New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1925, Page 4

Katherine Reassures Lillian For a long minute Lilllan looke <l steadlly at Dr, Pettit, and I wom - dered 1f she were measurlog her Will agalnst his. I knew how bitter 1t was for her to face {naction of minda and body and how equally obnoxio tas lo her was the idea of submitting her imperious will to that of any cther person. He had used, how- ever, the one argument calculated to away her—that her death would Jeave her idollzed young daughter, Marlon, alone in the world, 1 was not surprised at the out- come, When Lillian ylelds she does | it royally, with no reservations. There was even a glint of her ol<l- time mischiet in her eyes as she brought her hand up to her fore- head in military salute, { “You're the doctor,” she sald with a little smile, “and I'll be good.” 5 Rut the gesture was a fechle one and the voice a faltering travesty o©f | her usual resonant tones Dr, Pet-| tit's eyes narrowed as he watched her, and I, wild with anxlety wished fervently that I had the chairvoyant | yower to read what lay behind that keen appraisal. “You are wise,” was the only re- sponse he made, however. Then e | turned to Katherine, “I put her in your hands, Mrs. Blckett,” he added. “There is noth- | ing to be done save nourlsh her and keep her absolutely quiet untll T see Ao Garrimem®s Now Phase o * REVELATIONS OF A WIFE talk to me, But hesx hand went out gropingly toward mxxine, and I held it firmly, tenderly, Toping that she would comprehend the passionate longing to ald her which was con- suming me. I had not moved when Katherine came back Into the room, and ad- vanced noiselessly to the bedside | stood quicscent foxr- a long minute, | watching the {riencd so dear to both [of us T was sure it was not Lil- JMan's auditory powsers, but psychic ones, which were ressponsible for the | opening of her eyes and her smile | at Katherine, My little kinsworman sllpped her hand over Lilllan"ss free one and tested her pulse. “Then she spoke | tn 1ow tones and ~wwith a wary look | at the door throug¥x which the phy~ stelans had passed out, “Thing's Arern’t Ag Bad!" “Look here, old <Xear. I'm violat- {ng all the ethies of my profession-— probably I'd be deprived of my uni- form If elther of Yo repeated this— but I want you to Ycnow that things aren't as bad with wou as dear old Herble makes out. They're measly enough, goodness = mows and Herbie has your promise. which I know you'll keep, or T W ouldn't be telling you this. But he’ss such a sour old pessimist that sorra etimes I think it affects his medical judgment. Of course, in your case he was justified in thinking that Tyecd have to gcare vou to death to keep you allve—but 1 think you deser~e a little casing her again. No talking, no excite-| ment, no medicine, save something which I will give you, Mrs Graham may relieve you with both yeur patients at any time you need rest, | for neither of them needs anything espeglal in the way of treatment. Tndeed, the girl in the et room may get up tomorrow and take care of herselt under off. That doesn’t ymean you may talk today, I'm going tobe a mar- tinet in capitals for twenty-four hours at least, but tomorrow, it you {mprove as I expect you to do, you may listen to NTadge about that Hugh Grantland Tusiness and tell her what you wamt her to do. And your supervisi on. | you don't face perxmanent invalidism I will look in again tomorrow.’ —don't you ever think of {t—that Madge's Anxiety 18" she qualified. “If you obey With a bow to me, which was re-| orders."” peated by Dr. Meredith, he left the That Lilllan took her promise room, followed closely by his friend | solemnly we saw’, as she made no and by Katherine whoss summonss I |attempt to answer Katherine in Jad scen in Dr. Dettits lifted ey e-|wards, But her frradaited face and | brows. | her suddenly stazrry eyes told us 1 dvew a chair to the bedside @mnd | what & load the 1ittle nurse's assur- sat down, trying to keep my terrific ! ance had lifted from her heart. ! anslety out of my face. I succeecied | "I'm going to gt you some nees- | g0 far as to manage a poor imitation |sary nutriment mow," Katherine | of & smile at Lillian, to whom, re-|went on, mimicing Dr. Pettit's man- memhering Dr. Pettit’s injunctior I | nerisms so successfully that 1 sig- dared not speak. |gled and Lillimam’s lips twitched She gave me an answerlng smile, | feehly, “Come along, Madge, Our then closed her eyes not so miach | patient will be better off without us ! from weakness, T guessed, as frormy a | for the next few ravinutesand I need ) The Atvertures Raggedyhm By wbygedynty ‘@ by oy Gruelle “How did you happen to beeome | who need our help! a tired carpenter?”’ Raggedy _Amnn 80 Toofie with This magic charms asked the carpenter after he bad | made a lot of boards and nails and built & nice cozy little house for [said, “"Now while Raggedy Ann gnd Toofie, the queer little magician. | Raggedy An ta ke a hasket of food “Oh, I don't know " the penter ovr to Finkie I 1eldmouse's home, replied, “I spect when I was & 1it-|the carpenter an <l I will bulld them tle boy, I never liked to do the|a cunning little Ity house!” {hings my mamma asked me to do| So he handed the Raggedys 2 and of course, when I grew up, I[basket of food and with Finkic had grown into habit of alww .v; Ficldimouse lead ing the way, the Jetting someone else do the thing | Raggedys soon came tothe Field- which I shouid have dofe, Amicl in|mouse home dovs™m beneath the damp that way. I became very, very t ired, Finkie Fieldmouse took the all the time!” | basket of food 1 own to Mrs, Ficld- log. “1 spect you were alazy DOY!" muse and when e cameup, he had Toofle said, | Mrs. Fielimouse with him, “I spect e was!” Raggedy Ann. “The food tasted fo nice, T apect Sharpen your wits today. This| isn't a glant in size, but it's equal to one in the types of words used in it. Tou’'ll have to use a big’'dictionary to solve it, and more than likely you'll do some erasing. HORIZONTAL 1. Sparse. 6 Grave, 11. Sea eagle, 12. Indisposition. | 15. Owed. | Remedy for all diseases. 1 Female lion. A palr, Large deer. . To. mimic. Coarse string tennls, - . You. Officers in a college, . Seventh note in scale. Christmas carols. . To free, . ‘The name of a story. | To allow, | Silver in ingots of various sizes, . Epoch. . Dandy. | . To hoist. ! Yertllized and ripencd ovules. To emerge. . Goddess of dawn, . To nap. The mark that means “all right” | . Jogs, Provided Corpulent. i . Because, | . A grain. . Animal similar to donkey, . Chemical used in making chloro- form, A muscle which flexes the thigh. Correlative of neither, Dwarfed, 1 Before, Betrothals. Perceptio VERTICAL Pertaining to the seventh. The crop of a bird. . Pestered Series of 16. fence used in 62. 63. o4 66 1 2. 3 4 sefli Tangles. UETIER FROM BEATRICE SUM- steel aplints forming MERS TO LESLIE PRES- COTT — CONTINUED Besides, Leslie, I hate that awful time before the birth of & child when a woman looks €0 ugly. Don't think of me contemptuously. You must remember that I am pot | bedutiful like you. All the beauty “put the, carpenter did mnot he it was magic foo <11 Mrs, Fleldimouse sald, “so now X must return with agreed seem to grow t building nic “Oh, € Jaughe lo not grow tired any more Toofie captured me and tied a string around my nose!” Toofie laughed, “Maybe it wwould be a good plan for all mamas to tiey strings around the noses of their it tle bovs who happen to be too tired “Now I shall go back and go to work ter “for T am not a J “r to do" Toofie =ald tn the stay here and o w nice little T ouse, Gt to you can the houges for have to r....h. Gruetie A LITTLE FIELD MOUSE RED IN ER AGGED CLOTHING r mused, T of fun, h shall T pa sked the My goodness!” the carpe re- you and thank Mr. Toofie!” plied ith you here So Finkle ¥ ieldmouse and Rag- aice and eat tr r cedy Ann and Raggedy Andy all things you serve from your Im ran back to I oofle the magician's cupboard T wo t hve any house, and wwhen they reached \ there, the caryp>enter had just ham- stay!” mered in the nal, and Toofie the carpenter t had o pot of paint and was just , “we will start bout to paim€t the ¢ little e cunning ¢ house, o Firakia Fie se was |1 | take them dim my very happy, fo o tiy house was wheelbarrow and ghe them to the just the size, ~wwindows and all and Toofle, with his maglc charms fur- ast bulld a tiny city nished 1t with tiny little tables and | of tiny houses right here?” RRaggedy chairs and two little white beds. Ann asked, ¥ nid be th n “Now we w start right in and Toof the earpenter co ufld others!’” ofie maid “for it is the c} f po and the towen car- the most fun X Thave ever had!" penter And, of cou whe nwe do nice “Whee * the carpenter and Toofle things for otl ws always get a cried as t caught ho of igreat deal o pleasure from our Raggedy Ann's an a work, about the room iy just at — - shall do Only ©Ome Monocle 1st then there came a wesX lit-| London. — Tha National Portraft pon the front door. and Gallery, whic¥a I8 complling photo- when Toofie opened it, a little field| graphs of e distinguished men mouse, dressed in rgged clothing and women of Great Britain, has 4. Please sir, few crumbs to take A found that o ©Te women t} to pose for thelr photo- graphs. Many ©f the leading Brit- ish women alsso haye refused to ap- prove the pPeotegraphs, Only one man in the ee>llection wore a mon- ocle while be®mg photographed. He wad Austen CIamberiain, n men will ¥ m™me | refuse glve ome to rI Y ma- ma mousie? She s lll in our home down under an old dump log™” “Thers! You s Toofie asked “we must get to work right away, for here are two cuprh littie mi I have lies in cy body and the way | T “wear clothes.” I am slender and [in my own precis way, graceful, and 1 et help thinking with | horror of the time when I shall be | awkward and unwieldly. | Dick Is such a lover of lovely wo- | ynen that my heart grows cold when I look forward to him seeing my one I heauty go. | Men are so dependent on what others think of those they love. ave almost decided that I shall stay in my room all the time. Is t morbid, dear? Probably it is nd you are wondering why such a »4 waman as 1 should have these feclings. 1 wish you aind see me. would come out here 1 think you would do me good and I am sure the place would interest you greatly. This jand which everyone seems to think the land of make-believe — this ywool—is in reality one of hard wvork and worry. Both men &nd women work so hard and meet with so many disappointnents that they | grasp al every possible breath of \‘ oy thit comes their way., They =eem to think it is coming to them and [am not sure but what they are right, These young men and young wo- { | men, flled with all the fires of youth, are on such a strain that When they play they play quite as hard as they work when they work. | They grow to think that they may ve more latitude in their playing{ than in their working, where most of them are czibbed and confined by the racous voices of the directors. There many things said about | Hollywood that are true and many more that are untrue, There are some wild parties, of course, but where on the elvilized globe can you not find wild parties whers there is youth, some leisure and mone; T heard a friend of mine the other Aay who has been spending the win- ter at Coronado, that great play- EEE dla | 28. Curses, | 46. Sinned. 156. A fortification. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SALTURDAY, AFRIL 11, 195, skirt of armor. 5. To submit, 6. Clips. 7. Indian tribe. 8. Light-colored eral, 9. To meditate, 10, To cuddle up. 13. Vessel for lake navigation. 14. South African antelope. 23. Tree of genus Ulmus, 25. "To endeavor. 26. Twitching. aluminous min- 5 29, Utensil with fine meshes. 31. A contract by which one veys lands for a rental. 34. Digit of the foot. 35. Call for help at sea. 30, A mystery, 40. Sea diving bird. 41, To court. 43. High priest samuel. . Disfigures. Baby. | con- who trained 47. One indifferent to pain. 49. Flapses. 51. Harmonizes In color. Acidity. apparently §5. Ebb and flow of water s regiu- Jated by the moon, 60. Secure, =i SEm (OO &= —>l= ] ey g5 Tlts) (T[= that husband of yours will not let ver. I can tell from the letters how usy Jack is in the responsible po- sition in which your father put him. Sometimes I wish—but there I will not find fault with the business in which my Dick has made such a success. | Tomorrow: This letter continued. Defied Death | ground of talk about the peopls who thére and I camé to the conclusion that there were perhaps wilder parties in soctety than among the moving picture set. However, if you come out here, my dear, T will introduce you to the prettiest girls and the handsomest young men in the whele world. You may dance to your heart's content. You see 1 remember hoy you used to love to dance, Sally has written me that she con- templates coming, but I am afraid } Sergeant C. E. Conrad, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex., defied death to| prove a wounded aviator can make | a safe landing with a parachum. | pleadingly on Maggie's rough one, ‘| but!” May excfaimed in her cheer- PIDEIR THE STORY S0 FAR Glorla Gordon, beautiful flapper, has maerled Dick Gregory for the luxuries he can glvé her. They honeymoon in Mdntreal, where Dick buys his bride a fur coat and all the sk stockings and perfumery her butterfly heart desires. The night of thelr return they dine with Dick's parents. The older Mrs. Gregory advises Gloria to learn to cook and look after her own house. But Gloria insists upon hav- ing a maid. Later that night, she and Dick quarrel when he says they can't afford a maid. Glorla has hys- terlcs and Dick throws ice-water fn her face to bring her to fer genses, The next morning ehe finds that Maggle, old Mrs. Gregory's cook, is Installed in her kitchen, Dick tells Gloria that the next time she picks a quarrel with him, he'll stay downtown all night to play cards with his men friends, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Dick laughed good-naturedly. “Well, what would you do it T committed such a crime?" he ask- ed. “Break a butter dieh, or some- thing like that?" “Fd be off in a flutter of dust, right back to my mother and fath- er! And you could keep bachelog's hall here all by your lonesome," Gloria told him. “I'm not going to be like poor Lola Hough, waiting alone night atter night for Bill to stop gambling and stagger home!" . 08 She meant what she sajd. She'd show him a thing or two! Lola Hough, with her tired wrin- kled face, might have to take such treatment patiently. But she, her- self, didn't. Not for a minute! With ‘her looks! .. .. Besides she knew she could manage Dick, He was helpless, be- cause of his love for her. “ . ' As soon as Dick had left for the office, Gloria put on her kimono and went downstairs. In the kitchen Maggie was singing “Mother Ma- chree”” as she washed dishes, “Maggie,"” Gloria said politely. d like you to plan all the meals while you're hére, and order the food, as well. Will that be too much extra work for you?" Maggie considered. “Mrs. Gregory told me I was to come here to teach you to cook and keep house,” she answered. “She R ———————— told her mirror that night, with the memory of Dick’s hard kiss still on ner mouth. "I can marry that man and all his money, it I want to!” Well, she had wanted to ., . . and so she had married him. Y After May had gone; Gloria put always does her own marketing. | on her hat and the new fur coat to Andl she can cook the grandest|go to see her mother- She hadn't) meals!” telephoned her since she had come home. * “Don't bother about getting lunch for me,” she told Maggle, “I ate a hig breakfast, and I'm afrald of getting fat “I know," Gloria said, “but I'm different. I don't know a thing about running a house, I couldn’t plan a meal if my life depended on it. And I wouldfi't know a tender chicken from one as old as’the| " “Have justa cup of tea and a bit| LA ; of salad,” Maggie eaid. She couldn't| She Jatd her manicured hand | ypgerstand these women who were afraid- to eat, lest they gain a few pounds. She thought they'd all look better if they had a little flesh on their bhones. ¥ But Gloria shook her head. . . She knew that the older woman was flattered by this offer of mew dignity and power. “All right,” Maggie sald fnally, “I'l do it for you." i Gloria breathed a smile of relief, She ran upstairs and started the steaming water for her bath. There was a large bottle of rose bath- salts on the glass shelf beside the tub, Gloria threw in two big hand- fuls. The bath-water began to smell like a.Persian garden. Out in her bedroom the French clock on the dressing table chimed. Twelve o'clock! As she walked down Church Btrect, she met Lola Hough. She Was wheeling a baby bugey with one hand and carrying a man- ket basket with the other. Behind | her trotted the twine, Billy and Bet- | pe ty. Tola's tired face was wreathed with smiles under her last year's| hat, “How nlce to see you!" she kissed | Glorfa warmly. “Are vou all set-| tied fn yohr lovely new house? T, walked past it the other da; 1 thought how lovely that big back yard Will be for your bables—when | they come." Gloria raisgd her eyebrows. Now she was Mrs, Richar® Greg-| ] hope you're not going to be ory, pampered and idle. She hadn't | one of theso foolish women, who | a trouble in the world! Her great-| can't be bothered with having chil- | est worry was to decide what kind| gren,” Lola said. She had caught of earrings to wear with the dress|ine look on Gloria's face at the | she had ch@sen for that day ctid bl An, this was the life . . . this was| «Because they're not a bother! whatshe was horn forl | They're .the greatest fun in the She smiled at her enchanting face | world,” Lola went on. “A woman| in the glass, as she rubbed perfume | {hinks ghe loves her husband. But behind her pink ears whe doesn’t even giess what love is i until she has a baby. | The telephone rang. | Lola raeed the hood of the bug-| “Hello, sweet thing!” It was May | gy. Tnside, in a little nest of pillows, | Seymour's light volce that came | jay Teddy Hough, who was riot quite over the wire. *T heard you were | a year old..His long lashes lay in a. home, How's marrled life?" dark shadow ‘on his cheeks. Little | “Wonderful of course! Y ou!goy wisps of hair curled from un-| should just see all the thinme T|der his bonnet, | bought in Montreal! Come over,| *Ian't he a love?” Lola dsked. can’t you? I have the darlingest| «Njce baby,” was-all Glory could bottle of perfume for you — Chi-| finq to eay. She said good-by then nese waterlily. Right from Paris it|and walked on. 1" Glory sald. st A came! The little house of her girlhood | “T'll be right over to get 1t," May laughed. And by the time Glorla , yoq ghabbier than ever befor when she came -down the street. was dressed, May's smart little car The paint was scaling in places, and was at her door. Gloria brought treasure fter gh N the snowy lace curtains had been darned in a dozen places. A .card treasure from the unpacked trunk tacked up beside the doorbell, read: lip sticke that were indelible, “Bedl out of order. Please knock.” . . A month ago 12 o'clock” would liave found her out on Main street, | on her way to lunch with hundreds of other pretly girls who worked for a living: geranium rouge, stockinge the color of sunburnt skin, a three.strand | | “Gloria knocked. Her' mother z»:::l necklace, and the new f‘"} opened the door, The minute she w her daughter she began to cry. “Whateyer in the world's the matter, mother?" Gloria asked. She pushed the door shut, and patted her mother's gingham shoulder with | one hand in its white kid giove. | “Oh, 1 don't know,” her mother sobbed. “I guess I'm so happy At secing you married off so well to} such a good man that 1 just have| to have a good cry.” | She wiped her eyes with one cor- | She held the coat up for May to admire. “My dear, you remind me of the Queen of Sheba, and nobody else ful slangy way. “I've got to trot| along now, T have a heavy date with | the hairdresser, But first I'm going to open this wonderful perfume you've given me, and douse it all over my coat. Mmm! Jan't that the most heavenly smell? Juet i think angel, you wouldn't have att| ®®F °f .:’" white T 0 this sudden wealth if it hadn't been | owve always been S Sl | your dad and me, Glo G on. “All your life, You were 100 e it D et YU TR wye And i souSLesaR (0 Dick through May and hér hus- | have beaus when you were too i s o | young for them . . . . Then, last E year we were deadly afraid that you e :.,:mz ,"n'::_,,’::f iy h\:’;", ere going to run away with that . What good-for-nothing actor . was his name?” “Stanley Waybu Gloria an- swered promptly. Jut you needn't have worried about him. He didn’t | want to marry anyone who didn't | have a million dollars! had found a job in Dr. John Sey- mour’'s office and had married him And at one of their parties, Gloria had first seen big, quiet Digk Greg- ory, and had marked him for her own. 2 Her eves were dreamy as thought of that long-ago night . Dick had driven her home from the &he Staniey Walburn was still a bit- Blindfoided, shackled and hand- | party, and had roughly kissed her | ter memory in her heart cuffed, Conrad was pushed from a | good-night at the door. | He was the one man who had plane at an altitude of 4,820 feet| She had known instantly that he | mever lost his head over her, He and made a safe landing, setting a ! meant it . that he was not just | had told her frankly that he would new world's record for parachute | “petting.” pever marry for anything but mpars. l “] can magyy that m she had mpney. But he was perfectly willing e ———— Gloria held the fur.coat up for May Seymour to admire —— to make love to her, Gloria, in the meantime. Only he wouldn't fall in love with her . . . had finally stopped phoning her or taking her out to supper. And then, at the end of the sea- son, he had left town without a word, She remgmbered how ehe had cried all night . . . What a fool she had been to care for him! » e e Mrs. Gordon was enchanted with Glorla’s new fur coat. “Dick's a fine husband,” she said. “So don't kill the goose that lays’ the golden egg. Don't run him into debt! . . . By the way, that good- for-nothing ‘Wayburn is back in town. I see by the papers that he's heading a new stock company.” “Js that eo Gloria asked inno- cently. But her heart leaped. Stan} Wayburn here, playing! And this was matinee day! Gloria glanced at her wrist watch. Two o'clock . .. . If she hurried she could get to the theater in 15 minutes. “well, T must be going. T just stopped in on my way downtown to see Dick,” she fibbed, and Kissed her mother goodby. On the way to the theater she, bought a bunch of violets and pinned them to her coat, The house was sold out except for two chairs in an upper box. Gloria bought ohe of them. Just as she entered the box the curtain went up. . The play was a western one. When Weyburn'walked out onto e ———————————— the stage with his spurs clanking, Gloria leaned forward, She wanted to call out to him, “Hello there. Stan! It's Gloria!” For she felt'sure he would never recognize shabby Gloria Gordon 4n the bejewelled, befurred creature she had become, . . « Just then Wayburn looked up. He looked etraight at her. And he smiled. “ v 2 A fow minutes after the curtaln had gone down on the first act an usher came into the box, He gave Gloria a folded sheet of paper. “You are Miss Gordon, aren't vou?” he asked. Gloria nodded. “Glory dear. It's good to see you again. Can't you run down to my dressing-room for a minute or two- The boy will show you the way,” the note read. Tt was signed “Stan.” Gloria took her gold pencil from her bag. : “T can't come, I'm not Glory Gor- ¢ don any more. I'm married,” she wrote on the back of the note Way- burn had eent up to lher. A Then she hesitated. Should she send it? Or should she run down to see him? (To Be Continued Tomorrow) Breakfast — Baked rhubarb, sorambled «ggs with bacon, toasted brown bread, milk, coffee, Luncheon — Cream of spinach soup, toasted wafers, peanut butter bread, currant tea cakes, milk, tea. Dinner — Casserole of lamb, but- tered new potatoes, jellied cabbage shlad, snow pudding, custard sauce, bran rolls, milk, coffee. New potatoes should mot be served to children under achool age. The starch grains are immature and difficult to digest. A baked or Dboiled “old” potato-should be pro- vided for a child under six years of age. With this exception there are no Qishes suggested on the menu not suitable for the junlor members of the family. e Cream of Spinach Soup One pound spinach, 1.2 cup wa- ter, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 2 table spoons butter, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 cup whipped cream. Wash spinach many waters, Put into eauce pan, add water and cook untll Rub through a strainer, Use the juice as well as the leaves in the soup. Melt butter, stir in flour and slowly add milk, stirring constant- ly. Season with salt and pepper and add spinach and liquor. Hoat to the cups milk, 1-8 teaspoon pepper, | carefully through | tender. | bolling point. Serve with a spoon- ful of whipped cream siightly salt- ed on each plate. Peanut Butter Bread Four tablespdons sugar, 3-¢ cup | peanut butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 1 cup white flour, 1 cup graham flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 egg, 4 teaspoons baking powder. | Beat egg well with sugar. Add | milk slowly to peanut butter, mix- ing to a smooth paste. Add to first | mixture, Mix and sift white flour, | salt and baking powder., Combine with graham flour and add to first mixture, Beat well and turn into an ofled and floured bread pan. Bake | 40 minutes in a moderato even. Current Tea Cakes | One'and one-half cups flour, 1-2 cup sugar, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 2 tea: | spoons baking powder, 4 table- spoons hutter, 1-2 cup cleaned cur- | rants, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons milk | Mix and sift dry ingredien Work in shortening with & fofk. | Add currants. Beat egg, reserving| 1 tablespoonful to use to glaze top | of cakes, Cut beaten egg into first mixture and add milk to make a soft dough. Form into balls about| the size of an English wainut and place an inch apart in a buttered | | pan. Brush over with egg, dredge | | witn sugar and bake 15 minutes in | a hot oven. mre————ee——F ABLES 1 | CAUSES OF HIVES An application of hot towels . is the most effective temporary relief for hives, Mrs. Mamn learned *The hot towels should be barely touch hed to the affected parts, and then instantly withdrawn 8o as to avoid blistering. If the touching is repeated this way a number of times it will afford relief from itching, and will gener- lly cause the eruption to disappear. Sometimes it is most convenient hold the affected parts over a bath tub and splash the water on it with a basin. ON HEALTH e A person affected vith hives, | however, should not - be satisfied with tempo relief. He should| | begin checking up on the foods he | cats. | -If he does mot know what par ticular food is disagreeing with him |a doctor, by means of a sensttivity | test, will"be able to find out. | Authorities are agreed that there {are many foods that give rise to | nives, though the same food mas| all | not have the same effect on | peorle. Another cause of hives is the ab: sorption of polsons from the coler |