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I THE DAILY i i
FSHQRTSTORY j
The Soldier GirL
By MELVIN STEVENS.
tCmvrttAt. 191S. by the McClure j
Newspaper Syndicate.) ,
IB February. 1317. Dick Huber de- |
elded that be was working too bard
and needed a rest. Happily. Dick
was one of tbose fortunate young men ;
who could afford to take a rest, when-j
evr be wanted one; and having made;
bis decision, be packed all necessary;
clothing In a steamer trunk and took J"
the train for Old Point Comfort. Kt1
tonldn't tell why be decided on that,
place in preference to several other* j
he might hare selected; but an at-.'
tractive picture of a big hotel on the
very edge of ship-6trewn bay may |
have bad something to do with it At
- may rate, be reached hie destination at
11 o'clock on a typical winter morning, i
and at 11:30 be blessed bis lucky star j
for guiding him in bis selection.
For after having washed and nn-j
packed, he made his v.-ay leisurely into |
the broad sun parlor and discovered;
Edythe Norton. When he first saw;
her she was sitting in the corner of the;
MlmJ?ordered room. She was reading'
a book, and the first thing he notices;
aws that her long black eyelashes lay j
carelessly upon the pink of her cheeks j
For a minute or two he stood In t.h-:i
doorway looking at her. He saw that!
her hair was deep brown; that her j
nose turned up a bit saucily, and that!
her lips were made for kissing. He;
x imagined tliat her eyes were black'
and when a moment later she sudden-'
1y glanced up. he found that his sur-'
mise was correct. She had theblack-j
est eyes he bad ever seen, and he hop-1
ed that she would look at him. If only |
for a. minute; but he mignt a? ?> = ?,
have been a marble statue leaning
against the ?all. for she gave not tlie I
slightest indication of noting bis pre:.- i
ence. Instead she looked over and I
through him. and turned again to her I
book.
Dick felt suddenly that Old Point!
~ ~X>u?fort wasn't all that it was cracked
np to be. He started to back out of
the palm room, but as he did so a
7 young man in uniform brushed past
him and approached the girl of the
black eves. She sensed his coming and
_ looked np with a smile of greeting
and there was something in the wayshe
smiled which made Dick Huher
wish for .the first time In his life that i
be had gone to West Point Instead of
Harvard.
He wandered aimlessly about the
hotel for a time his thoughts on the
girl he had seen. He wondered If the
soldier she had greeted so pleasantly
was only of many, or If such a greeting
was reserved for him alone. Still
pondering, he found himself back at
the desk of the hotel. A clean-cut
young fellow was in charge, and for
want of something to do. Dick engaged
* Wa fniini?. after I
.. mm in conveiaauvu.
ii. a time; that the clerk was a Harvard
roan also: that he had * been forced
to leave college for a year becasse
.- of lack of funds, and that he knew
' wvMrybody In the hotel. So Dick questioned
hint guardedly about the girl
he had seen, and found that her
name was Edythe Norton: that she
intended to stay at the Point until
\V the first-of March, and that every
good-looking soldier at the Coast Arfinery
Training-School was crazy
- abont her.
"Other fellows come from up North
to see her." the clerk announced. "But
no one without a uniform has a
chance."'
Dick wandered into the dining room
after a time, wishing more than, ever
that he had gone to West Point; and
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1 CONFESSION;
i
I wonder, little book, how many;
girls have lived through hard expcri-'
cnces that-they might have been able j
to manage without hurt to them-I
selves il they had had the right kind
of mothers. "Why will mothers rest
-calmly In the notion that their daughters
acu do no ill? It does not seem ,
to mo that 1 would, feel that my daugh- j
ter would be able to resist all assaults ;
of the world, the flesh and the devil i
Just because she was my daughter, lit"?
hrvnv. But that is the way some j
mothers feel evidently. ;
I hope that I shall be able to .banish ,
- platitude from, my child's education, i
[ shall try and teach her to think, j
which Is one of the few things that i
people, men or women, do.
When we have become a race of'
thinkers, instead of a race of follow-;
era of the few, the world will have
. traveled far in the direction of the
tsUlcnlum, to my mind. Those who
are alive at that time will know the
Joys of a liberty which is for all and a
peace which will be unbroken.
Here I go. looking Into the future
tar as the human eye can see. and planning
that I and my child and my
child's child to unnumbered generations
shall have some part in its ultimate
end of perfection.
Oh. God! How terrible?how agonizing
it must be to know that a child is
coming to you and that you must not
weave hopes and plans together Into
that wonderful crown of woman?
motherhood.
Some time. oh. great law makers,
make all children legitimate. As I
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wuwum. *** > u . ?? .
tig book, I almost laugh to myselfThat
a little child (who certainly. it
he had been ashed, would not have
_ made his debut Into this world under
drcmustances that label him with disgrace)
should be asked to bear a stain
through all his life for no fault of his
own. is monstrous.
The blessing of a baby's life by bell,
i book and candle is a kindly act but
lust aa surely as it is not necessary
to Ms entrance into this world it should
not be necessary to make him legitlfv
mate in the eyes of the law' and the
. whole world of men.
: T expect, that I am inclined to give
fx too much thought to this subject But
"to you* little confidant I can say what
??... . X feel?1 can open to you' my inner
"most "thoughts and only you will sec.
This is one Of the subjects that lies
FIRST WOMAN COOK I
IN NAVAL RESERVE
?
riULEX C. HOERLE.
Jack Tars seldom complain about '
their meals?they're pretty good.}
Just the same, there are jielicacies
which women fix that?well?men Just
don't. So all the naval men are hoping
that this girl. Helen O. Hoerle. the
first woman cook enrolled in the naval
reserve, will teach cooking around
where they're eating. She's to be a
cooking Instructor. for
the remainder of the day he sat
around in various rooms of the spacious
hotel, watching for a glimpse of
fhe "soldier girl." In the late afternoon
she came downstairs, where two
?*mil4rter vnimr tyiati -in Uniform greet
ed her. They took her a-way somewhere.
and Dick did not dare follow.
He did not see her again that day.
But the nent morning, through one
of those rare pieces of luck which
come to us all now and then, he found
a mutual acquaintance who introduced
him. That was the beginning of the
happiest month of his life. In the
mornings he and Edythe swam together
in the big tiled swimming pool; and
in the afternoon, when the soldiers
weren't aron'nd they sat together in
the warmth of the palm room and
talked about everything under the
sun. But in the evenings, swarms of
young soldiers came over from the
training school; and then Dick felt
very much out of things. Edythe
smiled at him to be sure, but it was
rather an absent-minded smile, and
oftentimes her eyes were following tne
figure of some straight-backed young
man in uniform.
If Dick had been at all discerning
he would have noticed that her eyes
looked ouestloningly into his on numerous
occasions, even when the soldiers
were around. He was a very
earnest young man. and inclined to belittle
his own attractive personality;
bnt as February wore away and the
time came for him to go back Xoptli.
he made a desperate resolution to ask t
Edvthe to marry him. It was not uutil
two days before Ids intended departure.
however that he gained the courage
to test his fate. Dinner was just
over, and he and Euythe were sitting
in the far corner of ^he "blue room."
From somewhere benind a maze 01
palms, soft music floated. Dick cleared
his throat hiskily.
1 "Edvthe." he began. "I?I want to
S OF A WIFE r
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I would like to talk about to every }
man and woman whom 1 could induce .
to listen.
My baby is coming to me under the,
blessed circumstances of respectabil- j
ity?a respectability liold up by the j
law ar.d the church, and so I cannot [
help thinking of all those other poor j
little mites who must be banned? i
and of their poor mothers who must be
disgraced.
I believe 1 am beginning to look forward
to being a mother again, but
every little while it comes to me that
I must not let myself look forward
with too much anticipation.
1 do not believe that I could stand j
another disappointment of such great i
hope as I did when I knew that Sonny
would never rest within my arms. I
am dreading to tell Dick the news, for
although I am sure he will be glad. I
know his mind will immediately revert
to the long sickness of body and mind
that I went through after the loss of
Sonny.
I am glad, little book, that I am so
very well now.
It will be queer, little book, won't it.
to have a baby in the bouse after all j
these years?
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my something to yoa."
She nodded without raising her eye?.
and -waited; hot Sick became snddenly
fearful. He bad n?ver proposed to
a girl before, and be did not know
that she already knew what he was
going to say. and was trying to make
it easy for him. So instead or blundering
along he simply cleared his <
throat again and relapsed into silence;
fffr? *fronlv because Teas
2 girl, looked serosa the room alter a
time, and discovered a figure approaching
them.
"Here comes Tom Atkinson in his '
new uniform,** she announced. Tm
Just crazy about soldier suits. Hick."
And because he didn't know anything
at an about women. Hick Hnber
decided that his case was hopeless and
left for the N'orth without saying a
Word about the love that was tugging
his heart out
He tried bard to forget Edythe after
that; and because business was
not strong enough to ease the ache
which poeseeed him. he announced
himself a candidate for the Second Officer's
Reserve Training Camp early
in August, and September found him
at Fort Myer training for a commission.
A few weeks later he was transferred
to report at the training school
at Fortress Monroe, which is only
across the street from the big hotel
at Old Point Comxort.
Dick smiled rather grimly one afternoon
late,in November as he made
liis way into the palm room of the
hotel, taking for another cadet who
had promised to meet him there. It
reminded Mm vividly of Edythe. and
involuntarily be glanced over to the
corner where he had first seen her.
And then his heart stopped beating? j
for there she was. sitting in the wicker
rocking chair and k&itting a khaki-!
colored sweater. And her tang black
lashes lay again on the pink of her
cheeks.
For a long two minutes Dick stood
looking across the room at her .and
then she raised her eyes. She gasped
a bit as she recognized him. bnt when
he strode over to her, she rose and
held out her hands.
?m.at 1-n
1/i^lV. OUO OOlu. vrMwv
world are you doing here?"
"I'm at the training school at the
fort." he told her. smilingly.
"And your uniform! It's Just splendid."
There was something In the way she
said it which made Dick suddenly
brave. "Almost
the last time I saw yon."
he announced, "yon said that you were
crazy about soldier salts."
. Just for an instant her eyes looked
into his. bat in that one glance Dick
found out something that he would
have given his life to have known a
year ago. An4 then Edythe spoke.
"I still am," ene wmspera.
Dick's heart -was beating like a triphammer,
bat his soldier's training had
taught his self-repression.
""I think that the "blue room* is deserted,"
he said, softly, "and if you'll
come with me there I want to ask yon
something."
It may have been the uniform or It
may have been Dick himself; but at
any rate Edythe said yes to the question
he asked?and after that she
wasn't interested in ,a single soldier
except one. And bis name was Dick .
Huber.
Evening Chat
A lot Ui CXUiUieu ?fiH? owvww w .
day we re having a most glorious time j
sliding down an icy hill on their small j
backs. Several had pieces of boards !
to serve as sleds but the rest of them !
had nothing but snowy overcoats, j
They screamed and howled and did it
ojeer and over again with no thought
whatsoever for the uncomfortable half
NO QUININE IN
THIS COLD CURE!
"PAPE'S COLD COMPOUND"' ENDs!
COLDS AND GRIPPE IN A
FEW HOURS.
Take "Pape's Cold Compound" every j
two hours until you hare taken three i
doses, then all grippe misery goes and J
your cold will be broken. It promptly
opens your ck>gged-up nostrils and air
passages ot the head; stops nasty discharge
ol nose running; relieves the
headache, dullness, feverishness, sore
throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness.
Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing
and snuffling. Ease your throbbing
head?nothing else in the world gives
such prompt relief as "Pape's coia
Compound," which costs only a few
cents at any drug; store. It acts without
assistance, tastes nice, and causes
no inconvenience. Accept no substitute.
FRECKLES AND HI
BEAD-TOE ) |HJK^
MTEQ TOVOU? S
IP VDD CA/a ^ ?\
PEW ?V?motfT-? 'CffT L
PP&CED TO f 5 PELL
POUR MORE "LESS* DATS
WEEK FOR LOYAL COOK
Sunday.
Breakfast?Baked apples, farina with
whole milk, corn waffles with sirup,
coffee.
ZHnser?Roast chicken with sage
dressing, canned gooseberry or cranberry
sauce, glased sweet potatoes,
canned spinach, canned pear and
cream cheese salad, orange tapioca.
Re manages 10 bucan, uuw wi
he tears down the street Just Jike a |
child. He tnrfis somersaults la the
snow?he washes his face In It?he
jumps all about In the deepest places
?all the way down the street. Then
be comes back and does It all over
again. He rolls Into a drift?he sits
dowij in'It and thinks a moment. Up
he Jumps and away he goes again looking
back as though afraid some one
were after him. After dark he comes
scratching at the door of his mistress
and each scratch says. 'Tm sorry I
made a small fool of myself?please
let' me in where it Is warm." And
poor Toodles' nice white overcoat Is
dingy, bedraggled and wet.
We know now just what the words?
a leaden sky?mean. We have had
just that in our usually smiling city I
for two flriys,?a sky which exactly
matched the background of snow >
orMrb ha* heen used a few days to |
I
WOMAN'S NERVES
MADE STRONG;
By Lydia ?. Pinkham's |
Vegetable Compound. I
Winona, Minn.I suffered for more
than a year from nervousness, and was
_________ so bad I could not
rest at night? i
I i'lrfim iiThlii would lie awake and
! jgS?SjL3^BS get so nervous I
would have to get
mbgtS up and walk around i
: and in the morning
I' !irr^aas4 would be all tired
SEfl out. I read about i
/11 Lydia E. Pinkhnm's :
'""-'i, Vegetable Ccai- :
^s^N?5<7gj*5!i- pound and thought
* I would try it. My ]
x nervousnesa soon
laff fvio T fileon I
well and feel fine in the morning an?
able to do my work. I gladly recommend
LytSa E. Pinkham's vegetable
Compound to make weak nerves
strong."?Mrs. Albert Sultze, 603
Olmstead St.. Winona. Minn.
How often do we hear the expression
among women, "I am so nervous, I cannot
sleep," or "it seems as though I
should fly." Such women should profit
by Mrs. Sultze's experience and give
this famous root and herb remedy,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
a trial.
For forty years it has been overcoming
such serious conditions as displace- ]
ments. inflammation, ulceration, irregclarities,
periodic pains, backache, dizziness,
and nervous prostration of j
women, and is now considered the Stan- I
dard remedy for such ailments.
[S FRIENDS?(THAT'S CL
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Became jpl;
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oonee.
Sapper?Rice and chicken broth,
brown bread cheese sandwiches, canned
raspberries, sponge cake.
Monday?(Wheatless.)
Breakfast?Stewed figs, oatmeal
with whole milk, creamed codfish on
rice, coffee.
Lunch?Chicken giblets on rye
toast, fruit salad with com crackers,
tea.
Dinner?Cream of pea soup, chicken
and rice croquettes, rutabaga with
batter sauce, apple puff with caramel
sauce.
Tuesday.
Breakfast?Barley cooked with dates,
whole milk, broiled mackerel, wheat
muffins, coffee.
Lunch?Kidney been stew, commeal
crackers, pineapple salad, honey
cookies, cocoa.
Dinner?Clear tomato soup, macaroni
with green pea sauce, cheese croutons.
canned cauliflower salad, rice
and date padding.
Wednesday?(Wheatless)
Breakfast?Sliced oranges, corn meal
hoar to come later -when unsympathetic
parents discovered that brand newwinter
coats bought to do two winters
had already serv ed six months o? the
time in wear and tear and wetness.
Six months* wear in one afternoon!
You would have said eight had you
counted the number of times those
wee coats went down and down again.
The children reminded me of a small
fuzzy white dog in the city belonging
to people who adore him. He is
scrubbed in the bath-tub every week
?has a blue ribbon tied aronnd his
neck and isn't allowed out-of-doors un- J
til some of the cleanness wears off of j
him. Poor Toodles watches his ;
chance, for he loves the snow better!
than anything else on earth. WIietT]
?/fnor? 1
UN WARTIME FOOD
AND PATRIOTIC EATER
mush at wifflr. srsham tout. toner,
COffM.
Lunch?Homiay war breed with maple
sirup. apple end set salad, oatmeal
cookies, cocoa.
Dinner?Bees paree with rye torn#,
oatmeal croquettes, creamed oaiou.
or the clear green ;-f me washed-down j
hills. Only a few weeks and we'll hear.
the first twitters of birds we haven't j
heard since fall and after that time
will go flying to spring again.
One of the store windows today had
on display a ship bnilt entirely of tin
pans and kitchen paraphernalia and
called In large type the ship TIN-;
PANIA. It was a unique ship Indeed,
fringed all around with mouse-traps j
and armed with standing clothes-pins j
for men with guns of nails standing
Wkitj
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a paper they can !
in appearance, to
pers of the larger
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because it leads,
worthy causes anc
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STG6S peppOT WU w?c?jr aiwi, - TTIti?II
poaches, gingerbread.
Thursday?(Pork (ess)
Breakfast?Stewed prunes, tried
hominy war bread with honey, sot
tee. - <
Lunch?Baked beans and brown
bread, nuts and bunch raisins, tea.
Dinner?Celery soup, round steak
rolled, with onion stuffing:, canned
corn, lettuce and beet salad, cmstl ess
peach pie.
Friday?(Meatless)
Breakfast?Apple sauce, boiled rice
with milk, fish cakes, toast, coffee.
Lunch?Potato and com croquettes,
endive salad with hard-boiled egg, cupcakes.
cocoa.
Dinner?Vegetable soup, scalloped
oysters, baked potatoes. pickled
peaches, stuffed dates, coffee.
Saturday? ( Wheat! ess)
Breakfast?Uncooked careal with
stewed prunes, sausage cakes, corn I
pone, coffee.
Lunch?Hot bran muffins, strawber-!
ry oreserres. cottage cheese, cocoa.
Dinner?Cream tomato soup, baked!
beef heart with dressing, celery saiad. I
peanut bread, maple sirup pudding. J
piece out tbe landscape and which has :
become bored and dull at things in !
genera). The sky which has hung over !
the city?if you will notice?has no ?li-:
viding line between Itself and the
world about ns?but stretches as far
as eye can see. Usually we have color
somewhere?either in the black tree
lines or in the opal sky with here and
there a touch of amber, or in the green ,
of the river; bat now everything is
3like?just one wide, unbroken lea jen j
color. j
There's this about it?well soon >
have something different. Soon touch- j
os of black and dark green again will.
alternate with rhe white of fro?b snow j
O&gqod*
mute#
FriHav
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TWE
of good fall sty
ular value up 1
y
FORTY
of extra fine ra
season, reciulai
Also the c
Waists at half
and $5.98 Wais
upright beside them. The liie-boats j
were scrub brushes. Stove-pipes were j
funnel?.. Tin pans sat about on dock
and served as ship parts. Hose boz- j
zles served for big guns and had a
most forbidding aspect. Unusually
large guns on front, sides and back of
the ship were xnad& of the large handles
belonging to brashes. The ship
attracted much attention and considASTHMA
iT
There is no 'cOTi? vM
bat refief ? often tffSjB,
? brought by? tTsSSti i
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in Fairmont
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time in the history of the cit;
be proud of?a paper that con
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ITRGINIAN is Fairmonts le
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It supports vigorously and
! people and it attacks courag<
auds and evils.
VIRGINIAN is a real newspa
urpose, a policy and a distinc
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r readers-of such a newspapei
tE WEST VIRGINIAN?
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