New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1925, Page 4

A Wife’s Confession Adele Usrrson’s New Phase o REVELATIONS CF A WIFE SEISIEs It s b besaeb e A st e a s s SR R SRS E S A e S ~ “You Shall Tell Both Ma; Me,” = Lillian As the name, Lee Chow. from Junior's lips, 1 saw eyebrows contract and knew that quickness of perc linked the ne whom the ma ported to be uttered however, but to her I h pone the e actl ge and came Lillian's wi ption, na with 1 knew t xplar Chow's wsked which ing eyes were flushing nie to her 1 divined between pa mother, that t two loyal Junction Lee Chow's p plenle becau she against tell her what Fad the sedan passed us. Then Lee Chow and the sedan m e connected in some way. A ridicu- lous explanat thing nd I had to com- htly to keep from Jaughing outright. | But Junior gave me me just then for explanation so tic a news repi it our heact was | i her mott mand to startled her when eflected that if we ever settled down to normalcy | agal n, with no shadow of illness or mystery hanging over us, I must Jose no time in cradicating {rom my small 50 the atrocious | idloms with which Katie interlards her conversation upon all occasions. | “But Ma-ma, he wouldn't stop to play wiv us. He just shook his head ~— so—" Junior bobbed his own head energetically up and down — | end eaid ‘How do, little boss man,’ and went away ¢ Ain't he gunny, Ma-ma®" ““Isn't, Junior torrected me laughed outright. “‘The rulin death or chievously, her atte not ‘atn’t’” 1| lly, and Lillian| passion, strong in " she quoted, mi: and relleved to have ion distracted from the eubject of Lee Chow. I answered her mirthful quotation with the parody of another. “I suppose you mean a school “Something like that,” Lilllan re- | torted, praise be to Allah! aren’t those Mrs, Ticer's majestic that once mistress “hut bu 2l Tangle s Letter from Leslie Prescott to the Little Marquise, Care of the Secret Drawer, Continued Just now, little Marq not seem to care if me or n He scems a st My brain heart are numb, I can't even re how he looks. Perhaps while my heart will ache brain will try to understand, now I just a kind of a log in the mill-race of life which is st because it has r something which h waters of consciousness are begin- ning to swirl about me, however, and perhaps in a little while I'll go racing along again, ming mbre and more attered until at some day I will be thrown upon the shore of despair — old and usc- less. Oh, little Marquise, how I wish you could send me some communi- cation #om that land where you are now. I don't think I am unique among women. Others of my sex have passed through what I am passing through now, otherwise our newspapers and divorce courts would not be filled ht tional protests embittered women. It I were free, dren for W 1 would go again anc of ¢ T had no ct ay, think T we has been quite but I am Small Doll Makes Tie find a y ¥ a and When don’t let Just find dressed, preferably. where the tie would nat And you will not only be but stylish, for this is being pow by our very women. Small F clally for this purpose, ®old in the shops. you can't that a sma wor ally smartest ch do are being | observed Mrs. I do|baby in my arms, whose father is ack is true to| John am | $iaisiiiiass footsteps They them and e, were indeed advancing from the kitchen, next second, the beaming and the ample figure of Mrs, into view around the orner of the hall, ure ready for lunche she said cheerfully, -“be piping hot now, and it it eaten right away."” “Mrs, Ticer,” Lillian said solemn- “if ever there were people more ' ready for your good food, You cught to pickle them as curiosities.” Our good neighbor laughed but a note of concern in the We heard the Ticer ca projecting 1 ume fo v qul 08¢ child must be #aid, and all her love sounded in her of of starved,” she | little people kindly volce. A Camp-fashion Meal “Come out with Auntie Ticer to kitchen, children, and I'll fill| you. 1 you won't have to wait for the formal serving, You don't mind ?" She looked anxlously at Lillian and me. “Mind,” Lillian returned, and I echoed her exclamation. “It's a life- saving job you'll be doing, both for them and for But don’t you dare to do any formal serving for us. Just put on the dishes, camp fashion, and we'll help ourselves.” “I see you believe in cutting your pattern according to your cloth,” Ticer sagely, and with Marion on one side of her, and Junior clinging to her hand g¢n thej other, she retreated to the kitchen. | She is seldom without a honfely old proverb with which to point her meanings and Lillian and I have amused ourselves by writing them | down. This morning, however, the remembrance of our own quot tions coupled with hers, struck us| as absurdly funny, and we laughed | ofstly as we made our way to the dining room. “It's in the alr, today, I guess,” Lillian said, and then with a hun- ger which only a long drive throygh crisp autumn air can give, we wasted no time in speech, but de- voted our whole attention to the delicious meal which Mrs. Ticer had prepared. ‘When we had finished, and the ldren, apparently filled almost to the bursting point, had come to us, Lillian slipped her arm around Mar- ion. “Swectheart girl,” she said, “play with Junior until after Mother comes down from relieving Aunt Katherine with that sick girl. Then come to Mother's room where you can tell Auntle Madge and me all| about the sedan.” tor ar da us, 50 to be: o hurt John as much as he has' hurt me. Here T am, though, with a young Alden Prescott. Every chord | of my life is bound to my husband. My father has made him the cus- todion of my mother’s and gy prop- erty. Dad evidently thought that| we were to be together until deat p us. 1 don't eea how J c out from under. I haven't courage or the strength of charac- r to end it all. I told Ruth, little Marquise, be- cause I knew she had been | through this experience v Harry lington. I asked her what I should I knew that took & long before ehe decided to divoree r and, when ghe was in love with Burke. There is no man h 1 that even Walter on ¢ ing spring objects, are dangerous if they have recently [1le with t 1| gedy — NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 10%. DAILY FASHION SERVICR FLOWER BLOOMS IN DARK This new flower, Gossip’s Corner Double Dreasted The double breasted front is used r top coals and and promises to be one of the lead- | innovations. Neat Trim Unusual trimmings for a gown of | olored silk a rose petals, promidcuous Ivet ite Cooking In cooking dried fruit to one and water. Paris dress for the flapper who is not averse to “u kiss In the dark." phorescent walstline, s its only decoration. won't do A large phos- Jjust below the sult coats allke mings i re golden brown | scattered about Frgt fruils use a pint d one-half pints Tong Soaking | @ Dricd peas or beans soaked for seven or eight hours in | cold water hefore they arc cooked. | | Don’t Cook | should be (00 Long | It cahbage, turnips or caulifiower | e cooked rk in col too The Leather Fu Wash leather fi ft cloth wrung o Polish with a soft cloth. To Clarify Fat fat keep it at a gentle heat until there is not a -bubble to| be seen and all sediment has fallen leaving a clear oil. Strain this and keep in a cool, dry place. To clarify the bottom, long they r and strong in flavor. | combination of pink chiffon is being used very suc- | cessfully in Paris; o skirt made of flounces of these con- trasting notes. | become | Black and Pink black and ¢ frock has a urniture t urniture with a ut of hot milk. | 'FABLES ON HEALTH FACTS ON CONTAGION Mrs. “Clothing, boo handled by en handled, but “If a person, su cold, coughs in his hand, with that hand passes me an apple, 1 shall be_likely to contract 1d. “If he puts the apple down, and I files or in other ways. Mann continued with her story about germs by husband that there was no need of being afraid of many things which our fathers feared in the early days of the germ theory of di telling her | se. toys and other a sick person, the danger will not persist very long. flering from a and then that lculosis sputum {s that | virulent do not take it for a day, the risk is less, and {f I wait a week there is little chance that I will catch the cold."” For the same reason, probable that dust, in the past, has heen overrated as an agent for the transmission of dis Some germs are harder It is possible o find germs in the dust of dark rooms where a patient has been. The principal danger from tuber- the germs may be transferred while fresh and by shoes, skirts, it seems to kil The Adventuresd KaggedyAnn Bk “It. doesn't ecem the Ann said golden towers,” by Johmy far to the cas- " Rag- as she pointed care for, little Marquise — not even |through the trecs to where the sun my husband at present — and I shown upon the tail towers of the waited with bated breath to hear what Ruth would advise me to do. | 8he said she could not advise me She told me I mu. impulse — my I am not able to t Marquise. I do not even ch. I am only to y to day. ca. Your unhappy stle. “We can stie, 1 spect!” Raggedy L Lady little vas a funny had tru; W this path and it will take us to the| Lindy asked Mrs. alk right down Ann were Rag- indy, Mr. Tuney | . Grundy wus | was a very | lady and Mr. | little man who | nk home. Grun to go along and in fact none of our TOMORROW Telegram from John Alden Prescott to Leslic Pres- Chiffon Popular a m is so very ) popular that it would cloth gome man- erblouses of it make Chiffon ’ expected in- fe 1 til ca e ev .8 525 Wy wia SEPVCL W R e e e T M in ‘st a man who a girl if he can k Lady She caught her toe in a vinc 1l to the ground. R Mrs. Gr shall stay I get her w n wish eam a7 pufts and with t o go et is calling told Mr: making in hom Iolly erythiag 1 want!” 85 then dy Andy Lindy walked rs Grundy the wi g a'ong oa Ragze just as if Ann and Rag- Mr. Tuncy and down the path d plybily £ you surc were very when L magic nice things lopped up away f “Iia, Now I shall must have gue wungry by this Lindy wish d, they time, ok out for a Mrs, snatehed Jindy. he lot of Grundy the 6tick to to and stick witeh s wishing ha, 1 I hav wish cricd. . mean cr ay and le g to ¢ to 1 her 1oe vine to the ground. could get creature d und picked “Now, it's in her shed up the out mine creature y ' brave one was Ve R rave jump creature. t shing sti cried, t me go have the worst fight to creature we wi ever s “I shall not lct you go until give Lady Lindy her wishing stick!" Mr. Tuney eried. At this, the str: ereafure it Mr. with the magic stick. “Ha!" Mr.' Tuney cried, “"We fight a duel, that's w and his magic his at” took flute out der cout and a hard thump. “Ouch!” he hit Mr. hit hit M tire Mr. duel Raggedy Andy ce big stick with the had the cause he was wit and fought creature. Ragges best of it ali time be- stuffed with cotton and it did not hurt him to be hit, 0 in a few minutes Raggedy Andy won the fight “Here is the stick!" said. “If. the magician wishes it, he can sehd someone else to get it. I have enough hard thumps for one lay So he returned the stick to Lady Lindy and in a few minutes all were eating doughnuts and cream Andy a the | puffs. And as they did not believe ih Ra cre some Lin eing stingy, Lady Ann gav the and Mrs. Grundy the 100, dy a ge itch tuberculosis | fingers, | And | tick and | a|who saw creature ' ©1925 by NEA Service Inc. “|'thelr astounded gaze, BEGIN HERE TODAY Sir Dudley Glenister, suspected of the murder of a cousin to obtain his title and estate, when a crow drops a'skeleton finger into a pic- nic crowd, consents to a search of the lands, but— Kathleen Glenister, sister of the missing man, and Norman Slater, her lover, fear Sir Dudley will at- tempt to dispose of the hidden body to foil @he searchers, 8o they shadow him, and in the woods they meet up with— The Right Honorable Stephen Colne, former British cabinet min- fster. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | “Thought I was a poacher?” he laughed mirthlessly, “Very natural. No, I am not setting snares for rab- Lits, Miss Glenister.” The emphasis on the harmless animal he named was as good as a plain hint that he was setting shares tor something else. Kathleen was tempted thereby to greater frank- nes: “We are .not exactly setting snares,” she eaid. “Munting would he a better word for it. Captain Slater and I agreed that an attempt might be made tonight to remove or more effectually hide, my broth- er's body, and so forestall the of- ficial and unofficial search which will, I suppose, begin tomorrow | “You are still convinced, Miss ! Glenister, that the finger was your brother's?" “I am absolutely certain of it. Mr. Stephen Colne sighed. “I, too, am of the same opinion,” | he admitted. “I will confess that my reason for this nocturnal prowl- ing is on alb fours with your own. You will forgive me for saying that |1 think that you have defeated our common objective.” “How?" cried Kathleen. “Well,” proceeded the cabinet minister, “while I was keeping my lonely vigil just now I heard some- one advancing along the path from the Grange. The footsteps had neg: ly reached the glade when more distant sounds from the same direc- tion assailed my ears, doubtless | caued by yourselves. The first comer must have heard them, too, for he never arrived in the open, the na- turat deduction being that he broke | away from the path into the wood. He has probably abandoned his en- terprise, whatever it was, and 1 at | 2oy rate shall abandon mine.” “We had better chuck it, too,” said Norman quickly. “Sorry to have spoilt your sport X Mr. Colne's ugh was friendly and tolerant. Don't blame your- | sclves,” he replied. ‘“Keen as you both were in a good cause, you had not s0 much at stake to inspire caution as the individual in front of you. If the police take the mat- fer up we amateurs would be wiser to leave it to them.” “The police have taken it up,”| sald Kathleen. “The gergeant called at the Grange this evening and took finger and ring awa “Really? That was smart for a provincial officer. He must have acted promptly on the rumors that| are flying about. Well, good night, Miss Glenister. Good night, Cap- tain Slater."” With which Mr. Stephen Colne moved off in the direction of Coln- brook Towers. Norman and Kath- leen started homeward, not wholly, disappointed with the result of their excursion, Their immédiate concern was how to get back into the house and regain their bedrooms without their cxpedition becoming known to their | nost. | Emerging from the coverts into the open park, they were partly reassured by secing no human fig- ure on the wide expanse ahead, though Norman's military anxiety for his rear administered a prompt corrective. “Perhaps the blighter is behind he whispered. Don't!” was Kathleen's dering protest. And when they had crossed the | park and passed through the gar- | dens to the terrace under the rows of darkened windows, the young | soldier's theory was demolished by ¢ materfalizing of the other, if les& creepy, more decisive one. The gunroom door was locked. What are we to do?” murmured {athleer shud- n looked round for & loop- ape. The word “compto- mise” reared its ugly head. He was selzed with an inspira- tion. “Omly thing to do is to go round to the front door and ring ‘em up,” he said. “We can pitch & yarn about tempted to take a stroll by ght, but put us on the we shall to announce that are engaged.” “We are not engaged, and we are not going to be, while George's fate is in doubt,” came the indignant re- joinder. “I call that mean of you.” Norman accepted fully. replied. “Carried away by my feelingg, 1 suppose. | | Here's another plan How about ! sticking it out that summer- house over there? As soon as th hoise is opened up and the serv ants are we can sneak In. With luck might get to our being spotted, and if 1 square any domestic A tenner for ome of or a fiver if it's a mald, do the trick.” | athleen looked at the summer- house, a substantial structure across | the lawn beyond the rose garden,| it's thatched roof bathed in moon- light, Well she knew the comfort- able interior, with its pitchpine and cushioned basket-charis. As a little girl she had given dolls'| tea-parties there, “Come along,” she said. “At any rate for a time—till we can hit on! something not quite so crude.” being [ moon level have we “Sorry,” he about we | not we us. | the men, | young lady, for to use a coarse ool- They crossed the dewy turf and| | entered the building without heed | | for & possible occupant at that time of night But on the threshold they same to a sudden hait. The dull red | glow of a cigar in full blast met| xplaining the tragrant smell of Havana smoke that assailed thelr nostrils, Miss Glenlster and Captain Slater, I think” sald Willoughby Melville, “In a little difficulty, eh? Well, If you will permit me, I shall have pleasure in helping you to sur- mount it by showlng you how to get into the house. I have been walting here in order to offer my services."” Norman tried not to look like & detected criminal. “Nearly everybody seems to be wandering about tonight,” Kathleen laughed. The nerve speclalist had risen trom his seat and come to the' door of the summer-hovse, “You must not let your dlsap- pointment mako you cross, Miss Glenister,” he sald pleasantly. “It 8 not my fault that the object of your moonlit stroll hus proved elusive. Don't let that worry you, my dear “PERHAPS THE BLIGHTER I8 BEHIND US” HE WHISPERED. —— e loquialism, you have been barking up the wrong tree.” He struck across the lawn to-| wards the mansion, but Kathleen, | keeping pace with him, was deter- mined that he should be more ex- plicit, “You secem to be pretty sure of | the reason for our stroil, Doctor Melville,” &he sald. “I wonder if| you have hit on the right one.” “1 seldom make mistakes in read- ing the human mind,” was the re- ply. Doctor Melville had shepherded them to one of the French win- dows of the dining-room, which proved to he unfastened. “Pray take advantage of my pro- vision for my own return,” he said, | slanding aside for the wanderers to enter and following them in. must leave you to your own d in gaining your own rooms, should advise caution.” CHAPTER V An iron-gray man of sixty, ruddy from the weather and mighty of} limb, John Grimes, listcned rupc::l-i fully to his master's orders. The| head gamekeeper had come up to| the Grange after breakfast and was| now being interviewed in the li- brary. “I quite understand, Sir Dudley,” he said when his employer came to a full stop. “I am to collect the beaters and farm hands and go over every inch of ground on the estate. I will guarantee that if we don't| find a body there won't be one there | to find.” 0 Be Continued) . . Bake Squash | Bake winter squash in the shell | instead of trying to stew it. Lony | sirup Instead of suga ANEE o B Pl ] Today's puzzle is a collection of crossword puzzle bromides — print- er's measure, jumbled type, South American sloth, and & on. The hard words should, therefore, be easy to solve, HORIZONTAL 1, To scatter hay. 8, An authoritative command. 9. A tree, 11. Stout. Punctuation mark. . To decrease. It is silent (musical term.) . Alsles, . 8.1416. ‘Withdrawal. . Negative, . Three-toed sloth. Pelt. Kindled. Second note in scale. Compact, Lion’s home. Crowds together. To draft. . Fundamental. Girl. . Small coney. ‘Weighed (used in casc of eon- tainers.) To turn over. . Blood pump. . An inert, gaseous element found in the air. 49. To increase in volume. 51. To observe. Garret. Half an em. To scold. 56, Possessive case, masculine pro- “ noun. Half way between and where sun rises. . Printer's measure, Lauded. Neuter pronotun. . To prepare for publication. 6. The deep. To pry. 2 . To brown by the heat of fire. Quantity whose value is given. 73. Organ of sight. . To utter again. Sofrrowful. VERTICAL To drag. Trading craft with onc mast. . Personal pronoun. herbivorous animal or north pole . Flower. . Tidy. Breakfast—DBaked apples, cercal, thin cream, soft cooked eggs, crisp whole wheat toast, milk, coffee. | Luncheon — Oyster soup, toasted bread sticks, lettuce sandwiches, cream pufts, milk, tea. Dinner — Casserole baked potatoes, of buttered beef, Deets, | radishes and spring onlons, cherry sponge, whole wheat coffec. During the maple sweetening baked bread, milk, sirup scason apples with You will like it. Serve the making a greens with the becets, mound of the greens in the center of the dish and use the tiny beets as a wreath. Season the greens as carcfully as you do the Leets and chop finely before.sery- ing. Who doesn’t “love" cream puffs? | Filled with a nourishing boiled cus- fard ber even of the four-year-old mem- family may indulge, Cream Puffs One cup boiling water, butter, 1 cup flour, 3 eggs. Add butter to boiling water and bring again to the boiling point. When bubbling rapidly add the flour all at once and stir vigorous- ly. When thoroughly mixed and ly smooth, remove from the fire and let cool. Add eggs, unbeat- en, one at a time. Beat each egg thoroughly into mixture before add- 12 dup | 1hg another egg. Drop by spoonfuls | two inches apart. Bake haif an hour |in a moderate oven. Med jicin¢ | Is The Best | Spring Tonic RebuildsWeakened | Tissue, Makes New | Flesh and Strengt" OVER 69 YEARS OF SUCCESS onto a buttered dripping pan or cookie sheet, making them at least When cool make a cut sharp knife in each puft with a rich bolled custard. Casserole of Beef One and one-half pounds round steak, 1 1-2 cups canned tomatoes, 2 carrots, 1 turnip, 2 small onions, 1-2 cup diced celery, 1-4 cup rice, 2 tablespoons salt, 1-4 teaspoon pepper. Trim steak and cut in pieces for serving, Season with salt and pep- per and dredge with flour. Brown quickly on both sides in drippings in & frying pan. Put into a cas- serole, pour over tomatoes and add vegetables cut in smaM pieces Sprinkle rice over top and add boil- ing water to cover. Cover cassero and cook slowly in the oven for two with aj and fill 9. 12, 14. 16, 18. 20, 23. 22. 25. 26, 28, 30. 32, 33, 24, 86, 38, 39, 44, 46, 48, 50. 52, b5. 56. 69. €1, 62, 63, 04, €5, 67, 68. 70. 2. Maple tree. Sum. 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Cherry Sponge Two cups canned cherries, 2 egg 3-4 cups sugar, 1-4 cu phot wate -4 cup flour, 1 1-2 teaspoons bak- 1-8 ing powder, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, teaspoon salt. Beat yolks of ¢ggs uniil thick and lemon colored. Add half the sugar gradually and Ade lemon beat until smooth. remaining sugar end Add flour mixed and i water, Juice. sifted with baking powder and salt Beat well and fold in the whites of the Put cl tered baking dish batter. cggs beaten until stiff and dry rries in the bottom of a but- and cover with a moderate oven Bake in for 40 mifutes. If cherries are very tart sprinkle with sugar before cov- ering with batter. No £auce is neccs sary (Copyright, 19 New York, March 16, totalling $360,000 to $5,000,000 Hampton have bec tee ward 8. with this puddin 25, NEA Service, Inc.) GIFTS TOTAL $360,000 Three gifis complete the endowment fund for and Tuskegee institute n received by the comm here during the 'ast week. Harkness “gave $250,000; Mrs. Btephen V. Harkness $100,000 and Mrs. E. H. Harriman, $10,000, 'The the child who sees casily. Child Who Sees The child who leams easily is we will be glad to examine carefully the cyes of your child and giv you our advice about glasses. My Specialty— Comfortable Vision Frank E. Goodwin Eyesight Specialist MAIN ST. PHONE 1905