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Get Cerboll today Tyy J from jrafn Qulcksot relief known. Ale. iportort-Nsd Co.. tiasMWo. Tone. Every sweet girl graduate thinly It Is up to her to reform some man. K Salaam of Myrrh One of the Joys of life I* to here * friend who, you think, la Just nboul Ideal. Lawa often vlotnle common aenae. They have /or (1,000 years. Sickness comes with flies | Kill them qulckl J Sf* ?2I FUT LsrSMtSeOerfai 121 Coantriea W, N. W, BALTIMORE, NO. W-1931. | HOW COULD I | MARY FIND | 1 A WAY OUT 8 m jxj By FANNIE HURST j|j (?. 1931. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.! (WNU Service.! THE conditions that brought about the engagement of Mary Estes to Benjamin Parke were the normal unexciting ones of a certain degree of propinquity, sim ilarity of social standing and a gen eral desirability smiled upon by fam ilies of both parties concerned. In the thriving Middle West city where Mary Estes had been born and reared. Benjamin Parke was regarded as one of the most promising young business men of the community. When Mary Estes was still attending high school and taking the commercial course which was ultimately to pre pare her for her work as secretary to the richest banker of the town, the Estcs people were a highly respectable and conservative family In reduced finances, probably a shade or two higher In the social strata than the Parke family, although Benjamin's fa ther was a dentist of solid standing and gqod practice. The two young people of these re spective and respectable families, In spite of the disparity of ten years in their ages, were thrown^ socially to gether by way of church, entertain ment and bridge party. Their ulti mate engagement was as normal as sunrise. A little flurry of anticipatory gossip hnd, of- course, preceded It; Its announcement was a matter of local applause; Its consummation looked forward to by a group of friends and relatives who moved Interestedly around the nucleus of the happy pair. It was fun to be engaged. It was great fun to he the center of Interest, the center of pleasant attention and consideration of the group of people that made up Mary's world. The slightly envious attention of her friends who were not yet en gaged, the sisterly acceptance of her as one of themselves by the girls who were engaged. The tolerant Interest in her by those of her friends who were newly married. And the affec tionate, busied attention from the old er women?matrons, spinsters and widows nlike. All of Mary's world paid her the charming tribute that la the lot of happy young love. And she found this tribute most flattering, most at tractive. Two months nfter the announcement of the engagement, Mary Eatea re signed her pleasant nnd lucrative posi tion as secretary to the richest man In town and hegan preparations for a June wedding, Benjamin Parke, by then sole proprietor of a small but flourishing furniture store on High street, was known to be In the market for nn attractive building lot on Kay street, one of the town's pretty bunga low districts. The friends o{ Mary hegan to plan linen showers and small festivities that had to do with the approaching marriage. Benjamin Pnrke took ont a tidy life Insurance policy and announced that he?was building an ell to his furniture store. It was an alliance that promised well. Mnry and Benjamin would be a good, substantial Addition to the dtl senry of the community: were the kind to foster stability, decency and right living. There was nothing In particular about the engagement of this young pair to differentiate It from alliances that were constantly being made, and yet It Is possible that Mary and Ben represented what In the eyes of the community might be regarded as the Ideal marriage. The Ideal marriage that would lead to years of hanniness. of struggle, of accomplishments. Mistakes, of course. But on the whole the usual happy an# successful life In which hardships and pleasures are mingled. That was what made the condition so harrowing, so terrible, so secretly frightening to Mary Estes when cer tain menacing facts hegan to take on a reality she had been struggling against ever since the first few weeks following her engagement. Everything was right, everything was as It should be. A better, steadier, more considerate boy than Benjamin Parke could not he Imagined. Her parents were happy, his parents were happy, and. with a bnngalow on Kay street, an old dream of her was about to come true. As Mary confided to her best chum. Alice McMahon, a pretty doll with china-blue eyes. It was a story book engagement In Its total desirability from every angle. All except one?and that one angle Mary did not begin to admit, even to herself, nntll weeks after the an nouncement of her engagement. Mary was not In love with Benja min Tarke. Strange, how clear the matter ultimately became to her. Not nntll after a long period of self-hyp nosis, did Mary come to realise that, from the very beginning, she had thrown herself consciously Into a state of mind ahont Ben. She had talked herself Into a condition of seeming to be In love with him. The wish father to the thought, she had deliberately tried to force herself Into ? state of mind. The engagement to Ben had been the result. It bad seemed to her, dur ing those months while the facta of bar self-hypnosis ttlU lasted, that the had accomplished right and righteous ness. And then gradually, and a little horribly, It began to dawn upon her during those festive weeks of linen showers, bridge parties, evenings with Iten over blue prints of their new bungalow, that everything she was tasting was dead sea fruit. In the dead of night, Mary would w'ake up with a sense of oppression In her breast, with a dread of to morrow, with terror of what she was doing. Mary did not love Ben. She liked him, she respected him. She even ad mired him. The thought of him as her husband filled ber with dread. Sometimes It seemed to Mary that to be free once more, to be free to come and go at her secretarial work, to be the girl once more unhampered and unimpeded by the dread of mar riage. was the one state of being that mattered over and above anything that had ever huppened. She regarded those of her girl friends who were still outside the pale of matrimony and still unhampered by ties of en gagement with an envy that was as Illogical as It was unlike her. Mary had only one desire In life now?to be free. To be un-engaged. To see her life stretch before her once more filled with the old Ideal of some day meeting the ultimate life com panion. To he un engaged was out of the question. Ben took her so for granted. Her parents were in their seventh heaven of approval. His parents made no effort to conceal their pride. The community smiled. Mnry was committed. Terror, rebellion, agony, pnnic rose within her, only to be hid den by the calm, demure exterior she showed to the world. The day of her wedding approached and It seemed to Mnry that with It there descended upon her a dread of living that must ultimately annihilate her. She knew that she must not go through with this dishonest thing of marrying Benjamin Parke. And yet, what way out? What way out? The question beat about In. Mary's tortured brain like a great, Im prisoned moth. What way out? She turned the question over and over in her hot, tired brain. What could she do? How could she find a way out? What did other girls In the same predicament do? For surely other girls had made her mis take; though they could marry a man and then, suddenly, or gradually, real ized that lack of love would make marriage Intolerable. But there wag nothing to do. She couldn't do the only thing possible; tell Benjamin that she didn't love him. It would seem such a simple thing, yet It was fraught with all sorts of Impossible complications. It would mean bringing hurt unhappiness to her parents ami his parents. She her self would feel that she had failed?to her family, to his family?to Ben jamin and to her own word. There seemed, to Mary, something dishon orable In breaking her engagement. So what way out was there for her? The way out came In the form of ? brief note delivered to her one morn ing two weeks* before her wedding day. It read: "Dear Mary; Since there Is no way of telling yon, without hurting you, the cruel thing which I am about to say, I shall say It In the shortest way possible. Alice McMahon and I were married at ten o'clock this morning. (Signed) Ben." Bringing the Medical Profession Up to Date That the amount now paid by the average family for doctors' bllla will be substantially decreased when the medical profession drops Its old-fash ioned Ideas about advertising, and learns to adopt modern merchandis ing methods. Is the theory advanced hy Ernest Elmo Calkins, nationally known magazine writer and advertis ing man, writing In Medical Econom ics, a business magazine for doctors. In his article "Doctors Advertise? Why not?" Mr. Calkins says, "If a program of advertising could be Insti tuted. shared In, and supported hy every doctor In the country, not only would the Incomes of doctors go up, hut the cost of medical attention would go down. There are hundreds of thousands who should havt a doe tor's care who are not getting It, thou sands who could have escaped elab orate treatment or operation If taken In time. Doctors should he paid less money but by more people. The en tire United States should he under tha care of competent medical men. The Immense store of medical knowledge now available should be utilized by more people. The way to keep well la not through Ignorance and luck, bat by wise advice and knowledge. "If people understood what ft meant to keep well all good doctors would be busy all the time. There Is enough knowledge today of medicine and sur gery to greatly Improve the national health, but much of It Is unavailable to large numbers of people, through Ignorance, prejudice and financial lim itations" "Policeman** Fired Uncle Sam haa one silent but effec tive policeman who has enforced his ban on picking wildflowers and shrubs In the national parks, but ao efficient haa this "policeman" become that he has found It necessary to eliminate him at the ramp site In Se<|oola Na tional park. The "policeman" Is poison oak, which Is unfamiliar to the aver age easterner visiting the park. So many have the cases of complaint been that the poison oak has been en tirely eliminated and weed killer wed to prevent It* return. NEW DEVICE BOON FOR THE SIGHTLESS A newly perfected device which converts printed words into large raised lines on aluminum foil so that blind persons may rend by touch was demonstrated by the inventor, Robert E. Naumburg of Cambridge, Mass. The new printing vlsagraph, as It Is called, rnpidly produces en larged, embossed letters on a wide roll of thin nlumlnum foil. These let ters may he felt by the finger of the blind person lq the same way that he reads Braille or other embossed type. The outstanding advantage of the product of the printing vlsagraph over the old embossed types Is that It will enable the Wind to have ac cess to hooks printed In Ink. This will Increase their present range of reading about 1,000 times. The New Tork public library contains about 8,000 books In Braille and more thai) 8,000,000 books printed In Ink. The vlsagraph. Mr. Naumburg ex plained, Is especially useful to the blind student at nchool, college or In post-graduate work, and to the blind professional person, whether a doc tor, lawyer, writer, teacher, or engi neer. It Is very helpful to the stu dent of foreign birth, as hardly any literature Is available In foreign lan guages In embossed type. Mr. Naumburg was assisted In the demonstration by Miss Edith Mllner, a student at Perkins Institute for the Blind at Watertown, Mass. After less than one month of practice on the vlsagraph, she was able to fend from a book printed In Ink with surpris ing fluency. A month ago she did not know the shnpes of the alpha bet printed In Ink. having always rend Braille, which does not resem ble the printed nlphabet. Adults who lose their sight, Mr. Naumburg explained, will welcome the printing vlsagraph, which enables them to visualize with their finger tips the letters whose shapes they will remember. The printed letters are magnified In height arfd width, so that they are about the size of Braille char acters, with which most of the blind are already familiar. The lettera are composed of dots and lines. A capital T has a long line across the top, and a row of dots forming the vertical line. These dots are close enough together to give the feeling of a contlnnous letter. The Impressions on the aluminum roll may be preserved for future ref erence and for Instruction purposes, or they may he erased passing the aluminum foil through a pair of rollers, like a clothes wringer. The aluminum may then be used over again. The roll of aluminum reseip bles, In size and shape, the music roll -of a pianola. The printing visa graph la about the size of an office desk.?Boston Transcript. * Electric Eye Aids Blind "Electric eyes now are being used to "see" for blind persons In guiding them about their homes by giving thgm a sense of direction at they move about. The electric eye, or photoelectric cell, Is made up Uke a flashlight with a small buzzer con nected to Its battery, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine. Con venient electric lights are then placed about passages and hallways, par ticularly at' turns. The blind person turns the elec tric eye about much as a person hav ing his sight would direct a flash light. When the device points to a light source, contact Is made and the buzzer sounds. As long as the buzzer Is sounding the blind user knows he Is on the right path. Sometimes Seems So "The lawyers make some glowing pleas for these prisoners." "To hear the orations, anypne of them has led a better life than I have," commented the weary court derk. The Blame "Poets are born and not made." "Yes, blame It on the parents! They get the blame for everything else." If we keep In mind our compara tive unimportance, our troubles won't worry us so much. Gave Sound Reason for Multiplicity of Wives Maurice Hindus, the Russian au thority, was talking about his expe riences In Russia. "In Russia the unrestricted divorce law is abused," he said. "Its abusers don't think so, though." "I lunched one day In Moscow with a commissar who had already had 14 wives, and he was only twenty nine years old. "He said It was to his wives that he owed his success, so naturally the more wives the merrier. He said without his wives' counsel and sup port he'd still have been a shoemak er's apprentice. "Then he wourd up with an epi gram. " 'The born leaders of men,' he said, 'are women.'" Village Built for Bombers To provide target practice for air planes In a recent aviation meet in Italy an elaborate reproduction of an Arabian village was built In minia ture. The model was raked with aerial bombs shot from airplanes, fly log low. Big bombers and small scoot machines were used In the at tack, and the maneuvers were car ried out In strict accordance with the latest Italian military develop ment. The speed In which the vil lage was completely destroyed was declared to be an Indication of the effective offensive of the present air plane In waging war. Thank Goodness The mayor had Just laid the foun- j datlon stone of a new wing for the hospital, and the spectators awaited his speech. "What can I do, Mary}" whispered the mayor to his wife. "I've laid the stone on top of It." Worth Pondering Over If the devil can have first chance at our children It doesn't make a particle of difference to him how high we build our church steeples. ?Capper's Weekly. No Age Limit There doesn't seem to be any age limit to antique collectors.?Ameri can Magazine. X |^eu^?ro?7| I A ROOM & BATH (For Two) at $400 ? I A ROOM & BATH (For One) at $2>0 I I at the Hotel ? IbristolI I 48th STRUT ? WIST OF BROADWAY I ? a ? ? ? ? NIW YORK ? ? ? ? ? I I On# of New York's host Hotels. Convonlonf fo oil ' I I .shops and theatres?where courteous' I g attention Is the watchword. | A HOTEL OF KNOWN * B P UTATIO N~^^ Car Owners bought mare Firestone; Tires during May, June and July than in any like period in History There are reasons for this?Firestone is build* ing the Greatest Tire Values in history, -with the result that Firestone Factories are operating 24 hours a day ,6 days a week, to meet public preference. This is the year everybody is scrutinizing his Eurchases. This is particularly true in tire buying ecause of the many confusing and misleading statements made about tires. To give car owners the facts, Firestone published i comparisons showing quality, construction and ; prices. Then the public went to Firestone Service * j Stores and Service Dealers?made their own com parisons with cross sections cut from Firestone Tires ?and from special brandmail order tires and others. When they saw the facts, they bought more Firestone Tires during May, June and July than in any like period in Firestone history. Let the Firestone Service Dealer show you these | Firestone Extra Values and have your car equipped for Safe, Trouble-Free Motoring. Drive in today. ilO A jhht ji kbi nsra mi * COMPARE c0m?ttpct10w mnd quality 4-7?-m tim flrMtMt -HAtw _. ? 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