The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1925, Page 12

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PAGE 12 THE STORY THUS FAR GLORIA GOr N au | She ated ow } STANLEY an a 1 When » ‘ N H York, Gloria } spurns } hens . i & job asa and fa { ins to r is sure he with Miss Briggs learns he was « JOHN SEYMOt himse! auloide, to a young colles May Seymour She begs G altho ¢ rm Miss Briggs (WOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) LOR’ two mig’ Quickly, as Fan across t @rugstore. 5& fountain and sundae When her ill fear Thank g00 Miss Briggs were « “I suppose th Somewhere, toget hor," thought, with a pang of self- She walked along, not caring where she was gv ks Then a poster outside a moving Pleture theater caug her eye. “Jealous Wives"—the words flamed | ‘out on it. Gloria smiled grim! self. “I'm one of them,” =< think I'll go in, and ses what it’s all she | Shoat.” |to her! She was thru begging him to “3 | tak a] She went into the dark, cool cavern | ‘@ke her back. . . . sc of the theate tefully But there was a certain cold com. r ? 's good | fort in the thought that he was not} 0 a chair. was good oe cha from» her| With Miss Briggy, at any rate, She Reather’s | ¢ y walked out of the father's kind eas’ sharp tong’ everybody There was no except the whi tric fan in the center of th: ae J Down in the orchestra pit, the ¢ n Pera after all, ist was turning the leaves of hig | Y¢'Y Much for her. j music. | Suddenly Dick shifted a littlo tn The picture flashed on the screen. | his seat.- Gloria held her breath. Against {t Gloria could see the sti-| Suppose he should turn around and hhouet of a man who sat directly in| #ee her ther Ho would think front of her . . . Dick! that she had followed him into tho She leaned over to touch him upon | theater. the shoulder. Then caught herself.| No, he mustn't think that. She! e + + No, he would have to come! would never give him another chance | eatadtoadf peewee pl her from h him on her way to} hat D ! added to he: » Olive Roberts Barton NO. 16—BUTTONS, A FARTHING A PAIR! “I will sive you some advice,”| Mra. John was atting on her| my button box and seo if any buttons got in,” she said. bE down, please, everybody, while I go} and get it.” | Out came Mrs. John in a few) | minutes with a button box as big jas a drum. at House-That-Jack-Built. | Then she sat down orf her rock nto her lap. The Twins pulled thelr chairs up | close. what a lot of buttons," ancy. ‘You have almost as buttons as the Button Store Ir me," said Juggle Jump proud- |ly displaying his coat. | Mrs. John laughed. “You would be a handy person to have around,” she said. “If I ran out of buttons }1 should only have to cut one off by Beatrice Burton ©1925 NEA.SERVICE ING “I’m going in,” Gloria made up her mind, suddenly. to think abe wanted him to take her back. . . . She was thru! Softly mhe slipped from her chalr and walked-out of the twilight of the i A gre ness ped How lonely a crowd could make you Gloria turned away from the cente of the town. She walked along fa millar streets She knew where she was going Hor to her mother's Rouse, but to tle place that had She was gol forbidden place . , , the one spot on the whole wide earth where she felt at home. How cozy and green and wh: Glorta came do it! It seemed to hor with all « the little looked as the street toward happy house le a welcome ing windows. of the f its et Fie t in the ce green lawn was a real esta’ “For Sale” sign. age Gloria had a sud | den impulse to pull up the sign, as she might have torn a weed out of the lawn. . “Hello, there, ladyt* a volce hailed her @aid Mrs. Peter to Juggle Jump t porch darning Jack's and} Her neighbor, Mrs. and the Twins. “You had better go/ Jill's stockings | leaning at of one ict fo everybody in Daddy Gander! «when they fell down the hilt | 200T Windows of thejho Land and ask them to show you| sho pesca reticy ep: their] 7 Was thinking of calling up th thelr button-boxes. We may find! knees clear out. Where the pleces calllneney Besginaies (3 ia bee ald some of Puffs buttons there. went to I don’t know. in af’ Eaten vetes, “B fr Cha shall go to Mrs. John’s house first.) yj tere jin her shrill voice, |*But h went to Pippin Hill; ¥, yes, my dears, I'll look in| you're here you can! let m 1 be right ov Gloria eyed Mrs, Donberg,” she haven't any k came to pick the beck yard thinking of buying the h “Well, we'd love © little bigger than berg anawered Gloria knew her collly <o ha Urs, Mrs. perfectly we! he had no thought of buying the 1ouse just wanta to look thru to see all my things! The FLAPPER FANNY says- THE SEATTLE STAR jie busy-body!" she told herself) “Well, who could blaine him? angrily, as shoe walked around to the| thought Gloria, “I don't suppose he back yard has very many happy memories of Bho didn't want Mra, Donberg| me, after all ‘ poking around her house! She didn't Now that she at to think of Want anyone to look thru her houce! © had been more storm than And the thought that some ne in thelr life togethe ¢ would presently buy it and live nd the whole thing has been my in it was unbearable to Gloria fault,” Gloria told herself sternly, It Why, it bedenged to he that} was the truth and it hurt house! She had picked out every| She turned to look at herself in the porap of wall-paper in it an a judge might have looked every stick of furniture! What right prisoner had Dick to sell her house ? put herself on: trial Tm « in,” Gloria made up her| She knew she had done none of the thi as a good wife ought to do for her husband. he had never mind, suddenly On the grass lay a clothes taken care of his Gloria put the sharp how never looked after his inder one of the sunroc comfort. She had told him bluntly a lever whe that she would never give him a t the window oj family, Childgen were too great a aloud wher bothe 5 nm. “No wonder there) She had not even been utterly © 80 many burglars, if housebreak:| faithful to him; hadn't she let Star « is as easy as this!’ she thought, | ley Wayburn make love to her? us bars of Offenbach's| It startled her, She i) would have had he thought, springtr up, | & out of the I'd better not play that thing must have forgot it always makes me want t He she sald y . He She knew that she was on the very | *¥¢ edge of tears h I did Who would have thought, a year! , ago, that she could ever have felt pe thls way about a silly old house? oe sna Gloria looked around her, There 'M for ae Sy by ) May asked, “I'll t ‘a Mtthe ing t I want to talk t y bad given him. T tray on it w A C - filled with fine gray ash ~ Asa 1 et Sho closed her eyes, She|e, ne bets could seo him sitting there, with a/ ‘ Dp book in his hands, smoking his old he truth was that she didn’t want pibel ses neo May, She didn’t want her !r Ah, it wasn't the house that Gloria the house, She wanted to be alone was homesick for, abe kne' st,| here, for awhile . . . to think It was Dick she wanted! things out She dropped int laid her head ba Dick! © his chair, heard May laugh mirthieasty oky? and againat the bro: repeated, “If you ade where his had rested ur house is spoo! you Tears filled her 1 burned be > spend @ night here in mine d her closed ¢ a ty haunted. « bye "I mustn't cry!" she told herself. “1 shuddered as she hung the mustn't let myself feel this way! iver up ¢ i Bhe won about him! It's gotog to break my|dered how May ed there in the heart, if I do, . house where Dr, John had killed But the house was allve with Dick.| Pimaelf! . . a The table where he had made little " marks by knock out his pipe, th She ran downstairn to see if the rsthay- Dick's smbking Ma od Gloria shook self, 1 wer ea P Hor feet made no so t ked On the threshold of Dick's room) > made up her mind, she she paused, Hin bed was atill just) WOU! er smoke, again 6 was as she had left it ur the things t Dick with elsan linen & pe worn 1 broldered pillow-ca, not A neve ow fi slept at home then, at a! int | ab 1 become the kind ite living again with Mother and| bad always wanted her ¢ Father Gregory | (To Be Continued) looked {nto the clothes Yew, his clothes were all gone. N'T mise any of the future thrilling installments of “The Flapper Wife." If you are ttle book:'| coing on your vacation, have a The Star follow you. 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As for Daddy Gander, Mother Goose doesn't stay at home long enough to put a stitch in for him. ‘Mother labout’ I'd call her. v all his buttons on and mended up the best I him how. “Where do you get new buttons when you can't match the ot asked Nancy. f “From Peg Leg, the Peddler,” said Mrs, John, “Why here he comes now," | Just then they heard a familiar | | volce calling out: “Buttons, a farthing a palr, Come, who will buy them of me? They're round and sound and pret- ty, Wit for country-side or city, Come, who will buy them’ of me, Buttons, « farthing a pair.’ “Hello, Mister Peg Leg!’ Nick a8 the little peddler ap.| | proached, | “Hello!” said Peg Leg “Hello!” said everybody, Except that Mrs. John, being more polite, sald “how do you do | And what cried do you think! Pog Leg had one of Puff's lost buttons He had found it in a hay-mow where jhe had stayed over night, He | wouldn't take a cent for land gave it right up, it either | That made 10 (To Be Continued, (Copyelgh’, 1925, Nii. A. Borvice, Inc.) ESPECI STERE Is HE GooD MOST, a) the sout now it makes the shoulders jerk MOM’N POP WELL MR. GUNN ARE YOU GOING ON ANACATION THIS YEAR? YES-1 THOUGHT I'D TAKE A COUPLE WEEKS OFF MA SLUPE HAS ALWAYS HOPED To TRAVEL; SHE HAS N&VER BEEN ABLE To FIND & CERTAINLY- iow WHEN T MAKE — ALLY TO EUROPE ~~ LOOKING AT OPTICAN VIEWS OF OLD CATHEDRALS R HOBBY BUT SOME WAY OR OTHER VIEW OF THE ONE SHE WANTS To Ske ~~ © 1925 BY MEA BERVice, inc. The Latest in Cheapskates OF COURSE L DONT FEEL LIKE SPENDING ALOT OF MONEY ON, A VACATION ~ THE WIFE AND L WERE THAT'S NoT JUST TALKING IT OVER AND. A BAD IDEA~ SHE SUGGESTED THAT PERHAPS ) We HAVEN'T THE FOUR OF US COULD TAKE MADE ANY OUR VACATIONS TOGETHER PLANS YET NEITHER Do I~ WHAT HAD You PLANNED ON DOING? TLL EAT HARD BOILED EG6s AN’ BE A PRIZE -FieurER! NO, t HATE Ir! ) yee <a Oe WELL L THOUGHT PERHAPS YoU HAD SoME RELATIVES WE COVLD Go AND NISIT! ‘ . Ny : ‘N TUR IS

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