New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1924, Page 22

{ MY HUSBAND’S LOVE Adele Garrison's SHLLSLDY. New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE . How Lella Relieved the High Tension | of Her Nerves 1 cast a quick, furtive look around the room before speaking again to Lella Durkee. No one was noticing us at all, sheltered as we were by the half-drawn curtains of the alcove bay-window. { Katherine was busying herself with the arrangement of the flowers we had brought, her face alight with the | joy which the touch of blossoms al- avays gives her—I know no one who loves flowers as does the wife of my brother-cousin. | Dicky and little Mrs. Durkee were putting to shame any pair of mag- pies ever in captivity, and I knew that I could speak freely. | “Tell me, dear,” 1 said softly, lny-! B ing my hand over hers, how s it with you? Is—everything—all right?” 1 was sorry for the question when . T saw the tears welling into her eyes. | #41f—is—wonderful"—a lovely color crept Into Ler face, and her eyes were | " Dcan away from the house any more, | ~ own house ~ “She strikes me as being a person | . Durkee. _ 1 could forge a weapon which would | i | much as possible, for one never ean | have no place to " But she dushed them away spiritedly, and managed a wan little smile, “1 Don't See—" | “It fs—aund it isn't,” she Whispered. starry as she looked at me. “But| though I am sure he doesn't see Bess | she keeps (n coming here. He isn't particularly nice to her, but you know he can be absolutely rude to her—and 1 wouldn't have him either—in his All the horror of ap- | pearing inhospitable with which her | southern Lirth and training had en- | dowed her ehowed in her face. “And, | of course, neither Mother Durkee nor I can—" She hesitated, and I finished her sentence for her. ’ ““Treat her as she deserv sald sternly. ““Well, I can, and what's more, I'm going to do it !" “But how can you?” she urged. whose mental epidermis 1{s pretty | not particularly len.i-li “She would win the palm away from any rhinoceros,”s I said acidly, for my heart was hot against my for- | mer colleague, whose vanity and wish | to annoy me were being evidenced by | her petty persecution of gentle Lella *“Then—I don't see’—she began doubtfully. | “But 1 do,” I returned, a note of | exuitation in my voice, for a sudden memory had flashed into my mind, and I felt that at last 1 knew where compel Bess Dean to listen to rea- son. Leilasswayed toward me, and put her hands upon my shoulders. A Chivalric World “Oh, If only I never need %06 “her agaln she breathed, and my heart | constricted with pity for her, and anger against the girl who was saus- ing such mental suffering as I saw Leila was enduring, Useless to say, as my common | sense urged me that she was magni- fying things unduly, and that her dread of the girl, now that Alfred’s eyes had been opened, was as need- less as it was undignified, Tella §8 not the type of woman who can weigh matters with her head instead of her heart, Gentle, | lovable, high-minded, generous, she s a “clinging vine"—beautiful if cherished, forlorn, Indeed, If the ten- rils of her sensitive, loving soul are | , There is but one thing to | 0 for such women, protect them as ehange their outlook wupon thingws Fortunately, it I8 a chivalric worid, and the Lellas of it, if they are win- some and appealing, find many cham- plons, both masculine and feminine. I put my arm around her and drew her close for a second. | “You won't have to many times | more,” 1 promised. “And if T were | m""‘"“'ffi‘\‘f:! truth, that meeting the girl affects you | as it does, and you will see that )u:l will help you to avoid her. Trust to | me. She won't be comipg here much | longer.” “What are you two spooning about there in the bay-window " little Mrs. | Durkee called, and I turned to her, | glad of the interruption, Leila had relieved the tension of her nerves by | confiding in me, and she now needed | to get away from consideration of | herself. ! “We are trying to compete with the | distinguished couple at our right,” T retorted laughing, as I advanced to- | ward her, “but we throw up our | hands. You are altogether too ex- perienced and audaciouns.” Gossip’s Corner Skirts get shorter as the days lengthen. Irom ten to twelve inches | from the floor is now the correct | length for tailored and sport things | and from eight to ten for formal gowns, Striped Girdles Roman striped girdles and scarfs | are used effectively to make a dark | frock more festive, and turbans and | handbags of the same material are equally obliging. . Black ¥Frocks Black chiffon, lace or tulle frocks, | mounted over flesh-colored fountla- | tions, are exceedingly smart. New Tunies Many tunies often dwell in ‘thar- mony on the same frock and give the effect of shaded material by gradua- ting In color as well as in length, Blue Satin | A straightline frock of navy blue | satin has a row of diamond-shaped pleces, cut from white satin, run- ning from the neckline to hemline, New Sashes Sashes that tie directly in front with ends that extend sometimes be- low the hemline are new features in summer frocks, Black Ci | waxed in a cool place, PAILY BANHION NERVICE. WHITE CREPE FRCCK the smart de- the trimming The tendency of signers to concentrate at one particular point is here justi- fied. This white crepe frock 1s beaded all over in iridescent beads, but all the side closing a splashy pattern of black beads is overlaid. — GOOD MANNERS™ Taking a g Chair \e proper way for & is in the center of her chair or slight- ly sideways in the corner of a sofa, and in a position that is dignified, you must be careful to do this where there is no fire. Clean A white oileloth glued smoothly to one side of the molding board makes a nice clean su for molding candies or pastries. Tin Containe Any smooth tin box can be painted with enamel paint to make a neat container for small articles. Use Skins Tnstead of using the whole mush- room for soup, you c¢an use the skins and stems only and have the rest for a meat sauce, Relishes Relishes have a definite place in the menu as they give character and | interest to cold meats that is guite lacking if they are served without, Cheeses | Keep faney and strong-smelling | cheeses wrapped in tinfoil then in paper ‘and then inside a covered erock which should be kept Bured If .you have with the cireular the has around A black crepe gown ruffies of white crept | waistline and tiny white buttons from | collar to hem in the back. Tox Scarfs The new beige colored fox scarfs match the fasbionable stockings in the popular nude shades. 1t 1s quite | a fad to match one's hat to one's hosiery, New Turbans The Beyptian line in millinery s noticed on turbans with loops that come straight off the side of the hat and extend to a line below the ears, | Hot Meats Ham, tongue, corncd bheef and meats that are not to be served hot are Improved by partially cooling in the water in which they were boiled, | | For Troning Board If you live in eramped quarters and put an lroning board you will find this plan helpful flemove the upper drawer of your burean ,and put it back upside down, with a turkish towel or pad over it You will have a good surface upon which to preas, Absorbent Bibs 1t is possible to buy very neat bibs of absorbent poper which may be de- comfortab! in your place, I would not npponrl when she comes to the house. You stroyed after using and save much | | drawers of your table or dresser sticking, plane them off on the sides and lower cdge and then rub the surface over which they slide with tallow or paraffin, Cereals stirred Cooking All cereals should be into | boiling water and the salt should not Ibd added at first because it hardens the cellulose, Leftovers Left-over parsley or lettuce should be washed and then stored in clean cloths or glass jars without water. Barliest known English public swimming pool was advertised in Lon- don, May 28, 1742, to be open and that “waiters attend daily to teach or | \ {aseist Gentlemen In the said Swim- | Miss Varney's Mindly face, she went | ming Bath is required.” IABLES ON NEALTH KEEPING BABY COOL ¢ heat! With everybody un- , particularly the baby. Anytown frotting what could himsell cooler, and dis. the discomfort of the Summ | Mr. Mann of around, wondering he do to make turbed over child. Summer days are petulant days for baby; restless, crying days. A few, casily done things will al. ways help, Sponge the child off at least three | or four times a day. Wipe its face; dventures and head with aeool (not eold) cloth about once au hour. If the baby's skin is easily frritated try the bran bath, which is prepared by placing a cupfal of bran in a muslin bag and pressing it ovt In bath water, Dust taleum powder carcfully over the body after each bath, As o protection against flies. and mosquitoes, have screens on the wine dows, or throw a soft clothe nettiag in tent fashion, over the crib, are ranging this so that it will be from the child's body. free | . BEGI HERE TODAY %% URRBBBUBLBH%S % | Theymarriage sof Dolly and Nigel Bretherton proves an unhappy ohe. When war is declared, Nigel is glad | to enlist. He leaves Dolly under the {care of Mary Furnival. Nigel is| | killed and Dolly marries an old | sweetheart, named Robert Durham, | | Dolly, and Robert sail for America |and word comes of the sinking of | their ship. | When. Nigel's brother, David, calls |to see Nigel's widow, Mary Iis |ashamed to tell him of Dolly’s mars | riage. David mistakes Mary for his brother’s wife and asks her to come to live at Red Grange with him and | his aunt. David and his aunt wel- |come Mary when she comes to Red | Grange, Mary tells the aunt, Miss Varney ,that nobody else loved Nigel {as Mary loved him. 131 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | “I think I.understand; and I think you would if you had seen David gs | I did late that night—the first night we came back here. I heard a {sound along the corridor, and T| | came out of my roomyto see what it | was, and there was I){\'m going down to the picture gallery. 1 followed him, and I found him standing in front of the portrait of Nigel, and his face—oh, you wouldn’'t have said he didn't care any more if you had seen his face as I did!" Mary sald nothing. There was a leaping pulse in her throat that scemed to be choking her, but she tried to smile, meeting the elder wo- | man's wistful gaze, “I suppose we don't all feel things | {in the same way,” she said broken- |1y, “It's just that, isn't it?” She jrose to her feet with a little weary | gesture, “I wonder if I might go to | bed?” she sald, half apologetically, “I feei.so tired, Would you think it | very rude of me?” Miss Varney rose at blamed herself for her ness, “Poor child! | tirea!” | She went up to the girl's room ]1wlth her, She kissed her most af- | tectionately as she said good night. | “Sleep well, my dear, and try and | believe that there is plenty of sun- (8hine in life for you still.” Mary smiled rather quixeringly, Il try,” she sald, But when the door had shut on | [ | { once, She thoughtiess- Of course you are |over to the window and looked dreari- | |1y out futo the darkness. . | Thiere was no moon and no stars, | |but the wind was wu)'lng the dark | | branches oj the trees,” and sighing | restiessly, And Mary thought of the woman and child who had been driven out into that very road by the relentless hand of the Bretherton they had de- {ceived, to meet death, and a little | shiver shook her. CHAPTER XXV, At the Red Grange | Mary Furnival woke the next morn- |ing to I'nd Miss Varney at her bed. | side; she started up with a little ex- | clamation, s 1t very late? sorry!” | Bhe glanced apprehensively at the little welock on the mantleshelf; it | pointed to ten, A distressed. flush cheeks, “Oh, T am sorry! it was so late, | this.” | Miss Varney laughed, | "I am glad you have my d 1ooked worn ont last night; | them not to distirb you, had a good night?" Mary looked rueful, | “Much too good, I'm afraid, T .will | [get up at onee” | “They're Lringing your breakfast | {up to you. The fire has been lit al- | ready, you see; it shows how sound- |1y you siept, | Oh, T am wmo colored her T had no idea I never sleep on like you T'.told Have you {live without her.” generations and generations; that it all belongs to you—"' “I am proud of it, even though I shall probably be the last Bretherton |- to live here.” She looked up startied. “What do you mean?"” ‘Only that now Nigel is gone there will be nobody to carry on the name—"" “But you will marry?” He shook his head. “It's not very probable; I'm the sort of man women care even if I wished them to.” smiled, looking down at her. “Oh, but you mustn't think tha she told him impulsively. “It's only just that you haven't met the right woman yet; some day she will come along, and then—" “Yes, and then?” he echoed. “Well, then, all the world will not for, He {seem changed and different; you will wonder how ever you managed to His grave eyes mearched h!r/uce. « “Is that how one feels when one is in love?” She looked up, and quickly away |again, “1 am non- “Oh, I—" She broke off. afraid I have been talking sense,” she said distressfully. “BUT YOU WILL MARRY?" HE SHOOK HIS HEAD. They had reached the end of the path skirting the lawn . ,and . David held upon & little gate leading to & kitchen garden and paddeck beyond. 1f it is nonsense, it's very. gharm- ing nonsense,” he said, smiling. “You make me feel that I have missed a great deal by being a bacheler.” Bhe shook her he “I didn’t mean that; it isn't it {roses when you care for a person very much, “Not even when they ecare much for you In return?’ “But sometimes they don't,” #he told him “And then--' She broke off, wondering if he realized what her words conveyed, but he very | made no comment, and they walked on silently, . Once he stopped to speak to one of the gardeners; the man glanced at | Mary and touched his eap respect- oy, “This is Mr. Nigel's widov,” sald David. He did not look at Mary as he #poke, or he might have seen the sudden pallor that drove the color from her face; she turned abruptly and walked a step away. When David rejoined her: “Smithers knew &Nigel when wo vere both little boys,” he explained. ‘He was hiere on the estate as a lad in my father's time.” She did not answer; she was be- ginning to realizz with a sort of hor- ror what her deception really meant. Bhe vaguely, She was wondering what would happen if suddenly she stopped, turned to this man, and said: “I am not Nigel's widow. 1 was never his wife, I have no right here at all. 1 am just decelving you all along.” ~ She went to the door of the gtables, and stood looking across the sunny garden with eyes that saw ' nothing. David came to stand beside her; there was a sor¢ of compassion in his face. ry “I hope you will be happy here— with us," he said. “I hopé you will believe that I am anxious to.be your | friend. It there is anything trou- | bling you, T wish' you would tell me, and let me help you.” His voice sounded kind and sin- cere; there was nothing but earnest sincerity in his eyes; for a moment !she longed to take him’at his word, and make-a clean breast of the whole miserable story, but something pre- vented her; she even forced herself to Jaugh a little, though the tears | rushed to her eyes. “You are very kind; I will not forget. But—but there isn't aay- thing troubling me——there isn't awv- thing at all.” And now she was no longer look- |ing at him. She moved out into the vard again as if to prevent further conversation. (Continued in Our Next Tssusj LOSE WEIGHT, One whole large orange, one open egg sandwich, 4 ounces broiled hall- but steak, 6 button radishes, 1 cup dandellon greens 3% head lettuce with 1 dessertspoon Roquefort cheese and | 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 4 table- snoons stewed tomatoes, 2 pleces whole wheat toast, 1 gluten rool, 2 tablespoons maple mousse, 1 pint skimmed milk, Total calories, 1228, fat, 282; carbohydrate, 0269 gram. Portein, 309; 637, Iron, Egg Sandwich, Two hard bofled eggs, 2 ounces leaf lettuce, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 4 teaspoon salt, 1-8 teaspoon pepper, 1-8 teaspoon mustard, 2 thin slices unbuttered =hole wheat bread. The egr» shoulld be put into boil« ing water wnd allowed to stand just t the bolling point but without bub- Liing for half an hour. Plunge into cold water to cool and remove skélls, Mash yolks, season with salt, pepper and mustard and work to a @mooth paste with lemon julee, Cno{rhllu finely ‘and stir into yolk xture, Crisp, dry and shred lettuce, Ar. range on slices of bread and cover with dressing. Total ealories, 245, fat, 104; carbonhydrate, 0044 gram, GAIN WEIGHT. One large orange, 2 pleces Franeh | toast, 4 tablespoons maple sirup, 1 cup uncooked cereal with 1 sliced banana and 4 tablespoons cream and 2 toaspoons sugar, 1 cup chicken gumbo soup, one open egg sandwich with 2 tablespoons mayonniase, ¢ ounces broiled halibut steak with 2 tablespoons lemon butter, 3 new po- tatoes in 4 tablespoons cream sauce, 4 tablespoons stewed tomatoes with 1 tablespoon buttered toast cubes, 6 button radishes, % cup dandelion greens with 2 tablespoons bacon dressing, % lhead lettuce with 2 tablespoons Roquefort cheese dress- ing, 4 tablespoons maple mousse, 1 large piece sponge cake, 1+8 rhubarb meringue ple, 1 pint whole mik, 2 bran and raisin mufine, 4 toasted bread sticks, 2 Parkerhouse rolls, 4 Protein, i 64; Iron TheA JkaggedyAnn It was a continually acted lie, | was proposing to live, day after day, | taking the respect and attentions due “It seems impossible!” Mary had boen #o sure tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon extra trouble when traveling with a strawberry preserves. They have laundry, certainly do not care what she thinks, and 1 should plead headaches or any | young baby. that she #port hat that she has » #ke came 1o work for me ence, but she put me off in § Wwill tell you afl about my m 2ife, if you want to he e must get off hosiery people,” working as though she had b $hg about the most unimport Rer. %0 luncheon 1 heard her humming to Bersels. fe? DM #he think When she marcied her husband? me, other 1118 80 that you counld lock your- welf inte your room when she is here.” | “What would Alfred think?” she asked timidly, | “Nothing that s not loving and fender,” I assured her, “Tell him the | i Extter from Tedie Prescott 1o Jeslie Prescott, Care of #e Secret Drawer, Continued. Later in the evening discusscd, my husband and 1, Sa Atk + little, “1 confess,” understand t “Why do you ca Jack? You know the profix of ‘that’ that the either Inte much.” we y rerton sald Jack, “that 1 don't an” ‘that woman,’ her a man be question annoy hi or puts ‘woman’ dora not very or m me,” sald Jack siowly. “I dom't derstand Jher, though, at a “You saw her when she came 10 the eftice this morning. She had Fon know, buried husi ¥t thete was no awkward mark of grief about ) Khe the same annoy un- her r. was wearing i suit ever since Hewt mr tw and ] “Y tried to offer her some condo futely casual way, saying: iay ried ar . Just pow these plans to the and she w I8 fact, just before 1 wemt ot “DM you know her very well, Les. she was In love To sorond or two M times for a too. Killing Moths It you find moths in your wuphol- stered furniture, set the picce out- doors or by an open window saturate it with gasoline, Of coursé, woman I have ever known; thea she Vecomes a purely businces automaton. “She is interestin She, {oo, is one of the new phases of your sex.” “Sally always was queer, Jack,” 1 oleerved. “You see she had to earn her living early. Her father died when was 14 years old, and she had to work immediately, not only teo take care herself, but to help her moth-, er who was quite an invalid “For some reamon, Jack, that you| may know better than 1, being a man, en have always admired Sally Ath- From the time she was he was and married Sam losing positions brcanse she ted the unwelcome attention of ome man highet up 1n the office. Just her that invites this, I very of erton greatly kopt a it is abou io not know She — adoral Jack a8 pulled out of him _— Aarr 1 These words eam oy s though 1t has Jack, ithin 1y . » Yet she I8 she doesn't Aress particularly well “1 dontt think e pigues your were t s ry man coms Ather. ton not pretty, is “ she she 1a¥e reom- e ie curiovity, and 1 ry ame 1 i under ANl ¢ Orflinarily that cock-sure A woman s wwing 16 8 Wt in Sally Atherton it makes her tha seems 10 by e of stances. o in ans man you want e 1% wrong 1o demonmrate to S sk 1 find the most femimine | (Coprright, 1924, NEA Eervice, Inc.) e wfagy “What did you do with gedys and the little Wy The Iag- togs puppy dog, Grocery boy?” old Witch Wiggings | liowled as she came running up to the ice cream soda wather fountain in the deep, deep woods, “Of course the Grocery boy would rot tell a b even to old Witch Wig- gins 80 he just fidgedted around and suid, “What makes you think 1 had the Raggedys and little Rags puppy dog in the basket? Don't you sce that all 1 have in there are sticks?” “Indeed! 1 do see that they are sticks!” the Witch howled louder than usual, “But you took the Raggedys out und put the sticks in afterwards!” the Witch erled. “No, sif! 1 dido’t™ the Grocery boy replied. He could say this very truth- fully for really, he had not taken the gedys from the basket. They had climbz1 out themselves, “Of course 1 rut sticks in the basket though!™ he added. 4 “Aba! then 1 know!” . the Witch cried. “The Ragegedys climbed out thengselves, then you put the sticks in shen you heard me coming! That's what you did!” The mean old Witch looked about Ler and whe the four jce cream soda water glasses, then she knew for sure. “They have been here!” she howied. “And they must be hiding around here somewhere! Now you 1211 me where they are, of I'li tweak your nose!” ry boy did not wish tweaked any more ould wish it, s0 he nd hid in these pointed right where e PUPPY and | 1 #he The niee Groce to have his nose than anyone said, “They ran bushes!” and he the Raggedys and lit dog had MWdden. Ah! You think at easily do you “1 know very well gone to hide, pointed to these bushes o 1 run right over here nd with that, the n n the * AL Addy! yon can fool me the Witeh eried at #f they had u would have or here, #o and look!™ there ¥ lon from pointed ggedy Ann and Rag- the Grocvery boy cried as | edy An Gruelle loudly thinking 1hat the Raggedys had really been hiding in the bushes towards which she was running, ran all the faster and like most people who try to harm others, she was getting farth- er away from what she desired all the time Kie thrashing through the bushes and out the other i went The Witchhowled Jowder than wsual. ¥s had run kept going until she was 1en she had to stop and then think s that way, all tired out, th rest And while the doing all this, t ite Grocery b direc 1h mean old Witch was Ttaggedys and the ¢ were running in the nd they ran and w tired. But when trey rest and looked around them, found that they were right in a strawberry pateh and trawberries all grew between 1wo s of cake. So all the Ragredgs nice Grovery boy had to do h out and pick the lagers 1wherries between ad strawberry short opposite ran unti stog and tle was 10 re of eake with th them and they cake My! Wonldn't the mean ol Witeh vish §7 #he a niee time ned oy they vere krown ' laving. A | would not be able to sieep at all, and now for nearly twelve hours she had | s he could, and the old Witch | slept dreamlessly, { A smiling maid brought her bruk-‘ fast, and set it on a small table close ’ |to the fire, It was all most daintily |served; the little teapot was silver; | |the tray cloth of fine linen, embroi- | dered with the Bretherton crest, | Mary looked at everything with a |sort of awe. She had been used to such plain homeliness all her life. | There was something luxurious and | delightful ‘in this new daintiness of | surroundings, | She enjoyed her meal thoroughly; she felt new energy and anticipation | thrilling her as ‘whe dressed. The | dullness of yesterday had gone; the | sun was shining; sparrows twittered | to each other in the ivy that covered the face of the old house. 8he went down the wide staircase wondering what the day would bring | forth, In the hall she met David | Bretherton: he stopped whef he saw her, and held out his hand. | “Aunt Filorence tells me that you | have broken the record for a long | sleep,” he said, smiling. “I hope you fe€l all the better for it.” She flushed a little. “I am afraid you -must all think | me horribly lazy; 1 am always up #o | carly, as a rule. And on such a fine morning, too!” “Would you like to go out? Just going round the gardens; sou come with me?” “I should jove to.” She was all cagerness to see the well-remem- | bered places; she would mather re- visit them with David than ahyone, seeing that she could never walk there again with his brother. | A momentary wave of sadnéss swept through her heart as she went | back upstairs for a hat and coat. 1t | seemed, somehow, a mockery 1o be | giad that the sun shone .and that she should be here at Red Grange, when | one remembered that lonely grave somewhere in France, and the horrors | that were daily being enacted there. | Put one cannot be altogether nd‘ | Iam will | when the sun is shining, and before she had gone far with David she found herself chattine and - taiking with him aimost happily. “Area‘'t you very prenwd of your ! beautiful home? T think it must be | wonderful to know that'you arfe oné to another—robbing the dead—rob- bing the dead. CHAPTER XXVIL A Difficult Path He took her down to the stables, and showed her the loft where he and Nigel had played as children; he showed her the step-ladder starcase down which Nigel had once fallen on | the last day of the holidays. “He cut his forehead badly—1 dare say you have seen the scar—but I don’t think he minded, as it meant an extra week at home. He always hated school—" “Yes, 1 know,” she answered Total calories, 4190, Protein, 462; fat, 1591; earbohydrate, 2137. Irén 0211 gram, The bread can be cut thicker and should be buttered for this egg sand- wich. Two ounces of bread are planned. Toast cubes are added to plain | stewed tomatoes to increase the cas lories. Oil 18 included In the cheese dress- ing for this diet. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ine.) | ®tandard gold contains 22 carafs of | find gold and twa carats of alloy. FUR STORAGE AND YOU ARE FULLY PROTECTED AGAINST FIRE, THEFT AND MOTHS All Garments Cleaned and Glazed before being returned. 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