American Woman Adopts a French Village
Only a
Summer Girl
By H. LOUIS RAYBOLD
l * - 0 . by Mc C lu re N e w a p u p e r S yn dic at e. 1
“ Dear Maida,” ran the note, “ I rather
expected to cull on you this evening
• for a last stroll on the beach as a flt-
I ting end of our 'little affair,' but
Cousin Sally has begged me to take
her to the last hop nt the I ud .
“ With regrets,
“ RO B ERT W H IT N E Y .”
Maida, sitting on the floor before n
half-filled trunk, crumpled the paper
In her hand und gazed with unseeing
eyes at the chaos around her. What
did It mean? He knew she had been
expecting him. Hadn't he practically
taken It for granted that he should
see her almost every night for the Inst
three weeks? And he had signed his
The market place 1» llattonchatel, valley o f the Meuse, France, which village with Its 240 Inhabitants, has been name so formally— Robert Whitney,
adopted by Miss Belle Skinner o f Holyoke, Mass., who Is shown at the left, with General Berthelet. Miss Skinner al instead o f the familiar "Bob."
Malda's blue eyes overflowed nud
ready has spent half a million frnncs on the town.
she buried her face In her arms on
the nearest support, which happened
but next day halted at the entranc«
to be a pile of freshly Ironed clothes.
to Subtg Bay to land six stowaways
rartlally filled packing boxes, bare
who had secreted themselves on bookshelves and forlorn-looking couch
board under the decidedly mistaken
denuded of Its cover and pillows bore
impression that they would be rapidly
witness that this was Mnida’s last
transported to the United States.
night at the beach. Tomorrow morn
R escu e Jap an ese Fisherm en.
ing she and her mother would lock up
A fe w days later the President the door o f the little cottage, hand
Grant sighted a motor launch of about the key to the owner and take the
80 feet In length drifting helplessly trolley back to the city for the win
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I t - ------------------------------------- over the Pacific swells with a signal ter.
o f distress hoisted.
The transport
It was true that except for an all
The President Grant, Army and supplies the President Grant hove to and lowered a boat. The too brief two weeks In August, she
steamed out on the Pacific crossing. men on the boat were Japanese fish
Transport, Back in Brooklyn She swung out northward toward ermen, who said their fuel had given had had to go back and forth to the
colder climes on the northern great out and they had drifted for five days. city every day.
After Nine Months.
But Maida had come to the beach
circle route. Before she sighted land They were given enough gas to take
she encountered three very heavy gales them back to Nippon and the Presi prepared to play a dangerous game,
during which from ships all about dent Grant proceeded, reaching Karat- old as the hills and fraught with mis
chief to the players.
her she heard profane radio comments su August 10.
A fte r five days of
The fact that Malda's busy fingers
on the weather which was forcing coaling the transport steamed toward
them to lie to or steam off their Vladivostok, reaching the Russian were tapping busily at the keys of her
Encountered
Fire,
Storm«,
Death, courses.
The President Grant, how port fo r the second time on August 18. typewriter hnd never prevented her
little shell-like ears, half submerged
Birth , and S tra n g e A d v e n tu re s in
ever, was a liner and she kept right
There 5,874 troops under command
ahead on her eleven knot speed re o f Gen. St. Cecek, were embarked though they were In waves o f sunny
Tropic«— Experienced E ve ry
gardless of the big swells o f the mis and the President Grant headed hair, from absorbing the gossip which
D a n g e r K n o w n to Sea.
named Pacific. Tw ice she halted for Into the rough seas and southwest circulated among the girls of the of
fice. She knew that such a one hnd
New
York.— Shore-staying people short periods fo r Chief Engineer monsoons o f the Sea o f Japan and
been "engaged fo r the summer,” that
who sadly wag their heads and say Brock’s men to make repairs in the the
China
sea.
Hongkong
was so-and-so had hnd an "affair” — In
ut the romance and adventure o f the engine room.
reached September 2 and Singapore short, that a flirtation in which both
W hile fa r from land a fire, one of six days later through much rough
as went out with the clipper ships
knew that nothing serious was intend
had better not express their views In those mysterious conflagrations which weather.
Ceylon was touched once ed was a legitimate part o f every sum
the presence o f any o f the officers or break out occasionally at sea, devel more and the Indian ocean. Red sea
mer outing.
men o f the army transport President oped In hold No. 1, forward. There and Suez canal passed without mis
And Maida, who hnd nineteen unso
was only a quantity o f life preservers hap.
Grant.
When Port Said was reached, phisticated affairless summers already
For the President Grant, with her in this hold, but the dense smoke that October 6, the canal authorities or
to her credit, decided that for once
bottom full o f barnacles and her sides billowed out made things look bad. In I dered the ship moored in the African
she would do as the other girls. Forti
coated with green moss, recently tied fighting this fire Boson’s Mate Edison basin, against the protests of both
fying her resolution, she even made
up at P ier 2, Army Base, Brooklyn, was suffocated In the hold. Ordinary Captain Chambers and the American
public her Intentions to the others,
after a nine month voynge of some Seaman Ray went down through the consular ngent.
When the tide fell
who Jollied her and begged her to
choking
fumes
In
a
gallant
effort
to
45,472 sen miles. In which all hands
the big ship went aground nft. Cap
compare notes with them.
from Capt. John Chambers to the save him. Both men were stifled to tain Chambers ordered coaling stopped
A few days after Mrs. Deering and
smallest o f the Filipino boys got all death. The hold was flooded and the and water tnnks pumped out.
The
Maida were Installed In “ Seaview”
voyage
resumed.
the adventure they desired, and then
ship wns pulled ahead by Its anchors
cottage, the boy next door invited
C han ce to See S tra n ge Cities.
some. And Capt. Chainbers may be
Into deeper water.
Fortunately the
Maida to the weekly hop at the hotel.
On March 17 the President Grant bottom o f the basin was soft and |
said to be a good judge o f adventure,
And there she met Bob Whitney— tall,
for at 10 he went to sea In a clipper dropped anchor in Yokohama roads, the ship apparently suffered no dam
browned, athletic, lively, everything to
ship, sailed around the world nt 19 after crossing the Pacific in seventeen age.
make him an Ideal figure In a summer
as boson o f another sailing ship, and days, nine hours. There the liner lay
A fte r two days at Port Said the
girl’s eyes.
has seen many strange things and twenty-one days discharging cargo and ship left for Trieste, reaching that
Maida, a bit excited by the swinging
here the crew received generous shore port October 13.
tight squeaks In forty years at sea.
This second voy
music and gay compnny, had chatted
It would be Impossible to sum up leave, as they did everywhere else age with troops was made novel by
and laughed and danced In a way to
the doings o f the President Grant and throughout the voyage, enabling them the presence on board of 600 Russian
arouse any man’s Interest. There hnd
her men on the iong voyage, equal to visit many cities and localities rare women, wives o f the Czecho-Slovak
followed a call on Bob's part, an Invi
soldiers, and a number o f babies.
to almost twice the distance around ly seen by seamen.
tation to Maida and her mother to go
More cargo was discharged at Kobe, Three babies died on board and two 1
the globe, but they went through Are,
sailing, and bids to other festivities
storm, sudden death, births, arctic the next Japanese port o f call, where were born.
which make up the life of a transient
the
ship
stayed
eight
days.
A
fter
pass
H
om
e
A
g
a
in
at
Last.
cold and tropic heat, men overboard,
summer colony.
A terrific storm arose while the
parties, fights, black nights, tyflhoons, ing through Tsugara Straits In foggy
Not that he allowed himself to be
weather the ship came safely to Vladi transport was moored to a dock nt
glassy sens and rescue at sea.
come her exclusive property. Other
vostok,
arriving
April
22.
Trieste
and
fo
r
three
days
the
ship
j
Off for Vladivostok.
girls were sometimes the recipients of
Here the President Grant took on wns held with great difficulty. Ten or
All o f this started very prosaically—
hls attentions, and recently he had
to the men o f sea— when the President board 5,437 troops and sailed for eleven lines and eight mooring wires been going about n bit with his pretty
held
her
snfely,
but
the
mooring
bitts
Trieste,
ploughing
through
tog
and
Grant warped out of her pier at Hobo
second cousin, Sally Winters, who
ken on the afternoon o f February 2 rain to Hongkong, where a stop wns on the port quarter cracked and one happened to be a stenographer in the
last bound fo r Vladivostok, the Rus made fo r coal and supplies. Singapore o f the wires parted.
office adjoining the city attorney’s.
Then came the time the crew, and
sian port on the Japan sea. There was reached May 12, and after skirt
With Sally's advent, Maida hnd
more
particularly
Chief
Officer
Jones,
ing
Sumatra
and
entering
the
Indian
were 365 officers and men on board, In
been forced to admit to herself that
was
looking
forward
to—
casting
off
cluding 20 officers and men o f the ocenn, the President Grant stopped at
tragedy had come of her meant-to-he-
On October 23 the
army, most o f whom were of the medi Colombo on the Island o f Ceylon. A on the last leg.
Innocent plan— not tragedy to Bob, but
President
Grant,
homeward
bound,
stny
o
f
five
days
was
made
here.
cal corps. The former liner is a vessel
to herself. For Maida hnd fallen in
snlled
from
Trieste
with
2,000
Immi
There
was
fine
weather
and
glassy
o f 18,072 tons and Is 599 feet long.
love with her victim, madly In love,
She passed ensily
Before the ship was half way across seas on the trip across the Indian grants on board.
und, she told herself, quite hopelessly.
the Pacific the officers and crew were ocean, but In the Red sea the tempera through the Mediterranean, bucked a
So this evening o f the day hls note
to be thankful fo r every ton o f weight ture rose to 102 degrees and the uni storm Instlng four days In the Atlan hnd come she sat huddled In the
tic,
and
dropped
anchor
at
1
a.
in.
and every foot o f length, but this Is form o f the day In the fire room was
couch hammock on the dark porch.
Sunday, November 20.
The voyage
anticipating the story. Captain Cham one pair o f light sandals.
The one companion In whose compnny
came
to
nn
end
officially
when,
at
10
A
R
id
a
on
the
Cam
els.
bers was on the bridge, the chief offi
she had enjoyed these pleasures wns
A t 10:25 a. m. on June 4, the ship a. m. Monday the big liner warped basking In the fnvor of another girl,
cer, H. L. Jones, was busy straighten
ing things out all over the ship for a entered the Suez Canal and reached Into Pier 2, army base, Brooklyn, tied utterly unmindful o f her loneliness.
long voyage, and down In the engine Port Said on the Mediterranean sen up and slapped rat guards on her lines. Bob had beaten her at her own game.
room Chief Engineer A. E. Brock was the next day. While In this part of
But wasn't that a fam iliar step on
grooming his 7,500 horse-power engines the globe members o f the crew had
the boardwalk which ran behind the
fo r the long and trying task ahead of an opportunity to try out the camel
cottages? Mnldn sat up quickly. She
“Certain Man” Answered
as a means o f locomotion. In Cey
him.
would like, after all, to say good-by In
Charge
With
85
Yellowbacks
Just by way o f showing that a sail lon they had tried elephants, .and in
friendly fashion, even If everything
or's life Is not always as perfect as China rickshaws, and at Venice, which
was
as nt end.
At the closing session o f a re
pictured. Chief Officer Jones was leav they visited after the ship reached
The step drew nearer and as It ap
vival
meeting
in
Washington,
N.
ing behind his bride o f one month, Trieste, they tried gondolas. The ar
proached Madia's heart heat corre
C., an evangelist. Rev. B. F.
l ie was happy that be had the moun rival at Trieste was on June 12, more
spondingly faster. It wns Bob.
McLendon, leaned over the pul
tain o f work that falls to the execu than four months after the start of
“ All alone?” he called guyly, as she
pit and told his congregation
tive officer o f a ship to take hls mind the voyage.
rose to meet him. “ Didn’t know hut
that
a
certain
man,
present
at
A t Trieste orders were waiting for
off his troubles.
I'd have to sit out the gang If I want
the service, had not been true
The primary purpose o f the voyage another shipment o f Czech soldiers, so
ed to say good-by.”
to his family, or hls religion,
was to transport Czecho-Slovak troops after twelve days In port, the trans
“ I thought you were going to the
but that If he would deposit a
from Vladivostok to Trieste, Italy, port steamed on the back trail. At
dance with Sally," returned Maida, for
$10
bill
In
the
collection
plate
after their long, hard Russian cam Port Said she caught the United
the life o f her unable to keep a note
It would be taken as a token
paign. The ship was not Idling on her States army transport Crook, Just sail
of coolness from creeping into her
o f hls repentance and nothing
way over, however, for she had stowed ing fo r Trieste, and hastily transferred
voice.
further
would
be
said,
but
that
away In her after holds 5,000 tons of to her five stowaways who had crept
"W ell, ye*,” admitted Bob, “ I was,
if
he
refused,
the
evangelist
steel rails, beams and plates, which on board at the Adriatic port.
but she got a bid from a handsomer
would publish hls name.
Colombo was reached July 16, after
she was carrying fo r the shipping
man, and to tell the truth I wns glad
The collection Included 85
passing through southwest monsoons
board to Japanese ports.
to tell her to go with him. Sally and
ten-dollar
bills
and
five
notes
Fine weather and smooth sens at and heavy sens In the Indian ocean.
I are first-rate p«ls, but— well, I don't
asking
the
evangelist
to
keep
tended the first leg of the passage, On July 21, after five days at Colom
Imagine, now that you're going, that
quiet, and promising the $10 In
bo
for
repairs
to
be
made
and
sup
down the American coast to Colon, at
you are Interested any more,” he said,
the
morning.
the entrance o f the Panama Canal. plies taken on, the ship steamed east
meaningly.
The port was reached after a run of ward, and five days later anchored
Maida stood leaning against the
eight days, and the big locomotives on a very dark night at the entrance
porch railing, her hands plunged In
K
illin
g
Bee
Spoile
d
palled the ship through the locks and to the narrow and crooked Singapore
her sweater pockets.
Next morning the ship pro
Seymour, Ind.— Citizens o f this town
out the other side In saven hours and straits.
“ Let's go down to the beach," sug
tw elve minutes.
Eleveu days and ceeded toward Manila, hugging the had visions o f a killing bee with bank gested Bob.
coasts
o
f
Borneo
and
Palawan
to
robbers
as
victims,
when
the
burglar
eleven hours more o f steaming at the
Maida hesitated, then decided that
Manila was reached alarm went off at the Jackson conn she would see the game through no
ship's regular gait, which was almost avoid typhoons.
always between eleven and twelve August 1, with the crew all very busy ty bank. They surrounded the Insti matter wbat It cost her not to let him
knots, brought her through the Golden painting and cleaning the ship In tution and waited five hours for the suspect.
“ All right," she answered,
Gate at Ran Francisco on Washing preparation fo r her next load o f pas yeggs. Then It was found that the listlessly.
sengers. On August 5 the ship steam vault has been Improperly locked and
ton'« birthday. February 22.
A few minutes later and they were
A fter five days here to take on coal , ed fo r Kara tsu. Japan, for coal, i the batteries did the rest
seated on a huge bowlder at the base
45,472 MILES
O N ONE VO YAG E
OF BIG THRILLS
SAILED IN MANY CLIMES
of which beat the rtstless sea. High
up was riding a delectable silvery
moon.
The silence, which had been un
broken during the short walk, was
ended suddenly by Bob, who spoke In
a strange voice. From the words
which followed the girl shrank—
shrank until her face grew pale In the
moonlight and her eyes looked wan
and tired.
“ You summer girls are maddening,”
he said low and bitterly. “ You’re not
the only one. But you are the first
one who has affected me. Oh, I know
I've no business to talk to you like
this, but perhaps if I do it may save
some other fellow from the torments
I ’ve suffered ever since Sally told me.”
“Told you what?” asked Maida.
“ That one day when she was In
your office for a minute she overheard
you telling the girls how you were go
ing to amuse yourself tills summer—
that you knew It was all right when
both sides understood. Sally told me,
because I hnd been fool enough to let
her see that I was getting to care for
you. She thought she spoke In time,
but she didn’t,” concluded Bob, grimly.
“ I listened to you,” cried Maida in
dignantly. “ You must listen to me.
What you say is partly true. I did
Intend to carry on like the other girls,
but I didn’t know then that I would
meet you, and I ’m sorry— ” Her voice
faltered.
Bob was gazing wistfully at her
flushed face. “ Maida,” he said gently,
“ you don’t mean— ”
Maida lowered her lashes over her
smudgy blue eyes, but not before Bob
had seen the lovellght In them.
Hardly yet comprehending, he held
out hls arms. “ Come to me, Mulda, If
It is to be for all time— not for a
summer."
And Maida w en t
J Gladys George :
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T h is c h arm in g “m ovie” sta r 1« a
n ative of M a in « and ha« been on th«
•tag« p ra c tic a lly a ll her life.
Sh«
played her first role at the age of
three w ith a stock com apn y at W a .
terbury, Conn., and since th at tim o
h as appeared w ith m an y notable stag«
•tars.
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AIRPLANE SERVES THE CROOK
L a w Officers Face a N e w and D ecide d
ly D a n g e ro u s A id to E v a d e rs
of Justice.
Scotland Yard, which every Rrltlsh-
er considers the world's highest organ
ization for the capture o f criminals
and the detection o f crime, and to
which every British writer o f detec
tive stories has given uustlnted praise
for cleverness, has Just been outwit
ted, according to London’s own confes
sion, by a shrewd criminal who has
brains enough to think of some other
way than a land or water route of get
ting out of England.
The machinery of the great English
detective organization was put Into op
eration along all the old accepted
lines; a close watch was kept on all
trains nnd the passengers o f every out
going bont were cnrefully scrutinized.
The man for whom tills net wns
spread did not attempt any o f the dis
guises or subterfuges In which the
writers of the modern Old Cap Collier
stories greatly delight. He telephoned
to the London nirport at Croydon, ask
ing for a reservation on the plnne leav
ing for Paris. When Informed that the
afternoon ernft had nlrendy left, he
went to the aviation ground nnd se
cured a special plane.
It required a
liberal distribution o f money, but It
paid him.
He hopped over the top
of the big police net and dropped safe
ly on French soil.
The report of the feat says this aeri
al escape of a criminal “ was the first
in the annals o f British crime.” But
the whole history o f crime is full o f
instances where the clever criminal
has surprised the police by the employ
ment of a new Invention or contriv
ance which was never Intended for hls
use.
This exploit should prove not
alone to Scotland Yard but to the po
lice departments elsewhere the neces-
Ity o f precautions that will make its
recurrence Impossible.
T H E R day I go veeslt Fat Stock
6how een one place but I no lika
ver mooch.
Ever seence one time
when I loss tree hundrecd dolln I no
gotta any use for da stock. Dat time
I buy da fake stock and deesa kind
ees fat stock—mebbe n<t deefrencc
only leetle bit, I dunuo.
Anyway ees plenta cows and sheeps
and bulls een dat show when I go
veesit.
Some da time you could see
da bull but mosta time you henra da
bull.
Seema like eese more bull en
dat place as eeu congress or da Bul-
shevikl.
Dat place where I go ees calln Union
Stock Y’ ards. Mebbe all da cattle be
long weeth da union, I dunno.
I
feegure e e f union cnttle getta sama
wages like a. union breeck layers ees
no taka ver moocha time getta fat.
Two, tree week steady work getta fat
and rich same time.
But I dunno somatlng botita cnttle.
I aska one guy wot good ees da peeg
for.
H e say peeg maka pork chop,
cow maka bcefastenk and da sheep
maka lamb stew. I aska heera e ef da
bull maka bullion and he says I was
craze een da head.
I no say somatlng, but ees one ting
I no feegure out. Jusa between you
and me and no fo r spreads round, I
walkn all day een dat place looka fo r
something.
I wanta see wot da ani
mal looka like whosa maka da ham
and eggs.
A ir Sa m p le s F rom C louds.
Salt I.nke City has been laboring
W ot you tlnk?
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for some time under the handicap of
a plague o f smoke nnd the authori
ties hnve sought relief in many direc
A LINE O’ CHEER
tions without success, according to a
writer in the Philadelphia Press. Re
John K e n d ric k Bangs.
cently the theory was advanced that
the sulphur dioxide gas from the nu
merous smelting plants In the vicinity
T H E BANK OF CHEER.
of the city were responsible for an
upper air strata,
which prevented
I ’d start a Bank if so I could
smoke from rising, so thnt It hung
W hrrs I could store the things of
good
In a pall over the city. In order to
That come Into my days;
verify this theory some especially de
The wealth of Love and joyous
signed vacuum bottles were mnde nnd
Cheer,
carried aloft in airplanes and sam
The Good W ill of my fellows here
That
drives away all sense of fear
ples of the upper air taken at various
That lurks along my ways.
levels, and when the contents were
analyzed there was not a trace of
And when the coffer« all were full
sulphur dioxide, so that some other
Of Balances Delectable
I ’d take my Check-Book out,
cause will have to be found for the
And send a good Right-Draft to all
smoke cloud.
Sun as a Sou rce of Pow er.
O
Who labored dully In the thrall
And lay beneath the grimy pall.
Of Hopelessness and Doubt,
(Copyright.)
In a recent paper on this oubject, C .1
I.cRoy Melslnger records that In cer
tain subtropical regions, where coal I
Is scarce, such ns Egypt, the Punjab,1
and the Karoo o f South Africa, teak-
wood boxes, blackened within, fitted
with glass tops and properly insulated,
have been found to register from 240
to 275 degrees Fahrenheit In the mid
die o f the day, and with the addition!
H IG H H E E L S .
of an auxiliary mirror to reach even]
320 degrees. Th<-se boxes are used j
UEKN E LIZ A B E TH 'S reltfn start
as ovens for cooking, as well as for
ed the fashion o f high heels for
many
other purposes. — Scientific
women’s shoes. The pair of her shoes
American.
whlrh is preserved to the present date
must have made her three Inehes tall
D ifficult Case.
The heels
“ I'm up again*« It," said the doctor. er when she wore them.
"I have a patient suffering from sches were added to increase the height of
nnd pains nnd I don't know what's the wearer to so make her more state-
iy and Impressive.
cansing the trouble.”
(C opyrigh t.)
“ Had hls teeth examined?"
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“That’s the difficulty. I had all hls
Haw Iti Started
O
Some A rtist.
teeth extracted two years ago. I’ve
Teacher—That’s the beat drnwlni
cured many a man hy having a tooth
or two pulled, but what are you going you have ever made.
Btudent— Glad you like tt
to do for him when he's run out of
Teacher— I don’t.— Boys' Llf*.
te e th r