The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 26, 1921, Page 9

PAP et iS BFA? met arae errTrtTant?r Oe ee Ss Fe Tee. eT ere . —— PPP AP BPP ates -Y 26, 1921 Cynthia rey ‘outh Cannot Happily Toate With Age— No Parallels in Lives of Men and Women. Pear Milas Grey: I have been with a young man for eight fmonths who is much my junior althd he does not know how much, | gs 1 look and appear much younger I really am. Ho ix 23 and T am 38; Dut we think the work of each other. J suppose T am olf enough to de @te my own affairs, but 1 cannot qake up my mind. Every time I @ink of giving hin up tt seems I gn come to no conclusion of what js really right, as we are very con Is there enough differance tn our ages to cause unhappiness on either aide if wo were to marry? TI have deen married before and my husband fs Qoad; I might add that I was very Dapplly married for 10 years, 7 IN DOUBT. Mery a congenial friendship has Yen destroyed by marriage. affection for the young man is more of @ maternal nature, I am sure. Better de brave and face the future it really will be, not as you would like it to de. When he is $8, your present age, twill de 53. Do you dare to sup-| gore that the man will feet then as| he docs now? would feel just the same toward you quen note, if he knew your true age? A good many conspicious experi- ments of this kind Rave been made! qecently, and all have ended wnhap- Tt is useless to argue, as many @, that a young girl can marry an There are no paraiicis in the lives of | men and tcomen, if you actually do care anything the doy, you will certainly re- to marry Aim; you twill never him doton to the sacrifices which will be ineviiadle, # Me marries you. . Inquiry Relating to Soldier Pay Dear Miss Grey: fs drawing @ certain amount money yt Tf an ex-soldier Dat not spending the money on his father, can the soldier's father have the check made payable to himself? SOLDIER. The durcew of war risk insurance | says the check cannot be made pay- able to the father. €2-soldier does not spend the money he is receiving for support of his|“T parents on them, part of the money may de taken from him by the gov- erament, if an affidavit setting forth that fact is filed by either the father or mother of the ca-soidier, eee About Increase for Overseas Service Dear Miss Grey: Does the 29 per eent Increase for soldiers seeing ser- vice In France after August 1, 1919, apply to entire period of overseas service, or only after that date? RMT ‘The war department says that in each case this increase ts dated from the time the soldier leaves the United Btates port to sail for France. eee Climate of North end South Poles Dear Miss Grey: Are the North aad South Poles considered the same in climate, so far as they have been Gxovered? Why? JAND. The weather bureaw says tnat 20 far as it is able to determine from the limited data om this eubject, it is “thought that the climate at the Bouth Pole is considerably colder than at the North Pole. They state that this is probably due to the fact that the South Pole is 10,00 fect above sea level, while the North Pole fs just at sea level eee Income Taz Dear Miss Grey: How much tn-| ome does a married man have to bave to pay income tax? IGNORANT. If you are married and living with Your wife and your combined in- Comes equal or exceeds the sum Of 32,000 for the calendar year, end- ing December $1, 1920, you must Make an income taz return, A mar- vied man or head of a family is al- lowed @ personal exemption $2,900, and must pay a tar on all in excess of $2,000 at the rate of 4 per tent. (He may, however, under cer- tain conditions, be allowed exemption for other reasons than his personal tzemption of $2,000.) se ar Miss Grey: Are the tines “ to the equator long. fade or latitude? AMY. Lines’ running paraBet to the @yator are degress of latitude, The Bnes running north and south thru the north and south poles are the longitudinal lines. eee German: Prisoners Taken During War Tear Miss Grey: How many Ger- Man prisoners were taken during the War? OVER-SEAB. The total mumber of German pria- foners and missing during the war| 620. The number of “pris- has not been separated from the missing. A RAW, SORE THROAT Eases meget fickly When You Apply a Little Musterole. And Musterole won't blister like | the old-fashioned mustard plaster. spread it on with your fingera | penetrates to the sore p Sapo with a — tingle, loosens the congestion tnd draws out the soreneas and pain. oil juick relief from sore Sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chil- frosted {get, colds on the chest. like Musterole for croupy chil- Keep it handy for instant use. 65c jars; hospital size $3.00 Your} Do you suppose hed wren of from the government for the} support and upkeep of his father, However, f an| of | 5 The Wreckers wy Francis Lyage (Coprright, 1990, by Chartes Sertb- were Home) (Continued From Yesterday) When ft came time for us to move Collingwood, Mra Sheila pulled her vell down and walked behind the body, with the good old major lock: jing his arm in hers, and that chok ing lump came again in my throat when I remembered what Colling wood had said to the boss the night | he came to our office: “Sheila made her wedding Journey with me once, when she was just 18, The next time she rides with me it will be at my funeral.” 1 guess there's no use stretching the agony out by telling about that mournful ride back to Portal City with the dead and wounded, We} |left the wreck binging and roaring in the shut-in valley at the guich mouth because there wasn't any- thing else to do; Kirgan and Jones and one of the firemen handled the jengine and pulled out, while the rest of us rode in the day coach and did | what we could for the suffering. At Banta we made a step long enough to let the boss send a wire }to Portal City, turning out the doc tors and the ambulances—and the | jundertakers; and tho it was after 3 o'clock in the morning when we pulled tn, It seemed as if the whole town had got the wort and was |down at the station to meet us. I couldn't see Mra Sheila's face the major helped her off at the platform; her veil was «till down. | | But I did hear her low-spoken word | jto the boss, whispered while they | jwere carrying Collingwood and Hatch, and two of the others who| |were past help, out to the waiting | | string of dead-wagona, | “I shall go East with the body to. | morrow—today, I mean—if the strik Jers will let you run a train, and |Consin Rast! will go with me We may never meet aguin, Graham, and for that reason I must say what I have to say now. Your opportunity has come. The man who could do | the most to defeat you ts dead, and the strike will do the rest. If T were | you, I should neither eat nor sleep | until I had thought of some way to take the rallroad out of the hands of those who have proved that they are not worthy to own it.” I didn't know, fust then, how much | of little attention Mr. Norcross was | paying to this mighty good, clear. headed bit of business advice, What he said went back to that saying of hers that they might never meet again, | “We must meet again—sometime and somewhere,” he said. And then did my best; God knows I did my best, Sheila. I would have given my own life gladly if the mt WELL-Wu aT AW SINCE T'VE BEEN Gor, ALEK Page “Didn't Uke that one very much, did you, Pegginst” axked Mins) Frances, putting a finger onder Peggy's chin and lifting her sober | Uttle head. “You are perfectly willing to let all the bears, big bears and little have saved Collingwood’s Don't bears, get away without any/| you beliewe that?” “I shall always belleve that you|| tmsedy. are one of God's own gentlemen, | Graham,” she eaid, soft and low; and then the major came to take her/ away. “1 wonder—" Miss Frances paused a minute to think, “IT wonder if you would care to hear | about the Indians and the cranber. rica” “Oh, yea, Miss Frances,” erted Pesxy eagerty, “and turkey and stuffing and everything.” Mins! Frances laughed. “Well, not tur key in this story, dear, but quite| & bit of ‘everything.’ | “When mamma came to that| home father made for her near Enumclaw things were getting | cleared up a little, but it was still | & wild, wild place. | “That was 21 years ago, and that land was low and swampy 4 part of father’s place waa & rah, Mamma CHAPTER XXXi P. S. L. Comes Home I @idn’t get more than five hourw sleep after the excitement was all | jover, and we had ourselves drtven, Mr. Noreroas and 1, up to the ciub. | But by 9 o'clock the next morning, as soon as I'd swallowed a hurried | bite of breakfast in the grifiroom I swiped a camp-stool and a maguzine | out of the lounge and trotted up- stairs to plant myself before the boss’ door, determined that nobody | | should disturb him until he was good and ready to get up. He turned out a little before 12 looking sort of haggurd and drawn, | lof course, and having seme pretty | |had burns on the aide of hin neck | 4 on the backs of both hands. But © was all there, as uswil, and he laid a good, brotherly hand on my shoulder when he siw what I was doing. “They don‘t make many of them! Wke you, Jimmie,” he sald. And/ then: “Have you any news?" | T had, a little, and I gave ft to him. Fred May had come tip-toeing | up into my sentry corridor about 10/ o'clock to tell me that Mr. Perkins had arranged with the strikers to have a special go East with the major and Mrs. Shella and Colling- wood’s body to catch the Overland at Sedgwick: and I told the boss this, and that the train had been gone for an bour or more Also, I gave htm a sealed package that a strange boy had brought up a little while after May went| We took the elevator to the ill-reom for something to eat, and | t thble Mr, Norcross opened the| package, It contained a bunch of | affidevite, 11 of them in all, and there was no letter or anything to tell where they had come from. He handed the papers over to me, after he hod seen what they were, and told me to take care of them, | and, when the waiter was bringing Jour bite—or rather after he had brought it was gone—he sort of frowned across the table at me and said: “Do you know what it means —this surrender of those bribe affi- davits, Jimmie?" I said T euesmed I did; that Hatch being dead, and Collingwood, too, there wasn’t nerve enough left in the wer outfit to keep up the ‘right; that the surrender of the affi- ta was kind of a plea for a let-up a great cranberry told me about Now the Indians used to come and invite them selves to stay for dinner, “You see, they had alwnys gath- OF aE Tt away. BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON ‘The way that Pierre de Pierrot, French poodie, turned up the! the cave, was most inter esting, and Nancy and Nick looked on in amazement. : . the ltey and Mr. Billoughby that T want | ee cnr anak pista A “otra line epee $B is |dozen or so little balls of light ap hait-past twelve, Any newa from the |40en 7 no Ite Molle at a won strike?” ‘ : t The | > - “ |derful transformation it madet T Boron aageygllb told him, while “Cen-| vats and ceiling and floor became on our part. the 1 begin to show them, tn just |) Jimmie,” “Reach ow about 1 comment ht in was the and Rip-| minutes, over ent number, Fred ay nal it it wan ro | my 1g on just the same; eve c ri : lquiet and nothing doing, except that e ‘Oh gasped Nanoy. “How beau. the wrecking train had gone out to|Uful pick up the scraps at Timber moun.| “Yes, tis nice® sald the poodle | tain 'Y!’ Kirgan is bossing it, and | rather off-hand. “Ruby, all of it. Be-| the strikers manned it for him.” |longs to Snitcher-natch, the wick- Nothing more was said until after|ed fairy who enchanted me. Good I had sent the two phone mens: |thing, I'll say, that He made me the and then the boss broke out in a new | size of @ house, Want to hear me spot 17" growl It wan Nick who answered brave ly, “Yes! Then followed such a thundering Ios anything been heard from Mr. Van Britt?” he asked. “Not that I know of.” Again he gave me that queer Mittle | ina: the earth shook. Nancy «mb- scowl across the table, |bed Nick in alarm, and the green “Jimmie, have you found out yet! iutroe that had hopped in thru the why Mr. Van Britt insisted on quit: |jittie Golden Door with them when ting the servic they entered, shivered in his skin 1 guexs I grinned a little, tho 1) tried not to. (Continued Tomorrow) said the poodle, sud and glaring with his great eyes. The frog shook again Juntil his teeth rattied——no, not his Italy exported 200,000,000 pounds |teeth. It munt have heen his bone Jor lemons during the first half of| “No, 1 don’t,” the dog contradicted dhiuaselt, “1 eat frogs! denly spying bh 4940, Pion Poole CRANBERRIES jored cranberries tn that marsh aakrkh ADVENTURES THE SEATTL We'S NOT FEELING WELL AND THE DocTOR TOLD Him ‘TO COMB Home AND | b Go To Bep! 297 and they couldn't see any reason why they"whould stop Just because & white man had chosen to build his home thera, After they had eaten all they wanted of the din- ner mamma had cooked, they got up and asked for food for their horses “They would then look around and ff they saw anything they needed they would borrow it with out any asking. Then when they got ready to leave, having helped themacives to all the cranberries they wanted, they would load thetr horses with enough hay to last | several meals for the horses, and leave us a five pound pail of our own berries to pay for it all.” Pegry tnughed at the Indians’ idea of pay, and Miss Frances said: “Do you know, I can remem. ber that, my own self, when my little steter and I watched ft all from a safe place, and she clung to mamma's skirta, till] mamma had to drag her around while she cooked the Indians’ dinner. “I also remember that the In- dians thought our fear was a huge joke* TWINS “1 eat frogs!” said the poodle, suddenly spying him, Wait a minute, children, Do you want a ruby?” “I—I'd love ft," faltered Nancy, ‘if you think it’s all right.” Pierre de Pierrot snapped his hyge jaws, and a lump as large as a wat ermelon rolled to the little girl's feet. .” sald’ the “With my compliments, dog, scraping a fine bow. ¢ Nancy nor Nick could But nei litt the ruby. “Better leave ft mtf you come back from your journey to the South “And now Pole,” suggested Pierre. you'd better take your Golden Key] where I've gone. I haven't timef’ and unlock iy other door. The next} 1 hung up the receiver, dressed place is the Room of Emeralds, It's| quickly, speeded down town, foined | Hil guarded by the Cockatoo.” 77 COLDS Grip, Influenza, Sore Throat phreys’ Homeo, Medicine Co., 166 959 Now York, and at all Drug N. J. wae at, and Country Stores. For Good ARCTIC EXPLORER ! GEE, YOULL GET FROLEA, “MEN IY WON'T 8E> ret ae 5 Apple Ple go to Boldt’s. “‘hvea ML am sre, —Adverliscmen, STAR 2 WiLBUR! SHUT THAT OFF! TOM 15 UPSTAIRS LYING DOWN = HE'S NOT FEELING | aaa ei ame aa ! Confessions of a Bride Copyrighted, 1911, by the Newspaper Eaterprise Association THE BOOK OF MARTHA | THE END OF AN AN IMPERFECT | DAY For two days after that vistt to the jhowpital, Ann Lorimer revolved about her husband's invalid chair, Jim brightened the first day and tired the second. His wife's vivacity Jexhasted him, but her presence so | flattered him that neither his doctor [nor any member of his family had the courage to send her away, We knew that her devotion probably would be as short as it was sweet The bebo was too selfith to see |that Jim waa not improving. Very lately Mother Lorimer had told me the truth about Jim's condition. Ann had snapped the knitting ribs- much I knew, and many a time had I raged about the accident—just an Jim had nearly recovered from his | wound. His collapse was the result of Ann’s indiscretion the day she had been showing off to V: She had daneed madly, and for an alluring finale had thrown her self upon her husband's wheel-chatr, and into his armse—just to make Paul Van Eyck jealous! But by the morning of her third day, Ann had grown tired of enter taining a sick man. “Jane dear, come over and read to Jimmy this afternoon! she pleaded over the phone, ‘I'd gladly do it but he doesn't he wants you! “Shucks! He doesn't caret And I |aimply must go to the matinee with | Van! He knows the star, and he's | going behind the curtain to call, and | | take me, and I've never been back of the scenes, and {t's such a chance, | and Van says I ought to go if 1 ex-| pect to write plays that can be |staged! So will you come over and| read to Jimmy “Prankly, 1 wif net Jim ts no happy to have you around” “Hut T can't break this engage ment with Van! 1 can't get him by | phone at this late hour! I was to méet him at the hotel, on the mez zanine floor, and I've just got time to get down there, if I start this minute! Van ts horrid, if he has to wait “He's going to walt—and I'm gotng to see how horrid Van can be. You go back upstairs and amouse your hasband, J’ go down and take of Ve I think you're awfully mean, Jane Lorimer! “Think what you Itke—If you'll only be nice to Jimmy! It will not be for long—-" I stopped, for there wns no sense in telling Ann she would soon be a widow and free to! go where she pleased with Van or any oter man, 1 didn’t want her to have bysterics and make Jim worne “Please phone Rob and tell htm Yao on the mezzanine and explained | {told him the sad truth about Jism, | Cured His RUPTURE Wilbur Needn’t Worry 1} DON'T KNOW BUT he WENT (TO SEE A vocror! You'd WA, BETTER Go UP AND See Him! YOU NEEDNTT BE AFRAID = “THE Doctor SAYS ' IT'S ONER-WORK: WHAT'S THE MATTER \% WITH HIM? IT ISN*T ANN THING ‘CATCHING IS TP SAM, TOM, 1S IT ALL RIG: FOR ME ‘TO COME IN NOTHING CONTAGIOUS 1S iT? . By BLOSSER WELL- MAYBE SOME Day r Nov'\t WAVE Your STAtur —AN BEING AN y INTHE DARK & GEE, THOSE ARCTIC EXPLORER Ora nf FELLAS GET LdTS OF You DoT EVER oe)" i ‘ ee THE CRAZY QUILT ROUTER Fd WEELS TA while lifting | go. Doctors cure was an me no good, | nothing that nly hope i Trusses a Finally I got hold of quickly and completely cured me. 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