New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1917, Page 4

‘Why Dicky Indignantly Denled That He'd Slept at All, “Vot ails Meester Graham?” Katie reiterated. 4T don't know Katle,” I returned, “and he won't let me send for a phy- siclan. He was seized with a terrible pain in his back at'the dinner table, and he can’t straighten his body with- out the action hurting his dread- fully.” “Oh, I know vot dot is!” Katle Lanswered cocksurely. “Dot Jim he have dot sometimes, lots of peopl have it sométimes hands get al twisted oop by dot.” “You mean rheumatism, Katle " I sald doubttully, “Dot’s Katle sald, ‘T feex dot opp qveck. Dot Jim he have big bottle stuff, you.paint eet .on back with brush—send pain away 'awful qveeck. I get heem.” . She hurried down the stairs, and was Soon back again with a small dish fillled with an evil looking mix- ture, and a handled brush, “Dere now!™ she giggled, “you be artist now, not Meester Graham, he be one beeg ivas—you paint heem g00d, fight where pain is. Don’t get dot stuff on your hands, make them black for a week.” = She went down the stairs chuckling, I had a lurking suspicion that Katle 4d not take “Meester Graham's ill- ness very sériously.. She probably had been listening .when he' had spoken 80 rudely to me, and I know that her sympathies.were with me in any question between my husband and myself J ‘With the dish and the brush in hands T went slowly back into Dicky's room. I felt mone of the joy of serv- ing a oved husband that I know an with properly - constructed sympathies are supposed to feel. Onj the contrary it ,with a sensation of @read that I entered the room. To my great surprise Dicky was asleep, drawing long regular breaths as sweet- 1y as a healthy child might have done. I realized the heat from the = hot| water bags hadl relieved him, so set- ting. the dish and brush on a table fn the hall with a wish that there would be po. need for using them, 1 ourled up on Dicky's chaise longe, and wafted for him to waken = I have always admired the exquisite artistic room Dicky fitted up for him- self in the old Marvin house, but it has been an admiration without lk- ing. Indeed, my feeling toward f{t has been one of genuine aversion and I rarely enter it. Memories That Rise. For draperies and cushions all bear the handiwork of Grade Draper, the beautiful girl who was Dicky’s model and art protege, and whose very name spells to me all the beartbreak and anguish which she brought into my Ufe. Every time I go into the room I recall the first time I entered it, and experience again the jealous misery with which I realized that the ex- quisite Jof of the strips of Chinese embroidery to'the thin material of the draperies, and the making of the em- broidered cushions, was the work of | Grace Draper’s hands. ' T had hoped—secretly of course, for I would have mutilated my tongue rether than hint such a wish to my husband—that after the girl's mad attempts to kill both- Dicky and me as well as herself, he would change the draperies and cushions. But my hope wae vain, Bither he was obtuse as most men are, and attached no significance Wwhatever to the girl's work, or—and this was the sting in News OF A WIFE By ADELE GARRISON my morbid musings—he did not wish to throw away the needlework because of some lingering sentiment concern- ing his former protege. “You Were Asleep.” ‘Whatever the reason, the room was unchanged, and as I watched my hus- band and waited for him to waken, my thoughts were not pleasant ones. I was fast falling into ene of my morbid moods, when Dicky scattered all my introspective thoughts to the four winds by waking with a moan s0 loud that it was almost a shriek of pain. I sprang to his side. “Oh, has the pain come back again?” I asked, “I am afraid the hot water bags have gotten cold. Let me take them and Tefill them.” I am glad the hot water bags were not sentient objects, for Dicky's summing ;up of their characteristics and consignment of them to the place which is supposed to be a graphic synonym of war were most complete. Then he turned his attention to me. “Where the devil have yqu been!" he demanded savagely/ ' betweéen groan I thought yau wers going to find out something from Katié that would stop this pain.” “I had it here within five minutes of your request té speak to Katle,” I replied, “but you were asleep and 1 did not wish to disturb: you.” » Dicky fairly yelled I haven’t been asleep an i I have barely closed my eyes.’ Just in time I repressed the inclina- tion to tell him that I had been mit- #ing in the room half an hour Msten- For Theat BILL GOOD FEATURES . FOR COMING WEEKS George Boban, a comparatively new film star to New Britain people, is seen in tho leading role of “His Sweetheart”, the Paramount picturi- zation of the novel of the same name, which is featured at Keeney's for to- night and tomorrow. Tomorrow in addition to this feature and the reg- ular Universal releases the manage- ment will offer the latest episode in “The Mystery of the Double Cross.” For the last half of the week the film attraction will be another Para- mount leader, “The Wax Model,” with Vivian Martin starring. The man- agement announces for the near fu- ture Fatty Arbuckle in “A Reckless Romeo” arjd Max Linder in “Max in a Taxi.” : . SERGE SPORT TOGS - | . THE MOMENT’S CRAZE /7 ing to sounds that were suspiciously |’ w.mu snoring. Instead 1 stooped over, took the offeriding hat water bags, and put:theéem to one side, and. then, from the drawer in Dicky's chiffonier took some partly worn bath towels. “May I ask if it is your purpose to give me a bath? Dicky inquired with elaborate sarcasm. CHOATE- LEFT $8,000,000 Greater Part of Estate Is Bequeathed to Family Although Many Charities Are Remembered. New York, May 22.—The will of Joseph H. Choate, filed for probate yesterday, disposes of an estate es- timated at $3,000,000, the bulk of which goes to members of his fam- ily. The public bequests are $10,000 each to the State Charities Aid asso- clations, the New York Association for the Blind, St. Paul's’ church, Btock- bridge, Mass.; the Woman's Prison Assoclation and Home, e R Mr. Choate left $250,000 outright and $76,000 a year to his wife, Caro- lfne 8. Choate, besides the use of his residence, 8 East m—tu:i-.mn. and his ‘;)ounu-y place, Nau: , at Btockbridge, together with all the fur- nishings of his clity and country homes | and all his works of art and personal effects. George C. 8. Choate, his son, receives a trust fund of $250,000, while Joseph H. Choate, Jr., his other son, and the latte: ‘wife, Cora Oliver Choate, get\ $100,000 each outright. ‘The four children of Joseph H. Choate Jr., Marion, Helen, Priscilia, and Je- seph H. Choate, 34, receive $50,000 each. The residuary estate is divid- ed between Joseph H. Choate, Jr., and his sister, Miss Mabel Choate. A novel slesve for a coat hag a lingeries puff at the wrist. SIDE TALKS \ Why Make Oneself ‘There are a greét many real evils |can fee] them thinking about her fa- | Wool materials. that one has to combat in this world, —disappointments, hardships, sorrows, sacrifices, one’s tendency to selfishness, lasiness and all the weaknesses flesh i3 heir to. Why then do we not content our- selves with fighting a good fight with these necessary evils and not use up our strength fighting ghosts? ‘What do I mean by fighting ghosts? ‘Why, setting up semi-imaginary enemies and then proceeding to com- bat them. : i ' 'How many people go through life forever planning and worrying about a multitude of “things that never come.” You Can’t Enow What People Are Thinking About. Another form of ghost fighting, and the form I want specially to speak about is making up your mind what other people are thinking about and then combating these unexpressed thoughts.' For instance, I have a friend who has a little niece one of whose par- ents is confined in an insane asylum. ‘The child is very bright and when the aunt takes her about everyons ad- mires her. And yet the aunt confided in me once that she feit all the time 8s it they were watching the- child to see it 1t ghowsd any of its father's queerness. ¥ N “It spolls half my pleasure in taking her among my h'l\a.d-." she sald, “I ther all the time.” Now I am sure these thoughts she is combating are half the time non- existant. In other words she is fight- ing ghosts. People who have any kind of - handicap In their heritage or any Physical handicap are always fighting this ghost of other people’s thoughts. Of course ope can readily understand how people so handicapped would be haunted. Such ghosts breed naturally in the miasma of a morbid sensitive- ‘ness. But if the haunted ones could lay Bhold of the Health realisation that peopls do not have ‘time to think about them. half as much as they fancy, they might manage to sxorcise some of these “hants.” How Many Misunderstandings Are Just Ghost Fights. Sometimes after a misuderstanding has cleared up and one analyzes the trouble, one finds that the most of it simmers down into ghost fighting. It wasn't what either saild or did that gave offense but “I thought you thought——" says one. And “I felt you didn’t approve——" says the éther. To strike at a ball and miss it in tennis (and I imagine in golf) tries one much more than really. hitting it & good whack. Even so, fighting ghosts is much more tiresome and less satisfying than fighting real evils. Legal Atd soclety, and i BEACH GARB, Worn with a white French serge skirt, side plaited and finished with a cuffed hem, is a natty jacket of navy serge with patches of gay embroidery and a high collar. This same ' em- broidery is repeated on the panama sailor, % Fads and Fasliions l Braid embroldery makes the bodicd of any plain frock rich and becoming. The Eton college boy's collar 1is used ‘for a finish to many one-piece dresses. The two toned hat is much smarter than the hat of one color. Your summer frock cannot be too lacy. Lace is used on hats and parasols. Short full circular jackets are in favor. Wedding gowns are vefled in silver lace. Even sports clothes must not be often have deep - Beige and blue 15 a favorite color combination. Linen is combined with tulle and No girdle should visibly entirely en- circle the walst. A lavish, use of Ilace for evening gowns is hinted at. Gold satin makes & g00od trimming for dblue serse. Beads are not so much used as trimming this season. Y Yellow, cherry or green may be ‘u-ed with silver gray. i iy Children have taffeta dresses trimmed ' with quilling. Children’s coats have mv‘tlwvcol- iars, pockets and belts. Persian embroideries are charming with neutral tones. Coats are in three lengths—iong, three-quarter and short. The lingeries dress has returned with thig season of lace. N Apple green is a pretty shade many of the soft fabrics. Suspender dresses are being taken up to a certain extent. A new dull surfaced charmeuse ‘used for black wraps. ; in Flat pleated chifton sobes ‘perpetu- ate the atraight Hne, rdoers “EYES FRONT!” IS ORDER TO THIS MAID and Women “ATTENTION” Navy blue and gray plaid serge is here cut one. piece, white brosdcloth siving the dash and fringed girdle, A boy’s. windsor tie makes the cravat, so smart with the Russtan 'turban of aigret trimming. | & ‘Women Doing Men’s Work. One of the most striking results of the great war in Europe, is the extent to which women are doing the work of men. Travellers to England, and France report that practically every able-bodied man is in uniform and women by the thousands are engaged in doing men’s work—acting as con- ductors and drivers on the cars and doing all sorts ofgheavy work besides. This" shows unexpected possibilities in what has been mistakenly called the wedker sex. Women are subject ¢o ailments which men do not have, and when so alling become weak, helpless sufferers. But a remedy has been found. 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