The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1922, Page 15

' OUR BOARDING HOUSE tho Q /New, a BUS 1G) NT n- HA. REMEMBER wed ANOTHER PUMP HANDLE |] “1H! FIRGT DAV We ; COMEDIAN WHO kiSSED |~! -ooK HIM DOWN “TH! ly Louis “H' HITCHING PosTs MAIN STRUT AN! HE ance Joseph Goov-BVE, AN!HrOUT | | caRRED iis comr en heal ve FoR“! BIG CITY wrth $0 HE cou” Paereationsl Wagiaine Coad 1) GUITCASEE FULL OF “1H! PUBLIC Nort we. GINGER Cookies aN!’ PURPLE SLEEVE Because, while in the British secret service, he has earned the murder: A MOUTH ORGAN BANDS 2 ~ red of the Rotsheviki, WE STILL HAS o&TS I ¢ = Now sain DRE DUCHEMIN t# summartly “dismi “* a WAIT “TILL. You @hicred to leave the country at ones, ee oceans oe wie ain Ante AFRAID WIM FLAGH His eee WERTHEIMER, the official who brings the oti taut STRANGERS ) Jandsome sum to be used on his travels, eaten gecans oat ws _ é LINE, THAT “ALL “TH’ Peat escape from the revengeful Bolshevikt by following Stevenson's Itiner. PRESIDENTS AN’ ary in his “Travels With a Donkey,” pean) Ml He |x soon tramping In the Covennes, the ittle-cnown hills In the south . @tFrance, Reaching the deserted olty of Montpollier-le-Vieux, he Je sur: CAME FROM prised to see a peasant and @ man dressed as an American soldier duck into SMALL “Towns 1. the culr i Following the pair, Duchemin finds them attacking {SIEUR D'AUBRAC, while d'Aubrac’s fiancee, MADEMOISELL MONTELAIS; her grandmother, MADAM TE, and the widow of the latter's grandson, MADAME tm horror, Duchemin goes to the rescue and succeeds im killing the peasant and driving the man in uniform away. He accompanies the party home and finds surging up in hie breast a fomantic tenderness for Eve de Montelais, Now go on with the story vw. J antique hand of Madame de Sevenic Phinult & Co, | and fetched to the hotel by a ser. In the upshot, however, the neces: | Vitor quite as crabbed and antique ity of his dismal foredodings had Monsieur Duchemin would confer a Rothing to do with the length of| ‘Ue pleasure by enabling the ladies time devoted by Monsieur Duchemin | Of the chateau to testify, even so to kicking idle heels in the town of | adequately, to their sense of obil Nant; where the civil authoritics sation, ete; with a postscript to aay proved considerate in a degree that | ‘24t Monstour d'Aubrac was rosting even making allowance for the| SSs!ty, his wound .mending as rap jocal prestige of the house of Mont: | “2% heart could wish, alais—grat and surprised the) 144 course Duchemin was going onfirmed Parisian. For that was|®4 Im fact already dispatched his gust what the good man was at acceptance by the hand of the same jeart and would be ti he died, the | eseenser- | Kaually of course he F form in which environment of}. y., ce be Ought not to go, For younger years had moukled him ptr a hee es baton an & fess French than Parisian, ebaring | ingty honest with himeelf, te hoes the almost insular ignorance of life] quite well what bent his incline. in the provin : pape °f | ton toward visiting the Chateau de the native Doulevardier; to whom Montalais just once before effecting, the sun fs truly nothing more | what he was resolved upon, a com. yj fyely on Paris, leaving the rest of/ its people. He had oak’ ta hd one eth semen in action at La France in 4 sort of crepuscular! minute of private conversation with in | By September following. Her home? g@eom, the world besides steeped in| Eve de Montalais, he had of her no The Chateau de "Montalais, : @ernal night. sign to warrant his thinking her; On the hand she stripped in or on the ninth of WILL You HAVE ‘THIS DANCE WIT! driverguide of La Roque|anything but utterly indifferent to ger to sign her deposition Duche ME, PLEASED ed our to have been @ thoro-/ him: and yet . . . {min saw a blue diamond of such seamp, well and tll-known to} No; he wasn't a enough to superb water that this amateur of gendarmerie: the wound sustained | @ream that he was in love with the! precious stones caught his breath Monsieur d’Aubrac bore testi) Woman; to the contrary, he was for sheer wonder at its beauty and to the gravity of the aftair,/ Wise enough, knew himself well excellence and worth. Such jewels imply excusing Duchemin’s inter-|oush, to know that he could be, ne knew, were few and far to seek nce and its fatal sequel; while |°**tly, and would be, given half @ outside the collec ' statements of Mesdames de| Chance to lose his head. | Out of these simple elements evenic et de Montalais, duly be-| His warning had been clear be! tmagination reconstructed a tragedy, orgs public property, bade fair to|¥°M¢ mistake, In that hour in thea tragedy of life singularly clone the local reputation of Andre|™0tor car on the road from La'to the truth as he later came to min to heroic stature. And,| eave to Nant, when Nature, as jearn it, a story not at all calcu furaily, his papers were unim.| 8%? sometimes will, incautiougly had jated to leasen his interest in the td shown her hand to one whom she woman. that he found himeetf, before | Herself had schooled to read ahrewd-|" Such women, he knew pre * acquaintance with Nant was | 17 letting ‘him ‘discern what was product of @ cultivation seldom te tysix hours of age, free once | im, the anare that be achieved by povert ; “ to humor the dictates of his| ro" [aid for his feet and in which had been mado before, and not by, ‘aweet will, to go on to Nimes|"® Must soon find himself trapped her marriage, Her father, then, had lensed objective) or to the| “hg ikea. We ecko wand Moro g he lacked the wit and reso knew, as Duchemin knew, what de | — ‘ent. with the native incon.| Ut" to fly his peril, who knew lights New York has for young | | T weit WY ARENT her charming, more so even | est detail of perfect! c ” Merrasie—and sometimes be | Woman 0 Dn lund for the nix veare of het prema ing this fiction for as much as} On the previous afternoon, meet-'ture widowhood must have led, in ty minutes at a stretch. ing the ladies of the chateau by ar-' that lonely chateau, buried deep in the weather was vee oes Je a bureau of the the loneliest hills of all France, the ese maire, emin had sat op e sole com jon and comfort of her inn, which went by the un.|and watched and latened to Eve de’ husband's bereaved mister and urand: ing style of the Grand Hotel| Montalais for upwards of two hours mother, chained by sorrow to their TUnivers, he found clean, com-|—as completely devoted to covert sorrow, by an inexorable reluctance ible, and as to its cuisine praise-| study of her ag if she had been to give them pain by seeming to bs windows of the cubicle|the one woman In the room, as if slight the memory of the husband, which he had been lodged—one the girl Louiso, Madame de Sevente, brother and grandson thru turning @ ten which sufficed for the de-/and the officials and functionaries her face toward the world of life Mands of the itinerant Universe—jof Nant had not existed in thejand light and gaicty of which she Bet only overlooked the public | same world with her. And in that!was so essentially a part, isolate and its amusing life of 4) tedious and constrained time of for- from which she was so inevitably market town, but command-/ mailities he had learned much about a thing existing without purpose or| 4 as well a splendid vista of the! her, but first of all, thanks to tho’ effect. a vision of, as she was palpab! Valley of the Dourble, with {ts| uncompromising light of day that! How often, Duchemin wondered,| visitation from, the rue de la F Piquant contrast of luxuriant allu-| filled the cheerful room, that moon-|had she in hours of solitude and| Following her, a third passe vial verdure and grim scarps of| light had not enhanced but rather reatiessness felt her spirit yearning| presented the well-nourished, tn the wanton, glimmering river, into) which had the night before #0 to her world, and had cried out:| 30 devoted to “le Sport; as wit two opposed and overshadowing pin-| stirred his pulses. \“HHow long. O Lard! how long?” . .| his aggrensively English tweeds les of crag, the Roo Nantais and} Posed with consummate grace in| The meliow resonance of a two-|the si screwed Into Roc de Saint Alban—peaks each|a comfortiess chair, a figure of toned automobile horn, disturbing| right ey His face prendezvous just then for hosts of|siender elegance in her half-mourn-|the early evening hush and at chubby, pink and white, his upon the peaceful, bgigng Monge of last night's misadven-' recalled him to Nant in time to) self-conscious and debonnaire. Genchg, valley. ture, an occasional tremor of humor see a touring car of majestic pro- Like shapes from some superbly More: even from the terrasse| lightening the moving modulations portions and mien which, coming| costumed pageant of High Life Inj rage 158 of the below, one needed only/of her voice. A deep and vibrant from the south, from the direction the Twentieth Century this trio APPLE DUMPLING te lift one’s eyes to see, afar,| voice, contralto in quality, Hinting! of the iiroad and Nimes, was drifted, rather than merely walked ™ Z m Perched high upon a smiling slope|at hidden treasures of strength in| sweeping a fine curve round two! like mortals, across the terrasse and | Now, mills, in ploneer times,) dumpling apiece.” Then she meas- green, with the highway to Mil-|the woman whose superficial mind sides of the public square. Arriv-|into the Cafe de Univers (which || weren't huge concems with noon | ured sugar and made sure she had lau at its foot and a beetling cliff) it expressed. A fair woman, slim ing in front of the Hotel do I’'Unt-| seemed suddenly to shrink tn pro- whistles which sent hundreds of} enough of everything—remember Seated on that terrasse, late Injand calm, a translucent skin of stood curbed yet palpita . purring | pan nt, discussing a Picon and @ vil-| bronze laced with intimations of!car, all shining silver plate and| waiters, lainous caporal cigarette of the| gold... lustrous green paint and gold, the) pre ther in the caf He way to dine there that very|ture to the document might be ac-|nished with gold, leaped smartly |tomed to for @fening. Even taking into account| ceptable to the state. from the driver's seat, with military | this the bour of the signal service Duchemin had Fendered, this wasn't easy to believe) birthplace, the City of New York;| tonneau and, holding {t, immobilised} It was all very theatrical anc When one remembered the tradition|her parents, Edmund Anstruther, himself into the semblance of aspiring to Monsieur Duchemin, % social conservatism among French | once of Bath, England, but at the waxwork image with the dispassdon-| who, lost in the shuffle of Nant Sitlefolk. StiN, it was true: Duche-| time of her birth a naturalized citi-|ate eye, the firm mouth, ax content to be so, murmured to Min of the open road was bidden| zen of the United States, and Eve closely razored, square J self that serviceable and comfor to dine en famille at the Chateau| Marie Anstruther, nee Legendre, of model chauffeur. word of the time, ‘ de Montalais. In his pocket lay| Paris. Both were dead. In June, Rustics and townsfolk were al-| contemplated with some satl: the invitation, penned in the crabbed | f a) eae {when from the tonneau descended | these. first a long and painfully emac CO}! ADVENTURES. gentleman, whose face was a ca- P| OF THE TWINS ae Clive Reberts Barts come, motoring (os might be seen thru| by a lack of especial distinc! = J |the open and flapping front of his sober of habit, economical of TWINS HUNT QUEEN’S STOLEN CAR ulster) a tightly tallored light grey|ture, dressed in a simple low &t the Fairy Queen's palace when they heard she wished them to hunt for her lost automobile. lens white spats |the chauffeur as if meaning to “My dear children,” said she, kind- His hand, as gaunt as a skeleton’s out, but rather remained mo ly. “You found my lost wand so|™¥Y @utomobile for himself. He's 90 assisted to alight a young woman| less, resting a hand on the Quickly that 1 am sure you will dis-|Smart the other wicked fairies get | whoxe brilliant blonde beauty, viewed ; sh’ and thoughtfully don’t think that Light Fingers stole fan’t that at all! It’ t that, even | c emplo. d « just that, Trixo, the Wizard, all employ him. gowned for motoring, spirited yet! hill. “Do you know who tool: it?” asked k {Nancy promptly. “We'll start at “Sh! whispered Her Roya] High |once if you give us the Magical 6 99 es, looking sly around. |Green Shoes again.” . Pm afraid somebody will hear. “That's nice, dear, thank you,” eat I know, but it's a secret. smiled the Queen, calling to some of geeszesseeseesseesseeseetsttstistt!| BY ZOK BECKLEY susteseestet: Was Light n Weryihing he gets his hands on. | shoes that had taken the Twins on| D Bes far worse than Fiap-Doodle. |so many adventures a course, poor thing,” sighed| The children sipped them on and |, thie Fatry Queen, “I suppose he can’t | wished themselves away on a@ new | jo, héip it. He bas long, thin fingers | adventure The shock of Lee’n kisses, the Gmegaageeagmasig - (To Be Continued) realization she lind been nearly the |4idn't you, Lee?” (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) | cause of injury or death to two, her] “Yes,” he answered sullenly, aA 8 9 OG tense of guilt and the sobering re-| “Now stop that!’ Olive’s ery Pegsy aid not | ering | want to lick Lee. Why? Beea You did kiss ror the first time, r up under Ol he kissed Pog: Crawtord—What induced you to|the evening had shaken her Lee She returned Olive's glance with “Nelther of you fellows w \| buy @ radio set? | | | | XK sored tte—New York Sum with careful. self-control, THE SEATTLE STAR Jens than a spotlight focussed exclus-| plete evanishment from the ken of ‘pow Maurice do Montalals, who DOINGS OF THE DUFFS beyond extrication . . . always pro- commanded riches, And when one FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS He's Just Beginning thru bitterest of learning that love wome: Ok, bagee WELL, Now TAA of man, he exercised by | w m of wealth and fashion, you IN Stu © Met L, TS Too be Grn saben sas Bed was never for him. / lone precetved a radiant and many “To-Day, AN BOY? 4 GT A SRE | BAD s Dovou couser } «© SYMREIY i e had seen Madame de colored background for this drab . ~ her day oF two. at least: asrit-| Montalais another time, and had life of & recluse, expatriate from oes wa | | Aes eign 1 DENNIS? @ town | found that she fitted to the sweet-ithe high world ef her inheritance, / Tuavra STAY erock that ran up, on either side|tempered the charms of person toward Paris, the nearest gateway rotund, person of a Frenchman of feud that scowled forbiddingly|ing, she had narrated quietly her|same time Duchemin's meditations,! was merry, he was magnificently Behind, the Chateau de Montalais. | but round, with brown eyes level vers it executed a full stop andj portion as if reminded of Its com: j ive significance in the Scheme} the afternoon of his second day in| matchless texture, hair the hue of heavily; an impressive brute of a|of Things) where an awed staff of led by the overpowered Like everything else out here ires, monsieur et madame Regie (to whose products « rugged) Her story told, and taken down newest model of the costliest and| themselves, welcomed these appari- . t Constitution was growing slowly rec-|!n longhand by a wines dont best pins sancti manufactured in| tions from Another and A Bette ginning, #0 that in this Newby; came In, quietly as usual, so that Onciled anew) Duchemin let his|she supplied without reluctance or France World with bowings and scrapings mill, down on the Columbia river} Mrs. Newby didn’t notice him at Wision dwell upon the distant cha-|trace of embarrassment such inti-| Instantly, as the wheels ceased|and a vast bustle and movement Of/} 07, were only nine men in all,| #J, she was so interested in her tau almost as constant!, as his! mate personal information as was to turn, a young man in the smart-|chaira and tables; while all Nant,/ deseert-for-a-surprise, thoughts. Regessary in order that her signa- est livery imaginable, green gar-|all of it, that Is, that was accus-/ One of these was an old fellow) 1s noticed her, and he the apertif, looked! Her age, she said, was 29; her precision opened the door of the|on with awed and envious eyes. 1914, she had married, in Paris, ready gathering, a gaping audience,| his personal superiority to such as e4| But there was more and better to | bay daverous ‘mask of settled melan-| ‘There remained tn the car a mere} » choly and his chosen toilette for/ average man, undistinguished but) i ve eutaway coat and trousers, with a suit such as anybody might wear, | Nancy and Nick appeared at ences nd he says they take things with-| double-breasted white waistcoat, a beneath a rough and ready-made out his knowing it. |black satin Ascot scarf transfixed | motor-coat. When the car stoppel) “The trouble 1s," she went on. “| by a single splendid pearl, and spot-' he had stood up in his place beside | creature, becomingly and modishly| view round the sleek shoulder of @|,,, gers. He stenla|her councilora to bring the little) Ni(y 99--OLIVE LAYS DOWN LAW TO FLAPPER _ {ing tt because I'm his sister, or be. Jcause T want to insult you. I mean|down the car and stalls us here anjas an attraction, you fllv. You suc: | Ted and Bobby, both you boys, |it, and I respect you, Bob, But I PARLOUS TIMES laction from her bigh-strung pace of |to Tvd as he made a lunge toward| But to get back to Pegsy. Olive knew she had got her audi. . Crabshaw—I thought I'd ike to|answering defiance—that was all. |make move if the other tried Ueten in @ little before they cen-] Olive hegan speaking, slowly eae me and I protested, would you BY AHERN THE OLD HOME TOWN You CITY GAUCERS ARE FULL OF WISE CRACKS ABOUT US HAY BOYS FROM “TH! WAMLE'TS, AIN*TCHA2 +} LS'POSE “THEY DIDNtr HAVE BELLS on “TH! STRE! CARG BEFORE US VILLAGE LADS CAME “To “TowN, EH2= IF IT WASN'T FoR WE HICKS]! | FORMING LINES AT"TH’ SALTED PEANUT STANLEY ~,,. WOULD YOU MIND STEPPING IT'S FUNNY HOW A FAY ON MY RIGHT FOOT INSTEAD GIRL ALWAYS FEELS OF MY LEFT FOR A CHANGE? BIGGER “THAN SHE LooKs! ” NO, "kt BE GLAD —— || * some uract? Bom TLL iy a *alx. nger deod = ar Grattle _ « -By Mabel C) Cleland _» look men to the cook house or the din-; this was long ago in eighteen ner pall. fifty.sonrething, and food was hard to’ get and scarce. they were in the days of their be-| While she was at work “Ham” fe ati} called “Ham,” a silent man, very much the sort of person who sits off to himself in a room full of} noticed the delicious smell which Moated out every time the oven a tn. iggae t geatloe y anything | U4 Was-opened, and he just sat poe typi br sg chins ent silently waiting for dinner. bim- At last the puffy, rich, sweet- ting Mrs. Newby soon grew &cCU*) smncting things were done, and and tion tomed to having Ham come quiet-| with all a good cook's pride in her RUT THEM BACK IN pay no attention to him beyond ®/ and placing the steaming platter kindly “good morning” or s0me-| on the table to cool, turned back thing of the sort, and she would! to the rest of her dinner-getting. just go right on with her work| And not until it was time for the men to come in did she glance at the dumplings, and when she did, she said, “Oh! Oh! What So ono day when she went Into} made you?” Then half laughing the kitchon she said, “I have some vn aimnoet crying, she cried out, “Oh! I hope that one will choke ples. pellev ke tl apples. I believe I'll make the} 0,» tor Ham had eaten elght of mon a nice surprise, I'll Just! the dumplings and was beginning make them a good fat apple on the last half of the ninth! \afiathcMalieiatlcemssnnenssnmesnmseeeseeseeendl tion, | and serve “Ham's meals when they were ready. gee | unge | wet] thon: Cover my automobile just as soon. | him to do things for them. ltor the first time in evening shad-| northwards along the road that, do need it so! Not that my} “Twelve Toes, the Sorcerer; Kena|°W%: Was like a shaft of sunlight in) skirting the grounds of the Chateau) tnem, tontght? pranaly Srp on to bl BN ng wings won't take me anywhere—it| Meena, the Magician, and Tricky|% 4tkened room. A well-made| de Montalais, disappeared = from) «put Peggy,” the girl went on.| ‘Here she came all Brooksied up,|tn its place wea vaaatan In its place was a pity so sincere She is another matter. She's|nothing missing from the classy |that Peggy dared not resent it. {£1 am a fal ‘ | y ‘. obile a " se slothe: 4 “ ah anyt, an I like to ride as well yi don't know who has my automobii: dignified in carriage, she was like (Continued Tomorrow) she's family. She comes of the |clothes to the fancy face, and ready “I tell you you're all wrong, you body. now. ' s Deans—the Lenox Deans. to roll her own and lap up all the flappers,” she went on. “You're try- Wall, don't you worry,” said aeseseageaenenesesesseestezstestsesesssessesesesasessseaaa sess. But what Kind of a girl is she | Hauids ing 16°gtig ‘our gume-and gon san't really! What ean a decent boy make} “She dances well—and she dances |do it, Nowadays we've all got to be of her—and IT want you to know Lee close. She is ready for a strolling |one thing or another. is as decent a boy as you are, /party and she plays on Lee to make! “A girl who wants a decent boy to Bobby. Bob jealous. She carried on wilder|marry her has got to be a straight- “You needn't slower, I'm not say-|than I did, forward, homebuilding kid like Win- ‘o cap the climax, she breaks|nie there. When you go in for jazz hour, What for? I don't even know. | ceed only far enough to give boys works hard for a living. He puts work and career before everything |abduct her to the place we found |like me. else. the “And please don't think that be-| ‘She didn't scream any while she|well as I can do it, You can’t dance, cause he is an actor he'd hurt a girl) was leading him off. You all saw it,|sing or flirt in the class with me or wasjone whit sooner than you or Ted, /didn't you? Well—?" any other stage girl. nd you aren't home-builders like LUO | her, “There are two kinds of girls you /enc ‘ould |boys know—the kind you marry, and | paus the kind you f How's a man to tell? What was Lee |was over. (To Be Continued) Tho bitterness in her voice stung or any othey may to think of leggy But she was not yet thru with | (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) WHAT WILL THE BRIDE -TOBE SAY-WHEN SHE SEES HER. NOBLE LOVER. MARSHAL OTEY WALKER ESCORTING THE SUSPICIOUS STRANGER OFF To THE CALABOOSE 7 But I do know Lee didn’t have to|like Bobby an appetite for—girls quarter pint of PAGE - BY STANLEY ‘HOLDER, NEWT SHES AREARIN YourR WA ly in before anybody else Was! work Mra. Newby lifted them out, lL WANT POTATOES AS NICS AS ready for a meal. She learned to} sot them one by one on a platter, SAMPLES You Cans 1 if GIRLS! LEMONS | BLEACH SKIN WHITE Squeeze the juice of two lemons Into @ bottle containing three ‘ ounces of Orchard White, which any drug store will supply for a few cents, shake well, and you have @ armless and de. lightful lemon bleach. Massage “There's nothing you can do as/this sweetly fragrant lotion into |the face, neck, arms and hands each day, then shortly note the beauty and whiteness of your skin, Famous stage beauties use this and her query left a long| Winnie. You aren't anything. You!jemen lotion to bleach and bring awkward for Peggy. The girl/fall down between the two of us.|that soft, clear, rosy-white com- ay around with./knew the danger of a renewed fight|Am I right, Bob? Come, speak up!? plexion, also as a freckle, sunburn, and tan bleach, because it doesn’t, irritate. Advertisement,