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People Involved
in the War
By CHARLES II. PARKHfllST.
There are factors In the European prob
lem lews obvious than some, and which '
Exclusive Designs from a Famous Paris Milliner
Rfpubliihcd hv Special Arrangt
merit with Ilarner'i Bazar
ft considerable part
It Is natural to lny
are certain to plajr
in the final volution,
the prime, even If
not the exclusive,
emphasis upon
such resources as
appeal to the eye
and as are readily
calculable. such
as the numerical
strength of the
competing forces,
accumulation o f
the material Imple
ment of war and
abundance of food
supplies. Nor are
any of these to be
cheaply estimated
aa contributions to
ultimato success.
There Is no mili
tary officer but '
that will realize how largo an element, of
truth there Is In the famous dictum of
Napoleon that "God 1s on the side of the
heavy battallonr." But history affords a i
number of marked Illustrations of the .
fact that the stale may be turned by
means and appliances apparently lo
ponderable than those Just mentioned, '
and the wise man had an understanding
,of this when he wrote that "the race in!
not to the awlft nor the battle to the
strong." J
If we take Into account only the numer- J
leal strength of Russia we are rurprlsed j
at Ha Inability to make head against the j
armies of the emperor. To those whop?
sympathies are with the allies, Russia j
has proved a great disappointment and j
is likely to continue to prove such. There 1
is no appreciable limit to the number of j
men Russia can put into the field, but.
saying nothing of the relatively undis-1
clpllned character of Its soldiery, Russia j
does not mean to a Russian all that I
Germany means to a German. Its I
civilization Is of a different type. I
A Russians loyalty to the erar Is a
different thing from a Prussian's loyalty
to William. Such conMi'crHtion cannot
be exactly measured or accurately
weighed, but they tel! tremendously. The
czar by a wise and genial policy misht
have established In the hoarla of his peo
ple an even stronger attachment than
William would be able to do. for the
natural tendency of the Russian is not
simply to be loyal to Ills sovereign, but
even to regard him with worshipful af
fection. We may consider that the weak
ness which Russia has thus far demon
strated should be regarded by the czar
aa being in part a sort of retribution'
which he is buffering in return for the
despotic distrust which he haa shown to
his people.
Next to soldierly discipline, ' nothing
. mint- In KoMIa IIWa Invsllv (1 1 n fl . V
and enthusiasm for the cause, and there
appears to-be no sufficient reason why
either of those ' motives should 'operate j
effectively In the heart of the average .
Russian soldier. The efficiency of tho '
oerman array amazes me worm ana is :
to the allies a great grief; It is something i
that It is difficult to analyze, and whose .
continuance, therefore, it la Impossible
to forecast. We might explain it by love .
of country were It not for the German's
passion to emigrate and settle elsewhere.)
No one can tell what would happen .
were the pressure suddenly removed that
holds the mass of the population under
the weight of governmental ordinance
that makes Itself felt In every aspect of
Individual, social and political life. It j
is that that has compressed the Gorman i
army into an Immense fighting machine, I
as Indifferent to assault as the Krupp (
enginery which is hardly more mechan
ical than the artillery that work it.
The durability of the French army lies
less In Its numerical strength than in the
Frenchman's thrift, his belief in unham
pered Independence ,hla passionate fond
ness for France his memory of the year
'70. All of this creates personal caliber
that differentiates the Frenchman of to
day from the Frenchman of fifty years
ago almost as much as steel is differen
tiated from putty. He clings to France
with the fervid devotement of a
Schweitzer clinging to his mountains,
which makes him so hard to beat that
he does not know when he Is fceaten.
The Englishman has taken the war very
collectedly, but Is at last stirring in his
dreams, and If the war lasts long enough
will become thoroughly awake, and once
awake he will not sleep till the finish.
He Is like a piece of knotted oak timber,
slow to catch fire, but Impossible to ex
tinguish, with the grip of a bulldog whose
Instinct It is to die rather than let go.
The following is Galsworthy's character
ization of hira:
"I freely confess that from an esthetlo
point of view the Englishman, devoid of
high lights and shadows, coated with
tlrab, and superhuman y steady on his
feet, la not too attractive. But for the
wearing, tearing, slow and dreadful busi
ness of this war, the Englishman, fight
ing of his own free will, unimaginative,
humorous, competitive, practical, never In
extremes, a dumb. Inveterate optimist,
and terribly tenacious. Is equipped with
victory."
Matters thus hastily specified do not
stand out as conspicuously te the eye as
certain others that are more frequently
commented upon, but they all enter Into
the problem and must not be dissociated
from other mnrm obvious factors. To the
foregoing, however. It should be added
that the purpose of God Is one element
in the problem to which a large place
should be accorded In the estimates of
those who look upon the Almighty not
ae an inactive spectator of human events,
but as one who rules in the midst of
events and makes the activities of men
the Instruments of his Intentions.
Without dogmatising at all. It is enough
to know that God's thought is toward
what is inspiring, that His Interest is in
It and that Hie energy la exercised along
the line which Ilia interest lays down,
and that there is no use la. offering
prayers that will cross that line; so
that whether the supplications of the
Allies will toll with more effect than
those of the Teuton, or vice versa, will
depend upon which of the two it is that
pursues purposes most In accord with the
purposes of God. and which of the two
It is that cherishes ideals most closely
. or.sonant with the divine character.. It
. Is poor religion to count God out In mak
ing out our inventory.
Parents and
the Child
Susanne Talbot haa adapted the square veil
of single mesh with circles embroidered by hand
and uses It In a manner similar to the mourning
veil, draping It over a Second Empire shape of
old gold taffeta and holding it by a hand of
turquoise blue grosgraln ribbon drawn through
a small mother-of-pearl buckle directly in the
front.
Is there a significant meaning in the dove
of corded silver which Suzanne Talbot haa per
mitted to alight on her hat of black satin? It
Is the only suggestion of decoration on this
very wide sailor shape, though a tiny fold of
the satin outlines the edge of the top of
the brim.
Another toque shspe Susanne Talbot makes
of dove plumes In a dark green tone. Though
the shape is a flat, a certain height is attained
by raising the plumes on the left side. A band
of dark green satin, Identical in color with the
plumes, reveals Itself Just where the hat rests
on the head.
Keeping the Ledger
: of Life :
lly. BEATRICE FAIRFAX
"Charge it. please." 1 easy to say. And
when we pronounce those magic syllabic
that bring within our grasp the pretty
possessions that were unattainable if they
had to be paid for at the moment of pur
ehnae. too many of us forget that there Is
a day of reckoning in every department
of life.
For all we get w must pay. There 1 s
a price attached to - everything. Ufa
gives nothing for nothing, if at the
moment you want a-certain poasessaon
and you have not the means to pay for
it don't buy It. I have never seen the
fun of paying for a pair of shoes the day
they are sent to be resoled. If for some
new and brightly desirable possession you
aro compelled to pay a bit more than you
can afford. If Its purchase means going
without a few other things, the fun c.f
owning that delightful new thing will
choer and compensate you for the taxing
price you .pay.
But when it is worn and useless, when
you are in need of "new possessions, there
Is the "Old Man of the Sea" of your debt
to haunt you rf at the time of purchase
you pronounce that magi a formula
"Cliarge It, please."
Pay for what yon get "when you get It
That will bring tn its wake many habits
of frugality. No one can be extravagant
who never goes Into debt The most
seemingly extravagant person Is likely to
be guilty of nothing worse than deciding
which of several desirable things Is most
desirable and purchasing tffBX which
makes going without the others seem a
worth-while sacrifice If he haa the habit
of paying as he goes.
Habits are not particularly hard to
form and good habits are Just as easy
to get as are idle, useless ones. It is
generally a matter of personal choice
whether one forms habits of extrava
gance and waste or of common-sense fru
gality. And no step will insure your be
coming a sane person who Is a good man
ager and a wise purchaser than that of
paying for what you get when you get !t
Naturally yoJ cannot then get what
you cannot pay for. And so you modify
your purchases to your purse and you
needa come into the seeming of matching
your Justifiable power to gratify those
needs.
Ho she got the "Charge it. please,
habit-end as her bills mounted kept tell
ing herself that she would retrench next
month and pay when her expenses were
less. But her expenses grew greater not
smaller. And she began to borrow from
a wealthy man of her acquaintance. Her
Idea was still the "Charge It. please." one.
Shs meant to pay him back and it
seemed simpller to owe hlra than dunning
dressmakers and Irascible department
store managera And In the end her debt
to him actually swamped her on the
reefs of ber own weakness.
All through nature the same principle
Is illustrated. Tou have to pay for every
thing you get from life. If you go out
In rainy weather tn pumps and thin
stockings and seek Idly to charge up
your damp feet to the seemingly endless
account of your youth and health you
are laying up a debt you must pay and
pay when least you are In the mood or
condition to discharge past Indebtedne.ss.
For the penalty of "Charge it" Is that
you must discharge your debt when It
has mounted to huge proportions of pay
ment ' for what seems In retrospect a
little, trifling, silly purchase.
That Is the horrible part of the '.charge
It" business. The price always seems un
forgettably heavy and the thing for
for which you are paying so light and
inconsiderable a thing as to have Its
vaue forgotten.
Fay as yoa go. Tpls Is the only wsy to
keep books with life.
Bead It Here See It at the Movias.
VufelBofc &$$ H
By Gouverneur Morris
and
Charles W. Goddard
CssrrlgU. Uls. Star Ossnjaay.
Synopsis of Fevious Chapters.
After tbs traglo death of John Awes
bury, bis presu&ted wife, one of Amur
lea's gre&wst beauiiea, die. At her death
Vrol. BuiUier. an aaeni of the lute; eats
kidnaps the beautiful 3-year-old baby
gul aud brings her up In a paradise
where she ee no mail, but thinks shs
Is laugui by angeis who iuniruct her fur
her luuuuou to leforui the world. At the
ee of la she la suddenly thrust into the
world where aaunts of the Interests are
ready to pretend to flud her.
Fifteen year later Tommy goes to tne
Adirondack. The iuUresU aie responsi
ble for the trip. By ecoident he is the first
to meet the little Aiuebuiy girl, aa sne
comes form trom br paradise as Celestia
the sill from heaven. Neither Tommy uw
Celestia rccoWulxes each other. Tommy
fiuda It au eay matter to rescue Celestia
from Prof. Htllutei and they blue !
the mountain; later they are pursued
by StllUler aud escape to an Island wnere
toey spend the nig lit.
Tommy s first aim was to get Celestia
sway from BUllller. After they leaws
Bellevue Tommy Is unable to get auy
hotel to take Celestia In owing to her
costume. But later he persuades his
lather to keep her. When he sos out
to me taxi he finds her gone, bus falls
into the hands of white slavers, but
escapes and nous to live with a poor fam
ily by the name of Douglas. When, their
son Freddie returns home be finds light
in his own houe. celestla the girl lor
which the underworld has offered a re
ward that he hoped to goL
Celestia secures work in a large gar
ment factory, where a great many girls
are employed. Here she shows her pe
culiar power, and makes friends with ail
her girl companions. Uy her laika to the
girls she is able to calm a threatened
strike, and the "boss" overhearing her Is
moved to grant the relief the glna wished,
and also to right a great wrung be bad
done one of them. Just at this point the
lactory catcbes on fire, and the work
room Is soon a blazing furnace. Celestia
refuses to escape Willi the other girls,
and Tommy Barclay ruabes in and car
ries her out, wrapped hi a big roll of
tuuth.
The wife of the miners' leader Involves
Tommy in an escapade that leads the
miners to lynch him. Celestia saves hitn
from the mub, but turns from him and
goes to see hLshr.
TWELFTH EPISODE.
As always, an orating crowd followed
Celestia to ber car, or, as on the present
occasion, surrounded her to It Beaide
Prof. Stilltter, she walked among them,
talking with gentls persuasion to those
nearest her. When she mounted the
steps of her car they cheered her to the
echo. She had to show herself several
times and make little speeches before
they finally dispersed and went about
their business.
Tommy Barclay alone remained. He
mounted the steps of the car and knocked
on the glass of the door. Prof. Stllilter
opened it.
"Could I see Celestia a minute?"
"I'm afraid not. fine's dead tired.
But Celestia had heard Tommy's voles
and came out of her state room, where
she had gone to lie down.
"I'm not too tired." she called, "and
rd like to see him."
"But only for a minute," cautioned
Prof. Stllllter, and then, with seeming re
ductance, he withdrew and closed behind
the door of the passage that led past
the state rooms to the dining room end
of the car. But the professor went no
further. Having closed the door he ap
plied his ear to a hole that he bad bored
In It for Just such occasions as this,
and lUtened.
"I'm sorry," feleetla was saying, "that
I 'had to steal your auuiene away yrom
you.' It would have been more sports
manlike to let you finish speaking and
then to have tried to steal their hearts
and minds away from yoa Wouldn't
itT"
"Tes." said Tommy, slowly. "I think
It would. Miss Amesbury."
Bohlnd his door Prof. Stllllter started
aa if someone had stuck a knife in htm.
"Why Miss AmeshuryT" asked Celestia.
"Because it's your real name. I knew
you when you were a baby. We were
great friends. Then you went away. My
father said you had gone to heaven so
you bad, but only to a place that you
were taught to believe as heaven. Then
you oame to earth and I've recognised
you. I wonder I didn't before. But I do
now. There's no mistake possible."
"What utter nonsense are yoa np to
now?"
'Sometimes little girls wear socks and
chubby brown legs. Ths little Amesbury
girl had a little round mole Just under
her left knee."
o have I," said OelesUs, "what of It?"
"Why this man BtiUiter," said Tommy,
"who kidnaped y ou when you were
a kiddle, has taught you to think, by
mental suggestion, that you are what
you think you are. Instead of Just a lovely
girt of flesh and blood like the rest of
us."
She shook her head and murmured
something about "nonsense," but there
was something too earnest and convinc
ing in the young man's voice and manner
that what he said could not but shock
and distrust her.
"I'm sure you believe this. Tommy; bat
It's quite out of the question. I remember
my heavenly home aa It I had left It
yesterday."
"Tou remember a mental condition, not
a physical reality."
There was a short pause. Then, "What
you've said ought not to bother me at
all," said Celestia. "I don't know why
you say It. or why you think It's true,
but please don't argue with me about it
now. I'm so tired that I'd almost like to
believe it myself."
Prof. Etilllter pricked up his ears at
that; for he knew very well that want
ing to believe a thing lives next door to
believing it If Celestia eouid me made to
believe what Tommy had told her, her
Influence would be at an end. She would
have to be got rid of. The professor
trembled. The triumvirate would be fore
putting her underground. 80 would be;
but he would be for putting her, not In
the grave, but back In those vast cav
erns whence she came, and where he,
who had power over ber, could visit ber
at his convenience.
He wanted the woman more than the
triumph of that cause in whose Interest
he had trained ber so palntaktngly for
so many years.
Let her believe. He might be willing
to help convince her. He wasn't sure.
"If," said Tommy, "I can show you
their cave If I can find It then would
you believe T"
"I don't know," said Celestia Tn
so tired. Please don't talk to me about
It now." Then she smiled at htm and
said: "It's a wonderful Invention, though.
Find the rave first and then talk to
me."
''Celestia don't you want to believer'
Then Prof. BtiUiter heard a sound that
almost made him foam at the mouth.
"Blie doesn't want te believe," he thought.
"and the will and her usefulness will be
at aa end, and she will belong to me.
Why not anticipate a littler'
He stood there trembling. He heard
Celestia enter her . state room and lie
down with a sigh of weariness. He
listened for a long time. The sound of
'her breathing told bun that she bad not
In-Shoots.
Some men are like cuffs on trousers.
Of no partioular use and not ornamental,
either.
The man who has once bee.1 an easy
mark feels that be has been marked
for life.
Kxerclse that a boy Ukes In the gyro
naalum always seems to benefit hint
more than that secured by weeding the
garden.
yet gone to sleep. And, anyway, It
not In his mind to disturb her now. That
would be for later, when the train was
In motion and the lights out.
80 at last he walked stealthily off to
his own oar and called for a big glsss
of brandy and soda.
Meanwhile Celestia lay on her bed, her
hands folded on her breast, and ber mind
reviewing and reviewing the statements
that Tommy had made.
And under the bed. trembling with
hatred and excitement lay Mrs. Quns
dorf, waiting for that time when Celes
tla's regular breathing should tsll ber
that the defenseless object of ber hatred
was sound asleep. -
80 tense were Mrs. Ounsdorfs mosttles
that the handle of the stabbing knife
which she had drawn from her stocking
was wnt In her hand.
(To Be Continued Monday.)
Bj Virginia Terhune Van Je VTar.
(Copyright, Hi, star Company.)
The natur.-il courtesy tf small children
la ronspli'uoua by Its absence. Some
mothers Inflst that to demand from a
very small child good manners Is un
kind. There are peop'.o who lave children as
a clou. Other;, love them, aa they love
grown people, for their attractive and
plenslns quaWic. The youngster lw
Is Ill-mannered la seldom lovable.
We remark aomellmes with regret
more ' fri,fiiently with aelf-eongratulation
that we rannot see oursnlvea as others
reo us. t wonder If parents ever see their
children aa other se them. Not often,
1 fancy. If they did they would teach
lhm the snoet courtesies of life.
A child la no hsppler for helng allowed
to ea( like a little pig Instead of like
a small gentleirsn. We would i.ot have
our hiy and etrls eelf-eoneoioiie ptig,
always thinUlns; of their manners. Then
let them learn front the first the cor
rect way to handle knife, fork and spoon,
to chew noiselessly, to reply" ' politely
when spoken to. In short to practice
suMi behavior that they will always be
at ease in the best society they may te
called upon to enter.
Last week I was sttUnc 00 a friend" s
veranda, chatting with two little girls.
I had never met the parents of either.
When I arose to go Into the bsose to
get a bit of sewing, one of the children
rose to her feet and remained standing
until I was gone. A few minutes later,
as I returned to the veranda, I saw that
ah had resumed her seat, but as soon
aa I approached ahe sprang up amd stood,
until I was once more seated. Then she
sat down. Her companion had remained
at ease in a hammock, lolling back
among the cushions.
Later, when the children bad bade me
good by end taken their departure, I
aaked my hostess about them. - She
smiled at my question. 1
"I know why you ask why they are,"
she said. "It Is because one has such
pretty manners, and the other none at
all. Isn't that It?"
"Tes." I acknowtedged. "K la I fan
cied that they must come of fsmllles in
entirely different spheres."
"But they don't, my friend Informed
me. "The little girl wboee courtesy Is
so marked Is the daughter of a mother
who has never permitted ber to be 'dis
courteous. It Is as natural for her to
rite when sn older person rises aa It Is
for the other child to remain seated In a
comfortable hammock.
The parents of the latter do not be
lieve In trammeling the ysun. They say
they will let Mary alone until ah ie old
enough to notice the manners of others
and to oopy them."
Why T 1 wondered. Is any courtesy
as perfect as that which la a uncon
scious as breathlturT Oris of the most
court sous boys I ever knew was taught
to take off his cap to ladies by the time
he was old enough to discard baby bon
nets. Would he, as he grew older, have
been any mora comfortable In polite so
ciety if he had te make aa effort to
remember to take his bat off?
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