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jr THE DES MOINES EVENING TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. MAY 2, 1917. i THE EVENING TRIBUNE. to come back to normal trade conditions again, we shall be able to slide down an Inclined plane, where MU ST A WIFE OBEY Revolt Against Apostolic Theory THE EVENING STORY t-Bttliabed avar vnlnr airt Sunday bv Th Hitr and Tribune Company Entrd at ttt ixw.ottK-a at Molnaa. low ai sacot eta" matter.

Naar York offira Mtropolltn Tor. Chlcaao ofne feooia a ti tult 114 BY MARGARET M. MARSHALL. kir, where the Tigris Tlver becomes navigable. At any rate, the overthrow or crippling of Turkey Is one of the principal considerations in the fight to feed the nations of western Europe and to nullify the effect of tht German submarine campaign.

THIS YEAR'S APPEAL, Real estate companies interested in the sale of acreage and of lots in the prairte sections of Des Moines should sot fall to profit by the slute of men's minds this year. Or.luarlly, a smooth greensward, ven if produced by rough grass 81'BSCIUI'TION HATES Hi MAIL. una yaar .13 nwThrae montba JSc 6ii mom Sl.MOna month. (The EvaalnE Trlhuna and Tha Dally and Surday. Karlatar thirteen papers a week are delivered by camera to Da Uoinaa lor 4to centa a monib- instances a difference of opinion between hus'band and wife ends in a compromise.

If the husband wants dinner at 7 sad the wife wants it at 6, they decide to have it served at 6:30. But suppose husband and wife have planned to take a eertaia express train and the husband tay they should leave the house an hour 3 (j son to take command. He should be the head of the household, not only respected, but respectable in mind and He has no right to shirk his obligations in this matter, and if he does so. he is a failure. 'The husband Is likely to be a stronger personality than the wife.

Despite the higher education ot wo- men. despite everything that they half an hour will givethem me are accomplishing todav, 'the hus-' enough. Somebody must decide, band Is nearly always "more intel-' somebody must accept a decision If ligent than the wife in the sense i Ue train is to caught at all. of having had more practical exper-j "I slieve that (he greatest cause ience with people and affairs. Also of dive ce today Her In the fact that he is usually the economic head of marriage no longer means the weld-th household.

1 ing together of two wills, but rath- "If it's a question of his" moving er their continual clashing- Women to a certain place for the good of will no longer obe husbands, his business, surely the wife's duty and there arc occasions is to obey his decision and pack whon this obedience is esseutial. the trunks. That is just one ot "The American hufcan? too fre-the crises of married lite in which quently abdicates from position the most ordinary common sense he should in li.s bom and all beforehand, while the wife thinks sorts of evils result. The para wife is one of then. Wliy hasn't must admit that the husband will should be law.

Of course in many i an the Street By MARY IMLAY TAYLOR ly, "never to claim it at all." "What?" She sat up and gaed at him, bewildered. Your own play? I can't understand, Joe." He smiled sadly. "I couldn't at first. Kitty; It'e very simple. After you after we talked that day, I thought it over.

I was mad against Richardson, mad with jealousy and pain. My mind seemed suddenly clear that 1 felt as we do you know those clear, wonderful days when you seem to see miles and miles straight across the horizon into the sky? My mind seemed as clear as that. I knew I could write the whole play from memory, and then you bad told me about tbe change of name. I spoke Europe will Jump over the precipice. For the demand for our supplies will have to go on for a year or two while Europe is rehabilitating after the war.

TEE PICTURES TONIGHT." A number of Des Moliea people are apt to say tomorrow ir.orning, when they pick up The Register and read a review of the American ambnlanee corps moving pictures at Plymouth Congregttlona! church, "Why, was that st I intended to go?" The time to rem am ber the date is today. VIVIAN! M. Vivianl's wonderful power as an orator is said to consist more in his manner of speaking than in his choice of words. Yet reading his remarks before the United States senate, we discover that his words. even as they must suffer in translation trom the French, possess in themselves an emotional quality which stamps him as a greater orator than any public man in America, irrespective of his manner of delivery.

Des Moines will be indeed favored if It succeeds in bringing the French and British tcommissioners to this city. Their westward trip will be a tour of triumph, for no matter if cold analysis proclaims that they are endeavoring to commit this country so thoroughly to the war that there can be no turning back, the United States is already' so completely committed in Its thoughts that the commissioners have no real task before the public but to make a test of America's sympathy for their people. Viviani has for several years been reputed the greatest orator in France, and France is notably a nation of orators. It is not too much to say, therefore, that If Viviani comes to Des Moines, we shall have here the greatest political speaker In the world. i BASEBALL ENTHUSIASM.

Wi.h 3,000 people attending the opening game of the baseball season, on a cnld day, it does not seem that the war has put baseball out of commission, nor Is it likely to have an injurious effeci npon the 1917 season. One of the complaints which went up in Great Britsin during the first two ears of tYj war had for its basis til tinprewdented popularity of sjort. Rugby football, which corresponds in its organira-tion and interest to the American game of baseball, drew thousai 'Is people to the athletic fields throughout the Beason, in every city of England. The" objection voiced in England to the popularity of sports was that the games were attended by young men who had no intention of enlisting, but who were able to spare time for amusements. As the United States is going immediately onto a conscription basis, that complaint cannot be lodged here.

It is no evidence of lack of patriotism to attend a baseball game. On the contrary, in time of war the need of recreation and amusement is actually greater than in a period of peace. There Is a keener nervous reaction. In Berlin and London, more theaters are open, and -u'o drawing greater crowds. than ever was the case in time of peace.

It Is a healthful reaction, and baseball is equally healthful. Des Moines people should not let the war interfere with a generous interest in the activities of the Boosters, for there is no danger whatever of baseball interfering with Interest in the war. TUKKEY'S IMPORTANCE. Those who are fighting a fire are apt to be the losers if they cease their-efforts as soon as the fire whistle blows, on the assumption that the department can handle the blaie. Therefore, it behooves the United States to put forth strenuous efforts to combat the submarine peril, which Is now almost as much of a peril to this country as to Great Britain and France.

Nevertheless, it is possible to beat the German campaign, and beat It on land. The place to do so is in Asia Minor. Bulletins on the progress of the British in Mesopotamia are Issued about once a week, and indicate a steady, but not very rapid, advance. The Turks still have behind them the strongest natural barriers to an Anglo-French advance from Mesopotamia, but these defenses, located in the Antitaurus mountains, would save less than half of thn Turkish empire. The.

Turks are unmistakably weaker than they were a year ago. A desperate and determined offensive on the part of the British, aided by what Russia Is able to do, ought to crumple up the Turkish resistance. Definite defeat of the Turks would open Russia's food reservoir to the world, and even though that food would not be immune from submarine attacks in its transit from the Dardanelles to Italy, the task of the submarines would be so enlarged that it would become much more difficult to make the undersea campaign effective. Should the Turks be driven back to the line of the Antitaurus mountains and hold that Hue, the entente would still be In possession bf the shortest route betwefn the Mediterranean and Black seas, with a railroad running a third of the distance, and a railroad surveyed for the remainder of the route. It would not J)e a superhuman tahk to complete the line in time for the 1918 harvest, or If that should be impossible, it might be feasible to establish caravan service between Trebl-tond on the Black sea, and Dlarbe- HAN'S EEVEELE.

BY DANIEL P. JOHXSOX. Nan Halloway wanaered down the green shady path at the Meredith picnic grounds. She came to a cool spot under a tre, looked around twice to tee thai no one wag In sight, then lifted ber. newly starched white dress squatted, down and began to read' But her mind refused to concentrate.

The cumulus clouds like great balls of cbtton overhead seemed to be moving on in such contented' motion that Nan felt an though her heart was at war with the world. And Just why she could not figure out. It was in the midst of her reverie L.l siie heard a ''Bht footstep behind her and turned to be confronted by one of the kindliest faces she had ever seen. Tbe bright dancing blue eyes seemed to bespeak a genuine zest for life and the little dabs of scarlet on each cheek of the otherwise sun-browned face formed a charming contrast against the yellowish tint of his khaki picnic suit. Nan took In all these details with a sweeping glance before she coula sufficiently recover herself enough to epeak.

She couldn't she aimnlv smiled back his reflection. J.J"'.b?B Prdn." he began, "but I dldn know this spot was occupied it's surely a case of the early bird Kfs, nlee f8t worm." he added jovially. "I'm going now," Nan hastened. I was quite through reading, and bsck t0 th Picnic." she added half rising, but a detaining look in his eyes seemed to hold her before ebe spoke. I "Please don't go; I should reallv feel like ft bear if you did," be pleaded; and Nan, having nothing more important to do, reseated herself again on the rock below the willow tree.

They discussed her novel. He talked for only a few minute, when Nan began to wonder who this fascinating young man with the encyclopedic knowledge ot books and authors could be. She blnted the fact and he drew forth his card iph Townsend Meredith," she read, ntsd felt a peculiar little thrill of "So you are Mr. Mereifih. the famous author?" she askud exultantly.

"An author," ho imllingly returned. Thev talked of books and authors and then plots thereof and Nan found herself superbly happy "And don't you ev find it difficult to get new Ihetaes for your levels?" she queried. "That's just my trouble bow," he answered. "I'm attempting a new book about as actress' romance. Ran up frem town to sea Uncle John Meredith and found I was due to accompanying him on this picnic he' giving today.

Uncle John a good sort, but I wanted to be Just to think my own thoughts, and out here where I wandered I was looking for a plot in the clouds." Nan smiled and mentloied something about the disappointment be must have received in finding her Instead of the plot. If Ralph Meredith was looking for a plot for his new romance story that afternoon he didn't find it Nor did he for many weeks that followed during that summer. For each afternoon was taken up with the company of a very delightful girl. In fact, it wasn't long before Ralph Meredith found himself seeing visions of this winsome face, in bis curling smoke, in tbe clouds, everywhere he found a medium in which to visualize. Early one morning he and Nan were conversing as they rode along In tbe (laming roadster.

He was about to ask a very important question when Nan suddenly broke In oa him with, "I guess we all have something or other lo trouble us. You know I'm married and don't know where my husband Is." Ralph was startled. Too st.rtlefi to speak. "Ob, you poor child, do tell me about It." he said sympathetically and Nan, a little hesitant, begar wanted to be an actress, a i 3l true actress and because I was only seventeen whn I married, my husband kept mo from my ambition. One nlgbt after I had studied hard and had made the customary rounds to manager's offices that, afternoon, a note came to the house asking me to come at once to the theater.

My husband objected. But we were joor and always wouM be unless something rose right upon the horizon of fate, and so did. Despite his objections, I went I shall never forget the flowers, the music, the lights, the audience like a black blur tbat greeted my eyes as I steepped out on thi stage with the star's part studied until I could almost say it in my eleep. 'Then there was the great climax. I don't know where I got the Mrengrn to noia my autience, bur I think It was the lureVot the money I was to receivfc.

IPvai my night and my making Xs an VtVs "But the worst strokXof iillfe came when I returned home. Phad gained the wordly rgs lywanted, but lost the moE srclou love For when I reachdh)iir Htfle one room in the baclc-Acnement my little note tellintfJiifc to go ot with my career, ne ever again. And so I hi here resting up. But lt'f i oreamea it to be," slowly. When she tou Ralph was looking ff wondering, gympath of love in every line You.

poor, dear a-ifl." Vas" hia only comment, as theyrode borne In silence. One week later, when Ralph had come up from town again to visit his uncle and when he had decided that bard as tt may 'seem to have to play only "Dutch Uncle" to Nan. he called to ee her in response to her tiny pink invitation. "Ralph." she began. whn be was' seated.

"I have a terrible confession to fnake. I am a fibber, or worse If you care te call me It." Ralph looked at ber in blank gmnyment, but she went on. "What I told, you the other day was false. Just as false as the wig I wore the night of my supposed debut. I made It all up.

As a matter of fact I am a pebool marm. and although my ambition was to be in actre. I never had a chance to try It, but mv dreams were very vivid. Can you forgive me, Ralph?" And lor answer hT folded her In his arms, saying; "Nan. vou dear old c.trl.

you supplied the plot I was searching for and you knew It Nan. dear, 1 couid never let you go from nie again never, my little partner, with a stimulating mind like yours." And soon after the Meredltn novels were flourishing on every bookstand, for Mrs. Nan Meredith's mind was seeklDg tbe outlet tM her imagination she had iv. I am 'nottwat he idled fit peaKlng, it tut; with a itlcj resslon -i. a njw mw race For tome time one of the stanch- est defenders of the husband as captain of the matrimonial bark has been Dr.

frank Hall, thirteen years pastor of the church of the Divine Paternity, the first and largest Unlversalist church in this city. In nis pulpit not long ago Dr. Hall said that he had often thought he should put back Into the marriage ritual the word deleted in deference to the modern woman. Afterward he expressed to me his belief that in the vast majority of marriages the hus-band should take command as captain. But according to my observation, as a captain, a husband is often a rank failure.

He is utterly silly or utterly selfish. In fthe first instance he merely looks Impressive and masterful and "speaks every fair and rakish craft that passes-; while the humble "crew" (his wife) keeps the matrimonial ship on an even keel by means of hard work and her own ability as a domestic engineer. Another type ot husband is not content with being merely captain, but aspires, to tne role of the "Nane y's" survivor, in that wonderful ballad of cannibalism. I am sure you remember his mournful boast: "For I am the cook and the captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig. And the bo-sun tight, and the mld-shipmite, And the crew ot the captain's gig." And haven't you all seen conjugal captains who devoured the individuality of their wives as voraciously as the Nancy's poet devoured his shipmates? However, 1 have never heard any one put the case tor the obedience of wives more forcefully and ingeniously than Dr.

Hali. Here is what he said about it when, I talked to him: "There must be not only a anion of heartB in marriage, but a union of wills. Unless life is to be given over to an endless series of wrangles, there must be one leader, whose will is deferred to by the rert, and- because he is tMe head of the household this leader should be tne husband. "The good ship matrimony must have a captain; and in nine cases out of ten the husband is the per- The CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY. Moylan laughed.

"You ask Gris-wold. I'm afraid to." She hesitated, but somewhere in the theater a be.ll began to ring, and she hurried on. "I'm late," she called back over her shoulder. "I'll look it over between acts." In her dressing room she had Just time to change her dress and look over the manuscript. She discovered that it really was "drivel." She laid the manuscript down with a groan.

It was nothing, not even the skeleton of a play. A moment later her call came, and she went out on the stage with a full heart, to play the great part the prisoner had written. Suddenly she started and almost missed her lines, for her eyes had met those of Joe Gadsden. He was there, not very far away, and he watched her as if, to him. she was the only character in the play.

The shock of recognition unnerved her for a moment, then she drew a breath of relief; be was free! Free, and he had come to see her again in the part he had made for her. She thought of all he had suffered, all he was still suffering, and her swift fear for Richardson vanished. She began to play the great role of MaryfBrooke as she had never played it before. When it was over, and the curtain raised many times for applause at last fell on the plav, she drafted herself back to her dressing room, worn out and in tears. At the stage door Richardson met her.

He had been waiting for her, and he did not know that Gadsden was out of prison. Since the day when she had broken their engagement, Kitty had steadily refused to see him, but today it was impossible to escape. She knew that he had never given up, and, fearing that he might be waitin for her, she had purposely arranged for her maid. Richardson went across the entry w'th her. "Kilty, will you never listen to me?" She shook Tier head.

"How can she said simply. "Oh, Jack, can't you do what's right?" He frowned. "Why are you so willing to believe that fellow against me?" "Because I can't help It. I I wish I could." She colored faintly. He saw it.

"Kitty, you you care for that drunkard!" She made no reply; they had already crossed the vestibule, and her hand was on the door. Richardson reached across and laid his band on the latch, checking her progress. "Kitty, it's it's everything to me. Will you marry me if if I Bhould give the whole thing up, let that beggar have It? though I'll never admit that it's his." "No." she said slowly; "no, Jack, never! I I've changed. I can't help it any more than I can help the sun rising.

I could never make you happy. It's over all over." He turned white. There was another moment ot silence, then he opened the door and helped her irtto the cab. The soft spring sunshine flooded the wide thoroughfare; the throbbing Ufa 'of the great city swept past him. Behind him the window was open, and suddenly he heard Griswold's stentorian voice, la his office.

He was addressing Moylan Moylan, the long-suffering elect. "I tell you that fellow's a mutton-head! He can't write a play for Trewyck. Write plays? By Godfrey he'd better sell peanut!" CHAPTER XIV, Kitty did not go directly home. She had some errands to do, and it was late afternoon before he made her way down the long apartment house hall to her own door. Her mother met her.

"Kitty." she whispered, "Joe Joe Gadsden is In the parlor. He wants to see you, and I hadn't the heart to say no. He lookB so 111. Kittv, hadn't I better send In some bouillon a little hot chocolate? Dont you remember he used to eat muffins and jam?" Kitty smiled, with tears In her eves; she patted her mother's arm. "Tea," she said gently, "and yes.

buttered muffins, of courne. But, mother, first let me speak to film He was in the theater. I I know to Eisenach he always believed me bad something else in me, a power and he pointed out tbat I had the God-given and my own. No one copyright, and that if Gfiswold had i could take that away from me. I seen the old name, he'd be just I might have a long fight, but at last enough to testify that he had.

Heil should win. iBut Richardson? I said that Griswold was called a had bated him, I wanted to kill him straigbt man, and he'd give me a thatnlght you remember, Kitty? square deal. He felt sure I could But if I couldn't hurt him without WEDNESDAY. MAT S. 1IT.

MARCH I PAID. tari 84.512 Ualiy Hrariatcr mn4 Tribanv IM Malar bansay Hea-iata-r ......68,128 NOTICE TO POSTMASTERS, AGENTS AND ALL MAIL SUBSCRIBERS. The price of print paper has recently nearly doubled and hereafter the mail price of a year for The Evening Tribune will be strictly maintained. The conscription law -will have not only teeth but long arms. The dull season tor coal men promises to be" particularly short this year.

If May isn't careful, she will ruin the ambition of many a promising amateur gardener. The bakers In. this country ap pear to be about as irruaDie as tne munition workers ot Europe. "Omaha police will stop bootlegging." says a press dispatch. Somebody must have caught them at it.

Chicago woman is reported to be holding the record with seven divorces. It she keeps on she may find the sort of man she really likes. A Bonner Springs, man Is offering to trade a phonograph for a small pig. With pork around the $16 mark, the squeal of a pig is more musical than that of a phonograph. One medical expect declares that (be average baby tries two hours out ot twenty-four for apparently no other reason than that it needs exercise.

IT it does Us crying during the night It also insures exercise for the proud father. It appears rather remarkable that. Colonel House isn't cutting more of a figure in the international war conferences being held Washington, but we presume his advice will be called for when all the other fellows get through talking. TRADE WILL. BOOM.

Four convincing statements, of the condition of trade in, the warring countries were made before Advertising club of Des Moines iif day. Taey came from Earl Stotts of tlio Dodd Btruthers company, 'r hi 0. C. Silzer of the Harger company, B. M.

Donaldson epresenting the National Cash Register and W. 0. Schaeffer the Muitigraph machine. There is nothing aDout lightning rods, music machines, cash registers or multigraphs to make them, especially desirable In times of great financial distress, and it mouey was scarce in the countries at war, there would be little mar ket for these things, As a matter ot what did these men report? It may all be summed up in the figures Earl Stotts gave for their own business in Canada: "In terms of initN his company's business in Canada alone, without onsideration of that done in the United States, was in 1915, which advanced to In ISM 8. In the first four months of 1917, with eight months yet to run, the usine.

ha gone up to 640.0O0, or more than double that of two years ago for tour times an long." 5 The Harger Bllsh company re port a marked tjcrease In demand for their music machines in Canada during the last year, while cash registers and multigraphs are both bought in mnch larger quantities in Europe than ever before. confirms what The Register-Tribune has contended for from the beginning that the effect of war is not to deaden business while the war lasts but to stimulate business. While the war lasts, enormous amounts of money are got together ad spent, and that means that the average man nas more money in times of war than in times of peace, and he spends mow. Too much Importance cannot be given to such an item of news as this from Women's Wear, one the recognized journals of the trade: "It is a fact that Russia, whom you would suppose would be thinking of something else except dress and especially furs can't get enough furs from this country. One of the largest fur houses in New York is packing nutria skins in parcel post packages and shipping them to Russia.

There Isn't much profit in it but they are supplying the market as best they can. They are also doing a considerable business with Russia in fine mink skins by parcel post. Skins from South America ana Australia for Russia ire also coming through the New York Locally we are experiencing the Ueconraging mental suggestion of a late cold spring, and the money this government is raising for Europe has not yet been thrown into the market. And yet prices for sverytblng we have to sell are so much above normal that nobody jujte knows what to think about hem. When spring really opens, ind the hundreds of millions Rurope is going lo spnd with us 'or supplies are available business -ill start with rush never befor mown, and prices will rule so high hat we shall all be dizzy watching hem rise.

Nobody can doubt that we are for a period of enormous infla-ion of business. And the best fea-ure of the situation is that when is all over and we are compelled which if no eood for a nermanent lawn, is an inducement to the eye of the prospective home-butlder. This year, however, nothing will prove so alluring as the visual proof of thr; soil's ability to bear abundant crops of vegetables. A nice stand of corn, or long rows of potatoes, will-make a man's fingers itch to sign a real estate contract. There are still scores of acres of prairie soil within the city limits of Dee Mplnes which have not been put under cultivation.

School boys are ready to take over this land and make it yield Real estate owners and school boys should get together and put the land to use, thus increasing thn food supply, and making the 'and sell more readily. i THE PRICE OF MILK. To the Editor: The people using milk in Des. Moines must not be stampeded because the price of milk is going up, because there is not only a shortage of dairy cows but feed of all kinds is Dimply going out of sight in price. Lots, of dairy men are practically without feed, and the late spring is making matters worse all of the time.

During the last few weeks, grass has scarcely made any growth at all, and unless conditions change very soon, a much greater shortage will exist than at the present time. Just think of (t, corn is selling at (1.60 per bushel, and hay practically out of the market. These added prices for milk are "not at all out of the way, but should be much higher it cost ot feed and labor is taken into account. The perrple in the city, especially the children, must have milk; and the producers are doing the best they can under the "circumstances, to supply the trade, and will keep doing so; but the people should not lay the blame entirely upon our shoulders, the producers. From the beginning of the organization of our "association, we have been trying to tell the public that we have been heavy losers in producing milk, and lots of our aairy men 'have been unable to stand the pressure and have reduced their herds sharply, and in many instances have gone entirely out of business.

So, with short feed and dep'eted dairy herds, we are up against an actual shortage. As soon as grass comes and prices will justify, plenty of good milk will come to market, and trust that little, if any, complaint will be heard in the near future. J. V. Lingenfetter.

THE COST OP FOOD. To the Editor: The present ex orbitant prices of all necessities in Des Moines, duo largely to the ac quiescence and co-operation of the daily newspapers, is getting to be almost unbearable to those of us who actually work for a living. After several announcements of the latest proposed and unwarrant ed holdup by the milkmen (or rath er handlers) in the colums of The Tribune, and with never a word of protest or argument from the editors, who moid public sentiment to some extent, the calamity Is upon us. The price goes ud tomorrow and the ouly way we can meet the extra holdup is to eliminate The Tribune and give The Tribune money to the milkman. We liked the paper otherwise and want in the house again as soon as milk prices go flown.

William Hein. Fooled Them Again. Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: Gov ernor Harding has fooled'the people oi uuouque again. He iooied tnem, a large part of them, last fall, when he, in his wily political way, led them to believe his election would mean the return of the saloon to Dubuque. He fooled them on i uesuay wnen ne iaiieri to till hii engagement to speak at the patriotic aemonstratioo.

mere is no aues- tionlng the governor's acceptance of I the Invitation and assurance that i he would be here with his hair in a oraiti 10 duosi me patriotic spirit along. At the last moment, when it seemed it would be next thing to impossioie to nil nis place, ne notl tied the committee he could not come. He discovered he had some political appointments to make, ac- corning to news stories rrorn Des Moines, so could not give time to matters of public and national mo ment. Dubuque people are more than pleased that the governor did not respond, however, for his place was taken by mat eminent Daven port man. more than that, that great Iowan, Henry Vollmer.

Had the committee scoured the country it could not have secured a better man than Mr. Vollmer. His speech is evidence of that and the hundreds who heard him are a unit in saying an-error wouin nave oeen made in not having him. Fay the Soldiers. Burlington Hawk-Eye: And there is no reason apparent whv the sol dier should not be paid and well paid.

He is expected to be patriotic He is expected to drill and to march and to suffer some measure of in convenience and perhaps to accom plish tilings that to the civilian would appear impossible. He is to die if need be, or to be shot to pieces, because he is patriotic. And everybody knows that he will do the utmost and if must he suffer the utmost and give his life If it must be for his country. When we know that such patriotic sacrifice will be made by him, it surely seems as if it would be the very least that those of us could do, who are not going to the front, to pay him a wage that will be not so very much below that which the stay-at- nome earns, witnout exposing blm Belt to- any unusual danger. Out of the billions that we are expend Ing, why shouldn't the common sol uier, tne nign private get just a fair wage? Economy in loua.

Sioux City Tribune: Iowa's "economy administration cheer fully comes through with an In rrease of 2 2-3 mills In the state tax pvy. Less than half of this in crease is due to speclul war appro prlations. In time perhaps the citizens ot Iowa may learn" that business talent has very little direct connection with political 'h her husband the courage to put his foot down and say. 'Yu shall have so much money to spend, but no I imagine that much of the unrullness of the younger generation may be due to the fact that the father and husband cuts poor a figure in the household. "I have respect for the women who have come to me and said, "I wish to feel that this man I am taking as my husband i- the head of the household.

I wish to obey Copyrighted by J.B. Uppincott Co. lose I was almost an outcast, uy way while to puli Richardson down was to ruin man who couldn't stand on his feet -sgaio." He paused, Mill looking down tbe apple blossoms, his white face deeply lined with pain and a kind of taautiful resignation. Kitty said nothing; she did not even move-she could not- rod after a moment he went on: "He couldn't write another play, I knew that, while it came to me like a vision in that clear horizon of my mind that I could, that the power waa in me. I used to think that only drink 'fired my fagged brain, but knew that night, there in the prison, tbat it was not.

I hurting you, I resolved to let him go. In the morning I tore up tbe old copyright of the play." "Joe!" Her voice trembled on the verge of tears. "You can't mean "That'e what I came to tell you. I went to him just now I met blm coming from tbe theater and I told him I should never claim the play." Kitty leaned forward: her profile, thrown Into relief by the wavering light from the window, was exquisitely pure and soft. "What did he say?" Gadsden averted his eyes; a slight red flush his thin cheeks.

"He offered me money tenty thousand dollars." "So little? Why, Joe, it will tarn a He smiled gently. "I refused to touch it, Kitty. You know what the play wag to me a part of my soul. No money In the world could ever pay fur It." She drew long breath. "And you gave It to him gave It to blm like that just to save me?" "Kitty, did you ever think when the madness was past, the fury of a despoiled man that I would hurt a hair of your She hid her face In her hand.

In the pause be heard her soft weeping, and bis Hps trembled with fiam. He rose to his feet slowly, ike a man too weak to fttand. "I wanted to tell you myself." he said gently. "I've got work here, but I think I'll go back to Ohio and face it all tbere, and live it down. Then, when I can place my own play, Kitty, you'll help me by acting It, won't you?" She rose too, her fce wet with tears.

"You've taught me so much." she said brokenly. "I've never before known what a divine thing It was to forgive an enemy, I knew It was like Christ, but I didn't realize that tt made a man like you! I I thought it was something far away, and beautiful, and heavenly. I don't even ask you to take it back the play, I mean though it's wrong and cruel to let him have It. But I we tbat you're greater fhan "Kitty! I'm not wrUiy to tie your shoe. But I'm going to be a man now; I'm going away to live it down, to besln a new life." She was trembling from head to foot; (tie taw the misery in his eyes.

"Goort-by," he said again. "Don't" she breathed rather than poke, "don't go!" He turned; their eyes met, and the world seemed to Bwajr beneath his rest. -Kittyi Kitty, do you mem It? Richardson "I broke my engagement tlx weeks ego after I saw you In prison." "VouKitty! You can't mean tbat-?" said Kitty (THE END.) EkcIuIvp. A prftfMnnf in vn Mfjratlnna! In'tMutlnft tha city a mamlnlnir aoiria fitudrnta In hj-flfitlc arlcnre "Tha Great cltr ajfiomaratlf.na vitlata th ttnr.rihrt," aalrt, "Mnrblfernua a-rm. M-plnf frr-m inhabltM tntrlnra.

ron'amtnita tha air rrmnii atxtut. In th country, howvr. tha a(mphre remains pur why la that. "Prlua." Mid "tha pp! (n th rMtntry naver cpn their vlydowa." Tii-JBIt I how he feels!" Her mother nodded. "Kitty," she said solemnly.

"I begin to believe he wrote that play." "I know he did, mother." Mrs. Raglan uttered an exclamation. Thea she. heard Joe's restlew step in the little drawing room and hurried away, while Kitty Joined Joe. "You've been ill again!" was her first exclamation, as she held out her hand in greeting.

He shook his head. "Not a hit! Prison life has agreed with me, Kitty. I've learned my lesson." She turned away, looking for a seat that would put her face In shadow, but she answered him over her shoulder. "I can't bear to hear you speak of it, joe. It was so useless, so cruel." "Not altogether useless." He came over and took the low chair opposite to hers and leaned forward, his elbows od his knees, looking down at a beautiful jar of apple blossoms that scaie one had sent her from the theater.

"I shall never drink again, Kitty, and that ought to be worth something to me." I It means everything. Jo-a. so glad! I might almost say It was worth it. I saw you in the theater today." "I know it I felt it Intuitively. Kitty you are the personification of spring.

These apple blossoms make me think of you. It waa perfect." There was a slight pause. It they heard the footsteps on the pavement below the window. Kitty leaned far back in her corner, her face with her hand. "Are you going to claim it the play, I mean right away?" "That's what I came to see you about." A shiver ran'through her.

Was it possible that he wanted her to testify against Richardson? It was right, perhaps, but "I have decided," Joe said slow- What Does Mean Br SOPHIE IRENE LOEB. "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love;" but this spring a young man's duty strongly turns to thoughts of war and a woman's too. young This Is the most momentous spring In the history of our country. What are your plaus? What are you going to do about It? It can't be viewed with the same vision as other springs. A different plan of action in the life of each of i is in progress.

Are you going to prepare for it to build strong so as to save later sorrow? Y'ou can't hibernate not this spring. You can't remain behind. You can't "let George do it." This is not the time for the few to bear the burdens. The cry of the country Is for each to "do his bit." What can I do. you ask? If you are young and strong and are not weighted down with family ties, you can offer yourself to your flag.

You can go forth to fight as your forefathers did. Y'ou can help make life easier for thousands of women and children. You- can help decide tbe principle of mankind for ages to come. In a word, you can take your place in the procession. If you are not strong enough for the front you can stay at hom and be a soldier of food i'e most vital thing before us right now.

You can get out of tlii congested place and be almost at tbe gates of the city. You can jet a little place and grow things. Even If you grow enough to keep yourself you would relieve the food by at least one person. Besides it. will be great experience, and you can make as mui money as you woul I In the crowded streets you would be doing your share in lh whole scheme.

You would be really helping to carry the load without much sacrifice. There is a call for boys boys to the farm. Opportunity spreads out Its bands to them. They may bf- prove it, and that night I lay on my cot in jail so wild with the thought that I couldn't sleep. I lay there all night in the dark of the prison.

Through the little barred window I saw just oqe star. It made me think of you. All my life. mnce I can remember. 1 ve loved you.

It was half the thought of that, that Richardson had stolen your heart through my play, that had maddened me. I wanted to pull him down, to disgrace him, to show you that he wasn't even as good as I was at my worst. It was the most terrible night I ever ppent. I suppose people may feel this way, if they reach a place such as Dante described. Then I looked up and saw that star.

It was at if you spoke to me, and I remembered suddenly that you loved him; that to strike him waa to strike your heart. I knew how you looked when you toW me that you were engaged to marry him. I remembered, too. that I had so little to This Spring To You soldiers of the fertile field, as well as the furious fighters. Remember that you are preparing for a great peace this time an everlantlng one.

It is worth vour sacrifice; it is worth even your tem porary aiscomrort. it is wortn giv-Ing up a few things. No longer may those who are on the firing line bear the brunt of Each one at home must heeds to fortify that borne and the country to hold out against the enemy in the hope of a humanitarian and nwift conclusion to the long struggling war horror. And what does the spring mean to you, young woman to you who are in the office? It means diligence and continued effort, to hold down your own. in an et fort to eliminate waste.

You must not he a part of the waste and be eliminated. Arrange some lime cverv day during the spring for healthful exercise that you may be strong In body. Vou may be called upon to do double duty, even as your sisters across the sea. And you, young lady of the home. In your hands lies much In 'be way of economy.

Study hard how to make a dollar go the furthest. Get Into the business of knowing how to cook toothsome things with common foods. After all they are the best. Remember that the lees food you consume in your household by the roost nutritious kind, you ire making It easier for your lelghbor by leaving that much more In the market. We American women have been iccrediteil with bolng more extravagant than any other women lu the world.

Let us show that )ur brain cells can work in ron-irivlng economies as well as in ipcmling. Ah. truly, this is a new spring different spring, with new desires, new hopes, new duties. Let us not be laggard In sowing tbe hrifty seeds of war time that we may reap the golden harvest of peace. longed for..