The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1921, Page 9

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1921. Cynthia Poor Man's y Grey Rock , — : BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR High School Girl Discuss- ||| convient. 120, vy Littis, nrown & Co es Uniform Dress and Ite Disadvantage —| ., mineed From Yesterday) , i y can’t think what's got Asks Why Boy Stu-|into you," Mra. Gower complained . dents Should Not Also} “tes wad enough tor’ your tather Be Limited? and Betty to be running off and —— spending so much time at that mis- Dear Miss Grey: I have read tn | erable cottage when so much Is going the papers recently about a move /0n here, Haven't you any regard for) | ment to put all school girls In unt-| Ur position?’ | forma I am a high school girh—|_ “I'm fed up with our position,” 1 Norman retorted. A sullen look was have been for two years, and dU! cathoring about his mouth. “The ing this last year all rouge, silk/ sort of thing you call our posifion hhosery, silk waists and dresses, high | made a sissy of me right up till the heels, eac., have been barred from the | War came along. And you and every High schools so that no girl can help | body else expected me to react from it dresg sensibly, unless she breaks | that and set things afire overseas, I rules, didn’t, But if I didn’t do any heroics, | ook Then why do they wish to stamp/I did get some horse staat saaed Otl-e Looxtr! Out all individuality by putting us| into me—t learned that there was a HERS AN BIST im uniforms? School for some ts| sort of satisfaction in doing things. CRATER <1 Saw Very gloomy, and I am sure that/ I'm having a try at that now, whenever we went in the school, in “As my associates, and the de. the halls, rooma or on the stairs, | grading inft that fill you with | We would run into pupils that looked | such dismay jorman's voice Mared | just lke ourselves, and probably |into rea! anger, “they may not have} felt just the same, too. Why, I am| much polish, but they're human, and gure the monotony would be terrible. | since I have discovered myself to ‘The only benefit derived from such | have a funny sort of feeling about @ plan would be—not more modesty, | living on your money, It behooves me for, as I said before, the school dress} to get out and make What money I has been so limited that little tim-| need for myself, in view of the fact Modesty can creep in—but the only/that I'm going to be married quite Denefit it would be, that the wealthy/ soon. I am going to marry’—Nor Would not have an advantage Over| man rose and looked down at his the poor girl in clothing mother with something like a flicker _ But if that ts the reason, why | of amusement in his eyes as he ex ‘Pick on the girls? There is as much! pioded his final bombahell—"a fish. | @ifference in the dress of the better | erman's daughter. A poor but worthy ‘ff and the poorer class of boys as n| maiden,” he finished with unexpect the giris’. Why not limit the boy®/ eq irony. im Mashy ties, silk wocks, silk shirt.) “Normant Mrs. Gower gtared at nsive suits, etc.? I think it I8/ him thru her glasses, “Who is this & little unfair to destroy the} tnis woman?’ iduality of the giris and not the “ * Dt wun kane Olena ee | Arwen eventually, to destroy that “Miss Dolores Ferrara, of Squitty er. Cove,” Ni ‘A HIGH SCHOOL orn. — answered, imper-| , bs “A foreigner besides. Great heav- ~~ Values of ens! Horace,” Mra. Gower appealed ‘tam to her husband, “have you no in: Dear Miss Grey: In what values | Muence whatever with your son?* fare parcel post and aerial mail| “Mamma,” Betty put in, “I can stamps printed? CARL. | tell you that Dolly Ferrara is really Neither of these kinds of stamps | quite a nice girl, 1 think Norman is| @e being issued by the government. | rather lucky.” Bome individual postmasters may “Thanks, Bet.” Norman said, ‘still have some in their possession | promptly, “That's the first decent @Aich are good for any postal use,| thing I've heard in this discussion.” Dut they cre no longer deing made. Mra. Gower turned the battery of . her indignant eyes on her daughter a ges Used “You, I presume,” she said, spite Business World paty, wih Ss Ging 0 marrying Dear Miss ¢ In what lan- | °ms fisherman nextr” ' is as eons crthe commen.| “It she did, Bessie,” Gower ob- world transacted? served harshly, “it would only be} ‘Baglish and French are the prin-| story repeating itnelf.” @ipal languages of the commercial Mrs. Gower flushed, paled a little, world. French is used @ great deal |°4 reddened again. She glared—no 4s China, Japan and to some extent other word describes her expression fa India. English is also spoken in|—*t her husband for an instant fhese countries. Apanish is the| Then she whirled on Norman. in transacting| “I wash my hands of you com deaguege ° Eide Aaserice, pletely,” she said, tmperiously. “1 ee een ee am ashamed of you.” Danny, the Sherlock DID You DROP ‘em VLL HELP You FIND THEM! “OUD ~~ BETTER GET A 7 BE CAREFUL OLIVIA, You MAM STEP ON THEM! OH, HERE THEY Are DADDM - THEY FELL IN Your soup! GO AHEAD, Don’T WAIT FOR ME! MY GLASSES! | KNEW 'D BREAK’EM THe PIRST Thine | By BLOSSER \ all We WUERES Tu’ 4 BARGAIN, MISTER Don’T STAY OUT OF WERE TL TAKE AU Your STAMPS Away 4ND C9} LY GOSH,BETTY, i rts RAINING WALDO“ WHE FATHER'S A BAD PLACE TO WEAR HOOP SKIRTS “And did you keep right on not/he thought I might go.” liking Seattle? David asked, anx | Mra. laughed. “Guess 1 lously, not willing that any pioneer | wouldn't better tell you what he should fail to like his beloved Se-| said; but—he didn't seem much in atue love with the idea. “I kept right on not Ifking the} “But he finally consented and stumps,” she answered. “My! my'| we arranged. I trusted all that to All the best pitchers I had got/her, as 2 was a stranger, and broken on thore stumps. busied myself with getting the “I used to have to set a pitcher! house and children in order, and out handy or the milkman would | my own clothes ready for the trip. not leave me any milk, and time) “fioop skirts after time someone would come| that time, but I knew that I must running along and knock off the) put on some kind of heavy skirt pitcher before the milkman g0t| to ride in, and leave my hoops at Here ro Confessions of a Bride Copyrighted, 1921, by the Newspsper Boterprise Association ro the atyle at THE BOOK OF | MARTHA 2 “And you, sir”—Norman faced hi G. Washington father—“you also, 1 suppose, wash|f ‘20% homa ‘This I did and when the 1) No ESCAPE FROM EROTICISM ; d Widow your hands of me?” - “Why, that house was buflt on | time came was all ready. A certain paralysis of feeling fol stampa, It had stumps for a| “Imagine how I felt when Mra. foundation, and the wind blew) m arrived with one horse instead under it like @ mall hurricane, of two, and all dreased up in her “We tacked our carpets down hoop xkirt as usual. tight in those days, and when the] «why? I exclaimed, "We can’t wind blew the carpet would billow | noth ride on gpe"oree.” and puff like a ‘stage’ sea. “Oh, yeu, we can,’ she replied “I hadn't been here very long | cheerfully. ‘First you ride, then when I became a great friend of | 1-1) ride, 20 we won't got tired, Mrs. B. One day she came up and | gee? Fide awhile, walk awhile; it said, ‘Have you ever made the trip | will be all right.’ to Snoqualmie falls” | “So we started. I was not used “And when I said no, she said, | to riding like a man. I had an old ‘Well, let's go. It's the simplest | side-naddle and when I rode I ‘ant thing in the world. We'll just get | Ike a lady’ with one knee over two horses, ride to Tibbet’s, at the|the horn of the saddle and the end of Squak slough, stay all |other hanging down Dear Miss Grey: Who was George | Gower looked at him for second. | 's wife? T. 0. “You're a man grown,” he said. George Washington married Mrs | your mother has expressed herself tha Custis, @ young widow with | ay whe might be expected to. I say children, January 6, 1759. nothing.” 2 « Norman walked to the door. Food and “I don’t care a deuce of a lot what ‘Act you say or what you don't say, nor | Miss Grey: Does the food |#ven what you think,” he flung at ad ‘act require an individual |them, angrily, with his hand on the ous ‘and marketing adrug| knob, “I have my own row to hoe der a firm name, to so|!'m going to hoe it my own style. | om the package and all liter- | I€ you can’t even Wish me luck, why, | ? JOHN. | You can go to the deviit’ “The chemistry bureas of the ag-| “Norman!” His mother lifted her | qheultwre department says that if you| voice” in protesting horror. Gower | manufacture and market a drug it | himself only smiled. Hetty looked at/ ‘at pot be necessary” to put any|the door which closed upon her game on label or the literature.| brother with a wistful sort of aston |lowed my reconciliation with Bob. 1 was utterly tred of emotions, my lown, Bob's, Ann's, Martha's, every } body's. | } I was weary of loving, and of | being loved, and of talking about | 1 needed some hours of physical lactivity, or purely intellectual and unemotional occupation. Hoping to remain in that mood until my soul was again at peace, and hoping to get Martha into it, for the good of | own soul, I went down to her) office. We would lunch together. 1 | On her desk was a magnificent! bunch of white lilacs, pure but heavy with a subtle sentiment. The | However, if a name ts used, tt must | ishment. i] night there and ride on next day.| “But my companion would have || blossoms and Martha's first sen Be the actual name of the man who| Gower first found occasion for! it's a wonderful place to go, and | none of that fon Milos, And such tence plunged me again into the| or manufactures and mar- | speech. |] lots of people make the trip.” | a time as we had with those hoops || erotici#m I was struggling to escape: | ecid drug, or the firm name “While we are on the subject of | “I sent one of the children down | before we reached the falls.” | “From Mr. nefield™ she said, , do business. | intimate family affairs, Beanie,” he to the store to ask my husband if! (To Be Continued) as I regarded the fragrant white) name is a viola-| addressed his wife, “I may as well sprays with unconcealed hostility. ehktek “Byerybody is commiserating you | of law, Illustration: If John|say that I shall have to call on you bs manufactures a drug for|for some funds—about $30,000; $40,-| Readaches, he may market it wn-| 000 would be better.” | the name of “Smith's Headache| Mrs. Gower stiffened to attention. | ” but could not market the cwre| “Ob,” she said, “really? Are you} “Brown's Headache Oure.” in difficulties again?’ eee “Again?” he echoed. “It is 15 years since I was in a corner where ‘ I needed any of your money,” 4 . x “It seems quite recent to me,” Me OT erent er | MER. owes caret ait Seake “heavenly bash”? It ‘Am I to (Understand from that) tho it 1s some new dish. Thank- that you don't gare to advance me SEE po i navahon’ Yam whatever gum I require?” he asked, | ? READER | ently. I have Books and about that unfortunate affair be tween Van and Evan?” | Martha nodded, regarded the flow ers thoughtfully, and admitte “Il suppose the bouquet does indt cate that Arthur Mansfield under | stands! “Makes me think of funeral/ flowers Thus impuistvely and in | discreetly I voiced my astonishment I was dimppointed in Arthur Mans. field. Why need he send any com fort to Martha? If he was an ideal | man, as I wanted to believe, how} could he demonstrate “sympathy” to; a married woman? He had no right/putied his chair too close to EVERETT TRUE By CONDO to do so! Martha “{ do not understand men at all!| “Goodness met A pretty woman rey | ST NOW WENT To THE THEATER TO GET Tickers I wighed. in buginess sometimes has to endure | [RO@ THO BIG ATTRACTION use HOLE HOU: Nelthpr do I Martha agreed.ja jot! thought L o escaping | socD tel 3 = FOR “ME SLIM FELLOW WHO CANT WEAR A ae ok| “1 don't see why I should,” Mra, filed Maes 4 po A a7 Gower replied, “even if I wore quite of the readers happen to have thing to keep,up. And Betty and I Ris soci, and care to tend tt tm must be clothed. You haven't con- able to do 50. This place costs, some- Fahet po plad.to publish ts tributed much recently, Horace.” “No? I had the impreasion that | “Hvan freated me and all his other |criticiem! A woman must face it hd I had contributed pretty freely for 30 loves. Van cheats all the women he /and fight it.” wt Te CAe ‘eck years,” Gower returned dryly. “I flatters, Would Arthur Mansfield (To Be Continued He's cor prove no finer than they—if put to “ Ow’ “Dear Mins Grey: What day of the | paid the bills up to December. Last THE BPACULA® season wasn't @ particularly good one —for me.” “That was chiefly due to your own mismanagement, I should say,” Mrs. Gowel commented tartly. “I'm eure the Abbotts made money last year, If the banks have lost faith in your business ability, I—well, I should consider you a bad risk, Horace, I can't afford to gamble.” twins. the test?” “Dunno! T answered fippantly “I'm sick and tired of men as food for thought! Let's leave it at that!” | But I think Martha would have itinued to talk about Mansfield had we not been interrupted. Flippety-Flap always kept one enormous step ahead of the Beha ‘ Leger d ogee cpogalied Caused by Woman’s Ills and | wavy, his skin @ little too pink. He "Yo then, absolutely, was plainly a successful otist and red i inkham’s | Nou One we Ye me fave this money?" he asked. | Soon the twin, accompanied by /have the seven-lengue boots, for he optimist, one of Deday Lorimor’s| om WAS mabe ind ‘ Qnearer ticcer DD oe ‘odwe “] do,” Mrs. Gower replied. “1| Flippety-Flap, the fairyman, were on | was almost out of sight at once. kind, ge ave | ompou! SPECULATORS § Some Tickers 4 should consider myself most unwise | their way to hunt the circus animals. Nancy and Nick told their Green I retreated before his Imposing | fton, Pa. — ‘was troubled with to ope rl 7 returned inaig.| Mind you, the whole lot of them had | Shoes to follow the fairyman, and in Preerig sf " Pe - yaaa | inflammation and pains in my sides ” ight,” Gower x |wtantly the “faithful little servants | Delt which 5 Me ARG LALO Ws & “ \ i set loone by the | Stanly 4 5 and back. After ferently. “You foree me to a show. pooce having been y wero whisking the twins thru the | table in a corner of ‘the room, doctoringwith dif- down, I have poured money into | EDN | sue pee” wald the|tir after the fastdinappenring fairy, Glancing up casually, I could not ferent doctors and your hands for years for you to ‘Now, . Iike comets after the moon. Flippety: |fail to note that the gentleman had | not getting relief, fairyman, sitting down suddenly and Races a ch bP “ONT \squander in keeping up your posi- Flap always kept one enormous step | Thadalmost given aan call it. I'm about thru| looking at the sole of one of his dod yee ty = ae a aoe pont immense shoes, “I keep all my notes |*head. Over rivers and hills and P up hopes when my ng tha © * of 4 ‘on. |1akes he led them, walking over 4 sister told me of Hionaires, All I need ts a comfort-|and memoranda here. It's so con a " L Be Eee cnere I can smoke a pipe|venient. And I've written down the water as though it were solid ground, ydia BE. Pink-| ° Bwe ong Peta tans 16 tga name of every creature that used to| A® for the ocean, the fiitryman strode ham's Vegetable pet a aa tiea you your |be in the cireus—his address, too, | right over it, shoving whales and tce Compound, an Seen, S ? But land knows, the « of some | berss out of his path with his toes, ‘ fe Knowing that she $20,000, You~ : 8 there | like so many pebbles x had really been “He . ed couse. Our|of ‘em are so enorn , ‘ o ee " TF | ouldn't-be enough shoes in the He ‘Continaed) £3 | ; helped | by ee 1 ALa 3 WANT wow “Our home?” Gower continued in-| whole world to hold one of ‘em. Take | @ was unable to do my work at that | \3 Te LOCATE THE ROBT Or flexibly. “Tho place where we eat |the elephant, for Instance, his ~me Cured His RUPTUR time, but after taking several bottles | : and sleep and entertain, you mean, |is Rajah Singh Allan Dingh Moocha of the Vegetable Compound I can You will have your ancestral hall at| pootra Lallahuggarstan I wae badly ruptured while lifting SiS now do anything about the house or Maple Point. You will be quite able| “What did you say?” asked Nancy. | trunk several years ago. Doctors| Any breaking out of the skin, even | farm that a woman should do. I have pe of was an fiery, itching eczema, can be quickly| a four months old baby that is the | choose. But this In mine, and it's|sny it once in a.day,” replied the| operation. Trusses all, ine no. Koo) overcome by applying @ little Men-| healthiest and biggest baby for his| going into the discard. I shall owe| fairy. “The, circus people called him | quickiy and completely cured me, | tho Sulphur, says a noted skin spe-| age that I have ever seen, and I give | you nothing, I shall still have the | ‘Squeak’ for short.” ears have panes, ang ae rupture jalist, Because of its germ-destroy | Lydia EK, Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- cottage at Cradle Bay, if I go smash, * asked Nick. has never returned, although IT am! ing properties, this sulphur prepara: | pound all the praise formy health. « doin bard work as @ carpenter. nn teat te ake good decunts for me.| grinned Filppety-Fiap, “if|f7ing hard work as carpenter| tion instantly brings ease from skin| Mrs. BLAIt L. FISHER, R.D.1, Box 87, Do I make myself clear?” | questions were dollars, I'd be able to| time, no trouble, I have noth ; to| irritation, soothes and heals the | Grafton, Pa. Mra. Gower was sniffing. art a bank, shquidn't I? I don't 4 OE i Oe ae comes na right up, and leaves the skin} Working early and late—lifting, “But, Horace, to sell this house) 9 pomplete without « ou write and smooth, carrying, and the heaviest of house- | over my head—what will people at—well, he lives In a to me Kugene Tying, f house: « ee Se eg to afford a Vancouver house if you| “Lands o’ goodness! I can only/aaid my only hope of cure was Dne dozen dainty Photographs, rpenter,| It seldom fails to relieve the tor-| hold duties—is it any wonder that it | #pectall a 99 lus Avenue, Manasquan, sure! 3 f d ‘ a A $5.00 say jungle near a river in a farott coun. | §#0,0 Marceliue Avanie, Manesauan | ment and disfigurement. Sufferers] results in backaches and kindred ills, | i . ts0 “1 don’t care two whoops what peo-|try. Now let's be off. thow It to any others who are rup- | from skin trouble should get a little | But every woman who suffers as Mrs. tured—you may save @ life, James & Merrihew | ple say,” Mr. Gower replied unfeel Flippety-Flap jumped to his feet ¢ | jar of Mentho-Sulphur from any | Fisher did should profit by her expe- 4 Dp the misery of rupture and - , , 700 Kitel Bldg. tnd at Pike §| ingly an enormons stride, It| least stop the mi 4 good druggist and use it ike @ cold | rience and give Lydia EB. Pinkham’s (To Be Continued Monday) scemed as though he must certainly tun Advertisement. of an operas Cream.—Advertivement, | Vegetable Eccpotnd a fair trial, STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS