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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAXD, SEPTEMBER 16, 1917. A 1) Hi? rfT) -n JEIow the Deepest Tragedy of Divorce, the Legally Allotted Child, Once More Brought Death and Ruin at the End of a Love Romance BT BARBARA CRATDON. THE mother stands there quivering in a frensy of emotion, with the surge of centuries behind her. "I want my baby!" And then, as If to prove that she loves her baby, she commits murder. The bullets go true. The man she wore to love, honor and cherish dies there before her. Women shoot won derfully well when the target is a man. So the little boy has the memory of a. murdered father, and any comfort that may be had from a mother who Is a murderess. For the sin of wanting his boy too much and of forgetting the heart of a woman the woman passed the sen tence of death on the man. and the law Immediately began its proper business of deciding what should be done about the woman. It Is a sad story, and not at all a new story. Variations upon it darken the pagea of 'legal history over and over again. Tie Tragedy ( Beaaty aad the Her. Just here It Is the story of Blanca de Saulles. the Chilean beuty. nd of Jack de Saulles, American athletic hero. But the form of It la not greatly dif ferent from many another tragedy growing out of that great fact to which opponents of divorce have pointed 10, 000 times the great fact Of the baby. The miserable business of parting bad been accomplished. The court had passed the judgment of Solomon, cut ting the baby In half that is. cutting the baby's time in half eo that both father and mother could go on having b-irn without staying together. And then the trouble. Just what the trouble n this case really was agsln demands the atten tion of the courts. The rather Is dead. His side will be told in his absence. What offenses he committed with re gard to the boy, with regard to the woman, with regard to her white-faced challenge on that day of the shooting all of this will be set forth. The woman la beautiful. That Is ' II ' 1 what began the love story that ended in this tragedy. But the baby who was to be shuttled from one parent to the other well, he, surely is an important figure in the AUTUMN WEEK-ENDS DEMAND NEW FROCKS, NEW TAILOR-MADES AND SPICK-SPAN SPORT THINGS New Coats Hare Becoming Lines CriBp Fall Days Call for Smart Frocks of Silk or Worsted Correct Riding Togs and Smart Golf Garb of First Interest Now. THERE Is more certitude in prepar ing for an Autumn outing than for a midsummer one. Fall weather may be relied on as Summer weather never can be: in August time one must pack one's week-end. trunk with clothes for a hot and humid spell and also for possible cool and damp days. It will all depend on the way the wind blows in midsummer, where as one Is assured, in September and October, of bright, warm middays and crisp, cool nights. The Autumn week-end demands a suddIv of new toBgery; and. Indeed, would be a collection of has-been cos tumes, left over from Summertime, no matter how good their condition. New frocks, not tailor-mades and especially epic-span new sport things must go into the week-end trunk that is ex pressed up to the mountains or any where in fact where fashionables gath er to make the most of Indian Summer delights. Sasssaer Oatflts Are Repair. Lenox and Tuxedo are In the height of their glory during the lovely Au tumn days; and all through the Berk shlres and the Poconos country houses are opea for the glorious stretch of Autumn weather. There are hunting lodges up in the Adlrondacka. too leas formal- but no leas smart outfits are required for them and Autumn days are ideal at some near-the-sea resorts where the sky and sea were never so blue in midsummer as they are, spread like a background for the sunset and crimson of Autumn foliage. Perhaps correct sport togs are the very eseenea of an Autumn week-end wardrobe, and Autumn sport toggery includes riding clothes, gold clothes JackMe Saulles, Football Star, i.- Shot and Killed, by HU Wife. drama. It is the importance of his figure that may well constitute the most vital consideration in the whole affair, in all such affairs, in every con sideration of marriage itself. The LTe Story. Let us listen to the love story the woman's side of It. "I remember so well when he first came to me," she said, quite slowly. "It was at Valparaiso that is in Chili, and hunting clothes, all built accord ing to approved standards and all fresh from the pressing iron of an authori tative tailor. In addition to these agreeable outdoor belongings there must be smart little frocks imaging Fashion's latest ideas, a dance and din ner gown or two, bespeaking the Au tumn decisions of Paris, and as a final necessity a very good-looking coat. suitable for traveling and motoring. Thus equipped, one may set out with a light heart for a week-end in the Serk- shires or anywhere else. Caata far Aaranma Travel Are Pleasing. Of three new Autumn coats, just bought for short trips out of town next month, it is hard to decide which is most pleasing. All have the new loose lines which Fashion fancies just now lines that are so well controlled by flattening here and there by clever devices like belts, pockets or panels, that they are always graceful and never clumsy, even on women inclined to enbonpoint. Both coats and frocks In new fashion are now obtainable for even the stoutest figures, skillful man agement of proportions making the sil houette correct in these garments, planned according to the new sveltline principle, as it is called. Even a dumpy little matron weighing a score or two of pounds too much for her height looks surprisingly slim and elegant in one of these sveltline costumes, and no body seems more amazed and delighted than herself at the magic transforma tion. Weal Teloar la FoaIa& One of the new coats referred to ear lierfor week-end wear Is of wool velour cut in two sections, which are joined at a law waistline. The upper section is gathered at the shoulders. where my mother lived. I was 18. Ton know I did not know much about the world at 16 and in those surround ings. Girls in such countries are not taken so much into the confidence of the older people as to the thorny things. They are kept as some flowers are kept, apparently in the fear that some ill wind will fade them. "Our men were gallant and very po lite. But they "went languidly about their pursuits, as people in this coun try regard things. One might compare the difference to that between the music of a guitar and that of a brass band when the brass band Is being tak en by motor somewhere and the guitar Is being played under the .shade of a tree. , "I was at the country club, where the men rode their ponies and played polo. I saw many men pass whom I had long known from my very child hood. - Then there appeared a. stranger. He was taller than the other men, his shoulders were broader, and he moved with an action that did not belong to my land. I was attracted to him from the beginning. He was brought to our box. From the first ho paid desperate court to me. The Vialom of "Young Cod." "I looked upon him as some young god who had come from a -new and strange heaven to make me happy. He asked my mother if I might be his wife. I was very happy. She Insisted that we should wait until I had made a trip to Paris that had already been planned. He came along to Paris and renewed the courtship. I was charmed with his conversation, his manner and his manly appearance. "Tou know how. we were married. It was the beginning of the most wonder ful fairy picture of my whole life. We were on shipboard, coming to a new land that I had never seen. He told me of its wonders, of the great things that were done here, and of the palaces and the vast opportunities. " 'I will work to win the world and lay it at your feet,' he told me, as we hung over the rail, gazing into the endless sky that seemed to me to typify the endless Joy tht ly before me. It was a voyage of love and dreams over a beauty of speech and of promise, and the same gentleness of attention. "Then we landed at New Tork, and our happiness did not seem to find any end. Five, six. seven months went by without any clouds. A great happiness greater than anything I had ever known was dawning. I had a secret to tell Jack that made him hold me and the lower section gathered at the upper; yet, amazingly enough, the coat has no suggestion of bulklness, partly because of its beautiful cut, partly be cause of the rich softness of its fabric. Kows of stitching In cluster effect trim both sections, and there is a high, con vertible collar. Another-wool velour coat has a box pleated lower section attached to a deep yoke that comes below the arm pits, and a wide belt is drawn under the pleats at the low waistline. The collar lengthens out Into a scarf, which is flung over one shoulder, and at the end of the scarf there is a tassel. Big bone buttons form the only trimming of this coat. Rather more dressy is a coat of taupe silk plush with two col lars; one draped around the neck and down the front in soft revers. and the other hanging like a flat cape under the rolling collar to the waistline. Both collars, the cuff, a flat belt and the foot of the coat are trimmed with a couched cord scroll design. ' Fall Days Hava'Week-Bnd Frocks. For morning wear in the mountains there are tailored frocks of serge or of mohair In combination with serge or satin; and there are very exclusive frocks of wool jersey or velour de laine in delicate color with fur at collar and wrists these latter costumes for fash ionable Autumn resorts where there is a good deal of "dress," or for smart country houses where sports do not of fer the principal diversion. The sport-loving week-ender of course wears sport togs from break fast time until late afternoon; after that a pretty frock for tea hour, and later still a dinner sown or dance frock for the evening. Both dinner and dance frocks for the new season have partly I. ..SWjlllSilW Ml. 1 .IU.I.I.J ..I.I,,., ..M.j..,, ,,.. '"" " -,tT - ' ; :'"".;...' " ? . .. ; . -- y. '"s r. -s '., - : - ' . . .., ., .- - . ; . - . . . ' V, . 7 V .. ; . 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In the matter of custody of the child so much of sentiment favors the moth er -it will be a sad day for the world If they ever cease to favor the mother that the defenders of Jack de Saulles' memory will have to show that the father at least obeyed the letter of the law in regard to the custody periods. The Shuttled Child Im Fictioa. Fiction as well as fact has many ex ploitations of the shuttled child. The most famous book devoted to the problem is Henry James' "What Mazie Knew." Mazie's father and mother were di vorced. The court sent Mazie from the mother to the father and back again every six months. The mother married again, giving Mazie two fathers. The father married again, giving Mazie two mothers. They all were very good to Mazie. She got no discipline, no anything that a child should 'have. It is the way she grows up, with no sense of life as the aver age child knows it, as every child has a right to know it, with the most confused sense of social per spective, of child obligation, and parent obligation, and home's obligation to the rest of life, that forms the subject of Mr. James' masterly study. There are a great many Mazles in the world. A great many of them "see it through." Many separated fathers and mothers have given splendid ex amples of restraint, and affection, and wisdom. But it Is a trying situation; trying to the separated and trying to the child. There are silent tragedies with no mur der or violence to them. Then once in a while And how many burning tears result from the disaster! veiled shoulders; the arms are covered with filmy sleeves or floating scarfs of tulle, and though the decolletage itself may be quite as pronounced as ever it was. the veiling of tulle gives a more modest and dignified effect. This effect Paris insists upon for war time, when frivolous dress is consid ered bad taste. Afternoon Frocks Are ef Satin. Most of the afternoon frocks are of satin, and various and wonderful are the ways that are being discovered to brighten these dark satin frocks with embroidery of braid, silk or beads. Sel dom is satin used alone, either; geor gette or chirton will be discovered as a component part of almost every frock. Serge dresses for - week-end morning wear are extremely simple, with pleated or draped skirts, wide leather belts, or belts of gros grain ribbon with flat pump bows, and col lars and cuffs of some sheer fabric in ivory or coffee tint. The simplest of these dresses are worn in the country with laced sport shoes of tan leather, buttoned boots accompany frocks of more formal type; and the traveling frock demands buttoned walking boots or buttoned cloth gaiters over dainty pumps. Perhaps the gaiter and pump combination is most practical for week-end wear, for the pumps may be used separately with house frocks. Riding suits of plain and checked worsted are considered smart this Au tumn, the breeches of checked stuff and the coat plain, with checked collar and waistcoat. A white stock and black hat lend attractive contrast with such a costume. NEWS OF KHAKI-CLAD BOYS Contlnued From First Page.) triumph which we felt as the first wounded English came bloodily (and blood was new to us) at the American Ambulance Hospital of Neuilly-ParlB. Among the British for many years to come, "Tipperary" will make eyes wet at the witching hour of twilight, when it evokes the khaki figures marching against the glare on the skyline and marshals the dead who are urrforgot ten. Who can estimate th aect lor, ol x . i - . V I .... . s . " f"" ' Nj- 'V'. ' I Mrs. de Saulles and the Baby Boy Jack, the- Quarrel for Whose Possession Eesulted in the Tragic Death of tbe Father.. France, of those terrlflo songs of Verdun "Passeront pas," and "Les Gars de Verdun"? Or who will fbrget the goose-step march to certain death of the Prussian Guard at Tpres, to the chorus of "Ceutschland titer Alles"? "It is desired that the American Army be a singing as well as a march ing Army." So ran the first words of an American Colonel's appeal to the Amer ican public of Paris for 3000 copies of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" the noble marching strophes of Julia Ward Howe which fired the hearts of the Northern Armies In 1864-65. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the cominc of the Lord. It is heard now on the American front In France. At least one regiment has adopted it "as the marching song of our regiment in memory of the American martyrs of liberty." And in our village you can hear a noble French translation of it, intoned by In spired French mothers. Bear with me to hear three lines of this heart-stirring French rendering of: I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar In the evening' dews and damps; I have read his righteoue sentence by the dim and flarinff lampe; His day is marching on. They are by a woman, again; Char lotte Holmes Crawford, of whom I had never previously heard. Here Is her translation of the three lines: Je Ial entrevu qui planalt sur le cercle larre des camps. On a erige Son autel par leg tristes et mornes champs, J'al rein Son juste jugement a la flamme des leux flambants. Son jour, Bon jour e'approche. SHOP GIRLS TO GET BONDS McAdoe Proposes Plan Whereby Working Women May Help Win War WASHXNGTOK, Sept. 4. The Govern ment has a plan for the American working girl to help win the war. "Shop girl bonds" is the title seized on for war savings 'certificates to the amount al ja.000.000,000, authorized In the second war bond issue bill, re ported to the House today, which will; be offered to the American people in an amount as low as $4- These war savings certificates will be similar to those issued in England in. its greatest war loan, when more than 1,000,000 persons subscribed to the is sue of $7,000,000. They were denom- inated the "shop girl bonds." The savings certificates will mature at the end of five years, when every person who invested $4 in one of them, will receive $5 from the Government. No person shall be permitted to pur chase in excess of $100 of the war sav ings certificates at any one time, nor shalf the total purchases by one per son in the entire issue exceed $1000. Secretary W. G. McAdoo, in explain- ing the plan of war savings certificates, said: "This plan contemplates the issue of a war savings certificate book, each, page of which will represent $5, and anyone who wants to invest I will use round, figures to illustrate $4 and have It bear interest can take it to his 'post office and buy a $4 stamp, which would be put Into the book and canceled, and then he would have an investment with, the Government which would accumu late interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum for five years, and at the end of five years he could cash in his certificate at $5. Politicians like to have lots of peo ple know them, but not too well. Applying- This Paste Actually Removes Hairs (Beauty Notes.) Merely applying an inexpensive paste to a hairy surface, say beauty special ists, will dissolve the hairs. This paste Is made by mixing a little water with some powdered delatone; after about 2 minutes it is rubbed off and the skin washed. This simple method not only removes every trace of hair, but leaves the skin free from blemish. To insure success with this treatment, be careful to get real delatone. Adv.