THE 'REE: OMAHA, .SUNDAY. JANUAUY 23. 1921.
Heart Secrets of a
'Fortune Teller
Rival Composers
By Charles Dana Gibson
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rubiished by Arrangement With Life
, By RACHEL MACK.
The Sure. Cure.
Sjiac week, ;igo I was visited by
C Vman v.io was atl worked up to
v. fit of nervous prostration from
rryin' over lier daughter. To
akt a long story short, this daugh
ter was crazy over" a certain young
num of short acquaintance a sort
A tailor's dummy, handsome and
nifty in his clones, but havin' a
whole tipper floor to rent when it
came to brains.
Daughter uas a sensible, reason
able girl as a rule, but had gor.e
iilum batty over this young boo',
and was determined to see him, witii
or without her parent' consent. It
was a delicate little situation
"Madam," I asks, ' have you oa
posed this attachment that your
, daughter is so strong for?''
"I have!" hc answers. "I have
opposed it in every '.vay possible
Percy is the only you up man of my
daughter's setf who is not allowed
in our home."
"Ahem!" I says thought fully. So
there's no welcome message on the
door mat when Percy rings the be!!!
Why the quarantine"?''
"Simply because I can't allow
t-ven a falling acquaintance between
ray daughter and this unprincipled
loafer. It might lead to something
serious, and I had rather , see her
dead than unhappily married." -
.Sure yon would! I soothes.
'YVeHisit beyond my comprehen
sion," she says. "I can't understand
rhat a girl like Mary would see in
him. She's well educated and has a
keen mind. She likes to read and
sue keeps up v ith what s going on i
in the world. But Percy !
"Yes." I says, "I can guess the
rest. Percy's never read anything
deeper than the dope sheet in his
life, and hasn't brains enough to
come in out of the rain or pull down i
a self-supportin' salary. He's too!
b'.isy dodging bill collectors to cul
tivate regular office hours. He pirts i
his hair in the middle, wears pink!
,:n. .: i ! -
Iiapers merely for the purpose of
scein'. Whether the style in gents'
scats has changed over night. I sec
by your sad expression that the de-1
scription more or less fits Percy! j
Such being the case, we can now :
proceed to business.
"In the first place, madam, you've
aroused your daughter's interest in
this young feather-head by refusing
to allow him in your home. You've
wrapped him neatly in a sugar-coated
package, marked 'forbidden,' and
then you wonder why she wants to
open the package and peep inside.
"But why," the mother argues,
The Married
A Trip to the Battlefields Gives a
a 9 9 .
uumpse 01 ine xiorrors ot war.
"It looks like ah endless field of
brown weeds!" Helen gazed over
the rusty barbed-wire entanglements'
that stretched for miles before the
front line trenches.
"" "About time they , cleared this
away," Warren strode on ahead in
theynarrow path cut through the
wire.
"Why, isn't this the part they're
aing to leave just as.it is for a
j.figVimage ground?"
. "Trust the French to makei the
most of show places for tourists."
"Dear, why shouldn't thsy? Sure
ly they've suffered enough they're
entitled to anything they can get out
of it now. Oh, he's calling to usl"
Back in the road waited the car
that had brought them from Rheims.
The driver was waving and shouting
excited French,
"What the Sam Hill's struck him?"
; "Oh, it must be that fcig shell
hole He wants us to go around the
other way. We should've let him
come with us." '.'
"Guess we can get about on our
own," grumped Warren, poking a
trailing wire from the path with his
cane. - "
It was his deep-rooted aversion to
guides that ,had brought them, out to
the battlefield alone. Helen had
wanted to take one of the many "per
sonally conducted" tours from
Parts. But Warren, scoffing at the
ubbfneck wagons, had chosen to
worfc out their own itinerary.
"Oh, how awful " Helen paused
by a weather-stained sign:
"'It is a despicable and unpa-
triotic deed to take as souvenirs
any human bones that may be
, found on this battlefield. Any
such should be reported to the
provost marshal at Rheims.' '
"Surely that wasn't necessary,"
she resented. "Nobody would do
anything so barbarous."
"Huh, most of these tourists are
souvenir mad. Th'd take home a
skull if they found one and use it
for a tobacco jar."
Further on -they approached the
wrecked German tank they had seen
(mm the: road. Eerv detachable
part had been carried off. leaving
only the hull that suggested some
pre-historic monster.
. It -hadbroken down and been
abandoned in the deep mine crater
in which it lay. The greaN black
cross and some German lettering
were still visible through the rust.
A gaping hole and the battered
plates mutely , testified . to th ter
rific shell fire.
"Some of your fool tourist' stunts
--always scribbling their names over
everything," . pointing a disdainful
cane .at the chalked names and ini
tials. "Fred C. Baker Hartford. Conn
U. S. A." was a bold and recent
signature on the rusty armored
plate.
Js a child. Helen had heard the
old adage,-"Fools' names are, like
their faces always seen in., public
places," and ever after had a con
temptuous aversion for that form of
publicity.
"Then this was No Man's Land
-Jirtnure the tank broke down?"
" "Yes, and it mighty near got
through. There's the front line.""'
At they made their way back,
Helen" paused for a closer inspec-
. tion of the grass-rown trenches.
They were neither so'deep nor so
wide as she had pictured. Those
shallow ditches could not have
given much protection. Some half
buried sand bags and rotting sup
ports were still in place.
Past. the rear lines, and they re
turned to the waiting car.
. A mile further on they ap
ey ap
r Jigni-
proached the great lort
Fompelle. Again the driver
.tied his eagerness to accompany
"can't Mary take my wrd for these
firings. I am older. know the
ways of the world and am a judge of
mt
CUT
"Quite true, madam," I reasons.
"But any girl who's willin' to take
somebody's word concernin' a good
lookin' male has either lost interest
in life or is feelin' bilious. A long
as she's normal and not sufterin'
from the aforementioned ailments,
she's got that cravin' to sec for her
self. Had you ever thought of that?"
"V she admits, "I hadn't."
"Well." I says, "your daughter
seems to be one of the normal va
riety. This man looks pretty good
to her from -where he sits. She
sees he's good-looking and a neat
dresser. But how does she know
there's nobody Ivjmc in the top flat?
Why don't yon give her a half chance
to see for herself?"
"Do you mean," she asks, that
I ought to allow litem to be . to- j
grthcr?
"I wouldn't only allow it," I says; j
"I'd encourage it. Let her cut all!
her friends except Percy for a I
ionth. Throw them together every
chance you hav'e. Sec that she hasp"
long chats with him without anyin-
interruptions as many nights in the'
week as she chooses. If he's as;
brainless as you've .pictured him
she'll -fie yawnin' in his face before
the month s out.
"Well," she says. " it seems a
ruthcr dangerous thing to do, but
I'm almost willing to try it."
"No risk at all," I remarked. "I'll
Make my fee on it. Promise me to
drop in again in a month and rc-r-orr."
Yes, the month was up today, and
sure enough she came back to re
port the game.
"Did it work?" I asked hidin' my
natural doubts and fears under a
smilin' countenance.
"Did it!" she osclaimed. "It was
wonderful. It didn't take a month
to have her yawning in Jlis face. A
week was enough,"
"A sure cure, was it?" s.
"Yes," she says, "Mary ia(Ho
lutely cured. After there was no
necessity for them spending their
time planning how-to get together
again, they had nothing in common
left to talk about. All the romance
was gone!"
"Well, madam," I says, "I guess
you wonderin' where I got the idea?
Why from watchin a few married
couples in these flats. Some of
them tried the Sure Cure too late.
They waited till after the ceremony!
Awful mistake.
Next week The Way of a Man.
Copyright, 1121, Thompson Feature Service
Life of Helen
By Mabel Herbert Urner
them. But Warren motioned him
to stay in the car, and they started
alone up to the white clay fortifi
cations. All around was utter devastation
not a tree left standing. Here
and there a pile of enabling stones
marked the ruins of some peasant's
cottage. v
They followed the narrow-gauge
railway, built to convey supplies, un
til the rails entered a tunnel, now
caved in. From there they were
forced to climb over steep rocky
paths, that recalled Alan Seeger's
famous poem, and the line, "Up
the bloody slopes o La Pompelle."
' The summit gave a view over
miles of ravaged fields, and in the
distance a shattered village. Helen
pictured the, night bombardments
the deafening cannonading and
shrieking shells.
Now the silence was intense. No
signs of life, noffcven the twittering
of birds, for there were no trees left
to harbor them, and no leaves to
rustle, in the wind.
They began their descent on the
other, side, past yawning mouths of
many dugouts It was like a great
mound of burrowing animals, now
extinct.
"Why, it's a stove pipe!" as she
tumbled over a rusty, protruding
pipe. t
"Must be a dugout under here.
Hold on, you'll break your neckl"
Eager to trace the source of the
pipe, Helen half slid down a steep
bank to the mouth of the excavation.
It Avas a large dugout with over
head rafters. Shelves had been cut
in the earth and held in placs by
wire netting. A broken stove lay
near the corroding pipe. A tree
trunk that supported the rafters had
also, from the bristling nails, served
for a clothes rack. f
The ground held pools of mud
from a recent rain, and the walls
oozed dampness.
"Think of living in this for mouths
eating and sleeping. We don't
know what hardship is! Oh dear,
I can't he1pLfcut be glad you never
got over."
"Tried hard enough," growled
Warren, for the fact that because' of
a valvular hearty he was three times
rejected still rankled.
"Oh, it tunnels way back! I wish
we'd brought a flashlight."
Warren struck a match and they
penetrated the blackness beyond. Aj
the passage grew shallower, " even
Helen had to stoop.
"It branches off here! I wonder
where this leads?"
"Probably down to tke road. Thcv
hid a network of tunnels under the;e
forts."
Thinking he was following. Helen
turned into the branch passage. A
faint gleam of daylight ahead lured
her on.
A thud of falling earth!
Terrified she turned to find the
tin Btm f Bails.
Sanatohiu
This institution is (he only one
in the central west with separate
buildings situated in their own
grounds, yet entirely distinct, and
rendering it possible to classify
cases. The one building being fit
ted for and devoted to the treat
ment of noncontagious and nonmen
tal diseases, no others beine admit
ted; the other Rest Cottage beinj
designed for and devoted to the
exclusive treatment of select mental
cases requiring for a time watchful
care and special nursing.
and Warren
passage back of her partly caved in.
""Warren! Warren L" .'.he screamed.
"Stand -still 1 Don't move!" his
voice seemed far away. "I'll come
to you."
"No, you can't! It's -falling more!
T can Ret out this way there's
opening just ahead."
"Go on, then ! Call when you're
out! I'll wait here!"
Helen's heart beat sickeningly as
she groped her way toward the light.
"All right!" she shouted back. His
answer was like a far-off echo.
An anguished live minutes fol
lowed. She had conic out on an
other side of, the fort and could not
tell in what direction they had en-
ftcrcd.
"Warren! Warren!" with "visions
of him lying beneath another ava
lanche his escape cut off.
At last a distant "Here!" brought
a surging relief.
Following his voice, she saw him
hurrying toward her. ',
"Why in blazes did you turn' off?
Well, that, ends" your exploring." he
tucked her hand through his arm.
"Oh. you were frightened about
me, weren't you?" with a thrill of
elation," for ""Warren rarely showed
any concern. What did you think
when I was cut olf way under
there?" ' ,
"Thought you were a damn fool
lor poking into that hole," shattering
her hope of a sentimental moment.
"Hello, son, where'd you come
from?"
A ragged little boy had suddenly
appeared from behind a steep mound:
Apparently a self-appointed guide
to the fort, he darted ahead to the
entrance of still another dugout.
"Voila! Voila!" as he entered,
beckoning them to follow.
"Nothing doing, young man. Had'
.-.II the dugouts we want for one day."
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The child's face fell, then he flew
cfT in another direction, looking back
over his shoulder to be suf'e they
were following.
This time his destination was a
deep mine crater, by which stood a
rough signboard with several lines
of French. Chattering shrilly he
pointed to the sign, then ran across
the chasm on a narrow, rickety
board.
"Fit chance of us walking that
tight rope," shrugged Warren, tak
ing the longer path around.
"Dear, hadn't we better go back?
We've seen about all there is, and
we shouldn't keep hipy waiting too
long," thinking of the mounting fare,
for they had hired the car by the
hour.
"Yes,- guess we've had about
enouh. Vllerc. Buddy, show us the
way back to the road," pointing in
that direction. "You ought to know
some short cut." (
"He understands. He's really very
bright," commended Helen. "I sup
pose he lives in one of those huts
up the road." . ,
"Here you are!" Warren thrust
two francs into the eager grimy
little hand.
As they dro;e off, Helen looked
back over the shell-plowed fields to
the ayeat white fort, a gaunt mon'i
menr above all that panorama of
devastation.
The sombre silence, the setting
sun, and a chill wind emphasized
the desolation of it all.
' "Pear, I feel so depressed," nestl
ing closer 'to Warren. "Those dug
outs will haunt me for days. The
,horror and filth of living in those
underground hovels!"
"Pretty grim, Kitten. Brings the
whole deviltry of war mighty close.
Y'ou'd think these countries' over
here would be fed up wth fighting
and willing to get back to work. But
they vc all got a chip on their shoul-
er and thcv re a-H looking for an
other scrap!" s
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By WILLIAM F. RIGGE.
A few weeks ago Michclson'of
Chicago, injjde the great announce
ment that he had measured the star,
Alpha' Ononis, and found its vol
ume to be 27,000,000 times that of
our sun. Only a few days later
Mitchell of Virginia, corrected this
as an underestimate and rut i( down
as 200.000,000 times the volume of
the sun.
Now Sliphcr of the Lowell observ
atory, Flagstaff, Ariz.,- makes a spec !
announcement and says the nebult
Dreycr, No. 584. in the constellation
of L'cttis, the Whale, is dashing
through space away from the earth
at the velocity of "almost 2,000 kilo
meters, or over 1,200 miles a second.
It is hard, if not impossible, for
us to form a correct idea of what
this speed really mea-is. There is
a question here of the bodily trans
ference of a material object and a
gigantic one at that n;;d not of the
propagation of a wave in which the
particles of matter move oi.ly over
a very minute space. Thus, when we.
hear a 'distant sound, the body pro
ducing the sound does not come to
us, nor docs the air t'jet is near it.
It is only the sound waves that come,
and these consist only of a fo an;!
fro motion of the particles of air.
But in considering the speeding
Dreycr, we are speaking of 'he mo
tion of a body as a whole and of its
transference to another place. In
scientific language we werflTd call
this molar motion, in opposition to
the molecular onof heat as "well as
the small vibratory one of sound.
Passing over the customary ex
ample of a railway train moving
with a speed of 60 miles an hour,
i. e., a mile a minute, or oVe-sixticth
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The heavens 'abound with exam
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almost the typical velocity of an iso
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highest on record is about 360 miles
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nebulae, as. a class, travel' much'
faster. The highest speed hitherto
found by Shopley of Mount Wilson,
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nebula. N. G. C. 4594 of 1.180 kilo
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