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PROP ROR A PRE as, sp rreent Foe RENE BA French Officer and a Taxi-Man By the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory ) Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), li HE officer, handsome, well decorated for his oft-repeated valor in bat- at tle, and rather weary withal, applicd for a room at @ hotel in \ - Washington not many days ago. y The clerk was sorry to have to inform the distinguished Frenchman / that there was not a room to de had for love or money. | Other hotels were tried with no better result, and after tackling ten or @ dozen boarding houses it was the same old stoPy—"“not a room to be had, “Take me to tho station,” said the officer to the taxi-man. “I am tired and must get some sleep. I will engage a berth and return to.New York.” But at the depot it was learned that to obtain @ berth was impossible, and the Frenchman was at hie wits’ end—showed ft, in the bargain. ‘Then it was at the taxi-man had his innings. “It appears that we are ! at the end of our cope,” he quietly remarked to the distinguished and chop- fallen Colonel, “and the only way | see out of the difficulty is for you to Gleep at my house. I cannot entertain you very handsomely, but I will do the best I can for you, and you will be welcome.” ‘The Frenchman accepted the taxi-man’s proffered hospitality. Reach. tng the humble home of his host, the wife, as quickly as was possible and as , deftly an she could, fixed things up in the best room, and soon the Colone! | Was asleep. “I will de obliged to leave early in the morning,” said the taxi-man to Bie guest just before he retired, “but you need not be disturbed. Have your est, and when you get up my wife and daughter will prepare your break ‘fast for you.” But the hero from La Belle France would consent to no such arrange. ment. “I will arise, sir, when you do, and if I must stay to breakfast I w eat with you.” And he kept hts word. By the time breakfast was disposed of the taxi-man, charmed by the personality of his guest, had apparently forgotten all about his daily Job and ‘was having the time of bis life. Noticing a violin on the table, the officer asked the daughter if she Played. She did, “a little bit,” and after a plece or two had been rendered he anked the officer “if he played.” (She did not know that her father's guest wes a master at the violin.) » “Lsomotimes play,” answered the guest, and taking the violin 3e made | {talk from his heart as he had never made violin talk before! | ‘The unsophisticated democracy and whole-hearted hospitality of the| ‘american had deeply touched the Frenchman's soul; fllustrating how true $t 1s that the “one touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” | | ‘ N. B.—This ts no dream, but the truest of true stories ¥ Fy | but the younger | eee fe ree HOME PAGE Monday, October 21, 1918 Copyright. 1918, by Breem Priblia’ity ‘The Co, (Mis New York Evening Word.)” of Rest. THERE IS NOT A PARTICLE OF MEAT. JONN I Must HAVE ie HEAT. OUR FLAT 'S CoLD MR LANDLORD, NEAT _ THe BOARO oF HEALTH SAYS WE CAN DEMAND HEAT The story of Private Peat h Arteraft picture, now being shown at | Advi le yice to overs | By Betty Vincent A that, because she {s not pretty. | oP actions make me very unhapyy, | she {s afraid she never will be/ Do you think he really cares for me?” popular, Pspecially she fears that no| if he tries to put off the marriage, | man will fall in love with her and|I think that will bo an indication that | that she {s a predestined “ald maid.”| bis feelings toward you have changcd. 1 think that girl is worrying her- “weit unnecessarily. Srst place, gome of his appolr , h ot sider the wives of the men | In any event, I advise you to cultivate : peated pied ys point of view of /}0mMe ea ae nd friends, You Deauty. I am sure she will find the] members of your fan Tycarechow ieee great thajority are not distinguished dependent upon you and you ov ) tor exceptional loveliness of face and Something to yourself, Go out more | figure. Men do like pretty girls—in |, mbey fs beeaae mai sf bs Leta meeeey, But, sinoe Vanalais i nO| with Many opportunities before yuu. means enough pretty girls to & round, men manage to get alongs very well with those who would never take prizes at a beauty show. Furthermore, what is beauty? Many a girl is most attractive whose fea- ‘tures are not of a classic regularity. Ghe has the clean skin and straight, ‘\gpringing figure which are the results of good health, she has @ friendly “Wmile, she knows how to dress gharmingly. And so she looks pretty, whether she is or not. Does He Care? “MB.” writes: “I am eightecn years old. My mother died wheo I was ten and left me to care for three “children younger than myself, I have brought them up to be fine young people. For years I have worked all day and gone to bed at 8 o'clock, haying no time for myself and not knowing what pleasure was, Last (Copyright, Peat Finds Himself a Spectator At the Steady Destruction Of Historic Ypres been sor Grossett SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER i” s e ned into a special Paramount- ading theatres, & Dunlap) year J met a very nice young man foils te Dow iniou's tnt overseas contiugent, and after a abort. training and fell deeply in love with him. I Tatne Fore Ue Hrauce. sod toward ibe (rvok lines, | Hie battalion, thes do not think he cared for me unth & few months ago, when he got into trouble and I was of aid to him, Afterward he told me that his love for me was very great and asked me to be his wife. For some time he came to see me regularly, I proin- ised to marry him aster my nineteciuth birthday, which comes In a few wecks. CHAPTER X, tinued.) Was massed with ret. 1p HE ugees from the rava city lately he has not called on many of Belgium, In peace tines ecoasions when he had promised to possibly the population would me excuse at th ee havo numbered thirty-five to forty == Queer Log ‘ Castle Built by Hermit, Unaided this time it seemed that sixty thousand crowded into y ery hou every*stabie Was tilled to its capa with folk who had fled in despair t thousand; a cy ty ISTORIC Stirling Castle, injfore the cloven hvof of the advancing H southern Scotland, has a dupli- | foe seh ‘i if not in des Judgo o condition of a city cate in name, gn, on White Otter Lake, Ontario, wher unded on all sides by miles away to the practically the enemy @ hermit has recently completed left, th. miles away to the right, ous “Castle,” entirely by his}@nd a matter of only ten miles away mee los y by MS! trom the immediat ont of the city ed For months the Gert had she the town every d with a Ms continued violence, h @ con- } tinued a a f played havoc wit ’ st nerves, Not a day pe {that two er three women, or half a dozen children babies did not pay the toll to the \ lust of blood } 1 n ople ned in was no alternative hind Ypres were just und all the way back to ha and every quota of refugee and waited’ gr liberation, walked out One day I es. I came to from Ypres a m t f Villa o an estam- own efforts. Work on the structure which is three stories high, and has Ya corner tower four stories high, was begun 14 years ago, The owner and Duilder would allow no one to assist him in the work In any way, Across the lake ho has built a log tomb where he wishes to be buried, and he hes announced a reward of $50 for the * person that finds him dead and oly consigns his body to this burial place his way over to me, or he would not have clothes, Hello, old boy!" he sald to me dn perfect English, “How are you?" I replied, but must have looked my astonishment at his knowledge of my language, for be went on to ex- plain, He was crippled been in civilian got over from the States just the week war broke out. I worked | pe the jon where he has lived-~|in North Dakota, and had saved up Popular Mechanics, and planned to come over and marry S — Ca eee mm But he soon bec jn Yoies, Where hy (nds fascinating spectac omnes @ Veteran of ur my sweetheart, who waited in Brus- sels for me, I have not seen her, She be lost in the passing of . 1 have gathered a very little money, enough to start on the small farm which is my inheritance. Come, and see it—come and have din- must € her with me, I accepted his invitation, and we walked over together, The Belgian spoke all the way of his fine property and good farm. All the while there was @ twinkle in his eyes, and at last I asked him what size was his great farm, en acres,” said he, and laughed at my amazement at 80 small a hold- ing. We reached the house, which proved to be a three-roomed shack, In @ little, dinner was served and we went in to sit down. Not only the owner and myself, but fifteen others sat down to @ meal of weak soup and wa bread, The other guests at the table were fourteen old women and one young girl, They sat in a steady brooding silence, I asked the Belgian if they understood English hey did not, and so L questioned him, “Very big family this you've got,” I remarked, I knew what they were, but just wanted to draw hi “Oh, they're nly visitors “Darned good “they've been here » 1914 I commented, not with a nt lost her said he, nee the second hu or grandson, Not one who has not lost every bit + of small property, but her clothes as well You thin that am doing something to help? Well, that is not much, I'm lucky have, There's my yonder on the hill acres and has a tw and he keeps ‘eleve “And how long do to stay?” “Why, laddig,” said he, “Stay-— how should I know? I was talking to an officer the other day and he told me he believed the first ten years of th} \war would be the worst. They are {k= and welcome to stay all that you expect them A 1AM GOING To SEE THE JANITOR TEW ft T THE AGENT | AMON THE SUPERINTENDENT | WANT SONE TH AT LL KEEP You WARN! WE NUST SAVE COAL FoR. IT SAVES NE Money _* TEU. IT T THE PERINTENDENT & BUIcdincy. TAM ONLY THE TANITOR, Home Dressma By Mildred Lodewi 1OLS, vy The Press Publishing Co. (Tue Ne su oF Coprrlznt Yor 'A Dist HIS winter we will see fur used extensively for outer garments, and the styles pre- sent more varied effects than we have been privileged to choose from for many a year, The short Eton jacket, the hip coat that ts either straight and « boxlike or full and flaring; the capa, which may reach only to the waistline, or as much longer as one’s mind and purse dio- tate—all these styles | are as smart one as | the other. Fur, however, ts expensive and many are the imitation fur cloth garments de- signed to take Its place, But most women prefer the real thing when they use fur, even if Jon account of ita price they muat use lens of it than they would like, For *his reason I have de- signed the modish wrap shown here, which employs fur but sparsely, and chooses a soft wool- Jen material, heavily TELL IT TS THE LANDLORD NYWOR 13 ONLY_% Comcecr HE RENT FoR interlined, for the malin portion, This wrap is as near @ cape as it a coat, having no real fit except around the short, because the shoulder line Is 80 very long. ‘Thus when one folds the arma in front, In order to tuck finger tips into sleeves, the effect trom the back is like a cape, unseamed and comfortably loose, A fringe of mon- key fur finishes the lower edge, and surrounds the sleeve edge. An enor- [mous coachman’s collar of the same material gives a Substanttal alr to the |whole, It is fastened In front with a ‘taney metal or celluloid ornament. time, and longer if need be. ‘They are my people. They are Belgians, We have not mugh, My savings are going rapidly, but we have set a few po- tatoes”—he waved his hand over to where four of the old women were hoeing the ground, "We bread and a little soup; we have enough r for now, We shal! manage.” is only one instan in my own personal experienc was the same, ph sheltered th a . was a case of share and share alike, If one man had a crust and his neighbor none, why then each had half a erust without questions, avery who t al been just as we, strong and virile. He had gone forth to a victory that now he was never to see on earth, His had been the supreme sacrifice. She would pass us, and the tears It is for Belgium, It is to-day, In J would come to her e: and we'd the midat of war and pillage and out salute those toars—for Krance, brotherhood of man, In peace times heen eee ee a army poset hay nat they will never be told to a curious Income, no matter } w great it mich’ * * have been, with fiftecn other per. World. France may have hrd her aye ene ftcen unfortunates would Body crushed almost beyond endur- have bean lett to the tender mercies aren. put Che Un kable German— : $e MR a the barbarian, the crusher of hope 7 ql 01 and ue y chars . Of @ precarious und Krudging charity. goa love and’ ideals—haa not even 1 in its old i a few y, charity of Him who hungered and To-day, charity ts de cepted sense of dolir pence to the needy; is imbued with the to the few said, “I » meat mado a dent on the wonderful spirit of France. France {8 superb. In the parlance of the man in the street, we all “take off our hats” to this val t country. is not necessary to go Peed to Ypres, to Namur, to L p, to Ver- CHAPTER XI. dun, or any of the bombarded se i cities of Belgium and France to see than three months before the ruin that has been wrought by this we were raw recruits, war among the people. It is the popu- win sane faanelanrad: aeaans ace who suffer, eve in grea gree than, do the fighting men, T horns, We had had little of must givé way in eve tance bes trench experience, At Neuve Chap fore the irresistible bi elle we had “stood by.” At Hill 60 Jaw, It is the old im WOMEN, we had tohed th But 0} the children, the babies and the phy- we had watched the fun Bus LA sically imperfect who must bear the discipline, our real mettle, had not brunt of dreadfulne Go to any of the citie hundred or more miles fr yet been put to tho test, That evening of the twenty-seoond of April, when we marched out from of France, a n the firing line Ga to Rouen, to aris, to the smaller ir towns, to St. Omer, to Ypres, little did any of us realize that Aubréville, and there within the next twenty-four hours On a conservative tt will more than one-half of our total ef. fectives were to be no more, I feel sure that our commanders be found that cities of Prat Will be dresse in all rene French woman curries through must have been nervous, They must le the tradition of the veil She t§ y 306 wonde reer TT christened, und over her baby face B&¥e wondered and asked themselves, there lies a white veil. She is con. “ the. boys stand it?” “How will dea veil drapes her childish she is married, and @ trailing they come out of the test tirmed, ¢ u We were about to be thrown into veil f cor her happ smiles, mourns, and a heasy the flercest and bitterest battle of the veil of black crape covers her from war, There were no other troops head to fool ; 1 to Within several days’ march of us, e of the Canadians learned to < a know the wonderful emotion of the There was no ohe to back us ap, French, As we marched along the There was no one else, should wo sureets. we Would see a French woman fail, to take our place, “Canadians! approaching us » recognized the It's up to you!” strange uniform of an Ally As we crossed the’¥ser Canal we eyes would sparkle, and marched in a dogged and resolute sil- tus with a fluttering hand- ence, o man can tell what are the thoughts of his comrade, We have no bands, nor bugles, nor music when marching into action, We dare not even smoke, In dark and quiet we pass steadily ahead. There is on- ly the continued muffled tramp— The shadow of a smile would cross her face; she was glad to seo us; she wanted to welcome us, And then she would remember, re- member that she had lost her hus-* band, her son, her sweetheart, He aad \ Does Your Ear Answer to the Drum Beat of Adventure? If So, Start Next Monday THE ABANDONED ROO/1 Soe enn ee \ Y To the left of these Iny the Second Brigade of Infantry, These were men Tam mak last years vel tramp of hundreds of feet encased in heavy boots. To the far right of us and to the for th moat art from the went, far left shells were falling, burstini: Fifth, commonly | {nto @ business dress, and brilliantly lighting up the heavens disappointed Fifth," | Will you aid me with for a lurid moment. In our immedl 6 Jaw and Sas-| @ suggestion, as ite ate sector there were no shells, It th, nick=| severe lines are nut was all the more dark and all tho Phe | Little more silent, for the nolae and uproar k Devils from Winnipeg.’ Tho| ecoming? It is Bar- and blazing flame to right and left the famous “Fighting Tenth,” | gundy color, made We were on rising ground now, With ‘boys from Southern’ Alberta! jike sketeh, Am Tp and up steadily we to W icine Hat and Calgary 5 the t f the p when And there was the twenty-five years of pit of dark- itish Columbia age, five feet four and a high cond Brigade which | one-half inches tall explosive shell It in the the Fir as supporting. To the left] have dark hatr, eyc middle of our battalion, It struc g ith Battalion, which was| and skin, with good where the machine gun section was Canadian eft wing, there color, placed, and annihilated them almost and Turcos. These to a@ man. ‘rench Colonials, To MISS D. T, Then it was that our mettle stood ates probably the Ca-]| Ags your coat has a the test, Not one 1s wavered; a thelr near disaater, seam only from one of us swerved far distance we saw a cloud ‘ ° ine to front or back, We igh from the earth shoulder. so: Suse, Hae was hardly one who lost in iy-red color, and this bodice nay he commanders whixpered In volume as it rolled cut from It, Gros ness, “Close up the 1 1s like a mist ris A ibbon band Dehind those who had fallen 1 the grou dongs nibs - a i. across the bodies of thelr « , and penetrated to self - color, aks lying prone, and Joined in ter \ i dip in the ground, Georgette yoke will ately behind those in the forward We could not tell what it’ was, |Jend a soft touch at the neck, Jdenly from out the mist we men ; dead and wounded lay stretched in vex saW Movement, Coming | Fashina Editor, The Evening World: re they had fallen t teword us, running as though Will you please were the stretcher rao uly was had been let loose hoxpltal corps m. were the black troops design a pretty dress radew wou 1 have rthern Africa, Poor devi for me on which sa grim business a blame them, It was enou to make any man run. were | to use a moleskin There was a At ° t of dis ple-minded fellows. wer shaw! collar and elpline, Tt w ir wething time in thers to fight for Fran their the eo of the wa could not grasp the signit cuffs taken from my proved ourse! not wanting. ce of the enemy against whom suit? I would like it were Cana they were That aft on us. The tted, The gas rolled on us t r ace be hated hy the Ger mang hatred from a Ger man 1d shows that the hated are th effective. They hated t 1 1 h, they } us; tt hated the Png mi lish again: soon, when the 1 1 offic w men | States 9 to her full effectiv hey r, and beg: she will take n the fr ther r lines and go} rank of the hat back to the attack, But they were As In the front maddened as only a siinple race can| (o@ BY Me an tk 1 nady bu frengied by fear, and paid no h up of Canadian H whom It is in times like this, in moments the Germans, since that night, have of dire emergency, that the ‘officer nicknamed "The Ladies from Hell.” of true worth stands out, the real leader of men, There were a dozen Incidents to prove this in the next lon ihe ton. few hureied desperate moments, 8 out (To Be Continued.) tel In this brigade were men from parts of Nova Scotia, Montreal, from Ham- iton, Toronto, Winnipeg and Van- couver. ne aan. NEI Sodan n Designs : For The Evening World’s a inctive Wrap Trimmed With Monkey Fur. neck. It ts cut on kimono lines, and {THIS GARMENT MAY TAKE THE PLACE OF though {t hae A FUR WRAP, sleev they aro Dark biue or brown are the most practical colors, Answers to Queries. Fashinn Editar, The Brening World: Fashion Editor, The Mreinng World: pa sos EVER TRY IT? ary kers ck 8 World), Am anrtous tomake Up material like eam- ple—pale greem ohit« fon cloth—inte am evening dress that is not elaborate, I would ke a simple style, easy to make, and de pend on your advice, Am forty-two yeare ft age, a good figure, size 36. The color ts y becoming to me Mrs, HL, you did not state how much caterial you have, The foundation in this design may be * color satin or the hiffon cloth, Silver ribbon straps, it ail dad ing my our sult to be of velvet. What color would you sug gest? 1 have light brown hair, fair skin, blue eyes, age 28 years, 6 feet, 8 inches tall, weight 112 Ibs, 2. Bt A pretty French or sapphire blue, embroidered in baupe. Georgette nisette, chi remarked the ere built Ute to b