styles, $16.50 COLLAPSIBLE GO-CARTS $14.00 value ......$11.00 $10.00 value $7.50 $7.00 value $5.00 $6.00 value .$4.50

BEAUTIFUL RUGS $45.00 Rugs ... .$36.00 $33.00 Rugs $26.40 $30.00 Rugs $24.00 $27.50 Rugs $22.00 $25.00 Rugs $20.00 $20.00 Rugs $16.00 $17.00 Rugs $13.60 $15.00 Rugs $12,00 $10.00 Rugs $ 8.00 $ 7.00 Rugs.'. ...;..$ 5.60 $ 5.00 Rugs $ 4.00

GENUINE LEATHER ROCKERS See Our $22.50 Genuine Leather Rocker at.. $16.95 $30.00 Rockers $24.00 $25.00 Rockers $20.00 $20.00 Rockers $16.00 $18.00 Rockers. .' . . .$14.40 $15.00 Rockers $12.00 Buy Now at our March Sale

Peninsula GAS RANGES $38.00 Ranges.. $30.40 $28.00 Ranges. .$22.40 $25.00 Ranges.. $20.09 $20.00 Ranges.. $16.00 $18.50 Ranges.. $14.00

GREAT VALUES IN HIGH GRADE DAVENPORTS $65.00 DAVENPORTS Strictly QPO fA high grade, at $60.00 DAVENPORTS Strictly &AQ fA "high grade, at . . . .. pfl:0UU $40.00 DAVENPORTS Strictly JQO AA high grade, at ?5lU $38.00 DAVENPORTS Strictly (PDA ffl high grade, at POU.'U $32.00 DAVENPORTS Strictly j0 AA high grade, at tP'i.UU

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Buffets $36.00 Buffets $32.00 Buffets $28.00 Dining Tables at $24.00 Tables at $26.40 Tables at $22.00

$22.50 Buffets.. $20.00 Buffets. . $31.50 Tables at.

$25.00 Tables at. $20.00 Tables at. $14.00 Tables at. $12.00 Tables at.

$18.00 $16.00 $28.00

$20.00 $16.00 $11.20 .$ 9.60

March Sale Specials on Library Tables

$30.00 $27.50 $25.00 $20.00 $15.00 $13.50

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