New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1925, Page 4

s Confessional | Adsle Oarrison's New Phase ol | If you draw a V from shoulder !‘“,.., to walstline, and then scoop “mu the material inside the V you | uncover quite an expanse of back. |1f this bothers you at all, follow the ¢ | plan of Carmel Myers and wear one of the new back necklaces of dia- monds and pearls—just like the pendant effects that were once worn | down the front. It breaks up the dead white of the shoulders and offers some explanation for the eut The next instant 1 was hurry- | of the frock. Really, it's & very ing past her to the downstalrs tele- smart thing to do these days. had had the branch temporarily off Fan- DAILY FASHION SBERVICE Wear Necklace Down the Back know," 1 alizing The Trapudent Message Which Steve Sends Over the Telephone to Madge nearly dawn of the day 1ad named for confronting who claimed to be Mother stepson Dbefore 1 closed sleep like one drugged I then slept through all tha bustle ¢ the morning. Mother Graham oegged to take Juntor with her or the night, and, that » needed the comfort o little i's presence, 1 had given him up by his crawling into as I usually am. It was almost son befors a gentle sh q Kath with ¢ a slightly returned me Katherine's everything 1 know without betraying her own lively interest in the situa- cha act wished to It was vhich 1 ie wan Giraham s tlon phone, for we in my reom cut since the of installation there Bathing Caps With Posies Madge Talks to “Steve.” found myself shaking as T put cefver to my ear, and the fact the Intonations of the voice came the wire emin of er awalen which ) beside over nt bed were 1d Dicky's own not Is this tend Mrs ham 2" 1] roused my ne R which, trou- rine »mil Grahar ird volce Gra of “Yer countered s yes | 1 detected ‘Ste Who is this tering I had come to my & a shame iia outlined to him upt so sin- ep,” she but there's | logue which when T had Durkee house Insistent Solce lemands to 10ther-in he ¢ woods behind the eech with thee. T m give me his name, tried to have so that you w you ¥ Motor company,” You remember, 1 concer Blank S e =ald emoothly it he insisted you would axpected and he bold the lins until you came to the ghlephone A person. 1f you wish hipe squelch- 4, however, I'm the girl who ca o it “Where 1s Mother Graham?" 1 had sprung out of hed long be- are had finished her little peech and was rapldly eetting into bathrobe and slippers. Too well T inew. the identity of the insistent The man whe called himself had jently arrived Leep his appointment with me Where is Mother Graham hear the call?” I asked, sur- prised that she was not in evidence. K ever so he her curi- was to see you that oRr. red iy and 1 minutes."” ning your ves," T answ re L) ' Gossip’s Corner For Quick Suds A good soap suds is produced more quickly by the addition of soap or tly you & few perfe give It you'll give me the direc tions how to reach your place,” he Unfortunately, 1 had an accident a few miles back, had to leave my car at a garage and come on by train. But I can take a taxi over." He just fore she went on s0ap. season s Washing Oil Paintings Oil paintings may be washed with warm white soap, moistening only a small at 3 time and drying mediately, bathing cap of this forth into riotous blossoms of brilliantly rubber and is a decided im- ) f ored ofes. water Steve e nas o that for a col- second 1 almost of the Did | fact that he was improvising his Provement over the old plain variety story as he went along for the bene- | that had nothing but utility to rec- fit of possible station loaters, fol. Ommend it i owing’ my explicit Then 1 brought myself to attention and answered him according to the formula already agreed upon That will not be necessary,” I investing m with a friendly courtesy which I was far from feeling. “I have an errand in A B your home down platform toward the west and continue on to the western end of the culvert, the road running under it, T can pick you up there without taking me out of my way. That suits me voice replied. “I'll and then, impudently, unbe- lievably, he dropped his voice to a whisper and sent over the wire the word “sister.” P lost sight £he portion ine's instructions. ot hetrayed no [ e e e E AL HEALTH FLIES SHUN CLEAN HOMES esity over the qu in't,” she re- a sure instinct was the most Junior and Ma opif to the barn ago to see the second ques-, said, voice that important to me. iragged her few minutes kittens they | ave discovered. Surprisingly, she ceme and asked my advice about| g outdoors — it her first out- randa, since id her it would it for a half » she won't on flies that home It you want a flyless home, you ninst have one that is clean, folk are quite confent to keep the house clean, and the front vard the back want in How do you on , summer some new not want having any them only windows near down by around to screen s and but to filth the not clean, leave vard go. Open garbage with refuse back steps. an on fne, except the v she came home. I t do her good to sta hour or so0; so I am su he back before it know what tyrants t they remove al from cans, slowly filling too often stand by the Discarded tin cans are d to accumulate, the hing for perfect] s preniises Existence pendent upon filth 1 or live of fiics y de- cannot is #hsolut Flies a house that you,” about is when is not far from the house, and cow barn within easy fiy range. you do not want flies should be removed. a 1t these things doors.” the flies moving condition fore number of The Adventuresf home is tary living, round a proof of the sa of KaggedyAun % wiKaggedy Andy ~ 23 : by Johwmy SGruelle CROSSWORD PUZZLE | for your sil- | enc ve captured Rag-|and- be ba hefore 3 Ann and Raggedy Andy and|Ann‘and I eat our pies!” oan oa 1 have puffed Mrs, Wungle' So Mr. Tinkie ar Witch's magic forgetfulness powder jumped wpon them and ma ) they wer g ilito a hired girl and Raggedy And started ou into-a: hired man. Then we have made them do all the t for-us and we could just sit around and enjoy ourselves the rest of our to their ough hard ir aster eaths; haw until Aga n, the more ey had to sit down lives!” Mr, Tinkie was sorry too that the had escaped, but he was as much Mr. Grab- But he did Nagg s thought it by's fault as it was his. not s We Ann their ples; hopped upon t went licki woods. seven ily follow Raggedy Raggedy Andy by the heir magic scooters make path!”™ Mr. Tinkie finally So let us waste no more time, Raggedys will stop m soda fountain they to, n and capture an e “Indeed! 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Not any To throw light Corded cloth 8éund To surfeit the teeth ©1928 Y NI SERVICE e Kiss stealing is “petty” lar- To puzzle Shrieks Child's toy Beer Favorite Japanese fieh Attacks Door in a fenca To bend forwarq and Greets Tardy Scoffed Spikes of corn High priest who t Region To pour To seek tion Cabbage Mineral spring To immerse in Either's affinity Poiat of compass we catch our ropex. and tgKe you ba Jo all the work for “bDear m& Mr. Grabby and Tinkie!” Raggedy Ann said as she {asted the ple, “How do you ever ‘spect to catch your breaths if you sit there? Don’t you know that you will ‘have to get up and run as fast as you can, or your breaths will get #0 far ahead of you, you never will " cateh them?” fy land sakes puffed. “1 didn't you, Mr. Grabby Mr. Grabby was pufling herd as Mr. Tinkie and he his head. meaning No! “Then had ' better not waste any HeI" Raggedy Andy said it you run hard and fast Mr. dewnaward Samuel Mr. that Tinkie now Did aboriously for informa- just ae you more Cause used in w salad of area water iellv or soap flakes than with bar | not hot suds made of pure | im- | In villages and coundry a hog pen | | night. THE STORY SO FAR: Gloria Gordon, beautiful flapper, marries Dick Gregory, a struggling lawyer., Her ldea of marriage Is fun and fine clothes . . . but no work or children, She refuses pointblank to do her own housework, and hires a maidl But Dick has to let the mald go; because he can't afford her wages, Gloria had swamped him with debts for her clothes anc a new automo- bile, She becomes infatuated with an out-of-work actor, Stanley Way- burn, When he leaves town to go to New York, she follows him, But he spurns her, Then she tries to find a job as a chorus girl and falls, It is then that Glorfa begins to real- 1ze how lonely she is for Dick. But she ia afrald to go home, At last, however, she does go. Dick takes her back, but not as his wife, Gloria begins to wonder if he is in love with his secretary, Susan Briggs. While Dick is out late one night, the house is robbed. Gloria is sure that Dick spent the evening with Miss Briggs. But next morning she learns that he was at the home of Dr. John Seymour, who had killed himself because of his wife's love affair with Jim Carewe, The breach between Gloria and Dick widens, §he learns that Miss Briggs is in love with Dick and begs him to discharge her. He re- fuges, Finally Gloria decides to leave Dick. She tells him she's done her best to win him- back to her, but is now “through.” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | The minute Gloria told Dick she | was through with him she was sor- Ty She was not through with him! She was just beginning to be inter- before in all her life, Hoping that he wouldn't take her her word, she found therself breathlessly waiting for his answer. It came, “All right, Glorfa,"” he said. | at And No coming back!" Gloria couldn't speak. With her head held high, she marched past him, into the kitchen, The steak was burning in the fry- ing pan. Glorla took it from the stove, and put it away in the lee- box, steaming hot as it was. She tossed the bread-tray with asparagus and salad went into the garhage can, “It T can’t be his wife, T won't he his cook . .. that's a cinch!” she thought to herself. £he stood at the screen door look- ing out into the yard, There was a strong smell of boiling frult in the air, Mrs. Donberg, next door, must | be responsible. . . . It was (he sca- | son for preserving. | Suddenty Gloria saw the bty of the common lot . . . of a woman working for a man, and aim for | her. Of their children. And their | little homes and backyard gardens. | It was a precious thing, the | every day kind of love that Dick | had once ofered her. And that she | hadn’t had the wit to accept! Tears scalded her eves, and ran down her cheeks, Blinded by them, she felt her way | upstairs and inlo her own room. | she packed her over-night bag. . . . ‘ Dick was waiting for her in the hall when she came downstairs. She | 1ooked up at him with red-rimmed, swollen eyes, | “I'll come back tomorrow to pack my trunks she said, “I'm home to Mother's, now.” “No," he objected, “We'll do this thing decently. I'm not going to let vou run crying down the street to- we have to! You go upstairs to bed, now. And we'll talk things over to- morrow morning.” “Talk what over?” “You want me to go | golng. What {8 there thout? I'm sick of talk, talk She drew a long sobbing breath. “There are a good many things got to discuse” Dick sald. Selling the house, and the furni- ture things of that kind." Selling the house! And the furni- ture, too! . .. Ah, Dick must mean Lusiness then! He really must be 1gh with her eager to rid himself of her! She looked around right, cheerful house with its ream-colored walls, its blue rugs, and the yellow curtains that looked as if sunshine were always pouring through them “1 — 1 don't g0 away from my house!" she said in a whis- per. couldn't tr 1ener- ous voice Oh, Glorla asked . and I'm to jabber all this talk, her at want to her tr Dick exclaimed Tou've never stayed in this house long enough to care for it. Six months from now you'll have for- gotten you ever lived in it with me Gloria hack ging stepa, locked herself in her and went to eleep. When | knocked on her door in the ing. she did not get up. use in our talking tq she called wearlly. have another row. . . . rats!” ad no answer to that up the statrs with She 1ag- She room Dick morn- To Glorla's disappointment, Dick | without saying another word he lay, listening tensely (o his re. treating footfalls. Her nerves shook to the 1 of the front door closing behind him purr of the little car g out of the yard 1 when it had died away in the she got up and dressed elowly and uncertainly, to the At | distance Mrs. Gordon was washing the breakfast dishes when Gloria open- | ed the screen door that led into the sunlit kitchen from the back | poren | “we Where | you going., bag and baggage?” She looked down dublously at the over- night bag Gloria carried I'm not going anywhere, I've ar. Gloria answered, “I've come forevermore ed in him as she had never been | this time, it's for good, Remember! | the | bread on it. back into its hox. The | going | .. We won't give the neigh- | | bors any more to gossip about than the | Her mother ded the silver- ware, “Speaking of arrivals,” she sald, “your cousin, Lulu's baby {is here at | It was born last night at the hospital. . . , My goodness! After a while all the ‘famous birth- places’ of presidents and ‘authors will be hospltals, I suppose! I've always sald 1'd love to see the place where George Washington was born. Or did he just live at Mount Vernon? . . , No, I guess he was born there, wasn't he?" Gloria set her bag down on the well-scrubbed floor, “Mother!"” she cried, “I've come home! I've left Dick!" | Her mother lald her dish towel | down on the drain hoard. “Tell me," she said, “did you leave Letter from Leslie Prescott to Mrs. Walter Burke, Coptinued When I went back into the li- brary, Ruth, Jack sald: “Who was your caller? “A man from Roth and Chap- man," T answered, “I thought they had finished," Jack remarked, “They have, but it seems that having read In the paper about the burglary, they sent a man up to find if the brocade In heére had been injured in any way., He was coming in to see, but hearing you two, he sald he would call agaip, Nice of them to send him up, wasn't {t?" “Very," said Bill Laidlaw dryly, as he went to the phone in the hall, He called up Roth and Chap- Dick when you went to New York a few weeks ago? Everybody said | you did, . ., I couldn’t believe it.] I was sure you'd have told me if you were separating. ., . , But then, girls don't tell their mothers things the way they used to when 1 was to hear it it did him.” 4 Gloria shook her head with ex- asperation, “I'm telling you right now T have left him!" she said, “I'm never going back to him! I've come home to stay here with you and Dad, if you'll let me.” Mrs. Gordon took off her glasses. “I can't see a thing with those things on,” she said. “You go into the living-room and lie down, I'm golng to make you some tea, You look peaked J Gloria took her bag upstairs to the little room that hadq been hers for so many years of her life, It was beautifully clean, but depress- ing in its shabbiness, She thought of her room at home | with its ®oft, brilliant cushions, its chaise longue and the taffeta that ;flrap‘d the bed and windows, With a heart like lead, she went downstairs. On the living room table | stood a tea tray. you ever Mrs. Gordon came in from the kitchen with a plate of ot toast in her hands. “You eat some of fhis toast that I've made for you, too," she said. “And then tell me how you hap- | pened to leave Dick 2" “There isn't much to tell. He sald he was through with me, £l what could 1 do but pack my bag {and get out?" Gloria asked. Mrs. Gordon sat down in her old armchair. “Now, Glory, that's not the truth,” she said bluntly. “I know Dick too well to believe that tale. ... You probably told him | you were through with him., Didn't | you?" | Gloria thought, for a | “Yes, T helieve T did,” she said. The | | whole affair was blurred in her mind by her own unhappiness. “Well, then,” her mother went on. “You've got to go hack to Dick. Marriage ien't liké a hat that you can wear for a while, and then throw away for new one. . . . |1 don’t want a new one,” Gloria | answered miserably. “I don't ever | want to see a man again!" She| slipped to the floor and laid her | head on her mother's knees. | Nonsense!” Mrs. Gordon said, | ou and Dick have just had some | sort of a little spat or other. . . ' You know, vou're not an easy per on to live with, Gloria! You fly up t nothing. . 1 often say to your Dad, ‘Gloria isn't like either of us. | She must take after old Aunt Fan- ny!' She had a tongue if ever a woman did!” “I knew vou'd say it was my fault| if Dick and I ever had a bust-u Gloria answered resentfully, “Every- body thinks Dick's perfect. . . ." | “No, he's not perfect. But he's the sort of man 1 should have liked to have had for a son ... if the g00d Lord had seen fit to send me one,” her mother went on, ek a fine young fellow, G | And you're going to regret it if you leave him Gloria shook her head. knew that her mother was She was regretting it, alrcady. | “What you ought to do is to go| moment. pretty But she | right. | 1o make Dick some sort of a wife!” Mrs. Gordon said suddenly. “I slm-‘ pose it's partly my fault that you | don't know how to cook or take | care of a hous that you have to have a maid. 1 should have made | you go into the kitchen and work | right along with me. when you “!r.‘ | engaged to Dick.” | “] haven't any mauid, Dick let | | Ranghild g0 Gloria answered. | | “I've been doing my own housework sinee | came back from New \'nrk.‘ I "“An, nan! So thats it! I knew | { been defaced in any way. He found voung. T suppose I'd be the last one | leave | | that | well huttered man’s studio and asked if they had sent a man to see if our walls had | out, Ruth, that they knew nothing | about it, they had ‘sent no one, and for that matter they knew that if anything had been hurt, I would call them immediately, Just as Bill was going to hang up | the recelver, evidently the man at | the other end said “Wait a min- | ute," The commissioner told us after- wards that Mr.. Roth, with whom he was talking, had told him that| | that morning a man had come in | saying that he was a friend of Jack’s and that he had séen the hrocade panels in the library and | he was anxious to see if they had | any niore of the material, as he| would like it in his library. He had insisted upon buying a small sample that his wife, who was an Invalid, might see it “Something's gone wrong," Bill said as he hung up the receiver, “That caller you just had was sent here on some mission, cither to find | o[y out what you think of the matter and what you al or else—" nalex planning to do, He stopped and he wouldn't go any further, Ruth. “Go on, go on," sald Jack impa- tently, “No, old chap, I'm not going to do anything of the kind, 1 don't want you to know anything about my theory In this matter, Mrs, Prescott, you can trust your butler, can't you? He seemed honest to me." “He was with my father before T was born.” 1 “I want to instruct him to let no stranger in the house and {f pos. sible to keep out even your Intimate friends for the next twenty-four hours." “Why, what's the matter, Bill?" Jack asked. “Only this, that I would have given $500 to have caught a view | of that man's face, “I am ledving now but I'shall re- turn about 9 o'clock tonight, Would you mind ringing for Benson." When the old butler came in he looked anxiously at me., “Benson, Mr, Laidlaw has some- thing to say to you,” I said, “Yes, Benson, I am leaving Mrs. Prescott in your care. You must not let any person on any excuse what- ever into this house until you let me in tonight about 9 o'clock. T am taking Mr, Prescott with me, When we return T will give you further orders, but until then you are not to allow any person in the house, nor must you let her or I r children out of your sight. Serve her dinner in the nursery.” (Copyright, 1925, NEA Serviee, Inc TOMORROW — This letter con= tinued, Breakfast—Stewed prunes, cereal, 'lemon sance. have enough are cooked to moist can he added o make the pudding slightly mo thin cream, sour milk pancakes, maple sirup, milk, coffee. Luncheon—=8tuffed CRRS greens, raisin bread wiches, carrot pudding, milk, t Dinner §mothered chicken boiled rice, creamed onions, fruit salad,*frozen custard, sponge cake, whole wheat bread, milk, coffee. Radishes and celery might be served with chicken. In this case the salad should be ecrved as a separate course accompanied by crackers of some sort With the exception of the pan- cakes there are no dishes suggesied on this day's menu that may not be served 1o a child of four with dis- cretion, with sand- a. beet | Carrot Pudding One bunch new carrots, 2 cups bread erumbs from soft part of loaf, 1-3 cup bufter, 6 cup sugar, 1-4 pound candied cherries, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon cinmamon, 1-4 teaspoon salt. Wash and In slightly salted boiling tender. Rug through a fine sieve. | Cream hutter and beat in sugar. | Add well beaten yolks of eggs and beat mixture well Add bread crumbs, cinnamon, cherries eut in quarfers, salt and carrot pulp. Fold | in the whites of the oggs beafer until stiff and dry. Turn into a mold and steam two hours. Serve with ook er untfl serape carrots, and one-half ' stirred The carrots should water in which they make the pudding However, if necessary, mill: (Copyright, 1925, NEA Serv. Ine.) To Brown Hash To brown hash add two teaspoons of milk and let the hash cook un- until brown on one side, then fold over like an omelet, Will Remove Odor Boil vinegar in any ufensils in which strong smelling foods have bean cooked, and the odor will be removed, That Mushy Look Never let salads stand long after preparing them. Nothing should e wilted or mushy looking. Always Rinse Brushes Always rinse your gcrubbing brushes after each using and dry them in fhe sun, bristles down, Magenta Popular Magenta Is one of the of colors for summer for evening, smartest day or Cleaning Fine Wood Kerosene ofl is useful for clean- ing polished woods that would bs injured by soaps containing alkalies, there somewh was a nigger in the woodpile her mother exclaimed. ! “You don't like to do housework, and you've heen quarreling with Dick about it “I have not!’ from the floor. his stenographer, if you know! And he treats me as if 1| were his old maid aunt!” Gloria “He's in jumped up Jove with all that,” | his stenographer,” | the Kitehen wiih it “Oh, 1 guess it's not as had as she said comfortably. “A man doesn’t wait till he's thirty to marry the wrong woman.” CERCH A She Jaid her hands on Gloria's want to | graceful shoulders, “And even if he were {n love with * she saild solemn- Placidly Mrs. Gordon picked up | ly, “your job would be to win him straight back home, and settle down | the tray of dishes and went out into | back. . . . Gloria. That's marriage. I's no bed of roses.” parted two people wha loved standings, to Dick. You've just at " ‘For better, for worse,’ Gloria stood as silent as a statue. In her ears she could hear her own voice repedting the words after the minister, as she had stood in that very room on her wedding day. . “For better, for poorer . for worse, for richer, . till death do us part.” Ah, there were other things that had once each other ». ., misunder- pettiness. . . . “All right, I'l go home!” Gloria said suddenly. “By jinks, I'll make things them to! If it kills me!" turn out the way I want Her mother laugheq at her flerce- ness, “It won't kill you,” she said. “IUIl be the saving of you, Baby. You haven't been a real wife yet. been playing (To Be Continued)