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Quicksands of Love Adele Garrison’; s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife —— Dicky Offers Some Lukewarm Congratulations, There was distinct malice in Lil- llan’s gibe, and I knew that it w: born of my loyal friend's resentment against my husband for the subcon- sclous but stinging comparison be- tween Edith Fairfax's economic value and my own, which he had betrayed on numberless occasions. Since the Virginia girl by her work on the new art magazine had changed her status from that of an ineffective, mediocre artist to clever, efficient business woman, frequently had been humiliated b Dicky's assumptiop that my time was valueless compared to Edith's. Lilllan's revelation, however, ¢hanged all this radically. For black look Dicky A which I knew mirrored ment at having been dark about my plans, a subtle astonished respec cned interest that was like wine to me. “I suppose T am expected to of- ter congratulations,” he said at last ignoring Lillian's prediction con- cerning the hypothetical future ref- erence to him the husband et Madge Graham.” “The question which one of you gets them?" “I Shan't Kiss You. he was endeavo own fashion to sm against me and avoid playir part of a “spoil sport” I saw clearl but T could not help contrasting th reception he was giving of my good fortune and that whic I frequently had accorded him when he came to with th of some especially flattering i portant commission, Sauce goose and gander we cocted from two recipes as far cerned. 1 saw Lilllan quiekly, keenly, as she answere and knew that 80 had read ¢ disapproved his half-heartedness. “Both of us get the bouquets,” she said, “Madge for her ty and me for being the god In the machine Yes, old dear, you are eminently 1 1 the there was also a A heady is, That news and for the » patently con- distinctly different as Dicky was con- him 1 d glance at correct in the conviction which T see | mirrored in your eyes. T a o tidings |ily and secondarily |this affair. I cooke |from consomme to coffe |@rawing-room, and proud indeed 1 am of the And now, as |should all nd chuckling | genii, t out and leave you matter out be- tween yourselves, You'rs sore at now, Dicky-bird, so I sha'n't 00d-by. So long, Madge.” out his and and graspéd she passed him. Should 1 Have Told you don't,” he said 1t began this it for of it with esponsible for and served it the n iss you He her ar “Why No, m You? al yo yo ound M finish ¢ I'm con theo erned. Contrary I know it around your vou both that lous of my wife's good that T do congratulate her mos artily upon receiving so flatterin: {an offer from Philip Veritzen, and 10 appreclate what prestige such ar ssoclation will give e most astute man in town, as vell as the handsomest and most ascinating, and his cachet of ap- |proval upon her, knowledge and abil- |1ty 18 worth small fortune. Con- |ceding 1) "—he swung abruptly, facing me—“I'd ask vou two questions: What you going to do with Junior? and y dld you keep me in ignoru-ce 1 this?” I am n fortur can assure a round here in have ad his been ahy genuine congratulations T n him the soft an- by the Scriptures, for was troubling me last question and 1 conceded the justice of the rancor |expressed by it. But both his words and betrayed that his cor- | diality and approval were forced, t 8-n0 real sympathy in m new venture, and steel- ing against any tender- ness. coldly, with an air which I had mth swer coun my conscience concerning his manner my my hear 1 spoke of indifference work “to feign. “Why should 1 have told you |1 asked of 1926, by Newspaper ature Service, Inc. Copyrig The Queer Swimmers By Thornton W. Burgess things always The say aren’t vants s0; to ignorant wise man know —O0ld Mother Nature. Fox found all kinds of in- | ing things along the seashore “Live and learn” he would sa “live and learn. I can believe almost anything since I've learned that a lobster can get out of that hard shell of his. There certalnlly is a lot to sce here along the seashore. Now, 1 wonder why I never find any of the owners of these shells in the sand or mud like the clams, They look to me like the shells of very fancy clams.” Reddy was looking down which was almost at the place where it should have been hinged to anothor shell just ltke it. At that point were two little wings. This shell had pretty little scallops, but, look he would, ta shell round, excepting as but T never have found anything in it.” “Where he red Barker. verywhe Ex g in Barker chucklin, hey look to me a clam, and clams usually in {the mud or sand. I have dug them {up lots of times.”” said Reddy. | “You won't dig one of thes {lows up,” replied Barker. well, well, what do you kno {th; ¥ |the water. Just heyond was, the water was clear and smooth {and the hottom beneath was sandy. |He was staring out over this stretch one with e you looked?" ir dy replie¢ R the water, n, like some kind of fel Well, w where he Isee that?” cried Bark i'Did T sce what?” d {dy, who h excepting the “Just watch Barker. Re watched {break in the manded R water. | out there,” replicd He W surface, and then an- nother. Then h@thou, saw a glimpse of something in the 1§ rd | about | rker was staring out over | {of water. Reddy stared too. “Did you dn't seen anything at all | | For he is | CONDITION—A back t benuty PIAGNOSI mon of whi TREATM muscles and give with your arms and stretch as ha which is not so until you touch t ieing young acrobat, at is too ) is bad posture, —Here i3 you gr ingu an r 4 s it sounc hea any cafites contribute to thix condition, icient excercise, that w duran; bendin; The Beauty Doctor oemom BY NINON moamcomoacmssassansmommcasd Posed by Mareta George —or not graceful enough for the most com- carelessness, strengthen the back e flat on the floor, the knees, raise your ) i1 Raise and lower them under control— ver jerkily. floor over your head with your toes, If you can bend them ¥you are a prom- waiting on use Her {ull of Lindly curiosity {seem to be able to quite make out | whether it was Joan or T in whom | |the handsome young man was in- | her dinner con inte as eating tentedly. She was hérself and her own ot no inkling of how ween Jerry and me. s0 that she hings stood she scemed | In her ca Lela 10 have merged all that love she had ad for Barry. She had forgotten that Lela had tried to hurt her, and she {old minutely of Lela's conditior nd how she s0 comfortably fixed at the hospital. She rejoiced hat within a few days her property ould be turned to her and would be able to make Lela and her baby comfortable for life “I think,” she said. “that we had ctter tell Mr. Hathaway all about my affair with Bargy. He can ad- us what T had better do about | the twenty thousand dollars, T feel sure that in some way Jem Smith is mixed up in it, but we must have fal until after myfestate is turned over to me." the first time sted Mr. ahout do this, Miss Meredith? No,” nswered. “But surely he must remember the date.” (Copyright, 1928, by NEA Service.) for was she vise Jerry seemed anythir going to d. Robins n 1 n said TOMORROW— Joan's Mysterious Brother, Ycur Health How to Keep [t— Causes of Iliness RY DR. HUGH Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service The essentials of healthy baby life are air, nourishment and &leep, and leep is by no/means the least im- | portant of the three. A normal baby can usually be 8. CUMMING cd eyes were |sleeplessness and fretting which She did not ‘!\nh_\' experfences while waitifg for the scheduled feeding time, M others should be careful, how- ver, to use good judgment in this feed |matter in o ing at ested in developed. In case the bab der that off hours the habit of may not be shows an unusual appetite and a desire for food |should be at off schedule times a doctor consulted FASHIONS By Sally Milgrim 'A Fluttering Frock of Cotal Col- ored Georgette Features a Tiered Sk T day t and he is a1 fternoon 1 Short Shoulder Cape. frock sketched to- mass of fluttering grace. i READ THIS FIRST: Merry Locke, pretty and gay as her nickname, is a born flirt. She s no amblition beyond a good time jand plenty of beaux. At 20°she fails in her husiness course, because she does not study. Then, when her father dies, she goes into Lillie |Dale’s beatity shop at a tiny salary. | At that time, she is having the |Airst real love affalr of her life. The man in the case is Tony Gaines, |an ambitious young lawyer who {wants to marry her. Thefr engage- {ment ends when Merry goes out | with other men, and Tony goes to | Montana to live. A year later Mer- hears that he is engaged to ane |other girl. She tries not to care, | Helen, the oldest of the Locke {#isters, marries and later dies in |childbirth. Cassie, the second oldest, {marries her rich employer, Morley | Kautman. Merry envies her her soft, casy life, although she knows that | Morley # having a secret love affair with Mrs. Fifi Pell. Jinny, the youngest sister, elopes with Derrick Jones, who lives next door, and goes to live with his parents, Through Cassie, Merry meets Bill Erskine, a wealthy bachelor much older than herself. She hecomes en- gaged to him, but he keeps putting off the wedding day. Moms takes Lillie Dale and a Mr. Hefflinger into the house a§ board ers, A year later she marries Mr. Hefflinger. With her stepfather “ruling the roost,” the house is no longer the pleasant place it once was to Merty. She meets Les Purcell, a hero of her high school days, and goes out with him, more to escape from the house than for any other reason. |She does not know he is married, until his wife threatens him with divorce and then tries to kil herself. Morley's sister, Muriel, tells Bill Erskine the story. He goes to Flor- lida, when His father dies there, and writes Merry telling her that he is sure she is the wrong girl for him. Moms promptly announces the en- {gagement and writes Bill a letter to |Tet him know that he can’t jilt Merry lin that fashion. One night Merry goes out dancing with Jinny and | Derrick’s “crowd,” and finds herself | a wall flower for the first time in her life, She flirts with a man lat the next table, to amuse herself. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) CHAPTER LI Merry gave the man at the next table @ swift, sidewise glance from under satiny lids and dark curved | lashes. Then she looked quickly |away. She took out her liftle vanity case, and as she powdered her short ]flp-ullml nose, she could feel his eves on her, still watching her. A | |dimple flashed in and out at the corner 6f her mouth. She turned her head and looked |at him again. He was a dark, heavy- | set man with intent brown eyes and a bulldog sort of face. No one to | wave flags over, as Merry remarked [to nerselt. “Here! What are you doing— flirting with that man?" Jinny's | high voice asked suddenly, just be- hind her. She and Derrick had stopped dancing in the middle of the dance, and she dropped down on the chair beside Merry, still flushed and M'r“;'l:‘grm not exactly flirting with him," Merry answered With a toss of her head, “I just happened to look up at him, and he miled at me. But who could blame me if T DID flirt with him? I'm not having | much of a time sitting here by my- | self, you know!" Jinny turned her head and spoke | !to her hushand. “Go and . bring | Angus back here where he be- |longs.” &he sald sharply. Derrick started off but Merry call- t |ehe goin T {tonight | for |old for {ed the smooth coolne hours afterward up. dows swayed ghosts in the soft air of the spring THE PETTER (Ulustrated and Copyrighted by Joh nson Features, Inc., 1819 Broadway, New York Ulty) THERE WERE CORNERS OF HER SHADOWS U MOUTH. out on your piano.” Moms got up and bent over her. Merry, you've been drinking!" she cried aceusingly. “No wonder you're talking like this. Come or up and I'll help you ups What have you had to drink But Merry pushed her away with little movement of her to t a hands. “I haven't had Moms,” she said, we much to drink, shaking her head and closing her cyes wearily, “not as much you think Fve had, I'm really pretty sober.” 5 Insisted that she go to and =o finally she went. Dimly listened to her mother's voice, on and on about the evil of drinking strong liquot. “It's wrong for anyone to touch 1t she was saying, while Merry pd, slowly and clumsily undressed her- self, to drink, a woman! There's nothing on e 80 low as a woman who drink: It's bad enough for a but how much man worse for rth Merry pald no attention to her. Her tired brain kept repeatin was 100 old for that young He thought I was too him! Think of it! Me! him! Think of it! At last she was in bed, the lights were out, and the room 8he slept as soon as her head touch- s-of the pillow. The house was perféctly still and he curtains at her bedroom win- back and forth like was silent. It may have been that ce or four erry night. She lay there for a moment idly watching them. Then she swung her teet out of bed, her kimono, 8he turned on eve light room, locked the door and over to her dressing table. The mirror gave her back the re flection of her face, the soft purplish shadows under her eyes, the tired droop of the lovely mouth, the whiteness of it. Then she thought of Jinny's f: that night under its tiny green and slipped into in her walked now. Get | woke | By Beatrice Burton Author of “Love Bound,” “HER MAN” S8t 1926 BY NEA SERVICE MC. The man at the top may be up a tree. —= No More Piles Pile shufferers can only get quick, |safe and lasting reliet by removing ,the cause—bad blood circulation in the lower bowsl. Cutting an. can't do this—an internal alves remedy | Roid, Ireliet for Pile Suffer must be used. Dr. Leonhard't Hem- a harmless tablet, succeeds because it relieves this blood con- gestion and strengthens the affected parts. Hem-Rold has a wonderful record for quick, safe and lasting rs. It will do the same money back. foryou or |The Fair Dept. 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You aren't doing me any favor by bringing him back to me!” she said. “Pll tell you wvhat you can do for me, lh;)ug]v— e a taxicab. I'm going home. h fis'lr!:‘uc‘rfl‘dny(::::?r‘i lnm:": piped up |them!” she knew. suddenly. Jinny. “You're going to stay right | ¢ irjs nowadays started to be jore, and Angus Miller will just [8rown women at fifteen or sixteen. have to come back and dance with |Almost before they were out ot the {vou! T Wonder what he thinks he |cradle they swere in the -cabare 1is, ditehing the erowd this way “»:Im'h"l and slangy and PeDDy. But Merry wouldn't listen to her. | Pepi—that was the great thing for s {deq | Nothing, she declared .would make |2 £irl fo have these days! Pep and I r\rn;w;m‘r | ner mr at the White Peacock a 1:{]]::)‘::. short-skirted and brazen- | 0“1\"?:"; heast of a headache | Compared with [ |anyway,” she fibbed, ‘“and really |twé really WAS old! {T'm not having a good time. 1 dorit e now your crowd, and — well, I'm jthe lig } }A:L(:‘;:o)ix?;;rl\nl\vm that's all | 8he was back in bed, wondering | She swayed to her feet, whether she had gumption enough | faint and dizzy from the “juney to get up and cold-cream her pallid had had in her ginger ale. {face when she heard an automobile Jinny and Derrick took her to |coming up the street. he door, arguing with her all the| It came nearer and nearer, and way, Tnsisting that she stay, She |then with a little rush it seemed to kapt shaking her head, even after |(UFn In at the driveway before it Ishe was inside the taxicab and on stopped. her way home. |, Once more Merry was out of bed She never remembered the ride, |in her bare feet. She ran across the But all at once the cab stopped, and [T00M and pesped out of the window. looking out, she saw that they were \?Alurr_m the moonlit driveway o Chester strect house. |Cassle's new Rolls S and getting ali a path before [out of it was Cassie, hersel :\\I}l:':nho’;?:ll::‘:"l;x;:]\:tpi\:\ x‘n((\\. had a bag in one hand and a leather The driver sprang out and opened (hatbox in th {the door. He had the slip in his |hand, “A dollar and a half” Me sald, peering at it. “But T haven't any money.” Mer- |ry answered stupldly, Her head was |going around and around as the cheap llquor she had drank, began to take effect, : There was a light in the sitting room of the house. Moms must be waiting for her. : Whalking as {f she were very tired. or very sick, she went up to the front door and rang the bell. a lake. The rain-drops were making circles all over it. “They are having lots of fun,” Bennie said. “That must be a game of ‘Ring.” Each drop started a tiny ring which grew bigger and bigger until it touched another ring. i . Then it “went out.’ i % “The | Water-Fairies ¢ grab { them, 1 guess,” Bennie said. |, % “And hide them from the other # drops. Then they al] scoot down into the zbft gzound together” A tiered skirt, composed of four rows of circular ruffles, is topped by a slim little bodice cqually rippling in line, owning to its short shoulder | gecure the proper amount of rest for [cape. And to Mirther acent the un- infant | dulating effect, this cape is finished During the with two long ends of the material althy baby that He in a soft bow and hang con- » time, He siderably below the hom-liné In nough to m front. ond mon p ahont enty-four His Own serioug mista is made by parents is allowin, Wby to sleep with adults. 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Quaker QOats Thinness Now Your Own Fault New Way Found to Take Time-Tried Flesh Builder To be thin is to be scorned. likes a thin these b with % out first two weeks of life Wl sleep nearly all will wake only long Even during the healthy child will twenty hours of the been t is the silhonette of T have avolded us- trimming, ‘The | So fmportant drees that ing any distr only contrasting by the rhinestone ornament ing the searf in place in front The woman who desires to he smartly dressed at this difficult ason of the year will replenish her {mid-genson wardrobe with a praetl. cal frock of this character. 1 say | practical, as it may be worn with Dyl eor cqual ense in the afternoon or ev bed, but for |0 The matetial is coral-colored ith an adult is dis- a fabrie and color ex remely srart just now. With this youthful {worn hiscuit-colored and stockings of called “grain.” A smart frock for ning wear stresses the ripphin in hoth its skirt and bodice tions. Copy “Those cer tinly nd ey For a along pretty fast Crib that common- note O ¢ sixteen, twenty- | Merry sighed | ed It, and switched off easily o you mean to tell me that they im?" eried Reddy. “How can nything that lives in a couple of clls ik i “Ot this | mis ot Fox. What " Inquired Barker have ) chil It of the |tion to ocenpy t hild to sleep “Hello, Neigl you there or ignorance of asily enough,” s iead simply eno a ltte v same age an she | dn’t find oyt pair of od ¢ and find them Yon don't | emselves in the | day there will | m in here will he an (MM | younget mallest | mistake i B; hy you find the clams, | ! One re the younger in some motl who he- | baby 1 quarters the frock are kid slippers ghade now it 8D t pin Consequently serious | his favorite shore. Reddy carrying mouth “Hello, you ther “It's a Queer found ev H E%OWN WAY a Girl of Today MOON { ilowed T apy nd of people r ind futile rock sl a he req informal eve- line | Becs i IO air as does child i rooni is Ned, nrgess N Burgess) for the ng cl needs | adult. to a room tly lighted is not the method to employ in putting 1d to sleep. If your haby ep in a room flooded with i it has developed for it has heen reles the dif- the fros ight iich is br Picture Scarfs called In a low voice, “I'll be right down!" She slipped into her little, pink felt slippers, and pattered down | through the darkened louse to let her sister In, As she reached the bottom of the stairs, the cuckoo clock fh the dining-room sang out that it was two o'clock! Two o'clock! What on earth was Cassie doing, coming here at two oclock in the morning? “I'll bet & hat she's left Morle; “tiot a dollar fifty?" she asked, |Merry thought excitedly, as she when Moms opened the door, look- \’npr‘(‘\"tl the front rln'or. and let C; ing startled and puzzled. |sie into her mother's hous “How dld you happen to come (TO _m, CONTINUED) home 5o carly?” her mother asked, assie gives Merry some infor- |{aking her old brown purse from |mation Which greatly surpriges her the pocket of her aprom. “Aren't jin Chapter LII of “The Petter” to- you well?" |BaorTaY, She paid the cab man and follow- | ed Merry into the house. A little wood fire burned in the | 1f you can’t “‘get away,” sase the attacks with— grate, for the spring night was faw v ORUB M o, and ohilly. 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A mild odor n a child but display res progent brov sleeper. perfume may cause vomitink on the part of the 1 espectally If the Dbahy's stomach i in good order | Iret When Hungry | quent cause of sleep- | Most habies, will until hunger, has ben sat. although = regularity in such will sleep in & 1 or dark room, Quiet is are Ideal should be THE CRESCENT Joan, however, had gotten rid of most of I and she exclaimed t she hungry the chicken nound of fluffy mashed 7 ind dishes filled with p srought in Jerry in answere rery glad 1. who had look« svening meal with 10t eat, s Hall 1 realized that ti 1 Ider th 1 had been living moon Y D months was not to Sed rial St 1or ittle world which was peaple ls abeut in hooks, he thought came fo r, to ntly this of foolish ingle sleepi cunrante Npt all fact that tent disturber of sl will not always w childeen will when odors troubles, |show me ho vere 18 very the vith 1ts as other Kinds an odor 0 and im cre wer Mamie th ptation no loved less- in a into | Lven itful car 188 e sleeping olose room are ximity of to the ol | by, Over Jerry's = & time that cres- | not i staf almost | point, and 1 rid world | lossness i ve, waggnow ‘not sle as (M1 of |isfied and ite losw 2 o y men n 1 chalr in front of it, and began to {laugh. “I'm well enough, but — I'm old, | 1 guess.” she answered harshily, “Old at twenty-two! Try to figure that corner illed which one sametimes The old-fashioned giris painted on nmagherly 1ing is of utmost importance. the cndg of this white ‘affeta scarf ed apron [;\ little milkk given sometimes off fhave blue laffeta skirts with hand- was schedvle does léss harm than the |painted roses. and an he ot such I r oman who. ne thas [ticd around her ”