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uicksands of Love Adele Garrison’ s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife —— News form Mary Harrison at Her School It took but a second for Kather- ine to draw over her pallid face the professional mask which years of re- pression have taught her so well how to assume. She roge to her feet, still clutching the letter which I just had tossed into her lap, and said with apparently effortless quiet “Do you mind if I Jeave you for a minutes?” Of course not,” we followed her slender fig: anxious eyes until the door ha closed behind it, for she went direct- to her own room on the floor above. Then Lillian's eyes mine concernedly. do you suppose is the mat- breathed. “Did ce?” I answered briefly, T might have added that I had seen he let- ter also, and that I knew very well the reason for my little kinswom- an's agitation. But it was Kather- ine's affair, and it was not for me to omment upon it because of the special knowledge 1 possessed. Lillian understood. She always loes, and changed the subject imme- liatel You were ready to shrow a few oxclamation points into the air your- self before you caught sight of Kath- ce,” she reminded me. “Go we chorused, t re wit met she you see erine's fa ahead and read your letters. There's only one worth the time,” 1 said, “and that one you'll want to hear. It's from Mary Harrison.” 'hat means she's probably on her way here,” Lillian commented “That young woman does things first and notifies people afterwards. Read it. I'm all ears. 1 tore open the envelope and took out the letter, a number of pages, but as I knew from experience con- ning comparativ few words. The sheets of notepaper bore the monogram of the school, and began | abruptly, with no date line: “Dear Auntie Madge! Hooray! Hooray! I'm on my way, or will be as soon as I've had a day in Detroit I suppose Aunt Harriet will think I ought to stay until I get my ward- robe in shape, but I've got plenty of clothes, and they're pretty well mended up — they make us do that here, you know — ahd if T have any- thing new I want to buy it in the New York shops, of coursé. So after v day or the with you, 1 don't anxious to be two fam- and be mbracimg il ‘board dat train whether they're me, or whether good with them. | and holy com- | tells me that 1 their conditions, is left stainless other one is Good-bye this short Har- Know rid o ancien » any I'm cutting to write Mary.” undated you I've got Lovingly, I laid the letter down, picked up the envelope, noted the postmark, and made a mental cal- ion. | this two days ago,” 1 oud, “and one to Harriet prob- | ably the day. Don’t you sup- | posk she would have to wait for | written permission from Harriet be- fore she could leave?”, “Let me see the letter,” 1, stretching out her hand, after a second’s close scrutiny, laughed amused “You're forgetting your teaching with schoolgirls, Madge, in the family, . Ticer would entence. It's a “She sent gaid same Lillian and she experience while I, having one am ‘up to them,’ as M Look at that last |“wire Aunt Harriet' not ‘write. | T took the letter and confirmed her observation “Then,” T said culation, “she's likel “Almost any day ed, as 1 paused. “How school from Detroit | “About a half day's journey” I |answered. » probably wired for Harriet lto come for her immediately,” Lil- |lian reflected. “A day at home— lshe's extremely likely to be with you day after tomorrow if not tomorrov |Poor dear! There goes your week vacation!” | “Indecd no, |be no trouble. “Well! she's not my idea of a rest | cure,” Lillian retorted, rising. “Take |my advice, and keep her in seclu- |sion. Don't take her over to Verit- n's until week's vacation |over.” Copyright, 1 say. revising my cal- v to be here—" Lillian finfsh- far iz the s 1 sald stoutly. “She’ll your Newspaper Inc. The Prickly Porky of the Sea By Thornton W. Burgess the Sea let Prickly Porky of When you find be.” me, me )ld Mother Nature, He Good it just land in words. does say of the burr says it. You have Porky of is to doesn't say no! But the Prickly says it, and a It is sald without merely to look at the Sea to know leave him alone. Who is the Prickly Porky of the Ask Jimmy Skunk. Jimmy found out by being careless. }I poking around under some rocks what he could find there 1" he cried, and jumped back, holding up one little black paw. He had pricked that little black paw it Porky it wor( Prickly that it Chestn best was to 0 Z = said he, “is the Porky of the Sca “This,” SLEEP, BLESSED SLEI ol ” yme Ju y it me most for- tals cannot car at the of M ouse for a T told him that T was 100 tired to be decent to anyone, which was the truth. After | b ittle while, Yy rock “Let’s get it out where lit better,” said Reddy. Jimmy turned his head aside to} hide a grin. “That’s a good idea, said he, “you pull it out.” So Reddy reached in a black paw | to pull the thing out. “Ouch!” cried | Reddy, and the queer thing remain- | ed right where it “What's the trouble Graywing the Gull/ it that moment There trouble,” repl eddy crossly are just wonder this here.” it out let's look at it,” Graywing . it out we can was. inquired | coming along isn't any W thing g what is “Pull aid ¢ yourself,” retorted Reddy “Oh, if that's wout it,” T will nd, reaching his stout bill, looking thing than ever like Jir polite. Gull,” now ‘e have never excepting the fall cover this thing the you feel replied Graywing under the rock witl he pulled the qu out. It looked m a greak big chestnut way er- remembered to be o please, Neighbor said “we shonld like to what this thing js. Ts it alive? | seen anything like it back on land trees grow. There nuts drop they that look a whole Skunlk you ny away chestnut when the in 28 ni’s eves twinkled. “Thi the Prickly Porky is a Sea Urchin, a Gree and it very sometimes called re’s no real senseqdn such You'll find that un- sfines shell owner of that shell lives in doesn’t want to he meddled Old Mother Nature Wl of Do you is of 1t n a Sca is that a It is \ os H ose spines yonder? There | shaped | s on it, | Wi e discovered he bot That of Jimmy looked pin-cushion knobs. rious o iy with tiny n Burgess) I knew the day 1 1 didn't want ot Mamie and a8 1 drag and pulli hes dropped into bed. ) my doc id not to | next ing what my ady oonlight made a great patch the floor, just in | front of my bed. Tt scemed to make | a path out of the window clear up[ is | | of of I my th R The Beauty Doctor f e CONDITION—Enlarged ve DIAGNOSIS—This is often a sig of the veins are breaking down TREATMENT—The gentlest Use simple, rotary movements, k hands, with nourishing crear ward. This draws th pressure from the walls of the v . Posed by Y of ns. ns and hands th Before blood from the hands #* vonne Gr t are too red n of age and indicates that the walls 1ocal lding the backs of lold the hands up- relieves the massage remedy ling and r the you b thi , and temporarily Hay-Fever in Late Fall Usually More Severe BY DR. MORRIS FISHREIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine, in the , lasts than spring The hay-fgver that occurs late fall i¥ usually more longer, and affects mor that occurring in the and summer. Investigations the cause of fall poilen of plants weed and 3age- at that time. blown about sever peopl early that the shown ever, is such the rag- 1sh, h flowe These pollens are by the wind, which is likely to be brisk and to disseminate the pollen over a wide territory. In addition to the plants men-| tioned, other wind-pollinated plants, tumbleweed their ave hay as whi and and such as pigweed may go to pollens. seed spread Secorfd Period Many have period summer, grasses of pollination latc In New England hay-fever season begins to Walker twentieth weed W the accordir nth the P n and even the ex abou of Augzust he wi first pollinates, ents w certain day hour when t pected to appear ¢ symptoms are ch year. e until I are kill- September, oms conti flowers or the ragwe ed by the frost late in but if agtumn is unusualy late, they may continue until about the first October. In some persons, the frost or symptoms do with tk but continue ot stop with the end of poliination, longer because the nose has be fected and the irritation continues until proper treatment plied Tests of the iring ragweed has been air eastern ¢ in pollination scason that the sub- tly th made th the ance how is found abundar in - atmosphere period pollination unts were n the cities in the country, but enough ragweed s found on va- into the city sensitive per- of cant lots or blown cause symptoms in to sons. Air Tests In Cities s mix the s 1 ind | plants sons of fastens on other lowers aves in the vicinity of ed For reason per suffer more when ilong country roads. Walker fall hay-fever nsitive to few are found h flowers as ragw this many driving According persons w England are althou 1 sens ) S0 to nost all in New ragweed, who the gold corn, yel- or enrod, aisy, flower, cd or responsii In In the ¢ nd Nebraska and Ne¢ ow, aster, low white daisy sun- of the dwa Roman wormwood is usual- Central State: al states, from 1 to L Ider concern weed or goose in south marsh b careless larters Russian thistle 1, the may d; in Arizor pigweed foc salt mtry Ber grass ser and brushes, and the Johnson tic In Colorado, the ragwee n st sage and and in Califor- d, tansy involved type goldenrod timothy & m weed, nia many of ragw poverty- and may be concerned. Ihe physician must d the skin test which poll of pollens affect the then makes a special pollens concernec itive termine by n or atient, st groups He with out a to . find patient s sensitivity how sern to will xt 1 sometimes hle the patient cussed in the lesepsi be DOSS tize T'his dis to the Was it omen. I hould I go with Joan to Europe, I 162 Or should T n nd marry Jerry. 1 was answer thosc evidently fell asleep For the first a good wonder asked n re at hom trying when 1 pure fatigus knew was the fe of that where the moonlight had made a silver path there of golden sunshine I lay quite ned to knocki beeame questions from thing T eling surprise vas now a flood I could not Ay conscious but last loor, or at 1y v bell ring- | clea still. zather S e wer, at least for T ing more awake 1iso di h ling up. Judy. T inguis in the N and Mamni W that last know you. Somcone for the b calling for you I slipped my ippers shoulder \ear enough to shut clamor of reard Hoan's THE TEA-KETTL G SSSSS .. ses .. ing! Ssasss ing!” The big tea- kettle on Grandmother's stove was singing happily. Billie and Betty looked at cach other. “Sesss . . .. ing!"” Billie sang up and down. “Its trying to teach us 2 new song.” So Betty tried to sing exactly like the’ tea-kettle Then they both tried Logether. ' “Why! Where are those lit- tle kitten: called Grand- mother. “Didn’t ] hear some meowing?" “No,” Betty answered, laugh- ing. “That was th> Tea-kettle Sorg.” And they both sang it two or three or four times for Grandmother. She thought it was beautiful, Will e This is Jud butgl am ov ep fc went to bed Well I am gure w ke ered I didn after 1 ) 10 sl whil lister answered to say will 1 Bud and had special deliv- oing 1o this morn- hose let not open ery one s s town ind ¢ All 1 do is “soak and rinse” on washday —yet I get whiier clothes than ever NEVER used 2 ¢ so quickly, anc Rinso does. Best of all, the dirt and stains float ofi in the rinsing. I don’t need to dc the least bit of sard rubbing—or even boil the clothes, because Rinso not only whitens, but sterilizes, too! My clothes last much longer thio easy “soak and rinse becauge nov [ never have to s@fub them threadbare over a washboard. Yet they are whiter, brighter than ever! Rinso is all I need on washday. Ne bar soaps, chips or powders. It makes the water so soft and sudsy. Just ask your grocer for Rinso The granulated soap that soaks clothes whiter—no scrubbing. ap that rinses out ) completely, as THE P \ (Illustrated aad Copyrighted by Jolinson Features, Inc., 1819 Broadway, New York City) READ THIS FIRST: x Merry Locke, pretty and gay as her name, is a born flirt. She is the kind of girl who has no ambition beyond having a good time and of beaus. twenty she fails in course and takes job in Dale’s beauty shop. At that is having the first real love her life. The man in the is Tony Gaines, a serious young who wants to marry her. gement ends when Merry, jealousy, admits to him lets other men make love to her a steno- lawyer in that she her He away to Montana. A let- ter comes from him, but it mysteri- ously vanishes from the hall table of th before Merry has a chance to read it. A year later she hears that he is gaing to marry a girl in Montana, and she tries not to car goes house, her older sister, marries cmployer, Morley Kaufman, Moms, her widowed mother, takes Lillie Dale and a Mr. Heffling- |er into the house as boarders. Later e 1 Mr. Hefflinger. Jinny, | Merry's youngest sister, elopes with Derrick Jones, and goes to live with his parents. hrough Cassie, Merry meets Bill a wealthy bachelor, She ccomes engaged to him. But when s tangled up in the divorce Les Purcell and his wife, arries another girl years go by, and Merry finds slipping into an “under- with George Leet, who marry until his invalid moth- s. Ore spring, during the ning, Merry finds Tony letter, and Cassie confesses hid it long ago, because ted Merry to marry Eill Ers- and his money. Tony Gaines breaks intc print all over the country when he is engaged by “Mrs. Ruc who has been charged with the murder of her hus- band. The Ruck murder case be- comes famous, and Tony becomes |famous along with it. Merry decides she cannot marry George Leet, after all, and tells him |so. George asks her who has come between them. Merry says that no one has. But she knows it is a news- paper picture of Tony G that made her realize doesn't love |George enough to marry him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STQRY CHAPTER LX murder trial - of the whole country ough June and July of Merry Locke resting only because person in it—young Anthony Gaines, r for the accused woman kept every newspaper clip- mentioned his name. She carefully as the proud wife of a prominent man might hoard newspapc clippings that mentioned his name, put them. away in an ravagant handkerchief box roses painted all A box that had been a gift Erskine, long ago, in the he showered presents rries | E cannot Hlost | that |she wa love ines | Mrs on 1926, the Ruek tiptoe trial one M ping kept them ¢ rry that ex- with satin from days upon pink cross its top. Bil when | ner | “What on earth’are you saving all hose cippings for?” Lillie Dale ask- 1 her one morning when she came into Merry's room to borrow a handkerchief Lillie never had things. would forget to send her clothes to the laundry until sudden lack of fresh linen remind- ed her ¢ them. She stood now, in a blue lawn dress, peering into the mass of paper that was in the ~box where she had expected to. find Merry's handkerchicf Then she swung around dresser and faced the girl “You're not crazy abou low, still, are you |little bright eyes der. “Not after all these Merry looked back at and steadjly. “There are plenty of clean handkerchiefs in my top | arawer, Lillie,” answered, and Lillie took one went without nother word Merry went on dressinf, Tt did take her as long as it had once upon a time. For she no longer wore the thick 1 of malke-up that Lillie had taught her to wear. She had found out that it was bad for her skin, and now she used the ti bit of rouge and powder. Curiously enough, it was baby-pow- der that came in a white tin ba | Merry loved the sweet, clean smell |of it on her skin, although Lillie told her a dozen times a day, at least, that her nose was shiny She told her so that breakfast “I don't |ing at ¥ leup. “1 all pasty {of loo shiny tiful to me - b where I step inside of enough clean She crumpled from the she said wide witl fel- her wor her coldly and not iest so mor care,” Merry said, look- from over her coffee ither have it shiny than with I'm so sick it made-up women that fooks positively beau- I'm getting to the wish I never had to that beauty shop of as 1 lived. her knife powder. g nos long down clatter. ours again, Lillie laid with a and for n idea, Merry,” I've been thinking f that I don't; need Almost anybody could do the 1 could hire a girl for day for little s qui she or a lor time you you do. hours At first ry., But made You can give dollars T told siness the five very this to Mer- was a blow vo or three mind to le me b put into Lillle Dale, “and 1'll cou I think beauty shop wa blind alley. 1t led nowhere “And if I'm going to be an old maid all my life, T may as well have a carecr,” Merry sald to herself. | She was ashamed, when she | thought how Tony Gaines had forged ahead to fame and success. while she {had sat lazily and comfortably in | the sloppy little shop. “I'll use the thousand dollars for my business ' she thought it all out, “and when 'm earn- |ing a salary, 1'can save up another {thousand and return it to Bill Ers- ne." She told Lilllp what she in- ve tl Kk the the shop. e shop. thou- sand bu After all rouTse then ETTER “p | ING NEVER MISS HER HEAD. “I FUNERAT JE ALL tended to do | “You're a®itu in her downright give him a should worry al him, |treated you the he {mighty lucky you didn’t s m for breach of promise, and walk off with twenty or thirty thousand doll | You could have got it—just like that!” | she snapped her how easily Merry a small fortunc Erskine, § | But Merry shook her head —I didn't wAnt said. Somehow, T things any mor out the diamond watch some other bejewelled | Bill had given her, in her $mali hand. @ | U ® her as if lost her mind. “You don't yowre going nd 1 1ff o him, do you?" she gasped Merry nodded. Well, you poor lié cried. “If you Dora, Nevertheless, fool,” said Lillie never ! You when he did! He's way. *I back a penny of way saken Bill fingers could have to away from No his money,” she don’t want these éither,” she hel bracelet and trinkets that the palm of she o had to lie looked an to s ack little on this ear Merry put hox and Lil- Dumb obody Bill's dia- monds it to Morley o1 I, don't X to ed 1 in his of knew that he would. Morley ight be as crooked at a dog's hind when it came to his dealin women, but he was as strajght die about money and other into a gave Ka Bill's know addre it. You s me, will yon? day she called don’t kno want to him for e as im, the on him She leg with as a thimgs Through the open door of his pri- vate office Merry could see the b tiful blond private secretary with whom Morley was supposedly in love, She laughed suddenly straight into her eyes. “I'm going to take a tarial gourse, Morley,” she him, “and thea T'm here to work you me 2" She - nd Dbrother looked in-law’s cere- said to down you let coming for will lightning nt over an saw him dart a |glance at the blond head 1 a typewriter in his oftice, then back at,he course, ¥ let you ‘T'll be glad stop Cassie from having if it does nothing néver had a girl working yet, that Cassie didn’t call kind of a vampire and siren knbwn to man! Sure, I'll give you a job. She ¢z kick about her own s wor for me, can she?” outer “air do it!" to do hys 1 enoug h swered. I've for me ever even a n't ing following Saturday M wty shop for good. ked away from it at fternoon, fee that she had. left the most unhappy part of her life behind her. Tony Gaine had never wanted her to go into tk SO On the left the 1 She v the rry 1% five in beauty shop, and she was had “ever entered it. She felt that she had w best years of her li she must 5 of and the twenty "1l my the that now w place had week's vacation, and put clothes into some kind of order, and then I'll start work the business school,” she told Moms next morning: was' Sunday and the two of we alone in the cool, neat that lpoked out onto the take a at the It them kitchen backyard The two of breakfast. Lillie set lake for the week-end, Hefflinger was away on There was nothing to be done in the house, except to & ke the beds and wash the dishes, for they were go- ing to have an ice-box dinner. Cold roast heef, and potato salad, and peach pie that Moms had made the day before. “Nmm, {that?" Moms | were talking She was look paper, and was list Iways read even glanced any the paper. “Tony G went on, without “Somcbody said other day. Well, we all sooner or later, don't we She sighed deeply, and dishe: ross the kitehen sink. ‘Che funeral's to be she remarked presently.’*] suppose |that's to give Tony time to get here |trom Montana. 1 wonder how he'll feave that murder case of his." “He won it,”" sald Merry, wooden- Iy. She had loeked at the front page |while Moms read the death list. “The paper says so. this morning.” “Well, T shall cerfainly go to the funeral. I never miss |see all my old friends at thém.” ob- |servad Moms. solemnly shaking her 1lone at to Sun- and Mr. business. them had gone were think of as if she what do you murmured to herself. over the Sunday the death before she part of ng reading it other She mother dead,” she raising her eyes she was sick, the have to g0 nes' to the Wednesday,” MY carried her | a funeral, T} FASHIONS By Sally Milgrim B By Beatrice Burton Author of “Love Bound,” “HER MAN” i g 108 SAID, OLD FRIENDS OL LY SHAK- B Frocks AT THEM.” Fluttering in Two Colors Are Important in the Late head. “You go with me, too, | can’t you? You'll at home this | | 1t you are be Summer Evening Mode, v contemplating a new dance frock and want something a |bit unusual, consider the smart ef- fect of white chiffon combined with some daring, contrasting shade. These new evening gowns in two |colors are extremely smart just now, |well-dressed women preferring the effect of sharp contrasts to the more stereotyped one-tone models. The evening gown sketched to- d is a lovely combination of white and apple green chiffon. The latter shade appears in aiternate panles on the skirt and in the green of “The |}caq trimming of the girdle It is no | way detracts from the cool gleam of |the white and, in addition, provides «7 |a colorful, enriching not Menus for the Family |t it'is wnucuany 'he skirt is unusually full owing rry looked “Yes, Tl go plied very quietly, to.” down at her hands. with you,” she re- “if you want me e wondered if Tony would be and his wife. CONTINUED) time she had been ince to him. A girl magic of First Love night when he had lonely country road stars. Merry re—Tony (TO BE upon a of Te in th Onee kissed under | g order Les Pur- ? You'll know Chapter LXI Why does ell to leave the tomorrow in P to loose, circular panels of alternat- |ing green and white chiffon, picoted in silver. The silver motit is re- peated in the narrow ribbon girdle which is embroidered in pearls, brilliants and sparking green stones. Rhinestones are used again on the close-fitting bodice in a design of ra- diating lines and to outline the neck 1d arm holes he very full skirt of this chiffon evening gown is composed of alter- nating loose panles in white and apple green. Rhinestones trim the close-fitting bodice. —Blackberries with th cream, potato omelet, bran muffins, milk, coffee, » | Stuffed onions, toasted Dutch appl Luncheor 1 cottage ham, po- olded swiss chard, s filled with pdach cre wheat rol mNk, coffe Dutch delicion is sure , little or | sugar and dessert is a shioned that wppeal to everybody— medium. Served with crcam, it makes a hearty desirable for luncheon. Dutch Apple Cake cup flour, % teaspoon salt, 1 | baking powder, 1 table- butter,.1 egg, milk, apples, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon cin- namon. Mix and sift flour, sa)t and baking powder. Rub in butter with a fork or tips of fingers. Break egg into a cup and add milk to half fill cup. | Beat mixture well and cut into dry ngredients. Add enough more milk to malke a soft dough. Spread in a shallow pan and cover with apples nd cut in eighths. Ar- s in in parallel rows with the “sharp” down. Sprin- klo with s 1 cinnamon and bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven. S e warm with sugar and cream. pple most One spoon spoon pared, cored range the daily—the news. paper preferred by .intelligent, thinking people. Order from your newsdealer. edge Kiils Pesky Bed-Bugs Quick Instant desh for bed-bugs, roaches or fleas, Thy. moment P.D.Q., the new chemicai dise covery—touches these insects they die, Can do no damace to your springs, or furniture; won't rot or stain clothing. P.D.Q. is used and recommended by leading hotels, hospitals and ads as the quickest and safest way of getting rid of pesky insects. 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