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The War and Humanity By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Gaprright, 1918, by The Prone Publishing Co, (The New York Prening Work.) The Flatt Family: HOME PAGE Monday, August 12, 19 They've Gone to the Roof. For the Summer SA LCURVAY NIG ae a mother’s broken heart!” exclaimed one woman to another as she pointed to columy after column in The Evening World fled with the names of the killed and wounded bn the westerm front. ‘Yes, it fe all very sad and sorrowful, and it {s a great pity that it has te be, Fathers and mothers and all others who have real hearts in their Oreacts are as sorry as they can be In thinking of the terrible sacrifice and | the agony that is attendant upon it. ° But let us all take comfort in the thought that this same sacrifice, with tte unspeakable sufferings of body, mind and soul, is going to put an end to | the wrongs and sufferings of thousands of years. | “MM God, my God, look at that casualty list, and every name means \B tte qe Amit Y ENNELY, » A tuouan SAY FATHER. TLL SWIM YA | A RAC Poor humanity! what a terrible time you have had of it down through * the Jong, weary ages! | How your governments and lawe have robbed and oppressed you! How your Institutions, professions #sanctities have bled yop, brutalized | yon, damned you! ¢ You are still very sad and miserable after scores of centuries of bitter | experience. Squalor, degradation, almost despair, are written very plainly | {im your poor, weeary eyes. B is afl because of the fact that from the very beginning of history | he whote fabric of duman society, the whole machinery of State, of Busi- | | fem, Politics, Law, bas been dominated by the spirit of the twin devils of | (@ypocriay and Greed. ‘The politicians and statesmen have talked of reform, the legal gentle men have been spouting about justice, the divines have been bombarding thetr congregations with beautiful platitudes on “Heaven” and the “rap: { ‘tases of the sainte,” and all ‘the while the canker of greed and indifference to the great Natural Law of Right, which ehould everywhere prevail between | man end man, hes been eating away at the heart of buman good and human ' ‘The rule has been, Get power and wealth, and tt makes no difference 4 | bow you get them. Get them. That fs the only important point. Ps “The king from God, the laws from the king.” Are the laws just and @ood? “Rats! Away with such silly questions. God save the King!” | af the outside of things is all right, no matter about the inside. Keep ‘ep the appearances. Make a good bluff and be eure and make it so deftly that no one will “catch on” to it. . Ie it not about time that “those in authority” had taken off thetr maske am@ fooked their fellow human beings squarely in the eye? Is it not about | time that we had begun to love simple truth, and to think more of one another than of place and power and gold? Is it not high time that we had come to the concinsion that there {s nothing holler than human love end happiness, just ag there is nothing more despicable than the spick-and-span hypocrisy which folds ite anms and looks on complacently while man 1s rob- bing man? ‘That casualty ltst—or the great war that is behind {t—ts the tynx-eyed allsearching inquisitor that is dragging out into the light of day the doub!e dealing insincerity and cold-blooded selfishness and brutality of institu- tional society. f It shows us whet a horrible thing ft ts to ignore the cries of oppressed and degraded humanity. It makes us ashamed of the shark-toothed greed which gloats over the gain that involves the misery of other human beings. It makes us hate with all our heart the suave, olly, decorous hypocrisy that prates of ¢ood while it is working evil, and that in {ts “livery of heaven” {s doing all 1t can to turn earth fnto a hell That casualty list, sad as it is, is no humbug. It is the “real thing,” and one of the greatest and best of Its results is to be that, when ail is over, the whole world shall be the real thing—human, just, loving the true and the right and hating all sorts and varieties of frauds and humbugs. Adviceto Lovers By Betty Vincent CORRESPONDENT has asked | have such a mother, and A me to write something about | /isten to what she says. the etiquette of calling. This | t» comparatively simple, and yet many mistakes may be made, | Im the first place, it is not correct | *. fer a girl to ask a young man to cal! on her, Her mother may ask him or he may ask the girl's permission to | came and eee her. | If he calls in the evening he should net put tn an wppearance earlier than | 8 edlock. Be should not stay later than hoff- peat ten. For young persons who are self-supporting good sense, as well a@ convention, dictates this hour of @eparture, for if they are to keop well | they must keep early hours, It 1s not necessary to serve refresh- ments to a caller, but some simple 5A HAVE A A Mean | IWant Wee EAR ESELFY How a Devoted Lover Met the Test Imposed by a Lady He Adored (Oopyright, Bobbe-Merrill Co,) BYNOVSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPIE) moe, unable 1M tuner finds Ne gure tort mood, Just in tig to eto ara ttt thing Itke home made candy or popped !xxe Wty " tdadel tg novo corn is permissible—and usually ap- preciated. It fs not necessary for ® ma to “pring a girl candy or flowers every time he puts in an appearance, but sach attentions may be paid now and then. ' erwick ta dome As to behavior dusing a call, self- | Mr ia thle sath fo it respect and proper dignity should not |; "_ “4 y, but ey about and the y alight to | be forgotten even by an engaxed) couple. What Mother Says. ' CHAPTER X. and after he and Beatrice had got back to the vontim flat they had spent thi “B. D.” writes am sixteen years (peatinnet) Hext three hours in discussing and old, but I might bo ten, according to HQ landlord ie the H ADDY caaniin Mee wan Caasenet ae “ rt t stood leaning against room, nook and cranny for some mother treata me, My i. and 7. he ay ay : didancant his door post, smoking a trace Mizz clew as to girl friends use thelr own judeme hr He ceed apse, pan) C8 Lined atl 4 about accept tne attentions of} a oem, it was less; not a scrap of iapetl-ie an |Joying hia tobacco and the summer pancrenot 4 ine jot 8 ab young men, go where they please, ae er Dus t a single compromising and occasionally directing document rewarded their € s. ; keep what Neue ay une. 808 bb ought to the identity of Only some bi hes in the mot hetd answerable at homo for bd : S bedroc r possi ilitic everything they do or don't, But my yen at Drone hed her clothes. ! said gucet had rings, and her mother insists on meeting a oy be- | i , By vee. 8 : Rad er fore she lets me go out with t In| 4 vee two days before with a view ! ps if dnvite the evening ehe wants to chaperon|'° fon return tothe } n @ melo- me when I go anywhere. She says I 1 RUPEE bein hay OF) bi i ht must be home by 10 P. M., except on | Ff ps ve ae — wv: ' was & man well over sever 1 ¢ most unusual occasions. 1 can't have a ie Hae srony 9 ule pe dane’ & boy come to see ine Without my | ° bs tilesruntsapeeety 0 E ne last found the mother’s entering the parlor at least . oe was = Hope beating at once: evening? a mony ie # he ¢ rod the Juma Aerio se sania BnG 8s } prove that his J ‘ f 1 but that though I haven't much color, or gaara gp tines seal tthava it fuses to let me make up, even for| hes th ‘i-iob me w her memory parties. Don't you think I have a : sad o bee “i hii His Exo pretty hard time? And won't you . we re ies : a . en ’ manne nis * write something which Ican show to! | . i if aT SF Ww a) my mother as proof that others b« be Faas aa né aed ¢ w sides myself consider her unreason-|\Woi)) an |, able?” well physica But you sea, my dear, IT agree with | he ax your mother, J think she is a wise affectionate, suitably firm woman. skier than many girls to AROUND THE CIRCLE. | Prat nnathes E dy P.,.. “How about your new flat?” He was very tired, In spite of the “Bab sieap he had spoken of the he maid, "Yes, Is there “Huh? Why. only last week your| exception of that brief and disturbed ° 144 wie wae bragging about it as a rare| period in the train he had not slept “Money, No—do not protest. This fod” for some twenty-six hours, and in is fife and death, and both cost moyey.” ret{yned, her hands full. dawned on us that we siciice he had been through sun- She ran ta a little safe and gee tt a Che it flat four years ago.” | dry di journal cessful burglary hed been a strain, no! ) ~ dew - You may have to bri! fuse—it 1s for Lukos life and fortune are at your disposal, 4 wy TIME INL JME BATHROOM By Leverin A War Bride : By Charlotte Wharton Ayers Covytight, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Oe, (The Now York Bening World.) The story of @ young wife whose husband ia fighting tn Mrance; of the atruggles and temptations that are hers, and of the other man,” who secs in her husband's absence his own oppor- unity. The outcome must be saved for relating in the atory, CHAPTER II, . | Jim Goes to France, and Sara, Unreconciled, Drifts | Into a Mental Condition Which Permits Her ] to Accept Swain’s Invitation toa | Motor Ride and Dinner, ——. HEN Jim had gone to camp it was only a short time before he was sent across. Sara had, tn the mean time, given up the apartment—taken a room in 4 boarding house and gone to work for Swain. She went about in brooding, bitter silence. She could not forgive Jim for thinking more of his country than, he did of her and her comfort. Jim had tried to break down this wall of aatageay tem against his course before fe left, dut Sara coldly unapproachable and would not yield an inch of the position she bad taken. She said goodby to him apparently without an ounce of feeling. It H | made Jim wince just to recall the stony glance she had given him ea: ghe raised her face for his goodby kiss. t , It was some fittle balm to Sara’s heart to find that Swain still admired | her as much as he had alwaya done, but it increased her feeling agains) ‘the step Jim had taken as no other one thing could have done. It made her realize what a mistake. she had made in marrying Jim instead of Swaine Swain did everything he could to influence Ta against the war necessary measure, It was part of his plan to do so. As long as she could be kept from realizing the higher idealism—the spirit of self-sacri- fee that animated the army aa @ whole—just so long could he hope to have any real influence over her destiny ‘ He would tell her in his smiling, | better than life itself, and I believe cynteal way that the President waa| You wilt some time realize.that you me still, when the first disap” actuated by the same motiv as the} pointment bas had time to wear away iove rest of humanity-greed and self-| and you can realize as I do that randizement. That he had not/everything eise except the winning iad WEE WRIT Be tHe it ex. /Of the war seems in perspective, at * ? small and trivial that they don’t evew pedient, and that when he thought tt] count v waa for the best interests of himself! Sara's lips drew into a tighter ling ind his particular group of eatellites, | as she slowly tore the letter to bila he would work definitely for peace, | 4d dropped them into the basket. If Jim called her love and devotion anf Sara listened thoughtfully, her! their happy contented life togethers @ind reverting again and again toltrivial and small, so be it. If shee he ruin of all her hopes of @ care] could have him back by lifting hag ree, happy. existence by this high- little finger she would not do it now’ anded outrage against humanity) Her mind was a blank, as far ce ats Ned WAR! And the way it had} impression of the actual horrors of turned a loving, indulgent husband | the war was concerned, and Jim's ate into a hard-hearted, selfish tempt to make her see with his eyes | When Jim had been gi only blurred the glasses the more months Hara received her first lettor|_ AR tine went on found hersel# rom him, It was in the early days] git pi nd cold toward Jit Mf the war, when the mail waa de- | toison Swaine Indvence was eel She had peer t he had gone out of her her, and it gave her a dis |tinet shock to again see the familiar} indwriting. One sentence in th r guve her pause wish | could you with my arent {why 1 just HAD to go. You have and always will have my best and but when | realize tha the thousands of fire r here have given up, ything they hold dear in life for| ften, lost, |iayed and inning to be fett. She had gone out ith bim occasionally for dinner ant for her life was very loved brightness and gay? n'a quiet attention anw ts to dispel the glooyy Hl the pleasure she bad. She closed her heart to all war ap= peals, nor would she read a word of the war news, She determined to te if nothing else—in her ate ) that end she avoided any HiscussioA of the,war—and would not deal, ane ee aut it eans to be} |B latet Bad Brae ee hip ana iaty [ao to places where she thought sbo eryth elae seoma to be| Would hear it tatked about Seem Atal by comparison, Came a night when Swain decided eee ny thoughts] {hat It was about time for hint ty nal matgers, I love you] »reak up the surface apathy that sur- bs ee | rounded Sara and let her see what his Intentions were. He thought she woulm surely know by that time that he wae deeply in love with her, and he waa quite sure’no woman ‘in her righ; ennes Would refuse the possibility oF being his wife It had been a day full of small an- noyances. ‘The alr was hot and heayg with humidity and Sara was fecling . Do not re- Of course it must be she. He had Lionel longed to say: “Madam, my preceptress as Bi at forgotten it must been so uccusfomed to think of his utrice Blair that he be a Let there be no mention of money stage naine, And #o sbe was really an between us.” But seeing that his Arkwright, tock of ready cash had dwindled to “No bad news, I trust,” sald the twopence-halfpenny a befor the touc cool, nervous and alluring; th remembrance; Ds never known, (he had bought packet of ten ctyurettes the day d now cursed the extrava he could only say: “As you !y chubby clergyman, with a polite bu eovlesiastieal intleetion “No answered Lionel abrupt y abandoned Rosalind com pletely and tfied to arrange lowed timsef to remember tloughts, “By the way, do you hap of her delightful fingers, ven to knew any onb of the name o the seduce. Arkwright in the neighborhood? ir, the brilliant com Tue chubby clergyman jooked in yes. But it wag not terested, y that inspired his grateful it was also her lovely Idly he on of her th r close to the table his elbows, and lean ersonality, age, her eharm, Q erself, Of course it co not be e Qu Tou ove; that was absurd. It was a flame been nant for indied by the sympathy of a com. Months, and nobody has ~—the kind of comrade he had Ye! What!" “Lt sounc man with t odd," said the The door opened and admitted a mile of one wh t his f nd I don't," he said, pulling ohubby little clergy n, who sat interesting story for. virgin audi- down with @ courtec Good morn- ence, “but it is true, She calla on ing!" ~The landlord followed close nopody, and denies herseif to ever upon the, heels of the newcomer. caller ane lk Rover meen th tha he Morning, sir," said the dlord re- Jage except when driving in her mo- spectfully, “Will you take @ny- tor, and I am sorry to say that she thing?" does not come to church “Draught elder. Half a pint.” Mut surely something is known of the ele The | i her ough the servants for in diseppea turned, smilits SYon ler of The » has a housckeoper, I believe, Happy that ts, if ) makes friends with nobody; u have not so already. I gardener and a dumb footiman, Allow myself that as a concession to litte extraordinary, eh?" He the fl abbed his hand with west. “But it sensible concession, too,” is true none th Of course, ail : ha In groedily ac ' Lh of position—but Bat anit th cannot be hid iys here, T suppose?" e takes motor drives at ” One is here now n—old and of for ; leve. He ealls him- » be Mor self Beckett; but he has told me (in . is here for rest, It was Lionel's Beatrice, bu vdir > it f apology t i getting and 1 on. Can you 1 he could do t Quiet House bis a sho follows call!" He recol- you had pleasant journey nself apologized. “IT beg y suspigiéns deepen, T Ark rdon, but—go straight dowa pa + a t ¢ her, Wait “the prettiest house on the but it waa third readin nodext allowance Pony that he mport of "A Mr, Hedderw wright He knew no one of Obtrusive appearance the name of Arkwright, nor had he watched Lionel turn the corner be- ever claimed acquaintance with a twin. “Here are saying that she had a twin sister w' for @ hundred pounds or more. had And then he recalled Beatri daylight, disapproved of her stage sarees, "Good morning, sir,” said Tony, fore approaching, for Robert was not anxious to meet his late visitor by THERE WERE THRE PLANET, LIVED THEIR O ORDINARY CINATING First Chapter Next Monday He turned to his yours? Mine is bec “Mine's bed," su down with a yawn. as limp as a rag, Swain noticed hf! condition when he was dictating, and he said gruffly as sho put up her boow with a sigh of relief: "What you need is a long, cool mor | tor ride and a good dinner to-night, T dorft belleve you get enough to eat tt that boarding house you live ina you're getting as thin as @ rail. He ready at five thirty and we'll go out to Happeninn; nice ride-good din her—do you good." Sera was too weary to resist, “Atl right.” ghe said, with a slight smile, “you'll have to take me as lam. I'm too tired to go bome and dress to- night." Swain's eyes sald what his tongue refused to say—that just as she wis was good enough for him, ‘ (To Be Continued.) > E MOO LIGHTL WHERE SOME STRANGE PEOPLE THEY HAD A CIVILIZATION ALL WN, BUT LOVED AND FOUGHT LIKE MORTALS—READ THIS FAS- STUDY OF FACT’ AND FANCY friend, “What's pre and lots of it!” te A Robert, and sat “But l better sing clower to the hedge. you what would be Housewife’s a Scrapbook All have to whisper If’... sel, full of innocent curlos- If you have no ice, you can keep CHAPTER X11. bent forward to listen, *@he odd-| lettuce crisp by immersing the heads * ET3at i are ‘tise ahiinien cuore rents tan, congratulating himself on|in cold water and shaking out well, ful than watching other peuple “ordinary, cunn Lay in a granite dish, Cover with ia ; : ie pecan ar oasaye a Kise cloth wrung out ¢ cold water ana working hard, and the #ensa~ jntended’ recipient, however, seemed | keep in the coolest place you have. ton is doubly piquant when to be pgasossed of & sixth sense oF in - one is sitting in thi the Mrs and though she wou suggostion of idlen wo er toiling Peters was sit pleasant to observe job man, mowing the Be careful, Br DOW With fried fish minus and 6 shade watehing 1 his lips were on the g hers, she drow back sauce serve creamed potato ucume beneath the sun. Hage y gerry cry of surprise. The ber salad, If you have the sauge J ace, t to be checked, and] tartare serve French fried potatoes id have denied the ppily destowed upon a] and peas 9s, it was ne 1 of privet ‘~ Tirown, the odd- , 106 Odd-job man mildly whispered washing the lamp ohtmneys auivalent of “llow very annoy- with salt, You will be sure .wn und then remonstrated in a] Prised at the resultant brilliancy, w said Mrs, louder tone. THe pointed out that he “ AN arture ins Nad not seen his vinite : en you close the home for the he grasy and We that under th | Summer acgtter a few drops of oll af Nee untar it ¢ 16 Could. lavender through the bookcase. It will save the library from mould ia 4 damp weather. srown, reapect- more, parting the hed its tr pds : that you say. But you forget that | to do mo, TL ought you have not earned it yet" 3 | The rust epots in the clothes may he rh. Brown, said _lely Moses!" said the odd-job | due to inferior bluing or it may be the ina Sho know MAM appealing to the heavens, “Horo | result of careless rinsing. If any eoap ba at PO Say Eehuek my job In London at a word|!> left in the clothes when put inte or, rather, a letter from yout vn here got up as a laborer; the bluing water rust spots are likely to appear, owning aay, "A y I hang about the blessed village til * should excerd bin tasb, Pn for the town and you xgain:| Do not throw away the small plecds avon fo aNitheut 1 yet taken on here to work of soap. Put them into a saucepam \ wible p 8 she 4¢ mind you, it 1s work, though I ¢ with a little water and set over a slow to ile her oie mble at that, And it's all for to/ fire until melted. Pour off into @ jar ed wottly to KeeP,,@8 €ye on a chap I've never |and When cooléd you will have @ soap . stays) y tO wean, Jelly that can be used for boiling i 1, lor’ yes And not for me? lothes ar for dish-washing. 1 ; 1 silly chu—I beg your pardon, eer Ho y accounted for ,& mi that te, my ar! Whet I do} With boiled fish serve either an dae en a voice from the moan 1, who us pottin’ ate” Ge 8. As vegetables other hedge said, "Good courae, It's for and I'm going | es and either peas, morn ithe | through with tt | onions or parsnips. tt ‘ 1 Ad uo must ha recognized ere this gh structions, tt t Brown, the odd-job man beneath| When cooking rice or macaroni Renerous port r thrall of Mrs, Peters. was none| hi the water salted and boiling transfixed y Vv i : er than Mr. Henry Hrown, ec. | rapidly throughout the cooking prog Bild quietly | but netly © propric under different auspiccs,|¢ss. This will keep the partigles goMdness’ sake vet's have @ look at emember, then, the type of | moving and they will not atielt Qs your pretty face was but a few chapters ago, | gether. > The privet hedge parted, and a ged, reserved, cautious and a damsel of twenty-t the gratified Brown. “Is that better,” she asked. “Lote,” replied the odd-Jjob hree smiled upon little unenterprising. But you will not} When fanning a patient put \. forget that love had le @ change | Grops of matic spirits of in hig Mabits, outlook and elan, on the fan. | It will be very (To Be Continued.) in these da Js of trying heat, ee anldaigiiags