Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1923, Page 25

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1923. “SOULS CHAPTER XXVIII (Continued- she began to laugh, hysteric- ally at first, then with more Wholesome self derision. i Her eyes were so bright and her! laughter so glad that they impressed a director who pressed his face | against the screen door. Mem had! been so deeply abserbed in her plan! that she had not observed the other | door standing wide open saye for its| screen, Tirrey asked the director in as he opened the inner Coor for Mem’s exit. put the director checked her with a gesture. Tirrey presented him as Mr. Rookes. He had to ask Mem’s name. She gave it, from habit, as Mrs, Woodville, Mr. Rookes said to Tirrey: I've got to let Perrin go. She's good at all—no comedy, no charm. She's supposed to play a village cutie and she plays it like Nazimova's Hed- da Gabler. This young lady looks type. She's very pretty, nice; 1 clean looking.” Mem was aghast at being so dis-! ssed, yet it was thrilling to be con-| ered. She did not even note that the director had neglected to demand virtue as the price. It was almost more embarrassing to have him de- mand her experience. Her story improved with repeti- “Oh, I played a bit for Mr. Folger. lie said I was wonderful.” Was it comedy?” “Well, not exactly, It was charac- She was trying to talk like a professional. “Would you mind giving me a test?” She was not quite sure what he ineant, but she was there to pay any price, so she said: “I'd love to.” “It's late,” said Rookes, “but I'm desperate. Come right over to tho set before the electricians get away.” He hurried her through the screen door, across: the grass to one of the vast warehouses, and there under a bombardment of grisly Nghts, with a camera almed at her paintblank and Yeaer the eve of various men in over- alls, he asked her to smile, to turn her head slowly from side to side, to wink, to laugh aloud, to flirt with an imaginary man, to indicate jealous vexation at a rival. Rookes was fretful over the snarl this small role wps causing in his big picture. The delays and shifts it had compelled had already added sev- eral thousand dollars to the expense account, since the overhead and all ‘totaled nearly. $3,000 a day even with ne recent cuts in salaries. He assumed that Mem knew the rudiments of her trade and could use the tools of it, which were her mus- cles. He gave her no help, paipted no scene, did nothing. to stimulate her imagination. In the desert, among the famine- wrung people in costume, under the fiendish sky, it had been easy to lift her eyes in prayer and to weep. She found out all of a sudden how much harder it is to be natural in one's own ¢lothes than to play a ‘po- etic role in costume; how much hard- er It is to be funny than to be tragic. She could not smile at command. Her lips drew back in a grin of pain. Her wink was leaden. ‘The camera caught what her face expressed and it expressed what she felt, which was despair, She had her chante and she was not ready for it, She knew that if she had, been droll and mischievous, the director's face would have reflected it as Mr. Fol- ger's eyes had grown wet when she wept in the desert. But Mr. Rookes was merely polite; the camera man was mirthless; the props and grips W= he had let her cry awhile, | stole away, The test was short. Mr. Rookes said: “Very nice. Ever so’ much obliged. Mr. Tirrey will Iet you know how it comes out. Thank you again. Good night!” And now she must find her way driving away (SM What Caus In reply to this inquiry by the Na- tion’s Association of Credit Men, 10,- 000 merchants gave “failure to keep books” as the answer. A bank account p expenditures. _ Citizens National Bank Consolidated Royalty Building (ZAI TOTES | mother was so worrit not having had sunemp‘oyment, Close observation of your expenses will enable you to save. NA in his car as she sneaked through the gates, feeling that her paradise! was gone again, She had so little hope that she did not mention the experience to Leva.| She had no ambition to promulgate | her failures. It was success that she | wanted. For once her gloomy forebodings | were justified, And ever after she | trusted her gloomy forebodings, of-| ten as they foo:ed her. The next Cay passed with no sum- Mons from the studio, But the mail brought her a letter from Mrs. Dack. It was written in such script as one might expect from a hand that} clutched a cake of soap or a hot botter handle and scrubbed clothes against a washboard all day six days a week. It said: Dear Mrs. Woodville: I was awful glad to get your letter, Been meaning to anser it but trying to fix up my afairs sos I and Terry could come! up to your city. Yesday I was to Mrs. Reddicks and she said she had a tel-| lagram for you but had no acress and so could not forword it. It said your no anser to her letters she was come-| ing out on the first train and would| reach alm Springs day after tomor- row. Hoping to see you sovun ether! there or here, MRS. P. DACK. P. S.—Both I and Terry send you lots of love. Mem was petrified. Nothing could stop her mother from coming. The first blaze of joy at the thought cf the, reunion was quenched in the flood of impossible situations her presence would create, Alone with her skyish ambitions, her contempt for village standards) had been sublime. But that was in| the absence of the village. It made| an amazing difference in the look of her new jdeals and practices that they must be submitted et's eyes. Her mather did not know Ios An- geles. But then, Mem did not know her, mother. Daughters have not all been| mothers, but all mothers have been! daughters. | Mem'‘s courage turned craven be-| fore the wilderness of her problems, | poverty, ambition, | Terry ack to launch and her mother | to a moth-| to educate. CHAPTER XXIX. } wat iy Remember’ Steddon was not exact a runaway, She was a walkawa: She was not included in the pitiful deadroll of the 65,000 girls who van-! ished from American homes that year and caused a vast pother, though girls bave been running away from home since girls and homes were. They have followed the cave men, the barbarian invaders, the allied troops, the caravans. the argosies. They filled the.vrimeval factories and che places of merriment, the Cor- inths and Alexandrias. Some of them became slaves and some suttanas, priestesses, royal favorites, em- presses, tsarinas, queens of song and art. Some starved, some flourished. Mem felt that to go back would con- dem her to ignominy and futility, while to stay away promised a chance for wealth and glory. She heard voices calling her, saw spirits sum- moning her to the skies, no less than Joan of Arc ¢id, and perhaps with no more insanity. But now her mother had found her FOR SALE’- | troubled by bad dreams or imagined | lay needful anc terrified in the next pulsion that drew her mother to her) rifying as having het advice accept- acyoss the continent. ed. She had not realized what an| Old Mrs. Steddon had raised afam-|@rmy of children was already quar-| ily and been habited to a mother's| tered in Los Angeles. | slumber, light and fitful and broken By working all the time and never | with frequent dashes to besides| spending much Mrs. Dack had accu: | mulated a pittance that looked like! @ fortune to her. She would find! that Ices Angeles prices were not} scaled to keep retired laundresses in! luxury for an extended period. But burgiars or mere thirst or a cough. Mrs. Steddon had always flung out of | her own warm covers to run to the call. If her hasty feet found both her slippers or one or neither, she| that was for the future. H hastened as she was. She would not} She and her boy and Mem stood have paused for a wolf, an Indian, a| on the platform, waiting for the up murderer, a fire, or an earthquake. |teain, and when Mrs. Steddon drop- Mem was still her baby in the dark,| ped off the steps Mem put her right and it did hot matter whether she| back on again. She ran forward and persuaded the baggageman to carry Mrs. Steddon’s trunk on to Los An- geles. It was only when the train room or beyond the deserts or the! seven seas. The mother's one bus!- ness was to get to her. Her telegram) was flying once more through the was her old night ¢ *m coming, | desert that she and her mother found honey, Don't worry. Mamma’s com-}a chance for real greetings—and ing to her baby.” She shot this cry| thon they were restrained by the across the continent and called Mem| presence of other passengers. “baby,” although Mem felt as old as! At least Mrs. Steddon was night. !strainec. Mem was stimulated, The Reverend Doctor Steddon had) This simple, familiar matter of a wished that he might go along, but| mother and daughter meeting again his church tasks held him and he/ after a long parting revealed the gulf re- | drawing: pauperdom closer. -His only out and was pursuing her. Her mother would be as grave a problem to her as she to her mother, The fall from the cliff that ad not quite free Mem’s soul from her body had quite freed the little para- site soul that was to have been her conspicuous fardel to bear through life. But the tiny leech had begun to drink her blood and in its death it tore open a wound that would never quite heal. Her soul had bled and she had been stricken with awe before the two miracles that fastened a life upon hers and then wrested it from her before it was quite a life. The letter she had written her mother then had been the instinctive cry of a child beset in the dark by some enormous presence passing overhead, Just as instinctive was the com- TRANSAT SATS es Failure? rovides a record of {ATT ATT could not find the money for two! fares, The Hes he had been told had! succeetied to perfection. | Mem's efforts to hide herself and| support herself in the widlerness he assumed to be her usual unselfish and characteristic unwillingness to be a bother to her father and alter | Doctor Steddon agreed with his wife that she must set out at once for Palm Springs, He raised the ne- cessary funds by lifting still more of his little savings from the bank and regret was that he had not more to sacrifice. And now Mrs. Steddon was follow- ing Mem's train route, with all the difference in the world: Mem, a vung and beautiful girl, had had all her fate before her and a heart of growing audacity and reckless ambi ton. Mrs, Steddon, an old and shabby parscness, had all her hope behind her and that not much, and a heart full of “inexperience and of: timidity before everything except sélf-immola- tion. When Mem learned that her mother was already ,on the train, she could devise no plan for turn- ing her back... Somehow she had to | be met and provided for. Every one cf the women of Mem's Holywood household was out of work. She who had savings was lending them to her who had not. One of the women in the bungalow gave up the fight and, putting up her little car for security, borrowed from Leva money enough to pay her fare home to the village and the scornful relatives she had sworn never to re turn to except in triumph. The serv- ant had been releesed, and the strand- ed women were cooking their own food, such as it was, It was this dire confrontation with bankruptcy that had goaded Mem to her insane idea of pawning her virtue for an opportunity. ‘When the cast: ing director had given her a sermon instead’ of a quid pro quo, she had found herself abject indeed; even her shamelessness repulsed and her last trinket proved non-negotiable, And now mother! ‘In every deep a lower dee! But Leva res- pended to her panic by an almost hysterical bravery. She laughed, “Tl dig a little farther down in the and added the trite old brav- heer up! The worst is yet to her come! With a few dollars from Teva's waning resources Mem took the train to Palm Springs, her one remaining hope being the confidence that when sunlight, in a bright and gaudy bunga. from Mr. Tirrey saying that she was engaged. She reached Palm Springs in time to nave a little talk with Mrs. Dack who was closing out her business and good will as a washerwoman and preparing to take her boy Terry to the golden city of Los Angeles. This was a gamble, indeed, and Mem was frightened by what she had set on foot. She found nothing so ter- Standard” When Guests Come It is evidence of real hospitality to show your guests a bathroom that is “theirs. venience of such arrangements is in pleasant contrast. to the usual one-bathroom equipped is far more comfo: guests, See,our showroom for modern bathroom equipment. Schank Plumbing & Heating Co. Phone 711 between them. Mem had crossed the gulf. She had dwelt in the blazing sunlight, in a bright, a gaudy bunga- low with noisy friends. The house was made to look well from the street. The tefl of all the inhabi- tants was toward publication, the entertainment of the public. Mem’'s new ambition was to parade her emo- tions before the world and storm the world’s emotions. There was far, far more in this than mere conceit or ostentation. She wanted to help mankind by educating and exercising {ts moots, as even the most ardent evangelist is not without anxiety for public attention, for the meekest has his pride and his greed of notice from his God if not from the public. So now Mem felt that it vouid be a shame to let these strangers think she did’ not’ love her mother tremen-, dously. She devoured the little old vyoman with kisses and caresses, an. she did not keep her voice inaudible. That was her new ideal of devotion. She was advertising her !ove a little, but more than religious people taunt their creeds. Mrs. Steddon was no less aglow with joy in the recovery of her lost lamb, and no less aware of the audt- ence, but she felt quelled by it and under an obligation not to disturb it her personal emotions. At home she lived CORNS. Lift Off with Fingers no ina dui old Soo! Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little “Freezone” on an aching corn. in- stantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fin- gers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the tces, and the callouses, without soreness or trrita. tion,—Advertisement. The privacy and con- dwelling. The house thus rtable for both family and 359 East Second St. ¥ Casper Sunvdap Worning Cridune --A Great Novel of Hellywood Life BY RUPERT HUGHES house as devoid of architectural frip- peries as of graces. The blinds were always down and the ideal of that] house was that the neighbors and} passers-by should never know of its existence. Good houses and not heard were seen She was troubled by Mem's voluble| enthusiasm, her warm clothes, her careless rapture, her demonstrative| affections. She did not mar the fes-| tval by rebuking her child, but she! grew a little more quiet and reserved, as if to give a hint, or at least to low- er the average. Mrs. Steddon’s body had traveled thousands of miles, but her soul had not budged. * She wag just what Mem| had left in tho village, looking, in-| deed, a bit more village in her bon-| neted shabbiness than before. But to| the mother Mem was altered nost beyond recognition. Her spiritual wardrobe had been| enormously enlarged and the clothes; upon her body were of another world. | Los Angeles has fashions of dress! that are all her own. Many of the moving-picture people are conspicu-| ous anywhere by their sartorial dif-| ferences. Even the wax figures in the shop windows of Los Angeles have a chal'enging spirit unlike any other waxworks. The dummies attitudin ize, beckon, and command attention by their uncanny vivacity, where the indolent wax figures of shops of oth- er cities are content to stand still like clothes racks and make no effort to sell their wares. Mem had acted a role !n make-up MRS. W. L. EDMONDS Beauty and Health \ Go Hand in Hand If You Have a Daughter Read This Advice Cedar Rapids, Iowa,—"I havo taken Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and found it very helpful in troubles pe- culiar to women. It is very strength ening to the internal organs and es- pecially does it eliminate suffering at special times and regulates in the proper way. My daughters have also taken the Favorite Prescription with the best of results; they would suffer so at times that they would be compelled to stay home from work, but after taking this medicine they have not suffered since. Favorite Prescription is the best medicine a young woman can take if suffering in this way.”—Mrs, W. L. Edmonds, 705 Second Ave., W. The use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has made many women happy by making them healthy. Get it at once from your nearest druggist, in either quid or tablet form. Write before cameras; she had learned to} fashioned and her child doing better dance and swim and ride, to compete without her than ever she had done with young men in athletics, business, | at home. As Mem's tongue outraced repartee, and flirtation. Her body was no longer a hateful shroud of the that her baby was now a fearless ad- spirit, but a finely articulated, gallop- | venturer upon the Paths of ambition; ing steed for the soul to ride and put that she was actually one of those through paces. She was so changed outside and in, from colffure to foot-gear, appalling creatures known as an act- that at) things! A movie actress below all first her own mother had not recog-! things! nized her in the young actress who| Mrs. Steddon’s comments were swept down upon her, flung her back! simple gasps and reiterated on the train, and treated her as a| freshair-tund waif. Later she real- ized with embarrassed admiration that this brilliant butterfly was what had come out of the dun chrysalis that she had named Remember. Sho had loved the chi'd, but had never suspected her of being so capable of so many metamorphoses. Tho swift journey from the moun. tains and through the desert into the orange gardens was repeated for her in the journey she made now with Mem's soul. “Well, Mem's autoblography hardly finished by the time Los An- geles was reached. And now the abashed immigrant that Mem had been when she faced the crowded streets and the comets was as sophisticated as if sho had beon a native daughter of Los Angeles. Sho sheltered well’s.”" her mother as if her mother were a new-come immigrant of immature mind. home of a cousin, then sped on to the bungalow. ress, and a movie actress above all was taxi| They left Mrs. Dack and Terry at| {ts late occupant—snap-shots of rol- licking beach parties, of horseback | rides through canons, of Greek dano- tho train, the dazed mother learned! ers, of postal cards with queer photo- graphs and queer jokes, portraits of stars and others, all in a high state of excitement. * During the train ride and Mem’s chatter Mrs. Steddon had been doing some earnest thinking in a little pri- vate brain room just back of the aud- itorlum. Her hubband had pledged her to write him frankly how their Poor child was and how soon she would be strong enough to be brought back home. Mrs. Steddon had Promptly realized that Mem was far too strong to be brought back home at all. Sho realized, too, that if she wrote her husband frankly just how Mem was and what she was up to, Doctor Steddon would probably - fall down dead in his study, or have an apoplexy in the pulpit when he stood up to scourge the sins of his congre- gation and felt his whip hand stayed | by the fact that his own sheltered pet Tho girl's first questions were eager demands for news from home but then her talk turned all to her. self. She was “selling” herself to her mother as she had tried to sell herse'f to the casting director. Mrs. Steddon had been prepared to find a scared and sickly child in a shack in Palm Springs. She ha come as a rescuing angel. She found that her wings and halo were old JNFLUENZA ma As a preventive, melt and ine hale night and morning— CcKs VAPORUB arly Over 17 Million Jars Used 100 WAYS To Make Money By BILLY WINNER. If I Could Make Keys— LOST my doer key one time and had to perform the sec- ondstory act. Worst of it was I didn’t know where to get a new key made. Come to find out, after a good deal of worry. there was a man in my neighborhood who made keys. But I dida’t know he was there when I want ed a key made. Now if I could make keys I would see that people knew about it. Thousands of keys are lost during a year, and 1 would make money by supplying new ones for some of them. \ I would insert a Want Ad in the Casper Daily Tribune, saying that I made keys, en a per son lost a key he then would come to me for = new one, Dr. Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel in Buffalo, Y., for free advice. Prompt Payment of Bills! Prompt payment of electric bills enables the customer to save 10 per cent of the bill. Delayed quires our payment of the bills re- employes to take a lot of time to go over 5,500 accounts and dig out the delinquents; then take a lot more time tional notices. stamped and mailed. in making out some addi- Yhe notices must be All of which costs the company time and money and time is money. The customer loses the discount and no one is as well sat- isfied as if the payment had been made promptly. We would much prefer that the cus- tomer pay delinquent discount than to delay the payment a week and lose it. It’s up to the customer to save ten per cent of for him and good business for us. i Natrona Power | Company — the bill before it becomes and get the benefit of the his bills. It’s good business had gone wronger than any girl in Leva, who ran out rs . to whisk Mrs.) town of recent memory. teddon into the shrimp-pink resi-| Mrs, Steddon did not want to com- dence, found her calm and serene.| mit murder. She was not like that But {t was the calm of chloroform. nt monster of self-preservation Glis: mune. Ao Stalsiane veva's{ WHO Said that if all mankind stood on mennce to: eye's nce to be dumped into he!l un- : ad ‘isposition of’her and her things. 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