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Show 0 i THE QRANT8VILLE of professional terms that were quits beyond the ken or Interest of either of the women, and gave a resume of a brief In which he had been recently Margaret Stands by The Cause By (Copyright, engrossed. For a week things went on thus, and the only times that Blackstone feared an open expression of opinion was one night when bis mother and Margaret chanced tp meet for dinner before he could get on the, scene. But JANE OSBORNE 1917, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate.) A man who has any Imagination regarding feminine psychology must always look with something like coAcern toward the first meeting of his mother and his wife or the woman whom he Intends to make his wife. So when Klackstone Loomis mother wrote to her son that she was coming to New York from her home in a middle West- ern metropolis for a short stay at a hotel of nation-wid- e fame, he was not altogether sanguine in his anticipation of the meeting of these two women so Important In his life. How would tlie housewifely and farm-bre- d mother regard the city and oc- apparently nothing disconcerting curred, and Immediately after dinner Margaret excused herself for an Important engagement that Blackstone knew to be a meeting of her suffrage club. The next night Margaqpt bad another suffrage engagement, and Blackstones mother claimed an engagement, too, so It was not until three nights later that the three again met at dinner after Margaret and Black stone had closed their office desks. Following dinner came a play, and In spite of the fact that Blackstone had taken his mother and his fiancee to an especially diverting dining place, and In spite of the fact that the play was uncommonly good that night, the evening hours passed slowly and Blackstone felt the effect of the depressed d spirits of the two usually WAISTCOAT OF FUR high-spirite- Can Be Worn With Most Severely Plain Tailored Suit and Is Both Attractive and Comfortable. The cozy little fur waistcoat. Is one of this seasons successful novelties. Waistcoats of this kind are being made of all sorts of different furs, astrakhan, musquash, squirrel, beaver and dyed rabbit Such waistcoats can be worn with the most Severely plain tailored suit and they not only look attractive, but they are so warm that the coat can be thrown open In the manner now considered so supremely AH OPERATION AVERTED WINTER GOWN Philadelphia, Pa. Oneyear ago I as veiy side and I suffered with pains in my side and back until I nearly went I want to crazy. differentdoetorsand they all said I had female trouble and would not get any relief until I would be operated, on. I had suffered forfour before this yean time but I kept get ting worse the more medicine I took. Every month since I was a young girl I had suffered with cramps In my sides at periods sad was never regular. I saw your advertisement in the newspaper and the picture of a woman who had been saved from an operation and this picture was impressed on my mind. The doctor hod given me only two mare days to make up my mind so I sent my husband to the drag store at once for a bottle of Lydia E. nnkhama Vegetable Compound, and believe me, 1 soon noticed a change and when I had finished the third bottle I was cured and never felt better 1 grant you the privilege to publish my letter and am only too glad to let other women know of my cure." Mrs.THOS.MoGON UAL, 5482 Hartville Street, Phila., Pa. Quick Pay Roll 8cheme. For making up pay rolls a machine has been invented that drops into envelopes coins for which keys are pressed. War Declared oil Rats by U. S. Govt slip-pocke- ts er Though it Is simple, and of necessity war times will make for simplicity in winter gowns, and winter functions, this creation for both formal and informal wear is adorable. It Is of peach georgette gracefully draped and richly trimmed with bands of sliver fox. A distinctive feature la the uee of long sleeves with low decollete. A dainty ciel blue ' ribbon encircles the waist and a nosegay combining all the colors of the gown la placed on one shoulder. EMBROIDERY TO BE REVIVED The sovernment at Washington la preparing a campaign that should ha effective in killing the rats that are so destructive both to lives and property. A conservative estimate places tha loss of foodstuffs from rats at over two hundred million dollars annually, and In tha present scarcity of food, this loss must be prevented. The most efficient way to "Kill the Rat is by the use of Stearns Paste, and thousands of dollars worth have been bought by the government. Every housekeeper troubled with rats, mice, roaches or waterbuga should buy a small box of this reliable exterminator for thirty-fiv- e cents, and stop further lose of food la her home. Adv. The Dry Voter. .The modern babies were sitting around the nursery in attitudes that suggested a club room rather than a' nursery. They were very modern babies. One of them dragged himself up to the window and looked- out "There goes Dollie Dimple in her perambulator, he observed, with a show of interest conThat's not a tradicted another, languidly. It's a - Pierce-Marro- w Pierce-Marro- Mudson Super-Slic- k. I'll bet you the paregoric for the crowd youre wrong I dont drink hard stuff, and you know said the first for he was Make it castorla and youre on." - France Determined to dustry in Order to Give .Her In- Women Employment. I ultra-moder- Paris Is quite determined, that Is cerof tain, on the vast her business In embroidery. Her women are needleworkers of Importance. None Is so good on this planet, possibly, unless Isolated exceptions In the Indian and Persian countries be taken Into account Her gentlewomen are trained, as all gentlewomen used to b trained In olden days, before the sewing machine and garments, In the art of holding a needle filled with fine thread and accomplishing wonders with It Money has been scarce among the people In aristocratic segments of French life, and the war has brought about the same kind of situation which existed during the Revolution; those who are too proud to work for their living In other epochs will now do so under the national strain. Also, there are thousands of Belgian refugees and French women in other classes of life and society who must be supported. France does not believe In the nonproducing consumer. And so these women .and men, too old even to serve In that territory serv-c- e of bearing the wounded from the trenches of the hills, which has been given to those who do not bear arms and who are sure of their footing and their nerves, are given the gentler service of embroidery for the worlds clothes. So every woman who buys a gown that Is embroidered In France la helping France. ready-to-we- w w SIMPLE correct w , leather. Fewer freak shoes and colors are shown, but even a conservative model of plain leather Is high priced. Every once In so often common-sens- e English walking boots become the fashion. The mice comes again this fall, and they are exceptionally good' In plain tan, laced. They are not like the gay sport shoe of summer. There Is a craze Just now for brown and dark gray hoots for dress. PJaln leathers with buck tops will be much worn later, In such color combinations as grty and mole color, and brown with blege uppers. Spat pumps of black patent leather will be much used with white spats, or spats In the color of the suit Evening slippers are of both black and white satin on many of which appear rhinestone buckles. The winter suit which is shown In the sketch was created by Worth. It Is simplicity itself, but so beautifully cut and so admirably well chosen, so .far as materials are concerned, that t might be worn on the most elaborate and ceremonious occasion. The material of both coat and skirt was currant-re- d duvetyn and the trimming was musquash In a dark brown Shade, writes Idalla de Villi ere, a Paris correspondent Worth Is making many winter suits of this order and he Is using quantities of. soft duvetlne and corded gaberdine. I noted many different shades of rich red In his showrooms, but the bright currant shade seems a special favorite. This red has a touch of purple in It and It Is particularly attractive In diagonal serge, duvetlne and gaberdine. Worth Is not making any walking skirts shorter than ankle length, and nearly all his new model skirts are plain and fitted at the waist are Introduced at Large the sides and the skirts fall In perfectly straight lines from waist to hem without giving any idea of the Please take ugly hobble outline. colspecial note of the large turn-ovlar shown in this sketch. This style of collar appears on all the new winter coats made at the soft-boile- ' UTAH, low-heele- d This Is One of the Successful Novelties of the Season. - d fiancee? Would the elder woman be shocked at the younger? Would the younger woman be amused by the elder? Had he been too lavish (b bis praises women. of these women to each other? But he felt even more depressed Whatever else happens, he told when he took Margaret home that the girl on the eve of his mother's night after they had seen the mother expected arrival, dont let the mother go to her downtown hoteL know that you are a feminist" Blackstone, Im sorry," Margaret Blackstone had planned to make said when they had reached the sheltills request a 4, the outset of his call ter of her apartment Im sorry, but on Margaret in her little uptown apart- I can't keep my feelings to myself any ment, where she kept quarters with longer. I Teel like a traitor. The two other young women who were em- meeting night before last made me feel ployed In downtown offices. But It what a culprit I have been, and then Jmdn't been so easy as he had ex- last night at the mass meeting, when pected, and the quick flash that came I looked around at those women from from Margarets eyes made him realize all over the world working together for each other, I wondered how I had that his misgivings had not been been so despicable as to promise to Margaret was outspoken and she did conceal my Interest in the cause from not mince matters at all now. Con- anyone. You don't know how a meetceal from his mother that she was a ing like that fires and thrills one. The fact that Blackstones spirits suffragist, a "feminist, as he calls it why, he was asking her to be a traitor. bad already been depressed made him And wliat good would It do? Wouldnt especially susceptible to take offense. the truth come out sometime? Then if It were a question of sufThen came the masculine appeal for frage or me, I suppose you would take ratiouallty. Dont be silly, Margaret, suffrage," he said. I simply asked he said. No one has asked you to you to use a little tact In order to act a lie. You dont have to say that prevent my mother being unhappy, you are an anti, or anything like that ; and yon dont care enough about me but you Just needn't say anything about or her to do It Im sorry, Margaret It at all." but It is better for us to find It out But doesn't your mother know that now than later. you are a suffragist? queried MarDecidedly, replied Margaret who garet. could be just as quick to Jump at con1 cant say that I have ever told clusions as her fiance. And when, a her no. Blackstone had to go cau- few minutes later, Blackstone was out tiously here, for he was well aware of of Margarets apartment In the street the fact that his conversion to the It was with the terrible feeling that cause had been one of the prerequiswas lost to him forever. Margaret ites of their engagement At first Somehow, unreasonably of course, he Margaret stormed and sputtered a good blamed his mother for this breach of deal over the request but finally she his happiness. acquiesced and gave him to underThe next morning he joined his stand that unless the subject were mother at breakfast at her hoteL brought up by his mother, Bhe would Well, my visit Is almost over, the not volunteer any information concernd mother began over her ing her own convictions. acto I better had get hoped The next morning early, when Black- eggs. but with apparentMargaret, quainted stone went to meet his mother, their first connected words were directed to ly she does not want to be alone with the subject of Margaret whom the me. I haven't said two words to her mother was to meet that evening at alone, Blackstone. Blackstone made no answer, so his dinner In Margarets little apartment The other girls had agreed to go out mother went on. I suppose it Is the for the evening so as to leave her sole eternal barrier that stands between the two types of women. The one will hostess for this little family party. Blackstone winced a little when one never be able to understand the other, of the first questions the mother asked and as the suffrage cause gains mord was this : I dont suppose your Mar- and more converts the barrier only becomes the higher. But there will algaret Is a suffragist? What makes you think she could ways be some women on the other be?" he evaded In a way not altogether side even when our great victory Is worthy of one who claimed to be a won. I suppose It was foolish of me convert Just because she works in to hope, Blackstone, that your wife an office and hasnt had the advantages would be on our side of that barrier of having been brought up In the seclu- If she had been then there would never sion of her own home Is no reason why have been any of the mother-in-laand daughter-in-lafeeling between she shouldn't be just as homey us us. I was foolish to hope It, perhaps, as you are. Then he continued : But of course but, Blackstone, after that wonderful you wont discuss that sort of thing meeting night before last I felt so with Margaret just for my sake. He thrilled that It seemed for the time as wanted at least to make It easy for if the barrier might be broken down Margaret to maintain her noncommittal and that all women might rally to the point of view, for Margaret hud agreed same cause. I wish that you and Maron silence on the subject only so long garet might have been there. Blnckstone leaned over the table at as the mother did not Introduce It Although Margaret had protested which he and his mother were sitting. against agreeing to silence of this sort You don't mean. you were at the sufshe was renlly not especially eager to frage mass meeting, do you, mother? Why, certainly, came quite calmly. impart to the lady who was to be her inother-ln-lathe fact that she was How do you think I managed to come leader and president of the stenogra- East and stay at one of the biggest pher's suffrage organization In a large hotels if It wasn't as a delegate from downtown district or that site had our section to the convention? firmly made up her mind that after Why didn't you tell me sooner?" her marriage she should call herself gasped Blackstone and for the first Mrs. Margaret Loomis, and by no time that morning the sharpness of means Mrs. Blackstone Loomis. She Margurets scornful glance of the night realized as well as did Blackstone that before ceased to pierce him. the circumstances In which she and You didnt ask me, was the mothhis mother hud been reared had very ers reply, but with the briefest exmuch altered cases, and Bhe was no cuses, Blackstone had left his place more anxious to hurt or shock the eld- and was encased in the nearest teleer woman than was he to have her do phone booth to get In touch with his so. fiancee before she left for her office. That night at dinner first impresI want you and mother to have sions were as fuvoruble as first Impres- luncheon today, he said. No, I'm sions auspiciously may be, and In or- not to be In this, and just for my sake der to prevent the conversation from I want you to tell my mother that yon taking a personal turn Blackstone are a suffragist, and I want you to tell monopolized It to an unusual extent her that I'm one, too. Youre a trump lie had made up his mind not to leave and Fm proud of you. And you have (he two women alone and not let them taught me one thing, Margaret that So he went It Is always best to stick by the cause guide the conversation. even in the face of a mother-in-laInto needless details regarding his latest luw case, explained the meaning to be." office-bre- MEWS, ORANTSVILLE, Waistcoat of Fur. best bouses and they are exceedingly cozy and warm. Chez Worth and also cbez Paquin and Doucet I heard that a great deal of silk is to be used this winter and coming spring to spare the woolen materials as much as possible. I have seen effective tailored suits mnde of dark blue and black broadcloth, which had panels of faille and whole bodices of the same ar if' n. Japan's Financial Aid to Russia. A domestic loan of $50,000,000 has been arranged by Japan for Bussla,' a large part of which will be used to pay for war supplies already ordered At present by Russia in Japan. $35,000,000 Russian treasury bills held In Japan matured on September 25 and were renewed. The bankers' of Japan have so many demands for money made upon them at present to finance new enterprises that they are not disposed to underwrite Russian loans; therefore the government will Issue exchequer bonds which may be 'Mild for with Russian treasury bills. Hast and West News. What He Said. So it was a wheatless No. I said witless. dinner? The Real Thing. what is the call of the wild? The joyrider's honk, my son. Mom, Many a man at the age of 50 wishes he was half as smart as he thought he was at the age of 21. . WHEATLESS MEALS! DON'T BOTHER Handbag Is Held by Its Weigh! A handbag that holds Itself to Its BROWN SHOES ARE POPULAR wearers wrist by means of its own weight has been Invented by a New man. Is fitted Particular ' Women Have Refused to York two The leather handle one on metal slides with end of Accept the Cloth Top as a Means which Is a roller. These slides are of Saving Leather. fitted to the handle are silk. ME 'nt3b66y. JUST TRY POST straps and All the talk about leather conserva- connected by a short piece of leather tion, and women signing the pledge of the same width as the handle. When the handle Is slipped over against $15 shoes has not Interfered one bit with women buying shoes of all the arm the metal slides are pulled up leather, and at prices higher than ever by the weight of the bag so that the handle fits close around the wrist and before. Particular women have not accepted It Is then Impossible for the handle to the doth' top as a means of saving slide over the hand. TOASTIES s JBEST CORN FLAKES EVER! - J- |