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TTLE STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 1919. ‘SAILOR SLEEPS FIFTY-ONEDIYS TF” A Gillette ~ His Christmas | Shell Shock Victim on Verge of Starving | | NORFOLK, Va Dec 1L—tn- | \ ory told by ehil- | PAGE 15 achae ere FE sy NOPSIS OF PREC tigation of a # Ra hie wine and hie 17-year i 1 da * brag. ter 4 dren of hearing groans under a t eo ie ' aod atrained F ab At th ' j bung slow at the Hampton Road a te ¢ Rachael site alone, thi of her gifibood, and of her r alifornia, Upstairs t naval base disclosed Marry & . and bh father and mother had taken her to Ingiand when ehe was 14 yours here Rach ley of Philadelphia, 22, @ tht | e x -* r naval fireman, who had been mins. | : nued From Yesterday.) | Gerald Pairfax’s life insurance} love him, but she did not need love'#/ing for 61 days, and was on the! eautiCul, with a tine! gave hin widow a more keoured | glamour to show her what her exact! verge of starvation | beauty, definit th ! ever given his| value to him might be; what w ad | wife. It was microscople, to be sure,| her natural return he went to sleep bi d 186 pounds; whon he awol was 1 all her mar ved t Clara Fairfax was a practiced| riage return for all her marriag her th n nik tan aaa Ge in| gave her a Ighed 85 pounds. Hoe had! wn. She w and Rachael wes ee on But quick-witted and cold-blooded r food nor water during his} and in th toring a French marriage when, by|as she was, she could not » that & be | natura’ merest chanc in the str Clarence was actua a little afr . None of his comrades knew t well y menick girl « © ther. He had been too rich all| Where he was and he was fina about yntinually nd | at k skirt, and » his life to count hin money as an in.) ited as a denerte Hin ry | the circle of t ts jar ami Rach veutment in his favor, and altho he no day late in Septemt A by more distinguished | [r down from und wan not clever he knew Rachael did ¢ drowsy, he crawled under a le of her y black paras not love him. 1 hardly supposed w oat the Hampton Roads | Mrs. Gouveneur Pomeroy of mined the little Breckenridge girl, | that she ever i bare to take a nap, without | « brought th ng beauty . aMicted with a cold and| He felt with paternal bliindne hoon by the officer of the ack with her own orsis, ‘ ness and strangeness. En-|that she had married him partly for) 48 He fell asleep promptly for a winter in , aving the French nurse with three] the child's sake, t Ile nays only felt as tf he had city, and when Persis Racha perfectly pronounced sentences, Ra | companionship of b daug t { awakened from a sound sleep =| indeed bec: qimost as ar to the|chael went home with the clinging of relief nd excepting for a dryness is b stricken parents. When sho went/Carol, put her to bed, cheered her in turn, was pumied,/throat he did not notice anyth Gillette Standard Set—No. 460 introduced back to London they gave her 1 empty little interior with soup,|G as undeniably a pretty cb was wrong unt atiempted “ gifts » ) for two|soothed her off to sleep, and was) with all a spoiled child's confident) *tand on hin feet. He could not * she re , for long | ready to meet and terrified | char 1 all good natured ger tand. His clothes had grown t ¢ too, and Rachael had many conquests | at abe aft . t her beter g |truded at the knucklos “No Stropping—No Honing” into a man’s « tachael } ¥ conquests |an unavoidable afternoon of business at her father no engerly ex shaving. Razor triple silver-plated. xd one or two serious affairs. The| he came back to his t ely no girl of how:| Comrades found } nd he was 24 Shaving Edges (12 double-edged oS girls had thelr first dances at the| ‘The rest followed. Rachael Ifked | ey 4 be reasonably sup-|sent to the hospital at the base, I Blades). Genuine Leather Case. . Belvedere club; Rachael met them all,| Clarence, finding it agreeable that he | pc eclipse comple t s sald that Harley has drunk seven | s Who were Inter to be her neighbors:| knew how to dress, how to order a/ woman Rachael knew herself to be;| gallons of milk since, He has @ % the Morans and Parmalees, the Van-| dinner, tip servants are of/ surely no parental infatuation co reveral pounds, but is not : derwalle and the Torrences, and the) a woman tn a crowd. His family was| extend itself to the point of a r eK i] ing out f danger Chases. ‘She met Clarence Brecken-| one of the oldest in America, and he/ marriage with the bettering of a/ Naval surgeons fr e 'S PRESENT—a Gillette Safety Razor—this ridg d his wife, and the exquisite-lwas rich. She waa sorry that Billy's} small child's position alone the ob-| country are coming here ly dre d little girl who was Billy to; mother was living, but then one | ject | k at I No un 2 day |couldn't have everything, and, after| Philosophy came promptly to the) sleeping partoty nee year, when the young men of the nation are And thry all her adventures she/all, she was married again, which | ald of the new-made wife. Hilly was! cians, has ever lived looked calmly, confidently, and with| seemed to mitigate the annoyance. |a child, and Clarence a gr conscious enjoyment for a husband. | Rachael 1 to herself that this was The situation was annoying, was be | ~ She flirted a little, and danced and/a wiser marriage than the proposed her own pride, but sb swam and drove and played golf and|one with poor Stephen: Stephen had | would meet {t with dignity, neverthe | tennis a great deal, but she never/been @ wild, romantic boy, full of | jess. After all, the visible benefits « dst sight for an insta ssion and dazed with ex-) the marriage were still hers; the nev ous business of life. M eams; Clarence was a man,!car, the new furs, the new and wo: have—it was almost as exser ees for moonshine and roses | derful sen her as air—and money she cx and the presence of his beloved one| cial certal keeping fit for the big jobs ahead. If he already 4 has one, get him another style—Gillettes come in io more than a dozen different models and Com- bination Sets. ot it sustenance. tachael, exquisite tn her bridal nem, stooped at the railway station give the drooping Billy « ¢ yo kiss, and promise that in th Jays they would be back to rescue her from the hated governess; but of financial ease, of so y ee ns edn seca wae oat onde azine schoated hereelf to listen with ne" sumpected, wan the, tremen Your dealer will help you in your selection. SUUMEEanisen in’ the ‘wortt.| home aud guardinn af tan ena. | ane agreed exrtabiy' tres 3 | ehi-weinn to straighten. oe° Mae And don’t forget —Gillette double-edged Blades Le angled domenstt airs, just the mother, as the years went by, to de When he died, two or three months! She had sometimes doubted her|be a great bea a heart-breake before the wedding day, Racharl’s|power to make Stephen happy—/ that “the little monkey had all the Mother was fond of saying in an/ St mside to close friends that the girt’s|heavenly shyness of long are always acceptable to the Gillette owner. phen, who talked with all a boy's| other women crazy with jealousy |‘! Sorreet thing for Billy | now, by Jove” She selected the Ht | Of some of these things the woman | Heart was broken. Rachael, lovely In| tramping the woods and long nights|tle gowns and hats in which the|Who sat idly before the library fire lier biack, went down to stay with | over the fire, of little sons and daugh-| radiant Billy went off for long days|Was thinking, as the quiet evening Stephen's mother, and for several|ters romping in the Trecastie gar-|alone with “Daddy,” and she pres-|Wore on, and the purring of the ceks Was that elderly lady's great-| dens; but she entered into her mar ently graciously consented to share| ‘ames and the ticking of the little @st comfort in life riage with Clarence Breckenridge) the little girl's luxurious room be |Mantel clock accented rather than} us, her manner the perfection of with entire self-confidence. She had| cause Billy sometimes awakened ner. |‘isturbed the etilinessd, She was un quiet grief, only Rachael herself | been struggling more or leas definite | vously at night hael had been|happy with a cold, dry wretchedness | Knew how little the memory of/|ly all her life toward just such a po-| accustomed to diificulties t was deeper than any pang of Stephen interfered with her long rev-| sition as this; it was a comparatively | with the persons nearest bh nh or of hate. The people she @ries as she took his collies about In| easy matter to fill it, now that she! them resolute: or the soft autumn fogs. Only Rachael| had got it fling sense of fal Kpgw how the sight of Trecastle hall,| Carol she considered a decided as | face of her life, like a cold wind Bhe horses, t servants, and the/set. The child adored her, and her/ that turns to white metal the amoot Park filled her heart wit serv «to Carol were so much good w re of a lake, but she held he GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY, Boston, U. S. A. in dealing | tha r; ahe met os a bat * amote the au he books she read, the gowns arefully, and the so t were ber life, all—/ wet and ashes. Clarence | disappointment and a She might have been L: added to the be rm, and wis-| head proudly above it, and even ¢ All this might so east! pm that she brought into the bar-|ence and his daughter never guessed | Neale he ed her ber own: gain. That Clarence could ask more| what nhe endured. What did it mat o, but this meant fAfinitely tem { Stechad loved Stephen, of course. in the way of beauty, wisdom, andl ter? Rach hirest weer than that he bored her #6 mercilenaly fie told herself; loving, with Rachael,| charm was not concetyable; Rachae!| She had sked for love. She had|Hily, with her youthful compiacen simply meant a willingness |icnew her own value too well to have! resolutely exchanged what whe had|cles and arts, bored her; the « bev hom — a cciua’ pecckek y and to give " any doubts on that score to give for what she had determined) th A fow close friends bored her! a joseph Percente, @ luxury: she was after the necessi | And had her husband been a strong to get; Clarence had made no blind h as the admiration and ¢ cee eae tee ee preter coco oe ere eee oe Mr. Ford Owner— | 5 Rag -of 1 ce eae m testations, had eapecte t a > not whose doors are #0 resolutely closed 26 - gardai pon Rcpcacey eae Why crank 9 And tosty t nese mu him. romance. He adm her Cards, nner, a many ee, bed Week ae Met a ‘ , cold me oe we pase date er was oh ked it. His grandfather had hadjana ¢ wenn Se, A t | fhe winter, her bond in all generos! t to manage the engnge t and n mar eo? i, bet ae waste” tie’ saotae lane j | brought back to London by hér|heart and soul and body could do age with so little f D beautiful woman, too > beat ae aeenat Gin. eee ; “gcc Bring your car to Gather’s sudden death {him was his to claim. She did r ded pulses fluttered |sifted woman, who, no t with the O'Connell millions hint ave. See Mr. Atwood. ' iain, mama %i RNS Qe : bn Shoe ° Gregory name, and for perhaps amonnoceatl had enjoyed an unchal ever, im # sa uddentel Semute dt ae larity, He had inherited " the moe ee eee ee Hifferen fard from that held by the petam of a fs about him. In obtrusive way he held about her, and the eimy lor a attle in her att a an er ie in her stitt | aloof from much that they said and hand, «+ Mid. Greg, said the women, was a A voice broke the Ibrary stillness. | lar Puritan about gonsip, about HE Pat nt Ha” oho ashes | "Shot" gate' fate the. erat That goes for men—dollars—land, Gregor Ask him to come Im.) that he was shy. Sure of his touch 3 Hy ¢ 4 wn And ask Alfred Alfred stil down| is" a" wurrwon, pleasantly dente Wasting time in this emergency in awake nd daring in the tennis court or ent of under his friendly man s the embarrass is criminal “Producef’is human- ity’s command. One class is” producing normally—the farmer, Farmers of the San Joaquin Vai ley lead the world—and yet BACK SATURDAY ErtC. she said, a mo jtor came into the room. “It doesn't! ment of a you Before his loth birthday bis rigidly n mu mother had instilled > the wondering little boy mind ety laeem right to interfere Linner for the aame old st reat pleasure to do Rachael,” the newcomer aid] cert {ingly with the al-}iaws and self-cont rtesy that Was] tho alr he breathed wt t stock inl gite, nnd altho a. few years later trade, “You don't call om me eften!|echoot and colieg oe aoa oe their marvelous annual ii protably true. Dr. Gregory war Ao lai ‘him, tar more effectually” than only 20 per cent of the Valley’s |nerve his friends. He had not at alll from the common. vice pte potential acreage. They await ed scorn from all his associa fessional cal, « njoy the I lo him feel even more than hi and eccentric comedian BIG TRIPLE AG BILL % ¥ for Warren Gre him men it had been » to the young SAN JOAQUIN LIGHT @ POWER COR- i PORATION, serving the San Joaquin Valley, is harnessing new power needed to meet the demands She had often guest the opera d often chap t the club, only womar was called strength relative was his old mother, who wa that what had bee of the territory. Double the present hydro-electric power Boy parr in bis sosial iter’ 2 | ticew ohavicanly oeeeeaac ea oes is being obtained by construction of the new plant on with touches of gray in his close-| waste his words; and that mothers M0 ouch of Pa Mane ice SE Waa" ate See fi the San Joaquin River. This will be ready in uly. THIS WEEK rs a ii. clipped hair, but no other sign of| whose sons he had once envied for . un. He tua caver; fits aye ER | hte tor Laver oh on ie eet Seventy-five per cent of the cost of this hydro- _ = 4d seats Mtoe tanks, Eesti ee ee electric development is provided by first and refund- lessly an if he were a penniisas be-|and ‘his tnother, and pleasantly, cam] lll We offer you these bonds, which enable dollars— ginner at his profession instead of 4] sciou rich man, a rich woman's heir, and) women a success, Me let xcept where f and the club th men—land—to serve humanity. Adequate earnings for the three are insured by the certain future of the San already recognized as a genius in his! and art own line were the topte of interest, and, con All women liked him, and he liked | sequently, had come to his 40th year J i them all, He sent them books |with some little awe and diMdence oaquin Valley. zines for thelr) stil) left for them in his secret heart tion, took them| Rachael had told him. not lone ag J their birth-| thot she believed he took no interest marked eagays intr individual conslde to concerts, rememt y 1] The Funniest Vehicle Ever— With Pep, Ginger and Girls — Let us send you our circular givin STARRING Jays. ut his only ¢ friends were | in women older than 14 and younger { men, the men with whom he played|tion 60, and there was ‘some trut! . Y Le en Oe eee ri Fitness Hy complete information about these bonds, il D Ht sdieasy--Wrhrteds \Cictaoed Site 0 “| He had never seen ‘her sgl beauti- | i th Seattle Offeces: Hoge Building. ll i romantic figure in the eyes of most] ful, he thought, She had fae Ko MTT TT “OLE OLSON” “ABIE KABIBBLE” women. He had inherited from his| hastily, 0 carelessly, that Mn ia Mee ee {i} old Irish mother a certain mildness,) simplicity enhanced: the natural and a lenience, where they were con-}charm, Her dark hair was simply ed. He neither judg her gown was devoid of orna- it i Sh od them nor! massed Hit i¢ 4 them, They belonged only to| ment, her handy bare, except for ber | his leisure hours. His real life was} wedding ring. On her earnest, ex-| Two Shows Nightly, 0:15 in his club, in his books, and in the | quisite face the oceasion had stampe aan hospital world where there were chi! certain soberness, she was neither Mats. (Daily) 2:30 P.M. Gren’s tiny bones to set. Ho was| hostess nor guest, tonight; just | conscious, as @ man born in a differ: | heartsick wife w the shadow of | ent circle always is conscious, that| anger and shame, et by a series of pleasant (Continued RPHEUM THIRD ~ AND - MADISON