The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1922, Page 13

SATTLE TAR BY AHERN THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY = \ YEH THAT BUTCHER ALEXANDER TM A GAME GUY Vii VER MIND) = hed ge \ fe ot SELLS MRE HARRIS | THATS WHEN FT COMES TD ane ; AGAINST A "TOUGHER {| HOOPLE USED TO BE || YOUR SECOND 1 || STRMIGE chow, sd SLAB OF OX “THAN || A HARNESS MAKER=|/CUP OF COFFEE ! || pur TH’ SPREAD IN - THAT STEAK TONIGHT?) WAIT TILL YoU /REMEMBER 1 TOLD || ~HIS wiGWAM IS IGOT A WoT: BOX | “TACKLE TH’ POUND | YoU “THAT KEEPS A PUZZLE! ee 2 Gc IN MY EARS TRYING]! CAKE - WOW ! ME AWAKE AT FOR DESSERT I “TO CHEW IT! ~—/ BY‘CAN'T SWALLOW [Tr NiGHT !! TAKE \NDIGESTION J : EE “ee on beet UNLESS You Pound Ne Ce 7, Aull Hall . y SELF ON TH LP " (Continued From Page © J} In her pant tite Virgin | BAcK ! / YOU GAN) T On the list of ---=ptions, He] known the real meaning of hunger i Mee wkin't be entirely tru ced. Mis ter.| Her meala were inadvertent; she had | yee A r oO gabe strength, his ferocity of |them more from @ matter of habit , his courage, won him a wide/ than a realiaation of bodily craving this mountain land. | But curtousty, for the last hour her She began to oh glimpses of | thought had dwelt on food—the sim. | id life—maucy jays and glorious |ple, material substance with no} ored magpics and grossbeaks. She | adornment. The dainty anlads and | SFied out in delight when a pine/icex and relishes that had been her| Squirrel seampered up a little tree| greatest delight in her elty home|} Just over her head, pausing to look | hadn't even come into her mind, but | down at these strange forms that | she did remember, with unlooked-for had disturbed the cathedral silence | fondness, potatoes and meat. And| of the tree Aisies. And all at once|now she watched Vosper's supper | TN drew up his horses. | prepagasions with an eagerness never “Misa Tremont, do you like chick-| known before, ent” he asked. Altho Vosper had been hired for She was somewhat startled by the | cook, Virginia noticed that Bill kept abrupt question, and her horse nosed |a watehful eye over the preparation Mutvaney’s Manks before she drew | of the food: and she felt distinctly him to a halt. It occurred to her|erateful. She mw the grouse in the I hat euch a query scarcely came un.| firocess of cleaning, and the red j bs aes Snswer, “Why, yea,” she agreed. | cascade of the rice as Bill poured it 4 ~ : ofl" “I'm very fond of chicken into the boiling water, her own hand i. se : : H yi» LZ JA tier the title of small talk, and she | stains on Vosper’s hands did not re found some difficulty in shaping her | pel her at all, She beheld the amooth “It's pretty good, bolled with rice.” | opened a can of dehydrated veee - i 2 . Man went on gravely, “We'lt| tables that was to give flavor to the 4 ; = o>. eee Yu have some supper." dish. She gave no particular thought - 4 A 7 GWA Lh so Mirginia stared at him tn biank/| to the fact that the hour was reveal 4 . . , j YUU Pw mt as he slipped do@n from | ing her not as an exquisite creature y : zm ‘ » oe 2 G Yu, yaddie and drew his automatic, |of a higher plane, but simply a hu ' m= ty Yo hallcalibered pistol from the hol-| man animal with an empty stomach Ye [We etal forward taco 8 Fertig -wnesirag: typing grange ee ASA “TRUMAN WAS ON THE WAY TO PAY HIS YEARS shadowy of mie afer. and in crete aly hots as - sunScRIPTION FOR THE WEEKLY CLARION “THE HANDLES ON s hungry—Dungry as she had never > re dreamed she could be in all her days. i z Z J ecu BO BASKETS GAVE WAY. The white flesh of the grouse was mat with the rice, one bird after an- | | 4 oon ° cther, until tt seemed trpomsible that [DSS me come in and build a fire for DOINGS OF THE DUFFS A Splendid Idea BY ALLMAN four human betes could consume ees dreae oh he anked. | them all, In went the seasoning, rginia considered, Few were the spaghetti and the vegetables, and not |}¢ves, in her short days, that had THE ICEMAN FORGOT US THIS WHY WORRY ABOUT pron gipnd HELEN, SHALL1 PUT he had missed the first three|even Lounsbury rajied at the lttie| beheld her in bed: but to mauve her MORNING AND I'M AFRAID THESE THINGS WHEN You AND OR Dut she waited with consid- | handful of ashes that floated on top| S2* could not think of a reason why THESE THINGS WILL SPOIL PUT THEM RIGHT OUT HERE a | THE MILK AN EAM interest the result of the/the mixture. And Virginia exuited | Guia a offer aang not be accept. ON THE WINDOW Si? ANd You K OUT THERE Too P ; And soon he pushed thru| from head to toes when Hill passed he was down to realities; be as DS thishsts to ber cide, the tin plates |sideg, the room was Gieagrecabiy DO WE STILL TAKE ICE. 1 DON'T HAVE To PAY FOR ICE IT WILL KEEP LoNGeR! his hand he held a queer, gray,| ‘It was well for Virginia's peace of | Chilly. She snuggied down and drow leas bundle that at first she| mind that no one fold her how much | “He blankets about her throat. not she ate In ber particular set it “Come ahead.” she invited. wasn't a mark of breeding to eat too} With scarcely a glance at her he heartily: and an entire grouse, at| tered and but « fire, and a few least two cups of the stew and sev | Minutes later he brought in her to stuff them into his saddie-|eral inch-thick slices of bread with | "teaming breakfast The door was “Pretty lucky that time,” he| marmalade would have been consid. |OP*% then, and she saw the snow ered a generous meal even for a| Without . barvest-hand Her face was a little pale and her seemed wholly marteroffact Aa soon as the meal was done she | YOlC*® Was etrained when she «p the incident, but Virginia con-| felt ready for bed. Bill ventur again. What does it mean? to stare at him in open-|the darkness with an ax asked astonishment. “Four of|shoulder, but not until his return What? The snow? laid she understand his miasion. Hia|) “Yea Does it mean that winter arms were heaped with fragrant | 54* come spruce boughs. These he laid on the! When winter does come, cot in the cabin, spreading the blank. | ‘here never is any question about it ete he had provided for her over) Md it really ian't due for another them. He placed: the pillow emt/Month. If | thought it was real win turned down the bianket corners, ['er I'd advise going back “Any time you like,” he told her|''# Just an arty jwently. “Vosper is putting up the/*WAy the first warm day.~ HOLD ON HERE! DIDNT |linen tent for we three men, = “But isn’t there danger—that T UNDERSTAND You To SAY TusT en a re TT build a fire in front of tt to keep | Fl farther we'd be snowed int | us warm while we smoke You must| “Even if winter should close down, NOU HAD To WOITE A SHORT | be tired.” and we find the mow deepening to “MEME ON THE SUBJECT She emiled wanty, “IT am tired, | ‘%* G&nger polnt. it wouktn’t be too OF BASE PALL FoR Bronson,” she confessed. “And|t* to turn back them Of conres ; at thank you, very much.” we've got to keep watch. A week or NOUR MONDAYS * A She didn’t notice the ware of color | % Of steady xnow might make thas SCHOOL WwoRK? a" that flowed into hin bronzed cheeks |CUNtINS Wholly tmpamable—the " and the strange, jubilant light in hin |%ft. Wet #mow of the Selkirks can't leyes, She only knew that «be was | *¥*? b* manipulated with enowshora warm and fullfed. and the wind | to any advantage. We'd simply have would bluster and threaten around |‘? Walt tll the snow packed-—which her cabin walls in vain. might not be for months. Rut we For a long hour after Virginia wax |" €° OM & few dayn. at lent, and asleep Bill sat by the fireside alone,| "Me safely back thru two feet of his pipe giowing at his lips. Louns |"2°¥ OF more. Of course—it de. |bury had gone to his blankets, Voe | Pends on how badly you want to go¢ per was splitting wood for the morn. her face burned from the|ing’s fire. As often, late at night,| (7 Want to go—more than any ecratch of spruce neediea. EXver she|he was held and intrigued by the ‘tian he world. found it more difficult to dodge the! mystery about him—the little, rust We will go on. I've already not-very-old ploneer continued.) “I could see people coming and | going all day; 1 swung on the gate and watched and I stood at the window and watched. — ree ewe om ee SO rN me meeps me meres meee stinging blows of the boughs, she ling, whispered sounds of living |“*®t Vorper to get the horwes.” a th —————— a her horse. From sheer exhaustion | the darkness and the savagery Leunsbury had stopped bis com He knew perfectiy the tone and BY CON ‘The first grayness of twilight had : come, like mist, over the distant| ness, their eternal beauty. He hated i THE TWINS | HAYE THe Monsy E==4 NAME ON WITHOUT “Yau — — im the eunset's glow. She began to|had felt their hospitality, yet he Clive Roberts Barten ar CPATIC * TH e tee, n ve a real and overwhelming long-| knew that often they rose in the still + tH R, midst of her dejection the dark man | crushed the weak, but they lent their fn front threw her a smile Jown strength to the strogg. And “it goes hard at first,” he told her! Pill felt that he was face to face with —with a good fire. You'll feet better| He was going to plumb their secret | Tight away.” | places—not only for the missing man, By abe! 4 He must not only fight his | 4 P; 566 or the way of Virginia's clase—to de-| so long ant « | 2 aa 6 pend upon their menials for encour-| own battles, but he had in his ch / ee ee only grateful body must be the shield. Ne (Chapter She was hungry, chilled thru by the | seemed to him, had he met the wil 7 . “and Seattle tie or sick with fatigue. The last’ mile, threatening, vaguely sinister, tremu- and Seattle was a little town, | seemed endless. And she almost |loux and throbbing with impending church Christmas trees were real | sad | “I could hardly eat my dinner ies Wien thay anime to camp. ~ |: "You've gut something planned for “Puthers and mothers and| qt"! Scam Mandly sat my donee Back among the dark spruce, by|me, haven't you?” he asked his for. | } h jo: r « i stream, Bill had built a cabim—one | set, and you're going to test me as| their gifts and brought them to| With joy and expectations till I was only a hut, perhaps den feet| strength to meet that test!” | ie svar od ee | se long by eight wide; it had no floor At that instant he started and/ : re noid agp and but slabs for a roof, no window | looked up. The stars were obscured The instant he touched the ground there wes a loud ex- on in ° own church imagination go. and no paneled interior: only the| the firelight died swiftly in unfath-| plogign, |] Father Prefontaine in the Catholic] 1 knew what I en bende yet no luxurious hotel that had been | spruce were lost In gloom. A flake! “Yen.” said Buskina, “we shall) hung onto the tree so long that he'd out the names and we children| til that Christmas eve how much her lodging for the night on previous | of wet snow had fallen and struck! have to be very. careful and not| got overripe and the mmstent ra as hat Cs ‘was leas careful in the control of | things in the thicket, the silence and (Continued Tomorrew) Sa ate laces: their —E plaints. spirit of these waste pi DVENTURES - a evo a y - might, their malevolence, their sad Z ne car aee or hills; but the peaks were still bathed | them and yet he loved them, too. He WHY Eyes TRve. } for camp and rest. And in the night and slew their guests. They ‘i ad gently, “But we'll soon be in camp | them as never before. 1 Cleland 4 ed it had not heen Virginia’s way—| but for the lost mine he had sought} -: agement: but, strangely, the girl felt a helpless, tender thing of w fey breath of the falling night, half-|derness night in just this mood too tired to drag herself off the | drama. gift-bearing trees. the edge of a fastflowing trout|est gods. “You've got your trap all brothers and sisters wrapped | came my throat was just filled up of the camps of his trap line. It/never before. And Heaven give me/ the chureh and really hung them) CUd hardly swallow even my | “For aN day I had just let my great logs, lifted one upon another je darkness, the tope of the chureh took the gifts off and read} Christmas, but I didn't know un. Journeys had ever seemed to her such | his hand. knock any of the growing balloon | touched the ground th went proudly frward and claim: | ere was a loud “I wanted a really beautiful ’ 7 SH A haven; none had ever been such a| All night long the storm raged| people off the trees. They never on. He had blown up like al, 4 our treasures. dolla big doll with lovely curls IT MGHT BO YouR NAMG, AND IT MIGHT NOT] comfort to her tired spirit. Her heart| over the spruce forest; lashing min | grow @ bit after they fall.’ bomb! “Then, just so that no one! and real-looking eyes and a ALL (IT COOKS UKG TO ME 1S A MESS Ipoded with Joy the sight of it. /that beat and roared on the cabin!” suddenly Nancy had to sneeze “That's the way it is, said Bus would fail to be called, candy and| pretty, pretty face. = Hit smiled and held the door open/ roof, then the wnutterable silence of/ «Kerchoo, kerchoof she went| kins “Often folks are po caretal | ~ falling snow. The camp fire himed ic ' « wice. about keeping out of things that x ” T wanted her to be, and the taller tiny Bont notion War tley ate bet given to every child present | q n't notice ney are ge 4 her to be, the mo out © worse trouble than ever. | David interrupted with, “That| 1 Wanted her to be, the more I “There! I knew you'd do It. Now| “The old balloon was so afraid of || wasn't the Dexter-Horton bank | I'm going to fall off. I’m slipping! ng some child happy that he ? | ' Horton was it | > as 3 Yea, I feel my stem giving! n’t notice he was getting old and priate at trac end | ¥es sy Big agree : “The very same,” she answered, | We didn’t have dolls like this one built a fire. With astonishingly few | Bill lay at the tent mouth for long| “I was sure something would hap- -ws lypcrh oyna tec haces apenas | of Peggy’s—they were more like strokes he eut down a pitchladen| hours, staring into the darkness pen! Here I've been hanging on by | be helped |] “and Father Prefontaine was the ne of my teeth for the last|* “But we must be going, child : very beautiful ladies with slim spruce, trimmed the branches, and| In the morning the face of the|the skin of my teeth for the last : going, dren. man fot whom the Prefontaine| Wines and long. long bodies and ft i chante bvery [wee ‘op, the bulloo’ n in| want to take you to the City of | soon came staggering into camp| wilderness waa changed. Every | week. If I dror Ballgoe man'ia|t) want to take yeu te-the-Clty Off) ia 15 named. very its teat ce ae ee Geel with a fourfoot length of the trunk bough, every spruce needle, every | sure to get me, then he'll take me 5 rag sdf oa . | they were so beautiful and I [I roms his | little xn blade had its load of joff to the earth to a country fair or| Fourth of July paper balloons all go “Our church was on the corner “ and a his brawny back little grass blade had its load of ° a cou ted one, and T was sure I was | nuts and apples and oranges were| “The more I thought, the taller down on that busted old| and went out, the tent sagged with! Instantly a voice overhead snapped " he advised. “I'll have a fire| the load, the horses were wet and 1 in a minute.” | miserable in the glade below. Vir. rusted camp stove had been|xinia slept fitfully, waking often to erected in the cabin and she watched, | listen to the clamor of the storm fascinated, his quick actions am he then falling into troubled dreams. believed I should get exactly what 1 wanted. ke a buffalo the while snow. The streams were higher, a|circus and sell me to a child who| When mortals send them up to bee! of Third and Battery as T told! poing to get it on that tree at th plit and cut into ler » cold and terrible beauty dwelt in the will either poke me into a@ fire or Sky i you, nas. Aer. Male eke Ga : A os va at the for the stove. ¥ ie hunting forest. The sky wan still full of | stick a pin into me. So Nancy got on her pink paper . . aaron, i he cut curling snow, dark flakes against the gray| “I don't want to drop off I won't| Pix, Nick on hia blue paper puppy |] three doors away. (To Be Continued) moment elicious began |eky, and the clouds were sullen and drop off! 1 won't--I—I--I. Ob, catch ~ 9 Buskins on his green elephant to flood the cabin he girl's body | heavy. Bill rose before daylight to|me somebody! I'm going? and away they went | SS | ple Ayee ore tals ka Samed bene thas fins AL th hoot ment bat adtaae. ZA anit hime and del (To Be Continued) joe a apirituelle | happened to get the story. corset to match, and some scant! Mrs. McMusters inherited . : A k Mrs. McMug ; the name | ‘To conclude it in half the time Mra, aul’ tisyes her spirits. She| This was no work for tenderfect,| pody ever would, for the balloon had (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) , o a|transparent lingerie, hosie: > rf spir ~ | simp! Nuit oe gundy ornaes th ‘pox blabla! my creer enter Dane tor @ pioneer family, MoMasters de- | Beatty took to tell it: red rose, either. She was decidedly | know it. That was how Mrs, Beatty opened . haa te = ae ‘king a blaze in the mow-covered loved friend. it Bill knew the exact lered Mason's was daltoweed Plainly it was not the dress intend. | "Ved his social prestige from her. It} Mrs. McMasters took one of her warmth—the exhala “ pursue. He knew just how It was sent at once to the sewing |¢d for Mrs, McMasters. But the | Was of a quality his money could not | own calling cares, enclosed it in the : cece: ramet ere ts © ree wv atin utten's'ee |Comfessions of a Movie Star ||-rm is swine tocntn's tvs wtih sane nn tue puree ame ce ee Se jereation of gray net and silver dressed in| McMasters’ own hand-| Now it appeared that Mrs. Me.|Moned a chauffeur, and sent the box Beatile Star) thread lace—a birthday gift from her | writing. Mrs, Beatty knew it weil. | \ |Masters had heard a Ititle gossip, n naw t of a burning candle under the (Copyrimnt, 1991 to the pretty bit of fluff for whom at dreadful trail | # Be ee te ue tee eens husband, Mrs. MeMasters waa very| When Mrs, McMastern read _ the | Mast ts ‘ Tonatig {Ref husband had intended it. And port 7 jase Ipc gi P ara. bet ER , rg a LTE pe r THR 1])| anxious to wear it at her birthday card in the envelope, she was so|*bout @ certain dancer, Rosalie! when the gray and silver arrived, she pate yr on 8G Fee ee ye or tee FORE Deo VIM. McMASTERS AND THE RED| dinner that nicht startled that her hand trembled and| Bruce. For her, the dress wauld be| returned it to alsnon'e, be: the milipeegng oct rin mt ciyemge cea oe yphtangyy BOE BA DRESS Fut when the box was opened, it she dropped it. It fell just where|most appropriate, while she would | who would want to wear a Feealled. 1 Wat & lowe that ahelhe knocked at the cabin door, “Yes?”| This episode of my confessions|pany, Her last visit at the shore|revealed @ flimay splendor of rose Mrs. Beatty could read: | deride the gray and silver net which | birthday present sent by a husband hed tc = Seago ¢ woot of | Virginia catia’, might be wet down as the affair of farm had been exciting, she tol the| red net! A mere wisp of a dress with To my sweet red rose |doubtless she had received | who picked out something else for: her being was impregnated with {t:|, Bill healtated and etammered, He|the red dres girls in the dormitory. |a single strap holding up what there) A white Iily—that would deseribe | Mrs. McMasters did not know the another lady the same day? ‘This Pnly in her years of ease she had| didn't exactly know whether or not| Mrs. Beatty, seamstress, worked | Mrs, McMasters had been expect-| was of a bodice. The rhort skirt |Mrs, McMasters. Or one might call|dancer's address but she rightly |query kept the girls arguing until forgotten what an ancient friend and\he was stepping outside the bounds |for Mrs. MeMasters when her ser jing an elegant dinner dress from | consisted of a few layers of scalloped /her a pansy, but never “a red rose.” | guessed that Mrs. Beatty, sewing | midnight srrefort i+ was. lot propriety. “Would you like to|vices were not required by the com-|Sivson's and Mra, Beatty was to net—rose petals, in fact, There was|Her character wasn't like that of a|woman for theatrical ladies, would (To Be Continued) ‘ a