New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1925, Page 4

Wife’s Confessional Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE nervousnest cted th been mistaken had seen fear wonder made E nd The Ruse by Which Madge Pockets a Possible Bit of Evidence in my belief in his eyes me el shaken, n of the Stephen G up st possil or all that and sudden Always in thi 1un who clain u, 1 seem blank have watched ywly than 1 did the J to be Dicky's told him that of Stephen Gra- cd to be am was the exhibit 1 was most in- to he the Was his reaction mar would be ins 1T wore na anyone vho claim hrother when 1 death ¢ riificate ul come a 1 to Le, A comnient jifferent to the stor. 1 did not quite un- pulled ud wy own impulse in asking Keen but w re flas read s something which I 1 ar, 1 realized that brain I had held his that th sand? Ever though was Kin to my hus t revolted yet—— 1an in Against the one done in myself together, hopin fixed upon m momentary di reception of n 15k eye en th my mistaker 1 not trying t ing. burden of itity 18 upon your mine, I am to lis eyes cvidence, If you haye the im- 1o show let and in addi- “I have knowledge of st of ban snapped, rother, he was a im In the fraction of a secoud he ecome inscrutable 1 of the angry in- which 1 expected he ga\e a mocking little laugh. “Let Me Give You Advice” ‘What are you trying to put over — the third degree he asked. I.st nie give you a plece of advice, without charge, absolutely free ittle present from yours tr Graham.” He emphasized he name, stressing each ingeringly. “It won't be of the rightest to you to try anything on me like that. In the first place pardon me — you probably fancy vourself as a gr det-ec-a-tuff, but ou lack technique. Also you lack: he rubber hose and the bunch of seys that are so persuasive in the sands of ths police station dicks. No, no, it won't do. You've hatched a great little idea in that bean of vours — 1 could see it peeping through the shell — but it will die the brooder, I'm telling you. I nay be a great many things, bue I'm not vet a suicide. I haven't umped mysclf off yet, anxious as vou are to prove that I've murdered coneealed the body and stolen my o®n papers. He was so nonchalant, lutely free from any trace am an e shoulders, \en- here examine you were it occupy me me look at enough to of 1l his 04 nature suddenly, and 1 realized t had expected me o show e} at his levity, and was ecause 1 apparently ostor I tho q ight him guilty h [ ye tion had any afternoo he my leayin aster of s¢ ha contro 5 his eyes azain zrin pointed nshak had given me of his identity uSteve” Becomes Careless “Then I would hetter get at the immediately,” 1 returned impe; turbably. He muttered something under h breath, and thrusting his again fnto the envelope drew vective Stephen is irritation he abandoned the d theration of movement that been his, and because of it dropped to the ground unheeded ly I set my foot the bit paper. The next second 1 my handkerchief and chalantly to recover it. In the never-to-be-forgotten upon bent spent hours practicing the manoet der one's shoe, shiclded by the e to get the tiny envelope inside n handkerchlef and rise again, thrus ing both into the pock (Copyright, 19 by ature myself, t of my coa N Inc.) 50 ‘abso- of tha' which I thought 1 had | 1 wondered if 1 had | wall, said cold- disap- | was n at the proofs he already out several photographs and letters. In [she owns any oth had there | vre of retrieving a bit of paper un- pedient of a dropped handkerchief. | and it was but ths work of a second | Here 1s a frock of black crepe | embroidered with conventlonal de- signs in bright colored wools that s worn with a cape of the same ma- terial, fringed i wool. The frock is @ straightline wodel, with a round neckline and no slecves, and (he | scar may be worn with the point at the front or the back, to suit the 1| fancy of the wearer. e ly is | a is ry | e 8 re 5- 1y ir not ir anything mora | he | 8 | at - | - &M m | r- The bractlet used to be the sym- | hol of bondage, but not so today. b is| The smart wornan wears both arms hana | cluttered with jewelled and carved gold bands and doesn't care whether jewelry. They lend wdor that in- trigues. barbaric tiny, soiled calling card. The breeze | wafteq it heside me, and instinctive- of dropped non- ¥s of our war work, Lilllan and I had - Breakast real, thin ¢ maple sirup, uncheon gus, lettuce fluff wi Din imp ce- prur X- | French t milk coffee, eon aspara raspherry ny | t- calke, milk, tea roast of b wit 1y whipped cream cookies The Advertures o RaggedyAun and ed A“A by 3o gy e,m“e 4 whole w The eat bre coffee sted milk, spbe for like wherry fluff While a child unde age should not the dumpling of the meat bage, jelly a and butter 2 The aspa but i mal Two cups Luncheon family, aspa Asparazus ead crumbs, minu ik if crumbs nece 1 prepared I R serape tes, may on with salt, ) ssary n ot oven and aspara Cool ant half-inch s, add to make or 7S un th aspara I-buttered mold Sery ! Where are you two Rag-|foot on each magic scooter, Then loud he cried sec Ann and Rag- Andy rode their maglcal cooters through the deep, deep woods. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy brought fheir magical scoot- ers 1o a stop and replied as a larg fat man walked out of the bushes “Why! We have been adventuring hrough the deep deep woods for |log. But magic scooters, W hree years and now we are going | run nicel not “We shall sce about nstead of be fat man cried as he c e same side of the rag dolls by their arms. ers ran around wish to go home, you can just come | scraped the fat man off ti along with me!” and made him drop t “But you don't understandi” THED. ggedy Ann said, “We wish to go '°°* rome! We do not care to go to your | PO ! { away through ,":‘r.nr. fat man sat Tes, 1 do understal e man said do no You see,” he explained ake you to my an make me a lot Potato chips re v re cooked ¢ The Raggedys twisted and sled and wiggled ab but 1an was much 100 strong for the ‘Tl just see if I ride your magic “Then T shall not of walking! It's a n 1 carry you! I olls going? voice ma ) a ©d as Raggedy and the two ic scooters b woods “Licki fat op t making ti Ar came to a large not know scooters, 80 scooters hop over t 3 to make them hoth go around 1t log ow instead of still ar ust wh g both sides before e R eir sco! the the rstand!” the “You twig the fat upo So the fat m aggedy Ann's cooter was not rry such a fat Less seel” How can I arrang Raggedy And magi s treat zan % man he The fat man =at amd rubbed upon man most orgot you get you fa T a soon as scooters, me leave fool me that you I guess you put one scooter and one foot Andy’'s scooter. magic enough azy man Wke each arm and put onel upon my Reggedy Save arge the npon twe carry fat gedy under HORIZONTAL his Lipsticks make men see red. FLADIDER WIIFE Beatrice Burton © 102 wea smvics e THE STORY SO FAR: "pl'nm‘hlul eyes upon her, Gloria Gordon, beautiful flapper,| “We're going to name her Dor- marries Dick Gpegory, a struggling | cas, of course,”” Lulu sald, “Why, lawyer, Her l«lvl of marriage 18 fun|she's the living image of Mgther and fine clothes . but no work .+ hair and cyes, and all!” or children, She refuses to work and hires a housemaid, But Dick has to let the mald go, for Gloria has swamped | well, liim with debts. | LB RS She becomes infatuated with Glorla was afrald of Aunt Dorea: Stanley Wayburn, an out-of-work | “I do hope she doesn't get started actor, and follows him to New York.| on me and Dick, again.," she eald But he spurns her. Then she tries | prayerfully to herself, as she ate to get a job as a chorus girl and | the hot cherry ple that followed the falls, Discouraged, she comes hon meal, to Dick, He takes her baek, but not But she soon found out that what wife The mily had really beg gether for, was « counsel. Aunt with Dorcas, with her finest military air, And took the floor the minute they were and all settled in the living room. “Your mother fells me you've gone back to work, Gloria,” she be- gan severely, “What's the meaning of that? Gloria drew in her breath, shouldn't T work, Aunt she “I'm used to working." “Doesn't this young Gregory in- tend to give you a red cent?” Aunt Dorcas went on with her investiga- tion, fe's sent me money .., but I zave It back to him. I didn’t want it,”" Gloria answered in a low tone, She conld feel her checks. 15 Lo suspect his that he croetary, Susan the breach 11((“’!!‘“‘ husband wife widens daily | Gloria discovers that Miss Brig | is in love with Dick. She orders him to discharge his scerctary, and when he refuses leaves him, Dick sends her $50 weekly, but® she returns it to him and gets a job ag stenographer for Ulysses X. Forgan, & wealthy re tor, But Forgan makes love to her, | and she glves up her position, iloria’s family, lieaded by Aunt Doreas, decide to have & counsel to | sctile her tangled affairs for her. Not knowing this, Glorla goes with her father and mother 10 Aunt Dor- cas' house for Sunday dinner. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Dick walked slowly into the hall. He picked up the telephone and gave the familiar number of the Gordon home, He could hear Cen-! tral ringing it v 2 Then, resolutely, he snapped {he receiver back on its hook, and set the little instrument down on the table it2" her aunt prodded her. “Don't He stood there looking at it. With you rcalize that it's no more than his hand to his lips, he right that you should take his pressed Gloria's handkerchief hard money. You're his wite!” against them. .. . THat bit of cam- “Yes, and if Gloria divorces Dick bric seemed to hold some of the she ought to get good, fat ali- fragrance her in its scented mony!" Cousin ILmlu broke in folds. Her hair had smelled of mi- shrilly. “She’s a fool not to start | mosa flowers, suit tomorrow!" Dick put Gloria felt her mother's tender, the telephone. But suddenly, he' wounded eyes pass over her, She | snatehed it b as ¥ the littic| heard her voice, soft and low after black instrument had been flame. Aunt Dorcas’ strident tones. There was subdued panic in the “No, there won't be any divorce,” ! speed with which he snapped off | that soft voice said. “Such a thing the lights, and left the house. e !as divorce has never been in this flung himself into the little blue! family. . . car, and backed it down the drive- | Gloria to do that I can se Wiy “1f 7'd stayed a minute There are scveral things she can I'd have called her up do!" declared Aunt Doreas. She was told ler to come!” he sald, disgust-'like a lawyer giving an opinon. Ay nimself, as the car rolled | “She can sue young Gregory for along the road alimony. Or &he can go back to him, He took out his watch and looked | it she wants to.” it. Ten Tao early | 5ne b g0 to hed on a moonlit night this is in lov Briggs. “Why sked. disgust. “Well, you are easy!" she exclaimed, “to let a man treat you the way Dick Gregory has. . . . And then to let him go scot-free with- out giving you any money at alll You are a ninny!" Gloria said nothing “What are you going to do ahout raised of out his hand again for longer. to f, at o' t| to - | ik 1 He dar) She stappe risen, and stood | with fiery cheeks were too bright. “Haven't 1 told you befor that's the one thing I can't do!" she cried out. “I've heen on my knees | to Dick to take me back, if you { must know! And he won't have my back! He's sick ,and tired of me! TDon't I know ¥ Aunt Greg. blond head, suddenly. Gloria had facing them and eyes that 5 the drove aimlessly around trees made Wlows along the sides . . .| Lover's Lanesto- moon that had' looked down on the loyers of Baby- Xineveh looked down on the that were abroad fonight Two, & Man and reets where the that every cet a y | night! Fame L1 lon an e couple t fmmortal a Girl v nodded her large And hen there's more to this affair of yours than snybody knows,” she remarkeq sagely. “Peo. ple don't separate unless one of 'em is in love with somebody else. . .” 8he studied Gloria with her blue eyes, as it she I lier thoughts If only she her long enough girl knes couldn’t bear in the room a moment longer. was none of her aunt's husiness whether she took money from Dick AN o carned At typewriting? . And it certainly was nohody's af- fair whether she lived with Dick, bt and 3 She looked almost withouit himself turning where Gloria Jived. known all along he was go- sur- Dick strect He passed house, with his ad of hira. Rut ywn the street, he turned and looked back at the = outlines of it. T to 1 t in the window of Glo- promine conld rea looked at cs straight akb halfway Jpanie she gray, binrred ore was a ria’s room. The b Almost s ) Its hrakes sereamed ness of the streef, it shot forward Tts tail-light wink- evil eye as it turned suddenly flight a small his hers, 0 from her aunt to her stile eyes, “They nt 16 help me, anyway herself the brutal truth, ust want to find out all my 50 they can talk me r afterward.” - he turncd swiftly toward the doorway that led out inte the dich ho . “I've got to mo.” vildly. “I promised May I'd go for a walk with cousin 1 don't I with h told “They ay for bhed herself in the mir- was the good of all wondered, 1o see iL? ight just as wc red gold in all its And her mouth shaped for kisses, grown tired of kissing ria turned away her couldn’'t sce her car it was «he stood iness aiq be ur her 1t the May pr aguin! Oh, well, what if they that 1 fibbed to them ?" she wasn't until she « ot sidewalk that she realized Seymonr wasn't in town Jly never would be in on that town she do know up her hand, and turncd \Bought. shi. with a vicious little icn she lay down on to sleep. It before ehe fin- morning dawned to the v dropping rain oa her window. downstairs, through norning hush of the brought in the newsja- lelp Wanted” *colur re what she wanted quickly through them two or three that look- 4 go downtown noruing, and fing That was the To keep from | the | er mother mo Kitchen, ricd downstairs to for break berries and toa Mrs. G Doreas dinners 100 m much I thought,” Your Aunt dich big shudder, Glovla remcm- going to Aunt dinner! they went Au aud beaming, her best mann « House. Undie Henry, od behind her, lead of the House, Aunt orp behind the | ed roasted e Aunt [ s sbe hey were or el ace vea reas a ed.. just always amily car 1 and her young 1 were there, 100. explained, was t pstairs on Aunt Dor- you going ed innoce to ntly Aunt Dorcas tarned ve- | name the blood rising to | Aunt Dorcas looked at her with | There isn’t anything for Letter from Mrs, Mary Alden Pres- cott to John Alden Prescott My Dear Son: 1 have been muuh‘ annoyed and chagrined by seeing | s0 much about your affalrs in the | has always been considered a dis- | | grace to see the names of any of |the ladies of the Prescott family | bandied about in a @ewspaper, | | You know I am an old-!glhlonbdi woman, John, and I do not care for notoriety of any kind, | In my telegram to you last week, | 1 intimated that it would be a good | | T am wdvising you that, It by any | possibility sho ever gets them back, | | you sell them. Five hundred lhcu-i #and dollars, my son, 48 more money | than any of us ever had as far back | ;ul our history goes and to 1h|nk; that your wife has that much money tied up a baubles to wear around her neck is a sin, So that Ellington girl Is dead, It was a good thing. There was al- ways bad blood in that family. Mrs. | Burke couldn’t Ilve with the brother and why she should take the sister |anto her house and pass her off on you is more than I can zolve. She! | probably found she could not keep her herself. i There was a very romantic story in the papers to the effect that Miss | Ellington died because she would | not tell where Leslie's pearls were . | Gossip’s Corner To Discourage Moths Wrap your woolen garments in newspapers putting moth balls in the folds, and pack away for: the summer in covered boxes. Printers’ ink s very obnoxious to moths. Those Rust Stalns Remove iron rust stains by wet- ting them with lemon juice and salt and letting them dry in the sunshine. Try an Ofl Rub If a black straw hat has become dusty and gray, brush it thoroughly !with a piece of flannel that has been slightly: oiled with vaseline. FABLES oN 1 hardly think this_can be true, since you have not found them, If that were trug she would have man. aged to tell you where they are. My opinion 1s that the man who got Once more Aunt Dorcas beamed, | PAPers of late, It scems to me that away has the jewels and 1 thought Even The Baby had deferred to her| I do not pick up a paper without | s0 even before the police gave it as Head of the House. And all was Seeing Leslie's name. Until now it | as their verdict, I don't think 1 shall come to you just mow, I find It very pleasant here. My rooms are comfortable, ! have become used to Miss Ander- son and she does not worry me. Mr, Orson Gibson whom you met in Al- bany, takes me to church and con- certs and other entertainments which 1 consider respectable and come to- | !NINg If Leslle sold those pearls and | uppropriate for a lady of my years and position, J need some new clothes, Per« Bags you had better sond Miss An< @agson a check and Jet us go into Mew York to do some shopping. Mr. Gibson is going down next week. I think perhaps $500 will do, Now, son, all that I can say is, that#hs soon as you have gotten out of this mess, tell Leslle not to get you Into another, As roon as things settle down again, 1 will come over and see the new houss, But you know young children always worry me a good deal, Sincerely your mothegy Mary Alden Presest (Copyright, Ine.) TOMORROW — Letter from Ruth Burke to Leslio Prescott, A New Complexion Colored straw hats that have faded may made like new by coloring with an oil paint thinned to the right shade and made the consistency of gasoline, The Regal Color There is a decided vogue for pur- ple. Not only the purple hat and frock, but the purple coat is fea tured in the smart shops. Borders on Negligees Bordered silks are used very ef- fectively this year for dresses and also for negligees. y Those Tan Shades Due to the popularity of beige, one sees much brown and tan foet- wear, and combinations of the twe | shades in the same pump. HEALTH: |HERE’S HELP FOR INSECT BITES relieve {cansed by the bites of insects such as ants, spiders, bedbugs and mos- lquitoes, use carbolie acid, one-half ldram: glyeerine, three grams, and |rose water sufficient to make three ounces. [ Mix the solution and apply freely to the hite or =ting | Mosauito Dites are often rank | poison, especially upon the delicate flesh of children Discomfort is obviated by rubbing the exposed parts with a mixture of one part ofl of sassafras with five parts of proof alecohel. Every three t To irritation and pain | 'is good for bites of "water or vinegar. or four ho be repeated A paste of haking soda and water spiders and . unless they are of the rnusually virulent 1ype Listerine also is good. Irritation that is cansed in soma persons by mosquito. bites may be 1elieved by the application of ipe- cuanha, made info a paste with Purchase the ipe- t the drug store. ammonia water, ojl. ralt jodine other remedies for insect biter. slight rubbing must other insect cuzanha Wealk water or are fariously. everyone's b “Teople who siness don't truth. . . > But she hated herself for lying. S pry into deserve the She walked slowly away from the house where The Family were still holding their counsel, She imagined her Aunt Dorcas’ rich voice saying “Well, Gloria’s having at old Aunt Fanny to call the ‘high strikes!' She's always so excltable, Can't talk over anything calmly! Glad of her escape, and soothed by her lang walk in the sunshine, Gloria furned into Walnut Hill park There were the usual Sunday crowds here, scallering newspapers, bread-crusts and egg-shells from their pienic baskets on the yellow- green grass. With blindin w nsed her eves ground on the dusty, walked on through the intense midsummer heat. At last she found an empty bench under a licac tree, and sank down upon it, exhausted. She, closed her eyes. + .+ « | She dreamed that she was in the hall of her own house her | house and Dick's . . . and that he was there with her. between them, there seemed to be a high way of fog And in her dream, Gloria tryipg to pull the wall \own Dick watched her gravely, inst as he might have stood, look- ing at her, had the dream been life, freelf, The of his nearness was 80 real to Gloria that when she wak- ened and opened her eyes, sudden- Iy, she startled hy the man who stood beside her beneh, It was Dick, himsgeif! “Ton!" Gloria suid to him, thick- “1 was just dreaming abont you. I gucss 1 was asleep.” “You guess you were? You know vou were!" Dick answered. “If I'd been a thicf T could have got away with this.” He handed-her the Iit- tle bead bag which had dropped to the ground. “1 suppose it's full of your week's wages,” he added, dropping down onto the bench, beside her. “Or, didn't you get a job? Were Jou just bluffing me when you said you were soing back to work?” (To Be Continued) Rut was while sense wasn't 15 “Were you just bluffing me when you said you were going back to work?”