Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1923, Page 8

AGE EIGHT ‘Are All Men Alike By Arthur Stringer Author of “The Prairie Wife” "The House of Intrigue,” Etc. INSTALLMENT NO. ELEVEN. VHO'S WHO ; Theodora (Teddie) Hayden, a “poor ttle rich girl." seeks “freedom” in ireenwich Village. Her Unole Chandler, ‘the major,” before saving for Hot Springs, goes to sce \er, telling his of chum, Commodore Stillman, that she is! ‘too pretty to be running around cose.” Her uncie is forced to be sat- sfied with her independent attitude. Raoul Uhlan, a portrait painter, orces his attentions on Teddie and tisses her. To punish him she asks Gunboat Dorgan, a prize fighter, to reat him, which Dorgan does. Dorgan thereupon also Kisses her and as rumes rights over her roadster, much to the annoyance of Raby Reamer, a modet, «ho threat ens Teddie with “the law.” because Dorgan has apparently thrown her over. Shotwell, representing the depths of that bottled-up young soul. | But he asked no questions. There | wery two things which he knew too well for that: on® was life !n general. and the other was Theodora Hayden in particular. As for Tedd'e herself, she was ty- rannical and melting and snappy and chummy all at the same time. In her mother’s absence she promptly ordered the servants about in a man-| ner which plainly betokened that she inlended to be master of her fate in fat least one quarter of an otherwise | unconquered wor'd. She ordered ellver unpacked and moth-bags banished and the striped Ucking off the furniture and the, cars overhauled and the drapes re- stored and the drive-borders re- trimmed and an absurd amount of cut flowers in the house. But she prowled moodily about the house, resenting ‘ts quietness at the | samo time that she gave orders she | was at home to nobody. She tried riding before breakfast and found her cld mount grown soft and her new groom grown sulky. She tried | reading, and discovered how unbe- Neveably dull all modern buoks could be Attorney Raoul Uhlan, calls to demand $25,000 for his client for the beating. So Ted ie calls on Gerry West, one of her own set, a ‘childhood playmate, now a lawyer Bhe te:Is her story, whereupon Gerry | also kisses her, Louis Lipsett, a reporter on the Star, ts called in by West, who takes Hteps in spite of Teddie’s indignation at being kissed again, to fight her Key aitanie deta, decides to) 1) p11 in defying the old speed traps, Teddie is visited by tke Commodore! ®t Sixty miles an hour. Even the Svho arrives just as she hands Shot.| &Teenhouses, when she invaded them, well a $25,000 check for Uhlan. The| Seemed to suggest funeral setpleces Commodore, overwhelmed with "| and the vanity of all earthly ways. She tried motoring, an4@ found no} interest in maneuvering the old hatr-| rin curves on two wheels and no The very wx'ls atout that lordly pathy, kissea her just as Dorgan en- it ters. Explanations follow. The Com-| Hayden demgnse crew still Reain Uncle | Temarkable suggestive of Jail walls ve te) bev hllg ren i iag ine eonean starts | And that particular wall which inter. out to get back the check. | vened between her own and the ad Gerry West recovers her car, brings| Jaccnt estate of the West family It back to her studlo and is interrupt-| 88emed to take on a particularly cb ea in his attempt at love-making| Jectlonable co‘oring when Dorgan drags in Lipsett. As for her Uncle Chandler, he Teddy flercely repudiates Gerry and| Punctilously Cressed for dinner, and | ctiliou: sat at one end of the Bnnounces she is going home, just as} Punc Stace, 4 big dining-room table while Teddie Uncle Chandler enters. | | Just as solemnly sat at the other— though she did on:s emerge suffi- ciently from her self-absorption to remark that they looked exactly like two palm-trees on the edge of the Sahara. She at once ventured to ask if Wat- Gerry Engaged to a Frump? é ILL, that impresses me as an eminently sane and respect- able place to go to,” remarked the old Major as he blinked from one to the other of the odd trio confront-| kins really oughtn't to have a pass- ing him. port when he carried the joint all th But is eye, for some reason, was| way from her end of the table down on Gerald RhinelanCer West when he/ to the old Major's end of the table spoke next, though his question, ob-| And her Uncle Chandler brighten-| viously, was addressed to Tediie: jed up suffictently to inquire if he} “And just when do you want to| hadn't better order a taxi to run| 50, my Gear?” them out to the terrace for coffee. “As soon as you can get away from, so abysmally vast seemed the here,” was Teddie's prompt but low-| tances in that dolorous and noted reply. house. ZZ - “Let him go! This man ts act ing for Miss Hayden.” Ceremoniously the old Major held) [TF the old Major remained susp!- out hie crooked right arin and dolor clously meek and long-suffering ously the girl in the bluefox took {t.| during these days of trial, it must Neither of thern spoke until they| be acknowledged that he made dl. game to a stop beside the roadster.|-vers and undivulged trips in to the “I never intend to speak to Gerry) city, when he returned oddly fort! ‘West again as long as I live,” an-| tied jn spirtt and beguiling{y ab- nounced Teddie, with a combined! stractedt In manner, suddenness which made her Uncle} The only excursion which brought Chandler forget his left hipjoint as! sim obvious displeasure was that he climbed into the car beside her.| when he brourht back Teddie a mo He patted her knee, comprehend. | tor-truck loaded down with her stu- ingly. | dio possessions—which the lady tn “Under the circumstances, then,” question solemnly conumitted to a he observed as she made the motor) ponfire on the rear end of the East whine with an altogether unneces| prive. sary jab on the accelerator, ‘It'll be| And that afternocn as they sat| just as well, Teddikins, {f you don't see him for a week or two!’ . . . Back in the dismal emptiness of taking tea and cinnamon toast on the ‘Terrace, he finally found courage to confront the morose-eyed young lady the dismal gray stucio Gerry and|/ who sat in the high-backed willow Gunboat Dorgan stood looking at! chair so moodily tearing on Ophelia each other. Then Gunboat sighed! rosa to pieces. fraternally and essayed an “Soy TeCdie, isn’t 1t about time | you were loosening up," the old Ma: } jor quietly inquired. owl-like wag af the hes | “They're all alike, them women! he remarked with sagacity of one| “About what?” demanded Teddle, who has survived unfair omleals at) taking her third slice of cinnamon the bands of the fair | toast. “About that mix-up down tn the fprpen s head was much clearer| yirage.” by the time she had motored) “It wasn't @ mix-up," corrected out to Tuxedo. Her head was clear-| Teddle. er, but the contradictory tides of n what was it?" feeling that ed/4ed about her trou-| «rt was a revelation bled young heart seemed as muddled| «, revelation -of what waned up ns ever. Even her Uncle Chandler was not! down Unele Chaadler as he put his teacup 3 BARNEY GOOGLE-- Thank GOObNESS . NOT A Sou «Nous T™ BROKE tuekvy foe ME ~ They Su THIAK Tem A MILLIONAIRE O# Wee The PEOrLe Che Casper Daily Tribune MR-Goocre =- I HATE To ANNOY You, LIKS TH -SuT You owe Me 49).22 For BOARDING ‘SPARK-PLUG in OUR. STasies — - -HEY- WHeRe iS 176% Pungus $t—! ON THE A Wich “Of course." said the old Maio as he took out a cnased gold case and meditatively extracted a cigar ‘So let's have it, Teddikins, h Une and sinker!” But Teddio shook her head. “I telegraphed to father appositely remarked. “Where is Trummie this summer?” her uncle inquired “He's still at the Arizona Camp Ob servatory,” explained Tecdle. “Trummie moves so slowly,” com plained the old Major. ‘‘The poor man can't he'p it, I suppose, trailing that chain of D. 8.’s and F, R. 8.'s and F. R. G. 8.’s around after him all the time. But I suppose you felt he was the proper person to talk such things over with?” Teddie nodded a slightly abstracted assent. “Yes, I felt that way. But T had a wire from father this morning. 1l¢ says he'll be through with his spec tographic analysis of the Milky Way nebulae before the end of October anc that as soon as he feels sure ‘he can synthesize an isotope of hy. drogen approximately to nebulum he'll come east and have a talk with me-" The old Major smiled penstve:y “Yes. 1 remember what he said when the Rubber Trust swallov up my little Congolo company and squeezed me out after I'd squeezai out the orlzinal Amasterdamers: ‘The oysters eat the diatoms, and we eat the oysters!” It makes me wish, Ted die, that I could be a philosopher now and then.” 6677 wish women could be," remarked Tecdie. “Then why not make a stab at it.” ventured the old gentleman who had been so intently studying her averted’ face, by telling me what the trouble is?” really nothing to te'l, Uncle Chandler,” solemnly asserted the young lady with the moody eyes, drawing the striped ticking of ret!-| cence over the brocaded injustices of youth. | The old Major tossed away his clg- | aret. He sat staring at the poor lit- tle rich girl in the willow lawnchalr Ho stared at her so long and s0 intently that she finally turned about and looked none too fraternal- ly into his face. “What are you thinking about?” she asked, “It's queer I never noticed it be- fore," remarked the old Major, appar- ently more to himself than to the girl confronting him, | ‘oticed what?” asked Teddie. | ‘How you're getting a bit Ike your mater,” replied the placid-eyed old gentleman in the armchair, “a bit tamed and trimmed off and troned out “IT won't bef’ prociaimed Teddie, with quite unlooked-for passion, as she got up from her chalr. | “But how, my dear, are you going to stop it?’ asked the still equable old Major, “I won't get lke that!" reiterated Teddte, looking far all the world lke @ eecond Artemesta confronting an army of embattled males, Bhe} stood there, as though expecting’ some retort from him. But he sald nothing. 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HEAVENS! 1TS BEEN ‘THIS WAY ALL DAY LONG 11! ime t—((| ISS CY wi 1° ; ac, pins looked up, with thi He waited behind his paper, for] question. Instead of answering that) (Copyright, 1922, Bell Syndicate, Inc.), the stage gave her modified these er-) A few years ago Pola Negri, the fa- yer jecond he: he h ron 7 7 Vay’ mi a 25 jegri, eo “py the way, i enw ie voeeumas Sayers), seconds. Th m he heard a) not unnatural interrogation. she was ("Gerry Gives Way" in tomorrow's] ratic notions that had been instilled| mous film actross, was. earning 9 dore in town yesterday,” observed) Tron te lone he hear| calling sharply out to Watkins: “Tell .{nstallment). into her youthful mind, and in 1830] ™Odest $4 a week as a shop girl-in Teddte's uncle as he leisurely tupned| (Conn ‘ont parrish I want my car. I want it a |she learned with pleasure that her |2erlin a page. ‘He was telling me @ queer uae then hence | at once!” Sarah Bernhardt's onetime boast| picture entitled, “Young t 0 ine een eine ceed Malone. the: aarbial bisected | ANd two minutes later, as the old|that she could earn her living apart | Death," had been accepted in the sa-| MAM HOOPING COUGH mm bare eed!” eald §=Tedcie, miteat tha Terrace: “| Major folded up his paper and watch-|from the stage by painting and sculp-| ion. But the work that took Pare Le poh joving , " ed Teddie vanish down the West|ture was not an {dle boast. In early | aur sonal jo “cure”’—but hel = is Con oO "U = “Where are you rol 1 e fa . je boas surprise was her powerf. elps to ree cath”, Commodore was saying that| | “Where are going © de-| Drive leaving % scurry of gravel and|life she, devoted a great deal of time| plaster entitled hte thee | auee Paroxyems of coughing. Gerry's xolng to marry that Rivers| manded as be lores 80 Ted-! a residuary cloud of dust above the|to the painter's art, and had it been|representing an aged mother with girl,” offhandedly announced the! dle making off with the stride of 4) shrubbery, he sighed audibly, and|her fortune to have had less erratic! ar eth! Bee maculated old scoundre immacu:| Diana took out esther cigaret {4 sat| instructors she might have be Riguie mee ee EECA ae te Vv coke! 1 shai ‘ { S008" igaret, and a uctors she e become a} group Mme. Bernhardt gained hono: late cricketer’s flannel, A) But Tedae ¢ vl gap in thought; giitesstul arist, ‘Ti treiniads yeh gained honor APORUB ble mention. | Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly oo |