New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1927, Page 4

icksand Adele Garrison’s New Phase of Revelations of a Wife—— Young Veritzen's Sudden Attack On | the Capering Cockroach } As Jack Leslie advanced to the side of the night club hostess and gtood waiting for her announcement, | T caught my breath in resentful grudging tribute to the undeniably good looks and grace of the young | wastrel. No wonder, 1 thought to myself comprehendin that a young girl so ingenuous as Mary Harrison had kept his image in her memory. For I had not been decelved by artless explanation of her i 1 told us of whose nightly Lesiie had jon among appearance with been causing such a Yircadway habitus I knew that her sirength of nerves and bod had heen weakened by her arduouns work vader Philip Veritzen's direction. nnd I guessed that her emotions had Leen more captivated by the fascin- | ating cabaret entertainer than we had thought. Hearing of this un- known dancer who, according to Dicky's version had brought Jack Leslie and Noel Veritzen to blows, had been too much for her over- wrought imggination, and she had | lost consciousness for a few seconds. This was the explanation of her | swoon which I was giving myself as | I looked at the lithe, graceful figure | e: of the night club entertainer. Yet I knew that such an explanation en-| failed an assumption that she wa emotionally interested in the dancer to the point of fierce jealousy of him. Surely, the few meetings with Leslte, of which I had known, had not been sufficient to bring a brainy gir! like Mary to so absurd a pass. | Or—had there been meetings of which I knew nothing, carefully s Katherine and I had tried to guard our young charge? | But the hostess was speaking with a forced enthusiasm that but illy hid her anxiety for the success of her | evening. Peoter Is in a Bad Fix By Thornton W. Burgess The one who ne’er admits defeat You may not hope to ever beat, —Old Mother Nature That kind cannot be beaten. It may look | but if they won't find in the end that baen beaten after Peter Rabbit wasn't worrying. In | {, he was rather enjoying the tuation, It rather tickled him to know how close he was to Reddy | Fox, yet how safe. You know, Peter | was in the middle of the long, hol- | low log which was open at both £nds. Reddy was outside. The hol- | low was big enough for Peter, but | 1ot big enough for Reddy Fox. Red- dy would go to one end and sniff. | Then he would go to the other end and eniff. Inside Peter simply chuckled. “He says he's going to stay here until I have to come out d Pe- ter to himself. “But if I know any- | thing about it, his stomach make bim move along before mine makes me move. His probably has| been empty for some time, while I got a good dinner j hefore 1 came in here. So I guess I can stay Just as long as Reddy can, and a little longer. I am perfectly safe here. Hello! Who is Reddy talking to?” Peter pricked up his long ears. Outsids Reddy Fox was t seme one. Who could it be were Mrs. Reddy, or Old G Fox, why things might be One could keep w other hunted. They could take furns. This would be a bad fix indeed. So Peter stole a little nearer to one end of the old log in order to hear het- ter. Almost at once Peter's mearly turned a som fright. Reddy Fox Shadow the Weasel. was talking to Shad Shadow Is so sm anywhere that Petc places that Peter cannot ow should take it i come inside t hollow would be nott but leave as his legs © was speaking way. take it, Nelghbor Wi he, “that you are us hu Now I know hog heart can 10 ng for Peter “How ?" inqui. the sound of hi that he wa “It's this still speaking pleas help T can You he ught hir ster shivered when h “How do you want me in that hollow you will go in him out at the catch hin to v would wont out, him ot “I wish I were back in the dear Old Briar-patch,” sobbed Peter un- Terghts breath. Then ‘o listened | end of a second's astonished sile | he s of Love “Mr. Leslie has proposed,” gan a bit hesitantly, “that in of his usual programme, he solect partners from among you for a number of short dances, and that then you will all vote upon the wo- man who has acquitted herself with the most skill and grace. A beauti- ful bouquet of flowers will be pre- ted to the winner tonight, aud ater a suitably e 1 her brave, but unmis , swept the circle | before her. That it was a | doubtful expedient to which she X even though I was miliar with the general blishments like hers. Bu ailure rested upon the t minute's caprice of the blase \errymalkers looking at her, I real- 2ed, and with the sympathy which rises i the heart of every we rthy of the name for a sister at T waited breath for the ame overwhelmingly at b of handc of approv woman standing in the center 6f the tloor, and a sudden look of joyous relief succeeding the worry in he she swung around in a half , throwing kisses extravagantly to the crowd. 1 she laid her Wand upon Jack rm and walked wit rd the musi- clans' gallery. | To reach it, they had to pass our | table, so that we were 1h of all the lers to Jack Leslie when young Noel Ve the grasp of low musictans, who evidently fathomed his purpose. hurdled the rail of the musician gallery and grasping Leslie by the | throat, pushed him against a pill with the gasping demand: “Tell me what you have done with , you dog!” ther | Palm Beach E Palm Beach modes stre en, eluding | once NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8§ 1927 FASHIONS By Sally Milgrim cmbles Reveal a Return of the Short Jacket continue to s the youthful note. The new mble costumes have reaching just to sleeveless jacket the hip-line 1so notable for their youthful traight-line models of stitching appliques heing the ac- well-d mple | men. | Beach youthful The same thi | ning costumes lels of placed hpropri: markabie | or | modes. of eve- The elaborate mod- winter have been te- simple affairs more to the place and sea- Chiffon and lace gowns re- for their restrained use the accepted is true the by ornament w Palm for fts ketched today is a n ensemble notabl appearanc: piece frock has a p | ice trimmed with a band of down the front. The rt short, straight jacket are k very simple Accompanying this outfit pink felt hat with a | nigh, square crown. tailleur med with a band of ma2 of this Palm Beach pink kosha trim- chitg satin. The coat is peach BY SISTER MARY t — Baked al, thin eream, country sausage, eat pancakes, syrup, milk, coffee. butfer sandw with g Dinner — Roast | potatoes, Your Health How to Keep It— Causes of Iilness oys in mushrooms or chicken used in place ! ferred. Luncheon — Spinach mold with brown bread and almond pudding e, milk, tea. beef, browned brown gravy, brussels head lettuce with French orange ice, sponge cake, amed oysters juice sa h creamed ire to please. Scallops, can be of the oysters if pre- ers s Spinach Mold Three cups finely chopped cooked spinach, 2 tablespoons melted but- Editar Journal of the Medical Association the Health M. Among gas he open market, ma sold. In other words, the gas is completely burned and proper me not provided for : incomplete o As a result ds of BY DR. MORRIS Fl‘"z& ) on 3 the > inadc the United | ns t 75 6D SRS O a Prescreipiton for Colds, Grinpe. Flu, Dengue. It kills the germs, * five minutes. ly add much to the nely chopped mush- aspoon salt, cggs, Simmer mu: Add to spinach with and pepper and mix thoroughly. ] until light and add hixture. Turn into a wel i ring mold and pack firm- am for 50 minutes. | ! | Turn out on a hot chop plate and winter hun- | fill with th ver and e Ci med oysters. The mushrooms are often omitted m the spinach mixture but they tastiness of the and should be used i possible. nned or dried n hrooms can be ituted for fresh oncs if ncces- EATING BILLIE and Betty didn't have “? cake very often. They were SO pleased when they found a nice yellow slice be- side their custard. “O! MY! but this cake is GOOD,” exclaimed Billie as he took a BIG bite. “Mine has sugar frosting all around . . ... except one side,” slowly while Billie ate hisin O.... about five bites. “I WISH you wouldn't_save T! yours so long,” he said. short | pleated skirts, and either a straight | coat or a of equally | bbreviated length, Aflernoon gowns | And are | appea | crepe ornamented with fine s or cepted choice of winter pears, | 1-8 tea- ooms in butter for to Brokenggl WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE To the home of Prof and Mollie Elwell in Camdenville, Ind. one night in October, 1898, is brought a woman who had fainted on a train. That night she bears twin girls and dles without revealing her name. The story then moves forward 18 years. The twins, now growing to beautiful womaahood, have been adopted and named Margaret and Elizabeth. They are called Rusty and Eetty. Jim Elwell, the son enlists in the World War. He then discovers that one of the wins loves him. He is shell-shocked at the Battle Sedan and at first is roprted dead. v, however, he is identified in a New York hospital and his moth- er and father see him and find )Ie’ has completely lost his memory and speech, He is like a living dead man. At the hospital a celebrated brain | specialist returns from Europe and examines Jim. He says an opera- tion might prove fatal. Nurse Nel- Jie Downing asks him why it is that music often stirs him to tears. NCW BEGIN THE STORY CHAPTER XXIX The doctor, after a minute, turned ¥ to Nellie Downing. He was smiling. If 1 could answer those ques- Miss ning," he replied, any i it be able to teil you correctly what constitutes all the secret forces pan brain. But | mething that no man nd never will know. The nt power that controls the of tho universe guards ly for the piny ever to find their tions, mind of man id his hand on Jim Elwell's der and locked long and deeply into his 3 | turn sigh. its _ being to find out awson. | “I'm . with your g ing to operate, er for your boy's life, id n. 3 re has been improvement in his condition,” Prof Eiwell told the nce he came here. mprovement, but T wou I'm sorry,” able to move around. ble to feed himself and things we've told you moves him to some { he was bare | | proda Downing ! told you Anotker thin her of his 0 kisses h volition now"-— faint hing have ha i e it just like | . s a child [ learns to walk and talk and think, | might he not be able to regain his | aculties by deg Do }'(l\l‘ se that is possible — that it is | v le for him to keep on improv- ling like that?” “Until he Lwson, “What I'm t M not so brain t The surgeon shook his head. “I'm | id not. A child’s brain i3 unde- oped but sound. This boy's brain, | is damaged. It is pre- | from functioning as it should | on. 1 should say that if your | o well it will be through an | operation or-—" “Or what?" asked Prof “Or the grace of God “He said about what I thought he would say,” was Nellie Downing's opening remark to Prof and Mollie Elwell when the surgeon had left. “And you probably noticed,” she went on, “that he didn't commit | himself any in saying it, cither. { Really he told us nothing—or very little—that we didn’t already know. | With all their study and research and practice, in the final summing of things they don't know very cr all.” Iwell nodded gravely. s wife with out of the | re is life there is and if they operated on Jim illed him that would be T've known what it is to belicve a and I know what it is to > is now. I'd rather r have him a we him million time now than not ou bet!” her Jim’'s alwa But de: , but I'm pretty sure about | t. And perhaps when we get hin home with the old sights and faces and everyt 10 hi for ing him— of re- asked was “But you won't be tal t is, you're not thinking ng at once, are you?" ellie Downing, and there thing in her tone, it secmed to | Mollie Elwell, that was more than | ional interest. i that, of course, is up to| * he told her. “As f I'm as soon stay here ‘hat do you say, my —turning to Mollie—"shall we up housekeeping now or wait ay: tapped her lips reflectively Yhich was the wiser thing to do? ed herself, nee did it malke a matter of a few d . Prof had scemed to like es, Jim was im v, of course, to say Hennegan r on Long Island who o kin, they would w for Jim. to make around the house vas the way the qui E is normal again?" asked | ¢ e | familiar | iry, his | | smile played | eried You a was decided. An unimportant deci- sion—seemingly. Letters that Mollle had been re- ceiving from the girls back In In- had told of their new ac- tivities in the social set in Indiana’s capital. They also had described with enthusiosm the progress they were making In their artistic educa- tion. Rusty—or Ms 1 dancing and s the suci lessons and confided the at times to dream of opera. As an added attraction and as a ard for good work, their uncle had promised them a trip to in Octob when they would rance, aly and all the wonder ces of the old world. The twins enthusiastic. 1all these letters Prof and Nellis Downing jhst were written. When she read them to herself she the lines and k 1s were feeling, 2 grief that prom ccs of carecrs and European jaunts could not eradicate. Mollie sighed. “They are whistling to keep their " she told Prof. dear,” he assured her, like theirs qui You and T are getting old it is a little hard for us to look rd,” might be a good thing, Prof d, to write to the girls and tell hem about their plans. On the day following Dr. Lawson's visit to the . hospital she wrote to Margaret and Be telling them the result of the im's case, thelr dec Tome with him the next week and the p were quite Mollie re to s much as she cons add on that su Nor did offer any sugses relative to the tw coming to Camdenyille to meet Jim on his re- turn home, That, Mollie Elwell felt, was some- thing that must be left entirely 1o wrange to suit themselves. was little to she t beside her on the | wept slope as she red out at the water. Occasionally he picked up a pebb and flung it, as he had scen others do before. . . A pretty nurse, slender and cool in her white cap and uniform, with a red embroidered cross showing in vivid contrast against a spotless leeve, stood looking at a man be- side a rustic chair under a shady tree one summer afternoon in Ocean going home tomorrow she was saying, “and I'll sce you again.” There was a little catch in More, there ble in her heart. ‘And probably, itl looking fixedly at the who now sat down and c , “you never will know. soldier man, of the girl th g sed my Her voice bro! The Red Cross wrse stopped talking and made little dabs at her eyes with a handker- chief. The man the rustic chai 1 his listl, on with meaningless bout his mouth, but it vanished when he saw her tear: Presently his own cyes were wet. He reached forth a hand, a.strong, 1 hand, paled a little by inac- and confinement, and {ouched her dress. The nurse turned away suddenly toward the sea and a cool brees d the loose ends of haigabout face, Her strong White tecth bit down crueily on her lower and her hands doubled up into fi What am T going to do?” she softly. “What am I going to Going Know who T wa cxisted, It was cruel, she was thinking. to do? never know that I take him away from hcr like this. | hind he turnéd qu angled with emotion, “will The started, a little gasp Slowly turncd ound. Mollie Elwell stood within an arm’s length of her, CHAPTER XXX Nellie Downing was quite speech- nurse ing her she fon to return ! date on which they expected to | about his condition, so there | she went on slow- | ¢ regarded her | away—and he'll never | A sound escaped the young man | hreadc lifford LWebbesErmest Iyon | ' { | 8he was only too well aware of the fact that her words carried no medning for Jim, but she made it a practice to talk to him en all occa- tions in an effort to ‘rouse some spark of memory or elicit a word of some kind from him. ’ 8he smiled at Jim and Jim smiled back. When Mollie and Nellle Dow- ning had left Jim Elwell leaned back in the semt and turned his head to- ward the water. Perhaps something inside was struggling for expression, for his lips trembled again with that half smile that was so pitiful to Mollle Elwell, and then he would blink and the tears would stand out in his eyes. Presently he got up from the rustic seat and moved away. A frown wrinkled his features. It seemed, as he stood there, that he was in great pain or that some struggle was going on within him. He was all alone now. No one else even was in sight. He could hear once more the stralns of the violin, playing some unrecognizable | melody. Hls hands clenched and un- clenched; the lines on his face deep- | | ened: tho tears now began to stream do¥n his face. “It seems so strange,” Mollie El- |'well was saying to Nellle Downing they emerged from the park and | ! approached the where Nelile roomed, nurses' building “that Jim | should be 8o affected by the sight of ! is said to him. tears or the sound of music when he is unable to understand a word that Dr. Lawson said, you remember, that it was something science could not explain. “I wonder,” she continued after a moment, “if there is any chance that | the old famillar sights back home, | seeing the girls once more or heai golug home tomoicow, dini, and Il never sce you ! “What is it, dear?" asked Jim| | Blwell's mother, trying to look as if . she had heard and seen nothing, und ' failed lamentably. “Has my boy | been naughty again, Nellie?” Two red spots burned for a brief | moment In the creeks of Nellie' Downing. But in the steady gray | cyes that locked strajght into hers Moilie Elwell saw no flicker of em- | barassment, no hint of self-con- ousness. “No, Mollie,” came the answer in | g was thind done nothing of which she _was ashamed or had reason to be asfam- od. 1f she cared for Jim Elwell, had committed no treason in ing it. he went on, “Jim has been arkably good. I am the culprit | ihis time. 1 have just.been telling jim how hg was kissed by proxy in France by the glrl he had known and Toved in Indiana.” 1t was Mollie’s checks now thaf howed the quick fl But her oyes, too, were unwavering. She, 00, had come from stock that could | pe and take and not ask for quar: “I'm afraid,” she said with a wan little smile, “that the girl he knew | and loved in Indiana is o girl that se will never know again.” she spoke there fiashed | ss the mental vision of Mollic | Slwell a picture. It was that of two ! | young giris in lavender frocks as she Lad seen them on a night in June more than twa years before, and | she seemed to hear one of them say- in )h, sister, dear, won't you sing AVhen Other Tongues and Other | Tlearts?” My heart is going to break | nyhow, and it might as well break | tonight!™ She looked down into the vacant s of the'wreck the war had given to her and as she looked there ame drifting geross to them on the alt breeze the sobbing tones of a | violin with what sounded like a harp accompaniment A moment later a | contralto voice broke into a song | that has touched the hearts of mil- lions—"Oh Promise Me.” It was too much for the mother of Jim 1i. She dropped down on | her knees in front of her boy with a littie agonized cry and threw her arms around his neck. i “Oh, Jim,” she cried sobbingl are you never going to know me again? Shall I never hear you call | me Mollie as you used to do in the | old, happy days? Oh, God, give me { back my boy again!” Nellie Downing turned her head | | to shut out the sight. Mollie Elwell vas not the only ome who was | broken-hearted today. The profes- | sional mind of the nurse was tryin to express itself over the emotions | of the Nellio Downing who was in | love with Jim Elwell. She listened to Mollie Elwell’s broken voice and | then watched the strange manifesta- tions that the music had wrought | in the war-broken zoldier. | Tears had filled his eyes and little whimpering sounds broke in hls throat, like the whimperings an ani- 1 sometimes makes when a har- monic chord strikes on its gar. His fingers were twitching against | his mother's.arms, and he was kiss- ing her.. The nursé knelt down and put an arm_around Mollie Elwell's waist. | “Bear up, Mollic,” she sald softly, a world of tender sympathy in her voice. “Remember what Prof sald the other day: ‘As long as life lasts | Jim has a chance.” *We never can tell what time will bring forth. A year from now, or a month, perhaps, may find Jim his | old self again. Take heart, Mollie there's a rainbow in the sky, , somewhere.” 153 lifted her head. “I'm £0 | ash she said to Nellie Dow- | . “Please don't mind me. I'm ! an old woman. T can't help it.” ar,” said the nurse, “come fn ! with me and let me bathe your eyes. will be all right out here alone a few minutes,” ~~d up after a mo- he young wo- | nent and loale¥ man with me—=" “It was the music — that song!" | she cried. “That's what _made me | break down like that. ®ne of the girls, Detty, used to sing it and it was a favorite of Jim's.® he was silent for a moment and then €he went on: “I think I will let you bathe my ead if you will. It aches wo.” She reached down with her hand- ief and wiped away the tears | from Jim's checks just as she had wiped them away so many times ! when he was a little boy. “Be good, dear,’ 'she said to him, “and stay here till Nellle and Mother get back. We won't he long." Kero | and some died: no two ing Betty sing, may fan into life agaln the smoldering embers of his mind? The doctors seem to agree that his brain, although ‘blanketed’ as they call it, is still alive and not at all like that of an insane person. And T once read of a man whose mind had been a blank for years to say goodby to his old buddy and his parents and Prof had gone to Staten Island ferry to meet him. Mike's face always was a welcomo one to the miother and tather of Jim, his whimsical nonsense belng good medicine for them all. “I have some iced tea in the re- trigerator with some cake and two quarts of ice cream,” went.on Nel- lle Downing as they entered the park. “Mike says his thirst for stronger things is being ruined by me and my ice cream.” They had reached the spot the! looked down on the little swale where they had left Jim sitting in the rustic seat, Nellie Downing stopped short. The chair was empty. Jim Elwell was nowhere to be scen. (To Be Continued) In the next chapter a frantic search is begun for Jim Elwell, “Shadow Lawn” Home of Wilson Is Destroyed West Long Branch, N. J., Jan. § (P—Shadow laws, sald to be the most magnificent in New Jersey, which the late President Woodrow Wilson_used as a summer White Houso in 1916, was burned last night. Estimates of the loss ranged from $750,000 to more than $1,000,- 1000, Almost half the loss was sald to have been due to the destruction of pleces of art, rugs, one of which |alone was valued at $100,000 tapes- tries and furniture. Catherine Graham, one of a stafl of servants kept at the estate owned by Hubert T. Parson, head of thc Woolworth 5 and 10 cent stores, who bought it several years ago, express- ed the belief that faulty insulation was the ‘cause of the fire. Parents Flee Flaming House, Leaving Children Bridgeport, Jan. 8 UP—Fire in a 'three family house in the north end and yet memory suddenly was re- | stored to him through a fall on an | iey sldewalk. Have vou ever known of a case like that?" “Not personally,” said Nellle Dow- | | ning, i‘although I've seen many sol- diers with shell-shocked brains and others whose minds were numbed from gas polsoning. Some of these recovered completely in a fow weeks cascs ever are exactly alike. They all differ in some way. “But Jim's case Is different in many ways. In none of the others that I've seen was the victim unable to articulate—incapable, like Jim, of uttering a word. The others could ; talk in a kind of a way but the talk asually was just a drivel of discon- | ected words. Jim's vocal cor to be paralyzed.” | wife, escaped from w the at 1:45 this morning forced the oc- cupants into the street. A three alarm was sent in, and the firemen, led by Chief Daniel E. Johnson, werc combatiing the flames. The house is owned by Louls Shain, who, with his building. |leaving their three children behind | | | | | | though, as well as his brain, seem | Although she had never encoun- | tered any instances of recovery such | as the one Mollie Elwell described, she had heard of them, she said. | ‘But you know how such things can be exaggerated.” The big room which Nellle sharcd with three other nurses was on e north side of the bhuilding, its opeu windows looking out over the wood- ed hills separating Ocean View from the Atlantic. Through these open- ings w wafted a faint tangy odor from off the ocean, but the still air midity and the promise of a storm. Nellie glanced at the little on: clock on the mantel as they entered. Its hands pointed to the hour of four. Cold water and a little eau de co- logne soon did their work and Mollio Elwell once more was fresh and cvol, her headache and the traces of her recent breakdown gone. 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