The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1922, Page 13

WEY BUS! ARE THESE YOUR TRIMMINGS 2+ THEY CAME I MY LAUNDRY, AN’ I DIDN'T TUMBLE UNTIL I CRAWLED INTO ONE OF YOUR NECK BELTS © THOSE CHINKS DOWN THE SEATT YEH, THATS PART OF MY ACT = AN! I A SUPPOSE VGOT MORE FINGERPRINTS ON 'EM “THAN A pooRKNOB= I'M Gow! DOWN "To THAT WRINGER PALACE LE STAR BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN THOSE GUDS- SAILORS WORKED “THEIR LAST “TRICK ON MY “TRAPS = I SENT W A New SeT OF SOCKS AN! GOTA PAIR OF SPATS BACKs THEY MUSTA BEEN PAGE 13 BY STANLEY vy A A Ad B ROBIMS@ AN’ WARM UP A RIOT s —— LAGT WEEK 1 TURNED W A SWELL SHIRT AN!’ | tone neverthelons seemed to force ex plosively past the tremulous, waxen | Nps, “Oh, don't worry your head about me: think about yourself Don’t forget you can be contaminat eo eorry ed by @ creature like me, don't for mS movement must have been | get'—she accomplished a singularly) interpreted, for the girl sprang | true production of Summeriad’s | wie o threatened animal, jtone—"I'm ‘really not the sort you My don't want your help can afford to get mixed up with't*| gamed throatily. “don’t I'm 80 sorry you heard, Misa} Of course neither of ual ‘alone! She flung herself at! had any idea you were—" as if to thrust her out by| “Kavesdropping! why don't : “Go! go! go!” she screamed. | say it? I'm not ashamed,” fe ue ‘window slammed, | “But are you fair to me? T meant thing,” Lucinda told her! no harm, I didn’t say—what you re She must have heard . . Xx -" | gent—you know," The girl gave a grimace of pure! Hgpere was at this time little room| hate. “No,” she — snaried-—"you | fp Lucinda’s inner life for other didn’t say anything unkind; you} js troubles, she was much too/| were too busy posing as Lady Boun.| engrossed in doting on/tiful to pase uncharitable remarks! | radiant Linda Lee, victress in @ | Rut he—he sald enough—enough for | fem of duct of which Summeriad|me, Oh, I'm not saying he didn’t = AT THAT SOAP CIRCUS MUST BE Pickin’ QUR LAUNDRY OUT OF A GRAB- BAG! WALKING WITH 'EM & MY COLLARS HAVE MORE TEETH THAN AN only wanted to help you, if I ga. Lucinda explained, getting ener feet. “If you're unhappy— rea DSTRESS SIGNAL W RETURN! ef 3 she want) ‘4 to do with you--only to be} Marquis, = a you E7522 dad a master who had never|tell the truth! I'm ‘a bad lot,’ all! defeat. Rumors current of | right—a rotten bad let, if you want \\\ — with women had found|to know——and I'll, be worse before | \y lenient; mortal/I'm better, So you watch out and AY that, It feeds on) keep away from me—<d'you hear ay Think as/ es," said Lucinda coolly—"clear. | 4 ‘ ) we az you will of yourself, you and went her way ‘ ¥ gall not find unacceptable the be Her car brought her to the Zinn that one well loved by many has | studios, Jaid low by you alone. . Neither Lynn nor Joseph Jacques, morning, as every morning | his director, was in evidence, but the ghe woke with a smile respon: | cameraman said the two of them me to the smiling promise of the | had retired to the directors’ office galled for her car and sailied | for a conference. } To the offite Lucinda and Panny Lontaine repaired and—-their knock | being answered by @ morose grow! there discovered Summeriad, in elaborate evening clothes, a thought. | ful scow! on hia handsome, painted face, while Jacques, « mild-mannered | young cinema sultan, tm riding-|Dut this morning she sent round! breeches, and boots, sitting on the| Word she had ptomaine posoning.” desk itself, and moodily drumming} “Gloria Glory?’ Fanny comment its side with his heels. ed. “Why, | saw her down at Sun- “We were wondering if you'd care | set last night.” to be an angel to us, Linda” said) “Too much party,” Jacques inter Summeriad. | preted. “i had the hunch, al) right “Help us out of the worst eort of | Gloria sure do crook @ mean elbow a hole, Misa Lee.” Jacques added. when she gets it unlimbered,” “But what is it?” | “Then you’! do it, Linda? } | | ) ly — > : : TO STIMULATE. BUSINESS, ROBINSONS STORE a OFFERS A BEAUTIFUL HANGING LAMP FREE - ‘ r fooms were so situated that ereach the main entrance she had te the corner room now occu. d by Nelly Marquis, and mali. gees luck would have it that the should meet. ‘The Marquis girl had been out and returning with a emall packet m a shabbily gloved hand. de woman with a graceful her face held elements of of a wild, sweet sort, but and wasted by despondency “impaired health. Today the rings under ber cyes were @, the eyes themselves more than when their look had to Lucinda’s sympa. And seeing her so, Lucinda & solicitous cry—“Why, Miss paused and extended an ive hand. girl swerved away from the shrinking to the wall; her patura! color ebbing till the was livid on cheeks and lips, Tom's Comeback Was Wasted HELLO-HELLO,TILLY- THERE 15 SOMEONE. BUTTIN’ IN ON THIS LINE - IT’S THAT LITTLE SAWED OFF DUFF PERSON! @ HE'S ALWAYS LISTENING IN ON THIS LINE. - HE'S THE WORST BUSY BODY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD- DOINGS OF THE DUFFS YES SHE GAVE A BRIDGE PARTY YESTERDAY— THE LUNCH WAS TERRIOLE ~ WHAT DID SHE HAVE P- OH SOME BUM SALAD AND BUM COFFEE-THE CREAM WHO DO You THINK YoURE CALLING A SAWED OFF BUSYBODY. YOU OLD PHONE HOUND- You GAS OVER THIS PHONE FROM MORNING UNTIL NIGHT! DON'T ‘You EVER SToP LONG ENOUGH TO EAT OR SLEEPS HELLO: THIS 1S CENTRAL YouURE TALKING To ~ TOM, WILL You CALL UP WE GROCERY AND HAVE “THEM SEND over A QUART OF MILK, A LOAF OF BREAD AND A HEAD LeTTUce ? MAIN 4963 = “Oh, nothing at alt! Summeriad) “I'l love doing it. What do you; Assured her with a laugh that depre.| want me to wear?” i cated the very idea-—"all we want! “Crossaaddie costume, Miss Lee,” | you to do ts forget you're a star, or | Jacques oxplained. “White breeches | going to be, and play a little part|and a pair of swell boote—you know | | with me in this picture we're doing |—like the society dames wear when | now.” they go hoss-backing in Central) “I'd love to.” Park, New York, if you've ever seen | “Yes,” aaid Lucinda soberty—/| “once or twice. [ daremy I ean) pick one up in Los Angeles this| | afternoon.” Jacques “You are a brick, Linda, and no | Well? she said sullenty—“what! mistake. You've no idea what ‘@ yon want jload you've taken off our minds } “Confountied by thix proof of » how-| You see, this part, while nothing to} Lu: nda experienced no difficulty ‘Wily a8 pertinacious as it was per-| speak of in itself, ix awfully import.|in fitting herself acceptab’y with «| faltered: “But--you/ant to the picture in one way: it ab | ready-made comtume of white linen sotutely demands samebody who's | for cros-saddie riding, and light tan| “Well, and if I am. what's that to| got everything you've got. Doots of soft leather. WMA m The words uttered in a level “We had Gloria Glory engaged:| ‘The prospect af at last doing real ——— - work before a camera, after her lon, Aleck Has a Fertile 7 O Wait since falling in with Lontaine’s scheme, inspired a quiet elation. She had already been elaborately tested and retested, of course, by the cameraman under contract with Linda Lee, Inc: she bud ceased to feel self-conscious in the fierce white Ught of the Kleign, It wasn't till she found herself in | the corridor leading to her muite that Lucinda remembered Nelly Marquis; | she hadn't given the girl two! thoughts since morning. | As she passed Miss Marquis’ room, | the noticed that the door was alight: | ly ajar, and where the light from the corridor struck In across the | threshhold. white hand at rent |upon the floor, a woman's hand, palm up, the fingers slightly con. | tracted, absolutely still. A startling! thing to see... For a few seconds Lucinda stood | entranced with premonitions of horror. Then she moved to the door and rapped on it gently. There was no response, the hand didn’t stir. She called guardedily: “Miss Mar. | quist’—-and when nobody answered laid hold of the knob. | Nelly Marquis jay supine, breath. | ing, if at all, #0 lightly that the! (Copyright, 1923, by The Seattle Star) POCOSSSOOHOSSOOHSOSSSHOSOEOOSSHCOSEOOOSESEESE TWIN CITIES “Do you think you're strong me was lowered rol wa been ovement of her bosom, beneath the | med Ince of a pink silk negligee, | imperceptible. Her lids, half ed only the whites of; lied up eyes, her lips were parted} 4 discolored painted pallor as more ghastly even than it had in the morning. On the evi her dence of her boy's posture in rela. | tie ha ru ha she haa | and| the yn to the partly opened door, i been taken suddenly tl; shed to call for assistance. 4 fallen in the act of turning knob. fale rn nooo gna inne way. Cand out 2s Leading grain towns OF? America today | ha fa ta! ca de jth | shi ADV STUAtS s |oe TWINS LEARN HOW DREAMS ARE MADE ON MOON Maney and Nick followed Mr.j The Twins watched one little| Wirabout out of his ramshackle old | Towslie while he worked over @ Mand aiong « path thru the Sil-| bright kettle. These were the things to the town of Snoozelum,| he put into it: A piece of beautiful thi ey ex fey warm flask of whisky. lips with the whisky water, time a reddish bruise under the left sustained in falling nothing nearby that the girl could) you need a doct have struck | office to call one? Lucinda shut the door, knelt uched the girl's wrist, and found it cold, But when she placed her nd upon the bosom #he found it and that the heart In it was intly but unmistakably fluttering In relief and pity, she essayed to ke the girl up in her arms and rry her to the bed, but found the| ad weight too great | Casting round at random for some: | ing in the nature of a restorative ¢ found in the bathroom a bottle aggressive toilet water and a pint half emptied. the pale! bathing | toilet first Alternately moistening and temples with the ¢ brows and she observed for ©, the mark of a blow, ponsibly | But there was) to inflict such a hurt ‘cept the door-knob, and if she had) this with force she ling senseless on enough now to get to bed, if I help? The girl nodded try.” she whispered. Using all ber Lucinda succeeded in getting Nelly Marquis on her feet. About this time the clouded faculties began to clear, inging to Lucinda’s arm, the girl started as if in a spasm of fear, darted swift glances of terror round the room, then turned a look of perplexity to Luetnda. “Where is he? the manded. “Has he-—has he gone?” strength, | whisper de. | “There is no one elae here, nothing | to be afraid of you to bed.” Recognition dawned as she spoke With a movement of feeble fury the girl threw Lucinda’s arm away, but deprived of its support staggered to the foot of the bed, to which she clung, quaking. “Your she cried ing here?" “what you do. Come: let me help | “The door was open, I saw you ly: | the floor. You'd have done as much for me.” “Oh, would It Her knees seemed about to buckle; willpower alone kept Nelly Marquis from sinking; yet she persisted: “I suppose I ought to thank you. Well! much obliged, I'm sure. enough?” “Quite enough annoy you. Only, I've let no with to me suggest “When I want a doctor, I'll call him myself, Good night.” A lot you know!" | Is that i | May I ask the| ar * OT By Mabel C Pag Qeattle * . od re 690 CHIEF RED CLOUD There is another Indian story which the kiddies heard not long ago, about a party that crossed the plains in 186 this party was Capt, Oglesby of Illinois He had six wagons of his own and lots of cattle, and he rode a very fine horse, A few days after they had cronsed the Missouri river, Mr Oglesby was wakened in the night by the sound of trampling feet and the neighing of her husband's horse “Wake up, dear! she whisper ed, “I'm quite sure I heard @ noise among the cattle.” There was bright moonlight, and in a minute the captain saw that it was true. The cattle were being very quietly stolen, the stake to which he had fastened his | riding horw was pulled up—horse the leader of | affairs of the long wagon trajn, but before night the captain re- turned with his stolen horse and cattle. One thing after another stolen, danger after another threatened, and when they met a scout, he told them that the In dians were “ugly” and “looking for trouble” and that the settlers be on their guard every was one must minute. | One day soon after that, Capt Oglesby was ridiffe ahead when he saw a long dark line on the horizon, which seemed to move | He seized his field glasses and | looked, and what he saw was a thousand painted Indians abreast, riding toward the wagon train at full gallop. | quickly as possible every ' n was stopped, and a block- Was made, with the women | children in center and to hold eland_» | | THAT D>MECLS Ctxe ONE oF THose Turxisy C1IGHRETS. THAT'S WHAT IT'S, EveRety, & NO WONCER YoU HOLD IT AS FAR AS POSSIBLGS FROM KOVR SNooy I! ore the Towslies lived. The |silk, a few raindrops, some tears, es Wore the dream fairies. some faded flowers, some fresh flow- Was a very odd place—nothing |ers and @ song. Malthe s dream. For dreams are| Then he stirred it all up with a 4nd beautiful—montly—while | big spoon, bigger than himself. He lace was full of noise flew around from one side to the j are they all doing?’ asked | other, singing @ quaint little song and looking ever so happy. “ dreams" At last he unhooked a sack from Pertout approviagiy. the wall of his house, made of poppy ——— —___.____— | leaves—the sack, not the house, and SALTH THE SECRET OF _ ATTRACTION held it over the kettle. The steam from the kettle went into it and hw) } tied it up with a tendril off a grape | vine. of today depend a good) «pat wns a whole story the the modern modiste a4 |rowslie stirred into the kettle,” ex. | Viet ; = Seether ad Toorubout. “A little girt| Of course I expect my husband)You want things and things! ‘Then ch re en eee: 4) 00, Stree Lora ae niik dress to a party, It|will some day be a rich man, T've | what? You'll lose ‘em! And you|Y Professor, you know. And she lest, sweetest man in the university. |), trig airs tele: fren tual het most of the girls. j beneath it all 4 suffer| rained and she cried because her |been poor ail my life. I'm tired ‘deserve to! prides hervelf on having made her|And now he's an old grouch!” leverything. Just oh | oman whose nervous laugd| dress was spoiled. of it | “But you say that if a wife ts too! husband. He was content to fool| Only a few of us shared Jeanne's| personal pride. smile covers u pang of) “Then she saw some poor, dusty,| We girls used to talk this over at contented, a husband will slump!| around with science, just ax sclence, | opinion (aused by feminine l-| taded flowers hold up their drooping | college. And I know that lots of|Make a man too happy, and he'll » jus | th a woman Lydia KE. Pink: | heads to the rain and look so fresh |giris feel the same as I do. They | slump: fo Mary Smith, at Vegetable Compound willland glad she forgot about her dress | agree that a girl, after she's married, lege had sald. “I think a wife health and a happy rellefland began to sing. in her demands |help her husband make a her suffering, that wil make| “The Towslie will slide down to if she wants to! by keeping him on his toes!" More attractive than costly|earth on a moon-beam tonight, then Joanne asked And conmetica |down a chimney and open his bag | ie ou girls all Nearly fifty years American|on some little girl's pillow, That's jaines : have relied upon this root|the way it's fone.” We did. Molly {s the shining mil Medicine to relieve their (To Be Continued) Honairess among our slumnas ‘Advertisement. (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) Well, Molly ‘married het chemis struck such |must, one would think, slammed the door. It wae purzling . Her ministrations gan to take effect, The bleached lips |quivered , closed, then opened and | ecloned several times. The woman's |lashes trembled and curtained her ————— OUR st —~~~ By a Bride —~~ CHAPTER XXIV—INSPIRING A HUSBAND firing,” “I'm sorry,” said Lucinda simply With no choice other than to go, . she went. But the vision she carried | eventually be |away, of Nelly Marquis glaring at her with eyes malevolent, her frail body vibrating so that it shook the bed. nd stake were gone have iy «@ Ae ® the} Presently she came upon end of the rope with the stake| the chief and see what could be hanging to it, but the Indian had GOWNS Geist?" aahed Ghic cut it so that the horse could run | 4 free asked Chief Red I, 1am chief," said Capt. Ogles- “I'l take charge,” Mrs. Oglesby | | Old 1 : (rere rf ,| hear vou come. Chief Red Cloud seid, “you go right out after the | Bet peo ner Mason. White man cattle and your horse.” | sleep, Red brothers take Isn't it strange how little fear | thru bad country.” And they did. For miles and miles and miles joxe pio ° tn we pioneer wives seemed to! they rode, a double line, one on lave, | either side of the train, never te All next day that brave | mear, Always eatin by. them- woman waited and managed the] they said thes selves. Always quiet, because ne MRM ~ ee, | non.” d Cloud continued: “tT nodded = old | (Continued Tomorrow) Be “FIRST YEAR | the were Masons For if Jack has one single tiny } as a matter of fault in his character, it is this: he For example, when: may be a wee bit too much of @ aiont of ua believed that |¢Ver I have mentioned a car, Jack| reader and a dreamer and a chess |4erees that I ought to have one. — | player | 1 mus ia Sag must admit that he never brings} He much prefers sitting over a up the question of a car, but he is|chess board at some kind of chess attentive when I tell him about the | solitaire to going to the most bril new models some of the other girls | lant society event of the season, And jhave. Jessio Langdon has a new |that attitude toward society and peo. was always measuring color waves,| So we girls argued in school, And | Sedan. And her husband ts in the} ple with money will not do-it Jack Now he makes dyes.” |1_ never have forgotten the theory. {office with Jack. I suppose things /is to make a quick success. “And a million a yeart* | And long ago I decided not to let | Wil! come our way some time. (To Be Continued) “Yes! And he used to be the dear: |my husband get into a financial! rut,| But I have a harder problem than! (Copyright, 1923, by Seathe @tma) some |you know. col. | YOU can fortune Molly decided he might | making money is a duty a man owes as well make a fortune out of his | his wife. For doesn’t a girl, when knowledge, and not teach in a minor ;she marries, surrender her own |university all his life, So she kept | chance to acquire a fortune? Doesn't [at him until he went into commer: |a man, then, assume a double respon. jclal life, Color was bis specialty, He | sibility, his own and hers? mustn't be to Jon a husband. N make anything of him | Jeanne Alison used to get perfect: | ly furtous when we talked so | “You silly Mappers!” she used to} scold, “You marry to spend and spend! And demand and demand! remember Molly