Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1930, Page 16

WOMAN’S PAGE, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO Ask No Questions By Beld on Duff Copsright, 1930, by Nerth American Newspaper- Alliance, Tne. SYNOPSIS. Miss Annassa West leases Bride's Mouse. in_Connecticut, so-called because & bride who had sought ter | ¥ith her husband had str: - Peated. The lease specified tenant must ask no questions, no m Rhat hanpened in the house ~An been opened. rdered. John of the house. nassa’s polo ponies Dracula. a savage stallion. 'figh off Cranson. who advises nt to leave Bride's House. ed From Yesterday’s Star.) SEVENTH INSTALLMENT. | HE deputy left by Seth Toby to guard the house had had his dinner and was established in the most comfortable chair in the living room when Miss West entered. He seemed disposed to enter- tain her with confidences concerning the incompetence of certain Hales Crossing officials, but she fled to the sanctuary of the back kitchen, At 10 o'clock Abby fixed a pot of €offee and some sandwiches for their protector. When the repast had be et before him the two women a nounced that they were about to retire to the floor above. “Make yourself at hom urged Miss West with doubtful hospitality. “All I hope is that you won't be needed in your official capacity.” The man had A gun: not the automatic of fiction, but a riot gun, its trigger cocked, ready for emergency. “You go to sleep, miss, and don’t be a-scared of nuthin’. I promise to shoot at the first sound of a foot stirrin’. And I allus shoots to kill.” | “Better wait for the second sound,” she advised. “This is no ordinary man hunt we're embarked upon. counted all those warning puffs lnd‘ snorts, At a distance of some 8 or 10 paces from the knoll the man stopped and | with every appearance of leisureliness searched among the clump of young Having found one to his| I¥ liking, he proceeded to cut himself a switch, lopping off the leaves with the | plum trees. point of a long wicked-looking knife The horse, meanwhile, that was going snatched a bit of clover, on, The man kept advancing, his hands | raised above his head, the bridle held — | out suggestively between the What the Killer thought was ficult to imagine. - | strangers comer’s horror, the deed, beer: ing hoofs an his fate re the open window “Stop!” she’cried. But even had the cry been heard, it was too late. The st r had aiready made his spring or & place on the bare black back. What followed in the next few sec- nds was too kaleidoscopic to describe in detail. A whirling picture of man and beast—of pounding hoofs and flying mane—of a plum-tree switch—of that one pale eye of the Killer's flashing in the moonlight. The horse had reared on his haunche: and was pawing the air, preparing to fing himself backward in a suicidal attempt to be rid of his detestible bur den. A well timed cut across the nose brought him to earth again. Cunningly changing his tactics, Dracula began a scries of leaps, each one gnding on four stiff legs. To the added a frantic spin, . { (“I'm one eve aware |pounding on the door. | pened?”’ He laid small ears mpled under those danc- that she was about to see | go down ted here before her eyes | be the next." brought her to her knees in front of creating the atmosphere of dread that seemed so much & Part of the old Run- nels place. She rose, still under the thrall of what she had just witnessed, and moved to- ward the door. But before she had | taken a dozen steps thunderous detona- tions shook the flooring under her feet, A shot, exaggerated a hundred times because it had been fired indoors. And almost instantly, there came another sound, a sound whose significance her mind did not grasp until minutes later the muffled roar of & high- tomobile engine getting under way. In the suffocating stillness which fol- wered au- | around the Smiling Pool. Signal Passed Along. Obedience without delay You'll find to be the muskrat way. Jerry Muskrat. Peter Rabbit spent a lot of time 3 You see, Peter was greatly interested in the school there, for really there was a lowed, loosened plaster crackled from |school in the Smiling Pool. There were the walls. Behind her, & scattering broken glass. | The deputy had fired. Had he killed | that school. anything? And, if so, what? wohing: And. 1 10, wnat unks had got clean away. But perhaps the ghost had been less fortunate, The less, formless shadow she had seen e hall & moment or two after Otto have become material enough to be caught napping? 'm awake.” This to Abby, “What's hap- { _“For the love of 'God. Miss Ann, let me in!” and the faithful old servant stumbled into the room, a candle drip- | and’ bosom. | For a moment the two women stood | and stared at each other, stared like “If you don't say something soon,” Ann said at last, “I will go and | see far myselt | At that Abby began to scream. “Don't Stay where you are. We may | “Tel me what's happened.” ‘There | was that in the girl's tone which brought “the fear-maddened Scotchwoman to her | senses. “The watchman. Miss Ann. Oh, the DOO{ creetur!” “Yes, S ! Go on!” “Some one’s shot him—shot him wie | ica Annassa West took the candle from Miss Barth's hand. “Stand aside,” she sald. “I must see if there thing I can do for him.” (Continued in Tomorrow's Star) So successful has been the use of es- parto grass in the making of fine pa- pers in France that.it is being intro- duced into Canada, Belglum, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Australia and ad left her the night before—could it | vho was | | { not dig- | PIng hot wax, unheeded, over bare neck | picture fell,{(WD teachers—Jerry Muskrat and Mrs. Muskrat. Nine little Muskrats went to Of course, they didn't call PETER STAYED RIGHT WHERE HE WAS. HE DIDN'T MOVE. it & school. But after all, any place where you learn lessons is & school and these little Muskrats were being taught lessons every day. It was surprising how fast they grew. It was quite necessary that they should learn as fast as they grew. Otherwise they would become grown up without being really fitted to take care of them- selves. ~Peter, just from watching, got o that he understood some of the sig- nals. He was over there just at dusk one evening. Jolly, round, Ted Mr. Sun had gone to bed behind the Purple Hills and the Black Shadows had crept W. Burgess. By Thornton Peter sat right where he was. He didn’t move. In a moment OF two it seemed @s if a shadow—a flying shadow—passed across the _Smiling Pool. was saying, “That was Hooty the Ow Jerry Muskrat must have seen him and |gave the signal down there in the Laughing Brook. Mrs. Muskrat, over there behind the Big Rock, heard the signal and passed it along. The nine children, over there in the bulrushes, | along. So by the time Hooty the Owl | got up here every little Muskrat was hidden.” All this Peter said to himself inside, taking the greatest care not to move so much as & whisker or to make a sound of any kind. You see, Peter knows all about the wonderful ears of Hooty the Owl and how well he can see at & time when most other people can see very little. And Peter quite right in his understanding of those signals. Jerry had passed the signal along to Mrs. Muskrat. She in turn had passed the signal on the little Muskrats and they, because they had all been trafled, had at_once hidden and remained hidden. By and by Peter heard a squeak. It was Mrs. Muskrat. It was answered by & number of little squeaks. These were from the little Muskrats. Their mother had told them that the danger was past. | (Copyrigh | = Prof. A. 8. A. Todd, author of “The | World's Cotton Crop,” “The Cotton | World” and other books, has been in- vited by the Egyptian government to Vvisit Egypt and examine the situation in the cotton industry. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Getting Them Clean. | . Washing Mary's dirty hands and face | was always quite a problem, because she objected so until 1 Peter held his breath. Inside he | heard her and each passed the signal | Muskrat had seen Hooty the Owl and | D. C, THURSDAY, JULY BEDTIME STORIES WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Resistered U. 8. Patent Office. 1EYou DonY KeeP STiLL i DONT KNOW WHAT: FEATURES BEAUTY CHATS If you have had & bad attack of, blackheads or pimples, or any form of | acne, I know of no cure better than a | good, heavy coat of sunburn. If you go | to a skin specialist for this trouble, he'll probably start you by giving you the violet ray treatment, aDs once, per- haps a dozen times. Sunburn is the di- | rect 1t of exposing yoursqlf to the real violet rays—the healing, burning | rays of the sun. Only you must be careful how you burn. Get yourself dark classes—they can be bought for 10 cents almost anywhere, and though you would not want to read with them or wear them a great deal of the time (being cheap .glass, they might easily strain your eyes), they are ideal for shading the eyes while you lie in the sun. The next thing to do is to | rub your face and neck and arms and shoulders with plenty of olive oil. Give your skin a good, thick coating and rub it in, Then lie out in the sun and burn. J. K—I think if you used a fine! cream on your skin every day it would relieve the condition that bothers you so much. It would surely improve the texture of the skin so there would not be this “creepy” look you describe, and it would keep the skin much more sup- | ple than now. As you improve the whole condition there will be less and | less tendency ‘to dryness. You do not need to have expensive treatments, just give your skin enough of a good oil cream, using finger tips in a light mas- sage to get blood to surface, and close WHEN A STONE BRUISE WAS A pores afterward with plenty of cold wa- | REGULAR SUMMER_INJURY AND |ter, which also will be a stimulating YOUR MOTHER USED TO APPLY |treatment. “GREEN PLANTAIN,” A|a good cream, send a stamped, ad- CRUSHED If you wish a formula for BY EDNA KENT FORBES. Patsy P.—If the peroxide does not bleach the hair on your arms, it cannot be fresh, or maybe you do not bathe the skin before you apply the blegeh. Any skin secretion weakens the effect of peroxide for bleaching purposes. It you shave such hair it will coarsen it, although it is advisable to clip an oc- casional very conspicuous hair very close to the skin, and go on bleaching all of the hair, also. Shaving whole patches means that fine hair that would never become conspicuous is encour- aged along with the bad stray ones, and soon you have a condition that is beyond you. Cherry Pudding. Cream half a cupful of shortening with one cupful of sugar and add two beaten eggs. Sift together two and one- half cupfuis of flour and four tea- spoonfuls of baking powder, and add to the first mixture alternately with one cupful of milk. Stone two cupfuls of cherries and drain off the juice, Stir the cherries into the dough, turn into greased individual molds and steam for one hour, Serve with a cherry sauce. Robot Patient “Touchy.” Unless treated correctly a robot pa- tient in a medical college at Vienna, Austria, protests by ringing a bell, If the treatment is right a light giows. The device was invented by Dr. Ha linger of that city and is specially |adapted for teaching surgery of the throat, nose and esophagus. Thess parts are faithfully reproduced in the COMMON WEED, TO ALLAY THE |dressed envelope with your request and| model, which breathes and has a heart- PAIN. it will be matled to you. A NEW beat exactly COCKTAILI A zestful appetizer that will start and across the Green Meadows and over | strenuously, the Smiling Pool. It was all very calm and quiet and shadowy there. Pres- ently the first little star came peeping out and was reflected in the water. your next dinner right ¥¢ it's so easy to prepare. Keep White Four | ast Vienp wes | n Star Tuna elways handy + v | from which both horse and rider | Japan. Nowhere could Peter see anything of 4 bullet might go clean through the thing | i'ré aiming at and hit the wrong | A ghost is so porous, you She moved toward the door, closely | followed by Abby. “If you want any thing, there's the bell pull. It rings in the upper hall. And. oh, by the way, should you feel you have to shoot, don't point that cannon of yours up in the air. I sleep right over your head.” When Miss West said sleep she was | taking liberties with the word. It was | almost 48 hours now since her eye- | lids had closed for any appreciable | length of time. The habit of sieep had gone from them: and, even with the comfortable assurance that an able- | bodied man was seated in the room below—a man placed there on purpose | to do the keeping awake for her—no amount of coaxing could woo it back. Just as the combined weight of sleep- lessness and darkness had grown almost too heavy to be borne the tired body | relaxed. Eyelashes quivered, drooped,| quivered again, settled into place. For | 5 minutes, 10, 20, sleep gave temporary | relief to the exhausted brain. But be-| fore the sleep had become deep enough to do any good a violent contortion of | the muscles almost lifted her from the | bed, and there she was awake once more—awake and trembling. Had some- | thing moved in the room? Had a hand touched her face? She flung the bed- clothes from her and sat up. In her search for matches and a candle, a tumbler of water got itself tipped over and wet her to the skin. But no one seemed to hear the racket |in the room belc emerged dizzily wondering what the next move would be. It was at this moment that the watcher in the window heard a sound a chair as though some one had risen hurriedly, followed immediately by the | squeak of a heavy tread over the two loose boards near the fireplace. Too often had Annassa stepped on those boards herself not to recognize their dolorous plaints. Without doubt the zealous deputy had caught a hint of what was | going on and had risen to attend to | it. And then the thought: Suppose he should feel it in the line of his duty to take a pot shot at the night rider? She called: “You m the south pasture—look out! Man coming! Gun!” The strang:r flung a look over his left | shoulder, a wordless, fleeting question. The big black horse, quick to feel, sensitive to understand and interpret, | did not have to be told that his rider’s attention had been momentarily dis- tracted. All he needed was an open- ing, and this was it. In a flash he had the bit between his teeth, had whirled about and was headed for the stone | wall. | Too late, Miss West saw what she had done. Helpless she could only grind her finger nails into the wood of the window sill and wait, an unwilling wit- ness, while the man she had sought to save from the deputy’s gun was carried to what looked like certain destruction. As for the rider, not until he was within a stride of the wall did he snap out of the trance into which her inop- —the scrape of a | My, Neighbor Sa; To prevent juice of apple and berry ples oozing out, cover bot- tom Jayer of ple crust with cracker crumbs. A steak intended for grilling, if suspected of being tough, should be well rubbed with olive ofl an hour or so before tising. Those who do not like ofl may use melted butter, but oil is much more effective. Experts say with proper care an electric iron 'should be of service for at least 10 years. Always connect your cord at the wall plate, then plug in your iron. Have also a separate switch on the cord near the iron to turn the current on and off. Don't leave your iron to heat; stay with it. Thus you will not forget and allow it to become overheated. Iron heavy material with the current on. But for light stuff, learn to switch it off frequently and iron with stored heat. When making pastry, roll in one direction only if you want it to be light. Rolling first in one direction and then in another is almost sure to make it tough. JOLLY POLLY the Muskrats. Jerry wasn't to be seen; Mrs. Muskrat wasn't to be seen; none of the little Muskrats were to be seen. After a while Peter began to wonder where they were. night as Muskrats love, Could it be that something had happened to one or more of the family and the rest were in hiding? Peter tried to_be pa- tlent. However, patience does not hold his mind that he would go over in the Green Forest for a while. when he heard clearly but faintly a sound which he recognized. It was the sound made by a flat tail being slapped on the water. The sound came from down the Laughing Brook below the Smiling Pool. Immediately the sound ‘This time it came from back of the Big Rock in the Smiling Pool. And then right away came a whole series of little slaps. They were not so loud, because they were made by small tails. These slaps came from in among the bul- rushes at the upper end of the Smiling Pool. After that all was still. Yes, sir, all was still. A treat for N It was just such a| out forever, and at last Peter made up | Peter was just about to start along | was repeated, but was much louder, | made a game of it. I pretended I was putting on her “make-up,” when doing her face, and when I came to her hands and arms I soaped them thoroughly, saying that she was putting on her gloves, and when I rinsed them, that she was pulling them oft again. Sonny was mollified in a similar' manner by pretending that he was getting a shave, just like daddy. (Copyright, 1930.) LR dozens of new and delightful ways to serve. ot ¥ TUNA COCKTAIL 1 can White Star Tuna 12 stalks green asparagus 2 tomatoes 1 cup Thousand Island dressing Break Tuna slightly with a fork. Mix it with the dressing. Line sides of cocktail glasses with stalks of asparagus and sections of tomatoes. Place Tuna'in cen- ter of glasses. R A LI B your guests ONETINofR&R Boned Chicken (*), a few other ingredients, ten minutes, and presto! you bave a dainty, delightful Chicken treat. You can obtain R & R Boned Chicken in six and twelve ounce tins at allgrocery and delicatessen stores. Ask for it by name. Try R&R. ChickenSalad Sandwiches the next time you entertain. she made opening bureau drawers in search of another nightdress. And this was doubly strange when one came to yemember the man in the room below. Shivering, she blew out the candle and placed it on the stand between the two windows, where it would be within reach of her hand. As she turned to crawl back into bed the cloud bank which had brought the darkness slid away and the south pasture lay re- vealed. On the knoll near the graveyard wil- ows stood Dracula, head up, tail switch- ing gently back and forth—a sure sign something more than ordinary had oc- curred to arouse his temper. Miss West began to ask herself what the stallion was doing there, out of his box stall, free and foot-loose. Her answer was not long in coming. From the side door of the red barn emerged a man—a tall, broad-shoul- dered fellow, as physically potent as the horse he 50 obviously meant to master. Otto's night-rider! Snatching a pair of field glasses from the drawer of the night stand, the girl took a good look at_the approaching figure. The glasses revealed that the man was young, that he was dressed in khak! trousers and & torn flannel shirt portune cry of warning had plunged him. But when he did come to it was with a lively appreciation of the danger that lay ahead. Digging his knees into the foam-splashed sides of his mount, he brought all the power in the upper part of his body to bear on the frail | curb bit Another leap and they had reached | the stone barrier. | There came one heart-rending second | of indecision, one last quiver of oppo- sition_before’ the Killer, unable to es- cape his heritage of obedience, rose in Tesponse to that mighty upward tug, | skimmed the wall like a swallow in mid- | flight, and, flattening out on the road | beyond, disappeared in a welter of rage ‘\ e . EL, § . and gravel. . . | TU Miss West hung limp across the win- | NE IN WCAU :iow i;rxlu lhl“ ;h.-' last hoof beat had br.oog | . Every ost in the leafy stillness of the Wood | road. Gradually her lips parted in & | TUESDAY at 5.45 P. M. smile. Had her heart not already been | THURSDAY af 10.30 A. 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