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Show CHAPTER XXX. If AnclerH Adage Holds, JlnVe Sura ta a Fiitieui Ace. - IrVadneoday ind - a - iem ble - day -for .Mother Lorlmer and for ma. Jim Jr. ha gone back to ramp. All day we trieil to think up addition to hte uhlney iifw officer's trunk. Jim hasn't hie ryimmllrn, hut ntuilent aviators avia-tors ere permitted to own a bo Our last contrthutlnn we two pound Of randy and It coat. $2.iW! That the first ranrly which has been In this house fnr months and there'll be no more. Mother I-orlmer he announced, until the eugur eupply Increase. If everybrdy followed the government food order as conscientiously as the Hon. Mi. Jamee D. Larimer. It- would aave Mr. Hoover a lot of unnecessary trouble. I do not know how I am going to get along without Jimmieboy in tell my worries wor-ries to. . And xct. from a question he put to me this morning, perhaps 1 ought to feel relieved to get Jilm out of town. Men do respond, no unnecetarly to the fern-Inine fern-Inine lure. My refined. Irreproachable astonished me thle morning thus: "Jane, don't you think It would be a good plan for ma to see this Mary Thomas before 1 fro hark to camp and come to some understanding; with her on my own account?" Jimmy, you're boudd to le awful lucky In war. you know," I replied sweetly, "and your luck begin right here. You are not going to call on the 'Queen of 8 miles. I'll aea her myself whenever neceesary." "Meaning h so darned unlucky in love I might marry Mary by mistake?" ''Meaning 'unlucky In love, then lucky In war accord Inf to which adage you are due to eome home a famous ace, covered, all over the front of your uniform uni-form with medals! But no wife, Jimmieboy. Jimmie-boy. I'm eet on being the only Lorlmer war bride - - And truly, now that Jim Jr. haa gone, It comforts ma to recall that he has had four love affaire alt unfortunate! Whenever When-ever Jim grta ready to propose to a girl, rhr le lwaye engaged. Four tmlea has he suffered and survived a broken heart. Thrl.-e has ha been a beat man when he might aa well have been a groom. Not that he le bignmnusly Inclined, neither le he false or fickle. Jim elm ply flirts aa neturally as he breathe. Mother say It le harder to g-ive up Jim after a furlough than when ha flrat an-listed. an-listed. Money doubtleee eaves the women who have It from many a sorrow, In war or In peace, but all war mothers, rich or poor, share a common vtneiineea that nothing can cure It Is Ihelr tremendoua gym-pethy gym-pethy for each other which tnakee that new erranlButlon. "The War Mother of America," grow a fast. Mother Lorlmer bell evea. Mother met one woman who wouldn't talk ahout this club at all -Rhe rheriahea a lopelded religion and boasts that ehe mnkea It a habit to ignore the war completely. com-pletely. Then aald brave Mrs. Ixwlmer. quoting from Chrye Liberty loan speech: "I don't envy the person who can live through this war without feeling tha hurt of It somehow." And I agree, but "till wonder: "How. or how, le thle war goltif te hurt ma pent?" (To ba continued.) Copyright. Ml, by the Newspaper En- terprl e Assocla tloiv |