New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 24, 1925, Page 4

A Wife's Confessional Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE usteve” Tells Madge He Is Count| on Her Squarencss to Aid Him was such cocksurcness in manner as he made his reference to Dicky's pleas- his “ex-con relative,” it was time to drop dling him and use for a change. time I have ard you refer to yourself as an conviet,” T said, Do you fancy so ignorant that 1 do not know to you it 1 ut t olice on your » 1 am aware that this s the ral country in the world t of criminals, but blackmallin 19 still quite ' There VR Cat ought gloves in k knuckles That Is the ure in that 1 t gecond happe an one on woman which tsn't yourself,” he saw that had pr c pon him u ‘old and feeble. what 1 . you sla udaciously, v words there is but \ pursue, and it is my judgment has coun- along. It is all wrong for gotiating with you. My who should be iming to be mother-in- see you necessary selled to be 1 usband is t aling with a man c brother. For my aw's sake 1 consented t hoping it would be to bring her son into it, But I can further He Will Be Prepared ly know his address 1f you do not, 1 will zive it to you, now. But I warn yau that I shall at once telephonc him \he whole story and he will be pre- pared for your arrival. He also will and I am afraid extremely un- It you are him in the cd to me a few minutes ago, by having him attack vou, you will find yourself at sea, ‘or T shall advise him of vour plan, that he may have the police dy for you."” I turned away an air of finality, would small size of t ing, The next in most skipped a bea for there was a distinctly concllia- tory mnote in “Steve's voice, though his words betrayed no hint that he was other than the man he claimed to be. “Now what's the use of all this e one not go no “You in New York. proba ang have be ter vou pleas time counting wrong, as 3 so him, with hoping that he to estimate the Juft 1 was mak- nt my pulses a with triump} from | blusteringly, other? he You know as well as 1 do that I'm not anxlous to get Into a with the cops up as a side dish know something else, slanging ecach with probubly But we too, You don't want me to go to him for the old lady's sake, else, as you sail before, you wouldn't be here at all So why can't ave talk sensibly” “1'll admit you got my*goat wher vou talked in that Mount Evercst manner of yours about ting me a positic and givir aid. But 1 ought to know your You've lived tops so long tl sel Lody But you' common sense counting on you this thing when you get to mull it over. Just now y sessed by the idea that I'r postor 1 Stephen Graham when you finally malke your mind, as you will, that I'n the re thing, T can feel that you enough to see that 1 Why, blast it all.” I fine frenzy, “a good my old man -law to my mother." My triumph at the manner 1 had induced In him was short-lived, for If belief in his own cause did not sound in hi volce, then he was a more clever actor than I had ever seen upon the stage. But out of all his specch discouraging to my hopes, 1 picked up and fileq away one thing. It would be a comparatively ¢ ter, 1 thought, to check that his own mother's mon formed part of the elder Gr ate. For the present, wild to get aw 1 amine the creted — ur d, 1 when Therefore, I my less arbitrary when I answered him. “I am ly willing to for my il a from today, after examination to which Ay to submit, 1 will monéy, The Chine ing 1t for me, so I will ca With opposite m tiny carve given me & practiced, row brother, served both 1t top temporary that's just on the mou you can't valleys. way ane im But who to al square my rights. rished willed in & the your longed money motl originally coneiliatory sincere 50 how hoped — it voice ropped made own final u weel willing arc get you now. a wary upon Ter | Copy "eature Service, The AAv(e(\\’ruresJAKaggedyAnn é - i a?%y Gynle“‘: 4 .5 ; ‘lgy.‘o Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy| sat upon the floor in the fat man’s kitchen and felt very sad. It was enough to make any one | feel sad. They wished to get home as quick- Iy as possible and now, the fat man had captured them and had them tied to the legs of the kitchen table 50 they could not escan The Raggedys tried to think of a way to eescape, hut, even when Rag- gedy Ann ripped the stiches out of her rag head trying to think of a| plan, they still had to sit there and not find a way out of their difficulty. The fat man had eaten so many of the lovely potato chips Raggedy Ann had cooked for him, he 4 fallen | asleep and he did not awake until the Grocery boy came stomping up- on the back porch and brought the groceries. And maybe man | would not have awakened, but the srocery boy, who was no different the door with his foot and knocked down the lagge tub and wash boiler on the back porch, n banged upon tthe door with his foot and knocked three glasses a water pitcher from t kitchen table and broke them. This was enough to awaken even a fat person. “Now vou can s ing potatoes for cook for me! gedy Andy. Raggedy Ann and Raggedy An both thou, had eater t the f. then, the fat rt right in peel Ann the fa t the fat n chips, b the pot ed, the fat man said, “Now I s take the potato chips over to Cousin Willie's house and we will have nice dinner; Willie and 1. You R gedys are stuffed with cotton, 50 you 30 not need anything to eat!" Of course, this was quite Raggedys did not need an sat but they liked the fat n | Cousin W doughnuts and eream cream cones and other the same. When the fat man had go s pe ips to ‘ lie, Raggedy A gedy Andy! How think to cut the strings we with and escape!” Raggedy Andy wondered why 1) had not thought of he said nothing as and he and Rag of the fat r just rescued from the thing silly he cut .t Ant 1 and Cous sailing away do “Where § man shou s fr salt on | Cousin them!" they o en tt aggedys hop ir magic scoot: upon t rs and v sailing av found the R Ann and y came to a cookies growi le spring and oil. graham bread, gingerbread sandwiches, milk, tea Dinner — Hot vea petatoes, asparagus herries, sponge cake rolls, milk, coT The vegetable soup is made with a meat stock and finely minced veg- etables are served in the soup, mak- ing & more “fillin dish than a strained smun Children fonr yeo ag not be aliowed to eat the rolis sug westad in th, Gluner menu, Bread loaf, 4 salad, Parker straw- rhread sandwiches particularly | my puffs and fee DALY FASRION SO PRACTICAL AND NEAT e | For traveling, shopping and gen | eral wear, this frock of navy-blue | flat crepe fills the bill perteetly, Tt | has the new FEton jacket effe 1”!“‘...‘\ by a rippling jabot front [Two wide pleats provida ample { room at the hemline asked | The only thing that keeps some girls out of grand opera | is their voices. Perfeet ymbs a for macu ings in ately clea ammonia water, | To Whiten iten lin 1dd one t To w nif it ) as hecome am of water in rtar to‘each quart of | which you v ‘hem First be hung manedi cen taken from th full of mention of or puzzle to out your er short word this one, especially HORIZONTAIL VERTICAL live in the moun- ek llar and <uff black er hright colors are sho spor Thoroughly Lroidered hdie, Feminine is effeetive frocks of an Fasy to Make ostumes. sets of vibbon in for Good Team Work wit the pri ahot is almost ade, THI. STORY S0 PAR: Gloria Gordon, heautiful flapper, marrles Dick Gregory, a struggling | lawyer, Her idea of marriage is fun and fin clothes . . . but no work| or children, | Sho refuses to do her own work, and hires a housemald, But Dick | has to let the maid go, for Gloria | has swamped him with her debts, Sho infatuated with an out-of-work actor, Stanley W burn, and follows him to New York. | But Lo spurns her. Then she tries 1o got chorus girl and fails, Discournged, she comes home to Dick. He takes her back, but not Nl wife, tloria begins to suspect is in love with lis secretary, Driggs. At last she wrings from Miss Briggs a confession that she is in love with Dick, and insi: that Dick discharge her. When he refuses, sho goes home tg her| mother, Dic becomes joh as a as that he | Miss upon the advice of Mother | Giregory, puts his own house up for | and goes lome to llve with her and his father. He sends Gloria $50 | weckly, but she returns it and goes | o work. Her employer makes love to her and she resigns her position, | €he can't screw up her courage to | go out after another job, Finally she makes up her mind | to go home, Not to her mother's| house, but to her own the louse that Dick wants to sell! 8he | goes to Miss Briggs and demands the key to Miss Bri 1o her, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Gloria flounced out of the office without even thanking Miss Briggs for the key. She put itinte the coin- purse in her bag. and started home, On the porch of her mother's lit- tle house stood an empty baby bug- | filled with soft blue pillows and gives it orfa groaned. “1 suppose Aunt and Cousin Lulu have vopped o for Junch,” she sald to Dioreas 1t seemed face 1 pair ugain . . . with their eyes that scarched her for a sign of weak- n But to her relief, only Lulu s in the living room of- the house, ell.” she greeted Gtorla. “Dia you get over your peeve yesterday?” She glgeled nervoust “All over it Gloria answered, tossing her hat down’on the table stood between the windows. opew handbag stood there, too. was filled with infant's lingeric nursing bottles, into the impossible to hat An It and Gloria went kitchen and slipped info a house dress “ suppose that is the wonderful | Gloria looking at the white bundle in Lulu's arms. her? 1 haven't yet, vou | said, small “May know “sit 1 see down let you hoid crously, Glor {he in that chair and TN Lulu offered gen- sat down in a chair | sunny window and held up her arms for The New Baby. i Lulu la the warm thin fn her arms, and for the first time | that could remember, Glorla | knew what it was like to hold a 1t utterly unlike known, be- compassion in her by all, was had feeling tenderness that ba ever of stirred ing fore ang heart the afraid she when st was And Luln h with u was going 1o smiled up at cyes were wet and starry shed tears, “Luin,” she sald slowly, 1. . .1 should like to have of my own, T think! he bhaby stirred in her arms, laid its wee starfish of a hand her breast, ‘It's a blessing it's got the emotion that “So many of and against hair,” she | airily to hide oked her as billiard down jaby, and gave halls . . 1len-sweet it back to fts m Then sh n upstairs to b she called to Cousin Lulu mother? m | king up some f vours to give to “The poor child annel petti o My women nowadays! want their babies to| any more clothes than they | themselves looked Adre cloth said ade a single or that blessed b ness, the ! she thresh- | Gloria tly poised, on the lig were going to remarked. d and tilted back her I'm golng home, moth- said, her eyes gleaming amber through the thick lashes | them, | turned sharply to- ) Dick 1" asked. “Have you made up with thought you fod she No niother r. “Have you scen ed tell you no fibs,” don't say a word or Aunt Dorcas a t I'm doing. . . . Will you Gloria “ASk 1€ No quesy she to out tions, siid Gloria had telephoned for | 1 of luxunary you're up 1id anxious- | goodby “If Dick I thin} least.” Kissed mother- land yade up with t tell me, at 1 and bhout don't 17 ther her. me ays on shook “1I'd feel Dbetter st what vou're doing. e such wild impulses, Glo- o sald iloria, what herself, she didn’t doing couldn't night under her homesick | home, T know was She v this: that she was going there Jas 1o 1 ypped the taxicab before a on Arch street and in took out the money had earned the before, grocery store went S she week head | it 1) nd bought tomatoes and bread and Tomalo she andwiches and lemon- sald to Mersell, That wes jne of a Scott Fitzgerald novel had caten, while her husband away | at war, “I'm a sort of a war-widow, my- sell,” Gloria added mentall; 1 sup- | pose a family quarrel 1 a war just | as well us one between nationd.” Sho | sighed, dismally, “ e e But her spirits lifted when the | cab turned in at the driveway of | her own house, She turned her head away so that she didn't see the “Ior Sale” sign as they swept past | The house smelled musty. Glorla threw open the windows | and doors, $he took off her hat, and | ran out into the back yard to pick some of the late roses that glowed mong the leaves of the bushes, She filled bowls and vases with | them, and turned on all the lamps in the lving-room. The house be- gan to feel home-like sud happy| again, . . . | There came a sound of footsteps | on the back poreh. | The Donberg twins stood there, | peering in through the screen door. | Their noses were flattened against | the wire netting. | “Hello,” one of them sald. “We're | glad you're liome again. We like you. “Because you're pretty,” other added, solemnly, You mustn't like people because | they're pretty,” Glorfa told them. | “You must like folks because | they're nice and good . . . like your mother." Aren't you <ked one twin, Well, mno.... But I can tell iry storfes” Gloria answered. | Come over tomorrow and Tll tell vou one about a poor girl who was bewitched by an ogre She thought of herself and Stan Waybirn, In his own sleck. dapper way, Stan had been a sort of ogre. He certainly had bewitched her, af- ter a fashion — Oh, well, what was the thinking ahout ft? “Look here, infants.”” she sad, | sddenly, “Run over and ask your mother if T can borrow a piece of iee from her. Just a liftle picce . . . encugh for a pitcher of lemo The pair dashed down the steps, yacing to sce who could reach home first, to be the proud bearer of the borrowed ice, In a few minutes the ping of high hecls across the | porch, The twins' mother stood there, holding a large lump of fce in one hand and a covered plate in ! the other. | “Hello, there,” she called cheer- | fully. “What are you doing here? | T thought and your nice hys- band had away for good.’ “on, 1 back to pack | up some things,” Gloria put her off. | “And 1 thought while L here, | 1'd get a bite to eat.” Mrs. Donberg laughed brought you another bite,” she ¢ uncovering the plate, devil food cake T baked this morning. Mr, Donberg has such a swect tooth! . . . Dessert's the whole meal to him!" the nice and good?" light tap. | ne 0 you gonc just came Some e A month ago Gloria would have sneered inwardly at her neighbor's chatter. But now she listened with interest. . . . She had found out the joy that lies in putting a good meal on the table for a well-loved hus- band! There was as much’ romance in cooking corned-heef-and-cabbage o there was in writing a love letter. It all depended upon the person for whom vou cooked it! “1f 1 hadn't made such a mess things 1 might be getting din ner for Dick myself, right this min- nte waiting for him to coms home,” ghe thought regreffully, she peeled her tomatoes, It wasn't until efter she had eaten her lonely meal and put the dishes of | world does not in | the beautifying breakfast the hero- | Letter from Karl Whitney to Leslie | Prescott My Dear Leslle: T was véry much surprised when Mother Hamlilton came to mo the other day and ask- ed me to look up the life and char- acter of Zoe Ellington, who was at your place, The girl has always me a very beautiful character and, | since Mother Hamilton had not told me about the, visit she had from some mysterious young woms« an in 8witzerland, it all came upon me like lightning from a cledr sky. Everything that girl told Mother Hamllton was true, It seems that seemed to | Zoe had been left without any way | of supporting brother's death, 1 do not think he told her to go to his wife, who is now Mrs. Burke, | for something I have heard makes me feel that Zoe forged the letters! from her brother to Mrs, Burke when she decided to come to Amer. | iea, The jewel bandits evidently sent her on to reconnoiter’and this she was going to do, because from the time that her brother died until she left for Amerfea everyone's hand was against her. 1 can't help but feel sorry for her, ! Leslie, 1 believe that if by any pos- sibility she is found you will learn that she has been trus to you and | 5. A girl with as beautiful a face as she could not be wholly bad. Youswould be very happy if you could sce your mother, Leslie, She has gained in health and spirits at least fifty per cent. She is looking quite like her oid self again, and 1‘; am very proud and happy to be her willing attendant wherever she | wants to go. It gives me a little| glow about the heart wifenever your mother calls me son, 1 think that | 1, too, am getting back where the | seem such a how ing wilderness as 1t did for a long time back, 3 Mother Hamilton and 1 talk a lot about the new baby., It was awful-| ly sweet of you fo call him affer both Sy and myself, T expect his father calls him Syd but .\lollmr) Hamilton and I always speak of him as Karl, 1 hope you will us know if anything develops in regard to the rls and Zoc and Syd. Surely those pearls have been tears for | us all, haven't they? Porh herself after her | 1 away that she began to wonrder why she had come there to the house that scemed still to be alive with Dick. “I ought to go hack to mother's” she told herself, “There’s no point getting soft and sentimental about Dick now, when he hates me. . 1t 1 had any sense I'd divorce him and forget him, T suppose, There must be some one else some. where who could make gne happy.” | But she knew there wasn't any- body who could. She closed and locked the doors and windows of the house, and went upstairs Her own room . .. curtains rustling in the night wind. Ah, it was the sanctuary she needed! Away from sone who would question her or give her ad- vice, Tomorrow she'd brace iip and get a job. She'd face the world, and whatever was ahead of her. Rut tonight she'd stay here, hidden and at pes with its silk ever e She the months be- fore her marriage when she and Dick had come here every day to watch the builders at their work of making a home for just the two of them! She remembered how Dick had watched her as she went aronnd the half-finished house, T ning the furniture that was 'v)‘ go into it. Hc had loved her then!l thought of ps you had better sell them, pep Leslle, "and bulld a hospital te | crippled children or something of that sort, - And yet, if you get them back 1 should Ifke you to keep them long enough for me to be sure that ) d1d not give you someting that has always been a hoodoo to you, 1 was in hopes that this baby would be a girl and might have in- herited the jowels, But perhaps it is for the best, If they are to bring bad luck I wouldn't llke a child of yours ‘to inherit them. Kindest regards to Jack, and love to yoursolf from your mother and me. . Karl. (Copyright, 19 NEA Service, Inc.) TOMORROW — Ietter to Leslie Prescott from Melville Sartorls, e New Stock The narrow stock of figured silk or fancy ribbon s frequently wors with the one-piece dress with the round or square neckline. It gives it the tailored alr that {s so much liked these days. Likewise it adds to an old costume, Could it be possible that he ad no feeling at dll for her now? I'm going to telephone him right now and tell him to come here! I want 1o see him!” Gloria sald sud- denly, moved by an impulse strong- er than herseif. She called the number of the old Gregory residence, “What'll 1 say to him?" she thought in panic, as waited for him to answer. “l haven't any cxcuse for seeing him, have 17" But to her intense relief, it was not Dick’s voice, but Mother Greg- ory’s, that answered the phone. This is Gloria, speaking the girl said. “Is Dick there, please?" “No, he's not!" Mother Gregory's full voice snapped off the words. “He came home to dinner, but he's golle out for the evening, “All right goodby,” faltered. “Wait a minute!”s Mother Greg- ory cried. “I want 1o say a word Gloria. . .. T think you'd not telephone Dick again, no use in keeping him up all the time. ... You have agreed to disngree, and better stick fo it!” hiad no answer, did yon asked, she o, Gloria 1o you, better There's stirred two yow'd Glor “Glo-tee-a, Dick’s mother ment, “Yes," she heard Glorla whisper. And she hung up the receiver, (To Be Continued) hear me?™" after a mo-