THE CINSSONS OF OF ROME} « fin Frances Waliat) I START FOR MY OLD HOME _ UCopy ght. ny 2r. Jbs MeCrare Mariam and Miss Thompson ac- companied me to my train, and both clung to me until the very last. Miss Thompson besought me to be care- ful of my health, while Mariam re- peated over and over that she was heartbroken because I was leaving her just when she expected to be with me again for an indefinite per- fod. Miss Thompson knew enough of my affaifs, or had guessed enough to understand the circumstances under which 1 was taking my depart- ure, But Mariam was plainly mysti- fled. She asked me once or twice where Arthur was, and when 1 told her that he was in New York she was only parily satisfied. She sens- ed 'something wrong, but she was un- able to understand just where the trouble lay. At one time she plac ed ther hand on my arm, and, looking up tenderly into my eyes, said: "Roxane, you are unhappy. I kfiow it and you need not try to hide it from me. Of course, you don't have to tell me unless you want to, but I feel that something has happened to you, and that Arthur is involved. Is there anything that I can do to help you?" My heart beat warmly in apprecia- tion of this whole-souled sympathy and offer, but I did not wish to cloud little Mariam's young life with my troubles. It often happens these days that children learn at an early age too much about the martial unhappiness of others. Sometimes they learn from observation in their own home, where théir mothers and fathers are at dag-/ gers drawn half the time, or they learn when one or the other side takes the family troubles to the di- vorce courts. Sometimes they learn from newspapers, which constantly . print accounts of the domestic un- happiness of unfortunately married couples. 1 am firmly convinced that the publicafion of the proceedings of di- vorce courts is the most productive cause of divorces and hope before long aroused public sentiment will insist by means of legislative enact- ment that all divorce proceedings be conducted in secret, and that news- papers be prohibited under heavy penalty from making public any such proceeding. With such a statute in effect I be- lMeve that the number of divorces sought would be greatly reduced. Of course, 1 am not foolish enough to think that this would solve the di- vorce problem, but if the private af- fairs of men and their wives are no jonger made matters of public scan- dsl other married eouplgs will not be ao "Low Cost of la gimple matter to. cast off $e solemn reminded day in and day out that it obligations - which they assumed when they became man and wife. Many a woman would be happy in the love of her husband today had she not learned from the newspapers how easy it was to obtain freedom. Many a man would still be the head of a happy family if the newspapers had not suggeéted to him thatethe divorce courts offered a solution of his troubles, when in reality his trou- bles consisted merely of a lack of patience on his own part or that of his wife; It is the old story 'which was ex- pressed by the poet in the lines-- Vice. is a monster of so trighttal mien, As to be hated needs but to he seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, st endure, brace. We fir then pity, then em- I have actually known women who were proud of the fact that they had divorced their hugbands. They seem- ed to-think that it left a qhality of aristocracy to them and placed them in the same class with Mrs. So-and- So, a 'well-known society, or. Madame X------, the distinguished artiste. So I &4d not intend to tell Mariam anything about my trouble with Ar- thur. She would step into married life before long, and it would be time enough then for her to learn what it meant in theSway of patience and gentleness, or jealousy and heart- ache, or sweetness and happiness, or sorrow and misery, "] am going home to rest," I told her. "If I invite you to visit me a little later will you come?" Her eyes brightened - with ness. "Indeed I will, Roxane. Hurry and invite me." "Just as soon as I am strong again I will write you," I told her. "And 1 will take the first train af- tor I receive the letter." glad- "Uncle John will want to come with me, I know.' "But perhaps Uncle John will not be invited." "That will break his heart." The clanging of a bell interrupted our conversation, and Mariam and Miss Thompson rose hurriedly and left -the car. I glanced out of the windpw as the .train started, and I saw "Mariam dabbing her eyes with her handkerchief. Miss Thompson had her arm ahout her waist and ap- parently was trying to console her. It Lesrons 'By Pictorial Review The fashionable striped skirt worn with a bodice of taffetd corresponding - with the overskirt. The umgerblouse is of crepe Georgette. green One must have-one of the new strip-. éd skirts made in bouffant effect to wear with a quaint little bodice, to be in the height of fashion. Taffeta with a satin stripe is used for the skirt shown here. The overskirt, jumper and frill about the bottom of the skirt are of plain silk, while the underblouse is crepe Georgette. In medium size the costume re- fuires 3% yards 36-inch striped and 4 yards 36-inch plain taffeta and 134 yards crepe Georgette. The home dressmaker who wishes to make this skirt to use with separ- ate waists, will find it easy to con- struct. The foundation is a short, three-piece affair, over which the skirt is draped. To start the foundation, join the front and back gores as notched, then close #he back seam from large "O" perforation to lower seemed as if 1 was leaving behind mea edge and finish edges above for plack- the two best friends J had in the world. (To be continued). Living" Menu | -- F Menu for Saturday BREAKFAST Y Huckleberries Cold Bolled Cerenl Fried Tomatoes oft Toast Milk Biscuit Jam or Fruit Butter Coffee or Cocon LUNCHEON OR SUPPER Surprise Potatoes Sliced Tomatoes Huckleberry Float \ Milk: or Iced Cocon DINNER . Vegetable Chowder with Meat Corn on Cab * Sliced Tomatoes New Apple Pile, Iced Cofice or Tea Huckleberry Float Materials--One cup huckleberries, ~-1 tablespoon sugar; 1 cup-flour; 1 tea= mm WOMEN SHOW SKILL | ~ ON MECHANICAL WORK Dayton, Ohio, Man Establishes Training School and Pays Wages Equal to Men's. New York Times. Women have proved themselves! much more capable than men in do- ing fine mechanical work, according to Will 1. Ohmer of Dayton, O., who is the central figure in a real ro- mance of modern business. Ohmer paid high tribute to the ability of --women workers. A Ifttle over a year ago he was a manufacturer of weigh- Time for Peaches and Cream! Toxet full palate- ~ joy with maximum of nutri- ment for the day's work .eat"them on shredded wheat bodybuilding material in the whole wheat grain is re- nn the bran coat, which is so useful in 1 teaspoon % cup spoon baking powder, shortening, 4 teaspoon salt, milk. Utensils--Colander, small sauce- pan, two measuring cups, teaspoon, tablespoon, mixing bowl, flour sifter, pietin. Directions--Pick and wash the berries, put'in small saucepan with half cup of water; bring to boil quickly, add the sugar and boil five minutes. Sift the flour, baking pow- der and salt into bowl, add the short- ening and rub in very lightly; add milk very slowly. Take up spoonful and form into round balls; place on flouted pietin, brush with cold milk; bake twelve minutes in hot oven. while warm break in half; put in glass bowl and pour over the huckle- berries, Serve at once. You can put a little butter on each biscuit if you like: " | ing and measuring apparatus in Day- ton. Learning that contractors for | shells for the European countries were handicapped by shortage of time fuses, Ohmer turned his con- | cern, 'the Recording and Computing Machines Company, to supplying them. Today his establishment turns out 28,000 time fuses a day, begin- ning with the raw material and end- ing with _the finished product. It 'employs 7,400 workers and has a weokly_pay roll of $128,000. When in New York last fall Ohmer received word that a strike had been called at his plant. He telegraphed back offer the women workers; then numbering 100, equal pay with the men if they would remain at work. They did. Ohmer established a training school and found that wo- men learned in three weeks as much about handling the special machinery of the establishment as men had ac- quired in three to five years. The plant now has 4,900 women, who for- merly w school teachers, musici- ans, singers, stenographers, etc., and they receive from $3 to $7 a day. Ohmer said a test was made on certain machines on which the best men mechanics had been able to turn out only 300 parts a day. Three hun- a day. On another machine on men turned out eleven parts an hour, of women turned out fifty-seven. : em -- ' Pictorial Review Waist No. 6735. 15 cents. SIKHS SHOW BRAVERY Indian Troops Cold Blooded and In- vincible With Bayonet, Philadelphia" Public Ledger, In several respects the Sikhs, who are, with the Indian forces at the front in France and Belgium, form a unique fightigg force. In the first place they fill fully one-third of the rank and file of the native armies in India. Unlike the Gurkhas, how- ever, they do not belong to a single race. There are several types of Sikhs, the force being divided into clans. There is what is known as the "Khat- taries,"" or "Kshatriyas,"" clan, con- sisting of representatives of the old military caste of Hindus. They are not such big men as the "Jats," an- other Sikh clan, congisting of tall stalwart fellows who are a distinct contrast to the Mazbis, who are short, rather inclined to be stout, and have very dark skin and irregular fea- tures. All the clans, however, are noted for their great powers of endurance, fighting qualities- and skill-in-hand- ling a gun and bayonet. Indeed, it has often been said by military ex- perts that there is no more cool and effective soldier in the world than the Sikh, who takes to drill like a duck to water, soon becomes a sharp- shooter and masters the use of the bayonet possibly better than the soldiers of any other nationality. So cold blooded and invincible, indeed, are they in a bayonet charge that it frightens even the most fear- less fighters, who lose their nerves when confronted by the merciless steel in the hands of these dauntless and determined Indian troops. ~ Although, however, there are vari- ous radical differences between the jclans of the Sikhs, .there is one link hich binds them together, and that is their religion, which is. called "Sikhism." Without going into 'de- tails it may be said that this faith disdains idolatry. CHURCH OF GRINDSTONES. Pastor Who Unearthed Them in Waste Heap Dedicates It. A charch bailt of grindstones, at Henry Disston & Sons' plant in Philadelphia, Pa., has been dedi- cated by the Baptists of Tacony. The pastor, the Rev. George W. Ty- ron, labored for months with pick shovel excavating the grind- which tones and superintending the work placing them in the walls: The church fast the congregation $11,- "James!" she said severely. "James," sho usked, "how is it he Tomei of te cho is 87 AS fear. ary & Practical T "Home Dress faking, . Prepared 'Specially for This Newspaper In 'the Height of Fashion. Skirt No, 6813, Sizes, 32 to 32 inches. waist, Price, } et. Form an invertad plait at cen ter-back, creasing on slot perfora- tigns bring folded edge to center-back seain and tack. Sew the belt to the ver edge of foundation as notched, Ten fronts even, easing in fulness, Now, take the front and side gore, cut in one, and gather upper edges between double" "*TT" perforations. Adjust to position on foundation gore, center-fronts evem; stitch gathers at upper edge to position along upper edge of belt, bringing the side edge to large "O" perforation in belt, Stitch the remaining gathers to" posi- tion along upper crossline of small *'o" perforations in foundation Gather along erossline of small "o0" perforations and _stiteh along lower line of small "o'" perforations in foundation, bringing large "O" perforations together. Bring the sin- gle small ""0" perforations in front gore to corresponding perforations in front foundation gore and tack. For the gathered back and short side gore, turn the hems before join- ing two sections as, notched. . Close center-back seam from single large "0Q" perforation to lower edge, fin- ish edges above for a placket. Gather upper edge and the lower rounded edge between double "TT" perfora- tions. Arrange on foundation, cen- ter-backs even; stitch upper edges together bringing front ¢ to small '"9" perforation near center-front in "belt and bring the/small '""o" per- foration near side sdam of short side gore to remaining small "o" perfora- tion. in belt. Tack the remaining gathered edge of side gore, and back gore along lower line of small "o'* perforations in foundation bringing the seam to single large "O" per- foration in foundation back gore. _ Bring the single small "o" perfora- J tions along the side edge of back gore to copresponding perforations in side gore\ Finish the lower edge of the skirt With a ruching of silk, using narrower ruchings for the over- skirt and collar, Sizes, 34 to 42 Fo bust. Price, cents, BLOW TO GERMAN PRESTIGE s---- King Alfonso's Marriage Showed the Trend of Europe. It is probable' that the trend of Belgium . away from Germany wand towards friendship with France and fngland dated from the Algeciras conference, 1906, says Arthur Bal- lard in "Diplomacy and the Great war?, But a more tangible symptom of the new state of things in Europe was given--by the international com- edy of the Spanish marriage. For a long time European princes had been in the habit of marrying Ger- man princeases. Young Alfonso had been feted from one end of the em- pire to the other, he had passed in review the royal Gretchens of all the courts of the Deutschland. ANd when he returned to' Madrid and wrote his bread-and-butter lgfters of thanks for all their lavish hospitality he announced his engagement to a niece of King Edward. A prince of the house of Hapsburg preferred an English girl! German women are among the things listed as alles" in the famous song. Not long afterwards a Norwegian prince fol- lowed the example of Alfonso and chose an English bride. German prestige' was falling. LIQUID AFR FOR BLASTING Substance Is Cheaper and Less Dan- gerous Than Dynamite: Popular Mechanics. Liquid air has been used ine reas- ingly in Germany for blasting since | the outbreak of the war, and so sat- isfactory has it been found that doubtless it will be used even more | after the war. 4 One advantage that liquid air has over explosives is the safety with which it can be handled. In blasting, black mouselike bags, which are called cartridges are sat- urated with the liquid air and used as charges. Though one of the cart- ridges is more powerful than an or- dinary charge of dynamite, it can be trampled under foot without any dan- ger, & hissing sound, like escaping steam being the only noise produc- which were dug out of a waste pile |ed. The miners take several of these and with-a stick jam them into a hole that has been drilled into the rock. The charge is set off by means of electricity. 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Among the many triumphs of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable- Compound is derangements, as evidenced by the fol- lowing letter : -- Worcester, Mass.--*'I suffered from female a, and was advised to have an operation, but a friend who had taken Lydia E. Pink- What has been 'the longest siege is doubtful whether 1,000 Bri- Motherhood is woman's natural desti- its marvelous power to overcome such |- : JEAN WILDE CLARKE THE NOTED AUTHORITY ON WOMEN'S STATIONERY SAID "A Woman is Known by the ~~ Stationery She Uses" WE read between the lines along the margin and across the esvelope the story of good or bad taste which speaks In Tone, Texture and Design, It's the paper on the desk, not the desk, or the hand-wreught paper weight; which gives side lights to character and marks the fair scribe as nuine, distinctive, charm, g or the reverse. A wom- an"s stationery opens up a sew field to the student of buman nature. To the discriminating women of Kings ind sur. rounding districts, we are In a position to offer the best quality and service obtezinable. When thinking of Engraved, Embossed or Printed Stationery, Wedding Invitations, At Home Cards, Calling Cards, O) Memorial Cards, Folders, Booklets, Pamphlets, or other Printed Wants "Phone for Osr Representative or call at Office. Te uch WO 0b Began: Send for Folder, "'A NEW MAN Ano NEW SERVICE." * il add French, the he Cameroons, h a of 2 spell if, or, as the Germans 0 square ile inf ir Braver as er The truly ¥ arse Lod the - & man is nat a boawt-