New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1925, Page 22

A Wife’s Confessional Adele Garrison’s New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE The Letter From Madge's Father Brings Back Poignant Mcmories There s but one thing to do when my mother-in-law says, “I certainly advise you" and that ls elther to agree with her or to pretend to do 80, and then quickly (o change the subject. This wus my procedure therefore, when she astonlshed me by the warning not to let Dicky know of the check from my father. “That is very wise advice, mother dear,” 1 sald ~arnestly, “and 1 ap- preciate your giving it to me: By | the way, ] nearly forgot my real | \ reason for cwing in here, Lillian has successtully concluded her busi- ness with that government Dpernll\ci and she is so grateful to you for| keeping Katle out of the way." “Somebody had to take care of that snooper,” she sald loftily, and I eaw that I had diverted her at- tention from my check. “Otherw she'd have been running wild all| over the place, trying to listen at keyholes and everything else she could think of."” “You certainly prevented anything of that sort,” I sald emphatically. “Lilllan says she has a most in- teresting story to tell you about to- day's happenings when ehe feels & little stronger.” My mother-in-law's eyes gleamed her anticipation of the melodrama In whech she revels, but her dignity Kept her from any warmer comment than a perfunctory, “I shall be very glad to hear it.” Theh I made a hurried exit in order to keep her from any mere admonitions concern- ing Dicky and the sharing of my news with him. Madge Reads Her Letter With my father's letter in its precious enclosure tightly in my hands, I fairly raced down the cor- ridor to the sanctuary of Dicky's room and locked the door behind me. T knew that I had but a few minutes before dinner, and T was wild with curiosity to read the rest of my father's letter. It was a short communication however, and I soon finished it. The tears were in my eyes when I had read the last line, for it was eloquent of the joy and relief of a tired old man who unexpectedly sees rest and enjoyment opening be- fore him., “I am so anxious to get back to you and my darling boy,” T read on from the point where I had stopped. “1 have promised myself never again to leave you for so long a time as q this has been, and to make my ab- 1883030008022 0080 122223200 ERS $hopease i sences from you very rare indeed, Not that I intend to live in your) home, That necessity has passed with the materializing of this long forgotten investment, I now shall be able again to afford a modest home of my own, but it must be near enough to you so that we can reach each other quickly in case of any em cy. ‘sShail I Tell Diek?” “In the natural course of things, there cannot be so very many years of life left to me, and I am grate- ful indeed that this opportumity is given me to retire definitely from actlve work, ,I do not mean that I never ghall undertake a government case again, An old war horse in- variably longs sometimes for the smell of battle, But whatever I do in the future will be because I wish to do it, not because I need the remuneratfon the task af- fords. I pray you never may know by actual experience what this feel ing is to a person in the evening of |. life, You never shall know it {f I can prevent it. “I do not know just when I shall be able to return to the farm, but it will not be very long now before I shall hold you and my beloved grandson agaln in my arms, Until then, God bless you my darling daughter.” For a long minute after I had finished the letter I sat gazing Into space. The lines revealed 8o much ot my father's loneliness during his latter days in the government serv- | ice. I appreciated as I never had before the love and care which he had lavished upon me since he| found me, after yeéars of heart-| breaking search for me, 1 knew that it was an affection made more |° intense, by the remorse which he felt for his treatment of my mother. Indeed, it was the very intensity of | that remorse which finally had led | me to forget that he had abandoned | us when I was a wee girl of four and give to my father the daugh ter's affection for which he longed. With the &hiver which the con- templation of that long pasttragedy of my mother always gives me , T folded the letter and the check and | locked them away in Dicky's desk. | Then T returned to my chair faced the problem which my mother-in-law’s warning had put he- fore me, Should T tell Dicky about check my father had sent me should T keep it a secret from him? S0 the or (An Intimate story of fonermost emotions revealed in private letters.) LETTER FROM LESLIE PR COTT TO THE TLITTLE MAR- QUISE, CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER — CONTINUED: 1 was trembling, Littie Marquise. I felt something must be done counteract the emotionalism of moment, §o, as I slowly drew hands away from my husband T smiled and said, “Is it as bad as all that, .dear “I think it is, John, still ignoring Syd and Sally. , “As ugual I've been ajp kinds of a fool. You I was Much disap- pointed when Condon came back without Sally. and my first impulse was 10 go over to her house and in- sist that you both go out to dinner with me. I started to get my when T heard Condon talking someone in the outer office. 1 opened my door and fc q that 1 talking in a very ugly manner little Maegarita Stimpsor “‘Why are you hanging here g0 late? he asked T waited a nt to Leslie,” answered to around mon what to but pre it his 1 she was going to answer ently the girl burst out crving threat to discharge her and thought It was time to interfers I went out and told him to He vt \ying a turned wirl had raise ained face tremblinge, t nt to the 1 her little up ont a1 appeal- min ‘Oh, Mr. ns asking, t. you will not l¢ Con- me, wi Ainly not.* 1 promises H SOUng, Atherton in groa my offi Rally to | the |auiet her dnd 1 my |had | you nervous, Kuow hat | {vour « lor | girl was [+ wa i heard her, and muking not think Jack busy explaining peace with me. “I thought the girl would go,” Jack continued, “when 1 gave her my assurance that she would hold hep job, but she continued to weep. Finally 1 thought that a ride might sked her if she had dinner. 1 hove eaten her nothing sinee breakfast, she told me. ‘I have been o nervous knowing Mrs. Atherton was to come back.’ “Why should Mrs. Atherton make child?" T questioned s one of the nicest women 1 ‘s soft volce, te is gome- Again T heard Sall Thank vou, that trib thing T do not deserve.” “'io and wash the tears out of little one,’ T told her,” Jack and we will take a continued in “T didn’t have a moment to fhink T shonld probably have gotten f the gement before the driving had ex- it about out of we were 1ster, 1 town ecar for for T a that 1 had pic to Mother, ving at Draco’s T was inex- Miss Stimpson, her tron. inke v ro. my the in changed an hour remem! nised the wn car “y Iy liat 1 ¥ forgot a bles and chattered and asked me If T c from dancing wh that heavenly (Copyright, 1825, sibly vho imm finally hen en 1 a77. NEA Service TOMOREOW—I ctter from L Preseott to the Little Marquise, « Lof the Secret Drawer——Continued. ter for b value to your 1 is t up for tat the conser and mak second v . t a la Creole ablespoons butter triangles of toast Score cach row of kernel and t Peel pers and rub ¢ move seeds and P flesh. Cory and salt pepper, scrape pith Scald tomatoes and ' ifirst seven spuces, then go alical and |7 had suddenly | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, CROSSWORD PUZZLE Number one is easy. Fill in the| To dispose of. I'o Ra Itecurring on an opposite side. Exclamation of sorrow. Portion of medicins Mathematical term. Money changing. Prevaricator, Sun god, Hottom of a pulley block. To exist 3. Third note in scafe. Sun. Ixelamation of laughter. Alleged force Point of compass. tism, alian bird. Paid publicity. ting to a delta, Tree (ulmus.) Matter of fact Gleaming. Native metal. To invade. Posts (archecture.) 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Excited asa crowd. the scule. === COLOR CUT-QUTS The Gol complete with which to den Fle was brave and cunningly to entrap the So with a crafty and as follows u do, brave Ja- man by whom you were ruined and slain stood our power?"” would v the lice and Ki jon termined to | man in of | i with quest e man one hen, bring Go, e ship builder of | ry to- | vin with | from i N | Gossip’s Corner w Chile THE RING'S COMMAND t Mixtures orsted ayon, pr nd luc- the pre-emi- The wrap- ined on strai ctions t Colored Silk Dresses ATHOOPING COUGH No “cure”—but helps to re- duce paroxysms of coughing. ICRKRS vaAPORUB Over 17 Million Jars Used Year! flared styles oves, Handles handles in Knife knife Jors ivory and | putfing food awayrunder the skin; | ' Sl g Corake him long be- | may loosen Dinner Dresses are be- rt or long lar material ailing col- A nove Tertal popt kes i as well as a d ction | BEGIN HERE TODAY Pe Lyster has lost his mcmory from shell shock in France. Upon returning to London he fails to rec- ognize Nan Marraby, the girl to whom he became engaged before he went away. Nan, broken-hcarted, returns to her home to care for her three motherless stepbrother Bhe has stay with John Arnott at the home of Ar- nott's widowed sister, near the Mar- raby estate, but Peter has failed to show any signs of recognition. Driv- en to desperation by Peter's appar- ent indifference and her father's fi- nanclal difficulties, Nan agrees to mare Harley Sefton, money-lender, who has told her that Peter s also in his debt. Through chance Peter learns the true state of affairs and con- splres with Joan Endicott, who s visiting Nan, to find out why ghe is marrying Scf- ton. One of the boys is carrying a note from Joan to Peter, when he l1s intercepted by Sefton. He shows his dislike of the boy by starting to shake him and discovers the note. gives battle to the bully. aiso heard the crics and jolns the _rroup. Sefton’s tongue thrashing at the hands of Peter, {'who after he has finished turns on | his heel and walks away. Nan and Joan wants to know what has hap- pened NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Nan answered mechanically: “Mr. Sefton tried to thrash Claudie and T hit him.” She laughed mirthlessly, added, with sudden passio T had killed him. I should like to have killed him.” “And Mr. Lyster came,” Claudie piped in, “and he fought him, and, oh—it was lovely!” he added with enthusiasm. Joan looked at Nan gulltily. She was longing to know what had be- come of her note, but she was afraid to ask. Nan went on into the house, and |Toan grabbed Claudie. { “My note—did he have it? note T gave you.” $he was in despalr when she heard [that Sefton had got it. She rushed after Nan | honse. The into the 1 you would tell me what bout,” she said urgently. “I 't make head or tail of it all. Why did Mr. Sefton hit Claudie? T thought you were engaged to him.” “o I was. T must have been mad. I never want to see him again.” and—Peter Lyster?” Joun atingly. Nan did not answer. That night, when the boys were safely fo bed, and Joan was in her own room writing her daily letter to the adored Tim, Nan sat down and [looked the future squarely in the The man who forgot t!" What a bit- had been in the ay-actor. conveniently fo lter sneer there (words, “Supposing it were fr at there with her elbows on staring Into the darkness She ‘v]n table, seen Peter often since he camo to | Nan rushes to the boy's aid and | Peter has brings a | the boy return to the house, where | I'RIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1925, % One mivlo _. B RUBY M. AYRES behind the yellow lamplight, fear in her eyes. 8he had not drawn the blinds in |the schoolroom. It was not quite |dark outside and she had left one of the windows open to let in the cool night air, The consciousness came to her suddenly that someone was out there |in the garden, watching her, that she was not alone. Panic selzed her-—supposing 1t were Sefton, She started to her fed and went over to the window, She flung it back to its farth extent and leaned out into the sleep- ing garden, “Who fs it? asked urgently. And the answer Pet Lyster's voice, “It is T, Nan—Peter—Iet me come Who Is there?" she came back In i Ior some moments she could not find voice with which to answer him, the blood was hammering in her temples; a throbbing pulse scemed to be choking her. Peter came closer to the window; |she could hear his quick breathing, |and suddenly he. put up his hand “Who Is it? Who is the and caught hers in a hard “Let me come in,” he said and there was a sort of angu his voice. “Oh, for God's Nenhid He bent his head and kissed her hand before she could stop him, she !could feel how hot his lips were; it [was as if some ma wand had |waved them hoth back—he and sh {—to the which she thought had | gone for ever. The room seemed ol cafing; she longed fo get into the night air where the; she answered him ated whisper .« . . ‘Il_come ont . ment, T'll come out . salke, and suffo- out of it she could in an BERCHNUT GOSSIP (Ry Thornton W. Burgess) Ne'er may you In gossip trust, For 'tis seldom it is ju: —~0ld Mother ure. Rabbit doesn't care any- about beechnues. He ng for nuts of any kind. You Peter's teeth are not made for eracking hard shells. Peter can { gnaw and strip off pieces of bark, Lt when it copes to cracking I'eter isn’t a Success. Neverth Peter spent considerable time over in that part of the Green Torest the beech trees grow. That { was because so many other people | ¢re spending so uch time there te there are many peo- there is bound to be a gossip. It was his curiosity of gossip that took Peter nu where | You see wt e tog lot of [.and lov over there, there was just sted everybody I'hat topic was the coming of winter w1 how best to prepare for it Big fand little, weak and etrong, wearers feathers and wearers of fur, all ere equally interested, Each onc ad his or her own ideas. Of course exactly what Happy Jack other members of sted was the They insisted one topie that there intere over ! you know { Squirrel and the Squirrel family in; proper thing to do. the ore away food 1 they were lvin eir e Buster Bear insisted that that was all foolishness and (it the proper way of preparhg for a comfortable winter was to ¢ nd get as fat as po: ble and the food was to be found go to slee until spring returned That's the sensible thing to do,” Buster in his deep, grumbly volce. “Somebody d and the food you ls put away, but nobody can T believe in that and plenty of it examples of Uil possibl when no p and ger lared rumbly, ! may f ‘.‘Jlll‘r | take my fat from me. steal | then you always have it.” { “But we don’t put all our supplies | T declared Chatterer Red Squirrel. “Why, sometimes ve a dozen storehou No one is goIng to find all”all those atore- houses."” “Perhaps 701" if vou must fill a as to be sure to one ar. “Still storehouses &o Yood er storehouses have of your | Jonnny Chuck and T know t Chuck and I‘ cares | thing to do was 1o retorted Buster | ,must do a lot of work for noth- ing. nothing. All that food iz stored un- | der my skin and every bit of it is | going to be used by me. T tell you, e best plan. Yes Know.” “Pooh!" bin, who happened to come in time to I this. really sensiblg thing to do is to just and leave cold weather be- . where I go down in the s plenty to eat that is the Welcome ong The exclaimed R jnst Lind. No Suny South there all the time. Yes, sir, sensible thing to do, go pth.! hat's all very well f ou folks with wings,” grumbled Buster Bea Tut folks who wear fur can't o that We , Wheth- want to or hat is one you f us fur hears must say h not thered folks have s. You can fly and leave hard time, while must stay and do the best we Personally T am rather proud ct that we animals are not We don't run away from and hard times. There is no four-legged animal that doesn't stay when Jack Frost and rough Broth- North Wind come down from the North. 1t is true that some of p through the of the ather, but w name one red Welcome Robin. ster Rabbit drew a little nearer 1 his ears were standing straight Who could it be that Welcome He waited eargerly reply, t ard w er we Ivant ver we of the quitt TS, cold Far us sle bad we “1 can worst vho doesn' up. Robin meant? for what Buster At first Buster didn't r pretended not to h that 1 oW one stay, but who goes ve Iy 1 o 1 animal wl South clared louder doesn’t like the rest ¢ { Welcome Robin voice. “You don't knew anything of the | kind,” growled - Buster Bear. “No | animal could go down to the | Sunny South. It would take an ani- mal so long to get there that Jack a little way | fore he was even half way there.” l “Nevertheless 1 know one who does it,” declared Welcome Robin, ‘.m‘\ his eyes twinkled. He glanced around _at all the other folk sitting there. He saw the same puzzied | 100k in the face over,” said Welcome Robin and 1ot | sway he flew ugh left in case some | e found, you | (Copyright, 1925, by T. W, Burgess) Now I don’t do any work for | of each, “Think it | rgot ©19123 EA Service, 3 €0 P onATED But he did not release her hand. “You promis he asked, and You promisc me that “Yes, yes." She hardly knew what she was saying. She stood for a moment in the hall Iistening. There was no sound from upstairs, but from the kitchen Mary was dron ing the chorus of a popular song to | herself us she banged away on the wooden table froning her aprons. Nan found herself listening uncon- lously to the sentimental words: | Ihere’s a long, long night of wi ing—till my dreams all come | true— | Till the day when I'll be going down | the long, long trail to Mary's voice was shrill ~and un- lovely and she sung in too high a key, but there w sort of pathos |in the sound, as if in some corner of the little maid's heart there | lurked romance with a capital letter. Nan gave a half-laugh that seem- ed to break and die in her throat. | | She was so nervous she hardly knew |what she was doing, but the little |bit about the dreams all coming true seemed to strike home to her. “This is a dream,” she thought as ishe crossed the hall and opened the front door. “This is a dream, but | iich will never come true” | And she went out and down the rk pathway to meet Peter. P AERS She felt rather than saw that his | arms went out to her, and she shiv- red away with a little movement of fear ‘Oh, one v no ... no' she gald in a She turned away from him to- | wards the gate. “Let us go out—T can't breathe,” he said with a sort of wildness. He | | walked heside her silently till they were out in the road. Everything was very still here-- there was a faintly iridescent light | as if somewhere behind the clouds a moon was shining, and when Nan looked at him Peter's face looked | gray in the cerie light of it. [ I've so much to say to you,” he | began incoherently. “I don’t know | where to begin . . . I feel—T fee as if T've walked through the world | blindfolded for the past weeks and | that today—only today someone has | |torn the bandage from my eyes . .” | He stopped suddenly—he stood be- {fore her. “It was not play acting, Nan,” he id 1 ly. “I swear if T never ak again that it was not." He was shaking all over; his volce was wrung with agitation. Nan could not speak—uncon- sciously she, put. out her hand and caught at Peter to steady herself, ind the next moment she was in hig s, He held her to his heart as if he could never let her go. He spoke {foolish, incoherent words of love, to which she listened one in a ar And all the time she kept telling herself that that was gll it was—a dream—a dream; that®she must keep her head, or she would |die when the bitter awakening came. Presently, with an effort, she wrenched herself free, “Ol, don't, please—please.” They viore close to the stile that led info the wood now. Nan leaned |her arms on the top bar and lald head down on them with a eadful feeling of faintness, and for a long moment neither of them spoke. “If T raise my head, or look up, I |shall find that he isn't there at all,” she was telling herself despairingly. “I know that it's only what I've been {imagining. O, how shall I bear it.” And then she felt his hand on hers felt the close pressure of his fin- gers and heard him speaking to her. “You don't belleve me, Nan. I know——and you've got to! I've got to {make you. T don't know how to be- |gin—T don't know what to say—it's |—it's as it I've been through a long {illness. I'm so ashamed, but it hasn't |been my fault. Oh, I beg of you to heliove me. “I know am. know.” She spoke |breathiessly. She hated that note of pain in his voice, but as yet she |could do but little to help him. J “It takes some forgetting,” she said in a stified volce. “I will try— |eb, T will—but you don't know how |hard it's been....I thought I should have died “I could kill myself with shame— {with remorse. Nan, you know how |T loved you . ... We were to hav {been married when I came home. |He 1ot her hand go suddenly and forced her to turn to him. The pale moonlight shone full on her face with fts fortured eves, and with a | littl 4 exclamation Peter put | his hand over them, as i he could | not bear to see their pain. He re- s brave and | plucky—why even at the very last {moment when they said goodby be- | Ifore went to France she had niled at him with her little crooked | smila though her eyes had been | drowned in tears. | Then all at once tha tears came to {Nan with overwhelming relief, wash- { |ing the last trace of bitterness and rdness from her heart. Peter kept his arms round her {tightly; he did not speak, but from {time to time he kissed her hair and |the little bit of face which was all lhie could see, and the slim trembling Land that clutched the lapel of his as if even now she was afraid him go. fle had never known Nan to break down like this before, and it cut him the heart. She always so y and brave—it told him only 100 surely what she had suffered. i | {membered her as he o to 1 (To Be Continued) AND MOTHER. who radiates | ever ready for , and what woman does to fill this role? When ged by aches, pains, tal depre themselves but e in the Ves- | pend- | one a siness, work or pl: not want women are | irre | they only s reate a gloomy atmosphe: me. Lydia E. Pinkham's etable Compound is the one dy to overcome si v three rations yeen 1 g the women of Amer-| | fca to health and strength. not t has | uets mal whisper. [t | below th —— our Heaifh How to Keep It— auses of [liness SRS (BY DR, HUGH 8. CUMMING) Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service Milk is unquestionably, oue of the most important of ail human foods. 1t contains practically all of the lements which man requires for his It constitutes his sole [l throughout the first dependenco year of life. In later years milk and its prod- up @ large proportion of our diet and go far towards furnish= [ing the total energy expended in ac- complishing our daily tasks. Milk, however, it not properly afeguarded may be a very dangers ous food. Instead ot producing ngth and nourishment it may engenider illness and death and it is capable of transforming health and vigor into frality and decay. Annually, thousands of babies are sent _to thelr graves because of im- pureSnilk, while other th nds g0 thréugh Jite maimed and injured trom infection received through im- pure milk A miXture of milk from several cows is much more constant in its chemical make-up than that from & single animal und for that reason composite mill is to be preterred for infants. Cows which are well fed and well housed in clean surroundings pro- duce a supply of milk richer in ita composition than those herds which are improperly cared for. Water Is Basic Ingred t of Milk Tho basic ingredient of milk 18 water, The remaining components are cither dissolved or held in sus« pension in this water. Ordinarily milk contains approxis mately 87 per ce water, The laws of the majority of states now uire that 12 per cent of solids must be present in milk When the amount of solids requirement of 12 cent the pur s do not 1 fuil value for their money. Foj reason regular standards have 1 adopted in practically all communi- ties, nt of 1t is {he most valuable co uent of milk. It is present in the form of an emulsion. These drop- lets of fat arc held suspension and give o the its normal colo; The droplets are surrounded Ly thin albuminous membranes which prevent them from uniting. I you stir or heat milk the albuminous en- velopes are partially broken up, the droplets stick together and butter is formed, The fats in milk are not all of the same composition, but their proper- lies are similar, Milk too rich in fat may cause digesiive troubles in young children, Many cows produ contains as high 5 per cent of fat. The milk standard of the dif- ferent states varies from 3 to per cent, Protiens Are Important Food A number of substances called protiens, of complex chemical come vosition, are also found in milk ang are important foods although they furnish only approx ¥y one-half ;(;‘.;é.amnum of energy furnished. by The principal protein 1s caseln, fa. miliar as curds in sour milk, Other proteins known as albumin and glob- ulin are also present, When milk spoils these three pro« tlens undergo changes and may, Wwhen taken Into the system cause iliness, though milk when soured hy the usual “lactic acld bacilli” s an excellent food, especially for adults, Protiens aré always present even in skim milk, and for this reason millk deprived of its fat still has con siderable food value, Skim milk is a good food. A third important constituent of milk is lactose, commonly known as milk sugar. This substance s sim{ lar to ordinary sugar in compos but differs from it in sweetnoss other properties, i Milk sugar ferments when acted upon by bacterla. The product of this fermentation is known as lactis acld. t s the lactlc acid which makes old milk taste sour, The amount of milk sugar cow’s milk 1s less than & per cent, Lactose has a high food value, turnishing about the same amount of energy as proteln and s very easily absorbed. in milk e a milk which con~ tion, and in —_——————— Big Change in Face Powders A new French process powder that is not affected by perspiration —will not let an ugly shine come through; stays on until you take it off; fine and pure; makes the pores invisible; looks like ‘beautiful n: tural #kin; glves a soft velvety com- plexion. Get this new wonderful beauty powder called Mello-glo, The Boston Store. Raphael's partment Store. De« Girls stop, look