Chinatown Dens
Of London Vanish
Under Cops' Ban
Deportation Orders Drive Pro
prietors From Plague Spot
of City Houses Shuttered
and Empty.
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London. Chinatown, with its in
v'duous and degrading vices, its gam
blmg hells and its opium dens, has
disappeared,- '
Lttnehouse-causeway ind Penny
fields, once the haunts of all, the
more vicious types of almond-eyed
Celestials who drifted to London
dockland, are, no longer the China
town or iuria uction or ot one
time fact.
Xot long ago this little area. witfT
its berreu-like tenements and its
rows of smaller tumble-down houses
wrs the setting for almost unbe-
lievably sordid and decadent orgies.
During walks through the district
one se-s no. more than a dozen Chi
nese. Some of the houses are shut
tered and empty, the rest are simply
dwelling houses and no longer "re
sorts." "Chink" has stolen away,
and in some cafes mysteriously, and
the one-time Chinatown is now
comparatively law-abiding, spot,
albeit extremely unattractive.
Opium Banished.
1 he police sav they now have
vety little trouble, and practically
none ot the old sort, Jak-a-pu, the
weird eastern gambling game, is
still played by some of the tew Chi
nese, who remain, but only among
themselves, and much as bridge is
played m brixton or bloomsbury.
An experienced officer, with in
timate knowledge of the locality,
said it was now practically impos
sible to find either opium or an
opium pipe in any of the houses,
while gambling of the type that
once was prevalent had ( practically
ceased to exist.
Just Disappear.
The wave of deportations which
followed the public outcry against
the scandal, he added, had been
mainly responsible for the change,
When the proprietor ot an opium
or gambling den was caught and
fined he just paid, looked as pleas
ant as a Chinaman permits himself
to look, and carried on his nefarious
business unperturbed. Deporation,
however, had an immediate effect.
Dozens of deportation orders were
made by the local magistrates dur
ing the few weeks over which the
police "roundup" extended and
then most of those who were left
just disappeared.
Many of them, joined ships at the
docks and went to sea. Others mi
grated to Liverpool, where they were
closely watched by the police, so
closely that they, too, went to sea.
Plague Stopped.
The East( End police seem confi
dent that the disappearance of China
town from Limehouse does not mean
that a new Chinatown is springing up
in some other district., They declare
that, for the time. being at all events,
the plague has been stopped.
Opium smuggling, of course, still
i?ocs on, and there are isolated cases
of vice and gambling that are now
and then pounced on, but a man's
wife may now walk through Lime
house causeway and Pennyfields
without misgiving. She must not,
however be fastidious.
Staler Tells
Variety
of Hooch
You Have Had
If You Sway, It's Good Stuff;
If You Reel or Spin Like a
Top, You Have Been
Drinking Moonshine. y
' Chicago, 111. Even the man
ner of your stagger betrays whether
you indulge in moonshine or choic
bourbon. If you stagger from side
to side, you wil probably havehnn
dreds of helping hands and friends
about, for it is proof of the fact that
you have been drinking real bour
bon. But if you reel or spin likea top,
you probably will be passed up, for
you have 'b0n drinking moonshine.
' These are among the observa
tions of Dr'. W. P. Goodsmith re
garding the effects of prohibition in
Chicago Dr. Goodsmith has been
medical director of the Washing
tonian home for "drunks" for the
last 25 years and has treated thou
sands for intoxication.
Those Old Days.
"In the old days," said the physi
cian, "we treated 80 to 100 patients
each month for the drink habit.
Now only 8 or 10 a month come
under my cate. .
"Men who indulge now suffer more
acutely for the inebriety. The so
bering up process is harder than it
used to be, and it takes longer to
'come back' from the immediate ef
forts of drinking. This is due to the
drinking of too much moonshine.
"The effects of the rank poison
commonly sold as whisky are differ
ent from those 'that are produced by
genuine bourbon. In many cases the
intoxication assumes a more violent
form and men are disposed tqquar-
rcl and fight. C
Affects Eyesight.
"Drinking has always affected the
eyesight, but those who indulge in
moonshine are liable to become stone
blind. Contrary to expectation there
has not been any increase in the use
of drugs since ,the advent of pro
hibition. -
"The decrease in the number of
women treated for drunkenness is
even greater than among the men.
It is much harder for women to get
liquor than formerly."
Police Reserve Is Formed
By Citizens of Detroit
Detroit, Mich. Because of the
efficient work of the citizen volun
teers who aided the police depart-
' ment in its two months' campaign
against crime, ipremanent" organ
ization to be known as the Detroit
Felice reserve will be created im
mediately. Dr. James W. Inches,
police commissioner, announces. The
organization will be a volunteer
body, serving without compensation,
. and assisting the police whenever
unusual conditions demand it.
Siamese Beautv
I
Carries Meet of
League by Storm
Representatives From All Na
tions Acclaim Her Most
Beautiful Girl at Geneva
Assembly.
Geneva. Until the league of na
tions assembly met here? for
the first time. Siam was known to
the world" mostly as the home of the
celebrated twins, bad-tempered ele
phants aid rulers with large num
bers of gaily decorated wives.
Now Siam has upset these old
ideas with a rude jolt. Firstly, she
was the first nation actually to put
down her contribution in cold, spot
cash to relieve the Polish typhus
sufferers, while England and France
and all the .other big powers were
stalling and promising. - Secondly,
she has made herself known as the
home of feminine beauty. ,
Reigning Queen.
A Siamese girl was the reigning
queen of every soiree or ball given
by the various delegations during the
assembly s sessions here. Mr. Kowell
of Canada and Mr. Van Karacbeck of
Holland, and Sir Ali I man of India,
may not admit it when they get back
home to Mrs. Rowell and Mrs. Van
K. and Lady Ali, nor will any of
the, other delegates, except the bach
elors. But here at ueneva, when
three delegates got together in their
evening duds to watch the dancers,
there was no doubt about it. The un
animity rule in the league covenant
that sometimes tied up assembly
proceedings didn't bother anvone.
Korty-one nations were represented,
and all their delegates, secretaries
and clerks were for Siam in the
beauty competition.
Center of Attraction.
The Siamese belle made her first
appearance at the grand soiree given
by the French delegation at the Ho
tel des Bcrgues. Slight, oh've-com-plexioned
with just a touch of color
in her cheeks, she wore a rose-colored
evening gown direct from a
great Paris dressmaker's.
,A Siamese secretary escorted her
to the hall and danced the first dance.
Thereafter she became the prize in a
maddening scramble for dances by
young delegates and secretaries from
about all the nations of the world.
Paul Hymans of Belgium, president
of the assembly; ex-Premier Pader
ewski of Poland; Leon Bourgeois
and a host of other big ones cast ap
proving eyes as she shimmied and
one-stepped around the big hotel
hall room.
It was the same old story at
every dance, except that she wore a
different and seemingly more rav
ishing costume every time. Now,
not a single delegate believes the
story that the king of Siam is going
to leave his own dominions to tour
Europe and the United States in
search of a bride.
Women's Fashions
Are Attacked by
English Woman
Viscountess Gnmston Says
Styles Are Arbitrary Change
able, Inartistic, Un
healthy. London, England. A titled Eng
lishwoman has taken up the cudgels
for a standardized dress for women
in order to help the sex escape tne
tern dictates of fashion.
Fashion, the most autocratic ruler
in the world, has been attacked by
Viscountess Grimston.
Lftdv .Gnmston urges that women
hould adopt an independent line on
the ground that the present fashr
ions are: '
Arbitrary,
Changeable,
Inartistic,
Extravagant,
Unhealthy.
A standardized dress is advocated
in nrdr to force fashion to abdicate,
and it is desirable that it should be
smart, serviceable, beautiful and in
ccordance with healthy ideals.
Women Decree.
T.aitv Grimston reckons, however,
without the inherent changeability of
woman and her love of expressing
her personality in clothes.
"Women themselves decree that
fashion shall change," said the man
ager. "They would grow tired of
one standard dress and refuse to
conform to it generally. A woman,
unless she is inspired by the mili
tary spirit and adopts a uniform,
will not wear a dress like that o an
other member of her sex.
Supports Fashions.
"I aeree with Ladv Grimston
when she points out that -English
women must not copy tne rrencn
woman s styles too slavishly,, but we
can modify the French ideas to suit
English figures. -
A doctor is a strong supporter of
modern fashions, and contends that
they are the most healthful that have
been in vogue for hundreds of years.
"Consider the dusty trains ot early
Victorian days," he said; "the steel
corsets ot Elizabeths tune ano tne
tight lacing of -nil periods. This
country may well be thankful for
the san dressing of the modern
woman."
"Hic"-Means Same In French
As In Our Own Language
Paris, France. The curious epi
demic of hiccoughs is still raging
throughout France. Persons have
been known to have hiccoughs for
five days and nights consecutively.
Doctors are divided as to the
causes of this strange illness. Some
say it is a mild form of sleeping sick
ness, others attribute it to a com
plication of flu, of which there has
been a recurrence of late. So far
hiccoughs presents no danger, though
medical authorities say it might easi
ly -develop into something more dan
gerous unless it is carefully treated
and Attempts made to stop it.
Anemia might be one of the causes
of hiccoughs. The sickness is to be
discussed at the next meeting of the
French Academy of Medicine and
some remedy found for it.
Harriet Krone was 20 and just
out of business college when she
became stenographer for Kendall P.
Wilks. 23. and just graduated from
his state university. And Harriet
Krone fell in love with her em
ployer on the first morning of the
first day that they worked together.
It was not merely a matter of
Mr. Wilks broad, straight shoulders,
his thick black hair, and kindly,
handsome gray eyes though, as Har
riet was a very normally human
young person, it is not to be doubted
that thfse things all helped. But
lie treated her as courteously as
though he had met her in a ball
room or his mother's home, not at
all1 an unusual attitude in employ
ers, though she thought it was, hav
ing been thoroughly warned against
all business men by a sour old maid
aunt and a frightened, ignorant, lov
ing little mother.
Also, when she made a mistake,
which might have had serious con
sequences for him as well as for her,
he smiled as he corrected it, and
said that they were both of them
new to his father's business, and
they'd have to stick together and
help each other over Jhe rough
spots.
Harriet began adoring him from
that very" moment, though nobody,
least of all Kendall P. Wilks him
self, suspected the fact. For Har
riet was that thing deadly to all
romance a perfectly sensible girl.
It would have taken a very gay
and very daring-employer to threat- j
en her reputation Not that she was
homely, exactly. Her figure wasn't
bad, and she dressed it neatly if not
stylishly. Her hair was of an ord
inary nondescript sort of brown, but
there was a good deal of it., and it
was always well brushed and trim.
Her complexion was colorless, but
she did not cheapen it with splotches
of rouge, and her brown eyes and
her teeth were really very good,
while she hadn't one homely fea
ture though certainly not one of
them was beautiful either 1
With a little coquetry Harriet
might have become fairly good
looking but she thought a coquette
was indecent. She was a sensible
girl.
And so Kendall P. Wilks con
sidered her very highly as a steno
grapher and as a woman, con
sdiered her not at all!
She realized it, but at that time
gave very little heed to ways in
which she might attract his personal
attention. He was a sort of demi
god too high above her to be reached
by even a flight of fancy. As allur
ing but unreachable as the moon had
been to her when she was a baby.
So, sensibly realiznig her limitations,
she set her heart and soul as well as
her brain and body to her work, soon
became indispensable to him, and
wouldn't allow, even to herself, that
she cared when a year later, he
married Muriel Marvin, .
She had minded, however, the little
slurs she heard about the courtship.
Muriel was pretty well known as a
"beau chaser" and the other young
men in the office were censorious.
Ken hadn'f done the courting, he'd
let himself be caught by art artful
little minx that was the masculine
opinion.
Harriet resented the criticisms on
her idol's strength of character, but
she did noj approve of the match
herself. Muriel was extremely, de
liriously pretty, but Harriet, who had
been in her class at school, knew
that she -also was selfish, whining,
and the greatest little liar who ever
talked. She felt Kendall did not de
serve such a wife, but as he had her,
she set herself to work to do her
share toward making the marriage as
successful as possible. She helped a
good deal, too. Muriel was horribly
jealous, but never of "good sensible
old Hat." And so it was that "good
sensible old Hat" was able to deflect
many a jealous tirade from the de
voted head of her innocent employer,
and to explain and excuse many a
petty action or slily lie, which had
caused his honest heart to quail with
in him.
Also, Harriet took it upon herself
to see that never, m the stress of
business; did he forget the frequent
gifts of flowers and candy, gloves,
and even jewelry, which Muriel de
manded. Muriel was one of those
women whose affections are bought
on the installment plan, and the last
payment never reached by the most
generous of husbands. Kendall would
have to continue to buy her till he
died, and Harriet sometimes grimly
wondered if the payments wouldn't
have to be continued up in heaven
if Muriel was allowed to reach that
abode of the blessed, which Harriet
greatly doubted. ,
But her task of keeping a good
man in love with a bad woman was.
not of long duration. Muriel had
a baby. And having hated the idea
from the first, Muriel fought it so
successfully that the baby never
livedj and Muriel herself died. "A3
clear a case of murder and suicide
as you'd be able to find," the crusty
old doctor asserted.
It was hard to see the hurt look
in Kendall's eyes those days. Har
riet realized, though nobody else
did, that it wasn't so much the death
of his wife, as the death of his
ideals, which cut so deeply. Muriel
had shown onjy her worst traits,
and those very plainly, toward the
last.
If anybody in the office had cared
to notice, they might have seen that
during the next few months quiet
Miss Krone wore better and more
becoming clothes than usual. Ia
fact, a fa-.nt hope was stirring in
her. breast. Even, her sensible soul
was beginning to ask, "why not?"
Her deen modesty beginning to
whisper, "you might at least have a
chance." '
But she had established a reputa
tion for good, hard sense that even
herself dared not assail. Passionate
ly she wished to do something to at
tract his attention as a man and ob
stinately, she couldn't. She found
it a physical impossibility , to flirt.
Little Bessie Jones, in the outer of
fice, was about to be discharged for
her capabilities in that line, but Miss
Krone saved her official head a
whole month just to be able to ob
serve her methods. , It did no good.
Sfnsihlv. Harriet realized thai what
was kittenish in Bessie would bel
foolish in her, and, letting office dis
cipline run its course, breathed a
sigh of relief when Bessie was gone.
So Harriet was not disappointed,
though she was surprised, when
rumor once more bestirred itself
with the love affair of her employer.
Muriel had been dead nearly a year.
Kendall's sisterk who had gone to
keep house for him and now wished
to get married-hersclf, was fixing up
a match betweea him and Rhoda
Barnes. Harriet was quite certain
PROPINQUITYPLUS
By Mary Dicktrson Donahey
that the sister would succeed. She
knew her divinity well enoughto
realize that he was one of the type
of men who need a home, and a wife
not only to pet them but to be
petted by them.
Harriet merely countermanded
the order for a tailor-made suit, put
the difference between' that and a
sensible ready-to-wear one into the
bank and schooled herself to offer
her congratulations when they were
due. They were due the next week
and Harriet gave them honestly. He
remarried not quite two years after
Muriel's death,, and Harriet felt' he
really might be happy this time.
Rhoda was a very nice girl in every
way. .
And Kendall seemed happy enough
during the next few years, though
many said it could only b: a very
brave and successful pose. For on
the way home from their wedding
triD there had been an accident. No
one in the train was killed, but Rhoda
was seriously injured. It was said
that she might recover, but she never
did. She was not in great pam. rslie
was not in any way disfigured. But
she never walked again, and her doc
tor bills and bills for nursing and
massage and so on were said to be
enormous. At any rate, though the
business was doing well, Kendall
wore shabbv coats for the first time
and when" Rhoda was unable to use
the car any more he sold, it.
Then, when Harriet was 31, and
more sensible than ever, though look
ing no older than she had for the
last JO years, Rhoda, who had been
fading gradually so long, faded quite
away, Harriet was one qi me ,iew
who knew that Kendall's grief for
her was twice what it had been for
lovelv voune Muriel. Khocia was a
loving and honest soul, who had
fought her hard battle bravely and
smiled at her husband to the end.
The night of Rhoda's funeral Har
riet, though wearied to the very soul
with the responsibilities she had
borne through the last few days,
faced herself in her looking glass,
prepared for a serious talk with the
woman reflected in it.
"Harriet Krone," she remarked, "it
is given to very few girls to nave
three chances to win the heart of
the man they love. You have had
two and lost them. You were scared
out. You were too modest, iou
are no beauty, and you have no
super-woman charm, and you have
n HrpuHful reputation for sense to
h HvetUdown. But this time you
can really try. If you don't win out
it will be because you don't know
j10w because you're a fool. He'll
marrv aeain. and soon. He's only
35, and you couldmake him happier
than he's ever had a chance to be
vet. You could be the love of his
life. He would love you if he knew
the real you, and not the business
substitute he sees every day. ce a
woman 1 Harriet Krone you go to
it'"
So during the next few months
the office force gasped and won
dered who had died and left Miss
Krone a fortune. For the dollars
sensibly hoarded by her business
self came out of the bank to deck
nnt her wnmanlv self for conquest.
Even Kendall P. Wilks noticed and
gave her ff clumsy, kindly compli
ment or two which set her heart
a-flutter, it nunerea again c
tcld her how terribly he missed
Rhoda. How empty thebig house
seemed, and how the maids, whom
Rhoda had always directed, were
ne!'Ipctino evervthinar. If he mar
ried again before long, did she 'think
people would talk.'
"No." said Harriet shortly, with
downcast eyes eyes she dared not
raise to his for fear that he might
see the'glory that lay in them for
him. When a woman like Harriet
Krone falls in love, it is a very deep
and serious and beautiful thing, and
the man honored with such an af
fection should be counted among
the particularly blessed. '
This time she felt she had won
she was almost certain of her happi
ness. He might not be really in love
with her iust marrying her for
companionship. But the love would
come it couldn't help itl And
happy how happy they both would
bel As soon as he felt it was decent,
he would surely speak to her.
Then came one of the- greatest
blessings of her life. She fell ill
with the grip a few weeks later and
was forced to stay at home, in a
darkened room. And it was there,
in the merciful darkness of that
room, when her voice was expected
to be husky and her eyes weak and
watery, that her sour old maid aunt,
coming in to "amuse her," an
nounced acidly:
"I hear that mushy boss of yours
is going to get married again. After
two .such experiences I should
think he'd be a little careful the way
he let women chase him up. But
there a scheming woman ain't any
match for a soft hearted man like
he is. He mav be ever so smart in
business, but in ordinary life pooh!
He's just so much mush! Who is
it? You may well ask I t-ttie ttott
mant Four years older'n him, and
plain as a pike staff. Guess she
knew it was her last chance. They
say ever ..since his wife died she's
been running across from that little
old broken down house of hers to
his, telling him she's always been
so lonely she knows just how he
feels now, and taking him pies and
cakes and puddings.
"They do say she was pretty near
at the end of her rone. House
mortgaged to the top of the light
ning rod, relatives all sick of sup
porting her. They say she sold that
autograph letter of Washington's
that came down to her in her moth
er's family, to get the stuff to make
the baking that caught him! Lived
on bread and tea herself for months.
But you know Ef fie can cook, and
the cooking and the sympathy rack
et did the trick.
"I don't see, Hat, why'you never
took, a chance at the man right
there with him all day as you are.
He'd make you a good husband
he'll make Effie one. It's his spe
cialty. But there you're so plaguey
sensible. You ain't even interested
in gossip like you ought to be. I'm
going."
she went, and Harriet Krone was
so ill that nieht that her mother
and physician were alarmed and her
employer, frantic to think of the
condition things would be in at the
office if her illness were a long one,
telephoned about her, and then fin
ally came himself, flower laden, but
accompanied by the long, lank form
of Miss Hoffman, to inquire in per
son. , ,
"She said she was sorry for you,
but of course Kendall came first
with her now, and it was dreadful
to contemplate all the extra work
your being away would put on hi
shoulders and at such a time too.
stormed the sour old aunt "She
wasn't scarcely decent, with Rhoda
not dead 10 mouths and nothing an
nounced yet I She made vme sick.
She made Harriet sicker. But she
was able once more to offer con
gratulations with a steady face if not
an honest heart, when the engage
ment was announced, rather sheep
ishly, on her return to the office.
Faie and grim, Harriet went back
to work. Again she helped him with
cetatls of a wedding. Again she
ran things while he was upon a wed
ding trip. And now she threw her
self into her business so whole
heartedly that she became office
manager, with the salary of a man
anil the respect xt the whole lorce.
atul, however, she carried on to a
iarge extent the work of private sec
retary to Kendall Wilks, now presi
cent of the works. They had grown
up in the business together, and she
was indispensible Jo him.
The girls whispered that "Krone's
clothes were worse than ever, by
which they meant morsensible, and
wondered why she had given up the
prettier ones she had worn for a
while. But in time they forgot.
Everybody forgot but Harriet her
self that sfle had ever been anything
but a machine.
She honestly tried to forget, and
set herself to helping her employer
through the intricacies of this matri
monial venture, as she had helped
him through the other two. They
vere different, ofcourse. With such
different women, different difficulties
were bound to arise. Some bf these
were rather funny!
Effie, as a neighbor, had known of
the simple little ceremony with
which Kendall and Rhoda had re
membered the date of Muriel's death.
Effie, being extremely sentimental,
and afraid of being thougght jealous
of the dead wives, arranged a regular
orgie of anniversaries. The year fairly
bristled with them. They became a
horror to Kendall, kindly, generous
and slightly sentimental himself
though he was.
There was the anniversary of the
day when Effie had brought him
over the first pie, "baked for him
with her own hands." The day he
had first really taken notice of her,
and the day when they had finally
"understood each other." The day
of their engagement and of their
wedding; her birthday; nis oirtnaay.
These were legitimate enough. But
to them she added, with great pomp
and ceremony, the anniversary of his
engagement to Muriel, her birthday,
the date of her marriage, and death.
Rhoda's birthday engagement and
marriage and death, with the date of
her injufy added on. Effie had de
spised Muriel, and her acquaintance
with Rhoda had been slight, but she
talked of them continually. Their
possessions were undisturbed in the
house. Their portraits were prominent-Tin
the walls and in photo
graph albums. Their ideas and
preferences were discussed and
sometimes followed,
v.iriair. hrothers declared that
Trn ball's house had become indecenH
it was as iuu vi a
The fact that two of the wives
,.,.. HmH made matters rather
worse than better. Kendall himself
began to look harried. , He kept lus
iiirtiii anniversaries inuiicu iy
Harriet often
found lnm studying it wun a ki
frieht. Shamefacedly, he consuiieu
her now and then. i
As, ' it's Muriel's birthday tomor
row. Effie is so thoughtful, she says
we ought to-nave a Douquci v
Muriel's favorite flowers beneath her
picture. Lan you rememper iviuncis
favorite flowers? I can't."
Or, "it's the third anniversary ot
Khnda'a death next Sunday. Elsie.
suggests that I ask Dr. Smithson to
have her favorite hymns sung in
church. Will you ah telephone him
ahnnt it?"
T4. Hid not add that lie would feel
extremely foolish doing it himselt.
But again Harriet understood. Her
lips, which were setting in straighten
trimmer lines each vear. smiiea a dh
sarcastically, maybe, but she kept
nqje of the flowers. She arranged
about the hymns. For the first time
. . .. ar f
in her Hie sne neo lor ner employer
Effie's affection bidding her call up
on the telephone for a "word of love"
so frequently that business showed
signs of being resenttul at tne inter
ferences.
Harriet even smiled calmly into
Effie's simpering, elderly face and
withstood with cool contempt the
first unkindness she had ever suffered
from her emolovers wives. Efhe
miehtinot be jealous of dead women
but -she was worse than Muriel had
ever been about livmsf ones, and to
her Harriet was not a plainer, older,
distinctly "safe," girl, but a woman
who was younger than she, better
looking than she'and longer an inti
mate of her husband s. s '
Effie dreaded and resented Harriet
with all her might and showed it.
Kendall tried awkwardly to excuse
her once, and met a look from the
straightforward brown eyes of fjis
capable assistant wmcn maae nun
writhe inwardly for days thereafter.
Harriet's love had never lessened her
pndel
But Kendall was good to Erne. It
wasn't in his make up to be unkind
to any woman mutch less one who
had married him!
And Efhe was pathetcially, ridicu
lously happy. Her plain face shone,
her lean body grew comfortably
plump. She hung upon Kendall's
words, figuratively speaking, and
literally upon his neck.
Ihe spooniest couple in town.
Harriet heard them called sneering
ly. But nobody sneered very openly,
for Kendall's business was becoming
the biggest m the city. lie was wax
ing rich and influential. They had
two cars now, and four servants, and
Effie spent a great deal of money in
beauty parlors and brought laugh
ably youhtful clothes.
And then one Sunday morning, as
Harriet was washing her heavy
brown hair her sour old aunt arrived
upon the scene, breathless.
If that boss of yours isn t the un
luckiest with wives," she gasped, "or
maybe I'd better say luckiest!
Regular modern Blue Beard, lie is I
What do you think's happened inow?
Why, that Effie had acute indiges
tion last night and died of it, not
three hours ago. Crepe's up already.
Well, Kendall Wilks ain't near 45
and as marrying a man as he ever
was. He'll have courage to try
aeain but it'll be a brave girl who
takes him! There's a fatality among
his wives that ain't assuring!"
"Oh, I don t know," said Harriet,
with a lightness her aunt thought
rather ill placed. "Three times and
out, you know." And the aunt de
parted to spread her news, while
Harriet proceeded methodically, care
f.illy, to the drying of her hair. It
wouldn't be in the least sensible to
take cold and die of pneumonia, just
when the Lord had mercifully, mi
raculously, put a fourth chance at
hanniness into her hands)
But as soon as was possible she
went to the home of her employer
and for the third time assumed
charire of burial nroccedines there,
She felt grimly that burying Ken-
dall Wilks' wives was one of her
specialties, Uut vowed inwardly that
tnis one snouiu oe t,ne lasu one was
40 vears old herself and desperate.
Mr Kpnriall P. Wilks was a so
desperate, when three weeks later
Miss Krone handed m her resigna-
tion. His sister had, by that time,
got him a competent housekeeper.
aged well over 60, to guard, as she
told him, against any more sympa
thetic marriages, and he had settled
down mate comfortably, with his
Ua nnptrqc YB tilt Crt f iS flf W fl-
ding presents and Ins long list ot
anniversaries as company.
TU.M.rft a r. nr linn 'lth
the anniversary of his eneaeement
to Rhoda just before she'resigned
She knew Effie's birthday came the
next month, and she felt she was
not strong enough to lace that.
He ce:tainl was not strong
enouzh to face her decision calmly
Leave him why, they had worked
taeir way up .c "- "
as wen taut or leaving inc nriu una-
self! What was Jhe matter? She
t, . j. r , I .t- r. u:
could have more money shorter
hours more power anything she
wished, but she must stay! She had
helped double, yes, treble the busi
ness. Even a partnership would not
be impossible if she desired itl
..Harriet shook her head. His
business partner, indeed! After 20
years of waiting, it should be more
than that or nothing!
She tola him she had no other oi-
fer in view. She was just tired of
business aim wanted to be a home
voman for a time, at which she saw
mm opcn,nis eyes in a surprised
open, his eyes in a surprised
sort of way. The look -made her
furious. Had he never thought of
ner awav ironi ine omcc at aiu j-mu
t .1. . i -,13 n:J
he think she ate carbon copies and
used a letter for a bed? O, yes,
she would, be comfortable. Her
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motner s aeain naa leu tne nunie
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every woman was really happier at
home. Tire of it? Maybe That
was unlikely, but if she did she
would come back when she was
quite rested after a year or so. But
at present her decision was quite ir
revocable.
And there she left him, with such
a stricken look on his handsome
face, that never before had she so
longed to be by him and serve him.
Her impulse was to rush back to
ftay to tell him she would never.
never leave while she could he of
any use at all to him, or to bitf'in-
terests. She had to steel her heart
and grip her resolution tight, t5
walk out and go on with her prepara
tions to leave. But she did it. More,
'S
he withstood his
suent pieauiiiK
uuiuig inc liiilc Trims uiai mi3i.u
btfore her departure, and the blun
ders of-the girl she was breaking in
tc take heivolace m his own othce.
What the poor man would have to
endure from that girl! But Harriet
Krone was a determined woman,
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. a u f a I c 7u a
nated. she walked out of the office
orever, carrying wnn ner a m ot
".c nc " ""
cowoncers, wno.nao an lucea ner
and were sorry she was going, and a
very frivolous and feminine wrist
watch, duly engraved with the well
wishes of "the firnt" in honor of
"long and faithful service." Some
how she hated that watch it was
so impcrronal. But the hurt, lost
look in the eyes of the president
was not impersonal. She took
heart, and said lief goodbys again,
and departed.
But she left her address with Mr.
Kendall P. Wilks,
That gentleman was suffering as
he never suffered before. He had
been lonely after Muriel died lone-
Upr aftpr TtinHa'c Hpatli hut- ihrMarh
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uc was quue wining io cKiiuwieugc
he had not cared near y as much for
tme as ne nad tor either ot tne otn-
i xt I L 14
wiuici iiui uiai incie was any cull-
soiation lacking, there was not.
He soon realized that ne was a
most attractive man in the eyes of
Mrs. Mazie Lawton, a dashing
widow, who had once been young,
and also in those of Irene Evans, a
calculating person who really was
young in years. I hen there was
his own second cousin, Gertrude, a
aI v "'a it" ' v" c,our"-
rived .on an extended visit to his sis
ter arid showed unmistakable matri
monial tendencies.
Gertrude meant to have her name
entered on the lists at the earliest
possible moment but she was not to
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though safe hefsejf, all at once im
ported the unsuspected daughter a
widow with two little boys, "so in
need of a father's care." They were.
Kendall vearned to soank those two
boys, as he had yearned for nothing
else in life except the sight of Har
riet Krone's neat brown head beside
his desk when he went down to the
office in the morning. She 'had al
ways been helpful and sympathetic
and clever. She had never chased
him up, and smirked at him, and sent
him presents he didn't want and
talked to him when he was busy!
She had helped him eet rid of the
women who did and now she 'was
gone! ' '
In her place was a self-conscious
young person who was trying to per
suade herself that she could forget
her young lover and marry the "old
man for money." In the outer office
Miss Perkins and Miss Haswell,
bookkeepers who had patronized him
when he came home from boarding
school years ago, ogled him now in
a way "he could not mjstake. At
home" he was under the eyes of Mrs.
Maxie Lawton, who had come to
board next door. At his sister's he
found Cousin Gertrude. At the golf
club Irene lay in wait for him at all
hours, possible and impossible, while
the mournful eyes of the house
keeper's daughter gazed at him over
his lanio chops at dinner time, and
the whoops of her two father-needing
infants disturbed his early rest.
He was beseiged by the enemy at
all points. He felt that there was
some safety in numbers, but dreaded
the time when one of them should
catch him alone for at last Kendall
P. Wilks knew his weakness, and
hoped that never again would he be
caught within the, toils of his own
sympathetic nature.
But it was a hard tight. He tried
a short trip to New York but he
hated the noise and longed for the
trees and lawns and peace of his
home town. He tried a winter re
sort and came home flying after two
weeks. He shut up his house, moved
to his club, and was happy one
month.
Then he lonsred for his own home
with onions creamed just as he liked
them, and his own books, and, as
spring came on, a lawn to sprinkle
and a garden to fuss overt Kendall
P. Wilks realized then as never be
fore that he was a home man but
home man without a home!
He never forgot the day that it
first dawned upon hin that he might
go and see Harriet Krone. He was
"uasin mi uicouiuny mti muniiug.
Some business had come up which
she would have understood offhand,
hut which showed the new girl to be
ohk snort oi a arivenng laiot,
aiso, ne missed her advice on
weddinsr present which had to be
bought for a department head, who
was soon to be married. He wanted
her and he realized suddenly that
he might see her by going to her
nomei Harriet Krone as a social
CC"JU possiuic
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1 VYll UVt 1UU1UIJSI
T1,e idea came to him just before
noon. It grew with astonishing
rapidity, wniie ne ate his lunch. The
idea became more insistent as h
went back to work, and finally got
me oetter ot mm at j:ju exactly.
Wait till evening? He simolv could
not would not. The president of the
wiiks Manutacturmg company rose
and unset the morale of tb,.ntir.
i,.. u .u i.
menA the bare announce-
ment that he was through for the
aayi
Never before had he been known
to do such a thine save in the
necessity ot sickness or death. But
he did it now. More, he went to the
garage where his car was kept at a
wane which was too swift to be dig'
nihed and once in his car, his
identity alone saved him from arrest
fore careless driving on vthe block
next his tactorv. while further on
the speed laws lay broken behind
him!
Strangely, when he had wanted
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had to look it up.
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'
But he did have
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and the fact
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JJUl 'as- "c icaencu me street-
he found the number. It belonged
l" ii'iicy wuiic cuuage, get in
aitd tfie ard boasted g
, h h d d cove?edub
,i;mi;. ' ,, UJ
climbing roses in full bloom,
He saw a woman sittinsr framed
in the pink blossoms. Her ftffure
seemed softer of outline than he re
membered it, but maybe that was
the white dress. He had only seen
her m stiffly tailored things. Her
hair seemed orettier-t-there was
actually a wave in it! Her mouth
was sweeter, her expression gentler,
Diit ner eyes those steady, clever,
pleasant, brown eyes, whose real
beauty he had never-realized before.
were the same. The same, yet with
in them an expression that was
gloriously, wonderfully, different.
sue rose, with a kindly, but rather
f,.ii t,.ij L" t..j .
prim srreetinir
But Kendall P. Wilks paid no at
tention to the hand. , He looked in
to her eyes. Then takinar her hv
both shoulders, he swept her safe
into the shelter of the rose covered
IT 'ciu ner as
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though he never meant to et her go,
It was she wh b .
There were twinkles in her brown
eyes, but her mouth was verv firm
, Mr vVilL-s" ch c,w w
way to make business advances to
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any person."
Business advances." tammri
Mr. Wilks, "I wasn't I I O. bus
iness advances be damned!" Miss
Krone had never heard him swear
before she smiled as though she
ftiHn't
muni at an. our sne stepped
away from him and shook her head.
It was enough. Never before had
Kendan r. Wilks been repulsed by
any woman. All the spirit of th
conquering male that he had within
him rose to the pleasures of the
chase. He proposed as he had never
proposed before. He oleadedhe
K.rvn-A u: . . J ... . . . .
6KCU ne msisiea, until at last Miss
i.roiie said slowlv. W-e-e-1-1 T
might. I might consent to marrv
you. But I would never consent tk
llve m Miners and Rhoda's and Ef-
ne S hOUSt
"Good Lord. I don't want'ln tiv
there myself," cried Mr. Wjlks, real
izing suddenly that he despised th
place.
I will not," went on this latest
lady of his heart relentlessly, "have
their pictures hanging all over my
house. I will not consult their tastes
in the purchase of one single article
for my new home. I will not use
their recipes. I will not be nice to
their friends."
I most earnestly hone vofl will
not," ejaculated the model spouse of
the ladies in question.
Harriet Krone fixed him with de-
termination in her eyes. "I will not,"
she swung on ruthlessly, "keep one
single solitary anniversary that be
longs to any one but just us!"
"Thank God for that" niouslv
ejaculated the man who had kept so
many, fche smiled at him with sud
den shyness, her eves fell, a swift
becoming color flew up into her firm
cheeks. Manfully almost cave
manfully Kendall P. Wilks swept
her into his arms. He wruni her
promise from her.' He won his kisses
from reluctant lips.
And when, happier than he had
ever been before in all his life, he
went home at last he held his head
high and walked1 with the air of a
conqueror. I He was conscious at last
of having played the part of the hunt
er, not the quarry.
Movies Prove Big Force
In Promotion of Thrift
Washington, D. C Legends urg
ing sane and wise buying, flashed on
movie screens throughout the United
States, was perhaps the most potent
single force in lowering the high
cost of living, Attorney-General
Palmer said, discussing his depart
ment's achievements in fighting
profiteering.
"The movie became a powerful
force to encourage thrift and cau
tious buying by the public," Palmer
said. "Movie picture owners used
our slides continually and it had a
tremendous effect in bringing home
to the people the great lesson of
economy."
The attorney-general attributes
much of his success against profiteer
ing to work of local fair price com
mittees who were exceptionally vigi
lant wherever they functioned to
keep down extortion upon the public.
Working Girls
Crave Romance
In Stage Plays
Sybil Thorndikc, English Ac
tress, Explains Dream World
Made Visible In Light
Operas.
By EARLE C. REEVES.
IntarMtiooal Krrrlc Blaff Corra
pondenl,
London. The recent war did
not upset the world after all. The
working girl still wants romance.
and romance pure and simple, with
out too many intricate problems, ou
the stage which she patronizes.
Two thousand girls and women re
cently, during an examination, se
lected as the plavs liked best "Chu
Chin Chnw" miH llio "Harden f
Allah." -
Sybil Thorndike, by many consid
ered England's best actress, con
firms this consensus of opinion, from
the depth of her experience and
understanding, and explains the rea
sons why romance stands supreme
for girls.
Revues Not Popular.
"I do not find that revues are so
popular among women as among
men. The exhibition of legs and
the pretty faces of other girls can
not possibly hold the attraction for
them that a strong play does with
a sympathetic hero, beset by fnany
difficulties and surrounded by a de
lightful 'atmosphere.'
"My knowledge of them assures
me that what the average girl en
joys best is a play which appeals
strongly to her feelings. Problem,
unpleasant and spirit plays have no
great attraction for her.
Why do girls want romancer
Visible Dream World.
"Because it presents a phase of
life which it is not given every girl
to realize. It is the dream world
made visible. 1
"Remember that marriage figures
as the great event in most girls' lives.
Naturally, every healthy- woman s
thoughts turn, at some period of
her life, towards the opposite sex.
But all girls do not get the oppor
tunity of meeting the ideal, or even
the acceptable real. It is these, I
think, who find the i expression of
their innermost thoughts in the
romance of the exotic play.
"The impassioned acting of the
hero thrills the lonely girl as if she
had come under the delightful thrill
of some real lover. The brilliance
of an oriental setting holds her en
chanted, as if she enjoyed the fra
grance of a real eastern visit."
Old Prospector
UCIS lUUJLCd ell
Last by Legacy
Finishes Earning Jlis Winter
Grubstake and Learns He
Has Inherited $40,000
From Brother.
Helena. Mont. Frank Lamv. one
of the picturesque prospectors of
Montana, who has , searched m
vain for many years for gold
and rich ores, has discovered
a fortune in a big legacy awaiting
him instead. All he has to do to
collect between $30,000 and $40,000
is to go to Menominee, Mich., re
new his acquaintance with old
friends and relatives, prove his
birthright and await the -decree of
the court. He may thank news
papers of this city for forging the
connecting link betweea him and
his legacy.
Starts to Search.
For years he was given up as lost
by relatives. When a brother in
Menominee, Mich., died he left
Frank Lamy the-, greater share of
the estate. Relatives then started the
search. They finally resorted to
ewspaner advertising. Within 24
hours after the first advertisement
and news story in conjunction ap
peared in Helena newspapers Lamy
was found.
He is living in the little and far
from the railroad town of Hughes-
Ule, in the newly-created county of
udith Basin, near Monarch and
Niehart, two famous old silver
camps.
C Si. Carter of No. 409 North
Rodney street, Helena, read the
Story and the advertisement. He
notified the paper that, he knew
Lamy well and had seen him only
few weeks ago and that Lamy has
een livinor in Huehesville. now.
nearly 4 "ghost" town of the west.
He's Notified.
A few weeks ago Lamv finished
earning his winter erubstake br
working in the old "Block P." mine
at Hughesville, the property of T.
C. Power, Montana millionaire, res
ident of Helena, who in the early
days ran a steamboat line under the
Block P." flair from St Louis- un -
the Missouri to Fort Benton.
Friends have notified Lamv of
the fortune awaiting him. The es
tate couldn't be distributed until
Lamy was found.
Trotzky Pays 3 Francs
He Borrowed m Paris
Pan's, France. When Trotzky
lived in Paris he was invariably hard
up for cash and on one occasion
borrowed three francs from a
woman iiend.
The war and revolution came, and
Trotzky disappeared.
The other day the woman, now
happily married, received a visit
from a commissioner of police, who
bore a letter stamped with the arms
of Russia.
"What does this mean?" he asked.
"There is a considerable sum of
money here. Are you a spy for the
Soviets?"
The woman opened the letter and
found therein notes amounting to
several hundred rubles. Inclosed
was a letter from Trotzky apologiz
ing for not having paid his debt
sooner, but saying that it Jiad
slipped his mind.
The police were finally satisfied
when, on figuring up the rubles at
present exchange, it was found that
their value was exactly three francs.
Paul Helleu, the famous French
artist, characterizes Miss Ruhr At-
Remer of New York City as the most
DfautituJ woman in America.
