- ony i: ---- ------ ecmcr---- £ hY THE DAILY BRITiSH WHIG, FRID¥Y; MARCH 21, 1919. ¥; In the Realm of Woman --- Some Interesting Features -- The -- Promote By Jane _ Phelps r's Wife | -- BARBARA KNOWS NO PEACE OF MIND CHAPTER XXXVII. For the first time in my life I was almost physically afraid, so keen Was a sense of danger about me Something in Nell had struck hard upon my imagination. I could scarcely control the trembling that seized upon me as I heard the door close, . Then 1 began to sob. Ken and frightened --like a Presently I ceased sobbing. however, inundated with self-pity, because although '1 loved my hus- band so dearly, he persisted in be- ing almost a stranger to me. What ¢ould there be between him 'and Blanche Orton, that the death of her invalid husband should affect him as it had? What was the se- cret between them? I was burning with excitement, yet there was something almost ley. in me that tried relentlessly to probe into the heart of things that were causing me such anguish. At midnight I went to my room. The dawn came and found me still at the window. I had not slept at all. Tonko came to eight o'clock. "Mr. Forbes will not breakfast at home. Shall madame be served?" Eight o'clock was our breakfast hour. "I haven't slep well. Bring me some coffee and toast.""; 1 told him through the closed door, then quick- ly disarranged the bed, and slipped into a negligee. All night long 1 had sat in my dinner gown, never thinking it uncomfortable because of the other thoughts which so fill- ed my mind. But les convenances must be ob- served. Servants must not be given cause for gossip; though my heart ached and mere than anything in the world did I want te shut my- self away from their prying eyes. But when the maid brought the tray I received her as usual. And detained her a moment npon some trivial matter. So do we women hide our emotions--so mueh we hide them. To my surprise, about an hour later Mr. Frederick's card was branght to me. "Tell him I will be down in a few moments," 1 said, then hurrle into a suitable gown. : TALKING IT OVER ~With Lorna Noon I felt sha- child 1 was, my door about The Weather Cock She is the victim of every wind that blows, like a weather cock she heads east by east to-day, and north by west to-morrow. One fad, then another seizes her 4nd heads her in one direction, then Janskber. In ten years she has not advanced one step. She is still whirling round on thé spire of vacillation. ; Jk she: de a be- Sand stories of pretty nurses who had married doc- tors had much to do with her re. desire to freezing point, and she felt that hereafter. she would devote her life to music. , So they bought her an expensive harp, and engag- a good teacher. This lasted for a year; and just about then a girl wrote to say that she had managed fo break into the mGVies, so our breeze blown friend saw a new light, packed her trunks and left - for California! : In nine months 'she was back ready to tell all who cared to listen, that the moving ploture business ! a fraud and that talent did not t--only pull. At this time 2 or ate won a prise pela. and now, like ion from heaven, TY 80 she This is r the w a surprise aft alke yest rday was just thinking 1 car and take a rid you cane before 1. did *I have my car you let me take you can talk just as w may do you good The idea appealed to me hurried to put on wrap time, in the car did not The air was delightfully fresh it blew so refreshingly up ng head and tired eye 1 glad to just lean hack ease it gave me "Feeling better?" asked after a bit I "Very much béfter, thank you.' y "It is sad about Orton." [of New I appoir "Very. But been an in-|{llag presemied (o Ue ihadian valid so long I suppose Mrs. Orton| ip was in a way prepared for it--if we ever ¢an be prepared for death." "But---he did not die of his old | trouble. Haven't you heard a thing about it? "No. That he died last 1 all I know." | "Oh, yes, he died very suddenly The morning papers were full of it Pneumonia, I believe." "I haven't séem a paper this morning," I replied, wondering why Neil had thought it necessary to re- | main out all night to comfort Mrs, | Orton, when her husband's death | could be nothing save a relief tc her. That he had been with her, I nev- er doubted. A I f unposted letters which were given him to post a ' week past To-morrow--Mr. Frederick's Words A sample of Worry. Barbara. which he n A i ig A newspaper « Elaborately Genial. sure cure : A shopy I gave you the wrong lack ng said the polite telephone Jaz of blackening ace, Bills, More Al ter Inn York, has | he has Canada soldier { England Several The I tographs A lo f invit s to dances and with vic pocket ented let ma impossible tch pping telling of a rec 1p must ranging from a "Sorry ) to three yards of number," operator. . "Don't mention it," answered ths man who had made up his mind not to lose his temper. "I'm sure the number you gave me was much bet- ter than the one I asked for. Only it just happened I wasn't able to use it."'----Washington Star, - The late heavy rains caused the Ganeraska river at Port - Hope to overflow and scores of houses along its banks have been flooded. bills The was g factory of R. W. Lee, L i nte, been purchase y tl Yorkshire Wool to. The latter the business on he former it on extensive & has Hs of Tor firm wi the same a larger and mor Heed not of the silent man, the blusterings; ako FULL STRENGTH gered «NT 15 LE) LCT aa 1 Ha] ALLER LT wi = I HUMAN LOSSES shade | A A A tat Strait AN SN tnt | Mr. Fr - CUSTODIAN OF FLAG PRESENTED TO CANADIANS. s-her, dau ghter of the late W. E. Breese. | ed custodian of the American forces by the American women s presented to Queen Mary of OF WAR. | ------ } view. Inescapable are the material josses {of the war, und most of all in men. | » wounded, the sick; the maimed, | and dead make a sad human parrdllel| to the broken pile on the hilltop. | {| With the living there is new life and| e stirring bemeath the surface. | { » sap runs strong in the youthful | wounded. Seldom do. they admit] >ssimism, and then it is becuse ir nerves are still twanging, or, now that the war is over, because they have passed beyond the flush of sacrifice. Shattered bodies are per- { haps the Tedst of the evils we have | to fear for the future, except when {the mind shatters too. But it is | different with the dead. Death is loss. They will not come back. They will { not do what we hoped of them; they | will not be there to help when we | need them; a longing memory does | not atone for a smile, or a Kiss or the | 'hand of a friend. They may do much | for us spiritually; nothing more in | the flesh, | It is different too with the unborn. | The bdirth.ate has been dropping ; with frightful rapidity. In 1917, the births in England and Wales fell | to the lowest level since 1858. Every | day that the war continued, so the British Registrar-General estimated, { meant a loss of 7,000 potential lives | to Burope. "While the war has filled | the graves, it has emptied the { cradles." The separations of wal | were partly responsible, and these | ave lacgely ended. 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