Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1924, Page 10

A Stirring Story gnificent Adventure ' of the Northwest. BY EMERSON HOUGH. (Copyright, 1983, by tinued from Ye s(r‘»ril‘ of the growing . the new governor il tral figure of all tivities « of all But the lnughing belles of 1] d and gav sovernor, izht not as man. Wise, firm, deliberate, kind, sad—he was an old man now, though still young in y Sy ed up and down the great and below St. Louls, and it town, were many of « adheren of Burr's broken These liked not the on- of the American government, enforc: v so rigid an the onc who held power. Threats came to the ears of Meri- wether Lewls, who was hated by the nts as the cause of their but he, hol’ devoid ny man, ed <t and n enemy ed to meet Meri- open. s of attack the iast time noble man The first f capital of St. L nee they conspi comi fult for 1o man Lewis in th last one m Once mor t heart of a as pierced sid he to 1 ot at William Clark’s home i to their frequent custom, friend, as they accord- Merne.” tinding 1 ancie of trouble, iy all it in the rn facts. s mall T get d—yprotested id cut ¢ this Bills protested- government at l\::\ et ey are bills that I have di ay ihe Mminister- i sald William Clark Come, let us see” Look ow tha 1 ~tune. You o know that T ha € de certain enemies in this country not supported by my t. T am ruined—I am roken man! Did you think this could do that for cither of Merue, the soul of enemy But ¥ou. What 1 done this . Teen set to work are the bill out in_other pr I have no am publicly di: dis know t what has been " id William . “Washington Is so far. u must not let this trou- iy some six-dollar- ington that S not consider it of any re- 2 government. hings too hard, Merne. T you brooding over this or do. You have the Jften cnough s it is. Com: kiss the baby! He is Meriwether Lewis teeth. Sit down and will be here among_your 'Twill all d not griev vear 1803. Mr. on foreign trade E idle; our crops rotted; was no market. The name of erson was now in g rch, when his second term dent expired, he had retired “life at Monticello. He had tten s last message to Congress tovery pring, in which he sald the people of his count trust that in thelr steady charac- . unshaken by difficulties, in their © of liberty, obedienee to law, and sport of the public authorities, T L sure guarantee of the perma- of our republic: and retiring the charge of their affairs, I with me the isolation of a <uasion that Heaven has in our beloved country long come of prosperity and 2 i tever the veering self-inter- | others led them to think or ing the memory of that riwether Lewls trusted absolutely, and re- on his friendship and his . Now, in the hour of trouble, ived to journe: . 1 supported by in. this friend D: * urged that 3 ¢ ve this 1 o back to the east v of New Orle d the will do you much g 1id Meriwether Lewis to servant and attendant, wpers for my jour- small :d on h rri < me all x ke with et my old , and T alw om in the west. Secure some gold— our red dollars, I 1 will take some in my give the rest to you for ney pistols well cared for, | ©d your own a uall powder with them on well. See that my nister, with bullet the holsters, Th too safe. Be care vise of our plans. My of private nature, and do sturbed.. And here, concluded. “It friend—a’ good nd T prize it very t T fear to have it for it in the in given to me riend, Mr. Wirt, “Do not eall ‘me ellency test the title! T am Gov. Lewis, and 0 be distinguished. ‘0 now, and do as 1 have told you. Ye shall need about ten men to man fe barge. Arrange it. Have ‘our oods ready for an early start to- A0rTOW morning. All that night, tdmost distracte at at hi sleepless, fevered, Meriwether Lewls ting, or endeavor- h wh tters upon uis_soul may not But the long night wore away last, and morning came, a morning of the ‘early beautiful as it may be only in Iatitude. thout having closed ), the governor made urney o the east. Whether or not Perla was fafthful to all his instructions one cannot say, but certainly all St. Louis knew of the intended de; ernor. The. Tov tgusted him would s now, and (h gathered almost en masse t9 bid him godspeed upon his jour- for Mr. Jefterson, land titles, of which » spoke to him last year. Do you s remembe Thus Chouteau, al- whys busy with affairs, Th sdtin, Fgench girl, smiling up at him. “Would you match them for me in the east? 1 am to be married In the spring?" “The price of furs—learn of that, governor, if you can, Journey. The embargo has ruined the trade_in all this inland country!" was Manuel Liza, swarthy, taciturn, who thus voiced a general feeling. “Books, more books, my son!” im- lored Dr. Saugrain. “Wo are grow- ng here—I must ep up with the surgery of the day; I must know the new discoveries in medicine. Bring me books. And_take this little case of _medicines. You are ill, my son— the fever has you!" “My people—they mourn for. me as dead” said Big White, the Mandan, who had never returned to his people him | ccutive as | to_injure | pington! | eral execra- | i ¥ to Monticell | of his old chief, -nar—vou_have | Final Arguments Are Heard Before ! ol samples of cloth and of | said o dark-eyed | while on your | It D. Appleten & Co.) up the Missouri river ipulse of his convoy “Tell the Great Father send me soldiers to home to my people, by that he ke mo Ay he can get_me ne sort while } {3ou are in the east.” i {an artiticial limb of |71t was young George Shanunon who |said this, leaning oi his Shannon had not long @ from another trip up the where | !in an encounter with the Si - had eived wound which cost leg nd _almost cost him his life though later, alvendy been | said, he was to hecome a noted figure | fat_the bar of the state of Kentucky. | b Yes, and yves Their leader, | punctilious as he was kind, agreed to all these comm! ns—prizing them, | lindeed, us proof of the confidence of | his people { He was ready to depart, but stood | still, looking about for the tall figure | which pr ntly he saw advancing | through the throng—a tall man with wide mouth and sunny hair, with blue | eve and stalw t frame—William Clark—the friend whom he loved so much_and whom he Wwas now to s for the last time. i Gen. Clark carried upon his arm the baby which had been named after the governor of the new territory Lewis took hi from h tarms and pres cruteh eturned | ng @ 1 s he felt t No chi! r ‘hold thus! last look is friend d he. tle about his own lip: snder flesh of the i He pave him L into the face { THE WILDER) The governor's barge swept down ithe rolling flood of the Mississippl, tmpelled by the blades of ten sturdy oarsmen. Little by little the blue smoke of St. Louls town faded beyond the level of the forest. The stone tower of the old Spanish where floated the American flag, appeared finally Meriwether Lewis st but seeming 1ot to no He did not even notle which left the wharf just before own and preceded him down the rive now leafing along aimlessly, s times ahead, sometimes behind that of the governor and his party. In time |he turned to his lapdesk and bewan | his endl task of writing, amin- | i Now and gain he if. The fever was| aring back what passed. 2 long bat ed | They proc fashion of b eded thus, after the usual it travel in those % down the great river, until they passed the mouth of the Oh reached what known the Chickasaw Blufis, below the conflu- jence of the two Here la little post of the Army ifor the command {dian agent at that point, | As was the custom, all barg tup here, and the governors | moored at the foot of the biuff. Tts passenger was §0 weak that he ha could walk up the steep steps cut in the muddy front of the bank, “Gov. Lewls X imed Maj. Neely, as he met him. re i1l You are in an ague! “Perhaps, perhaps. Give ihere for a day or two, if you pi Then T shall be strong enough to tr: See if vou can get hors yself and my party—I am resolved not to go.by sea. ve. not.j time.” The Governor of Louisiang, hagi flushed with fever, staggered as he fol- lowed his friend into the apartment assigned to him in one of the cabins of the little post. He wore his usual travellng garb; but now, for some strange reason, he med to lack his usual immaculat, . Instead of the formal dre: 5 office, he wo: an old, stained, ded uniform coat, its 1 pocket bulging with papers. This he | kept at the head of his bed when at length he flung himself down, almost in the delirium of fever. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) u ON COMPENSATION Fitzgerald Subcommittee in House. The hearings before the Fitzgerald subcommittee of the House District committee on workmen's compensa- | tion for the District of Columbia | were practically closed yestérday after | Robertson Jones, representing the | mutual Insurance companies in a| two-hour statement completed the opposition of the organized insurance , companies to the Fitzgerald plan for | an exclusive state fund for the Dis- | trict of Columbla. Chalrman Fitzgerald said after the meeting that as far as he knows th hearings will be closed, but that today he lears of any other persons who would like to be heard he will call an- | other meeting. i Mr. Jones' statement seday developed | more in detail the arguments in op- position to the Fitzgerald bill, which have previously been reported in The Star in more concise form. Representative Fitzgerald questioned Mr. Jones regarding the activity of | the Chamber of Commerce of Cali- fornia in opposition to the Ohio state fund plan, which was the basis for| the Fitzgerald bill. He asked Mr. Jones if this business organization ad not been a tool of the insurance ompanies. Mr. Jones replied that that “is a.very grave charge. SPRING BUSINESS | OPENING ARRANGED March 24 to Mark Event With Simultaneous Lighting of Windows. 1 1 The spring business season for Washington wil be formally opened Monday night, March 24, at 8 o'clock, under plans announced today by the Merchants and Wanufacturers' Asso- ciation, which is arranging for the celebration. From closing time on the evening of March 24, to 8 o'clock, Washington merchants are requested to keep their windows dark and at the appointed time, turn on the lights showing the very latest in spring goods of every description. Five prizes will be given for pre- eminence in window displays, the an- nouncement today continued, and will be awarded to the display men or women themselves, together with a certlficate of recognition to the firm whose displays capture the prizes. Women employes may volunteer to participate in store receptions inci- dent to the review, provided no goods are sold or orders taken. This step is taken to comply with the eight- hour Jaw. The association has asked merchants to use live models or the operation of mechanical devices wherever pos- sible and to fly fiags from their busi- ness fronts dnflnf the week. / - 184 CONCLUDE HEARINGS |: |ments against such properties to pay jwill have to pay 'THE EVENING THE WEEK Epltome of Events up to Saturday, March 1. FOREIGN. Poincare tax plan wins, 334 to 218, Five hundred packages of food reach Hamburg for starving doctors. Bel- approves Phillips as envoy. aties' rebellion in India growing. n withdraws from naval parley. ors silenced by Spain's dicta- Treaty revision suggestion by Hritish home secretary alarms Parls. British dock strike ended. [Italian king and son improve after influenza. Ludendorft nd Hitler trial opens in b nfidence vote delayed in Helgium binet quits after defes United States consul general in Argentina probes : of passport affidavits. Truc vil war ¥ ilroad rates 10 50 per cent. Snow isolates Madrid. NATIONAL. Bonus immpossible under three tax plan: res Mellon. Coolidge e ters primaries in Ohic. Borah joins 'h.'h(. to oust Daugherty; hi Presi- dent's attitude. Daugherty group in nate to figcht probe resolu‘ion dicr justice urged by Hughes, profits x for revenue bl McLean's finances IPlorida trip probed by tors; President's secre- Ini Beach trip offcial Eets bulk of late Pres Tax amendment may bring veto. enters name for lential race in Ohio, New leads 1 revealed in telegrams ating committee, Confer- Ly party leaders on row < cut this ughes ule ial service at | MeLes med daily of in oil probe by workers. Duugl akes helm in Chicaro veterans' 'y Gi. 0. P. compromise on sur wins insurgents. New jught into oil probe. In- facts of oil men asked. in House for 5 denies F Wilson dent's es D T ¥ join probe_commit slers flout U. S. dig- told. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Substitute for gas tax measure pro- poscd by Senator Ball. Park Com- ion buvs R Creek tract at Ci ark com- mission. J Orsdel heads sons of American Hevolution in Dis- afraid of istrict ban £les over D tee. Li sion of D. District Potom: ommit Chesape profits ignored Board_of Tri I I forsees stant di Union dies. ctor of the Ten bu- of auto Distr veto ector for ‘ting on gas £ Columbia wration of 1 Constitution of the put in sanctuary at RBall $612.600 imit on king raised to one hour in busi- rea. SENTENCES IMPOSED ON FOUR BY COURT| Negro Gets Four Years in Peni-i tentiary for Shooting Man in July 4 Celebration. Justice Hitz in Criminal Division 1 vesterday sentenced James Turner, col- rve four vears in the peni- Turner admitted he shot William Evans, also colored, July 4 t. The testimony disclosed that the shooting reckless and that Tu; # tened a number of bystande ored, to s thews, colored, vears in the b was accused of stealing $10 olored. ¥ ing an automobile Johnsot convicted of ste: December 1 1 Mary Franklin, one ¥ in jail from Mari Munro ) The coat was valued at colored She = = i HITS COST ASSESSING FOR ANACOSTIA FLATS Chamber of Commerce Circular Says Some Property Owners Pay and Others Do Not. 1 Tmprovements in Anacostia flats will prove costly to abutting property owners while other residents of South- | east Washington will escape scot free unless a portion of the 1924 District | appropriation bill providing assess- for development is repealed, according to A. E. Seymour, secretary of the ‘Washington Chamber of Commerce. Real estate owners whose properties adjoin or are in proximity to the sec~ tion marked out 1or {mprovements! for the work as fast as it is complet he said. Circular letters are in the mails to- Gay addressed Dy th Commerce to all citizens' associations in the vicinity of the improvement project, the Federation of Citizens' Associations and other interested parties urging them to unite and co- operate together in obtaining relief. Mr. Seymour in the letter points out that, while only a percentage ot property owners will be affected, the general improvement plan will be a benefit to the entire section and that it is most unfair that just a few should be forced to pay the improve- ment tax. “Nothing of this kind,” the letter reads, as cver attempted in connection with any other river of park improvement in the District of Columbia.” “The improvement of the Anacostia river is not being doms for the benefit of local adjucent property owners, Chamber .of | 5 but is for the benefit of the city as a whole. It is realized that the prop- erty in that part of the city is large- 1y held by people of modest means, and no greater injustice could be imagined than to have assessed against their property the cost of th improvement of the Anacostia river. L Horseshoes Sold for Gaming. Hardware dealers throughout the country are finding a ready sale for new horseshoes owing to the revival of the good old game of pitching horseshoes. Sinco the automobile came into such popular use fewer 0ld horseshoes were available for this popular pastime, and the result has been that the demand for shoes caused hardware and sporting goods dealers to stock new onmes. A new magazine, the Horseshoes World, has nothing whatever to do with skoeing horses, and is devoted ex- clusively to the game A STAR, WASHINGTO THE THRILL THAT COMES ONCE IN A LIFETIME. "'D. ¢, SATURDAY, MARCH "1,” —— NES.SIR, You'LL FinD NuMBeR. 21 A GooD LIGHT Room. ALL TH TRAvELIN MEN THAT SToP HERE LIKE THAT Roo™ VOUR INTRODUCTION To MODER M HOTEL SERVICE - A Bovy M GORGEOUS UNMIFORM ACTUALLY TOOK YOUR BAG AMD SUITCASE AWAY FROM You AND CARRIED THEM uP To YourR Room BEDTIME STORIES Peter Cannot Find Mrs. Peter "tis vers clear, but what we fear. —Peter Rabbit. Roddy Fox was so angry over the trick Peter Rabbit had played on him | that he actually tried to follow Peter into the dear Old Briar Patch. But he soon gave that up. Peter had hisown private little paths along which he could hop without the least difficulty. But Reddy was so big that he had to force his way through the brambles, and the brambles tore his coat and scratched him untll at last he was only too glad to give up. So, snarling and muttering ugly things, he finally left the dear Old Briar Patch. ter rested for a while. Then it struck] him as rather queer that he had seen nothing of Ittde Mrs. Peter. Perhaps Worrs come Not from fa THEN HE CAREFULLY SEARCHED THE WHOLE OF THE DEAR OLD | BRIAR PATCH. she had been so frightened by Reddy Fox that she was hiding somewhere. Peter started out to look for her. He went straight ta her favorite place. She wasn't there. He went to an- other place: where she often sat. She n't there. This is thought Pete! q DIVORCE REPLY HITS WIFE’S MODERNISM! Lawyer Says “Divine Right” Seems Her Vital Principle, as ‘With Royal Ancestor. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 1.—The “divine right of wive: fundamentalism and modernism figure in the divorce suit brought against William H. Griffin, a lawyer. In an answer to his wife's com- plaint, filed in the supreme court yesterday, Griffin denies her accusa- tions that he misconducted himself with a woman at Atlantic City and “With her divine right of wives s as vital and insistent a principle of life as the divine right of kings wae with her illustrious ancestor, King Charles I of England. “The plaintiff favors the school of thought of which the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant is the most conspicu- ous exponent at the present time, and his fourteen-year-old daughter, through her mother's influence, has reached a state of mind in Which she refuses to accompany her father, an orthodox Episcopalian and member of the diocesan organizations, to church, declaring that she does not believe in the divinity of Christ, the miracles, and numerous other arti- cles of Christian faith.” Mrs, Griffin has asked the courts to award her the custody of their two children. The Griffins were married in New Orleans in 1806. EARTHQUAKE IN BAGUIO. Slight Shock Felt in Philippine City. i By the Assoclated Pres MANILA, February 29.—An earth- quake of slight intensity was experi- | enced at Bagulo, “the summer capital of the Philippi; Thursday night, according to advices to the weather bureau. Other reports to the bureau told of a fall of ashes over a wide area in the Batanes Islands, a group in! Cayagan province. It was added that supposedly these ashes came from n.l volcani® eruption in or mnear the Loochoo Islands, off the southern end of Japan. - | hiding place. | Time | take a nap and forget it. BY THORNTON ‘W. BURGESS Then he carefully searched the whole of the dear Old Briar Patch. He hop- ped along every one of their private little paths, e looked into every Not a sign of lttle Mrs, Peter did he find. 1t was hard to be- leve, but at last he had to belleve that little Mrs. Peter was not in the dear Old Briar Patch. Now, Peter had been so well fed hen he had been a prisoner up In Farmer Brown's barn that he had quite forgotten how hard it was to Ket enough to eat in the dear Old Briar Patch. He remembered it now. “It must be that Fuzzy” (for that is what he always calls her, because her name was Miss Fuzzytail before she became Mrs. Peter) “has been driven by hunger to leave the dear Old Briar thought he. I wonder where gone? She may have gone up to the Old Pasture. he may have gone over to the Green Forest. Oh, dear, T wish I knew which way she 5 i She so seldom leaves the she was hungry. She ought to have known better. $he might have known how worried 1 would be.” How that would have tickled little Mrs, Peter if she could have heard it. time and time again she had pleaded with Peter to stay in the dear Old Briar Patch and Peter had laughed at her. Time and time and time again she had worried because Peter did not return. Now Peter was learning how little Mrs. Peter felt, My, low lonesome the dear Old atch seemed. Peter tried to But he was ton uneasy to sleep. He kept hop- ping around through those private little paths all through the dear Old Briar Patch, hoping_and hoping that unexpectedly little Mrs. Peter would pop up from somewhere. But little Mrs, Peter didn't pop up. Peter imag- ined all kinds of dreadful things. He remembered how it was from around the end of the dear Old Briar Patch that Reddy Fox had appeared. Could it be that Reddy had caught Mrs. Peter? (Copyright, 1924, by T. W. Burgess.) The next story: “The Strange End- ing of Peter Rabbit's Worrie ‘Only Injured Toe’ Greets Doctor on City Club Call Recciving a telephone message last midnight that led them to be- lieve that tragedy stalked the dance hall of the City Club, the Emergency Hospital ambulance, with siren shrieking, streaked its way to the G street clubhouse, carrying Dr. John McCarthy, breathless from haste and ready to ameliorate the suffering vic- tims. : Skidding to a stop, the physi- cian hopped out and was rushed posthaste to the ballroom. Apparent- 1y news of the accident had been - Kept from the merry throng, for gay- reigned to the tune of jazz mu- slc, Attendants, however, ‘awaiting the doctor, ushered him into a room where a patient, an attractive young{ lady, sat suffering. Blood was flowing, quite a few drops, from a pretty pink toe of the dancer, and the guilty person, her brother, stood distressed beside her. ‘He did it with his left heel Now I'll have to stay off the dance floor,” lamented the girl, as the orchestra struck up _“Sitting Pretty.” Falling to record the names of his patient and her brother in the excitement and flood of sympathy of the moment, the doctor wended his way back to the ambulance and was whisked back to the hos- pital, prepared to respond just as quickly to the next call for aid. | OFFICES FOR RENT Physicians Surgeons Medical S 1029 Vermont Ave. N.W. Several Single Suites Now Available. Double Sulte Available March 1. 1624 Eye St. N.W. (01 Army and Navy Club Bldg.) First Floor Suite Now Available. J. Edward Thomas 419 Southern Building Tel. Fr. 7343 1924, —By WEBSTER. e MORALITY BL LAWS HELD IMPRACTICAL | National American Club Director Declares Greater Reverence for Ideals Needed. “There is abundant evidencs that national and individual morality can- not be elevated by legislation,” de- clared Maj. V. B. Grant, national di- rector of the Natlonal American Club, in an address before the members of the Washington branch at a dinner at Continental Hotel Thursday night. Maj. Grant declared the purpose of the organization was to stimulate greater reverance for American ideals by “toleration, mutual good fellow- ship and moral example.” He appealed for a disregard of the wild and fantastic “isms,” which, he £aid, are blinding the people of America to the splendid principles laid down by the founders of the country. “While we must not become mentally lethargetic or indifferent to our country's welfare, we must guard against the pursuit of rainbows. Cor stitutional progress along sane lin based upon true American principles is the only real advancement. The National American Club is endeavor- ing in a multitude of ways to stimulate, preserve and perpetuate the noblest mnational and patriotic ideals for the help of the present generation and the benefit of pos- terity. They make no loud proclama- tions or bombastic preliminary no —action and not words is their idea, he_declared. The members of the Natlonal Am ican Club of Washington sre: Presi dent, former Representative L. Fchols from West Virginia; president, J. W, Fenton, jr. tary l]ld treasurer, Frank P. W. ‘Armstrong, G. F. Bailey, Worth- ington Bean. C. Brewton, Walter M. Brown, Wisdom D. Brown. E. L Browning, S. E, Burgess, H. T. Cha- conas, Arthur B, C D. V.. Chis- holm. Homer F. Crawford, D. C. Din- ger, F. J. Duncan, Frank J. Dunn, John Dunn, Senator Davis Eikins of West Virginia, James R. Ellfs, H. W. Farrar, H. H. Fink, W. L. Cary, Leo I Grady, V. B. Grant, Charies C. Grey, Clyde H. Hancock, Percy E. Harding, Robert A. Humphries, L. M. Hynson, Vincent Kelly, John A. Kerman. srnest C. Lee. TRobert b 8. Montgomery, Frank Noske, F. W. arker, Charles H. Phillips, Frank J. Pickett, Col. O. C. Plerce, C. C. Rob- ertson, Willlam J. Rogers, Gen. W. W. Scott, M. R. Shafer, George C. Shaffer, A. J. Simons, G. F. Snyder, Fred A. Spicer, Louis M. Stallings, Guy T. Stewart, A. K. Stratton, Dr. Henry W. Tobias, Dr. John T. Vivian, W. J. Waller and Willlam M. Webb. _— Asks Dry Plebiscite, REGINA, Saskatchewan, March 1.— Notice of ‘a bill “to.provide for a plebiscite on questions relating to the control and suppression of traffic in alcoholie liquors,” was given in the Saskatchewan legislative —assembly vesterday by J. A. Crop, attorney gern- eral. He Intimated he would move for leave to Introduce-the bill next Tues- day. Henry Lansburgh, H. N. Link, -Howard Linton, G, Mattingly, Nicholas Miles, When one is “feeling fine” is a good time to take the nec- essary pre- cautlons to keep that way. A sluggish digestive system, bringing on p-the poisonous toxins lead to head- fatigue or colds e thoroughly cleansed with regular- ity to safeguard health. Citrate of Magnesia acts most effectively, is pleasant to take,” and tones up the whole system. To get the standard, U. S. P. product, ask your druggist for Dorothy Dix’s Letter Box Widow Who Is Being Hounded by a Tempera- mental Gentleman Much Younger Than Herself — Young Man Whose Fiancee Insists on Strict Church Attendance. EAR MISS DIX: My mother, who has been a widow for years, has in the last three years fallen under the influence of & man some years younger than she is who Is Insanely jealous. He makes her life a burden with his constant nagging and suspicions, and she has always to pet him and to coax him into good humor. He is even jealous of us children, and I wouldn't dare go to my mother's house when he is there, for he would say that I had plotted to spoil his evening, or something like that, and make things miserable, He had a trying experfence in his earlier years, and says mother has restored his faith in wemen. He says that he depends on her to keep him straight and that she is responsible for his soul, which is all hull Any man of his agc who can’t take care of his own soul belongs in « padded cell. Mother says that she has trled to get rid of him and can't. that he would kill her if he saw her with any one else, and he wants to marry her. She has succeeded in putting that off, but is actually afraid to break off entirely. One really hates to knock a person in the head, and as for pushing him under a troliey, well, it simply isn't being done in good soclety. What would you do in a case like this? OLD PAL. He said Answer: 1 surmise that vour mother has a comfortable income, and that the temperamental gentleman thinks it is easier to work a rich widow than it is to work a job. Am I not right? Also, that he has succeeded in getting vour mother what is vulgarly known as “buffaloed.”” by threatening to make scenes and scandal if she lets her children throw him out of the house as he descrves, or if she calls police. T think that your mother does not really want to get rid of him. Middle ago is the dangerous age for women; the age at which they do foolish things; the age when, Eve-like, they risk the paradise of a com- fortable and safe old age for the sake of one more bite at the forbidde apple of romance. So take it from me that mother is enjoying this lurid romance, and she is flattered out of her wits at a man’s turning over his soul to her for safekecping. 1t has been so lon nce a man’'sald that to her that she has forgotten that it is old courtship stuff, and almost a formula of lovemaking. Practical every man, when he wants to please a woman, tells her that she is someho different from every other woman, and that shc alone can save him and redeem his faith in women. The thing you have to do s to save mother from herself, and to do that you will have to separate her from this neurotic grafter. He won't g0 and she won't make him go, and so vour best plan is to get her off on a long trip, where she will be interested and amused, and find herself. If you can put a thousand miles between her and the man she wiil get the right perspective on him and see what a ridiculous, selfish figure he s . . DOROTHY DIX. EAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a young man engaged to the Only Girl, but still 1 am very undecided and unhappy. She is a very strict church girl, and demands that I go regularly. I have done it for two years, and it is getting my goat. It bores me to death, and makes me feel like a hypocrite. I have given up all my old friends and old haunts for her, and am willing to do anything to please her. but for the life of me I can't sce her point of view regarding camping in the church. 1 have told her that she can go as often as she please and I will never interfere, for I am 100 per cent tolerant. But that docsn't satisfy her. She insists on dragging me along, too. Now, Miss Dix, I simply can't do that and remain myself, and I feel that my spirit is gradually being broken down. I love her very much, but if T can't be myself, I don't see how we can be happy together, for she will be miserable if I do not prove a million per cent church-goer. What do vou think? EARL H, T. Answer: 1 think, Earl, that you will have either to give in to the church-going, or give up the girl, and that if you want to save vourself trouble, you will decide the mattér before marriage, instead of trying to fight it out afterward. Don't imagine for an instant that you can ever change her, or make her see things from your point of view, or concede you the right to save your own soul in your own way, for she never will.” Never, never, never! Once let a woman get it into her head that it is her sacred duty to reform her husband, and she goes at it with the zeal and the cruelty and the clear consciénce of the torturers in the'iffquisition. The fact that she is making her husband miserable, and that she is alienating his love, doesn’t stop her, because she is a fanatic and crazy on that one point. Why, I have known more than one woman who sent her husband to the corner saluon or to other women for the sake of a few clgarettes! You know, son, you have to pay a price for all you get. Evidently {church-geing is to be yours, and if the girl has no othér drawbacks, she is worth it. You may learn even to like it, and, anyway, it is a good habit. Furthermore, there are ameliorating circumstances, for if the preacher is not interesting and you are not altogether in sympathy with his doctrine, it gives you a grand opportunity for thinking, and that is something that none of us do enough of. 4 somebody has wittily said that most men carry thelr religion in their wife's name. Anyhow, it is a good thing to have a life partner who is a spiritual millionaire. So I think I would buy me a Sunday-go-to- meeting suit and marry the girl, and trot right along with her like Mary's little lamb. But don't marry her unless you can make up your mind not to balk on the job! DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: a4 man can twice? You know, s s e s Do you think that ever truly love BELL, Answer: Yes. Not only twice, but hundreds of times. heart is the only perpetual-motion machine. there is love. 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