New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1926, Page 20

SR ires L NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 23, R 5 Telse, but they must ba ebsolutels | “Dads awtully tussy about letting Fore tectly plain to you when you're|right. T'l take sou aha > |people out during hours, you know. #l |tventy-one,” Morry answered. “You fiernoon if you can ge: k d Some one would be sur® to see us if all in love with a man now be-| On Runday morning at UIcCKSangs o ove met outside of the store,.and he |cause he has a big pair ot should- | s all rendy to go. thr J - would wonder how I came to know s b i |crs and whtie teeth, But when |(hree nmew silk sports dresses and probably discharge you.” Author of “Love Bound,” [ [voure my age, you look for other |the bag that stood. strapped “Never mind me, Joan. Although | A “HE o £ |things in a man.” hutng: int the: Teang: et your father does not yet know, I HER MAN Yeh, money! 1 know.” Jinny|was a new bathrobe of have discharged myself. T have left 2, i said wisely - [crepe. a red silk harhing e ariion Joh nson Features, Inc., 1819 Broadway, New York City) ’ “No,” her sister answered. “Not|was us short “Gocd. Then you can come and | [ |money exactly. What you want i a4 a cute red cap to mateh, live with me. I need a companion : : : e 4 ; { |someone who can ta e of you| gje ha@ charged “That remains to be seen, Joan, 5 g |properly — give. you a good homgithe smert little shop whare dear.” AD THIS FIRS {warm affection. send his love to her. and all that sort of thing.” bought her own fragi 1 Adele Garrison’s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife —— Secret Stairway Yields a Mysterious Il make the bow first,” she Noise To Madge's Party ‘for know your verdict al- In the light of the flashing intul- |readv. We see it in your eyes. tion which had come to me, 1 look- we the nifty young pair of ed at the pretty rose room whic r decorators, though?” As T left the booth T had a feeling| MERRY LOCKE, pretty and gay | “You know, Bill,” she said, turn- | “Funny,” thought Merry, turning anana oill" sald Jinny, scorn. that someone was hovering around, |as her nickname, is a born flirt. |ing to him, “you know I hate to [the short, crisp little note over and |fully Banana oil! Apple sauce! | «y capn pay for them after ¥ marry Lillian and 1 had prepared for Marwy deed you are” Katherine land sure cnough when I reached the [Since the time she was 16, Merry |talk this over with you. But what [over in her hands. “He said he [And bunk! All the money and thé Ipjji» she thought comfortalily, as Harrison with new comprehension agreed Warrhly. “I suppose this” |sigewalk in front of the store I met |has always had men galore at her |can I do? I've got to know where [was going to send a ring, 1 know.” |§00d homes in the world couldn't | of my friend’s heart hunger for her aved toward Katie's room, i"“”"' feet. She has no ambition beyond |I stand with you. Even Moms is [They had even talked it over, and [make me marry an indoor aviator |iye for Cassie and Morley to own idolized daughter, away “winds up the exigbi | As T caught a view of his sincere, |love-making and a good time. always scolding me for letting you she had told him she wanted a|like Bill Erskine! You're just gy her) school. “All except our secret staircase,” lijjiminating smile T drew a long| At 20, she fails In her business [take up my time. She says ¥ ought |square diamond set in platinum. throwing yourself away on him. if ;' yyoulan't it be tunny if Ril For Lillian had planned every de- |Lillian agreed. “That's the gem of [y eath I knew that all men were [course, to the disgust and disap- |to around witly other men be-| She did not hear froni him again |VOU ask me!" {T took it into our heads to get mar tail of that room, much smaller than |the whole thing., Watch me very|n.t wrongz. Here was one that was|polntment of MOMS, her mother. [sides you, unless you mean busi days, and then he did mot| “T'm not asking you!™ Merry re-lrjoq hefore fuls house-parly fs Katherine’s but equally sunny and |closely, ladies and gentlemen." | A tiae When her father suddenly dies, s : He sent her a five - pound |tor! and flounced into the house. |gyer o™ she said aloud to Moms pleasant, with a wide windpw over- | She stepped to an angle of the il yon forgive metr he |takea job in LILLIE DALE'S| She sighed deeply of dried fruits, with his card nade up her mind, all at| Moms, tightcning a strap on looking the Drive and the rippling |wall between Katie's door and that slasping both my hands in his, |beauty shop. At that time she is| “But I don't want to go 'round : at she would mail the letfer [bag, gave a short langh, Hudson below. She it was who had h bathroom and laid her hand oo ol T oD T first saw |having the first real love affair vith any other men, Bill,” she went| Merry turned up her dainty little |ri away, before she could| “Funny, hut not at all selected the delic window a section of the paneling which {0 v's 019 them out to him. “T know |her life, The man in the casc 7 in a voice that was as smooth t them, but Moms and Lillie |ch: her mind. She would take |happ was her com: X : £ that T was a brute last night. I1|TONY GAINES, a serious-minded |as honey. them enormously, ané [it down town to the maia post- [don't believe Mr. Erskine deeper-toned ru v seen he hall contained. Only eves | *0 0 3 o0 ™0 that whatever |young lawyer, who wants to marry | She laid her head on his shoulder |Lillie gained two more pounds be- |office and put a speeial delivery more cager to marry than mios ”‘“; She . Ceobsmiling, She ShRtt ! soTHbYiguC ol Son i e land gave him a long, slow, sullen, [fore the box was empty amp on it, so that Bill would gct |these rieh old bachelors are, 1f and couch covers and the cushions |ting fference in e id, of the broad window seat had rose f this panel and see the In every pattern, and I realized that |tiny lafch which Lillian pressed subconsciously it was Marion Mor- |sliding the door back and disclosing ton. not Mary Harrison, whom she (an entrance to a narrow staircase. was visualizing in the lovely se “I's a Private Staircase” “Watch Me Very Olosely” “This staircase was always here, |with a new man, BILL ERSKINE, [the warm, scented summer dark-| They were sitting hehind the cur- v set the table and filled the |Seat, looking very slcepy ang ill T was so afraid that she might |Lillian explained. “In the building’s |a wealthy bachelor. When Tony |ness. And she clung to him, her|rant bushes in the back yar@*so |water glasses while Moms and |tempered, and Muriel in the rear read in my face my sudden heyday, when it was a multimillion- ih rs about it, he stops sceing her, |face bur \inst his coat sleeve. (that Jir v smoke without [Aterry sliced the cold roast of beef, [seat with a man whom Merry ha | | | i i AN he stood at the sereer or % AL i curtains and d and t} sual eves was like every other TFight. Judy, T love you so much that ne night Merny, in al- lsweet kiss. Then another — and s the very next day, without fail! [is, where's your engagement rin he very thought of you dining with age because Tony is sy still another. “What's the matter with you, But while she was dressing, the| To Merry's relicf. Morley's car lanother man like Robinson makes |the evening with his mother, lets \o one but vou, Billy-boy,” she Languish?” Jinny asked \der-storm that had been threat- |turned into the driveway at that g ee veans |DERRICK JONT make love {o |whispered, her soft lips against his. | Me one Sunday afternoon in g all afternoon came up, And [moment and stopped. | (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) [her, just by way of “getting even” felt his big arms‘go around August. “You look as blue as it was over it was time to| There were four people In it {with Tony. Later she goes out |her, straining her close to him in |the bay of Naples.” Sunday pight supper ready. |Cassie and Morley tn the front TOMORROW: Pity Is Akin to Love. standing of her zeal in preparing alre’s home. it connected the ser- and later Merry hears that he has | “Little Sister, when 1 first knew [Mon . took a ci- the bread and made the iced |never met . rOOf:'? !M" 1 turned to_the dodr with |vants qlm}rnls nn' ()u]»‘ .nur‘rlv n?\m gone tp Montan® A letter comes |you, you said you wouldn't marry r 5 1ittle) leafher cast 4 You're to sit behind with Murie} & flippant _interruption to the with {he basement. But when the H lth |to ner from 1 is lost in the [the best man alive,” he began, and |y le, wrgpped thin [and Cabby, if you can find room ; e o annTR e IR pe O is in t est man alive egan, air and Dale, wrapped in a thi 1 can J B T o s ot Yo rangt o soeronn || 4 O L@@ {1 e oo i s e i e e o man e b o Dol nones n o o Eat” 1 son g o gnio s, SEELLultering gvol: the staircase was walled off on t Isee it. However, she returns slo tone, “well, I blue, 00" Merry |arms and neck look pinker and |growled Morley, helping Merry info EaLaERRons Jnomy, . 0ot skognd, and thirc ‘”“)“”" sl g;w to Kfeelll’ll |ring and tries to forget him knew from the very sound |confessed with a long, unhappy |fatter than ever, came down stairs |the “She’s taking along Now if you want to see the he : "4”'"‘ "2 '”‘w""’ "1“ AR SRR et uses o ness | Helen, her oldest sister, marries |of his voice that she had won her |sigh, “Here it is the last week in [to heln, too. |eve ng but the grand piano. §% o watermolon;” 1 lanshed, “coms ment. So it's a u‘”‘“‘f; gl |BILL HEPWORTH. CASSIE mar- [point, and she held her breath, |August and I haven't heard from| Lillie was almost like a member | The man he alled “Cabby” 7k antl doapsck Eip enmiplats “fl;"' Pl 4 L g (BY HUGH S. CUMMING) ries MORLEY KAUEFMAN, a rich |waiting for him to go on. |Bill for two weeks, We were going |of the family now, and ghe whistied [grinned at Merry, who did not 0 doke sox, AR and VRt weve, had ko ‘*"““‘ falne dooms i broker with whom she quarrels con- | 1 took you at your word,” he {to be married the first of Septem.]as she went clattering around the |catch his last name when Muriel gb Y- millioccnpy T i that would Tok 1ike rorihsdena ”_,"‘ (Surgeon General, United States {stantly, and JINNY, the ‘youngest “And T was glad in a way, . Bat T it taies T il b a% Mo Yok besld bt Tar Hintronest Him 1 Bk Eor remembering hl"\ "’ o ; OWVIER, OLRIRKAR, oy fy‘.‘(""‘""”'y;’; Public Health Service) |sister, annexes DERRICK JONES I'm not exactly the marry- land huy my wedding dress and (blue bedroom slippers. Her hair| He was extremely good-looking ::M:lefis for Y“"-n‘::“ ‘«"““m“"n"""“g\ saying that ‘] “"‘; ‘\‘" “"(“‘(‘\’;‘ "v‘«r'tL | Bill Erskine becomes a devoted jing kind myself. But if you've Ke plans for wedding, He [was gathered into a net made of in a dark, almost foreisn-looking edr-arfn' me ot that color. We had lmenta and that when Madge loft| TForemost among the deleterious suitor. He travels for a paint flrm ed your mind and want to get facts as if we wer even en- |pink silk cord |way. When he laughed he showed and cushions of th A ,\ v ad |ments., ane el ‘wmm“‘m‘_ exerted by stream popu. |and he sends Merry lovely gifts all it’s all ri with me. You |gaged, lately.” “I'm going to sit down and eat |[the whitest teeth that Merry had ;gs %ndmm\.,q ”w(.w Kitchenette |the doors would have to be fastened Lo oot 8 e tontamination of pubila|slong Bis road. He lends Her the [kmov 1zy about you and TIl | Her Tlovely, apple-hlossom face |just the way I am, if you don’t [ever seen, and he had a deep pleas- which was a part of the room, the |aga ¥ i 8 s Cekmal Bt nvthing vou want me do. T ait) S Al s. as she |ant voice. prospect of “,:‘m, to Katle was like Sp that's what the men have been | Water supplies If not preven |money to buy a share in the beauty [do anything ; QUEREDE D - with discon and 1 he said to \Ilnm_. as sh i v”: AnrM e e th ticipation of a dol¥s playhouse King in the second floor hall,” | Or if not remedied by the ins alla- |Sbop. Lillie moves into the 15¢ y a man hates to s e grass -with her sharp |[tied an apron around her hips. i @ M alked about peo e anticipation of a layhouse |working on in the secon : k& BAatter A ke uh s |girls trying to mar He st che talked |too hot to get dressed. T'm just|ple whom Merry did not know, al- to a small girl. Here she planned to |Katherine commented, and we real- t"*:l of “-A.‘;"b BUloa AN ’v"l“"“\-:m} picture she tells M 1 to f s heing ometimes T think t men | melting like a fallgw candle I most. every . inute of the two-hour get her husband’s meals before and |ized how far from ordinary things | Sickuess and death are inevitable. | | sed to kno m ped in.” 1 want fo be married,” she whed, Without a w |arive to the Crow’s Nest. after he went to the work Lillian |had been her mind since the tragedy Aiisadoea Janilestod b (aReackig s {“ \1__‘, "hm“'v\‘ 5 & ‘[‘ Metcy Sotling A bl bl ”‘l’m‘,‘: ety i Aty ll ':,'V,‘w” s e Rt s e gad found (Sr .l:‘;‘v?\"‘xh‘l‘.fl“ sy N.J'V‘”’.‘i Ver ';”»];“, answered, and | result us the public health and [She says he was poor a that she had said all there 3 worked for vears to lop aroumd the house™ all [thought bitterly, feeling hurt and i ; i ooes | The wholesome recreation afford- |Lillie is wrong about Bill ere are tim he'd marry her But Lillie was a grown woman, |with unshed tears as she looked mr"'r;«{er‘|:flxc(‘lv‘x‘1];'rmqr play hou! kil Fadie giotianiin RACIch RaRtag knows he is no fortune hunt more precious than gold, and this | “Oh, banana oil!” v broke |and she paid her board promptly. | atie would rather play se- |alarm. keeping In this room than have the For from below us on the second run of a large mgdern apartment,” |floor where my sleeping boy was Lillian (‘,mnmm‘flf-(%n( we closed the jonly occupant, there hued com door behind us ,then she grabbed my |sound like the closing of a door Rand and swept a low obeisance to Copyright, 1926, by Newspaper Katherine. ature Service, Inc. feel that a |y t | odors and unsightliness may also lown at her own 1g tucked among he would not wasting vas one of those times. her quick, little way. |So Moms only tightened her 1ips [the hat boxes, kithags and dress on & poor She let Bill zo on talking, and [« wi t ind shook her head when Lillie ling cases that were piled like n by fishing, bathing and boating | may be jeopardized by pollution | Bathing in polluted water is so | manifestly hazardous as to require |#epeated words of warning. | | his intentions, tells comes to s 1 to when he left her under the willow 1 the same : gi came downstairs in her kimono. or |little mountain on the floor of the find out i al ous in |tree at the gate that night he was s with 1 left cigaret butts in the pin-tray. [car. It looked very old nd Tiahy (Tife iy be entiely \de~| nd s him ced man lley Kaufmar that Morley |A faint odor of Turkish tohacce [shahby beside them. 1 eyeryone is stood (here, watch the | wasn't r. He didn’t [clung to white kimono now, as | “Wait until 'm married to Bill." to him or no 4 i of his hired car vanish marr : but Cassle [Lillie moved around the spotless|she said to herself. “T'll have ing her, Bi s int g lown the s and thought of a fjust w him down — and now . leverythipg then, that T want, 1'll e it e or night a year ago when she had em! They fight like cats four women were still at the |know people, too. The right kind ched Tony's blue roadster dis- vs _all the - time. is |s r table when Bill Hepworth's [of people!” pear into the Kine doesn’t want to marry you, |car turned into the driveway and | She was more thankful at that Life had seemed®to open up be- te's k fet him go. came running into the |moment that she was going fo ore ber, in a «wondefful rainbow want to 1 the way use. |marry a man with money than she furiously ry. But vista, then. But it wasn't nearly [does, do you?" fust ran in for a seeond,” she |had aver Been bafore thy sweeter {so wonde now as she had ex- rugged her shoulders. |said, kissing Moms. “We're going | ‘“Not that I'm marrving Bill JUS1 n her voice when deit to be. ind bit a long blade of grass in|over to Mother Hepworth's house |for his money.” she added. “I'm tricd to look ahead of her |two. |for tea. But T wa to get that {very fond of Bill. But it's going to “You don't need to get so peeved, into t! 1 could sce noth- Oh, T don't know,” she an- |chili sance recipe of yours—the one |be very nice to he rich, all the 3illy-Boy,” she said softly. *“You ried marriage with 'swered, with a yawn. T know I'm {that hasn't so much splce in it. you |same.' o v how it is — T never go out |Bill Erskine. Nothing o fine, 50 |terribly sick — of hat heanty shop |know.” I he Y rowis s s i e ny man but you. 1 havent, |thrilling and so wonderful in that! |and Lillie's chif-chat all day lonz. | “Its up fn my bedroom, fn my |lodge that Morley Kaufman had | water used may be substituted for mearly a year. So isn't it only |1t was a pretty bleak outlook, as a [T wish I'd never gone into that |little desk,” Moms answered, get- |built for fishing trips. several vears (" *men Bohaiktlon 15 catised. By an | orinal tor Feouly fo. think {(Pmehnacter Mo At |place.” up from the table. |before when he was a gay young | Industrial waste, and it s desired | pns e cparey Ypu? | But with a little laugh she turned | Tt had scemed a good thing to| She and Helen went ont. elosing [bachelor. 2 aste, 4 s In the violet difsk her eyes were and went into the heuse, go into a vear ago. the door of the dining room behind | It stood on fhe green banks of to prevent contamination, two i g [to wide and shadowy and appealing. guess I'd laugh, no matter But you can get too much of |them unset lake, and a wide verandat courses are open, namely: Either | jjoy ; Wk emchie: Erring (5 Mbtetn e Within | the discharge of the material must | be discontimued entirely or an | efficient disposal plant utilized. In | stroyed by pollution due to indus- l.”‘” wastes, Live stock, through inability to secure plentiful sup- plies of safe water may also suffer Coming to a consideration of the treatment of unsate streams, one is | (NOW GO ON WITH THE struck by the obviousness, the ex- | CHAPTER XXXI pensiveness and also the necessity of the remedies When a am is polluted by wage, either a disposal plant must be constructed or the sewage outlet | established at such a point as will insure inoffensive elimination of (he or ne ey're est was a rustie Danny Gets An Eyeful. Very early one morning when the — {tide was out Danny ventured to run By Thornton W. Burgess out on a mudflat just a little way = from the sheltering grass of the Be not inquisitive lest you marsh. He didn't go so far but that Your curiosity shall rue. he could run back in a jifty. Right —Danny Meadow Mous y Danny noticed a number of e holes. They were nowhere n face, as she lifted it to his, |what happened,” she said to Ner- leven a good thing. when you have en minutes later when Merr- [overhung the smooth water. Within was as frank wide-open as she mounted the narrow (it day in and day out. Too much |Went up to her mother's room [was an emormous lving room. a ! the insistent telephone. Too | Helen was still there. She was sit- |kitehen and two bedrooms. s, 1af o i o e e oy cence and shyness didn’t laugh, Td ery.” . |much of the vain, foolish middle- |ting in Dud’s old chair, and when| “The men are zoing fo hunk s v B (iLio ppin Qe iise (G e She looked like anything a| She wondered why she felt 50 aged women customers who wanted |Merry opened the door she turned [in one room and the girls in the Danny Meadow Mouse couldn't las big holse as Fiddler Crabs dug | & LhL a5 10lgif who is doing her to |blue and down-cast. She had done be hobbed and massaged and |a pair of tear-filled eyes to her. |other” Cassle sald, as the car help but be curious. Almost over in Crabtown, but they were | ChUer it less obnoxious and the |joekey a man into proposing to her. |the 'thing she had set put to do. |¢ 8 into a semblance of | “What a tcrrible woman, Merry! [stopped before fhe steps. “We one will be-curious in a stra holes that some one had made, and | VALCT safe or casily capable of being | Byt that is e ly what she was She had pinned Bill Erskine down [their lost youth, How could you bring her to this|always rough it. when we're up place. So Danny was curious all the |very much aroused. jmate S0, 4 Itrving to do and Bill Erskine to a proposal of marriage | Merry was sick of the shop, to|house to I she ked in a|here.” time. Of course, it he had been | Peep the Sandpiper camé running |, O¥/n8 to the infbortance of the |ynew it! Girls had tried to “land” | And even If she wasn't in 10ve [{he point of nausea. quivering voice@“Wly, she doesnt| “Yes, we rough it. Tike fhe born and bad spent all his life by past. “Hello, Peep!” cried Danny, |S(rcam pollution problem from the iyim in their nets before. * |with him, ther® was no one else | (Vhat she wanted now was to get [look respectable! |dickens we' do!” Morley said con- | morning glory as all inno. ircase in the ddrkness. “If 1 fof the seashore he would haye known [ “Hello, Danny,” cried Peep, for by | SAndpoint of heaith and welfare, | wyeqn, th vith whom she was in love. Then |marrfed and live the way Cassie | “You mean Lillie?" asked Merry. |temptuously. “Bringing up a cool all about a great many things that 'this #Mme they had become well -«-‘ry nH'v'r n has an interest at [he growled in a ted tone. why should she fecl as if getting |lived. She wanted to dress the [knowing that she did. “Oh. she's |and a waitress! That's not much now made - hita curious. But he 'acquainte ake. Primarily the matter de-|“The minute a man looks at a girl |¢ d to Bill was cutting herselfl {way Cassle and Muriel Kaufman |not half so bad as she's painted. {like roughing it! wasn't born there and he didn't | “Is there anything down in this | Mands full understanding and co-{averybody starts wondgrin when [off from all the gay and happy and | dressed. She wanted to give little really a very nice woman.| As he spoke a Ford came bump- know about them and he wanted to |hole?” asked Danny. operation between public health | he's going to marry her. It makes |worth-while thin of life? She parties in her own homé. She |isn't she Moms? ling alone, over the rough voad. In know about them | “I can't say, but I fancy so,” re- |OfTicials, municipalities and indus<|,e sick! couldn’t have told why to save her 'wanted to spend her mornings| “That's what I've been trying|it sat Cassie's cook, Magzie, and a Every once in a while Danny went |plied Peep. tries. | “I'm sorry T make you sick.” |soul ’ shopping and her afternoons play- |to tell Helen. But she won't listen {yvounger woman whom Merry had “Is it a crab?" Danny asl Merry answered., with s in her | But her heart was like lead in |ing bridge ~ Cassie and Muriel [to me,” Moms said mildly, “She [not seen before. Cassie was always | “I don't think so,” replied Peep. voice, “but it's hard on me to have [her st, as she stood before the them. |smokes and paints a little, I guess. |quarreling with her servants and | e T wast” WAL come Gutd” Menus /or t/pe Fam,]y:‘m tell people that we're not en- |mirror in her nightgown, brushing | 1In short, she had »d that |But she never goes out of this|hiring new ones. Danny demanded ged?® when we've heen gof t0- {her bright hair and getting ready |dangerous time when a girl wants |house at night unless it's to go to “The way you trot the house | “No,” replied Peep .and flew over gether so long: Her voice broke |for bed. |to marry and settle down. That ({he movies with me. I'm sure she's Ihald help around, anyone would to'join some of his friends on a BY SISTER MARY. fon a dry sob. “I guess T don’t know what 1 |time when nothing looks so good |a good woman—and as fag.as paint- |think vou'd been brought up lMke a little sandbar. B | The plain truth was that nobody |want,” she finally made up her to her as a plain platinup wedding |ing and smoking go, look at Merry |zrand duchess” Mdrley went on It must be a worm,” thought| Breakfast: Red raspberries with|had ever asked her wl r she |mind, lying awake in the dark, hot |ring, and the word “Mrs™ engraved |and Cassie. They do both." He was almost snarling, now. “In- Danny, *I guess a great big worm |uncooked cereal and thin cream, |Wa8 oing to rry Bill Erskine [little room under the eaves. [on her calling cards. She took a paper from an old (sfead of earning your living, pound- Eoitieh heve ik aE t hole. Still, | plain omelet, crisp toast, milk, cof. |or Dot. Moms ! | And all she had was the beauty [pockethook in her desk and handed |ing out letters on a typewriter!” |When the water comes in, the worm | fee. the only people ¥ “Well, T've put it over at last. [shop, the gloomy house, Lillle and [it to Helen. | To Merry's surprise Cassie did {would drosn. I wonder if T could | Luncheon: New peas and potatoes, |tioned him to he Bill's going to marry me in Sep- (Moms, and an ocdasional letter | “There's the recipe you wanted,” not answer him. A slow, dull flush {dig him out. I have a notlon to try. |sliced tomatoes, whole Wheat bread.| But Merry. hers 1 made up |tember,” she told Moms the next |from Bill Erskine. she went on. “Be sure to give it [crept under her white skin, but s, sir, 1 have a notlon to try.” |strawberry preserves, milk, tea her mind that time she 'morning at breakfast “T wonder what he thinks he's {back to me when you're through |she smiled bravely. Danny leaned over snd tried to| Dinner: Stuffed mutton chops,|and F “September,” Moms repeated |doing to me!” she thought. with a [with it.” Mr. Hefflinger was telling | “Pick up the bags and come into| Anineh | actaly, she poured hot water |sudden flare-up of ¢ T won- [me the other day {hat women seem |our happy home, people!” she said She was twenty-one. a ect- into her coffec. “That's a long way |der if he thinks he can ask me to [to smoke everywhere nowadays.” |brightly, almost cheerfully. *“And ting any younger, B off. There's many a slip between |marry him and then forget all| “Who's Mr. Hefflinger? Your [don’t pay any attention to Morley . knew she woul June and Septgmber. Did he give (about it! I'll show him!" {other hoarder?” asked Helen, with |He has a terrific hang-over from SHGHE o sirabl Yo a ihe She scrambled up froM the |a groan. “It just kills me to think |last night. He played poker until Bill Erskine's e | Merry shook her h “No, but |grass, where she was lying flat on |of having strangers in this house. |two o'clock.” For was in who |he's going to send me one,” she [her stomach, and ran into the |It just kills me.” | Merry followed Muriel Kaufman worships beay I moved 'gnswered, “He had to o |house for paper and fountain pen. “Tt doesn’t need to! I don't ming |into the huge bedroom where Cag- only by vouth of man |last night on a late train. Shelwould write to Bill Erskine [having them here one bit!" Moms |sie said the girls were to sleep. to to hree days later & found {that very afternoon! She would |replied with spirit. “Lillie Dale's| “There are two more coming— | e chorus girls. little square package waiting for [ask him for a list of people to |a smart, bright woman And as [the Secord girls with a couple off |of man who would ra her on the hall table when she [whom he'd like to send wedding an- | for Mr, Hefflinger, he's just as nice men,” said Muriel. She looked out ground. Whenever he s wn i the whole berry on account of thej® YOUng Dumb Dora t} came home at night. nouncements! ~|a man as lives! I find him very |ct the window at Morley and Cas-| % 01 he wouldewandar 1 SNNTLen? of {HaTrans Son amate: 2 4 16 of thelwittiest, brightest v awrth, | “T suppose this is my engagement | “That,” she said to herself, biting [interesting!” sie, who ‘were still wrangling b Wie: Cral waa< Il X 5 ey Mool i oy Now Pene bl Toatea {1f she were ov 3 ry [ring!” she said breathlessly to |the end of her pen, “ought to get| Merry wondered how Moms hap- |side the car. “Sweet married 'ife M intowm: was on 1l holes. By and by Tattler the [ Two cups shelled peas, 1 cup dice L knew it! Moms, who had come running out [some sign of life out of him, cer- |pened to know that Mr. Hefflinger |those two have, eh, wot, Merry? 1f creek in the alt T came walking along. | new )ml\u;n& 18etalin aninae ,'(”“‘m; She saw Bill of the kitchen at the sound of the |tainly!® ) ) was interesting. She, herself, had |Cassie lives with Morley very long, B i oo e e B et LS altn e ‘\\’(mm; he was, and she screen slamming. | CHAPTER XXXIT scarcely laid eyes on Mr. Hefflinger | I'll miss my gues He hr]s thel Shs -Way. out. there wus : w a stream of water [salt, 1-2 teaspoon brown sugar, 1 [anyway. Moreove | She tore off the brown paper| MMerry thought that the letter was [in the ten months he had lived in |rottenest temper of anybody T eve | | S e e A A {look down that hole, but he couldn’t | creamed caulifiower, string bean sal- psee anything. He was still doing this [ad, graham bread, green apple {and wendering what could be down |sauce, ginger bread. milk, coffee, in that hole, when suddenly a stream | If you find it necessary to ‘stretch Hlasy of water hit him right straight in [the peas, try the following recipe ve. Yes, Danny got an eye- |and . you'll decide its very much «Hello, Peep!” cried Danny ) fact, he got hoth eves full. |worth while and you'll use the dish was salt water, too, and it made {even if the peas don't need eking over to Crabtown to wi t i wrt. 10 say nothing of the [out dler Crabs, Ij had rprised hi wy it scared him. And that stream | Children under six years of age | find that they could dig holes and wvater had come right straight up | may have the juice of .red raspber- that they lived in hols om hole Danny had ben look- | ries but should not be allowed to eat i i water left in that creek « ¥ ttler didn't pay any at- | tablespoon ninoeds Smint deav _Jflm it was just plain common- wrappings with impatient fingers, [a work of art. 3 2 e lflm house. saw—even If he Is my brother.” B SN REL ot oo AT . : bR e30100 . int leaves | sonse o marry ; and opened- the little white box |- “Dearest Bill” it began. Tt o e (optional), 1-2 teaspoon flour. | As Cassie pointed out, he would |inside of them. we are going to be married in| Helen had not been gone more 70 BE CONTINUED) r, add onion and €00k |y a1 any girl a good husband. He | Within it was not the solitaire |September, as we planned, T ought|than three minutes before Cassie (20 B0 CONTDIE low fire until a pale ’*”-“V;v-th.: be over forty and disagree- |diamond ring that she had ex- |10 érder the wedding announce- [came driving up in the luxurious Ut Bire e sl T T (ot e [ cotor. Mix sugar and flour thorough- |gje at times. But usually he was [pected, but a platinum bracelet, |mehts now. So will vou please let [littie car that Morley had given BT, e Lomaonely i ¥ and sprinkle over onfons. Stir with | gooq-natured, easy-going and kind. | It was a beautiful plece of jew- [me know how many peovle vou |her last Christmas. {o kY2 AU B a fork until perfectly blended and|™ Tjen, too, he was fhe soul of |elry, thickly crusted with tiny dia- |want them sent to? And mail me| She was alone, and ‘she came |kine come to the party? You'l 5 ACd Dofiioes and peafl AN0 MUNSlpehEraaityggs At where Merry (monds. In the center of it was |a list of their names and addressts, |drifting into the house with her |know all about the happenings at to do and |the party in tomorrow's install- | ment of “The Petter.” often saw Peep the Least S v ess. He ed to take it as a| Melt buiter, with his friends running about t But Danny was |over a Sometimes there were la ¥h curlosits Why did Muriel become jealous lof Merry? Why dido’t Biil Ers- el leaves if convenient. Add boiling wWa- | was concerned er did a week |set the smallest of small Swiss |too alp of havingigothing ter to cover and bring to the boiling | 5 py when he did not senc her {watches. | “Bad, bad boy, you haven’t writ- [nowhere to go. | point. Cover sauce pan and cook |some kind of a gi | Puzzled, Merry looked at it, her |ten to your lonesome girl for two | She sat down at the littered tahie {over a low fire for thirty minutes. When he came to town he bought {poppy red mouth pursed up thought- {long weeks. I'm beginning to think |and laid her black enamel cigaret | Keep the water “moving” but not|jer orchids. took lier for long [fully. Then she looked up at |vou don’t love me half so much |case and holder down on the cloth You have used boiling hard. Turn into a hot Ve8- | drives in hired limousin nd took |Moms questioningl as you say you do. Please tele- |in front of her. . nt 2 ’ | etable dish ¢ Heti16 Birlgeat the rioat expenkiveil’ iHORe wohke v illien smile on |phone me the minute you get this| “I came over to find out what I{ydm 1. I?nklmms | (Copyright J Service, Inc.) | places. Nothing was 1 for | Moms' face, ind tell me you do. Always yours, [yow're planning to do over Labor | Vegetable Compound | her. | “Quite nice engagement ring, | “Merry.” |Day?" she saked Merry, taking out | Now try 3 T d “ " g ¢ v g s . | . as finished she took it [a black 1 vanity cas a . e e What A § often | Merry she observed. It's the| When it was finished e took it |a black ne van! case an ja Glll Of o ay ked . 1d t me |first time I've ever heard of giving [out into the bakyard and read it [outlining her lips with carmine, LYDIA E. | ke’ ) | [ SI[]P IICH'NG B Lidt s without {3 watch for an engagement pres- |to Jinny. l othing. Merr: answered | PINKHAM'S : ser 10 ent!” She ha hing but se “What do you think of it, Jin?" |breathlessly. Her - eyes lighted up | JUDY DISCHARGES AERSELE judy, Judy, dom’t go aweyl” i : ! ) he had SOthlng Nt Seorgsy h ; [ g » Pills for Did 5 1 show tha for the beautiful watch bracelet. i::h»' asked. |like gree: stars, and she began to | Did-thé-other-party l-you - or is time it was Joan's voice insteac Q 1 b {5 e o { W RISt o Rve' s h inny ked up at her fr th er as she always did w sh 1 i did-you-cal : Biaanily &l Zemo the sClean, Antiseptic | S M40 omey ! The-jeweler must have sent the | Jinny dooked up at her from the |flutter as she always did when she Constipation . maid. e had re- a quiet, passionless we wrong piece of jewelry.” Merry |grass where she was lying flat on ' was excited. “Wh | | | 3 < ! in 3 tral in that from the fuinting spell ‘ Liquid, Gives Prompt Relief | Not at all in the had {said, frowning. “This watch must stomach and shook her bright | “Oh, T thought maybe Morleg and ey n trus that Barry is 8 s cared for Tony Gaine rue. |belong to someone else — and my |red head. |T would take a crowd up to the e § % Without < 1 tremblit | There iy one mate, dependable gy ovor expected about |ring has probably gone to the per- | “T don’t think much of it” she |Crow's Nes,” ~ Cafie answered. 24e L dia E. Pinkham J hung you w enougn to |treatment that relleves ilching tor-'| .4 1an again as’ she once |son the watch was intended for.” sald with that uncomfortable, un- [touching her eigaret with a mateh. | &% Medicine Company again t e 3 Toh e ind _that cleanses and so0thes | oy anhout him Rut there was no mistake |compromising honesty of hers. “1|“And if you'd like to go, I'll write probably : Tou aid’ T musé go A0 skin. Soon after the first ap The time of rom adventure {about it. |wouldn't try to pin a man down [and ask Bill Erskine, too. You can | I was in a public l!’-“'v tion of emo you will find that |,.q Jove was gone for her forever. The next morning came a letter |like that, if I never married him. [tell me how to reach him.” After a long d irritations, Pimples, Blackheads. |1y yaq gone with Tony 1es, from Bill Erskine. 11 don’t see why You want to marry On Thursday Cassld telephoned answered me. . I couldn't see Lela|Eczema, Blotches. Rinworm and |paq come with him that day “] am sending yon a watch |Bill Erskine, anyway. He's tog old {to say that Bill had accepted her “I was cut off ' [similar skin troubles will disappear. [ago when she had first laid eyes on [bracelet,” he wrote. “It's about |for you, and you know it. | invitation. said fes you and will” T said. | Zemo is all that is needed, for it |yim among the noonday crowds of [the prettiest thing of the'kind that | Her clear brown eyes turned to- | *He can't get there until Monday They work ‘I hardly think s " ' xirt is much worse off |banishes most skin eruptions, makes | pir street. I ever saw, and T knew that you |ward the Jones' back yard, where |morning.” she told Merty. “But “You see, Miss Meredit ' [the skin soft, smooth and healthy. | And so, with her syes wide open,fdld not have a watch. “Tll see vou [her own true lobe could be heard |T satd fhat was All right with us CERTIFIED Is she all r \ slight hesilation Joan eaid, [It is a non-greasy, disappearing li- [she was setting out’ to marry mq come to?” be there just as soon as 1 can |quid that may be applied during the | Brskine, just as many another girl He made fip mention of thé ring |shabby car. station to meet him. Now, Merry, Yes, miss, but 1 don't + 10ts o wiraet dredi Can you “,,],,m, Ask your gruggist for a small |has coolly set ont to wary a man. |he had promised her. Neither dfd | "There are a lot of things you |do fake some decent sports olothes EXTRACTS L] 1 can come to the phone." away from the store? size 60c or large bottle $1.00. “o. a home and a living and luke- jhe mention their engagement, nor [don't see at sixteen that are per- jalong. You won't need anything g soon. Bill."™ whistling as he washed his small |Yon and T can drive down to the FIAVORING