The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 19, 1922, Page 13

FRIDAY, MAY 19. 6) LOUIS JOSEPH VAN @1QTr by Lows Joseph Varn, BEGIN HERD TODAY 1922. : Mad the time come for ? JOR, wealthy, young and beauttfll, to Dreak with her husband, This wae the thought runing thru Lucinda’s mind as she lunched with her friena, FANNY LONTAINT, at the Rite After five years of married Ifa Mel's tnourabdle appetite for Dp flirtation and his heavy drinking had slmost destroyed her love, Bhould a! parried RICHARD DAU ‘That very morning #he had, Juneheon appointment with MRA AMELIE SEVERN. th out recent ahe separated from her friends for an tne Slightly te! a by accident, overheard her husband making « Jeot of hy nt and wa Go ON WITH THE stony “Thought I'd look tn on your} butt tn, Cinda. party. You know, you asked me—"/ mind.” She could not trust her tongue. If | © aluage aes tgs os eeu | can seo you're troubled abou! ehe sald more in her anger, 8h | something because I know #0 much would ay too much. She cried all| better than anybody else, I'll lay tm a breath: “Well, go away then! | long odds no one else has noticed 1 don’t want you, I won't have you! /anything, but to my sesing eyes ind pushing past Bel, fled into the | you've been flying signals of distress K-room. {all during Junche: That being #0, He drew himeelf up sharply and it wouldn't be decent of me not froned out all indications of his em. | give you a hail and stand by tn ¢ Darrassment, assuming what he be. | I'm needed—now would it?” Neved to be a look of haughty indif-| Momentarily Lucinda contended ference. jagainst temptation. Then, “You are His gaze focused intelfigently upon |a dear, Dobbin,” she said almost re. the glass case that displays the gretfully. “But ft isn't fair of you wares of the hotel florist. Women /|to aee too much, If it’s true I have Uked flowers. But there were four | secrets I don't want to are, it in Linda's party, her guests would | would be kinder to let me keep them think {t funny tf he joined them,|—don't you think?" bringing flowers for his wife only! Jean Sediey was claiming her at . A tough problem. He decided | tention. “What do you think of that, to step round to the club and mull it) Cindy? Isn't it a ripping ideat’ over... “Afraid I didn’t hear—I was flirt. He had disappeared by the time! ing with Dobbin.” Lucinda showed herself again. Out-| “Yes, I know, But Mr. Lontaine wardly mistress of herself, she re | has just made a priceless suggestion sumed her chair as Richard Daube | about the pageant. He says we can ney passed with his luncheon party, | have moving-pictures taken as we and made directly for her corner.| enter the ballroom and shown before Instantaneously Lucinda expert. | the evening is over. enced a slight peychico shock and| “I don't kno Lucinda demurred. found herself again the selfcon-| “It must be a weird sensation.” tained, the young woman of | “Not one you need be afraid of,” World whom nothing could dismay.|Lontaine promised. “If you don't Dobbin knew everybody except the mind my saying #0, you would Lontaines; and when the flutter cre | screen wonderfully, Mrs. Druce.” ated by his introduction had sub-| “You think #0, really?" eided, he found a chair by Lucinda’s| “Tell you what,” Lontaine offered side and when the conversation eagerly: “suppose you take teat swung to a pageant he took advan-| what? No trouble at all to fix it up tage of the genera! interest to detach | for you. Take us all, for that mat | Lucinda's attention. ter, Just ae we are. What do you “I couldn't resist the temptation to | say?" OPVetuess or IME TW! a In the lobby i by her husband, Hope you don't “How are you, Nancy! Pleased to meet you, Nick!” said Mr. Peerabout pleasantly. ‘The door of the tumbledown hut, had answered thelr knock. under the sfiver trees opened, and a) “Nancy, this is Mr. Poursbout, the funny, queer, ragged, little old man | Man-in-the Moon. Mr. Prerabout, appeared, to the Twine’ astonished this is Nancy, one of be Twins.” “What a queer servant the Man.| Then the Mushroom Introduced fn-the-Moon keeps,” thought théy. It | Nick the same way, Nancy curtesied and Nick bowed, both still too sutprised 19 way as much as how-do-you-o. Acd as they were always polite little folk, It show ed the state of their feelin; was bad enough to find that his high. | eas lived in such a miaeratie place m the rest of the mecn wan so enificent, but this was «till worre: they had visited a good many royal people on their adventures and never “How are you, Nancy’ Pleased to yet had they been admitted Ly a foot. meet you, Nick,” sald Mr. Peer man so poorly clad. “Ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho” chucktd the queer, ragged persor. who looked for all the world like ny, fat friar. “Here's company, and you're &s welcome as poverty.” Nancy was terribly offended and and then the other, a pleasant journey?” The Mushroom ans-verec ‘or them. “Very! Very nice, sir! The Fairy Queen sent the Twins to help you after she read your note. Did you have Nick waa beginning to ‘eel pretty) While they were tulking, the cross at #0 rude a speech. when the Twins couldn't help noticing the Magical Mushroom, their fairy com- | Moon-Man's ragged clot bis bare feet, long beard and hen’ as bald as @ dinner plate (To Be Continned) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) Panion, said something tliat made them stare with astonishment He was introducing them to be | Queer, fat, jolly, ragged person who For You to Color TINTED TRAVELS By Hal Cochran $ (Copyright, 1922, by The Seatt! $ COCCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOO OOO OTOL OSELESSER LONG ISLAND SOUND ]t's Fun to watch the Fisher folks Island Sound —~ ee oes some of the Finest of Our oyster beds are found, ood elt Dobbin.” who had now returned to New York?! about pleasantly, winking one eye | THE OUR BOARDING HOUSE “Ll say it's perfectly splendid Jean Sediey deciared. “V all love it. When can you arrange itt" “This afternoon, if that everybody. Only have to telephone, and in half an hour they'll be all ready for us. Shall I? Lontaine got jout of his chair, “Do say yea, a lyou. Mra. Druc jwit if you dot | “I don’t mind,” Lucinda agreed hesitantly | “Righ utes..." 1 Give me five min- vir he performed, This cinema ch: knew, Culp, had professed only too delighted. With two cars at tte disposal, the party split up into threes, Mre. Sed p himseif | Lucinda r ment nd turned back to telephe that would be late. Having eeen no more of Bellamy since thelr encounter, she had dis missed the possibility of his return Jing. The surprise was so much the more unwelcome, cohsequently, when on leaving the booth saw hustand, with his hat on the k of his head and bie arms full lavender orchids, wavering irreno. lutely in the entrance to the Palm | Room, surveying with a dashed ex pression its now all but deserted spaces, With sickening contempt, Lucinda made hastily for the revolv ing door Simultancously Bel caught sight of her and, with @ blurred travesty of b lly charming emile and a fal tering parody of that air of gallant alacrity which she had once thought 80 engaging, moved to intercept Lu cinda, And finding her escape cut off, she paused and awaited him with a stony countenance. | “Ah! there you are, eh, Linda! "Fraid I'd missed you. Sorry coulda’t | get back sooner, but ‘ allied her bridge engage * lo | “I'm not,” Lucinda interrupted, “But—look here, Linda: be reason abie—" “h think I have been—what you {call reasonable—iong enough—too | long!” tening hie lips. “Here you? Plenty for you and all your | friends.” Again Lucinda defeated his at tempt to disburden himself. “Oh. Bel be # whe cried sadly h a fool?” “How'm I a fool? inflexibly I don't mind tagging along but I don’t want you.” Injudictously again, Bellamy elect ¢d to show hin teeth: “See Sorry, ? 1 know the others An Lontaing had promised, eo had! ley, Mra. Guest, and Lontaine lead }ing the w On the point of enter jing her car after Fanny, however, | nulte | Bellamy hesitated, nervously mots | ko these flowers, won't | how can you Thought 1 was! here: ) WELL TOM,| SEE Yo! WHERE ARE THE +3. ene" bytsen est] j steanes —— Resets t- / Pod, T WANT A NEW PAIR OF SHOES. | stil! think you have anything to aay | “consider it carefully before y me to listen. Remember wha you now last time, one more lie everything between us, final for all timet” wi vit | second-story windows | ALMA DALEY STUDIOS INC BEN This was the nursery in BY AHERN ome ES tr { ra NEWT SHES | BEEN FISHING- BUT 8 Ca ou ask t 1 tell you've lied to me for the HM end ly and SEATTLE THE CLERKS ALONG MAIN STREET ARE ON THE JOB EARLY SINCE “THAT DOINGS OF THE DUFFS FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS I’) wary, ARE Yours ALL WORN OUT On the tar West Side, the brough: | koing to please you I've made | am drew to a shuddering stop before Jarrangements to have the afternoon | a row of brick buildings. That they free, just to be with you. We'll go|were united in one service was ewhere.” pved b the legend running from We will not,” Lucinda told him/|end to end of the row beneath its CULP CULP, which where are you going? I've got a|what Mr. Culp (or bis press agent) right to know—" |had brilliantly imaged as the young: | Have Bel? Think again. | est, fairest sister of the plastic arts never ask you such questions. If 1| was g the finest flower of its did, you'd either lose your temper or| expression, towit, the artistry of lie to me, and justify yourself by as-| Alma Daley, in private life, Mrs serting that no man ought to asked to stand prying into his af \ tire. So—I leave you to your af fairs—and only ask that you leave me to mine.” either spoke in that wil slightly nobered. “Please!” penitence, “Didn't mean talk business at luncheon: then?” asked Lucinda sweetly, paus ing. ‘Of course.” affair with Amelie has reached the point where you take her to the Clique club to talk tern Bellamy's jaw sagged, his eyes were blank with What else do you consternation wish me to think, Bellamy He made a pitiable effort to pull himself together. “Look he Lin da: you're all wrong about this—mis- informed, I can explain—Damn it, you can't refuse “Can't 1? sleep. When you wake up, it you U r oO " - e6 Mary Smith asserted. “The troul with men and women ts they're not equal to living up to It." I knew in my heart that what Mary said was true, true But she failed to make a hit with us girls because her manner and her tone implied that she and ber husband clash of | sthairs.” 9 until Bellamy’s weakened, his|a wire door swung back eyos shifted, and he stepped aside, | filed through he begged In a turn of| landing upon whi . had| doors stood all c to pull myself together somehow to| “Ob! it was @ business luncheon, |and ejected a nervo “You leave meq to infer that your | wide With every aymptom of disgust | the bookkeeper growled at Lontaine "Yees kin g’wan up—but mol | sthep He pressed a butte nd g stairs to bh a numb | flights of crea |stenciled; PRIVATE. One of the doors opened | young man, Mr. Lan nd yer m and the party stumbled up two a tiny per hastily y ingratiating secretary to they’s a darrrrk turn in the of | d, each sternly | | Mr. Culp. He shook each visitor warmly by the hand, then threw another of the PRIVATE the main stage, the final “The if you'll b making sets now of her latest picture, |the Dark’; #0 enough not to talk out Miss Daley is very, er, tempe }tal, you underatand | Reverently the barbarians Jinto the studio and huddled Go home, Bel, get some | aweastricken group. (Continued Tomorrow) FIRST YEAR ———~~ By a Bride - CHAPTER XIV—MAN TOO GOOD OR “Monogamy could be Paradise very | the perfect wedded existence the smugness TOO TI suppose it's some really good people whic vents them from reformir not so virtuous. | For once ed little ingenue,; Bonny, our prim Mary. “Basier to change change human nature,” were particularly qualified to achieve | sighed, ladies, scenes irl in kind loud ramen tiptoed in an BAD? of pre thone wick h reed with merrlage than Bonny y in working on one of the} | STAR Rai \AREARIN ALL AWAY - LIKE NO, BUT T WANT A NICE NEW PAIR. Q ‘ar. * * GOOD LITTLE NURSE Mother dear looks4d puzzled.) “So all by myself U discovered You nee, she wam't as old as| What ry nurse &nows now, grandmother's guest, so she didn’t quite understand “Do you mean,” she raid, “that your grandmother waa really ill, and that a little bit of chMid was 7 Tc seems wo careful given the care of ho no strange, we are now to keep children wway from sickness.” The guest emiled as +he answer. “You do lote of thligs that ploneers couldn't do, When peo- ple got sick there were no trained nurses to call in, the family or friends took care of them, and 4, often it happened that 4 child be. | came @ really good nurse, “So this night [was quite pleased to take cars of grand. sunie went resh air, mother, and while out to get a breath of I bustled around as unportantly | as you please “Grandmother wan feverish and restless and when I tached her soft, wrinkled hands, they felt hot ary ‘0 I lipped out to the kitchen, and getting a basin of water and @ soft cloth and towe's, I began to bathe her hands and face, her neck hing your touch ts, 1. "Cont feels a4 pcon asleep. 1 SUPPOSE You CAUGHT YZ ALOT BUT GAVE THEM Tag Uses “Indirect Method” T JUST BoU6uT ThosB SWOES NOT OVER. FOUR. WEEKS AGO SO ee tur! tut! NO BEGSING, YOUNG MAN. * Page 680 THE OLD HOME TOWN FF py) “HIS ISTH’ CAKES © WITH ALL DUE RESPECT OD MRS. HOOPLE'S WIGWAM, I'D LIKE To RENDER MY SNORES AN! SPEAR “TH’ SPUDS IWTHIS PALM PALACE = ELEVATORS TO HAUL YOU TO YouR STALL, RANT No STANDIN IN Z DOES THAT Look IT? NOULL KEEP WHAT You WAND. Ny * + & that a sponge is u fine thing for fever, tut grandmother and I had to do it without letting ine others know, or I should e been | stopped—but I was ¢ to tell you about the speaking. | “Let—me—see—that was about 1879, I think. I don’t reme: | how many ehurehes ew I | can count them, tho; there were the two Methodist clurches, the White chureh, and the Brown church, and the Pres)yterian (th Cathol was our church), and the and the Episcopal, and the Ply- mouth Congregational and the Ba st, that’s seven, ‘srt it? “And we were all very friendly. ‘The Congregationalists hadn't any building for a long time and they | had the us the White chur every other Sunday, an] vad their Sunday school in tne White church Sunday afternoon “Then, at Christmas time, we all had trees and peegrams and we would plan them on 4ifferent nights so that we could teke them all in, and the chlidren could # each other ‘speak thelr pieces’ [even tho we attenasd different Sunday schools. “I remember Worth Dinsmore used to be one of the star speak- ers at the Congregational celebra | tion, but there's a funiy story | about that.” \ (To Be Continued) Iness gracto! You baby doll! Where did you get that stuff?” de jeorge Bradshaw?" Ronny nodded. “Divorced “And a father!" “Does your mother know?" “How can We seo each other only once a day! Aud then we talk about our frocks!” “Somebody ought to heave sense enough to tell your father" “Daddy would be too b: ten! That's just why ol takes an interest in me. have so Original ones, He tella nm about life |and love as he has found them, And asks my opinion. Oh, girls! George is the fascinating know!" y to His. most man 1} daughter ts as old as you pommented Jeanne frigidly. ps her out of the way in a boarding school in winter and a girls’ camp, in summer, much interest in ber ideals: jare, TH’ WAY SOME OF “— 7 THESE FLASHY EGGS STRUT AROUND THIS COOP “THEY “THINK TH’ HOTEL WAS Jes’ BUILT | FOR “THEM , THEY'RE WERE, Ad! Pri) - BE TORN DOWN WHEN THEY LEAVE = THAT'S {WHY HOTELS CHECK Aloe! I'LL SAY You HAD PRETTY Goop Luck! AS A FISHERMAN ILL HAND IT ToYou “She makes him nervy: explained. George | her mother We says 1) to do with me? y big ideas about things. | righ love wel What can y began Jeanne so su I was pleased to hear | her. be sure Bonny ousiit to know All girls ought to know.’ good!" Me doesn't take | nothing will keep a womar, from set- Ung up an idol and breaking her PAGE 13 BY STANLEY “THAT “TELEPHONE OPERATOR CM) SURE JUGGLE GUM AN’ WRONG! NUMBERS = LOOK HOW GUE WORKS A SMILE FOR THAT SNAPPY SAP TRYING TO GETA LONG DISTANCE CALL “To N/VAWK= WHAT WE KNOWS ABOUT THAT] WAMLET= ILL BET HE THINKS TH’ “SINGER BUILDING” IS A CONCERT HALL» " WHILE | | MY DAD RUNS THE FISH MARK AND HE SAID HE MADE A MISTAKE AND CHARGED You FoR FIVE FISH AND ONLY GAVE YOU Fours HERE IS THE SEVENTY CENTS. BY BLOSSER AWWWWe Now TOUNT J Go'T' TW PICNIC ‘CAUSE V7 TWONT WANE NO SWOB BOX T CARRY Mt’ LUNCH IN f Bonny |heart whon it smashes!” “He says she's just like! “You talk just like George” Bonny But what, hus she got|fairly beamed upon Jenene, “He “(1 my own | says he never Was as gvod to start U can about| with as his wife thoushc end he never was half as bad in the end as 1 Cappers—"' | she believed.” reillously that] “Bonny! You ought not to let old wy Juterrupt | men like George Bradshaw tell thelr intimate family histories to you! It {t's awful!” onstrated Mary. | “Of course you young girls ought to ym any jlearn about love, [t's the greatest Nothing | thing in the world! But, dear, pet from the George Bradshawaf* (To Be Continued o find out all if wisdom would do * said Jeanne.