New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1925, Page 4

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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD A Wie’s Confessional | Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE “MWe Will start at the Lilllan Beginning said “T'll Go Throungh With Tt" of the y it this. One of \ pleats ar trimming. 1 pear] by The close in . Gossip’s Corner Your Flectrie lron Table Linen should wrou Irouing New Straw Basket. | ored raffft In Carpet Sweepe will In Making Soups in which spinact and potatoes ooked is excellen of water when m joys of summer is the ffords to wear a st white balbriggan ttons as the fitting bat remove ABLES ON HEALTH GLASSES OFTEN NECESSARY e e ———e/ | maY be oue disorders ¢ matter to s one h | Gloria “Cartwheels” On This Hat VERTICAT ANSWER TO FRIDAY'S PUZZLY T — THE STORY 50 FAR: Gloria Gordon, heautiful flapper, marries Dick Gregory, a struggling lawyer, Her idea of marriage is fun |and fine clothes . ., but no work |or children, Dick borrows his mother's maid, Maggile, to teagh Gloria to cook. But she refuses to learn, Later Maggie le Then Swanson, can wes hires Ranghild although Dick t her t afford a mald, She with debts for new having a Gloria the swamps Dick ythes and new automobile Gloria insists upon goes riding in it with y Wayburn, an actor with whom she i8 infatuated, They are by Mother Grego Gloria's best friend, | mour, wife of Dr. John Seymour, not sce Wayburn. She iloria herself has heen snubbed ywhere becauso of her silly fair with Jim Carewe The pects to leave soon He necds money lend him some. One afternoon she turns home to find Dick {ll. He yvelops pneumonia and is nursed Mrs, O'Hara, whose sister, Su- Briggs, s Dick's Jeaves Miss Briggs one day while she goes to the hospital where Mother Gregory has been operated May Sey- | begs her to tells how she ovy love for New Gloria offers | by san | on for appendicitis, When she re- she listens at the door of room to hear what the two are saying to each other, Ioottalls on hild to tell her that dinner was ready - brought Glorla sharply to her feet, “Will Gregory you fix a tray for Mr. and bring it up to him?” d calmly, although she was | sure Ranghild ) seen her eaves- | dropping at Dick's door. “And there a guest for supper, too. Wait a minute and T'll let you now g the in Miss Briggs had stopped talking. i Dick fixed their eyes o remembered the old opened Joor of Dick's and went She oom ree’s a crowd.” smiled at Dick 1t all afternoon. Wonderfully well,” red. “He slept for more than an hour.” ¢ read Miss had Briggs behaved Row me to sleep, Dick. "She has a voice that's as soothing as rain on a roof.” Miss Briggs blushed with pleas “Oh, dear,” thought Gloria, “I wonder if Dick knows how the poor thing adores him?" Aloud said, “Our dinner's ready, Miss Briggs. Will you come downstairs and eat with me?” MONDAY, MAY 18, T FADDER WITFE actor tells Gilorla that he ex- | York. | to | secretary, | NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | the stairs — Rang- | Miss Briggs | 1925, said to herself. “If he'd had any sense he'd have marrled her years ago.” | She drove Miss Briggs home. On | the way back she went into a drug | | atore and telephoned Stanley Way- | | burn | “I'l have that money for you to- | morrow, Stan,” she sald, “Meet me {at two o'clock at the usual place.” siiie ity first thing Gloria did th next morning was to telephone Henry Moss, the gardener, who had sold Dick the dwarf evergreens that circled the house, She told him just how she want- ed the garden in the backyard laid out “And send your bill to me not to| Mr. Gregory,” she added, “I'm fix- ing up the yard as a birthday pres- ent for him." “I certainly am getting to be an | artist at telling white lies!" she re- | marked to herself on her way | | downtown to Dick's office. “All T| hope is that T can keep track of the fibs T've told different people Miss Briggs had the money ready for her. Gloria counted it . len $20 bills in a white envelope. Gloria wished she could keep the money for herself, There was a red dress in one of the stores that she would love to have; a cunning thing with a bell-shaped bodice. Stan was waiting for her on their street corner. il “Lord, but I hate to take this!" he said, as he slipped the envelope | of bills into his pocket. “But it's | only a loan. I'll return it to you in- side of three or four weeki “Yes, I'm afraid you'll | unless you want me to | happy home,” Gloria answered | { frankly. "I got the money from | Dick's secretary. And T told her I wanteq it for some gardening that I'm having done. So you see, I'll | really have to have the moncy, &0 | T ean pay the bill when it comes {in on the first of the month.” | “Don't worry, Russet, you'll get| {t,” Wayburn answered. There was| more than a shade of sarcasm in his voice He took a cheap nickeled watch from his pocket and looked at it. “I made an appointment with the | tailor this morning,” he said. “And I'm ten minutes late, now. . . . Too bad we couldn’t have spent the afternoon together.Meet me tomor- | row, will you? We'll go for a hike, | eh, what?"” The | | have to, | lose my | Gloria didn't answer him at once. | She had made up her mind not to sce him again. 1 And besides she was angry with m for making an appointment | with the tailor. He might, at mm“ have tried to persuade her to spend | the afternoon with him, she| ithnugl\ ‘ “N-no,”” she began. | Wayburn laid one of his hands on | her arm. “‘Oh, | | ave a hecart, Russet," he| Gloria saw that Miss Briggs was pleaded, “I'm going away in a wee | going to refuse to stay. Before she uld, Gloria went on: And then, perhaps, vou'll read Dick to sleep again afterward asked. “He has a hard time getting to sbeep lately, And Mrs. O'Hara wants to stop giving him sleeping powders.” ery well, I'll stay,” Miss Briggs ed on Dick a if telling nothing ghe wouldn't even to caling a his sllly little wie! ek look of she were do ir meal with caught the look ® o the hall to tell Ran the best napkins and to on t d forks, Then she Miss Briggs went downstairs. asked as they & room Gloria went i put tary wen letters, tbber band from her and leboard my tills you think I'm * she said s and her secret to think ' she said ist & bookkeeper. Gloria answered.” By T'm getting a little sur- for Dick. . . . All win- he's been planning a rose and vegetable garden for the Of course, he's too sick d to it, and I thought I'd cad with it mys yoked and way, ready yard down at Then she to Miss to have some 1t costs a small bushes, to know is me g Dick about urprise him started by have T want ftor o N Dick round him hright she reason s the ould he himself if I'm Briges. it for s Briggs t's true nd you a checl vou want it i Gloria buttered Iy vShall 1 money, sa for the cash? or replied a pisce of t to do what's right murmured, as if she ng aloud eal was over, sh read Dick living ro went m Gloria s | do if held up a | the | | or two. It can't hurt anybody if we | see cach other once in a while, can 2" “All right,” Gloria yielded. “I'll| | briug the car here tomorrow at this ; | time, Would you like to drive out {into the country?” | ure, W watch grow, and listen to bird singing in t amfaluia trees,” Wayburn answere nonsensically. He showed his strong white teeth in | a broad grin, and went. Gloria watched him go. He car-| ried himself with an air of engaging insolence. “He's the best-looking man any- where Gloria remarked to her- “pbut I wonder {f I'll ever that $200 again!" She didn't know what &} stan failed to pay it b fore Henry Moss' came She walked along Main | window-shopping as she went red dress with the bell-shaped { walst wes still in the show-window !‘- ere ahe had seen it a few daye | the grass the zimwitch would k be- bill n before “I think I'll go in and try it on,” Gloria thought. “Of coursc, I can ‘ But 1'd like to see how I| anyway.” | She went into the store | “There's a little dress down in the | window that I'd like to try on,” she | told the saleswoman who came to vait on her, “A red crepe.” | The saleswoman looked at her loubttully, S | littlo dress in the window is a size," said. “I don't be-| it's big enough for vou.” | “Nonsense’ Glorla said sharply | “I weigh only 115 pounds. T aiwa s sizes.” small she wear mi took off her gwn dress in the ting-room while the saleswoman 1o get the dress out of the & she would b it was ong as she was again, she might just as well look pretty for him, she decided. Gloria 1 cath as the | saleswom . the red and bran to back. 11 across the shoulders ¥, but Jress won't your walst,” the sales- fin straight- her task of trying to togcther. Her face| to see dress | over her head, fasten | the ust the tight from measure held it measure- { | Gloria gasped me try," said Glovla pulled and around At last it and took impa- tugged at would mnot unbut- it off roughly her. she you like to see oman | sales sked Gloria shook head, She her own dr put| arrying her over her arm, hurried redroir the next floo dropped penny in th stood the , and | |on or there, hand | weighing machine |a breathlessly watched ng slowly ur One hundred poundst On her way home, Gloria stopped ards and 3 11t he {1 don't | cret i Tangles Letter from Sally Atherton Beatrice Summers, Continued 1o I sometimes wonder, Bee, If any- one ever r fzes just what it is all #bout - this life of ours. . 1 am almost sure that most of us go through it in a kind of dream and when we think most that are shaping our own destiny we are being piloted by an unscen Iate toward something that we least de- sire. 1 am quite sure that Sydney Car- ton, it he could help 1t, would not be in love with the wife of his best friend. He is too decent a man to ahead knowingly with anything Kkind, Tndeed, T am not sure has ever acknowledged to It that he ls in love with her. at night at the party his face an open book and no woman, was at all interested, could be same room with Sydney Car- Lesiie without his seeret. we was in the ton and knowing This i, with the exception of Les- ctly unconscious and that Mr. Ir friend s in Prescott lie, 8he is perfe believe scott knows his best love with his wife, Strange isn't it interested pariics gossip, a sc- or a scandal the last to recognize the fact that they are the crux of it? For the one moment when ney Carton saw Leslie in the arms of another man eagerly looking up into his face as she that the two most in a are syd- as 1 watched him His sonl was stark and naked, and, contorted with its pain, it was not a pleasant sight. On John rescolt's face there was another story blazoned For the first time in his life he had an inkling that there might be a time and a person that he could manipulate to suit himself. surprise the knowledge most Indicrous w that what- ever John Alden Prescott mi have thought of his wife he never I possibility t} that she Hare interest man His face 2 consternation, as W et His at 1 was One s ought the bt into as ha'c slighwst in himself. ines of | wus doing, he | | unconsciously bared his heart to me the man with whom Leslic was danelng. Leslie herself was fgnorant of all the passions that werce welling up in the brains of the three men, See was Ignorant of how the man with whom she was dancing fcit about her. To her he “was only her part- ner In the dance. She feoling for the first time in her Wfe, 1 lieve, that great physical thrill that comes when dancing with somcone who makes ‘the dance the utmost poetical rhythm, In told afterwards that had known before a person could be 80 happy without consclous knowledge or thought. ke | knew that swaying with the foet,”" she safd. I lost inyone else in the may 8¢ hsolutely was tact; 8l fact, she me she never my bod motions of was my ot and, Sally, T even only all sight room m, strange as it was not of my partner.” TOMORROW — This letter tinued. FLAPPER FANNY says /5% T conscious ‘one ©1925 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. A soft answer often is hard of . to_make. Breakfast — fruit, brolled salt mackerel toes hashed in milk, toasted bread, milk, coffee. Luncheon — Scalloped c ¢ Halves of grape- grap corn ery, | eottage cheese, whole wheat bread, cup cakes vherries, milk, Dinner — Bou baked stuffed haddock, with parsicy butter, ereamed ke cucumber salad, pineapple bavarian cream, whole wheat bread, milk, coftee, Kale {s green leaf ve able both for its minera vitamine n onger should with neve tea lon, ail icing toast sticks potatoes potatoes cont be che serving. A ¢ should he served kale than with is less ¢ sily digested Scalloped Celery Two cups dic ery 3 tab stock, 3 t spor at a drug s again, ore This time She slipped a tape mez it up so she could see the pota- | ure ar Ml‘,w] Gloria’ measurements. cup shopped « read crumt tered erumbs 1 cup of celery millk. delt bit- X smooth until ered ¢ utes in umbs a hot ove Never-fail Teing (To Be Continued) waist and helc Gloria gasped. <

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