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Show BEAVER TRESS $ t X W e- -- s i?CZl HOW COULD MARY FIND A WAY OUT 2 By FANNIE HURST & 1131. fx: Syndicate Nwt.pr itt I (WSU tkif conditions that brought the engagement of Mary to Benjamin Parke were normal the unexciting ones of a certain degree of propinquity, similarity of social standing and a general desirability smiled upon by families of both parties concerned. In the thriving Middle West city where Mary Kstes had been born and reared, Benjamin Parke was regarded as one of the most promising young business men of the community. When Mary Estes was still attending high ichool and taking the commercial course which was ultimately to prepare tier for her work as secretary to the richest banker of the town, the Estes people were a highly respectable and conservative family In reduced finances, probably a shade or two higher in the social strata than the Parke family, although Benjamin's father was a dentist of solid standing and good practice. The two young people of these respective and respectable families, In spite of the disparity of ten years in their ages, were thrown socially together by way of church, entertainment and bridge party. Their ultimate engagement was as normal as sunrise. A little flurry of anticipatory gossip had, of course, preceded it; its announcement was a matter of local applause; its consummation looked forward to by a group of friends and relatives who moved interestedly around the nucleus of the happy pair. It was fan to be engaged. It was great fun to be the center of Interest, the center of pleasant attention and consideration of the group of people that made up Mary's world. The slightly envious .attention of her friends who were not yet engaged, the sisterly acceptance of her as one of themselves by the girls who were engaged. The tolerant interest in her by those of her friends who were newly married. And the affectionate, busied attention from the older women matrons, spinsters and widows alike. All of Mary's world paid her the charming tribute that Is the lot of happy young love. And she found this tribute most fluttering, most at- TK tractive. Two months after the announcement of the engagement, Mary Estes resigned her pleasant and lucrative position as secretary to the richest man In town and began preparations for a June wedding. Benjamin Tarke, by then sole proprietor of a small but flourishing furniture store on nigh street, was known to be In the market for an attractive building lot on Kay street, one of the town's pretty bungalow districts. The friends of Mary began to plan linen showers and small festivities that had to do with the Renjamin approaching marriage. Parke took out a tidy life Insurance policy and announced that he was building an ell to his furniture store. It was an alliance that promised well, Mary and Benjamin would be a y good, suhstanXal addition to the of the community; were the kind to foster stability, decency and clti-lenr- right living. There was nothing In particular about the engagement of this young pair to differentiate It from alliances that were constantly being made, and yet It Is possible that Mary and P.en represented what In the eyes of the community might be regarded as the Ideal marriage. The Ideal marriage that would lead to years of happiness, of struggle, of accomplishments. Mistakes, of course. But on the whole the usual happy and uccessful life In which hardships and pleasures are mingled. That wns what made the condition so harrowing, so terrible, so secretly frightening to Mary Estes when certain menacing facts began to take on a reality (die had been struggling against ever since the first few weeks following her engagement. Everything was right, everything was as it shonld he. A better, steadier, more considerate boy than Benjamin Parke could not be Imagined. Her parents were happy, his parents were happy, and, with a bungalow on Kny street, nn old dream of her was about to come true. As Mary confided to her bent chum, Alice McMahon, a eyes, It was pretty doll with china-blua story book engagement In Its total desirability from every angle. All except one and that one angle Mary did not begin to admit, even to herself, until weeks after the announcement of her engagement. Mary was not In love with Benjamin Parke. Strange, how clear the matter ultimately became to her. Not until after a long period of self hypnosis, did Mary come to realize that, from the very beginning, she had thrown herself consciously Into a ftnte of mind about Ben. She had talked herself Into a condition of renting to be In love with him. The wish father to the thought, she had deliberately tried to force herself Into a state of mind. The engagement to Ben had been the result. It had seemed to her, during those monthi while tbt facts of fcer self hypnosis still lasted, that aba e had accomplished right and righteous- ness. And then gradually, and a little horribly. It began to dawn upon her during those festive weeks of linen showers, bridge parties, evenings with Ken over blue prints of their new bungalow, that everything she was tasting was dead sa fruit. In the dead of night, Mary would wake up with a sense of oppression in her breast, with a dread of tomorrow, with terror of what she was doing. Mary did not love Ben. She liked him, she respected him. She even admired hirn. The thought of him as her husband filled her with dread. Sometimes it eetrned to Mary that to be free once more, to be free to come and go at her secretarial work, to be the girl once more unhampered and unimpeded by the dread of marriage, was the one state of being that mattered over and above anj tiling that had ever happened. She regarded those of her girl friends who were still outside the pale of matrimony and still unhampered by ties of engagement with an envy that was as Illogical as it was unlike her. Mary had only one desire in life now to be free. To be her life stretch before her once To more filled with the old ideal of some day meeting the ultimate life corn-p- a Dotted Net Is Charming and Chic Ey by Lieut. Frank E. Hagan "Gone West" outstanding contributions Brit-to speech were made by the war. ish soldiers during the World One was "Blighty" and the other was "Gone West." "Blighty" was derived from an East Indian word meaning or "home" and was "over the of probably brought to the battlefields In Two current iff S i J" ; . trfc- - l I - VMM - Newhoase France by veterans who had served India. Se w hen a "Tommy" was wounded, be accepted his wound philosophically as a "ticket to Blighty." The term was also used as a synonym for "leave of Tl.e American soldiers did not readiBritly pick up "Mighty" from their in arms. I'erhaps the ish coinnidf-- tilt : HOTEL st-a-" SALT. W. E. SUTTON, s trip between a 3,000-miIacross the Atlantic and the short passacage across the Knglish channel counts for the fact that "Blight1" didi,': figure much in the life of the average Yank. But he did take over the expression "Gone West" as a synonym for death. There are various theories as to It was the origin of this expression. at Africa in South a common phrase the beginning of the present century and it was probably taken to England by British soldiers who had served iti the Iloer war and then carried to France. Hat the Idea goes back much farther than that. Thousands of years ago the Egyptians spoke of their dead as those who had "Gone West" and among many primitive peoples, including the North American Indians, there was a belief that the abode of the dead was iu the west, the land of the LAKE CITY, UTAH One of Salt Lake City's finest hotels, w here quests find every comfort with a warm hospitality. Garage in connection. Cafe and cafeteria. 400 Rooms. Each with Bath $2.00 to f 1.00 abs-euce.- ilana,rr difference nlon. Tuere is monotonous setting might have started to be a sleeve and We most decided to "just pretend." forgot to tell you that the dots which pattern this particular dress are in "Knglish Officer" red, from which silk apstriking color the ples, which form the corsage tale their Hie. A slightly stiffened poplum is featured, its hemline following the hand-mad- e contour of the skirt hemline with considerable artistry. Quite as effective, although not so unusual and new as the big coin dots are the charming nets which are patterned with colorful tlorals. These tune in every key from flamboyant rose motifs to demure Dolly Varden tlowerettes. You may have quite a time deciding whether to buy a printed or an embroidered net for your next evening or garden-partfrock. Choose either and you will play safe. The Inspiring is that thought In this connection through perfected processes these fine quality durened nets no matter how delbe or icate their tones and tints m how bold, they may be relied on as being fast color. This means they are not only appealing from an esthetic point or lew, hut they are also thoroughly practical. (Si 131. Western NewnpiMr I'nlon. Stunning Dinner Gown about nothing Bringing the Medical hat fashions Sizes this summer. Profession Up to Date range from mere skull caps to cape "Policeman- - Fired I'ncle ,itm has one silent but effective policeman who has enforced his ban on picking wildtlowers and Rhruhfl In the national parks, but so efficient has this "policeman" become that he has found It necessary to eliminate him at the camp site In Sequoia National park. The "policeman" Is poison oak, which Is unfnniiliar to the average easterner visiting the pnrk. ?o many have the cases of complaint been that the poison oak has been entirely eliminated and weed killer used to prevent Its return. WORLD WAR YARNS CIIERIE NICHOLAS To be unengaged was out of the question. Ben took her so for granted. Her parents were in their seventh heaven of approval. Ills parents made no effort to conceal their pride. The community smiled. Mary was committed. Ternr, rebellion, agony, panic rone within her, only to be hidden by the calm, demure exterior she showed to the world. The day of her wedding approached and it seemed to Mary that with it there descended upon her a dread of living that must ultimately annihilate her. She knew that she must not go through with this dishonest tiling of marrying Benjamin Parke. And yet, what way out? What way out? The question beat about in Mary's tortured brain like a great, Imprisoned moth. What way out? She turned the question over and WHAT with the program of party for the last several sumover in her hot, tired brain. mers being mostly a matter of one What could she do? How could she find a way out? What did other girls printed chiffon frock after another, the In the same predicament do? For idea of printed or embroidered cotton net suggests a most Intriguing disurely other girls had made her misversion. a man take; though they could marry The beauty about these very charmand then, suddenly, or gradually, realcotton nets which ized Hint lack of love would make ing new quality-kinar1 now so smartly in fashion for evemarriage Intolerable. But there was nothing to do. She ning wear is that they can be safely couldn't do the only thing possible; and successfully washed no danger tell Benjamin that she didn't love him. of colors "running" as heretofore. It would seem such a simple thing, Then, too, these uets drape ever so same time having at yet It was fraught with all sorts of charmingly, In the to stay crisp and them body enough It would Impossible complications. mean bringing hurt unhapplness to fresh looking on the warmest evening. Very newest printed nets carry the her parents and his parents. She herself would feel that she had failed to message that dots have appeared on her family, to his family to Ben- fashion's horizon for midsummer eveFor the slender woman the jamin and to her own word. There nings. dress pictured is Ideal. It is a very to dishonseemed, Mary, something "young" frock for slim and svelte orable in breaking her engagement. So what way out was there for youth, and later providing you're the type. her? A particularly summery and actualThe way out came In the form of a washable durene cotton net fash-ton- s ly brief note delivered to her one mornOf course, you this lovely ing two weeks before her wedding will be interestedgown. In the deep capelet day. It read: collar which reminds us that shoul"Dear Mary: ders are generally covered this sumSince there Is no way of telling you, mer if only with a wisp of a scarf, or without hurting you, the cruel thing a tiny drapery which looks as If It which I am about to say, I shall say It In the shortest way possible. Alice McMahon and I were married at ten HATS OF ALL SIZES o'clock this morning. APPROVED BY PARIS (Signed) Ben." That the amount now paid by the average family for doctors' bills will be substantially decreased when the medical profession drops Its Ideas about advertising, and learns to adopt modern merchandising methods, Is the theory advanced by Ernest Elmo Calkins, nationally known magazine writer and advertising man, writing In Medical Economics, a business magazine for doctors. In his article "Doctors Advertise? Why not?" Mr. Calkins says, "If a program of advertising could be Instituted, shared In, and supported by every doctor In the country, not only would the Incomes of doctors go up, but the cost of medical attention would go down. There are hundreds of thousands who should have a doctor's care who are not getting It, thousands who could have escaped elaborate treatment or operation If taken In time. Doctors should be paid less money but by more people. The entire I'nlted States should bo under the care of competent medical men. The Immense store of medical knowledge now available should be utilized by more people. The way to keep well Is not through Ignorance and luck, but by wise advice and knowledge. "If people understood what It meant to keep well all good doctors would bo busy all the time. There is enough knowledge today of medicine and surgery to greatly Improve the national health, but much of It Is unavailable to large numbers of people, through Ignorance, prejudice and financial limitations." GIANT NEON ROOF SIGN acn a h'aipitnlit, - lines, with brims a foot wide. There Is as much variety in shapes as In sizes and more materials Involved than there Is room to list. Soft, fabriclike straws, crocheted or mesh straws are being used for new versions of the beret, and to make crowns for some of the brimmed hnts. The familiar panaoia. baku, milan, leghorn and other well knowns are making all manlier of brimmed hats. Stitching Is used to give body to cotton and linen hats and to decorate brimmed sports hats of Jersey and felt. Among the small hats Agnes' French colonial creations and Suzanne Tal-- : bot's derby brimmed bats are of p:tr-- ' ticular Interest. Agnes has taken the various headgears and hair dresses of the Moroccans, the Algerians, the Cambodians and translated them in a collection of peaked and wrapped and - y IWM . Do you li!.e lisle tot spiirif. Mwk Iocs? Many worsen d., ln!nise it looks less dressed up and formal. Do you like mesh for sporis stockings? Its open work exl must corn comfortable to bare leg. I.isle aro. mesh e nsplre, therefore, to make comfortable. g d looking storking to go with "ports cos' umes And lisle mesh ocks are a Joy fur tennis. Socks contin.ic to lie worn fur ae tlve. sports, but nstiPllv over stoc k ings. Bare legs may he worn for com fort, but only in prlvile and Infnrmnl places. With the white clothes and the bright colors jo'1 n"' '"' "earing this summer you will find that a light clear beige Is most becoming. This l the shade that terns best with your -darkened skin. Women at Palm Beach adopter this shade almost universally In the dayM-e- outdoor- time. In the evening they wore paler tones nude and peach. There Is talk of white and off white hose for wear In tie evening. is near enough He made love to to his real name. every welfare girl he ever met this upon the word of one of them who !s the authority for this story that Is, until Marie came to Issondun. Marie wns a barmaid, the sister of a man purposes who cers of this story, gave French lessons to the the offi- After he saw Marie, he couldn't "see" any other girl. Their romance flourished for awhile. And then Marie was arrested. French counter espionage officers revealed the fact that she was a German spy. They questioned her and Jerry was involved. He hadn't betrayed any secrets, for he didn't know any to betray. But the upshot of it was that he was removed from flying lists and confined to quarters. There he brooded over the disgrace that had come upon him, and over the deception by his sweetheart. Eventually he was restored to his former status and put back on the flyat flying camp. But he made only one flight ing lists. after that. As his buddies watched him circling around for a landing they saw that he had apparently lost control and from a height of about 1,000 meters his plane dived straight for the ground. The ground officers who crashes made their examination and turned in a report of accident Hut that didn't deceive his brother flyers. They knew that he was too good a pilot to dive a thousand meters at the ground accidentally. Today a white cross stands In the graveyard at Issoudun. It bears the name of Jerry. The welfare girl who tells this story visited It a year or so after the war. On it she saw a huge wreath of Imitation green leaves and bead designs done In the usual French manner. There was a card on the wreath. It read: "For the grave of Lieut. Jerry O. From his great friend Marie M." Yes, Marie had been released from prison when the war was over and she had returned to Issoudun long enough to decorate Jerry's grave. And that's the end of this story of Jerry O., American aviator, and Marie M. French, barmaid and German spy. investigated When Wilson Went Home models. Comfortable for Sports He Died for Love of a Spy was a cadet at the aviation center of Issoudun. His brother birdmen called him Jerry 0. which, for the He sun-fade- draped turbans and berets that are enormously smart. Furthermore, she has taken over the brilliant and exotic colorings that distinguish the original Mesh Stockings Regarded sun. This is a l.anvin replica of ;t dinner gown in hla k. The braided poplum Is uniipie, lit are the lung satin gauntlets with Jeivt-lcbracelets. Three Colors for Scarf; Worn With White Sports There are all sorts of attractive scurfs, many of them made of red. while and blue. There are lots of clothes accessories in those colors, . They are worn wild white sports clothes. any-wiiy- There are, for Instance, s. ;,rfs made triangles of the three colors, oddly chunked together. There are scarfs of the three colors in wide stripes, others wilh the renter portion of the scarf white, the ends striped red and tdt;e These scarfs, uripccl )ir,d triangles are made of the finest wool crocheted In a loose, tacy stitch. Other searfs are made of the three In colors crepe, colors tri'd lengthwise, in soft silk still others tire made of two on one aide, lined with tie third color. ('resident Wilson departed from France the early afternoon of June J!. lit ID. In striking contrast to the exciting scenes which had marked bis his reception a few weeks before. A typical Crest day of drizzling. Interminable rair and oceans of mud. greeted the President when he arrived In the forenoon at the French embarkation center on his special train. The Ceorge Washington, trnnsport on which the President made bis eastward voyage, waited In the outer harbor. Only a detachment of M. P.'s were present as Mr. Wilsoi rode out to tbt- - vessel. No dotmhhoy guards were lined up a3 on the previous occasion when he debarked. Non corns of the Forty-firs- t division, who had served as an honor guard at the President's mansion In Paris, the Fifth Engineers and the One Hun tired and Forty-sixtMachine Gun battalion were aboard the George Washington when she sailed for home. There men had barely completed their midday chow when the historic fieorgc Washington whistled her farewell to France and, with the President, headed west So Inconspicuous was the departure that many American soldiers In the French port were unaware that day that their commander In chief had for stilled . home. 1111. Wutern Niwipiptr t'nlci ) Amusing Flower Name ETere are some names of flowers w hich are i amusing, such as over - the - garden - gate : Dutchman's breeches, bachelor's button, Johnny. jump-up- , painted lady, bleeding heart, old man, Venus' chariot. Queen Anne's milk lace, maid, London pride. Venus' fly trap, Turk's-calily, the devil's bit, Quaker ladies friar's cap and obedient plant kiss-me-- , p s, Prolific Author Horatio Alger was a graduate of Harvard, and also of Harvard Divinity school. He became a pastor of the Unitarian church at Brewster, Mass, In 1SG4; but two years later be went to New York, where he labored for the improvement of the condition of street boys. He wrote much for newspapers and periodicals and published about 70 books, of which nearly 0 copies bave been sold. SoO,-00- Firt "Labor Party" In 1828 a group of Philadelphia art!-saorganized the Workingtnen's party. The platform of the pioneer labor party of modem times bad nothing to do with wages, everything with status: Free public education, mechanical lien laws to protect wage earners from rascally contractors, and the abolition of Imprisonment for debt America's Future Rome endured as long a there were Romans, America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and thought. David Starr Jordan. Largest Rote Bath? The American Rose Annual says that at Wbittier. Calif, Is the largest known rose bush in the world It Is a Lamarque and is feet around five feet the trunk at one and above the ground. Its branches cover a large house and it Is estimated that one-ha- lf there have been it at one time. on 1S0.000 blossoms Record Cold Nugget The largest recorded piece of gold ever found was a nugget called the Welcome nugget taken from the Bakery hill, Ballarat Victoria, Australia, on June 11, 1ST.8, at a depth of ISO feet from the surface. It weighed 2,195 troy ounces and was also one of the purest ever recorded, being 90 per cent pure. Workers Too Careless American industries would save $50,00,(XX) a year, and thousands of workers would be saved from blindness, if known methods of eliminating the eye accident hazard of industry were conscientiously observed by employers and employees. It is said that Earned Cognomen Edward Hen, who before IStV) was almost the only Importer of note of the more expensive pipes, wns known as the "pipe man of the Fnited States." William Demuth began the making; of pipes In this In country 1SGI. Slaves and Serfs of A slave is the absolute property Ms master and may be sold in any to way. A serf is usually one bound work on a certain estate, and Is lln" attached to the soil, although In sotr.e countries serfs are mere shnc. Uncle Eben dV "When a man keeps cnmpla'nin' lifein he nin' had no opportunity said Uncle Kben. "you kind o' wonder to whether he ain-- ' too busy kl.kin' f0inf It If an notice opportunity along." Washington Star. Babies on Defense that woman writer remarks ocbabies bave a habit of pulling the elot ties over their head. Well, the poor little mites must do something wle their parents will Insist on sing"1. them to sleep. Humorist. A Birds of Florida t The biological survey says that seen In v following are among birds n Snakebir.K Florida everglades: heron kingfisher, lews. Ibises, cranes, wild ducks and geese. Find Comfort i" Misery "Cntnplalnln' folks Is like "('r)B owls," remarked Uncle Fben. sadder dey la." de mo' com Washington Star. (ley sounds, J |