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tDAY, NOVEMBER e . UBS POR MONDAY they may 3 of bulbs al p of any h a nomi @ committe Ww. F bivd 30th aye. 8. M Mrs. G Wiltiam Mf Prater, 4 Third ave. W.; Mrs. N. J. Irvine, | 311 W. Blaine st.; Mrs. J. D, Mac Pherson, 419 Wheeler st.; Mra, @. 0. Mercer, 1710 Nob Hil! ave.; Mra, Cart Siebrand, 5016 Zist ave, N. E.; Mrs C. B. Ruggles, 5023 2ist ave. 2) Mrs. Mary BE. Chamberlain, 6034 15th itve. N. E.; Mrs, Mae Avery Wilkins, | 3701 Beach drive; Mra, Frank Skin-| ner, 2336 Harvard ave. N.; Mrs, G.| N. Salisbury, 1961 Third ave. W.; Mra. George Adrian Smith, 6100 W Spokane Mrs. Eva 8. Godfrey 3223 W. 60th st; Mrs. Hh EL Rey- nolds, 5160 Holly st., and Mrs. 8. K.} Browm 5758 | ADDITIONAL CLUBS bi | Qwest SEATTLE ART CLUB The West Art club will meet at the West Seattle commun- | Sea: ity club house, 1904 47th ave. §. W.. yn Wednesday motning, November 19th, at 10:30 o'clock. { Mra. Max Kuner ‘will give a talk on the Cathedral of St. Peter's ond Mrs, Sarah E. Brooks will speak on “Columns and Arches. QUARANTE CLUB Quarante..club meets w Mr and Mrs. W. H. Tarry, 5955 West | Andover st., Tuesday, > & o'clock -p. m. eee PUBLIC scHoor. PROTECTIVE LEAGUE | The Public School Protective! league will hold its monthly meet-| ing at the Y. W. C. A. Tuesday, November 18, at noon. | t eee | ALKI WOMAN'S CLUB | The Alki Wor Improvement} club will meet at the home of Mrs. A. E. Schatt, 3226 63rd ave. S. W., on Tuesday, November 18. Lunch- con at 12:30 o'clock; business meet-| ing at 2 p. m.;. program at nt pom Mrs. William Martin will give. a talk and there will be a short program, also a talk by Mra. Edgar Hume on “What Seattle Art- ists Are Doing. sae GATEWOOD P.-T. A. Gatewood P.-T. A. will hold tts monthly meeting Tuesday evening, November 1%. Mr. Willard, assist- ing superintendent, and Mrs, How- ell Cunliffe will speak. Open house from 7 to $ o'clock; assembly at 8 o'clock. Program. ‘ eee WEST SEATTLE CHAPTER West Seattle Chapter, O. 8s. social circle, will meet fn the local Masonic temple, Tuesday, November 18, at 10:30 a. m. Luncheon at 12 O'clock. Bring own sandwiches. Business meeting at 2 p. m. Host- esses, Mrs. W, Kellerman, Mrs. E. Harding, Mrx, Badgley, Mrs. G. Watters. All Eastern Stars invited.| ee | | Campfire Girl pfire Girls It is time now for groups to begin | Planning for Thanksgiving baskets. | Every group should arrange to care for one family this year. They should | call the Social Welfare league, EL jot 4576, for « family that needs help #0 | that there will be no duplication of! work done for needy families. If a| group does not wish to take an entire | family to care for the girl in the| group, they may leave contributions | at the ship to be distributed from} there. Every group should turn in @ written account of its Thanksgiv- ing service, } bes No Campfire Girls are working hard at securing subscriptions in the mag zines drive. This last week many ave entered the race and in the next | wo weeks it is expected that hun. s of subscriptions will be securech Profit from this venture will be turned into the ship fund. Girls who are leading at present are Maudella Mangon, Vesta Bowden, Mrs. E. C. Dieckmann, Ruth Hemingway, Vir- kinja Hathaway, Betty Boons and Jane Mosely, Groups leading are Zaniha, Muggyawa, Wacawo, Chelo- tru, Woanbeha, Aldesasa, Quannacut, Heonan, Yeelahika, Petaga, Kwone. she, Iyopta, Nyyua, Wabanseo and Quanhi irefiies. Subscriptions 1 omg be turned in to headquarters ice a week, ae A new Campfire group, “Upawa,” has been formed in the University ( Aistrict with Mrs, R. 3. Bell as uardian. Officers of the group aré Lucile Bierd, president; Mary Dre her, vieo president; Anna McCas-| kill, secret and Lorrain shaff,| treasurer. Other members aro N lie Hendrick, Vranees Bell, Patsy | Durges, Marion Harper, Susanna Clarkes, Ellen Kearney and Phylis Buckle. |member 1s privileged to 1924 Women’s Clubs a TUESDAY Current Century club in Batland ¥ At 220 o'clock. Mrs ff, University of Wash speak on “Home & club at Federated club. o'clock. Program: “Lite Sketch of Knut Hamsun,” by Miss \ Morrison; review of “Th m of the Age by Mrs. / Charlies G. Miller, Fivemtnute talks The Face of the World,” by Mra. Fr. V, Van Dusen; "The Power of a} Lic” by Mrs. R. PF, Weeks, and “Phe Last of the Vikings,” by Mra. ¥. H. Runner, The hostesses are Mrs. P. EB. Metnrich and Mre. 1 I Hoskins, * th End Progressive club, with W. A. Sloan, 4521 First ave. 2 o'clock. Partiamentary Queen Anne Study club, with Mra E Colvin, 407 W. Howe st, at k ‘a c iste of talk nm “Potteries of America and Eng and, by Mra. Ira Ford, and paper on “Decorative Textiles,” by Mra, A Ferre Sunset Heights Literary with Mrs Jennie Steeves, Greenwood ave, at 2 o'clock. WEDNESDAY The presidents of all federated clubs are requested to meet at clubhouse at 10:30 to consider im: Porta business. ‘easive Thought club, in Federation clubhouse. at o'clock. Speaker, Mr. J. ¢ Hoerbeman, executive secretary of Chi on “Our Relations W the Orient.” Hosteases, Mra. Clancy | Lewis and Mrs. L. G. Foste View tors welcome West Seattle Art club at the West! Seattle Community 47th ave. #. W. Talk on Mrs, Sarah Kuner will Peters cath G. Altaow, ub 1904 10:30 o'tlock. | by Max of 8 *, Mra. at umns and Arches,” Brooks and Mrs sive description dral, He THURSDAY | Alpha club with Mrs, Willlam H. Oliver, 1154 20th ave. N. Luncheon at 13:30 sharp, Program, roll call, Thanksgiving items; talk on “Travel | in ¥ .” by Mrs. H. A. Ross; talk | on “Literature of Russia,” by Mra. | W. C. Cutler: | Board of building trustees of Fed- | eration of clubhouse at 10:30 o'clock. Mra, R. J. Rookie, chairman asks all to attend. to transaet important | business. | PRIDAY Ja woman. want I might find amusement. I told them | weary of thelr husbands, merely set at the Gamma Phi| Wear that ring. Everyone knew that /that I had a dimy car at Pine} his shoes out the tent. th ave, N, E.|Henry owned it, and—one ts as silly |hurst and had motored north, golfing ‘A male coming from a ¢ vocal solos by {at 60 na at 16, Sillle 4 yet the/on the way. Also I warned Vantine| horse tradit ut or @ pocket.pick tenshaw; talk on “Cur. [Jewel waa too precic Henry |that my game had improved, and|ing expedit 1 peeing his shoes rent at Home,” by Mrs. O. | had tho copy made, and once or twice | suggested that we make tho stakes a|ouinide the promptly puts | B. Dodds and “Sterling Reed Edu- |! wofe it. I wonder if all fea Bro | thousand doliars this time, Ife ac-|them on and beats cational Bill" by Mra. A. Z. Lovett. {sham all shams realities. Any-| cepted with elation | “Altho, of course,” the old gentle Executive board meets at 1:30|/"@y. I have the copy, and if that) ‘Three hours later, on the fifteenth man @ ‘od “you wouldn't expect a waeek. would do you any good, I am quite|green, I handed tim a thousand dol-| sy to dally with a divorce law Penneytvania Study club will hold | Ure that you ure welcome to it.” [lars }that pre ed the hiring of a Christmas bazaar and Northwest | f turned my head away, lest she] “I can’t understand It,” I said pet- awyer and a lot of other incidental Products luncheon in Federation | Observe the gleam in my eye, It was/tishly. “I Ju get going to-| oy nonse clubhouse at 12:30 o'clock. Hostesses Topic: “Government of Japan; Im- migration,” Mra, Harry 8. Worth man. General discussion. ere e PENNSYLVANIA STUDY CLUB The Pennsylvania Study club will | hold its next regular meeting, which will be a Christmas bazaar, on Fri-| day, November 21, at the Federated clubhouse, The hostesses for the oc-} casion will be: Mrs. Harriet Stein, Mrs. Othello Carrier, Mrs. Louise | Sampson. A northwest products luncheon will be served at 12:30 o'clock. Each Invite one| guest. DATES TO REMEMBER MONDAY, NOVEMBER Mrs Grege’s lunebeon for her r, Mrs. ¥ liam Leonard Eaton, at home, TUPSDAY, NOVEMBER 18— Formal dinner dance at the Wom- en's University club. Mra. 8, Kerry's luncheon for Mra. Jarvis Richards and Mrs Fred Remington Greene, at hore. ‘0 Day Nursery association to 9 Inspection tea from 3 to clock at the nursery, 302 Broad- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19—~ Mrs, Chester Latimer's and Miss trude Lewis’ tea at Miss Lewis’ home, from 4 until 6 o'clock, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20— Mrs. John Ewing Price's luncheon for Mra, H. B, Barling and Mra. Clarence Peck, at home, Mrs, Elmer John Sattorbers’s bridge tea for Mise Dilma Arnold. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER t1— Seat Pa M Margaret Armatrong’s and Mins Polly Emery’s bridge tea at the Tennis club for Miss Dilma A Mra. W. W. Warren's luncheon to her niece, Miss Julia Fisher, at home. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22— Mise Jane Truax's luncheon and linen shower for Miss Elizabeth som at home. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26— Mrs. Millington Gray's informal tea ‘at hora for Misa Claire Btolten- berg and Mra van Asch Van Wyek, Mr, and Mrs. Kelth Logan Bullitt’s Ajnner, at home, for Mra, Peachy, before the Junior club's ball at the Sunset club. Junior club's dance at the Sunset elub. TUPSDAY, DECHMBER 2— ‘The marriage of Mise Dilma Arnold to Mr. Clement Wallace Du Mett, in the Church of the Epiphany, at 7:50 o'clock. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Mra, Willlam ichael O'Bhea'a for Slee claire Stowanbere at home from 4 to 6 o'ctek, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16— ‘Winter ball at Hotel Olymple. SATURDAY 1YENIN DECEMBER 27— Junior loagad’n cabaret dinner dance the Hotel Waahtn, |with difficulty that I kept my volce | day | tempted to abandon my project; then | spend the night in his house. I could ATTLI He Discusses the Written for Divorce Problem - The Star by Peter 6. Kyne—Another Coming Next Saturday Arthur Somers Roche ‘— - wm 2 Copyright 1994. NEA Service Inc | Rly on | baat a BUTTOR, BUTTON \: in . nd . maa e ‘ s ~ . = . : . H ' " ~ - : : bg 7 are ‘ 4 a t perform id t " t aff: © 2 - t . tine te eng ed to a Miss Ke a ¥ Ned nent daughters ® wealthy ret ‘ A i ‘¢ a} $ ns P her Am \ Kernochan shows Ainsley a r . bd v reek | Mr. be na Tuby—a present to ifs an dete an pert | re,’( ting a claim. against the as : a whe oe Mit ¢ state of & millionaire by the mame ‘ ager * " tt sa ¢ Henry Adame. Interviewing “ « f the old Adams’ widow, Ains y ' the ¥y we . y pA nd 6 ndebt nin @ dea paid bi p of first time. tt ¢ which ap: he surface to have » fluncee’s ring. 1 |, “ “ ‘ been a st sagt Gooey ag & waset to a pen-| on vib Ae NOW GO ON WITH T STORY [tieman; but a man wit will invelgie|) 0. sone i “I am sorry,” I told her. And in. |#tPansers into unfair speculat “I daresay,” said J. Augustus deed I was. 80 courageo & cad and deserves punishment ,| Hedell, who, tn the moments and her voloe when she mentionea| B** ~ if I must be t “| could spare from the business her husband's name'was so sad, that | affords me, w mat , of the West Coast Trading « my heart went out to her, I have| liar Joy to Indulge myself, in these | Hoy iad ihe fatal gift of breed. Known widows who would have be. |™emoira, In the unusual luxury Of) foe tred cait that the rated their husbands for ponenty—the Grand Duve's ny was | oo Ta wil ‘eden have {0° Fe them unprovided for, but Mrs, Adams | Werth three hundred thousand t to the { a herd book, | as not that kind. ‘The memory of her |!4F*- I know no arguments t , siscatal Wicd thet of tay knee husband was her dearest possession, | **¢™ *© potent to me ca eelidae- Wiccan’ Leone infinitely more valuable than the Bo bebold me, two weeks later, driv ae eer ern ing into the Kernochan estate at] tion. Greenwich, I, who had gone a year| “Every child will be subject ¢ without being able to afford a ride and ar ded in @ tax! now sat behind the tion f r ac wheel of my roadste Or trur ya lrack behind nox in which , ~ of! ! evening ungo-suits a ing to make finest titken dren rats ness out of me and 1 those other comitants of | wii] doubtless be considered scrubs|® year she'd marry nd Ve Wedged he seat beside | and ineligible to registration be alimonyless my golf-sticks, I looked.! phirty years from now, when @ eee my furnishings, what I w young Russian decides he'll} ‘I married that kind of a & gentleman, I also looked what I nto himself = mate and*fear|N®,” young Mr, Al Hayes & millionaire : far he'll t to run} ¥P } 4 parole sayeth Dg p4 the record to make certain | “Of course you would,” Cappy re |the vulgarly ostentatious residence of au ers letammatee cae tee ’ my : tlhe g Carnoc Yantine wag the t hes y Eddie Smith, Ser etic, ind T had fait airiy | “History, lke the wounded rattler Barge if wit Soeur wives kh mete ; 1 snake, turns and bites Itself,” Cap. (Partnership with youn layer My logic was justified by the event.| “Human socle emerging from ye coder |For Miss Kernochan had answered |Polygamy, appears to have discov-| “I applied the ancient Chinese |my telephone call, had Invited me to/¢fed that the women are running | Principle of "You no workee, you luncheon, and had assured me that wild with freedom and no com. |50 eates. 1 laid down a few Vantine would doubtiess be willing to | 0, and as a result man ap-|Files of my own and when sho re offer me revenge jpears to be in a fair way of cor-|futed to live up to them I'd ge THRE HUNDRED AND Vantino was willing: indeed, he was |recting his mistake and returning | @way for @ month and forget to TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND janxious, We arranged that we should |t0 5 im) leave her any money or send her play on the course of a near-by club, re Turks abandoned polygamy |42Y. And she couldn't write for it Grand Duke's Jewel, I felt a wave of |immediately after luncheon |recently,”” Eddie Smith volunteerd. sentiment engulfing me; but I meta- Tt irked me to accept the Kerno- | The Old Guard dies, but phorically swam to shore. My busl-/chan hospitality; but pil professions} never surrenders,” Cappy. quot- fens held no room for sentiment. And| have their disagreeab’ fen. And| ed. “The Turk may have given so I broached the real reas r my leo I relish. I| up polygamy, as you say, be- all I bad hoped,” I said, “to obtain a photograph of the ruby ring. 1 to lust y teat I waited for her erything depen with me | wit was so of late years the unfor ate Turk has had to give up a good many things, but I'll bet a ripe peach he's limbered up his divorce laws considerably to offset the lows of his other home an that his cook oe im about all T can say for him, hot merely was he boastful as to his wealth, but he showed an unpardonable curiosity to: was | ward myself. 1 ged myself in a ertain gift for fiction 1 named a comforts. ity in the West as my home. Iakill-/| “A Turk is the last man on earth ¥ created the tmpression that I|to climb out on the end of a limb was immensely ri that a wound re-jnand then saw off the limb, so I and her |ceived in the war had incapacitated | wouldn't be at all surprised to learn pretuly—"I | me for active work, and that I divid-|that the ‘Turk has modeled his dl een America and Eu-jyoreo Jaw after that of the syp ring wherever I ught |indies, who, they grow upon It wi I have a paste copy of the ring. she told me, “Henry had It made im- | f mediately upon bis return to Ameri-| ca with the stone. You see” tnded cheeks colored wasn't quite honest a moment ago. 1 /ed my time but still, I am did am 4@ countrywoman; And 1 rope, wa: never are Mrs, Harriet Stein, Mrs. Othello | "ady, as L assured her that I would| fe grinned. Had he chosen, he| A Palen Nein fdr Loutse Sampson. |¢ Most grateful if she would lend me/could have won earlier, and my ex-| “The Japanese are very ae Each member may invite one guest, |‘? Imitation for a fow weeks __ |euse waa ridiculous. “We might jthetr marriage and alvores A asind BATURDAY | Half an hour later Tleft her. For | again tomorrow,’ ho suggested ) Ulysses Grubb informed Me Ror i Woman's Educational club at |‘ first time since I had Sefinitely | For two thousand dollars,” I cried. | Pany When they marry the a } Federated clubhouse at 2 o'clock. |*@0pted my new profession, T felt sick| He turned away to hide a smirk. | Couple go to a registrar and sign @ For Mrs. Adams had {n- tt ay to tea with her. | her poverty, I was loath to t heart “Just as you say,” he replied. slip. When they decide it was I had yielded to Kernochan’s solic- | all a cous mistake they go to the {tous invitation that I dine with them |*ame registrar and sign another lit add tho slightest expense to herl|and play some bridge Iater, In ad-|tlo slip. A Japanese gentleman straightened budget. Yet !t was not/dition to his other disqualifications,| get married and divorced threo or that which made me swallow her food | Kernochan was a snob. And I foar|four times of an afternoon If he can and drink with effort; it wan the fact |that my careless mention of certain |find enough wives to play the same that this brave old lady, who some-|names highly placed in {nternational | with him.” how made me think of « rusnet apple, |society had given the Kernochans a| “Well, we'll be,in a falr way of wrinkled to skin, but sound and |false idea of my own social position. | emulating them If we keep on at the sweet within, thought me to be aa|They were not “going to let depart,|rato we're going.” Cappy declared, honest as herself, She questioned me|too easily, one who might graciously | "Reno is still doing « flourishing about my life, my family, and I fed |open doors forever barred to a certain | buainess and, while I understand that her lies. I was sick and ashamed, | class of broker, and to detectives. a Reno divorce isn't binding in the and wrathful at the weakness which! At dinner Miss Kernochhn wore! stato where the marriage took place, made me feel this way when I left her ruby ring. I had not invested in| nobody seema to get into trouble her, I sent her the finest box of |» motor car, nor in @ golf-match with |over that candy the city could provide, yet/Vantine, in vain. Before dinner was|. “I suppose they just stay away |someliow seemed to feel that my gift | half over, Kernochan, learning of to- | during Old Home week. was an insult. For a moment I was|morrow’s match, insisted that I must | “Sometimes, when I hear a preacher say: ‘What God hath joined together let no man put asunder’ and 1 look at the poor simp of a bridegroom and the resolute bride, I have my doubts as to whether God had anything to do with it. "¥ gentlemen, there are times when I doubt very seriously that 7 : marriages aro made in heaven, Most fered me three hundred and twenty-| - thent are made because the girls | five thousan fom t | " he de $ paand fo: that ring,” he de-| eo get martied. I ani of the clared. “But it ain't for sale. 1 guess my gicl in good enough to have eakes | opinion that most men marry the . “T'D8 | awful women they do because they {like that for her ‘ad é ahr. 4 | foolishly think it is cheaper to marry She simpered, not prettily. I could |not but contrast this insolent and| them than commit suicide or live in common-looking woman with the|* foreign land. eat sweotly dignified lady from whom, by| _ “Ulysses, do you entertain a very chicanery, the ring had been taken, | “lstinct recollection of the occasion I whistled, “Three hundred ana| When you proposed to your wife, and twenty-five tliousand dollars!” 1 ex-|40 you recall the formula you em claimed. ‘Tt doesn’t seem possible. ‘ |Still, tt 1s beautiful.” I leaned over, llooking at the stone, Miss Kerno- chan did the obvious thing. She slip- my own self-disgust roused in mo an |offer no valld excuse; and so upon my | anger toward Kernochan. jacceptance, the matter was settled. For some things we need no proof] Not until, Miss Kernochan and my- |sunceptible to analysis by the five! self having lost a rubber, we were |senses, A sixth senso tells us truth. |ocutting again for partners, did I ap-| pear to notice the ruby ring. "I see that you've had the setting | fixed,” I then remarked. Kernochan nodded, “Daragon's of- Just a8 a child somehow knows truth, by Instinct, so we adults occasionally I say preserve the gift of childhood. I'll be hanged if I do,” Mr. Grubb confessed. “While I'm very happily married, T must ad- Ss, ped the ring from her finger and) mit it was none of my doing. ae |handed it to me. Now, I had not| The first thing I knew somebody Slender Wi intended to put into effect certam | tl me T was engaged; the next plans, which had brought me to this} thing I heard was ‘The Volco are more popular ~ house, so soon, But a storm had pe rere na ei graceful been brewing during dinner; it burst| .““You lucky beggar, to have hear: Hs Pant only siottce |now with aclap of thunder anda flash |that voice," Cappy laughed. ‘ou fascination which only slender women have, Menadmire a youthful silhou- ette. Instinctively, they are drawn towards the woman whose figure might have heard ‘The Voice |¥elled irom tho Kitchen.’ Augustus, did you propose to your wife?" “I did not Mr. Redell replied. of Ughtning. And the lights in the Miss Kern |Her father laughed. moment later library went out. han screamed in alarm “Phey'll be on} SUPPORTS 110 WIVES LONDON, Nov.15 British colont- al censun takers fave discovered a man in Northern Transvaal with 110 tho marriago license bureau. “Mo you really mean it, Gus? she sald. ry to get awa ‘women each year regain healthy, slender pave this way). These tablets will make youslenderagain, ‘Try them. No exercises @t diets, "1 answered ‘Oh, well, since you 1 ii drug toves ve thet ye dollar sho Dyer hy Hi Airy eprrir| . || Wives. Other ambitious subjects thru f N are pontpaid by the Marmolk Co. 19 |Zoutpansberg district were found|S#!4, and we were married and have jeneral Motors Bldg., it, Mi |with 75, 66, 61 and 42 matrimonial re.|!ived happy ever afterward,” The as: | empire,| “You two fellers were lucky. But possibly, in one in Africa, where a| suppose, after you had gotten inte jlone hubby bonsta of and @@)}your rear apartment and stayted daughtery, This nursery mob saya tearing the wrapping paper off @he “mamma’' to 48 women, but only,legs of your installment furniture, one man Is thelr proud papa, your wife had said: |sponsibilities in their homes, happiest household in the MARMOLA. Prescription Tablets De Plasan Day tedoe TP That} f gain ina minute, Alice,” he told her.|"1 made up my mind T was going ipkry repeated | This often happens during a storm, |to marry her, so T just put her in| t t Mr. Ainsley¢’ ho said to me. a hack and ran her upsto the city wae eres hws (Continued in Our Next Issue) | pall, ‘The first sho knew about it Tob Tibles (Chovsndottaentnd was when we paused in front of because I never left any forwarding addrens with her. I was a traveling man at the time, Finally, I home one day and she was and I've never seen her sir came sing “Did you secure a divore Cap. py asked. “Certainly not. As long as I'm « married man 1 can't make a monkey out of myself | twlee in succession without com- mitting bigamy, and that doesn't jibe with my religious prin ciples. I'm opposed to divorce.” ees “I've observed that those who are most violently opposed to it need It d yearn for it wit A great yearn- ing. My personal opinion {= that 50 per cent of our divorces are duc to insanity on the part of one or! both—usually be } “In the’ beginning they were crazy to get married—and in tho end y were crazy to get di vorced—so that makes them 100 per leent deficient mentally. The other 60 per cent of divorce cases aro due jto $1 health “I recall the case of Luke Henna. | | berry, who is in charge of our dock. Luke married’ the sweetest, finest 1 that ever worked for the Blue [Star Navigation company. Five years later she sued Luke for di vorce, charging mental cruelty. Luke counter-nttacked and sued her for divorce, charging incompatibility of temperament “Well, !t was a case of the pot calling the kettle black, and after the judge had listened for a week to the tale of thelr domestic in- felicity, he threw up both hands and called it a dead heat. “But Luke and his wife were tn. tent on a divorce, made them roll the bones, one flop, to see which one should be granted the divorce “Luke won, but dirty, He offered to abdicate in his wife's favor, She refused, on the grounds that she could not pos sibly permit herself to be under ob- j ligation to a man she was suing for divorce. “So the judge settled the ques- tion by denying both a-divorce and they had to go back lving with each other, “Then I took a hand in the bat. |tle. I sent a transcript of the testi- |mony in the case to my doctor and | gave him $100 to read it and rende jme an expert opinion. Ho reported |that they were both {ll—apparently nourasthenic, so I had him paw Luke over and remove one of th |most awful pair of tonsils in North America, “Tthen I had him carve out of Mrs Luke an appendix that had been malignant for three years. they wero well I sent them to New York on one of our Blue Star ships declined to be | vacation, ago and the cure seems to be per- manent, “Tho trouble with them was that they were both poisonous, nervous, lirritable and depressed. I had known them both when they | weren't, so naturally I knew there |must be a reason.” “Then you think |be able to cure married infeltcl Mr, Redell queried, “Aided and abetted doctors might by philoso- jage,” Cappy replied, and trotted away to his office. THEY LASSOED BOOZE STTYSBURG, Pa, Nov.16.—A [mysterious orgy among the in | mates of the Adams county fail was cleared up by the authorities |when thoy found two prisoners used cowboy methods in extracting liquo} |fiscated liquor was kept. With an improvised lasso attached to the end of a broomstick, the pair extracted enough pre-Volstead Scotch from the jail storeroom to intoxicate all the prisoners. In addition to the charges on which they wero jailed, thepwo cellhouse owboys will now fac@trial for lars 80 His Honor} When | and gave them a whizz bang of a| That was quite a while} phera and observers of a certain | ifrom the jail storerooms, where con: peddler was saying, “Well, ‘ Land the edg < going ¢ r eT on There the mag an. It only be @ c re to ti h I H lu “Wel in e it 1 tha Gander a floated mile floating powders I d that—No, no! This pened,” said th agic dust-pan! But t has invited d one, so I'll put in it my Daddy Gander to for I it for sixpence Hi be @ n if ay right here that the im tin to But you watt |peddier ha start a lemonade 1 fly down and look jstand, but always room window a peddier, ar n to the came bick. oad ag ) Yes, that’s it," he sal The Give me my broom. Quick?? king is at one end of the table and |cried Mrs. Goose Daddy Gander fe at the other end.| And without another word she They're eating great stacks of bres 1jjumped on and rode right at the nd butter. J heard the king say | peddier 1 grabbed the dustpan never, never had he eatef! such | out of his hand. Brooms and dust- bread in his life |pans go together,” sho cried as her “Oh, that's the bread that Mos, | faithful. steed carried her to the John set to ruise. The ad the |tower once more cook found and t 1 took hi ked tr If it loaves | (To Be Continued.) 4, 8. B. A. Service, Ine.) for | (copyright, 1 The Tangle (An Intimate story of invermost emott revealed by private letters) (LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE; tired | TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, successful without me than with me. } CONTINU |You speak French and Italian and was too amazed at this|surely your education ts of the best.’ ts to sp but the girl] I'm sure you will be more lie, 1 of eve | a2: “He was silent for a while. It knew I was interested. |was a great effort for him to Harry was always good to m™e|preathe, Then he handed me this Mrs. Burke,” she continued. “Hel jletter saying, ‘If you get into any |trouble try and see the dear woman |to whom. it Js addressed. Don't -at- }tempt to mall ft. The letter will keep years if necessary, ‘Time yri 1 jonly have left the best of me among Ruth's memories, You may | never have to deliver it, but if nec- nut {t was not the right climate for] tssary take it and Ruth’ will advise Harry's heart. Ho grew more and/ana-heip you.’ % he found tha ne | ~ ot Aah wee ‘ans| The girl handed mo the letter. I letter for you. It was/‘dn't read it then and the girl pro- |kept me in school in Geneva from [the time my mother died when I was three years old until last year when I was graduated, Ho came a few days after that looking Jil and] unhappy and took me aw We went over to the Italian lakes more unhappy steadily gave mo was a then ‘he told me that you were the | ceeded to tell me the rest of her kindest and tenderest and most|*tory loyal woman in the world, It was| “Harry died that night. As soon |then he told me you had been his/#% Possible I went to Paris and very with soon got a position in the family of | “Zoe,' he said, ‘I am not going to|1¢onard Stores as nursery govern- be with you long. I have Eis little |¢88 for thelr only child, a tiny girt money left. I was in hopes I would | three. be well soon to earn some more.| | “From the first I could see that However, I think there is enough|Mr. and Mrs. Stores were very un- to keep you until you get something | happy. Their only bond was Stella, to do. |whom they both loved almost to “*You can do something to earn | !dolatry. your living?’ he asked pathetically.| “At first I saw very little of Mr. “t had no idea, Mrs, Burke, of| Stores, but after a time he formed what I could do. I had not been/|the habit of coming into the nursery trained for anything except to’ do|and watching his little daughter for those little things that a girl must/cn hour or two every morning. [do for herself, but I answered ‘yes’! 719 seldom played- with her but |very decidedly, that I could be &/ stella adored him and was con: governess. |tinually asking him questions and Well, dear, 1¢ I were you I|was always trying to bring him tanto would go back to Paris and get @lour work or play. He, however, place as governess in some Ameri-|naid no attention to me whatever.” can family as soon as 1am dead.’ esi “At this I burst into tears and | (Copyrisht, 1924, N. B, A. Service, Inc.) ho, trying to comfort me, said. ‘Don’t | Honest, I'm ready to go. I've| NEXT ISSUE—This letter eon- made an awful mess of it and I'm tinued. EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | (Tut -ToT, BRoTHeR} Say No mMoRG!? WHGN ANY PERSON“ASSUNSCS HSC | CONDESCENDING MANNGR!I | TOWARDS MG, HS CAN KGEP RIGHT ON DSEsCEnO'ne it! } } |

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