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dent Believes Love Stories Real; Have You an Honest-to-Good- Rroay Which Will Pure Thich Will Fur- nish Proof Positive? BY CYNTHIA GRFY climax in the popular novel " tunreal and different from termination of a love affair be- and maid? Or does the Compile his pages of romance facts? Who will volunteer to Ris or her life story and send this department that we may correctly? fs one reader's ‘deo: Miss Grey: You ask if the mam to the average novel fs un- tue to life; if the proposal depicted the silver screen ts likewise ely of the imagination [Wo not believe so. “Truth ts ran, than fiction™ someone Wrote, and the news stortes we read few weeks, teeming with ro- bear out this fact. But here I think the skeptical reader gets off on the wrong He reads thru a startling we F and because he never expert. | Anything so thrilling, or none friends did, or perhaps any he ever knew, he immediately M to the weird imaginative Were of the fiction writer, But te the point: For every, say, ok, that are made in the matter-of-fact way, there ‘one that wil! stand out vivid- of its romantic climax. Mt were published word for Bs it happened, it would be ‘Imtensely interesting than the love story or motion picture. &nd motion picture direc- Picture the unusual— a to—the public demands It; 3 fs no sign that real men actors in the great Of life, have not already in foreign climes or out- hamlets. A FAN, eee Biography of T. Washington Miss Grey: Who was Rook ‘Washington, and where is he N. T L Tallaferre Washington: ed-| Born near Hale's Ford, Vir- about 1859, of African de- He graduated from Hampton Virginia, im 1875. He Maggie J. Murray, Octoder Was o teacher at Ham, fentil elected by state ow @2 head of Tuskegee In- which he organiced and of | he was principal wnt his oe “Story of My Life and 1908; “Working With ; “Putting the Most In- 3 “IAfe ef Frederick 1907 ; “The Negro tn Busi- a Slee wes,” 1907; “The Story of the N 1909. He dicd November 1), ‘Miss Grey: What Is the an- fainfall of the U. 8. In inches, what per cent is it of the rain- of Africa, South America, Eur- and Australia? x ¥. Z weather burcau says it ts im- fo answer the question as | Rainfall can be given for of the country at which ‘tation ts maintained, but the entire United States. @ame applica to forcign coun- in of Miss Grey: What is the of the motto on the British of Arms: “Dieu et mon droit,” dand My Right"? M. J. teas the parole, or password, to his army by Richard 1, at Datile of Gisors, Keptember 20, It was first adopted as the motto by Henry IV., in the century. eece on for Widow of i War Veteran Miss Grey: How much pen- Goes the civil war veteran's get per month, and has ft Faised in the last few months? A W. Mazimum amount is $10. has not been any raise since French Recruiting United States ‘Dear Miss Grey: Can an Amert- enlist in the French air service “become an aviator? is there a recruiting station in this where one could enlist? FL A may enlist in the French j, but there is no guarantee that feorult will get into the air ser- There are no French recruit- stations in this country. -DANDERINE Stops Hair Coming Out: Thickens, Beautifies. A few cents buys “Danderine.” After @ few applications you cannot find @ fallen hair or any dandruft,| every hair shows new life, , brightness, more color and these. parts directed by fate, | A Bachelor Husband BY RUBY M. AYRES Copyright, 1931, by W. J. Watt & Ce, (Continued From Yesterday) Feathers had been opening a tin of tongue, and the knife alipped suddenly, cutting deeply into his hand. He gave a Iittle exctamation of Snnoyance, and Marie started up. “Oh, you have hurt yourself.” “Nothing, nothing at ail" He) dipped hia band into the water and |hurriedly bound {t round with a| jDandkerohief. “Heavens, don’t look so scared! It's nothing to what has happened when we've been camping out! The tent we were steeping in collapsed on us one night, and we pearly emothered. I should have been, but for Chrie— he hauled me out.” “Did het" her face grew wistful. | He had tied the champagne bottle | |to the side of the boat, letting it| [dangle tn the water, and he drew it | carefully up and released the cork, letting it fly up into the trees over. | head with a tremendous report, Feathers filled two giaases and | handed one to her, holding out hiv own in a toast, “To your future happiness,” he said gravely Her face paled; she pat the glans | |down untouched, Then abruptly she jdrew the crumpled telegram from |her frock and gave ft to him, He took it wonderingly; read ft, and handed it back. “Why didn't you tel me™ he! | asked, | She anewered him then, tn a Mttle | shamed whisper: | “Because — because I wanted to joome with you.” | | And there followed @ long sflence, | | undre save for the soft cooing jot & wood pigeon in the trees over head. | And then they were home. } | Marie went Into the drawing-room to Miss Chester, She felt very |tired, and her footsteps dragged Miss Chester's kindly gaze wav. | Jered a little, | “Chris seemed very disappointed [not to find you at home.” she said. | ‘He could not understand it. He said that he wired he should be home this afternoon.” he did, and I got the wire.) but as he is always so uncertain | did not think it worth while to! stay at home.” | She had crossed to Miss Chester to kiss her good night when the |door opened and Chris walked Into} the room. | | CHAPTER XV1. | Marte had stopped dead, the blood | rushing to her face, her hands nerv lously clutching the brim of the hat she had taken off when she entered. | | “Bo you've got back, Marie Ce | teste? | “Yea.” “I've brought you a bracelet,” he) ‘ald abruptly | He held the case to her. “Well. don’t you want itt j | “Thank you, Chrim ef course, I |do! Thank you, very much.” “Come here," he said. “Hold out | your hand.” | She did so and he enmpped the bracelet on to her arm. Then, suddenly, before she could guess at his intention, Chris had caught her in his arms and was/| kissing her passionately, bringing | stinging patches of crimson to her | white face, and almost robbing her of breath. “Please never dare to do that! jagata.” she said tn a voice that was | all the more intense for its quiet: | ness. “I have never bothered you, | jor asked anything of you—you have | |wone where you liked and stayed} away as long as you pleased—you | always can—bdut in exchange I ex-| | Peet you to allow me the same free | | dom.” | He did not answer, and she went stiently away. With singular blindness he be eved that the surest way to put things right between himself and Marte was to ignore the fact that anything was wrong. When they met he was always smiling and cheerful, but he never |asked her to go out with him, never |showed the slightest t.‘erest in jwhat she did, or how she spent her time, | She had not seen Feathers since the day on the river, tho she knew that he was often with Chyis, and her heart was sorg at the loss of her friend. She missed him terribly, tho their companionship had only lasted « Uttle more than a week, and it hurt her Inexpressibly to hear the casual way in which Chris spoke of him- Feathers had been on the ran-dan! Feathers had lost $300 at poker Feathers had had to be taken home from his club in a taxt “And, by the way, with him on Sunday—”" Marie looked up. “To lunch at the Load of Hay? she asked quietly. Chris raised amazed eyebrows. “How ever did you know?” “I went there with him once, We motored out, and Mra. Costin gave us Junch “You never told me.” “I forgot. We met Mrs. Heriot there.” “Yes; #0 Feathers mid. We're go- ing to fix up @ foursome with her.” “Why don't you go, too, Marie?” Mixes Chester said. “Yes; why not come along, Marie Celeste?” Chris said. “I don’t think I care about it,” Marie answered. Later on Chris tried again to per- suade her, She looked mp. “Why are you 0 anxious for my company all at once?” He frowned. “It looks #o—so rotten, our never being together. Feathers is always getting sly digs at me about it and it isn’t as if there is any real reason; we have always been good friends, Marie Celeste, until lately.” “Very well, I will come.” Chris brightened immediately. She wore her prettiest frock on Sunday, and turned a deaf ear to Miss Chester's lamentations that it | would be ruined, “The roads are #0 dusty—wear something that can’t be spoilt, my dear child.” “T'l) take « cloak,” Marte sid. Her heart waa beating fast as they drew up at the house, and she kept her eyes steadily before her as | |Chris left the car and rang the door bell violently. It was opened by Feathers him jeelf, ready to start and with hi jgolf bag slung over his whoulder, (Continued Tomorrow) I'm golfing * * LL NEVEO FoRGET WOW NERVOUS ! WAS WHEN | was MARRIED Page 325 PORT ORCHARD BAY—CONTINUED Peery sald, “Mra fender, did “Well, this woman was out the Indians be just on the litte | rowing and drifting about with no green island, Uke Davie's raft, at | idea of anything unusual In the Suquamish™ bay, when she maw something Mra. Bender laughed at this| tg and biack beside her boat. funny notion. “Oh, no, Peery./ "Dear me,’ she thought, ‘ta ft You see they were in their Iittle | posable that I have rowed all the canoes, the ones they used for | Way acrons and am coming to the their everyday going about, and | other shore? the green branches were a real | “She put out her oar to touch camouflage, @ very good one, too, for not only the ducks were de celved by It, nobody on shore could see the canoes or the men in them. “We mw so many interesting things from here “Om ny we were together, May-Bird and the other girs and I, when we saw a big school of whales come into the bay. “Great big black fellows they were, spouting Ike geysers, and churning up the water, their huge backs sticking up out of the water like rocks “A neighbor of ours was out on| the bay that afternoon tn her row. boat—people went out in row. boats in those days, Just as peo ple go out in motor cars pow for an outing. the ‘rock’ when all at once it warn't there, but the water seem od rougher. “Then she began to look about and she saw other ‘rocks,’ and more commotion tm the water, and suddenly right beside her lit- tle boat up rose another one and spouted almost tn her boat, “It was just at that moment that Bert spied her from the shore, “Ma, he called lustily, Come on in! Come on Inf “His mother didn't need any telling; she came in. “And we watched. I assure you it must have been anything but & pleasant excitement to be out there in the midst of these nion- eters. Yea, she landed mfely, but it was quite an experience.” ‘Ma! ReRPRe ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barton CATA tage MSL 44 Kae a Flippety-Flap pointed to his magic shoes. Nancy and Nick and Flippety-;ed at the twins and pointed to his Flap up in the mango tree listened to what the lions were saying. Mr. Leo Lion raid, “Lily, it's timé the children were in bed.” “Yes,” purred Mra. Lion, “Come on, children, Wash your faces and roll in.” “We are washed, mama,” came a little mewing voice. id you wash good? “Yes'm, only there's @ black spot that won't come off on the end of Lumpy’s tail,” said Lily. “Come here, Lumpy,” Mr. Leo Lion, gruffly. your tail.” Mr. Leo looked clonety. “Well, well, well,” said he. “You're going to be a fine fellow. Mama, Lumpy's getting a fine black tassel on the end of his tail like mine, He'll noon be getting a mane. It’s time we were teaching him cireus tricks.” “Won't I get a fine tassel and a mane?” inquired Lula meekly, She was Lumpy's sister, Mrs. Lion sighed women have to © up in dispo- sition what we lack in looks. But that’s no reason why you should not learn circus tricks, too. The only thing is that out here tn the jungle there's small chance of finding a nice round bail for you to stand on, a hoop to jump thru, or a see-saw to balance upon.” Flippety Viap, the fairyman, wink- commanded “Let me see “No, dear, We great magic shoes. “I'll surprise them,” he whispered. “But as it's too late to do circus tricks tonight, we may as well stay in this mango tree until morning.” (To Be Continued) Make Your Own Gray Hair Remedy Mra. A. Dixon, a well-known Brook- lyn trained nurse, made the follow ing ‘statement regarding gray hair: “Streaked, faded or gray hafr can be quickly turned black, brown or light brown, by the use of the following remedy that you can make at home: “Merely get a box of Orlex powder at any drug store. It costs very lit- Ue and no extras to buy. Dissolve it in two oz, of distilled or rain water and comb it thru the hair, Full di for mixing and use and a gold bond guarantee come in each box. One box will last you for months, “It is safe, it does not rub off, ia not sticky or gummy, and leaves the hair fluffy, It will make @ gray- haired person look twenty years younger,”-—Advertisement, Successful treatment of diseased tonsils und throat without operation; testimonials. Herb Medicine Co, Box $61, Seattle.—Advertivement, . | ing? OME ON UPSTAIRS WE'RE NG “TO HAVE ALITTLE i ( _of a Bride Copyrighted, 1921, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association JANE’S BOOK BREECHES FOR WOMEN “Breeches for every occasion! Can you beat our mother dear?” Ann pulled her short skirt higher and twirled on her tom around Mother Lorimer’s chair. “Satin for best,” mother ex plained, “corduroy for sports and gardening, khaki for the kitchen! Goodness knows I'd approve of taking an inch a day off from our Petticoats, if It would lead, event ually, to breeches for women for every occasion!" “Standardized drem—at last” laughed Chrys. 1 laughed, too, but I was annoyed because the chat ter prevented me from running home to read the charm in the ring which I turned impatiently upon my finger. “Breeches forevert How cork Ann exclaimed. “Oh, moth I'm going to set the new atyle! I'm going to put on er to golf in—* Her guyety was Interrupted by the entrance of @ maid with a card for Miss Lorimer. Chry« glanced at the name and handed the card to me I read the en graved script to the other “Mr. Jordan Oliver Spence.” “Whew-ewew? whistled Mother smiled and patted ert Ann her daughter's hand. “Come with me, Jane? I went unwillingly, Chrys war using me as a shield to prevent Jordan Spence from becoming personal. The poor man had come at the Wrong time, I thought as I went down stairs with Chrys. It was his usual bad luck later and Chrys might be free “Jane Lorimer, don't you dare to desert mef This from Chrys on the stair landing. The .man's face glowed at the sight of her. He asked me the questions usual between friends, forgot me, talked only to Chrys, cared only to hear Chrys answer. The width of the room separated them, their spirits were close to- gether, they talked of Mexican hospitals but so intimately that 1) felt myself the Intruder. What he had done, and what she thought about what he had done engrossed them. Obviously they were violent. ly in love. alone. How 1 envied them! T wanted to wanted him to care because I was absorbed in what he had been doing, He never did care, any more. Lately he hadn't been fair; he no longer related big romances of fiance to me. Next to love, money Inspires the most tremen- dous romances which are born in the Imagination of man, and car- ried thru by his will, Many an adventure in the bond and stock market had Bob related to me and J. had been happy, as happy as Chrys listening to Jordan Spence, Bob had opened a wonderful field of entertainment to me, and lately, had clésed the gates. I mustn't notice—-I must try not to care, I must think of other things. There was the message cin the ring. Neither Chrys nor Spence would notice if I slipped away thru a side door. (To Be Continued Fc f let's fo to Boldt a Jutey stent, Advertisement. 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