The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1920, Page 11

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920 American novel will give her astounding ONE ISUTT; Gieces watneds on iis same wears ¥It Is Never a Success,” she says. Monk’s Love Romance Told Woman's Sympathy ws. Vows Y kB k Two ics a afl be {IG bbsla Flap Ad bfetath fans “Guak the Left He ewYorkBroker, PciAr GheieGnras an tha Right int Weing “Olmnar Once a Novice # ae ; With Biddle, Tells Story. Fr.Alberic,Given | ' More Freedom Than Others, Meets Fate. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1920. by the Press Publishing Co, (Tho New York Evecing World.) HAT the love of woman led him to break finally and forever the salemn yows he took and kept BY ROY L.MSCARDELL Copsright, 120, by the Press Publishing Co, (Te New York Evening World.) ally founded the Cictereian RS. JARR especially apprecia- ce eee eee ted the service neatly done of . stood six nd a half in height, Gertrude, that jewel of house- member of the famous Philadelphia had grey hairand closa-cropped beard Mids, just before Christmas. Iv was family and one-time Trappist monk, and dark blue eye: toward 8 P.M ona certain day ie obtained by The Evening World trom — “He was a model monk all the time December, that the a every Sap ic a friend and former associate of Bid- I was at the monas' and no one housemaids stvod in my lady's bow dle's in the Trappist Monastery in heard of any doubts he may have had (0!t; murmuring: , Kentucky known as the Abbey of Geth “ of course, the monks are r brought Urs heyy belle eat semane. ‘hia friend, who himself ed to talk to each ott ow, do Due h > you a Ut th out spent a year at the abbey as postu- ot here is Te . you are al lant and novice, entering the day afte: dute sile poe sce they on ant th ope im yesterday and must Christmas, 1913, is P. C. Caulfield of » preach in fF 1 on the fease A Si Poet No. 805 Bedford Park Boulevard, now and take part in the confession ‘Oh, Gertrude, really you shou idn't a stock and bond salesman in New faults—about which I will speak have done this, my dear girl! I can t York. laters Father Alberic was particu- get up to breakfast. I simply can’t “After twenty ye arly noted for the eloguence of his impose upon you this way! : A a preach: “ so, deftly arranging the tray/ M1 that protection, t pie eae oe 2 Wo which obtains in a Trappist monas- Wil vu tell me just what was poking up Mrs. Jarr’s pillows/ aut tery,” Mr. Caulfield told me, “I know ‘he 4 e of Mr, Biddle, or Father she might sit up in comfort, Ger’ ade how Mi Biddle. or F athe! Alb Albe I requested gave her mistress a @mile of dew Gon eACHI i thes Alberic, a® “size rose with the other monks— find lightly tripped away, to recurn we called him in the Abbey of G there were about ty—at 2a. Mm, in few’ moments with a lace- ple geared aS except on Sunday and the ten or Af- trimmed morning gown, at. which senirned to the rough, hust 4, teén most important feast days of the 4, Jarre stared in pleased su where no one shows consideration for year, when é rising time was 2 Dy acces. gon cecuant 1 any other. a.m.” explained Mr. Caulfield Gauehine that al “Then he met a gentle and symp: : “From rising time until quartel ‘didn't buy i ma'am} it’s your thetic woman, the Miss Mury Gaines past five wag spent in the chure morning wrapper that Mrs. Mudridge- Behom he has just married. She was chanting the offices. There was Q'ty, . ‘ ie bout his own age. She was nursing fever @ny heat in the church, and Smith g ou | PGiiaione Seale jp brother. Her tenderness and you can judge how cold it must have YoU were out, yesterday 1 had some Impathy undoubtedly aroused the heen when you that 1 wore Spare time, and Zcleaned 1eate brenin Biddle and for her sake peavy underwe ‘all. my outer it ‘and put sor y : finitely his most solemn POAYY, | Pe a one platen sleeves. It was the lace that was on Mir ha A the other gown you gave me, and it vows—something I believe Fi ct 1 suffered. from la sure to regret. For, whatever “0d.% muffler, yet I euffored trom vag as good as new, and it was too IN THE CLoIsTeR. for twenty years, is the explanation of the recent marriage and#eturn to the world of James Cornell Biddle, the Jatest rs of that pea at soul-disciplin ve he cold. wore heavy P nis religion may be, the vow you \oonen’ un heavy shoes, a fine lace for a poor iti like me to fe in Its name is a vow! If it had ye siraight. wh yn callgai ew. weet ena have gone well on been for his romance, for the fact jit; over. that oe a ‘ fat he fell in love, I fee] sure that man would have gone back to his astery in the end.” sith aver Incidentally, if this strange story in ™\) life should fo.low the course of imilar narrative in fiction, Mr. Bid- may yet turn from * lise” to semane, from the Kkden named Mintry Lome of his pride in Warren- Va., wi he now plans to live, Bhe severe and cheerless life of the ppist monastery at Geth For in “The Garden of Al jous novel play by > looked out of pia it I must get up, rtrude,” re- arr, " I cannot ‘ell you nk you for fixing the ng 5 or me. But don't from the cold, for I morning LOR |G , rubbing his hands let: Mrs. mMudridge h see it if she WORAini Atte ta an effort calls—or would you let her see it? For fo kaanraen if she seen it will think 've taken uae ; oh god are oO} hat she may give p ve-fiftec © and the other such goot aare of it t AR bat partie om for me something much nicer this Christ- Benedict, mas i ees ‘der, «“'L wouldn’t let her see it. ma'am the crafty Gertrude “She reachin e waist, ¢ over else the white cowl Cs: plied Mrs, ner Albertc suf- how muc! fered exy used tu bi monks went to the chap the reading of the rule of 8 n of the Trapplat ¢ me the confession of fauita, advised ‘ ‘oul k, was as good as new, a Phe Abbot asked for it, in Latin, and Would thtk, if it w 8 bens, the Trappist monk, AHS RENE a “ie enon pehieae ae you cither hadn't worn it, to show flees from jonas . RO edeceuat ba the Your appreciation; or she might ny of the mon ry by Domini her- Of tite N fense was permitted it this Christmas I will send only cara." Mrs, Jarr nodded and Gertrude went on “And you gyusn’t get up. to the man accused, He had to con- fess his fault publicly and fall at 1 out, full length on the d stune Ugor, who watches its door close for- on her earthly happ' Mr, Biddle has p ie Cwnatary a foi staying there until he received his ° WTR eal bal PrGuraen of Adan In that Boris penance from’ the Abbot. I never PA es and fe oniapan chet ays was tortued by doubts and heard of any sins committed by breakfast. Mr, Jarr’s reading the jorse about his course and that | ainet ! ¢ I sald, he was a ddle feels hi-nself at peace v model monk ‘ Binge ice Pi sya ra ay maul “At seven the monks took off their his past lif hen she ©0’ went ow o work cutung down trees, chopping or other a labor, carrying their picks chens hero- Over the left shoulder, walkin order of and hoding their ~ Just before Christ is only after hearing from Mr, rosaries | che hand, Father Christmas, there is Pfield a detailed and accurate de- Alt was favored by the Abbot to-wit) to men on earth Diion of the life led for twenty the extent that he was not far as =m morning paper. iall T go in the dining room and tell him you want it? r becoming a wile In the case of the to read it at breakfast in sen : p by the son of a former United [ know, given the rot work y Minister and one of America’s performed by the other monks. In- all the monks had to retire at 8 in t and most socially prominent it work in the the summer, at 7 in the winter. Hie ics, that one fully realizes the the books aud bed and pillow were of gtraw packed nous strenyth of will which t that they wef of the c stoncy of wood, and on r shoes > removed aut th was too lenient with have been back of even the sin- , “At 9.30 he went with t ing oF it love for a W to tear hie li other man, if Mr. Biddle monks to the church for the office of ¢ » up by the roots sext and solemn hmass. At 11.30. has done. they all took their first meal of the Father Albe young Mr. Caulfieid ent to the monastery to make diy in the refectory. They never ate added, serious! Berides, not hav- reat, arriving the ‘day after fish, eggs or meat, and a typical din- ing to do the ror work, he was mas in 1913," Mr. Caulf.eld ner would be a bowl of vegetable allowed on several occasions to leave d. He is a all, dark-hai soup, a dish of beans, a thick elice of the Abbey He went ho@® when his us young » apparently whole wheat bread and a pot of mother wis sick, and afterward he riy thirti “After | had be liquid made from berries grown on went to Philadelphia to see a special-~ he continued, "I de- Abbey grounds and tasting Kke a ist. That wasn't necessary, and T do a wee to enter the order and’ became cutfee substitute not think he should ever have been Htulant. Three months later 1 ‘After dinner they were allowed a allowed ‘ go into the world. 1 think novice, Father edus, I 1 for one hour in the summer. In the Abbot Went contrary to discipline. haye taken my first vows at r they spent this time in the In the monastery . women nwed te what he has done. ned to me [ would ithe rest of my days mane, and in the end be worked in the fields never M of the second year, but I only church. They Bed a year altdgether. The lif» from 2 $0, went to Vespers ur fe will re o severe for me, Much as [ ad- about 4.30, and had supper, consist- hing 1 the good men who are pledged ing of a hunk of whole wheat bread, go back to ¢ h thick, and a cup of the liquid a Cy had heard before entering that a made from berries, Then they a grave without a coffin, the ber of the Biddle family was in ailowed to r a litte, At six th rave in whieh lay other monks tr. Monastery, and soon [ noticed “ompline was read in the ehur nd had born name; above us 8 @ most distinguished jooking the monks sang the Salve Reina — tablet with only the different gho had taken his name of After that came the at silence" dates to tell one Father John Alberie from the saint who iu the cloister, Father Alberic and from another,” COL Copyrigh:. 1920, by (The New Yor eighth year is young man of more reserved mature for his years than she, ANXIOUS.” No. 1 have n many happy marriages where fie wife has been several years older than the husband, Of course the id ay Is to have the man three qr four years the woman's senior, byt we cannot base love upon years, Rf the young man is reserved and mature for his age, 1 see no reason in ‘the world why the slight difference you mention should stand in the way of your happiness. old to marry a bnty-five? He i “Dear Miss Vincent: 1 am in love with a blind soldier. | met him in a hospital where | go to read. | have often taken him out in my car and to supper and | love him very much. | have a good income of my own, three large houses and some railroad stock. Now, Miss Vincent, do you think it would be right for me to wed him? He has no friends, his mother died while he wa and | am about his onl i “SOLDIER'S SWEETHEART.” Of course you “have a right to marry him.” It seems as if you were a guardian angel for this boy. You ure well fitted to care for him, you love him and you have everything on your side, Here's wishing you aV the happiness in the world “Dear Miss Vincent: Am a wid- ower with no children, fifty-seven years of age. Would it be fair for me to marry a young woman of twenty- five who says she reciprocates my love? =A GOD-FEARING MAN.” There is quite a difference in your ages, but if the young woman says she loves you and you feel able to make her happy you both may find great happiness ahead. It ail de- pends upon how “young” you are and how “old” she is. “Dear Miss Vincent: | have been going with a boy whom | learned to love and we were very happy until some one wrote him a poison-pen lct- ter. Now the young man has nothing to do with me. I do not wish to ap- pear too anxious but | ow can | clear matters? VIVIAN Lb.” Why not have some friend, either « girl or a boy, go to the young man and in matters for you? It seema to his would have more effect than if you were to explain or to write. “Dear Miss Vincent | am six- teen and in love with a young man twenty-one. When we go out in a’crowd we always have a good time, but the moment we are left alone we start to argue and usually end up by not sperk- ing for days. | am not quarrol- some by nature and | want to please this boy, so what do you advise? MARY M. D.” When you find you are upon an uncongenial topic change the subject, Don't argue. THANK YOu, I'LL TELL MY FRIEND. Poor. REAL AFRORS <8. Copyright, 1920, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Worl) ARNEGIE left us medals for the C brave and libraries for the bookworms. It was a noble legacy. Hundreds of heroes would be penniless if it wasn’t for the Car- negie prizes for recklessness, and thousands of authors would be push- ing in bread lines if it wasn’t for Andy's circuit of fiction warehouses, And there is only one equivalent to being penniless and hungry. That's being nickelless in an automat. Heroism on the Carnegie plan con- sists of the old Eternal Triangle: The Can You Beat It! _ AFRIEND OF MINE HAS. A CRUSH ON A GIRL AND ASKED ME WHAT ig”) To QIvE HER WOMEN ALWAYS, LIKE SILik STOCKINGS IT'SYERY FASHIONABLE Now THE DEAR ! WHAT A CLUMSY WAY TO FIND OUT Man vs. Woman! 80x, by an eminent psycholo; Penal New York renin By Maurice Ketten \ LOVE Trey WITH Clocks | ALWAYS GeT NINE _ IT SA SAFE SIZE A LITTLE X-MAS FOL, PRESENT PA startling analysis of the mental achievements of each will appear on this page Monday. guy that rocks the boat, his sweetie, and the innocent bystander that gets his clothes soaked from pulling two wet packages out of Davy Jones's locker. This third party gets a me dallion to hang on his vest and a cash purse of one-half what his heirs would have got if he'd fafled to pull off the rescue. The guy and his sweetie get another canoe and try to be more careful the next time. That's Grade A heroism. That cons of yanking And Her Name Was Nancy! okt After Nancy, the prize goose of Mies Carolyn Roberts, a prominent society girl of St. Louis, captured first prtge at the Washington poult show, she was taken for a “drive’ through the streets, “* Driving Goosie ‘The next brand of daring is just as serviceable but not quite so gaudy at the hem, a pippin from the path of a Baldwin locomo- tive, It is a neat trick if it’s done properly and an awful mess if it's not. The hero gets the Carnegie decoration for being quicker than the express train, except on the Erte Rat! road. There are no medals for rescues on the Brie. But there are other forms of bray ery that grab no trinkets for the breast. All of man’s most venture. some feats are not over rail and water routes to glory. There are plenty of thrilling capers performed that aren't always chiselled in “Who's Who and How Come?” No guy can be a hero to his valet, on account of the valet being hep to how much he owes his tailor, But on the valet's day off a chap can stir up an item of bravery that entitles him to a backfield position on Carnegie’s All-Herole team. Only the brave deserve the fare, as the conductor said when he failed to ring up a nickel. And that goes in other languages, too, Without look ing up a single datum, as the retail portions @f data are called, we can name off-hand a half dozen heroes that the Carnegie scouts have over. looked. They are brave men, tried and found guilty. Their feats shine like the lettering on @ onearm luuch We submit their claims to you: JABON BOPP-—He ordered a suit by mai! ang had the nerve to wear it. RALPH SWINK—He tipped the waiter a dime at the Ritz and said “Thank you kindly” to the hat boy. WELDON MIFF—He brought his flancee a bag of gum drops. PAUL OOMPF—He ordered a seat ata Broadway show regardless of the price, ELWIN GOZZ (deceased)-—He be: Meved in all the formulas his hooteh friends gave him. HERMAN GLUBB—He settled a friendly fist fight over Home Rule. If those guys don't deserve the Pittsburgh diak for doughty conduct, then valor ain't what it used Lo be, NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE. operated by compressed air been designed to quickly lft Airplanes from the ground and enable them to My at once by the power of of the two nations. “| want some more” HO \ HORNBY’S OATMEAL ‘The telephone systems of Haiti and the Dominican Republic have been connected, making it possible to com~- municate between the principal cities y ¢ 2 5 a a a