New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1923, Page 4

> Y Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE § with the bedroom furnishings of the same beautiful wood, while the hooked rugs on the floor and the old | prints on the walls were things to make a collector emerald with envy, Linda noticed my admiring glances, and good-naturedly played ecicerone, “Thish is old wing of house,” she| said, patently trying her best to speak | islowly, “It's awful old, pretty nearly two hundred, 1 guess. See what a| mess the heating is." | | She walked to the radiator in. | stalled in.a recess between the broad | | windows, and pushed one of the ex-| (unisite old hooked rugs aside with her The Disclosure Linda Unwittingly Made to Madge “Whass eatin’ you?" Linda demand- ed thickly. “Sight of your own face frighten you? You'll bo scared worse than that before Gracie gets through with you." “My lips are so swollen,” slowly, Indeed, 1 was speaking but the truth, for the gag Grace Draper had put upon my mouth was no child's toy. But I was glad, indeed, that 1 had the excuse pat for Linda's cars, thankful also that she had not been in a position to see In the mirror|ent, what 1 had beheld. “Look here,” she said, and I saw a | Tor if I had not been the victim of | depression in the floor with a large an hallucination, I had scen in the! jagged hole in it through which/ mirror the reflection of some one pas-| passed the pipe connecting the radia- #sing outside the transomed door, some ;m,. with some other below, one near and dear to me, Under pre- “0jd man owns this place is a nut,” tence of examining my swollen 1ips 1| Linda declared with emphasis. “This looked intently yinto the mirror, not-| hole in floor was here in his great- ing the position and details of the door | grandfathers' time=rat hole, I expect, | Opposite the mirror, whose partiy-!and he wouldn't let any other be cut | opened transom above had given me|for the radiator pipe. So they ran it the glimpse of the flitting figure out-| through here to the room 7 helow, side. | Makes it fine for one thing though, It was clearly a door into anotheriand I'm the only one who knows it, room. I could see the outlines of a|op 1" ‘ | fire place like that in the room as-| §he clapped her hand over her signed to me, and through a similar | nouth as might a child who had un- door with a transom above I had just | wittingly betrayed a seeret, and laoked entered. The room to which I had at me in wide-eyed ludicrous dismay. been brought and this other, 1no|AsI gave no sign of interest, however, doubt, once had been designed as a|gshe hreathed more freely, and hastily suite with Dbath between. | pulled the rug to its former place I dared not prolong my scrutiny, again. and turning as if in search of a towel,| “I'm not going talk to you any 1 sent my eyes quickly around the|more,” she said grossly, with a sudden room. A window was the only other|ridiculous air of authority. “You're opening, a window which led to the|too fresh. Give me that tray and sit outdoors, but which I saw was se-|down there quiet till I tell you you curely barred. can get up.” i Madge’s Courage is Fired | I was barely seated in the chair to Say, how long 're you going to which she pointed when a key grated be?” Linda demanded, not ill-natured-|in the lock, and Grace Draper came ly, however. “Think I've got noth-|ip, 5 ing to do but wait around for you? I've got important business on hand, I bave.” b * She had the touch of arrogance| | which the first stage of intoxication 1 raid often gives. I hastened to appease otten THE TALE OF did not know how I could| | ‘ ) make use of her weakness, but I| G MA meant to play upon it if possible. “Coming this minute,” I said meek- ly. “I'm sorry to have kept yvou wait- ing.” “Oh, thass all right,” she replied | with an evident attempt at magnan-| imity, and I followed her back into| the room I had left with the frag-| ments of a dozen mad plans revolving{ 0ld Mr. Crow flapped away. Jolly in my b!_'am. Robin went back to the orchard. And 'zfif glimpse I had reccived of the!ljttle Mr, Chippy returned to the stone figlre in the mirror had fired my, wall and hid himself among the urage, and I meant to let no slight- | leaves of the wild grapevine. Farm- est chance of getting out of the room|er Green wasn't going to get any slip past me because of my own|round robin. And the geese and the weakness or indecision. {turkeys and .the hens, still gathered With every nerve tense, every sense | behind the woodpile, were feeling alert, I drank the hot tea Linda had|quite glum. So far as they could | brofight, and ate the food which ac-|see, Frisky Squirrel would continue to companied it. While I did so, I|lurk about the farmyard and snatch minutely surveyed cvery square foot| corn that rightfuily belonged to of walls, ceiling and floor of the room |them. which was my prison. “Dear me!” Granima Goose ex- \ A Charming Prison claimed with a sigh. *“I wish I knew It was a most charming and com-|of some way to send Frisky Squirrel| fortable prison. T had to admit that| scurrying to the woods.” | —a cozy, low-ceilinged room with| *Have you consulted Miss Snoop-| ide casement windows curtained in|er?” a tiny voice piped up from! hand-blocked chintz, with the same|somewhere inside the woodpile. costly and exquisite fabric reproduced| Grandma Goose stretched her long in draperies and cushions on every neck forward and peered into the hand. A desk, a bookcase, a reading|Crevices. At last she spied a pair of | table of old mahogany, harmonized | beady littie eyes. I MOSES MOUSE'S IDEA, — | COMEDY-DRAMA, MISS BRAD- FORD LEARN SN'T ALL COM- EDY IN THE MAKING. BY VIRGINIA BRADFORD. Hollywood, April 2.—A grin from Walter Hiers, a charging bull, wild horses and an assortment of other thrills kept my: heart in my mouth all day and brought me home in an ambulance for my first time on 'lo- cation” in motion pictures, I absolve fat Walter and the from all responsibility. Hiers was making his first starring plcture, “Mr. ‘Billings Spends His | Dime,” for Paramount. The bull, a mild thing picked on for the toreador's sport, was, next to myself, the most frightened creature 1 have ever seen breaking into mov-! fes. He was white, but they tied him | down for a make up of black paint without even a preliminary coat of! | cold cream. | Two actors began a film fight in " W CONFE . the grandstand. I forgot it was only Agnfil ',{‘_‘\1(".'(‘;” ‘_’M FEELEDANCED| reel, grabbed my purse, screamed and | started to run. ‘While I was helping a mob of| Spanish girls make carnival in the! streets of an improvised Central Am- erican city a horseman accidentally knocked a woman down. Early to Work. T began to get faint, hut a direc- jor's bellow brought me up sharp. | Comedy-drama, 1 perceived, wasn't all ‘eomedy in the making. " In big trucks, ecarrying 50 girls ich, I had started for “location” at that morning. At noon we lined up for a box lunch d a pint of milk furnished by the ‘company. Then the megaphones roared "Everybody on the set!™ 1 threw | confetti, danced and ‘laughed dutifully until my head, back 1 feet ached. Several times horses ‘fearing in rehearsal came plunging fough the crowd, and we were peally frightened. Something bit a|meet “Trish Mary,” who from in the foot. Someone knocked|cclebrity had fallen back to where I ‘bench over on my head. The roar-, was starting. | f megaphones sounded faint in my;, TOMORROW — “Irish Mary,” a| ~ |And then Walter Hiers, to has-been who preaches virtue to the) up & poor extra, smiled at me.‘v new extras among whom she works, bull This was too much. Together with | a fat Mexican woman who had heen injured by a rushing horse, T was| hundled into an ambulance and taken | henee. { Company Hospital. | We were rushed to the company's| emergency hospital, where a cup of| hot tea and kindly ministrations soon | revived my wilted spirits. Talk about the movies bLeing easy!| If any girl sticks through many such| “location” stunts as this she richly| deserves success. | 1 marveled at the patience and good nature of Mr. Ruggles, the gen-| eral director, who had to keep 600, people performing properly from 9’ to 4 o'clock. | I was still jumpy with nervous ten- sion at 7 the next morning when T was called to help “Mr. Rlllflng!"[ spend the rest of his dime-—and to | active pleasures and | how much havoe the conjectures “Wha's there?" sbe asked, i “I'm Moses Mouwe,"” came the an- swer, "I live in tne cellar of fthe farmhouse, In pleasant weathey I creep in here someuraes, to enjoy a | sight of the sunshine' “Well! Well!" Grandma mur “And who's this Miss Snooper rever heard of sueh a person, Moacs Mouse giggled, “It' we have for Miss Kitty Cat,’ plained, Grandma Goose laughed, the only person around here to whom I haven't spoken about Frisky Squir- rel, To tell the truth, we don't like name he ex- “Tell her not to coms back” said Moses Mouse. Miss Kitty Cat. We have to watch our youngsters closely when she' about.” “And Mrs. Mouse and I have to watch ourselves, when she's in the cellar,” said Moses Mouse gloomily. “She's a spry one, she can climb a tree, never seen her do it."” “It's true. She can,” Grandma Goose replied. *“And for that reason though TI've | she would be a fine person to chase Frisky Squirrel. I must speak to her about the matter. I'll ask her to chase him into the woods. “Tell her not to come back, Moses Mouse. “Ah! That Grandma told him. said would be “She’s too fond THE YOUNG LADY ACROSS THE WAY The young lady across the way says time certainly flies and it's now about six years since the Maine was blown up and we got into the world war. o I Emorions RevEALD Copyri§hl 1923-NEA. Service Ing. Letter from. Beatrice Grimshaw to Her Friend, Salliv Atherton. My Dear Sallie: ‘We have been having all sorts of conditions mind since last I wrote you. Just two weeks before the mony, the groom-to-be, John cott, was called back to business. Simultaneously his best friend arrived. You know that Syd- ney Carton was his best man. I thought Carton looked worried, especially sthen Leslie be- gan to rail about “a Arm that would bring a man back to his office at the time of his wedding.” “I do not believe,” she said, “that 1 would marry John if T thought he would worship business as the usual successful American man: But cere- Pres- ! my John, I am sure, will not be like this.” Tt struck me, Carton's eyebrows, Sallie, which, by the | way, are a very speaking feature of rather quizzical | Some way I had| an idea that John's best friend was| his face, took on a expression at this, trying to hold the fort for him at a very eritical moment. 1 presume I ought not say this to anyone, for you and I both know a third person will work in the lives| of men and women. But this T know, Leslie's father was also some- what skeptical of the business. The day before John came home I/ went with Leslie to her father's of- fice and although I did not mean to ry in any way, on his desk 1 caught sight of an open telegram. Hon- estly, Sallie, I did not intend to read| but seeing John's name 1 could help it for T had become slightly suspicious that there was a strong undercurrent of something sinister to Leslie’s happiness in the air. The wire was evidently from some member of John's firm and read: Joseph Graves Hamilton, Sharon, Pennsylvania. Your wire to our John Alden Pres- 1t, not near | cott was received in this office and | gelic as John imagines Leslie to be duly forwarded to him. Prescott is now in Sharon, Pennsylvania, where he will be married on the twenty- second of this month. ACME ADVERTISING CO. d've heard that| | useless,” of | Albany on! rather | that one of| ot/ DAILY VASHION SERVIOK. Silhouette Styles For Spring One of Six “She's | | | | This is the Egyptian silhouette— newest of all. It is marked by front drapes and front panels. To increase |the Egyptian effect of the silhouette fashion has added Egyptian acces- | sories—embroideries, jewels, buckles and printed designs for fabrics. | Now that the dust of battle has | cleared away one learns that there are six accredited silhouettes for spring | fashions and every gown or suit the | season offers is sure to follow one of them. from the box or paper in which it is sent home by the butcher, or the raper will absorb the juices, Put it on a clean plate. of milk to stay away from the farm- house very long.” “It's a pity,”” Moses Mouse re- marked dolefully, “that you can't get Frisky Squirrel to chase Miss Km)" | away,"” “That would be ‘impossible,” re- plied Grandma Goose. And then she cried, “There's Miss Kitty Cat now!| I'll call her.” “For Mercy's sake, don't!” Moses Mouse begged. “I don't want her to find me here. Give me time to get back to the cellar.” “Very well! Good-by! you for your help,” said Goose. Moses Mouse scampered for a hole in the cellar wall. (Copyright, 1923, by Metropolitan Newspaper Service). Furniture Polish An efficient furniture polish is made of three parts linseed oil and one part spirits of turpentine. For Silk Sewing lefore you wish to do fine sewing or use silk floss, wash the hands in alum water. It will ‘make them And thank | smooth. Grandma | Fruit Stains Camphor sometimes removes from linen fruit stains that have success- [ fully resisted any other remedy. Ashes and Flame An unusually attractive frock is made of gray crepe and has sieeves of flame-colored chiffon embroidered in silver. The sleeves are wide and flowing. Gossip’s Corner [I———- Extra -Lemon Juice If before extracting the juice from lemons you will place them in the warming closet for a few minutes you will be surprised at the extra amount of juice you will get. In Purple Tones A gown worn by a famous concert singer at a recent recital was of orchid-colored lace with-a full-length panel of lace in the back, a girdle and long sash of purple velvet and a picture hat of the same color. Fagoting Popular Effective use is made of fagoted bands in the frocks of voile and geor- gette for summer, It is an inexpen- sive trimming, but gives an openwork that is very decorative. It is easier jto do than hemstitching. Half Capes Half capes are a fashion novelty this season, that is, capes which go across the back of the frock but not the front. They are usually attached to the slecves, Cures for Tnsomnia | If you are troubled with insomnia | try drinking a cup of cocoa or a littie |clam broth just before retiring. Hot | milk also has a tendency to calm the nerves and induce sleep. Fresh Meat fresh meat Remove immediately Banded Cape Small bands of rabbit fur spaced about two inches apart completely cover a summer evening cape of white crepe which is designed for wear over thin frocks. Flapper Suits The young girl is delighting in the hew Iiton jacket suits with Buster Prown collars and ties, They have detachable skirts and blouses of white crepe de chine. In Ppwm 5 | When Mr. Hamilton came back |into the room-—he had gonc with Aproned Frock Leslie to get a check cashed in the| A frock of green taffeta has a cun- (ning apron which is worn over a | skirt of accordion pleating. Bronze beads outline the neck, sleeves and {apron. outer office (this has seemed to be | his most important business for the last two wecks)—his eyes rested on | the telegram and he quickly folded it and tossed it in an open drawer in his desk. I saw him look at Leslie and a | little worrird wrinkle came between | his eyes. I would not have thought anything about the matter if that! evening Mr. Carton, John's best friend, nad not volunteered the in- formation when somcone was saying how sorry he was for John to have| to be away from the Karl Whitn costume party “He brought it | himself.” Then he shut up like a | elam, sing his lips in a way that |made me think he was sorry he/ | spoke. | The morning John Prescott came | home we were all down at the train. | € to meat, fish and even vege- Fven Mr, Hamilton left his business|tables that many peopie like to have, | to go with us. There arc two types of this sauce. Mr. Prescott is certainly a splen-|One is hot and the other cold. A did looking young man, and T did|piece of boiled beef may be served not blame Leslie for being proud!With the hot sauce, and when cold of him. FLeslic’s father likes him,|the beef may be sliced to be served too, but T had all twe while a feeling | With the cold horseradish sauce. that he wanted to get a word in The following recipe is for the hot private with his future son-in-law|sauce: {1s soon as possible. I do not know Melt three tablespoons butter and why I am wriling these things to|add three tablespoons flour, When you, Sallie dear, except that of all|bubbling add one cup of milk, and my friends you and Leslie are the|salt and pepper to taste. Cook until | nearest and from the time that we|thickened, add one-half cup of cream were school girls we have made thor-|ond allow the sauce to boil for half ough confidantes of each other, |a minute. Now add three table- 1 have not a thing against John|&poons of grated fresh horseradish Prescott, On the contrary, he strikes and onc-half tablespoon of vinegar or me as being an average man, neither|lemon juice better nor worse than those you see, NOT This sauce may be made about you. | with fish stock instead of milk and be He is very much in love with Les-|served with boiled cod, halibut or | lie and if they begin in the riget|salmon. way I am sure they will be very Cold Horseradish Sauee happy—but (you know, dear, you are ¢ cup cream | always saying that 1 tack that little 3 tablespoons grated f{resh horse- word “but” on everything 1 say),|radish ! well to repeat—hut T am afraid they| 1 tablespoon vinegar have begun on wrong premises, Salt and paprika to taste No human being could be as an- Beat cream until stiff, add horse- radish mixed with the vinegar, salt |and no man was ever so perfect as and paprika. | Leslie thinks John'js. | NOTE: This sauce placed on siices They arc calling ‘me, dear. T willjof tomato and garnished with let- ,connnur this some other time, tuce or watercress makes an appe- ‘ Affectionately yours, tizing salad to serve with cold meat. Leather Flowers Leather flowers are a very popular] trimming for spring hats, The ordi- nary blossome seem to have been Aipped in lacquer or paraffin to gave them a stiff, lustrous appearance, HORSERADISH SAUGE ey | on BY BERTHA E. SHAPLEIGH Of Columbia University i ] @,; Iy ‘ d e [ATie - - % B P A Y Unless othernive ndicated, theatr):al n odoes wid reviews o this colbran are 9 written hy the prews ugenoles for th o respective smusement company. L - by - oY ’ “YHE CHRISTIAN” AT PALACE, |BARTHELMESS IN “FURY"—FOX'S The big photoplay mastorplece,| Two of the attractions at Fox's to- “The Christian,” opened a four-day|day are epough to make any bill & engagement at the Palace theater last | feature one, The first is the Amerl- cvening to a capacity house that{can Comedy Four, one of the best thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful |quartets on the stage and having the drama. Richard Dix; who plays the|yoputation of being the highest sal- role of John Storm, “The Christlan,” iapied group of a similar kind fn gives one of the finest characters that|yaudeville, The other is Richard has ever been seen in photoplays. | Barthelmess, with Dorothy ' Gish, in His work stands out as marvelous | «jypy,” But this is not all. There are and his dramatic acting 18 a cause of |(hree other acts, each on¢ a dundy, comment everywhere, The story 48/ana the.usual comedy and news reels, from the well known novel and stage {The Flying Colville is a gensational play by Sir Hall Catne, the famous|yovelty gymnast whose aerial stunts writer, and it ls doubted if ever alure excellent. Jack and Mary Gra- finer story was transported 1o the |yam arc a comedy duo whose dialogue soreen. Maurice Tourneur, ~With|is comical and who likewlse offer a many successes to his credit, directed {yow good song, while Lonise Mayo this film and shot the scenes on the|qges her bit as a singing comedienne, authentic spots in London. The re-|pop the last half of the week Fox's mainder of the cast includes such|ywith a‘new vandeville bill will show popular stars as Mahlon Hamliton, | Mack Sennett’s latest production “The Gareth Hughes, Mae Busch and|crossroads of New York."” Phyliss Haver, who all have very im- S R portant roles, It is really worth a! GAYETY GIRLS AT LYCEUM. " S gt o g week's showing at the Lyceim this ;,‘a"o,a:h‘: 11;:“"I;hfidg‘,fi;;"";;fl;l)fir afternoon and the good {impression there will‘ fi( l’]\c ikt od Keith made assures capacity housed during iy i Bood Keithiy . emainder of their stay. The | company has made 22 persons, in- vaudeville bill of four acts featuring the Dore Sisters in an excellent mu- cluding o capable cast of principals and a beauty chorus that not only is TO PLAY 12 MATCHES 2 GAME ENDS IN TIE Harrison, N. J., April 2.—The Pat- terson, N. P., footbail club and Scullin teel eleven of 8t. Louis, Mo., national i{soccer champions, fought a 2-2 extra | period tie in a match for the soccer |championship of the United States | yesterday. Dean in a succession of laughs, “Call- ingi" and the original Erick Phillips 5 Y {11 b Co. in hand balancing oddities. There :‘}‘,‘:“:Tr:";fi!,rfi?;;:hu;he v :;‘“! tl;“ ,:;"cr;::":g:;:t:p:l’:z::m‘s;i’ \\';)l; A powerful drama is also unfolded ki, i i in “What's Wrong With the Wom« en.” This is produced by an all-star per, Huntley Gordon and Helen Rows land. Tt is an expuse of the so-called smart set and those who while finan- cially unable to keep up with the {pace, try ta fourflush their way f . a1 Likes to Knit and Wants Million- sensationa: i'swempt,” is scheduled. ire fo Adopt Bim | P | e { Wesleyan Tennis Team Will Meet Thomaston, Conn.,, April 2.—Thom- | Three New Rivals aston doesn’t understand Milton, Middletown, April 2. — E. J. Rob- to come through the town in a big|The ncwcomers on the schedule limousine and tell the chauffeur to|l’owdoin, Swarthmore and Hayv cut down to 60 miles an hour so he ho schedule follows: can give the natives the laugh. April 25, Brown at Providence; Ma 5, M. I T. at Middletown; 9, Spri:; youths,of his age. Yet he is unhappy.| " S 7 R That is why he inserted a want ad in|Ven: 18, Bowdoin at Middietown; 19, the New York Sunday World -asking|OPen: 21, New England Intercolle- that some rich family adopt him, |Siates at Boston; 26, Boston univer- Frank Crim:ha\\' a farmer who sity at Middletow: 29, Swarthmore ' at Swarthmore; 30, Haverford at “That's my boy all right, but it's news to me,” he said. I know all about that ad,” Mrs Grimshaw said. *“l told him to try it. Milton is out of place in Thomas- likes down in the clockshop where he works, “He wants to travel and educate himself and we thought some rich family that had lost a son would like interested in bees or chickens. He is fond of designing women's clothes and making dolls and artistic things like that Mrs. Grimshaw produced a rag doll “He loves babies, so 1 adopted a six months’ old child for him to pls with. He was never happier in his, life than when he had the child to mind and make dolls for it.” said Mrs. Grimshaw. "“He hus higher ideals than chickens and hees.” That was abont all Mr, Grimshaw had to say during the rest of the in- g terview. sical number; Kelly and Rowe fir new testily garbed, but also can sing and want to see “The Christian.” 5 i | cast, including Wilten Lackaye, Mon- TH"MAST"N Y"UTH | tagu Love, Barbara Castleton, Con- along. Kor the last half of the week & Grimshaw, so Milton has decided to | erts, manager of the Wesleyan tennis let a millionaire adopt him and de-|team, has announced a schedule of 12 Milton is 20 years old, 6 fect el o ¢ inches tall, weighs 140 pounds and|field College at Middletow A nches S e 5 cuse’ at Middietown; 12, Williams specializestin chickens and bees, read e . 3 4 {8 the ad and uttered an exclamation ot‘Hm"_f"d’ PUiS 3, AMHSISL AU IR dletown. ton. The town doesn’'t understand him, He's too gentle for the boys, to adopt him. Milton had to leave school before his time because he was that Milton had wmade; then a sofa pillow he had crocheted; and finall Mr. Grimshaw agreed that Milton vas too sensitive, | In the meantime Milton is knitting | away expectantly, waiting for the rush comedy songs and talk; Telaak and dance. . The comedians are funny and stance Bennett, Mrs. DeWolfe Hop= WEARIES OF WORK | sensational story of the sea, “Storm- sert Thomaston. Some day he's going | matches, six of which will be at home. has none of the coarsec ways of some Williamstown; 16, Yale at New Ha surprise, and there arenbt any girls that he 50 tall he was ashamed. He's not |y a woman's gown he had sewed. “Yes, he’s nothing like his father,” of adopting millionaires to start. Acclaimed by capacity crowds last evening as a real photoplay miasterpiece, Big star cast with:— Richard Dix Mahlon Hamilton (areth Hughes Mae Busch Phyliss Haver 9—~Wonderful Parts—9 KEITH VAUDEVILLE “There’s Nothing Better” 4—Splendid Acts—4 Continuous Shows’!Td_aT GETS POSTHUMOUS LETTER Middletown, April 2.—C. W. Daven- Ipm". regular forward on the Wesleyan { basketball team, who died after an J operation for appendicitis last Decem- ber, has been awarded his varsity let- ter postthumously by the Wesleyan | Athletic council, Seven other players | were aiso awarded letters, LYCEUM WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE WOMEN See the Most Remarkable Motion Picture in Years MUSICAL COMEDY LONDON GAIETY GIRLS See This Show! Richard Barthelmess With DOROTHY GISH “FURY” AMERICAN COMEDY FOUR i