TTTR SUNDAY OT?EGONTAX. PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 15. 1914.
The pages are 144, and the book, which
can be obtained at various Portland
news agencies and news stands, should
be bought for permanent use, as it is
a historical keepsake.
Daw
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The Grrman Army From Within, by an
f anonymous author. $1, George H. toran
Co., New York City. t
It 3s stated that the name of this
Author cannot be revealed, because of
army ethics. He is a British officer,
now engaged In the war In Europe. He
began his military career as a cadet
in Germany, served as a" Lieutenant in
the Prussian army, and was a favorite
in Berlin military society. He shows
the strength and the weakness of the
Herman army, from enlisted man to
Prince-General, all from the inside.
This intimation is given: "All I pro
pose to do in this book is to take the
Uerman military machine to pieces for
jou. and show you how It works."
The book, of 192 pages, appears to
have been written just previous to the
outbreak of the present warr
Our author makes it clear that he
did not join the German army to be
come a spy, but to obtain a more com
plete military education than was pos
sible had he remained in the British
army. He pays high tribute to the
training and -organization of the Ger
man army, but thinks that the army
of 1914 has been trained until it is stale,
and that "the only way to re-vitalize
the army would be to disband .it for a
year in order to give everyone in it,
from the highest to the lowest, a much
deeded rest. The military spirit of the
country is slowly but surely evaporat
ing, and today the consuming passion is
all the time for shekels.
"The common sensibilities of the Ger
man, the peasant and the cultivated
man. are blunter than those of any
other civilized race, and what is horror
to us is mere horseplay to him. It must
be admitted, however, that there are
In every line of the German army,
numbers of men who would seem to be
disciples of that Marquis who made a
philosophy of luxurious cruelty. The
cadet and the common soldier make
early acquaintance with this systema
tized brutality; for the cadets enter the
college at about 12 years of age, and the
able-bodied citizen .enters the ranks at
21."
At the German military academy at
which our author became a student,
one of the senior cadets struck him
across the face with a dog chain, be
cause "I was a newcomer, ready to be
broken in." Too little food was fur
nished to the cadets. One of the latter
was Prince William von Lippe, killed
lately in battle in Belgium. Every Sat
urday the cadets were allowed a feast
of dumplings "to fill up the crevices of
the week," and as a consequence sev
eral boys ate too many. One little boy
became sick and when asked if he had
eaten anything that disagreed with
him, said. "No; only 53 dumplings." He
was William von Lippe.
To come back to college the worse
for liquor "was as high an achievement
as the winning of the Iron Cross; and
the unofficial hero of the school was
he who could claim the most intimate
knowledge of women." Of the general
education provided by the college, apart
from its system, "I have nothing but
praise. It was not aimed, as is the
training in the army proper, at mak
ing us only military machines."
As a matter of fact, "the German is
not suited to the tropics. Almost im-
- mediately, he develops a complaint
which he calls 'tropenkoller,' literally,
tropical madness, to which the chief
Imports of German colonies beer
and champagne add their mighty
strength." The gross pay of the com
mon soldier in Germany is 3 cents per
day. "However, the principle is that the
German serves his fatherland for love
of service, not from any sordid motives
of gain or personal comfort."
In the training of recruits in the
German army, "the lot of the recruit
is not a happy one." The German gun
nery and marksmanship, especially in
artillery, is praised. "The German army
his perhaps the most perfect machin
es, in in. world for swift and accurate
rnobilization of Its forces, for the rea
sh that everything is. literally, in
preparation at all times for war. No
declaration of hostilities could ever
take Germany by surprise."
The impression is furnished that the
Kaiser is surrounded by flatterers, who
have swelled the Emperor's head (p.
. 165). The Crown Prince is much liked.
Naturally, our author being' English,
predicts that military Germany will be
crushed, and that in the future a more
mighty German army will arise, "The
Army of the Republic of the United
States of Germany. Fifteen years ago
our author left the German army never
to return.
The Oregonian is not responsible for
the opinions expressed in this book.
How German r Make War. by General
FHedrlch von Bernhardt. fl.!o. George
H. Doran Co.. New York City.
Relentless.
Remorseless.
That is the text of this military pic
ture of Germany's great army, written
by Barnhardi. king of tacticians, Gen-
, eral in the German cavalry, and per-
sonal adviser to the Kaiser.
The book now under review has 263
pages, was published in Germany two
years ago, and was printed last year
in England. In this country, it is new,
and is an able dissertation of war, as
practiced by the German army. Of
course, it was written for Germans.
Bernhardt admits at the outset that
the Triple Alliance is a purely defensive
agreement, and that Italy and Austria
might remain neutral. So, he pictures
Germany going to war in the near fu
ture, fighting against any or all her
foes. He shows that it is only by war
that Germany can expand as a nation.
Germany has a population of, about
65.000.000, and it is increasing at the
Tate of 1,000,000 a year. Germany is
only about half the size of France, and
France has only to support a popula
tion of 40,000.000, her birth rate being
small in comparison of that of Ger
many. Why can't then, Germany secure col
onies for her surplus population? Be
cause she is a new nation, just "ar
rived," so to speak, and because col
onies in the temperate zone have been
grabbed already by Britain, . France,
Spain. Holland, etc.
Therefore, Germany must fight for
these colonies, or starve. Brute force.
or war, is considered to be the only
weapon. As our author declares, with
engaging frankness: "It is impossible
to change the partition of the earth
as it now exists in our favor by diplo
matic artifices. If we wish to gain the
position in the world that is due to us,
we must rely on our sword, renounce
all weakly visions of peace, and eye
the dangers surrounding us with reso
lute and unflinching courage."
It turns out that Bernhardi and oth
ers contemplated as part of military
plans to crush France, the invasion of
Belgium and Holland. He reminds his
readers that the German armies might
be confronted by superior numbers, but
"The Romans conquered the world with
inferior nunrbers." "Wo may be cer
tain that Great Britain will most se
riously resist any real extension of
Oermany's power, which, however, does
not include the acquisition of some Cen
tral African territories."
Emphasis is placed on superiority in
tnree war factors: The masses of sol
diers. the improved arms of defense and
offense and the modern means of com
munication. Two elements, will deter
mine the iue: The military and mor
al value of the troops, and their stra
tegic efficiency. "Numbers will decide."
Bernhardi hopes that "the German
people will assert and 'maintain itself
1 i
"The wise man,, even when he holds his tongue, says more
than the fool when he speaks." Old Proverb.
v.-
s story "
as the dominating race of Europe." His
faith is red. That is clear.
List of chapters: The Secret of Mod
ern War; Armies of Masses; Force and
Numbers; Modern Arms and Appliances;
The Importance of Cavalry; Self-Re-liance;
Method and Command; Attack
and Defense; The Object and the Con
duct of War; Time, Space and Direc
tion' Principles of Command; Naval
Warfare, and Retrospect and Prospect.
The Russian Annjr From Within, by W.
Barnes gtevenl. Jl. George 11, Doran Co..
New York Oitv.
Many books are published on the
German, French and British armies, but
very few on the Russian army.
Readers of military history are ac
customed to accept the opinion that the
Russian army, "defeated in the Japan-eBe-Russian
war, and filled largely
with revolutionists," is today a negli
gible quantity, and is such, a poor, un
organized mass that German armies
will be able to defeat the Czar's men
at leisure.
"Not so. Prepare for a big surprise,
so far as the Russian army of 1914 is
concerned," says Mr. Steven! in this
book, which is not only sensational and
interesting, but Is a positive eye-opener.
For 25 years Mr. Steveni (who, al
though he does not say bo, is probably
an Englishman) has been the Petro
grad correspondent of London newspa
pers, and makes a specialty of military
history. Therefore, he is well qualified
to speak on the subject he has chosen.
The book has 176 pages.
Briefly, Mr. Steveni presents to the
world a new Russian army, patriotic
and disciplined, and zealous to the
death. It is an army of soldiers with
out nerves, strong and hardy a race
of fatalists who do not fear extinction,
once "Holy Mother Russia" is attacked
by foes. It is stated that the total
mobilized standing array of Russia,
with reserves, numbers about 6.000,000
trained men. or 20 per cent of the pop
ulation, with an addition of more than
1,000,000 men in the militia division.
The real cause of the present war Is
shown by our author to be this condi
tion: Whilst Germany adds to her
population at the rate of 1,000,000 souls
a year, Britain at the rate of 350.000
and France has practically no increase
worth mentioning. "Holy Mother Rus
sia," thanks to the fertility of her own
mothers, has an annual growth of
3.000,000 equal to the whole popula
tion of Denmark.
Hence the alarm of Russia's foreign
opponents. Napoleon predicted that
Europe in 100 years would be repub
lican or Cossack. The impression is
given that Germany and Austria
thought it was high time to strike, be
fore Russia grew stronger.
The ordinary Russian pecsant is not
a big man. He is of medium stature,
broad shouldered and sturdy, with
square forehead, square Jaw, regular
Arian features, and a flowing beard.
unless he comes of Tartar of Finnish
extraction. The height for Russian in
fantry begins at five feet, and five feet
three inches' for cavalry.
Refusal to obey discipline in the Rus
sian army is punishable by death, but
friendly relations and good fellowship
exist between officers and enlisted
men. An officer, when addressing a
soldier, calls him "little brother,"
"friend," "little pigeon"; and the sol
dier in return calls his commanding of
ficer "little father" or "brother." Rus
sians soldiers are so hardy that Mr.
Steveni says he has often seen them
asleep in the snow in Winter time or
stretched out snoring on the wet and
sodden grass in the Autumn. Mr.
Steveni adds that these experiences did
not seem to harm the soldiers.
Mr. Steveni was not impressed with
the performances of Russian officers as
swordsmen, but agrees that 'the Rus
sian soldiers are adepts with the bay
onet. It is calculated thatiln the last
war with Russia SO per cent of the
Japanese casualties were caused with
the bayonet, and 20 per cent by shot
and shell.
. The Russian soldier is trained to im
plicit obedience. Let this extract suf
fice: An officer aske(T recruit -what he would
do in the event af a disturbance in the town.
"Shoot," was- the answer.
"Very good. But supposing your father
and mother happened to be among the
crowd?"
"Shoot them all down."
"Splendid! But tell me now, if you were
in the open field in cam p. for example
and should come across a cow or a calf,
what should you do?-"
"Shoot them down, your highness."
"Nonsense! You should take them by the
horns and lead them to the Generals ka"
the wife of the General.
After a momentary pause the officer con
tinued. "But if at night time you met the Gen
eral himself, a long way from the camp and
in the dark, what would you do?"
"shoot him down."
"Nonsense!"
Ivan thought deeply for a moment, and
then replied, triumphantly: "WeB, if I
should not be' allowed to shoot him down,
then I ought to take him .by the horns and
lead him to the Generalska."
Sixty-five per cent of the Russian
conscripts cannot read or write. The
pay of the soldiers is 18 cents per
month.
The Oregonian Is not responsible for
Mr. steveni s opinions.
California l An Intimate History, by Ger
trude Atherton. Illustrated. Harper
ec jruiier, w xorK Uly.
There are many historic nsti
mates of California, but Mrs. Athfcrton.
who is a native Californlan, has writ
ten a history of California that will
win recognition for its fairness of view
wealth of detail and historical accuracy
It is also up-to-date. It consists of 330
pages, with 40 illustrations of noted
Californlans. old mission churches, etc.
14. is also one of the great uncut, as it
must, oa reaa witn me aia or a paper-
Knife. tsut it is worth the trouble.
Our author freely admits that sh?
has consulted amkborrowed data from
other histories oFCalifornia. "I have
striven," she says, "to be as accurate
as history never accurate will uer
nut, while writing an interesting story
"1 ' J II Fl H P Hi II Hi
nffftiunnffl nnn -i
? .
or a paradoxical drama but I have
enjoyed the reading of the many au
thorities as much as my own work and
therefore confidently recommend to
Californians, at least, a thorough
course in California history. If I used
the word 'paradox' just now, it was be
cause I suddenly remembered how
many good men we h.ave produced in
California, and what bad history they
have succeeded in making."
The list of contents: The Geological
Drama; The Mission Padres; The Span
ish Governors; The Mexican Governors;
Fremont and the Bear Flag Revolu
tion; Gold; San Francisco; Crime and
Fire; Politics; James King; The Vigi
lance Committee of 1856; The Vigilance
Committee and David S. Terry; Broad
erick; Broderick and Gwin; The Brode-rlck-Terry
Duel; The War; The Terri
ble Seventies; The Chinese in Califor
nia; "The Chinese Must Go;" and Last
Phases. .
Our author does not admire the na
tive Indians of California. In speak
ing of the big trees of her state, she
says: "It is estimated that there may
have been a time when these trees,-peculiar
to a few hundred miles of the
Pacific Coast, flourished for 5000 years
instead of a paltry 1500. Certainly, the
miserable degenerate Asiatics we call
Indians nowhere farther below the
standards of the white races than in
California did not disturb them." The
opinion' is expressed that David C.
Broderick was "the ablest man in Cal
ifornia's political history and in many
respects the most interesting."
This estimate of the California of to
day will beread with interest: "Cali
fornia is the permanent resort of
cranks and faddists, and extremists,
and nrofessional asritatora and loafers.
but they are In a minority despite their
noise. As a whole, the state Is one of
the most dependable, patriotic and hon
orable in the Union, and has produced
many personalities, eminent and good
men. and brilliant and gifted minds
out of all proportion to her age. May
the fools and extremists never wreck
her."
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Must Trotentantism' Adopt Christian Science?
By Rev. J. Winthrop Hegeman, Ph. D. 75
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Dr. Hegeman, an Episcopal clergy
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'BREWERY' HALTS HEARING
Word Startles Buyer Wlio Sliics Off
- y
From Saloon Purchase.
PITTSBURG. Nov. 5. Th6 chance re
mark of Henry Dressier, a local saloon
proprietor, who applied for a transfer
of license to Joseph H. Weaver, created
a stir in Liquor License Court recently,
when in answer to a question regard
ing the value of bis property put to
him by Attorney Mead Mulvehill, repre
senting the buyer, he replied:
"I don't know. I think the brewing
company has placed the price at $4500."
"Why are you selling your business,"
Attorney Mulvehill then asked.
"Because I did not make any money,"
replied Dressier. "It's a poor stand. I
haven't made any money, and I know
the other two parties who had it before
I did did not make anything, either.
They all lost."
"In fairness to the court I do not
think we should -proceed with this
case, said Mr. Mulvehill. "I represent
the buyer and I had no Intimation of
what Mr. Dressier was going to say. I
think It would be unfair to your honor
to continue with this, hearing."'
"l tnink you are acting properly in
this matter, Mr. Mulvehill' said Judge
Josiah Cohen, who was presiding. "I
think i would do the same thing were
I in your position. This court appre
ciates your frankness and fairness in
this matter ,
Mr. Mulvehill asked that the case be
placed at the bottom of the list before
being finally disposed of, and said that
the application probably would be with
drawn.
Although the court was forced to
adjourn early, owing to absence of at
torneys and clients when cases were
called. Judge Cohen succeeded in clear
ing 25 cases before adjourning.
. Rheumatism or sick wives were the
reasons offered by some of the dealers
as excuses for wanting their licenses
transferred. Paul Mishago, a Home
stead dealer, told Judge Cohen that his
sole reason for selling to John Snyder
was his rheumatism.
"When were ypu first troubled with
it?" the court asked.
"Three years ago."
"Well, you should have known about
this rheumatism when you applied for
a. license last March," said the court.
$13,000,000 IN TRUCKS
Denver Mint's Shipment to Assay
Office Reaches Jfew York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3. Eight motor
trucks of the American Express Com
pany, bearing heavy loads of gold bars
and guards with repeating rifles, trun
died 'down from the Grand Central Sta
lion yesterday and held the attention
of a large crowd behind the assay
office most of .th afternoon. They
delivered about $13,000,000 of $25,000.-
OJ0 started to this city from the Den
ver mint last Friday. Each bar was
contained in its separate bag to pre
vent abrasion, and each bag was
checked up several times before the
treasure finally found lodgment In the
vaults.
W. A. Beasley, the Denver manager
of the company, brought the shipment
through. It came in three express cars,
each cgafainlng armed guards in addi
tion to the regular express messenger.
The gold Is being brought here to off
set inroads made upon the Govern
ment's -supply of the metal by ship
ments to Canada in process of liquidat
ing the country's debts in Europe.
CHAPTER IX (Continued)
"Interest! I'm eaten up with curi-
oslty. You shan't leave this room alive
until you've told me!"
Frau Knapf shook with silent mirth.
"Now you make joklngs, ain't? Well,
I tell you. In Vienna, Frau Nlrlanger 1
was a widow from a family aber hoch
edel Very high born. From the court
her family is, and friends from the
Emperor, und alles. Sure! Frau Nlr
langer, she Is different from the rest.
Books she likes, und meetings, und all
such komisch things. And what you
think!"
"I don't know," I gasped, hanging on
her words, "what do I think?"
"She meets this here Konrad Nlr
langer, and falls with him in love. Und
her family is mad! But scbrecklich
mad! Forty years old she Is, and from
a noble family, and Konrad Nlrlanger
is only a student 'from a university,
and he comes from the Volk. Sehr ge
blldet he is, but not high born. So-o-o-o.
she runs with him away and is mar
ried." .
Shamelessly I drank if all in. "You
don't mean it! Well, then what hap
pened? She ran away with him with
that chin! and then what?
Frau Kaapf was enjoying it as much
as L She drew a long breath, felt of
the knob of hair, and plunged once
more into the atory.
"Like a story-book it is. nicht? Well,
Frau Nlrlanger, she has already a boy
who is 10 years old. and a fine sum of
money that her first husband left her.
Aber when she runs with this poor kerl
away from her family, and her first
nusoand's family is so schrecklich mad
that they try by Jaw to take from her
her boy and her money, because she has
her nigh born family disgraced, you
see? For a year they fight in the
courts, and then It stands that her
money Frau Nirlanger can keep, but
her boy she cannot have. He will be
taken by her highborn family and edu
cated, and he must forget all about his
mamma. To cry it is, ain't it? Das
arme Kind! Well, she can stand it no
longer to live where her boy is, and
not to see him. So-o-o-o. Konrad Nir
langer he gets a chance to come by
America where therasis a big engineer-
eering plant here in x Milwaukee, and
she begs her husband he should come,
because this boy she loves very much
Oh, she loves her young husband too.
out different, yes?
"Oh. yes," I agreed, remembering the
gay little trilling laugh, and the face
that was so young when animated, and
so old and worn in repose. "Oh, yea
Quite, quite different."
rau Knapf smoothed her spotless
skirt and shook her head slowly and
sadly. "So-o-o-o, by Amerika they
come. Apd Konrad Nirlanger he is
maybe a little cross and so, because
for a year they have been in the courts.
and it might have been the money they
would lose, and for money Konrad Nir
langer cares well, you shall see. But
Frau Nirlanger must not mourn and
cry. She must laugh and sing, and be
gay for her husband. But Frau Nlr
langer has no grand clothes, for first
she runs away with Konrad Nlrlanger,
and then her money is tied in the law.
Now she has again her money, and she
must be young but young!".
With a gesture that expressed a
.world of pathos and futility Frau
Knapf flunk out her arms. "He must
not see that she looks, different as the
ladies'-in this country. So Frau Nir
langer wants, she should buy here in
the- stores new dresses echt Ameri
kanische. All new and beautiful things
she would have, because she must look
young, ain't it? And perhaps her boy
will remember her when he is a fine
young man, if she is yet young when
he grows up, you see? And too, there
is the young husband. " First, she gives
Lup her old life, and her friends and
her family for this man. and then she
must do all things to keep him. Men,
they are but children, after all." spake
the wise Frau Knapf in conclusion.
"They war and cry and plead for that
which they would have, and when they
have won, then see! They are amused
for a moment, and the new toy is
thrown aside."
"Poor, plain, vivacious, fascinating
little Frau Nlrlanger" I said. "I won
der just how much of her pain and
heartache that little musical laugh of
hers conceals?"
"Ja, that is so," mused Frau Knapf.
"Her eyes look like eyes that have
wept much, not? And so you will be
so kind and go maybe to select the so
beautiful clothes?"
"Clothes?" I repeated, remembering
the original errand. "But dear lady!
How does one select clothes for a
woman of 40 who would not weary her
husband? That is a task for a French
modiste, a wizard, and a fairy god
mother all rolled into one."
"But you will do It, yes?" urged Frau
Knapf.
"I'll do it," I agreed, a bit ruefully,
"If only to see the face of the oogly
husband, when his bride is properly
corseted and shod."
Whereupon Frau Knapf, In a -panic,
remembered the unset Kuchen dough
and rushed away, with her hand on
her lips and her eyes big with secrecy.
And I sat staring afthe last typewrit
ten page stuck In my typewriter and I
found that the little letters on the
white page were swimming in a dim
purple haze.
CHAPTER X
A Tragedy- of Gowna,
From husbands in general, and from
oogly German husbands in particular
may Hymen defend me! Never again
will I attempt to select "echt Amerl
kanische" clothes for a woman who
must not weary her young husband.
But how was I to know that the harm
less little shopping expedition would,
resolve itself ino a domestic tragedy,
with Herr Nirlanger as the - villain.
Frau Nirlanger as the persecuted hero
ine, and I as what is it in tragedy
that corresponds to the innocent by
stander in real life? That would be
my role.
The purchasing of the clothes was a
real joy. Next to buying pretty things
for myself there is nothing I like bet
ter than choosing them for some one
else. And when that some one else
happens to be a fascinating little for
eigner who coos over the silken
stuffs in a delightful mixture of
Uerman and English. and espe
cially when that some one else
must be made to look so charm
ing that she will astonish her oogly
husband, then does the selecting of
those pretty things cease to be a task,
and become an art.
It was -to be a complete surprise to
Herr Nirlanger. He was to know noth
ing about it until everything was fin
lshed and Frau Nirlanger, dressed in
the prettiest of the pretty Amerlkan
lsche gowns, was ready to astound him
when he should come home 'from the
office of the vast plant . where he
solved engineering problems.
"From my own money I buy all
this. Frau Nlrlanger confided to me,
with a. gay little laugh of excitement4u"V Now run"'
as we started out. "From Vienna 1' slendTr grace
comes. Always I- have given It at Leared with a gay li
nn ti m,. h.iohanrf a. o ,,-if ,.. u I pearea v. nn a gay II
once to my husband., as a wife should.
Yesterday it came, tut I said nothing,
and 'when my husband said to me,
'Anna,' did not the money come as
usual today? It is time,' I told a little
lie but a little one. Is it not? Very
amusing it was. Almost I did laugh.
Na, he will not be cross when he see
how his wife like the Amerikanlsche
ladies will look. He admires very
much the ladies of Amerika. Many
times he has said so." ,
("I'll wager he has the rreat, ugly
boor!" I thought, in parenthesis.)
"We'll show Uira:" I said cloud. "He
won't know you. Such a lot of oeautl
ful clothes as we can bu with all this
money. Oh, aear Frau Nirlanger, Its
going to be slathers of fun! I feel as
excited about is as though it were a
trousseau we were buying."
"So it Is," she replied, a little shad-
ow r sadness falling across the bright-
ne"s of her face. "I had no proper
clothes when we were married but
nothing! You know perhaps my story.
In America, everyone knows every
thing. It is wonderful. When I ran
away to marry Konrad Nirlanger I
had only the dress which I wore; even
that I borrowed from one of the upper
servants, on a pretext, so that no one
should recognize me. Ach Gott! I need
not have worried. So! You see, it will
be after all a trousseau."
Why, oh, why should a woman with
her graceful carriage and pretty vi
vacity have been cursed with such an
Ill-assorted lot of features'. Especially
when certain boorish ' young husbands
-have expressed an admiration for pink-
and-whlte effects in feminity.
"Never mind, Mr. Husband. I'll show
yez!" I resolved as the elevator left
us at the floor where waxen ladles in
shining glass cases smiled amiably all
the day.
There must be no violent pinks or
blues. Brown was too old. She was not
young enough for black. Violet was
too trying. And so the gowns began to
strew tables and chairs and racks, and
still I shook my head, and Frau Nir
langer looked despairing, and the be
puffed and real Irish-crochetted sales
woman began to develop a baleful
gleam about the eyes.
-And then we found it! It was a case
of love at - first sight. The unimag
inative would have called it gray. The
thoughtless would have pronounced It
pink. It was neither, and both: a soft,
rosily-gray mixture of the two, like
the sky that one sometimes sees at
Winter twilight, the pink of the sunset
veiled by the gray of the snow-clouds.
It was of a supple, shining cloth, sim
ple in cut, graceful In lines.
"There! We've found iL Let's pray
that it will not require too much alter
ing." But when It had been slipped over
her head we groaned at the Inadequacy
of her old-fashioned stays. There fol
lowed a flying visit to the department
where hips were whisked out of sight
In a jiffy, and where lines miraculous
ly took the place of curves. Then came
the gown once more, over the new
stays this time. The effect was mag
ical. The Irish-crocheted saleswoman
and I clasped hands and fell back in
ittitudeswf admiration. Frau Nlrlanger
turned this way and that before the
long mirror and chattered like a
pleased, child. Her adjectives grew Into
words of six syllables. She cooed over
the soft-shining stuff 'i little broken
exclamations in French and German.
Then came a straight and simple
street suit of' blue cloth, a lingerie
gown of white, hats, shoes and even a
couple of limp satin petticoats. The
day was gone before we could finish.
I bullied them into promising the
pinky-gray gown for the next after
noon. "Sooch funs!" giggled Frau Nlrlang
er, "amd how it makes one tired. So
kind you were to take this trouble for
me. Me. I could never have warred
with that frauleln who served us so
haughty she was, nicht? But It is good
again pretty clothes to have. Pretty
gowns I lofe you also, not?"
"Indeed I do lofe 'em. But my money
comes to me In a yellow pay envelope,
and It Is spent before It reaches me, as
a rule. It doesn't have much of a mar
gin for general recklessness."
A tiny sigh came from Frau Nlr
langer. "fhore will be little to give
Konrad this time. So much money
they cost, those clothes! But Konraa
he will not care when he sees the so
beautiful dresses, is it not so?"
"Care!" I cried with a great deal of
bravado, although a tiny inner voice
spake in doubt. "Certainly not. How
could he?"
Next day the boxes came, and we
smuggled them into my room. The n-wr-niminir
of the tissue paier folds was
ceremony. We reveled in the very
crackle of it. I had scuttled home from
the office as early as decency would
permit. In order to have plenty of time
for the dressing. It must bo quite
Bnished before Herr Nirlanger should
arrive. Frau Nlrlanger had purchased
three tickets for the German theater,
also as a surprise, and I was to accom
pany the happily surprised husband and
the proud little wife of the new Amerl-
knnlftrhfi clothes.
I coaxed her to let me do things to
her hair. Usually she wore a stin anu
ugly coiffure that could only be de-Kft-i'heri
as a chignon. I do not recol-
!.- ,v,r having seen a chignon, but
T Unrw that it must look like that. 1
was thankful for my Irish deftness of
Angers as I stepped back to view the
r.-nlt of mv labors. The new arrange
ment of the hair gave her features a
new softness and dignity.
We came to the lacing of the stays,
with their exacgerated length. "Aber!"
exclaimed Frau Nirlanger. not daring
to l.iuirh because of the strange snug
ness. "Ach!" and again, "Aber to laugh
it l
We had decided the prettiest of the
new gowns must do honor to the occa
sion. "This shade is called ashes of
roses." I explained, as I slipped it over
her head.
"Ashes of roses!" she echoed. "How
pretty, yes? But a little sad, too. Is
it not so? Like rosy hopes that have
been withered. Ach. what a foolish
talk! So. now you will fasten it please.
A real trick it is to button such a dress
SO Sly tney dro, iuubd ,ioto.....t,.
When all the sly fastenings were se
cure I stood at gaze.
"Nose is shiny." I announced, search
ing in a drawer for chamois and pow
der.
Frau Nirlanger raised an objecting
hand. "But Konrad does not approve
of such things. He has said so. He
has "
"You tell your Konrad that a chamois
skin isn't half as -objectionable as a
shiny one. Come here and let me dust
this over your nose and cnin, wniie i
breathe a prayer of thanks that I have
no overzealous husband near to forbid
me the use of a bit of powder. There!
If I sez It mesllf as shouldn't, yez
ar-r-re a credit t' me, me darllnt.
"You are satisfied. There is not one
small thing awry? Ach, how we shall
laugh ait Konrad's face."
"Satisfied: "I'd kiss you if I weren't
afraid that I should muss you up. You're
not the same woman. You look like a
girl! And so pretty. Now skedaddle
into vour own rooms, but don't you
dare .to sit down for a moment. I'm
going down to get Frau Knapf before
your husband arrives.
"But is there then time?" inquired
Frau Nlrlanger. "He should be here
now."
"I'll bring her up in a jiffy, just for
one neen. She won't know you! Her
face will be a treat! Don't touch your
hair it's quite perfect. And f'r Jawn's
;ake! Don't twist around to look at
yourself in me Dacit or soineuuiis wn
burst, I know It will. I'll be back in a
ful figure disap-
ttle laugh, and 1
flew downstairs for Frau Knapf. She
was discovered with a spoon in one
hand and a spluttering saucepan in the
other. I detached her from them,
clasned her big. capable red hands and
dragged her up the stairs, explaining
as I went.
"Now don't fuss about that supper!
Let 'em wait. You must see her before
Herr Nlrlanger comes home. He's due
any minute," She looks like a girl. So
young! And actually pretty! And her
figure divine! Funny what a difference
a decent pair of corsets, and a gown,
ti r, H nnme nuffs will make, h'm?"
Frau Knapf was panting as I pulled
her after me in swift eagerness. Be
tween puffs sho brought out cxclatna-
tions of surprise" and unbelief such as:
"Unmoglich! (Puff! Puff!) Aber
wunderbar! (PufT! Puff!)
We stopped before Frau Nlrlanger's
door. I struck a dramatic pose. "Pre
pare" I cried grandly, and threw open
the door with a bang.
Crouched against the wall at a far
corner of the room was Frau Nlrlansyer.
Her hands were clasped over her breast
and her eyes were dilated as thoueh she
had been runninjr. In the center of
the room stood Konrad Nirlariger. and
on his oogly face was the very oogliest
look that I have ever seen on a man.
He glanced at us as we stood trans
fixed in the doorway, and laughed a
short, sneering laugh that was like a
stinging blow on the cheek.
So! he said: and I would not have
believedathat men really said "So!" in
that way outside of a melodrama. "So!
You are in the little surprise, yes?
You carry your meddling outside
of your newspaper work. ch? 1
leave behind me an old wife in thra
morning and in the evening, presto! I
find a young bride. Wonderful! but
wonderful!" He laughed an unmusical
and mirthless laugh.
"But don't you like it?" X asked,
like a simpleton.
Frau Nlrlanger seemed to shrink be
fore our very eyes, so that the pretty
gown hung in limp folds about lier.
I stared, fascinated, at Konrad Nir
langer's cruel face with its little eyes
that were too close together and Its
chin that curved in below the mouth
and out again so grotesquely.
"Like it?" sneered Konrad Nirlanger.
"For a young girl, yes. But how use
less, this belated trousseau. What a.
waste of good money! For eee. a young
wife I do not want. Young women ono
can have in plenty, always. But I have,
an old woman married, and. for an old
woman the gowns need be few eh.
Frau Orme? And you, too, Frau
Knapf?"
Frau Knapf, crimson and staring,
was dumb. There came a little shiver
ing moan from the figure crouched in
the corner, and Frau Nirlanger, her
face queerly withered and ashen,
crumpled slowly in a little heap on the
floor and buried her shamed head in
her arms.
Konrad Nirlanger turned to his wife,
the black look on his face growing
blacker.
"Come, get up. Anna." he ordered. In
German. "These heroics become not a
woman of your years. And. too. you
must not ruin the so costly gown that
will bo returned tomorrow."
Frau Nlrlanger's whito face wan
lifted from the shelter of her arms.
The stricken look was still upon it, but
there was no cowering in her attitude
now. Slowly she rose to her feet. I
had not realized that she was so tall.
"The gown does not go back," she
sa id.
"So?" he snarled, with It savage note
in his voice. "Now, hear me. There
shall be no more buying of gowns and
fripperies. You hear? It is for tho
wife to come to the husband for tho
money; not for her to waste it wanton
ly on gowns, like a creature of tho
streets. You," his voice was an insult,
"you, with your wrinkles and your
faded eyes in a gown of " he turned
inquiringly toward me "How does ono
call it, that color, Frau Orme?"
There came a blur of tears to my
eyes. "It is called ashes of roses," I
answered. "Ashes of roses."
Konrad Nirlanger threw back his
head and laughed a laugh as stinging
as a whip lash. "Ashes of roses! So?
It is well named. For my dear wife it
Is poetically fit. is it not so? For see,
her roses are but withered ashes, eh,
Anna?"
Deliberately and In silence Anna Nir
langer walked to the mirror and stood
there, gazing at the woman in tho
glass. There was something dreadful
and portentous about the calm and
studied deliberation with which tsho
critically viewed that reflection. Sho
lifted her arms slowly and patted into
placo the locks that had become dis
arranged, turning her head from sido
to sido to study the effect. Then she
took from a drawer the bit of chamois
skin that I had given her, and ias.-;d
it lightly over her eyelids and cheeks,
humming softly to herself the while.
No music ever sounded so unanny to
my ears. The woman before the mir
ror looked at the woman in tho mir
ror with a long, etuady, meusuring
look. Then, slowly and deliberately,
the long.' graceful folds of her lovely
gown trailing behind her. she walked
over to where her frowning husband
stood. So might a queen have walked,
head held high, gaze steady. Sho
stopped within a half foot of him. her
eyes level with his. For a long half
minute they stood thus, the faded blue
eyes of the wife gazing into the sullen
black eyes of the husband, and his
were the first to drop, for all tho noblu
blood in Anna Nirlanger's veins, anil
all her long line of gently bred ances
tors were coming to her aid in dealing
with her middle-class husband.
"You forget," he said, very slowly
and distinctly "If this were Austria,
Instead of Amerika. you would not forget-
In Austria people of your class
do not speak in this manner to those
of my caste."
"Unsinn!" laughed Konrad Nirlanger.
"This is Amerika."
"Yes," said Anna Nirlanger. "this is
Amerika. And in Amerika all things
are different. I see now that my peop
ple knew of what they spoke when
they called me mad to think of wed
ding a clod of the people, such as you."
For a moment I thought that he was
going to strike her. I think he would
have if she bod flinched. But she did
not. Her head was held high, and her
eyes did not waver.
"I married you for love. It is most
comical, is it not? With you I thought
I should find peace and happiness and
a re-birth of the Intellect that was be
ing smothered in the splendor and ar
tificiality and the restrictions of my
life there. Well, I was wrong. But
wrong. Now hear me!" Her voice was
tense with passion. "There will be
gowns as many and as rich as I
choose. You have said many times
that the ladies of Amerika you admire.
And see! I shall be also one of thoso
so-admired ladies. My money shall go
for gowns! For hats! For trifles of lace
and velvet and fur! You shall learn
that it is not a peasant woman whom
you have married. This is Amerika.
the land of the free, my husband. And
see! Who is more of-Amerika than 1?
Who?"
She laughed a high little laugh and
came over to me, taking my hands in
her own. -
"Dear girl, you must run quickly and
dress. For this evening we go to the
theater. Oh, but you must. There shall,
be no unpleasantness, that I promise.
My husband accompanies us with joy.
Is it not so. Konrad? With joy? So!"
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