The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1923, Page 15

DAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928. THE SEATTLE ST » who absolutely eddied in| funny was Mra Witham had forgot eae —— their blouses, I visited @ place called|ten to place @ copper can of hot drt Ir ped the km | Washing basin. and it was « J mM Ly hense which advertised n brella. T * ¥ Ye Business Ladi So I began, I had real moments| ment, for A Novel by W. L. George. 4 passage, the staircase with|of kingahip in Balcombe st, such ax|top, to the acoc Si & broken and slightly greasy bantisters,| letting myself in the first evening |the Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers the ne r back room, the yard| with my own latchkey, after another| hard, I looked at behind where were piled battered naive meal at an Itallan revtau-| vious, half eupertor. SEN . sor *, parts of @ bicycle, the ¢ | 1 et, which very | thelr job, and URSULA TRENT, 30, married and happy, sits down to write her story. ¢ several dust bina, broken > ob as it seomed,|in ue pock She onrs a : 1 nv sent and pretty, but not well educated, Her On the wall, two skinny| Also waking up the t morning in|therm. Fortunately home br puriera — Eng She begins her tale in the Gays! cats were preparing either for love| the bed I paid for, able to ring for al ¢ tefore the war when she A single, She has soveral Pro-|or battle, It was only four shillings,| breakfast I paid fer, To pay for tical meeting w mes but I nearly ran away, I did not go/|things ts a great delight: one boys istocracy with democratic lean-| no far at another house, for there,| power as well as things. k it down. Oh She | Ma d to him as he Jeaves for the front, He| under scanty gray hair, the landlady | early, I felt that tr hand that is ki 8 shim again, News arrives as she ts busy 19/exnintted a doubtful scalp, A third|do something. The c It was easy enough hos e. ty” + she comes under the influence of | house, tn an r nide street, was bet-/ what? That day 11 of platitudes, but reading it DR. UPN« ne tho upper classes, Her hospital experience 40es| ter, Hyverything had been repainted, | ket alone, vistted London that I knew | dear! not le. she is diamissed because of a petty infraction of| and there was a bathroom. But stuek| not very well, expecially the drapers’ | nc rules, § . nd and enters the food control office, There} al over the bath was short reddish | shops along Oxford et, that mamma|pother about that she works und ction of | hair, had never taken me to. They were | all wR. KNOWL artmental manager of a London dairy, She] “vnat’s that?’ I asked, |more exciting than the parlors of|ent works the intl er the armistice, An annoying controversy, in| “On. that’s no’ im," said the land-| Mount st.; I simply couldn't restet]and at once which her father figures, develops over whether the town shall erect | lady, cheerfully. ihe was very stout/an umbrella of imitation malacealnext thought I am «. as a war memortal an J cross or an obelisk, It ls exasperation over the foolishness of this quarrel that leads her|of ole ‘Tim's hair, our colli, you! KVERETT TRUE to seek a career in London, NOW READ ON CHAPTER I ‘The Narrow, Narrow World 1 | belonging to me. 1 had, in a { wonder how Dick Whittington felt | ripped myvelf away from the pe ‘whan he reached the heights of High-/| tree and I felt sore at gate to become Lord Mayor of Lon-|my being where we had parted. @on. I expect he was quite as ner-| ‘Then I reacted and addreased yous as I, and no doubt he was sti if: “Don't be ally. You've worse off. For all he owned was a/ everything, youth, health, some comforting cat: I had quite s let of! ple my good looks, money to money; 15 pounds tn notes, amasmd| you @ little while; you're a out of my pocket money, because I| shorthand typist, or more exactly aland a hadn't paid my bills; a 25-pound war| government short! bond, which I had bought in ¢a¢ Solf-| don’t be a fool. You ridge draw on the chance of wir @ prize; and 34 ab Total, say, 42 pounds 60 pounds. For a 1 proud enough to pay ad typist, luggage ing | the cloakroom and won't worry bts well over | member that the girls in the nent ¢ felt/control at Hasingalton seem to ese bills, It} quite comfortably on anything before the | tween thirty-seven and six and I stood de- dating this out. nd Kaz. rk of the en etic Ur tng at the Union Jack Club. Then | craven Ursula was unfortuna I thought: “Well, papa has always|the girls lived on about two po paid my hill, These bills for |a werk, but how did they do it? things I've had while I was living | felt traveling hat cost three po there. Therefore, tf I'd stayed at/ten, and when I went round to home he'd have paid. After all, I/ with mamma to look at trouss# haven't ordered any clothes since I|I hadn't seen a camisole fit to arrived—namely, five minutes.” Junder four guineas, Food, too; But suppose papa didn’t pay? Oh, | time I was up with papa we lunched| She did not reply for a moment, pape always pald. He was really|at the Berkeley. Pap gave ‘very nice. I'd been a beast. There| walter a pound note and got hardly was a train back soon. But I remem-janything back. Yet I'd only Dered the obelisk. No, I couldn't go| lemonade. As I walked along Beck to a place where they argued| Embankment I therefore hesttated| here? Still," she added, consolingty, | about obelisks and Ionic crosses, and | again, wondered whether I couldn't | “We all has our ups and downs, don't @upported bad jokes about mixed/| stand the obelisk, after all. But I| We? Course we could put you up bathrooms. Still, papa mightn't pay, | was excited by this new sense But I owed over 60 pounds and| plunge into the neceasttous lif hadn't got quite 42. I'd have to let | then felt what now I know, that fomebody down. Would !t be fair to/ erty ts exciting, Just ax wealth is ex-| learns So I was shocked rather than| pay some and let the others down? |citing, and that nothing ts so de- | surprised when @ young man, ob-/ Of course, I could sell my Jewelry, | testable as a mediocre Income, but ft wasn’t much, only two gold/ ple of middle fortune can do noth-| her on the step, leered at me amfably, bracelets, a rotten signet ring, and/i!ng and must appear everything. | and remarked: | Oswald's ring, which I couldn't sll. | Still, I was coward enough to wish I A topaz and amethyst brooch, not/ had 400 a year, worth much, a but not valuable. ‘Then I rebelled. After all, a4 aj came still more pronounced. It Fight to live. Strictly, it was my duty | my fault, I suppose, for I had begun| der the chin. I think I screamed, to Ive. Suicide was not allowed, not| with romantic notions—I would even by starvation. (I know better|!n the East End. Having asked my| Green Road, followed by a growing | Row.) Therefore, if I wasn't allowed | way, I ate a terribly exponstya lunch | Crowd of little boys who yelled, “Stop / || DOINGS OF THE DUFFS to starve, it was my duty to hold on/ at a place called Pimm's, and to my 42 pounds. It wasn't much | mately reached Aldgate, It was rath-| It took me westward, to the Rank. ‘with which to face the world, tho oth-|er a jolly street, with lots of drays,| But this was not westward enough. erwise I wasn’t badly equipped, for I| buses, and barrows; for a moment I|I ran to the Tube; only at Marble had quite a good stotk of elothes and | sloated before an eating house called | Arch, where I got out to seo familiar & dressing case. The thing to do was| "The Ten Ounce Chop,” tn the to protect the nest exe and find soma | dow of which steamed large trays of | mafe. No, the East End wouldn't do. work quickly. As I stopped for a/| potatoes and greens cyt into cubes | Tt would have to be the Weat End. moment on Waterloo brides, where| The sun was shining, A gay the gulls were yotptaning and side-| vember day with a very Ieht slipping, where a slicht, dry east wind| wind. The flags of Armistice Fuffled my hair, I looked for a mo-| still fluttered. I looked Into Ment at the prospect of the river. | mirror of a tobacconist and saw It made me rather nervous. This|the wind had brought color Into my|near a park. So I attained Marylo- t city, these crowds, the throb. | dark cheeks. I was pretty. It m Bing of the bridge under the feet of | one fect aafe, ns If prettiness cou! the multitude, It made one under-| die. But I didn’t stay tn the stand what a leaf may feel In the| End. Ultimately I reached Bot wind. ¥ * Page 908 THE DOCTOR AND THE CHIEF tard,” grandmother sald, “he was |are never hungry. stores mad at him because he |do for you much work. would sell calico and brooms and| “‘And I, Chief Seattle, wil than they aid, will lead you to that land.’ “He had lots and lots of friends Chief Seattle came in his canoe to | brought to Seattle her first doctor Olympia. He was a wise old man, among his own people, and he |1852. of Olympia. ever learned to speak English), | rast side of Elliot bay. he said, “Why do you stay on in Seattle, will show you a place; tt is the place of my people, where | glad to havo a store, too.’ your white brothers are making a clone in to the green shore, There | business In his new store. {s a river of sweet water. And| “Ho lived In it, too, and the mountains, Much fish {s| 1 big as this living room.” there in that place, and the hunt (To Be Continued) CHINESH DOCTOR Nature Chinese Herbs rs men St.. Cor, 2nd Seattle, Main 2195 If you are fond of good tea, then you'll certainly U-RAY-A TEA Genuine Orange Pekoe— only the the tender young leaves, Your Grocer Has It Closset & Devers stranger; for the first time in my/| bath life I had nowhere to go and no one ngs In loose cash. /Go and get some lodgings, and re-|ever she ceased to concentrate on| ds seven a week.” That last re- | rem: & pendant, pretty| When I began to vistt furnished | resist, because I could not expect thia| rooms, the destre for 400 a year be-}—he stepped down, put an arm/ ‘wan exhilarated and terrified | Green Rond: half torrified, followed | pounds a week, luxurious houses, by the {fea of conflict, I wat a by the Inquisitive eyes of. enormous! dirty houses, and one house where Cleland 4 “But to go back to Dr. May- |\s always good, so that my people f= Olympia running his little| “ ‘Many of my people are at that store, and making lots of friends | place; they will be your friends. among the settlers, and getting |They will trade with you. You all the other keepers-of-little- | will become rich. They will also sugar and things more cheaply |!tad you. I, and my men. We “So that’s how it happened that among the Indians, too. One day |!t was the old chief, himsclf, who “It took them four days to that chief, and he was used to|make the trip, and they reached settling quarrels and troubles | Alki point about the 1st of April, saw just what kind of unpleasant} ‘There the doctor found things things were brewing in the town |quite unsettled, for of the seven men who made up the little settle- “Bo he went to the doctor, and | ment, four were busy as bees get- in his own language (you know he |ting ready to move acféas to tho “‘Come on with us,’ they told this piace which ts unfriendly? 1, |the doctor, ‘we need a doctor among us, and we'll be mighty “So he chose a claim near village. It {a a place of better |theirs, hired the white men and harbors than this; your white-|s lot of Indians to help him, and winged ships can always comoe|within a week he was ready for Nearby ts a deep, clear lake, And| wouldn't look much like & store back of that a road winds over |to you, a little log shanty about and ctionate.) “That's only some | know.” “But do you wash the collie in the “Well, we has to wash ‘Im somo-| Way,| where, And he’s that big we haven't my-| experience, I had been hanging about | got | trresotutely, when at a door appeared peo-|& very pretty young wor who | keep | looked faintly Japanese. She wore good | an fll-fastoned skirt, a dirty chemise hort dressing jacket, Sha| So | Grew these garments together from ia in| time to time with a beautiful alr of you. | thinking of somehing else. When- food | them, It was clear that she was not | live| ashamed of her figure, which was| be- rming. After a moment she nc two | tieed me, and with a pleasant smile ked: “Hullo, dearle! Had any | this m luck dat me “What are you Aren't at the earhole, nds | My | doing } nds | are you e| 1 decided not to betray my txnor-| eaus,|ance and replied, calmly: “No, I'm wear | looking for rooma, You don’t happen last | to know of any, do you?” } the | but examined ma. Obvtousty she was ricing my clothes. “Rooms,” ahe had | sald, vaguely. “Aren't you a bit of the |® high-stepper to want rooms about of a| here tf you're on the game.” . | One ts not tn vain for four you pov- | Murse and a government clerk. One Peo- | viously & foreigner, shouldered past | “Hullo, lovey! How 414 you fina | us out? Then—and I did not at once | was} und my waist, and tickled me un- I've | and I know that I ran down Bethnal | uiti-| thief!" until I leaped into @ tram. DORIS, WHO ToLD You THIS 1S GOING ‘TO BE A DRESSUP PARTY ? win. | and tnoffenstve Park Lane, aid I feel No-| Not so near the park; it would be east | too dear. Well, I might go near Re. Day | gent’s Park. It was characteristic of > mMe- the | the Ureula of that period that she that |could naturally think of living only nken | bone; so did I visit all the afternoon, | Jdn't| until it grew dark, houses whero| Fast | there were no rooms to let at all, hnal| houses where two rooms cost two I was told that I muatn’t bring gen- }tlemen . . . an enraging suggestion. | 1 at last found what I needed In Bal- lcombe st. It was very clvilized, | with Marylebone Road at one end and| |a chapel at the other. There ts nome- thing secure about chapels and motor |busea Mra, Witham, the landlady, was in no way cordial, but she showed no active dislike for ma The |Hnoleum tn the passage was waxed; |the bathroom was accessible when » [| “the gentlemen didn't want !t,” for Mra. Witham was wholly a Victorian, |The third floor front wam't bad at jal. At Joast, nhe cailed tt the third floor front, but !t was only half, for it had been divided by a partition, That was why I obtained this tn- 4tvidual mansion, one bed, one table, one washstand, two chairs, a chenille hanging for the mantelplece, four texts, and the History of Scotinnd that lay on the red-rerge tablecloth, for eight shillings a week. At 7 o'clock I was entablished. The con- tents of my dreaving case and a few books and magazines made a big dif- ference. The only thing that seemed OUR BOARDING HOUSE “GY LeT ME BE THE FIRST REALLY, “V7 7b CONGRATULATE Your MAXTOR HOOPLE*\) BRILLIANT TRIUMPH, MISS T DON'T KNow \"] CHURCH» HoWevER, I MUST How I EVEN CONFESS ~ WERE I OPPOS- MANAGEDTOWIN || ING A MAN, L WouLD DELIBERATLY PREMEDITATE I MADE SucH FOR HIS DEFEAT, WITH ALL STUPID Moves! /p-j-<THE SKILL AND CUNNING 1 COULD COMMAND /« BUT WITH A WOMAN- AHH 1AM ADIGCIPLE OF THE CHIVALROUS KNIGHTS OF GOOD KING ARTHUR! in r, it 18S CHURCH TboK THE MAJOR OVER FoR STRAIGHT GAMEG IN ONE HOUR FLAT == 1 WAS TALKING TO EDNA Tooay AND SHE TOLO back Zour or five giris were typing obnerving a I came back that a ht at the town hall, I wen taking down letters w the thing was to get s iP “BY CONDO. (STEN “TO THIS, MRS. Tee. AN ITEM AGOYT SOME YOUNG PEOPLE MARRYING, \lAnd It WINDS VP BY SAYING “THS Hipey arent time to take enough pails of water | COUPLES WILL Res\pse with HS BRIDG'S © portion of |to the yard.” | I left the Past Innd after my next||MOTHER FOR A WM\Le! “BRipe's MoTHeR”s “HAPPY CoueLE”’—— wow lr HA- HAS WHY, HE DIDA'T Have this 1 wonder whether I know/1 o' t explain, without being | “It aid go with the war, I think, hui jan whe ¢ got me @ job?" |ruda, that I'd given up being &/ It's come b j It didn't occur to me to try for my-| daughter, At last she forced me t At last 1 saw that Monica's father self; I didn’t know how to do it; | accept 10 pounds and made ine prom-| would do nothing for me except give nts department et, with « t, I felt rather men tall abe noting that hour I was so bad at reading my es that next day I decided not to When I re THIS 15 THE ONLY CLEAN DRESS SHIRT | HAVE AND | CAN'T WEAR IT BECAUSE \T HAS THREE BUTTON HOLES IN FRONT ANDO J now get me into some-| Lady Halkyn had not said @ word | jad! I thought everything was|against my dectatc t nage; I was an English | because Aunt Augu 1 so I had the soul of a/ entire hour in roaring and bellowt papa had got me into the hospital; | txe to con 4 nee her often. © an introduction to e lunatic asym Lady Halkyn had got me into the| It was only when I went to Aunt|ium, » her invitetion te || ol. I supposed that some-| Augusta that I remembered that|go out t on to the Pale “6 pay tor |} 4 lunch. I was getting mercenary, andl nder, since my food et restau was somehow costing me eight haps aristrocrats and dingraceful behavior. 6 shillings « day. It was about flunkies have grown alike by asso was almost as bad. I wa that I dircovered that a fire im | clating for centuries rather fond of her, We had been at 9 nore than look prettys Bo I tried. Because I was rather | East » together jshe was small 2 bamed, X | qualmy about my position, I went| very fair, and qt 1 on which first to Lady Halkyn. She was a!a great deal of r mate @ perfect darling, and cried when she because I made her think] “Oh, * she sald, “I couldn't 1 cried, I don’t know why. | ask fat You see, he hates the But there were anchovy sandwiches | idea of girls in offices, Of ¢ with « lot of salt. for tea, of which I ate a lot because | know it’s old-fashioned of him, It was rather fun, plenicking, Ege § I love them. Lady Halkyn was no|he rays that woman's sphere ts the| cept that I got « cold out of it, bee | use at all, She said she didn’t know | home.” cause I opened my door and window | any people who had offices, and per-| “I thought all that rot had gone|late at night to dispel the amell of dated in imploring me to come and| with the war,” I replied, rather king. I ec bear that Mra live with her and be her companion; | rudely, Witham should know. practically her daughter. Of course| “So did I,” mld Monica, piteousty. (Continued Tomorrow) OUT OUR WAY TEE BY WILLIAMS _ a rich of farmhouse 3 y dish: bread DAT AIN MAH FAUCT MAN! AH AIN' NO ARAB! AN DEY AIN' NOBODY BUT A ARAB Kin SRY | UP ON DAT HUMP, WELL HAVE A CAMEL, Trials of Dolling HAVEN'T ‘YOU FIXED Your. HAIR YET? | WILL BE AS SOON AS) FIX MY LT GD TAS EDITOR. OF “THE WEEKLY CLARION FouND “SOME NEWS NOTES TODA LAID == CEARIY LAST SUMMER. 0) TAT HE Mis! :