The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 18, 1921, Page 9

The Wreckers by Francis Lynde (Copyright, 1920, by Chartes Serib- wer's Sows) Modern Mother Sends Advice and Cheer to Mothers Who Lack Tact Dear Mie Grey: My beart often (Continned From Yesterday) Tt was on ene of these chastng trips to “Kenwood” that the root fel in, The major had gone out | @thes over the lack of an under somewhere—to the theatre, I guess! Standing aympathy between the mod |—taking his wife and Malia Ann. @2N mother and the modern girl [And the boss and Mra iia were Tea, it i “modern mother,” and sitting the major’s der © Ge ts as different from the mot) na the bas @ yesterday ae the modern girl is ket grate ts were ; t from the girl back in the | beginning t As bia Ause the ni et @ bit chilly. when they were to! gether, they made no attempt at! privacy: the den doorway had no/ door, nothing but one of thore Jap-| anese curtains made out of bits of bamboo strung like beads on a lot Dears. Ye olden mother rarety considered of strings, I had butted tn with « ‘The side of the child, The antocracy tolegram—which might just as well| | ef the ekiers must be met without have stood over until the next morn: | 4 Today most mothers have /ing if you want to know. After I the “arrest of thought” and have the nad delivered it, Mra Sheila gave Vision of wiser training. [me that funny little laugh of hers! f To bring the arrest of thought tolang told me to go hunt tn the! E the younger ones, to help them to/ pantry and see if I could find al @ultivate the right attitude toward piece of pie, and the bors ded | @very one, the family included, there /tnat if Td walt, he'd go back to f@re the Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls, town with me pretty soon we. 1" t eved Ge ple, and ate M tm the! dining room, making noise enough | about it so that they could Kritw I was there if they wanted to. Rut they went right on talking, and| paid no attention to me. “De you know, Sheila,"—they naa long since got past the "Mr." and| “Mra."—"you've been the greatest possible help to me tn this rough-| house, all the way along,” the boss| |was saying. nd I @ t under |stand how you, or any woman, can | plan #0 clearly and logically to « purely business end. I was just | Ukinking tonight as I came out here you have given me nearly every suggestion I have had that was! worth anything; more than that, jyou have held up to the rack, | me and again, when I have been ready to throw it all up and let go. Why have you done itt™ I heard the little laugh again, and the said: “It ts worth something to have @ friend. Odd as it may seem, raham, I have been singularly poverty-stricken in that respect. And I have wanted to see you succeed. Tho you are still calling it merely & Dusiness deal,’ it is really « mis sion, you know, crammed full of good things to @ struggling world If you do succeed—and I am sure jyou are going to—you will leave jthis community, and hundreds of jothers, vastly the better for what you are doing and demonrtrating.~ “But that ie a man's point of | view," the boss persisted. “How do you get it? You are af woman,| you know; and your mixing aad mingling—at least, since I have known you—has all been purely! tocial How do you get the big) overlook | “I dont know. I was footish and friveloas ones, moat rs ve usual When we read euch lntters ax the @e from “Sorrowful Mother,” things &@ hopeless tangle, yet the case ly not a8 hopeless as it ap ‘There are mothers’ magazines and Many dooks from out of mother ex- BPeriences, The churches have the @fadie roll, with a wonderful litte Paper that helps mother to an under. Standing sympathy with all of the Many sites of her child. Qe ship drives east and one drives west WHR the eelf-same winds that biow, “Tia the set of the aaila, And wot the gales, Wren tell ux the way they we _The parents must set the safts cor ‘Feetly, that the gales do not drive to ‘Gisaster, A mother can do nothing without janderstanding sympathy. To talk. poold, and preach, just lays the Mat. my gtria, who ere women and one ts the mother of four, 13 and 15, they came home from one day all excitement about to some place that ¢vening. | Place was so questionable that| could not think of letting them go, I did not tell them so. I simply \amiled and nodded as they talked After dinner I told them I had thinking t it all, and I if I was them I should be crazy 60, and would be apt to make a if not allowed to, and that I going to tell them what I knew Jet them decide for themselves. | | a ng office under that, Resides, a and with cAune or fall to be a member of legislature that friends think is * he chuckled; elder; and we ought to grow wiser. Besides, the woman has the advan-| tage of the man tn one respect; ahe hae time te think and plan and reason things out ae a busy man; "|can't have. Your probiem has seemed | very simple te me, from the very| beginning. It asked only for a strong man and an honest ene. You were to take charge of a piece of| property that had been abased and! knocked shout and ured as a means | of extortion and oppression, and you were to make ft good.” | Pes gen that @ a man's potnt ef view.” “Oh, no," she protested ostiaay:| “There is no sex in ethics, Women | the would |are the natural hourecleaners, per-| have been injbepa, bet that tent enying that a % her why she|man can't be one, too, if he wante would not let her go. She|to be.” it was you, for you! At this, the bors got up and began | Te see that I did net want|to tramp up and down the room; I could hear him. I knew she'd been having the biggest kind of a job to Because you understand and ikeep bim shut op tn this sort of hize, and always have a fire |abstract corral, when all the time he je, they will not hesitate to|waa loving her fit to kill, but ap things over with you. parently she had been doing It, suc i’ ¥ were “Sorrowful Mother,” I}cesasfully. There wasn't the faintert first get all the rankle out of|breath of sentiment in the air; not wn heart. I would think over|the slightest whiff. When she be-| the sweet baby ways of my daugb-jgan sgain, I could somehow feel and get my heart ail tender > | that she was fost In time to pre) her, vent his breaking out into all sorts I would gtve her « loving word of of lovemaking. I shouldn't wonder now and then, even if I had/i¢ that wae the way it had been stretch a point to do it from the beginning | When she looked expecially wef, I| The time hae coma, new, when #@ remark how weil my daughter/you must take another leaf out ef When she retruned home/my book.” she said, with jumt the| from an evening out, no matter | proper little cooling tang tm her much I diaipproved, I would voices, “Up to the prenent you have| Ro air of disapproval about me,|been hammering your way to the| it Would say as brightly as I could. |end ike a strong man, and that was) it ip fine to be young. Did you right But you have been more or a charming time, dear? fleas reckiess—and that isn't right When I had gotten ali the rankle or fair or just to a lot of other of my heart, I would write her | people.” and find fault with no one byt| ‘The tramping «topped and 1 heard if, {him say: “I dont know what you IT would teh her what « precious inecan” | of my life she was, and that I) ~] mean that matters have come| been thinking over the years!ts such a pase now that you can’t she came to me, and I felt that arrord to take any riske—personal | way I had failed as a mother— | risks The enmity that caused you seemed to be no fellowship be jin be kidnaped and carried away us. While I bad given her My | into the mountains still exixta, and Jove, I had not won her love;| cists in even greater meax It fie I admired much that Is fine hasn't stopped fighting you for a her, I had won no admiration | singie minute, and if the plan it ts| es now trying doesn’t work, it will try! Duld ak her to write out her! nother and @ more desperate one.” and show me why I had lost| «you've been talking to Ripley,” he and maybe I could grow inte 89 ianshed. “Ripley wants me to be-| ding sympathy with her | ne a gun-toter and provide myself | id fee! happy in her joys. lwith @ body-guard. I'd look well over the en, ent of he ‘ a“ ing’? hier to the most imponatbie fel | 7 eit iy a ittla, and then| She said she had talked and) ais. «1 ghail make no charges, be-| ded and ridiculed the fellow ali to/ a. y nave no proof. But I read| ae a talking, | the newspapers, and Mr. ee] atid | iS deihding, and ask her tells me some hing, hgh | ter to forgive her. Write her aoe HOS 0 THO A | oving letter and tell her she had |i. os oie Gah teal tk 401 & mixtake in making things #0 hat ie merely ; ; fd for her, but it was her mother |Joined easily, adding: = “And th that made her over anxious to wrecks > f eat "omy Sea her child happy; to tell her if Perwonal safo = Rived this Phere sgad Ho Mo dcepest| “Hashness is no part of true bour re and felt life would be void 4 she Interpolated, ealmly AS out him and no one else could * Private individual you might @ay his place, she would no longer |*hat your life is your own and thet bt her but help her all she could. You have a perfect right to rink it he mother took the advice, wrote |## you please. But the general | letter and placed it on her daugh a pon re Panay Pe he with a lot} icesser lof your friends ho As noon a9 the girl read tt she mt You, you can't say m and wrote to the follow, break. |you are fighting for the engagement; then she went |that cause will stand mother, threw her arms you.” ind her neck, thanked her for the| “You ought , said it had opened her eyes this new reform 6 saved her from making an awful “ome of our good take. From then on that mother coming up the k Gaughter were friends and com-jbut she ignor the gibe and made him listen it seame to me it Is fnst plain com-| “I was visiting a day or two ago) n wonme that we mother need tolat the capital last week, and there AY. KB are WOuences at work that you good-natured » \b THE L DOINGS OF IUFFS Tom. THERE Is \V Me. AND Mes DRAPER! is ~ (soon evennie mes, DRaPye GEE-UERES” 4 LETTER FoR tod Fm TANT GROW! ( A MUSTACHE © WIGHT AG WELL “Bey ( TORAIGE WATER LILIES IM “THE \_ SAHARA peserr! | =) | | * Page 263 EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO i hemes rsa izay andl « pulten omen) bemrer akee eeciabek and ‘There was up and ext te the pantry to just ane Ittle eabin where a man soak for a éay tm cold water.! lived with his son, and, of course, Motherdear and Mra. R—— were | dxyttmen there wouldn't be « Iv gone from the comy kitchen. | ing soul around if you newied Grandmother was asieep and Pog. *lp or anything. Ky was windering about Weking| “Down by the creck there fred for something to do when David & band of Indlane—wilt, bed In came in from school. jdiana, Margaret said they wore, Prery told him af she could re 0; and nearty all of “em had member of Mra R——‘s good sto | «reat big family canoes, and when ries, and expecialty about the mt they came to Manette or to Brom tle baby whe ent down tm the| rt they all piled into the ca pitch, and ald she was awfully | 208 8nd came In @ bunch, sorry Davie wasn't there te bear) “A!l but one aie. | “He was a bachelor Indian. Then David eald, “Bay, Pee! Ju | Wt be was at home he Nveq tn dior teak enn 0 as | BA OOM Mitio Bet Just Big enetigh happened 1% years ago? - ee eee eee Cente wee pretty scary, al right, and I guens rab nae mpningtnond cee be Mier Gnden geen tee 2 | et ee ee for one, and he paddle off tn or something. Margaret told it) and she mid f% was trun, too: “Well, one day Oey afl started every one of these Manette stori@s om to Tiremerton to get whisky. is trus, All the big canoes with lote and “Well, 18 years ago there were icity and lots of Indians, and not many houns down on the snooping along after them the beach between Margaret's hours juchelor in bis little eld selfiah and Manette (Manette had some canoa, other name them but I don't re | ee 2 has grown (To Be Continued don't know abont It Away past and beyond any mere fight with the Hatch peop If the opposition can't make your adminis a failure, it won't he of you im the eas How to Make Pine }| re ! Cough Syrap at Home | get rid “3 that offers.” There was silence tm the majors | den for s minute or #0, and then the bom said: “As usual, you knew more than you are willing to tell me.” “Perhaps not,” waa the prompt answer erhaps I am only the onlooker who can usually see ngs rather better than the per sone actually involved. Hitherto I have urged you to be bold, and then again to be bold. Now I am beg ging you to be prudent.” “In what way? Sareful for yoursett. ample you walked out vening; don't do that in @ taxb—and Fine we equal for prompt reewtte, 7 | ‘Takes but = moment | ‘nad saves you about Of, ee aanamenel Pine is used in pearly all pene. tions and remedies for coughs, T! reneon i@ that pine contains several elements that have a remarkable effect in soothing and healing the | merobranes of the throat and chest. | Pine cough syrups are combinations of pine and syrup. The “ayrup” part is usually plain sugar eyrup. | To make the best pine cough remedy | that mogey ean buy, put 24% ounces of Pinex’ in a pint bottle, and fill up with home-made sugar syrup. Or you can use clarified molasses, honey, or corn syrup, inatead of sugar ayrup Rither way, you make a full pint— | more than you ean buy ready-made for three times the money. It is| pure, good and taster very pleaannt. | uu can feel this take hold of a cough ‘or cold in a wey that means | business. The cough may be dry, hoarse and tight, or may be pers! | ntly loose from the of phlegm. The ea lamed membranes—and ind Syrup combination will at usually in 24 hours or less, Splen lid, too, for bronchial asthma, honrne- | n or any ordinary throat ailment. Pinex in a highly concentrated com pound of genuine Norway pine ex tract, and in famous the world over for ita prompt effect upon coughs. | Beware of substitutes, Ask your | 2Y, ounces of Pinex” nd don't accept any to give abso ey refunded. Ind Advertinement. PPORTUNITY, For er here this any more don’t come | Come alone.” 1 couldn't see hin frown of dis greement, but I knew well enough it was there. There spoke the woman tn you,” he said. If I should show the white feather that way they'd have some excuse for potting me.” There was a silence again, and 1 got up quietly and crowed the din ing-room to the big recessed window where I stood looking out into the} darkness of the treeshaded lawn. | It pretty evident that Mra. Sheila knew a heap more than she} was telling the just ae he had| said, and I coulda't help wondering | how she came to know it. What said abdut the increased nur r of wrecks looked like a p r War she in touch with the enemy in some way? (Conlinyed Tomorrow) was boss, lute satiafactic The Pinex Co, Ft O BTARWANTADS 1 GUESS MR. DRAPER 1S AVERY SMART MAN -THeY SAY HES A WouDERFUL ConversanoutsT' 4 nV = Z % ay 0h G } 7 oe California! Oh, Joy! CAN 3 BELING- BOIS-NYoug UNCLE VAN BBS 27? AND ASUS US To a VISTT MUA WW CALICOQAN A 4 ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Olive Roberts Barton The Jinn threw @ robe over his nighty and thrust the box into a pocket. | ‘The Bobadi! Jinn had ten pataces, Ing and stretching was te feet under one on the highest mountain of the|bis pillow for the carved box in | which he had carried the treasures Orth, one at the Botte of the aeep’ | Nxt he slipped out of bed hurriedly, eat sea, one at the coldest north and!inrew a robe over his nighty and one at the hottest south, or I «hould | thrust the box into a pocket. my tho hottest middle, for after you| “I must know where those twins get past that on your way to the are," be declared, “so I'll not walt South Pole, & begins to get cold to dress properly. They must be again. prevented from getting te the South Besides that the Bobadl Jinn had Pole at all costs. ‘They must return a palace in the dryest country of the|to their home where they will be out earth, where it hadn't rained since of the way.” Noah's flood: and one tn the wettest Without more talking the wirard country where It rained all the time.|turned his ring and in an instant And he had other palaces as well,| was invisible He turned jt again scattered round at various places. and in another instant he was stand- The morning after this wicked ing msidé Iehtu's hut whence the wizard had robbed the twins of all/kind Eskimo man had taken the their magic (the Green Shoes, the | twins when he found them out in the Golden Key, the Map and the Lan cold. Nancy and Nick were sleep- guage Charm). He awoke tm his| ing peacefully. most northern palace among the ice The wicked Bobedl Jinn was ide where he bad gone after his furious at seeing them so comfort ntures, able, The first thing he M4 after yawn (Copyrigtt, 1921, N. F A) | IN WHICH A MAN IS SPARED home, that she could make him look} Without glancing at her husband, | Upon the two pitiful victims of his Martha Palmer took her child from | dle hours and his transient emo- him and brought him to me, tions, I doubted. Lorrie, deart You'll sleep in| It occurred to me that Evan Auntie Jane's room tonight like muv. | Palmer was one of those egotista boy? And you'll net| Whom nature has blessed with great ver one bit?” intelligence, in spite of which they Me wull be good, muy. | become scamps by choice, and re- main rascals by preference, Such And when you wake up, muvver|¢gotists are incorrigible. 1 doubted will be here to give you your nice|!f Kvan could comprehend the suff breakfast! Going to be muvver's| ing which had driven Marion Sprague own brave boy? |to her mad deed, not because he was | With that Martha cuddled him| mentally deficient, as is often the tight as if to save him from the| case with criminals, but because he wreck of her rocking world would not face the truth. “Take him, Janel She brushed| He shared tne popular theory that | the tears from her eyes and turned /a man has a natural right to humor to his father #0 sternly that the man | his emotional vagaries, and that he flushed will be harmed in some mysterious “Come with me! she said abruptly. | way unless he does I guessed ber plan, but that she| Selfmastery was not tm his could carry it out, that she could get | philosophy. It was very much a part Evan to go with her to the Sprague|of Martha's) Love to him was a ver’s good little ery for muy ‘Awight! yer Y ¢ ie ee Wi } 4 | iH all L | EVERETT TRUE— CONFESSIONS OF A BRIDE... beautiful emotion quite unconnected with such an abstract quality as truth. To Martha, integrity was the essence of romance. As she fed Lorrie next morning, Martha told me about the hours she had spent with the parents of Marion Sprague, I asked her about Evan's reaction to the tragedy and was not much surprised by her reply: “Evan did not enter the house “You mean that you weakened, Martha? That you spared him the sight of the horror he bad caused?" CATABRH... benefited by the vapors ‘usually | ’ By BLOSSER SS TH OF “In the auto, g0 send the girl’s mot had to admit it. “As usual the mi more than 500 you jeharged from army this year. on Lenses SUSSMAN ©: juate ue E BOOK MARTHA ping over, he pro tested that the sight of him would her into a fury, T As usual, the hard thing became my share of our matre | monial obligation.” an was spared?” (To Be Continued) For having given fictitious ages, ths have been dis- United States OUR PRICE Daptleated ter PMCAL CO, 66 Pike Pl Below Rotary lace Market