The evening world. Newspaper, September 2, 1918, Page 7

HOME PAGE Monday, September 2, 1918 Copyright, of munitions, could drive the hour, But the grimly menace. lagging vessel of the pedo in its steel vite as to make gible. ‘ the on, at increased tule for such stern tin ment. To-day the ing Irish waters. stroyers, shaped rushing formation to port. And the each destroyer. The submarine ‘fish. Everywhere Two Yonkee Lads Go “Over There” To Help Clear a Way Through to Berlin 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Byoning World.) CHAPTER 1. and at any ehful cruis- ers were ready at all hours for tho True, once in a blue Moon some convoy was likely to feel the death-tap of a tor- But this was ef euch rare occurrence, nowadays, risk all but negli- In such event, by prearranged order, the rest of the squadron was to push pace, cruiser to look after the vi It was a stern rule, but the only wise es, And se dom was there need for its enforce- leaving & m-ship. danger of the voyage was past, for the convoy was enter- At dawn the east- era horizon had been black with the smoke of a horde of American de- forward to welcome squadron and to escort it in safety air had with the rush of British acroplancs } gent to reinforce the escort. The American flag had flown from skios echoed the roar of Yankee cheers. in such company would have stood less chance than a sick minnow !n a school of hungry sword- in fan- the hummed had re- A aboard tho transports mighty cruisers; “THE YANKS ARE COMING.” ' MB thirty fat gray convoys bobbed along at top speed through the fatter and grayer waves, They huddled together, as clone to one another as they dared to run, (n such @ sea at such a speed, Their holds were wolid with barrels of food or case after cane Their decks and cabins were aswarm with khaki-clad men. Food and munitions and men were sweeping eastward as fast as the engines great ships—to stop certain ragged gaps and to help in stopping forever the onrush of the German hordes. Ta @ huge cifcle, around the thirty liners steamed the swift cruisers Which guanied them from the pert! of the shark-sly submarine Grim, lean, formidable monsters were these Deen the saving of many a life and many a ship in these eastward dashes of American men and American material. Anywhere through the gray waves the periscope of a submarine was Mikely to thrust its snout; and their vigilanee had the tension of the past few days was slackening. Fearlesely—even gayly— the khaki lads had accepted the off- chance danger of a Boche submarine, Now, with the danger past and the foal almost in sight, the men waxed Jolly and garrulous. Shatches of song broke from loung- ing groups along the rail or on the forward decks, Everywhere there was an atmosphere of festivity, aw though the east-bound soldiers were preparing for some mammoth picnic rather than for a life-and-death bt had the eyes of ies, For battle with a and with @ gay re- to carry everything b is a far more gleadly foe who enters srapple with their country's foes, which already in was the spirit made them terrible thelr war-weary man who goes laugh on bis lips solve en the into ore him. than is the fight with set face and with sour hatred in his heart. Corpl. Jim Braham, formerly a cal- low lawyer in New York and latterly @ rookie at Camp Upton, sat cross legged on a forward deck of the transport Mackinaw and rolled his last wisps of tobacco into his last ob- long of cigarette paper in honor of the occaston, There would have been just enough tobacco and rice paper for another smoke. had not Braham insisted on going halves with Private Ruthven, his chum. He and Ruthven, a young insurance solicitor, had met at Upton and had stood shoulder to shoulder at | ee remark that there 4# no color so uni- versally used as dark blue It is becoming to everyone, is prac- tical, and is not #0 dark as to be lifeless. Many women, how- ever, come to feel that no other color 4s becoming, and are timid in wearing any other. To recom- \ nize such an attitude \ of mind is not in fustice to one’s sel f, for one’s own color- ing of halr, eyes ‘and complexion 18 affected in different ways dy different colors, Where blue might tend to bring out the color of the eyes and make one's complexion app ear clear and fair, o beautiful violet would bring out the rich eoloring of , one’s ee and the golden jglints of one's hair. | This fall brown and tan as smart as dark blue, tan being a pretty choice for the design of to-day, which has I’ ts quite safe to are at the neck a dark eatin collar = and cuffs of the same dark satin, that might be brown, blue or black, Necdiess to suggest frock’s suitability to @ diond type of woman, The collar is a distinctive fea- ture of the chemise upper portion, being attached separately fm order that it may ross in front, where it starts to roll away. foundation. ® « \marks the low arm-hole, lare set into the tight arm-hole of the Two tiny “change” pock- ets make the front of the frock in- teresting, but the skirt is somewhat! that bangs longer, * TAN, BLUE OR BROWN A SUITABLE COLOR A cording of a one-sided affair, The sleeves | riginal. Fashion Designs For The Evening World's Home Dressmakers By Mildred Lodewick Copyright, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Co, Smart Design for Fall (The New York Brening World.) Days FOR THIS FROCK. though forming a point at the front, | follows a diagonal course across the back from one hip to thé other, The narrow sash is tied on the left side, et ‘The tunic, al- | of any of the “shock divisions” used @rill until Bralam's recent promotion, quiringly at Jim Braham, ‘The latter ‘Uncle Sam’ and that” she had just was a pretty fair 1 see now it in a German drive which had just Thoy were still in the same company took a final puff at the remnant of engaged herscif to him for the pertod was the offer of a cur. Alice--hor ended disastrously, it meant that they of the same regiment of the Tith Di- his clarette and ‘then, somewhat of the war. She had been taking @ name is Alice Kenyon—saw at once hid been sent there to raw and to re. vision, which was made up almost shamefacedly, he said: trained-nurse course, it seems, And how mean it was, She said she would 1)" thelr, @unlerne tlre entirely of Upton graduates. “L'm afraid I had no such splendid as soon us the war began she got not marry any man who needed such particular source. Between the budding kiwyer andthe motive ax you for enlisting, I wish herself admitted to onp of the Red a reward to make him do hie duty On the other hand, if they should youthful insurance man a cordiol I had. For it was the biggest and Cross nursing schools, so that sho toward his country. She told me it ~ friendship had been formed, Nelther cleanest motive you could have had. could go across to France with the was no concern of hera whother 1| knew cared much about the I went oldering on account of a next big contingent of nurses.” proved my manhood by joining the other's history. ‘Their bond of friend- woman, Encouraged vy the keen interest in army or whether I proved myeolf a ship sed wholly on thelr cimP — THe hurried on, without meeting his Ruthven's eyes, Jim went on, 1089 glackor by staying at home. She sald life toget er and on what they ho JIM BRAHAM GOES AFTER AN E MY IDENTIFICATION TAG. constrainedly? friend’ estiontn joo! tale ah ‘papel me before who was not going to bribe me to be- Freat men and to give myself a lower place in it than [ used to think I de- prove to be frewh regiments moved up from the rear, there was every reas worved. A weok after that I was at f0n to expect early and atrenuods Gey jon. Upton. he quickest and simplest way te “Bully for you! approved Ruth. #olve the problem of course, was te ven. "Tl bat ehe wa » glad Capture a few of the newcomers, OF CMa: mighty 6194 vise to wend some one into the Gere oO got that news man trenches to find out who they I never told hi roplied Jim were Braham, “What was the use? If I Three night, reconnaisances of | il ais a river bank ad of no man's land fal had done that she might have iy corral any prisoners, 60 a vollite thought it was a grandstand play to was called for to prowl about the win her, And it wan't. T did it, at ‘man trenches in search of such Sie lam, white man make day 1 may her understand that I worthless aa | seemed much tho better, If I I'll have helped my self-r time when it needed a lot of helping 1 shan't try to find write to her. If I meet her good. If I don't right to, anyhow, for a lot. Don't you to do, over th And it 1 am not can't And days that followed. “achool” were over. ‘The weekn in * duty near Chateau-Thierry, For pluok and coolness in the Can- tigny fight Jim Braham had won his He had marchet through red brown mud up to his Sergeant stripes. ankles, He had ridden in cattle ¢ whowe capacity—"40 Men, & Horses’ Was painted on the outside of each, He had learned, dodge when ho instinctively, t atudy nn the nocturnal nwerferas” habits and of machine or duck, under rifle fire, education into practice. oa ohance—three day had taken over its line of tr low Chateawu-Thierry ‘The General od tified the first the er, a bare b es where In. If these newcomers were n If mile from the trenol because it was the only thing for can ere perhaps some veo ber again and make as if 1 can, #0 well, pect at a her and I ehan't well and I'll have won the that counts agree with me?” Ther wee little time for talk in the So wore the days in billets and the experimental course jutet sectors and the brigading with foreign veterans. The 7th Divi- sion was at last @ unit and on active to heard the rattling wheeze of the enemy's 5.9" guns and of gun bullets. Ho had learned not to wince Am now, he was cager to put some of his new real after his regiment neh be- handing was mys- at aeronauts’ tidings of various how brigades which were maxaing in German trenches across the riv- Jim Braham‘s regiment. mbers formation as he In calling for volunteers for amy particularly perilous task, Americam commanders in France have been subjected to a good deal of troubles not because men hung back from Vols unteering, but because every one amored for the privilege of volune teering. And it is sometimes dMMficult, from atch an embarrassing wealth of material, to pick the best man for the purpore. At dusk that day, Jim Braham hurried to hunt up his old friends KR who was now a Sergeant himself. Jim's eyes were alight his atep wan springy. jory be to ime he cried as he gtected his chum. “I'm picked out for could gather. the job. I'm to go over the top at nightfall.” “What job?” asked Ruthven, em viously ‘ “To captire © Roche prisoner of no, If f ean,” answered Jim. “The Ky O. wanta ono to keep for a poty now that his tame pig has been eaten. If I can't cateh a prisoner, B am to ‘use my judgment’ in pleking up What information I can about this. lat bunch of Over-Rhiners who have blown into the trenches across the criek.” “TL wish T was claimed Ruthven ut Jim Braham did not hear him he continued, “it'll be # I won't have to ‘use my own I've used it ate can lie, Hig oft rehearsed him tif é going along!” em ers have usually the kind of le he ts to tell, But aff identification tag can't lie. The K. OF wants to find who these fellows are; ‘Their wrist tags will tell. I'm going over there to collect a few wrist tags.” ° “But, man!" expostulated — the slower-witted Ruthven, “every tden4 tifeation tag has @ German soldiet attached to it.” “That's #0,"" grinned Jim, "Bo euppose Til have to bring along thi tags and their wearers with them Bo long!" (To Be Contimed.) A War Bride Her head was in a whirl. By Charlotte Wharton Ayers ‘The New York Wrening World.) The story of a self-centred young wife, whose husband is fighting in nis owd sees in her husband's absence A Talk With Swain Further Convinces Sara That the Prompt ings of Her Own Conscience Were Right and Turns Against Him. N the matter had been fixed up to their entire satise Swain called Sara She got herself together an@ Should she of He would probably to encounter in the war “Don't get me wrong, old man. tt “l begged her hed iy Nhe C2Me @ soldier, and she would make To-day they found themseives WaX- wasn't the so! ‘woman-scrape’ 8h went over to Europe, Sho no prominos, If I should decide to a z nee than usually communicative y y be wraraee This wor hg wouldn't do it. She admitted that she ay the man fnetend of the slacker Copyright, 1018, by The Prem Publiahing Co. or rather this girl, for she is only —that she cared for me. But #h® jt mum be on my own volition and twenty, was a8 good as my own Said her engagement to Uncle 8am manhood, and not under hope of any| France, and of the “other man,” who mothe d I was in love with her, beg Ls eid abe bdltatn ei other reward than = my science | gpportunity. in love with he ppose. When I tried to make her change her would give me. We led over i shall always be, And ee aj about mind, @he went @ step further and 1 couldn't shake her decision, so CHAPTER IX. nted the right ail the good it is ever likely to do nif the war were BoINE T came away, and when I had got to look himself in face every ime." _ to-morrow sho would not over my fit of temper T went to call morning when he shaved. And, he He paused in embarrassment, then Marry a man who stayed at home on her again. I was told she had dded, he would have becn ashamed continued: And let better men save civilization gon France with her nursing Her Thoroughly to meet his own gaze in the n ror if “You see, I wasn't the only man In for him.” unit.” he had stayed smugly at home mak- love with her, The minute 1 was Ruthven nodded approval. Jim “Bard tuck!" commented Ruthven HEN ing money while better and whiter making enough money to warrant me Braham noted the other's movement — "No," argued Jim, “It was the best) faction and Fruegelheim had gone, men of his own age were risking life in asking any girl to m me 1 and added: thing that could have happened to in to take dictation. and career for the sake of the flag proposed to her. She sald she was “I told her I'd entint that very day me. It opened my oyes to my own| went jp. they loved: So he had enlisted already in Jove. I asked her who the if she'd promise to marry me before pigheaded selfishness, 1 began to re-| should she not appeal to Swain? His ry finished, glance¢ man was. he said his name was she went to Fran I thought that vise my livt of the world's Jaugh at her for her , DRAWN BY EARL KIRK, CARTOONIST FOR “ TREAT ’EM ROUGH,” OFFICIAL TANK CORPS PAPER y> - COMIN' (GEE ME SHAPE IS ROONE D! WAIT AL GET BARE YR | cuar guy OVER mental Barracks Seorts Trying On Scenery foo SHE STicK OUT IN BACK?| WONDER IF THEY THINK | WEAR corsets! pr WANTS] [os TER SwAP Whey | SOCKS? THOSE GUys GOT SHAPES THAT ONLY A MOTHER COULD Love! “HE No | FIT! | fe’ As a matter of fact, she had bee {t was good sport to sail as close to was part of the GREAT GAME Hut there was something so cold- blooded about this last affair that all the dormant feelings ind loyalty Sara did not even know she possessed were being stirred as she had never expected to be stirred, and she hardly knew how to act, And ruin would be averted for his com. pany if they wet them, why couldn't those two men let him alone? They didn't need more money. It was only @ heartless chase after power and more power with them both, did she knew it, And she dimly sensed 4 personal element in the contest too. Some one was trying to GET some n the thing. Sara had finished taking dic said tentatively what you and Mr, Iking about, Are you ruin tha Mr Government some- bad for ard gelheim were t going and sell the nat will be Frue- really Lake | thing the avia- i Swain looked at her in surprise vad never bee He of mak n the habit Sara du ing love to ng business | hours, and while he sometimes caught Jher hand as she went by, he never | went any further than that in the office, Now he put one hand ove vers and squinted at her wit twinkle of amusement that she ways dreaded, as he said dryly | “tan't ather late In day f | yon Jevelop an interes y | “1 suppose it is, said Sara doubt | uty Now that she had attempted to put her feelings into concrete ob. Jections there didn’t seem to be any+ jie very denaite to go on, She * to hin Some of them were pretty grim chances too of patriotism! then there was the Lake matter too If the man had an honest chance to get those contracts, and it meant that | and! tardy patriotism, What ex- cuse could she offer anyway to account for her Intere ence in @ matter that she had foresworn #0 comm pletely until then? Could she say that it was loyalty to her country’ Would Swain believe that after her violent denunciae tions agalnst the right and Justice of the ehe say that she didn’t believe in profiteering with Government supplies?» *) ar? Could n obligingly tolerant of many a shady scheme that she had called business acumen in the past, for Swain thought the wind as he could in business, I¢ , to be taking chances all the time, sighed slightly ag she continueds “Somehow I feel that you ought |not to do this thing, Robert, Mm | Lake seems such a nice man, and hig | daughter was o frail and a ertppl¢ |too, I'm sure they were worried about money the last time they were jhere. Why do you have to go afted him? And if you want to sell the iG nment wood, why don’t you give hem the best there 1s for the pure Swain reached over for @ tresti cigar before answering. Now look here, Sara,” he said tma pressively; “You just teave this mate ter to me, “As a matter of fact, Kreat difference there 18 n@ n the staying quale } | ‘ | lew of the two woods In question exe | cept in the minds of their promoters | And as far as the Lake Company ig concerned, they are going under anya way Nothing under heaven ead save ‘em, Lake tried to have meé finance him in this same deal, but if I do any financing tvll be to lng Uncle Dudley's pockets—net somé other fellow's.” Sara knew the shoe pinched somed where and wondered. She continued vaguely, a’ though the subject nag very little interest for her: “And ab-about that wood, Yow |think one kind is just as good ad another? Huh? Oh-um-m Sura watched Swain's left iid cover his eye in @ vonderous wink “You run along, honey, and leave your Uncle Dud te 1ke care of things, Skoot!" Sara stood watching him for e me m before she entered her ow sanctum, And THAT was the ahe had promined to mareyt ‘(To Be Continued.) ite is a ve vee ee we Ly + ’ : a