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SAYS 30 YEARS
IS NEEDED TO
REBUILD EUROPE
High British Official Sees Lit
tle Chance of Quicker Re
turn to Pre-War
Stability.
London "It will probably take
50 years for Europe to regain its
pre-war stability and settle all the
various disputes and conflicts going
on in Europe today as a result of
the world war."
That was the considered state
ment to the International News
Servire of a highly placed official at j
the British foreien office in close
touch with all European develop -
nint tnrtnv
A In Russia lie x ventured the
ct.itempnt lh.it it would he at least
two years before trading on any
worth while scale could be establish
ed with Russia, presupposing there
was today an acceptable allied plan
which could be carried out.
"If all the freight cars in all the
European countries England in
cluded were gathered together and
'then sent into Russfa there scarcely
would he enough transport to meet
Russia's immediate needs." he
stated. ' .
"If all the European railway wag
on works started working overtime
today and kept at it for 10 years
then Europe's transportation service
would begin to be satisfactory. -
"In Russia, for instance, but six
out of every 100 locomotives are in
condition to be of any service, parts
have been removed from the others
for repairs. Practically all the loco
motives are burning wood fuel.
Similar conditions exist in Poland,
Roumania, Serbia, Bohemia, Hun
gary and Austria and in large areas
of Germany and some sections of
Brlginmand France."
This official was pessimistic about
an early termination of the intermit
tent and prolonged meetings of the
'"allied supreme council.
"It looks like they will be meeting
for year's trying to settle or keep
lettled such things as boundaries,
mandates and superimposed interna
tional decisions.
"The situation is quite ' different
from that of 18 months ago when
the allies had huge armies to carry
rout their decisions."
MASCULIZATION
OF, 1920 GIRLS
DISTURBS HER
0r. Arabella Kenealy De
scribes Modern Costumes of
Feminine Species as "Lax
and Decadent."
London, England Take it from
Dr. Arabella Kenealy, the modern
female of the species is becoming
increasingly lax and decadent in tone
and manner, in dress and no more
is to be compared with the "Vic
torian maiden "whose ennobling in
fluences did so much for her genera
tion." Such is the theory developed at
ength by Dr. Kenealy in her book,
'Feminism and Sex Distinction,"
1 urt printed. .
"For the most part," she says, "the
.'aces of our handsome -women are
pre-eminently pagan bold sophisti
cated, clever, witnout sweetness,
softness, imagination, sensitiveness
in a word, without soul."
Jumps from 16 to 26.
Dr. Kenealy declares that girls
brought up on modern strenuous
methods skip the years between 16
and 26 at which latter age they ap
proach the 40s in constitution and
temperament.
"At 26," states Dr. Kenealy, "they
are even keen on politics, cards,
finance, resorts, pre-eminently of
materialistic middle-age."
This, she says, has led to develop
ment of those young colts known
as flappers, with ungainly move
ments, crude mentality and manners
r and without charm. Dr. Kenealy is
shocked by the hearty manner in
"'V. which English girls' colleges have
V taken up sport, which, she declares,
makes women have a combative
habit of mind.-and develoos girls into
i- being half men.
Engage in Fierce Contest
L "Here are seen," she says, "ab
sorbed in fierce contest during the
exhausting heat of summer after
noons, grim-visaged maidens of
sinewy build, hard and tough, and
set as working women in their for
ties; some with brawny throats,
square shoulder? and stern loins
that would do credit to a prize ring."
T" Tr I Jt . 1 ' . r
ut. iciieaiy uetiares mis type oi
woman does not bear manly boy
babies but, instead, become mothers
of neurotic, emasculate bovs. She
maintains that unless the masculiza
tion of girls is halted the race will
become physical and mental degen
erates. Woman, 60 Years Old,
Develops High Kick '
To Reduce Her Flesh
London, Eng. Another of the
many methods for flesh reduction
which crop up from time to time is
high kicking. ,
" This practice has been seized upon
by many members of the fair sex
and the women's clubs and Turkish
baths are giving special facilities to
women who are taking up the fad in
the hope that their too solid flesh
will melt.
In one woman's club there is said
to be an old lady 75 years who has
succeeded in kicking to a height of
five feet one inch.
Another member, to whom the
committee complained because she
disturbed people by her gymnastics.
said that she had reached four and.
one-nait teet and that she had lost
two pounds in weight.
This latter member, admitted to
60 years and said that she ws out
to beat the record attained by the
75-year-old member;. '
Until the railway was projected
Tramp's Landing was, in the words
of those who knew it, no place at
all; but somebody marked otf a line
on a map, with due regard to the
way in which deep water came close
in to the coast, and shortly after
there were two or three wooden
shanties at Tramp's Landing in ad
dition to sundry tents. This period,
which was one of theodolites, levels,
and much bad language on the part
of the surveyors, was followed by
the period of many shanties instead
of few and a certain flimsy structure
which called itself a hotel but was
really a boarding house where one
might calculate with reasonable cer
tainty that hash would be the plat
lu jour.
Squat steamers vomited cranes,
steam navvies, trucks, rails, and a
1 medley of other things on the flimsy
i Inokitiir temnnrarv niiav. went awav.
' and came hark hrincrinir more stuff
' for flip raihvav line. Trunin's Land-
hie, with the snobbishness . that
comes of sudden prosperity, thought
of changing its name to something
more euphonious and meanwhile
the line Went on until the cutting
through tlje coastal hills five miles
back was nearly completed.
By that time Margetson and An
gie Margetson, his jjaughter, had
come to stay aJf the urand hotel,
which was really a hash slinging
boarding house; Frank Hastings,
more commonly known as "Bruin,"
Irom ins size and quietness, had
come out as paymaster for one of
the contractors; and Olaf Hendrik
sn, the Swede just as big but not
quite as quiet as Hastings had
come to take charge of a steam navy
y They were drops in a big stream,
these four. Margetson, who would
never make good because he drank,
fraternized to a, certain extent with
Hastings, while Olaf tried to make
love to Angie, who,, in the opinion of
practically every man at Tramp's
Landing, ought never to have come
out with her father. For the life
was rough, as it is always in a con
struction camp or town, and women
are few; certain of the men had
brought their wives, but neither the
wives nor their husbands were of
Angie's type. She was, as Hastings
summed up, "fine gold all through."
Most of the others were alloy of, a
moderate, grade.
Margeston, in charge of a gang
in the cutting, risked the loss of his
job with a drinking bout that lasted
two days for that period he did not
come near the hotel, and Hastings,
each time that he came in for meals,
pitied Angie, who at by one of the
flimsy windows looking out in case
her father should return. The second
night" when Hastings came in for
dinner Hendrikson was with her.
smiling at her in a way that Hastings
disliked. But, as he knew, it was
none of his business. After dinner,
having one or two affairs to settle
outside, he went out to find the men
whom the affairs concerned.
Three-quarters of a moon rode in
the clear sky, and, having settled
the business that brought him out,
Hastings walked up beside what
would some day be a railway line,
toward the cutting. Semi-tropical
foliage had been bruised and spoiled
on either side of the new way
Hastings caught at one point a
scent that was not unlike a Niel rose,
and the fragrance brought back
Angie Margetson ,to his mind.
Wife Claims Her Husband's
' Silence is Cruelty-Courts
Have New Problem to Solve
Man's Plea Is That Silence Is Golden and Cheapest Way
To Maintain Peace Is to Keep Mouth Shut Clerk
Of Court Inclined to Side With Wife.
BY MARGERY REX.
By Universal Service.
Silence is said to be golden so
much so in fact that it is often the
easiest wa to purchase peace, a
common household discovery.
But prolonged quiet arising from
a grouch or peevish state is apt to
cause heartbreaking tension. In
London recently one Mrs. G. J. Hill
sued her husband for a separation,
charging abandonment, all because
he hadn't spoken to her for more
than three years.
Sir Henry Duke, the "president",
of the divorce court where the suit
was heard, denied the charges and
refused the wife's plea, saying that
"not speaking" did not constitute
abandonment in any way.
Stubborn Silence.
"Not speaking" seems cruel and
unusual punishment for a wife, who,
being childless, has no other com
panion but her .husband. The Hills'
life was unusual anyway. Husband
Hill left for work very early in the
morning. He returned late at night
Their life was not especially happy.
iney started communicating by
notes. Finally it became the only
means of transferring thoughts ana
wishes.
Mrs. Hill has a vast number of
the martial notes, one of which dat
ed in 1916,1 tells her that her hus
band 'wishes to have no further
dealings" with her. Yet the wife
continued to cook and care for the
home of her sullen spouse.
A separation suit charging aban
donment on such grounds is appar
ently unparelleled.
And in America we fear the deci
sion would be the same that as
long as a husband lives under the
same roof with his wife and offers
adequate support, the fact of his re
maining silent would not be suffi
cient reason for a separation.
An English Case.
Judge Normon J. Marsh, now sit
ting in the Domestic Relations court
expressed doubt whether such a
grievance would bring a weary wife
"lief br law in the United States.
"The English case turned upon the
question of whether silence, refusal
tojjtfeak. would constitute abandon
ment Of course a woman can get a
separation for cruel and inhuman
treatment of a husband makes it
impossible for his wife to dwell un
der his roof, by one act or repeat
ed acts of extreme cruelty, she may
leave and then sue on the ground
of abandonment, even though it
was she who left
Cfte ANSWER
"Bruin," he told himself, "you're
a fool," and with that went on.
A bundle of some sort lay half in
shadow, among the trampled and
broken down greenery beside the
way. Hastings moved over to in
spect, and Margetson's face showed
white and puffy in the moonlight.
Hastings bent down to shake him,
and, grasping his shoulder, found it
moveless the man was stiff.
"O, child," said Hastings to him
self, "who'll care fofyou now?",
Yet in his heart he knew that An
gie had done most of the caring. He
lifted the body to get some inkling
of the cause of death, and down by
the right ear found a tiny puncture
that accounted for the puffiness of
the face there went about the bush
snake, generally less than a foot in
length, of which the bite was certain
and quick death; but what had
brought Margetson out here, within
I range of the snake
and its bite,
. WOllld have been
i wuuiu nuvv. u-vii uaiu aa jr.
I Hastings would nave reckoned on
finding him in one of the drinking
shacks that were inevitable in such a
place as Tramp's Landing. ,.
He laid the body out in the moon-light-and
set off back rapidly. Ar
rived at the hotel, he found that
Hendrikson was still smiling at An
gie, and he beckoned to the Swede.
Hendrikson left Angie without a
word of apology and came over.
"I want you to leave that girl to
me for a few minutes," Hastings
said. "I have some bad news for
.her."
Judging by appearances, Hendrik
son had been drinking. He thrust
his face forward and stared hard at
Hastings.
"Why, you herrin' gutted inter
loper,." he said, "I'm talkin to little
Angie. You get for tonight."
Unmindful of all who might be
in the room to witness, Hastings
clutched the Swede by the throat,
getting him off his balance sufficient
ly to run him out of the room. Out
side the door he gave a final push
that sent Hendrikson qlattering to
the 'ground, quite undamaged, and
then he waited. Hendrikson got up,
got his breath, and rushed. Hastings'
fist caught him on the point of the
chin, lifting him clear oT his feet,
and he went to the floor again and
stayed there.
Hastings bent over hirri. "Don't
come back yet, Henrikson," he
asked, quite placidly. "I'll come
and settle with you after, if vou like,
but first of all I have to break it
to Miss Margetson that her father
is dead. You get me?" V
"I will get you, you blasted med
dler!" said Olaf from the floor.
Certain men who had come opt at
the sound of a fall stayed out in
the hallway of the hotel with Hen
drikson. Hastings went back . to
the room he had left and over to
Angie, who smiled up at him.
She stared at him in silence, and
he longed to take her in his arms and
tell her that, so far as a man might,
he would compensate for the great
ioss that had come to her. While
she stared, and he saw fear growing
in her eyes, he reached out and
grasped both her hands, n
"Miss Margetson," he said. "I
don't quite know how to tell you "
"He is" she made a long pause
"dead." Slie did not ask, but stated
it, and Hastings could only bow his
head in response.
She stood up, not attempting to
"The case brings up the question
of whether or not silence would
justify a wife in leaving her hus
band and then suing him. I am
afraid the decision here would be
the same as that across the water.
"Every case must stand on its
own facts, and these must be
proved. There are always surround
ing circumstances. What is cruelty
in one case is not in another. A case
similar to this one in England
would be heard here in our supreme
court."
George P. Richter, chief clerk of
tlfe Domestic Relations court, who
is called upon to patch up many
frayed-out households, offers as his
opinion that continued silence is
extrene cruelty and, as such, might
be legal reason for a wife to part
from her bjisband.
"When a woman lives alone, but
for Irer husband, and he refuses to
give her the benefit of human com
panionship, and the home is such
that an outsider would hesitate to
enter, he may well be called cruel.
"Of course, there would be the
difficulty of proving the charge if
no one knew that silence reigned in
the house.
"Such treatment constitutes actu
al punishment, I believe. Yet, I
think in nearly every case of- such
incompanionship there is an under
lying economic difficulty."
Often Efficacious. ,
Silence as a correction for trouble
is usually efficacious, according to
Miss Rose McQuade, porbation of
ficer. "I often advise men who have
nagging wives to take their hats
and go out for a walk as soon as
the angry words begin That is
better than fighting back, for it takes
two to quarrel. I always tell hus
bands and wives to keep still until
the fit of anger passes.
"It is a strange fact that deaf and
dumb people come into court to
have their domestic affairs straight
ened out by the judge and each ac
cuses the other of bitter quarreling
and calling names. I always say to
them that they had better look
away from the angry one in order
to avoid hearing bitter language.
"We have never had a case of
blind people coming here for assist
ance. They seem to live tranquilly
in spite of their affliction.
"But I do think that a husband
who will continue not to speak for
a long time, is guilty of extreme
cruelty and ought to be dealt with
severely."
draw away her hands, and breathed
heavily, aud Hastings stood up be
side her.
"There's not a man or woman 'in
Tramp's Landing but .would wish to
help you bear it," he said.
"I know," she answered. "Tell me
what you know."
He teld, as-briefly and gently as
he could, how he had found Marget
son's body with the mark of a snake
bite in the neck. Whether, she
listened or no he could not know,
but at the end she sat very still for
a minute, and then: . t
She ttruck th box from
"O, daddy-my daddy 1"
Hastings bent over her, took her
up in his arms, and carried her out
and up to her room. There he laid
her on the bed and left her, shaking
with sobs. Down in the corridor
he met the hotel proprietor's wife,
fat and placid.
"I want you to go up to Miss
Margetson's room," he said. "I've
just told her of her father's death,
and she ought to have a woman with
her."
With that he went out to see about
bringing Margetson's body in for
Chemist's Scales Are
Big Enough to Weigh
Milady's Frock Today
London, Eni. Bring out your
chemist's scalds, my dear, pile on
your latest frock, hat and unmen
tionables, and let's see whether you
are really well dressed.
It isn't many months since a
scientifically keen but fashionably
dull scientist proposed one must
wear a pound of clothes for every
"stone" or 14 pounds of one's
weight.
And now, one gathers, the orig
inal "stone of weight" measure of
clothes may still prevail, but the
proportion, perhaps, is less than one
ounce of clothing for each 14
pounds on the hoof.
Fortunately Ascot race week was
a warm week. And there was only
one mild shower.
"More dressing and less clothing
than ever," was the verdict of a
witty dowager. "They seem to be
clad in a few ounces of lace."
Actual laboratory experiments
proved that one "white charmeuse
dress, veiled with a drapery of
blond lace," weighed eight ounces.
It cost 38 pounds, or $160.
-A tulle cloak worn with the dress
weighed three ounces; an amethyst
and silver clasp for the coat Vt
ounces; white tulle hat with large
gauze rose trimming 2 ounces;
silken undergarments 4j4 ounces;
white brocade shoes and silk stock
ings 10J4 ounces.
Add them yourself.
Grand total, 2914 ounces.
Seventy-five years ago the annual
production of paper in the world was
only 200)000 tons.
Extravagant
Frenchman
By GUSTAVE TJSRY.
(Owner-Editor of L'Oeuvre.) .
Paris, France All the best
restaurants, dancing places, the
aters in Paris are filled with' for
eigners, mostly Americans. In
looking about such places I find
myself almost the only male speci
men of the practically extinct race
of Frenchmen of France.
By their reckless expenditures
these Americans who left us in
uniform and have now returned as
civilians, with their wives, to cele
brate peace! raise the cost cf liv
ing sky high tor us. Our food sup
ply is dwindling.
Wouldn't we have more bread in
our cupboards, more wine in our
cellars, if we did not have to share
what remains with such extrava
gant parasites? And, thanks to the
exchange rate, theij; pleasure here
costs them almost nothing. Like
trinkets, they pick up our .works pf
,E. Charles Vivian-
burial. Outside the hotel Hendrikson
paced up and down.
"Ah!" said Hendrikson. "Time we
finished it."
"Not yet," Hastings answered.
"I've got to go and bring Marget
son's body back from the bush he's
been killed by snake bite."
"Hell!" was llendiikson's com
ment. "I'll do my best to make it for
you if I find you fooling round Miss
Margetson again," Hastings assured
him, and then he went to his task.
"In two clays' time," Angie Mar-
hit hand with all her fore
getson told Hastings a month after
her father's death. She sat with him
in the hotel dining room, where he
had told her of the tragedy. The
cutting was finished and a construc
tion camp beyond it had taken off
some of the population of Tramp's
Landing, quieting the place. Has
tings still I stayed at the hotel,
though, as did Hendrikson and some
others.
"I shall miss you rather badly,"
Hastings said. "This sort of life
has a hardening influence, and a
woman can counteract that."
Tourists to France
May Be Made Subject
To Visitors' Tax Levy
Paris, France Americans coming
to Paris this summer will have to
pay a visitors' tax if a project to be
discussed at an early session of the
Paris municipal council is approved
It is based on a law passed in 1919,
which authorizes "tourist centers"
and health resorts to levy( a tax on
visitors. This law, however, leaves
the product of the tax in the hands
of the chamber of tourist industry,
to be expended as that body sees fit.
Paris wants the right to impose a
simriar tax and to have the spending
of the product herself. George Lalou.
president of the commission on tax
es of the municipal council, explained
the project, which will soon come up
for discussion.
"There is no doubt," he said, "that
Paris can be clased as a commune
or group of communes which offer to
visitors natural or atistic curiosi
ties, as the law of 1919 ordains.
Therefore I feel certain there will be
no objection to the basic principle of
the project. But we intend to ask the
government to permit Paris to levy
and spend the tax herself. We need
all the income we can get to balance
our ever-increasing city budget.
"In return we are ready to estab
lish a special service of information
and guides for the benefit of foreign
ers. Visitors from England and
America would be met at the rail
road stations by municipal em
ployes capable of giving them all
needed information, finding th:m
hotels, showing them all the beau
ties of our city."
Russia is the oldest gold producing
country in the world.
Parasites
Calls Yanks
art, our antiques, our historic cha
teaux. I propose a tax on foreigners
on these "friends and allies" who
claim to love us. Let them share
our troubles, help settle our finances
by contributing, by means of what
one might call a "visitors' tax," to
our welfare. No matter how large
such a tax might be, it would still
be far inferior to their profits on
the exchange.
I am not forgetful of the services
they rendered us even when they
grew rich on our distress (for the
most scandalous and greedy war
profiteers were not French). Nor
do I forget that they help our tour
ist and hotel industries. I . know
they do us an honor to spend the
money they have made on us in
France. Therefore I do not cry
"The whole -of France for the
FVnch," but simply "A little of
France, please, for her own inhabitants."
i if ' r i, lllrtnlntf ttll girl rl i ,itt nr.
"I'm going back back to a man
I practically, 'promised to marry.
He's a cousin" she spoke rather
nervously "and I'm not quite sure
if I shall keep the promise when I
get there."
, "No?" Hastings asked.
"One grows, you see," she said,
'and it seems to me now that his in
terests are rather small."
"We shall all miss you badly
here," Hastings assured her.
"It's test to go I can't forget
daddy easily. And" she laid her
hand on his "I shall never forget
your kindness ypur great kindness.
I'd like to write to you"
With an effort Hastings refrained
from begging her not to go, "I was
glad to'serve you," he answered.
By one of the dining tables sat
Hendrikson, glowering moodily at
them both and whittling at a forked
stick with a clasp knife. He seemed
to get the fork of the stick to his
liking at last, and jabbed it down on
the table, trapping the handle of a
spoon. 'The action wis so sugges
tive of catching a snak- by the. neck
that Hastings could rot stand it,
with Angie there. He went over to
the Swede. "
"Hendrikson," he said, "don't do
that in here, or I shall have to thrash
you again." (
IT'ndrikson glowered up at him.
"You wait," he said, and put the
forked stick down on the floor be
side his chair.
Hastings came back to Angie, who
had heard the brief conversation. "I
should advise you to watch Mr.
Hendrikson," she said. "He' looks
murderous when he Jooks at you."
"Fortunately looks dor.'t hurt,"
said Hastings.
Since Hendrikson's steam navvy
was away beyond the cutting now.
he usually went out from the hotel
in the morning and stayed away till
night, but on the day following that
evening he came in at lunch time
and smiled across the room at
Angie.
"Mornin', Miss Angie," he said.
"Hastings about anywhere'"
"I don't know," she answered
coldly.
Olaf went out, toward the bed
rooms of the hotel. As he left the
dining room he took from his pocket
a little, oblong parcelijit looked like
a box carefully wrapped and tied,
and Angie just caught siht of it in
his hand. She heard the Swede
trampling along the bare boards of
the corridor his room was at the
far end. But absently she seemed
to realize that his steps did not go
on to the end of the corridor. She
pulled a chair back from one of the
tables and sat' down for lunch
Hendrikson, returning very quics
ly, said no more to her, nor did he
attempt to go near her table. Afic,
lunch he went out, presumably back
to his work, and Angie went to her
roomto get a hat in order to go out
to her father's grave it was her last
day before leaving Tramp's Landing.
She passed what she knew was Hast
ing's room and saw that the dooi
was just ajar that door had been
closed when she came down to
lunch, but still she thought nothing
of it. Somebody might hav$ been
in the room cleaning up..
At nightfall she watched when th
residents came in. Hastings was
late, far beyond his usual time, and
there was no sign at all of Olaf
Author of War
Lauds. Yankee Patriotism
" ...I. -M- .1 V1
General Swinton Especially Mentions Tour Through
Middle West Recalls
cagoTestifies to His
Increased During Liberty Loan Campaign.
By FORBES W. FAIRBAIRN.
Staff Correspondent I'nlversal Service.
Signal honor has been rendered by
the British government to Maj. Gen.
E. D. Swinton as a result of the re
cent investigation into the esponsi
bilit for the invention of trie tank; a
war weapon which, according to
man authorities, did more to under
mine German morale than any. other
single factor.
A purine of $5,000 and a citation of
praise were the reward given Gen
eral Swinton by the royal commis
sion which sat to determine the ex-a'-t
authorship and invention of the
landship.
Stumped for Liberty Loan.
General Swinton is exceptionally
well known in the United States,
wiiere he assisted the governrnent in
the Liberty loan drives in the spring'
and summer of 1918. From February
to July, 1918, he stumped the country
from coast to coast, telling the tale
of the tank to vast audiences in
New YorkChicago, San Francisco,
Detroit, Philadelphia, Omaha and
other principal American cities.
1 he citation reads as follows:
"This officer, acting outside the
scope of his general duties, made an
important contribution to the in
vention and adoption of the tank.
This included, first, the conception
in October,- 1918, of a machine gun
der.troyer of tke general character
of the tank; second, the persistent.
energetic and successtul advocacy
from then onward of the value and
feasibility .of the employment of
such an instrument of warfare; and
third, the specific definition in June,
191b,' of the necessary character
istics of the weapon, the conditions
of its use and the tests which it
must be required to satisfy.
"We conceive that the terms of
reference to us do not contemplate
the recommendations of awards for
general services such as those sec
ondly mentioned above, but limit us
to those which contributed to the
invention and designi of the actual
weapons of warfare in question, and
High School Graduate
Gets Wife as Diploma
Terrell, Ok!. David Way got
a wife as his diploma at the com
mencement exercises of the high
school here a few nights ago.
Following the presentation of
diplomas to all graduates, Wray was
called upon to "come forward and
get his."
Before the audience "woke up" a
minister had made Wray and Ruth
Hightower, one of the graduates,
man and wife.
Hendrikson. This latter was strange,
for Hendrikson was usually well on
time for the evening meal.
' "I waited till you came," she said
when he came oyer to her. "I want
you to have dinner with me for the
last evening. Will you?"
Hastings looked at her hungrily.
"I'm it's very good of you, lie
stammered. "I'll be very glad if
you'll wait just a minute while I go
and scrub myself."
He went out and along the corri
dor toward his rooln, while Angie
sat down to wait.,) She faced the
table at which the Swede had whit
tled at his stick the preceding eve
ning and remembered how he had
glared at Hastings. She remembered
the little oblong parcel he had taken
from his pocket at noon. ,
And the door of Hastings' room
had been partly opened 1
These three things came together
in her mind with a faint shock. As
she got their import she' sprang up
and crossed the room so hastily that
she hurt her wrist in knocking a
chair oven She ran along the corri
dor and burst into Hastings' room
without knocking. He stood with
little oblong parcel in his hand,
from which he had cut the strniK
and torn away the paper, and, still
holding the box that had been with
in the wrapping, he stared at her
blankly.
"Eh?" he asked.
She struck the box from his hand
wilh all her force, and its impact on
the floor burst the lid open. Some
thing small and black came out and
writhed its way swiftly under the
bed.
"Oh, thank God! Thank God!"
Angie uttered, half hysterically.
Hastings stood staring and then
he, too, remembered the forked
stick that Hendrikson had prepared
so carefully. He moved a step forr
ward and grasped Angie's hands.
"Why?" he asked, and again,
"Why?"
"It was to have been his revenge,
don't vou see?" she said. "The way
my father died gave him the idea
that stick he had last night was to
catch a snake with, and he packed
it so for you to open. Oh, it's too
horrible to think of!"
."Yes," said Hastings very quietly.
"I know all that now, just as I know
my life belongs to you. But why
you?"
"I I ," she saidv and nothing
more.
"Angie," Hastings said he had
never called her by' that name be
fore "my life belongs to you now
you saved it. I want to give it
all to you. I don't want you to go
away tomorrow. I want to live to
serve vou and go on loving you.
She looked up at him, smiling,
makinsr no answer.
"Angie," lie asked again. "You
must have seen you must know
haven't vou anv word for me?"
. Still she looked up at him, smil
ing. and said no word.
"Angie," he pleaded again, bend
inj? toward her till his face was
very near hers, "won't you stay for
me to care for your
But still she smiled and said no
word.
"Answer me, Angie won't you
stav?"
She spoke with a little catch in
ner voice mat innneu nun;
"Bruin." she half whispered it,
"won't you take your answer? It's
waiting for you."
Tank Cited;
Visits to Omaha and Chi
Strong Love for America,
in respect of those latter services
we recommend an award ot ii.tHJU.
But beyond this we desire expressly
to recognize the still greater value
of that part of Major General Swin
ton s work for which a pecuniary
reward is not appropriate.
Other Tank Awards.
Sir William Tritton and Maj
Thomas Wilson were granted $75,000
for their part in the invention of the
tank. These two men actually built
the instrument of war, acting upon
the suggestions and ideas of others,
and were responsible for its appear
ance on the battlefields ot trance.
Recognition was also given Winston
Churchill, British secretary of war,
and nine others.
In discussing the reward given
him General Swinton recalled his ex
periences in America.
"I delighted in America, its cities
and-its wonderful people," he said.
"I was glad Sndeed to give any as
sistance I could in the Liberty loan
drives. Mv tour of the United States
was a revelation to me of the coun
try and its people. I certainly want
to visit America again.
"Wonderful Audiences."
"Never have I had such wonderful
audiences. In the middle west es
pecially, which was popularly sup
posed to be exceedingly neutral. I
found a great response to the appeal
of the allies. Chicago and Omaha
were wonderful in their reception of
allied emissaries. Typical of the re
ceptions given me was that at Joliet,
111., where I spoke in the Masonic
hall. Joliet, as I remember, is a
manufacturing town with a great
foreign population, mostly from cen
tral Europe Yet I never saw such
loyalty and pro-Americanism in all
my lUe. The hall was draped with
American Hags and Union Jacks.
When I entered I was so touched
that I was hardly able to speak. I
never came neater crying. I'll al
ways remember Joliet and the hun
dreds of other cities I visited. I love
America."
Electric Atmosphere
Stalls Motor Cars
Delphos, Kan. Several motor
cars caught in a severe dust storm
here the other day mysterious
ly "went dead" and their drivers
were unable to start them.
An investigation disclosed that the
cars were in an area where the at
mosphere was heavily surcharged
with electricity. All metal parts
about them had become electrified.
BRITISH ACTORS
HELD SNOBS BY
THIS PRODUCER
C. B. Cochran, English Theater,
Man, Stirs Up Tempest of
Indignation Among Lon
don Stage Folk.
By EARLE C. REEVES.
London, Eng. "That the a
temperament seems to have ski; , i
a generation of our women," isMlio
reluctant conclusion of ' Nora A.
Hcald at the close of a keen analysis
of the overwhelming success of
Peggy, O'Neil, Edith Day and Mary
Nash, American stars in London.
"We have sound actresses over
the age of 35; there are a few
promising beginners, but bi t ween
them a sad dearth of stage genius."
"The" reason for this 'dearth' of
stage genius aud for the overwhelm
ing success of the American girl," C.
B. Cochran, producer, retorts, "is as
follows :
"The British theater is a hotbed of
snobbery."
Fire of Protests.
Inasmuch as, in addition to the
above trio, Laurette Taylor, lna
Claire, Frances Starr and Leonora
I'lric are soon to complete the
Anierican girl combination of the
West End, the Daily Mail writer lias
aroused the keenest interest and dis
cussion, and Cochran has started a
veritable rapid fire of protest and
contradiction.
Thus the battle royal started. In a
letter to the Daily Express C. 1.5.
Cochran said:
"Our leading actors and actresses
think more of a nod from a duchess
or a tea party with Lady 'X' than
proficiency in their art., It is 'bad
torm' to be emotional upon the
British stage. There is more prudery
in the West End theater than in a
young ladies' boarding school at
Eastbourne.
"The young stage aspirant feels
this atmosphere directly she enters
the stage door. Instead of being
taught to express her emotions she
learns to keep them under.
"In a drama which I produced re
cently the leading lady had to play
a scene in which a young man's pas
sion overcame hni and he lost all
restraint The leading lady an
English actress of distinction posi
tively declined to allow the young
man to play the scene as I and the
author wanted it played. She insisted
the young man should not be too
ardent, giving as her reason that
she knew so many people in society
who would not like to see her in a
compromising position on the stage."
Cochran started something.
"What twaddle," said Mrs. Patrick
Campbell.
Miss Gertrude Elliott promptly
branded Cochran's letter as a "hope
lessly illogical outburst."
As Many in England.
"There are as many successful
English actresses in America as sue
cessful American actresses in Eng-
actresses in Eng-
filler declared. v
:omes not from th I
icietv," 6aid Arthui jf
I do not thint1
can give us anj J
gland," Gilbert Miller declared.
Snobbishness comes
stage, but from soci
Bourchier,. and
American actors can give us anj
points in acting."
The discussion had to be closed
somewhere, so Henry Ainley closed
it withu V
"I am the only snob I know on th
stage."
ALL NATIONS OF
EUROPE CUTTING
DOWN CREDITS
Sir George Paish, Economist,
Gives Gloomy Review of
General Financial Tight
ening Overseas.
By ROBERT J. PREW.
(rnlverxal Service Starr Correspondent.)
London, Eng. la spite of the
large percentage expansion in her
exports and re-exports, Great Brit
ain still has to pay the United
States in securities or in promises
to pay to the extent of between
$2,000,000,000 and $2,500,000,000 an
nually, says Sir George faish, ttie
economist, in a gloomy review of
the cj-edit situation.
Britain is now giving credit to
Continental nations or accepting
payment in securities for goods
supplied and services rendered
the rate of over $2,000,000,000 "
year, he declares, cut britisti pur
chasers in th United States more
than counter-balance this surplus.
The banks of every nation have
grartcd all the credit they feel war
ranted in granting, and there is
disposition to curtail existing
credits rather than, to grant addi
tional ones.
Sir George believes that the cred-
t position in Europe is more dan
gerous than the coming food short
age, which n itself will demand a
high measure of altruism if the peo
ples of Europe are to be preserved
from starvation. In the current
crop reports the harvests of this
side are less than 60 per cent ot
the amount required by the pre
war rate of consumption, and as
there is only a very moderate sur
plus available from the rest of the
world, all the nations east of
France are suffering serious priva-
Rebuilt Lorraine Villane
Hails Its American Mother
Paris Thatiks to Mr. W. If.
Crocker of San Francisco. Cal..
he picturesque village of Vitrimont
Lorraine, is the first in the deva
stated regions to the entirely re
constructed.
Vitrimont was burned bv the Ger
mans in 1914. The corner stone .-A
the new village was laid in 1916 bv
the American ambassador, William
G. Sharp.
On Sunday the last stone was laid
and Vitrimont turned out en masse
to welcome its "marraine." The in
habitants vied with one another in
decorating their new, sanitary
houses and Mrs. Crocker's progress
was a triumphal procession
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