New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1925, Page 4

T a—— A Wife’ s Confessional Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE The Assurance Which Gives Madge, Dicky cut the rope. What's the big of & week? You're not going velgh in for the implonship fight, in & given num- Kiss, \ e ma| ber of days, All you need to do is 10 g0 @ little light on some of your lishes, and you'll come out Ul right. It you go at it hammer and tongs, you'll get indigestion, and whisper it not in Gath but 1t acquire a wrinkle, which than the extra By way, you just said, on't you worry!" What makes you think I'm worrying?" 1 wriggled Aren't “That's Dieky cut short my trem peal with a away from him e favorite you mi would 1 curves worse under his keen eyes. you?" 1 asked banally, no matter,” he retorted, simply rounding on me with another juestion. “I want to know what's In the back of your mind." 1itt1e HialaE Bt n0kto pull the truth | neck of solut Tot's 8¢ of me, “Why, why, Dick: ‘I know you love beauty I don't mean that I'm beautitul, don't think I'm so concelt- outside 1 faltered. e pushr big boulde “That wouldn't be conceit, only recognition of a fact.” he retorted ‘But go on, I love beaut , I admit it, what comes next?" “I Love You, You, Youn!" “Why,~—~why—" 1 felt like a stammering schoolgirl. “I've always been afraid that if I should begin to get fat, or should look old, or—" 1 could not go on with Dicky's eyes looking at me, so fllled with told you ma vou're about going, in And what's more, & aight pretiler now n 1 the most than whe ma- bantamweight | and—and | COLOR CONTRAST HERE Appliqued designs of brown kasha trim this tan coat which is gulltiess | of curve or flare and makes the dis- |tance from shoulder to hemline in |the straightest possible line. It is $ {1deal over the thin summer frock, and affords ample protection as well as much decoration. Gossip’s Corner | Impraves Tea | Keep a plece of orange peel in vour tea canister, It will improve the flavor of the tea. ‘ Closet for Brooms A closet where brooms, brushes and all appliances for cleaning the house may be kept is a convenlence, Tess Fecentricity Eccentric accessories have lost interest for the best dressed women and fussy gloves, many-strapped pumps and elaborate handbags have passed into the discard. | Gingham Coat A stunning coat is made of India gingham in yellow, green and red plaid, and it has reverses and a lining of yellow linen. Obviously, it is for country wea: | Soft Woven Tweeds Tweeds, particularly the soft weaves in very delicate shades are liked for epring coats and jumper dresses. very = (= ) Ironiug Table Linen Keep Extra Supply linen should be {ronmed in Table Beafrice Burton © 102 v savics v THE STORY SO FAR: safe and all vight, bofors we go Glorla Gordon, beautitul flapper,|!n'o the house, wiii you?" marrles Dick Gregory, struggiing] She could haedly walt for Dick young lawyer. Her {dea of marriage|!© ©open the gurize doors and is good times, good clothes . ... sWitch on the light, Giory waiked and no werk or children! all around the little blue car with Dick borrows his mother's mald,|!t8 burnished brass trimmings shin- Maggle, to teach Gloria to. cook [Ing In the cleetrly light. But she refuses to learn. “Oh, you cute thing! T never Dick has an attack of flu. thought 1'd own anything like you!" he Is working at home with Miss|she cried] patting the mudguards | Briggs, s secretary, Gloria plans|With her little gloved hands, loving- a house-warming, She asks Stanley|!y. Wayburn, an acto rwith whom she was once In love, to be one of the guests, He accepts. When Dick mects Wayburn he i3 instantly jealous, although the ac- tor devotes himsolf to Mrs. Gall. ilory drinks too much, and faints way while dancing with Dr. John mour, whose wife, May, 18 in love with Jim Carewe. I'he party breaks up when Lola Hough acolds BIIL, her husband, for petting. Mag- gle, disgusted, quits her job and re- turns to Mother Gregory. Then Gloria hires Ranghild | Swanson, although Dick says they can't afford a maid. 8he buys $100 ‘While By the end of the week Glory had Iearned to drive the car. 8he went Christmas shopping In it, bringing it home loaded with beribboned | packages. | “You'll just Dick, when | Glory said perfectly kil mn? the Dbills come in!" | one morning, “So don't | buy me a Christmas present . . . just pay my bills Instead, like a good sport! They aren't so awfully big." But first when the bills came in the week in January, they were very big much larger than Glory had expected, 8he was sure worth of new clothes, and inslsts| ) \¢ %) 0" 5torey had made a mistake upon a new automoblle, Dick mls“n them, somewhere, his old car to pay for the new one.| " g g “wont oyer them They go to Glorla's parents on\, .y, ey tho same result. She | ey biEnoey, ng wills they st exactly six hundred dollars | owea at dinner, Dick glves Glory a folded| "5, 0 B0 K o i or Chrlst.- | mas gifts! Glory kept the bills in| sheet of paper which, he says, con- ! [the top drawer of her desk for two again and tains a birthday gift. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | 4415, Glory fook the folded sheot of| On the third day she screwed up paper that Dick held out to hel| per courage to show them to Dick. | “Birthday present?’ she repeat:| ghe would take them to him at| | ed. “Why, I thought my r]nrllnz‘ms office. [little car was all the birthday pres-| Miss Briggs would be there, of | | ent T was going to get?” | course, And Dick couldn’t scold and | | Dick laughed Indulgently. rave about the bills in front of Miss | Hoppytoad Te AdveMuresJ RaggedyAm “Ha! Now we }me e-cuped lrom the three flerce, wild cougars!" Grampa Hoppytoad sald, as he and Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy stopped running, “The three flerce, wild cougars will stay at the old woman’s house until she returns with her groceries, then they will cat up her grocerles and they will not be hungry, “And you think they will not wish to make beef stew out of us, Grampy Hoppytoad 2 | Ann asked, “I do not belleve sol" Grampy Hoppytoad replied. “Let us hunt around and maybe we can find a soda water i spring! This ples sed the Raggedys, for they had run so hard after Grampy | Hoppytoad had rescued them from under the stone where the old woman had hidden them they were | very thirsty. Anyone gets very thirsty running a Jeng ways. S0 the Raggedys and Grampy hunted all around in the deep, decp woods for a sodn | water spring, but they could not after |find @ single one. All they could find was a root beer tree with a_ faucet in it. But, that was a lot better than nothing and the Raggedys and Grampy Hop- | pytond were glad to find it. They | each had nine glasses of root beer and then, as that made them hun- gry, they started out in search of a pateh of cream puffs, or dough- nuts. But they hunted and hunted for a long time and could not find a sin- Raggedy | gyAnAy “We were hungry!” Charlle Cou- gar howled louder 'than ever, “We want beef stow!" the other two cougard howled much louder than Charlle Congar had howled. “Well!"™ Grampy Hoppytoad sald “Nelther of the Raggedys have any beef stew in thelr pockets, but | you nice three fierce, wild cougar: would like some ple, you may hav this!” And Grampy Hoppytoac handed Charlle Cougar a ple, Ther he picked two more and handed | them to Karlle and Kenneth Cou | gar. “Ha! We are very, very hungry!" The three flerce wild cougars eried as they started to gobble the ples Then a strange look came on their faces and the three broke out Into | terrible howling, | “Ouch, my mouth burns!" the three yelled. And, as they had gob- bled the ples and swallowed them, the burn went further than their mouths, so they ' doubled up into | knots and kicked around upon the | grouna, | “I guess these must be April fool [ pleat Grampy Hoppytoad whisper- ed to the Raggedys. “Let us escape \\hH@ the three fleree, wild cougars are having the stomach ache!” So the Raggedys took Grampy | Hoppytoad’s hands and ran with im until they came to a nice pateh of lovely cream puffs. And_ theso were not filled with red pepper as the pies had been, so0 the three friends had n very pleasant little ! pienic all by themselves, | | saw you. You're the type that tures late, and fuses to tmagine,” o you were mot partieularly beautiful as & very young girl, but T didn't| ges vou then” — with a mischieve mirth were they. “Well, T thought I'd better give| priggy! you two presents, this year. = Next| birthday 1 may be too poor to give| gy, care. On the way downtown | you even one,” he said. “Aren't gho stopped at the forist's and | you going to take a look at my ift|pought an orchid for her coat. \ Littlest 2" L The windshield gle doughnut fleld or a patch of | crcam puffs,'But, after crossing the | | brook and going a ways through | ‘Hu woods, they came to a little | cleating, and then Raggedy And\'\ mirror told her|\ i, was in front tossed his cap| “Or develop a hump, or grow N°ver let your supply of canned bald, or get chewed up by a lion,” §00ds Dbe exhausted completely. he gihed. “Yes, of course there are N°CP @ cans on the shelf for a number of things which might| N emergency. happen to mar your beauty, and you a single foctly dry There she possible, thickness until it is per- then folded and pressed uld be as few folds as Glory dress herself with 7\ — this re (@) t few out twinkle of his eyes—'‘so every- thing turned out all irght. “What I meant just now, when T asked you if you had ~weighed yoursel lately, was simply that it mddenly struck me you had added a few pounds. Mind you, XI'm not saying it isn’t becoming,, but you know you never vary in weight un- less you're 11 and get thin for a little while. T imagined you'd want ma to radio you the fact you were gaining, But if you're ser “Don’t You Worry! silence,” he *Oh! I do, want you to tell me"|laugh. “Y 1 interrupted frantically. “I muppose | early Christian it's because, as you sy, I mever do| But this time vary in weight, that I haven't no-| mistaken. Look ticed it myself. But, don't you wor- | idiot.” ry. I'm going to get on the scales| He drew me roughly the minute I get hack to the house, | arms, crushed me to him, . “I love your beauty,” he Dicky raised bis #but just put this into your 1 made a spiral | T | you, you, YOI no h his hands. what happens to the outward shell had' of you." think I'd buy me a ticket for Reno as soon as any one of those dire possibilities materialized 2" There was something mirth in his voice now, distinct proach and I hastened to answer besides “You know I don't mean that,” T sald hotly. “You'd be and do thing that was honorable probably would fry not to guess that “Wert v You let me g my heart out in finished with a little that's yours truly, the martyr for mine you happen to he here, you little into said, diar; up as somebody FABLES ON HEALTH CORRECT SHALLOW BREATHING | Shallow breathing is a mon to most people, but common among wonien men Often it is a habit grows accustomed to sitting, standing walking with the shoulders stooped {and the lung capacity diminished. The result is that the greater ¢ pacity of the exercised and the oxygen supply. which the blood demands, lessened The lungs contain millions small cavitles. It is ¢ if the spread out, Eaoms surface t is nmiore among of these cavities were of morc feet, than 1000 square is, there is 1000 square feet air in the Jungs, from which rlood may draw oxygen. If all these cavities filled with fresh air, would never be known Exerc breathe faster and deeper, and thereby fur- nishes oxvgen for the blood. Breathe all times, and | One of or were tuberculosis lings’is 1 °s one fo more of deeply at matter o Tanglex Tetter from Tedie Prescott Sydney Carton o |home 1 | visitor, ch ope you will be a frequ 1 hope we will see of vou than Sydney. more co our marri Sydrey we anse T did Please do not thi no its enclosu you were a true friend, no John A n Prescott, bu[ Alden Prescott’s wife, Your letter, my dear Sydney, Just what I ould expect It cleared up m: § me and did me a great d his s0 much be- what you sald as it was you did not say. own shortcornings T had never seen them before, and T want to knowledge right here and now to you that I have con to the conclusion that ¥ am as much to bl for the miisur atandings between a melt as he fs. And I also ta not answer y th fo zot owed do not th I am t in any w shall always consider what you did as an act of truest friendship and I hide it in rosemary avender. But you will forglve 1 don't letter v think A aming you ¥ to was you to things al of and write, : ant for wan good. T was not cause of because of w 1 saw my shand wrote you, your to Time vears. but ¥ ju it a deep burn in my so belleve, my friend, ‘that understand and will I now marts and throbs & you " vill anse want ame Jack want to prom Httle I send White oct prayer 1 probably onge, dear fri this letter that I am determ that T shall a petl Throne that and ed to succeed just to him without to me to 23 you TOMORROW John Alden Carton. — Telegram Prescott o are | fron Collar Made Of Flowers ollar of the be of s © 1928 ™ WU soMCE. . blushing bride bills. = The rouge saves e g to ) as good Sydney | fo exist en Ger John oW passir Has t Mat* Iood. Ger f of grass First woman Mountain in VERTICAI they wotld cover an area | kept Glory unfolded the thick crack hat she was lookin ling sheet. It was a certificate for|)y ten shares of telephone &tock. §he| 1+ would he much harder for handed it across the table 10 Ver|pick to quarrel with a beautifal | tather, wife who had run up $600 worth of | “Isw't that nice?” she asked. “The | hjjjg than with a plain unattractive | dividends from it ought to buy me no |a hat once in a while, don't you think?" T Mrs. ruefully at| Dick. “That girl and her hats!' she ex- claimed. “Do you know, Dick, after | Glory was married, I wag looking through her clothes closet. And | found eight hats that she'd left on the closet shelf. Eight of them! [ Not old hats, cither, but new fall| | onest T fixed two of them over for myself, and gave the rest of them to the neighbors, Half the atreet is 5 | wearing Glory's castoft hats this| FI0, TR [me and T told him that Mother | father interrupted, “that ~was al[And T sould aks cire of (e two I right. You can't biame a girl for ' : T Erens 1 | | g to be too much for Mother. fixing herself up for her beau, can I | you? Dick thought he was courting| Miss Hr‘i:m' e :":‘" l,“i' one e reeny ;:;"”"z And what was she talking about? ‘ . Glory listened, Jike a bird preening its feathers it ot Glonyilie e ing time, that's all. |>|VY Siioine She goes right on preening, fin' | (oo T ey you any if 1 gave {Dick said humorously. he's | 2 (you a lttle raf . say about $5 Jougl ce we've 3 Hln\u;‘h;nu h:,”y dozen hats sin s L e S et Jeen married i i (e “Then you could hire a woman to [ HayoRnob s 0 help your mother out with the chil- furiously. “I've had only y ¥ g dren. “Of course, it would help . tired with| O S this talk of yours on economy, |1 think you' 5 worth now, anyhow!” Glory reopened the sub- 4 ject on the way home. “All you do ”r‘“'-'w is preach to mo that we're too poor Shadow to afford a maid, or a machine, or ! a few decent clothes!. . . And then | you turn right 'round and buy a ‘ thousand dollars’ worth of telephone stock that means absolutely noth- ing in my lifel. . . What X want to know 13 how you could afford to| do it if we're as poor as you &y | we ar | Dick walked on | | g unusually Jove- | wa nice to he heautitul, things o much simpler! . It Gordon looked g There dos was 10 one at Miss Briggs' in Dick's oifter offic rom the inner room 1| sound of voices, Glory sat down swivel chair to waif. The office was warm. while Glory took off her then her hat. The tight crown had i band on her forehead. | it gently with her fin- came the| in Miss Brigas After a coat, and now, Mother,” Glory's Then | ma oy contradicted three!” . but W\n'g me all I'm| Gregory,” Miss| answered. Her the froste | “Dick, yon make me all M voice appeared on two offices, Glory rose, She gathercd her bills lin one hand and opened the door Miss Briggs nodded at her, ar slipped out. Rikky-Tikky- Dick cheer- She perched lierself on the | corner of Dick's de You'll par: don me for breaking in on your in- |teresting conversation with Miss Briggs . . . but I got tired waiting while she vamped some more sal- ary from you!” “Hush!" Dick said. He walked over and tried the handle of the door to see that it was shut tight. Make me there : greeted in silence for| several minutes. “As a matter of fact, T couldn't afford to do it. I nearly broke my | neck trying to pay for that stock” hie said at last. “I borrowed part | of the money from Dad. And you! | know 1 had to sell my roadster lo buy you your ear . . “That's right, rub it in! fecl like a selfish pig!” Glory in- terrupted, “just because I want a| | car tike every other woman in town, your own preclous mother included! . 1 swear U'll never ride in the 'me You r.wn send it back ... .0 stood NHI in the street and gan to cry. “[ don’t believe 1 deserve this| outhurst from you, Glor Dick said. “In fact, T know I don't. And if you want to stand here and cry |. .. go ahead and do it! I'm oing | . home. . . But he didn't move. Glory knew wouldn't. i She went on crying. Then she Dick’s arms around her. She Jut her head down on his shoulder. so mean to me," she They walked om. m &0 sorry you thin Dick said quietly. *I sup- shouldn't worry you about money maters, but I've been run- ning behind la hadn't figured on married life belnr 1s expensive as it isl. I wonder | ow people get along who have two or three children to feed and h =0, sweet- Slothe “well, needn't Glory said, to have any, “Not ever?” Dick asked gravely tightened on her amm big idea? Dén't you children, Glory? . .| be the swee little | world!. ., Why, sure, | honey!” that's one thing you worry about bables,” “pecanse we aren’t going ever!” His hand What's 1 really want Why, you'd mother in the you want bables, In the darkness Glory's eves were | | hiard, her lips set stubbornly. | “Don't kid yourself she mld “Children the Aery last| in the world that I wani, firmly are things “You'll later on . . her. a family.” ahout 1t ne | | feel differently . in a year or two" assured “Every woman waris ersell, n stredt, run ont that xay @ris| 1 never wil!" as they turned nt AlC gar 1| se a look at the | the i the | gar ftn this generous mood,” | they can’t do it on her pre: glass pane of the door hetween xln,‘_ stubs They'll give you an idea of what we're spending.” into the air and kicked heels. “Whoopee!” he cried, see what I have found!" Grampy Hoppytoad and Raggedy Amn came running up as fast as up his “Come | they could and also gave glad cries, in the little clearing was | of the nicest looking ples | for there, a patch Raggedys had ever seen. “Ha! Now we shall have a feast!” Grampy Hoppytoad sald as he picked a nice pie and handed it to Ruggedy Ann. “Ha! 1 should say we will have a nice feast!” a loud gruft growly | cried, and out of the bushes came the three flerce, wild cougars. “We found out the old woman fooled us when she carried you away in her hasket!” Charlie Cou- howled, his face close to Rag- gedy Andy's. “That wasn't our fault!” Rag- gedy Andy said as he stepped back. voiee ‘She'll hear you." “It's a good thing T caught you Glorja went on with garcasm in her voice, “be- {canse T'm calling on money mat-| ters, myself!” fhe laid the bills down on Dick's desk, He didn't touch them. “I want to explain to you about Miss Briggs,” he said, of his wife’s hands in his. “A month or two ago her sister dled, leaving three little children . . . and an in- valid husband. mother 100k two of the children to bring up. And Miss Briggs finas Pn' Bale . She's a good woman, Glory a fine woman! Glory langhed. She lier bright hair, “All homely ar tossed ba women are good,” he said. “It's only the pretty ones like May Seymour and me who run up bills and gad all day, and worry their husbands into an carly grave, fart it? .. I know that's wh vou're thinking, Tl say it for 50 You Dick picked up the bills “Gadzooks!" he exclalmed. hundred &mackers!” He desk and took out his eheck book. Take a look at the stubs in n that,” he said abruptly. taking both | ¢ Miss Briggs and her | opened the top drawer of his | | ] “Ha! Now we have escaped from the three flerce, wild —copgarst” | Grampy Hoppytond said, | b e { | Jewaled hosiery, while it is not lxxp)flllr‘d by the most conservative- Iy gowned women, 1is nevertheless ghown in the most exclusive shops, at prices that are quite staggering. that!” he said abruptl glive you an idea of spending!" Glory flung the on the desk. “Why should T look at' your old checkbook ?” she asked, hotly. “Your job is to support me . . . not to_everlastingly tell me that you can't! B Two bright spots of color burncid like danger signals in her checks “Other women's hushawds buy them things that they want!” she stormed. “Are they so mugh smart- er than you? Why is it that their wives can have clothes aml things without fighting for them the way 1 have to? And then you igive that PBriggs woman a big raise the min ute she asks you for it! on what's the use talking about it There are the bills, And you'll hay to pay them, that's ali!” Glory flung herself out office, slamming the door. behind her so that ils glass pane ratticd She picked up her coat und ha! from Miss Briggs' desk, without & much as a look at her. Outside in the corridor Glory stopped and put them on. Whel she got into her car, she adjusted her hat before the windshield mit | ror. The ‘orchid on her coat Lwilted. Viclously Glory fhr They'l what we're fittle book down of 1k lown into the gutter. She drove straight through the town out into the bare open country, Ahead of her on the lonely road a man was walking, head down against the high wind. As Glory approached she saw | that it was Stan Wayburn. She pu! (n.] the brakes. The car slowed t a standstill, just abreast of Stan He looked up. Glory opened the door of her car “Well, of all things! To find yo here just when T need you most Get in!" she cried. | (To Be Continued Tomorrow)