New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1916, Page 4

4 l;RIAGE BY MAIL - . UNITES SOLDIER AND BEST GIRL [£} BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM IN UNIQUE CEREMONY. P o-Louis Bansemer, Company First, regiment,. Newn.Jersey nation- lguard, appeared before Notary Hd- 4 C. Bradford at headquerters, as, Ariz, and signed a marriage htract-with:Miss Ethel Maud Sergent 60 Peck- avenue, Newark. First geant.J. C. Clark of Company H ed as witness. The company gave nsemer a wedding breakfast of salt 'k at 5 o'clock in the morning. Then b bridegroom went digging trenches. en the New Jersey troops were ht from Sea Girt to the border Miss gent and Private Bansemer tried be married by proxy, but when they re informed such a ceremony would e nothing more than a sentimental jlue and would not be binding legal- they made arrangements to be mar- ld by mail. On July 6 Miss Sergent Ipeared before a notary public in wark, N. J., and signed a marriage tract. This was sent at once by stered mail to Bansemer at Doug- f. Both her lawyer and Marriage Erk Crissey at the Newark city hall lared such a procedure was per- tly legal and binding. ASTORIA For Infants and Children. 8 Kind You Have Always Bought [Bears the gnature o: ALL THIS WEEK CHARLIE CHAPLIN In His Latest Success “THE VAGABOND” Don't Miss It. High Class Vaudeville Daily No Advance in Admission. Today and Tomorrow Mr. William Fox Presents Virginia Pearson IN Who Is The Laughing Mask? Latest Chapter— IRON CLAW " PATHE NEWS Latest Current Evenis ‘geeing America First’ “Jerry’s Elopement” Matinee 5c—Evenings 10c IT’S COOL AT FOX’S 1 waiting room of the | News?or Theater Goers and NEW. RBRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1916. Only on the Level A young school friend of mine has been reading about the Spanish in- quisition and the burning of the heretics in Mary’s reign. She is horrified. “I am so glad I didn’t live in those times,” she said. “I know I couldn’t have stood having people burned to death just because they felt differently about religion. I should have been burnt to death my- self.” “Don’t you feel that way because you live in a more tolerant age?” I asked. “Don’t you think you might have felt differently if you had lived in an age of intolerance?’”” “Of course I wouldn't,”” she said indignantly. “It wouldn’'t have mat- tered when I lived. I shouldn’t have believed in such things.” She Wouldn’t Want Anyone Burned to Death But—— I know nothing could convince her otherwise. And yet—well, I know she hag her religious prejudices as strong and no stronger than those if the age in which she lives. Sho ‘wouldn’t want anyone burned to death for belonging to an allen religion— no; but she would vote to have a girl kept out of a soclety to which she belonged for that same reason. In other words, she is neither above nor below, but even with, the level of religious toleration of her day. What right, then, has she to assume that she would be above the level of a tol- erance of another age if she had been born then? She would have been a product of that age, just as she is of this. 1 A Common Form of Self-Deceit. I think it is a rather common form of self-deceit to fancy that the stand- ards of tolerance, of education, etc., that one holds in this age and under the circumstances in which one_lives, one would still cling to in a less pro- pitious age and environment. For instance, I found myself think- ing when I read about the ignorance and semi-slavery of the women of the middle ages, “I would never have stood that; I would have insisted upon learning to read. I would have de- manded more freedom.” Then I thought it over and asked muyself, “Am I more educated than the wo- men who have had my opportunities, more independent than the women of today?” And, finding myself only even with the level of those who have had my opportunities and en- vironment, I had to decide that I would not have arisen above the level in those days. They Think They Would Be Cleaner. People who are offended by the lack of personal cleanliness in the “lower classes’” often announce that they would manage to keep them- selves clean even if they were handi- capped by the lack of tub and other facilities. The answer is, “Are you more immaculate than the people with your opportunities?” Very well, then, finish the equation for yourself. This habit of believing that we would have been superior to a for- mer age is one of many pleasant il- lusions which most of us like to cher- ish about ourselves. Perhaps it is foolish to destroy them because they make us a little happier, but if self- ignorance is bliss is it folly to be wise? I wonder. No, I don't. By ADELE GARRIZON ] Why Lillian “Warned” Madge. | As the open taxicab rolled up River- side Drive I felt my worries lighten. I never can resist the witchery of the Hudson and the woaded Palisades at any time, and on this September day they were particularly soul satisfying. I turned to Lillian Underwoood to ex- press my appreciation of her treat, expecting to find her also drinking in the beauty which met us at every turn. But her eyes were not fixed upon the river or the wooded heights at whose base it rippled, but upon me. She made a marvellously quick shift of expression, but the turn of my head had been toa swift for me wholly to miss the yearning, sorrowful, pitying look in the eves which met mine. All my fears of the morning came rushing back to me. Something was the matter, or she would not look at me in that way. Impulsively I laid my hand on hers. “Tell me, Mrs. Underwood, is any- thing the matter?” She imprisoned my hand in both hers and patted it. “Nothing that cannot be helpe dear,” she said determinedly. I am going to forbid vour asking an- other question until we have had ocur iuncheon. I decline to discuss the affairs of the nation or my own on an empty stomach, and my breakfast this morning consisted of the juice of two lemons and a small cup of coffee.” " “Why?" I asked mechanically, thought I knew the answer. “The awful penalty of trying to keep one's figure,” she returned light- ly. “But I certainly am going to break training this noon. I am simply starved.” & al- “But that is Teser—" the man be- gan, but stopped as Lillian elevated her eyebrows and looked at him fxedly, “I think it can be arranged,” he finished skillfully, and piloted us to the table Lillian had indicated. “He ought to know better than to try that dodge on me,” she com- mented caustically as we sat down in the chairs the man pulled out for us, &nd he hurried away to summon a waiter. “What dodge?” I asked innocently. “Oh, you precious infant,” she laughed tenderly. “Why, turning up ibe chairs at a particularly desirable table, and pretending it is reserved, in order to coax a tip for its release out of vour pocket.” “But suppose it served?” I queried. “In that case he would have stuck by his guns, and not allowed me to Dbiuff him.” “But how did you know?"” “I didn’t know, but I had a pretty shrewd look of the corner of his mouth. is a pet idea of mine that I can always test a person’s truthfulness from a certain little quiver or lack of it in the Jeft-hand corner of the mouth.” “I am glad you warned me.” I said gayly. “I shall wear a mask when- cver I want to tell you a tarradiddle.” “You couldn’t tell a lie if you wanted to,” she returned, “more’s the pity.” Her voice held an indeflnable note of pity, but I had not time to ponder over it, for a waiter stood at attention at Lillian's elbow. Something Is Wrong. “Well, what shall we eat?” Lillian’s voice was brisk. I knew that of all things she detested hesitation, so I re- sponded quickly. “I don’t care what else I have, but really were re- Her tone and words were reassur- fng, although I still felt there was something behind her light manner which intimately concerned me. But I had learned to count on her down- right honesty, and her words, “Nothing that cannot be helped, my dear,” steadied me, gave me hope that no matter what trouble she had to tell me, she had also a panacea for it. “You Precious Infant!” As our machine swept round the curved drive leading to the Tarleton, and we alighted at the hospitabie- looking entrance of the old colonial inn, I made up my mind to follow her lead, and put everything disagreeable out of my mind until she herself told me what she wished. She was my Lostess, she had planned a most de- lightful outing far me. I surely owed her the payment cheerful looks and good spirits, ‘We checked our light wraps, freshened up a bit, in the immaculate inn, and then ended the stairs to the flower- onced verandas bordering the ter-, races overlooking the Hudson. Lillian Underwood is a woman who without effort instantly commands the attention of waiters and other servi- tors. She has an air of sophistica- tion, of knowing perfectly what she wants and accepting nothing else, that acts as a spur to those who serve her. An obsequious maitre d'hotel met of us. “Madame wishes a table?" “Yes, in the shaded corner there, that one with the bowl of nastur- tiums.” I do want an iced cantaloupe first.” “You ethereal creature,” jeered Lillian. “Some darling pink little clams for my first course. Now what next, nightingale wings?” She laughed audaciously at me. “I think the wings or any other portion of a broiled chicken will do very well for me,” I replied, trying to meet her merry maod. “You've struck “That suits me. French fried potatoes, new lima beans, a romaine salad and an ice of some kind ?” “I think that's the best reduction menu I ever heard. But I like it.” icat) she macked, and turning gave the order to the waiter. We discussed the meal leisurely. Onder the influence of the bracing ir, the beautiful view, the delicious viands, I gradually forgot my worr or at least pushed them back into corner of my brain. As we lingered over the ices, Lillian icaned over the table to me. “Will you do me a favar?” asked abruptly. “Try me,” 1 smiled back at her. our hame for a weck’s stay. I have an idea you need my fine Italian hand at work about now.” I looked at her wonderingly, then I began ta tremble. “Don’t look like that,” she com- manded sharply. “Nothing dreadful is the matter. But that Dicky bird of yours needs his wings clipped a bit, and I think I am the person to apply the shears.” So there wa: Dicky, after all! she returned. she something wrong with idea he was lying from the | 1t | ol lscreen fun-makers shuffles around A STORY YOU CAN BEGIN AT ANY TIME Her Side--and His How Cora and David Temple Solved Their Marital By ZOE BECKLEY The Gainful Loss. For the first time in nearly twenty years Rose Brett went to her bed without a good-night word to her husband. For as long as she could re- member, she and Carter had had their little talk at the end of the day over business matter: True, they wwere chiefly Rose’s interests. But Brett was a good listener and an eloquent one. The nightly rite of talk- ing things over had grown to be a part of life to Rose. She found her- self actually aghast at this first break between them, this first omission of the companionable rehash of the day’s doings. “We’ve been married almost twenty years,” Roseé kept repeating in her disturbed mind, “and here am I facing the silly little problem which usually confronts a woman in her first year of wifehood. I, Rose Brett, am actually at swords’ points with my husband over another woman! How preposterous it seems!” The subject of Wanda Laurence was not broached between them until the following evening, and then it was Carter Brett and not his wife who did the talking. For once in their married life it was he who argued, he who laid down the programme and not she. At first Rose felt nothing but a sense of outrage and the loss of an “easy” husband, an obedient soldier, a willing employe. But soon she found herself listening to the man whose will, of a sudden, would not be denied. “There’s an addition to this small family of ours from now on, my dear Rose. It's a man.” Carter Brett spoke with the ease of one who knows all the cards are in his hands. “Instead of carrying on as though you had been robbed of something, it's the glad hand you should be holding out to the newcomer—me. “Up to now there has been but one head of this family—vou. now on there will be two—you and me. When vou get used to the idea you'll realize the truth of the adage that two heads are better than one. You've a fine headpiece vourself and youw're so willing to use it that you Problems From ave mine no chance to exercise itself. Which made the household minus a fairly useful head, by the way. “Nor would I fuss, if I were you, because a woman has turned my head. For she has turned it the right way. You're too angry to appreciate it now, my dear, but those two women, Cora and Wan- da, have placed you in their debt. They have given you a partner in place of an employe. Rose Brett was suffering the deepest humiliation a wife can know—the knowledge that another woman has been of greater benefit to her hus- band than she herself has been. Brett was touched as he saw his strong, capable mate silent, defeated. He went to her, taking her hands gently in his. “Don’t feel this a blow to vour pride, another pride—pride of me. Remember, girl, I haven't said ‘off with your head.’” It's too good a head to lose. It will be both our heads together, dear, just as they are now.” He laid his cheek against hers a moment, then turned and kissed her. “Rose, my Rose, the only thing those two women really taught me was that I had grown into a doddering old house dog, following his mistress’ footsteps, rubbing against her when she had time to notice, ready to come when she called or go when she bade him. That isn’t the kind of husband a woman wants.” Rose was silent. “You don't begrudge me a share of influence in our common problems and pleasures, do you—do you, Rose?"” And with this disguised appeal to her sense of fairness and to her love she surrendered in the wordless yet complete and sweet manner of a wom- an in whom self-love is exceeded by love for another. APIQUANT MOTORCOAT SUITABLE FOR TOUR other than you dear,” he said. “T'll give you creating scores of laughs in rapid suc- cession. Chaplin has innumerable chances to apply his particular meth- ods of gloom chasing in “The Vaga- bond” and he succeeds exceedingly well, The next important screen offering for tonight and tomorrow is the lat- est episode in the big Hearst serial. teries of Myra.”” Coupled with is the Knickerbocker release. rom Broadway to a Throne, played by Carter De Haven and an unusually capable company. In the near future the management | announces its intention of starting the latest serial, released by the film malk- ers, “Liberty, a Daughter of the akfast Molded Farina Sugar and Cream Broiled Brains Hashed Potatoes Crescents Coffee Lunch Stewed Cucumbers Fruit Brown Sauce Warm Gingerbread Tea Dinner Cold Fruit Soup Stewed Veal Knuckle Mashed Potatoes Tomatoes String Beans Cream Slaw Fruit Tapioca Coffce Stuffed Stewed Cucumbers—Pare, quarter the cucumbers lengthwise. remove the seeds and cut each piece in thirds. Pour over enough thick brown sauce | to cover and simmer gently for half an hour; serve on toasted bread. Cream Slaw—Into a saucepan put one-half of a tablespoonful of butter, | two tablespoonfuls of sugar and one ' cupful of vinegar and heat to the boiling point. Rub one level (o:lshoon-‘ ful of flour to a paste with two ta- | blespoonfuls of sour cream, add one beaten egg and six tablespoonfu more of the sour cream. Pour over| this carefully the hot vinegar mixture and return to the fire, stirring until thickened. Strain it over two quarts of finely shaved cabbage which has previously been seasoned with one- | half of a teaspoonful of salt and one- | quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper. | | ANOTHER SUCC Navy blue brilliantine cut with a marked flare, which is held in at the waist line by a spliced belt, develops this smart garment. Three steel but- tons close it, but the most interesting detail is the collar and bow tie, also made of brilliantine. COLONIAL ACROBATS WEEK’S SENSATION “A TORTURED HEART” FOX'S OFFERING While Charlie Chaplin in “The Vag- abond,” is billed as the big attrac- tion of the week at Keeney’s, there is a vaudeville number on the program that bids fair to give the film a close run for first honors before Saturday night. It is presented by the Colonial Montrose troupe, five of the most sensational tumbl ever appearing in this city. Their should and head balanc and aerial somer- saults are revelations in what can be accomplished by brawn and muscl properly trained, Results are amazing, the double and triple whirls of thc entertainers causing the audience to gasp in wonderment. The compa work is by any means not apprec ed by the Keeney rons and every performance the applause spontancous and of long duration. The Chaplin film is not to be over looked, however. It is a remarkablc picturization of a most amusing comedy in which the prince of the The attraction for today and to- at Fox’'s will be a Mr. Wil- feature. In the an old-fashioned morrow llam Fox Master quaint setting of Southern church is enacted scene effect in this feature, “A Heart,” starring Virginia Pearson. The Rev. Joseph Lorimore (Stephen Grattan,) village pastor, finds a foundling on the steps of his church, and the townspeople scorn his interest in the child, who grows ip to be a charming young woman, a part taken by Marian Swayne, In the rectory parlor the spinsters of he little town assemble to see the baby. About the only one who is in- terested in the pretty little child is a of pretty Tortured | that you are far from being correct. | Women Readers | MID-SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE | PAY WEEKLY You may enjoy these Low Prices without ANY ex- tra charge for the rivilege of “Opening a Charge Ac- count.” TUB SKIRTS 79c 98¢ very Former Prices up to $1.00 Former Prices up to $1.50 Former Prices up to $2.00 .... 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