The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 24, 1922, Page 13

PAGE 13° BY STANLEY THE SEATTLE STAR BE BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN OUR BOARDING HOL on’ WILKY ; SAN, a R= ME = I NEVER NeVeR BouGitT ff GU GIVE Your PAPER Ee] A PAPER I Wis Ff TH'ONLY AUTO A SQUINT® WHAT iZ LFS + We RIDES PAGE 16 MISSING2/~JOUT 1 TH END MANBE T CAN TELL (7 [OF TH CAR LING Vou Whar wae | |AN’ GRABS ONE IN (T* I Picken | < \OFF TH’ sears! OFF ALL “TH’ News “TONIGHT OVER A SHOULDER! 7 nity accusin’ \7 “CANT HANG (Tron NOBODY DIRECT, BUT THEY'S SOMEONE IN THIS HOUSE WHAT TAKES A PAGE OUT OF MY PAPER /> EVERY NIGHT, AN! NEVER BRINGS \T BACK ! oa | WE WOULDN'T “|LIETY LOOK & tT TO FIND OT Wy Lowi Joseph Vere, N HERE TODAY = After five years of married tite, LUCINDA DRUCH decided (hat wealth, youth, Beauty and soclal Wot auffictent for happiness The heavy drinking and promiscuous fi her husband, BELLAMY, had doatroyed Nis wife's lowe for him, and Ne has been warned tha b ate Mean a definite break, Mvents are in this state when Lacinda Visite the studio of ALMA DALEY. motion picture queen, on the invitation of MARRY LONTAINE and of her eehool girl chum, FANNY LONTAINE. Lot {to form a moving pleture company in California. Laicinda ts gr ented in the work at the «tudio, but laws ingly rejects Alma Daley's offer of a chance to appear in the next picture That evening, at the Palais K Lucinda dancing with Deubeney when an in: | toxleated couple crash into them and fall to the floor, | Derisive cackles and guffawe Of) nenamy stood with an affectionate 3 clowns broke out on all sides, and a | Space ‘wan cleared round the’ untor [47m found the shoulders of the door tunates pro not of grinning by wtanders had already begun to} gather Rel's derby was _ perilously | |perched, his overcoat, donned in| |haste, was poorly settled on his | shoulders, tho he had contrived to worry two buttons thru the wro buttonholes, and he was explaining, | unconsctously to everybody within a! | wide radius, the personal service he | required in return for the ten dollar | Dill which he was waving beneath | the porter's nose. “Are you all right, Cindat’ Dob-| Din asked. She nodded and tried to @mile. “Let's got out of this.” No--waitt’ Lucinda insisted. “Perhaps she's hurt.” She brushed his arm aside, only to Giscover that the overthrown woman had regained her feet, and now stood in shrewish fury as, grinning foolishly, he scrambled up. “You clumay dumbbell!" she stormed in a rasping voice that must have carried clearly halt across the} “Now, lishn, Jim ,, . Do'mind my room. “I hope to Gawd 1 got enough | ailin® you Jim, do you, ol” scout?! BZ sense not to dance with you again| Get this straight: M'wife’s here a when you're pickled!" night ‘nd I don’ want her to know | 4 a — And catching her first glimpse of |! wash here, shee? If ehe don’ know the man’s crimson face, Lucinda|! wash here, she's got nothin’ on yielded all at once to Daubeney’s in-|™6, nothin’ ‘tall, shee? So you don’ 8 Bistence. | know me, you never heard of me, 4 But she never quite knew how | shee?” 4 they got back to their table | “Yea, Mr. Druce y XI Sick with mortification, Lucinda WITH HS HIP POCKET ABLAZE PETE PERGAN MADE TWO TRIPS THROUGH THE LIVERY STABLE BEFORE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT COULD CATCH UP WITH HIM But even with the three sides of! turned from the sound of that bab. | the box affording their false show | bling voice of a fool—and heard her | of privacy, it never entered Lucin-|own name pronounced @a’s head to sit down and pretend| “The car is here, Mra, Deuce.” Nothing had happened; the instinct| In a wild stare she identified the to fly at once from this theater of| face of her chauffeur, saw that he| disgrace wag still predominant. Only | understood the situation and was|¢red, then Bel'e eyes fell, and we Ls ~SRGHTWAD'WILKY PAGES A MISSING PAGE ===> | Helen Is Fussy About Clothes DOINGS OF THE DUFFS for a moment she rested standing | an: lous to be helpful | knew she had won. } eda ad darkly dilate. — Phebe Bags Ragctgeonss ie ma fceeae ieee gape = COULD You SPARE WOULD You PIKE THE OH HELEN, WHERE 1S “THAT ¥ a miracle of w doe: 0 “You saw him. of course?” |power whe managed to master her| Were waitin’, Linda. Get ri’ in the A THIN DIME To SPRING OVERCOAT ON THAT) | | SPRING OVERCOAT | HAD SENT Dobbin made a vague gesture of | nerves and, putting aside her horror | car—-be with you in jush a minute.” HELP A GUY To GET BUM? THE VERY SAME OUT YESTERDAY? I'M GOING sympathy. “Frightfully sorry |and humiliation, took thought quick No,” she said firmly—~"you're A Cup OF COFFEE ? : PATTERN AS THE ONE | TO TAKE IT BACK: | SAW Lucinda shrugged. “Don't be. It} ly and clearly, coming with me now.” wasn't your fault.” | “Al I wan’ you to do Ish remem.| She drew him away. He ylelded “I presume we couldn't have been | ber, if Mishish Druce aske if you've | Without remonstrance, permitted her mistaken . . ." Dobbin ventured half. |seen me, you never heard of me, | to lead him te door of the car, heartedly don’ know me ‘tall—shee, Jim, get| stumbled in on his knees, and “No: it was Bel. I think I'd like} what I meant” jerawled up to the seat | fe go. Let me have the carriage} As Lucinda approached the porter | Lucinda followed, the door closed jorte and I'll wait in the car.” | must have guessed who she was, tor | behind her with a clap sweeter than | re mney surrendered the paste |he speke to Bellamy in a low voice,|Mmusic in her hearing, And with} fe TCiveut 8M4 called for the check |and the latter swung round with) Purring geara the car shot out ot Beattic Ste went out startled eyes and a dropping jaw. | range of those leering faces X faigitet door she gave the at-| She closed her fingers on his wrist| Lucinda had forgotten Dobbin aa| itch. throw-arriage-check together, and put all her strength into that| utterly aw if she had never known Green CReand hurry, please! | graxp. | him. | jer weigh anhea respectfully and] “Come, Rel,” she sald clearly and| Bellamy lay in a loone slouch. | Btafford & Se) [not unkindly Please breathing heavily. The passing lights! t keep me 9 the street. a move! waiting. The car is here, we're go-|reveaied the upidity of his con MITUATIONS ‘°' & Li = = 7 te immediate reason’ ing home.” | coated feature Hig eyes were half./ chauth: & few feet away For a mo Intelligeny > (om governs eee For You to Color methine : sINTED TRAVELS By Hal Cochran astonishment by The Seattw Star) Alone, her first move was to se | eeses $ cure the door communicating with | Rel’s rooms. ‘Then she threw her: | |melf upon the bed, She heard Rel maundering incoherently to his valet; the valet seemed to be trying to make him lsten to reason and failing in the end. The neck of a decanter chattered against the rim of @ glans, there was a lull in the murmur of volees, then a thick ery and the thud of a fall. After that the quiet was little dieturbed by the! valet’s labors with the body of the drunkard. Eventually the man went ut and closed the door, In the «ub. equent allence the clock chimed twelve Lucinda rose then, and changed to her simplest street sult. ; For half an hour or 0 she was busy at desk and drossing-table. acking a cheque book and her jew els with other belongings in a small and-bag. She did not falter onee r waste @ single move thru indec ! jon, Indeed, it did not once eccur| man of the frock-coat school that he | there was anything to be| was fone but what she meant to d N lis { down the etairs.jand 1 the balance way. | closed, he seen When at ten to be asleep. h the car stopped.! she famped out and, lving Bellamy to the enre of the chauffeur and foot man, ran up to her reoms, The maid waiting there she dismissed for the! night In half a dozen words whome decision sent the woman from her in (Copyright, 192 EVERETT TRUE o hert withstanding that Harford Wil | pledged to a code of morals « vinted in the early ply | snoring, cre ind with tnfinit ann stealth let herself | cighteen-eighties, and so imp’ a nistio to the general trend of | Spurred by irra present.day thought on the divorce | wake up, discover her flight,| question, his great affection for Lu-} » made {| cinda predisposed him to allow that} aste for Fifth avenue; a cab slid Up! the course sh d taken with Bel | » the curb, its driver with two fin-| lamy had been the only one his con- toh Pp soliciting a fare. Lu) duct had left 0 to her. | HOVEL, CLERK WITH THAT ar Callie +4 COLD, /MPASSIVE, SUPER . ‘PetoryIeook- * By Mabel Cle ve chase, Lu = nda breathed the first ad¢ that My dear Lucinda,” Willig intoned ame to mind—"Grend Central, | deliberately, “I must say you seem nave, Savon: ease” —hopped in, and shrank fear-|to be bearing up remarkably well, s - ti a S great. to watch Niagara Falls rn ole ge fergie Al el Penge Ml Sr gppsno tint | RAMS Rs ROR =. Pgs <A With all the wonders init — At the station @ negto porter with | wetl.* ty loves to hear storien about mis-| “1 tiptoed, cover. and’ peaped red r M the cab door and I've stopped howling and drum | chief, into which these gray-) in; I don't remember them all, but Where fifteen million cubic feet, ok possession of her single piece of] ming the floor with my heels,” Lu Of water fal] each minute. luggage, and when she had paid off! cinda admitted—"if that's what you the tax! a »ked to him in inde-| mean. When 1 found it didn't do| n, prom her with: “Whut/ any good, I gave it up. I've felt ‘ . : train was wishin’ to tek,| more cheerful ever sir ma‘am | “Cheerful! Willis repeated in a} ADVENTURES haired friends of hers used to} 1 do remember the one which con. got when they were the little folks | tain | of Seatue | pne there stood a nice wide brush. it “I touched the brush handk, I ‘yellow ochre,’ for in this “There wasn't a house in tie,” Mra, Shults went on, “when | lifted it up and the yellow paint grandfather got here, which had/ dribbled deliciously from the ulchral voice. An instant later Lucinda was won- | ge | dering why she replied: “The first} ‘More like an average human be | y {train for Chicago, please.” She knew! ing who's been horribly hurt but | OF T HE 7 WINS no reason why she should hawelwho can’t see why life should plastered walls. People thought} brush back into the bucket. I Chive Roberts Barta = |named Chicago rather than any oth nted a total loss for all that.” | they couldn't use plaster in this] lifted it @ litte higher, and very, sin ag lo ; aie a vim |@F city where she was unknown and ou don't think it would be|] climate—thought it would make | very carefully I touched just one WHAT A FIX THE MOON-MAN’S IN! HE CAN'T where she might count on being free] worth whi Z wile manent ate bade hedhen Ackuts | wecaane “andaek. (hor stn abate eee i f to think things out in her own time/|one in duty bound, “to forgive Be | : When Nancy and Nick bag had slide the whole way without any|ana faxnion . : fomy, give him another chanee?” “But grandmother couldn't en-| slowly and carefully I drew it ; tea at the Moon-Man’s house, and|trouble at all.” i | xi | "1 'aon't know that I've got any-|f qure the thought of not having | own 9h, not Thank you just the) «Inexpreasibly shocked: Arriving|thing to forgive him, Mr. Willis “1 dipped it again and raised it neraped up the last bit of crackers] 10h, Dorf her Hotise plaatered, bo they got] and milk out of their bowls, the ‘the Mushroom. “Oh, bY /tomorrow. Will call on you ten a.| Why should I forgive him for being| ’ list,”* } , ° | as high as 1 could reach and ; | way, here's the list,” he re|m, Meanwhile Bank of Michigun|true to himself? It's myself I can’t}, men to finish the hall that way.) 08 Nis Magical Mushroom said he'd be go-| marked, reaching in his pocket andj wil! supply you with funds in any | forgive, because 1 was silly enough rirat they nailed on the nar-| made a second broad yellow ing. Fe nding a folded paper to the Moon-/ amount you may require if you will|to let him go on as long an T did, row laths, then they covered! Streak, and again and again, till “yy t , | Man be pleased to identify yourself to M: , ea laughing stock Be , I'll go to the top of the mountain |! : r ify your r.| making me a laughing P nith-reusts pias there were five of them in all, Why, bless my soulf’ cried Mr.| Southard there.’ | cates, Te wat bo ware it's, boee tae them with rough plaster, and last: | we landed on and take a jump,” said | he. “My wide parachute hat will| { keep me from falling, and I'll sail to be forgiven our sins; we're all ly they put on a shining coat of| “Well! My grandmother wasn’t 1 | | | Peerabout, wiping his hands, “I'd| The author of this telegram, which | | tu taanioned one of the new fashioned women | | | | forgotten all about It, It shows I'm | was delivered on the morning of Lu-|such vain creatures, we're too apt hard plaster as white and smooth down ever so gently to the earth, |#%ttine old. They'll soon have to|cinda's fifth day tn Chicago, was|to take forgiveness a# a license to} ay q china cup | who do not believe in spiinking, 9, get another Man-in-the-Moon, that's punctual to the minute of hie ap-| misbehave still more. Don't you Then I'll go to the Fairy Queen's pal- | . p-| misbehave sti . » jp) and 1 got all that was coming to ace and tell her everything's ali{sute. First thing you know some | pointment; otherwise he would hard: | see?” | Tean remember just how it! 8M right.” |time I'll be going around in the day-|ly have been the rectilinear gentle (Continued Tomorrow) looked, that first plaster that ever | ™ light instead of the night and folks covered a Seattle wall. T walked | “And you know that as long as “If you like, I'll send a moonbeam down till it touches the earth,” said Mr. Peerabout, dumping the bowl into a dish pan pouring hot water over them, “Then you can a SO will think I'm lost.” fi ' ; down the hall and looked at ita| that wall stood, the marks of my Nancy and Nick were curious to | { i Ol IR FIRST YI SAR $1] nowy smoothness, T looked up at| M&Ushtiness could be seen. ‘They HE the setae scrubbed and rubbed and they |! know what the paper was about, as there didn't seem to be much of & shirt about it, they tlatened. | By a Bride ———— “Hum, hor’ sighed the Moon-Man,| CHAPTER XViI—THE WIFE AND THE OFFICE celling and my eyes oe | traveled “down the wall ana, tinted the wall they wanted white, and at last they painted it, but stopped at a row of very pretty | always sort of grinning out at me putting on his specs and looking at { |the paper. ‘The usual crowd wants| And now I have made Jack late o'clock. And he fairly yelled out and mussy-ooking paint buckets were those horrid yellow stripes.” |! the usual things, The people of }to the office two mornings in suc “Late again, Madison! You Were | —_—s«/\. 4 #49 © need | — - Whispering Forest want no moon at! .oudon! I'm terribly sorry because | M@te Yesterday! Why? Explain! | I'm happy because I have my! 1 shiver when IT think of itt I 7 Jall #o they'll he safe from Fleet Fox And after storming so that almost | boy off earlier in the morning!” fand rivalries lovely pearl beads to set off my black | put my hand suddenly to my collar — and Blunder Bear Jack hates it #0. He'x punctual bY| .eevneay turned around to'nee how | “So sweet af you to tell me, dear!| I'm hoping it won't happen in our|crepe when 1 go to the morning|and my precious bends, unclasped, “The Wikglefin "People, down |nature; never too early, never t0O) Jack took it, the “boss’ went right |Jack never would! T answered. As case, For Jossie Langdon added an| bridge. But 1 came close to losing | slid In a heap into my palm! : junder the want a full moon tm |late at any engagement on with busines ind never gave|I hung up the receiver I was ro- invitation to her phone talk. Or them the other day on a street car, I'd weep if 1 lost those silly beads jcause the tide ts high then. Mr.| Unfortunately, there's a staff | Jack a chance to say a single word, | minded of what Juck often had said, |rather, she said that she called me| Across from me I noticed a strange | bought with the first money my his Hunter wants @ sickle moon turned | mecting the first thing each morn | Perfectly maddening! that business und society mix about |to invite me to a morning bridge. | looking man, dark, thin, a foreigner, | band gave me upside down so it will rain and that’s |ing. And the “bt has a horrit And it was my fault that Jack had/as well as ol} and water | It’s a pre sive party, from 10 to| was watching me. He was rude. I I took them to the nearest jeweler, — good for hunting. habit of pointing out tardy individ-|to endure the humiliation, But he} 1 think Jack is wrong, J think a|12, with breakfast at noon |was annoyed |The clerk said the clasp was all” “Mr. Farmer wants the moon!uala for reprimand nd making didn't tell me about it, Jessie Lang | wife can help a husband wond A brand new idea in this town, T| In the crowd on the platform as right. He suggested that somebody jturned the other w so it will We them feel like small boys late tojdon did. She had lunched with her} fully by being friendly with the of-|think I'll give one, I want to gol we left the car this man stood close had tried to steal them, and we ° |dry and that's good for planting. | school husband downtown and then she! fice, But Jack Insists that he doesn’t | to Jessie's to meet the wife of Jack's|to me, As 1 stepped out he was| laughed together, 1221-Th id Ave | Hum, ho! What shall f do?” This morning he pointed a fore | phoned me like cliques, and that just as soon) “boss.” Tam convinced it will be|higher than T and at the moment] Who would risk committing @ ~~ ird Ave (To Be Continued) lfinger straight at Jack when he! “f thought you ought to know," |as the wives get friendly the cliques|a good thing for Juck if 1 am on|1I thought I felt a touch of warm | crime for « string of false pearls? ‘COR UNIVERSITY (Copyright, 1922, by Se attic Star) [walked in eight minutes after 9!ehe said, “so you can get the poor are sure to form and create jealousics | friendly terms with Mrs. Boss, fingers on the back of my neck (To Be Continued >