New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1924, Page 4

MY HUSBAND’S LOVE Adels Garrisen's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE PEEIPT T PITPIPIVIIITIPI PRI OOV Why Lillian Explained Her Roquest o Madge With Lillian and me long intimacy, it is gencrally down" We never vontrol prise or other feclings as rigidly as we 40 before other people, Therefore 1 did not attempt 10 suppvess the tonmhed stare | gave Lilllan at \a2ing announcément that her rea Jon for wishing me 1o g0 to dinner with the man who had been her hus band for so many years, wasdin her own words—"to find out what Harry s up to.” She returned my gaze steadily “1 know," she sald, with a note of | apology rare to her, “This is some | thing | have no right to ask you, & job 1 eught to do myself if it is to be done, bup—frankly=—1 do not think Harry would tell me, In fact, 1 know him well enough to know that you are the only person on earth who can get bis confidence.” Her eyes confirmed what her lips Pad told me long ago that she be Meved the feeling Harry Underwood 80 often and so theatrically had pro- ecladmed for me was A genuine emo- gton. Burely, however, she did not expect me to gain his confidence be- ause of that advantage and then he. tray it to her “No, indeed,” she said, as it 1 had spoken my thought aloud, and 1 mentally saluted her psychic paAwers s 1 often had done before, “If you can get him started talking, you ean persuade him that it won't do any | Barm for me to know about it.| Otherwise, of course, you could never | #o1l me, But I have great faith in| your powers of persuasion, nhu-ri Harry is concerned.” Harry is Late | £he smiled wearlly, and T thought | 1 detectsd a soupcon of bitterness | fn the smile. Even though she did | mot care for the husband who had | greated her so c'\-nn:-rl,v, even though #ll the affection she had to givé was in the possession of Robert Savarin, she was feminine enough to feel ehagrin that she must depend upon someone else to get the information | she needed. | Suddenly she came up to me and | put both her hands on my shoulders. "¢ Dear girl,” she said tenderly, s ! gnow I am asking a very difficult and delicate thing of you. Yet it gsn't as bizarre as it appears. Harry | will be sentimentally flamboyant and theatrical, no doubt, but you know as well as I that he will never be un- manageable. You will have his con- duct entirely in your own hands, and 1 have na fear of your ability to han- dle any situation. “As for the Dicky-bird's reaction because of our masks our surs her 'l wager he or apartment somewhere around aldn't have made so & promise has!" | wondered if 1 had ut. tered the words aloud, Then be. so of the unchanged expression of Latlian's face. 1 decided that | had made the gxclamdtion mentally suddenly had flashed inte memory desoription Harry had given me of pawn shop around the corner the 2pariment, to the propries tors of which he had directed me to g0 With the scarabh he had given me If ever should have need of him. ‘The evidently was & headquarters for him, and what @ore natural than that he should heep & room and a change of cloth ing there? 1 felt that Lillian's question But hote here isive He or he wo there "y th Underwood once the from I had the answer to but without Harry | has & room in a Underwood’s permission, 1 could not tell even her of weither the scarab or the persons to whom he had told me to show it in any emergency In which he could aid me, 8o for the decided assent 1 substituted the | noenous No doubt there might be a his delny.” he has, and you know dozen reasons for Gossip’s Corner Bright Colors Eport dresses in silk broadcloth come in all the bright colors and the pastel shades and have wide leather belta and pleated shirt bosoms. Thin Wrap Necessary Bince so many dresses, even for daytime, are sleaveless the thin wrap is an absolute necessity in the ward- robe. Chinese Colors } Chinese embroidery in® blue and | Chinese red i{s much liked as trim- ming on black satin gowns. pRititiad, Link Bracelets Slave bracelets come with links in | differently finished gold and with sap- phires or emeralds interspersed be- tween. Simple Decoration A buckle of brilliants is the only | trimming on the very smartest hats| and gowns that are developed in the | fashionable black satins. Here are two frocks that have smartness and style but have at the same time a great capacity for ser ice. They are by no means beyond the skill of the home Both are cut on straight rely upon embroidery for their trim- ming. The one at the left uses croas- stitch designs effectively, their crude | lines and | |eolors giving it a suggestion of the peasant costume, while the one of the | (dots in the same color on each side |of the front. EBY right depends upon a double row of It is often possible by means of embroidery to redeem a very ordinary dress that you buy eady made and make it distinctive and different, FABLES ON VALUE OF S0UP Winter or summer, soup appeared HEALTH The fact that it is “hot” ia used by | as an argument against soup N> copr WTTON Sowly Destructive ’ hrains! 1k my head and stretohed until my toes | toughed the foot of the hed 1 was conscious of my silk palamas, the linen sheets, the silken coverlet, Through the epen window T eould | see, In the distance, the green-clad | mountains; closer. I could abserve the seventh green of the golf-course, 1 rolled over on one side, huryipg my face in the downy pillow, ta hide from the obsequious waiter the sudden mirth that had overwhelmed me, The lifting, ten minutes ago, of the telephone that stood on a tahle hy my bed, had heen enough to v\nknl Into activity not merely this man, but half a dozen others, all of whose energies and thoughts had been di- | rected toward the satisfaction of my | wants, Oh, I tell you, T who have | known direct poverty, that luxurious | ease Is worth the sacrifice of any principle, | And I should know! Had T nnl’ followed the path of honor across a | bloody fleld in France, to learn that honor mocked me? Had 1 not ad-| hered to all those righteous rules | which the strong have laid down for the enslavement of the weak, and | seen that adherence lead me from | boarding-house to tenement, from tenement to slum, and from sjum to the edge of the grave? | Honor had brought me starvation, What cant would term dishonor, had | brought me a full stomach, Well, T/ had done with cant, The world had | its rules; one must be productive or | constructive, sald the world, There was no pace for those who belonged in neither class. And yet the lying world gave its best in place, in es- teem, in what it terms success, to those outside those rigid categories, Steal, and he jailed: but steal enough and be honored. Kill, and be hanged; but kill sufficiently, and be enthroned The rules were made for the her but I, John Ainsley, was no lamb to be shepherded, 1 was the wolf who preyed outside the fold, and T had tasted mes No more, while rascals gtuffed themeelves, would I go hungr; I had destructive brains. I would use them, Yet I would use them as a gentle- man must always use his strength, for though T discarded foralit breeding could never leave me, Not upon the lambs nor upon the shep- herd, but upon the heasts of prey who lurked outside, would T feed, And T was savoring now the luxury of my first Kkill. In New York the famous jeweler Daragon—a cur at heart-—mourned the loss of a bauble wherewith he had hoped to |8 It |e e t 1 t 8| t opened my eyes; 1 yawned gloriously, | table, drawing deep dagvn into my lungs the (as his daughter's winelike air; 1 Yaised my hands over |denly, when anger possed me, RING. | five, | was capable had won a great deal of making unfair matches ers, goading them into wagers. match ended six and Vantine, and immediately L Arthur Somers Roche ight 9004, NEA Service Inc BUTTON nto the indiscretion of joining bis For Kernochan was as vulgar lover. And sud. Vantine hegan telling shot that he had an unreasoning 1 aceepted his hallenge, o, here 1 was he cynosure of a large gallery, upen the first tee, many of whom privately wished me luck, | but all of whom were hopeless of my bility to-defeat a man who 1 had | learned last night was the best player n the resort, He had lied when he KERNOCHAN SHOWED ME tated that his best game was eighty- According to my informants, nd well-wishers of teday, Vantine of seventy-eight. He money by with strang- 1 asked gallery Well, it was my own fault. ympathy neither (rom the nor from myself, but played the best golf T kaew. It was not good enough it was not good nough, so lacking was ¥ in practiee, ven to give him an argument. The five, . on the T acted hecomingly congratulated paid him wager, He took' it without Nor did Kernochan or his o heat Vantine; hirteenth green. hope. 1 promptly he hame. daughter seem to think that Vantine | had aeted otherwise than as a gentle- | man should. In fact, people told me hat it was Kernochan’s habit to en- b EAT AND LOSE WEIGHT, Breakfast-=0One-half cantaloup: crisp pleces gluten toast, hot wate | Luneheon-=One-half eup shrimp and pea salad, 1 whole wheat roll, 1 cup skimmed milk, Dinner—Vour ounces baked lake trout, ' cup beet greens with lem-. on julee, 4 tablgspoons string beans, % tablespoons dlced carrots, % cup red raspberries, Redtime~—0One cup skimmed milk. Total calories, 1 Protein, 274; fal, i carbohydrate, 607, Irenm, | 0204 gram, | Shrimp and Pea Salad, One cup cleaned shrimps, ) green | pepper, % cup cooked peas, 2 table- | spoons stuffed olives, I head celery, 1 head lottuce salt and pepper, Jtemove aeteds and white fiber from | pepper and cut in shreds. Mince | ollves, Cut celery in small pieces. Wash and crisp lettuce and arrange on salad plates, Combine fish, peas, pepper, olives and celery and season with salt and pepper, FPut on bed of lettuce, sprinkle the reducing salad with lemon juice and serve, Total calories, 835. Proteln, fat, 260; carbohydrate, 245, 0081 gram, 8380, Iron, EAT AND GAIN WEIGHT, Breakfast—One-half cantaloupe, ‘s cup rolled oats with 6 raisins, 4 tablespoons cream, 4 tablespoons as- paragus omelet, 2 tablespoons hashed brown potatoes, hot water, 2 bran | muffins, 1 tablespoon butter, | Midmorning lunch = One | raspberry float, Luncheon—One-half cup shrimp and pea salad, 3 tablespoons mayon-' naise, 2 whole wheat rolls, 1 table- &poon butter, 4 tablespoons cherry graham pudding, 2 teaspoons sugar, 1¢ cup cream, 1 glass whole milk. Afternoon tea ~— One glass lemon- |ade, 3 nut bread gandwiches, Dinner — Four ounces baked laks trout, new potagoes in parsley cause, 5 cup beet greens with 2 tablespoons I'rench dressing, 4 table- spoons string beans in cream, 2 tablespoons buttered carrots, 1 red raspberry shortcake, 1 tablespoon sugar, '3 cup cream, 2 slices bread, 1 tablespoon hutter, Bedtime—One cup whole milk. Total calories, 3966, Protein, 377; fat, 1649; carbohydrate, 1980, Iron, L0218 gram. Raspherry Float, Four tablespoons raspberrics, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon lemon Jjuice, 4 tablespoons whipping cream, glass 3 eup milk, Rub raspberries through 3 siéve to remove seeds. Add sugar and lemon Straight, Long |each evening upon the dinner table |many The newest overblouses reach at| in summer. gage in a match with any newcomer of the Mann family. {to the hotel, and then praise the stranger's play to Vantine, who would They say they prefer “something cool."” to the outing when he hears of it— well!—I thing he has nothing what- ‘forr- a woman to his will, but with | which I had foreed the world to my ‘ever to say. If he shows symptoms of emitting any yelps, just send him ‘to me. So give that' Puritan con- sclence a dose of paregoric, my dear, end enjoy the dinner as much as you ‘¢an. There's no one can ordgr A dinner, you Kknow, better than Harry.” Was there a unconsclious note. of yegret, of wistfulness in her voice? Hastily and injudiciously I interpret- od it, “I wish you were coming with ' 1 sald. She shrygged her shoulders as if she were shunting some troublesome memory. “Well, Y don't,” fihl‘retorted brusquely, and then with a glance at her wrist watch, she added con- cernedly: “I wonder why Harry fsn't back. He sald fifteen minutes, and he al- ways is the last word in punctu- ality, especlally when there are a pretty woman and a dinner engage- men in the offing.” “Are you sure we didn't misun- derstand the time?” I queried. ,'He said he was going to change to evening clothes, and th¢ time he named seems so absurdly short. Be- sides, where do you suppose he has evening clothes or a place to ghange?” “No Doubt He Has” “He'd carry moonlights on the running board, and dress behind the glosed curtains of the car, if he eouldn’t find anything more conven- | oil makes an'excellent cleaner for an fent,” Lilllan answered laughing. “You forget that he is an old trouper. [dency to break again. least to the knee, and are straight as well as long. % Strengthen Silks You can restore the body of thin, sleasy silks by dipping them 1in a| wealk gum arabic solution—two table- | spoons of the gum arabic in a quart of water. Be sure to strhin it through cheesecloth. For Iron Sink Steel wool moistened with linsead iron sink. Pustless Duster A very good dustless duster which cleans without polishing is made by saturating a square of cheesecloth in kerosene oil and hanging out in the open air until it no longer feels wet | to the touch. Soap Jelly A soap jelly that is excellent for shampoos is made by dissolving soap shavings in an equal amount of boil- ing water and adding a teaspoon of borax for every pint. Tomato Bisque Add a pinch of soda to the tomato hisque before combining it with the milk and the mixture will not curdle, Darning Tip When darning stockings take your stitches diagonally across the weave instead of with it and the darned section will give as the stocking stretches, thus lessening the ten- Pae gt Yetter from Mrs, Mary Alden Prescott to Priscilla Bradford. My dear Priscilla:—Leslie and John gelebrate their wedding anniversary mext Friday and Leslic has been kind enough to say that I might invite you, my dear Priscilla, 1 hope you will delay your return home until after that even 1 hope, my take the litt! John and Leslie the other day as of any great moment. I thought at the time that Join had no right to find fault with Leslie for bobbing her hair, | but upon thinking it over, I think you are right in your suggestion that les- | e should have waited until she spoken to John about it, tollowed his advice or I am finding out, my dear, that the young women of this generation, how- ever, are very independent. Leslie s & very sweet girl, but £he dos not al - defer to John's wishes in the same way that 1 for to John's father's wisl She is also arly be having her own way with little and sremed very much put ¢ ghe arrived home and found Lad been rocking him to sleep, The first " put him to bed in the dark, 1 nearly went mad screamed 1 thought he was going burst a blood ve but she would not allgw me to fear him, and John agreed with a'though I sure that would physically hurt him For the frst time since 1 have knowa Lesiis, she spoke quite dis. that tercation you did not between whether she 8 used to de particu on John, t when that 1 ght we he 0. 0 the child had | ¢ naled. | quite often, respectfully to me and said: | “Mother, 1 never dreamed that you | would interfere in the regime that I had instituted for little Jack. No one rocks childre) now-a-days. It is very unscientific. The child should be to go to bed in the dark.” three nights that poor baby sobbed and moaned himself to sleep, | and when I mentioned that T w sorry for him, Leslie said, in a very abrupt and, decided manner “You certainly should be him, Mother, as 1t Is all your fault, Pabies learn very quickly., At that age they are completely self-centered little animals, and their physical likes | 4 dislikes a that they under- stand. 1 do not yet why you should go ints room and take JittlesJack up after Sarah had put him to bed.” “Oh, fidn't do that,” T said ntly. L undressed him rocked him pg sleep mysell.” Lealie shil®her mouth with a k of her teeth, and 1 that she tryin to keep eaying cthing very ugly. Your husband was cp, and, I am quite sure, Les if you had a child of your own, wonld not | able to for the day when a mother that hour when he hae in her arms.' vill forgive me g1id Leslie ply, “it 1 say [ think perhaps Jack would not| [ es1fish if ha had been brought up ecientifically (Copyright, 1224, NEA 8ervice, Inc.) sorry for all in- and 1 from always rocked to e you go that of is onr happiest her habe “You Mother Pres- | along in our Many have the idea that soup fis| not a summer dish—but this is pure- ly a matter of taste. | A clear soup at the commencement | of a meal favors good digestion; the | fluld is quickly absorbed and the sus- | tenance contained in it acts most fa- | vorably upon the circulation, stimu- | lates the secretion of gastric juices and satisfles temporarily the craving for hunger. 1 There is no reason why soup should | be eaten ‘hot.” In fact summer or winter, it is preferable that it mnot be, as the throat and stomach lining | may be irritated by heat the o.\ccuh-e’\ But, served at normal heat, it ia/ far preferable as a summer food to | a continuous round of “cold” drinks which are in no sense permanently ) cooling. T Adventuresf RaggedyAun au Knegedy my Sruelle ’&/Jo The magical hobby horse had never | eatcn hot weenie sandwiches from a | magical hot weenie tree, nor had he| ever drank ice cold ginger ale from a | sparkling ginger ale spring, so you| may be certain that he enjoyed the| treat very much. Ior that matter, | the nice poor man had never had hot | weenie sandwiches picked fresh from | a maglcal hot weenie tree either, but he had eaten them at public parks| The magical hot weenies were very much better however, The Raggedys in their adventures through the deep, deep woods had | come upon hot weenie bushes and trees before and they knew just how | nice they were, With eleven, or twelve glasses of ice cold sparkling | ale of course this made a little lunch and they all knew they would not be hungry for almost an hour. “Perhaps we had better have the kind magical hobby horse carry us along the path!” Raggedy Ann sug- gested, “The two mean old Minga and Munga, will probabls house on wheels and try | nice to capture us! “I can hear of the the rumble | the witches are not inside!” Andy ing the house on wheels this way!"| S0 off he dashed in the direction of the coming magical house. Presently, the hobby horse came running back. “What do you think, Raggedy Ann?" he said. -“Neither Minga the witch nor Munga the witch are,in the little magical house on wheels, and il is coming this way | lckity split just as if it was a run- away horse! I ran all around it and peeked in the windows and I am sure “Maybe they fell off going over some of the bumpa!" Raggedy Andy id., How can stop the magical house on wheels when it passes here? Raggedy Ann wanted to Kpow. Maybe when it comes by, I can cateh it and hold it!" the nice poor man said. I am =o large and strong, 1 believe that T can stop it!" And so, when the magical house on wheels came by, lickity aplit, the nice poor man caught hold of the back| porch and held on. we will. Here in this resoft hotel, 1 | that “times | even vitally {in plenty of | | which, | his table for coffee, rallied forces that had been exhausted by months of suffering when I had played the game accordipg to the silly rules that T now derided, For a moment or two, after the | waiter had gone, T merely looked ‘at | my breakfast. There was a certain Joy, not explainable to those who had never starved, in looking at the iced grapefruit, the yellow omelet and the golden toast. And then eager appetite mastered me. 1 laughed as I found myself reaching for a fifth slice of toast. I must remember had changed, and that it was not necessary for me to overeat; as inevitably as the hotel elock struck one, g8 would I lunch. Last year, when the scanty, coarse meal befors me must do me a day, or two days, or even three, it was all very well, necessary, that 1 clean the plate, But now I could permit myself a daintiness forbidden not so long ago. And as I replaced the toast upon the dish, I remembered that I had promised to be on the first tee at 10 o'clock. I looked at the clock on the wall, found that T had but a half hour in which to dress, and leaped from the bed. 1 was shaved and bathed, and attired Wwith a certain correctness possible only to a gentleman ‘born, and was at the appointed place, exactly on the hour. My opponent was await- ing me, watch in hand. “Thought you might have changed your mind, Mr. Ainsley,” he said to me. “Am T late?” T asked. He grinned offensively. “Oh, vou're time,” he answered. “For a beating!" he added. T looked at him; a tall, burly man, with protruding hlue ey and thin gandy hair, he was exactly the type for some neason, is most of- fensive to me, T find that men with those characteristics, especially if their Adam's apples are very large, are usually vulgar hraggarts. He was not the person whom 1 would have sclected as my opponent. But | last night, in the dining-room, an elderly gentleman with whom T had struck up a’ casual acquaintance on the course—I had played the last nine holes with him, and he had compli- mented me on my play—asked me to He introduced | | a it 1 1 n o s a c h di 1 n &l m a A n a D v a a o The house on wheels was going 80 fast, it jerked the poor man right off | his feet, but only for a moment. The nice poor man held back as| l:avd as he could and dragged his feet in path, but he could not slow ip the house even a smidgin, “My! My!" Raggedy Ann cried as &he gaw the house drag the poor man vay. “He can not stop it even & | speck! Quick! We must catch up with | the path Raggedy Ann cried, “He can not stop ming now!" the hobby canse 1 can run very fast, 1 run dewn the road and see if the witches are realiy send wheels of th wil it befor. nis shoes the poor man scraping along it and stop wears out So the Ragg back of the ma dys hopped upon the al hobby horse and shed after the house on wheels. ten minntes before the running fast as he ht up with the house the Raggedys jumped from to the front porch. Then, of , it only took a second for Rag+ Ann to cry “Stop house on and the honse stopped. “Anyway, we have the house back again!” Raggedy Ann laughed. “Now climb upon the roof nice poor man and while we roll along, 1 will wish vou to have a pair of nice new shoes, for you have entirely spoiled your old ones dragging them:” Wit aimost hobby horse, conld run, nd hack 1t| his | me {o his wife and to his daughter, and to my opponent of today, Ernest Vantine, whom T took te be the fiance of the daughter, Kernochan, my elderly friend, expatiated on my | prowess to his prospective son-in-law. | Whereupon Vantine promptly chal- | lenged me to a match. Tn the course of our conversation T mentioned that, | during a leave of absence in the war, 1 had played Westward Ho, in Eng- land, in eight-one, Vatine had shown {an immediate dishelicf in my state- | ment. He remarked that he had | meen me driving, and that T ‘didn't | | 100k like an elghty-one player to him. “In fact,” he had added insolently, | “I'd be willing to bet five hundred { dollars that you can't beat me, and I'm never below eighty-five,” 1 reminded him that T had Nayed | but little In recent years, end that T {had no doubt that he could heat me, | | Whereupon he had sneered and re- | | marked that he always found it thus: | people talked low golf-scores, but | | when it came to reinforceing con- versation with money, they usually | erawled into their holee His fiances, | Miss Kernochan, applauded his state. ment 1 regretted that courtesy 'toward an elderly man had led me . promptly badger him into lars, won the liking of ‘old Kernochan, and even the sour-featured daughter and great wealth, ruby a match nd a bet, But I smiled as these things were old to me, 1 had bheen silly, and being silly is apt to prove expensive, never mourn spilied milk., look for a dairy. Instead, Chill milk and cream. fruit cream. juice and chill. Whip cream until stiff. Beat | mixture into milk, beat in | Add a lump of ice und serve, Total calories, 464. “Protein, fat, carbohydrate, 162, L0005 gram. 32; Iron, That night I was as cordial at din- | (Copyright 1024, NEA Service, Inc.) er as though nothing untoward had ccurred. Miss Kernochan invited ne to make a fourth at bridge, and 1 ccepted. We played in the Kerho- han apartment, and I won a few dol- But T did more than that, T er pop-eyed lover were ial. Kernochan, quite cor- like all parvenus —he was obviously that—talked con- tinuously of his wealth. that he was a retired broker, and that Vantine was the chief owner of a de- I learned cetive agency that bore his name, This latter fact came out when Ker- ochan showed me, as proof of his a ring which he had iven his daughter upon her engage- 1ent to Vantine, nother room. “The ‘setting is a liftle loosc, so lice lsn't wearing it,” he told me. I shall have it fixed in New York ext week.” T admired the ring. An enormous it was worthy of the' warmest dmiration. And T, who had dealt | 80 successfully with another ring not {80 long ago, eyed it with longing ap- reclation. T encouraged the old ulgarian to tell me about the stone, (Continued in Our Next Isgue) AR SRRGE R | Deer Learn Quickly . ‘Washington—Quick to learn the dvantage of Uncle Sam's protection, the deers of Glacier National Park remained in the vicinity of the park dministration buildings all winter, f national par THE YOUNG LADY ACROSS THE WAT | | according to a report of the bureau | Bulldog Revival { Lendoh—The bulldog again is re- turning to favor in England. More than 200 of them, with scowling faces and fierce jaws, were efitered at a re- cent show. Several of the bulldoge were valued at more than $1,000, |~ GOOD MANNERS— Extra Dishes " Takoo He brought it from | Do not serve vegetables in saucers or extra dishes st a formal dinner. The only extra plate permitted is the bread plate. The Candy choice of the world. “A double-bass fiddle” * he wanted to buy; A glance at the want ads and one met his eye. READTH