New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1926, Page 12

Quicksands of Love Adele Garrison’s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife—— Dicky Crashes into a Little Tea Party At my suggestion that we talk of nothing more strenuous’ than the | chievous glint in her eyes. v, my dear stump-speaker, specify!” she said, 1 will,” Lillian sad. 1 can re- NEW BRITATN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1926. of trees and followed on. (Copyright, 1926, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: “The My the Trees.” Your Health How to Keep It— Causes of Illness member my grandmother on the farm. She did enough work in a day to kill an ordinary woman, but every afternoon she changed to a clean gown and a white apron and sat down to her sewing or her knit- ng, with all her morning work ac. complished, and not a care appa ently in the world. She could go to - a call and a cup of nd in her own all the time robbing a bank, the way we do when we waste three hours as we've been doing. But y she didn’t do any tea drinking when it came near and the men came in Katherine inter old world, my new hats while we drank the fresh cups of tea which were to replace | the ones untouched 1se of our discussion of Mary Ha Lillian reached over and patted my shoul- der approvingly. “I think we' our responsibilit she sald, and Ka acquiesce T infinite sant on, all ready s for a therine re won in our Trawin, to park chan, smiled her something rtully real- are “tea “he re we all could Hudson we chatt v Iy about thing consequential and other- vi principally 1 the enjoyment of ¢ school bedroom over lunch. For to us, a 1o this kind was the which it is to most never knew a professior yet who did not thorous tea drinking with her nies, nor one who not flageliate her stole from some piece of work v she was ambitious to perform. #aid nothing of this, of course was presiding over my end must give no hint anything but a Man turned to us after of gazing at the panorama o y- taken,” Dicky told her. “You little ing motor cars below us, calize how quickly you're going to claimed emphatically: clled to cat your words. 3've “What fools we come home purposely to—oh, hello, are! Do you know Mary! Come in. mothers had all th every way. | Katherine leaned forward, a mis- | v boarding surrep It's the sam 1 the same difference s that different temp re set to hymn time, while 1 up to jazz." sravo, bravo Katherine!” Dic rom the doorway. ¥ e speech , Lil! 1 think you'd feel | re wasting your talents on | itious ess talk of idden fruit 1 y wome it ch 1 s 1 tor the time * Lillian retorted ced any invit me to use g else | where you're m “but 1| own s float- | that rspaper Inc. By Thornton W. Burgess The ruthle in ¥ That which has taken yes —Old Moth Word of what Boy was doing had gon the Green Forest, and t ple of the Green For set. Those wha dared tch great care to keep o Sammy Jay, ¢ ed what F they w he litt t were me ove re is goin the Green Fores and 1 may as the Great Mou the D getting that so 1 beld and the snc and Mrs. Lightfoot stay in ‘their yard “I thought bet Farmer Brown and Farmer Brown's | ttoot Boy went off toward the barn fo crust | and a young tree there until quite deep he | a number of those beautiful young | would have to!trees lay on the snow. Then he n to drag them out to the edge s | : Green Forest; and there he Brown's Boy than id Happy | made a great pile, Farmer Brown Jack Squirrel. “I did Those | came and looked them over. young spruce trees and rw:m,hr m»‘ “Those are geod ones, Son,” said | L‘;c';x:;ei;;‘;;el\dn<v‘vty""fi:"l""" harm, | e “You'd better leave one at the e " X e and take the rest to the vil- are not big enoflgl;l {o.r :mf“,’. by You have done a good job. and it looks as if e s ool ses in there certainly did need | t::r:ej;xr:tdib'rr;ll"!y ] »'1 . | thinning out badly. Next year we'll | pe stroying be: h | fake a more out. By and by 1 cannot understand. Why, my! o e ine o v A e R IR L I have as fine a piece of wood- e e e land as there is anywhere around. :’he Bround and then forgot them.” | Tarmer Brown and Farmer Bt it the little peopls of the |Brown's Boy went off toward the Green Forest thought il and said |Darl. Sammy Jay, and Happy 1 of Farmer Brown's Boy, he didn’t | J2ck Squirrel, and ~ Chatterer the know It, and he kept on with his “"'1‘ yb"vnrrvl; flr\ld Peter Rabbit, work of cutting a young tree here |and Jumper the Hare, and White- work B foot the Wood Mouse watched them | go. They wer urbed, cse little people. They didn't un- Globe Clothing House 5w, 2, e snowts | for fi ; , Luxré;e Silk Hose hey were still talking it over when g For Women Was 50 L few 2 r Brown Boy returned with pair of horses dragging a L. He loaded the young es onto the sled, piling them up carefully and lashing them with a rope, Then he drove off up to th | barnyard and unhitched the horses put them in the barn. The people watching him from the ® of the Green Forest didn't un- and 1t yet Early the next morning Sammy iy was up in the Old Orchard as soon as it was daylight. He was| there to watch that sledload of | ing trecs. He hardly took time I i kind of women | ¢ powers | powers | o BY DR. MORRIS FISHB! | Editor Journal of the American | Medical Association and of Hygeia, | the Health Magazine | Some persons are especially sunsi- | tive to contact with toxic substances | derived from plants. The poison v oak, and sumac may cause severe eruptions of the skin in persons susceptible, When mah-jong fir popular, persons tions of ingers and of the skin of the face from contact with the lacquer on the mah-jong boxes, due to sitiveity that they possessed to a poison fn the lacquer hich 1t was discovercd had been made by utilizing the juices of cer- tain Japanese plants. Handling of Bulbs Now a British physician has dis- covered eruptions on the hands of some persons from the handling of flower bulbs, and has given the name “lily rash” to this type of disturban 1t followed the cutting tems of the flowers, chicfly the narcissus, and from handling of of the hyacinth, daffodil, nar- cissus and tulip. An investigation was made in sev- 1l establishments devoted to the le of bulbs, and a small propor- | tion of packers and sorters of bulbs | were found to be suffering from an eruption extending under the nail t became of the where splitting of the skin cauced ! | considerable pain. | The longer the nalls were worn, the mor= severe was the condition. | Moreover, the inflammation of the | skin, which occurred after a few | days’ work in handling the bulbs, | was progressive until the worker began to use gloves. All the workers wert blame tulip bulbs. Some of the observers thought that the erup- tions wi due to friction from the rough sides of the bulbs, and ready to place the responsibility on i and daffodil. nvestigation showed, however, e tulip bulb is surrounded with a single layered covering which spreads easily and that it holds a omewhat acrid juice. When this | juice was applied to the skin under- neath the finger nail it promtly pro- duced {rritation, even without any | breaking of the skin due to rubbing. The obvious suggestion is that | persons who are nxely to handle tulip bulbs in any considerable num- bers ought to wear protective gloves. FASHIONS By Sally Miigrim inclined to A Straight-Line Coat Of Lacquer- Red Duvetine Shows an Inter- esting Use of Vertical Tucks. The present interest fin slim, straight lines has resulted in & number of ingenious deviecs futher accentuate the effe f slenderness and height. Chief among these is the use of rows of vertical lines occasioned by tucks, appiled bands of material or con- to t his breakfast for fear some- | m happen to those trees | not know it ally Farm- | out of the barn, Pres- h two horses "hen from | corner 1 After ihed up onto those trees Sammy Jay watched village. Thoss carried ght gh n's | mean? up Peter | quirrel uirrel, and Mouse, and them what low Farmer | > young tre , Sammy,” said and what | s. We ought ht to know with our trees. is going to | ul Green For- | and we | ing done | rif he'll | that Sammy 1 nd find out | ne of them. This Sammy was quite willing to do. So he spread and hurried until he t up with Farmer Brown's n he kept in the trees just back of the sledload 1 the Full Tashioned makes an accey propriate giit 5145 3 pr. $4.: Globe Cow®lain : New 1 lothine Hlouse (0Linitg W. Main § Britain | trasting trimming. Sketched today is a mid-winter coat of lacquer red duvetine that aptly illustrates this tendency to- ward vertical effects. Extending rom the yoke to within five inche ¢ the botton are narrow tuck placed at rugular intervals on both the front and back. Thes attention to the straight silhou at the same time increasing apparent height of the wearer, only other trimming is a hig ar and deep cuffs of natural ko- insky—a fur with a lovely golden brown cast. The lining is lacquer red crepe finished with two bands yellow silk at t} bottom: With this skirt coat is worn a simple felt hat In a tone to harmoniz o e call the Th with tiir The siender silhouette of this lacquer red duvetine coat is accen- tuated by vertical rows of narrow tucks. Copyright, 1926(EFS) | Forlnfant: Invalids, . s TheAged ‘aurishing - Digegtible~« No Cookin; isa Home Food-Drink for All Age stery of | 1 erup- | WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE To the hor of and Mollie Elwell in Camdenville, Ind., one night in October of 1898, comes Martha Dalton, a nurse, bearing a woman who had fainted on the train on which Martha had been traveling. Elwell son, Ji He has a that night twin gitls are born to the woman, who dies without revealing her mame. The Elwells adopt the girls, The story then moves forward 18 cars. The twins, now growing to beautiful womanhood, have been named Marga and Elizabeth and nicknamed Rusty and Bett America enters the World War ind Jim Elwell enlists. Two nights he goes discovers onc of loves him artlst. is an ay ins t “What gets me, her. He te does not he rls equally while he loves but i |ana he mother this, which twin Ito love both |is away. takes the good tir they who ring before he 1 twins to Ch While din ached by she has recogni is wearing, a d that had been worn by the mother. Later, when they alone, the woman holds the up to the light and anno John Danvers, 3 girls' rather, had “changed th; tures.” NOW ¥ ago for mond girls' ring STORY X1 d the ring to it as Nin throneh BEGIN TH HA \gsley girl 1 in the Nina Ki g heid looked setting 2 had hel a tiny hol light. ‘On, what exclaimed, turnin woman. “Who s it “Yes, that's the mother,” replied Nina Kin vhen I saw the ring last it held the picture of your father, Jack Dan- vers!"” Jim got his question out at last “And what became of—er—DMr. Dan vers?” he asked Rusty had looked at and now Jim himself w it. The picture, of\a man, was inlaid b cent glass in the {you know | now?” | “Why—my goodness!” the woman | exclaimed, seemir surprised at | the question, “didn't you know? | Why, John Danvers has heen dead | nearly twenty y He was killed {in New York in ct accident in | Octol “The month the girls were born,” | sald Jim in a low voic | “Killed!” the girls echoed in uni- | son, and then Tetty added, as she {turned to Jim, perhaps, was | the reason why Prof didn't get an answers to his advert s in the newspapers.” Probably, Jim the moment he Kingsley very closc | “Do you mind | Kinksley,” Jim asked “Just Thow you name?" The woman | theatrical firmament { reach these benighted dfana laughed softly herself another grac { the shoulders. | “why, I econfessed with | “Hm-m,” said Jim Elw If. He looked at the won and her | counter with | “And can you t { relatives of our found?" Beity asked with unshed tea Nina Rngsley she was awfully, “That is something tell.” “She's a and « she to the ron a beautiful fa tedly —our moth picture of your the picture examinin: ifi- p setting. “Do Mr. Danvers is re a stre Elwell agreed. At Nina telling us, N pointedly, to know my whose fame had failed to ones from In- itted of ked the waite she fine naivete. 1 to him- n keen own drop: 1 mot her cyes bright plied slowly that 1 & really cannot lfa Elwell told the | himsele e Jim t It ve i “St There's 1S0N—50M ¢ Al T n nd it T didn't e kn re | some denvill I | hell of a lot of questions. However, that might have been a hard thing to do, even if Jim had had the time. Nina Kingsley nounced that, sorry as sho she had to leave. She was taking the tonight, I'd k a W s | about yman | the | : are | st the | ey, “but | in the | Am- | an- | | train for New York, and would they | excuse her? She could be reached | in New York, you know, by mail, or | they would forward it to her. She | | wrote an address down for Jim. | * The matince was ruined for three of the young sojourners in Chicago. They were late, in the first | place, and the two girls violated all { the proprieties of the theater by | constantly whispering. | To their eager questions Jim re- led that he was convinced Nina | Kingsley had lied to them. She | knew more, than she had told, far | more, he was sure. | | "I don't d6ubt that this is your | mother’s picture,” he told them “Mollie and Prof can cheek up on that. for they're likely to remember what mother looked But |for a woman who knew =o much | 1 your ke. said Betty, “is h ow she came to know your name.” a ring, Nina Kin knew singly little in answer o some as surp of the cd wh | my mam | waiter dic hat my name w: “But he m have found for her,” Ru volunteered ing at the desk where you istered for us. Of course, I think she | was lying, too, but—" i “She didn’t have to kifow my name,” Jim interrupted, “To wri me the note. She could have s "dear sir with just as good results. No, she knew it all along and it just popped out when she,bezan to write. That's where she Made her gets me,” said Betty mistake.” “What puzzled frown betw n her eyes, ! how she came to know your name | “Little girl,” and Jim patted | haid, “T'a give this trick nickel in my pants pocket to know the an- swer to th e | It was the opinion of the entire | Elwell family that night, when they had returned to Camdenville and had rclated the stra story to Prot and Mollie, that the mysterfous | Nina Kingsley had not told them the whole truth. ‘Nina Kingsle repeated over and over, “that name rta cught to be familiar to old-ti like Mollie and me if 2 humdinger on the stage as she ad- mitted being. | Mollie declared positively that she { had never_heard of the name. “And | I've always been interested in news fof the stage and always read it in | | the papers,” she supplemented. | Both Mollle and Prof had receiv- led a distinct jolt when they exam- ined the ring and beheld in the trick setting the picture of the wo- man who had come to their home | that dismal night in Octoher more | than eighteen years ago and had | dicd after leaving benind the two little girls that were to grow up into | the wonderful creatures that were | now formally known as Margaret | and Elizabeth Elwell. | “Why Prof!” Mollie had tly staggered, as she lowe the ring from the light | “It's her, all right well pronounced. “It’s her fo nose and mouth, Mol | wouldn't forget them in a yes " and he turned toward the ger tw 8, “this has been hig day. Somechow I feel that some- | thing's gonna come of it sooner or later. And to think,” he went on “that the ring hns n ol |around here for more than « ecen years ahd never had cnough to try to find out the rea- son for thag peculiar s » Really, _she told when everything summed up, with the exeception of father’s name nd how he died,” =1id Rusty in an eved tone. re hardly n before we n questions we n she said from the w V't have ¢ s than a rabbit by Prof certainly sald d 0 ™| 1 Ired the elder we us v v little any t this | Nina Kin; 5 | “And we have no proof that that | inforynation is correct,” Jim pointed out, skeptical now of every assertion the woman had made. “I'll | dollars that the name Nina T is phony. well as the N 3 wddr You might try o away, just to the addres curfon “And it's my further belief? he concluded, 1at she could have told 1 the name of the brother the girls' mother spoke of 8o many times that | night. She's playin’ a crooked game, |and I'a be willin' to gamble on it.” P rigt | | 1t is not the purpose of this story !to'dwell at any great length, or to | | in those hark back more than is required for its development, to the horrors and ' devastation of the World War itself. 1t is, however, to our purpose to call attention to one phase of the war in particular, that aftermath of the war of which mention already has been made, That aftermath fs | the Unknown Soldier, about whom so much has been written and read. The Unknown Soldfer. Before his shrine kings have knelt, and nations liave paid homage. | And is that Unknown Soldier's | spirit now floating around out there | t realms of space where | immortality is said to live in the promise of a better life to come? Not altogether. Look about you n the government and state hospi- tals, the imbecile homes and the sol- ¢ t diers’ homes throughout the coun- |t | |t W | | Iq It | i 11 |2 | it |\ R W 1 ce him in till breathe walks and talks Yo will all those eat ,‘ 1 kind of 1k But he lives in a world of forgot- | n things where breathing dead | men exist. | For he is one of those aftermaths, | e saddest of ail, of wi He is the | ng absorbor of sheil-shocks and | gas-hombs. | His name? It is legion. Have you | never met him? No? Well, he still | hias a mother living, perhaps, And a wife and a sister and a sweetheart, all those wounds that in the at g human | 3 cious eful and munificent Unknown Soldier. A symbolic not only of the great that lies in unnamed graves but of thousands of Iving dead men. All Camdenville, it scemed, was at the little rajlroad station the day | Jim Elwell went away. He was not | the only one. There were dozens | just like him, voung boys dressed | up In their Sunday best to give them | a brave appearance; garmens that were to be shed in a few days in| favor of issue uniforms handed out | by grumpy quarterm 3 Mollie Elwell | d a little as Jim put his around her. Going away to Jffer son Jim! Going awa never to return. Her only son, th: she had brought up so carefully and tenderly from bhabyhoed. Jim, who was now so tall and | straight, and broad-shouldered and Do You Give at Random? Radios to Deaf Men? Movie Tickets to Blind Men? Roller Skates to Lame Men? Foolishness, of course—but &0 is some Xmas givings Tsh't it better to give some uge- ful, handsome article that will re- main a reminder of the giver? We think so, and we think you do—that's the reas: for this Xmas display of men's wearables. SUTT! AND OVERCOATS of course. Shirts Gloves Hose Neckties Mufflers Belts Bath Robes, ctc. are always welcome Tomikowski & Dawson 361 MAIN ST. Opposite Myrtle St. lcocoa. twice baked potatoes, creamed beawtiful in his young manhood. |dripping pan and bake in & moder- A few flags waved in false cheer- |ate oven for thirty* minutes. Cut fulness. The Camdenville brass'in squares and gerve warm with band glared vociferously and sweat. butter. ingly. Jim swung down from the step. “Goodby, Prof,” and he wrung his | $395568660066000025008 82 father's hand and kissed his cheek. to him with a brave smile. E\ “Goodby, pals,” and he passed out impartial kisses to the twins, one of whom, it was true, was nothing more than a pal but the other girl who shared with him that great secret that both had discovered that moonlit night beneath the elms. And so Jim Elwell went away. (To Be Continued) ‘What of the Elwells, now that Jim has gone? And what of Jim | himself? 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