Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1927, Page 21

The Slump. Ed_ Brand carried home Milly Perkins' ink- smudged postcard he had no conception of it as a sort of potential bomb. It read innocently, “‘Stopp! ff at Brettsville for a few days, M/ly.”. And Milly was ant cousin of e had not made th i and Ed were ma the right thing for her to do. Befor: nd Grace were married + Mflly had shown no reserve when it came to convincing Ed that he could have her for the asking, but after he d to Grace she had, very de- fade ay, an years they had heard an occasionally s had cemented the ve of the dai ce and the ) nething more ‘ - al eye, but wi ots reaching into the eterna vere the plump, blue-eyed pink twins just 16—Merty and B re were three short grave , on the elm-shaded hill-side er of the diphtheria epidemic was Ed’s typhoid sickness tnat left him not so strong and need Grace’s tender solicitude; there the struggle for a home; alway. self-sacrifice that transcends into beau ty what might otherwise be almost * ¢ sordid Milly followed hard upon the post- card—only it took Ed and Grace some seconds ‘to comprehend that the . slim figure in the s black dress, orange touched, knee-high, revealing slim, and French heel satin this was M Her hair was boyishly bobbed and she was & la mode to the last touch Ed s ace remembered Milly . inly girl with big frec- kles on a white skin and wispy red hair. She was alw making hersel conspicuous by following' some latest fad—invariably ~unbecoming. But now——— “Goodness, Milly, vou look younger than wou did 17 vears ago! Why, you # look young en to be our daughter, doesn't she, Grace.” ¢ And there was nothing for Grace— fat, flabby, her dull hair twisted into @ tight bun on the back of her head her feot omfortably spreading in Ted felt bedroom slippers—to do except nod feeble assent. act, it seemed to Grace that for to come that was about all She who by right of her wife hood and motherhood had been the mainspring of the home now seemed effaced by the dominating cleverness and good looks and youth of Milly The twins hung on her every word ¢ followed her about like puppies and openly criticized their m b pedrance. Ed was not better than the twins—at least in admiring Milly. Bu he had hastily hushed the twins when they told their mother she was too fat to have any style, and had warned them they were in a glass house and should be careful about stones. But Grace observed that mow Ed shaved every day, that he wore becoming ties and that he carried his great length straighter than heretofore. Milly's heart was not unkind in spite of the veneer that kept it from be- ing soft. “You don’t have to stay that way you know, Grace,” she said, following Grace upstairs after she had seen her wipe a tear from her eye with the corner of her blue calico apron. “Come in here and let's talk.” She drew Grace. inside her room and closed the door, curled herself upon the bed and proceeded to tell Grace a few things about keeping young and good looking. oA humbly and hungrily accept- ed all that Milly had to tell her. It seemed that her ‘life was to consist chiefly of lettuce androlls—the latter not edible. That night she toiled to the attic to begin the process of mak- ing herself young. She wouldn’t for the world have had Merty or Betty or Ed discover her. She wanted to sur- prise them. She succeeded in doing this—and herself as well. She had not rekoned with her weight or the light eonstruction of the attic floor, to say nothing of its age. She knew it was a rickety building that rocked beneath every wind, so she gave no heed to its protesting creaks with every bend or turn she took. But s when she attempted a somersault it 'ehrieked and gave way noisily beneath the strain, precipitating Grace's two plump, white-stockinged legs through the ceiling, of Milly's rooms, to which Mert and Bert had gone for a good- night chat, and even Ed stood in the «loorway, laughing at one of Milly's ¢ sallies. Even through the surprise and the shock and the pain Grace heard with humiliation the shout of laughter that went up; but it was followed by a panicky silence, a rush up the stairs end rescue. A medley of aches and pains and groans, Grace was put to bed and the doctor was called. Some ribs broken, a strained leg cord, a broken collar- bone and general shock—“Better stay in bed for a week,” said the round, X “And the exercise is all right, only go a little easy to start on. You need the reducing.” ., ¢ Milly had been planning to leave the next day. But she could not de- aily in their predicament. T3d, Merty and Berty weve al] as help- less as babes in this emergency.” “Tll stay,” Milly assented to their pleadings. “But don't expect any such feeds or shining house as G kept for you. I'm ne housekeeper. She need not have mentioned the fact. They discovered it in less than a day. The coffee was watery, the biscuits were lead, the potatoes burned, the meat underdone, the beds went un- made; dust covered everything. And Milly was cross. Her merry ways de- parted with her leisure and pretty She was “crosser in two min- n mum was in all her born eed the twins dn’t your mother teach you ything? You're big enough to + %do all the work!” re Milly, un- expectedly overhes b and we'll u show F WE told you how much relief psth=ia sufferers find In Menth-o-lics you would hardly believe ft. But it costs you only a nickel to dis- cover the benefis of Menth-o-lic. Cooling, soothing, and effective on throat and nasal passages. v 3. Frank Sheilenberger Company, Inc. PHILADELPHIA ._ Menrn-o-u . COUGH WAFERS “It'll be heaven to have you around again,” said Ed The three of them were sitting on her bed. She was to get up the next day and they were eagerly anticipat- | if I'm not so pretty and y as Milly?” she countered. “Pretty and jolly—we've not seen | efther since she’s got down to work. And think of you keeping so sweet and motherly all we piled on you! And to m yeyes you're a sight better looking. What did I marry you for? Why you got her peat a sight,’ 34 “Well, after all the slams I've got t's comforting to hear you say that,” aid Grace. “Well, 1 don’t bless the day she came,” said Ed. “[ do,” said Grace. “Do you know vhut she’s done? She's held up a r before us and showed us how e've slumped. We'd never have aught on in a thousand years if it dn’t been for her. When Milly came ilong—just our age and looking 10 ears nger—it just showed us what we'd slumped to. Why, I didn’ any more realize how fat and frumpy r'd got to be—-"" “We love you just that way, mum st aid the twins penitently. “You can love a mother with a fig ure as well as you can a feather bed,” said Grace, “and I don’t doubt but what you may love her a mite more Lettuce and rolls will do it every time —that's what Milly said. I'm going to get out of thiseslump as I can. And, Ed Brand, don me see you go back to wes » going some place and ith a slouch. If you could change like that for Milly you can do it for the twins and m We're all go- ‘ng to get out of this slump and stay out of it.” “We ain’t goin’ to slump no mo’,” chanted the twins. “That's it exactly beaming on the to slump no mo TH (Copyright. 1927.) said Grace 'we ain’ goin’ Charles Parrant, who as a lad was rabbit-boy to the Duke of Wellington and later butler of the Royal Military ‘ollege, Sandhurst, England, has re tired and at 81 is an enthusiastic bicycle rider. OIN THE J CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB OF THE FEDERAL-AMERICAN “Everybody’s Doing It” ' Homemade Supply of Fine Cough Syrup Better thanvready-made cough syrups and saves about $2. ily prepared. If you combined .the curative properties of every known ‘ready made” cough remedy, you probably could not get as much real curative power as there is in this simple home-made cough syrup. Get from any druggist of Pinex, pour it into a pi and fill the bottle with plain Jated sugar syrup or clarified honey. 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