The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1919, Page 15

HOME PAGE Monday, February 24, 1919 informed ma with Jealous reluct “ ance “Goodby,” you sai “Goodby,” that mademoiselle would presently de. peated; “you won't torget 0 writer fend: J, Waited. Heavens, how long You withdrew your hand and nodded, ably; & t t was five minutes prob- Turning, you ran up the stairs, ‘ bat A LP eee gentury. AS on am glad IT met you. I am glad of e: ond tick gtew more the pain I shall carry back with and more dissatisfied with m he r y My great loneliness before wan duct How impertinent you must no woman had come into tay life. Mow Galmamel bresuine on this slight ac- I shall be a to think, am doing aintancel | : this for her.” { shall be able to ea, tie our footsten on the stairs! A gon. "Perhaps she knew why t did ‘not ‘ standing be- speak. Perhapa she too is +: fore me, girlish und friendly, offer- gering!"* I nkall tell myself’ seasiee JE ne the fraliness of your hand. Aa about you, just ax if vou were really oucl @ novel happi ~e¥am mine Your face will b th through me. I felt alive, exalted and wotind of you nd the melaaey nroURh ve, ‘ und of your voice and the me! Fomehow rested-the way une docs In of your gentleness. I shail be a better pit eckons up the days soldier because we have me of his probable respite from cold and Tone die sateteg, am hting and discomfort. What write [i ix very late. Paria will soon \ «very late. Paria wil o r e ave spoken I like to think of yc til . of the touch of your hand, but 1 ar tbat | could peaks with Sail How This Manuscript, Which Was Found in a Deserted Dugout, Came to Be Published Copyright, 1018, by John Lane Company, An Explanation HE pubhcation of documents such as this requires some explanation, ‘The MS. was submitted to me by a young officer of the RF. Ay home from the front on leave, who had just read “The MS, in the Ned Box,” which circumstance he admitted had decided him to consult me. He explained that he had brought with him from France a bundie of papers whch he had found in one of the dugouts of an abandoned gun position. To use his own words: “The position was in “It had been badly knocked about by enemy bombard- ments and had obviously been rendered untenable. He discovered the papers secreted in a dark corner, wedged in between a post and the wall of one of the bunks. At firat he thought they might be papers of military ‘emportance, for the care with which they had been hidden showed that they had beon considered valuable, This fact alone aroused his curiosity. § " think it was the sympathy in your You see the telephone is stil @ eyge that touched me temptation—but then there are mo ee You Will never read this, I will telephones to Paris from the forward play @ game; I will not send you What guns 1 write, but I will speak to you the ‘When bo had time to examine them carefully, he discovered that he was truth — Prying into the intimate secret of a brother officer, who was in all probas M a hon ver, If 1 live, perhap: billty dead. There was no indication of the writer's name or of his unit, some day, when war is ended, you CHAPTER Ml. and the name of the girl whom he bad loved was never recorded, #0 the I “go Weat" belore that can henpert May tal tee nantaes a geaple most intiinately concerned were left entirely anonymous, His you will never kiiow aud will nor be pind heaadat ety’ Peron nes bee 8 first impulse was to respect the dead man’s privacy and destroy the lurt by my love. I can dream about long enough to order you some you now; in the sheli-holes of that flowe They Were roses, deep were the sacred nd courage. Unreal World it will seem as if you red, the co r of the ones you wore were really mine. \ TMG Perhaps I did not do right by keop- tthe opera on our last night. 5 Ua /ae ing allent; perhaps my silence wes POUEDt far too many for good taste= — $a g y false pride. I way talking to one of | bought tne way J felt. At the last Z J your friends the othe 4 it aol. minute L forgot te enclose my card, ciers getting marrie ig that 8° You Won't knew whe sent them, such conduct Was selfish. She had though probably you'll gitess. Once n ‘quite quiet—hardly Intereated. before, if you remember, f sent you Suddenly, with an unexpected vio. flowers and you didn't acknow lence, she turned. “T wish | had mar- them. Was it bee@use you were a ried my man,” she said. Ilearned her to own to sentiment? Until they fade, story afterward, She had been en. they'll keep you reminded of me, gaged to a French officer and he had Where I the very teen killed. She had joined the Red seems oddly out Cross and ever since has been working of plac down at myself, plas- he Hea" Bow* was eventually cov. Tight have 1, who may be dead within THE MANUSCRIPT WAS FOUND IN A was from tho first impressed with its ce of’ a coward “ as we smiled When last they parted? you. Tm Up as Halaon of t aiue, but as'l read on I be. 8ct Of & coward. - receive @ proposal! At past midnight did I ated . So ma Dp re Lag hie m up se Usieon ofcer: eam Titerary.¥ 1 want to put ihe case to mywelt so TOO a deP tum aloey to hear a tha there? Something haunting dead. 1 camo to Parts thinking, tons, Yes, men are like that, are the last few daya-so much Of fiends out down whch the eal dears. tebe papers, but on second thought he recognized that the property of the woman who had inspired such adoration On thinking the matter over, he be- = gan to fecl more and more strongly spent half the night awake planning = “= S f ji wee feat Wacy ought to be wiven back {9 the words in which I would confess . “e woman, but the difficulty of 4 ; Geiie bo esered inguperabie, Many WEN AEs’ we met, But we Bays ivisions bad been in that area, and Come to our last night and I have tt would be impossible to trace the kept silent; to-morrow I return to batteries of | the eee pia I the front, leaving you almost as much @ stranger as when we met wes under these circumstan) that ain. a he told me the atory, hoping that the , {wonder if you hove suensed Surely might in some such way, be solved 28 } an glad that | said nothing, What came more and more deeply absorbed ,,1, "Ent lo put the case. rie roused from sleep to hear # that 1 never sifall forget. ‘There ’ . J‘ F ‘act stro: r t sits c you “There's just a chance that T may ses you smiling?) Perl in ite poignant human importance, @8- .oken and you bad loved me In te- spectral | vo saying, that stood a tall, slim girl, like @ rosebud her.” en y Wamiling? Perhaps you had spent ship. Tcan at least carry the memory the swimming trenc (ate, polenant Dumrunee to some spoken and you bad loved me in te Misq-——2 ‘This iy the man who's Deen on a stem with its petals unfolding, 1 er E went to call on the only giti Just aa long in making Yourself beau- of these things back: they memeey Ore pretty lnay) cee ae Ga Bre amricad pi wna, ail ume urs what woul have remuteds OMY wih you alt-econingaimore very Mie urvantated Puatrictsct fave bot Path ct found you staying with tHful. I should like, to think that. | | spoiled by any sadder knowledge, To- is waking bly prewenoe stive German particular American Fened the. last Suffering until the war is ended. We evening, in fact, of his leave in Paris. helped to do the devastating, There think tt as fate; I prefe And my emotions! Shail Tbe frank? night, this last night wa fect. W erVOUS At ’ Pesiht \d er have been toi : 1 ! astating h hat jt was som else They were s perfect. We fantry are nervous and ex ot DOWNEY, ad tnown soldiers lite CoUld Rever have been together and j called you up to ask if You'd marry are dead men mouldering Ia, every — That hat Jt was something else, ‘They were awfully muddied. ‘They went to our favarite cafe—the one we Paid. There's a good deal’ of abel fi! with romance. [felt that she must be fonciy. all the time you would have ™f shell-hole. I couldn't see you in that the noxt you callod ie Une T take Ie Rad the woud OF longing. hope, doubt. visited on that first snowy Sunday. of our support trenches and « falne only ce . ’ L on't K oO! rht-have-bee! of 6, yo pill A mu ¢ 5 00) and the terror tha 1 : . Beeyrered and that the only chance nely, All the time sou woul bare | Won't think of might-bave-beens, picture, you with your delicate fash- as an omen of good fortune that you absurd.” ‘The tonein night appear We stopped #o long talking over din- smell of gas. Runners keep coming e of doing so was by publishing the yer, wounded again, you would thi ut only of the memories. They'll be ionable sWeetness. { don't know what should have gon hat troubl 4 MeIng was all for you. ner that by the time we reached the with reports, slither of ‘documents were, wounded again, you would {bin good memories to run over when one's T said. ‘Can't remember, “Something should have gone to What trouble; it The hope wax that youl might be shar opera the firat scene was ended. We stalrs snd belnaine fa the tan ebere in France, where ane te me Gead. thougs re badly Cold and wet and cheerleas In some inadequately trivial about. French ti aL inisetuction, aa been ty longing. | ‘The doubt waa lest I didn't grieve much t flan't; candle gutte ot hayeineion 1a Fre ere Mtns Wounded, you would not be wble to caved-in trench. I shall tell myselt Children balhe ain, We saga that “hurried introduction had been might have idealized a memory which, the Bra Was OntS Petits { dest candle gutters at my elbuw. Fm ait. q Saye on LS Tray into ner vands, ome to me, for, you too, have YOUr the fairy story then of how I met you, perfunetorily and parted. 1 at up hod t ra ines end hat you too when I saw you would fade inte longing our time tc Tigh OW Gace. TOF “a ata a ay ee 1 Ce y reco! wane e front at ho pledged self to mee ost of that 1 wu » had bee ed and made a je reality. Oh, the heresy of t er Ho “ ra cushlo * It If tt does, she will certainly recoenine J-—, you and the other American Grates gel te nectlont bunk tac OEE. ag t Glaahtnal eee one xt curious, My vanity, perhaps! ‘Dut \t feared’ lest’ you might be actualy SueMly eh qyening hurried! We were things J shall have to keep awake all pi Narself, and remember those days Of Jiri’ who take care of the French “o's oy rauember that Tish , da aphoned you to wishyou luck, was more than vanity. "Aman lives quite ordinary, like any acher at any ott, 8 oulevards again, and it night; we've already answered one y hergelf, amnion meant. @o much to a care of the Brene you remember that night, some but really to hear your voice, You long dreams at the front—all the i the wan time to see you home. What BO 3. . aa eere Tiritish officer on leave in Paria, CavIC®. ADG then tech a man's months ago, when I had’ been had already sailed. “Te was then that of the past and the tenderest Oe ene. COR ha fowd the world. And fun we had in searching for a non- Mow far away you seem—how far ; A € \ Mrenc Wounded, and had been sent to DE pladwaa shyaselt eone iad i "i le te est of the the ‘or lew mig r * jon= < 4 — ¥, Should this happen. 1 want her (0 wounds are like decorations, they at jca on the and had been sent to Amer- I pledged myself somehow to find vou Insecure future; it Is his way of com absurd-T wonder If girly know ie You {xistent taxi then ut last we bribed everything seema that I have loved. T know that the original papers, which ToCny of the new religion of sacrifice. after America had become our ally, was to ti dto France. How that pensating himself for the brevity of ace a man In love is at such @ disad- driver of @ private car. Did you Probably by now, you too, are di Hy were meant for her only and rescued With” us they are still horrible, | Gnd T was speaking at a publ nally: was to be done T could not guess. { the lite that he has vantage; he is not aure that he da Lae nen ey anything in those picture you at J—, uO ‘ 5 it must happen—and it It was a Sunday that we met. I cared for In return. 1 had no right to fat momenta? T beard myscif talk. » children tucked snugly by chance from a crumbli ing commonplaces in a voice which up in bed. The Germans gas and puld no eyou held to your bar- At the cle when the hall w s. are awaiting her in my offi ida alae 0 ing. At the when the hall was bas, . been so bold na to ask you to come that assurance perbigadh i be handed over as avon & might ave to live to eo yout shudder Smptying, Home one Brought you UD Was it tate? Up there in the mud T to himoh, and you) quite wonderfully Who had met you once’ StTAMROr did wot seem my own. T would apeak, Lomb you sometimes, you Told fe. sents herself RAs then (hay G16 in thie WADOWHO you Were Ballin f sald that was offered a leave to Paris long t pted. E' think T remem Tcame to your hotel, When Tins 4,0 7uld tell you. We talked. It was I wish selfishly * * © But no, I ‘Moanwhile, T ask her pardon for Ant HPeyced harted’ 2 sou were sailing for France with a fore my turn, chiefly because the every step and emotion of that walk quired for vou of the concierge, hi tuo late, Other ‘people Were entering «iad that you are playing the game this necessary means of making should hav your bag Hult thet was goin to. take ca ¢, of other OMeers preferred to wait for up to the Champs Elysees to call for seemed to distrust me. He Hermon the foyer, Of a mudden, after so much with us men. e game knewn to the world the romance Dna tant you de No, lam glad ¢ricts. 1 look 8 diss Blighty leave, and a good many of you, You'd never guess how long I gruffly t would apprise you nemacy_we became embarransed (To We Continued.) nd wil he pre- which she kindied in the heart of her J aig nor apeak of love SEB EC CUTLO nee: those who were ahead of me Were spent in polishing my belt and but- of my presence. When he returned he |. = = lost soldier, which he him had not " But why talk? If I had, you would Bc EARS. ~~ —-~ — ————__- -—~ iste Mg > ° ° Bake ae Re saree riginal Fashion Designs JOHN LANE. fused me—refused me as 1 de- served. You would have acted right CHAPTER I. for I don't bel © it ts all over. 1t was only a Sugements and war marriage se War en Still a th as ony 8 Ge aa Mea , | For The Evening World’s rs Fe ee think of these things; they | | THISISNO WEATHER a | Home Dressmakers aid “Goodby” T wil brain. We have ‘ a4 © SIT IN THE Py ' I bave not told you. I make me distracted. i LO, SIT IN TE PARI! | | iS 3 » senna nie cn the pret ot cody Me oes muse tt | YOULL GEE ENEUMONia | aVeme | enue) By Mild i you ave only 00 A e bf — }& was oo many tues on the point of yatta have ent amma | o> | UGOINOKE yor.) — Arc! | CAS IT y Mildred Lodewick had left you I accused myself, and what would you say A queer way ty ake aes ; ' a, ee SUS RINGS \) ideality: Rapeenied te Pale Ataantion MutT ; Sint ae Individuality Expressed in This Attractive Model. ; HAVE FouR . 2 Pauline Furlong’s Talks — ae Pee Beret printed pussy | | New on | | willow silks are on Health and Beauty LURE min coe ie ! ; | Pe ONAN ‘trong play for popu- (The New York Evening World), ' } oie an mah aot | | Pear in such fasctnat- jing patterns and colorings that there is every reason to be- Neve their success of jlast year will be re- Peated. Women do not seem to mind the fact that a frock of sucha material is a Waysa stamp for her, announcing from a Food distance off her coming down the street, It may be that women figure Philosophically, that when so many other women are wearing frocks of like fabrics, their particular fig- Copyright, 1019, by The Frees Publishing Co. It Is Well Not to Ask the System to Stand Too Radical a Change ries about the no-breakfast plan for | Y mail brings me frequent inqui | the fat woman, and while 1 am convinced that two meals @ day | woman—1 will sustain any one in health—especially the stout would not suggest that she go without her preakfast if she has been accustomed to taking it, especially if she is anaemic, and many fat persons are suffering from anaemia and impoverished blood. Then, too, the sys tem will not stand for any radical changes suddenly thrust upon it, so it is better to eat your breakfast and | tuke nothing but some fruit or thin broth until dinner ume. | Skim milk may be drunk by the stout woman with-| out making more fat, and buttermilk may also be taken | Both are very nourishing and do not promote growth of superfluous fat Raw eggs and fruits and green vegetables and the elimination of all stim:| ulants, alcobol, tobacco, tea and coffee are also recomurended for the anaepiic woman, fat or thin, because she must get her blood in a pure and rich cou dition before nerves and tissues can be properly nourished Liverish and bilious attacks usually denote too much eating of all) foods, especially the heavy, greasy kinds, and light diet should be indulged in, with plenty of baths, copfous water drinking, deep breathing and out- door exercise to ald in cleaning up this condition, Julcy fruits and also buttermilk will help the sluggish liver, and the juice of balf a lemon squeezed into a glass of hot water and taken a half b vefore breakfast will also prove most beneficial in clearing the system and likewise the com: | plexion which appears dark, mottled and muddy trom clogged system and laay liver. Let your compleaion be your guide, pale and colorless you may be fairly sure that your blood ts thin and im will remedy this condition, becausy ured frock looses bit of its tity, and rf ld iden. sht even in fact be mistaken it a distance for some other woman's fou- |lard frock, At any |rato @ great number |¥ere worn last year, ‘nd, granting that women have not changed tn heart and spirit, many more foulard frocks will en this and if your lips and cheeks are poverished, and study a diet which | nothing from box or bottle in the Hine of drs will 80 speedily und peraiw | | — = Bc ee isiee be nently enrich the blood and overcom| | ET Bac und | ; : > SATOH © |. An unusuat effec | : ‘Su bh CATCH tes be kta ue t SKIN CRACKED BETWEEN THE the outicis nally. Abidity ; aH ue CATS aes Bae RINT G.: This may ve |4ne ils may cause . : i ; > ‘aie caused_by Fy ot tee, improper pe ra __ NEXT -— ) |sign to-day where a sac i an $ |plain fabric such as Bathe the fe lithe |ghtwolght serge or ventilation or acidity BLUSHING- MAKGARUT G.: Self otine of pla often and dry well consciousness causes Uh Stop think ointment between the toes ing about yo f. Mix more with ia n0 satin feet to air without shoes as often ax] pleasant groups of irix and exercise combine The possible, Powdering between the toes and breathe deeply in the fresh, crisp printed wilk is em possibiGiler'e earth Is also beneficial, |alr as much as possible, Nothing you Ployed for sleeves in QAN AOMIRABLE ALLIANCE OF FOULARD tan take internally will help this'con & foundation fining AND LIGHTWEIGHT SERGE, > and for a DARKNESS AND SHADOWS BE. |dition, FORE THE EYES Mts. G. LN — skirt attached to a|'The edges ure finished in one of the You should consult a doctor about! WALNUT STAIN FOR GRAYING ke of the lining material, Over) new wave, w . narrow! ae this, ‘The darkness before the eyes,| HAIR—MRS. LAURA If: Do not use this @ tunic of the plain fabric, built b noticeable af Abing or lying dow alnut powder. Get the dried, black | i Brin ghan't ¥ urmboles repeat this fits may be caused by Kidney or hye" | walnut shells and pour over one-hait sad mpletes the frock, ishing, t ay of collar trouble pound of them one pint of boiling ‘ unic ts rticularly becoming| which t if s su: Ee in length to a tall person, though the! might find t 1 be wsed water, Let stand overnight and then RIDGES ON FINGER NAILS—|atrain through gauze. Brush thia on BETTY D.: Rub cocoa butter on the/the hair with a clean brush. This alls at night, This will also help tola vegetable stain and not a cheanical Addresmove and prevent hangnails, pro-|dye, and is perfectly harmless, but { , of course, that you do not cut! will rub off, . traight long lines of it make it/on the frock. [ have suggested ene worth or one of medium height asjof an unusual cut which adds a @ec- well, It is slashed up on the paneljorative touch to this part of the seams, front and back, with a hand- | dress. Tle ends are of tin, | , . = | ¢ c y grosgrain Worked arrow to finish each point. lor velvet ribbon, et il