New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1925, Page 10

fatatnsaant A Wife’s Confessional | Advle Garrimn's REVELATIONS OF A WIFE - Faces the Bluft of Infurtated Tramp aml Calls Tt ed th Chov Madge the A we roal which Lee for my back Lee Chow ned the whe he tur other y Bow more clear up at t the road darke 1, and witl backward to the shelter he stood like a man a ing ¥ his eyes me to “Look evil the. phemy whick ¢ his throat, you' ) th dicks down on 2 here, they get me, but t ing on me they n before. 1'l throw 'em a present of you with a few bullet holes in yo the chair laughing wher about it, you double- Steve Works Himself He was workir rage, and thou I had been horr something intuitive fright, changed it contemplation of the interview had left at the car we somet that first second thought I had betrayed him to t police, but that in another he } realized his mistake, ar up his mind to profit stinctive frightened reco violence. Therefore I sp imperatively, as I w child. “Stop this at once and me,” I sald, and either my words or my manner were effective, for he cut his epithets short, his mouth ludicro y agape fraction of a second before covered his poise. “I have brou here,” I said slo ough your words and manner convince me thet they are the only people who should deal with you you that a single word more, as you have just been uttering, w close this interview immediately. Your only chance of receiving any consideration whatever for your in- detectiv Decorative flowing slceves with |bands of white crepe and silver [braid make this frock of black flat |crepe origina and striking. The | square neckline has a white collar that s much wider in the back thun in front. Wide pleats at the side Eive 10 necessary fullpess at the am and | heM but Keep the line very straight. matter, iself accord- e e e New Pbase o H2Tissireitessssteestittinntiziaziiizincisssresests manner con- med my suspicion greater st_had heen pure to trighten me, A hed from his ve me was Dangerous som lied other thing: ‘I Represent e PRU TS XN ing v tives in either o not sup- h to come with inter I had been idiot just and that if welled dagger is one of the latest fads of the fashionable woin- It is slipped casually Into the t with idea of being deco- ive rather than deadly. It has a certain swank that is most in- triguing. w be dangerous man d not meant and unwit- word aw the | the i stressed the last speech, and 1 2 | would | ed to start hen, by a 1 himself to- | Chairs May Suffer umbled | Evening slippers to| tapestry or with a | point are see- | el isms was| h the ma: of fine amp of needle- e being intreduced in Paris. d that Signs of a Change low waistline still predomi- but it is not expected to re- main in the lead throughout the season not forget yourself again.” 1 i him coolly, although eve me upon them. 1 almost > strain utting was tense Yor Those Wild Waves An exotic bathing suit of purple taffeta an a mpanying wrap wills was ;T\,\e Adventuresd | of cotton brocade. Kaggedyhm | wa Kagg0dy Andy by Johmy The nice little lady and the nice little man wished Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy to stay in ning little and live them alway but Raggedy eaid, “No thank you, nice k tle lady and man, Raggedy Andy and 1 have been adventuring through the deep, decp filled with fairies and for more than three years an The for y were cottage woods, everything nice Mttle people did not Raggedys to leave, too polite to 8o the nice large basket with gr nuts with extra la ings. Then there were nice cookies and two bottles of ice cold ginger ale The ice cold ginger ale did not stay cold very long though, cause the Raggedys stopped and drank it after they had ridden t gic scooters about a mile. Maybe you have never ridden magic scooters, 80 I must tell you, magic scooters make you just as thirsty for ice cream sodas and other nice things to drink as just plain ordinary every day scooters do. So, the Raggedys had just fin drinking the last of the nice eold ginger ale. before it grew warm, and had put a wooden plug in each bottle to send it float- ing down the brook when up came & queer creature. “Now then!” the Krinkgilly cried; for it truly was a Krinkgilly. “What do you mean by stopping right herc Where I intend sitting down?" “Dear me!" Raggedy Ann replied “Mr. Krinkgilly, we did not kn that you intend sitting down her “We will be glad to move over and let you sit here, Mr. 1y!” Raggedy Andy =aid, stopped to drink our ice co it grew warm Ha Krinkgilly er too late for you to move over n You have already pressed grass where I now, I will take the ice co and drink it!" The Raggedys looked at other in surprise, for it is s to meet anyone who can be as pleasant as a K gedy Andy asked, “Why s a8 good to it where we pressed down the gras: “Because!” the Krinkgilly in & very loud excited tone, “I am made entirely of rubber and blown up very hard, and I do not like to sit any where but on nice soft grass which has not been pressed down! Anyway, that makes no difference What I want now is the ice cold ginger ale and some of thosa large doughnuts which I see sticking out ©oi the basket!™ And, it Raggedy Ann had not put out her hand and stopped him. the Krinkgilly would have reached right inte the basket and taken the doughnu's. “Here.” the lady filled a t big dough- intended Krinkgilly eri *What de you mean by trying t Kkeep me from taking the doug! auts?” And before Raggedy A knew what he intended doing, t Krinkgilly jumped up in the air a came down, “Kerlump!™ right top of Raggedy Amn’s head. T was more than Raggedy And could etapd, #0 he ran as hard as | o Mr. Kriakgilly Sruelle kick as har went him quit bouncir caught up t and hopped on ba goodies their scooters and ord puzzle words. Yt tr fyom the opera to the iy, to coltéct its portion s and definitions. Horizontal cal drama This picture shows just what he 100ks like, Dis To direct a Born meeting Impression Fit To pay for the entertainment g used for basketry ©1924 8y wea sEAVICE M The man I know bought his wife a Chinese cal- endar so she wouldn't be able to mark the bargain sales in advance. meane Vertical orm of often esolve a senten parts Age To mimic . To stop. 6, To seek to attain. To Cuticura Soap to Cleanse Ointment to Heal r new Sha Gossip’s Corner Old Rose and Silver imported frock of rose chif- | of rose An fon has a coat lame trimmed deeper To Best Fruit is most itself at the beginning of a meal or as des and the form of g Fruits and Sweet fruits dates or figs a and starchy sometimes inter tion of the sta with shade of rose, Advantage wholesonie least ling or pie, ch. Mineral sprir Unit . The deep, . Opposite of work. of no Cereals such with cereals re with | | | | | | ‘VI.I\?H:H)H 8. |actor, THE STORY S0 FAR: Glorla Gordon, beautiful flapper, marries Dick Gregory, a struggling lawyer. Her idea of marriage is fun ind fine clothes ., . . but no work or children, like a wise robin, “We—ell, 1 don't know, May," she mused. “Divorce has always seemed a terrible thing to me, . . " No more terrible than the way you're living now!" May answered briskly. “You're neither married nor single!” She refuses 1o do her own house- work and hires a maid. But Dick has to let the maid go. Gloria has Gloria sighed, “I'm awfully lone- swamped him with debts for her ex- some," she said sadly. May got up to go. “Oh, you make {me sick:" she exclaimed, “If T cared {about a man T'll bet I'd make him care about me, . . or know the rea- son why! Why don't you go to Dick and tell him you're going to| divorce him? That'll bring him | She hecomes infatuated with. an Stanley Wayhurn. When he leaves town she follows him to New York. But he spurns her. Then she tries to get a job as a chorus girl and fails. 1%inally she comes home to Dick. He takes her back, but re-|'round fast enough!" fuses to live with her as his wife, thing will do that,” Gloria an- | Gloria begins to suspect that he fs | d, “I tell you he's through | in love with lis sccretary, Susan [With mel I know Dick. .. when he Rriggs. Dick s ont late one [8ays he's through he means it!" night, and Gloria is sure he spent| She sat staring Into space while the evening with Miss Briggs. But|May telephoned for a taxicab to next day she learns that he was at |take herself and her bags down to the home of Dr. John Seyomur, who |the hotel. had shot himself hecause of a love [ She drew a long hreath of pure affair between his wife, May, and |relief when May had gone, and she i Carawe stood alone in the house once more The breach hetween Dick and |- - . the dear, famillar house. Gloria widens. Gloria packs up and iloria hated fo leave it. She had leaves him, finally.” One afternoon, |told May it was *spooky Tt was filled with homesickness, she breaks (N0t “spooky” . . . except that it was into the house she has left. While |hauntéd with memory, Gloria could she is there, May Seymour fele- [almost feel Dick with her in the phohes and says shc wants to see |CMpty room. oria. She ran out into the back yard and (NOW picked a bouquet of roses. She put Gloria stood at the window watch- |them in a vase on the table beside ing for May to drive up in her little | Pick's chaif. She drew his little crimson car smoking stand up beside it. There But she came in a taxica was dust on it . . . the driver followed hier up t Gloria wiped it off with her clean carrying two large handkerchief, “Where have you boen all day?” her mother asked her when she walked into the hot little kitchen at 6 o'clock that night. | “Oh ... T don't know. Gadding | | 0O ON WITH THE STO! And | e front traveling instant she set foot in Gloria saw that there was some subtle change in her. She was not the crushed and tearful May of a week ago. around town,' ‘Gloria answered, “T The air of dash and impudence |know I'm dead tired,.." She that had been her chief charm had |dropped down on a chair beside the returned to her. She had reddened |Kitchen table. her lips, and around the collar of | Her mother was hent above the | her soft hlack dress was a row of lit. |§as stove. She was frying veal birds | tle pearls. for supper, the house, | mouth “Don’t look so Her face was flushed. Her hair to Glorla as she into Dick's |curled in little damp wisps around | chair.” T told you 'way last weck |her ears. There was a weary droop | that T was zoing to shake the dust |at the corners of her mouth. of New Byjtain from my shoes, didn't | Gloria jumped up. “I'm going to | 1? L get supper tonight!” she cried, “just | " Gloria nodded, “but 1 had |to show you that T can do it! going so |1l be down in a jiff i She hurried upstairs to the little | should I stay here?’ May [bedroom under tbe cav Tt was | eres nothing for me in [ciose and stuffy, although the one | this burg that I can see! Nothing [Window was opened wide, and the | but a lot of fricnds who've stopped (Muslin curtains looped back. speaking to me ,and a story that I'll | Gloria ripped off her silk drees, never be able to live down. . . .» (and put on her new bungalow apron Where are you going?” Gloria . the apron in which she had | asked, {planned to look so pretty for Dick! May threw out her hands with a| She ran down to the kitchen. Her | agie gesture. New York, London |father had come in. He was sitting . Paris , . . . Bombay knows?" she gsked “Thank heaven, that led to the back porch. T have enough money to keep me| “Today's heen a corker, hasn't| going! Going, going ... that's me|it?” he asked. “I tell you, T thought | only way for me to keep from los- |l Was going to drop dead as I walk- | ing my mind, I across Church street this noon. | . stopped speaking, and stared |The paper said some fellow died of out of the window, as if her cyes [sunstroke. ... " | were filled with long distances al-| “You and mother go out on the | |poreh while T slap this meal to- me, |Bether ,dad,” Gloria said. “Now, | asked suddenly. “That's |COMe on. . . you make mother go! | I came here to ask you .. .|You know she thinks no one but | You know, you'll never go back to |bcrself knows how to do anything Dick now that you've actually left| « - " | him, don't you | Gloria nodded, without a word “Well, then,” May went on, “tel] |She said, him you want some money and come 8001 food along with me. I'm going to stay at “It would be a good thing if I a hotel tonight, and take an carly |91d spofl it tonight.” Gloria an- train in the morning. You could [SWered. “People shouldn’t eat any get ready to go by then, couldn't |thing but salad and green vegetables in weather like this! iloria looked at her thoughtfully, | Alone in the kitchen, she set to The idea tempted her. What was |WOrk. The lettuce was lying in a | this dull town to her, now that she |bow! of water, Gloria cut it up and | had lost Dick? . . . made a French dressing for it.'| “or two pir for two little |Mother Gregory had shown her how rusty bent pins . . T'd go with you, |t0 Mmix the oil and lemon juice to May, said slowly “But, some. |sllken smoothness. how or other, I just can't do it. As| Gloria wondered what Mother ong as Dick's here . . . I've got to |Gregory had ordered for dinner at stay 1 guess . . . " their house tonight. Would Dick be “What I can't understand,” |there with his father and mother? answered ,with a little frown on her |- - - Or would he be dining some- | face, “is how Dick ever happened (Where or other with Susan Briggs? to let you pick up and leave him.” | Gloria wrinkled her forehead. Her eyes questio 2 “Well, T can’t live like this. . . wor- “Oh, 1 guess he just got tired of |TYing myself to death about him all meiiGloria with a break in [the time. Wondering where he is | wanted a home- |and what he's doing,” she told her- And I wasn’t one. I |scMf. “Perhaps May's right. Per- haps 1'd be happier if I divorced Dick. . . " debated the question with herself as she set the meal on the | woman's looks,” Gloria [table. With unseeing eryes she “You can't get them with |Smiled at her mother and father But you've got to hold |When they praised it. something She was looking far away into the | e thing hidden future. What did it 88, led don't you go w Mrs. Gordon hung back. |you don’t know how to cook a meal,” It scems a shame to spoil | * she said her veice. *“He keeping wife. bored him."” ored him? Never f 'M n get tired of noth- of yours She And love and le! You talk about y were babies!"” May %0 1 only grown-up went on th tl ey are! They're children,” Gloria it new wisdom of bangs them on want gomeone to rub them not to mind ant their food right things, just as a hook a solemn from the Flapper, the one ghe eaid what ick And all of anted someone to take someone to who wins rs her man, k that “Don’t kid | you were ever Dick's rarie,” she sald sac “All the playing around you lid was with Stan Wayburn, it seem- ed 1o me i ia flushed. *I know it,” she a 1 know 1 wasn't . .. anything to Dick. I just fell down on my job. No wonder he doesn't any more ” She burst playr ticall ate want me May looked Well, if y with what around here jeve me, T" at her thoughtfully. sure Dick’s through are you sticking * ¢he asked. “Be to see a lawyer so ke your head swim.” Go to sce a lawyer?” Gloria faint What do you you fast it mean “1 mean t a divorce,” May answered. “What's the use of being tied to a man who doesn't care a {snap of his fingers about you? You say Dick doesn't.” Gloria put her head on Who |in his shirtslecves beside the door | 8¢8ted: a woman who had the only man in the world for whom |she cared? . . . held for from Letter from Leslle Prescott to Ruth Burke, Continued Just as I wrote the sentence, “It Is easier to read dgtective storles than to live thém," I heard the horn of the car and ran down the stairs to meet Jack and Syd. Oh, dear, Ruth, you'd have wept it you could have seen Syd, They literally had to carry him up the steps. The men, after gagging and truss- ing him up, had thrown him into this old barn. He says he had be- gun to think that he would be dead before he was found, The ropes had | cut into his wrists and ankles and | his arms had been bound down to his body so tightly they were all black and blue. They had gagged him with a nasty, greasy cloth which had evi- dently been taken out of their tool | i | able part of town and there she left box, Jack told me he fainted, Ruth, when they took these ropes off of him! when the blood courses back into tightly bourfd arms and legs. The men took him into Jack's room, ‘and one of Zoe's nurses was You know how terrible it is | quickly, She ! chivalrous way. delegated to bathe his poor bruised | o} n | he had done so for he would have body. Finally they got him into bed and fed him some beef whigky and egg. This revived him somewhat, and when I came in the room he smiled and held out his hand to me. 1 went over.and Kissed him. His must have been greatly bruised for as my lips touched his, a tremor went all over his body, | although he tried to suppress it, He put his trembling hand out on my arm, but it Breakfast — Stewed prunes, ce- | real, thin cream, crisp toast, milk, coffee, Luncheon — Asparagus on toast, brown bread and butter sandwiches, pineapple sponge, plain cake, milk, Dinner — Rolled flank of beef, mashed potatoes, jellied tomato salad, raspberry shortcake, white bread, milk, coffee. The juice of the raspberries can be given to a child of four but the fruit and the shortcake should not be served to him, With this excep- tion the menus can be used as sug- Pincapple Sponge Two cups finely chopped pineapple, 3-4 cup sugar, 1 cup Wa- FABLES broth, | even his lips paled ‘and his eyes closed., About b o'clock this afternoon, Syd gained enough strength to be able to tell his story, gyd thought the screant that we all had heard was mine and imme- diately he jumped at the conclusion that 1 had gone into the children's room and found something the mat. | ter with the babies. He told us that he had not felt sleepy and was sitting beside his window smoking. He said he had no desire whatever to undress and go to bed. Zou's teléphone conversa- tion that we had overheard, bothe ered him, especially as that night of the party in Albany, it was Syd who took Zoe home. As they start- ed Zoe had asked him if he would drive her to an address she gave him which was in a most disreput- him in the automobile for a few minutes while she entered the door. She came running out, angd told him in a frightened volce to drive on made no explanations his charaeteristically asked for none, He told me that he wished that and saved all of us a great deal of the tragedy that has come, Immediately upon opening his door, there was a sccond scream and a scuffle at the bottom of the stairs. He rushed down passing me as I stood in Zoc's doorway, al- | though he says he did not see me. | ple mixture fresh | ON 25, NEA Bervice, Inc.) TOMORROW -~ This letter con~ (Copyright, 1 as such an effort that | tinued. ter, 1 tablespoon gelatine, whites of 2 cggs. * Use the juice of the pineapple, adding water to make 1 cup. If the fruit is ripe and sweet less sugar will be needed, Add juice and water to pineapple and cook 10 minutes; Sift in sugar and remove from the firo, when the sugar is dissolved. Soften gelatine in cold water for 16 minutes and stir in boiling pineap- as it is removed from the fire, Let stand until cool and beginning to jelly. Iold in the whites of the eggs beaten until stiff and dfy. Turn into a mold and let stand on fice until firm and weil chilled. Serve with a boiled custard made with the yolks of eggs. (Copyright, 1 NEA Service, Inc.) AEALTH KEEP A MEDICINE CABINET Time was when every mother kept a well-supplied medicine cab- inet, and was able to administer “I know first-aid in case of almost every kind of minor injury or aiiment. In addition she gathered roots and herbs from the woods. or culti- vated plants of curafive properties in her yard or garden. Doctors were fewer in those days. | They often lived at a great distance, and with no telephones nor auto- | mobiles it was diffic: to obtain a |doctor on short notice, Times have changed. There are { more physicians, and they are more | efticient sprung up in nearly every lo Corner drug stores have lity. So mothers are lcarning to depend upon the drug store and the doctory, even as they are learning to depend upon the delicatessen stores and the grocery stores for their meals. | brought | about by the change, of course, But Some good has been one is prompted to ask if the drift has not gone too far. No' mother should be ignorant of ! simple remedies for minor injurics to her children. necessa or call |cuts his finger or “stumps” his toe. It should not be to’ run to the drug store he doctor every time Johnny 1 cation f, The medicine cabinet should be reinstated in the home. And the mother should know how and when to use its contents. But—and this is important—be sure that all \ials containing poison are correctly labeled, and that they are kept away from the children, Gilda Gray Obtains Custody of Her Son Milwauk June 17 (P—Gilda who was Marianna Michalski vauk she hecame known as a danc has gained the custody of her son, Martin, 11, in order to give him a university ed- veation, When Gi a divorce from John Gore f ner barten- ler i court gave the 1ild to the father, An affidavit by Mrs. Gil Boag, 1 is Gllda Gray's name in pri- vate life, was filed here with a stip- ulation bet Mrs. Boag and Gorecki Mrs. Boag's affidavit set forth that e mpie an edu- Martin: that she is worth of $10 in her own veen 0 provide in exccs right. separated from Her mother's voice her dream roused “Oh, I forgot,” [nliotont v her [from Dick.” she said in her slow, letter soft voice. “A this afternoon out. I 1t came for you guess (To Be Continued)