New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1918, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1918, ALL WEEK rshing’s Crusaders An Eight Reel Military Production BIG FEATURE VAUDEVILLE ACTS Wm. Duncan in “A Fight For Millions” Current Events Short Comedies 14th. Episode of the Thrilling Serial i | friend or dis ANERICAN RED CROSS NOTES nurse to each naval population. Mo meet the nursing of the coming year a campaign will soon be inagurated in which each state will receive an allotment, a du- plication the plan by which thousands of nurses were enrolled during the past summer. ment af nursing of the Red Cro the reserve for the Army and Nurse Corps. The Red Cross has $860,000 in equipping n to duty abroad $1,600,000 of $1,719,357 has equipping b organization In a report just issued the Amer- can Red Cross War Council states hat 20,000 aurses have been enrolled ¢ the Department of Nursing of the ed Cross to October 1 More than 170,000 these are serving soldlers sailors, half of this number al- dy being on duty overseas. About 16,000 af those in service with our ‘orces here and abroad are with the wrmy. Seven hundred nurses, women, e been assigned to the Ieder >ublic Health Bureau or to t ted Cross service in the Unaited jtates and the remaining 12,000 in- ‘ude those not available or eligible | for active service, but who may 1 itilized for home defense work. About 9,000 additional nurses will ye needed by the army alone before he first of the vear, accordiag to the ‘eport Should the war continue on ts present scale, it is estimated thot | he total number of nurses required n the military hospitals here aad \broad by next July will be 50,000, These estimates, the report states, are »asedl on an army of 3,000,000 and a 1avy of 350,000, or approximately 020 74 of the military and requirements s is Wy spent about ses assigned Approximately an appropriation of been expended ia hospital units. The 3 equipped 50 of these units and assisted the Army Nurse Corps in organizing two others the army since our entrance into the war For the navy it has organized or is completing the organizatian of base hospital unit IZach base sta tio hospi uni Each base ho: pital unit has 500 beds and 60 nurses Originally planned to about $35,000 they now cos $50,000 In addition to its w rrvice the Re | Cross department of nursing is con tinuing it sreguar health work in th | country. Tt is supplying nur points whero contagious diseases ap- pear to be making headway, its most recent activity along this line being Its efforts to combat the spread of Spanish influenza. HOUSEHOLD NOTES Ground crackers lunches. cost MON.—~TUES.—WED. TOM MOORE in “JUST FOR TONIGHT.” MADGE KENNEDY in or dates “THE FATRPRETENDER” cake in prunes serve as chool BIG TIME VAUDEVILLE. GARDEN BELLES—T7 GIRLS -—2 OOMEDIANS IN MUSI- CAL COMEDY. WHITE & RYAN, LAWTON. S Be Here For the Fun. TONIGHT FOX’S “FOR HUSBANDS ONLY” with MILDRED HARRIS. Bring your wife to the most delightful tic feast she ever thrilled through in her life—new plot, new ide: new settings, subtle with humor, full of sensational twists, ingly French! And when you and she send your friends, tell them the ending! It's too good to spoil ! FATTY ARBUCKLE in “THE WAITERS' BALIL.” 4 VAUDEVILLE ACTS COMING—D. W thin and take irritable plenty If children are try to get them oltve oil or cream to A sick person should awakened out of a given medicine. neve Where You See al the Big Pictures delectabla photodrama- don’t . GRIF FITII'S MASTERPIEOE. “THE GREAT LOVE” The depart- | for | between | of | be | good sleep to be | | | rour A = = MY SOLDIER Adele Gar on’s Continuation SWEETHEART of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Why Is Madge's ather So Torrified at the News of His Daughter's Need? Days of forced cheerfulness, nights | of restless tossing and worrying— this was life in the week followi my revelation of the Dicky's personal -in-law's in my mothe hidden checkbhook Dicky, himself, outburst of what he still believed to be | spying upon him, was coldly | sonal in his manner toward me, never | remaining a moment in my vicinity if he could help it. Not even to sce the ‘ ba deviate om t rule, but {1 knew that whenever I was nbsent | from our little son’s cribside Dicky ure to seize theopportunity to > a surreptitious visit to him, How to get the money to settle our indebtedne that was the | which pursued me constantly. My first had to consult Lilhan, bat T knew that i T did so she would in upon stepping into the | herseif, and that I couldn’t permit I was denicd the tim: he | of her wise and evide imed temper, yvet ntly | of his | ful of my v did he ! {nought been So ine e tender counsel Of course my father was the logical 1 son to whom 1 should apply, but he had been for so comparatively short 2 time known to me as a father that I felt a curious shrinking in asking him for money. It was almost like ! horrowing money of some family ant relative Opening the Wa days rolled on and inevitable day of reckoning of debts came nearer I saw ciearly that an appeal to my father was my only hope. And so one day T slipped ac the lawn dividing our home from Mrs. Durkee's, wh was still leased to my fathe A Japanese servant but aly bringing back memories of the spying Kato—admitted me and conducted me to the library where my fath in heavy dressing gown and slippers sat huddled over the fire. “Well, little daughte My father rarely calls me name, using generally some diminu- tive. were the | 1 - | But as the | our 0ss ch real this time, v my affectionate going to honor your aged parent with @ visit. You haven’t been over | here since the baby came, and he | surely isn't so badly hehaved a youn | ster that he takes all your time. There was distinet reproach lying the raillery and 1 felt an added distaste for my errand. It was true | that T hadn’t been to see him since the baby’'s birth. T had tried to per- | suade myselr that it because | my complex duties as mother and | nurse, but I knew better. T | have made the visit easily not for one reason. which I was of ware W ent- | imper- | question | breach | I'vo been wondering when you | under- could | admit fde ced Inctant which I tion & pleasant Gsk visit to even to md onsidora- for the fathc my purpose rayself for later It telling my him the my un- to for money <Al About believe that T've come.” 1 said penitently TN tell you why I haven't before.” since bab was of bor- rowing What?" “p1 wianle “Some fath to day | been her | My father looked at me s and while e w . ghost twinkle in his vet there | a sl dow as of wdness, “Perhaps I'm not s blind | think, daughter” he said quietly, and the words made me flush unaccount- { ably. My father with his courtly old school court ignored the flush and busied himself with drawing of eve, was you an moned th he gave and cak: “And now, child,” he said few minutes’ the servant had reappearcd with | steaming tea and litt . to which after his dismissal, full justice. T raised startled eyes to his face. “All about what?” I parried. “The purpose of your comi today,” he returned soberly. feel unhappy because I've divined that you must have had a special rez for coming or you wouldn't be here. That's what fathe re for, to under- stand things before they have to be told. So just unburden your little girl, and see if your father can- wighten things out for you.” s wonderful tenderness seemed to » me round as with a warm cloak. my worries slipping from my shoulders, and I raised my eyes to his without a trace of the embar- assment 1 had ant ing of my story. “It's a tale quickly told, father,” T said with the comforting remem- nce of the competence my sessed ‘Not wanting to with financial mattors I apanese servant, to whom low-toned order for ‘te: all about when, conver tell me kindly, desultory it, \fter a N we were over bother you left for me when you and now I find that Dic! has spent all his, nd—"" My father sprang to his feet, a look of horror out of all keep- ing, it scemed to me, with the news I had told him. “You mean that mon child, and help you out?" And then, under his breath, tered a name which he thought I did not hear, {ed ears c | sacred n iing it was a { help! the sum went away need of me you're in you want ught distinetly. 1t me and his manner of desperate appeal was a utter- | FOX'S THEATER. Tusbands surprises “For | biggest i ture world, | the whole tion at ! tomorrow % director he Only”, one of the of the motion pic- and a dramatic feast for imily is the main attrac- IFox's tonight and continuing and Wednesday. Lois the ber, famous woman Mildred or Husbands by itself. The that you are un- action ten feet one slow moment and it ke up in the air. And to top it ¢ is a prise ending entirely different from what you expected and which will startle and delight those theaterzoers who are fond of novelty. Mildred Harris, star of “The Price of a Good | Time “The Doctor and the Wo- man’, h remarkable role and one that tries her powers as an actr to the utmost I convent big-cyed and ing she learns, at the hands of a past master of the L art, the thrill of love, only to know that to him there is no sacredness about it. In utter cold-bioodedn she ms a man at whom she was tomed to poke fun, with the de to bring this Rolin I’Arcy, the cruel heart-breaker to | his knees when it was too lat, Then he had to go through the experience | of an hour of agony when she | lieves he holds her life hajpiness his hand. “Ior Husbands Only' purely amusement drama of am cleverne 99.9 per pure | in spite of its tille, censor | been able to take excesrtion to a { &le foot of it. “For Husbands Only 1 n entertainment will appeal to all | classes. | Lois Weber is a past master of the art of concealing the denouement of her photoplays; but never was she more successtul than in the case of IFor Husbands Only”. 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