The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1921, Page 9

Girl Mistakes Deceit for . Cleverness — Would Manage Two Suitors at Dear Milas Grey: Please advise mo, | am not a popular girl Tam ain atid not particularly gifted. | sme years ago I mot a young man were sweethearts . we were “epeaged” in that warhest sort of school-kid way, hen he went away. We kept up a porrespondence, but I told him we fad neither one of us seriously tn fended that our little romance should head to the altar, In his absence T became acquaint- eM with a man of a different sort He is older, has money, a machine, and knows how to show me a good we. We also became the best of is; then he, too, was called out town. Now they are both coming k and, to add to my confusion, hey both write that they intend this time to become serious | I don't want to marry either one | ef them; but I do want to keep them both as dear friends, However, af- | ter the manner of the modern youth, | pelther one would tolerate another | boy receiving equal favors from the! pirt he ts with.” Now, I real-| i} like the first man the best, but, | Btho the most lovable, he ts also the most undependablm and ts Hable | fo be here today and gone tomorrow, While the other would stay by me fil the crack of doom, Furthermére, ean show mo the kind of good| wes that the unpopular girl docs | get to enjoy any too often; the/ d of times which the first young pan cannot afford | 1 am not clever enough to do as e girls can, and manage them without calamity. Can you. this brief outline of the sit m, tell me what to do, or how oth-| ® girls manage it? Very much in} marnest. mp. | After alt is said and done, there is! one policy that holds worth} between man and = maid, ther they are engaged or merely nds, and that ts HONESTY. The | girls you speak of as being “clever” | gre only deceitful. Jf they were l tlever they would look into the fu- Sure far enough to see that to de ne one or two young men will) we others, the marrying kind,| Goudtful, so that when they become feady fo marry they haven't the! at type of men to choose from. absolute frankness with tio friends, Tell them plainly you have no intention of marry- at this time, and, of course, are to go with whom you please; thet you have a very high re- ard for both, and would not wish i lose their friendship. They witl ggPreciate your sincerity more than now realize eee She Believes Moral Standard oe Be Local Proposition , Miss Grey: In connection ‘With your correspondent of the 28th, as you intimated, is out for Hamon's scalp, and whom I 1 can safely presume to be eererae wi Yee & Fe BE bal ind ~ e = AVTARdsa GAGA wi slaw of relativity. lity her mext door neighbor easily conceive to be prudery by the same token, the neighbor @ her other hand might consider to rankest licentiousness _ Bo, in consequence, unless she can Jeonvert these neighbors and all her Widespead neighbora-to he way of thinking, it might be 5 of iniquity, altho he appears a ‘be safely married to one wife. In) ing of toleration he says that no evil can conceivably from the total suppression of | der and theft, and all communt- Prosper in direct proportion to suppression, the total suppres: Men of immorality, especially in itters of religion and sex, would! nlightenment, and produce used to be called a Chinese ation until the Chinese “ately te immoral courses by permit- railway contractors to desecrate graves of their ancestors, and soldiers to wear glothes which cently revealed the fact that/| 1 thank you. READER. 4 | Most people lone half of ever: ch, and seem to expect it. Chic! era or white diarrhoea is the bh The U. S&. Government em that over half the chicks his cause. | vii An A the drinking wa! from aji such dis-| eases. ithin 48 hours the sick ones 1 tablet in|” Cow Country BY B, M, BOWER (Copyright, 1981, by Latta, Brows Oe) (Continued From Yesterday) The three came on, Sunfish was leaving them further and farther be hind, Altho they held to the chase, they fired no more shots. Crater, he discovered, was no more than an overgrown village, The courthouse and= jail stood on _ the main etreet, and just beyond Was bank, He chose a place near by rear of the bank, where one 9 and a cow occupied a comfort ral together, with hay, He | Unsaddied Sunfish and turned him in there, Ile stood on the porch of the court ho behind a jutting corner pillar, and waited for the horsemen to ap: pear, An uninviting hotel across the street. Two remained on their horses while hird pounded on the door and y mised the landlord from bix leop. There was a conference, A amp had been ligh Bud saw the nod his head twice which ed some sort of under standing He was glad that he had not stopped at the hotel, “Mother's guardian an. st be riding point’ tonight,” he mused. “He stole a horse from Dave Tru- man," Bud heard one of the three say distinctly, He's likely give us the slip out. © man concluded U ride back and ace, If ho shows up, he'll likely want to eat ad Dick out to the « Dud sag where he was until the three had ridden back, Then he borrowed hay from the cow and the horse in the corral and made himself a bed, CHAPTER XVITIL The Catrock Gang A woman {n a checkered apron and a motherly look woke Bud so that she could tell him she believed he had been on a “toot,” or he never woitt have taken such a liberty with her corral, Bud apologized and asked her for breakfast, And the woman, after one good look at him handed him the milk bucket and asked him how he liked his eggs. Bud praised the cooking and asked her if she would accept him as a boarder while he was in town, and the checks he 4 asked her what he shy He had been warned, he said at Jeff and his friends might try to beat him yet by stop- ping payment, “What you'll do will be what I tell ye," Mrs, Henson replied. “The ashier is a friend to me. Hell do what he can for ye.” “You don't know me, remember,” Bud reminded her. “And do I not? she demanded “Do you think I've buried three husbands and thinking now of the fourth, without knowing what's wrote in a man's face? Come on with me to Jimmy Lawton's house.” The cashier of the Crater County bank was sitting In the kitchen, rocking a pink baby, when Mrs. Han ‘won walked in with Bud. She intro duced the cashier to Bod, In the naxt breath she was explaining what was wanted. Bud produced the checfis and watched the aushier scan cach one to make sure that they were right. “It's all right, Mr. Birnie. Just in- dorse these, and I'll take them into the bank and attend to them the first thing I do after the door is open. You'd better come in when I open u was pro! He wants roThe gang had some talk about Cleaning out the bank while they're about it, Can't you appoint me some thing and let me help out? many men do you have in this bank?” “Two. That's fine of you to offer Jimmy turned to Mra, Hanson “Mother, can't you run over and have Jess come and swear Mr. Birnie intas a deputy?” Jean returned with Mra. Hanson, swore in « new deputy, and agreed to remain hidden across the road from the bank with a rifie. Jim lived just behind the bank, and a high board fence between the two buildings served to hide hig coming and going. ° “| think I'll stand out In front of the window,” said Bud when they were inside, “It will look more nat- ural.”* Jeff Hall was the first man to walk n, and he stopped short when he saw Bud lounging before the teller’s win- low, Other men were straggling up on the porch, and two of them en- tered, Mr. Lawton,” Jeff began hurried ly, “I want to stop payment on @ check this young feller got from me by fraud.” “Too late, Mr. Hall. I have already accepted the checks. You can bring sult, of courve, to recover.” Jimmy turned to hand a sealed ma niia envelope to the bookkeeper with vluspered instructions. Jeff muttered something to his will save your chicks | friend and went outside as if their business were done for the day. “{ gave you $5,000 in currency and the balance in a cashier's check,” Ai te, Jimmy whispered. “Sent it to the or 15 chicks day from diar- fore I received t f | house.” ‘Two men came in, one going over to the desk, the other came straight A Oa ge * | to the window. Bud looked into the costs nothing to try Aviool. If don't find that it prevents and trols white diarrhoea, chick chol- bowel diseases of poul- will be ni wold by 8 and poultry remedy nd 640 (includes war mail por 5 100 Cole bia Bidg., Indianapolis, Ind n. prine you and yon will foal teful fe received such benefit. You 1) Bidep better, ¥ athe easier, Hur pervournens Will disappear, and, best ail, it will calm your excitable heart. Kialmann's Gaa-Tadlets in the yellow bie drug. D , price one J, Beaimann, Chemist San Vrane Advertisement Around _: o out of this, if you'll do what I say.” heavily bearded face of a man who had the eyes of Lew Morris. Someone outside fired a shut in at Bud, clipping his hatband in front At the sound of the shot the whisker od one snatched his gun ouf, and the cashier shot him, Bud had sent a shot thru the outside window and hit somebody. The young fellow at the desk had whirled, and was pointing o gun shakily. Bud fired and knocked the gun out of bis band. “You're Ea Collfer—by your eyes nd your mouth,” Bud said in a rapid ni undertone. “I'm going to get He couldn't be more than 19, Bud Bud order. gurseod swiftly. our tect me thru, Simmy “You got the man that ed hurriedly. put up this job, I'll take the kid out the back way, if you don’t mind.” Jimmy opened the steel-grilled door and let them thru. “Kd Collier,” be sald in a tone of recognition. “I heard he was trail WK rorgst ft, Jimmy. If the sheriff asks about him, say he got out. Now Ed, I'm going to take you over to | Mra. Hanson's.” (To Be Continued Tomorrow) Ottawa was chosen as the capital of Canada by Queen Victoria in 1858, | They came, and halted in front of tivers place, We'll come arun-| How! DOINGS OF THE DU OLIVIA, MR IN GEE -THAT SOUNDS LIKE ALEK « WONDER WHATSA ar. Page specially remembered because it apple-stealing bear, will find theae interesting people } ! } | | i were both being Uttle girl, any county. } |] Sound country. sell their home in the Fast. | on @ Plan. Mother was to stay In the East with the baby and little brother Filppety-Fiap took a big step in his magic shoes and landed half way up a mountain. Nancy and Nick could never have followed him had they not possessed their own wonder- ful Green Shoes, But these scrambled up beside him as easy as ple. They were going to ask Mr. Bruin Brown-Bear and his wife and their two sons, Butter-Ball Brown-Bear and Billy-Bunch Brown-Bear, to go back with them to the circus. Every- body, I’m sure, feels precisely the same way as our little friends did about It That a cirous without a bear or two or three or four, isn't worth looking at. “Here's the place!’ maid the fniry- man, pointing to a cubbyhole under a tree root. It was a very large tree with very large roots, and the hole was too large really to be called a cubby-hole, Indead, it was a cub- lhole, as it held two cubs, and their parents also, when the entire family was at home, , tap, tap,” knocked Flippety Flap. No one came, Nick grabbed the knocker, “Tap, jtap, tap! Ratewtap, tap, tap,” he hammered, No one came. Nancy tried last, “Tap, tap, tap! Rat-atap, tap, tap, tap, tap!’ she thumped. But no one camel ~ 1s Were! LL BE Down FRECKLES AND_HIS FRIENDS * ’ OV, a * By Mabel Clelan LIBBY'S LITTLE FRIEND One of Peesy’s “million plo | father was to take the twins, Ida neers” in Enumclaw proved to be} and Eva, and go out to Puget the friend of Libby, whom David | Sound, and Aunt Sadie would fo was she who shot the troublesome |father and take care of the You can’t tell at af when you are « ploneer-hunter where you ‘There is Libby being a perfectly good grownup lady in Everett, and there is Ida being a perfectly | good grownup lady in Enumclaw and when they were little girls there they were, being—well, they way, we'll ask their mothers whether they were “perfectly good” or not—way up in Skagit ‘When Ida Was a mite of a gtri, 5 years old, her father and mother | as a pair of active b-ymrold girts decided to move to the Puget But before they went they must They talked it all over—father and mother and Aunt Sadie—how much they all wanted to come! and what « pity it wns to wait till all the best land would be taken up, and finally they decided ul the home was sold, and ghd ENTURES OF ENE TWINS “Here's the place!” said the fairyman. Like New Man THE SEATTLE STAR JFFS ‘ Never Go Out With a Shiney Nose OLIVIA, DID HELEN TELL |)” You SOMEONE 15 DOWN HERE To See You? \ OSWALD AmnuTe! YES, I'LL BE RIGHT DOWN. Seattle ce od 354 | | with thein to keep house for twina, At night when mother went to {bed it was very hard for her to |aleep; she couldn't keep from thinking how far, far ber little girts would be from her. She felt like hugging them up every minute before they left, Just #0 she wouldn't have to worry over any minsed chances for loving» after they were gone. But the twins were gay as larks, the only fear they had) was that by some mischance Aunt Sadie might slip away and leave them, So they stuck te her an close could stick and were all excite ment and glee over the long trip and the new home “Out West.” And when they were all settled tm that new home, life waa all | they had hoped {t would be. From | the time they made the first trip in the cedar canoe up the salt | slourh—which was the avenue to | Uheir house—it was a heart-satis- fying adventure, Laconner wan thelr nearest trading place, and whenever they | went they rode in the cance and people wore rubber boots because of the mud on the tidefiata. (To Be Continued) AS A SMITTCHMAN ON A RACE-TRACK- TACOMA CITIZEN WAS FORCED 10 QUIT HIS WORK' Health Now Restored, He De- clares Tanlac Put Him Back on Job Feeling Tats go In.” whe sald. “There's! sven, str, Tanlac Is fine medicine, nobody at home, and we may aa well | roe jt put me back on the job feel: | wait inaide.” ing fine,” said DM. Pasquali, 1663 "Yon, let's? agreed the fairyman.| South Alaska st, Tacoma, recently. “Just like Goldilocks did in the story,|' “For two or three years I suffered | nearly all the time with my stomach, only that was three bears instead of ee ata four and eo are thres people instead | 2 Seareely had'any appe r : I never felt hungry, and what little of one, Bealdes, I hope we don't sit!) aid eat guve me a heavy, burning j the bottom out of ‘anything like She) sensation in my stomach and chest, gg ey alr ge and bloated me until T could hardly Nancy added with a laugh, “And T/ enqure it. Often I had cramps that hope they won't chase ua out of @/ nearly drew me double, and head- | Window, either.” aches when I was almost blind, My (To Be Continued) back hurt so bad 1 could hardly (Copyright, 192 E. A.) stoop over, and many days it was Fea RR A all I could do to ‘climb up on my There gro 126 technical colleges in| truck, My sleep was all broken up the United States. no that I always felt played out and ay A MOTHER MBEPTING| Un down, and finally I got so bad AT A MOTHERS’ MEETING) of¢ 1 nad'to quit work entirely. the wife of a noted New York divine| ‘Well, about two months after I said to her listeners, “Watoh oare-| got so I couldn't work, I got Tan- fully your daughter's physical de-|lac, and now I'm in such fine shape velopment. Mothers should keep|1 aim going back to my truck. My their daughtern well informed ag to|appetite is simply fine, and I never matters pertaining to health, and|have a bit of pain or distress after should see that nature is assisted, |eating, 1 sleep lke a rock every if necessary, to perform its of-|night, and feel so good I can get fices. around like a boy. I've gained in Irregularities and pain are warn-| weight, and haven't an ache or pain ing symptoms of some trouble, and|of any kind left with me. I'm al- mothers may depend upon Lydia ¥.|waye telling my friends about Tan- Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to | lac.” correct them, and restore the sys-| ‘Tanlad is sold in Seattle by the tem to a healthy, normal condition,| Bartell Drag Stores and leading a Advertisement, druggists.—Adverlisement, {© LIABLE TO PoP OUT IN BLOOM ANYTIME WhTHIN WUATSAMATTER, ANYWAY % SLIM FELL IN TH’ BIG DITCH AN’ iS STUCK UP To HIS ANKLES IN tr! THE NOT BROS- CHES WELL, WOW SA EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO _—— AND WHAT YoU x MA ea Ta hwee pon tL ere SUS eur Me TO THANK FoR ' You've GOTTEN AHEAD. if TO TEC UNE Me WORLD, PEerore || WORLD TVS We Wees MARRIED MERRY DANCE Ever Oo WERE So Siow ft ffsince THE CEREMONY I! HAD To Do ; ALK THE CovRTING THAT'S SuSst THE TROVUBLS — You Go AW, THATS NUTHIN’ Ui PAGE 9 BY ALLMAN JUST A MNUTE BY BLOSSER HE WENT IN “AIN'T iS FAULT — OU CAN'T BUY CHEAP ‘Confessions of a Bride Copyrighted, 1921, the Newspaper Enterprise suounton. I did not see my husband for dayx, However, he phoned te frequently, but briefly. : that he and Morrison thought y bad a clew to the cause of the ex- plosion in the munitions plant. Now Chrys had told us that would recognize anywhere the who had frightened her tn C cellar. He was remarkable he had one blue ahd one brown Investigation proved that the killed in the explosion had been ployed by the Lorimer n company for only a few days. rison and Bob decided that he planted a bomb for revenge and some mischance had been in his own death trap, Our next news about the Jewels, came by long distance to Morrisom., authorities while aboard ship for South America. tag they had fitted the of Bob's piece of English luggage. Ali marks had been cemoved it. It contained only a tra outfit. “But in the man's possession | ‘vere several postal receipts. They proved that the gems had been” packed inside candied fruits and chocolate bonbons and had been mailed to a girl In Buenos Aires, | The consignor was the taxi |feur who had picked us up near Certeis’ house, the man whom Bob had locked in the closet of our guest room. «3 Morrison had called tt an “insid® job.” This ‘man, in confessing, im- plicated a red-haired girl of out town, whose name he did not know, Morrison was to find it! es 1 remembered Katherine's excite. ment when the closet was found to be empty. I thought a good deal about this before Bob came home again, But I couldn't guess why she should have let the man out—~ ‘unless—it was to stand in with hime This was unsatisfactory and vague, But when he came home. Bob had thts to sa: “I think the girl was daffy > the jewels, While we were hunting, I sometimes wondered if she wa really anxious to hand them to thé government. I half fancied she wanted them for herself! Absurd, maybe!” He mused, for a moment, then went on: “By Jove! That night in the car, when Chrys fainted, I told Katherine to keep an eye on the bag! Now I wonder—* We had to give it up. The horror’ of the explosion was more import ant to us. Bob turned to me for comfort. He had one grand piece of newe, which we were never tired of dis- 4 cussing. . The Lorimer Chemical. company would not ebuild its “munitions plant. It Would devote itself to constructive manufacturing forever- morel. 2 Next morning we found that the. s stories about the explosion were sub- ordinated to a mystery in the lake news. A woman, alone tn a motor boat, far out in the lake, had hailed a passing steamer in the night. It was approaching her, when she steered suddenly straight across the bow, ‘The body was recovered, Jt had no marks of identification—se yan the wireless—but the woman*had magnificent hair of an unusual taw- ny red! Observers ty not say whether it was a case ident or suicide, Y (To Be Continued of