New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1925, Page 12

Adele Garrison's New Phase o REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Fr e R R e Madge Roassures Mother Graham, | but Spends & Restless Night 1 began to feel an,if I ave ing upon an old-fashioned * w0 rapidly did spirits go dowr Hem state rid “gee- my "now up. now mat ¢ 1 dis. swer 1o yer stepson, | that d had left man himsel subject of his 5 ch d, al- wrath Mrs to possible clally wished n objec- ways an suppose into Let in e a leg one tin zht 1 belleve it was his Joft — but whichever one it was, he amashed two toes on the other foot. We thought they'd have to be taken oft, but they didn't. You can be e of one thing, however — you won't find any scars, I boy for he: break. But, then, \Iways had real pure blood, 1« good as my side.” My smile at her characteristic cgotism was lost In a bit of specu- Ative remin concerning the tramp who had demanded money ¢ my mother-in-law on the plea that he was her stepson. The man it one time had been handsome rute, and, dismayed, T had ized a . certain resemblance Dieky in his fea es and manner- isms, but I also had seen traces of he bhoils which ted Job of old, and the remembrance cheered me surdly in view of Mother Gra- am’s boast. Mother Graham's Agitation My mother-in-law's volce, crisp, | stechizing, brought me out of my everie with a snap. “But what good i{s all this going 1o do?" she asked. “Steve isn't go- ng to submit to any examination v a physician, you can be very ure of that. He always was as oud as Lucifer and had his tem- got e brok — no e never saw cuch a any cut almost cence recog- to “But if he knows he cannot et money unless he does submit | {0 an examination and glve us proof that is really your stepson,’ 1‘ rgued, my mother-in-law {p {errupted me ruthlessly, he hut “I you don't give him the meney ne'll go stralght to Richard — you what e threatened and and — I'g rather die than have | wy boy know 1 had decelved him | il these years." He broke ands twisted t pititolly. But it nothing criminal t deception,” 1 persis “You the feelings of your really had thought years. clever fir not how she the e Know and her frall old emselves Logether r voice was il it Lo spare ildren and you e’ dead for “That's only she sophistry, ilye But in her longed my chil- but wret,” sald was a wistful which told justific me wion i ad taken. "1 deceived a iren about Steve's heing I, dread Richard's knowing the worst, But what am [ saying? He only one who can know. Har. another continent, and r fear her or she s th riet is in poor Lisa 1 owing “You're a Good Girll” Her voice was tremulous the nume of the daughter fate tvas still fresh in I spoke quickly, re- to divert her thoughts. Richard nor Harriet | Mother, dear, 1 promise | 1eed neve as she spoke whose tragic our m ringly, “Neit Know mories. q er shal you that. “You're a good girh Margaret,” L atefully, then added, In a doubting tone, “If only Mrs, Un- derwood were able to see him. I'm \frald you can't bluff him, Anyway, I don't belleve hea's an impostor. You'd better just give him the rest of the money, although I'm af 1 he'll keep coming back for mor “Of course, he will" I retorted before I could cuth my speech, for her d«-mmgmg comment upon me d irrita e. “But,” I added quiekly, if IM!\M f he's not an impostor; it he's really ‘Steve’ I may be able to appeal to him. He can't be all bad.” That's what saild, brightening you think I would I'm hoping.” she “perhaps—dont better go with No, 1 da™t,” 1 sald firmly, for 1 had my own plans for the coming interview, “You've had about as much as one woman ought to stand, T'll see thig through for you and I| want you to stop worrying.” | “I'll try,” she sald tremulously | as T kissed her and left her. But I| could not share even that feeble optimism, and I spent a well-nigh sleepless night planning a dozen different methods of dealing with tha blackmailing tramp and reject- | ing all of them. Toe Adventures § Raggedyhon <faggely buly 2 Raggedy Andy sald 18 he ?‘H"\lgh’ his magle scooter to a atop. “We have escaped from sel- fish old Mr. Grabby and seifish old Mr. Tinkie and 1 hope we never ses them again!" “So do I!" Raggedy Ann agreed as she brought her magic scooter | up beside Raggedy Andy's. “What do you suppose those lit- red berries on this bush are, Raggedy Ann?" Raggedy Andy asked as he pointed to a small bush growing near where they had stopped, “We can easily tell by tasting them!" Raggedy Ann replied. Raggedy Andy walked over and picked a lot of the littie red ber- ries. Then he turned and laughed to Raggedy Ann, “Do you what are, Raggedy Ar “What are they, Ra They are the lit red cf men candies, just like you see drug store So Ragge Andy gave Raggedy Ann those had picked and went and picked a lot more. The Ragged tle he dva ate & lot of the nice little cinnamon candies and were having just the nicest time 21l by themselves when who should ome walking through the ut Mr. Grabby 1 “Ha!" Mr, y we have youl" “Yes, sir!” Mr. Yeu us sleey ce cream soda thought !"a' you had escaped from immediately o powder on | out of Rag ed man out red bushes Tinkie join ng beside the water left spr t a penny Mr, Grat Mr. gread catch Raggedy Ragge ndy as g Ann and Mr, ied toward Any Grat hed for Rag: Raggedy Ann gave him ight in the face and Rag- Andy did same thing to T And as the Raggedys their hands full ef she little cinnamon candies, the k yng Mr, Grabby and Mr. Tinkie much and made tears come to heir eyes. When Mr. Gfabby looked at Mr. Tinkie, he saw the red from the cinnamon candies on Mr. Ti kie's face and Mr. Tinkie saw t red from the candies on Mr. Grab- by's face, ‘Goodness!” Mr. Grabby cried. “Your face 8 bleeding, Mr. Tinkia!" “Land sakes! Mr. Grabby!" r. Tinkie cired. “So is yours, we must run to the brook and put cold wa- ter on our. faces before we bieed too much and get so weak we can- not take the Raggedrs home with by reac « sma the 1 s #o Mr, Grabby and Mr. Tinkie, | because they wers very silly, ran to the brook to wash their faces in cold water. And as soon s the two lazy, sel- fish men had gone, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy lopped upon thelr magic scooters and went| whizzing away down the path. When Mr. Grabby and Mr. Tin- kie had washed their faces, Mr. Grabby said, “Now let us take the Raggedys home and be careful that they do not make our faces bleed again!” So they ran to where they had left zgedys and then they saw the little red berries, “Ha!" Mr, Grabby cried as he gave Mr, Tinkie a hard thump. “If vou had not been so silly you would have known the red stuff was only cinnamon candy!” And because Mr. Grabby thumped , Mr. Tinkie thumped Mr, Grab- by and hefore they finished fighting v did have to go to the brook 1 wash their faces, for this time red on their faces was not cin- on candy stains. Mr. Grabby to the brook and Mr, Tinkie ran Old and young join in praising sparkling root beer — the kind you make with Williams’ Root Beer Extract. 80delicious glassesfrom a 25-cent bottle, Try it! WILLIAMS ROOT BEER EXTRACT - \ pillo the hidde inurr ural no i but e e [ A 31K B 1 ' Gossip’s Corner are 1 | Larger Handbags [ Handvags becoming larger, and more colorful, Those of hright red, emerald green or purple leather are fashion leaders. | Three Inverted Pleats | The sport skirt nearly always has | three inverted pleats«in the front | to glve the necessary width about | the hem. Tempting to the Eye | preparing salads remembBer to | tempt the eye as well appe- tite, Watch the enlor binatlons las well as the fruit or veg gredients as the - B et Save Laundry Biils { Luncheon sets of white | decorated in col™™ are Incxpensive and save much fundry i useq for breakfast and Izdheon q"":},‘ Don't Mix Furniture Be careful not to use mahogany or walnut furniture against an background if you wish a room to suggest harmony and beauty. /i ng oal Ms little miss 18 carrying a satin with a white wsatin in top, in the depths of which is na wedding ring. gold or plat- 1, according to sentiment, Nate Iy, such a charming trific is of nterest to anyone in the world the bride w rose After a Shower A that has been | rain should be coverced with Aump cloth and p a moderately warni fron. gown potte d by a clean with a ON IR AT e FLIES HELP SPREAD TYPHOID Nothing could show more eonclu- |along the same sivel. than the yearly ris feve = It he best method yet found for the st trap Lore H righ the lines as the small y that files cause typhoid fever of the typhoid r rate with the warm weather. o highest number of cases is hed in August, and ‘by Decem- the discase secms to die out is during these months that flics the thickest cone-shaped wire The trap &ho feet high and diameter, The place for th doors, not n he To kill flies in stieky fly-pape Fly poison is as poisoned flies dropping from the thing thadt is open trap. 14 be to two or 18 inches in trap s house. house the nse and swafters. not Yedd of ny- recommer a halit eiling into ruction of adult flies is the fly- not a ten-cent stove trap, but home-made fly-trap made al CROSSWORD PUZZLE ore's a m J by crossword puzzle for a day, Don't be discoue- group in the upp t corner. To help you with this, unkeved letter for 6-horizontal d that for 10-vertical is O. HORIZONTAL a deduction on a bill Particles of fire Tnner part of Promised To mimic Yours and m Edge of roof Plant used to Lair Every Point Therefore note Correlative of nejthar Fashion To scatter To accumulate of compass 1%, To lubricate . 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Eepecially wonld I cc { mend it to elderly people.”” Only 25c, to be An entrance One 1and in a fie of the strips of 4 silan bird Ringlet of hatr Leng smooth fish Unit | marries Dick Gregory, & struggiing | bile, , out-of-work actor. able in- | oiloloth, | | Mies three | { straight out of | THE STORY Gloria Gordon, SO FAR: beautiful flapper, lawyer, Her idea of marriage Is fun imd fine clothes . .. but no work or children, She refuses polhtblank to do her own housework, and hires a mald, But Dick has to let.the mald go, because he can't afford her wages. Glorja hus swamped him with debts for her clothes and a new automo- | She becomes infatuated with an When he leaves town to go to New York she fol- lows him. But he spurns her, Then | she tries to find a job as a chorus- girl but fails, 1t is only then that Gloria begins to realize how much sho cares for Dick, She s terribly lonely for him, But she is afraid to go home, At last, however, she does. takes her back, Dick but not as his wife. | Glorla beging to wonder it he s in ove with his seccretary, Susan | Iiriggs. While Dick is out very late one night the house {8 robbed. Glo. rla feels sure Dick spent the eve- ning with Miss Briggs. But next morning she learns that Dick was the home of Dr, John Seymour, who hiad Lilled himself because of his wife's Jove affair with Jim Ca- | rewe Gloria goss (o Dick's office to tell | Mm about the burglary, but he is | not there, She has a long talk “nn} Briggs and wrings from her | a confession that she is in love with Dick. loria ¥ will Briggs, cuscs tells Dick that night that | have to discharge Miss | He refuses. And Glorla ac- | him of being in love with Briggs GO ON WITH THE STORY | frowned, His eyes looked ahead of hfm under their brows, 1'm not NOW Dick bent “No, 2v — as you call | | an cold and without light, | | aropped bétween them . . . | ment., | could see Dick looking at her curi- | onusly, ! before, | up }Giloria's Safe | mar e it delibe window arms, looking Jarkness heyond “When you say that do you mean | 1007 Glorla asked, There was | of entreaty in her voice. o you mean that you don't care | ihout me, any more?” Dick turned slowly toward her, | witholit answering. The movement | brought him face to face with her. | She looked at him narrowly, at first only with curlosity: then with | a kind of terror. . . . His eyes were - about any woman,” he said | He walked to the open stood, with folded | into the fragrant | el me, agony Giloria felt as If some curtain had a curs | in that she could not pierce. §he stepped back and put up her | hand in a little defensive mme-; u don't love me any more! | answered her own question. then she burst into hysterl- Through her eyelashes, gathered into Itttle wet points, she "And eal tears as if he had never seen Jer §ho watched him drop finto his chair and pick up a book. He set it | hetween the, Iike a barrier, and began to read, ... The clock in the hall struck eleven .. . and, as if the sound of it freed some blocked movement in brain, she pulled herself to- gether and went upstairs, | As she went ghe heard Dick strike | a match, for his cold pipe. He was calmly rettling down to a quiet eve- | ning. No doubt he was glad | she was gone! . “1 will get back!" Gloria said flercely to herself the next morning | when she awoke. She had set her | vlarm elock for seven? “I will get back into Dick's life! | T belong there, He can't put me out | She bathed, the 3 Ranghild had worn for her mnrnmg work. Then she tiptoed downstairs | brought in the milk and the | paper from the back poreh, | ted the gas stove and took tin from the kitchen eup- e stood looking at it b How did you make coffes? There were no directions on the g wrapper around the tin, and | Gloria didn't own a cook Look. Then suddenly she remembers t Dick knew how to make coffee. would run upstsirs and ask how it was done, knocked his I've brought you the morning paper,” she called, brightly. | In a moment Dick opened th and dressed herself in one of e I m She door, “Dick on His cyes apron and the coffee her in | the rolled- tin in her | bungalow p sleeves, i think you're do- | he asked, An amused smile over his face coffee for my wered pertl ¢ how to make It. Aside t I'm getting along fine!” smile broadened into a 1 suppose you're after my re- | " he said. “I use a tablespoon offee for each cup, and an ex- a one for the pot. RS What do you Gloria's lifted at his good And something in her breast had been llke a lump of fce, seemed to melt . She was sure hadn't m his harshness night hadn’t meant 1 said er lips for him " she asked hand on his cheek step nearer with a little down on ilder. Tt ery good to be there with Dick, more. Like the solu- | problem, quarreled 1 1. Kiss me s she spoke spirits \t He to ar She and sigh, she put his sho a “We'y } she kr s making a She could Dick draw away from her. | r hands dropped at her sides, ‘ he v nstairs without mistake he coffee, according to recipe, and put it| 1o boll | When h Aownstairs to | breakfa it-was more than ready. “I'm soiiy there jsun't amy foast,” s campfire n the sto e came | new housecoat?” she asked. | any satisfaction, at all, | blues every time I put it on.” { understand the { sorry for you!" Gloria sald she pow®d it mr him, “but there wasn't so much as| a crumb of bread in the house, I'll stock up today." Bhe tried to drink a cup of her[ coffee, But sho had to admit to her- | self that It ves too bitter to drink. | She didn’t darw to offer Dick a sec- | ond cup of it. | “WIll you be home tonight for| dinner?" she asked as he got up | from the table, She hoped that he would at least ; offer to kiss her goodby, But he | didn't, | “Yes, I'l be home,” he sald color- essly, “I think I'll take your car| today, You don't seem to drive it any more . do you mind if 1| do?" | Gloria shook her head, There was a lump in her throat, Bhe watched Dick drive down the street, her | vision blurred with tears. She wiped | them away, angrily “What's the matter with me? she asked herself, “Am I falling ln‘ love with the poor simp?" Was she? . . , Or had she always been In love with him? And had it {aken her jealousy of Miss Briggs to unvell the fact to her? ... Ol = The thought of Miss Briggs down in Dick's office with him all day | was a torment to her. 8he stopped in the middie of her work a dozen times that morning te wish that Dick had a man serretary instead of Busan Briggs, “He's just got to fire her!" she | kept telling hersclf. “T just won't have her down in that ofMce with him. That's all there-is fo {t!" | Soothing and sympathetic, was she? Well, Gjorfa would show Dick that she, herself, could be soothing and sympathetic. 1f that was Miss Briggs' method of “vamping” Dick, that would be Gloria's game. Ttvo | could play at any olg game. . . The sight of Dick's shabby house-coat hanging in his closet | was an inspiration to Glorfa. 8he} would by him a new one. Goodness | knew he needed it! | And it wouldn't be a dull gray | one like thie ... It would have| some pep and dash about it. ... | PRI Sl old When Dick came home that| night, the table was neatly scf. Ihere was an appelizing odor of frying steak in the house, And Glo- \ ria, in a clean white dress, came out of the Kitchen to meet him. | “Dinner will be ready in two min- | utes,” she greeted him rh-"‘rru!)v.‘ “And when you go upstairs to wash | your hands, take a peek at the sur- prise I have for you up there.” On the bed in Dick's room was spread Gloria's ‘“surprise’ . al purple silk house-coat lined with | scarlet. “Holy suffering cats!" Dick said | to himself, “Does she thigk I'd wear a thing like tha | He went down fo dinner in his| suit. Glorla's face fell when she | saw him. i “Aren’t you going to put on your Dick shook .his head. “You know 1 never wear bright colors like fhat, Gloria,” he said, “although it s a| doggoned nice coat, Thanks." | “What'll T do with it?" Glorla asked pathetically, 8he looked as {f she were going to ery, “Take it back? “You didn't pay cash for it, | you?" Dick asked. “N—no,” Gloria charged it to you." “And how much w voice had grown stern, Not very much ... enly $50." Gloria replied. “It really was a bar- gain. It had been $756 ... awfully good silk in it." Dick sat down at the dining room | table, ow look here, Gloria,” he said “I've told you a dozen times that you're not to go-downtown and run {up bills without asking me al it, first. . . . And in spite if it, charge a $50 house-coat to me in ore where 1 owe money as it aid | taltered, 1 1t?" Dick's| is Gloria a tween her “Well, w do ... asked, ed feit frown growing be- rebrows, | at do you want me to| take the thing back?” she | “I'm going to be !Prrlmy“ it 1 have to, let me tell| “I'll take it back.” Dick answered. “Just do it up in a bundle, and I'l a it with me in the car tomor-| row morning. . I hate to seem| ungrateful, Glory, but a $50 present fen't paid for wouldn't give me 1'd have the| Glorfa sheok her head. “I can't you at all, Dick," ehe) £aid. “Suppose you do owe a few bills? Everybody does. Nobody ever | has every dollar paid right up on| first of the month.” Dick was sflent. He made dots on the tablecloth with the his fork T ] you'll it 1 mention the word ‘clothes’ you,” Gloria went on, afler a! minute, “but I haven't a single| summer dress. You know you prom- | iscd me I could have some. before you went away on your trip. Re-| member?"” | “Yes,” Dick answered quietly. 3ut don't you think it's more im- portant for us to get some of our old bills paid of, first?" " Gloria cried, angrily. just about at the polnt uld go to jail* for debt, y, like Mr. Micawber. That Is, could have a few clothes. in rags Dick's llp curled. “Pretty rags, I'll say,” he remarked. “You hought three $100 dresses just a few weeks ago. I'll bet my mother never had onc dress in all her lite that cost that much. And Dad could buy and eell me a dozen times over, . " “It's just terrible that you have 1o support a wife, isn't 1t?" Gloria | asked with fine sarcasm. “I feel little tines | of | suppose have a o to | I'm| where 1| cheerful- ir 1) . I'm| coxtly “You should!” Dick answered “All 1 hope is that you'll feel 80| sorry for me that you won't buy| any more $50 hats for a while!™ Gloria moved irritably under his| angry gaze. “You think of every penny " she sald, “I've got to think of every pen. ny!" Digk answered, “Aud you musty | print | knocke | The T o Tanglon ln‘ll\‘l‘ from Leslie Prescott to Mrs, Walter Burke, @ontinued | “I have found,"” I teold him, "nm‘ imprint of the sear on the palm of Zoe Ellington's right hand, I have often seen it there, \ Bl Laidlaw, who is near-sighted, | snatehed the magnifying glass from | my hand, and looked carcfully at| the paper on which this imprint | was photographed, “Are you sure sh | on her right hand “Perfectly, 1 have not only scen it, but felt it when T shook hands with her, It Tooks as if a piece had | heen taken outs It Is her hand all right.” “But Laldlaw,” Jack interposed, “Leslfe told me last night that Zoe in' her presence had put her pearls in the safe and locked It, The im- ould have been mado at this has this scar “True,” put he answered, “We will this aside untll we find it fits | into'something else,” Laidlaw questioned Dawson, the chauffeur, very closely, for Benson I the butler let out accidentally that the chauffeur was fully dressed when he went to the garage to waken him and that he unhesitat- ingly went almost directly to where the electric wires were cut, Jack is delighted over this be- cause from the first he has thought that Dawson was connected with the robbery, He was for having him arrested at once, but Bill Laldlaw cautioned patience, While we were talking in the i« brary, Benson came to the door and told me that a'man from Roth and | Chapman was calling, T left the two men a n d walked ncross the hall to the drawing room where Benson had seated lim, He was an absolute - stranger to me, but that ald not seem peculiar at the moment, Before I could ask him his busi- ness, the man arose, “I have Leen sent by Roth and | Chapman, Mrs, Prescott, to find out it the thieves that broke into your home defaced any of the brocaded sillc on the walls of your library," he sald. By lucky chance we were able to get a little more of it this morning and we will keep it for you. They are not quite sure, however, that the background is the exact shade and they sent this sample with me that I might compare it As the man sald this, lie started for the library, stopped by hearing Jack “I think, Commissioner, that your theory is more sensible than any I have heard yet. Let's try and follow it up.” “Oh,” he sald quickly, "I dig not know you had guests, I will call again.” Before I could ask him to leave the gample with me, he was goné, (Copyright, 1025, NEA Service, Ino.) TOMORROW ~— This letter cone | tinuea. Menus /A a Breakfast — Halves of grapefruit, scrambled eggs, crisp bacon, crisp toast, milk, cofs Luncheon — Chicken angd spin- ach soup, croutons, frult salad, gra ham bread and butter, ginger cookies, milk, tea, Dinner — Hot veal loaf, creamed peas, new potatoes in parsley but- ter, tomato s: banana sponge, ginger cookies, whole wheat bread, milk, coffee, A meat loaf that can be served hot for one meal and sliced and served cold the next day is always worth making. The creamod pras are used as an accompaniment for the meat and at the same time fur- | nish the extra vegetable, £1923 BY NEA SEAVICL, INC. We'll have to bare with the| stockingless fad. Ginger cookles add just the “‘pep” a banana dessert needs and even {f they were served for luncheon the combination makes them seem like something else, Chicken and Spinach Soup One pound spinach, 4 tablespoons butter, 4 tablespoons flour, 1 tea- spoon salt, 1-8 teaspoon pepper, 1 teaspoon sugar, 4 cups hot chicken stock, 4 tablespoons whipped cream, paprika. Wash waters. spinach through several Put into covered sauesa pan with butter and cover closely, Place over a Jow fire and when wilted cook in the juice of the spinach and butter until tender. It will ke about ten minutes for young spin- ach. Combine flour, salt, pepper agpd sugar and stir inte spinach. Cook, stirring constantly for five minutes. Rub through a colander and ad4 to chicken stock. Bring to the bolling point, stirring constantly. Serve. n bouillen cups with a spoonful of whipped cream sprinkled with | paprika topping each cup. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Servlea, Ine.) White and Black Ameng the most popular lingeris of the moment is that of white goorgette crepe trimmed with black | chantilly In one minute—just that quick—the pain tnd‘. N m lullh.lul\..t:wmb’l-" i every way as— “DrScholl’ thfip i Put o in is too, for a wi feet' again. ile, until 1 get on my That sickness of mine d everything in the head. . .| s just one way of looking at this thing. Our mairiage be- come nothing but a business part- | nership — and a one-sided one, at| that.” | Oh, is that so o that's the wa Glorla cried you've come to about it. . . . Well, thanks, ] don't for any! 1f that's all ] mean to you, I'm through! See? Al through ’ (To Be Continued), feel care = NN NSSN \ 2 \\\ e SN 38 \\}««\‘\\ N\ N = AN\ >l \Ii\\\m “No, I'm not ‘crazy’—as you cal lit—about any woman}* he said, deliberately, B