The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 25, 1921, Page 13

‘Discussion on Why More _ Brunettes _ Disappear _ Than Blondes, Closes. Today's letters will close the dis moon “Why more brunette disappear from home than =” A number of the letters uted were real good, tackling subject from @ scientific or psy- cal standpoint ; but there were 7 y More that weren't to the point merely one type taking @ slam at other, In all fairness to doth Must admit that there are good ‘@nd bad to de found in cach type, as everything else; but i would be ly silly to suppose that ail! have worse dispositions than § Drunettes, or vice versa eee Dear Miss Grey: The fret that nat Diondes are becoming fast ex is a lamentable fact and makes few of the rare variety more oe Of course there are so “fake” bdiondes, which an In. inating eye so often mistakes the genuine article, that we may | “Pave a few causes to our disredit What don't belong. |, The really truly blonde girl t» as blue as she looks, She uses discrimination in the selection her friends and confidants than the impulsive brunette and con. tly keeps aloof from trouble. gain a bionde's confidence and . however, and you will have M true friend who will not desert you Mm most needed. | Over and above all these traits, the has a happy way of disposing her troubles—or at least does not them. on her sleeve for every to share—and that natural gift Maughing away her troubles has misrepresented as fickleness by heavy-headed brunette who *t find that particular trait in makeup. OF THE TITAN HAIRED ‘ar Insurance Dear Miss Grey: Can a war in e@ policy be discontinued after soldier's widow has married or can she sll draw the pol ac She st draws the insurance, as te something for which the soldier However, if she has been widow's compensation, it is vw sehen she remarrics. If there | Children, they continue to draw ation after the mother re A Bachelor Husband BY RUBY M. AYRES Copyright, 1921, by W. J, Watt & Oe, (Continued From Yesterday) “My darling child! Marie was clasped in Miss Chester's arma and fervently kissed, “How glad I am to see you again! And have you had @ happy time “Of course we have! Marte bent) to kins her again to end further questioning, and they went into the drawing room together Marte tried to speak enthustastio ally, but it was a poor little failure, and Miss Chester looked up quickly, struck by some new tone in the girl's voice, But she made no comment until | later on when she and Chris were) alone for a moment, and then she | said anxiously: “Chris, I don't think you ever told me how very {ll Marte was after that | jaceident in the seat | “How Hl?" he echoed, “She waan't very ill; she had to stay in her room jfor a few days, of course, but she wasn't really Ul, Aunt Madge. What do you mean? “My dear boy! When she ts euch |a shadow! Why, there ts nothing of her, and her poor little face is all tyes! She looks to me as if she tx }Yecovering from a terrible illness,” CHAPTER X. Marte had only been back tn Lon- don two ys when she realized that, as far as Chris waa concerned, she need expect pothing more than the | casual affeétion he had always be. | stowed upon her. | He had given her a diamond en mient ring and another beaut ful ring when they were married. | One afternoon when they were lunch ing alone, Miss Chester being absent, he said to Marie suddenly “Wouldn't you like a pearl neck lace or something? | “I should if you think T ought to have one,” she answered. “I, don't know about ‘ought to,’ he ‘said, dublously, “But other women have trinkets and things, and pearls would suit you, you're so dark! We'll go out this afternoon and look at some, shall we?" | It was after they had bought the necklace—a charming double row of beautiful pearle—and were having tea that Chris said suddenty: “Marie | | Celeste, why don't you go about more and enjoy yourself? | * Page A LONEL “Bo when evening came and the She looked up with startled eyes | “Go about!’ she echoed quistly. “De you mean by myself?’ | He did not seem to hear the under. | | lying imputation, and answered quite jnaturally: “No, can't you# make friends or ask some people to stay with you? You must have friends.” The color rushed to her face. “I had some friends at school,” } boy returned to the place of his) home, he found only bare places | on the ground where the tents had | been, piles of empty clas shets, | blackened stones and charred bits! of wood where had been the cheer: | fal camp fires, and only emptiness and stillness where he waa used! 321 Y RETURN ket Into the water, anf again he shook it, and this time the salt drops turned to little Siwashea. “The Indian lad was so surprise e4 @ this that he kept right on shaking his blanket, and as he shook, the Uttle Siwashes grew tal right there before his eyes, and he was no longer alone, DON'T THROW THAT "Tom: | KNOW WHAT THAT NOISE WAS ~ITS THAT LOOSE frie Vly Vic Isn't Half as Smart as Freckles and Alek! SAY-MY POP “THINKS YOURE A SMART FELLER HE DOES! GEE-OOP- mv WONT HANG ONTO ME, VERY LONG — HES SMART TOO. BUT HOW D'YA KNOW HE THINKS SO ? You musT LEARN TO Ff Be BRAVE LiKe ae | WHOA T GUESS MATS Suma THE, IN JIFFY. QUIKK TER PLAY TW’ PIMINY GRAND OPERA, BUT MY DOCTOR WADE ME QUT ON ACCOUMT OF A BAD CASE OF WANG-NAILSE COULD YUH EASE ME A WRINKLED DME WD BUY A FISH HOOK 2 it mglish Poet she answered, “but not man: peop! were friends, wood, i. any. 2 t h 7 Dear Miss Grey: Can you stve/ gone think I was very popular. | vt faerie lea ede PU se ir pation on Kupert Brooke, the meres Dorothy Webber—” |] tribe. fire, almost everything he needed poet? L “Well, why met ask her to stay] “The boy looked about him, and | except food, #0 he dipped the blan- |] seeing that even his father and bis | ket once more, and when he shook of a Bride Copyrighted, 1921, by the Newspaper Enterprises Assocation Py Born at Rugby, August 8, 1887;| with your father wes William Parker “I don't think I want her,” Maric § ke, a Rugby master, son of} s Brooke of Bath; his mother Mary Ruth Cotterill. He was second of three brothers; en- Rugby. 1901, from preparatory @ scholarship. Received @ fair ber of prizes, went to King’s col- Hage with a scholarship, 190g. Later F @ student at Cambridge. March i 1913, received fellowship from '%. May 22, sailed for New York @n a year's travels thru the U. 8. and e a. Visited Hawai, Fifi Islands Samoa. Winston Churchill of- him @ commission in Royal division, then forming during year of the world war, He from acute blood poisoning, contracted while on active duty, Fri- Gay, April 23, 1915, and was buried the same day. His published works E pool ai Hillbrow, and nezt year } include several volumes of pocms. eee + Shoes the gor. nt give free courses in voca- 3 education and to whom? : READER. | These courses ere given only to (Men who served in the world war in _ @rmy, navy or marine corps, and who have suffered disability which ren- ders them incapable for work they taued prior to the war. cee Chief National Bank | Examiners Appointed | Dear Miss Grey: Are chief na- P tional bank examiners of the fed | @ral reserve districts appointive offi- | @@s, or are they under the civil ser | vice? ALVIN. They are appointive offices, under the comptrolicr of the treasury. cee War Debts Not Paid Dear Miss Grey: Has England paid off any of her war debts to the United States? EX-SOLDIER. No, England has not paid any part of the principal and the interest payments have been deferred for a period of years. Asks About Health Film Dear Mins Grey: Was the mo- tion picture, “Open Your Hyes” adapted from a novel? MOVIE FAN. No: It was an. original scenario, itten by the Warner Brothers, of lew York, approved by the U. 8. pub- lic health service and part of it taken from a picture of like nature shown én France to members of the A. E. F. Norway has a daily newspaper ron entirely by women and treating ex clusively women’s activities. Mother Gray’ s AROMATIC-LEAF The Medicinal Tea, regulates the! system and gives quick relief to weakness and lameness of the back and kidney dull pains of the head. AROMATIC~ LEAF ix @ simple, pleasant remedy that tired, languid condition h #0 unfits one the daily Get a package at your drug- ints, or by mail, 60c. Address other Gray Co., Le Roy, N. ¥ WE HAVE RECENTLY ADDED 1500 NEW BOXES TO OUR MODERN SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS, Come and examine our equipment for the safekeeping of bonds and other valuable papers. Entrance, corner Second ave., at Pike st, PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK nervousness and the| said slowly. | Chris lit a clearet. “If you could get a friend to go with you, there's no reason why you! |shouldn’t go to Wales or Ireland,” he said, his eyes bent on his task And then all at once she seemed jto understand; perhaps the steady | way In which he kept his eyes avert- led from her told her a good deal or perhaps little Marie Celeste was | qrowing wise, for she leaned toware | him and said rather breathlessly, try jing to smile | “You are very anxious to dixpore | of me! Why don’t you find a friend jand go away for the autumn, too?” | She waited in an agony for his |reply, and it seemed a lifetime till }it came. | | “Well, Aston Knight mid some | thing about ft when I caw him last night. You remember Aston) Knight?” | Marie nodded; she remembered! him, as she remembered everything else to do with her fateful wedding | “What did he say?” she asked with dry lips “Oh, nothing™ Chris spoke as if it were a matter of no co ence. | ‘We haven't arranged anything, | but he asked me to run up to St | Andrews with him later on for some golf, You don't care for golf, I |know, and I shouldn't care to go! unless you were having a good time somewhere, too.” * * © She did not care for g Tt was clever of him to put it hat way |she thought, as she answered brave “Well, why don’t you go? You | would enjoy it.” “You're sure you don’t mind? “Quite sure.” There was « litt! pause. “Perhaps Mr. Dakers w 0, too,” she hazarded | “Yes, probably, I should think. 1| |heard from him thie morning.” In the end she decided to write to Dorothy Webber. After all, they had been good friends, and it would be pleasant to see her again She waited anxiously for Doro thy’s reply to her letter, which| came two days later. “I should have loved to come,” #0 she wrote, “but only the day be fore I got your letter I accepted another invitation, but if you will ask me again later on, Marie, I'll] be there like a bird | Shé told Chris of Dorothy's let ter, but he seemed unimpressed. “Well, I should ask her later on,” he said casually “And—when are you going?” she asked hesitatingly | “At the end of the week, I think Friday.” eee CHAPTER Xt Chris went on the Friday, and for! days beforehand he was like a| schoolboy going off for an unexpect | ed holiday. She did her best to be cheerful during the days that followed, but it was uphill work. Then one morning she ran across young Atkins in Regent st. She would have passed him without rec- Jognition but that he stopped and spoke her name. |aince we enid goodbye,” he de clared, “I've often longed to call, but did not like to.” | | “Whyever not? I gave you my/ |address. I should have been awful- | liy pleased to see you.” | “Really! It's topping of you to| |eay #0, but I don't think Chris would have been exactly tickled to death! He never forgave me for nearly drowning you, you know (Continued Tomortow) | In a new shipyard at Belfast ships | will be built on the electric welding | principle, instead of by riveting and cali na. i “I've thought about you ever|- mother had deserted him, he cried out, ‘Ah, my heart ts sick; for I am alone! There is no fire, and| no food, no house, no pots, pans! and kettles: no friends; nothing. 1 am sick at heart’ “Tl looked all around for his people, but found not a trace of them. Then he looked for a canoe that he might go out on the water | and search there, but not a canoe | was left “Then sad at heart, the ber) picked up his beautiful blanket and walked with it in bis arms to| the shore. As. he stod on the| beach at the water's edge, one cor. | ner of the blanket fell into the salt water, “When he auw that his blanket was wet the boy shook it, and as the salt drops fell from it, a from the folds of the bianket there fell wood, and when he shook it again, fire came out, and the wood burned. “Again the boy dipped the plan it, out came thousands of shining smelt, “And while the boy and the tall Siwashes were still standing, look- ing wondertngly at the beautiful fish, down swooped a great white bird and gobbled up all of the fish he could cary, and flew away with them acroas the water, eee “On the other side of the Whuilge @uget Sound) at this same hour stood the old mother of the boy. "'Alaa,’ ashe walled, “Woe, woe in me, that I have listened to the words of my people, that I have come with them acrows the water, and have left my son to die alone. **And he in small, he ia not yet grown, and his flesh+ts tender. Alas, that I believed when they said to me, “he has an evil spirit.” ‘Woe, woe, woe, my heart is sick, for I believe them not.’ (To Be Continued) Reerne C}| ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS ‘by Clive Roberts Barton “THREE The twins and their companions wished themselves the lit- | tlest things you ever saw, After Gyp, the Giraffe, had swal- }lowed about half a bushel of de licious leaves, he started to change ‘em around, just as a cow does the grass whe has eaten, which Is a| peculiar way of doing: he'd mip the leaves off the tree and swallow them whole into one of his tummies. But tummies don't like things | swalloped whole, as we all know, | so Gyp did his tummy a@ favor by | rolling the leaves up his long throat into his mouth again. This time he chewed and he! chewed and he chewed until the] leaves were nice and soft and just} right Then he swallowed them a second time and put them nicely | ay into @ second tummy | While fle was doing this, he heard voices near, for altho a giraffe can not talk nor make any kind of @ sound, he can hear splendidly. One voice said, “Don't you love a circus?” Gyp pricked up bis ears, He was interested in circuses, having recent ly run away from one. “My, yeu!’ anawerec “1 like circuses better th the Fourth of July. Nearly as well as Christmas.” Gyp listened and chewed and chew- ed and listened, “What do you like best in the circus?” asked the third voice “Guess,” said the second volcq other volee. | movies or VOICES” mysteriously. “My, this is Interesting’ thonght dyp, peering thru the tr but un able to see anything. Wouldn't he have been surprised, though, had he known that the owner of one voice | sat on one of his ears, the owner | of the second voice on the other ear, and the owner of the third voice | (Flippety-Flap, the fairyman) on one of his lumpy horns Having magic along, the twins and their companion had wished themselves the lituest titings you ever saw. (To Be Continued) COCKROACHES GASH MMLED TODAY Stearns’ Electric Paste | SURF DEATH to Waterbogs, A: Rate Micen Thene posts reatest carriers of (8 KILLED. ‘They deatrop ‘Dirvetions in 1b languages tn every box. Ready for wse—two sles te ad 81.8. 8. Goverament baye it. For a juicy steak, let's go to Boldt's.—Advertisement, JANE’S BOOK MAID, WIFE OR WIDOW? “Jordan Spence? No! The wire is not from him Chrys stopped, leaned toward me, put an arm around me, and whis pered: “Pieare, Janet Please Go not mention him, ever again, to met “I'm #0 sorry, deart I thought | you had cured yournelf—" “It's time I did™ Nobody can jbe quite so. cron with her weak | & |neasen as Chrys can be “Read | thist™ if She handed me the yellow pa-| |per. It was a cable from Bertin, a 1 concerning Hamilton Certeiat didn’t wonder that Chrys was de pressed. | A German banker, re turning to his home after a trip linto Russia, informed Chrys that Hamilton Certeis was in a Russian prison! He was charged with plot ting against the bolabevik regime. The influegce of German money had so far prevented his execution. “Corteis still ves! I gasped. 1 perceived why I should never refer to Jordan Spence. “Rather, Certels wan alive month ago. And in a Russian prison! It's horrible! No one can help him, Daddy says so. Daddy is half #ick—he and Certels were business partners for years—before the war,” “The elegant Dr. Certete—in a dirty prison—half starved! TI ean not picture him so! He gras th most fastidious, the most cultured an well as the handsomest of mer How can he endure to be shut away from the refinements and/ the luxuries of life?” I mused, as we walked, Dr. Certeis. had wooed me, madly, be fore Bob came home from college He had followed me, like a shadow when Bob was in the war, and when peace came he had fle the country An hour before leaving he had induced Chrys to marry him on the that he wante his fortune to go to his best friend's Jaughter, in case anything hap. pened to him. So Chrys the daring, Chrys the adventurous, was wedded—but never a wife. Wedded only to be- come a widow! It was a secret marriage. “Wer friends had always |regarded her as a spinster, Jordan Spence had fr posed to her, and when she had told him the truth, he had hurried off to Mexico to devote his talents to curing sick babies, That was about the most unprofitable occupation on earth, according to Daddy Lort mer. Our last news from Certels read like a chapter from some new Ara- bian Nights. As a great adven jturer, he had no living rival except D'Annunzio, Certeis had bought a magnificent yacht from a sugar manufacturer in Honolulu, and with two Russian financiers, picked up in Hawaii, was making for Asia Daddy had had the news from secret service men who were watching for International spies. Certel waa suspected of meeting the Russians by appointment, and of conniving with them for the restoration of aristocracy to the new democracies of Europe. Cor teis was more than a spy. he was! ; a disturber of world peace—and the most dangerous man on earth Wan Certeis actually Chrys’ hus hand? 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