New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1925, Page 4

A Wife’s Confessional Adele Garrison’s New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Madge and Dicky's Quarrel Reaches Climatic Helghts Dicky's first impulse, when he es he has been “mistaken in | his judgments,” is to bluster, He is always royal in his repentance, but it usually takes him a little time to subdue his temper. Therefore, I did not expect any immediate apology | trom him when I had given him my curt explanation of my conversation with Dr, Meredith in the parked car, but I was not quite prepared to have him blurt out savagel: “I don't belleve a word of it!" 1 looked at him steadlly for a aecond. “It doesn't matter at all to me whether you do or not,” T sald fcily. He flushed with quick, abashed contrition, for Dicky justly prides himself upon his courtesy—his lapses from punctilio are rare—but his eves still were stormy. “I beg your pardon, of course,” he sald. “I did not mean that. But while your trip to the hospital was ustified, I really do not see the | essity or propriety of Dr, Mere- th's selecting a parked car at mid- to stage his story of unrequit- ed love for Katherine It's blasted poor taste anyway you look at it, and as you're not quite a moron and possess enough social experience to put the lad In his place, it looks to me as though you rather enjoyed the situation. T can imagine he's most fascinating man even when 12 subject of his conversation is er womar . He delivered himself of this atro- cious dlatribe with the air of having made honorable amends for every- thing he had said before. I felt my own temper slipping {ts leash and 15t then my eyes happened to fall upon the waste basket near me upon the bottom of which I saw strewn the pieces of charred paper which funier ha icked in the dust Jeap when “playing postman.” No 4 had used the basket since and Katie cvidently had not thought it worth while to carry the basket for those few scraps, them snapped the strand of the ether holding my anger and with L swift 1 ment. 1 stooped to the basket, snatchied up the fragments of paper sud threw them upon the table “You are most offensive,” 1 sald measuré “but even if everything you have just said were true. I do not know that you have any right to object to anything that I endearing letters from re strewn around he loked at the | spark to the powder magazine of he sight of | fessariont 233224 | table, and as his eyes fell upon the scraps of paper even his self con- trol was not proof against them saw him start violentiy, then with a mighty effort ho controlled himsclf and turned back to me with a derisive smile upon his face. “So you're scarching the waste basket now,” he sald unpleasantly. “Really, Madge, for a perfet lady like you, don't you think that's a bit unclubby?" “You do not deserve any answer | to a speech like that,” I said, “but I expect you to belleve me when I tell you that the plece of paper which those scraps represent was one of several stuffed in Junior's pocket while he was playing post- man in the trash heap out by the barn. Katle, in alarm because he had been forbidden to play there brought him to me and made him turn over the pleces of paper to me. When my eyes fell upon the hand- writing and the salutation, I tore it up with apparent carelessness and tossed it with the other pleces in the waste basket. I did not wish Katle to se it, nor to imagine I con- sidered it anything important if her eyes had happened to fall upon it.” “How extremely considerate,” | Dicky sneered, but I, who know his every inflection, recognized a note of uneasiness in his voice, and reai. ized that he was not as nonchalant as he would like to appear. “Of course I'm not going to pretend that | | T'm ignorant of whose fist this js. | You know Ede's notepaper and handwriting as well as I do. As for the.situation to which you so touchingly refer. I suppose it was ‘Dear Dicky-bird." About one mil. lion people more or less address me in that fashion and the letter was a most Innocuous one I give you my word.” “And I gave you my word con- cerning my conversation with Dr. Meredith,” I sald tartly, Tho physiclan's name was the Dicky's wrath, here's some difference, I might remind you, between a romantic tete-a-tete with a man almost a stranger to you, and a harmless let- ter to me from an old friend,” he stormed, The tralt of powder lay thick be- |G tween Dicky's temper and mine anrl]n. the fire ran along it with devastat ing effect, ot 50 harmless to me when the | friend is one who has boasted | that she loved you far better than | 1 ever could,” T said hotly. Copyright, 1925, by Newspaper Feature Serviee, Ine NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD Number 37 horlzontal is a big word because it has a big monning HORIZONTAL, . Cow. . Hauling. . Obese, . To come in, . Work of genin . Path, . Meadow. . Exists. . 3.141 . Ocean, . An answering, . To perch, . Ministers. emale sheep . Tloats. . Engagements . Cavities, . Generosity, . Condition, . Depressions. . Bright. . Bleaching chemical 50. Renouncement, . To ventllate. . Upon. . Half an em, 5. Mineral spring . To leer, . Social insect. . Pitchers, . Muecles, Chatn which passes through tye-block (naut.) VERTICAL . Sirips of leather. . Unit. To commence, 4. Sharp . Sun god. . Whigs. euter pronoun. Broad smile . A railroad signal light, . Devoured. English coin. . Not suitably. Woolen cloth. of money Settled wife at time of marrlage, Feminine pronoun, Almost a donkey. . To knock insensiblc . A rental contract To rub out. Road house, G210 plomm: By BEGIN HERE TODAY JOHN W. BROOKE, widower and hardware magnate, arranges with a firm of efficlency engineers to man- age his home for a perlod of two months that he expects to he away from the city. Hls three childyen, Constance, Billy and Alice, are un- aware of this arrangement until the arrival of H. HEDGE, efficiency engineer, who takes over complete control of | the Brooke household, occupies the wner's suite and turns the library into an office. Hedge has cut off Bil- Iy's allowance hecause he refuses to | work, Constance was reinstated when she, on the day after Hedgu stopped her elopement with Tommy Treadwell, decided, for reasons best known to herself, to btcome his secretary. One notable success {n Constance's skill was the purchase of a complete outfit of wearing apparel with Hedge's personal approval. Today Constance has found the private drawer in Hedge's desk unlocked. Examination shows that Hedge is planning to write a book with “The Jdls Rich" as the subject. She is filled with consternation when she finds that Hedge has decided to make her the subject of two chap- ters—before and after ‘the appli- cation of scientific control.” Con- stance has ordered Horace, the but- ler, to produce Hedge immediately. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY The efficlency man was prompt and evidently expcctant. When he walked briskly into the room he was smiling happily. He knew that, no matter how coy or whimsical the voung lady might be, she could not turn off daylight by pressing a but. ton. H. Hedge told himself that the moment was at hand. He stopped abruptly as he eaw i her, and there was swift question- ing in his'look. Constance was point- ing with a rigid arm at the manu- script on the desk. “Did you write that?" she asked grimly. He followed the direction of her sture, readily identified the manu- ipt at a glance, and nodded. “And you dare even to think that you are going to publish it?” Constance had abandoned all of the carefully piotted eampaign. No more stealth now; it was war in the open. “I've been thinking of that very thing,” he answered cooly, with a manner. “I forbid you!" “I think you are attempling to re- verse our positions, Miss Brooke.” He decided that it would not be filting, under the circumstances, to ¢ “Connie.” The type of the idle rich survey- {ed him with a stabbing glance of seorn. “My father will deal with you,” | she said in a tense vol [ “Let's not talk about that, It's swift change to his most efficient | ATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1925, futile. And please remember that, to all intents and purposes, for the time bLeing, 1T am your father. And by what authority do you examine my personal papers?”’ Constance did not condescend to explain, She eved him for several }: conds from head to foot, and to | his credit it must be admitted that he withstood the scrutiny with cour- Suddenly she burst into laugh- | ter; but it was rot of the friendly, mirth-provoking kind that {invites accompaniment. \What a fool you are!" she ex- | claimed. “See! Here's for your book!"” H. Hedge stiffened visibly, but made no comment. “And I'm the person who made a fool out of you." She langhed again harshly. “Perhaps you'd better explain,” I e suggested fo i “I will. Tha exactly what I'm | going to do—explain.” | She pointed again at the manu- | geript. | “I'm a ‘perfect type, am 172" sho |sald, “And I have a ‘fairly good { brain.’ Thank you so much for that, | Mr. Hedge. I'm idle and extrav |gant—or I was. That's the funny as' I'm to have two wholc chapters—one befors and the other after taking. What a generous amount of space! I'm going to be a| terrible lesson to the American pub- lie. 1 suppose, of course, you in- tend to use my full name?" 8he paused to laugh again. The eificicny man remained impassive. “I'm going to be made famous in a most wonderful book. I'm going to show the ‘gradual imfluence of re- form.' Delightful! And you are the reformer—the ‘dominant mind.! Even I am not hopeless—it says 50 in your book. Already I rhow the effects of ‘rigld discipline.’ On, it's exquisite! Have I really reformed, Mr. Hedge?' ' “Untll just now you have shown gratifylng progress,” he answered. Constance's laughter overcame her again, “And you belleve—that?" “I—er—had no reason to doubt| “You poor, poor creature!" The efticiency man was mystitied | and beginning to appear uncomf{ort- able. Was it possible he had made | a miscalculation? The only thing| that was very clear in his mind was an impression of a spirited and at- tractive angry young woman. “Let me tell you something, Mr. Hedge, and then you will see what a fool you have been. You didn't know 1 was fighting you all the time, did you? You thought because I was willing to come in here and work that I had surrendered. Ob,| it's rich! Just because I'd given up making an open fight, you thought it was all over. Oh, you were so much easier than I thought!” | She regarded him with a pitying smile. “Why, T .was just playing with you—for what I could get out of you!"” she exclaimed. “And 1 got it, too. All sorts of things-—hats, and shoes, and gowns, and everything {hat you'd been saying I couldn't have. And I've made you break your rules a dozen times, until it has become positively monotonous.” A dull red crept into the: cheeks of H. Hedge, but Constance was re- morseless. The two chapters on the perfect type had proved to be the | final turning point. She was burning her bridges now. “Just playing with you,” she re-| peated. “And your whole wonderful | system went to smash under it. And you thought you were reforming me! | 1t was so easy to lead you, teo. You | never even suspected. You were 8o sure that you wrote it all down, 8o it could be put in a book. A book! think Il write one myself. How would you like to be the hero of my book, Mr. Efficlency Man?"” Hedge made no answer. Al “Well, why don't you say some- thing?" she demanded. “I'm waiting for you to get through, Miss Brooke.” She made a sudden dash to the table and selzed the manuscript cards reading, 'H. Hedge, E. H.' There—they are in the flre, What have you to say to that— Miss Drooke 2" She had nothing to say. NEXT CHAPTER: Hedge hburns his bridges, Your Health | How to Keep It— . Causes of Illness (BY DR, HUGH 8. (‘l'MMlNHI‘ Surgcon General, United States Public Health Service Asthma is not a definite condition resulting from a certain, definite cause, Asthmatics, those who suffer from asthma, are in many casn sensitive to certain proteins, A fair- Iy large proportion of asthmatic cases are without doubt due to over-seasitiveness to certain pro- teins. Thue, individuals who have asthma when in contact with horse are sensitive to a protein discharg- ed from their bodics, Asthmatic individuals may be sen- sitized also to proteins from various other sources—emanations which rise from cats and dogs—emana- tions from feathers, certain food proteins, when eaten, the more com- mon of which are rye, corn, wheat, rice potatoes cggs milk, fish lobster, beef and chicken, v It appears also that a few agti- matics are sensitive to fruits, i h ae strawberries, apples and peache Others are sensitive to pollens, pu ticularly the pollen of timothy an ragweed, and still others to hacterial proteins., Some cases of asthma are secondary manifestations of other di- seascs. In such ceses, the symptoms depend largely upon the organ at- tacked and the discuse which is pre- sent. i Agthma attacks may be manifest- ed in ditfer ays. In gome £ the att e with suddenness and without warning. In ether cases, a patlent experiences sensa- tlons whish he recognizes immedi- ately as fore-warnings of an attack. A patient, as a rule, will state that he knew an attack was coming on because of an fthching of the nose, a cough or feeling of jllness ac companied by restlessness and dis- comfort. In other cases, a patlent experiences a condition of great mental excitément. In still other: loss of appetite is recognized as a symptom but, in the wajority of cases the attack begins during the night, sometimes with abruptnes more often, possibly, by slow degrees apd the p: t may not be aware that asthma is threatening. In some individuals, the attack of asthma, or the sm as it s called, occurs usually at a certain hour. In case the onset is sudden, the patient may be awakened from a sound sleep with a feeling of in- tense suffocation. In some cases, this tensation slowly increase and does not become acute for an hour or m The duration of an attack, if not relicved, shows wide varjation from a few minutes to several hours. An attack of asthma subsides gradually and the, patient usually falls asleep. The attacks may bc repeated daily n him as if she knew of his inte | tion. Suddenly John Alden turned Yowler Pays Bobby Back By Thorton W. Burgees or her sake T shall stay is the famous Master of Do you know, that Tie harped g0 with elub feet or some other terrible ) ; 2 3 4 you think that any | Wi ; Son man could ng in this nd heard I grew birth-mark. ( COLOR € TS will have e whole set. notes in her hands, waving them | for a weck or more, They may Alden Prescott—Continued Do you suppose that no one | mouth hastened down' o - | book!” upon the presence or absence of the e was very much And I'm asking the same question ~hed her preparations to star! o instant later the diary followed!from acute bronchitis. Nassl e saratitions Feels crything 1s ready now for happi- T\ T e ¥or a full half-minute she faced | entail, asthma is generally not in- e e S bnd e breinied foe S e e e “There! That's the end of that! It is very diffieult to give Yyou A LR aLET it e, 1 ‘alter is 1o be AT S R s Her voice broke abruptly, and [just what climate best suits one who Vora 1l for some kindiof a lcourse, Ruth s dlmost cf dog. Bobhy waded across the brook,| H. Hedge surveyed her quietly [ have found it almost impossible be- e e T e Vaby will probably be born 2 Now, lurd Bobby crosbed just a| “As soon as you get through with | diseuse. vally edneated and e !that he didn't cross quite soon | tal of dust in the atmosphere that is St o aloft with a hysterical gesture. followed by a long comparativ i el . “Here's for your | tree intcrval, but this may depend Letter From Leslie Prescott To dohn otion of our little paradise on | Miles Standish next morning the peo e!” ghe cried, “Here D tutl king to me the night |is allowed to be perfectly happy in cll to the May- She tore the pages across ~and |cause. Mild attacks of bronchial as- luth wi vh-fl‘\»\(‘ e e e A Tl Rt AR tossed them into the open fire. An|thma may be difficult to distinguish : f vou, Jack. You know that just : s Tanas 5 | them. The efficiency man did not| Despite the severity of asthmatic iy JeN T ialr | itk o il 1K (n @iemc Vs e e e e . lnake an effort to stay her hands. |attacks and the suffering which they Ing about the baby's coming? He " when it seemed to us that, all O N en i in il 5 tiash naaldeclded o | him, her hosglr‘l“),!::‘;ifls- her eyes ;:loit:nal:\;:ns those discases which sevms 1o fecl that it will bring un- clouds that had darkencd ‘our =) Sh (e Boat Halslooa owitn alight with excite . 5 i . > excla You'll never put| helpful information regarding the \\\ e an ]'.: “‘-‘ S 5 hmv‘»:r"‘; v‘l‘]» Lm”:‘md ;‘r ck. 2 i AY” ,”“1., ,)\‘L‘ t:fil:«" m‘m‘;“ me in a book! T—I— treatment of asthma or to advise vx rth months, h pital tonight. He is to be ope Bobby Coon lheard him coming, or|she was shaken by a tempest ©f|is suffering from nsthma.‘ {lhn has persisted in sa ; that he was ed on early in the morning. rather he heard the barking of the! weeping. causes are so varied that physiclans ) | | e k Wi trace of emotion. forehand to tell what effect any par- our b et eiaily ST 7 . - : "y lalnear | He knew that the water would des-|and with no X : Y 2 2 ng ng {o "N' n to " . hecause of 8 worry ahout e L S 're in debt therell come & | troy his scent. | “Take a seat,” he sald sharply.|ticular climate may have upon the A o ‘ . : £ i kst T ing to do the| As regards dust, it shonld be re- When you will find you have ta pay. | little sooner e would have fooled | that sob stuff, I'm gol : Bobby Coon. Yowler and the dog, but {t happens | talking. And it's going to be some | membered that it {8 not the amount i 9 ) 3 £, not be- | important, but the kind of dust; in I 3 Y nite as ©nough and Yowler saw him. Now Constance seated herself, n i 5 Yowler the Bob Cat s quite as) SPRCEL A0 00t or O ater and | cause of any command from the effl- | gther words, an attack of asthma | Tis it ol is suit a | shoes and stockings of the world's progress an of mine, is it wicked for | t it is not your i : Associated I smart as is Bobby Coon. Few tric i aney ) esponse to @ | may depend largely upon the source Inc wn be played on Yowler without N had no intention of wetting his| clency man, but in resp v dep sudden collapse of belligerency. She | of the foreign protein to which the 1 am thanking God without me, and a mood ns, you LESLIF NEA Service, Ine.) Letter from Leslie nnah Smiith, ce and Date 1 Locked Up what had happened when Bobby Coon had mad use of him to get rid of the dog and hunters. You ses, he hal hrard that dog chasing | Bobby Coon, and when he had first ]'W' ard that dog t i r's \m»r‘r | was comin n a part of the Grecen IMorest rre Yo r had not ! \een that evening. So, when the dog gan following his (Yowler's) trial, Finally Bobby crossed to the other side. Yowler knew that he had been led there. On his way home at daybreak Yowler passe holiow tree in which lved Bolbhy Coon “I'll get even with you yet, Bobby Coon,” he growled in his ugliest sounding voice. But Bobby, curled up in his bed inside the hollow tree, simply grinned r, Yowier had chance ry mext night. He had first pains 1o find ont where Bobby vas. Bobby was fishing along the Laughing Rrook. Yowler went - ar the edge of the ping that the dog 114 return again that lisappointed. He g only a short time lanterns of the ~ui the sniffing of jown from almost in front of was so strong his knowledge. He knew exactly | (o€t en to get even with Bobby Coon. There were some big stones and from one to another of these Yowler jumped. But before he started he waited until the dog was so near that he couldn’t help but tee him. The dog did see him and b nt splashing across the hrook. He didn't mind the water in the When he got across he made bt for the place where he had lest seen Yovwler. Right t ler's t disappeared Yowler had made a long j illen tree, and along this run and j 1ped from it to 1 trunk of ig hemlock trec. Now « was nicely hidden half way his tre But if () seent of Yowle sterfously vanished t o take its place. It was Robby Coon. That dog knew 1} o was supposed to be hunting y Coon. He wasted no trying to tind the scent of Yow. the Bob Cat. Instead, he picked up the trail of Bobby Coon. and away Le went, barking as only a hunting dog can. v. Ha had felt so sure ng the brook he would be safe that this was a great surprise to him. He didn’t feel like running and he didn't know where to run to. He knew that it wouldn't be safe simply to climb a tree. Then the dog would bark at the foot of the| tree and the hunters would come over and perhaps kill him. Bobby | be killed. He was| angry at Yowler. You sce, he had| lidn't want zotten that he had played the me kind of a trick on Yowler the night before, That dog was a fast runner. He was getting ne and Every minu‘e he v gr‘_: nearer. Bobby began to pant puff. He began wonder if Is was after all to he his jast run. And then all of a sudden it popped into his hcad what he should do. Stupid not to have before. What is the hing Brook for, " he| Straight back to it he hen you should have seen amper down along the edge Laughing Brook just in the | word and her curiosity was risln[l, was terrified at what she had done. | She had tossed another person's treasures into the fire without 50 much as asking leave or serving no- | tice; and the reaction was abrupt.| The calmness of H. Hedge frighten- | ed her. lLeaning limply forward in the desk chair, she buried her face in her continued to sob. The cfficiency man watched her for a moment, alternately frowning | and smiling. He had promised her a | talk, but he was uncertain about the | beginning of it, even though he had | a clear notion of the ending. | ‘Miss Brooke!" he snapped. She did not look up “Are you listening, Miss Brooke?” Thers was a Yaint nod, although €he did not raise her head from the desk “You'd better listen' ‘he grimiy. “Because everything is go- ing 10 eternal smash in the next ton minutes. This is Judgment Day, | and we are going to get what is| coming to both of us—pronto!™ | Still she did not stir. But she was| listening in spite of her sobs | “Pronto means all-of-a-sudden,” | he added. was a brief pauss in which he devoted more study the coll of brown ha “All bets are off, Miss Brooke. Do | vou hear that? Bets off—Miss Brooke!” She heard, but made no acknovl- edgement of the mystifying intelli- | gence. Sl ou have known me as H. Hedge, E. E he continued. “But hereafter there is no such person.g Hec has digappeared. So has Henry Hedge, who was his immediate pre- decessor. Henry Hedge is abolished. You are now looking upon H. Well- | ington Hedge, without any E. E. or | other honorary degree tied to the| rear axle. 1 see are not look- | makes no difference; you are | h is sufficient for the Constance's sobs were becoming | 1ess frequent. Her ears caught every rapidly patient is sensitive. Only your physician can give your case the necessary attentfon. If he is not able to discover tWe cause of this trouble, he will be in a position to refer you to some gpecialist who wil make your condition the sub- ject of further examination and study, and you may find if you fol- low this course that the clearing up of your asthma may require littls more than the cutting of weeds about your house or the removal of vertain plants, the pollen of which may be responsible for your troubla possihly or the avoldance of feath- er pillows. Removes Frult Stains To remove fruit stains from a tablecloth or.anything white, wet with peroxide and put it into the sunlight to dry. If the stain is very la it may be necessary to wet the stain eeveral times to obtain the best rcsults, - Fresh Youifel Skin Mainiained By Cuticura with touches of Cu ment when required, will do much to prevent pore-clogging, blackheads, pimples, roughness and other unwholesome c8ndi- tions of the skin. Finally he crossed to m-: “H. Wellington Hedge,” he re. resisted. Away other side. He was safe. The Laugh- | peated incisively. “I have killed the s only ten | went W way went the ing Brook had washed away his| ‘Henry and substituted an H.' You , and had | dog after him. Straight to the scent. | Wil presently understand why. 1 I ing Brook Yowler led the way. ' (Copyright, 1923, by T. W. Burgess.) | have here in my card case certain Boxp Be Ointment 2 und Se. Taleom 3o, S0l Eerwhre: Samle soch fote Agarern. n , Dopt. 317, Maden, Mase.” B~ Cuticura Shaving Stick 28e.