New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1925, Page 10

Te [LAPDER W afi-k;ekum © 1025 NeA sERvICE ING THE STORY SO FAR Mother Grn:ory asked, “How lbou" Gloria Gordon, young and beau-| heing a feal wife to him . . . tak- nrm marries Dick Gregory, for the w Ing care of him, cooking his meals, nlnnhy she thinks he has, She hnu)nl.nl\mh’ his socks, reading to him | made up her mind never to have [ when he's tired? How about such children, but to have an exeitl things? Do, you try to do them?" | time and expensive clothes alwnm “Certainly not,” Glorla enapped. After the honeymoon, which has | Her beautiful face was distorted really been a shopping-trip, Dick | with anger. tells Gloria that he cannot afford [ “Certainly not,* she sald again. a cook. Gloria refuses point-blank | “I can't see where he makes life | to do her own housework, and Dick | 5o terribly comfortable for ‘me, Does | | borrows his mother's maid, Mag-|he hire a maid for me when I ask | gle. nim 197 Not a chance! . Does Glorla he leave me the car to use ddy A MASCULINE NEGLIGEE This type of negligeo s very popular with the practical girl, al- though the idea is very obviously stolen from a man's dressing gown. Of printed silk in shades of blue, it !1s bound and belted with plain blue | of a darker tone, The sash makes any other closing unnecessary. Adels Garrison's New Phase o) REVELATIONS OF A WIFE [ R R R S S s e s Heaps Coals of Vire to I Head. witl my r I w I Jorry ask your own ears." How Madge Upon e the ur forglyeness my wishe With for Kat il to the pr for which as Mrs, 7 fervently that for explanation were with 1 , but aloud I her pas- 105 ~ Gossip’s Corner you'll tish said 3 meets Stanley Wayburn, | And thankful, intent R 3 Kath Mered ordin practic with surpris I felt flaming glad for heat of 1l remembered dith had ca boy for other practic but tory Jatest ever, lous ttl far fnevitab! to asc from the But 1 my at camoufl svelopmern v W- | the at his ir e ecpisode &T to 1 dre back of table, T for Lilllan an in my Then 1 just rest which | w her Mrs. Ticer at she forward to able to give my answer sumption of carcless ir 1 thought it needed to distract may be was kind of Dr. but hardly you should have heen 1 meant to spe: nd say nothing at M 1 sald occssary. A 1 am so sorry troubled with to Jerry myeclf all to you about it.” “Let Jerry Keep Lady” “And a lot of good that would have done,” she interrupted. But there was no tra of conscious rudeness in he “Not but w of you,” words TO r Wi at he needs to make hi a good clonting on that's what vigo ready twitch at the doily the “Shall T co one of carry ring trays. lielp you them up “No thank them both easily escape Wwith no fur Dr. Meredith. “You'll come back as soon as you can, won't you?” she asked. “I want you, T can manage " 1 said, to rcr reference to glad | Je boys a Mrs. wo! 1 rouse sorbed liear M sure Mar, trays, Jerry, specche careful will” And ‘Lady. studied 1, and you injustice 1 keep Ti 1 girls a g dea have a sense of for un- him of He de- but he e would t lead you never to lepriv arly I know, that most glven him one ember.” ul swung open advanced was still with the holding » door for trays, it ajar finished, had of the 1 could and and into ab- did voice a as I my Lomily irough 1 ontside step I door kitchen door, opened gently 50 noisclessly his mother, was €aying, 1 my slowl looked it Ticer slid en at swhat T I raise in him, spoke more the stairs, Mrs, Ticer Promises s sorry for what Ticer, and T am Mrs, f long bound to appeared ulous, but he had sublime in his which al- sincerity, no dress it ing in n. He one ing ouch ¢ plead sts passionate in what uncouth garhe Maw! lo what voiee he cried, she s “Please, ba (he do & you ds el mi te pup| wing 1s she might the 1y , had lost port must hurry 1 don’t want any I just after thi Mrs. B thanks or and I as T reached the fervent top of t me a from The Adventures f KaggedyAnn wa Kaggedy Andy by Sohwy Gruelle Raggedy Ann and stood in the doorway house. It was a cunning little liou and had built for Toofie the magician by the tired carpenter. And, because Toofie lved in a stuffy old tr fore his house was been or All Drank 1 Cold rrem Bottes They o rop tles And t ttere hous “Isn't it a gedy A sparkie as he “Oh! In houses, and more earpenter am afrald he will soon become tired Qlssatisfied!” since magic s had not i with my 1o he has not to again and ust ti en th URNS Cover with wet baking soda— afterwards apply gently — vVAPORs uB Ocer 17 Million Jars Used Yearly — TO REMOVE PAPER When paper sticks to the polished | top of a table, remove it by putting a few drops of ofl on the paper and rubbing gently with a soft cloth. AN UNUSUAL COAT An unusual coat to be worn over a sport dress of natural kasha cloth is of blue and white figured silk | crepe lined with kasha. JABOTS BEAUTINUL jabot was never more beauti- handled than this season, and frock of crepe de | sole trimming. | The fully is featured in the chine or satin as the BIG FLORAL DESIGN | Huge floral designs in bright col- ors against dark backgrounds are| featured both in silks and chiffons ! for afternoon gowns., PLEATED PAJAMAS showing many fem- such as pleated ce ruffles and accor- Pajamas are nine influence: Ils, jabots, dion pleats. BOUFFANT SKIR Taffeta and chiffon dresses Wwith very houffant skirts come in cyela- men, faded pink, lavender and in combinations of blue and pink and black and pink. SMART JACKETS ly eut satin jackets are worn over High waisted skirts of black and white checked fabrics. ON HEALTH TEETH SHOULD BE BRUSHED “A clean tooth never decays,” reads an ad. Whether t is a whole truth, or J trade phrase, Mrs. Mann neve he beli > she questions. s in clean teet sees that each of her chil- dren are taught the proper way to And she also sees that are examined use a brush. children’s teeth regularly. Most schools now, dentists 108¢ busir to examine all the children’s and recommend the parents to rem- cdy any defects. 1 should day. the have is oth measires to a brushed not only up and down, but as well. Food particles have a habit of lodging between the teeth where th brush unless the brush is moved up and down as well as across the teet Many tooth brushes Gritty powder stiould not be used. The substance cuts the enamel and opens a way for decay. Tartar gathers around the gums, causing them to loosen from the teeth. This should be removed by a dentist. Tooth brushes should clean, and sterllized at | week. Crosswise escape the are too soft. tooth and paste be kept least once a Sl Tangle s 'LETTER FROM BEATRICE SUM- MERS TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CONTINUED 1ld not help smillng, Leslic, 1 saw the polite way that 3 squelched that woman who 15k sout men falling in love with their stenographers. I remember very distin years ago of a man te ss man of any ever paid any great social attention to his own secretary, “In the first place,” has a good he knows at if he pays her -ocial attentions and she accepts them he spolls her ness employ>. He it she doesn't ac- always makes en them. he said with a smile. t flirt with a stenogra- e should fall for retary instead of his otly a few g me that he gaid, “if a v as a hu nows of phi wning upon s the producing to Dick one , it is pe man in f nothing ex Gloves Are wi leev fro the 1 Wi ve v come in teminine acumen what 8 “Not even his wife, “Not even his wife; compromising answer, Of course, I knew that the woman who asked Paula if men were apt love with their stenogra- phers did this because she wanted to know if the rumor which ha cd around the Dick was his un- been moving pic- P had been a r in the and had a nice round sum to come when her employer was act glad to liear lier say east been paid out here tired of her v 1 was awf perfectly been a stenogr Th she continuer “Although I do not nov about it personaly, 1 men fall in love heir offices don't think with the women in Men may or a curiosity that is of sex instinet. but in the ce of work course only press and ife it u unts to noth he girl or suble or is a To be own that flattery to his van the sereer en who act other wo- a my for it men. T ar- fous rom ery- hey are (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Tne.) TOMOR IU)“ This letter contin- ued. rl who travels the never gets Iwhere. time |an actor whom she once loved. | Wayburn calls on her and Dick sees | him leaving the Youse. | her husband | Interlor decorator, who had | about some lamp-shades. Next day Gloria is in a restau- |rant with May Seymour, | friend, and May's lover, Jim Car- | ewe, when she sees Dick's mother looking at her with deep disgust. | NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY \ Gloria swayed slowly to her feet.|and yoi must help him a hite as she walked | his father 30 years ago when ]chh the diningroom to Mother | was just | Her face was w | across Gregory's table. She was afrald of | domo of a woman. | Gregory knew it, ’ | “Come into the dressing-room with me,” ehe gaid sharply. “T want | to talk to you a minute or two!” | she gripped Glory above the el- bow and stecred her out into the women'’s rest room. May Seymour | winked at Glory as they p: | Glory pulled oft her gan to powder her nose before the \X“H’!OI. to gain a moment's time to | gather her, wits. “Sit down!” Mother G And Gloria sat. “Now then,” Dick's inother sald in her powerful voice, “what in the world*are you doing down here with that woman who is the talk ot the town? Have you lost your €enses “How do you mean, talk of the | town Glory asked weak! | Mother Gregory snorted. | “You know as well as T do that her affair with Jim Carewe is com- | ‘mnn talk everywhere!” she said. | | “And here 1 find you sitting with them where everybody can see you! “And another thing, young wom- an . .. I sent Maggie over to your ! house fo ehow you how to cook and this major- And Mother Gregory 8o times? No, indeed! He rolls down-' | town in it himself every morning. | Gloria tells | that Wayburn is an /| | called | he can afford to keep a cook and an a maried | And I can walk . . . And what makes me 6o sore is that I know | extra automobile!” “Phat's where you're Wrong" sald Mother Gregory. “Dick fs just | starting his career. Lawyers don't| suddenly make a million like inven- | tors or promoters, you know. Dick | has a long, hard row to hoe .. .| 1 helped a baby! Mother Gregory smiled, her eyes | full of memories. ! “We had a tiny house then," she | said, “And T dld every stroke of | work in it myself . .. and took care | of my baby beside: Her face became serious. | “By the way, my dear, have your bables early in your married life, she saild. “The younger a mother | 'is the more of a rm)nnlv she is | for Tor children . Suddenly ,\ruuw Gregory stopped. In the tilted mirror ahove the windshield of the car, she could see Glorla’s face. It was smiling scorn- | fully, “T'm scarcely married, and you're | heginning to talk babies already,” | the girl eaid. “Is that all “nman‘ are for . . . to have bables?" “Tt it jsn't that, perhaps you'll | tell me what they are fnr': sug-‘ | take care of the home Dick's given FOU Rt gallivant all over town queer friends!” “It that's what Maggie's for, you can have her back T'I get a maid of my own!” cried. Her fear of Dick's mother was blotted out by her sudden anger. | “If you think I'm going to be & sorubbing-brush for your precious son, youre barking up the wrong tree. I'm not going to drudge for him or anybody clsi she cried. Tears of fury were in her voice. “He can perfectly afford to get | me a cook, and I don't mean any- thing previous! 1 dom’'t have to work in his house . .. I can go out and earn my $25 any week in the with your there and Gloria not to leave you free to| ar. And it won't be at dlshwush" | ing either . . She rose and, returning to the dining room, gathered up her bead- i ed bag and white gloves. Mother Gregory followed. She jaid her jeweled hand on jGloria’s arm it down a minute, while T pay my check,” sho said geht “and we'll leave together, There's no need to make a scene this way, is there?” Together they walked out of the crowded restaurant. Gloria had forgotten all May Seymour. ity about Outside in the etreet stood Moth- er Gregory's coupe. “Jump in!" she sald to Gloria. The girl hesitated. “I have a little shopping to do .. she said. “Jump {in!" Mother Gregory 1. “I'll drive you home. It's you and I had k about and marriage i re- time things in geenral, pa he started the car, “Now, Glory, she began. “Just what is your idea of what you owe my son, as his wife?” “What do I owe peated in surprise. owe him anything, do 1? He want- 4 to marry me, and he has me ‘You think that's enough?” Dick?" she re- “Why, § don't | wants his mother. gested Dick's mother. | “Oh, how do T know what women are for?” Gloria cried. “But I sup- | pose they're on earth to live and | be happy like anyone else.” “And to drink hard liquor, m‘ smoke cigarets until they're dopey, | and to play bridge for money untll | they have faces like misers!” Moth- | er Gregory's volce was deep with | disgust. “Oh, you women who are growing up . . . who can't boil a | decent pot of coffee, but can shake | up any kind of cocktail that's ever| been invented! You girls who| haven't strength enough to put the Dbuttons in your husband's shirt- sleeves, but have ‘pep’ enough to strut and shimmle half the night some tough party or other! What hly good are any of you? .. . Now, Giory, I want you to think things over . . ." “Will you please stop this car and t me out?” Gloria interrupted. “I've stood all the insults I can stand. Silently Mrs, Gregory stopped the car. Gloria got out, and her moth- | er-in-law drove on. . . Gloria turned toward home, kick- ing the walks as she went. | By the time she reached home was thoroughly out of temper. Dick's roadster stood In the driveway. There was a fire burning in the living-room grate. And before it, stretched out on the davenport asleep, lay Dick. Gloria tiptoed into the room and stood looking down at him. His face was flushed, and he breathed quickly. Suddenly he opened his eyes. “Glory,” he sald. And his volce was like that of a sick child who sh “What's to vou?" Gloria aske oth Dick answered. “I've had a nasty little cold for days, and | it scems to have slipped up behind me, all of a sudden, Haven't got any lemons in the hiouse, have we?" “I guess s0.” Gloria went out into the kitchen. Maggie was there, tearfully peeling onlons, “Maggie,” her mistrees ve we any lemons? Mr. Greg wants one for his cold.” “It's o hot lemonade he wants,” Maggle said. T've been telling him for the last hour. But nothing would he take till yourself came | home. L'll make it, and then we'll | happened said, gory, | interesting today, because | able, Four-letter words running across, and five-letter words running down. You ought to find the game rather of this feature. It's designed for simplicity in solving. And don't let the two long words on each side both you, | either, Horizontal 1. Feathers of an ostrich. 6. To gaze fixedly. Iiquid containing oresol in a large amount, . To unfasten. Prefecture or department in China, The surface measure plane region. . Dinners, . Cluster of knots in wool fiber. To spread, . Gem secured from,oysters. 9. Opposite of woof. . Part of verb to be. Peruse: . Deadly. Eras. . Soda ash. 5. Pressing. . Tempered iron. . A very small centerplecs, Porticos. . Dad, Misfortunes. . Compartments in a home. Rodent. . Born. Travels by auto. Fairy. . Bone. agoing mammal. Lariat. . Litters for the dead. . Melted. The floors of glass furnaces, . Pairs (especially married)., Vertical . Commonplace. . Instrument similar to harp (pl.) . Second-hand. of & get him to bed between blahkets with a hot water bottle to his feet .+ . and let him sweat the cold out of himself by morning.” She moved briskly around the kitchen as he spoke, filling the tea< kettle and mixing lemon juice and | sugar together in a tall glass. Gloria went back to Dick. “Come upstalrs,” she said, “Mag- gle thinks you ought to go to bed. And while you're undressing I'll put a hot water bottle in your bed.” Siinie Tn 15 minutes Dick was comfort- Gloria turned to leave the room. She wanted to telephone the employment agency about a maid to take Maggie's place, For she was eure that the first thing Mother Gregory uld do would be to send for Maggie to come back to her. “Don’t go,” Dick said. “Stay here and talk to me.” “What is there to talk Gloria asked indifferently. “Lots of 'things,” Dick answered. “What has my golden girl been do- ing all day?" “Fighting with your mostly,” sald Gloria with plercing sweetness, Dick looked miserable. “And if you want to make a hit with me, you'll never ask me to all any; ‘If think barking up the wrong tree.” you I'm going to be a scrubbinb-brush for your precious son, B about?” | mother, | how! 4. Bird simllar to ostrich. 6. Hebrew name for God. 6. Flies: 7. Highway tax. 8. Similar to a donkey. 9. Second note in scale. 10. Entreaties, 12, Guides, 13. Deadly, Had in mind, Pertaining to one’s birth, Large double flower of the spring and summer, 19, Rouses from sleep. 21, Rolls ot film. 22, Small blook-sucking insects, Active. | Very small particles Parts in a drama. ‘Warehouse, Bpirits, . To divide a sentense into ita grammatical parts, Cries loudly and no‘flnwt Sleeps, Form of thoug ‘Wan. Artifictal hatr for head Bovers ing. Quantity, To subsisty Mother, 18, 26. 21, BILTATTINIS @ BI l [A] RIEMDIE Dfi S ®) R PILHTAINITIMIAINTI TAICH have anything to do with her again,” she went on bitterly. “She'q been bawling me out for not dot my own housewolk. I notice :’ keeps a mald, all right! And she had the cheek to tell me I ought fo go ahead and have a whole fam- |11y of chfldren , , . when she had only one herself!”, Dick stared at her thoughtfully. “She had three, you know , , . my mother,” he sald at last. “The other two died, I'm sorry you rowed with her, Glory.” “That's right, blame it all on me!” Glory replied. ‘It was she who atarted it. I was having lunch | with May Seymour and she made me leave the table and go home with her . . . and then started to tell me what a terrible woman I am, So I just got out of her darned old ear. And you can do as you please about it, but I'm through with your family!" Downstairs Maggle was striking | the Japanese ainner gong. It chimed like the very volce of peace and harmony. Gloria ran down to the dining- room to eat alone, 8o this was marriagef Facing am evening alone while Dick dozed upstairs. Doing her own housework begin- ning tomorrow! Helping Dick get along, year after year? Losing her | looks in the meantime! { «++ Why ehe ‘wouldn't be much better off than her own mother! | The only difference would be that she, herself, would have a better | house and more money to run it with , . . roast lamb Instead of | stew, fresh peas instead of canned ones! Gloria pounded the table in her anger and disappointment ., . , How life had tricked her! ... Well, she'd get herself out of this meas, some- . .. The next morning Dick was bet- ter but too il to leave the house, Gloria sat beside him while he ate breakfast before the bedroom fire. “Dicky-bird,” she maid with ali her sweetness, “I'm going to hire a mald of our own today, dear. 1 want to get her used to the house before we throw our firet party.” “Party?” asked Dick startled, “Now don't say we ecan't afford one, first thing,” Gloria cried. “Ive figured it all out. It won't cost much for food and cocktails and a little jazz band. Not much over a hun- dred dollars . .."” Maggle appeared in the doorway A Miss Briggs downstairs to sec you, Mr. Dick,” she said. “Miss Briggs,” Gloria repeafed. “Who in the world is Miss Briggs (To Be Continued Tomorrow) 666 s & Prescription prepared for Colds, Fever and Grippe s the most speeds remedy we kaow. Preventing Pneumonia_