The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1923, Page 11

ng Tesponstbl! Wooed by | JAMES LATHAM,-eb¢ decides she must | JUSTIN PARSONS, but their stay draws | Dorothy in ber home, Kate discover: P gia new Alice. \ entire visit and Kate was glad. _ Paring to return to the little city WEDNESDAY, ena SBRUARY 7, 19) 28 URSULA TRENT A Novel by W. L. George pyright, 1921, by LA TRENT home ts Burleigh before the war when sho we posela, but sh 3 them down ECRD OSWALD, 0 % member of nen She be engaged to re she sees him ag services, Ther who scorns the up 20, married and hy r © liigent and pretty, but Abbas, England, Narper @ Brothers APDY, sits down to write her story, not well educated. Her 22 and single n. Then somes the a racy with democratic lean- him ne leaves for the front, He rain, ws arrives as she ts busy in She has several pro- © comes under the Influence of classes. Her hospital experience does not last long, for she is dismissed because of a petty infraction of Bh ks rule she w KNOWL, former departmental NOW READ ON v j Tm a country girl, born on the Jand, a T So 1 fe ties like vultures on a battlefield They've got their claws into flesh of the poor old Trents, that! Dave been tying about, heaving. Oh, Te no sympathy with the Trents! To register or to heave, doss it mat-| fer? Really, I can’t bear these peo. ple; I hate thom as I do my own. | ‘They have all the vices of the towns. | man and have not yet the virtues of | itryman. (Nor his viees)/ ¢ all the power, yet not the y. Tho, Mess him! Mr. Profit tries. He realizes that land makes responsibility. Within a month of his arrival he tries to be a manjeventually saves him is that he| He! ft Kent, or a Shropshire lad. ar * * OT Cleland 4 Page BETWEEN (Chap “The doctor was not a young fellow out after adventure,” grandmother went on, “he was 4 man 44 years old, a man who had hag much sorrow and suffered many losses. A man grown kind. ly thru years of helping others leas fortunate even that he A tired man, but anxious to find a new place to work and begin all ‘over again.” Again grandmother touched the Utthe flat book. “See, Pergy, those little sentences; that’s all he says of a whole day's experiences. Read this one.” Peggy read: “May 17 (1860)—Left camp About 11 o'clock and went about six miles. Passed the snakes’ en." That was all. No story of shorthand and enters the food control office, There the direction of manager of a London dairy. sets quite patriotic about It. At the same time Mr, Profit patro- not the thing to be hard up It ta coronas, and the equire smokes & cracked pip, The county makes him uncomfortable; it's s0 casual, so comfortable in its slatternly way, 90 damnably there, At last Mr, Profit lives it down, and leaves his g’s at home when he comes down for the week-end; he works hard at being bluff and hearty He fads out th mes of plants in hedges, and some one tells him whether mangolds are consumed by cattle, or pheasants, or both, What thinks Mike the county: that the lower Seattle * * 906 THE er 2) cholera; no one meddied or took Any notice of tt but Moon.’ * “And this one, too, Peggy.” grandmother wiped her glassea, ‘ater scarce and poor, Curtis gave the milk away, Went with. out dinner,” They read on and on and pretty soon Pegsy understood what grandmother had meant by reading between the lines. She could feel the doctor growing more and more tired. She had heard So many pioneer stories that her mind filled In all the things he left out. So toward the last, when the LINES George “look, grandmother, did take care of so many others with that dreadful sickness, and this day says, ‘Took sick with Ittle sentences began to sound quite impatient and “crabby,” grandmother and Pegsy knew that he was nearly worn out and ready to drop Ike so many of the poor oxen that had died by the way, “But finally he got thru, you se,” grandmother went on, “and after trying Olympia for a while, he met Chief Seattle, and it was the good old Indian's advice which brought him to Seattie just at the time that that first little group of settlers were getting ready to Move from Alki point to the east shore of Elliot bay.” (To Bo Continued) Ltetahated THE ONE-MAN WOMAN BY RUTH AGNES ABELING CHAP. 52—ANOTHER FACE BEGIN HERE TODAY KATE WARD, widow of DAN WARD, bas « visitor, CHINATOWN ALICE, who says Dan was father of her éhiid, DOROTHY. Kate is much perturbed. fleet fathom the mysery of Dan's past. Seeking light, she asks Alico and Dor- othy to visit her at the home of her fath Jer, toward a close with no further revela- tan. GO ON WITH THE STORY During the stay of Alice and Bhe seemed not at all the tawdry, cheap, tam-o-shantered little waif who had entered her sitting room a few weeks before and shaken the ‘Very foundations of her universe with her statement about Dan and her demands. Dan wasn't mentioned during the Whatever the past, she had come to have a kindly feeling for the girl anda genuine affection for her Dorothy had becomes fond of Kate ‘and accepted her very much as a part of her small life. Tho first Morning of her stay she looked to Kate to button the litthe white frock that she marched into the sitting foom with and demanded breakfast ena appeared. * loved the child for her very ordering of her about and on Sun- fay evening, when Alice was pre and her work, she suggested that ppervkty be allowed to remain with “It's hard to let her be away from M™e for even’ one daz,” smiled Alice, 8 the looked at the child. “Do you ‘Want to stay, Dorothy?" she asked, Dorothy nodded and voloed a very enthusiastic “Year fo it was that when Allos board 4 the train, Dorothy remained on ,, Pattorm, linging to Kate's Alice raised the window while the {rin waited at the wtation, She put outher hand. Kate took it, -NAMEDICO (WHITING'S SOLUTION) ty a nclentific solution which Poultively permanently relieves ‘orrhoen. Thin famous” solu tion not only destroys the germ but preventa the accumulation of Ail Infections of gums and teeth: ing, spongy, pus-ridden guma find loonened teeth quickly re- Mtored to ® healthy, normal con- dition. ‘Telephone Main 7980, No. 45, ALICE. “There 1s something I'm sorry for." Alice was leaning on the win. dow sill and speaking in a low tone. “1 don’t know just how—" The train was moving. Alice stopped speaking. She waved and was carried away. Kate wondered what Alice had wanted to say. She dismisned’ the matter almost immediately, how- ‘ever, and chatted gaily with Dorothy as they walked back to the cottage of Justin Parsons. ‘I do lke to see you smiling again,” said her father as sho en- tered the gute, “and I'm glad you kept this little me just a bit of you when you wero little tad, Katio, 5 As spoke, Justin took the hand of the child and started off across the yard with her. Kate went into the hovse and up- stairs to the room which contained the queer, battered little trunk and which Allee had so recently occu noe whe crossed the floor a small round bit of paper caught her eye. She picked it up. It was the photograph of a man, rather young, probably dark-eyed and dark-haired, with a slim, delicate face, It was a face Katy Ward never had seen before. She turned it over to examine it further and discovered on the Wack of It the in faln J.D. G M (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1024, by Seattle Star She begins her tale in the days! done away with; brie hat these | Hizes the county because it is hard | people have settled upon the coun-| Up, but he ts not quite sure that It's | the| annoying to feel that he can afford | lady—she reminds | jclasses are scum and must be kept jabout tt. I hdd Mr. Knowle to think | | ¥as much too old and In the hands jot the wardens, and really ought to |by Mise Nawton. THE SEATTLE STAR cland should remain below, that they aro improvident, thriftiess, drunken ; that colliers make @ hundred a week that alism is sharing out tariff reform will mave the o that emigration should be discour aged because It ts costing ua our bent; that education ts bunkum, and} that It te @ mistake to teach strle anything but domestic service: that It) ts @ shame working girls should buy | sham pearl necklaces; that religion | had better be let alone, trade unions | fly, the lower 1 discovered that Miss Nawton was| were laughing. Alp separated us from my i}mother, Then Mins mured: “Miss whether you'd come and have tea with me one afternoon? There's lote| vf things I'd ike to talk to about.” 10 father Nawton Trent, 1 y yard and mur- wonder | “Oh,” I said, awkwardly, “I'd be} very pleased.” | “What about Wednesday?” “I'm afraid I may be going away! in thelr piace. Aa soon as Mr, Profit schloves this commanity of ideas he discovers that | the squire is on ‘excellent terms with all sorts of laborers and shepherds, | that he converses with them im the/| fields as if he liked them; then he 00s crazy with trying to understand. vi But I am tired of poor Mr. Profit, tho hts trruption into Hampshire was amusing, I forsook him, A little be- fore the armistice, ax I left the food “Doesn't matter,” said Miss Naw- ton. “Aftor gil, It’s very simple, It's this war-memorial business, There’ & lot of nonsense talked in this p ish. You wouldn't be it, but there's opposition to the obelisk, tho, obviously, that's the right memorial. Any fool could see it. You can, can't yout” I sald nothing, It would be awk- ward for mo if { sald I couldn't wee it, sraduaily walking more slowly; we| Bowden ts perfectly h you | after jand let “We can't agree about it Mr. useless, Of ourDe, & clergyman, and I try to make allowances. But the poor ol man ts noxious as» well ax useless, Hie ts absolutely to the hands of Mr Feltoad. As the people's warden, Mr. Felutead “4 do much better to look the chureh roof and the tithes, religion alona, What's « churchwarden got to do with religt I'd like to know? Anyhow, Mr, Fel- stead ts egming on Mr. Bowden to have an Ionio, Perfectly ridiculous! And your father’s just as bad.” I laughed, “Does papa want an Tonto cross?” I asked. “He does, And he wants the obe- link too, in turna Perfectly ridicu- lous!" And what do you want, Miss Naw- ton? “Oh dear!” she said, tmpatientty “You ought to know that I hate all these emblems of superstition. Of course I want an obelisk.” She paused, and I gathered that a delicate control to walk to the station, a man stopped me and begged. I was going to pass on, because it was raining, and one can never find one's money whon it's wet. Then I saw that he wore @ silver badge This horrified me, “No, mins, I've got no pension,” he sald “I was discharged long ago for consumption; they sald I'd got it before.” “Had your’ “Not that I know of, Mins, I got & job tn the country first, easy enough. But such lots of men have been coming back. And I can’t do enough work. I was a clerk before the war. I can't get a job in an office because I've got to have the window open. It would have-to be a superior fob with a room to myself.” Ho laughed. “Not much chance of that, miss.” I thought for a moment, took his Address, He was @ shorthand typist and had other qualifications, Next day I went to Mr. Knowle: “I'm going to resign, Mr. Knowle,” I said, “and I want you to take In my stead & disabled soldier with consumption. He can have my small room and have EVERETT TRUE Ie You're Give Ninery Dace, War: What's this?” sald Mr. Knowle, agitated, and practicing Profound excayatiohs under his fin-| ger nails, I efplained. | “But, my dear young lady, I can’t have you telling your director what 1 Reaign if you like. The FoR TIME ! B NCH VO @ How do you know? Stfll, no business of yourn, You wouldn't Ike !o be dismissed for tm- pertinence, would you?" “Dimmiss me if you like, but you must take on this man.” “Must?” “Yes, or refuse to give an open post to a qualified, disabled soldier.” After a long argument, Mr. Knowle understood that I would report him / to “John Bull” if he wed; furning, dofying me, and at last drawing blood from his finger nally, Promised to see the man. got the fob and I went home, There| was an awful scene when {t ca:mo| out. Papa laughed; mamma, for several woeks, asked mo every day how I could have done anything so unfeminine, HAVE To EAT My BREAKFAST ALONE THIS MORNING -MRS DUFF ISW'T PEELING weir CHAPTER V The Obelisk . I Thad not taken !t sertousty at first. Tt had come to me in fragments of dinner-table conversation. I knew that papa was on the committes of the war memorial (of course he would be), and I just took It to be one of the local fusses (you ses, I was changing already) when papa suggested a certain disunion in the committee, a struggie between the partisans of the obelisk and those of the Jontc cross, Then I forgot all) of. When mamma told mo that they were so worried, that Mr. Bowden) retire and give up the living to a younger man; when she went on to say that Miss Nawton was making a ridiculous fuss about the war mem- orial~-I Just said: “Oh, is that so, mamma? Do you think my heathe: mixture ‘tweed will do this winter? or should I get a new one?” But one morning, as we came out of church, our group was accosted We did not lke her much, for she was a little old maid of about 50, with an angular) manner; above all, I resented her smell, @ peculiar bitter-swoet, ofl-of- clovey sort of smell, that ts often exhaled by old maids, I don’t know why. Having picked me out, she began to converse about the weather, the evil results of the government's pos- ture-breaking policy; I thought that Iwas merely going to be bored, when OUR BOARDING HOUSE TY ZA WHY, WE OF TH! | PROFESH SAY, 4\ TWAT Hose. WHo DoN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT” ACTING HAS A @ooD CHANCE IN) TH' MOVIES! q AIN'T ITA FA FeaTuRS, A) GUS2s Yo Wo IMITATIONS ARE IN“TH’ Siow GAME ! ~ WHY Di YoU GIVE “THAT LINE THITUMBLE AN' Go For “W’ Movies Pe 1'M NTH’ MoViES Now, AN'US CINEMA ACTORS CLASS NOUR, GAME AG “TH! WAX Stove LID! ay \F FAIRBANKS AN WERE DoNG A GONG AN! DANCE ACT ON OUR CIRCUM, Hey COULDNT GET A HAND FROM h DECK OF CARDS | R K) IN ADVANCES Foe oO, Skweezum! You've Gor aww OM DOUGH, BUT TOURS ALWAYS ASKING TE L ACR A IUDGG ON THES LEWA,! GUESS IL | / ALRIGHT Vl Serve You RIGHT BY CONDO VU Ccoss HS DenLE Wirth “ou, MR. tTRLG, - Me — MR. IND LADLY QivS You NivGTyY DAYS WY tos FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS WUAWAW= Hom 6ANE You i BisGeST DECE OF DIE- SUE F + wivers tnd nn mA ZA </NEN~ WN, AN' PICKFoRD|’ SHORT 1 oN7W'BILL© cikcurT! || HEY eo on) LAST AN' TH! AUDIENCE WERE YOUR EGGS Done THE WAY You LIKE bit of canvassing would now take , 1 waa right, for Mise Newton sald, “I want you to talk to your father and tell him not to be absurd.” “Oh, 1 ay! I couldn't sey that to pape.” “You can talk him round, 8itua & solid block ef people who don't know what they're talking about, who are determined on a Christian symbol. And we can't get @ because your father won't his mind. Christian symbo repeated, bitterly. “I suggested cata- comba.” Miss Nawton went on to de~ pounce lr, Bowden, pickled in an- tiquated Anglicanism; the people's warden, a secret agnostic, but deter- mined to thwart her; and finally made mo promise to speak to my father, Bhe ended by leaving us at the cross-roada, vaguely remarking to poor papa: “Bay what you Ike, | Sir William, you won't get anybody |about here to carve an Ionic cross |right, You'll have to have it done outstde the county, and that’s that.” tiun’s perfectly intolerable. We've got | “Trying woman,” ssid papa, after she left us. “She's always tn earnost “Aren't you, paps - about the obelisk?” I asked “Uraula, | don’t want to hear any more about the obelisk. I'm the damned obelink.” “But what are yout obeliakian 7” “Ob, don't be absurd. We're all for the cross, only we don’t want to vote down Miss Nawton. We feel that in & matter like this”—he grew rhetort cal—*we ought to strive for a unant- mous sense of . . . ob, a unanimous pense. 4nd tf the church feels that an Ionic cross is right, well, there you are.” “I rather fancy the obelisk, dadd I replied. (I didn't care, but p was so fussy. He always got hot and irritated after Miss Nawton.) “Indeed!” said papa, obstinately, as if that nettied it. “You've got nothing to do with it. Are you on the committee by any chance?” I said nothing more that morning, but I found that this had drag@ sick of Ionian or * | fair. PAGE 11 me inte Mr ling heard iss Newton } |epoken, i had a letter from Mm Bowden, hoping that there would be avage deepened. > waen't exactly # ot all the village had told him that they wanted an Joule I told that to Miss Nawton, at once went round with a ttle taking for and agiinat ed mynelf tright- and late one night I got out k @ home-made poster on ag able’ éoor, NICH OBELISK, H ABBAS? "EAK OR DIE. wton was furious, and tse typed manifesto to show that the isk was cheaper than the Ionic ero: Mr, Felstead replied by @ public meeting, with lanterm slides, on a trip to the westerm islands of Scotland, nett of dummy Christian f (Continued T versus obelisk af- cron book 6 obelisk. 1 en fully, and sued @ roni “OUT OUR WAY THERE LOOKIN' AY 1" FOR ? WHY DONCHA GO IN AN INQUIRE ~ BY WILLIAMS WHO ME? WHY LOONT \\\ \\ \\\ ADMIRING THE PRODUCT NOT “THE OPPORTONITY, THE mSIDE ‘You SHouLD | NOTICED THE WAY You CARRIED THAT WATER GLASS WEL OF THE GtASS~ L2 HOLD A GLASS ON HE OUT SIDE - WANT ANYTHING OFFICER . 1M UST WINDOW SHOPPING. L,) ALWAYS CARRIED THEM THAT WAY SO | WOULDN'T DROP ’EM, BUT Fit TRY IT YouR WAY - You"LL HAVE To RUN THE RISK OF THEM << THREE YOUNG HOODL.UMS FROM HOOTSTOWN, WHO STARTED A RUMRDS /N ED HEALYS POoL ROOM, WERE EJECTED BY THE PROPRIETOR EARLY ToDAY-