New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1928, Page 18

“Revelations Madge Promises to Put a Stop to Jerry Ticer'’s Gossip Dicky reddened at Lillian’s rall- lery and put out a protesting hand as | arose to carry out her sugges- tion that I interview Jerry Ticer and find out how much publicity he had given to Dicky’s sketching of Elea- nor Linceln. “T don't like to have you do that, Madge,” he said with genuine con- cern in his voice. “It isn’t fair to bl “We'll consider it all twittered, Dicky-bird,” Lillian interrupted. “But don’t delay the game. Madge the only one who can handle the Ticer family, and you know it. By the way, Madge, I saw Mrs. Ticer and Jerry drive past toward their | home a little while ago. If you Embers Adele Garrison™s Absorbing To a New Se Sequel of a Wife” However, it was with a reluctance in inverse ratioin to the speed of my car that I drove to the Ticer hom stead. But the sight of Mrs. Ticer' friendly, wholesome face smiling above her buxom figure brought re- assurance to me. It Is always easy to talk to Mrs. Ticer. She radlates good sense and comradely cheeri- ness.. “Well, well! sore eyes!” This was her greeting, the identi- cal words with which she has met }me at every call I have made at her { door during the years we have been | neighbors. ~ Yet each time she man- | ages to invest the stereotyped words | with something of her own hearty | sincerity ,and T always feel the bet- ter for the homely greetin, hurry you can catch them there and | save yourself a trip to The Larches. | And let me add Mother Graham's| injunction. ‘Don’t dawdle!’ Dicky | and I will be waiting with mouths | wide open until you get back.’ “I'll hurry, T promised, and de- parted with a show of alacrity. I was anything but enthusiastic, how- over, over my errand, and only the remembrance that Dicky really had | been genuinely distressed at my go- ing kept me from being bitterly re- sentful at the part assigned me in this farce—for such the whole af- fair of Eleanor Lincoln’s deception | of Philip Veritzen seemed to me, But of course, my common sense told me that it the task of silencing | Jerry Ticer were to be given to any | member of our family, I was the| one who logically should receive it.| Although Lillian had not mentioned it, we all knew that any admonition | of Dicky’s to Jerry would be looked | upon with the mirthful skepticism | as to his real reasons with which a | man’s request for secrecy concerning | some. feminine association is gen- crally. received. By THRONTON W. BURGESS PETER GETS A WETTING. 1f you would play a trick, watch out And know just what you are about. —Peter Rabbit. Peter Rabbit had formed the habit | of visiting the spring-hole in the| swamp on the edge of the Green | Forest on the chance of seeing Jerry | Muskrat or Billy Mink or Little Joe | Otter, There was a very convenient | hollow stump close by. In it Peter felt quite safe. At the same time he | could look out and see what was #oing on. At last there came a night when Jack Frost worked as he had not| worked before all winter. It was still | that 'night and oh! so cold. Every| once in a while there would be a re- port like a gun in the Green Forest. It was the splitting of a tree by| Jack Frost. More than once Peter! was 80 startled that it seemed as if he jumped almost out of his skin. Early the next morning Peter was over by that spring-hole. At first he | noticed no difference in it. It looked | like smooth black water. But when Peter went down to the edge of it he | discovered that instead of smooth black water it was smooth black ice. | ‘The spring-hole had frozen over, a | thing which could happen only in the very coldest of cold weather. “Huh!” said Peter. “There is no| use in staying here today. I won't see Little Joe Otter or Billy Mink or Jerry Muskrat. I may as well go home to the dear Old Briar-patch.” Now, to get home Peter had to be | on the other side of the Laughing | Brook. There was a certain place a | little farther up the brook where he was in the habit of crossing. But| why go away up there when he| could cross right where he was? He | could cross right on the ice that covered the spring-hole. Peter ven- tured out on it a little way and then sat down. It was fun to sit out there where he had never been before. Somehow from there things looked different. Yes, sir, things lookcd quite different. Peter was just ma ing up his mind to keecp on when, happening to look down, he saw something that made him rub his eyes. Some one was moving right under him. He looked a second| time. It was Jerry Muskrat. Jerry Stomach Troubles | Headache and | Dizzi 1t your stomach is sick, you are sick all over. It you can't digest your food, you lose strength and “pep,” get thin andnervousand feel as tired when you get up as when you went to bed. For 10 years Tanlac has improved the health and activity of many thou- sands who suffered just as you do. Here is a letter from Dora Robiliard, of 1elilr s. R F. D. 1, Box 17, had no digestion nor ap- Sick headaches laid me up s at a time. 1 | petite. in bed three d couln’t even do lizht housework. Now I do ail our cooking and washing.” ‘Why not let Tanlac do for you what #t did for thissufferer and for thousands of others? It is marvelous to see how it relieves the most obstinate digestive troubles —relieves gas, pains in the stomach and bawels. How it restores vigor and sound sleep. ‘salac is made of roots, barks and herbs—nature’s own medicines for the sick. Thecost isless than2centsadose. Get a bottle from your druggist today. ‘Your money back if it doesn't help vou. Tanlac 52 MILUON BOTILES USED ‘ | Muskrat. By this “No, I mustn't sit down,” T told her as she hospitably urged me in- | side the house. “I am in great haste an dalso T must not detain vou. But T wanted to ask you—" I hesitated at a momentary lloss for | words with which to frame my! bizarre request, and in that instant I saw an odd look, half comprehend- | ing, half speculative, come into my | neighbor's eyes. My errand was not wholly unexpected, I could se that, and the knowledge gave an impetus to my speech. “Has Jerry spoken to anybody else | beside myselt about Mr. Graham's sketches of Miss Lincoln?" Her reply was prompt. “No, he hasn’t unless somebody clse heard him that day at the farm. I'm glad you've come to me about that. You've saved me a trip to the | farm. You might as well come in, | I want to tell you about Jerry—and | ask you about something else.” She stepped back as she spoke and at her compelling gesture and | tone I followed her meekly into her low-ceilinged sitting-room (Copyright, 1928, Newspaper Fea- ture ervice, Inc.) Peter went right through into the | water, was swimming under the ice. He was | crossing to the other side of the| spring-hole. A thought popped into | Peter's head. He chuckled. “Jerry didn't see me,” said Peter to himself. “He didn’t see me at all. I'll thump on the ice with all my | might. It will be a great joke to] scare Jerry Muskrat. 1 wonder what he'll do and where he'll go.” So Peter hurried after Jerry| time Jerry had | reached the middle of the spring- hole. Peter was 8o full of his plan | for scaring Jerry Muskrat that he | didn’t notice any difference in the | ice. He didn’t notice that it cracked | a little as he hurried along. In a mo- | ment he was right over Jerry Musk- rat. Then Peter stopped and with all his might he thumped with those What a sight for i shots just as the car rounds the foot | READ THIS FIRST: | Jill Justin, just turned 20, ultra- modern and as lambently lovely as! the saga lily, etarts out on a moon- it night in August to attend li harvest festival. | With her brother, Tony, one year | her junior, at the wheel of their fiivver, the pair hears two pistol of a mountain on the outskirts of their home town of Elliston, W. Va. Here they witness an automobile hold=up. A young man is thrown from a powerful roadster after, ap- parently, having been rendered un- conscious during the shooting. Before Jill and Tony can make & | move to protect themselves, the lat- | ter is black-jacked, the girl 18| grabbed and thrown into the poad- ster, where she is held while the big car speeds away toward the hille. As the machine starts, however, Jill sces a form rise from the ground and stealthily attach itself to the car's rear end. This proves later to be Jack Stuart, owner of the road- ster, and eupposed to ' have been shot. When the moon goes under & cloud Stuart climbs across to the running board and with the butt of his service pistol strikes the driver and gains control of the situation. Leaving the bandits eecurely bound by the roadside, he takes Jill back home, where Tony is found with a | sore head, but alive. | Peter Justin, Jill's father, out of gratitude for saving his daughter, in- vites Stuart to remain and accept & job in a glass factory, where he 8 superintendent. Jack is promised living wages from the start, and a chance to learn the glass-blowing trade. He accepts the offer. Jack asks Jill to marry him. Do you love me, Jack asks Jill. | (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) | o s CHAPTER 1V Jack Stuart had been asking him- self that same question, and he felt that he knew beyond any fear of doubt, now, the answer to make. “Yes, Jill, dear heart of mine, you must know I love you!" The words came in a rush of sud- den passion, and he caught the slim body in his arms, drawing it close to him. “I love you—love you, my Jill, my glorious Jill!" he eried, in a voice that shook with intensity. The girl's hands slipped to his shoulders, and then locked behind his neck. The dusky head bent| backward and the parted lips invited | his own. . . He leaned down and | kissed her. All the world loves a lover, 80 they say, and anybody's love story is everybody’s affair in a town of 15, 000 inhabitants. Two days after Jack Stuart had kissed her, thereby sealing the en- | gagement, a majority of the English- speaking people of Elliston knew that he was to marry Jill Justin in October. | . Everyhody, that is, save Father | Ryan. He had been visiting in an- | other town during those two days, and so it transpired that Jack Stuart, himself, was the one who told the | priest, | “You have my blessing, my son,” | declared the latter, with fervor, his | deep-set eyes glowing. “My blessing and my most earnest prayers for your happiness—Jill's and yours, Please tell her for me that Father | Ryan is glad—for her!™ “Be patient with her, my boy,” said Peter Justin, after assuring Jack that he was very happy that | Jill had chosen so wisely. “She has | her fauits, of course, but remember, she has been without a mother ever | since she was eight years old!" | It was the first time Jack Stuart | had ever heard Peter make any ref- erence whatever to the mother of his children. Nor had Jill ever men- tioned her. If he had ever given the matter a thought, which wase un- | likely, he had assumed Mrs. Jus to be dead. Something, however, in Peter's voice and his words “without | a mother” struck him as odd. i From the night of their first mees. stout hindfeet of is. You know Peter is a very good thumper. This time | he was too good a thumper. You sce, he was out on very thin ice. He thumped only that once. That once | was enough. Peter went right | through into the water, He | never | | did know whether he scared Jerry Muskrat or not. He was too scared | himself to think of any one else. That water was wet, as water has a | way of being; also it was cold. And to make matters worse, the ice kept | breaking as fast as Peter tried to| crawl ont on it. | The next story: “Peter Almost | Gives U . FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: | G i e AEG U.§. PAT.OPY. (1928 8Y NEA SERVICE e A Lom hout n may mot he complete manbut a kitchen is! DENTIST Dr. Henry R. Lasch Commercial Trust Bldg. X-Ray Pyorrhea Treatments ing and the almost tragic circum- | stances attending it, Jill's brother, | | Tony, and Jack, had been friends. | It was Tony who voiced the proposal that Jack leave Mrs. Logan's and {come to the home of his fiancee to board. { “That'll furnish an excuse for th' | hiring of another woman to help with th’ housework.” ¢ had pointed out to is tather, and his prospective broter-in-law. Tony had long been urging the need of help for his| sister. | “It's too much, this hig house,” he declared. “Too much for one small | irl to look after, even with a maid’s | | help. It doesn’t leave Jill with time and strength for her dancing prac- tice. And anyhow,” he added, as if | to clench his proposal, “Jack will be coming here to live when they arc married.” | This idea scemed to have been |taken for granted by everyvone gave |the person most concerned. Jack | Stuart did not favor Tony's hoarding proposition. Small town gossip, he argucd. was a thing to be with, and there we ging tongues in Elliston that were, 18 Father Ryan had once declared, “slung on a pivot so as to flap at both ends.” Nor did he favor the proposal of his wife and he living with her family when they were mar- ried. On the contrary, hie suggesled that Jill and he rent an apartment and keep house by themselves. This suggestion met with a triple alliance: of opposition. Father, son and daughter arra; Ives ainst him. But s for- | bears were Scotch. He was, there- tore, endowed with a tenacity of pur- pose that stood the test of the triple combination. He won out in the final argument, but it was a long and hard-fought contest “You win, Jack dear,” conceded the prospective bride at last, with a smile of &uch Madonna-like renunci- | ition that the prospective bride | groom felt almost as if he re rob- bing her of her hirthright. This, evidently, was the mpression he conveyed to Father Ryan when dis- cussing the matter with the priest, “You arc developing something in the nature of an inferior complex, I'm afraid. my son” the dominie {told him, affccting an sir of face- | goodness of heart, on her virtue and | rise to the call of youthful enthusi- “All the world loves a lover, they say.” Your Health: How To Keep It— Causes of lliness tious banter as a mask to cover his seriousness. “Be careful you don't fashion a club from the whips of your sympathetic conscience for someone someday to pound you With!" : “No danger, Father, of me ever being called upon to pay a price for my trust and belief in Jil1,” said Jack | Stuart smiling, and so generous is Youth, with its unspent years, that he added with large indulgence: “Why I'd stake my life on Jill's By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN The iceman’s and the fisherman's scales are usually called in by the humorists to explain the remarkable weights assigned to new-born babies in the legends of the day. One hears of infants so0 small that they are put to bed in cigar boxes, and of other giant specimens that put to shame the Gargantua of abelais. As usual, the scientists care- fully record the results day by day in hospitals, where measurements are conducted carefully under con- trolled conditions. Thus they put to rout the stories that bring such acute disappointment to mothers whose babies are just the average | size, | was one of deeper import than he | Average 7.20 Pounds I had expected to encounter. This was | In three institutions in Philadel- indicated by the gleam that leaped | phia the weights of all bables born into life in the priest’s tell-tale eyes. | over a period of 18 months were | “Mrs. Justin is—not dead,” Father | carefully noted. The average birth | Ryan stated slowly, hesitantly, a8 weight of 1596 babies was 116.3 though the admittance cost him an | ounces, or 7.26 pounds. The bables cffort. “At least,” he added, in the |horn to private patients had the same careful vein, “she was alive a | greatest birth weights; the colored month ago. She lives in New York |pabies had the lowest birth weights. with her brother, a bachelor. Peter her integrity!" Father Ryan offered no comment in response to his young friend's| declaration of trust. His failure to asm did not, however, dull the young man’s curiosity materially. It oc- | curred to Jack that Father Ryan had known *Jill since birth, so naturally he would know about her mother. “How long has Mrs. Justin been dead, Father?” asked casually. “Or is ehe dead He knew instantly his question Mothers who had previously | and she separated 12 years ago. |given birth to children had “The matter was shrouded in more |heavier bables than those who or less mystery—incompatibility, it |were giving birth to their first was said. Peter seldom mentions her | habies. Boys average about three | ame. The brother with whom she |ounces more than girls. lives is fairly wealthy, I've heard. | The big babies lost a little less | Jill has been to New York four of |weight during the first few days | five times to visit her mother. Tony |after birth than did the small ba- | goes once or twice a year.” bies. After the initial loms of Peter Justin evidently coneidered | welght a gain in weight took place; his prospective son-in-law was en- |then the little babies gained two and titled to an introduction to the fam- | one-half per cent more than the big | ily skeleton. The presentation, how- | habies. ! ever, entailed scarcely anything | The colored mothers nursed their | more than Jack had already been |habies in greater proportion than | told.. |0id the white mothers. Correspond- | Misunderstandings, sald Peter ag- |ingly the colored bables gained gravated by dislike of life in a small | welght faster than did the white ba- | town, and the fact that ease and lux- | bies born under the same circum- ury were hers for the taking. had | stances. | all combined to bring about the | Bathing and Rubbing separation. Thus matters stood in | Some of the babies were bathed | Peter Justin's family. regularly in water, others were Ao 2 !given olive oil rubs. These thinges The stifling heat of the early Sep- | did not seem to affect the weight of tember evening was beginning to | the babies in any way. abate, although the ground still gave | Sixty-two and four-tenths per off an encrvating humidity. To es- |cent of the babies born in the hos- cape the torrid discomfort Jack |pitals regained their birth welght | Stuart drew himselt up into the high ' before leaving for home at the crotch of an ancient apple tree, the ond of two weeks. Most of these lofty branches of which brushed the |babies were fed every four hours. | aves of the cottage. He would wait | Out of 1201 babies fed on a four- until Jill came out and surprise her. |hour schedule 816 regained their Twilight's cning shadows birth weight before leaving the hos- creeping up the broad mountainside ' pital, the average time required for in the rear of the little home cast gaining the birth welght being 9.2 something of a gloom over the ad- jacent land. An ominous silence that invariably precedes an electrical F . storm hung over the cntire valley Suede nnge like a great, threatening cloud. | Jack scarcely had settled himself in the trec croteh when the sou L 2, of familiar voices struck or g He recoznized Father Ryan's deep, hooming tones, and the next instant the priest and Peter Justin paused SRS under the apple trec. Even as he drew in his breath to speak—to make his presence known —he was silenced by the words he he (TO BE CONT ED) .. d. . | Read tomorrow what Jack over- | hears ®hile waiting for Jill. 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