The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1920, Page 7

COPYRIGHT auiltul ar room her husband, Ch of his wits, « ® divorced man, Joe P with Warren Qremery.. Two wonder . \ Steady Cread, Bhe suddenly realises (hat Warren is growing tired of her, and is gow Clay (Continued From Yesterday) or all bad, like the heroes and the a “I wonder why divorce laws are so / Villains of the old plays. If Warren had done a ‘hideously cruel’ thing de Uderately, that would be one thing; what he has done is quite anoth Uttle understood?" Alice mused. “Because divorce is an abnormal 4 thing. You can't make it right and, | Of course, we are a long way trom|The God who madé us put sex into making it wrong. But that is what the world, Warren didn't; and War it ie coming to, I believe, Divorce | fen only committed, in his—what ts will be against the law some day!/'t?—i8th yoar one of the follies that No @ivorce on any grounds! It can| Most boys dispose of in their teens NOt be reconciled to law; it defies law. Be generous, and forgive Right on the face of it, it is breaking | Dim. Give him another trial!” @ contract. Are any other contracts| “How oan I forgive him?” Rachael to be broken with public approval? |said, badly shaken and thru tears. ° We will see the return of the old,/“No, no, no, I couldn't! I never i simple law, then we will wonder at ar’ ourselves! I am not a woman who takes naturally to public work—t wish I were. Hut perhaps some day T can strike the system a blow, It is Women like me who understand, and Who will help to end it.” They had reached the beach now and pull see the children, in their blue Hiowing the ourvin, reaches of the incoming waves. T! fresh roar of the breakers filled a silence, gulle piped their wistful lit %1t is only the worthwhile women) tle cry as they circled high in the Who do understand,” said Alice. “You/ blue air, Old Capt le, in his the marble worth cutting. Life is] rickety oneseated buggy, drove up f& series of phases; we are none of us} the beach, the water niaing in the the same from year to year, You are) wheel tracks. The ch ‘en gathored not the same girl that you were/about him; it waa one of their ex when you married Clarence Brecken- ptain wash hin ridge—" carriage, and the mare splash in the shallow water, Alico seated her self on a great log, worn silver from ments to see the ¢ “What a different woman™ Ra- chael said under her breath “Well,” said Alice then a little|the sea, and half buried in the white frightened, “why won't you think|##nd, but Rachael remained standing. | that perhaps. Warren might have|the sweet October wind whipping changed, too; that whatever Warren | @#ainst her strong and splendid fx has done, it was done more like—like| UF. beautiful eyes looking far the little boy who has never had his/OUt to sa fllng, who gets dixzy with his own) “You two have no quarrel,” the freedom, and does something foolish|/older woman added mildly. “You without analyzing just what he is/and Warren were rarely companion doing?” able. I used to say to George that “But Warren, after all, isn't &) you were almost too congenial, too ebiid!” Rachael satd, sadly sensitive to each other's moods. “But Warren is in some ways;| Warren knew that you idolized him. that’s just it,” Alice said, eagerty.| Rachael, and consequently, when “He has always been singularly—|critictam came, when he felt that well, unbalanced, in some ways./you of all persons were misjudging Don't you know there was always a/him, why, he simply flung up his fort of simplicity, a sort of bright in-| head like a horse, and bolted!" nocence about Warren? He believed) “Minjudging?* Rachael said quick- whatever anybody said until you) ly, half turning her hegd, and bring laughed at him; he took every one of/ing her eyes from the far horizon his friends on his own valuation.|to rest upon Alice's face, The chil It's only where bis work is conm|dren had seen them now, and were cerned that you ever see Warren| running toward them, and Alice aia positive, and dictatorial, and keen—"| not attempt to anawer, She sighed, Rachael's eyes had filled with tears./and shrugged her shoulders. “But he isn't the man I loved.) A dead horseshoe crab on the she said, slowly. “I/ sands deflected the course of the rac thought he wae a sort of god—he/ing children, except Derry, who pur could do no wrong for me!" |sued his panting way, and as Rach "Yea, but that isn't the way to/ael sat down on the log, cast him- feel toward anybody,” persisted Alice. | self, radiant and breathless, Into her “No man is a god, no man is perjarms. She caught the child to her fect. You're not perfect yourself; I'm | heart passionately. He had always not. Can't you just say to yourself | been closer to her than even the that human beings are faulty—it| splendid first-born because of the may be your form of It to get dignh| giddy Little head that was always fied and sulk, and Warren's to wan-| getting him into troubles, and the der off dreamily into curious paths—| reckless litte feet that never chose Dut that’s life, Rachael, that’s ‘better | a sensible course, Derry wae always Or worse,” isn’t tt?” | delng rescued from deep water, al- “It isn't a question of my holding| ways leaping blindly from high out for a mere theory, Alice.” Ra-| places and saved by the narrowest chael said, after a while; “I'm not} possible chance, always getting hiv saying that I'm all in the right, and| soft mop of hair inextricably tangled that I will never see Warren again in the steering gear of Rachael's car until he admits it, and every one or his foot hopelessly twisted in the admits it—that isn't what I want | innocent-looking bars of his own bed But it's just that I'm dead, so far always eating mysterious berries, or Faas that old feeling is concerned. It| tasting dangerous medicines, always fs as if @ child saw his mother sud-! ready to laugh deeply and delictousty deny turn into @ fiend, and do some |at bis own crimes. Jim assumed » Rideously cruel act; no amount of | protective attitude toward him, cool reason could ever convince that| chuckling at his predicaments, ad @hild again that his mother was vising him, and even gallantly ae Sweet and good.” jounene the blame for his worst mix “But ax you get older,” Alice|deeds. Rachael tmagined them in emiled, “you differentiate between) boarding-school some day; in college good and good, and you grades | Jim the student, dragged from his in evil, too. 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W. W., recelved no encourag to remain tn the Centralia Cham! terday | Vanderveer requested that he be shown the minutes of the proceed. |ings of the chamber of commerce dt rectors since the Armitsloe day tragedy Mrs. Kate Robinson, the chamber, refused “Do you mean that you will not secretary of Ah, bow proud Warfen might have been of them, she thought, walking | Nore today, a sandy hand tn each of | he Derry hopping on one foot twisting, and leaping; Jim leaning af | fectionately against her, and holding | forth aw to the proper method of washing wago What man would |not have been proud of this pair, enchanting in faded gulatea now, soon to be introduced to linen knick erbookers, busy with their first toil ine capitals now, some day to be growling Latin verba. They would be |interested in the Zoo this winter and then in skating, and then in football—Warren loved football, Me had thrown it all away! Widowed in spirit, still Rachael Was continua reminded that she Was not actually widowed, and in the hurt that came to her, even in these first months, she found a chilling premonition of the years to come Warm-hearted Vera Villalonga wrote impulsively from the large establish ment at Lakewood that she had ac quired for the early winter. She had | heard that Rachael and Greg weren't Jexactly hitting it off—hoped to the Lord it wasn't true—anyway, Rach acl had been perfectly horrible about seeing her old friends; couldn't she | come at once to Vera, lots of the old jerowd were there, and spend ao month? Mra. Raker Emory, meet ing Rachael on one of the rare oc casions when Rachael went into the city, asked pleasantly for the boys, and pleasantly did not ark for War ren. Belvedere Ray was gayer than ever thie year, Mra, Emory said: did Rachael know that the Duchess of | Exton was visiting Mary Moultor |such a dear! Georgiana Vanderwall visiting the Thomases at Easthamp- ton, motored over one day to spend ja sympathetic half morning with Rachael, pressing that lady's unre sponsive hand with her own large, capable one, and murmuring that of course—one heard—that the bishop of course feit dreadtully-—they only hoped—both much dear sweet people—- Rachael felt an if she would like to |take a bath after this wellneant vis jitation. A day or two later she had | & letter from Florence, who mid that “someone” had told her that the Gregorys might not be planning to keep thelr wonderful cook this win. jter, If that was true, would Rachael be #0 awfully good as to ask her to 60 see Mre. Haviland? “The pack,” Rachael said to Alice, “ta ready to run agaln!”* * © © © © © © © @ November turned chilly, and tn ita fecond week there was even @ Mutter of snow at Clark's Hilla, Rachael did not dislike it, and it was a huge adventure to the boys. Nevertheless, she began to feel that a longer stay down on the bDieak coast might be unwise. The old house, for all ite purring furnace and double windows, was draughty enough to admit icy te of the outside air, here and the village, getting under storm shutters and closing up this wing or that room for the win ter, was so businesslike in its prepa: Fations as to fill Rachael's heart with tnlld misgivings Allee still brought her brood down for the week nd it was on one of these that Rachael suddenly de cided to move. The two women dis cussed it, Rachael finally agreeing to go to the Valentines’ for a week before going on to Boston—or it might be Waahington or Philadelphia any other city than the one in which she might encounter the boys’ father, Alice had never won her to promise a visit before, and altho Rachael's confidence in her—for Rachael neither extracted a promine from Alice as to any possible en- adunter with Warren, nor reminded her friend that she placed herself entirely at A arcy—rather dis concerted Alice, she had a simple woman's strong faith in coincidence, the Lord would not let this oppor tunity for a -econciliation go by. Mra Valentine had seen Warren Gregory now, more than once, and far more | potent than any argument that he might have made was his allence, hin |most unexpected and unnatural silence. There waa no explanatior indeed Warren had little to say on any subject in these days. He liked to come now and then, in the evening, to the Valentine house, but he would not dine there, and confined his remarks almost entirely to an. awers to George. Physically, thought him shockingly changed “He is simply broken,” she said to George, in something like fright. “1 didn't know human beings could change that way. Warren—who used to be #0 positive! Why, he's almost timid!” She did not tell Rachael this, and George insisted that, while Rachael and the boys were at t ren must be warned to keep away so that Alice had frati enough ma terial with which to build her dreams. Nevertheless, she dreamed. It wan finally arranged that Rach ael and little Jim should go up to care of the piano and the car, for the winter, Then Jim, for the first time in his life, would stay away from-hin mother overnight with Aunt Allee, Rachael returning to Clark's Hill to bring Mary and Derry up the next day in the car. Jin was to go to the dentist, and to met shoes; there were several excellent reasons why tt | seemed wise to have him await his mother and brother in town rather than make the long trip twice In one day. Mary smugiled Derry out of sight when the Monday morning came, and Rachael and her oldest son went away with the Valentines in the ear The children, snuggled in between them, chattered of their own affaira, and Rachael interrupted her inex {buttoned to the neck in a gray coat {oat and she felt, she told George, that! She Alice |t house, War-| jtearing like town on a certain Monday with Alice:| that hael should make various engagements then, a8 to ntorage,| packing, and such matters as the} It was a frewh, sweet morning in| geeted itself to him as being wult- the early winter, and both women, | furred to the eyes, enjoyed the trip.| let me wee these records?’ asked | Vanderveer. | “Af® secretary of the chamber of commeres, 1 refuse,” Mra, Robinson replied. “You will remember this tneldent,” he said, as he closed the door behind him. Neo next visited the Centralia Bust nem college, where he asked that ® transcribing of notes be done lUpon learning the identity of the visitor, FR. J. Pletcher, prineipal of | the informed Vanderveer the school is an American Institution | and as auch would not do work for | hirn. college, | Vote No Decrees | for Navy Officers | WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—All in-} creases for naval officers were voted down by the house naval affairs com. | mittee yesterday, leaving onty high er pay schedules for entisted men. | [Greater governmental economy was| |etven as the reason. } | hausti a qa then I shall have to bring my own car over this road tomorrow, Kane,” she jexplained. “I have never been at the wheel myself before in all the ‘times I have done it.” | “Marrtin does be knowtn’ every step of the way,” suggested Kane. But Martin hasn't been with me | thia summer,” the lady smiled I thought I saw bir runnin’ the docther’s car yesterda’ week,” mused Kane, who was a privileged charac | | © talk with Alloe only to ask at of the driver now and ter, “Well, "tis not hard, Mra. Greg ory. The whole place in plasthered) wid posts. But the thing of ft ts ma'am,” be added, after a momen turning back toward her without| taking his eyes from the road, “there does be a big storm blowin’ up. Look | there, far over there, how binck it ts."'| “Tut that won't break today?) |Rachael said uneasily, thinking of} Derry | “Weill, it may not—that's true. Put} these roads will be in a grand meas) if wo have anny more rain ace & tact for ye,” Kane persisted “Then don’t come until Wednes | ” suggested Alice. | | “Oh, Alice, but I'll be so frantte | |to see my boy!" | | “Twenty-four hours more, you) goose!” Alice laughed. Rachael |laughed, too, and took several sur. | roptitious kisses from the back of) Jimmy's neck aa a fortification Against the coming separation Indeed, she found tt unbelievably hard to leave him, trotting happily upstairs with his beloved Katharine, and to go about her day's business! Jantictpating the long trip back to| |Home Dunes without him. How ever, there were not many hours to spare, and Rachael had much to do. She set herself systematically to work. | By 1 o'clock everything wan done, ‘with an hour to spare for train time. But she had foolishly omitted lunch eon, and felt tired and dizzy. She |turned toward a downtown lunch: |room, and was held at the crossing jof Fifth avenue and one of the |thirties idly watching the crowd of jeara that delayed her when she saw | Warren in hie car. He was on the crons street, and #0 | also stopped, but he did not see her. | Martin was at the wheel, Warren his hat well down over his eyes, Jone in the back seat. He was) staring steadily, yet with unseeing | } eyes, before him, and Rachael felt a sense of almost sickening shock at jthe sight of his altered face. War ren, looking tired and depressed, |looking discouraged, and with some new look of difidence and hurt, be sides all those, in his face! Warren Warren off! Rachael felt aa if she should faint was rooted where she stood. | Fifth ave. pushed gayly and bus |ily by her under the leaden sky Furred old ladies, furred little girts, mensenger @oya and club ting, 6 «, planning | stood still, And after a while she|#) looked again where Warren had/f) been, He was gone. But had he} seen her? her heart asked itself! |] with wild nor. Had he seen her? She began to walk rapidiyeand| blindly, conscious of taking a general Jirection toward the Terminal sta tion, but #0 vague as to her course | t she presently looked bewlider | diy about to find that she was in | Kighth avenue and that, standing ab solutely still again, and held by} thou, he was being curiously re | | gard 4 policeman, She gave the} |man a daged and sickly smile, “T am afraid I arm a little out of lmy way,” ghe stamméred, “I am go. ing to th station.” He pointed out the direction, and she thanked him, and blindly went on her way Tut her heart was 4 living thing in her |breant, and she walked like a wound ed creature that leaves a trail of life blood. Oh, she wan hie wite wife! She belonged there, in that seat beside him, with her against that gray overcoat! | his wife—his atroot of little shops, faint and hi wick and alone! Oh, for the security of that familiar car again! How often ahe had sat beside him, ar foated by the traffic, content to plac idly watch the shifting erowd, to walt for the sHfill little whistle that gave them the right of way! If she were there now, where might they be go ing? Perhaps to a concert, perhaps to look at a pleture in some gallery, put first of All certainty to luneh. Hin first question wotild be: “fad your Junch?” and hia answer only @ aatiafied nod. Tut he would direct Martin to the first place that sug able for Rachael's meal. And he would order it, no trouble was too much for her; nothing too good for his wife. ‘Continued Tomorrow) An Important Disposal of Women’s and Misses’ Dresses at Readjusted Prices That Afford Great Savings 49 Dresses Reduced to $16.00 —Afternoon Dresses of Taffeta, Crepe de Chine and Georgette Crepe in light colors. A few Evening Dresses of Taffeta, Net and Tulle. Women’s and Misses’ sizes. 76 Dresses Reduced to $24.00 —Dresses for afternoon wear, of Taffeta, Georgette Crepe, Chiffon, also Dresses of Wool Jersey and Serge. Several Evening Frocks of Taffeta and Chiffon trimmed with metallic ribbons and threads. Women’s and Misses’ sizes. 36 Dresses Reduced to $36.00 —interesting group of Dresses including three of Tricolette, four of Serge and Tricotine and the remainder of, Charmeuse, Taffeta, Moire Silk, Paulette and Georgette Crepe, mostly in dark street shades. These Dresses are in straight-line and tunic styles with very attractive trimmings, designed especially for afternoon wear. Sizes for women and misses. 47 Dresses Reduced to $58.00 —lot includes two Duvetyn Dresses, three Chiffon Velvet Afternoon Dresses, one Velvet Dinner Gown, three Evening Dresses of satin and tulle with paillettes, four Poiret Twill and Tricotine Street Dresses, and the remainder of Georgette Crepe, Charmeuse and Chiffon in elaborately beaded styles. Sizes for women. 54 Dresses Reduced to $69.00 —this group includes seven Duvetyn Afternoon Dresses, one Trico- lette trimmed with Paisley motifs, one beaded Marquisette Dress, eight Poiret Twill and Tricotine Street Dresses, three Serge Dresses, one dotted Net Dinner Dress, six Evening Gowns in Velvet, Satin and black lace with paillette and metallic elaborations, the remain- ing lot of Georgette Crepe, Chiffon, Chiffon Velvet and Charmeuse with fringe, beads and embroidery trimmings. Sizes for women. —Second Floor. Broken Lines of Needlework Supplies at Sharp Reductions EEDLEWORK Notions, Embroidered Display Pieces and broken lines of Stamped Novelties are featured in an extensive offering for Friday at significant price reductions. ¢3MBROIDERED DISPLAY PIECES Embroidery Cottons, in odd lots, at include Children’s Tub Dresses*in Se and 15c dozen, sizes from one to ten years, Chil- Chenille Drops, in assorted colors, dren’s Rompers and Aprons, Little at 5e each. 3oys’ Wash Suits, Baby Pillows, Persian Silk Tassels, at 85¢ each. Bibs and Crib Covers, Women's Bone Rings, 5c and 10¢ dozen. Gowns, Table Scarfs, Covers and Celluloid Knitting Needle Holders, Centerpieces and Luncheon Sets. 5e each. Knitted Novelties also appear in White Knitting Yarn, at 85¢ hank. Chenille Hats for Women and Bag Frames, in shell, demi, blue, Children, and Wool Sweaters and pearl and ivory effects, at 75c to Wristlets. $1.50. STAMPED PIECES feature Linen Beads for embroidery and bag mak- Luncheon Sets with Napkins to ing, in rose pink, orchid pink, match, Table Scarfs, Centerpieces, green, gray and blue, sharply re- Pillow Covers, Crepe Kimonos, duced. Crash Couch Covers, with over- Remnants of Art Linens, Fringes and drapes’ and valances to match, Laces at sharp reductions, Children’s Dresses and Aprons and Babies’ Cashmere Kimono Gift Novelties Reduced Coats. ~—tooled leatherette table mats, Vogue handkerchief and glove boxes, cretonne work boxes, oilcloth work bags, leather bodkin and traveling cases, and brocaded pin-cushions, —Art Needlework Section, Third Floor, Floss Pillow Forms, in plain and fancy shapes, size 16x82, $1.00. Crochet Cottons in a range gf colors, sizes 8, 10, 80, 50 and 70, at Se and 10c ball; extra long yardage. FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Sharp Reductions on Remnants of Ribbon —lengths from one-half yard to two and one-half yards, and many different colors. Suit- able for trimmings, bag lin- ings, hats and gift novelties, HAIR-BOW RIBBONS in plain and novelty effects. 2 SATIN RIBBONS in widths suitable for girdles. BAG AND VESTING RIB- BONS in metallic, tapestry and warp prints. be TAFFETA RIBBONS in plain and Jacquard effects. PLAIN SATIN RIBBONS in narrow widths and various colors. —First Floor, White Sports Middies For School Girls At $1.75 HESE trim White Middies - of heavy twilled cloth, designed on regulation navy style, boast jaunty collar and cuffs of blue flannel. In sizes 6 to 14 years, at $1.75. te —Becond Floor. Remnants of “ Georgette Crepe, - Nets and Laces — At Attractive Reductions . EMNANTS from current stocks are featured in '# this disposal, including a vag) iety of trimmings for ing and afternoon gowns lingerie, among them: Printed and Plain George — ette Crepe in a range of cok | ors. Net Flouncings Metallic and All-over Laces Venise Collar Laces Filet Crochet Laces Narrow Trimming Laces Lining Nets. —at reduced prices. . . —First Floor, Exceptional Values in - Men’s Pajamas Reduced to $2.85 "THESE are odd suits from - lots containing broken assortments, priced for quick clearance, in soiesettes, nain- sooks, crepes, sateens, finely striped madras and silk mix- ture (the latter in larger sizes only). They represent a substantial saving. : Trimmings or large Pearl buttons, giving a neat-talk ” Men’s Night Shirts $1.50 $2.00 $2.50 pd come in plain white muslin at $1.50 and eith- er trimmed or intrimmed at $2.00. White and Tan. Soiesette Night Shirts $2.60. Cambric Trimmef or Un- : trimmed Night Shirts $2.50. The Men’s Furnishings Séc- _ | tion, First Floor.