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Quicksands of Love Adele Garrison’s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife —— IAlllan Is Worried by the Woman's Actions T looked at Katherino gratefully when she made the comment that Jack Leslle was probably discour- | aged in his pursuit of Mary Har- rison's acquaintance by the protect- ing guard of our companionship which we had thrown around her. | “Do you really think so?” I ask-| ed hopefully. Yes, 1 do,” she answered with decision. “I don’t mean that we | shouldn’t keep up our apparently casual joining of our excursions, al- though 1 believe she's what she would call ‘hep’ to us, don't you? 1 nodded, for I too had fancled | that I saw in Mary's bright eyes a mirthful comprehension of our | ruse “But T think we safely can taper off a bit,” Katherine went on. “That will give Mary a doubt whether our journeyings with her are due to a Qdesire for her company or for in- formation. And it will not give Jack Leslie any better opportunity to see | her, for he probably has had it borne in upon him by now that he never will know when we are like- Iy to appear in the offing with all sails set.” Jack Out of the Picture “You don't know how relieved I/ am," 1 said, drawing a deep Lreath. “I can guess quite easily,” she returned with a grim little smile. | “I like Mary immensely, but I wouldn't have the responsibility of her guardianship for a million. | However, I don't think you nesd to worry any more about Jack Leslie. ply is sponged out this time. But I Baker | let her in for a lot of bother with that woman on the fourth floor if | she doesn't watch her step.” | “Mrs Baker!" T ejaculated in FH!-} | Katherine may, as I remembered my qualms concerning the mysterious fourth. floor lodger who, when we first moved into the Riverside Drive apartment building, had displayed such inordinate curlosity concern- ing us and whose subsequent esplon- age had annoyed me so greatly. hat's the name of the animal, 1 believe,” Katherine returned with such odd rancor in her usually gen- tle volce that I looked at her In amazement. “Yes, I know that's rather ven- omous,” the little nurse said appolo- getically, “but honestly that's just the way that woman affects me whenever I see her, as Iif some loathsome beast had just crawled across my path.” “You say that she is bothering Mary,” I asked incredulously. “That T do not know,” Katherine retorted dryly. “Mary doesn’'t ap- pear particularly bored—rather in- terested, in fact, when I have caught glimpses of her talking to the Baker woman. I suppose the lady is doing the eternal-gratitude.to-my-rescuer- act, because of Mary's picking her up from that swoon in the park, | and no romantle girl of sixteen is going to pass up listening to & talk of that kin: “But T don't think Mary has any illusions concerning the woman,” I said in feeble protest. “She spoke of her quite contemptuously that day when we brought her in from the park, telling me that she sus- pected Mrs. Baker of shamming the swoon." Not so dlitficult a thing to do" commented, “cspecfally when there are no physicians or nurses present. I wish I'd been on the spot that day.” Copyright. 1926, by Newspaper Feature Service, Ine. Peter Does Happy Jack a Good Turn | By Thornton W. Burgess i rn every day | the | Who does 2 good t Will ne'er lack friends along way. —Mother West Wind er Rabbit Is just like a great anyt heedless is alwa nover worries abou ways and ss. But he tp do a good turn for o + can or when he thinks many friends all the Squirrel cousins y hunting for food to fill es, while Jerry Mu: ng the roof of his house to make it ready for winter, | while Paddy the Beaver was cutting | food logs that he and his family v when the fce | e Johnny Chuck vas stuffing himself to make sure ., that he had a thick coat of fat un- derneath his fur coat before gol " to sleep for the winter, Peter R bit was wandering about trying find some one to play There was frost in air, just _enough to make Peter feel good. It was splendid weather to zo frisking ‘about. So It was that Peter did a dot of roaming. He spent most of his time over in the Green Forest, and there one day he discovered in 2 place he had lom visited a hickory tree that seemed to have been overlooked. Any way, there were a lot of fine h nuts the ground, and, Peter hung around for me, he could not see one Squirrel family. “This 4 T wonds one cry nuts. Jack. these. they certa Jack f So Jack. while to find Hapy ual, those Squirrel ¢ quarreling ¥ volces Tore to ry Itho some of the on s funr how 0 know T'll go and | od to me, but to make Happy el good. to look for I from g ¢ ha thi to sit and to be or late rel Happy we Peter to spea where there are “Don't you tell!” sald he to Peter hickory nuts and no one has found | them,” said Peter. cried Happy Jack 1l hen no one Is looking, way and follow my tail” replied Poter. This Happy Jack did (Copyright, 1926, by T. W. By The next story: “Happy Proves His Thrift.” Ji ack BY SISTER MARY Breakfast — Orange julce, ce- real, thin cream, soft cooked eggs, isp whole wheat toast, waffles, n sugar syrup, milk coffee. Luncheon -- Beef broth, crou- tons, molded cheese salad, rye bread and butter s ches, steamed car- rot puddir milk, fea. Dinner Hungarian goulash, baked sq endive salad, choco- la rice pudding, graham bread, milk, cofffee. Hungarian Goulash pound lean veal, 1-2 lean f, 1 tablespoon bacon fat, 1 ige onion, 1-2 teaspoon paprika, spoon salt, 6 or 8 small po- cup canned tomatoes rub- teaspoon h. One toes. 1 ed through a sieve, 1 . 6 peppercorns fat in kettle and add onion E mer over a low : minutes. Cut meat into brown on all sides d s teen min- paprika, T nd about 1 cup Simmer for 1 1-2 s and cook thirty until potatoes Don’t Fuss With Mustard Plflasters! ier. ad potator ser or longer t mix s of mustard, can re ess with n you ofl of a1- mu pure et, colds of the i nt pneumonia.) Jars & Tubes ex- slip | pound | FASHIONS By Sally Milgrim | The Brilliant Note of Jewelled Em- broidery Is Apparent in the Smartest Dance Frocks Frocks that shine in the night! Filmy affairs of fragile tulle dot- ted here and there with bits of gleaming light. A satin sheath ablaze with jewelled brilliants! Such gleaming notes, added to a variety of fabrics, are the signifi®int features of the luxurious mode. A lovely combination of flutter- ing grace and sophisticated orna- today. In addition to the gleam- ilng trimming on the walst and the |is the interest of | The skirt, with fts rippling tier |is fold upon fold of soft tulle. Delicate lace embroidered in bril- liants - makes that bodice section. Naturally two materials. evening mode. formal oeccasions as well as for the home. The decolletage is usually a shallow oval in front and a deep {oval of V in back. | The bodice if this bouffant !ning gown is Dlack lace finished {with a band of tulle at the top. The fluffy skirt is black net. Copyright, 1926 (EFS) Your Health How to Keep It— Causes of Illness BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American the Health Magazine For centuries smallpox was great scourge of man. In 17 reported by the American Associa- |tion for Medicinal Progress, Bos- iton had almost £.000 cases of this L ai in a total population of the se the scars of smallpox on his‘face. Today, the man with the scars of | Mary go in the morning, this disease {s ignorance or carelessness on part of his parents, who failed to avail themselves of the properties of smallpox vaccination. The number of cases reported {rom 48 states and the District of | Columbia in 1921 was 108,135 and there were 764 deaths. Since that time there has been a rapid de- crease, so that the number of cases s varled bet®een 30,000 and 60,000 each year. The number of deaths varled from the low mark of 189 In 1923 to 702 1925, $S3 in 1922, and 894 deaths 'in 1924, living. evidence of Vaccine The experiences of many tions have shown that smallpox can be prevented by vaccination. Almost cveryone knows that the vaccina- tion itselt is a simple matter, in- mere scratching of the and the inoculation of mat se purity and safety have be sted to by the government ssful vaccination generally five seven second atlon against smallpox to vacel or lite. There Is not the slig) to indicate that vaccination can do harm. The only deaths that occur are the result of lack of care after vaceination, whe the scar itsAlf | becomes intected secondarily with bacteria. Vac done and properly care any procedure re Millions of p every year, and the ondary fliness is so merit mention Cites Figures The proof of the protection led by vaccir lies in owing figur Assem ination properly 1 for is as saf 1 to the human of see- small as hardl af on th also Associat nallpox 18 ited; vaceinated been years seven persons er they . previo unahle er o & en v nce is ciear that vacel nation protects, Military tr Vning will Mg Atte n iing camps will be intro- Turk for boys all hools I v tra lgatory. | sistet. | embroidery, | Honey Lou that a clinging velvet gown lighted by |Was tri sumptuous | Wants | | ment is the dance ‘rock sketched |%' youthful boutfant silhouette, there | close-fitting | Wallacks the me- | for themselves. dium is black, as this color is the |at the Wallack Mills office to ses| smartest nots in both the day and | Ann Ludlow. | Trocks of this type are used for sent for her. in their own eve- | lanay, \sends Medical Association and of Hygeia |, goes to the There was a time when the hu-|poems about little houses in | man being seldom was seen without | country filled with love and happi- Menaus for the Family the | | deaths in| HONEY LOU © JOHNSON READ THIS FIRST: Honey Lou Huntley is private sec- retary to old “Grumpy’ Wallack, head of the Wallack Fabric Mills. Honey Lou likes everyone at the mills except Joe Meadows, the ship- ping clerk, who makes love to her against her will. Jack Wallack, who comes to his | father's miily to learn the business, falls in love with Honey Lou the minute he sees her. Brought up by | an old-fashioned mother, Honey | Louu s a mixture of flapper and | clinging vine. Angela Allen pretends to be a friend of Honey Lou and tells her not to take Jack seriously. Jack is very jealous ot Dr. Steve Mayhew, | a friend of Margret, Honey Lou's| Honey Lou goes to work with | Margret in the office of Holy Cross | hospital. One day she goes to tea with the wily Angela and meets Jack’s mother, gvhom Jack calls The Head, because she manages everything at home. She tells Honey Lou that Grumpy ls not satisfled with his new secretary Ann Ludlow, the office vamp. FEATURES INC, 1926 the panting Daisy still struggling in his arms. Jack got up. “Here—let her go, Donegal,” he sald carelessly, and with one big, slow sweep of his arm he drew Dalsy away from him. Donegal glowered at him, and then smiled his reckless, charming smile, “Damsels in distress seem to be your speclalty,” he sald unsteadily, Just as Honey Lou came lightly out into the hall. “What's all the speechifying about, Tim? What office are you running for?” she asked him gally. Donegal wagged his finger at her. “It makes no never-mind,” he told her thickly, “Your hus- ban’ just tries to get all the women away from me. He got you that way, and he thinks—" He swayed Jack asks Honey Lou to work for his father, who is at home sick with lumbago, and Honey Lou promises that she will Honey Lou meets Angela, who tells her that Jack Wallack is tak- ing her out to dance that evening. Honey Lou calls up Tim Donegal, determined to have him take her to the same place. Honey Lou goes with Tim to the restaurant and he has been drink- ing. The place is raided by dry agents and Honey Lou escapes with Jack Wallack. Jack tells he thought she ing him and ends by tefl- g her that he loves her and her to marry him. Honey Lou's engagement nounced and plans are made the wedding. Jack and Honey Lou have a ziet home wedding and spend thelr honeymoon camping at Lake Tamay. In the meantime Steve s the flat and breaks under the ization that Honey Lou is lost is an- for real s, | 10 him now. | | | Jack and Honey Lous return from | their honeymoon and stay Wwith the while looking for a flat Honey Lou stops Ann tells Meadows and tells him he must| small, intimate dinner in one's own | marry Ann at once and he agrees to do so. Honey Lou and J flat the cook. Angela comes te hel prepare dinner on Mar, Jack phones he will not be home| and Angela calls Tim Doncgal and asks him to play cards with them, much against Honey Louw's wishes. | Later they meet at Sabine's but Honey Lou his invitation | to tea. Jack and Honey Lou spend the evoning with The Head. ste Jack upstairs to see ther and tells Honey Lou nts to talk to her, The Head scolds Honey Lou the money she has spent furnich- ing her house. Honey Lou makes up her mind she must not spend so much, but the next day Honey | beauty parlor to have her hair done and then goes| shopping with Suzanne Clemens. | % settle down | h Mary De-| refuses 25| On the way home Honey Lou stops to see Angela. Angela tells Honey Lou she is oing to have a party for her and Jack Saturday night. Honey TLou| goes home and finds Jack reading | the | Lou decides to let do her | own work, and try to make the kind of home Jack wants. The next morning Angela calls and asks | Honey Lou to go to town with her to pick out a new dress for the party. Influenced by Anzela a dress which s cannot afford. Angela teils Honey Lou Jack seems ve much inter- ested 1n new secretory, Miss Ay At the party Margret overhears Angela talking to Jack of Honey Lou. Now nes;. Honey Honey Lou knows she his es. WITH THE STORY XLI1 GO ON CHAP At first Ma what they were talking “T told her not to buy was saying in the soft voice that somehow Margret the wrong you couldn't afford just like a spoiled To Margrot's surprise 1 his deep laugh he is!" he ans that's one reason W her thing o like a kid with and I like to " Angela soothing 1bbed way. T it—but child.” Jack only “That's “1 sup- y 1 enjoy bubbles new hear ose giving over, just Teddy bear. Margret smiled to herself. What- Angela W trying to say inst Honey Lou did not secm putting him into an 11 humor. His blue eyes Honey Lou's small with tenderness in Steve May Marg to be th his dark head olden-browr sho told ywn Steve bent Honey Low's 2 dead xive Anybody could head over heels still—anybody look twice. Then Timothy dancing out into the Dalsy Deane fn his wae carrying a drink many, as usual, and he sang at the top of Daisy's ear: ‘Daisy! Daisy! You set me crazy You daze me, Dalsy “Let me go. Tim!" Dalsy pleading with him, midway be tw irs and laughter. For 1egal had upset a chai 1 dta even seem to know He againet the wall, with see th in who love Donegal irms or two his voice Daisy! n ot it areened |y Honey Leu why. she| Honey Lou sees Joe | “T Just Won't Have Him in th land clung to the wall for support. he had his doubts stared at him, pale that her eyes Some Honey Lou and eo frightened were like saucers. {told her what he was going t And he did say just what she xpected him to! “He thinks I never sece you any more.” The words came from his ips in little jerks. “He never ‘magines we play cards every now and then, together, does he? Good ioke on him!™ Everybody In the hallv ghed except thres peopl Honey Lou and Margret and Jack. Then Tim staggered foolishly back into the living room and the crowd broke up into twos and threes and followed him. Present- only Honey Lou and the man and woman on the seat under the stalrs were left in the hall. Honey Lou walked over to them. “Jack,” she said, “I hope you don’t think I've been seeing Donegal alone, Angela and I have played cards with him just once, and no more—Isn't that true, Angela?"” Margret could not see whether Angela nodded or shook her head. But after a minute came up the staircase to her. “Better get on your things and we'll go home,” he said harshly, ind Honey Lou came running up he stair Margret hurried and she was w ng ela’s silk-hung room, ey had left their wraps. Oh, k's so angry! Lou gasped. heard the minute ago 1 did,” Margret a “I heard something else, heard your dear friend Angela lling him that she tried to stop u from buying that dress you have on!"” Honey Lou looked down at the pink shiny folds of the garment in round-eyed amazement. “This dress?” she before her, for her in where on Honey way he spoke to me a ered quie ked. “Why, la didn’t tell me not to buy it! | She wanted me to get it. Tt was such -a bargain, and-—well, T just wonder what made her say a thing ike that!” She stood puzzling over it for v second. Then she picked up her 1 velvet caps from the bed ind threw it around her bare, sraceful shoulders. Well, 1 can't stop to figure it now,” she said with a gulp. got to flv! Jack'll be angricr ever if I keep him waiting. Margret don't you ever marry lous man! Think of Jack helng jealous of a little shrimp like | Donegal. Isn't it just too for werds? But I just know : going to have a terrible row r it when we get home!™ She turned to go. But before he reached the door of the big, uxt Tim Ny ov she cried, and hat she was halfway laughter, Her was tense with caught hold ot with ner- is. “We're going Margret ctween lear, strain, and Honey TLqu's vous, clutching han lome too. Sam ngdon ig so’ cross with me because 1 danced with Tim! As If it were my fault! Why and reedy vo she shou loes everybody keep asking Tim to | rtles when we all know he's al- vays ple-eyed?” Margret slipped past her and Honey Lou and ran down the wide ‘|and Jack's voice | “You just should have! too. | stairs to the lcwer hall where Jack was waiting, with his coat over his arm, for his wife. Mar- gret went up to him and laid one of her large, capable hands on his arm. 8he had come to know Jack Wi lack well in the month she had worked for his father and to like understand him. But she |shrank from saying the thing se was going to say to him now. “Don’t be hard on Honey Lou, will you?”” she pleadel. "If she's seen that Donegal man two or |three times since she's been mar- |ried, I'm sure it doesn’t mean anything. Honey Lou cares so much for you that she’'d never look twice at another man.” | Jack looked at her steadily. “Do |you think s0?” he asked, and it |was pertectly plain to Margret that | e House, That's All,"” He Said about it. “Do you think she cares for me, or fér the money I'm able to give her? ‘The money I'm not able to give |her, T should say,” he corrected |himself Dbefore Margret had time |to answer his question. “We've been married five months and alrecady we've spent more money | |than I earn at the Mills in a whole vear—and she knows I'm down there on a workman’s salary.” Margret shook her smooth brown |head. She could scarcely belleve what he sald. | “I asked her not to spend any imore money for a while, and the |tirst thing she did was to buy that | pink dress she has on tonight"” | Jack’s low deep voice ran on. “If |she cared a hang about me, woyld |she have done that? But the | money isn’t the worst of it. We |aren’t happy together.” Margret stared at him. Why, |only the other day Honey Lou had told her that she was so happy |that she was almost afrald to breathe for fear something might happen to spoll it all “At least, I'm not happy, "Jack said, and there was a good deal of | bitterness in his sudden boyish |smils. “I never see Honey Lou. | She's aslcep when I leave for the mills in the morning, and at night it we don’t go out, she goes to sleep right before my eyes. She's worn out with her card playing and her shopping and her tea- drinking all day lon She doesn't even eat dinner with me some- times. Just sits at the table and wns." Margret did not answer him for moment. She seemed to be |thinking of what he had sald. | When she finally did speak, she |asked him a singls question: | “Did you ever stop to think that it's your own fault, Jack?" “What do you mean?” | “Well,” Margret explained her- self slowly. “You're a fine ex- ample of the great American hus- band, Jack -—— the husband who spoily his wife completely. Gives her everything she wants—more than she wants. Takes away her job by sgiving* her a servant to wash the dishes and make the beds. Tells her he wants her to have clothes just as good as—" She broke off her sentence in the middle, as she looked up and saw | Honey Lou and Daisy coming down the long flight, arm In arm. Their flushed young faces looked sulky above the extravagant eve- ning coats, and each of them was smoking a gold-tipped cigaret 1n a long colored holder. i The next morning at the Sunday hreakfast table Jack lald down the !law to Honey Lou. e a | A beautiful women is always ad- |mired. There aro many types of beauty. But ne woman can be truly beautiful unless she is healthy. Radi- ant vitality is always attractive, how- |ever plain a woman's features may !"Many & woman has found her health improved through' the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- und. This remedy has been taken by women for more than half a cen- (tury with very satisfactory results. | Jf Lydlx E. Pinkham's Vegetable {Compound has helped other women, |"vhy shouldn't it help you?—advt. “A Happy "SALADA" | Suggestion” TEA Order It of 'Your Grocer She had been chattering about the party—saying how pretty Mar- gret had looked. and what a sweet thing Daisy Deane was, and wasn't it too bad Langdon was so jealous of her. But it might have been so much sea-water dashing against an ageless rock for all the atten- tion Jack paid to her. “It's too bad Tim drinks the way he does” she said presently, and watched Jack from under the long curling lashes to see how ‘he would take {t. That was one of Honey Lou’s fallings—that she just had to talk about the thing if she knew she ought not to mention it. Jack scowled down at his news- | paper, and then across the table at her. “Let’s not discuss him now,” he enuune /\ \- said shortly. ‘But get |tirmly fixed under your lace cap. I will not have him in the house— and it he comes here again that iwill be the end of our home. Get me?"” “Why, what do you mean?" Honey Lous was aghast. “oD you | mean to say that I can’t have An- | Bela and Donegal in to play cards if T want them?" “Exactly that.”” He got up from the table and walled out of the room. In an. | other minute Honey Lou heard the front door close behind him. (TO BE CONTINUED) | Hney Lou tells her mother of {her early marriage experiences in ;wmormw’s instaliment. this. {dea pES BN N R SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 25 years, DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART Jafe” Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggist Aspirin is the tréde mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monosceticacidester of Salleyilcacld Yellow Cab Earns Public Confidence F YELLOW CAB'S success is due to the confidence of the public. 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