New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1925, Page 18

A Wife's Confessional Adele Garrison's New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE e iiiaitensitistrrissiaiiss st e s os et et e s e sy Madge Takes a Hand in the Fanny Powell Case Katherine looked at me alertly, as holding her haud firmly I bade her wait answerlug the oo tonous whing of queer patient, Fanny Powell olor Rt t with th 1 kne stereot impresse Kinswe “I'his thing 100 much tor you,” I went on, “The responsibilit “It isn't jealousy for t profe sponsibilities life hanging in t pending upon me. “That's just it,' 'I declared, “This jsn't a nursing job you lLave here. It's something entirely differc cross between the role of a detectiv iler and an attendant in a hos pita! for the insane, your nerves are failing you." T} you for not saying my nerve 1d, smile. “You'll never lose your supply of that,” 1 countered, smiling back at her in the sober mood with a bit of nonsense, “But you very ecasily can break down and world is worth that, information which Lillian thinks she possesses,” 48he twisted out of my grasp, and pBtting her hands on my shoulders gdve me an affectionate little shake, S a hig voice our nary bas!" ehe exclaimed. “You know ¥gu would no more fall Lillian my place you would in your own. 8o pleuse park that line of tadk and don't put it in front of a fife hydrant, either, I don't want to liear it again,” See ‘What She Will Do, “Then we'll switch to a reec tlon of the fact that we mus this thing to a head some way. We've been keeping that room locked, fearing that she really was somnambulistic and would herself. Now suppose we uhlocked, apparently at,” she interrupted, reputation of ler ssional | showing In her “I've had much heavier re- lan this, There's no balance here, de- nt—a she than zni- bring harm leave it relax all watchfuinesy, and see what she will | do. She looked at me intently. Then you've made up your mind at there is no chance of her as- phasia Leing real,” she said, ) it at first,” turne! el i 1k it was T re- aha s It for re < that she has not. ink it is time recovered neno prete fore 11 The to handle the tady without gloves LETTER PROM LOTY TO THIE, LUPTLE MAR- QUISE, CARLOL THE SECRET 1 DRAWLR=CONTINUED, 1 arrived the Marquise was con form. T s Sally, and/ I I'm s FUSLIE station, time. The 51 re Littie ust train “Oh, Prescot up. “I tho tained 10 have you can, nis face lghting : had de e hiappy somet 1s great Peach Sherbet jething has to be done,” I de- | | two or No wonder | with a wan little | liope of lightening her | no Fanny Powell in the | Neither is any | in | “but T agree with Lee Chow's | her | ons of her own | PRES- | , “Agre.)” she sald, with an em- | phatic little nod of her head. ’ ‘What's your plan? I can see you have one, “Nothing startling,” I Of course, you could eay easually | that us she had had no recurrence f the somnambullstic attacks, you thought it was useless to keep lock- ing tl But 1 think she is | shrewd enough to see through that at once, Therefore, the only plan I can see Is for you to complain of leadaches and faligue and forget answered, doo! occaslonally to lock the door, r | keep wateh outslde, as 1 did before. Another thing, I'll have Lilllan chango rooms with me for the next three nights and leave un- locked the door of the room where she now is. You know, she went stralght to the door of that room when she elther had or pretended to lave that other excurslon In her “She's After That Valise.” “Yes, T know,” Katherine nodded, “I suppose she's after that valise which we found chained her irm.'” “Of couree,” 1 assented. “I admit I'm most anxious to see what she does when she gets hold of it. “She’ll probably try to get out of the house at once,” Katherine said. to | “Are you sure she won't be able to give us the slip? “I wish she could,” T said tensely. “If it weren't for Lilllan I should leave the doors wide open. But as | Lillian wishes her taken care of | liere, T have no choice. She will be unable to get out of the house unless she |5 etrong enongh to over- power both of us and get the ke The doors and windows of the lower floor & especially well guarded. After that terrible time when Junior was stolen away I had strong bar: put on all the doors and windows. Katherine looked thoughtful, “I don’t believe she is very strong physically,” she said. “I think either of us could manage her. I'll go back and find out why she's nd prepare my role igued etfulness. Therd's no need of your coming with me if you don't wish to.” “Thank you,” 1 sald, relieved, for shrink unaccountably from any contact with Tanpy Powell, “I'l| Mother Grahdm's room and try {to satisfy her curiosity as to the lay's happenings.” [T hurried [1 i to | aw but not fast | enovgh to eseape the hateful monof- ous sound of Tannie Powell's volee as Katherine opened the doo “Why don't you turn out the | nurse? It hurt my eyes. i I can't 25, by Newspaper ture Serviee, Tne,) who have tried (o liold their jobs by | being tlirtations with My ott, and there will probakly i more Fhat doeent’ me I'he thi Worries that Young woman will botls for Mr, Droscott finds she ls Pre very only me s milke wid for when out in cald.’ 1 wouldn't worry {8 r what 1 cr what Ll about thist know about her, you thing about made up my mind fo 1 impudent manner nswered she bac @ Marquise bt 1 b with whal thin e He 1in propo: fonnd to " ) wi Vs &rem o e that not approach reetly. wonld tion until 1 hiad led 1 the differen not listen from pared 1 from him | | | A Rervi 1 TOMORROW—Tetter from Teslic Pro to the Litde Marquis, care of the Seeret Drawer—Continued i Here's a brain teaser make you call the family fo Horizontal ;i 4. Broth, To steal, Tury, . An instrument the retina. . Point of compass, 3. Cavity Seventh note in a seals, To ring a funeral bell. . Garret. . 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[CIUISTH]TTo HEIME T, copper. rose — COLOR The Golden Fleece || e i U | JASON HELPS THE OLD LADY ; | N e | o1 Mrs. Buz is one day’s chapter The Golden Kleece," e theepaper act oit the do story n the old woman wils going to 1 tn hig father's throne im I Is ex Jason to tuke ron his turbulen mother.” Jason dingly CUT-Q0TS ~————e of the Chil ry ith the t rive Pearls Popular pre pearls thes: rre clur o larg in is of grar. {eonld lenan 1 We doubt ) N should Then," said you Pelius off ol woman | “neither are stro K |And the it and ing torrent by herse lcaught hor just in thn (Color the old lavender her head K grey.) to « deep over Inc. 0 she ver f1am both be ng enoug his thro took up nfer the i Bt ) e to s wor The ve man's dro ragged fated 15di trong | on, Pt scornfully, h ne!™ her rag- ason her. to a hawl! and shoulders should tors, WNNY says | \ i couples who [0 s about tting Lappily ever Wonderful Face Powder| nza sevicE. e change married New powder their live BEGIN HERE TODAY PETER LYSTER lost his memory from shell shock in France. Upon his return to London he falls to rec- ognize, NAN MARRABY, whom he is betrothed. Nan, brok- en-harted, has returned home to care for her three mothericss step- brothers. She fails to heed the ad- vice of her friend. JOAN ENDICOTT, that sha en- courage the love of Peter's friend and fellow office JOHN ARNOTT, with whom Peter 18 resting at the home of Arnott's widowed sister, not far from the Marraby estate, Nan is jealous of Arnott's sister and although she hates HARLEY SE his debtor, she i3 on the point of accepting his offer of marrlage in order to settle her future once for all and protect her father from treatened financlal embarrassment, Nan hears that Sefton s already telling the villagers that they a engaged. In the village she meets an acquaintance who invites Ler to help with a church function and then opines that Arnott's sister will {soon marry Peter. NOW GO ON WITH THI STORY | Nan felt as it she were just . mechanical figure forclng herself to | walk on, walk on, and not give way {to the overpowering sense of weal- | ness that seized her. Then the mist lifted, and the girl to ¥ ont of the silence she heard herself saying | politely: “Really! How very {nteresting!” “One hears so much of the r weddings nowadays;” Judeney went ‘on. “I don't know at 1 agrce with them myself, As a matter of fact, T believe the glam- or of the uniform and the rom f parting is more than half respon- sible for guch marriags But. . well-—people must do as they like “Yew,” eald Nan, stiffly, “people must do as they like.” 8he echoed the elder vords, parrot-like, Of conrse, could not really be of Peter were talking—It was some man, “And now do say and help with the church decora tions,” Miss Dudeney said Nan realized that they had reached the vicarage and had stopped at the gate. “As T told you, Mrs, Mears is coming, and her vou know Mr, A “y aid Nan, “And T daresay Mr, Lyster will as well”” Miss Dudeney went “They he is devoted—per- fectly de Goodby, Miss Ma raby.” “GGoodhy,” sald Nanj just touched the thin, cotton-gloved hand hefore she turned and walked back, 5o Peter was going to marry Doris | | | woman's it they other you will coms it " ome ed. she I always knew it,”” Nan told her- <elf, not realizing that she gpoke the words aloud. “Somehow I think I lalways knew it,” she sald again hopelessly. She wondered if Arnott had known that morning he came over and it n d 1f there could be any hope for TON, a money lend- | who has told her that Peter is | a| Ance | brother—perhaps | w man who was not Peter; she won- dered if it had been an attempt on his part to save Lier from pain and | humitiation. “It was kind of him, anyway,” she thought, drearily; ‘“very kind of him," Of course, all the parish knew by | this time of Peter's engagement; she felt as if they must all know, too, that lie had once loved her, and that was broken-hearte The thought stung her take the only way out Harley Sefton, | Nobody could |then —Sefton was rich and after; he could give her monvy and everything she wanted, She wond- ered desperately it the {hings moncy could buy would deaden the pain in ler heart, She would have a good | [time—she would go about and scu [the world—she would make herself ‘Mr;,wl. | “Atter all, {t's no worse than it |would have been If Peter had been | killed,” she told herself; but knew that it was, a thousand times | worse, | | “I wish T could die,” she thought | as she opencd the little fron gate and | walked up the garden path, The front door stood open—the | little maid was hovering in the hall, sb she would and marry for her sought be sorry | | eaost women would go mad unh’ [ detight over that.” i ! “Please, miss, Mr, Seflon Is here.” “Oh, is he? ghe said stupidly Then she hegan to laugh. She wondered if he kuew of this | had conie into | | ! l er life. She took the pins from her hat; !she smoothed her rough hair; then {she went on into the schoolroom. Sefton stood by the fireplace. He | was reading a paper, but he laid it | {down when she came in. | “Giood evening!” he sald “Giood evening!” Nan answered. | sie him. 1o | was not such a man, ghe | thought, and dressed. laoked straight at 1-looking was well | The Hollow Stump Babies. | 'The homeliest bahy is pretty to Ma But this is not alw: Fa 011 Mother Nature. Bure wasn't the cen Forest babies in the hollow | stump. OFf course Peter Rabbit told | every one he met, and of course the | one who was told htold someone eisc ard didn’t mind, for was no long frying to keep it’ a se- cret. She couldn't have kept it a s f taig ke k wanted to, now {1hose babies had to be fed. There | had to be constant coming and go- { You may be th long before all | knesw about the | |ing. Of conrse everybody who could | | visited the hollaw stump for a pecp | !4t those babies. OV Mrs. Buzzard vas too proud for words. According to her they were the finest, hand- somest babies that ever had lived. | She was quite truthful about it. She really believed it. was because perspiration—will | she was their mother. il ; makes the witiful vety ¢ ROLLER SKAT EVERY E! Al Enturday A BOBBED HAIR I¢ tint of 1ampoo. the ti a me it ke it off; througl finc yres invisible; natural mple ING ENING fternoons. skin xion, Get [ q0r beauty powder | | these babi oks wonderfu Golden Glint | *Humph!” exclaimed Sammy Jay | “If {hey take after their father and | mother they certainly are no heau- | Tl have to have a look at ties. So Sammy Jay flew over as fast as | 1iis blue and white wings could carry | him to a tree from which he could i down into that hollow stump. Buzzard was standing on the of the stump. “Did you cver such darlings?” she asked, Sammy peered down into the hol low. “Did yo' ever sce such hand- some babies?" Sammay peered down in an to laugh. 1lo laughed and laughed ¢ he nearly fell from his ndsome!” he -gasped. Oh, my peaked cap! Mrs. edge Then he be and laughed &0 hearti To think that creatures handsome. 1 looking bables to equal ny one geen some ugly n my time, hut none these.” or very Mrs S Ruzzard hecame hissed at Sammy as only Buzzard 1 hiss. mmy only kept laughing. He | wasn't afraig O Mrs. Buzzard i.m-m couldn’t possibly cateh him. And | angry. angry {an o o 0 he stayed around making fun of and tormenting poor O1' | Mrs. Buzzar) he could | think of. U The 1 else who those babies agreed with Sammy Jay, and soon the word every way worst of was every one gaw conceded by | should call | I iad gone all through the Green For- st that never had there been two | such homely babies in it. They were homely babies. But for that matter {he babies of most of the feathered folk are homely when they are very little, Very few tiny babies of the | teathered folk are pretty, like the | babies of Mre. Bob White and M Grouse. These two Buzzard babics | were covered with down, which is {more than could be said for some other bird babies. For instance, take the babies of Rattles the Kingfisher When they are hatched there isn't| a feather nor a particle of down on | them, and really they are miich ug- lier and homelicr looking than were | sc Buzzard babies. i them all over, | even their heads. It covered their | funny Mttle wings. Conld you | n them and not known who tcir | | parents were, you never, never would have guessed that those funny little wings ever could be among the most | wonderfnl wings In all the Great| Waorld. They certainly didn’t Took it ! |then. They didn't give the least hint | | of what they would he hy and by. | Those hollow tree bables grow as | only hungry young babies can grow | Where their parents managed to find | | enough food for them was a mys- | {tery, After the first curiosity was | satisfled there were few visitors to | the big hollow stump. You see, OI' | | Mistah Buzzard and Mrs. |are really vultures, and live alto- | | gether on dead food. They do not | catch other birds or animals. This | |is one reason why they are not fear | ed by their netghbors. But the food they eat disgusts most of (heir neigh | | bors, and so all of these kept awav | from the hollow tree. This suited | Mistah and Mrs. Buzzard. There | The down covered e laughed | Was nothing to disturb their growing | and put the bovs to bec youngsters, | By and by the first feathers ap- | | peared and they appeared on t ! ‘fimn_\’ little wings. My, how \vrw\d" | Mrs. Buzzara was of those first | feathers! The youngsters grew big- | ger and bigger and presently th | wings were all feathered out, while | their bodies were. still covered with | Even they were big ri down. when But {enough to take #hefr first lessons | back Into his pocket in flying, which consisted in flapping | heavily up into a tree, they still wore | a great deal of down. It covered | | their heads. They certainly were na | | beauties, to eay the least, but O Mistah Buzzard thought they were, | and Mrs. Buzzard thought they were | | 50 perhaps after all they were. You | | know s0 much depends on the point of view. | said. “Tomorrow | that | them, Buzzard | . Some women would be proud enough to have him for a husband apart trom his money-bags, She wondered it she really thought that, or it sho | wero just trying to make things as casy as possible for herself, | T've been waiting half an hour,” safd, “U'm gorry,” Nan answered, He came a step towards her. “And—my answer?” he, asked. 8he raised her eyes to his. So blue they looked a nst the stavtl- ing pallor of her face, 'Thero was something pathetic in Jier wh appearance, and unconsciously his cxpression softencd, “Are you going to marry lie asked, gently, There was a little pause, “Yes, it you lik she suid; and added, *“Thank you" as if it were an after-thought. e did not attempt to touch her. He guve a sigh of relcf, as If this were more than he had expeeted, “T am a man of my word,” he 1 will take you to| o solicitors. T will hand you ! over all your f r's TOU's and— | Lyster's — on our wedding day Nan did move, “You told me you them to me if T would to you,” she said. He laughed “Are you trying to drive a bar- gain with he asked. * well, you shall have your father's tomorrow, and Lyster's = the day you ntarry i There w tion in his this hope for. “Very well," twisting her hat we be married? There w elie e me, N my i not would give | be engaged me?"* note of determina- and Nan realized best could a Soloe: was the she Ehe efood when shall shs asked, | 15 no emetion in did not care in th she was married. flushed putting everything on | a mundane footing,” he said uncomfortably. “You talk as if it | were just a business arrangement.” | “As it is — to me,” she answer- “And there i3 another thing I can't leave them, said, “And her voi least | how soon His “You very are od the boys of couree.” e frowned, “We can make ment for them,” h two older ones can go to a boarding school — hut T suppose the voungest is not old enough.” Nan cried out indignantly. Claudie! Oh, 1 can't part from Claudie.” “I hav some arrange- waid quickly. 't asked you to part from him,” he answered. ‘“Some wugement can he made. T hear your father is awhy “Yes; 1 don't knew be hack.” : He half emiled, “He, at least,” will "be pleased.” “Yes,” said Nan, *1 told him be- fore he went away tfrat you had asked me to marry you.” He looked amazed. “You're a cool hand,” he sald, in faint amazement. “If that's all you've got to say," she hegan. “But it {sn't, He came closer. “Nan, T've brought you a ring — at least, I've brought several for you to choose from.” Ile took some litlle cases fromn his pocket and put them down on the table. Nan made "when he will no attempt to open He waifed & moment. “Not Interested?” he asked. He opened the snap of one case and showed her a magnificent half- hoop of diamonds, *“Most women would go mad with delight over that,” he said, with satistaction. “I don't care for dlamonds,” sald Nan, She was should do “T wish sald again you choose He gave annovance. “What has happened ho asked. “You seem {o have all your spirit.” He cought her nd as would have turned away. “Don't you care a hang for me, Nan?" he asked roughly. Her blue eyes met bis; he gave little shiver, YNo, she don’t She wondering what she with Peter's ring. you would choose,” he “I would much rather a little exclamation of to you?” lost she a “You know T| tried to free herself. | “There sw't any need to pretend. is there?” sho asked. “You don't are about me cither, I know.” “Why do you think I want you then?" She shook her head. “I don’t know because you thought T ehould be hard to get, perhaps; some men are like tha “I'm fond of you” he told her roughly. “T swear that I'm fond of you T've never cared for any- one else In all my life. “T have,” said Nan, with a queer 1ttle laugh. Jie flung away tiently. “It’s that infernal fellow Lyster. Why can’t.you forget him, T lave thought you would | more pride than to go cry-| ing for a man who has freated you he Make up your mind fo | rget him.! “If T hadn't.” said Nan quietly, shouldn’t have sald T would | you, and now if yon've quite | with 1 should like to go said. from her impa- should have 2 marry done me “You think more of devils than you do of me, jenlously. She stood waiting with a sort of weary resignation; had been right when he said that she seem- ed to have lost all her spirit; noth- he now seemed to have the power to rouse her. He the little ring cases those little he sald he ing could say swept “I'm going.” he said roughly. But he came back almost at once; he looked at her with a sort of angry abasement. 1'd do anything for you, Nan— anything,” he said, Iie did not wait for her anewer, and in another moment she heard the front door bang behind -him. (To Be Continued) v | riety of | fortungte discovery, the j temperature, Your Health How to Keep It— Causes of Illness (BY DR, HUGH 8. CUMMING) (Surgeon General, United Statca Public Health Service) Tho word “germ, means a seed. Bacteriologists tell us that there are germs 50 emall that a million of | them could play tag on the head of a pin and still have plenty of room to grow and ruise familles. A germ o 1s a rather large germ when it §vould require a mere four or five {housund bunched together to be barely visible to thé naked eye. The germ of bubonic plague is of fairly Jurge organism. It takes only about forly thousand of them lald side by side to make an inch, It requires ubout sixty-five milllon typhoid bacilli to make a drop of [ unti-typhoid vaceine, A porcelain filter will strain out such germs as thesé, but (here are discase germs so infinitely small that under a little pressure they pass through the closely grained porc lain filters with the same ease that & snat flics through an open window. Germs are known by a wide va- names such as bacteria, Lacilli, cocel, vibrios and so on. *h group of germs has s special traits and habits, friends and enemies, but all of them are con- neeted in some way with the great tery called life, So far as we Jow, germs are the lowest form of life, They are so far down in creation that it is often impoesible to tall whethier a particuiar kind of an anle mal or vegetable nature and they are 0 much alike that it is hard to tell them apart, By the use of powerful micro- scopes and by other means, scientists have identified many ‘hundreds of difterent kinds of germs and have become 80 well acquainted with them that they know just where they like best to live, what they feed upon, how fast they multiply and the con- ditions under which they thrive or dle, Sclentist First Studles Germs When an unknown disease crops onut somewhere, whether a disease of lnman beings, of animals, or of plants, the first act of the scientist’ is to become acquainted with the germ that may cause the disease, e must learn all about it, whers it lives, how it grows, what it eata, and what food or chemicals disagres with it. Once he becomes familiar with its habits, he is ready to wage war against it. Tn order to become familiar with ny particular kind of germ it must be captured and held fin captivity under favorable conditions for growth and development, The florist takes out his plants and fransplants them to his green- houses where he may study and de- velop them, In the samo way the bacteriologist takes diseasea germs embeded in specimens from sick patients and transfers them to his laboratory where they are kept in the proper kind of containers, nurtured and studied. When the bactetriologist sets out to study a germ he finds that he has quite a hit of work ahead of him. Before he can hope to accomplish anything he most separate the par- ticular germ he is after from the multitude of other germs it is as- sociated with, As bacteria are very sociable, ha finds anywhere from two or three to a dozen different kinds of organisms in the apecimen he wishes to ex- amine, and how to get rid of the forelgn bactria and atill leave a nice colony-of the particular kind of germ | is often an exceedingly difficult | thing to do. | Germs are so small that the indi- viduals arc as ‘clear as crystal and M you might examine a drop of water | teeming with thousands of germs and not be able to see them with a | powerful michoscops unless they || were given special treatment, In | order to make them visible the bac- teriologist puts his germs through a process of staining. | Tor example, let us say he is ex- amining a specimen of sputum and | drops on several kinds of chemical | stains. When these stains are dry the tuberculosis germs stand out under the microscopes as beautiful red rods in a blue background, Different kinds of germs take dit- ferent kinds of stains, blue, red, reen, Violet or brown. By this bacteriolo- gist is often able to look through his microscope and tell at a glance what kind of germs he is dealing with, but stalning alone is not suf- ficient to identify many germs, There are certain germs for which identification methods have not yet been worked out, such as for in- stance, the germs of smallpox, scar- let fever and measies. No one has as yvet secn these germs, not even with the most powerful mieroscopes. Some Germs Like Heat; Others Cold | One of the aims of those at work} in the germ laboratory is to find out. what kind of drugs or anti-toxins harmless to human beings will kill -Lhe germs so that when ‘a person comes down sick with a germ dis- easc he may be given a medicine at will not harm him, but one which will kill the disease germs in his body. It is even possible to ad- minister remedies that will prevent the disease for years or during life in some cases. Some germs like to live in the old, but most of them prefer a warm The bacteriologist accommodates his dangerous pets by bottling them up and giving them the right kind of food and tempera- | ture. The: culhlr?s. The 6tudy of germs Inf the labora« tory is a most fascinating pursuit, but it is not an occupation at an suitable for nervous people. It is too dangerous. Some of our best laboratery work- ers are women, They appear to possess plenty o“ nerve, they are very persistent in their research and are careful. Al of these qualifications are necessary in a good germ detective, The laboratory worker Is dally surrounded by deadly enemics and one little accident in the handling of- disense germs may mean the end of all things for him. In another ar- ticle T shall tell you something abous martyrs of sclence bottled germs are known as