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Show HER "LOVE" RETURNED WHEN HUSBAND HAD MADE H I M SELF FAMOUS. But IMov, Despite Her Pleas, he Does Not See Why He Should Take Her Back His Cencise Explanation Explana-tion of His Reasons. They had been deeply lu love when they married. That was ten years ago. .Much had happened In teu years, and in their case they had drifted apart. At first there were little scraps, mended with a kiss and a few loving words. By degrees the rift became be-came turgor. She wanted the comforts, com-forts, if not the luxuries of life, and told him many times of the motor cars and theuter boxes she could have had If she had married Tom, Dick or Harry instead of him. Once he used to weave stories of a tomorrow, but tomorrow to-morrow never came, and finally the friction became too much for him. "You are never satisfied," he said after one of their quarrels, according to a New York letter to the Cincinnati Cincin-nati Enquirer. "You have no belief In me. Perhaps I don't amount to much,. We don't get on. You remain here and I'll find a place for myself. I'll let you have enough to keep you going $25 a week." She agreed to this joyfully, and in a few days he removed to a furnished room not many blocks away. Each week she received an envelope with the stipulated amount lu it. Otherwise Other-wise they lived as strangers. The man had only left himself enough out of his salary to keep himself him-self alive. There was no overplus for amusements, and his chief recreation was reading at the iniblic library. . One evening, having finished his evening paper, he took up a pencil and began to draw on the edge. He had a sense of humor and was making a comic picture of something he had Just read. He was fond of drawing and had given much time to It before his marriage. Then he took a sheet of paper and drew several comic sketches, and they amused him so much that just for fun he sent one to a comic paper, it was accepted and the editor asked for more. He kept on drawing, and in three years had attained a reputation under the name of "Scorn." Meanwhile his wife lived on in the old house, perfectly contented and only slightly curious when her allowance was gradually increased. in-creased. When one day the envelope contained fifty dollars she decided to go after him. She called at the place where he had been employed when they parted and aBked to see him. The clerk grinned. "He left over a year ago." She rushed to the house where he had roomed. "He left over a year ago," she was Informed. Still the fifty dollars arrived regularly. In California lives a thin man who is something of a cynic. His reputation reputa-tion as a comic artist is established and money comes easily to him. Once a pretty woman asked him why he lived alone. "I have a wife," he told her. "I left her because she didn't believe In me. I am never going back to her. It hurts a man to be tied a bundle of pesslm-lam pesslm-lam In petticoats." "And did she love you?" the pretty woman asked. "I hardly think so." - Once his agents wrote to him that she wanted to know where he lived. "Tell her," he wrote, "that I am In the Town of Tomorrow." And she understood. Waterproofing French Uniforms. In the rainy season, which lasts well Into the summer in parts of France and Belgium, the French army authorities author-ities faced the necessity of providing an Inexpensive and effective means of waterproofing the uniforms of their soldiers. A chemist came to their roscue with the Information that the fat extracted from wool while In the process of cleaning it for manufacture would serve their purpose. Experiments proved that ths chemist chem-ist was right. The waterproofing is done by reducing the wool fat to a liquid by the use of a solvent and diluting di-luting it with benzine or naphtha. The garment is soaked In this solution for a few minutes. It dries In a short time. Neither the color of the article nor the fabric Is Impaired by the treatment. treat-ment. Cheapest Commodities. There are many opinions, but. next to human life, opinions are the cheapest commodities of these times. As It now stands, human life is the cheapest and the least regarded thing in the world not only human life as it exists, but human life In the future. Both are held in careless disregard. A rifle has more value than the man who shoots it. A high explosive shell Is worth a hamlet. A battery of guns is more treasured than a village. "Tho most Important man In the world," said a Russian caktnet minister min-ister to me, "Is the man who can make or supply munitions of war." Samuel ' (J. Blyihe in the Saturday Evening Post. Decide on Breed Yourself. Which Is the best breed to handle? Here's a question that very often pre-' pre-' "ents itself and the only answer 1 found in the personal equation. Us ' up to you to decide fur yourself. Pleasant dancing partiat at th. Dell. Opera hou.e .very Friday .v.mng. T.p-: T.p-: p.rary orche.tra and a fin A j invited. |