New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1928, Page 16

By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1928, SWEETHEARTS Author of “My Son’s Sweethearts,” “Confessions of a Wife,” Etc. Copyright, 1928, by Central Press Association, Inc. READ THIS FIRST: Lynda Fenton, a singularly inno- cent girl, 18 private secretary to Ralph Armitage. Her father, a drunkard, tells her that her mother deserted them, and that all women | have their price. | Lynda meets Emily, Andrews, who cherishes a secret fondness for | David Kenmore, Lynda's compan- | ion trom childhood. Emily plots| againet Lynda from the very begin- ning. David tells Lynda he loves her, but she decides she doesn't want to be in love with any man. David | is away on a trip. Lynda’s father, too, deserts her, Ralph Armitage begins to pay her artful compliments, and Claire Stan- hope comes to live with her. Claire tells of innocent love for Fred| Blaque, a married man. | June Challer, who has annexed | money, invites Lynda and Claire and Emily Andrews.to a big party. It's Lynda’'s first real affair, she's enthused. Ei y David a letter, suggesting that come home for the party, so Lynda may be made to feel at ease. | Then she sends him an anonymous | note, saying “Ralph Armitage is rushing your girl.” Ralph Armitage's father informs Lynda that Ralph has been injured. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXV Ralph Armitage Is a Hero “I hope Mr. Armitage is not bad- Iy hurt,” said Lynda, with a sinking | feeling in her heart. She hoped she | had not grown pale. “No, Miss Fenton, although it s very uncomfortable, it could have been worse. He thinks he'll be able to come down to the office tomor- row. He will know after the docpr makes his visit to him this after- noon. It the doctor says he cannot come—and frankly, I think he will —1I will take you out, and any let- ters you think he ought to attend to, tomorrow evening. You won't mind working overtime, will you, under the circumstances?” 1 shall be glad to do anything to help until Mr. Armitage gets bet- | ter,” said Lynda, as she started out of the room. Before she had gotten hall, Mr. Armitage, senior, her back. “Miss Fenton, if my son has any .calls on the telephone today, you had better switch them to my wire. 1 am not telling anyone in the of- fice about his accident, as Ralph does not want any particular at- tention paid to it.” There was some kind of thrilling, adventure Lynda felt in Ralph Ar-) mitage's automobile accident, and she was sure of it along in the afternoon, when the persistent wo- man's voice, which had been calling him up the day before, called him again, She gave the usual reply, how- ever: “Mr. Armitage will not be in his office today. May I take the message ?" This time, instead of ignoring her completely, the woman asked: “Do you know whether there is any truth in the rumor that Ralph —Mr. Armitage—has been hurt in an automobile accident?” have heard no rumor, Madam, but T'll switch you on his father's ‘wire, and you may be able to get some information from him." Lynda had no idea that Ralph Armitage's office could be so still and dull, but during the afternoon the postman left two letters for her, which surprised her very much. She had not expected that a letter from anyone would come to her at | Armitage & Son's. She has recetved only two or three letters before in all her life. She looked at the envelopes curi- ously. One was mailed from a| southern city, and contained noth- ing except a twenty-dollar bill. Al- though there was no written assur- ance, Lynda knew that her father into the called would not have been able to send | her this, and there was no one clse | to send her money—unless he had | obtained some sort of position and | doing pretty well. Poor old Dad,” she said to her- self, the tears dropping on the | page. “After all, he is his own| worst enemy.” o The other letter was from David, and bewailed the fact that he had | secured a job for her with Armitage & Son. One paragraph read: “I did not know, Lyn, what a reputation Ralph Armitage had, or | T never would have recommended vou as a stenographer in the firm. | Ot eourse, his father is a prince. and T am sure would stand no non- | sense i the office, even from his own son. T've never met young Ar- mitage, but T have been told he s one of the most fascinating of men and that the tragedy surrounding ! “Poor old Dad,” s his marriage has added a most ro- mantic tinge of pity to everything he does or says, where a woman is concernd. “Lynda, 1 am frankly jealous, and I wish that 1 could take you away immediatcly from your entire environment, but here I am, hound | to the elder Armitage, who has been wondertuliy good to me, and I can- not go to him and tell him just| what I have told you, as an excuse | for your leaving them, hecause it is his son of whom I am suspicious and jealous.” The ietter She felt that made Tynda angry. David should not in- | timate she ought to leave her job | he had heard someth ination of Ralph Ar- vid should know, hav- that she en in i uUHl\l“ mitage. Da ing grown up with her, could take of hersel the office of “the most fas of men” “Why don't they all of them?" veryone scems bound to me into Ralph Armit Dad intimated, before | that he was the best market [ would | ever know, and now David hasn't | enough confidence in me to let me fight my own battles, Will men ever understand that we do not need them to regulate our md All day long Lynd were upon Ralph Arn too, had begun to have pity for him. Late in the Emily Andrews came in, all excited. “Did you hear about Armi?” asked. Lynda was very much pleased that Emily did not wait for her to ! answer, as she did not want to tell an untruth, and she had promised Mr. Armitage, senior, not to say anything concerning the absence of his son. Emily, however, was so glad to tell the news, that she bubbled over | with the information. Ralph had had his ehoulder put out of joint, and a couple of ribs broken, trying not to run over a child. “Yesterday, on his way to his home,” said Emily, “a child ran out directly in front of Armi's car. Tt looked as though it was sure death, but he deliberately swung his road- ster into the ditch, and almost took the count himself, Wasn't that splendid? The afternoon papers are devoting most of the first page to him. Did the ‘old boss' tell you anything about it this morning? If he did, you are mighty close about it, T must say.” “Mr. Armitage said that his son had had a slight accident and would not be down today, but he asked me not to say anything about it in the office. 1 had to keep it close after that, didnt’ 12" “Poor old Armi, it would been just his luck to himselt,” said care leave me alone asked herself. throw | s arms. went away, | She thoughts | have have killed sympathetical- ly. “I really fe sorry for him at times. He isn't such a bad egg vou know. You really can’t blame POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN “May’s husband is <o triflin’ that it looks like she'd tire of him, but a woman just naturally likes a man better if she has to earn him a livin (Copyright, 1928, Publisners Syndicate) AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN “I don’t believe in polyg- amy, but sometimes on wash day I wouldn’t care if Pa had another wife if she was right ugl (Copyrigny, 1928, Pubiishers Syndicate) | building he said to herself, Lim for ¢ times as he pping out as many good can.” (TO BE CONTINUED) East Norwalk Man Held Criminally Responsible New Haven, July 31 (UP)—Gas- ton k. Amours of Kast Norwalk was found criminally responsibile for the death of Mrs. Carrie E, Day, 79, a passenger in his automobile when it collided with July Deputy in a finding “oroner Jam. coroncr found driving with his headlights dimmed and did not see the truck halted he- side the roud until it was too late to void swerving into it, Yale Record to Have 2 returned by J. Corrigan. Amours was New Hav July 31 has the Record, Yale' magazine, smarted under the humil- iation of nere suite f cfficers in dormitory basement while Harvard's Lampoon boasted a to itsclf. The Yale publi- cation is to have new two-story struciure huilt its editorial effices in a style of architecture cor- responding to the Harkness memor- ial dormitory, the most impr Luilding group on the campus. having a for ssive Special Notice Ladies Auxiliary A, O. H. will hold their annual excursion to Savin Rock B 15th. This year the tickets are limited there will be none sold after the 14th. Adults B . Children 3, the nde of the following commit- tee Mrs, Catherine Kehoe, Mrs. Tulia Moo d, Miss Minnie Heery, Miss Mar; McCarthy Miss Mary Igoe and Mrs, Mangans.—advt. ¥ JOWN -~ a truck at Milford on | Its Own Building | (UP)—Too | Tickets are in | G0OD, SAYS ERWIN Postmaster Sees Favorable Hous- ing Situation in City The tenement situation in New Britain is undergoing a change, ac- | cording to Postmaster H. E. Erwin, {who has watched the development | of New Britain housing conditions for a number of years. t | man was almost instantly killed and Mr. Erwin commenting upon the two more were seriously hurt when article in Saturday’s Herald, which | an automobile in which they were | pointed out that of the 1629 vacant ' riding sideswiped another auto and | tenements in this eity only 122 were | turned completely over on Jennings of the modern type and these not|road, Fairfield, at 7:30 o'clock last yet available, said the housing situ- | night. tion in this city is extremely favor-| Lilis varady, 19, of R. F. D, No. |able. 6, Jennings road, Fairfield, suffered ot only does _t indicate & fracture of the skull and large ar- stated in the Herald, that New Brit- | (epjes in his head and neck were ain _people are demanding better|q.vored and he hled to death while | homes, but it shows that the ity i | joing rushed to the emergency hos- jgrowing, Mr. Erwin stated. With{pital in Bridgeport in a private au- {only 1,000 tenements vacant, and | omobile. | 3,060 new tenements built in a com- | jonn Kline, of No. 289 Black ! paratively recent period, this Shows | Rock Turnpike, Fairfield, driver of | healthy condition, the postmaster | (he car which turned over and Miss feels. Eunice Bullard, 16-y Another good sign, according 0| ter of Hareld C. Bullard of Barlow postal statics, is that the overerowd- | 1oud und Center street, Fairfield, ¢d condition of New Britain tene-! jriver of the other machine which ments is beginning to ease up. Not| figyred in the accident, were both only the post office but public utili-" placed under arrest by Constable tics such as the New Britain Gas \yilliam T, Burr. They were each Light Co. and the Connecticut Light charged with causing loss of life by und Power Co. have noticed the ten- ! t)e careless operation of a motor deney on the part of families 10 vehicle and will be held pending the “double up.” | outcome of Coroner John J. Phe- Young couples get married and | lan's investigation. {move In with their parents until oft- | Kline is in St. Vincent's hospital !times there are as many as three | with a possible fracture of the skull, families in the same house. Not |a gash in his scalp which required more than a year ago, ther Wwas an | ten stitches and multiple abrasions | average of 17 individuals to a tene- | on the head and body. | ment, Mr. Erwin said. A little less| Alex Felner. 19, of No. 181 Jen- ithan a year ago this had dwindled | nings road, Fairfield, was the third to an average of 9. | man in Kline's roadster and he was The reason for the change is ex- plained by the postmaster as fol- suffering from a fracture of the lows: “When New Britain homes | right shoulder and a fractured right become overcrowded, in order to re- ! collar bone and bruises on the head lieve that condition many new and body. homes were built. At that time it; was impossible to find a vacant rent in the city. The new homes were | rxpected to relieve the congstion. | Instead of spreading out the families | nd occupying all the houses. whole | zroups promptly moved into the | new houses, leaving the old ones va- cant. “Now the old houses are being re- | modeled, rents have been lowered. | families are spreading out many be a short time until there wilt be few if any empty tenements in the | | city.” Fairfield, July 31 (®—One young I as was WHOLESALE |Skeletons of Indians Dug Up by Steam Shovel Cincinnati, 0., July 31 (P —Skele- | |tons of 20 to 25 Indians have been dug up by a steam shovel excavating at Mill Creck, mear here, | Ralph Drury, curator of the| | Cincinnat! Museum of Natural His- believes them to be between 0 and 15,000 vears old. A mute story of a tragedy was revealed. The leg of one of the In- | dians had been broken, although it | had knit back together. The Indian | had died young. Perhaps it was be- | cause he could not run around with [ the rest of the boys, Drury added. Drury thinks the Indians may | have heen members of the early | | Algonquins, who buried their dead | in shallow graves. | | Suicide by Gas Is ‘ Cause of Lord’s Death | Brookline, Mass., July 31 (UP)— | licide by gas poisoning was the | ause of the death of James Fuller Tord, wealthy lumber man and son- | in-law of the late Thomas W. Law- son, according to the report of Medi- | cal Examiner Willlam C. Mackle. | Tord was found dead in the kitchen of his home here last week. | A1l the gas jets in the kitchen were | open, PRICES GREA' $4.50 ALL WOOL $5.00 ALL WOOL $6.00 ALL WOOL $6.50 ALL WOOL 8 Mallet CROQU $7.50 Regular KILEDN 220 MAIN ST. 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