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V THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1920. The Omaha Bee DAIIY (HORNING) EVENING -SUNDAY T THE BEE PUBLISHING COM PANT. KELSON B. UPDIKE. Publisher. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aawateaaff rn arf walcfe The Baa to a nakir. !' elaatwtT nWIM M Ik m for publication of all am dispstehM te tt r not otherwise onxttted la thii puwe, and also tae X NMieilM Befrl. All flSMS 01 DUOUCSUOa Of QUI iWIWW BEE TELEPHONES KSWpISS" Tyler 1000 Far Nlfht Call Aft.r 14 P. M. ' Mterfel Dnartawiit ........... Trier' 100OI CtrnlMM DenartaMnt .......... Trier 10OJL SdmlWas Amtw Bi . ........... Trier 1WL OFFICES OF THE BEET Main Office: 17th and Farasal 1 ft ill Ituffi IS fcotl m. I Soma Side 1311 St Out-of-Town Of ft CM! ee Tort . IN rifth Aft. Washtnrton nil 0 St Chleera Rent Bid. I Paria. France 4 Bat St. Bosom r , The Bee's Platform ' I. New Union Passonger Station. , 2r Continued improvement of the Ne kraska Highways, including the pave meat ef Main Thoroufhfarc leading Into Omaha with a Brick Surface. 3. A abort, low-rate Waterway from the - Corn Bait to the Atlantic Ocean. I. Heme Rule Charter for Omaha, with City Manager form" of Government. LABOR. AND LABOR DAY. , The columns that will march the city streets today throughout America arc eloquent remind ers of the substantial basis, of all wealth. No matter how rich the land may be in natuial s resources, how abundantly it is blessed with cli mate and other essentials for happy existence, Its riches unfold only, not before the touch of a,, magic wand or in. response to a cabalistic formula, but because honest labflr is effectively applied. .i Industry alone begcf.Orue greatness. Those who are born great often forfeit the privileges pf-thcir birth; those who have greatness thrust iipon them'generally prove unworthybut those who achieve greatness, by dint of persevefmg and, intelligent effort, not only bcuefithemselves but all the race because of what they accomplish A., J'., r...... . t-i j i , i , .uu nu Mvncst muui is in vain, i ne nuinniest task, the mosrinhsrur rnin1nunint ic un i- tesral and -necessary, part oPthe great whole. - Coie may wonder soffietimes, as ' he tofts away af an apparently insignificant job,, if he really has a share in the upbuilding of Hjc world, just as the boy on the bolt cutter may sometimes doubt if bjs work is especially of importance. But when the boy sees the splendid engine set ap and ready to do the work jt is designed -for, he V i j ii .. i ' t . Z-- - I suuuHi swcii wiui pruie, Decause ne nas naa a share in building it. Few are so gifted they can vision the coinplcted whole,, but each should ( realize- that in some wa his bit is part of the perfection to which it will ultimately contribute,' needed portion. , On? is saddened by the thought that, modern : industry has done srT much to obscure, the real glories of a completed task by alioting such smalt assignments to the individual workers. . The Joy of the working isnarred ( not entirely de stroyed, by (the monotony of the, great "syatem'a- tiztd" factory, where human energy is turned into dividends by the most .efficient and expedir change, but will buy nothing from the peasant farmer. In plain English, the- bolsHeviki have proved once more that you can not get some thing for nothing;. Effectively applied produc tive labor isnow as it always has been, the ?nly source of true wealth and happiness, public or private. fur National Bonfire. ' continue to indulge in the ex travagance l an annual fire lots that far ex eeeds the recorded experience' of any other na tion. Last year the item of fire loss' in the United States -went up to $325,000,000, the great est year's . loss on record, except that of 1906, f wnen the -terrible conflagration at San Fran cisco boosted the figure to a sky-high totz. But the 1919 aggregate is sufficient; it equals $3.13 for every man, woman and child in the country. , , Toscall such a loss appalliW does not mean anything; to say it is utterly defertseles3 means even less than nothing. Year after year Amer icans have been warned of tfje result of their car'essness, and year atter year tney go aicao, watching; millions go up iu smoke. We thought our war bill a terrible thing, and it was, but it has little on the peace charge'due to wanton neglect of ordinary. precautions. v In 1919 the loss from fire in England was but 61 cents per capita, compared-to" our $J.13; theOatcst available figures for other European countries are: Germany, 25 cents; Austria, 37 cents; France, 55 cents. No other country in the world approaches America. j Rich as.weyare, we can not afford this drain. Only a few fires not chargeable to incendiarism result from any but preventable causes. What is needed tov jolt the American people out of their casual attitude towards this disgraceful fact, and bring them to be5 more careful in the matter of handling fire? tious process ingenuity and experience can de vise. Outof this comes the unrest 'that is con sequent of unsatisfied aspirations, tip longing for something that is not supplied. nvy thus begotten takes the form of cev'ctousncss, a de- ,ire to have more, and the spiritual aspect of uiciui war h sijwt:u up in me niaicrjimsuc, and all is measured by a yardstick of dollars. When all men, whatever their walk or calling, ilL understand that Labor and Capital aje others, Xrtd tiiat Laboris the elder; lhatonly vhen they engage togetlicr in harmonious effort j Js competent Vesult and ensuing happiness pos sible, thend of Labor day will be accogiipished ! Very truth, in spirit as in name. Imposing, parades may impress the beholder! exhibiting r the dignity and force of Iabort, but it is bnl when that dignity is truly" borne and that force is : rightly employed that labor is doing itself justice and-serving the world as it should. These truisms are as old as man, as young as the day itself, because they arc true, and so worthy of repetition. , It will br a happy Labor day when all understand and admit ( them and whaV will flow froni thenu , - 6- . - 1 An Editorial Letter. Columbus.-O., Aug. 30. To the Editor of The Bee: George Washington in his "Farewell Address," delivered ScjpteibetN 17, 179$, after cautioning against jealousy, hatred, sectiotialism, etc., expressed himself concerning foreign rela tions asfollows: ' 1 a Europe has-aset of primary interests : .i which to us have none or a ery remote rela ' f Xon. Hence'she musf be engaged in frequent controverfes.- the causes of which are es- sentially foreign to our concerns. Hencje, therefore, it must he unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her friendships or enmities. . - .j Why, by interweaving our desjiny with . that of Euope, entangle our peace an pros ' "perity in the foils of -European ambition, ' rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? " It is our true policy.to steer clear Oif per manent, alliances with any portioi of the for- ; Sign world. Taking care always to keep eur- selves by suitable "establishments on a re X spectable defensive posture, ve may safely t trust tf temporary aljiances for extraordinary emergencies. ., ' George Washington, alter giving 45 years' Service to his country, was retiring to private life. He Was, perhaps,, by his long experience as well qualified to .spealf as if Hie had been gov-j-ernor of New Jersey' ipf president df Princeton v college, r. ' :' " '"V :(,?$ 'His advice 124 years ago was eound as events have proved. It i however, just as applicable "t to conditions existing today. ' Washingtop ccr tainty would not have approved of the League of Nations. What wasgcjbd for the Fatlrtr of 'His Country is good for the Children of His Country. W. G. WHEATOW ! ' v Another Bolshevik Failure, 'i In his note to Tchtcherin Arthur J. Balfcfur Scored another bullseye. .. He pointed out to the -oviet minister that whereas the bolsheviki had in every ,way sjiown the capacity of ybolshevilm 1 :to make a rich man poor, it had not been able j "to make a poor man rich.J In this, its greatest failure,-if has been most disappointing to its ' idupes. The ignorant had believed tnat.Ve""?5 " wealth were seized, it would ;b possible for them to live in luxury and even idleness, as liad the nobility and "booJiwah" under the czar. They soon found out that possession of silks and satins, of jewels and gold, did not bring food - Of. fuel. That still required labor. They have .'also found 'thj3 the paper roubles may serve I to. satisfy a cut workman as a medium of ex Sapience Such at Solomon's. An Omaha lad wanted to go to the circus. .Unfortunately for him, his father and mother are divorced, and the father is permitted under a ourt order to see'the boy only on Sunday. The circus came on Tuesday, and thel mother oljected to the father having the son on that day. Here is where the court comes in. A judge, old in yeirs and of long experience oh the bench, heard an application for an order ' A . i r . i i : . i. . 10 permit inis iamer ana son to enjoy mat mu tilate intercourse that comes only to the boy who" can go to a circus with his 95(1. , No one living.-knows as much about animals as dad; no one will be more generous in the matter or pro viding lemonade, , pop-corn, peanuts andother things that belong- with such adventure, and surely no one could be. more solcitous than dad for, the safety andcomfort of the boy on thjit day.- v ( , And this! judge, whose years have been spent in the'dn and mustv tomes of written law. or thJVhigh ether of pure reason, who has fed on the quiddities and quibbles, ihe hair-splitting and ultra refining of argument from contending law yers, her"d the prayer of this father, supported by the spiritual if hot the actual presence of the boy. No doubt the weight of at least three .score "of 'years rolled off the judicial mind as the matter was unfolded to him; he could recall his' "own boyhood, when for many days prior to tlieadvenfof the Caravan he had joined with his fellow.s in singing:' "We are going to Van Ambdrg's showl" ' - N- . " However that may , be thijijiidge, with a sa pience asnoteworthy as any Solomon ever ex hibited, ruled that a circus is jusas essentially necessary for the proper bringing up of a boy as his tlothing or his daily provender, and that no fitter companion for him could be found than his father. So the boy went to the circus with his dad, because a Judge may Je old and wise in the ways oithe world, and yet be just a little green at heart. '. -'' - ' Women in the Elections. - -. Voting women will increase majorities; The results, of all jiationarJelections, with very few exceptions, are in the air" long before ele&ion day. This year, thanks to the increasing con fidence which Senator Harding's speeches have created, and the reckless blundering of Governor Cox, which has discredited him in his own par ty,' the result is already "in the air," and is reflected wherever voters discuss public ques tions. Women are quite as quick to catch the trend of public sentiment as menand quicker in all matters involving the character -of candidates. Conviction fames to them with a flash, and on moral questions fs-arely wrong. , When a great democratic organ like the New York World puts the soft pedal on Such truths as Mr.'.Xummings told the senatorial committee investigating campaign funds, we are almost justified in believing its realization that the game is up that - Governor tbe respect of he country! A LineO Type or Two I HfW to th LIm, M tM tulM Wl vtor they My. TO THE YOUNGEST. ' Tour aister and youx brothers say ' They never used to hive their way V Sit up so late or eat such food As you, the youngest of the brood, j They'll understand when they are growrn With sons and daughters of their own. That by these foolish ways .with you VWe all their babyhoodenew. - , It. W.. THE canning season is in hill swing. This petition has been filed in Dubuque: "Athenia Tomatoes vs. 'Peter Tomatoes." ( . THE PROBABILITUDE OF CERTANCY i (From the Bismaik Tribune.) . The vote for women probably spalls cer tain defeat for the democratic party in the national campaign." ' ' s " SPEAKING of Addison, as we weret!other day, ''See AddisOn," writes J. G. G. "apropos of fashion in feminine apparel or lack of. It 'Ex tension of the female neck.' ", .' !- Relativity. 1 Sir: Laird M&cKenzie, in the course of a lec ture on deliberation for my benefit, remarked that if youVo too fast you're ajt to pass more than you overtake. f Q. V. B. THE TOONERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT ' i (From the Monterey Express.) A small grass fire caused the brniging of the fire department to Scott street Utat eve " ning about 9:30. The department turned nut. but failed to find anything that needed their attention particularly. ' AT King's theater,. London: Tuesday, "Io lanthe," Wednesday and Saturday, "Princess Ida." "I'm thefe every night," writes F. D. The How to Keep Well By DR. W. A. EVANS Question concerning hygiene, aanita tion and prevention of disease, sub mitted to Drv Evans by readers ol The Bee, will ba answered personally, sub ject to proper limitation, where a stamped, addressed envelope is en . closed. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis or ' prescribe for individual diseases. Address letters In care of The Bee. Copyright. 1920, by Dr. W. A. Evans. A Aider t a Lease. Cox has Tost i An Abusive and Unbridled Press. Georgia gives us a glimjjse of a reason why they have no room for a republican party dbwn there.: Judging solely from Hvhat'leading dem ocratic papers there are saying f candidates seeking nomination on the state ticket, a re publican party would stifle in Georgia. Honor, 'ntejrjty. reliability, . patriotism, are unknown there, if we may believe the Georgia papers. Dorse', Tom Watson and Hoke Smith, all seeking the nomination for United States Sena tor, would npt be consiJered fit for, the legis lature of anjf northern republican state judg ing solely from what the democratic Georgia pttss says of them. . x .1 1 , 'An imariKin tt Airnllcr ( c- n r( Vvn reo m r ir ?r nil tint, i ik.au iivvvuav oiie va yvuiav; Figlapd, says she wants a husband only for snort week-ends. Lots of them do indulge on that basis, but they get talked about as a result. Galveston hr-siiow America' second port of export, which may remind Omahans that ,once this citywas thenorthern terminus of, a line running to tide water on the gulf. "It is just as well, perhaps, that Mr. Baker's S9viefexperiment at the Leavenworth prison failed. If it had made good there he wbuld have wanted to try it outside. "Youan't win a pennant with aone-nan teani.' said Senator Harding, thereby showing that h knows what he is talking about. The old fashioned plan of "boardin iund" the school ma'am had torn advantages that might be appreciated now. It'sNiot so very far back, to school, but it seems a long way to little Johnnie. No wonder the bolsheviki wanted the Poles to disarm. ' ; " lucky beggar 1 Said lessee, he says, says he. ' That were said landlord absentee In Hades' deepest, hottest pit Lessee would worry not a bit; -Thsft were said landlord on the. rack, With red hot needles at his back, And then the thumb-screws wtre brought in, Lessee would gladly -make them spin. - Be damned, foul aftermath of war! , Says said lessee to said lessor. . STONE PHIZ. EN ROUTE. J. U. H. writes: "The good old days have gone when we used to detour dry states. Will cross Iowa, which has better roads than Missouri." Educational ote. ' (From "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.") The notary began again to uphold Madam oiselle Prefere's system of education, and said to me in conclusion: r' " "We do not learn by amusing ourelves." -"We learn only by amusing ourselves," I re plied. "The art of teaching is but the art of miming the interest of voune minds In order. to satisfy it later, and interest ('lert and healthy oryy in nappy minas. ivnowieuge, mrcea ana crammed inter the mind, chokes and suffocates it- In order that knowledge may be digested it must be swallowed with relish." JUDGE BARASA, candidate, for state's at torney of Cook couiity, is among eight lines of other things, a member of B P. O. Elk, L. O. of Moose, P. O. of Eagles, and O. of Owls. vvuaiuvi .Ilb I 1 . W THE AGE OF TIN. Sir: Sisrn on bIacksmithshoo in Cornish, Me.,. "No horse shlpelnsrtfone here now." Three Fords were at the door. . E. P. L. "WANTED A maid for general housework. Every modern convenience for enlightening la- borx Mrs. A. J. Stukenberg." Freeport Journal- standard, a -, Including, we hop, a daily course m "Mem ory Test." ;j 1 v- - , , THEY ARE NOW BREATHWG EASIER. (From the Army and Navy Journal.) OfuWrs and men of the U. S. Army will be pleased to learn that a cnange in tne unitorm Rtgolations of the Army has been made which authorizes them to wear trotfsers when off duty. I IT sounds fishy, but Mr. Whale is vice presi-1 dent and Mr. salmon secretary of the Durant Building and Loan association in Durant, 0':1. Y V ' Music. - Down from the Peaks of Dreams, Down from the Hills of Strife, Flows, full many a stream 4 ' ' Filled with the music of life. And richer than Ophlr is he ' Who hearing their clear melody, . , 1 Takes up his lyre and flaming sings One song as crystal as their springs. - - . , v s. - So sweet that music strange n ' (Beyond the power of lute.) ( Who knows but they who range This world, impassive, mute, Are not more rich than he whose lyre Quivers as with Auforan fire? For who catf sing as sings the sea, vOr who-hath snared Infinity? 1 ' LAURA BLACKBURN. WONDER what the writers of ads, and other things, would do without Scylla and Charybdis? SORRY. JUST BROKE OUR SAW. Sir: In Winnipeg, the.oasas in the prairie widlerness. I lamped this: ''Auto School and Barber College." You could probably do some fancy scrollwork with a caption about close shaves. - a VTN ROyGE. The L. M. V. O. N - Sir: That amiable pagan, Suetonius, in his Life of the 'Emperor Domitian, relates an -early chapter in the history of the League for Making Virtue Odious. -Imperial Caesar dropped his fly swatter to sign an edict forbidding the planting of any moro vines in Italy, and decreeing that half of the vineyards in the provinces must be uprooted. (Ch. 7.) In chapter 14 we are in formed that, due to the subtle propaganda con tained in clever Greeks couplet, , which -fras scattered broadcast, Domitian was led to mod erate his aquanacrcontic ardor and set aside his decree. We append a translation of this couplet; a translatlou which is as literal as it is exact. Though you devour me to- the root For every sacrificial use Sufficient wine I'll still produce When regal Caesar is the goat. ; ( -.:. , W. C. F. . "WANTED Young mano drive Ford anil pjck up parts in the city." Classified ads. Sometimes you can pick Up a basketful. EAT, drink and be merry, for prohibition may come at any time.- B. L. T. - -- , . , Missed His Opportunity. " , That Chicago lawyer, who wants the courts to . declare the war at san end missed a great chance llr not getting out an injunction to pre vent its ever -being begun. Pittsburgh Dis patch. , " , No Danger. Mr. Bryan has' been so' quiet for the last three weeks that the-suspicion comes that his tongue lies buried with his heart in the grave with his cause. Columbus Dispatch. . " - ; " r " ; "' ' One ' Good Turn, Etc. Townley lost the primary election and he is generously asking the farmers to put-up a, mil lion dollars for hini to lose again in November. Baudette Region. . ..v, ' f ' - The Handbag. A tailor says men'a clothing next year will be Datable for the absence of pqekets. Are we 'nearing the handbag era for the , he-people? Houston Post;.;, 1 ; " ' ' 1 Progressive Courtship. The old-fashioned man who married a belle now has a son who married a flirt and a grand son who is trying to corral a baby vamp. Dal las News. ' . A threatened strikeyof" election officials, in New York may remind the local commissioner that his jtidges am'clerks will hare no soft snap in November. '' - PREVENTING BLINDNESS, i A fairly large percentage of th blind are ' tso because of opthalmia heonatoriuni, or infection of the eye of the new born babe. There as a true- congenital blindness, but it is rare. Most of the cases of "born, oiir.a or congenital Blindness arc cases of blindness duo to infection the time of birth or within 10 days inerf arter. .. ,, Of all the infections of the new born, infections of the eyes are the mefst frequent and. t lie most serious. In most states thejlaw requires that a few drops of a hi tion of nitrate of silver shall b dropped in the eyes. Many health. departments fur nish the solution readyioue. . The instructions are to. wash the eyes with a solution of boric acid, using a pfc-ce of clean cotton. Next two or three drops of, the silver so lution are dropped' in each eye. Some prefer to wash out the excess of sil ver solution with a little salt solu tion, but the tears are rabout as ef fective a salteolution as oie would wish. . ' The reason this plan .does not give perfect protection is because so many parents are indifferent. How ever, the responsibility for the -Indifference is often shared with the midwife, nurse or doctor. Here is some testimony on this point from the Visiting Nurses' association of Chicago: - An eye of a 7-day old baby went bad. On the eighth day it was swollen and closed. By the ninth day of life it looked as if both eyes would be- lost as the result of pneu mococcus infection. .Special, nurses, the constant care by the parents and good medicaK service finally con quered the trouble and saved the sight, In another case the mother had gonorrheal flTthritis. AVhen the baby developed 'sore eyes the father tried to take care of the case during the night. The baby became blind. In another case the doctor saw the mother and new baby every fifth day. The baby got sore eyes, but the mother did not let the doctor hv.ow because he- sister's children always had sore eyes and it did not seem to-do much harm. When the docto'r called on the fifth day, pus was rolling ont of both feyes. Vigor ous treatment saved the sight. A. visiting nurse stumbled on a wellHo-do case, where a -'.practical nurso was caring for a "new born baby to a hospital. They got the baby tp a hosupltal in an WUtomobile and y hard work saved' the sight. In another case the eyes'developed infection on the fourth day. Treat ment was'instituted. vThe mother sat up all ntght looking after the eyes, while the grandmother, 'helped by a nurse, took care of things in the day. The sight was savr. Many of the cases seen by the nurses have had nothing done for the eyes except that the mother has washed them out with breast milk. Not only is washing with breast milk improper from the medical stand point, but the law specifically states' what is proper. The law is based upon millions of experiences Blind- Ly- tre,8t?te- canT his straw hat. Use Any Corn Remedy. V. S. writes: (1) "I have Just tak en a job that requires "a god deal of walking. It has caused a corn on one of my toes. I ami wearing tho same shoes as before, so it couldn't be on 'account of size. (2) "This corn has just begun. WhaC would you prescribe as a means of getting rid of it? (3) "Would-'anyl of the corn remedies on Hhe market be of any REPLY. - Wash your feet well. Dry them. Trim off the top of the corn. Apply any corn remedy. ..Reapply the remedy each night for four nights. Lift out the corn witlt a dull instru ment. If any part of the corn re mains reapply the corn remedy. K Send For Booklet. L. M. R. writes: "Could you please tell me why I have hot flashes so frequently (often dozens of times a day and fainting sensa tions) ? Is there any relief or-cure for them? I am a woman past 47." REPLY. , Send a stamped, addressed en velope for booklet, "Personal Hy giene for WOmen." One section treats of hygiene for women pass ing through the menopause. Better Wear Trusses. , R. W. writes: "I would like to ask if ther is any cure for hernia outside of an operation? Are oper ations as a rule successful for this trouble? Can- you refer me to where I ran get books of informa tion on this ailment!" , I ' REPLY. Most hernias are comfortably ak en care of by trusses. Wearing a truss is all that 'is required in most cases. A few cases can be cured by exercises to develop the abdominal muscles. As - a rule operations to cure hernia are successful. There are no books on hernia written in nontechnical terms. f - ' , K Milk Poisons Some Babies. Mrs. H. S. C. writes: "My baby Is 10 months old and breast fed, but I feel that he is now old enough to take ronie solid foods'. I have tried giving hini a little milk toast in the morning, also a little cereal with niilk, but both make his chest and neck and around his mouth break out with a fine rash which is vejsy red and seems to itch, as no scratches it. It lasts about an hour, then sappears- Whole niilk has the sam3 effect,, but nothing else he eats affects hini this way. He suf fers, no indigestion, sour stomach or in any other way from these two foods. Is this harmful, or will he outgrow it?" V ) , REPLY. Some babies are poisoned by good quality cow's milk that would be wholesome for most babies.,- Keep your baby at the breast.. At his age he nerts foods other than milk. Give him toast, hard crackers, cere als, fruit juices, strained soups and finely mashed vegetables. He can gnaw on meat bones. vWhen you try tp give him"e8w's milk again try him with milk powder. It is possible the may be able to take that, although whole? milk disagrees with him. If milk proves to be be yond him, when he gets a little old er make up for it by giving good butter, well worked up and freo from hey,' and green vegetables, especially spinach and greens of that type, i He is doing welland should continueto thrive. . Marvelous, U'aton! . , "Not all calamity nowlers are pea airuists." "Kof Further proof is needed. "Well, consider the jiewsboys." Buffalo. ExpressX- s . KpiilcTTiic ol the Future. ; If painted stockings are worn to tiny extent this sunrmer, many mcequitoes at summer Tesorts will die of painter's colic. Bistrrlngham Agc-HrJ' use? Capital "IT Romance7 B .CHRISTOPHER R. BOOTH . (From International Feature Service.) The vlhole trouole, perhaps, was that Martha Sibley spelled Romance with a capital "R;" that and the fart that Bob Dudley -was very sensi ble and practical-minded youug man who, somehow, had always refused to view the world from behind rose tinted 'fioectacles. Bob Dudley, to Martha, was evcry- hing that he should be except thajf "he wasn't a bit romantic. He was big, he was strong and he was handsome, kind and considerate. Andj viewing his rather foolhardy heroism in rescuing a really worth less poodle dog when the Waldmere apartnients caught fire, there was no question, of h bravery. But, let Martha weave-sonic fanci ful picture in her' mind with Bob in th(j very center of It and along would coipe Bob with his practical notions and matter-of-fact ways, and smash it into 1,000,000 atoms. , Neighbors Since Childhood. The Sibleys and the Dudleys lived out on- the North Shore 'and had been neighbors since Bob and Mar tha were children. They had grown Hp together and there was between them a rare comradeship, a rare com munity of interest untikMartha be gan to spell Romance with a cap ital "R." Bob Dudljy had always known, even since the pinafore days, that he loved Martha; he knew that no one else in the world would ever be able to understand him as she did; that there was no other woman on earth' with whom he could sit for an hour at a time in absolute silence and both of them feel comfortable. Despite the fact that lie was the heir apparent to $1,000,000, Bob Dud-1 1 1 1 1 . 1 . A icy nau an iuea tnaj every man should be a producer, and took the position that no man was entitled to take unto himself a wife until he had proven to .himself and to the world in general that he was 'capable of supporting her in the face of any exigency. And, by starting in as a day laborer at a strange faprory and working- himself up to the place of general manager at a salary suf ficient to support even a fairly expen sive wife, he convinced himself that he had a right to ask .Martha to marry hini. Becomes General Manager. On.t the day that Bob received for mal notice that he could move his six feet of healthy and efficient man hood into the private office marked 'General Manager," he jumped into his roadster and forthwith caused a number of traffic policemen to blink unbelievingly as a flash of color his roadster was blue slashed their vision. He used Sheridan road for a speedway and made the Sibley mansion m no time. ' Martha Jay in the hammock when he came up the path and sat down on. the steps fanning himself with it.. It was broad day light, with the thermometer stand ing 396 and. Mrs. Sibley sat at the other end of the porch, quite out of earshot, but within plain view. If1 Bob had possessed an ounce of romance, he would have waited un til the (moon was doing its romantic lluty until the heat had somewhat iutysidejl .and until Mamma Sibley was indoors. But Bob, most decidedly, was not romantic. - 1 "Martha," he said "they made me general manager today $20,000 a kycar. vvui you marry mer " Commonplaces-Proposal. His voice didn't vibrate a'-single vibration. Martha sat up in open mouhhed horror. She had been pro posed to ""many times before, but never had anything been so hor ribly commonplace as this. "Bob Dudleyi" she shrieked. Are you crazy?" '"No," he -said contentedly. "I thought ft would -be a rather sane and sensible thing to do." ."Ohr moaned Martha.. "Oh!" Bob realized vaguely that he had put his foot in it; he didn't know just what it was but he knew that, somehow, he had made a horrible mess of things. - "Why, what's the matter. Mar tha?" he Risked penitently. "I I " His confusion made Martha ab solute mistress of, the situation. "Would you be kind enough to tell me, Mr. Dudley, what givesiyou the notion that you want to marry me?" she demanded. "Well," he stammered. "I I reck on it's well, it's because you are io restful. "Restful?" repeated Martha with 1 biting sarcasm; she wanted 6 scream. "Well, is thataU?" . Bob Dudley who had' proven that he could handle a thousand men and any sort of a difficult situation in the factory, was in complete rout. "Oh, we're we're just just pals," he added lamely. - ; ' Intended Something Else. , He ' said .that just that when what he. wanted to say was that she was the sweetest and the fairest flower in the garden of the world; that in her presence his soul found peace and happiness because God had made her just for him; that she' was the One Woman whom he could face from across Uie breakfest table 'three hundred and sixty-five days in the year for as many years as a merciful 1'royidence would permit him to live, and never, grow fired of her. These things welled up 111 his breast but could not find utter-s ance. "Ohr hurfdere(k Martha. "Oh!" And she set her dainty heels firmly on the floor, flung hurt j gesture of despair and fled into the house. Mamma Sibley.-watching from the other end Of vthe, porch, pursed her lips thoughtfully. She had been young herself onee and had not for gotten it. ' . - "Bob," she "called gently. "Boh, you silly boy, come here and talk to me." , Mamma Sibley liked Bob. ( ' That evening Martha got a note from Bob, written in haste and en tirely devoid of sentiment. It mere ly said: "Going away on business. Con sider vjia,t I said unsaid." Goes to New York. Bob went to New York to install some of his efficiency methods in the big eastern plant of the company Land was gone two months. During that time Martha naa two 'picture nostcards from him. It was the. first time in their entire lives that she . had nassed more than a week without seeing him and she missed ., r . .u m:,r.A .u. tneir evenings logcmci, imum sight of himvsprawled out on the porch chair, pipe in his mouth, as he stared up in silence at her with that steady, worshiping gaze. Everything was all wrone she was dreadfully unhappy about- something but did not know what it was. ' It was the middle of October xwhen Bob returned. It was jdst dusk v when he found her 011 the porch. Mamma Sibley had suddenly disap peared indoors. - t : "Congratulate me, Martha," he " said. . "I'm going to be married in November." ' -vMartha gasped and her body stif fened; it seemed that the whole world went tumbling about her ears. "I I hop you will be happy," she whispered. "I will be, Martha, for she's the most beautiful and'the most wonder ful girl in the world." She stared at him. Was this matter-of-fact Bob Dudley speaking? "Here," he went on eagerly, "Here's her picture." He had opened the back of his -watch. Martha's eyes were so misty that shfc could not make out the fea tures. . "Yes." she said mechanically, she is she is rather pretty isn't she?". ' Kissed Picture for Years. Then suddenly her vision cleared and the color leaped into her cheeks. . It was the picture of a little girl in pigtails." "Bob Dudley!" she cried. "Where wher"e did you get that that awful picture?" "Why, Martha," he said. "I've car ried that picture in my watch ever -since I had a watch and that's been IS years. And and " he blushed. "J T'vev Lissed it everv nijrht and and every morning every single and 1 r . 1 if solitary Clay 01 inose id yens. "Oh. mv dear!" whispered Martha when she could get her breath "and I thought you weren't a bit ro mantic." Inside the window mamma MDiey smiled. ' He repeated his lesson well, she nottded. "I had to ransack three trunks for that picture, but, well, a son-in-law like that is worth that much trouble. 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