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UN HEALTH . [} . ’ : A wlfe S ‘ :Onfessu)nal Don’t Use Anti-Fat Remedies vttt s e Poor digestion and overweight re- [ergy in the hody. It can also be ac [complished by regulation of dict so Statistics have definitely shown [Nt lvss fat is consumed. REVELAT]ONS OF A WIFE A | In reducing weight, however, one hat persons who are overwelght |ghould go at it slowly | when they get past 30 years of life Patent wedicines heralded as m(‘ BS8SSRAESIL I ENEIELANELEINIIISIMIAIMAILLIMAIMMIBAU | )10 Jess chance of living long than removers should not be used. i |bave those who are normal or| They are dangerous and many | sult from overeating. them steady when, in answer to he e or { I rugs brought laughing remark that Dicky was I ! exercise, so as to burn up more en- (Copyright, 1025, NEA Service, Inc.) “the most fascinating thing." I re- 1 looked at her with 3 plied, demurely, that I believed my jap ly troubled expectancy. But husband was very much admirec my was sinfully jubilant. No She was reading me as if T were [hted to ask if 1 had scored. The a primer, in large type compreher visk red flush suffusing Lucia ing the protective armor of ¢ 1ed | Meredith's cheeks, a flush - defying pullelessness which I had set t 1 bracelet-buyers that drape them.|and a stunning black velvet dress selves over the cabaret tables!" in a little shop near the Marlbor- “Well, It that's the way you feel | ough-Blenheim. 0 about him, why don't you go home| "I ought to knock Herby for a and marry him?" May asked, sensi-| &oal in that dress.” she told herself bly. “That's the smart thing to do, 48 she tricd it on It seems to me.” | Tt was eix o'clock when she re- : Francle shook her head, “No,"| turned to her own hotel, 8he was she said, “I went home last year for ! tired, and there were circles under a couple of weeks. I called him up | her eyes. So she telephoned down- i and he came to sce me-—once, | stairs for a cup of bouillon, had a . waited for ten days, but he never| hot bath and went o bed, DEATD‘CE DUDTON @ came again. 1 guess he' was afraid| She was awakened by the ringing . of me—the way 1 talked, and the| of the wall-tclephone in her room, Lucls Meradlinyinthe eld giime . Loyau 868 ¥OU | siightly underwelght e IR s NEA kind of clothes 1 wore, They're pret- | It was broad daylight, and the sun Gl bl p G e : Ol e o st R e A Toonm o i ol MR et IHE STORY 0 FAR: Imour broke in. “I went there one |ty straight-laced out in Mt, Vernon, | was streaming from under the half- ized that as her oddly beautiful € 1 s LBt netdend S Sl el B '\ il T May Seymour, wl husband, night three or four years ago with|you know. IU's a nine c'clock town, | lowered blinds. i ?h" ryhnmiy‘ ,',. ‘ afor i ¢ 1‘ IH\“ ,” mediately begin to rwll:u:. 1-\‘”;‘\‘\m ;:";,‘;‘1 \ Im.mlhf\:;‘::‘\: Dr. John Seymour, killed himself ' my husband." all right!" “Good morning, Merry Widow," tawny depths caught mine 1 1 1 v bl can have pp L e e Ll R S %€ hecnuse of her love affalr with Jim “Well, Adoree noticed that a great She got up and held out her hand vame a deep masculine voice on the Carewe, returns to her home town many*men came alone to the club,” | to May. | teleplione, his is Herbert Water- after a year's absence | Francie went on. “And she -hired| “Forglve me for hanging my|bury. Would you like to motor She comes late one fall night to me and two or three other girls she | hard-luck story on you, won't you?" | over to Philadelphia for lunch with the home of her lawyer, Dick Greg- | knew to sjt at their tables and talk | she asked, smiling. “I really don’t|me and Carlotta? ory. and Gloria, his wife, She tells! to them—entertain them, you know. | know what made me tell it to you | “I'd adore it May's voice thrill- them how the ugly story of her past “I'll say this for Adoree .. .|...I usually keep my troubles to|ed. “When do wo start? has followed her everywhere. And ' sheds like a mother to us. She al. | myself!” “Half an hour. Can you make it2" | 50 she has made up her mind to go | ways sees that we get home safely.| May pressed her hand. “Perhaps Waterbury asked. feet me in the lobby in prezack- stry of her make-up, told me ogainst her attempts to sting me, that 1 in all her social experi- But the realization piqued het enough to make her let slip the poise of breeding on which she prides herself. She permitted her- self a significant, almost rude, glanc around my dismantled living room and hastily turn'ng a switch, ran the train of her conversation on another line, one which she evidently figured would be even more aistasteful to me than listening to bantering rhifpsod- ies over Dicky. “I'm so afraid we have inconver fenced you, coming at this time she said. “I told Hal that he ought to walt until the day he had told | Mrs. Bickett T meant to return. But you ‘know what men are, especially husbands'—again she threw him a coquettish glance which this time he did not answer with a smile. T guessed that he was furious with her for the line she was taking— “and when he found that I had had she experienced a situation this. That a hostess nonchal-- should confess an to ouse for a it was somet S0 unprece nted that for her poise went down bhefore it. And [ knew also that she caught, com- prehended and furiously resented my ipparently guile offer to bring lone of the rugs in for the casing of |her discomfort, She had tried her artistic hest to make me uncomfort- sond or two evel able, and T had turned the tables with a vengeance. “That Is Too Sweet of You" There was nothing for her to do, | however, save to follow my cue, T had left her no opening for resent- ment, but I knew that mentally she |was biting and gouging, her fury tion t T knew exactly what T was doing, and that T was keenly enjoy- | especially heightened by her realiza- | She turns over her house to he sold, to a wealthy widower, Ulysses us meets the men patrons outside the club , , Uraneic's dark eyes grew darker| | | to Europe where no one will know ' And she's made a rule that none ofln'u all come out right in the end, like a fairy tale” she said. "You know . . . that ‘and so they married and lived happily ever after’ stuff A hard look came into Francie's eyes, I'm afraid not,” she answered. fy man's going around with my younger sister, now, they tell me. She's a sweet little kid ... the kind of girl I would have heen, may- be, 'if I'd stayed at home where I belonged. . . . Well, there's no use orying over spilled .milk, is there?” And she was gone. May sat there at the little hlue tahle, staring out at the ocean, her chin cuppéd in her hands, What would ten years of knock- | ing around the world do to her, she wondered. + .+« Ah, but she wasn't going to knock around, from pillar to post! She was going to marry a rich man | and settle down to be a good wife to him! | tarmer? ly thirty minutes!” May laughed. She tingled with happiness that flooded her like sunshine. 8he was all in demure gray when she met Waterbury in the lobhy, “Dressed like a Quakeress, in honor of Philadelphia. 1 sce!” he sald, surveying her from head to feet, “And the ttiest Qualkeress who ever quaked.” “I'm not quaking, thanks!” May answered under her breath, as Car lotta came up to them, followed by | Dan Sprague. Waterbury and she sat in the back seat of Sprague’s long, low Mercedes, as they sped along the smooth highway toward the Quaker City. “I've heard of cows finer than those,” Waterbury remarked, as they passed a wide green field where a heard of Holsteins grazed, “You?" May a . “Are you &, ing dise e rhat Dr. changed my mind and was not going |ing her discomfitLr Wha i : l“‘ly‘thls week, he insisted upon my | Meredith thought of it all 1 could i e e L i e NS coming with im today. But I real- |only confecture, cithough T euested . / / J Waterbury. She sighed as she | field! Waterbury answered. “But I ly feel that we ought to offer you [that he was philosophizing over the i 2 A A thought of last night ... of that|don’t spend much time there. My R A R b heavenly moment when he had held | little daughter likes it. But our real Madge Scores a Point i onism which had manifested it- her in his arm and kissed her. | home is in Brookline. Hore's & pie- Seyit Rl g Sath LG el BT SRR R T “Well,” she mads up her mind, “I | ture of it. He handed May a enap- planned to clean house before her|from the first tonch of our hands Mg e e e OO i e i etey o IR e R e e B ey few clothes. T wonder what his fa-| I didu't know you had a daugh- Flinding, wrathful, T drained my cup | complacent tabby cats. I told myself vorite color is . . | ter,” May exclaimed, drawing away s R i W e e Then she remembered her role of | from him. ' “Now, don't tell me you draught had been an invigorant in- |to spitting, clawing whirlwinds upon Wistful Widow. And she bought a | have a wife, too!” stead of a depressant, T threw up my |crossing each other's paths. N ’ MBIETUow fand skt C"nc'l A head, resolved to give the tantalizing | But Lucia Meredith was speaking. woman opposite me “something to land T brushed aside philosophy to chew on,” in Dicky's atrocious par- [give her courteous attention behoov- lance. |ing a hostess. T accorded her some- wplease don't worry!” T hegged !thing else also, an unwilling admira- her. trying to make my volce sound |tion for the smoothness, the appar- pleadingly ingenuous. “I don't mind |ent cordiality of her voice and man- a bit, if you can put up with things ner as she replied to my suggestion Just hecause this puzzle the way they are. Of course when fof hrin an Il S8 6o dontt s Yol Katherine told me that vou \\:‘x'l-i “That is too sweet of you. Mrs |gng it ea ming and that you knew Dicky, T |G but wholly unnecessary B ::on \':ry much chagrined because |We are delightfully comfortable, HORIZONTAL the house didn’t look as nice as it laren't we, dear?” _ - To have no hope usually does—we have had both m-} But Dr. Meredith's reply, if he f 1_n appease ness and some unusual happenings [made one, was unheard by either of Erne here, you know—and I decided that lus, for Katherine appeared in the t of a fort Tt e as the regular Fall housecleaning |doorway. If the other two occu- her s obby. e A R S e e RS R B e e "[-‘0 “.'"n! t To err X. Forgan. And she begs Dick to|as she paused for a second. e and huffed and blew with all their B Ll SRR RS \10' L - Morindin dye sell her stocks and bonds for what-| “Goodness knows, we never want Helping others is a joy might against Danny Meadow e el e R L 54. To expect ever they will bring. All she wants | to sec them again! We're about Liiphih mingleanolalloy, Monse end hefold Doand loniwnioh The tirst part of the day | she explains, is enough money fo|ready to pass out of the picture —Merry Little Breezes. |he was sitting. At first nothing hap- Paid publicity dress the part of a wealthy widow | after four or five hours of trying to| The Merry Little Breezes of Old | pened, because the old board was . Rhythm, for the next few months, and “land” | dance and talk to a lot of fat old |Mother West Wind came dancingjcaught in those rushes. —[ut the Mistake a rich husband. i'"r"' across the Green Meadows to the|huffed and they puffed and they ik L A week lafer, with $5.000 fn $500| “But. at that, it wouldn't be such | Smiling Pool. They danced out on puffed and they huffed. and they - Ingurance law regarding ships | g yp e ay Roes fo At.|a tough life if it weren't for the|the Smiling Pool and made little|blew with all their might, and by : i ripples all over it. They danced this| and by that board began to move way and that way. They rumpléd |2 little. So then they huffed harder, up the fur of Jerry Muskrat sitting | Puffed harder. and blew harder, and on the Big Rock. They danced | that old board began to move right through the tops of the rushes and | out from amongst those rushes, It cecia . Abject Makes verses To regulate duration . Wooden baseball club May was in demure gray when she met Waterbury in the . Wittieism . Because . Farth . Cantaloupe 29, 8r I bullet for a uns . Interior i VERTICAL lantic Cit rest before sailing | drinking we have to do.” . Door rug Shcurity for B © she meets Car-| May's lips curled at that in a dis- lotta 17 + grass widow, and | dainful smile, Totter from Sally Atherton to Leslie | of courage. T like you.” To lift up Point of compass | | her frien ert Waterbury and | “But you don't have to drink with e iy That's more than I c o for athinets Pl | vou,” I an will be six- Built A them, do you?" she asked. “Not| : Y . 8 el be el ; Jlderly ; 2 Ot | made the latter whisper together, | PeBan to move and it left behind, I felt llke a cat, Leslle, to be | teen or seventeen years, Doctor, be- Fourth note in scale et ot e lomach | They all go 1o Adoree's little sup- | Unless you want to?? And it iU'8|qy .. rookeq Grandfather Frog by | farther and farther behind, Long- thinking all these things about poor | fore little Beatrice—" (the 39, Upon 6. Ransoms per club, ire joined hy Francie | Such a terrible way of living why | o\ o™it Caves roll under the | 1988 the Heron standing stlently on Dick, even while I was trying to calle r rice) “will be able | 40, Hears e tatet (antto Atbetter 1 one of Adores's “hostesses.” | dON't you go back to the stage?” |, "o lily-pad on which he sat. | the shore. And it left hehind Snap- comfort him for his loss. That is to be of yod to the world, and tion) Waterbury ins that such wom-| “Well J did try going back once,” | "7 i S per the Turtle, who hadn't seen why, T expect, 1 am telling it all to| her mother has always been of TS ot ‘rancie said, gloomily turning her B"‘“fia"' D e Ty L I8 annyl Meidon Mouss tandl whs you. T am punishing myself by let- | &reat good not only to Dick but to COLOR CUT-QUTS = Brirance | gancing with unattached men in |&lass around and around: in lher r;fl(fi lflfln;”‘“m'l MI the UPPer| L .cn't at all interested in an old ting you know how very horrid I | others of her friends, and for the . House pet these places | hands. “But there’s so much more | end of the Smiling r‘o\n dsnd\”‘”'fl piece of board. Only the pickerel gixteen " would go ol . - is [ h, ey discove: ‘v Ma v 2 e % » am in my own little inside steen years. il gcon o . Variant of “a" Waterbury asks May fo let him ' money in this hostess job. [{Reclecorerc Sany Nadow ““”" the big fish, lying alongside in the 1t sometimes seems strange to | doing a good work by making the| e a er- pr] e “We gt our tips just as waiters |Sitting motionless and scared halt | (0% € TR OB G ORS00 ey B A bRy | ' know.” she went on frank-| 10 death on the end of a plece of : DGR = me, Leslie dear, that Fate lets me ny HEh O £ side that hoard. The Merry Little specialist 1noked supetior, but Somefimes a party will give a | board caught in the rushes. The ¢ PaeiiYEd a party Y| Breezes saw him swimming alons. » held ont his hand, and T was so Sirl s much as €30 if she's been | Whirled around him and then they| - - ‘ i zirl ¢ 1 t R R ) > o they biew harder than ever, and S S e e nad at him that I ignored it when To. hover bright and entertaining. Of course, | faW Why he. looked scared half to . = 0" 0 5L W0 s Siid hodiby s 1 \ lot of men are tightwads and|death. They saw a big fish called a| . Gt g To rent 2 a lo men a Bl | 4 Danny's raft, began to bob up and Melancholy note 5 Doy | think $10 is enough for talking your | Pickerel in the water alongside that | ) (8 S T80 SNECE > 090 B S g ek / ) & \ feet off | board. That fish was nearly as long ) L5, 0 e ) | head ‘off and dancing your feet off | | Merry Little Breezes made waves. i e S | a8 the board. On the other side they | N *T¥ Liltle Breeses made wates | = % e v hegan to feel as if he were ing that probably Bee might have “There's one man who comes | saw the head of Snapper. the Snap- | oo;p "1 % g down inside and he e Rad et htent an eaaanlinmin P e | g ) down here sometimes with some of | Ping Turtle, and then they discor- | E00E 1P 4R SO WS BF vou will understand g s .\ ho members of his law firm. And |ered on the shore, in back of Dan- ¢ rtable at all, | f fishes % jhesmembersiotphintianaiiim pan ; But Danny and his raft were mov- ritten 3 . ' \ ; he gave me this."” ny, Longlegs the Heron, standing o nionout t thing good to eat to come within| !¢ Middle of the Smiling Pool | presently that pickerel was no long- | en as Francic earn their living by 2. Came out into view Solitary stay in this world. I'm not p Home Jarly lovable, and T certainly h now that Bee is gone. Why should Fate still give me life while it takes I presun Leslie, that T shall Bee away, leaving a child behind? | miss Bee than anyone else, The specialist told me this mor e way I could unbur my A ol fore the child was born would have cost t child. He suppose [ ers would ratl 7 the diamond bracelet upon it ; live than his wife yoked at ) >robably 1 | . 3 T % | “That is, he gave me one like it,”reacn. | er alongside. The Merry Li e dancne o : s el e i ‘ S et / . e elol T hed: (o puwin tho real|| 1iGoodnessitiexclaimedl ihosMer | (CE D SlonEslde, The Shlery LIe ; ) | ; : d Y Z o ¢ Little Breezes and whirled away | Breezes were blowing Danny away that anyone 0 co lone a whils ago. when 1 was stong | Ty ) LR londe Inias ) ! e 1 about | ] - \% Proke. | But Tl get it back, 1 sup-|over onto the Green Meadows to (rom his nemied, They hufted and b m‘\,,, ;» E : e | n = f TOKe. & it 3 talk it over. | they puffed and they puffed and “Why, don't : ‘ : althoug : el ; pos = they blew and they hlew and pres- it b3 ol 5 . gave May a narrow lo “How under the sun did Danny | {N" 3 He answered 1ve ne : r 47 Porti h } ‘ She gave May a narrow look b DaBns| ently Danny and his raft had passed i AT e orl Meadow Mouse ever get out there?” | ; ; I suppose you're wondering what B | the Big Rock and was drawing nearer to the other side of the Smiling Pool. There were some big ried 1 thought, ¥ 1e back T thought f 1 | ) ¢ of the comment. “It may t sort of a girl I am, to take presents | exclaimed one. | from a man,” she said calmly. And,| *“T don’t know how he got there, | a man of s o degree arrying on part prefer a neart in him.” The spert frs. Ath Men S A o fami 3\ f“‘\\ *{::p v’:\ f TOMORROW — Letter from Les- Iie Prescott to sally Atherton SISTEs. \ (L omf e MARY Apple Snow 1 w Wash and bake apples frult from sk and A through & One sieve. Reat in « Beat whites of » anloain dry oz & piaiter. u a wire owly ad! sweetened apple beating senstantly. Chill 204 se g 1.ke a Beecham's p you regularand chock { energe. Get a box today BEECHAM'S PILLS ly Gossip’s rrror will appear.) ring memorization Sins Negative Mother With the Tailleur tor the Large Hat Jetter Than Black ht blue is a very Corner E bow: of ‘bls 060 for her, but \fay refuses to give it up. However she promises to put It in the hotel kes love to her, that she is in with hir e morning after the party at Adorec’s she buys a $600 black pearl ring on her at a hoardw ant here she meets Fran and Franc Is her that be a “host i e most terrible job in the world (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) | Before T tell you anything about nyself. 1'd like to ask you a ques- Francie Lee hegan, “How old you think T am?"* narrowed her eyes and look- the face opposite her as an fist might have studied his model e's pale sk s drawn eves. The old. They | ) had seen every- hir is to see, and had from too much strain Belov 1 I inder the chin ning of the was no gray it did not healthy hair # was su e8s that she gave to breakfast | 1s a matter of fact, May was won- dering that very thing. “Well, I'm just as decent as 1 was when 1 left Mt. Vernon, Ohio, ten years ago,” Francie went on. “But just the samey, I figure that if any-| body's around passing out diamond | bracelets, I've a perfect right to one or two of them, myself!"” She looked meditatively at May for a moment and her eyes soften- Fver been in Mt. Vernon?" she asked. May shook her head “Prettiest little country town in the world,” Francie said quietly. “All green lawns and white houses . and church belis on Sunday night. You know the kind of town 1 mean, don’t you? “Well, I sang in the choir of our church, and everybody said I had a! So I made up my mind to go w York to go on the stage. nded there when I was eight- een . . . green as grass, just a fool little kid with a big ambition. And‘ when 1 finally landed a job with| Adoree's company I thought I'd| licked the world.” | She shrugged her shoulders, and gave a short laugh. t's taken me ten years to find that T was licked before I start she sighed. | But even if you went back home | now, you'd be dissatisfied, wouldn't | May asked. “You really love ht lights and the jazz and | rest of the life you lead | gave r a long, search-| ing look. | “You're all wrong, dearie,” she re- marked If I'd stayed in Mt. Ver- non and married the town plumber, I'd been happy. No, you needn’t| smile! 1 really was engaged to a plumber back there “Jay P. Jones is his name. .. but that does not matter at all. The important thing s, how is he going to get back wherg he belongs?” said another. | “There's an enemy to the left of | him, enemy to the right of him, an | enemy: behind him. I think we| really will have to help Danny,”| cried a third “Ot course, cried all the Merry Little Breezes together. Then they talked it all over between them, and when they had decided what they would do, they all raced back to the smiling Pool and got behind Danny Meadow Mouse. Then all together gren lilye-pads there. The piece of hoard caught in the lily-pads and the Merry Little Breezes could blow it no farther. (Copyright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: “Ashore at Last." Accessories A scarf and hat of beige colored silk with cording at the ends of the scarf and the brim of the hat make a very good pair of accessories to own. They are wonderfully helpful in dressing up a plain frock or se- vere tailleur. For Spots on Marble Tou can remove grease spots from marble by spreading over the surface a paste made of fuller's earth gnd water. Allow it to stand with Stle4 custard made with th - 4 for 24tla folke (Copyright. 1925, Associated r that is preferred to black by up the stage for good." nicest fellow I ever knew. Say, he'd A woman can kiss and tell—a lot | for a few days, then wash off and yoike o’ the spge. - - —— FAi e ) west wanen - mher the placs " Mav Say. look like a prince beside thes® abhout men. polish.

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