The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1921, Page 9

THE Cy nthia The Wreckers rey Dvoncls Lynde RMepyright, 1970 by Charles Sorth “Puzzled ner’s Soma) Mother Can't} Fathom This Modern| entinued From Yesterday) 2 CHAPTER XVI Girl—Asks for Help. Pag veep ae oben ae I knew, Jus I ren) as ld be Dear Miss Grey T have never with a+ be e i able A ta ve it shadowed on the trip| railroad building to the it made nervous There could be only one reason now Written to you before, tended to, but now that the “modern Biri” ts being discussed, I foot it ts & foOOd time to tell about one modern NO T often in-/ that up fr me for any such dogging of the boas. Sitl, super modern, perhaps. This|‘The grafers were not trying to find has two distinct sets of manners, |out what he was doing; they didn’t for friends and the other for| ed to, because he was advertising | s douttks—or Juneman was—in the| She believes anything and) wwenapers, What they were trying Ming that she ts told outside (o was to catch him off his s\gvard and do him up—this Ume to vice is always wrong—always tn-|stay done up. ming them that “We in the} It was safe to assume that they h century now.” wouldo't fumble the ball a second is girl is bored with as fine a/time Mr. Ripley had stood the . Music and comfort as any one| thing fairly on its feet when he said id wish to have; has bh that our campaign wae purely a dances and yet, for little or no| one-man proposition, so far as it at all, will get a dumb grouch,/had yet gone, People who had met Ret speak to futher or mother|the boss and had done business with & week or longer at a time. Still,| him liked him; but the old-time expects her mother to sew for | prejudice against the railroad wee and wait upon her |so widespread and so bitter that {t Now, please, Miss Grey, do not say in't be overcome all at once, is mother's fault, that hurts, when |Juneman, our publicity man, was Know it is not so, for there ts/doing his best, but as yet we had} hing tn this world that I would|/no party following in the state at @o if it would do any good I We tried to talk to her and tried to and explain—not recently, | ft In years gone by, and still plead | f ts no use arge which would stand by us and see that we got justice, I was chewing these things over while we sat at dinner in the Bul lard cafe, and I guess Mr. Noreross I sit up and wait for her nights|was, too, for he didn't my much tH after midnight. I do not know/It ten’t altogether comfortable to be ashe is with, nor where she has/a marked man in a more or lens If I ask her, she will not tell} unfriendly country, and I shoulin't but ask me, “Who wants to big and master tT For months past she was he was, felt the pressure of | i to be attending business I don’t Know whether he knew tm the evenings, and now Ijanything about the shadowing bus n. wonder if the boss, ful as it wer she has ‘been teaching neas I speak of or not, but he might at some public dance school.|have. We hadn't more than given| @id not need to do this, as she/our mner order when one of Working and earning a good] tat clerks, a cockeyed chap / ql named Kestler, came in and took a} This “self-starting” modern giri ts|table just far enough from ours to years old, and has good educa-|be out of the way, and near enough still _be in school, if she/to listen in if we said anything. Miss Grey, if any of The] When we finished, Kestler was| feaders can suggest a way orljust getting his service of ice} by which T can Mft this sor-|cream; but I noticed that he left it from"Iny heart, you, they have my everlasting gratitude. | we kept all this in my heart, and My most intimate friends do! know—but I can't stand it mach untouched and got up and followed | us to the lobby. It made me hot} enough to want to turn him and Knock his crooked eye out, but of course, that wouldn't have done any Tf this ts a sign of progress, then Pray God to turn back the wheels time, and let us go backward. SORROWFUL MOTHER. Mr. Noreross had bought! some cigars at the stand he fal kuessed he'd run out to Major drick’s for a little while; and with that he went on up to his soome ] | | odern Gi: F Tho the major was the one he ai Girl Writes + |named, I knew he meant that he was going to see Mrs. Sheila. I re membered+ what he had said to Rip- ley about a woman's giving him germ {dens and such things, and I guess it was _reaily so, Every time spent an evening at the major’s he'd come back with a lot of new notions for popularizing the Short Line. When be exid that, about going ont to the major’s, Kestler was near) enough to overhear it, and so he! waited, lounging in the lobby and pretending to read a paper. About half-past seven the boss came down and asked me to call a tax! for him I did tt; and Kestler loafed arowhd just long enough to see @im etart off. Then be lit out, himself, and something in the way he did it made me take out after h I expected to see him turn up town to the second cross street where the Red Tower had ite gen Having watched @iscussion of the It ian't what counta, or mother overrule her objections. consider the fact that have the first chance to Jove in our baby hearts, also and trust, the child's whole! fe and guccess or failure lies tm the|*T®! offices.on the fourth floor of ies the parente tn eneté. the Empire building. But insteag. How pa }he turned the other way. and the ged have you heard |tirst thing I knew I w@ (railing mother exclaim: “My daughter Is! him thru the railroad ; and en| mpletely out of my control, I can't! sown past the freight house toward @ thing with her any more. Sh¢/ine big, fencedin, Red Tower coal the time, and (t help me with the housework.” or, blind mothers, I extend my thru a wicket In the wa gate®, | lele sympathy to them, but how| 402 1 noticed ‘that he used key the girl! and locked the wicket after he got| & modern girl, I would Mke/insite, I put my eye to @ erack| ve @ girl's point of view: Dont |i, the high stockade fence and saw - scolds and say, “Don't” toevery | tat the little shack office that was your child does. Don't compel |, . | for © scalehouse was lihted uF ehild to rely upon your judg: | ; : up. My burnt hand was healing ament in all matters, Teach them|:ojcrahly well by this time and I reliance. Don't criticise your| Oia use it a little. There wes a 7 pd vinapeen Pncourage YOUr /siack pile just outside of the bis make you her confident | ate and by climbing to the top of Stay young, both physically and * Mentally for the sake of your daugh » And for the mke of all don't to give your child a moral and| yeteal education above all else. Dont ever biame the child for be in this world—blame yourself. Don’t make it feel that it owes any it I got over the fence and crept [up to the s#cale-house. A emall window in one end of the shack, opened about two inches at the bottom, answered well enough for @ peep-hole. Three men were in the Ittle box of a place—three be sides Kestler; Tatch, his barrel thing tor being hi : | gd eng tg tae hae at | bodied partner, Henckel, and one Sat tanaet eee mpetla fave, other. The third man looked lke a fle courts and reform schools. The|*!°rified barkeep’. He was of the Gnishment and disgrace should be |‘7P |! have heard called “black tours, but, instead. falis upon the|/Ti#h” fat, sleek. and wellfed. with phild, and i not even shared by yo le _pin-petnt. inet. eves halt, bur © could be a whole book written |, in the flesh of his round face Don'ts for Mothers.” jand the padded jaw and double chin : jrhaved to the blue. The night was A MODERN Grr. DERN GIR. | varm and he hed his hat off. Turu| crack in the window I could! the ¢ Ow TO DARKEN the sean. ot wie Wik his ir was plaster: in arkeep’) ] GRAY HAIR vos ss ee I knew this third man well enongh, waves to match the tightly euried| Cincinnati Barber Tells How © /ny sight; everybody in Portal City 4 ea Remedy for Gray Hair knew him—decent people only too ee |well when it came to an election| A wellknown resident of Cinct* |tussie He was the redoubtable Pete 1, Ohio, bobed haa been a et wrod Clanahan, dive-keeper, and political More than y years, recently made | hoe ee ones, eimai! Keetler was talking when I gtued ome prep leye nd ear t indo | ture at home, at very little cost, that |\’,y “telling the tire, how he will darken ‘gray Nair, and make \t|shadowed Mr. Norcross from the apy gen ing “A a sce “(railroad headquarters to the Bul r add one of ba - ®\iard, and how he stayed around oder corgi and (4 until he had seen the bons take a 0 2. 7 eredier taxi on M <endrick' This Gin be bought at any drug store at tide ys cage that ia wetter little cont. Apply to the hair|oe him, for when he was thru ce @ week until the desired shade | sratch told him he might go home obtained. This will make & gTAy-| Atrer the cock.eyed clerk was gone ired yoneos py A hone Hatch lighted a fresh cigar and put een. 2% ebay t6 wrlp te not 't fauarely up to the Irishman > the erach d “It's no use being mealy-mouthed icky or greasy, and does not rub... tis thing, Pete,” he grated in ek: eS that saw-mill voice of his. “We've got — to get rid of this man. You've asked GREATEST PROGRESS us to shadow him and keep you post . < ed, and we have 4 you've done fn PIANO STUDY for the last}! ocining. Every day's delay given hundred years taught tn an ab Phir that much better hold. We can solutely new way, bringing aston ishing results to both young and guilt pupfis; mplendid mental choke him off by littles in the ness game, of courne: bust we have Dun ton and the New Yorker on our “ aining giving pier ig and 46-1 aide, and this co-operative scheme he Ught tn playing before others. No} iu5’ launched can be broken down | @radgery on finger exercises and etudes; technique developed from Dieces only * A. W. WHISTLER 404 Montelius Musie Bldg. Elliott 2794 Such things never hold together very long. But that doesn't help you political people and your stake in the game is even big leer than ours.” oe sahan looked around the little ' dog-kennol of @ place suspiciously. with money al out DOINGS OF THE DUFFS SAN Tom, Some ove HAS SToLen A BOTTA OF CRRAM HAVE TAKEN re REALLY WAS IT TWAT LONG 2 gates Page 259 A LITTLE BRIDE SOV ES, David,” Mra. R—- was needed. saying, “I think perhaps I| “Among the children waa one have as rich a store of earty-day | eweet little girl 13 years old, and stories as anybody you know. in another family a boy a little “My ancestors cromed the plains “der. fm 1844; that was seven years be | “Now when you fust have to fore anybody settled tn Seattle | ride along or walk along day after and five years before the gold day and week after week over rush in California. Nothing gave miles and miles of rolling plains me more joy when 1 was a child) you have a great deal of time to than to have the old people tn | just talk. the fainily tell of their exper!| “So Hlute and John bewan by ences. | talking about the friends they had =Ther true love story |1#ft; then they got to talking > |about the new homes ahead of c | pecan young indyhoon, This} (DO and by and by they began party like most of these which | *? tlk about themselves. cronsed the plains was made up| “One day John maid, ‘Miste, éo largely of families, with here and | you know you got prettier every there a young man or a girl who | day. Your nose ts all smooth now joined the others just for the ad-| from the peeling (vou ses, so venture of the trip. much sunshine blistered their “Well, this party started; and| faces) and your eyes just shine.’ as the trip eae Bae and slow tyou | Then he looked at her a long, long know {t took all of any summer time, and she dropped ber lash: just to get acroan the plains) the | Over ber eyes. and every day t mothers became very» close | taiked some more and liked ¢ friends, the children played to. | ther better and better and be gether or walked together and |‘ feel very, very grown-up planned an@ dreamed and ‘what-| “Then one day John took do-you-’eposed? about the new/|up to her father and maid, 4 land, and the fathers were a sort and I want to get married. I « of traveling court, who decided | take care of her. I'm an big an a things and made everything as|man and I can do‘a man's work. ate am they could for their wives | and we want to be married now.’ and children. “And then they realteed that “It wan @ tiresome time for ev | there was nobody to marry them. erybody. There were mothers with| “So the men got together and new bables who got white and /|etected a ‘Justice of the Peace,’ thin and haggard. There were and he married them out there on babies just getting their teeth, | the plains. and these would fret at night and| “And when Miste was 18 years keep the others from the sleep! old she was a mother.” ——— eh eee “"Tis not here that we can talk much about thim things, Misther Hatch,” he said cautiousty. | with hin pinpoint eyen. tion. “There's nobody in the yard, | right? and the gates are locked. It’s a damn-| barrel welght | @ little space, and I could feel to our cost.” Clanahan threw up his head with & gesture that said much. the man that leaked on that engine/1I hadn’t dre job—and he'll leak no more.” Janything like this when I started| “Well,” said Hatch, with growing | out to shadow Kestler. They were frritation, “what are you holding|actualty plotting to murder the back for now? We stood to win on | boss! the first play, and we would have (Continued Tomorrow) 1 GTOPPED AT “WE TNLOR'S TD 4 WAVE RY SKIRT won if your le hadn't balled it by talking too much. One more day and Diemuke would have been in the mddie, ‘That would have set- tled It.” “Yah, and Mister Dinmuke still here in Portal City remains,” put in Henckel. | The divekeeper locked hin podgy | fingers acrous a cocked knee. | “Tia foine, brave gintlemen ye! are, you two, whin y got #ome- | body else to pull th’ n fire for yet" he said croak this felly f'r ye, and thin ye'd stand back and wash yer hands while some poor divil wint to th’ rope f'r it. Where do we come in, what I'd like to know? | ‘You are already in,” snapped Hatch, “You know what the Big Feb low at the capital thinks about it,| and where you'll stand in the com ing election if you don’t put out this Your own druggist celle Dr fire that Norcross is kindling. You're will Pink Pills, Write to yellow, Clanahan. That's all that {# the Dr. Will Medi te, the matter with you. Put your wits Se WN. Y. for to work. There are more ways o enectady, N. Y., free to work There fre more ways of | pooklet,Building Up the Blood” hoking it to death with butter.” ' PARDON Mr FOR BUSTING IW > WAY BUT | BAKED A coume “TRAIN OUT WHAT T GST FOR CURISMUS TAG @\NANNA LY. cland x] “Tell me wan thing™ tnsisted the | atvexeeper, boring the chief grafter “De you “Why not?” was the rasping que#|stand fr tt if we do this thing up Hatch’s eyes fell, and Henckel's led sight safer than a back room in| big body twisted uneasily in the chair one of your dives—as we know now| that waa groaning under his beer ‘There was ailence for the “Murphy's | cold sweat starting out all over me med of stumbling upon SEATTLE STAR PAGE 9 MAT SHORT SHIRT Fran ) RAKES IT CONVENIENT FOR You WOMEN I) WALKS, AMD GETTING UP SRG, EX? om ~ OF T THE SPELL 4, | | his little earved box, even the Magic Green Shoea, and slid the little box | under some bear akins in @ corner, “Now they are safe,” he said. “No one can get them. You never can toll what traveler may come this way and walk off with your precious be longings.” “That's right,” nodded Nick. “Be. jcause there ts a wicked wizard who jis trying to keep us from getting to |the South Pole. He is a friend of Snitcher Snatch who stole all the toys made for little boys’ and girla’ | birthdays and he doesn't wish us to | get them kk. We think it was this | wizard who turned the Arctic Circle jinto an ice wall so we couldn't get |past. But we got thru because we | had the golden key.” “What's his name?™ asked Ishtn “He's called the Bobadil Jinn,” an swered Nick “And over Nis ter.” ounly. As @, ADVENTUR ni s “Santa Clans,” this wicked any form at all.” “But we'll always know him be |eause he smells like hyacinths,” put jim Nancy, “so we are not afraid.” Ishtn buttoned up his coat higher around his neck and pulled his hood eyes. Amce Presa Pre! waar Do You KMOw ABOUT THAT? ANO TS Tuwk we Accused A Good By ALLMAN OM,\ forgor To Tei. ou! | Toon Your BoTTLe OF CREAM OFF our. PORCH. | WAS MaiaG A PUDDING AND RAM SHORT ~ MY HUSBAND Cone To THE Srome, To GET You WY TAGALONG ASGOBEY !! Nancy and Nick gave Ishtu the Inhtu started. | Eekime all their magical charms to|himm he exclaimed. keep for them. Ishtu put them into | you?” WHY DID You ‘TAVE™ “WAT APPLE WiTuoUT ASKING FoR “ToL ME ACT ‘To ASK FoR sy | Ishtu slid the little box under some bear skins in the corner. “So you know about “Whe told answered = Nick. wizard can take | “Well,” said he, “here's some nice hot soup for you both. this and rest a ttle, you'll be able to continue your Journey all the bet: | he finished speaking he waved his hand three times over the | [ pot and said some queer words. "What's that for?” asked Nick curt If you eat “That's the way I always season my soup,” ‘“nswered Iahtu. you come and eat?” (Copyright, 1971, N. FE. A.) “won't | YM FOR BANANAS COMINL] DOWN, A NOT SO AR IG eG — 2van must support the child I) rear. insist upon that Lorrie’s brother must be properly educated. | for her The infant is pretty—and more like | bis father than is my own son. And|who rallied to the |Marion Sprague has given it the | mother.” |father’s name—just as she said she | | would dot Ja fact which would have made |), Janother woman rave. “And now| tion” 1 the big question is th Am I OF | degree, lam 1 not going to adopt the little | ripe” | one?” | “This “Don't you believe that a ebild| differen ought to be reared by its own mother if pouxible?” I asked. “Wh the responsibility of caring for a joing crazy? child often changes a foolish girl|for her sin! into a fine woman | “Jane, the | “I agree with you, Jane, Lately |in I was indignant when the antho |ties of an eastern town took a baby |able and from ite unwed mother and gave it| long tim to its rich father j the wrong “The girl has nico y said it be! ane stern to ne and “and littled Marton side against test of the club women of the place of the girl in the CONFESSIONS OF A BRIDE: A MOTHER’S RIGHT TO HER CHILD This was against half: | of the girl, who was willlng to slave | tude of righting the wrong so far as | the protest | the pro “Certainly the decieton to hand the Martha only sighed over |/pany to the father exalted his right the child out of its just propor- the same mother's Sprague'’s-—ts “Ign't ehe competent?™ “She ie losing her mind!" What a penalty hment is falling and keep sa! rents, it her and bis wife to|father from discarding her. i@ Martha respect took me a indignant 1 talked THE BOOK OF MARTHA Love pase I wish I could n to see her.” Be Continued) we could for the child's sake. But _ the parents refuse to take care of the baby. I sQppose I must.” what I tell you, baby! es! Jane! Jane! compel E |with him several times before I per suaded him to adopt my own atti then the girl's state is desper- | Bible epen at the Ten Command: | ments. She reads one aloud and 5 i pond ed Irom— t's Hike the | murmurs, ‘I have broken that! ‘Then | gayi otEMNs woe Nee re ciaach lente |she reads another and wails, ‘I hav andappler: r , stomach, Entirely different from metal |broken that” When she has fin-| {Piha Teaquickiy helps put strength into your ished, she falls to weeping and cry: | mut ho, Keur choses 4 " ! doctor to make your red blood count today, ing, ‘I have broken them all! I have | doctot fo make your ted bined pore ths. broken them allt” Tears filled my eyes. Martha and I held hands in sympathy while your red blood cor puscies increase; sce how much | purer and richer your blood becomes; hew muck | stronger and better you feel; what a differeace it kee fi erves. Or 4,000,000 people | Martha continued sapually afc is Nuated Tron Your money ” e y | will funded if you do not obtaln satisfactory “Then the wretched girl who onty ta. In tablet form only. At all druggistas ja few months ago was defying the |world for the sake of love, turns to |the baby in its cradle and admon ishes it: ‘Love passes! Remember NUXATED IRON [For R Blood, Stre h Endurance)