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, PAGE 9 BY ALLMAN THE SEATTLE STAR. | - a ees ee | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Shy SAY, “TOM, | WISH you'd COME OVT TO THE House TO DINNER WITH M CAN You P Cctiiee: Ten Cow Country * py BM, nowER COvpreteht, 221, by Litt Brews 4 Oo) YoD BETTER GO IN FIRST, MARRY AND SEE Wow 1 GOT IN LATE LAST NIGHT Sot GOT VP FIRST "THIS MORNING AND BEAT \T OUT BEFORE MY WIFE GOT UP- YOUR PRESENCE MAY SAVE ME E cage BAWLING OUT TONIGHT! sm —_ » HAW, HAW, You'RE NOT AFRAID ARE YOu LEAVE fr TO Mes SURE, MY WIFE 135 OUT VISITING AND ~, Mi : WON'T. BE SAMY, MAYBE BETTER NOT itis The time comes for us 8 FoR BALL-C" FoR cAT-‘D" FoR 006- E* FoR E6G- = "P" FOR FAN® SHUCKS fi y TKNOWED ALL TWAT LONG AGO. WELL-T BETCHA A MILLION DOLLARS You DON'T KNOW WHAT ‘K' STANDS FoR= Now! jf YouRE “Kk? way A STANOS TEN pDoLtars! " SATURDAY, APRIL 80, 1921, | Optical and Oth-| sot undertone “I'm sorry, but I RY CYNTHTA GREY jother way of making sure he would | pho suffer it con tell But there is|bim sick. You may tell him, Jerry, | he Dlindness to op-| Bb \ to act quickly, We are so engrossed! Jorry took the | fe . glass and stook - daly letng that we do not set | ooking at her st ily “That wure| was one way to do it,” he observed, | 3 We can snatch some dnsting “It's nene| on — hance, end it passes into the wnat-| “7 Westions. but ere we with petty detads that | ‘h® country, Can't you?" | AW- GWAN* YOU ought it would de, we sit down | they uring on ganging to-| YOu DON'T KNOW if we spend time in rebelling and| with a geature of impatience. “Jer guceess. We cannot expect suceess|stand by him? I couldn't bear to success is ever coy, It must nd you can make me— | tions, it is true, but they are only| good job of it," he grinned. “I'll! There ts another kind of DMindness| night's sleep. fhat are nearest, while giving full| The crowd began to gather ye and help. Flowers laid on e@|seen in the valley. realization ef this when if is}at him and at Bud, and grinned. “1 ae " YES, BUT YOULL HAVE TO ranning horse, I could beat GO HOME EARLIER THAN him afoot YOU O10 LAST meer ff FATHER GOT SORE ANDO Dear Miss Cynthia: T cannot re BA'10 TO TELL You~ Cynthi The Misfortune of Blind-| Seeienae vey‘ Perera) ’ 4 “Give him this.” she said in al hadn't a chance to sy a word to the boy, and I couldn't think of any The misfortune ef Mindness ts ter.|not go up to Morgan's, I put! Pidia, Just how terrible only those| something tnto his coffee to make piso a mental Nindness that is prev-|if you like I should, if I had the under its curse | chance. This will ‘counteract the 2 times J effects of the other so that he will anit y be all right in a couple of hours,” with a quirk of the lips. friendship if we quickly appreciate | o¢ oe - & Our selfishness blinds we te the|one > bystness, and 1 ela’t asking “y - ¥ 4 y 4 thane and it passer inie the wnat: | very eensinia, Tm eure Maran|| FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS ges beckons ws on So occupied] Mterrupted him. “I wish he'd leave gasses bw unseen, “No. I told him to pull out, and Then when we Mind Wife not what|he just laughed at me I knowed pic pee LPHABET= repine, “Others get eM the| gether tohight--" Sy nces im life I never’ have any Marian closed her hands together | Ay WUAT A | fretting, it's @ proof that we ere|ry, I wish I knew just how bad you o STANDS FoR! Jacking in the qualities which attract |are! she exclaimed, “De you dare DS FoR! fo hunt us out, te kidnap ws some-| see him go up there tonight. So I how, and shores us ite possibilities | made him sick. Toll that to any” de hunted owt, coared, and courted| “Say, I ain't @ damned skunk” if it is the true kind. There are ex-| Jerry muttered. “You sure made a lpccasional. We ourselves must see| fo an’ pour this into Bud!" grasm He did so, and saved Bud half a Wat i fully as pitiadle, It is our Bad looked forward with tmpa fedure to see our duty to the ones|tience to Sunday eed to the ones farther off. Whie|cartier than usual and was much own are with ws is the time to| larger than any crowd Bud had we never give the pleasure that Rud led Smoky up at noon—and id words and caresses in Nfe do.| Smoky was still lame Dave looked wer too late, embditters many a] cues that f it money's mine, he said in his laconic way. “No use i s ning that Bushband Writes h - keappoiniment Others began to banter and jeer a D PP Ryn tin }Hud, Jeffs crowd taunting him! H fein from answering “FP. A” 1 | with malicious glee. ob that Iam, am the one really he es nine yet oe’ yelled getting the small end of the you kin run Ball as fast as you ty being one of the “unsuspect [Kin talk, you'll beat Boise four|| On PS abel Cle tk in” or perhaps THE one, | 'ensthe in the first quarter! |] oe erally Bud led Smoky around the corral | " My wife, too, ts @ “hasher.* We|® If he hoped that the horse would Page 351 | A ¥ 6 eo wo recover miraculous, just t nave Does she work be uiraculousty 9 ° “GONE AGAIN" Iplso have a child. use she has to? She DOES NOT.| >is master’s prida The crowd ine ant waatiaie Bag delle One hooted te oe how. omey hobbled | When Mary told this part of} she made the trip down that nteep use she “meets the public’; | #ons. ud led im back to the 100-foot bank and four times y composed of tha male cox. ||™anger ‘and faced (he jecring|| 0 story eheut the horeve cum) og ait crowd belligerently. mersaulting down a hundred-foot on her back. But even this was bank, she laughed at the memory.) 4.0.6 st jast and she got the horse These pioneer women! She will come home and tell me many married men fall for her;| Dave led out Bolwa “No use, Bud,” he mild tolerantty. mfely down to the edge of the ‘Well, then, he was standing en | creek. his four legs, apparently more many “dates” she could have “I guess you're set back that forfelt Gale oreek was a pretty Mitte wurprived than if it were not for Bub and I ding her down. money-—unless you want to go thru burt, and too/s#tream, usually about knee deep, purzied by finding bis big pack but when Mary reached It op this turned upside down, to make an Confessions of a B Bride Before we were married I met her|the motions of running a lame {fated Gay it was like « river; same way “E. P. A.” met her, I | horme,” have known, but at that time| “I'm net geting to hand over any too deep for the horse to ford; he mmust swim to the oppastte bank. was willing to give women the|forfelt money without making «| Off must come the lead; sack t of the doubt. I trusted and|Mixht for itr Bud told him = “T/ 4 for her, happy tn the thought| won't run Smoky, lame as he ts, I was making her happy. But/but if you'll make ft a mile, I'l! thing ever satisfies that type of|catch up my old buckskin pack n except the “other fellow.” horse and run the race with him, Can you imagine my feelings when | by thunder! He's not the quickest It was no easy job to untie the |by mack she untied it and laid it cords she had made so firm, the|on the ground. “I'D have to just knots stuck and tt was hard to/| trust,” she told herself, “I'll send get at them The mddie had, of |the horwe acrom and trust the course, turned toa, and it was|lord to make him step on the pome time before abe had the/cther aide. Then IT] have to ‘she wil «it by the hour and tell|horse in the world, but he sure ‘gbout some married man who ts fust/can run a long whilef ‘erazy about her and has not missed| They yelled and slapped one an- . im the place where she slings other on the back, and otherwise just on her sweet account? Can|comported themselves as the « \ picture me trying to keep alljgreat joke had been told. horse free again and the maddie | carry the stuff and walk the foot ai che . : 5 righted. “I daren't put this load | lo acrens.” lives, that her vanity may be| yelled derisively. Mary's faith and the frien: J 4? Why do I put up with “Tl just take you ap en that om him dows here, che thought, of th tack and I'll make {t $100," Bud shouted || the whole bank ts stick as gians./ ood sense e herve. gar tack. “I'd rum a turtle for a|| FT have to lead him up to a level | the day, for he swam acrons and quarter, at those odds? spot and load bim up again.” stood patiently nibbling the grass he would bring tack Sunfish, led Smoky limping back to the pasture. |{ for @ month cee ses ip die Lexar more a steep He returned soon, leading the buck Bo they wen . skin. The crowd gave Sunfish a| Lid t, serambling) They struggled almont to the tance and whoopel again, Bud|{ &@ tipping, stumbling and alld-/top of the hill, when the horse jog ti a level apot was found. |slipped and knocked the pack Before merning, my restless min¢ had about worn me out. I looked 10 years older. I ordered some coffee brought up to my room, then |1 alipped in to wave a farewell kiss to dear Mother Lorimer. She was asicep, as I expected. The ordeal of [that silent parting was unbearable. | Having got thra with ft, the rest | would be easy, I felt sure I went to see Chrya, still bownd in strange catalepsy. The sight of her, Bob's twin and eo like him, made me hard tnstead of rympathetic, What matter whether Chrys Dyed lor died? If she tried to live without love, she would never be happy. if she tried to live with fh, she must en Sook theme temaatte, ‘tas net |dure the common disillusionment is thin cteaadinn oll rere | In this state of pessimiam and de Sunfish’s thin, @ mane. nhe tied the horse and rena gl ange oy Bagna gmconltg whack Pee oases tw Gat Ge Mae This horse ts mine, and I'm go- |] beck for the led. Four times (Te Be Continued) ldown to Mila Ginette’n on song lies fg Sh lg Big |hour In her parlors, I picked up my ee Pe ee et Oe ome te te te tek |baq and took the stroet car for the “Well ge yuh, kid! I bet yah ADVENTURES More than once that morning I OF afte T TWINS five to one,” the man shouted. “You consulted the blackboard, trying to “THE PRIZES” ? For Bub’s mke, I want him to an even break fm life, but it is than a human being can stand times. She also “stepa.” Gotng to @ meet Yea, but what kind of a mect- Bing? Generally the kind wygre there re vile men and smokin; es. In ether words, “parties.” ¥ ome of the men would open up thalr eyes and not fall for the “coy” idfices of these hard-boiled, treach- | ergus mothers—she holds that up to Uné—she is a mother, and wishes to berespected as such. Temember the day I would “bolt” ¥ mother’s breakfast which she ts such great pride in preparing for me, hurry down to where she Morking, and order another £ . Just to talk to her, to plan y from our small son, try-| “Go it, kid You rum your pack bring her to the realiztion| horse, and I'll give yuh & te 1 she is making «a muddle ofjon him! a friend of Jeff Hall's The crowd was having hysterics Why didn’t she leave = her| till she crommed by the log and ren tod sade a Latin tml] yengent oe emia it was| i op wth he ‘aN the groceries they would have| One time more that load Qrust name the en Cer pick a fast train which would not ee cal teen pocthag A < stop within a hundred miles of my a home city. “pnd, you're a fool. I'll bet you But I could not decide on any a bundred and make it 10 to 1,” thing. I felt helpless and abandoned drawted Dave. “Thut ff you'll take at the outset of my independent ca- my_ advice, go turn that fool horse reer, Seldom had I selected a tmin back in the pasture and run the or bought a railroad ticket. That m - bay if you must run something.” was Bob's duty. As a devoted wife, the “boobs,” while the biggest) “The bay’s a rope horse. I don’t I went by whatever train my hus of all sticks to the ship for! want to spoil him by running him. band preferred. So I spent a long ee VICTIM. | No. Sunfish has run time enough hour m the station doing nothing from me—now he’s got to run for except going from 4he board to a and Address me, by thunder. I'll bet on him, bench, and pondering. I hoped that Given toot nobody detected my nervousness, nor June M": You make a sertous| Jef? pushed his way thru to Bud. gueesed my indecision. anges against a public official and| Tle wan smiling with that crafty But somebody did. As I stood be | °"P “3 Geet sign your name and address.|look which should have warned a fore the blackboard I heard a fa-|, “fam ene peamert stubborn- Smeust readily eee what a pre-| child. millar voles at my elbow: cscs t I would be placed in if 1| “Bud, @oggone ft, fT Ike your “Now, Mra, Bob! What are you 4 print your Ietter and said of- | nerve Besides, you owe me some doing down here with a bag? Run THs: WOMAN'S q m ning away from our engagement?™ I felt sick and weak, as I met the detective’s friendly glance. EXPER FNCE would institute criminal libel | thing for the way you trimmed me lpréteadings against me. I would not|!ast Sunday. I'll just give you 16 gz ven your identity to fall back|to 1, and you put up Skeeter at | upon. 75, and as much” money as yo're a “What—engagement, Mr, : a aren know, absolutely beyond a| mind to.” sont” , the charges brought forth in| “Well, how's a as “So you've forgotten that 0% wore letter to be the truth, why| “Suite me, kid.” He going thru the upper floors of Cer our teis’ house with me today?” Brings a ey, of Hope to He took three bags out of his shoes and laid them ina row| “I—I'm afraid—I did forget™ 1 Childless W. on the ground, admitted as I relinquished my bag ess omen Lowell, Mass,—‘'T had anemia trom the time I was aixtets yee years old wi - regular, Wi ai | any house cleanin; re together. The resu.) two after being married, back to otk with the wedding ring hanging @ the kitchen sink. Tam sick of it all. She does not to have any pride; she relies m her looks and ofly tongue to at- you're altogether wrong about your husband in particularf’ = A NNYUTC — iy] RL WANT To Give Xov & DANDY HOMGS BRew Morrt- winked at Bifect and place it in the hands of|to Dave. “How much was that United States prohibition officer,| yon put up agin the kid, Dave?” ld McDonald, Federal didg.| “One hundred dollars, and a 10- Third and Union st., City? tot shot I win,” Dave drawled “That ought fo satiety yuh It ain't a frame-up. The kid's crazy, that's all.” don't you make an affidavit to that|the others. He turned suddenly to the detective, “You've got the, ptp, fost an 5 {noteat, as they stick out as plainty “Come and sit down, Rttle gtrif” feared!” declared Flippety-Flap to/as the ears on a rabbit. That's what |Morrison waa as gentle as a father. the camel. “Anyone who mys he ts| humps are OFNTHIA _ORRY. "Gosh, l'ILsay I'm glad I came down never 0 comfortable as when he is| ners.” —- -storage boxes for 40 din- HAVE OU TSE Ir here this morning, Now suppose OUT YOUR SCLE® you tell an old men and an old NO % Haven't, / 1/3 to 1/2 1Reduction in|) Price Effective April 18 Guaranteed Dentistry By Specialists UNITED LESS DENTISTS 608 Third Ave., cor. James Elliott 3633 | | "Well, jand Sunday 17” Bud turned hotly. half of all the/ the world. And ” He “Oh! Am I've bet money I have in I'm game for the other half stopped abruptly. “You got Mim going,” ® man | whixpered in Jeff's ear. “The kid's crazy mad. He'll bet the shirt off his back if yuh egg him on a Uttle more.” (Continued in Next Issue) dancing every “Saturday Rainier Bivd. Park Picnic: SED 5() YEARS rite for booklet on rheumatism, free im Swift Specific Co Dept D. Atlanta. Ga uncomfortable needs to go in out of the sun. me on, let's all go into the shade. Caliph Camel was stubborn, “I don’t want to,” he insisted. “Why not? asked the falryman. “Just what I told you, I'd be too comfortable, I like to get sizzling hot. It feels 90 awful!” Nobody had any reply to this sflly. speech. “Don't you want a drink?” asked Nick, pointing to the water pool. “I had a drink last week,” sald Caliph, sulkily. “Put aren't you hungry? wonder ed Nancy. “Here's some nice fulcy grass, and if you like Il climb a and get some dates’ * fumph!” snorted the camel. “T ate last week, too, Besides, if I were hungry, there are whole bunches of camel-thorn growing out here in the sand. I can eat it.” “But do you like it? prickly.” “No; of courne I don't Itke It; that's why I eat it, I eat enough to last for days. I've got two storage, boxes on my back, a# you may notice, that folks call humps, Inv It looks #0 deed, it would ye queer if you hadu’t ead Country “Then I don’t suppone we can coax you to go back?” sald Nick sadly. “But it’s no circus without a camel and we hoped you'd come.” “Thanks for askin’,” replied Callph Camel. All this while Fitppety-Flap had been busy. He took three bags out of his enormous shoes and laid them in a row on the ground, “What's that?" asked the camel. ‘These are the prizes!” answered Fuppety-Flap_mysteriousty. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, N. E. 6 Yr COLDS Grip, Influenza, Sore Throat Hamphreys’ Homeo, Medicine Co, 166 William 6t., New York, and at all Drug friend just what you're up to, Mrs. Bob”, “You eant hetp met Nobody can! Thank you, Mr. Morrison!” “See here, I won't interfere, You can trust me. But I'm curious, I saw you slip into the depot unattend crowd. First I wondered what was the matter with the Lorimer autos. Then I sort of fancied you didn't seem to know what train you want ed. Why, you've looked at the board 20 times. Now, if you'd had a real plan, you'd have bought your tickets quite a while ago.” I wag close to tears. Percetving my confusion, Morrison suggested a cup of coffee and led me to the res- taurant. Over the table, I told him everg: thing. When I had concluded, he said: “Little girl, you've got to the point where you can’t reason any more. I've seen smart little women get there before, Now will you listen to what I say?” I nodded, “Well, I'm not going to express an opinion about men in general, but I Want to tell you, Min Lol, that ed. You came with the street car| jor washing I woul faint and have to it to bed, m and thinking every minute was my last, After- reading your text- or seen and used the Sanative Wash, and have never felt better than-I have the last two years. I can work, eat, sleep, and feel as strong as can be. 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