The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 27, 1923, Page 7

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 192: CHR “hy Rafael Sabatini © RAFAEL SARATINI anost NEA SERVICE me Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine, sits tm his baleon ing his pipe and watering his geraniums while the rest of the populace arms itself to battle for Monmouth, self-acclaimed hei to the throne of land. His attitude does not find favor with others of his town, but he placidly keeps himself out of the controversy, Tt was not fear that kept Peter Blood from the conflict, ax he was & veteran of many a foreign engagement, ‘That night while Blood slept, Monmouth attacked the royal forces in the battle of Sedgemoor, Lord Gildoy, a friend of the doctor's, is wounded and Blood g attend to him. He is there when the victorious royal fore the house for “rebels” and try to remove Gildoy, Blood o fo the seriousness of his patient's wounds. The doctor and his patient and a youth named Pitt aro taken prisoners, Weeks later Blood is haled before the Lord Chief Magistrate and ts ordered to make his plea, Blood pleads not guilty, but he might just as well have saved his breath, for the judge had decided his guilt before his case began and the Jurors, even tho they knew him to bo innoc were afrald to clear the doctor, Blood, however, is given a chance to say a words, calmly smok- NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY It was a shrewd, sharp thrust aimed at the jury, and it reve I think, the alert of the man's ind, his self-possession ever stead test in mom dire pe With y other jury it must have mado m that he hoped to It may even have made its . 89 poor pu: the dread 3 bound b to dec you our oaths and conaciences are to you what fs law; and » bound your oaths and your consciences ver and to are to us by verdict tho uth of the facts, Upon that he proceeded to hi mming-up, showin Rayn 1 Blood were both guilty of trea n, the first for having harbored a 1 for having suc by dressing his larded his address allusions to his nat- lawful sovereign, the m God had set ov em, d with vi rations of noncom. mity and of Monmouth, of whom —in his own words—he dared boldly affirm that the meanest subject with. in the k dom that was of legiti- mate birth had a better title to the crown. “Josus, God! That ever we should have such a generation of vipers mong us,” he b in rhetorical frenzy, And if exhat had used. A moment he was still, dab- bing his Ups again; then he moved uneasily; once more his features were twisted by pain, and in a few snarling, almost incoherent words he dismissed the jury to consider the verdi your «of “ how was there to i He gasped aloud, then flung him- self violently forward. “Lord of Heaven!" "Was there ever » pudent rascal? B with you. I see th thi trait coured wounds. by. sycoph: ural lord a king, wh at traitor Ho inte he stormed. @ canting, im have done thy neck.” Having spoken ev he sank bac! posed hims It was 4 tain fell. All emotion passed again from his pale face. Back to invest it again came that gentle melancholy Speaking after a mom par voice was soft, almost tender, ¥ every word of it carried sharply thru that hushed cour “If I know my own heart it is not in my nature to desire to hurt of a body, much less to delight in his eternal perdition. It {s out of com passion for you that I have used all these words—because I would have you have some regard for your im mortal soul, and not ensure its damnation by obdurately persisting in falsehood and prevarication. But I see that all the pains in the world, and all compassion and charity are Jost upon you, and therefore I w Say no more to you.” He again to the jury that count wistful beauty, be of are the judges, and not you, that if just tell you for law, of which we any person be in actual re against the king. and another person ——who really and actually was not in rebellion—does knowingly receive, harbor, comfort or succour him, such @ person is ax much a traitor as he who indeed bore arms. We are gloatingly, and com. temperate, lasphemou most obscene veoth oft with a detachment th afterwar¢ in retrospect, surpr' dhim, He was 80 amazed by the man, by the reac. ns taking, place in him between mind and body, and by his methods of bullying and coe: ng the jury inte bloods! that he almost forgot that his own life was at stake. ¥ absence of that dazed jury was a brief one. The verdict found the three prisoners guilty. Peter Blood looked round th 4 court. For an instant white face: him. Thi and av hat foam of seemed to heave before n he was himself again, ice was asking him what ho ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Olive Roberts Barton NO PERSIMMONS TODAY Nancy and Nick followed Mrs.’Possum and her toward the persimmon tree. Nancy and Nick followed Mrs. "Possum and her family toward the persimmon tree. Indeed, they couldn't very well follow her with- out following her family, for her 10 little ‘possum kiddies were strung along her back and holding tight to | her long tail like so many beads on a string. Mrs. "Possum needed no baby carriage, she didn’t, or a go- cart. By and by she stopped. “There| is the tree,” she said. “Those yel-| low things that look like oranges are persimmons and they should be extra fine, for Jack Frost was around last night.” Before the Twins could answer, a TO EXPECTANT MOTHERS A Letter from Mrs. Ward Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege-, table Compound Helped Her Boring eld Obs ‘Lydia E. Pink- ham’ table Compound proved a na lendid medicine foe me before my | fourth child was) born. With the) first three I had| been sick and 'weak,andhad sick | headaches twice a week. I couldn’t) keep enough food | down (Ae nl | good, and my wor! p was left undone = man: Aarne My| sister-in-law told me to take the Veg- etable Compound when I began | have the same old dreadful sickness | ami headaches and was #0 worn out. | Since then I have only had two headaches, had a good tite and estoy lost ie : wining | “health; irl who has never had | Ved "fhe nicest part is that 1 , too. It did me a lot of | Ishould ever have another I will take your medicine at once.”’—Mrs. Brsstz Warp, 1027 Park Avenue, Springfield, Ohio. | Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable | is an Haney Siete for etant mothers,and shou taken during the entire period. It has a effect to strengthen and tone up the entire system. —Advertizement family , new voice sald, “Here, pick this tree next before pesky ‘possums get at it.” And then there were heavy footsteps, Miasez "Possum stopped. she commanded, sweeping all of her children off her back with ono shake of her tail. In a twinkling they had scrambled off into the bushes, but Missez ‘Possum never moved a step herself. She just closed her eyes and sank down to the ground and rolled over and never moved. Nancy started toward her, but » was too late, The man had seen Bil, we'll “Look here, Bill,” he called, giv- ing poor Missez "Possum a shove with his foot. But Miswez "Possum never moved elash. She lay huddled up jn a little Iimp heap’and never even "Ia she dead?" asked Bill curious. ly, coming up beside the man. “Dead? Humph! No deader 'n I am,” he answered. “You don't know ‘possums, Bill. They're the best pre- tenders outside of story books, They can play dead better’n circus dogs. This ‘poasum’s alive and kicking. See.” And he gaye her another shove with his foot, Missez ‘Possum make! She might have been a door-mat for all the life she showed. ia Bill,” said the n |, stoop. ing over and looking at her closel: L believe this one IS dead, Dender'n’ a doornail” A little while later, thelr basket full of persimmons, Bill and the other man left. All this time Missez ‘Possum lay in a lifeless heap, but no sooner had the men gone than she jumped up and called briskly out, “Heah, hon. eys, cone to mammy and we'll go home.”* “Oh, I'm so glad you're all right,” cried Nancy coming out of her hid- ing place, “We thought you really were dead and we were just going to hunt up your bables and take f them." hank you kindly,” laughed Missez ‘Possum, ae all of her chil. dren came arunning out of their hiding holes “But I'm fine and hearty. ver. felt hetter in my lif. The only thing I regret,” she said ruefully, “Js that we'll have no persimmons today." (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, by Seuttle Star) care any | “Runt” | But nary a move did | Yep! | THE SEATT LE STAR had to way for himself, why sentence | of death should not be passed upon |him, boing convicted of high tr Ilo laughed, and h uncannily upon te v } ain laugh Jarred deathly sti CAPPY of tho court. It was a te auch a of Justh tered by wistful in a Kory adimind que, | mockery that 1 jack arlot himaelt the venal instrument of brutally spiteful and vindictive king RICKS He Discourses on the Burden of Command Written for The Star by Peter B, Kyno—Another Coming Next Saturday | His laughter shocked the austerity of | that jack-pudding Do laugh, sir | rope about your nook, | threshold of that etor suddenly to enter into And then Blood toc Faith, it’s in better caso I am for | fet that h mirth than your ip. I} Quarter century V have this to say before you deliver) Cappy Ricks should and did entitle judgment r lordship 4 mo~=| him to take his job as lghtl yas Cap: an nocent man whose only offense | PY Ricks took his, Mr, Skinner was is that I practiced charity—with a yn the first at the office and the halter round my neck, Your lord-| last toleave, If he so far forgot him ship, being the justiciar, speaks with knowledge of what is to come to me, }1, being a physician, may speak with | knowledge of what is to come to your jlordship. And I tell you that I would | |not now change places with you | that I would not exchange this halter } that you fling about my neck for the jat that you carry in your body, |The death to which you may doom |me ty a ght pleasantry by contrast with the death to which your lordship | eaking Binds a. racelana wanes has been doome by that Great | valuable material,: Slaves were Ur Judge with wh: your 10rd: | antiy required in the plantations, an The Lord Ch ned rth at it from ten to uprigh his fs fifteen pounds. Then, there were twitching, and wh court many gentlemen who had some | counted ten there claim or other upon majosty'’s that paralyzed bounty, Here was a Blood had finished ssa Arma An those who knew Lord garded this as tho lull 4 sjancsia o storm, and braced t explosion. But no} faintly, the color crey ashen face. Tho ita rigidity, and lordship began t volco and br than his wos ina Mr the pany, ficient, to wuc his padsion fc of ny inner, general manager ageing & Lumbering ce prided himself upon bein, tireless and hard-working an extent did he W that, despit dent position ani the mame you ah, with Ric upon the nity you very ¢ In| the 1 under | his revenge mk lords ico his majesty’s southern plantations, | Jamaica, Barbados, or any of the Lee ward Islands You are not to suppor }command was dictated by any jof merey, Lord Churehill wo more than just when he # King’s heart as being as insensible as marble, It had been realized that in these wholesale hangings there w © that this name f Junt co nat etiffy hi ou migh’ ashen, be : ap and read ms, From a cer » be are se cla ted rebt i Jeffreys re before the » came. Blowly, ck Into that ar f ire lost bent forward, His} ak, Ina muted f more Atlomen, 9 » of them to} yal munifl thousand tributed Y re artiers and oth , Whilst a postacriptum to his lord er asked for a further hun 9 held at the disposal of the T prisoners were to be ported at once to his majesty’ and to bo kept space of ten years bo- | to Mberty, the nm such ocen ntirely mec fa man whore thou, while his lips are speakir 1 wen of death ibed form, and without th lusion to what Peter Blood had sald. Having A it, t sank bac sted, ‘ u | fore being restored parties to whom they were assigned entering into security to see that tranaportat immediately ef. fec his ey eam with sweat, filed out a Whig ite the pousitior which he occupled by ono of the at heart dvocate Woe know from Lord Jeffreys’ retary how the chief justice nvelgh-} ed that ht in drunken frenzy against this misplaced clemency to which his majesty had been persuad ed. We know how he attempted by ng to reconsider James adhered to from tho indirect | rived from it—a iT y of him. He knew that to nm this fashion was to th living deaths. mb in torment to Indian slavery vy of thelr surviv 8 overheard , that swarthy rascal rdship a It's a For a man who ys should go far.” RIV Human Merchandise Mr same on was at of: right and wrong—a jon much common than is ly supposed, He was right in his { ¥| Many must expressed thought that a man whowe | ty horrors of ¥ the dominance fashion himsel destiny. He was wrong—tho justi }fiably so—in his assumption t aa ter Blood must h | nen © sald that the tribulations ert @aunt dno be th should by pan’ ure be nus it happened that Peter Blood, and with him Jeremy Pitt nd An dre Baynes, in ad of being hang qrawn, and quartered as nenténces directed, were conveyed to Bri: and ¢ © shipped with some! which he was visited as a result | fifty aboard the Jamaica of his err ft cy to Ogio | ste rehant. From close confinement thorpe’s Fi contained—altho as/under hatches, ill-nourishment and | yet ho did not percetve it, perhaps—| foul water, a sickness broke out | two sources of thankfulness: one that st them, of which eleven died. | he was tried at all; the other that this | Amongst these was the unfortun rial took piace on the 19th of Sep-| yeoman (from Oglethorpe’s jtember. Until the 18th, the sen-| brutally Yorn from his quiet }tences passed by the court the amkl the fragrant cider orch- tords commissioners had been carried | ards for no other sin but that he had out literall and expeditious! But | practiced mercy. 3 ar (To Be Continued) | rived at Taunton a courier from Lord | ———_—— eto Len Sete ee | TEA WAGON IS HELP IN in he was that his majest MANY HOUSEHOLD TASKS a been graciously pleased to com formed that mand that 1,100 rebela should be fur-| (tg Uses Not Confined to Serving at for transportation to some of | > rabi their ame ot stead nished f _Tea Parties, By MARIAN MOORE | The tea cart, like an aspiring |movie star, needs a good press lagent. If the public's knowledge of it were enlarged, 1t would really be much better liked, which can't ‘always be sald of press-agented characters, Too many women with the aver- age home get the {dea that a tea cart is nice enough, of course, but an {tem which they can get along ° without, goodness knows, when*the guest room needs a new rug so badly! Most pletures of tea carts, Ike this one, show them {n their after- for that skin eruption ‘You don’t have to wait to know that Resinol Ointment is going to overcome your skin trouble. It gives such quick relief from the itching and burning and so generally succeeds in clearing away the eruption that, with Resinol Soap, it is the standard treatment in thousands of homes, Realnol products sold by all druggists, Piles Can Be Cured | Without Surgery An instructive shed by Dr. rectal special kk tells hi quickly and of knife, wel ity or an hod, with howpltal book has A. 8. McCleary, t of Kar eufferors been pub- the ity. rom Piles can red without th hot” tron, el or b to bed The Useful Tea Cart. noon dress, ready to serve fou. o'clock ten, like the photograph of | | a prim little girl all silks and laces, | Their pictures are never taken} when heaped with soiled china| and silver, doing truck duty from| the dining table to the kitchen sink, They never are photographed bearing the stacks of clean clothes from the ironing board to the linen closets. Nor are they ever) snapped bearing up on cleaning’ day under the ¥arlous assortment) of polishing rags and powders) which must be taken from place to place, Life isn't all four o'clock | parties for the tea cart. first-class (Write to Marian Moore, care of | store and get a it jar of | this newspaper, for advice or infor- the famous Dennis’ LucalyptuaOlnt-| mation about home furnishing or ment ine.tin plate and Inhn decorating, sending stamped, ad-_| breaths the soothing vap dressed envelope for reply.) | thia ni and morning, and Question: Does the davenport| ae ies anoint table still belong behind the dav-| Hasty dripping. In the theaaen rel enport? What should the daven- stopped-up Ing—no buzsing inj port face if there Is no fireplace?— the ears, You will feel better,| A, G, breathe ‘better and sleep hetter:|”"Angwer: A window, or group of | windows, plano, phonograph or oth-| | | | y-four years ht thousand cases mipald free to per # afflicted with pllew or other rectal ‘oubles who clip this item and mail it] h name and address to Dr. McC! Parkview Sanitarium, Kansas City, Advertisement. Catarrh Must Be Healed You'll never be free from catarrh until you heal those raw, inflamed patches In your nowe and throat that }are out of reach of Maquida and | sprays, Step into any q drug 100, t r The vapor deposita anh antiseptic film of oll over diseaned membri ii t { Hal er center of interest. Yes, the dav- ng raw spots, “Deo” ia wold b | leading druggists, Dennis Mry.| CnPort table still stands behind It destroying germs ond graduall all . makers, Be » Cal—Adver-' Copyright, Amertcan Homes Bureat| | Wherefore, jand he does wolf an to leay busine aid wy h plat when, on rare to take the entire off and play golf, he until 8 or o'clock night to make up for On a day following « busy year, Cappy Ricks called skinner into his private office tho & ‘al manager entered, Capp lid out to the extreme of hi wivel chair, rested hiv hands on hi knees, lowered his old head and gaze at Mr, Skinner, long and balete r tho rims of his spectacles. Mr d that, in the langus wie, there wan blood on th: “Ahem!" Cappy Hum-mmamn! Ha: Skinner, sit down,” Mr. Skinner sat down. Mr, I ho “Out with it, out with it, I done now?" “Nothing prising Ansumptio “Well, th me ag if! ut up ie of you, tradict me “Why, I haven't contrad © first odin on days when quiet, he w ret occasions, he sunk #o ow uftornoon 4 worked 9 the following particularly Mr edg ly moon, leared his throat mph-heh! Hem “Well, well irritubl What hi snapped with 6 toring 1 Cappy, r q were you Jib pp: at How dare you con ted you, alr You would tf You would when did you play “Never mi 1a cha dared king If last’? “Sunday “How mr “Thirty air ‘Too much, Entirely too much. n miles of golf 19 too much exer » for a man of sedentary h So that's why you were dead on your feet all day Monday and lame an a th: 1 dog all day Tuesday I'm afraid that Mr. Rick You're bonehead, not admit 1 like a y house de nervous a hard to live gC ny } wix. afraid, you know eh? Why, it was, so why f ramming a ach u're getting 4 irritable and © first thing 1 be lea you with now your w . a holy pink toed I tha?-wi favor, when Tl about you." can TI help {t {f I'm Jumpy rvo 4 irritable?” Mr. 8 prophet stand in} ult cor things nd ner f) been yea your divorces tell tho judg doing three men's work for “You unmitigated son of a baboon,’ y interrupted fu 1d insult to injury fault Do urs jously by claimt: you're doing threo n that, and by the Twe jon I'll fire you." it's not your fault, Mr. astened to assure irate old gentleman. ait is it?” Cappy pursued ult of the class of help nowadays," Mfr. Skinner as “Last to come and first working at 50 per cent effi one eye on me and the other n the clock—perfectly satisfied with hecks and the bright They're well up on all the gossip and scandal of the motion-pic ture business, but they're shy knowledge of the lumber bus and not anxious to correct th fictency.” “I must di t de gree with you aagin, Skinner. The fault is entirely yours, I give you tools you want to work with and {f you're such a boob that you pick dull tools, the fault is you're Mr. Skinner stiff Evident! your competitors hold an adv opinion as to my executive ability, air,” he said freezingly. “I've been sting offers to go to work for them for years at higher wages than you pay me. ‘Skinner, you're Insulting. have grown rich in my employ. more than a salaried man have been permitted to buy stock in the Ricks enterprises. If you mean to Insinuate that, Jn freezing to the Ricks pilyroll, you have been loyal to me at the expense of being loyal to yourself, admit it now and we'll part company Mr. Skinner w: nt and, with a malicious little smile, Cappy went on. “I didn’t think you would be that great a boob, Skinner, Now, then, boy, I've called you in here to rawhide you for fair, and raise your salary five thousand dollars a year, | Tut, tut! Don't dare interrupt me, | Get Rid of Fat Where It Shows Do you,reallze that nothing but xood, substantial food and plenty of| it will build muscular energy, and| that you must eat and eat properly | in order to regain your strength? You You You | Digting weakens exercise tires yc mer retards. the development of muscular energy, and the latter con- sumes too much’ of it, That is why you find the old-fashioned method of fat reduction such a hardship, Why not get rid of your excess fat in the harmless, scientific, easy way taking a harmless Marmola Pre-| scription Tablet after each meal and at bedtime? Marmola Prescription Tablets are prepared in exact 4 cordance with the famous Murmola Preseription, are perfectly safo to use and have been used by hundreds of persons In this country and Hurope with wonderful success, Within a short time you can b getting rid of fat steadily and eas- Hy without starvation diet or tire some exercise, You can be comfort- able and you can enjoy the food ike and want. Byen after taking | off many pounds there will be no| you and over- ause the for- was the reason, | Cyn for| a before |4 Not a peep out of rotten ou, sir! You're a executive and you've got to If and get on to yoursel you're doing three men's work you admit you aro—that {s prima facio evidence that as an executive you're duc the s« t Man Compares Bobbed Ha wenty yoa time dows a No rea} executive ever ark except his own, | little of that work Dear Miss Grey: In a rec column contained a letter from ver such Fair Play,” which interested s himself two | typically portrayed the feminir as por What } 0 playing golf, and he boob that he hardest at 4 in ne al begrudg rnoons a week and then tries to| at conclusions and without thought, s up for it b: ad ke ubbath Day | hear that that class in engineering the United States military t Weat Point? My command. ing general told it to me when I was soldlering a8 a Knights of Columbus wcretar c during it seom than |4 trivial thing placing him deep a} Jury. and then! However, I am prompted t methods to employ | actually foolish enough to thir the dratted flagpole H . . tralht in that hole ana| their hair because it is more able to resist a cyclone | We know why they bob their ‘A class of embryo officers ull day on that problem, dia playing instead of re the did y of the en to the ah kinner his sweetheart bobbed her hair I read the letter from the sweetheart, but unlik in the least aroused for he | saw that the hair-bobbing epi ting you ever old at problem wa at academy at e late war, We the problem was und ump Kearney kinner how tor n length, tip clroumference; to dig a ig to receive it | what enginee in order tanding up ¢ to got be worked They drew ams and wrote long th 1 the no two of th « h other and m out mighty hey had finished, ers a. d with | ho had been at the 1 there ¢ and told t were all Wrong. Whereupon a timid youth od up and sald a bit mneert ‘Perhaps the colonel will be go ugh to tell us how HE would ra f ne T will, with gre pleas the instructor repli What more, I will give you the| answer in exactly seven words, and n those I will gt you omega of com- | think ardness of t my wn as executive | come to some evening reeki adership.’ |with perfume and carrying a vanity r, the case, what would you think? orward respectfully and the ob You defend girls Wearing trousers colon: smiling benignantly upon} while hiking and camping, altho them and taking a hitch in the 60. khaki skirts are far. cooler, inch belt that jx the trade-mark of comfortable and no more in 1 true executives, made good on way. Suppose your sweetheart his bluff, ‘Young gentlemen, the] insisted upon carrying a vanity case Problem assumes\that ach of you is wearing a lace handkerchief or - command of a ¢ jwere to show up at a pienic in pany post and you hi akirts? order from your In erect this flagpole Tho pi ton tin dade kaa e would zou it is do ir e'| Bunciation of her ex ell the first sergeant to do {she has much But I do not see the sense of that | 0) ashy Mr, Skinner admitted y bag eh passing short skirts. ns re you are so drunk with your you are unable to displa: Supp you had weethe and men suddenly foo enough wearing their hair down to their shoulders jn curls and to grow beards 1 inline with the ‘ould your at- titude toward Or suppose now that th men, Vn ho closs they q that him he v € are clgarets, lips and » he were seven word us amokin roug hes,” also tho alpha the true rare commodity and I Ski 4 m) mand, Supp in’ kn Ww 5 class leaned short more the b captain e-com e received an superior officer to your ext The problem is ce of sympathy nful de ain, you say right to smoke Tom, Dick or has as much any man much lips as any Jane, Mary or Lu A man learns to Siler, Gar Bar | eae smoke when a boy because he sfficer who gives a subordi.| ‘inks it manly, r woman n orter, to do something and| ‘kes up smoking nes ane nen no far forgets himecif ald his |t@inks Jt womanly, but because sh togell the subordinate how | inks it tough or smart. | to do it and’then adds ingult to in-|_O%. you hens that want to crow, | Jury by standing over him and seeing | WY can't you understand that girls that he does it, Is absolutely unfitted | WH forsake their natural feminin for command, ‘THAT, my dear Skin-|CB@tms and take on masculine hab- | 1, is why you are all run down like | !® “and faults are as disgusting to| n old Waterbury watch, Uncol!|™en a8 men would be to women if} surself, my boy. Spring out of it.|they perfumed and rouged, kissed | There's nothing wrong with the qual. | ¢ach other and wore silken lingerie. | ity of brains or energy in your subor verily there is a limit to all | ates. ‘The trouble lies with y but women don’t know it, if | you're killing yourself harassing | those things concern themselve: thansy wt ut it | HO, HO, HUM! “Well, I'm #o afraid they'l ball ngs up, Mr. F Sure, “Then you a: in mental ad » much fur’ and physical de suspected,’ Cappy replie er gone ay than I tender. com- th Dear Miss Grey: I have been “Let ‘em ball ‘em up! Cappy yelled | noticing of Ja nm increasing de- furious! Jood land of Goshen; do) mand in your column from people you expect to go thru life without! who have pets to give away and making any mistakes? If you lay| who wish to find good homes for yourself out to make an omelette|them. Recently a lady writes that you'll have to beak eggs, will you! she had 100 calls for her little dog. not? The man who never makes mis-| Naturally only one person could takes, or who hag a phobia against| have this little doggie, thus leay- mistakes {s plainly a person of mark-jing the others (the ninety and d psych hic inferiority and be-| nine) without the ‘happiness, of longs to a ward, not an Office. What} having that best and truest o! air P. the straw that broke the camel's back. Ther | other contributing causes that led up to such a drastic de- cision on the young man’s par’ this age of “modern woman” would take the chance of such PAGE 7 thia Grey: ir and Smoking for Wom- en to Perfume and Long Curls for Men. ent issue of The Star your 1 a reader who signed herself me, particularly because it so 1¢ line of reasoning. Jumping he expresses “disgust” }and “wrath” at the man who broke his engagement because spurned and much-chagrined lay,” my sympathies were not I read between the lines and sode was a clear cut case of 2» no doubt were t, for I know that no man in before a breach of promise o ask “Fair Play” if she ig nk that men believe girls bob ‘sanitary” (?) and comfortable. hair; we also know why they wore short skirts, and, incidentally, it is amusing to us to read the Account of a large meeting of women in the East who vociferously, but, alas, too late, cried out in favor of the I believe the trouble with you women, “Fair Play,” is that so-called independence that logical reasoning. Cynthia Grey will receive call- ers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 2 p. m. and on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 to 12 a. m, at her office in the Star Bidg., 1809 Seventh ave. your home—there are such dear Mt- tle kittens there, so many homeless ca: peop have cruelly neglected and deserted. The trouble in mv case was that I did so hate to choose and leave the who are not there tt of their own. I am not loving children less be- cause I Jove and understand ani- mals so dearly, but on the contrary, as my life will: prove. There is a crying need in the world for more compassion and love for all animals, whether wild or domestic. Thank you, THE ANIMALS’ FRIEND. Second Wedding i Anniversary Dear Miss Gri Will you kind- ly tell me what the second wedding anniversary is? whom rest so sad, u any fault « A READER, The second wedding anniversary is paper. Say “‘Bayer’’- Insist] For Colds Headache Neuralgia Rheumatism’ Lumbago Pain, Pain Accept only ‘Bayer’? package which contains proper directions {and worry about trifles, he needs ja a trained nurse, not a | wise old boss like Cappy Ricks. ‘Now, then, Skinner, this very in- stant you quit doing three men's work. I'll not have you making a martyr of yourself and a nuisance to |me. Here are two round trip tickets to Europe. Take them with my com- |pliments, You and Mrs, Skinner have two weeks in which so pack and | get to New York to catch the Levia- than, and if you travel on anything jexcept a Shipping Board vessel, you're a poor American and you |needn't come back. Just keep right jon going, Skinner. Meanwhile one of these boobs under you will sit in |at.your desk and try his hand for | three months at wrecking the Ricks Logging & Lumbering company. And he may wreck it and be hanged to |him. However, it's a pretty solid three months I do not think he'll get very far on the road to ruin. But |he's going to have a free hand to| show what's in him, and {f he doesn't show it while you're away, he'll not be among those present when you get back.’ “Mr. Ricks, you're extremely kind, but really s in the office are in such a state now that I dare npt go away, Thank you—" Cappy yelled. “Get out. Good-bye, Don't argue with me. And when you return, you will play golf two afternoons a week, and there are no Sundays in a Cappy Ricks weels You will do nothing in the office ex- copt sender decisions. You will go fishing and hunting and you will not any mail except the mail you ought to see. Whenever there is anything to be done in your depart- ment hereafter, Skinner, you will see that George does it. If you let your job get on top of you, then you cease to be worth anything to me, I want to hire brains that can think, not fret As you pass send your I want to out into the general off first sergeant in to me, j tell him to do something, but before T tell him I want to give him a few well-chosen tips upon the burdens of command.” Cappy smiled his) precient little smile of tender understanding. When generals take to doing the work of privates—SKINNER!” res, sir, “How dare you stand there looking at mo, with your teeth in your mouth. 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