The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 3, 1922, Page 11

THE SEATTLE STAR OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN ~ V "7 4 - T WIGHT HAD XI Tut BET ie THAT (] THATS HER HUSBAND HOLD ER 7 THOUGHT oF a We HO HAS TH’ OTHER | NEWT SHES 6 \ JEEN UP THERE |/{ WHo HAS END) | AREARIN —, OF TH’ ROME IN HIS MOUTH = WOULDN'T rr i} BE A RIOT IF THEY STARTED AN ARGUMENT Now 2 i HANGING BY HER MAT ALLEGED \\ \\\ TEETH EVER GAVE WILD MAN i -tHe {|| \\\ii|\em & worKouT om SIDESHOW wrt || GOSH, T WisH|) TH STEAKS SERVED MV KNowLeDet | _'N SCHOOL \ OUR CooP AT . THEY'D LEARN \) SHE'D HAVE ‘EM OF BORNEO { Vow "1b =) Larp uP FOR CONVERSING WITH STE OIIT S500 a LT TOTES gS AM+ 1D BE WILLING TO SHARE MY CAKES NA psi! COFFE WITH THAT /S/AAURILL Dow! TH! GARE BACK RIDING= ALL IT (Continned From Our Last Issne) | While the man she loved had no re. nd unmistak. | 6rets, He — — iilessness of| 1 & Moment of disconcerting tu 0 eltity she saw him as a strange man her close, | . Wis confession, and held | Cushed with drink and biown with | “But, my dearest gitt; Youre trem | hicense, looking on other womon b What is tt Tell me | with a satyr’s appraising eyes, ban “Tt'e eo wonderful to have you/ dying ribald wheeses with t lips Back, Lynn, Don't ever leave mo for] she had so lately kissed. ‘And she #0 long again.” winced and drew away, recalling the | “You tempt me te." he laughed In. [Abandon of affection with whieh she F @uigentiy. “1 think you've le arned to! bad given herself to his embrace at} 7 Hove me better while I've been away | the hotel, feeling of a sudden soiled P than you did in all the while that 1}20d_ shopworn as from common | wes here!” | handling, ‘A strange man, a man she had = Ad She answered with an odd little) y own but a few brief weeks—t Baugh of love and deprecation: “I) Govertiy watching him, she saw Peally think Tbave . . Summerlad in the middle of a pas They dined at Marcetlo's, not the | cacy of persiflage start and fall al Happiest selection for thelr Wrst few | ion his lips in an instant wiped hours together, for tn place Was! hare of speech. And following the thronged with picture-fotk. line of his stare, she espled, at some | Motoring to Santa Monica, Lucin:| distance at a table near the edge of | @a snuceled inte the hollow of Sum-| ine dance-floor, Bellamy sitting with miorlad’s arm, and rested @ long time |. wor Mm contented sitence, | He saw her but made no sign more “Tt is too perfect,” she murmured} than to intensify his meaning smile, length, “too sweet to last.” and immediately returned courteous “Why not? So long as we love.| attention to his companion. What's to prevent all beauty last At thin Lucinda stared in doubt ing? DIALECT} T FUNNY WSTEAD REPAIRS! OF SPELLIN’ AN’ li | | A aR i an ? |for several seconds, she was #0 “Life. I meah"—It took all her| changed. But finery that shrieked courage to speak of what she had! of money spent without stint or| UM then purposely kept back Jamy.” | taste could hardly disguise the wild | gged loveliness of Nelly Mar The car was swinging into the | quis. streets of Santa Monica, Lucinda XXVI < gave him her lips. Lucinda locked a second time. MONG THOSE A f Kiss) More than a month had passed since me again while there's time.” jthat brief acquaintance, and Lucin ‘The restaurant to which the Lon-/da had put her out of mind #o con taines had bidden them was the one} pletely that her efforts to recall the | fm those times most favored by the) features of the other conjured! froth of the picture «Mony for its) up only a foggy impression of a) weekly night of carnival |shadby, haggard, haunted shadow, | Round the four wails and inclosing| by turns wistful and feebly defiant, the constricted floor for dancing,| that bore what might be no more|4 smile, tables were #0 closely ranked that/ than chance li to this figure “Shall we dance?” Passage between them was largely | of flaunting extravagance at Bel-| She surveyed the crowded floor impracticable without a guide.| lamy’s table, dubiously, “It's an awful crush, I'm Everybody of any consequence inthe| A question forming on her lips, | afraid...” Nevertheless she got up| studios was there, and everybody | Lucinda turned back to Summeriad, | 4nd threaded the jostling tables with knew everybody else and called him} but surprised the tail of his eye veer. | Lynn at her heels. i dy his first name—preferably at the/ing hastily away, and fancied a It was an awful crueh. Few better | top of his lungs. shade of over-elaboration in the easy,|4ancers than Lynn Summeriad ever Lontaine’s party, a large one, com-|incurious air he was quick to re-| trod a ballroom floor, but even he | prising the most influential mem. | sume. was put to it to steer a safe course bers of the colony with whom he} She stole another glance across the|!n that welter. Lucinda heard a) and Summerlsd were on agreeable| room. By every indication Bellamy | hiss of breath indrawn and looked! terms. had been long enough in ses-! found his company most entertain-\up to see Lynn's face disfigured by sion already to have become tndi-| ing; he was paying her sallies a trib |4 spasm of pain. In the same in-/ widually exhilarated and collectively | ute of smiling attention which she| stant he stopped short, in the next/ Marious, Summertad it took to its|as evidently found both grateful and | he groaned between set teeth, } with shouts of acclaim, andjinepiring. While Lucinda was look-| “Have to get out of his, I'm} seemed to find it easy to entch jing she drained her highball glass | afraid.” he gruned. “My foot—eome | ‘the spirit of the gathering. A sensejand with an air peremptory and/body with a hoof like a sledge-ham ©f frustration oppressed Lucinda.|arch planted it in front of Bellamy | mer landed on it just now. That} Bhe had been happy half an hour|to be replenished: a service which | wouldn't matter, only the confound | “Let's forget it for tonight. YY THE QUICK WORK OF MR ROBINSON SNe THE PRIZE HANGING LAMP FROM SERIOUS INJURY “TO DAY. The Day Was Spoiled UNDER THE quizzica! air, Lucinda managed half | WE'VE BEEN OUT IN “THE COUNTRY |) ALL. DAY GATHERING FLOWERS — OVER BY THAT Bic TREE! WHERE DID You PUT “THE LUNCH, OLIVIA? sinee. Here in this heady atmos | be rendered with the aid of a pocket phere of perfumed flesh, tobacco | flask—adding to his own glaas, how. eek and pungent alcohol, the idyl|ever, water only. fiver stuff.” ed thing got caught between « cou- | ple of logs while we were doing that @f her evening crew faint and fied.' Summorlad was eyeing her with a For You to Coloreee e D TRAVELS By Hal Cochran 2, by The Seattle Mar) He had an affecting timp on the! iway back to their table whefe he announced he would have to get home and out of his shoes before he could hope to know another instant’s | “Cross, sweetheart?" he inquired gently as they drove off. “I'm sorry | you let me drag you away—" “It tan't that,” Lucinda replied, at most brusquely, “I waan't enjoying | Myself, anyway—wanted to leave al-| most as noon as we arrived.” “Then what ts it? She asked evasively: “How's your | foot?” | “Much better, thanks. Guess I must've dislocated one of the smaller bones in that logging stunt.” 1 “ thought possibly you were pre | | tending on my account.” | “You mean, tecause your husband there.” | “It wax Miss Marquis, wasn't itr | “Yes, Linda—afraid it was.” | fraid—?" | “Your amiable husband's In for an | interesting life, if that young woman / has got her claws into him." } “Lynn: where do you suppose the! girl hax been all this time, since that | night she left the hotel? It seems . & funny she should dirappear so com. | | EVERETT TRUE | m1 0 ym i. ? 0 | 1 " pletely for—how long 1s it? foUF | smotion—"aidn't she?" u Ste tae ee WP IO! “Along with a hypdred: ethers I Bel's company.” 1 po! Soropay a | get the credit for } Well.” Lynn submitted: “I dare | daresay, by Hollywood stand-| CX ie * ; beg Pog typ hicpithinds gpd op Se ar credit’ is the right word.” | ae if you were to ask her “Oh, hang it all, Linda! you must * . bh But tmmediately Lucinda re ted | understand. A man in my line , her resentment of what she had! Op yoy know how it is... There * |) a hastily taken to be an attempt to|\i..5 be women ready to make| | : becloud impatience with fMl-timed] fonig of themselves over any man|| gy * | : ae i man shifted In hie corner, em | 72° manages to get a certain | adge ss epee : gree of prominence. I met y 1 1 r 4 : = - x ae her, his manner | Marquis shortly after I'd made my * _By Mabel Cle aw ee | first real dent in pictures, She was an ans — Look here, Linda! I’ve known a]. 0 ")ora hit 1 used to be afraid to} _ Page 693 : : ee long time you suspected there wa*| eave the house until I'd sent out A MUCH MORE EARLY-DAY SCHOOL STORY nt ss something between this Marquis girl » the © . : “Those poor teachers! she sigh- . scouts to make sure the coast was | Grandmother certainly does Those poor teacters!” sl : uluth, with spacious harbor where and me—or had been—" a to, take, oc oP seat | iagglbb« “ 4 F wend thei On I seer’ La 4,clear. I've always thought that/} nave the very loveliest friends! | ed ruefully, at the scenes which Lake freighters their way we "5 Ae snapped, trouble of hers was more than half Pegny and David just wonder and| memory called up. “I often think Ts ku count: over as and drew her & away responsible for her mania about me.” ys ave | y A i i rt toda’ anaes “What trouble?” |] wonder how one small grand-| that pioneer teachers should be be ipping por fe i ‘ Fi. bing nd Fon “ “Dope. She's a hop nut. Coke—/]}| mother could know so many} put down on the honor roll of the I nestled this to make me auaerstand a — egy agg te, darling people, } great martyrs; they had so much BAD - SRE pn cy é been the trouble, ha ime you Cl - — to contend against and did such the kind of man I'd given’ my heart| foun her stretched n) overdow fi Right saws th sftegrige ved jodie pd byes ap yon 2 Cu ck a | didn’t like to tell you because-—well, | some new stories abou ne schoo! - hat’s unfa You know perfec | “Christopher Columbus Fowler ADVENTURES | yy, that’s untalr. You know perfect:| frankly, 1 @idn't want you to think | days of pioneer children, Who| was one of the problems in our (eo) — THE WINS |isnt’ to blame. Besldes—" ee ra |] should come but Mrs. Hewitt. | gehool, He was getting #0 big he ” ‘ ‘ | 1“ ¥ y romse | didn’ 10 obe 1d specially ben Wal Y It jen't a question with me| “Hang it! What I'm trying to nay || Mra. Hewitt, who crossed the | didn't want to obey and spe Clive Barton | of blame or excuse, It's Just a feeling | is this: Nelly took to the dope after|] plains in 1847 and who now lives| he didn’t like Friday afternoons. |that's sudd come over me, that) I'd met her, but only, I believe, be tn, Saconie. anil Whe copies t iday waa ‘speaking’ day, and ‘ moe + mm, —_ , * coma and 0 comes to pio. SHOW FAIRIES PLAN TO MAKE LAD HAPPY I've committed my life to the care of! cause she got in with the wrong od tings in Seattle as often | W° had our favorites which little Towslie, calkd Wink, | fine dream for Tommy Brown. He's|* ™an whom I must always hare | crowd. And there's an aw lot of | meer meeting Se aa ) given over and over again . | going tonig! vs wae| With his memories of other sweet-|that sort of thing goes on more or as she can and who absolutely | joy stood on the burning deck,’ if sweet dream in Snoozelum|#oing to dream tonight he's going } | “tes goer to get a pony for his birthday.’ ’ hearts.” | leas quietly out he They lead one | never seems to run out of stories | ‘Twinkle, twinkle little _ star,’ ‘own On the Moon. First he put in|*° | “Well, but what about my feel-janother on. Wh they've tried sia | ‘Mary had a Uttle lamb’ and other ‘I never make dreams that are |] about the long ago when she was | y some, horsehairs and a few oat, Macq ings? Do you suppose it makes mej everything else they take a chance | 2 the Puget gouna | #7824 (7) poems grain, then he put in a shiny “aig er cice gr when they wake happy to be all the time reminded! on the hop, to see it there's really|{ little girl in the Puget Soun¢ “ae one @ ‘Bump’ (that’s 4 buckle and bit of a new strap. These |)? Geclared Bink... “Tommy will’ that Bellamy Drnce-—?* anything in it, and then they'rs country. j what we called him; we hadn't 6 Hie moistened with water and stirred |! fo = tad Umea when he finds it _ “Pleane, dear, don't Forgive me jgone, They drift into little eltiaues | “My Cie ‘sebest Gaze were | time for any Christopher Colum thoroly. rue couldn't help it. Besides, there’s|and have parties, ether parties an spent in a little old log school! tus nonsense) told us he wasn't < ext he wrote an fhvitation and| “Oh, ho, ho, hof laughed Wink. | this to be sald: If I did love another| that sort of thing, you know, where | house on the west bank of the | going to 4 plece.’ | ie ntipred it im, then he dropped in a|‘But this is going to come true.|man before I met you,he was only | they choose one by lot to stay off the|] Cowlita river,” Mrs, Hewitt be-| «+n fh not dee’ tone 4 bit of candle and a snip of birthday | 7 1¥ will tell his dream to his |one; while you have known so many | stuff and watch the others to make |} gan. You remomter Mrs. Hewitt, | told us on Bent se be ddy and you just vee if it doesn’t |layes like—iike thia Marquis girt—| gure nobody strangies to death while |} she has told the kiddies stories be-| what he says, I'm not going to 4 After white it bofled so hard that | Work ie ser o no aun wore Pe le around him in a# circle— fore. pay & ailly O14 plate today and the a thick steam arose. This Wink I'm going to mix up a dream for| "Youre All, wrong, thom Mh nid Lucinda lifted her hands to hee! “1 don't know how they fur-| can’t make me. o caugiit in @ poppy-ieaf bag and tied | "8 daddy, too, and one for the man ay - pms ots ~ rae hae [ease a tenae, Lynn, oes e i yt nished the other pioneer schools! “*What'll you do? we asked in it up tight. pie sells ponies. The three of them | Pir. s ” » boy we Pe ba but in this one our father built! horror, ‘when teacher calls on 1 “Tee, hee, heer he giggied, hold. |CUsht to do some good.” ‘Onf? tt ae the desks, each man making a| you. Whatever will you say? y : “Oh! Lucinda comment you s ing it up proudly to his nextdoor| Now, someone heard every word ncinda commented without === (Continued Monéay) desk according to the size of his} “ ‘Well, I'll say something,’ he neighbor, called Blink. “Here's a | Wink and Blink said. It was ( to gG§@—a _ mn family, no single ones, mind you, | growled. ‘And if he makes me say ptt it _.__- | Legs, the ugly fairy, who was jeal |] just one long desk for each family | a speech I'll get even with him, f bach Mite Ol J R FIRS | Y EAR |] of children, big, little and middle-| you see it 1 don’t!" @. Rice’ Cream | ® -B Bride » credit to the Man-in y a bride - ‘ ‘ 4 ‘iy new vid mol CHAPTER XXVII—MY SOCIAL SPLASH ween everywhere, and make menjthropies to which I contributed |I fancy Jack is barely reconciled to, get Jack out with moneyed people, roses gs endlbegd br gyeoet fra . | ‘Three months have I been trying; Jeanne said when I complained to|laugh at your smart speeches! You | oodles of time instead Of checks; I siving histime to social affairs. he'd settle down contentedly to his Th | tomers age accorded erane cote |" Ho he ran to the edge of the moon |% ‘reste # social splash. At least | her: }don't do it at all for Jack, you|/had managed a paying rummage | And I'm sure that the dear boy | books and his chess and all my hope ne | 'e8y Consistent with sound busl- Jiang wtraddied the shooting-star he| Wat's What Jack calls my social suc “Your husband's mighty compli. |know!" sale, and nearly died of the flu I'd {hasn't discovered how expensive it is| of living on the boulevard would go aes Judgment. Soak ok choked onitaie ri ae "© | cons when he teases me. ie ; é What “Well—why shouldn't I lke !t?/ taken from the old clothes; we ran | 0 £0 about as we've been doing. It's | a-glimmering! F bo ra bethinge 4 Aig ana ed off to} Sack hasn't been very helpful. I've | entary to you, my dear. Nal'S ltovery girl's entitled to a good time | up our first doctor's bill, It was in| 89 Necessary, howeyer, as a kind of} 1 will not stand for that. Poverty | Bena Meena, the Magician, Who! neq to manage it myself. Indeed, [th matter with you brides now-t-|yomo timo, I've never had any un-|my desk with my other bills investment for future profit, has played too big a part in my 0 j govt’ Sorel Noi “aed “Teas a Jack has complained, more than|days? You run about 0. Now if I) til now If it happens to coincide! But that rummage sale fixed my| Once Jack asked me quizzieally if | life, ; Std benik. “Cache, ne tae 6 blac wom | once, [had a real man like yours in a real| with what's best for Jack, so much | popularity with some of the most ex: |1 didn't think him competent to man-| My big trouble Ia not going to be Pelé 06 Gavings Accents la ausoiv tear ae een | “Must we fo out tonight? he has| home like this—I'd be glad to stay |the better! I'm really succeeding |clusive matrons of the city. We were |age the business end of matrimony | with our future, its now—while I'm Accounts Subject to Check Are (To Be © od) asked at breakfast when~I've re-|put! Flattered if he wanted to!” nicely. People are lovely to me. getting more invitations than wejin his own way! He wasn’t finding | making my social investment. ' : Cordiciy Invited (Copyright, 192%, by Bentile Stary | minded him of an engagement for)’ “But @ wife must help a man} ‘And indeed, I was succeeding re-|could afford to accept. fault, he was only teasing me. He| Every time I chance to open that ns eet 7 ‘6 tite lthe evening. Really nothing except|along,” I replied, “And this is the|markably, considering how little} It simply broke my heart when we | went on to say that we hadn't had|drawer in My desk, those bills re Peoples Savings Bank], Jchess can be gelled upon to dig him| beat way I know.” money we have. were invited to join a golf club, and |a quiet week at home after our first | mind me of what {t costs to keep go Egyptian children played seesaw ‘Re a sport, Pext Own up that! There had been morning bridge at| Jack turned it down.” We couldn't | month. SKOOND AVE. AND Wikw sr. |! 14,000 years ago, out of his deep chalr in his own lv |e cae you love to go, and dress, und be| several of the nicest houws; philan- afford that, he explained, Sometimes Now the fact is that if I dida’t ing at our present pace, (To 4