New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1926, Page 12

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, 20, 1926. Quicksands of Love Adele Garrison’s New Phase of fit ———Revelations of a Wife —— Lillian’s Move to Make Katherine Housckeeper for Madge. lly, Lillian time in the “thrashing out thing which had been ibling that of again broaching to Kuth- my desire that she should take the care of Junior for the historical research wk 1 promised Philip Veritzen I 1n- |8 ‘I Tt dertake for him or leroy for Junior to finish ging of me, and JEDY briskly: g to th er extreme and |, I broug with me to- s hoodlum.” day for a certain boy who has had a sleef® over 11 nap a hour. I 1 couid " Lil- find him. 1t is an has invented prise” is a c some ridiculous attitude accompanying nonsensi Junior prizes them above possible toys, and 1 have c filed all of them, a memento of this gifted and generous tehit friend, to whom each the forts means the same thing really lavish gift of money man to other people. scrambled down from my dashed over to her. “Am I the ‘certain boy Lillian?” he asked earnestly. please say I gm! She looked down at him with simulated sternness which he under- stands and enjoys hugel “I den’t know,” she said. ‘“Have you had a nap of a whole hour “No, but I'm going to hav right this minute,” he cried when I wake up, may I have surprise?” “You certainly may,” she prom- ised, and Junior started for the rear room on the run. “Nobody need come with me,"” T threw over his shoulder. “I'll t off my things and put on my bath- robe, and cover up all my own self, you bet your boots. Then it will be an hour from this minute.” Herolcally we waited to laugh un- | il the door had closed behind him. 4 “He didn't want any of that hour 1 the n ized t God I s 1 W own W o wmmE— w ny Lill, vou'd grown 1p: C pro no the me erine ove acteristic wasted " of o for o ceasing with h and st e store, Lillian you 5 it a chop “W 1o kid St anyway le Rtoland Reed She waited | J ha cha f need his ecstatic defended myselly o, whol wish s moth She di 1 ove Katrina o “Besides, he's | iy r to an expert is old game whic for Junior ricatu with thon ter 11 ed 1 all n ty wa mose 1 lig ring but T knew taking in Kath- ‘T bribed er so that Madge inhiibtion or com anointed it frm asking that must ed Fight And T'll throw formation that upon your swer depends Madge's whole fu- has the chance with this {work of Philip Veritzen's to become a real person of the professional world instead of remaining a domes- tic nonenity as far as masculine com- parisons go. me, Madge for my brutality, it's no time to and know what T n htly dow busine the as en re of m that a would Tunior lap and xpressive the talk fre of banished youngs Fool. could ly. some sort or variety of her stion away vents Aunt Oh! a que AnsWe the in in a |ture. She one, hen the Forgive but you mince wor | mes an." he throbbing veins in my temples told me only too well what she meant. Dicky's manner had pointed |her comment upon more than one |occasion. In comparison to Edith ¥ his office associate and his partner, T was indeed a domestic nonenity in his eyes. right, 1926, by right, Feature Service, Newspaper Tne. Copy BY irgeon Scar e C You o town at holes back Of holes right things of this kind. warning he came really All he wmber ki witl A Funny Crab Town o confin = 1out any hich preva s was it. Green Meadows, where he had lived mpy ¢ didn’t know B - W {freque of and vay mud el he The which funny seems to thing the quite in t rom of commonplace to me. —0ld Mother Nature. Meadow Mouse over on the edge of t marsh after spending the night exploring with Skunk. Jim- my returned to his home underneath the bathhouse un the beach. Tt only a short distance from the hath- house over to where Danny had made a nest in old log at the edge of the marsh. “Come again, Danny my, “and Il show vou things.” *Thank you,” May noticed those Sear awa o7 anybody ; by dir wonder who n them and if said Danny de ons & directl went back the Danny to his ome lives in them, to ! AS if holes in out of a little crab, Danny had answer one of but yet pinching in funniest way. The was small. This Danny when e hole. Almost ed from not have | the two |mild In & |these out of |the di Some | arge Jimmy e funr 1t claw ar front of st was crab 1 een, only « big |thro {milk 1 abled. rried up a it in the hing claw t an just other ( once wnother hole. the big pinghing minute the not see from who the in Som Jim- morc some 1e out of his another Thi pinchir one s one did claw, but were small crabs popping all around Dan single big claw and some |let fe and they did scuttle |school about! Every in a while there |would be a fight. Something un- seen by Danny frightened them, and tha way they all scuttled for their holes was a sight to see. Each one scuttled for nearest hole, wheth- |er it belonged to him or not. T! result was 1t when the owner of the hole found body else i. there he tried (the latter out. Like ali the of the erabs Danny had seen, these ran sidewise. As soon all quict they all camc Their eyes were 1 those stalks w emed be very oy forever moving the replied Danny. “If claws were holes Mos had #he did no now once comm a ng loceur severe the m rule Two, that fever |may r [inflam arrived and some- to pull rest may and {well stalks | Quit They |have and as was a | out once more. on little ra movable to suspicious As If in answer, out of one of those holes hopped a little crab to in tres of thi were It im enough there cral ller Crabs. big claw with the two Fiddler. f a Pid- it was funny one hout, There Danny tell these A is you ask mni no to around here.” It was with a little sigl fulness that he finally his own snug 1| dreamed of cr crabs with end they him. He fdea that they shells, great big didn't seem to would The 1 maore marsh. everything is queer wis what |char o aven kind Iic the e one thank- in of were ver b with cu up recen The 1 to slee ws small is Mrs, middle great o were al sight as 1 bs n o sight ired in their midst and em seuttling to their taken notice still couldr were were n greafer irmor hin too mugch to crabs iced ed that mamy rehed The m the norni them I bled ¢ imilk, Lur br over d by more grass, kind of g hy his way with this |tea Hows Din tables, |salad. {ham b | Two {rnhbec vith lenilled m Phis ened with powdered sugar and serv ed wit over t | One 1 teaspo! lt, 4 gg. 1 Drai towels, headline Girl Cc AN on By thi nmits doing [ matter no rig and Mr private 1 and hind ve the mere | t | ht to li flour Robir |ing wa [bowl went offi worm was it up te n er room he il the ushered into horon H for bread | Beat ir inst Which belog Mr. Robinson desk were the afternoon pape:s 1p the one on top and to read on cves. There was nothing on the first page | Plainly T could read this epitaph fhot o about Miss Cleaver, and only a small {of Mar{ha Cleaver between the lines. | warm Piled up editions persor to or N given a stone ad one This is th t of her. Here she lies. ‘[h«;‘h—vv her breast and the clogy|Bake i fir: of 1} 1 s picked The wor down her A B S AR v apei i looked up and saw it saw nting with understand TOMORROW: Your Health freshly are enth month |scarlet of {he | United s ' Menus for thé i"amily 4 [ with soda, salt and ging or cups or my face in irror opposite and shuddered awfulness of her story. I real- hat, except “by the grace of night have been me. Martha Cleaver as she was irs before, starting out just young, ambitious, world in her h in her- today; to move the way, blessed with fa on fifteen years was today. and time he could | ideal of any | tha o READ THIS FIRST: MERRY LOCKS#, pretty and gay her nickname, has been a flirt all her life. Even during her high school days, she was “boy crazy,” to quote MOMS, her mother. school, she after high business cour Her I ts the first job the of nd course, hand- he in love thought he was, with him advanced her in the ra he gave her a which she was made to her L And having well : s beauty she worked ma good—not for the in to make the man she was worthy was, very and rhaps least he love er, at was in he ther e Then urally, in fails father job that assistant or t for ¥ The DALE'S roomer of comes alo; in LILLIE Moms beauty shop. into the Loth ends megt. ime Merry the love affafr of her deeply ang incerely ANTHONY GAINES, ed young lawyer to matry her. But Merry of her feeling for him won't Her love affairs never s0 she And so decide six months marry night, igement takes it. but that 1 make good, but she alousy of other women who only one-tenth of her talents ht they could do her work bet- in she herself was doing it. I year the work became hard- 1 harder as more responsibili- s put upon her. More and she had to devote time to her ss and less she saw of she loved. Love house About irst real to help make this as incurred |11 She falls in love with sober-mind who wants n s afraid last, have d Tony ¥ |ana to wait N 1 e sS, sav when with Tony her, DER- door had R an eng hurt and JONES, who to an | Merry, RICK It friend of is a Jealous gry, lels liv s next he often Tony. Then with BILL ERSKINE, a MORLEY KAUFMAN, for whom her sster ASSTE When Tény about shuts up his of love or o How to Keep It— Causes of Iliness e Monta Judge this and goes I with nd of come round the chance out of to Bannerman 10 father \ him, ‘but it is lost before to read it. She her mind, grad Her ries. T | wealthy Morley [the vonnuzest of th% ltakes DERRICK JONFE: Merry f n Frskir she welcomes sends her pre her whenever tells her 1 asks to to |ola I his practice it Merry P ally. sister Ca has Tony | house a re t i hen ie JINNY sisters fron mucl Kaufman, four way Merry, els {deserted | When nto her very Teln nd and Bill life, He to sec comes to her, but him. Still, she can m puts he |Now Go oN wiTH | CHAPTER X 1 al kin we s comes loves town, her ma 11 never Mer Arry e sune’ v Is whet him to 1t s her mind Y T it 0 M hecame to send presents < or two W wias on the road. | | win that o would am mailing you something Little And perhaps Merry those eyes TUMMING General, United 8 Health fever is childhood ed to this : nt in Weur, ney he PR. e rt tates <t night Lil- he find done up in a hox write. T Public rvice hen from dis- come home let of essentially though it Tt~ is ate climates but with much less tropics. In gen- searle hern a is lie's he would a 25 uty shop en chiffon scar distant shop. waiting for her on the table. Al things 1tk \ble thin most from some and expensive temy though in the death ra higher always the her ost 1 i ifteen wer P rlass | from the i s cir rfume ) than in tho: let fever ect personal contact in nor south, of, the dollars ne an ounce; 1 Merry a with per- i is usually contract that was just Kin; fruits Moms | Two w Isent her lace. ‘Real lace. said five 11 diseasc with articles seeretions (dis- ngse and throat ed persons. or through milk has been contaminated h milking, or the handling of by persons who, while not dis- ar: the or arc recovered an work uffering the & ik lways contact 1 he black before Christo scart « word!" Moms upoOn my closely didn’t her that examining i ten cents reading glass. . pick |up for wrote suffering from dis- sufficiently to be capable to a hat,” nothing Bill that me than hat she nade into a ack but still fection. cases at of conveying | | me “Ther of a hit la blond girl in a blacl | Moms grunted when that his letter. said stock tell gave lace of scarl ire so unr and “missed” cases help, to spread sease, t fever ognize part of “Humph! put m read as to "go | much 1 lips 1 deaths from sca in children under age, though the disease is un- on in infants before the sev- When scarlet fever does infants it is usually quite id the younger the child dangerous the disease, as t cases o you! her head n n and r ogeur s |orous s “What asked her “Why. ahout a sort of a man?' Merry in Il the won that know# all her way kin¢ n explained kind of a of wome ore $ clothes!" her who's made a that bla nows Your in I in tart man n and he likes is a bl | A dace [what a mather study nt ¥ery important complications are apt o occur in scarlet are middle ear disease, which in deafness, and acutc of the kidneys, which even in a mild case patient is apparently knows 1in a never on! well my ss! w n ha man 1k has just as he 1 meeting the father liked me | calico apron ‘.\",:m esult mation develop fter the He 1 : dia in is 20-{0 dr knew difference, new “discoveries | ¢V in the study of | promise to lead methods in diagnosis, and in the prevention deases. The accompanying the trend of secarlet original registration United “States during recently made which Now gone. {fell widows, been fever proved atment that lead and him all hus- Dad but Moms' 1} Like her no prai from lips. all |band’s shortcomings and |bered only the lovable things about hi Merry thou had had to di |appreciate him | “Another thing | Mc went at in 5 remem- shows and fine in the hefore pity Dad years Morgs could chart shows the deaths in the ates from scarlet fever, per e this B Thornton W. Burgess D frowni about s searf, “he no you things |like this. No man should buy for her until on th lacc husiness sending lown black st | woman's clothes he's | married to her— | “But this seram- Bt it muffns, BY SISTER MARY st Orange juiec with bran is only a lace scanf.” I3 ric 1 another mt e sgid Lettuce and ¢ i bread butter blueberry cap pudding cehon g sal- B rply, “and around if! Y Do you I Merry didn't But the lace and brimmed sand- milk, rown and o r she answer — Lamb stew with [ pud 1er 1 cablage and banana cream milk three vege- pineapy ding the ha mornin milliner into a h Gower wide on roet it made read coffee or through qup or cream rixtune r lined w bnanas m thoroug stiff. Swant ripe riger of whipped is then 1 1 and At in her to tell Bill more i rote {him S8l e “That's a look yn room and 0 until 1ty sl it 810 wrol zering T must for you when von gome what it o lgtter is eharg to me | I 4, dash of ground cinnamon he top. Blucherry €up Pudding cup hoifing 1 teaspoon on ginger, 1-4 teaspoon | melted bufter 1 blyeherries him, ‘hut berries {me to look tablespoonfuls [ang | remaining flour [ ning in . Add boil- [ arrora i mixing | von Add dry ingredients and mix beating until smooth, n melted butter. Beat hard for twd minutes. Add 11 Rill wrote that that surely was so! and stir in prepared os. | T can't half n huttered and flouced custard |often as T'd like to.' letter read gem pans in a moderately |“Al do to pass the time en for twenty minutes. Serve |awas Tm theso trips, with whipped or plain cream. [to go out gud buy some things for but nice no matter Bill* it By from cup molasses 2-3 cups flour digkens fo take hack fao 107 You like T'm with von Fribly kind of clothes T can 1 that ate like {1 you,” st what tablespoons it vrote 1 dry witt sift 1 well when cup 0 aid Dred Mis between aind can't loo)k 0 te stun the And enjos it gives it does Isn‘t that so anvway linow molasse hings. < much pleasure 1 them ater to sending 1 sure you ghly as me when T get err see vou, myself, as his 3 can while an is life. | al tting | I'm | By DBeatrice Burton Author of “Love Bound,” “HER MAN” 1819 Broadway, New Yurk City) { (my little sweetheart, and imagine |painted a bright Chinese red. | {how her eyes danee when she opens| I knew a girl at chool whose | the packages, Are you being a |father died and left her without a good Little Sister while I'm gons, [red cent,” she went on, blowing a ind staying at home nights and |jet of cigaret smoke from her nos |leaving all the boy friends alone?” |trils. “And she earns her living And so they drifted into an “un- {by selling some kind of cold cream derstanding.” Merry never went |that and her mother at at might, except with Moms |home. And think of the money Bill was away. She didn’t [that Mrs. Gouvernenr Morris 1 I whether she was engaged to|when opened that beauty shop him or not. |of Mers— She didn’t | “Come on, wanted to he ! cut in, and “I'm not Not [end of their talk. But it left its mark on Merry. That night she went home, feeling that she had done a clever thing by | into Lillie Dale’s shop. | going to have a made up her ‘mind, as she |let herself into the house. “T thinl IT know where to get the mone { | ft—" was thinking i He But down | she make out wh I know she | | bridge! know she not. with him told herself, “that’s | whether let's play that or Cassie in o | so far a in r. And s that with she went anyone was content love Else, s0 to share in it gs slide., . she . . One cold Cliristmas short] Tephoned |buy 1 was going out of | Er o door of the heauty shop. “Morley's town M stamry night fore Cassie She of er just as she ne would | be coming to going to down- with men,” | high voice, “and |sat over liere to have |hin Why don't you| “I can have some |some for 1 ol is impatient. She | night and wrote to | dinner in r some Merry that f me tallk to you about | W bridge.” want to husiness maitters,” when Mo her bedroom she opened and came crying, and her face | and white and drawn, she “I Thope you | ‘nssie’'s house.™ i | too? was : the | writing, in {door of had 1 been looked hleak “Well 2 yourself i Cor- first to the Cassie flat in She her a |l sajd n invited telit Morley Kaufman [ Merry said she desir know | “It's all right now had |you want fo,” } {with break in her voice if didn’t invite when Morley was home shouldn't go on Merr flushed up. Murie was re." “And we had an awfully Morley wouldn’ when I'm engaged to end. would he?” Moms looked “Well ut she 4 send you hi for n Mor no family i} it nd that nd s had 1 or ¢ njoyec or 1 1ssie’s rri=fl He made rried erry decided rable a you to mother zo if “But ther: owe more he had before. that Jie had her family an un- hatter.” of the voung sis- natural and D e the of Ui seen ¢ of her than he me I'm sure the siy!"” “His answered time. Moms. | his best clear not her i was {here 1 nothing snoh a “hi siste was she his we nice high-hat me s Cortelyou str opened the and ca out on her. She had one »efore, on the d dad Rut she 1er like an old friend | “Hello, there!” {banister.” *We thought never coming. 1t took her slipped her arm around Mer- and together they of the flat ran ent 1ssie’s ir only Muricl doubtful | yon you are why doesn’t door £ are asked skine to meet % an ment | ng? “ Me said vou anything diamond then % s W grected 0 waiting with she ealled over the that gives a _you were you to * . | Bill came into town on Christmas ! v Merry put hat, a plain dre downtown to him. They 1o have dinner together at Brevoort, i “Can't think of anything else {to do but eat?” Moms, asked in her | {sour way when Mefry d ing that night. . “All he do is to sit in restaur stuff bimself, it seems to me! But rry enjoved dining as much Bill did. She the music and loved to look at round her. She loved to) her, and they look at look—men and women ot lace went | black and on her black Tieet Iry's slender st, Sy into the hallway looking like Tennyson's hundred earls,” in a cloths the | were | hter bl of-gold living room, In the room caug 0 fa the | k satin dress with a Y, out from new col came e her, Merry crackling behind of pink mirrar, heaped silk cushions. and take off ready,” C her a peck wa w t I a nts nt to | and roses re- and of » up with woodfire of fresh a flected in wide long venport out “Hurry id to her glowing Merry followed Muried long narrow hallway th bedrooms. There were four of in Cassic's flat and two bath rooms. Cassie’'s own he like a moving picture “se was hung with blue-green taffeta. The fur- | niture was painted plue-green, and | rug on the floor was pearl gray All the brushes on the dressing table were ivory, and they had Cassie’s initials in gold on them half dozen bottles of | -anged along the back of the top draker was filled of rouge, boxes of powder, puff yebrow pencils rs, Jars of cold of thin tissue paper cream from the the e B ust the lights noise. people have t lalways as your il wssie on along Dinner 5 She a cheek n down the aid led to the them she had an orchid pinned shoulder. It the first orchid she had ever and il had cost five dollars “Think!” said Mer looking | the table at Bill's fat pink | live dollars for a single | You just throw money | don't you? It's about money | I want to talk to vou tonight! want you to lend me some.” “‘Lend you some?” Bill repeated, | tand across his good - natured pink- | ness slid that cruel, hard look that | ! had seen on his face onui Ton her was had, lon Traom was tE Il acro; the s Wwas ihere S a perfume it. And with jars velvet Merry before. CHAPTER XXVI | much do vou want Bill | asked. “Flow wmuch do you | to lend you | were still narrowed over | he looked at Merry earnestly. ! he asked again. care much for ream and boxes for cold race. What Merry, But “How Erskine want me His lid his eyes and very hard and “How much Merry didn’t removing a heavenly room!" said s she looked around it. said it with a sigh, as she pictured her own. little room ome. The little shabby room the eaves, with its iron beds, | worn-out arm |one, ation shell toilet sel. | Tt wasn't exac sie’s flat was just jwas sharp and as luxurious as tie bedrgom. Biha pf tone hs i dining room, where theNin gpeaking to three girls ate, was white paneled |mapy; wnd the furniture was black wo00d: | Merry dropped There were candles at either end |yor thick lashes the long table. and & new glass loys on her petal-like checks. |bowl of Shasta daisies in the cen- | w1 you're going to talk to me lik |that,” she said, looking up at him | delicions. Cream |gyqdenly, “I won't ask you to lend | cold veal bird, ime this money. T want it just for a | vegetable salad |jjiile while to buy a share in Lillie's | €hoeo- |shop, T could soon pay it back to | vou—" scratched-up meal” |" ‘she hrok off short. She didn't sily, when Muriel lyang (o talk about paying back the leaned forward and \yoney. She didn't want to be busi- | from one o: the candle fnegs like, No indeed! Bustness | a little as she |;peant such tiresome things as |notes and six per cent. the hand that | ghe wanted Bill to give her the Its fingers Were \;oney just as he might have given the nails were 1ike |jer g hottle of perfume or a box of and on the third loangy hecause she was a beauti- ring and an en- |ey) girl and he was in love with her. Where,” for goodness' sake, was |the point in having a well-to-40 man it had [in%ove with you if you couldn't ask a type- Iy favor of him once in a while 8| At least, that was the way Mer [had it figured out in the little |brain under her matchless gold {hair, It was all as simple as A, B, C to her. | “evau give.me all |things, Bill all the time,” she went | lon, pleadingly. “It's because you've !been so generous to me that I |know yowll give me this money now. Only a thousand dollars.” she at unde batered clock and The his | dress a | im of ¢ But it like. The | have used business | harsh, busine might another rest her eyes made faint so that shad- | te | The food was |of celery soup, |tresh green peas. ve |in chicken-jelly, and frozen [late pudding. | “IU's just a | Jus wssio said |praised it. lit a cigaret flames, frowning |aid it. Merry She looked [neld the cigaret. [slim ana white, | polished coral, [finger a wedding |gagement ring spurkled like a clus- Iter of stars. 1t did not look as if | pounded the steel keys of [\writer day in and day out for 00d many Years. And Cassie, herself, with modthly waved hair, her clean, fresh look, her indifferent air, fitted into this luxury beauti- | fully, She much more at home in this nine-room flat than ever had seemed in the shabby gi! house on Chester street. “\\unu_\m-n drawled, when they were having tiny cups of | “ghp had meant to borrow in the fire-lit living roQmM fjngred dollars from him. [“how does everything o at the | a5 what Lillle wanted for a beautg shon? the beauty shop. hare in Arely oo 8 saph | But Merry gecided that it would She had no idea that sie S1€ Ihe easier to get a thousand from | wouldelet Morley Kaufman's family | gy now, and the remaining five |know that her nswered the |y ynqred later. He seemed so stub- | telephone in a neighborhood |yorn, somehow. tonight. | beauty shop! She folded her hung flushed and glanced at ftap0e and looked steadily at But Muriel seeped not at [from under the flattering brim d the lace hat he had given her. “I think vou were awfully smarf | gpe knew that the less she sald to gp into a beauty shop instead of lyye petter. For she was cleyer {into an office. Mer she said. lenqugh to realize that she wasn't | flicking the gray ash from her ci- |ojever. i garet. “1 should think there'd be| That fs. she wasn't sharp like |a young fortune in selling make-up. | Jinpy, or shrewd like Cassie. Byerybody us: nowadavs. 11| Yyhat she haq that neither of must sell like hot cakes.” lthem had was her looks. Not mere | She put up a dainty forefinger |every-day prettiness. But heauty— and touched her own lips that were |the veal thing. The beauty and | all her all sorts of lovely | seemed here * she fifteen That | coffee half- sister little the him of on | she | Muriel. lall surpri | doliars | self |¥ [dimpte, sharp, caleulating | eheck-book smiled | with | he asked. “I used to be 1 s skin green |lay, | mouth soft sunny Derrick ber up you're magu like iificent a rose \arm of her own. | doggqned fallable-in-love- with!” And so she was. Her emed to smooth Bill's {them—" with their soft gaze, a#®sbe| She leaned bac leaned across the table, and laid "7\ cab o one of her hands lightly on the |kin from he back of one of his. you!" 1e stroked as she 1y b ! I wildly -~ great shrieks etal, |laug and o “Somehody that their nd half-sel ever heliey you ven said peor ones } B Jones h: trotibies! alf-lad don't m shie “But | Liquor 50 i face it talked. do so little she cutest thing girl to be in She thinks 1 it s working f 1 to be Muriel it's world for he di that she said, owner of aufman the want shop, thinks in the business am—I'd found Liltic that says her ' cried more Bill leaned sliding spoke fwo put hea just and for Ihefore {opened driver, “Wade drove self! th. rself! r window of 1 1 dollay just mmiliatio: ind words out for ten That Lillic or said Park!" round he uro fre | truth twelye the her mor st cxactly paying for than Mer to he Bill doesn't know won't n na 11 Moy v ' But *What hurt him! “You r } been week fiours 1 to tor two sober Mom And 5 still at her slowlg a enough home s said s montl he < re and di tomach painfully old house wasn't saber 1 1 she Tilke mean? inid You pride Bill." pres wh is ask 1 ing gave his hand a ind released it you don't BNy never Cla suddenly seraped s a e It's my money soft wooden she thoy s what flight for that went up. the when o lit st called are ago s a it i1 money “I'm nta Rill He salad e me g added believe boy," Eoing in.” la1 up ag 1 with be 50 How Those of the 10 other Christmases iittle and girls had been helieved had always he tree do of presents. Merry L truly in a ita and fu inexpensiy been alive ther dressing spoon a i eat, to b fore he most able Like Bill's desire you answered = wio love fo 1de nners left much “Well, 11l tell then, thoughtf then nythi larg and Bill heat bre no matte f0 he ate loaded it “TI tell ain, w 1dn’t weren't in rn seople wilo 1 ft ow— said to he opencd 1 droor melanch dreary tonight. Not Not ev bottom e che you,” he ¥ ‘1 of to an with a sigh. Evervthing seemed and dull 'and ing seemed worth-while. {the check that lay in the beaded handbag. thousand dollars. f a drink does this to me.” s up her mind, as she got in bhed that seemed to EOi round and around and aroun| ‘I'll never take another one as loy s 1 live, That was my first drij and my last one, too.” She didn’t know that for one & as promised herself that a promise, there are doze| and dozens who have broken fit. Wil next morning she che The dull itself over the like pulse As Merry sat in the parlor. to read her Christmas words would blurr and ieross the paper, She looked (hd | over three or four times, wonde {ing if she had missed ghe particul one she wante to But it w inot there. There had never Iy tell door a instead began telling her butter 2| bre . he picce of pop it into his had an ide wouldn't whole-wheat 1 mouth. that d fatten how of it he in great quantities and | with 1 vou, Merry,” he had finished, vou this money with you. I ifckel of it again. kissing it good-hy when T give it to you, I know—and you know. too—that you haven't a husiness head any more than on lowers r dress—" feel about money. for e, lend it to said and her h whole- him a her i much ate. he began Gy if 1| know 1 | en he never see I know I'm a thost “If you on that heaven's Merry yo! The hend nte robs woke kind eves wi th ail ya don't faintly. decn wa soft chin, its auivered to ery. W o car sw as were oing Bill of for Christias, a_smile. “I'll bet | he me and fook in leaned on the her hands The com- now. ~cheer- one his. look was f a nle by He ful gone from his face like himself good-natured and kind. to liftle fop Chrisimas to ®ave worry was n were cards from relatiy nd prob There was one from Lillie Dale, a pl wved one from the Mor { Kaufmans, one not so plain fre the H even one fr( [ Merry's high-school Eng her, ‘“you wha “Honey, said e naver would of a make me thin nts a Lill Well, aou're doll house. that.” He gold going your Don't ens about pworths. and ol ) inner wrote hook m pulled 2 chec a fountain pen fr S Acher “Hyeryhody body else at Christmas,” shuffling them throu 1 know remembered r £ 1f more.” pocket his remébe dollars. housa breath for held ved shoved reck Me do e { thought He rds him it hands. “Everybody Tony Gaines has I ar.. 1 thinks about ross tahle to- r some people next the whispered among | With a sigh ayy ve you wrist- {0 answer t sndden sharp peel watceh ave cost pretty | the front door bell arly that, anyway.” | (TO Bii CONTINU Bill he put fthe | Moms gets a surprise: info his pocket. fmakes an unusual request rryoand Merry yinny. Jinny's bed was unoccuy with eves like | New Year's night; Moms gets other surprise in Chapter “The Petter. FASHIONS By Sally Milgrim whi s ve wond o ie any she got up and w that much grandly, bhack wol )) said s Me M him He heamed ba 1t cen stars, “Big-hearted Bill," she rcross. the table. Her words flippant, but her voice was tender. Never during 11 the years knew did she like Bill Erskine so as at that mo- ment. “Well, let's drink te beauty shop, posed guddenly. Hisy hand went to hi¢ side pocket and came out holding the familiar flask of chased silver. Merry felt that, under the cir- cumstances, she couldn't refuse to drink with him to the long life and success of the beauty shop. So when he pushed a glass filled whiskey and gingerale and ice 'ross the table to her, she lifted it and took a little sip. The mi ture burned her throat and made her cough and she set it down. Bill laughed at her. “You didn't even wet your whistle, Baby,” he chuckled. “What's the matter with | you? Take a drink. Take ® drink.” Once more Merry lifted the glass of amber fluid to her lips and this time she took a deep swallow. T promised my mother I'd never do this, Bill,” said gravely to him, when she finished half of the glass. By that time she was feeling warm and weak at the knees and the bright, gay, colorful room was going slowly around her. She smiled dreamily into Bill's eyes. “I feel as if I were on a merry- go-round.” he sighed, and closed her lids for an instant. As it from far away, she heard him give that deep, fat chuckle of his. “Well, what's wrong with that crazy about merry-go-rounds when I was a kid. You're just a kid still. Here, waiter!” He blue-g 27 whispered were again, him, much to Little then he Sis- pr she had That Flattering Color, Blue, 1l nates the Mid-Season Day ¥ The saying that “French we dress to their eyes”” presuppose I'rench a blue-eyed nation, jud by the amount of blue one sec the streets these days in Paris popular shades are navy a| delicate horizon blue, the lutter undoubtedly inspired by the of the officers’ uniform Becuuse blye is a most adag color I am showing a numb mid-season frocks in this s tched today is an unus smart coat-dress of navy rou slender model peculiarly ad to a medium large figure acount of its straight height - ing lines. he rippling line, so to grace and so general a fe of even the straightest silho is in this instance achicved b cut of the fromt edges to giv cffect of a jabot. Gay trinuning consisting o bunches of flowers made of | colored taffeta gutlined witl] broidery in harmonizing colors| pletes a charming and very ‘ | paid his bill and Merry up from her chair, She felt him wrap. her coat around her, and the next thing she knew they were in a taxicab with street-lamps sailing past the dark windows. Merry thought they were | boats going by She had a vague notion that she was on a b that was floating along a black river. And Bill Erskine scemed to have turned| into Anthony Gaines, She heghn to ¢ “I thought youw'd ggne’ away,” she sobbed, and laid her head on what she thought was Tony's shoulder. Then, all at once, she heard Bill Trskine's voice in her ear, and she knew that she had only been im- agining it was Tony beside her. “Here, what are you hiding your face for?” s asking, and he tilted it up and scaled her mouth with kisses. “Here! Herel” he muttered, his cheek against hers that was wet with te “Brace up! Merry, brace up — we're almost home! What will your mother say it you go into the house like this helped or impc IS, able outfit. A cool coat-frock of navy roma is trimmed with ap “What do T care what she says?” [taffeta in ‘s pattern of asked Merry, who cared very much |bunches of flowers. The when shs was jn her sober senses. |straight lines are ideal for “What do I care?” She began to |figure.