The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1922, Page 13

PAGE 13 THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922. BY STANLEY 6) LOUIS JOSEPH VAN RN by Lows hoe Ree THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN 7 WAWA- LOOK AT 'MASOR' S271 44 HOOPLE = HE GAID HE WA | ne ee - a 1 RUM woud © i I Wik He's | BOIL HORGE SHOBS |-/ GONWA POUR THIS GOING ‘To “TRICK UP "TH! Yj 4 GET TH’ KICK | @xTCH IW TW! Gas — we PULL ene f | OUT OF 'EM= I | METER To SET ~ A E'S OUT THERE - }-] JLDN"T GULP ANY | PLUCKING DANDELION boy ra ap | I UPSET A SUG OF OF HIG BREW © OnE | BLOSSOMS | = HE'S AFOX*/ | your wouLD Give || HIS MERRY-GO-ROUND THERE'S A HICCOUGH | | SAUCE IW TW’ CELLAR IX EVERY BLOGGOM « |TH' OTHER NIGHT AN’ A GTRTUE A | \ WEADACHE = HAVE ATW BLOOM ON TW! LAWN (> ot WALE TH! LEFTOVER NPAT WILL GO To Hig” |! BEAK f t t STORE ‘ WECKTIES AND api ‘AD HHGIN WERE TODAY i fh of heavy Arinik held for ner husband be dianer { | TO LEAN AGANGT | A FIRE ALARM | (COAL IS ASHES Now "Bre Tes Nhe cavank Sn et sn} \PRINK His GTUFF! a aa ¥ dy, Reliamy divorce Lucinda. Me F ~~ may divorce him. 4 00 ON WITH THE story | | “Deal with that when It comes up. jin at the Rits Linda would like | CAesES . oy, Frankly, don't bBellewe it ever will. it... H Don't mean to give Linda any rea-/ v { ® || fon T can avold.” } To the luncheon-hour mob that} | “What you mean fs, you really| milled tn the foyer of the Rite Carl | J love ton hotel, Lucinda Druce presented “I mean,” he cut in sharply, | the poise of a pretty woman who hag | ‘whatever my shortcomin re [never known ¢are more galling than i @pect Linda, I won't hurt her if Ij uncertainty as to her most becoming ] ean help it.” “How charming of you! adornment “But I never dreamed For all acknowledgment she re-| knew one another!” she was celved allent inclination of his) ing in the surprise of finding ead: an: began to laugh dan | Lontaine with those whem she had gerously, eyes abrim with hatred. the! piaden to meet her. “Fanny, why gg her cheeks shaming their) qign't you tell me—?" | Weil, thank God I've come to un.|.. "But I didn't know—your Nelly jest wan Ellen Field married.” — | “That's 90; I'd completely forgot. | “Amen to that.” ten you both come from Chicago.” | “And #0 all your lovemaking has| “Hush! Nelly Guest gave a stage | been aimply—" | hiss. “Someone might hear. And all) “The same as yours, Amy." these years I've tried so hard to live “Then why did you ever make love|it down! It's no fair...” | @erstand you before we went any) farther! | to me at all, i “Because you let me see you want please Six years married, Fanny retained, and would till the end, whatever life | oe | ed me to.” might hold in store for her, a look of vm * The brutal truth of that lifted the| Wondering and eager youthfulness. | THERES BEEN CONSIDERABLE SPRUC/N UP : Woman to her feet. “I don't think I; Romance trembled veritably upon | c E 4 @are for any more luncheon,” she her lashes, She had & way of hold SINCE THE NEW HAT TRIMMER AM @aid tn a shaking voice. “If you| ing her lips slightly apart and look. | “To TOWN - ing steadily at one when epoken to, | i @on't mind | [as if nothing more interesting “had ip Bellamy rose, bowing from his ¥ place. “Not at all.” ever been heard by the cars am.) = | 3 f { He offered to help with her fur, |bushed in her bobbed, ashen hair |I'd never want to see Burops wenin|f DOINGS OF THE DUFFS No Book for an Old-Timer Her eyes of a deep violet shade heid | if it weren't for prohibition Dut she wouldn't have that, threw the garment over her arm and flung DID You EVER SEE ONE OF EXCUSE -NUMBER- Ten - APPEAR EXCUSE NUMBER - SIXTY SIX Lud THESE LITTLE BooKs? “A EXCITED AND EXPLAIN THAT A JOU BROWN ONE OF THE FIRMS HERE'S Your Boox' Give mB MY DOLLAR BACK - THIS BOOK “You're not going to suffer on th an innocence of expression little leas | Joan Sediey pro than disconcerting. Her body seemed | account today Found the table, then checked and looked back. “Yor derstand—thia | never to have outgrown its ‘dol 4, producing from her handbag «| a b? Er Gtor al timest [eomat, yet tu eightnets wae quite|litle fach of Soweled qoid. | HUNDRED EXCUSES” - IT TELLSA| DIRECTORS MEETING HAS BEENCALLED| VERY BEST CUSTOMERS IS IN WAS WRITTEN BY 4 BEGINNESS pit goalie é we the injustice of withers any engulartty. or awkwars | “But I shall! Fanny protested | MARRIED MAN WHAT KIND OF AND You MUST ATTEND PROMISE TOWN AND HASN'T ANY THING TO VE TRIED OUT EVERY EXCUSE inking anything else.” nees, it a ved roundness w out ie yreseior * eo = “og “won the. EM TR pore shad goa meo ogee gare ts ana bse stg arog : t el Tilt wand ie cae To BE HOME EARLY~ EXCUSE NUM! DO AND You HAVE TO TREAT Him IN THERE A LONG Time 4GO 4nO “WENTY-SEVEN- A CLOSE FRIEND RIGHT - HE'S A VERY HEAVY NEVER GOT AWAY wiTH ANY } the curtains. fue. my soul and ruining my tnw i Rellamy consulted his watch. Just| “It's heavenly,” she now declared. Fanny had launched into « start NIGHT OFF - PRICE ONE DOLLAR] was STRUCK BY AN AUTOMOBILE AND) OF THEM - | on two: Linda's luncheon party|coolly staring at their neighbors | tng detailed account of I jon's lat 1S AT THE HOSPITAL-You MUST Go would be in fall swing. He had noth-|thru the smoke of her cigaret—jest fad in “treatments”; and Lucin ing better to do, might as well look “simply divine to be home. I'm sure\qa'e thoughts turned back to her! é other self { |__How to go on, how to play out this| j farce of a life with Bel when faith if Y jin him was dead? | j | Strange that faith should have! 4 been shattered finally by such a mi} | = @ |nor accident as ber overhearing that j sancy y 10K IN VIC . TN Tt [morning's treachery. And she had | NANCY AND NICK IN VISIT TO MAN-IN-THE-MOON | Mineo id to wie him back. only | }to learn he had gone from her arms }to telephone, with warm from hers, to anoth place of ans use he had meanly ferr out the fact that his wife wag intending to lunch at the) restaurant of their first ob ft | Her cheeks kindled wit tlon—and blazed stilt m when she discovered that sho had staring squarely at Richard! who was lunching with | friends at a nearby table. |} But Dobbin bowed and «miled In |such @ way that inda’s contuaten | jand her sense grievance were| |drowned under a wave of gratitude. | | She nodded brightly } | Good old Dobbin! She had never appreciated how much she was mins ing bim till he had turned up a | last night and offered to take his old} place in her life woman mation bec to change a | ET es ian ttt oe FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS et ( wuar a petty aaav indigna. | re wasmiy Alek Knows Shop Talk NO, BUT IF You LIKE YouR MOTUER. HIM So MUCH JAY MOM WALL GIVE You A PATTERN OF WIA. GWE MEA Ne Si ? Pon x of © y — |} “Here we are,” nodded the Mushroom, stepping up to the > . What « pity | door and tapping sharply. cd aente tad ihaabl ion |happier married to Dobbin? Was it Along a glittering road went | forest k and ihe Magical] The Twins followed, wondering |"eesonable to assume that Debdbin what was going to happen. But tiwy | YOUN not have developed tn the fore Mushroom to find Mr. Pesrabout, the Man-in-the-Moon. Nancy supposed he would be liv. ing in one of the cities they had seen from the mountain, probably the marble city with trimmings of jew- els, and that his house would be the finest one in it. room, stepping up to the door and She pictured him In gorgeour re tapping sharply. “I @o cope th of velvet and fine ermic« with, per-| Mr. Peerabout is at horce haps, a gorgeous crown or bis head.| “Mr, Peerabout! gasped Nency. Nick wondered if he rode a white| “Home!” exclaimed Nick horse—or would he be more likely! What could ft all mean? to do his traveling along the glitter « smiled the Mushroom iog atmosphere of matrimony traits quite as difficult to deal with Rela? Wasn't the fault, then (he institution than with viduals, Was marriage thing but a failure? Fanny caught Lucinda eyeing her and smiled 7 “What under the sun are you on the whole approved of them. He} thinking about so rolemnly, Cindy?” | had pottered a bit with the cinema You, dear. I want you and your at home end he might jog out to Low husband to dine with us—say next | Angeles and see what was to be seen Thursday?” in that capital of the world’s motion. had net long to walt, for 'n a few moments they came © a small tum bie-down wooden hut alm st hidden by the low hanging branches of a silver-willow tre “Here we are!’ noftded the Mush more with the tndi ever any VERETT, ND ME You FOUNTAIN: PEN A SECOND THIS ONE OF MING IS * ar. sme TERRACE RSCES Feseas ing roads in an automobile. “This is where the Manin the-Moon| “t don't know. That's one of the! picture industry, England, he didn’t ovrT OF Probably that was it—a gcla@ car | lives. At least he used to live here. extiting things about being married mind admitting, had a goodish bit to ft would be, no doubt, with tvory | Unless he's got so poor be had to\to Harry Lontaine, one never knows |learn from America in the cinema + trimmings. And would he have two | move out.” what tomorrow will bring forth. /line. If you asked Lontaine, it was footmen, or four, or six? Had the Mushroom lost his senses? | We've got to go to Chicago soon, be his considered belief that the really || @ Cd What a gorgeous >lace the moon | What did he mean by talking that |cause father relented ‘enough to|top-hole productions of the’ future was! It would certainly te nice to|}way? The poorest person in the leave me a jittle legacy, nothing to! would come of combining American! ee | . @ e ndJ live there. Imagine living in an| world surely wouldnt want to live | brag about, but nothing people in| brilliance of photography and inves ss By abe iciand—_ ivory house with— in such a rickety, tumbledown |our position can afford to desplse,|titure with European thorooss 1 x Suddenly the Mushroom stopped | place. | either.” Jacting and direction. Page 679 es and turned off on a little ride path (To Be Continued) “1 do want to meet your husband.”| ‘This forecast wae uttered with an AN EARLY-DAY NURSE that led into the midst of ‘he silver” (Copyrig 22, by Seattie Star) “You will, soon enough. He's) authority that impressed even Lucin David's face was #0 rolemn 't) “When I was a little . re saneuan go . lunching some men down In thel qa, elaborately unintereated as she ih 4 Pe tie was very differe:, from the eeeceeeee For You to Color ° grill, = business luncheon, American! was ghe had maintaingd a haif.|| YS! Simost sulky, and Peasy Srp shen Gpetiagen ihn looked as sympathetic as possible, cinema people.” famile of amiable attention which : 3 D T RA “He'n interested in the motion-ple- | would have deceived a sharper man while mother deur ¢x;‘ained to! was, I went to scnoo! in the little : ture business, then?” and let her thoughts drift on dreary !]) David why it was rea ty tight for| two-roomed frame schov house on 4 oe; “In a way. He has secured Op-| tides of discontent Third between Maldron and ry By Hal Cochran $ | tions on the American rights to some|' sic ty nour the conviction wae{| [im % learn the lines they want t 3 sh productions.” Cee eee tore deeniy Inte {f Shim to say at Suntuy school! Spring rikin ota more ly Into x $ ri. eingar-eaelisva~ “anti geh enacts Lucinda turned round to the wait mad pacagrenseate nm that life with Bel on Children's day | ‘We played in the v-rent lots POCOOCOOOOOOOOEOOOOOOOOEOOOTOOOOOOOOEOESOCSEOES pA ad a coffee to us In on the present terms was unthink But David was irt to con-!| all around there, and 1i* behind WEST POINT eee: ere |] vince. don’t care,” bis said, aaj-stumpe and atumbied over broken | A losing fight. One were mad to a ‘ wooden side Fanny's husband came tn shortly | nope to win, Already Bel wan lost,|f little boys do, when tney care @| boards in the old after Lucinda and her guests had ght in the mad dance of the ays great deal, “I don't carr, 1 just) walks settled down to coffee and cigarets In |tern'y bacchantes, already drunkard|| wish I had been here in the varty| “My father and m«‘her moved a Paim Room and debauchee Nor might «11 her wi hey didr+ have so] away when I was aioat 6 years Tall and well made, Lontaine had | jove redeem him And © thelt 7% whet ; | ; nega the good color of men who care piry: |] much foolishness, J') het pio-| old, #0 I had to come and stay eno for their bodies to keep them| ‘Tears started to her eyes, she neer boys didn't hiv» to say) With grandmother ani auntie so clean of the rust that comes of 1M-| jumped up hastily lest her friends | things on Children’s cay andj I could go to school, aad to Sun- door stodging. The plump and cloee | should see, mumbled an excuse, and everything.” | day school, because there weren't razored face seemed perhaps & made her way out to the foyer, turn ees Livis shade oversize for features delicately | ing toward the women's cloak-room. | Now, nobody had 1ot'ced that | any where we were living, q formed. He affected a niggardiy| ‘The foyer was atill fairly thronged:|{ right in the sun prior grand. 1 remember once when I came gery Pie Rate spoke fal she was almost in Rel's arms before) | mother was entertaining a guest,| @randmother was sick. I was ips formed his words noticeably ‘os him, so near to hi | " n Rabie Wha What OF a, indie nese OAT Oe” ceca Ta he en him that)} on pavid said chat whcut the| Only 7 or 8 years old, but that's ssp acne yprteory sue he CRUENE, a8 she started back, a} A t when th | When I learned that { could take any company, who sets a good value! heavy whiff of breath whisky-fln earlyday boys. Then the guest! core of sick people. is seamen coareaon ee oo spoke right up, and hr eyes) “Auntie had been busy all day, ie nhs 6 Age Naga She heard him say, “Why, hello. |f twinkled when she cwled David to| doing things about tho ‘ouse and He talked well, with assurance,|Linda! What's the hurry?” and cut | | caring for grandmother, so when her, | “Yot t stout 1. You may be right stout Chil! role hale sick herself. dren's day, my dear, © began, “You go to bed, dear,” grand. “but you are altogether mistaken | mother told her, “ant let Katie if you think pioncer * ys eswaped| #leep tn the bed ovsite me and if I need anything she can get it for some humor, and a fair amount of |in instantly with a gasp of indigna | night came she was &> tired she information. He had lived several “What are you doing her | | tlon years in the States, off and on, and) (Continued Tomorrow) YEAR ' OUR FIRST “spe cen’ for t 5 1 meeceggd pieces’ for the Sunday | 10% %— By a Bride et fT OY CHAPTER XII[—FLAPPERS TO THE FRONT Peer et eae a re ; al oui * nee : |man you ever look at! Keep him] “Pog knows! Else why stould she |e Sitls get excited, applied a cool] “Marriage ty all right" Renny “" ts nusbaad ev 1 nt to say to you, Pe 1 ve. “Y 9a aay Rushaad. oreryseiae a pion yuu Pek, 99) cuessing—It you want to keep him|and Jack start out to 1°form mar. | 2 compound: positive, “You girls think Pm announced Mary Smith ao sweetly | the only other gr oh te sul present, | oar | clage | “Why should Peg, or anybody else, |cocious. You're always « that it's best to tell your husband} A want to reform marriaxe?" seen jas briefly everything!” Mary continued, “It's|_ ‘If T want to keep tim ot all? “But we haven't!’ I protested. | speaks slowly and disticetly as piesa ; | “Consequently you believe he tell] the only w |T repeated. “Why suggest ro soon) "Jack and I don't wan: to reform her ideas are always too valuable to| “But 1 know a few thi | you everything?” queried Jeanne. | The only way—if {t vorks both |that there's a chance J] may lose /anybody! We simply claim our right| waste on careless ears. “Isn't mar-|found out he: bout eae “Of course he doe! Mary's kind | ways!” commented Jeanne, “If he| him?" to live our own lives ia our OWN | riage good enough as it ! he ta eaneee a a tt 1's take a boat trip to West Point lof positivenesa is posite only to|tens, toot [Don't flare up, Mre Medisont’|wey! 1 want to be myself! Jack | Wiehe sen eta at Se ucaram ought 0 now and 4 lo she ip es on thone whose opinions ure rooted in “How perfectly hectié!” Our blag | ed Bonny. nd d quit play-| Wants to be himself! So we have | yw ape i ori. 8 to love and lp H 5 ' r blag | drawied Bonny quit pla | We knew the answer so well that! were loved*as every irl wo nts p udéson River way; convention | Mapper-turned to me, "i.e" You'll |ing Miss Innocence! That's last cen. |@areed not to hamper each oth any reply seemed superf!uous. No-| loved, do you think I'd lock at @ That's where they train the soldiers who “How perfectly patlctic! ex-|make Jack utterly conceited if you|tury stuff! Don't you red? Don't | He's free! I'm free! And that's all | body spoke for a long time. Finally/man but my one man- fore! claimed Bonny, incorrigitie flapper. |let him dream that ol Friend Bart | you go to the movies? Ant to shows?| “Goodness! That's all tne people! Jeanne Alison laughed |Monogamy would be Paradise” Protect the USA |That child! Daring to huply that |is a stranger to you-Just because | Lose him? Why blind yourself to|in the divorce suits want" put in| “Since no one objects, 1 think we| And nobody laughed at Yonny ibs | Mary s faith in her huvband was) you're married! Don't! Dwn't let| Fate IBonny. may conclude that marriage is good ! time, pathetic! your husband fancy ho's the only Jeanne, then, to Bonny; Then Mary Smith, as «'ways when 'enough—as it is!” > (To Be Continued)